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[ { "id": "405651", "text": "[that] came in 1943\" leading to the development of the V-2 rocket. Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles () was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which directly led to World War I. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed separate treaties. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "405547", "text": "Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles () was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which directly led to World War I. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed separate treaties. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "2438037", "text": "the United Nations headquarters. Famous examples include the Treaty of Paris (1815), signed after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War conflict between Germany and the Western Allies. This is held to have ended World War I completely, but in fact that did not happen until the Allies concluded peace with the Ottoman Empire in 1920 through the Treaty of Sèvres. The Versailles treaty is possibly the most notorious of peace treaties, in that it is \"blamed\" by many historians for the rise of National Socialism in Germany and", "title": "Peace treaty" }, { "id": "423853", "text": "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at German-controlled Brest-Litovsk (; since 1945, Brest, nowadays in Belarus), after two months of negotiations. The treaty was agreed upon by the Russians to stop further invasion. According to the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in Eastern Europe and western", "title": "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" }, { "id": "7594743", "text": "the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919, which was when many of the troops serving abroad finally returned home; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of 11 November 1918. Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. Under its terms, the Allied forces left Constantinople on 23 August 1923. After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany and, building", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594742", "text": "by President Warren G. Harding. For the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the state of war ceased under the provisions of the \"Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918\" with respect to: After the Treaty of Versailles, treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were signed. However, the negotiation of the treaty with the Ottoman Empire was followed by strife, and a final peace treaty between the Allied Powers and the country that would shortly become the Republic of Turkey was not signed until 24 July 1923, at Lausanne. Some war memorials date the end of", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "3766261", "text": "of Mirrors as the location wherein was signed the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I on 28 June 1919. The Hall of Mirrors is still used for state occasions of the Fifth Republic, such as receptions for visiting heads of state. Hall of Mirrors The Hall of Mirrors ( or ) is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. Within the hall, the German Empire was declared in 1871 (Deutsche Reichsgründung) and the Treaty of Versailles signed by the victorious powers of World War I in 1919. As the principal and most remarkable feature", "title": "Hall of Mirrors" }, { "id": "1328273", "text": "Treaty of Ghent The Treaty of Ghent () was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands. The treaty restored relations between the two nations to \"status quo ante bellum\", restoring the borders of the two countries to the lines before the war started in June 1812. The treaty was approved by the UK parliament and signed into law by the Prince Regent (the future King George IV) on", "title": "Treaty of Ghent" }, { "id": "18129226", "text": "record the proceedings. The work was the most expensive of the British public art commissions associated with the First World War: Orpen was paid £3,000: by comparison, John Singer Sargent received £300 for his much larger painting \"Gassed\". The painting depicts the signature of the Treaty of Versailles by representatives from Germany on 28 June 1919, to formally end the First World War. It is a group portrait depicting soldiers, diplomats and politicians who attended the conference, at the point when the treaty was signed in the opulent surroundings of Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.", "title": "The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors" }, { "id": "1328290", "text": "century of peace between the United States and Canada. Treaty of Ghent The Treaty of Ghent () was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands. The treaty restored relations between the two nations to \"status quo ante bellum\", restoring the borders of the two countries to the lines before the war started in June 1812. The treaty was approved by the UK parliament and signed into law by", "title": "Treaty of Ghent" }, { "id": "6255334", "text": "of the North-Western Front. In the autumn of 1915, the town was occupied by German troops. Following the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917, the subsequent emergence of the new Bolshevik government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and the signing of the armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, Vawkavysk and the surrounding area temporarily laid within Russian territory. The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, between Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) ended Russia's participation in World War I. In this peace treaty, Russia renounced all territorial claims in", "title": "Vawkavysk" }, { "id": "2346334", "text": "Peace of Riga The Peace of Riga, also known as the Treaty of Riga (), was signed in Riga on 18 March 1921, between Poland, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine. The treaty ended the Polish–Soviet War. The Soviet-Polish borders established by the treaty remained in force until the Second World War. They were later redrawn during the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference. World War I removed former imperial borders across Europe. In 1918, after the Russian Revolution had renounced Tsarist claims to Poland in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the war had ended", "title": "Peace of Riga" }, { "id": "2632902", "text": "Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other. Like the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary and the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, it contained the Covenant of the League of Nations and as a result was not ratified by the United States but was followed by the US–Austrian Peace Treaty of 1921. The treaty signing ceremony took place at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Already on 21 October 1918, 208 German-speaking delegates of the", "title": "Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)" }, { "id": "432264", "text": "last one was in 1974. Treaty of Lausanne The Treaty of Lausanne () was a peace treaty signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. It officially settled the conflict that had originally existed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied French Republic, British Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, Kingdom of Greece, and the Kingdom of Romania since the onset of World War I. The original text of the treaty is in French. It was the result of a second attempt at peace after the failed Treaty of Sèvres, which was signed by all", "title": "Treaty of Lausanne" }, { "id": "750539", "text": "League of Nations, the UN would have teeth. Smuts also signed the Paris Peace Treaty, resolving the peace in Europe, thus becoming the only signatory of both the treaty ending the First World War, and that which ended the Second. After the suppression of the abortive, pro-German Maritz Rebellion during the South African World War I campaign against German South West Africa in 1914, the South African rebel General Manie Maritz escaped to Spain. He returned in 1923, and continued working in the Union of South Africa as a German Spy for the Third Reich. In 1896, the German Kaiser", "title": "History of South Africa" }, { "id": "17914445", "text": "2419D, and was used as such until August 1918. The car was then converted into an office for Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Allied Commander, who used it from the end of October 1918 to September 1919. On 11 November 1918, Foch, as Supreme Commander, signed the armistice with Germany in the then-called \"Wagon of Compiègne\". This agreement was the final \"cease-fire\" which ended fighting in the First World War; the other Central Powers having already reached agreements with the Allied Powers to end hostilities. Sometime after this, the car was returned to the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits and briefly resumed", "title": "Compiègne Wagon" }, { "id": "15507815", "text": "Glade of the Armistice The Glade of the Armistice () is a French national and war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne in Picardy, France, near the city of Compiègne and approximately north of Paris. It was built at the location where the Germans signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I. During World War II, Adolf Hitler chose the same spot for the French and Germans to sign the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after Germany won the Battle of France. The site was destroyed by the Germans but rebuilt after the war. Today, the", "title": "Glade of the Armistice" }, { "id": "4571029", "text": "public health activities in the region is situated on Horana Road in Padukka town. This MOH office has a unique history having dated back to British colonial era. The Padukka hospital also has a long history in the Sri Lankan medical system. There is a monumental gas lamp placed in the center of the town to commemorate the peace treaty ending World War I in 1919. Padukka also has a splendid Rest House run by the Sri Lanka Tourist Board and also a few Guest Houses. Two out of three Satellite Earth Stations in Sri Lanka are also situated in", "title": "Padukka" }, { "id": "108421", "text": "ever more precarious, Prince Maximilian of Baden reached out to the American President Woodrow Wilson, indicating that Germany was willing to accept his Fourteen Points. On November 11, 1918, the representatives of the newly formed Weimar Republic signed an armistice with the Allies which would end World War I. As the Kaiser had been forced to abdicate and the military relinquished executive power, it was the temporary \"civilian government\" that sued for peace—the signature on the armistice document was of Matthias Erzberger, a civilian, who was later murdered for his alleged treason. The subsequent Treaty of Versailles led to further", "title": "Stab-in-the-back myth" }, { "id": "432253", "text": "Treaty of Lausanne The Treaty of Lausanne () was a peace treaty signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. It officially settled the conflict that had originally existed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied French Republic, British Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, Kingdom of Greece, and the Kingdom of Romania since the onset of World War I. The original text of the treaty is in French. It was the result of a second attempt at peace after the failed Treaty of Sèvres, which was signed by all previous parties, except the Kingdom", "title": "Treaty of Lausanne" }, { "id": "753559", "text": "it was obvious that Germany would soon follow. On 11 November 1918, an armistice with Germany was signed. Clemenceau was embraced in the streets and attracted admiring crowds. He was a strong, energetic, positive leader who was key to the allied victory of 1918. To settle the international political issues left over from the conclusion of World War I, it was decided that a peace conference would be held in Paris, France. Famously, the Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied Powers to conclude the conflict was signed in the Palace of Versailles, but the deliberations on which it", "title": "Georges Clemenceau" }, { "id": "18786119", "text": "Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum The Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum () are a monument and a museum dedicated to the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. The monument, opened in 1998, is located at Karaağaç, Edirne in Turkey, and the museum is next to it in the former train station building. The Treaty of Sèvres, that marked the end of World War I, was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies on 10 August, 1920. It was, however, rejected by the Turkish national movement due to significant loss of territory, and accordingy failed. Following the victorious Turkish", "title": "Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum" }, { "id": "2418364", "text": "zone between Turkey and Bulgaria. Treaty of Sèvres The Treaty of Sèvres () was one of a series of treaties that the Central Powers signed after their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already ended with the Armistice of Mudros. The treaty was signed on 10 August 1920, in an exhibition room at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Sèvres, France. The Sèvres treaty marked the beginning of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, and its dismemberment. The terms it stipulated included the renunciation of all non-Turkish territory and its cession to the Allied administration. Notably, the", "title": "Treaty of Sèvres" }, { "id": "405572", "text": "have to accept the treaty or face an invasion of Allied forces across the Rhine within On 23 June, Bauer capitulated and sent a second telegram with a confirmation that a German delegation would arrive shortly to sign the treaty. On 28 June 1919, the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the immediate impetus for the war), the peace treaty was signed. The treaty had clauses ranging from war crimes, the prohibition on the merging of Austria with Germany without the consent of the League of Nations, freedom of navigation on major European rivers, to the returning", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "2418337", "text": "Treaty of Sèvres The Treaty of Sèvres () was one of a series of treaties that the Central Powers signed after their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already ended with the Armistice of Mudros. The treaty was signed on 10 August 1920, in an exhibition room at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Sèvres, France. The Sèvres treaty marked the beginning of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, and its dismemberment. The terms it stipulated included the renunciation of all non-Turkish territory and its cession to the Allied administration. Notably, the ceding of Eastern Mediterranean lands", "title": "Treaty of Sèvres" }, { "id": "10491783", "text": "1916 she was disarmed. \"Kaiser Barbarossa\" was thereafter employed as a floating prison for prisoners of war in Wilhelmshaven. In November 1918, Germany sought an end to the war and signed the First Armistice at Compiègne, which temporarily ended hostilities so a peace treaty could be negotiated. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the war and was signed on 28 June 1919, Germany was permitted to retain only six battleships of the \"\"Deutschland\" or types\". Accordingly, the ship was struck from the naval list on 6 December 1919 and sold to ship breakers. \"Kaiser Barbarossa\"", "title": "SMS Kaiser Barbarossa" }, { "id": "9563439", "text": "general peace treaty (the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in November 1919) was concluded. Armistice of Salonica The Armistice of Salonica (also known as the Armistice of Thessalonica) was signed on 29 September 1918 between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers in Thessaloniki. The convention followed after a request by the Bulgarian government on 24 September asking for a ceasefire. The armistice effectively ended Bulgaria's participation in World War I on the side of the Central Powers and came into effect on the Bulgarian front at noon on 30 September. The armistice regulated the demobilization and disarmament of the Bulgarian armed forces. The", "title": "Armistice of Salonica" }, { "id": "18786125", "text": "entrance hallway. Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum The Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum () are a monument and a museum dedicated to the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. The monument, opened in 1998, is located at Karaağaç, Edirne in Turkey, and the museum is next to it in the former train station building. The Treaty of Sèvres, that marked the end of World War I, was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies on 10 August, 1920. It was, however, rejected by the Turkish national movement due to significant loss of territory, and accordingy failed. Following the", "title": "Treaty of Lausanne Monument and Museum" }, { "id": "13151321", "text": "on 3 August 1918 and arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, on 20 August 1918. On 26 August 1918, \"Santa Rosalia\" headed for New York City for repairs before departing Norfolk, Virginia, in convoy for Europe early in October 1918. She reached Brest on 28 October 1918,then proceeded to St. Nazaire, France. On 11 November 1918, while \"Santa Rosalia\" was unloading her cargo there, the armistice with Germany was signed, ending World War I. \"Santa Rosalia\" got underway for Baltimore on 14 November 1918 and arrived there on 5 December 1918. After transferring from a U.S. Army to a United States Shipping", "title": "USS Santa Rosalia (ID-1503)" }, { "id": "14044135", "text": "International World War Peace Tree The International World War Peace Tree is a linden tree on the southwestern edge of Darmstadt, Indiana, serving as a reminder of Germany's armistice with the United States in 1918. The tree stands on the northwest corner of St. Joseph Avenue and Orchard Road, surrounded by cornfields. Its relative isolation from the nearby forests makes it easy to identify. In front of the tree is a wooden sign reading, \"International World War Peace Tree - Nov. 11, 1918\". The date marks the end of World War I. The tree is tall and is at least", "title": "International World War Peace Tree" }, { "id": "13806534", "text": "Norfolk, whence she got underway on 23 September in a convoy bound for France. After discharging her cargo at Brest, \"West Haven\" departed that French port on 3 November. While the vessel was steaming home, the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 ending World War I. However, the return of peace did not change the ship's duties, as there remained the postwar task of reconstructing Europe which had been devastated by the war. Following a brief layover in New York, \"West Haven\" loaded 7,075 tons of general Army cargo at Baltimore and sailed on 5 December, bound for France.", "title": "USS West Haven (ID-2159)" }, { "id": "1408667", "text": "century, a large fortress was built in and around the city. The Russians demolished the Polish Royal Castle and most of the Old Town \"to make room\" for the fortress. The town was captured by the German army in 1915, during World War I. In March 1918, in the Brest-Litovsk fortress on the western outskirts of Brest at the confluence of the Bug River and Mukhavets Rivers, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, ending the war between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers and transferring the city and its surrounding region to the sphere of influence of the German Empire.", "title": "Brest, Belarus" }, { "id": "12637185", "text": "Hungary, led by Communist forces, tried to secure its borders, however it was soon defeated and later occupied by Romanian forces for a few months' time. The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement of 1920 that formally ended World War I between most of the Allies (among them the Kingdom of Romania) and the Kingdom of Hungary, the latter being one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary. As a result of the treaty the regions of Transylvania, parts of the Banat, Crișana and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. The Treaty of Trianon and its consequences dominated", "title": "Hungary–Romania relations" }, { "id": "14699159", "text": "a milder version of it. The new government's first mission in the diplomatic field was to get the country out of the First World War then raging, and this was achieved in the Peace Treaty of Brest Litovsk, signed with the German Reich and its allies on 3 March 1918, which was also the first international treaty signed by the Soviet state. Following the end of the First World War, the Soviet state found itself in multi frontal war with most of its territorial neighbours, a war which came to a gradual end in 1920-1921. the end of the foreign", "title": "Norway and the Soviet Republic of Russia Preliminary Agreement (1921)" }, { "id": "337081", "text": "Pretoria as the capital of the South African Republic can be seen as marking the end of the Boers' settlement movements of the Great Trek. During the First Boer War, the city was besieged by Republican forces in December 1880 and March 1881. The peace treaty which ended the war was signed in Pretoria on 3 August 1881 at the Pretoria Convention. The Second Boer War resulted in the end of the Transvaal Republic and start of British hegemony in South Africa. The city surrendered to British forces under Frederick Roberts on 5 June 1900 and the conflict was ended", "title": "Pretoria" }, { "id": "3132886", "text": "Treaty of Vereeniging The Treaty of Vereeniging (commonly referred to as Peace of Vereeniging) was the peace treaty, signed on 31 May 1902, that ended the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State, on the one side, and the United Kingdom on the other. This settlement provided for the end of hostilities and eventual self-government to the Transvaal (South African Republic) and the Orange Free State as colonies of the United Kingdom. The Boer republics agreed to come under the sovereignty of the British Crown and the British government agreed on", "title": "Treaty of Vereeniging" }, { "id": "423873", "text": "minister and was replaced by Grigori Sokolnikov. When Sokolnikov arrived at Brest-Litovsk he declared \"we are going to sign immediately the treaty presented to us as an ultimatum but at the same time refuse to enter into any discussion of its terms\". The treaty was signed at 17:50 on 3 March 1918. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March 1918. The signatories were Soviet Russia signed by Grigori Yakovlovich Sokolnikov on the one side and the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire on the other. The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an", "title": "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" }, { "id": "13165453", "text": "line in defiance of the armistice, having rejected the Transcaucasian Commissariat's authority to sign it and accused the Armenians of massacring Muslims behind the Ottoman line on 15–16 January. On 24 February the Brest-Litovsk armistice was broken by Germany and became of no effect. Both armistices were superseded by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia, signed on 3 March 1918, and the Treaty of Batum with the successor states of the Transcaucasian Commissariat, signed 4 June. Armistice of Erzincan The Armistice of Erzincan (also spelled Erzindzhan or Erzinjan) was an agreement to suspend hostilities during World War I signed by", "title": "Armistice of Erzincan" }, { "id": "1971176", "text": "in place, with some estimates that a further 100,000 casualties among German civilians due to starvation were caused, on top of the hundreds of thousands which already had occurred. Food shipments, furthermore, had been entirely dependent on Allied goodwill, causing at least in part the post-hostilities irregularity. After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other, officially ended war between those countries. Other treaties ended the relationships of the United States and the", "title": "Aftermath of World War I" }, { "id": "434693", "text": "shipping had been destroyed. Under the terms of armistice, all U-boats were to immediately surrender. Those in home waters sailed to the British submarine base at Harwich. The entire process was done quickly and in the main without difficulty, after which the vessels were studied, then scrapped or given to Allied navies. Stephen King-Hall wrote a detailed eyewitness account of the surrender. The Treaty of Versailles ending World War I signed at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 restricted the total tonnage of the German surface fleet. The treaty also restricted the independent tonnage of ships and forbade the construction", "title": "U-boat" }, { "id": "11761724", "text": "has an albedo between 0.053 and 0.059. The \"Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link\" derives an albedo of 0.0385 and a diameter of 53.83 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.5. This minor planet was named after prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, Field Marshal and philosopher, Jan Smuts (1870–1950), under whom the discoverer of the asteroid fought in both World Wars. Smuts captured German South-West Africa in World War I and 0.0385 the only man to sign both of the peace treaties ending the First and Second World Wars. He served as prime minister of South Africa from 1919", "title": "1731 Smuts" }, { "id": "15507823", "text": "2419D. Glade of the Armistice The Glade of the Armistice () is a French national and war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne in Picardy, France, near the city of Compiègne and approximately north of Paris. It was built at the location where the Germans signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I. During World War II, Adolf Hitler chose the same spot for the French and Germans to sign the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after Germany won the Battle of France. The site was destroyed by the Germans but rebuilt after the war. Today,", "title": "Glade of the Armistice" }, { "id": "3807650", "text": "a million German soldiers remained tied up in the east until the end of the war, attempting to run a short-lived addition to the German Empire in Europe. In the end, Germany and Austria lost all their captured lands, and more, under various treaties (such as the Treaty of Versailles) signed after the armistice in 1918. On 10 November, one day before the end of World War I, Romania re-declared war on the Central Powers, thus reigniting the Eastern Front. On 11 November, the last day of the war, the Romanian Army occupied Chernivtsi, the capital of the Austrian Duchy", "title": "Eastern Front (World War I)" }, { "id": "8168313", "text": "announcement, Germany signed an armistice treaty, which brought an end to the war of four years. One of the terms of the armistice involved the withdrawal of German soldiers from Luxembourg, along with the other occupied countries. The Allied powers agreed that the German withdrawal from Luxembourg would be observed by the United States, and that the United States would receive the honour of liberating the captive country. On 18 November, American General John Joseph \"Black Jack\" Pershing, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front, issued a proclamation to the people of Luxembourg, stating that", "title": "German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I" }, { "id": "620287", "text": "The war along the Western Front led the German government and its allies to sue for peace in spite of German success elsewhere. As a result, the terms of the peace were dictated by France, Britain and the United States, during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The result was the Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919 by a delegation of the new German government. The terms of the treaty constrained Germany as an economic and military power. The Versailles treaty returned the border provinces of Alsace-Lorraine to France, thus limiting the coal required by German industry. The Saar, which", "title": "Western Front (World War I)" }, { "id": "454795", "text": "also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945 (V-J Day), rather than the formal surrender of Japan, which was on 2 September 1945 that officially ended the war in Asia. A peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1951. A treaty regarding Germany's future allowed the reunification of East and West Germany to take place in 1990 and resolved most post-World War II issues. No formal peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union was ever signed. World War I had radically altered the political", "title": "World War II" }, { "id": "11437942", "text": "and its allies from raising territorial claims against Hungary. They finally gave three quarter of pre-war Hungary to surrounding countries by the Peace Treaty of Trianon (4 June 1920). On November 11, 1918, World War I ended for Austria-Hungary with a complete military loss, even if at the time of the collapse, all forces were standing outside the borders of 1914. With the collapse of the army, Austria-Hungary also collapsed. The ethnic groups of Kingdom of Hungary called for independent nation-states. In the Treaty of Trianon signed on June 4, 1920, Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory, more than half", "title": "Hungary in World War I" }, { "id": "754814", "text": "21 November 1918. Pétain ended the war regarded \"without a doubt, the most accomplished defensive tactician of any army\" and \"one of France's greatest military heroes\" and was presented with his baton of Marshal of France at a public ceremony at Metz by President Raymond Poincaré on 8 December 1918. He was summoned to be present at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. His job as Commander-in-Chief came to an end with peace and demobilisation, and with Foch out of favour after his quarrel with the French government over the peace terms, it was Petain", "title": "Philippe Pétain" }, { "id": "9850221", "text": "determined that, unlike the League of Nations, the United Nations would have teeth. Smuts signed the Paris Peace Treaty, resolving the peace in Europe, thus becoming the only signatory of both the treaty ending the First World War, and that ending the Second. However, internal political struggles in the disgruntled and essentially impoverished Afrikaner community would soon come to the fore leading to Smuts' defeat at the polls in the 1948 elections (in which only whites and coloureds could vote) at the hands of a resurgent National Party after the war. This began the road to South Africa's eventual isolation", "title": "History of South Africa (1910–48)" }, { "id": "1678717", "text": "Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement of 1920 that formally ended World War I between most of the Allies of World War I and the Kingdom of Hungary, the latter being one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary. The treaty regulated the status of an independent Hungarian state and defined its borders. It left Hungary as a landlocked state that covered , only 28% of the that had constituted the pre-war Kingdom of Hungary (the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy). Its population was 7.6 million, only 36% of the pre-war kingdom's population of 20.9", "title": "Treaty of Trianon" }, { "id": "8688377", "text": "Battle of Bakhmach Battle of Bakhmach (\"Bitva u Bachmače\" in Czech), was one of the last battles on the Eastern Front in World War I between the Allied backed Czechoslovak Legion, Soviet Russia and the Central Powers occupying Ukraine after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The battle lasted from March 8 to March 13, 1918 over the city of Bakhmach (Бахмач), today in Ukraine and was the last engagement in World War 1 for the Soviets. Following a Legion victory, the Germans negotiated a truce. On March 3, 1918 Russia, controlled by the Bolsheviks, signed the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany", "title": "Battle of Bakhmach" }, { "id": "3132895", "text": "the 1931 Statute of Westminster. The country became a republic in 1961 therefore severing all connections with Great Britain. The country rejoined the Commonwealth in 1994. Although the treaty is named after the town of Vereeniging in Transvaal, where the peace negotiations took place, the document was actually signed at Melrose House in Pretoria. Treaty of Vereeniging The Treaty of Vereeniging (commonly referred to as Peace of Vereeniging) was the peace treaty, signed on 31 May 1902, that ended the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State, on the one side,", "title": "Treaty of Vereeniging" }, { "id": "7309138", "text": "Vladimir Lenin rose up against the government, resulting in a civil war. Eventually, the communists won and Lenin became premier. Feeling World War I was a capitalist conflict, Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany in which it gave up a great deal of its Central and Eastern European lands. Although Germany and its allies no longer had to focus on Russia, the large numbers of American troops and weapons reaching Europe turned the tide against Germany, and after more than a year of fighting, Germany surrendered. The treaties which ended the war, including the famous Versailles Treaty dealt harshly", "title": "History of Western civilization" }, { "id": "19727656", "text": "influence in the Balkans. It was fought between October 1853 and February 1856. After several battles such as the siege of Sevastopol, Battle of Balaklava or battle of Inkerman, and the Russian defeat, the belligerents met in Paris to sign the peace treaty ending the conflict: the Treaty of Paris. The painting measures 308 x 510 cm. It shows the plenipotentiaries of the states involved in the conflict, and a representative of Prussia, who, although not involved in the conflict, was invited to conversations. It is in the collection of the Museum of the History of France. The people represented", "title": "The Congress of Paris (Dubufe)" }, { "id": "16979607", "text": "League of Nations Council appointed an investigative commission that recommended that Iraq should retain Mosul, and Turkey reluctantly assented to the decision by signing the Frontier Treaty with the Iraqi government in 1926. Iraq agreed to give a 10 percent royalty on Mosul's oil deposits to Turkey for 25 years. Near the end of World War I, the debilitated Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros, calling for a ceasefire with the United Kingdom, on October 30, 1918. Three days later, on November 2, Lt. Gen. Sir William Marshall invaded the Mosul Vilayet until November 15, 1918 when he was", "title": "Mosul Question" }, { "id": "7594741", "text": "a result of the war: the Romanovs, the Hohenzollerns, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. Belgium and Serbia were badly damaged, as was France, with 1.4 million soldiers dead, not counting other casualties. Germany and Russia were similarly affected. A formal state of war between the two sides persisted for another seven months, until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919. The United States Senate did not ratify the treaty despite public support for it, and did not formally end its involvement in the war until the Knox–Porter Resolution was signed on 2 July 1921", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "13295838", "text": "de jure Ottoman territory at the same time, being elevated to a Sultanate. The Treaty of Sèvres (August 10, 1920) was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises. Also, France, Great Britain and Italy signed a secret \"Tripartite Agreement\" at the same date. The Tripartite Agreement confirmed Britain's oil and commercial concessions and turned the former German enterprises in the Ottoman Empire over to a Tripartite corporation. The open", "title": "Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire" }, { "id": "7594692", "text": "the local assembly of that territory on its unification with Romania. Romania officially made peace with the Central Powers by signing the Treaty of Bucharest on 7 May 1918. Under the treaty, Romania was obliged to end the war with the Central Powers and make small territorial concessions to Austria-Hungary, ceding control of some passes in the Carpathian Mountains, and to grant oil concessions to Germany. In exchange, the Central Powers recognised the sovereignty of Romania over Bessarabia. The treaty was renounced in October 1918 by the Alexandru Marghiloman government, and Romania nominally re-entered the war on 10 November 1918.", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "13056127", "text": "the war, forces of the Central Powers surrounded and later seized the port of Sevastopol. \"UB-14\" was at Sevastopol after the Germany signed the armistice treaty that ended all fighting on 11 November. \"UB-14\" and the three other surviving Constantinople Flotilla boats were disarmed on 25 November. \"UB-14\" was scuttled in the Black Sea off Sevastopol in the early months of 1919. SM UB-14 SM \"UB-14 was a German Type UB I submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The submarine was also known by the Austro-Hungarian Navy designation of SM \"U-26. \"UB-14\" was", "title": "SM UB-14" }, { "id": "150064", "text": "World War I. After four years of warfare, in which approximately two million German soldiers were killed, a general armistice ended the fighting on 11 November, and German troops returned home. In the German Revolution (November 1918), Emperor Wilhelm II and all German ruling princes abdicated their positions and responsibilities. Germany's new political leadership signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. In this treaty, Germany, as part of the Central Powers, accepted defeat by the Allies in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. Germans perceived the treaty as humiliating and unjust and it was later seen by historians", "title": "Germany" }, { "id": "11747001", "text": "when West Germany signed treaties with the Soviet Union (Treaty of Moscow) and Poland (Treaty of Warsaw) recognizing the Oder-Neisse line between Germany and Poland. Last major repatriation of German Prisoners of War and German civilians who were used as forced labor by the Allies after the war, in accordance with the agreement made at the Yalta conference. Most Prisoners of War held by the U.S., France, and the U.K. had been released by 1949. Japan and the USSR, agree to sidestep territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands and issue a joint declaration, restoring diplomatic relations and ending \"de facto\"", "title": "Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)" }, { "id": "12927039", "text": "armistice was signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks began. The newly formed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Germans on 3 March 1918, formally ending the war on the Eastern Front and permitting the redeployment of German forces to the Western Front, altering the balance of power. The treaty also permitted the occupation of large areas of European Russia, and within these territories were large stocks of military equipment previously supplied by the allies. In particular, there were large stocks of such supplies in the northern ports of", "title": "Australian contribution to the Allied Intervention in Russia 1918–1919" }, { "id": "905905", "text": "Treaty of Amiens The Treaty of Amiens (French: \"la paix d'Amiens\") temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Marquess Cornwallis as a \"Definitive Treaty of Peace.\" The consequent peace lasted only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of general peace in Europe between 1793 and 1814. Under the treaty, Britain recognised the French Republic. Together with the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), the Treaty of Amiens", "title": "Treaty of Amiens" }, { "id": "511155", "text": "World War I. In November 1916 the Emperor died, leaving the relatively inexperienced Charles (Karl) in command. The defeat of the Central Powers in 1918 resulted in the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, and the Emperor went into exile. The First World War effectively ended for Austria on 3 November 1918, when the defeated army signed the Armistice of Villa Giusti at Padua following the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. (Technically this applied to Austria-Hungary, but Hungary had withdrawn from the conflict on 31 October 1918, and most other states within the empire, such as Czechoslovakia and the South Slavs, had also done", "title": "History of Austria" }, { "id": "2853013", "text": "Cross, awarded only five times during World War I. Prince Leopold retired again in 1918 after the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which had ended the war on the Eastern Front. This treaty was highly favorable to Germany, and Leopold ended his career with success. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich and is buried in the Colombarium in the Michaelskirche in Munich. Prince Leopold and his wife Gisela had four children: Leopold is also, according to the provisions of 1843 Greek Constitution, the heir of the deposed King Otto of Greece. Due to the renunciation by his", "title": "Prince Leopold of Bavaria" }, { "id": "6057002", "text": "by the French state next to the Parc de Saint-Cloud. It is still on this site today, classed as a Monument historique, but still in operation. Sèvres turned to a more diluted version of Japonisme after 1870, and in 1897, a new artistic director, A. Sandier, introduced new Art Nouveau styles, followed about a decade later by styles leading to Art Deco. In 1920, the Treaty of Sèvres, the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I, was signed at the factory. At the Manufacture de Vincennes, in 1748, a \"floristry\" composed of", "title": "Manufacture nationale de Sèvres" }, { "id": "11140402", "text": "to the ground. Battle of Tulgas The Battle of Tulgas was part of the North Russia Intervention into the Russian Civil War and was fought between Allied and Bolshevik troops on the Northern Dvina River 200 miles south of Archangel. It took place on the day the armistice ending World War I was signed, November 11, 1918, and is sometimes referred to as \"The Battle of Armistice Day.\" Shortly before the battle, the freezing of the local waterways resulted in the cutting off of the Tulgas Garrison from outside assistance, and the freezing of the ground let the Bolsheviks move", "title": "Battle of Tulgas" }, { "id": "14507918", "text": "in the Aegean to prevent the Turks from attempting to launch their own amphibious operations to retake the islands Italy had seized in May. The 1st Division returned to Italy in late August for repairs and refitting, and were replaced by the battleships of the 2nd Squadron. The 1st Division left port on 14 October, but was recalled later that day, when the Ottomans had agreed to sign a peace treaty to end the war. Italy declared neutrality after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, but by July 1915, the Triple Entente had convinced the Italians to", "title": "Italian battleship Napoli" }, { "id": "11105981", "text": "its still hostile opponents – the Central Powers – for a truce and alliance, which was accepted by Germany in the first Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (signed on February 9, 1918) in return for desperately needed food supplies which Ukraine would provide to the Germans. The Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian armies then drove the Bolsheviks out of Ukraine, taking Kiev on March 1. Two days later, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which formally ended hostilities on the Eastern Front of World War I and left Ukraine in a German sphere of influence. Ukrainian troops took control of the Donets", "title": "Ukrainian War of Independence" }, { "id": "2346351", "text": "fully incorporated into the USSR. However, in 1989, Poland would regain its full sovereignty, and soon afterwards, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Belarus and Ukraine would go on to become independent nations. Peace of Riga The Peace of Riga, also known as the Treaty of Riga (), was signed in Riga on 18 March 1921, between Poland, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine. The treaty ended the Polish–Soviet War. The Soviet-Polish borders established by the treaty remained in force until the Second World War. They were later redrawn during the Yalta Conference", "title": "Peace of Riga" }, { "id": "423886", "text": "in exchange for their recognition of German gains in the east. Emil Orlik, the Viennese Secessionist artist, attended the conference, at the invitation of Richard von Kühlmann. He drew portraits of all the participants, along with a series of smaller caricatures. These were gathered together into a book, \"Brest-Litovsk,\" a copy of which was given to each of the participants. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in", "title": "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" }, { "id": "7198133", "text": "on Smyrna, a mob murdered the Orthodox bishop Chrysostomos of Smyrna and a few days later the Great Fire of Smyrna burnt large parts of the city (including most of the Greek and Armenian areas). With the end of the occupation of Smyrna, major combat in Anatolia between Greek and Turkish forces largely ended, and on 24 July 1923, the parties signed the Treaty of Lausanne ending the war. At the end of World War I (1914–1918), attention of the Allied Powers (Entente Powers) focused on the partition of the territory of the Ottoman Empire. As part of the Treaty", "title": "Occupation of Smyrna" }, { "id": "2765921", "text": "almost unnoticed. On 11 November, the Centre Party deputy Matthias Erzberger, on behalf of Berlin, signed the armistice agreement in Compiègne, France, and World War I came to an end. Although Ebert had saved the decisive role of the SPD, he was not happy with the results. He did not regard the Council Parliament and the Executive Council as helpful, but only as obstacles impeding a smooth transition from empire to a new system of government. The whole SPD leadership mistrusted the councils rather than the old elites in army and administration, and they considerably overestimated the old elite's loyalty", "title": "German Revolution of 1918–19" }, { "id": "469821", "text": "World War I broke out in Europe on August 1, 1914. The conflict dragged on until a truce was declared on November 11, 1918, leading to the controversial, one-sided Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919. The war's end triggered the abdication of various monarchies and the collapse of five of the last modern empires of Russia, Germany, China, Ottoman Turkey and Austria-Hungary, with the latter splintered into Austria, Hungary, southern Poland (who acquired most of their land in a war with Soviet Russia), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the unification of Romania with Transylvania and", "title": "1910s" }, { "id": "1951827", "text": "of Berlin in 1878 also allowed Austria-Hungary to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to take over Cyprus. The initial Treaty of San Stefano, signed on 3 March, is today celebrated as Liberation Day in Bulgaria, although it somewhat fell out of favour during years of Socialist rule. Article 9 of the 1856 Paris Peace Treaty, concluded at the end of the Crimean War, obliged the Ottoman Empire to grant Christians equal rights with Muslims. Before the treaty was signed, the Ottoman government issued an edict, the Edict of Gülhane, which proclaimed the", "title": "Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)" }, { "id": "405555", "text": "the research of the Inquiry, a team of about 150 advisors led by foreign-policy advisor Edward M. House, into the topics likely to arise in the expected peace conference. After the Central Powers launched Operation Faustschlag on the Eastern Front, the new Soviet Government of Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany on 3 March 1918. This treaty ended the war between Russia and the Central powers and annexed of territory and 62 million people. This loss equated to a third of the Russian population, a quarter of its territory, around a third of the country's arable land, three-quarters", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "13595272", "text": "quickly advanced on the city, supported by artillery fire from the Italian fleet. The Turks surrendered the city the following day. While the Italian troops completed the conquest of the island, \"Ammiraglio di Saint Bon\" bombarded Ottoman positions in support of the Italian offensive. Toward the end of May, the 3rd Division returned to Italy. In July, \"Ammiraglio di Saint Bon\" and the rest of the division had withdrawn to Italy to replace worn-out gun barrels, along with other repairs. By October, the Ottomans had agreed to sign a peace treaty to end the war. After the war, \"Ammiraglio di", "title": "Italian battleship Ammiraglio di Saint Bon" }, { "id": "4161325", "text": "Treaty of Bucharest (1918) The Treaty of Bucharest was a peace treaty between Romania on one side and the Central Powers on the other, following the stalemate reached after the campaign of 1916–17 and Romania's isolation after Russia's unilateral exit from World War I (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). It was signed at Buftea, near Bucharest, on 7 May 1918. Alexandru Marghiloman signed the treaty at Buftea (near Bucharest) on 7 May 1918 and it was ratified by the Chamber of Deputies on 28 June and by the Senate on 4 July 1918. However, King Ferdinand I of Romania refused to", "title": "Treaty of Bucharest (1918)" }, { "id": "1307757", "text": "1918, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech, expressing the will of the United States to the restitution of the region to France. Thus Alsace-Lorraine returned to the French Republic under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The Germans accepted to surrender under the term of the American proposal. Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) The Treaty of Frankfurt (; ) was a peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The treaty did the following: The treaty also established the terms for the following: The German", "title": "Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)" }, { "id": "5127748", "text": "control of the Anatolian Peninsula. Ottoman territory in Syria, Palestine, and Arabia stayed as distributed by the Treaty of Sèvres while the borders of the Turkish nation-state were set by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. Armistice of Mudros The Armistice of Mudros (), concluded on 30 October 1918, ended the hostilities, at noon the next day, in the Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I. It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS \"Agamemnon\" in Moudros harbor on", "title": "Armistice of Mudros" }, { "id": "10493628", "text": "engine room personnel, though on 19 November she was decommissioned in Kiel and disarmed. She was thereafter employed as a prison ship for prisoners of war in Wilhelmshaven. In November 1918, Germany capitulated and signed the First Armistice at Compiègne, which ended hostilities so a peace treaty could be negotiated. According to of the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919, Germany was permitted to retain only six battleships of the \" or \"Lothringen\" types\". On 6 December 1919, the ship was struck from the naval list and sold to ship-breakers. The following year, \"Kaiser Karl der Grosse\" was", "title": "SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse" }, { "id": "10944248", "text": "Treaty of Casalanza The Treaty of Casalanza, which ended the Neapolitan War, was signed on 20 May 1815 between the pro-Napoleon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on the one hand and the Austrian Empire, as well as the United Kingdom, on the other. The signature occurred in a patrician villa, owned by the Lanza family (\"Casalanza\" meaning \"Lanza House\" in Italian), in what is now the commune of Pastorano, Campania, southern Italy Following the decisive defeat at the Battle of Tolentino and the Battle of San Germano, the Napoleonic King of Naples, Joachim Murat, had fled to Corsica and General", "title": "Treaty of Casalanza" }, { "id": "16892306", "text": "mining rights in Shandong () and the concession in Tsingtao. These negotiations became part of the Boxer Protocol, which was signed September 7, 1901, in Beijing . These terms were later integrated into the Tientsin Protocol, which in 1918 became part of the peace treaty with Germany that ended World War I. Later in 1901 Yin Chang was named Lieutenant-General commanding the Plain White Banner Garrison (). It is said that during the Boxer Rebellion, when the Eight-Nation Alliance stormed Beijing to relieve the besieged Legations, Yin Chang, with his German-equipped soldiers, escorted the Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi", "title": "Yinchang" }, { "id": "10843045", "text": "casualties and neither side gaining any advantage, Napoleon finally arrived with news of an armistice and ordered Marmont to end the battle. Although the Battle of Znaim was the last action between Austria and France in the war, a formal peace was not agreed until the Treaty of Schönbrunn was signed on 14 October 1809, which finally ended the War of the Fifth Coalition. The immediate cause of the two-day Battle of Znaim was the decision of the Austrian commander in chief, Archduke Charles, to stage a rearguard action near the town of Znaim, about 80 kilometers north of Vienna,", "title": "Armistice of Znaim" }, { "id": "12643149", "text": "completing voyage repairs, she cleared Cape Henry and Cape Charles on 7 October 1918 and headed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, she loaded United States Army supplies bound for Europe and, on 29 October 1918, headed for France. After a stop at Gibraltar, \"Walter A. Luckenbach\" arrived in Marseilles on 14 November 1918, three days after the armistice ending World War I was signed, discharged her cargo, and loaded ballast for the return voyage. She stood out of Marseilles on 26 November 1918, stopped briefly at Gibraltar once again, and arrived at New York City on 11 December 1918. On the", "title": "USS Walter A. Luckenbach (ID-3171)" }, { "id": "8423012", "text": "officers' training school here. Napoleon III initiated restoration of the castle by Eugène Millet, starting in 1862. It became the \"Musée des Antiquités Nationales\" (National Museum of Antiquities) in 1867, displaying the archeological objects of France. Auguste Lafollye took over responsibility for the restoration on Millet's death in 1879, continuing until 1889. His goal, and that of his successor Honoré Daumet, was to restore the French Renaissance style of Francis I. On September 10, 1919 the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ending hostilities between the Allies of World War I and Austria, was signed at the château. During the German occupation (1940–44),", "title": "Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye" }, { "id": "560358", "text": "decisively defeated at Waterloo, and he abdicated again on 22 June. On 15 July, he surrendered to the British at Rochefort, and was exiled to Saint Helena, where he died in 1821. The Treaty of Paris, signed on 20 November 1815, formally ended the war. The Bourbon monarchy was restored once more, and the victors began the Congress of Vienna, to restore peace to the continent. As a direct result of the war, the Kingdom of Prussia rose to become a great power on the continent, while Great Britain, with its unequalled Royal Navy and growing Empire became the world's", "title": "Napoleonic Wars" }, { "id": "11140391", "text": "Battle of Tulgas The Battle of Tulgas was part of the North Russia Intervention into the Russian Civil War and was fought between Allied and Bolshevik troops on the Northern Dvina River 200 miles south of Archangel. It took place on the day the armistice ending World War I was signed, November 11, 1918, and is sometimes referred to as \"The Battle of Armistice Day.\" Shortly before the battle, the freezing of the local waterways resulted in the cutting off of the Tulgas Garrison from outside assistance, and the freezing of the ground let the Bolsheviks move troops to surround", "title": "Battle of Tulgas" }, { "id": "18688715", "text": "similar armistice on short notice in the Armistice of Salonica which had been negotiated by French General d'Esperey, and that Great Britain (and Czarist Russia) had committed the vast majority of troops to the campaign against the Ottomans. The French agreed to accept the matter as closed. On 30 October 1918, the Armistice of Mudros was signed, ending Ottoman involvement in World War 1. The Ottoman public, however, was given misleadingly positive impressions of the severity of the terms of the Armistice. They thought its terms were considerably more lenient than they actually were, a source of discontent later that", "title": "History of the Ottoman Empire during World War I" }, { "id": "6739379", "text": "and Nazi Germany (22 June 1940). With an unmistakable desire to humiliate his defeated enemy, German dictator Adolf Hitler gave orders that the surrender should be received in exactly the same spot, even the same railway car, where the Germans had surrendered in 1918. A memorial site called \"Clairière de l'Armistice\" (\"Glade of the Armistice\", or \"Armistice Clearing\") covers the historic treaty area. Additions include a statue of Marshal Foch and the large Alsace-Lorraine Memorial, which depicts an Allied sword pinning down an Imperial German eagle. A famous memorial tablet placed at the precise location of the cease-fire signing reads", "title": "Forest of Compiègne" }, { "id": "3766251", "text": "Hall of Mirrors The Hall of Mirrors ( or ) is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. Within the hall, the German Empire was declared in 1871 (Deutsche Reichsgründung) and the Treaty of Versailles signed by the victorious powers of World War I in 1919. As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV of France's third building campaign of the Palace of Versailles (1678–1684), construction of the Hall of Mirrors began in 1678. To provide for the Hall of Mirrors as well as the \"salon de la guerre\" and the \"salon de", "title": "Hall of Mirrors" }, { "id": "17093406", "text": "Treaty of Paris (1802) The Treaty of Paris was signed on 25 June 1802 between the First French Republic, then under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Ottoman Empire, then ruled by Sultan Selim III. It was the final form of a preliminary treaty signed at Paris on 9 October 1801 that brought to an end the French campaign in Egypt and Syria and restored Franco-Ottoman relations to their \"status quo ante bellum\". In the treaty the Ottoman Empire also assented to the Treaty of Amiens (25 March 1802), a peace treaty between France and the United Kingdom, which had", "title": "Treaty of Paris (1802)" }, { "id": "13165451", "text": "Armistice of Erzincan The Armistice of Erzincan (also spelled Erzindzhan or Erzinjan) was an agreement to suspend hostilities during World War I signed by the Ottoman Empire and Transcaucasian Commissariat in Erzincan on 18 December 1917 (5 December O.S.). The armistice brought temporary peace to the Caucasian and Persian Fronts until 12 February, when the fighting was resumed. The status of the Transcaucasian Commissariat was unclear at the time: the Ottomans regarded it as an independent entity, a legal successor of the Russian Empire, while the Commissariat still considered itself a part of the Russian Republic. The Ottoman Empire was", "title": "Armistice of Erzincan" }, { "id": "10226777", "text": "in charge of the dispensary at Fort Santiago in Manilla. On October 28, 1918, Pond reported for duty on the \"USS Warren\", a transport bound for Vladivostock. The \"Warren\" arrived in Vladivostock on November 11. That same day the Armistice ending World War I was signed and the transport immediately returned home. Pond received his discharge on January 15, 1919. By that time he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war, Pond entered private practice in Cebu. He also engaged in several business ventures, including a coconut plantation, a cattle ranch on the island of Mindanao, and", "title": "Arlie Pond" }, { "id": "3807648", "text": "many of the Red Army's officers had served a similar function in the imperial army before its collapse. With the German Army just from the Russian capital Petrograd (St. Petersburg) on March 3, 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed and the Eastern Front ceased to be a war zone. While the treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year, it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, who were embroiled in a civil war, and affirmed the independence of Ukraine. However, Estonia and Latvia were intended to become a United Baltic Duchy to be ruled by German", "title": "Eastern Front (World War I)" }, { "id": "678753", "text": "Hall Putsch. The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, sounded the death knell of German power and prestige. Like many Germans of the period, Hitler (who still held Austrian citizenship at the time) believed that the treaty was a betrayal, with the country having been \"stabbed in the back\" by its own government, particularly as the German Army was popularly thought to have been undefeated in the field. Germany, it was felt, had been betrayed by civilian leaders and Marxists, who were later called the \"November Criminals\". Hitler remained in the army, in Munich, after World War I.", "title": "Beer Hall Putsch" }, { "id": "931656", "text": "Jones' name, as it is the only surviving property in the United States associated with him. Built by the master housewright Hopestill Cheswell, an African American, it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. It now serves as the Portsmouth Historical Society Museum. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, established in 1800 as the first federal navy yard, is located on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine. The base is famous for being the site of the 1905 signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Though US President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrated the peace conference that brought Russian and", "title": "Portsmouth, New Hampshire" }, { "id": "4161328", "text": "of Versailles to renounce all the benefits provided by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918. The territorial transfers to Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria were annulled by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), and the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919), respectively; and the Treaty of Trianon (1920) settled Romania's border with Hungary. Treaty of Bucharest (1918) The Treaty of Bucharest was a peace treaty between Romania on one side and the Central Powers on the other, following the stalemate reached after the campaign of 1916–17 and Romania's isolation after Russia's unilateral exit from World War I (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). It was signed at", "title": "Treaty of Bucharest (1918)" }, { "id": "510897", "text": "because a trained executioner was unavailable to operate the legal method, by garrote. In 1958, Andorra declared peace with Germany. It had been forgotten in the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and so the conflict had been extended by the lack of a peace treaty, and both had legally remained at war. Long an impoverished land with little contact with any nations other than adjoining France and Spain, Andorra, after World War II, achieved considerable prosperity through a developing tourist industry. That development, abetted by improvements in transport and communications, has tended to break down Andorra’s isolation", "title": "History of Andorra" }, { "id": "1748796", "text": "word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, he selected the Forest of Compiègne as the site for the negotiations. Compiègne had been the site of the 1918 Armistice, which ended the First World War with a humiliating defeat for Germany; Hitler viewed the choice of location as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over France. On 21 June 1940, Hitler visited the site to start the negotiations which took place in the very same railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed (it had just been removed from a museum building and placed", "title": "Battle of France" } ]

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[ { "id": "782260", "text": "performs in Wales and internationally. The Welsh National Opera is based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, while the National Youth Orchestra of Wales was the first of its type in the world. Wales has a tradition of producing notable singers, including Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Dame Margaret Price, Sir Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Sir Bryn Terfel, Mary Hopkin, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Meic Stevens, Dame Shirley Bassey, Marina and the Diamonds and Duffy. Popular bands that emerged from Wales include the Beatles-nurtured power pop group Badfinger in the 1960s, Man and Budgie", "title": "Wales" }, { "id": "8054461", "text": "Not Unusual\", \"What's New Pussycat\", \"Delilah\", \"Green, Green Grass of Home\", \"She's a Lady\", \"Kiss\", and \"Sex Bomb\". Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, and two Brit Awards: Best British Male in 2000 and the Outstanding Contribution to Music award in 2003. Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and in 2006 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music. Tom Jones discography Tom Jones, real name Thomas John Woodward KBE (born 7 June 1940), is a Welsh singer whose career has spanned six decades,", "title": "Tom Jones discography" }, { "id": "2603830", "text": "14 February 2014, Jones was nominated as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music; he was presented with the fellowship on 3 July 2014. He was one of the Joneses who broke the world record for gathering together the highest number of people who share a surname, in the Millennium Stadium in 2006: he was one of 1,224 people called Jones who took part. Aled Jones Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has become well", "title": "Aled Jones" }, { "id": "3233668", "text": "\"In These Stones Horizons Sing\" and the Centre was open. The evening celebrations began with \"Cymru for the World\", which celebrated the achievements of five leading Welsh artists; Gwyneth Jones, Shirley Bassey, Siân Phillips, Alun Hoddinott and Richard Burton, represented by his daughter Kate Burton. This included tributes from Robert Hardy, Jonathan Pryce, Derek Jacobi, Nana Mouskouri, Catrin Finch, Ruth Madoc and Ian McKellen. The concert was directed by Ken Caswell and conducted by David Charles Abell. Bryn Terfel started off with a short speech and introduced the Wales Millennium Centre singers and dancers, who in hard hats and donkey", "title": "Wales Millennium Centre" }, { "id": "577860", "text": "Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (; born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films \"Goldfinger\" (1964), \"Diamonds Are Forever\" (1971), and \"Moonraker\" (1979). In January 1959, Bassey became the first Welsh person to gain a No. 1 single. In 2000, Bassey was made a Dame for services to the performing arts. In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. Bassey has been called \"one of", "title": "Shirley Bassey" }, { "id": "9963470", "text": "Leaving the 20th Century Leaving the 20th Century is a recording of the Manic Millennium concert by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, released in 2000. The concert was announced on October 5th 1998 and which also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the band, was performed on the New Year's Eve night 1999-2000 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in front of more than 57,000 fans. The event became international as the final song of the event was broadcast live all over the world through satellites, the entire concert was broadcast Live on London's 104.9 XFM, support came from", "title": "Leaving the 20th Century" }, { "id": "14254425", "text": "Song\" on \"Saturday Night Live\" on 7 May 2011 and on \"The Early Show\" on 30 July 2011. Goulding performed, for the second consecutive year, at Radio 1's Big Weekend on 14 May 2011. The singer headlined the 2011 Wakestock festival in Wales, performing on 8 July. In August, she performed at V Festival for her second year in a row. On 6 August 2011, Goulding performed at Lollapalooza in Chicago. On 1 December 2011, the singer performed at the White House during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, alongside the likes of Big Time Rush and will.i.am. Goulding performed", "title": "Lights (Ellie Goulding album)" }, { "id": "570924", "text": "Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career comebacks—to coaching on \"The Voice UK\" from 2012 (with the exception of 2016). Jones's powerful voice has been described as a \"full-throated, robust baritone\". His performing range has included pop, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel. In 2008, the \"New York Times\" called Jones a musical \"shape shifter\",", "title": "Tom Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "522689", "text": "also one of the first western artists to tour the Soviet Union. In addition to her music awards, Tyler has received local honours in Wales; including being named freeman of Neath Port Talbot in 2011, and an honorary degree and doctorate from Swansea University in 2013. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. In 2016, she was honoured by the Lord Mayor of Swansea for Services to Music. Bonnie Tyler Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence", "title": "Bonnie Tyler" }, { "id": "3522901", "text": "Street Preachers concert held on Millennium Eve, and, on the following day, a recording of the BBC's Songs of Praise, which attracted an attendance of 60,000. Tina Turner performed a sold-out concert at the stadium during her highly successful Twenty Four Seven Tour in 2000. Welsh rockers Stereophonics have played two sold out shows at the stadium: In July 2001 as part of their two-day \"A Day at the Races\" festival which would later be released to DVD and in 2003, shortly after the departure of the late Stuart Cable. American rock band Bon Jovi played the venue during the", "title": "Millennium Stadium" }, { "id": "16694893", "text": "leak of Bonnie Tyler's Eurovision participation, identified the UK representative as musical stage actress Bonnie Langford. The official announcement that Bonnie Tyler would represent the United Kingdom with the song \"Believe in Me\" was made on 7 March 2013. Tyler is the fifth Welsh-born solo act to represent the UK at Eurovision, following Mary Hopkin (1970), Emma (1990), Jessica Garlick (2002) and James Fox (2004). To date, the only Welsh-born person to sing on a winning Eurovision entrant is Nicky Stevens of Brotherhood of Man, that group having secured Eurovision victory for the UK in 1976 with \"Save Your Kisses", "title": "United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013" }, { "id": "570945", "text": "from the album, reaching No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. U.S. President Bill Clinton invited Jones to perform on New Year's Eve at the 2000 millennium celebrations in Washington D.C. Throughout the year 2000, Jones garnered a number of honours for his work; including a BRIT Award for Best British Male. He was also hired as the new voice of Australia's National Rugby League, singing in an advertisement to market the 2000 season. In 2002, Jones released the album \"Mr. Jones\", which was produced by Haitian-American rapper Wyclef Jean. The album and the first single, \"Tom Jones International\", were", "title": "Tom Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "14569451", "text": "and composed tracks for the album \"Wonderful World\" by Jack Topping. The album was released by Decca Records on 2 December 2013 and reached number 1 in the Classical Artists Chart on 14 December. Topping is the youngest solo artist to be signed by Decca Records. In conjunction with Parkinson's UK, Morgan Pochin arranged \"Symfunny\", a fundraising concert held in June 2014 at London's Royal Albert Hall. Juliette Pochin Juliette Louise B. Pochin (born 1971) is a Welsh classically trained mezzo-soprano singer, composer/arranger, and record producer. She is known not only for her performances in operas and as a classical", "title": "Juliette Pochin" }, { "id": "8054460", "text": "Tom Jones discography Tom Jones, real name Thomas John Woodward KBE (born 7 June 1940), is a Welsh singer whose career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career comebacks. Jones's powerful voice has been described as a \"full-throated, robust baritone\". His performing range has included pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel. Jones has sold over 100 million records with thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom and nineteen in the United States, including \"It's", "title": "Tom Jones discography" }, { "id": "570967", "text": "from the 2002 \"Mr. Jones\" album, \"Jezebel\", \"The Letter\", \"Younger Days\", \"Tom Jones International\", \"Holiday\", \"The Road\", \"24 Hours\", \"Seasons\", \"We Got Love\", \"Seen That Face\", \"Give a Little Love\", \"If He Should Ever Leave You\", \"Whatever it Takes\", and \"Traveling Shoes\" from the 2012 album \"Spirit in the Room\". Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career", "title": "Tom Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "3256134", "text": "Bryn Terfel Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (; born 9 November 1965) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Don Giovanni, but has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles, especially those by Wagner. Bryn Terfel Jones was born in Pant Glas, Caernarfonshire, Wales, the son of a farmer. His first language is Welsh. He knew of another Welsh baritone named Bryn Jones, so chose Bryn Terfel as his professional name. He had an interest in and talent for music from a very young age. A family friend", "title": "Bryn Terfel" }, { "id": "20053002", "text": "Butetown area and beyond, and recognised as one of the biggest centres of R&B outside of the USA. It hosted international artists Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Ruffin and Spandau Ballet, as well as Welsh performers Mickey Gee, Endaf Emlyn and Geraint Jarman. In 2014, the Wales Millennium Centre hosted a production entitled 'Night at the Casablanca', which was a celebration of the musical tradition of the venue. The Point was a live music venue which operated from St Stephen's Church from 2003 to 2009. It hosted acts including Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand, DJ Danger Mouse and The Bluetones. In 2016,", "title": "Mount Stuart Square" }, { "id": "3256148", "text": "roles on stage: Bryn Terfel Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (; born 9 November 1965) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Don Giovanni, but has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles, especially those by Wagner. Bryn Terfel Jones was born in Pant Glas, Caernarfonshire, Wales, the son of a farmer. His first language is Welsh. He knew of another Welsh baritone named Bryn Jones, so chose Bryn Terfel as his professional name. He had an interest in and talent for music from a very young age.", "title": "Bryn Terfel" }, { "id": "9020238", "text": "Bingham, Elgar Howarth, Edward Gregson, Alun Hoddinott, Karl Jenkins, Gareth Wood, David Bedford, as well as John Pickard. The band’s current \"Associate Composer\" is Christopher Bond. In 2002 the band were selected to play for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations and have since performed in many of the world’s finest concert venues including the Grieg Hall, Stravinsky Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. In 2003, they performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and were also featured during the opening celebrations of the new Wales Millennium Centre. Cory Band are", "title": "Cory Band" }, { "id": "12160510", "text": "at the time of the count. Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones was an event held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales on the 3 November 2006, which broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname—Jones. 1,224 Joneses attended a Gala Concert in Cardiff featuring performances by Grace Jones, Dame Gwyneth Jones, John Owen-Jones and Tammy Jones, alongside a host of Welsh-speaking singers, actors and celebrities. During the evening, messages of support were shown from Aled Jones, Bryn Terfel, Stephen Jones, Ruth Jones, Rhys Meirion Jones and well wishes from Tom", "title": "Jones Jones Jones" }, { "id": "12865397", "text": "continue to contribute to Chicago’s culture. Chicago is also home to three vibrant Welsh societies: The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society, The Welsh Women’s Club of Illinois and The Cambrian Benevolent Society of Chicago, catering to every facet of Welsh culture past and present. Welsh musicians often visit Chicago to perform; most recently: The Manic Street Preachers, The Joy Formidable, Marina and the Diamonds, Duffy, The Stereophonics, Jem, Cerys Matthews, Jon Langford, Bryn Terfel, Tom Jones, People in Planes, Future of the Left, Katherine Jenkins, Super Furry Animals, Funeral for a Friend, Goldie Lookin Chain, Here Be Dragons, David Llewellyn, Julian", "title": "Welsh history in Chicago" }, { "id": "26443", "text": "citizen on 12 April 2000, with Hopkins stating: \"I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America\". Hopkins has been married three times: to Petronella Barker from 1966 to 1972; to Jennifer Lynton from 1973 to 2002; and, since 2003, to Stella Arroyave. On Christmas Eve 2012, he celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary by having a blessing at a private service at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire in the most westerly point of Wales. He has a daughter, actress and singer Abigail Hopkins (born 20 August 1968), from his first marriage. The two are estranged, when asked if", "title": "Anthony Hopkins" }, { "id": "7621480", "text": "Live\". Tomas Mureika of \"AllMusic\" gave the accompanying live CD a positive review, stating that \"Tyler is -- at heart -- an amazing live performer and this is a great chronicle of her abilities.\" His only criticism was that the majority of songs performed were her most recent work, stating that he would have preferred more of \"the masterpieces Tyler created with Jim Steinman.\" Bonnie on Tour Bonnie on Tour is a live DVD by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released on 21 April 2006 by Stick Music. The DVD contains footage of Tyler performing at La Cigale in", "title": "Bonnie on Tour" }, { "id": "5044557", "text": "Katherine Jenkins Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh mezzo-soprano singer and songwriter. She is a classical-crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. After winning singing competitions in her youth, Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled and taught voice. She came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour of Pope John Paul II's silver jubilee. Since 2004, she has released numerous albums that have performed well on British and foreign charts. In both 2005 and 2006, her albums", "title": "Katherine Jenkins" }, { "id": "8515473", "text": "the pavilion prepared to enter its second era - that of variety entertainment. This was to be the theatre's golden age, with the Pavilion firmly on the tour list of every major artist. Thousands of top acts appeared there over the years, including household names like George Formby, Ted Ray, Semprini, Petula Clark, Arthur Askey, Bryan Johnson, Bill Maynard (\"Greengrass\" in Heartbeat), Jimmy Edwards (Whacko!), Russ Conway, the Beverley Sisters, Cyril Fletcher and Cliff Richard. Special mention should be made of Welsh singer Ivor Emmanuel, who appeared regularly on Sunday night bills for many years. During its long history, the", "title": "Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre" }, { "id": "7280283", "text": "political figure Dafydd Iwan (Dafydd Iwan Jones), opera singer Bryn Terfel (Bryn Terfel Jones), classical singer Shân Cothi, and the late actress Myfanwy Talog (Myfanwy Talog Williams). Welsh surnames Fixed family names were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards. Until this point, the Welsh had a patronymic naming system. In 1292, 48 per cent of Welsh names were patronymics, and in some parishes over 70 per cent. Other names were derived from nicknames, (rarely) occupational names, and a few non-hereditary personal names. Patronymic names changed from generation to generation, with a person's baptismal name being linked by \"ap\",", "title": "Welsh surnames" }, { "id": "12160508", "text": "Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones was an event held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales on the 3 November 2006, which broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname—Jones. 1,224 Joneses attended a Gala Concert in Cardiff featuring performances by Grace Jones, Dame Gwyneth Jones, John Owen-Jones and Tammy Jones, alongside a host of Welsh-speaking singers, actors and celebrities. During the evening, messages of support were shown from Aled Jones, Bryn Terfel, Stephen Jones, Ruth Jones, Rhys Meirion Jones and well wishes from Tom Jones and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The evening", "title": "Jones Jones Jones" }, { "id": "13341134", "text": "of soul music such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, but admits to listening to heavy rock during his youth. He currently lives and works in London with his wife, former Black Box Recorder vocalist Sarah Nixey. Jimmy Hogarth Jimmy Hogarth (born 1974, Orkney Islands, Scotland) is a London-based producer and songwriter, whose production and writing credits include, Amy Winehouse, Sia, Tom Grennan Paolo Nutini, Duffy, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ren Harvieu, Estelle, Tina Turner, KT Tunstall, James Blunt, James Morrison, James Bay, Maverick Sabre, Joel Culpepper, In 2005, he was introduced to Welsh singer Duffy and went on to contribute", "title": "Jimmy Hogarth" }, { "id": "2443545", "text": "in 1969 by Dafydd Iwan and Huw Jones with the aid of funding from Brian Morgan Edwards. Originally, the label signed Welsh singers, mostly with overtly political lyrics, eventually branching out into a myriad of different styles. These included country music (John ac Alun), singer-songwriters (Meic Stevens), stadium rock (The Alarm) and classical singers (Aled Jones, Bryn Terfel). The folk revival picked up energy in the 1980s with Robin Huw Bowen and other musicians achieving great commercial and critical success. Later into the 1990s, a new wave of bands including Fernhill, Rag Foundation, Bob Delyn A'r Ebillion, Moniars, Carreg Lafar,", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "8896123", "text": "Welsh Proms, an Orchestral Series attracting renowned conductors and performers, and the biennial Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The Wales Millennium Centre is a performing arts centre in Cardiff Bay. Opened in 2004, the centre has already established its reputation as one of the world's iconic arts and cultural destinations. The centre usually hosts West End musicals, opera ballet and contemporary dance. With a capacity of 74,500, the Millennium Stadium, national stadium of Wales, hosts only the largest of concerts by the most famous of performers, such as U2, Oasis, Take That, Kasabian, Madonna and Paul McCartney. The stadium", "title": "Music of Cardiff" }, { "id": "570949", "text": "before a number of boxing matches. He sang \"God Save the Queen\", the national anthem of the United Kingdom, before the Floyd Mayweather-Ricky Hattonfight in 2007; he sang \"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau\", the Welsh national anthem, at the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe fight between fellow Welshman Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins in 2008; and he sang \"God Save the Queen\" before the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight in 2009. In 2008, he released \"24 Hours\" on S-Curve Records, his first album of new material to be issued in the United States for over fifteen years. Jones, who was still performing over 200", "title": "Tom Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "13499371", "text": "The Millennium Gathering The Millennium Gathering is a live album by Mike Peters. The triple live CD edition featured 50 performances recorded live at The Gathering 'G8Y2K', Llandudno Conference Centre, North Wales on the 14th and 15 January 2000. The CD came in a limited numbered special white packaging and featured three colour coded CD's. Disc one Silver featured the best performances from Peters' solo' set of the Friday evening. The best takes from the second set of the night featuring the Flesh & Blood Orchestra reaching a climax with Mike Peters speaking with original Alarm guitarist Dave Sharp who", "title": "The Millennium Gathering" }, { "id": "2443549", "text": "Dolls and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. The 21st century has seen the emergence of a number of new artists, including Marina and the Diamonds, Skindred, Lostprophets, Kids in Glass Houses, Duffy, Christopher Rees, Bullet for My Valentine, The Automatic, Goldie Lookin Chain, People in Planes, Los Campesinos!, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Attack! Attack!, Gwenno, H Hawkline, Kelly Lee Owens, Funeral for a Friend, Hondo Maclean, Fflur Dafydd, The Blackout, Kyshera, The Broken Vinyl Club, The Joy Formidable and The Anchoress. There is a thriving Welsh-language contemporary music scene ranging from rock to hip-hop which routinely attracts large crowds and audiences,", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "12620229", "text": "in CD form, complete with artwork. Umphrey's McGee named their particular improvisational creations \"Jimmy Stewarts.\" The name is derived from that of a meeting room at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel. The room was named after the American actor Jimmy Stewart. The band had just played at a wedding for their friend Jeremy Welsh in 2001. The band went back to the meeting room to have a jam session around three o'clock in the morning, and it was recorded by their sound man Kevin Browning. (Pietro C. Truba. (2008, May 15))Bayliss the lead singer said “We had one of the best", "title": "Jimmy Stewart 2007" }, { "id": "8896122", "text": "Wales and, has recently played host to Travis, Busted, Duran Duran, Paramore and Blondie. The venue has a capacity 7,500 and is more than often one of the venues visited by the most popular touring acts. The arena is also used for exhibitions, sport and other live events. St David's Hall has over 450 performances a year, including classical music, rock, pop, jazz, children's events, dance and comedy. Past performers include Lemar, Chris Rea and Suzanne Vega. It is situated in The Hayes. St David's Hall is the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales, and hosts the annual", "title": "Music of Cardiff" }, { "id": "11184452", "text": "No.4 in the UK Singles Chart. Shirley Bassey and Bryn Terfel released a version of the song on 11 October 1999. It was controversially mimed live by at the opening of the series in June 1999, with Bassey famously wearing a gown designed on the Welsh flag. Three versions are featured on the CD single: a duet with Bassey and Terfel, Bassey's solo version and a version which features the choirs only. The duet version is performed partially in Welsh by Terfel. The official video was filmed at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff and features various other Welsh landscapes. The single", "title": "World in Union" }, { "id": "577885", "text": "assistant, who also accused Bassey of hitting her and making an ethnic slur. Bassey won the case. The episode was lampooned by Alexander Baron in his one-act play \"The Trial of Shirley Bassey\". The following year, she performed the official song for the rugby World Cup, \"World in Union\", with Bryn Terfel at the opening ceremony at The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, wearing a gown designed on the Welsh flag. Their single made the Top 40, and Bassey contributed two more songs to the official album \"Land of My Fathers\", which reached No. 1 on the UK compilations chart, and went", "title": "Shirley Bassey" }, { "id": "2443547", "text": "influences, especially the language, into imported genres, Soliloquise for example and especially John ac Alun, a Welsh language country duo who are perhaps the best-known contemporary performers in Welsh. In June 2007, Tŷ Siamas was opened in Dolgellau. Tŷ Siamas is the National Centre for Traditional Music, with regular sessions, concerts, lessons, an interactive exhibition and a recording studio. In the non-traditional arena, many Welsh musicians have been present in popular rock and pop, either as individuals, (e.g. Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Dave Edmunds, Shakin' Stevens), individuals in groups (e.g. John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Green Gartside of Scritti", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "5273647", "text": "by a concert in the Salon of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. A lilac tree was planted in the grounds of St. John's Church, Littlewick Green, on 10 June 2001. The Honorary Administrator is Nicholas Gaze, and he is assisted by Mary Falby and Chris Sansom. The patrons are the sopranos Marilyn Hill-Smith and Sandra Watkins. The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau is a voluntary organisation that was formed in Quedgeley, Gloucester, to foster interest in and preserve the memory of the Welsh composer and actor Ivor Novello. An annual 'Ivor Day' event is held in", "title": "The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau" }, { "id": "17471788", "text": "North Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog. Founded by Mark Durston, the festival began in Abersoch, North Wales back in 2000. In 2008 the festival was bought by Kilimanjaro Live. The festival is split over three sites - the main festival site at Penrhos, Pwllheli Marina hosts the main wakeboard competition and Abersoch Bay hosts the Big Air Classic competition. The festival prides itself as being at the foot of the Snowdonia Mountains and looks out over Cardigan Bay. Previous headline music acts have included Ellie Goulding, Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, The 1975, Example and James. Warped", "title": "Kilimanjaro Live" }, { "id": "1286185", "text": "a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He is a patron of the children's charity Friendship Works and of the surgical charity Saving Faces. Pryce was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce, (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime girlfriend, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor", "title": "Jonathan Pryce" }, { "id": "1954593", "text": "Sasha (DJ) Alexander Paul Coe (born 4 September 1969), known mononymously as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed as Sasha & John Digweed. He was voted World No. 1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. He is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s. He partnered with John", "title": "Sasha (DJ)" }, { "id": "11468520", "text": "top of the charts in February 2008. Duffy became the first Welsh female to top the UK Singles Chart in 25 years, since Bonnie Tyler with \"Total Eclipse of the Heart\". It remained at number one for five weeks. The second single from the album, \"Warwick Avenue\" was at the number 3 position on the UK Singles Chart. The subsequent single \"Stepping Stone\" peaked at number 21 and the title track at number 45. The single \"Rain on Your Parade\" debuted at number twenty-two on 10 November and rose to a peak of number fifteen the following week. Aside from", "title": "Rockferry" }, { "id": "12478828", "text": "known public performance, although she sang again on the evening of the same day in the public concert in Hyde Park. The United Kingdom's VE Day Diamond Jubilee ceremonies in 2005 included a concert in Trafalgar Square, London, in which Lynn made a surprise appearance. She made a speech praising the veterans and calling upon the younger generation always to remember their sacrifice, and joined in with a few bars of \"We'll Meet Again\". Following that year's Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance Lynn encouraged the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins to assume the mantle of \"Forces' Sweetheart\". In her speech", "title": "Vera Lynn" }, { "id": "2443533", "text": "song\". In the twentieth century, Wales produced a large number of classical and operatic soloists of international reputation, including Ben Davies, Geraint Evans, Robert Tear, Bryn Terfel, Gwyneth Jones, Margaret Price, Rebecca Evans and Helen Watts, as well as composers such as Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Karl Jenkins. From the 1980s onwards, crossover artists such as Katherine Jenkins, Charlotte Church and Aled Jones began to come to the fore. Welsh National Opera, established in 1946, and the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, launched in 1983, attracted attention to Wales's growing reputation as a centre of excellence in", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "13341133", "text": "Jimmy Hogarth Jimmy Hogarth (born 1974, Orkney Islands, Scotland) is a London-based producer and songwriter, whose production and writing credits include, Amy Winehouse, Sia, Tom Grennan Paolo Nutini, Duffy, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ren Harvieu, Estelle, Tina Turner, KT Tunstall, James Blunt, James Morrison, James Bay, Maverick Sabre, Joel Culpepper, In 2005, he was introduced to Welsh singer Duffy and went on to contribute four tracks, including the single \"Warwick Avenue\" to her five million selling debut album \"Rockferry\". In 2008, he received a Grammy award for his work on the Suzanne Vega album, \"Beauty & Crime\". Hogarth is a fan", "title": "Jimmy Hogarth" }, { "id": "5044591", "text": "hours 26 minutes. Jenkins was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for her services to music and for charitable services. Katherine Jenkins Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh mezzo-soprano singer and songwriter. She is a classical-crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. After winning singing competitions in her youth, Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled and taught voice. She came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour", "title": "Katherine Jenkins" }, { "id": "8482117", "text": "2013, Levitas has been in a relationship with Welsh classical-crossover singer Katherine Jenkins. The pair were engaged in April 2014, and married at Hampton Court Palace on September 27, 2014. Jenkins gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Aaliyah Reign Levitas, on September 30, 2015. The baby weighed in at 7lb. With his wife, Levitas wrote the song \"8 Nights of Joy,\" which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and was on her album \"Home Sweet Home,\" which went to number one on the charts Levitas is the Global Patron for the Wilderness Foundation Andrew Levitas Andrew", "title": "Andrew Levitas" }, { "id": "7171847", "text": "Katherine Jenkins, Iris Williams, Max Boyce, Bryn Terfel, Aled Jones, Charlotte Church, Ozzy Osbourne, Jon Bon Jovi, Cliff Richard, Andrea Bocelli, McFly, Russell Watson and Il Divo. Since the early 1980s the choir has undertaken a number of overseas tours beginning with two visits to Canada and a performance in Strasbourg Cathedral for its congregation of almost 6,000 people. A series of four tours of the USA followed, with visits to the White House and performances in San Francisco, Denver, Seattle and the Mid West. Treorchy has also enjoyed a close connection with Australia, becoming the first Welsh choir to", "title": "Treorchy Male Choir" }, { "id": "9047595", "text": "explore the surrounding areas of the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons and was designed to have a positive impact of local tourism. The campsite itself has a wide range of family-friendly activities, workshops and entertainment on offer as well as nightly performances by local artists. Each year the musical programme is curated by a different Welsh artist or act. For 2016, Toby Hay will curate the musical offering. 2017 PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams, Future Islands, Kate Tempest, Angel Olsen, Thee Oh Sees, Saint Etienne, Sleaford Mods, Conor Oberst, Julia Jacklin, Ride, Pictish Trail and The Big Moon. 2016 Belle", "title": "Green Man Festival" }, { "id": "1482715", "text": "Opera is based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, while the National Youth Orchestra of Wales was the first of its type in the world. Wales has had a number of successful singers across the decades. In the 1960s, bands such as Amen Corner, The Iveys/Badfinger and singers including Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey and Mary Hopkin. By the 1980s, indie pop and alternative rock bands such as The Alarm, The Pooh Sticks and The Darling Buds were popular in their genres. But the wider view at the time was that the wider Welsh music scene was", "title": "Culture of Wales" }, { "id": "1954629", "text": "committee debated whether his mix compilation album, \"Involver\", was eligible for nomination as Best Electronic/Dance Album. The Recording Academy decided that the album was eligible, but \"Involver\" did not receive a nomination. Sasha did receive a Grammy nomination for his remix of Felix da Housecat's \"Watching Cars Go By\", which was featured on \"Involver\". Studio albums Sasha (DJ) Alexander Paul Coe (born 4 September 1969), known mononymously as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John", "title": "Sasha (DJ)" }, { "id": "9591744", "text": "Jeremy Huw Williams Jeremy Huw Williams (born 3 April 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh baritone opera singer who studied at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff, St John's College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, London, and with April Cantelo. Williams has appeared for Welsh National Opera, Opera Ireland and Music Theatre Wales amongst others, and has released numerous recordings, most notably of music by contemporary Welsh composers, including Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Mansel Thomas. In addition to these he has also given premieres of works by composers John Tavener, Martin Butler, John Metcalf, Julian Phillips, Edward Dudley Hughes,", "title": "Jeremy Huw Williams" }, { "id": "10837700", "text": "once again on stage by Feargal Sharkey, who reprised his 'Undertones' hit \"Teenage Kicks\". In September 2010 they performed at the Labour Party Conference in support of UK Music at a sell-out concert at Manchester's Night and Day Cafe. On New Year's Eve 2010 they performed at a sell-out concert for MPs, peers and their guests, once again on the Terrace of the House of Commons. They were introduced to the celebrity audience (including amongst others government ministers, actor Ross Kemp and Welsh singer Duffy) by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow MP. In December 2011 they were recognised as", "title": "MP4 (band)" }, { "id": "4472503", "text": "in 20 minutes. The concert featured a range of music styles, with long standing veterans such as Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Lulu, classical performers in Aled Jones, Charlotte Church and Katherine Jenkins and Welsh rock groups such as Feeder, the Manic Street Preachers and, representing The Stereophonics Kelly Jones contributing. Midge Ure also made a surprise appearance at the concert, who introduced Feeder. The concert began with little known Wrexham band Camera, but this was not shown on the TV broadcasts. For the television and internet audience, the show was started by classical singer Katherine Jenkins, with \"Amazing Grace\", \"Caruso\"", "title": "Tsunami Relief Cardiff" }, { "id": "9479312", "text": "debut in Brighton, where he performed new material, which was later released as \"Live at the Unitarian Church\". His debut solo album \"The Defenestration of St Martin\" was released 3 December 2012 on the Drop Anchor Music label. He wrote most of the songs on piano over a five-year period and financed the record through crowd-funding. Rossiter embarked on a UK tour in support of the album. It was followed in 2014 by a live album accompanied by a DVD entitled \"Live at Bush Hall.\" Martin Rossiter Martin Rossiter (born 15 May 1970) is a Welsh singer, who is noted", "title": "Martin Rossiter" }, { "id": "8050177", "text": "tradition. Bands like Fernhill, Calan, Mordekkers, Taran, Saith Rhyfeddod, Rigantona, Carreg Lafar, Crasdant, Calennig, and Aberjaber have incorporated the instrument in their line-up in mixed consort. In the United States, bands Oceans Apart and Moch Pryderi have done the same. Contemporary players of the instrument in Wales include Jonathan Shorland, Ceri Rhys Matthews, Stephen Rees, Andy McLaughlin, Hefin Wyn Jones, Patrick Rimes, Huw Roberts, Jem Hammond, Hafwen Lewis, Gafin Morgan, Antwn Owen Hicks, Rhodri Smith, Peni Ediker, Eva Ryan, Idris Morris Jones, Gerard KilBride, Mick Tems and Peter Stacey. Players in the United States include John Good, Bill Reese,Sean Folsom,and", "title": "Pibgorn (instrument)" }, { "id": "6906671", "text": "around the country. Amongst others, performers included: Paul McCartney, Bryan Adams, Queen, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, Ray Davies, Dame Edna Everage, Tony Iommi, Tom Jones, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Annie Lennox, S Club 7, Ricky Martin, Ozzy Osbourne, Rod Stewart, Tony Bennett, Blue, Emma Bunton, Atomic Kitten, Mis-Teeq, The Corrs, Cliff Richard, Will Young, Ruby Wax, Steve Winwood and Brian Wilson. Also performing was the London cast of the musical \"We Will Rock You\". Several newspapers mentioned the absence of The Rolling Stones. The Stones said the event conflicted with their upcoming world tour. The", "title": "Party at the Palace" }, { "id": "7717597", "text": "Andrew Matthews-Owen Andrew Matthews-Owen is a Welsh pianist and accompanist. He was born at Neath, Wales and now lives in London He enjoys a busy career partnering some of the UK’s leading singers, on the concert platform, on record and as a performance and vocal coach. Concert engagements have taken him to major venues around the UK and abroad, most notably the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room), Kings Place, Warehouse, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St David’s Hall, National Portrait Gallery and on the Cutting Edge Tour, with artists including Patricia Bardon, Susan Bickley, Claire Booth, Anne-Sophie", "title": "Andrew Matthews-Owen" }, { "id": "10273277", "text": "David Lloyd (tenor) David George Lloyd (6 April 1912 – 27 March 1969) was a Welsh singer. Lloyd, a tenor, was noted for being one of the first Welsh solo singers to seek a broader audience beyond Wales, in the concert halls and recording studios of England, mainland Europe, and North America. During his lifetime, Lloyd was renowned in opera, oratorio, and in recital, in particular for his performances of Verdi and Mozart. As a Welshman, however, he is remembered most for his renditions of the hymns and folk songs of his native land. David Lloyd was born in Trelogan,", "title": "David Lloyd (tenor)" }, { "id": "4933450", "text": "It also became the highest-charting single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 by a Welsh artist since Bonnie Tyler topped the chart with Total Eclipse of the Heart in 1983. Additionally, the single holds the record for being drawn for third place among songs with the longest runs at number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and at second for most weeks at number one on the \"Billboard\" Mainstream Top 40 chart. Lewis teamed up with Richard Marx in the 1997 adult contemporary hit \"At the Beginning.\" In 1997, Lewis was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Female. After", "title": "Donna Lewis" }, { "id": "2443524", "text": "Delme Bryn-Jones found fame post World War II. The 1960s saw the rise of two distinctive Welsh acts, Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey, both of whom defined Welsh vocal styles for several generations. In more modern times there has been a thriving musical scene. Bands and artists which have gained popularity include acts such as Man, Budgie, and solo artists John Cale & Mary Hopkin in the early 1970s and solo artists Bonnie Tyler and Shakin' Stevens in the 1980s. These were followed by a wave of acts in the 1990s and early 21st century which produced a credible Welsh", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "10737507", "text": "following year. He courted controversy by condemning the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999. He attended the World Council of Churches Assembly in Canberra in 1991, and the Anglican Consultative Council in Cape Town in 1993. At the Lambeth Conference in 1998, he persuaded the Welshmen present (including Rowan Williams) to entertain their guests during a Welsh cultural evening by singing or telling jokes. He was a member of the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards and regularly attended the National Eisteddfod. He supported Welsh devolution, arguing that the disestablishment of the Church of Wales in 1920 made it stronger. He took", "title": "Alwyn Rice Jones" }, { "id": "3256147", "text": "Wales, in 2000. Billed as \"Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival\" (often referred to as \"BrynFest\" or known in Welsh as \"Gŵyl y Faenol\"), it turned into an annual music festival featuring internationally famous opera singers as well as popular Welsh artists. In the same year he released \"We'll Keep a Welcome – The Welsh Album\", an anthology of favourite traditional songs. The festival had been voted a £250,000 grant by the Welsh Assembly, but did not take place in 2009 and 2010, and ended as of 2010. Subsequently, the 2012 Faenol Festival took place in London. Terfel has performed the following", "title": "Bryn Terfel" }, { "id": "6329777", "text": "special UK edition, omitting \"Someday\", and instead including \"Travel In Time\", was released on 16 October 2006. The US edition, featuring a new song titled \"Timeless\", was released in the United States on 27 March 2007 exactly one year after its iTunes release. In addition to Sigsworth, Havnevik has also collaborated with Marius De Vries, who has previously worked with Björk and David Gray, Yoad Nevo, famous for his work with Welsh singer Jem, LA producer Carmen Rizzo and Petter Haavik from Norwegian techno group Ost&KJex. As well as her solo projects, Havnevik has also co-written and provided guest vocals", "title": "Kate Havnevik" }, { "id": "2857340", "text": "need to categorize music. In the 2008 Polish release of her \"Symphony\" album she sings \"I Will Be with You (Where the Lost Ones Go)\" with Polish tenor Andrzej Lampert, another artist who has performed in both classical and non-classical styles, as well as having actually obtained full musical training and academic degrees in both (though operatic singing is his main professional focus). In addition, Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has achieved international fame via her crossover albums. British classical-crossover lyric soprano Rebecca Newman in September 2014 released on her own label the album \"Dare to Dream\", and became the first", "title": "Crossover music" }, { "id": "6810917", "text": "John Cale, The Bee Gees, George Melly, David Gray, Lloyd Cole, Evelyn Glennie and Neil Kinnock. He also sang the theme songs of the Welsh children's television shows \"Fireman Sam\" (1987), \"SuperTed\" (1982), \"Satellite City\" (1988) and \"Joshua Jones\" (1991). He is married to Hilary Pope, a teacher at a local school, Grange Primary School. He was the President of the Welsh male voice choir Gwalia Singers between 2005 and 2010. He and his daughter, Miss Daisy Blue, performed at the choir's 40th anniversary concert in 2006, together with The Storys and the Vivace Singers. His 2005 musical \"Amazing Grace\",", "title": "Mal Pope" }, { "id": "9899412", "text": "Green Gartside Green Gartside (born Paul Julian Strohmeyer, 22 June 1955) is a Welsh songwriter, singer and musician. He's the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Gartside has also worked with Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Shabba Ranks, Mos Def, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kylie Minogue, Robyn Hitchcock, Manic Street Preachers, and Tracey Thorn. Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales, to a \"Cup-a-soup salesman dad and a hairdresser/secretary/whatever mum\". His childhood was not always happy, with the family having to move every 12 months or so because of his father's job. He ended up \"living all over, from Bridgend to", "title": "Green Gartside" }, { "id": "6343596", "text": "soundtrack, by Alfred Newman, won that year's Academy Award for Original Music Score. It is also featured at the beginning of \"The African Queen\" (film), with Katharine Hepburn singing and playing the organ. Only Men Aloud! also sang an arrangement by Tim Rhys-Evans and Jeffrey Howard on the BBC 1 Show \"Last Choir Standing\" in 2008. They subsequently released it on their self-titled début album. The hymn was the informal anthem of Wales in the \"Green and Pleasant Land\" section of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. The BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave used this song on the", "title": "Cwm Rhondda" }, { "id": "14431358", "text": "\"Time to Say Goodbye\" (#3), \"The Flower Duet\" (#7), \"Hallelujah\" (#17) and \"O Mio Babbino Caro\" (#19). In 2012, two of her singles appeared on the same chart: \"Hallelujah\" (#3) and \"I Believe\" with Andrea Bocelli (#13). Katherine Jenkins discography The discography of Katherine Jenkins, a Welsh mezzo-soprano singer, consists of eight studio albums, two compilation albums, eleven singles and three video albums. Released in April 2004, Katherine's classical chart-topping debut album \"Premiere\", was a mix of old standards including Ave Maria and The Lord Is My Shepherd, plus a smattering of traditional Welsh songs and new interpretations of classic", "title": "Katherine Jenkins discography" }, { "id": "782265", "text": "more recently include Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Rhys, Michael Sheen and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Wales has also produced well known comedians including Tommy Cooper, Terry Jones, Harry Secombe, Rhod Gilbert and Paul Whitehouse. Dancing is a popular pastime in Wales; traditional dances include folk dancing and clog dancing. The first mention of dancing in Wales is in a 12th-century account by Giraldus Cambrensis, but by the 19th century traditional dance had all but died out; this is attributed to the influence of Nonconformists and their belief that any physical diversion was worthless and satanic, especially mixed dancing. These ancient dances,", "title": "Wales" }, { "id": "15373379", "text": "2013 Roxanna Panufnik: \"Orchestrapaedia\" and Michael Csanyi-Wills \"On the Idle Hill of Summer\". There are developing links with emerging Welsh musicians including the ex Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales Claire Jones, Soprano Rhiannon Llewellyn and percussionist Dave Danford. Other international soloists have included recorder virtuoso Pamela Thorby, the 'doyen of period clarinettists' Colin Lawson and Tenor Nicholas Mulroy. Welsh Sinfonia The Welsh Sinfonia is a professional chamber orchestra based in Cardiff and is a full member of the Association of British Orchestras. It employs between 15 and 35 musicians, led by Robin Stowell. The Principal Conductor and Artistic", "title": "Welsh Sinfonia" }, { "id": "11744751", "text": "Rihanoff began a relationship soon thereafter. However, the couple announced the amicable breakup of their relationship in August 2013. Following an undercover investigation by the \"News of the World\" newspaper, Calzaghe admitted he had used cocaine since his boxing career had ended. In a statement on his website, he added that he regretted his \"occasional use of cocaine in what have sometimes been the long days since my retirement from the ring\". Joe Calzaghe Joseph William Calzaghe, ( ; born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held world championships in", "title": "Joe Calzaghe" }, { "id": "13869497", "text": "performance was shown in excerpt at the first semi-final of the Eurovision and following this betting odds went on to surge. At the Grand Final Jones performed eighteenth in the running order and then, in the second half of the final, Jones went on to score 111 points through combined voting from the jury vote and the popular vote. Jones also managed to score 12 points from the Australia professional Jury. An article in the \"International Business Times\" stated that she blamed Brexit for the \"disappointing\" result. Lucie Jones Lucie Bethan Jones (born 20 March 1991) is a Welsh singer,", "title": "Lucie Jones" }, { "id": "1574591", "text": "1998, BBC Wales screened \"An Evening With Max Boyce\", which broke Welsh viewing records. The following year, in 1999, he performed at the opening ceremonies of the 1999 Rugby World Cup in the Millennium Stadium, and of the Welsh Assembly. Not long after, Boyce was included on the 2000 New Year Honours list, and received an MBE from Prince Charles in a ceremony at Cardiff Castle on 15 March that year. According to Boyce, \"He (the Prince) said he was surprised it took them so long\" to accord him this honour. Boyce's greatest musical success in recent years was his", "title": "Max Boyce" }, { "id": "13030827", "text": "raises funds for cancer treatment, promotes awareness and early detection, and advocates for bone marrow registration by holding rock concerts at remote, elevated venues, including Everest base camp, the top of the Empire State Building, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, with a concert at Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009. The UK organisation holds an annual summer trek to the top of Wales' highest mountain, Snowdon, called \"Snowdon Rocks\", and to this has been added a number of other events, including \"Rhondda Rocks\", \"Avebury Rocks\" and \"Ben Nevis Rocks\". LHSF concerts feature both amateur and professional musicians, and have featured high-profile", "title": "Love Hope Strength" }, { "id": "9899418", "text": "took place in several UK cities. He has also returned to touring with Scritti Politti. In 2015 Gartside was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is now a regular stand-in presenter on BBC 6 Music. Green Gartside Green Gartside (born Paul Julian Strohmeyer, 22 June 1955) is a Welsh songwriter, singer and musician. He's the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Gartside has also worked with Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Shabba Ranks, Mos Def, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kylie Minogue, Robyn Hitchcock, Manic Street Preachers, and Tracey Thorn. Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales, to", "title": "Green Gartside" }, { "id": "3256222", "text": "found on BBC iPlayer. It is supported by Welsh National Opera and the City and County of Cardiff. From 2003, the competition's first patron was Dame Joan Sutherland, until her death in 2010. Since 2011, the patron has been Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The following have hosted stages of the competition: BBC Two (1983–2011) and BBC Four: BBC Radio 3: BBC 2 Wales highlights: BBC Radio Wales: BBC Radio Cymru: Many prominent singers have served in the jury, including Carlo Bergonzi, Sir Geraint Evans, Marilyn Horne, Gundula Janowitz, Sherrill Milnes, Christoph Prégardien, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Anne Evans, René Kollo,", "title": "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition" }, { "id": "9083033", "text": "turn professional. Shân has performed throughout the world in a variety of venues from the Wales Millennium Centre and Her Majesty's Theatre, West End, to the Royal Albert Hall and the Kowloon Shanghai Hotel, Hong Kong. Her career as a singer has spanned a range of music styles, from opera to oratorio, music theatre to traditional Welsh songs and a host of contemporary projects working with musicians form different musical genres. Shân's explanation is that it is a natural instinct which enables her to be so passionate about performing and after many years of wondering which direction to take as", "title": "Shân Cothi" }, { "id": "9591745", "text": "Ian Wilson, Richard Causton, Edward Rushton, Arlene Sierra and Huw Watkins. In 1991, Williams married Manon Jenkins, now Manon Antoniazzi. The marriage ended in divorce. Jeremy Huw Williams Jeremy Huw Williams (born 3 April 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh baritone opera singer who studied at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff, St John's College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, London, and with April Cantelo. Williams has appeared for Welsh National Opera, Opera Ireland and Music Theatre Wales amongst others, and has released numerous recordings, most notably of music by contemporary Welsh composers, including Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Mansel", "title": "Jeremy Huw Williams" }, { "id": "17041484", "text": "two songs: \"Fly Robin Fly\", and \"Get Up & Boogie\" (owns 50% of the copy right) and toured extensively with his third band, Silver Convention, in the mid seventies. He worked with celebrated Welsh singer Shirley Bassey as her musical arranger and conductor and also worked as a composer for Cidi Croft Enterprise and later for Universal Films in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Even though Omatshola spent a lot of time touring across the globe (Far East, Latin America, Europe, North America and South Africa), he always invested in local Nigerian initiatives, becoming one of the pioneers of the Classical Music", "title": "Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli" }, { "id": "8819646", "text": "in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers, like \"A Welsh Sunset\". W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: Jenny and Griffith are in love. Griffith has a great tenor voice and has been singing an audition for Covent Garden opera. It is evening, Jenny and her mother are waiting outside Mrs. Jones's Cottage on a Welsh hillside for the boys to come home from Bala. They are joined by the other village girls. Griffith has been successful, and when he arrives he tells Jenny of the wonderful rich and famous", "title": "A Welsh Sunset" }, { "id": "2443522", "text": "instrumentation and song types, and is often heard at a \"twmpath\" (folk dance session), \"gŵyl werin\" (folk festival) or \"noson lawen\" (a traditional party similar to the Gaelic \"Céilidh\"). Modern Welsh folk musicians have sometimes reconstructed traditions which had been suppressed or forgotten, and have competed with imported and indigenous rock and pop trends. Music in Wales is often connected with male voice choirs, such as the Morriston Orpheus Choir, Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir and Treorchy Male Voice Choir, and enjoys a worldwide reputation in this field. This tradition of choral singing has been expressed through sporting events, especially", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "6553278", "text": "\"Sky / Sea\". As usual, the album is available on download, CD and vinyl. In January 2017 Childs released an EP collaboration with Rosie Smith of Oh Peas! under the name Tim's Rice. The EP, \"Mixed Ability Pilates\", was available as a pay-what-you-like download. Childs's next album, \"House Arrest\", will be released on 17 November 2017. It was recorded at Gus Dungeon Studios (i.e. his Pembrokeshire home) and features the single \"My Colander\". The album release will be accompanied by a full UK tour, Childs's first since 2015. Euros Childs Euros Childs (; Welsh: ; born 16 April 1975) is", "title": "Euros Childs" }, { "id": "7533068", "text": "acts. In 2003, Finch married the music and television producer Hywel Wigley, son of the former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Dafydd Wigley and the harpist Elinor Bennett. They have two children together. The couple formally separated in 2017. In February 2018 Finch announced on that she had been diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer. She was given the all-clear in October 2018 following treatment at Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff. Catrin Finch Catrin Anna Finch (born 24 April 1980) is a Welsh harpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and", "title": "Catrin Finch" }, { "id": "522636", "text": "Bonnie Tyler Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album \"The World Starts Tonight\" and its singles \"Lost in France\" and \"More Than a Lover\". Her 1978 single \"It's a Heartache\" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tyler's biggest hit \"Total Eclipse of the Heart\", the lead single from her 1983 UK", "title": "Bonnie Tyler" }, { "id": "2443525", "text": "'sound' embraced by the public and the media press of Great Britain. Such acts included the Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci; the latter two bands being notable for bringing Welsh language songs to a British audience. Wales has a history of using music as a primary form of communication. Harmony and part singing is synonymous with Welsh music. Examples of well-developed, vertical harmony can be found in the \"Robert ap Huw Manuscript\" dating back to the 1600s. This text contains pieces of Welsh music from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that show amazing", "title": "Music of Wales" }, { "id": "8080510", "text": "Bailey, Rob Brydon, Julian Clary, Jack Dee, Tim Minchin, politicians Peter Hain and Boris Johnson, scientists John D. Barrow, Martin Rees, Simon Singh, and general speakers Harry Belafonte, William Dalrymple, Stephen Fry, A. C. Grayling, Germaine Greer, Michael Ignatieff, and David Starkey. The Hay Festival was one of 11 Welsh winners of The Queen's Awards for Enterprise for 2009. The 2009 festival included writers Carol Ann Duffy, David Simon, Stephen Fry, David Nicholls, Jenny Valentine and Melvyn Bragg, scientists Martin Rees and Sabine Bahn, economists Anthony Giddens, Nicholas Stern, Howard Davies and Danny Quah, comedians Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain", "title": "Hay Festival" }, { "id": "3256221", "text": "Sutherland Audience Prize\" was won by English tenor Ben Johnson. Many non-winning finalists have gone on to very distinguished operatic careers. Examples include Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme in 1993 and Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca in 2001. The competition is organised by BBC Cymru Wales and was televised nationwide by BBC Two until 2013 and on BBC Four since 2003 (BBC Knowledge in 2001). Additionally, the competition is televised by BBC Two Wales, in Welsh on S4C and broadcast over radio channels BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Wales and the Welsh language BBC Radio Cymru. All coverage can also be", "title": "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition" }, { "id": "7137801", "text": "well the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain States since the 1850s. Large-scale Welsh settlement in Northern California esp. the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Valley was noted, and one county: Amador County, California finds a quarter of local residents have Welsh ancestry. Los Angeles and the surrounding area, specifically Hollywood, have attracted Welsh artists and actors in various fields of the arts and entertainment industry. The following is a short list of notable Welsh artists and actors that have lived and worked in the Los Angeles area: D. W. Griffith, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Burton, Rosemarie Frankland, Michael Sheen, Glynis Johns, Ioan", "title": "Welsh Americans" }, { "id": "3767086", "text": "which he put down to age. On October 2016 Prowse announced his retirement from all public appearances and events, later attributing the decision to ill health and wishes from his family. A final onscreen appearance was later announced and filmed with Welsh musician and long-time friend Jayce Lewis in a sci-fi music video titled \"Shields\". Prowse was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for his services to charity and to Road Safety, in the 2000 New Year Honours. David Prowse David Charles Prowse, MBE (born 1 July 1935) is a retired English bodybuilder, weightlifter and", "title": "David Prowse" }, { "id": "7621479", "text": "Bonnie on Tour Bonnie on Tour is a live DVD by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released on 21 April 2006 by Stick Music. The DVD contains footage of Tyler performing at La Cigale in Paris, France, at the 2005 Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, and at an open-air concert in Zaragosa, Spain as well as various bonus content. The majority of songs featured on the DVD are from Tyler's 2005 album \"Wings\", which had been released during the tour. In 2007, a CD version of \"Bonnie on Tour\" was released by Stick Music, and titled \"Bonnie Tyler", "title": "Bonnie on Tour" }, { "id": "9931408", "text": "Holly Holyoake Holly Holyoake (born 31 December 1988) is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport. A soprano, she has been likened to fellow Welsh performer Katherine Jenkins. Her career is following a similar path to Jenkins and she has performed before the Wales national rugby union team matches at the Millennium Stadium. She considers American tenor Mario Lanza her inspiration. Holyoake's debut album, \"When Dreams Have Wings\", was self-released in 2002 with the catalogue number HRH1, and recorded when she was just 14. In 2004 Holyoake performed with Hayley Westenra in Cardiff. She came to prominence in August", "title": "Holly Holyoake" }, { "id": "19390817", "text": "with songs of unabashedly warm emotions made all the more irresistible by Terfel's obvious sincerity and vocal charisma\". We'll Keep a Welcome (album) We'll Keep a Welcome is a 2000 album by singer Bryn Terfel of traditional hymns and folk songs associated with Wales. Terfel was accompanied on the album by the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, the Risca Male Choir and The Black Mountain Chorus. The majority of the songs are sung in the Welsh language. The \"Gramophone\" magazine review by Adrian Mitchell felt that the album was a \"finely sung and unashamedly patriotic collection of songs\" and", "title": "We'll Keep a Welcome (album)" }, { "id": "18861142", "text": "Wales. Conductors she has collaborated with include Sir Charles Mackerras, Pierre Boulez, Sir Richard Hickox, Sir Andrew Davis, Thierry Fischer, Harry Christophers, Carlo Rizzi, Richard Farnes, Sir Antonio Pappano, Laurence Cummings, Sir Neville Marriner and Martyn Brabbins. Atherton is also a recitalist, including appearances at Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Royal Opera House, St. David's Hall Cardiff, Purcell Room and Leeds Lieder+. She has recorded recital discs with Malcolm Martineau and Iain Burnside and her interpretation of Britten's song cycle \"On This Island\" received the following review: \"Atherton’s voice is now not just a lush instrument but a superbly communicative one:", "title": "Elizabeth Atherton" }, { "id": "2625490", "text": "Welsh Nationalist party, Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly for Wales election. In January 2017, she took part in a protest in Cardiff about Donald Trump's inauguration as US president. Church's personal life has often been reported in UK tabloid newspapers, inspiring the song \"Let's Be Alone\" on her album \"Tissues and Issues\". At age 15 she was criticised for remarks attributed to her by the \"New York Post\" in which she allegedly criticised \"the hero status afforded to New York firefighters\" in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks. She apologised for the remarks one month later, as", "title": "Charlotte Church" }, { "id": "12142404", "text": "Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau is a world music event held in the town of Dolgellau in Wales. The event was established in 1992 by Ywain Myfyr, Huw Dylan Owen, Esyllt Jones, Elfed ap Gomer and Alun Owen, and was held in the town's streets. From 2002 until 2008, Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau was held on the Marian Mawr, a large grassy area next to Afon Wnion. It was during this period that Sesiwn Fawr reached its peak audience figures with sell out crowds of approximately 5,000 attending each year. In 2007 and 2008, the festival was blighted by bad", "title": "Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau" }, { "id": "11345548", "text": "of the man pinned up in the hotel room of failed magician Clifford Daxon. Issac Hunt Across both series Matt Lucas portrays \"the most powerful and influential music agent in Wales\". Through his company Mumbles Records, he represents a number of acts, which he refers as his \"butties\". These stars include tribute singer Shaking Stephens, failed magician Cliff Daxon who he has looked after for 12 years. He also represents the \"World famous “Davy G” Music Maestro (as seen on TV in 1983)\" and a newly signed up Queen tribute band, \"The Thomas Brothers from Trebanos\". Hunt appears to be", "title": "Fun at the Funeral Parlour" }, { "id": "8879819", "text": "N' Roses. He toured with the late Jon Lord and had been writing and recording with him before Lord's death. Recently he has been writing songs with folk singer Rosalie Deighton for a duet project called Balsamo Deighton,° who performed in Swansea, Wales in 2013 in tribute to fellow Welshman Pete Ham. \"Venue: Abbey Road Studios, London\" (6 to 8 November 2003) \"Venue: Dominion Theatre, London\" (May to October 2000) \"Venue: Lyceum Theatre, London\" (November 1996 to September 1997) \"Venue: The Point, Dublin and Edinburgh Playhouse\" (1993) Album: Singles: Steve Balsamo Steve Balsamo is a Welsh singer and songwriter, best", "title": "Steve Balsamo" }, { "id": "15818261", "text": "and Dave Swarbrick. He currently lives in London, and performs frequently in London folk clubs, as well as further afield. Jack Harris (singer-songwriter) Jack Harris (born 1986) is a Welsh-born folk singer-songwriter, musician, and poet. He is multi-award-winning, most notably winning the 2005 New Folk Songwriting Competition at Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, the first non-American to do so. Jack Harris has been described as \"a priest of song\" by singer Anais Mitchell. He has released three albums. His third album, \"The Flame and the Pelican\", featured at number six in the July 2011 EuroAmericanaChart. He has made several appearances", "title": "Jack Harris (singer-songwriter)" } ]

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[ { "id": "132650", "text": "accidentally crashes it. Exxon Valdez oil spill The \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989, when \"Exxon Valdez\", an oil tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, 1.5 miles west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 am local time and spilled (or a mass of 35,000 metric tonnes) of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. The \"Valdez\" spill is the second largest in US waters, after the 2010 \"Deepwater Horizon\" oil", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "132619", "text": "Exxon Valdez oil spill The \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989, when \"Exxon Valdez\", an oil tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, 1.5 miles west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 am local time and spilled (or a mass of 35,000 metric tonnes) of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. The \"Valdez\" spill is the second largest in US waters, after the 2010 \"Deepwater Horizon\" oil spill, in terms", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "1572480", "text": "Exxon Valdez Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean, was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. On March 24, 1989, while owned by the former Exxon Shipping Company, and captained by Joseph Hazelwood and First Mate James Kunkel bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef resulting in the second largest oil spill in United States history. The size of the spill is estimated to have been ,", "title": "Exxon Valdez" }, { "id": "13354188", "text": "Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster is a 1992 movie depicting the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill disaster off the coast of Alaska. Directed by Paul Seed, it stars Christopher Lloyd, John Heard, Rip Torn and Michael Murphy. Most of the film was shot in Vancouver, Richmond and Steveston, British Columbia, but it also utilizes archival film clips of the actual disaster and cleanup efforts. On March 24, 1989, the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil tanker struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. It was the worst oil spill of its time, releasing over of crude", "title": "Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster" }, { "id": "5878724", "text": "by the Federal Government. The possible environmental repercussions of oil production became clear in the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill of 1989. On March 24, the tanker \"Exxon Valdez\" ran aground in Prince William Sound, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the water, spreading along 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of shoreline. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, at least 300,000 sea birds, 2,000 otters, and other marine animals died because of the spill. Exxon spent US$2 billion on cleaning up in the first year alone. Exxon, working with state and federal agencies, continued its cleanup into the", "title": "History of Alaska" }, { "id": "1572484", "text": "punitive damages to the Supreme Court which capped the damages to US $507.5 million in June, 2008. On August 27, 2008, Exxon Mobil agreed to pay 75% of the US $507.5 million damages ruling to settle the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill off Alaska. In June 2009, a federal ruling ordered Exxon to pay an additional US$480 million in interest on their delayed punitive damage awards. After repairs, \"Exxon Valdez\" was renamed \"Exxon Mediterranean\", then \"SeaRiver Mediterranean\" in the early 1990s, when Exxon transferred their shipping business to a new subsidiary company, River Maritime Inc. The name was later shortened", "title": "Exxon Valdez" }, { "id": "18401040", "text": "Act, which was signed into law in 1980 by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, spilling an estimated 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster for the state. Governor Steve Cowper, who held office at the time of the spill, appointed Walter Parker as the chairman of the Alaska Oil Spill Commission in 1989. The Alaska Oil Spill Commission was created by the Alaska state government to investigate the causes of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.", "title": "Walter B. Parker" }, { "id": "10206744", "text": "Barbados as well. VECO also was a worldwide player in the oil industry, having divisions in many major oil markets, including the Sudan, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and Syria. VECO had a major impact on the economy of Alaska and employed over 5,000 people worldwide. On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, spilling eleven million gallons of crude oil into the waters of Prince William Sound. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the second largest in United States history, after the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon spill. Under Allen's guidance, VECO (along with", "title": "Bill Allen (businessman)" }, { "id": "12330619", "text": "the Exxon Building (1251 Avenue of the Americas), its former headquarters in Rockefeller Center, to a unit of Mitsui Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. in 1986 for $610 million, and in 1989, moved its headquarters from Manhattan, New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas. John Walsh, president of Exxon subsidiary Friendswood Development Company, stated that Exxon left New York because the costs were too high. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled more than of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "19516493", "text": "increased scientific knowledge on the specific effects of oil pollution toxicity to marine fish. Focused research on oil pollution toxicity to fish began in earnest in 1989, after the \"Exxon Valdez\" tanker struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled approximately 11 million gallons of crude oil into the surrounding water. At the time, the Exxon Valdez oil spill was the largest in the history of the United States. There were many adverse ecological impacts of the spill including the loss of the loss of billions of Pacific herring and pink salmon eggs. Pacific herring were just beginning", "title": "Oil pollution toxicity to marine fish" }, { "id": "132639", "text": "Exxon should have told the jury at the start that an agreement had already been made, so the jury would know exactly how much Exxon would have to pay. As of December 15, 2009, Exxon had paid the entire $507.5 million in punitive damages, including lawsuit costs, plus interest, which were further distributed to thousands of plaintiffs. In October 1989, Exxon filed suit against the State of Alaska, charging that the state had interfered with Exxon's attempts to clean up the spill by refusing to approve the use of dispersant chemicals until the night of the 26th. The state disputed", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "18833452", "text": "Douglas Baily Douglas B. \"Doug\" Baily (born January 27, 1937) is an American lawyer. Baily served as U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Alaska from 1969 to 1971, and was the Attorney General of Alaska from 1989 to 1990. The most controversial issue that arose during his tenure as State Attorney General was the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, on March 24, 1989. After the spill, Baily filed multiple court cases against Exxon Corp. and the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Douglas and his wife Landa live in Oakland, Oregon and maintain the Old", "title": "Douglas Baily" }, { "id": "1616021", "text": "for halibut and a harvesting area for shrimp. The nearest town is Tatitlek, which lies 7 miles to the northeast. The reef was named after William Bligh, of future HMS \"Bounty\" fame, who served as Master aboard ship during James Cook's third world voyage. Bligh Reef Bligh Reef, sometimes known as Bligh Island Reef, is a reef off the coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the location of the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. After the incident, US Code 33 § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future collisions with", "title": "Bligh Reef" }, { "id": "1572482", "text": "Diego, California. She was a relatively new tanker at the time of the spill, and was delivered to Exxon on December 16, 1986. At the time of the spill, \"Exxon Valdez\" was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, Alaska, to the lower 48 states of the United States. At the time it ran aground, the vessel was carrying about 201,000 m³ (53.1 million gallons) of oil. After the spill, the vessel was towed to San Diego, arriving on June 10, 1989, and repairs were started on June 30, 1989. Approximately 1,600 tons of", "title": "Exxon Valdez" }, { "id": "132642", "text": "a number of recommendations, such as changes to the work patterns of Exxon crew in order to address the causes of the accident. In response to the spill, the United States Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). The legislation included a clause that prohibits any vessel that, after March 22, 1989, has caused an oil spill of more than in any marine area, from operating in Prince William Sound. In April 1998, the company argued in a legal action against the Federal government that the ship should be allowed back into Alaskan waters. Exxon claimed OPA was", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "1616020", "text": "Bligh Reef Bligh Reef, sometimes known as Bligh Island Reef, is a reef off the coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the location of the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. After the incident, US Code 33 § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future collisions with the reef. Despite these efforts the tug \"Pathfinder\" ran aground on Bligh Reef on Dec 24, 2009, rupturing its tanks and spilling diesel fuel. Bligh Reef is also where Alaska Steamship Company's Olympia ran aground in 1910. Bligh Reef serves as a fishing ground", "title": "Bligh Reef" }, { "id": "3640820", "text": "20 years, ending the initial construction of the AMHS. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. The State of Alaska's on scene response was managed from the \"E.L. Bartlett,\" later relieved by the \"Aurora.\" Suction trucks were placed in the car-deck, temporarily converting the ferry into a spill response vessel. The State of Alaska determined that a new vessel was necessary, and that the new vessel should be designed from the beginning to be able to take on a command and control role in the case of another disaster. Funded in part by", "title": "Alaska Marine Highway" }, { "id": "13743461", "text": "United States v. Locke United States v. Locke, 529 U.S. 89 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that certain state regulations regarding oil tankers and oil barges are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution in deference to the extensive body of federal regulations affecting these classes of vessels. The 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill severely affected the environment of Prince William Sound, Alaska, United States. In the wake of that spill, the state of Washington passed a law authorizing the state Office of Marine Safety to regulate certain", "title": "United States v. Locke" }, { "id": "13569622", "text": "sediment and marine environment. Marine species constantly exposed to PAHs can exhibit developmental problems, susceptibility to disease, and abnormal reproductive cycles. One of the more widely known spills was the Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska. The ship ran aground and dumped a massive amount of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite efforts of scientists, managers and volunteers, over 400,000 seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and immense numbers of fish were killed. Some of the major international efforts in the form of treaties are the Marine Pollution Treaty, Honolulu, which deals with regulating marine pollution from ships, and the", "title": "Environmental impact of shipping" }, { "id": "16964124", "text": "toxicology from the University of Washington in 1985. After completing her academic education she started a commercial fishing business in Prince William Sound. Ott was working in Cordova, Alaska in 1989 when the \"Exxon Valdez\" was grounded onto the nearby Bligh Reef. The subsequent oil spill (then the largest in U.S. history) had major ramifications for the local ecosystem and for Cordova. Ott participated in the legal response to Exxon and became an activist and organizer. As a marine biologist and participant in the fishing industry, Ott quickly became a key spokesperson for those affected by the spill. She helped", "title": "Riki Ott" }, { "id": "10043003", "text": "company. In 1995, ConAgra sold most of its interest to Trident's original private owners. A leader in the consolidation of the seafood industry since the 1990s, the company has made numerous acquisitions, increasing its operations and market presence. Some of these acquisitions with their associated brands are: In 1991, Trident Seafoods and six other Seattle-based fish processors finalized a secret deal with Exxon over damages from the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The agreement between Exxon and the so-called Seattle Seven came to light after Anchorage-based attorney David W. Oesting, the lead plaintiffs' counsel in", "title": "Trident Seafoods" }, { "id": "5442687", "text": "destroyed by radioactive contamination, exploring Kopachi, a nearby village that was demolished due to high contamination levels, and finally coming within 1000 feet of the remains of the number four reactor. These tours are met with some controversy because despite that SoloEast Travel claims that publicly accessible areas surrounding the power plant contain low levels of radiation and are deemed safe, a number of third party scientists disagree. In 1989, the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil tanker struck Alaska's Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound and leaked crude oil into the sound. The amount of oil spilled is currently estimated to be", "title": "Disaster tourism" }, { "id": "6393885", "text": "to the North Slope, including modules the size of ten story buildings and weighing nearly 6,000 tons. In the 1970s, Crowley began transporting cargo between the U.S. and Puerto Rico and later expanded into the rest of the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The service primarily consisted of ships and large, triple-deck barges, some of which were 730 feet in length, carrying cargo in trailers and containers. In 1989, Crowley tugs were first on the scene of the crippled tanker \"Exxon Valdez\" in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill was the second largest in U.S. history", "title": "Crowley Maritime" }, { "id": "20128860", "text": "in the climate and respond by changing their size and by advancing or retreating. The mass balance, or the difference between snow accumulation and snow and ice ablation, is crucial to glacier health and its survival. The Columbia Glacier in Alaska is a large tidewater glacier that began a drastic retreat in the 1970s due to climate fluctuations and began discharging large quantities of icebergs into Prince William Sound. These icebergs were responsible for a massive oil spill in 1989 when an oil tanker captain tried to avoid them and went aground. The key to the PTAAGMB model is the", "title": "PTAA GMB Model" }, { "id": "360001", "text": "modern oil tankers must be considered something of a threat to the environment. An oil tanker can carry of crude oil, or . This is more than six times the amount spilled in the widely known \"Exxon Valdez\" incident. In this spill, the ship ran aground and dumped of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite efforts of scientists, managers, and volunteers, over 400,000 seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and immense numbers of fish were killed. The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation has researched 9,351 accidental spills since 1974. According to this study, most spills result from routine operations", "title": "Ship" }, { "id": "7758127", "text": "December, 1975 to Brice Industries of Fairbanks, Alaska and renamed \"Helenka B\". \"Helenka B\" was subsequently transferred to the Maritime Administration in 1976 for disposal and sold to Wel-Aska of Valdez, Alaska. She is still operating under that name, and was involved in the March, 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill clean up. The \"Surfbird\" is still floating, Her name is \"Helenka B\" and she is owned and captained by Capt. Bruce Flanigan and operates out of Homer, Aka. as a Supply ship. She has been shortened in length and bow doors added, 2 new main engines (Cats). She operates under", "title": "USS Surfbird" }, { "id": "12330600", "text": "the world—with less than 1 percent of the total. ExxonMobil's reserves were 20 billion BOE at the end of 2016 and the 2007 rates of production were expected to last more than 14 years. With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of , ExxonMobil is the largest refiner in the world, a title that was also associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870. ExxonMobil has been criticized for its slow response to cleanup efforts after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, widely considered to be one of the world's worst", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "132625", "text": "cleanup, 2-butoxyethanol, was identified as \"one of the agents that caused liver, kidney, lung, nervous system, and blood disorders among cleanup crews in Alaska following the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" spill. Mechanical cleanup was started shortly afterwards using booms and skimmers, but the skimmers were not readily available during the first 24 hours following the spill, and thick oil and kelp tended to clog the equipment. Despite civilian insistence for a complete clean, only 10% of total oil was actually completely cleaned. Exxon was widely criticized for its slow response to cleaning up the disaster and John Devens, the mayor of", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "14568633", "text": "the stricken tanker \"Arrow\" in Nova Scotia, Canada. A month later, Chevron used Corexit and another chemical dispersant called Cold Clean on and beneath an oil platform off the Louisiana coast during a spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Corexit 9527 was applied to spilled oil in Galveston, Texas in August 1984 but was said to have failed. 2,000 gallons of Corexit was air-dropped onto oil which leaked from the SS \"Puerto Rican\" as she sank off San Francisco later that year. Corexit 9580 was used during the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska. Corexit 7764 and Corexit", "title": "Corexit" }, { "id": "97991", "text": "after 6 July 1993 to be fitted with double hulls, or an alternative design approved by IMO\". However, in the aftermath of the Erika incident of the coast off France in December 1999, members of IMO adopted a revised schedule for the phase-out of single-hull tankers, which came into effect on 1 September 2003, with further amendments validated on 5 April 2005. After the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster, when that ship grounded on Bligh Reef outside the port of Valdez, Alaska in 1989, the US Government required all new oil tankers built for use between US ports to be", "title": "Double-hulled tanker" }, { "id": "1593703", "text": "dismissal of these charges on the grounds that Suffolk County lacked authority under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and that the allegations of a history of racketeering did not qualify as a continuing criminal enterprise. Palast has also taken issue with the official story behind the grounding of the \"Exxon Valdez\", claiming the sobriety of the \"Valdez\"'s captain was not an issue in the accident. According to Palast, the main cause of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill in 1989 was not human error, but an Exxon decision not to use the ship's radar in order to save money.", "title": "Greg Palast" }, { "id": "16844131", "text": "1980s and 1990s, the organization's oiled wildlife response efforts extended well beyond California. International Bird Rescue staff spent six months managing three bird centers and two search-and-collection programs in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, where 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound, killing between 100,000 and 250,000 seabirds. Exxon Valdez was the first major spill where field stabilization and transport were utilized extensively in oiled wildlife care. Following the Exxon Valdez incident, Congress passed and President George H.W. Bush signed into law the U.S. Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990. Among other requirements, the law", "title": "International Bird Rescue" }, { "id": "13305168", "text": "recovered in the weeks following the spill. US federal and Rhode Island state governments undertook considerable work to clean up the spill and restore lost fishery stocks and coastal marine habitat. The \"North Cape\" oil spill is considered a significant legal precedent in that it was the first major oil spill in the continental U.S. after the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, resulting from the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill in Alaska on March 24, 1989. Of the many affected communities, one important habitat was the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is nearly 800 acres in", "title": "North Cape oil spill" }, { "id": "1003078", "text": "The original town site was dismantled and abandoned. From 1975 to 1977, the Trans-Alaska pipeline was built to carry oil from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in northern Alaska to a terminal in Valdez, the nearest ice-free port. Oil is loaded onto tanker ships for transport. The construction and operation of the pipeline and terminal boosted the economy of Valdez. The 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill occurred as the oil tanker \"Exxon Valdez\" was leaving the terminal at Valdez full of oil. The spill occurred at Bligh Reef, about from Valdez. Although the oil did not reach Valdez, it devastated", "title": "Valdez, Alaska" }, { "id": "17649578", "text": "oil while A. borkumensis simutaneously increases synthesis of anionic glucoproteins, which are used to emulsify hydrocarbons in the environment and increase their bioavailability. The presence of crude oil along with appropriate levels of nitrogen and phosphor catalyzes the removal of petroleum either by mechanisms that enhance the efficiency of substrate uptake or by direct biodegradation of aliphatic chains. Two well-known oil spills exemplify large scale marine bioremediation applications: In 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling 41.6 million liters of crude oil, and launching one of the first major bioremediation efforts for an oil spill. Cleanup of Alaskan shorelines relied", "title": "Petroleum microbiology" }, { "id": "7784585", "text": "small mesh purse seines to sample juvenile salmon off the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. In the immediate aftermath of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill on Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound on 29 March 1989, \"John N. Cobb\", which was in an inactive status at the time, quickly returned to active duty and played an important role in post-spill research on the effects of the spill on the environment. In subsequent years, she supported numerous studies of the lasting ecological effects of the spill on Prince William Sound. In the mid-1990s, \"John N. Cobb\" came", "title": "NOAAS John N. Cobb" }, { "id": "6339369", "text": "1975, the Commander, AAC assumed the additional responsibility of Commander, Joint Task Force-Alaska, a provisional joint command that could be activated in the event of an emergency, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989. Emergency activation did not provide the daily resources needed by the vast Alaska mission, however, and Alaskan Command activated again shortly after the spill on 7 July 1989, as a subordinate unified command under the United States Pacific Command in recognition of Alaska's strategic importance to the defense of the Pacific. With the reactivation of the Alaskan Command, the next logical step was", "title": "Alaskan Air Command" }, { "id": "97988", "text": "Double-hulled tanker A double-hulled tanker refers to an oil tanker which has a double hull. They reduce the likelihood of leaks occurring than in single-hulled tankers, and their ability to prevent or reduce oil spills led to double hulls being standardized for oil tankers and other types of ships including by the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships or MARPOL Convention. After the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska in 1989, the US Government required all new oil tankers built for use between US ports to be equipped with a full double hull. A number of", "title": "Double-hulled tanker" }, { "id": "17170483", "text": "Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council is an independent non-profit organization based in Anchorage and Valdez, Alaska, whose mission is to promote the environmentally-safe operation of the Alyeska Pipeline's Valdez Marine Terminal and associated oil tankers, and to inform the public of those activities. The Council was formed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 by citizens of the region to provide a voice for communities affected by oil industry decisions in Prince William Sound, the Gulf of Alaska, and Cook Inlet. As part of a 1990 contract with the", "title": "Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council" }, { "id": "5498504", "text": "States Supreme Court in \"District of Columbia v. Heller\". The District argued that its Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 should not be restricted by the Second Amendment. The ban was overturned by the Supreme Court. In February 2008, Dellinger represented Exxon Mobil Corporation in the Supreme Court in \"Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker\", which addressed whether certain punitive damages are available under federal maritime law. This case relates to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989. On March 5, 2010, the \"Washington Post\" published an op-ed by Dellinger defending Karl Thompson, a former subordinate of his. Nine lawyers who", "title": "Walter E. Dellinger III" }, { "id": "16566110", "text": "Alaska had fewer than 4,000 gallons of dispersants available at the time of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill, and no aircraft with which to dispense them. The dispersants introduced were relatively ineffective due to insufficient wave action to mix the oil and water, and their use was shortly abandoned. A report by David Kirby for TakePart found that the main component of the Corexit 9527 formulation used during Exxon Valdez cleanup, 2-butoxyethanol, was identified as \"one of the agents that caused liver, kidney, lung, nervous system, and blood disorders among cleanup crews in Alaska following the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" spill.\"", "title": "Oil dispersants" }, { "id": "1002950", "text": "Cordova, Alaska Cordova () is a small town located near the mouth of the Copper River in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States, at the head of Orca Inlet on the east side of Prince William Sound. The population was 2,239 at the 2010 census, down from 2,454 in 2000. Cordova was named \"Puerto Cordova\" by Spanish explorer Salvador Fidalgo in 1790. No roads connect Cordova to other Alaskan towns, so a plane or ferry is required to travel there. In the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989, an oil tanker ran aground northwest of Cordova, heavily damaging", "title": "Cordova, Alaska" }, { "id": "1781806", "text": "as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations. During the 1980s \"Juneau\" completed seven deployments. In April 1989, \"Juneau\" received emergency orders to Prince William Sound in support of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill clean up. She was the first naval vessel on station, and assumed the duties of command and control ship for Joint Task Force Alaska. She provided berthing, communications, transportation (both surface and air), food, medical and laundry services for over four hundred civilian cleanup workers. She was the host of Vice-President Dan Quayle's visit to Prince William Sound, where he toured an oil soaked beach and then", "title": "USS Juneau (LPD-10)" }, { "id": "132640", "text": "the claim, stating that there was a long-standing agreement to allow the use of dispersants to clean up spills, thus Exxon did not require permission to use them, and that in fact Exxon had not had enough dispersant on hand to effectively handle a spill of the size created by the \"Valdez\". Exxon filed claims in October 1990 against the Coast Guard, asking to be reimbursed for cleanup costs and damages awarded to plaintiffs in any lawsuits filed by the State of Alaska or the federal government against Exxon. The company claimed that the Coast Guard was \"wholly or partially", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "3488099", "text": "Steve Cowper Stephen Cambreleng Cowper (born August 21, 1938) is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth governor of Alaska from 1986–90. He was governor during the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. Cowper was born in 1938 to Petersburg, Virginia to Stephanie (née Smith) and Marion Cowper. He was raised in Kinston, North Carolina. He received bachelor's and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and after serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and Army Reserve, he worked as a maritime lawyer in Norfolk, Virginia for three years. Cowper moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in", "title": "Steve Cowper" }, { "id": "10339480", "text": "government-appointed commission recommended an end to the moratorium. The province had still not acted by 1989, however, when an American barge spilled oil off the British Columbia coast. A few months later came the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska. Although neither of these spills was related to crude oil exploration or production, they made it politically impossible for governments to lift the moratorium. In 2001, the provincial government initiated another review of its drilling ban, and recommended lifting the moratorium. A federal panel then convened, held a hearing and issued a report in 2004 that did not make", "title": "History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development)" }, { "id": "1386646", "text": "standard in the coastal regions. A VLCC tanker can carry of crude oil. This is about eight times the amount spilled in the widely known \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. In this spill, the ship ran aground and dumped of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite efforts of scientists, managers, and volunteers over 400,000 seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and immense numbers of fish were killed. Considering the volume of oil carried by sea, however, tanker owners' organisations often argue that the industry's safety record is excellent, with only a tiny fraction of a percentage of oil cargoes carried", "title": "Oil spill" }, { "id": "3023443", "text": "limited safeguards against the hazards of oils spills. In 1976, a bill to create a cohesive safe measure for oil pollution was introduced to Congress. Neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate could agree on a single statue and the bill fell out of consideration numerous times. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit aground in the Prince Williams Sound and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil—the largest marine oil spill in recorded history up to that point. Soon afterward, in June 1989, three smaller spills occurred within coastal waters of the United States. This was", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "5878682", "text": "to an oil boom. In 1989, the \"Exxon Valdez\" hit a reef in Prince William Sound, spilling between 11 and 34 million U.S. gallons (42,000 and 130,000 m) of crude oil over 1,100 miles (1,600 km) of coastline. Today, the battle between philosophies of development and conservation is seen in the contentious debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Paleolithic families moved into northwestern North America sometime between 16,000 and 10,000 BC across the Bering land bridge in Alaska. Alaska became populated by the Inuit and a variety of Native American groups. Today, early Alaskans are divided", "title": "History of Alaska" }, { "id": "20469685", "text": "been the potential devastation of the small California sea otter population by an oil tanker spill. However, it was during the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska that their science-based techniques to clean and rehabilitate otters were first used when Davis was asked by the U.S, Department of the Interior to direct the Sea Otter Rehabilitation Program. This effort, involving over 300 people, rehabilitated and released 225 oiled sea otters, the largest number ever held in captivity. Davis then co-authored a book on the methods for rehabilitating oiled sea otters, and this is still the standard", "title": "Randall William Davis" }, { "id": "9376484", "text": "SeaRiver Maritime SeaRiver Maritime is a privately held subsidiary wholly owned by ExxonMobil. The company was formed in the early 1990s by Exxon when it spun off its maritime operations into the new company following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. In 1994, SeaRiver applied for a federal subsidy to operate tankers in the Persian Gulf. The petition stated they needed the money to stay competitive, because the \"S/R Mediterranean\" (the new name for the Exxon Valdez vessel) was unable to operate in Prince William Sound following the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which prohibits the", "title": "SeaRiver Maritime" }, { "id": "3488103", "text": "and was a Co-Chairman of the Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference in 1994 and 1997. Since 1991, he has been the CEO of Steve Cowper & Associates, a group that advises companies and governments on energy-related initiatives. He has also served on the boards of multiple energy-related companies in the US and Canada. As of 2010, Cowper lived in Austin, Texas with his third wife and family. Steve Cowper Stephen Cambreleng Cowper (born August 21, 1938) is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth governor of Alaska from 1986–90. He was governor during the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. Cowper", "title": "Steve Cowper" }, { "id": "3023444", "text": "timely evidence that oil spills were not uncommon. Alaska Governor Steve Cowper authorized the creation of the Alaska Oil Spill Commission in 1989 to examine the causes of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and issue recommendations on potential policy changes. Cowper appointed Walter B. Parker, a longtime transportation consultant and public official, as the chairman of the commission. Under Parker, the Commission issued 52 recommendations for improvements to industry, state, and federal regulations. 50 of these recommendations were worked into the Oil Pollution Act bill that was introduced into legislation on March 16, 1989 by Walter B. Jones, Sr., a", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "10793959", "text": "rest remained aboard to assist in fighting the fire. After 26 hours the fire was extinguished. In 1989 the \"Yocona\" was in Seward, Alaska helping with the clean-up of the SS \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. Whilst in port, some of the crew of USCGC Planetree (WLB-307) painted \"Yo Mama\" on \"Yocona's\" transom. This prank went un-noticed for several days, and \"Yocona\" endured this nickname for quite a while. \"Yocona\" conducted 153 law enforcement boardings. Fifty-six for boating, and eleven for Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act violations. In addition, \"Yocona\" continued to enforce U.S. immigration laws. \"Yocona\" performed 10 search", "title": "USS Seize (ARS-26)" }, { "id": "16844124", "text": "International Bird Rescue International Bird Rescue is a non-profit organization that rehabilitates injured aquatic birds, most notably seabirds affected by oil spills. Founded by Alice Berkner in 1971 and based in Cordelia, California, the group has developed scientifically-based bird rehabilitation techniques and has led oiled wildlife rescue efforts in more than 200 oil spills worldwide, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the 2010 \"Deepwater Horizon\" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where International Bird Rescue co-managed oiled bird rehabilitation efforts in four states with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research. Formerly known as", "title": "International Bird Rescue" }, { "id": "1572481", "text": "or 257,000 to 750,000 barrels. In 1989, the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill was listed as the 54th largest spill in history. The tanker was 301 meters long, 51 meters wide, 26 meters depth (987 ft x 166 ft x 88 ft), with a deadweight of 214,861 long tons and a full-load displacement of 240,291 long tons. The ship was able to transport up to 235,000 m³ (1.48 million barrels) at a sustained speed of 16.25 knots, powered by a (31,650 shp) diesel engine. Her hull design was of the single-hull type, constructed by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San", "title": "Exxon Valdez" }, { "id": "9477768", "text": "in 1987, he became chairman and CEO, taking over from Clifton C. Garvin. During his tenure as head of Exxon, he moved the corporate headquarters from New York to Irving, Texas, increased reserves, and expanded the chemical operations of the corporation. He was at the helm of the company when the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in 1989. He faced criticism for his response to the oil spill — his slow public response and his demeanor in interviews were noted and the focus of criticism of the company. Rawl retired from Exxon in 1993 at the mandatory retirement age of", "title": "Lawrence G. Rawl" }, { "id": "16844143", "text": "of 200 birds were potentially affected. The source of this \"mystery goo\" has not yet been identified. International Bird Rescue International Bird Rescue is a non-profit organization that rehabilitates injured aquatic birds, most notably seabirds affected by oil spills. Founded by Alice Berkner in 1971 and based in Cordelia, California, the group has developed scientifically-based bird rehabilitation techniques and has led oiled wildlife rescue efforts in more than 200 oil spills worldwide, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the 2010 \"Deepwater Horizon\" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where International Bird Rescue", "title": "International Bird Rescue" }, { "id": "8653704", "text": "VECO Corporation VECO Corporation was an American oil pipeline service and construction company until its purchase in September 2007 by CH2M HILL. As of that date, the VECO Corporation ceased to exist. Founded in 1968 as Veltri Enterprises by Wayne Ray Veltri, renamed VE Construction after being bought in 1970 by Bill Allen and in 1979 to the current VECO Corp. The company grew to become a major player in the Alaskan oil industries' support. VECO also was a worldwide player in the oil industry, having divisions in many major oil markets. On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon", "title": "VECO Corporation" }, { "id": "1362940", "text": "of his fleet, while having trouble managing their own fleets, which operated under US flags and thus at high cost. The high profitability of the Onassis fleet has been attributed in large part to his disregard for standards that normally govern international shipping. For example, after his Liberian registered tanker SS Arrow ran aground and spilled oil into Chedabucto Bay in 1970, still the most significant oil spill off Canada’s East Coast (about 25% of the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989), there was a Commission of Inquiry. Led by Dr Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, executive director of", "title": "Aristotle Onassis" }, { "id": "4731152", "text": "the navigation bridge and was in his stateroom at the time of the accident. He left Third Mate Gregory Cousins in charge of the navigation bridge and Able Seaman Robert Kagan at the helm with instructions from the third mate to return to the southbound traffic lane in the TSS at a prearranged point. \"Exxon Valdez\" failed to return to the shipping lanes and struck Bligh Reef at around 12:04 a.m. March 24, 1989. The accident resulted in the discharge of around 11 million gallons of oil, 20% of the cargo, into Prince William Sound. During Hazelwood's trial following the", "title": "Joseph Hazelwood" }, { "id": "6236586", "text": "by BP for all costs related to the oil spill, including those arising under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. In December 2015, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ordered Anadarko to pay a civil fine under the Clean Water Act of $159.5 million, or $50 per barrel of oil spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The judge stated Anadarko was not at fault for the spill, but the company's 25% ownership stake made it responsible. Barbier wrote that the $159.5 million fine \"strikes the appropriate balance between Anadarko's lack of culpability and the extreme seriousness", "title": "Anadarko Petroleum" }, { "id": "4731147", "text": "Joseph Hazelwood Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood (born September 24, 1946) is an American sailor. He was the captain of \"Exxon Valdez\" during its 1989 oil spill. He was accused of being intoxicated which contributed to the disaster, but was cleared of this charge at his 1990 trial after witnesses testified that he was sober around the time of the accident. Hazelwood was convicted of a lesser charge, negligent discharge of oil (a misdemeanor), fined $50,000, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service. Hazelwood was born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, but was raised in Huntington, Long Island, New York. His father, Joseph", "title": "Joseph Hazelwood" }, { "id": "4585265", "text": "return, \"Fort McHenry\" participated in the cleanup of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill from 28 April – 22 June 1989. In recognition of the crew's effectiveness during the cleanup operation, \"Fort McHenry\" was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation and the Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon. On 20 June 1990, \"Fort McHenry\" began her second deployment and spent 10 months in the Persian Gulf for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. When she returned to her homeport of San Diego on 17 April 1991, \"Fort McHenry\" received the Navy Unit Commendation, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi", "title": "USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43)" }, { "id": "2236841", "text": "million tires. These tires were mostly used on the Ford Explorer, the world's top-selling sport utility vehicle (SUV). The two companies committed three major blunders early on, say crisis experts. First, they blamed consumers for not inflating their tires properly. Then they blamed each other for faulty tires and faulty vehicle design. Then they said very little about what they were doing to solve a problem that had caused more than 100 deaths—until they got called to Washington to testify before Congress. On 24 March 1989, a tanker belonging to the Exxon Corporation ran aground in the Prince William Sound", "title": "Crisis management" }, { "id": "4731151", "text": "entered a rehabilitation program in 1985 at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, New York. Following rehabilitation he received 90 days of leave to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. \"Exxon Valdez\" departed the port of Valdez, Alaska at 9:12 p.m. March 23, 1989 with 53 million gallons of crude oil bound for California. A harbor pilot guided the ship through the Valdez Narrows before departing the ship and returning control to Hazelwood, the ship's master. The ship maneuvered out of the outbound traffic lane in the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) to avoid icebergs. Following the maneuver and sometime after 11 p.m., Hazelwood departed", "title": "Joseph Hazelwood" }, { "id": "5145796", "text": "Valdez Blockade The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 had devastated the shore around Prince William Sound, diminishing the marine population. Consequently, the fishery industry in the area faced a sharp fall on their fish catch and revenue. Feeling little had been done to study the impact of the spill, a group of fishermen sailed off to begin a blockade of the Valdez Narrows on August 20, 1993. While tankers must pass through Valdez Narrows to enter the port of Valdez, seven tankers were held off in the three-day blockade. As oil was continuing to pump through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline", "title": "Valdez Blockade" }, { "id": "8406011", "text": "on the Italian island of Lampedusa, in retaliation for the American bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi. However, the missiles passed over the island, landing in the sea, and caused no damage. As a result of the attack, the Coast Guard station was commissioned as a NATO base, including security hardening and an armory, as well as an Italian security detail stationed nearby. In March 1989, the oil tanker \"Exxon Valdez\" struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels (41,000 to 119,000 m3) of crude oil. Because the incident took place in navigational waters, the Coast Guard", "title": "History of the United States Coast Guard" }, { "id": "13354189", "text": "oil onto the Alaskan shoreline. Much of the film centers on the conflict between local officials, the fishing industry, and the Exxon official sent out to oversee the clean-up and take the rap. The filmmakers point out that much of the aftermath could have been minimized had the officials in charge been better prepared and not spent so much time involved in useless red-tape and petty bureaucratic bickering. Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster is a 1992 movie depicting the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill disaster off the coast of Alaska. Directed by Paul Seed,", "title": "Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster" }, { "id": "18401032", "text": "Walter B. Parker Walter Bruce \"Walt\" Parker (August 11, 1926 – June 25, 2014) was an American civil servant, policy adviser, transportation adviser, academic and local politician. Parker's career focused on the development of natural resources, transportation and infrastructure in Alaska from the 1940s to the 2000s. In 1989, Alaska Governor Steve Cowper appointed Parker as the chairman of the Alaska Oil Spill Commission, which investigated the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He is credited with making important contributions to the fields of transportation, telecommunications, education, land use and urban planning within the state of Alaska. Parker was inducted into the", "title": "Walter B. Parker" }, { "id": "13800677", "text": "Business School in 1982. After that, he was hired by Hickel's business company, Yukon Pacific Corporation, where he worked as Treasurer and later Vice President. Yukon Pacific was founded to investigate the possibility of building a trans-Alaska gas pipeline. Eventually Yukon Pacific was purchased by CSX in 1989. In the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, Treadwell left Yukon and went to Cordova, Alaska, to serve as the city's director of spill response. Cordova was badly impacted by the spill, which severely affected the area's fishing industry and disrupted the general ecology of the area. A September 1990", "title": "Mead Treadwell" }, { "id": "11608299", "text": "for years in the sediment and marine environment. Marine species constantly exposed to PAHs can exhibit developmental problems, susceptibility to disease, and abnormal reproductive cycles. By the sheer amount of oil carried, modern oil tankers can be a threat to the environment. As discussed above, a VLCC tanker can carry of crude oil. This is about eight times the amount spilled in the widely known \"Exxon Valdez\" incident. In this spill, the ship ran aground and dumped of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite efforts of scientists, managers, and volunteers over 400,000 seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and", "title": "Oil tanker" }, { "id": "1776242", "text": "Group she was attached to was recalled \"at best possible speed\" across the Pacific to the evolving situation in Panama. She returned to San Diego in early June. In August 1989, \"Duluth\" sailed to Prince William Sound, Alaska, for oil spill decontamination operations with HMM-268 embarked. \"Duluth\" housed clean-up crews, provided medical and weather forecasting services and supported decontamination barge efforts. \"Duluth\" was underway 21 January 1994 for WestPac operations. Arrived in Singapore 14 February and assigned to TG 76.5 for duty off the coast of Somalia. The ship remained in Singapore for six days before getting underway for the", "title": "USS Duluth (LPD-6)" }, { "id": "8430", "text": "1989, the \"Exxon Valdez\" hit a reef in the Prince William Sound, spilling over of crude oil over of coastline. Today, the battle between philosophies of development and conservation is seen in the contentious debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the proposed Pebble Mine. The Alaska Heritage Resources Survey (AHRS) is a restricted inventory of all reported historic and prehistoric sites within the state of Alaska; it is maintained by the Office of History and Archaeology. The survey's inventory of cultural resources includes objects, structures, buildings, sites, districts, and travel ways, with a general provision", "title": "Alaska" }, { "id": "11187400", "text": "The O'Brien's Group O'Brien's Response Management is the largest oil spill management company in the United States Company founder Jim O'Brien fought his first oil spill in 1969 as an officer with the United States Coast Guard. In 1983 he retired to form his own company, O'Brien's Oil Pollution Service, known as \"OOPS Inc.\", in Slidell, Louisiana. O'Brien soon gained fame in the 1980s as the \"Red Adair of oil spill cleanup\". O'Brien also helped manage the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. Following that event the United States enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, requiring ships to carry", "title": "The O'Brien's Group" }, { "id": "5145797", "text": "System, and tankers were keeping off shore, the storage tanks in Valdez would soon overflow. With the probability in interrupting the oil flow to prevent an overflow, and also facing a growing loss in profits, the government came in to settle the blockade. The blockade was called off after Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt promised to release $5 million of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill restoration funds for ecosystem-wide studies. Comprehensive studies of the effects of the spill toward the ecosystem around Prince William Sound began in the following year. Valdez Blockade The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 had devastated", "title": "Valdez Blockade" }, { "id": "16566111", "text": "Dispersants were applied to a number of oil spills between the years 1967 and 1989. During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, an estimated 1.84 million gallons of Corexit was used in an attempt to reduce the amount of surface oil and mitigate the damage to coastal habitat. BP purchased one-third of the world's supply of Corexit soon after the spill began. Nearly half (771,000 gallons) of the dispersants were applied directly at the wellhead. The primary dispersant used were Corexit 9527 and 9500, which were controversial due to toxicity. In 2012, a study found that Corexit made the oil up", "title": "Oil dispersants" }, { "id": "1572489", "text": "Valdez\" appeared in the animated comedy \"American Dad!\" in the episode \"You Debt Your Life\". Roger is getting the captain of the ship drunk and the ship is seen crashing into an iceberg, which references the oil spill in Alaska. \"Exxon Valdez\" can be seen at 1:49 of the Scorpions \"Wind Of Change\" music video The Futurama episode \"The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz\" is a parody of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, with the dark matter tanker named the \"Juan Valdez\". The Graf Orlock song: \"Nursing a Hangover\" from their 2016 LP Crimetraveler is a reference to the incident. Exxon Valdez", "title": "Exxon Valdez" }, { "id": "3441227", "text": "seven astronauts were transferred to Dover AFB. It is one of only seven airports in the country that served as launch abort facilities for the Space Shuttle. In March 1989, C-5s from Dover delivered special equipment used to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. On June 7, 1989, while attending the Airlift Rodeo, a 436 MAW C-5 set a world record when it airdropped 190,346 pounds and 73 paratroopers. In October 1983, the wing flew 24 missions in support of Operation Urgent Fury, the Grenada rescue operation and later flew 16 missions to support Operation", "title": "Dover Air Force Base" }, { "id": "9076753", "text": "law enforcement duties involve counter-narcotic operations, fisheries, and environmental protection. To add to its diverse mission capability, \"Active\" also participates in public relations activities such as the Portland Rose Festival and Seattle Sea Fair. \"Active\" has received several awards in recent years for its outstanding service to the maritime community. \"Active\" was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation for exemplary service from 1987 to 1989 and a Coast Guard Unit Commendation for outstanding service from 1989 to 1991. \"Active\" was awarded the Special Operations Service Ribbon for the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill cleanup in Prince William Sound, Alaska, participation in the", "title": "USCGC Active (WMEC-618)" }, { "id": "19234766", "text": "website a blowout is \"an uncontrolled flow of gas, oil, or other well fluids\" from a well.\" An article in The Huffington Post entitled \"Here’s How Enormous The Methane Blowout Is In California\" stated that as of February 1, 2016 the SS-25 well released an estimated 91,000 metric tons of methane gas.\"The article said that \"while this gas blowout has prompted comparisons to BP’s oil well failure in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, experts say this leak will have further-reaching environmental consequences.\" The source of the leak was a", "title": "Aliso Canyon gas leak" }, { "id": "12379928", "text": "Amoco in 1998, becoming BP Amoco plc, and acquired ARCO and Burmah Castrol in 2000, becoming BP plc in 2001. From 2003 to 2013, BP was a partner in the TNK-BP joint venture in Russia. BP has been directly involved in several major environmental and safety incidents. Among them were the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which caused the death of 15 workers and resulted in a record-setting OSHA fine; Britain's largest oil spill, the wreck of \"Torrey Canyon\" in 1967; and the 2006 Prudhoe Bay oil spill, the largest oil spill on Alaska's North Slope, which resulted in a", "title": "BP" }, { "id": "19516492", "text": "20th century, as the oil industry developed and expanded. Large scale transport of crude oil increased as a result of the increasing worldwide demand for oil, subsequently increasing the number of oil spills. Oil spills provided perfect opportunities for scientists to examine the in situ effects of crude oil exposure to marine ecosystems, and collaborative efforts between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Coast Guard resulted in improved response efforts and detailed research on oil pollution's effects. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, both resulted in", "title": "Oil pollution toxicity to marine fish" }, { "id": "1003073", "text": "and is located near the site of the disastrous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill. Today it is one of the most important ports in Alaska, a commercial fishing port as well as a freight terminal. The port of Valdez was named in 1790 by the Spanish explorer Salvador Fidalgo after the Spanish naval officer Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán. A scam to lure prospectors off the Klondike Gold Rush trail led to a town being developed there in 1898. Some steamship companies promoted the Valdez Glacier Trail as a better route for miners to reach the Klondike gold fields", "title": "Valdez, Alaska" }, { "id": "132637", "text": "official position was that punitive damages greater than $25 million were not justified because the spill resulted from an accident, and because Exxon spent an estimated $2 billion cleaning up the spill and a further $1 billion to settle related civil and criminal charges. Attorneys for the plaintiffs contended that Exxon bore responsibility for the accident because the company \"put a drunk in charge of a tanker in Prince William Sound.\" Exxon recovered a significant portion of clean-up and legal expenses through insurance claims associated with the grounding of the \"Exxon Valdez\". Also, in 1991, Exxon made a quiet, separate", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "12330653", "text": "Valdez oil spill resulted in the discharge of approximately of oil into Prince William Sound, oiling of the remote Alaskan coastline. The Valdez spill is 36th worst oil spill in history in terms of sheer volume. The State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council stated that the spill \"is widely considered the number one spill worldwide in terms of damage to the environment\". Carcasses were found of over 35,000 birds and 1,000 sea otters. Because carcasses typically sink to the seafloor, it is estimated the death toll may be 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "1429347", "text": "in the North Pacific involved the USN, Canadian Navy, Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, and ROK Navy. At the end of Exercise PACEX '89 a 54-ship formation was assembled for photos. It included the flagship, , the Battle Group, the Battle Group, two battleship surface action groups formed around and , and a Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force task force. Other operations undertaken since include participation in the Alaskan Oil Spill Joint Task Force, including participation of Commander, Amphibious Group Three, as deputy CJTF. This was the defence response to the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill of March 1989. Also, the Pacific Fleet", "title": "United States Pacific Fleet" }, { "id": "20047719", "text": "1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill On June 23, 1989, several hundred thousand gallons of fuel oil were spilled at the mouth of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island after the tanker MV \"World Prodigy\" ran aground on a reef near Aquidneck Island. \"World Prodigy\", a long ship operated by Ballard Shipping under the Greek flag, was inbound to Providence and Tiverton, Rhode Island when at about 16:40 local time she ran aground on Brenton Reef, about offshore from Brenton Point State Park, after passing the wrong side of a buoy marking the channel. She had a cargo of about 8.1", "title": "1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill" }, { "id": "1776369", "text": "off the coast of Korea. This is referenced in the ship's logs of 1978. Assigned duties as Third Fleet flagship from January through November 1988, \"Cleveland\" once again demonstrated the flexibility and professionalism that became her hallmark. \"Cleveland\" then briefly shifted focus to environmental protection when she deployed to Prince William Sound, Alaska, in support of oil spill cleanup efforts associated with the \"Exxon Valdez\" disaster. The ship's next two deployments, in 1990 and 1991, were in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. In October 1992 and in March 1993, \"Cleveland\" deployed on short notice to Central", "title": "USS Cleveland (LPD-7)" }, { "id": "3309263", "text": "high as , which could make the spill more than twice the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. In 2007, 18 inches of fuel floated over the water table when a well was dug. The escaped jet fuel is submerged 500 ft beneath the ground in the drinking water aquifer. As of 2010, a 6000 ft long plume of contaminants, the most dangerous chemical being ethylene dibromide (EDB) moved within 4000 ft towards the municipal wells that supply the city's drinking water. EDB causes liver and kidney disease and is a suspected human", "title": "Kirtland Air Force Base" }, { "id": "20047721", "text": "and repaired at a shipyard in New York City. After the collision, \"World Prodigy\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with two violations of the Clean Water Act and Ballard Shipping with one. Both the captain and company pleaded guilty; Ballard paid $1 million and Georgudis $10,000 in fines. In December 1990, the National Transportation Safety Board released the results of their investigation of the spill, finding that Captain Georgudis had been suffering from sleep deprivation and was distracted by working on paperwork at the time of the collision. \"World Prodigy\", having arrived at the mouth of the bay earlier than", "title": "1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill" }, { "id": "18707435", "text": "Prodromal Stage of Fink’s model to the initial occurrence of the ValuJet crash, because Benoit’s model would require an accusation, and is more appropriate than Birkland’s “focusing event” concept. This application theme continues throughout the paper, thus making Fishman’s large contribution blended methodology. Fishman does, however, state in the paper that the blended theory method may not be applicable in all crisis communication situations. However, he finds many scenarios in which he his blended methodology was applicable. Among these are the United States Navy’s 1991 Tailhook sexual misconduct scandal, Tylenol’s 1982 cyanide mishap, Exxon’s 1989 \"Valdez\" oil spill, and more.", "title": "D.A. Fishman" }, { "id": "5015448", "text": "Jim Merkel Jim Merkel (born 1957) is an American author and engineer, who moved from involvement in the military industry to advocating simple living. Since 1989, Merkel has dedicated himself to trying to reduce his personal impact on the environment and to encourage others to do the same. Initially trained as an electrical engineer, Merkel spent twelve years designing industrial and military systems. After witnessing the devastation following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, however, he concluded that global problems had become so urgent as to require immediate action. He consequently quit his job and began a new career as", "title": "Jim Merkel" }, { "id": "8406012", "text": "had authority for all activities relating to the cleanup effort. The Coast Guard largely served as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator between Exxon Mobil and all of these organizations, acting within authority under the Clean Water Act. Coast Guard cutters were one of the first to respond to the spill, quickly establishing a safety zone around the stricken \"Exxon Valdez\". At least eleven cutters were present in April 1989, the majority of them overseeing booming and skimming operations. Early that month, Coast Guard vessel activity went through a rapid buildup phase. The Coast Guard maintained a heavy cutter presence for two", "title": "History of the United States Coast Guard" }, { "id": "16844138", "text": "Brittany, France; and the 1989 \"Exxon Valdez\" spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. When a bird becomes oiled, its feathers can mat and separate, exposing the animal's sensitive skin to temperature extremes. The bird also typically ingests petroleum as it attempts to preen the oil off its feathers. As a result, oil exposure can lead to dehydration, kidney damage, and hypothermia or hyperthermia, among other serious health conditions. After collection, each oiled bird is stabilized, which includes nutrition, hydration, and medical treatment before it is considered for a wash, as unstable birds may die from the resulting stress of the", "title": "International Bird Rescue" }, { "id": "2911931", "text": "1991; however, it has declined significantly with stricter law enforcement and better economic conditions. The most significant threat to sea otters is oil spills, to which they are particularly vulnerable, since they rely on their fur to keep warm. When their fur is soaked with oil, it loses its ability to retain air, and the animals can quickly die from hypothermia. The liver, kidneys, and lungs of sea otters also become damaged after they inhale oil or ingest it when grooming. The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 24 March 1989 killed thousands of sea otters in Prince William Sound, and", "title": "Sea otter" }, { "id": "132623", "text": "in International Maritime Organization introducing comprehensive marine pollution prevention rules (MARPOL) through various conventions. The rules were ratified by member countries and, under International Ship Management rules, the ships are being operated with a common objective of \"safer ships and cleaner oceans\". In 2009, \"Exxon Valdez\" Captain Joseph Hazelwood offered a \"heartfelt apology\" to the people of Alaska, suggesting he had been wrongly blamed for the disaster: \"The true story is out there for anybody who wants to look at the facts, but that's not the sexy story and that's not the easy story,\" he said. Hazelwood said he felt", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "132621", "text": "State of Alaska's \"Exxon Valdez\" Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Multiple factors have been identified as contributing to the incident: Captain Joseph Hazelwood, who was widely reported to have been drinking heavily that night, was not at the controls when the ship struck the reef. However, as the senior officer, he was in command of the ship even though he was asleep in his bunk. In light of the other findings, investigative reporter Greg Palast stated in 2008, \"Forget the drunken skipper fable. As to", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "7975372", "text": "Swearingen Metroliner propjet was placed into service in 1987 and Metro aircraft remained in the fleet until 2011. In 1988, several bush operators in Dillingham had their certificates revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), prompting Peninsula Airways to set up an operation there. A hangar and aircraft were purchased and service to the surrounding communities began. In 1989, Peninsula Airways was contracted by Exxon to support the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill cleanup. At the same time, a contract was awarded to Peninsula Airways by Alaska Regional Hospital to provide 24-hour medevac service. Peninsula Airways' operations were inspected and approved", "title": "PenAir" }, { "id": "14647689", "text": "Ocean Therapy Solutions Ocean Therapy Solutions (OTS) is a company owned by actor Kevin Costner. He acquired the company from the United States government for US$24 million in 1995. The company specializes in developing centrifugal oil-water separators. After the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill in 1989, Costner wanted to find a new way to separate oil from water, so he acquired the company. He found it difficult to promote its products, until BP placed an order for several of the company's devices in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. OTS's largest machine, the V20, can clean up to of", "title": "Ocean Therapy Solutions" } ]

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[ { "id": "12471991", "text": "and four numbers, and texts \"U.S.N.B.\" and \"Gtmo Bay Cuba\". Vehicle registration plates of Cuba The current vehicle registration plate system of Cuba was introduced in May 2013. Current plates are European standard 520 mm × 110 mm, completely replacing the previous system introduced in 2002.The international vehicle registration code for Cuba is C. From the 1950s through 1978, and again from 2002 through 2013, plates were North American standard 6 × 12 inches (152 × 300 mm). Cuban vehicle registration plates contained three letters and three numbers. The colour of plates is also an important identification element. Ordinary (non-special)", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Cuba" }, { "id": "12471986", "text": "Vehicle registration plates of Cuba The current vehicle registration plate system of Cuba was introduced in May 2013. Current plates are European standard 520 mm × 110 mm, completely replacing the previous system introduced in 2002.The international vehicle registration code for Cuba is C. From the 1950s through 1978, and again from 2002 through 2013, plates were North American standard 6 × 12 inches (152 × 300 mm). Cuban vehicle registration plates contained three letters and three numbers. The colour of plates is also an important identification element. Ordinary (non-special) licence plates have also a number on the lower central", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Cuba" }, { "id": "16780679", "text": "Colombia 49 CD - India 50 CD - Somalia 51 CD - Brazil 52 CD - Turkey 53 CD - Lesotho 54 CD - Zambia 55 CD - Madagascar 56 CD - Malaysia 57 CD - D.R. Congo (DRC) 58 CD - Swaziland 59 CD - Sri Lanka 60 CD - Iraq 61 CD - Rwanda 62 UN - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 63 UN - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Eastern & Southern African Regional Office 64 CD - Iran 65 CD - Cyprus 66 CD - Argentina 67 UN - United", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "16780677", "text": "- Italy 10 CD - France 11 CD - Slovakia 12 CD - Denmark 13 CD - Japan 14 CD - Sudan 15 CD - Austria 16 CD - India 17 CD - Australia 18 CD - Canada 19 CD - Holy See (The Vatican) 20 CD - Finland 21 CD - Switzerland 22 CD - Britain 23 CD - Liberia 24 CD - Israel 25 CD - Nigeria 26 CD - Ghana 27 CD - Netherlands 28 CD - Malawi 29 CD - USA 30 CD - Belgium 31 CD - Sweden 32 CD - Pakistan 33 CD -", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "16780681", "text": "CD - Palestine 85 CD - Uganda 86 CD - Mexico 87 CD - Morocco 88 CD - Costa Rica (Consulate) 89 CD - Gabon (Consulate) 90 UN - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Kenya Country Office 91 CD - Indonesia 92 CD - Portugal 93 CD - Venezuela 94 CD - Zimbabwe 95 CD - International Civil Aviation Organization (I.C.A.O) 96 CD - Asian Development Bank 97 CD - Tanzania 99 CD - Peru 100 CD - International Finance Corporation (I.F.C) 101 CD - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Norwegian Mission 102 CD - Mozambique 103 CD - South", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "5304353", "text": "\"AX\" as its official code. Regular, non-vanity plates also have some more limitations: Export registration licence plates contain one letter and a (maximum) four-digit number. A diplomatic number plate has a blue background and white reflective lettering. The letters are either \"C\" or \"CD\", for French \"\"Corps Diplomatique\"\". CD plates are with maximum of four numbers and C maximum of five numbers. Museum registered cars have black plates which have two or three letters and maximum of three numbers with white colour. Size on the plate is 118 mm x 338 mm. Museum registered motorcycles have black plates which have", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Finland" }, { "id": "16780682", "text": "Africa 104 CD - Eritrea 105 UN - United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) 106 CD - Czech Republic 107 CD - The Aga Khan 108 UN - UNFPA 110 CD - Botswana (Consulate) 115 CD - Ukraine 116 CD - Sahrawi 117 CD - Djibouti 118 CD - Sierra Leone 121 CD - South Sudan 123 CD - United Arab Emirates Vehicle registration plates of Kenya The current series of vehicle registration plates in Kenya are on a white plate with black lettering and look quite similar to UK suffix style registrations. The format is LLL NNNL, where ‘L’", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "16780678", "text": "Poland 34 CD - Korea 35 CD - Bulgaria 36 CD - Greece 37 CD - Cuba 38 CD - Kuwait 39 CD - Spain 40 UN - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 41 UN - World Health Organization (WHO) 42 UN - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 43 UN - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank) 44 UN - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 45 UN - World Food Programme (WFP) 45 CD - Romania 46 CD - Thailand 47 CD - The African Union (A.U) 48 CD -", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "16780680", "text": "Nations Information Centre (UNIC) 68 CD - Philippines 69 CD - Burundi 70 CD - Chile 71 CD - Oman 72 CD - League of Arab States / Arab League 73 CD - European Union 74 CD - Yemen 75 CD - Kenya Mission to UNEP 76 CD - Côte d'Ivoire (Consulate) 77 CD - Bangladesh 78 CD - Saudi Arabia 79 UN - United Nations Centre for Human Settlements / UN-Habitat (UNCHS) 80 CD - Libya 81 CD - Ireland (Consulate) 82 CD - United Nations Centre for Human Settlements / UN-Habitat (Kenya Mission) 83 CD - Algeria 84", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "9669317", "text": "Azerbaijan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, Croatia, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Japan, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldavia, Morocco, Uganda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Chad, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Finland, Grenada, Honduras, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Niger, Paraguay, Portugal, Samoa, Sweden, and Uruguay. , 59 states have ratified or acceded to the convention. The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) is a global network of organisations of families of disappeared and NGO's campaigning in a nonviolent manner against the practice of enforced disappearances at", "title": "International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance" }, { "id": "795481", "text": "particularly in Germany. After the defeat of Germany in World War II, the country was placed under Allied administration. Although there was neither a national German government nor a German flag, German ships were required by international law to have a national ensign of some kind. As a provisional civil ensign of Germany, the Council designated the international signal pennant Charlie representing the letter C ending in a swallowtail, known as the C-Pennant (). The Council ruled that \"no ceremony shall be accorded this flag which shall not be dipped in salute to warships or merchant ships of any nationality\".", "title": "Flag of Germany" }, { "id": "2490784", "text": "system is used for vehicles belonging to the diplomats of foreign countries with license plate from the host country. That system is host country-specific and varies largely from country to country. For example TR on a diplomatic car in the USA indicates Italian, not Turkish. Such markings in Norway are indicated with numbers only, again different from international standards (e.g. 90 means Slovakian. International vehicle registration code The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark.", "title": "International vehicle registration code" }, { "id": "12471990", "text": "dark green. Diplomatic cars use 6 digits without preceding letters. There is a \"D\", \"C\" or \"E\" letter in the lower left part of the licence plate (D = diplomatic, C - consular, E - other status). They have a black licence plate. Cars for hire have a dark red licence plate beginning with \"T\" letter (meaning \"turista\"), followed by five digits. Provisional licence plates are light red and have the normal code of the province followed by 4 digits and a \"P\" letter. Cars of the United States military in the Guantanamo Bay use licence plates with one letter", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Cuba" }, { "id": "13610935", "text": "ban marriage and prohibit legislation providing \"similar rights\". Jamaica was the first country to prohibit same-sex marriage in July 1962. Paraguay, Honduras and Bolivia are the only cases that not only marriage is prohibited but also de facto unions. Vietnam repealed a same-sex marriage ban in November 2013. Currently, thirty-four countries prohibit same-sex marriage on a national level. Those are Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Croatia, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Palau, Paraguay, Poland, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, South", "title": "Same-sex union legislation" }, { "id": "9577830", "text": "Brunei Darussalam, Egypt, Hellenic Republic (Greece), India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Cambodia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic, Maldives, Nigeria, Republic of Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, USA and Uzbekistan Bahrain, Canada, Kenya, Libya, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Turkmenistan and Ukraine. Australia and China Argentina, Belgium, France, Greece, Switzerland, USA, Iran, Monaco, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Ecuador, Portugal, Luxembourg, Colombia, Liberia, Cuba, San Marino, Italy, Egypt, Australia, Uzbekistan, Algeria, China, UAE, Libya and Kuwait. UNODC observes 26 June as the \"INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG", "title": "Anti-Narcotics Force" }, { "id": "19413008", "text": "Vehicle registration plates of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The issuing of the current license plates of the DRC began in April 2009. The plates are based on the layout of the registration plates of the European Union, but are of a slightly different in size (480 × 112 mm) than the European standard size (520 × 110 mm). At the left side is the national flag of the DRC which is displayed with the letters \"CGO\" below. The serial combination consists of five numbers followed. On the right side, located in a separate box, is a picture of", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the Democratic Republic of the Congo" }, { "id": "3742247", "text": "associated with the number 13, they asked the Indian delegation to exchange numbers. The list of countries and organizations follows: Consulates also use the same format, but instead of using the letters CD, they use CC. Some foreign countries and international organization vehicles in Jakarta use the \" B xxxxx \" format and a normal white on black plate. Where \"xxxxx\" stands for five random digits, and \"\" stands for the country / organization code (see above) A few vehicle owners pay an extra amount of money to get a certain plate as their desire. Because the convention is not", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Indonesia" }, { "id": "7050701", "text": "Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand Americas (15) Argentina, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela Europe (36) Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of San Marino, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City (Holy See) Middle East, Africa (32) Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Israel, Jordan, Kingdom", "title": "International Driving Permit" }, { "id": "14624756", "text": "of Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Gambia, Germany, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Israel, Jamaica, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vietnam and for holders of diplomatic passports only of Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Qatar and Suriname. Visa exemption for 30 days applies to holders of diplomatic or service passports of China, Indonesia, Iran and Turkey, as well as passports for public affairs issued by China.", "title": "Visa policy of Venezuela" }, { "id": "12570283", "text": "proposal as Resolution 63/3 on 2008 with 77 votes in favour, 6 votes against and 74 abstentions. The 77 countries that voted for the initiative A/63/L.2 of Serbia were: Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Fiji, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Republic", "title": "International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence" }, { "id": "17741225", "text": "or Taba airports valid for 15 days except for the citizens of the following 81 countries and territories: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, R Congo, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, DPR Korea, R Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent", "title": "Visa policy of Egypt" }, { "id": "11308033", "text": "not be quickly recognized by nationality. This applies to the four regions of Spain with prefixes BA, BI, CA, IB; and mostly to the five regions of Bulgaria with prefixes BT, BH, CA, CB (Sofia again), CH, KH. Macedonia also has BT (Bitola) and the same format (BT-9999-XX). Former Albania registration system had BC (Tropojë), BC-9999-XX. Individualized license plates are an additional type of plate, available for personal vehicles and motorcycles. State automobile inspection requires a previous vehicle registration with issuing of regular plates before issuing individualized plates. Using both plate-sets at the same time is prohibited, as well as", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Ukraine" }, { "id": "2490780", "text": "Convention on Road Traffic of 1949 and the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 1968. Many vehicle codes created since the adoption of ISO 3166 coincide with ISO two- or three-letter codes. The 2004 South-East Asian \"Agreement ... for the Facilitation of Cross-Border Transport of Goods and People\" uses a mixture of ISO and DSIT codes: Myanmar uses MYA, China CHN, and Cambodia KH (ISO codes), Thailand uses T (DSIT code), Laos LAO, and Vietnam VN (coincident ISO and DSIT codes). The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic was concluded in Vienna on 8 November 1968. Since its entry into force", "title": "International vehicle registration code" }, { "id": "16553035", "text": "flavors varies by territory. The following list provides information on the varieties available currently (NOVEMBER 2018) listed by territory (AE = UAE, AR = Argentina, AT = Austria, AU = Australia, BE = Belgium, BG = Bulgaria, BR = Brazil, CA = Canada, CH = Switzerland, CL = Chile, CN = China, CO = Colombia, CR = Costa Rica, CZ = Czech Republic, DE = Germany, DK = Denmark, DO = Dominican Republic, EC = Ecuador, EE = Estonia, ES = Spain, FI = Finland, FR = France, GR = Greece, GT = Guatemala, HK = Hong Kong, HN =", "title": "Dolce Gusto" }, { "id": "14372713", "text": "Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination. Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area. Several countries including Argentina, Cambodia, Colombia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United States demand all passengers to be fingerprinted on arrival. In a non-EU country where there is no Spanish embassy, Spanish citizens, like all other EU citizens, have the", "title": "Visa requirements for Spanish citizens" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "4115161", "text": "system uses black letters on a light-reflecting yellow background. The previous series used white reflecting letters on a dark-blue background. Their numbering schemes however are the same. Dutch car number plates can be formatted as follows: Nowadays the letters used do not include vowels, so as to avoid profane or obscene language. To avoid confusion with a zero, the letters C and Q are also omitted. Letters and numbers are issued in strict alphabetical/numeric order. Thus a Dutch licence plate gives an indication of the date of registration of a car, but no information about where in the country the", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the Netherlands" }, { "id": "16569312", "text": "red background with white lettering, and consist of up to three numbers, followed by CD or CMD and another number. Instead of the name of the state, they read CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE. Cars of the consular corps have instead the letters CC or CORPS CONSULAIRE. Vehicle registration plates of Nigeria Nigerian vehicle registration plates in current used were introduced in 1992 and revised in 2011. Nigeria and Liberia are the only two African countries that use the North American standard 6 × 12 inches (152 × 300 mm). The international code for Nigeria is \"WAN\" (West Africa Nigeria). The license plates", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Nigeria" }, { "id": "14237195", "text": "June 1999), Jordan (19 July 2000), Nicaragua (23 August 2000) Bangladesh (19 March 2001), Comores (1 July 2001), Jamaica (14 March 2002), Macao (11 May 2002), Uganda (9 November 2002), Zambia (15 January 2003), Nepal (16 February 2003), Madagascar (28 September 2003), Mauritius (19 January 2004), Tuvalu (15 October 2006), Mozambique (1 September 2008), Qatar (22 June 2017) and Rwanda (1 January 2018). Electronic visas for Kazakh citizens were introduced: Australia (Electronic Visitor visa from November 2013), Lesotho (1 May 2017), Djibouti (18 February 2018), India (5 March 2018) and Ethiopia (1 June 2018). Following countries have reinstated visa requirements", "title": "Visa requirements for Kazakhstani citizens" }, { "id": "3644579", "text": "categories are: incipient (e.g. Papua New Guinea, Iran ), developing (e.g. Senegal, Thailand), serious (e.g. Mexico, El Salvador, Jamaica), critical (e.g. Tajikistan, Peru, Colombia), and advanced (Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, North Korea, Venezuela and Myanmar). However, recent use of the term narco-state has been questioned by some for being too widely and uncritically applied, particularly following the widespread media attention given to Guinea-Bissau as \"the world's first narco-state\" in 2008, and should instead refer only to those countries in which the narcotics trade is state-sponsored and constitutes the majority of a country's overall GDP. Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa, has been called a", "title": "Narco-state" }, { "id": "15994914", "text": "– Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam and diplomatic passports only of the following countries – Afghanistan, Armenia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal,", "title": "Visa policy of India" }, { "id": "14624699", "text": "granted visa-free access to Bosnia and Herzegovina but require a visa for Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Brunei, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Grenada (grants visa on arrival), Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Mauritius (grants visa on arrival), Marshall Islands, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Oman, Paraguay, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu (grants visa on arrival), United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu and Venezuela. Most visitors arriving to Bosnia and Herzegovina on short term basis are from the following countries of nationality: Visa policy of Bosnia and", "title": "Visa policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina" }, { "id": "16095107", "text": "Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste. Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands,", "title": "WHO regions" }, { "id": "316032", "text": "vehicles are imported from Japan, Hong Kong or North Korea - countries that use right-hand-drive vehicles on the left side of the road. Because right-hand-drive vehicles are banned in the country, they are converted to left-hand-drive in conversion bays and freeport zones in Subic, Santa Ana, and Toledo. These vehicles are seen with plate numbers R for Subic, B for Cagayan, K for Cagayan De Oro and Y for Cebu. Smuggling of used cars is rampant, with as many as sixty percent of registrations being of cars not officially imported. The country made headlines in 2007, when president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo", "title": "Transportation in the Philippines" }, { "id": "17695330", "text": "Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cameroon, China, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and Yemen, as well as holders of normal passports of Cuba, Haiti, Jordan, Kenya and Pakistan. Visas issued to nationals of these countries are subject to restrictions and additional processing in Guatemala. Additionally, visa is not required for holders of residence permits issued by El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua;", "title": "Visa policy of Guatemala" }, { "id": "15301359", "text": "In addition to nations whose all citizens are visa exempt, holders of diplomatic or service category passports of Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu and Vietnam and holders of diplomatic passports of Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Russia, Senegal also do not require a visa or can obtain a free visa on arrival. United Arab Emirates has signed visa exemption agreements with the following countries that are not yet ratified or applied: Passengers on all international airlines may enter the United Arab Emirates", "title": "Visa policy of the United Arab Emirates" }, { "id": "245394", "text": "homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants as of 2015 were: El Salvador 109, Honduras 64, Venezuela 57, Jamaica 43, Belize 34.4, St. Kitts and Nevis 34, Guatemala 34, Trinidad & Tobago 31, the Bahamas 30, Brazil 26.7, Colombia 26.5, the Dominican Republic 22, St. Lucia 22, Guyana 19, Mexico 16, Puerto Rico 16, Ecuador 13, Grenada 13, Costa Rica 12, Bolivia 12, Nicaragua 12, Panama 11, Antigua and Barbuda 11, and Haiti 10. Most of the top countries with the highest homicide rates are in Africa and Latin America. Countries in Central America, like El Salvador and Honduras, top", "title": "Latin America" }, { "id": "18394789", "text": "African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination. Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area. Several countries including Argentina, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United States demand all passengers to be fingerprinted on arrival. Many countries require passport validity of no less", "title": "Visa requirements for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines citizens" }, { "id": "12570285", "text": "Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, and Yemen. Officially the following countries were absent: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Iraq, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Venezuela. The following states were not allowed to vote due to", "title": "International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence" }, { "id": "10483099", "text": "are: BR - Brava BV - Boa Vista FG - Fogo SA - Santo Antão SL - Sal SN - São Nicolau ST - Santiago SV - São Vicente The format is AB-12-CD, where AB is the regional code. Vehicles of the Armed Forces bear registration plates of the type \"FA-12-34\". Diplomatic plates are white with red letters and usually have the format \"CD-12-345\" where the first number block stands for the represented country, e.g. 16 for the USA. Vehicles of the United Nations have \"CD-ONU-123\". Motor cycles of the municipal administration of Praia have white-on-black plates of the format", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Cape Verde" }, { "id": "5228040", "text": "parts of the world, especially in Austria, the United States, Malta, Argentina, Britain, Jamaica, Micronesia, Ethiopia, Netherlands, Italy, Equatorial Guinea, Monaco, Turkey, Faroe Islands, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Philippines, Fiji, Dominica, Iceland, Nauru, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Canada, Germany, Portugal, New Zealand, Zaire, Latvia, Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Lebanon, Japan, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Luxembourg, Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Oman, Venezuela, Mexico, Gibraltar, Poland, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Israel, Greece, Outer Mongolia, Mozambique, Bahamas, Mali, El Salvador, Botswana, Algeria, Laos, Yemen, Bulgaria, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, North Korea, Baltic States, Thailand, Swaziland, India, Hong Kong, Romania, Zimbabwe, Vatican City, Ukraine,", "title": "Real estate bubble" }, { "id": "14795214", "text": "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Zaire. Zimbabwe was added on 8 November 2002, as were Georgia and Ukraine (9 June 2017). In terms of visa exemptions, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were exempted on 30 April 1996, followed by Hong Kong (25 June 1997), Brunei (17 February 1997), Croatia (26 January 1999). On 13 February 2001, Ireland exempted the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Kiribati, Maldives, Mauritius, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Macau was exempted on 27 April 2002, Slovakia (18 December 2003),", "title": "Visa policy of Ireland" }, { "id": "10897445", "text": "Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia,", "title": "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" }, { "id": "17779154", "text": "Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City and Zambia. Nationals of the following additional countries do not need a visa only if transiting the United Kingdom: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, Haiti, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Montenegro, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan; and nationals of Venezuela with a biometric passport. Most visitors arriving in Bermuda (including arrivals by air, cruise", "title": "Visa policies of British Overseas Territories" }, { "id": "14076517", "text": "visas (listed above) also do not require a visa, except those of Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and New Zealand. In addition, holders of diplomatic or service passports of Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia and of diplomatic passports of Cuba, Iran, Pakistan and Uzbekistan do not require a visa. Brazil", "title": "Visa policy of Brazil" }, { "id": "141137", "text": "present 185 member federations of FIDE. The list fluctuates, as new nations join and sometimes national federations collapse or are unable to pay their dues. The states are: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan,", "title": "FIDE" }, { "id": "15444663", "text": "United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, on the situation in Libya, is a measure that was adopted on 17 March 2011. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom. Ten Security Council members voted in the affirmative (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Gabon, Lebanon, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, and permanent members France, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Five (Brazil, Germany, and India, and permanent members China and Russia) abstained, with none opposed. The resolution formed the legal basis for military intervention in the Libyan Civil War, demanding \"an", "title": "United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973" }, { "id": "14626687", "text": "Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Grenada, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia, Libya , Maldives , Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal , Spain, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Yemen and for holders of diplomatic passports of Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, India, Liberia, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia, Senegal, South Sudan , Sudan , Uganda and United Kingdom – provided holding diplomatic, service and special passports for a maximum", "title": "Visa policy of Turkey" }, { "id": "4627806", "text": "The first attempts to do so were found in the Paris Convention on trademarks (1883, still in force, 176 members), followed by a much more elaborate provision in the 1958 Lisbon Agreement on the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their Registration. 28 countries are parties to the Lisbon agreement: Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, North Korea, France, Gabon, Georgia, Haiti, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Togo and Tunisia. About 9000 geographical indications were registered by Lisbon Agreement members. The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related", "title": "Geographical indication" }, { "id": "14234154", "text": "other GCC states, with the current exception of Qatar, do not need a visa to enter the UAE. GCC citizens (with the exception of Qataris) can use a GCC national identity card (rather than a passport) to enter the UAE. Visa requirements for Emirati citizens were lifted by New Zealand (in July 1999), Brunei (11 October 2003), Kyrgyzstan (July 2012), Kazakhstan (July 2014), the Schengen Area countries (7 May 2015), Belarus (30 April 2016), Moldova (24 March 2017), São Tomé and Príncipe (25 April 2017), Argentina (16 May 2017), Chad and Saint Lucia in October 2017, Nauru (19 November 2017),", "title": "Visa requirements for Emirati citizens" }, { "id": "13510595", "text": "has delivered medical relief in over 120 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bali, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, DR Congo, Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Union of Myanmar, Nagorno Karabakh Republic,", "title": "Project C.U.R.E." }, { "id": "4539419", "text": "CAA 1111 where DL is the two letter code for Delhi (DL). The additional C (for category of vehicle) is the letter S for two-wheelers, C for cars and SUVs, E for electric vehicles (in some cases only), P for public passenger vehicles such as buses, R for three-wheeled rickshaws, T for tourist-licensed vehicles and taxis, V for pick-up trucks and vans and Y for hire vehicles. This system is also applicable in other states. (For example, Rajasthan, where RJ is the two letter code, P is for passenger vehicles, C for cars, S for scooters and G for goods", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of India" }, { "id": "17741223", "text": "Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, DPR Korea, R Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon (except Alexandria and South Sinai), Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Qatar, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (except those aged below 18 and above 45), Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe. From 3 December 2017 citizens of 46 countries may apply for tourist or business types of visa for 30 days", "title": "Visa policy of Egypt" }, { "id": "1196", "text": "of Malta, and Vatican City). These include: Albania, Algeria, Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Columbia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Grenada, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran,", "title": "Foreign relations of Armenia" }, { "id": "14586535", "text": "access to several additional countries – Azerbaijan, Botswana, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Russia and Turkey. Visitors must hold passports that are valid for at least 3 months from the date of arrival. Below is a list of countries whose nationals do not require a visa for visits to Macedonia of up to 90 days: Nationals of the following countries do not require a visa if their passports are endorsed \"for public affairs\": In addition: In addition to a visa, nationals of Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon,", "title": "Visa policy of the Republic of Macedonia" }, { "id": "16447986", "text": "was added in March 2011 followed by an additional 27 countries in November of the same year. On 13 December 2012, the ICRC made available its updated collection and analysis of what it considers practice from 23 countries – Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Djibouti, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Viet Nam. Customary international humanitarian law Customary international humanitarian law is a body of unwritten rules of public international law, which govern conduct during armed conflict. Customary international law,", "title": "Customary international humanitarian law" }, { "id": "11472247", "text": "for all model C pistols made by Caracal stating: \"Caracal is now issuing this recall of all Model C pistols in all markets, following the completion of a full investigation. Caracal is initiating this voluntary recall of Model C pistols because the safety of its customers is paramount. \" \"This recall affects all Model C pistols, including but not limited to those with serial numbers which start with the following letters: HM, AA, AD, AG, CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CF, CG, CH, CI, CJ, CK, CL, CM, CN, CP, CR and CS.\" \"If you own or have access to", "title": "Caracal pistol" }, { "id": "7650700", "text": "of Fast Track countries is as follows: -AF: Mauritius, Seychelles -EUR: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom -EAP: Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kiribati, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu -WHA: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba and Netherlands Antilles, The Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago. The U.S. government rarely publicizes decisions", "title": "Leahy Law" }, { "id": "16780676", "text": "run from KCA 001A to KCZ 999Z There are other number sequences that are used in Kenya. The diplomatic number given to the embassies were assigned in the order that they recognized Kenya’s independence, with Germany (then West Germany) as the first country to recognize Kenya's independence having the diplomatic plate 1 CD. As of 2008, the diplomatic / UN sequence assignation was as below: 1 CD - Germany 2 CD - Russian Federation 3 CD - Ethiopia 4 CD - China 5 CD - Norway 6 CD - Hungary 7 CD - Egypt 8 CD - Serbia 9 CD", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Kenya" }, { "id": "16553036", "text": "Honduras, HR = Croatia, HU = Hungary, ID = Indonesia, IE = Ireland, IL = Israel, IT = Italy, JO = Jordan, JP = Japan, KR = South Korea, KW = Kuwait, KZ = Kazakhstan, LB = Lebanon, LT = Lithuania, LV = Latvia, MA = Morocco, MT = Malta, MX = Mexico, MY = Malaysia, NI = Nicaragua, NL = Netherlands, NO = Norway, NZ = New Zealand, PA = Panama, PE = Peru, PH = Philippines, PK = Pakistan, PL = Poland, PT = Portugal, PY = Paraguay, QA = Qatar, RO = Romania, RS = Serbia, RU", "title": "Dolce Gusto" }, { "id": "12738661", "text": "the vice-chairman-rapporteur was from Cuba. According to the UN website, in August 2007 the Preparatory Committee set forth the following objectives for the Durban Review Conference: Delegates from 141 countries participated in the conference: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea,", "title": "Durban Review Conference" }, { "id": "15984405", "text": "affairs\" do not require a visa for Vietnam. Holders of diplomatic or service category passports of Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, and holders of diplomatic passports only of Czech Republic,", "title": "Visa policy of Vietnam" }, { "id": "12226540", "text": "components for a PET is roughly $300. PET carts have been shipped to Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Angola, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia, Botswana, Brasil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dem. Rep. of São Tomé and Príncipe, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Gaza, Ghana, Guatemala 1998, Guinea, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan,", "title": "Mobility Worldwide" }, { "id": "757948", "text": "were 88 members (down from previous membership due to the withdrawal of Greece effective from 30 June 2013). Current (2013) members are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, People's Republic of China, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (which also acts as the Kingdom with the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, the Gambia, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Kiribati, Laos, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Republic", "title": "International Whaling Commission" }, { "id": "1432824", "text": "location, and other legal requirements. The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes has been an important benchmark for oil prices since 2000. It is calculated as a weighted average of prices for petroleum blends from the OPEC member countries: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Rabi Light (Gabon), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE), and Merey (Venezuela). North Sea Brent Crude Oil is the leading benchmark for Atlantic basin crude oils, and is used to price approximately two-thirds of", "title": "OPEC" }, { "id": "13071558", "text": "Central America; The Greater Antilles; The Republics of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela; The Republics of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay & Bolivia; Scandinavia and Finland; the Benelux Countries; The Iberian Peninsula. 1958: France 1959: Austria, Burma, South Pacific, Turkey, 1961: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina. 1962: Belgium, Ceylon, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Switzerland 1964 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam 1967 Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Laos, Belize, Sikkim 1969 Papua New Guinea 1972 Singapore, Guyana 1974 Hong", "title": "Bahá'í Faith by continent" }, { "id": "14626685", "text": "Timor, Grenada, Ireland, Kiribati, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Norway, Netherlands, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Spain, Taiwan, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Vanuatu. On the other hand, Turkey grants visa-free access to citizens of other countries and territories – Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Ecuador, Iran, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Russia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Citizens of the following countries do not require a visa to enter, reside, study, and work indefinitely in Turkey without any immigration restrictions: Citizens of the", "title": "Visa policy of Turkey" }, { "id": "3750859", "text": "Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, East And West Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and Malaysia. In 2016, the company announced its intentions for increasing its global footprint by planning to export one out of every three vehicles produced in India over the next 4–5 years and to set up assembly factories in Bangladesh, West Africa and East Africa over the next 2–3 years, in order to derisk cyclical market in India. Lanka Ashok Leyland (LAL) in Sri", "title": "Ashok Leyland" }, { "id": "17695342", "text": "Schengen member state. This does not apply to nationals of Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yemen. Holders of diplomatic, official or service passports of Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Libya, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Suriname, Thailand and United Arab Emirates and holders of", "title": "Visa policy of Honduras" }, { "id": "8008999", "text": "stacked horizontally. The convention has 68 state parties as of August 2016: Albania, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Central African Republic, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. The only countries", "title": "Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals" }, { "id": "9156024", "text": "light. Slightly larger are B-segment cars like the Ford Fiesta and Chevy Sonic. The A- and B-cars are known as subcompacts. In the C-segment—typically called compacts—are the largest of the small cars.\" C-segment C-segment (or \"medium cars\") is a Euro Car Segment; a car classification loosely defined by the European Commission as the third-smallest segment (above the A-segment and B-segment) in the European market—in a system that comprises nine overall classes. In 2011, the C-segment had an EU market share of 23%. As the \"segment\" terminology became more common in the United States, in 2012 \"The New York Times\" described", "title": "C-segment" }, { "id": "17741222", "text": "visa on arrival for a maximum stay of 30 days. The residence permit must be valid for a minimum of 6 months from the arrival date. According to the data Egyptian Government provided to IATA citizens of all countries may obtain a visa on arrival to Egypt valid for 30 days except for the citizens of the following 84 countries and territories: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, R Congo, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon,", "title": "Visa policy of Egypt" }, { "id": "398514", "text": "with a gross weight of more than . A category CE driving licence is required to drive a tractor-trailer in Europe. Category C (Γ in Greece) is required for vehicles over , while category E is for heavy trailers, which in the case of trucks and buses means any trailer over . Vehicles over —which is the maximum limit of B license—but under can be driven with a C1 license. Buses require a D (Δ in Greece) license. A bus that is registered for no more than 16 passengers, excluding the driver, can be driven with a D1 license. Truck", "title": "Semi-trailer truck" }, { "id": "17689396", "text": "Egypt, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Montenegro, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Suriname and Thailand do not require a visa. Citizens of the following 73 countries and territories can visit Nicaragua by obtaining a visa on arrival: Transit without a visa is allowed for travellers who normally require a visa but are transiting within 24 hours and hold onward tickets. This does not apply to nationals of Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cameroon, China, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mongolia, Nepal,", "title": "Visa policy of Nicaragua" }, { "id": "3897800", "text": "letters the specific location. For instance the letter K is the first letter of the four letter ICAO address location within the continental United States. The first letter for a Canadian aerodrome, or airport address, begins with the letter C. Southern Europe codes begin with L, and specifically codes in Spain with LE. For example, New York's John F. Kennedy airport is KJFK while Goose Bay Canada's airport is identified as CYYR and Bilbao in Spain as LEBB. Some irregular four-letter codes, not assigned by ICAO, do exist and appear usually in meteorological reports. Examples for some common three-letter-groups used", "title": "Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network" }, { "id": "20257366", "text": "in Europe, about half of the countries in Africa and Latin America use this technology in elections.\" 35 per cent of over 130 surveyed Electoral Management Bodies is capturing biometric data (such as fingerprints or photos) as part of their voter registration process (2016). Countries which have used Biometric voting registration include Armenia, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, The Philippines, Senegal, Sierra", "title": "Biometric voter registration" }, { "id": "5344819", "text": "D.C. Per the Travelers’ Century Club official list as of January 1, 2018, Moore has traveled to the following 139 countries, most multiple times, to study and photograph their Architecture, Urban Design, and Urban Waterfronts: Abu Dhabi, Alaska, Amsterdam, Anguilla, Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bali, Barbados, Barbuda, Belgium, Belize, Bequia, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bonaire, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Chile, Cuba, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Domenica, Dubai, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Estonia, French Polynesia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Hawaiian Islands, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland,", "title": "Arthur Cotton Moore" }, { "id": "17695292", "text": "visa exempt as well as holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, the United States or a Schengen member state. This does not apply to nationals of Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cameroon, China, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and Yemen who also can't obtain a visa on a simplified procedure but their application needs to", "title": "Visa policy of El Salvador" }, { "id": "1997772", "text": "Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela. Among low to middle income countries, roughly 1.2 billion people have already received identification through a biometric identification program. There are also numerous countries applying biometrics for voter registration and similar electoral purposes. According to the International IDEA’s ICTs in Elections Database, some of the countries using (2017) Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) are Armenia, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gambia,", "title": "Biometrics" }, { "id": "20363210", "text": "2015 and Aug 2018. The Passport Index compares passports mainly on their visa-free travel options, but also on how welcoming the countries are to other nationalities. In its ranking, The Passport Index looks at 193 United Nations member countries and six territories, which include ROC Taiwan, Macao (SAR China), Hong Kong (SAR China), Kosovo, Palestinian Territory and the Vatican. Territories annexed to other countries such as Norfolk Island (Australia), French Polynesia (France), British Virgin Islands (Britain) are excluded. Passport Index rankings are in real-time and continue to vary as new changes to visa agreements are made. For the most part,", "title": "The Passport Index" }, { "id": "18048796", "text": "and Nevis, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Turkey, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vanuatu Of the 154 countries which have signed on the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, the following countries have not yet signed on to the CRS: (Incomplete list as of June 2017) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Kingdom of Lesotho, Liberia, Maldives, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Macedonia,", "title": "Common Reporting Standard" }, { "id": "3779986", "text": "ECLAC was established in 1948 as the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or UNECLA. In 1984, a resolution was passed to include the countries of the Caribbean in the name. It reports to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The member states are Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad", "title": "United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "17720714", "text": "passports from Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Libya, Madagascar, Moldova, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan and Tunisia, in addition to a visa must obtain an entry clearance from Gambian Immigration prior to travel, unless they are travelling as a tourist on a charter flight. Nationals of the following 49 countries and territories can visit the Gambia without a visa for up to 90 days: Nationals of the following 26 countries can", "title": "Visa policy of the Gambia" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "13463786", "text": "Group: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Djibouti, Ethiopia, European Commission, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Togo, and Uruguay. The following countries serve as observer countries in the Leading Group: Austria, China, Egypt and Romania The following international organisations are currently members of the Leading Group: Leading", "title": "Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development" }, { "id": "11357351", "text": "are 58 such countries mentioned throughout the book. In his book \"Wars, Guns, and Votes\", Collier lists the Bottom Billion, to \"focus international effort\": Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Kenya, North Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Martin", "title": "The Bottom Billion" }, { "id": "14063860", "text": "Costa Rica including the capital city San José, Panama, Colombia including the capital city Bogotá, southern Venezuela, Brazil, southern Guyana, southern Dutch Guiana (today's Suriname), southern French Guiana, Portuguese Cape Verde (today's Cape Verde) including the capital city Praia, Mauritania including the capital city Nouakchott, Spanish Sahara (today's Western Sahara), Mali, and Algeria. The duration of annularity at maximum eclipse (closest to but slightly shorter than the longest duration) was 12 minutes, 2.5 seconds in the Atlantic Ocean near the Brazilian coast. It was the longest annular solar eclipse until January 14, 3080, but the Solar eclipse of December 14,", "title": "Solar eclipse of December 24, 1973" }, { "id": "3841597", "text": "under the \"pet passport\" scheme, but only by an authorised transport company: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Vatican, Antigua and Barbuda, Ascension Island, Australia, Barbados, Bahrain, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Japan, Réunion, Malta, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Montserrat, New Caledonia, New Zealand, St. Helena, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, United States, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna. Pet passport The Pet Travel Scheme (\"PETS\") is a system", "title": "Pet passport" }, { "id": "407283", "text": "competitiveness strategies in Brussels. The EU rejects granting Mainland China market economy status. Under pressure from the PRC, the ROC has been excluded from, or downgraded in, many international organizations. In other cases, ROC may retain full participation, due to the usage of names such as \"Chinese Taipei\" or \"Taiwan, China\". The ROC is blocked from UNESCO by the PRC, although its membership application is backed by Swaziland, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. Below is a list", "title": "Foreign relations of Taiwan" }, { "id": "577746", "text": "Europe, there are differences between countries: in Italy the caesarean section rate is 40%, while in the Nordic countries it is 14%. In Brazil and Iran the caesarean section rate is greater than 40%. In the United States, C-section rates have increased from just over 20% in 1996 to 33% in 2011. This increase has not resulted in improved outcomes resulting in the position that C-sections may be done too frequently. The World Health Organization officially withdrew its previous recommendation of a 15% C-section rate in June 2010. Their official statement read, \"There is no empirical evidence for an optimum", "title": "Caesarean section" }, { "id": "4235345", "text": "Citroën C4 The Citroën C4 is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) produced by French automaker Citroën since Autumn 2004. It is currently in its second generation. The C4 was designed to be the successor to the Citroën Xsara. It is mechanically similar to the Peugeot 308, which was launched in 2007. A revised version, with a new front end, reverse lights, and dashboard revisions, was launched for the 2008/09 model year. In January 2010, it was announced that the coupé version was not to be overhauled, but instead replaced with the Citroën DS4. The C4 scored second place at", "title": "Citroën C4" }, { "id": "16859920", "text": "extradition from the United Kingdom, and Part 3, i.e. import extradition to the United Kingdom. The following are the countries that the UK presently has extradition arrangements with. Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cook Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Haiti, Iceland, India, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway,", "title": "Extradition Act 2003" }, { "id": "543926", "text": "is pending. In Africa, as of September 2018, homosexuality is legal in 20 of 54 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles and South Africa) and in all 8 territories (Canary Islands, Ceuta, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Madeira, Mayotte, Melilla, Réunion and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) by a total of 28. However, in a few countries in Africa where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced", "title": "Violence against LGBT people" }, { "id": "16850243", "text": "category passports of Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United States (provided not travelling on duty) and only diplomatic passports of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Benin (biometric only), China, Congo (biometric only), India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Namibia, Russia, Senegal, Thailand and Vietnam also do not require a visa. Foreigners that desire to stay for a period longer than 3 months in Monaco require a resident permit. When visiting Monaco, there is passport control except when coming from a Schengen country. Visitors may get souvenir passport", "title": "Visa policy of Monaco" }, { "id": "19208539", "text": "diplomatic license plates vary from country to country. They often feature the letters \"CD\" (for \"\"Corps Diplomatique\"\"), \"D\" (for \"Diplomat\") or prefix of international organisations with diplomatic privileges, such as \"EU\" (for \"EUROPEAN UNION\") and \"OSCE\" (for \"Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe\"). Diplomatic vehicle registration plate Most countries issue diplomatic license plates to accredited diplomats. Per the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, these are special vehicle registration plates which typically have distinctive features to allow diplomatic vehicles to be distinguished from other vehicles by police and other bodies, allowing them to give diplomatic vehicles special treatment and warning", "title": "Diplomatic vehicle registration plate" }, { "id": "10897446", "text": "Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. \"Against\": Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States. All four member states that voted against have their origins as colonies of the United Kingdom, and have large non-indigenous immigrant majorities and thriving", "title": "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" }, { "id": "13806296", "text": "Guyana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States and of diplomatic passports only of issued by Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Benin, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Honduras, Hungary, Kuwait, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay do not require a visa. Holders of diplomatic or service category passports of Australia, Bahamas, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and San Marino require a visa. Holders of passports issued by the following", "title": "Visa policy of Mexico" }, { "id": "3742246", "text": "design. License plates for vehicles belonging to foreign countries or international organizations adopt a different convention. They contain black letters on a white background. The plates have the letter CD followed by two or three digits denoting the country or organization, followed by up to three digits of the serial number. For example, a car with number CD 66 88 is owned by Vietnam. Generally, the number 01 is reserved for the ambassador's official vehicle. The numbers are ordered based on when they recognized Indonesia as a country. The United States was originally assigned CD 13; due to the stigma", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Indonesia" }, { "id": "2958292", "text": "Compact car A compact car (North America), or small family car in British acceptation, is a classification of cars that are larger than a subcompact car but smaller than a mid-size car, roughly equivalent to the C-segment in Europe. Current compact car size, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the US and for international models respectively, is approximately between: In Japan, any vehicle that is over long, wide, high and with an engine over but is under long, wide, high and with engines at or under is considered a compact vehicle. The dimension standards are", "title": "Compact car" } ]

[ "3rd Sunday in June" ]

[ { "id": "567962", "text": "Father's Day Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic Europe, it has been celebrated on March 19 (St. Joseph's Day) since the Middle Ages. This celebration was brought by the Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America, where March 19 is often still used for it, though many countries in Europe and the Americas have adopted the U.S. date, which is the third Sunday of June. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March, April and", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567998", "text": "at the grandparents' house. In recent years, families also started having dinner out, and as on Mother's Day, it is one of the busiest days for restaurants. At school, children handcraft their present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies have all sorts of special offers for fathers: socks, ties, electronics, suits, and men's healthcare products. In [[New Zealand]], Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and it is not a public holiday. Fathers' Day seems to have been first observed at [[St Matthew's, Auckland|St Matthew's Church]], [[Auckland]] on 14 July 1929 and first appeared in commercial advertising", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567988", "text": "Fathers are recognized and celebrated on this day with cards, gifts, breakfast, lunch brunch or early Sunday dinner; whether enjoying the day at the beach or mountains, spending family time or doing favourite activities . Children exclaim \"\"bonne fête papa\"\", while everyone wishes all fathers \"\"bonne Fête des Pères\"\". (Happy Father's Day) In Hong Kong, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In Hungary, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day [[(Telugu: ఫాదర్స్ డే)], Tamil: Thanthaiyar Thinam, தந்தையர் தினம்]is not", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568003", "text": "Day]] instead of Father's Day. It is usually called \"Man's Day\" and it is considered the Russian equivalent of Father's Day. In Samoa, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August, and is a recognised national holiday on the Monday following. In [[Seychelles]], Father's Day is celebrated on June 16 and is not a public holiday. In [[Singapore]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June but is not a public holiday. In Slovakia, Father's Day (In slovak: deň otcov) is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. It is not a public holiday In [[South", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568000", "text": "fatherhood and responsibility for the care and upbringing of children. Father's Day is not a public holiday in Pakistan. In [[Peru]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. People usually give a present to their fathers and spend time with him mostly during a family meal. In the [[Philippines]], Father's Day (as well as [[Mother's Day]]) is officially celebrated every first Monday of December according to a recent presidential proclamation, but it is not a public holiday. It is more widely observed by the public on the 3rd Sunday of June", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567992", "text": "In [[Kenya]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In [[South Korea]], Parents' day is celebrated on May 8 and is not a public holiday. In [[Latvia]], Father's Day (Tēvu diena) is celebrated on the second Sunday of September and is not a public holiday. In Latvia people did not always celebrate this day because of the USSR's influence with its own holidays. This day in Latvia was 'officially born' in 2008 when it was celebrated and marked in the calendar for the first time on September 14 (second September Sunday)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568008", "text": "in Thailand, and even overseas at Thai organizations. It first gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s as part of a campaign by Prime Minister [[Prem Tinsulanonda]] to promote Thailand's royal family. [[Mother's Day]] is celebrated on the birthday of Queen [[Sirikit]], August 12. In [[Trinidad and Tobago]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday. In [[Turkey]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday. In [[United Arab Emirates]], Father's Day is celebrated on June 21, generally coinciding with [[midsummer]]'s day. In the United", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567982", "text": "are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day (\"Dan svetog Josipa\"), March 19. It is not a public holiday. In Denmark, Father's Day is celebrated on June 5. It coincides with Constitution Day. In Estonia, Father's day (\"Isadepäev\") is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is an established flag day and a national holiday. In Finland, Father's Day (\"Isänpäivä\", \"Fars dag\") is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is an established flag day. In France lighter manufacturer \"Flaminaire\" introduced the idea of father's day first in 1949 for commercial reasons. Director \"Marcel Quercia\" wanted to sell their lighter", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567999", "text": "the following year. By 1931 other churches had adopted the day. In 1935 much of Australia moved to mark the day at the beginning of September and New Zealand followed, with a [[Wellington]] advert in 1937, a [[Christchurch]] Salvation Army service in 1938 and in Auckland from 1939. In [[Norway]], Father's day (\"Farsdag\"), is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is not a public holiday. Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The [[Rutgers WPF]] launched a campaign titled 'Greening PakistanPromoting Responsible Fatherhood' on Father's Day (Sunday June 18, 2017) across Pakistan to promote active", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567974", "text": "holiday, but the spelling \"Father's Day\" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress. The officially recognized date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women). But the congratulations are traditionally, nationally", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836854", "text": "2016 NBA Finals. The FireKeepers Casino 400 NASCAR auto race at Michigan International Speedway is sometimes held on Father's Day. In the United States, Dodd used the \"Fathers' Day\" spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling \"Father's Day\" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress. Father's Day (United States) Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "568005", "text": "දිනය & in Tamil: Thanthaiyar Thinam, தந்தையர் தினம்), is observed on the third Sunday of June. It is not a public holiday. Many schools hold special events to honor fathers. In [[Sudan]], Father's Day (عيد الأب), is celebrated on the twenty-first of June. In [[Sweden]], Father's day (\"Fars dag\"), is celebrated on the second Sunday of November, but is not a public holiday. In Taiwan, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on August 8, the eighth day of the eighth month of the year. In [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]], the pronunciation of the number eight is", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567986", "text": "big piece of ham. In the late 19th century the religious component was progressively lost, especially in urban areas such as Berlin, and groups of men organized walking excursions with beer and ham. By the 20th century, alcohol consumption had become a major part of the tradition. Many people will take the following Friday off at work, and some schools are closed on that Friday as well; many people then use the resulting four-day-long weekend for a short vacation. Father's Day, is observed on the feast day of Fathers. It is celebrated as a public international day, like in many", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568002", "text": "honor their \"spiritual father,\" their parish priest, on Father's Day. The Law instituting the Father's day celebration in Romania passed on September 29th, 2009 and stated that Father's day will be celebrated annually on the second Sunday of May. First time it was celebrated on [[May 9th]] 2010. This year it was celebrated on [[ May]] 2019. The next dates this celebration will take place are: [[ May]] 2020, [[ May]] 2021, [[ May]] 2022, [[ May]] 2023, [[ May]] 2024, [[ May]] 2025 and [[ May]] 2026. Russia continues the [[Soviet Union]]'s tradition of celebrating [[Defender of the Fatherland", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836844", "text": "Father's Day (United States) Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. The tradition was said to be started from a memorial service held for a large group of men who died in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907. It was first proposed by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington in 1909. It is currently celebrated in the United States annually on the third Sunday in June. Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fathers,", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "568009", "text": "Kingdom Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The day does not have a long tradition; \"The English Year\" (2006) states that it entered British popular culture \"sometime after the Second World War, not without opposition\". In the US, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Typically, families gather to celebrate the father figures in their lives. In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting [[greeting cards]] and gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools (if in session) and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts. The", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567991", "text": "Day. In [[Italy]], according to the Roman Catholic tradition, Father's Day is celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint Joseph (\"Festa di San Giuseppe\"), March 19. It was a public holiday until 1977. In Japan, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Kazakhstan continues the Soviet Union's tradition of celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day instead of Father's Day like in Russia and other former soviet countries. It is usually called \"Man's Day\" and it is considered equivalent of Father's Day. It is still celebrated on February 23.", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568010", "text": "[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open golf tournament]] is scheduled to finish on Father's Day, as was the [[2016 NBA Finals]]. In [[Ukraine]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. In Venezuela, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Traditionally, as on Mother's Day, families gather together and have lunch, usually at the grandparents' house. In recent years, families also started having lunch out, and as on Mother's Day, it is one of the busiest days for restaurants. At school, children handcraft their present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567994", "text": "of June and is not a public holiday. In [[Malaysia]], Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June. Malta has followed the international trend and celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June. As in the case of Mother’s Day, the introduction of Father’s Day celebrations in Malta was encouraged by [[Frans Said|Frans H Said]] (Uncle Frans of the children’s radio programmes). The first mention of Father’s Day was in June 1977, and the day is now part of the local events calendar. (The Times of Malta 11 June 2017) ( Il-Mument - Maltese newspaper- 18 June 2017)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836849", "text": "40 years while honoring mothers, thus \"[singling] out just one of our two parents\". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers. A \"Father's Day\" service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567973", "text": "for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus \"[singling] out just one of our two parents\". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 in honor of men and boys who are not fathers. In the United States, Dodd used the \"Fathers' Day\" spelling on her original petition for the", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "568004", "text": "Africa]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. It is not a public holiday. In South Sudan, Father's Day is celebrated on the last Monday of August. President [[Salva Kiir Mayardit]] proclaimed it before August 27, 2012. First celebrated on August 27, 2012, Father's Day was not celebrated in South Sudan in 2011 (due to the country's independence). Father's Day, \"El Día del Padre\", is observed on the feast day of Saint Joseph, which is March 19. It is celebrated as a public holiday in some regions of Spain. Father's Day (In sinhala : Piyawarunge dhinaya, පියවරුන්ගේ", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567975", "text": "accepted by all fathers, other adult men and male children as well. <nowiki>**</nowiki>There is no official Father's Day of the P.R. China. During the Republican period prior to 1949, Father's Day on August 8 was first celebrated in Shanghai in 1945. Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. There have been attempts to change the date to August 24, to commemorate the day on which the \"Father of the Nation\" José de San Martín became a father. In 1953, the proposal to celebrate Father's Day in all educational establishments on August 24, in honor of", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567983", "text": "in France. In 1950, they introduced \"la Fête des Pères\", which would take place every third Sunday of June (following the American example). Their slogan « Nos papas nous l'ont dit, pour la fête des pères, ils désirent tous un Flaminaire » (Our fathers told us, for father's day, they all want a Flaminaire). In 1952, the holiday was officially decreed. A national father's day committee was set up to give a prize for fathers that deserved it most (originally, candidates were nominated by the social services of each town hall's/mayor's office); This complements \"la Fête des Mères\" (Mother's day)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567979", "text": "the second Sunday of August. Publicist Sylvio Bhering picked the day in honor of Saint Joachim, patron of fathers. While it is not an official holiday (see Public holidays in Brazil), it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's father or father figure. In Canada, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day typically involves spending time with one's father or the father figures in one's life. Small family gatherings and the giving of gifts may be part of the festivities organized for", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567990", "text": "Father's Day is celebrated on November 12 and is not a public holiday. Father's Day in Indonesia was first declared in 2006 in Solo City Hall attended by hundreds of people from various community groups, including people from community of inter-religion communication. Because of its recent declaration, there is not very much hype about the celebration, compared to the celebration of Mother's Day on December 22. In Ireland, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In [[Israel]], Father's Day is usually celebrated on May 1 together with Workers' Day or Labour", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567980", "text": "Father's Day. In People's Republic of China, there is no official Father's Day. Some people celebrate on the third Sunday of June, according to the tradition of the United States. Prior to the People's Republic, when the Republic of China governed from Nanjing, Father's Day was celebrated on August 8. This was determined by the fact that the eighth (\"ba\") day of the eighth (\"ba\") month makes two \"eights\" (八八, \"ba-ba\"), which sounds similar to the colloquial word for \"daddy\" (\"ba-ba\"，爸爸). It is still celebrated on this date in areas still under the control of the Republic of China, including", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567981", "text": "Taiwan. In Costa Rica, the Unidad Social Cristiana party presented a bill to change the celebration of Father's Day from the third Sunday of June to March 19, the day of Saint Joseph. That was in order to give tribute to this saint, who gave his name to the capital of the country San José, Costa Rica, and so family heads will be able to celebrate the Father's Day at the same time as the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. The official date is still the third Sunday of June. In Croatia, according to the Roman Catholic tradition, fathers", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567977", "text": "a single, unified project. In Aruba, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September, which is the first Sunday of Spring in Australia, and is not a public holiday. At school, children often handcraft a present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies have all sorts of special offers for fathers: socks, ties, electronics, suits, and men's healthcare products. Most families present fathers with gifts and cards, and share a meal to show appreciation, much like Mother's Day. YMCA Victoria continues", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "20367589", "text": "child's development. Early maturing girls have been found to be at risk for teenage pregnancy, drinking and weight problems, and giving birth to low birth weight infants. Father-Daughter Day Father-Daughter Day (sometimes called National Father-Daughter Day) is a holiday recognized annually on the second Sunday of October in the United States, honoring the relationship between a father and a daughter. Unlike Mother's Day and Father's Day, it is not federally recognized. The U.S. holiday was originally conceived by Smokey Robinson to honor his relationship with his six daughters. In human development the relationship between fathers and sons overshadows the bond", "title": "Father-Daughter Day" }, { "id": "568001", "text": "perhaps due to [[American Colonial Period (Philippines)|American influence]] and as proclaimed in 1988 by Philippine President [[Corazon Aquino]].. In [[Poland]], Father's Day (in Polish: Dzień Ojca) is celebrated on June 23 and is not a public holiday. Father's Day (\"Dia do Pai\") is celebrated on March 19 (see Roman Catholic tradition below) in Portugal. Father's Day is not a bank holiday. In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called the Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19, though in certain countries Father's Day has become a secular celebration. It is also common for Catholics to", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "20367586", "text": "Father-Daughter Day Father-Daughter Day (sometimes called National Father-Daughter Day) is a holiday recognized annually on the second Sunday of October in the United States, honoring the relationship between a father and a daughter. Unlike Mother's Day and Father's Day, it is not federally recognized. The U.S. holiday was originally conceived by Smokey Robinson to honor his relationship with his six daughters. In human development the relationship between fathers and sons overshadows the bond with daughters. This holiday promotes the development of young women through their father. Robinson stated: “There are many different kinds of families today, and we know that", "title": "Father-Daughter Day" }, { "id": "567978", "text": "the tradition of honouring the role fathers and father figures play in parenting through the annual awarding of Local Community Father of the Year in 32 municipalities in Victoria. The Father's Day Council of Victoria annually recognises fathers in the Father of the Year Award. In Austria, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of June and it is not a public holiday. In Belgium, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of June and it is not a public holiday. In Brazil Father's Day (\"Dia dos Pais\", in Portuguese) is celebrated three months after Mother's Day, on", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836853", "text": "first to celebrate such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the \"Portland Oregonian\". Harry C. Meek, member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek claimed that the third Sunday of June was chosen because it was his birthday (it would have been more natural to choose his father's birthday). The Lions Club has named him \"Originator of Father's Day\". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday. The U.S. Open golf tournament is scheduled to finish on Father's Day, as was the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567984", "text": "which was made official in France in 1928 and added to the calendar in Vichy in 1941. In Germany, Father's Day (\"Vatertag\") is celebrated differently from other parts of the world. It is always celebrated on Ascension Day (the Thursday forty days after Easter), which is a federal holiday. Regionally, it is also called men's day, \"Männertag\", or gentlemen's day, \"Herrentag\". It is a tradition for groups of males (young and old but usually excluding pre-teenage boys) to do a hiking tour with one or more smaller wagons, \"\", pulled by manpower. In the wagons are wine or beer bottles", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567989", "text": "celebrated in all of [[India]]. But is observed the third Sunday of June by mostly westernized urban centers. The event is not a public holiday. The day is usually celebrated only in bigger cities of India like Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kanpur, Bengaluru, Kolkata and others. After this day was first observed in the United States in 1908 and gradually gained popularity, Indian metropolitan cities, much later, followed suit by recognising this event. In India, the day is usually celebrated with children giving gifts like greeting cards, electronic gadgets, shirts, coffee mugs or books to their fathers. In [[Indonesia]],", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5070735", "text": "St Paul's Church and streets in Cardiff. \"Father's Day\" was watched by 8.06 million viewers in the United Kingdom and received generally positive reviews. Critics praised the focus on character and emotion. The episode opens with a flashback of Jackie Tyler telling a younger Rose about her father Pete, who died age 33 in a hit-and-run accident on the way to a friend's wedding. In the TARDIS, the Doctor agrees to take Rose to the day her father died so that she can be there when it happens. Upon their arrival in London on Saturday 7 November 1987, they witness", "title": "Father's Day (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "567987", "text": "other countries including the U.S., on the third Sunday of June. In Europe like in the rest of the world, it became a manifestation of divorced fathers, and the day was inaugurated by Professor Dr Nicolas Spitalas (http://spitalas.blogspot.com) who created also the International Movement of Dads. His Association SYGAPA (Men's and Fathers' Dignity (www.sos-sygapa.eu) is the biggest movement in the world (35.000 members). In Greece, like in other European countries, this day is named (Fête des Peres/Feast of Fathers) In Haiti, Father's Day (\"Fête des peres\") is celebrated on the last Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17972716", "text": "Car Free Day Vancouver Car Free Day Vancouver is a community-based, volunteer-run event in Vancouver, British Columbia, which closes busy streets to car traffic and sets up day-long community festivals to promote active transportation, sustainability, and public spaces. It is similar to other Car-Free Days held around the world. It has traditionally taken place once per year on the third Sunday in June (Father's Day). In recent years it has expanded to events on both the Saturday and Sunday, in addition to an event in North Vancouver in August. The neighbourhoods involved often host smaller block parties in conjunction with", "title": "Car Free Day Vancouver" }, { "id": "568006", "text": "\"bā\", and the pronunciation is very similar to the character \"爸\" \"bà\", which means \"Pa\" or \"dad\". The eighth day of the eighth month (bā-bā) is a pun for dad (爸爸 or \"bàba\"). The Taiwanese, therefore, sometimes refer to August 8 as \"Bābā Holiday\" as a pun for \"Dad's Holiday\" (爸爸節) or the more formal \"Father's Day\" (父親節). In [[Thailand]], the birthday of the king, is set as Father's Day. December 5 is the birthday of the late king [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] (Rama IX). Traditionally, Thais celebrate by giving their father or grandfather a [[Canna (plant)|canna]] flower (ดอกพุทธรักษา Dok Buddha Raksa),", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567968", "text": "such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the \"Portland Oregonian\". Harry C. Meek, a member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek said that the third Sunday in June was chosen because it was his birthday. The Lions Club has named him the \"Originator of Father's Day\". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday. On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567993", "text": "to promote the idea that man as the father must be satisfied and proud of his family and children, also, the father is important to gratitude and loving words from his family for devoted to continuous altruistic concerns. Because this day is new to the country it does not have established unique traditions, but people borrow ideas from other country's Father's Day traditions to congratulate fathers in Latvia. In [[Lithuania]], Father's Day (\"Tėvo diena\") is celebrated on the first Sunday of June and is a public holiday. In [[Macau]], Father's Day (\"Dia do Pai\") is celebrated on the third Sunday", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "1362611", "text": "Day is traditionally associated with the return of anadromous fish, such as striped bass, to their natal rivers, such as the Delaware. Saint Joseph's Day is also the day when the swallows are traditionally believed to return to Mission San Juan Capistrano after having flown south for the winter. Saint Joseph's Day Saint Joseph's Day, 19 March, the Feast of Saint Joseph is in Western Christianity the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ. It has the rank of a solemnity in the Catholic Church. It is a feast", "title": "Saint Joseph's Day" }, { "id": "5187621", "text": "the Spokane Ministerial Alliance and suggested her own father's birthday, of June 5, as the day of honor for fathers. The Alliance chose the third Sunday in June instead. The first Father's Day was celebrated June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. Although observance of the holiday faded in the 1920s, over time, the idea of Father's Day became popular and embraced across the nation. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent a telegraph to Spokane praising Father's Day services. William Jennings Bryan was another early admirer of the observance. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the", "title": "Sonora Smart Dodd" }, { "id": "567976", "text": "José de San Martín, was raised to the General Direction of Schools of Mendoza Province. The day was celebrated for the first time in 1958, on the third Sunday of June, but it was not included in the school calendars due to pressure from several groups. Schools in the Mendoza Province continued to celebrate Father's Day on August 24, and, in 1982, the provincial governor passed a law declaring Father's Day in the province to be celebrated on that day. In 2004, a proposal to change the date to August 24 were presented to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567965", "text": "the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. After Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of a \"Father's Day\" was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father, when in December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested that her pastor Robert Thomas Webb", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567995", "text": "In [[Mexico]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. The Mongolian Men's Association began the celebration of Father's Day on 8 of August since 2005. The Newar population (natives of Kathmandu valley) in Nepal honors fathers on the day of \"[[kusa aunsi]]\", which occurs in late August or early September, depending on the year, since it depends on the lunar calendar. The Western-inspired celebration of Father's Day that was imported into the country is always celebrated on the same day as \"Gokarna Aunsi\". The rest of the population has also begun", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567985", "text": "(according to the region) and traditional regional food, \"\". Many men use this holiday as an opportunity to get drunk. According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, alcohol-related traffic accidents multiply by three on this day. The tradition of Father's Day is especially prevalent in Eastern Germany. These traditions are probably rooted in Christian Ascension Day's processions to the farmlands, which has been celebrated since the 18th century. Men would be seated in a wooden cart and carried to the village's plaza, and the mayor would award a prize to the father who had the most children, usually a", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "2990025", "text": "occurs on Christmas Eve with a visit from Joulupukki (Father Christmas, Santa Claus). Traditional meals are typically only eaten on Christmas followed by sauna. Christmas Day is reserved for a \"quiet day\" and the holidays end after the 26th, St. Stephen's Day (\"tapaninpäivä\"). Easter is a combination of Christian and Pagan customs. Either on Palm Sunday or the Holy Saturday, children dress up as witches (\"noita\") and go from door to door, giving away daffodil adorned branches of willow in exchange for sweets. This is similar to the celebration of Halloween in some countries (such as United Kingdom and United", "title": "Culture of Finland" }, { "id": "16907748", "text": "spouse, and is held annually all over Spain on 19 March. This date is also known as Father’s Day (Día del Padre) in many areas of the country. The celebrations start on Friday night where live music is played in the main square or plaza and there is a drinks tent selling beer, wine and tapas. This is in addition to the already crowded bars. Fiesta de San Juan is a festival of ancient origin adapted to commemorate St. John the Baptist. It is a festival that is usually linked with celebrations to celebrate the arrival of the summer solstice", "title": "San José (Almeria)" }, { "id": "567882", "text": "be widely recognized. Swedes born in the early nineteen hundreds typically did not celebrate the day because of the common belief that the holiday was invented strictly for commercial purposes. This was in contrast to Father's Day, which has been widely celebrated in Sweden since the late 1970s. Mother's Day in Sweden is celebrated on the last Sunday in May. A later date was chosen to allow everyone to go outside and pick flowers. In Switzerland, the \"règle de Pentecôte\" law allows Mother's Day to be celebrated a week late if the holiday falls on the same day as Pentecost.", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "1362600", "text": "second time being held especially for people from Bagheria who come back for summer vacation from other parts of Italy or abroad. In Italy, March 19 is also Father's Day. In Malta, the set date for the celebration of Saint Joseph is March 19, but can be moved if necessary to fit into the Lent and Easter season. This has been a day of remembrance in Malta since the 10th century A.D.. Most businesses shut down for this day for all the celebrations that occur. The main celebrations are held in Mdina, which is the “old capital” of Malta in", "title": "Saint Joseph's Day" }, { "id": "17836848", "text": "men's gift-oriented industries.\" A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "1362603", "text": "has celebrated these feast days with a procession with the statue of Saint Joseph. In Spain, Saint Joseph's Day is their version of Father's Day, which is called \"El Dia del Padre\". In some parts of Spain it is celebrated as Falles. They feel that St. Joseph is a good example of what a father figure should be like, which is why they connect these two days. Since Spain does correlate this day with Father's Day, it is tradition for children to cook their fathers breakfast or even give small gifts. It is a \"meatless affair\", because it occurs during", "title": "Saint Joseph's Day" }, { "id": "567875", "text": "to be celebrated with the whole family. It used to be celebrated on 8 December, the same date of the Conception of the Virgin celebration. In Romania, Mother's Day has been celebrated on the first Sunday of May since 2010. Law 319/2009 made both Mother's Day and Father's Day official holidays in Romania. The measure was passed thanks to campaign efforts from the Alliance Fighting Discrimination Against Fathers (TATA). Previously, Mother's Day was celebrated on 8 March, as part of International Women's Day (a tradition dating back to when Romania was part of the Eastern bloc). Today, Mother's Day and", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "5187622", "text": "third Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972, President Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the 3rd Sunday of June each year. Dodd was honored at Expo '74, the World's Fair, in Spokane in 1974. She died four years later at the age of ninety-six, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Terrace in Spokane. Besides her advocacy for Father's Day, Dodd was also active in the Spokane chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In the 1920s, Dodd spent some time away from Spokane, studying at the School of the Art Institute", "title": "Sonora Smart Dodd" }, { "id": "11531863", "text": "co-pilot for Delta Air Lines living in Homestead, Florida. The voyage is described in Vihlen's book \"April Fool, or, How I Sailed from Casablanca to Florida in a Six-foot Boat\". In 1993, he chose to leave from the U.S. coast and headed for England, crossing the North Atlantic in a boat, named \"Father's Day\", that was just long. The story of this four-month journey is told in Vihlen's book \"The Stormy Voyage of Father's Day\" (written with the help of Joanne Kimberlin). \"Father's Day\" was originally built at 5 feet 6 inches long. On Vihlen's first attempt out of St.", "title": "Hugo Vihlen" }, { "id": "17836845", "text": "fathering, and fatherhood. Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "20367588", "text": "September 2017, Rockabye Baby! Music released a lullaby version of Smokey Robinson's \"My Girl\" to support the holiday. In October 2017, greeting card company American Greetings announced their plan to release a line of eCards with Smokey Robinson to celebrate the launch of Father-Daughter Day. Fifteen million U.S. children live without a father. While father absence mainly results from parental divorce and separation, other factors such as family poverty, developmental difficulties have been associated with father absence, the effects of which have been explained by various theoretical approaches. Fathers are traditionally deemed a provider of protection and support for the", "title": "Father-Daughter Day" }, { "id": "4946283", "text": "with church congregations, associations and political organisations meeting for what is essentially \"secular services\". These services include the raising of the Flag, a short presentation by a local politician or celebrity, and collective singing (). Celebrations usually end with coffee and the eating of traditional buns. This day is also Father's Day in Denmark. Constitution Day (Denmark) In Denmark, Constitution Day () is observed on 5 June. The day honors the Danish Constitution, as both the first constitution of 1849 (which established Denmark as a constitutional monarchy) and the current constitution of 1953 were signed on this date of their", "title": "Constitution Day (Denmark)" }, { "id": "567964", "text": "19 March. The Catholic Church actively supported the custom of a celebration of fatherhood on St. Joseph's day from either the last years of the 14th century or from the early 15th century, apparently on the initiative of the Franciscans. In the Coptic Church, the celebration of fatherhood is also observed on St Joseph's Day, but the Copts observe this celebration on July 20. This Coptic celebration may date back to the fifth century. Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5309575", "text": "declaring the day designated as Mothers' Day as Parents' Day. This was due to finding petitions to set a special date for Fathers’ Day not advisable as there are already set of numerous holidays set, and deeming it more fitting to celebrate both Mothers' and Fathers' Day together and not apart. In 1980, a proclamation was issued declaring first Sunday and the first Monday of December as Father's Day and Mother's Day respectively. In 1988, the issued presidential proclamation followed the international day of celebration of Father's and Mother's Day which most Filipinos are familiar with. However, then President Estrada", "title": "Parents' Day" }, { "id": "567963", "text": "June. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother's Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents' Day. A customary day for the celebration of fatherhood in Catholic Europe is known to date back to at least the Middle Ages, and it is observed on 19 March, as the feast day of Saint Joseph, who is referred to as the fatherly \"Nutritor Domini\" (\"Nourisher of the Lord\") in Catholicism and \"the putative father of Jesus\" in southern European tradition. This celebration was brought to the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese, and in Latin America, Mother's Day is still celebrated on", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567971", "text": "of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the holiday's commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday for its first few decades, viewing it as nothing more than an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. However, the said merchants remained resilient and even incorporated these attacks into their advertisements. By the mid-1980s, the Father's Day Council wrote, \"(...) [Father's Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the men's gift-oriented industries.\" A bill to accord national", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5672846", "text": "main crop. The Finley Agricultural & Pastoral Association was formed in 1912 and held its first show on 17 September 1913. The agricultural show is still held annually on the first Sunday in September (Father's Day). Periods of severe drought, combined with the Great Depression of the early 1930s, forced many farmers to abandon their holdings. In 1935, construction on the Mulwala Canal began in order to provide employment and bring water to the area’s rich farmland, with irrigation reaching the area in 1939, celebrated with a 'Back-To-Finley' event. This enabled the region to prosper with beef and dairy cattle,", "title": "Finley, New South Wales" }, { "id": "8568744", "text": "is celebrated on July 26, the feast day of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Ministry of Education (Republic of China) initiated Grandparents' Day (祖父母節, \"Zǔfùmǔ Jié\") in Taiwan on 29 August 2010, on the last Sunday in August annually, shortly before schoolchildren would start a new semester. The celebration was introduced to the UK in 1990 by the charity Age Concern. It has been celebrated on the first Sunday in October since 2008, although it is not widely advertised and has not been as commercially successful as Mother's and Father's Day. Businesses", "title": "National Grandparents Day" }, { "id": "18695127", "text": "man, the Stranger (Shearsmith). Christine, now pregnant and married, awakens on a May bank holiday. Thirteen months later, it is Father's Day and Adam tends to their son Jack (played variously by Joel Little and Dexter Little) in the night. Christine hears the Stranger's voice, but eventually finds Jack with Adam. Christine celebrates her 30th birthday thirteen months later. Ernie no longer recognises Christine, while Adam is more interested in his colleague Zara (Ellerby). Marion blindfolds Christine for a game of blind man's buff. Christine hears noises from behind a door and removes her blindfold to step through. Thirteen months", "title": "The 12 Days of Christine" }, { "id": "567874", "text": "to the second Sunday of May, and Father's Day to the third Sunday of June, discontinuing the traditional date. In 1998 President Joseph Estrada returned both celebrations to the first Monday of December. In Portugal, the \"Dia da Mãe\" (\"Mother's Day\") is an unofficial holiday held each year on the first Sunday of May (sometimes coinciding with Labour Day). The weeks leading up to this Sunday, school children spend a few hours a day to prepare a gift for their mothers, aided by their school teachers. In general, mothers receive gifts by their family members and this day is meant", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "2718376", "text": "about children's right on 20 November which is the declared Universal Children’s Day by United Nation. After this movement gained a lot of attraction, Bangladesh started celebrating, Children's Day on 17 March on the birthday of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Children's Day was established as a holiday in 1993. In Brazil, Children's Day (In Portuguese: Dia das Crianças) is celebrated on 12 October, coinciding with Our Lady of Aparecida's day, the country's Patron Saint holiday. It is also the day of the discovery of America (Columbus Day), in reference to the", "title": "Children's Day" }, { "id": "1362588", "text": "carpenters. It is also Father's Day in some Catholic countries, mainly Spain, Portugal, and Italy. It is a holiday of obligation for Catholics, unless the particular Episcopal Conference has waived the obligation. 19 March was dedicated to Saint Joseph in several Western calendars by the 10th century, and this custom was established in Rome by 1479. Pope Pius V extended its use to the entire Roman Rite by his Apostolic Constitution \"Quo primum\" (14 July 1570). Originally a double of the second class and a feast of precept, it was re-raised to be of precept in 1917 after having this", "title": "Saint Joseph's Day" }, { "id": "3096647", "text": "recorded June 13, 1969, Marx also sang a second stanza, and introduced it with, \"Isn't that a beautiful melody? And a beautiful sentiment: ... Today, father, is father's day. ... 16 men in that orchestra: nine of them are illegitimate children [laughter]. Nine and a half including the director.\" Selected film scores Selected screenplays Selected Broadway scores Notable songs Selected bibliography Ruby died in Woodland Hills, California and was interred at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles. Streaming audio Harry Ruby Harry Ruby (January 27, 1895 – February 23, 1974) was a Jewish American composer and screenwriter, who", "title": "Harry Ruby" }, { "id": "17836846", "text": "prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since 1938 she had", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "1362587", "text": "Saint Joseph's Day Saint Joseph's Day, 19 March, the Feast of Saint Joseph is in Western Christianity the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ. It has the rank of a solemnity in the Catholic Church. It is a feast or commemoration in the provinces of the Anglican Communion, and a feast or festival in the Lutheran Church. Saint Joseph's Day is the Patronal Feast day for Poland as well as for Canada, persons named Joseph, Josephine, etc., for religious institutes, schools and parishes bearing his name, and for", "title": "Saint Joseph's Day" }, { "id": "567972", "text": "recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak at a Father's Day celebration and he wanted to make it an officially recognized federal holiday, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed throughout the entire nation, but he stopped short at issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a Father's Day proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836847", "text": "the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. But the trade groups did not give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid-1980s the Father's Council wrote that \"(...) [Father's Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "639747", "text": "until late 2012. The School offers GCSE drama as well as A-level \"English with Theatre Studies.\" Eton's best-known holiday takes place on the so-called \"Fourth of June\", a celebration of the birthday of King George III, Eton's greatest patron. This day is celebrated with the Procession of Boats, in which the top rowing crews from the top four years row past in vintage wooden rowing boats. Similar to the Queen's Official Birthday, the \"Fourth of June\" is no longer celebrated on 4 June, but on the Wednesday before the first weekend of June. Eton also observes St. Andrew's Day, on", "title": "Eton College" }, { "id": "8568743", "text": "Guardian Angels' Day in the Roman Catholic Church. In Mexico, Grandparents' Day () is celebrated on August 28. In Poland, \"Grandma's Day\" () was created in 1964 by the \"Kobieta i Życie\" magazine, and popularized from 1965 onwards. It is celebrated on January 21. \"Grandpa's Day\" () is celebrated a day later, on January 22. Singapore started celebrating Grandparents' Day in 1979, a year after the U.S. started. It is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in November. South Sudan started celebrating Grandparents' Day in 2013, with the date set as the second Sunday in November. In Spain, Grandparents' Day ()", "title": "National Grandparents Day" }, { "id": "567970", "text": "idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, \"sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city\". However, in the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s, Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present for fathers. By 1938, she had the help", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "3794301", "text": "presentations A Presentation of historic documents and vintage artifacts that identify timelines, economic status, historic events and locations of ancestors. Family Reunion Month A Proclamation in 1985 To raise awareness of a growing trend of runaway children and newly formed organizations to help reunite families of runaways the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 64, has designated the period between Mother's Day, May 12, and Father's Day, June 16, 1985, as \"Family Reunion Month\" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this period. National Family Reunion Month While some commercial enterprises have dubbed August as", "title": "Family reunion" }, { "id": "3379576", "text": "Public holidays in Argentina The following are the National public holidays and other observances of Argentina. Though holidays of many faiths are respected, public holidays usually include most Catholic based holidays. Historic holidays include the celebration of the May Revolution (25 May), Independence Day (9 July), National Flag Day (20 June) and the death of José de San Martín (17 August). The extended family gathers on Christmas Eve at around 9 p.m. for dinner, music, and often dancing. Candies are served just before midnight, when the fireworks begin. They also open gifts from Papá Noel (Father Christmas or \"Santa Claus\").", "title": "Public holidays in Argentina" }, { "id": "1383900", "text": "this as an official bank holiday there. After the election of the Coalition Government in May 2010, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport launched a pre-consultation in 2011 which included the suggestion of moving the May Day Bank Holiday to October, to be a \"UK Day\" or \"Trafalgar Day\" (21 October) or to St David's Day and St George's Day. It is suggested that a move from the May bank holiday to a St Piran's Day bank holiday in Cornwall, on 5 March, would benefit the Cornish economy by £20–35 million. During the sterling crisis of 1968, Prime Minister", "title": "Bank holiday" }, { "id": "4702366", "text": "International Men's Day International Men's Day (IMD) is an annual international event celebrated every year on 19 November. Inaugurated in 1992 on February 7th by Thomas Oaster, the project of International Men's Day was conceived one year earlier on 8 February 1991. The project was re-initialised in 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. The longest running celebration of International Men's Day is Malta, where events have occurred since 7 February 1994. Jerome Teelucksingh, who revived the event, chose 19 November to honour his father's birthday and also to celebrate how on that date in 1989 Trinidad and Tobago's football team had", "title": "International Men's Day" }, { "id": "17581381", "text": "Father's Day (2011 film) Father's Day is a 2011 American-Canadian action-horror comedy film directed by Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, and Conor Sweeney. The film stars Adam Brooks as Ahab, a man determined to exact revenge on Chris Fuchman, the Father's Day Killer, a rapist and serial killer who murdered his father years ago. Originally made as a short film, the feature-length version had its world premiere on October 21, 2011 at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, where it received multiple awards. A documentary detailing the film's production process entitled \"No Sleep, No Surrender\" was teased", "title": "Father's Day (2011 film)" }, { "id": "18420659", "text": "National Day of Monaco The National Day of Monaco (, literally Prince's holiday) also known as The Sovereign Prince's Day is currently annually celebrated on 19 November. The date of the National day is traditionally determined by the reigning Prince. The previous Princes often chose the day of the saint they were named after. For instance the late Prince Rainier III chose 19 November, the day that celebrates St. Rainier. When Prince Albert II ascended the throne he ended this tradition by choosing the same day as his father, instead of the day of St. Albert, 15 November. The 19", "title": "National Day of Monaco" }, { "id": "3816621", "text": "referred as \"Dia de Los Tres Reyes Magos\", or \"Three Kings' Day\". It is traditional for children to fill a box with fresh grass or hay and put it underneath their bed, for the Wise Men's camels. The three kings will then take the grass to feed the camels and will leave gifts under the bed as a reward. These traditions are analogous to the customs of children leaving mince pies and sherry out for Father Christmas in Western Europe or leaving milk and cookies for Santa Claus in the United States. On the day before the feast (January 5),", "title": "Epiphany (holiday)" }, { "id": "1536783", "text": "buy presents for their partners. The holiday has only been observed since the 1960s. In Spain, Valentine's Day is known as \"San Valentín\" and is celebrated the same way as in the rest of the West. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Valentine's Day Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus, Valentine's Day is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and romantic love in many regions around the world, although", "title": "Valentine's Day" }, { "id": "16749185", "text": "hit on Broadway, they would make a movie out of it, but that doesn't happen anymore. As of 2013 no third novel has resulted. Father's Day (novel) Father's Day is a 1971 novel by William Goldman. It is a sequel to \"The Thing of It Is...\" and revolves around a day in the life of now-divorced Amos McCracken as he looks after his daughter for a day. Goldman says he was inspired to write the book by a situation which had occurred a number of years previously. Producers of a play had fired the original writer and hired Goldman and", "title": "Father's Day (novel)" }, { "id": "1383899", "text": "existing list are the feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George's Day and widely regarded as the birthday of William Shakespeare) in England and 1 March (St David's Day) in Wales are not currently recognised. 17 March (St Patrick's Day) is a public holiday in Northern Ireland and, since 2008, 30 November (St Andrew's Day) is a bank holiday in Scotland. St Piran's Day (patron saint of Cornwall) on 5 March is already given as an unofficial day off to many government and other workers in the county, and there are renewed calls for the government to recognise", "title": "Bank holiday" }, { "id": "3168393", "text": "17 May parade. Common Christian holidays are also celebrated, the most important being Christmas (called \"Jul\" in Norway after the pagan and early Viking winter solstice) and Easter (Påske). In Norway, the Santa (called Nissen) comes at Christmas Eve, the 24 December, with the presents, not the morning after as in many English speaking countries. He usually comes late in the evening, after the Christmas dinner many children consider long, boring and unnecessary. \"Jonsok\" (St. John's Passing), or \"St. Hans\" (St. John's Day), i.e. 24 June, is also a commonly revered holiday. It marks midsummer and the beginning of summer", "title": "Norwegians" }, { "id": "13921548", "text": "of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The public holidays for the Russian SFSR included Defender of the Fatherland Day (23 February), which honors Russian men, especially those serving in the army; International Women's Day (8 March), which combines the traditions of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day; Spring and Labor Day (1 May); Victory Day; and like all other Soviet republics, the Great October Socialist Revolution (7 November). Victory Day is the second most popular holiday in Russia as it commemorates the victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War. A huge military parade, hosted by the President of Russia,", "title": "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic" }, { "id": "5070733", "text": "Father's Day (Doctor Who) \"Father's Day\" is the eighth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme \"Doctor Who\", first broadcast on 14 May 2005 on BBC One. It was written by Paul Cornell and directed by Joe Ahearne. In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) agrees to take his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) back to the day her father Pete (Shaun Dingwall) died in 1987. When Rose intervenes and pulls her father out of the path of a car, time is wounded and dangerous Reapers attack, threatening to erase history. Pete", "title": "Father's Day (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "17836850", "text": "Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her father, Methodist minister Fletcher Golden. Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "4702376", "text": "there is Father's Day, but what about young boys, teenagers and men who are not fathers?\" Teelucksingh, understanding the importance of celebrating good male role models, felt that his own father had been an example of an excellent role model and so chose 19 November partly because this was his father's birthday, and also because it was the date on which a local sporting team in his country created a level of unity with transcended gender, religious and ethnic divisions. The idea of celebrating an International Men's Day received written support from officials in UNESCO and the event has continued", "title": "International Men's Day" }, { "id": "8445433", "text": "in both celebrations. In adjusting the date to the Gregorian calendar, the anniversary was erroneously established on December 22 instead of December 21. Forefathers' Day Forefathers' Day is a holiday celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 22. It is a commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1620. It was introduced in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1769. Forefathers Day' is celebrated every year by the Old Colony Club, established in 1769 \"to honor the forefathers\". The celebration begins at 6:00 AM with a march by members to the top of Cole's Hill next to", "title": "Forefathers' Day" }, { "id": "8568745", "text": "specialising in gifts and greeting cards have started merging the respective grandparents days with Mother's Day and Father's Day to try to boost sales. Congress passed the legislation proclaiming the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents' Day in the U.S. and, on August 3, 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter signed the proclamation. The flower of the U.S. National Grandparents Day is the forget-me-not which blooms in the spring. As a result, seasonal flowers are given in appreciation to grandparents on this day. In 2004, the National Grandparents Day Council of Chula Vista, California announced that \"A Song for Grandma", "title": "National Grandparents Day" }, { "id": "1536776", "text": "14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on February or March 14 go to a Chinese-Korean restaurant to eat black noodles (자장면 \"jajangmyeon\") and lament their 'single life'. Koreans also celebrate Pepero Day on November 11, when young couples give each other Pepero cookies. The date '11/11' is intended to resemble the long shape of the cookie. The 14th of every month marks a love-related day in Korea, although most of them are obscure. From January to December: Candle Day, Valentine's Day, White Day, Black Day, Rose Day, Kiss Day, Silver Day, Green Day, Music Day, Wine Day,", "title": "Valentine's Day" }, { "id": "10653348", "text": "key role in community life, acting as a school, a market and an entertainment venue. Today, the church still plays a vital role within the community. Keeping in touch with the community spirit, the church offers services for both local people and families, whereby on every third Sunday of the month, occasions such as Father's Day are celebrated. Furthermore, the church supports local and international charities, such as Family Care, Christian Aid and USPG, carrying out fundraising activities such as sponsored cycle rides and summer parties. Sutton lies in close proximity to two railway stations, Martin Mill and Walmer, both", "title": "Sutton, Kent" }, { "id": "567969", "text": "war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Several local clergymen accepted the", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567890", "text": "days for sales of flowers, greeting cards, and the like; Mother's Day is also the biggest holiday for long-distance telephone calls. Moreover, churchgoing is also popular on Mother's Day, yielding the highest church attendance after Christmas Eve and Easter. Many worshippers celebrate the day with carnations, coloured if the mother is living and white if she is dead. Mother's Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. occasions. It is possible that the holiday would have withered over time without the support and continuous promotion of the florist industries and other commercial industries. Other Protestant holidays from", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "832530", "text": "Parents Day (Korea does not separate Mother's Day or Father's Day, but has Parents Day on 8 May). Sometimes, parents wear a corsage of carnation(s) on their left chest on Parents Day. Carnations are also worn on Teachers Day (15 May). Red carnations are worn on May Day as a symbol of socialism and the labour movement in some countries, such as Austria, Italy, and successor countries of the former Yugoslavia. The red carnation is also the symbol of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution. Green carnations are for St. Patrick's Day and were famously worn by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde.", "title": "Dianthus caryophyllus" } ]

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[ { "id": "724724", "text": "Charles Joseph Bonaparte Charles Joseph Bonaparte (; June 9, 1851June 28, 1921) was a French-American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he served in the cabinet of the 26th U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt. Bonaparte was the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later the U.S. Attorney General. During his tenure as the attorney general, he created the Bureau of Investigation which later grew and expanded by the 1920s under the director J. Edgar Hoover, (1895–1972), as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It was so renamed in 1935. He was a great-nephew of", "title": "Charles Joseph Bonaparte" }, { "id": "2953417", "text": "degree (1909) from what is now The George Washington University Law School. The Washington, DC bar association admitted him to practice in 1911. Previously when the Justice Department needed to investigate a crime it would borrow Secret Service personnel from the Treasury Department. As chief examiner, Finch advocated setting up a squad of detectives within the Justice Department. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte created a Special Agent force, and gave oversight of the force, later named the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), to Finch. Thus he created what would become the FBI. From 1913 to the 1930s, Finch alternated between private", "title": "Stanley Finch" }, { "id": "724733", "text": "children. Charles Joseph Bonaparte Charles Joseph Bonaparte (; June 9, 1851June 28, 1921) was a French-American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he served in the cabinet of the 26th U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt. Bonaparte was the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later the U.S. Attorney General. During his tenure as the attorney general, he created the Bureau of Investigation which later grew and expanded by the 1920s under the director J. Edgar Hoover, (1895–1972), as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It was so renamed in 1935. He was a great-nephew", "title": "Charles Joseph Bonaparte" }, { "id": "12188185", "text": "for big business, Jeffreys-Jones then shifted his focus during the late 1970s to examine American secret intelligence, a time when the field began to blossom with the release of historical records and revelations of American intelligence agencies' activities. Jeffreys-Jones published an historical survey examining the development of American intelligence from the establishment of the Secret Service in the 19th Century to the CIA in the 20th. This was followed by one of the first academic histories of the CIA at a time when most studies were undocumented, a book examining American intelligence and exaggeration, and a history of the FBI", "title": "Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones" }, { "id": "17535524", "text": "the United States can be traced back to the early 20th century, when all international mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service and international cables sent through companies such as Western Union, ITT, and RCA were sent under the surveillance authority of the Bureau of Investigation, later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and reviewed by the US military. After World War I, the US Army and State Department established the Black Chamber, also known as the Cipher Bureau, which began operations in 1919. The Black Chamber was headed by Herbert O. Yardley, who had been a leader in the", "title": "Mass surveillance in the United States" }, { "id": "206515", "text": "J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for over 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover" }, { "id": "2953418", "text": "employment—primarily in the novelty manufacturing business—and positions in the Department of Justice. He finally retired from the Department of Justice in 1940. Stanley Finch Stanley Wellington Finch (July 20, 1872 – 22 November 1951) was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation (1908–1912), which would eventually become the FBI. He would soon retire from office. Finch was born in Monticello, New York, in 1872. He became a clerk in the United States Department of Justice, where he worked off and on for almost 40 years. Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of chief examiner between 1893", "title": "Stanley Finch" }, { "id": "687316", "text": "responsibility for presidential protection. In 1902, William Craig became the first Secret Service agent to die while serving, in a road accident while riding in the presidential carriage. The Secret Service was the first U.S. domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency. Domestic intelligence collection and counterintelligence responsibilities were vested in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) upon the FBI's creation in 1908. The Secret Service assisted in arresting Japanese American leaders and in the Japanese American internment during World War II. The U.S. Secret Service is not a part of the U.S. Intelligence Community. In 1909, President William H. Taft agreed", "title": "United States Secret Service" }, { "id": "19463975", "text": "about six months before his birth, and his mother not long after his birth. He was later adopted by a wealthy tradesman and spent a majority of his youth travelling around the world. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the United States where he found a job working as a translator for the \"New York Times\" due to his multi-linguistic skills. In 1928, after going through a list of occupations, he was eventually hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation headed by J. Edgar Hoover at the time. It was through this appointment that he became an FBI", "title": "Leon G. Turrou" }, { "id": "724731", "text": "active in suits brought against the trusts and was largely responsible for breaking up the tobacco monopoly. He became known as \"Charlie, the Crook Chaser.\" In 1908, Bonaparte established a Bureau of Investigation (BOI) within the Department of Justice which had been earlier established in 1870 under the direction of the Attorney General himself. By the 1920s, under its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau had again been cleaned up and streamlined and in 1935 was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Bonaparte died in Bella Vista, and is interred at southwest Baltimore's landmark Loudon Park Cemetery. He", "title": "Charles Joseph Bonaparte" }, { "id": "17535531", "text": "domestic surveillance was founded in 1896 with the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, which evolved by 1908 into the Bureau of Investigation, operated under the authority of the Department of Justice. In 1935, the FBI had grown into an independent agency under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover whose staff, through the use of wire taps, cable taps, mail tampering, garbage filtering and infiltrators, prepared secret FBI Index Lists on more than 10 million people by 1939. Purported to be chasing 'communists' and other alleged subversives, the FBI used public and private pressure to destroy the lives of those it", "title": "Mass surveillance in the United States" }, { "id": "2953416", "text": "Stanley Finch Stanley Wellington Finch (July 20, 1872 – 22 November 1951) was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation (1908–1912), which would eventually become the FBI. He would soon retire from office. Finch was born in Monticello, New York, in 1872. He became a clerk in the United States Department of Justice, where he worked off and on for almost 40 years. Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of chief examiner between 1893 and 1908. It was only while working in the Justice Department that Finch earned his LL.B degree (1908), followed by an LL.M", "title": "Stanley Finch" }, { "id": "18746045", "text": "History of the Central Intelligence Agency The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created on July 26, when Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law. A major impetus that has been cited over the years for the creation of the CIA was the unforeseen attack on Pearl Harbor, but whatever Pearl Harbor's role, in the twilight of World War II it was considered clear in government circles that there was a need for a group to coordinate government intelligence efforts, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the State Department, and the War Department,", "title": "History of the Central Intelligence Agency" }, { "id": "206564", "text": "productions featuring him as FBI Director. The first known portrayal was by an un-credited voice actor in the 1941 Looney Tunes short \"Hollywood Steps Out\". Some notable portrayals (listed chronologically) include: Frontline (1993) The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover (#11.4) J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover" }, { "id": "1703672", "text": "bank robberies in the United States. This led to the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the designation \"Public Enemy\" for significant wanted criminals. This era saw the rise of famous gangs such as the Dillinger Gang, the Barrow Gang, and the Barker–Karpis gang. Other famous public enemies include Pretty Boy Floyd and Machine Gun Kelly. In 1957, security cameras installed at St. Clair Savings and Loan in Cleveland became the first recorded use of film to apprehend and identify bank robbers. The robbery occurred on April 12, when a 24-year-old male pointed a gun at a", "title": "Bank robbery" }, { "id": "5829776", "text": "law on 19 June 1947. Thus was born the Bureau of Investigation. For all intents and purposes, the Bureau of Investigation (BI) was patterned after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in organization, functions and objectives. The FBI also evolved into its present size from humble beginnings as a division of the United States Department of Justice. The Bureau of Investigation created under R.A. 157 was later renamed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) by virtue of Executive Order No. 94, issued on 4 October 1947, by then President Manuel A. Roxas. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is a", "title": "National Bureau of Investigation (Philippines)" }, { "id": "708565", "text": "Most wanted list A most wanted list, maintained by a law enforcement agency, is a list of criminals and alleged criminals who are believed to be at large and are identified as the agency's highest priority for capture. The list can alert the public to be watchful, and generates publicity for the agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was the first agency to create a most wanted list. The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was inaugurated on March 14, 1950, at the direction of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The idea for the list came from a question", "title": "Most wanted list" }, { "id": "3256584", "text": "City. It was first introduced to the FBI in the 1960s when several classes were taught to the American Society of crime lab directors. Most of the public at that time knew little if not anything about how profilers would profile people until TV came into play. Later films based on the fictional works of author Thomas Harris that caught the public eye as a profession in particular \"Manhunter\" (1986) and \"Silence of the Lambs\" (1991). The fastest development occurred when the FBI opened its training academy, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), in Quantico, Virginia. It led to the establishment", "title": "Criminal psychology" }, { "id": "7801521", "text": "of the city, \"The District\", where all prostitutes in New Orleans must live and work. The District, which was nicknamed Storyville, became the best known area for prostitution in the nation. Storyville at its peak had some 1,500 prostitutes and 200 brothels. In 1908, the Bureau of Investigation (BOI, from 1935, the FBI)) was founded by the government to investigate \"white slavery\" by interviewing brothel employees to discover if they had been kidnapped. Out of 1,106 prostitutes interviewed in one city, six said they were victims of white slavery. The White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) of 1910 prohibited so-called white", "title": "Prostitution in the United States" }, { "id": "6715880", "text": "larger cities were establishing police departments, professionalizing the prevention and investigation of crime. In the United States, the perp walks dates back more than a century, to when cameras' shutter speed became fast enough to allow photography of a small group of individuals walking. It is believed to have been done even prior to Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as New York City police commissioner in the 1890s. The city's newspaper photographers soon ritualized it. J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made sure the press could witness his agents bringing accused gangsters Alvin Karpis and", "title": "Perp walk" }, { "id": "140900", "text": "is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, D.C. In the fiscal year 2016, the Bureau's total budget was approximately $8.7 billion. The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. Currently, the FBI's top priorities are: In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, which provided agencies across the country with information to identify known criminals. The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created a", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "140904", "text": "independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as FBI Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, and FBI. He was chiefly responsible for creating the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, or the FBI Laboratory, which officially opened in 1932, as part of his work to professionalize investigations by the government. Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "10426709", "text": "prevalent in Chicago during the time. The businessmen who founded the crime commission did not think of themselves as a reform organization but saw crime as business work to which they applied business methods. The backlog of murder cases awaiting trial was reduced, while the public corruption and organized criminal activities of the Chicago Outfit were exposed. In 1930, the Commission first brought about the Public Enemies list, with Chicago gangster Al Capone as \"Public Enemy Number One.\" The idea of such a list was co-opted by the FBI as the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Today, the Commission's", "title": "Chicago Crime Commission" }, { "id": "3935588", "text": "it became part of the Department of Justice. By 1933, with the Repeal of Prohibition imminent, it was briefly absorbed into the FBI, or \"Bureau of Investigation\" as it was then called, and became the Bureau's \"Alcohol Beverage Unit,\" though, for practical purposes it continued to operate as a separate agency. Very shortly after that, once Repeal became a reality, and the only federal laws regarding alcoholic beverages being their taxation, it was switched back to Treasury, where it was renamed the Alcohol Tax Unit. The Bureau of Prohibition’s main function was to mostly stop the selling and consumption of", "title": "Bureau of Prohibition" }, { "id": "1452651", "text": "police was established in 1667 under King Louis XIV in France, although modern police usually trace their origins to the 1800 establishment of the Marine Police in London, the Glasgow Police, and the Napoleonic police of Paris. Police are primarily concerned with keeping the peace and enforcing criminal law based on their particular mission and jurisdiction. Formed in 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began as an entity which could investigate and enforce specific federal laws as an investigative and \"law enforcement agency\" in the United States; this, however, has constituted only a small portion of overall policing activity. Policing", "title": "Criminal justice" }, { "id": "3877040", "text": "William J. Burns William John Burns (October 19, 1861 – April 14, 1932), known as \"America's Sherlock Holmes,\" is famous for having conducted a private investigation clearing Leo Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, and for serving as the director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) (predecessor to the FBI) from August 22, 1921 to May 10, 1924. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was educated in Columbus, Ohio. As a young man, Burns performed well as a Secret Service Agent and parleyed his reputation into the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, now a part of Securitas", "title": "William J. Burns" }, { "id": "8219864", "text": "was renamed FBI in 1935. The FBI became an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, with J. Edgar Hoover receiving the current title of \"Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\". Since 1972, Senate confirmation of nominee has been required. The line of succession for the Director of the FBI is as follows: Since the office's inception, only two Directors have been dismissed: William S. Sessions by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and James Comey by President Donald Trump", "title": "Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "206528", "text": "the Biograph Theater. Hoover was credited with several highly publicized captures or shootings of outlaws and bank robbers, even though he was not present at the events. These included those of Machine Gun Kelly in 1933, of Dillinger in 1934, and of Alvin Karpis in 1936, which led to the Bureau's powers being broadened. In 1935, the \"Bureau of Investigation\" was renamed the \"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" (FBI). In 1939, the FBI became pre-eminent in the field of domestic intelligence, thanks in large part to changes made by Hoover, such as expanding and combining fingerprint files in the Identification Division,", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover" }, { "id": "1150183", "text": "ground for later criminal activities. In the 1950s, the scope of Italian-American organized crime became well known though a number of highly publicized congressional hearings that followed a police raid on a top-level meeting of racketeers in Apalachin, New York. With advanced surveillance techniques, the Witness Protection Program, the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act, and vigorous and sustained prosecution the power and influence of organized crime were greatly diminished in the decades that followed. Two Italian American prosecutors, Rudy Giuliani and Louis Freeh, were instrumental in bringing this about. Freeh was later appointed director of the FBI, while Giuliani", "title": "Italian Americans" }, { "id": "5220889", "text": "said that he considered Felt's resignation \"an admission of guilt\" anyway. Ruckelshaus, who had served only as Acting Director, was replaced several weeks later by Clarence M. Kelley, who had been nominated by Nixon as FBI Director and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In the early 1970s, Felt had supervised Operation COINTELPRO, initiated by Hoover in the 1950s. This period of FBI history has generated great controversy for its abuses of private citizens' rights. The FBI was spying on, infiltrating, and disrupting the Civil Rights Movement, Anti-War Movement, Black Panthers, and other New Left groups. By 1972 Felt was heading", "title": "Mark Felt" }, { "id": "140899", "text": "(LEGAT) offices and 15 sub-offices in U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe. These foreign offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a limited domestic function; these activities generally require coordination across government agencies. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI or BI for short. Its name was changed to the \"Federal\" Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "723883", "text": "He is buried in Les Invalides. His grandson, Charles Joseph Bonaparte (son of Jerome \"Bo\" Napoleon Bonaparte, 1805–1870), served as United States Secretary of the Navy and United States Attorney General in President Theodore Roosevelt's administration, 1901-1909. In 1908, he established a Bureau of Investigation within the 38-year-old Department of Justice. The bureau grew under director J. Edgar Hoover and was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I) in 1935. Another grandson was Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II, (1829–1893). In the early 1850s, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was commissioned an officer in the United", "title": "Jérôme Bonaparte" }, { "id": "9970856", "text": "words \"FBI\" and \"POLICE\" respectively. When the FBI was founded in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (later the Division of Investigation) it was a subordinate organization of the United States Department of Justice. It had no logo of its own but used the existing seal of the Department of Justice. In 1935 it became an independent service within the Department of Justice and changed its name to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation. To reflect its new identity it adopted a version of the Department of Justice seal with the words \"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" and \"Fidelity, Bravery, and", "title": "Symbols of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "7655184", "text": "when the police force now known as the FBI was created.\" In \"New York Times\" Sunday Book Review, Cabell Phillips said the book showed \"immense research and careful documentation\" and \"almost for the first time... it pulled aside the self‐righteous cloak in which the FBI has wrapped itself.\" Writing for the \"University of Chicago Law Review\" in 1952, however, T. Henry Walnut (member of the Pennsylvania Bar) noted \"From Mr. Lowenthal's review of the FBI's political activities they would appear negligible between the years 1924 and 1946, when the Bureau picked up the trail of the Communist. This period, however,", "title": "Max Lowenthal" }, { "id": "11338766", "text": "Carter Manny Carter Hugh Manny, Jr. (November 16, 1918 – February 1, 2017 in San Rafael, California) studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and spent his career as an architect and foundation administrator in Chicago. His work helped shape Chicago O'Hare International Airport, the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., the First National Bank of Chicago, and the addition to the Chicago Board of Trade. Carter Hugh Manny, Jr., architect and foundation administrator was born in Michigan City, IN on November 16, 1918, the son of Carter H. and Ada Barnes Manny. After attending public schools", "title": "Carter Manny" }, { "id": "7701439", "text": "FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1970s is a list, maintained for a third decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. As a decade, the 1970s are marked by the passing of the Hoover era. J. Edgar Hoover had formed and defined the Bureau for nearly a half century. He was succeeded by a long list of short-term directors throughout the Nixon – Ford – Carter era who could not match Hoover's larger persona. Eventually, Director William H. Webster brought stability to Bureau, during", "title": "FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s" }, { "id": "20295434", "text": "the film. Sean Woods of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote: \"In his masterful new book Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which comes out this week, Grann chronicles a tale of murder, betrayal, heroism and a nation's struggle to leave its frontier culture behind and enter the modern world... Filled with almost mythic characters from our past – stoic Texas Rangers, corrupt robber barons, private detectives, and murderous desperadoes like the Al Spencer gang – Grann's story amounts to a secret history of the American frontier.\" A reviewer of \"Publishers Weekly\" stated \"New Yorker", "title": "Killers of the Flower Moon" }, { "id": "140923", "text": "Analysis and Response Team\", or CART. From the end of the 1980s to the early 1990s, the FBI reassigned more than 300 agents from foreign counter-intelligence duties to violent crime, and made violent crime the sixth national priority. With reduced cuts to other well-established departments, and because terrorism was no longer considered a threat after the end of the Cold War, the FBI assisted local and state police forces in tracking fugitives who had crossed state lines, which is a federal offense. The FBI Laboratory helped develop DNA testing, continuing its pioneering role in identification that began with its fingerprinting", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "18478976", "text": "heavily armed criminal organizations, in which law enforcement officers were clearly outperformed. In the 1920s during the Prohibition Era and in the early 1930s during the Great Depression, criminal syndicates and individual bank robbers such as John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde were frequently armed with Thompson submachine guns and Browning Automatic Rifles. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as police departments in cities such as Kansas City, Missouri and Kenosha, Wisconsin, began deploying automatic weapons, including the Thompson submachine gun, and armored cars in the 1920s and 1930s. George Fletcher Chandler, a veteran of the Pancho Villa", "title": "Militarization of police" }, { "id": "140919", "text": "within FBI jurisdiction. This new law was passed in 1965. In response to organized crime, on August 25, 1953, the FBI created the Top Hoodlum Program. The national office directed field offices to gather information on mobsters in their territories and to report it regularly to Washington for a centralized collection of intelligence on racketeers. After the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO Act, took effect, the FBI began investigating the former Prohibition-organized groups, which had become fronts for crime in major cities and small towns. All of the FBI work was done undercover and from within these", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "3935595", "text": "transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Early in 1933, as part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt-sponsored Omnibus Crime Bill, the Prohibition Bureau was briefly absorbed into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), or Division of Investigation as the agency was then called. At this point, it became the Alcohol Beverage Unit. Though part of the FBI on paper, J. Edgar Hoover, who wanted to avoid liquor enforcement and the taint of corruption that was attached to it, continued to operate it as a separate, autonomous agency in practice. Following the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933,", "title": "Bureau of Prohibition" }, { "id": "206548", "text": "F.B.I.\" Hoover personally made sure Warner portrayed the FBI more favorably than other crime dramas of the times. In 1979 there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy and reported that Hoover's FBI \"failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President\". The HSCA further reported that Hoover's FBI \"was deficient in its sharing of information with other agencies and departments\". U.S. President Harry S Truman said that Hoover transformed the FBI into his", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover" }, { "id": "1645960", "text": "\"Because of the potential for violence indicated, you are instructed to immediately initiate an investigation of the DDJ [Deacons for Defense and Justice].\" As was eventually exposed in the late 1970s, the FBI established the COINTELPRO program, through which its agents were involved in many illegal activities against organizations that Hoover deemed \"a threat to the American way\". The Bureau ultimately produced more than 1,500 pages of comprehensive and relatively accurate records on the Deacons and their activities, largely through numerous informants close to or who had infiltrated the organization. Members of the Deacons were repeatedly questioned and intimidated by", "title": "Deacons for Defense and Justice" }, { "id": "1489474", "text": "had run out. In 1949, anti–communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the People's Republic of China, and later Chinese intervention in the Korean War (1950–53) against U.S. ally South Korea. A few of the events during the Red Scare were also due to a power struggle between director of FBI J. Edgar Hoover and the Central Intelligence Agency. Hoover had instigated and aided some of the investigations of members of the CIA with \"leftist\" history, like Cord Meyer. This conflict could", "title": "Red Scare" }, { "id": "206547", "text": "summarizes Hoover's legacy thus: For better or worse, he built the FBI into a modern, national organization stressing professionalism and scientific crime-fighting. For most of his life, Americans considered him a hero. He made the G-Man brand so popular that, at its height, it was harder to become an FBI agent than to be accepted into an Ivy League college. Hoover worked to groom the image of the FBI in American media; he was a consultant to Warner Brothers for a theatrical film about the FBI, \"The FBI Story\" (1959), and in 1965 on Warner's long-running spin-off television series, \"The", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover" }, { "id": "4261796", "text": "certain criminal investigations, as well as prison operations. In 1907, the General Agent's office was abolished, and its functions were distributed among three new offices: the Division of Accounts (which evolved into the Justice Management Division); the Office of the Chief Examiner (which later evolved by 1908, into the Bureau of Investigation, and later by the early 1920s into the Federal Bureau of Investigation); and the Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners, later called the Superintendent of Prisons (which then evolved by 1930 into the Bureau of Prisons). Pursuant to , the Bureau of Prisons was established by", "title": "Federal Bureau of Prisons" }, { "id": "4644310", "text": "J. Edgar Hoover Building The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a low-rise office building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Planning for the building began in 1962, and a site was formally selected in January 1963. Design work, focusing on avoiding the typical blocky, monolithic structure typical of most federal architecture at the time, began in 1963 and was largely complete by 1964 (although final approval did not occur until 1967). Land clearance and excavation of the foundation began in March 1965;", "title": "J. Edgar Hoover Building" }, { "id": "4128564", "text": "1950s. Consumerism became a key component of Western society. People bought big houses in the new suburbs and bought new time-saving household appliances. This buying trend was influenced by many American cultural and economic aspects such as advertising; television; cars; new offerings from banks (loans and credit); immediately being able to have what one wanted; and achieving a perceived better life. The US federal government authorized the Interstate Highway Act in June 1956, and construction had begun by the fall of that same year. The originally planned set of highways took decades to complete. The Kefauver hearings about country-wide organized", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "2867877", "text": "his Amherst classmate President Calvin Coolidge, who felt Stone would be perceived by the public as beyond reproach to oversee investigations into various scandals arising under the Harding administration. These scandals had besmirched Harding's Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty, and forced his resignation. In one of his first acts as Attorney General, Stone fired Daugherty's cronies in the Department of Justice and replaced them with men of integrity. As Attorney General, he was responsible for the appointment of J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),", "title": "Harlan F. Stone" }, { "id": "13767186", "text": "War II's Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner of the CIA). Wedge traces many of the problems to differing personalities, missions, and corporate cultures. Donovan had been in combat in World War I, while Hoover was building the FBI Indexes at the GID. Donovan argued against the constitutionality of Hoover's GID activities in the 1920s. In World War II, President Roosevelt (at the demand of the British, including Ian Fleming), allowed the creation of a new intelligence agency, against the wishes of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. He put Donovan in charge. The intelligence failure of the FBI (i.e. regarding", "title": "Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA" }, { "id": "4892532", "text": "the harassment. A former FBI agent Ted Gunderson, who believed in a wide range of conspiracy theories, submitted an affidavit supporting the theory two months before his death at age 82. Red Squad In the United States, Red Squads were police intelligence units that specialized in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering intelligence on political and social groups during the 20th century. Dating as far back as the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Red Squads became common in larger cities such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles during the First Red Scare of the 1920s. They were set up as specialized", "title": "Red Squad" }, { "id": "18746051", "text": "functions of the OSS were split between the Departments of State and War: The three-way division lasted only a few months. The first public mention of the \"Central Intelligence Agency\" concept and term appeared on a U.S. Army and Navy command-restructuring proposal presented by Jim Forrestal and Arthur Radford to the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee at the end of 1945. Despite opposition from the military establishment, the United States Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), President Truman established the National Intelligence Authority on January 22, 1946, by presidential directive; it was the direct predecessor to", "title": "History of the Central Intelligence Agency" }, { "id": "140903", "text": "of the Secret Service, to work for a new investigative agency. Its first \"Chief\" (the title is now known as \"Director\") was Stanley Finch. Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the \"White Slave Traffic Act,\" or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI) before finally becoming an", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "11229190", "text": "on June 10, 1963. Kennedy also signed an executive order banning sex discrimination in the federal workforce. The issue of organized crime had gained national attention during the 1950s due in part to the investigations of the McClellan Committee. Both Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy had played a role on that committee, and in 1960 Robert Kennedy published the book \"The Enemy Within\", which focused on the influence of organized crime within businesses and organized labor. Under the leadership of the attorney general, the Kennedy administration shifted the focus of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Internal Revenue", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "17390195", "text": "Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood was a New York based law firm founded in 1974 upon the merger of two firms that traced their roots back to the 1940s. In 2003 it was absorbed into Reed Smith LLP. The law firm of Hall Casey & Dickler opened for business in 1945. Leonard W. Hall served several times as Republican Party chairman, and ran parts of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's election campaigns. William Casey went on to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Export-Import Bank and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gerald", "title": "Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood" }, { "id": "2260335", "text": "brought him to deportation. They are the spirit of intolerance incarnate, and the most alarming manifestation in America today.\" In so saying, he placed the blame for the actions taken squarely on those creating a hysteria against a primarily Russian ethnic minority, and who managed to sidestep all blame by continuing to call such actions lawful. Hoover went on to head the FBI, which over its history also came to be known for the institutional racism of the COINTELPRO, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X operations and Palmer lost all support for his bid seeking the Democratic presidential nomination", "title": "Institutional racism" }, { "id": "13717256", "text": "Holden-Keating Gang The Holden-Keating Gang was a bank robbing team, led by Thomas James Holden (1896–1953) and Francis Keating (1899–July 25, 1978), which was active in the Midwestern United States during the 1925 and 1939. Holden was described by a spokesman for the FBI as \"a menace to every man, woman and child in America\" and was the first fugitive to be officially listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List in 1950. Before becoming one of the most notorious hold-up teams by the end of 19th century, Thomas Holden and Francis Keating robbed cargoes and train or bank", "title": "Holden-Keating Gang" }, { "id": "1167059", "text": "of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women), lived at Juniper Ledge during the 1920s. Carle Cotter Conway, a resident of Linden Circle, was president of the Continental Can Company for 33 years. Banker and businessman James Speyer lived at Waldheim, an estate in Scarborough, with his family. William J. Burns was the penultimate director of the Bureau of Investigation; his successor, J. Edgar Hoover, transformed the agency into the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Burns established a private-investigation service, the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, and", "title": "Briarcliff Manor, New York" }, { "id": "6020167", "text": "fewer loans, which intensified deflationary pressures. A vicious cycle developed and the downward spiral accelerated. In all, over 9,000 banks failed during the 1930s. In response, many countries significantly increased financial regulation. The U.S. established the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1933, and passed the Glass–Steagall Act, which separated investment banking and commercial banking. This was to avoid more risky investment banking activities from ever again causing commercial bank failures. During the post second world war period and with the introduction of the Bretton Woods system in 1944, two organizations were created: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World", "title": "History of banking" }, { "id": "7760757", "text": "Patriot Act in 2001, said that the National Security Agency overstepped its bounds. Immediately after the attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation started PENTTBOM, the largest criminal inquiry in the history of the United States. At its height, more than half of the FBI's agents worked on the investigation and followed a half-million leads. The FBI concluded that there was \"clear and irrefutable\" evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks. The FBI was quickly able to identify the hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta, when his luggage was discovered at Boston's Logan Airport. Atta had been forced to check", "title": "September 11 attacks" }, { "id": "17707091", "text": "Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, along with other sensitive documents (~233,600 pages). Under J. Edgar Hoover, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) carried out wide-ranging surveillance of communications and political expression, targeting many well-known speakers such as Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Jr., A FBI memo recognized King to be the \"most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.\", and Daniel Ellsberg, Some of these activities were eventually uncovered in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, leading to the Resignation of Richard Nixon. During World War II", "title": "Origins of global surveillance" }, { "id": "2581528", "text": "business. Without such protections, those living without documentation in the United States would be deterred from submitting census data. By law (), individual decennial census records are sealed for 72 years, a number chosen in 1952 as slightly higher than the average female life expectancy, 71.6. The individual census data most recently released to the public is the 1940 census, released on April 2, 2012. Aggregate census data are released when available. Under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), using primarily census records, compiled (1939–1941) the Custodial Detention Index (\"CDI\") on citizens, enemy", "title": "United States Census" }, { "id": "18443468", "text": "American past. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent rise of the USSR, both major American political parties became strongly anti-Communist. Within the U.S., the far Left split and an American Communist Party emerged in the 1920s. Conservatives denounced Communist ideals as a subversion of American values and maintained relentless opposition to Communist principles until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Conservatives were especially sensitive to the perception of Communist elements trying to change national policies and values in the U.S. government, the media, and academia. Conservatives enthusiastically supported anti-Communist agencies such as the FBI,", "title": "History of conservatism in the United States" }, { "id": "7877958", "text": "it to describe various notorious fugitives they were pursuing throughout the 1930s. Unlike Loesch's use of the term, the FBI's \"Public Enemies\" were wanted criminals and fugitives who were already charged with crimes. Among the criminals whom the FBI called \"public enemies\" were John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker, and Alvin Karpis. The term was used so extensively during the 1930s that some writers call that period of the FBI's early (the BOI became the FBI in 1935) history the \"Public Enemy Era\". Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson, and Karpis, in that", "title": "Public enemy" }, { "id": "469897", "text": "1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the \"Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)\" case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created.", "title": "1929" }, { "id": "469554", "text": "for the past century. Fascism, a movement which grew out of post-war angst and which accelerated during the Great Depression of the 1930s, gained momentum in Italy, Germany, and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in World War II, sparked by Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion at the expense of its neighbors. Meanwhile, Japan had rapidly transformed itself into a technologically advanced industrial power and, along with Germany and Italy, formed the Axis powers. Japan's military expansionism in East Asia and the Pacific Ocean brought it into conflict with the United States, culminating in a surprise attack which drew the", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "6453282", "text": "was meant to strike a definitive blow to the drug trade in the U.S. and for this reason the costs and the sheer scale of the trial were allowed to escalate. The case ended up costing $50 million. The prosecution case alone took a year to present. The prosecution in the United States was led by Louis J. Freeh and Richard A. Martin. Mr. Freeh, who later became a federal district court judge and Director of the FBI, was named the lead investigator during the two-year investigation that led to the arrests. At trial, Mr. Martin, who later became Special", "title": "Pizza Connection Trial" }, { "id": "10120534", "text": "the first \"Pop Art\" Exhibition in America. These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed Art forever, \"Pop Art\". The 1960s were a time of social unrest. Hoover's FBI and the government thought anybody who was anti-establishment should be investigated and persecuted despite the right of freedom of expression. Unfortunately for Dowd his fascination with painting currency caught the attention of the Secret Service. Painting currency in those days was considered counterfeiting even if intended as a spoof. Dowd explains what happened in an interview with Lynn Pyne:", "title": "Robert Dowd (artist)" }, { "id": "6669727", "text": "used an ideological argument, arguing that Communism flourishes in economically deprived areas. As part of the U.S. Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized military forces by merging the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) and creating the U.S. Air Force. The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council. In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the National Security Agency (NSA). Truman did not know what to do about", "title": "Harry S. Truman" }, { "id": "739835", "text": "Spanish flu pandemic. In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol were prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition. The result was that in cities illegal alcohol became a big business, largely controlled by racketeers. The second Ku Klux Klan grew rapidly in 1922–25, then collapsed. Immigration laws were passed to strictly limit the number of new entries. The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties due to the great economic prosperity during this period. Jazz became popular among the younger generation, and thus the decade was also called the Jazz Age. The Great Depression (1929–39) and the New Deal", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "8225678", "text": "FBI Laboratory The FBI Laboratory is a division within the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation that provides forensic analysis support services to the FBI, as well as to state and local law enforcement agencies free of charge. The lab is located at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia. Opened November 24, 1932, the lab was first known as the Technical Laboratory. It became a separate division when the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was renamed as the FBI. The Lab staffs approximately 500 scientific experts and special agents. The lab generally enjoys the reputation as the premier crime lab", "title": "FBI Laboratory" }, { "id": "469634", "text": "years referred to starting with \"two-thousand (and)\" rather than \"twenty-oh\". Starting around the middle of the 2010s, it is becoming more common to refer to the individual years of the decade as \"twenty-oh-seven\" or \"twenty-oh-eight\" than it had been during the 2000s, although the \"two thousand (and)\" pattern is still dominant. The War on Terror and War in Afghanistan began after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba'ath Party", "title": "2000s (decade)" }, { "id": "140922", "text": "given by mobster Joseph Barboza. The U.S. Government was ordered to pay $100 million in damages to the four defendants. In 1982, the FBI formed an elite unit to help with problems that might arise at the 1984 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, particularly terrorism and major-crime. This was a result of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when terrorists murdered the Israeli athletes. Named the Hostage Rescue Team, or HRT, it acts as the FBI lead for a national SWAT team in related procedures and all counter-terrorism cases. Also formed in 1984 was the \"Computer", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "4499593", "text": "that echoed the times of the \"Old West,\" a train robbery in Garrettsville, Ohio, which netted $27,000. After the death of Ma and Fred, Karpis allegedly sent word to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that he intended to kill Hoover the way Hoover had killed Ma and Fred. According to Karpis in \"The Alvin Karpis Story\", the death threat was a rumor started by Hoover himself. The FBI had come a long way since its reorganization and renaming in 1935 (from the Bureau of Investigation, created in 1908). J. Edgar Hoover was appointed as the acting head of the Bureau", "title": "Alvin Karpis" }, { "id": "12950721", "text": "name and released in the US in 2017. An anthology of twelve previously published Grann essays, \"The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession\", was published in March 2010. In March 2014, Grann said he was working on a new book about the Osage Indian murders, \"one of the most sinister crimes in American history.\" His book \"Killers of the Flower Moon: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI\" was published in 2017, chronicling \"a tale of murder, betrayal, heroism and a nation's struggle to leave its frontier culture behind and enter the modern world.\"", "title": "David Grann" }, { "id": "2464993", "text": "in forced labor camps, and their honor code became more defined. With the end of World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy. Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, said that the Russian mafia posed the greatest threat to U.S. national security in the mid-1990s. In modern times, there are as many as 6,000 different groups, with more than 200 of", "title": "Russian mafia" }, { "id": "6008038", "text": "Robbery\" (1903) and \"A California Hold Up\" (1906)—the most commercially successful film of the pre-nickelodeon era. Gangster films began appearing as early as 1910, but became popular only with the advent of sound in film in the 1930s. The genre was boosted by the events of the prohibition era, such as bootlegging and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, the existence of real-life gangsters (e.g., Al Capone) and the rise of contemporary organized crime and escalation of urban violence. These movies flaunted the archetypal exploits of \"swaggering, cruel, wily, tough, and law-defying bootleggers and urban gangsters.\" With the arrival", "title": "Gun culture in the United States" }, { "id": "2960119", "text": "accepted from the Intrepid Society of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a bronze statuette of Stephenson. In his remarks, Carey said: Sir William Stephenson played a key role in the creation of the CIA. He realized early on that America needed a strong intelligence organization and lobbied contacts close to President Roosevelt to appoint a U.S. \"coordinator\" to oversee FBI and military intelligence. He urged that the job be given to William J. \"Wild Bill\" Donovan, who had recently toured British defences and gained the confidence of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Although Roosevelt didn't establish exactly what Sir William had in mind, the", "title": "William Stephenson" }, { "id": "2224136", "text": "to the time of the revenuers or \"revenoors\" and the Bureau of Prohibition, which was formed as a unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in 1920. It was made an independent agency within the Treasury Department in 1927, was transferred to the Justice Department in 1930, and became, briefly, a division of the FBI in 1933. When the Volstead Act, which established Prohibition in the United States, was repealed in December 1933, the Unit was transferred from the Department of Justice back to the Department of the Treasury, where it became the Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) of the Bureau", "title": "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives" }, { "id": "9153650", "text": "Cope, which has become known as the Bone Wars. Two 20th century developments in geology had a big effect on paleontology. The first was the development of radiometric dating, which allowed absolute dates to be assigned to the geologic timescale. The second was the theory of plate tectonics, which helped make sense of the geographical distribution of ancient life. During the 20th century, paleontological exploration intensified everywhere and ceased to be a largely European and North American activity. In the 135 years between Buckland's first discovery and 1969 a total of 170 dinosaur genera were described. In the 25 years", "title": "History of paleontology" }, { "id": "229582", "text": "law enforcement agencies and the Klan were often ambiguous. The head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, appeared more concerned about Communist links to civil rights activists than about controlling Klan excesses against citizens. In 1964, the FBI's COINTELPRO program began attempts to infiltrate and disrupt civil rights groups. As 20th-century Supreme Court rulings extended federal enforcement of citizens' civil rights, the government revived the Enforcement Acts and the Klan Act from Reconstruction days. Federal prosecutors used these laws as the basis for investigations and indictments in the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner; and the 1965 murder of", "title": "Ku Klux Klan" }, { "id": "140906", "text": "early decades included a decisive role in reducing the scope and influence of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan. Additionally, through the work of Edwin Atherton, the BOI claimed to have successfully apprehended an entire army of Mexican neo-revolutionaries under the leadership of General Enrique Estrada in the mid-1920s, east of San Diego, California. Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case \"Olmstead v. United States\", in which a bootlegger was caught through telephone tapping, the United States Supreme Court ruled that FBI wiretaps did not violate the Fourth Amendment as", "title": "Federal Bureau of Investigation" }, { "id": "8425519", "text": "estopped from raising a defense based on the written notice clause if the broker's own assurances of deceptive acts forestall the customer's filing of their required written complaint.\" In the early days of World War II, Lumbard assisted his law partner William J. Donovan in setting up the Office of Strategic Services (which later became the Central Intelligence Agency). He was also considered for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. President Nixon considered naming him special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal before naming Archibald Cox. In 1959, he was appointed to the Harvard Board of Overseers and served", "title": "J. Edward Lumbard" }, { "id": "10906745", "text": "Baldwin on the ballot as its presidential candidate. The Indy Greens call for balancing the federal budget and paying off the federal debt. The Republican Party had long supported the protection of the environment at the first half of 20th Century. Republican President Theodore Roosevelt was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President Richard Nixon was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the support of 16 other states, sued the federal government and the United States Environmental Protection", "title": "Green conservatism" }, { "id": "469570", "text": "Stevie Wonder, Tupac Shakur, Nirvana (band), The Notorious B.I.G.,Amr Diab , Fairuz, Umm Kulthum,Abdel Halim Hafez, Randy Newman and many more. Film as an artistic medium was created in the 20th century. The first modern movie theatre was established in Pittsburgh in 1905. Hollywood developed as the center of American film production. While the first films were in black and white, technicolor was developed in the 1920s to allow for color films. Sound films were developed, with the first full-length feature film, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. The Academy Awards were established in 1929. Multiple new fields of mathematics", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "19796055", "text": "it had played out in theaters as it did in real life \"it would be a very boring movie\". Good and fellow FBI investigator Tony Amoroso served as consultants on the film. John F. Good John Francis Good (June 17, 1936 – September 28, 2016) was an American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who created the Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abscam led to the arrest and conviction of several elected officials at the local, state, and federal level, including Mayor of Camden, New Jersey Angelo Errichetti and U.S. Senator Harrison A.", "title": "John F. Good" }, { "id": "469545", "text": "20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts;", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "3180175", "text": "William H. Webster William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) is an American attorney and jurist serving as Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council since 2005. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before becoming Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987, and then Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991—the only person to have held both of these positions. Webster was born", "title": "William H. Webster" }, { "id": "687315", "text": "law enforcement agencies were the United States Customs Service, the United States Park Police, the U.S. Post Office Department's Office of Instructions and Mail Depredations (now known as the United States Postal Inspection Service), and the United States Marshals Service. The Marshals did not have the manpower to investigate all crime under federal jurisdiction, so the Secret Service began investigating a wide range of crimes from murder to bank robbery to illegal gambling. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress informally requested that the Secret Service provide presidential protection. A year later, the Secret Service assumed full-time", "title": "United States Secret Service" }, { "id": "33020", "text": "marked Capone's rule. Organized crime in the city had a lower profile once Prohibition was repealed, already wary of attention after seeing Capone's notoriety bring him down, to the extent that there is a lack of consensus among writers about who was actually in control and who was a figurehead \"front boss\". Prostitution, labor union racketeering, and gambling became moneymakers for organized crime in the city without incurring serious investigation. In the late 1950s, FBI agents discovered an organization led by Capone's former lieutenants reigning supreme over the Chicago underworld. After Capone was released from prison, he was referred to", "title": "Al Capone" }, { "id": "2932440", "text": "other facilities. In particular, the stretch of the river along downtown Newark came to be regarded in the later decades of the 20th century as particularly wretched. Starting in the 1990s, the lower river became the subject of federal and state urban restoration efforts, which have resulted in new construction along the riverfront, the city of Newark has constructed a riverfront walk from the Jackson St Bridge to the Bridge St Bridge. It is landscaped with trees,plants, and flowers, and benches too. Construction of office buildings has also taken place,including a regional headquarters building for the FBI. While there has", "title": "Passaic River" }, { "id": "299540", "text": "in cooperation between criminal organizations has meant that law enforcement agencies are increasingly having to work together. The FBI operates an organized crime section from its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and is known to work with other national (e.g., Polizia di Stato, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), federal (e.g., Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Marshals Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Secret Service, US Diplomatic Security Service, United States Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, United States Border Patrol, and the United States Coast", "title": "Organized crime" }, { "id": "2255465", "text": "was involved in the creation of Israel and was also involved when India and Pakistan fought the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and were partitioned. In 1948, there was a Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets blockaded Berlin and precipitated the Berlin Airlift, and Congress passed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created, and Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic of China. In 1950, China occupied Tibet and North Korea invaded South Korea. The UN debated, considered responses and took action on all of these issues, and Austin became known internationally for his", "title": "Warren Austin" }, { "id": "2658418", "text": "incidents of domestic terrorism, usually perpetrated by those dissatisfied with actions of the federal government, big business, or other aspects of American society. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a mysterious man known in the media as the \"Unabomber\" sent mail bombs to figures in the academic and airline industries for various reasons. After a lull, he began another mail bombing campaign in earnest, beginning in 1993. Two people were killed in the mid-1990s and an exhaustive and expensive investigation by the FBI coupled with intense national media interest in the story resulted in the identification and arrest of the perpetrator", "title": "History of the United States (1991–2008)" }, { "id": "4534122", "text": "living parents. The guardians were generally local white lawyers and businessmen, who made money off their fees and sometimes set up criminal means to defraud the Osage of their wealth. The Osage wealth attracted many other opportunists, some of whom had criminal intent. In 1925 the tribal elders, with the help of James Monroe Pyle, a local law officer, sought assistance from the Bureau of Investigation (which later developed as the FBI) when local and state officials could not solve the rising number of murders. Pyle presented his evidence of murder and conspiracy and requested an investigation. In its undercover", "title": "Osage Indian murders" }, { "id": "7701720", "text": "famous Director had formed and defined the Bureau for nearly a half century. During the turbulent 1960s, the FBI continued controversial domestic surveillance in an operation called Cointelpro. It aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States, including civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a frequent target of investigation. As a more friendly face presented to the public, in 1965 Warner Bros. Television presented the series \"The F.B.I.\", showing dramatizations taken from actual historical FBI cases, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as fictional agent Louis Erskine. Epilogues included Zimbalist stepping out of", "title": "FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s" }, { "id": "13767187", "text": "Dusko Popov) leading to Pearl Harbor helped convince government leaders of the necessity of a 'centralized' intelligence group. Donovan's new group accepted communist agents and the alliance with the Soviets, while Hoover (informed by his experiences in the First Red Scare period) was abhorred at the thought and believed the Soviet empire would become the 'next enemy' after World War II was over. The CIA evolved from freewheeling World War II foreign operations, hiring known criminals and foreign agents of questionable moral character. Donovan operated with a flat, non-existent hieararchy. The FBI in contrast focused on the building of legal", "title": "Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA" }, { "id": "4550651", "text": "an aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42). He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1971 to 1975, and then went into private practice in Los Angeles for nine years. Afterwards he became the United States Attorney for the same district in 1984. As a United States Attorney, he worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on two record-breaking money laundering cases, Operations Pisces and Polar Cap, led the prosecution team against the killers of a DEA special agent, and personally prosecuted the first FBI agent charged with espionage. On February", "title": "Robert C. Bonner" }, { "id": "7877959", "text": "order, would be deemed \"Public Enemy Number 1\" from June 1934 to May 1936. Use of the term eventually evolved into the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The FBI's website describes the bureau's use of the term: \"The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice made use of the term, 'Public Enemy,' in the 1930s, an era in which the term was synonymous with 'fugitive' or 'notorious gangster.'\" It was used in speeches, books, press releases, and internal memoranda and remains in usage to this day. Public enemy Public enemy is a term which was first widely used in", "title": "Public enemy" }, { "id": "4308124", "text": "weight of the trunk when sent was identical to its weight when opened. Through his subterfuge, Means had escaped the jurisdiction of the court and never entered it again. In later years, Means boasted to friends that he had been accused of every felony in the criminal law books, up to and including murder. Although he had a shady reputation as a detective, in October 1921, Means was hired by the Bureau of Investigation and he moved to Washington, D.C. The FBI was then led by William J. Burns, famous ex-Secret Service man, private detective and friend of Harry M.", "title": "Gaston Means" } ]

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[ { "id": "601911", "text": "Miss Daisy\". He starred in his own sitcom, \"Soul Man\" (1997–98). Aykroyd is also a businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Head Vodka brand. Aykroyd was born on Dominion Day (July 1, which is now called Canada Day), 1952 at The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Ottawa, Canada's capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène (née Gougeon), was a secretary. His mother was of French Canadian descent", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "601912", "text": "and his father is of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, and French ancestry. His brother, Peter, is also an actor. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the film \"Mr. Mike's Mondo Video\" and in a short film on \"Saturday Night Live\" titled \"Don't Look Back In Anger\". Aykroyd was raised in the Catholic Church, and until age 17 he intended to become a priest. He attended St. Pius X and St. Patrick's high schools, and studied criminology and sociology at Carleton University, but dropped out before completing his degree. He worked as a comedian in", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "601944", "text": "Ghostbusters\". Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. He was an original member of the \"Not Ready for Prime Time Players\" on \"Saturday Night Live\" (1975–79). A musical sketch he performed with John Belushi on \"SNL\", The Blues Brothers, turned into an actual performing band and then the 1980 film \"The Blues Brothers\". He conceived and starred in \"Ghostbusters\" (1984), which spawned a sequel and eventually an entire media franchise. In 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "601910", "text": "Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. He was an original member of the \"Not Ready for Prime Time Players\" on \"Saturday Night Live\" (1975–79). A musical sketch he performed with John Belushi on \"SNL\", The Blues Brothers, turned into an actual performing band and then the 1980 film \"The Blues Brothers\". He conceived and starred in \"Ghostbusters\" (1984), which spawned a sequel and eventually an entire media franchise. In 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film \"Driving", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "601943", "text": "the size of a hog\". In 1977, Aykroyd received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series for his collaborative work on \"Saturday Night Live\". In 1994, he received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Carleton University. In 1999, Aykroyd was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being \"one of the world's most popular entertainers, well-known for his time on Saturday Night Live and the 1984 classic movie", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "5155440", "text": "Donna Dixon Donna Lynn Dixon (born July 20, 1957) is a retired American actress and former beauty queen. After meeting and starring together in the film \"Doctor Detroit\", Dixon has worked in several movies with her husband Dan Aykroyd. Dixon was born on July 20, 1957, in Alexandria, Virginia to Earl Dixon. Her father owned a nightclub on U.S. 1 called Hillbilly Heaven. In 1975, she graduated from Groveton High School and attended the George Washington University but dropped out. Dixon began her career as a model and was named Miss Virginia USA, in 1976, and Miss Washington D.C. World,", "title": "Donna Dixon" }, { "id": "220061", "text": "John Belushi John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and singer. Belushi is best known for his \"intense energy and raucous attitude\" which he displayed as one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show \"Saturday Night Live\" (\"SNL\"). Throughout his career, Belushi had a close personal and artistic partnership with his fellow \"SNL\" star Dan Aykroyd, whom he met while they were both working at Chicago's The Second City comedy club. Born in Chicago to Albanian American parents, Belushi started his own successful comedy troupe with Tino", "title": "John Belushi" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "8902031", "text": "his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his uncle in 1993. The seat of this branch of the family is Birstwith Hall, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The heir apparent to the baronetcy is George Jack Aykroyd (born 1977) Aykroyd baronets There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Aykroyd, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for members of the same family. The Aykroyd Baronetcy, of Lightcliffe in the West Riding of the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 June 1920 for William Henry Aykroyd. He was a", "title": "Aykroyd baronets" }, { "id": "469572", "text": "research and practice of science led to advancement in the fields of communication, engineering, travel, medicine, and war. 20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "7766375", "text": "credible evidence to conclude that Mozart had Tourette's. One TS specialist stated that, \"although some web sites list Mozart as an individual who had Tourette's and/or OCD, it's not clear from the descriptions of his behavior that he actually had either.\" Comedian Dan Aykroyd described himself (in a radio interview with Terry Gross) as having mild Tourette syndrome that was successfully treated with therapy when he was a preteen, as well as mild Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis of Asperger syndrome was not recognized in the 1960s, when Aykroyd was a preteen. The term was coined in 1981, and became a", "title": "Societal and cultural aspects of Tourette syndrome" }, { "id": "469545", "text": "20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts;", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "601940", "text": "Walsh had already done two days of filming, after finding out that Walsh had been in the cast of \"Wired\". Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating that: Aykroyd's great-grandfather, a dentist, was a mystic who corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of Spiritualism, and who was a member of the Lily Dale Society. Other than Spiritualism, Aykroyd is also interested in various other aspects of the paranormal, particularly UFOlogy. He is a lifetime member of and official Hollywood consultant for the Mutual UFO Network. Along these lines, he served, from 1996 to 2000, as \"host\" of", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "601934", "text": "and folk art. Many other music and Hollywood personalities helped to finance it at its start. It began as a single location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, although other locations quickly followed, starting with a venue in New Orleans in 1994. In 2004 House of Blues became the second-largest live music promoter in the world, with seven venues and 22 amphitheaters in the United States and Canada. It was bought by Live Nation in 2006. In 2007, Aykroyd and artist John Alexander founded Crystal Head Vodka, a brand of high-end vodka known for its distinctive skull-shaped bottle and for being filtered through", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "3218265", "text": "events that took place between c. 1964 and 1972, and to memories of the counterculture, flower power, protests of 1968 and other things happening at the time. Often, such a nominal decade will come to be known by a title, such as the \"Swinging Sixties\" (1960s), the \"Warring Forties\" (1940s) and the \"Roaring Twenties\" (1920s). This practice is occasionally also used for decades of earlier centuries, for example references to the 1890s as the \"Gay Nineties\" or \"Naughty Nineties\". Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which", "title": "Decade" }, { "id": "8547798", "text": "Peter Aykroyd Peter Hugh Aykroyd is a Canadian actor, comedian and writer. Born to Lorraine and (Samuel Cuthbert) Peter Hugh Aykroyd in Canada, he is the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto. The two were also on \"Saturday Night Live\". He was a cast member and writer in the fifth season, 1979-80. He and Dan Aykroyd wrote the movie \"Nothing but Trouble\" in the early nineties, Peter writing the story and Dan the screenplay. In 1996, Peter Aykroyd co-created the Canadian sci-fi show \"Psi Factor\"", "title": "Peter Aykroyd" }, { "id": "470093", "text": "Nineties,\" was not coined until the 1920s. This decade was also part of the Gilded Age, a phrase coined by Mark Twain, alluding to the seemingly profitable era that was riddled with crime and poverty. 1896 saw the first edition of the modern Olympic Games. 1885-1913 Annie Oakley, Li'l Sure Shot performed throughout US and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 1890s The 1890s was the ten-year period from the years 1890 to 1899. In the United States, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression sparked by the Panic of 1893, as well as several strikes in", "title": "1890s" }, { "id": "3770248", "text": "Joss Ackland Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland, CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in \"White Mischief\" (1987). Ackland was born in North Kensington, London, the son of Ruth (Izod) and Sydney Norman Ackland. He was trained by Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ackland and his wife, the former Rosemary Kirkcaldy, were married on 18 August", "title": "Joss Ackland" }, { "id": "7472685", "text": "falsely registers the ballpark's location, 1060 West Addison, as his home address on his driver's license. (Elwood's Illinois driver's license number is an almost-valid encoded number, with Dan Aykroyd's own birth date embedded.) Jake's final confrontation with his girlfriend was filmed in a replica of a section of the abandoned Chicago freight tunnel system. The other chase scenes included lower Wacker Drive, Lake Street, and Richard J. Daley Center. In the final car chase scene, the production actually dropped a Ford Pinto, representing the one driven by the \"Illinois Nazis\", from a helicopter at an altitude of about 1,200 feet—and", "title": "The Blues Brothers (film)" }, { "id": "2800704", "text": "of Klara and Ladislav \"Leslie\" Reitman. Reitman's parents were Jewish; his mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and his father was an underground resistance fighter. His family came to Canada as refugees in 1950. Reitman attended Oakwood Collegiate in Toronto and was a member of the Twintone Four singing group. Reitman attended McMaster University, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 1969. At McMaster he produced and directed many short films. Reitman's first producing job was with the then-new station CITY-TV in Toronto. CITY was also the home of the first announcing job of his later friend and collaborator Dan Aykroyd.", "title": "Ivan Reitman" }, { "id": "601935", "text": "Herkimer diamond crystals. Aykroyd is also part owner of several wineries in Canada's Niagara Peninsula as well as the company that distributes Patrón tequila in Canada. In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled \"Dan Aykroyd's Canada\". He helped start the Blue Line Foundation, which is redeveloping flood-damaged lots in New Orleans and helping first responders buy them at reduced prices. Coastal Blue Line LLC, hopes to eventually rebuild 400 properties in New Orleans. Aykroyd is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Aykroyd was briefly engaged to actress", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "8902030", "text": "in 1952. Until 2007 the title was held the latter's son, the third Baronet, who succeeded in 1965. After his death the baronetcy devolved upon his cousin, who was succeeded by his son in 2010. The Aykroyd Baronetcy, of Birstwith Hall in Hampsthwaite in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 23 March 1929 for Frederick Alfred Aykroyd. He was a merchant and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1941 to 1942. Aykroyd was the first cousin of the first Baronet of the 1920 creation. As of 2007 the title is held by", "title": "Aykroyd baronets" }, { "id": "5093059", "text": "Charlie Musselwhite Charles Douglas \"Charlie\" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a \"white bluesman\". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Musselwhite was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to white parents. In a 2005 interview, he said his mother had told him he was of distant Cherokee", "title": "Charlie Musselwhite" }, { "id": "4509544", "text": "operates 12 clubs throughout North America. House of Blues House of Blues is a chain of live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues' first location, in Cambridge, Massachusetts' Harvard Square, was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, co-star of the 1980 film \"The Blues Brothers\". The first House of Blues opened on November 26, 1992, in the Harvard Square commercial district and retail area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a live music concert hall and restaurant. The company was originally financed by Dan Aykroyd,", "title": "House of Blues" }, { "id": "3266314", "text": "D. A. Pennebaker Donn Alan \"D. A.\" Pennebaker (; born July 15, 1925) is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Performing arts and politics are his primary subjects. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award or \"lifetime Oscar\". Pennebaker has been described as \"arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of sixties counterculture\". Pennebaker (known as \"Penny\" to his friends) was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Lucille Levick (née Deemer) and John Paul Pennebaker, who was a commercial photographer. Pennebaker served in", "title": "D. A. Pennebaker" }, { "id": "3429676", "text": "Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky (, , ; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (, ) on 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. He has served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency since June 2009, to be replaced in August 2018 by Isaac Herzog. Sharansky was born in Donetsk (then called Stalino), Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics", "title": "Natan Sharansky" }, { "id": "7952256", "text": "Jane Mallett Jane Mallett (April 17, 1899 – April 14, 1984) was a notable Canadian stage and film actress. She was born as Jean Dawson Keenleyside in London, Ontario, Canada. Her films included \"Love at First Sight\" with Dan Aykroyd, \"The Sweet and the Bitter\", \"The Yellow Leaf\", \"Nothing Personal\", and \"Improper Channels\". She was a stalwart on CBC Radio from the 1940s to the 1960s, working with such notables as Andrew Allan, John Drainie, and Barry Morse. Mallett's stage career included performances with the Shaw Festival of Canada and the Stratford Festival of Canada. She was posthumously celebrated in", "title": "Jane Mallett" }, { "id": "15246675", "text": "investing and been the subject of other industry articles. Born Dan Dan meaning very red in Chinese by her father who was classified as a black sheep during the Culture Revolution in China, Yang was the first grand child of an entrepreneurial family of 6 sons and 2 daughters; her grandfather owned a boat factory and operated a transport business on the imperial canal which connects north and south China, but were forced to relocate to rural China during the Culture Revolution. Her father tested airplane motors initially but self-taught and grew to lead the operations of a joint venture", "title": "Dan D. Yang" }, { "id": "16313246", "text": "Falmouth, Florida Falmouth is an unincorporated community located in Suwannee County, Florida, United States. There is one recreational area, known as Falmouth Spring. Falmouth Spring is a first-magnitude spring flowing about 160 cubic feet per second. It is located within a 276-acre recreation area managed by the Suwannee River Water Management District. The majority of the area is sandhill and upland mixed forest, with some slash pine. Because it disappears underground shortly after bubbling up, Falmouth Spring has been called the world's smallest river. Falmouth is the birthplace of Actor Dan White (March 25, 1908 – July 7, 1980), American", "title": "Falmouth, Florida" }, { "id": "8902029", "text": "Aykroyd baronets There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Aykroyd, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for members of the same family. The Aykroyd Baronetcy, of Lightcliffe in the West Riding of the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 June 1920 for William Henry Aykroyd. He was a Director of T. F. Firth & Sons, Ltd, and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1926. His eldest son, the second Baronet, was a Major in the Royal Field Artillery and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire", "title": "Aykroyd baronets" }, { "id": "9150676", "text": "Warner Brothers, Republic, Universal, RKO, and Paramount all held offices in Chicago. Movie production again entered Chicago in the 1980 with the state of Illinois becoming a leader in money spent on film production. Notable films from the 1980s include \"Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Color of Money, Risky Business, The Untouchables, Planes, Trains and Automobiles\", and \"When Harry Met Sally.\" Feature film directors returned to the city including Dan Aykroyd and the Belushi family (\"Blues Brothers, About Last Night\", and \"Blues Brothers 2000\"), John Hughes (\"Sixteen Candles\" and \"The Breakfast Club\"), and Andrew Davis (\"The Fugitive\" and \"Chain Reaction\").", "title": "Chicago film industry" }, { "id": "1073834", "text": "The Arrogant Worms, The Headstones, The Inbreds, PS I Love You and members of Moist, including singer David Usher. Kingston is also the birthplace of Bryan Adams. The first winner of the television series \"Canadian Idol\" was Kingston native Ryan Malcolm. Poet Michael Andre was raised in Kingston. Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful lived in Kingston until his death in 2002. Comedian and actor Dan Aykroyd has a residence just north of Kingston and is a frequent face in town. He was briefly a minor partner in a restaurant called Aykroyd's Ghetto House Café on upper Princess Street during", "title": "Kingston, Ontario" }, { "id": "469443", "text": "1990s The 1990s (pronounced \"nineteen-nineties\" and abbreviated as the nineties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. In the absence of world communism, which collapsed in the first two years of the decade, the 1990s was politically", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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She has won various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Paltrow has been the face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume since 2005. She is also the face of American fashion brand Coach, owner of a lifestyle company, Goop, and author of several cookbooks. Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and film producer-director Bruce Paltrow (1943–2002). She has a younger", "title": "Gwyneth Paltrow" }, { "id": "15385538", "text": "shotgun similar to the one used in the massacre. Chris compares his high school's hierarchical structure to \"Lord Of The Flies\". The title is a reference to the film \"Trading Places\", in which Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy have their lives swapped around in attempt to resolve a wager on the significance of someone's upbringing vs their genes (nature vs nurture) in determining what kind of person they become. The episode was watched by 6.55 million viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Rowan Kaiser of \"The A.V. Club\" gave \"Trading Places\" a mostly positive review, calling it \"relatively entertaining\", and stating", "title": "Trading Places (Family Guy)" }, { "id": "2306664", "text": "Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. In France, the decade was known as the \"\"années folles\"\" ('crazy years'), emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco peaked. Not everything roared: in the wake of the hyper-emotional", "title": "Roaring Twenties" }, { "id": "469490", "text": "an innovative platformer for the PlayStation. The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 1990s The 1990s (pronounced \"nineteen-nineties\" and abbreviated as the nineties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "9711002", "text": "punk band, Her Parents, who released their first album, Physical Release, on 20 August 2012. John Baillie Jnr later formed Bossy Love with singer Amandah Wilkinson from Operator Please. Dananananaykroyd Dananananaykroyd was a six-piece, self-dubbed 'Fight Pop' band formed in 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland. Their name is a play on the name of Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd. They announced via Facebook and Twitter on 29 September 2011 that they would be disbanding after one farewell tour. In 2006 Dananananaykroyd released two limited edition 7\" singles, \"Totally Bone\" and \"Some Dresses\" on Moshi Moshi and Jealous Records respectively. A Japan-only CD", "title": "Dananananaykroyd" }, { "id": "601941", "text": "\"\", which claimed to describe cases drawn from the archives of \"The Office Of Scientific Investigation And Research.\" In 2005, Aykroyd produced the DVD \"Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs\". Aykroyd is interviewed for 80 minutes by UFOlogist David Sereda discussing in depth many aspects of the UFO phenomenon. On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd Sr., Dan's father, published a book entitled \"A History of Ghosts\". This book chronicled the family's historical involvement in the Spiritualist Movement, to which Aykroyd readily refers. Aykroyd wrote the introduction and accompanied his father on a series of promotional activities, including launches in New York", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "3218263", "text": "(\"60s\" or \"sixties\"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in \"The Great Depression of the 1930s\" or \"The Roaring Twenties\". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year \"zero\", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its \"first\" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the \"second\" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although \"the 1960s\" comprises the years", "title": "Decade" }, { "id": "601937", "text": "as a longtime resident of Sydenham, Ontario, with his estate on Loughborough Lake. In a 2004 NPR interview with host Terry Gross, Aykroyd said that he had been diagnosed in childhood with Tourette syndrome (TS) as well as Asperger syndrome (AS). He stated that his TS was successfully treated with therapy. In 2015, he stated during a \"HuffPost Show\" interview with hosts Roy Sekoff and Marc Lamont Hill that his AS was \"never diagnosed\" but was \"sort of a self-diagnosis\" based on several of his own characteristics. Aykroyd is a former reserve commander for the police department in Harahan, Louisiana,", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "20224477", "text": "impossible to answer (e.g., ‘In which decade of the 20th century was Pablo Picasso born?’ The answer is impossible as he was born in the 19th century). If a contestant buzzes in and identifies it as \"impossible\", their opponents lose two lives, but they lose two lives of their own if they give an answer to an impossible question or say \"impossible\" to a question that is possible and so has a correct answer. The finalist who makes it to this round now faces a question, based on a random category, in which they have ten seconds to pick three", "title": "Impossible (game show)" }, { "id": "1556027", "text": "a special adviser to then-Labour leader, Ed Miliband. The son of John Herbert Prescott, a railway signalman and Labour councillor, and Phyllis, and the grandson of a miner, Prescott was born in Prestatyn, Wales, on 31 May 1938. In 2009, he said: \"I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh...I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.\" In 2009, John Prescott featured in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history, with roots in Prestatyn and Chirk. He left", "title": "John Prescott" }, { "id": "2951801", "text": "Dan Haggerty Daniel Francis Haggerty (November 19, 1941 – January 15, 2016) was an American actor who playing the title role in the film and television series \"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams\". Haggerty's birthplace is given by some sources as Pound, Wisconsin, or as Los Angeles, California, by others, and his birth year is alternately reported as 1941 His parents separated when he was 3. Haggerty grew up in a family that owned and operated a small wild animal attraction where he helped raise wild animals, including a black bear that performed tricks. After high school, he pursued", "title": "Dan Haggerty" }, { "id": "3266331", "text": "which was filmed and edited by one of Pennebaker's protégés, Nicholas Proferes, and even popular satires such as Tim Robbins' \"Bob Roberts\". D. A. Pennebaker Donn Alan \"D. A.\" Pennebaker (; born July 15, 1925) is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Performing arts and politics are his primary subjects. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award or \"lifetime Oscar\". Pennebaker has been described as \"arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of sixties counterculture\". Pennebaker (known as \"Penny\" to his friends) was born", "title": "D. A. Pennebaker" }, { "id": "11418742", "text": "Peter Blais Peter Blais (born 1949) is a Canadian actor. He has won a Golden Sheaf Award for \"Best Performance - Male\" in \"The Wager\", and in 1999 he was nominated for a Gemini Award for \"Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series\" for his work in \"PSI Factor\". Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Blais attended Carleton University and joined the campus drama society, where he met Dan Aykroyd. They performed together in several amateur productions during the 1960s. As a stage actor, he is best known for his frequent roles in the plays", "title": "Peter Blais" }, { "id": "2544623", "text": "inversus, a rare congenital condition in which all of an individual's internal organs in the thorax and abdomen are positioned on the opposite side to where they should be. Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress, writer, and comedian. She first drew notice as an actress in 1974 as a member of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Toronto. She landed her first significant television role in 1975 starring opposite John Candy and Dan Aykroyd in the main cast of the Canadian sitcom \"Coming Up Rosie\" (1975–1978). The following year, she and Candy", "title": "Catherine O'Hara" }, { "id": "2306756", "text": "December 5, 1933. Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. In France, the decade was known as the \"\"années folles\"\" ('crazy years'), emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco peaked. Not everything roared: in the wake", "title": "Roaring Twenties" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "20120478", "text": "Aughts The \"aughts\" is one way of referring to the first decade of a century, in American English, such as 2000s (decade). In modern history, the numbering of the first decade of the 1900s and the first decade of the 2000s became challenging for societies that had grown accustomed to referring to prior decades as \"the nineties\" and \"the eighties\". There are several main varieties of how individual years of the decade are pronounced in American English. Using 1906 as an example, they are \"nineteen-oh-six\", \"nineteen-six\", and \"nineteen-aught-six\". Which variety is most prominent depends somewhat on global region and generation.", "title": "Aughts" }, { "id": "12291978", "text": "Lisa Lee Dark Lisa Lee Dark (born 16 April 1981 in Swansea, Wales), is a Welsh opera singer and voice actress. Dark was born in Clydach, one of the Swansea valleys. She is related to Adelina Patti (1843–1919) and Bette Davis (1908–1989) Dark was born with a rare medical condition called Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). This meant that throughout Dark's childhood she was raised as a boy because doctors failed to realise that she was biologically female. The condition leads to an excessive outpouring of the male hormone testosterone during the early part of foetal life. Dark only discovered that", "title": "Lisa Lee Dark" }, { "id": "8547799", "text": "with Christopher Chacon and Peter Ventrella; the show was hosted by his brother Dan and produced 88 episodes. In 1997, Peter Aykroyd and Jim Belushi provided the voices of Elwood Blues and Jake Blues for the cartoon \"The Blues Brothers: Animated Series\", reprising the roles made famous by their respective brothers Dan and John. Peter Aykroyd has appeared in such films as \"Spies Like Us\", \"Dragnet\", \"Nothing but Trouble\" and \"Coneheads\". Peter Aykroyd Peter Hugh Aykroyd is a Canadian actor, comedian and writer. Born to Lorraine and (Samuel Cuthbert) Peter Hugh Aykroyd in Canada, he is the younger brother of", "title": "Peter Aykroyd" }, { "id": "728175", "text": "Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; ; ; ; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. Born in Kiev to Polish parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia but considered himself to be Polish. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance \"en pointe\", a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps. Nijinsky was introduced to dance by his parents, who were senior dancers with the", "title": "Vaslav Nijinsky" }, { "id": "5821782", "text": "in the history of the game. He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at centre-back on the Hurling Team of the Century in 1984 and the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000. John Keane was born in Waterford, on 18 February 1917, into a family that was steeped in the traditions of Gaelic Ireland. His childhood years were spent among like-minded neighbours in the city's Barrack Street. Keane was educated at Mount Sion School, a great hurling nursery and a cradle of all things Gaelic and nationalist where he became the star", "title": "John Keane (hurler)" }, { "id": "10482350", "text": "Dan Marino Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a former American football quarterback who played seventeen seasons for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). The last quarterback of the quarterback class of 1983 to be taken in the first round, Marino held or currently holds dozens of NFL records associated with the quarterback position. Despite never being on a Super Bowl-winning team, he is recognized as one of the greatest quarterbacks, and generally considered to be among the best pure passers in American football history. Best remembered for his quick release and powerful arm,", "title": "Dan Marino" }, { "id": "9312804", "text": "acknowledged that his own career may have started as it did due to nepotism. Dan Snow Daniel Robert Snow (born 3 December 1978) is a British television presenter, who presents history programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters, has a history slot on \"The One Show\" and hosts the podcast, Dan Snow's History Hit. Snow is a convenor of the cross-party political movement, More United. Born in Westminster, Dan Snow is the youngest son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist, and Canadian Ann MacMillan, managing editor emeritus of CBC's London Bureau; thus he holds dual British-Canadian citizenship. Through his mother,", "title": "Dan Snow" }, { "id": "2257398", "text": "Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, ; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide. Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom (today's Dilkaya), situated", "title": "Arshile Gorky" }, { "id": "4649688", "text": "them in the National Register. The number is composed of 10 digits, of which the first six are the individual's birth date or corporation's founding date in the format DDMMYY. The next two digits are chosen at random when the kennitala is allocated, the ninth digit is a check digit, and the last digit indicates the century in which the individual was born (for instance, '9' for the period 1900–1999, or '0' for the period 2000–2099). An example would be 120174-3399, the person being born on the twelfth day of January 1974. The Icelandic system is similar to that in", "title": "National identification number" }, { "id": "2257413", "text": "Gorky: A Retrospective\". On June 6, 2010, an exhibit of the same name opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, ; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. As such, his works were often speculated to have", "title": "Arshile Gorky" }, { "id": "72646", "text": "100\" and ends in \"(100 x n) - 1\". For example, the 20th century is generally regarded as from 1900 to 1999, inclusive. This is sometimes known as the odometer effect. The astronomical year numbering and ISO 8601 systems both contain a year zero, so the first century begins with the year zero, rather than the year one. Informally, years may be referred to in groups based on the hundreds part of the year. In this system, the years 1900–1999 are referred to as the \"nineteen hundreds\" (\"1900s\"). Aside from English usage, this system is used in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian,", "title": "Century" }, { "id": "4034081", "text": "Earle Nelson Earle Leonard Nelson (née Ferral; May 12, 1897January 13, 1928), also known in the media as the \"Gorilla Man,\" the \"Gorilla Killer,\" and the \"Dark Strangler,\" was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile. He was the first known American serial sex murderer of the twentieth century. Born and raised in San Francisco, California by his devoutly Pentecostal grandmother, Nelson exhibited bizarre behavior as a child, which was compounded by head injuries he sustained in a bicycling accident at age ten. After committing various minor offenses in early adulthood, he was institutionalized in Napa for a time. Nelson", "title": "Earle Nelson" }, { "id": "1727058", "text": "term expiration up to eighteen additional months. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt: Under Harry S. Truman: Under Dwight D. Eisenhower: Under John F. Kennedy: Under Lyndon B. Johnson: Under Richard Nixon: Under Gerald Ford: Under Jimmy Carter: Under Ronald Reagan: Under George H. W. Bush: Under Bill Clinton: Under George W. Bush: Under Barack Obama: Under Donald Trump: Securities and Exchange Commission appointees Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States. As of 2011, their terms last five years and are staggered so that one commissioner's term ends on June 5 of", "title": "Securities and Exchange Commission appointees" }, { "id": "6276398", "text": "ran for President of the United States in 1868. With changes in circus venues and popular culture after the Civil War, his legendary talents under the big top have gradually slipped into almost total historical obscurity such that in 2001, biographer David Carlyon called him \"the most famous man you've never heard of\". Born Daniel McLaren in New York City, Rice gained 19th century fame with many talents, most of which involved him around as a clown figure in circuses. In addition to his 'clowning' talents, he was an animal trainer, songwriter, commentator, political , strong man, actor, director, producer,", "title": "Dan Rice" }, { "id": "9312791", "text": "Dan Snow Daniel Robert Snow (born 3 December 1978) is a British television presenter, who presents history programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters, has a history slot on \"The One Show\" and hosts the podcast, Dan Snow's History Hit. Snow is a convenor of the cross-party political movement, More United. Born in Westminster, Dan Snow is the youngest son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist, and Canadian Ann MacMillan, managing editor emeritus of CBC's London Bureau; thus he holds dual British-Canadian citizenship. Through his mother, he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan and also a great-great-grandson of", "title": "Dan Snow" }, { "id": "5093071", "text": "a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. In 2014 and 2015, he won a Blues Music Award in the category Best Instrumentalist – Harmonicist. Charlie Musselwhite Charles Douglas \"Charlie\" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a \"white bluesman\". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Musselwhite", "title": "Charlie Musselwhite" }, { "id": "13789431", "text": "around 74 in 1970 and remained at that level throughout the rest of the 20th century. Although Doole is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code 76836. Public education in the community of Doole is provided by the Brady Independent School District. Doole, Texas Doole is an unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. According to the \"Handbook of Texas\", the community had an estimated population of 74 in 1990. Rodeo performer and promoter Dan Collins Taylor was born in Doole in 1923, and died there in 2010. For nearly a half-century, he was a chute", "title": "Doole, Texas" }, { "id": "18887910", "text": "the liberal viewpoint against the arch-conservative Abend in heated back-and-forths about social, economic, and political issues. Their debates, which often degenerated into outrageous \"ad hominem\" attacks, were said to be part of the inspiration for Saturday Night Live's \"Point/Counterpoint\" sketch featuring Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd. The Offit-Abend debates were a regular feature of the 10 o'clock news until 1985, though they were briefly revived on Channel 11 in 1992. Following the 1977 publication of a young adult novel, \"What Kind of Guy Do You Think I Am?\", Offit took an almost twenty-year hiatus from long-form writing. He returned in", "title": "Sidney Offit" }, { "id": "1932572", "text": "attracted much attention when he appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 and the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015. John Goodman John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. Early in his career, he was known for playing Dan Conner on the ABC TV series \"Roseanne\" (1988–1997; 2018), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993. He is also a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers on such films as \"Raising Arizona\" (1987), \"Barton Fink\" (1991), \"The Big Lebowski\" (1998), \"O Brother, Where Art Thou?\" (2000), and", "title": "John Goodman" }, { "id": "4791273", "text": "of the Mississippi and in Israel, Colombia and Australia. Eventually both sold their interests in HRC to the Rank Organisation. In 1992, Tigrett started the House of Blues (HOB) with partner Dan Aykroyd. Harvard University was an initial investor in the business and a prototype was opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon after Disney and Andrew Filipowski invested in the venture. Differences of opinion between Tigrett and the other HOB board members over operations resulted in Tigrett leaving the venture in 1998. In the late 1990s, Tigrett launched The Spirit Channel, an enterprise offering services related to spirituality and health through", "title": "Isaac Tigrett" }, { "id": "4304724", "text": "was SORASed\"). Torchin has jokingly called it \"my one greatest contribution to the world of soap operas.\" The practice of rapidly aging characters dates back to the early years of television soap opera. In \"As the World Turns\", Tom Hughes was born onscreen in 1961. By 1970, he had been to college and fought in the Vietnam War. Subsequent recasting exhibited a reverse phenomenon, keeping him in his 30s for 20 years, with Tom hitting his 40s in the 1990s. Dan Stewart, born onscreen on \"As the World Turns\" in 1958, reappeared as a 26-year-old doctor in 1966. On the", "title": "Soap opera rapid aging syndrome" }, { "id": "601914", "text": "on the American late-night comedy show \"Saturday Night Live\". He was originally hired, and paid $278 a week, as a writer for the show, but became a part of the cast before the series premiered. The original cast was referred to on the show as \"The Not Ready For Prime Time Players\". Aykroyd was the youngest member of the cast, and appeared on the show for its first four seasons, from 1975–79. He brought a unique sensibility to the show, combining youth, unusual interests, talent as an impersonator, and an almost lunatic intensity. Guest host Eric Idle of Monty Python", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "10179909", "text": "air campaign (noting the changes in tactics to respond to international pressure) and then the ground attack. No individual engagement is given priority, though an amount of time is given to non-combat events, such as the burning of oil wells and SCUD attacks on Tel-Aviv. Dan Snow experiences operating in gas masks. 20th Century Battlefields 20th Century Battlefields is a BBC documentary television series hosted by television and radio personality Peter Snow, and his son Dan Snow. Episodes cover the major battles of the twentieth century, and is best known for its extensive use of \"sand table\" (often called the", "title": "20th Century Battlefields" }, { "id": "10160824", "text": "musicians. Furthermore, Avant-Mier contends, Russell acquiesced because, from an early age, he seemed to be more comfortable with his American rather than Mexican culture. However, Avant-Mier does not take into consideration (as explained earlier) the context of the place and period that Russell had been born and reared in the United States during the first half of the 20th century and its influence on one's self-identity. The country experienced two World Wars, a Great Depression, and a wave of nationalism and patriotism that fostered a common and united national identity, rather than ethnic pride. Yet, although Russell spoke and understood", "title": "Andy Russell (singer)" }, { "id": "10798312", "text": "his approach and contextualize his influence. John Yeon John Yeon (October 29, 1910 – March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism. Largely self-taught, Yeon’s wide ranging activities encompassed planning, conservation, historic preservation, art collecting, and urban activism. He was a connoisseur of objets d’art as well as landscapes, and one of Oregon’s most gifted architectural designers, even while his output was limited. The family name is pronounced \"yawn\", not \"yee-on\". John Yeon was born in Portland on", "title": "John Yeon" }, { "id": "1649040", "text": "the zeros rolling over, created a sense that a new century had begun. This is similar to the common demarcation of decades by their most significant digits, e.g., naming the period 1980 to 1989 as the 1980s or \"the eighties\". Similarly, it would be valid to celebrate the year 2000 as a cultural event in its own right, and name the period 2000 to 2999 would be \"the 2000s\". In other words, the time period between 1 and 999 (999 years only) would be called the \"0s\" and the period between 1000 and 1999 would be the \"1000s\". The popular", "title": "Millennium" }, { "id": "12356859", "text": "which began around the 1980s also continues into the present. Millennials and Generation Z come of age and rise to prominence in this century. In contemporary history, the 21st century essentially began in 1991 (the end of the Short Twentieth Century) with the United States as the sole superpower in the absence of the Soviet Union, while China began its rise and the BRICS countries aimed to create more balance in the global political and economic spectrum. Religion has been declining worldwide, with an estimated 1.1 billion unaffiliated people in 2010. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003", "title": "21st century" }, { "id": "10513470", "text": "William Aykroyd Sir William Henry Aykroyd, 1st Baronet OStJ (8 May 1865 – 3 April 1947) was an English woollen and carpet manufacturer. He was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Alfred Aykroyd and Ellen (née Milnes), and educated at Thorp Arch Grange, near Wetherby. He entered his uncle's woollen and carpet manufacturing business, T. F. Firth & Sons Ltd, at Brighouse, and later became chairman. He was also chairman of Hammond's Bradford Brewery and managing director of the Bradford Dyers' Association. He was created a baronet in the 1920 Birthday Honours. He was appointed High", "title": "William Aykroyd" }, { "id": "4977012", "text": "named for O'Brien in 1996. The complex underwent a $2.5 million renovation in 2011–12, and he was on hand in Moscow in May 2012 to rededicate it. Dan O'Brien Daniel Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966) is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships (1991, 1993, 1995), and set the world record in 1992. O'Brien was born in Portland, Oregon in 1966. He is of African American and Finnish heritage, and grew up as an adopted child in an Irish-American family in Klamath Falls. He graduated from Henley", "title": "Dan O'Brien" }, { "id": "9474841", "text": "of Uninsky's playing comes from a comment by Dinu Lipatti in a review he wrote in 1937 for \"Libertatea\" in which he says \"How is it possible that Emil Sauer must play in the small Salle Érard, despite his glorious past, when a Brailowsky or Uninsky can pack the Salle Pleyel?\" Alexander Uninsky Alexander Uninsky (; , pronounced You-nin-skee; Kyiv, Dallas, 19 December 1972) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian origin. Alexander Uninsky was born in Kyiv (then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine). He initially studied piano there in the conservatory which had been opened in 1913,", "title": "Alexander Uninsky" }, { "id": "469634", "text": "years referred to starting with \"two-thousand (and)\" rather than \"twenty-oh\". Starting around the middle of the 2010s, it is becoming more common to refer to the individual years of the decade as \"twenty-oh-seven\" or \"twenty-oh-eight\" than it had been during the 2000s, although the \"two thousand (and)\" pattern is still dominant. The War on Terror and War in Afghanistan began after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba'ath Party", "title": "2000s (decade)" }, { "id": "17136008", "text": "Eric Hobsbawm Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. Ideologically a Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. His best-known works include his trilogy about what he called the \"long 19th century\" (\"\", \"\" and \"\"), \"The Age of Extremes\" on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of \"invented traditions\". Hobsbawm was born in Egypt but spent his childhood mostly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the", "title": "Eric Hobsbawm" }, { "id": "3591701", "text": "Interwar period In the context of the history of the 20th century, the interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War in November 1918 and the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939. Despite the relatively short period of time, this period represented an era of significant changes worldwide. Petroleum and associated mechanisation expanded dramatically leading to the Roaring Twenties (and the Golden Twenties), a period of economic prosperity and growth for the middle class in North America, Europe and many other parts of the world. Automobiles, electric lighting, radio broadcasts and more", "title": "Interwar period" }, { "id": "640981", "text": "Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect. He is best known for his works of Modern architecture, including the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his works of postmodern architecture, particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was designed for AT&T, and 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago. In 1978, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize. Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8, 1906, the son of a Cleveland lawyer, Homer Hosea Johnson (1862–1960), and the former", "title": "Philip Johnson" }, { "id": "4557478", "text": "by the outcome of the First World War. The Cold War was a result of the Second World War and ended with the fall of the Soviet Union. The term is analogous to the long 19th century, also coined by Hobsbawm, denoting the period 1789 to 1914, and to the long 18th century, or approximately 1688 to 1815. Short twentieth century The term short 20th century, originally proposed by Iván Berend (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) but defined by Eric Hobsbawm, a British Marxist historian and author, refers to the period between the years 1914 and 1991. The period begins with", "title": "Short twentieth century" }, { "id": "3731225", "text": "Oldies Oldies is a radio format that concentrates on rock and roll and pop music from the latter half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1970s or 1980s. In the 1980s and 1990s, \"oldies\" meant the 15 years from the birth of rock and roll to the beginning of the singer-songwriter era of the early 1970s, or about 1955 to 1972, although this varied and some stations chose 1950–1969. After 2000, 1970s music was increasingly included, and early 1980s music is beginning to also be called \"oldies\", though the term \"classic hits\" is used to", "title": "Oldies" }, { "id": "4509541", "text": "House of Blues House of Blues is a chain of live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues' first location, in Cambridge, Massachusetts' Harvard Square, was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, co-star of the 1980 film \"The Blues Brothers\". The first House of Blues opened on November 26, 1992, in the Harvard Square commercial district and retail area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a live music concert hall and restaurant. The company was originally financed by Dan Aykroyd, Aerosmith, Paul Shaffer, River Phoenix, James", "title": "House of Blues" }, { "id": "3302895", "text": "Harry Fischel Harry Fischel (1865 - 1948) was an American businessman and philanthropist based in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Fischel was one of the leading pioneers in the growth of American Judaism, in general, and in American Jewish Orthodoxy, in particular, particularly in the dynamic precedent-setting first half of the 20th Century. Yisroel Aaron Fischel (later known as Harry) was born on July 19, 1865, in the small, isolated Russian (Now Lithuania) town of Meretz (Merkinė) to poor but pious parents. He became an architect and a builder at 19, emigrated to America virtually", "title": "Harry Fischel" }, { "id": "10798306", "text": "John Yeon John Yeon (October 29, 1910 – March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism. Largely self-taught, Yeon’s wide ranging activities encompassed planning, conservation, historic preservation, art collecting, and urban activism. He was a connoisseur of objets d’art as well as landscapes, and one of Oregon’s most gifted architectural designers, even while his output was limited. The family name is pronounced \"yawn\", not \"yee-on\". John Yeon was born in Portland on October 29, 1910, the son of", "title": "John Yeon" }, { "id": "223618", "text": "named him the second best player in NBA history (behind Michael Jordan). Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author. In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born in New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. He was unusually large and tall from a young age. At birth", "title": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" }, { "id": "6567524", "text": "the north of this bypass. North Oxford has attracted famous residents, such as the authors and academics J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) and Iris Murdoch (1919–1999). Murdoch lived with her husband and fellow academic John Bayley, and the area was featured in the biographical film, \"Iris\". T. E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) grew up in Polstead Road, North Oxford. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate, was an enthusiast about North Oxford and wrote poems mentioning the area, such as \"May-Day Song for North Oxford\": North Oxford North Oxford is a suburban part of the city of Oxford in", "title": "North Oxford" }, { "id": "409774", "text": "\"The Waste Land,\") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and \"one of the twentieth century's major poets\". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "601916", "text": "extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the \"Bag-o-Glass\" toy, perhaps the retail leader of the \"Bag-o\" series of toys); Fred Garvin – male prostitute; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell. He also co-hosted the Weekend Update segment for one season with Jane Curtin, known particularly for their point-counterpoint debates enlivened with vicious personal insults including his catchphrase \"Jane, you ignorant slut\". Aykroyd's eccentric talent was recognized by others in the highly competitive \"SNL\" environment: when he first presented his famous \"Super Bass-O-Matic '76\" sketch, a fake T.V. commercial in which a garish, hyper-pitchman touts a food blender", "title": "Dan Aykroyd" }, { "id": "19020392", "text": "then later as a woodwork teacher at Acland Burghley School. From the mid-1970s, he came to believe that reform of the CPGB was needed, although he opposed its ultimately dissolution, in 1991. He spoke about the anti-fascist movement of the 1930s at events in the late 1980s, to counter the rise of the British National Party. Solly Kaye Solly Kaye (8 October 1913 – 1 May 2005) was a British communist politician. Born in the St Pancras area of London to Jewish parents from Lithuania, Kaye's father died in the Spanish Flu epidemic when he was only five years old,", "title": "Solly Kaye" }, { "id": "20035754", "text": "– 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979 1980 – 1981 – 1982 – 1983 – 1984 – 1985 – 1986 – 1987 – 1988 – 1989 1990 – 1991 – 1992 – 1993 – 1994 – 1995 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998 – 1999 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 Timeline of Senegalese football 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s –", "title": "Timeline of Senegalese football" }, { "id": "2360343", "text": "Michael Penn Michael Daniel Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and composer. He is noted for the 1989 single \"No Myth\", a top 20 hit in the US and successful in several other countries. Penn was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. He is the eldest son of actor and director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, and the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn. He is of Lithuanian Jewish (father) and Irish-Italian (mother) descent. Michael Penn is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and film composer. Prior to the release of his 1989 debut", "title": "Michael Penn" }, { "id": "9834893", "text": "is one of the best guitar players I’ve heard in a long time. He and his band do great tunes with cool arrangements and I love listening to them. They play with taste and fire at the same time.\" The guitarist Little Charlie Baty has said, \"JW is one of the young guns in the blues guitar world who consistently delivers the goods on record and on stage - and of course I'm gonna dig anybody who writes a tune called 'Batyology'!\" (an instrumental that Jones wrote in homage to Baty). The Canadian-born Hollywood actor Dan Aykroyd, who is also", "title": "JW-Jones" }, { "id": "2178617", "text": "Abraham Zapruder Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. Zapruder was born into a Russian Jewish family in the city of Kovel, the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the son of Israel Zapruder. He received only four years of formal education in Russia. In 1920, amid the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, his", "title": "Abraham Zapruder" } ]

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[ { "id": "11623214", "text": "60 Tournament Struggles\" before settling on the final name. The collection begins in 1957, omitting the famous \"Game of the Century\" against Donald Byrne in 1956 (this game had been included in a small, lightly annotated work called \"Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess\", published in 1959). The three losses are to Tal at the Candidates Tournament 1959, Spassky at Mar del Plata 1960, and Geller at Skopje 1967. Among the draws is his only encounter with World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, at the 1962 Varna Olympiad. This game contains the longest piece of analysis in the book, with Fischer concluding that", "title": "My 60 Memorable Games" }, { "id": "5343536", "text": "attempted suicide: On Christmas Eve 1969, doctors called his wife and told her that he probably would not survive the night. In 1972, Pachman was finally allowed to emigrate to West Germany. He soon became known as a strongly anti-Communist political activist, and his eloquence made him a regular guest on political talk shows. Pachman was also a prolific author, publishing eighty books in five languages. In the 1950s, he became the world's leading opening expert with the publication of his four-volume opus, \"Theory of Modern Chess\". Pachman considered \"Modern Chess Strategy\", published in 1959, to be his best book.", "title": "Luděk Pachman" }, { "id": "6435064", "text": "At the 1959 U.S. Open Chess Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier, who won the tournament, often asked Zuckerman, then a Class B player, what opening to play and then followed his advice. Zuckerman became known as \"Zook the Book\" or \"Zuckerbook\" because he knew more about opening theory than could be found in any book. Zuckerman is 22 days younger than Bobby Fischer, and sometimes jested that when he got as old as Fischer he would be just as strong. Zuckerman was one of Fischer's few close friends, and taught him much about the Sicilian Defence and other", "title": "Bernard Zuckerman" }, { "id": "1361133", "text": "earned the company $2 million. Milton Bradley did not stop creating board games, although they did cut their line from 410 titles to 150. New games were introduced during this time, such as the patriotic \"Game of the States,\" \"Chutes & Ladders\" and \"Candyland.\" The advent of the television could have threatened the industry, but Shea used it to his advantage. Various companies acquired licenses to television shows, for the purpose of producing all manner of promotional items, including games. In 1959, Milton Bradley released \"Concentration,\" a memory game based on an NBC television show of the same name; the", "title": "Milton Bradley Company" }, { "id": "5021157", "text": "game played. (Their second game was a draw, after which Fischer won 13 straight—perhaps the longest unbroken winning streak between grandmasters in history.) Fischer, although only aged 13 at the time of this game, was decidedly no pushover: in the same tournament he defeated Donald Byrne in his celebrated Game of the Century. Arthur Bisguier Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929April 5, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer. Bisguier has won two U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949), three U.S. Open Chess Championship titles (1950, 1956, 1959), and the 1954 United States Chess Championship title. He played", "title": "Arthur Bisguier" }, { "id": "5388508", "text": "that Fischer had made to chess. Recalling a conversation from the tournament: Tell me, Bobby,' Tal continued, 'what do you think of the playing style of Larissa Volpert?' 'She's too cautious. But you have another girl, Dmitrieva. Her games do appeal to me!' Here we were left literally open-mouthed in astonishment. Misha and I have looked at thousands of games, but it never even occurred to us to study the games of our women players. How could we find the time for this?! Yet Bobby, it turns out, had found the time! Until late 1959, Fischer \"had dressed atrociously for", "title": "Bobby Fischer" }, { "id": "360448", "text": "saying that \"Stanley is unusually perceptive, and delicately attuned to people. He has an adroit intellect, and is a creative thinker—not a repeater, not a fact-gatherer. He digests what he learns and brings to a new project an original point of view and a reserved passion\". The two worked on a script for six months, begun by a then unknown Sam Peckinpah. Many disputes broke out over the project, and in the end, Kubrick distanced himself from what would become \"One-Eyed Jacks\" (1961). In February 1959, Kubrick received a phone call from Kirk Douglas asking him to direct \"Spartacus\" (1960),", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "id": "5388506", "text": "sensed an enormous amount of work on the study of chess. Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein said of Fischer's time in Portorož: \"It was interesting for me to observe Fischer, but for a long time I couldn't understand why this 15-year-old boy played chess so well\". Fischer became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Candidates and the youngest ever grandmaster at 15 years, 6 months, 1 day. \"By then everyone knew we had a genius on our hands.\" Before the Candidates' Tournament, Fischer won the 1958–59 US Championship (scoring 8½/11). He tied for third (with Borislav Ivkov) in Mar", "title": "Bobby Fischer" }, { "id": "1781579", "text": "one of the leading American chess masters at the time of this game. He won the 1953 U.S. Open Championship, and later represented the United States in the 1962, 1964, and 1968 Chess Olympiads. He became an International Master in 1962, and probably would have risen further if not for ill health. Robert \"Bobby\" Fischer (1943–2008) was at this time a promising young master. Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U.S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957–58 U.S. (Closed) Championship (and all seven later championships in which he played), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and", "title": "The Game of the Century (chess)" }, { "id": "6548807", "text": "tournaments alone. Montagu was awarded the prestigious Lenin Peace Prize in 1959, given by the Soviet government to a number of recipients whose work furthers the cause of Socialism, primarily outside of the USSR. Montagu wrote many pamphlets and books, such as \"Film World\" (1964), \"With Eisenstein in Hollywood\" (1968), and \"The Youngest Son\" (1970). He wrote two books about table tennis: \"Table Tennis Today\" (1924) and \"Table Tennis\" (1936). Ivor Montagu Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist", "title": "Ivor Montagu" }, { "id": "6243523", "text": "CIC and CIA colleague James Eichelberger; he did, however, continue to perform assignments for the Agency on request. Copeland and his family returned to London in 1970. He made regular appearances on British television as an intelligence expert and pursued work in journalism, writing books on foreign policy, an autobiography, and contributing to the conservative American magazine \"National Review\". He helped Waddingtons design a board game, \"The Game of Nations\", in which superpowers compete for influence in \"the imaginary region of Kark\"; the game was loosely based on Copeland's book of the same name. Copeland's memoirs have a strong literary", "title": "Miles Copeland Jr." }, { "id": "4410950", "text": "woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. She won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1944 (scoring 8-0), 1948 (with Karff), 1955 (with Nancy Roos), 1957 (with Sonja Graf), 1962, 1965, 1966 (with Lisa Lane), 1967, and 1969 (at age 63). Gresser learned chess at a very late age. On a cruise from France to New York in the late 1930s, she borrowed a chess manual from a fellow passenger and taught herself how to play. By the end of the cruise, she was hooked. In 1938, she was a spectator at the first U.S. Women's", "title": "Gisela Kahn Gresser" }, { "id": "3281230", "text": "Freddie Redd Freddie Redd (born May 29, 1928) is an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is probably best known for writing music to accompany \"The Connection\" (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. Redd was born and grew up in New York City; after losing his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who moved around Harlem, Brooklyn and other neighborhoods. An autodidact, he began playing the piano at a young age and took to studying jazz seriously upon hearing Charlie Parker during his military service in Korea in the mid-1940s. Upon discharge from the", "title": "Freddie Redd" }, { "id": "11623215", "text": "he missed a win in the endgame. Botvinnik later disputed this, with a refutation from one of his chess school pupils, 13-year-old Garry Kasparov. This is one of the few examples of Fischer's analysis being questioned. Among the wins are his first defeat of a Soviet grandmaster, Paul Keres at Zurich 1959, and his 21-move victory as Black over Robert Byrne at the 1963/64 US Championship. There are seven games from his first Candidates tournament in 1959, but only two from his second at Curaçao 1962. All the games were played under tournament conditions except for a friendly game at", "title": "My 60 Memorable Games" }, { "id": "157516", "text": "George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, \"A Song of Ice and Fire\", which was adapted into the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\" (2011–present). In 2005, Lev Grossman of \"Time\" called Martin \"the American Tolkien\", and in 2011, he was included on the annual \"Time\" 100 list of the most influential people in the world. George Raymond", "title": "George R. R. Martin" }, { "id": "4410907", "text": "Lisa Lane Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey (born April 25, 1938 in Philadelphia) is an American former chess player. She was the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1959, but not a chess master. She appeared on the cover of \"Sports Illustrated\", making her the first chess player to appear on its cover (Bobby Fischer was later). Born in Philadelphia, Lane never knew her father, a leather glazer. As a child, she and her sister Evelyn lived with various neighbors and their grandmother while their mother held down two jobs. In 1957, while attending Temple University, Lisa struck and killed an elderly", "title": "Lisa Lane" }, { "id": "4128583", "text": "of the 1950s include:\"Guys and Dolls\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Kismet\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Fanny\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Silk Stockings\", \"Damn Yankees\", \"Bells Are Ringing\", \"Candide\", \"The Most Happy Fella\", \"The Music Man\", and \"West Side Story\" among others. During the 1950s, some important and award-winning dramas included: \"The Rose Tattoo\" by Tennessee Williams, \"The Crucible\" by Arthur Miller, \"Picnic\" by William Inge, \"The Teahouse of the August Moon\" adapted from the novel by Vern Sneider by John Patrick, \"The Desperate Hours\" by Joseph Hayes, \"The Diary of Anne Frank\" adapted from the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, \"Bus Stop\" by", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "5021149", "text": "Arthur Bisguier Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929April 5, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer. Bisguier has won two U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949), three U.S. Open Chess Championship titles (1950, 1956, 1959), and the 1954 United States Chess Championship title. He played for the United States in five chess Olympiads. He also played in two Interzonal tournaments (1955, 1962). On March 18, 2005, the United States Chess Federation (USCF) proclaimed him \"Dean of American Chess\". Bisguier was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He was taught chess", "title": "Arthur Bisguier" }, { "id": "3309967", "text": "Kids in a Cart\". In 1954 James Reston, the Washington bureau chief of \"The New York Times\", hired Drury. Russell Baker, hired at about the same time, recalled the circumstances in a remembrance published after Drury's death: In his spare time, Drury wrote the novel which would become 1959's \"Advise and Consent\". Drury later wrote a memorandum for his archives at the Hoover Institution in which he gives a full account of how the book came to be written and published. Baker was one of the first people to read the manuscript and describes his initial reluctance and then reaction:", "title": "Allen Drury" }, { "id": "8880842", "text": "small fraternity of players to take a point from Bobby Fischer in a rated game, defeating the 14-year-old Brooklyn prodigy in a 1957 New Jersey tournament. Fischer was the reigning U.S. Junior champion having won \"The Game of the Century\" shortly before this game was played. As a player, Avram was noted for his materialism and his dogged defense, although he was also quite capable of launching sparkling attacks on the king. His chess activity tended to be marked by intervals of great activity followed by periods away from the game. The demands of his intelligence work, family life or", "title": "Herbert Avram" }, { "id": "3281234", "text": "years). He is still active and as such is one of the last of the pioneers of the hardbop golden age still on the scene, most recently completing a European tour in 2013. Freddie Redd Freddie Redd (born May 29, 1928) is an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is probably best known for writing music to accompany \"The Connection\" (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. Redd was born and grew up in New York City; after losing his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who moved around Harlem, Brooklyn and other neighborhoods. An", "title": "Freddie Redd" }, { "id": "4733576", "text": "\"The New York Times\" reported that Lombardy was embroiled in an eviction battle against his landlord, allegedly being several thousand dollars behind in rent. William Lombardy died of a suspected heart attack at the home of a friend, Ralph Palmieri, in Martinez, California, on Friday October 13, 2017. William Lombardy William James Joseph Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest. He was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he coached during the World Chess", "title": "William Lombardy" }, { "id": "10101710", "text": "as another way of learning. With all of this work, Samuel's program reached a respectable amateur status, and was the first to play any board game at this high a level. He continued to work on checkers until the mid-1970s, at which point his program achieved sufficient skill to challenge a respectable amateur. Arthur Samuel Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He coined the term \"machine learning\" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as", "title": "Arthur Samuel" }, { "id": "9748775", "text": "Career (1959 film) Career is a 1959 American drama film co-written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Dean Martin, Tony Franciosa, and Shirley MacLaine. The movie involves actor Sam Lawson (Franciosa), bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the blacklist, something that writer Trumbo knew all too well from being blacklisted himself. \"Career\" was written by Bert Granet, James Lee (whose play served as the foundation for the film), Philip Strong and Trumbo, and directed by Joseph Anthony. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won one", "title": "Career (1959 film)" }, { "id": "14329828", "text": "of many magazine articles. He died at his home in Ann Arbor, aged 77. He was survived by his wife and daughter. Clyde E. Love Clyde Elton Love (December 12, 1882 – January 31, 1960) was an American contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a native of Bancroft, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1905. Love is well known in bridge circles for his 1959 book \"Bridge Squeezes Complete\", one of the earliest efforts to codify then-existing squeeze play. Love established rules for recognizing bridge squeezes, and for", "title": "Clyde E. Love" }, { "id": "17097636", "text": "some point the agency closed its London office and Harry Saltzman took over. Harwood stayed on as his secretary and eventually his reader in the late 1950s. She eventually persuaded him to let her write a film script. Saltzman phoned her one night with an idea for a Bob Hope film and asked her to develop it into an outline. Writing as \"J. M. Harwood\", she wrote a spoof 1959 James Bond short story called \"Some Are Born Great\". Between 1960 and 1961 Harwood and Saltzman adapted the play \"The Marriage Game\" - originally by Mel Tolkin and Lucille Kallen", "title": "Johanna Harwood" }, { "id": "2192668", "text": "a second Library of America collection of Vonnegut's work was released, wrote: Artistically, though, [\"Player Piano\"] is apprentice work—clunky, clumsy, overstuffed. Turn the page to \"The Sirens of Titan\" (1959), however, and it's all there, all at once. Kurt Vonnegut has become Kurt Vonnegut. The spareness hits you first. The first page contains fourteen paragraphs, none of them longer than two sentences, some of them as short as five words. It's like he's placing pieces on a game board—so, and so, and so. The story moves from one intensely spotlit moment to the next, one idea to the next, without", "title": "The Sirens of Titan" }, { "id": "16101823", "text": "home a copy of \"Syndrome\" to his family. He accumulates the most holdings but learns from his children that he has lost; the purpose, according to the instructions, is to give up as much stock and money as possible. The story concludes with the children, who are unfamiliar with \"Monopoly\", \"learning the naturalness of surrendering their holdings\"; one says \"It's the best educational toy you ever brought home, Dad!\" War Game (short story) War Game is a 1959 short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in the magazine \"Galaxy Science Fiction\", in December 1959, and", "title": "War Game (short story)" }, { "id": "591936", "text": "significant publications. A keen ice skater since his schooldays, Jones published an influential textbook on the subject. His passion for chess inspired a psychoanalytical study of the life of American chess genius, Paul Morphy. Jones was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1942, Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1949, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree at Swansea University (Wales) in 1954. Jones died in London on 11 February 1958, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. His ashes were buried in the grave of the oldest of his four", "title": "Ernest Jones" }, { "id": "4410908", "text": "woman while driving her mother's car (Lane was not charged); this, and the end of a love affair, set Lane into a depression. After investing her remaining savings in a Philadelphia bookstore, Lane began playing chess at local coffeehouses and \"winning all the time,\" she said. After coaching by master Attilio Di Camillo, Lane won the women's championship of Philadelphia in 1958 and took her first U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1959 at the age of 21, just two years after she began playing the game. She held this title until 1962, losing it to Gisela Kahn Gresser. Lane had", "title": "Lisa Lane" }, { "id": "9748781", "text": "Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Franciosa) The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Career (1959 film) Career is a 1959 American drama film co-written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Dean Martin, Tony Franciosa, and Shirley MacLaine. The movie involves actor Sam Lawson (Franciosa), bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the blacklist, something that writer Trumbo knew all too well from being blacklisted himself. \"Career\" was written by Bert Granet, James Lee (whose play served as the foundation for the film), Philip Strong and", "title": "Career (1959 film)" }, { "id": "20282718", "text": "Alan Turing: The Enigma Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The American 2014 film \"The Imitation Game\" is loosely based on the book, with dramatization. The following editions of the book exist: New editions appeared in 2012, for the centenary of Turing's birth, and 2014, the year the film \"The Imitation Game\" was released. The book has been widely reviewed by newspapers and magazines including \"The Guardian\", \"The Independent\", \"Los Angeles Times\", \"Nature\", \"New Statesman\",", "title": "Alan Turing: The Enigma" }, { "id": "2497747", "text": "the \"American Chess Magazine\" in 1846, but others copied the idea (which had originated in England), and competition forced the magazine out of business. In 1846 he published the first US book on a chess match, \"31 Games of Chess\" and in 1855 organized the first World Problem Tournament. Stanley is a little-known figure who has been eclipsed by the achievements of the world famous Paul Morphy. He had some matches against Benjamin Raphael, the results of which are unknown. He played Morphy in 1857, losing the title of U.S. Chess Champion to his far superior opponent. He was married,", "title": "Charles Henry Stanley" }, { "id": "4994771", "text": "and drew against world champion Alexander Alekhine. Reinfeld wrote his first book about a subject other than chess in 1948—an abridged version of Charles Dickens' famous work \"Oliver Twist\". Reinfeld also wrote books on a number of other subjects, including checkers (\"How to Win at Checkers\"), numismatics (\"Coin Collector's Handbook\"), philately (\"Commemorative Stamps of the U.S.A.\"), geology (\"Treasures of the Earth\"), history (\"Trappers of the West\"), medicine (\"Miracle Drugs and the New Age of Medicine\"), physics (\"Rays Visible and Invisible\"), political science (\"The Biggest Job in the World: The American Presidency\"), and jurisprudence (\"The Great Dissenters: Guardians of Their Country's", "title": "Fred Reinfeld" }, { "id": "3201453", "text": "John Littlewood (chess player) John Eric Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006. Perhaps his most famous game was the one he lost against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings International Chess Congress 1961/2. Littlewood launched a fearsome attack which Botvinnik was able to defend only by means of a tactical finesse. Botvinnik chose to include the game in his autobiographical \"Best Games 1947–1970\". John Littlewood was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1931, the fourth of his eleven", "title": "John Littlewood (chess player)" }, { "id": "9594666", "text": "is given to Susan Glaspell, Arthur Richman, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, John Howard Lawson, Paul Green, Paul & Claire Sifton, George Sklar & Albert Maltz, Paul Peters & George Sklar, John Wexley, Clifford Odets, Albert Bein, Irwin Shaw, Emanuel Eisenberg, Sidney Kingsley, Marc Blitzstein, and Ben Bengal. Flexner regrets in her 1969 preface to the book that she did not include Lorraine Hansberry, Arthur Miller, and Lillian Hellman among the playwrights singled out for special notice. \"Century of Struggle\", originally published in 1959, became a point of departure for generations of historians who built the field of women's history. Professor", "title": "Eleanor Flexner" }, { "id": "397012", "text": "captures the highest. Players who do not know their teammates may not be able to tell which team other players are on, creating incomplete information and opportunities for bluffing. Unlike the vast literature for chess, checkers and backgammon, as of 2016, there are no books or periodicals devoted to \"Stratego\". The game remains in production, with new versions continuing to appear every few years. These are a few of the notable ones. In addition, the first U.S. edition (1961) Milton Bradley set, and a special edition 1963 set called \"Stratego Fine\", had wooden pieces. The 1961 wood pieces had a", "title": "Stratego" }, { "id": "12894859", "text": "Philip Walsingham Sergeant Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872, Notting Hill, London – 20 October 1952) was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. He collaborated on the fifth (1933), sixth (1939), and seventh (1946) editions of \"Modern Chess Openings\", an important reference work on the chess openings. He also wrote biographical game collections of Paul Morphy (\"Morphy's Games of Chess\" (1916) and \"Morphy Gleanings\"), Rudolf Charousek (\"Charousek's Games of Chess\" (1919)), and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (\"Pillsbury's Chess Career\", with W. H. Watts, 1922), and other important books such as \"A Century of British Chess\" (1934) and", "title": "Philip Walsingham Sergeant" }, { "id": "395995", "text": "\"Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles\" was published (1914) by his son. His son, named after his father, dropped the \"Jr\" from his name and started publishing reprints of his father's puzzles. Loyd (senior) was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame in 1987. Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as \"the\" greatest. Martin Gardner featured Loyd in his August 1957 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American and called him \"America's greatest puzzler\". In 1898 \"The Strand\" dubbed him \"the prince of puzzlers\". As a chess problemist, his composing style is distinguished by", "title": "Sam Loyd" }, { "id": "9246619", "text": "of securing a better idea of the other's plan as the game progresses. Players can also speak or gesture to their opponents during matches, hoping to create a false impression about the identity of their pieces or their overall strategy. This game was invented by Sofronio H. Pasola, Jr. with the inspiration of his son Ronnie Pasola. The Pasolas first tried the \"Game of the Generals\" on a chessboard. Even then, the pieces had no particular arrangement. There were no spies in the experimental game; but after Ronnie Pasola remembered the Marvin Bond movies and Mata Hari, he added the", "title": "Game of the Generals" }, { "id": "4410911", "text": "ago are the most important things in my life.\" In the 1970s, Lane and her husband opened a gift shop called \"Amber Waves of Grain\" (now called \"Earth Lore\"), in Pawling, New York. Miss Lane appeared as a contestant on the May, 21 1961 episode of the TV show To Tell the Truth. All four panel members, Polly Bergen, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston, correctly guessed her identity. Lisa Lane Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey (born April 25, 1938 in Philadelphia) is an American former chess player. She was the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1959, but not a", "title": "Lisa Lane" }, { "id": "8847726", "text": "drawing his game in the last round with 13-year-old Bobby Fischer. He wrote a weekly chess column for \"The Hamilton Spectator\", 1955–1964, and was co-author (along with Keith Kerns) of the tournament book of the Fourth Biennial World Junior Chess Championship, Toronto 1957. In this book, he came up with a small innovation, writing the moves in descriptive notation with no '-'; that is, he wrote PK4 instead of the normal P-K4 (see Descriptive chess notation). He was a computer expert, and played with a computer chess program in 1958. He moved to California after the 1964 Olympiad, where he", "title": "Frank Anderson (chess player)" }, { "id": "551640", "text": "Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier \"Tennessee\" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of \"The Glass Menagerie\" (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1947), \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" (1955), and \"Sweet Bird of Youth\" (1959). With his", "title": "Tennessee Williams" }, { "id": "5388609", "text": "their admiration of him.\" German grandmaster Karsten Müller wrote: Fischer, who had taken the highest crown almost singlehandedly from the mighty, almost invincible Soviet chess empire, shook the whole world, not only the chess world, to its core. He started a chess boom not only in the United States and in the Western hemisphere, but worldwide. Teaching chess or playing chess as a career had truly become a respectable profession. After Bobby, the game was simply not the same. Fischer won the Chess Oscar (an award, started in 1967, given to the best chess player, determined through votes from chess", "title": "Bobby Fischer" }, { "id": "13570375", "text": "a member of Hastings Chess Club and was president of the club from 1999 to 2009. He won the Hastings club championship in 1994 and 2001 and was joint winner in 1995 and 1996. He won the Sussex Chess Championship in 1996 and 2003. Bernard Cafferty Bernard Cafferty (born 27 June 1934 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English chess master, columnist, writer, magazine editor and translator. Cafferty was one of the leading English chess players of the late 1950s and 1960s, ranking amongst the top ten players in 1959 and 1960 (2b on the old grading scale which is equivalent", "title": "Bernard Cafferty" }, { "id": "4580221", "text": "Bashevis Singer. Noteworthy artists and photographers who have contributed over the years include Ansel Adams, Harrison Cady, Joseph Csatari, Salvador Dalí, Philippe Halsman, Mike MacDonald, Norman Rockwell, and Jerome Rozen. Donald Keith's \"Time Machine\" series of stories appeared between 1959 and 1989. Bobby Fischer wrote the chess column \"Checkmate\" from 1966 until 1969. In the first season of the television series \"Mad Men\", Pete Campbell hopes to compete with his colleague, Ken Cosgrove, who was published in \"Atlantic Monthly\". Campbell is then disappointed to learn he will be published, instead, in \"Boys' Life\", and that he must pay a $40", "title": "Boys' Life" }, { "id": "1983585", "text": "wrote in 1955 \"The Chess Machine: An Example of Dealing with a Complex Task by Adaptation\", which \"outlined an imaginative design for a computer program to play chess in humanoid fashion\" (Simon). His work came to the attention of economist (and future nobel laureate) Herbert A. Simon, and, together with programmer J. C. Shaw, they developed the first true artificial intelligence program, the Logic Theorist. Newell's work on the program laid the foundations of the field. His inventions included: list processing, the most important programming paradigm used by AI ever since; the application of means-ends analysis to general reasoning (or", "title": "Allen Newell" }, { "id": "1459253", "text": "Capablanca, and the contrast between the British tendency towards modesty and the Latin and American tendency to say \"I played this game as well as it could be played\" if he honestly thought that it was correct. Capablanca himself said, in his author's note prefacing \"My Chess Career\": \"Conceit I consider a foolish thing, but more foolish still is the false modesty that vainly attempts to conceal which all facts tend to prove.\" Fischer also admired this frankness. Du Mont also said that Capablanca was rather sensitive to criticism, and chess historian Edward Winter documented a number of examples of", "title": "José Raúl Capablanca" }, { "id": "5298390", "text": "Robert Surtees (cinematographer) Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. (August 9, 1906 – January 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won three Academy Awards for the films \"King Solomon's Mines\", \"The Bad and the Beautiful\" and the 1959 version of \"Ben Hur\". Surtees worked at various studios, including Universal, UFA, Warner Brothers, and MGM, lighting for such luminaries as Howard Hawks, Mike Nichols, and William Wyler, gaining him a reputation as one of the most versatile cinematographers of his time. Robert L. Surtees was born in Covington, Kentucky, on September 8, 1906. He grew up in Ohio where he got a", "title": "Robert Surtees (cinematographer)" }, { "id": "8925568", "text": "of the film Wheel of Fate, which Atkinson co-wrote with Guy Elmes. In 1958 \"The Big City or the New Mayhew\" was published. Written by Atkinson and illustrated by Ronald Searle, this collection of humorous character studies had appeared previously in Punch. These studies were based upon the journalism of Henry Mayhew, particularly his famous survey \"London Labour and the London Poor\" which appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper, throughout the 1840s. Atkinson again collaborated with Ronald Searle in 1959 publishing the humorous book, \"By the Rocking Chair Across America\". The book opened with a statement by Atkinson, \"Too Many", "title": "Alex Atkinson" }, { "id": "13987411", "text": "He also developed a number of therapeutic activities, including intergenerational games. Two of his creations were patented, a combination of chess and scrabble called World War Three and a variation of cribbage. He is featured in the 2009 documentary film on Alzheimer's and the creative arts \"I Remember Better When I Paint\". Cohen died at 65 of prostate cancer on November 7, 2009, in Kensington, Maryland. He had two children, Alex Cohen and Eliana Miller-Cohen.\" Gene D. Cohen Gene D. Cohen (1944–2009) was an American psychiatrist who pioneered research into geriatric mental health. He was the first head of the", "title": "Gene D. Cohen" }, { "id": "3863579", "text": "Eugene Burdick Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918 – July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of \"The Ugly American\" (1958), \"Fail-Safe\" (1962), and author of \"The 480\" (1965). He was born in Sheldon, Iowa, the son of Marie Ellerbroek and Jack Dale Burdick. His family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was four years of age. He attended Stanford University, served in the Navy during World War II, after which he pursued his graduate studies at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1948. He worked at the department of", "title": "Eugene Burdick" }, { "id": "5372838", "text": "Mark Frost Mark Frost (born November 25, 1953) is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series \"Hill Street Blues\" and as the co-creator of the television series \"Twin Peaks\". Frost was a writer for the NBC television series \"Hill Street Blues\". He co-created the ABC television series \"Twin Peaks\" and \"On the Air\" with David Lynch. He co-wrote and directed the film \"Storyville\", co-wrote \"Fantastic Four\" and wrote \"The Greatest Game Ever Played\", based on his book of the same name. His other books on golf are \"The Match: The", "title": "Mark Frost" }, { "id": "10107468", "text": "Weaver W. Adams Weaver Warren Adams (April 28, 1901 – January 6, 1963) was an American chess master, author, and opening theoretician. His greatest competitive achievement was winning the U.S. Open Championship in 1948. He played in the U.S. Championship five times. Adams is most famous for his controversial claim that the first move 1.e4 confers a winning advantage upon White. He continually advocated this theory in books and magazine articles from 1939 until shortly before his death. Adams' claim has generally been scorned by the chess world. However, International Master Hans Berliner in a 1999 book professed admiration for", "title": "Weaver W. Adams" }, { "id": "6860474", "text": "a stroke. Mary Loos Mary Loos (May 6, 1910 – October 11, 2004) was an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She was occasionally credited under her full name, Mary Anita Loos. Born in San Diego, she was the daughter of Dr. Clifford Loos, co-founder of the Ross-Loos Medical Clinic and the Ross-Loos Medical Group, the first Health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States. She was the niece of screenwriter Anita Loos. She was both co-creator and one of the writers for \"Yancy Derringer\" (1958-1959), an American Western TV series. Mary Loos died in Monterey, California, aged 94, due to", "title": "Mary Loos" }, { "id": "1956397", "text": "Chess (musical) Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Richard Nelson based on an idea by Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War–era chess tournament between two grandmasters from America and the USSR and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster (named Freddie Trumper in the stage version) was loosely based on Bobby Fischer, while", "title": "Chess (musical)" }, { "id": "14244345", "text": "and USCF-rated chess master. In the late 1980s he composed the soundtracks for the original versions of \"Karateka\" and \"Prince of Persia\" (video games) both developed by his oldest son Jordan Mechner. Mechner has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies since 1985. Francis Mechner Francis Mechner is an American research psychologist best known for having developed and introduced (in 1959) a formal symbolic language for the codification and notation of behavioral contingencies. He has published articles about the language's applications in economics, finance, education, environment, business management, biology, clinical practice, and", "title": "Francis Mechner" }, { "id": "4177035", "text": "Roswell Garst Roswell \"Bob\" Garst (June 13, 1898 – November 4, 1977) was an American farmer and seed company executive. He developed hybrid corn seed in 1930 that allowed greater crop yields than open-pollinated corn. He was perhaps most well known for hosting Nikita Khrushchev on his farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa, on September 23, 1959. He sold hybrid seed to the Soviet Union beginning in 1955 and played a role in improving US-Soviet communication. Roswell Garst's parents were Edward Garst and Bertha Goodwin. He married Elizabeth Henak on January 31, 1921. Garst was founder of Garst & Thomas Co.,", "title": "Roswell Garst" }, { "id": "13522870", "text": "is best known for several photographs he took in 1958 of the French artist Marcel Duchamp, especially one of him moving chess pieces behind a sheet of glass. Examples of Rosenberg's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He lived in East Hampton, New York, with his wife Rochelle. Arnold T. Rosenberg Arnold T. Rosenberg (1931-2017) is a photographer. He began his career in the 1950s as an assistant to Irving Penn. In 1961, Rosenberg opened his own commercial", "title": "Arnold T. Rosenberg" }, { "id": "170176", "text": "ago\", according to Truscott. \"The Goren syndicated column now has an international flavor: It carries the bylines of the movie star Omar Sharif, an Egyptian who lives in Paris, and an entrepreneur, Tannah Hirsch, a South African who came to the United States via Israel.\" Citations Charles Goren Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as \"Mr. Bridge\" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the", "title": "Charles Goren" }, { "id": "20282719", "text": "\"New Yorker\", \"New York Times\", \"Notices of the American Mathematical Society\", \"Sunday Times\", \"Time Out\", \"Times Literary Supplement\", \"Wall Street Journal\". The book inspired the 2014 film \"The Imitation Game\", directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Alan Turing: The Enigma Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The American 2014 film \"The Imitation Game\" is loosely based on the book, with dramatization. The following editions of the book exist: New editions", "title": "Alan Turing: The Enigma" }, { "id": "5388510", "text": "Fischer released his first book of collected games: \"Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess\", published by Simon & Schuster. Fischer's interest in chess became more important than schoolwork, to the point that \"by the time he reached the fourth grade, he'd been in and out of six schools.\" In 1952, Regina got Bobby a scholarship (based on his chess talent and \"astronomically high IQ\") to Brooklyn Community Woodward. Fischer later attended Erasmus Hall High School at the same time as Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. In 1959, its student council awarded him a gold medal for his chess achievements. The same", "title": "Bobby Fischer" }, { "id": "8993809", "text": "personal virtues as a means to that end. This complemented America's burgeoning fascination with obtaining wealth, and with \"the causal relationship between character and wealth,\" in the years following the Civil War. The game—and later board games produced by the Milton Bradley Company—also fit the nation's increasing amount of leisure time, leading to great financial success for the company. Through the 20th century the company he founded in 1860, Milton Bradley Company, dominated the production of American games, including \"The Game of Life\", \"Easy Money\", \"Candy Land\", \"Operation\", and \"Battleship\". The company is now a subsidiary of Pawtucket, Rhode Island–based", "title": "Milton Bradley" }, { "id": "11716641", "text": "this view, which he introduced in his 1939 book \"White to Play and Win\", and continued to expound in later books and articles until shortly before his death in 1963. Adams opined that 1.e4 was White's strongest move, and that if both sides played the best moves thereafter, \"White ought to win.\" Adams' claim was widely ridiculed, and he did not succeed in demonstrating the validity of his theory in tournament and match practice. The year after his book was published, at the finals of the 1940 U.S. Open tournament, he scored only one draw in his four games as", "title": "First-move advantage in chess" }, { "id": "17493602", "text": "Lucille Kallen Lucille Kallen (May 28, 1922, Los Angeles, California – January 18, 1999, Ardsley, New York) was an American writer, screenwriter, playwright, composer, and lyricist. She was best known for being the only woman in the most famous TV writers' room, the one that created Sid Caesar's \"Your Show of Shows\" from 1950-54. She also worked extensively on Broadway, was a long-time writing partner of Mel Tolkin, and published six novels, including a series of mysteries featuring the character C.B. Greenfield. \"The Mystery Fancier\" discussed and reviewed her books, and one was quoted in \"English Historical Syntax and Morphology\".", "title": "Lucille Kallen" }, { "id": "11623217", "text": "made this move as though it were the most natural one on the board.\" From the game versus Botvinnik: \"I could see by the glint in his eye that he had come well armed for my King's Indian.\" He also gives his opinions on the opening, mentioning that he had \"never opened with the QP <nowiki>[</nowiki>queen pawn<nowiki>]</nowiki>—on principle\" and that 1.e4 is \"Best by test.\" \"My 60 Memorable Games\" was enthusiastically received by the chess community and was an immediate success. A review in \"British Chess Magazine\" in December 1969 called it \"a great book without a doubt, and [it]", "title": "My 60 Memorable Games" }, { "id": "3871353", "text": "well as playing. By the age of 18, he had already published \"David Bronstein's Best Games of Chess, 1944–1949\" and the \"Vienna International Tournament, 1922\". His book \"New Ideas in Chess\" was published in 1958, and was later reprinted. He wrote or co-wrote more than twenty books on chess. He wrote the tenth edition of the important openings treatise \"Modern Chess Openings\" (1965), co-authored with editor Walter Korn. He also wrote the introductions to Fischer's \"My 60 Memorable Games\" (1969) and urged the future world champion to publish when he had initially been reluctant to do so. Some of Evans's", "title": "Larry Evans" }, { "id": "1341121", "text": "Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its \"sensual, ingenious style\" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. Roth first gained attention with the 1959 novella \"Goodbye, Columbus\", for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He became one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. His books twice received the National", "title": "Philip Roth" }, { "id": "7797149", "text": "King's Gambit, Fischer Defense The Fischer Defense to the King's Gambit is a chess opening variation that begins with the moves: Although 3...d6 was previously known, it did not become a major variation until Fischer advocated it in a famous 1961 article in the first issue of the \"American Chess Quarterly\". In the \"Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings\", the Fischer Defense is given the code C34. After Bobby Fischer lost a 1960 game at Mar del Plata to Boris Spassky, in which Spassky played the Kieseritzky Gambit, Fischer left in tears and promptly went to work at devising a new defense", "title": "King's Gambit, Fischer Defense" }, { "id": "2022785", "text": "Russ Chauvenet Louis Russell \"Russ\" Chauvenet (February 12, 1920 – June 24, 2003) was a champion chess player and one of the founders of science fiction fandom. Chauvenet was the U.S. Amateur Champion in 1959, as well as state champion for Virginia in 1942 through 1948 and for Maryland in 1963, 1969 and 1976. He also wrote columns for \"Chess Life\". Chauvenet reached the level of Expert, a rating better than nine out of 10 chess players involved in tournament play. In 1991, Chauvenet won the fourth National Deaf Championship, in Austin, Texas. In 1992, at Edinburgh, Scotland, the International", "title": "Russ Chauvenet" }, { "id": "3348214", "text": "as a product of “prison labor”. It was eventually returned to Chessman in late 1957, and published in 1960. Chessman's books and public campaign ignited a worldwide movement to spare his life, while focusing attention on the larger question of the death penalty in the United States, at a time when most Western countries had abandoned it, or were in the process of doing so. The office of California Governor Pat Brown was flooded with appeals for clemency from noted authors and intellectuals from around the world, including Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Dwight MacDonald, and Robert Frost, and", "title": "Caryl Chessman" }, { "id": "121546", "text": "Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "16993712", "text": "innocent, unpretentious earnestness of address,\" \"Crime and Punishment U.S.A.\" \"is a moderately interesting attempt to state the material of a vast symphony with a small jazz combination.” Roger Corman later said the film \"lost me a lot of money.\" Crime and Punishment U.S.A. Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959) is an American feature film, directed by Denis Sanders, and is— as the \"New York Times\" put it, “a beat generation version”—of the novel \"Crime and Punishment\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film was released on November 1, 1959, is 96 minutes in length, and shot in black-and-white. In addition to making some", "title": "Crime and Punishment U.S.A." }, { "id": "20343397", "text": "precocious children and adolescents of mid-twentieth-century American fiction—a dazzling lot that includes the tomboys Frankie of Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding (1946) and Scout Finch of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the murderous eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark of William March’s The Bad Seed (1954), and the slightly older, disaffected Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—none is more memorable than eighteen-year-old “Merricat” of Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece of Gothic suspense We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)... Merricat speaks with a seductive and", "title": "Mary Katherine Blackwood" }, { "id": "4410949", "text": "Gisela Kahn Gresser Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 Detroit, Michigan – December 4, 2000) was an American chess player. She dominated women’s chess for more than three decades. She won nine national titles from 1944 and 1969. She was the first American woman to gain the standing of master. She was (with Mona May Karff) one of the first two female chess players in the United States, and one of the first seventeen players in the world, to be awarded the title of Woman International Master in 1950 when FIDE created official titles. She was also the first American", "title": "Gisela Kahn Gresser" }, { "id": "1781578", "text": "The Game of the Century (chess) In chess, The Game of the Century is a chess game played between 26-year-old Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed \"The Game of the Century\" by Hans Kmoch in \"Chess Review\". Kmoch wrote, \"The following game, a stunning masterpiece of play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.\" Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was", "title": "The Game of the Century (chess)" }, { "id": "11623218", "text": "can go straight on the shelf alongside Alekhine and Tarrasch and fear no comparisons.\" Upon its reissue in 1995 the same magazine suggested that it could be the best chess book ever written. Fischer was praised for his honesty and the depth and accuracy of his annotations. The book has had a great influence on today's top players. Peter Biyiasas became an International Master by studying only two books: \"Rook Endings\" by Levenfish and Smyslov (see Chess endgame literature#Rook endings), and \"My 60 Memorable Games\". It was also Grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi's first chess book. He said, \"the games were... fantastic!\"", "title": "My 60 Memorable Games" }, { "id": "10267823", "text": "Jack Gelber Jack Gelber (April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama \"The Connection\", depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians. The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations. Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the MFA program in playwriting. In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition", "title": "Jack Gelber" }, { "id": "6860473", "text": "Mary Loos Mary Loos (May 6, 1910 – October 11, 2004) was an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She was occasionally credited under her full name, Mary Anita Loos. Born in San Diego, she was the daughter of Dr. Clifford Loos, co-founder of the Ross-Loos Medical Clinic and the Ross-Loos Medical Group, the first Health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States. She was the niece of screenwriter Anita Loos. She was both co-creator and one of the writers for \"Yancy Derringer\" (1958-1959), an American Western TV series. Mary Loos died in Monterey, California, aged 94, due to complications following", "title": "Mary Loos" }, { "id": "4383836", "text": "20.Qe4 Be3+ 21.Kh1 Bh3 22.Rf1+ Kg5 23.Bh7 1–0 Arnold Denker Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 20, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player, Grandmaster, and chess author. He was U.S. Chess Champion in 1944 and 1946. In later years he served in various chess organizations, receiving recognition from the United States Chess Federation, including in 2004 the highest honor, \"Dean of American Chess\". Denker was born on February 20, 1914 in the Bronx, New York City, in an Orthodox Jewish family. According to Denker himself, he learned chess in 1923 watching his elder brothers play, but took up", "title": "Arnold Denker" }, { "id": "14763973", "text": "Egyptian game called senet, the earliest known board game; a custom-made set of chess furniture that belonged to Bobby Fischer, and the first commercial chess computer. Rotating exhibitions feature items from the permanent collection; the museum also mounts two temporary exhibitions per year. The Hall of Fame also commemorates the careers of its members. There are 52 members in the U.S. Hall of Fame, including Bobby Fischer, John W. Collins, Larry Evans, Benjamin Franklin, George Koltanowski, Sammy Reshevsky, Paul Morphy, and Arnold Denker. There are 19 members in the World Hall of Fame, including José Raúl Capablanca, Anatoly Karpov, Garry", "title": "World Chess Hall of Fame" }, { "id": "1273471", "text": "or correctly claiming no solution. Incomplete solutions are awarded an appropriate proportion of the points available. The solver amassing the most points is the winner. Just as in over-the-board play, the titles International Grandmaster, International Master and FIDE Master are awarded by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) for especially distinguished problem and study composers and solvers (unlike over-the-board chess, however, there are no women-only equivalents to these titles in problem chess). For composition, the International Master title was established in 1959, with André Chéron, Arnoldo Ellerman, Alexander Gerbstmann, Jan Hartong, Cyril Kipping and", "title": "Chess problem" }, { "id": "1746938", "text": "but was unsuccessful. American television producer Bob Mann wanted Michener to co-create a weekly anthology series from \"Tales of the South Pacific\" and serve as narrator. Rodgers and Hammerstein, however, had bought all dramatic rights to the novel and did not relinquish their ownership. Michener did lend his name to a different television series, \"Adventures in Paradise\", in 1959, starring Gardner McKay as Captain Adam Troy in the sailing ship \"Tiki III\". Michener was a popular writer during his lifetime; his novels sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. His novel \"Hawaii\" (1959), well-timed on its publication when Hawaii became", "title": "James A. Michener" }, { "id": "121455", "text": "Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "8221126", "text": "to his fellow Philadelphians, contributions which included the ideas of public libraries and a volunteer fire department. Richard Easton plays Franklin; Colm Feore narrates. The Making of a Revolutionary. Beginning in 1757, his years in London, sent from Pennsylvania on a mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands. Franklin arrived as an ardent admirer of the empire as well as a lover of the American colonies (“There's nothing I want more than the prosperity of both,” he says). Seventeen years later, he left—a revolutionary. The Chess Master. The final 14 years of his life, nine of", "title": "Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series)" }, { "id": "7188403", "text": "Robert Frederick Foster Robert Frederick Foster (May 31, 1853 – December 25, 1945) of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training promoter and the prolific writer of more than 50 nonfiction books. He wrote primarily on the rules of play and methods for successful play of card, dice, and board games. Alan Truscott wrote 20 years after his death that Foster \"had been one of the great figures in whist and bridge\" for 60 years. R. F. Foster was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 31, 1853, the son of Alexander Frederick and Mary E.", "title": "Robert Frederick Foster" }, { "id": "6596237", "text": "Los Alamos chess Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program. This program was written at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the computer in 1956. The reduction of the board size and the number of pieces from standard chess was due to the very limited capacity of computers at the time. The starting position is illustrated. All rules are as in chess except: The computer played three games. The first it played against itself.", "title": "Los Alamos chess" }, { "id": "1829419", "text": "honor. His attempt to create a general theory of all competitive activities were followed by more consistent efforts from von Neumann on game theory, and his later writings about card games presented a significant issue in the mathematical analysis of card games. However, his dramatic and philosophical works have never been highly regarded. Lasker was a good friend of Albert Einstein, who wrote the introduction to the posthumous biography \"Emanuel Lasker, The Life of a Chess Master\" from Dr. Jacques Hannak (1952). In this preface Einstein express his satisfaction at having met Lasker, writing: Poet Else Lasker-Schüler was his sister-in-law.", "title": "Emanuel Lasker" }, { "id": "10861558", "text": "was no evidence of Dr. Rhoads' killing patients or transplanting cancer cells, the letter itself was reprehensible enough to remove his name from the award.\" The AACR agreed with his conclusion. Eric Rosenthal of \"Oncology Times\" in 2003 characterized the case as the AACR having to \"deal with the embarrassment of having history catch up to modern-day sensibilities.\" He wrote, The complicated legacy of Cornelius \"Dusty\" Rhoads, who died in 1959, should not cause society to promote nor deny his existence but should provide a perspective that neither condones what he wrote or thought—or the whitewashing of the incident by", "title": "Cornelius P. Rhoads" }, { "id": "6596239", "text": "Ra5 17.f3 Ra4 18.fxe4 c4 19.Nf3+ Kd6 20.e5+ Kd5 21.exf6=Q Nc5 22.Qxd4+ Kc6 23.Ne5 Bibliography Los Alamos chess Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program. This program was written at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the computer in 1956. The reduction of the board size and the number of pieces from standard chess was due to the very limited capacity of computers at the time. The starting position is illustrated. All rules are", "title": "Los Alamos chess" }, { "id": "4607481", "text": "Andrew Soltis Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in September 2011. Soltis learned how the chess pieces moved at age 10 when he came upon a how-to-play book in the public library in Astoria, Queens where he grew up. He took no further interest in the game until he was 14, when he joined an Astoria chess club, then the Marshall Chess Club and competed in his first tournament, the 1961 New York City Junior Championship. In", "title": "Andrew Soltis" }, { "id": "16101821", "text": "War Game (short story) War Game is a 1959 short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in the magazine \"Galaxy Science Fiction\", in December 1959, and has since been re-published in two anthologies and at least twenty-four collections. The Ganymedans are considering war with Earth. A group of Earth toy safety inspectors examine three new toys from Ganymede to discover if they should be allowed to be imported: A toy soldier game where 12 soldiers attack a citadel, a virtual reality suit, and \"Syndrome\", a \"Monopoly\"-like board game. The inspectors determine that the citadel is", "title": "War Game (short story)" }, { "id": "347522", "text": "American Society of Questioned Document Examiners\", I would not recommend publication of the Giles Report because the report does not show how its conclusion was reached. To the question, 'Is the writing Roger Casement's?' on the basis of the Giles Report as it stands, my answer would have to be I cannot tell.\" Marcel Matley, a second document examiner, stated, \"Even if every document examined were the authentic writing of Casement, this report does nothing to establish the fact.\" A very brief expert opinion in 1959 by a Home Office employee failed to identify Casement as author of the diaries.", "title": "Roger Casement" }, { "id": "354421", "text": "Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel \"Fahrenheit 451\" (1953), and his science-fiction and horror-story collections, \"The Martian Chronicles\" (1950), \"The Illustrated Man\" (1951), and \"I Sing the Body Electric\" (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel \"Dandelion Wine\" (1957) and", "title": "Ray Bradbury" }, { "id": "8687372", "text": "to New York City and bribed him to come back, continue with Blake, and he was given the bonus of editing books for Hamling's Regency Books, again \"a clean thing to cover his ass with.\" Under the Regency imprint Hamling published novels and anthologies by writers such as B. Traven, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Bloch, Philip José Farmer, and Clarence Cooper, Jr. In 1959, along with Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison wrote pornography for Hamling's Nightstand Books. His best known work was \"Sex Gang\" (Nightstand Book, NB1503, November 1959), as by Paul Merchant. \"Sex Gang\" would become the only porn novel he", "title": "William Hamling (publisher)" }, { "id": "19046549", "text": "Hayden W. Lingo Hayden W. Lingo, often cited as \"the man who invented the billiards game of One Pocket\", was a prominent early proponent of the game, and a top player in the United States in the 1940s through the 1960s. His rules are said to be those adopted as the basis for the rules used in the first Jansco brothers' Johnston City One Pocket Tournament in 1961, and the first published rules for the modern game. A resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Lingo travelled widely in pursuit of competition, as far afield as Boston, Massachusetts. Described as well-dressed and", "title": "Hayden W. Lingo" }, { "id": "5388612", "text": "organized by the Brooklyn YMCA Chess and Checker Club, and in a correspondence chess tournament organized by \"Chess Review\". Bobby Fischer Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a known as \"The Game of the Century\". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest", "title": "Bobby Fischer" }, { "id": "10803611", "text": "As Milton Scott: As Scott Michel: Charles Strouse's \"Sixth Finger Theme\", originally written for the play \"Sixth Finger In A Five Finger Glove\", was used as the original theme music for \"The Price Is Right\" from 1956-1961. Hubin, Allen J. \"Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography\". New York: Garland, 1984. Milton Scott Michel Milton Scott Michel (October 23, 1916 – July 8, 1992) was an American crime fiction writer and playwright. His most notable work was published in the 1940s – 1960s. He attended New York University from 1935–1941, and worked as a technician for a diagnostic x-ray lab in", "title": "Milton Scott Michel" }, { "id": "28571", "text": "Matt Wayne, and editing a drama column in the magazine \"The New Masses\". Two months after Miller died Peter O'Toole called him a \"bore\" and Roger Kimball went on record saying that Miller's artistic accomplishments were meager. Critical articles Organizations Archive Databases Websites Interviews Obituaries Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are \"All My Sons\" (1947), \"Death of a Salesman\" (1949), \"The Crucible\" (1953) and \"A View from the Bridge\" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote", "title": "Arthur Miller" }, { "id": "19435886", "text": "James Bond. Several of Deighton's works have been adapted for screen: the films \"The Ipcress File\" (1965), \"Funeral in Berlin\" (1966), \"Billion Dollar Brain\" (1967) and \"Spy Film\" (1976). In 1988 Granada Television produced the miniseries \"Game, Set and Match\" based on his trilogy of the same name. Len Deighton bibliography Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied career, including as a pastry cook, waiter, co-editor of a magazine, teacher and air steward before writing his first novel in 1962: \"The", "title": "Len Deighton bibliography" } ]

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[ { "id": "4117670", "text": "ultrasonic toothbrushes, depending on whether they make movements that are below, in or above the audible range (20–20,000 Hz or 2400–2,400,000 movements per minute), respectively. The first electric toothbrush was produced by the Electro Massage Tooth Brush Company in the U.S.A. in 1927. In Switzerland in 1954 Dr. Philippe Guy Woog invented the Broxodent. Woog's electric toothbrushes were originally manufactured in Switzerland (later in France) for Broxo S.A. The device plugged into a standard wall outlet and ran on line voltage. Electric toothbrushes were initially created for patients with limited motor skills and for orthodontic patients (such as those with", "title": "Electric toothbrush" }, { "id": "4117671", "text": "braces). The Broxo Electric Toothbrush was introduced in the U.S. by E. R. Squibb and Sons Pharmaceuticals in 1960. After introduction, it was marketed in the U.S. by Squibb under the names Broxo-Dent or Broxodent. In the 1980s Squibb transferred distribution of the Broxodent line to the Somerset Labs division of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The General Electric automatic toothbrush was introduced in the early 1960s; it was cordless with rechargeable NiCad batteries and although portable, was rather bulky, about the size of a two-D-cell flashlight handle. NiCad batteries of this period suffered from the Memory effect. The GE Automatic Toothbrush came", "title": "Electric toothbrush" }, { "id": "7832790", "text": "the first retailer to offer a number of products, such as the \"Tourist Autokit,\" the pop-up toaster (1930), the electric toothbrush (1955), and the telephone answering machine (1968), in the United States. Hammacher Schlemmer began printing and distributing a company catalog in 1881. In 1912, it printed its largest catalog to date, spanning 1,112 pages. A hardbound copy of the 1912 catalog is housed in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. By 1926, the Hammacher Schlemmer had moved uptown to a larger space at the company's present location of East 57th Street. Hammacher resigned in 1892, leaving the whole company to Schlemmer", "title": "Hammacher Schlemmer" }, { "id": "1309556", "text": "did not desiccate efficiently and the bristles were often extricated from their intended fixed insertions. In addition to bone, handles were made of wood or ivory. In the United States, brushing teeth did not become routine until after World War II, when American soldiers had to clean their teeth daily. During the 1900s, celluloid gradually replaced bone handles. Natural animal bristles were also replaced by synthetic fibers, usually nylon, by DuPont in 1938. The first nylon bristle toothbrush made with nylon yarn went on sale on February 24, 1938. The first electric toothbrush, the Broxodent, was invented in Switzerland in", "title": "Toothbrush" }, { "id": "9008838", "text": "opened a Canadian subsidiary. The company was producing around 2,000 irons per day. On 1 May 1947, it became a public company and merged with Astral Equipment Ltd, a company in Dundee, Scotland that made spin dryers and refrigerators. Astral became a wholly owned subsidiary. George Wansbrough was the company chairman from 1944 to 1954. In 1949, it produced its first automatic toaster which used a bi-metallic strip. It also produced the \"Simon\" electric floor scrubber. In 1953, it produced its first hairdryer and claimed to have 90% of the market six years later, as it sold very well. In", "title": "Morphy Richards" }, { "id": "15821656", "text": "practice. Oral-B became part of the Gillette group in 1984. Braun, also part of the Gillette group at that time, started to use the Oral-B brand for electric toothbrushes. Oral-B has been part of the Procter & Gamble company since 2006. A company representative has stated that the \"B\" in Oral-B stands for \"brush\". In 2013, Shakira was chosen as the brand ambassador and spokersperson for The 3D white property. Oral-B Oral-B is a brand of oral hygiene products, including toothbrushes, toothpastes, electric toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss. The brand has been in business since the invention of the Hutson", "title": "Oral-B" }, { "id": "2062376", "text": "a PHS mobile phone, called the PT-H50, which was made for the DDI Pocket network in Japan. That same year, an electric toothbrush, the HA-C10, was released. Aiwa manufactured more than 89 percent of its output outside Japan, with a heavy emphasis on the lower-cost southeast Asian nations of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The company was also heavily dependent on overseas sales, with more than 80 percent of total revenues being generated outside Japan, with 43 percent in North and South America, 25 percent in Europe, and 13 percent in areas of Asia outside Japan and in other regions. Although", "title": "Aiwa" }, { "id": "4117583", "text": "Engel and Roy Martin. They formed a new company named GEMTech to promote a dental hygiene device using a piezoelectric multimorph transducer. After several years of research and creating prototypes, the Sonicare toothbrush was introduced in November 1992 at a periodontal convention. In 1995, GEMTech changed its name to Optiva Corporation. In October 2000, Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care, a division of Philips, acquired the company. A few months later Optiva Corporation changed its name to Philips Oral Healthcare, Inc. By the end of 2001, Sonicare had become the number-one selling rechargeable power toothbrush in the United States. In", "title": "Sonicare" }, { "id": "4117673", "text": "use a step-down transformer to operate the actual toothbrush at low voltage (typically 12, 16 or 24 volts). Wiring standards in many countries require that outlets in bath areas must be protected by a RCD/GFCI device (e.g., required in USA since the 1970s on bathroom outlets in new construction). By the 1990s there were problems with safety certification of Broxo's original design. Further, improved battery-operated toothbrushes were providing formidable competition. The first ultrasonic toothbrush, first called the Ultima and later the Ultrasonex, was patented in the U.S. in 1992, the same year the FDA gave it approval for daily home", "title": "Electric toothbrush" }, { "id": "15821654", "text": "Oral-B Oral-B is a brand of oral hygiene products, including toothbrushes, toothpastes, electric toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss. The brand has been in business since the invention of the Hutson toothbrush in 1950. The brand has been owned by American multinational Procter & Gamble (P&G) since 2006. Dr. Robert W. Hutson (1920–2001), a California periodontist, designed and patented a toothbrush in 1950. The application for his \"Hutson toothbrush\" was filed on January 13, 1950, and U.S. Patent No. 160,604 was granted on October 24 the same year. In 1958, he was granted a new patent for a \"mouthbrush\" having numerous", "title": "Oral-B" }, { "id": "597908", "text": "Thomson-Houston Electric Company who had built 22 power stations by the end of 1887 and by 1889 had bought out another competitor, the Brush Electric Company. Thomson-Houston was expanding their business while trying to avoid patent conflicts with Westinghouse, arranging deals such as coming to agreements over lighting company territory, paying a royalty to use the Stanley transformer patent, and allowing Westinghouse to use their Sawyer–Man incandescent bulb patent. The Edison company, in collusion with Thomson-Houston, managed to arrange in 1890 that the first electric chair was powered with a Westinghouse AC generator, forcing Westinghouse to try to block this", "title": "George Westinghouse" }, { "id": "13055397", "text": "the village and is over 500 years old and \"Roxford House\" in St. Mary's Lane, which was once the home of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. The White Horse is a 15th-century Georgian-fronted building that in the past was a staging post for the Reading to Cambridge coach. To the north-east of the church is the Old Rectory, formerly home of the Addis family, descendants of William Addis, inventor of the first mass-produced toothbrush. There was an Addis brush factory in Hertford from 1920 to the 1990s. Mayflower Place was commissioned by Countess Cowper and built in 1910. It was originally", "title": "Hertingfordbury" }, { "id": "2825197", "text": "Nicolaus Otto created a four-stroke internal combustion engine, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach modified the Otto engine to run at higher speeds, and Karl Benz pioneered the electric ignition. The Duryea brothers and Hiram Percy Maxim were among the first to construct a \"horseless carriage\" in the US in the mid-1890s, but these early cars proved to be heavy and expensive. Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile manufacturing process by employing interchangeable parts on assembly lines—the beginning of industrial mass production. In 1908, the Ford Motor Company released the Ford Model T which could generate 20 horsepower, was lightweight, and easy", "title": "Technological and industrial history of the United States" }, { "id": "937012", "text": "The first large factory established was that of the British Electric Transformer Company (affectionately known as the B.E.T.), which moved to Hayes in 1901. The B.E.T.'s main product was the Berry transformer, invented by A. F. Berry (the company's technical adviser and a member of the board of directors); Berry also invented the Tricity cooker. The most significant early occupier was the Gramophone Company, later His Master's Voice and latterly EMI. The Hayes factory's foundation stone was laid by Dame Nellie Melba. The EMI archives and some early reinforced concrete factory buildings (notably Grade II listed Enterprise House [1912] on", "title": "Hayes, Hillingdon" }, { "id": "13392837", "text": "Kaz Incorporated Kaz, Inc. is a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based manufacturer and distributor of health care products. Max Katzman invented the first electric vaporizer (original U.S. patent no. 1,628,784, issued May 17, 1927) and, in 1926, he founded Kaz, Incorporated to manufacture and market it. The expansion of the company – from a family business to a company designing, developing and marketing hundreds of healthcare and home environment products worldwide – came through research and development, acquisitions and licensing agreements. For more than 80 years, members of the Katzman family owned and managed Kaz. In 1956, founder Lawrence (Larry) Katzman succeeded his", "title": "Kaz Incorporated" }, { "id": "4096883", "text": "Emerson Electric The Emerson Electric Co. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Ferguson, Missouri, United States. This Fortune 500 company manufactures products and provides engineering services for a wide range of industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. Emerson has approximately 76,500 employees and 205 manufacturing locations worldwide. Emerson was established in 1890 in St. Louis, Missouri as \"Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.\" by Civil War Union veteran John Wesley Emerson to manufacture electric motors using a patent owned by the Scottish-born brothers Charles and Alexander Meston. In 1892, it became the first to sell electric fans in the United States. It", "title": "Emerson Electric" }, { "id": "13766967", "text": "Jacob Schick Col. Jacob Schick (September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father of electric razors. Schick became a Canadian citizen in 1935 to avoid an investigation by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance after he moved most of his wealth to a series of holding companies in the Bahamas. At the early age of 16, Schick was in charge of a railroad line that ran from Los Corrillos, New Mexico to a", "title": "Jacob Schick" }, { "id": "317487", "text": "company was housed in the Rembrandt Tower. In 2002 it moved again, this time to the Breitner Tower. Philips Lighting, Philips Research, Philips Semiconductors (spun off as NXP in September 2006) and Philips Design, are still based in Eindhoven. Philips Healthcare is headquartered in both Best, Netherlands (near Eindhoven) and Andover, Massachusetts, United States (near Boston). In 2000, Philips bought Optiva Corporation, the maker of Sonicare electric toothbrushes. The company was renamed Philips Oral Healthcare and made a subsidiary of Philips DAP. In 2001, Philips acquired Agilent Technologies' Healthcare Solutions Group (HSG) for EUR 2 billion. Philips created a computer", "title": "Philips" }, { "id": "4470344", "text": "for the first hour before crashing into a fence, later finishing in 3rd place. From 1905-1907, Peerless experienced a rapid expansion in size and production volume. As the Peerless namesake grew in fame, the company began producing increasingly higher-priced models with a focus on luxury. In 1911, Peerless was one of the first car companies to introduce electric lighting on their vehicles, with electric starters added in 1913. In 1915, the firm introduced its first V8 engine, intending to compete with the Cadillac V8 introduced a year earlier. This model became Peerless' staple production vehicle until 1925, when engines produced", "title": "Peerless Motor Company" }, { "id": "4117669", "text": "Electric toothbrush An electric toothbrush is a toothbrush that makes rapid automatic bristle motions, either back-and-forth oscillation or rotation-oscillation (where the brush head alternates clockwise and counterclockwise rotation), in order to clean teeth. Motions at sonic speeds or below are made by a motor. In the case of ultrasonic toothbrushes, ultrasonic motions are produced by a piezoelectric crystal. A modern electric toothbrush is usually powered by a rechargeable battery charged through inductive charging when the brush sits in the charging base between uses. Electric toothbrushes can be classified according to the frequency (speed) of their movements as power, sonic or", "title": "Electric toothbrush" }, { "id": "14901194", "text": "concerning legislation and awareness can largely be traced back to the Cuyahoga River fire of June 22, 1969. Thomas Edison, a native of Milan, is widely regarded as a father of the modern industrialized world and the originator of mass-energy generation and distribution concepts, as well as the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Another Ohio-native, Charles F. Brush is said to have invented the first electric dynamo, resulting in the present-day United Kingdom-based Brush Electrical Machines. Arthur Compton, of Wooster, invented the fluorescent light tube and was a pioneer in the study of atomic energy. The Ohio oil and natural", "title": "Energy in Ohio" }, { "id": "11197405", "text": "direct marketing. Cesari Media produces infomercials, buys the media to display them, provides web development as well as SEM and SEO and manages back-end venders that are responsible for taking orders. One of his first large deals was with Optiva (the makers of Sonicare), to market their electric toothbrushes. Between 1994 and 1996, Optiva realized a 338% jump in sales. Generally, 10% of direct marketing campaigns are successful, but as of 1997, Cesari Media had a 70% success rate. Among their successful products are OxiClean, the George Foreman Grill, and the Sonicare Toothbrush. \"'The power of the infomercial is twofold',", "title": "Rick Cesari" }, { "id": "9769696", "text": "Brush Electrical Machines Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of electrical generators typically for gas turbine and steam turbine driven applications. The main office is based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, UK. Charles Francis Brush, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1849, founded the Brush Electric Light Company, which stayed in business in the U.S. until 1889 when it was absorbed into the Thomson-Houston Company making Brush a wealthy man. In 1880, the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation was established in Lambeth, London. Its formation was to exploit the invention of Brush's first electric dynamo in 1876. As the business grew, due", "title": "Brush Electrical Machines" }, { "id": "7832791", "text": "serving as the President and Treasurer and his son William F. Schlemmer, to be named Vice President several years later. Hammacher Schlemmer began prominently featuring new inventions in their catalog in the 1930s, beginning with the first pop-up toaster and portable radio in 1930. Other products included outdoor grills, several different types of coffee makers to rhinestone dog collars. In 1945, William F. Schlemmer died at the age of 67, leaving his wife, Else, in charge of the company. In 1948, Hammacher Schlemmer celebrated its 100-year anniversary with the introduction of the first automatic steam iron and the electric broom.", "title": "Hammacher Schlemmer" }, { "id": "15391474", "text": "the US in 1853. This was soon followed by the wearable chain battery belt, or electric belt. Electric belts became enormously popular in the US, far more so than in Europe. This led to the company headquarters being moved to Cincinnati by the 1880s as the Pulvermacher Galvanic Company, but still calling themselves Pulvermacher's of London for the prestige of a European connection. Early models had to be soaked in vinegar before use as in England, but later on models that worked purely by galvanic action with body sweat were introduced. Since the device was being sold essentially as a", "title": "Pulvermacher's chain" }, { "id": "3891185", "text": "producing film slide projectors, a mainstay of its business for the next forty years. By 1956, Braun was marketing the first fully automatic tray film slide projector, the PA 1. Braun AG slide projectors all utilized a linear or straight tray as opposed to a round-tray design, which allowed the projector to remain small and compact. The 1950s also marked the beginning of the product that Braun is most known for today: the electric shaver. The S 50 was the first electric shaver from Braun. The shaver was designed in 1938, but World War II delayed its introduction until 1951.", "title": "Braun (company)" }, { "id": "13766970", "text": "first electric razor in May, 1930. Also patented the General Jacobs Boat for use in shallow water, and an improved pencil sharpener. After moving to Canada, Schick died from complications due to a kidney operation. He was survived by his wife Florence Leavitt Schick Stedman, and his two daughters Virginia and Barbara. He is buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec. Jacob Schick Col. Jacob Schick (September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father", "title": "Jacob Schick" }, { "id": "5351981", "text": "tools barbers were using at the time. Leo Wahl took over his uncle’s manufacturing business after Frank left to serve in the Spanish–American War in 1898. Leo continued to work on his inventions and by 1921, he patented his final design of an invention more than a decade in the making- the first electric hair clipper. Within a year, Wahl Manufacturing had manufactured and sold thousands of clippers all over the United States and in 1921 Leo renamed the company the Wahl Clipper Corporation. Leo J. Wahl died on May 20, 1957 with over 100 patent applications to his name.", "title": "Hair clipper" }, { "id": "3439360", "text": "the first electric toy inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The original Lionel Corporation was founded in 1900 by Joshua Lionel Cowen and Harry C. Grant in New York City. The company's devotees disagree over the date of incorporation, as the official paperwork gives a date of September 5, but the paperwork was not filed until September 22, more than two weeks later. Initially, the company specialized in electrical novelties, such as fans and lighting devices. It was historically thought that Lionel's first train, the Electric Express, was not intended for sale to consumers, but rather, as a", "title": "Lionel Corporation" }, { "id": "18520913", "text": "FOREO FOREO is a Swedish multi-national beauty brand established and headquartered Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2013, the company produces facial cleansing brushes, sonic electric toothbrushes, cleansers, and eye massagers for the consumer and professional markets. FOREO began in 2013, and in three years secured a presence in department stores, perfumery chains and beauty e-commerce operators across the globe such as Douglas, Sephora, Harvey Nichols, Neiman Marcus, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Net-a-Porter, Selfridges, Globus and Jelmoli, with a total of over 6.000 placements in more than 50 countries. In 2013, FOREO launched the Luna™, a facial cleansing brush. The Luna™ eschewed abrasive", "title": "FOREO" }, { "id": "13392839", "text": "Forehead Digital Thermometer Braun Age Precision Digital Thermometer Vicks ComfortFlex and SpeedRead Digital Thermometers Gold: Vicks Underarm Thermometer Silver: Vicks Digital Thermometer Family - Baby Rectal Silver: PUR Advanced Filtering Water Cooler Gold: Vicks Forehead Thermometer Gold: Vicks Digital Thermometer Family - Baby Rectal Silver: Vicks Underarm Thermometer Braun No touch + Forehead Digital Thermometer Braun Age Precision Digital Thermometer Vicks Underarm Thermometer Honeywell Warm Mist Humidifier Vicks Cool Mist Model V3100 Vicks Baby Thermometer Kaz Incorporated Kaz, Inc. is a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based manufacturer and distributor of health care products. Max Katzman invented the first electric vaporizer (original U.S. patent", "title": "Kaz Incorporated" }, { "id": "2040626", "text": "power (first to quit loses). Westinghouse declined the offer. Neither Edison, Westinghouse, nor Westinghouse's chief AC rival, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, wanted their equipment to be used in an execution but Brown colluded with Edison Electric and Thomson-Houston to surreptitiously acquire three Westinghouse AC generators to power the first electric chair. Brown would continually claim he had no actual association with Edison although an August 1889 \"New York Sun\" story published letters stolen from Brown's office that seemed to show Brown was receiving directions from, and being paid by, the Edison company as well as Thomson-Houston, including the story on the", "title": "Harold P. Brown" }, { "id": "6567381", "text": "flowed from this master patent. Credit for the invention of the electric telephone has been frequently disputed, and new controversies over the issue have arisen from time-to-time. As with other great inventions such as radio, television, the light bulb, and the digital computer, there were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on \"voice transmission over a wire\", who then improved on each other's ideas. However, the key innovators were Alexander Graham Bell and Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who created the first telephone company, the Bell Telephone Company in the United States, which later evolved into American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T),", "title": "History of telecommunication" }, { "id": "1091097", "text": "was a bustling metropolis by the late 19th century. In 1891, the City of Pittsfield was incorporated, and William Stanley, Jr., who had recently relocated his Electric Manufacturing Company to Pittsfield from Great Barrington, produced the first electric transformer. Stanley's enterprise was the forerunner of the internationally known corporate giant, General Electric (GE). Thanks to the success of GE, Pittsfield's population in 1930 had grown to more than 50,000. While GE Advanced Materials (now owned by SABIC-Innovative Plastics, a subsidiary of the Riyadh-based Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) continues to be one of the city's largest employers, a workforce that once", "title": "Pittsfield, Massachusetts" }, { "id": "5185367", "text": "Sunbeam Products Sunbeam Products is an American brand that has produced electric home appliances since 1910. Its products have included the Mixmaster mixer, the Sunbeam CG waffle iron, Coffeemaster (1938–1964) and the fully automatic T20 toaster. The company has endured a long history of struggles, including, in 2001, when it filed for bankruptcy and was also found to have committed massive accounting fraud, for which it was subject to SEC investigation. In 2002, Sunbeam emerged from bankruptcy as American Household, Inc.(AHI). Sunbeam was owned by Jarden Consumer Solutions after Jarden's acquisition in 2004, which was itself later purchased by Newell", "title": "Sunbeam Products" }, { "id": "5185376", "text": "Group in 2005, K2 in 2007, and Mapa Spontex in 2009. More recently, Jarden purchased Aero International and Quickie Manufacturing. In September 2011, Jarden Corp. was predicted to be a good bet for low risk earnings growth. As of 2015, Sunbeam batteries were made in China and imported into the United States by Greenbrier International and into Canada by DTSC Imports. Sunbeam Products Sunbeam Products is an American brand that has produced electric home appliances since 1910. Its products have included the Mixmaster mixer, the Sunbeam CG waffle iron, Coffeemaster (1938–1964) and the fully automatic T20 toaster. The company has", "title": "Sunbeam Products" }, { "id": "9008839", "text": "1954 it introduced a steam iron; these were still comparatively revolutionary twenty years later. At the same time, it introduced electrical convector heaters and panel heaters (ceramic heaters). By 1957, it was the United Kingdom's leading provider of electric blankets, had produced its 10 millionth electric iron, and was producing 60% of the toasters made in the United Kingdom. It had bought Yelsen Ltd, a manufacturer of electric blankets at Ruxley in Kent, on 16 June 1957 for £112,000, which became a subsidiary. Also in June, new factories opened at the main site and Dundee. 40% of products were exported", "title": "Morphy Richards" }, { "id": "3688048", "text": "the malign effects smoke and pollution were having in London. Production of the car was in the hands of the Elwell-Parker Company, established in 1882 for the construction and sale of electric trams. The company merged with other rivals in 1888 to form the Electric Construction Corporation; this company had a virtual monopoly on the British electric car market in the 1890s. The company manufactured the first electric 'dog cart' in 1896. France and the United Kingdom were the first nations to support the widespread development of electric vehicles. The first electric car in Germany was built by the engineer", "title": "History of the electric vehicle" }, { "id": "10169171", "text": "Crompton Parkinson Crompton Parkinson was a British electrical manufacturing company. It was formed in 1927 by the merger of Crompton & Co. with F & A. Parkinson Ltd. The brand is now part of Brook Crompton. Crompton & Co. was a lamp manufacturer founded by R.E.B. Crompton in 1878. The company was widely known for installing the first electric lighting in Windsor Castle, Holyrood Palace and other prominent buildings. F & A. Parkinson Ltd. was a successful electric motor manufacturing company founded by two brothers, Albert and Frank Parkinson, who was a former student of (and later a major benefactor", "title": "Crompton Parkinson" }, { "id": "12541792", "text": "sell its SpinBrush battery-operated electric toothbrush business to Church & Dwight, and Gillette's Rembrandt toothpaste line to Johnson & Johnson. The deodorant brands Right Guard, Soft and Dri, and Dry Idea were sold to Dial Corporation. The companies officially merged on October 1, 2005. Liquid Paper and Gillette's stationery division, Paper Mate, were sold to Newell Rubbermaid. In 2008, P&G branched into the record business with its sponsorship of Tag Records, as an endorsement for TAG Body Spray. P&G's dominance in many categories of consumer products makes its brand management decisions worthy of study. For example, P&G's corporate strategists must", "title": "Procter & Gamble" }, { "id": "4117584", "text": "2003, to improve Philips brand recognition in the US, Philips began rebranding the Sonicare toothbrush as \"Philips Sonicare\". Sonicare Sonicare is the brand name of an electric toothbrush produced by Philips. The brush head vibrates at hundreds of times per second, with the latest models at 31,000 strokes per minute or 62,000 movements per minute (258 Hz). Rather than connecting to its charger with conductors, it uses inductive charging—the charger includes the primary winding of the voltage-reducing transformer and the fat handle of the brush includes the secondary winding. The replaceable head is also driven magnetically. Individual clinical research has", "title": "Sonicare" }, { "id": "4589027", "text": "Huguenots then founded Friedrichsdorf, gratefully naming it after the Landgrave. They brought flannel and stockings with them from France, which spread quickly. Later, Zwieback was produced in Friedrichsdorf, which is why Friedrichsdorf is known as the \"Town of Zwieback\". The zwieback factory \"Emil Louis Pauly\" became Milupa, still in business now as a baby food maker, and still headquartered in Friedrichsdorf. It is now owned by Numico, a Dutch company, and the production facilities have been moved abroad. The town's most famous son was Johann Philipp Reis, a teacher at the Institut Garnier. He is the inventor of the electric", "title": "Friedrichsdorf" }, { "id": "7742637", "text": "completed in late 1941; it was designated the Light Tank T9 (Airborne) by the company and the Ordnance Department and later designated M22. The company also manufactured airport fire trucks, like the Marmon Herrington MB-1 and Marmon Herrington MB-5. They were mainly used by the military, like the USAF and US Navy. Post-War civilian adaptations, known as \"Brush Breakers\", were also produced. The company's foray into transit buses began in 1946, when it produced its first electric trolley bus. The end of World War II had brought a steep drop in the need for military vehicles, so Marmon-Herrington looked for", "title": "Marmon-Herrington" }, { "id": "4685869", "text": "which greatly favored bagged vacuum cleaners. Dyson sued the European Commission, resulting in a judgement requiring testing be done under normal usage conditions. Dyson (company) Dyson Ltd is a British technology company established by James Dyson in 1991. It designs and manufactures household appliances such as vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, bladeless fans, heaters and hair dryers. As of February 2018, Dyson had more than 12,000 employees worldwide. In 1974, James Dyson bought a Hoover Junior vacuum cleaner, which became clogged quickly and lost suction over time. Frustrated, Dyson emptied the bag to try to restore the suction but this had", "title": "Dyson (company)" }, { "id": "1501498", "text": "company began in the early 1940s as a part of the Marconi group, manufacturing magnetrons for defence radar systems. The company was first registered as a separate company in Chelmsford, Essex in 1947 under Serge Aisenstein. Its initial name was the Phoenix Dynamo Co Ltd, though it immediately changed its name to English Electric Valve Company Ltd. In 1959 Bob Coulson established Traveling-wave tube and Microwave tube sections and they were producing ceramic hydrogen thyratrons as well. By this time EEV was the largest hi-tech manufacturing company in the UK. A year later they won an EMMY award for outstanding", "title": "Chelmsford" }, { "id": "18520915", "text": "the ISSA electric toothbrush launched in 2014, the ESPADA blue light acne treatment in 2017 and FOREO Day and Night face cleansers. 2017 2016 2015 2014 FOREO FOREO is a Swedish multi-national beauty brand established and headquartered Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2013, the company produces facial cleansing brushes, sonic electric toothbrushes, cleansers, and eye massagers for the consumer and professional markets. FOREO began in 2013, and in three years secured a presence in department stores, perfumery chains and beauty e-commerce operators across the globe such as Douglas, Sephora, Harvey Nichols, Neiman Marcus, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Net-a-Porter, Selfridges, Globus and Jelmoli,", "title": "FOREO" }, { "id": "3917720", "text": "Kelvinator Kelvinator was a home appliance manufacturer that is now a brand name owned by Electrolux. It takes its name from William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who developed the concept of absolute zero and for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named. The name was thought appropriate for a company that manufactured ice-boxes and domestic refrigerators. Kelvinator was founded on September 18, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by engineer Nathaniel B. Wales who introduced his idea for a practical electric refrigeration unit for the home to Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss. Wales, a young inventor, secured financial backing from", "title": "Kelvinator" }, { "id": "2863059", "text": "west side of Mill Road north of the railway in Rugby for £10,000, from Thos. Hunter & Co., to build their factory on it. The Mill Road factory opened in 1902 and made electric motors and generators. In the same year BTH got a licence to produce the Curtis steam turbine, which became one of the company's major products. In 1905 BTH made its first turbo-alternator and in 1911 got licences for all of General Electric's drawn-wire light bulbs, which it produced under the Mazda trademark. For much of the late 19th century BTH competed for electrical generation and distribution", "title": "British Thomson-Houston" }, { "id": "9196806", "text": "Skyles Electric Works Skyles Electric Works was founded in California by Bob Skyles, a former Commodore engineer, to produce hardware add-ons for the Commodore PET. Like Apple Computer it began in a garage in Cupertino, but for most of the company's existence it was based in Mountain View. The first products from Skyles Electric Works were memory expansions and keyboards (the first PETs had calculator-style keys which were unsuited to touch-typing). The earliest software products were firmware, including the \"Command-O\" and \"Disk-O-Pro\", which enhanced the BASIC language of the PET. However the company also published cassette and disk-based software including", "title": "Skyles Electric Works" }, { "id": "2699134", "text": "1892 Schenectady became the headquarters of the General Electric Company (GE). Schenectady Locomotive Works, along with seven other locomotive manufacturers, merged in 1901 and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was formed and headquartered in Schenectady. Due to the dominance of GE and ALCO in their respective industries, Schenectady would gain the nicknames of \"Electric City\" and \"\"The City that Lights and Hauls the World\"\". The nature of this industry lent itself to the creation of many labor-saving inventions, such as the horseshoe machine of Henry Burden, the pre-shrinking fabric machines of Sanford Cluett, the power knitting loom of Timothy Bailey,", "title": "Capital District, New York" }, { "id": "401954", "text": "AC rival, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to make sure the first electric chair was powered by a Westinghouse AC generator. Thomas Edison's staunch anti-AC tactics were not sitting well with his own stockholders. By the early 1890s, Edison's company was generating much smaller profits than its AC rivals, and the War of Currents would come to an end in 1892 with Edison forced out of controlling his own company. That year, the financier J.P. Morgan engineered a merger of Edison General Electric with Thomson-Houston that put the board of Thomson-Houston in charge of the new company called General Electric. General", "title": "Thomas Edison" }, { "id": "317472", "text": "After Gerard and Anton Philips changed their family business by founding the Philips corporation, they laid the foundations for the later electronics multinational. In the 1920s, the company started to manufacture other products, such as vacuum tubes. In 1939, they introduced their electric razor, the \"Philishave\" (marketed in the US using the Norelco brand name). The \"Chapel\" is a radio with built-in loudspeaker, which was designed during the early 1930s. On 11 March 1927, Philips went on the air with shortwave radio station PCJJ (later PCJ) which was joined in 1929 by sister station PHOHI (Philips Omroep Holland-Indië). PHOHI broadcast", "title": "Philips" }, { "id": "8216892", "text": "from 1937-1954, making it the longest made vacuum and in that time span over 14 million where sold. A Model XXX is currently on display at the Smithsonian and it is considered one of the top hundred U.S. inventions of all time. During World War II, Electrolux Corp halted vacuum production to focus on the war effort. The company made electric motors and control systems for the Army and Navy. In 1952, the company debuted the Electrolux Model LX, the first vacuum that would know when it is full and also the first vacuum to use a self-sealing bag. That", "title": "Aerus" }, { "id": "6639866", "text": "Wagner Electric Wagner Electric Corporation was an electric equipment manufacturing firm established in 1891 that became part of Studebaker-Worthington in 1967. Wagner Electric Corporation was founded by Herbert Appleton Wagner and Ferdinand Schwedtmann (aka Francis Charles Schwedtman) in 1891. The company manufactured electric engines, electric motors and electric starters for early automobiles. They also made electric lights and many other electric-related products. In 1909, Wagner Electric started manufacturing their first automotive headlamp bulbs. The International Association of Machinists held a strike at the Wagner Electric Company in St. Louis, Missouri from June 4 - October 7, 1918. Before it became", "title": "Wagner Electric" }, { "id": "4339918", "text": "the electric razor in 1937. Another important inventor was Prof. Alexandre Horowitz, from Philips Laboratories in the Netherlands, who invented the concept of the revolving (rotary) electric razor. It has a shaving head consisting of cutters that cut off the hair entering the head of the razor at skin level. from Braun in Germany was another inventor who was decisive for development of the modern electric razor. He was the first to fuse rubber and metal elements on shavers and developed more than 100 electrical razors for Braun. In the course of his career Ullmann filed well over 100 patents", "title": "Electric razor" }, { "id": "14861662", "text": "Kiepe Electric Kiepe Electric GmbH (formerly Vossloh Kiepe) is a German manufacturer of electrical traction equipment for trams, trolleybuses other road and rail transport vehicles, as well as air-conditioning and heating systems, and conveyor device components. Founded in 1906, it was known as Kiepe Elektrik until 2003, when it was renamed Vossloh Kiepe, following its acquisition by Vossloh AG. Vossloh sold the company to Knorr-Bremse in January 2017, and in May 2017 Knorr renamed it Kiepe Electric. In 1906, Theodor Kiepe created an electric arc lamp repair workshop in Düsseldorf. Over the next 40 years the company's product range grew", "title": "Kiepe Electric" }, { "id": "5758766", "text": "Bend, Indiana. Because of the Great Depression, according to Kahn, “We found ourselves insolvent to the extent of $5,000 ($ today). They decided to focus their business on audio products. The company designed a PA system for Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. Rockne, who had difficulty being heard at football practices due to health problems that affected his voice, called the new PA system his \"electric voice\". Rockne's remark inspired the company's name. On June 1, 1930, Burroughs and Kahn incorporated under the name \"Electro-Voice\". The partners recognized an opportunity to capitalize on what they perceived as the generally", "title": "Electro-Voice" }, { "id": "9250623", "text": "(1871–1955), became sole managing partner. Under his leadership, the company diversified following the First World War, taking up the production of gear units and electric motors for gramophones as its military research efforts halted. As radio grew in popularity in the 1920s, gramophone sales dropped precipitously. This dire situation gave rise to the birth of the “Vorwerk Kobold” in 1929: chief engineer Engelbert Gorissen developed out of a gramophone motor a high-performance electric upright vacuum cleaner. On 25 May 1930, a patent was granted for the Kobold “Model 30”. At first, sales of what was at the time a completely", "title": "Vorwerk (company)" }, { "id": "19660289", "text": "History of Tesla, Inc. This is the corporate history of Tesla, Inc., an electric automobile manufacturer founded in Palo Alto, California in 2003. Founded as \"Tesla Motors\", Tesla Inc. was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who financed the company until the Series A round of funding. The founders were influenced to start the company after GM recalled all its EV1 electric cars in 2003 and then destroyed them. Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to and after Elon Musk's involvement. The AC Propulsion tzero also inspired the companies first vehicle", "title": "History of Tesla, Inc." }, { "id": "17805591", "text": "Electro-Dynamic Company The Electro-Dynamic Company manufactured electric motors and generators 1880-2000, principally as a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics and its predecessors. The company was founded by electrical inventor William Woodnut Griscom in 1880. An important early customer for electric boat motors was the Electric Launch Company, also known as Elco. Following an 1892 bankruptcy, financier Isaac Rice bailed out Electro-Dynamic and became a co-owner. Griscom died in a hunting accident in 1897. Electro-Dynamic manufactured the main propulsion motor for , the United States Navy's first modern submarine, launched in 1897. In 1899, Rice founded Electric", "title": "Electro-Dynamic Company" }, { "id": "14126985", "text": "York lawyer and politician Matthew Hale, and Buffalo dentist and experimenter Alfred P. Southwick. Southwick had been developing an idea since the early 1880s of using electric current as a means of capital punishment after hearing about how relatively painlessly and quickly a drunken man died due to grabbing the energized parts on a generator. Southwick had published this proposal first in 1882 and, being a dentist accustomed to performing procedures on subjects in chairs, used the form of a chair in his designs, which became known as the \"electric chair\". The commission reviewed ancient and modern forms of execution", "title": "Capital punishment in New York" }, { "id": "5178971", "text": "brand name. By 1914, they had a 5.1-liter four and a 6.8-liter six, electric lighting, and electric starter. This was followed by a V8, one of the first companies to offer one, in 1917. Stearns retired in 1919 and sold his automotive company to J. N. Willys in 1925; Willys operated Stearns-Knight as a non-integrated affiliate of WillysOverland until 1929 when the F.B. Stearns Company was liquidated. Stearns (automobile) F. B. Stearns and Company (later F.B. Stearns Company) was an American manufacturer of luxury cars in Cleveland, Ohio marketed under the brand names Stearns and Stearns-Knight. Frank Ballou Stearns (1879–1955)", "title": "Stearns (automobile)" }, { "id": "18510619", "text": "UK. By 1840 toothbrushes were being mass-produced in England, France, Germany, and Japan. William Addis (entrepreneur) William Addis (1734–1808) was an English entrepreneur believed to have produced the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780. Addis was born in 1734 in England, probably in Clerkenwell, London. In 1770, Addis had been jailed for causing a riot in Spitalfields. While in prison, and observing the use of a broom to sweep the floor, he decided that the prevalent method used to clean teeth at the timecrushed shell or soot with a cloth was ineffective and could be improved. To that end, he saved", "title": "William Addis (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "18335480", "text": "with gross annual sales of nearly $300 million. In 1956 McGraw arranged a merger with Thomas A. Edison, Inc.. The combined McGraw-Edison Company was launched in January 1957. Some of the acquisitions by McGraw Electric included: McGraw Electric The McGraw Electric Company was a US manufacturer of electric appliances founded by Max McGraw in 1900. It grew through mergers and acquisitions to become a major enterprise. The best known product may have been the Toastmaster pop-up toaster. In 1957 McGraw Electric merged with Thomas A. Edison, Inc. to form McGraw-Edison. In the summer of 1900, aged 17, Max McGraw entered", "title": "McGraw Electric" }, { "id": "18335473", "text": "McGraw Electric The McGraw Electric Company was a US manufacturer of electric appliances founded by Max McGraw in 1900. It grew through mergers and acquisitions to become a major enterprise. The best known product may have been the Toastmaster pop-up toaster. In 1957 McGraw Electric merged with Thomas A. Edison, Inc. to form McGraw-Edison. In the summer of 1900, aged 17, Max McGraw entered business as an electrician. He called his enterprise the McGraw Electric Company. Most of his early work was wiring houses that were converting from gas to electricity. The business struggled at first, but in the second", "title": "McGraw Electric" }, { "id": "16111826", "text": "Brand) Ltd was eventually dissolved on 21 May 1989, just short of a century after the company's foundation. Bulpitt & Sons Bulpitt & Sons Ltd was an electrical goods manufacturer and limited company in Birmingham, England, established as a brass founder in the late 19th century. In the early 20th century the company registered The \"Swan Brand\" name. In the 1920s, the company began manufacturing domestic electrical appliances including kettles and irons. They developed the first submersible electric heating element. In the 1970s, the company became a subsidiary of BSR (Housewares) Ltd., originally Birmingham Sound Reproducers, manufacturers of turntables for", "title": "Bulpitt & Sons" }, { "id": "5117362", "text": "mixers, and they say a new model introduced in 1914 played a key role in the mixer part of their business. The Hobart KitchenAid and Sunbeam Mixmaster (first produced 1910) were two very early US brands of electric mixer. Domestic electric mixers were rarely used before the 1920s, when they were adopted more widely for home use. In 1908 Herbert Johnson, an engineer for the Hobart Manufacturing Company, invented an electric standing mixer. His inspiration came from observing a baker mixing bread dough with a metal spoon; soon he was toying with a mechanical counterpart. By 1915, his 20 gallon", "title": "Mixer (cooking)" }, { "id": "1449533", "text": "the first company to build such devices. In 1881, a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In 1887, it opened its first office in Japan. In 1890, the founder retired and left running the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm. Siemens & Halske (S & H) was incorporated in 1897, and then merged parts of its activities with Schuckert & Co., Nuremberg in 1903 to", "title": "Siemens" }, { "id": "797093", "text": "ordered and built at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company that emerged from under these developments was called The Electric Boat Company, founded on 7 February 1899. Isaac Leopold Rice became the company's first President with Elihu B. Frost acting as vice-president and chief financial officer. This company eventually evolved into the major defence contractor General Dynamics. The USS \"Holland\" design was also adopted by others, including the Royal Navy in developing the . The Imperial Japanese Navy employed a modified version of the basic design for their first five submarines, although these submarines were at least", "title": "John Philip Holland" }, { "id": "13820559", "text": "meters. Sangamo made many important contributions to national defense during World War II, and developed the mercury watthour meter (1905), the sulphur-impregnated cylindrical paper condenser meter, different types of magnetos, amperehour meters, and the Delco amperehour meter for the first electric starters used in automobiles. The company eventually had a presence in nearly every major country of the world by 1939. Sangamo Electric Company made many major contributions to the aircraft components industries of the United States, and Henry Bunn, the son of Jacob Bunn, Sr., was an aviator and entrepreneur whose vision for Sangamo Electric was crucial to the", "title": "John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn" }, { "id": "1822676", "text": "restaurants that are consistently busy. Such devices have occasionally been produced for home use as far back as 1938, when the Toast-O-Lator went into limited production. Before the development of the electric toaster, sliced bread was toasted by placing it in a metal frame or on a long-handled toasting-fork and holding it near a fire or over a kitchen grill. Utensils for toasting bread over open flames appeared in the early 19th century, including decorative implements made from wrought iron. The first electric bread toaster was invented by Alan MacMasters in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1893. The primary technical problem at", "title": "Toaster" }, { "id": "6967171", "text": "Electric Vehicle Company Electric Vehicle Company was an American automobile holding company and early pioneering manufacturer of automobiles. The Electric Vehicle Company was founded 27 September 1897 as a holding company of battery-powered electric vehicle manufacturers made up of several companies assembled by Isaac Rice. Rice had acquired in May, 1897 another electric cab manufacturer, the Electric Carriage & Wagon Company (E.C.W.C.) in New York. Their vehicles were constructed by \"Henry G. Morris\" and \"Pedro G. Salom\", builders of the Electrobats, the first truly useful electric automobiles in the USA. E.V.W.C. pioneered a cab system that included service stations for", "title": "Electric Vehicle Company" }, { "id": "16949227", "text": "patent pool, effectively eliminating competition in the electrification industry in an era when the United States was entering the electric age. From its beginnings, GE emphasized research to create many products and product improvements. The company has been awarded more patents than almost any other company in the United States. GE began creating consumer products in the early 20th century, beginning with a line of toasters. After GE merged with other companies, more and more consumer appliances such as irons and refrigerators began to be sold under the GE or Hotpoint brand names. By the 1970s, GE had shifted once", "title": "We Bring Good Things to Life" }, { "id": "9769697", "text": "to the demand for new electrical apparatus, larger premises were sought, and in 1889 the corporation moved 100 miles north into the newly acquired Falcon Engine and Car Works at Loughborough under the new name, Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited. In 1914, the company began manufacturing Ljungstrom steam turbines under licence. Over the next sixty years, the business grew by acquisitions, until in 1957, the Brush companies were incorporated into the Hawker Siddeley Group. Within the group, the company manufactured a vast range of electrical products, including turbo-generators, salient pole machines, induction motors, traction motors and generators, traction locomotives, switchgear,", "title": "Brush Electrical Machines" }, { "id": "6566416", "text": "Vornado Realty Trust Vornado Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust formed in Maryland, with its primary office in New York City. The company invests in office buildings and street retail in Manhattan. Notable properties wholly owned by the company include the following: The company also owns: The origins of the company can be traced back to the Two Guys discount store chain, founded in 1947 by brothers Sidney and Herbert Hubschman. In 1959, Two Guys acquired O. A. Sutton Corporation, manufacturers of the Vornado line of electric fans, and the company was renamed Vornado Inc. By 1964, the", "title": "Vornado Realty Trust" }, { "id": "4468172", "text": "with its hottest point at the front and not the center. In 1912, the company began making electric irons, and electric cookers in 1919 in the United States. Earl Richardson also invented the first iron that switched off automatically when a maximum temperature was reached. It is claimed to have developed one of the earliest electric toasters in 1908, known as the \"El Tosto\", and later, under GE, the Hotpoint brand name became one of the most popular brands of toaster in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Richardson founded his own settlement, Adelanto, California, in 1915. In", "title": "Hotpoint" }, { "id": "7408933", "text": "44%). The earliest hand dryer was patented in 1921 by R.B. Hibbard, D. J. Watrous and J.G. Bassett for the Airdry Corporation of Groton New York. This machine was sold as a built in model or freestanding floor unit that consisted of an inverted blower (much like a handheld blow dryer) that was controlled by a floor pedal. Known as \"Airdry The Electric Towel\", these units were used in restrooms, barbershops and factories. Airdry Corporation moved to Chicago and San Francisco in 1924 to centralize their distribution. The hand dryer was later popularized in 1948 by George Clemens. In 1993,", "title": "Hand dryer" }, { "id": "19633064", "text": "Technische Hochschule Nürnberg The Technische Hochschule Nürnberg \"Georg Simon Ohm\" (shortened \"TH Nürnberg;\" English name \"Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm\") is a public Technische Hochschule in Nuremberg, Bavaria. With its 12,200 students and 1,800 faculty members, it's the second biggest Technische Hochschule in Bavaria. The university got its name in honor of Georg Simon Ohm who was a professor and headmaster of the predecessor of the Hochschule, the \"Polytechnische Schule,\" between 1839 and 1849. The logo of the Technische Hochschule is the Ω as a reference to Ohm the SI derived unit for electric resistance named after Georg", "title": "Technische Hochschule Nürnberg" }, { "id": "3553168", "text": "Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) as a subsidiary in 1911. NELSECO was the primary engine manufacturer for Electric Boat-designed submarines 1911–1925. In 1931, was laid down as the first submarine built in Groton. During World War II, Electric Boat completed submarines every two weeks. In 1954, Electric Boat launched , the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Presently, \"Nautilus\" is decommissioned and open for visitors, permanently berthed at the U.S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum. Groton is sometimes referred to as the \"Submarine Capital of the World,\" due to the long-standing history of submarines in the town, and the fact that", "title": "Groton, Connecticut" }, { "id": "11458292", "text": "for electricity to be used for domestic as well as industrial purposes. In 1893, Scotsman Alan MacMasters approached Crompton with the prototype for a device that heated bread by running electricity through a metal element. The design went into production as the Eclipse, the world's first electric toaster and the world's first widely sold electric oven. Crompton kept his company at the cutting edge of electrical engineering. Despite having invested heavily in promoting and installing direct current systems, following the War of Currents, Crompton quickly developed alternating current equipment as well. He also encouraged the design of new equipment for", "title": "R. E. B. Crompton" }, { "id": "7344179", "text": "demonstrations were favorably received. In 1909, when Henry Leland of Cadillac ordered 5,000 ignition sets, Deeds and Kettering formed the Dayton Engineering Laboratories company. The ignition system was introduced on the 1910 Cadillac. In 1911, Kettering invented and filed for for the first useful electric starter, adapted from a cash register motor. The starters were first installed by Cadillac on production models in 1912. In 1915, Deeds left NCR to devote himself full-time to Delco. At the time, one of Kettering's widely known inventions was the Delco-Light, a small internal combustion generator with battery intended to provide a source of", "title": "Delco Electronics" }, { "id": "18510617", "text": "William Addis (entrepreneur) William Addis (1734–1808) was an English entrepreneur believed to have produced the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780. Addis was born in 1734 in England, probably in Clerkenwell, London. In 1770, Addis had been jailed for causing a riot in Spitalfields. While in prison, and observing the use of a broom to sweep the floor, he decided that the prevalent method used to clean teeth at the timecrushed shell or soot with a cloth was ineffective and could be improved. To that end, he saved a small animal bone left over from the meal he had eaten the", "title": "William Addis (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "9434909", "text": "pioneering Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company. In 1955, it merged with Sperry Corporation, developer of the automatic pilot, amongst other devices. The combined company became the Sperry Rand Corporation and continued to market shavers under the Remington brand. In 1979, Sperry Rand sold off a number of its divisions, including the consumer products. Victor Kiam bought the electric shaver company in a leveraged buyout. Victor Kiam's Remington Products Company became very profitable, branching out into other personal care small appliances, buying Clairol's personal care appliance business in 1994. Kiam sold controlling interest in Remington to Ike Perlmutter prior to the Clairol acquisition", "title": "Remington Products" }, { "id": "2051554", "text": "Buffalo, New York dentist Alfred Southwick which, after nine years of development and legislation, was ready for use. Kemmler's lawyers appealed, arguing that electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment. The attempt to carry out Kemmler's execution was pulled into the AC/DC \"war of currents\" between George Westinghouse, the largest supplier of alternating current equipment, and Thomas Edison, whose company ran its equipment on direct current. The alternating current that powered the electric chair (a current standard adopted by a committee after a demonstration performed at Edison's laboratory by anti-AC activist Harold P. Brown showing AC's lethality) was supplied by a", "title": "William Kemmler" }, { "id": "8657852", "text": "sent by Morse on January 6, 1838, across of wiring. Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed, and new controversies over the issue have arisen from time to time. Charles Bourseul, Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elisha Gray, amongst others, have all been credited with the telephone's invention. The early history of the telephone became and still remains a confusing morass of claims and counterclaims, which were not clarified by the huge mass of lawsuits to resolve the patent claims of many individuals and commercial competitors. The Bell and Edison", "title": "History of the telephone" }, { "id": "8217095", "text": "Alfred P. Southwick Alfred P. Southwick (1826–1898), was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution. He was also a professor at the University of Buffalo school of dental medicine, now known as the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1881, Alfred Southwick conceived the idea of electrical execution when he heard the story of an intoxicated man who touched a live electric generator. Given that the man died so quickly, Southwick concluded that electricity could be used as an alternative to", "title": "Alfred P. Southwick" }, { "id": "2040623", "text": "of highly publicized deaths that year caused by alternating current. At the same time that Brown was campaigning against alternating current a New York state bill replacing hanging with electrocution was signed into law (June 4, 1888) and set to go into effect on January 1, 1889. A Buffalo, New York dentist named Alfred P. Southwick had been developing a method using a device similar to a dental chair, an execution device referred to as the electric chair. The law did not specify the type of current to use, or the means, so the New York Medico-Legal Society, an informal", "title": "Harold P. Brown" }, { "id": "3891193", "text": "cut costs. At the end of the 1990s, Braun and Gillette suffered losses in several areas. Looking for ways to return to profitability, Gillette considering the disposal of some of Braun's less profitable divisions, such as kitchen appliances and thermometers, but abandoned the idea a few months later when no buyers were found. Braun's sales in those areas began to recover in 2000. Gillette was acquired by Procter & Gamble (\"P&G\") in 2005, making Braun a wholly owned subsidiary of P&G. In early 2008, P&G discontinued sales of Braun appliances, except shavers and electric toothbrushes, in the North American market.", "title": "Braun (company)" }, { "id": "5351980", "text": "alternating current electricity source. Both magnetic and pivot style clippers use magnetic forces derived from winding copper wire around steel. Alternating current creates a cycle attracting and relaxing to a spring to create the speed and torque to drive the clipper cutter across the combing blade. Leo J. Wahl invented the first electric hair clipper. He first designed a hand-held massager for his uncle, Dr. Frank Wahl. Frank Wahl opened a manufacturing plant in Sterling, Illinois to produce and sell Leo’s massager. During this time, Leo would sell massagers to various barbers and noticed an opportunity to improve upon the", "title": "Hair clipper" }, { "id": "270750", "text": "Moon on a Motorola transceiver. In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the first hand-held portable telephone. In 1974, Motorola introduced its first microprocessor, the 8-bit MC6800, used in automotive, computing and video game applications. That same year, Motorola sold its television business to the Japan-based Matsushita - the parent company of Panasonic. In 1976, Motorola moved its headquarters to the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois. In 1980, Motorola's next generation 32-bit microprocessor, the MC68000, led the wave of technologies that spurred the computing revolution in 1984, powering devices from companies such as Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sun, and Hewlett Packard. In September 1983,", "title": "Motorola" }, { "id": "8217096", "text": "hanging for executions. His first application for this phenomenon was to help invent a way to euthanize stray dogs at the Buffalo SPCA but within a year he was publishing his ideas on using this method for capital punishment in scientific journals. As Southwick was a dentist who was accustomed to performing procedures on subjects in chairs, his device for electrical execution appeared in the form of an \"electric chair.\" After a series of botched hangings in the United States there was mounting criticism of this form of capital punishment and the death penalty in general. In 1886 newly elected", "title": "Alfred P. Southwick" }, { "id": "10064264", "text": "as heaters, air conditioners, a wooden lung, and school furniture. In 1953 it was purchased by Henney Motor Company of Freeport, Illinois, and in 1959 it became a division of National Union Electric Corporation, going on in 1961 to become the first U.S. manufacturer of a purpose-built electric car, the Henney Kilowatt, which flopped commercially. In 1974 Eureka was purchased by AB Electrolux of Sweden and the name was changed back to the Eureka Company. In 2004 the use of the Eureka company name was discontinued and replaced with Electrolux Home Products Division. In August 2011 Electrolux Small Appliances North", "title": "Eureka (company)" }, { "id": "317469", "text": "into two main divisions: Philips Consumer health and well-being (formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care) and Philips Professional Healthcare (formerly Philips Medical Systems). The lighting division was spun off as a separate company, Signify N.V. (formerly Philips Lighting prior to 2018). The company started making electric shavers in 1939 under the Philishave brand, and post-war they developed the Compact Cassette format and co-developed the Compact Disc format with Sony, as well as numerous other technologies. As of 2012, Philips was the largest manufacturer of lighting in the world as measured by applicable revenues. Philips has", "title": "Philips" }, { "id": "2822164", "text": "the Hawker Siddeley group, which also owned half of Morrison-Electricars, and manufacture of Brush electric vehicles moved to the newly established Morrison factory at Tredegar. Most were industrial trucks, but the transfer also included the Brush Pony, and a number were manufactured at Tredegar subsequently. Electricars began trading in Birmingham in 1919, and although they initially made heavy duty electric vehicles, suitable for payloads up to 6 tons, they soon diversified into smaller vehicles suitable for doorstep delivery. In 1936, they became part of the business group Associated Electric Vehicle Manufacturers Limited (AEVM), but during the Second World War, few", "title": "Milk float" }, { "id": "768558", "text": "panel-beater. He showed a strong aptitude for mechanical work at a very early age. He attended classes at the Imperial Technical School in Reichenberg () at night while helping his father in his mechanical shop by day. Thanks to a referral, Porsche landed a job with the Béla Egger Electrical company in Vienna when he turned 18. In Vienna, he would sneak into the local university whenever he could after work. Other than attending classes there, Porsche never received any higher engineering education. During his five years with , Porsche first developed the electric hub motor. After the breakup of", "title": "Ferdinand Porsche" }, { "id": "18060688", "text": "Ultrasonic toothbrush An ultrasonic toothbrush is an electric toothbrush designed for daily home use that operates by generating ultrasound in order to aid in removing plaque and rendering plaque bacteria harmless. It typically operates on a frequency of 1.6 MHz, which translates to 96,000,000 pulses or 192,000,000 movements per minute. Ultrasound is defined as a series of acoustic pressure waves generated at a frequency beyond human hearing. Electric toothbrushes have been used by the public since the early 1950s. Today, they have evolved and based on the speed of their vibration, can be divided into three categories: electric, sonic and", "title": "Ultrasonic toothbrush" }, { "id": "4468171", "text": "Hotpoint The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is an American and European brand of domestic appliances. Ownership of the brand is split between the American company Whirlpool, which has European rights, and Chinese company Haier, which has North American rights since its purchase of GE Appliances. Hotpoint was founded in 1911. The name of the company comes from the \"hot point\" of the revolutionary first electric iron of 1905, invented by the American (Wisconsin) Earl Richardson (1871–1934) having formed his Pacific Electric Heating Company in Ontario, California, in 1906. It was known as the \"Hotpoint\" iron,", "title": "Hotpoint" }, { "id": "4117680", "text": "of human hearing, can be called an \"ultrasonic\" toothbrush. In January 2015 at CES Las Vegas, French start-up Kolibree introduced the first Bluetooth-powered toothbrush. Kolibree's app recorded brushing habits data and user advice. This product received an Award and was available at Apple Store for $99. Claims have been made that electric toothbrushes are more effective than manual ones as they are less dependent upon a user's personal brushing technique. Some dentists also claim that they help children with overcoming their fear of the dentist. Independent research finds that most electric toothbrushes are no more effective than manual brushes—assuming that", "title": "Electric toothbrush" }, { "id": "853719", "text": "was able to direct the standardisation of an industry in its infancy. He travelled across Europe with an eye for the latest products, and in 1887 the company published the first electrical catalogue of its kind. The following year, the company acquired its first factory in Salford, where electric bells, telephones, ceiling roses and switches were manufactured. In 1889, the business was incorporated as a private company known as General Electric Company Ltd. The company was expanding rapidly, opening new branches and factories and trading in 'everything electrical', a phrase that was to become synonymous with GEC. In 1893, it", "title": "General Electric Company" }, { "id": "7047556", "text": "educated by his maternal grandfather at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of future U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. After serving in the U.S. Navy and attending Yale, the Sorbonne, and Harvard Business School, Kiam worked for Lever Brothers and Playtex as a salesman. He bought the Benrus Watch Company in 1968, selling his majority stake in 1977. He made a fortune as the President and CEO of Remington Products, which he famously purchased in 1979 after his wife bought him his first electric shaver. His purchase of Remington is considered an early example of a", "title": "Victor Kiam" } ]

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[ { "id": "14198058", "text": "Harriet Brown Harriet Brown is an American writer, magazine editor, and assistant </ref> professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She began her magazine career in 1979, with a stint at \"Popular Science\" magazine. She was part of the start-up staffs for both \"Wigwag\" magazine, 1989–1991, and \"American Girl\" magazine American Girl, 1992–2000. Her 2006 \"New York Times\" article \"One Spoonful at a Time\" chronicled her daughter's descent into anorexia and recovery via family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. That article became the basis of her 2010 book, \"Brave Girl", "title": "Harriet Brown" }, { "id": "15013961", "text": "Annie Reilly \"Little\" Annie Reilly (1844-unknown), also known under the aliases Kate Cooley, Connelly and Manning, was a 19th-century American thief and con artist widely regarded as \"the cleverest woman in her line in America\". A well-known member of New York's underworld, she was part of an elite \"inner circle\" of female career criminals under Marm Mandelbaum during the 1860s and 1870s. These included some of the most notorious thieves, blackmailers and confidence women in the country such as Lena Kleinschmidt, Sophie Lyons, Kid Glove Rosey, Queen Liz, Big Mary and Old Mother Hubbard, Annie Reilly was born in Ireland", "title": "Annie Reilly" }, { "id": "833968", "text": "Smith and Owen Smith, and Jeremiah Anderson, all from New York. From papers found in the Kennedy Farmhouse after the raid, it is known that Brown wrote to Kagi that he would sign into a hotel as I. Smith and Sons. As he began recruiting supporters for an attack on slaveholders, Brown was joined by Harriet Tubman, \"General Tubman,\" as he called her. Her knowledge of support networks and resources in the border states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware was invaluable to Brown and his planners. Some abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, opposed his tactics, but Brown", "title": "John Brown (abolitionist)" }, { "id": "3345820", "text": "Harriet Nelson Harriet Nelson (formerly Hilliard; born Peggy Lou Snyder; July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994) was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the sitcom \"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet\". Nelson was born Peggy Lou Snyder in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Hazel Dell née McNutt (1888–1971) and Roy Hilliard Snyder (1879–1953). She appeared on the vaudeville stage when she was three years old and made her debut on Broadway in her teens. She frequented the Cotton Club, began smoking at age 13, was briefly married to an abusive comedian", "title": "Harriet Nelson" }, { "id": "477957", "text": "Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the United States Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage. Born a slave", "title": "Harriet Tubman" }, { "id": "3345826", "text": "Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. For her contribution to the television industry, Harriet Nelson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. Notes Harriet Nelson Harriet Nelson (formerly Hilliard; born Peggy Lou Snyder; July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994) was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the sitcom \"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet\". Nelson was born Peggy Lou Snyder in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Hazel Dell née McNutt (1888–1971) and Roy Hilliard Snyder (1879–1953). She appeared on the vaudeville stage when", "title": "Harriet Nelson" }, { "id": "9294059", "text": "and methamphetamine addict for a decade. Brown used the latter to drop weight quickly before modeling shoots. She completed several stints in rehab before finally becoming sober in the 2000s. Brown also revealed that she suffers from trichotillomania, which she developed in 2005 while she was involved in what she called, \"the worst relationship of my entire life\". During the shooting of Warrant's \"Cherry Pie\" video, Brown met lead singer Jani Lane. Lane and Brown married on July 15, 1991. They had a daughter, Taylar Jayne Lane, in 1992, and divorced in 1993. After her divorce from Lane, Brown was", "title": "Bobbie Brown" }, { "id": "9101550", "text": "Carrie Brown (murder victim) Carrie Brown (1834 – April 24, 1891) was a New York prostitute who was murdered and mutilated in a lodging house. She is occasionally mentioned as an alleged victim of Jack the Ripper. Although known to use numerous aliases, a common practice in her occupation, she supposedly won her nickname of Shakespeare for her habit of quoting William Shakespeare during drinking games. She has often been erroneously referred to as Old Shakespeare in later news articles and books. The badly mutilated body of Carrie Brown, a longtime Bowery prostitute, was found in a room in a", "title": "Carrie Brown (murder victim)" }, { "id": "17717631", "text": "Rose Livingston Rose Livingston (circa 1885-1948), known as the Angel of Chinatown, was a suffragist who worked to free prostitutes and victims of sexual slavery. Together with Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Rose Livingston worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime. Livingston publicly discussed her past as a prostitute and claimed to have been abducted and developed a drug problem as a sex slave in a Chinese man's home, narrowly escaped and experienced a Christian", "title": "Rose Livingston" }, { "id": "6953578", "text": "had opened a new house on Leonard Street, stocked with furniture she had salvaged from the ruined playhouse. This quickly became the most famous brothel in New York City. Fanny White, a.k.a. Jane Augusta Blankman once worked in Brown's brothel. Despite her illicit occupation, Brown was a darling of the New York upper class. She received invitations to social galas across New York City, and her admirers nicknamed her Princess Julia. She sometimes threw balls of her own in the winter as a way to attract new patrons. Charles Dickens reportedly visited her on a trip through America. The penny", "title": "Julia Brown" }, { "id": "15981305", "text": "Kitty Brown Catherine Brown, known as Kitty Brown (born October 1899, died after 1990), was an American classic female blues singer. She sometimes used the pseudonyms Bessie Williams (she was not the only performer to use this name), Jane White, Dixie Gray, Rosa Green, and Mazie Leroy. Brown was active as a recording artist from 1923 to the mid-1930s. Songs she recorded include \"I Wanna Jazz Some More\" and \"It's De-Lovely\". Little is known of her life outside music. Brown was born in 1899 in New York. Most of her recordings were made in 1923 and 1924. In the 1930s", "title": "Kitty Brown" }, { "id": "3880712", "text": "leave her in the care of her nanny, Ole Golly, in their Manhattan townhouse. Hardly the feminine girl heroine typical of the early 1960s, Harriet is a writer who notes everything about everybody in her world in a notebook which ultimately falls into the wrong hands. Ole Golly gives Harriet the unlikely but practical advice that: \"Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth\". By and large, \"Harriet the Spy\" was well-received—it was named to the New York Times Outstanding Book Award list in 1964—and has sold 4 million copies since publication. It was", "title": "Louise Fitzhugh" }, { "id": "19421202", "text": "Harriet Tubman Memorial (New York City) The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Swing Low, located in Manhattan in New York City, honors the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The intersection at which it stands was previously a barren traffic island, and is now known as \"Harriet Tubman Triangle\". As part of its redevelopment, the traffic island was landscaped with plants native to New York and to Tubman's home state of Maryland, representing the land which she and her Underground Railroad passengers travelled across. The memorial was commissioned through the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program, and the", "title": "Harriet Tubman Memorial (New York City)" }, { "id": "496686", "text": "donation in modern history to an institution of higher education and bringing Bloomberg's total contribution to the school in excess of $3.3 billion. Bloomberg's gift allows the school to practice need-blind admission and meet the full financial need of admitted students. In 1975, Bloomberg married Susan Elizabeth Barbara Brown, a British national from Yorkshire, United Kingdom. They had two daughters: Emma (born c. 1979) and Georgina (born 1983), who were featured on \"Born Rich\", a documentary film about the children of the extremely wealthy. Bloomberg divorced Brown in 1993, but he has said she remains his \"best friend.\" Since 2000,", "title": "Michael Bloomberg" }, { "id": "546489", "text": "be somebody financially and socially.\" \"Fortune hunting became a disease\" with the frequent result of a peculiarly American kind of crime, a form of \"murder for money\", when \"the young ambitious lover of some poorer girl\" found \"a more attractive girl with money or position\" but could not get rid of the first girl, usually because of pregnancy. Dreiser claimed to have collected such stories every year between 1895 and 1935. He based his novel on details and setting of the 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in upstate New York, which attracted widespread attention from newspapers. While", "title": "Theodore Dreiser" }, { "id": "6875757", "text": "3, 1990 at the age of 62. Dovima Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), later known as Dorothy Horan, and best known as Dovima, was an American model during the 1950s. Born in Queens, New York, to a Polish-American policeman and an Irish-born mother, she was the first model to use a single name. The name Dovima is composed of the first two letters of her three given names. Dovima was discovered on a sidewalk in New York by an editor at \"Vogue\", and had a photo shoot with Irving Penn the following day. She", "title": "Dovima" }, { "id": "18165386", "text": "Harriet Bates Harriet Bates (pen name, Eleanor Putnam; July 30, 1856 – March 1886) was a 19th-century American author of poetry and novels. Harriet Leonora Vose was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 30, 1856. She was the eldest daughter of Prof. George L. Vose, author of a number of works on civil and railroad engineering. She went to live in Salem, Massachusetts in 1865, remaining for six years. The family then moved temporarily to the West, in search of health for the mother. In that time, she attended a dame school. Her literary pseudonym, \"Eleanor Putnam,\" had been the maiden", "title": "Harriet Bates" }, { "id": "4113715", "text": "over Navratilova's then concern that coming out would hurt her application for U.S. citizenship (according to \"The Washington Post\"). Brown still lives on the estate in Charlottesville. The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries include \"Sneaky Pie Brown\" as a co-author. \"Sister\" Mysteries Mags Rogers Mysteries Rita Mae Brown Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel \"Rubyfruit Jungle\". Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter. Brown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried, teenage mother and her mother's married boyfriend. Brown's birth mother left", "title": "Rita Mae Brown" }, { "id": "9773138", "text": "Margaret Brown (criminal) Margaret Brown (born 1828) was a New York criminal and thief during the late 19th century. She was most widely known under the name Old Mother Hubbard, after the nursery rhyme of that name, which was popular at the time. Among her aliases she also included the surnames Young and Haskins. She was one of the most well-publicized female thieves in the United States during the mid-to late 19th century and was part of Marm Mandelbaum's \"inner circle\" which included other notorious women such as Big Mary, Sophie Lyons, Queen Liz and Lena Kleinschmidt. Born in Ireland,", "title": "Margaret Brown (criminal)" }, { "id": "900618", "text": "that he met Chablis as she was returning home from having a hormone injection. In her book \"Hiding My Candy\", Chablis said she had not undergone sex reassignment surgery. The Lady Chablis Brenda Dale Knox (March 11, 1957 – September 8, 2016), known professionally as The Lady Chablis, was an American actress, author, and drag performer. Through exposure in the bestselling nonfiction book \"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil\" that reads like fiction, and its 1997 film adaptation, she became one of the first drag performers to be accepted by a wider audience. Born Benjamin Edward Knox in", "title": "The Lady Chablis" }, { "id": "6953579", "text": "press also followed her exploits; the major criticism levied against her was that the cut she took from her girls' earnings was too large. Julia Brown Julia Brown was an American madam and prostitute active in mid-nineteenth century New York City. Brown has been described as \"the best-known prostitute in antebellum America\". She became a popular subject of tourist guidebooks, and her name appears often in diaries from the period. In the 1830s, Brown entered a brothel owned by Adeline Miller, a well-known New York madam. She did not stay long, however; soon Brown was running brothels of her own", "title": "Julia Brown" }, { "id": "20351828", "text": "Harriet A. Brown Harriet A. Brown (February 20, 1847 - 1930) was an inventor who patented \"The Harriet A. Brown system,\" a dress cutting and making system. Harriet A. Brown was born in Augusta, Maine, on February 20, 1847. She was of Scotch parentage. By contact with working girls Harriet A. Brown learned of the long hours, hard work and small wages of which most of them complained, and her ardent desire was to alleviate their distress. Brown conceived the idea of establishing a regular school of training for women who desired to make themselves self-supporting, and, on the solicitation", "title": "Harriet A. Brown" }, { "id": "19466912", "text": "of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America remembers Tubman and Truth on March 10. Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in", "title": "Harriet Tubman Day" }, { "id": "4407092", "text": "Vanessa Brown Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian-born American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television. Born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents (Nah Brind, a language teacher, and Anna Brind, a psychologist), Brown and her family fled to Paris, France in 1937 to escape persecution by the Nazi regime. Within a few years the family had settled in America and Brown auditioned for Lillian Hellman for a role in \"Watch on the Rhine\". Fluent in several languages, the youngster impressed Hellman with her presence and authentic Teutonic", "title": "Vanessa Brown" }, { "id": "900615", "text": "The Lady Chablis Brenda Dale Knox (March 11, 1957 – September 8, 2016), known professionally as The Lady Chablis, was an American actress, author, and drag performer. Through exposure in the bestselling nonfiction book \"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil\" that reads like fiction, and its 1997 film adaptation, she became one of the first drag performers to be accepted by a wider audience. Born Benjamin Edward Knox in 1957, Knox had four siblings (two sisters and two brothers), and grew up in Quincy, Florida. Legally her name was changed to \"The Lady Chablis\" in the 1990s. Chablis", "title": "The Lady Chablis" }, { "id": "3180238", "text": "engaged. She dated, for some time, an unknown \"good, quiet man from Virginia\", had a long-running affair with William Gaston, and had a summer romance with Preston Schoyer. In the summer of 1940 Brown began a long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs (nom de plume Michael Strange), poet/playwright, actress, and the former wife of John Barrymore. The relationship, which began as a mentoring one, eventually became romantic, and included co-habitating at 10 Gracie Square in Manhattan beginning in 1943. As a studio, they used Cobble Court, a wooden house later moved to Charles Street. Oelrichs, who was 20 years Brown's senior,", "title": "Margaret Wise Brown" }, { "id": "3569104", "text": "was in October 1990, two months after the first Gulf War had started, when she removed a picture of Marla Maples (a blonde) from the cover and replaced it with a photograph of Cher. The reason for her last minute decision, she told \"The Washington Post\": \"In light of the gulf crisis, we thought a brunette was more appropriate.\" In 1992, Brown accepted the company's invitation to become editor of \"The New Yorker\", the fourth in its 73-year history and the first woman to hold the position, having been preceded by Harold Ross, William Shawn and Robert Gottlieb. She has", "title": "Tina Brown" }, { "id": "8683651", "text": "Janet Brown Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 192327 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the \"Carry on\" films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried. Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy. Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as", "title": "Janet Brown" }, { "id": "10175560", "text": "Jack Thayer, about how the world's mindset was forever altered by the sinking. Rare interviews with some of the few remaining \"Titanic\" survivors, including Edith Brown, Eva Hart, Ruth Becker (who had already died in 1990), Millvina Dean, and Michel Marcel Navratil; discussions with leading historical authorities on the sinking, including Charles Haas, John Eaton, Ken Marschall, Don Lynch and Robert Ballard; and excerpts from survivor's writings and newspaper articles accompany McCallum's telling of the story. The documentary is presented in two parts: The first half, \"Titanic: Death of a Dream\", encapsulates the first two hours. It tells the story", "title": "Titanic: The Complete Story" }, { "id": "9368545", "text": "Fanny Fern Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis (July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Fern's popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid columnist in the United States, commanding $100 per week for her \"New York Ledger\" column. A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year. Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography \"Ruth Hall\" (1854), has become a popular subject among", "title": "Fanny Fern" }, { "id": "18159856", "text": "Lillyn Brown Lillyn Brown (born Lillian Thomas; April 24, 1885 – June 8, 1969), sometimes credited as Lillyan Brown, was an American singer, vaudeville entertainer and teacher who claimed to have been \"the first professional vocalist to sing the blues in front of the public\", in 1908. She was billed as \"The Kate Smith of Harlem\" and \"The Original Gay 90's Gal\". Brown was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24, 1885, as Lillian Thomas. She was the daughter of an African-American mother and a French father. She was light-skinned, and \"some black friends said that they did not realize", "title": "Lillyn Brown" }, { "id": "20059598", "text": "Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts is a 1996 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It tells the life stories of a number of people involved in abolitionism in the Americas including Joseph Cinqué, Toussaint Louverture, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Denmark Vesey, John Brown, Cato, and the Maroons. \"School Library Journal\", when reviewing \"Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts\", wrote \"The authors' careful research, sensitivity, and evenhanded style reveal a sad, yet inspiring story of the will to be free.\" and concluded \"A fine contribution to a growing body of literature about", "title": "Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts" }, { "id": "7932119", "text": "a musician when she was twelve. During the McCarthy era the Robisons were charged and questioned by a committee in a televised hearing. With both parents on the Hollywood blacklist and out of work, the family was suddenly without financial resources and was compelled to move to New York State to live with her grandmother on her farm. After about five years, David Robison was able to start writing again under a pen name and found success in television, writing for \"Lassie\", \"Bewitched\", and \"The Andy Griffith Show\". When the blacklist came to an end, he resumed writing under his", "title": "Paula Robison" }, { "id": "14347152", "text": "Harriet Schock Harriet Schock is an American singer, songwriter, teacher, author, and actress. She made three albums for a major label in the 70s, scoring gold and platinum awards for her Grammy-nominated \"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady\", before moving into teaching and soundtrack work, and then resuming an ongoing recording career in the 90s. Schock, whose father was a dermatologist, grew up in Texas as one of two sisters, and was encouraged to play piano from an early age. Her natural ability to play by ear quickly became apparent. After a brief spell working in advertising, Schock became", "title": "Harriet Schock" }, { "id": "11960986", "text": "popularity. In the early 19th century, Jane was again seen as a name with a certain amount of glamour. Joan became more popular in the early to mid-20th century, when it was ranked in the top 500 most popular names given to girls in the United States, but the name has again been displaced by Jane on the popularity charts in the 21st century. Alternate forms include: Jane Doe or Jane Roe is used in American law as a placeholder name for anonymous or unknown female participants in legal proceedings. \"Jane Roe\" was the legal pseudonym used by Norma McCorvey", "title": "Jane (given name)" }, { "id": "18936586", "text": "Ann McGovern Ann McGovern Scheiner (née Weinberger; May 25, 1930 – August 8, 2015) was an American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. She may be best known for her adaptation of \"Stone Soup\", as well as \"Too Much Noise\", historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson. Born in New York, New York, she enrolled in the University of New Mexico but dropped out to marry her English professor. The marriage ended and she moved back, aged 22, to New York City with her 18-month old son.", "title": "Ann McGovern" }, { "id": "11388438", "text": "the 2002 episode \"Plan B\". Julie Sinatra (born Julie Ann Maria Lyma on February 10, 1943) claims to be Sinatra's daughter through an unacknowledged affair that he had with a showgirl, Dorothy Bunocelli, in the 1940s. She legally changed her last name to Sinatra in 2000. Awarded $100,000 by the Sinatra estate in 2002, elements of her story concerning her mother's trip to Cuba with Sinatra have been disputed. In an interview for the November 2013 issue of \"Vanity Fair\", Farrow said that she and Sinatra \"never really split up\" and answered \"possibly\" when asked if her son Ronan Farrow", "title": "Personal life of Frank Sinatra" }, { "id": "9240626", "text": "H. Jackson Brown Jr. Harriett Jackson Brown Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, \"Life's Little Instruction Book\", which was a \"New York Times\" bestseller (1991–1994). Its sequel \"Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2\" also made it to the same best seller list in 1993. Brown was born in 1940, in Middle Tennessee, where he still lives as of 2018. Before becoming a writer, he acted as a creative director of an advertising agency in Nashville. He graduated from Emory University in 1962 and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. In 1991 he was honored", "title": "H. Jackson Brown Jr." }, { "id": "5682414", "text": "makeup artist. Brown became known for a makeup style that included moderate and natural tones, which was a stark contrast to the bright colors used at the time. In 1991, she and a chemist made a revolution, they released a line of new lipsticks (10 lipsticks on beige pigment) under the brand Bobbi Brown Essentials, which debuted at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. The success of her makeup line led Estée Lauder to buy the company in 1995. Her work has since been featured on the covers of magazines such as \"Elle\", \"Vogue\", \"Self\" and \"Town & Country\". Brown", "title": "Bobbi Brown" }, { "id": "9842629", "text": "Eliza Wallace Eliza Wallace, known by her pseudonym as Big Mary or Boston Mary, (fl. 1863-1869) was a New York criminal during the late 19th century. Her known aliases included Eliza Gilford, Mary Anderson, and Mary Rogers. An associate of Fredericka Mandelbaum, she was a prominent thief and con artist in New York's underworld during the 1860s and 1870s. In 1863, Wallace was arrested under the alias Mary Anderson for stealing silk from \"Stewart's. She was\" sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. She also served a two-and-a-half year prison sentence in Sing Sing Prison for shoplifting under the name Eliza Gilford.", "title": "Eliza Wallace" }, { "id": "645102", "text": "called the Hartford Colonials, but games were played in neighboring East Hartford's Rentschler Field. Hartford has been home to many historically significant people, such as dictionary author Noah Webster (1758–1843), inventor Sam Colt (1814–62), and American financier and industrialist J.P. Morgan (1837–1913). Some of America's most famous authors lived in Hartford, including Mark Twain (1835–1910), who moved to the city in 1874. Twain's next-door neighbor at Nook Farm was Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96). Poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) was an insurance executive in the city, and World War II correspondent Lyn Crost (1915–97) lived there. More recently, Dominick Dunne (1925–2009), John", "title": "Hartford, Connecticut" }, { "id": "12277338", "text": "Actress. Caitlin Mehner portrays Honey Bruce in the 2017 TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Honey Bruce Honey Bruce Friedman, born Harriett Jolliff, also known by her professional name Honey Harlow (August 15, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was an American stripper and showgirl who was the wife of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. In 1976 she released her autobiography, \"Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady\". Friedman was born Harriett Jolliff in Manila, Arkansas, the daughter of unmarried teenage parents Mabel Layson and Murl Jolliff. She never knew her father, who died in a tuberculosis sanitorium. She was", "title": "Honey Bruce" }, { "id": "6875754", "text": "Dovima Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), later known as Dorothy Horan, and best known as Dovima, was an American model during the 1950s. Born in Queens, New York, to a Polish-American policeman and an Irish-born mother, she was the first model to use a single name. The name Dovima is composed of the first two letters of her three given names. Dovima was discovered on a sidewalk in New York by an editor at \"Vogue\", and had a photo shoot with Irving Penn the following day. She worked closely with Richard Avedon, whose photograph", "title": "Dovima" }, { "id": "7281903", "text": "Hobart Brown Hobart Ray Brown, (February 27, 1934 – November 7, 2007) was an American sculptor and the founder of Kinetic Sculpture Racing. Hobart Brown was born in Hess, Oklahoma, to a fifteen-year-old mother who migrated across country to California on the back of her husband's motorcycle. He later described it as his classic Okie experience, mirroring the great migration captured in John Steinbeck's \"The Grapes of Wrath\" and other stories of the Dust Bowl years. Brown went to high school in Los Angeles a couple of classes after Marilyn Monroe, whom he remembered by her real name and describes", "title": "Hobart Brown" }, { "id": "6953577", "text": "Julia Brown Julia Brown was an American madam and prostitute active in mid-nineteenth century New York City. Brown has been described as \"the best-known prostitute in antebellum America\". She became a popular subject of tourist guidebooks, and her name appears often in diaries from the period. In the 1830s, Brown entered a brothel owned by Adeline Miller, a well-known New York madam. She did not stay long, however; soon Brown was running brothels of her own on Chapel and Church Streets. One brothel was partially destroyed when the neighboring National Theater burnt down in 1841. By the next year, Brown", "title": "Julia Brown" }, { "id": "11301200", "text": "and vetoed it. In 1833, Washington had a visitor who would become famous, Harriet Beecher, who after her marriage was known as Harriet Beecher Stowe. At the time of her visit, she was still Harriet Beecher and teaching at the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati. She came to Washington to visit a student, Elizabeth Key, and saw a slave auction in front of the old courthouse in Washington. This auction and her other experiences with slavery led her to write \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\", which has a number of references to Washington. The character of Topsy in \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\" is", "title": "Washington, Kentucky" }, { "id": "477959", "text": "relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or \"Moses\", as she was called) \"never lost a passenger\". After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work. Tubman met the abolitionist John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for the raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then", "title": "Harriet Tubman" }, { "id": "9240629", "text": "Big Kitchen Instruction Book\". Brown's books have been translated into 35 languages. They have spawned calendars, posters, apparel items, daily journals, greeting cards, audiocassettes, screensavers and even fortune cookies. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Harriett Jackson Brown Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, \"Life's Little Instruction Book\", which was a \"New York Times\" bestseller (1991–1994). Its sequel \"Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2\" also made it to the same best seller list in 1993. Brown was born in 1940, in Middle Tennessee, where he still lives as of 2018. Before becoming a writer, he acted as", "title": "H. Jackson Brown Jr." }, { "id": "12277331", "text": "Honey Bruce Honey Bruce Friedman, born Harriett Jolliff, also known by her professional name Honey Harlow (August 15, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was an American stripper and showgirl who was the wife of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. In 1976 she released her autobiography, \"Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady\". Friedman was born Harriett Jolliff in Manila, Arkansas, the daughter of unmarried teenage parents Mabel Layson and Murl Jolliff. She never knew her father, who died in a tuberculosis sanitorium. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Harriett Joliff (1877-1941), but as a child, her nickname was", "title": "Honey Bruce" }, { "id": "13250556", "text": "the book, Bogle identified a sixth stereotype: the sidekick, who is usually asexual. \"Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks\" was awarded the 1973 Theatre Library Association Award. \"Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars\" was published in 1980. It was the basis of a four-hour PBS documentary that aired in 1986. Bogle published his third book, \"Blacks in American Film and Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia\", in 1988. Bogle's next book, a biography of actress Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), caused a sensation before its 1997 publication. It sparked renewed interest in Dandridge's life, and several Black performers raced to make", "title": "Donald Bogle" }, { "id": "11995640", "text": "album \"K2\". In 1998, Thatcher wrote the words for a Japanese commercial for Nikka Whiskey which won five awards. In 1972, she married at the Kensington and Chelsea Register Office and became Betty Brown. She divorced in 1976, and changed her name back to Newsinger in the early 1980s, when her name gained political significance. She was a private person as was her ex-husband. She lived most of her life in St Ives and then in Hayle. In her late years she was not in the best of health, suffering from emphysema. Thatcher died of cancer on 15 August 2011,", "title": "Betty Thatcher" }, { "id": "1420368", "text": "became a famous preacher and abolitionist, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher. Harriet enrolled in the Hartford Female Seminary run by her older sister Catharine. There she received a traditional academic education, usually only reserved for males at the time, with a focus in the classics, including studies of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a", "title": "Harriet Beecher Stowe" }, { "id": "769169", "text": "has been living well abroad in Europe most of the time, returns to New York City upon hearing of her father's illness, scheming to increase her share of Simon's inheritance by kidnapping Sport and imprisoning him in the Plaza Hotel for a week. In 2002, a sequel \"Harriet Spies Again\" appeared; written by Helen Ericson, it also received mixed reviews. Another sequel, \"Harriet the Spy, Double Agent\" by Maya Gold, was published in 2005; one review of that book stated \"there's not much to interest readers here.\" Film rights to the novel were bought by Herbert Swope in 1964. \"Harriet", "title": "Harriet the Spy" }, { "id": "5641809", "text": "Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the Joseph McCarthy era of a Red scare. Her unfinished autobiography was published posthumously in 1992 by an academic press. Pastor Stokes' personal papers are held by New York University, where they are held at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Much of this material is also available on microfilm. Rose Pastor Stokes Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes (née Wieslander; July 18, 1879 – June 20, 1933) was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of some public notoriety", "title": "Rose Pastor Stokes" }, { "id": "8051652", "text": "connections including New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, United States Representative Charles B. Rangel, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Representative Maxine Waters and his son Eric, who was a veteran New York State campaign manager. Peoples-Stokes's Democratic primary election challenge was almost successful, and it was credited with energizing minority voters to elect Byron Brown as a New York State Senator. In 2000, Eve proposed that Pataki declare March 10 as Harriet Tubman day, in honor of the African-American abolitionist who helped bring about the emancipation of many slaves. In 2001 Eve began efforts to have the", "title": "Arthur Eve" }, { "id": "7821884", "text": "her interest in art, and her aunt, watercolorist Susan Hale, most likely provided her first artistic instruction. Her brother was Philip Leslie Hale, a celebrated artist and art critic, and he married Lilian Westcott Hale, an Impressionist painter. Hale's family background provided her with a network of strong female role models. Her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of the anti-slavery novel \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\". Educator Catharine Beecher and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker were also great-aunts. One of Hale’s first cousins was writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, best known for her short story \"The Yellow Wallpaper\".", "title": "Ellen Day Hale" }, { "id": "11203830", "text": "Harriet Lane Levy Harriet Lane Levy (1867–1950) is a California writer best known for her memoir, \"920 O’Farrell Street\". Levy was also an avid art collector, a girlhood friend of Alice B. Toklas, and an acquaintance of Gertrude Stein. She was born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family and raised in San Francisco. From 1865-1869, her cousin, Albert A. Michelson (the first U.S. citizen to win a Nobel Prize for science), lived with her. The first part of her autobiography, \"920 O’Farrell Street\", chronicles her childhood in an upper-middle-class San Francisco neighborhood. Additionally, young women such as Levy were expected to", "title": "Harriet Lane Levy" }, { "id": "9665504", "text": "and a young spy/writer who is best friends with Simon \"Sport\" Rocque (Gregory Smith) and Janie Gibbs (Vanessa Lee Chester). She lives a privileged life with her parents, Violetta and Ben and her nanny, Katherine \"Ole Golly\" (Rosie O'Donnell), who's the only person who knows all the things that Harriet has been snooping on. Harriet and her friends are enemies with a rich girl named Marion Hawthorne (Charlotte Sullivan). For a while, Harriet lives life very well with being a spy and having fun with Golly. One night, being home alone with Harriet, Golly invites a friend, Mr. George Waldenstein,", "title": "Harriet the Spy (film)" }, { "id": "12431413", "text": "Claudia Roth Pierpont Claudia Roth Pierpont is a writer and journalist. She has been a contributor to \"The New Yorker\" since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004. Her subjects have included Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building. A collection of eleven of Pierpont’s \"New Yorker\" essays, \"Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World\", was published in 2000. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the book juxtaposes the lives and works of women writers, including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston.", "title": "Claudia Roth Pierpont" }, { "id": "15401880", "text": "Harriet Hubbard Ayer Harriet Hubbard Ayer (June 27, 1849, Chicago, Illinois – November 25, 1903, New York City) was an American cosmetics entrepreneur and journalist during the second half of the nineteenth century. Harriet Hubbard Ayer was a Chicago socialite. She became famous for having initiated the first cosmetic company in the United States and for fighting to maintain her business against male predators. She set the stage for later female cosmetic moguls. Ayer was a victim of kidnapping and also suffered from madness, but was able to reinvent herself during the last seven years of her life as the", "title": "Harriet Hubbard Ayer" }, { "id": "3852018", "text": "Award\" from the Amie Karen Cancer Fund for Children. Tracy Nelson (actress) Tracy Kristine Nelson (born October 25, 1963) is an American actress and writer. Nelson was born in Santa Monica, California. She is a fourth-generation performer. Her great-grandparents were vaudeville performers Hazel Dell (née McNutt) and Roy Hilliard Snyder. Their daughter was her paternal grandmother Harriet Nelson, the star of the sitcom \"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet\". Her parents were musician Ricky Nelson and actress/artist Kristin Nelson (née Harmon). She has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson of the 1990s rock group Nelson, and Sam Nelson.", "title": "Tracy Nelson (actress)" }, { "id": "9101551", "text": "squalid lodging house known as the East River Hotel on April 24, 1891. Newspapers were quick to report the murder as proof of the alleged arrival in America of Jack the Ripper, whose murders of prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district were well known during the time. News of the possibility that Jack the Ripper had arrived in New York posed a challenge to NYPD Chief Inspector Thomas Byrnes who had criticized Scotland Yard for its inability to capture Jack the Ripper. As the murder of the middle-aged prostitute was soon becoming one of the most publicized in the city's history,", "title": "Carrie Brown (murder victim)" }, { "id": "13344532", "text": "Sam Cohn Samuel Charles Cohn (May 11, 1929 – May 6, 2009) was a talent agent at International Creative Management, a firm he helped create, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Cohn has been described as one of the most powerful agents in the 1970s and 1980s, and had an extensive client list that included top stars in theater and film. Some of his most well-known clients included Paul Newman, Woody Allen, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Dianne Wiest, Jackie Gleason, Dame Maggie Smith, Robert Altman, and E.L. Doctorow. \"Time\" magazine called Cohn", "title": "Sam Cohn" }, { "id": "15981309", "text": "1997. Her recordings include the songs \"Evil Blues\", \"Mean Eyes (Too Late Blues)\", \"Deceitful Blues\", \"I Don't Let No One Man Worry Me\", \"He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down\", \"Keep On Going\", \"Family Skeleton Blues\", \"I Wanna Jazz Some More\", and \"One of These Days\". According to the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, she was living in a nursing home in Manhattan in 1990. The date of her death is unknown. Kitty Brown Catherine Brown, known as Kitty Brown (born October 1899, died after 1990), was an American classic female blues singer. She sometimes used the pseudonyms Bessie Williams", "title": "Kitty Brown" }, { "id": "19390388", "text": "the family received compensation and encouraging the jury to recommend safety improvements as part of the verdict. Harriet Fisher Jones was born on 2 May 1841 in Warrington to her father, Evan Jones, a tinsmith, and his wife, Harriet Jones. As she and her mother shared the same name, she became better known as Jeannie. In 1860, she married a fruit merchant, Robert Willis, and the couple travelled to New York City, where she took an interest in the black rights movement. On her return to England, she and her husband settled in London and had a son, Robert Frederick", "title": "Jeannie Mole" }, { "id": "1955587", "text": "Francisco, California. In 2010, Odam played himself in the independent film, \"Rainbows End\", a mockumentary about a band traveling from Texas to California to record an album with him. In late 2011, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy released an anthology of his life's work, a double CD on Cherry Red Records from England, titled \"For Sarah, Raquel, and David: An Anthology\". The first names refer to Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Raquel Welch, actress, and performing artist David Bowie, all longtime fans of The Ledge's work. Rumors of a European tour abound. Legendary Stardust Cowboy Norman Carl Odam (born September 5,", "title": "Legendary Stardust Cowboy" }, { "id": "559772", "text": "political risks from individuals, groups or states that disagree with them); or to make their name better suit another language. Examples of well-known writers who used a pen name include: George Eliot (1819–1880), whose real name was Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans; George Orwell (1903–1950), whose real name was Eric Blair; George Sand (1804–1876), whose real name was Lucile Aurore Dupin; Dr. Seuss (1904–1991), whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel; Stendhal (1783–1842), whose real name was Marie-Henri Beyle and Mark Twain (1835–1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Apart from the large numbers of works attributable only to", "title": "Writer" }, { "id": "19927944", "text": "was praised by critics as a masterpiece of suspense. Her largest project was \"As I Pass, O Manhattan\" (1956), a 1200-page anthology of writing about life in New York from its earliest days that encompassed some 200 authors and ranged from poetry to biography. Hailed as a \"magnificent tribute to a mighty city\", this compendium of \"literary New Yorkiana\" is still being used by other writers. Her unpublished biography of painter Harriet Blackstone is among the Harriet Blackstone Papers in the Smithsonian Institution. McCullough was also a musician and served for a time as director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.", "title": "Esther Morgan McCullough" }, { "id": "20351831", "text": "was an occasional contributor to the newspaper press. In 1902 she wrote \"Scientific dress cutting and making, \"The Harriet A. Brown system,\" simplified and improved; directions for its use\". Harriet A. Brown married Albert G. Brown (1848-1935) and had two children: Walter G. (1871-1872) and Clara G. (1886-1895). She died in 1930 and is buried at Brown Cemetery, Voluntown, New London, Connecticut. Harriet A. Brown Harriet A. Brown (February 20, 1847 - 1930) was an inventor who patented \"The Harriet A. Brown system,\" a dress cutting and making system. Harriet A. Brown was born in Augusta, Maine, on February 20,", "title": "Harriet A. Brown" }, { "id": "9822496", "text": "After forty-five singles and ten CDs Harriet shut its doors in 1998. Harriet Records Harriet Records was an American independent record label based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The label was founded by Harvard history professor Tim Alborn in 1989. The label was named for the children's book Harriet the Spy. The majority of Harriet's releases were indie pop 7\" vinyl singles, but eventually they started releasing full length CDs. Harriet is a bit legendary in the indie world for giving a number of notable artists their start. John Darnielle, Wimp Factor 14, My Favorite, Crayon, Six Cents and Natalie, Vehicle", "title": "Harriet Records" }, { "id": "1957453", "text": "of \"The New York Times\" cited Macpherson, along with Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schiffer as \"The Magnificent Seven\". DeCaro reflected, \"Known by their first names to legions of fans, they are the legends of the modern catwalk, the girl next door pretty underneath all the paint\". In 1994, she left her agency, Ford Models, to form her own company, Elle Macpherson Inc., which would serve as the financial organizational base for her later endeavours. She soon went on to produce her own highly popular series of calendars, each of which was accompanied", "title": "Elle Macpherson" }, { "id": "4281619", "text": "was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1869 to journalists Jane Cunningham Croly—better known by her pseudonym “Jenny June”—and David Goodman Croly. Jane Croly was a contributor to \"The New York Times\", \"The Messenger\", and \"The New York World\". She was the editor of \"Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly\" for 27 years. Jane Croly wrote only on the subject of women and published nine books in addition to her work as a journalist. She was one of the best-known women in America when Herbert Croly was born. David Croly worked as a reporter for the \"Evening Post\" and \"The New York", "title": "Herbert Croly" }, { "id": "13478155", "text": "Mildred Adams Mildred Adams (1894 – November 5, 1980, New York City) was the name used by Mildred Adams Kenyon, an American journalist, writer, translator, and critic of Spanish literature. Mildred Adams graduated from the University of California with a degree in economics. She moved to New York City, where she wrote articles for her aunt, Gertrude Foster Brown (1868-1956), an early woman's suffrage leader who was then managing editor of \"Woman's Journal\". She soon became a feature writer and book reviewer for the \"New York Times\" and various magazines, including the London \"Economist\". She interviewed Calvin Coolidge, Huey Long,", "title": "Mildred Adams" }, { "id": "769152", "text": "Harriet the Spy Harriet the Spy is a children's novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called \"a milestone in children's literature\" and a \"classic\". In the U.S. it ranked number 12 book for kids and number 17 all-time children's novel on two lists generated in 2012. Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring writer who lives in New York City's Upper East Side. Harriet is precocious, and enthusiastic about her future career. Encouraged by her nanny, Catherine \"Ole Golly,\" Harriet carefully observes others and writes her thoughts down in a notebook", "title": "Harriet the Spy" }, { "id": "5682415", "text": "was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2013. Brown served as Yahoo Beauty's Editor-in-Chief from February 2014 to February 2016. In November 2017, Brown received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her work in Beauty at the United Nations in New York City. In 1990, Brown worked with a chemist to come up with ten natural lipstick shades. In 1991, the ten shades debuted under the name Bobbi Brown Essentials at Bergdorf Goodman. The following year, she released yellow-toned foundation sticks. Estée Lauder Companies Inc. bought Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1995;", "title": "Bobbi Brown" }, { "id": "4407100", "text": "6528 Hollywood Boulevard. Vanessa Brown Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian-born American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television. Born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents (Nah Brind, a language teacher, and Anna Brind, a psychologist), Brown and her family fled to Paris, France in 1937 to escape persecution by the Nazi regime. Within a few years the family had settled in America and Brown auditioned for Lillian Hellman for a role in \"Watch on the Rhine\". Fluent in several languages, the youngster impressed Hellman with her presence", "title": "Vanessa Brown" }, { "id": "19421204", "text": "of her skirt; these represent the roots of slavery. Her skirt is decorated with images representing the former slaves who Tubman assisted to escape. The base of the statue features illustrations representing moments from Tubman's life, alternated with traditional quilting symbols. In 2004, the traffic island and the statue received a Public Design Commission Award for Excellence in Design. Harriet Tubman Memorial (New York City) The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Swing Low, located in Manhattan in New York City, honors the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The intersection at which it stands was previously a barren traffic island,", "title": "Harriet Tubman Memorial (New York City)" }, { "id": "15494078", "text": "Cordula Reyer Cordula Reyer (born 1964) is an Austrian runway, magazine and advertisement model who later became a fashion journalist. She rose to prominence during the supermodel era of the 1980s and 1990s. Reyer began her career with runway modeling for various shows in Europe, such as Yves Saint Laurent and Helmut Lang. She expressed an interest in modeling in the United States, and contacted an American agency through her hairstylist at the time, Peter Savic. She was 25 years old when she began modeling in America, and had a son. It was uncommon at the time for mothers to", "title": "Cordula Reyer" }, { "id": "18539598", "text": "His associates included the venerable abolitionist Quaker Isaac T. Hopper, his daughter, Abigail Hopper Gibbons, and her husband, James; Elias Smith; and two black men: the \"Standard's\" printer, William H. Leonard, and Louis Napoleon, who conducted many of the fugitives forwarded to the office from Philadelphia by James Miller McKim and William Still. Gay's office was a critical stop for fugitives traveling from Philadelphia to New Haven and Boston, or to Canada West via Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester. Gay aided three of history's most famous fugitives: Henry \"Box\" Brown, Jane Johnson, and Harriet Tubman. In two notebooks, which he entitled", "title": "Sydney Howard Gay" }, { "id": "2945881", "text": "not bear to think about her. He almost never spoke of her again, would not allow her to be mentioned in his presence, and even omitted her name from his autobiography. Therefore, his daughter Alice was called \"Baby Lee\" instead of her name. She continued this practice late in life, often preferring to be called \"Mrs. L\" rather than \"Alice\". Seeking solace, Theodore retreated from his life in New York and headed west, where he spent two years traveling and living on his ranch in North Dakota. He left his infant daughter in the care of his sister Anna, known", "title": "Alice Roosevelt Longworth" }, { "id": "7170284", "text": "to duppy. In Avram Davidson's 1961 short story \"Where do you live, Queen Esther\", an old Caribbean domestic worker in New York (the \"Queen Esther\" of the title) keeps a tiny dried frog tied with a scarlet ribbon in a cigarette tin. The frog turns out to be a duppy, which comes to terrifying life when an unpleasant employer takes the liberty of looking uninvited through the servant's possessions. The James Bond thriller \"Live and Let Die\" by Ian Fleming mentions duppy and the rolling calf in the chapter \"The Undertaker's Wind\". The protagonist of the novel \"Brown Girl in", "title": "Duppy" }, { "id": "10883345", "text": "by Pino Daniele and performed in Italian by Loredana Bertè). The English version was titled, \"All That We Are\". She co-wrote the song \"Whatever You Need\" with Russ Courtenay for Tina Turner's 1999 album, \"Twenty Four Seven\". In 2014, she released the digital album \"Reality\" containing ten tracks, under the name Harriet Roberts. Harriet (singer) Harriet (born Harriet Roberts, 1966, Sheffield, England) is a dance-pop singer. She released two singles, \"Woman to Man\" and \"Temple of Love\", in 1990, on EastWest/Atlantic Records. \"Temple of Love\" cracked the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1991, peaking at #39. Her single also reached", "title": "Harriet (singer)" }, { "id": "16395720", "text": "artists Goldie Hawn and Loretta Lynn and congresswomen Patsy Mink and Eleanor Holmes Norton. She also published reviews of feminist authors Germaine Greer and Florynce Kennedy. By the 1980s, she had established a reputation for her incisive interviews with famous persons in politics and culture. During this time, she interviewed Harry Belafonte (1982), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Playboy, 1983), and Daniel Ortega (Playboy, 1987). In the 1990s, Dreifus increasingly took on interviews related to major political figures. She interviewed Benazir Bhutto (1994) and Aung San Suu Kyi for the New York Times (1996). She also kept up her established work as", "title": "Claudia Dreifus" }, { "id": "17717633", "text": "she was found living in poverty, and a retirement fund was established for her. In 1937 she was awarded a silver cup by Edith Claire Bryce (1880-1960) of the Peace House for her \"deeds of courage without violence\". Rose Livingston Rose Livingston (circa 1885-1948), known as the Angel of Chinatown, was a suffragist who worked to free prostitutes and victims of sexual slavery. Together with Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Rose Livingston worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex", "title": "Rose Livingston" }, { "id": "7801529", "text": "groups later formed, such as FLOP, HIRE, and PUMA. In 1997, \"Hollywood Madam\" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous wealthy clients. Her original three-year sentence prompted widespread outrage at her harsh punishment, while her customers had not been punished. Earlier, in the 1980s, a member of Philadelphia's social elite, Sydney Biddle Barrows was revealed as a madam in New York City. She became known as the Mayflower Madam. In 1990, U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) admitted to paying for sex in 1989. The House of", "title": "Prostitution in the United States" }, { "id": "4495847", "text": "Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including \"The Women of Brewster Place\" (1982)\", Linden Hills\" (1985) and \"Mama Day\" (1988)\".\" Naylor was born in New York on January 25, 1950, the oldest child of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. The Naylors, who had been sharecroppers in Robinsonville, Mississippi, had migrated to Harlem to escape life in the segregated South and seek new opportunities in New York City. Her father became a transit worker; her mother, a telephone operator. Even though Naylor's mother had little education, she loved to", "title": "Gloria Naylor" }, { "id": "16186298", "text": "Harriet Parr Harriet Parr (1828–1900) was a British author of the Victorian era, who wrote under the pseudonym Holme Lee. The daughter of a commercial traveler, Parr was born in the English city of York on 31 January 1828. She never married and worked initially as a governess before finding success as a writer with her first book, \"Maude Talbot,\" in 1854. From then until 1883, Parr produced approximately one novel a year, all published by the London firm Smith, Elder & Co., under the pen name Holme Lee. Charles Dickens, having enjoyed one of Parr’s early books, purchased three", "title": "Harriet Parr" }, { "id": "2344825", "text": "California School of Music and participated in Lotte Lehmann's vocal master classes at Music Academy of the West. Horne's first major professional engagement was in 1954, when she dubbed the singing voice of Dorothy Dandridge in the film \"Carmen Jones\". Until that point, she had worked as a background singer for several TV sitcoms, as well as recorded covers of popular songs of the early 1950s, which were sold in dimestores around the country for $1.98. She made an appearance on \"The Odd Couple\" as a character named \"Jackie\", her own nickname, a meek and nervous would-be singer who develops", "title": "Marilyn Horne" }, { "id": "16672598", "text": "future novels such as \"The Briar Patch\" (a.k.a. \"Young Lucifer\"); \"The Children\" (a.k.a. \"Wednesday's Children\") is her memoir about her work with children of the Holocaust. She worked as a typist at the National Central Library in London, inspiration for her future novel \"Dewey Death\" as Charity Blackstock. She also taught English to adult students. She returned to publishing in the early 1950s using the pen names of Paula Allardyce or Charity Blackstock (in some cases reedited as Lee Blackstock in the USA) to sign her gothic romance and mystery novels. Later, she also used the pen name Charlotte Keppel.", "title": "Ursula Torday" }, { "id": "17339948", "text": "Price of Salt\". The book was originally published under the pseudonym \"Claire Morgan\" by Coward-McCann after Highsmith's publisher Harper & Brothers rejected it. In 1990, Highsmith agreed to republish with Bloomsbury Publishing under her own name, and retitled it \"Carol\". It had been inspired by an encounter in 1948 between Highsmith and a blonde woman wearing a mink coat, Mrs. E.R. Senn (Kathleen Wiggins Senn), whilst she was working as a Christmas season salesgirl at the toy department of Bloomingdale's in New York. That evening she wrote an eight-page outline, which she developed some weeks later and had completed by", "title": "Carol (film)" }, { "id": "14931201", "text": "Black Figures in American Literature\". She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for \"Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture\" and won the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize and the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for \"Harriet Jacobs: A Life\". \"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\" initially received favorable reviews, but it quickly lost attention due to the start of the Civil War. After the war ended, readers who discovered the work were confused as to the identity of the author; because of the use of a pseudonym, some thought that the author", "title": "Jean Fagan Yellin" }, { "id": "17667864", "text": "her family moved to Canada when she was 9. Before becoming an actress, she worked as a saleswoman, accountant and bookkeeper. O'Connor began acting in American television series and films in the middle of the 1980s. Her first appearance was in in 1986. Some of her other credits are \"Stepping Out, Harriet the Spy, Billy Madison, Matrix, and The Long Kiss Goodnight\". She played a cranky but kind farm woman in \"Fly Away Home\" (1996). Her last role came in 1998 when she played Mavis in the television movie \"The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon\". O'Connor died on", "title": "Gladys O'Connor" }, { "id": "8667874", "text": "The family emigrated to the United States when young Jane was twelve. The family first lived in Poughkeepsie, New York, and later in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Jane first became interested in journalism while a student; she started by editing the school newspaper. Later, she edited and published the newspaper for her brother's church. By 1855, she had moved to New York in search of full-time journalism work, and some sources say it was there she first used the pseudonym \"Jennie June\". But other sources say that \"Jennie June\" was a childhood nickname, given to her by a family friend when Jennie", "title": "Jane Cunningham Croly" }, { "id": "13597672", "text": "human being. Sayers introduced the character of detective novelist Harriet Vane in \"Strong Poison\". She remarked more than once that she had developed the \"husky voiced, dark-eyed\" Harriet to put an end to Lord Peter via matrimony. But in the course of writing \"Gaudy Night\", Sayers imbued Lord Peter and Harriet with so much life that she was never able, as she put it, to \"see Lord Peter exit the stage\". Sayers did not content herself with writing pure detective stories; she explored the difficulties of First World War veterans in \"The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club\", discussed the ethics", "title": "Dorothy L. Sayers" }, { "id": "2179767", "text": "true pioneer for women in journalism – and beyond.\" The cause of her death was not disclosed. \"Entertainment Weekly\" said that \"Gurley Brown will be remembered for her impact on the publishing industry, her contributions to the culture at large, and sly quips like her famous line: 'Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.'\" Then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a statement said, \"Today New York City lost a pioneer who reshaped not only the entire media industry, but the nation's culture. She was a role model for the millions of women whose private thoughts, wonders and", "title": "Helen Gurley Brown" }, { "id": "19466914", "text": "a home for elderly African-Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom. Harriet Tubman Day Harriet Tubman Day is an American holiday in honor of the anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, observed on March 10 in the whole country, and in the U.S. state of New York. Observances also occur locally around the U.S. state of Maryland. The holiday was approved as Public Law 101-252 by the 101st Congress in a joint resolution on March 13, 1990. The law was considered and passed by the U.S.", "title": "Harriet Tubman Day" }, { "id": "2179762", "text": "In 1965, Brown became editor-in-chief of \"Cosmopolitan\", then a literary magazine famed for high-toned content, and reinvented it as a magazine for the modern single career-woman. In the 1960s, Brown was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide women with role models in her magazine. She claimed that women could have it all – \"love, sex, and money\". As a result of her advocacy, glamorous, fashion-focused women were sometimes called \"Cosmo Girls\". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution. In 1997, Brown was ousted from her role as the U.S.", "title": "Helen Gurley Brown" }, { "id": "3052805", "text": "23 in the list of 200 Most Influential Social-Entrepreneurs and Philanthropists Worldwide. In August 2013, Simmons launched the controversial \"Harriet Tubman Sex Tape\" parody video on his YouTube channel, \"All Def Digital\", which led to public outrage and many critics demanding an apology. The video featured an actress portraying the great abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) having sex with her slave owner with the intent of filming the act and blackmailing him to convince him to work on the Underground Railroad. Women from his own community, as well as filmmaker Spike Lee, were offended by the controversial comedy sketch. \"Rolling Stone\"", "title": "Russell Simmons" }, { "id": "9767882", "text": "Christene Mayer Christene Mayer (also spelled Meyer) or Kid Glove Rosey (born 1847) was a New York criminal and thief during the late 19th century; her aliases including Mary Scanlon and Rosey Roder. Born in Germany, Christene became known as a prominent shoplifter in New York and other major cities before her arrest with \"Black\" Lena Kleinschmidt for stealing two pieces of silk containing 108 yards (valued at $250) from the McCreery & Co. store at the corner of 11th Street and Broadway on April 9, 1880. Recently stolen property from Le Boutillier Brothers on 14th Street was found in", "title": "Christene Mayer" }, { "id": "4495854", "text": "the black ghettos of America bear their burdens with grace and courage,\" stated Lewis. Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including \"The Women of Brewster Place\" (1982)\", Linden Hills\" (1985) and \"Mama Day\" (1988)\".\" Naylor was born in New York on January 25, 1950, the oldest child of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. The Naylors, who had been sharecroppers in Robinsonville, Mississippi, had migrated to Harlem to escape life in the segregated South and seek new opportunities in New York City. Her father became a transit worker; her", "title": "Gloria Naylor" } ]

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[ { "id": "269046", "text": "On June 12, 1973, Brando broke paparazzo Ron Galella's jaw. Galella had followed Brando, who was accompanied by talk show host Dick Cavett, after a taping of \"The Dick Cavett Show\" in New York City. He reportedly paid a $40,000 out-of-court settlement and suffered an infected hand as a result. Galella wore a football helmet the next time he photographed Brando at a gala benefiting the American Indians Development Association. The filming of \"Mutiny on the Bounty\" affected Brando's life in a profound way, as he fell in love with Tahiti and its people. He bought a 12-island atoll, Tetiaroa,", "title": "Marlon Brando" }, { "id": "3872961", "text": "Brando “discovered” Teti'aroa while scouting filming locations for \"Mutiny on the Bounty\", which was shot on Tahiti and neighboring Moorea. After filming was completed, Brando hired a local fisherman to ferry him to Teti'aroa. It was “more gorgeous than anything I had anticipated,” he marveled in his 1994 autobiography \"Songs My Mother Taught Me.\" Brando eventually purchased Teti'aroa's islets (motus) from one of Williams’ direct descendants, Mrs Duran. The reef and lagoon belong to French Polynesia. (Williams and his wife are buried on motu Rimatuu). He had to overcome political interference and local resistance to purchase the atoll, which is", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "6496425", "text": "young Christian, who was raised by nannies and servants. Christian moved between Hollywood and Tetiaroa, his father's private island near Tahiti. Marlon continued to have relationships with multiple women by whom he fathered numerous children. Years later, while commenting on his childhood, Christian said, \"The family kept changing shape, I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, 'Who are you?'\" In 1972, while his father was abroad in France filming \"Last Tango in Paris\", Christian was kidnapped by his mother, who took him from school, then brought him to a gang of hippie friends in Baja California, Mexico. Apparently,", "title": "Christian Brando" }, { "id": "3872965", "text": "the New Zealand yachting magazine, \"Sail\" in 1981), which Brando, it is believed, wanted to use as a bar at a resort he planned to build on the island. The yacht was salvaged, and sent to New Zealand for repair. In 2002, two years before the actor’s death, Brando signed a new will and trust agreement that left no instructions for Teti'aroa. Following his death in 2004, the executors of the estate granted development rights to Pacific Beachcomber SC, a Tahitian company that owns hotels throughout French Polynesia. Teti'aroa Pacific Beachcomber SC began construction on Teti'aroa in 2009. The first", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "3872964", "text": "Teriipaia, who had played his on-screen love in \"Mutiny on the Bounty\". The hotel operated for more than 25 years, even after Brando left French Polynesia to return to Los Angeles. Many hotel guests lamented the lack of amenities normally found at an island resort. In 1980, the famous maxi yacht S/Y \"Condor of Bermuda\" ran aground on the Onetahi reef, which caused it to be shipwrecked and written off by insurers. Purportedly, Brando and the owner of the yacht engaged in a brief bidding war for rights to the vessel’s polished mahogany hull (as reported by its owner in", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "3872963", "text": "place for friends, family and scientists studying the atoll's ecology and archeology. Over the years, Brando spent as much time as he could there and used it as a getaway from his hectic life in Hollywood. Although he didn’t spend as much time there as he wished, it is said that he always cherished his moments on Teti'aroa. During his stay on the island he was often visited by his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Upon his death, Brando's son Teihotu lived on the island for some time. Eventually the village became a modest hotel managed by his Tahitian wife, Tarita", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "16958212", "text": "feature films \"Robin Hood\" (1973), \"The Rescuers\" (1976) and \"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh\" (1977), one of many Disney to draw on A. A. Milne's characters. Many UK actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Christian Bale, Richard Burton, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald Colman, Sean Connery, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Colin Firth, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, John Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Angela Lansbury, Stan Laurel, Vivien Leigh, James", "title": "Hollywood and the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "17397389", "text": "sustainable village on an unpopulated group of islands and lagoon in the South Pacific for Marlon Brando, who had recently purchased Tetiaroa. The book is an illustrated narrative about the dynamics of the architect and client collaboration on an environmentally and culturally rich atoll, investigating living in nature without despoiling the ecology, archeology, or interdependence of marine life. Bernard Judge Bernard Judge (born June 9, 1931) is an American architect whose work in Southern California and French Polynesia is focused on environmental planning, modern architecture, and historic preservation. In 1968, Bernard Judge was awarded a United States patent for his", "title": "Bernard Judge" }, { "id": "1951152", "text": "Daldry, Edgar Wright, Martin McDonagh, Matthew Vaughn, Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, John Boorman, Gareth Edwards, Steve McQueen and Sam Mendes. British actors and actresses have always been significant in international cinema. Well-known currently active performers include Tom Hardy, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Kate Winslet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Sacha Baron Cohen, Luke Evans, Emma Thompson, Simon Pegg, Paul Bettany, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Laurie, Ben Kingsley,", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "3872960", "text": "the chiefs of Pare-'Arue, and later, by members of the Pōmare Dynasty. In 1789, William Bligh is said to have been the first European to visit the atoll while looking for early mutineers prior to the departure of the HMS Bounty which eventually suffered a full mutiny. The United States Exploring Expedition visited the island on 10 Sept. 1839. In 1904, the royal family gave Teti'aroa to Johnston Walter Williams, the only dentist in Tahiti. Williams later became Consul of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1935. Williams managed Teti'aroa as a residence and a copra plantation. In 1960, Marlon", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "12333871", "text": "Francis Ford Coppola, Barry Levinson, Stuart Rosenberg, Nicolas Roeg, Michael Cimino, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Mike Hodges, Barbet Schroeder, Walter Hill, Tsui Hark, Terrence Malick, Jonas Åkerlund, Wong Kar-wai, Tony Scott, Robert Rodriguez and John Madden, as well as actors-turned-directors Sean Penn, Vincent Gallo and Steve Buscemi. Actors he worked with include Kim Basinger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Tupac Shakur, Bruce Willis, Benicio del Toro, Alicia Silverstone, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Robert De Niro. Rourke has worked five times with fellow actor Christopher", "title": "Mickey Rourke filmography" }, { "id": "2346240", "text": "Helen Mirren, Tommy Cooper, Judi Dench, Naomi Campbell, Trevor McDonald, Barry White, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, Olivia Newton-John, Billie Piper, David Tennant, Denzel Washington, Gillian Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Sandra Bullock, Joan Rivers, Bonnie Tyler and Buddy Rich. During the 1970s, he attracted former big-name Hollywood stars, such as Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, James Stewart, John Wayne, Mickey Rooney, David Niven, Gene Kelly, James Cagney and Robert Mitchum, not on the basis that they had a film to promote, but simply because they wanted a chat. Despite this, Parkinson has since asserted that then as now, \"...there was just as much", "title": "Parkinson (TV series)" }, { "id": "8275794", "text": "Nicole Kidman along with 84 other Hollywood people signed their names on what read: Other film gurus that signed included actors: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny DeVito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt; and directors: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi; as well as star tennis player Serena Williams and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Supporters of the ad included chairman and owner of Paramount Pictures, Sumner Redstone, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban. I mean can you imagine if there was a terrorist organization that took over", "title": "International reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War" }, { "id": "3872958", "text": "Tetiaroa Teti'aroa is an atoll in the Windward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territorial collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. Once the vacation spot for Tahitian royalty, the motus' inside is under a 99-year lease contracted by Marlon Brando. Teti'aroa is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of 'Ārue, whose main part is in the northeastern part of Tahiti. The atoll is located north of Tahiti. The atoll has a total surface area of ; approximately of sand divided by 12 motus (islets) with varying surface areas. The lagoon is approximately wide and deep.", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "8248239", "text": "the period from Ranmuthuduwa in 1962 to Sakvithi Suvaya in 1982 most appropriately as the Gamini Fonseka era. In the aftermath of 1983 for full five years continuously, the actor-turned politician, the late Vijaya Kumaratunga held the position of the most popular actor which devolved on Sanath Gunatilake, Jeevan Kumaratunga, and Ranjan Ramanayake successively after his demise. Following is a list of the winners of this prestigious title since 1966. Sarasaviya Most Popular Actor Award The Sarasaviya Most Popular Actor Award is presented annually by the weekly Sarasaviya newspaper in collaboration with the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited at the", "title": "Sarasaviya Most Popular Actor Award" }, { "id": "3872967", "text": "eight of Marlon Brando's eleven children are involved in the project. Waltzing with Brando by Bernard Judge Tetiaroa Teti'aroa is an atoll in the Windward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territorial collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. Once the vacation spot for Tahitian royalty, the motus' inside is under a 99-year lease contracted by Marlon Brando. Teti'aroa is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of 'Ārue, whose main part is in the northeastern part of Tahiti. The atoll is located north of Tahiti. The atoll has a total surface area of ; approximately of", "title": "Tetiaroa" }, { "id": "9607464", "text": "Pacific Coast. Silverman followed up in 1978 with \"Fantasy Island\", starring Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize. Montalban and Villechaize were the owner and sidekick, respectively, of a luxury island resort where peoples' wishes came true. Daytime television was consumed with several game shows, airing alongside soap operas during the mornings and afternoons. During the early years of the decade, \"The Hollywood Squares\" (NBC) was the most popular, winning numerous Emmy awards. Hosted by masterly emcee Peter Marshall, nine celebrities in a large tic-tac-toe board — among them, archetypical center square Paul Lynde — responded to miscellaneous questions. Contestants must state", "title": "1970s in television" }, { "id": "16199476", "text": "would have been nice to hear a few more squawks from his pet parrot\", and praised the action. Treasure Island (2012 miniseries) Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel \"Treasure Island\" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. The screenplay was written by Stewart Harcourt, produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1 & 2 January 2012. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) discovers a map to a legendary island of treasure belonging to the infamous Captain Flint (Donald Sutherland) and", "title": "Treasure Island (2012 miniseries)" }, { "id": "5401776", "text": "of Oz\"), Harry Callahan (\"Dirty Harry\" and \"Sudden Impact\"), James Bond (\"Dr. No\" and \"Goldfinger\"), Norma Desmond (\"Sunset Boulevard\"), Scarlett O'Hara (\"Gone with the Wind\") and The Terminator (\"The Terminator\" and \"\") have two quotes each. With five, Humphrey Bogart is the actor with the most quotes (four from \"Casablanca\" and one from \"The Maltese Falcon\"); Al Pacino, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Tom Hanks, and Vivien Leigh all have three; while Jack Nicholson, Judy Garland, Gloria Swanson, Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, James Cagney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger have two each. Sixty-three of the other sixty-four actors appear once each.", "title": "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes" }, { "id": "1907523", "text": "actors and actresses, including: Laurence Fishburne, Viggo Mortensen, Dennis Farina, Stanley Tucci, Jimmy Smits, Bruce McGill, David Strathairn, Ving Rhames, Liam Neeson, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Willis, Ed O'Neill, and Julia Roberts. Additionally Michael Madsen, Ian McShane, Bill Paxton, Luis Guzmán, Kyra Sedgwick, Esai Morales, Terry O'Quinn, Joaquim de Almeida, Wesley Snipes, John Turturro, Melanie Griffith and Annie Golden to name a few. Future notable comedians included: John Leguizamo, David Rasche, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Tommy Chong, Richard Belzer, and Penn Jillette. Series Finale: 22 million viewers & a 14.7 rating on May 21, 1989 from 9-11pm. Competition: Everybody's Baby:", "title": "Miami Vice" }, { "id": "9018120", "text": "star \"Hostal de la Gavina\" dominates the view from Sant Pol beach and was popular with movie stars such as Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Bogart and Bacall. Add to that Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Peter Sellers, John Wayne, Dirk Bogarde and Sean Connery along with Niclas Carlsson famous royalty from Sweden. without discounting that s'Agaró wasn't merely Hollywood-by-the-Sea - writers like Jean Cocteau rubbed shoulders with the soprano Teresa Berganza, the tenor José Carreras, Cole Porter and political figures like ex-prime minister Edward Heath of Britain, Raymond Barre of France, Clare Boothe Luce, King Juan Carlos,", "title": "S'Agaró" }, { "id": "3466378", "text": "today in New York City and Los Angeles. Her method, based on use of the actor's imagination, has been studied by actors such as Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Martin Sheen, Diana Muldaur, Dolores del Rio, Bob Crane, Roy Scheider, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Ruffalo, Warren Beatty, Michael Imperioli, Salma Hayek, Sean Astin, Barbara Stuart, Joyce Meadows, Stephen Bauer, Judd Nelson, Christoph Waltz, Benicio del Toro, and Marlon Brando, who served as the New York studio's honorary chairman until his death and was replaced by Warren Beatty. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York opened a new studio in", "title": "Stella Adler" }, { "id": "20452901", "text": "in rainfall in the past 100 years also make it more difficult for livestock to travel freely and drink from outside water sources. In 2015, actor Robert De Niro and billionaire James Packer purchased a resort on the island. The duo will renovate the former K Club resort for a projected US$250 million. Residents voted on the proposed venture in March, 2015. 206 people voted in favour of the project, outscoring the 175 who contested the development. According to the Antigua Observer, some voters did not think the voting process was fair because there was no system in place to", "title": "Barbuda Land Acts" }, { "id": "1413589", "text": "to the period between 1935 and 1959, where the quality and economic success of the cinema of Mexico reached its peak. An era when renowned actors such as Cantinflas and Dolores del Río appeared on the silver screen. Present-day film makers include Alejandro González Iñárritu (\"Amores perros\", \"Babel\"), Alfonso Cuarón (\"Children of Men\", \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\"), Guillermo del Toro (\"Pan's Labyrinth\"), Carlos Reygadas (\"Stellet Licht\"), screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and owners Guillermo Navarro and Emmanuel Lubezki. Mexicans celebrate their Independence from Spain on September 16, and other holidays with festivals known as \"Fiestas\". Many Mexican cities, towns,", "title": "Culture of Mexico" }, { "id": "12599235", "text": "chief assistant. Buoyed by these developments, Stanley enthusiastically launched into pre-production, collaborating with special effects creator Stan Winston on the creation of makeup and costumes for Moreau's hybrid creatures, and preparing the location and sets. However, as the time for principal photography approached, problems began to multiply: Bruce Willis dropped out of the film (Stanley says in \"Lost Soul\" that the actor was divorcing his wife, Demi Moore, at the time, but the couple did not announce separation until the summer of 1998, and divorce made final two years later) and was replaced with Val Kilmer, who, to Stanley's dismay,", "title": "The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)" }, { "id": "642989", "text": "actress Joanne Whalley from March 1988 to February 1996. The two met while working together on the film \"Willow\". The couple had two children: a daughter, Mercedes (b. October 29, 1991), and a son, Jack (b. June 6, 1995). Kilmer has gotten into feuds with some of the actors with whom he has worked, notably \"The Island of Dr. Moreau\" co-star Marlon Brando and \"Red Planet\" and \"Heat\" co-star Tom Sizemore. Other actors have noted that he prepares for his roles extensively and meticulously. Irwin Winkler (director of \"At First Sight\") talked about his decision to hire Kilmer. \"I'd heard", "title": "Val Kilmer" }, { "id": "492928", "text": "fell just below a world record due to the way the fee was calculated) and finally Gareth Bale, who was bought in 2013 for £85.3m (€103.4m or $140m at the time; £m in ) from Tottenham Hotspur. The Brazilian forward Neymar was the subject of an when he joined Barcelona from Santos in 2013, and his outgoing transfer to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 set a new world record fee at €222m via his buyout clause. Barcelona soon invested a large chunk of this money in a replacement, Ousmane Dembélé, whose deal – €105m – was the second most expensive ever", "title": "La Liga" }, { "id": "20674875", "text": "twice placed 2nd overall in 5 TransPacs. JADA took 1st overall in the Tahiti Race in 1969. JADA went through several owners in the '60s and '70s, and was rumored to have been purchased and enjoyed by actor, Marlon Brando, for many years in French Polynesia. JADA began her commercial career serving as a charter boat in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1992. She was relocated to San Diego in 1996 and currently resides at the Sheraton Harbor Island Marina. Frequent celebrity visitors on JADA were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Errol Flynn, John Wayne and Broadway star John Raitt (father of singer", "title": "JADA (sail boat)" }, { "id": "16199474", "text": "Treasure Island (2012 miniseries) Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel \"Treasure Island\" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. The screenplay was written by Stewart Harcourt, produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1 & 2 January 2012. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) discovers a map to a legendary island of treasure belonging to the infamous Captain Flint (Donald Sutherland) and embarks on a journey aboard the ship \"Hispaniola\" to find it; however, the enigmatic Long John Silver (Eddie", "title": "Treasure Island (2012 miniseries)" }, { "id": "279749", "text": "Fund efforts, and the Royal United Hospital's Forever Friends Appeal to build intensive care units for babies. Nicolas Cage was once considered one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, earning $40 million in 2009 according to \"Forbes\", although he failed to make Forbes' Top 10 List in 2014. Cage had a Malibu home where he and Kim lived, but sold the property in 2005 for $10 million. In 2004 he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In May 2006, he bought a island in the Exuma archipelago, some southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill", "title": "Nicolas Cage" }, { "id": "6983107", "text": "it were a film shot in that era, with no sound other than the whirring of the projector. Gradually the sepia fades into full colour and we can hear the characters’ dialogue. Orlando, an Italian journalist, supplies commentary by directly addressing the camera, explaining to the viewer that the cruise is a funeral voyage to disperse the ashes of opera singer Edmea Tetua near the island of Erimo, her birthplace. Considered the greatest singer of all time, Tetua is celebrated for her goddess-like voice. The bumbling but lovable journalist also provides highly subjective anecdotes and gossip on the wide array", "title": "And the Ship Sails On" }, { "id": "8491093", "text": "was not in HMS Pandora. Captain Edward Edwards commanded the Pandora on its mission to capture and bring home the mutineers but the ship was wrecked on the way home with some loss of life...including some of the mutineers. Navy Island, Jamaica Navy Island is a small (64 acres) island off the coast of Port Antonio in Portland Parish, Jamaica, formerly owned by actor Errol Flynn. The island was once owned by movie pirate Errol Flynn and hosted many wild Hollywood parties. Until fairly recently, the Island has been maintained as a tourist resort and attraction, with a club bar,", "title": "Navy Island, Jamaica" }, { "id": "16966727", "text": "the show changed its name to \"Susana Giménez\" in 1998. Over the years he received dozens of international stars. Some of the guests were Woody Allen, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Rod Stewart, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Bublé, Anthony Quinn, Sofia Loren, Alain Delon, Backstreet Boys, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Fran Drescher, Thalía, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Viggo Mortensen, Xuxa, Brian May, Ron Wood, Ricky Martin. Christopher Reeve, Duran Duran, Alanis Morissette, Chayanne, Julio Iglesias, Wisin y Yandel, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Daddy Yankee, Paulina Rubio, Benicio del Toro, Robbie Williams, Luis Miguel, Liza Minnelli and Gloria Estefan and many others. In the years", "title": "Susana Giménez (talk show)" }, { "id": "1957241", "text": "Heath's streak of 7 straight victories. In 2011, days after the conclusion of the 2011 Olympia Weekend, Chairman of the IFBB Professional League Jim Manion amended the qualifying rules as follows: The IFBB Professional League and Mr. Olympia 2016, LLC may offer special invites. Mr. Olympia The record number of wins is eight, held by Lee Haney (1984–1991), and Ronnie Coleman (1998–2005). Shawn Rhoden currently holds the title. The film \"Pumping Iron\" (1977) featured the buildup to the 1975 Mr. Olympia in Pretoria South Africa and helped launch the acting careers of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. There is also", "title": "Mr. Olympia" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "4890480", "text": "avoid confusion with the cult classic by Roman Polanski. Described as \"Grumpy Old Men\" meets \"Home Alone\", the film stars Academy Award Nominee William Hickey, Carl Gordon, Victor Colicchio, Frank Gorshin, Donald McDonald, Sylva Gassel, Irma St. Paule, Pee Wee Love, Neil Ruddy, and the acting debut of Joey Buttafuoco. He optioned the film rights and struggled for years on an adaptation of Simon Mawer's 1999 novel, \"Mendel's Dwarf\". After years of languishing in what he calls, \"Hollywood's development hell\", the option elapsed and was subsequently sold to Barbra Streisand's company. Uzo was married to a white Long Island native", "title": "Uzo" }, { "id": "429255", "text": "achieved international fame and critical success, including: Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Ben Kingsley, Ian McKellen, Liam Neeson, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Some of the most commercially successful films of all time have been produced in the United Kingdom, including two of the highest-grossing film franchises (\"Harry Potter\" and \"James Bond\"). Ealing Studios has a claim to being the oldest continuously working film studio in the world. Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1951129", "text": "cities such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield. British R&B artists include Taio Cruz, Jay Sean, M.I.A., Tinie Tempah, Zayn, Wiley, Skepta, Rita Ora and Jessie J. The UK has had a large impact on modern cinema, producing some of the greatest actors, directors and motion pictures, including Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, Richard Attenborough, Alec Guinness, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Julie Andrews, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, John Hurt and Daniel Day-Lewis. The BFI Top 100 British films", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "900356", "text": "Bonnie Franklin, Melissa Gilbert, Danielle Brisebois, Erika Eleniak, Max Pomeranc, Christina Ricci, Shelley Fabares, Candace Cameron Bure, Karron Graves, Gaby Hoffmann, Hilary Duff, Molly Ringwald, Stacy Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lisa Whelchel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Soleil Moon Frye, Melissa Joan Hart, Dean Stockwell, Fred Savage, Neil Patrick Harris, Michelle Chia, Shawn Lee, Joshua Ang, Aloysius Pang, and other Academy Award winners and nominees include; Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt, Irene Cara, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank, Christian Bale, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Many actors' careers are short-lived and this is also", "title": "Child actor" }, { "id": "11057796", "text": "these, including the eastern tip, have always been trees and mooring space, respectively. Two of the approximately equal-sized plots, with few exceptions, have been combined into one. It is inaccessible except by boat. Garrick's Ait is named after David Garrick, the actor whose Temple to Shakespeare and Villa (house) are on the Hampton bank and as such is the only island in the country named after an actor. In common with most Thames islands near developed places, it became used for growing and harvesting willow/weeping willow trees when they arrived in the country in the 18th century. Wood from pollarding", "title": "Garrick's Ait" }, { "id": "5895877", "text": "Bernardo Bertolucci, 'The Last Emperor' where Johnston was portrayed by Peter O'Toole. The property was purchased by a retired Indian army officer, Major Campbell, who lived in it with his family until the outbreak of the Second World War, when they left for a house in Ardfern. In 1959 it was purchased by Wilfred Brown and his cousin Robert Banks Skinner as a holiday home. In 1992 it was sold to James Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton. The current owner is a Scottish-based ex-financier, Mr C. Siva-Jothy (he retired as a Partner of Goldman Sachs in 2004) who bought the island from", "title": "Eilean Rìgh" }, { "id": "4961327", "text": "British actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba and Andrew Lincoln, the last of whom he has been close to since they starred together in the play \"Blue/Orange\" in London in 2000. In 2015, Ejiofor was honoured with a Global Promise Award by The GEANCO Foundation, a non-profit welfare organisation in West Africa for his charity work in Nigeria. On 12 September 2016, Ejiofor, as well as Cate Blanchett, Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth, Neil Gaiman, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington and Stanley Tucci, was featured in a video from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness", "title": "Chiwetel Ejiofor" }, { "id": "7746330", "text": "number 13. It had over 36 million visitors in the past 100 years, including celebrities like Serbian Field-marshals Živojin Mišić and Petar Bojović, inventors Mikhail Kalashnikov, Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, sportists Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Carl Lewis, Jose Mourinho, Vujadin Boskov, Luis Figo, Novak Đoković, Michael Jordan, Kyrie Irving, Tiger Woods, actors like Robert De Niro, Kirk Douglas, Milla Jovovich, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Julia Roberts, Alain Delon, Tom Hanks, Audrey Hepburn, Pierce Brosnan, producers like Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Miloš Forman, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Emir Kusturica, Jean-Luc Godard, politicians like Nikola Pašić, Rajiv", "title": "Hotel Moskva, Belgrade" }, { "id": "16702", "text": "Voyage Around the World\" (1697), Dampier escapes to Nicobar Island for \"a prospect of advancing a profitable trade for ambergris...and of gaining a considerable fortune...\" In “The Case of Smelly Nellie” from \"Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down\" (1971), the case revolves around Bugs Meany and the Tigers stealing fifty pounds of ambergris from Smelly Nellie by claiming they found it on the ocean floor and rolling it onto the beach. In the 1956 episode \"Whale Gold\" of the British television series \"The Buccaneers\", a crew of eighteenth-century pirates led by Captain Dan Tempest (actor Robert Shaw) find large pieces of", "title": "Ambergris" }, { "id": "17335819", "text": "century. While film output peaked in 1936, the \"golden age\" of British cinema occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors David Lean, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Carol Reed and Richard Attenborough produced their most highly acclaimed work. Many postwar British actors achieved international fame and critical success, including: Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Peter Sellers and Ben Kingsley. A handful of the films with the largest-ever box office returns have been made in the United Kingdom, including the second and third highest-grossing film series (\"Harry Potter\" and \"James Bond\"). The identity of the British industry, and its relationship", "title": "Social history of the United Kingdom (1945–present)" }, { "id": "14336587", "text": "of the murder of Rachel Nickell. Mr Stagg, one of the few to have his damages disclosed, was awarded £15,500. Others who settled but opted to keep the terms of the arrangement private, included Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, TV presenters Jamie Theakston and Chris Tarrant, Ted Beckham, the father of the former England football captain, former Tory minister David Maclean, Baron Blencathra, actor James Nesbitt, footballer Wayne Rooney and BBC reporter Tom Mangold. Since 1999, over 100 people have been arrested in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information.", "title": "News International phone hacking scandal" }, { "id": "360806", "text": "from 1962 to 1973. They had a son, actor Jason Connery. Connery has been married to Moroccan-French painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 1929) since 1975. A keen golfer, Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in the South of France for twenty years (from 1979) where he planned to build his dream golf course on the of land, but the dream was not realised until he sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999. He has been awarded the rank of \"Shodan\" (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate. Connery was knighted by Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Holyrood Palace", "title": "Sean Connery" }, { "id": "15255666", "text": "in his life just as he did before. After researching, he finds that the most watched reality programs of the past five years are celebrity benefits for natural disasters. Since all the networks air benefits at the same time, no one network has an advantage nor dominates in the ratings. To combat this, Jack decides to pre-tape a benefit to air on the night of the next natural disaster. When a disaster devastates an island called Mago, Jack is ecstatic until he finds out that the island is owned by the infamous troubled actor, Mel Gibson. Regardless, the event is", "title": "Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning" }, { "id": "15770298", "text": "Award (celebrating \"the very worst in tabloid journalism\") for his scoop on David and Victoria Beckham's purchase of an island off the Essex coast; the story, which turned out to be fiction, also won him the 20th anniversary \"Shafta of Shaftas\" in 2006. He won another Shafta in 2002, two in 2003, and a lifetime achievement Shafta in 2004. In September 2010 Scotland Yard reopened its against News of the World and Andy Coulson, following a \"New York Times Magazine\" piece published that month in which Hoare told reporters Don Van Natta, Jo Becker and Graham Bowley that Coulson had", "title": "Sean Hoare" }, { "id": "15067873", "text": "investors such as New York real estate magnate Lewis Rudin, Bregman moved successfully into personal management, eventually representing such stars as Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Bette Midler. Bregman discovered Pacino in an Off Broadway play, and helped to support the actor as he built his stage and then film career, among other things working to land Pacino the actor's first film role in 1971's \"Panic in Needle Park\", winning out over then unknown actor Robert De Niro. Bregman ventured into film producing in 1973, building projects around Pacino, initially with the Sidney Lumet", "title": "Martin Bregman" }, { "id": "9294298", "text": "the time of \"Terra Nostra\", he had studied and admired the life of the Italian revolutionary. But Thiago realized that success and fame also have their down side. Hounded by paparazzi and gossip media, he sued the journalist and presenter Leão Lobo and Gugu Liberato, who wore swimwear in a program called \"Domingo Legal\" claiming to be the actor - and won both cases. \"Gossip cannot interfere with the mechanism which governs each and every aspect: respect. If the person does not give me respect, I can do one of two things: either be full of 'porrada' or be civilized.", "title": "Thiago Lacerda" }, { "id": "4340069", "text": "such screen legends as leading ladies Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Vivien Leigh and the actors Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman, Maurice Chevalier, and Gary Cooper. His films include such classics as \"The Prisoner of Zenda\" (1937), \"The Four Feathers\" (1939), Hitchcock's \"Rebecca\" (1940), \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1941), \"And Then There Were None\" (1945) in which he played General Mandrake, and the 1949 remake of \"Little Women\" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh, in which he portrayed the aged grandfather of Laurie Lawrence, (played by a young Peter Lawford), who generously gives a piano to the frail", "title": "C. Aubrey Smith" }, { "id": "1812672", "text": "Trial lawyer Geoffrey Feiger, billionaire philanthropists Tom Gores, Andrew Beal and Eli Broad, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, and Quicken Loans founder and billionaire Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, are all also MSU alums. Alumni in Hollywood include actors such as James Caan, Anthony Heald, Robert Urich and William Fawcett; comedian Dick Martin, comedian Jackie Martling, film directors Michael Cimino and Sam Raimi, and film editor Bob Murawski, as well as screenwriter David Magee Puerto Rican comedian Sunshine Logroño (who has played the occasional Hollywood movie) was a graduate student at MSU. Composer Dika Newlin", "title": "Michigan State University" }, { "id": "12599234", "text": "for Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\") - and because of Stanley's own family relation to legendary African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, one of the chief inspirations for Conrad's lead character, Kurtz. According to Stanley, Brando was still fascinated by Kurtz more than fifteen years after he had played a version of the character in Coppola's film. With Brando supporting him, Stanley was confirmed as director, and he was also able to recruit two more major stars: Bruce Willis as Edward Prendick, a UN negotiator who washes up on Moreau's island after his plane crashes, and James Woods as Montgomery, Moreau's", "title": "The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)" }, { "id": "11905366", "text": "was produced by Rick Caine. Junket Whore Junket Whore is a 1998 documentary film directed by Debbie Melnyk and hosted by Lauren Hutton. This revealing documentary explores the relationship between Hollywood’s publicists and the entertainment journalists. It also stars many Hollywood artists including Sylvester Stallone, Martin Short, Alicia Silverstone, Charlie Sheen, Hugh Grant, Ed Harris, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Nicholson, Brooke Shields, Matthew McConaughey, Ashley Judd, Sharon Stone, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Emma Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Richard Gere, Antonio Banderas, Pauly Shore, Sean Connery, Julianne Moore,", "title": "Junket Whore" }, { "id": "4563693", "text": "Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, George Raft, Charles Rogers, Raoul Walsh, Roscoe Karns, William LeBaron, Gene Autry (who later became owner of his own major league franchise), George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bing Crosby, Cecil B. DeMille, William Frawley, Gail Patrick (then married to Bob Cobb) and Harry Warner. \"No one was permitted to invest any big money\", wrote the \"Los Angeles Times\", which described the Hollywood Stars as \"a civic thing … plainly and simply, a Chamber of Commerce activity on the part of a group of people who want their little corner of the world to be better than", "title": "Hollywood Stars" }, { "id": "3454926", "text": "and Captain Sabertooth and pirate village Abra Havn (Port of Abra), which is taken from a theatre act by the singer and actor Terje Formoe. The operating company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 1993. Ludv. G. Braathens Rederi became a partial owner in 1996. Its successor company Braganza gradually bought up shares until reaching a forty-percent stake in 2004. That year it made a successful deal to buy the entire company and the company was subsequently delisted. The zoo department of the park contains animals from different climate conditions, from all over the world. There are built", "title": "Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park" }, { "id": "11905365", "text": "Junket Whore Junket Whore is a 1998 documentary film directed by Debbie Melnyk and hosted by Lauren Hutton. This revealing documentary explores the relationship between Hollywood’s publicists and the entertainment journalists. It also stars many Hollywood artists including Sylvester Stallone, Martin Short, Alicia Silverstone, Charlie Sheen, Hugh Grant, Ed Harris, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Nicholson, Brooke Shields, Matthew McConaughey, Ashley Judd, Sharon Stone, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Emma Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Richard Gere, Antonio Banderas, Pauly Shore, Sean Connery, Julianne Moore, Madonna, and Anthony Hopkins. It", "title": "Junket Whore" }, { "id": "823425", "text": "Ricardo Montalbán Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, (; ; November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican actor. His career spanned seven decades, during which he became known for many different performances in a variety of genres, from crime and drama to musicals and comedy. Among his notable roles was Armando in the \"Planet of the Apes\" film series from the early 1970s, where he starred in \"Escape from the Planet of the Apes\" (1971) and \"Conquest of the Planet of the Apes\" (1972). Ricardo Montalbán played Mr. Roarke on the television series \"Fantasy Island\" (1977–1984), and", "title": "Ricardo Montalbán" }, { "id": "1066647", "text": "according to those who knew him. Their adopted son, James MacArthur, was also an actor, best known for playing Danny Williams on the American television series \"Hawaii Five-O\". His brother, John D. MacArthur, was an insurance-company owner and executive, and founded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the benefactor of the MacArthur Fellowships. Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story - \"The Scoundrel\" (shared with Ben Hecht) (1936) In 1983, MacArthur was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. MacArthur was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the 1994 film \"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle\". Charles", "title": "Charles MacArthur" }, { "id": "3914514", "text": "Planet Hollywood Planet Hollywood International Inc. (stylized as planet hollywood, planet Hollywood observatory and ph) is a theme restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood. The company is owned by Earl Enterprises corporation. Earl Enterprise was founded by Robert Earl. It was launched in New York City on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The actors recruited were paid for their appearances and endorsements via Employee stock ownership plan. Further celebrity endorsement included actors Whoopi Goldberg, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Tom Arnold, Wesley Snipes,", "title": "Planet Hollywood" }, { "id": "6847641", "text": "and photographer Palani Mohan; future British RAF officer and MI6 agent F. W. Winterbotham; Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan; then-Prince Hirohito of Japan; Roger Moore; Carrie Fisher; Richard Nixon, US President; Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Noël Coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer; Josip Broz Tito, Marshal of Yugoslavia. In January 2018 Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex stayed at the hotel during their five day official visit. The Galle Face Hotel has three restaurants, two bars and a pub. They are the Seaspray seafood restaurant, The 1864 fine dining restaurant and wine cellar, a", "title": "Galle Face Hotel" }, { "id": "12948707", "text": "Michelangelo Buonarroti’s \"David\" which is part of the Madonna del Parto Museum collection; in 2013 made a bust of Queen Elizabeth II; in 2014 unveiled a bronze bust he sculpted of Prime Minister David Cameron at the Carlton Club in London. The sculpture had been sold at an auction to Alexander Temerko, a British-Ukrainian businessman, for £90,000, which was donated to the Carlton Club. He has also created a bust of the world renowned Greek composer and multi-instrumentalist Vangelis , after having met him at a function in London sometime during 2016;. Vangelis is said to have been very surprised", "title": "Nadey Hakim" }, { "id": "12401361", "text": "in the Algerian War. After having started his acting career in 1960, in 1962 he went to Italy and he started working in many Italian films and TV fictions, such as Renato Castellani's \"The Life of Leonardo da Vinci\". He also played the role of Yanez de Gomera, Sandokan's partner, in 1976 TV series \"Sandokan\". During his career, he has worked with directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Deray, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Magni and many more. He is father of actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu. Philippe Leroy (actor) Philippe Leroy, full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu (born 15 October 1930) is", "title": "Philippe Leroy (actor)" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "71508", "text": "an illusionist, Tiger Woods a golfer, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump are entrepreneurs, Albert Einstein a scientist; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer, Bruce Lee a martial artist, William Shakespeare a playwright, Walt Disney an animator and Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong astronauts. Criminals can also become world-famous if the media cover their crimes, arrest, trial and possible punishment extensively and/or if the crime itself is sensational enough. Assassins of high-profile celebrities can become famous, like Brutus who is remembered for murdering Julius Caesar. People who commit extremely gruesome crimes can also achieve infamy,", "title": "Celebrity" }, { "id": "13254372", "text": "attracted a diverse array of well-known actors, including Kevin Bacon, Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Chris Rock, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Plummer, Til Schweiger, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Goode, Djimon Hounsou, Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Dolph Lundgren, John Lithgow, Tom Berenger, Peter Weller, Sylvester Stallone and Nick Nolte. He has also worked with many notable directors including Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth), Andrew Davis (Holes, The Fugitive), Abel Ferrara (King of NY), John Hillcoat (Lawless), William Friedkin (The French Connection), Mimi Leder (Deep Impact), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo), Frederic Forestier (Asterix…), Renny Harlin, Wayne Cramer (The Cooler), and Brad Anderson (The Call). It", "title": "Kevin Bernhardt" }, { "id": "9717524", "text": "to reprising the role of Jason Bourne. Damon talked about stardom, his upbringing and how meeting childhood friend Ben Affleck changed their lives. He spoke about the battles they had to overcome to make \"Good Will Hunting\" and how he felt when he won his Oscar. He also discussed why he chooses to keep his family out of the spotlight and how he copes with fame: \"It kind of happens overnight and you're aware that the world is exactly the same as it was yesterday … It's a very surreal experience because you know intellectually that the world is the", "title": "Tania Bryer" }, { "id": "20781061", "text": "Bond movie \"Never Say Never Again\". and would eventually be sold to the Sultan of Brunei, Donald Trump and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Khashoggi studied acting with Joanne Baron in Los Angeles, who notably had such students as Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton, and shortly afterward immersed herself in the world of the theatre. While pursuing her acting career, Khashoggi supplemented her income by working on business projects. \"Eye of the Widow\" (1991), the \"Mystery of Edwin Drood\" (1993), \"Crack\" (1994), and \"Labyrinth\" (2003) are her most notable film roles. In 1983 Khashoggi partnered with Bedros Bedrossian,", "title": "Nabila Khashoggi" }, { "id": "733313", "text": "and Jane\" (1977), \"California Suite\" (1978), \"The Electric Horseman\" (1979) and \"9 to 5\" (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won an Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 1984 TV film \"The Dollmaker\". In 1982, she released her first exercise video, \"Jane Fonda's Workout\", which became the highest-selling VHS of all time. It would be the first of 22 workout videos released by her over the next 13 years which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting,", "title": "Jane Fonda" }, { "id": "10591385", "text": "others, the Jules Verne Award was given to Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Charlotte Rampling, Claude Lelouch, Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Patrick Stewart, Mark Hamill, Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, Tippi Hedren, Stan Lee, Ray Bradbury, Ted Turner, Richard Dean Anderson, Larry Hagman, Christopher Reeve, Roy E. Disney, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Steve McQueen, TV series\" Heroes\", \"Lost\", \"Stargate SG1\" and \"Battlestar Galactica\" cast and crew, and has celebrated movie classics such as \"Blade Runner\", \"Star Trek\", \"Superman\", \"Forbidden Planet\", Alfred Hitchcock’s \"The Birds\", \"\", \"Planet of the Apes\", \"Some Like It Hot\" and \"The Wild Bunch\". Jean-Christophe Jeauffre Jean-Christophe", "title": "Jean-Christophe Jeauffre" }, { "id": "13929585", "text": "life membership include actors Patrick Johannes Adams, Sir Christopher Lee, Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, Dirk Benedict, Jeremy Irons, and the late David Kelly and Leslie Nielsen, comedians Colin Murphy, Dan Antopolski and Bill Bailey, authors Tucker Max, Jung Chang and Noam Chomsky, political figures Ken Livingstone and Bill Clinton, sportspeople Cristiano Ronaldo, Pauleta, Jimmy White, Brian O’Driscoll and Paul O’Connell, Conor Rock, dancer Michael Flatley, supermodel Erin O’Connor and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The society is committed to maintaining a strong policy of free speech, a policy which it has, on occasion, found difficult to maintain. In 2008, the", "title": "University College Dublin Law Society" }, { "id": "5092636", "text": "Los Angeles permanently. After putting together three major deals for Humphrey Bogart in a single day, he was dubbed \"Swifty\" by Bogart, a nickname he disliked. In addition to Bogart, Lazar became the agent representing other celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams. Lazar's power became such that he could negotiate a deal for someone who was not even his client and then collect a", "title": "Irving Paul Lazar" }, { "id": "6300967", "text": "Fernández claims that one of his key tasks was to spy on wealthy visitors to the island, including film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson. In 2004 he worked minding Hollywood star Antonio Banderas in Spain. According to David Smith of the Observer, Fernández who worked for David Beckham for three months when he first moved to Madrid and in 2004 would sell personal information about his ex-boss's affairs with Rebecca Loos for £500,000. Fernández admitted he had been approached by paparazzi, who would follow Beckham everywhere. But he insisted that he had always turned down their lucrative cash offers", "title": "Delfín Fernández" }, { "id": "604462", "text": "the Sans Souci cabaret, and the casinos in the hotels Sevilla-Biltmore, Commodoro, Deauville, and Capri (partly owned by the actor George Raft). His take from the Lansky casinos—his prized Habana Riviera, the Hotel Nacional, the Montmartre Club, and others—was said to be 30%. Lansky was said to have personally contributed millions of dollars per year to Batista's Swiss bank accounts. In a manner that antagonized the Cuban people, the U.S. government used its influence to advance the interests of and increase the profits of the private American companies, which \"dominated the island's economy\". By the late 1950s, U.S. financial interests", "title": "Fulgencio Batista" }, { "id": "17122742", "text": "Jeunet, Charlotte Rampling, Claude Lelouch, Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Patrick Stewart, Mark Hamill, Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, Tippi Hedren, Stan Lee, Ray Bradbury, Ted Turner, Richard Dean Anderson, Larry Hagman, Christopher Reeve, Roy E. Disney, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Steve McQueen, TV series \"Heroes\", \"Lost\", \"Stargate SG1\" and \"Battlestar Galactica\" cast and crew, and has celebrated movie classics such as \"Blade Runner\", \"Star Trek\", \"Superman\", \"Forbidden Planet\", Alfred Hitchcock's \"The Birds\", \"\", \"Planet of the Apes\", \"Some Like It Hot\" and \"The Wild Bunch\". Frédéric Dieudonné Frédéric Dieudonné (born September 21, 1969) is a French writer, a filmmaker and a", "title": "Frédéric Dieudonné" }, { "id": "6794163", "text": "his future wife, Cynthia Klitbo, at the time, a budding star herself. In 1996, Gattorno acted alongside another list of well-known actors, including Costa Rican Maribel Guardia and Mexicans Joan Sebastian (Guardia's longtime husband), Olga Breeskin, Sebastian Ligarde, Claudio Báez, Itatí Cantoral, César Bono, José Ángel Garcia, Carlos Miguel, Guadalupe Esparza (of the well-known music group Bronco) and many others in \"Tu y Yo\", which became an international hit, becoming one of the most viewed shows among Hispanics in the United States. \"Tu y Yo\" was followed by \"Cañaveral de Pasiones\", where Gattorno acted alongside fellow Cuban César Évora and", "title": "Francisco Gattorno" }, { "id": "1959949", "text": "talking picture era outside of stars of jungle films such as Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan) and Buster Crabbe. The 1940s saw a rise in shirtless shots of such handsome stars as Tyrone Power, Guy Madison, Sterling Hayden and Victor Mature; and in the 1950s movie magazines began running swimsuit shots of actors such as Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Jeff Chandler, Robert Conrad and Robert Wagner almost as frequently as they did with actresses. This period also included the rise of bodybuilding magazines, which continue to be popular to the present day, as well as musclemen movie stars such as", "title": "Beefcake" }, { "id": "7493163", "text": "model a 10-pound gold replica displayed at the 69th Academy Awards. In early 1996, Ronald Winston announced that he sold the prop to a mystery buyer for an undisclosed offer \"I couldn't refuse.\" A 45-pound metal prop known to have appeared in the film was sold at auction on November 25, 2013, for over $4 million, including the buyer's fee. On September 24, 2010, Guernsey's auctioned a 4 lb, 5.4 oz resin falcon for $305,000 to a group of buyers that included actor Leonardo DiCaprio and billionaire Stewart Rahr, owner of pharmaceutical and generics wholesaler Kinray. The prop was discovered", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)" }, { "id": "19775444", "text": "Hammer's collaborations with famous directors such as David Fincher, Clint Eastwood, and Guy Ritchie, and organizing a meeting with the actor. For the role of US Marine Tommy Madison, Guaglione and Resinaro considered over 50 American actors, including Rami Malek, Adam Brody and Chris Zylka, before choosing British actor Tom Cullen. The movie was shot in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. \"Mine\" was released in Italy on 6 October 2016 by Eagle Pictures. It was released on April 7, 2017 in the United States by Well Go USA Entertainment, and in United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. On review aggregator website", "title": "Mine (2016 film)" }, { "id": "4717775", "text": "Losco. It was the birthplace of several famous people: former prime minister Alfred Sant; Michael Falzon of the Malta Labour Party; George Stivala, High Commissioner for Malta in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s; Archbishop George Caruana (1882–1951), the venerable Don Nazzareno Camilleri (1906–1973), British journalist Peter Hitchens, vocalist Marc Storace of the Swiss heavy metal band Krokus, and Dublin-based singer/songwriter Adrian Crowley. Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien has a \"residential address\" as Flat 6/60, Suite F, Tigne Street in Sliema, according to O'Brien's own filing with the Companies Registration Office (CRO). The Maltese-born, American-naturalized actor Joseph Calleia lived in Sliema", "title": "Sliema" }, { "id": "17542933", "text": "stars began voice acting in movies, with some of the earliest examples being \"Gay Purr-ee\", starring the voices of Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Hermione Gingold, and Morey Amsterdam, and \"The Jungle Book\", which counted among its cast contemporary stars such as Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders and Sterling Holloway. On TV, the Rankin-Bass studio employed the voices of such notable performers as Burl Ives, James Cagney, Jimmy Durante, Danny Kaye, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett in their animated specials; Filmation used the talents of Ed Asner and Alan Oppenheimer; and popular comic actor Paul Lynde", "title": "Voice acting in the United States" }, { "id": "1003618", "text": "read \"Maurice Diller\", possibly due to mistranscription of verbal dictation. The star was finally remade with the correct name in 1988. Three stars remain misspelled: opera diva Lotte Lehmann's first name is spelled \"Lottie\"; Cinerama co-inventor and \"King Kong\" creator, director, and producer Merian C. Cooper's first name is spelled \"Meriam\"; and cinematography pioneer Auguste Lumière's first name is listed as \"August\". Monty Woolley, the veteran film and stage actor best known for \"The Man Who Came to Dinner\" (1942) and the classic line \"Time flies when you're having fun\", is officially listed in the motion picture category, but his", "title": "Hollywood Walk of Fame" }, { "id": "8085391", "text": "productions. Bowers began his film career in 1914. Within five years, he became one of the most popular leading men. During his career he co-starred frequently with Marguerite De La Motte, whom he later married. Like many silent film stars, Bowers saw his career collapse when talkies became the standard. On November 17, 1936, Bowers heard that his old friend Henry Hathaway was directing Gary Cooper in \"Souls at Sea\" on and off the shore of Santa Catalina. The 50-year-old actor rented a sixteen-foot sloop and sailed to the island, hoping to land a part in the picture only to", "title": "John Bowers (actor)" }, { "id": "9596259", "text": "folded into New Line's parent company Warner Bros. Entertainment Film Distributors have released many BAFTA- and Oscar-winning films including \"The Departed\", \"Million Dollar Baby\", \"Gosford Park\", \"Brokeback Mountain\" and \"The Artist\". List of films distributed include: 1974: 1975: 1976: 1978: 1979: 1981: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1985: 1986: 1987: 1988: 1989: 1990: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1996: 1997: 1998: 1999: 2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: 2004: 2005: 2006: 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: 2018: Entertainment Film Distributors Entertainment Film Distributors is a British distributor of independent films in the UK and Ireland for various production", "title": "Entertainment Film Distributors" }, { "id": "17599407", "text": "to show us the profession’s evolution from studio system type-casting to the rise of large ensemble films populated with unique and diverse casts. In their July 25, 2013 cover story on the film (\"Rise of the Casting Directors\"), \"Backstage\" wrote, \"the film features what is arguably the greatest assemblage of talking-head star power in any documentary ever made.\" The interviewees include numerous Hollywood legends: Woody Allen, Ed Asner, Jeanine Basinger, Ned Beatty, Tony Bill, Peter Bogdanovich, Stephen Bowie, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Ronny Cox, Robert De Niro, Richard Donner, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Taylor", "title": "Casting By" }, { "id": "2475901", "text": "Producers and sued Paramount for the monopoly they still had over the Detroit Theaters — as Paramount was also gaining dominance through actors like Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Betty Hutton, crooner Bing Crosby, Alan Ladd, and longtime actor for studio Gary Cooper too- by 1942. The Big Five studios didn't meet the requirements of the Consent of Decree during WWII, without major consequence, but after the war ended they joined Paramount as defendants in the Hollywood anti-trust case, as did the Little Three studios. The Supreme Court eventually ruled that the major studios ownership of theaters and film", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "id": "9030851", "text": "been with Governor General Quentin Bryce, actor Robert De Niro, the Royal Family of Bahrain, the King and Queen of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, Australian actress Toni Collette, English comedian Ben Elton, former Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee, Indian actress Shilpa Shetty, Japanese restaurateur Nobu, author Diane Wei Liang, singer Olivia Newton-John, Singaporean actress Fann Wong, golfer Lam Chih Bing, former tennis player Rod Laver, and Australian rugby league player Clint Newton. Peschardt's People Peschardt's People is a documentary television series, hosted by Michael Peschardt, that premiered on BBC World on 1 April 2006. In the series, Peschardt interviews", "title": "Peschardt's People" }, { "id": "14828945", "text": "was the generosity of wealthy individuals who were prepared to pay for her company. Lady Shaftesbury, who claimed to be \"extremely close\" to Prince Albert II of Monaco, named two American actors, George Clooney and Bruce Willis, as well as Swedish former tennis player Björn Borg as her former clients. All three men denied meeting her and declined to attend court to comment on her allegations or serve as character witnesses. Lady Shaftesbury vowed revenge, additionally stating, \"I was always loyal to the men who were close to me, but they did not want to know me when I was", "title": "Jamila M'Barek" }, { "id": "6470284", "text": "the sandbars and extended the jetties. In 1938, James Cagney, a famous Hollywood actor at the time, purchased Collins Island. The US Coast Guard used this island during World War II and Cagney eventually sold the island in 1948. Later in the 20th century, Newport Beach became the home of a number of famous celebrities. The most popular Newport Beach celebrity was John Wayne, also known as “the Duke”. Orange County later named its airport for Wayne. Other celebrities residing and/or keeping boats in Newport Beach included James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley Temple, and Errol Flynn. Furthermore, \"Roy Rogers and", "title": "History of Newport Beach, California" }, { "id": "245165", "text": "and satirist Dorothy Parker, Norman Rockwell a painter/illustrator, J. Edgar Hoover who was the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States, baseball player Babe Ruth whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons from 1914 through 1935, boxers Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Actors Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, George Burns, James Cagney, Buster Keaton, Frederic March, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, and Rudolph Valentino, American novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, American bass singer and actor who became involved with the civil rights movement Paul Robeson, Al Capone,", "title": "Lost Generation" }, { "id": "18939511", "text": "IRS Form 990 filed by SBPI stated that it had $39,647,311 of assets. According to SPBI's IRS Form 990, it owed three properties as of 2008: The organisation's property portfolio has expanded since then. In April 2013, it was disclosed that SBPI had paid $5 million to purchase the estate of the late actor Larry Hagman at Ojai, California. The purpose of this purchase was not disclosed but Mike Rinder, the former head of the church's Office of Special Affairs, has suggested that it may be intended for use as a \"celebrity Narconon\". Also in 2013, SBPI purchased the former", "title": "Social Betterment Properties International" }, { "id": "8491086", "text": "Navy Island, Jamaica Navy Island is a small (64 acres) island off the coast of Port Antonio in Portland Parish, Jamaica, formerly owned by actor Errol Flynn. The island was once owned by movie pirate Errol Flynn and hosted many wild Hollywood parties. Until fairly recently, the Island has been maintained as a tourist resort and attraction, with a club bar, beaches, water sports facilities, marina, wedding chapel and African style cottages. Originally the island was given to Governor Lynch of Jamaica for services to the Crown and named, \"Lynch's Island\". Subsequently, it was used by the Royal Navy (hence", "title": "Navy Island, Jamaica" }, { "id": "18778956", "text": "artistic process of the actor and the art of theater. Rand has conducted over 1000 interviews including Alec Baldwin, Lee Blessing, Kate Burton, Rita Gam, Andre Gregory, George Grizzard, Charles Grodin, A.R. Gurney, Marcia Gay Harden, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Geoffrey Holder, Celeste Holm, Anjelica Huston, Valerie Harper, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Judith Ivey, Kevin Kline, Jackie Mason, Terrence Mann, Lloyd Richards, Cliff Robertson, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Weller, and Elie Wiesel. Essays have included those by Stella Adler, Edward Albee, Harold Clurman, Eugenio Barba, William Esper, Jerzy Grotowski, James Earl Jones, Laurence Luckinbill, Sanford Meisner, Arthur Miller, and Lee Strasberg. Rand is the", "title": "Ronald Rand" }, { "id": "14378391", "text": "In January 2011, he sold his Rhubodach estate on the Scottish Isle of Bute for £1.48 million. In May 2011, David Attenborough said his brother had been confined to a wheelchair since his stroke in 2008, but was still capable of holding a conversation. He added that \"he won't be making any more films.\" In June 2012, shortly before her 90th birthday, Sheila Sim entered the professional actors' retirement home Denville Hall, for which she and Attenborough had helped raise funds. In October 2012, it was announced that Attenborough was putting the family home, Old Friars, with its attached offices,", "title": "Richard Attenborough" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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'If a scholar or journalist needs a piece of magic history, it's there.'\" In 2006, Copperfield bought eleven Bahamian islands called Musha Cay. Renamed \"The Islands of Copperfield Bay\", the islands are a private resort. Guests have reportedly included Oprah Winfrey and John Travolta. Google co-founder Sergey Brin was married there. Copperfield has said that the islands", "title": "David Copperfield (illusionist)" }, { "id": "9609448", "text": "Tyra Banks, Kathy Griffin, Jessica Lange, Angela Lansbury, Carrie Fisher, Lucy Lawless, Mo'Nique, Maggie Smith. Meryl Streep became a gay icon after portraying Miranda Priestly in the film \"The Devil Wears Prada\". Various LGBT celebrities have been embraced as gay icons after opening up about their sexual orientation as media professionals and public figures, including George Michael, Eric Andre, Lance Bass, Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Elton John, Adam Lambert, Ricky Martin, Wentworth Miller, Rosie O'Donnell, Frank Ocean, RuPaul, George Takei, Ian McKellen, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Paulson, Harry Styles, and Hayley Kiyoko. Ben Cohen, Jason Collins, Greg Louganis, Martina Navratilova,", "title": "Gay icon" }, { "id": "715408", "text": "Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Cited as \"one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars\", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in \"On the Waterfront\" (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in \"The Pawnbroker\" (1964), and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film \"In the Heat of the Night\"", "title": "Rod Steiger" }, { "id": "9692688", "text": "feature film, \"Ngati\" (1987), produced by John O'Shea. \"Ngati\" featured veteran Maori actor Wi Kuki Kaa in the lead role of 'Iwi.' The film was well received at several international film-festivals, and attracted critical acclaim. Barry's second feature film \"Te Rua\" (Pacific Films 1991), concerns an iwi's attempts to repatriate stolen carvings from a German museum back to their rightful place in Aotearoa. \"Te Rua\" was a German/New Zealand coproduction, and is acknowledged as a more complex and less successful film than \"Ngati\". The issues raised in \"Te Rua\" - of 'ownership' versus 'guardianship' would form the basis of much", "title": "Barry Barclay" } ]

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[ { "id": "13862434", "text": "Fourth television network In American television terminology, a fourth network is a reference to a fourth broadcast (over-the-air) television network, as opposed to the Big Three television networks that dominated U.S. television from the 1950s to the 1990s: ABC, CBS and NBC. When the U.S. television industry was in its infancy in the 1940s, there were four major full-time television networks that operated across the country: ABC, CBS, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. Never able to find solid financial ground, DuMont ceased broadcasting in August 1956. Many companies later began to operate television networks which aspired to compete against", "title": "Fourth television network" }, { "id": "4303899", "text": "on TV sets and tuners. There are a few Channel 37 stations operating in countries such as the Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago and The Philippines. Other channels have been removed and reassigned as well, but only from the higher UHF bands. Channels 14 to 83 (except 37), from 470 to 890 MHz, were originally added by the FCC in 1952 for the rapidly expanding TV service in the United States. In 1983, channels 70 to 83 (806 to 890 MHz) were removed for AMPS mobile phone services (leading to one side of some conversations being heard on older TV", "title": "Channel 1 (North American TV)" }, { "id": "720893", "text": "itself in the position of an outsider, with less coverage than two of its competing networks, CBS and NBC, even though it was on par with them in some major cities and had a headstart over its third rival at the time, the DuMont Television Network. On November 3, 1949, \"The Ruggles\" starring Charlie Ruggles debuted, becoming the first family sitcom on the fledgling ABC network. Before the freeze ended in 1952, there were only 108 existing television stations in the United States; a few major cities (such as Boston) had only two television stations, many other cities (such as", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "10520183", "text": "owned KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles and WBKB (channel 4, now WBBM-TV on channel 2) in Chicago, owned a share of the network. However, the FCC declared that Paramount controlled DuMont and thus forbade the network and the studio from acquiring any more stations. This was one of the factors that led to DuMont shutting down in August 1956. For much of the era from 1958 to 1986, the major network-owned stations were distributed as follows: ABC, CBS and NBC each owned stations in the top three markets (New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago). Between 1958 and 1965,", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "754550", "text": "1954) on the air. In its later years, DuMont was carried mostly on poorly watched UHF channels or had only secondary affiliations on VHF stations. DuMont ended most operations on April 1, 1955, but honored network commitments until August 1956. DuMont Television Network The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Doo MOnt, Dumont ) was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States. It was owned by DuMont Laboratories, a television equipment and set manufacturer, and began", "title": "DuMont Television Network" }, { "id": "11405554", "text": "Channel 73 Channel 73 was formerly used by a handful of television stations in North America which broadcast on 824-830 MHz. It was removed from television use in 1983 and the frequencies reassigned to analog mobile telephony. As higher frequencies were less able to diffract around terrestrial obstacles, very few stations originated on channel 73. The channel was available when the UHF TV band opened in 1953, but the few who did use UHF 73 initially soon moved to lower frequencies or went dark: For much of the history of UHF TV broadcasting in the United States, channel 70–83 served", "title": "Channel 73" }, { "id": "6976885", "text": "digital channel 804. The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1952 as WSBA-TV, originally operating as an ABC affiliate. It was owned by the Susquehanna Radio Corporation, a subsidiary of the Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff conglomerate, along with radio station WSBA (910 AM). It was one of the first commercially licensed UHF television stations in the United States, signing on the air just over three months after KPTV in Portland, Oregon which originally broadcast on channel 27 when it signed on in 1952, before moving to VHF channel 12 five years later. This makes WPMT the second-oldest continuously broadcasting", "title": "WPMT" }, { "id": "402941", "text": "color image. The NTSC standard represented a major technical achievement. Although all-electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953, high prices, and the scarcity of color programming, greatly slowed its acceptance in the marketplace. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) occurred on 1 January 1954, but during the following ten years most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be in black-and-white. It was not until the mid-1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers, due in part to the color transition of 1965 in which it was announced that over", "title": "Television" }, { "id": "1579455", "text": "Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in \"Guinness World Records\" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, \"Guiding Light\" is the longest running soap opera before \"General Hospital\" and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program \"Grand Ole Opry\" (first broadcast", "title": "Guiding Light" }, { "id": "1579506", "text": "\"Guiding Light\" episodes on a two-disc DVD set. Also beginning in June 2012 the series was later released on DVD in Germany beginning with the 1979 episodes. Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in \"Guinness World Records\" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, \"Guiding Light\" is the longest running", "title": "Guiding Light" }, { "id": "474641", "text": "broadcast because the licence fee only applies to the BBC's British operations. 23,000 people worldwide are employed by the BBC and its subsidiary, BBC Studios. Television in the United States had long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC); however the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), which launched in October 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered part of the \"Big Four.\" The Big Three provide a significant amount of programs to each of their affiliates, including newscasts, prime time, daytime and", "title": "Television network" }, { "id": "8644766", "text": "as an NBC affiliate owing to KDYL-AM's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; the radio station had been one of the network's original 26 affiliates when it launched in 1926. In addition, the station also shared ABC programming with CBS affiliate KSL-TV (channel 5, now an NBC affiliate) until KUTV (channel 2) signed on in September 1954 as a full-time ABC affiliate. KTVX is the oldest television station located in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest station located west of the Mississippi River. It was also the first independently owned television station to sign-on in the United", "title": "KTVX" }, { "id": "10520186", "text": "is an ABC O&O, and KTBC (channel 7) in Austin, Texas is a Fox O&O; WOGX (channel 51) in Ocala, Florida, is technically a Fox O&O, but is operated out of the studios of and serves as a semi-satellite of the network's Orlando O&O WOFL). Local television stations in the United States were concentrated on the VHF dial (channels 2–13) in the early days of the industry. However, it soon became apparent that the twelve channels available on the VHF dial would not be sufficient to meet the demands of the growing industry. As a result, in 1952, the FCC", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "5369293", "text": "stations transmitting on the same channel (the channel 7 allocation was reassigned to Lawton, where it would become occupied by present-day ABC affiliate KSWO-TV). On July 1, 1952, WKY-TV became among the first six television stations in the country – along with fellow NBC stations WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Fort Worth, KPRC-TV in Houston, WOAI-TV in San Antonio and WDSU in New Orleans, and secondary NBC affiliate KOTV (now exclusively a CBS affiliate) in Tulsa – to begin transmitting network programming over a live coaxial feed. The milestone was inaugurated that morning with a message by \"Today\" host Dave Garroway", "title": "KFOR-TV" }, { "id": "6846448", "text": "production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income. While only 0.5% of U.S. households had a television in 1946, 55.7% had one in 1954, and 90% by 1962. In Britain, there were 15,000 television households in 1947, 1.4 million in 1952, and 15.1 million by 1968. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, color television had come into wide use. In Britain, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV were regularly broadcasting in color by 1969. By the late 2000s, CRT display technology was largely supplanted worldwide by flat-panel displays such as LCD. Flat-panel television, especially LCD, has become the dominant form of", "title": "History of television" }, { "id": "12511831", "text": "the move and became the first weekly televised variety show, earning host Milton Berle the name \"Mr Television\" and demonstrating that the medium was a stable, modern form of entertainment which could attract advertisers. The first national live television broadcast in the US took place on September 4, 1951 when President Harry Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco was transmitted over AT&T's transcontinental cable and microwave radio relay system to broadcast stations in local markets. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) in the US occurred on January 1, 1954. During", "title": "Television show" }, { "id": "10520199", "text": "order to stay under the ownership cap. In addition, networks may choose to sell off O&Os in smaller markets in order to concentrate on their stations in larger markets, or to give themselves leeway to purchase stations in other growing markets. The following are examples of transactions involving owned-and-operated stations in the United States: The DuMont network found itself in financial trouble in 1954, and decided to sell off its Pittsburgh owned-and-operated station, WDTV (channel 2), which was the only commercial VHF station in what was then a top ten television market in the United States. Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "2785637", "text": "Night Live\", a late-night series which debuted on NBC in November 1975, and has spawned the careers of many popular comedic actors (such as Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Miller and Will Ferrell). Dramatic series have taken many forms over the years. Westerns such as \"Gunsmoke\" (the longest-running prime time scripted drama series in U.S. television history, having aired from 1955 to 1975) and \"Bonanza\" had experienced their greatest popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Medical dramas such as \"Marcus Welby, M.D.\", \"St. Elsewhere\", \"ER\", \"House\" and \"Grey's Anatomy\" have endured success; as well as family dramas such as \"The", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "2785537", "text": "Gray Television, whose 131 stations cover mostly smaller metropolitan areas reaching only 10% of the population. The five major U.S. broadcast television networks are the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System), the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) and the CW Television Network. The first and elder three (which are colloquially known as the \"Big Three\") began as radio networks: NBC and CBS respectively began operations in 1924 and 1927, while ABC was spun off from NBC to Edward J. Noble in 1943 as the Blue Network during FCC inquiries over", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "6316898", "text": "broadcasting on October 3, 1970 with a rerun of \"Stagecoach West.\" Prior to its debut, ABC was relegated to off-hours clearances on NBC affiliate WLBT and CBS affiliate WJTV, save for a brief period from March 1954 until June 1955 when WSLI-TV 12 was a standalone ABC affiliate before combining forces with WJTV. In fact, by the 1960s, Jackson was one of the largest markets, if not the largest, in the U.S. with only two network stations by the 1960s, even though it had been large enough on paper to support three full network affiliates by the 1950s. It has", "title": "WAPT" }, { "id": "3061448", "text": "advances, the drop in television prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income. While only 0.5% of U.S. households had a television in 1946, 55.7% had one in 1954, and 90% by 1962. In Britain, there were 15,000 television households in 1947, 1.4 million in 1952, and 15.1 million by 1968. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, color television had come into wide use. In Britain, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV were regularly broadcasting in colour by 1969. During the first decade of the 21st century, CRT \"picture tube\" display technology was almost entirely supplanted worldwide", "title": "Television set" }, { "id": "3038959", "text": "local stations of the 1950s were limited by the range their signals could supposedly travel, the lack of UHF tuners in most TV sets and difficulties in finding advertisers and TV network affiliations. Of the 82 new UHF TV stations in the United States broadcasting as of June 1954, only 24 remained on the air a year later. Fourth-network operators such as the DuMont Television Network, forced to expand using UHF affiliates due to a lack of available VHF channels, were not viable and soon folded. The fraction of new TV receivers that were factory-equipped with all-channel tuners dropped from", "title": "All-Channel Receiver Act" }, { "id": "12373014", "text": "households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership. As a whole, the television networks of the United States are the largest and most syndicated in the world. As of August 2013, approximately 114,200,000 American households own at least one television set. Due to a recent surge in the number and popularity of critically acclaimed television series, many critics have said that American television is currently enjoying a golden age. There is a regard for scientific advancement and technological innovation in American culture,", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "720904", "text": "14 seasons, running from 1952 to 1966) held the record for the longest-running prime time comedy in U.S. television history, until it was surpassed by \"The Simpsons\" in 2003. Goldenson's efforts paid off, and on October 27, 1954, the network launched a campaign ushering in the \"New ABC\", with productions from several studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox. Warner tried with mixed success to adapt some of its most successful films as ABC television series, and showcase these adaptations as part of the wheel series \"Warner Bros. Presents\". Airing during the 1955–56 season, it showcased television adaptations", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "4632175", "text": "well as national cable and satellite channels such as TNT, ESPN and AMC, and Internet services such as Netflix. The following is a list of television stations in the United States that have had primary network affiliations, at one point or another, all with ABC, CBS or NBC. Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Beginning in 1948 until 1986, the Big Three networks dominated U.S.", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "1385792", "text": "the Nielsen ratings) for national and local radio stations in the United States. Ninety-nine percent of American households have at least one television and the majority of households have more than one. The four major broadcasters in the U.S. are the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CBS (formerly the Columbia Broadcasting System), the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox). Several Spanish language broadcast (as well as cable) networks exist, which are the most common form of non-English television broadcasts. These networks are not as widely distributed over-the-air as their English counterparts, available mostly in markets with sizeable", "title": "Media of the United States" }, { "id": "4632159", "text": "Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Beginning in 1948 until 1986, the Big Three networks dominated U.S. television. The National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System were both founded as radio networks in the 1920s, with NBC eventually encompassing two national radio networks, the prestige Red Network and the lower-profile Blue Network. They gradually began experimental television stations in the 1930s, with commercial broadcasts being", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "6846381", "text": "the 1970s and 80s, terrestrial television broadcasts have been in decline; in 2013 it was estimated that about 7% of US households used an antenna. A slight increase in use began around 2010 due to a switchover to digital terrestrial television broadcasts, which offer pristine image quality over very large areas, and offered an alternate to CATV for cord cutters. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) adopted the American NTSC 525-line B/W 60 field per second system as its broadcast standard. It began television broadcasting in Canada in September 1952. The first broadcast was on September 6, 1952 from its Montreal", "title": "History of television" }, { "id": "15554157", "text": "from the slavery of schedules, and as cable and telephone firms encroach on the distribution end of the TV business, the broadcast networks ended up standing or falling purely as content providers. Network era In television broadcasting, the Network Era refers to the period in American television history from 1952 to the mid-1980s, when the television market was controlled by a few large television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC. This determination is established by institutional aspects that regularized television for the majority of the country, including the color television standard option. Early television evolved from the network organization of radio", "title": "Network era" }, { "id": "4740042", "text": "WALA signed on the air for the first time on January 14, 1953, it is Mobile's oldest living television station (it is actually the city's second television station, the first was WKAB-TV, which operated on UHF channel 48 from December 30, 1952 until August 1, 1954). It was initially locally owned by W.O. Pape, along with WALA radio (1410 AM, now WNGL). It aired programs from all four major television networks of the time (NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont). WALA lost CBS programming to WKRG-TV (channel 5) when it signed on, and when WEAR-TV (channel 3) relinquished CBS programming (when", "title": "WALA-TV" }, { "id": "15554148", "text": "Network era In television broadcasting, the Network Era refers to the period in American television history from 1952 to the mid-1980s, when the television market was controlled by a few large television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC. This determination is established by institutional aspects that regularized television for the majority of the country, including the color television standard option. Early television evolved from the network organization of radio in the early 1940s. The three networks that rose to dominance, NBC, CBS, and ABC, were nearly non-conglomerated corporations that were based in the business center of New York City. These networks", "title": "Network era" }, { "id": "1292367", "text": "pilot episode was discovered and revealed in a CBS television special, hosted by Lucie Arnaz, becoming the highest rated program of the season. \"I Love Lucy\" continues to be held in high esteem by television critics, and remains perennially popular. For instance, it was one of the first American programs seen on British television — which became more open to commerce with the September 1955 launch of ITV, a commercial network that aired the series; in 1982, the launch of a second terrestrial TV station devoted to advertising funded broadcasting (Channel 4) saw the show introduced to a new generation", "title": "I Love Lucy" }, { "id": "15112241", "text": "short pop songs presented by a \"disc jockey.\" Famous disc jockeys in the era included Alan Freed, Dick Clark, Don Imus and Wolfman Jack. Top 40 playlists were theoretically based on record sales; however, record companies began to bribe disc jockeys to play selected artists, in what was called payola. In the 1950s, American television networks introduced broadcasts in color. (The Federal Communications Commission approved the world's first monochrome-compatible color television standard in December 1953. The first network colorcast followed on January 1, 1954, with NBC transmitting the annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. to over 20 stations", "title": "Broadcasting in the United States" }, { "id": "16442111", "text": "regular daily schedule. The first commercially licensed UHF television station was WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts; however, the first commercially licensed TV station on the air was KPTV, Channel 27, in Portland, Oregon, on September 18, 1952. This TV station used much of the equipment, including the transmitter, from KC2XAK. American television broadcasting began experimentally in the 1930s with regular commercial broadcasting in cities such as New York and Chicago in 1941. Bandwidth was originally allocated (by the Federal Communications Commission – the FCC) solely in the VHF (Very High Frequency) band. All VHF TV channels except channel 1 through 13", "title": "UHF television broadcasting" }, { "id": "13081968", "text": "Rafael Pérez Perry Rafael Pérez Perry (October 24, 1911 – May 10, 1978) was a businessman and a pioneer in Puerto Rico's radio and television broadcasting industry. He owned one of the most successful radio stations on the island (WKBM AM) and in 1954 founded Puerto Rico's television Channel 11, which now is known as Tele Once and owned and operated by Univision, the largest Hispanic television network in the United States. Rafael Pérez Perry was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico to a father of Spanish descent and a mother of French descent. When he was a child his family", "title": "Rafael Pérez Perry" }, { "id": "4128615", "text": "included \"Omnibus\" hosted by Alistair Cooke, and \"You Are There\" hosted by Walter Cronkite. Talk shows had their genesis in the decade with NBC's \"Today\" hosted by Dave Garroway creating the much-copied genre format. \"The Tonight Show\" debuted in 1954 with Steve Allen as host. The coronation of Elizabeth II was televised on June 2, 1953, highlighting the start of pan-European cooperation with regards to the exchange of TV programs. The Academy Awards show was first televised in 1953 on NBC, and the show holds the distinction of having won the most Emmys in history, with 38 wins and 167", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "286106", "text": "and territories currently use or once used the NTSC system. Many of these have switched or are currently switching from NTSC to digital television standards such as ATSC (United States, Canada, Mexico, Suriname, South Korea), ISDB (Japan, Philippines and part of South America), DVB-T (Taiwan, Panama, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago) or DTMB (Cuba). The following countries no longer use NTSC for terrestrial broadcasts. NTSC NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee, is the analog television color system that was used in North America from 1954 and until digital conversion, was used in most of the Americas (except Brazil,", "title": "NTSC" }, { "id": "2809935", "text": "playlists were theoretically based on record sales; however, record companies began to bribe disc jockeys to play selected artists, in a controversy that was called \"payola\". In the 1950s, American television networks introduced broadcasts in color. The Federal Communications Commission approved the world's first monochrome-compatible color television standard in December 1953. The first network colorcast followed on January 1, 1954, with NBC transmitting the annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California to over 20 stations across the country. An educational television network, National Educational Television (NET), predecessor to PBS, was founded. Shortwave broadcasting played an important part of fighting", "title": "History of broadcasting" }, { "id": "9061353", "text": "$100,000 grand prize: \"The Big Surprise\" never approached the popularity of \"The $64,000 Question\" and had ended prior to the disclosure of the quiz show scandal, which forced all big-money game shows off the air in the United States for several years. The series is believed to have been destroyed as per network practices of the era. Only the April 7, 1956, show is known to exist, which begins with guest contestant Errol Flynn going for $30,000. The Big Surprise The Big Surprise is a television quiz show broadcast in the United States by NBC from October 8, 1955, to", "title": "The Big Surprise" }, { "id": "8824993", "text": "D.C.), at a resolution of just 48 lines. The way to view television at the time was by mechanical television sets, and this station operated in that way. W3XK W3XK is widely regarded as the oldest television station in the United States. It was operated by Charles Jenkins of Charles Jenkins Laboratories from July 2, 1928 to 1934. It is believed to be the first station to broadcast to the general public. (Note, however, that in January 1928, GE began broadcasting as 2XB – later W2XB – on 790 kHz using a 24 line mechanical standard. ) The station's frequency", "title": "W3XK" }, { "id": "2785520", "text": "are the most widely syndicated internationally. Due to a recent surge in the number and popularity of critically acclaimed television series during the 2000s and the 2010s to date, many critics have said that American television is currently undergoing a modern golden age. In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as \"over-the-air\" or OTA) – the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF),", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "7762762", "text": "\"eagerly pointed out\" its innocence in the quiz show mess. The network affirmed its commitment to Westerns, which could not be rigged. Western TV series continued to be very popular with audiences, and for the first time, the three highest-rated programs on television, CBS's \"Gunsmoke\", NBC's \"Wagon Train\", and CBS's \"Have Gun – Will Travel\", were all Westerns. ABC's new series, \"The Rifleman\" even hit #4, quite a feat for a network which had had no series in the top 30 five years earlier. Although ABC, CBS, and NBC remained the largest television networks in the United States, they were", "title": "1958–59 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "18153227", "text": "XELD-TV XELD-TV was a television station licensed to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, broadcasting in English and Spanish for the Río Grande Valley region. The station broadcast on channel 7 from September 15, 1951, to April 1954. The 1948 freeze on new television station licenses placed by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States stalled any development of television on the American side of the Río Grande, which was allotted VHF channels 4 and 5. Meanwhile, per international agreement, Matamoros had received the allotments for channels 2, 7, and 11, along with channel 9 in Reynosa (which also received channel 12", "title": "XELD-TV" }, { "id": "13063315", "text": "WFPG-TV WFPG-TV was one of the earliest UHF television stations in the United States, licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The station broadcast over channel 46 from December 1952 until May 1954, and held affiliations with all four major networks of the era: NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont. Geographically, New Jersey is sandwiched between New York City and Philadelphia. Between them, the two large cities were granted most of the available VHF channels. The only VHF station assigned to New Jersey was located in Newark, the state's largest city. However, channel 13—WATV, later to become WNTA-TV (and now WNET) --", "title": "WFPG-TV" }, { "id": "4959888", "text": "as a primary CBS affiliate, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network, with a secondary affiliation with ABC. It moved to VHF channel 11 on February 7, 1953, one of several channel shifts resulting from the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 \"Sixth Report and Order\". Under the same decree, WAVE-TV relocated from channel 5 to channel 3. Following the move to channel 11, the station became to first to increase its effective radiated power to 316,000 watts, the maximum allowed for a high-band VHF station, resulting in a greatly increased signal coverage area. When the", "title": "WHAS-TV" }, { "id": "3870590", "text": "network television programming. He was awarded the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors Award, a lifetime achievement award, in 1986. Skelton was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Television Hall of Fame in 1989. The Red Skelton Show The Red Skelton Show is an American television comedy/variety show that, from 1951 to 1971, was an entertainment staple and an institution to a generation of viewers. It was second to \"Gunsmoke\" (1955–1975) and third to \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" (1948–1971) in the ratings during that time. In the decade prior to hosting the show, Richard Bernard \"Red\"", "title": "The Red Skelton Show" }, { "id": "16442126", "text": "1971, only about 170 full-service UHF stations operated. In the United States, the UHF stations gained a reputation for local ownership, nonprofessional operations, small audiences and weaker signal propagation. While UHF-TV has been available to American TV broadcasters since 1952, affiliates of the four major American TV networks (NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont) continued to transmit primarily on VHF wherever they were available. With the availability of the twelve VHF television channels limited by FCC spacing rules to avoid co-channel and adjacent channel interference between TV stations in the same or nearby cities, all available VHF-TV allocations were already in", "title": "UHF television broadcasting" }, { "id": "6846365", "text": "a limited-resolution color display. The higher resolution black-and-white and lower resolution color images combine in the brain to produce a seemingly high-resolution color image. The NTSC standard represented a major technical achievement. Although all-electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953, high prices and the scarcity of color programming greatly slowed its acceptance in the marketplace. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) occurred on January 1, 1954, but during the following ten years most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be in black-and-white. It was not until the mid-1960s that color", "title": "History of television" }, { "id": "16770485", "text": "Medal of Honor, the organization's highest honor, on July 12, 2012. Olson died of liver cancer at a nursing home in Burbank, California, on August 9, 2012, at the age of 78. He was survived by his partner of thirty years and husband of four, publicist Eugene Harbin. Dale Olson Dale C. Olson (February 20, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American writer and publicist who represented prominent actors and films directors during his career, and an early gay rights activist. In 1954, he became the first man to appear on television in the United States and self-identify as", "title": "Dale Olson" }, { "id": "12243297", "text": "1.5 million, 1.3 percent, and after nearly 2 months, the number was down to just over one million, or 1.1 percent. As of August 30, 2009, the number was 710,000, as 572,000 had upgraded in August and 1.8 million since June 12. In some cases where digital frequencies moved, people have been advised not only to re-scan but to \"double-scan\", in order to clear outdated information from the digital TV or converter box memory. Calls to the FCC decreased from 43,000 a day in the week ending June 15 to 21,000 the next week. Reception problems, representing nearly a third", "title": "Digital television transition in the United States" }, { "id": "11405560", "text": "dark as all CBC/Radio-Canada owned and operated rebroadcasters were shut down nationally on August 1, 2012. All other assignments have been to low-power rebroadcasters of US stations: Channel 75 Channel 75, removed from television use in 1983, was formerly used by television stations in North America which broadcast on UHF frequencies 836-842 MHz. In the United States, channels 70-83 served primarily as a \"translator band\" containing repeater transmitters to fill gaps in coverage for existing stations. A handful remained in licensed operation in remote locations for years after the frequencies were lost to AMPS cellular telephony and the channels removed", "title": "Channel 75" }, { "id": "289176", "text": "NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and Philadelphia (at the Comcast Technology Center). The network is one of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the \"Peacock Network\", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting. It", "title": "NBC" }, { "id": "5070387", "text": "call letters were derived from the original owner of WKRC radio, Clarence Ogden of the Kodel Radio Company (\"Ko\" for Clarence O. and \"dell\" for Della his wife). Following the release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s \"Sixth Report and Order\", WKRC-TV moved to channel 12 on October 12, 1952. In 1953, three television stations owned by Taft Broadcasting Company and Cox Enterprises formed the short-lived \"Tri-State Network\" to compete with entertainment programming produced by Crosley Broadcasting Corporation on Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton broadcast markets. On January 11, 1954, \"The Wendy Barrie Show\" premiered from", "title": "WKRC-TV" }, { "id": "483989", "text": "CBS system because it was incompatible with RCA's; that, and the fact that CBS had moved to secure many UHF, not VHF, television licenses, left CBS flatfooted in the early television age. In 1946, only 6,000 television sets were in operation, most in greater New York City where there were already three stations; by 1949, the number had increased to 3 million sets, and by 1951, had risen to 12 million. 64 American cities had television stations, though most of them only had one. Radio continued to be the backbone of the company, at least in the \"early\" 1950s, but", "title": "CBS" }, { "id": "12858852", "text": "ran from 1951 to 1957 on CBS, was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched only by \"The Andy Griffith Show\" in 1968 and \"Seinfeld\" in 1998) . The show is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world, and remains popular, with an American audience of 40 million each year. Colorized edits of episodes from the original series have aired semi-annually on the network since 2013, six decades after the series aired.", "title": "Sitcom" }, { "id": "754498", "text": "DuMont Television Network The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Doo MOnt, Dumont ) was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States. It was owned by DuMont Laboratories, a television equipment and set manufacturer, and began operation on August 15, 1946. The network was hindered by the prohibitive cost of broadcasting, by regulations imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which restricted the company's growth, and even by the company's partner, Paramount Pictures. Despite several innovations", "title": "DuMont Television Network" }, { "id": "9500387", "text": "the Paramount Television Network was distributing five television series a week to over 40 affiliated television stations. Most Paramount stations were in the United States, but at least two were Canadian stations. During this era, American television programs were either broadcast live to local television stations via microwave relay and AT&T's coaxial cable service or were recorded on kinescope and delivered through the mail to local stations. The live broadcast method was expensive, but was preferred by executives at each of the four major U.S. television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont); in 1954, DuMont alone spent $3 million on", "title": "Paramount Television Network" }, { "id": "9889025", "text": "Flash cut A flash cut, also called a flash cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period. In the United States, some telephone area codes were split or overlaid immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which serves downtown Los Angeles and its immediate environs, split in January 1951 into 213 and 714 all at once. Another example is an immediate switch from an analog television channel to a digital television channel on the same frequency, where the two cannot operate in parallel without", "title": "Flash cut" }, { "id": "10520185", "text": "and CBS' KMOX-TV (channel 4, now KMOV) in St. Louis. As a result of a revision to the FCC's media ownership rules in 1999, a company can now own any number of television stations with a combined market reach of less than 39% of the country, but cannot own two of the four highest-rated stations in any market. Still, O&Os in the United States are primarily found in large markets such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, among others. Despite that, network-owned stations can still be found in smaller markets (for example, KFSN-TV (channel 30) in Fresno, California", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "5625289", "text": "television station in New Mexico, as well as the third-oldest television station between the Mississippi River and the West Coast (behind WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Fort Worth, and KDYL-TV (now KTVX) in Salt Lake City). Initially, channel 4 ran programming from all four networks—NBC, ABC, CBS and DuMont. However, it has always been a primary NBC affiliate owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC radio. Later, in May 1952, the KOB stations were purchased by magazine publisher Time-Life (now Time Inc.) and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Wayne Coy. It was Time-Life’s first television asset. In 1953,", "title": "KOB" }, { "id": "10520203", "text": "in Green Bay, WFRV-TV (channel 5), and its satellite in Escanaba, Michigan, WJMN-TV (channel 3), to Liberty Media in exchange for common CBS stock held by Liberty Media; the sale of WFRV/WJMN closed on April 18, 2007. The Four Points transaction was approved by the FCC on November 21, 2007, and was finalized on January 10, 2008. In 2012, the Four Points stations were acquired by the Sinclair Broadcast Group; WFRV/WJMN was sold to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group in 2011. For much of the modern television era, NBC did not have an owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia. In 1955, NBC forced", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "2898989", "text": "as well as on YouTube. The Museum of Television and Radio (New York and Los Angeles) has a collection on the noted television programs. NBC sold the studio in 2000. The facility became JC Studios. The CBS soap opera \"As the World Turns\" was taped here from January 2000 until June 2010. The series was cancelled after 54 years. The final episode aired on September 17, 2010. When NBC Brooklyn Color Studio 2 was dedicated in September 1954, the studio was at the time said to be the world's largest color TV production studio, rivaling Pinewood Studios just west of", "title": "Midwood, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "7762764", "text": "Network affiliates carried the network's programs whenever they had available slots, and outside of \"Gun\", \"Alice\", \"Millionaire\" and \"Performance\", NTA's programs were aired whenever the local stations preferred. National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to PBS founded in 1952, also allowed its affiliate stations to air programs out of pattern. New series are highlighted in bold. All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central and Mountain times. Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research. The Canadian-produced", "title": "1958–59 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "754499", "text": "in broadcasting and the creation of one of the television's biggest stars of the 1950s (Jackie Gleason), the network never found itself on solid financial ground. Forced to expand on UHF channels during an era when UHF tuning was not yet a standard feature on television sets, DuMont fought an uphill battle for program clearances outside its three owned-and-operated stations in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, eventually ending network operations on August 6, 1956. DuMont's latter-day obscurity, caused mainly by the destruction of its extensive program archive by the 1970s, has prompted TV historian David Weinstein to refer", "title": "DuMont Television Network" }, { "id": "3870576", "text": "The Red Skelton Show The Red Skelton Show is an American television comedy/variety show that, from 1951 to 1971, was an entertainment staple and an institution to a generation of viewers. It was second to \"Gunsmoke\" (1955–1975) and third to \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" (1948–1971) in the ratings during that time. In the decade prior to hosting the show, Richard Bernard \"Red\" Skelton, had a successful career as a radio and motion pictures star. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than sixteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its", "title": "The Red Skelton Show" }, { "id": "2785519", "text": "Television in the United States Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. The majority of households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership. As a whole, the television networks that broadcast in the United States are the largest and most distributed in the world, and programs produced specifically for U.S.-based networks", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "4303896", "text": "table, it was decided to merely remove Channel 1 from the table. As of September 2000, the Federal Spectrum Use of the band (which is regulated by the NTIA and not the FCC) was as follows: FCC (NON-Federal) allocations for the band: Canada did not start regular television broadcasts until after the US had decommissioned Channel 1 (44–50 MHz) for television use; CBFT and CBLT signed on in 1952. This TV channel was never used in Latin America, South Korea and the Philippines as TV broadcasting did not start in these areas until the 1950s. The use of 45.75 MHz", "title": "Channel 1 (North American TV)" }, { "id": "3468409", "text": "KMEB followed on six months later on September 22 of that year. KHET is the second outlet in Honolulu to occupy the channel 11 dial position, the first being KONA-TV from 1952 to 1955, when it moved to channel 2 because the higher VHFs (2 to 6) offered more ERPs at the time; that station is now KHON-TV. Had KONA not moved to channel 2, the channel would have remained a commercial allocation, as the FCC had intended to make channel 7 a non-commercial allocation for Honolulu in the first assignment, but the FCC relocated channel 7 to Wailuku in", "title": "KHET" }, { "id": "13862438", "text": "these companies withdrew from television after the first few years. The FCC's \"freeze,\" as it was called, was supposed to last for six months. When it was lifted after four years in 1952, there were only four full-time television networks. The FCC would only license three local VHF stations in most U.S. television markets. A fourth station, the FCC ruled, would have to broadcast on the UHF band. Hundreds of new UHF stations began operations, but many of these stations quickly folded because television set manufacturers were not required to include a UHF tuner until 1964 as part of the", "title": "Fourth television network" }, { "id": "19297058", "text": "hours. Talk/variety shows are highlited in yellow, local programming is white. 1950–51 United States network television schedule (late night) From May 29, 1950 through August 24, 1951, NBC aired programming in the late night television time slot, the first U.S. television network to do so. None of the other three major broadcast networks (CBS, Du Mont or ABC) attempted late-night TV during this time frame. Du Mont's first and only show would begin in 1954 (the same year NBC returned to the time slot after a three-year hiatus), ABC would begin in 1964 and CBS in 1969. Most stations in", "title": "1950–51 United States network television schedule (late night)" }, { "id": "2785641", "text": "week, exploded in popularity in turn of the millennium (with shows such as \"Survivor\", \"Big Brother\", \"The Amazing Race\", \"American Idol\", \"America's Next Top Model\", \"Dancing with the Stars\", \"The Bachelor\" and its spin-off \"The Bachelorette\", \"So You Think You Can Dance\" and \"The Voice\"). The most successful talk show has been \"The Tonight Show\", particularly during the 30-year run of third host Johnny Carson. \"Tonight\" ushered in a multi-decade period of dominance by one network – NBC – in American late-night programming and paved the way for many similar programs combining comedy and celebrity interviews, such as \"The Merv", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "5554075", "text": "best picture is obtained. The oldest and most widely used indoor antenna is the \"rabbit ears\" or \"bunny ears\", which are often provided with new television sets. It is a simple half-wave dipole antenna used to receive the VHF television bands, consisting in the US of 52 to 88 MHz (band I) and 174 to 216 MHz (band III), with wavelengths of 5.5 to 1.4 m. It is constructed of two telescoping rods attached to a base, which extend out to about 1 meter length (approximately one quarter wavelength at 52 MHz), and can be collapsed when not in use.", "title": "Television antenna" }, { "id": "12858853", "text": "It is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential sitcoms in history. In 2012, it was voted the 'Best TV Show of All Time' in a survey conducted by ABC News and \"People Magazine\". \"The Honeymooners\" debuted as a half-hour series on 1955 and was originally aired on the DuMont network's \"Cavalcade of Stars\" and subsequently on the CBS network's \"The Jackie Gleason Show\", which was filmed in front of a live audience. Although initially a ratings success—becoming the #2 show in the United States during its first season—it faced stiff competition from \"The Perry Como Show\",", "title": "Sitcom" }, { "id": "2785679", "text": "and public-interest programming. During the early years of commercial television, the FCC permitted a single company to own a maximum of five television stations nationwide (later raised to seven stations in 1984 and then to twelve in 1992), although until the 1960s, very few companies outside of the major broadcast networks owned multiple stations. Since a change to its media ownership regulations in 1999 that counted television station ownership maximums by a national market percentage rather than by the number of stations that could be allowed in their portfolio, FCC rules mandate that the total number of television stations owned", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "2199608", "text": "News\". CBS Television also featured public affairs programs such as \"Longines Chronoscope\" which featured newsworthy public figures, and which ran from June 1951 to April 1955 at 11pm ET. The DuMont Television Network had \"The Walter Compton News\" (June 1947 – 1948), \"I.N.S. Telenews\" and \"Camera Headlines\" (1948–1949), and \"DuMont Evening News\" (September 1954-1 April 1955). However, Edward R. Murrow is widely regarded as the most important figure in the early days of U.S. television news. On his weekly news show \"See It Now\" on CBS, Murrow presented live reports from journalists on both the east and west coasts of", "title": "Television news in the United States" }, { "id": "1878198", "text": "1954–55 season most episodes of \"The Jackie Gleason Show\" consisted entirely of \"The Honeymooners\". Fan response became overwhelming. Meadows received hundreds of curtains and aprons in the mail from fans who wanted to help Alice lead a fancier life. By January 1955, \"The Jackie Gleason Show\" was competing with—and sometimes beating—\"I Love Lucy\" as the most-watched TV show in the United States. Audience members lined up around the block hours in advance to attend the show. The \"Classic 39\" episodes of \"The Honeymooners\" are the ones that originally aired as a weekly half-hour sitcom on CBS from October 1955 to", "title": "The Honeymooners" }, { "id": "18090344", "text": "were applied to a \"shadow mask\" or equivalent TV tube, and which displays a 3-color color image. http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA-77.pdf Colorplexer Color television as introduced in North America in 1954 is best described as being 'colored' television. The system used the existing black and white signal but with the addition of a component intended only for television receivers designed to show color. By careful application this 'colored' signal was ignored by ordinary TV sets and had negligible effect on the appearance of the black and white image. This meant that color programs were viewable on the many existing black and white receivers", "title": "Colorplexer" }, { "id": "1292368", "text": "of fans in the UK, with the \"Channel 4\" network repeating the program several times between 1983 and 1994. As of January 2015, meanwhile, it remains the longest-running program to air continuously in the Los Angeles area, almost 60 years after production ended. However, the series is currently aired on KTTV on weekends and now KCOP on weekdays because both stations are a duopoly. Ironically, KTTV was the original CBS affiliated station in Los Angeles until 1951, just before \"I Love Lucy\" premiered on KNXT Channel 2 (now KCBS-TV) when CBS bought that station the same year. In the US,", "title": "I Love Lucy" }, { "id": "1415723", "text": "interference with the alternating current being supplied – in North America, some Central and South American countries, Taiwan, Korea, part of Japan, the Philippines, and a few other countries, this is 60 video fields per second to match the 60 Hz power, while in most other countries it is 50 fields per second to match the 50 Hz power. In its most basic form, a color broadcast can be created by broadcasting three monochrome images, one each in the three colors of red, green, and blue (RGB). When displayed together or in rapid succession, these images will blend together to", "title": "Color television" }, { "id": "6087800", "text": "to KDKA. Another affiliation change took place on June 15, 1945, when WCAE swapped affiliations with KQV and joined the Blue Network, which changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) that same day. An FM sister station at 96.1 MHz was started in 1948; WCAE-FM was shut down in 1953, but was restarted August 8, 1960. WCAE lost the ABC affiliation to WJAS on May 21, 1955. The station expanded into television three years later, with the debut of WTAE (channel 4) on September 4, 1958, initially as a joint venture of Hearst and the former owners of", "title": "WPGP" }, { "id": "720911", "text": "small markets having to wait as late as the 1980s or even the advent of digital television in the 2000s, which allowed stations like WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia to begin airing ABC programming on a digital subchannel after airing the network's programs outside of recommended timeslots decades before. The DuMont Television Network ceased broadcasting on September 15, 1955, and went bankrupt the next year. ABC then found itself as the third U.S. television network, dubbed the \"little third network\", but still continued to look for successful programming. That same year, Kintner was forced to resign due to disagreements between", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "6172071", "text": "Despite this, in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown. Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in a variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials. They may be an independent station or part", "title": "Television station" }, { "id": "8824992", "text": "W3XK W3XK is widely regarded as the oldest television station in the United States. It was operated by Charles Jenkins of Charles Jenkins Laboratories from July 2, 1928 to 1934. It is believed to be the first station to broadcast to the general public. (Note, however, that in January 1928, GE began broadcasting as 2XB – later W2XB – on 790 kHz using a 24 line mechanical standard. ) The station's frequency started out at 1605 kc., but moved to 6420 kc. (6.42 Mc.), and eventually moved to the 2.-2.1 Mc. band. It broadcast from Wheaton, Maryland (just outside Washington,", "title": "W3XK" }, { "id": "3038957", "text": "All-Channel Receiver Act The All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 (ACRA) (), commonly known as the All-Channels Act, was passed by the United States Congress in 1961, to allow the Federal Communications Commission to require that all television set manufacturers must include UHF tuners, so that new UHF-band TV stations (then channels 14 to 83) could be received by the public. This was a problem at the time since the Big Three television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) were well-established on VHF, while many local-only stations on UHF were struggling for survival. The All-Channel Receiver Act provides that the Federal Communications Commission", "title": "All-Channel Receiver Act" }, { "id": "286040", "text": "NTSC NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee, is the analog television color system that was used in North America from 1954 and until digital conversion, was used in most of the Americas (except Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and French Guiana); Myanmar; South Korea; Taiwan; Philippines; Japan; and some Pacific island nations and territories (see map). The first NTSC standard was developed in 1941 and had no provision for color. In 1953 a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color television broadcasting which was compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers. NTSC was the first widely", "title": "NTSC" }, { "id": "380714", "text": "to the common terminal. In electrical power wiring (i.e., house and building wiring by electricians), names generally involve the suffix \"\"-way\"\"; however, these terms differ between British English and American English (i.e., the terms \"two way\" and \"three way\" are used with different meanings). Switches with larger numbers of poles or throws can be described by replacing the \"S\" or \"D\" with a number (e.g. 3PST, SP4T, etc.) or in some cases the letter \"T\" (for \"triple\") or \"Q\" (for \"quadruple\"). In the rest of this article the terms \"SPST\", \"SPDT\" and \"intermediate\" will be used to avoid the ambiguity.", "title": "Switch" }, { "id": "10847799", "text": "network's more enduring shows, \"They Stand Accused\" was cancelled at the end of 1954. At least two episodes exist: the December 23, 1950, episode is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress, while an episode from late 1954 (\"The Johnny Roberts Story\") can be viewed online at the Internet Archive. They Stand Accused They Stand Accused (also known as Cross Question) is an American dramatized court show broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 11, 1949, to October 5, 1952 and again from September 9 to December 30, 1954. The series was recorded", "title": "They Stand Accused" }, { "id": "1746626", "text": "Today (U.S. TV program) Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 66 years of broadcasting it is the fifth-longest-running American television series. Originally a weekday two-hour program from 7 to 9 a.m., it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007 (though over time, the third and fourth hours", "title": "Today (U.S. TV program)" }, { "id": "2785636", "text": "has been more noted for situation comedies such as \"I Love Lucy\", \"The Honeymooners\", \"The Andy Griffith Show\", \"The Dick Van Dyke Show\", \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\", \"All in the Family\", \"Happy Days\", \"Family Ties\", \"Cheers\", \"The Cosby Show\", \"Seinfeld\", \"Friends\", \"Frasier\", \"Everybody Loves Raymond\", \"The King of Queens\", \"How I Met Your Mother\", \"The Big Bang Theory\" and \"Modern Family\". However, there have also existed sketch comedy/variety series during prime time such as \"Texaco Star Theatre\", \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In\". The most prominent as well as the longest-running sketch comedy program is \"Saturday", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "754520", "text": "programs which aired in the same timeslot were canceled. \"Life is Worth Living\" was not the only DuMont program to achieve double-digit ratings. In 1952, \"Time\" magazine reported that popular DuMont game show \"Down You Go\" had attracted an audience estimated at 16 million viewers. Similarly, DuMont's summer 1954 replacement series, \"The Goldbergs\", achieved audiences estimated at 10 million. Still, these series were only moderately popular compared to NBC's and CBS's highest-rated programs. Nielsen was not the only company to report TV ratings, however. Companies such as Trendex, Videodex and Arbitron had also measured TV viewership. The adjacent chart comes", "title": "DuMont Television Network" }, { "id": "2785710", "text": "broadcast networks carry at least one long-running reality franchise in their lineup at any given time of the year. Television in the United States Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. The majority of households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership. As a whole, the television networks that broadcast in", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "14278716", "text": "Avenue, in 1936 for use as a short-subject production facility. NBC bought the site in 1951 from Warner Brothers and converted the studio into a state-of-the-art color broadcasting facility. Betty Hutton was the star of the first NBC show from what was dubbed Brooklyn Studio I, \"Satins and Spurs\" on 12 September 1954. Notable television shows originating at JC Studios while under NBC ownership include \"Peter Pan\" with Mary Martin, the \"Kraft Music Hall\", \"Sing Along with Mitch\" starring Mitch Miller, \"Hullabaloo\", \"The Sammy Davis Jr. Show\", and three 1976 episodes of \"Saturday Night Live\". In 1956, NBC produced its", "title": "JC Studios" }, { "id": "9980222", "text": "rerun episodes from O'Brien's time as host until the network began airing the Olympics on February 12. O'Brien later reached a deal with cable network TBS to premiere a new late-night talk show, \"Conan\". NBC became the first large United States network to broadcast the same show every weekday during prime time since ABC's \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\" marathons in 1999 and only the second since DuMont aired \"Captain Video and His Video Rangers\" from 1949 to 1955. More recently, the upstart MyNetwork TV had attempted, upon its launch in 2006, to air the same telenovelas every night", "title": "The Jay Leno Show" }, { "id": "10520187", "text": "opened up a new spectrum of frequencies on the UHF dial (channels 14–83) for terrestrial television. As an incentive for companies to operate UHF stations, the FCC relaxed the ownership limit for a given entity from five to seven stations, provided that no more than five were on the VHF dial. With this opportunity to expand its roster of O&Os, NBC bought WBUF-TV (channel 17) in Buffalo in 1955 and WKNB-TV (channel 30) in New Britain, Connecticut (near Hartford) in 1957, and changed WKNB's call letters to WNBC-TV (the present-day WNBC in New York City used the WRCA-TV callsign from", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "474666", "text": "of content. Commercial television services also became available when private companies applied for television broadcasting licenses. Often, each new network would be identified with their channel number, so that individual stations would often be numbered \"One,\" \"Two,\" \"Three,\" and so forth. The first television network in the United Kingdom was operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). On 2 November 1936 the BBC opened the world's first regular high-definition television service, from a 405 lines transmitter at Alexandra Palace. The BBC remained dominant until eventually on 22 September 1955, commercial broadcasting was established in order to create a second television", "title": "Television network" }, { "id": "5657799", "text": "areas including air conditioners (1938), refrigerators (1939), home freezers (1946), consumer televisions (1947), electric ranges (1949), home laundry washers and dryers (1954), and home entertainment products. Their first consumer television set, the 1948 table Model 48-1000, had a screen and sold for US$395. By 1954, Philco had led the radio industry in volume sales for 24 straight years, selling over 30 million radios. Philco was also a pioneer in television broadcasting, launching experimental station W3XE in 1932. In 1941 the station became the third commercially licensed TV operation in the United States as WPTZ. It was sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting", "title": "Philco" }, { "id": "8935403", "text": "(2007), Garroway's show \"was faced with overwhelming competition from \"Mama\" and \"Ozzie & Harriet\", which were running opposite on CBS and ABC, and it only lasted a single season\". \"Bonino\" did not even last the full season. CBS had more luck with new live programs \"Person to Person\" and \"My Favorite Husband\" (which would later make the switch to film). ABC, perennially in third or fourth place among the four U.S. television networks, had been on the verge of bankruptcy, but the February 1953 merger of United Paramount Theaters with ABC had given ABC a $30 million cash infusion. ABC", "title": "1953–54 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "13862440", "text": "outlet with a limited audience. NBC and CBS had been the larger networks, and the most successful broadcasters in radio. As they began bringing their popular radio programs and stars into the television medium, they sought – and attracted – the most profitable VHF television stations. In many areas, ABC and DuMont were left with undesirable UHF stations, or were forced to affiliate with NBC or CBS stations on a part-time basis. ABC was near bankruptcy in 1952; DuMont's network was unprofitable after 1953. On August 6, 1956, DuMont ceased regular network operations; the end of DuMont allowed ABC to", "title": "Fourth television network" }, { "id": "3682843", "text": "air on December 24, 1953, as KOA-TV. Founded by Metropolitan TV Company (partly owned by famed comedian Bob Hope, and not to be confused with a similarly-named company later known as Metromedia), owners of KOA radio (850 AM and 103.5 FM, now KRFX), channel 4 immediately assumed the NBC affiliation from KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA), due to KOA radio's longtime affiliation with and ownership by the NBC Red Network. In 1965, KOA-TV began carrying most of NBC's American Football League game telecasts as the network obtained the league's broadcast television rights (with play-by-play announcing duties handled by Curt Gowdy);", "title": "KCNC-TV" }, { "id": "4390720", "text": "this period. \"Playhouse 90\" was one of the last shows of its kind; by the late 1950s, production of most American television was moving to Hollywood, which itself carried a contrasting culture and sensibility to shows based in New York City, where most Golden Age programs originated. Early television broadcasts were limited to live or filmed productions (the first practical videotape system, Ampex's Quadruplex, only became available in 1957). Broadcasting news, sports and other live events was something of a technical challenge in the early days of television and live drama with multiple cameras was extremely challenging. A live, 90-minute", "title": "Golden Age of Television" } ]

[ "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" ]

[ { "id": "6401888", "text": "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" is a song by the British duo Wham!, first released as a single in the UK on 14 May 1984. It became their first UK and US number one hit. It was written and produced by George Michael. The single was certified Platinum in the US, which at the time commemorated sales of over two million copies. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 13th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. It was also ranked number 28 on VH1's", "title": "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" }, { "id": "9857852", "text": "all go to number 1, following Gerry & The Pacemakers twenty years earlier; however, it would be their last. Their album \"Welcome to the Pleasuredome\" also reached number 1. Wham! had their first number 1 single this year after four earlier top 10 hits, the upbeat \"Wake Me Up Before You Go Go\". This would soon be followed by their second, \"Freedom\" later in the year, and their second album Make It Big also reached the top. One of the members of the band, George Michael, also released a solo single this year, the ballad \"Careless Whisper\" co-written by his", "title": "1984 in British music" }, { "id": "6401891", "text": "a CD single in 1999 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" is a song by the British duo Wham!, first released as a single in the UK on 14 May 1984. It became their first UK and US number one hit. It was written and produced by George Michael. The single was certified Platinum in the US, which at the time commemorated sales of over two million copies. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 13th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. It was also", "title": "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" }, { "id": "6506224", "text": "Freedom (Wham! song) \"Freedom\" is a hit song by British pop duo Wham!. It became the group's second number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and reached number three in America. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Wham! had already enjoyed a successful 1984 by the time \"Freedom\" was released in August of the year. \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" had given them their first UK number one and had then reached the top of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the United States. George had then gone to number one with", "title": "Freedom (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "4329831", "text": "Wham! Wham! were an English pop duo consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, formed in London in 1981. Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Wham's 1983 debut album \"Fantastic\" addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem for young people and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album \"Make It Big\" in 1984 was a worldwide pop smash hit, charting number one in both the UK and the United States. The singles from the album — \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\", \"Everything She Wants\" and \"Careless Whisper\" — all topped the Billboard Hot", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "4329853", "text": "first album. Michael died from heart and liver disease at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire on Christmas Day 2016. He was 53. Wham! Wham! were an English pop duo consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, formed in London in 1981. Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Wham's 1983 debut album \"Fantastic\" addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem for young people and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album \"Make It Big\" in 1984 was a worldwide pop smash hit, charting number one in both the UK and the United States. The singles", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "6506311", "text": "the United States, peaking at number 60. It was the duo's first time on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US, although they were listed as Wham!-UK. \"Bad Boys\" became the biggest hit from the debut album, although it would be usurped by \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" from the album \"Make It Big\" in 1984, which became the first of four UK number-one singles the duo would enjoy. George quickly denounced \"Bad Boys\" as a song he hated, stating it was \"like an albatross round my neck\". The song was famously omitted from the 1997 compilation album \"\",", "title": "Bad Boys (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "6506226", "text": "was used by George Michael as an introduction to his song, \"Faith\", played on a church organ. Freedom (Wham! song) \"Freedom\" is a hit song by British pop duo Wham!. It became the group's second number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and reached number three in America. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Wham! had already enjoyed a successful 1984 by the time \"Freedom\" was released in August of the year. \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" had given them their first UK number one and had then reached the top", "title": "Freedom (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "564502", "text": "Andrew Leaver, and David Mortimer (later known as David Austin). Michael formed the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first album \"Fantastic\" reached No. 1 in the UK in 1983 and produced a series of top 10 singles including \"Young Guns\", \"Wham Rap!\" and \"Club Tropicana\". Their second album, \"Make It Big\", reached No. 1 on the charts in the US. Singles from that album included \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" (No. 1 in the UK and US), \"Freedom\", \"Everything She Wants\", and \"Careless Whisper\" which reached No. 1 in nearly 25 countries, including the UK", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "564497", "text": "George Michael George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. He was widely known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit Wham! singles such as \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" and \"Last Christmas\" and solo albums such as \"Faith\" (1987) and \"Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1\" (1990). Michael achieved seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one songs on the", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "4329838", "text": "altogether in 1985. Now signed to Epic Records, except in the US and some other countries where they were on Epic sister label Columbia Records, Wham returned in 1984 with a new album and an updated pop image. These changes helped to propel Wham's next single, \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\", into the top ten of several countries around the world. It became their first US and UK #1 single, accompanied by a video of the duo with Pepsi and Shirlie, all wearing Katharine Hamnett T-shirts with the slogans \"CHOOSE LIFE\" and \"GO GO\". The next single from the", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "6510285", "text": "already enjoyed a solo number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 with \"Careless Whisper\", which was credited as Wham! featuring George Michael in the US. After radio DJ Simon Bates first aired \"A Different Corner\" on Radio 1, he rated the song so highly that he immediately played it again from the beginning. Michael went back to the top of the UK chart with \"A Different Corner\", becoming the first solo act in the history of the UK chart to reach number one with his first two releases, although he was hardly an unknown or new act on", "title": "A Different Corner" }, { "id": "6401889", "text": "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s. Michael's inspiration for the song was a scribbled note that his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley had left for his parents, intended to read \"wake me up before you go\" but with \"up\" accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote \"go\" twice on purpose. In 1984, George Michael had this to say on the development of the song: The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number four – after much hype from the duo claiming they would go straight in at number one, which was a rare occurrence then – and climbed to the top", "title": "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" }, { "id": "564506", "text": "premiere of the China film. The Wham! partnership ended officially with the commercially successful single \"The Edge of Heaven\", which reached No. 1 on the UK chart in June 1986. The beginning of his solo career, during early 1987, was a duet with Aretha Franklin. \"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)\" was a one-off project that helped Michael achieve an ambition by singing with one of his favourite artists. It scored number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 upon its release. For Michael, it became his third consecutive solo number one in", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "4329839", "text": "Wham album was \"Careless Whisper\", but it featured only George Michael in the music video. The single was also promoted as \"Wham featuring George Michael\" in many markets but, unlike any Wham single except \"Wham Rap!\" and \"Club Tropicana\", it was also co-written with Andrew Ridgeley. The song, about a remorseful two-timer, had more emotional depth than previous releases. It reached No. 1, selling over 1.3 million copies in the UK. \"Careless Whisper\" marked a new phase in Michael's career, as his label Columbia/Epic began to somewhat distanced him from the group Wham's playboy image. The next single was \"Freedom\"", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "4329841", "text": "1.4 million copies in the UK. Wham donated all their royalties from the single to the Ethiopian famine appeal to coincide with the fund-raising intentions of Band Aid's \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\", the song which kept them out of the top spot. Nevertheless, Band Aid's success meant that Michael had achieved #1 status in the UK within three separate entities in 1984—as a solo artist, as one half of a duo, and as part of a charity ensemble. At the end of 1985, the US \"Billboard\" charts listed \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" as the number-three song and", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "10624502", "text": "Shoot the Dog \"Shoot the Dog\" is a single by British singer-songwriter George Michael, released as the second single from his album, \"Patience\", though released a year and a half prior to the album. The song is a protest song referring to (and critical of) British Prime Minister Tony Blair and American President George W. Bush. Released on 29 July 2002, it peaked at number one in Denmark and number 12 in the United Kingdom. The music video for the song is completely animated. The single marked twenty years since the release of Wham!'s first single, \"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What", "title": "Shoot the Dog" }, { "id": "6506537", "text": "Young Guns (Go for It) \"Young Guns (Go for It)\" (mostly written with an exclamation mark as \"Young Guns (Go for It!)\") is a song by British pop duo Wham! which was released in 1982 on Innervision Records. It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo. The song was Wham!'s first hit, although it came with some help from the BBC music programme \"Top of the Pops\", which invited Wham! on to the show as a last-minute replacement for another act which had pulled out. It helped that the producer of \"Top of the Pops\" had seen", "title": "Young Guns (Go for It)" }, { "id": "6049029", "text": "the last of Franklin's 17 top 10 hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. For Michael, it became his third consecutive number-one in the UK since going solo, following 1984's \"Careless Whisper\" (though the single was actually from the Wham! album \"Make It Big\") and 1986's \"A Different Corner\". In the US, it was Michael's fourth number-one hit, counting his Wham! days. Producer Narada Michael Walden had the unique distinction of knocking himself out of the US number-one spot, having knocked \"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now\" out of the top. The single was the first Michael had recorded as a solo", "title": "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" }, { "id": "564579", "text": "(including two in the traditionally-black Soul/R&B category), and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations. George Michael George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. He was widely known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit Wham! singles such as \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" and \"Last Christmas\" and solo albums such as \"Faith\" (1987) and \"Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1\" (1990). Michael achieved", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "4329836", "text": "with Paul Weller in The Style Council, and was replaced by Pepsi DeMacque. Holliman and DeMacque would later record as Pepsi & Shirlie. Wham followed up \"Young Guns (Go for It)\" with a reissue of \"Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)\", \"Bad Boys\" and \"Club Tropicana\". By the end of 1983, Wham were competing against pop rivals Culture Club and Duran Duran as one of Britain's biggest pop acts. Their debut album \"Fantastic\" spent two weeks at No. 1 in the UK album charts in 1983, but the album only had modest success in the US. However, notoriety and increased", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "12565667", "text": "were the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 and 1986. George Michael released his debut solo album, \"Faith\" in 1987, and would go on to have seven UK number one singles. The 1985 concert Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium would see some of the biggest British artists of the era perform, with Queen stealing the show. Bonnie Tyler had major hits with \"Total Eclipse of the Heart\" and \"Holding Out for a Hero\", while Robert Palmer's", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "5562519", "text": "by the two Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, \"Two Tribes\" and \"Relax\", Stevie Wonder with \"I Just Called to Say I Love You\", and Band Aid's \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\". The song also topped the charts in 25 other countries, including the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the United States in February 1985 under the credit \"Wham! featuring George Michael\", Spending three weeks at the top in America, the song was later named \"Billboard\"s number-one song of 1985. Despite the success, Michael was never fond of the song. He said in 1991 that it \"was not an integral part of", "title": "Careless Whisper" }, { "id": "4329835", "text": "them after another act unexpectedly pulled out of the show. Wham's first manager was Bryan Morrison. The effect of Wham on the public, especially teenage girls, was felt from the moment they finished their debut performance of \"Young Guns (Go for It)\" on Top of the Pops. Michael wore espadrilles, an open suede jacket, and rolled-up denim jeans. Ridgeley stood behind him, flanked by backing dancers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman. Afterwards, the song shot into the Top 40 at No. 24 and peaked at No. 3 in December. The following year (1983), Dee C. Lee began her work", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "4329840", "text": "and was simply promoted as a Wham single. Wham used a video edited together from footage of their tour in China for \"Freedom\"'s US single release. Their second album, \"Make It Big\", climbed to #1 on the album charts and the band set off on an arena tour at the end of 1984. The double A-side single \"Last Christmas/Everything She Wants\" became the highest-selling single ever to peak at No. 2 in the UK charts. It stayed at No. 2 for five weeks and, to date, is the 24th best-selling single of all time in the United Kingdom, selling over", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "6506225", "text": "a solo single, \"Careless Whisper\". Then after, Wham! had their second American number one song with \"Everything She Wants\". \"Freedom\" was number one in the UK for three weeks, and featured on the album \"Make It Big\", which was issued at the same time. Unusually for the time, it was released in mono sound. \"Freedom\" was the 10th biggest-selling single of 1984. This song also reached number 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US in September 1985. The music video, coinciding with the 1985 US release, features the band touring around Beijing, China. The melody of the song", "title": "Freedom (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "19652429", "text": "was joined by Twenty One Pilots' \"Heathens\", which moved from number three to number two. This marks the first time (and the third time overall) that duos have held the top two spots at the same time since June 1985, when Tears for Fears was on top with \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World\" and Wham! was number two with \"Everything She Wants.\" (The week before, the two songs were in the opposite order.) On the chart issue dated November 26, 2016, the song was ousted from number one by \"Black Beatles\" by Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane. On the", "title": "Closer (The Chainsmokers song)" }, { "id": "4329845", "text": "journalist John Harris described it as \"a rich, poetic, panoramic portrait of China's strangeness to the eyes of outsiders\". Sporting a beard, Michael appeared with Ridgeley onstage at Live Aid on 13 July 1985 (although they did not perform as Wham). Michael sang \"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me\" with Elton John, while Ridgeley joined Kiki Dee in the row of backing singers. In September, Wham released the single \"I'm Your Man\" which went to No. 1 in the UK charts. Around this time, Ridgeley began a relationship with Keren Woodward of Bananarama. Ridgeley also took up the", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "19289176", "text": "and the third UK act to start at the summit (following Elton John's \"Candle in the Wind 1997\" and Adele's \"Hello\"). It also marks the first number one debut for an artist's first Hot 100 entry since Baauer's \"Harlem Shake\" (2 March 2013). \"Pillowtalk\" charted higher than any One Direction single, the highest being number two for \"Best Song Ever\" in 2013. Zayn is the first one-time member of a Hot 100-charting boy band to score a number one with a debut single since George Harrison, the former Beatle who launched with \"My Sweet Lord\" in 1970. The single's performance", "title": "Pillowtalk (song)" }, { "id": "4329847", "text": "announced the breakup of Wham in the spring of 1986. Before going their separate ways, a farewell single \"The Edge of Heaven\", and a greatest hits album titled \"The Final\" would be forthcoming, along with a farewell concert entitled \"The Final\". Announcing the breakup, Michael said: \"I think it should be the most amicable split in pop history.\" The farewell single reached No. 1 in June 1986. \"Where Did Your Heart Go?\" was the group's final single in the United States. The song, originally recorded by Was (Not Was), was a gloomy and sombre affair. The duo's last release was", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "4329842", "text": "\"Careless Whisper\" as the number-one song of the year. In March 1985, Wham took a break from recording to embark on a lengthy world tour, including a ground-breaking 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group. The China excursion was a publicity scheme devised by Simon Napier-Bell (one of their two managers—Jazz Summers being the other). It began with a concert at the Peoples' Gymnasium in Beijing in front of 12,000 people. They also played a concert in front of 5,000 in Canton. The two concerts were played without compensation. Wham's visit to China attracted huge media", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "13591888", "text": "the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 and 1986. New Romantic emerged as the dominant force in the singles charts at the beginning of the 1980s. Originally part of the new wave music movement in London nightclubs including Billy's and The Blitz Club towards the end of the 1970s and influenced by David Bowie and Roxy Music, it further developed glam rock fashions, gaining its name from the frilly fop shirts of early Romanticism. Among the commercially", "title": "British pop music" }, { "id": "11903015", "text": "was included as a B-side to the 1992 single \"Somewhere in America (There's a Street Named After My Dad)\". \"Where Did Your Heart Go?\" was covered by the British pop duo Wham! on 14 October 1986 as one of the three B-sides to \"The Edge of Heaven\" in the UK, where it reached number 1. The song was also released separately as Wham!'s final single in several territories most notably in the US where it peaked at number 50 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in November 1986. It was produced and re-arranged by George Michael with engineering by Chris Porter.", "title": "Where Did Your Heart Go?" }, { "id": "2530198", "text": "Queen and David Bowie, but were dominated by post punk, and then from about 1981 by new romantic acts. There were also more conventional pop acts, including Bucks Fizz, whose light lyrics and simple tempos gave them three number ones after their Eurovision Song Contest victory in 1981. The dance-pop music of Frankie goes to Hollywood, initially controversial, gave them three consecutive number ones in 1984, until they faded away in the mid-1980s. Probably the most successful British pop band of the era were the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had", "title": "Music of the United Kingdom (1980s)" }, { "id": "12686314", "text": "at Wembley Stadium on 28 June 1986, called \"The Final.\" During their Wham! career, Holliman and DeMacque decided to form their own act, named Pepsi & Shirlie. Created immediately after the Wembley concert with an upbeat and more pop genre sound, they had two UK Top Ten hits: \"Heartache\", which was produced by Phil Fearon and Tambi Fernando, reaching #2 in the UK Singles Chart behind the #1 hit of George Michael and Aretha Franklin's \"I knew you were waiting,\" and \"Goodbye Stranger\", produced by Tambi Fernando and Pete Hammond, which reached #9. The duo with DeMacque went on hiatus", "title": "Shirlie Holliman" }, { "id": "6060333", "text": "one hit in the UK for Wham! in 1984 (number 3 in the US in 1985). It was the second US single from the album \"Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1\", and had contrasting fortunes on each side of the Atlantic—it peaked number 28 on the UK Singles Chart, but was a major success on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, reaching number 8 and selling over 500,000 copies to earn a Gold certification from the RIAA. It remained in the \"Billboard\" top 40 for 12 weeks in late 1990 and early 1991. In Canada, Michael achieved another chart-topper. As of October", "title": "Freedom! '90" }, { "id": "3547331", "text": "the only British act in the 1980s to have three No. 1 singles in both the UK and the US. Simon Napier-Bell has admitted that he fabricated a story in 1984 that Ridgeley had been hit on the nose by somebody in a nightclub in order to get publicity for Wham in British tabloid newspapers. After days of tabloid headlines, it was later revealed that the bandages on Ridgeley's face were because he had cosmetic surgery on his nose. Wham had two UK No. 1 singles in 1984 and were competing that year with pop rivals Duran Duran to be", "title": "Andrew Ridgeley" }, { "id": "6510064", "text": "in the face of the conventional British left-wing who were talking about the 'right to work' at the time. The chorus asked the question \"Do you enjoy what you do?\", which brought about the bracketed section of the title. The video depicted Michael and Ridgeley in their leather jackets, combining their moody image with a bright, effervescent choreography. The song, which had been tentatively released in June 1982 when Wham! were unknown, and failed to make any impact, was re-issued in January 1983 after the duo had achieved their breakthrough with \"Young Guns (Go for It!)\". It subsequently reached number", "title": "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" }, { "id": "9857811", "text": "with their song \"Sometimes\" reaching number two in the autumn; this success would be followed by many more hits throughout the decade. After four successful years, the band Wham! split up in the spring. Made up of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, they finished with a farewell concert at Wembley Stadium, a greatest hits album \"The Final\" which reached number 2, and the single \"The Edge of Heaven\", their fourth and final number 1. George Michael also reached number 1 this year with a solo release, \"A Different Corner\", and went on to have a highly successful solo career. The", "title": "1986 in British music" }, { "id": "6475697", "text": "in the announcement because \"if my best isn't good enough, then how can it be good enough for two?\" The presence of the Band Aid project meant that the double A-side peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart, although in the process it became the biggest-selling record not to get to number one. However, in the USA, the song did reach number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and became the third number-one song in a row from 1984's \"Make It Big\" album. Wham! had two more number-one hits in the UK before splitting at their height in", "title": "Everything She Wants" }, { "id": "6475695", "text": "Everything She Wants \"Everything She Wants\" is a million-selling Gold-certified hit single by British pop duo Wham!, originally released in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with \"Last Christmas\". It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo, becoming their third consecutive million-selling number one hit in the United States. \"Everything She Wants\" was recorded in Paris and London after a few other tracks for \"Make It Big\" had been finished at Studio Miraval in southeastern France. Upon release, \"Last Christmas\" took the majority of the attention and airplay as it was appropriate in", "title": "Everything She Wants" }, { "id": "1307041", "text": "Money (But Don't Lose your Mind)\". But it was their second single, \"Go Now\" (released later that year), that launched their career, being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era, produced and directed by Alex Wharton. The single became a hit in Britain (where it remains their only Number 1 single) and in the United States, where it reached No. 10. The band encountered management problems after the chart-topping hit and subsequently signed to Decca Records in the UK (London Records in the US) directly as recording artists. A four-track extended play", "title": "The Moody Blues" }, { "id": "8624702", "text": "well) were more American in appearance, resembling the black-and-white comic anthologies of the time such as \"Creepy\" and \"Eerie\". However, they were aimed at a younger audience than such magazines (although an older audience than the \"Beano\"-style British fare). Following the successes of \"Wham!\" (1964) and \"Smash!\" (1966) Odhams were keen to expand their line of weekly \"Power Comics\" in 1967. In January they launched \"Pow!\" with 'Spider-Man' as the lead strip, and a month later saw the arrival of a comic that consisted almost entirely of Marvel reprints: \"Fantastic\". \"Fantastic\" No.1, which launched on Saturday February 11, 1967, came", "title": "Fantastic (comics)" }, { "id": "6506966", "text": "I'm Your Man (Wham! song) \"I'm Your Man\" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1985 on Epic Records in the UK and most of the world, and Columbia Records in the US. It was written and produced by George Michael. \"I'm Your Man\" became Wham!'s third number one on the UK Singles Chart, but did not feature on a studio album, and was essentially an isolated single which was only followed up by a re-issue of the previous year's Christmas hit, \"Last Christmas\". Already the signs were there that George, now bearded, was ready to move", "title": "I'm Your Man (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "3547332", "text": "Britain's biggest pop act. Napier-Bell devised a publicity scheme that he believed would turn Wham into major international stars. In April 1985, he took Wham to China for a 10-day visit. This gained huge worldwide media attention when Wham became the first Western pop group to play in China, in front of 15,000 people at the Worker's Gymnasium in Beijing. In 1985, Ridgeley performed at the Live Aid charity concert next to backing singers like Kiki Dee while his bandmate Michael performed with Elton John. In 1986, \"The Edge of Heaven\" became Wham's fourth and final UK No. 1 single.", "title": "Andrew Ridgeley" }, { "id": "5562505", "text": "of artists since its first release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the Pacific. It reached number one in nearly 25 countries, selling about 6 million copies worldwide—2 million of them in the United States. Unlike most of the other Wham! singles (except \"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)\" and \"Club Tropicana\"), it was co-written by bandmate Andrew Ridgeley. The two had written it together as developing artists three years earlier in Watford, England. Michael and Ridgeley wrote the song when they were", "title": "Careless Whisper" }, { "id": "6060369", "text": "Fantastic (Wham! album) Fantastic is the debut studio album by British pop duo Wham! released on 9 July 1983. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. It included the previously released singles \"Young Guns\", \"Wham! Rap\" and \"Bad Boys\". \"Club Tropicana\" was also released as a single, as was \"Club Fantastic Megamix\". In the U.S., this album was originally released as the group \"WHAM! U.K.\", due to a conflict with a U.S. group with the same name (Columbia BFC-38911). The album also features a hidden track (played on a honky-tonk-style piano), which is included in the final 20", "title": "Fantastic (Wham! album)" }, { "id": "564570", "text": "calling the move \"way overdue\". In November 1984, Michael joined other British and Irish pop stars of the era to form Band Aid, singing on the charity song \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\" for famine relief in Ethiopia. This single became the UK Christmas number one in December 1984, holding Michael's own song, \"Last Christmas\" by Wham!, at No. 2; Michael also donated the royalties for \"Last Christmas\" to Ethiopia. \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\" sold 3.75 million copies in the UK and became the biggest selling single in UK chart history, a title it held until 1997 when it", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "5198840", "text": "Here in My Heart \"Here in My Heart\" is a popular song, written by Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, and Bill Borrelli, and published in 1952. A recording of the song by Al Martino made history as the first number one on the UK Singles Chart, on 14 November 1952. \"Here in My Heart\" remained in the top position for nine weeks in the United Kingdom, setting a record for the longest consecutive run at number one, a record which, over 50 years on, has only been beaten by six other tracks - Bryan Adams's \"(Everything I Do) I Do It", "title": "Here in My Heart" }, { "id": "5562504", "text": "Careless Whisper \"Careless Whisper\" is a pop ballad by English singer-songwriter George Michael and his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley (sometimes credited to \"Wham! featuring George Michael\" in Japan, Canada and the United States). It was released on 24 July 1984, by Epic Records in the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries, and by Columbia Records in North America. The song was George Michael's first solo single, although he was still performing in Wham! at the time (the song is included on Wham!'s album \"Make It Big\"). The song features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number", "title": "Careless Whisper" }, { "id": "1591855", "text": "a hit on \"Juke Box Jury\". This became his first number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and his pronunciation of the word 'baby' as 'bay-beh' became a catchphrase. \"What Do You Want?\" was the first number one hit for Parlophone, Faith the only pop act on the label. With his next two single releases, \"Poor Me\" (another chart topper) and \"Someone Else's Baby\" (a UK No. 2), Faith established himself as a prominent rival to Cliff Richard in British popular music. A UK variety tour was followed by a 12-week season at Blackpool Hippodrome in the summer of", "title": "Adam Faith" }, { "id": "4201994", "text": "number one hits, first with the disco-styled \"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing\" (a Grammy Award winner for the year's best Rhythm and Blues Song), followed by the romantic ballad, \"When I Need You\" (1977), which reached number one in both the UK and US. Written by Albert Hammond and Carole Bayer Sager, it was Sayer's first UK #1 single (after three number two hits). It was also the first of two UK chart-toppers in a row for producer Richard Perry. This album received critical acclaim upon release, and won a Grammy Award for the hit single \"You Make Me", "title": "Endless Flight" }, { "id": "13854681", "text": "standard. The Spencer Davis Group had their first UK number one with the Jackie Edwards penned \"Keep on Running\" (1965), but became largely a vehicle for the young keyboard player and vocalist Steve Winwood, who at only 18 co-wrote \"Gimme Some Lovin'\" (1967) and \"I'm a Man\" (1967), both of which reached the \"Billboard\" 100 top 10 and became R&B standards. The Moody Blues had only one major R&B hit with a cover of \"Go Now\" (1964), which reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US. Subsequent singles failed to penetrate the top 20 and hardly", "title": "British rhythm and blues" }, { "id": "6506538", "text": "them previously on another programme: \"Saturday Superstore\". Wham! were just outside the top 40 threshold of the UK Singles Chart at the time, which meant they had not climbed high enough in normal circumstances to get on the show, but they were recruited nonetheless as the highest-placed artists still climbing the charts from outside the top 40. The song entered the chart initially at number 73, went up to number 48, then dropped to number 52 and the week after that, it jumped to number 42. Their appearance on \"Top of the Pops\" broke the record wide open and on", "title": "Young Guns (Go for It)" }, { "id": "6678437", "text": "alongside Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh and Suzanne Shaw. After the formation of the group on TV, Sullivan gave up his part-time job as a waiter to move to London. Hear'say went on to enjoy international success, selling nearly three million records worldwide. The group's debut single \"Pure and Simple\" became the fastest selling number one single of the UK Singles Chart at the time. The group also released another UK number one single and a number one album, as well as performing a sell out arena tour across the UK and Ireland. The group disbanded 18 months later", "title": "Noel Sullivan" }, { "id": "6511925", "text": "by critics, with James Hunter of \"Rolling Stone\" magazine describing the song as \"a distraught look at the world's astounding woundedness. Michael offers the healing passage of time as the only balm for physical and emotional hunger, poverty, hypocrisy and hatred.\" The single peaked at number six in the UK, but it was his ninth number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the USA. The song remained in the \"Billboard\" top 40 for ten weeks. It was the first song of political motivation he had released as a single since his earliest days with Wham!. The song was the", "title": "Praying for Time" }, { "id": "5521589", "text": "BBC One show \"Noel's House Party\", with \"Mr. Blobby\" (the first ever eponymously titled number 1 single). In the final week before Christmas, he was knocked off by Take That's \"Babe\", making Mr. Blobby the first one-week #1 since U2's \"The Fly\" in November 1991, and making Take That the first act to have three singles in a row all enter at #1. However, the following week (Christmas week) saw Mr. Blobby climb back up to the top, the first time this had happened since January 1969, and officially become this year's Christmas number 1. Take That's \"Babe\" became the", "title": "1993 in British music" }, { "id": "1377583", "text": "this time he recorded \"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport\" on a single microphone placed above him in the television studio. The song was sent to EMI in Sydney, Australia, and was released shortly afterwards as a record, becoming both his first recording and his first number one single. The song was successful in the UK. Harris offered four local backing musicians 10 per cent of the royalties from the song, but they decided to take a recording fee of ₤7 each, because they did not think the song would be successful. The novelty song was originally titled \"Kangalypso\" and featured", "title": "Rolf Harris" }, { "id": "4380527", "text": "1964 Fame and the band appeared on five episodes of ITV's \"Ready Steady Go!\" When Ronan O'Rahilly, who then managed him, could not get Fame's first record played by the BBC and was also turned down by Radio Luxembourg, he announced that he would start his own radio station to promote the record. The station became the offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Fame subsequently enjoyed regular chart success with singles, having three Top 10 hits, which all made number one in the UK Singles Chart. His version of \"Yeh, Yeh\", released on 14 January 1965, spent two weeks at", "title": "Georgie Fame" }, { "id": "7758942", "text": "at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium. John played \"Bennie and the Jets\" and \"Rocket Man\"; then \"Don't Go Breaking My Heart\" with Kiki Dee for the first time since the Hammersmith Odeon on 24 December 1982; and introduced George Michael, still then of Wham!, to sing \"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me\". In 1984, he released \"Breaking Hearts\" which featured the song \"Sad Songs (Say So Much)\", number five in the U.S. and number seven in the UK. Elton John also recorded material with Millie Jackson in 1985. In 1986, he played the piano on two tracks", "title": "Elton John" }, { "id": "3475251", "text": "Last Christmas \"Last Christmas\" is a song by English pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in December 1984, on a double A-side with \"Everything She Wants\". It was written and produced by George Michael, and has been covered by many artists since its original release. The song reached number one in Denmark, Slovenia and Sweden and number two in seven countries; Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway and United Kingdom. Wham! donated all of their royalties to the Ethiopian famine. \"Last Christmas\" had its beginnings in 1984, while George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were visiting Michael’s parents. Michael played", "title": "Last Christmas" }, { "id": "6475700", "text": "songs) and not disclosing the sampled works when filing for copyright registration. The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan, and is footage of a live performance in black and white. Everything She Wants \"Everything She Wants\" is a million-selling Gold-certified hit single by British pop duo Wham!, originally released in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with \"Last Christmas\". It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo, becoming their third consecutive million-selling number one hit in the United States. \"Everything She Wants\" was recorded in Paris and London", "title": "Everything She Wants" }, { "id": "8037125", "text": "that suggests they can hear it.\" Despite this, Chaz Jankel often re-tells the story that after recording it he phoned his mother and told her, \"I've just recorded my first number one\". On radio \"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick\" was a popular song from its release, but in the UK the single was initially kept from the number one position in the charts for two weeks by The Village People's smash hit \"Y.M.C.A.\", which was number one for three consecutive weeks. On the 27 January 1979, however, Turnbull, Watt-Roy and drummer Charley Charles were waiting outside the Gaumont State", "title": "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" }, { "id": "1488661", "text": "its eclectic mix of musical styles incorporating elements of disco, pop, reggae, and early rap music. Blondie disbanded after the release of its sixth studio album \"The Hunter\" in 1982. Debbie Harry continued to pursue a solo career with varied results after taking a few years off to care for partner Chris Stein, who was diagnosed with pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease of the skin. The band re-formed in 1997, achieving renewed success and a number one single in the United Kingdom with \"Maria\" in 1999, exactly 20 years after their first UK No.1 single (\"Heart of Glass\"). The group", "title": "Blondie (band)" }, { "id": "13016098", "text": "replicated in the biggest-selling song of the year - the Eurovision-winning \"Save Your Kisses for Me\" by Brotherhood of Man, who began a three-year run in the UK charts from 1976. Other acts to achieve notable firsts were Elton John, who scored his first UK number one single this year (albeit as a duet with Kiki Dee), Showaddywaddy had their first and only number one and long-standing hitmaker Johnny Mathis also scored his biggest hit this year. The album charts saw TV advertising become a major factor in changing the landscape of big sellers with non-regular singles artists achieving high", "title": "1976 in British music" }, { "id": "10833143", "text": "How Do You Do It? \"How Do You Do It?\" was the debut single by Liverpudlian band Gerry and the Pacemakers. The song was number one in the UK Singles Chart on 11 April 1963, where it stayed for three weeks. The song was written by Mitch Murray, who offered it to Adam Faith and Brian Poole but was turned down. George Martin of EMI decided to pick it up for the new group he was producing, the Beatles, as the A-side of their first record. The Beatles recorded the song but opposed releasing it, feeling that it did not", "title": "How Do You Do It?" }, { "id": "3475253", "text": "unrequited love\". Wham! already had two number one songs in the UK Singles Chart in 1984 and news that they were planning a Christmas single meant that a battle for the coveted Christmas number one spot in the UK seemed set to be between Wham! and the year's other big act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who had achieved a third number one in early December with \"The Power of Love\". However, the Band Aid Single helmed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, produced the number one single \"Do They Know Its Christmas\" Wham!'s offering peaked at number two for much", "title": "Last Christmas" }, { "id": "4381920", "text": "English photographer Russell Young. By 1986, George Michael had spent five years as the lead singer of the popular duo Wham! and had grown tired of accusations that the group, which featured his best friend Andrew Ridgeley, was nothing more than a teenybopper group despite the serious subject matter that was included on albums such as \"Fantastic\" and \"Make It Big\". After the success of \"Make It Big\" Michael had grown weary of continuing the group, and expressed to Ridgeley the desire that they should split up. A decision was made that the group would dissolve following the end of", "title": "Faith (George Michael album)" }, { "id": "4667382", "text": "Contest, staged at the Royal Albert Hall, the first to be broadcast in colour. He also conducted the UK entry, \"Congratulations\", performed by Cliff Richard. In 1977, Paramor and his orchestra recorded with the Shadows for a final time, on the track \"Return to the Alamo\". Paramor died on 9 September 1979, a fortnight after Cliff Richard had returned to the top of the UK Singles Chart with \"We Don't Talk Anymore\", his first number one single in more than ten years. Paramor and Richard had worked together professionally from 1958 to 1972. Norrie Paramor Norman William Paramor (15 May", "title": "Norrie Paramor" }, { "id": "6506310", "text": "(George putting on more \"adult\" voices) aired their concerns, which included late nights and cigarettes and ultimately asking, \"\"Why do you have to be so cruel?\"\" It was the third single to be taken from Wham!'s debut album, \"Fantastic\", and reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, going on to become the 26th best selling single of 1983. At the time, Wham! was projecting a hard, politically motivated image, with \"Bad Boys\" one of a number of songs projecting a stance of mood and youthful independence, a \"soul boy – dole boy\" theme. The single was also released in", "title": "Bad Boys (Wham! song)" }, { "id": "6517391", "text": "Faith (George Michael song) \"Faith\" is a song written and performed by George Michael, from his 1987 debut solo album of the same name. It held the number one position on \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart for four weeks and, according to \"Billboard\" magazine, it was the number one single of the year in the United States in 1988. The song also reached number one in Australia and Canada and number two on the UK Singles Chart. In 2001 it placed at number 322 on the Songs of the Century list. Having disbanded Wham! the previous year, there was a keen", "title": "Faith (George Michael song)" }, { "id": "16676996", "text": "voted as one of the top 11 Irish songs. The single debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart, losing the top spot to Ne-Yo's \"Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)\", before reaching number 1 a week later, marking The Script's first UK number-one single. It spent a second week at number one in the UK, blocking Example's \"Say Nothing\" from reaching the top spot. It has sold 529,000 copies in 2012, the 21st best-selling single of the year in the UK. It also peaked at number 25 in the United States and was certified", "title": "Hall of Fame (song)" }, { "id": "6600154", "text": "was first broadcast in the spring of 1963. By late June, it had risen to No. 4 on Billboard's R&B chart and No. 5 on Billboard's pop chart. According to \"The Book of Golden Discs\", it sold over one million copies. The popularity of \"Memphis\" led to bookings at larger venues, at least one tour in the UK, and performances with Chuck Berry. Still in 1963, Mack released \"Wham!\", another guitar instrumental. It reached No. 24 on Billboard's Pop chart in September. Although \"Memphis\" was Mack's biggest hit, many associate the faster-paced \"Wham!\" (and the lesser-known, but lightning-fast \"Chicken-Pickin\"' from", "title": "Lonnie Mack" }, { "id": "3011869", "text": "On the back of airplay from Chris Moyles \"Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)\" reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and was also a top 20 hit in Australia, peaking at No. 14 in February 1999. The song was a contender for the Christmas number one single in the UK, but stalled at No. 2 behind the Spice Girls' \"Goodbye\", narrowly missing out by only 5,000 copies. However, the following week, the track dethroned \"Goodbye\" from the top of the charts, giving Isaac Hayes his first number one hit in the UK. The song later became the", "title": "Chocolate Salty Balls" }, { "id": "2703674", "text": "Curiosity Killed the Cat Curiosity Killed the Cat was a British pop band that achieved success in the UK in the late 1980s, with hit singles such as \"Down To Earth\", \"Misfit\" and \"Ordinary Day\", from their No. 1 debut album, \"Keep Your Distance\". This was followed by \"Getahead\" with the accompanying hit \"Name and Number\", that was recreated by De La Soul as \"Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)\". In the early 1990s, the band's bassist left, and billed as 'Curiosity' they collaborated with Simon Cowell recording \"Hang On in There Baby\" on the album \"Back to Front\". The", "title": "Curiosity Killed the Cat" }, { "id": "4233861", "text": "Agent Provocateur (album) Agent Provocateur is the fifth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on December 7, 1984. The album was the band's first and only number one album in the United Kingdom, and it reached the top 5 in the United States. Although album sales were lower than their previous work in the U.S., it contains the band's biggest hit single, \"I Want to Know What Love Is\", which is their only #1 single in the UK and the U.S., staying at the top spot for three and two weeks respectively. The follow-up single, \"That Was", "title": "Agent Provocateur (album)" }, { "id": "11732230", "text": "1981, he joined Greg Lake for his solo project, and in 1982 became a member of Gary Moore's studio and touring band. One of Eyre's longest and most successful associations was with the duo Wham!, for whom he became musical director. His works with Wham! include the successful album \"Make it Big\" in 1984 with the singles \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\", \"Freedom\", \"Everything She Wants\", and Michael's solo record \"Careless Whisper\". A massive world tour included China in April 1985, which generated a great deal of media coverage as it was the first visit to China by a", "title": "Tommy Eyre" }, { "id": "1567260", "text": "which included the US number one single \"Listen to What the Man Said\", and undertook a highly successful world tour over 1975–76. Intended as more of a group effort, \"Wings at the Speed of Sound\" was issued midway through the tour and featured the hit singles \"Silly Love Songs\" and \"Let 'Em In\". In 1977, the band earned their only UK number one single, with \"Mull of Kintyre\", which became the then-best selling UK single in history. Wings experienced another line-up shuffle, however, with both McCulloch and English departing before the release of the group's 1978 album \"London Town\". The", "title": "Paul McCartney and Wings" }, { "id": "6092168", "text": "the United States, \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World\" debuted at number 70 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the issue dated 16 March 1985. On the week of 27 April 1985, the song rose to number 18. On the week of 8 June 1985, the song moved 2-1, replacing Wham!'s \"Everything She Wants\" (1984) as the number one on the chart; it would spent a total of two weeks in this position. The song was a commercial success in other American markets, peaking at number two on the Adult Contemporary and Top Rock Tracks and charting at number one", "title": "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" }, { "id": "6517444", "text": "of a Video\" at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards for the video. Released in the United Kingdom in December 1987, \"Father Figure\" reached number eleven on the UK Singles Chart – the first time Michael had failed to reach the top ten in his home country. The song remained a live favourite at Michael's concerts for many years and is also one of his most frequently aired songs on the radio in the United Kingdom. In the United States, \"Father Figure\" became George Michael's sixth number one single (including three number one singles garnered as half of Wham!). \"Father", "title": "Father Figure (song)" }, { "id": "6510286", "text": "either occasion due to his previous hits with Wham!. The song was also credited with being the second number one (after \"I Just Called to Say I Love You\" by Stevie Wonder) which was written, sung, played, arranged, and produced by the same person. The song reached number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100, thus becoming the first single credited solely to Michael to become an American top-ten hit which was enough to make American executives at Epic Records confident that Michael would be viable as a solo artist and helped get the gears in motion for his solo", "title": "A Different Corner" }, { "id": "489581", "text": "Bends\". According to journalist Alex Ross, the band had become \"the poster boys for a certain kind of knowing alienation—as the Talking Heads and R.E.M. had been before\". \"OK Computer\" met with critical acclaim. Yorke said he was \"amazed it got the reaction it did. None of us fucking knew any more whether it was good or bad. What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create.\"\"OK Computer\" was Radiohead's first number-one UK chart debut, and brought them commercial success", "title": "Radiohead" }, { "id": "6960764", "text": "a song by the British post-punk/new wave band Scritti Politti. \"Mad Not Mad\" was met with a lukewarm reception, especially on adult contemporary radio, being criticised for its over reliance on slow, dark and downbeat songs. The album was preceded by the song \"Yesterday's Men\" as the first single, reaching No. 18 in the UK. The album itself was released weeks later surprisingly only going to No. 16 in the UK, though it still went silver there. The track \"Uncle Sam\", released in October 1985 peaked at No. 21 in the UK (in a disappointing chart performance considering the lead", "title": "Mad Not Mad" }, { "id": "1468416", "text": "In their decade long career, the band had one top ten single; the 1995 single \"Wake Up Boo!\", which charted at no. 9; and a number one album, \"Wake Up!\". In 1990, the band's first album \"Ichabod and I\" was released on a small British indie label, Action Records. Although not a commercial success, this release brought the band to the attention of Rough Trade Records, to whom they signed. Around this time, Hewitt was replaced on drums by Rob Cieka. He then went on to drum for Placebo until 2007. Almost immediately after the release of the \"Every Heaven\"", "title": "The Boo Radleys" }, { "id": "5257795", "text": "visit in September we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did 'Please Please Me'. I remember that, because while we were recording it I was playing the bass drum with a maraca in one hand and a tambourine in the other.\" John Lennon in \"Anthology\" stated: \"We'd had a top 30 entry with 'Love Me Do' and we really thought we were on top of the world. Then came 'Please Please Me'—and wham! We tried to make it as simple as possible. Some of the stuff we've written in the past has been a bit way-out,", "title": "Please Please Me (song)" }, { "id": "19915195", "text": "release of Michael's first major hit single with Wham!, \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\". Turn to Gold \"Turn to Gold\" is a 1984 hit single by David Austin. It was co-written by George Michael. Michael provides accompanying vocals on the song with Austin. The song is the title track of a mini-album by Austin. George Michael co-wrote and/or sang back-up on most of the LP's other songs. The album contained an extended remix of \"Turn to Gold,\" which was also released. \"Turn to Gold\" was released in Europe and Japan but not North America. It reached number 68 on", "title": "Turn to Gold" }, { "id": "3931427", "text": "but was denied the No. 1 position by the re-release of John Lennon's \"Imagine\" after his murder in New York City on 8 December 1980. \"Stand and Deliver\" became the band's first No. 1 when it debuted at the top spot on 9 May 1981, and remained there for five weeks. It has sold 1.03 million copies in the UK. On the US Dance chart, \"Stand and Deliver\" peaked at #38. Copies of the single \"Stand and Deliver\" b/w \"Beat My Guest\" were included as a free bonus item with some vinyl copies of the US version of the album", "title": "Stand and Deliver (Adam and the Ants song)" }, { "id": "19749136", "text": "Additionally, \"Starboy\" made the biggest jump into the Hot 100's top five since Taylor Swift's \"Bad Blood\" leapt from number 53 to number one in June 2015. It sold 88,000 copies in its second week, and 92,000 in its third week. After remaining in the number two spot for eight non-consecutive weeks on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 — behind The Chainsmokers' \"Closer\" for five weeks and Rae Sremmurd's \"Black Beatles\" for an additional three weeks —, \"Starboy\" reached the top of the chart on the week of January 7, 2017, becoming The Weeknd's third and Daft Punk's first number one", "title": "Starboy (song)" }, { "id": "3475277", "text": "Jepsen performed the song live at the annual NBC television special Christmas in Rockefeller Center, which aired on 2 December 2015. She also performed the song on the episode of \"The Late Late Show with James Corden\" airing on 16 December 2015. Last Christmas \"Last Christmas\" is a song by English pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in December 1984, on a double A-side with \"Everything She Wants\". It was written and produced by George Michael, and has been covered by many artists since its original release. The song reached number one in Denmark, Slovenia and Sweden and number", "title": "Last Christmas" }, { "id": "4329834", "text": "to be released by the band was \"Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)\" in June 1982. It was a double A-side including the Social Mix and the Unsocial Mix. The record was not playlisted by BBC Radio 1 in the UK, partly because of the profanity in the Unsocial Mix. Separate videos were recorded for each set of lyrics. \"Wham Rap\" did not chart for the group. In October 1982 \"Young Guns (Go for It)\" was issued. Initially, it also stalled outside the UK Top 40 but the band got lucky when the BBC programme \"Top of the Pops\" scheduled", "title": "Wham!" }, { "id": "5227240", "text": "to become the first ever Western pop artist to play in communist China. They eventually played a concert there in April 1985 at the Worker's Stadium in Beijing. At the end of 1985, Wham! ended its relationship with Napier-Bell and Summers when George Michael left Wham! for a solo career. Napier-Bell went on to manage the duo Blue Mercedes, who had one worldwide hit, \"I Want To Be Your Property\" (1987), which stayed at No. 1 in the US dance charts for 14 weeks. He arranged for the defunct pop group Boney M. to reform and had all their old", "title": "Simon Napier-Bell" }, { "id": "15343238", "text": "other successful Birmingham bands (singer/guitarist Denny Laine, singer/bassist Clint Warwick and drummer Graeme Edge) formed The Moody Blues in 1964. Their initial single, \"Steal Your Heart Away\" on Decca, failed to chart. Their second release, \"Go Now\" however became UK No.1 in January 1965. The band went on to have a further UK hit with \"I Don't Want To Go On Without You\" and then release their first album \"The Magnificent Moodies\" (Decca) in mono only, on which Pinder took the lead vocal on a cover of James Brown's \"I Don't Mind\". \"Bye Bye Bird\" from this album was also", "title": "Mike Pinder" }, { "id": "5310264", "text": "going on to become the 39th best selling single of 1983. It was the fourth and final single to be taken from the album \"Fantastic\". Wham! then achieved four UK #1 singles before splitting at their height in 1986. The song is also included in the Japanese release of Twenty Five. The B-side, \"Blue (Armed With Love)\", is a semi-instrumental dub track of higher quality than is generally expected for B-side material, and would not have been out of place on \"Fantastic\". It in fact appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese pic disc version of the album. During", "title": "Club Tropicana" }, { "id": "5310263", "text": "Club Tropicana \"Club Tropicana\" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1983 on Innervision Records. It was written by members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. The song was a mild departure from Wham!'s previous singles, which had all been motivated by social or political issues. \"Club Tropicana\", however, was a satire of the boom for cheap package holidays for younger, single people of a hedonistic nature. It was specifically seen in the UK as a swipe at the very popular Club 18-30 scheme. The song was released in July 1983 and peaked at #4 in the UK,", "title": "Club Tropicana" }, { "id": "10163826", "text": "where the band recorded two singles, \"If I Ask You\" and \"All The Days\". The members of Allison Gros were recruited to record the song \"Daddy Cool\" but their Chipmunk version was so atypical that they recorded under the fictitious name Drummond. Drummond would provide Goble with his first Number 1 hit single, albeit through unusual circumstances. The Australian band Daddy Cool released their debut album in July 1971. That album contained the eponymous song \"Daddy Cool\", however, the song was overshadowed by the monster hit \"Eagle Rock\". The website \"milesago.com\" reports their achievement thus: \"Drummond's dopey Chipmunks-style assault on", "title": "Graeham Goble" }, { "id": "5270361", "text": "1988 release of \"Rattle and Hum\", a double album and companion documentary film which documented their experiences with American roots music from the Joshua Tree Tour with a collection of new studio tracks, cover songs, and live recordings. The lead single \"Desire\" was the band's first number-one single in the UK. The album sold over 14 million copies, while the film grossed $8.6 million. Facing a backlash from \"Rattle and Hum\" and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves musically in the 1990s. The band's following album, \"Achtung Baby\" (1991), marked a dramatic shift towards alternative rock, industrial music, and electronic dance", "title": "U2 discography" }, { "id": "3923182", "text": "Kent Music Report Singles Chart. The group had already returned to the studio to continue working with McIan, who produced their debut album, \"Business as Usual\", which included the earlier single. The second single from the album, \"Down Under\", appeared in October and was a reworked version of the B-side to their debut single, \"Keypunch Operator\", from the previous year. \"Down Under\" was co-written by Hay and Strykert, and became the group's first number-one hit in December – which stayed at the top for six weeks. The album was released on 9 November 1981, it entered the top 50 on", "title": "Business as Usual (Men at Work album)" }, { "id": "5212479", "text": "Eddie Calvert Albert Edward \"Eddie\" Calvert (15 March 1922 – 7 August 1978) was an English trumpeter, who enjoyed his greatest successes in the 1950s. Calvert had his first United Kingdom number one single in 1954, with the instrumental \"Oh, Mein Papa\". Calvert was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, and grew up in a family where the music of his local brass band featured highly. He was soon able to play a variety of instruments, and he was most accomplished on the trumpet. After the Second World War, invalided out of the Army, he borrowed money from his father to", "title": "Eddie Calvert" }, { "id": "5747660", "text": "husband Gerald, was one of the most notable events on the classical music scene. Harrison Birtwistle's opera, \"Gawain\", with a libretto by David Harsent, was performed for the first time on 30 May at the Royal Opera House. The 1991 BRIT Awards winners were: 1991 in British music This is a summary of 1991 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. Like 1990, this year saw 17 songs at number 1. The first number 1 of the year surprisingly came from heavy metal band Iron Maiden, scoring their first and only number one \"Bring", "title": "1991 in British music" }, { "id": "5747658", "text": "and the follow-up (\"Deep, Deep Trouble\") also did well, peaking at No. 7 in April. In March, The Clash received their first number 1 with \"Should I Stay or Should I Go\", after being used in a commercial for Levi's. A month later, Cher scored her first UK solo No. 1 with \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\", taken from the film \"Mermaids\". Bryan Adams also reached No. 1 for the first time in July with \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\", from the film \"\". Breaking the record held since 1955, it stayed there for", "title": "1991 in British music" } ]

[ "Carousels", "🎠", "Merry-go-round", "Loof", "Marry Go Round", "Merry-Go-Round", "Merry Go Round", "Merry go round", "Merry-go-Round", "Merrygoround", "Carousel", "Carrousel" ]

[ { "id": "93106", "text": "romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the well-known songs \"If I Loved You\", \"June Is Bustin' Out All Over\" and \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Richard Rodgers later wrote that \"Carousel\" was his favorite of all his musicals. Following the spectacular success of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, \"Oklahoma!\" (1943), the pair sought to collaborate on another piece, knowing that any resulting work would be compared with \"Oklahoma!\", most likely unfavorably. They were initially reluctant to seek the rights to \"Liliom\"; Molnár had refused permission for the work to be adapted in the past, and the original", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "93150", "text": "intended victim, has already deposited the mill's money. The robbery fails: Bascombe pulls a gun on Billy while Jigger escapes. Billy stabs himself with his knife; Julie arrives just in time for him to say his last words to her and die. Julie strokes his hair, finally able to tell him that she loved him. Carrie and Enoch, reunited by the crisis, attempt to console Julie; Nettie arrives and gives Julie the resolve to keep going despite her despair (\"You'll Never Walk Alone\"). Billy's defiant spirit (\"The Highest Judge of All\") is taken Up There to see the Starkeeper, a", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "1972397", "text": "facts relating to the unlawful killing by negligence of 96 Liverpool supporters. On 13 March 2016, after Borussia Dortmund's 2-0 win against 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the German Bundesliga, supporters of both teams performed the song to commemorate a Dortmund fan who died from a cardiac arrest in the stands during the game. You'll Never Walk Alone \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical \"Carousel\". In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" to comfort and encourage Julie", "title": "You'll Never Walk Alone" }, { "id": "1972382", "text": "You'll Never Walk Alone \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical \"Carousel\". In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, falls on his knife and dies after a failed robbery attempt. It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to", "title": "You'll Never Walk Alone" }, { "id": "1624516", "text": "1954, and scored a Best Actress Oscar nomination for leading lady Dorothy Dandridge. The original production of \"Carousel\" was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and opened at Broadway's Majestic Theatre on April 19, 1945, running for 890 performances and closing on May 24, 1947. The cast included John Raitt, Jan Clayton, Jean Darling, Christine Johnson and Bambi Linn. From this show came the hit musical numbers \"The Carousel Waltz\" (an instrumental), \"If I Loved You\", \"June Is Bustin' Out All Over\", and \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". \"Carousel\" was also revolutionary for its time – adapted from Ferenc Molnár's play \"Liliom\", it", "title": "Rodgers and Hammerstein" }, { "id": "10887088", "text": "Climb Ev'ry Mountain \"Climb Ev'ry Mountain\" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical \"The Sound of Music.\" It is sung at the close of the first act by the Mother Abbess. It is themed as an inspirational piece, to encourage people to take every step toward attaining their dreams. This song shares inspirational overtones with the song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from \"Carousel\". They are both sung by the female mentor characters in the shows, and are used to give strength to the protagonists in the story, and both are given powerful reprises at the end", "title": "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" }, { "id": "249204", "text": "who had been priced out of watching Premier League football. The song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical \"Carousel\" and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry and the Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s. It has since gained popularity among fans of other clubs around the world. The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly. The \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced", "title": "Liverpool F.C." }, { "id": "93155", "text": "Starkeeper) advises the graduating class not to rely on their parents' success or be held back by their failure (words directed at Louise). Seldon prompts everyone to sing an old song, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Billy, still invisible, whispers to Louise, telling her to believe Seldon's words, and when she tentatively reaches out to another girl, she learns she does not have to be an outcast. Billy goes to Julie, telling her at last that he loved her. As his widow and daughter join in the singing, Billy is taken to his heavenly reward. ° denotes original Broadway cast Act", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "93126", "text": "in his book on the team's works: \"From that scene the song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" sprang almost naturally.\" In spite of Hammerstein's simple lyrics for \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", Rodgers had great difficulty in setting it to music. Rodgers explained his rationale for the changed ending, \"Liliom\" was a tragedy about a man who cannot learn to live with other people. The way Molnár wrote it, the man ends up hitting his daughter and then having to go back to purgatory, leaving his daughter helpless and hopeless. We couldn't accept that. The way we ended \"Carousel\" it may still", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "3520810", "text": "at the window\" of his studio, played by Willie Joss, who invariably referred to Murray by the name of \"Chips\". Another was his eccentrically decorated hotel in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, which did not outlive the 1980s. Murray acted in films such as \"Casino Royale\" and \"Gregory's Girl\", in which he played a Scottish secondary school headmaster. He also played former Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly in the musical play \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Just prior to the show opening, Murray claimed to have telephoned the switchboard at Anfield using his Shankly voice, causing the receptionist – who", "title": "Chic Murray" }, { "id": "5044576", "text": "UK tour. She also participated in the 2013 U.S. Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C., singing a selection from Andrew Lloyd Webber's \"Requiem\" and \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"Carousel\". On 9 May 2015 she performed at in Horse Guards Parade, London. In spring 2017 Katherine starred as the romantic lead Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in a limited run at the English National Opera directed by Lonny Price, opposite musical theatre star Alfie Boe. On 23 December 2006, Jenkins appeared on ITV's \"Parkinson\" show, backed by the Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir and a brass", "title": "Katherine Jenkins" }, { "id": "10488341", "text": "opera house. She appeared on CBS radio's \"The Squibb Show\" twice in 1944. There she sang \"It's A Lovely Day\" and \"My Heart's in the Highlands\" with Lyn Murray and His Orchestra. In 1945, Johnson created the role of Nettie Fowler in \"Carousel\". Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", which has become a standard, and \"June is Busting Out All Over\" especially for her. She also sang the role on the show's original cast album. Johnson stayed with the show for hundreds of performances and then toured and studied in Italy for a time. She rejoined \"Carousel\" during", "title": "Christine Johnson (actress)" }, { "id": "7291043", "text": "The Crowd (band) The Crowd was a charity supergroup formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Bradford City stadium fire, in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers, actors, television personalities and others. Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to aid the families of the victims of the disaster (the \"Bradford City Disaster Fund\"). The re-recording of the 1963 number 1 hit song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the broadway musical \"Carousel\", also a 'football anthem' for Liverpool supporters, entered the UK charts at", "title": "The Crowd (band)" }, { "id": "3634918", "text": "Maguire and Les Chadwick—Gerry Marsden maintained a low-key career on television, and starred in the West End musical \"Charlie Girl\" alongside Derek Nimmo and Anna Neagle. He is most remembered for the song \"I Like It\" and his rendition of \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", which has been adopted as an anthem of several football clubs, the most notable being Liverpool, the club Marsden supports. He sang the song at Wembley Stadium when Everton faced Liverpool at the 1989 F.A. Cup final shortly after the Hillsborough disaster. Marsden returned to No. 1 in the charts twice during the 1980s with re-recordings", "title": "Gerry Marsden" }, { "id": "93179", "text": "The frequently recorded song has become a widely accepted hymn. The cast recording of \"Carousel\" proved popular in Liverpool, like many Broadway albums, and in 1963, the Brian Epstein-managed band, Gerry and the Pacemakers had a number-one hit with the song. At the time, the top ten hits were played before Liverpool F.C. home matches; even after \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" dropped out of the top ten, fans continued to sing it, and it has become closely associated with the soccer team and the city of Liverpool. A BBC program, \"Soul Music\", ranked it alongside \"Silent Night\" and \"Abide With", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "7233130", "text": "King. In 1966, she made her first appearance at the San Francisco Opera, as the Governess in \"The Turn of the Screw\". She returned there in 1972 to play the Widow Begbick in Kurt Weill's \"Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny\". In 1967, she appeared as Nettie in a special television production of \"Carousel\", starring Robert Goulet as Billy Bigelow. Her featured solo was the song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". In 1970 she created the role of the Queen in the world premiere of Menotti's stage play, \"The Leper\". Neway's other repertoire included Arnold Schönberg's \"Erwartung\". After retirement,", "title": "Patricia Neway" }, { "id": "7563112", "text": "the comedy-drama \"Auf Wiedersehen, Pet\", which as a double A-side reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1984. In 1985 he was part of The Crowd, which reached number one with the charity single \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" for the Bradford City stadium fire. \"Get it Right\" and \"Back With the Boys Again\", the two songs for the second series of \"Auf Wiedersehen, Pet\", were also released as a single, reaching number 53 in 1986. He also sang the version of \"As Time Goes By\" used as the theme of the sitcom of the same name. Fagin", "title": "Joe Fagin" }, { "id": "252432", "text": "musicals were still being made that were financially and/or critically less successful than in the musical's heyday. They include \"1776\", \"The Wiz\", \"At Long Last Love\", \"Mame\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Lost Horizon\",\" Godspell\", \"Phantom of the Paradise\", \"Funny Lady\" (Barbra Streisand's sequel to \"Funny Girl\"), \"A Little Night Music\", and \"Hair\" amongst others. The critical wrath against \"At Long Last Love\", in particular, was so strong that it was never released on home video. Fantasy musical films \"Scrooge\", \"The Blue Bird\", \"The Little Prince\", \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", \"Pete's Dragon\", and Disney's \"Bedknobs and Broomsticks\" were also", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "2715439", "text": "will sometimes perform a 'scarf wall' in which all supporters in a section of the stadium will stretch out their scarves above their heads with both hands, creating an impressive 'wall' of colour. This is usually accompanied by the singing of a club anthem such as \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" at Liverpool F.C. or \"Grazie Roma\" at A.S. Roma. This was initially solely a British phenomenon, but has since spread to the rest of Europe, North and South America. Some clubs supporters will perform a scarf 'twirl' or 'twirly' in which a group of supporters hold the scarves above their", "title": "Scarf" }, { "id": "18464786", "text": "the Regional Theatre Tony Award. John Cameron Mitchell received the Special Tony Award for his return to \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\". Stephen Schwartz was given the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The new education award was presented to Corey Mitchell, Performing Arts Teacher and Theatre Director, Northwest School of the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina. ∞ This marks O'Hara's sixth Tony Award nomination and first win. During the tribute Josh Groban sang the song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\". 69th Tony Awards The 69th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 7, 2015, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions", "title": "69th Tony Awards" }, { "id": "10153957", "text": "and television personality on the East Coast. Cook made a demo tape of Hamilton's singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records. Columbia was impressed enough to sign Hamilton to their rhythm and blues subsidiary, Okeh Records. On November 11, 1953, Hamilton made his first recordings for the label in New York City. The session produced Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\". The tune, one of the few secular numbers that Hamilton knew at the time, had been his live-performance specialty since 1947. But before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and", "title": "Roy Hamilton" }, { "id": "13207792", "text": "two years later, which he went on to win. The following is in reverse chronological order by elimination date. Each week the show was opened by a group performance, with a second group song being performed after all the solo performances. Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week One (7 September 2008)<br> The bottom two were Roy van Iersel and Robbert van der Bergh. In the sing-off, they had to sing the \"Carousel\" song \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Willem Nijholt chose to save Roy and send Robbert home. Week Two", "title": "Op zoek naar Joseph" }, { "id": "3010414", "text": "C. The song was the first single to be taken from Melanie C's musical theatre-inspired and sixth studio album \"Stages\". The song is a duet with Chisholm's fellow Spice Girls group member Emma Bunton. The song was released as a single on 11 November 2012. The b-side of the single is a cover of \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\". The music video for the song premiered on YouTube on 12 November 2012. These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of \"I Know Him So Well\". Melanie C and Bunton performed the song on", "title": "I Know Him So Well" }, { "id": "623623", "text": "Juliet\" (1953) and \"Pipe Dream\" (1955). They also wrote the score to the film \"State Fair\" (1945) (which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone), and a special TV musical of \"Cinderella\" (1957). Their collaboration produced many well-known songs, including \"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'\", \"People Will Say We're in Love\", \"Oklahoma\" (which also became the state song of Oklahoma), \"It's A Grand Night For Singing\", \"If I Loved You\", \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", \"It Might as Well Be Spring\", \"Some Enchanted Evening\", \"Getting to Know You\", \"My Favorite Things\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"Sixteen Going on Seventeen\", \"Climb Ev'ry", "title": "Richard Rodgers" }, { "id": "252433", "text": "released in the 1970s, the latter winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End. Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included \"The Apple\", \"Xanadu\", \"The Blues Brothers\", \"Annie\", \"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life\", \"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\", \"Victor Victoria\", \"Footloose\", \"Fast Forward\", \"A Chorus Line\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\", \"Forbidden Zone\", \"Absolute Beginners\", \"Labyrinth\", \"Evita\", and \"Everyone Says I Love You\". However, \"Can't Stop the Music\", starring the Village People, was", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "3283965", "text": "Disaster Appeal fund, set up within 48 hours of the disaster, eventually raised over £3.5 million (£ million today). The most memorable of hundreds of fundraising events was a reunion of the 1966 World Cup Final Starting XI that began with the original starting teams of both England and West Germany, and was held at Leeds United's stadium, Elland Road, in July 1985 to raise funds for the Appeal fund. England won the re-match 6–4. Part of the Appeal funds were raised by The Crowd's recording of \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical \"Carousel\", which reached number", "title": "Bradford City stadium fire" }, { "id": "896780", "text": "runs on Broadway, including such successful musicals as \"Hair\", \"Godspell\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"Rent\", \"Grey Gardens\", \"Urinetown\", \"Avenue Q\", \"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\", \"Rock of Ages\", \"In the Heights\", \"Spring Awakening\", \"Next to Normal\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", \"Fun Home\", \"Hamilton\" and \"Dear Evan Hansen\". In particular, two that became Broadway hits, \"Grease\" and \"A Chorus Line\", encouraged other producers to premiere their shows Off-Broadway. Plays that have moved from Off-Broadway houses to Broadway include \"Doubt\", \"I Am My Own Wife\", \"Bridge & Tunnel\", \"The Normal Heart\", and \"Coastal", "title": "Off-Broadway" }, { "id": "272889", "text": "on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of \"Victor/Victoria\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\" and the 1996 film of \"Evita\". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with \"Moulin Rouge!\" (2001). This was followed by \"Chicago\" (2002); \"Phantom of the Opera\" (2004); \"Dreamgirls\" (2006); \"Hairspray\", \"Enchanted\" and \"\" (all in 2007); \"Mamma Mia!\" (2008); \"Nine\" (2009); \"Les Misérables\" and \"Pitch Perfect\" (both in 2012), \"Into The Woods\" (2014) and \"La La Land\" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's \"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\" (2000)", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "19866658", "text": "song has an aural resemblance to The Candy Man. The song has the form of AABA. The song is frequently compared with You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which \"You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical\" rejects\".\" In analysing how the second act relies on a sense of accumulated community wisdom, \"Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays\" draws ties between this song and an earlier number called It Takes Two, which was originally included as a reprise in the Act II finale in the pre-Broadway tryouts. Bustle ranked the song at #2 in a", "title": "No One Is Alone (song)" }, { "id": "8950827", "text": "Jiear duetted with Tina Arena at the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras party in the 3am show singing \"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)\". She opened the party with her dance club hit \"I Just Wanna Dance\". Her solo Albums include \"Forgiveness' Embrace\" and \"Simply Alison Jiear\", both available on iTunes or through her website. Her live CD \"Live at Pizza on the Park\" is due for release. She also appeared in the \"Les Misérables\" film (2012), based on the musical of the same name. In May 2015 Jiear appeared on Britain's Got Talent singing You'll Never Walk Alone.", "title": "Alison Jiear" }, { "id": "252435", "text": "Other successful animated musicals included \"Aladdin\", \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\", and \"Pocahontas\" from Disney proper, \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\" from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, \"The Prince of Egypt\" from DreamWorks, \"Anastasia\" from Fox and Don Bluth, and \"\" from Paramount. (\"Beauty and the Beast\" and \"The Lion King\" were adapted for the stage after their blockbuster success.) In the 21st century, movie musicals were reborn with darker musicals, epic drama musicals and comedy-drama musicals such as \"Moulin Rouge!\", \"Chicago\", \"Dreamgirls\", \"\", \"Les Misérables\", and \"La La Land\" all of which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "16968348", "text": "before departing to pursue a solo music and acting career, although he remained close to Hibbard right up to Hibbard's death from cancer in 2012. After his departure from the Flying Pickets in 1994, Howard got his first big solo score with an acoustic version of the Gerry & the Pacemakers hit and Liverpool F.C. anthem \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", which he released with Virgin Records in 1996. This, and his own acoustic versions of Yazoo and Flying Pickets hit \"Only You\" and Leonard Cohen's \"Hallelujah\", as well as his own penned single \"Stay for the Night\", were also released", "title": "Gary Howard" }, { "id": "93178", "text": "of Wond'rin' \", one of Julie's songs, worked well in the show but was never as popular on the radio or for recording, and Hammerstein believed that the lack of popularity was because he had concluded the final line, \"And all the rest is talk\" with a hard consonant, which does not allow the singer a vocal climax. Irving Berlin later stated that \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" had the same sort of effect on him as the 23rd Psalm. When singer Mel Tormé told Rodgers that \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" had made him cry, Rodgers nodded impatiently. \"You're supposed to.\"", "title": "Carousel (musical)" }, { "id": "252428", "text": "\"Mary Poppins\" and \"The Jungle Book\", two of Disney's biggest hits of all time. The phenomenal box-office performance of \"The Sound of Music\" gave the major Hollywood studios more confidence to produce lengthy, large-budget musicals. Despite the resounding success of some of these films, Hollywood also produced a large number of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste. The commercially and/or critically unsuccessful films included \"Camelot\", \"Finian's Rainbow\", \"Hello Dolly!\", \"Sweet Charity\", \"Doctor Dolittle\", \"Star!\", \"Darling Lili\", \"Goodbye, Mr. Chips\", \"Paint Your Wagon\", \"Song of Norway\", \"On a Clear Day You", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "15249200", "text": "Football Club called YNWA that received rave reviews, and is in the process of writing a movie about New York and Ireland. He is also the author of huge hit show \"Celtic the Musical\" which sold out at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre in 2016 and 2018. You'll Never Walk Alone received an excellent reception and reviews in Liverpool Echo, Daily Post, liverpoolconfidential, Liverpool Student Media and thepublicreviews Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels, Celtic the Musical, YNWA and One Night in Istanbul have all proven very popular with audiences and Allt has now been commissioned to write a new movie and show", "title": "Nicky Allt" }, { "id": "4270977", "text": "productions that originated at the Playhouse before finding success on Broadway are The Who's \"Tommy\", Matthew Broderick's revival of \"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\", \"Jane Eyre\", \"Dracula, the Musical\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"Cry Baby\", \"Bonnie and Clyde\", The Pulitzer Prize-winning \"I Am My Own Wife\", \"700 Sundays\", \"Jersey Boys\", \"Memphis, Peter and the Starcatcher, Chaplin, Hands on a Hardbody\", Des McAnuff's revival of \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" and \"Zhivago\". La Jolla Playhouse began the Page To Stage Play Development Program in 2001 to facilitate the development of new plays and musicals, offering audiences the rare opportunity to experience", "title": "La Jolla Playhouse" }, { "id": "10153962", "text": "third straight hit. On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, Hamilton made his national television debut on CBS's \"Stage Show\", hosted by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But the national television appearance that put Hamilton's career on the fast track to crossover success was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955 when he sang \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" on CBS's top-rated \"Ed Sullivan Show\". In reviewing his performance, Variety magazine summed up Hamilton's new way of singing the Great American Songbook by writing: \"Hamilton made good with his single, 'You'll Never Walk Alone',", "title": "Roy Hamilton" }, { "id": "15633677", "text": "Broadway musical \"Sally\" and had three versions make the charts in 1921: a duet Charles Harrison and Elsie Baker (who was credited as Edna Brown), another duet by Lewis James and Elizabeth Spencer, and a solo recording by Marion Harris. \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" was first included on the original cast recording of the 1945 Broadway musical \"Carousel\", and that September Frank Sinatra spent one week with the song on the charts in \"Billboard\" magazine. In 1950, the three recordings of \"Our Lady of Fatima\" that made the charts were by Red Foley, Richard Hayes and Kitty Kallen, and Phil", "title": "The Village of St. Bernadette" }, { "id": "6632101", "text": "\"Starlight Express\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\", \"Monty Python's Spamalot\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"West Side Story\", \"Jesus Christ Superstar\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"The Rocky Horror Show\", \"Fame - The Musical\", \"Never Forget\", \"Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical\", \"Cabaret\", \"Blood Brothers\", \"Saturday Night Fever\", \"Carousel\", \"Footloose - The Musical\", \"Grease\", \"Anything Goes\", \"Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake\", \"Our House\", \"Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story\", \"Carousel\", \"Tap Dogs\", \"Taboo\", \"Flashdance - The Musical\", \"Annie\", \"Annie Get Your Gun\", \"\", \"Dancing in the Streets\", \"Sister Act\", \"An Inspector Calls\", \"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels\", \"Rock of Ages\", \"Chicago\",", "title": "New Wimbledon Theatre" }, { "id": "252416", "text": "Diggers of Broadway\" (1929). This film broke all box office records and remained the highest-grossing film ever produced until 1939. Suddenly, the market became flooded with musicals, revues, and operettas. The following all-color musicals were produced in 1929 and 1930 alone: \"The Show of Shows\" (1929), \"Sally\" (1929), \"The Vagabond King\" (1930), \"Follow Thru\" (1930), \"Bright Lights\" (1930), \"Golden Dawn\" (1930), \"Hold Everything\" (1930), \"The Rogue Song\" (1930), \"Song of the Flame\" (1930), \"Song of the West\" (1930), \"Sweet Kitty Bellairs\" (1930), \"Under a Texas Moon\" (1930), \"Bride of the Regiment\" (1930), \"Whoopee!\" (1930), \"King of Jazz\" (1930), \"Viennese Nights\"", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "16865973", "text": "lack of control. She goes to her office and receives a phone call from a young girl who says she \"left\" her. Jude drinks the entire bottle of communion wine and drunkenly introduces Briarcliff Manor's inaugural movie night, quoting \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"Carousel\", while Arden studies the lipstick tube in his office. A radio announces the approaching storm and strange lights in the sky. Kit's removed implant rattles in a jar. Thredson relates his visit to Wendy's empty house to Lana. He reports that he believes Wendy to have been murdered due to similarities between", "title": "Nor'easter (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "137716", "text": "the lyrics of 'Good Year for the Roses'\". With Liverpool prevailing while he was on stage, an ecstatic Costello broke out into a performance of the club's anthem \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". In July 2018, Costello canceled the remaining six dates of his European tour on doctor's orders, while recovering from surgery to treat cancer. Costello apologised to his fans and said he initially thought he had recovered enough from the surgery to complete the tour. Costello sits on the Advisory Board of the Board of Directors of the Jazz Foundation of America. Costello began working with the Jazz Foundation", "title": "Elvis Costello" }, { "id": "972436", "text": "Your Sunday Clothes\", and \"It Only Takes a Moment\" from \"Hello, Dolly!\"; \"It's Today!\", \"Open a New Window\", \"We Need a Little Christmas,\" and \"Bosom Buddies\" from \"Mame\"; and \"Tap Your Troubles Away\", \"I Won't Send Roses\" and \"Time Heals Everything\" from \"Mack & Mabel\". Herman was the first (of only two) composers/lyricists to have three musicals run more than 1500 consecutive performances on Broadway (the other being Stephen Schwartz): \"Hello, Dolly!\" (2,844), \"Mame\" (1,508), and \"La Cage aux Folles\" (1,761). He is honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard.", "title": "Jerry Herman" }, { "id": "19000805", "text": "winner Camille Sims. Outside of the Miss America system, Bridges won the Miss North Georgia State Fair title in Fall 2011 at a pageant in Marietta, Georgia. She won the statewide Miss Georgia Fairs title in January 2012 at a pageant in Atlanta. As an adult, Bridges won the Miss Cobb County 2013 title on August 4, 2012, and earned a $10,000 scholarship award. She competed in the 2013 Miss Georgia pageant with the platform \"Impacting the Lives of Others Through Volunteerism\" and a vocal performance of \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\" in the talent portion of", "title": "Maggie Bridges" }, { "id": "249177", "text": "Stadium disaster, where escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall at the 1985 European Cup Final in Brussels, with 39 people – mostly Italians and Juventus fans – dying, after which English clubs were given a five-year ban from European competition, and the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing. The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964 which has been used ever since. The club's anthem is \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee", "title": "Liverpool F.C." }, { "id": "3339288", "text": "time that our privacy be respected.\" Despite the loss of his daughter one week previously, Barlow performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony singing the hit \"Rule the World\", which drew praise internationally for the strength and determination of Barlow to take to the stage so soon after his tragedy. Owing to the bereavement, it was announced that Barlow would not attend the \"X Factor\" press launch. In his autobiography \"My Take\", Barlow revealed that he is a supporter of Liverpool FC, with their anthem \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" being one of the first songs he learned to", "title": "Gary Barlow" }, { "id": "8308700", "text": "music factory in the heyday of girl groups and \"pre-fab\" acts like The Monkees. The film opens in the year 1958 where Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) is a steel heiress living in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, who wants to be a singer and enters a talent contest. The story begins with a conversation between herself and her mother (Christina Pickles) with regard to what she will sing and what she will wear. At her mother's insistence, she reluctantly makes a plan to sing \"You'll Never Walk Alone.\" Edna is even less thrilled about her mother's choice of wardrobe, calling it uncomfortable.", "title": "Grace of My Heart" }, { "id": "15219374", "text": "Viva Elvis (soundtrack) Viva Elvis is the soundtrack remix album of the Cirque du Soleil show \"Viva Elvis\", which focuses on the life and music of American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The album, though initially produced as a soundtrack to the show, does not include all of the songs featured in the show. The CD tracks are rearranged and extended versions of songs heard in the show, and in fact the album includes two instrumental versions of the songs \"Memories\" and \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", neither of which is in the Cirque du Soleil show. This album marks the", "title": "Viva Elvis (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "252451", "text": "interest in the then-moribund Western musical genre, and subsequently films such as \"Chicago\", \"The Producers\", \"Rent\", \"Dreamgirls\", \"Hairspray\", \"\", \"Across the Universe\", \"The Phantom of the Opera\", \"Enchanted\" and \"Mamma Mia!\" were produced, fuelling a renaissance of the genre. \"The Guru\" and \"The 40-Year-Old Virgin\" also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences; the Bollywood musical \"Lagaan\" (2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; two other Bollywood films \"Devdas\" (2002) and \"Rang De Basanti\" (2006) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning \"Slumdog Millionaire\" (2008)", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "4128592", "text": "popular musicals of the 1950s include \"Love Me Tender\" which starred Elvis Presley, \"High Society\", \"An American in Paris\", \"Singin' in the Rain\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"The Band Wagon\", \"Show Boat\", \"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers\", \"Gigi\", \"Daddy Long Legs\", \"Funny Face\", \"Calamity Jane\", \"Porgy and Bess\", \"Carmen Jones\", and many others. The Walt Disney Studios enjoyed a decade of prosperity with animated feature-length films \"Cinderella\", \"Alice in Wonderland\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Lady and the Tramp\" (Disney's first wide-screen animated film), and \"Sleeping Beauty\". The studio began producing live-action period and historical films such as \"The Sword and the Rose\", \"Davy", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "252426", "text": "could be relied upon for sure-fire hits. Audiences for them lessened and fewer musical films were produced as the genre became less mainstream and more specialized. In the 1960s, the critical and box-office success of the films \"West Side Story\", \"Gypsy\", \"The Music Man\", \"Bye Bye Birdie\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Mary Poppins\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\", \"The Jungle Book\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"Oliver!\", and \"Funny Girl\" suggested that the traditional musical was in good health, while French filmmaker Jacques Demy's jazz musicals \"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg\" and \"The Young Girls", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "1447295", "text": "reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles' \"Hello Little Girl\". \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" had been a favourite of Marsden's since seeing \"Carousel\" growing up. It quickly became the signature tune of Liverpool Football Club and, later, other sports teams around the world. The song remains a football anthem. The group narrowly missed a fourth consecutive number one when \"I'm the One\" was kept off the top spot for two weeks in February 1964 by fellow Liverpudlians' The Searchers \"Needles and Pins\". Despite this early success, Gerry and the Pacemakers never had", "title": "Gerry and the Pacemakers" }, { "id": "12858697", "text": "that began in the 1890s, the Princess Theatre musicals of the early 20th century, and comedies in the 1920s and 1930s (such as the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein), with \"Oklahoma!\" (1943), musicals moved in a more dramatic direction. Famous musicals over the subsequent decades included \"My Fair Lady\" (1956), \"West Side Story\" (1957), \"The Fantasticks\" (1960), \"Hair\" (1967), \"A Chorus Line\" (1975), \"Les Misérables\" (1980), \"Into the Woods\" (1986), and \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986), as well as more contemporary hits including \"Rent\" (1994), \"The Lion King\" (1997), \"Wicked\" (2003), and \"Hamilton\" (2015). Musical theatre may be produced", "title": "Theatre" }, { "id": "16742150", "text": "in the Official UK Indie Chart. The official lead single from the album, \"I Know Him So Well\" was released on 11 November 2012. The single features Emma Bunton, Chisholm's groupmate from the Spice Girls. Chisholm and Bunton performed the song live on various TV shows such as Loose Women, This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, and the BBC Children in Need 2012 concert. The single reached #153 in the Official UK Top 200 singles chart. The b-side of the single is a cover of \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\". On the day of its release, the", "title": "Stages (Melanie C album)" }, { "id": "12133709", "text": "\"Glory Days\", \"Merrily We Roll Along\", \"The Witches of Eastwick\", \"Saving Aimee\", \"Into the Woods\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Nevermore\", \"Assassins\", \"The Highest Yellow\", \"One Red Flower\", \"Allegro\", \"Twentieth Century\", \"110 in the Shade\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", \"The Gospel According to Fishman\", \"Grand Hotel\", \"The Rhythm Club\", \"Over & Over\", \"The Fix\", \"Working\", \"The Rink\", \"Cabaret\", \"First Lady Suite\", \"Wings\", \"Poor Superman\", \"Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love\", \"Passion\", \"Company\", \"Sweeney Todd\", \"Follies\", \"Pacific Overtures\", \"Ace\", \"Les Misérables, and Showboat. Awards Eric D. Schaeffer Eric D. Schaeffer is an American theater director and producer based in", "title": "Eric D. Schaeffer" }, { "id": "3073373", "text": "group found a hit with the ballad, \"Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)\". Birdsong was noted for her high soprano vocals in the background. From 1963 until 1966, The Blue Belles, later Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, found relative success on the charts and were raved for their live performances. After first performing at the Apollo Theater in 1961, the group became regular headliners at the world-famous venue, earning the nickname, \"The Sweethearts of the Apollo\". Following the success of \"Down the Aisle\", the group had follow-up success with \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" and \"Danny Boy\" before leaving their second", "title": "Cindy Birdsong" }, { "id": "7260167", "text": "good as the fellers off TV, And I'm not bad when I've had a few, you should come and listen to me. Well the tug boats on the River Mersey have a song all of their own, And the Goodison Choir and the Anfield Army sing 'You'll never walk alone', When the sun comes out the Liver Birds stand up and stretch their wings, And there's a song in a thousand hearts, And that's when Liverpool sings. A bustling city, open wide, The North West gate to Merseyside.\" Jakestown Jakestown was a radio show hosted by Brian Jacques on BBC", "title": "Jakestown" }, { "id": "11996718", "text": "given by The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. A new production was mounted by the Santa Fe Opera during its 2013 festival season, also starring DiDonato with Lawrence Brownlee as Uberto. On September 7, 2013 she performed at the Last Night of the Proms, singing arias by Massenet (\"Je suis gris! je suis ivre!\"), Handel (\"Ombra mai fu\"), and Rossini (\"Tanti affetti in tal momento!\") as well as \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical \"Carousel\", \"Over the Rainbow\" from the \"Wizard of Oz\" as a bow to her home State of Kansas, and \"Danny Boy\"; she then led the audience", "title": "Joyce DiDonato" }, { "id": "6522294", "text": "\"You'll Never Walk Alone\" is superimposed over the music. This Rodgers and Hammerstein song became the anthem of Liverpool F.C. after Gerry & the Pacemakers had a number one hit with their recording. Although it was not released as a single in the UK and never played live, it was released as the \"B-side\" of the single \"One of These Days\" in 1971. Roger Waters briefly resurrected the song for a small number of shows in 2016, and the song was played by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in 2018. In a review for the \"Meddle\" album, Jean-Charles Costa of", "title": "Fearless (Pink Floyd song)" }, { "id": "704618", "text": "of the Gerry and the Pacemakers song \"Ferry Cross the Mersey\" was released in aid of those affected. The song featured Liverpool musicians Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden (of the Pacemakers), Holly Johnson, and the Christians, and was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 on 20 May, remaining at the top for a total of three weeks. Although Gerry and the Pacemakers' earlier hit \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" had stronger ties to Liverpool FC, it was not used because it had recently been rerecorded for the Bradford City stadium fire appeal. By the", "title": "Hillsborough disaster" }, { "id": "10887090", "text": "that humans must make to find their purpose and direction in life. When she read the manuscript of the lyrics, she confessed that it \"drove [her] to the Chapel\" because the lyrics conveyed a \"yearning that … ordinary souls feel but cannot communicate.\" Although this song has parallels with \"You'll Never Walk Alone,\" the song shares musical similarities with the song \"Something Wonderful\" from \"The King and I\". Both songs are played at a similar broad tempo, and both songs have accompaniments punctuated by heavy chords in the orchestral score. The song has often been sung by operatically trained voices", "title": "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" }, { "id": "11978762", "text": "— recently the 2008 Texas State Marching Contest and the 2012 Bands of America Denton Regional Competition. One of several distinct traditions of the Green Brigade is to perform \"You'll Never Walk Alone,\" from the musical \"Carousel,\" at the end of football games. Green Brigade Marching Band The Green Brigade Marching Band is the marching band of the University of North Texas in Denton, home of the Mean Green. The band is open to all university students, but is curricular and integral for music education majors. The Green Brigade is one of approximately 40 student ensembles in the University of", "title": "Green Brigade Marching Band" }, { "id": "6703062", "text": "the Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory. The songs they sing during the course of the musical include: \"Three Coins in the Fountain\"; \"Undecided\"; \"Gotta Be This or That\"; \"Moments to Remember\"; \"Crazy 'Bout Ya, Baby\"; \"No, Not Much\"; \"Sixteen Tons\"; \"Chain Gang\"; \"Perfidia\"; \"Cry\"; \"Heart and Soul\"; \"Lady of Spain\"; \"Scotland the Brave\"; \"Shangri-La\"; \"Rags to Riches\"; and \"Love is a Many-Splendored Thing\". Stuart Ross explained the production history of the revue, stating that it was initially produced at the West Bank Cafe in 1987. It then ran at the Eugene O'Neill Theater", "title": "Forever Plaid" }, { "id": "15533341", "text": "(\"La Cage aux Folles\", \"Sunset Boulevard\"), Olivier Award nominee John Barrowman (\"The Fix\"), Olivier Award winner Ruthie Henshall (\"She Loves Me\") and Bronson Pinchot (\"Perfect Strangers\"). The Broadway show was directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, with musical staging by Bob Avian. Among the shows from which the musical numbers come are: \"A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum\" (1962); \"Anyone Can Whistle\" (1964); Company (musical) (1970); \"Follies\" (1971); \"A Little Night Music\" (1973); \"The Frogs\" (1974); \"Sweeney Todd\" (1979); \"Merrily We Roll Along\" (1981); \"Sunday in the Park with George\" (1984); \"Into the Woods\" (1987); \"Assassins\" (1991);", "title": "Broadway Worldwide" }, { "id": "8193953", "text": "said when the Knights of the Round Table first catch sight of the castle at Camelot. Patsy's fate is left ambiguous in the film; he disappears after King Arthur encounters Tim the Enchanter, and is not seen again. In the 2005 musical, \"Spamalot\", Patsy has a bigger role with many more lines, and he sings \"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life\" from \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" to King Arthur, and they later sing \"I'm All Alone\". As in the film, Patsy follows King Arthur everywhere and bangs coconuts together to simulate Arthur's horse. In the original Broadway", "title": "Patsy (Monty Python)" }, { "id": "218763", "text": "1945), \"Five Minutes More,\" and the Oscar-winning title song for \"Three Coins in the Fountain\" (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film \"My Sister Eileen\" with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including \"I've Heard That Song Before\" (No. 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), \"I'll Walk Alone\", \"It's Magic\" (a No. 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and \"I Fall In Love Too Easily\". In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, \"High Button Shoes\", with", "title": "Jule Styne" }, { "id": "10393630", "text": "a season of classic films which included \"All About Eve\", \"Casablanca\", \"The Apartment\", \"Brief Encounter\", \"Guys and Dolls\", and \"The Great Escape\". Hallowe'en's \"Scream Cinema Monster Mash\" offered audiences \"Ghost\", \"Child's Play\", \"The Shining\", \"Evil Dead II\", \"The Thing\", \"Night of the Living Dead\", and the surprise film, \"The Mist\", in black and white. The latest series of classics shown was the \"Ministry of Musicals\" which featured the best Hollywood musicals and contemporary classics. The programme of films screened included Oklahoma, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Last Waltz, Labyrinth, This is", "title": "Screen Cinema" }, { "id": "4661003", "text": "UK Singles Chart, due to It being 'banned' by the BBC, in the wake of the Heysel football stadium disaster, as it had references to 'drinking whilst abroad' and deemed unsuitable for radio play. Further releases \"I Speaka Da Lingo\" and \"Hokey Cokey\" reached No. 49 and No. 31, respectively. Black Lace also participated in recording of the UK No. 1 hit \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" as part of the charity ensemble, The Crowd (which included members of 10cc, Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, The Hollies, Argent, The Who, the Nolans, the Searchers, Smokey, Gerry and the Pacemakers plus many, many more)", "title": "Black Lace (band)" }, { "id": "10672517", "text": "Alive and Well and Living in Paris\", and \"Songs for a New World\"; absurdist musicals such as \"Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock\", and \"Anyone Can Whistle\"; concept musicals such as \"Company\", \"Assassins\", \"Urinetown\", \"Chicago\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", and \"Cabaret\"; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, such as \"Evita\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Camelot\", \"Pippin\", \"Sweeney Todd\", \"Grease\", and \"Into the Woods\". New Line claims to take philosophical and practical inspiration from theatre models of the 1960s, including Caffé Cino, Cafe LaMaMa ETC, Judson Poets Theatre, Joan Littlewood's People’s Theatre Workshop in London, and", "title": "New Line Theatre" }, { "id": "889299", "text": "network had failed to meet the projected number of new subscribers they had hoped to attract with the series. Over its run, \"Passions\" featured several storylines and sequences paying homage to or parodying other television series, films, books, and musicals like \"Gone with the Wind\", \"Carrie\", \"Titanic\", \"I Dream of Jeannie\", \"Brokeback Mountain\", \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\", \"\", \"The Wizard of Oz\", \"The Da Vinci Code\", \"The Little Mermaid\" and \"Wicked\". A 2003 fantasy sequence imitated the \"Cell Block Tango\" number from the 2002 film \"Chicago\"; \"Passions\" version of the song, \"I Ain't Sorry,\" received a 2004 Daytime Emmy Award", "title": "Passions" }, { "id": "14675320", "text": "wrote half of, what I admit, was total crap\". The Blossoms provided backing vocals for this album. Track list:<br> Side 1:<br> 1.) \"Little Drummer Boy\" (Simeone – Onorati – Davis) – 2:42<br> 2.) \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\" (Lyrics: Julia Ward Howe (1861); Music: William Steffe (1855). Arranged by The Crusaders) – 2:10<br> 3.) \"God Lives\" (The Crusaders) – 2:07<br> 4.) \"You’ll Never Walk Alone\" (Richard Rodgers – Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1:56<br> 5.) \"With the Lord On Your Side\" (The Crusaders) – 2:38 Side 2:<br> 1.) \"Praise We the Lord\" (The Crusaders) – 2:54<br> 2.) \"What Is Man\" (The", "title": "The Crusaders (Los Angeles band)" }, { "id": "2280729", "text": "shows for the channel from Adare Productions. \"Glas Vegas\" has a similar format to \"America's Got Talent\" and \"The All Ireland Talent Show\". \"Nollig No. 1\" has a similar format to \"You're a Star\" as the judges search for a Christmas number one single. The 2008 winner was Mary Lee, she released the single \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", with the chorus 'as Gaeilge'. In September 2009 another series from the same stable began the search for Ireland's best Irish dancing act, entitled An Jig Gig. The winners of this series were Irish Beats. A fourth season of \"Glas Vegas\" began", "title": "TG4" }, { "id": "7662692", "text": "Jazz ensemble Golden Raider Marching Band (GRMB) String Orchestra The Concord Players typically put on a play in the fall and a musical in the spring. Previous performances include \"Singin' in the Rain\", \"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe\", \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\", \"Rumors\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Charlotte's Web\", \"Mame\", \"You Could Die Laughing\", \"Once Upon a Mattress\", \"You Can't Take It with You\", \"Anything Goes\", \"Bone Chiller\", \"Bye Bye Birdie\", \"Meet Me In St. Louis\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"Shrek The Musical\", \"Fools\", \"Into the Woods\", \"Noises Off\", \"Disney's The Little Mermaid\", \"You Can't", "title": "Concord High School (Wilmington, Delaware)" }, { "id": "4496490", "text": "music for various ballplayers. For example, AC/DC's \"Hells Bells\" was the entrance music for Trevor Hoffman and Metallica's \"Enter Sandman\" filled the same role for Mariano Rivera. Some stadium anthems are popular in a particular region, or with a specific team because of a reference in the song's lyrics. \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" is the club anthem of Liverpool Football Club. \"Just idag är jag stark\" by Kenta is the club anthem of Hammarby Fotboll. The Dallas Cowboys made heavy use of \"Should've Been a Cowboy\" by Toby Keith in the 1990s, while sports teams in Alabama often use \"Sweet", "title": "Stadium anthem" }, { "id": "771199", "text": "itself out. Except for a few outposts of rock, like \"Dreamgirls\" (1981) and \"Little Shop of Horrors\" (1982), audience tastes in the 1980s turned to megamusicals with pop scores, like \"Les Misérables\" (1985) and \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986). Some later rock musicals, such as \"Rent\" (1996) and \"Spring Awakening\" (2006), as well as jukebox musicals featuring rock music, like \"We Will Rock You\" (2002) and \"Rock of Ages\" (2009), have found success. But the rock musical did not quickly come to dominate the musical theatre stage after \"Hair\". Critic Clive Barnes commented, \"There really weren't any rock musicals.", "title": "Hair (musical)" }, { "id": "12817121", "text": "Records. In her new home of Los Angeles she played Faye Apple in the West Coast Premiere of \"Anyone Can Whistle\" and won a Dramalogue Award for \"Blame It On The Movies II\". In regional theaters across the country she has starred in \"Peter Pan\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"Little Shop Of Horrors\", \"Cabaret\", \"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever\", \"Oliver!\", \"Good News\", musical versions of \"A Midsummer Night's dream\", \"Twelfth Night\" and \"Love's Labours Lost\", \"Can-Can (musical)\", \"Sunset Boulevard, \"Shadowlands\" and \"On The Verge\". She has done countless cabaret performances and concerts, most notably the S.T.A.G.E. benefits for", "title": "Ann Morrison" }, { "id": "1972383", "text": "Earth for one day in order to redeem himself, watches the ceremony and is able to silently motivate the unhappy Louise to join in the song. The song is also sung at association football clubs around the world, where it is performed by a massed chorus of supporters on matchday; this tradition began at Liverpool F.C. after the chart success of the 1963 single of the song by the local Liverpool group Gerry and the Pacemakers. Christine Johnson, who created the role of Nettie Fowler, introduced the song in the original Broadway production. Later in the show Jan Clayton, as", "title": "You'll Never Walk Alone" }, { "id": "8892427", "text": "Woods\", \"Little Women\", \"Once Upon A Mattress\", \"The Mousetrap\", \"A Christmas Story\", \"Once On This Island\", \"Fools\", \"A Christmas Carol\", \"Seussical the Musical\", \"Twelve Angry Men\", \"Taming of the Shrew\", \"West Side Story\", \"The Diviners\", \"Hamlet\", \"Alice\", \"Rent\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Les Misérables\", \"The Winter's Tale\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"Peter and the Starcatcher\", \"Lazarus Rising\", \"1984\", \"The Addams Family\", \"Twelfth Night\", and \"Little Women\". 4th place at dimond bar high school for show choir (2016) Henry J. Kaiser High School (California) Henry J. Kaiser High School is a small to medium-sized high school located at 11155 Almond Avenue in Fontana, California. Kaiser", "title": "Henry J. Kaiser High School (California)" }, { "id": "7597910", "text": "being \"Will the Sun Ever Shine Again\" from the 2004 film \"Home on the Range\". \"On the Record\" includes a total of eight Academy Award for Best Song winners: \"When You Wish Upon a Star\" from \"Pinocchio\", \"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah\" from \"Song of the South\", \"Under the Sea\" from \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Beauty and the Beast\" from \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"A Whole New World\" from \"Aladdin\", \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight\" from \"The Lion King\", \"Colors of the Wind\" from \"Pocahontas\", and \"You'll Be in My Heart\" from \"Tarzan\". The catalogue of music does not only come from the screen,", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "id": "9391384", "text": "has more than 50 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including , No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot in rep, Love Letters, The Country House, The Assembled Parties,\"Nice Work If You Can Get It\", \"Venus in Fur\",\"Wit\", \"Anything Goes\", \"A View From the Bridge\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Seascape\", \"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Anna in the Tropics\", and revivals of \"The Music Man\" and \"Kiss Me, Kate\". His recent off-Broadway work includes Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater), Ripcord Manhattan Theater Club), \"How I Learned to Drive\" for 2nd Stage, \"Twelfth Night\", \"All's Well\", \"Measure for Measure\"", "title": "Peter Kaczorowski" }, { "id": "7945053", "text": "Notre Dame High School has an active performing arts department which presents three productions annually: a fall drama or comedy, a late-winter musical, and a late-spring comedy, drama, or musical. Past performances have included \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Show Boat\", \"Kiss Me, Kate\", \"Godspell\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Inherit the Wind\", \"Grease\", \"West Side Story\", \"The Crucible\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"You Can't Take It with You\", \"Scapino!\", \"Les Misérables\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Footloose\", \"Seussical\", \"Hairspray\" and \"Anything Goes\" in March 2016. The musicals annually perform for audiences from 3,500-5,000. Along with theatrical productions, a dance program entitled \"Fusion\",", "title": "Notre Dame High School (New Jersey)" }, { "id": "3287142", "text": "Kenwright is one of the UK's most successful theatre producers, best known for the long-running West End hit \"Blood Brothers\" and the record-breaking tour of \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\". Other productions have included West End runs of \"Whistle Down the Wind\" at the Palace Theatre, \"Festen\" in London, on a UK tour and on Broadway, \"The Big Life\", \"Elmina's Kitchen\", \"Scrooge – The Musical\", \"The Night of the Iguana\", \"A Few Good Men\", \"A Man For All Seasons\" alongside UK tours of \"Jesus Christ Superstar\", \"Tommy\", \"Tell Me on a Sunday\" and \"This is Elvis\". He produced the", "title": "Bill Kenwright" }, { "id": "272883", "text": "\"the closest to traditional musical theatre\" and was \"one pathway to the future.\" However, most major-market 21st-century productions have taken a safe route, with revivals of familiar fare, such as \"Fiddler on the Roof\", \"A Chorus Line\", \"South Pacific\", \"Gypsy\", \"Hair\", \"West Side Story\" and \"Grease\", or with adaptations of other proven material, such as literature (\"The Scarlet Pimpernel\", \"Wicked\" and \"Fun Home\"), hoping that the shows would have a built-in audience as a result. This trend is especially persistent with film adaptations, including (\"The Producers\", \"Spamalot\", \"Hairspray\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"The Color Purple\", \"Xanadu\", \"Billy Elliot\", \"Shrek\", \"Waitress\" and \"Groundhog", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "8676811", "text": "ensure its survival, and added that he was welcome to make an appearance on the telethon anytime, saying that the annual event was \"his baby.\" Lythgoe also said that the orchestra had contingency plans in place in the event Lewis did show up, either live or pre-recorded, to sing his signature song, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", but never showed up at the venue. Lewis' publicist Candy Cazau would not comment to the Associated Press about contingency plans, but had said earlier that Lewis did not agree to make any appearances on the show. The song used at the close of", "title": "The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon" }, { "id": "4887215", "text": "This album received particularly good reviews including a 10 out of 10 rating in \"Smash Hits\". Attempting diversity, an (almost) a cappella ballad was released as the next single. \"Now Those Days Are Gone\" gave the group another top ten hit, reaching number eight in the UK charts. Soon after this they were invited to appear before the Queen and Queen Mother in the annual Royal Variety Performance, performing an old show tune, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Chart success continued with the release of the hit singles, \"If You Can't Stand the Heat\" and \"Run for Your Life\". Bucks Fizz's", "title": "Bucks Fizz" }, { "id": "16241440", "text": "Disney XD. On February 24, 2012, Walt Disney Records re-published the music video in high-definition on The Muppets Studio' official YouTube channel. Past winners include; \"When You Wish Upon a Star\", from \"Pinocchio\", \"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah\", from \"Song of the South\", \"Chim Chim Cher-ee\" from \"Mary Poppins\", \"Under the Sea\" from \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Beauty and the Beast\" from the eponymous film, \"A Whole New World\" from \"Aladdin\", \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight\" from \"The Lion King\", \"Colors of the Wind\" from \"Pocahontas\", \"You'll Be in My Heart\" from \"Tarzan\", \"If I Didn't Have You\" from \"Monsters, Inc.\", and \"We Belong", "title": "Man or Muppet" }, { "id": "11825260", "text": "is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. \"Wuthering Heights\", \"A Female Philoctetes\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Fahrenheit 451\", \"Herakles\", \"Cyrano de Bergerac\", \"Taming Of The Shrew\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Importance Of Being Earnest\", \"Six Characters In Search Of An Author\", \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"As You Like It\", \"An Enemy Of The People\", \"The Iliad\", \"The Comedy of Errors\", \"Catch-22\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Prometheus Bound\" with David Oyelowo, \"Romeo & Juliet\", \"The Canterbury Tales\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Hamlet\", \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde\", H G Wells' \"The Invisible Man\", with choreographer Doug Varone, \"Twelfth Night\", \"A Very Naughty Greek Play\", \"Oedipus", "title": "Aquila Theatre" }, { "id": "12221946", "text": "With Your Heart\"). When Gustave goes to bed, the Phantom appears on the balcony and Christine faints in shock, having believed him dead. He carries her to a chair, where she awakens and the two recall a night of passion before Christine's wedding, and the Phantom explains why he felt compelled to leave her side afterwards (“Beneath a Moonless Sky”). Moving to the balcony, the pair sadly remember how they once thought their love had a chance of succeeding (\"Once Upon Another Time\"). The Phantom offers to pay Christine twice Hammerstein's price if she will sing just one song that", "title": "Love Never Dies (musical)" }, { "id": "272888", "text": "that have already been hits. Following the earlier success of \"Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story\", these have included \"Movin' Out\" (2002, based on the tunes of Billy Joel), \"Jersey Boys\" (2006, The Four Seasons), \"Rock of Ages\" (2009, featuring classic rock of the 1980s) and many others. This style is often referred to as the \"jukebox musical\". Similar but more plot-driven musicals have been built around the canon of a particular pop group including \"Mamma Mia!\" (1999, based on the songs of ABBA), \"Our House\" (2002, based on the songs of Madness) and \"We Will Rock You\" (2002, based", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "272808", "text": "to such groundbreaking works as \"Show Boat\" (1927) and \"Oklahoma!\" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include \"West Side Story\" (1957), \"The Fantasticks\" (1960), \"Hair\" (1967), \"A Chorus Line\" (1975), \"Les Misérables\" (1985), \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986), \"Rent\" (1996), \"The Producers\" (2001), \"Wicked\" (2003) and \"Hamilton\" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "2582916", "text": "\"Caged\", \"Dangerous When Wet\", \"Double Indemnity\", \"The Enchanted Cottage\", \"From Here to Eternity\", \"The Heiress\", \"Jaws\", \"The Little Foxes\", \"Back Street\", \"Little Miss Broadway\", \"Love Story\", \"Mildred Pierce\", \"National Velvet\", \"One in a Million\", \"The Petrified Forest\", \"Pillow Talk\", \"Random Harvest\", \"Rebecca\", \"The Roaring Twenties\", \"Rose Marie\", \"San Francisco\", \"Show Boat\", \"The Scarlet Pimpernel\", \"So Proudly We Hail!\", \"Stella Dallas\", \"A Stolen Life\", \"Sunset Boulevard\", \"Torch Song\", and \"When My Baby Smiles at Me\". In the fall of 1977, while the series was still running in prime time, the comedy sketches of the show were re-edited into freestanding programs; the", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show" }, { "id": "3601334", "text": "Fran (\"Christmas Day\"). Over the next few days Chuck and Dreyfuss try to keep Fran's spirits up to prevent a relapse into suicidal behavior (\"A Young Pretty Girl Like You\"). Chuck and Fran play gin rummy and discuss their problems, growing closer (\"I'll Never Fall In Love Again\"). Mr. Kirkeby, one of Chuck's former 'clients', discovers that Fran has been staying at Chuck's apartment, so as revenge for cutting him and the others off from using the apartment he tells Fran's overly protective brother where she has been staying. Karl Kubelik then comes to the apartment to collect her, and", "title": "Promises, Promises (musical)" }, { "id": "1508617", "text": "Cervantes' life or \"Don Quixote\"; for example, the historical Cervantes had no contact with the Spanish Inquisition, and Don Quixote's horse Rocinante is never stolen. Wasserman complained repeatedly about people taking the work as a musical version of \"Don Quixote\". The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical has been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theatre. The principal song, \"The Impossible Dream\", became a standard. The musical has played in many other countries around the world, with productions in Dutch,", "title": "Man of La Mancha" }, { "id": "9730346", "text": "\"The Sum of All Fears\", \"Transformers\", \"Pirates of the Caribbean\", \"Hulk\", \"\", \"A Christmas Carol\", \"Lady in the Water\", \"The Happening\" and \"WALL-E\". His solo trumpet can be heard on such soundtracks as: \"Dances with Wolves\", \"The Gambler\", \"Avalon\", \"Crimson Tide\", \"City Hall\", \"In Country\", \"Twister\", \"Executive Decision\", \"Independence Day\", \"Con Air\", \"Rudy\", \"The Last Castle\", \"Air Force One\", \"The Postman\", \"Cars\", \"I Am Legend\", \"U.S. Marshals\", \"The Interpreter\", \"Renaissance Man\", \"Toys\", \"Darkman\", \"Maverick\", \"Night at the Museum\", \"L.A. Confidential\" and \"The Rock (film)\". Malcolm has also found time to teach music at various schools, including UCLA, Pomona College, and", "title": "Malcolm McNab" }, { "id": "8396937", "text": "on the Channel 4 series \"The Manageress\" in 1989. Shannon died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. At his memorial service at the Square Methodist Church, Dunstable, former Manchester United manager Wilf McGuinness gave a speech, whilst one of the songs chosen was \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", sung by two of his great nephews Tom Wing and James Wing, a homage to his beginnings in football. Source: Les Shannon Leslie Shannon (12 March 1926 – 2 December 2007) was an English football player and manager. As a forward, he scored 40 goals in 274 league games in the Football", "title": "Les Shannon" }, { "id": "2411887", "text": "Chinese Theater. The Sherman Brothers' numerous other Disney and non-Disney top box office film credits include \"The Jungle Book\" (1967), \"The Aristocats\" (1970), \"The Parent Trap\" (1961), \"The Parent Trap\" (1998), \"Charlotte's Web\" (1973), \"Huckleberry Finn\" (1974), \"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh\" (1977), \"Snoopy, Come Home\" (1972), \"Bedknobs and Broomsticks\" (1971), and \"\" (1989). Outside the motion-picture realm, their Tony Award-nominated smash hit \"Over Here!\" (1974) was the biggest-grossing original Broadway musical of that year. The Sherman Brothers have also written numerous top-selling songs including \"You're Sixteen,\" which reached \"Billboard\"'s Hot 100 top 10 twice: first with Johnny", "title": "Sherman Brothers" }, { "id": "2266736", "text": "There is only one version of \"You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile\", which is sung by the orphans. Also, there are only two \"Maybe\" reprises. The song \"You won't Be an Orphan For Long\" only features Annie and Daddy Warbucks. The songs \"Easy Street\" and \"Little Girls\" were also shortened. \"Annie's\" popularity is reflected in its numerous mentions in popular media. References to the show appear in films such as \"\", where Dr. Evil and Mini-Me perform Jay-Z's version of the song 'Hard Knock Life'; and in the 1994 John Waters dark comedy \"Serial Mom\", where a woman is", "title": "Annie (musical)" }, { "id": "10852410", "text": "in classic American musical theatre, new musicals, and \"re-thought\" musicals. Broadway has long considered The Marriott Theatre a prime venue for launching shows into the regional market with premiere productions of \"A Chorus Line\", \"Chess\", \"Baby\", \"Grand Hotel\", \"They're Playing Our Song\", \"The Goodbye Girl\", \"The First\", \"Miss Saigon\", \"Cats\", \"Sunset Boulevard\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"The Producers\" and \"Little Women\". A founding member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, The Marriott Theatre fosters artists in creating new works for the stage. The result has been a string of American and World Premieres including \"Matador\", which", "title": "Marriott Theatre" }, { "id": "1512975", "text": "The Shankly Gates were erected in 1982, a tribute to former manager Bill Shankly; his widow Nessie unlocked them for the first time on 26 August 1982. Across the Shankly Gates are the words \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", the title of the hit song by Gerry and the Pacemakers adopted by Liverpool fans as the club's anthem during Shankly's time as manager. Coloured seats and a police room were added to the Kemlyn Road stand in 1987. After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 when Police mismanagement led to overcrowding and the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans, the Taylor Report recommended", "title": "Anfield" }, { "id": "16502969", "text": "Robbers\", \"The Heartbreak Kid\", \"Mikey and Nicky\", \"The King of Marvin Gardens\", \"Pumping Iron\", \"Harry & Tonto\", \"Holocaust\", \"Justice For All\", \"Taxi Driver\", \"Wiseblood\", \"The First Deadly Sin\", \"Slow Dancing in the Big City\", \"Desperate Characters\", \"Godspell\", \"Hercules N.Y.\", \"The Other Cuba\", \"The Pan Alley\", \"Putney Swope\", \"Killing at Kent State\", \"D.A.R.L.\", \"Death Wish II\", \"Death Wish 3\", \"The Gambler\", \"Heart of Midnight\", \"Sister\", \"Revenge of the Pink Panther\", \"Runaway Train\", \"Someone Will Watch Over Me\", \"Toxic Avenger\", \"10 Midnight\", \"Across 110th Street\", \"Brian's Song\", \"American Ninja Part 2\", \"Author! Author!\", \"Barfly\", \"Basket Case\", \"Best Boy\", \"Between the Lines\", \"Exterminator", "title": "Dan Sandberg" } ]

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[ { "id": "5851173", "text": "Ivan Cooper Ivan Averill Cooper (born January 1944) is a former politician from Northern Ireland who was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and a founding member of the SDLP. He is best known for leading an anti-internment march which developed into the Bloody Sunday massacre on 30 January 1972, in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Cooper was born to a working-class Protestant family in Killaloo, County Londonderry, and later moved to the \"Bogside\" area of Derry city. He was briefly a member of the Claudy Young Unionist Association until April 1965 when he joined the Northern Ireland", "title": "Ivan Cooper" }, { "id": "1299824", "text": "serving until 1969. Following yet another victory for Fianna Fáil at the 1969 general election, Hillery became Minister for External Affairs (renamed Foreign Affairs in 1972), one of the most prestigious of cabinet posts. He earned a high international profile when, in the aftermath of the killing of fourteen unarmed civilians in Derry, by British Paratroopers (known as \"Bloody Sunday\"), he travelled to the United Nations, in New York, to demand UN involvement in peace-keeping on the streets of Northern Ireland. The trip to the UN achieved very little, other than to draw the attention of the world to the", "title": "Patrick Hillery" }, { "id": "6452209", "text": "Schlesinger's previous film \"Midnight Cowboy\" (1969), which portrayed its gay characters as alienated and self-loathing, as well as other gay-themed films of the era, including \"Boys in the Band\" (1970) and \"Some of My Best Friends Are...\" (1971). The film was released a year before the 1972 massacre of unarmed Northern Irish civilians by the British Army in Derry, Northern Ireland, an event dubbed \"Bloody Sunday\". Set in London, the film tells the story of a middle-aged Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch), and a divorced woman in her mid-30s, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), who are both involved in an", "title": "Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)" }, { "id": "3758385", "text": "There was no obvious successor and Widgery was the most junior of the possible appointees. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, chose Widgery largely on the basis of his administrative abilities. On 20 April 1971 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Widgery, \"of South Molton in the County of Devon\". Shortly after taking over, Widgery was handed the politically sensitive job of conducting an inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972 in Derry, where troops from 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment had killed 13 civil rights marchers, commonly referred to as Bloody Sunday (a 14th person died", "title": "John Widgery, Baron Widgery" }, { "id": "425841", "text": "and killing four people. Another was the introduction of internment without trial in 1971 (of 350 initial detainees, none were Protestants). Moreover, due to poor intelligence, very few of those interned were actually republican activists at the time, but some internees became increasingly radicalised as a result of their experiences. A third event \"Bloody Sunday\", was the shooting dead of thirteen unarmed male civilians by the British Army at a proscribed anti-internment rally in Derry on 30 January 1972 (a fourteenth man died of his injuries some months later) while more than fourteen other civilians were wounded. The march had", "title": "The Troubles" }, { "id": "1706438", "text": "Parliament of Northern Ireland withdrew from that body on 15 August and a widespread campaign of civil disobedience began. Tensions were ratcheted to a higher level after the killing of fourteen unarmed civilians in Derry by the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment on 30 January 1972, an event dubbed Bloody Sunday. Throughout this period, the main paramilitary organisations began to form. 1972 was the most violent year of the conflict. In 1970 the Provisional IRA, was created as a breakaway from what then became known as the Official IRA (the Provisionals came from various political perspectives, though most rejected the increasingly", "title": "History of Northern Ireland" }, { "id": "5657268", "text": "an \"'awful' cost\": Bloody Sunday Inquiry The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in January of 1998 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday during the peak of ethno-political violence known as The Troubles. It was published on 15 June 2010. The inquiry was set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972, superseding the tribunal set up under Lord Widgery", "title": "Bloody Sunday Inquiry" }, { "id": "7814692", "text": "its response to industrial relations problems was inadequate. A six-week strike of members of the National Union of Seamen, which began shortly after Wilson' re-election in 1966, did much to reinforce this perception, along with Wilson's own sense of insecurity in office. The premiership of his successor, Sir Edward Heath was the bloodiest in the history of the Northern Ireland Troubles. He was prime minister at the time of Bloody Sunday in 1972 when 14 unarmed men were killed by British soldiers during a banned civil rights march in Derry. In 2003, he gave evidence to the Saville Inquiry and", "title": "Political history of the United Kingdom (1945–present)" }, { "id": "2292289", "text": "stood in the doorway, shielding those taking cover. For his actions, he was awarded the George Cross. The 1st Battalion was involved in an action which came to be called the Ballymurphy massacre, which refers to a series of incidents over four days in which 11 innocent civilians were killed and dozens injured between 9 and 11 August 1971. In what has since became known as Bloody Sunday, on 30 January 1972, the 1st Battalion, stationed in Belfast, were flown to Derry to assist in policing a civil rights march demanding an end to internment. The Paras and other soldiers", "title": "Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)" }, { "id": "4391328", "text": "to escape from clouds of CS gas released by the British Army in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 8 July 1971 during the Troubles. The original picture was taken a few months before the day now known as Bloody Sunday that took place in the same town in early 1972. \"Killing Joke\" was released on 5 October 1980 by E.G. Records, and distributed by Polydor Records. It entered the UK Albums Chart on 25 October 1980, and eventually reached number 39. The album produced three singles: \"Wardance\", \"Change\" and \"Requiem\". The 2005 and 2008 reissues of \"Killing Joke\" featured several bonus", "title": "Killing Joke (1980 album)" }, { "id": "3036436", "text": "has held the post of President of The Academy of Experts On 29 January 1998, Lord Saville of Newdigate was appointed to chair the second Bloody Sunday Inquiry, a public inquiry commissioned by Prime Minister Tony Blair into Bloody Sunday, an incident in 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, when twenty-seven people were shot by members of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment, resulting in fourteen deaths. The previous inquiry, the Widgery Tribunal, had been described by nationalists as a whitewash. Other members of the panel were Sir Edward Somers, former judge of the Court of Appeal of New", "title": "Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate" }, { "id": "60508", "text": "Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday – sometimes called the Bogside Massacre – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. Other protesters were injured by rubber bullets or batons, and two were run down by army vehicles.", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "5657249", "text": "Bloody Sunday Inquiry The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in January of 1998 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday during the peak of ethno-political violence known as The Troubles. It was published on 15 June 2010. The inquiry was set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972, superseding the tribunal set up under Lord Widgery that had reported", "title": "Bloody Sunday Inquiry" }, { "id": "19191746", "text": "the Falls curfew was called in 1970, with the British Army searching civilian properties for illegal weapons, the situation quickly deteriorated. Militant republicans such as the PIRA launched an urban guerrilla warfare campaign with the hopes of forcing a secession of the North from the United Kingdom, with a goal to bring about a United Ireland. In attempting to distinguish between civilians and combatants, some atrocities occurred on all sides, especially during the 1970s. A notable example in 1972 was Bloody Sunday in Derry, associated with the Parachute Regiment (already regarded as heavy handed by the Irish nationalist community across", "title": "Irish in the British Armed Forces" }, { "id": "1891804", "text": "Derry to relieve the Police. The following day the deployment was extended to Belfast. Early the next year Chichester Clark flew to London to request more military support in an attempt to stem the increasing violence. Receiving much less than he had requested, he resigned and was replaced by Brian Faulkner. By 1972 the situation in Northern Ireland had deteriorated considerably, and on 30 January thirteen civilians on a Civil Rights march in Derry were killed by the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday. Three months later the Parliament of Northern Ireland and government were suspended, and later abolished, and replaced", "title": "Unionism in Ireland" }, { "id": "9762526", "text": "Court of the United Kingdom which, in May 2011, found in favour of the applicants, opening the way for a substantial compensation claim from both for their prison terms of 15 and 17 years. Raymond McCartney Raymond McCartney (born 29 November 1954) is a Sinn Féin politician, and a former hunger striker and volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). McCartney took part in the civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972, an event widely known as Bloody Sunday. One of his cousins, James Wray, was one of 14 men shot and killed by the 1st Battalion,", "title": "Raymond McCartney" }, { "id": "14933597", "text": "number of people who actually know something about Himalayan mountaineering do not consider that our expedition was a failure at all.\" In 1972, Murray sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean as a participant in the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. Sayle became embroiled in controversy over his investigative reporting into Bloody Sunday, a January 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot, and 13 killed, by a regiment of paratroopers from the British Army. Sayle and his reporting partner, Derek Humphry, were sent to Derry to investigate the shooting and concluded that the", "title": "Murray Sayle" }, { "id": "6681069", "text": "Claudy bombing The Claudy bombing occurred on 31 July 1972, when three car bombs exploded mid-morning on the Main Street of Claudy in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The attack killed nine civilians, and became known as \"Bloody Monday\". Those who planted the bombs had attempted to send a warning before the explosions took place. The warning was delayed, however, because the telephones were out of order due to an earlier bomb attack. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) issued an immediate denial of responsibility, and later claimed that \"an internal court of inquiry\" had found that its local unit did", "title": "Claudy bombing" }, { "id": "8900740", "text": "five techniques, the interrogation techniques, were described by the European Court of Human Rights as \"inhuman and degrading\", and by the European Commission of Human Rights as \"torture\". The operation led to mass protests and a sharp increase in violence over the following months. Internment lasted until December 1975, with 1,981 people interned. The incident that most damaged the relationship between the British Army and the Catholic community was \"Bloody Sunday\", 30 January 1972. During an anti-internment march in Derry, 26 unarmed Catholic protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment; fourteen died. Some were", "title": "Operation Banner" }, { "id": "7575831", "text": "in sustained campaigns against the security forces. On 30 January 1972, soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment shot 26 unarmed civilians during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry. Fourteen people died, including teenagers. This incident became known as Bloody Sunday and dramatically increased recruitment to the two IRAs. The target of the Official IRA bomb was the headquarters of the 16th Parachute Brigade, elements of which had been involved in the Bloody Sunday shootings. Despite warnings, the 'open' garrison meant there was no security or controlled access to the camp. A Ford Cortina car containing a", "title": "1972 Aldershot bombing" }, { "id": "7849571", "text": "months following it, 140 were killed. A serving officer of the British Royal Marines declared:It (internment) has, in fact, increased terrorist activity, perhaps boosted IRA recruitment, polarised further the Catholic and Protestant communities and reduced the ranks of the much needed Catholic moderates. In terms of loss of life, 1972 was the most violent year of the Troubles. The fatal march on Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972) in Derry, when 14 unarmed civil rights protesters were shot dead by British paratroopers, was an anti-internment march. All of those arrested were interrogated by the British Army and RUC. However, twelve internees", "title": "Operation Demetrius" }, { "id": "112804", "text": "Ireland and is often dated as the starting point of the Troubles. On Sunday 30 January 1972, 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead by British paratroopers during a civil rights march in the Bogside area. Another 13 were wounded and one further man later died of his wounds. This event came to be known as Bloody Sunday. The conflict which became known as the Troubles is widely regarded as having started in Derry with the Battle of the Bogside. The Civil Rights movement had also been very active in the city. In the early 1970s the city was heavily militarised", "title": "Derry" }, { "id": "9101502", "text": "the headquarters of the Army's Support Command, and it is also the administrative base for the 101st Logistic Brigade. The garrison plays host to around 70 military units and organisations. In 1972, the garrison was the site of one of the worst UK mainland IRA attacks of the time when a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters mess of 16 Parachute Brigade. The Official IRA claimed responsibility, stating that the attack was in revenge for the shootings in Derry that came to be known as Bloody Sunday. At the time of the attack, Aldershot garrison was an entirely open", "title": "Aldershot Garrison" }, { "id": "20877385", "text": "the Foreign Office instead of the Commonwealth Relations Office or its successor, the Commonwealth Office, despite Ireland having left the Commonwealth in 1949. During his tenure as Ambassador, the British Embassy in Dublin was burned down by a crowd of 20,000-30,000 people on 2 February 1972, following the Bloody Sunday incident in Derry on 30 January 1972 when the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 unarmed Catholic civilians during a civil rights demonstration. He published his memoirs, \"Dublin from Downing Street\", in 1978. John Peck (diplomat) Sir John Howard Peck (16 February 1913 – 13 January 1995) was a", "title": "John Peck (diplomat)" }, { "id": "6349704", "text": "of the in 1972. The movie was inspired by Don Mullan's politically influential book \"Eyewitness Bloody Sunday\" (Wolfhound Press, 1997). The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, an SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British Army paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another who died four-and-a-half months later. The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, a live version of \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" by U2", "title": "Bloody Sunday (film)" }, { "id": "6349707", "text": "it. It holds a 92% approval rating on aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 102 collected reviews, with an average score of 7.9/10. The site's consensus reads: \"Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.\" Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday is a 2002 Irish film about the 1972 \"Bloody Sunday\" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The", "title": "Bloody Sunday (film)" }, { "id": "12906199", "text": "recommendations for constitutional change, including a completely new constitution, abolishing the monarchy, changing the Senate, entrenching language rights and a bill of rights, and changing the balance of powers between the federal government and the provinces. In 1998, the British government appointed Hoyt as a member of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland. The other members of the Inquiry were Lord Saville, a lord of appeal in ordinary of the House of Lords and John Toohey, a retired judge of the High Court", "title": "William Lloyd Hoyt" }, { "id": "12495257", "text": "mainly in the Bogside compared to the Provisional IRA. One of the Troubles' most notorious events, 'Bloody Sunday', occurred in Derry in 1972. On 30 January, 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment. Thirteen died immediately. Many witnesses including bystanders and journalists testify that all those shot were unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. Most of the circumstances are disputed, and thus it is unclear exactly what happened and why. During the march there was low-level rioting and two civilians were shot and wounded by soldiers.", "title": "The Troubles in Derry" }, { "id": "9762522", "text": "Raymond McCartney Raymond McCartney (born 29 November 1954) is a Sinn Féin politician, and a former hunger striker and volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). McCartney took part in the civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972, an event widely known as Bloody Sunday. One of his cousins, James Wray, was one of 14 men shot and killed by the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment on that march. As a result of this incident McCartney joined the Provisional IRA several months later. On 12 January 1979 at Belfast Crown Court McCartney and another man, Eamonn MacDermott, were", "title": "Raymond McCartney" }, { "id": "60560", "text": "Sunday\"), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album. Irish professional wrestler Finn Bálor named one of his signature manoeuvres, a lifting single underhook DDT, \"Bloody Sunday\". Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday – sometimes called the Bogside Massacre – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "10966406", "text": "Doherty was born on 20 January 1955 in New Lodge, Belfast. Doherty left school aged 14 and began work on the docks and as an apprentice plumber, before being arrested in 1972 on his seventeenth birthday under the Special Powers Act. Doherty was interned on the prison ship HMS \"Maidstone\" and Long Kesh Detention Centre, and while interned heard of the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry, where 14 civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army. This led to him joining the IRA after he was released in June 1972. In the mid-1970s Doherty was convicted of", "title": "Joe Doherty" }, { "id": "2745366", "text": "The battalion's first deployment to Northern Ireland under the hostile conditions of the Troubles occurred in 1970, although it did not suffer its first fatal casualties until a second tour in 1972. Violence escalated substantially in 1972, resulting in the deaths of 470 people. The year witnessed the most loss of life during the conflict – punctuated by two episodes known as Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday – and imposition of direct rule following the prorogation of the Stormont Parliament by the Westminster Government Operating in West Belfast, 1 KINGS sustained 49 casualties (seven fatalities and 42 wounded) during the", "title": "King's Regiment" }, { "id": "2281192", "text": "the crowds of Catholics who were barricaded in the Bogside. Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, in Derry is seen by some as a turning point in the movement for civil rights. Fourteen unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers protesting against internment were shot dead by the British army and many were left wounded on the streets. The peace process has made significant gains in recent years. Through open dialogue from all parties, a state of ceasefire by all major paramilitary groups has lasted. A stronger economy improved Northern Ireland's standard of living. Civil rights issues have become less of a concern", "title": "Civil rights movements" }, { "id": "8754033", "text": "which from 1916 to 1923 carried out numerous attacks against symbols of British power. For example, it attacked over 300 police stations simultaneously just before Easter 1920, and, in November 1920, publicly killed a dozen police officers and burned down the Liverpool docks and warehouses, an action that became known as Bloody Sunday. After years of warfare, London agreed to the 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty creating a free Irish state encompassing 26 of the island's 32 counties. IRA tactics were an inspiration to other groups, including the Palestine Mandate's Zionists, and to British special operations during World War II. The IRA", "title": "History of terrorism" }, { "id": "4742608", "text": "of the Troubles\". On Sunday January 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead by British paratroopers during a civil rights march in the Bogside area. Another 13 were wounded and one further man later died of his wounds. This event came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Because of these events, certain areas of Derry produced strong support for republican paramilitaries. Up to 1972, both the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Official IRA operated in the city. However, in 1972 the OIRA called a ceasefire following their unpopular killing a local 18-year-old who was on leave from the British", "title": "History of Derry" }, { "id": "1756377", "text": "the traditionally predominant party in Northern Ireland, David Trimble showed great political courage when, at a critical stage of the process, he advocated solutions which led to the [Belfast (Good Friday)] peace agreement. Arguments over the extent of Provisional Irish Republican Army decommissioning led to repeated disruptions during Trimble's tenure as First Minister. In particular: In 1998, Tony Blair announced a new judicial inquiry, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry in 1972. A previous investigation, the Widgery Tribunal, into the same event had been discredited. During the debate in the House", "title": "David Trimble" }, { "id": "19739670", "text": "on what became known as Bloody Sunday. After Bloody Sunday recruits flooded in to join mostly the Provisional IRA but also the less active Official IRA. Until February 1972 the conflict largely remained in Northern Ireland, with the violence sometimes spilling into the Republic of Ireland, but in revenge for Bloody Sunday the Official IRA bombed the headquarters of the British Parachute Regiment, killing seven civilian workers. In March 1973 the Provisional IRA bombed England for the first time when they bombed the Old Bailey courthouse in the centre of London, killing one person and injuring over 200. During summer", "title": "1975 Piccadilly bombing" }, { "id": "8468391", "text": "Mullan witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry. He was participating in his first Civil Rights March. His 1997 best-selling book \"Eyewitness Bloody Sunday\" is officially recognised as an important catalyst that led to Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision in 1998 to establish a new Bloody Sunday Inquiry. The Inquiry opened on 27 March 2000. It was the longest and most expensive Inquiry in British legal history. The results were published on 15 June 2010. British Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the House of Commons that afternoon where he acknowledged, among other things, that the paratroopers had fired the", "title": "Don Mullan" }, { "id": "2485372", "text": "Bleakley's resignation in September 1971 over the internment issue, appointed Dr G.B. Newe, a prominent lay Catholic, as Minister of State in the Cabinet Office. Faulkner's administration staggered on through the rest of 1971, insisting that security was the paramount issue. In January 1972, an incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry, during which paratroopers shot and killed thirteen unarmed civilians. A fourteenth civilian was to die later. What history has come to know as Bloody Sunday was, in essence, the end of Faulkner's government. In March 1972, Faulkner refused to maintain a government without", "title": "Brian Faulkner" }, { "id": "4828596", "text": "restore state control over areas of Belfast and Derry, which were then controlled by republican paramilitaries. The British Army's reputation suffered further from an incident in Derry on 30 January 1972, Bloody Sunday in which 13 Catholic civilians were murdered by The Parachute Regiment. The biggest single loss of life for British troops in the conflict came at Narrow Water, where eighteen British soldiers were killed in a PIRA bomb attack on 27 August 1979, on the same day Lord Mountbatten of Burma was assassinated by the PIRA in a separate attack. In all almost 500 British troops died in", "title": "History of the British Army" }, { "id": "12287732", "text": "Operation Banner. The battalion was central to the events of both the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971 and the more infamous Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, when they opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators leaving 14 civilians dead and 13 wounded, the greatest killing of British subjects by government forces in one incident since the Anglo-Irish War. The second official inquiry of the killings found 1st Para's actions \"unjustified and unjustifiable\". To date, none of the members of 1 Para have been prosecuted. The battalion was involved in the NATO operation in Kosovo in 1999, Operation Agricola. One Company", "title": "1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment" }, { "id": "13418949", "text": "Guildhall, Derry The Guildhall in Derry, Northern Ireland, is a building in which the elected members of Derry and Strabane District Council meet. It was built in 1890. The Guildhall houses a large hall where many events of social and political nature have been held. It has been home to the Feis Doire Colmcille – an event which celebrates Irish culture – and the now-discontinued Londonderry Feis. It was also home to the Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday 30 January 1972 in Derry. It is known as \"Halla na Cathrach\" in Irish and \"tha Guelders Haw\" in", "title": "Guildhall, Derry" }, { "id": "4763635", "text": "starting point of the Troubles. Between 1969 and 1972, the area along with the Creggan and other Catholic areas became a no-go area for the British Army and police. Both the Official and Provisional IRA openly patrolled the area and local residents often paid subscriptions to both. On the 30 January 1972, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association organised a march against internment that was put into effect the year before turned into a blood bath known as Bloody Sunday. The British Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 protesters and injured 14 more; this resulted in a large surge of recruitment", "title": "Bogside" }, { "id": "4547714", "text": "his retirement, Toohey served as a judge in the judicial system of Kiribati and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji. He became a Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Western Australia. In September 2000 he was appointed to be one of the three independent members of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (chaired by Lord Saville) into the events of 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland (replacing New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired for personal reasons). He died peacefully at home on 9 April 2015. Toohey was made an Officer of the Order of", "title": "John Toohey (judge)" }, { "id": "6688290", "text": "the city. He left briefly in the 1970s to serve as a religious advisor to RTÉ in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland but spent the majority of his career in Derry. During his time in Derry, he took part in the civil rights marches; he had first-hand experience of the Battle of the Bogside in 1969, the early years of the Troubles, internment, and the events of Bloody Sunday, in which British soldiers fired on unarmed protesters on 30 January 1972, killing 14 people. Daly became a public figure after he was witnessed using a blood-stained handkerchief as a", "title": "Edward Daly (bishop)" }, { "id": "6349703", "text": "Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday is a 2002 Irish film about the 1972 \"Bloody Sunday\" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Though set in Derry, the film was actually shot in Ballymun in North Dublin. However, some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route", "title": "Bloody Sunday (film)" }, { "id": "9091602", "text": "Sunday Bloody Sunday \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1983 album \"War\" and was released as the album's third single on 21 March 1983 in Germany and the Netherlands. \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" is noted for its militaristic drumbeat, harsh guitar, and melodic harmonies. One of U2's most overtly political songs, its lyrics describe the horror felt by an observer of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, mainly focusing on the Bloody Sunday incident in Derry where British troops shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, bystanders and children. At", "title": "Sunday Bloody Sunday" }, { "id": "4314853", "text": "regiments of the East Anglian Brigade: The Royal Anglian Regiment was established to serve as the county regiment for the following counties: Initially formed of seven battalions (four regular and three Territorial Army), the regiment was reduced in 1975 with the loss of the 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion to three regular battalions and three TA. The regiment was reduced again in 1992 to two regular and two TA battalions with the loss of the 3rd (16th/44th Foot) and 5th Battalions. The regiment carried out tours-of-duty throughout \"the Troubles\" in Northern Ireland and was present on 'Bloody Sunday' in Derry in 1972,", "title": "Royal Anglian Regiment" }, { "id": "13523259", "text": "importance. On 30 January 1972 the worst tensions came to a head with the events of Bloody Sunday. Paratroops opened fire on civil rights protesters in Derry, killing 13 unarmed civilians. Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, and other violent acts in the early 1970s came to be known as the Troubles. The Stormont parliament was prorogued in 1972 and abolished in 1973. Paramilitary private armies such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, resulted from a split within the IRA, the Official IRA and Irish National Liberation Army fought against the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Ulster Volunteer Force. Moreover, the British", "title": "History of Ireland" }, { "id": "13425195", "text": "Ballymurphy massacre The Ballymurphy Massacre was a series of incidents between 9 and 11 August 1971 in which the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment of the British Army killed eleven civilians in Ballymurphy, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as part of Operation Demetrius. The shootings were later referred to as Belfast's Bloody Sunday, a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later. The Northern Ireland Troubles had been ongoing for two years, and Belfast was particularly affected by political and sectarian violence. The British Army had been deployed in Northern Ireland in 1969, as events", "title": "Ballymurphy massacre" }, { "id": "8348432", "text": "were tried in 1970 when it emerged that some of the fund had been spent covertly on buying arms for nationalists. Angry crowds burned down the British Embassy in Dublin in protest at the shooting by British troops of 13 civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday (1972) and in 1981 protesters tried to storm the British Embassy in response to the IRA hunger strikes of that year. In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) trial \"Ireland v. the United Kingdom\" ruled that the techniques used in interrogating prisoners in Northern Ireland \"amounted to a practice of", "title": "Ireland–United Kingdom relations" }, { "id": "7427792", "text": "appeals against conviction of the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six. He resigned in October 1991 when he was spotted kerb-crawling in Kings Cross, London. His wife committed suicide in 1993, two years later. He continued with his career however, both prosecuting and defending in important cases, particularly murders. Between 2000 and 2004 he represented 10 British soldiers in the inquiry into the Bloody Sunday massacre (when 27 people were shot, 14 fatally, by British troops in Northern Ireland in 1972). In answer to a question in Parliament in 2005 the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said that Sir", "title": "Allan Green (barrister)" }, { "id": "12495243", "text": "The Troubles in Derry The city of Derry, Northern Ireland, was severely affected by the Troubles. The conflict is widely considered to have begun in the city, with many regarding the Battle of the Bogside (an inner suburb of the city) as the beginning of the Troubles. The 'Bloody Sunday' incident of 1972 also occurred in Derry. Derry has a long history of sectarian tension and violence. In particular, the city is known as the site of the Siege of Derry of 1689, in which the Protestant supporters of William III of England held out against the mostly Catholic supporters", "title": "The Troubles in Derry" }, { "id": "13264885", "text": "were physically assaulted, others impaled, blinded, and on one occasion held down while a vehicle was driven over them. One of the priorities of the Metropolitan Police from the beginning was \"maintaining public order\", which they were active in doing, against the major Chartist demonstrations (1839–48) and the Bloody Sunday demonstration of the unemployed in Trafalgar Square in 1887. In 1839, the Bow Street Runners, the Foot and Horse Patrol and the Thames River Police were amalgamated with the Metropolitan Police. However, the City of London Police, created in the same year was an independent force. In 1842 taking over", "title": "History of the Metropolitan Police Service" }, { "id": "60513", "text": "in the late 1960s and it was in Derry that the so-called Battle of the Bogside – the event that more than any other pushed the Northern Ireland administration to ask for military support for civil policing – took place in August 1969. While many Catholics initially welcomed the British Army as a neutral force, in contrast to what was regarded as a sectarian police force, relations between them soon deteriorated. In response to escalating levels of violence across Northern Ireland, internment without trial was introduced on 9 August 1971. There was disorder across Northern Ireland following the introduction of", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "13867061", "text": "dated 7 January 1972, Ford said he was \"coming to the conclusion that the minimum force necessary to achieve a restoration of law and order is to shoot selected ringleaders amongst the DYH (Derry Young Hooligans), after clear warnings have been issued\". In the event, seven of the innocent victims of Bloody Sunday were indeed Derry teenagers. At the Bloody Sunday inquiry he claimed not to remember having written the memo. Ford relinquished his command on 9 April 1973. In 1973, Ford became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and in 1976 he was appointed Military Secretary. He was", "title": "Robert Ford (British Army officer)" }, { "id": "16328316", "text": "the Provisional IRA became more active in rioting and targeting British soldiers. In 1971, internment without trial was introduced. In response NICRA (which, due to the emergence of the Provisional IRA and the PD’s drift towards socialist-party politics, was the main organisation advocating civil rights) organised a campaign of non-payment of rates and rent, in which an estimated 30,000 households participated. Despite such attempts to continue civil disobedience, the civil-rights movement floundered during 1971 and 1972. In January 1972 British soldiers attacked a peaceful demonstration, killing 13 civilians in what became known as \"Bloody Sunday\". NICRA organised a protest in", "title": "Northern Ireland civil rights movement" }, { "id": "20447783", "text": "government into removing its troops from Northern Ireland, shortly before Lennon moved to New York. On 30 January 1972 at a protest march in Derry, 13 marchers were killed by members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment. The killing was quickly dubbed \"Bloody Sunday\". Lennon, who was living in New York at the time, was enraged by the massacre and wrote \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" as an angry response. The lyrics of \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" express Lennon's anger. Ben Urish and Ken Bielen explain that the lyrics \"start off with some nice rhetorical spins and a modicum of insight\" but eventually", "title": "Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song)" }, { "id": "18655272", "text": "the Bloody Sunday incident in Derry on 30 January 1972 when the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 unarmed Catholic civilians during a civil rights demonstration. In 1981 protesters tried to storm the British Embassy in response to the IRA hunger strikes of that year. The current embassy building on Merrion Road was built in 1995 and designed by Allies and Morrison. It is built around a central courtyard, a cloister-like space. The British Ambassador's official residence in Dublin is Glencairn House, located on Murphystown Road. Glencairn has been the official residence of successive British Ambassadors to Ireland since", "title": "Embassy of the United Kingdom, Dublin" }, { "id": "12495260", "text": "O'Neill, issued a statement describing the events as 'sheer unadulterated murder'. On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 2 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: \"I have no doubt that innocent people were shot\". This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent. A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday was established in 1998. Bloody Sunday had a massive and negative impact on the Northern Irish conflict. Support for the IRA rose, and hatred for the Army became widespread amongst the", "title": "The Troubles in Derry" }, { "id": "7575829", "text": "1972 Aldershot bombing The 1972 Aldershot bombing was an attack by the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) using a car bomb on 22 February 1972 in Aldershot, England. The bomb targeted the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Brigade and was claimed as a revenge attack for Bloody Sunday. Seven civilian staff (mostly female cleaners) were killed and 19 were wounded. It was the Official IRA's largest attack in Britain during \"the Troubles\" and one of its last major actions before it declared a permanent ceasefire in May 1972. The perpetrator Noel Jenkinson was a Protestant originally from", "title": "1972 Aldershot bombing" }, { "id": "1466334", "text": "made his film debut at the age of 14 in \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\", in which he played a vandal in an uncredited role. He described the experience as \"heaven\" for getting paid £2 to vandalise expensive cars parked outside his local church. For a few weeks in 1972, the Day-Lewis family lived at Lemmons, the north London home of Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Day-Lewis' father had pancreatic cancer, and Howard invited the family to Lemmons as a place they could use to rest and recuperate. His father died there in May that year. By the time he left", "title": "Daniel Day-Lewis" }, { "id": "20540327", "text": "he sometimes conducted using a mobile phone while reporting from the battlefield. Jacobson died at the age of 79 on 1 January 2018 after contracting meningitis. His funeral was at Mortlake Crematorium. Philip Jacobson Philip Samuel Jacobson (10 September 1938 – 1 January 2018) was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his reporting for \"The Sunday Times\" Insight team of the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972. Philip Jacobson was born on 10 September 1938 to Sydney, later Baron, Jacobson, and his wife. His father was political editor of the \"Daily Mirror\" and later editor", "title": "Philip Jacobson" }, { "id": "1303688", "text": "was achieved from these meetings other than media coverage of the activities in the north. The situation in Northern Ireland continued to deteriorate during Lynch's first term. Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972), saw the killing of 14 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers and a backlash of anti-British feeling in all parts of Ireland, including the burning of the British embassy in Dublin. Lynch's attitude towards the Northern Ireland question and the application of Fianna Fáil party policy to it would eventually come to define his first period as Taoiseach, and would once again show his critics that far from being", "title": "Jack Lynch" }, { "id": "2562716", "text": "Bloody Sunday (1887) Bloody Sunday took place in London on 13 November 1887, when marchers protesting unemployment and coercion in Ireland, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien, clashed with the Metropolitan Police and the British Army. The demonstration was organised by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League. Violent clashes took place between the police and demonstrators, many \"armed with iron bars, knives, pokers and gas pipes\". A contemporary report noted that 400 were arrested and 75 persons were badly injured, including many police, two policemen being stabbed and one protester bayonetted. Gladstone's espousal", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1887)" }, { "id": "20540323", "text": "Philip Jacobson Philip Samuel Jacobson (10 September 1938 – 1 January 2018) was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his reporting for \"The Sunday Times\" Insight team of the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972. Philip Jacobson was born on 10 September 1938 to Sydney, later Baron, Jacobson, and his wife. His father was political editor of the \"Daily Mirror\" and later editor of the \"Daily Herald\" and \"The Sun\". Jacobson was brought up in Stanmore, Middlesex, and educated in Dorset and at schools elsewhere. He did his national service in a tank regiment that", "title": "Philip Jacobson" }, { "id": "5851178", "text": "30 January 1972 which was to develop into Bloody Sunday, whereupon fourteen unarmed civilians were murdered by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment on duty in Derry. After the prorogation of the Stormont Parliament, Cooper was elected as one of the representatives of Mid Ulster to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973 and the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975. He was also the SDLP's candidate in the constituency in both the February 1974 and October 1974 Westminster elections. By standing in the first of these, he split the nationalist vote and in effect ensured the defeat of independent MP Bernadette McAliskey.", "title": "Ivan Cooper" }, { "id": "14661494", "text": "all been said.\" Derek Wilford Colonel Derek Wilford, OBE, is the former British Army officer who commanded the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment in Derry, Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday in 1972. At the time he was a lieutenant colonel. Wilford was exonerated by the Widgery tribunal that April and on 3 October 1972 he was appointed OBE. However, the Saville Inquiry, many years later, determined that Wilford had expressly disobeyed an order from a superior officer, Brigadier Pat MacLellan, who prohibited Wilford from sending troops into the Bogside. The Saville Inquiry found that MacLellan was not to blame for the", "title": "Derek Wilford" }, { "id": "193567", "text": "was often that of the Auxiliary Division of the Constabulary. One of the strongest critics of the Black and Tans was King George V who in May 1921 told Lady Margery Greenwood that 'he hated the idea of the 'Black and Tans\". The most high-profile atrocity of the war took place in Dublin in November 1920, and is still known as Bloody Sunday. In the early hours of the morning, Collins' \"Squad\" killed fourteen British spies, some in front of their wives. In reprisal, that afternoon, British forces opened fire on a football crowd at Croke Park, killing 14 civilians.", "title": "Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)" }, { "id": "16204067", "text": "violence to avenge the Bloody Sunday killings in which 13 unarmed Catholic civilian men were killed by the British Army's Parachute Regiment when the latter opened fire during an anti-internment demonstration held in Derry on 30 January 1972. The bombing had been carried out by a North Belfast unit of the Provisional IRA's Third Battalion Belfast Brigade. The OC of the Brigade at that time was the volatile Seamus Twomey, who had ordered and directed the attack. On 23 March, the IRA admitted responsibility for the bomb with one Belfast Brigade officer later telling a journalist \"I feel very bad", "title": "1972 Donegall Street bombing" }, { "id": "19402844", "text": "Scott's Oyster Bar bombing On 12 November 1975 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning at Scott's Oyster Bar at Mount Street, Mayfair, London The Troubles had been raging in Northern Ireland since 1969. 1972 was the deadliest year of the conflict, 497 people were killed that year,with events like Bloody Friday & Bloody Sunday fuelling the war. In March 1973 the IRA conducted its first operations in England with a series of car bombs. In February 1975 the Provisional Irish Republican Army agreed to a ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office. Seven \"incident centers\" were", "title": "Scott's Oyster Bar bombing" }, { "id": "4196781", "text": "inner-city decline were not implemented and rioting would break out again in the 1985 and 1995 Brixton riots. 1981 Brixton riot The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a confrontation between the Metropolitan Police and protesters in Lambeth, South London, England, between 10 and 12 April 1981. The main riot on 11 April, dubbed \"Bloody Saturday\" by \"Time\" magazine, resulted in almost 280 injuries to police and 45 injuries to members of the public; over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and almost 150 buildings were damaged, with thirty burned. There were 82 arrests. Reports suggested", "title": "1981 Brixton riot" }, { "id": "14661488", "text": "Derek Wilford Colonel Derek Wilford, OBE, is the former British Army officer who commanded the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment in Derry, Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday in 1972. At the time he was a lieutenant colonel. Wilford was exonerated by the Widgery tribunal that April and on 3 October 1972 he was appointed OBE. However, the Saville Inquiry, many years later, determined that Wilford had expressly disobeyed an order from a superior officer, Brigadier Pat MacLellan, who prohibited Wilford from sending troops into the Bogside. The Saville Inquiry found that MacLellan was not to blame for the shootings. Lord Saville", "title": "Derek Wilford" }, { "id": "5429916", "text": "he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film \"Bloody Sunday\", about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous \"cheeky chappie\" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Nesbitt has also starred in \"Murphy's Law\" (2001–2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy, in a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations", "title": "James Nesbitt" }, { "id": "20040837", "text": "marchers in Derry, in an event later known as Bloody Sunday (1972). The attack enraged the Nationalist community and as a result support for the IRA surged. In the coming months the ferocity of the conflict, and as a result number of casualties, rose dramatically. While military installations and civilian businesses were targeted alike, civilians were rarely themselves targets in IRA attacks. Despite this civilians often fell accidental victim to the nascent paramilitary group's operations. This most prominently occurred on Bloody Friday (1972), when several bombs planted by the IRA exploded in quick succession in Belfast. As a result of", "title": "Newry Customs Office Bomb" }, { "id": "60517", "text": "by soldiers of the Parachute Regiment. When some protesters threw stones and tried to go around the barbed wire, paratroopers drove them back by firing rubber bullets at close range and making baton charges. The paratroopers badly beat a number of protesters and had to be physically restrained by their own officers. These allegations of brutality by paratroopers were reported widely on television and in the press. Some in the Army also thought there had been undue violence by the paratroopers. NICRA intended, despite the ban, to hold another anti-internment march in Derry on Sunday 30 January. The authorities decided", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "6841916", "text": "and daughter were both present at St George's Plateau on 13 August 1911, when a baton charge by police and troops broke up a rally in support of Liverpool's striking transport workers. Hundreds were injured, and in the disturbances that followed, two demonstrators were shot dead. The day became enshrined in Liverpool's working-class history as \"Bloody Sunday\". Elizabeth left school in 1913, and began work filling seed packets for five shillings a week. The job was too monotonous to engage her for long, and after a few months she found a post in the drapery department of the Walton Road", "title": "Bessie Braddock" }, { "id": "2470821", "text": "the Provisional IRA soon after. By the start of 1972, at the age of 21, he was second-in-command of the IRA in Derry, a position he held at the time of Bloody Sunday, when 14 civil rights protesters were killed in the city by soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment. During the Saville Inquiry into the events of that day, Paddy Ward stated he had been the leader of the Fianna, the youth wing of the IRA at the time of Bloody Sunday. He said that McGuinness and an anonymous IRA member gave him bomb parts that morning. He", "title": "Martin McGuinness" }, { "id": "20744603", "text": "35-year-old Dermot McShane, died after being run over by a British Army Saxon armoured vehicle in Little James Street. The rioting was one of the worst Derry ever experienced, and was compared to the 1969 Battle of the Bogside. Over 10,000 people marked the death of victim Dermot McShane in Derry, a display unseen in the city since Bloody Sunday in 1972. Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin addressed the march. McGuinness said: \"What we have seen today is nothing short of unadulterated murder by the British Army and the RUC.\" In May 2008 an inquest into his death was opened.", "title": "1996 Derry riots" }, { "id": "6078621", "text": "Saville Report in June marked a victory for the families, a victory of which McCann was very much a part. In February 1972, within a month of the killings, McCann published the first pamphlet on Bloody Sunday, “What happened in Derry”. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s he wrote about the injustice of Bloody Sunday whenever he got the opportunity. In the run-up to 1992, the 20th anniversary of the massacre, McCann made a proposal to the families for a book to mark the occasion. The publication of Bloody Sunday in Derry: What Really Happened was crucial in helping to", "title": "Eamonn McCann" }, { "id": "20447782", "text": "Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 album with Elephant's Memory, \"Some Time in New York City\". The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, \"The Luck of the Irish\" being the other. Lennon had sympathies for the Roman Catholic Irish minority in Northern Ireland and had joined a protest in London on 11 August 1971 that attempted to pressure the British", "title": "Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song)" }, { "id": "6877436", "text": "With an intensification in the conflict the British government made a number of military decisions that had serious political consequences. The Falls Road Curfew would boost the \"Provos\" in Belfast, coupled with internment in August 1971 followed by Bloody Sunday in Derry in January 1972. These events produced an influx into the Provisionals on the military side, making them the dominant force and finally eclipsing the Officials everywhere while bringing hundreds into Ó Brádaigh's Sinn Féin. People began to flock to join the \"Provos\", as they were called, and in an effort to reassert its authority, the Goulding section began", "title": "History of Sinn Féin" }, { "id": "8148818", "text": "London that year, however, he ceded to EMI's request to omit the song, recognising that its inclusion might be viewed as a gesture of support for the IRA's use of violence. Give Ireland Back to the Irish \"Give Ireland Back to the Irish\" is a song by the British–American rock band Wings that was released as their debut single in February 1972. It was written by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda in response to the events of Bloody Sunday, on 30 January that year, when British troops in Northern Ireland shot dead thirteen civil rights protestors. Keen to voice", "title": "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" }, { "id": "1806829", "text": "diving onto it. I've tried to put it at the back of my mind for twenty-five years. In \"The Longest War\", author Kevin Kelley wrote that the IRA \"had done irreparable damage to their cause – in Britain, abroad, and in their own communities. They had handed Britain a perfect propaganda opportunity – Bloody Friday could not be equated with Bloody Sunday. Nearly everyone was sickened by the slaughter\". Ten days after the bombings, the British Army launched Operation Motorman, in which it re-took IRA-controlled areas in Belfast and Derry. It was the biggest British military operation since the Suez", "title": "Bloody Friday (1972)" }, { "id": "2142058", "text": "Mike Jackson (British Army officer) General Sir Michael David Jackson, (born 21 March 1944) is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of Bloody Sunday (1972), when soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing 13 innocent people. On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of", "title": "Mike Jackson (British Army officer)" }, { "id": "60511", "text": "Troubles\" because a large number of civilians were killed, by forces of the state, in full view of the public and the press. It was the highest number of people killed in a single shooting incident during the conflict. Bloody Sunday increased Catholic and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army and exacerbated the conflict. Support for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose and there was a surge of recruitment into the organisation, especially locally. The City of Derry was perceived by many Catholics and Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland to be the epitome of what was described as", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "5657261", "text": "had fired at soldiers. After months of speculation, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness announced that he would give evidence to the inquiry. The inquiry relocated to the Westminster Central Hall in London to hear evidence from former British Army soldiers, who claimed they might be attacked by dissident republicans if they travelled to Derry. Judges retired on 23 November 2004. They reconvened once again on 16 December to listen to testimony from another key witness, known as Witness X. Publication of the Inquiry's Report was expected at the end of 2007, or possibly early 2008. On 8 February 2008, Secretary of", "title": "Bloody Sunday Inquiry" }, { "id": "6688310", "text": "Daly's work for peace during the Troubles, as did the leaders of various religious denominations in Derry. Archbishop Eamon Martin, Primate of All Ireland, described Daly as having \"literally spent himself in the service of others\", and said he will be remembered as \"a fearless peacebuilder\". According to \"The Guardian\", in its obituary, the abiding memory of Daly is one of \"a terrified but calm priest waving a bloodied white handkerchief\", which the BBC described as \"the iconic image of Bloody Sunday\". Daly was never comfortable with the public profile he gained following his actions on Bloody Sunday and did", "title": "Edward Daly (bishop)" }, { "id": "14374155", "text": "all had been killed or fatally wounded in Belfast. At the time the day was referred to as \"Belfast's Bloody Sunday\". However the title of \"Bloody Sunday\", is now more commonly given in Ireland to events in Dublin in November 1920 or Derry in January 1972. A strict curfew was enforced in Belfast after the violence, to try to ensure the Orange Order's 12 July marches passed off peacefully. Directly after the violence, on 11 July, the Commandant of the IRA's 2nd Northern Division, Eoin O'Duffy, was sent to Belfast by the organization's leadership in Dublin to liaise with the", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1921)" }, { "id": "4330045", "text": "Operational Support Division was deployed into the area to restore order and were later criticised by community leaders and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, [Derek Warlock], for their \"over zealous and provocative tactics\", which included the drumming of batons on riot shields. One week later, another serious conflict, sparked by similar circumstances, broke out between the Metropolitan Police and mainly black residents of North London's Tottenham district in what became known as the Broadwater Farm riot. On her arrival at hospital, surgeons found that the bullet had penetrated Mrs Groce's lung and exited through her spine, paralysing her from", "title": "1985 Brixton riot" }, { "id": "13470975", "text": "in the events now known as Bloody Sunday, in which Friel participated, the British 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on the protesters which resulted in thirteen deaths. An early form of the play, having been started approximately ten months prior to Bloody Sunday, was modified following the events of the day to entail certain links to the events. \"The Freedom of the City\" was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in Ireland, in 1973. In Australia it remains a popular set text among English, English Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies secondary school students. Set in Derry 1970, the", "title": "The Freedom of the City" }, { "id": "8294653", "text": "led to other sections of workers coming out on strike. A strike committee – chaired by syndicalist Tom Mann – was formed to represent all the workers in dispute. Many meetings were held on St. George's Plateau, next to St. George’s Hall on Lime Street, including the rally on 13 August where police baton charged a crowd of 85,000 people, who had gathered to hear Tom Mann speak. This became known as \"Bloody Sunday\". In the police charges and subsequent unrest that carried on through the following night, over 350 people were injured. 3,500 British troops were stationed in the", "title": "1911 Liverpool general transport strike" }, { "id": "19994423", "text": "Harrow School bombing The Harrow School bombing happened on 24 October 1974, when the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang bombed Peterborough Cottage, a three-storey former caretaker's house in the grounds of Harrow School. A warning was given and there were no deaths or injuries. Until February 1972 the conflict known as The Troubles was largely confined to Northern Ireland, with the violence sometimes spilling into the Republic of Ireland, but in revenge for Bloody Sunday the Official IRA bombed the headquarters of the British Parachute Regiment, killing seven civilian workers. In March 1973 the Provisional IRA bombed England for the", "title": "Harrow School bombing" }, { "id": "60514", "text": "internment, with 21 people being killed in three days of rioting. In Belfast, soldiers of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 Catholic civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. On 10 August, Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate. A further six soldiers had been killed in Derry by mid-December 1971. At least 1,332 rounds were fired at the British Army, who also faced 211 explosions and 180 nail bombs, and who fired 364 rounds in return. IRA", "title": "Bloody Sunday (1972)" }, { "id": "4196763", "text": "1981 Brixton riot The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a confrontation between the Metropolitan Police and protesters in Lambeth, South London, England, between 10 and 12 April 1981. The main riot on 11 April, dubbed \"Bloody Saturday\" by \"Time\" magazine, resulted in almost 280 injuries to police and 45 injuries to members of the public; over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and almost 150 buildings were damaged, with thirty burned. There were 82 arrests. Reports suggested that up to 5,000 people were involved. Brixton in South London was an area with serious social and", "title": "1981 Brixton riot" }, { "id": "6552897", "text": "march and as British soldiers moved in when the boy was struck in the face by a bullet. That day, January 30, 1972, became known as Bloody Sunday or the Bogside Massacre. Sheehy was trapped inside a Catholic ghetto which was under the authority of the IRA. She made her escape in a car over pastureland to Dublin. There Sheehy traveled to several safe houses and interviewed Rita O'Hare. The whole experience affected Sheehy deeply and on her return to the States she had a difficult time writing the story and developed a fear of airplanes which she later described", "title": "Gail Sheehy" }, { "id": "5686369", "text": "over the most important decision making to an unelected bureaucracy, leading to the buildup of another world power block. Indignation at the events of Bloody Sunday in January 1972 led to another upsurge in activities. Within hours of the horrendous events of that day, the CA brought out a special bulletin on the incident and distributed it widely. At CA meetings throughout Britain members called for the resignation of Reginald Maudling, the Home Secretary, and for a full and independent inquiry. The CA was also concerned about growing demands for the abolition of Stormont and found itself somewhat isolated in", "title": "Connolly Association" }, { "id": "7575835", "text": "heart failure four years later. The remaining conspirators were never captured. Shortly afterwards, many of the parachute regiment battalions were either disbanded and reorganised, leaving Aldershot. The larger and more militant Provisional IRA continued its campaign and also began to attack military and commercial targets in Britain. 1972 Aldershot bombing The 1972 Aldershot bombing was an attack by the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) using a car bomb on 22 February 1972 in Aldershot, England. The bomb targeted the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Brigade and was claimed as a revenge attack for Bloody Sunday. Seven civilian", "title": "1972 Aldershot bombing" }, { "id": "3337077", "text": "in Dublin's planning process. Dublin was affected to varying degrees by \"the Troubles\" a civil conflict that raged in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the late 1990s. In 1972, angry crowds in Dublin burned down the British Embassy in Merrion Square in protest at the shooting of 13 civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday (1972) by British troops. However the city did not generally experience paramilitary violence directly, with the exception a period in the early to mid 1970s when it was the target of several loyalist bombings. The 1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings killed 3 people and injured 185.", "title": "History of Dublin" }, { "id": "8148799", "text": "Give Ireland Back to the Irish \"Give Ireland Back to the Irish\" is a song by the British–American rock band Wings that was released as their debut single in February 1972. It was written by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda in response to the events of Bloody Sunday, on 30 January that year, when British troops in Northern Ireland shot dead thirteen civil rights protestors. Keen to voice their outrage at the killings, Wings recorded the track two days later at Abbey Road Studios in London. It was the band's first song to include Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough.", "title": "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" } ]

[ "Challenger", "Challengers", "Challengers (disambiguation)", "Challenger (album)", "Challenger (disambiguation)" ]

[ { "id": "2519637", "text": "nine miles above the Atlantic Ocean starting after about 1 minute after liftoff. STS-41-B STS-41-B was the tenth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the . It launched on February 3, 1984, and landed on February 11 after deploying two communications satellites. It was also notable for including the first untethered spacewalk. Following STS-9, the flight numbering system for the Space Shuttle program was changed. Thus, the next flight, instead of being designated STS-11, became STS-41-B; the original successor to STS-9, STS-10, was cancelled due to payload delays. This was done due to fears that a flight", "title": "STS-41-B" }, { "id": "2519631", "text": "STS-41-B STS-41-B was the tenth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the . It launched on February 3, 1984, and landed on February 11 after deploying two communications satellites. It was also notable for including the first untethered spacewalk. Following STS-9, the flight numbering system for the Space Shuttle program was changed. Thus, the next flight, instead of being designated STS-11, became STS-41-B; the original successor to STS-9, STS-10, was cancelled due to payload delays. This was done due to fears that a flight numbered STS-13 could suffer a mishap as Apollo 13 did. \"Challenger\" lifted off", "title": "STS-41-B" }, { "id": "2741037", "text": "flight-tested rendezvous sensors and computer programs for the first time. This mission marked the first checkout of the MMU and Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR). McCandless made the first untethered free flight on each of the two MMUs carried on board, thereby becoming the first person to make an untethered spacewalk. He described the experience, I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable ... It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing. ... I’d been told of the quiet vacuum", "title": "Bruce McCandless II" }, { "id": "3046550", "text": "history of the Space Shuttle Program. Most recently, Meade flew on STS-64 (September 9–20, 1994) aboard the Space Shuttle \"Discovery\". The mission highlight occurred when Meade performed the first untethered spacewalk in 10 years. The objective was to flight test a self-rescue jetpack. Meade logged 6.9 hours outside \"Discovery\" and 3.6 hours piloting the jetpack. Other activities included the first use of lasers for environmental research, deployment and retrieval of a solar science satellite, and the performance of plume characterization studies of the reaction control thruster exhaust. Mission duration was 10 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes. Meade has served as", "title": "Carl J. Meade" }, { "id": "2281237", "text": "Gemini 4 Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth manned American spaceflight (including two X-15 flights at altitudes exceeding ). Astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White circled the Earth 66 times in four days, making it the first US flight to approach the five-day flight of the Soviet Vostok 5. The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American, during which White floated free outside the spacecraft, tethered to it, for approximately 20 minutes. Both of these accomplishments helped the", "title": "Gemini 4" }, { "id": "123531", "text": "used EVA in 1973 to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States' first space station. A \"Stand-up\" EVA (SEVA) is when an astronaut does not fully leave a spacecraft, but is completely reliant on the spacesuit for environmental support. Its name derives from the astronaut \"standing up\" in the open hatch, usually to record or assist a spacewalking astronaut. EVAs may be either tethered (the astronaut is connected to the spacecraft; oxygen and electrical power can be supplied through an umbilical cable; no propulsion is needed to return to the spacecraft), or untethered. Untethered spacewalks were only performed on", "title": "Extravehicular activity" }, { "id": "3022965", "text": "married couple to be in space at the same time. Lee and Davis had met during training for the flight and had married in secret. They disclosed their marriage to NASA shortly before the flight, when it was too late to train a substitute. NASA has since changed the rules and will not allow married astronauts on the same flight. Lee was a mission specialist on his third flight, mission STS-64, running from September 9–20, 1994. During this flight he logged 6 hours and 51 minutes of EVA to test a self-rescue jetpack, undertook the first untethered spacewalk in 10", "title": "Mark C. Lee" }, { "id": "3023012", "text": "critical angle determination). Linenger launched aboard U.S. Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" (STS-81) on January 12, 1997, remained on board the space station with two Russian cosmonauts upon undocking of the Shuttle, and eventually returned upon a different mission of \"Atlantis\" (STS-84) on May 24, 1997—spending a total of 132 days, 4 hours, 1 minute in space—the longest duration flight of an American male at that time. During his stay aboard Space Station Mir, Linenger became the first American to conduct a spacewalk from a foreign space station and in a non-American made spacesuit. During the five-hour walk, he and his Russian", "title": "Jerry M. Linenger" }, { "id": "3736652", "text": "performed a fly-around of \"Mir\", leaving Linenger aboard the station. During his Increment, Linenger became the first American to conduct a spacewalk from a foreign space station and the first to test the Russian-built Orlan-M spacesuit alongside Russian cosmonaut Vasili Tsibliyev. All three crewmembers of expedition EO-23 performed a \"fly-around\" in the Soyuz spacecraft, first undocking from one docking port of the station, then manually flying to and redocking the capsule at a different location. This made Linenger the first American to undock from a space station aboard two different spacecraft (Space Shuttle and Soyuz). Linenger and his Russian crewmates", "title": "Shuttle–Mir Program" }, { "id": "2519633", "text": "On the fourth day of the mission, astronauts McCandless and Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk, operating the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) for the first time. McCandless ventured out from the orbiter, while Stewart tested the \"work station\" foot restraint at the end of the Remote Manipulator System. On the seventh day of the mission, both astronauts performed another EVA to practice capture procedures for the Solar Maximum Mission satellite retrieval and repair operation, which was planned for the next mission, STS-41-C. STS-41-B also achieved the reflight of the West German-sponsored SPAS-1 pallet/satellite, which had originally flown on STS-7. This", "title": "STS-41-B" }, { "id": "4914579", "text": "first time, Buffalo Bill heard an alternative account of the event and remarked that he would include the story in his projected autobiography. McCreight wrote articles about the \"McCanles Incident\" for the rest of his life. Another son of David Colbert McCanles, Julius McCandless, was the father of Commodore Byron McCandless, USN, recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I. David's great-grandson was Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, USN, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II, and his great-great-grandson is Captain Bruce McCandless II, USN, a now-retired NASA astronaut who made the first untethered spacewalk. McCanles", "title": "McCanles Gang" }, { "id": "2739560", "text": "physics in a microgravity environment. At that time this was the longest Space Shuttle flight in history. In September 1994, Richards commanded the STS-64 crew aboard the Space Shuttle \"Discovery\". Mission highlights included: the first use of a space based laser for environmental research; deployment and retrieval of a spacecraft in support of solar wind and corona studies; robotic processing of semiconductors; maneuvered the robotic arm in proximity to over 100 Shuttle reaction control system jet firings to measure forces imparted to a plume detection instrument in support of future Space Station/Shuttle rendezvous flights; first untethered spacewalk in 10 years", "title": "Richard N. Richards" }, { "id": "14564028", "text": "McDivitt and Ed White. The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American, during which White remained tethered outside the spacecraft for 22 minutes. Tied to a tether, White fired his oxygen powered \"zip gun\" and floated out of the capsule. He traveled fifteen feet (five meters) out, and began to experiment with maneuvering. He found it easy, especially the pitch and yaw, although he thought the roll would use too much fuel. Two 5-cent se-tenant stamps comprise one illustration of an astronaut during a space walk, honoring the space accomplishments of the United States. These", "title": "U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps" }, { "id": "2170333", "text": "above the Space Shuttle Discovery. Flight article #2 is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. As of 2017, MMU #1 is on display in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center. Manned Maneuvering Unit The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is an astronaut propulsion unit that was used by NASA on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984. The MMU allowed the astronauts to perform untethered EVA spacewalks at a distance from the shuttle. The MMU was used in practice to retrieve a pair of faulty communications satellites, Westar VI and Palapa B2. Following", "title": "Manned Maneuvering Unit" }, { "id": "2741043", "text": "John McCain, who graduated from the United States Naval Academy with McCandless in the class of 1958, stated after McCandless' death: The iconic photo of Bruce soaring effortlessly in space has inspired generations of Americans to believe that there is no limit to the human potential. Bruce McCandless II Bruce McCandless II (June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. McCandless was born on June", "title": "Bruce McCandless II" }, { "id": "2741030", "text": "Bruce McCandless II Bruce McCandless II (June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. McCandless was born on June 8, 1937, in Boston, Massachusetts. A third generation U.S. Navy officer, McCandless was the son of Bruce McCandless and grandson of Willis W. Bradley, both decorated war heroes. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, Long Beach, California, in 1954. In 1958, he received a", "title": "Bruce McCandless II" }, { "id": "8733546", "text": "quickly produce greater space achievements in competition with the announced Gemini and Apollo plans. Rather than allowing him to develop his plans for a crewed Soyuz spacecraft, he was forced to make modifications to squeeze two or three men into the Vostok capsule, calling the result Voskhod. Only two of these were launched. Voskhod 1 was the first spacecraft with a crew of three, who could not wear space suits because of size and weight constrictions. Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk when he left the Voskhod 2 on March 8, 1965. He was almost lost in space when he", "title": "History of spaceflight" }, { "id": "2814721", "text": "missile defense technology. He was reassigned as Director of Plans, United States Space Command, Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1989. STS-41-B \"Challenger\" (February 3–11, 1984) was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land there 8 days later. During the mission, Stewart and fellow astronaut Bruce McCandless participated in two extravehicular activities (EVAs) to conduct first flight evaluations of the Manned Maneuvering Units (MMUs). These EVAs represented man's first untethered operations from a spacecraft in flight. Upon completion of this mission Stewart became the first Army officer awarded the Army Astronaut Badge. Stewart first EVA, together with Bruce McCandless", "title": "Robert L. Stewart" }, { "id": "2740864", "text": "materials processing and the recording of lightning activities from space. There were also three Getaway Specials activated on the flight. After 120 hours of orbital operations, \"Challenger\" landed on the concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on April 9, 1983. On his second mission, Bobko was the commander of STS-51-D which launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1985. The mission was to deploy two communications satellites, perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space, in addition to accomplishing other experiments. When one of the communications satellites malfunctioned, the first unscheduled spacewalk was made to activate the", "title": "Karol J. Bobko" }, { "id": "2884021", "text": "Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee. STS-51-D (), April 12–19, 1985, was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The crew deployed ANIK-C for Telesat of Canada, and Syncom IV-3 for the U.S. Navy. A malfunction in the Syncom spacecraft resulted in the first unscheduled EVA (spacewalk), rendezvous and proximity operations for the Space Shuttle in an attempt to activate the satellite using the Remote Manipulator System. The crew conducted several medical experiments, activated two \"Getaway Specials,\" and filmed experiments with toys in space. In completing her first space flight Seddon logged 168 hours in space", "title": "Margaret Rhea Seddon" }, { "id": "884209", "text": "ejection system; but the crew was sent into orbit without space suits or a launch abort system. With the Americans planning a space walk with their Gemini program, the Soviets decided to trump them again by performing a space walk on the second Voskhod launch. After rapidly adding an airlock, the Voskhod 2 was launched on 18 March 1965, and Alexei Leonov performed the world's first space walk. The flight very nearly ended in disaster, as Leonov was just barely able to re-enter through the airlock, and plans for further Voskhod missions were shelved. In the meantime the change of", "title": "Sergei Korolev" }, { "id": "2170323", "text": "Manned Maneuvering Unit The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is an astronaut propulsion unit that was used by NASA on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984. The MMU allowed the astronauts to perform untethered EVA spacewalks at a distance from the shuttle. The MMU was used in practice to retrieve a pair of faulty communications satellites, Westar VI and Palapa B2. Following the third mission the unit was retired from use. A smaller successor, the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER), was first flown in 1994, and is intended for emergency use only. The unit featured redundancy to protect against failure", "title": "Manned Maneuvering Unit" }, { "id": "1600023", "text": "Voskhod 2 Voskhod 2 () was a Soviet manned space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. It established another milestone in space exploration when Alexey Leonov became the first person to leave the spacecraft in a specialized spacesuit to conduct a 12-minute \"spacewalk\". Liftoff took place at 11:00 AM on the morning of 18 March. As with Voskhod 1, a launch abort was not possible during the first few minutes, until the payload shroud jettisoned around the 2-1/2 minute mark.", "title": "Voskhod 2" }, { "id": "14576411", "text": "Apollo Telescope Mount. The Foot Controlled Maneuvering Unit was tested within Skylab. The purpose of it was to free the astronaut's hands. It was propelled by cold, high-pressured nitrogen gas located in a tank on the back. It was tested both suited and unsuited. The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is a propulsion backpack which was used by NASA astronauts on three space shuttle missions in 1984. The MMU allowed the astronauts to perform untethered EVA spacewalks at a distance from the shuttle. The MMU was used in practice to retrieve a pair of faulty communications satellites, Westar VI and Palapa", "title": "Astronaut propulsion unit" }, { "id": "442633", "text": "Vostok 1 Vostok 1 (, \"East\" or \"Orient\" 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first manned spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at at its lowest point. The flight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at altitude. The Space Race between", "title": "Vostok 1" }, { "id": "487769", "text": "of which have flown in space. \"Enterprise\" was used only for approach and landing tests, launching from the back of a Boeing 747 SCA and gliding to deadstick landings at Edwards AFB, California. The first Space Shuttle to fly into space was \"Columbia\", followed by \"Challenger\", \"Discovery\", \"Atlantis\", and \"Endeavour\". \"Endeavour\" was built to replace \"Challenger\" when it was lost in January 1986. \"Columbia\" broke up during reentry in February 2003. The first automatic partially reusable spacecraft was the \"Buran\"-class shuttle, launched by the USSR on November 15, 1988, although it made only one flight and this was uncrewed. This", "title": "Spacecraft" }, { "id": "386511", "text": "Soviet Space Program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard \"Vostok 1\") in 1961, the first spacewalk (by Aleksei Leonov) on 18 March 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station (\"Salyut 1\") in 1971. After the first 20 years of exploration, focus shifted from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle program, and from competition to cooperation as with the International Space Station (ISS). With the substantial completion of the", "title": "Space exploration" }, { "id": "1603701", "text": "His walk in space was originally to have taken place on the Voskhod 1 mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic event happened on the Voskhod 2 flight instead. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March 1965, connected to the craft by a tether. At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off and was barely able to get back inside the", "title": "Alexey Leonov" }, { "id": "442661", "text": "following the ground path taken by \"Vostok 1\". The resulting film, \"First Orbit\", was released online to celebrate the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight. Vostok 1 Vostok 1 (, \"East\" or \"Orient\" 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first manned spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at at its lowest point. The flight", "title": "Vostok 1" }, { "id": "14152197", "text": "consisting of the commander Vladimir Lyakhov, as well as the first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand. After about a week on the station, Lyakhov and Mohmand returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5, leaving the fresh TM-6 spacecraft at the station as their new lifeboat. During the descent of TM-6 there were some technical problems, resulting in some tense moments as well as a day-long delay in landing. Nevertheless, they landed safely on 7 September. The first spacewalk (also known as \"Extra-vehicular activity\", or EVA) of EO-3 took place on 26 February 1988 (4h 25m) replacing a segment on a solar", "title": "Mir EO-3" }, { "id": "2814722", "text": "lasted 6 hours and 17 minutes. During second EVA, Stewart used the MMU for an untethered spacewalk, lasted 5 hours and 55 minutes. STS-51-J \"Atlantis\" (October 3–7, 1985) was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and after 98 hours of orbital operations returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It was the second Space Shuttle Department of Defense mission, and the maiden voyage of \"Atlantis\". During the mission he was responsible for a number of on-orbit activities. Stewart retired from the Army in 1992 and currently makes his home in Woodland Park, Colorado. He is presently employed as", "title": "Robert L. Stewart" }, { "id": "123537", "text": "American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965, by Ed White from the second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, for 21 minutes. White was tethered to the spacecraft, and his oxygen was supplied through a umbilical, which also carried communications and biomedical instrumentation. He was the first to control his motion in space with a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit, which worked well but only carried enough propellant for 20 seconds. White found his tether useful for limiting his distance from the spacecraft but difficult to use for moving around, contrary to Leonov's claim. However, a defect in the capsule's hatch latching", "title": "Extravehicular activity" }, { "id": "2243116", "text": "Georgy Grechko Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights including Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14. Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev's design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon programme. When that program was cancelled, he went on to work on the Salyut space stations. Grechko made the first spacewalk in an", "title": "Georgy Grechko" }, { "id": "2733272", "text": "of a series of comprehensive organic and polymer science experiments sponsored by 3M Corporation. This mid-deck experiment was successful, and the proprietary results of the chemical mixes were turned over to 3M. One other experiment, a radiation-monitoring experiment, was also performed. The satellite recoveries on STS-51-A were the last untethered spacewalks until 1994, and marked the last use of the Manned Maneuvering Unit. In 1994, the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) was tested on STS-64. On all subsequent spacewalks conducted by both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies, the astronauts were tethered to the craft by some means. The", "title": "STS-51-A" }, { "id": "2983440", "text": "in 269 hours. Chilton commanded STS-76, the third docking mission to the Russian space station Mir, which launched on March 22, 1996 with a crew of six aboard \"Atlantis\". Following rendezvous and docking with Mir, transfer of a NASA astronaut to Mir for a five-month stay was accomplished to begin a continuous presence of U.S. astronauts aboard Mir for the next two-year period. The crew also transferred 4800 pounds of science and mission hardware, food, water and air to Mir and returned over 1100 pounds of U.S. and ESA science and Russian hardware. The first spacewalk from the Shuttle while", "title": "Kevin P. Chilton" }, { "id": "18250825", "text": "demonstrated the fly-by-wire control system’s ability to stabilize the vehicle in all three axes using inertial measurements augmented by GPS and two laser altimeters. The next phase of flight testing planned for March was moved back. On April 21, 2010, it achieved sustained tethered automatic hovering flight at an altitude of up to 9.8 ft (3m), which paved the way for the first untethered flight later that year. After 40 test hovers and 10 hours of flight time, the AirMule underwent systems upgrades. By October 5, 2010, the AirMule's skid were replaced by a wheeled landing gear to facilitate ground", "title": "Tactical Robotics Cormorant" }, { "id": "760584", "text": "of billions of dollars with U.S. companies, including Lockheed Martin. (See: 2017 United States–Saudi Arabia arms deal) On November 29, 2018, Lockheed Martin was awarded a Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract by NASA, which makes it eligible to bid on delivering science and technology payloads to the Moon for NASA, worth $2.6 billion. Lockheed Martin plans to formally propose a lander called \"McCandless Lunar Lander\", named after the late astronaut and former Lockheed Martin employee Bruce McCandless II, who in 1984 performed the first free-flying spacewalk without a lifeline to the orbiting shuttle, using a jetpack built by the company.", "title": "Lockheed Martin" }, { "id": "3002245", "text": "space flight. The seven-man crew performed numerous scientific experiments to collect data on atmospheric infrared and ultraviolet phenomena including a deploy and rendezvous in support of the Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO). He was the pilot on STS-64 aboard the Discovery. Mission highlights included: first use of lasers for environmental research; deployment and retrieval of a solar science satellite; robotic processing of semiconductors; use of RMS boom for jet thruster research; first untethered spacewalk in 10 years to test a self-rescue jetpack. Mission duration was 10 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes. Today he resides in Tustin, California as a test", "title": "L. Blaine Hammond" }, { "id": "20085", "text": "from burns sustained in a fire while participating in a 15-day endurance experiment in a high-oxygen isolation chamber, less than three weeks before the first Vostok manned space flight; this was disclosed on January 28, 1986. During the Voskhod 2 mission in March 1965, cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov could not completely seal the spacecraft hatch after Leonov's historic first walk in space. The spacecraft's environmental control system responded to the leaking air by adding more oxygen to the cabin, causing the concentration level to rise as high as 45%. The crew and ground controllers worried about the possibility", "title": "Apollo 1" }, { "id": "2815495", "text": "from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 3, 1984. The flight accomplished the deployment of two Hughes 376 communications satellites which later failed to reach desired geosynchronous orbits due to upper-stage rocket failures. The STS 41-B mission marked the first checkout of the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), and Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR), with Bruce McCandless II and Bob Stewart performing two EVAs (space walks). The German Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS), Remote Manipulator System (RMS), six \"Getaway Specials\", and materials processing experiments were included on the mission. The eight-day orbital flight of \"Challenger\" culminated in the first-ever landing at the", "title": "Robert L. Gibson" }, { "id": "855179", "text": "astronaut. His stay on the station improved operations in several areas, including transfer procedures for a docked space shuttle, \"hand-over\" procedures for long-duration American crew members and \"ham\" amateur radio communications, and also saw two spacewalks to reconfigure the station's power grid. Blaha spent four months with the EO-22 crew before returning to Earth aboard \"Atlantis\" on STS-81 in January 1997, at which point he was replaced by physician Jerry Linenger. During his flight, Linenger became the first American to conduct a spacewalk from a foreign space station and the first to test the Russian-built Orlan-M spacesuit alongside Russian cosmonaut", "title": "Mir" }, { "id": "885471", "text": "emergency by opening an envelope he had in the cabin that contained a code that could be typed into the computer, it was flown in an automatic mode as a precaution; medical science at that time did not know what would happen to a human in the weightlessness of space. Vostok 1 orbited the Earth for 108 minutes and made its reentry over the Soviet Union, with Gagarin ejecting from the spacecraft at , and landing by parachute. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (International Federation of Aeronautics) credited Gagarin with the world's first human space flight, although their qualifying rules for", "title": "Space Race" }, { "id": "3023010", "text": "Mission highlights included: first use of lasers for environmental research, deployment and retrieval of a solar science satellite, robotic processing of semiconductors, use of an RMS-attached boom for jet thruster research, first untethered spacewalk in 10 years to test a self-rescue jetpack. In completing his first mission, Linenger logged 10 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes in space, completed 177 orbits, and traveled over 4.5 million miles. Following his first mission, in January 1995, he began training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, in preparation for a long-duration stay aboard the Russian Space Station Mir. All training", "title": "Jerry M. Linenger" }, { "id": "8307575", "text": "the morning, Mission Control also radioed commander Charles Hobaugh with the news that the crew won't need to perform follow-up inspections on Atlantis' heat shield during a period of time set aside on flight day 5. The crew was told to use that \"deleted time\" to get ahead with shuttle-to-station cargo transfers. Later on Thursday, NASA officials said that Atlantis' heat shield has been cleared for re-entry. The major activity for the day was mission's first spacewalk (EVA 1) by astronauts Foreman and Satcher. Foreman, the lead spacewalker wore a suit with solid red stripes while Satcher wore an all-white", "title": "STS-129" }, { "id": "1591740", "text": "lifted off from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur Cosmodrome at on August 11, 1962 at 08:24 UTC atop a Vostok 8K72K rocket. During his first day in orbit, Nikolayev unstrapped himself from his seat and became the first spacefarer to float freely in conditions of microgravity in space. Nikolayev's orbital companion Popovich was launched the next day aboard Vostok 4. The former adjusted his spacecraft's orientation to watch the launch, but failed to see anything despite reporting considerable details on the ground as he had passed over Turkey. Data on the two spacecraft's orbital parameters that were released periodically by Soviet", "title": "Vostok 3" }, { "id": "848350", "text": "In April 2001, Hadfield served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-100, International Space Station (ISS) assembly Flight 6A. The crew of Space Shuttle \"Endeavour\" delivered and installed Canadarm2, the new Canadian-built robotic arm, as well as the Italian-made resupply module Raffaello. During the 11-day flight, Hadfield performed two spacewalks, which made him the first Canadian to ever leave a spacecraft and float freely in space. During his first spacewalk Hadfield experienced severe eye irritation due to the anti-fog solution used to polish his spacesuit visor, temporarily blinding him and forcing him to vent oxygen into space. In total, Hadfield spent", "title": "Chris Hadfield" }, { "id": "9662705", "text": "History was made in April 2000 when the world's first and still only privately funded manned mission to orbit was launched. Two cosmonauts, commander Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kalery traveled to the dormant space station Mir, opened it up and returned the station to normal life. During the more than 70-day mission, a number of critical firsts were achieved: the first commercially funded space walk, the first space mission without government funding, and the first space explorers to be paid fully by a private company. MirCorp concluded a number of ground-breaking agreements. Jeffrey Manber signed Dennis Tito, the first space", "title": "Jeffrey Manber" }, { "id": "3563192", "text": "the Yak-36 had insufficient excess thrust and range for effective use as a combat aircraft. The first tethered hover flight took place on 9 January 1963. There were initial problems with hot gas reingestion where hot exhaust gasses are sucked back into the intakes causing poor airflow through the engines and loss of thrust. The suction effect of the exhaust on the ground (which made a higher engine power needed) and problems with control systems caused further difficulties. After modifications, the first untethered vertical flight was made on 23 June 1963, followed by the first full transition to horizontal flight", "title": "Yakovlev Yak-36" }, { "id": "3736626", "text": "the largest spacecraft ever to have been assembled at that time in history, and the first American spacewalk using a Russian Orlan spacesuit. The program was marred by various concerns, notably the safety of Mir following a fire and a collision, financial issues with the cash-strapped Russian Space Program and worries from astronauts about the attitudes of the program administrators. Nevertheless, a large amount of science, expertise in space station construction and knowledge in working in a cooperative space venture was gained from the combined operations, allowing the construction of the ISS to proceed much more smoothly than would have", "title": "Shuttle–Mir Program" }, { "id": "2281239", "text": "possible for humans to remain in space for extended lengths of time. The four-day, 66-orbit flight would approach but not break the five-day record set by the Soviet Vostok 5 in June 1963. Subsequent Gemini flights would be longer, to prove endurance exceeding the time required to fly to the Moon and back. A second objective was the first American extra-vehicular activity (EVA), known popularly as a \"space walk\". The first space walk had already been performed by Soviet Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2 in March 1965. NASA moved up the spacewalk from the original schedule, to demonstrate that the", "title": "Gemini 4" }, { "id": "855177", "text": "becoming the first US spacecraft to dock with a Russian spacecraft since the ASTP in 1975. The orbiter delivered the EO-19 crew and returned the EO-18 crew to Earth. The EO-20 crew were launched on 3 September, followed in November by the arrival of the docking module during STS-74. The two-man EO-21 crew was launched on 21 February 1996 aboard Soyuz TM-23 and were soon joined by US crew member Shannon Lucid, who was brought to the station by \"Atlantis\" during STS-76. This mission saw the first joint US spacewalk on \"Mir\" take place deploying the Mir Environmental Effects Payload", "title": "Mir" }, { "id": "5278775", "text": "and beyond. In 1957 the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, \"Sputnik 1\", was launched; in 1961 on 12 April the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yury Gagarin; and many other Soviet and Russian space exploration records ensued, including the first spacewalk performed by Alexey Leonov, the first space exploration rover \"Lunokhod-1\" and the first space station \"Salyut 1\". Nowadays Russia is the largest satellite launcher and the only provider of transport for space tourism services. Other technologies, where Russia historically leads, include nuclear technology, aircraft production and arms industry. The creation of the first nuclear power plant", "title": "Russian culture" }, { "id": "386517", "text": "meteoroid. \"Sputnik 1\" was launched by an R-7 rocket. It burned up upon re-entry on 3 January 1958. The second one was \"Sputnik 2\". Launched by the USSR on November 3, 1957, it carried the dog Laika, who became the first animal in orbit. This success led to an escalation of the American space program, which unsuccessfully attempted to launch a Vanguard satellite into orbit two months later. On 31 January 1958, the U.S. successfully orbited \"Explorer 1\" on a Juno rocket. The first successful human spaceflight was \"Vostok 1\" (\"East 1\"), carrying 27-year-old Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on 12", "title": "Space exploration" }, { "id": "1687350", "text": "missions from orbit, though the capsule did not have enough energy to remain in orbit. After re-entry, the capsule landed by parachute on the North Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas. Shepard and the capsule were picked up by helicopter and brought to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS \"Lake Champlain\"\". The mission was a technical success, though American pride in the accomplishment was dampened by the fact that just three weeks before, the Soviet Union had launched the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who completed one orbit on Vostok 1. In 2017 the first National Astronaut Day was held on", "title": "Mercury-Redstone 3" }, { "id": "21007238", "text": "during the next 10 years. The first formal solicitation is expected sometime in 2019, to transport payloads for clients focused on exploration, in situ resource utilization (ISRU), and lunar science. The \"McCandless\" lander is named in honor of the late astronaut and former Lockheed Martin employee Bruce McCandless II, who in 1984 performed the first free-flying spacewalk without a lifeline to the orbiting shuttle, using a jetpack built by the company. The \"McCandless\" lander design is based on the successful \"Phoenix\" and \"InSight\" Mars landers, built by Lockheed Martin for NASA. The lander will be proposed to the new Commercial", "title": "McCandless Lunar Lander" }, { "id": "2396588", "text": "ships, around the world. For each ground station or tracking ship, the duration of communications with an orbiting spacecraft was limited to between five and ten minutes. The first \"Vostok\" spacecraft was a variant not designed to be recovered from orbit; the variant was also called \"Vostok 1KP\" (or \"1P\"). At Korolev's suggestion, the media would call the spacecraft \"Korabl-Sputnik\", (\"Satellite-ship\"); the name \"Vostok\" was still a secret codename at this point. This first Vostok spacecraft was successfully sent into orbit on May 15, 1960. Owing to a system malfunction, on the spacecraft's 64th orbit the thrusters fired and sent", "title": "Vostok programme" }, { "id": "13128011", "text": "beyond. In 1957 the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, \"Sputnik 1\", was launched; in 1961 on 12 April the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yury Gagarin; and many other Soviet and Russian space exploration records ensued, including the first spacewalk performed by Alexey Leonov, the first space exploration rover \"Lunokhod-1\" and the first space station \"Salyut 1\". Nowadays Russia is the largest satellite launcher and the only provider of transport for space tourism services. Famous Russian battle tanks include T-34, the best middle tank design of World War II, and further tanks of T-series, including the most", "title": "Science and technology in Russia" }, { "id": "1565806", "text": "Soyuz 5 Soyuz 5 (, \"Union 5\") was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first-ever docking of two manned spacecraft of any nation, and the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another of any nation, the only time a transfer was accomplished with a space walk – two months before the US Apollo 9 mission performed the first ever internal crew transfer. The flight was also memorable for its dramatic re-entry. The craft's service module did", "title": "Soyuz 5" }, { "id": "2241730", "text": "by the Soviets. The mission proved to be the only one for Salyut 3 as Soyuz 15 failed to dock with the station in August and the station was de-orbited January 1975. With the American Skylab missions now complete, the flight marked the start of the monopoly of manned space activities by the Soviets until the 1981 launch of STS 1, the first space shuttle flight, save for the joint Apollo-Soyuz flight of 1975. With the Salyut 3 space station successfully launched on 24 June 1974, Soyuz 14 was sent into orbit nine days later, on 3 July. The craft", "title": "Soyuz 14" }, { "id": "6543032", "text": "the Atlas ICBM and Titan II, were re-purposed as human launch vehicles for manned spaceflight, both were used in the civilian Project Mercury and Project Gemini programs respectively, which are regarded as stepping stones in the evolution of US manned spaceflight. The Atlas vehicle sent John Glenn, the first American into orbit. Similarly in the Soviet Union it was the R-7 ICBM/launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957, and the first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of the R-7, the Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by cosmonaut Yuri", "title": "Nuclear weapons delivery" }, { "id": "3023101", "text": "11, 1991. On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Peter J.K. Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were", "title": "G. David Low" }, { "id": "8473432", "text": "at 04:11 UTC as Kornienko and Yurchikhin donned in Orlan spacesuits, depressurized the internal volume of the Pirs docking compartment airlock and ventured outside into space. It was the 25th Russian spacewalk performed from the station. At one point around 06:45 UTC the two spacewalkers accidentally lost an unidentified object that floated away from their perch on the side of the ISS. The cosmonauts speculated that the lost item was an attachment fixture to secure the cables in place once they are installed. About an hour later, another unidentified item, appeared to be a washer accidentally floated off. The spacewalk", "title": "Mikhail Kornienko" }, { "id": "8733553", "text": "spaceflight program. The program ran from 1961 to 1966. The program pioneered the orbital maneuvers required for space rendezvous. Ed White became the first American to make an extravehicular activity (EVA, or \"space walk\"), on June 3, 1965, during Gemini 4. Gemini 6A and 7 accomplished the first space rendezvous on December 15, 1965. Gemini 8 achieved the first space docking with an unmanned Agena Target Vehicle on March 16, 1966. Gemini 8 was also the first US spacecraft to experience in-space critical failure endangering the lives of the crew. The Apollo program was the third manned spaceflight program carried", "title": "History of spaceflight" }, { "id": "8266153", "text": "in length. On deployment, one of the solar panels of ERBS failed initially to extend properly. Hence, mission specialist Sally Ride had to shake the satellite with the remotely-controlled robotic arm and then finally place the stuck panel into sunlight for the panel to extend. The ERBS satellite was the first spacecraft to be launched and deployed by a Space Shuttle mission. It orbited in a non-sun synchronous orbit at 610 km (that dropped to 585 km by 1999). It was at an inclination of 57deg which did not provide full Earth coverage. It had a design life of 2", "title": "Earth Radiation Budget Satellite" }, { "id": "3736647", "text": "to Earth. Continuous US presence aboard \"Mir\" started in 1996 with the March 22 launch of \"Atlantis\" on mission STS-76, when the Second Increment astronaut Shannon Lucid was transferred to the station. STS-76 was the third docking mission to \"Mir\", which also demonstrated logistics capabilities through deployment of a Spacehab module, and placed experiment packages aboard \"Mir\"'s docking module, which marked the first spacewalk which occurred around docked vehicles. The spacewalks, carried out from \"Atlantis's\" crew cabin, provided valuable experience for astronauts in order to prepare for later assembly missions to the International Space Station. Lucid became the first American", "title": "Shuttle–Mir Program" }, { "id": "3481227", "text": "Kvant/ FSM combination passed within 10 m of the station. Following an emergency spacewalk, Kvant fully docked to the station on April 11. Soyuz TM-2 Soyuz TM-2 was the spacecraft used to launch a long duration crew to the Soviet space station Mir, which was unmanned at the time. TM-2 was launched in February 1987, and it was first manned spaceflight of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft, and the second manned spaceflight to Mir (the first being Soyuz T-15). The crew of the long duration expedition, Mir EO-2, who were launched by TM-2 consisted of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin.", "title": "Soyuz TM-2" }, { "id": "8733560", "text": "manned spaceflight with a multi-crewed vehicle. Alexey Leonov performed the first spacewalk aboard Voskhod 2 on March 18, 1965. The Salyut programme was the first space station program undertaken by the Soviet Union. The goal was to carry out long-term research into the problems of living in space and a variety of astronomical, biological and Earth-resources experiments. The program ran from 1971 to 1986. Salyut 1, the first station in the program, became the world's first crewed space station. The Soyuz programme was initiated by the soviet space program in the 1960s and continues as the responsibility of roscosmos to", "title": "History of spaceflight" }, { "id": "16026391", "text": "It flew two manned missions, Voskhod 1 (world's first multi-crewed mission, launched on 12 October 1964) and Voskhod 2 (featuring the world's first Extra-vehicular activity, or EVA, commonly called a \"spacewalk\", launched on March 18, 1965). The Voskhod spacecraft—and its \"Globus\" IMP instruments—is a close derivative of Vostok, which flew six Soviet individuals to low Earth orbit, including the world's first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, and the world's first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. The main difference between IMP versions 1 and 2 (Vostok spacecraft) and later versions (Voskhod and Soyuz) is the addition of the disc-shaped longitude and", "title": "Voskhod Spacecraft \"Globus\" IMP navigation instrument" }, { "id": "558777", "text": "Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 (Луноход, \"moon walker\" in Russian; \"Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203\", \"vehicle 8ЕЛ№203\") was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The \"Luna 17\" spacecraft carried \"Lunokhod 1\" to the Moon in 1970. \"Lunokhod 1\" was the first remote-controlled robot \"rover\" to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. Lunokhod 0 (No.201), the previous and first attempt to do so, launched in February 1969 but failed to reach orbit. Although only designed for a lifetime of three lunar days,", "title": "Lunokhod 1" }, { "id": "7494960", "text": "when his soyuz seat-liner was switched. The day after docking, with the expedition crew working joint operations with Expedition 13, the ISS was positioned in such a way that the station's inhabitants were able to observe the re-entry of Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" at the end of STS-115. As they watched \"Atlantis\" create a glowing contrail during its plunge into the atmosphere, López-Alegría and Williams provided commentary of the re-entry to the Mission Control Center in Houston. The station was a few hundred miles ahead of the shuttle at the time. The expedition's first spacewalk took place on 22 November 2006,", "title": "Expedition 14" }, { "id": "859163", "text": "Luna 1 Luna 1, also known as Mechta ( , \"lit.\": \"Dream\"), E-1 No.4 and \"First Lunar Rover \", was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth's Moon, and the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. Intended as an impactor, \"Luna 1\" was launched as part of the Soviet Luna programme in 1959, however due to an incorrectly timed upper stage burn during its launch, it missed the Moon, in the process becoming the first spacecraft to leave geocentric orbit. While traveling through the outer Van Allen radiation belt, the spacecraft's scintillator made observations indicating", "title": "Luna 1" }, { "id": "12469673", "text": "Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who was launched in \"Vostok 1\" on April 12, 1961. The first human to walk on the surface of another Solar System body was Neil Armstrong, who stepped onto the Moon on July 21, 1969 during the \"Apollo 11\" mission; five more Moon landings occurred through 1972. The United States' reusable Space Shuttle flew 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. Two of the five shuttles were destroyed in accidents. The first orbital space station to host more than one crew was NASA's Skylab, which successfully held three crews from 1973 to 1974. True", "title": "Discovery and exploration of the Solar System" }, { "id": "3049665", "text": "was Commander of STS-37, which launched into orbit on April 5, 1991, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and landed on April 11, 1991, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. During this mission the crew aboard the Shuttle \"Atlantis\" deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the purpose of exploring gamma ray sources throughout the universe. The crew and conducted the first scheduled space walk in more than five and one-half years, and the first successful unscheduled space walk to free a stuck antenna on the satellite. Nagel also served as Commander of STS-55, the German D-2 Spacelab mission. After launching", "title": "Steven R. Nagel" }, { "id": "1835191", "text": "21 November, during a brief deployment off North Carolina, swift and efficient rescue procedures saved the life of an airman Jenner Sanders, who fell overboard while driving an aircraft towing tractor. In early 1965, \"Intrepid\" began preparations for a vital role in NASA's first manned Gemini flight, Gemini 3. On 23 March, Lieutenant Commander John Young and Major Gus Grissom in \"Molly Brown\" (the Gemini 3 spacecraft) splashed down some from \"Intrepid\" after history's first controlled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere ended the pair's nearly perfect three-orbit flight aboard Gemini 3. A Navy helicopter lifted the astronauts from the spacecraft", "title": "USS Intrepid (CV-11)" }, { "id": "1506929", "text": "David M. Brown David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the \"Columbia\" disaster. Brown was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Brown, the 1986 recipient of the Navy Operational Flight Surgeon of the Year award, received numerous decorations including: The symbol indicates a posthumous award. Brown joined the U.S.", "title": "David M. Brown" }, { "id": "5910006", "text": "exhaustion. If the capsule becomes depressurised, either accidentally or deliberately to extinguish a fire, it must land within that time. Pressure suits were worn on the Vostok space missions, but when the Soyuz spacecraft was being developed in the mid-1960s, the controversial decision was taken by its designers, OKB-1, not to use them on the new spacecraft. Some of the early Soyuz flights carried Yastreb space suits but these were only for space walks and were only worn in orbit. On June 30, 1971, the crew of Soyuz 11 died when their spacecraft depressurised during re-entry. One of the recommendations", "title": "Sokol space suit" }, { "id": "15065174", "text": "the time, this was the heaviest payload to be launched by a Proton rocket. The automatic docking system was unable to dock the module completely with Mir on the first attempt. On April 5, the crew of EO-2 retreated to their lifeboat, Soyuz TM-2, in case the module lost control. The module drifted 400 km from the station before it was guided back of a second docking attempt, and on April 9 a partial docking between Kvant and Mir occurred. To determine the problem with the Kvant docking, both Romanenko and Laveykin took part in an emergency spacewalk on April", "title": "Mir EO-2" }, { "id": "2883301", "text": "places with Jerry Linenger, who arrived at \"Mir\" 15 January 1997 with the crew of Shuttle Mission STS-81. Linenger spent 123 days on \"Mir\" and just over 132 days in space from launch to landing, placing him second behind U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid for most time spent on-orbit by an American. Another milestone reached during his stay was one-year anniversary of continuous U.S. presence in space that began with Lucid's arrival at \"Mir\" 22 March 1996. Other significant events during Linenger's stay included first U.S.-Russian space walk. On 29 April 1997 Linenger participated in five-hour extravehicular activity (EVA) with \"Mir\"", "title": "STS-84" }, { "id": "2330871", "text": "Korabl-Sputnik 1 Korabl-Sputnik 1 ( meaning \"Ship Satellite 1, Boat Satellite 1, or Starship Satellite 1\"), also known as Sputnik 4 in the West, was the first test flight of the Soviet Vostok programme, and the first Vostok spacecraft. It was launched on May 15, 1960. Though Korabl-Sputnik 1 was unmanned, it was a precursor to the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1. Its weight was , of which was instrumentation. A bug in the guidance system had pointed the capsule in the wrong direction, so instead of dropping into the atmosphere the satellite moved into a higher orbit. The descent", "title": "Korabl-Sputnik 1" }, { "id": "2298007", "text": "Korabl-Sputnik 2 Korabl-Sputnik 2 ( meaning \"Ship-Satellite 2\"), also known incorrectly as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth. Launched on 19 August 1960, it paved the way for the first human orbital flight, Vostok 1, which was launched less than eight months later. Korabl-Sputnik 2 was the second attempt to launch a Vostok capsule with dogs on board. The first try on 28 July, carrying a pair named Bars (Snow", "title": "Korabl-Sputnik 2" }, { "id": "8733559", "text": "The program was the first program to put humans into space, with Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961 aboard the Vostok 1. Gherman Titov Became the first person to stay in orbit for a full day on August 7, 1961 aboard the vostok 2. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963 aboard the vostok 6. The Voskhod programme began in 1964 and consisted of two manned flights before the program was canceled by the Soyuz programme in 1966. Voskhod 1 launched on October 12, 1964 and was the first", "title": "History of spaceflight" }, { "id": "2794110", "text": "STS-64 STS-64 was a Space Shuttle \"Discovery\" mission that was set to perform multiple experiment packages. STS-64 was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 9 September 1994, and landed back on 20 September 1994 at Edwards Air Force Base. STS-64 marked the first flight of Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) and the first untethered U.S. extravehicular activity (EVA) in 10 years. LITE payload employs lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, a type of optical radar using laser pulses instead of radio waves to study Earth's atmosphere. The first spaceflight of lidar was a highly successful technology test.", "title": "STS-64" }, { "id": "1608514", "text": "5. Following a deterioration in the health of Zholobov, who was making his first spaceflight, the decision was made to return the crew at the earliest available opportunity and they boarded their Soyuz on 24 August. However, as Volynov tried to undock from Salyut, the latch failed to release properly. As he fired the jets to move the spacecraft away, the docking mechanism jammed, resulting in the Soyuz being undocked but still linked to Salyut. As the two spacecraft moved out of range of ground communications, only the first set of emergency procedures was received. Volynov tried a second time", "title": "Boris Volynov" }, { "id": "960849", "text": "Soyuz 1 Soyuz 1 (, \"Union 1\") was a manned spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on 23 April 1967 carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft. The mission plan was complex, involving a rendezvous with Soyuz 2 and an exchange of crew members before returning to Earth. However, the launch of Soyuz 2 was called off due to thunderstorms. The flight was plagued with technical issues, and Komarov was killed when the descent module crashed into the ground due to a parachute failure. This was the first", "title": "Soyuz 1" }, { "id": "885470", "text": "Block III Ranger 7 which impacted on July 31, 1964. By 1959, American observers believed that the Soviet Union would be the first to get a human into space, because of the time needed to prepare for Mercury's first launch. On April 12, 1961, the USSR surprised the world again by launching Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit around the Earth in a craft they called Vostok 1. They dubbed Gagarin the first cosmonaut, roughly translated from Russian and Greek as \"sailor of the universe\". Although he had the ability to take over manual control of his capsule in an", "title": "Space Race" }, { "id": "5207112", "text": "one between the Northrop YA-9 and the Fairchild Republic YA-10, the other between the Northrop YF-17 and General Dynamics YF-16. The Rockwell B-1 Lancer began flight testing in 1974 with its multitude of highly sophisticated offensive and defensive systems. In April 1981, the wheels of Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on Rogers Dry Lakebed, with Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippin successfully landing the first orbiting space vehicle ever to leave the Earth under rocket power and return to Earth aerodynamically for re-use. The \"Flying Wing\" returned to Edwards in the late 1980s when the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber began", "title": "Air Force Test Center" }, { "id": "3482800", "text": "spacecraft undocked from the station at about 21:24 UT. The de-orbit burn occurred at about 23:52 UT and landing followed at about 00:44 UT on June 16, about southeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan. Soyuz TM-30 was the first privately funded manned space expedition but several other firsts were also achieved, including the first privately funded extra-vehicular activity, and the first privately funded unmanned resupply mission to a space station, utilizing the Progress-M1 spacecraft. Soyuz TM-30 also managed to delay the de-orbit of Mir, which was originally scheduled to occur some time in 2000, but ultimately occurred in March 2001. Soyuz", "title": "Soyuz TM-30" }, { "id": "10013931", "text": "module reentered the Earth's atmosphere along with the rest of the Mir Space Station when the station was intentionally de-orbited in March 2001. Any remaining fragments landed in the South Pacific Ocean. (see Deorbit of Mir) From on \"Mir Hardware Heritage\" (NASA RP1357, 1995): Mir Core Module Mir ( lit: \"Peace\"), DOS-7, was the first module of the Soviet/Russian \"Mir\" space station complex, in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. Generally referred to as either the core module or base block, the module was launched on 20 February 1986 on a Proton-K rocket from LC-200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.", "title": "Mir Core Module" }, { "id": "196542", "text": "an unintended crash from the site. The first successful test followed on 21 August 1957; the R-7 flew over and became the world's first ICBM. The first strategic-missile unit became operational on 9 February 1959 at Plesetsk in north-west Russia. It was the same R-7 launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957. The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. A heavily modernized version of the R-7 is still used as the launch vehicle for the Soviet/Russian", "title": "Intercontinental ballistic missile" }, { "id": "8307724", "text": "After the ceremony, the hatches between \"Atlantis\" and the International Space Station were closed, and a leak check was performed to ensure all the hatches were sealed properly. The shuttle undocked from the ISS at 15:22 UTC, a little more than 2 hours after the hatches were closed. At the time of the undocking, the two spacecraft were orbiting above the Southern Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia. The shuttle, guided by pilot Tony Antonelli, backed away from the ISS to a distance of about , at which time Antonelli began conducting a fly-around of the space station, so that crew", "title": "STS-132" }, { "id": "395422", "text": "Region of Kazakhstan. It was originally built to test missile defense concepts, In 1984, officials within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) suggested it was the site of a prototypical anti-satellite weapon system. In 1987 a disguised Mir space station module was lifted on the inaugural flight of the Energia booster as the Polyus and it has since been revealed that this craft housed a number of systems of the Skif laser, which were intended to be clandestinely tested in orbit, if it had not been for the spacecraft's attitude control system malfunctioning upon separation from the booster and", "title": "Strategic Defense Initiative" }, { "id": "3023013", "text": "colleague tested for the first time ever the newly designed Orlan-M Russian-built spacesuit, installed the Optical Properties Monitor (OPM) and Benton dosimeter on the outer surface of the station, and retrieved for analysis on Earth numerous externally mounted material-exposure panels. The three crewmembers also performed a \"flyaround\" in the Soyuz spacecraft-undocking from one docking port of the station, manually flying to and redocking the capsule at a different location-thus making Linenger the first American to undock from a space station aboard two different spacecraft (U.S. Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz). While living aboard the space station, Linenger and his two", "title": "Jerry M. Linenger" }, { "id": "885494", "text": "There was a two-year pause in Soviet piloted space flights while Voskhod's replacement, the Soyuz spacecraft, was designed and developed. On March 18, 1965, about a week before the first American piloted Project Gemini space flight, the USSR accelerated the competition, by launching the two-cosmonaut Voskhod 2 mission with Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov. Voskhod 2's design modifications included the addition of an inflatable airlock to allow for extravehicular activity (EVA), also known as a spacewalk, while keeping the cabin pressurized so that the capsule's electronics would not overheat. Leonov performed the first-ever EVA as part of the mission. A", "title": "Space Race" }, { "id": "9172", "text": "Vostok 6 and orbited Earth for almost three days. Alan Shepard became the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961, on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight. The first American to orbit the Earth was John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, during Space Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983. In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space aboard STS-47. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a \"spacewalk\"), on March", "title": "Astronaut" }, { "id": "6293154", "text": "tethered flight. The envelope was plastic film, and heat was provided by burning kerosene. This prototype flight uncovered conceptual flaws that Yost worked to overcome. On 22 October 1960, Yost made the first-ever free flight of a modern hot-air balloon from Bruning, Nebraska. His balloon flew untethered for 1 hour and 35 minutes (1:35) with the aid of heat generated by a propane burner. The balloon's 40-foot (12 m) envelope was sewn from heat-resistant fabric especially selected by Yost for this purpose. After further refining and improving on this designs and materials, in 1963 Yost piloted the first modern balloon", "title": "Ed Yost" }, { "id": "885491", "text": "of missions. The greater advances of the Soviet space program at the time allowed their space program to achieve other significant firsts, including the first EVA \"spacewalk\" and the first mission performed by a crew in shirt-sleeves. Gemini took a year longer than planned to accomplish its first flight, allowing the Soviets to achieve another first, launching Voskhod 1 on October 12, 1964, the first spacecraft with a three-cosmonaut crew. The USSR touted another technological achievement during this mission: it was the first space flight during which cosmonauts performed in a shirt-sleeve-environment. However, flying without spacesuits was not due to", "title": "Space Race" }, { "id": "2298013", "text": "were both taxidermied after their deaths and placed on display in the Moscow Museum of Space and Aeronautics. Korabl-Sputnik 2 Korabl-Sputnik 2 ( meaning \"Ship-Satellite 2\"), also known incorrectly as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth. Launched on 19 August 1960, it paved the way for the first human orbital flight, Vostok 1, which was launched less than eight months later. Korabl-Sputnik 2 was the second attempt to launch a", "title": "Korabl-Sputnik 2" }, { "id": "386524", "text": "American citizenship and led the team that developed and launched \"Explorer 1\", the first American satellite. Von Braun later led the team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center which developed the Saturn V moon rocket. Initially the race for space was often led by Sergei Korolev, whose legacy includes both the R7 and Soyuz—which remain in service to this day. Korolev was the mastermind behind the first satellite, first man (and first woman) in orbit and first spacewalk. Until his death his identity was a closely guarded state secret; not even his mother knew that he was responsible for creating", "title": "Space exploration" }, { "id": "187772", "text": "petroleum and natural gas. Soviet science and industry peaked in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years. The world's first nuclear power plant was established in 1954 in Obninsk, and the Baikal Amur Mainline was built. The Soviet space program, founded by Sergey Korolev, was especially successful. On 4 October 1957 Soviet Union launched the first space satellite Sputnik. On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in the Soviet spaceship Vostok 1. Other achievements of Russian space program include: the first photo of the far side of the Moon; exploration of Venus; the first spacewalk", "title": "History of Russia" }, { "id": "885507", "text": "was launched on October 26, 1968. The goal was to complete Komarov's rendezvous and docking mission with the un-piloted Soyuz 2. Ground controllers brought the two craft to within of each other, then cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy took control. He got within of his target, but was unable to dock before expending 90 percent of his maneuvering fuel, due to a piloting error that put his spacecraft into the wrong orientation and forced Soyuz 2 to automatically turn away from his approaching craft. The first docking of Soviet spacecraft was finally realized in January 1969 by the Soyuz 4 and Soyuz", "title": "Space Race" } ]

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[ { "id": "360400", "text": "important element of \"Star Wars\" since the franchise launched in 1977, focusing on a struggle between democracy and dictatorship. McQuarrie's designs for Darth Vader, initially inspired by Samurai armor, also incorporated a German military helmet. Space battles in \"A New Hope\" were based on World War I and World War II dogfights, and stormtroopers borrow the name of Nazi \"shock\" troopers. Imperial officers wear uniforms resembling those of German forces during World War II, and political and security officers resemble the black-clad SS down to the stylized silver death's head on their caps. World War II terms were used for", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "id": "12257845", "text": "of blue discoloration giving them away. They use this ability to lie in wait and ambush the enemy, most often the game's protagonist, Kyle Katarn. Shadow stormtroopers appear in \"\" and wear exactly the same type of Phase III armor as normal stormtroopers but not white in color, but rather a mixture of silver, grey and red detailing. These troopers also possess the invisible feature and use this tactic to ambush their enemies, but only if stormtrooper officers call out for support. The military philosophy of the Galactic Empire was internally focused and heavily incorporated the \"\"Tarkin\"-doctrine\", which mandated \"rule", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12257848", "text": "their families at birth, these soldiers are not even given individual names for themselves but merely serial numbers, such as \"FN-2187\". As established in the original \"Star Wars\" trilogy of films, the troopers' most distinctive equipment is their white battle armor, which completely encases the body and typically has no individually distinguishing markings. Based on conceptual drawings by Ralph McQuarrie, Liz Moore and Nick Pemberton sculpted designs for the helmet, Brian Muir sculpted armor pieces for the stormtrooper costume. Muir, who was also responsible for sculpting the Darth Vader costume, worked out of the Art Department at Elstree Studios. The", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "10314041", "text": "races. Citizens indulge in rituals of sacrifice and slaughter as well as gladiatorial combat. Palpatine's story reflects that of Napoleon. Another big part states that society is in a continual process of construction and self-destruction. \"The Legacy Revealed\" shows many connections between the Nazis and the Empire. Examples shown are that Vader's own troops, Stormtroopers, share the same name with Hitler's. The black, white, and red used in many scenes with the Empire are the same colors of the swastika, and that Darth Vader's helmet is similar to that of the German Army's. The Republic also embraced diversity, while the", "title": "Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed" }, { "id": "769802", "text": "the Nazis, desires the creation of totalitarian order and utilizes excessive force and violence to achieve their ends. The name of the Empire's main soldiers, the Stormtroopers, is somewhat similar to the name given to Hitler's \"Sturmabteilung\" (SA, \"storm detachment\") paramilitary bodyguards. The visual appearance of Darth Vader in his all-black uniform combined with his devout obedience to the Emperor has allusion to the black-uniformed Nazi \"Schutzstaffel\" (SS). The uniforms of Imperial military officers also bear resemblance to uniforms used in Nazi Germany as well as nineteenth-century Germany's \"ulans\" (mounted lancers)—who wore a tunic, riding breeches, and boots like the", "title": "Galactic Empire (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12257858", "text": "are voiced by Jesse Averna, Kevin Deters, Jeremy Milton, and Rich Moore. Stormtroopers have become cultural icons, and a widely recognized element of the \"Star Wars\" franchise. In 2015, an Imperial stormtrooper helmet from \"The Empire Strikes Back\" that was expected to sell at auction for $92,000 actually sold for $120,000. Stormtrooper (Star Wars) A stormtrooper is a fictional soldier in the \"Star Wars\" franchise created by George Lucas. Introduced in \"Star Wars\" (1977), the stormtroopers are the main ground force of the Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Emperor Palpatine and his commanders, most notably Darth Vader and Grand", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "5432784", "text": "of this would be in the \"Star Wars\" universe, where colors of the pauldrons may denote a clone or stormtrooper's rank or role. A red colored pauldron would be used to identify a stormtrooper officer, compared to the plain white of the regular forces. Additionally, a black pauldron would denote a sergeant or similar-ranked soldier. Another more aesthetic example would be the space marines from the \"Warhammer 40,000\" universe, famous for their strong builds and oversized armor. These massive armor pieces it seems would be used both for deflection of enemy fire and housing important components to the exoskeleton as", "title": "Pauldron" }, { "id": "3517793", "text": "new partner. Sting exclaimed, \"All I have to say is, our partner is going to shock the world, because he is none other than the Shockmaster!\" The camera then zoomed in on a section of the set where two torches set off a small pyrotechnics explosion in front of a sheetrock wall. With a new costume consisting of a \"Star Wars\" Stormtrooper helmet painted purple and covered in silver glitter, a pair of jeans and a large, black, puffy vest, Ottman attempted to make a dramatic entrance by crashing through the wall. While making his entrance, Ottman tripped over a", "title": "Fred Ottman" }, { "id": "12257850", "text": "common stunt trooper and a second design for close-ups. Fifty stunt helmets were produced in white-painted HDPE and six hero helmets were produced in white ABS plastic. Besides the material used, the two designs can be differentiated by differences in the eyes, the ears, and the mouth area. The prequel films establish the clone troopers as predecessors to the stormtroopers, and they were also the first generation of stormtroopers after the fall of the Republic. Clone trooper armor is typically shown to have various colorings to denote rank or unit. The copyright status of the armor design has undergone legal", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12257844", "text": "gravity Spacetroopers depicted engaging in extra vehicular battle in the 1991 novel \"Star Wars: Heir to the Empire\", and its 1995 Dark Horse Comics adaptation. Others, such as the Beach Troopers, are for comical effect. Appearing only briefly in \"\", they are clad in a Speedo and stormtrooper helmet. In \"\", they also wear life jackets. Shadowtroopers appear in \"\" wearing black armour made from a lightsaber-resistant metal called cortosis. This armour has a green synthetic gem set into the breastplate which gives the wearer Force powers. Their armour can also render them near invisible, with only a small area", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "4008983", "text": "is dated as taking place on '05-14-2187'. Throughout \"Star Wars\", the phrase \"the Force \" itself is said to have been inspired by the short film. In \"\", Princess Leia's prison cell on the Death Star is numbered 2187. The \"21-87\" theme has continued to be referenced in the new movies, such as \"\", in which Finn's Stormtrooper designation is FN-2187. 21-87 21-87 is a 1963 Canadian abstract montage-collage film created by Arthur Lipsett that lasts 9 minutes and 33 seconds. The short motion picture, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is a collage of snippets from discarded", "title": "21-87" }, { "id": "967331", "text": "and anywhere in between. The best known such organization to the general public today is probably the Galactic Empire from \"Star Wars\", which was formed in turn from the Galactic Republic. A military dictatorship based upon fear and terror, said Empire is an explicitly villainous force with linguistic and visual traits directly reminiscent of Nazi Germany. For example, their armored forces known as \"stormtroopers\" are named analogously to the \"Sturmabteilung\" (often known as the \"SA\"), a paramilitary entity created by the Nazis in 1920. Their best known weapon is the iconic \"Death Star\"; the moon-sized space station has the ability", "title": "Galactic empire" }, { "id": "12257839", "text": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars) A stormtrooper is a fictional soldier in the \"Star Wars\" franchise created by George Lucas. Introduced in \"Star Wars\" (1977), the stormtroopers are the main ground force of the Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Emperor Palpatine and his commanders, most notably Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin. In \"\" (2015) and \"\" (2017), the upgraded stormtroopers serve the First Order, under the leadership of Supreme Leader Snoke and his commanders, most notably Kylo Ren, General Hux, and Captain Phasma. The order of battle of the Stormtrooper Corps is unspecified in the \"Star Wars\" universe. Accompanying the", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "19102200", "text": "stormtroopers held high ranks—a significant improvement from the one-rank system of the Empire. These were indicated by the colour of shoulder pauldrons. In the rare instance of a stormtrooper earning the rank of Captain, they often earned a blasterproof cape. Occasionally, they modify their outfit even further—Captain Phasma made blasterproof, chrome copies of all her equipment and greatly improved vision modes of her helmet’s visor. Captain Cardinal, the bodyguard of a First Order founding father, received almost all-red armour from his superior as a sign of trust. As a heavy siege weapon, the First Order also fields its own evolution", "title": "First Order (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "6525585", "text": "Wars\" (\"Star Wars\"). Three of the film's costumes were displayed on mannequins: Darth Vader and the C-3PO and R2-D2 robots; also on display was Darth Vader's lightsaber (hanging from his belt) and a Storm Trooper helmet and blaster, behind-the-scenes production 8x10 stills, and a wall of framed conceptual artwork by Ralph McQuarrie. As a part of the studio's promotion of the film, an offset-printed, two-page yellow press release flyer was given away in the display room; it depicted an early graphic of the Luke Skywalker character drawn by McQuarrie. A dark blue, 2.25-inch wide promotional button, emblazoned in white type", "title": "34th World Science Fiction Convention" }, { "id": "8574241", "text": "of the tracks were later re-issued as part of the box set \"The Geist of Alec Empire\", including a shorter mix of \"Lash the 90ties\". Generation Star Wars Generation Star Wars is the second album by Alec Empire, released on Mille Plateaux in 1994. The original release of \"Generation Star Wars\" faced problems related to its artwork, as it featured a stormtrooper (from the \"Star Wars\" films) with a swastika on his helmet on the rear of the sleeve. In Germany, the home of Alec Empire and Mille Plateaux, use of the swastika is forbidden, regardless of the context. The", "title": "Generation Star Wars" }, { "id": "9045708", "text": "and the execution of prisoners. Some Centurions in the series have been given names: The Cylon Centurions – the type most often depicted in the original \"Battlestar Galactica\" — were strikingly similar to the Imperial stormtroopers of \"Star Wars\" (in fact, both were designed by the same concept artist, Ralph McQuarrie). The similarities were so strong that it was one of the factors that prompted 20th Century Fox's lawsuit for copyright infringement against Universal Studios, owners of the \"Battlestar Galactica\" copyright. However, the lawsuit was ultimately unsuccessful. Both the gold Command Centurions and the silver Centurions had their voices vocalized", "title": "Cylon (1978)" }, { "id": "8574240", "text": "Generation Star Wars Generation Star Wars is the second album by Alec Empire, released on Mille Plateaux in 1994. The original release of \"Generation Star Wars\" faced problems related to its artwork, as it featured a stormtrooper (from the \"Star Wars\" films) with a swastika on his helmet on the rear of the sleeve. In Germany, the home of Alec Empire and Mille Plateaux, use of the swastika is forbidden, regardless of the context. The artwork was removed on later pressings. On the Geist Records re-release in 2000, the cover art contained only silver text on a black background. Some", "title": "Generation Star Wars" }, { "id": "19223312", "text": "shit we're just watching normal people.' \" In response to those who desired to boycott the film over their disagreements with the existence of a black stormtrooper, Boyega replied, \"I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me. I wasn't raised to fear people with a difference of opinion. They are merely victims of a disease in their mind.\" In 2016, Boyega was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Finn. Finn (Star Wars) FN-2187 (Finn) is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. He first appeared in the", "title": "Finn (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "19749350", "text": "Dark Side. The chess pieces are portrayed as characters which match the rank of the chess piece. For example Luke Skywalker is the white king, Darth Vader is the black queen and the Stormtrooper are black pawns. When one chess piece takes an opposing one, a brief battle scene shows the chess piece character defeating the opponent. \"Computer Gaming World\" concluded that \"\" and \"Star Wars Chess\" \"are examples of marketing at its best (or worst, depending on your point of view)\". In 1996, \"Computer Gaming World\" declared \"Star Wars Chess\" the 49th-worst computer game ever released. Star Wars Chess", "title": "Star Wars Chess" }, { "id": "19102199", "text": "a heavy weapons specialist as the needs of the mission require: usually a heavy gunner, but sometimes also flamethrower troops, or riot troops equipped with energy batons (which are incidentally capable of blocking a lightsaber). The design of the armour of regular and heavy gunner Stormtroopers bears significant resemblances to the design used by the Galactic Empire, such as the helmet visor, nasal filters, and overall shape. However, the filter was extended, among other practical features. According to the famed First Order officer Captain Phasma, not even a Wookiee (the species Chewbacca belonged to) could crush the said armour. Some", "title": "First Order (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12257851", "text": "challenges. A 2004 lawsuit by Lucasfilm against one of the original prop designers, UK citizen Andrew Ainsworth, who had been selling helmet replicas made with original molds, confirmed the design to be under copyright in the US. However, a 2011 UK court decision in Ainsworth's favor deemed the costume to be industrial design, which is protected there only for 15 years. This puts the armor design in the public domain in the UK, and likely throughout the European Union. The helmet and armor were redesigned for the 2015 film \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" by costume designer Michael Kaplan with", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "630919", "text": "presence in popular culture. The iconic weapon of choice of the Jedi, the lightsaber, was voted as the most popular weapon in film history in a survey of approximately 2,000 film fans. Characters such as Darth Vader, Han Solo, and Yoda have become iconic, and all three were named in the top twenty of the British Film Institute's \"Best Sci-Fi Characters of All-Time\" list. The expressions \"Evil empire\" and \"May the Force be with you\" have become part of the popular lexicon. A pun on the latter phrase has led to May 4 being regarded by many fans of the", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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This evolved quickly into the current red, black, and white logo with the phrase, \"Vader's Fist\" to express the force with which the 501st led. Within weeks of launching the sites, Albin was fielding email requests from people across the country and around the world looking to be featured on his website in their own homemade Stormtrooper armor. What he started soon blossomed into a global phenomenon – a fan-based", "title": "501st Legion" }, { "id": "650673", "text": "of StarWars.com held an interview with Soule, who described the story as \"pretty unexplored territory.\" A second series, \"Darth Vader\" (2017), is also written by Charles Soule. It begins moments after Vader wakes up for the first time in his black suit at the end of the film \"\". The series will focus on exploring the title character's emotional transformation upon learning of Padme's death, his adjustment to his mechanical suit, how he creates his red lightsaber, and how he hunts Jedi in the Inquisitor program shown in the animated series \"Star Wars Rebels\". \"\" was one of the first", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "id": "769787", "text": "in fact the army, but rather an elite corps that works as a ground force for the Navy—similar to a Marine Corps. The Stormtroopers operate in conjunction with the Army and Navy, but in practice are organized like marines with their own separate divisions. When not in their signature white armor, Stormtrooper officers wear black uniforms. The Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) are the principal military intelligence, law enforcement, and internal security agency of the Galactic Empire. The ISB was charged with matters of counter-terrorism, counterintelligence, criminal investigation, internal affairs, state security and ensuring the loyalty of citizens to the Empire.", "title": "Galactic Empire (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "4905069", "text": "by enemies) and Chancellor Palpatine, has a special ability. Unlocked characters can be imported into the game's sequel, \"\", as an extra called \"use old save\", which costs 250,000 Lego Studs, and can be used in its character creator function. Because the game is based on the Prequel Trilogy (1999, 2002, 2005), Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and other characters from the original Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980 and 1983) are not shown, and appear in the sequel \"\". However, if the player unlocks the last level (an episode 4 preview), Darth Vader, a stormtrooper, a rebel trooper and", "title": "Lego Star Wars: The Video Game" }, { "id": "12257840", "text": "Imperial Navy, stormtroopers are able to be deployed swiftly and respond to states of civil unrest or insurrection, act as a planetary garrison, and police areas within the Galactic Empire. They are shown in collective groups of varying organizational sizes ranging from squads to legions and for some, their armor and training are modified for special operations and environments. In early drafts of \"Star Wars\" and Ralph McQuarrie's concept designs, stormtroopers were to wield lightsabers and hand-held shields as common weapons not limited to the Jedi or Sith. George Lucas, when composing background information in 1977, stated that females did", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "9387977", "text": "Encounters (77) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Grease (154) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Jaws 2 (70) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Marvel Comics (34) Size: 3-5/16 × 3¼ inches<br> Mork & Mindy (121) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Star Wars Movie Photo (56) Size: 2⅞ × 3-5/16 inches<br> Superman The Movie (193) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Three's Company (60) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches Alien (106) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Black Hole (110) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Buck Rogers (110) Size: 2½ × 3½ inches<br> Crazy Stick-Ons (48) Size: 1⅛ × 3⅜ inches<br> Incredible Hulk (110)", "title": "1970s Topps" }, { "id": "20263039", "text": "the same time. The novel was published by Del Rey Books on September 1, 2017. Star Wars: Phasma Star Wars: Phasma is a \"Star Wars\" novel by Delilah S. Dawson, published by Del Rey Books on September 1, 2017 as part of the publishing initiative. It explores the backstory of Captain Phasma, the stormtrooper leader introduced in the 2015 film \"\". The novel was announced at the \"Star Wars\" Celebration in April 2017, among several works related to \"The Force Awakens\" sequel film \"\". A comic book miniseries called \"\", exploring Phasma's adventures between the films, was announced at the", "title": "Star Wars: Phasma" }, { "id": "11305864", "text": "website's critical consensus reads, \"Packed with action and populated by both familiar faces and fresh blood, The Force Awakens successfully recalls the series' former glory while injecting it with renewed energy.\" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 55 reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale; women, under-25s and under-18s gave it an \"A+\", while 98% of audiences gave it either an \"A\" or a \"B\". Robbie Collin of \"The Daily Telegraph\" gave \"The Force Awakens\" five stars", "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" }, { "id": "20263037", "text": "Star Wars: Phasma Star Wars: Phasma is a \"Star Wars\" novel by Delilah S. Dawson, published by Del Rey Books on September 1, 2017 as part of the publishing initiative. It explores the backstory of Captain Phasma, the stormtrooper leader introduced in the 2015 film \"\". The novel was announced at the \"Star Wars\" Celebration in April 2017, among several works related to \"The Force Awakens\" sequel film \"\". A comic book miniseries called \"\", exploring Phasma's adventures between the films, was announced at the same time. Resistance spy Vi Moradi is captured and brought aboard the First Order Star", "title": "Star Wars: Phasma" }, { "id": "612897", "text": "for Fett as the script developed. Screen-tested in all-white, Fett's armor eventually garnered a subdued color scheme intended to visually place him between white-armored \"rank-and-file\" Imperial stormtroopers and Vader, who wears black. This color scheme had the added bonus of conveying the \"gray morality\" of his character. The character's armor was designed to appear to have been scavenged from multiple sources, and it is adorned with trophies. A description of Fett's armor in the mid-1979 \"Bantha Tracks\" newsletter catalyzed \"rampant speculation\" about his origins. By 1979, Fett's backstory included having served in an army of Imperial shock troops which had", "title": "Boba Fett" }, { "id": "5837814", "text": "the comedic one in \"TROOPS\"). \"Troops\" was released on the free DVD given away with the inaugural edition of \"Total Movie\" magazine, complete with commentary track by Rubio. It was also included as a bonus feature on the 20th anniversary DVD of the TV series \"COPS\". Troops (film) Troops is a 1997 short mockumentary film directed by Kevin Rubio that debuted at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 18, 1997 and was subsequently distributed via the internet. The film is a parody of \"COPS\", set in the \"Star Wars\" universe. In the film, Imperial stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep", "title": "Troops (film)" }, { "id": "2342904", "text": "had started working together again. In a 2005 interview, George Lucas was asked the origins of the name \"Darth Vader\", and replied: \"Darth is a variation of dark. And Vader is a variation of father. So it's basically Dark Father.\" (Rolling Stone, June 2, 2005). \"Vader\" is the Dutch word for \"father\" (the Dutch word is instead pronounced \"fah-der\"), and the German word for \"father\" (\"Vater\") is similar. However, in the earliest scripts for \"Star Wars\", the name \"Darth Vader\" was given to a human Imperial general with no apparent relationships. Commentators have noted the strong political analogies in the", "title": "Star Wars sources and analogues" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1394260", "text": "Star gunners preparing to fire, to add more suspense to the film's space battle scenes. When \"Star Wars\" was first released in 1977, most preliminary advertisements touted Cushing's Tarkin as the primary antagonist of the film, not Vader; Cushing was extremely pleased with the final film, and he claimed his only disappointment was that Tarkin was killed and could not appear in the subsequent sequels. The film gave Cushing the highest amount of visibility of his entire career, and helped inspire younger audiences to watch his older films. For the 2016 film \"Rogue One\", CGI and digitally-repurposed-archive footage were used", "title": "Peter Cushing" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "11436390", "text": "for his first film, Mollo unexpectedly found himself working not on a historical military drama but in a genre he had no knowledge of: science fiction. He was commissioned by a young filmmaker named George Lucas to devise uniforms and outfits for a fantasy space war film, \"Star Wars\". When asked at the time by a friend about the project, Mollo said that he thought it was a \"sort of a space western and one of the heroes is a dustbin\". Lucas's project envisioned a cast of heroes battling an evil Galactic Empire, and he briefed Mollo to design costumes", "title": "John Mollo" }, { "id": "5837809", "text": "Troops (film) Troops is a 1997 short mockumentary film directed by Kevin Rubio that debuted at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 18, 1997 and was subsequently distributed via the internet. The film is a parody of \"COPS\", set in the \"Star Wars\" universe. In the film, Imperial stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep Squadron patrolling the Dune Sea on the planet Tatooine run into some very familiar characters while being filmed for the hit Imperial TV show \"Troops\". In a Reddit AMA in January 2018, Rubio stated that \"Troops\" is acknowledged by George Lucas as a canonical installment in", "title": "Troops (film)" }, { "id": "3173066", "text": "appeared but between 2005 and 2009, gold was completely removed and silver introduced. Between 2010–2012, gold returned, silver was omitted and purple became the dominant colour in the jersey. For 2013 a new design was announced featuring a deeper V, with more navy blue in the jersey. Gold disappeared along with most of the white, and the lightning bolts were changed to purple. During 2015 the jersey changed again, for the first time not featuring a V at all, but the V returned somewhat along with the lightning bolts in 2016 with a manufacturer change. Over the years and in", "title": "Melbourne Storm" }, { "id": "9841943", "text": "3.5 in.<br> Coneheads (66) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Jurassic Park (176) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Last Action Hero (99) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> The Maxx (90) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Nicktoons (112) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Sonic The Hedgehog (66) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Street Fighter II (99) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> Star Wars Galaxy 1 (140) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.<br> WildC.A.T.s (100) Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in. 1993 Topps This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1993. All cards listed are standard size (2½ × 3½", "title": "1993 Topps" }, { "id": "12257852", "text": "input from director J. J. Abrams. The 501st Legion Elite Stormtrooper Unit, or \"Vader's Fist\", is a stormtrooper unit from the \"Star Wars\" movies and \"Star Wars Legends\" continuity. Commanded by the ruthlessly cunning General Maximilian Veers and composed of the best trained soldiers in the \"Star Wars\" galaxy, the legion earned a fierce reputation for completing missions considered unwinnable or suicidal. The 501st serves as Darth Vader personal death squadron, who leads the 501st in the Jedi extermination. The 501st spearhead the assault upon the Tantive IV consular ship, and capture Princess Leia. During the Battle of Hoth, the", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "19144393", "text": "of color doing anything heroic or worthwhile in it, what happened?\" In 2018 Older released his first Star Wars novel \"Last Shot\", which serves as a tie-in to \"\". It stars Han Solo and Lando Calrissian and takes place between \"Return of the Jedi\" and \"The Force Awakens\" with flashback settings before and after \"Solo\". In August 2014, Older started a petition to change the World Fantasy Award statuette from a bust of H. P. Lovecraft to one of African-American author Octavia Butler, on account of Lovecraft's racism, and concerns that it would be disrespectful to recipients, in particular those", "title": "Daniel José Older" }, { "id": "6007616", "text": "by incorporating the 501st Legion Elite Stormtrooper Unit into his \"Star Wars\" novel \"Survivor's Quest\". Several other authors have since followed suit and solidified the Legion’s name in the official \"Star Wars\" universe. In 2005, the 501st Legion finally hit “mainstream” \"Star Wars\" canon with its inclusion in the novelization of \"\". The blue clone troopers led into the Jedi Temple by Darth Vader in are officially designated as the 501st Legion, with the nickname \"Vader's Fist\" because of his exclusive use of the unit. Although not mentioned in the film itself, all of the licensed support material and merchandising", "title": "501st Legion" }, { "id": "16222443", "text": "Republic and ensure the dominance of the Dark Side of the Force. The novel brings in scores of characters and locations already familiar in the \"Star Wars\" mythos, as well as introducing many others for the first time. Events depicted on-screen in \"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace\", are re-told in \"Star Wars: Darth Plagueis\", often from a perspective not shown in the 1999 motion picture. Nelson Carter (COO) recently announced this Story is no longer canon to the Star Wars Universe. The novel was hailed by \"Newsday\" on a cover blurb as, \"The best \"Star Wars\" publication to", "title": "Star Wars: Darth Plagueis" }, { "id": "6219305", "text": "Color\" did a parody called \"Thugs\", that was shot from the point of view of the criminals. Seattle's sketch comedy show \"Almost Live!\" did a parody called \"Librarians\", and \"\"Cops\" in ...\". In 1994, children's show \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\" did a parody called \"\"Cops\" in Your Bloodstream\". \"Troops\" is a mockumentary by Kevin Rubio that had its debut at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 18, 1997 and was subsequently distributed via the internet. The movie is a parody of \"Cops\", set in the \"Star Wars\" universe. In the movie, Imperial stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep Squadron", "title": "Cops (TV program)" }, { "id": "19102198", "text": "Order Stormtroopers are regularly put through mental indoctrination and propaganda programs, to make sure that they remain fanatically loyal and never hesitate or question orders. Being taken from their families at birth, these soldiers are not even given individual names for themselves but merely serial numbers, such as \"FN-2187\". This was the name Finn, a defector and Resistance hero, was originally given. His current name, given by Poe Dameron, derives from the FN, which was the only part Dameron was able to remember easily. First Order Stormtroopers are formally deployed in squads of ten, with the tenth spot reserved for", "title": "First Order (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "769780", "text": "on the Death Star. Through this chain of command, Palpatine dictates direct control over all population centers. In \"Star Wars\", Grand Moff Tarkin explains the Empire's military doctrine of peacekeeping, internal security, and counter-insurgency; describing its state terrorism-philosophy as \"rule through fear of force rather than force itself\". The instrument of this power is the military, which includes the Imperial Stormtroopers, a massive fleet of Star Destroyers, and the Death Star, a moon-sized superweapon capable of destroying entire planets. Plans for the Death Star first appear (in universe chronology) in \"Attack of the Clones\" and construction begins at the end", "title": "Galactic Empire (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12257841", "text": "exist in the Stormtrooper Corps, although there were few stationed on the Death Star. He suggested that they were numerous in other units. Introduced in \"Star Wars\" (1977), the Imperial stormtroopers serve as the army of the Galactic Empire, establishing Imperial authority and putting down any revolts. In the prequel film \"\" (2002), the first clone troopers are cloned from bounty hunter Jango Fett, to be the Army of the Republic in the Clone Wars. In \"\" (2005), Chancellor Palpatine orders them to slay their Jedi generals in the Great Jedi Purge, effectively making them stormtroopers. The Imperial Stormtrooper Corps", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "11305865", "text": "out of five and wrote that it \"sets out to shake \"Star Wars\" from its slumber, and reconnect the series with its much-pined-for past. That it achieves this both immediately and joyously is perhaps the single greatest relief of the movie-going year.\" Peter Bradshaw of \"The Guardian\" gave it five stars out of five, writing that it was \"both a narrative progression from the earlier three films and a shrewdly affectionate next-gen reboot … ridiculous and melodramatic and sentimental of course, but exciting and brimming with energy and its own kind of generosity.\" \"Variety\"s Justin Chang wrote that the film", "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" }, { "id": "15557502", "text": "Muir wrote an autobiography, \"In the Shadow of Vader\", which was released on 19 December 2009 (). The book covers experiences encountered whilst working within the Film Industry. The book is currently rated with 5 stars via Amazon and is critically acclaimed. Brian Muir (sculptor) Brian Muir (born 15 April 1952) is a British sculptor who most famously created Darth Vader's helmet and armour using Ralph McQuarrie's design. He was also responsible for sculpting the stormtrooper armour in \"Star Wars\" (the helmet was sculpted by Liz Moore) and the heads for the Death Star Droid, CZ3, and some finishing work", "title": "Brian Muir (sculptor)" }, { "id": "12381643", "text": "the Wars, they are forced by a surgically implanted inhibitor chip to carry out Order 66 and slaughter the Jedi. After the conversion of the Republic into the Galactic Empire, clone troopers become known as the stormtroopers and are eventually phased out in favor of recruits. During development of \"The Empire Strikes Back\", Lucas initially conceived of a planet of clones that caused the Clone Wars mentioned in \"A New Hope\". The clone trooper armor was designed to suggest an evolution into the stormtroopers of the original trilogy, and it incorporated features from both the armor of stormtroopers and Boba", "title": "Clone trooper" }, { "id": "650640", "text": "with Vader. The original design of Darth Vader's costume did not originally include a helmet. The idea that Vader should wear a breathing apparatus was first proposed by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie during preproduction discussions for \"Star Wars\" with George Lucas in 1975. In an interview with \"Star Wars Insider\" Magazine, McQuarrie stated that Lucas's artistic direction was to portray a malevolent figure in a cape with Samurai armour. \"For Darth Vader, George [Lucas] just said he would like to have a very tall, dark fluttering figure that had a spooky feeling like it came in on the wind.\" McQuarrie", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "id": "2342900", "text": "the universe\". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of \"Star Wars\", The History Channel premiered a two-hour event covering the entire \"Star Wars\" saga entitled \".\" Featuring interviews from the likes of Stephen Colbert, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jackson, acclaimed scholars and others, the program delved further into the Heroic Epic concept and the influences of mythology and other motifs that were important in making \"Star Wars\". Subjects include sins of the father and redeeming the father, coming of age, exiting the ordinary world and others. The stormtroopers from the movies share a name with the", "title": "Star Wars sources and analogues" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "358273", "text": "who have mistaken the fictional series for reality. The main characters are parodies of \"Star Trek\" characters, and many of the plot elements refer to or parody popular 1960s TV-series customs. John Scalzi's novel \"Redshirts\", winner of the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel, uses the theme of red-shirted Star Fleet officers as cannon fodder. \"Star Trek\" has inspired many fans to produce stories for free Internet distribution. Many of these are set in the time of \"The Original Series\", including \"\" which was nominated for a Hugo Award and received support from actors and writers who were involved with", "title": "Star Trek: The Original Series" }, { "id": "12257842", "text": "swell in size after Palpatine completely replaced the clones with recruits and conscripts of the Empire, though the replacement of clones with natural beings lowered the effectiveness of the Empire's soldiers. With the Empire firmly stabilized and an Imperial Army and Navy established, the stormtroopers are integrated into Palpatine's personal army and stationed on Imperial bases and cruisers, as well as on the Death Star. As established in \"The Force Awakens\" (2015), after Palpatine's death the stormtroopers continue to serve under the factions that broke apart from the Empire. With redesigned armor, they eventually serve under the leadership of the", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "18096563", "text": "Star and many other very large spacecraft or artificial moonlets exist. Macroengineering is available on vast scales. Body armour is seen throughout the \"Star Wars\" anthology films and their first cinematic spin-off film, \"Rogue One\". Their main purpose is to protect the wearer from attacks and other hazards as in ancient and current times on Earth. They are most commonly seen on Imperial stormtroopers, clone troopers, snowtroopers, bounty hunters and as of \"Rogue One\", death troopers as well. According to \"Star Wars\" lore, amongst the characters in that universe to use them were ancient Mandalorian warriors. Additionally to stormtroopers and", "title": "Technology in Star Wars" }, { "id": "19223291", "text": "the perfect Finn. Finn's stormtrooper code name, FN-2187, is a reference to the number of the cell in which Princess Leia was detained in the original 1977 film \"Star Wars\". \"Cell 2187,\" in turn, references Arthur Lipsett's short film \"21-87\", which reportedly inspired George Lucas to make the film \"THX 1138\". Abrams stated that it was intentional that Finn was given no last name in promotional materials for \"The Force Awakens\", suggesting that his full name and background would be revealed in future films. However, the film itself revealed that \"Finn\" is an adopted name, derived from his stormtrooper number.", "title": "Finn (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "12213716", "text": "Vader. Palpatine rules the galaxy for over two decades before his reign is brought to an end in the Battle of Endor when Vader turns on him and kills him in order to save his son, Luke Skywalker who was being electrocuted by Palpatine. Since the initial theatrical run of \"Return of the Jedi\", Palpatine has become a widely recognized popular culture symbol of evil, sinister deception, sadistic cruelty, dictatorship, tyranny, and the subversion of democracy. The Emperor is briefly mentioned in the original \"Star Wars\" (1977), the first film in the original trilogy. Grand Moff Tarkin explains to the", "title": "Palpatine" }, { "id": "360353", "text": "Star Wars Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, created by George Lucas and centered around a film series that began with the eponymous 1977 movie. The saga quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The first film was followed by two successful sequels, \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (1980) and \"Return of the Jedi\" (1983); these three films constitute the original \"Star Wars\" trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, albeit to mixed reactions from critics and fans. Finally, a sequel trilogy to conclude the nine-episode saga began in 2015 with \"\". The first eight", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "id": "9399180", "text": "four figures to be distributed were Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2). The box also contains a diorama display stand, some stickers, and a \"Star Wars\" fan club membership card. By the time the action figures were offered for direct sale in shops, the range had been augmented with a further eight figures -- See-Threepio (C-3PO), Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi, Han Solo, Jawa, Sand People and Death Squad Commander -- bringing the total number of figures in the initial release to twelve. These were supplemented later in 1978 with a number of vehicle and playset accessories,", "title": "Kenner Star Wars action figures" }, { "id": "360357", "text": "is wielded by two major knighthood orders at conflict with each other: the Jedi, who act on the light side of the Force through non-attachment and arbitration, and the Sith, who use the dark side through fear and aggression. The latter's members are intended to be limited to two: a master and their apprentice. The \"Star Wars\" film series centers around a \"trilogy of trilogies\" (also referred to as the \"Skywalker saga\" or the \"\"Star Wars\" saga\"). They were released out of sequence: the original (Episodes \"IV–VI\", 1977–83), prequel (Episodes \"I–III\", 1999–2005), and sequel (Episodes \"VII–IX\", 2015–19) trilogy. The first", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "id": "630930", "text": "updated 10th anniversary edition), 27th on 100 Years...100 Thrills, and 39th on 100 Years...100 Cheers. In addition, the quote \"May the Force be with you\" is ranked eighth on 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, and Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are ranked as the 14th and 37th greatest heroes respectively on 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains. Little \"Star Wars\" merchandise was available for several months after the film's debut, as only Kenner Products had accepted marketing director Charles Lippincott's licensing offers. Kenner responded to the sudden demand for toys by selling boxed vouchers in its \"empty box\" Christmas campaign. Television commercials", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "id": "4839809", "text": "yellow can refer to any shade of yellow and tan. Terms used include yellow-gold, lion-colored, fawn, apricot, wheaten, tawny, straw, yellow-red, mustard, sandy, honey, apricot, blond, lemon. Dogs called golden or yellow tend to be recessive yellow, but can also be sable. Cream refers to a pale yellowish or tannish colour which can be almost white. Fawn typically refers to a yellow, tan, light brown, or cream dog that has a dark melanistic mask. With Weimaraners, \"fawn\" refers to their typical brownish grey colouration that with other breeds is usually called lilac. Black is a pure black that can get", "title": "Coat (dog)" }, { "id": "12257847", "text": "millions of soldiers to fill its Stormtrooper ranks, yet unwilling to switch back to using a rapidly produced clone troopers, \"First Order\" Stormtroopers are bred, trained and indoctrinated from birth, raised their entire lives for no other purpose. First Order soldiers and crews have constantly trained for combat in war games and simulations, making them much more effective one-on-one than the endless waves of Stormtrooper conscripts fielded by the Galactic Empire. First Order Stormtroopers are regularly put through mental indoctrination and propaganda programs, to make sure that they remain fanatically loyal and never hesitate or question orders. Being taken from", "title": "Stormtrooper (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "5623057", "text": "Boys in \"Paris Playboys\" (1954), which was co-written by Bernds and Ullman. The Queen's guards wore uniforms that foreshadow (and may have influenced) those worn on the later \"\" television series, coming in the same three Starfleet colors; red, blue, and gold. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 18% of 11 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.2/10. \"Variety\" called it \"a good-natured attempt to put some honest sex into science-fiction\". Queen of Outer Space Queen of Outer Space is a 1958 American color science fiction feature film in CinemaScope, produced by Ben", "title": "Queen of Outer Space" }, { "id": "19115563", "text": "commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" 2015–16 Canadian network television schedule The 2015–16 network television schedules for the five major English commercial", "title": "2015–16 Canadian network television schedule" }, { "id": "8928616", "text": "Shepperton Design Studios Shepperton Design Studios is an England-based manufacturer of \"Star Wars\" replica props and memorabilia that was sued by Lucasfilm for copyright infringement. This manufacturer made authentic Star Wars replica props and memorabilia, based in England. The company was founded by Andrew Ainsworth, who was asked in January 1976 to manufacture first the helmets, then the body armour for the Imperial stormtroopers (based on pre-existing sculpts from Liz Moore and Brian Muir) in the classic \"Star Wars\" films. In 2004, Shepperton Design Studios claimed to have discovered in their possession one of the moulds used to create the", "title": "Shepperton Design Studios" }, { "id": "650698", "text": "the Terrible, Napoleon, Al Capone and the fictional Pharaoh Kahmunrah, but they judge him only a futile robot, as he does not speak, but tries to Force-choke them, with a gesture they interpret as a sort of salute. In 2010, IGN ranked Darth Vader 25th in the \"Top 100 Videogames Villains\". In Ukraine, the Internet Party of Ukraine regularly lets people named Darth Vader take part in elections. Footnotes Citations Darth Vader Darth Vader is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. He is the main antagonist of the original trilogy, but, as Anakin Skywalker, is the main protagonist", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "id": "10857070", "text": "by the Machiavellian methods and dark arts they practice, they are not portrayed as necessarily irredeemable: Some Sith, most famously Darth Vader in the final moments of his life, have renounced the Order and the Dark Side of the Force. Martial arts are a core part of the Sith tradition, and Sith featured in the \"Star Wars\" film series have all been highly trained warriors who further augment their abilities with the Force. Like the Jedi, the Sith's signature armament is an extremely lethal focused energy melee weapon known as a lightsaber, which (generally) only those trained in the ways", "title": "Sith" }, { "id": "6007620", "text": "DZ-40201. This tradition originates from a line in Star Wars, \"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?\". The founder of the 501st Legion, Albin Johnson, decided that \"Desert Troopers would be labeled “TD” and came from specialized training schools for their missions, Snowtroopers would be “TS”, Biker Scouts would [become] “TB.”\" as each group of costumes carries a specific letter designation. Every member of the Legion is issued an identification number upon joining. It becomes their number for life, and will never be given to anyone else, even after they die. Because of that, many members pick a number that", "title": "501st Legion" }, { "id": "1394255", "text": "at the time to appear in \"Star Wars\", as the rest of the cast was still relatively unknown. As a result, Cushing was paid a larger daily salary than most of his fellow cast, earning £2,000 per day compared to weekly salaries of $1,000 for Mark Hamill, $850 for Carrie Fisher and $750 for Harrison Ford, who played protagonists Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo, respectively. When Cushing smoked between shots, he wore a white glove so the make-up artists would not have to deal with nicotine stains on his fingers. Like Guinness, Cushing had difficulty with some", "title": "Peter Cushing" }, { "id": "19223289", "text": "male lead was going to be. I remember we talked about pirates and merchant marines and all this stuff, and finally Larry [Kasdan] got pissed at all of us and he's just like, \"You guys, you're not thinking big. What if he's a stormtrooper that ran away? For the roles of Finn and other new \"Star Wars\" characters for \"The Force Awakens\", director J. J. Abrams intentionally looked for unknown actors, as he wanted audiences \"to meet these characters [in the film] and not feel like it’s him from that thing, it’s her from that thing.\" Boyega, who had impressed", "title": "Finn (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "1412002", "text": "a species of fish-like, amphibious humanoids with salmon-colored skin, webbed hands, high-domed heads, and large fish-like eyes. Ackbar's back story was not explained in \"Return of the Jedi\", but has since been established in \"Star Wars\" books and other media since the film was released. Ackbar is from the planet Mon Calamari, a world almost entirely covered by water, where his species built giant floating cities. Ackbar is the leader of his home town, Coral Depths City, when forces from the Galactic Empire invade and almost destroy the planet. Despite the Mon Calamari's attempts to make peace, the Imperial forces", "title": "Admiral Ackbar" }, { "id": "613029", "text": "his work on \"The Hero with a Thousand Faces\", which heavily influenced Lucas' writing of the original \"Star Wars\" trilogy's outline. Japanese films such as Akira Kurosawa's \"The Hidden Fortress\" influenced the original \"Star Wars\" film; scholars say that \"The Phantom Menace\" was likewise influenced by Korean and Japanese culture. Film historians Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska write, \"The costume and make-up designs ... favour a mixture of the gothic and the oriental [sic] over anything very futuristic. The gothic is most strongly apparent in Darth Maul's demonic horns and the red and black make-up mask that borrows from the", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" }, { "id": "2342901", "text": "German stormtroopers. Imperial officers' uniforms also resemble some historical German Army uniforms (see Wehrmacht) and the political and security officers of the Empire resemble the black clad SS down to the imitation silver death's head insignia on their officer's caps (although the uniforms technically had more basis with the German Uhlans within the Prussian Empire). World War II terms were used for names in \"Star Wars\"; examples include the planets Kessel (a group of encircled forces), Hoth (Hermann Hoth was a German general who served on the snow laden Eastern Front), and Tatooine (Tataouine - a province south of Tunis", "title": "Star Wars sources and analogues" }, { "id": "630802", "text": "in theatres in the United States on May 25, 1977. It earned $461 million in the U.S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed \"Jaws\" (1975) to become the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\" (1982). When adjusted for inflation, \"Star Wars\" is the second-highest-grossing film in North America, and the third-highest-grossing film in the world. It received ten Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), winning seven. It was among the first films to be selected as part of the U.S. Library of Congress's National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "id": "19102216", "text": "mimicking the 1935 Nazi propaganda film \"Triumph of the Will\". \"The Force Awakens\" writer/director J. J. Abrams said that the First Order is inspired by the theory of ODESSA, which involved SS officers allegedly fleeing to Argentina and other countries following the aftermath of World War II. Abrams explained: First Order (Star Wars) The First Order is an autocratic military dictatorship in the \"Star Wars\" franchise, introduced in the 2015 film \"\". Formed following the fall of the Galactic Empire after the events of \"Return of the Jedi\" (1983), the organization has amassed its power in secret over three decades.", "title": "First Order (Star Wars)" }, { "id": "374951", "text": "horsehead, a lightning bolt, and the word \"Chargers\". From 1960 to 1973, the colors consisted of various shades of Electric blue (\"powder\" blue, but technically called Collegiate blue) or white jerseys, both with gold lightning bolts on the shoulders. The helmets were white and had both the arc-shaped lightning bolt logo, in gold or navy depending on the year, and the player's number. At first, the team wore white pants before switching to gold in 1966. In 1973, the numerals on the blue jerseys changed from white to gold. In 1974, the sky blue was changed to dark royal blue.", "title": "Los Angeles Chargers" }, { "id": "219994", "text": "though the former regards one as a tool, the latter, a weapon. The Jedi's lightsabers emit cool colors, usually blue or green blades (sometimes yellow, or purple, as seen in the case of Mace Windu), while the Sith emit warm colors (red). Lightsabers can be of many different colors depending on the crystal fixture. Most Jedi use naturally formed crystals, whereas Sith tend to use synthetic crystals, which are usually red in color. Eta-2 Actis Jedi Interceptors first appeared in \"Revenge of the Sith\". Delta-7B Aethersprite Jedi starfighters appear in \"Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones\" and", "title": "Jedi" }, { "id": "6007621", "text": "has a significant meaning to them. Combining a costume code with a member’s identification number creates a unique in-universe designation for each Legion member and each one of their costumes. Member 8968 might be known as TK-8968, IG-8968, or TB-8968, depending on whether he is wearing a Stormtrooper, Imperial Gunner, or Biker Scout costume at the time. Being assigned a 501st Legion I.D. number is often viewed as a rite of passage by the group's members, marking the time that they officially become a part of the 501st Legion's worldwide family. For Star Wars costumers who are under 18 years", "title": "501st Legion" }, { "id": "2050726", "text": "Beatty and Hoffman lost in the desert would be shot. Sylbert had scouted dunes in the United States and Morocco but none seemed to fit the vision of May, who was very uncomfortable in the desert environment. She suffered from toothaches that she refused to have treated locally, and took extensive measures to shelter herself from the harsh sun, not only spending much of her time under a large parasol but wearing large sunglasses and wrapping her face in a white gauze veil, to the point that her appearance was compared to a \"Star Wars\" stormtrooper. After one unsuccessful search", "title": "Ishtar (film)" }, { "id": "1591182", "text": "did mark the first time a film was booked to theaters before a release date, a common practice today. The massive success of \"Jaws\" was eclipsed just two years later by another legendary blockbuster and film franchise. The George Lucas science-fiction film \"Star Wars\" hit theater screens in May 1977, and became a major hit, growing in ticket sales throughout the summer and the rest of the year. In time earning some $460 million, the good versus evil fantasy set in space was not soon surpassed. The film's breathtaking visual effects won an Academy Award. The film also won for", "title": "1970s in film" }, { "id": "12381678", "text": "film series and in the \"Star Wars\" expanded universe media, a number of specialized trooper units are seen, including elite special forces units such as the 'Advanced Reconnaissance Commandos' (ARC troopers), and Null ARCs, who usually work alone. All clone commandos and ARCs were trained by Mandalorian mercenaries; the elite Clone Troopers are known as Shadow Troopers. The style and color of a clone troopers armor often varies depending on their rank, specialization, unit, or environment, for example, the clone troopers on Kashyyyk wear camouflage green scout-style armour whereas the 501st legion wears standard white armor with blue accents. Another", "title": "Clone trooper" }, { "id": "630810", "text": "Peter Geddis portrays Captain Raymus Antilles. Michael Leader plays a minor role as a Stormtrooper known for accidentally hitting his helmet against a door. Lucas has said that it was early as 1971—after he completed directing his first full-length feature, \"THX 1138\"—that he first had an idea for a space fantasy film, though he has also claimed to have had the idea long before then. Lucas believed that the bleak tone of \"THX 1138\" led to its poor reception, and therefore chose to make \"Star Wars\" more optimistic. This is what led to the fun and adventurous tone of the", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "id": "4077554", "text": "New series: Not returning from 2003–04: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2003–04: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2003–04: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2003–04: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2003–04: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2003–04: 2004–05 United States network television schedule The following is the 2004–05 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 2004 through May 2005. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series", "title": "2004–05 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "10893181", "text": "novels, comics, animated series, toys and feature films, \"Star Trek\" grew into a popular media franchise. \"Star Wars\" was introduced as a feature film, \"A New Hope\" (1977). A novelization titled \"\", based on the original script of the film, was published about a year earlier. Upon the release of the first film, \"Star Wars\" quickly grew into a popular media franchise. \"Star Trek\" debuted in television. The franchise was conceived in the style of the television Western \"Wagon Train\" and the adventure stories of Horatio Hornblower, but evolved into an idealistic, utopian prospect of future human society. Inspired by", "title": "Comparison of Star Trek and Star Wars" }, { "id": "17837554", "text": "Joseph Beuys' 1974 performance art piece \"I Like America and America Likes Me\" was unveiled at Union Station in Los Angeles, California. Kapoor titled his self-portrait \"I Like America and America Doesn't Like Me\" as a protest against the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump's administration. In 2013, Moore teamed up with the charity Missing People to produce Art Wars, an exhibition featuring designs based on the Imperial Stormtrooper helmets and body armour from the \"Star Wars\" films. Fourteen artists created replicas and re-imaginings of the helmets, including Damien Hirst, D*Face and Yinka Shonibare. Moore contributed to the exhibit", "title": "Ben Moore (curator)" }, { "id": "612865", "text": "Lando Calrissian Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. In \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (1980), Lando is introduced as an old friend of Han Solo. Prior to the events of the film, he was the original owner of the \"Millennium Falcon\", until losing the ship to Han in a bet. He has become the Baron Administrator of Cloud City on the gas planet Bespin, and in the film, betrays Han to Darth Vader. In \"Return of the Jedi\" (1983), he becomes a general in the Rebel Alliance and leads the attack on the second Death Star.", "title": "Lando Calrissian" }, { "id": "5030111", "text": "Homer and Ned escape from Vegas, a snippet of the theme from the 1996 comic science fiction film \"Mars Attacks!\" can be heard. The Comic Book Guy's license plate is NCC-1701, which is also the registration of the USS Enterprise, a fictional starship from the \"Star Trek\" media franchise. He also has a bumper sticker which reads \"my other car is the \"Millennium Falcon\"\" which was given to him by somebody who looked like the actor Harrison Ford; the \"Millennium Falcon\" was the ship used by Ford's character Han Solo in the \"Star Wars\" film series. The line Homer gives", "title": "Viva Ned Flanders" }, { "id": "612882", "text": "orientation to J. K. Rowling's rebranding of Dumbledore as gay, despite none of the \"Harry Potter\" books mentioning it explicitly. Lando Calrissian Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the \"Star Wars\" franchise. In \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (1980), Lando is introduced as an old friend of Han Solo. Prior to the events of the film, he was the original owner of the \"Millennium Falcon\", until losing the ship to Han in a bet. He has become the Baron Administrator of Cloud City on the gas planet Bespin, and in the film, betrays Han to Darth Vader. In \"Return of", "title": "Lando Calrissian" }, { "id": "668171", "text": "week and went on to earn over $848 million worldwide, making it, at the time, the third-highest-grossing film in the \"Star Wars\" franchise, unadjusted for inflation. It was the highest-grossing film in the U.S. in 2005 and the second-highest grossing film worldwide. The film also holds the record for the highest opening day gross on a Thursday, making $50 million. Three years after the beginning of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue the kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander, General Grievous, during a space battle over", "title": "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith" }, { "id": "10857113", "text": "rules through deception, propaganda, fear and oppression. Although usually considered as a villainous \"enforcer\" of such power, Darth Vader has also been regarded as a tragic figure and cautionary study in the corruption of a hero who loses sight of the greater good and resorts to evil practices out of fear and desperation. A \"turn to the Dark Side\" has become a popular idiom to describe an (often misguided) individual or institution's embrace of evil out of a desire for power. Sith The Sith are major antagonists in the space opera franchise \"Star Wars\". They are depicted as an ancient", "title": "Sith" }, { "id": "10857056", "text": "close to realizing their ambitions of galactic conquest, and nearly eradicated the Jedi. Ultimately, however, they are self-defeating, their grand plans undone time and again by internal strife, rebellion inspired by their vicious tactics, and the psychologically noxious effects of their dark arts and philosophy. Prominent Sith lords such as Darth Vader and Darth Sidious have become pop culture icons of tyranny and terror. The word \"Sith\" was first used in the 1976 novelization of \"Star Wars\" as a title for the key villain Darth Vader, the \"Dark Lord of the Sith.\" Sith characters had also been named in some", "title": "Sith" }, { "id": "11305866", "text": "has \"sufficient style, momentum, love and care to prove irresistible to any who have ever considered themselves fans\". Richard Roeper of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" gave the film four stars out of four, describing it as \"a beautiful, thrilling, joyous, surprising, and heart-thumping adventure\". Tom Long of \"The Detroit News\" wrote that though some may find the film too similar to the original \"Star Wars\", it leaves \"the ungainly and unneeded clumsiness of the subsequent prequels far behind … the energy, humor and simplicity of direction [has] been recaptured\". The Associated Press called it \"basically the same\" as the original film", "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" } ]

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[ { "id": "12054221", "text": "Airport is the main gateway to Egypt and is located about 15 miles northeast of the city in northern Egypt. Cairo’s three terminals receive flights from all major world cities including those in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. You can reach central Cairo by bus, while numerous taxis also run to the city and its hotels. Limousines are also available. Located in central Egypt, Luxor International Airport serves the Nile Valley and acts as a gateway to tourist destinations of the region. It has connections from the UK, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Turkey. Two terminals serve international and", "title": "Tourism in Egypt" }, { "id": "6428404", "text": "Luxor International Airport Luxor International Airport is the main airport serving the city of Luxor, Egypt. It is located four miles (6 km) east of the city. Many charter airlines use the airport, as it is a popular tourist destination for those visiting the River Nile and the Valley of the Kings. In 2005 the airport was upgraded to accommodate up to 8 million passengers a year. Facilities for passengers include 48 check-in desks, 8 gates, 5 baggage claim belts, a post office, a bank, a Bureau de change, an auto exchange machine (CIB), restaurants, cafeterias, a VIP Lounge, a", "title": "Luxor International Airport" }, { "id": "6428405", "text": "duty-free shop, a newsagent/tobacconist, a chemist shop, a gift shop, a travel agency, a tourist help desk, car rental, first aid, a baby/parent Room, disabled access/facilities and a business centre. Facilities for cargo include refrigerated storage, animal quarantine, livestock handling, health officials, X-Ray equipment, and fumigation equipment. The cargo terminal handling agent for the airport is EgyptAir Cargo. Luxor International Airport Luxor International Airport is the main airport serving the city of Luxor, Egypt. It is located four miles (6 km) east of the city. Many charter airlines use the airport, as it is a popular tourist destination for those", "title": "Luxor International Airport" }, { "id": "9525704", "text": "Ethiopia due to the ash cloud, which was projected to enter a west-to-east jetstream and enter the atmosphere of countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia. The ash cloud began disrupting air traffic as UAE-based Emirates flights were cancelled along with Saudi Arabian Airlines flights. Luxor International Airport in Luxor, Egypt was placed on a state of emergency. The MODVOLC noted on the 9 April 2012 that a thermal anomaly was detected at Nabro and that such anomalies had been detected throughout March. The activity is focused on the Southern Caldera wall. The", "title": "Nabro Volcano" }, { "id": "1504827", "text": "following a mid-air gas explosion. It was one of the worst accidents involving tourists in Egypt and likely to push the tourism industry deeper into recession. The casualties included French, British, Hungarian, Japanese nationals and nine tourists from Hong Kong. Luxor is served by Luxor International Airport. A bridge was opened in 1998, a few kilometres upstream of the main town of Luxor, allowing ready land access from the east bank to the west bank. Traditionally, however, river crossings have been the domain of several ferry services. The so-called 'local ferry' (also known as the 'National Ferry') continues to operate", "title": "Luxor" }, { "id": "17658824", "text": "the airport to report that he had received a beam aerial from the Egyptian aircraft heading to Luxor that it had been hijacked and the flight was under terrorist control. President Sadat ordered the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense to make the necessary decisions to protect the passengers and arrest the terrorists. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense quickly flew to Luxor International Airport where they started a secret meeting in the airport's tower, while Major General Abdul Hafiz Al-Bagori, Governor of Qena started negotiations with the three terrorists in order to gain time. In a", "title": "EgyptAir Flight 321" }, { "id": "2827294", "text": "talks between the two governments, which subsequently led to the Libyan-Egyptian War. Fifteen minutes after takeoff from Cairo International Airport, an Italian pilot called the airport to report that he had received a beam aerial from the Egyptian aircraft heading to Luxor that it had been hijacked and the flight was under terrorist control. President Sadat ordered the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense to make the necessary decisions to protect the passengers and arrest the terrorists. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense quickly flew to Luxor International Airport where they started a secret meeting in the", "title": "Unit 777" }, { "id": "5546285", "text": "AMC Airlines AMC Airlines is a charter airline based in Cairo, Egypt. It operates charter flights from Egypt's tourist destinations to Europe, regular charters to the Middle East as well as domestic flights. The airline also operates \"ad hoc\" VIP flights and military transport (for the United Nations). Its main base is Cairo International Airport, with hubs at Hurghada International Airport, Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport and Luxor International Airport. The airline was established and started operations in 1988, after the Egyptian government approved the foundation of Aircraft Maintenance in Cairo. At that time Elsayed Saber and his family launched AMC", "title": "AMC Airlines" }, { "id": "2404926", "text": "Luxembourg Airport Luxembourg Airport is the main airport in Luxembourg. Previously called Luxembourg Findel Airport due to its location at Findel, it is Luxembourg's only international airport and is the only airport in the country with a paved runway. It is located east of Luxembourg City. In 2015, it handled 2,687,086 passengers. By cargo tonnage, LUX/ELLX ranked as Europe's fifth-busiest and the world's 28th-busiest in 2010. Luxair, Luxembourg's international airline, and cargo airline Cargolux have their head offices on the airport property. The airport was originally known as \"Sandweiler Airport\", and was opened in the 1930s as a small grass", "title": "Luxembourg Airport" }, { "id": "9180175", "text": "The airline was the first in Egypt to receive EASA standards maintenance certification and IOSA certification (IATA Operational Safety Audit). The Lotus Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at June 2010): <br> As of January 2011, the average age of the Lotus Air fleet was 12.7 years (). Lotus Air Lotus Air was an airline based in Cairo, Egypt. It was a privately owned charter airline flying mainly to Europe. Its main base was Cairo International Airport, with hubs at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, Hurghada International Airport and Luxor International Airport. Lotus Air was one of the first private", "title": "Lotus Air" }, { "id": "2404932", "text": "a capacity of up to 80 passengers. It is mainly used by Luxair's Q400 fleet. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Luxembourg Airport: Luxembourg Airport Luxembourg Airport is the main airport in Luxembourg. Previously called Luxembourg Findel Airport due to its location at Findel, it is Luxembourg's only international airport and is the only airport in the country with a paved runway. It is located east of Luxembourg City. In 2015, it handled 2,687,086 passengers. By cargo tonnage, LUX/ELLX ranked as Europe's fifth-busiest and the world's 28th-busiest in 2010. Luxair, Luxembourg's international airline, and cargo airline", "title": "Luxembourg Airport" }, { "id": "9180174", "text": "Lotus Air Lotus Air was an airline based in Cairo, Egypt. It was a privately owned charter airline flying mainly to Europe. Its main base was Cairo International Airport, with hubs at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, Hurghada International Airport and Luxor International Airport. Lotus Air was one of the first private airlines in the Middle East and North Africa region. The airline was established in 1997 by Al-Fawares Holding Company and commenced operations in 1998. The main business centred on charter operations, ad-hoc flights, ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance) operations, damp leases, technical services, ground handling and crew training.", "title": "Lotus Air" }, { "id": "15721644", "text": "as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. The apron is designed to handle 6 aircraft, with plans to expand this to accommodate 14 aircraft. The new airport is the fifth international airport in Upper Egypt after Luxor, Aswan, Assiut, and Abu Simbel. The airport primarily caters to domestic travel and traffic between Sohag/Upper Egypt and the Persian Gulf states including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Sohag International Airport Sohag International Airport is an airport serving Sohag, capital of the Sohag Governorate of Egypt. The airport is south of the city. The Sohag VOR-DME (Ident: SHG) is located", "title": "Sohag International Airport" }, { "id": "2295737", "text": "Luxair Luxair, legally \"Luxair S.A., Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne\", is the flag carrier airline of Luxembourg with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg Airport. It operates scheduled services to destinations in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Middle East with additional charter and seasonal services. It is Luxembourg's only passenger-carrying airline. Descended from Luxembourg Airlines, founded in 1948, Luxair was starting to be set up in 1961 to meet the growing demand for air links between Luxembourg and other European cities. In 1962, Luxembourg Airlines became Luxair and began flights by launching a Luxembourg–Paris route with a Fokker F27", "title": "Luxair" }, { "id": "239169", "text": "along the river. Mertert near Grevenmacher on the Moselle is Luxembourg's only commercial port. With two quays covering a total length of 1.6 km, it offers facilities connecting river, road and rail transport. It is used principally for coal, steel, oil, agricultural goods and building materials. In 2016, the port handled 1.2 million tonnes of cargo. Luxembourg Airport at Findel, some 6 km to the north of the city, is Luxembourg's only commercial airport. Thanks to its long runway (4,000 m), even the largest types of aircraft are able to use its facilities. Luxair, Luxembourg's international airline, and Cargolux, a", "title": "Transport in Luxembourg" }, { "id": "239170", "text": "cargo-only airline, operate out of the airport. In 2008, the airport ranked as Europe's 5th largest and the world's 23rd by cargo tonnage. Luxair has regular passenger services to 20 European destinations and operates tourist flights to 17 more. Other airlines operating flights to and from Luxembourg include British Airways, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines, Swiss Global Air Lines, and TAP Portugal. A large new airport terminal building was opened in 2008 with more modern facilities, including an underground carpark. The trunk natural gas pipelines in Luxembourg have a total length of 155 km (2007). Russia and Norway are the main producers.", "title": "Transport in Luxembourg" }, { "id": "4612435", "text": "Air Luxor Air Luxor was an airline based in Luxor Plaza in Lisbon, Portugal, operating a limited number of scheduled flights out of Portela Airport, Lisbon. The airline's operations were located in Building C1 and Hangar 7 in Delta Park, an area in Lisbon Airport. The airline was established by the Mirpuri family, which decided to turn their private aviation company, consisting of a fleet of small aircraft, into a public airline. Thus, Air Luxor was established in December 1988. In 1997, Air Luxor extended its operations to commercial aviation, first in the charter sector and then, from 2001, concentrating", "title": "Air Luxor" }, { "id": "674011", "text": "is provided via the municipal bus network, with a tram connection due to be completed by 2021. The airport is the principal hub for Luxembourg's flag carrier, Luxair, and one of the world's largest cargo airlines, Cargolux. Luxembourg is a member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with Trier, Saarbrücken, and Metz (neighbouring countries: Germany and France). Luxembourg is twinned with: Luxembourg City Luxembourg (, , ), also known as Luxembourg City ( or \"\", , ), is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (also named \"Luxembourg\"), and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the", "title": "Luxembourg City" }, { "id": "12054222", "text": "domestic flights, with a number of Egyptian carriers including Air Cairo and Egypt Air operating from the airport. The airport is located close to the city centre and taxis, limos and regular buses are available for transfers into the city. Egyptian Railways is the backbone of passenger transportation in Egypt, with 800 million passenger miles annually. Air-conditioned passenger trains usually have 1st and 2nd class service, while non-airconditioned trains will have 2nd and 3rd class. Most of the network connects the densely populated area of the Nile delta with Cairo and Alexandria as hubs. The Alexandria-Cairo-Luxor-Aswan link is served daily", "title": "Tourism in Egypt" }, { "id": "2404930", "text": "as art and jewels. According to Hiscox, there is a \"massive demand\" for such a hub for precious cargo. Planes taxi away from main airport facilities before loading. In 2015, the airline with the largest share of the airport's total passenger volume was still Luxair with 1.69 million passengers at a 63% share. Built in 1975, the building was the only terminal of the airport for 30 years, until terminal B opened in 2004. The terminal was getting overcrowded especially during the summer period, and only contained two or three shops. The terminal started to be demolished at the end", "title": "Luxembourg Airport" }, { "id": "2460544", "text": "Luxair Flight 9642 Luxair Flight 9642 was a scheduled international passenger flight flying from Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Germany, to Luxembourg Findel Airport, Luxembourg. The flight carried 19 passengers and 3 crew members. The flight was operated by Luxair, the flag carrier (national airline) of Luxembourg. The plane was a Fokker 50 and registered as LX-LGB. Lufthansa had a codeshare on the flight as LH2420. On 6 November 2002, the flight crashed while on final approach to Luxembourg Findel Airport about 6 nautical miles (11 km) short of the runway while trying to land in fog. 20 out of the 22", "title": "Luxair Flight 9642" }, { "id": "15334261", "text": "from Amman Civil Airport in Marka to Aqaba, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Arish, Ankara, Aleppo, Sharm el-Sheikh and Alexandria, in addition to charter services to a number of destinations namely, Larnaca, Rhodes, Antalya, Dalaman, Bodrum, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh, Alexandria, Luxor and Aswan, mainly during the summer holiday season (June to October) and on occasions of festivals like Eids, Easter, Christmas and New Year. During 2005, Royal Wings went through restructuring and transformation to adjust to the aviation environment in the region. Royal Wings has now moved into a new and exciting phase to meet the growth and needs of the global", "title": "Royal Wings" }, { "id": "2827295", "text": "airport's tower, while Major General Abdul Hafiz Al-Bagori, Governor of Qena started negotiations with the three terrorists in order to gain time. During a call between the cockpit and the airport, the pilot complained about a problem in the aircraft - that it had not shown that the aircraft needing refuelling - and that the aircraft needed maintenance. The terrorists were persuaded to allow the aircraft to land in Luxor for refuelling. Negotiations continued until 3 p.m., when the governor told the terrorists that engineers were ready. The engineers were two disguised Sa'ka officers, who went inside and outside the", "title": "Unit 777" }, { "id": "8972264", "text": "several regional routes and charter flights while Queen Alia International Airport is the major international airport in Jordan and is the hub for Royal Jordanian Airlines, the flag carrier. Queen Alia International Airport expansion was completed in 2013 with new terminals costing $700 million, to handle over 16 million passengers annually. It is now considered a state-of-the-art airport and was awarded 'the best airport by region: Middle East' for 2014 and 2015 by Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey, the world's leading airport passenger satisfaction benchmark programme. The Port of Aqaba is the only port in Jordan. In 2006, the port", "title": "Jordan" }, { "id": "2460555", "text": "implementation of a safety recommendation which had been made by the manufacturer to Fokker 50 operators. Luxair Flight 9642 Luxair Flight 9642 was a scheduled international passenger flight flying from Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Germany, to Luxembourg Findel Airport, Luxembourg. The flight carried 19 passengers and 3 crew members. The flight was operated by Luxair, the flag carrier (national airline) of Luxembourg. The plane was a Fokker 50 and registered as LX-LGB. Lufthansa had a codeshare on the flight as LH2420. On 6 November 2002, the flight crashed while on final approach to Luxembourg Findel Airport about 6 nautical miles (11", "title": "Luxair Flight 9642" }, { "id": "17135099", "text": "body. Doctors at the Luxor International Hospital said that many of the dead suffered severe internal injuries and severe burns. After news of the tragedy broke, Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad banned hot air balloon flights in his jurisdiction until further notice. Egypt's civil aviation minister, Wael el-Maadawi, followed by suspending balloon flights nationwide. In a statement, President Mohamed Morsi expressed his \"deepest condolences and sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives in this tragic incident.\" National government spokesman Alaa Hadidi said a committee would be formed to investigate the accident. The bodies of the victims were", "title": "2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash" }, { "id": "674010", "text": "other locales in Luxembourg and nearby cities in Germany and France. On 10 December 2017, the first stage of Luxembourg City's new tram line opened between Luxexpo and the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge serving the Kirchberg quarter. An extension to the city centre (\"Stäreplaz-Étoile\") was opened on 27th July 2018. Further extensions to Luxembourg station, Bonnevoie, Howald and Cloche d’Or are due to be completed by 2020/21. Luxembourg City is served by the only international airport in the country: Luxembourg Airport (codes: IATA: LUX, ICAO: ELLX). Accessibility to the airport, situated in the commune of Sandweiler, from the city centre,", "title": "Luxembourg City" }, { "id": "16332802", "text": "Nations (UKMIS). From 2002-5 she worked for the Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to the European Union. In 2007 she became the Ambassador to Azerbaijan (Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan). Her appointment had been announced in December 2006. On 1 October 2007, she received a visit from Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who arrived at Heydar Aliyev International Airport from Farnborough Airport. He met the President of BP Azerbaijan at the Hyatt Hotel in Baku, and had a dinner given by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. The Prince visited again on 1", "title": "Carolyn Browne" }, { "id": "12054220", "text": "are cooler and the Nile's locks are open. From around the middle of April locks on the river are closed in order to manage water levels, requiring passengers to disembark on one side of the lock and transfer to another boat on the other side. Passports and visas are required of foreign visitors except natives of several Middle Eastern countries. Travellers native to most of Africa must have proof of cholera and yellow fever vaccination. There are nine international airports in Egypt that serve all of the county’s major cities including Cairo International Airport and Taba International Airport. Cairo International", "title": "Tourism in Egypt" }, { "id": "20522637", "text": "at Luxor were suspended for six months while pilots were given additional training and safety measures were reviewed and improved. New regulations limited the number of balloons that could be aloft simultaneously, and restricted take-offs to a new airfield for the sole use of hot air balloons. As of January 2018, eight companies operate a combined total of 25 hot air balloons offering flights over Luxor. The overall safety record of hot air ballooning in Egypt is poor. Seven tourists were injured in a crash early in 2009. On a single day in February 2009, three separate hot air balloons", "title": "Hot air ballooning in Luxor" }, { "id": "6965202", "text": "King Hussein International Airport Aqaba Airport ❲also known as King Hussein Int'l Airport ❳ () is an airport located in the vicinity of Industrial City (Aqaba International Industrial Estate – ), northern suburb of Aqaba in Jordan. The location of Aqaba is unusual, for within a 15 miles (24 km) radius there are three other countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel. The airport has a single runway equipped with a category 1 instrument landing system (ILS). Thanks to its normally excellent weather conditions, the airport is rarely closed, though strong southerly winds bring sandstorms across the Red Sea from Egypt.", "title": "King Hussein International Airport" }, { "id": "254618", "text": "both sides of Monaco port. The boat is powered by electricity and operates under the urban bus system tariff. A narrow gauge subway line is a perennial project in Monaco, which has not been built thus far. There are two ports in Monaco, one is Port Hercules and the other is in Fontvieille. There are seasonal ferry lines like the one from Nice to Saint-Tropez. There is no airport in the Principality of Monaco. The closest airport is Cote d'Azur Airport in Nice, France, which is connected to Monaco by the Express 110 bus. A heliport, the Monaco Heliport, is", "title": "Transport in Monaco" }, { "id": "3292262", "text": "Queen Alia International Airport Queen Alia International Airport (; transliterated: Matar Al-Malikah Alia Ad-Dowali) is Jordan's main and largest airport and is located in Zizya south of the capital city, Amman. It is named after Queen Alia, who died in a helicopter crash in 1977. The airport is home to the country's national flag carrier, Royal Jordanian Airlines and serves as a major hub for Jordan Aviation. A state-of-the-art new terminal was inaugurated in March 2013 to replace the airport's older two passenger terminals and one cargo terminal. The three original terminals were made obsolete once the new terminal officially", "title": "Queen Alia International Airport" }, { "id": "2295742", "text": "airline that it had held since 1993. The government of Luxembourg was named as the preferred buyer. In November 2015, the sale was finalized when Lufthansa sold its entire stake to the state of Luxembourg. Luxair also announced it would stop flying its route to Frankfurt Airport previously operated on a codeshare with Lufthansa as the latter started the same route itself. Luxair is still part of the Lufthansa frequent flyer program \"Miles & More\". As of November 2015, after Lufthansa sold its shares, the airline is owned by the State of Luxembourg (52.04%), Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État", "title": "Luxair" }, { "id": "17135092", "text": "2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash On 26 February 2013, at 07:00 Egypt Standard Time (05:00 UTC), a hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt. The crash resulted in 19 deaths out of 21 passengers – 18 on-site and one in hospital hours later. It is the deadliest ballooning accident in history and the deadliest aerostat disaster since the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 which killed 36 people. Hot air balloons are commonly used in Egypt to provide tourists with an aerial view of the country's landscape and famous landmarks. In Luxor, such rides offer views of the Nile River, the", "title": "2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash" }, { "id": "2124642", "text": "Milan began in January 1976 and a new flight to Vienna started in April. Following allegations from the Egyptian parliament that airline officials had been bribed by Boeing to favour the 1975 order, the chairman Gamal Erfan resigned in February. On 22 April, a Boeing 737 flying from Cairo to Luxor was hijacked by Palestinians; an Egyptian commando team regained control of the aircraft with no damages to its structure. The Comets were sold to Dan-Air on 9 October. During the year, Boeing 737 Advanced entered the fleet. A serious accident involving a Boeing 707 took place on 25 Dec", "title": "EgyptAir" }, { "id": "16579315", "text": "Heathrow Express and TfL Rail trains and to other Central London destinations by London Underground trains on the Piccadilly line. In April 2012, Heathrow announced that for the first time in history it handled 70 million passengers in a calendar year, making it the third busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger numbers, after Atlanta and Beijing. It also comes second behind Dubai International Airport in the list of the busiest airport in the world in terms of international passenger numbers, as well as being the busiest airport in Europe by total passenger numbers. Heathrow serves six continents", "title": "Airports of London" }, { "id": "6008336", "text": "held on September 10, 2015. The airport also received the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certificate in the MENA region. The airport is named after Crown Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is otherwise remembered for ordering the execution for adultery of his granddaughter, Princess Misha'al bint Fahd. Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport or Medina Airport is a regional airport in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Opened in 1950, it handles domestic flights, while it has scheduled international services to regional destinations such as Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul and Kuwait", "title": "Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport" }, { "id": "3259140", "text": "Mombasa to Mahe via Moroni in March 1971 even before the airfield was complete. The flying time was 9 hours 35 minutes. This was followed by East African Airways in November 1971 and Luxair in December of the same year. A BOAC Super VC10 was the first jet aircraft to land at Seychelles International Airport on 4 July 1971. At the time of the opening it had a 2987 m runway and a control tower. Ground handling and all other airport operations were carried out by the DCA (Directorate of Civil Aviation). In 1972 John Faulkner Taylor and Tony Bentley-Buckle", "title": "Seychelles International Airport" }, { "id": "17135103", "text": "stop all flights when you have a plane crash? ... You will cut the livelihoods for nearly 3,000 human beings who live on this kind of tourism.\" Angered by the industry-wide shutdown, tourism workers threatened to organize protests on 2 March. The same day, Saad admitted that pressure to resume balloon flights was mounting and promised that downtime would be less than a month. Hot air balloon rides at Luxor were set to resume in April, according to a statement on the Egyptian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission's (CARC) website. Preliminary results of the government investigation ruled out criminal conduct as", "title": "2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash" }, { "id": "2960065", "text": "Cairo International Airport Cairo International Airport (Arabic: ; \"Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly\") is the international airport of Cairo and the busiest airport in Egypt and serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express and Nile Air as well as several other airlines. The airport is located in Heliopolis, to the northeast of the Cairo around from the business area of the city and has an area of approximately . It is the second busiest airport in Africa after OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces built Payne Airfield to", "title": "Cairo International Airport" }, { "id": "17658823", "text": "hijacked the Egyptian Cairo-Luxor flight and asked the pilot to land in Tripoli. One of the three hijackers was a 21-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Naguid, who was working in Kuwait. They demanded the release of five Libyans imprisoned in Cairo in connection with two assassination attempts. The context was the deterioration of relations between Egypt and Libya after the Yom Kippur War due to Libyan opposition to Sadat's peace policy. There had been a breakdown in unification talks between the two governments, which subsequently led to the Libyan-Egyptian War. Fifteen minutes after takeoff from Cairo International Airport, an Italian pilot called", "title": "EgyptAir Flight 321" }, { "id": "1981737", "text": "Henri Coandă International Airport Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport () is Romania's busiest international airport, located in Otopeni, north of Bucharest's city centre. It is currently one of two airports serving the capital of Romania. The other is Aurel Vlaicu Airport, which no longer serves scheduled passenger traffic. The airport is named after Romanian flight pioneer Henri Coandă, builder of Coandă-1910 aircraft and discoverer of the Coandă effect of fluidics. Prior to May 2004, the official name was \"Bucharest Otopeni International Airport\" (Romanian: \"Aeroportul Internațional București Otopeni\"). Henri Coandă International Airport serves as headquarters for TAROM, the country's national airline.", "title": "Henri Coandă International Airport" }, { "id": "11838460", "text": "visas for entry into the country. According to \"Thai Rath\" Newspaper of Thailand on 8 May 2008, in the afternoon (Bangkok time) of 7 May 2008, the Burmese junta permitted Italian flights containing relief supplies from the United Nations, and twenty-five tonnes of consumable goods, to land in Myanmar. However, many nations and organisations hoped to deliver assistance and relief to Myanmar without delay; most of their officials, supplies and stores were waiting in Thailand and at the Yangon airport, as the Burmese junta declined to issue visas for many of those individuals. These political tensions raised the concern that", "title": "Cyclone Nargis" }, { "id": "9137712", "text": "Abuja Gateway Consortium Abuja Gateway Consortium (AGC) is a consortium made up by Airline Services Limited (ASL), Nigeria, Asset and Resource Management (ARM), Nigeria, NairaNet Technologies Limited A.G., Nigeria, A.G. Ferrero Ltd., Nigeria and Airport Consulting Vienna GmbH (ACV), Austria. As a way to ensure development the operations of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was on November 13, 2006, awarded to AGC under a Public Private Partnership arrangement. This model is to be followed for the airports of Port Harcourt International Airport, Enugu, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and Lagos during 2007. The contract – that includes investments of about", "title": "Abuja Gateway Consortium" }, { "id": "20522639", "text": "killed when a leaking fuel line started a fire. After 22 Chinese tourists were injured in a 2016 balloon crash, the Civil Aviation Ministry suspended flights for three days while safety procedures were reviewed. Fifteen tourists were injured and one man from South Africa was killed in the 2018 Luxor hot air balloon crash when high winds caused the balloon's operator to lose control. Flights were suspended until the unusually high winds subsided. Hot air ballooning in Luxor Hot air ballooning in Luxor is an aspect of the Egyptian tourist industry, tour companies offer rides in hot air balloons to", "title": "Hot air ballooning in Luxor" }, { "id": "12407758", "text": "Thai economy at least three billion Baht (approximately US$100 million) a day in lost shipment value and opportunities. As of 1 December 2008, the number of stranded passengers was estimated at anywhere from over 100,000 to 350,000. The long term political consequences of the crisis are as yet unclear. The crisis, and particularly the siege of Suvarnabhumi Airport, saw a rise in international press coverage on Thailand, with numerous high-profile articles breaking Thai taboos about public discussion of the role of the monarchy in the crisis as well as the succession. There was a decline in the popularity of the", "title": "2008 Thai political crisis" }, { "id": "6374306", "text": "Sweden, Bosnia, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland. Named airport bases include Glasgow Prestwick Airport (Britain), Shannon & Baldonnel (Ireland), Ramstein and Frankfurt (Germany), Aviano Air Base (Italy), Palma de Mallorca Airport (Spain), Tuzla Air Base (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Skopje (Republic of Macedonia), Athens (Greece), Larnaca (Cyprus), Prague (Czech Republic), Stockholm (Sweden), as well as Rabat (Morocco) and Algiers (Algeria). Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz characterized the accusation as \"libel\", while Romania similarly said there was no evidence. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the report \"added absolutely nothing new whatever to the information we", "title": "Black site" }, { "id": "3439000", "text": "to fly to Mallorca and to Aberdeen, later changed to Edinburgh. The airport is currently managed by the Danish Transport Authority although the ownership of the airport was handed over to the Faroese government in May 2007. A number of domestic Faroese destinations can be reached from Vágar by the Atlantic Airways helicopter service. International destinations include Copenhagen, Aalborg and Billund in Denmark, Reykjavík in Iceland, Edinburgh in the United Kingdom (Scotland), Bergen in Norway and Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca in Spain. The following airlines offer regular passenger scheduled and charter flights at Vágar Airport: There are occasional public", "title": "Vágar Airport" }, { "id": "3292276", "text": "also available around the clock. A Rent-a-Car service is also available at the airport. QAIA's parking facilities are divided into three key areas: A shuttle bus is available to transport passengers between the terminal and car park. Queen Alia International Airport Queen Alia International Airport (; transliterated: Matar Al-Malikah Alia Ad-Dowali) is Jordan's main and largest airport and is located in Zizya south of the capital city, Amman. It is named after Queen Alia, who died in a helicopter crash in 1977. The airport is home to the country's national flag carrier, Royal Jordanian Airlines and serves as a major", "title": "Queen Alia International Airport" }, { "id": "9687663", "text": "became the first plane to land in Aden in four months. Two days later on July 24, two more Saudi planes landed carrying the equipment needed to resume operations, to enable aid to be delivered to the embattled country. On November 26, 2015, the airport re-opened briefly for civilian air traffic after being closed for 10 months, with a Yemenia flight arriving from Amman-Queen Alia international Airport in Jordan. Service for the next three months was sporadic, but at the end of February 2016 it was reported that the airport would reopen for ordinary commercial service after a few weeks", "title": "Aden International Airport" }, { "id": "1613612", "text": "never any real transportation infrastructure. More recently, Al Nakb Airport, located on the Sinai plateau some 35 km (22 mi) from Taba, was upgraded and renamed Taba International Airport (IATA: TCP, ICAO: HETB), and now handles half a dozen charter flights a week from the UK as well as weekly charter flights from Belgium, Russia, Denmark, and The Netherlands. Many tourists enter via the Taba Border Crossing from Eilat, Israel and a marina has been built in the new Taba Heights development, some 20 km (12 mi) south of Taba, and which has frequent ferry sailings to Aqaba in Jordan,", "title": "Taba, Egypt" }, { "id": "9687379", "text": "located to the right of the airport. Tabuk Regional Airport Tabuk Regional (Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz ) Airport () is an international and public airport in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. It was a former military airport until its renovation to become a public airport in 2011, however it still has military defenses against Israel and its neighboring countries. Despite being an international airport, it only serves a few foreign destinations. There are plans to increase the number of international destinations to other neighboring countries. The airport has a single terminal building which uses air bridges for planes to disembark and", "title": "Tabuk Regional Airport" }, { "id": "2031154", "text": "Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice Côte d'Azur Airport () is an international airport located southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes \"départment\" of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2017, it handled 13,304,782 passengers. The airport is positioned west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur. Due to its proximity to the Principality of Monaco, it also serves as the city-state's airport, with helicopter service linking the principality and airport. Some airlines", "title": "Nice Côte d'Azur Airport" }, { "id": "4521346", "text": "On 7 February 1952, Queen Elizabeth II took her flight back to London via El Adem, Libya after being proclaimed queen after the death of King George VI. The Old Entebbe airport is now used by Uganda's military forces. It was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976 after an Arab-German hijacking of Air France Flight 139 following a stopover in Athens, Greece en route to Paris from Tel Aviv. The scene of that rescue was the old terminal, which has been demolished, except for its control tower and airport hall.", "title": "Entebbe International Airport" }, { "id": "1776520", "text": "off the city, severely curtailing social and economic travel. From January 2002, buses, taxis, trucks and private citizens required a permit from the Israeli military authorities to leave and enter Nablus. Since 2011, there has been a relaxation of travel restrictions and the dismantlement of some checkpoints. The nearest airport is the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel, but because of restrictions governing the entry of Palestinians to Israel, and their lack of access to foreign Embassies to get travel visas, many residents must travel to Amman, Jordan to use the Queen Alia International Airport, which requires passage through", "title": "Nablus" }, { "id": "9116973", "text": "Airport, the recent in a series of new airports and development of old ones with the purpose of serving development. After economic woes plagued the country following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the renovation of El Nouzha Airport was put on hold, leaving Borg El Arab as the only airport serving Alexandria. Borg El Arab Airport Borg El Arab International Airport (Arabic:مطار برج العرب الدولي) is an airport serving Alexandria, Egypt. It is located about southwest of Alexandria, in Borg El Arab (alternate spellings: Borg Al Arab, Burg Al Arab or Burg El Arab). The airport also serves the nearby areas", "title": "Borg El Arab Airport" }, { "id": "2960079", "text": "national carrier, EgyptAir, and the Egyptian authorities planning to develop the airport as a hub for the Middle East and Africa, the airport facilities are in constant development. Several projects are underway, including: There are several ways to leave Cairo airport upon arrival. The most convenient way is by one of the numerous \"limousine services\". Pick-up points are in front of the terminals (curb side). The prices are fixed depending on the destination and the car category, but different providers may charge wildly different prices. Category A are luxury limousines (e.g. Mercedes-Benz E-Class), Category B are Micro Buses for up", "title": "Cairo International Airport" }, { "id": "20010890", "text": "federation faltered and Senegal became an independent nation in August 1960. France and Senegal soon established diplomatic relations. Today, both France and Senegal work closely together in west African regional affairs, and maintain a close cultural and political relationship. In 2010, France closed its military base in Senegal, however, France maintains an air force base within the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar. Trade between France and Senegal totaled €853 million Euros in 2015. Senegal is France's 57th largest trading partner globally and third largest from Africa. France is the largest foreign investor in Senegal with over €1.7 billion", "title": "France–Senegal relations" }, { "id": "9687375", "text": "Tabuk Regional Airport Tabuk Regional (Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz ) Airport () is an international and public airport in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. It was a former military airport until its renovation to become a public airport in 2011, however it still has military defenses against Israel and its neighboring countries. Despite being an international airport, it only serves a few foreign destinations. There are plans to increase the number of international destinations to other neighboring countries. The airport has a single terminal building which uses air bridges for planes to disembark and load passengers. The airport was named after", "title": "Tabuk Regional Airport" }, { "id": "5828589", "text": "years of safe flights around the world. It inaugurated its Business Aviation Terminal at Brussels Airport in 2012. In 2013, the company was taken over by Luxaviation. The brand name 'Abelag' disappeared. The social seats of the company in Brussels and Kortrijk-Wevelgem will continue under the name 'Abelag'. The Abelag Aviation fleet consists of the following aircraft: Abelag Aviation Abelag Aviation is an air charter company based in Brussels, Belgium. It operates ad hoc charter, air taxi, cargo and medical flights, as well as helicopter VIP flights and air ambulance work. Its main base is Brussels Airport, with seats at", "title": "Abelag Aviation" }, { "id": "2031157", "text": "is a second Tram line that will connect the Airport to the center of Nice at Place Masséna. Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice Côte d'Azur Airport () is an international airport located southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes \"départment\" of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2017, it handled 13,304,782 passengers. The airport is positioned west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur. Due to its proximity to the Principality of", "title": "Nice Côte d'Azur Airport" }, { "id": "16220684", "text": "Airlines and King Abdulaziz International Airport authorities in Jeddah. They wanted the Saudi ambassador, Hisham Nazer, to exit the country immediately. The protesters argued that the airport did not arrange enough flights back to Egypt in time for Eid ul-Fitr after thousands were stranded in the country. They also expressed disgust over how Saudi Arabian Airlines officials treated pilgrims at the airport, and protested that Saudi officials had meddled in Egyptian affairs during the revolution. On 28 April 2012, Saudi Arabia announced the closure of its Cairo embassy and its consulates in Alexandria and Suez, following Egyptian protests over the", "title": "Egypt–Saudi Arabia relations" }, { "id": "9120934", "text": "along Porto Interior. Macau Light Rapid Transit The Macau Light Rapid Transit (MLRT) also known in Portuguese as Metro Ligeiro de Macau is a mass transit system in Macau under construction. It will serve the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Cotai, serving major border checkpoints such as the Border Gate, the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal, the Lotus Bridge Border and the Macau International Airport. Although it is termed ( \"light rail\"), it is technically a light metro using people movers. The LRT was first proposed in 2002 by the Macau SAR Government in the Policy Address for the Fisical Year 2003", "title": "Macau Light Rapid Transit" }, { "id": "7376160", "text": "Lahore is ranked the world’s leading airport in terms of service performance out of 18 airports from around the world, including Dubai Airport, Cape Town Airport, Mumbai Airport and Campbell Town Airport, U.K. for its good terminal services and effective management. According to a London Based magazine, unofficial Twitter account of CAA was ranked as the 'Worlds most optimistic & brilliant' in 2014. Civil Aviation Training Institute (CATI), Hyderabad works under Civil Aviation Authority. CATI is accredited by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and is member of ICAO TRAINAIR programme. The institute was established in 1982 to fulfill training requirement", "title": "Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority" }, { "id": "9581501", "text": "Sharm El Sheikh International Airport Sharm El Sheikh International Airport ( \"Maṭār Sharm El Sheikh El Dawli\") is an international airport located in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. It is the third-busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International Airport and Hurghada International Airport. The airport was opened on May 14, 1968 as an Israeli Air Force base. After the signing of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979 and subsequent Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, it was reopened as a civilian airport. The largest regular aircraft using the airport was a Transaero Airlines-operated Boeing 747-400. These flights transiting from Moscow ended", "title": "Sharm El Sheikh International Airport" }, { "id": "15893460", "text": "as of March, 2017. Airports that are operated by TAV group are: Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Ankara Esenboğa International Airport, Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport, Antalya Gazipaşa Airport and Milas–Bodrum Airport in Turkey; Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport and Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport in Tunisia, Tbilisi International Airport and Batumi International Airport in the Republic of Georgia; Skopje \"Alexander the Great\" Airport and Ohrid \"St. Paul the Apostle\" Airport in the Republic of Macedonia; Medina Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Airport in Saudi Arabia Zagreb Airport in Croatia. In 2010, Şener was selected the “Investor Relations CEO of the Year in Turkey” by Thomson", "title": "Sani Şener" }, { "id": "11406138", "text": "hijackers were allowed to fly the aircraft out of Cyprus with 11 hostages and four crew members. The aircraft, however, was denied permission to land in Djibouti, Syria and Saudi Arabia and was forced to return and land in Cyprus a few hours later. According to a report in \"Time\" magazine, Sadat was aggrieved by the assassination of his personal friend and begged the Cypriot President, Spyros Kyprianou to rescue the hostages and extradite the terrorists to Cairo. The Cypriot President responded by promising to oversee the rescue operation and any negotiations personally, and travelled to the airport himself. According", "title": "Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport" }, { "id": "13620948", "text": "or official/service passports of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Serbia and Turkmenistan can visit Kyrgyzstan without a visa. Visa waiver agreement for diplomatic and service passports was signed with on 10 November 2017 and is yet to be ratified. Holders of passports issued by the following nations are eligible to obtain a visa on arrival valid for a maximum stay of 30 days at Manas International Airport: Holders of passports issued by the following nations are eligible to obtain a visa on arrival valid for stays longer than 60 days at Manas International Airport: In addition, holders of passports", "title": "Visa policy of Kyrgyzstan" }, { "id": "11455592", "text": "Ireland and Iceland. Between 1989 and 1991, Berns served on a number of boards in Luxembourg, among them the national credit and investment bank SNCI and the national air-carrier, Luxair. He currently is a member of the board of Cargolux, the national freight carrier. Berns was appointed as an Administrateur of The Luxembourg Freeport Management Company SA (LFMC) on May 19, 2015. LFMC operates the Luxembourg Freeport at Luxembourg Findel Airport. The project was majority funded by Swiss businessman and art dealer Yves Bouvier of Natural Le Coultre SA. Alphonse Berns Alphonse Berns (born April 9, 1952) is a senior", "title": "Alphonse Berns" }, { "id": "7533914", "text": "President and the government of Lithuania use one of the 3 Alenia C-27J Spartan of the Lithuanian Air Force in a passenger configuration. A private Cessna 550 Citation II, a Learjet 35A or even a 737-7C9 chartered from the Luxembourgish flag carrier Luxair Luxembourg Airlines are sometimes used for governmental flights. The Chief Executive of Macau travels abroad (and to mainland China destinations) on commercial aircraft operated by Air Macau, the \"de facto\" flag carriers of the territory. As Macau is a small locale, there is no need for air travel within the territory. The government of the Republic of", "title": "Air transports of heads of state and government" }, { "id": "15762629", "text": "Lithuania and United Arab Emirates. From 15 May 2018 citizens of Bahrain, China, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates can obtain an electronic visa on arrival in Baku International Airport. Azerbaijan concluded a visa facilitation agreement with the which reduces the number of documents sufficient for justifying the purpose of the trip, envisages issuance of multiple-entry visas, limits the length of processing and reduces the issuing fee or waives it entirely for many categories of EU citizens. Due to a state of war with Armenia, according to media reports", "title": "Visa policy of Azerbaijan" }, { "id": "37395", "text": "Traditionally, road signs in Botswana used blue backgrounds rather than the yellow, white, or orange that the rest of the world uses on traffic warning signs. In the early 2010s, officials announced plans to begin phasing out the distinctive blue signs in favor of more typical signs in order to be more in line with the neighboring Southern African Development Community member states. Existing In 2004 there were an estimated 85 airports, 10 of which (as of 2005), were paved. The country's main international airport is Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone. The government-owned Air Botswana operates scheduled flights", "title": "Transport in Botswana" }, { "id": "1169908", "text": "announced on 15 March 2012 at its annual general meeting, that Cargolux Airlines International S.A. had gained Cargo 2000 platinum membership status. As of August 2017, the Cargolux fleet consists of the following aircraft: Cargolux Cargolux, legally \"Cargolux Airlines International S.A.\", is a Luxembourgish cargo airline with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg Airport. With a global network, it is one of the largest scheduled all-cargo airlines in Europe. Charter flights and third party maintenance are also operated. The airline was established in March 1970 by Luxair, the Salen Shipping Group, Loftleiðir and various private interests in Luxembourg. Einar Olafsson", "title": "Cargolux" }, { "id": "9116970", "text": "Borg El Arab Airport Borg El Arab International Airport (Arabic:مطار برج العرب الدولي) is an airport serving Alexandria, Egypt. It is located about southwest of Alexandria, in Borg El Arab (alternate spellings: Borg Al Arab, Burg Al Arab or Burg El Arab). The airport also serves the nearby areas of the Nile Delta. Borg El Arab is the principal airport of Alexandria since December 2011 after the closure of Alexandria International Airport due to a major re-development program. Borg El Arab Airport had a major expansion in terms of the airport's passenger and cargo handling capacity in response to growing", "title": "Borg El Arab Airport" }, { "id": "1927651", "text": "except Turkish Airlines. Star Alliance partners Air Malta, Luxair and BMI Regional also use Terminal 2. Etihad Airways relocated to this terminal as well after commencing a partnership with Lufthansa. Having been designed as a hub terminal it is not divided into modules like Terminal 1. Instead, all facilities are arranged around a central \"Plaza\". Owing to security regulations imposed by the European Union, the terminal has been equipped with facilities to handle passengers from countries considered insecure, i.e. not implementing the same regulations. This required the construction of a new level as, unlike other airports, the terminal does not", "title": "Munich Airport" }, { "id": "14301978", "text": "Felix Hyatt Felix Hassan Hyat is a former Minister of State for the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation. He was appointed by President Umaru Yar'Adua in June 2007, and left office in October 2008 after a cabinet reshuffle. In 2007 he floated the idea of privatizing or concessioning some airports, including MMIA, Lagos, Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, and Port-Harcourt International Airport. He moved the headquarters of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to the national capital, Abuja, a decision that caused controversy over the cost and disruption entailed. In October 2008 he threatened to", "title": "Felix Hyatt" }, { "id": "434405", "text": "of inland waterways. Since the mid-1990s, commercial travel on Uzbekistan's portion of the Amu Darya has been reduced because of low water levels. As of 2010, Uzbekistan had 10,253 kilometers of natural gas pipelines, 868 kilometers of oil pipelines, and 33 kilometers of pipelines for refined products. As of 2012, Uzbekistan has 53 airports. 33 of them have paved runways, six of which had runways longer than 3,000 meters. The largest of them, Tashkent International Airport, is linked with European and Middle Eastern cities by direct flights of Aeroflot, Lufthansa, and Turkish Airlines, and with New York and Los Angeles", "title": "Transport in Uzbekistan" }, { "id": "5248722", "text": "Scorpio started flights to Egypt. In 1998, a new terminal was opened at the airport to cater for all of the services needed in a modern international airport. In the past there were three takeoff and landing runways in the airport, of which only two still exist, and only one is currently in use. In 2001, talk over expanding the airport restarted when then Finance Minister, Silvan Shalom called for an 800 million NIS upgrade to turn the airport into one of an international standard. 2007 saw the first rise in passenger numbers and aircraft movements since 2002 with an", "title": "Haifa Airport" }, { "id": "997871", "text": "airport functions as a joint civil-military facility. It is the headquarters of the Chilean Air Force 2nd Air Brigade and where its 10th Aviation Group is based. Santiago International is the longest non-stop destination for most European carriers including Iberia, Air France, Alitalia and British Airways from their respective hubs in Madrid-Barajas Airport, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rome–Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport and London–Heathrow Airport. In addition, LATAM flies to Frankfurt via Madrid. The airport is also South America's main gateway to Oceania, with scheduled flights to Sydney, Auckland, Easter Island, Papeete and Melbourne. The Santiago – Rome non-stop flight operated by", "title": "Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport" }, { "id": "2124633", "text": "One of the Il-18s was involved in a deadly crash while attempting to land at Aswan Airport on 20 March 1969. That March, the carrier started services to East Berlin with Il-18 equipment and in June the route to Tokyo via Kuwait, Bombay, Bangkok and Hong Kong was resumed. On 14 January 1970 a Comet 4C (SU-ANI) crashed on landing at Addis Ababa from Cairo; no one of the 14 people on board resulted seriously injured. On 30 January 1970 the landing gear of an Antonov An-24V, SU-AOK, collapsed on touchdown at Luxor. On 19 February SU-ALE, another Comet, aborted", "title": "EgyptAir" }, { "id": "7548910", "text": "Menorca Airport Menorca Airport (; , ) is the airport serving the Balearic island of Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea, near the coast of Spain. The airport is located southwest of Mahón after which it is sometimes informally also named. The airport was opened on 24 March 1969 when all civilian services were transferred from the neighbouring San Luis Airport. On 14 September 2006 a partial roof collapse occurred in the new part of the terminal undergoing construction work. The collapse may have been caused by a build-up of heavy rain water. The debris temporarily trapped 20 and injured three", "title": "Menorca Airport" }, { "id": "15106787", "text": "Abuja Light Rail Abuja Rail Mass Transit commonly known as Abuja Light Rail is a light rail transport system in Abuja in FCT, Nigeria. It is first rapid transit in the country and in Western Africa and second such system in sub-saharan Africa (after Addis Ababa Light Rail). The first phase of the project connects the city center to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, stopping at the standard gauge railway station in Idu. The Abuja Metro Line was launched on 12 July 2018. The Abuja rail mass transit project Phase 1 consists of a 'Lot 1' and 'Lot 3' line. Lot", "title": "Abuja Light Rail" }, { "id": "9481706", "text": "with Côte d'Azur International Airport, Nice, France. Around 2004 ONDA created a masterplan to upgrade many facilities by 2010. The main projects are: (the planned completion date in brackets) Apart from these larger plans some other smaller changes are planned around many airports around the country. Under the name Salon Convives de Marque ONDA offers VIP lounge services at some of the airports it manages. Services offered include access to the VIP lounge, assistance during check-in, retrieving luggage, boarding and assistance with the 'formalities' (passport-control, security etc.) (\"fast lanes\" or priority boarding).<br> The VIP service is not linked to any", "title": "Moroccan Airports Authority" }, { "id": "2295743", "text": "(21.81%), Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (13.14%), the Luxair Group and others (13.11%). In total, the State of Luxembourg owns 74.98% of the company through various state-owned corporations and through its holding of 10% of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. The key trends for Luxair Group over recent years are shown below (as at year ending 31 December): Luxair has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: As of August 2017, the Luxair fleet consists of the following aircraft: Luxair Luxair, legally \"Luxair S.A., Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne\", is the flag carrier airline of Luxembourg with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg", "title": "Luxair" }, { "id": "9120923", "text": "Macau Light Rapid Transit The Macau Light Rapid Transit (MLRT) also known in Portuguese as Metro Ligeiro de Macau is a mass transit system in Macau under construction. It will serve the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Cotai, serving major border checkpoints such as the Border Gate, the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal, the Lotus Bridge Border and the Macau International Airport. Although it is termed ( \"light rail\"), it is technically a light metro using people movers. The LRT was first proposed in 2002 by the Macau SAR Government in the Policy Address for the Fisical Year 2003 by then Chief", "title": "Macau Light Rapid Transit" }, { "id": "2960081", "text": "travelling while the newer white taxis have meters, but will generally refuse to use it when leaving from the airport and charge significantly more. The airport can be reached via Oroba Road from Heliopolis or via the new road, connection Terminal 3 with the intersection between Ring Road and Suez Road. The toll for driving to the airport is EGP 15. Cairo International Airport Cairo International Airport (Arabic: ; \"Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly\") is the international airport of Cairo and the busiest airport in Egypt and serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express and Nile Air as", "title": "Cairo International Airport" }, { "id": "6766740", "text": "regional flights with a mixture of Airbus A320-200s and Embraer E-170s. El Nouzha Airport El Nouzha Airport or Alexandria International Airport () is a currently closed international airport located in Alexandria, Egypt, 7 km southeast of the city center. In 2009, the airport served 1,142,412 passengers (−1.8% vs. 2008). The airport has been shut down for major renovations in 2011 while all traffic was transferred to Borg El Arab Airport. As of January 2016, there is no date known for the reopening as the planned date in 2014 has gone by. The future of the airport was in doubt with", "title": "El Nouzha Airport" }, { "id": "65112", "text": "by the province. The first 7 km was completed by January 2006. There have been repeated case studies regarding the installation of a high speed line between the cities of Valparaíso and Santiago, some even considering maglev trains, but no serious action has ever been taken on the matter. \"total:\" 45 ships ( or over) totaling / \"ships by type:\" (1999 est.) Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport, located in Santiago, is Chile's largest aviation facility. Chacao Channel bridge is a planned suspension bridge that was to link the island of Chiloé with mainland Chile crossing the Chacao Channel. It was", "title": "Transport in Chile" }, { "id": "15041538", "text": "packed with people seeking help during the crisis, as it served as both a rally and a pick-up point for relief supplies, and its hospital as a medical service centre. Rail service to the region was partially restored Thursday morning and the airport on Samui island, a popular tourist destination in the Gulf of Thailand, reopened after a temporary shutdown caused by a submerged runway. On the bright side, the research centre predicted the floods would bring seed money back into the economic system as the government would earmark relief funds for flood victims and rehabilitation of the flooded areas.", "title": "2010 floods in Thailand and north Malaysia" }, { "id": "6766738", "text": "the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation announced major plans to overhaul the airport and its facilities to ensure its future as one of the two commercial airports for Alexandria and Nile Delta region. The renovation project is expected to cost US$120 million which will include lengthening the main runway (04/22) by an additional 750m and the construction of a new passenger terminal to replace the existing aging facility. Due to the length of the old runways, the largest aircraft operating into the airport were the Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-800 and McDonnell Douglas MD-90. The airport has been closed down by", "title": "El Nouzha Airport" }, { "id": "143546", "text": "with the remaining 199 being unpaved. Among the airspace governance authorities active in France, one is Aéroports de Paris, which has authority over the Paris region, managing 14 airports including the two busiest in France, Charles de Gaulle Airport and Orly Airport. The former, located in Roissy near Paris, is the fifth busiest airport in the world with 60 million passenger movements in 2008, and France's primary international airport, serving over 100 airlines. The national carrier of France is Air France, a full service global airline which flies to 20 domestic destinations and 150 international destinations in 83 countries (including", "title": "Transport in France" }, { "id": "8517035", "text": "first conceived by the Burmese military government in the mid 1990s as a way to increase overall levels of foreign investment and tourism in Myanmar. With Yangon boasting the only other international airport for the whole country, the new Mandalay airport was regarded as crucial in achieving a planned 10% annual passenger growth. The hope was for Mandalay to become a hub for flights to other major Asian cities, in particular Beijing, Hanoi, Bangkok, Calcutta and Dhaka. Construction of the airport began in 1996, and the airport was officially opened in September 2000 at a cost of US$150 million. The", "title": "Mandalay International Airport" }, { "id": "14725931", "text": "major destinations of the world. Lahore airport is one of the busiest airport of the country after Karachi international terminal. A newly built international terminal, Allama Iqbal International Terminal, helps in the locomotion of passengers to other countries. It greatly facilitate and improves the air transits to and from the Lahore city. The Lahore Stock Exchange is Pakistan's second largest stock exchange after the Karachi Stock Exchange. It is located in Lahore, Pakistan. The Lahore Stock Exchange (Guarantee) Limited came into existence in October 1970, under the Securities and Exchange Ordinance of 1969 by the Government of Pakistan in response", "title": "Economy of Lahore" }, { "id": "19614503", "text": "El Alamein International Airport El Alamein International Airport (Arabic: \"Maṭār El ʿAlamein El Dawli\") is an international airport located in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. The airport is located at the Northern coast, west of Alexandria. El Alamein International Airport is owned and operated by International Airports Company which is KATO investment subsidiary. On 1999 a bid for build–operate–transfer (BOT), was won by International Airport Company of 50-year extendable concession. The airport occupies an area of with a single terminal which can handle 600 passengers per hour. El Alamein International Airport has a single runway , suitable for A380-800 operations.", "title": "El Alamein International Airport" }, { "id": "3397618", "text": "Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, India, Kenya, Latvia, Estonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nepal, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria and Thailand. Some stateless people have received widespread public attention in airports due to their status as ports of entry. One famous case is that of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an expelled Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for approximately 18 years after he was denied entry to the country. (The 1994 French film \"Tombés du ciel\" and the 2004 American film \"The", "title": "Statelessness" }, { "id": "19618901", "text": "Sphinx International Airport Sphinx International Airport is a public airport, serving the city of Giza, on the western side of Cairo, Egypt. The airport is adjacent to and shares some infrastructure with the Cairo West Air Base. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road. The main runway (16R/34L) is west of the Cairo West runway complex. The aircraft parking ramp and terminal facilities are on the west side of the runway. The Cairo West TACAN (Ident: BLA) is located on the field. The Cairo VOR-DME (Ident: CVO) is located east of the airport. In October 2017, it was announced", "title": "Sphinx International Airport" }, { "id": "16201723", "text": "1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash On 13 August 1989, two hot air balloons collided near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, causing one to crash to the ground, killing thirteen people. It was the world's deadliest ever ballooning disaster until February 2013, when a balloon accident near Luxor, Egypt killed 19 people. , it remains the deadliest ever ballooning accident in Australia, and the third-deadliest worldwide, surpassed only by the Egypt crash and a balloon accident in Texas in 2016 that left 16 people dead. The flight took off at Santa Teresa Road, 29 kilometres south east of Alice", "title": "1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash" }, { "id": "12055033", "text": "It was the first visit to the kingdom by an Indian Prime Minister since 1982 and the third to date. In a rare diplomatic gesture symbolising the strong cultural and socio-economic ties between the two nations, Dr Singh and his official delegation were received at the royal terminal of the King Khalid International Airport by Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz accompanied by his entire cabinet. In departure from the protocol norms, a red carpet was rolled out to the Prime Minister, instead of the traditional green carpet. The nearly 40-km route from the airport to the city centre was", "title": "India–Saudi Arabia relations" }, { "id": "19618902", "text": "that the airport will be open to commercial flights in summer 2018 and is set to start experimental operations in October 2018. Sphinx International Airport Sphinx International Airport is a public airport, serving the city of Giza, on the western side of Cairo, Egypt. The airport is adjacent to and shares some infrastructure with the Cairo West Air Base. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road. The main runway (16R/34L) is west of the Cairo West runway complex. The aircraft parking ramp and terminal facilities are on the west side of the runway. The Cairo West TACAN (Ident: BLA)", "title": "Sphinx International Airport" } ]

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[ { "id": "15091835", "text": "a theoretical physicist and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein (née Koch). The Einsteins were non-observant Jews. In 1933, Einstein was compelled to immigrate to the United States due to the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler. While visiting American universities in April 1933, he learned that the new German government had passed a", "title": "Military history of Jewish Americans" }, { "id": "9984065", "text": "at forcing Jews to emigrate. Fifty thousand German Jews had left Germany by the end of 1934, and by the end of 1938, approximately half the German Jewish population had left the country. Among the prominent Jews who left was the conductor Bruno Walter, who fled after being told that the hall of the Berlin Philharmonic would be burned down if he conducted a concert there. Albert Einstein, who was abroad when Hitler came to power, never returned to Germany. He was expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and his citizenship was revoked. Other", "title": "The Holocaust" }, { "id": "8526477", "text": "1933, Albert Einstein was brought to live in a small hut on Roughton Heath after fleeing Nazi Germany. Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson MP offered Einstein a refuge in Norfolk before he travelled to the United States. While here, he was sculpted by Jacob Epstein. A blue plaque commemorating Einstein's stay can be found at the entrance of the \"New Inn\" public house in the village. On 7 October 1933, he set sail from Southampton for a new life in the United States and never returned to Europe. Einstein’s visit inspired several works, including Mark Burgess’s radio play \"Einstein in Cromer\", Philip", "title": "Roughton, Norfolk" }, { "id": "7199544", "text": "Elizabeth Roboz, a neurochemist. Bernard spent his early years in Switzerland until the age of eight, when his family moved to South Carolina. Albert Einstein was very worried about the rise of Nazi Germany and encouraged his son Hans Albert to emigrate to the United States as he himself had done in 1933. Hans Albert heeded this advice, and moved his family to Greenville, South Carolina, where he was a civil engineer working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Bernard spent his teenage years in Pasadena, where his father was a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and", "title": "Bernhard Caesar Einstein" }, { "id": "6508448", "text": "Einstein's involvement in social and political life was characterized by communist sympathies and anarchist views. A target of the German right wing during the interwar Weimar period, Einstein left Germany for France in 1928, a half-decade ahead of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, later taking part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the anti-Francisco Franco anarcho-syndicalists during the 1930s. Trapped in southern France following Nazi Germany's defeat of the French Third Republic, Einstein took his own life by jumping from a bridge on 5 July 1940. Carl Einstein who was born to a", "title": "Carl Einstein" }, { "id": "2098", "text": "the German regime with the phrase, \"not yet hanged\", offering a $5,000 bounty on his head. In a subsequent letter to physicist and friend Max Born, who had already emigrated from Germany to England, Einstein wrote, \"... I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice came as something of a surprise.\" After moving to the US, he described the book burnings as a \"spontaneous emotional outburst\" by those who \"shun popular enlightenment,\" and \"more than anything else in the world, fear the influence of men of intellectual independence.\" Einstein was now without a permanent home, unsure where", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "12297662", "text": "father have speculated that the drugs and \"cures\" of the time damaged rather than aided the young Einstein. His brother Hans Albert Einstein believed that his memory and cognitive abilities were deeply affected by electroconvulsive therapy treatments Eduard received while institutionalized. After a breakdown, Eduard had told his father that he hated him. Albert Einstein emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1933 after the rise of the Nazi German government and never saw his son again. The father and son, whom the father fondly referred to as \"Tete\" (for \"petit\"), corresponded regularly before and after Eduard became ill.", "title": "Einstein family" }, { "id": "8770431", "text": "George S. Messersmith George Strausser Messersmith (October 3, 1883 – January 29, 1960) was a United States ambassador to Austria, Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina. Messersmith also served as head of the US Consulate in Germany from 1930 to 1934, during the rise of the Nazi Party. He was best known in his day for his controversial decision to issue a visa to Albert Einstein to travel to the United States. He is also known today for his diplomatic handling of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, later Duke and Duchess of Windsor, in the era before World War II. Messersmith,", "title": "George S. Messersmith" }, { "id": "2095", "text": "Elsa to join him as his special guests. Walter Isaacson, Einstein's biographer, described this as \"one of the most memorable scenes in the new era of celebrity\". Chaplin visited Einstein at his home on a later trip to Berlin, and recalled his \"modest little flat\" and the piano at which he had begun writing his theory. Chaplin speculated that it was \"possibly used as kindling wood by the Nazis.\" In February 1933 while on a visit to the United States, Einstein knew he could not return to Germany with the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor,", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "4410561", "text": "as a steel designer on a bridge project in Dortmund. In 1936 Hans Albert obtained the doctor of technical science degree. His doctoral thesis \"Bed Load Transport as a Probability Problem\" is considered the definitive work on sediment transport. Einstein's father, Albert, left Germany in 1933 to escape the virulently antisemitic Nazi threat. Heeding his father's advice, Einstein emigrated from Switzerland to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1938. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture, studying sediment transport from 1938 to 1943. He continued working for the USDA at the California Institute of Technology starting in 1943. In 1947 he", "title": "Hans Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "2063", "text": "acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901, which he kept for the rest of his life. In 1905, he was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich. The same year, he published four groundbreaking papers during his renowned \"annus mirabilis\" (miracle year) which brought him to the notice of the academic world at the age of 26. Einstein taught theoretical physics at Zurich between 1912 and 1914 before he left for Berlin, where he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1933, while Einstein was visiting the United States, Adolf Hitler came to power. Because of his Jewish background,", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "9795042", "text": "the photographic emulsion. Because of her Jewish descent, Blau had to leave Austria in 1938 after the country's annexation by Nazi Germany, a fact which caused a severe break in her scientific career. She first went to Oslo. Then, through the intercession of Albert Einstein, she obtained a teaching position at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City and later at Vasco de Quiroga University But since conditions in Mexico made research extremely difficult for her, she seized an opportunity to move to the United States in 1944. In the United States, Blau worked in industry until 1948, afterwards (until", "title": "Marietta Blau" }, { "id": "16970601", "text": "contributed to Zdenko's practice. In 1934, in reaction to Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, the family fled to Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). There Strizic began to study physics and geology. At the end of WW2, Strizic fled to Austria as a refugee following the liberation of Yugoslavia to escape the Communist regime. As there was a five-year waiting period to emigrate to the United States, he decided to go instead to Australia. He departed Naples on the converted Australian Navy seaplane carrier Hellenic Prince, arriving in Melbourne in April 1950. There his good spoken English soon gained him a position as", "title": "Mark Strizic" }, { "id": "4035952", "text": "In 1918 he became the first editor of the \"Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft\"; slightly later he became music critic for the \"Münchner Post\"; and in 1927 became music critic for the \"Berliner Tageblatt\". In this period he was also a friend of the composer Heinrich Kaspar Schmid in Munich and Augsburg. In 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, he left Nazi Germany, moving first to London, then to Italy, and finally to the United States in 1939, where he held a succession of teaching posts at universities including Smith College, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and the Hartt", "title": "Alfred Einstein" }, { "id": "34067", "text": "unrest due to economic uncertainties, but also became a renowned centre of the Roaring Twenties. The metropolis experienced its heyday as a major world capital and was known for its leadership roles in science, technology, arts, the humanities, city planning, film, higher education, government and industries. Albert Einstein rose to public prominence during his years in Berlin, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power. NSDAP rule diminished Berlin's Jewish community from 160,000 (one-third of all Jews in the country) to about 80,000 as a result of emigration", "title": "Berlin" }, { "id": "2102", "text": "\"citizen of the world\" who should be offered a temporary shelter in the UK. Both bills failed, however, and Einstein then accepted an earlier offer from the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, US, to become a resident scholar. In October 1933 Einstein returned to the US and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany. At the time, most American universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, had minimal or no Jewish faculty or students, as a result of their Jewish quotas, which lasted until", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "12297661", "text": "Mileva Marić. Albert Einstein and his family moved to Berlin in 1914. Shortly thereafter the parents separated, and Marić returned to Zürich, taking Eduard and his older brother Hans Albert with her. His father remarried in 1919 and in the 1930s emigrated to the United States under the threat of the German Nazi regime. Eduard was a good student and had musical talent. After \"gymnasium\", he started to study medicine to become a psychiatrist, but by the age of twenty he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was institutionalized two years later for the first of several times. Biographers of his", "title": "Einstein family" }, { "id": "20723665", "text": "Cordelia Gundolf Cordelia Gundolf was one of the pioneer leading educators in Italian Language in Australia, and an expert in Italian Literature, publishing a number of works on the topic. Gundolf came from a famous literary family, being the daughter of Friedrich Gundolf and godchild of Melchior Lechter, a noted graphic artist. She originally worked in Rome as a translator. Gundolf's grandfather was Jewish; her mother was concerned this would make problems for the family following Adolf Hitler's accession to power in Germany, so she asked Albert Einstein, a family friend for advice. Following his advice, they fled to Capri,", "title": "Cordelia Gundolf" }, { "id": "8798492", "text": "Hans Einstein Hans E. Einstein (February 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever. He lived in Bakersfield, California, USA. He was related to Albert Einstein: Hans's grandfather and Albert were first cousins. Einstein was born in Berlin, the son of Josefa Spiero Einstein Warburg and Dr. Fritz Einstein. He spent his childhood in Hamburg, Germany as Nazism gradually took hold. His parents were Quakers , but of Jewish origin. A year after Hitler took power in 1934, his mother moved Einstein and his sister to the Netherlands, leaving his father behind.", "title": "Hans Einstein" }, { "id": "2773536", "text": "not live to see him become an adult. He reasoned the child should have both a father and mother, and also that on Earth, the qualities of kindness and honesty would be more important than sheer scientific knowledge to instill into a super-powerful being. (The real-life fact that Einstein had fled from despotic Nazi Germany in the 1930s was noted as a possible factor in this decision.) Einstein then traveled incognito to Smallville to seek out a suitable family; this required his sneaking away from fawning government handlers assigned to protect/baby-sit Einstein as a vital national resource. In the course", "title": "Jor-El" }, { "id": "2053959", "text": "was founded officially in 1897. Meanwhile, the Jews of Europe and the United States gained success in the fields of science, culture and the economy. Among those generally considered the most famous were scientist Albert Einstein and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. A large number of Nobel Prize winners at this time were Jewish, as is still the case. In 1933, with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany, the Jewish situation became more severe. Economic crises, racial anti-Semitic laws, and a fear of an upcoming war led many Jews to flee from Europe to Palestine, to", "title": "Jewish history" }, { "id": "6251418", "text": "to the point where she committed suicide on 5 January 1933. After Volkova's death in January 1933, the news of her death was kept from her 6-7 year old son for nearly a year. Within a month of Volkova's death, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, causing Lev and Vsevolod to flee to Austria, where they lived until the Austrian Civil War of February 1934. After leaving Austria, they moved to France in 1934, and then finally moved to the French capital, Paris, in 1935. After Sedov died in 1938, Sedov's girlfriend, Jeanne Martin, wanted", "title": "Zinaida Volkova" }, { "id": "2096", "text": "Adolf Hitler. While at American universities in early 1933, he undertook his third two-month visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He and his wife Elsa returned to Belgium by ship in March, and during the trip they learned that their cottage was raided by the Nazis and his personal sailboat confiscated. Upon landing in Antwerp on 28 March, he immediately went to the German consulate and surrendered his passport, formally renouncing his German citizenship. The Nazis later sold his boat and converted his cottage into a Hitler Youth camp. In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "3358608", "text": "that already commanded the streets. Albert Einstein was told he was next on the list, so he fled the country. Holton's parents were Austrians: Emanuel, an Attorney-at-Law specializing in International Law, and Regina, a physiotherapist. Forced by the rise of fascism in Germany, and one physical attack on the young family, they returned early to Vienna. Growing up in Vienna, Holton received his education through most of the Humanistische Gymnasium. Family life was typically that of professionals enamored of Germanic Kultur; indeed, his parents had met first in a Poetry Club. But in 1938, the annexation of Austria by Germany", "title": "Gerald Holton" }, { "id": "13704762", "text": "at a time when many people were silenced due to the rise of the Nazi movement. Einstein participated in the 1927 congress of the League against Imperialism in Brussels. Einstein also met with many humanists and humanitarian luminaries including Rabindranath Tagore with whom he had extensive conversations in 1930 prior to leaving Germany. Born in Ulm, Einstein was a German citizen from birth. As he grew older, Einstein's pacifism often clashed with the German Empire's militant views at the time. At the age of 17, Einstein renounced his German citizenship and moved to Switzerland to attend college. The loss of", "title": "Political views of Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "460520", "text": "aircraft was first understood. A striking example of this is the Messerschmitt Me 262, which was designed in 1939, but resembles a modern jet transport more that it did other tactical aircraft of its time. Albert Einstein rose to public prominence during his years in Berlin, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He was forced to flee Germany and the Nazi regime in 1933. Physician Magnus Hirschfeld established the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in 1919, and it remained open until 1933. Hirschfeld believed that an understanding of homosexuality could be arrived at through science. Hirschfeld", "title": "Weimar culture" }, { "id": "2067", "text": "seven years later. In 1894, Hermann and Jakob's company lost a bid to supply the city of Munich with electrical lighting because they lacked the capital to convert their equipment from the direct current (DC) standard to the more efficient alternating current (AC) standard. The loss forced the sale of the Munich factory. In search of business, the Einstein family moved to Italy, first to Milan and a few months later to Pavia. When the family moved to Pavia, Einstein, then 15, stayed in Munich to finish his studies at the Luitpold Gymnasium. His father intended for him to pursue", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "5184864", "text": "professor Arthur Salz. In 1927 Gundolf was diagnosed with cancer, and died of it four years later. Gundolf's works were banned by the Nazis in 1933. He had married Agathe Mallachow (1884-1983) who was a pianist. Their daughter who became an Ialian language professor and expert in literature, Cordelia Gundolf, was the godchild of graphic artist, Melchior Lechter. After the death of her father and as Hitler assumed power in Germany, her mother asked Albert Einstein for advice. This led the family to escape to Capri and subsequently to Rome. His most famous publication is \"\"Goethe\"\" (1916) (13th edition in", "title": "Friedrich Gundolf" }, { "id": "5507207", "text": "in 1921, and also in 1921 earned his habilitation. Unable to obtain a paid position at the university because he was seen as too old and too Jewish, he worked at a bank until the financial collapse of 1929, and then for an insurance company. After the takeover of Austria by the Nazis in 1938, he lost that job as well, and escaped to America. With the assistance of Albert Einstein, he found teaching positions at Paterson Junior College and Monmouth Junior College in New Jersey, before moving with his wife to Chicago in 1941, to work for the U.S.", "title": "Eduard Helly" }, { "id": "17330895", "text": "Canada in exile while still ruling the Commonwealth; under Nazi supervision Edward VIII regains the throne while Wallis Simpson becomes queen. Winston Churchill also goes into exile in Canada and lives there until his death in 1953. Germany corrals the rest of Europe (except neutral Switzerland and Vatican City) into the Greater German Reich, known as \"Germania\" for short. German society is largely clean and orderly - at least on the surface - with the SS reorganized into a peacetime police force. Germania is embroiled in an endless guerrilla war with the USSR, still led by the 85 year-old Joseph", "title": "Fatherland (1994 film)" }, { "id": "9963223", "text": "as a \"token of his esteem\". Locker-Lampson returned the gift with some embarrassment. From 1933 onwards, Locker-Lampson redirected his political ire against fascism both in Britain and in continental Europe. In July 1933 he introduced a Private member's bill to extend British citizenship to Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, though it failed to become law. In September, he provided Albert Einstein with refuge at a camp on Roughton Heath near his home in Cromer in north Norfolk, after Einstein had received death threats while living in Belgium. He later worked to help other high-profile victims of fascism, including Haile Selassie", "title": "Oliver Locker-Lampson" }, { "id": "2362877", "text": "one day they should play together. Cohen kept her friendship with Einstein even after he had fled Germany in 1933. Cohen would often visit him in Oxford, England where he settled for a short time. In 1934, after Einstein moved to the United States, Harriet Cohen did finally play that duet concert with Einstein to raise funds to bring Jewish scientists out of Nazi Germany. Cohen and Einstein remained friends thereafter and he referred to her as \"the beloved piano witch\". It was not until 1939 when she first met Chaim Weizmann, the future first President of Israel, that she", "title": "Harriet Cohen" }, { "id": "15132800", "text": "Melbourne) designed the Villa Schück in Prague. He also joined with Ernst Mühlstein in the design of the large apartment complex in Prague called Molochov on 74 (street address) in the years 1936-1938. When the Nazi regime came to power in Czechoslovakia, he had to leave and fled to the United States through Great Britain. In Oxford, Ohio Victor Furth joined the faculty at Miami University as a Professor of Architecture. Among his designs were the Bern Street Apartments having large bedrooms and hardwood floors and numerous houses for Miami faculty often employing a cathedral ceiling. He died on 23", "title": "Victor Furth" }, { "id": "17417297", "text": "was a member of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin, the son of . He was a distant relative of Albert Einstein and a cousin of economist Albert Otto Hirschman. He studied law in Munich before fleeing Germany with his family in March 1933 at age 19 to escape Nazi persecution. After living in France, the Netherlands and Yugoslavia, Kellen traveled to the United States. He arrived in New York in 1935 and moved to Los Angeles, becoming an American citizen under the name Konrad Kellen. From 1941-1943, Kellen was the private secretary to author Thomas Mann. During World War", "title": "Konrad Kellen" }, { "id": "5500575", "text": "early 1930s, the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler became the dominant revanchist movement in Germany and Hitler and the Nazis gained power in 1933. The Nazi regime demanded the immediate cancellation of the Treaty of Versailles and made claims to German-populated Austria, and German-populated territories of Czechoslovakia. The likelihood of war was high, and the question was whether it could be avoided through strategies such as appeasement. In Asia, when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, the League of Nations condemned it for aggression against China. Japan responded by leaving the League of Nations in March 1933. After four quiet", "title": "Allies of World War II" }, { "id": "5373267", "text": "Denmark in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power. Her mother's family, Heni (nee Jonas) (born 1936), emigrated to Denmark from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, to escape rising anti-semitism. In 1943, the two families fled from Denmark to Sweden, together with most Danish Jews, to escape the deportation to the Nazi death camps. Three years after the end of World War II, they returned to Denmark. The effects of the Holocaust caused Beir's parents to instill the strong moral values and principles into their children. Later, the importance of human resilience and dignity would be a recurring", "title": "Susanne Bier" }, { "id": "4462170", "text": "for chess hustling from Switzerland, he went to Austria where Albert Einstein, a family friend and alleged lover of his mother, helped him escape to the United States. He worked as a janitor at Stanford University, where he demonstrated his prowess at chess by beating 30 professors simultaneously, and later became a dockworker in San Francisco. (It should be kept in mind that \"facts\" such as these are based on not-necessarily-reliable and unsupported statements about himself.) He played a bit part in Orson Welles' 1946 movie \"The Stranger\". This was one of the several movie appearances he made beginning in", "title": "Brother Theodore" }, { "id": "11198122", "text": "of Fame. Henry Wolf was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, on May 23, 1925. With Hitler in power from 1938, his secure childhood in Vienna ended, and his family left Austria and began a three-year odyssey through France and North Africa. Wolf studied art in Paris, but after hiding from the Germans and living in two detention camps in Morocco, the family relocated to the United States in 1941. He continued his art studies at New York City's School of Industrial Art . Wolf joined the Army in 1943, serving with an intelligence unit in the Pacific", "title": "Henry Wolf" }, { "id": "12373017", "text": "Charles Steinmetz, who developed new alternating-current electrical systems in 1889; Russian scientist Vladimir Zworykin, who invented the motion camera in 1919; Serb scientist Nikola Tesla who patented a brushless electrical induction motor based on rotating magnetic fields in 1888. With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, a large number of Jewish scientists fled Germany and immigrated to the country, including theoretical physicist Albert Einstein in 1933. In the years during and following WWII, several innovative scientists immigrated to the U.S. from Europe, such as Enrico Fermi, who came from Italy in 1938 and led the work that produced", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "1624330", "text": "were Jewish scientists, fearing the repercussions of anti-Semitism, especially in Germany and Italy, and sought sanctuary in the United States. One of the first to do so was Albert Einstein in 1933. At his urging, and often with his support, a good percentage of Germany's theoretical physics community, previously the best in the world, left for the US. Enrico Fermi, came from Italy in 1938 and led the work that produced the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Many other scientists of note moved to the US during this same emigration wave, including Niels Bohr, Victor Weisskopf, Otto Stern, and", "title": "Science and technology in the United States" }, { "id": "4890053", "text": "Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer (27 March 1901 – 14 December 1963) was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1952–1963. Ollenhauer was born in Magdeburg and joined the SPD in 1920. When the Nazis took power in 1933 he fled Germany for Prague. After the outbreak of WW2 Ollenhauer travelled across Europe in order to avoid Nazi persecution, first going to Denmark, then France, Spain, Portugal, and eventually London, where he remained until the end of the war. In London, he kept close ties to the Labour Party, which financially supported the expatriate SPD (called \"SoPaDe\"), of", "title": "Erich Ollenhauer" }, { "id": "1416139", "text": "her first sound role as the \"actress\" Lola Lola (named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel). Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities in 1932, Mann was a signatory to the \"Urgent Call for Unity\", asking the voters to reject the Nazis. Einstein and Mann had previously co-authored a letter in 1931 condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Milan Šufflay. Mann became \"persona non grata\" in Nazi Germany and left even before the Reichstag fire in 1933. He went to France where he lived in Paris and Nice. During the German occupation, he made his way through collaborationist Vichy France to", "title": "Heinrich Mann" }, { "id": "228376", "text": "of Vienna turned his application down. His predicament intensified when the German army found him fit for conscription. World War II started in September 1939. Before the year was up, Gödel and his wife left Vienna for Princeton. To avoid the difficulty of an Atlantic crossing, the Gödels took the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Pacific, sailed from Japan to San Francisco (which they reached on March 4, 1940), then crossed the US by train to Princeton. There Gödel accepted a position at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), which he had previously visited during 1933-34. Albert Einstein was also living", "title": "Kurt Gödel" }, { "id": "13577439", "text": "a system, the Strategic Defense Initiative. In 1982, Possony was a cofounder of the International Strategic Studies Association. Possony met the woman who would become his wife in the United States after he moved there from Spain. Regina Golbinder Possony, like her future husband, had had to flee her native Germany as a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. She had been a survivor of Stalin's prison camps and had fled to the Soviet Union from Germany with her father and his family, who, as both a Jew and a Communist, had little likelihood of survival. As Stalinist policy", "title": "Stefan Thomas Possony" }, { "id": "6287786", "text": "outbreak of World War II in September 1939 made that impossible. It was there that, because the Nazi bombing of England was called the \"blitz,\" he changed his surname to Bliss. Bliss arranged for Claire to escape Germany via his family in Czernowitz, Romania (now called Chernivtsi and in the Ukraine). Needing to leave there, Claire moved on to Greece and safety, until October 1940 when Italy invaded Greece. The couple were reunited on Christmas Eve 1940, after Claire continued east to Shanghai and Charles went west to Shanghai via Canada and Japan. After the Japanese occupied Shanghai, Bliss and", "title": "Charles K. Bliss" }, { "id": "7468509", "text": "by Rowohlt Verlag with a circulation of 5,000 copies. Upon the Nazi seizure of power in January 1933, he fled into exile; first to the Saar territory, then moved to Zurich in Switzerland from June to December 1933, and again to Saarbrücken where he published two writings on the coming Saar status referendum. After the vote in favour of Nazi Germany in January 1935, he moved to France. In Zurich, Heiden published his book \"Birth of the Third Reich\" in 1934. He, together with other emigrants like Albert Einstein, Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann struggled for the liberation of Carl", "title": "Konrad Heiden" }, { "id": "6092927", "text": "had been passed in Germany. In one particularly notable example of the law's effect, Albert Einstein resigned his position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and emigrated to the United States before he could be expelled. Following the decree, Albert Gorter redefined the term 'Aryan' in the Aryan paragraph as: However, this definition was unacceptable because it included non-European races. Achim Gercke later redefined this unacceptable definition as the one already used by the Expert Advisor for Population and Racial Policy which stated \"An Aryan is one who is tribally related to German blood. An Aryan is the descendant of", "title": "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" }, { "id": "1881077", "text": "Delbrück. Soon after Luria received the award, Benito Mussolini's fascist regime banned Jews from academic research fellowships. Without funding sources for work in the U.S. or Italy, Luria left his home country for Paris, France in 1938. As the Nazi German armies invaded France in 1940, Luria fled on bicycle to Marseille where he received an immigration visa to the United States. Luria arrived in New York City on September 12, 1940, and soon changed his first and middle names. With the help of physicist Enrico Fermi, whom he knew from his time at the University of Rome, Luria received", "title": "Salvador Luria" }, { "id": "6437916", "text": "returned to Italy after the rise of Italian Fascism. Future Fascist leader Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement. A new migratory wave began after 1945, favoured by the lax immigration laws then in force. The English towns of Bedford and Hoddesdon have sizeable Italian populations. A significant number of Italians came to Bedford in the 1950s due to the London Brick Company finding itself short of workers in the wake of the post-war reconstruction boom. As a result, today Bedford has the largest concentration of Italian families in", "title": "Italian diaspora" }, { "id": "1569975", "text": "contributing to emigration. Refugees in New York City founded the University in Exile. The Bauhaus, perhaps the most important arts and design school of the 20th century, was forced to close down during the Nazi regime because of their liberal and socialist leanings, which the Nazis considered degenerate. The school had already been shut down in Weimar because of its political stance, but moved to Dessau prior to the closing. Following this abandonment, two of the three pioneers of modern architecture, Mies Van Der Rohe and Walter Gropius, left Germany for America (while Le Corbusier stayed in France). They introduced", "title": "Human capital flight" }, { "id": "16056850", "text": "Siegfried Moos, \"Siege\", whom she married in 1932. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933 it was necessary for Lotte and Siege to flee Germany, and initially they settled in Paris, but soon moved to London. Lotte's ambition to study at LSE was frustrated by the fact that her German qualifications were not recognised. In 1936 the British government refused to renew her visa; she departed to the Soviet Union to join her friend Brian Goold-Verschoyle, and \"to see what it was like\". She soon became disillusioned with the Soviet system and succeeded in returning to Britain. The British authorities", "title": "Lotte Moos" }, { "id": "20156242", "text": "The WPC, having formed after World War I and during the First Red Scare, was allied against communism, anarchy, and pacifism (especially internationally). The Corporation infamously filed a memorandum complaining of Albert Einstein's return to the United States. Einstein, a Jewish German-born American citizen and socialist pacifist, was targeted for his preaching against the use of nuclear weaponry. The Woman Patriot Corporation attempted to bar his entry into the United States and stated:\"Einstein was not merely a pernicious influence; he was the ringleader of an anarcho-communist program whose aim was to shatter the military machinery of national governments as a", "title": "Woman Patriot Corporation" }, { "id": "13404028", "text": "Karl Loewenstein Karl Loewenstein (November 9, 1891 in Munich – July 10, 1973 in Heidelberg) was a German philosopher and political scientist, regarded as one of the prominent figures of Constitutional law in the twentieth century. His research and investigations into the deep typology of the different constitutions have had some impact on the Western constitutional thought. He studied in his native city of Munich (Bavaria), where he got a doctor's degree in Public law and Political science. When Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party took power in 1933, he was exiled and came to the United States, the country where he", "title": "Karl Loewenstein" }, { "id": "3121331", "text": "University of Prague. But a few years later, after the quickly forming communists took over the political power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Čelovský escaped into exile, not willing to participate or passively linger on any kind of totality. Čelovský got to various places during the exile, but Canada became his final second home country; there he is rather known as Boris Celovsky, a name that he used there, as the original was unpronounceable for English-speakers. He studied modern history at the University of Heidelberg and then at the Université de Montréal. His dissertation dealt with the Munich Agreement, still a", "title": "Bořivoj Čelovský" }, { "id": "3548198", "text": "changed his name from Kempner to Kerr in 1887, by his marriage to (1898-1965), the daughter of a Prussian politician. Judith Kerr had a brother, Michael. In 1933, just before the Nazis came to power, the family left Germany, fearful because Alfred Kerr had openly criticized the Nazis. Alfred Kerr's books were burned by the Nazis shortly after he fled Germany. The family travelled first to Switzerland and then on to France, before finally settling in Britain, where Judith Kerr has lived ever since. She subsequently became a naturalised British subject. During the Second World War, Judith Kerr worked for", "title": "Judith Kerr" }, { "id": "4890056", "text": "embolism. Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer (27 March 1901 – 14 December 1963) was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1952–1963. Ollenhauer was born in Magdeburg and joined the SPD in 1920. When the Nazis took power in 1933 he fled Germany for Prague. After the outbreak of WW2 Ollenhauer travelled across Europe in order to avoid Nazi persecution, first going to Denmark, then France, Spain, Portugal, and eventually London, where he remained until the end of the war. In London, he kept close ties to the Labour Party, which financially supported the expatriate SPD (called \"SoPaDe\"),", "title": "Erich Ollenhauer" }, { "id": "20618386", "text": "had become an established and relatively prosperous painter and sculptor in Vienna. However, this period coincided with the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, and by this time, it became clear that Albert and Rosa would have to flee their home country. Following the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, the Reusses packed up all their possessions, including Reuss's artworks, into 38 crates and left these in storage, but almost everything was confiscated by the Nazis. With the help of Cornishman and Quaker, John Sturge Stephens (1891–1954), they escaped from Vienna to England,", "title": "Albert Reuss" }, { "id": "10182219", "text": "residing in France with only 150,000 being native-born. Approximately 50,000 were refugees fleeing Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, while another 25,000 came to France from Belgium and Holland; the remaining Jews were arrivals to France in the 1920s and 30s from Eastern Europe. Once the Germans invaded, many Jews fled away from the advancing forces but France's rapid collapse both militarily and politically, the armistice, and the speed at which everything happened trapped many of them in southern France. Philippe Pétain, who became the French premier after Paris had fallen to the German Army, arranged the surrender to Germany. He then", "title": "Responsibility for the Holocaust" }, { "id": "17995450", "text": "of Albert Einstein, they were able to emigrate to the USA, where they settled in Manhattan. After the war, Kahn spent several long periods in Europe between 1948 and 1950, among other places in Ascona, but when it seemed unlikely he would soon be able to return there permanently, he once more settled in New York. He had a house in Atlantic Beach, Long Island and a studio in Manhattan. After his wife left him, he lived with Ellen Fussing, a Danish-American colleague, with whom he finally returned to Europe. Until 1960 they lived primarily in Switzerland, among other places", "title": "Fritz Kahn" }, { "id": "3827654", "text": "provided an explanation of the hitherto mysterious properties of bismuth, in which dimagnetic properties were more pronounced than in other metals. Due to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, he elected to not return home in 1933, but to remain in Britain. He declined an offer from Otto Stern of a position at the University of Hamburg. Granted leave to remain in Britain, he worked at the University of Manchester with funding from the Academic Assistance Council, which had been set up to help academic refugees from Germany and other fascist countries. Most of his immediate family also left", "title": "Rudolf Peierls" }, { "id": "5057485", "text": "of the general climate in Europe, and in particular in Italy the group dispersed and most of its members emigrated. The head of the group, Prof. Fermi, was also forced to emigrate, since the passing of the Fascist racial laws were damaging his wife, who was Jewish, and his academic career. Fermi left fascist Italy with his family for Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize on 6 December 1938, and from there they reached the U.S. Oscar D'Agostino and Edoardo Amaldi were the only ones who remained in Italy. In the post-war reconstruction of Italian physics, Amaldi contributed significantly to", "title": "Via Panisperna boys" }, { "id": "6508457", "text": "Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the exile became permanent and officially mandated. Having met Lyda Guévrékian in 1928, Einstein married her in 1932. The French Cubist painter and sculptor, Georges Braque, served as a witness. Einstein spent 1936-1938 fighting in the Spanish Civil War; returning to France where in 1940, he was arrested and interned along with the other German émigrés until his liberation later in the spring of 1940 as a result of chaotic circumstances in the face of the rapidly progressing German invasion. Although able to escape the German occupation of Paris during the Fall of", "title": "Carl Einstein" }, { "id": "126936", "text": "and his known opposition to Nazism. He issued a statement recanting this opposition (he later regretted doing so and explained the reason to Einstein). However, this did not fully appease the new dispensation and the University of Graz dismissed him from his job for political unreliability. He suffered harassment and received instructions not to leave the country, but he and his wife fled to Italy. From there, he went to visiting positions in Oxford and Ghent University. In the same year he received a personal invitation from Ireland's Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera - a mathematician himself - to reside in", "title": "Erwin Schrödinger" }, { "id": "14016551", "text": "Germany, the couple fled to Italy in 1932 to escape the growing anti-Semitism. They married in 1936, and lived first in Florence and then in Rome. Because of the rapprochement between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s visit to Rome, and the acrimonious atmosphere of fascist Italy, the pair once again emigrated in 1939, this time to England. However, their fears of the Nazi menace did not wane, and the couple tried frenetically to emigrate across the Atlantic. None of their preferred choices—the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil—granted them a visa, while some charged them exorbitant sums of money", "title": "Erwin Walter Palm" }, { "id": "1565138", "text": "Speaker of the ICM in 1936 at Oslo. For the academic year 1928–1929 he was a visiting professor at Princeton University, where he wrote a paper with Howard P. Robertson. Weyl left Zürich in 1930 to become Hilbert's successor at Göttingen, leaving when the Nazis assumed power in 1933, particularly as his wife was Jewish. He had been offered one of the first faculty positions at the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, but had declined because he did not desire to leave his homeland. As the political situation in Germany grew worse, he changed his mind", "title": "Hermann Weyl" }, { "id": "5149805", "text": "child of Kurt and Beatrice Gutmann. She was raised in Monroe, New York, a small town outside New York City. Her father was the youngest of five children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Feuchtwangen, Germany. He was living near Nuremberg, Germany, when Adolf Hitler ascended to power. He fled Nazi Germany in 1934 as a college student. After being denied asylum in the US, he brought his entire family, including four siblings, to join him in Bombay, India, where he founded a metal fabricating factory. Kurt Gutmann was still living in India in 1948 when he came to New", "title": "Amy Gutmann" }, { "id": "3581677", "text": "the screenplay for the film version that premiered on 8 October 1931. The early 1930s marked the high point of Döblin's fame. During this time he busied himself with lectures, readings, and the effort to contribute to a collective intellectual response to the growing power of the National Socialists. Just over a month after Hitler's ascension to power, Döblin left Germany, crossing into Switzerland on 2 March 1933. After a brief stay in Zürich, the family moved to Paris. Döblin's closest acquaintances during this time were Claire and Yvan Goll, Hermann Kesten, Arthur Koestler, Joseph Roth, Hans Sahl, and Manès", "title": "Alfred Döblin" }, { "id": "2914839", "text": "von Stritzky, daughter of a Baltic brewer in 1913, who died in 1921. His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years. His third wife was Karola Piotrowska, a Polish architect, whom he married in 1934 in Vienna. When the Nazis came to power, they had to flee, first into Switzerland, then to Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and finally the United States. In 1948, Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig, and he returned to East Germany to take up the position. In 1955 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR. In", "title": "Ernst Bloch" }, { "id": "14280870", "text": "Berni Alder Berni Julian Alder (born September 9, 1925) is an American physicist specialized in statistical mechanics, and a pioneer of numerical simulation in physics. Alder was born in Duisburg, Germany, to Jewish parents, a chemist and a homemaker. After the Nazis came to power, the family moved to Zurich, Switzerland. Fearing invasion by Nazi Germany after the outbreak of World War Two, the family applied for a visa to the United States, which was granted in 1941. They left by sealed train from neutral Switzerland to (formally neutral) Spain, then to Portugal, where they took a ship to the", "title": "Berni Alder" }, { "id": "17318129", "text": "Robert Thoeren Robert Thoeren (1903–1957) was a German screenwriter and film actor. Thoeren was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War the German-speaking Thoeren emigrated to Germany where he became a theatre and film actor. Thoeren appeared in leading roles in several German-language films made by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris. Thoeren went into exile following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, first in France and later in the United States. Thoeren had already ceased acting and begun writing screenplays for films and became a top writer in the United", "title": "Robert Thoeren" }, { "id": "2649230", "text": "their life. Fritz Perls was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst who fled Europe with his wife Laura Perls to South Africa in order to escape Nazi oppression in 1933. After World War II, the couple emigrated to New York City, which had become a center of intellectual, artistic and political experimentation by the late 1940s and early 1950s. Perls grew up on the bohemian scene in Berlin, participated in Expressionism and Dadaism, and experienced the turning of the artistic \"avant-garde\" toward the revolutionary left. Deployment to the front line, the trauma of war, anti-Semitism, intimidation, escape, and the Holocaust are further key", "title": "Gestalt therapy" }, { "id": "13704763", "text": "Einstein's citizenship allowed him to avoid service in the military, which suited his pacifist views. In response to a Manifesto of the Ninety-Three signed by 93 leading German intellectuals including Max Planck in support of the German war effort, Einstein and three others wrote a counter-manifesto. Einstein accepted a position at the University of Berlin in 1914, returning to Germany where he spent his time during the rest of World War I. Einstein also reacquired his German citizenship. In the years after the war, Einstein was very vocal in his support for Germany. In 1918, Einstein was one of the", "title": "Political views of Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "2885792", "text": "a few kilometers to the south. In 1929 Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann visited Nida while on holiday in nearby Rauschen and decided to have a summer house erected on a hill above the lagoon; it was mocked by locals as \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\" (\"Onkel Toms Hütte\"). He and his family spent the summers of 1930–32 in the cottage, and parts of the epic novel \"Joseph and His Brothers\" (\"Joseph und seine Brüder\") were written there. Threatened by the Nazis due to his political views, Mann left Germany after Hitler's \"Machtergreifung\" in 1933 and eventually emigrated to the United States.", "title": "Nida, Lithuania" }, { "id": "12044399", "text": "1928 he married Elsbeth Greisinger and was appointed as liaison officer to Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun. After the takeover of power (1933) by the Nazi Party Weichmann fled first to Czechoslovakia, then to France—with a short term of imprisonment (1939–1940)—Spain, Portugal and later the United States. In 1948 he returned to Germany at the invitation of the mayor of Hamburg, Max Brauer, and started his political career there. In 1956 he became a member of the faculty of the University of Hamburg. Weichmann died in Hamburg and is buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery. Weichmann's son lives in Canada. Weichmann", "title": "Herbert Weichmann" }, { "id": "18735554", "text": "Krämer sought assistance from Jewish business owners in providing to families of dead soldiers. After the war, her husband's business went bankrupt and she began working at S. Eichengrün & Co., a Jewish textile shop, in 1929. After Adolf Hitler assumed power in Germany in 1933, she made numerous attempts to flee Nazi persecution. Although a relative from the United States provided her with an affidavit of support, she was unable to leave Germany before World War II began and the American consulates in Germany were closed. She attempted to migrate to Denmark, China, and Cuba, all without success before", "title": "Clementine Krämer" }, { "id": "5100720", "text": "Mario and the Magician Mario and the Magician () is a novella written by German author Thomas Mann in 1929. \"Mario and the Magician\" is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The magician, Cipolla, is analogous to the fascist dictators of the era with their fiery speeches and rhetoric. The story was especially timely, considering the tensions in Europe when it was written. Stalin had just seized power in Russia, Mussolini was urging Italians to recapture the", "title": "Mario and the Magician" }, { "id": "5507227", "text": "The Iron Dream The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional pulp, post-apocalypse science fiction action tale entitled \"Lord of the Swastika\". However, this is a pro-fascism narrative written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp–science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling", "title": "The Iron Dream" }, { "id": "1414877", "text": "a native of Nagykapos (now Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia) and Dezső Friedmann came from the Transylvanian village of Csucsa (now Ciucea, Romania). At the age of 18, he was accused of alleged communist sympathies and was forced to flee Hungary. He moved to Berlin where he enrolled at Berlin University where he worked part-time as a darkroom assistant for income and then became a staff photographer for the German photographic agency, Dephot. It was during that period that the Nazi Party came into power, which made Capa, a Jew, decide to leave Germany and move to Paris. He became professionally involved", "title": "Robert Capa" }, { "id": "5461828", "text": "themselves in the position of resisting Nazi occupation using the techniques that were successfully employed against the British. Although Nehru has a general concept of the inherent immoral nature of Nazism, Gandhi thinks they still can be persuaded, not heeding the warning from an Austrian Jew named Simon Wiesenthal, who was able to flee occupied Poland to India. The Nazis, however, led by Field Marshal Walther Model, are completely unmoved by Gandhi's strategy. They view themselves as a master race and have no moral qualms about killing those who resist non-violently (or even those who do not resist at all,", "title": "The Last Article" }, { "id": "9046052", "text": "popular dissatisfaction with their rule. Between 1950 and 1961, 2.75 million East Germans moved to West Germany. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 around 200,000 people moved to Austria as the Hungarian-Austrian border temporarily opened. From 1948 to 1953 hundreds of thousands of North Koreans moved to the South, stopped only when emigration was clamped down after the Korean War. In Cuba, 50,000 middle-class Cubans left between 1959 and 1961 after the Cuban Revolution and the breakdown of Cuban-American relations. Following a period of repressive measures by the Cuban government in the late 1960s and 1970s, Cuba allowed for mass", "title": "Criticism of communist party rule" }, { "id": "10599187", "text": "Geisler presented the project on Kickstarter in collaboration with the Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna) and the Albert Einstein Archives. Supporters of the project could choose to either receive the letters themselves or send them to politicians typeset in the handwriting of Einstein and Freud. Einstein is an integral character in the , being responsible in \"\" for altering the course of history using a time traveling device he created to remove Adolf Hitler from existence in an attempt to prevent the horrors of World War II, inadvertently leading to Soviet Union's rise to power and conflict with Europe. He continues", "title": "Albert Einstein in popular culture" }, { "id": "17848424", "text": "by the government because of his outspoken opposition toward the Nazi party. His studio in Cologne was destroyed by bombing during World War II. He decided that once the war was over, he would leave Germany and go to \"America, the land of the Free.\" After the war, as soon as the railroad started running again, he and the family took the train to the American Embassy in Hamburg to apply for an immigration visa. It took five years, and when the visa was granted, the family sold their house and furniture, and immigrated to the United States. German monetary", "title": "Peter Dohmen" }, { "id": "18118871", "text": "Otto Eis Otto Eis (1903–1952) was an Austrian-born writer who worked on a number of screenplays. He was born Otto Eisler to a Jewish family in Budapest which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later moved to Germany, where he was employed in the German film industry. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, he moved to Austria, but had to flee again to France following the Anchluss. Eis later moved to the United States, but struggled to secure work in Hollywood although he wrote scripts for a handful of B pictures. Eis was the brother of", "title": "Otto Eis" }, { "id": "2054055", "text": "gained success in the fields of the science, culture and the economy. Among those generally considered the most famous were scientist Albert Einstein and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. A disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners at this time were Jewish, as is still the case. In Russia, many Jews were involved in the October Revolution and belonged to the Communist Party. In 1933, with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany, the Jewish situation became more severe. Economic crises, racial anti-Semitic laws, and a fear of an upcoming war led many Jews to flee from", "title": "Jewish history" }, { "id": "18871718", "text": "edition (co-edited with Kathleen Sullivan), is the most widely used constitutional law textbook in American law schools. Gerald Gunther was born on May 26, 1927, in Usingen im Taunus, Germany, where his family had worked as butchers for over three centuries. Gunther entered primary school during the same year in which Adolf Hitler gained power. In school, Gunther experienced virulent anti-Semitism; a Nazi schoolteacher labeled Gunther \"Jew-pig\" and segregated him from his classmates. Though initially hesitant to leave Germany, Gunther's family fled for the United States in 1938, only a few hours after witnessing the destruction of their town synagogue.", "title": "Gerald Gunther" }, { "id": "8770433", "text": "became responsible for administering the annual German quota. While he did not personally interview Albert Einstein, Messersmith cleared the way for the scientist to leave Germany. He called Einstein himself to tell him that his visa would be ready. He was viciously criticized by conservative groups and media for his action to issue a visa to Einstein. Messersmith received significant notoriety in late 1932 due to the incident. Messersmith told the American consuls in Europe that refugees or immigrants requesting a visa to enter the US had to have sufficient funds and property to support themselves. As America's consul general", "title": "George S. Messersmith" }, { "id": "6223043", "text": "turned out to have been a major strategic blunder for which France paid a heavy price, since it threw the United States into the arms of Germany in a rival alliance which triumphed in both the Great War and the Second Great War. Ultimately, Napoleon was forced to abdicate in 1870 during the disastrous Franco-Prussian War. He was also the last Monarch of France until King Charles XI under the Action Francaise party restored the monarchy around 1930. Albert Einstein is a German physicist who was believed to have been working on an atomic bomb project in Europe. Along with", "title": "Historical characters in the Southern Victory Series" }, { "id": "4074947", "text": "were confiscated by the Nazis. \"Schell\" is the family name, while \"von Bauschlott\" indicates the place in Germany where the Schell family owned its main estate. Fleeing Hungary in advance of the Soviets and Communism, the family lived in poverty until 1948, finding asylum in Austria: first in Vienna, then in Salzburg. In 1950, the family emigrated to the United States, where Schell's father acquired American citizenship. Schell entered a convent school in the New York City borough of Staten Island. In 1957, her father joined Radio Free Europe and the family moved to Munich, Germany, where Schell developed an", "title": "Catherine Schell" }, { "id": "19972618", "text": "declassified FBI documentation used in the first season to declassified documentation from the CIA, MI6, and Argentinian, Russian and Germany authorities. In Season Three further evidences of weapon of mass destruction have been revealed. Hunting Hitler Hunting Hitler is a History Channel television series based on the hypothetical premise that if Adolf Hitler escaped from the \"Führerbunker\" in Berlin at the end of World War II, how might he had done so and where might he have gone. The show was conceived due to the recent declassification of FBI documents exploring whether Hitler might still be alive in the late", "title": "Hunting Hitler" }, { "id": "6918513", "text": "founded by King Leopold II in 1903. Today, it is the only links course in the country. Its most famous resident was Albert Einstein, who lived in the villa \"Savoyarde\" for six months in 1933 after leaving Nazi Germany. Women's volleyball club Volley De Haan plays at the highest level of the Belgian league pyramid. De Haan has stations on The Coast Tram. De Haan, Belgium De Haan (; West Flemish: \"D'n Oane\") is a place and a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of De Haan proper, Klemskerke, Vlissegem and Wenduine.", "title": "De Haan, Belgium" }, { "id": "2103", "text": "the late 1940s. Einstein was still undecided on his future. He had offers from several European universities, including Christ Church, Oxford where he stayed for three short periods between May 1931 and June 1933 and was offered a 5-year studentship, but in 1935 he arrived at the decision to remain permanently in the United States and apply for citizenship. Einstein's affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Study would last until his death in 1955. He was one of the four first selected (two of the others being John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel) at the new Institute, where he soon", "title": "Albert Einstein" }, { "id": "422888", "text": "and the United Kingdom. He also sent Tintin to fictional countries of his own devising, such as the Latin American republic of San Theodoros, the East European kingdom of Syldavia, or the fascist state Borduria—whose leader, Müsstler, was a combination of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium as World War II broke out across Europe. Although Hergé briefly fled to France and considered a self-imposed exile, he ultimately decided to return to his occupied homeland. For political reasons, the Nazi authorities closed down \"Le Vingtième Siècle\", leaving Hergé", "title": "The Adventures of Tintin" }, { "id": "5084934", "text": "patriot. The Frieds left Czechoslovakia in 1939 to escape the anticipated Nazi persecution of Jews, lived in England for almost two years and came to the United States in 1941 via Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He and his parents became United States citizens in 1948, after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. After graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1952, he attended Princeton University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1956. Fried then attended the University of Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in", "title": "Charles Fried" }, { "id": "19245806", "text": "material at Einstein's summer house in Caputh, Brandenburg was destroyed to avoid seizure, although most of his works between 1930 and 1932 were saved. That material was transported via Haberlandstrasse where Einstein lived in Berlin, then to Paris, and ended up stored in Princeton, New Jersey, United States until after Einstein's death. Einstein's 1950 will appointed Helen Dukas and Otto Nathan as trustees of the estate and stated, \"[A]ll literary rights and assets shall be vested in the Hebrew University.\" After Einstein's death in 1955, the trustees spent many years organizing Einstein's papers. In the 1960s, Helen Dukas and the", "title": "Albert Einstein Archives" }, { "id": "19000133", "text": "soon placed on a Gestapo \"death list\" and remained in continual danger as the Nazis moved across Europe. In the tense days leading up to World War II, Fodor and his family narrowly escaped Vienna March 1938, then Czechoslovakia in September 1938, and finally Belgium and France in May and June 1940, a Axis forces moved forward across Europe. From 1940-1944, Fodor lived in the United States, working as a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and as a columnist with the \"Chicago Sun\". Fodor was also active on the lecture circuit, giving speeches across the United States during", "title": "Marcel Fodor" }, { "id": "11870248", "text": "from the new government. World War II brought the end of Spanish immigration to Peru. Many Spanish Peruvians left the nation in 1960s and 1970s to flee from excessive poverty and dictatorship of Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado and most of these moved to United States and Spain, while most of the rest to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom. The second wave of Spanish and other white Peruvians left during the Alan Garcia regime (a Hispanic descendant) that led Peru to extreme poverty and hyperinflation. Nevertheless, immigration from Spain began again in considerable numbers throughout the 20th century due", "title": "Spanish immigration to Peru" }, { "id": "7296035", "text": "with the Socialist and Communist parties to launch one final campaign against paragraph 218, which prohibited abortion. Stöcker added her iconic voice to a campaign that ultimately failed. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, Stöcker fled first to Switzerland and then to England when the Nazis invaded Austria. Stöcker was attending a PEN writers conference in Sweden when war broke out and remained there until the Nazis invaded Norway, at which point she took the Trans-Siberian Railway to Japan and finally ended up in the United States in 1942. She moved into an apartment on Riverside Drive in", "title": "Helene Stöcker" }, { "id": "1273523", "text": "Peter Max Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is an American artist known for using bright colours in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art. In 1938, Max's parents fled Berlin, Germany, his place of birth, to escape the fomenting Nazi movement, settling in Shanghai, China, where they lived for the next ten years. In 1948, the family moved to Haifa, Israel where they lived for several years. From Israel, the family continued moving westward and stopped in Paris for several months—an", "title": "Peter Max" }, { "id": "406965", "text": "family and class in his first novel, \"Buddenbrooks\". His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, then returned to Switzerland in 1952. Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called \"Exilliteratur\", German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime. Mann's work influenced many later authors, including Heinrich Böll, Joseph", "title": "Thomas Mann" }, { "id": "2692280", "text": "out saying she needs a man of action. Albert rebuilds his violin into an instrument more resembling an electric guitar, he plugs it into the electrified door and plays the instrument, shorting the door out and escaping. He returns to the hotel to find a note from Marie, saying she has left Australia and returned to France. Albert finds a small steamboat and sails to France to confront Marie. She initially rejects him, but acquiesces when he tells her he’s prepared to stop Preston. They use the Curie family hot air balloon and head to the Nobel ceremony in Paris", "title": "Young Einstein" } ]

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[ { "id": "4028670", "text": "23 and Nannini eighth with 21. In the constructors, McLaren were champions with 121 points with Ferrari second with 110, Benetton third with 71 and Williams fourth with 55. Points towards the 1990 FIA Formula One World Championship for Drivers were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each round. Only the best eleven round results were retained, any other points being discarded. Points towards the 1990 FIA Formula One World Championship for Constructors were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each round. 1990 Formula One World Championship The 1990 FIA", "title": "1990 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4028718", "text": "but once the appeals had been considered, Prost was crowned the champion for the third time. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places in each race. Only the best eleven results for each driver were retained. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places in each race. 1989 Formula One World Championship The 1989 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 43rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It", "title": "1989 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4039122", "text": "front row starts for Nigel Mansell in Brazil and Hungary, as well as three 2nd and eight 3rd-place finishes for the non-turbo cars, and on each occasion that a non-turbo car finished on the podium, the only cars to finish in front of them were the all-conquering McLaren-Honda's. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers in each race. Only the best 11 results counted toward the championship. Prost scored 105 points during the", "title": "1988 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4028621", "text": "Piquet competed together, the four drivers having between them won 93 of the 112 Grands Prix since 1985 and all seven Drivers' Championships during this period. Piquet retired from F1 at season's end, while Prost decided to take a sabbatical in 1992. Mansell would win the Drivers' Championship in 1992 and then leave F1 for CART; Prost would win the championship in 1993 and then retire; and Senna would lose his life at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Points for the 1991 Drivers' Championship were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places in each race. This", "title": "1991 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4028345", "text": "Häkkinen his first world championship and McLaren their eighth Constructors' Championship. Williams, 1997 Constructors' Champion, had a disappointing season overall, with only two podium finishes for reigning Drivers' Champion Jacques Villeneuve and one for Heinz-Harald Frentzen. However, in Japan they managed to secure third in the Constructors' Championship, ahead of Jordan and Benetton. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each event. Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six", "title": "1998 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "3116872", "text": "i.e. via an 8–6–4–3–2 scoring system, with the holder of the fastest race lap also receiving a bonus point. In 1961, the scoring was revised to give the winner nine points instead of eight, and the single point awarded for fastest lap was given for sixth place for the first time the previous year. In 1991, the points system was again revised to give the victor 10 points, with all other scorers recording the same 6–4–3–2–1 result. In 2003, the FIA further revised the scoring system to apportion points to the first eight classified finishers (a classified finisher must complete", "title": "Formula One racing" }, { "id": "4028394", "text": "on his car. Inoue then walked into the path of a course car, and was knocked over. Inoue bounced off the front of the car and collapsed on to the grass. He suffered minor leg injuries. Note: Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six finishers at each race. Note: Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six finishers at each race. Note: Benetton Renault and Williams Renault were not awarded Constructors' Championship points for their placings in the Brazilian Grand Prix as the cars were deemed to be using illegal fuel.", "title": "1995 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4028324", "text": "a third of the season with his broken leg, and his brother, Ralf Schumacher, finished sixth with 35. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari, with 128 points, were champions, beating second-placed McLaren by 4 points. Jordan ended up in third with 61. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each race. Where two or more drivers scored the same number of points, their positions in the Drivers' Championship were fixed according to the quality", "title": "1999 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4039123", "text": "year, but only 87 points were counted toward the championship. Senna scored 94 points, with 90 points counted toward the championship by virtue of winning more races. Thus, Senna became the World Champion, although he did not score the most points over the course of the year. Points towards the 1988 FIA Formula One World Championship for Constructors were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each round. 1988 Formula One World Championship The 1988 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 42nd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1988 Formula One", "title": "1988 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "3093047", "text": "teams entering the sport. The scoring system from 2010 on is: For scoring systems prior to 2010, refer to the List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems. Drivers finishing lower than tenth place receive no points. If the race had for some reason to be abandoned before 75% of the planned distance (rounded up to the nearest lap) had been completed, then the points awarded are halved: 12.5, 9, 7.5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.5. Points are awarded equally to the driver and his constructor; for example, if a driver for one team comes second, eighteen", "title": "Formula One regulations" }, { "id": "4024068", "text": "that equalled the combined sum of points attained by all other constructors collectively. For the 2003 championship, the FIA would change the points system. The following teams and drivers competed in the 2002 FIA Formula One World Championship. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers in each race. Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers in each race. Note: Official FIA Championship classifications listed the Constructors' Championship results as", "title": "2002 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "1751039", "text": "in 2016 with 206 races. Other Formula One records set in 1992 that he still holds are the highest percentage of pole positions in a season (88%), most wins from pole position in a season (nine) and most runner-up championship finishes before becoming World Champion (three). Mansell also holds the record for obtaining pole position and scoring the fastest lap and subsequently retiring from the race (1987 German Grand Prix, 1990 British Grand Prix, 1992 Japanese Grand Prix, and 1992 Italian Grand Prix). He is the driver having the most wins (31) without ever winning Monaco. He won the BBC", "title": "Nigel Mansell" }, { "id": "4172425", "text": "Érik Comas Érik Comas (born 28 September 1963) is a French former Formula One driver. He was French Formula 3 champion in 1988, and then Formula 3000 champion in 1990, after scoring the same number of points as Jean Alesi in 1989 but losing on a count-back of positions. He participated in 63 Grands Prix, debuting on 10 March 1991. He scored a total of 7 championship points. His last point, in the 1994 German Grand Prix, was also the last one for the Larrousse team. At the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix Comas was mistakenly waved out of the", "title": "Érik Comas" }, { "id": "18182462", "text": "win the race, while Rosberg secured his maiden Drivers' Championship title with second place. Five days after winning the title, Rosberg announced his immediate retirement from the sport at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony in Vienna. He was the first reigning champion to do so since Alain Prost in 1993. Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in every race, using the following structure: In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a driver's best result used to decide the standings. Notes: In the event of a tie, a count-back system", "title": "2016 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4003098", "text": "fourth place whilst Derek Warwick's late race retirement after his Arrows A10 ran out of fuel, handed fifth to Brundle for what would the only time in 5 seasons (1985-1989) that a Zakspeed would finish a race in the points. Nakajima rounded off the points in sixth place, which meant he was the first Japanese driver to score a world championship point. Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy. 1987 San Marino Grand Prix The 1987 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 3 May 1987", "title": "1987 San Marino Grand Prix" }, { "id": "19246874", "text": "One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix. Daniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen traded places ahead of the race. Verstappen joined Red Bull Racing while Kvyat", "title": "2016 Spanish Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4028572", "text": "Williams were dominant champions with 164 points, McLaren just edging out second with 99, Benetton a close third with 91 and Ferrari fourth with 21. Points for the 1992 FIA Formula One World Championship for Drivers were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each round. Points for the 1992 FIA Formula One World Championship for Constructors were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each round. 1992 Formula One World Championship The 1992 Formula One World Championship was the 46th season of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Formula One motor racing.", "title": "1992 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4040660", "text": "ran of fuel on the last lap, handing over second to Reutemann and allowing Depailler to complete the podium. The Japanese Grand Prix was not held again until 1987 at the Suzuka circuit – there had been talk of moving the race from Fuji to Suzuka for 1978, but this never materialized. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places in each round. The best eight results from the first nine races and the best seven results from the remaining eight races were retained. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Hans Heyer started illegally and then retired his car", "title": "1977 Formula One season" }, { "id": "4028622", "text": "was the first season in which 10 points (rather than 9) were awarded for a win, and every race counted towards the Drivers' Championship. Half points were awarded at the Australian Grand Prix as the race was stopped after 14 laps (out of 81) due to torrential rain. 1991 Formula One World Championship The 1991 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 45th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1991 FIA Formula One World Championship, which commenced on 10 March 1991 and ended on 3 November after sixteen races. Ayrton Senna won his third and last", "title": "1991 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "1302732", "text": "Brazilian cyclist Murilo Fischer wore a helmet based on Senna's helmet colour scheme of yellow with green and blue stripes on stage 11 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia, which finished on the Imola circuit. Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. Senna holds these Formula One records: Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time.", "title": "Ayrton Senna" }, { "id": "4003685", "text": "in which ten points were awarded for a win rather than nine, as part of a revised scoring system introduced for 1991. However, it was also to be the last United States Grand Prix until 2000, due to poor attendances. The race was the first of the 1991 Formula One season. In the two previous years, the championship had been decided when Senna and Prost tangled at Suzuka. In 1989, their collision as team-mates secured Prost's third World Championship; in 1990, with Prost driving for Ferrari and still in title contention, it handed Senna his second crown. Controversy regarding the", "title": "1991 United States Grand Prix" }, { "id": "1539775", "text": "not available in a given season are marked by NA): The World Cup scoring system is based on awarding a number of points for each place in a race, but the procedure for doing so and the often-arcane method used to calculate the annual champions has varied greatly over the years. Originally, points were awarded only to the top 10 finishers in each race, with 25 points for the winner, 20 for second, 15 for third, 11 for fourth, 8 for fifth, 6 for sixth, 4 for seventh, and then decreasing by 1 point for each lower place. To determine", "title": "FIS Alpine Ski World Cup" }, { "id": "4028661", "text": "on lap 57, sending Berger into retirement. Prost and Mansell duly completed a Ferrari 1–2, the Frenchman 22 seconds ahead, with Nannini, Boutsen, Patrese and Suzuki completing the top six. With two races to go, Senna had 78 points to Prost's 69; both had had eleven points finishes and would therefore have to drop points if they scored again. Senna was still in a strong position, however, as a win or a second place (if Prost did not win) in the next race would give him the championship. Berger was third with 40, Mansell was up to fourth with 31", "title": "1990 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4187464", "text": "completed over 90% of the race distance. † Not eligible for points. Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance. Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Gianni Morbidelli Gianni Morbidelli (born 13 January 1968) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 March 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He currently competes in the TCR International Series. Morbidelli was born in Pesaro. His", "title": "Gianni Morbidelli" }, { "id": "1539780", "text": "major change to the scoring system was implemented in the 1991–92 season. The top 30 finishers in each race would now earn points, with 100 for the winner, 80 for second, 60 for third, and then decreasing by smaller increments for each lower place. The point values were adjusted slightly the following season (to reduce the points for places 4th through 20th), and the scoring system has not been changed again since that year. The table below compares the point values under all five scoring systems which have been in use: Since the Top 30 scoring system was implemented in", "title": "FIS Alpine Ski World Cup" }, { "id": "4028372", "text": "classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each race. Constructors' Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each race. 1996 Formula One World Championship The 1996 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 50th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. The championship commenced on 10 March 1996 and ended on 13 October after sixteen races. Two World Championship titles were awarded, one for Drivers and one for Constructors. Damon Hill won the Drivers' Championship", "title": "1996 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "3092061", "text": "cars that had been introduced the previous year. The thirsty turbo engines briefly saw refuelling introduced into the sport, but this was banned for 1984. With controversy at last left behind, the Formula One teams flourished through the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Despite the overwhelming dominance of two teams—McLaren and Williams—this period is regarded (perhaps ironically) as one of the brightest spots in F1's 50-year history. Niki Lauda, coming out of retirement for a hefty sum in , pipped his teammate Alain Prost to the title in by a mere half point, the closest ever finish", "title": "History of Formula One" }, { "id": "3093046", "text": "need not finish the race, but at least 90% of the winner's race distance must be completed. Therefore, it is possible for a driver to receive some points even though he retired before the end of the race. In that case the scoring is based on the distance completed in comparison to other drivers. It is also possible for the lower points not to be awarded (as at the 2005 United States Grand Prix) because insufficient drivers completed 90% of the winner's distance. The system was revised in 2003 and later amended for the 2010 season because of 2 new", "title": "Formula One regulations" }, { "id": "4040340", "text": "as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six positions at each race. The best eleven results could be retained. Only drivers who scored points were classified by the FIA in the final championship results. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six positions at each race. Only manufacturers that scored points were classified by the FIA in the final championship results. 1985 Formula One World Championship The 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 39th season of FIA Formula One motor racing.", "title": "1985 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "2203471", "text": "2nd. Prost had scored more points in total than Senna, but the Frenchman could only score 3 more points because he had finished 1st and 2nd in every race so far except two (13 finishes in total, only the best 11 results counted), and if he had won (9 points), one of his 2nd-place finishes (6 points) would not have counted towards his points tally. Prost ended up scoring 105 points in total to Senna's 94 – but only 87 of Prost's points counted, and 90 of Senna's points counted, so Senna won the Drivers' Championship. The 1989 race was", "title": "Japanese Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4188333", "text": "Franck Lagorce Franck Lagorce (born 1 September 1968 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses) is a racing driver from France. He participated in 2 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 6 November 1994. He scored no championship points. Lagorce competed in French Formula Ford between 1987 and 1989, and was runner up in the French Formula Renault Championship in 1990. He stepped up to the French Formula Three Championship in 1991 and won the title the following year. He competed in Formula 3000 for the next two years, winning four races and finishing the 1994 season in second place. He was Ligier's test driver", "title": "Franck Lagorce" }, { "id": "7235734", "text": "drive at a Grand Prix meeting, earn F1 world championship points, start from pole position in an F1 race, and finish as runner-up for the drivers' championship. In 2016, Nico Rosberg became the third German driver to win the Formula One World Championship. The DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) is the national touring car series. It is considered one of the best touring car series in the world. Many Formula 1 drivers have made the switch to the series, including, Mika Häkkinen, Jean Alesi and others. From 1995, only German marques of cars are allowed to compete in the series. Currently", "title": "Sport in Germany" }, { "id": "4040919", "text": "ended up back in seventh position. Hill was World Champion for the second time. The following teams and drivers competed in the 1968 FIA World Championship. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each race. Only the best five results from the first six races and the best five results from the remaining six races were counted towards a driver's total. Points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers at each round, however only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points. The best five", "title": "1968 Formula One season" }, { "id": "4040293", "text": "In SKY TV's \"Tales from the crypt\" Mansell said that at the end of year FIA Paris prizegiving, Bertie Martin, the Clerk of the Course at Adelaide, told him that had he hit the wall and debris covered the track, he would have redflagged the race and as two thirds race distance had been completed Mansell would have been world champion. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each round. Only the best eleven results counted towards each driver's championship total; discarded results are displayed within parentheses. Driver did not finish the", "title": "1986 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "2211818", "text": "have since surpassed his total. De Cesaris participated in a total of 214 grands prix. He achieved 5 podiums, one pole position, and scored a total of 59 championship points. He remains to be the driver with the most Grand Prix starts (208) to his name without a win. He also holds the records for the most consecutive non-finishes, 18 from 1985 and 1986 (although many of these were mechanical failures), as well as the most successive non-finishes in a single season, 12 in 1987. Similarly, no driver has had more than his 14 DNFs in a 16-race season. He", "title": "Andrea de Cesaris" }, { "id": "10365161", "text": "to claim the overall FIA Trophy at the end of the season. Points Effectively, there are four competitions going on within every race and each provides points for the driver based on his or her placing in the car’s class and the number of competing cars in that class. 1st — 9 points 2nd — 6 points 3rd — 4 points 4th — 3 points 5th — 2 points 6th — 1 point 1st — 6 points 2nd — 4 points 1st – 4 points Fastest lap – An additional point will be awarded to the drivers who achieve the", "title": "Historic Formula One Championship" }, { "id": "4006591", "text": "pits, Häkkinen was back behind Irvine, and Schumacher was some way in front. On the final lap, on the final corner, Häkkinen made an attempt to overtake Irvine, after Irvine was very slow through the chicane before the final corner. Irvine just held off Häkkinen to take second, by only a tenth of a second. However, both drivers were 19 seconds behind Schumacher. After Coulthard's misfortune in the pitlane, he finished sixth, scoring one world championship point. It was Ferrari's first one-two for 8 years, the previous being at the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix, Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell scoring", "title": "1998 French Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4039195", "text": "Lotus soon fell behind Prost. After the midrace pit stops Senna moved to second with Alboreto third. The final World Championship points went to Jonathan Palmer (Tyrrell) in fourth place, Yannick Dalmas (Larrousse Lola) in fifth and Roberto Moreno (AGS) in sixth. Senna was then disqualified for a weight infringement in his last race for Lotus. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top six finishers in each round. Only the best eleven results counted towards each driver's championship total; discarded results are displayed within parentheses. Awarded to drivers of cars equipped with naturally aspirated engines.", "title": "1987 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4028325", "text": "of their places. Under this system, one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places, etc. For drivers with 1 point or 0 points, one seventh place was better than any number of eighth places, etc. Constructors' Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six places at each race. Where two or more constructors scored the same number of points, their positions in the Constructors' Championship were fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system, one first place was better", "title": "1999 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "1302598", "text": "following year and winning six Grands Prix over the next three seasons. In 1988, he joined Frenchman Alain Prost at McLaren-Honda. Between them, they won all but one of the 16 Grands Prix that year, and Senna claimed his first World Championship. Prost claimed the championship in 1989, and Senna his second and third championships in 1990 and 1991. In 1992, the Williams-Renault combination began to dominate Formula One. Senna nonetheless managed to finish the 1993 season as runner-up, winning five races and negotiating a move to Williams in 1994. Senna has often been voted as the best and most", "title": "Ayrton Senna" }, { "id": "4003568", "text": "Alesi gushed, \"He is my hero and has been for many years.\" Other winners in the race were Ken Tyrrell, with two cars in the points; and Pirelli, with three points finishers. About the only down note was the tiny crowd of 15,000 that witnessed such a great show. Jean Alesi 34 laps (1–34); Ayrton Senna 38 laps (35–72). 1990 United States Grand Prix The 1990 United States Grand Prix was the opening motor race of the 1990 Formula One season held on March 11, 1990, in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the 32nd United States Grand Prix since the \"American", "title": "1990 United States Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4003591", "text": "pushing him into the wall. In doing so, Bernard earned his first point in Formula One. Despite not finishing the race, Foitek was classified seventh, his best F1 result. 1990 Monaco Grand Prix The 1990 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 27 May 1990 at Monaco. It was the fourth race of the 1990 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 48th Monaco Grand Prix. The race was held over 78 laps of the circuit for a race distance of . The race was won by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda. Senna started", "title": "1990 Monaco Grand Prix" }, { "id": "15975002", "text": "Prix\" was replaced by \"Top Class\". Until 2004 the three classes existed equally. In the following year there was no \"Class 2-\"race taking place for the first time. Since 2010 only the classes \"Top Class\" and \"Class 1\" persisted. In 2017 an additional \"Junior Ranking\" was launched. The awarding of score is inflexible. There are two different types of evaluation of the races in which the winner can either score 90 or up until 150 points. The points of \"Top-Class\"-races outside of Europe are multiplied by 1.2, whereas the points of the final race of the season are multiplied by", "title": "World Inline Cup" }, { "id": "4068466", "text": "greatest achievement of the season happened at the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix where his teammate Martin Donnelly suffered a severe crash leaving Warwick to help morale at the team by qualifying in the top 10 only for the gearbox to fail 10 laps from the end. Following a 3-year sabbatical, Warwick returned to Formula One in 1993 to drive for Footwork, but managed to score only 4 points. He ended his career with a total of 71 Grand Prix points. Some consider Warwick to be the best Formula One driver never to win a single race. Warwick also competed successfully", "title": "Derek Warwick" }, { "id": "8727324", "text": "1990 World Sportscar Championship The 1990 World Sportscar Championship season was the 38th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing. It featured the 1990 FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship for Drivers and the 1990 FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship for Teams, both of which were contested over a series for cars running under the FIA's Group C formula. The series ran from 8 April 1990 to 7 October 1990 and was composed of nine races. Teams' Championship points were awarded to the top 6 placed cars in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1, with the following exceptions: Drivers' Championship points were awarded to the", "title": "1990 World Sportscar Championship" }, { "id": "12332603", "text": "1990 Australian Drivers' Championship The 1990 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Holden racing cars. The winner of the championship was awarded the 1990 CAMS Gold Star. The title was contested over an eight round series with one race per round. Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six finishers at each round. Each driver could retain only his/her best seven results, any other points being discarded. Australian Formula 2 cars were invited to compete in the final three rounds to boost competitor numbers. The following teams", "title": "1990 Australian Drivers' Championship" }, { "id": "2209282", "text": "despite a slow start and a spectacular crash at Melbourne's inaugural GP, with regular points, fourth his best result. He finished fifth in the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix, which was his last Grand Prix in Formula One. Brundle achieved 9 podiums, and scored a total of 98 championship points, with a best championship finish of 6th in 1992. He was especially strong on street circuits and similarly slow-speed, twisty courses – Monaco, Adelaide and the Hungaroring each produced 4 points finishes for him. He holds the dubious distinction of having the longest Formula One career (158 Grand Prix starts) without", "title": "Martin Brundle" }, { "id": "19271124", "text": "Fastest Pit Stop Award. 2017 saw the introduction of a new points system for the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award. After the final race, Mercedes led the ranking with 472 points, ahead of previous winners Williams (442 points) and Red Bull (344 points), after setting the fastest pit stop in Spain, Belgium, Italy (1–2 finish), Singapore (1–2 finish), the United States and Mexico. DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award The DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award is an annual award in Formula One for the constructor which completed the fastest pit stop within a Grand Prix the most amount of times in", "title": "DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award" }, { "id": "12332604", "text": "and drivers competed in the 1989 Australian Drivers' Championship. 1990 Australian Drivers' Championship The 1990 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Holden racing cars. The winner of the championship was awarded the 1990 CAMS Gold Star. The title was contested over an eight round series with one race per round. Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six finishers at each round. Each driver could retain only his/her best seven results, any other points being discarded. Australian Formula 2 cars were invited to compete in the final", "title": "1990 Australian Drivers' Championship" }, { "id": "4005986", "text": "and resulted in Schumacher winning the World Drivers' Championship. Also notable was the last appearance in a Formula One Grand Prix of the first incarnation of Team Lotus, previously seven-time Constructors' Champions. It was also the 31st and last Grand Prix victory of Nigel Mansell's Formula One career. , this was the last Formula One race where the number of entrants exceeded the number of places on the starting grid. Heading into the final race of the season, Benetton driver Michael Schumacher was leading the Drivers' Championship with 92 points; Williams driver Damon Hill was second on 91 points, one", "title": "1994 Australian Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4202935", "text": "Jean-Marc Gounon Jean-Marc Gounon (born 1 January 1963) is a French racing driver. He raced in Formula One in and , participating in a total of 9 Grands Prix and scoring no championship points. After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in 1989, Gounon moved into International Formula 3000 in 1990. He was the only man to win F3000 races in a non-Reynard in 1991 and 1992, in a RALT and Lola respectively. He also became known for his quick starts, and might have had another win at Enna in 1991, but was controversially adjudged to have jumped the start", "title": "Jean-Marc Gounon" }, { "id": "9867847", "text": "when the profile of German F3 was rising, and within a year, he had already made his Grand Prix début. Heinz-Harald Frentzen competed against Schumacher (sharing the runner-up position in 1989), and later became a winner of three Grands Prix. Schumacher's championship successor, Tom Kristensen from Denmark, embarked on a sportscar career that peaked with a record number of eight Le Mans wins. He has since established himself in the DTM touring car series. During the 1990s, two more future Grand Prix winners graduated from the German F3 Championship – Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli – together with many other", "title": "German Formula Three Championship" }, { "id": "4003596", "text": "jumped start, which was added to his overall race time, dropping him to fourth in the final order. Following Berger's penalty, Senna took the victory, whilst Piquet finished second after a determined battle with the two Ferraris where he forced his way past Prost's Ferrari going into the hairpin. It was the Benetton driver's first podium finish since the 1988 Australian Grand Prix. Prost was later passed at the same place by teammate Mansell who went on to finish third. 1990 Canadian Grand Prix The 1990 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 10 June 1990", "title": "1990 Canadian Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4187691", "text": "from: Maurício Gugelmin Maurício Gugelmin (born 20 April 1963) is a Brazilian former racing driver. He took part in both Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. He participated in 80 Formula One grands prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. He achieved one top-three finish and scored a total of ten championship points in the series. He competed in the Champ Car series between 1993 and 2001, starting 147 races. He won one race, in 1997 in Vancouver, finishing fourth in the championship that year. His best result in the Indianapolis 500 was in 1995 where he", "title": "Maurício Gugelmin" }, { "id": "3116870", "text": "then present trophies to the drivers and a constructor's trophy to a representative from the winner's team, and the winning drivers spray champagne and are interviewed, often by a former racing driver. The three drivers then go to a media room for a press conference where they answer questions in English and their native languages. Points are awarded to drivers and teams exclusively on where they finish in a race. The winner receives 25 points, the second-place finisher 18 points, with 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 points for positions 3 through 10. If a race has", "title": "Formula One racing" }, { "id": "4187673", "text": "Maurício Gugelmin Maurício Gugelmin (born 20 April 1963) is a Brazilian former racing driver. He took part in both Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. He participated in 80 Formula One grands prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. He achieved one top-three finish and scored a total of ten championship points in the series. He competed in the Champ Car series between 1993 and 2001, starting 147 races. He won one race, in 1997 in Vancouver, finishing fourth in the championship that year. His best result in the Indianapolis 500 was in 1995 where he started", "title": "Maurício Gugelmin" }, { "id": "4028523", "text": "and Berger in fifth. At the end of the season Prost finished his one-year return to Formula One with the World Championship and ninety-nine career points. His rival, Senna, finished second with seventy-three points. In third was Hill with sixty-nine points. Fourth was Schumacher with fifty-two points. Fifth place in the Championship went to Patrese, who had earned twenty points. Williams dominated the Constructors' Championship throughout the year finishing first with one-hundred-and-sixty-eight points. This was double the points of McLaren who finished second in the Constructors. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over", "title": "1993 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "4187457", "text": "Gianni Morbidelli Gianni Morbidelli (born 13 January 1968) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 March 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He currently competes in the TCR International Series. Morbidelli was born in Pesaro. His father, Giancarlo Morbidelli, was the founder of the Morbidelli motorcycle company which had some success in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Morbidelli started karting in 1980. He won the EUR-AM championship in 1986, before moving to Italian Formula Three. He became Italian Formula 3 and Formula 3 European Cup", "title": "Gianni Morbidelli" }, { "id": "135567", "text": "the end of the season are crowned World Champions. Regardless of whether a driver stays with the same team throughout the season, or switches teams, all points earned by him count for the Drivers' Championship. A driver must be classified to receive points. To be classified, a driver need not finish the race, but complete at least 90% of the winner's race distance. Therefore, it is possible for a driver to receive points even if they retired before the end of the race. In the event that less than 75% of the race laps are completed by the winner, only", "title": "Formula One" }, { "id": "8282659", "text": "Fastest lap In motorsport, the fastest lap is the quickest lap run during a race. Some series, like the discontinued A1 Grand Prix and the current Formula 2 series, award bonus points to the driver/team with the fastest lap. In Formula One, where until drivers were awarded a point for setting fastest lap, Michael Schumacher holds the current record for the most fastest laps with 77. In Grand Prix motorcycle racing no point is awarded for the fastest lap. Giacomo Agostini holds the current record for the most fastest laps with 117. In Formula One, 130 different drivers have made", "title": "Fastest lap" }, { "id": "4024157", "text": "season, Michael Schumacher was champion with 108 points, Häkkinen was second with 89, Coulthard third with 73, Barrichello fourth with 62, Ralf Schumacher fifth with 24, and Fisichella sixth with 18. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari won with 170 points, McLaren was second with 152, and Williams was third with 36. For this season, the safety car remained the Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG, which was introduced in 1999. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Championship points were awarded on a 10–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the six places in each", "title": "2000 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "14449575", "text": "Eugene O'Brien (racing driver) Eugene O'Brien (born 22 March 1960 in Manchester) is a British auto racing driver and coach. He started his racing career in single-seaters, winning his first race in 1983 (FF1600). After finishing third in the Junior Formula Ford Series in 1983, he was forced to take a break from racing due to lack of finance. He returned in 1987, competing in Formula First, where he finished the year as runner-up. He switched to Formula Vauxhall Lotus in 1988, ending his second year in the championship as runner-up. He won his first title in 1990 with the", "title": "Eugene O'Brien (racing driver)" }, { "id": "14240791", "text": "their first season did not come close to those of Brawn the previous year, with the Mercedes battling Renault for the title of 'best of the rest' behind the leading three teams of Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull. Rosberg finished on the podium three times, at Sepang, Shanghai and Silverstone. Schumacher's best finishes were three fourth places. He did not score a race win, podium, pole position or fastest lap for the first time since his début season in 1991, and also scored the worst finish of his F1 career at Valencia, where he finished fifteenth. Schumacher was penalised for", "title": "Mercedes MGP W01" }, { "id": "10660586", "text": "Racing Ferrari would be the only car to finish the event, earning them the win. In the FIA GT Championship (using the GT1 and GT2 classes), the top eight teams are awarded half-points for their position both at the six-hour mark as well as at the midway point of the race. Points for the top eight go in the order of 5 – 4 – 3 – 2.5 – 2 – 1.5 – 1 – 0.5. Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC). 2007 Spa 24 Hours The 2007 Total", "title": "2007 Spa 24 Hours" }, { "id": "4172468", "text": "† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.<br> As Tarquini was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. Gabriele Tarquini Gabriele Tarquini (born 2 March 1962) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 3, 1987. He scored 1 championship point, and holds the", "title": "Gabriele Tarquini" }, { "id": "135566", "text": "car is another relatively recent innovation that reduced the need to deploy the red flag, allowing races to be completed on time for a growing international live television audience. Various systems for awarding championship points have been used since 1950. The current system, in place since 2010, awards the top ten cars points in the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships, with the winner receiving 25 points. If both cars of a team finish in the points, they both receive Constructors' Championship points. All points won at each race are added up, and the driver and constructor with the most points at", "title": "Formula One" }, { "id": "4187781", "text": "runs a driving school and racing team called Drivex. Bold on results indicates top qualifier Pedro de la Rosa Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (; born 24 February 1971) is a former Spanish Formula One driver who has participated in 107 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT F1 teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race. He has scored a total of 35 championship points, which includes a podium finish at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. On 21 November 2011, De la Rosa signed", "title": "Pedro de la Rosa" }, { "id": "3116874", "text": "change in the awarding of world championship points has rendered the comparison of historical teams and drivers to current ones largely ineffective. For instance, Michael Schumacher is widely credited with being the most successful GP driver of all time. While his statistics are very impressive and easily outstrip those of his nearest competitor, it is worth noting that his points tally vs points available, and winning percentage of grands prix entered, do not significantly exceed those of Juan Manuel Fangio, whom he recently dethroned as winner of the most World Championships. As with most other sports, it is very difficult", "title": "Formula One racing" }, { "id": "1751069", "text": "the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children and young people (as president of UK Youth). In 2015 turn 17 of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renamed in honour of Mansell, twice winner of the Mexican Grand Prix (1987 and 1992). He received The London Classic Car Show Icon Award in 2018. Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Nigel Mansell Nigel Ernest James Mansell, (; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver who won both the Formula One", "title": "Nigel Mansell" }, { "id": "4040925", "text": "serious chest and neck injuries. He later died in the nearby Northampton General Hospital. The following teams and drivers competed in the 1967 FIA World Championship. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers in each round. Only the best five results from the first six races and the best four results from the last five races could be retained by each driver. Points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers at each round, however only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points. The best five", "title": "1967 Formula One season" }, { "id": "17167648", "text": "the implementation of this system turned out to be a one-off. The series would revert to the 25–18–15–12–10–8–6–4–2–1 system in use since 2010 for all races, beginning with the 2015 Australian Grand Prix. The race determined the World Drivers' Championship between Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, with the latter winning both the race and the title. For the first time in the history of Formula One, teams and drivers scored double the amount of points awarded for race finish positions. The FIA implemented this in order to maximise focus on the championship until the end of the season.", "title": "2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix" }, { "id": "2854241", "text": "rival Barrichello qualified on pole. In the race, Button was aided by a first-lap incident, and was up to seventh by lap seven. He ran as high as second place by halfway, but ultimately finished fifth, taking enough points to secure the championship with one round to spare. At the final race of the season, in Abu Dhabi, Button qualified behind Barrichello again, but was able to achieve a podium by coming third. With 169 starts, Button made the second-highest number of race starts before becoming World Champion. Only Nigel Mansell (with 176 starts, at the 1992 Hungarian Grand Prix)", "title": "Jenson Button" }, { "id": "8154342", "text": "has won eight. Other notable multiple winners include 391 Stuart Smith (six), 391 Andy Smith (five), 33 Peter Falding (four), 103 Johnny Brise, 252 Dave Chisholm and 515 Frankie Wainman Junior (three). The National Points Championship is a season-long competition. The winner is granted the honour of racing with a silver roof for the following season. The first season-long championship started in 1956. Drivers' scores at every stock car meeting were recorded to create the championship table. During the late 1990s, when Frankie Wainman Junior dominated, there was criticism that the National Points Championship was predictable and favoured drivers who", "title": "BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars" }, { "id": "9174443", "text": "1991: Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season The 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 43rd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The beginning of the 1990s marked a golden age for Grand Prix motorcycle racing. The rivalry between Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz was in full flow while Mick Doohan started to come into his own. Eddie Lawson had switched to Cagiva", "title": "1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season" }, { "id": "8765332", "text": "race time/average speed for the provisional winner of Race 10 (Tomáš Enge) was 0'59:24.642/152.546 km/h. Enge was subsequently disqualified after failing a drug test. Teams Championship points were awarded on a 10-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places at each race with points from both team cars counting towards each team�s total. Drivers Championship points were awarded at each race as follows: 10 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. R15=retired, but classified R=retired NS=did not start DIS(1)=disqualified after finishing as winner 2002", "title": "2002 International Formula 3000 Championship" }, { "id": "4674881", "text": "24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Sauber C9 for Team Sauber Mercedes, co-driving with ex-Formula One drivers Mauro Baldi and Kenny Acheson. His four other races at Le Mans (1979, 1980, 1986 and 1990) all saw him fail to finish the race. Brancatelli would continue racing until his retirement in the late 1990s. <nowiki>†</nowiki> Despite finishing 7th outright at Bathurst, as the highest placed registered WTCC car Brancatelli was awarded 1st place points for the round. Gianfranco Brancatelli Gianfranco Brancatelli (born 18 January 1950 in Turin, Piedmont) is a former racing driver from Italy. His racing career began in", "title": "Gianfranco Brancatelli" }, { "id": "4003401", "text": "which he eventually won. Patrese's runner-up placing was his second in a row. After struggling through practice, qualifying and warm up, and starting from 14th spot, Patrese and technical director Patrick Head had guessed at a setup and finally got it right for the race. Eddie Cheever's third place was the ninth and last podium finish of his F1 career. Christian Danner benefited from retirements ahead of him to take fourth place for Rial. It was his best career finish and matched the best ever finish for the team. Before the race there was a push to reduce the number", "title": "1989 United States Grand Prix" }, { "id": "16885700", "text": "season early. Zanardi returned the following year but did not win a single point and was unable to secure a drive for 1995. On leaving the sport he embarked on a very successful career in Indy Car before returning for one final, and very poor, season in 1999. Lella Lombardi is the only woman to have finished a Formula One race in a points-scoring position. She was first entered for the 1974 British Grand Prix with Brabham but failed to qualify, returning to the sport in 1975 with March. She became the first woman to qualify for a race when", "title": "Formula One drivers from Italy" }, { "id": "19185936", "text": "second Scuderia Ferrari of von Trips and Hawthorn, who were 54 secs behind in third. \"Class Winners are in Bold text.\" Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1, excepting the RAC Tourist Trophy, for which points were awarded 4-3-2-1 for the first four places. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 4 results out of the 6 races could be retained by each manufacturer.</small> 1958 Targa Florio The 42° Targa Florio took place on", "title": "1958 Targa Florio" }, { "id": "18901925", "text": "with 668 points. Ferrari finished second with 522 points and Red Bull Racing were third with 368 points. The following teams and drivers took part in the 2017 Formula One World Championship. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. The following twenty Grands Prix took place in 2017: Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in every race, using the following structure: In order for full points to be awarded, the race winner must complete at least 75% of the scheduled race distance. Half points are awarded if the race winner completes less than 75% of the race", "title": "2017 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "16636577", "text": "set of rules and regulations that define how points are accrued. Nearly all series award points according to the finishing position of the competitors in each race. Some series only award points for a certain number of finishing positions. In Formula One, for example, only the top ten finishers get points. Drivers may be forced to finish the race or complete a certain amount of the laps in order to score points. In some series, points are also awarded based on lap leading, lap times, overtaking and qualifying positions (in particular by achieving pole positions and fastest laps). In NASCAR,", "title": "Score (sport)" }, { "id": "2203484", "text": "both of which were eventually rescinded. Prost had won the Drivers' Championship for the third time – but this was not official until Senna's retirement from the Australian Grand Prix 2 weeks later, before which McLaren's appeal had been denied. The 1990 event proved to be just as controversial as the 1989 event. Senna and Prost were once again first and second in the championship – the two men had won 37 of the past 46 Formula One championship races. But the roles had been reversed. Senna was 9 points ahead of Prost in the championship, and the championship situation", "title": "Japanese Grand Prix" }, { "id": "4201593", "text": "Lella Lombardi Maria Grazia \"Lella\" Lombardi (26 March 1941 – 3 March 1992) was a racing driver from Italy. Born in Frugarolo, Piedmont, she participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974 and finishing her career with points. She is the only female Formula One driver in history to have a top six finish in a World Championship race, which she did at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix (Half points were awarded for this race due to a shortened race distance, hence Lombardi received half a point instead of the usual one point). As", "title": "Lella Lombardi" }, { "id": "9739128", "text": "Rees. Walkinshaw controlled 40% of the shares with an associate Peter Darnbrough buying 11% and Oliver retaining 49%. The team was renamed TWR Arrows for the remaining part of the 1996 season. Jos Verstappen scored with a 6th place in the Argentine Grand Prix the last ever point for Footwork in Formula 1. The team finished 9th in the Constructors' Championship, as they had done in 1993 and 1994. Footwork Arrows Footwork Arrows was the name of a Formula One motor racing team, competing during the mid-1990s. Japanese businessman Wataru Ohashi, who was the president of Footwork Express Co., Ltd.,", "title": "Footwork Arrows" }, { "id": "17223769", "text": "1981 Australian Drivers' Championship The 1981 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to racing cars complying with Australian Formula 1. It was the 25th Australian Drivers' Championship. The title winner, Alfredo Costanzo was awarded the 1981 CAMS \"Gold Star\". The championship was contested over a two-round series. Car competed in two classes: Championship points were awarded at each round on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six finishers in each class. Additional points were awarded at each round on a 4-3-2-1 basis to the first four finishers outright, regardless of class. Where rounds were", "title": "1981 Australian Drivers' Championship" }, { "id": "1463557", "text": "late 1980s, Team Lotus continued to be a major player in Formula One. Ayrton Senna drove for the team from 1985 to 1987, winning twice in each year and achieving 17 pole positions. By the company's last Formula One race in 1994, the cars were no longer competitive. Team Lotus constructed cars won a total of 79 Grand Prix races. During his lifetime Chapman saw Lotus beat Ferrari as the first Marque to achieve 50 Grand Prix victories, despite Ferrari having won their first nine years sooner. Formula One Drivers' Championship winner for Lotus were Jim Clark in 1963 and", "title": "Lotus Cars" }, { "id": "413001", "text": "apartment offered by a race sponsor. The first prize in 1988 was a car, a studio-apartment, a work of art, and 500,000 francs in cash. Prizes only in cash returned in 1990. Prizes and bonuses are awarded for daily placings and final placings at the end of the race. In 2009, the winner received 450,000 €, while each of the 21 stage winners won 8,000 € (10,000 € for the team time-trial stage). The winners of the points classification and mountains classification each win 25,000 €, the young rider competition and the combativity prize 20,000 €; the winner of the", "title": "Tour de France" }, { "id": "4188387", "text": "Championship, where he got the C-class title in 1992. Lees became a highly paid and highly respected part of the Japanese racing scene. He has also driven at Le Mans numerous times, with his best finish being a sixth place overall in 1990. Geoff Lees (racing driver) Geoffrey Lees (born 1 May 1951) is a former racing driver from England. He participated in 12 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, making his first appearance on 16 July 1978. He scored no championship points. Lees was born near Kingsbury, Warwickshire. His first Grand Prix chance came with a non-works Ensign at", "title": "Geoff Lees (racing driver)" }, { "id": "12585387", "text": "grid. He finished third at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after an incident-strewn race. He passed the then championship leader Sebastian Vettel for third with a few laps to go, making him the first driver to finish on the podium twice at the Baku City Circuit (in 2016 and 2018). † Includes points scored by other drivers. Driver failed to finish the race, but was classified as they had completed >90% of the race distance. Sergio Pérez Sergio Pérez Mendoza ( ; born 26 January 1990) also known as \"Checo\" Pérez, is a Mexican racing driver, currently driving in Formula One", "title": "Sergio Pérez" }, { "id": "1751031", "text": "time Mansell was bobbing from side to side in Berger's mirrors. Heading into one of the quickest corners on the calendar at the time, where the Ferraris had registered forces of 4.7g during practice, Mansell launched to the outside of Berger and flashed past to take second place. Mansell scored only a single win, at the 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix, and finished a thrilling second to Nelson Piquet in Australia, and finished fifth in the World Championship. His retirement plans were halted when Frank Williams again stepped in. Williams signed Mansell on 1 October 1990 after Mansell was assured the", "title": "Nigel Mansell" }, { "id": "3093048", "text": "points are added to his season total; if his teammate finished third in the same race, he adds fifteen to his total and the team adds 33 (the sum of the drivers' points) to its total. The championships are awarded to whichever driver and constructor have the most points at the end of the season. In case of a tie, the FIA compares the number of times each driver has finished in each position. The championship goes to whichever had the greater number of wins; if they have the same number of wins, it goes to the driver with the", "title": "Formula One regulations" }, { "id": "7266448", "text": "1991–92 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup The 26th World Cup season began in November 1991 in the United States and concluded in March 1992 in Switzerland. The overall winners were Paul Accola of Switzerland, his first, and Petra Kronberger of Austria, her third straight. A major change during this season was made to the scoring system, moving from a \"Top 15\" system, with 25 points for first, 20 for second, and 15 for third down to 1 for 15th, to a \"Top 30\" system, with 100 for first, 80 for second, and 60 for third down to 1 for 30th.", "title": "1991–92 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup" }, { "id": "4187114", "text": "Jochen Mass Jochen Richard Mass (born 30 September 1946) is a German former racing driver. Mass was born in Dorfen, Bavaria. He participated in 114 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 July 1973 at the British Grand Prix. He won one GP race (1975 Spanish Grand Prix), secured no pole positions, achieved 8 podiums and scored a total of 71 championship points. Mass is perhaps best known for his blameless part in the death of Gilles Villeneuve. On 8 May 1982, with only 10 minutes left until the end of the qualifying session for the 1982 Belgian", "title": "Jochen Mass" }, { "id": "3346671", "text": "Karl Wendlinger Karl Wendlinger (born 20 December 1968) is an Austrian professional racing and former Formula One driver. Born in Kufstein, Wendlinger started his career in karting and in Formula Ford before entering the German Formula 3 Championship in 1988. After managing tenth place in that inaugural season, Wendlinger won the crown in 1989, which earned him also a drive in the Mercedes-Benz sportscar team for 1990. Driving the Sauber-Mercedes C11 – alongside Michael Schumacher, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Mauro Baldi and Jean-Louis Schlesser – the quintet managed to achieve fifth place in the 1990 World Sportscar Championship standings. In 1991, he", "title": "Karl Wendlinger" }, { "id": "4187766", "text": "Pedro de la Rosa Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (; born 24 February 1971) is a former Spanish Formula One driver who has participated in 107 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT F1 teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race. He has scored a total of 35 championship points, which includes a podium finish at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. On 21 November 2011, De la Rosa signed a two-year contract to drive for the HRT F1 team, but he only remained with", "title": "Pedro de la Rosa" }, { "id": "4028711", "text": "eleven best points finishes counted, but he still led by 24 points with three races left. Johansson finished a fine third for the struggling Onyx team (a result that meant they did not have to go through pre-qualifying in the first half of 1990), marveling at the car's performance on a low-grip track and speaking of optimism for Spain. Nannini finished in fourth, while Pierluigi Martini qualified fifth and finished in that position, also leading for one lap; the only time in the Minardi team's 21-year history that it led a Grand Prix. Tyrrell racing finished in sixth for the", "title": "1989 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "2211847", "text": "first Formula One driver to be born in the 1970s. Next year, he managed to score a total of five points in the Drivers' Championship, but the team decided to do away with him with two races to go in the season. The following season, he competed in the Footwork team and earned two fourth places, adding to a total of six points in the championship (as those finishes were his only points-paying results that year). At the end of the 1994 season Fittipaldi decided to try his luck in the racing competitions in the United States. In 2016, in", "title": "Christian Fittipaldi" }, { "id": "4039118", "text": "would go on to win in Adelaide, leading home Senna and outgoing champion Nelson Piquet giving Honda turbos a fitting 1–2–3 finish in the final race of the first turbo era in Formula One. Prost's win over Senna in Australia saw him score eleven more points in total than the Brazilian, but only the eleven highest scores counted, with Senna's eight wins and three seconds giving him a total of 90 points to Prost's 87. While Prost agreed that Senna deserved his championship win, he went on to be a proponent of the 90's scoring system where all results would", "title": "1988 Formula One World Championship" }, { "id": "12173677", "text": "Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel to take his first Monaco Grand Prix victory and his first Grand Prix win from pole position, despite having to manage a loss of power due to a MGU-K power output issue throughout the race. Later in the season, he tied for the most retirements in the 2018 season, with 8 retirements in total. He has claimed four fastest laps this season, in Australia, China, Spain and Hungary and finished the season sixth in the World Drivers' Championship with 170 points, behind champion Lewis Hamilton who scored 408 points. It was announced on 3 August 2018", "title": "Daniel Ricciardo" }, { "id": "4040551", "text": "each race. Only the best five results from the first seven races and the best five results from the remaining seven races could be retained by each driver. Points for the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first six positions in each race. All points received by a constructor were retained towards the final total. The 1980 Formula One season also included one non-championship race. 1980 Formula One season The 1980 Formula One season was the 34th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1980 World Championship of Drivers", "title": "1980 Formula One season" } ]

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[ { "id": "19275992", "text": "The Case of the Restless Redhead \"The Case of the Restless Redhead\" is the premiere episode of the CBS television series \"Perry Mason\". Adapted from the 1954 novel of the same title by Erle Stanley Gardner, this episode marked the beginning of Raymond Burr's long-running portrayal of the famous fictional lawyer. Red-headed waitress Evelyn Bagby (Whitney Blake) comes home to her apartment one night and is shocked to find a revolver, which she'd never seen before, in her cigarette box. Having once been accused, then acquitted, of stealing jewelry from a famous movie star, Evelyn calls defense attorney Perry Mason", "title": "The Case of the Restless Redhead" }, { "id": "19275995", "text": "the courtroom; as a result, Evelyn is cleared of all charges. The Case of the Restless Redhead \"The Case of the Restless Redhead\" is the premiere episode of the CBS television series \"Perry Mason\". Adapted from the 1954 novel of the same title by Erle Stanley Gardner, this episode marked the beginning of Raymond Burr's long-running portrayal of the famous fictional lawyer. Red-headed waitress Evelyn Bagby (Whitney Blake) comes home to her apartment one night and is shocked to find a revolver, which she'd never seen before, in her cigarette box. Having once been accused, then acquitted, of stealing jewelry", "title": "The Case of the Restless Redhead" }, { "id": "721971", "text": "Burr went on a crash diet. When he returned, he tested as Perry Mason and won the role. While Burr's test was running, Gardner reportedly stood up, pointed at the screen and said, \"That's Perry Mason.\" William Hopper also auditioned as Mason, but was cast instead as private detective Paul Drake. Also starring were Barbara Hale as Della Street, Mason's secretary; William Talman as Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who loses nearly every case to Mason; and Ray Collins as homicide detective Lieutenant Arthur Tragg. The series ran from 1957-66. Burr received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations and won the", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "8109944", "text": "journalist Alexis Madrigal called \"this weird Perry Mason thing\". \"\"Perry Mason\" was television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series,\" wrote TV historian Tim Brooks. \"It remains, I think, the best detective series ever made for television,\" wrote film historian Jon Tuska. \"The definitive portrayal, of course, was by former screen heavy Raymond Burr on the CBS series (1957–1966) in scripts faithfully based on Gardner's novels\", wrote mystery writer Max Allan Collins. In her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2009, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor prefaced her remarks on the role of the prosecutor by saying that", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "8980875", "text": "the first for \"On the Waterfront\", made the same year as \"Gorilla at Large\". Raymond Burr's imposing stature and dark brooding looks often landed him the role of the villain before his breakout role of lawyer Perry Mason came along. Lee Marvin had begun his film career in Hollywood in the early 1950s playing mainly crooks or cops, but would go on to become an Oscar-winning leading man. George Barrows played the gorilla \"Goliath\", one of many gorilla roles in his film and TV career. The most infamous of these was as the alien \"Ro-Man\" in \"Robot Monster\" (1953), also", "title": "Gorilla at Large" }, { "id": "18709258", "text": "Raymond Burr starred as Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason, a character created by American author and attorney Erle Stanley Gardner. Television producer Dean Hargrove resurrected the Perry Mason character in a series of television films for NBC beginning in 1985. Dean Hargrove was able to bring back the two then-surviving major stars, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale (reprising their roles as Mason and Della Street) for the first telefilm, \"Perry Mason Returns\", in which Mason resigns his position as an appellate court judge to defend Street on a murder charge. William Katt, Hale's own son, was cast as", "title": "Perry Mason (TV film series)" }, { "id": "721965", "text": "Paulette Goddard, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck. Those girls would take one look at me and scream and can you blame them? I was drowned, beaten, stabbed and all for my art. But I knew I was horribly overweight. I lacked any kind of self esteem. At 25 I was playing the fathers of people older than me.\" Burr's occasional roles on the right side of the law include the aggressive prosecutor in \"A Place in the Sun\" (1951). His courtroom performance in that film made an impression on Gail Patrick and her husband Cornwell Jackson, who had Burr in mind", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "721997", "text": "He was 76 years old. The day after Burr's death, American Bar Association president R. William Ide III released a statement: \"Raymond Burr's portrayals of Perry Mason represented lawyers in a professional and dignified manner. ... Mr. Burr strove for such authenticity in his courtroom characterizations that we regard his passing as though we lost one of our own.\" \"The New York Times\" reported that Perry Mason had been named second—after F. Lee Bailey, and before Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, Janet Reno, Ben Matlock and Hillary Clinton—in a recent \"National Law Journal\" poll that asked Americans to name the attorney,", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "722004", "text": "Perry Mason Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason is featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which involve a client's murder trial. Typically, Mason establishes his client's innocence by implicating another character, who then confesses. The character of Perry Mason was adapted for motion pictures and a long-running radio series. These were followed by its best-known adaptation, the CBS television series \"Perry Mason\" (1957–66) starring Raymond Burr. A second television series, \"The New Perry", "title": "Perry Mason" }, { "id": "721966", "text": "when they began casting the role of Los Angeles district attorney Hamilton Burger in the CBS-TV series \"Perry Mason\". As a young man Burr weighed more than 300 lbs., which limited his on-screen roles. \"But in radio this presented no problems, given the magnificent quality of his voice,\" reported \"The Globe and Mail\". \"He played romantic leads and menacing villains with equal authority, and he earned a steady and comfortable income.\" Working steadily in radio since the 1940s, often uncredited, Burr was a leading player on the West Coast. He had a regular role in Jack Webb's first radio show,", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "16625648", "text": "the response will be. Perry Mason moments that do occur, such as those on live television during the first Menendez brothers trial and the O.J. Simpson trial, are often the result of careful planning by the lawyers involved. Gambles by lawyers have also resulted in Perry Mason moments, sometimes not for their side, and some have occurred completely spontaneously. In his 2010 book \"I Love It When You Talk Retro\", author Ralph Keyes connects the term to the \"Perry Mason\" TV series, which ran from 1957 to 1966. \"As played by portly Raymond Burr\", he wrote, \"Perry Mason was a", "title": "Perry Mason moment" }, { "id": "721973", "text": "an attempt on his life and, after his recovery, uses a wheelchair for mobility, in the first crime drama show to star a police officer with a disability. The show earned Burr six Emmy nominations—one for the pilot and five for his work in the series—and two Golden Globe nominations. After \"Ironside\" went off the air, NBC failed in two attempts to launch Burr as the star of a new series. In a two-hour television movie format, \"Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence\" aired in February 1976 with Burr again in the role of the lawyer who outwits the district attorney. Despite good", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "8109910", "text": "Raymond Burr, who initially read for the role of district attorney Hamilton Burger. Patrick had been impressed with Burr's courtroom performance in the 1951 film, \"A Place in the Sun\", and told him he was perfect for the title role in \"Perry Mason\", but at least 60 pounds overweight. Over the next month, Burr went on a crash diet. When he returned, he tested as Perry Mason, and was chosen from a field of 50 finalists. By July 1956, word was out that Burr had the role, and an announcement was made at the beginning of August. William Hopper also", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "1294501", "text": "Gardner opposed the idea, CBS created \"The Edge of Night\", featuring John Larkin—who voiced Mason on the radio show—as a thinly veiled imitation of the Mason character. In 1957, \"Perry Mason\" became a long-running CBS-TV series, starring Raymond Burr in the title role. Burr had auditioned for the role of the district attorney Hamilton Burger, but Gardner reportedly declared he was the embodiment of Perry Mason. Gardner made an uncredited appearance as a judge in \"The Case of the Final Fade-Out\" (1966), the last episode of the series. Gardner and his first wife had separated in the early 1930s, and", "title": "Erle Stanley Gardner" }, { "id": "8109916", "text": "since the 1940s, Raymond Burr was a leading player on the West Coast and in 1956 was the star of CBS Radio's \"Fort Laramie\". Noted for his loyalty and consciousness of history, Burr went out of his way to employ his colleagues. Some 180 radio celebrities appeared on \"Perry Mason\" during the first season alone. The production staff of \"Perry Mason\" worked at being technically correct and responsive to an audience that included lawyers and judges. Producer Ben Brady practiced law in New York before entering show business; story editor Gene Wang graduated from law school in Florida; and executive", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "6792464", "text": "story. He was the model for television lawyer \"Sam Benedict\", portrayed by Edmond O'Brien in the early 1960s, and Ehrlich was the series' technical adviser. In the 1950s, Ehrlich had coached actor Raymond Burr when Burr was preparing to play trial attorney and sleuth \"Perry Mason\" on television. Some writers contend that Ehrlich was the actual inspiration for the Perry Mason character, who first appeared in novels in 1933, when Ehrlich was a young attorney. But Mason's creator, Erle Stanley Gardner -- whose own legal career bore similarities to Ehrlich's -- did not make any such statement. For much of", "title": "Jake Ehrlich" }, { "id": "8109899", "text": "Perry Mason (TV series) Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner. \"Perry Mason\" is Hollywood's first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, and remains one of the longest-running and most successful legal-themed television series. During its first season, it received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Best Dramatic Series, and it became one", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "722001", "text": "nominated twice, in 1969 and 1972, for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. A benefactor of legal education, Burr was principal speaker at the founders banquet of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, in June 1973. The Raymond Burr Award for Excellence in Criminal Law was established in his honor. Burr was ranked #44 on \"TV Guide\"s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time in 1996. Completed in 1996, a circular garden at the entrance to the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum in Sanibel, Florida, honors Burr for his role in establishing the", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "4656582", "text": "have a featured role in the 1970 ensemble film \"Airport\", playing the wife of a jetliner pilot (Dean Martin). Her final film appearances were in \"The Giant Spider Invasion\" (1975) and \"Big Wednesday\" (1978). Hale was considering retirement from acting when she accepted her best known role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series \"Perry Mason\" starring Raymond Burr as the titular character. The show ran from 1957 to 1966, and she reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason television films (1985–95). Hale's career became inextricably linked with that of \"Perry Mason\" co-star Burr, including her 1971 guest-starring", "title": "Barbara Hale" }, { "id": "6770271", "text": "made an unsuccessful 1964 television pilot for MGM Television playing the title role of \"The Mayor\". In 1965, he made two guest appearances on \"Perry Mason\" as Deputy District Attorney Snell; first in \"The Case of the Grinning Gorilla,\" then in \"The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner.\" Raymond Burr appeared as the oft-filmed attorney in this television series based on Erle Stanley Gardner's novels. That same year, Colbert guest-starred in an episode of \"Bonanza\" entitled \"\"The\" Meredith Smith\" in which he appeared dressed almost exactly as he had as Brent Maverick only in full color with a bright blue hatband;", "title": "Robert Colbert" }, { "id": "721956", "text": "Raymond Burr Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas \"Perry Mason\" and \"Ironside\". He was prominently involved in multiple charitable endeavors, such as working on behalf of the United Service Organizations. Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain. His portrayal of the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller \"Rear Window\" (1954) is regarded as his best-known film role; although he is also remembered for his role in the Americanized version of the", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "721970", "text": "the debut episode of \"Dragnet\". He went on to appear in such programs as \"Gruen Playhouse\", \"Four Star Playhouse\", \"Ford Theatre\", \"Lux Video Theatre\", \"Mr. and Mrs. North\", \"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars\" and \"Playhouse 90\". In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in \"Perry Mason\", a new CBS-TV courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. Impressed with his courtroom performance in the 1951 film \"A Place in the Sun\", executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson told Burr he was perfect for Perry Mason, but at least overweight. Over the next month,", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "721999", "text": "of the \"wild stories about Raymond's private life spiced up with quotes from unidentified 'friends' who described his closeted homosexual lifestyle in almost cartoonish terms.\" Burr bequeathed his estate to Robert Benevides, and excluded all relatives, including a sister, nieces, and nephews. His will was challenged, without success, by the two children of his late brother, James E. Burr. Benevides's attorney said that tabloid reports of an estate worth $32 million were an overestimate. For his work in the TV series \"Perry Mason\", Burr received the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "8109901", "text": "1 DVD. A 2014 study found that Netflix users rate Raymond Burr as their favorite actor, with Barbara Hale number seven on the list. \"The New Perry Mason,\" a 1973 revival of the series with a different cast, was poorly received and ran for 15 episodes. In 1985, the first in a successful series of 30 Perry Mason television films aired on NBC, with Burr reprising the role of Mason in 26 of them before his death in 1993. In August 2016, HBO announced plans to potentially make a new series. Perry Mason is a distinguished criminal defense lawyer practicing", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "16032431", "text": "Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium (formerly known as Trillium), a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1985. The game is based on the popular TV series \"Perry Mason\" starring Raymond Burr, who played the fictional defense attorney of the same name created by Erle Stanley Gardner. The player must save client Laura Knapp from being convicted of the murder of her husband Victor. \"Antic Amiga\" in 1985 called \"Perry Mason\" \"a major breakthrough in interactive fiction.\"", "title": "Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder" }, { "id": "16032432", "text": "Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium (formerly known as Trillium), a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1985. The game is based on the popular TV series \"Perry Mason\" starring Raymond Burr, who played the fictional defense attorney of the same name created by Erle Stanley Gardner. The player must save client Laura Knapp from being convicted of the murder of her husband Victor. \"Antic Amiga\" in 1985 called \"Perry Mason\" \"a major breakthrough in interactive fiction.\"", "title": "Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder" }, { "id": "4190409", "text": "CBS's courtroom television series \"Perry Mason\" (1957–66). He initially tested for the title role, while Raymond Burr read for the role of Mason's courtroom adversary, district attorney Hamilton Burger. Burr was encouraged to lose weight and return to audition for the role of Perry Mason — which he later did, successfully. Hopper, too, was called back. Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson recalled, \"When Bill Hopper came in to read for Paul Drake he blurted out, 'You hate my mother.' And that was Hedda Hopper. Well, I disliked what she stood for, but 'hate' is something else — and anyway he", "title": "William Hopper" }, { "id": "18709257", "text": "Perry Mason (TV film series) A series of 30 Perry Mason television films aired on NBC from 1985 to 1995 as sequels to the CBS TV series \"Perry Mason\". After a hiatus of nearly 20 years, Raymond Burr reprised his role as Los Angeles defense attorney Mason in 26 of the television films. Following Burr's death in 1993, Paul Sorvino and Hal Holbrook starred in the remaining four television films that aired from 1993 to 1995, playing lawyers Anthony Caruso and \"Wild Bill\" McKenzie respectively. The original \"Perry Mason\" television series was broadcast on CBS television from 1957 to 1966.", "title": "Perry Mason (TV film series)" }, { "id": "12926699", "text": "show, starring Raymond Burr. Daytime's biggest advertiser, however, had another solution, which still permitted Larkin to portray afternoon TV's \"Perry Mason\" in all but name. Irving Vendig, having scripted the radio \"Perry Mason\" for the past nine years, proposed the creation of a late-afternoon daytime drama with basically the same \"Perry Mason\"-type scripts, except for the name of the lead criminal lawyer, who would be called Mike Karr. John Larkin thus had his first television leading role, and \"The Edge of Night\", premiering, along with \"As the World Turns\", on Monday, April 2, 1956, ushered in a new era of", "title": "John Larkin (actor, born 1912)" }, { "id": "8109900", "text": "of the five most popular shows on television. Raymond Burr received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, and Barbara Hale received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Mason's confidential secretary Della Street. \"Perry Mason\" and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer in the first two \"TV Guide\" Award readers' polls. In 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association. \"Perry Mason\" has aired in syndication in the United States and internationally ever since its cancellation, and the complete series has been released on Region", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "13394814", "text": "that prevent the removal or dissipation of assets and domestic violence as well. He charges roughly £450 per hour. His firm originated the eponymous \"Sears Tooth agreement\", a deed that assigns the client's winnings to the solicitor to enable the client to fund the case. He has earned the nickname Jaws for the manner in which he fights for his clients money in the courtroom. He is also a member of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has gone up against several high-profile British celebrities, such as Jude Law, Michael Barrymore and Colin Montgomerie. Tooth, never one to shy", "title": "Raymond Tooth" }, { "id": "721957", "text": "first Godzilla film. He won two Emmy Awards, in 1959 and 1961, for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 television films (1985–1993). His second TV series, \"Ironside\", earned him six Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. After Burr's death from cancer in 1993, his personal life came into question, as many details of his known biography appeared to be unverifiable. In 1996, Burr was ranked as number 44 of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time by \"TV Guide\". Raymond William Stacy Burr was born", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "8747716", "text": "several feature-length films, McEachin landed his most memorable role, that of police lieutenant Brock in the 1986 television movie \"Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun\". He would reprise this role in more than a dozen Perry Mason telemovies from 1986 until 1995, starring opposite Raymond Burr, and appeared in the 1994 crime thriller \"Double Exposure\". In the 1990s, he semi-retired from acting to pursue a writing career. His first work was a military history of the court-martial of 63 black American soldiers during the First World War, titled \"Farewell to the Mockingbirds\" (1995), which won the 1998 Benjamin", "title": "James McEachin" }, { "id": "8109947", "text": "it out.\" A Perry Mason parody titled \"The Night That Perry Masonmint Lost a Case\" appeared in the July 1959 issue of \"Mad\" magazine. Raymond Burr made a guest appearance in an episode of \"The Jack Benny Program\", titled \"Jack On Trial for Murder\" (November 5, 1961). He appears in character as Perry Mason in Benny's dream sequence about being tried for killing a rooster. Other \"Perry Mason\" cast include Grandon Rhodes as the process server, Frank Wilcox as the judge and George E. Stone as court clerk. The character of Perry Mason was spoofed in an episode of the", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "4901291", "text": "the most of one of the year's juiciest assignments.\" His performance was also noted by Gail Patrick Jackson, executive producer of the CBS-TV series \"Perry Mason\" (1957–66). Raymond Burr had initially auditioned for the role of Hamilton Burger, but Patrick encouraged him to lose 60 pounds and read for the lead role — which Burr successfully did. Patrick already had an actor in mind for the Los Angeles district attorney: \"I'd seen a brilliant little movie, \"The Hitch-Hiker\", and had to have Bill Talman as Burger — and he never disappointed us,\" Patrick said. In 1958, a journalist asked Talman", "title": "William Talman (actor)" }, { "id": "722021", "text": "in a series of television films for NBC beginning in 1985. The two surviving stars of the CBS-TV series, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale, reprised their roles as Mason and Della Street. In the first telefilm, \"Perry Mason Returns\", Mason is an appellate court judge who resigns his position to successfully defend his secretary Della on murder charges. William Katt, Hale's son, was cast as Paul Drake, Jr. William Hopper, who played private investigator Paul Drake in the original TV series, had died years earlier; Hopper's photograph appears on Paul Drake Jr.'s desk. In the later TV movies, Mason used", "title": "Perry Mason" }, { "id": "721969", "text": "would star in the television series \"Perry Mason\". Although the network wanted Burr to continue work on \"Fort Laramie\" as well, the TV series required an extraordinary commitment and the radio show ended. Known for his loyalty and consciousness of history, Burr went out of his way to employ his radio colleagues in his television programs. Some 180 radio celebrities appeared on \"Perry Mason\" during the first season alone. Burr emerged as a prolific television character actor in the 1950s. He made his television debut in 1951, appearing in episodes of \"Stars Over Hollywood\", \"The Bigelow Theatre\", \"Family Theater\" and", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "721976", "text": "and everybody thought I was out of my mind,\" Burr told Tom Shales of \"The Washington Post\". \"But it wasn't the large sum of money. It was the fact that, first of all, I kind of liked 'Godzilla,' and where do you get the opportunity to play yourself 30 years later? So I said yes to both of them.\" He agreed to do the Mason movie if Barbara Hale returned to reprise her role as Della Street. Hale agreed, and when \"Perry Mason Returns\" aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant. The rest of the principal cast had", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "4901298", "text": "voice-over and a picture of his home, followed by filmed shots of his wife and kids, then a still of himself \"with a friend of mine you might recognize,\" Raymond Burr, from the \"Perry Mason\" TV series. He then said, \"You know, I didn't really mind losing those courtroom battles, but I'm in a battle now I don't want to lose at all. Because if I lose it, it means losing my wife and those kids you just met. I've got lung cancer... So take some advice about smoking and losing from someone who's been doing both for years... If", "title": "William Talman (actor)" }, { "id": "721974", "text": "reviews for Burr, the critical reception was poor, and NBC decided against developing it into a series. In 1977, Burr starred in the short-lived TV series \"\" as R.B. Kingston, a William Randolph Hearst-esque publishing magnate, owner of numerous newspapers and TV stations, who, in his spare time, solved crimes along with a group of employees. It was a critical failure that was scheduled opposite the extraordinarily popular \"Charlie's Angels\". It was cancelled after 13 weeks. Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, \"79 Park Avenue\". One last attempt to launch a", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "1293402", "text": "Raymond Massey Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian-American actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in \"Abe Lincoln in Illinois\" (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He also was well known for playing Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series \"Dr. Kildare\" (1961–1966). Today he is most often seen in his role as the malevolent Jonathan Brewster, who looks like Boris Karloff, and violently attacks anyone who mentions the resemblance, in \"Arsenic and Old Lace\" (1944). Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son", "title": "Raymond Massey" }, { "id": "721972", "text": "award in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason. The series has been rerun in syndication ever since, and was released on DVD between 2006 and 2013. Though Burr's character is often said never to have lost a case, he did lose two murder cases -- offscreen -- in early episodes of the series. Burr moved from CBS to Universal Studios, where he played the title role in the television drama \"Ironside\", which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975. In the pilot episode, San Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside is wounded by a sniper during", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "4175624", "text": "Bill Saluga William Saluga (born September 16, 1937) is an American comedian and founding member of the improvisational comedy troupe, Ace Trucking Company. He has appeared on several television programs, including \"Seinfeld\". Youngstown, Ohio native Saluga is best known for his cigar-smoking, zoot-suit-wearing television character Raymond J. Johnson Jr., famous for his catchphrase \"You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me…\" In this guise, Saluga appeared in commercials for Lite Beer in the 1970s. The character then proceeds to list almost every conceivable permutation of his name, including Ray J. Johnson, Raymond", "title": "Bill Saluga" }, { "id": "17999022", "text": "was cast as Johnny in the 1960 episode \"So Dim the Light\" of the CBS anthology series, \"The June Allyson Show\". He also was cast in an episode of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon with his wife Jan Shepard titled \"Eye of Evil\" in 1956. After \"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp\" ended, Boyle had one television role remaining, as Neil Gilbert in \"The Case of the Roving River\" (1961) of the CBS legal drama, \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr. Years later in 1994 and 1995, he made single appearances each in \"ER\" and \"Beverly Hills, 90210\". After his", "title": "Ray Boyle" }, { "id": "7115397", "text": "Jerry Giesler Harold Lee Giesler, known professionally as Jerry Giesler (November 2, 1886 – January 1, 1962) was an American trial attorney. Giesler was the defense attorney of record for many of the highest-profile litigations, both criminal and civil, in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. He represented Clarence Darrow, Charles Chaplin, Alexander Pantages (three times), Errol Flynn, Busby Berkeley, Bugsy Siegel, and Marilyn Monroe, among many others. His reputation for winning cases that appeared unwinnable was such that \"Get me Giesler!\" became a media epithet attached to any celebrity or prominent public figure facing", "title": "Jerry Giesler" }, { "id": "1293415", "text": "the same day as that of David Niven, with whom he had co-starred in \"The Prisoner of Zenda\" and \"A Matter of Life and Death\". Massey is buried in New Haven, Connecticut's Beaverdale Memorial Park. Massey has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for films at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Boulevard. His achievements also have been recognised in a signature cocktail, the Raymond Massey. Raymond Massey Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian-American actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in", "title": "Raymond Massey" }, { "id": "2573588", "text": "about to trade his pelts. The traders on their keelboat kill the treacherous Pawnee, but also turn on the plucky Pasquinel. He is left for dead on the riverbank. Pasquinel manages to return to St. Louis, then part of the Spanish Empire, with a Pawnee stone arrowhead in his spine. Lacking resources, he is introduced by a surgeon to Herman Bockweiss (Raymond Burr), a Bavarian immigrant merchant and silversmith, and goes to him for backing. Pasquinel later marries Bockweiss's daughter Lise (Sally Kellerman), who is attracted to him even though he keeps leaving for long periods in order to trade", "title": "Centennial (miniseries)" }, { "id": "12926692", "text": "offered, in 1947, the title role in CBS Radio Network's three-and-a-half-year-old afternoon crime serial, \"Perry Mason\" which, as was the case with all radio daytime dramas, consisted of an 11-minute script, broadcast Monday through Friday in a 15-minute time slot, including commercials, promos and credits. A renowned criminal lawyer, Perry Mason was a fictional character created by attorney Erle Stanley Gardner who, starting in 1933, became one of America's best-selling mystery writers. Almost immediately following his first appearance in book form, Mason was adapted to the big screen with three actors portraying him in six films produced by Warner Bros.", "title": "John Larkin (actor, born 1912)" }, { "id": "721995", "text": "Tribune\"; the \"Los Angeles Times\" called Burr's questions \"intelligent and elicited some interesting replies\". Burr had a reputation in Hollywood as a thoughtful, generous man years before much of his more-visible philanthropic work. In 1960, Ray Collins, who portrayed Lt. Arthur Tragg on the original \"Perry Mason\" series, and who was by that time often ill and unable to remember all the lines he was supposed to speak, stated, \"There is nothing but kindness from our star, Ray Burr. Part of his life is dedicated to us, and that's no bull. If there's anything the matter with any of us,", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "2868413", "text": "August: The Jealousy Factor\". In 1991, Muldaur played Lauren Jeffreys, the main guest-star client of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and lifelong friend of Della Street in the NBC television movie \"Perry Mason and the Case of the Fatal Fashion\". Valerie Harper, Scott Baio and Ally Walker also appeared. Muldaur worked previously with Raymond Burr as a special guest star on both the detective series \"Ironside\" in 1971 and his short-lived 1977 series \"\". Other television films include: the \"Black Beauty\" mini-series (1977), \"Pine Canyon is Burning\" (1977), \"Maneaters Are Loose!\" (1978), \"The Word\" (1978), and Joseph Wambaugh's two-hour film \"Police", "title": "Diana Muldaur" }, { "id": "12816694", "text": "ABC's \"Cheyenne\", with Rory Calhoun on CBS's \"The Texan\", and in the syndicated \"Man Without a Gun\" starring Rex Reason. Karnes appeared as Chamberlain, a deputy district attorney, in four episodes of CBS's legal drama \"Perry Mason\" with Raymond Burr during the 1960-1961 season. He made an earlier appearance as Det. Purvis in \"The Case of the Hesitant Hostess\" in 1958. He appeared four times between 1967 and 1971 in Burr's NBC series \"Ironside\". He appeared three times on Lloyd Bridges' syndicated series \"Sea Hunt\", a creation of Ivan Tors. He was cast once on the syndicated \"Rescue 8\", starring", "title": "Robert Karnes" }, { "id": "1765583", "text": "his novelty hit record \"King of the Cops\". The 1980 television movie \"Murder Can Hurt You\" spoofs numerous TV detectives from the 1970s and '80s and includes Victor Buono playing the wheelchair-bound detective \"Ironbottom.\" \"American Dad\" has an episode of \"Wheels and Legman\" that loosely parodies Ironside in which Roger and Steve have a fictional detective agency. In the \"Gone Efficient\" Episode of \"Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law\", a man in a wheelchair is shown pleading a case in front of Judge Mentok (who strongly resembles Raymond Burr) as a nod to both Ironside and Perry Mason. Shout! Factory has", "title": "Ironside (1967 TV series)" }, { "id": "722019", "text": "crime serial that aired 1943–55 on CBS Radio. It had little in common with the usual portrayal of Mason, so much so that Gardner withdrew his support for a TV version of the daytime serial that began airing on CBS in 1956. The general theme of the radio serial was continued, with a different title and characters, as \"The Edge of Night\". The best-known incarnation of Perry Mason came in the form of a CBS TV series simply titled \"Perry Mason\" which ran from 1957 to 1966, with Raymond Burr in the title role. Also starring were Barbara Hale as", "title": "Perry Mason" }, { "id": "4175625", "text": "J. Johnson, Jr., Johnny, Sonny, Junie, Ray J, RJ, RJJ, and RJJ Jr, before finishing up with \"…but you doesn't has to call me Johnson!\" Bill Saluga William Saluga (born September 16, 1937) is an American comedian and founding member of the improvisational comedy troupe, Ace Trucking Company. He has appeared on several television programs, including \"Seinfeld\". Youngstown, Ohio native Saluga is best known for his cigar-smoking, zoot-suit-wearing television character Raymond J. Johnson Jr., famous for his catchphrase \"You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me…\" In this guise, Saluga appeared in", "title": "Bill Saluga" }, { "id": "17455024", "text": "often spoke of his interest in law enforcement and such television series as \"Highway Patrol\", starring Broderick Crawford, \"Dragnet\" with Jack Webb, and \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr. In 1966, Wyche failed by 111 votes in a bid for alderman in Tallulah. On February 6, 1968, Wyche put his commitment to law enforcement on the ballot. He ran as the Democratic nominee for police chief, formerly the village marshal, but lost by 196 votes to white Republican Clayton W. Cox. Wyche urged his supporters to vote straight Democrat, but the police chief contest was a special election and was severed", "title": "Zelma Wyche" }, { "id": "13950288", "text": "as Colonel Dodge in the episode \"Man to Man\" of the syndicated western series, \"Frontier Doctor\", starring Rex Allen. He guest-starred on the ABC sitcoms \"Leave It to Beaver\", \"The Donna Reed Show\" and \"The Real McCoys\". Wilcox made several guest appearances as a judge on CBS's \"Perry Mason\" during the nine-year run of that program. In 1961, he appeared as the judge in a Jack Benny episode, \"Jack on Trial for Murder\", which had Raymond Burr as a guest star appearing as Perry Mason, in a dream sequence where Jack dreams that he is on trial for murder and", "title": "Frank Wilcox" }, { "id": "721980", "text": "because they aren't there. And that wouldn't be good for NBC.\" In later life, his distinctive physique and manner could be used as a reference that would be universally recognized. One journal for librarians published a writer's opinion that \"asking persons without cataloging experience to design automated catalogs … is as practical as asking Raymond Burr to pole vault.\" A character in a 1989 short story refers to Burr as \"grossly overweight\" in \"Ironside\". He had a low basso voice, capable of expressing villainous menace and commanding power. Burr married actress Isabella Ward (1919–2004) on January 10, 1948. They met", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "6062655", "text": "plays the Reverend Jacob Stucki, who is dispatched to the mission at the Winnebago reservation. The Indians, however, scorn the clergyman, who befriends a boy in an effort to prove his sincerity. Marlowe guest starred in the 1961 episode \"Mayberry on Record\" of CBS's \"The Andy Griffith Show\". In 1962, he played the part of Sam Garner in the episode \"The Pitchwagon\" on CBS's \"Rawhide\". Marlowe made six guest appearances on CBS's \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr. Among those roles, he was cast as District Attorney and Mason client Brander Harris in \"The Case of the Fraudulent Foto,\" (1959) and", "title": "Hugh Marlowe" }, { "id": "8699421", "text": "(1980). He made eight guest appearances on \"Hogan's Heroes\", starring Bob Crane, from 1965 to 1971. He also made two guest appearances on \"Perry Mason\", first as murder victim David Cartwell in the 1964 episode, \"The Case of the Paper Bullets,\" and Dan Swanson in \"The Case of the Dead Ringer,\" in 1966 when star Raymond Burr doubled as Mason and murderer Grimes. Moss also appeared in two episodes of \"\": \"The Naked Time\" as Lt. Joe Tormolen, and \"By Any Other Name\" as Hanar. He has appeared in such TV shows as \"Wheels\", \"Murder, She Wrote\", \"Hogan's Heroes\", \"Matlock\",", "title": "Stewart Moss" }, { "id": "721982", "text": "1952, and neither remarried. In 1960, Burr met Robert Benevides (born February 9, 1930, Visalia, California) a young actor and Korean War veteran, on the set of \"Perry Mason\". According to Benevides, they soon became a couple. Benevides gave up acting in 1963, and later became a production consultant for 21 of the \"Perry Mason\" TV movies. Together they owned and operated an orchid business and then a vineyard, in California's Dry Creek Valley. They were partners until Burr's death in 1993. Burr bequeathed to Benevides his entire estate, including \"all my jewelry, clothing, books, works of art … and", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "5092072", "text": "was immediately juggled to minimize Talman's presence on the show. \"The Case of the Crying Cherub\" (episode 3-20) debuts a pared-down title sequence that omits Talman; he is credited only in the four episodes he filmed before he was fired. Talman was defended by the show's executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson, Raymond Burr and others, but even dismissal of the charges in June did not soften the network's position. Patrick said that the role of Burger would not be recast, but that various actors would play assistant district attorneys. CBS reinstated Talman only after Gardner himself spoke out, together with", "title": "Hamilton Burger" }, { "id": "4661379", "text": "appeared as a 'guest attorney' in the 1963 \"Perry Mason\" episode \"The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-a-bout\" when its star, Raymond Burr, was sidelined for a spell after minor emergency surgery. He served as guest host on episodes of \"The Hollywood Palace\" in 1964 and the rock music series \"Shindig!\" in 1965. He was a guest celebrity panelist on the popular CBS prime-time programs \"Password\" and \"What's My Line?\" and served as a mystery guest on three occasions on the latter series. In 1971, he filmed a television pilot titled \"Probe\", playing a high-tech (for the times) agent for a", "title": "Hugh O'Brian" }, { "id": "10451144", "text": "in small roles. He appeared in films such as \"Hellcats of the Navy\" and \"The Spirit of St. Louis\". On television, he guest-starred on five episodes of the CBS legal drama, \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr, including the role of murder victim Charles Sabin (and his brother Arthur) in \"The Case of the Perjured Parrot,\" murder victim Joseph Kraft in \"The Case of the Bogus Books,\" and as Jess Parkinson in \"The Case of the Dead Ringer\" in which Burr played dual roles as Mason and murderer Grimes. He portrayed Mayor Orson Stillman in \"The Case of the Bullied Bowler\"", "title": "Maurice Manson" }, { "id": "1293564", "text": "F.B.I.\", \"Marcus Welby, M.D.\", and \"Gibbsville\". In 1963 he guest-starred as corporate attorney Sherman Hatfield in the fourth of four special episodes of \"Perry Mason\" while Raymond Burr was recovering from surgery. In 1965, he played the king in Rodgers and Hammerstein's CBS TV movie production of Cinderella, starring Lesley Ann Warren. Pidgeon was active in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and served as president from 1952-57. He tried to stop the production of \"Salt of the Earth\", which was made by a team that had been blacklisted during the Red Scare. Pidgeon retired from acting in 1977. Pidgeon became", "title": "Walter Pidgeon" }, { "id": "15807397", "text": "Meet Danny Wilson (film) Meet Danny Wilson is a 1952 drama musical film starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters. The movie was directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Don McGuire. Sinatra, during his famous career slump between his bobby-soxer heyday and \"From Here to Eternity\" (1953), plays a small-time singer, who vaults to the top of his profession, only to be threatened by a gangster (Raymond Burr). The circumstances of the making of this film are legendary, as Shelley Winters and Frank Sinatra hated each other. Winters, according to Kitty Kelley's \"His Way,\" at one point in a pique", "title": "Meet Danny Wilson (film)" }, { "id": "1984650", "text": "the daytime \"Perry Mason\", until Gardner pulled his support for the project. On television, Della Street was played by Barbara Hale in the series, for which she received an Emmy Award, and in the 30 made-for-TV movies. Sharon Acker played Della Street in the short-lived revival series \"The New Perry Mason\", starring Monte Markham as Mason. Della Street Della Street was the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, short stories, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner. In the first Perry Mason novel, \"The Case of", "title": "Della Street" }, { "id": "721988", "text": "countenanced\", Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas recalled in a 2000 episode of \"Biography\". \"Ray was not a romantic star by any means, but he was a very popular figure … If it was revealed at that time in Hollywood history it would have been very difficult for him to continue.\" Arthur Marks, a producer of \"Perry Mason\", recalled Burr's talk of wives and children: \"I know he was just putting on a show. … That was my gut feeling. I think the wives and the loving women, the Natalie Wood thing, were a bit of a cover.\" Dean Hargrove, executive", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "8109935", "text": "only lasted half a season. \"My name was on it,\" said Gail Patrick, \"but I wanted nothing to do with it. Corney was on his own.\" In 1979, Patrick said that CBS was \"angling to make some TV movies from the original novels. With Ray and Barbara. We'll see.\" Producer Dean Hargrove resurrected the Mason character in a series of television films for NBC beginning in 1985. Hargrove was able to bring back the two then-surviving cast members, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale, for the first film, \"Perry Mason Returns\", in which Perry Mason resigns his position as an appellate", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "1765566", "text": "Ironside (1967 TV series) Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police (usually addressed by the title \"Chief Ironside\"), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie titled \"Ironside\". When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, in the 1970s, it was broadcast under the title \"A Man Called Ironside\". The show earned Burr six Emmy and", "title": "Ironside (1967 TV series)" }, { "id": "5361871", "text": "Federal agent Martin Flaherty in \"The Scarface Mob\" (1959), the pilot for ABC's \"The Untouchables\". However, when the series was accepted, the role went to Jerry Paris. Williams turned down the lead in \"Sea Hunt\" in 1958, believing that an underwater show would not work on television. Lloyd Bridges accepted the part and turned it into a hit. Williams did star as a former Navy frogman in \"\", which ran for just one season. He played a variety of roles on \"Perry Mason\", in which his wife Barbara Hale co-starred as Raymond Burr's secretary Della Street. In a 1962 episode,", "title": "Bill Williams (actor)" }, { "id": "721958", "text": "May 21, 1917, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. His father, William Johnston Burr (1889–1985), was a hardware salesman; his mother, Minerva Annette (née Smith, 1892–1974), was a pianist and music teacher. When Burr was six, his parents divorced. Burr's mother moved to Vallejo, California, with him and his younger siblings, Geraldine and James. His father remained in New Westminster. Burr briefly attended San Rafael Military Academy in San Rafael, California and graduated from Berkeley High School. In later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood. In 1986 he told journalist Jane Ardmore that when he was 12", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "1765585", "text": "October 19, 2011. Season 5 includes the two-part crossover episode \"The Priest Killer\", a crossover with the series \"Sarge\". ♦—Shout! Factory Exclusives title, sold exclusively through Shout's online store Ironside (1967 TV series) Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police (usually addressed by the title \"Chief Ironside\"), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie titled \"Ironside\".", "title": "Ironside (1967 TV series)" }, { "id": "721967", "text": "\"Pat Novak for Hire\" (1949), and in \"Dragnet\" (1949–50) he played Joe Friday's boss, Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. Burr worked on other Los Angeles-based series including \"Suspense\", \"Screen Directors Playhouse\", \"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar\", \"Family Theater\", \"Hallmark Playhouse\" and \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\". He performed in five episodes of the experimental dramatic radio anthology series \"CBS Radio Workshop\", and had what is arguably his best radio role in \"The Silent Witness\" (1957), in which his is the only voice. In 1956 Burr was the star of CBS Radio's \"Fort Laramie\", an adult Western drama produced, written and directed by", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "4696842", "text": "Fort Laramie (radio) Fort Laramie is a CBS Radio Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason. In the series, the fort had 400 troops in all but they had to keep their eye on a nearby Indian reservation with 4,000 Sioux camped there. Major", "title": "Fort Laramie (radio)" }, { "id": "1026471", "text": "today as a museum and performing arts venue. Located adjacent to the Olivas Park Golf Course, the home is one of the most visited historic sites on the central Pacific Coast. Living history reenactments, demonstrations of Rancho life and wonderful ghost stories abound. A summer music series of performances held in the old home's courtyard features an eclectic assortment of artists from blues to jazz to country. The famous character, lawyer \"Perry Mason\", created by Erle Stanley Gardner, first as novels and then later as a television series in the late 1950s and early '60s, followed by several \"made-for-TV\" movies", "title": "Ventura, California" }, { "id": "18262887", "text": "1965, Sturgess played a nurse on Richard Chamberlain's \"Dr. Kildare\"; her last two acting roles were also those of a nurse in \"Ironside\" with Raymond Burr in 1969 and the ABC police drama, \"The Rookies\" in 1973 and 1974. Sturgess was also involved in rodeos and was grand marshal of the rodeo in Whittier, California. Reflecting on her years as an actress, Sturgess said: In those days they had good stories. Mary Tyler Moore said it exactly right. 'Writing for television today is like writing shorthand. There's no depth to anything.' We used to have stories that had a beginning,", "title": "Olive Sturgess" }, { "id": "16625667", "text": "criticism, Crowley did so, and confirmed Obama's account. \"It was to be Mitt Romney's 'Perry Mason' moment,\" according to journalist Robert Parry in \"Consortium News\". \"[But while he] may have thought he was Perry Mason ... he ended up looking more like Mason's inept adversary, the haplessly wrong prosecutor Hamilton Burger.\" The following year Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan was credited with creating one during oral argument. In \"United States v. Windsor\", Paul Clement, a former Solicitor General like herself, was defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which had allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages", "title": "Perry Mason moment" }, { "id": "13394812", "text": "Raymond Tooth Raymond Clive Tooth is a matrimonial and family law lawyer and racehorse owner in the United Kingdom. He represents the wives of male celebrities in high-profile divorces. Tooth attended several schools before earning his law degree, including Dragon School in Oxford, Kings School in Canterbury and University College in Oxford. In 1966, Tooth became a qualified lawyer. Since then, he has worked for several law firms, such as A&G Tooth (1966–70), Payne Hicks Beach (1970–77) and Colombotti Alkin (1977–82).In 1986 Tooth and other international family lawyers, including Fiona Shackleton, co-founded the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, an invitation", "title": "Raymond Tooth" }, { "id": "19275993", "text": "(Raymond Burr) to ask for his advice. He advises her to leave her San Fernando Valley apartment and check into a hotel in Hollywood for the night. As she drives to Hollywood, a driver with a hood over his head tries to force her off the road; panicking, she fires the revolver twice in his direction, causing him to drive off the road. Evelyn brings the gun to Mason's office and tells him what had happened. Mason goes to the scene of the incident, and finds that the homicide police are already there; the hooded driver was killed by a", "title": "The Case of the Restless Redhead" }, { "id": "14030116", "text": "Please Murder Me Please Murder Me is a 1956 American film noir film directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr. The film is in the public domain and is available for free download at the Internet Archive. Defense lawyer Craig Carlson (Raymond Burr) buys a pistol at a pawn shop and travels to his office, where he deposits the gun in a desk drawer with a file folder, then begins to dictate into a tape recorder. Directing his message to District Attorney Ray Willis (John Dehner), he reveals that he anticipates being murdered within an hour,", "title": "Please Murder Me" }, { "id": "1158183", "text": "in 1962. \"I play him my way. Now I'm amused to read Gardner's new books. Paul Drake now comes out like me!\" \"Just as Raymond Burr will \"always\" be Perry Mason, Bill Hopper will \"always\" be Paul Drake,\" wrote Brian Kelleher and Diana Merrill in their chronicle of the TV series. \"He defined the role.\" A running gag on the series, is that although Paul Drake is a \"wolf\" and nearly dates every woman that appears on the series, the only woman he does \"not\" date is Della Street whom he always respectfully refers to as \"Hi Beautiful\". In the", "title": "Paul Drake (character)" }, { "id": "721983", "text": "other items of a personal nature.\" Benevides subsequently renamed the Dry Creek property Raymond Burr Vineyards (reportedly against Burr's wishes) and managed it as a commercial enterprise. In 2017, the property was sold. At various times in his career, Burr and his managers and publicists offered spurious or unverifiable biographical details to the press and public. Burr's obituary in \"The New York Times\" states that he entered the US Navy in 1944, after \"The Duke in Darkness\", and left in 1946, weighing almost . Although Burr may have served in the Coast Guard, reports of his service in the US", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "3876109", "text": "Raymond Bailey Raymond Thomas Bailey (May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980) was an American actor on the Broadway stage, films, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker Milburn Drysdale in the television series \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". He was born in San Francisco, California, the son of William and Alice (née O'Brien) Bailey. When he was a teenager he went to Hollywood to become a movie star. He found it was harder than he had thought, however, and took a variety of short-term jobs. He worked for a time as a day laborer at a", "title": "Raymond Bailey" }, { "id": "15960052", "text": "Márquez branched out for himself within a year and gained a reputation for paying winning customers promptly. Márquez had few legal scrapes during his early years. By 1958, law enforcement authorities publicly identified him as an underworld kingpin and that is when an investigator from the New York Police Department (NYPD), nicknamed him \"Spanish Raymond\", a moniker which has stood since then. Also in 1958, Marquez was accused in a killing related to his gambling activities. A grand jury failed to indict him for the murder. Márquez acknowledged bribing the police in the 1950s and 1960s to prevent raids on", "title": "Raymond Márquez" }, { "id": "1293413", "text": "Dreams\" of the NBC series \"Riverboat\". Massey is remembered as Dr. Gillespie in the popular 1961-1966 NBC series \"Dr. Kildare\", with Richard Chamberlain in the title role. Massey and his son Daniel were cast as father and son in \"The Queen's Guards\" (1961). Massey was married three times. His high-profile estrangement and divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon's and Garson Kanin's script for the film \"Adam's Rib\" (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey married the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then former wife, Allen, married the opposing", "title": "Raymond Massey" }, { "id": "14265359", "text": "Hell\", Whitey, a communist suspect in \"The FBI Story\" (1959) and Lieutenant Hagerman in Alfred Hitchcock's \"North By Northwest\" (1959). He also appeared on many television shows from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He played in four episodes of \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr; in three of the roles he played a law-enforcement officer, such as San Francisco Inspector Wade in \"The Case of the Poison Pen Pal\" in 1962. In his final appearance in 1966 he played Bud in \"The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise.\" In that episode he and his comrade, in attempting to hijack goods from a", "title": "Paul Genge" }, { "id": "721989", "text": "producer of the Perry Mason TV films, said in 2006, \"I had always assumed that Raymond was gay, because he had a relationship with Robert Benevides for a very long time. Whether or not he had relationships with women, I had no idea. I did know that I had trouble keeping track of whether he was married or not in these stories. Raymond had the ability to mythologize himself, to some extent, and some of his stories about his past … tended to grow as time went by.\" Burr had many hobbies over the course of his life: cultivating orchids", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "5092073", "text": "millions of viewers. Talman went back to work in December 1960, and Burger returned in \"The Case of the Fickle Fortune\" (episode 4-15). In the short-lived CBS-TV series, \"The New Perry Mason\" (1973–74), Burger was played by Harry Guardino. Talman had passed away by the time of the Perry Mason television movies of the 1980s and 1990s, but his character was referenced in the first of the series, \"Perry Mason Returns\". In it, a cocky young deputy prosecutor describes her case against Mason's client as a \"dead-bang winner,\" to which the District Attorney replies, \"You know how many times Hamilton", "title": "Hamilton Burger" }, { "id": "721962", "text": "Religion. Burr's performance as the loyal friend of the imprisoned protagonist led to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures. Burr appeared in more than 50 feature films between 1946 and 1957, creating an array of villains that established him as an icon of film noir. Film historian Alain Silver concluded that Burr's most significant work in the genre is in these ten films: \"Desperate\" (1947), \"Sleep, My Love\" (1948), \"Raw Deal\" (1948), \"Pitfall\" (1948), \"Abandoned\" (1949), \"Red Light\" (1950), \"M\" (1951), \"His Kind of Woman\" (1951), \"The Blue Gardenia\" (1953) and \"Crime of Passion\" (1957). Silver described Burr's private detective", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "2162727", "text": "Johnnie Cochran Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr. (; October 2, 1937 – March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Cochran represented Sean Combs during his trial on gun and bribery charges, as well as Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Todd Bridges, football player Jim Brown, Snoop Dogg, former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, 1992 Los Angeles riot beating victim Reginald Oliver Denny, and inmate and activist Geronimo Pratt. He represented athlete Marion Jones when", "title": "Johnnie Cochran" }, { "id": "1927092", "text": "cabinet, handed the minister's letter to Randolph and demanded he explain it. Randolph was speechless and immediately resigned. Chernow and Elkins conclude that Randolph was not bribed by the French but \"was rather a pitiable figure, possessed of some talents and surprisingly little malice, but subject to self-absorbed silliness and lapses of good sense.\" However, Randolph's own published \"Vindication\" illustrates his concerns regarding both public and private perceptions of his character, concerns which held great value in the 18th century. After leaving the federal cabinet Randolph returned to Virginia to practice law. His most famous case was defending Aaron Burr", "title": "Edmund Randolph" }, { "id": "14304497", "text": "a woman for him, but he is definitely attracted. He needs to be careful, however, because a crooked city councilman Les Taggart (Raymond Burr) would love to have any hint of scandal to use against Steve politically back home. Steve proceeds to inadvertently get Clarissa arrested twice - first after a brawl in a Chinatown restaurant, then on their way to a costume party. A photographer clicks a picture of Clarissa making it appear she is at the police station for public drunkenness. She does not think it funny, but her uncle, Judge Silas Standish (Lewis Stone), is privately delighted", "title": "Key to the City (film)" }, { "id": "1984644", "text": "Della Street Della Street was the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, short stories, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner. In the first Perry Mason novel, \"The Case of the Velvet Claws\", written in the early days of the Great Depression, Della Street is revealed to have come from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929. Della was forced to get a job as a secretary. By the time of the TV series in", "title": "Della Street" }, { "id": "8086720", "text": "He guest starred too on CBS's \"Perry Mason\", with Raymond Burr, as defendant Grover Johnson in the 1963 episode, \"The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang.\" He continued to work in motion pictures and television into the 1970s. He appeared in season 2 of James Garner's NBC detective series, \"The Rockford Files\". Cameron's private life was colorful; in 1960, he divorced his wife and later married her mother. Hence his former director, William Witney, publicly acclaimed Cameron the bravest man that he had ever seen. In his later years, Cameron lived on Lake Lanier in northern Georgia. He died in the", "title": "Rod Cameron (actor)" }, { "id": "5801082", "text": "\"The Big Chill\". He joined the cast of the ABC soap opera \"General Hospital\" in 1985, playing Buzz Stryker until 1987. In 1988, Galloway appeared in the Perry Mason TV movie \"The Case of the Avenging Ace\", reuniting with former co-star Raymond Burr for the first time in 13 years. Galloway and Burr had a long association with one another; aside from \"Ironside\" and a subsequent \"Perry Mason\" movie in 1990, the two actors also starred together in the 1973 TV movie \"Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John\". In 1993, Galloway and Burr would appear together on screen for", "title": "Don Galloway" }, { "id": "213872", "text": "James Spader James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying eccentric characters in films such as the drama \"Sex, Lies, and Videotape\" (1989), the action science fiction film \"Stargate\" (1994), the controversial psychological thriller \"Crash\" (1996), and the erotic romance \"Secretary\" (2002). His best-known television roles are those of attorney Alan Shore in \"The Practice\" and its spin-off \"Boston Legal\" (for which he won three Emmy Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary \"The Office\". He currently stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond \"Red\" Reddington in the NBC crime drama \"The Blacklist\",", "title": "James Spader" }, { "id": "8109945", "text": "she was inspired by watching \"Perry Mason\" as a child. \"I was influenced so greatly by a television show in igniting the passion that I had as being a prosecutor, and it was \"Perry Mason\"\", Sotomayor said. In her 2013 memoir the Supreme Court justice wrote of the show's influence on her while she was growing up in a Bronx housing project. She granted that the defense attorney was the show's hero, \"but my sympathies were not entirely monopolized by Perry Mason. I was fond of Burger, the prosecutor, too. I liked that he was a good loser, that he", "title": "Perry Mason (TV series)" }, { "id": "11077393", "text": "Gerald B. Lefcourt Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including such clients as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, a co-defendant of Michael Milken, former New York State Assembly Speaker, Mel Miller, Russell Crowe, and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. Lefcourt is currently one of the attorneys in the federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be", "title": "Gerald B. Lefcourt" }, { "id": "722000", "text": "Series at the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1959. Nominated again in 1960, he received his second Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) at the 13th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1961. Burr was named Favorite Male Performer, for \"Perry Mason\", in \"TV Guide\" magazine's inaugural \"TV Guide\" Award readers poll in 1960. He also received the second annual award in 1961. In 1960, Burr was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6656 Hollywood Boulevard. Burr received six Emmy nominations (1968–72) for his work in the TV series \"Ironside\". He was", "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "id": "721975", "text": "series followed on CBS. The two-hour premiere of \"The Jordan Chance\" aroused little interest. On January 20, 1987, Burr hosted the television special that later served as the pilot for the long-running series \"Unsolved Mysteries\". In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie, \"Perry Mason Returns\". The same week, Burr recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in \"Godzilla, King of the Monsters!\" (1956), in a low-budget film that would be titled \"Godzilla 1985\". \"When they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,'", "title": "Raymond Burr" } ]

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[ { "id": "3344997", "text": "Edward J. Noble Edward John Noble (October 8, 1882 – December 28, 1958) was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York. He co-founded the Life Savers Corporation in 1913. He founded the American Broadcasting Company when he purchased the Blue Network in 1943 following the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decree that RCA divest itself of one of its two radio networks. Edward Noble was born in Gouverneur, New York, and educated in the public schools. He attended Syracuse University and graduated from Yale in 1905. In 1912, chocolate manufacturer Clarence Crane of Cleveland, Ohio invented Life", "title": "Edward J. Noble" }, { "id": "351467", "text": "economic pressures of the Great Depression that began in late 1929. Concerned that NBC's control of two national radio networks gave it too much power over the industry, in 1941 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promulgated a rule designed to force NBC to divest one of them. This order was upheld by the U.S Supreme Court, and on October 12, 1943, the NBC-Blue network was sold to candy magnate Edward J. Noble for $8,000,000, and renamed \"The Blue Network, Inc.\" In 1946 the name was changed to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The \"Red\" network retained the NBC name, and", "title": "RCA" }, { "id": "2785537", "text": "Gray Television, whose 131 stations cover mostly smaller metropolitan areas reaching only 10% of the population. The five major U.S. broadcast television networks are the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System), the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) and the CW Television Network. The first and elder three (which are colloquially known as the \"Big Three\") began as radio networks: NBC and CBS respectively began operations in 1924 and 1927, while ABC was spun off from NBC to Edward J. Noble in 1943 as the Blue Network during FCC inquiries over", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "3344999", "text": "of its two radio networks, he founded the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) when he purchased the Blue Network (formerly part of NBC) on October 12, 1943. He tried to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but was hampered by financial problems and the pressure of competing with long-established NBC and CBS. By 1951, he entered negotiations to merge the network with United Paramount Theaters, headed by Leonard Goldenson; Goldenson became chairman of the ABC network, while Noble sat on its board of directors for the rest of his life. Noble, 76, died at his home on December 28,", "title": "Edward J. Noble" }, { "id": "3093670", "text": "American Broadcasting Company (ABC). It evolved from federal antitrust actions taken against the movie studios and broadcasting companies in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1943 the Federal Communications Commission took action against anti-competitive practices, one of which forced the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to sell the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC Red Network. Blue was purchased by the businessman Edward J. Noble, and he changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company in 1946. In 1953 ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the divested former exhibition/cinema division of Paramount Pictures. The newly merged corporation was chaired", "title": "ABC Records" }, { "id": "2431760", "text": "Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) \"Report on Chain Broadcasting\" reviewed the alleged monopolistic practices of the radio networks. The FCC was concerned NBC Red and NBC Blue were anti-competitive. Because the FCC did not have the power to directly regulate networks, it decided to enact regulations affecting the stations, and adopted standards intended to force NBC to relinquish one of its networks. In 1943, the Supreme Court upheld the FCC's power to enforce its chain broadcasting regulations. As a consequence, NBC Blue was sold to Edward Noble who later named it the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). After NBC Blue was divested", "title": "Broadcast network" }, { "id": "5313579", "text": "that Paramount's chief executive officer, Barney Balaban, hired Goldenson as deputy to the manager of the Paramount Theaters chain. Goldenson orchestrated the merger of United Paramount Theatres with ABC in 1953 (after Paramount was ordered to spin it off in the wake of \"United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.\", a 1948 decree of the U.S. Supreme Court). ABC was originally formed in 1943 in the wake of an earlier Supreme Court decree effectively ordering the spinoff of the largely secondary-status \"Blue Network\" from its then-parent, NBC; its buyer, industrialist Edward J. Noble, tried to build ABC into a competitive Broadcasting", "title": "Leonard Goldenson" }, { "id": "9060185", "text": "FCC order was ultimately upheld by the U.S Supreme Court, and on October 12, 1943, the Blue network was sold to candy magnate Edward J. Noble for $8,000,000, and renamed \"The Blue Network, Inc.\" In 1946 the name was changed to the American Broadcasting Company. The \"Red\" network retained the NBC name, and remained under RCA ownership. NBC and RCA were one of the key forces in the development of television in the 1930s and 1940s, dating back to New York City experimental station W2XBS in 1928. Before the American entry into World War II in 1941, W2XBS was officially", "title": "NBC Radio Network" }, { "id": "4135754", "text": "the United States Supreme Court ordered RCA to sell off one of its radio networks, citing antitrust concerns. The company decided to keep the Red Network, and it was rebranded as the NBC Radio Network after the Blue Network was divested, along with several stations (including WJZ), to Edward J. Noble. The Blue Network was renamed the American Broadcasting Company. WEAF's call letters were changed to WNBC in 1946, then to WRCA in 1954, and back to WNBC in 1960. By the early 1960s, the station gradually switched from NBC network programs to more local-oriented programs and adjusted its music", "title": "WNBC (AM)" }, { "id": "720879", "text": "television. The fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the Big Three television networks, ABC is often nicknamed as \"The Alphabet Network\", as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet, in order. ABC launched as a radio network on October 12, 1943, serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "4915492", "text": "the market, it was sold in 1943 to businessman Edward J. Noble, owner of Life Savers candy and the Rexall Drug store chain, for the asking price. After Noble took over, the network identified itself on-air as \"The Blue Network.\" It was officially renamed the \"American Broadcasting Company, Inc.\" in June 1945 after the company bought the rights to the name from (what would later become) Storer Broadcasting. With about 65 affiliates, ABC began with few of the big names and popular shows the other networks offered, so counter-programming became an ABC specialty. Industry policy had been to forbid taped", "title": "Cumulus Media Networks" }, { "id": "13936247", "text": "chains operated by the National Broadcasting Company. By 1928, WEAF was purchased by NBC's parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. As a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement of 1941, WEAF became a clear-channel station and could be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night. In 1943, the United States Supreme Court, citing antitrust concerns, ordered RCA to sell off one of its radio networks. The company decided to keep the Red Network, and it was rebranded as the NBC Radio Network after the Blue Network was divested to Edward J. Noble.", "title": "History of WFAN" }, { "id": "720885", "text": "and the brand associated with the Blue Network. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, but the offer was rejected by Woods and RCA president David Sarnoff. Edward J. Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCC's approval. The Commission authorized the transaction on October 12, 1943. Soon afterward, the", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "1269615", "text": "Strauss Building, and then to his own Civic Opera House. In 1931, the station was sold to the National Broadcasting Company for approximately $1 million. The station became part of NBC's Blue Network. NBC moved WENR's studios to the Merchandise Mart, its Chicago headquarters. Changes were made regarding AM frequencies in 1941 as a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement; this moved WENR and WLS from 870 to 890 kHz. In August 1943, NBC was ordered to divest itself of the Blue Network and its stations; WENR and Blue were sold to Edward J. Noble. In 1945 the", "title": "WLS (AM)" }, { "id": "5376581", "text": "with an initial bid of $6 million, which was raised in sequence by rivals to $6.5 and then $7 million. In late July, 1943, the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. made a bid of $7.8 million. On July 30, 1943, just over two months after the court's ruling, RCA announced the sale of the network to American Broadcasting System, Inc., a firm controlled by Edward J. Noble, a former undersecretary of commerce who was better known as the chairman of Life Savers Corp. The price was announced as $8 million. This was followed by a petition to", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "17207232", "text": "1925, Flamm produced much of the on-air content. Flamm is listed as the owner of WMCA from 1926. During the embryonic age of radio broadcasting, Flamm and WMCA were involved in many pioneering activities and controversies. WMCA was one of the nation’s leading radio broadcasting stations. In December 1940, well-connected investors forced Donald Flamm to sell WMCA to industrialist Edward J. Noble for $850,000, which was about $400,000 less than its market value and the offer Flamm had previously refused from the president’s son, Elliott Roosevelt. Noble told Flamm that he would get his station “no matter what” or his", "title": "Donald Jason Flamm" }, { "id": "3903027", "text": "RCA for WJZ was no longer allowed. The transmitter was sold by RCA to Britain and used for wartime Black Propaganda; broadcasting as \"Soldatensender Calais\" a purported German military station. In 1942, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that no broadcaster could own more than one AM, one FM and one television station in a single market. On January 23, 1942, the FCC approved the transfer of WJZ's operating license from Radio Corporation of America to the Blue Network, Inc. A year later, on October 12, 1943, WJZ and the NBC Blue Network were sold to Edward J. Noble, then", "title": "WABC (AM)" }, { "id": "289192", "text": "Sarnoff. After losing on final appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1943, RCA sold Blue Network Company, Inc., for $8 million to the American Broadcasting System, a recently founded company owned by Life Savers magnate Edward J. Noble. After the sale was completed on October 12, 1943, Noble acquired the rights to the Blue Network name, leases on landlines, the New York studios, two-and-a-half radio stations (WJZ in Newark/New York City; KGO in San Francisco and WENR in Chicago, which shared a frequency with Prairie Farmer station WLS); contracts with actors; and agreements with around 60 affiliates. In", "title": "NBC" }, { "id": "4135566", "text": "sell off one of its radio networks. The company decided to keep the Red Network, and it was rebranded as the NBC Radio Network after the Blue Network was divested to Edward J. Noble, which was later renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). WEAF's call letters were changed to WNBC in 1946, then to WRCA in 1954, and back to WNBC in 1960. During the 1960s, WNBC relied less on network programming and adopted a talk format, followed by a switch to a MOR music sound. The station spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s flipping between the Top", "title": "WFAN (AM)" }, { "id": "5155707", "text": "[now KWHY-TV] and KMEX-TV, channels 22 and 34, respectively). The station's callsign was named after Los Angeles broadcasting pioneer Earle C. Anthony, whose initials were also present on channel 7's then-sister radio station, KECA (790 AM, now KABC), which had served as the Los Angeles affiliate of the NBC Blue Network. Anthony's other Los Angeles radio station, KFI, was aligned with the NBC Red Network. The Red Network survived the split of the two NBC radio networks ordered by the Federal Communications Commission in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network (beginning its transformation into ABC), purchased KECA", "title": "KABC-TV" }, { "id": "4645841", "text": "them as Morgan's Mint Middles and say no more about it.\" Dunning has noted that Morgan also started describing his \"mint middles\" flavors as \"cement, asphalt and asbestos.\" Notwithstanding, Morgan enjoyed a last laugh of a sort: ABC had been founded by Life Savers chief Edward Noble—who had bought and renamed NBC Blue as ABC, after NBC was forced to sell the Blue Network following a federal anti-trust ruling. \"The Henry Morgan Show\" received a Peabody Award Special Citation of honor for 1946. ABC afforded Morgan his first exposure on television as host of a low-key variety series, \"On The", "title": "Henry Morgan (humorist)" }, { "id": "3634147", "text": "in a congressional investigation and eventually ended in a financial settlement, though not the return of the station. Through its early decades WMCA had a varied programming history, playing music, hosting dramas, and broadcasting New York Giants baseball games. In 1943, it was acquired by the Straus family when Edward J. Noble acquired the Blue Network and its owned-and-operated stations from NBC, including WJZ (now WABC) in New York; the Blue Network would later be renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). In 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-in listeners; he is", "title": "WMCA (AM)" }, { "id": "10971161", "text": "was the only thing she owned and didn't want to part with it. Shortly thereafter NBC sold the Blue Network (later to become ABC Television network) to Edward John Noble, who owned the Life Savers candy company. Noble was looking for a daytime comedy show that was not a soap opera and had a storyline that would wrap-up each day. \"Ethel and Albert\" fit the bill and within the month, on April 17, 1944, was reborn as a five-day-a-week, 15-minute show on national radio. Lynch was asked to play Ethel, she refused, actresses were auditioned, none found suitable, and Lynch", "title": "Peg Lynch" }, { "id": "2431763", "text": "Blue network was sold to Edward John Noble, who later renamed it American Broadcasting Company (ABC). By the mid-1940s broadcasting had become a big Three television networks battle. ABC almost went bankrupt and in 1951 Leonard Goldenson and United Paramount Theaters bought the network for $25 million. In 1964, ABC won the ratings race in the fifty largest U.S. markets. In the 1970–71 season, ABC ranked #1 in the Nielsen ratings with a medical drama called Marcus Welby, M.D., the first ABC television show to top the list. In 1929, a group of four radio stations in the major markets", "title": "Broadcast network" }, { "id": "14855818", "text": "and their two toddlers. The KFMB stations were struggling when Lynch began his work there, but within five years they achieved the highest ratings in the market. In 1978, Ed Noble offered Lynch a five-percent ownership of the Noble Broadcast Group, based in San Diego. The company bought XTRA AM/FM, and the AM station became the first all-sports talk show in the US. The FM station did not do too well with its album-oriented rock programming, so Lynch switched to alternative rock instead and created 91X. Upon Noble's death in 1985, Lynch took over the company and over the following", "title": "John Lynch (radio)" }, { "id": "5622114", "text": "NBC Blue Network plus the Mutual Broadcasting System, which had started three years earlier. In the 1940s WHK, like most Mutual affiliates, became a participant in network programming. \"Rhythm and Rhyme Time\" was a Saturday night band concert on Mutual that originated from the Terrace Room of the Statler Hotel through the WHK's facilities. In 1943, when the NBC Blue Network was sold to Edward Noble to eventually become ABC, the Blue Network switched its Cleveland affiliate from WHK to WJW, leaving WHK with just Mutual. The Mutual network brought its popular \"Queen for a Day\" program to Cleveland Music", "title": "WHK (AM)" }, { "id": "17207234", "text": "investigation, and lawsuits that reached the New York Supreme Court by 1949. Flamm was eventually paid a settlement but did not get WMCA back. Noble had sold the station in 1943 to Nathan Straus, former Federal Housing Authority administrator, for $1,250,000 in order to found the “Blue Network,” which became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Congressional investigation of the FCC absolved Noble, but drew a blistering dissent from the Republican minority. In 1944, lawyer John J. Sirica resigned as chief counsel to the Select Committee in protest of the handling of the case. Donald Flamm was then offered a", "title": "Donald Jason Flamm" }, { "id": "3634146", "text": "pioneer Donald Flamm. The station's original studios and antenna were atop the Hotel McAlpin, located on Herald Square and from which WMCA's call letters derive. In 1928 it moved to the 570 kHz frequency, sharing time for the next three years with municipally-owned WNYC. On April 19, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission approved WMCA's application to broadcast full-time on 570 kHz. In December 1940, Flamm had to surrender the station to industrialist Edward J. Noble, who had just resigned as Undersecretary of Commerce, in a transaction involving prominent political figures including Thomas Corcoran. Flamm's subsequent legal battle against Noble resulted", "title": "WMCA (AM)" }, { "id": "14764210", "text": "for the Works Progress Administration. In 1938 Hinckley was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Authority by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The next year he was appointed head of this organization. While there Hinckley oversaw the building of the Washington National Airport and the formation of the Civil Pilot Training Program. Hinckley also served as the assistant secretary of commerce in the Roosevelt administration. In 1944 Hinckley was appointed as head of contract settlement to bring a fair and reasonable end to war contracts after the war. Subsequently, he worked with Edward J. Noble in founding the American Broadcasting Company. Hinckley served", "title": "Robert H. Hinckley" }, { "id": "720886", "text": "Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, the American Broadcasting System. Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the \"American Broadcasting Company\" name from George B. Storer in 1944; its parent company adopted the corporate name American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Woods retained his position as president and CEO of ABC until December 1949, and was subsequently promoted to vice-chairman of the board before leaving ABC altogether on June 30, 1951. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, which owned San Francisco radio station KGO, bought Los Angeles station KECA from Earle C. Anthony", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "289193", "text": "turn, to comply with FCC radio station ownership limits of the time, Noble sold off his existing New York City radio station WMCA. Noble, who wanted a better name for the network, acquired the branding rights to the \"American Broadcasting Company\" name from George B. Storer in 1944. The Blue Network became ABC officially on June 15, 1945, after the sale was completed. NBC became home to many of the most popular performers and programs on the air. Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, and Burns and Allen called NBC home, as did Arturo", "title": "NBC" }, { "id": "5313580", "text": "company, but by 1951 was rumored to be on the verge of selling the nearly bankrupt operation to CBS, whose management apparently wanted ABC's critically important owned-and-operated television stations. Goldenson rescued ABC by convincing his board of directors to buy the company from Noble for $25 million. becoming the founding president of the merged company which was named American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. The modern ABC dates its history from the effective date of the Goldenson transaction, and not the Blue Network spinoff. Although he focused chiefly on ABC Television, Goldenson oversaw all areas of ABC-Paramount's entertainment/media operations for over thirty years,", "title": "Leonard Goldenson" }, { "id": "720900", "text": "used by the flagship station of CBS Radio (now WCBS (AM)) until 1946. The WJZ calls would later be reassigned to the then-ABC affiliate in Baltimore in 1959, in an historical nod to the fact that WJZ was originally established by the Baltimore station's owner at the time, Westinghouse. However, a problem emerged regarding the directions taken by ABC and UPT. In 1950, Noble appointed Robert Kintner to be ABC's president while he himself served as its CEO, a position he would hold until his death in 1958. Despite the promise of non-interference between ABC and UPT, Goldenson had to", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "5376586", "text": "October 12, 1943. Noble was forced to divest himself of New York station WMCA, which he had owned since 1940, but his American Broadcasting System, Inc., the entity formed to be the parent of the Blue Network, acquired WJZ, additional stations in Chicago and San Francisco, as well as land-line leases, certain studio facilities and leased studio facilities, and the affiliation system. Following the sale, the Department of Justice dropped its antitrust proceedings against NBC on October 17, 1943, having previously dropped proceedings against CBS on October 11, and the federal courts, upon its motion, dismissed Mutual's antitrust claims against", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "720895", "text": "which were related to advertising and were indexed compared to the number of listeners/viewers, failed to compensate for its heavy investments in purchasing and building stations. In 1951, a rumor even mentioned that the network would be sold to CBS. In 1951, Noble held a 58% ownership stake in ABC, giving him $5 million with which to prevent ABC from going bankrupt; as banks refused further credit, that amount was obtained through a loan from the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Leonard Goldenson, the president of UPT (which sought to diversify itself at the time), approached Noble in 1951 on", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "9500390", "text": "programs aired on CBS and ABC. Stations that aired those programs as part of an ABC or CBS affiliation are not shown in the table below. In May 1951, ABC chairman Edward J. Noble and United Paramount Theatres president Leonard Goldenson announced a proposed merger between their companies. The plan was to merge ABC and its five television stations with United Paramount Theatres, a company only recently spun off from Paramount Pictures. UPT also owned the network's Chicago station, WBKB; that station would have to be sold in order for the merged company to stay under the five-station cap. Because", "title": "Paramount Television Network" }, { "id": "720896", "text": "a proposal for UPT to purchase ABC. Noble received other offers, including one from CBS founder William S. Paley; however, a merger with CBS would have forced that network to sell its New York City and Los Angeles stations at the very least. Goldenson and Noble reached a tentative agreement in the late spring of 1951 in which UPT would acquire ABC and turn it into a subsidiary of the company that would retain autonomy in its management. On June 6, 1951, the tentative agreement was approved by UPT's board of directors. However, the transaction had to be approved by", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "5376588", "text": "and the rest of the management team, after the sale to Noble, began to take steps to make the Blue Network more competitive with NBC and CBS. An early step was to obtain a deep pocketed backer. Noble, on December 28, 1943, sold a 12.5% stake to Time Inc., and a similar stake to advertising executive Chester LaRoche, for $500,000 each. Smaller stakes were taken by Blue Network executives Mark Woods (president) and Edgar Kobak (executive vice-president, who would the next year leave the Blue for Mutual). During the 1943–1945 period, the Blue Network used many of the NBC broadcasting", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "3344998", "text": "Savers as a \"summer candy\" that could withstand heat better than chocolate. Since the mints looked like miniature life preservers, he called them Life Savers. After registering the trademark, Noble bought the rights to the peppermint candy for $2,900. Instead of using cardboard rolls, which were not very successful, he created tin-foil wrappers to keep the mints fresh. Pep-O-Mint was the first Life Savers flavor. Noble was the first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. He also served as Undersecretary of Commerce under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939-1940. Following the Federal Communications Commission's order that RCA divest itself of one", "title": "Edward J. Noble" }, { "id": "8589571", "text": "Corcoran managed the takeover of New York radio station WMCA for Corcoran's friend, Undersecretary of Commerce Edward J. Noble. That resulted in both an FCC and a congressional investigation. Corcoran's work after leaving government service led him to be dubbed the first of the modern lobbyists. Corcoran's phones were tapped by the federal government between 1945 and 1947. The transcripts of the wiretaps were deposited in the Truman Presidential Library and not released to researchers until Corcoran's death. The evidence is that a Truman White House aide ordered the tap, but it was then rescinded by President Harry S. Truman.", "title": "Thomas Gardiner Corcoran" }, { "id": "7371356", "text": "was heard in the Detroit area on Mutual's new affiliate, CKLW. In 1946, the station was purchased by the American Broadcasting Company, which was recently formed from the NBC Blue Network by Edward Noble. On May 2, 1946, Noble, ABC board chairman, announced the purchase of King-Trendle Broadcasting Corp. (which consisted of WXYZ, WOOD/Grand Rapids and Michigan Radio Network) for $3,650,000. The sale was approved by FCC on July 18. Some time prior to the end of 1939, the radio station's power was increased to 5,000 watts daytime, and WXYZ increased night power to 5,000 watts with a mildly directional", "title": "WXYT (AM)" }, { "id": "4926866", "text": "founded in 1927, never adopted anything similar, instead keying its network switching to the standard phrase \"This is the Columbia Broadcasting System\". Initially NBC had two national networks, the NBC Red Network and the NBC Blue Network, however the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was unhappy with this and worked to eliminate the common ownership. In late 1942 Phillips Carlin became vice president of programming at the soon-to-be independent Blue network, which later became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). One of his first decisions was whether to adopt \"a new set of chimes (as distinguished from the NBC chimes now in", "title": "NBC chimes" }, { "id": "15348361", "text": "John Lynch (father of football player John Lynch) was also XETRA's VP/GM in its early days, emerged as the buyer in a foreclosure sale. John Lynch, operating under the name Noble Broadcast Consultants, also owned and operated XETRA-AM (now XEWW-AM), which shared staff and facilities with 91X. Clear Channel formerly owned the U.S. programming and sales rights to that station as well, and spun those rights off to a different operator. On October 6, 2015, Midwest Television (owners of KFMB and KFMB-FM) announced that it had entered into a joint operating agreement with Local Media San Diego LLC, forming an", "title": "XETRA-FM" }, { "id": "9060164", "text": "NBC Radio Network The National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (known as the NBC Red Network prior to 1942) was an American commercial radio network, founded in 1926. Along with the NBC Blue Network it was one of the first two nationwide networks established in the United States. Its major competitors were the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), founded in 1927, and the Mutual Broadcasting System, founded in 1934. In 1942, NBC was required to divest one of its national networks, so it sold NBC Blue, which was soon renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). After this separation the Red Network", "title": "NBC Radio Network" }, { "id": "5376535", "text": "Blue Network The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945. Beginning as one of the two radio networks owned by the National Broadcasting Company, the independent Blue Network was born of a divestiture in 1942, arising from anti-trust litigation, and is the direct predecessor of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)—organized 1943–1945 as a separate independent radio network and later TV broadcaster. The Blue Network dates to 1923, when the Radio Corporation of America acquired WJZ Newark from Westinghouse (which had created the station", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "14855820", "text": "only local sports talk show in San Diego, the void and laid-off staff essentially gave Lynch a \"ready-made radio station\" to pick up. He and a partner from Noble established the Broadcast Company of the Americas and started Mighty 1090. John Lynch (radio) John Lynch is the president and CEO of the Broadcast Company of the Americas. He is also the father of John Lynch, Jr., former football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. John Lynch grew up in suburban Chicago in an Irish-Catholic family; his grandparents were Irish immigrants. His grandparents named their son (Lynch's father) John Pershing Lynch,", "title": "John Lynch (radio)" }, { "id": "11345177", "text": "Service, Inc. sold the TV outlet in 1970, WBNB's call letters were changed to the present WVWI. The station's co-founder, Robert Noble, acquired sole control of WVWI that same year, renaming his new company Thousand Islands Corporation. After its facilities were destroyed by Hurricane Marilyn in September 1995, Noble sold the station in 1996 to Randolph Knight, who proceeded to rebuild the station. Local businessman Gordon Ackley purchased WVWI and its FM sister station, WWKS, from Knight in 2006. The two men were partners in another radio station, WVJZ, and Ackley also bought out Knight's 50 percent interest in that", "title": "WVWI" }, { "id": "270745", "text": "Evanston Police, Illinois State Highway Police, and Cook County (Chicago area) Police with a one-way radio communication. In the same year, the company built its research and development program with Dan Noble, a pioneer in FM radio and semiconductor technologies, who joined the company as director of research. The company produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during World War II, which was vital to Allied communication. Motorola ranked 94th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. Motorola went public in 1943, and became Motorola, Inc. in 1947. At that time Motorola's main business", "title": "Motorola" }, { "id": "7121400", "text": "one of the first broadcasters to take advantage of duopoly rules allowing stations to own or operate 2AMs and 2FMs per market. Up until that time broadcasters could only own 1AM and 1FM per market. One of the first duopoly acquisitions was WKRC Radio in Cincinnati. From 1992-1994 WKRC operated as WLWA, a female version of male driven WLW. In February 1996, with the passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Jacor went on a radio shopping spree. Jacor acquired Noble Broadcasting days after the telecom bill was passed, 10 days later Jacor merged with Citicasters. In 1997 Jacor acquired", "title": "Jacor" }, { "id": "4781710", "text": "was effectively giving the FCC a power to regulate networks which had not been given to the FCC by Congress. Murphy stated that; \"... we exceed our competence when we gratuitously bestow upon an agency power which the Congress has not granted. Since that is what the Court in substance does today, I dissent.\" The decision effectively gave the FCC power to regulate the networks. As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its networks and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). NBC, Inc.", "title": "NBC, Inc. v. United States" }, { "id": "5691537", "text": "the two stations back to previous owner SJL Broadcasting, which was completed on April 1, 2011.\" Capital Cities/ABC Inc. Capital Cities/ABC Inc., founded as Capital Cities Communications, and sometimes referred to as CapCities, was an American media company. It purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985, becoming Capital Cities/ABC Inc.. It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded itself as Disney–ABC Television Group in 1996. Capital Cities/ABC Inc. origins trace back in 1946, when Hyman Rosenblum (1911–1996), a local Albany businessman, and several investors, including future Congressman Leo William O'Brien, decided to form a radio", "title": "Capital Cities/ABC Inc." }, { "id": "8120313", "text": "network to compete with the big three. At Fox, he was charged with building the affiliate network, selling programming to advertisers, and the establishment of relations with program producers. Kellner was present at the creation of the Fox Broadcasting Company, which was then considered a radical idea, as it was taking on the three networks that had dominated American television since the 1950s, ABC, CBS and NBC (CBS and NBC were really the \"big two\", in regards to ratings and number of affiliates, until ABC experienced a surge in popularity in the late 1960s). Despite incredible skepticism, Kellner was part", "title": "Jamie Kellner" }, { "id": "5081514", "text": "Entercom Entercom Communications Corporation is a publicly traded American broadcasting company and radio network based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media markets. In November 2017, Entercom merged with CBS Radio; as a result, CBS shareholders hold a 72% stake of the company's stock, but the company was effectively separated from CBS Corporation as a separate public company. Joseph M. Field founded Entercom on October 21, 1968, on the conviction that FM broadcasting, then in its infancy, would eventually surpass AM broadcasting", "title": "Entercom" }, { "id": "8311380", "text": "a religious format.) In 1996, Noble merged with Jacor, taking advantage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, allowing one company to own several radio stations in the same market, no longer limited to one AM and one FM. In 1999, Jacor merged with Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeartMedia. On September 1, 2000, 95.7 returned to contemporary hits as KFMD, \"95.7 KISS FM\", giving the market its first Mainstream Top 40 outlet since KHHT's demise in 1997. (The smooth jazz format was picked up by KCKK 104.3 later that day.) But with competition from Rhythmic Top 40 KQKS and", "title": "KPTT" }, { "id": "12821759", "text": "Information Agency. In Britain and the United States, television news watching rose dramatically in the 1950s and by the 1960s supplanted radio as the public's primary source of news. In the U.S., television was run by the same networks which owned radio: CBS, NBC, and an NBC spin-off called ABC. Edward R. Murrow, who first entered the public ear as a war reporter in London, made the big leap to television to become an iconic newsman on CBS (and later the director of the United States Information Agency). Ted Turner's creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980 inaugurated", "title": "News" }, { "id": "1893397", "text": "Morris, his relative Samuel Ogden, and partner William Constable were all early landowners in northern New York, and Morris established a summer home in the town. Mining the local marble was one of the first big industries in the area. Later, mining talc and zinc became important. The Village of Gouverneur was incorporated in 1850. The First Presbyterian Church Complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Edward John Noble, developer and marketer of the Life Savers candy treat. Edward J Noble was born in Gouverneur and educated in the public schools. He also attended Syracuse", "title": "Gouverneur (village), New York" }, { "id": "4632159", "text": "Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Beginning in 1948 until 1986, the Big Three networks dominated U.S. television. The National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System were both founded as radio networks in the 1920s, with NBC eventually encompassing two national radio networks, the prestige Red Network and the lower-profile Blue Network. They gradually began experimental television stations in the 1930s, with commercial broadcasts being", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "2120602", "text": "ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast \"ABC World News Tonight with David Muir\"; other programs include morning news-talk show \"Good Morning America\", newsmagazine series \"Nightline\", \"Primetime\" and \"20/20\", and Sunday morning political affairs program \"This Week with George Stephanopoulos\". ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent existence as a radio network after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered NBC to spin off the former NBC Blue Network into an independent company", "title": "ABC News" }, { "id": "4722788", "text": "Concerned that NBC's control of two national radio networks gave it too much power over the industry, in May 1941 the FCC promulgated a rule designed to force NBC to divest one of them. The decision was sustained by the Supreme Court in a 1943 decision, National Broadcasting Co. v. United States, which established the framework that the scarcity of available station assignments meant that broadcasting was subject to greater regulation than other media. The ultimate result was that the NBC Blue network was sold, becoming the American Broadcasting Company. The August 1941 adoption of a \"duopoly\" rule restricted licensees", "title": "Radio in the United States" }, { "id": "5376606", "text": "1939 were WABY (Albany, New York); WJTN (Jamestown, New York); WRTD (Richmond, Virginia); WLEU (Erie, Pennsylvania); CFCF (Montreal, Quebec) and WMFF in Plattsburgh, New York. Blue Network The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945. Beginning as one of the two radio networks owned by the National Broadcasting Company, the independent Blue Network was born of a divestiture in 1942, arising from anti-trust litigation, and is the direct predecessor of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)—organized 1943–1945 as a separate independent radio network and", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "4632160", "text": "allowed by the Federal Communications Commission on July 1, 1941. In 1943, the U.S. government determined that NBC's two-network setup was anticompetitive and forced it to spin off one of the networks; NBC chose to sell the Blue Network operations, which became the American Broadcasting Company. All three networks began regular, commercial television broadcasts in the 1940s. NBC and CBS began commercial operations in 1941, followed by the DuMont Television Network in 1944 and ABC in 1948. The three networks originally controlled only a few local television stations, but they swiftly affiliated with other stations to cover almost the entire", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "20846575", "text": "Before the original Gar Wood factory records were rediscovered in the mid-1990s, it was assumed and widely published (among others in the Rusty Rudder Journal and Classic Boating's 1991 issue) that Edward J. Noble, president of the Lifesaver Candy company, was the customer who persuaded Garfield Wood to produce a small fleet of racing boats for himself and his friends to run on the St. Lawrence river. Hence, even today, many different authorities and various media source from this first research idea established in early 1991. Yet, although this theory was considerably conceivable, it could never be assured and based", "title": "Gar Wood Speedster" }, { "id": "7282058", "text": "station would be affiliated with CBS and NBC, and would also carry programs from National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to PBS. The station began operations on July 22, 1961. The WBNB stations were split up in 1970, as channel 10 was sold to the first of several U.S. mainland-based operators (see \"Ownership\", below). At that point, the Moss/Noble partnership ended when Bob Noble retained sole ownership in the radio outlet, purchasing its remaining shares from Bob Moss and other minority partners. In September 1989, Hurricane Hugo destroyed WBNB-TV's transmitter and Benedek Broadcasting, who acquired the station three years earlier,", "title": "WBNB-TV" }, { "id": "720912", "text": "Noble and Goldenson, a consequence of Goldenson's many interventions in ABC's management. It was not until the late 1950s that the ABC network became a serious contender to NBC and CBS, and this was in large part due to the diverse range of programming that met the expectations of the public, such as westerns and detective series. Despite an almost 500% increase in advertising revenues between 1953 and 1958, the network only had a national reach of between 10% and 18% of the total U.S. population, as it still had relatively fewer affiliates than NBC and CBS. In 1957, ABC", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "3691459", "text": "the end, the board of directors chose Forstmann Little's arch-rival, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. The episode was popularized in the book \"\". Other headline transactions the firm participated in include Revlon (1985), which resulted in the so-called Revlon Duty, and Citadel Broadcasting, of which Forstmann Little owns 27%, following a merger with ABC Radio in 2006. In 2004, Forstmann Little acquired IMG in a $750 million deal, and in 2005 bought 24 Hour Fitness for $1.6 billion. In 2011, Theodore Forstmann, the last surviving founder, died of brain cancer. The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld dissolved", "title": "Forstmann Little & Company" }, { "id": "4722801", "text": "Disney and Cumulus Media each retaining portions of the old network. Mutual was dissolved in 1999, replaced by CNN Radio, which itself was dissolved in 2012. CBS, through its common ownership with Entercom, still owns much of its original network, although most of its programming is presented through Cumulus Media. CBS was the only one of the four major networks of the Golden Age to remain active until NBC launched NBC Sports Radio in 2012 and NBC Radio News in 2016. Two other major commercial networks have appeared since the 1990s: Premiere Networks, the division of iHeartMedia, and the Salem", "title": "Radio in the United States" }, { "id": "663258", "text": "provisions very similar to the Radio Act of 1927. In 1940, the Federal Communications Commission issued the \"Report on Chain Broadcasting\" which was led by new FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly (and Telford Taylor as general counsel). The major point in the report was the breakup of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), which ultimately led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), but there were two other important points. One was network option time, the culprit here being the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). The report limited the amount of time during the day and at what times the", "title": "Federal Communications Commission" }, { "id": "720898", "text": "of ABC, funded by UPT, becoming a viable and competitive third television network. On February 9, 1953, the FCC approved UPT's purchase of ABC in exchange for $25 million in shares. The merged company, renamed American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. and headquartered in the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway in Manhattan, owned six AM and several FM radio stations, five television stations and 644 cinemas in 300 U.S. cities. To comply with FCC ownership restrictions in effect at the time that barred common ownership of two television stations in the same market, UPT sold its Chicago television station, WBKB-TV, to CBS", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "5369302", "text": "and broadcast properties was transferred to Edward L. Gaylord, after his father, E.K. Gaylord, died of natural causes on May 30, 1974 at the age of 101. In July 1975, Oklahoma Publishing sold WKY-TV to Universal Communications (a subsidiary of the Detroit-based Evening News Association) for $22.697 million. The Gaylords – which would later rechristen their broadcasting division as Gaylord Broadcasting – sold channel 4 to comply with FCC rules of the time that prohibited a single company from owning more than seven television stations nationwide, as it chose to purchase ABC affiliate WVUE-TV (now a Fox affiliate) in New", "title": "KFOR-TV" }, { "id": "2431762", "text": "his leadership focused on entertainment programming, news, and news affiliation. He quickly turned the failing company around, which was named Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS) in 1929. By the end of 1938 there were 113 CBS outlets. Regional networks on CBS also existed in various parts of the country. CBS later hired Edward R. Murrow who is credited with boosting ratings dramatically. Murrow and CBS covered the war in Europe while Adolf Hitler was in power. NBC and ABC withdrew from the war for safety reasons. As a result of taking the risk, CBS's ratings skyrocketed. In 1945, the NBC", "title": "Broadcast network" }, { "id": "5376585", "text": "Noble released a letter to the FCC in which it was stated that the Blue Network would meet \"with an open mind\" all requests for broadcasting time, \"considering each on the merits\", and excluding none on the basis of ideas or personality. Certainly, not all were pleased by Chairman Fly's stance. Columnist David Lawrence, in his October 7, 1943 column, thought that the FCC had overstepped its authority in attempting to force the Blue Network to change its policies regarding the sale of airtime. Noble's written response seems to have been sufficient. The sale was approved by the FCC on", "title": "Blue Network" }, { "id": "6229502", "text": "ABC Classic FM ABC Classic FM is a classical music radio station available in Australia, and internationally online. It is operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ABC Classic FM was established in 1976 as \"ABC-FM\", and later for a short time was known as \"ABC Fine Music\" (a play on the letters FM), before adopting its current name. It was the ABC's first experiment in FM broadcasting – which had become a necessity in Australia as broadcasters ran out of AM frequencies on which to transmit. ABC Classic FM was inspired partly by the example of BBC Radio 3.", "title": "ABC Classic FM" }, { "id": "12047814", "text": "son of a local jeweler. Following graduation from the University of Iowa, he traveled with Roy Rogers and the “Sons of the Pioneers” as a Public Relations agent. He began his career in “broadcast” with what was known early on as the “Red and Blue” Television Network. Eventually, the “Red” Network became the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the “Blue” Network became the “American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Over the years Roy Rogers frequently visited Volger at the radio station. The planning for a new AM radio station in Muscatine began during the mid-1940s. Radio signals broadcast in the AM Band", "title": "KWPC" }, { "id": "1468939", "text": "secretary to the London Conservative group of MPs in the United Kingdom general election, 1922. That election's results were the first to be broadcast on the radio. Reith had no broadcasting experience when he replied to an advertisement in \"The Morning Post\" for a general manager for an as-yet unformed British Broadcasting Company in 1922. He later admitted that he felt he possessed the credentials necessary to \"manage any company.\" He managed to retrieve his original application from the post box after re-thinking his approach, guessing that his Aberdonian background would curry more favour with Sir William Noble, the Chairman", "title": "John Reith, 1st Baron Reith" }, { "id": "6681593", "text": "Talk Radio Network Talk Radio Network (TRN) was an independent radio producer and syndicator of news and talk radio programming headquartered in Central Point, Oregon. TRN consists of a number of associated companies, which have launched or re-built some of the United States' highest ranked talk radio shows, including \"The Savage Nation\", \"Coast to Coast AM\", and \"The Jerry Doyle Show\". TRN was founded in 1993 and is managed by CEO Mark Masters. In 2007, Bear Stearns reported that TRN was the second-largest provider of nationally syndicated radio talk shows in the country, ahead of competitors ABC Radio and then-CBS-controlled", "title": "Talk Radio Network" }, { "id": "3903028", "text": "the owner of WMCA. Technically, this spun off network was simply called \"The Blue Network\" for little over a year. On June 15, 1945, \"The Blue Network\" was officially rechristened the American Broadcasting Company, when negotiations were completed with George B. Storer, who had owned the defunct American Broadcasting System and still owned the name. In November 1948, WJZ and the ABC network finally got a home of their own when studios were moved to a renovated building at 7 West 66th Street. On March 1, 1953, WJZ changed its call letters to WABC, after the FCC approved ABC's merger", "title": "WABC (AM)" }, { "id": "2809924", "text": "Andy\". Prior to 1927, U.S. radio was supervised by the Department of Commerce. Then, the Radio Act of 1927 created the Federal Radio Commission (FRC); in 1934, this agency became known as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A Federal Communications Commission decision in 1939 required NBC to divest itself of its Blue Network. That decision was sustained by the Supreme Court in a 1943 decision, National Broadcasting Co. v. United States, which established the framework that the \"scarcity\" of radio-frequency meant that broadcasting was subject to greater regulation than other media. This Blue Network network became the American Broadcasting Company", "title": "History of broadcasting" }, { "id": "1619100", "text": "demand for home radio equipment bloomed that winter. By the spring of 1922 Sarnoff's prediction of popular demand for broadcasting had come true, and over the next eighteen months, he gained in stature and influence. In 1925, RCA purchased its first radio station (WEAF, New York) and launched the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the first radio network in America. Four years later, Sarnoff became president of RCA. NBC had by that time split into two networks, the Red and the Blue. The Blue Network later became ABC Radio. Sarnoff was often inaccurately referred to later in his career as the", "title": "David Sarnoff" }, { "id": "2924662", "text": "and KFI to reassure the public that everything was safe and under control. People were glued to their radio receivers and KFI during this time to get news, any news, no matter how small, concerning the outcome of the war, the safety of themselves, their families, and their country. In 1942, under the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, NBC was required to divest itself of its Blue Network, which later became the Blue Network Incorporated, and subsequently the American Broadcasting Company. As a result of this divestiture and a booming economy, more money was available to NBC to develop", "title": "KFI" }, { "id": "17987092", "text": "Caribbean Opportunity Holdings in April 2010. Trading under NASDAQ as RLJAU, RLJ Acquisition was formed as a special-purpose acquisition company in December 2010 with the purpose of consummating business combinations. H.Van Sinclair serves as CEO. RLJ Entertainment Inc. formed when the RLJ Companies acquired Acorn Media Group, Inc. and Image Entertainment Inc. in 2012. It trades under the NASDAQ ticker RLJE. RLJ Companies The RLJ Companies is an American asset management firm owned by entrepreneur Robert Louis Johnson. After selling Black Entertainment Television in 2001, Johnson’s first company, he created RLJ Companies in Bethesda, Maryland. The company’s network includes hotel", "title": "RLJ Companies" }, { "id": "7282057", "text": "WBNB-TV WBNB-TV, VHF analog channel 10, was a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Charlotte Amalie, on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. The station operated from 1961 until 1989. WBNB-TV was the first television station to operate in the Virgin Islands. Its construction permit was secured in 1960 by a pair of New York City-area radio men, Robert Noble and Robert Moss, who shared equal ownership in Island Teleradio Service, Inc., the original licensee of WBNB-TV and sister station WBNB radio (1000 AM, now WVWI). Shortly after the award, newspaper announcements proudly announced that the", "title": "WBNB-TV" }, { "id": "567538", "text": "Fox Broadcasting Company The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized in all capital letters as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The network is headquartered at the 20th Century Fox studio in Los Angeles, with additional major offices and production facilities at the Fox Television Center also in Los Angeles and the Fox Broadcasting Center in New York City. Launched on October 9, 1986, as a competitor to the Big Three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox went on", "title": "Fox Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "10520212", "text": "2017, replacing WHDH-TV as the network's Boston affiliate. Detroit's WXYZ-TV had been an ABC owned-and-operated station from its sign-on in 1948, as WXYZ radio (1270 AM, now WXYT) had been an affiliate of ABC radio's predecessor, the NBC Blue Network. However, when Capital Cities Communications acquired ABC in 1985, the combined assets of the new company exceeded the FCC's ownership limit at the time. As such, the network opted to sell WXYZ to the E. W. Scripps Company, having remained with ABC ever since then as an affiliate of the network. During the series of network affiliation switches that was", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "720881", "text": "its territories. ABC News provides news and features content for select radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting, which purchased the ABC Radio properties in 2007 (however relaunched in 2014). In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies: the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which owned two radio networks that each ran different varieties of programming, NBC Blue and NBC Red. The NBC Blue Network was created in 1927 for the primary purpose of testing", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "5691521", "text": "Capital Cities/ABC Inc. Capital Cities/ABC Inc., founded as Capital Cities Communications, and sometimes referred to as CapCities, was an American media company. It purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985, becoming Capital Cities/ABC Inc.. It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded itself as Disney–ABC Television Group in 1996. Capital Cities/ABC Inc. origins trace back in 1946, when Hyman Rosenblum (1911–1996), a local Albany businessman, and several investors, including future Congressman Leo William O'Brien, decided to form a radio station. Rosenblum was also instrumental in help co-founding Hudson Valley Community College in Troy several years", "title": "Capital Cities/ABC Inc." }, { "id": "3946469", "text": "in 2007. The company continues to operate holdings in non-traditional broadcast platforms such as satellite radio and Internet radio. Slaight also continues to hold minority investments in three other small radio station groups. Standard Broadcasting was founded as Standard Radio Manufacturing in 1925 by Edward S. Rogers, Sr., but soon became known as Rogers Vacuum Tube Company and later became the Rogers Majestic Corporation Limited. Rogers launched what would become radio station CFRB in 1927 in order to demonstrate a batteryless alternating current radio receiver he had invented. In 1929 Standard Radio Manufacturing Corporation was renamed as Rogers Majestic Corporation", "title": "Slaight Communications" }, { "id": "4024849", "text": "Life Savers Life Savers is an American brand of ring-shaped hard candy. Its range of mints and artificial fruit-flavors is known for its distinctive packaging, coming in paper-wrapped aluminum foil rolls. Candy manufacturer Clarence Crane of Garrettsville, Ohio, (father of the poet Hart Crane) invented the brand in 1912 as a \"summer candy\" that could withstand heat better than chocolate. The candy's name is derived from its similarity to the shape of life preservers used for saving people who have fallen from boats. After registering the trademark, Crane sold the rights to his Pep-O-Mint peppermint candy to Edward John Noble", "title": "Life Savers" }, { "id": "646049", "text": "I'll have to do it all over again in Hollywood with Errol Flynn!\" Asked by suspicious American sentries during the Battle of the Bulge who had won the World Series in 1943, he answered, \"Haven't the foggiest idea, but I did co-star with Ginger Rogers in \"Bachelor Mother\"!\" Niven ended the war as a lieutenant-colonel. On his return to Hollywood after the war, he received the Legion of Merit, an American military decoration. Presented by Eisenhower himself, it honoured Niven's work in setting up the BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, a radio news and entertainment station for the Allied forces.", "title": "David Niven" }, { "id": "720975", "text": "the network experienced unexpected success with new series such as \"Desperate Housewives\", \"Lost\" and \"Grey's Anatomy\" as well as reality series \"Dancing with the Stars\", which helped ABC rise to second place, jumping ahead of CBS, but behind a surging Fox. On April 21, 2004, Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Marvin Jacobs being named president of ABC parent Disney–ABC Television Group, and ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Jacobs, as well as president of ABC Sports. On December 7, 2005, ABC Sports and ESPN signed an eight-year broadcast rights agreement", "title": "American Broadcasting Company" }, { "id": "3224438", "text": "present. (CKYC was on the air from to 1925 to 1996, but only adopted those call letters in 1991 having previously used CKCL and CKEY; its frequency is now occupied by a completely different station, CHKT.) CFRB was founded by the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company (the precursor of Rogers Communications) to promote Edward S. Rogers Sr.'s invention of a batteryless radio receiver that could be operated using alternating current and therefore did not need the cumbersome battery that had previously been required. The station itself was a demonstration of Rogers' application of his invention to radio transmitters as well as", "title": "CFRB" }, { "id": "15545086", "text": "Walter Winchell, wearing his hat like a 1930's movie reporter, transitioned from radio as well and shouted out news insights with a gravelly voice. Edward R. Murrow and a young collaborator, Fred W. Friendly, had transformed their documentary radio series \"Hear It Now\" into \"See It Now\". As the audience for comedy, variety, and drama shifted toward television and away from radio, radio stations had to find a new way to attract an audience. Stations that had remained independent had been familiar with the answer for several years. That answer was found in the newly permitted freedom to play recorded", "title": "Black-appeal stations" }, { "id": "3345001", "text": "disciplines. Noble was part of the St. Lawrence Seaway Project and was appointed to the advisory board by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. He owned Boldt Castle, the Thousand Island Club, and a summer residence on Wellesley Island. The ornamental street lights in the village park are all that remain of the gift of new street lights that were given to the village by Edward and his brother, Robert. The lights were in memory of their father. Three hospitals and a foundation are named after him. Edward J. Noble Edward John Noble (October 8, 1882 – December 28, 1958)", "title": "Edward J. Noble" }, { "id": "14768209", "text": "WFCI (defunct) WFCI was one of four radio stations in the pre-World War II Providence market (the others being WPRO, WEAN and WJAR). WFCI was an affiliate of the NBC Blue network which in 1943 became simply the Blue Network & finally changed to the American Broadcasting Company, or ABC, in 1945. WFCI added FM service on 101.5 MHz in about 1950; on that frequency today is WWBB. A listing for WFCI Pawtucket dates from at least 1927, owned by Frank Crook. It is not known if he was a principal of the Pawtucket Broadcasting Company. If this WFCI is", "title": "WFCI (defunct)" }, { "id": "4024852", "text": "1912 by Clarence Crane, a Cleveland, Ohio, candy maker (and father of the famed poet Hart Crane). Crane developed a line of hard mints but did not have the space or machinery to make them. He contracted with a pill manufacturer to press the mints into shape. In 1913, Crane sold the formula for his Life Savers candy to Edward Noble of Gouverneur, New York for $2,900. Noble started his own candy company and began producing and selling the mints known as Pep-O-Mint Life Savers. He also began to package the mints into rolls wrapped in tin foil to prevent", "title": "Life Savers" }, { "id": "4632175", "text": "well as national cable and satellite channels such as TNT, ESPN and AMC, and Internet services such as Netflix. The following is a list of television stations in the United States that have had primary network affiliations, at one point or another, all with ABC, CBS or NBC. Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Beginning in 1948 until 1986, the Big Three networks dominated U.S.", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "1446162", "text": "the sports announcer for KCMO (AM) in Kansas City, Missouri. His broadcast name was \"Walter Wilcox\". He would explain later that radio stations at the time did not want people to use their real names for fear of taking their listeners with them if they left. In Kansas City, he joined the United Press in 1937. He became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe. With his name now established, he received a job offer from Edward R. Murrow at CBS News to join the Murrow Boys team of war", "title": "Walter Cronkite" }, { "id": "15554148", "text": "Network era In television broadcasting, the Network Era refers to the period in American television history from 1952 to the mid-1980s, when the television market was controlled by a few large television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC. This determination is established by institutional aspects that regularized television for the majority of the country, including the color television standard option. Early television evolved from the network organization of radio in the early 1940s. The three networks that rose to dominance, NBC, CBS, and ABC, were nearly non-conglomerated corporations that were based in the business center of New York City. These networks", "title": "Network era" }, { "id": "15112240", "text": "subject to greater regulation than other media. This Blue Network network became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Around 1946, ABC, NBC, and CBS began regular television broadcasts. Another TV network, the DuMont Television Network, was founded earlier, but was disbanded in 1956. Television began to replace radio as the chief source of revenue for broadcasting networks. Although many radio programs continued through this decade, including Gunsmoke and The Guiding Light, by 1960 networks had ceased producing entertainment programs. As radio stopped producing formal fifteen-minute to hourly programs, a new format developed. \"Top 40\" was based on a continuous rotation of", "title": "Broadcasting in the United States" }, { "id": "3511387", "text": "organized. The network was owned by Don Eugenio Lopez, Sr. and the then- Philippine Vice President Fernando Lopez, and later on launched its very own TV station, DZXL-TV 9. The following year, Don Eugenio acquired ABS from Quirino and Lindenberg. However, it was only on 1 February 1967, that the corporate name was changed to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation to reflect the merger. Before, it was named ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, the name was reverted to the precursor of the network, Bolinao Electronics Corporation or BEC, but the ABS-CBN brand was first used in 1961. In 1958 the network's new headquarters at", "title": "ABS-CBN" }, { "id": "15152613", "text": "start and operate a new cable channel, Lifetime Television. Capital Cities' announced $3.5 billion purchase of ABC on March 18, 1985, stunned the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time. Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett helped to finance the deal in exchange for a 25 percent share in the combined company. In October 1985, ABC Motion Pictures was shut down. American Broadcasting Companies assumed the name ABC Television, Inc. on on the same date a second corporation with the name American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. was formed. ABC Television, Inc. was dissolved", "title": "American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres" } ]

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They performed in talent shows and clubs on the Chitlin' Circuit, then signed with Steeltown Records in 1967 and released two singles. In 1969, they left Steeltown Records and signed with Motown, where they achieved 16 top-40 singles on the Hot 100. The group left Motown for Epic Records in", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "6615716", "text": "their first contract in November 1967. “Big Boy”, the boys' first record which was produced by Keith, was released on January 30, 1968. It became a local hit. In March 1969, they signed a Motown record contract and became known as the \"Jackson 5\". The group enjoyed the fame Joseph Jackson had been longing for in his life. He continued to manage The Jackson 5 into stardom and after the band they had many No. 1 hits on the \"Billboard\" hot singles charts; Joseph moved them to a mansion in Encino, California with his own hefty salary he had obtained", "title": "Jackson family" }, { "id": "12389232", "text": "and the band members chafed under Motown's strict refusal to allow them creative control or input. Although the group scored several top 40 hits, including the top five disco single \"Dancing Machine\" and the top 20 hit \"I Am Love\", The Jackson 5 (minus Jermaine Jackson) left Motown in 1975. The Jackson 5 signed a new contract with CBS Records in June 1975, first joining the Philadelphia International Records division and then Epic Records. As a result of legal proceedings, the group was renamed The Jacksons. After the name change, the band continued to tour internationally, releasing five more studio", "title": "Off the Wall" }, { "id": "703592", "text": "devout Jehovah's Witnesses, although Jackson would later refrain from organized religion. At a young age, her brothers began performing as the Jackson 5 in the Chicago-Gary area. In March 1969, the group signed a record deal with Motown, and soon had their first number-one hit. The family then moved to the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jackson had initially desired to become a horse racing jockey or entertainment lawyer, with plans to support herself through acting. Despite this, she was anticipated to pursue a career in entertainment, and considered the idea after recording herself in the studio. At age seven,", "title": "Janet Jackson" }, { "id": "2054644", "text": "group, which included Jackie and his brothers Tito and Jermaine. The group included younger brothers Marlon and Michael playing assorted percussive instruments. By 1966, Joseph made Michael the lead singer and within two years, they emerged professionally under the name the Jackson Five, which was later altered to a numeral 5 after signing with Motown in 1969. Prior to the group signing with Motown, Jackson wanted to pursue a career in professional baseball. Jackson performed with a high tenor singing voice. He added brief lead parts in some of the Jackson 5's hit singles, including \"I Want You Back\" and", "title": "Jackie Jackson" }, { "id": "2251919", "text": "the Jackson 5 decided to leave the label and sign with Epic Records in 1975. However, Jermaine decided to stay with Motown Records, citing loyalty to the company as the reason. Others argue that Jermaine's marriage to Motown founder Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel, whom he married in 1973, was the reason. Jermaine split from the Jackson Five to start a solo career at Motown, and was replaced by his brother Randy Jackson. Unbeknownst to the group, Gordy had trademarked the name The Jackson Five and did not allow the group to continue using the name when they left the label.", "title": "Jermaine Jackson" }, { "id": "2054668", "text": "become the official lead singer of the group. In 1965, they changed their name from the Jackson Brothers to the Jackson Five, and won several talent shows around the Gary area. After winning the Amateur Night competition for The Apollo Theater in August 1967, Joe Jackson began to work part-time at the steel mill to help his sons secure a recording contract. The group signed with Steeltown Records in Gary, Indiana, in November of that year. In January 1968, the Jackson Five's first single, \"Big Boy,\" was released on the Steeltown label. In 1969, the Jackson 5 signed with Motown", "title": "Tito Jackson" }, { "id": "4504779", "text": "Toya and Janet perform at casinos and resorts in Las Vegas, inspired by the success of fellow family act, The Osmonds. Joseph had also formed his own record label, \"Ivory Tower International Records\" and signed artists under his management in which they toured internationally with The Jackson 5 as opening acts in 1974. In 1975, the Jackson 5, with the exception of Jermaine, left Motown and signed a lucrative deal with Epic Records. Michael Jackson had brokered a deal where they could eventually produce their own songs, leading to Motown retaining the Jackson 5 name, so they renamed themselves \"The", "title": "Joe Jackson (manager)" }, { "id": "97841", "text": "(1983) for Epic Records. Many Motown groups who had left the record label charted with disco songs. Michael Jackson was the lead singer of the Jackson 5, one of Motown's premier acts in the early 1970s. They left the record company in 1975 (Jermaine Jackson, however, remained with the label) after successful songs like \"I Want You Back\" (1969) and \"ABC\" (1970), and even the disco song \"Dancing Machine\" (1974). Renamed as 'the Jacksons' (as Motown owned the name 'the Jackson 5'), they went on to find success with disco songs like \"Blame It on the Boogie\" (1978), \"Shake Your", "title": "Disco" }, { "id": "11374996", "text": "them creative input, they achieved several top 40 hits, including the top five single \"Dancing Machine\" (1974), before leaving Motown in 1975. Jackson's performance of \"Dancing Machine\" on an episode of \"Soul Train\" popularized the robot dance. In June 1975, the Jackson 5 signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of CBS Records, and renamed themselves the Jacksons. Younger brother Randy formally joined the band around this time, while Jermaine chose to stay with Motown and pursue a solo career. The Jacksons continued to tour internationally, and released six more albums between 1976 and 1984. Michael, the group's lead songwriter during", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "id": "4852860", "text": "during recording but he was most active from 1962-1968. During the later years of his career Jamerson had grown unreliable due to substance abuse. Most evidence suggest that a new member of the Funk Brothers, Wilton Felder, was the bassist. Although Gladys Knight had been the first to mention the Jacksons to Berry Gordy, and Bobby Taylor brought the Jackson brothers to Motown, Motown credited Diana Ross with discovering them. This was done not only to help promote the Jackson 5, but also to help ease Ross' transition into a solo career, which she began in 1970 soon after the", "title": "I Want You Back" }, { "id": "13521573", "text": "in Las Vegas and spreading throughout the states. By 1975, most of the Jacksons opted out of recording any more music for Motown, desiring creative control and royalties after learning that they were earning only 2.8% of royalties from Motown. Joe Jackson began negotiating to have his boys sign a lucrative contract with another company, settling for Epic Records which had offered a royalty rate of 20% per record; he signed with the company in June 1975. Absent from the deal was Jermaine Jackson who decided to stay in Motown, followed by his marriage to Hazel Berry, and Randy Jackson", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4504777", "text": "label. \"Big Boy\" became a local hit and the brothers became local celebrities after it was played on radio stations in the Chicago-Gary area. Within the year, Jackson helped to land his sons an audition for Motown Records in Detroit. \"The Jackson 5\" were signed with Motown in March 1969. Jackson later relocated his family to California and supervised every recording session the group made for Motown. The group began to receive nationwide fame after their first single for Motown, \"I Want You Back\", hit #1 following its release on October 7, 1969, followed by their first album, \"Diana Ross", "title": "Joe Jackson (manager)" }, { "id": "12892347", "text": "the outcome nonetheless. The Jackson 5 would release a second single on the \"Steeltown\" label before signing with Motown Records in Detroit, on July 26, 1968. The group played instruments on many of their Steeltown compositions, including \"Big Boy\". The group's recordings at Steeltown Records were thought to be lost, but they were rediscovered more than 25 years later. They were remastered and released in 1995, with \"Big Boy\" as the promotional lead single. The Jackson 5 began their career performing at talent contests, which they would often win. During a performance at Beckman Junior High in Gary, Indiana, the", "title": "Big Boy (song)" }, { "id": "11374993", "text": "such as Sam & Dave, the O'Jays, Gladys Knight, and Etta James. The Jackson 5 also performed at clubs and cocktail lounges, where striptease shows and other adult acts were featured, and at local auditoriums and high school dances. In August 1967, while touring the East coast, the group won a weekly amateur night concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including their first single \"Big Boy\" (1968), for Steeltown Records, a Gary record label, before signing with Motown in 1969. They left Gary in 1969 and relocated to Los Angeles, where they continued", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "id": "5659815", "text": "by Jackson. A re-titled release in the UK was planned on July 6, 2009 as \"The Hits\", but was cancelled upon Jackson's death. As of 2018, the album was certified 4× platinum in the US. The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of \"The Essential\" series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early", "title": "The Essential Michael Jackson" }, { "id": "5659814", "text": "The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of \"The Essential\" series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early 1970s to his 2001 hit \"You Rock My World\". On August 26, 2008, \"The Essential Michael Jackson 3.0\" was released in the US as a limited edition containing an additional disc of seven songs performed", "title": "The Essential Michael Jackson" }, { "id": "10717433", "text": "Steeltown Records Steeltown Records was an American record company in Gary, Indiana. The company was founded in 1966 by William Adams (a.k.a. Gordon Keith) and co-owned with Ben Brown (deceased), Maurice Rogers, Willie Spencer (deceased), and Lou \"Ludie\" D. Washington (deceased). The record company was mostly active from 1966 to 1972. \"Steeltown\" is best known for giving the Jackson 5 their start in the music industry. The Jackson 5's first record was released on the Steeltown label in early 1968, before Motown signed the group in 1969. Two Jackson 5 singles were recorded for Steeltown at a South Chicago recording", "title": "Steeltown Records" }, { "id": "5844896", "text": "Anthology (The Jackson 5 album) Anthology was originally released as a triple-album set by legendary Motown family unit, The Jackson 5, in 1976. It was at this point that most of the Jacksons (with the glaring exception of Jermaine Jackson) had left the label to join CBS Records. Motown president Berry Gordy once said that the Jackson 5 were \"the last superstars to come off the Motown assembly line\"; after the group left the label, Motown would not have another act to equal its success until Boyz II Men in the 1990s. Later repackagings of Anthology have compiled it as", "title": "Anthology (The Jackson 5 album)" }, { "id": "1427637", "text": "on the Hot 100. While at Motown in 1968, Gladys Knight was the first person to suggest that Berry Gordy sign the up-and-coming group called The Jackson Five (though Bobby Taylor of the Vancouvers also had a role), after appearing with them on a concert held in Gary, Indiana to help elect Mayor Richard Hatcher, despite the claim that Diana Ross discovered them. Following the success of \"Grapevine\", the group worked frequently with Norman Whitfield. Whitfield produced them the hits, \"The End of Our Road\", \"It Should've Been Me\", \"Friendship Train\", \"Nitty Gritty\" and \"You Need Love Like I Do", "title": "Gladys Knight & the Pips" }, { "id": "991686", "text": "successful rock and roll artists and influenced many other rock musicians. Notable soul and R&B musicians associated with Motown that had their origins in the area include Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Four Tops, The Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Marvelettes, The Temptations, and Martha and the Vandellas. These artists achieved their greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s. Michael Jackson, from the Jackson 5, went on to have an extremely successful solo career from the 1970s through the 2000s. Known as the \"King of Pop\", he went on to become one of the", "title": "Midwestern United States" }, { "id": "9619103", "text": "Guy Finley Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician. The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles, California area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career. He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. While never achieving commercial success as a recording artist, several of his songs were recorded by popular artists including Diana Ross, the Jackson 5,", "title": "Guy Finley" }, { "id": "9619100", "text": "Guy Finley Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician. The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles, California area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career. He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. While never achieving commercial success as a recording artist, several of his songs were recorded by popular artists including Diana Ross, the Jackson 5,", "title": "Guy Finley" }, { "id": "12560070", "text": "Motown as a company began to change during the early 1970s. Older acts such as Martha and the Vandellas and The Marvelettes were slowly moved aside or dropped to focus on newer acts, such as Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, Rare Earth, and the now-solo Diana Ross. In addition, the company moved its operations from Detroit to Los Angeles, California, where Berry Gordy planned to break into the motion picture and television industries. In 1972, it was announced that the entire company would move west and that all its artists had to move as well. Many of the older", "title": "Four Tops" }, { "id": "13521572", "text": "by 1972, despite Michael and Jermaine's solo successes. The Corporation had produced most of their hit singles, but they split up in 1973. The brothers focused on the emerging disco craze and recorded the song \"Get It Together\", followed by their hit \"Dancing Machine\", their first to crack the top ten since \"Sugar Daddy\" nearly three years before. Despite those successes, most of the Jackson 5's follow-ups were not as successful, and Joe Jackson grew tired of Motown's uneasiness to continue producing hits for the brothers by 1973. He began producing a nightclub act around his sons and daughters, starting", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "5844897", "text": "a double compact disc set. The most recent re-release, issued by Motown in 2000 (the first time the release doesn't contain any hits from Michael or Jermaine), was repackaged in 2005 in North America as part of its Gold series, and in 2006 internationally as The Jackson 5 Story. Anthology (The Jackson 5 album) Anthology was originally released as a triple-album set by legendary Motown family unit, The Jackson 5, in 1976. It was at this point that most of the Jacksons (with the glaring exception of Jermaine Jackson) had left the label to join CBS Records. Motown president Berry", "title": "Anthology (The Jackson 5 album)" }, { "id": "4508951", "text": "after signing with Motown Records in March 1969. During the Jackson 5's 1970–71 heyday, Jackson – along with her three daughters and youngest son – was barely mentioned in the press. This changed in 1974, when Joe began building careers around his three younger children and eldest daughter. Michael often mentioned Jackson lovingly. Jackson started to become part of her husband's management team when the grown-up members of the group (which renamed themselves The Jacksons after splitting from Motown in 1975) reunited for the Victory Tour in 1984. Michael dedicated his 1982 album, \"Thriller\", to her. Janet Jackson did the", "title": "Katherine Jackson" }, { "id": "4871460", "text": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preteenage boy named Michael (who later became a universally-recognized pop star on his own and \"The King of Pop\"), and his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon, became pop successes within months of this album's release. \"Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5's\" only single, \"I Want You Back\", became a number-one hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 within weeks", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "5452230", "text": "The Jacksons (album) The Jacksons is the eleventh studio album by the Jacksons, the band's first album for CBS and under the name \"the Jacksons,\" following their seven-year tenure at Motown as \"the Jackson 5\". Jackson 5 member Jermaine Jackson stayed with Motown when his brothers broke their contracts and left for Epic he was replaced by youngest Jackson brother Randy. The album was released in 1976 for Epic Records and Philadelphia International Records as a joint venture. Philadelphia International heads Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff produced and executive produced the album, including their first top ten hit in two", "title": "The Jacksons (album)" }, { "id": "5452055", "text": "G.I.T.: Get It Together G.I.T.: Get It Together (a.k.a. Get It Together) is the eighth studio album by the Jackson 5, released in September 1973 for the Motown label. During the group's last years with Motown, the label struggled to come up with material for the group. As a result, the Jackson 5 fell into a period from 1973 to 1974 where they scored no Top 10 singles. By this point, most of the Jackson 5's members, and their manager/father Joseph, were vocally complaining about the group's direction, with Michael becoming the most outspoken. The only member not to complain", "title": "G.I.T.: Get It Together" }, { "id": "2054674", "text": "Donald Bohana, was subsequently charged with murdering her and later found guilty of second-degree murder in 2000. He was sentenced 15 years to life in prison. The couple had three sons, who comprise the musical group 3T: Jackson has six grandchildren. Tito Jackson Toriano Adaryll \"Tito\" Jackson (born October 15, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jackson was an original member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label, and later recorded as a solo artist on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s.", "title": "Tito Jackson" }, { "id": "2437688", "text": "ankle, Rebbie's debut was postponed until June. Her five brothers were the main draws, with Rebbie, Randy, Janet, and La Toya serving as fillers for the performances. When the Jackson 5 parted with their record label Motown in 1976, they signed to CBS Records and rebranded themselves as the Jacksons. Additionally, the brothers were signed to CBS-TV to star with their family in a variety series called \"The Jacksons\". The shows premiered in June 1976 and featured all of the siblings excluding Jermaine, who had chosen to stay with Motown. The initial series run of the 30-minute programs was four", "title": "Rebbie Jackson" }, { "id": "13521574", "text": "replaced him. Motown sued them for breach of contract but allowed the group to record for Epic, as long as they changed their name because Motown owned the name Jackson 5. The brothers renamed themselves the Jacksons. In November 1976, following the debut of the family's weekly variety series, the Jacksons released their self-titled CBS debut under the Philadelphia International subsidiary, produced by Gamble & Huff. Featuring \"Enjoy Yourself\" and \"Show You the Way to Go\", the album went gold but failed to generate the sales the brothers had enjoyed while at Motown. A follow-up, \"Goin' Places\", fizzled. Renewing their", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4454542", "text": "officially changed their name to the Jacksons when they signed with Epic due in part to the fact Motown owned the name the Jackson 5. At the age of 16, he co-wrote the Jacksons' most successful single on Epic, \"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)\" with Michael. On February 4, 1980, Jackson was seriously injured in a car crash in Hollywood, California. In June 1980, Jackson appeared on the cover of the weekly African-American newsmagazine \"Jet\". The cover headline read: \"Randy Jackson Walks Again: Talks About His Future.\" Jackson plays congas, percussion, keyboards, piano, bass, and guitar among other", "title": "Randy Jackson (The Jacksons)" }, { "id": "12389231", "text": "The National Association of Recording Merchandisers listed it at number 80 on its list of the \"Definitive 200 Albums of All Time\". In 2008, \"Off the Wall\" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Between 1972 and 1975, Michael Jackson released a total of four solo studio albums with Motown; \"Got to Be There\", \"Ben\", \"Music & Me\", and \"Forever, Michael\". These were released as part of The Jackson 5 franchise, and produced successful singles such as \"Got to Be There\", \"Ben\" and a remake of Bobby Day's \"Rockin' Robin\". The Jackson 5's sales, however, began declining in 1973,", "title": "Off the Wall" }, { "id": "11374995", "text": "solo performer in the early 1970s, he maintained ties to the Jackson 5 and Motown. Between 1972 and 1975, Michael released four solo studio albums with Motown: \"Got to Be There\" (1972), \"Ben\" (1972), \"Music & Me\" (1973), and \"Forever, Michael\" (1975). \"Got to Be There\" and \"Ben\", the title tracks from his first two solo albums, became successful singles, as did a cover of Bobby Day's \"Rockin' Robin\". The Jackson 5 were later described as \"a cutting-edge example of black crossover artists\". Although their sales began to decline in 1973, and the members chafed under Motown's refusal to allow", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "id": "75473", "text": "\"Nightshift\" in 1986. In 2003, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Commodores Commodores is an American funk/soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for the Jackson 5 while on tour. The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. The band's biggest hit singles are ballads", "title": "Commodores" }, { "id": "4871470", "text": "CD\" series, as they had previously done in the late 1980s. \"Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5\" was paired up with \"ABC\". One bonus track was included in a cover of Bobby Taylor's \"Oh, I've Been Bless'd\", a song also released on the rare 1979 outtakes album \"Boogie\". Technical Bibliography Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preteenage boy named Michael (who later became a universally-recognized pop", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "1446987", "text": "chief William \"Mickey\" Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Norman Whitfield, had become a major force in the music industry. From 1961 to 1971, Motown had 110 top 10 hits. Top artists on the Motown label during that period included the Supremes (initially including Diana Ross), the Four Tops, and the Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Marvelettes, and the Miracles had hits on the Tamla label. The company operated several labels in addition to the Tamla and Motown imprints. A third label, which Gordy named after himself (though it was originally called \"Miracle\") featured the Temptations, the", "title": "Motown" }, { "id": "5808346", "text": "Hal Davis Harold Edward \"Hal\" Davis (February 8, 1933 – November 18, 1998) was an American songwriter and record producer. Davis was a producer and writer for Motown Records for nearly thirty years, and was a key figure in the latter part of the Motown career of The Jackson 5. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Davis began his music career in his teens as a singer, managed by Henry Stone. He released a string of singles under his own name, mainly for small labels, and moved to Los Angeles in 1960 where he continued to record but increasingly worked as a", "title": "Hal Davis" }, { "id": "2029070", "text": "millennium. Jackson performed \"Billie Jean\" on the television special \"Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever\", broadcast on May 15, 1983. The performance is considered a watershed moment in popular culture history. The special was recorded on March 25 as a celebration of Motown Records' twenty-fifth anniversary (though Motown, launched in 1959, was technically 24 years old in 1983). The event featured many popular Motown acts, past and present. Jackson initially refused an invitation to reunite with the Jackson 5 for a performance, but reconsidered after a visit from Motown founder Berry Gordy, who Jackson respected. Jackson asked to also perform \"Billie", "title": "Billie Jean" }, { "id": "2054666", "text": "Tito Jackson Toriano Adaryll \"Tito\" Jackson (born October 15, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jackson was an original member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label, and later recorded as a solo artist on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s. Tito is the third child in the Jackson family. Toriano Adaryll Jackson was born the third of ten children in a black working-class family who lived in a three-room house in Gary, Indiana. His father, Joseph, was a steel mill worker.", "title": "Tito Jackson" }, { "id": "4724287", "text": "Johnny Jackson (musician) Johnny Porter Jackson (March 3, 1951 – March 1, 2006) was an American drummer, noted for being the drummer for The Jackson 5 from their early Gary, Indiana days until the end of their famed career at Motown. The label promoted Jackson and keyboardist Ronnie Rancifer as the cousins of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, but there are conflicting reports over whether this is true. On March 1, 2006 Jackson died at a home in Gary after being stabbed by his girlfriend, Yolanda Davis, following a quarrel. Davis was later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was", "title": "Johnny Jackson (musician)" }, { "id": "2251921", "text": "The Jackson Five, and had a hit with the 1972 Shep and the Limelites cover \"Daddy's Home\". It sold over one million copies by March 1973, and was awarded a gold disc. When The Jackson Five left Motown, Jermaine left the group and stayed at Motown. Jermaine was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his 1980 album \"Let's Get Serious\". He had a number of \"Billboard\" Top-30 hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including \"Daddy's Home\" (#9), \"That's How Love Goes\", \"Let's Be Young Tonight\", \"Bass Odyssey\", \"Feel the Fire\", \"Let Me Tickle Your", "title": "Jermaine Jackson" }, { "id": "1361348", "text": "than any other female artist in the charts with a career total of 70 hit singles. Ross is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the Supremes. After her 1983 concert in Central Park, Diana Ross Playground was named in her honor with a groundbreaking opening ceremony in 1986. Ross was given credit for the discovery of the Jackson 5. Her \"discovery\" was simply part of Motown's marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5. Consequently, their debut album", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "id": "5844925", "text": "mostly from mid 1969 to early 1972. The set also included solo numbers from Michael, Jermaine, and Jackie. NOTE: Track 9 was originally supposed to be the track \"You're the Only One\" (as it says on the back cover art), but was replaced at the last minute. Soulsation! Soulsation! is a 4-CD box set of music performed by the Jackson 5 throughout their tenure in Motown spanning from 1969 to 1975, when they left for CBS Records. Released in 1995, it was released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the year the group became the first group to have their", "title": "Soulsation!" }, { "id": "13521565", "text": "his sons to perform at several respected music venues of the chitlin' circuit, including Chicago's Regal Theater and Harlem's Apollo Theater, winning the talent competitions on both shows in 1967. They won the Apollo contest on August 13, 1967, and Gladys Knight sent a tape of the boys' demo to Motown Records, hoping to get them to sign, but their tape was rejected and sent back. In November 1967, Joe Jackson signed the group's first contract with Gordon Keith, an owner and producer of Steeltown Records, and the Jackson Five recorded and released the singles \"Big Boy\", sung by Michael,", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "2938792", "text": "by Six\"—became favourites among Northern soul and \"beach music\" fans. During the mid- to late-1960s, one-fifth of Motown records began utilizing session musicians based in Los Angeles, usually covers and tributes of mainstream pop songs and showtunes. By 1970, an increasing number of Motown sessions were in Los Angeles instead of Detroit, notably all the Jackson 5's hit recordings. Nevertheless, Motown producers such as Norman Whitfield, Frank Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson steadfastly continued to record in Detroit. The Funk Brothers were dismissed in 1972, when Berry Gordy moved the entire Motown label to Los Angeles—a development some of", "title": "The Funk Brothers" }, { "id": "109702", "text": "documents jazz in Detroit. Other, prominent Motor City R&B stars in the 1950s and early 1960s was Nolan Strong, Andre Williams and Nathaniel Mayer – who all scored local and national hits on the Fortune Records label. According to Smokey Robinson, Strong was a primary influence on his voice as a teenager. The Fortune label was a family-operated label located on Third Avenue in Detroit, and was owned by the husband and wife team of Jack Brown and Devora Brown. Fortune, which also released country, gospel and rockabilly LPs and 45s, laid the groundwork for Motown, which became Detroit's most", "title": "Detroit" }, { "id": "13521571", "text": "second was \"The Jackson 5 Show\" which debuted in November of the following year. The group often joined Bob Hope on USO-benefited performances to support military troops during the Vietnam War. In order to continue increasing sales, Motown launched Michael Jackson's solo career in 1971 with the single \"Got to Be There\", released in November. His 1972 song \"Ben\" became his first to top the charts. Jermaine was the second to release a solo project; his most successful hit of the period was a cover of the doo-wop song \"Daddy's Home\". The Jackson 5's records began plummeting on the charts", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "13521588", "text": "career trajectory: a string of several hits as a group, which eventually led to a breakout star (Michael for the Jacksons, Donny for the Osmonds) becoming a solo artist, a little sister not originally part of the group also rising to fame (Janet Jackson and Marie Osmond respectively), and eventual decline as a smaller group in the 1980s. The two groups' members eventually became friends, despite public perception of a rivalry between the two and allegations that the Osmonds, white Mormon brothers from Utah, were an imitation of the black Jackson 5. Motown releases (as Jackson 5) CBS/Epic releases (as", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "1313017", "text": "Smokey Robinson William \"Smokey\" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as the Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the group to focus on his role as Motown's vice president. However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year. Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left the", "title": "Smokey Robinson" }, { "id": "1312090", "text": "Following several months of recovery, Gaye sought a comeback onstage, starting the short-lived \"Heavy Love Affair\" tour in England and Ostend in June–July 1981. Gaye's personal attorney Curtis Shaw would later describe Gaye's Ostend period as \"the best thing that ever happened to Marvin\". When word got around that Gaye was planning a musical comeback and an exit from Motown, CBS Urban president Larkin Arnold eventually was able to convince Gaye to sign with CBS. On March 23, 1982, Motown and CBS Records negotiated Gaye's release from Motown. The details of the contract were not revealed due to a possible", "title": "Marvin Gaye" }, { "id": "10758508", "text": "The Jackson 5. The Jacksons had replaced the Supremes as the label's top-selling act during the early 1970s and by 1975 were going through problems with Motown and making plans to leave the company. In the US, The Jackson 5's version peaked at number six on the soul chart and at number sixty on the pop chart. On the \"Billboard\" dance chart, it was the first of two releases, by The Jacksons, to hit number one. The single's B-side, \"All I Do Is Think of You\", was later extensively covered and sampled by contemporary R&B and hip hop artists. Forever", "title": "Forever Came Today" }, { "id": "4724285", "text": "Ronnie Rancifer Ronnie Rancifer is an American keyboardist, musician and songwriter, noted for being the original keyboardist for The Jackson 5 from their early Gary, Indiana days until the end of their famed career at Motown. The label presented Rancifer and drummer Johnny Jackson as the cousins of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, however neither Rancifer nor Johnny Jackson are actually related to the Jacksons. In addition to playing keys for the Jackson 5, Rancifer worked as a songwriter on some of their albums. Rancifer had a long career as a songwriter in Los Angeles, and although the note below", "title": "Ronnie Rancifer" }, { "id": "4871461", "text": "of the album's release and eventually sold five million copies worldwide. The album reached number 5 on the Pop Albums chart, and spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the R&B/Black Albums chart. The album title suggested that Motown star Diana Ross had discovered the group, as do the Ross-penned liner notes on the back cover. Ross' supposed discovery of the Jackson 5 was in fact part of Motown's marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5; it may actually have been Motown producer Bobby Taylor who discovered the Jacksons. Joe Jackson, the father and manager of the Jackson 5,", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "17608187", "text": "business was operated by the family of Berry Gordy. She and Gordy became friends, and in the early 1960s he asked her opinion of the young artists that had signed with his record company, Motown. In 1964, she closed her school to be a consultant to Motown's talent. When Motown expanded into new offices in 1966, she was hired to work in the company's department of artist personal development, teaching artists such as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5 and the Supremes, whose Mary Wilson stated Powell taught them more than stage presence, but \"tools for", "title": "Maxine Powell" }, { "id": "1447000", "text": "early days, although all except Wonder recorded for other labels for several years. Ross left Motown for RCA Records from 1981 to 1988, but returned in 1989 and stayed until 2002, while Robinson left Motown in 1991 (although he did return to release one more album for the label in 1999). The Temptations left for Atlantic Records in 1977, but returned in 1980 and eventually left again in 2004. , Wonder is the only artist from Motown's early period still on the label. In 2005, Massenburg was replaced by Sylvia Rhone, former CEO of Elektra Records. Motown was merged with", "title": "Motown" }, { "id": "5452165", "text": "music and the group earning little album royalties. The only brother to stay with the label was Jermaine since he was married to Hazel Gordy, daughter of Motown CEO Berry Gordy. Motown allowed the group to leave the label. However, the group had to change their name, since the Jackson 5 moniker was owned by Motown. The brothers later signed with Philadelphia International Records and Epic Records with youngest Jackson brother Randy under their new name, the Jacksons. The album was arranged by Michael Lovesmith, Arthur G. Wright, Dave Blumberg and James Anthony Carmichael with John Bahler and Michael Lovesmith", "title": "Moving Violation" }, { "id": "4724288", "text": "sentenced to 2 years in prison. Johnny Jackson (musician) Johnny Porter Jackson (March 3, 1951 – March 1, 2006) was an American drummer, noted for being the drummer for The Jackson 5 from their early Gary, Indiana days until the end of their famed career at Motown. The label promoted Jackson and keyboardist Ronnie Rancifer as the cousins of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, but there are conflicting reports over whether this is true. On March 1, 2006 Jackson died at a home in Gary after being stabbed by his girlfriend, Yolanda Davis, following a quarrel. Davis was later pleaded", "title": "Johnny Jackson (musician)" }, { "id": "5394294", "text": "and his brothers (The Jackson 5, save for Jermaine, who would remain with Motown) left for CBS Records a year later. This album displayed a change in musical style for the 16-year-old, who adopted a smoother soul sound that he would continue to develop on his later solo records for Epic Records. Most of the tracks were recorded in 1974, and the album was originally set to be released that year. However, because of demand from the Jackson 5's huge hit \"Dancing Machine\", production on Jackson's album was delayed until the hype from that song died down. The album helped", "title": "Forever, Michael" }, { "id": "16330924", "text": "50 Best Songs – The Motown Years: Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5 50 Best Songs – The Motown Years: Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5 (also known as 50 Best Songs or The Motown Years) is a 3-disc compilation box set by American singer Michael Jackson, and the group The Jackson 5, released on 2008 by Universal Motown Records celebrating Jackson's 50 birthday. The 50-track album features all of the hits through the Motown years from both the Jackson 5 with \"ABC\", \"I Want You Back\", \"Never Can Say Goodbye\" and Michael's solo material including \"You've Got a Friend\",", "title": "50 Best Songs – The Motown Years: Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4504776", "text": "within the group, their name was changed to \"The Jackson 5\". After a couple of years performing in talent contests and high school functions, Joseph booked them in more and more respectable venues until they landed a spot at the renowned Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City. On November 21, 1967, \"The Jackson 5\" were signed by Jackson to their first professional contract with Gordon Keith, owner and first president of Steeltown Records in Gary, Indiana. The group's first single \"Big Boy,\" with Michael as the lead singer, was released by Keith on January 31, 1968 on the Steeltown", "title": "Joe Jackson (manager)" }, { "id": "13521569", "text": "the band's fourth number-one single, making them the first recording act to have their first four singles reach the top of the Hot 100, and all four were almost as popular in other countries as they were in the United States. The group released a succession of four albums in one year and replaced the Supremes as Motown's best-selling group. They continued their success with singles such as \"Mama's Pearl\", \"Never Can Say Goodbye\", and \"Sugar Daddy\", giving them a total of seven top-ten singles within a two-year period. The Jackson Five became Motown's main marketing focus and the label", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "6615715", "text": "sons, and then changed the name of the band to The Jackson Five by 1966, remaining the group's manager. As their father he was a very strict disciplinarian and had an abusive nature and as their manager he enforced long practice sessions of singing and dancing in hopes of preparing them to make it big one day. In August 1967, the group made a debut at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York where they won the Amateur Night contest. Gordon Keith, the owner and producer at Steeltown Records in Gary, Indiana, discovered the \"Jackson Five\" and signed them to", "title": "Jackson family" }, { "id": "4853110", "text": "Name of Love\". The Jackson 5 essentially replaced The Supremes as Motown's main focus in the early 1970s, although Diana Ross, who left the group for a solo career not long before the release of this single, was publicized as having discovered the Jackson 5. Others claim that Bobby Taylor, who produced the Jackson 5's first album at Motown and was lead singer of Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, discovered the Jackson 5 and brought them to Berry Gordy's attention. Taylor had shepherded them through their first couple of hits in L.A., but Gordy (according to Taylor) felt the material", "title": "The Love You Save" }, { "id": "10183704", "text": "I Got the Feelin' \"I Got the Feelin'\" is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single in 1968, it reached #1 on the R&B chart and #6 on the pop chart. It also appeared on a 1968 album of the same name. The Jackson 5 auditioned for Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1968 with a filmed performance of \"I Got the Feelin'\", with the ten-year-old Michael Jackson closely mimicking Brown's vocal style and dance moves. In 1986, the song was prominently featured in the third-season episode of \"The Cosby Show\" entitled \"Golden Anniversary\", with most of the", "title": "I Got the Feelin'" }, { "id": "2107531", "text": "and a Chink\" (or, bowing to pressure, \"Four N's and a C\") before taking on the moniker Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers. In 1965, the Vancouvers signed with Gordy Records (a subsidiary of Detroit's Motown Records). They recorded their debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition, \"Does Your Mama Know About Me,\" which peaked at number 29 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. While on tour in Chicago for a short time, the band followed opening act the Jackson 5. Chong later referred to the young Michael Jackson as a \"cute little guy\". After the", "title": "Tommy Chong" }, { "id": "4871462", "text": "thanked the \"lovely Gladys Knight, (who) extended a helping hand to our family, by calling Motown Executives and talking their ear off to take time out of their schedule and meet with us. She believed in us before others. Always grateful to her.\"(Gladys Knight also said she brought the Jackson 5 to Motown's attention.) But Ross embraced her assigned role and helped promote the group, especially grooming young Michael Jackson as a star. Motown CEO Berry Gordy brought the group to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio in Detroit, Michigan, and assigned them to work with Bobby Taylor as their producer. Taylor,", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "109704", "text": "book of the same name. The Motown Sound played an important role in the crossover appeal with popular music, since it was the first African American owned record label to primarily feature African-American artists. Gordy moved Motown to Los Angeles in 1972 to pursue film production, but the company has since returned to Detroit. Aretha Franklin, another Detroit R&B star, carried the Motown Sound; however, she did not record with Berry's Motown Label. Local artists and bands rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s including: the MC5, The Stooges, Bob Seger, Amboy Dukes featuring Ted Nugent, Mitch Ryder and", "title": "Detroit" }, { "id": "4558008", "text": "Vancouvers had a local-area family band, The Jackson 5, as their opening act. Impressed with the group, Taylor personally brought them to Detroit and the Motown offices, arranging an audition for them with Motown executive Suzanne de Passe. de Passe and Berry Gordy were impressed with the Jacksons, and the group was signed to the label within a year. They released two further singles, \"I Am Your Man,\" (US #85, US R&B #40, Can. #80) produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and the Smokey Robinson-written and produced \"Malinda\" (US #48, US R&B #16, Can. #59).The Vancouvers ended up performing", "title": "Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers" }, { "id": "2251918", "text": "released on January 31, 1968. After the group recorded three more songs with the Steeltown label (on two records) they were signed with Berry Gordy of Motown Records in 1969. As the co-lead singer of The Jackson 5 after his brother Michael, Jermaine sang notable parts of \"I Want You Back\", \"ABC\", \"I'll Be There\", \"The Love You Save\", \"Dancing Machine\", and many other Jackson 5 songs. Jermaine performed as part of the group for six years. Not feeling that they were being paid fair royalties by Motown Records for their success as well as their desire for creative control,", "title": "Jermaine Jackson" }, { "id": "2539580", "text": "The Miracles The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history. Formed in 1955 by Smokey Robinson, Warren \"Pete\" Moore, and Ronnie White, the group started off as the Five Chimes, changing their name to the Matadors two years later. The group then settled on the Miracles after the inclusion of Claudette Robinson in 1958. The most", "title": "The Miracles" }, { "id": "1587476", "text": "50 Cent Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, television producer, entrepreneur, and investor. Born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of the borough of Queens, Jackson began selling drugs at age twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic. He later began pursuing a musical career and in 2000 he produced \"Power of the Dollar\" for Columbia Records, but days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. In 2002, after Jackson released the compilation album \"Guess Who's Back?\", he was discovered by Eminem", "title": "50 Cent" }, { "id": "4871464", "text": "Disney film \"Song of the South\". The Jackson 5 also re-recorded \"You've Changed\", a song they first recorded in 1967 which was released on the B side of their first local hit single \"Big Boy\" for the Steeltown label before joining the Motown roster. All of the songs Taylor recorded with the Jackson 5 during these summer 1969 sessions held close to the group's traditional R&B/soul sound, a sound somewhat less pop-aware than Motown's signature \"Motown Sound\". Of these recordings, the most famous became the cover of \"Who's Lovin' You\", with Michael Jackson re-delivering Smokey Robinson's often-covered plea for the", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4852970", "text": "Matthews also formulated the vocal sextet Celebration, which released an album on Motown's Mowest label, in an attempt to replicate the success of the 5th Dimension. Richards died of esophageal cancer on March 24, 2013 at age 68. Deke Richards Deke Richards (born Dennis Lussier, April 8, 1944 – March 24, 2013), also known as Deke Lussier, was an American songwriter and record producer who was affiliated with Motown. He was a member of both The Clan and The Corporation, the latter a production team that wrote and produced some of The Jackson 5's early hits. He was born in", "title": "Deke Richards" }, { "id": "4871466", "text": "a version of Bobby Taylor's own \"Oh, I've Been Blessed\". These recordings would turn up on various Jackson 5 compilations, and virtually all of them were included on the boxed set \"Soulsation!\". In August 1969, Berry Gordy decided to take a more direct role in the Jackson 5's career. He had the Jacksons and their father, Joseph, move from Detroit to Los Angeles, California, where Gordy had a satellite studio (the Motown operation would move to Los Angeles by 1972). Taylor followed the group, and continued to work on the cover songs. During this period, Gordy came across \"I Want", "title": "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4689099", "text": "The Jacksons: An American Dream The Jacksons: An American Dream is a four-hour American miniseries broadcast in two halves on ABC and originally broadcast on November 15 through November 18, 1992. It is based upon the history of the Jackson family, one of the most successful musical families in show business, and the early and successful years of the popular Motown group The Jackson 5. The miniseries was executive produced by Suzanne de Passe and Stan Marguiles, produced by Joyce Eliason, Jermaine Jackson and Margaret Maldonado and directed by Karen Arthur. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh,", "title": "The Jacksons: An American Dream" }, { "id": "18692748", "text": "after the renaming, Berry Gordy signed the group on to his new recording company Motown. The group's first hit came with the release of the single \"Do You Love Me\" in 1962. The group also achieved success with the songs \"Shake Sherry\" and \"That Day When She Needed Me\" in 1963 and 1964. In 1964, within a matter of two weeks, Johnson along with Billingslea, Gordon, Hoggs and Contours newcomer Sylvester Potts decided to part from Motown. Johnson began undergoing treatment for mental health in 1980. Johnson was battling from depression amongst other illnesses. On July 11, 1981, Johnson was", "title": "Hubert Johnson (musician)" }, { "id": "1446996", "text": "students wanted me to play Spooky Tooth and Velvet Underground. Things don't change. Nowadays, of course, Motown is hip.\" Despite losing Holland–Dozier–Holland, Norman Whitfield, and some of its other hitmakers by 1975, Motown still had a number of successful artists during the 1970s and 1980s, including Lionel Richie and the Commodores, Rick James, Teena Marie, the Dazz Band, Jose Feliciano and DeBarge. By the mid-1980s Motown had started losing money, and Berry Gordy sold his ownership in Motown to MCA Records (which began a US distribution deal with the label in 1983) and Boston Ventures in June 1988 for $61", "title": "Motown" }, { "id": "1361349", "text": "was titled \"Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5\". It was actually Motown producer Bobby Taylor who discovered the Jacksons. Even so, Ross embraced the role and became a good friend of Michael Jackson, serving as a mother figure to him. In 2006, Diana was one of 25 African-American women saluted at Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball, a three-day celebration, honoring their contributions to art, entertainment, and civil rights. Diana Ross was named one of the Five Mighty Pop Divas of the Sixties along with Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves, and Dionne Warwick. On November 16, 2016, Ross was announced as", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "id": "13521566", "text": "and \"We Don't Have to Be Over 21\". During early 1968, the group also performed at strip clubs on Joe's behest to earn extra income. They performed a week-long run of shows at the Regal Theater as the opening act for Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, and Taylor sent them to Detroit to help with their Motown audition, which was set for July 23 at Motown's headquarters on Woodward Avenue. The taped audition was sent to Berry Gordy's office in Hollywood, but Gordy turned them down again, since he had Stevie Wonder in his spotlight. He changed his mind, however,", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "id": "4688546", "text": "Suzanne de Passe Suzanne Celeste de Passe (born July 19, 1946) is an American television, music and film producer as well as the co-chairwoman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group. De Passe began her career in show business at the Cheetah nightclub in New York City. Through her friendship with Cindy Birdsong, who replaced Florence Ballard as a member of The Supremes in 1967, she began working at Motown as Creative Assistant to company founder, Berry Gordy. Early in her career, de Passe developed Michael Jackson and his brothers (The Jackson 5)'s wardrobe and the act they took on the", "title": "Suzanne de Passe" }, { "id": "2251917", "text": "his father worked long hours as a crane operator, Jermaine and his brothers, Tito and Jackie, secretly practiced their own songs using their father's guitar. Jermaine became the original lead singer of the Jackson Brothers—an earlier incarnation of The Jackson Five until 1966, when younger brother Michael began singing lead. Jermaine would continue to provide some leads over the years. Jermaine graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California in 1973. Jermaine and his brothers first signed as The Jackson Five with Gordon Keith of Steeltown Records in November 1967, and their first single \"Big Boy\", was", "title": "Jermaine Jackson" }, { "id": "11811386", "text": "siblings changed to performing secular music after gospel music labels didn't know how to market them. After making the move to Los Angeles, DeBarge signed with a small label Source Records- much to Bunny's chagrin. She asked the record company CEO to let them out of their contract, to which he obliged. Their older brother Bobby DeBarge set up a meeting with Jermaine Jackson and Hazel Gordy to sign with Motown as Jermaine and Hazel were also responsible for bringing Switch to the label. Due to them still being contractually obligated to another label at the time, they couldn't speak", "title": "In a Special Way" }, { "id": "15348613", "text": "her graduation, Teairra Marí has enjoyed a successful career, including her hit single \"Make Her Feel Good\" in 2005. One of the highlights of Detroit's musical history was the success of Motown Records during the 1960s and early 1970s. The label was founded in the late 1950s was founded by auto plant worker Berry Gordy, and was originally known as Tamla Records. As Motown, it became home to some of the most popular recording acts in the world, including Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves", "title": "Music of Detroit" }, { "id": "109703", "text": "legendary record label. Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Motown Records which rose to prominence during the 1960s and early 1970s with acts such as Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Diana Ross & The Supremes, the Jackson 5, Martha and the Vandellas, The Spinners, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Marvelettes, The Elgins, The Monitors, The Velvelettes and Marvin Gaye. Artists were backed by in-house vocalists The Andantes and The Funk Brothers, the Motown house band that was featured in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's", "title": "Detroit" }, { "id": "12681947", "text": "Gordy family The Gordys are an African-American family of businesspeople and music industry executives. They were born to Georgia-reared parents Berry \"Pops\" Gordy Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy and raised in Detroit, where most of the siblings played a pivotal role in the international acceptance of rhythm and blues music as a crossover phenomenon in the 1960s. The accomplishment is attributable to the creation of Motown, a company founded by the seventh-oldest sibling, Berry Gordy Jr. As a couple, Berry and Bertha owned several businesses, including a successful painting business that they established, and a construction firm. Berry Sr. (or", "title": "Gordy family" }, { "id": "1308305", "text": "African American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success. Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original group, are all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit. They formed the Primettes as the sister act to the Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form the Temptations). Barbara Martin replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the following year as the Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson carried on as a trio. During the mid-1960s, the Supremes achieved mainstream success with", "title": "The Supremes" }, { "id": "17445052", "text": "Liz Lands Elizabeth Lands (February 11, 1939 – January 11, 2013) was an American soul singer. She grew up in New York City before moving to Detroit. Her purported five octave vocal range started her Motown career before Berry Gordy tried to make a name for her in the R&B/Pop market. She left Motown in 1965, and recorded two singles for T & L Records. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Lands re-emerged and Ian Levine recorded her for his Motorcity label. In September 1964, nearly a year after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lands recorded a vocal tribute", "title": "Liz Lands" }, { "id": "7093210", "text": "MC Trouble LaTasha Sheron Rogers (July 30, 1970 – June 4, 1991), better known as MC Trouble, was a rap artist, and the first female rapper signed to Motown Records. MC Trouble had a minor hit with the song \"(I Wanna) Make You Mine\" featuring The Good Girls, released May 25, 1990. \"Make You Mine\" peaked at number 15 on \"Billboard\" magazine's Hot Rap Singles chart. The title track of her debut album \"Gotta Get a Grip\" was released as the second single on September 14, 1990. \"Gotta Get a Grip\" was a mix of hardcore rap and more commercial", "title": "MC Trouble" }, { "id": "2251915", "text": "reformed as \"The Jacksons\", Jermaine stayed with Motown, due to loyalty to Motown founder Berry Gordy, whose daughter he had married, and was replaced in the group by youngest brother Randy. He rejoined the group in 1983, and has remained with them since, through various breakups and reunions. Jermaine also had a solo career concurrent with his brother Michael's, and had a number of top-30 hits throughout the 1970s and '80s. He also produced and recorded duets with American singer Whitney Houston in her early years as a recording artist, and was a producer for the band Switch. Jackson was", "title": "Jermaine Jackson" }, { "id": "1963434", "text": "\"Billboard\" pop charts on January 16, 1961 (No. 1 pop, Cash Box), which established Motown as an independent company worthy of notice. Later in 1961, the Marvelettes' \"Please Mr. Postman\" made it to the top of both charts. Gordy's gift for identifying and bringing together musical talent, along with the careful management of his artists' public image, made Motown initially a major national and then international success. Over the next decade, he signed such artists as the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin, the Contours, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Commodores, the Velvelettes, Martha and", "title": "Berry Gordy" }, { "id": "12647491", "text": "Johnny Gill and Queen Latifah. In early 1989, he was able to sign Diana Ross back to Motown after she left for RCA Records in 1981. Busby retained artists such as Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, and helped create hits from them and for Ross. When Polygram Records bought Motown for $301 million in 1993, Busby was retained as president. By 1990, the label had five songs reach number one on the R&B charts. Busby was appointed head of the black music division at DreamWorks Records in 1998. He left DreamWorks in 2001. He was named president of", "title": "Jheryl Busby" }, { "id": "1309084", "text": "Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris (\"né\" Judkins; born May 13, 1950), better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, Wonder is considered to be one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century. Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, and he continued performing and recording for Motown into the 2010s. He has been blind since shortly after his birth. Among Wonder's works are singles such as \"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours\", \"Superstition\", \"Sir Duke\", \"You Are", "title": "Stevie Wonder" }, { "id": "1446997", "text": "million. In 1989, Gordy sold the Motown Productions TV/film operations to Motown executive Suzanne de Passe, who renamed the company de Passe Entertainment and continues to run it . During the 1990s, Motown was home to successful recording artists such as Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, although the company itself remained in a state of turmoil. MCA appointed a revolving door of executives to run the company, beginning with Berry Gordy's immediate successor, Jheryl Busby. Busby quarreled with MCA, alleging that the company did not give Motown's product adequate attention or promotion. In 1991, Motown sued MCA to have", "title": "Motown" }, { "id": "5452233", "text": "8 - McFadden, Whitehead and Victor Carstarphen Michael leads the tracks 4–6 and 9–10 on his own while he and his brother Jackie lead the vocals on tracks 1–3 and 7. All the brothers (except Tito) sing together on track 8. The Jacksons (album) The Jacksons is the eleventh studio album by the Jacksons, the band's first album for CBS and under the name \"the Jacksons,\" following their seven-year tenure at Motown as \"the Jackson 5\". Jackson 5 member Jermaine Jackson stayed with Motown when his brothers broke their contracts and left for Epic he was replaced by youngest Jackson", "title": "The Jacksons (album)" }, { "id": "4704902", "text": "King suggested the name the Four Tops, to go along with their original goal of shooting for the stars and reaching the top. They became a popular local performing group but recording success eluded them until they signed with the newly established Tamla Motown Records in 1963. They soon became one of the biggest recording groups of the sixties, with 14 charted hits through till the early eighties. They are listed in Billboard Magazines \"Top 100 Artists Of All Time\". Fakir was a guest on the \"Not My Job\" segment of the NPR radio show \"Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me\" taped", "title": "Abdul \"Duke\" Fakir" }, { "id": "1427569", "text": "next year, Reeves announced plans of starting a solo career. At the same time, Motown Records moved its operations to Los Angeles. When Reeves did not want to move, she negotiated out of her contract with Motown, signing with MCA in 1974, and releasing the critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, \"Martha Reeves\". Despite rave reviews of her work, neither of Reeves' post-Vandellas/Motown recordings produced the same success as they had the decade before. After living what she called \"a rock & roll lifestyle\" of prescription pills, cocaine and alcohol, Reeves sobered up in 1977, overcoming her addictions and becoming a", "title": "Martha and the Vandellas" } ]

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[ { "id": "3841935", "text": "of all time in Reno, Nevada. After Harrah's death in 1984, the auction catalogue advertised the lot as having a carnation red body with white top and created from parts of a Ford Model T, a Maxwell, a Hudson and a Chevrolet. Harrah's F.R.P. is, since 1994, at the Seal Cove Auto Museum on Mount Desert Island in Maine. As of 2012 the stunt Porter is located at the Star Cars Museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. On September 3, 2017 the car sold at the Dragone auction, part of the Historic Festival 35 at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, CT for", "title": "My Mother the Car" }, { "id": "5560546", "text": "skin color or gender. The main theater in Harrah's Reno was named \"Sammy's Showroom\" after entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. (whose Duesenberg replica now resides in the museum that bears Harrah's name), and actor-comedian Bill Cosby recalls Harrah as a good friend. The William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration is named after him. Harrah had an extensive collection of cars. Many of his cars enjoyed 'best' or 'one-of-a kind' status. Some notable mentions in his collection were the two Bugatti Type 41s, a Phantom Corsair, two Ferraris among several others. In 1966 his 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Coupe de Ville", "title": "William F. Harrah" }, { "id": "5395109", "text": "National Automobile Museum The National Automobile Museum, located just south of the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada, displays historic automobiles from the late 19th century and from throughout the 20th. Most of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of the late casino owner William F. Harrah, and so the museum is sometimes referred to as The Harrah Collection. The museum opened in 1989. William F. Harrah had collected approximately 1,450 automobiles, which he stored inside warehouses in Sparks, Nevada. It was the world's largest collection of historic automobiles, and was opened to the public. When Harrah died in 1978,", "title": "National Automobile Museum" }, { "id": "5560547", "text": "won Best of Show at Pebble Beach. After his death Holiday Inn acquired Harrah's of which the car collection was part of. The bulk of the collection were sold at several auctions between 1984-1986 for more than $100 million. An outcry by the people of Reno and Sparks led to Holiday Inn donating 175 vehicles to establish the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, a collection also referred to as The Harrah Collection. Some cars were also donated to form the Imperial Palace Auto Collection in Las Vegas. Harrah was married seven times to six women, including the singer-songwriter Bobbie", "title": "William F. Harrah" }, { "id": "5395113", "text": "named in the 'Top Ten Museums' by \"Car Collector\" magazine, one of \"America's Five Greatest Automobile Museums\" and one of the top sixteen auto museums in the world by \"AutoWeek\", and has been repeatedly selected as the best museum in Northern Nevada by \"Nevada Magazine\"'s annual reader's poll. National Automobile Museum The National Automobile Museum, located just south of the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada, displays historic automobiles from the late 19th century and from throughout the 20th. Most of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of the late casino owner William F. Harrah, and so the museum is", "title": "National Automobile Museum" }, { "id": "5560538", "text": "William F. Harrah William Fisk Harrah (September 2, 1911 – June 30, 1978) was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos, now part of Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Harrah was born in South Pasadena, California, the son of an attorney and politician. From his early years, Harrah was a driven individual. When the car his father bought him was stolen and stripped he vowed to his sister that one day he would own a duplicate of every automobile the family had ever owned. Now, there is a William F. Harrah Automobile Museum in downtown Reno, Nevada. He", "title": "William F. Harrah" }, { "id": "5721190", "text": "1959, at a cost of $3.5 million. This 750-seat showroom, whose opening act was comedian Red Skelton, made entertainment a priority at Harrah's. In 1963, Barry Keenan, Joseph Amsler and John Irwin abducted Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 19-year-old son of singer Frank Sinatra, after his performance at the South Shore Room opening for George Jessel. Portions of the Bette Midler film \"Jinxed!\" were shot on location at the hotel in summer 1981 for the summer 1982 release of the film. Other locations used in the film were Harrah's in Reno and the Harrah's Auto Museum also in Reno. Harrah had", "title": "Harrah's Lake Tahoe" }, { "id": "367121", "text": "distribution facilities for Amazon, Walmart, Petsmart and Zulily. According to Reno's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Reno has a number of museums. The Nevada Museum of Art is the only American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The National Automobile Museum contains 200 cars that were from the collection of William F. Harrah, including Elvis Presley's 1973 Cadillac Eldorado. Reno also hosts a number of music venues, such as the Nevada Opera, the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Reno Pops", "title": "Reno, Nevada" }, { "id": "11646325", "text": "free admission to the public, the Riverside's extensive collection is an offshoot of the famous Harrah's collection. One longtime exhibit, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro nicknamed \"Big Red\" and specially prepared for road racing, has been returned to service and was the cover story of the May, 2005 edition of \"Hot Rod Magazine\". The largest expansion came in 1994 with the addition of 800 more rooms for a current total of 1405 rooms. A bowling center, the only one in Laughlin, was constructed in 1999. Mr. Laughlin also helped finance the construction of a bridge over the Colorado River between the", "title": "Don Laughlin" }, { "id": "17206915", "text": "was sold to collector Bill Harrah for $947,000, which included 68 motorized vehicles and three that were horse-drawn. The museum building, designed by the Little Rock firm of Ginocchio, Carter, Cromwell and Neylan, and 57-acre grounds were donated to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. A new non-profit corporation was formed and reopened the Museum in 1976 with cars on loan from collectors around the country, leasing the building from the state. Today the museum features over 30 automobiles that were donated to the collection. It also retains several cars from Rockefeller's personal vehicles: the 1951 Cadillac that he", "title": "Museum of Automobiles" }, { "id": "5395110", "text": "Holiday Inn acquired his hotel-casino company and the automobile collection. In 1981, Holiday Inn announced that it would sell the entire collection, a decision that received some opposition. Nevada governor Robert List attempted to delay the sale while working on a plan to have the state enact legislation that would save the collection. Businessman Thomas Perkins later led a group that was interested in purchasing the collection. Both efforts to save the collection failed. However, a nonprofit organization was formed that ultimately resulted in the construction of the museum. Holiday Inn donated 175 of Harrah's automobiles to the group, while", "title": "National Automobile Museum" }, { "id": "20654052", "text": "are also sites with numerous armoured vehicles, sometimes referred to as a tank graveyard. Another notable specialized vehicles graveyard is the race car graveyard located in North Carolina owned by NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., which became the final resting place for cars such as Juan Pablo Montoya's 2012 Daytona 500 car that collided with a jet dryer during the race. Automobile graveyard An automobile graveyard is a place in which road vehicles reside while waiting to be destroyed or recycled or are left abandoned and decaying. There are numerous automobile graveyards that can be found around the world. The", "title": "Automobile graveyard" }, { "id": "285596", "text": "North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its economic performance, particularly with the oil extraction from the Bakken formation, which lies beneath the northwestern", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "id": "666436", "text": "Galleria at Crystal Run, in Wallkill; the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Monroe; and the Orange County Fair in Wallkill. The only state parks include Goosepond Mountain State Park, Harriman State Park and Sterling Forest State Park. It is also the location of Orange County Choppers, the custom motorcycle shop featured on The Discovery Channel television series \"American Chopper\". Orange County, New York Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 372,813. The county seat is Goshen. This county was first created in 1683 and reorganized with", "title": "Orange County, New York" }, { "id": "285665", "text": "stations open to community programming are offered on cable systems in Bismarck, Dickinson, Fargo, and Jamestown. North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "id": "20904107", "text": "Dennis Albaugh Dennis Ray Albaugh (born 1949 or 1950) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Albaugh LLC, a pesticide and fertilizer company. He is a car collector, especially Chevrolets, and owns one of the biggest collections of Chevy convertibles in the US. Albaugh is the son of Dean Floyd Albaugh and Lorna Lee Albaugh (née Markert, 1929–2017). His parents farmed near Rockwell City and Somers, Iowa, and later moved to rural Elkhart and Ankeny. He is the second of four children: Mickey, Dennis, Sheryl, and Roland. Albaugh was born in Marco Island, Florida, and was", "title": "Dennis Albaugh" }, { "id": "367089", "text": "Reno, Nevada Reno ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe. Known as \"The Biggest Little City in the World\", Reno is famous for its hotels and casinos and as the birthplace of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesars Entertainment Corporation). It is the county seat of Washoe County, in the northwestern part of the state. The city sits in a high desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its downtown area (along with Sparks) occupies a valley informally known as the Truckee", "title": "Reno, Nevada" }, { "id": "531914", "text": "who live on a family farm in fictional Hazzard County, Georgia, with their attractive female cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach) and their wise old Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle). The Duke boys race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, dubbed \"(The) General Lee\", evading crooked and corrupt county commissioner Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and his bumbling and corrupt Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (James Best) along with his deputy(s), and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area. Bo and Luke had previously been sentenced to probation for", "title": "The Dukes of Hazzard" }, { "id": "11128952", "text": "named the \"Oyster\", the car was soon called the Razor Blade. The car was driven by S. C. H. Davis for the attempt at the one-hour light car record. The car lapped consistently at the Brooklands circuit at 103–104 mph but the front offside tyre came off and after having a new tyre fitted, the same wheel shed its tyre several more times at speeds higher than , until the record attempt was abandoned. The Razor Blade was raced regularly during the 1950s and was sold to the Harrah Motor Museum in the USA, that subsequently became the National Automobile", "title": "Razor Blade" }, { "id": "18718046", "text": "United States Army at its Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland but ultimately not purchased, although all three of them are believed to have survived. After discovering an abandoned Divan in 1967, Tom Wilson of Ypsilanti, Michigan founded the Davis Registry in 1993 to identify and locate surviving Davis vehicles. 1948 Divans are owned and displayed by both the Lane Motor Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum, the latter of which was featured in an exhibition entitled \"What Were They Thinking? The Misfits of Motordom\". In April 2015, the Petersen Automotive Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for restoring its", "title": "Davis Divan" }, { "id": "411958", "text": "national park, is headquartered in the eastern part of the state, and a section of the Appalachian Trail roughly follows the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Other major tourist attractions include the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga; Dollywood in Pigeon Forge; Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies and Ober Gatlinburg in Gatlinburg; the Parthenon, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg; Elvis Presley's Graceland residence and tomb, the Memphis Zoo, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis; and Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol. The earliest variant of the name that became \"Tennessee\"", "title": "Tennessee" }, { "id": "367140", "text": "town. Reno has eight sister cities: Reno, Nevada Reno ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe. Known as \"The Biggest Little City in the World\", Reno is famous for its hotels and casinos and as the birthplace of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesars Entertainment Corporation). It is the county seat of Washoe County, in the northwestern part of the state. The city sits in a high desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its downtown area (along with Sparks) occupies a", "title": "Reno, Nevada" }, { "id": "3841934", "text": "Hampton. It was used on an episode of \"Arrested Development\" also called \"My Mother, the Car\". The show began with a black and white pilot, which was later totally re-filmed. This pilot did not originally air, but has been shown several times on Canadian television. Network censors insisted that one particular scene be deleted where the car backfired. The 1928 Porter used in \"My Mother the Car\" is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and owned by Dave Bodnar. The stunt car was once owned by casino giant William Harrah, who had one of the largest special-interest and antique auto collections", "title": "My Mother the Car" }, { "id": "1834904", "text": "I'm not here any more,\" he said. During the late 1990s, O'Connor established a small automotive restoration shop in Newbury Park, California. Called \"Carroll O'Connor Classics\", the shop contained many of O'Connor's personal vehicles and the cars once owned by his late son. Among the cars O'Connor owned were a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow sold to him by William Harrah, a Maserati 3500 GT, and a Dodge Challenger equipped with the 440-cubic inch V-8 that was the car he drove during production of \"All in the Family\". In 1997, the O'Connors donated US$1 million (worth $ today) to their alma mater", "title": "Carroll O'Connor" }, { "id": "1223604", "text": "of some of the first commercial recordings of country music, showcasing Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and later a favorite venue of the mountain musician Uncle Charlie Osborne. The U.S. Congress recognized Bristol as the \"Birthplace of Country Music\" in 1998, and the Birthplace of Country Music Museum is located in Bristol. Bristol is the birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford. Bristol is also the site of Bristol Motor Speedway, a NASCAR short track that is one of the most well-known motorsports facilities in the country. The U.S. Congress declared Bristol to be the \"Birthplace of Country Music\", according to", "title": "Bristol, Tennessee" }, { "id": "18906952", "text": "Silverstone Circuit sits on the northern boundary of the district with South Northamptonshire, and the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is located near Quainton. Aylesbury is home to the County Museum (which includes the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery), and Buckingham features the Old Gaol Museum. Aylesbury Vale The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of gently rolling agricultural landscape located in the northern half of Buckinghamshire, England. Its boundary is marked by the Borough of Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire to the north, Central Bedfordshire and the Borough of Dacorum (Hertfordshire) to the east, the Chiltern Hills and", "title": "Aylesbury Vale" }, { "id": "6226963", "text": "the next oldest being, at only three weeks newer by date of manufacture, the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's own restored original Bleriot XI (Bleriot factory serial number 56, with civil registration N60094) in the United States. Also resident, but privately owned: Avro Anson (BAE Systems) There is also a collection of tractors. Shuttleworth Collection The Shuttleworth Collection is an aeronautical and automotive museum located at the Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England. It is one of the most prestigious in the world due to the variety of old and well-preserved aircraft. The collection was founded in 1928 by aviator", "title": "Shuttleworth Collection" }, { "id": "12697663", "text": "next to the Stateline Country Club, from 1954 to 1956. In 1955, Bill Harrah had purchased George's Gateway Club, across U.S. Highway 50 from the Stateline Country Club, and after a successful couple of years was able to persuade the businessmen to give up their lease so Nick Sahati could sell the property to Harrah. In 1958, Nick Sahati did just that, for the same $350,000 he purchased it for. Eventually, Harrah also purchased Beecher's Nevada Club, allowing him to expand all the way to the actual state line. Harrah's Lake Tahoe now sits on the site. Stateline Country Club", "title": "Stateline Country Club" }, { "id": "10087436", "text": "the loss of his pets (including a rabbit) and for $7000 cash which he claimed had also been in the apartment. A judge dismissed the case, calling him full of \"chutzpah\". Authorities decided to move the seized animals to more appropriate housing: Ming was sent to Noah's Lost Ark Animal Sanctuary in Berlin Center, Ohio, while Al was given a new home in Indiana. , Yates lives in Las Vegas with 22 big cats, including four tigers, having redubbed himself \"Antoine Tigermann Yates\". He established the Reach Out And Respond (ROAR) Foundation in 2011. In October 2010, the story of", "title": "Ming of Harlem" }, { "id": "361348", "text": "Agriculture-related industries such as meat packing and ethanol production also have a considerable economic impact on the state. South Dakota is the sixth leading ethanol-producing state in the nation. Another important sector in South Dakota's economy is tourism. Many travel to view the attractions of the state, particularly those in the Black Hills region, such as historic Deadwood, Mount Rushmore, and the nearby state and national parks. One of the largest tourist events in the state is the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The five-day event drew over 739,000 attendees in 2015; significant considering the state has a total population of", "title": "South Dakota" }, { "id": "16619066", "text": "is affectionately called (Kanchhi). '4GR', in black metal, is worn as regimental signage on the shoulder straps by all ranks. The official, and correct, spelling of 'gorkha', since February 1949, is Gorkha, and not Goorkha, Goorkah, or Gurkha, as the British and Tata motors still choose to spell it, or Ghurka, as the American retailer of luxury leather bags and 'fine men's accessories' has, profitably, chosen to spell it. In early 1963, the still forming 5/4 GR, moved by rail from Ambala, to Bakloh, District Pathankot, Punjab (district Chamba in the state of Himachal Pradesh, after Reorganization of Punjab in", "title": "5th Battalion, 4 Gorkha Rifles" }, { "id": "1044376", "text": "largest in the Archdiocese of Chicago in terms of burials, is the resting place of German immigrant Fredrak Fraske (1872–1973), who was the last surviving veteran of the \"Indian Wars\". St. Adalbert's is also the location of the Halas Family mausoleum, and is the final resting place of George Halas, former head coach of the Chicago Bears. The world headquarters of the Bradford Group, a major collectibles company, is located on Milwaukee Avenue. St. John Brebeuf Catholic Church was the first Catholic parish in Niles. Golf Mill Shopping Center opened in 1960 and is still the largest shopping center in", "title": "Niles, Illinois" }, { "id": "3844388", "text": "to walking and cycling, pass through town and there are many bushwalks and four-wheel drive tracks. Quorn is home to country music artist Jedd Hughes, and was the birthplace of politician Brian Harradine and champion SANFL footballer Fos Williams. Former Australian of the year and AC, CBE, Lowitja O'Donoghue also spent a huge portion of her childhood at the Aboriginal mission in Quorn at the Colebrook Children's Home. Quorn is a stopover for many travellers coming via Adelaide to explore the Flinders Ranges. The tourist office on the main street, manned by volunteers every week day, provides free information, maps", "title": "Quorn, South Australia" }, { "id": "2446726", "text": "in Saint-Tropez. In an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in February 2008, it was reported that Hammond had moved briefly from Gloucestershire to Buckinghamshire, then back again, because he missed the country life. In October 2012, it was reported he had spent over £2 million buying Bollitree Castle which is situated near Weston under Penyard, Ross-on-Wye. It has been rumoured he has also bought a large house in the small town of Wantage, Oxfordshire. Hammond currently owns or has owned many different cars including: Cars known not to be in Hammond's possession anymore: Hammond is a keen motorcyclist, having ridden", "title": "Richard Hammond" }, { "id": "1825424", "text": "periods of history, depending on the American region. The \"Americanization\" of foreign ethnic groups and the inter-racial diversity of millions of Americans has been a fundamental part of its history, especially on frontiers where different groups of people came together. The former President of the United States, Barack Obama, is a multiracial American, as he is the son of a European American mother and a Luo father from Kenya. He acknowledges both parents. His official White House biography describes him as African American. In Hawai'i, the U.S. state in which he was born, he would be called \"hapa\", which is", "title": "Multiracial" }, { "id": "11928895", "text": "Thursford Collection The Thursford Collection is a museum located in Thursford, Norfolk. Founded by local man George Cushing, it is now known for the scale of its collection of steam engines, organs and fairground attractions, and its annual Christmas spectacular show, which draws over 100,000 people to the Norfolk countryside. The Thursford Collection is a registered charity under English law. George Thomas Henry Cushing MBE was born at Thursford on 25 March 1904, the son of a farm labourer. After leaving school aged 12, he became a farmhand, but had developed a childhood fascination with steam engines. In 1920 he", "title": "Thursford Collection" }, { "id": "2509118", "text": "and roller/inlineskaters an opportunity to use the road. A number of streets and malls in New York City are now pedestrian-only, including 6 Avenue, Fulton Street, parts of Broadway, and a block of 25th Street. Fire Island in Suffolk County, New York is pedestrianised east of the Fire Island Lighthouse and west of Smith Point County Park (with the exception of emergency vehicles). Supai, Arizona, located within the Havasupai Indian Reservation is entirely car-free, the only community in the United States where mail is still carried out by mule. Supai is located eight miles from the nearest road, and is", "title": "Pedestrian zone" }, { "id": "1222900", "text": "heavy duty trucks, Dodge Caravan, Hummer H2, GMC Envoy, Chrysler 300C/Dodge Charger, and the Toyota Camry. Etowah also claims two other plants, Johns Manville and Huber, even though neither are actually located in the city limits. Etowah, Tennessee Etowah is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,490 at the 2010 census. Etowah was founded in 1906, primarily as a location for a depot on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) line as part of a more direct route between Atlanta and Cincinnati. The etymology of the town name is unclear, but local folklore states that", "title": "Etowah, Tennessee" }, { "id": "1017621", "text": "as Fontana Drag City or Fontana Drag Strip. The original Fontana strip is long since defunct, but the owners of NASCAR's new Auto Club Speedway opened a new NHRA-sanctioned drag strip in Fontana in mid-2006 to resurrect Fontana's drag-racing heritage. Ro-Val's automobile museum, located on Foothill Boulevard on the western outskirts between Fontana and Cucamonga, was for a while the home for many classic automobiles of the 1920s and '30s, including a huge vehicle once owned by screen actor Fatty Arbuckle. When the Ro-Val museum closed, the vehicles were sold to Bill Harrah, a Nevada casino owner and automobile collector,", "title": "Fontana, California" }, { "id": "3211899", "text": "film was followed by a direct-to-video prequel titled \"\" (2007). Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke run a moonshine business for their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard County, Georgia. The cousins' primary mode of transportation is an orange 1969 Dodge Charger that the boys affectionately refer to as the \"General Lee\". Along the way, the family is tormented by corrupt Hazzard County Commissioner Jefferson Davis Hogg, widely known as \"Boss Hogg\", and his willing but dimwitted henchman, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. After Rosco has the General Lee impounded after Bo and Luke’s attempt to run away from a daughter of one", "title": "The Dukes of Hazzard (film)" }, { "id": "4390516", "text": "ensemble announced that they plan to release a studio album entitled \"Rowyco\" in the latter part of the year. The album was released on August 5, 2016. Jackyl has set two Guinness world records, one for playing 100 concerts in 50 days, and one for performing 21 concerts in a 24-hour period. Dupree and Jackyl can now be seen regularly on TruTV's hit show \"Full Throttle Saloon\", a reality show which documents the happenings at the famous South Dakota saloon during the crazy days of the Sturgis bike rally. Dupree is close friends with the saloon owner, Mike Ballard, and", "title": "Jackyl" }, { "id": "8108947", "text": "to save him. Instead, Cooter is seen dragging Luke onto shore, while underwater, Bo discovers an abandoned 1969 Dodge Charger and believes it would be the perfect car for them. They retrieve the car from the pond, already in the iconic orange color with the Rebel Flag painted on the top. They clean, repair and repaint the car, and after adding their new engine, and The General Lee is reborn. The moonshine deliveries go well but before they raise enough money to pay off Hogg, the Boss declares Hazzard a dry county, and offers a $25,000 reward for anyone who", "title": "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning" }, { "id": "11750575", "text": "order, or some combination thereof. Other states like Indiana and Tennessee also once used the practice, with Tennessee discontinuing in the 1980s and Indiana in 2008. Only three places in the United States use letters to designate a residence where a vehicle was registered. In Hawaii, the license plates have a unique letter designation based on the island counties that residents purchased or registered the vehicles from; a vehicle with a registration number beginning with H or Z is registered in Hawai‘i County, one beginning with K is registered in Kaua‘i County, one beginning with M or L is registered", "title": "United States license plate designs and serial formats" }, { "id": "1398777", "text": "National Motor Museum, Beaulieu The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu (originally the Montagu Motor Museum) is a museum in the village of Beaulieu, set in the heart of the New Forest, in the English county of Hampshire. The museum was founded in 1952 by Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, as a tribute to his father, who was one of the great pioneers of motoring in the United Kingdom, being the first person to drive a motor car into the yard of the Houses of Parliament, and having introduced King Edward VII (then the Prince of Wales) to motoring during", "title": "National Motor Museum, Beaulieu" }, { "id": "116412", "text": "on bilateral relations with Kenya. Walde gave a statement to police, but was not detained due to his diplomatic immunity. Kenyan police say the case remains under investigation. On September 12, 2015, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani tried to claim diplomatic immunity when his Ferrari LaFerrari and a Porsche 911 GT3 were caught on camera drag racing through a residential neighborhood in Beverly Hills. He owns the cars and a drag racing team, and is a member of Qatar's ruling family. The Beverly Hills Police Department contacted the U.S. State Department to clarify if he had diplomatic immunity. They", "title": "Diplomatic immunity" }, { "id": "16359307", "text": "originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Monster Energy Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World", "title": "1984 Winston 500" }, { "id": "14573279", "text": "1994 Winston Select 500 The 1994 Winston Select 500 was held on May 1, 1994, at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. Talladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the", "title": "1994 Winston Select 500" }, { "id": "285646", "text": "10 mph. North Dakota is considered the least visited state, owing, in part, to its not having a major tourist attraction. Nonetheless, tourism is North Dakota's third largest industry, contributing more than $3 billion into the state's economy annually. Outdoor attractions like the 144-mile Maah Daah Hey Trail and activities like fishing and hunting attract visitors. The state is known for the Lewis & Clark Trail and being the winter camp of the Corps of Discovery. Areas popular with visitors include Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the western part of the state. The park often exceeds 475,000 visitors each year.", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "id": "12231591", "text": "circumstances. Like the rest of the \"Nebraska\" album, \"Johnny 99\" was recorded in January 1982 in a no-frills studio set up in Springsteen's home in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Most likely it was recorded on January 3, 1982, when most of the album tracks were recorded. The background of the song is based on a real life incident, the closing in 1980 of a Ford Motor Company plant in Mahwah, which had been open since 1955. The song also has antecedents in two folk songs that appeared on the box set \"Anthology of American Folk Music\": Julius Daniels' \"99 Year", "title": "Johnny 99 (song)" }, { "id": "9140466", "text": "on the album \"Tomorrow We Live\". His prototype Golf Cart Hovercraft, the BW1, YouTube video has earned more than 8 million views. Watson is a committed Christian who speaks openly about the importance of faith in his life. Watson devotes much of his money and time to charity. Watson purchased the mansion in the Isleworth community of Windermere, Florida, that was previously owned by Tiger Woods. In 2013, he was added to the list of Great Floridians by Governor Rick Scott. Watson purchased a General Lee car from the television series \"The Dukes of Hazzard\" at auction for $110,000 in", "title": "Bubba Watson" }, { "id": "891373", "text": "Coconino County, Arizona Coconino County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 134,421 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Flagstaff. The county takes its name from \"Cohonino\", a name applied to the Havasupai. It is the second-largest county by area in the contiguous United States, behind San Bernardino County, California, with its making it larger than each of the nine smallest states. Coconino County includes the Flagstaff, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coconino County contains Grand Canyon National Park, the Havasupai Nation, and parts of the Navajo Nation,", "title": "Coconino County, Arizona" }, { "id": "9614324", "text": "in gold bullion was discovered hidden in the wood pile. About $900,000 in stock certificates, and $75,000 in silver bullion and coins were also uncovered in various safes and crawl spaces. A huge, 3-day auction was held by Christie's Auction House to liquidate the Miller estate, including the cache of antique and other automobiles, and a cache of other collected items including music boxes (one of which sold for $7,040), typewriters, sewing machines, spool cabinets, and other assorted mini-collections. Today, the A.K. Miller collection is recognized as one of the largest and most well-known collections of Stutz motorcars. Alexander Kennedy", "title": "Alexander Kennedy Miller" }, { "id": "6011737", "text": "National Solid Waste Association Hall of Fame in 1991. On May 28, 2011, Harold and Nancy LeMay were inducted into the Washington State Hot Rod Hall of Fame. Harold's son, Doug LeMay, accepted the award on Harold's behalf. Harold LeMay Harold E. LeMay (September 4, 1919 – November 4, 2000) was the owner of Harold LeMay Enterprises, a refuse company in the Tacoma, Washington metro area. He was the owner of one of the largest private automobile collections in the world at the time of his death. Harold was born in Yakima, Washington in 1919. He became a partner in", "title": "Harold LeMay" }, { "id": "1263200", "text": "Oak Hill, West Virginia Oak Hill is a city in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is the primary city within the Oak Hill, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. The micropolitan area is also included in the Beckley-Oak Hill, WV Combined Statistical Area. The population was 7,730 at the 2010 census. Country singer Hank Williams was discovered to be dead while the car in which he was a passenger was stopped in Oak Hill, and Oak Hill is generally accepted to be his place of death. Oak Hill is located at (37.982775, -81.145334). According to the United States Census Bureau,", "title": "Oak Hill, West Virginia" }, { "id": "7409641", "text": "Italia was about the same size as the Mustang, and like Ford's \"pony car\" it borrowed its mechanical components from the company's existing compact sedan. However, it pre-dated the Mustang by a full 10 years.\" Hudson Italias are invited to numerous prestigious car shows including Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and regularly earn special awards. A Hudson Italia with chassis number 11 was formerly part of the Harrah Collection, which acquired in 1971, reportedly from Liberace, finished in silver with red and black leather upholstery. The market value of the Hudson Italia is increasing as evidenced by a \"no reserve\" sale", "title": "Hudson Italia" }, { "id": "12287133", "text": "elevation is 3,520 feet (1,073 m), and it is located at (44.5444299, -104.0891020). Although Beulah is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 82712. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.4 km), all of it land. Beulah has gained some notoriety for holding an un-documented World Record breaking series of motorcycle burnout competitions while the motorcycles are lifted to forty foot plus heights with construction equipment. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Beulah has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated \"BSk\" on climate maps. Public education", "title": "Beulah, Wyoming" }, { "id": "9614365", "text": "Camera Van\". He is also the co-founder (along with Philo Northrup) of one of the largest annual art car gatherings in the country - the Art Car Fest, held every September in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is largely responsible for the organization of an art car theme camp at the annual Burning Man festival and is working on a documentary about the event. Harrod is currently renovating a building complex in Douglas, Arizona, United States, to become a museum and learning center for art cars; the name of the center will be \"Artcar World\". Harrod Blank is one", "title": "Harrod Blank" }, { "id": "17634481", "text": "Shannon Street, Birdwood. It is the endpoint of the annual Bay to Birdwood, in which veteran, vintage and classic motor vehicles (motorcars and motorbikes) are driven by their owners from the foreshore area of Adelaide through to the Adelaide Hills to finish at the Museum where a festival is held. The following is a non-exhaustive list of motorvehicles on display: The following is a non-exhaustive list of motorbikes display: National Motor Museum, Birdwood The National Motor Museum, Australia, is an automobile museum in the Adelaide Hills in the township of Birdwood, South Australia. Established in 1964 and opened to the", "title": "National Motor Museum, Birdwood" }, { "id": "11840564", "text": "and employment opportunities in Mississippi, was adopted in 2005. Mississippi, like the rest of its southern neighbors, is a right-to-work state. It has some major automotive factories, such as the Toyota Mississippi Plant in Blue Springs and a Nissan Automotive plant in Canton. The latter produces the Nissan Titan. Mississippi collects personal income tax in three tax brackets, ranging from 3% to 5%. The retail sales tax rate in Mississippi is 7%. Tupelo levies a local sales tax of 2.5%. State sales tax growth was 1.4 percent in 2016 and estimated to be slightly less in 2017. For purposes of", "title": "Mississippi" }, { "id": "15171", "text": "(mostly coal); plastic products; cars and trucks; and apparel. In addition, Alabama produces aerospace and electronic products, mostly in the Huntsville area, the location of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army Materiel Command, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal. A great deal of Alabama's economic growth since the 1990s has been due to the state's expanding automotive manufacturing industry. Located in the state are Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama, as well as their various suppliers. Since 1993, the automobile industry has generated more than 67,800 new", "title": "Alabama" }, { "id": "1070608", "text": "of the West\". The prison grounds also house the Anamosa State Penitenitiary Museum, which contains artifacts and exhibits on prison life from throughout its history. Motorcycles are a common sight in Anamosa. Anamosa is home to J&P Cycles who supply aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories. In addition to J&P Cycles the National Motorcycle Museum, which features over 300 vintage motorcycles, including the original \"Captain America bike\" from the movie Easy Rider. Anamosa was the birthplace and burial place of the regionalist artist Grant Wood; he is buried in Riverside Cemetery, under a large monument of a recumbent lion. Visitors can", "title": "Anamosa, Iowa" }, { "id": "13332657", "text": "Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Texas Pull-A-Part Pull-A-Part, LLC is a United States chain of automotive recycling yards where customers bring their own tools and remove parts out of used vehicles. there are 25 locations in 12 states. Founded in 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia, Pull-A-Part is the nation’s fastest growing self-service used auto parts retailer, and recycler in the United States. Beginning as a scrap metal recycling program, Pull-A-Part opened its first vehicle salvage and recycling yard in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998. The company has expanded since, and in 2013 purchased Corpus Christi, Texas-based U-Pull-It Auto Parts Inc. as its 25th", "title": "Pull-A-Part" }, { "id": "14788987", "text": "to listen to a three-minute story of how Jesus had changed someone's life. Dakota Baptist Convention The Dakota Baptist Convention (DBC) is an autonomous association of Southern Baptist churches in the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, the convention is made up of seven Baptist associations and around 100 churches as of 2010. DBC was created in 2003. The organization attracted media attention for giving away a Harley Davidson motorcycle each year at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as part", "title": "Dakota Baptist Convention" }, { "id": "17324112", "text": "Talladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping", "title": "1974 Winston 500" }, { "id": "9614319", "text": "of his cash for gold and silver bars and coins. He took his autogyro apart and stored the pieces inside an old one-room schoolhouse that stood on his property. Over the years, he constructed a large number of sheds and ramshackle barns out of scrap lumber and nails that he scavenged from various places. Inside the shacks, Miller concealed his trove of prized Stutz motorcars. While locals knew he had a Stutz or two, and Miller was known to other Stutz collectors, nobody knew the true extent of the collection. Miller often drove considerable distances for good deals on auto", "title": "Alexander Kennedy Miller" }, { "id": "20138567", "text": "a mountain cabin in the Jackson Hole valley in Wyoming. Kemp left New York in September 1982 and drove to Wyoming in his Chevrolet Blazer. On November 15, 1982, the day before he disappeared, he visited a museum in Cheyenne, where he stayed for around two hours and did not speak to anyone. Upon leaving the museum, he left behind his briefcase, which contained his diaries, address book, traveler's checks and glasses needed for driving. On the morning of November 16, 1982, Kemp's car was found abandoned with its engine still running, on a ramp off the I-80, 40 miles", "title": "Death of Don Kemp" }, { "id": "19523221", "text": "past and present. The collection is housed in the original former Mewar State Motor Garage, which currently serves as this museum. Garden Hotel and Restaurant, a property of HRH Group of Hotels, Udaipur, is also contained within the garage’s grounds. The semi-circular motor garage with its forecourt is housed within a greater courtyard. It also houses one of the original Shell petrol pump, which is still assumed to be in usable condition. Despite some vehicles being over seventy years old, each one is still kept in working condition. The Vintage and Classic Car Museum has around 20 antique cars, including", "title": "Vintage and Classic Car Museum" }, { "id": "929014", "text": "Boone County, Nebraska Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,505. Its county seat is Albion. The county was organized in 1871 and named after Daniel Boone. In the Nebraska license plate system, Boone County is represented by the prefix 23 (it had the 23rd-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is water. As of the census of 2000,", "title": "Boone County, Nebraska" }, { "id": "1006166", "text": "to the Barrett-Jackson Auto Show. Due to the success of this week-long event held every January, the organizers behind it have more recently inaugurated similar but smaller shows in Palm Beach, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. Now held at the expansive West World exhibition complex in North Scottsdale, the event is an auto enthusiast's and collector's spectacle. The show is known for featuring both exotic, luxury automobiles and historic vehicles which have been expertly restored to mint condition. Since 2007, Scottsdale has been hosting low and high fashion shows in the annual Scottsdale Fashion Week (not quite comparable to those", "title": "Scottsdale, Arizona" }, { "id": "20245067", "text": "The game offers two single-player modes: Practice Race, where players can select a single course and a bike to race on, and Tour Game, the game's main mode in which players participate in a tour leading to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. A number of pre-determined routes can be chosen by the player in Tour Game, all of which take place in numerous American locales, namely Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah and Harley-Davidson's home state of Wisconsin. Various landmarks are also featured in the game, namely the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota and dinosaur monuments in Utah, among", "title": "Harley-Davidson: Race Across America" }, { "id": "1068341", "text": "show. The cable television network TV Land erected bronze statues of Andy and Opie in Mount Airy and Raleigh, North Carolina (\"see:\" Pullen Park). The Taylor Home Inn in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, is a bed-and-breakfast modeled after the Taylor Home. The Mayberry Cafe in Danville, Indiana, features Aunt Bee's Fried Chicken and a replica of Andy's Ford Galaxie police car. In 2013, TV Guide ranked \"The Andy Griffith Show\" #15 on their list of the 60 Greatest Shows of All Time. In the late 1980s, Premier Promotions released various episodes on VHS. Most tapes had either two or four episodes.", "title": "The Andy Griffith Show" }, { "id": "4594806", "text": "wrecked me and he's a piece of shit.\" TNT apologized for his language, and Gordon apologized after the race, but Gordon was fined $50,000 and docked 50 drivers points. When asked by some people for the helmet, Gordon decided to auction it for the benefit of the Harrah's Employee Relief Fund, a fund that provides aid to Harrah's employees displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The helmet fetched $51,100, and was purchased by GoldenPalace.com. During the 2006 Bass Pro Shops 500, he brought controversy by allegedly throwing roll bar padding onto the track at Atlanta Motor Speedway, drawing a caution flag that", "title": "Robby Gordon" }, { "id": "15569599", "text": "Torre Loizaga Torre Loizaga is a renovated tower house and automobile museum, located in Concejuelo de Galdames, Biscay in the Basque Country, Spain. Described as one of the most significant Rolls-Royce collections in the world, it contains 45 Rolls-Royce cars in three pavilions, in a total of 75 cars on display. Its most significant cars are an 1899 Allen Runabout, and a rare 1956 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, originally owned by the HH Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Hakim of Kuwait. The museum is open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM during the summer, and costs €7 for adults, and €3 for", "title": "Torre Loizaga" }, { "id": "20654048", "text": "Automobile graveyard An automobile graveyard is a place in which road vehicles reside while waiting to be destroyed or recycled or are left abandoned and decaying. There are numerous automobile graveyards that can be found around the world. The purpose of each location varies. Just outside Victorville, California there are hundreds of thousands of cars that were bought back by Volkswagen after the 2015 emissions scandal and they are awaiting recycling or destruction. Some cemeteries operate in a manner similar to scrapyards where rare spare parts can be found. Others have been likened to museums as they contain vintage vehicles.", "title": "Automobile graveyard" }, { "id": "7253732", "text": "Lakeland Motor Museum The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald. The Museum was established in Grange-over-Sands in 1978 as an extra attraction for the Holker Hall stately home. The museum was created by Donald Sidebottom to contain the collection of cars and related memorabilia that he had been collecting since the 1960s. After more than thirty years", "title": "Lakeland Motor Museum" }, { "id": "8549771", "text": "work with Pinewood and Elstree firm studios in the latter part of the 20th century. Unusual vehicles include an 18th-century landau and an early-19th-century barouche, both in very good condition. There is also an 1890s 'char-a-bang' which dates from the early days of public transportation. Mossman Collection The Mossman Carriage Collection is a museum housing a collection of horse-drawn vehicles in Stockwood Park, Luton, Bedfordshire. It is the largest collection of such vehicles in the United Kingdom, and includes original vehicles dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The collection was donated to the Luton Museum Service in 1991", "title": "Mossman Collection" }, { "id": "11566136", "text": "Michigan Latino Arts and Culture Initiative, a collaboration of Casa de Unidad, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and the Michigan Department of Education. In 1981, she opened Galeria Mendoza in Detroit which became the \"first legitimate Latin American art gallery ever established in Detroit.\" She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is represented in collections around the world. Her collectors include Detroit's former Mayor Dennis Archer, singer Aretha Franklin, actor Edward James Olmos, and the former president of General Motors Mr. Jack Smith. Corporate collectors include the Ford offices in Rockefeller Plaza (New York, New York), Edison", "title": "Nora Chapa Mendoza" }, { "id": "15500321", "text": "Desert Car Kings Desert Car Kings is a reality television series that debuted on the Discovery Channel on January 26, 2011. It is based on the McClure family, who run Desert Valley Auto Parts in Phoenix, Arizona. The show's main characters, Jason and his father Ron, restore classic cars on a limited time-frame; restorations are usually given until their next auction. The operation houses more than 10,000 rust-free vehicles on more than 100 acres of dry Arizona land. Restorations have included a 1965 Ford Thunderbird, a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, a 1962 Ford Galaxie, a 1964 Plymouth Barracuda, a 1955 Ford", "title": "Desert Car Kings" }, { "id": "412010", "text": "into southwestern Tennessee, and it was in this fertile section that cotton took hold. Soybeans are also heavily planted in West Tennessee, focusing on the northwest corner of the state. Large corporations with headquarters in Tennessee include FedEx, AutoZone and International Paper, all based in Memphis; Pilot Corporation and Regal Entertainment Group, based in Knoxville; Eastman Chemical Company, based in Kingsport; the North American headquarters of Nissan Motor Company, based in Franklin; Hospital Corporation of America and Caterpillar Financial, based in Nashville; and Unum, based in Chattanooga. Tennessee is also the location of the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, a", "title": "Tennessee" }, { "id": "10403290", "text": "it was leveled in the 1980s to provide parking for an adjacent fire department. It was a lively gathering place during the 1960s and 1970s as a satellite auction center owned by the Danner family of Glenview, Illinois, but is remembered as a tractor and vehicle garage run for nearly 50 years by Edward Halfman. Regarded as the best mechanic in the Fond du Lac and Calumet area by area residents, consumers had their Ford Model T cars shipped to his garage in crates to be assembled, a cost-saving alternative to purchasing a fully assembled car from a dealer's lot.", "title": "Pipe, Wisconsin" }, { "id": "1039169", "text": "Hapeville Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1947 until 2006, Hapeville was home to the Ford Atlanta Assembly Plant, recently manufacturing the Taurus. There are development plans to open a multi-use development, Aerotropolis Atlanta, on the site, which is adjacent to Atlanta Airport. Currently, Porsche North America is building its North America Headquarters on the Ford site. Hapeville is also home to the Dwarf House - the first Chick-fil-A restaurant and the first Johnny's Pizza. Hapeville is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of", "title": "Hapeville, Georgia" }, { "id": "966692", "text": "question for the sake of a laugh. An example: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, the founder of an automobile company, was the program's \"mystery guest.\" Previous questioning had established that the mystery guest's name was synonymous with an automobile brand, Kovacs asked, \"Are you – and this is just a wild guess – but are you Abraham Lincoln?\"—a reference to the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln brand automobiles. When Kovacs gave an interview admitting that he was absent from the show when he wanted to go out for dinner on a Sunday, his stint on the panel show was ended. He also", "title": "Ernie Kovacs" }, { "id": "18988382", "text": "Freiburger and Steve Dulcich. The typical episode finds them modifying and/or repairing a Roadkill vehicle, or reclaiming a vehicle from Dulcich's grape farm. The farm, where the show is located, is essentially a large vehicle junkyard. It contains a wide range of automotive relics, especially Mopar vehicles. In 2015 the quarterly \"Roadkill\" magazine was launched. As of 12 January 2018 Mike Finnegan announced on \"The Kibbe and Finnegan Show\" that \"Roadkill Magazine\" had been cut. Roadkill (Internet show) Roadkill is an automotive-themed internet show produced by \"Motor Trend\" and \"Hot Rod\", two magazines from the Motor Trend Group. It is", "title": "Roadkill (Internet show)" }, { "id": "10084419", "text": "to Hawaii). Despite the small size of the Department, North Dakota has more registered vehicles than there are residents of the state. The Director is Tom Sorel, and the central office is located on the North Dakota State Capitol grounds in Bismarck. Until the 1990s, the agency was known as the North Dakota Highway Department. North Dakota Department of Transportation The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is a part of the government of the U.S. state of North Dakota. NDDOT oversees the state's transportation system. This includes planning both new construction and reconstruction projects on roads and highways throughout", "title": "North Dakota Department of Transportation" }, { "id": "17920412", "text": "a school for boys and a home for nuns before it became a home for Harold and Nancy LeMay's vintage car collection. The LeMay Family Collection Foundation is also the site of the annual LeMay Car Show. The LeMay Family Collection Foundation was nominated for one of King 5's Best Museums in Western Washington in 2013. It placed 14th out of more than 60 nominees. In 2015, the Collection placed in the top 5. LeMay Family Collection Foundation The LeMay Family Collection Foundation was born out of Harold LeMay's dream of keeping his massive car collection together and in a", "title": "LeMay Family Collection Foundation" }, { "id": "10061958", "text": "From there on the interstate will widen from 2 lanes each way to 3 lanes each way into the Helena/Alabaster area. Near the northern border of Alabama with Tennessee on southbound I-65 is located the Alabama Welcome Center and rest area. The unique feature of this rest area compared to others is the existence of a large Saturn IB rocket erected on the site as a memorial to Alabama's—and in particular, Huntsville's—contribution to NASA's space exploration. In 1997, at Georgiana (Exit 114), honoring legendary country musician and Alabama native Hank Williams, the interstate was designated as Hank Williams' Memorial \"Lost", "title": "Interstate 65 in Alabama" }, { "id": "7716125", "text": "from that sign to the trading post. In front of the store was another such billboard with \"HERE IT IS\" written underneath it. Jack Rabbit is owned by the Jaquez family. In the 2006 film Cars, the trading post's 'HERE IT IS' signage is depicted with a Model T Ford in place of the jackrabbit and \"Lizzie\" (a 1923 Ford) as the store's proprietor. On Route 66 in Staunton, Illinois, Henry's Rabbit Ranch uses very similar signage with the slogan 'HARE IT IS'. Jack Rabbit Trading Post The Jack Rabbit Trading Post is a convenience store and curio shop located", "title": "Jack Rabbit Trading Post" }, { "id": "8737586", "text": "by the NDA government. The affidavit challenged the petition saying a PIL cannot seek action against a foreign country, and that foreign policy is a government function. Lt Saurabh Kalia's personal belongings such as photographs, uniforms, shoes and mementoes are kept in a separate room, named 'Saurabh Smriti Kaksha' (a museum), in his house 'Saurabh Niketan' in the hills of Palampur. In his memory the government of Himachal Pradesh state raised a memorial park named 'Saurabh Van Vihar' in an area of in Palampur and renamed a street in the town 'Capt Saurabh Kalia Marg', and the locality as 'Saurabh", "title": "Saurabh Kalia" }, { "id": "14439575", "text": "include Storm Lake, Spencer, Le Mars, Glenwood, Carroll, Harlan, Atlantic, Red Oak, Denison, Creston, Mount Ayr, Sac City, and Walnut. The Driftless Area of northeast Iowa has many steep hills and deep valleys, checkered with forest and terraced fields. Effigy Mounds National Monument in Allamakee and Clayton Counties has the largest assemblage of animal-shaped prehistoric mounds in the world. Waterloo is home of the Grout Museum and is headquarters of the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area. Cedar Falls is home of the University of Northern Iowa. Dubuque is a regional tourist destination with attractions such as the National Mississippi", "title": "Iowa" }, { "id": "3188988", "text": "Talladega Superspeedway Talladega Superspeedway, formerly named Alabama International Motor Speedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family. The track currently hosts the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and Camping World Truck Series. Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of like the Daytona International Speedway, which is . The peak capacity of Talladega is at around", "title": "Talladega Superspeedway" }, { "id": "16368348", "text": "as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega", "title": "1985 Winston 500" }, { "id": "9706077", "text": "spectators attended the 2009 Woodward Dream Cruise held annually in August. Another automotive attraction cataloging the history of the industry is the Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills. The mansions of the auto barons that are open to the public for guided tours include the Dodge-Wilson estate Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester Hills, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Henry Ford's Fair Lane Estate in Dearborn, and the Lawrence Fisher Mansion in Detroit. Cranbrook House and Gardens in Bloomfield Hills, the estate of publisher George Gough Booth, is also open to the public for guided tours. The New York", "title": "Tourism in metropolitan Detroit" }, { "id": "3782870", "text": "County at the intersection of Kellogg School Road and West Hickory Road. It is north of the southern boundary of Barry County with Kalamazoo County and east of state highway M-43. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hickory Corners CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.28%, is water. The Gilmore Car Museum, a collection of classic automobiles, is located at the intersection of M-43 and West Hickory Road, with a Hickory Corners mailing address. The museum includes the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame. The Kellogg Biological Station, an off-campus education complex of", "title": "Hickory Corners, Michigan" }, { "id": "929018", "text": "65 or over. Boone County, Nebraska Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,505. Its county seat is Albion. The county was organized in 1871 and named after Daniel Boone. In the Nebraska license plate system, Boone County is represented by the prefix 23 (it had the 23rd-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is water. As of the", "title": "Boone County, Nebraska" }, { "id": "1568182", "text": "Lincoln Zephyr from Hastert's personal collection (with \"42 SPKR\" Illinois license plates) is in the collection of the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The museum purchased the car in 2007. It has been on display at the Belvidere Oasis of the Illinois Tollway since May 2015. In June 2015, following the allegations against Hastert, the museum announced that the car would be removed from display. Though he was chauffeured when he became speaker, Hastert used to drive vehicles with \"CONG14\" and \"USHR14\" vanity plates (references to Illinois's 14th congressional district) and a \"CDWHIP2\" vanity plate (referring to his position", "title": "Dennis Hastert" }, { "id": "11840584", "text": "rooted in Scots–Irish music. The state is creating a Mississippi Blues Trail, with dedicated markers explaining historic sites significant to the history of blues music, such as Clarksdale's Riverside Hotel, where Bessie Smith died after her auto accident on Highway 61. The Riverside Hotel is just one of many historical blues sites in Clarksdale. The Delta Blues Museum there is visited by tourists from all over the world. Close by is \"Ground Zero\", a contemporary blues club and restaurant co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman. Elvis Presley, who created a sensation in the 1950s as a crossover artist and contributed to", "title": "Mississippi" }, { "id": "19338215", "text": "into effect on January 2, 2016, and resulted in the Bundys and associates staging a 40-day armed occupation of the headquarters area of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. On July 10, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump issued full pardons to Dwight and Steven Hammond. Harney County is a rural county in eastern Oregon. The county seat is the city of Burns. Although it is one of the largest counties by area in the United States, its population is only about 7,700, and cattle outnumber people 14-to-1. About 75 percent of the county's area is federal land, variously managed by the", "title": "Hammond arson case" }, { "id": "17988033", "text": "Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania; The Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina; Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana; Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado; National WASP Museum, Sweetwater, Texas; Legends Vintage Motorcycle Museum, Springville, Utah; National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa; Sturgis Motorcycle Museum, Sturgis, South Dakota; Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife, Oxnard, California; and American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame Museum, Pickerington, Ohio. Uhl lives and works in Golden, Colorado, and is married to Elizabeth Uhl. They have two children, Isabella and Sterling. David Uhl David Uhl is", "title": "David Uhl" }, { "id": "10253645", "text": "builder was distraught, despite his share of the takings, and stories were placed in the newspapers about \"ruffians from Woolloomooloo\" sabotaging the flight. Impressive showmanship indeed! Harrie Skinner's love of crowd-pulling machines made him an instant enthusiast for the new automobiles arriving in Sydney, and he purchased his De Dion from retail baron Mark Foy, who would later become another founding member of the Automobile Club of Australia. The story of his founding of the Club is detailed in the preceding article, but a couple of Harrie's motoring anecdotes serve to add colour and character to the history. The following", "title": "Henry Skinner" }, { "id": "1262792", "text": "Harrah, Washington Harrah is a town in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. It is on the Yakama Indian Reservation. The mayor is Barbara Harrer. Named after Julius Harrah, Harrah was officially incorporated on January 23, 1946. In 1950 it had a population of 297. Harrah is located at (46.404182, -120.542982). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 625 people, 177 households, and 142 families residing in the town. The population density was", "title": "Harrah, Washington" } ]

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[ { "id": "9117283", "text": "The Adventures of Champion The Adventures of Champion is an American adventure serial radio drama directed by William Burch about screen cowboy Gene Autry's horse Champion. Each 15-minute episode was broadcast weekday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1949 and 1950. (Another source says that the program ran \"June to November 1949.\") The Western mystery tales focused on 12-year-old Ricky West, who is raised in the wilderness by his adopted Uncle Sandy, and his German Shepherd named Rebel. Champion was depicted as a wild horse who let only Ricky ride him. While the series covered gold mines, rustlers, and", "title": "The Adventures of Champion" }, { "id": "3346149", "text": "The Champs The Champs were an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental \"Tequila\". The group took their name from the name of Gene Autry's horse, Champion, and was formed by studio executives at Gene Autry's Challenge Records to record a B-side for the Dave Burgess (a.k.a. Dave Dupree) single, \"Train to Nowhere\". The intended throwaway track became more famous than its A-side, as \"Tequila\" went to No. 1 in just three weeks and the band became the first group to go to the top spot with an instrumental that was their first release. The song", "title": "The Champs" }, { "id": "14537906", "text": "companion of the singing cowboy Gene Autry. Originally belonging to Tom Mix, Autry likely purchased Champion after working with him in \"The Phantom Empire\" series. Several horses bore the name Champion; the first died while Autry was serving in the Army Air Force during World War II. Champion was able to perform numerous tricks, including jumping through paper-covered hoops and galloping toward and coming to a stop atop a piano. Gene Autry and Champion (probably Champion II) left their handprints and hoofprints in the cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater in 1949. Champion (and his successors) appeared in nearly one hundred", "title": "Wonder horses" }, { "id": "7242866", "text": "Sandy's elaborate costumes. While other western actors, such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, only dabbled in singing roles, some actors became known mainly for their parts as singing cowboys. The most famous of them was Gene Autry, and the moniker \"the singing cowboy\" usually refers to him in particular. When Wayne declined further singing cowboy roles, Republic looked for a replacement. Former rodeo rider Autry was chosen because he was the one candidate who could both sing and ride a horse, namely Champion the Wonder Horse. The choice was so successful that, at the time of his death in", "title": "Singing cowboy" }, { "id": "4176545", "text": "of Champion\". The radio serial told of young Ricky West (rather than Ricky North), who was raised on a ranch by his adoptive Uncle Sandy. Ricky was often accompanied by his German Shepherd, Rebel. Beginning in 1950, \"The Gene Autry Show\", a western/cowboy television series, aired for 91 episodes on CBS. \"The Adventures of Champion\" was a prime time spinoff for the 1955-1956 season. In real life, the Wonder Horse, Champion, was owned by Gene Autry who over many years owned a succession of celebrity horses bearing the same name. The horse starring in \"The Adventures of Champion\" was known", "title": "The Adventures of Champion (TV series)" }, { "id": "12690734", "text": "the age of 17, from apparent heart attack while Gene was in the army. He was buried at Melody Ranch by Autry's horse trainer John Agee, who had previously worked for 14 years for Tom Mix. Autry's second screen horse was Champion Jr., a lighter sorrel with four stockings and a narrow blaze ending in an arrow tip. This horse appeared in Autry's films from 1946 to 1950. For his Republic Pictures film appearances he was credited as the \"Wonder Horse of the West\"; for his Columbia Pictures film appearances he was credited as the \"World's Wonder Horse\". He appeared", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "3346152", "text": "Nieland - drums, Jery Puckett - guitar, Marvin Siders, and Leon Sanders. The last lineup of the Champs, in 1965, included Johnny Trombatore, who co-wrote some songs with Jimmy Seals, Maurice Marshall, Dash Crofts, bassist Curtis Paul and Seal's replacement on saxophone, Keith MacKendrick. The Champs The Champs were an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental \"Tequila\". The group took their name from the name of Gene Autry's horse, Champion, and was formed by studio executives at Gene Autry's Challenge Records to record a B-side for the Dave Burgess (a.k.a. Dave Dupree) single, \"Train to", "title": "The Champs" }, { "id": "12690732", "text": "to 1953, and in the television series during the 1950s. Several other \"Champion\" horses were used as stunt doubles and for personal appearances throughout the years. There were three official Champions that appeared in Gene Autry films. The original Champion was a dark sorrel with a blaze face and white stockings on all his legs except the right front. The original Champion first appeared on screen with Autry in \"Melody Trail\" (1935) and went on to co-star in 51 additional Autry films. The horse was previously owned by Tom Mix and was used during the filming of \"The Phantom Empire\"", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "12690735", "text": "with Autry at Madison Square Garden in 1946. Champion Jr. was over 30 years old when he died in August 1977. In the late 1940s, a well-trained trick pony named Little Champ, with a blaze-face and four stockings, joined Gene's stable and appeared in three Autry films and joined him in various personal appearances. Autry's third screen horse was Television Champion, also a light sorrel with four white stockings, but with a wide blaze that covered his nose. Owned by Autry's wife Ina, he resembled Champion Jr., but had his mane and tail bleached. Television Champion appeared in Autry's later", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "12690736", "text": "films from 1950 to 1953 and in all 91 television episodes of \"The Gene Autry Show\" and all 26 episodes of \"The Adventures of Champion\" during the 1950s. Throughout the years, several other \"Champions\" served as doubles for film stunts and personal appearances, including Little Champ, Lindy Champion, and Touring Champion. In 1940, Lindy Champion became the first horse to fly from California to New York to appear with Autry at Madison Square Garden for the World's Championship Rodeo. Touring Champion, a darker sorrel with a medium blaze and four white stockings, became one of Autry's most reliable horses for", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "4176548", "text": "Wonder Horse!\"<br> In 1991, the song was re-issued on Frankie Laine's album \"On the Trail Again\". During the years 1953 to 1960, comic annuals were published by World Distributors, Daily Mirror and Purnell. Second-hand copies of these may be obtained. 'Ricky North' became 'Ricky West' in these, as with the radio serial. Champion also had his own comic book, \"Gene Autry's Champion\", published by Dell Comics from 1951 to 1955, which continued as \"Gene Autry and Champion\" from 1955 to 1959. Starting from the issue dated 4 June 1966, \"Champion the Wonder Horse\" ran as a comic strip in the", "title": "The Adventures of Champion (TV series)" }, { "id": "9037769", "text": "The Gene Autry Show The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum. Series star Gene Autry had already established his singing cowboy character on radio and the movies. Now he and his horse Champion were featured in a weekly television series of western adventures. Gene's role changed almost weekly from rancher, to ranch hand, to sheriff, to border agent, etc. Gene's usual comic relief and sidekick, Pat, was played by Pat Buttram. During the first season,", "title": "The Gene Autry Show" }, { "id": "18239355", "text": "Tom Mix filmography Tom Mix (1880–1940) was an American motion picture actor, director, and writer whose career spanned from 1910 to 1935. During this time he appeared in 270 films and established himself as the screen's most popular cowboy star. Mix's flair for showmanship set the standard for later cowboy heroes such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. His horse Tony also became a celebrity who received his own fan mail. Born in Pennsylvania, Mix served in the United States Army before moving to the Oklahoma Territory in 1902. Three years later, after working as a physical fitness instructor, bartender,", "title": "Tom Mix filmography" }, { "id": "6544723", "text": "featuring Santa Claus and a film star. Originally called the \"Santa Claus Lane Parade\", the inaugural event featured only Santa Claus and the actress Jeanette Loff. The parade continued to grow in scale with the help of local businesses and the community. In 1931 Santa Claus rode a truck-pulled float instead of the reindeer-pulled carriage of previous years. American Legion Post 43 marched with a color guard, drum line and bugle corps. The Parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 due to World War II, but reopened in 1945 with record attendance. In 1946 Gene Autry rode his horse in", "title": "Hollywood Christmas Parade" }, { "id": "16206123", "text": "who stopped Walt from killing the animal, is asked to leave the ranch. He finds the horse and trains it in the hopes of returning it to Joe to give him the will to overcome his disability. The Strawberry Roan The Strawberry Roan is a 1948 American Western film directed by John English and starring Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, and Jack Holt. Based on a story by Julian Zimet, the film is about a singing cowboy who prevents the shooting of a horse that bucked a young boy off, paralyzing him. The cowboy trains the horse hoping to return it", "title": "The Strawberry Roan" }, { "id": "13385270", "text": "from Joe Oliver's time at the club. Joe was nicknamed 'The Points Machine' and 'Old Faithful' by the clubs supporters, due to his consistent and prolific scoring rate. In 1933 when Gene Autry released his song about an 'old faithful' horse the fans adopted it for Joe. The song has adapted slightly since that time but can still be accredited to Joe's time at the club. Oliver set Hull FC's \"Most Career Goals\" record with 687-goals, and Hull FC's \"Most Career Points\" record with 1842-points scored between 1928-37 & 1943-45. Joe Oliver (rugby league) Joseph Oliver (birth unknown – death", "title": "Joe Oliver (rugby league)" }, { "id": "20424845", "text": "demolition, directly impacting its preservation as a historic landmark. In 1936, she joined CBC Radio. By 1942, Wallace was covering \"off-beat\" stories for CBC about life during the war. For the next ten years, she hosted CBC's \"They Tell Me\", becoming one of Canada's first regular female radio stars and one of the best known voices on radio. Her celebrity guests included Dwight Eisenhower, and as a joke she once interviewed singing cowboy Gene Autry's horse. In 1946, Wallace received the Broadcaster Magazine's Beaver Award for her status as Canada's top woman commentator. At its peak, \"They Tell Me\" was", "title": "Claire Wallace (broadcaster)" }, { "id": "1756779", "text": "later versions of the Alexander Romance also synchronized the hour of their death. The pair forged a sort of cult in that, after them, it was all but expected of a conqueror that he have a favourite horse. Julius Caesar had one; so too did the eccentric Roman Emperor Caligula, who made a great fuss of his horse Incitatus, holding birthday parties for him, riding him while adorned with Alexander's breastplate, and planning to make him a consul. Bucephalus is referenced in art and literature. Paintings of Charles Le Brun's Alexandrine subjects, including Bucephalus, survive today in the Louvre. One", "title": "Bucephalus" }, { "id": "11218980", "text": "Here Comes Santa Claus \"Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)\" is a Christmas song originally written and performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Oakley Haldeman. Autry's original version was a top-10 hit on the pop and country charts; the song would go on to be covered many times in the subsequent decades. Autry got the idea for the song after riding his horse in the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade (now the Hollywood Christmas Parade) in Los Angeles, during which crowds of spectators chanted, \"\"Here comes Santa Claus\"\". This inspired him to write a song that", "title": "Here Comes Santa Claus" }, { "id": "13370543", "text": "life there working on his art. He was a self-trained artist and learned to work with oil painting and water colors himself. Over time he became a proficient painter and as a result, Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel chose to display his paintings. He also painted horses and studied their nature. The most famous of his models were Gene Autry’s Champion, Tom Morgan’s stallion and Roy Rogers’ Trigger. He appeared in two John Wayne movies in the 60's, \"McLintock!\" and \"El Dorado\". Some of his art work was used in the open titles sequence in the film", "title": "Olaf Wieghorst" }, { "id": "1500626", "text": "starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial \"The Phantom Empire.\" Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the newly formed Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B Westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse, Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick, and had many opportunities to sing in each film. Pat Buttram was picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the United States Army Air Forces, to work with him. Buttram would co-star with Gene Autry", "title": "Gene Autry" }, { "id": "20329787", "text": "The Blazing Sun (1950 film) The Blazing Sun is a 1950 American western film directed by John English, which stars Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, and Anne Gwynne. Gene Autry is a private investigator for a banking association, on the trail of two bank robbers, Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas. Bartlett and Lucas waylay Larry Taylor, a doctor on his way to the town of White Water to treat a train engineer who was wounded by the bank robbers, and Taylor’s assistant, Helen Ellis. Stealing the couple’s horses, they leave them stranded. Autry rides out from White Water heading towards Los", "title": "The Blazing Sun (1950 film)" }, { "id": "16206122", "text": "The Strawberry Roan The Strawberry Roan is a 1948 American Western film directed by John English and starring Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, and Jack Holt. Based on a story by Julian Zimet, the film is about a singing cowboy who prevents the shooting of a horse that bucked a young boy off, paralyzing him. The cowboy trains the horse hoping to return it to the boy and help him overcome his disability. Joe is paralyzed by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. His father, Walt, tries to kill the horse in anger but is unsuccessful and the horse escapes. Autry,", "title": "The Strawberry Roan" }, { "id": "16554131", "text": "Comin' Round the Mountain (1936 film) Comin' Round the Mountain is a 1936 Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Based on a story by Oliver Drake, the film is about a Pony Express rider who is robbed and left to die in the desert, where he is saved by a wild horse he captures and later uses to round up other horses to be used in the race for a government contract. While delivering mail in California in 1880, Pony Express rider Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is ambushed by two", "title": "Comin' Round the Mountain (1936 film)" }, { "id": "15219394", "text": "Round-Up Time in Texas Round-Up Time in Texas is a 1937 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Oliver Drake. The film stars Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Maxine Doyle. Despite its title, the majority of the film takes place in South Africa. The film is about a cowboy who delivers a herd of horses for his brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys. After rounding up a large herd of horses in Texas, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) receives a telegram from his brother Tex (Ken Cooper), who is", "title": "Round-Up Time in Texas" }, { "id": "3272692", "text": "and Chinese. In 1946, Gene Autry, while riding his horse in the Hollywood Christmas Parade — which passes down Hollywood Boulevard each year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving — heard young parade watchers yelling, \"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus!\" and was inspired to write \"Here Comes Santa Claus\" with Oakley Haldeman. In 1958, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which runs from La Brea Avenue east to Gower Street (and an additional three blocks on Vine Street), was created as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry. In 1985, a portion of Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood", "title": "Hollywood Boulevard" }, { "id": "10517660", "text": "first horse in thirty-five years to win the English Triple Crown, and only narrowly failed to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe by a short head to Sassafras. A 1970 motion picture was made about the colt titled \"A Horse Called Nijinsky\" and a 2000 \"Sun\" newspaper poll voted him Britain's Horse of the Millennium. Engelhard died in 1971 at the age of fifty-four in Boca Grande, Florida. Engelhard is reported by numerous sources, including \"Forbes\" and \"The New York Times\", to have been the inspiration for the fictional character Auric Goldfinger in the Ian Fleming novel \"Goldfinger\" and", "title": "Charles W. Engelhard Jr." }, { "id": "16750341", "text": "the new foreman, Gene Autry (Gene Autry), and how he turned the place into a dude ranch. Gene reminds him that ranch owner \"Skipper\" Forbes (Sarah Padden) hired him because Hap's mismanagement drove the ranch into debt. When the train arrives at Smoke River carrying Alice and the girls, Connie bribes the porter to keep her luggage on the train. In the confusion, no one notices that Connie hasn't disembarked until the train pulls away. Gene races after the train on his horse, Champion, and brings the willful youngster back to the ranch. While Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse", "title": "Heart of the Rio Grande" }, { "id": "16549870", "text": "The Sagebrush Troubadour The Sagebrush Troubadour is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Barbara Pepper, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Oliver Drake and Joseph F. Poland, the film is about two Texas Rangers traveling undercover as western troubadours in search of the killer of an old, half-blind man. Texas Rangers Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) are traveling undercover as western troubadours in search of the killer of old, half-blind Frank Martin. Their only clues are a guitar string (the murder weapon) and Martin's horse Swayback that hold the key", "title": "The Sagebrush Troubadour" }, { "id": "13451415", "text": "dog, but this has never been absolutely proven. Among her hobbies were needlepoint and collecting statues of eagles. In 18th century Kentucky, eagles were widely believed to be a symbol of good luck. In 1978, when Calumet Farm's outstanding three year old colt Alydar (named for Prince Aly Khan, and half-brother of Our Mims), ran in the Bluegrass States at Keeneland the Markeys (due to their failing health) were brought to the rail to watch him run. Alydar won in a time of 1:49.60. Admiral Markey died in 1980. She established the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust. The Trust's aims", "title": "Lucille P. Markey" }, { "id": "9037772", "text": "of Champion\" in the latter as Sheriff Powers. Timeless Media Group has released all five seasons on DVD in Region 1, fully restored and uncut. On December 10, 2013, Timeless Media will release \"The Gene Autry Show- The Complete series. The Gene Autry Show The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum. Series star Gene Autry had already established his singing cowboy character on radio and the movies. Now he and his horse Champion were featured", "title": "The Gene Autry Show" }, { "id": "4706358", "text": "radio episodes ended with one or the other of them making a corny joke about the adventure they had just completed. They would laugh, saying, \"'oh, Pancho!\" \"'oh, Cisco!\", before galloping off, while laughing. Renaldo returned to the role for the popular 156-episode Ziv Television series \"The Cisco Kid\" (1950–1956), notable as the first TV series filmed in color. For the 1950s TV series, the Cisco Kid's sidekick Pancho was portrayed by Leo Carrillo, riding a Palomino named Loco. The Cisco Kid's horse was named Diablo. After a long absence, the character galloped back onto TV screens in the 1994", "title": "The Cisco Kid" }, { "id": "4176550", "text": "film entitled \"Horses and Guns\", starring Gene Autry and one of his several horse-stars named Champion. In August 2018, a 16mm film of \"Real Unfriendly Ghost\", dubbed in French, was discovered in the Archives of the University of Maryland by missing episodes hunter Ray Langstone. The Adventures of Champion (TV series) The Adventures of Champion is an American children's Western series that aired from September 23, 1955 to March 3, 1956 for 26 episodes on CBS. In the United Kingdom, the series was re-broadcast under the title Champion the Wonder Horse. Unusually for a black and white show , the", "title": "The Adventures of Champion (TV series)" }, { "id": "1500632", "text": "the entire ranch is open to the public during the Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, another legacy of Autry's multiple talents. From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly show on CBS Radio, \"Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.\" His horse, Champion, also had a CBS-TV and Mutual radio series, \"The Adventures of Champion\". In response to his many young radio listeners aspiring to emulate him, Autry created the Cowboy Code, or Ten Cowboy Commandments. These tenets promoting an ethical, moral, and patriotic lifestyle that appealed to youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts, which developed similar doctrines.", "title": "Gene Autry" }, { "id": "17969009", "text": "his own name, rode his own horse, Champion, had Burnette as his sidekick, and sang several songs in each film—including some that would become his most popular hits. In 1947, with his Republic contract fulfilled, Autry began producing his own films which were distributed by Columbia Pictures. For his Columbia films, Autry chose Sterling Holloway as his sidekick for five films, and then Pat Buttram for sixteen films. Burnette returned for the last six films released in 1953. From 1950 to 1955, Autry appeared in 91 episodes of \"The Gene Autry Show\" television series. Buttram played his sidekick in 83", "title": "Gene Autry filmography" }, { "id": "17846304", "text": "bulldogging and bronc riding. At 6' 2\" and 230 pounds, Favor in 1942 rode the legendary bucking horse Hell's Angel at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the Gene Autry Rodeo. Favor mounted Hell's Angel despite a leg injury which he treated with a spray of ether. He won $18,000 for his feat. On four occasions he held the rodeo bulldogging record, including throwing a steer in 2.2 seconds at the rodeo in Houston, Texas. The record of 2.2 seconds remains unbeaten, but it has been matched by James \"Big Jim\" Bynum of Forreston, near Waxahachie, Texas. In", "title": "Jack Favor" }, { "id": "9795746", "text": "he would promptly toss \"any\" mail (including bills) that wasn't addressed to \"Admiral\" Markey into the trash. He returned to Hollywood after the war and, on September 27, 1952, he married his fourth wife, Lucille Parker Wright, the widow of Warren Wright, owner of the Calumet Farm racing stable. Markey left California after this marriage. He developed something of a knack for naming the farm's horses. First there was a filly, was named Our Mims after his daughter Melinda. Another was named Myrtle Morgan after the two streets that intersected in front of his property in Saratoga Springs, New York.", "title": "Gene Markey" }, { "id": "6852121", "text": "including the prize stallion of Seigneur Duggan de La Malbaie. It earned him several nicknames, such as \"le Centaure\" (the Centaur), \"le Surcheval\" (the Superhorse) and \"le Cheval du Nord\" (the Horse of the North). Author Marius Barbeau describes him as a simpleton, having just enough wit to profit from his strangeness ; he became famous in his own way. Probably the most famous anecdote concerning him tells that one day, he was on the quay of La Malbaie with his father who had to leave by boat to Bagotville at 11 o'clock. According to the legend, his father refused", "title": "Alexis Lapointe" }, { "id": "9497601", "text": "Alan-a-Dale (horse) Alan-a-Dale (1899–1925) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1902 Kentucky Derby. He was named for a figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the \"Merry Men.\" He was bred by Thomas McDowell at his Ashland Stud in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the son of the 1895 Kentucky Derby winner Halma. Raced and trained by McDowell, at age two Alan-a-Dale won three of his four starts but the following year health problems kept him out of racing until", "title": "Alan-a-Dale (horse)" }, { "id": "7237446", "text": "Philippa Philippa is a given name meaning \"lover of horses\" or \"horses' friend\". Common alternative spellings include \"Filippa\", \"Phillipa\" and, less often, \"Filipa\". It is the feminine form of the masculine name \"Philip\". It is composed of the Greek elements \"philein\" (to love) and \"hippos\" (horse), and is derived from the name of Alexander the Great's father, the ancient Greek king, \"Philip II of Macedon\" (\"aka\" \"Philippos\", \"Filippos\", and \"Pilipos\"), who was an avid horse lover. The name is commonly shortened to the nicknames \"Pippa\", \"Pippy\", and Pip. Notable people with the name Philippa include: Philippa Baccas Oxford born 2008", "title": "Philippa" }, { "id": "7237445", "text": "Philippa Philippa is a given name meaning \"lover of horses\" or \"horses' friend\". Common alternative spellings include \"Filippa\", \"Phillipa\" and, less often, \"Filipa\". It is the feminine form of the masculine name \"Philip\". It is composed of the Greek elements \"philein\" (to love) and \"hippos\" (horse), and is derived from the name of Alexander the Great's father, the ancient Greek king, \"Philip II of Macedon\" (\"aka\" \"Philippos\", \"Filippos\", and \"Pilipos\"), who was an avid horse lover. The name is commonly shortened to the nicknames \"Pippa\", \"Pippy\", and Pip. Notable people with the name Philippa include: Philippa Baccas Oxford born 2008", "title": "Philippa" }, { "id": "12690731", "text": "Champion the Wonder Horse Champion the Wonder Horse was the on-screen companion of singing cowboy Gene Autry in 79 films between 1935 and 1952, and 91 television episodes of \"The Gene Autry Show\" between 1950 and 1955. In addition, Champion starred in 26 episodes of his own television series \"The Adventures of Champion\" in 1955 and 1956. Throughout these years, Autry used three horses to portray \"Champion\": the original Champion who appeared in Autry films from 1935 to 1942, Champion Jr. who appeared in Autry films from 1946 to 1950, and Television Champion, who appeared in Autry's films from 1950", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "10697600", "text": "bad experience on Tybalt after he bucks her off. Malory and Lani then have the idea to call in horse expert Amy Fleming. \"Heart Of Gold\" - When Edward Hunter Duvall buys his daughter Patience a beautiful grey Connemara pony named Moonlight Minuet \"Minnie\" Honey can't help but fall in love with her. Patience is careless and treats Minnie like a fashion ornament. Honey begins to care for the Connemara pony, but along with getting used to the excitement of the new term, parties and homework, comes another thing to stress and worry about for Honey, the fact that her", "title": "Chestnut Hill (novel series)" }, { "id": "11308445", "text": "if I were interested in trying out for the part. I was athletic and could ride a horse, so I thought I would enjoy the role.\" On April 21, 1939, the day after her 21st birthday, Storey became a contract player with Republic Pictures. In 1939 and 1940, she co-starred in ten Gene Autry films as his leading lady: \"Home on the Prairie\", \"Blue Montana Skies\", \"Mountain Rhythm\", \"Colorado Sunset\", \"In Old Monterey\", \"South of the Border\", \"Rancho Grande\", \"Gaucho Serenade\", \"Carolina Moon\", and \"Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride\". According to writer Hans J. Wollstein, Storey was the \"perfect leading lady for", "title": "June Storey" }, { "id": "16170598", "text": "the Marquis to sell him. Macaroni was part of a lot of six yearlings bought for £700 by the Liverpool banker Richard Naylor, who had recently started his own stud at Hooton Park on the Wirral Peninsula. Naylor sent the young horses to be trained by James \"Jem\" Godding at his Palace House stable at Newmarket, Suffolk. At the time, Newmarket was falling out of favour as a base for preparing horses for the Classics, and many leading owners and trainers had shifted their operations to centres in Berkshire and Sussex. Macaroni’s sire, Sweetmeat, a descendant of the Byerley Turk,", "title": "Macaroni (horse)" }, { "id": "1814607", "text": "Incitatus Incitatus () was the favored horse of Roman emperor Caligula (reigned 37–41 AD). According to legend, Caligula planned to make him a consul. His name is a Latin adjective meaning \"swift\" or \"at full gallop\". According to Suetonius, in the \"Lives of the Twelve Caesars\" (121 AD), Caligula planned to make Incitatus a consul, and that the horse would \"invite\" dignitaries to dine with him in a house outfitted with servants there to entertain such events. He also wrote that he had a stable of marble, with an ivory manger, purple blankets, and a collar of precious stones. Cassius", "title": "Incitatus" }, { "id": "18804633", "text": "cowboy. She discovers cattle rancher Gene Autry and offers him a contract. In danger of losing his herd and ranch from financial problems, Gene agrees to go to Hollywood if there is a part for his horse Champion, unaware that the producers only want to use his voice in an animated cartoon. After the preview, in which he feels ridiculed because his character is a donkey, he and Champ depart in a huff. The annoyed Sue also follows and gets work on Gene's ranch as a cook. Later, the studio heads, while looking at Gene's screen test, decide he is", "title": "Sioux City Sue (film)" }, { "id": "13607115", "text": "The Old Corral The film features an unshaven Roy Rogers in his second Gene Autry film, \" billed under his actual birth name, Leonard Slye, as the leader of the O'Keefe Brothers, played by the singing Sons of the Pioneers, a troupe of western singers trying to break into radio. Rogers' first appearance, in which he and his group rob a busload of people to garner publicity, ends with Autry threatening to arrest Rogers as soon as he's back on a horse. Sixteen months after \"The Old Corral\" was released, in the wake of a walkout from the studio by", "title": "The Old Corral" }, { "id": "16009606", "text": "Peritas Peritas () was Alexander the Great's favorite dog, who accompanied him during his military exploits. The name Peritas seems to come from the Macedonian word for January. Not much is known of the historical Peritas aside from a city named in his honor. Peritas' death, however it happened, was a venerable one. Like Alexander's horse Bucephalus, Peritas was awarded a city named in his honor, with a monument to his glory in its central square. According to Plutarch, after recalling the story of Bucephalus, \"It is said, too, that when he lost a dog also, named Peritas, which had", "title": "Peritas" }, { "id": "11055593", "text": "Bart being lovingly tucked into bed by Marge and contentedly saying \"This is the life.\" The episode's plot is a parody of Daphne du Maurier's novel \"The Scapegoat\", while Simon's horse Shadowfax is named after Gandalf's horse from \"The Lord of the Rings\" series. The episode's couch gag, with the family being swept up in a tornado and taken to a black and white farm is a reference to \"The Wizard of Oz\". Additionally, Apu has an issue of \"Tales From the Kwik-E-Mart\", a parody of the comic series \"Tales from the Crypt\". Early in the episode, Homer makes a", "title": "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" }, { "id": "9795747", "text": "Still another was named Eastern Fleet (possibly as a tribute to his service in the Navy) who would finish fourth in the 1971 Kentucky Derby and second in the Preakness Stakes. Markey was also a lover of dogs. He owned a black Labrador Retriever named Lucky that lived to be 17, which is very unusual. Mrs. Markey also had a dog, a Yorkshire Terrier that was named Timmy Tammy (after which she was thought to have named one of Calumet Farm's champion thoroughbreds, Tim Tam). Mrs. Markey carried the dog with her in her purse everywhere she went. Shortly after", "title": "Gene Markey" }, { "id": "20329788", "text": "Robles, where the doctor was summoned from, to see what is keeping him. Coming upon the couple, he lets Larry ride Champion, Autry’s horse, into White Water to get help, while he stays with Helen for protection. Larry returns shortly and the three ride into White Water. In Los Robles, Helen’s father, a prospector, enlists the help of a local assayer, Ben Luber, to evaluate the quality of some ore he has extracted. Ben tells Tom Ellis that he will need mining equipment to mine the ore, and his willing to lend him the money for it, in exchange for", "title": "The Blazing Sun (1950 film)" }, { "id": "12326954", "text": "Veillantif Veillantif (French), Vielantiu (Old French); Vegliantin, Vegliantino or Brigliadoro (Italian) is the name of Roland the paladin's trustworthy and swift steed in the stories derived from the \"chansons de geste\". The French name comes from an expression meaning \"vigilant\". \"Veillantif\" is first mentioned in \"The Song of Roland\" (v. 2032; laisse 151). Veillantif was given various origins. In the 12th century \"chanson de geste\" \"Aspremont\", the horse is said to have formerly been in the possession of king Agolant's son Aumon. After Aumon's defeat, the horse (and his sword Durendal) was given to Roland. Andrea da Barberino (1370–1431)'s Italian", "title": "Veillantif" }, { "id": "8219165", "text": "other horses include, General Philip Sheridan's American Civil War steed, Winchester, General Robert E. Lee's Traveller, Comanche ( the sole survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn), and Roy Rogers' Trigger. At this time, however, Sysonby is currently on loan to the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, KY as part of a Horse and Man sculpture by Chubb. Sysonby was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1956. In the list of the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by Blood-Horse magazine, he", "title": "Sysonby" }, { "id": "4868396", "text": "years, and the horse named \"Triggerson\" that actor Val Kilmer led on stage as a tribute to Rogers and his cowboy peers during the Academy Awards show in March 1999 was reportedly a grandson of \"Trigger Jr.\" Golden Cloud made an early appearance as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in \"The Adventures of Robin Hood\" (1938). A short while later, when Roy Rogers was preparing to make his first movie in a starring role, he was offered a choice of five rented \"movie\" horses to ride and chose Golden Cloud. Rogers bought him eventually in", "title": "Trigger (horse)" }, { "id": "1718598", "text": "Europe. His modern descendants include Justify, Galileo, Ouija Board, Sea the Stars, Black Caviar, Frankel and Treve. Several of Nearco's male-line descendants were ranked among the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century by \"The Blood-Horse\": #2 Secretariat, #9 Seattle Slew, #10 Spectacular Bid, #18 Cigar, #19 Bold Ruler, #24 Nashua, #31 Sunday Silence, #35 Ruffian, #43 Northern Dancer, #57 Riva Ridge, #58 Slew o' Gold, #69 Noor, #70 Shuvee, #72 Go For Wand, #76 Lady's Secret, #82 Miesque, #85 Lure, #86 Fort Marcy, #90 Davona Dale, #95 Bayakoa and #97 Foolish Pleasure. Other notable male-line descendants were Ballymoss,", "title": "Nearco" }, { "id": "2707135", "text": "15,000 cars traveled on the turnpike. Many of those motorists traveled to Lawrence for a football game between the University of Kansas and University of Oklahoma. Official opening ceremonies were held at interchanges in each of the three major cities on October 25. The Kansas City celebration included Gene Autry jumping his horse through a large paper map of the turnpike. John Masefield, the British Poet Laureate, wrote a tribute to commemorate the occasion. On the first day after the official opening, 7,197 vehicles traveled the turnpike, with 81 toll collectors and 50 maintenance workers on duty. The turnpike originally", "title": "Kansas Turnpike" }, { "id": "9880437", "text": "King Tom (horse) King Tom (1851–1878) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and a Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland. He was a bay horse foaled in 1851, sired by Harkaway and out of the exceptional mare Pocahontas by Glencoe. King Tom was a half-brother to 14 of Pocahontas' foals including, Auricula (a stakes winner), plus Stockwell and his brother, Rataplan, both being by The Baron. King Tom won races at age two and at age three he was not quite recovered from an injury when he finished second by a length to Andover in the 1854 Epsom Derby. He", "title": "King Tom (horse)" }, { "id": "1039452", "text": "several businesses and a fire in 1906 that destroyed a straw storehouse and nearly destroyed the city's harness and horse collar factory. Bona Allen saddles were available through the Sears mail order catalog, and many Hollywood actors used saddles made by the Bona Allen Company, including cowboy actors Gene Autry, the cast of \"Bonanza\", and Roy Rogers, who used a Bona Allen saddle on his horse Trigger. A statue of Roy Rogers and a Bona Allen saddle-maker saddling Trigger is located in downtown Buford. The Bona Allen Company thrived during the Great Depression in the 1930s, likely as a result", "title": "Buford, Georgia" }, { "id": "9588464", "text": "a bit of a daredevil. Both Molly and Alma mention that he's a \"cutie\", and Chloe and Zoey express that they think he is \"hot\". Jesse's horse is Buddy, a large chocolate flaxen stallion. He is brave, headstrong, and misses his home while away. He has dark teal stripes in his mane and tail. Alexander is Alma's pen pal, seen in the episode \"First Love\". While his letters to her made him seem like a wealthy champion rider, an intentional facade meant to impress her, he really only rides for fun, and is rather timid. His parents are the proprietors", "title": "Horseland (TV series)" }, { "id": "15743598", "text": "Rudolph's general acceptance in the mythology as the lead reindeer of Joulupukki, the Finnish Santa. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song) \"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer\" is a song by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story \"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\" published by the Montgomery Ward Company. Gene Autry's recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949. In 1939 Marks's brother-in-law, Robert L. May, created the character Rudolph as an assignment for Montgomery Ward and Marks decided to adapt the story of Rudolph into a song. The song had an added introduction, paraphrasing the poem \"A", "title": "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)" }, { "id": "7985670", "text": "Rusty Riley Rusty Riley was an American comic strip which ran from 1948 to 1959. It was created and drawn by Frank Godwin for King Features. With art by Godwin and scripts by Rod Reed, the first \"Rusty Riley\" daily appeared on January 26, 1948. The storyline follows the adventures of a redheaded orphan youth, Rusty Riley, who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip. In the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, he is hired as a stable boy by wealthy racehorse owner Mr. Miles, owner of Milestone Farm. Encountering crooks and corruption as he grows up in the", "title": "Rusty Riley" }, { "id": "12690733", "text": "series; he was one of several horses that Autry rode in that production. After learning about the horse through stunt man and movie horse wrangler Tracey Layne, Autry paid $75 for the original Champion, whose sire was a Morgan trotting horse from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Trained to perform numerous tricks, Champion could untie knots, fall, roll over and play dead, come at Autry's whistle, bow, and shake his head yes and no. In one film he pushes Autry into the arms of his leading lady June Storey. By 1939 his reported worth was $25,000. The original Champion died in 1943, at", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "10697584", "text": "Thoroughbred gelding. Malory came across him when she and Dylan went with Ms. Carmichael to purchase some horses. They had only planned to buy Foxy Lady and Winter Wonderland \"Winnie\", but Malory persuaded Ali to buy Tybalt as well, since he reminded her of the horse she learnt to ride on, Zanzibar. Ali took Tybalt on a short lease for a while and then decided to keep him after Malory and Amy helped him settle down. Soon after he was good enough to become Malory's show pony, and although Lynsey says he is unreliable, he is less nervous and skittish", "title": "Chestnut Hill (novel series)" }, { "id": "1500631", "text": "12 acres. A decade after he purchased Melody Ranch, a brushfire swept through in August 1962, destroying most of the original standing sets. However, the devastated landscape did prove useful for productions such as \"Combat!.\" A complete adobe ranch survived at the northeast section of the ranch. In 1990, after his favorite horse Champion, which lived in retirement there, died, Autry put the remaining 12-acre ranch up for sale. It is now known as the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio and Melody Ranch Studios on 22 acres. The ranch has Melody Ranch Museum open year-round; and one weekend a year,", "title": "Gene Autry" }, { "id": "18190208", "text": "Oakley\" the \"Best Non-Network Western Series\" and Davis as \"Best Performer Appearing Regularly in a Non-Network Western Series.\" In addition to \"The Gene Autry Show\", the Flying A offered two other network series, \"Cavalcade of America\", an anthology drama from 1952 to 1957 on NBC and then ABC, and \"The Adventures of Champion\", based on Autry's famous horse; the series aired on CBS from 1955 to 1956. From 1952 to 1954 the Flying A produced \"Death Valley Days\", a western anthology hosted by Stanley Andrews as \"The Old Ranger\", Ronald W. Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. In 1954, the", "title": "Flying A Productions" }, { "id": "13606824", "text": "horseback, shoots one of the henchmen, and captures Thornton. Afterwards, Gene and Sally head back to town together on horseback. \"The Old Barn Dance\" was filmed from November 27 to December 9, 1937. The film had an operating budget of $49,191 (equal to $ today). The film had a negative cost of $50,179 (equal to $ today). \"The Old Barn Dance\" was filmed on location in the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, California, Kernville, California, and Red Rock Canyon State Park on Highway 14 near Cantil, California. The Old Barn Dance A horse trader named Gene Autry (Gene Autry) arrives", "title": "The Old Barn Dance" }, { "id": "9201377", "text": "top class winners including Val d'Or and Dagor. Descendants of Flying Fox include Gallant Fox and Citation, the 1930 and 1948 United States Triple Crown Champions and U.S. Hall of Fame colt Coaltown. Flying Fox died at Haras de Jardy on 21 March 1911 at the age of fifteen. His skeleton is at the horse museum at Château de Saumur with a memorial at Eaton Stud in Cheshire, North West England. In 1925 the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) began a tradition of naming locomotives after winning racehorses; LNER Class A1 locomotive no. 4475 (later no. 106, BR no.", "title": "Flying Fox (horse)" }, { "id": "16677871", "text": "and Prix du Jockey Club winner Dagor, Poule d'Essai des Poulains and Eclipse Stakes winner Val d'Or and Prix de la Forêt winner Adam. Orby went on to sire Epsom Derby and St. James's Palace Stakes winner Grand Parade and 1000 Guineas winner Diadem. Orme's son Missel Thrush sired July Cup winner Thrush. Orme's daughter Topiary was the dam of the St Leger and Eclipse winner Tracery. Orme's daughter Optime was the dam of the American horse Sysonby, who was only defeated once in his career. Another daughter Osella was the dam of Grosser Preis von Baden winner Ossian and", "title": "Orme (horse)" }, { "id": "16094920", "text": "Blaise earned £2,106 as a two-year-old, and £5,547 at three, placing him fifth on the 1883 list behind Ossian, Galliard, Tristan and Superba. He was considered by some to have been a lucky winner of the Derby: Border Minstrel, who was not entered for the Epsom race, was considered by many to have been the best colt of the year. At the end of his racing career, St. Blaise was sold to August Belmont and exported to the United States. When Belmont died in 1890, St. Blaise was sold at auction where he was bought for $100,000 by Charles Reed", "title": "St. Blaise (horse)" }, { "id": "4249157", "text": "used by \"Harry Potter\" stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the facial profile of John Barrymore (reflecting his nickname \"The Great Profile\"), and the legs of Betty Grable. Western stars William S. Hart and Roy Rogers left imprints of their guns. Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle, left the imprints of his tires. The hoofprints of \"Tony\", the horse of Tom Mix, \"Champion\", the horse of Gene Autry, and \"Trigger\", the horse of Rogers, were left in the concrete beside the prints of the stars who rode them in the movies. Since 2011, a surge of concrete ceremonies has occurred,", "title": "Grauman's Chinese Theatre" }, { "id": "15618531", "text": "Winston (horse) Winston (1937–1957) was a chestnut gelding ridden by both King George VI in 1947 and Queen Elizabeth II in the Trooping the Colour ceremony from 1949 to 1956. Winston, whose sire was Erehwemos, was foaled in Yorkshire in 1937. In 1944 he was sold to the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police Service. Though named for Winston Churchill, the letter \"W\" was used to name all police horses in 1944. As a police horse, Winston often was present on duty at public events such as the Changing of the Guard before he was selected for Royal duties. In", "title": "Winston (horse)" }, { "id": "177035", "text": "outward similarity is an unreliable measure of relatedness. Besides the horse, there are six other species of genus \"Equus\" in the Equidae family. These are the ass or donkey, \"Equus asinus\"; the mountain zebra, \"Equus zebra\"; plains zebra, \"Equus quagga\"; Grévy's zebra, \"Equus grevyi\"; the kiang, \"Equus kiang\"; and the onager, \"Equus hemionus\". Horses can crossbreed with other members of their genus. The most common hybrid is the mule, a cross between a \"jack\" (male donkey) and a mare. A related hybrid, a hinny, is a cross between a stallion and a jenny (female donkey). Other hybrids include the zorse,", "title": "Horse" }, { "id": "4176546", "text": "as Television Champion, or TV Champ, for short. He was distinguished by his chestnut coat, blond mane and tail, four white stockings and broad white facial blaze. TV Champ made frequent appearances with Autry in films and television during the 1950s. Unlike his fictional namesake, TV Champ was a gelding. The horse that played Champ was bred in the United Kingdom. The mare rejected the foal then called Dawn that was hand reared by Mr Walter Ellams and his Daughter Patricia. Due to the foal being hand reared it was extremely tame and was then later sold to play Champion.", "title": "The Adventures of Champion (TV series)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "4172592", "text": "be remembered as, and the title too was soon shortened to \"Barney Google\". It was not popular until DeBeck had Google acquire a race horse named Spark Plug (nicknamed \"Sparky\") in a strip dated July 17, 1922. The dilapidated, blanket-covered horse became such a marketing and merchandising phenomenon that the character has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s—toys, balloons, and games were among the popular items adorned with Sparky's image. When DeBeck introduced the horse, he also introduced a little-used technique into the strip: continuity. \"Barney Google\" went from being a gag-a-day strip to one in which both humor", "title": "Billy DeBeck" }, { "id": "16776163", "text": "was worth £18,702. Ridden by Roger Poincelet, the French colt started at odds of 10/1 in a field of ten runners, with the Derby winner Phil Drake starting the odds-on favourite. Doug Smith attempted to make all the running on the British three-year-old Acropolis, and held a clear lead early in the straight, whilst Poincelet appeared to be in a hopeless position on Vimy. Once Vimy obtained a clear run, however, he made rapid progress to catch the leader inside the final furlong, and although Acropolis rallied, the French challenger prevailed by a head, and became the first foreign entry", "title": "Vimy (horse)" }, { "id": "20662457", "text": "Mumtaz Mahal set off in front and opened up a clear lead before tiring in the closing stages. Plack, with her tail \"revolving like a windmill\" overtook the favourite inside the final furlong and won by one and a half lengths, with half a length back to Straitlace in third place. Lord Rosebery was in poor health and was represented at Newmarket by his son Lord Dalmeny but recovered to celebrate his 77th birthday on 21 May with a number of ceremonies, one of which included a \"firework effigy\" of Plack. Plack was moved up in distance and started favourite", "title": "Plack (horse)" }, { "id": "3030", "text": "When Alexander was ten years old, a trader from Thessaly brought Philip a horse, which he offered to sell for thirteen talents. The horse refused to be mounted, and Philip ordered it away. Alexander however, detecting the horse's fear of its own shadow, asked to tame the horse, which he eventually managed. Plutarch stated that Philip, overjoyed at this display of courage and ambition, kissed his son tearfully, declaring: \"My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you\", and bought the horse for him. Alexander named it Bucephalas, meaning \"ox-head\". Bucephalas", "title": "Alexander the Great" }, { "id": "20920158", "text": "but least-known benefactors of the post-war era\". Invermark was trained throughout his racing career by James Fanshawe at the Pegasus Stable at Newmarket, Suffolk. Wills was an enthusiastic follower of field sports and Invermark was named after a shooting lodge in Angus, Scotland. He was sired by Machiavellian, an American-bred, French-trained racehorse who was one of the leading European two-year-olds of his generation, winning the Prix Morny and the Prix de la Salamandre in 1989. He later became a very successful breeding stallion, siring leading winners including Almutawakel, Street Cry, Medicean and Storming Home. Invermark's dam Applecross showed good form", "title": "Invermark" }, { "id": "16680419", "text": "He has trained and competed a long list of successful four-star event horses including Flying Doctor, Brady Bunch, X-Treme, Starkey, Orchard End Winston, True Blue Toozac, Ying Yang Yo, Neville Bardos, Rock on Rose, Remington XXV, Otis Barbotiere, Trading Aces, Shamwari IV, Crackerjack, Master Frisky, Steady Eddie, Welcome Shadow, Blackfoot Mystery and Tsetserleg. Martin competes nearly every weekend, and coaches a long list of successful riders. He is a sought-after clinician and in the off-season can be found teaching around the United States. Every year he takes one or two trips to Europe, usually on a USEF Traveling grant, to", "title": "Boyd Martin" }, { "id": "8897773", "text": "to be trained in France by Maurice Zilber. Her sire, Vaguely Noble, won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1968 before becoming a successful breeding stallion whose other progeny included Exceller and Empery. Dahlia was the first foal of her dam Charming Alibi, a durable racemare who won sixteen of her seventy-one races and earned over $110,000 in prize money. Perhaps the most notable of her later offspring was Canadian Bound, who was auctioned for a world record price of $1,500,000 in 1976. Her other descendants have included the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Rail Link. She raced", "title": "Dahlia (horse)" }, { "id": "8594389", "text": "Comanche (horse) Comanche was a mixed-breed horse who survived General George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876). The horse was bought by the U.S. Army in 1868 in St. Louis, Missouri and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His ancestry and date of birth were both uncertain. Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry liked the gelding and bought him for his personal mount, to be ridden only in battle. He has alternatively been described as bay or bay dun. In 1868, while the army was fighting the", "title": "Comanche (horse)" }, { "id": "9117284", "text": "Indian problems, the primary focus was on the faith and loyalty between a boy, a dog, and a horse. Stories ran in five installments each, beginning on Monday and ending on Friday. The radio series was a spin-off from \"Gene Autry's Melody Ranch\", a CBS radio network Sunday-afternoon program featuring the singing cowboy from 1940 to 1956. (Jack French and David S. Siegel, in their book \"Radio Rides the Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929-1967\", opined: \"\"The Adventures of Champion\" was not a spin-off of his [Gene Autry's] popular radio show, \"Melody Ranch\", even though", "title": "The Adventures of Champion" }, { "id": "12202406", "text": "Omar Khayyam (horse) Omar Khayyam (1914–1938) was a British-born Thoroughbred racehorse who was sold as a yearling to an American racing partnership and who became the first foreign-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby. He was named for the famous Persian mathematician, Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was out of the mare Lisma, daughter of the champion sire Persimmon; his success on the track included wins in The Derby, St. Leger Stakes and Ascot Gold Cup. He was sired by Marco, a leading three-year-old in England in 1895 and great-grandson of the first English Triple Crown Champion, West Australian. Trained by", "title": "Omar Khayyam (horse)" }, { "id": "848784", "text": "Athenian king Erechtheus, were born to Aello and the North Wind Boreas. Other progeny of Podarge were Phlogeus and Harpagos, horses given by Hermes to the Dioscuri, who competed for the chariot-race in celebration of the funeral games of Pelias. The swift horse Arion was also said to begotten by loud-piping Zephyrus on a harpy (probably Podarge), as attested by Quintus Smyrnaeus. The most celebrated story in which the harpies play a part is that of King Phineus of Thrace, who was given the gift of prophecy by Zeus. Angry that Phineus gave away the god's secret plan, Zeus punished", "title": "Harpy" }, { "id": "9117285", "text": "both programs had the efforts of the same people. Just grasping the basic scenario of \"The Adventures of Champion\" required a substantial suspension of belief in what its juvenile listeners knew to be gospel. Champion was Autry's horse and had a major role in all of his movies, television programs, and personal appearances.\") Little is known about the cast of the program. French and Siegel wrote, \"However, one of the most curious mysteries about this series was who played the leads of Ricky and Uncle Smoky; contemporary accounts of the program have been unsuccessful in unearthing their identities, and the", "title": "The Adventures of Champion" }, { "id": "18802467", "text": "song. Eddie Arnold's version of the song was nominated for a Grammy in both country and folk categories in 1959. Doc Watson recorded the song on his 1966 album \"Southbound\". Interest in the song was revived in 1972 when he recorded the song with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in their groundbreaking rock/country crossover album \"Will the Circle be Unbroken\". Watson again released the song on his 2003 album of the same name. Tennessee Stud Tennessee Stud is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood. It was released in 1959 by Driftwood and tells the story about a man, his horse (nicknamed", "title": "Tennessee Stud" }, { "id": "10697586", "text": "However, Honey's favorite horse is a grey Connemara pony mare named Moonlight Minuet \"Minnie\", named after one of the unicorns in famous fantasy novelist Edward Hunter Duvall's books. Before Minnie, Honey rode a bay gelding named Kingfisher. Minnie is owned by Patience Duvall, but after Patience loses interest in Minnie, her father works out an agreement with Ms. Carmichael to let her use Minnie as a school pony. Later, in \"Chasing Dreams\", Honey finds out that Minnie is for sale, and tries to persuade Patience not to sell her. Patience tries to blackmail Honey, not intending to keep her part", "title": "Chestnut Hill (novel series)" }, { "id": "216720", "text": "later became part of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). From his early childhood, Ruby was nicknamed \"Sparky\" by those who knew him. His sister, Eva Grant, said that he acquired the nickname because he resembled a slow-moving horse named \"Spark Plug\" or \"Sparky\" in the contemporary comic strip Barney Google. (\"Spark Plug\" debuted as a character in the strip in 1922, when Ruby was 11.) Other accounts say that the name was directly connected with his quick temper. In either event, Grant stated that Ruby didn't like the nickname Sparky and was quick to fight anyone who called him", "title": "Jack Ruby" }, { "id": "6297351", "text": "Dreamer (2005 film) Dreamer is a 2005 American sports drama film written and directed by John Gatins in his directorial debut. The film stars Kurt Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue and Dakota Fanning. It is inspired by the true story of an injured Thoroughbred racehorse named Mariah's Storm. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2005 and was theatrically released on October 21, 2005 by DreamWorks Pictures. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, and earned $38 million on a $32 million budget. It also received a Critics' Choice Award nomination for Best", "title": "Dreamer (2005 film)" }, { "id": "14516444", "text": "he sounds remarkably fit, and the recording itself has the charm of an old-time radio show, complete with music, sound effects, and an actor growling like a tiger. Columbia released the recording as a part of its children's series of 10” records (JL 8001 to JL 8013, 1949–1950). The second part of the album consists of Gene Autry narrating \"Champion: The Horse No Man Could Ride\". Tiger (Frank Buck album) Tiger, a children’s record, was Frank Buck’s last recorded performance. The story was adapted by \"Peter Steele\" and Hecky Krasnow. In fact, Krasnow often wrote under two names, \"Peter Steele\"", "title": "Tiger (Frank Buck album)" }, { "id": "3155486", "text": "own name, e.g., horses like Tom Mix's \"Tony\", Roy Rogers's \"Trigger\" and Clayton Moore's \"Silver\". In 1917, to signify \"his patriotism and loyalty to Uncle Sam\" he (or more likely his publicist) announced would \"change the name of his favorite horse from Fritz to one more truly American.\" Hart was now making feature films exclusively, and films like \"Square Deal Sanderson\" and \"The Toll Gate\" were popular with fans. Hart married young Hollywood actress Winifred Westover. Although their marriage was short-lived, they had one child, William S. Hart, Jr. (1922–2004). In 1921, Roscoe Arbuckle, a silent screen comedy actor, was", "title": "William S. Hart" }, { "id": "18548522", "text": "October. Ridden by Moore she was the only female in the twelve-runner field and started the 6.4/1 fourth choice in the betting. Golden Horn was made the odds-on favourite ahead of the seven-year-old Big Blue Kitten (Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes, Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap) and the six-year-old The Pizza Man (Arlington Million) whilst the other runners included Red Rifle (Bowling Green Handicap), Twilight Eclipse (Man o' War Stakes) and Slumber (Manhattan Handicap). The outsider Shining Copper, acting as a pacemaker or \"rabbit\" for his stable companions Big Blue Kitten and Slumber, took the lead soon after the start", "title": "Found (horse)" }, { "id": "1064717", "text": "Lone Ranger saves Silver's life from an enraged buffalo and, in gratitude, Silver chooses to give up his wild life to carry him. The origin of Tonto's horse, Scout, is less clear. For a long time, Tonto rides a white horse called White Feller. In \"Four Day Ride\" (August 5, 1938), Tonto is given a paint horse by his friend Chief Thundercloud, who then takes White Feller. Tonto rides this horse and refers to him simply as \"Paint Horse\" for several episodes. The horse is finally named Scout in \"Border Dope Smuggling\" (September 2, 1938). In another episode, however, the", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "3716303", "text": "of a stallion's head with the word \"Starion\" below it. The translation of the voiceover says the name refers to a star and the mythical horse, Arion. The Mitsubishi Colt and Mitsubishi Eclipse featured equine names, with the Eclipse named after the champion racehorse. Marketing material from 1982 somewhat confirms the official explanation. The Starion uses a traditional front-mounted engine with rear-wheel drive layout. Many came with a limited slip differential and anti-lock brakes (single channel, rear wheels only) as standard features. The entire chassis was derived from the previous high-performance variant of the Mitsubishi Sapporo or Mitsubishi Galant Lambda", "title": "Mitsubishi Starion" }, { "id": "12690739", "text": "dime novels, children's stories, and comic books. Their popularity matched some of the most popular film stars of their day, even receiving equal billing with Autry above the leading ladies on film posters and lobby cards. The original Champion received thousands of fan letters each month. Champion the Wonder Horse Champion the Wonder Horse was the on-screen companion of singing cowboy Gene Autry in 79 films between 1935 and 1952, and 91 television episodes of \"The Gene Autry Show\" between 1950 and 1955. In addition, Champion starred in 26 episodes of his own television series \"The Adventures of Champion\" in", "title": "Champion the Wonder Horse" }, { "id": "18581572", "text": "around his leisure time, Chapple rarely rode except for Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Amato's owner. Late in his career, however, he made a significant return to the track (\"as fresh as paint\") when winning the 1850 Autumn Double - the Cesarewitch on Mr Payne’s Glauca and the Cambridgeshire on Mr. Gratwicke’s Landgrave. His last ride came on the 5/1 unplaced favourite Songstress in the 1853 Cesarewitch. Despite his success, Chapple did not have a particular enthusiasm for racing and never discussed it. His reputation was for being quiet, unassuming and thrifty, and he never had substantial sums on a horse, unless", "title": "Jem Chapple" }, { "id": "7552919", "text": "strong bond with Alec. He was originally bred in Arabia, the property of Abu Ja' Kub ben Ishak, but ultimately was captured or stolen, placed on a ship to a destination unknown, where he first encounters Alec. After the two are shipwrecked and then rescued, he is taken to America by Alec, and becomes a horse to reckon with out on the racetrack. Napoleon - a mature, gentle gelding belonging to Tony, a vegetable seller. Often fondly called \"Nappy\", he plays a larger role in the first several books. Napoleon is the Black's stable mate and close pal, but he", "title": "The Black Stallion" }, { "id": "19007203", "text": "Pride of the Blue Grass (1939 film) Pride of the Blue Grass is a 1939 American drama film directed by William C. McGann and written by Vincent Sherman. The film stars Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, Aldrich Bowker, Arthur Loft and William Hopper. The film was based on an actual 15-year-old blind horse, Elmer Gantry, who was co-billed as a star and played himself. Gantry was bought and trained as a show horse by wrangler Eleanor Getzendaner but became blind at the age of 13 following two years of experiencing periodic ophthalmia, after which she patiently trained him to", "title": "Pride of the Blue Grass (1939 film)" } ]

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[ { "id": "3939286", "text": "Boston-area teams, following the Patriots wins in Super Bowls XXXVI and XXXVIII. With the Patriots having won Super Bowl XXXVIII the previous February, the Red Sox winning the World Series marked the first time since 1979 that the same city had a Super Bowl and World Series winner in the same year – the last city to accomplish the feat had been Pittsburgh, when the Steelers and Pirates had won Super Bowl XIII and the World Series respectively. The city would go on to record a decade of sports success from 2001 to 2011 with seven championships in the four", "title": "2004 World Series" }, { "id": "7764553", "text": "Sports in Pittsburgh Sports in Pittsburgh have been played dating back to the American Civil War. Baseball, hockey, and the first professional American football game had been played in the city by 1892. Pittsburgh was first known as the \"City of Champions\" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers, and Pittsburgh Steelers won multiple championships in the 1970s. Today, the city has three major professional sports franchises, the Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins; while the University of Pittsburgh Panthers compete in a Division I BCS conference, the highest level of collegiate athletics in the United States, in both football and basketball. Local", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "7764608", "text": "a 50-mile radius of the city. Sports in Pittsburgh Sports in Pittsburgh have been played dating back to the American Civil War. Baseball, hockey, and the first professional American football game had been played in the city by 1892. Pittsburgh was first known as the \"City of Champions\" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers, and Pittsburgh Steelers won multiple championships in the 1970s. Today, the city has three major professional sports franchises, the Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins; while the University of Pittsburgh Panthers compete in a Division I BCS conference, the highest level of collegiate athletics in the United States,", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "329867", "text": "the city's other 2 more relevant sports franchises. While the team's recent struggles compared to Pittsburgh's other two teams can be partly to blame (since the Pirates last World Series championship in 1979, the Steelers have won the Super Bowl 3 times (XIV, XL, and XLIII) and the Penguins the Stanley Cup five times in 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, and 2017, including both in 2009), distractions off the field have also caused the team's popularity to slip in the city. While the team was ranked first in Pittsburgh as recent as the late 1970s, the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates" }, { "id": "338440", "text": "the first professional football game and the first World Series. The city boasts several professional teams and in 2009 the city won the \"Sporting News\" title of \"Best Sports City\" in the United States. and \"Sperling's Best Places\" \"top 15 cities for baseball\" in 2013. College sports also have large followings with the University of Pittsburgh in football and sharing Division I basketball fans with Robert Morris and Duquesne. Pittsburgh has a long history with its major professional sports teams—the Steelers of the National Football League, the Penguins of the National Hockey League, and the Pirates of Major League Baseball—share", "title": "Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "11874655", "text": "Stanley Cup in the same year. However, Detroit holds the distinction of being the first city to have NFL champions and NHL champions in the same city in the same year, 1952. The \"City of Champions\" gained multiple titles in the same year for the second time and first time in 30 years (the Pirates won the 1979 World Series in between the Steelers' victories in Super Bowl XIII in January 1979 and Super Bowl XIV in January 1980). It also gives the state of Pennsylvania three champions in the four major professional sports in a span of nine months,", "title": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals" }, { "id": "7863717", "text": "by all of its pro sports teams, and more recently featured in rap/rally videos. Although the Pittsburgh Steelers are the only team to have these colors throughout their entire history (starting in 1933), the Pittsburgh Pirates (1948-present) and the Pittsburgh Penguins (1967, 1975, 1980–present) have for generations also been associated with \"black and gold\". However the very first team in the city's history to associate with its official seal/flag colors were the original NHL franchise Pittsburgh Pirates. The police department of Pittsburgh was instrumental in establishing the \"black and gold\" tradition for the regions sports teams, in that the teams", "title": "Pittsburgh Police" }, { "id": "7764574", "text": "National Football League. The Stars were suspected of being financed by Barney Dreyfuss and William Chase Temple, the owners of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. The team featured baseball players in the line-up including Christy Mathewson, a future Hall of Fame pitcher with the New York Giants and Fred Crolius, and outfielder with Pirates. The team won the league's only championship in 1902. In 1933, as the oldest of nine children Art Rooney, who had been raised on the North Side of Pittsburgh, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. Originally nicknamed the Pirates, the team later changed their name to the Steelers, to represent", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "394170", "text": "in 13 months. The Steelers had also won the previous year's Super Bowl, and the city's Major League Baseball team, the Pirates, had won the World Series three months before this Super Bowl game. Ten days after the Steelers' Super Bowl victory, the city's National Hockey League team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, changed its uniform colors to match the black and gold scheme of the Pirates and Steelers, as well as that of the Pittsburgh city flag. This was the third time in Super Bowl history that a team overcame a deficit entering the fourth quarter to win the game. The", "title": "Super Bowl XIV" }, { "id": "15696513", "text": "Wood, and coach Blondy Wallace. Other early professional football teams from western Pennsylvania include; the McKeesport Olympics, Oil City Athletic Club, Pitcairn Quakers and Glassport Odds. In 1933, as the oldest of nine children Art Rooney, who had been raised on the North Side of Pittsburgh, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. Originally nicknamed the Pirates, the team later changed their name to the Steelers, to represent the city's heritage of producing steel. The Steelers' first season with a winning record came in 1942. However, they lost their first playoff game in 1947. Western Pennsylvania football at the collegiate level began in", "title": "American football in Western Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "12876833", "text": "\"Steagles\"; the team's colors at that time were green and white as a result of wearing Eagles uniforms. These are the colors of the city's official flag which are the colors of the city's namesake Sir William Pitt. The colors black and gold are also representative of the two ingredients to create steel, coal and iron ore. Originally, the team wore gold colored helmets and black jerseys. Unique to Pittsburgh, the Steelers' black and gold colors are now shared by all major professional teams in the city, including the Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball and the Pittsburgh Penguins in ice hockey.", "title": "Logos and uniforms of the Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "759164", "text": "team switched from wearing blue and white to their present-day scheme of black and gold to honor Pittsburgh's other sports teams, the Pirates and the Steelers, as well as the Flag of Pittsburgh. Both the Pirates and Steelers had worn black and gold for decades, and both were fresh off world championship seasons at that time. The Bruins protested this color change, claiming a monopoly on black and gold, but the Penguins defended their choice by stating that the NHL Pirates also used black and gold as their team colors, and that black and gold were Pittsburgh's traditional sporting colors.", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins" }, { "id": "338445", "text": "first organized league, the NFL and their inaugural champions: the Pittsburgh Stars. The city's most popular team is the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, named after the distribution company the Pittsburgh Steeling company established in 1927. News of the team has preempted news of elections and other events, and are important to the region and its diaspora. The Steelers have been owned by the Rooney family since the team's founding in 1933, show consistency in coaching (only three coaches since the 1960s all with the same basic philosophy) and are noted as one of sports' most respectable franchises. The Steelers have a", "title": "Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "10397201", "text": "replaced the dirt from the field as a \"fresh start\". They earned many accolades from sports media and throughout the nation for their incredible season. Pitcher Derek Lowe said that with the win, the chants of \"1918!\" would no longer echo at Yankee Stadium again. The Patriots win in the Super Bowl meant the Red Sox World Series win made Boston the first city to have Super Bowl and World Series champions in the same year in 25 years, when the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XIII, followed by the Pirates winning the 1979 World Series. The Patriots winning Super", "title": "2004 Boston Red Sox season" }, { "id": "313740", "text": "(16) and hosted more conference championship games (11) than any other NFL team. The Steelers have won 8 AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the New England Patriots' record 10 AFC championships. The Steelers share the record for second most Super Bowl appearances with the Broncos, and Dallas Cowboys (8). The Steelers lost their most recent championship appearance, Super Bowl XLV, on February 6, 2011. The Steelers, whose history traces to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933, owned by Art Rooney", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "313762", "text": "Passion of the Independent Women's Football League. The shade of gold differs slightly among teams: the Penguins have previously used \"Vegas Gold\", a color similar to metallic gold, and the Pirates' gold is a darker mustard yellow-gold, while the Steelers \"gold\" is more of a bright canary yellow. Black and gold are also the colors of the city's official flag. The Steelers logo was introduced in 1962 and is based on the \"Steelmark\", originally designed by Pittsburgh's U.S. Steel and now owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). In fact, it was Cleveland-based Republic Steel that suggested the", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "7764555", "text": "titles—and the Penguins have reached the NHL playoffs the last four years with back-to-back finals appearances, an Atlantic Division Crown, and a Stanley Cup championship, none of which won at home (the last championship won \"in\" Pittsburgh was in 1960 by the Pirates). The flag of Pittsburgh is colored with black and gold, based on the colors of William Pitt's coat of arms; Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which all professional sporting teams share the same colors. The city's first National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the first to wear black and", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "16385166", "text": "to easily win the election. Rooney's semi-professional teams met a fair amount of success, including at least two Western Pennsylvania Senior Independent Football Conference titles in the early 1930s. In 1933, as Pennsylvania's blue laws were about to be repealed, Rooney applied for and received a franchise in the National Football League. The Rooneys morphed into the Pittsburgh Pirates, and were renamed the Steelers in 1940. The team marked the very beginning of Art J. Rooney’s long-standing career in professional football. Art Rooney also became one of the biggest stars in the Pittsburgh sandlot football circuit as the team's quarterback.", "title": "J.P. Rooneys" }, { "id": "329866", "text": "part-owner Bing Crosby, Michael Keaton, Regis Philbin and Kermit The Frog, the Pirates are considered by most to be a distant third in Pittsburgh behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins in popularity among Pittsburgh's three major professional sports teams. However, due to their long history in Pittsburgh dating back to the 1882 season, the team has retained a strong loyal following in the Pittsburgh region, especially among older residents. Upon the team ending their 20-season streak with a losing record in 2013, the fan support for the club has grown once again but still remaining a distant third behind", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates" }, { "id": "10618415", "text": "by calling them \"Pirates\" for \"stealing\" their players. The \"Pirates\" tag stuck and the alliterative name was eventually adopted as Pittsburgh's official team nickname. By the time of the 1903 World Series, the team was commonly known as \"Pirates\", although the club did not acknowledge it on their uniforms until 1912. Alternate nicknames such as \"Bucs\" or \"Buccos\", short for \"buccaneer\", have been used through the years. \"Buccaneer\" is typically used synonymously with \"pirate\", although historically \"buccaneer\" is a more specific term for pirates who operated in the Caribbean, especially along the Spanish Main coast. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the", "title": "History of baseball team nicknames" }, { "id": "15696545", "text": "Bruce Gradkowski all hail from within a 50-mile radius of the city. American football in Western Pennsylvania American football in Western Pennsylvania, featuring the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, has had a long and storied history, dating back to the early days of the sport. All levels of football, including high school football and college football, are followed passionately, and the area's National Football League (NFL) team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, is consistently one of the sport's most popular teams. Many of the NFL's top stars have come from the region as well, especially those that play quarterback, earning Western", "title": "American football in Western Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "338442", "text": "from buccaneer), is the city's oldest professional sports franchise having been founded in 1881, and plays in the Central Division of the National League. The Pirates are nine-time Pennant winners and five-time World Series Champions, were in the first World Series (1903) and claim two pre-World Series titles in 1901 and 1902. The Pirates play in PNC Park, annually ranked as one of the sports best venues; ESPN.com stated: \"[t]his is the perfect blend of location, history, design, comfort and baseball…The best stadium in baseball is in Pittsburgh.\" PNC Park hosted the team's MLB record-tying fifth All-Star game in 2006.", "title": "Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "14995470", "text": "Dodge Challenger Hemi with black stripes. He has stated that he got the car in those colors as a tribute to his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose official colors are black and gold, and its professional sports teams, most of whose colors are black and some variation of gold or yellow. The song itself does not mention Pittsburgh or sports, although the song's music video made the connection to Pittsburgh explicit, showing various iconic locations in the city, as well as apparel associated with the football team the Pittsburgh Steelers, the hockey team the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the baseball team", "title": "Black and Yellow" }, { "id": "10197264", "text": "spark a Pirates rally by waving their babushkas (folded kerchiefs used as head coverings, especially by East European women, a large immigrant minority in Pittsburgh). \"Babushka Power,\" as it was called, most likely inspired the Terrible Towel, another sports gimmick created a year later by sportscaster Myron Cope for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's football team. The Terrible Towel has remained popular with Steeler fans for over thirty years. Green Weenie The Green Weenie was a sports gimmick co-created by Bob Prince (1916–1985), the legendary broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team, and Pirate trainer Danny Whelan. It", "title": "Green Weenie" }, { "id": "3071442", "text": "Forbes Field Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's National Football League (NFL) franchise. The stadium also served as the home football field for the University of Pittsburgh \"Pitt\" Panthers from 1909 to 1924. The stadium was named after British general John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War, and named the city in 1758. The US$1 million ($ million today) project", "title": "Forbes Field" }, { "id": "8974515", "text": "AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh is an American regional sports network that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia, as part of the AT&T SportsNet brand of networks and is an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the channel broadcasts local coverage of sports events throughout Greater Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, as well as national programs from Fox Sports Networks including college sports, and magazine, entertainment and documentary programs. It is the exclusive home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Penguins, and the cable home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. , AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh", "title": "AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "11294085", "text": "\"at Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts\" Scoring drives: \"at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York\" Scoring drives: \"at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania\" Scoring drives: \"at Baker Bowl, Philadelphia\" Scoring drives: \"at Polo Grounds, New York City\" Scoring drives: 1933 Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL) season The 1933 Pittsburgh Pirates was the debut season of the team that would eventually become the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team was founded after Pennsylvania relaxed its blue laws that, prior to 1933, prohibited sporting events from taking place on Sundays, when most NFL games took place. The new squad was composed largely of local semi-pro players, many of whom", "title": "1933 Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL) season" }, { "id": "7764554", "text": "universities Duquesne and Robert Morris also field Division I teams in men's and women's basketball and Division I FCS teams in football. Robert Morris also fields Division I men's and women's ice hockey teams. Pittsburgh is once again being called the \"City of Champions\" as its Steelers and Penguins are recent champions of the NFL and NHL, respectively, in 2009. These accomplishments and others helped Pittsburgh earn the title of \"Best Sports City\" in 2009 from the \"Sporting News\". Including the 2008–09 seasons, the Steelers have reached the NFL playoffs in six of the last eight seasons—winning two Super Bowl", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "6995567", "text": "teams of the National Football League, which was founded in 1920, played primarily on Sunday to avoid conflicts with college football games which were played on Saturday. In May 1933, in anticipation of the repeal of some of Pennsylvania's restrictive laws in the fall of that year, Rooney applied for a franchise with the NFL. His request was granted on May 19, 1933, and the Pittsburgh Professional Football Club, Inc. joined the NFL in exchange for a US$2,500 franchise fee (roughly $ in today's dollars). The new team was known as the Pirates in reference to their baseball club landlords", "title": "History of the Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "14837962", "text": "Pittsburgh Power The Pittsburgh Power was a professional arena football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The team belonged to the East Division of the American Conference (AC) in the Arena Football League (AFL). Founded in 2011, the Power was the youngest franchise in the AC. The team played its home games at the Consol Energy Center, which they shared with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. The Power shared the same color scheme (black and gold) as Pittsburgh's other professional sports teams, the Penguins, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League, and the Pittsburgh Pirates", "title": "Pittsburgh Power" }, { "id": "759228", "text": "protested by claiming to own the rights to the black and gold colors. However the Penguins cited the colors worn by the now-defunct NHL team Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s, as well as black and gold being the official colors of the City of Pittsburgh and its namesake, thus were able to secure permission to use the black and gold colors. The NHL's Pittsburgh Pirates used old Pittsburgh Police uniforms, hence beginning the black and gold sports tradition in the city. This would remain unchanged until the 1992–93 season, when the team unveiled new uniforms and a new logo, made", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins" }, { "id": "3071479", "text": "his NFL team under the name the Pittsburgh Pirates, on July 8, 1933, for $2,500 ($ in present-day terms). The franchise's first game, against the New York Giants, was held on September 20, 1933, at Forbes Field. The Giants won the game 23–2 in front of 25,000 people. Rooney wrote of the game, \"The Giants won. Our team looks terrible. The fans didn't get their money's worth.\" The Pirates rebounded to gain their first ever franchise victory a week later at Forbes Field, against the Chicago Cardinals. The NFL's Pirates were renamed the Steelers in 1940, and otherwise struggled during", "title": "Forbes Field" }, { "id": "3142562", "text": "fee to found a club based in the city of Pittsburgh. He had named his new team the \"Pirates\" which was also the name of the city's long-established Major League Baseball club of which Rooney was a fan since a childhood spent in the shadow of the team's stadium. Since the league's inception in 1920, the NFL had wanted a team in Pittsburgh due to the city's already-long history with football as well as the popularity of the Pittsburgh Panthers football team, an NCAA national championship contender during this period. The league was finally able to take advantage of Pennsylvania", "title": "Art Rooney" }, { "id": "11874654", "text": "Devils in 2000, and tied for eighth overall in the NHL, they became (along with the 1991 Penguins and 1995 Devils), the only teams in the post-1967 expansion era to finish outside the top six overall and win the Cup. The last team to win a Stanley Cup with fewer than 100 points in the season was the 1997 Detroit Red Wings, with 94. The Penguins' Cup victory, coupled with that of the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII four months earlier, gave the city of Pittsburgh the distinction of being the only city to win a Super Bowl and the", "title": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals" }, { "id": "6372556", "text": "NFL season. Previously, the state had teams in Pottsville and Frankford, but both had already folded, due to both the Great Depression and their inability to play on Sunday, when most NFL games took place. Much like the league itself in the early years, the Steelers had to compete with baseball and college football teams in the city, making the team third in the hierarchy to the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pitt Panthers. Despite the team's early struggles, it had a small but loyal fan base in the city due to the popularity of American football at all levels, dating", "title": "Steeler Nation" }, { "id": "15696504", "text": "American football in Western Pennsylvania American football in Western Pennsylvania, featuring the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, has had a long and storied history, dating back to the early days of the sport. All levels of football, including high school football and college football, are followed passionately, and the area's National Football League (NFL) team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, is consistently one of the sport's most popular teams. Many of the NFL's top stars have come from the region as well, especially those that play quarterback, earning Western Pennsylvania the nickname \"Cradle of Quarterbacks\". In the early 20th century, football", "title": "American football in Western Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "3082457", "text": "The fan support in such a strong sports town such as Pittsburgh can be attributed to a combination of factors, including the Steelers on-field decline following their 1970s dominance, the Penguins' then-relative irrelevance in the Pittsburgh market (though the team had just drafted Mario Lemieux), and the Pittsburgh Pirates' collapse both on-field and off in the mid-1980s that would be topped off by the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials and the team nearly relocating to Denver. However, just a few days after Bullough's hiring, the USFL voted to switch to a fall schedule in 1986. DeBartolo was a strong believer in", "title": "Pittsburgh Maulers" }, { "id": "7104589", "text": "Kevin Colbert Kevin Colbert (; born January 1957) is the general manager of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers since the start of 2000. He is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII teams in Pittsburgh along with owner Dan Rooney, president Art Rooney II, and coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin. A Pittsburgh native, Colbert grew up not far from Three Rivers Stadium on the city's North Side and attended North Catholic High School and Robert Morris University. Colbert has experience in coaching and managing teams in baseball and basketball alongside his", "title": "Kevin Colbert" }, { "id": "6995585", "text": "1940, Rooney decided that he had had enough of the copycat Pirates moniker. He worked with the \"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\" to run a contest to find a new name for the team. Former coach Joe Bach led the panel which selected the name Steelers from amongst the The new name paid homage to the city's largest industry of It is unclear who deserves credit for suggesting the name (which was already being used by at least one local high school team), but it appears there were a total of twenty-one winners, and each received a pair of season tickets to the", "title": "History of the Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "759227", "text": "The circle encompassing the logo was removed mid-season in 1971–72. The team's colors were originally powder blue, navy blue, and white. The powder blue was changed to royal blue in 1973, but returned in 1977 when navy became the predominant uniform color. The team adopted the current black and gold color scheme in January 1980 (the announcement was made at halftime of Super Bowl XIV) to unify the colors of the city's professional sports teams, although like the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, the shade of gold more closely resembled yellow. The change was not without controversy, as the Boston Bruins", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins" }, { "id": "4058475", "text": "parading them around the ground with mascots in an attempt to pull in football fans too. Another marketing ploy was to give certain players nicknames to help the crowd associate with the new (and as yet unknown) players. The Steelers were named in honour of Sheffield's industrial past, much like the American football team of the same name based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the sharing of nicknames are merely a coincidence. The American football team actually predates Sheffield's team by 58 years and was already popular worldwide due to their dominance in the National Football League in the 1970s. Sheffield", "title": "Sheffield Steelers" }, { "id": "10110453", "text": "Wiz Khalifa's single \"Black and Yellow\" climbed the charts for 18 months before reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on in February 2011, becoming his first #1 single. Some of the song's success can be attributed to the Pittsburgh Steelers making it to the Super Bowl. “Black and Yellow” became the team’s anthem since the song is an ode to the city of Pittsburgh’s black and yellow colors. Mac Miller released the mixtape \"Best Day Ever\" on March 11, 2011. Since the release, it has been downloaded over 1,137,000 times and streamed over 1,155,000 times from the official host", "title": "Rostrum Records" }, { "id": "14145393", "text": "in Major League Baseball in 2010). There was also a feeling among the schedulers that the Steelers have a following independent of other sports. Additionally, while the Saints are the defending Super Bowl champions, the Steelers had won Super Bowl XLIII the season before. The game was considered for the NFL Kickoff game, but before the Saints eventual opponent (the Minnesota Vikings) was announced, the Steelers publicly declined the offer due to the Pirates being scheduled to play at nearby PNC Park during Weeks 2 and 3 of the Steelers season, and the fact that the two teams prefer not", "title": "2010 Pittsburgh Steelers season" }, { "id": "4372203", "text": "which forms a vast formidable barrier for mile upon mile to overland travel from the coast. Western Pennsylvania is home to more than two dozen institutions of higher learning, including those listed below. Western Pennsylvania is distinctive from the rest of the state due to several important and complex factors: Pittsburgh boasts three major league sports teams: the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League, the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball, and the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Panthers is a NCAA Division I college team. Erie and Johnstown both have junior ice hockey", "title": "Western Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "20024580", "text": "general being part of the Rust Belt and Appalachia. Central Pennsylvania, coined by residents as Pennsyltucky, is considered battleground territory between the two teams. Both teams were officially founded in 1933, with the Steelers then being known as the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, their histories predate that, with the Steelers being known as the J.P. Rooneys dating to 1921 as a semipro team, while the Eagles are arguably descended from the Frankford Yellow Jackets based in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood dating to 1899. The NFL considers both teams having started in 1933 alongside the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds. Both teams took advantage of", "title": "Eagles–Steelers rivalry" }, { "id": "329875", "text": "& Blue\" color scheme when they adopted the current black & gold color scheme, to match that of the colors of the Flag of Pittsburgh and, to a lesser extent at the time, the colors of the then-relatively unknown Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. While they were not the first baseball team to do this, they were one of the first to do this permanently. Along with the San Francisco Giants, the Pirates are one of two pre-expansion National League teams that completely changed their colors, although red returned as an \"accent color\" in 1997 and remained until 2009. In", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates" }, { "id": "7258437", "text": "than 160 people\" attending. The Pittco logo has changed many times since the organization's inception. Originally, Pittco used an image of the city of Pittsburgh with \"Pittsburgh LAN Coalition\" on top of it. The logo eventually changed to the modern one, bearing three pentagons in yellow, blue, and gray to the left of \"Pittco\". The pentagons reference the \"Three Rivers\" for which Pittsburgh is known. Its positioning is also a vague reference to the logo of the Pittsburgh Steelers professional American football team, which features three stars to the right of \"Steelers\". More recent use of the logo shows a", "title": "Pittsburgh LAN Coalition" }, { "id": "313761", "text": "used black and gold as their colors since the club's inception, the lone exception being the 1943 season when they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and formed the \"Steagles\"; the team's colors at that time were green and white as a result of wearing Eagles uniforms. Originally, the team wore solid gold-colored helmets and black jerseys. The Steelers' black and gold colors are now shared by all major professional teams in the city, including the Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball and the Pittsburgh Penguins in ice hockey, and also the Pittsburgh Power of the re-formed Arena Football League, and the Pittsburgh", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "7104592", "text": "and Brock. Kevin Colbert Kevin Colbert (; born January 1957) is the general manager of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers since the start of 2000. He is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII teams in Pittsburgh along with owner Dan Rooney, president Art Rooney II, and coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin. A Pittsburgh native, Colbert grew up not far from Three Rivers Stadium on the city's North Side and attended North Catholic High School and Robert Morris University. Colbert has experience in coaching and managing teams in baseball and basketball", "title": "Kevin Colbert" }, { "id": "313742", "text": "large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation. The Steelers currently play their home games at Heinz Field on Pittsburgh's North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium which hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons. Prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20, 1933, losing 23–2 to the New York Giants. Through the 1930s, the Pirates never finished higher than", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "7604971", "text": "accolades from the sports media and throughout the nation for their incredible season. In December, \"Sports Illustrated\" named the Boston Red Sox the 2004 Sportsmen of the Year. With the New England Patriots winning Super Bowl XXXVIII in February, Boston became the first city since Pittsburgh in 1979 to have both Super Bowl and World Series champions in the same year. Their winning Super Bowl XXXIX during the offseason made Boston the first city since Pittsburgh in 1979–1980 to have two Super Bowl and World Series championships over a span of 12 months. After the Bruins won the 2011 Stanley", "title": "History of the Boston Red Sox" }, { "id": "11294083", "text": "1933 Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL) season The 1933 Pittsburgh Pirates was the debut season of the team that would eventually become the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team was founded after Pennsylvania relaxed its blue laws that, prior to 1933, prohibited sporting events from taking place on Sundays, when most NFL games took place. The new squad was composed largely of local semi-pro players, many of whom played for sports promoter Art Rooney. Rooney became the Pirates owner, paying the NFL a $2,500 fee to join the league. Except for a brief period in , Rooney would remain the franchise's principal owner until", "title": "1933 Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL) season" }, { "id": "313739", "text": "Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to win a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are one of the most successful NFL franchises. Pittsburgh has won more Super Bowl titles (6) and both played in", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "17570561", "text": "is from the area and are Pirates fans themselves. Despite picking up a cult following in Pittsburgh and helping the team contend in the playoff race well into September, the Pirates finished with a 79-83 record, extending their major North American professional sports record to 20 consecutive losing seasons. The Pirates would then use the Zoltan again the following season, this time not only ending their losing seasons streak but clinching a wild card spot in the 2013 playoffs. The Zoltan was still popular enough in Pittsburgh that when the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Romanian-born punter Zoltan Mesko in September 2013,", "title": "Zoltan (hand gesture)" }, { "id": "3964271", "text": "Pirates were the last team to win Game 7 of a World Series on the road until the San Francisco Giants defeated the Royals in Kansas City to win Game 7 of the Series. They were also the last road team to win Game 7 of a championship round, in any major league sport, until the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2–1 at Joe Louis Arena to win the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. With the Steelers having already won Super Bowl XIII, Pittsburgh also became the second city to win both the Super Bowl and the World Series", "title": "1979 World Series" }, { "id": "6372557", "text": "back to the 1800s, when Pittsburgh hosted the first wholly professional football game in 1895. By the 1950s, the Steelers had gained some popularity like nation in the city and were on par with Pitt, but they were still a distant second behind the Pirates in the city. In the early 1970s, the Steelers began to rise in popularity. 1969 saw the hiring of head coach Chuck Noll and the drafting of future Hall of Fame defensive tackle \"Mean Joe\" Greene. By 1972, the Steelers were a playoff contender and began a sellout streak in Three Rivers Stadium that carried", "title": "Steeler Nation" }, { "id": "8624101", "text": "age of 62 of a heart attack which occurred shortly after he had completed a game of squash in 1966. Luby DiMeolo Albert A. \"Luby\" DiMeolo (October 27, 1903 – June 17, 1966) was an American football player and coach. He was the second ever head coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates (later renamed the Steelers) of the National Football League. He coached the Pirates during their second season of . He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, but lived nearly his entire life in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, just west of Pittsburgh. DiMeolo was a guard and captain on the 1929 University of", "title": "Luby DiMeolo" }, { "id": "13937350", "text": "of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.\" The Stadium Authority board is comprised on five members, all appointed by the Mayor of Pittsburgh. In 2003, the Stadium Authority began a development project in an area called the \"Option Area\" that allowed the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Pirates to develop commercial property in conjunction with North Shore Developers. The plan currently has completed the Equitable Resources building and the Del Monte Building. The Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, a special administrative authority that supervises the finances of the City of Pittsburgh, has said that the Stadium Authority is no longer necessary and recommended", "title": "Stadium Authority of the City of Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "6849487", "text": "During his appearance, he reported a rumor being investigated by two prominent columnists that Sandusky and his Second Mile children's charity may have been \"pimping out young boys to rich donors.\" Madden's views on Pittsburgh's three major professional sports teams are mixed. While Madden usually defends the Penguins, he has mixed views about the Pittsburgh Steelers and is harshly critical of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Madden often praises the Rooney family for going all-out to win but questions the team's decisions regarding off-field actions of their players, and is particularly critical of Antonio Brown. With regards to the Pirates, Madden is", "title": "Mark Madden" }, { "id": "15696539", "text": "signing a then record contract worth over $1.7 million. In five seasons, Sherrill's Panthers won fifty games, lost nine, and tied one (50-9-1), which places his 0.842 winning percentage at the top of the list for all Pitt coaches, just ahead of Jock Sutherland. The Steelers are one of the NFL's most popular teams, with a fan base known as Steeler Nation. Despite the difference in high school and college football tastes, the team unites many, and is often one of the NFL's biggest ratings draws. Since the Dan Marino days at Pitt, the team hasn't competed for a national", "title": "American football in Western Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "9651948", "text": "For example, until 1957 New York City played host to baseball and football Giants. MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates shared its nickname with an NFL team (which ultimately became the Pittsburgh Steelers) as well as a now-defunct early NHL team, while the Canadian football team Hamilton Tigers shared a team name with an NHL team. The most recent example of two major teams sharing a franchise name was between 1960 and 1987; when the NFL's Chicago Cardinals relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, it was allowed to keep the Cardinals name despite the established existence of a baseball team of the same name.", "title": "Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada" }, { "id": "12466777", "text": "Green Bay Packers, had moved to or been replaced by teams in big cities, and even Green Bay had begun to play a portion of its home schedule in much larger Milwaukee for more support (a practice they continued well into the 1990s). In 1941, the corporate headquarters moved from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago. During the early years of the league, rather than coming up with original team names, many NFL teams simply chose the name of the Major League Baseball team in the same city. Thus the Pittsburgh Steelers were the \"Pittsburgh Pirates\" for the first seven years of", "title": "History of the National Football League" }, { "id": "4148937", "text": "re-lost four-sport status. If the American Basketball Association (1967–1976) is considered to have been a major professional sports league, additional cities formerly made the list. In addition to the MLB Pirates, the NFL Steelers and the NHL Penguins; Pittsburgh also hosted the ABA's Pittsburgh Condors, originally called the Pipers, in 1967 and from 1969 until the team's demise in 1972. Similarly, if the ABA is counted, St. Louis would have regained four-sport status between 1974 and 1976, when the city was home to the Spirits of St. Louis. Also, Minneapolis–St. Paul was a four-sport city from 1967 to 1969, having", "title": "U.S. cities with teams from four major league sports" }, { "id": "898610", "text": "region of Yorkshire and the Humber. The city has a long sporting heritage, and is home to the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. Games between the two professional clubs, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, are known as the Steel City derby. The city is also home to the World Snooker Championship and the Sheffield Steelers, the UK's first fully professional Ice Hockey team. The area now occupied by the City of Sheffield is believed to have been inhabited since at least the late Upper Paleolithic, about 12,800 years ago. The earliest evidence of human occupation in the Sheffield area", "title": "Sheffield" }, { "id": "12560294", "text": "Pittsburgh was willing to merge again for 1944 but not Philadelphia. This forced the Steelers to merge with the Chicago Cardinals (as Card-Pitt) for 1944. Pennsylvania Keystoners The Pennsylvania Keystoners was the idea for an American football team thought up by then-Pittsburgh Pirates owner, Art Rooney, in 1939 to have a single National Football League franchise based in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The team would play half of its home games in each location. During their early histories, the Pirates and the Eagles were among the weakest in the league. In his first eight years of operating the Pittsburgh franchise,", "title": "Pennsylvania Keystoners" }, { "id": "4814147", "text": "Terrible Towel The Terrible Towel is a rally towel associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL). The Terrible Towel has spread in popularity; for example, fans take their Towel to famous sites while on vacation. The Towel has been taken to the peak of Mount Everest, and even into space on the International Space Station. It is widely recognized as a symbol of the Steelers and the city of Pittsburgh. Proceeds from sales of the Towel have raised over US$3 million for Allegheny Valley School, which cares for people with mental disabilities", "title": "Terrible Towel" }, { "id": "1948797", "text": "Pirates to wear, all of them in the official city colors of \"black and gold\". Since Callahan's police officer brother provided used and surplus police wear to the team, the origin of the city's franchises use of \"black and gold\" originate, with the Pittsburgh Police Department. The Pirates would later have a connection with Pittsburgh's next NHL franchise; the Pittsburgh Penguins. In January 1980, the Boston Bruins protested to the NHL over the Penguins proposed change in team colors, from blue and white to black and gold. The Penguins used the Pirates as an example of a NHL team, other", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)" }, { "id": "7764556", "text": "gold as their colors. The colors were adopted by founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney, in 1933. In 1948, the Pittsburgh baseball Pirates switched their colors from red and blue to black and gold. Pittsburgh's second NHL franchise, the Pittsburgh Penguins, wore blue and white, due to then-general manager Jack Riley's upbringing in Ontario. In 1979, after the Steelers and Pirates had each won their respective league championships, the Penguins altered their color scheme to match, despite objections from the Boston Bruins. In 1975, late Steelers radio broadcaster Myron Cope invented the Terrible Towel, which has become \"arguably the", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "8624098", "text": "Luby DiMeolo Albert A. \"Luby\" DiMeolo (October 27, 1903 – June 17, 1966) was an American football player and coach. He was the second ever head coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates (later renamed the Steelers) of the National Football League. He coached the Pirates during their second season of . He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, but lived nearly his entire life in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, just west of Pittsburgh. DiMeolo was a guard and captain on the 1929 University of Pittsburgh team that was undefeated before losing in the 1930 Rose Bowl to USC. Upon graduating from Pittsburgh, DiMeolo served", "title": "Luby DiMeolo" }, { "id": "3293031", "text": "and obsolete, as well as not financially viable. Joining a wave of sports construction that swept the United States in the '90s, both the Pirates and Steelers began a push for a new stadium. This eventually culminated in the Regional Renaissance Initiative, an 11-county 1997 voter referendum to raise the sales tax in Pittsburgh's Allegheny County and ten surrounding counties ½% for seven years to fund separate new stadiums for the Pirates and Steelers, as well as an expansion of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and various other local development projects. After being hotly debated throughout the entire southwestern", "title": "Three Rivers Stadium" }, { "id": "7764562", "text": "players capture all four MVP awards (Seasonal, All Star Game, Playoff and World Series) in a single season. Since 1970 the team has won their division and qualified for the playoffs nine times, six in the 1970s and three times in a row from 1990 to 1992. Pirates have won the league MVP award in 1960, 1966, 1979, 1990, 1992, and 2013 and the Cy Young Award in 1960 and 1990. In 2001, the team opened PNC Park on the city's North Shore, regularly ranked as one of the top three baseball parks in the country. In addition to the", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "13474255", "text": "Multiple major sports championship seasons In the history of North American major professional sports league championships (which include the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL) a city/metropolitan area has been home to multiple championships in a season fifteen times, most recently in 2008-2009, when the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers won their respective leagues, in February and June 2009. Only Detroit has been host to more than two major league championship teams in a season, although in 2002 Los Angeles metropolitan area's Lakers and Angels won the NBA and MLB championships along with two other local teams of smaller leagues (the", "title": "Multiple major sports championship seasons" }, { "id": "12509679", "text": "Mountain, was selected to replace him after a search of approximately 200 candidates. In January 2009, the team held its sixth \"PirateFest\" at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The three-day event was attended by 15,127 people, and increased the number of season ticket packages purchased from the 2008 season. President Frank Coonelly stated that the team had fallen behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins from a \"marketing and business perspective\", but are \"...working hard to get ourselves back up to where we belong both in Major League Baseball and Pittsburgh.\" The Pirates added sleeves to their uniform, and", "title": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season" }, { "id": "10801652", "text": "in the AFC championship game. Finally defeating the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV. With the win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates win in the 1979 World Series, Pittsburgh would be the last city to claim Super Bowl and World Series wins in the same year until 1986 when the New York Mets won the World Series in 7 games over the Boston Red Sox, and the New York Giants won Super Bowl XXI 39–20 over the Denver Broncos. In that game. Franco Harris became the 5th man to rush for 8,000 career rushing yards, and it was also", "title": "1979 Pittsburgh Steelers season" }, { "id": "4245741", "text": "NFC playing the oldest franchise in the AFC. The Cardinals were founded in 1898 as an independent amateur team in Chicago. The Steelers, founded in 1933 as the Pittsburgh Pirates, are one of only three AFC teams that pre-date the 1960 NFL season. The Cardinals and Steelers played each other twice per season from 1950 through 1969, first in the American Conference (1950–52), then in the Eastern Conference (1953–66), and finally in the Century Division of the Eastern Conference (1967–69). It also was the first time that two quarterbacks who previously started for a Super Bowl winning team (Kurt Warner", "title": "Super Bowl XLIII" }, { "id": "759220", "text": "ice and in attendance following the Jaromir Jagr trade. Today, the Penguins are one of the NHL's most popular teams, especially among American non-Original Six franchises and are considered second behind the Steelers among Pittsburgh's three major professional sports teams, taking advantage of both its success and the Pittsburgh Pirates struggles both on and off the field. Especially notable was a 2007 survey done of the four major sports leagues 122 teams, in which the Penguins surprised observers by being ranked 20th overall and third among NHL teams, while the Steelers were ranked number one and the Pirates (before the", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins" }, { "id": "612304", "text": "The classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera \"The Pirates of Penzance\" focuses on The Pirate King and his hapless band of pirates. Many sports teams use \"pirate\" or a related term such as \"raider\" or \"buccaneer\" as their nickname, based on the popular stereotypes of pirates. Such teams include the Pittsburgh Pirates, a Major League Baseball team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: they acquired their nickname in 1891 after \"pirating\" a player from another team. The Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, both in the National Football League, also use pirate-related nicknames. Sources on the economics of piracy include Cyrus Karraker's 1953", "title": "Piracy" }, { "id": "13474258", "text": "NBA Finals, and the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers lost the Stanley Cup Finals. Multiple major sports championship seasons In the history of North American major professional sports league championships (which include the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL) a city/metropolitan area has been home to multiple championships in a season fifteen times, most recently in 2008-2009, when the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers won their respective leagues, in February and June 2009. Only Detroit has been host to more than two major league championship teams in a season, although in 2002 Los Angeles metropolitan area's Lakers and Angels won the NBA and", "title": "Multiple major sports championship seasons" }, { "id": "329854", "text": "Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The Pirates play their home games at PNC Park; the team previously played at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium, the latter of which was named after its location near the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers. Founded on October 15, 1881 as Allegheny, the franchise has won five World Series championships. The Pirates are also often referred to as the \"Bucs\" or the", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates" }, { "id": "10922921", "text": "Mazeroski got the final hit at Forbes Field. A site on the North Side had been chosen earlier in the year, but it took until April 25, 1968, to finally break ground. Three Rivers Stadium opened on July 16, 1970, and became the home of the Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cincinnati Reds won the series, three games to none, over the Pirates. 1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season The 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season resulted in the team winning their first National League East title with a record of 89–73, five games ahead of the", "title": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season" }, { "id": "16251584", "text": "City?\", as various players (and umpires) had difficulty finding the place. Pirate City Pirate City is the site of minor league and spring training activities for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. The complex is located in Bradenton, Florida, and serves as the site of the Pirates spring training workouts, while nearby LECOM Park (formerly known as McKechnie Field) is the site of the team's home spring training games. While the Pirates have been training in Bradenton since 1969, the Pirate City complex received a major renovation in 2008, the result of a $20 million financial agreement between the", "title": "Pirate City" }, { "id": "338441", "text": "the same team colors, the official city colors of black and gold. This tradition of solidarity is unique to Pittsburgh. The black-and-gold color scheme has since become widely associated with the city and personified in its famous Terrible Towel. \"Rails to Trails\", has converted miles of former rail tracks to recreational trails, including a Pittsburgh-Washington D.C. bike/walking trail. Several mountain biking trails are within the city and suburbs, Frick Park has biking trails and Hartwood Acres Park has many miles of single track trails. <nowiki>**</nowiki> The Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, often referred to as the Bucs or the Buccos (derived", "title": "Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "12046142", "text": "Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, SAG Award, BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Mara is also known for her charity work and oversees the charity Uweza Foundation, which supports empowerment programs for children and families in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa. Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York, a town in Westchester County about 40 miles north of New York City. Mara's mother's family (the Rooneys) founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and her father's family (the Maras) founded the New York Giants. Her father, Timothy Christopher", "title": "Rooney Mara" }, { "id": "759149", "text": "Penguins are tied for the most Cup championships among non-Original Six teams and sixth overall. With their Stanley Cup wins in 2016 and 2017, the Penguins became the first back-to-back champions in 19 years (since the 1997–98 Detroit Red Wings) and the first team to do so since the introduction of the NHL salary cap. Before the Penguins, Pittsburgh had been the home of the NHL's Pirates from 1925 to 1930 and of the American Hockey League Hornets franchise from 1936 to 1967 (with a short break from 1956 to 1961). In the spring of 1965, Jack McGregor, a state", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins" }, { "id": "8743352", "text": "Sports in Pennsylvania Sports in Pennsylvania includes numerous professional sporting teams, events, and venues located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Between 1979 and 1980, the Pirates, Phillies, Steelers, Eagles, Sixers, and Flyers all made it to the end of the postseason, with the Steelers, Pirates, and Phillies being victorious. . Until recently, when the Philadelphia Eagles won the super bowl 2018. Pennsylvania is home to eight teams from the five major American professional sports leagues. Football is the most popular sport in Pennsylvania, especially in the Lehigh Valley, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania, and Western Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania in particular", "title": "Sports in Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "6995568", "text": "at Forbes Field. Before settling on Forbes, Rooney considered playing at Greenlee Field, which housed the city's Negro League baseball club. Since the blue laws were not repealed until November's general election, the team was forced to play its first four home games on Wednesday nights. Rooney's new team was a study in frustration for many years. Between 1933 and 1971, they posted a winning record only eight times, and made the playoffs just once, in 1947, when they were shut out by Philadelphia. In the early years of the franchise, the Pirates were not Rooney's only (or even his", "title": "History of the Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "1948796", "text": "gold until 1948. Meanwhile, the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers would not exist until 1933, three years after the team left town and two years after the franchise folded altogether. The team not only borrowed the official city colors displayed on its seal, flag, fire hydrants, fire trucks and police cruisers, but literally \"borrowed\" their first logos from the city. In 1925, the Pirates founder and owner James Callahan was researching new uniforms and logos for the new team. He later called on his brother, a Pittsburgh Police officer, who provided him with old and surplus emblems, seals and patches for the", "title": "Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)" }, { "id": "14995473", "text": "Building, One PNC Plaza, K&L Gates Center the Three Sisters and Smithfield Street bridges, Station Square, Shannon Hall of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the smoke stacks of the former U.S. Steel Homestead Works at The Waterfront adjacent to the city. The video also prominently features city icons such as the Terrible Towel, a rally towel for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and city sports in general, as well as Pittsburgh Pirates apparel. It was recorded in Chatsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. The official remix, \"Black & Yellow (G-Mix)\" features west-coast rapper Snoop Dogg, Juicy J and R&B singer T-Pain. Wiz Khalifa", "title": "Black and Yellow" }, { "id": "4731649", "text": "the Buffalo Bisons. He played 37 games, including his first games at third base since 1990. However, he never received a promotion to the majors, and retired after the season. After retiring from playing, McClendon served as a hitting coach for the Pirates until he was appointed manager after the 2000 season. At the time of his hiring, he became the first African American manager or head coach of any of Pittsburgh's three major sports teams, preceding the Steelers hiring of Mike Tomlin by six years. McClendon held the Pirates managerial position until he was fired September 6, 2005. In", "title": "Lloyd McClendon" }, { "id": "313791", "text": "fans during halftime. In 2001, the Steelers moved into Heinz Field. The franchise dating back to 1933 has had several homes. For thirty-one seasons, the Steelers shared Forbes Field with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1933 to 1963. In 1958, though they started splitting their home games at Pitt Stadium three blocks away at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1964 to 1969, the Steelers played exclusively at the on campus facility before moving with the Pirates to Three Rivers Stadium on the city's Northside. Three Rivers is remembered fondly by the Steeler Nation as where Chuck Noll and Dan Rooney turned", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers" }, { "id": "15600250", "text": "Mose Kelsch Christian \"Mose\" Kelsch (January 31, 1897 – July 13, 1935) was an American football placekicker and running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was a charter member of the Pittsburgh Pirates (which would later be renamed the Steelers). Kelsch grew up as an orphan in Pittsburgh's Troy Hill neighborhood. He earned the nickname \"Mose\" while playing sandlot baseball, though no one was able to recall the circumstances that brought the name about. He played semi-professional football for several teams in the area, including the Hope-Harveys, James P. Rooneys and Majestic Radio teams managed by Art Rooney", "title": "Mose Kelsch" }, { "id": "14633916", "text": "their first game in round 2 of the 2010 AMNRL season, where they lost 80-4 against the Fairfax Eagles. In 2011 the team was one of seven teams to leave the AMNRL to form the new USA Rugby League. They changed their name to the Pittsburgh Sledgehammers shortly after. In February 2011 it was announced the Sledgehammers would be participating as a \"developmental\" team in the new league. Their jerseys are black and gold, the traditional colors of Pittsburgh sports. Black and gold are the colors of the city's flag as well as the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pittsburgh Steelers and", "title": "Pittsburgh Sledgehammers" }, { "id": "393937", "text": "158 yards (more than the entire Minnesota offense) and a touchdown, was named the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player. The NFL awarded Super Bowl IX to New Orleans on April 3, 1973 at the owners meetings held in Scottsdale, Arizona. Pittsburgh advanced to their first Super Bowl and were playing for a league championship for the first time in team history. Their 73-year-old owner Art Rooney founded the Steelers as a 1933 NFL expansion team, but suffered through losing seasons for most of its 42-year history and had never made it to an NFL championship game or a Super Bowl.", "title": "Super Bowl IX" }, { "id": "11570032", "text": "add all six new investors was finalized in May 2009. Rooney family The Rooney family is an Irish-American family which, after emigrating from Ireland in the 1840s, established its American roots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1880s, and is known for its connections to the sports, acting, and political fields. They are primarily known for having been the majority owners and operators of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) since the formation of the franchise in 1933. Art Rooney was the founder and owner of the team until his death in 1988. Following his death, ownership of", "title": "Rooney family" }, { "id": "6829648", "text": "not have a Major League Baseball team, and the Pittsburgh Pirates have had poor seasonal performances in recent years, at the time having not recorded a winning record since 1992. Ratings have been mixed for these results, with the NFL winning the night in 2010 while MLB won in 2011. While the Saints won both games, the former matchup featuring a major ratings draw in the Steelers, combined with the latter matchup against the Colts being a 62–7 blowout while Game 4 of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers was a more closely contested", "title": "NBC Sunday Night Football" }, { "id": "14137385", "text": "the September 11 attacks in which Washington, D.C. and New York City were both targeted, as well as the first such anniversary since the killing of Osama bin Laden. Due to the proximity of Baltimore with Washington as well as the proximity of Pittsburgh with the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed, the Pittsburgh Steelers visited the archrival Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. It marked the first time the two teams played in a season-opening game since 2003, as their heated rivalry usually prompts their games to be scheduled later in the season. There had been some", "title": "2011 NFL season" }, { "id": "2602105", "text": "Colonel Hugh Mercer in command of Fort Pitt. General Forbes died in Philadelphia on 11 March 1759. He was buried in Christ Church in Philadelphia. Forbes Field, which served as the home field for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers football team, was named after John Forbes. Also Forbes Avenue running from the Ohio River in Downtown Pittsburgh to Frick Park and the start of the eastern suburbs is named in his honor and roughly follows his colonial road. John Forbes (British Army officer) John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a British general", "title": "John Forbes (British Army officer)" }, { "id": "7764577", "text": "had his number -75- retired in 2014. In 2008, ESPN.com ranked Steelers' fans as the best in the NFL, citing their \"unbelievable\" sellout streak of 299 consecutive games. Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, son of founder Art Rooney, became the majority owner of the Steelers in November 2008 along with his son Art II, after they bought all of the shares of two of his four brothers. Outside of the NFL, the city was represented by the Pittsburgh Americans of the second American Football League in 1936 and 1937. It was also be briefly represented by the Pittsburgh Maulers of the", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "9378099", "text": "sports teams have also appeared an additional ten times as league finalists: five by the Revolution (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2014), three by the Patriots (Super Bowls XLII (2007), XLVI (2011), and LII (2017)) and one each by the Celtics () and the Bruins (2013) respectively. The recent sporting success of their teams has given rise to the city's monicker as the \"City of Champions\", and \"Titletown\". In the 2000s alone, Boston's professional teams had arguably the most successful decade in sports history, winning six championships (three by the Patriots, two by the Red Sox and one by the", "title": "Sports in Boston" }, { "id": "13474256", "text": "Sparks of the WNBA and the Galaxy of the MLS). Super Bowls take place in the February after the NFL's regular season. The Super Bowl used to be in January. Therefore, Super Bowl I—which took place January 15, 1967—is officially the championship game for the 1966 season. In the calendar year 2009, Pittsburgh's Steelers and Penguins won their respective championships, but the Steelers' championship was for the NFL's 2008 regular season. However, before 1965, the NFL championship game was played in December of that calendar year. That being said, both of those seasons started in 2008 and ended in 2009.", "title": "Multiple major sports championship seasons" } ]

[ "Wept", "Lacrymation", "Bogorad’s Syndrome", "Lacrimal fluid", "Leamy eye", "Lachrymation", "Watery eyes", "Pre-corneal tear film", "Tears", "Tear Duct and Gland", "Lacrimation", "Teary", "Alacria", "Basal tears", "Bogorad's syndrome", "Epiphoria", "Bogorad's Syndrome", "Reflex ears", "Watering eyes", "Tear film" ]

[ { "id": "1624378", "text": "Child Is Father to the Man Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968. It reached number 47 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in the United States. A teenaged Al Kooper went to a concert for jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson in 1960. Ferguson's performance served as the catalyst to start a rock band with a horn section. Originally in a band called The Blues Project, Kooper left after the band leader rejected his idea of bringing in a horn section. He then left for the West Coast and found", "title": "Child Is Father to the Man" }, { "id": "9993622", "text": "really got me.\" Kalb later said, \"If I'd dropped dead at that point on the spot because of what we thought of Muddy Waters, then my life would have been well spent.\" Personality clashes, drugs and the 1960s lifestyle took their toll on the band. Katz and Kooper left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears. At the age of 15 Kalb formed the band Gay Notes and performed with Bob Dylan on a WBAI-FM concert broadcast in 1961. In 1963 Kalb performed in the Ragtime Jug Stompers with his mentor Dave Van Ronk. In 1964 he recorded as Folk Stringers,", "title": "Danny Kalb" }, { "id": "5624060", "text": "parted company with Guercio and Columbia Records assigned staff producer Jimmy Wisner to work with the group on their third album, \"In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow\". The album featured material written by Grebb, Giammarese and Tufano. Despite the release of a new single, \"Back in Love Again\", they were unable to duplicate their 1967 success without Guercio, who went on to take the \"brass rock\" concept further with Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago. Also, a \"BUCKINGHAMS DAY\" in Chicago was cancelled when it was learned that some of the band members were arrested for possession of illegal drugs.", "title": "The Buckinghams" }, { "id": "4754616", "text": "Before moving to New York City in 1967, Clayton-Thomas fronted a couple of local bands, first The Shays and then The Bossmen, one of the earliest rock bands with significant jazz influences. But the real success came only a few difficult years later when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas's first album with the band, \"Blood, Sweat & Tears\" (which was released in December 1968) – despite its eponymous title, it was actually the band's second album – sold ten million copies worldwide. The record topped the Billboard album chart for seven weeks and charted for 109 weeks. It", "title": "David Clayton-Thomas" }, { "id": "15379470", "text": "Press in 2015. \"Legendary guitarist Katz is or at least was definitely a rock star: a pioneer of the blues-rock genre with his early 1960s band, the Blues Project; a founder in the late 1960s of the groundbreaking and hugely popular jazz-rock big band Blood, Sweat & Tears; and the producer of Lou Reed’s best-selling and still-influential live LP Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal (as well as its follow-up Sally Can’t Dance, Reed’s only top-10 album). Katz engagingly recounts fascinating stories in an insightful, intelligent, sometimes wistful and sometimes funny style that makes this one of the few rock memoirs worth", "title": "Steve Katz (musician)" }, { "id": "8025372", "text": "released under a new band name, Seatrain. In 1968, Kooper and Katz joined forces to fulfill a desire of Kooper's to form a rock band with a horn section. The result was Blood, Sweat & Tears. While Kooper led the band on its first album, \"Child Is Father to the Man\", he did not take part in any subsequent releases. Soon after, Kooper, then a producer for Columbia Records, recorded with Bloomfield, Stephen Stills and Harvey Brooks for the album entitled \"Super Session\", before doing several solo albums including one with Shuggie Otis. Katz, on the other hand, remained with", "title": "The Blues Project" }, { "id": "342464", "text": "the British jazz scene. Often highlighted as the first true jazz-rock recording is the only album by the relatively obscure New York-based the Free Spirits with \"Out of Sight and Sound\" (1966). The first group of bands to self-consciously use the label were R&B oriented white rock bands that made use of jazzy horn sections, like Electric Flag, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago, to become some of the most commercially successful acts of the later 1960s and early 1970s. British acts to emerge in the same period from the blues scene, to make use of the tonal and improvisational", "title": "Rock music" }, { "id": "11984108", "text": "You've Made Me So Very Happy \"You've Made Me So Very Happy\" is a song written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy, and was released first as a single in 1967 by Brenda Holloway on the Tamla label. The song was later a huge hit for jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1969, and became a Gold record. By 1967, Brenda Holloway had been recording for Motown Records since 1964 and had struggled with Berry Gordy over control of her music, alleging that Gordy had forced her to sing Mary Wells' \"leftover tracks\" after the", "title": "You've Made Me So Very Happy" }, { "id": "3675627", "text": "was an attempt to move beyond established musical formulas by experimenting with different instruments, song types, and forms. From the mid-1960s groups including The Left Banke and The Beach Boys, had pioneered the inclusion of harpsichords, wind and string sections on their recordings to produce a form of Baroque rock. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy and science fiction. The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat and Tears, to more pop rock orientated bands like Boston, Foreigner, Kansas, Journey", "title": "American rock" }, { "id": "14058062", "text": "Projections (album) Projections is the second album by American blues rock band The Blues Project. Produced by Tom Wilson and released by Verve/Folkways in November 1966, the album was their first studio release and examined a more rock-based sound. Jim Marshall was credited as the photographer of the album cover. Soon after the release of this album, Al Kooper left the band in the spring of 1967 to form Blood, Sweat & Tears. Keyboardist and vocalist Al Kooper was the most prominent member of the band, having recently played on Bob Dylan's seminal album Highway 61 Revisited. However, \"Projections\" was", "title": "Projections (album)" }, { "id": "3683208", "text": "Lyall, Stewie Speer and John Sangster and Tony Buchanan worked with rock groups and absorbed important stylistic influences from the Motown, soul music and funk genres. From the late 1960s, there was a revival to the 'big band' format, partly fuelled by the popularity of big band rock ensembles like Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago. The most notable local modern big band was the highly acclaimed but short-lived Daly-Wilson Big Band, which enjoyed considerable popularity and which was the first Australian musical act to tour the Soviet Union. Another very popular band is Galapagos Duck, who exerted a huge", "title": "Australian jazz" }, { "id": "6072591", "text": "such as trumpets and saxophones were rarely used, unlike in contemporary R&B and soul bands and some of the white bands from the U.S. East Coast (e.g., Blood, Sweat & Tears or Chicago). Sly & the Family Stone, a San Francisco-based group that got its start in the late 1960s, was an exception, being a racially integrated hippie band with a hefty influence from soul music, hence making use of brass instrumentation. \"Rock & roll\" was the point of departure for the new music. But well known stars of rock & roll \"were being called fifties primitives\" by this time.", "title": "San Francisco Sound" }, { "id": "7918993", "text": "them, with many successes: during the mid-60s, Grossman met, befriended and studied guitar with Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and other major blues artists. In 1964, Grossman and a group of friends formed the Even Dozen Jug Band. Although they only recorded one LP on the Elektra Records label (long since out of print but available at iTunes), other members were also to have successful musical careers, including David Grisman, Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat & Tears), John Sebastian (The Lovin' Spoonful), Joshua Rifkin and Maria Muldaur (then Maria D'Amato). In the early summer of 1966", "title": "Stefan Grossman" }, { "id": "9367285", "text": "separate\". The term, \"jazz-rock\" (or \"jazz/rock\") is often used as a synonym for the term \"jazz fusion\". However, some make a distinction between the two terms. The Free Spirits have sometimes been cited as the earliest jazz-rock band. During the late 1960s, at the same time that jazz musicians were experimenting with rock rhythms and electric instruments, rock groups such as Cream and the Grateful Dead were \"beginning to incorporate elements of jazz into their music\" by \"experimenting with extended free-form improvisation\". Other \"groups such as Blood, Sweat & Tears directly borrowed harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and instrumentational elements from the", "title": "Counterculture of the 1960s" }, { "id": "3817744", "text": "formed Vinegar Joe with Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer. The band's name came from the Ram Jam Inn, an old coaching inn on the A1 (Great North Road) at Stretton, near Oakham, Rutland. The group had two of the biggest selling UK albums of the 1960s, both of which were live albums. Their most commercially successful album, \"Hand Clappin, Foot Stompin, Funky-Butt ... Live!\", was in the UK Albums Chart for 38 weeks in 1966 and 1967, peaking at number 5 on the chart. The other album was \"Hipster Flipsters Finger Poppin' Daddies\", which reached number 8 on the UK", "title": "Geno Washington" }, { "id": "4439236", "text": "she appeared on the PBS concert TV special, \"My Music: Salute to Early Motown\". Brenda Holloway Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits, \"Every Little Bit Hurts\", \"When I'm Gone\", and \"You've Made Me So Very Happy.\" The latter, which she co-wrote, was later widely popularized when it became a Top Ten hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears. She left Motown after four years, at the age of 22, and largely retired from the music industry until", "title": "Brenda Holloway" }, { "id": "5026966", "text": "Bobby Colomby Robert Wayne Colomby (born 20 December 1944, in New York) is a jazz-rock fusion drummer, record producer and television presenter. He is best known as an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, which he co-founded in 1967. He has also played with many other musical artists. Colomby graduated from City College of New York with a degree in Psychology. His elder brother, Harry Colomby, was the manager of jazz musician Thelonious Monk. Colomby played on the first Blood, Sweat & Tears album, \"Child Is Father to the Man\", which was released in 1968 and reached", "title": "Bobby Colomby" }, { "id": "3021707", "text": "their keyboardist in 1965; he left the band shortly before their gig at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, although he did play a solo set at the famous festival, as evidenced by bootlegs of the event. He formed Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1967, leaving due to creative differences in 1968, after the release of the group's first album, \"Child Is Father to the Man\". He recorded \"Super Session\" with Bloomfield and Stills in 1968, and in 1969 he collaborated with 15-year-old guitarist Shuggie Otis on the album \"Kooper Session\". In 1975 he produced the debut album by the", "title": "Al Kooper" }, { "id": "5026970", "text": "Stories\"). Colomby maintains ownership of the \"Blood, Sweat & Tears\" band name and, although he no longer plays with the band, he still oversees their musical direction. Colomby is married to Donna Abbott, a graphic designer and native of California. Bobby Colomby Robert Wayne Colomby (born 20 December 1944, in New York) is a jazz-rock fusion drummer, record producer and television presenter. He is best known as an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, which he co-founded in 1967. He has also played with many other musical artists. Colomby graduated from City College of New York with", "title": "Bobby Colomby" }, { "id": "13533711", "text": "40,000 Headmen \"Roamin' Thro' the Gloamin with 40,000 Headmen\" (album title: \"Forty Thousand Headmen\"), written by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, was first recorded by Traffic in 1967 or 1968. It was initially released as B-side to the \"No Face, No Name, No Number\" single in 1968 and also appears on their second album \"Traffic\". Blood, Sweat & Tears also recorded it on their 1970 album, \"Blood, Sweat & Tears 3\". The protagonist of the song follows the eponymous headmen across the sea to a hidden cave where they have stored up a large treasure. Taking as much as he", "title": "40,000 Headmen" }, { "id": "8240681", "text": "what could easily have been polarizing rock from The Doors, Cream, Deep Purple and Eric Burdon and the Animals. WAPE took chances on songs like 'I Love You' from The People, 'Mechanical World' from Spirit, 'I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know' from (Al Kooper’s original) Blood, Sweat and Tears and 'I Put A Spell On You' from the Alan Price Set. The Big Ape featured local bands like Mouse and the Boys and (future Allman Brothers Band heavyweight Dickie Betts’) Second Coming. The music list became The Tuff Thirty (tuff, not to be confused with “tough”, was a", "title": "WAPE (defunct)" }, { "id": "4439221", "text": "Brenda Holloway Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits, \"Every Little Bit Hurts\", \"When I'm Gone\", and \"You've Made Me So Very Happy.\" The latter, which she co-wrote, was later widely popularized when it became a Top Ten hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears. She left Motown after four years, at the age of 22, and largely retired from the music industry until the 1990s, after her recordings had become popular on the British \"Northern soul\" scene.", "title": "Brenda Holloway" }, { "id": "4452974", "text": "(on Roulette Records). The LP contains their vocals and also four Ashford compositions. In 1964, they recorded \"I'll Find You\", as \"Valerie & Nick\". That was followed by several obscure singles recorded by Ashford on the Glover, Verve and ABC labels, such as \"It Ain't Like That\" (later recorded by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas), \"California Soul\", and \"Dead End Kids\", backed by his own version of \"Let's Go Get Stoned\". Simpson appeared (with Melba Moore) as part of the \"Blood, Sweat & Tears Soul Chorus\" on the band's debut album \"Child Is Father to the Man\" in 1968. After", "title": "Ashford & Simpson" }, { "id": "7338976", "text": "bands Pure Joy, Chemistry Set and Seers of Bavaria. Johnson, drummer for seminal Seattle punk band The Fastbacks, frequented many of the parties at the U-District house and eventually joined them, completing the foursome. Never intending to actually become a real band, they toyed with many self-deprecating names including \"Butt Sweat and Tears\" and \"The Value Village People\". Eventually however they lied their way into a show and needed an official name and inspired by the headline for a review of a local play in the newspaper \"Resounding Flop\" was shortened to \"Flop\" and a band was born. The band's", "title": "Flop (band)" }, { "id": "14078093", "text": "Bakerloo (band) Bakerloo (previously The Bakerloo Blues Line) was an English heavy blues-rock trio, established by Staffordshire guitarist David \"Clem\" Clempson, Terry Poole and others in the late 1960s, at the high point of the influence of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream. Although the group was prominent only for around a year (1968–9) and released only one album, it played an important part in the history of the genre, especially in view of its members' subsequent involvement with Colosseum, Humble Pie, May Blitz, Graham Bond, Vinegar Joe, Judas Priest and Uriah Heep. The Bakerloo Blues Line was formed in", "title": "Bakerloo (band)" }, { "id": "1624381", "text": "\"Bookends\". The album was recorded in two weeks in December 1967. Simon asked all of the members to record their material in one take so he could study songs and make useful suggestions to the arrangements. After a brief promotional tour, Colomby and Katz ousted Kooper from the band, which led to \"Child is Father to the Man\" being the only BS&T album on which Kooper ever appeared. The band would later have a number one album and several Grammys, although Kooper felt they were playing music that he didn't agree with. Despite being asked to leave Blood, Sweat &", "title": "Child Is Father to the Man" }, { "id": "11245963", "text": "where by the early '60s he had become a bass-guitarist of a Cleveland-based rock band, the Twilighters, part of a small group of popular local R&B-based bands who launched the area's rock scene in the pre-Beatles era. In 1967, he began an inventory control job in the warehouse at Columbia Records' local branch. His enthusiasm for music led to a promotion to the sales desk, where he handled local Cleveland sales and radio and TV promotion for such artists as The Buckinghams, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Billy Joe Royal, Johnny Cash, Paul Revere & the Raiders, and Simon & Garfunkel.", "title": "Steve Popovich" }, { "id": "1467498", "text": "Manfred Mann Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962. The group were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The band had two different lead vocalists during their period of success, Paul Jones from 1962 to 1966, and Mike d'Abo from 1966 to 1969. Manfred Mann were regularly in the UK charts in the 1960s. Three of the band's most successful singles, \"Do Wah Diddy Diddy\", \"Pretty Flamingo\" and \"Mighty Quinn\", topped the UK Singles Chart. They were the first southern-England-based group to top the", "title": "Manfred Mann" }, { "id": "1314179", "text": "group was inspired by the \"brass-rock\" ideas of the Buckinghams and its producer, James William Guercio, as well as the early 1960s Roulette-era Maynard Ferguson Orchestra (according to Kooper's autobiography). Al Kooper was the group's initial bandleader, having insisted on that position based on his experiences with the Blues Project, his previous band with Steve Katz, which had been organized as an egalitarian collective. Jim Fielder was from Frank Zappa's the Mothers of Invention and had played briefly with Buffalo Springfield. Kooper's fame as a high-profile contributor to various historic sessions of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and others was a", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "1314184", "text": "prodding, they came to see Clayton-Thomas perform and were so impressed that he was offered the role of lead singer in a re-constituted Blood Sweat & Tears. Trombonist Halligan took up the organ chores and Jerry Hyman joined to take over trombone. With new trumpeters Soloff and Winfield the now nine-member band debuted at New York's Cafe Au Go Go on June 18, 1968, beginning a two-week residency. The group's second album, \"Blood, Sweat & Tears\", was produced by James William Guercio and released in late 1968. It was more pop-oriented, featuring fewer compositions by the band. The record quickly", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "9846322", "text": "The Cryan' Shames The Cryan' Shames are an American garage rock band from Hinsdale, Illinois. They originally formed as The Travelers with founding members Tom Doody (\"Toad\"), Gerry Stone (\"Stonehenge\"), Dave Purple (\"Grape\") of The Prowlers, Denny Conroy from Possum River, and Jim Fairs from The Roosters, Jim Pilster (\"J.C. Hooke\", so named because he was born without a left hand and wore a hook), and Bill Hughes. The band's most successful moment came with their cover of The Searchers song, \"Sugar and Spice\". In 1966, upon learning that another band already had the name Tommy and the “Travelers”, they", "title": "The Cryan' Shames" }, { "id": "1755154", "text": "Kenney Jones Kenneth Thomas Jones (born 16 September 1948) is an English drummer best known for his work in the groups Small Faces, Faces, and the Who. Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Small Faces/Faces. Having previously been in a band with Ronnie Lane, Jones was one of the founding members of the English rock group, the Small Faces. Active from 1965 to 1969, Small Faces were part of the Mod revolution of the 1960s. Their hits included \"All or Nothing\", \"Sha-La-La-La-Lee\", \"Itchycoo Park\" and \"Tin Soldier\". Small Faces", "title": "Kenney Jones" }, { "id": "2450323", "text": "electric guitars and vocals) was enjoying popularity with country audiences, thanks to such non-country acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and The Marshall Tucker Band. The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Steel Heart, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat and Tears, to more pop rock oriented bands like Boston, Foreigner, Kansas, Journey and Styx. These, beside British bands Jethro Tull, Supertramp and Electric Light Orchestra, all demonstrated a prog rock influence and while ranking among the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, issuing in the era of \"pomp\" or \"arena", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "7776979", "text": "Aubrey Powell (designer) Aubrey \"Po\" Powell (born 23 September 1946) co-founded the album cover design company Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1967. The company ran successfully for 15 years until 1982. Hipgnosis created some of the most innovative and surreal record cover art of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for many of the most famous rock bands of the era including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Peter Gabriel, Bad Company, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Scorpions, Styx, Syd Barrett, and Black Sabbath. Hipgnosis was nominated five times for Grammy Awards. Powell was born in Sussex. His parents", "title": "Aubrey Powell (designer)" }, { "id": "1314182", "text": "wanted to move Kooper exclusively to keyboard and composing duties, while hiring a stronger vocalist for the group, causing Kooper's departure in April 1968. He became a record producer for the Columbia label, but not before arranging some songs that would be on the next BS&T album. The group's trumpeters, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, also left and were replaced by Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield. Brecker joined Horace Silver's band with his brother Michael, and together they eventually formed their own horn-dominated musical outfits, Dreams and The Brecker Brothers. Jerry Weiss went on to start the similarly-styled group Ambergris.", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "2215878", "text": "become \"Eli and the Thirteenth Confession\". Around this time, Nyro considered becoming lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, after the departure of founder Al Kooper, but was dissuaded by Geffen. Blood, Sweat & Tears would go on to have a hit with a cover of Nyro's \"And When I Die\". The new contract allowed Nyro more artistic freedom and control. In 1968, Columbia released \"Eli and the Thirteenth Confession\", her second album, which received high critical praise for the depth and sophistication of its performance and arrangements, which merged pop structure with inspired imagery, rich vocals, and avant-garde jazz,", "title": "Laura Nyro" }, { "id": "8756099", "text": "different track list with such notable tracks as Big Brother and the Holding Company's 'Piece of my Heart' and Leonard Cohen's 'Suzanne'. The \"Rock Machine\" marketing campaign was initiated in the US in January 1968, by Columbia Records under its president Clive Davis. The campaign was seen as a means of promoting its expanding roster of rock and folk rock acts, who included Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Moby Grape, Spirit, Taj Mahal, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Early promotional material in \"Billboard\" magazine stated:\"The Rock Machine...it's the happening sounds of today. Out of it comes", "title": "The Rock Machine Turns You On" }, { "id": "1314200", "text": "stopped touring with the group and Don Alias assumed sole percussion duties before leaving as well to make way for Roy McCurdy. In 1977 BS&T was signed to ABC Records and they began working on their next release, \"Brand New Day\" (November 1977). The album was co-produced by Bobby Colomby. But Colomby's direct involvement with the group ceased after its release, although he continued on as sole owner of the Blood Sweat and Tears trademark. \"Brand New Day\" garnered positive reviews but was not a major seller. At this same time BS&T were said to be recording tracks for an", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "7835792", "text": "Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, and in his early solo career. Notable examples of Kooper's Ondioline work are the Blues Project's \"I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes\" (from the album \"Projections\", 1966), \"Steve's Song\" (\"Projections\", 1966) and \"No Time Like the Right Time\" (\"The Blues Project Live at Town Hall\", 1967); Blood, Sweat & Tears' \"Meagan's Gypsy Eyes\" (\"Child Is Father to the Man\", 1968); and Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's \"His Holy Modal Majesty\" (\"Super Session\", 1968). Tommy James and the Shondells' 1967 hits \"I Think We're Alone Now\" and \"Mirage\" also featured the sound of an Ondioline in", "title": "Ondioline" }, { "id": "1397406", "text": "The Beach Boys (\"Smiley Smile\"), Cream (\"Disraeli Gears\"), The Byrds (\"Younger Than Yesterday\"), The Rolling Stones (\"Between the Buttons\" and \"Their Satanic Majesties Request\"), The Who (\"The Who Sell Out\"), The Velvet Underground (\"The Velvet Underground & Nico\"), Procol Harum (\"Procol Harum\"), The Monkees (\"Headquarters\" and \" Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.\"), and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (\"Are You Experienced?\" and \")\". The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1967. w. = words, m. = music 1967 in music The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its", "title": "1967 in music" }, { "id": "8351836", "text": "Bob Cavallo in association with Alan Loeber /A Cavallo & Silver Production. Recorded in August 1964. The Mugwumps (band) The Mugwumps were a 1960s folk rock band, based in New York City, that featured later members of the Mamas & the Papas and the Lovin' Spoonful. They released one self-titled album in 1967 and two singles. The origin of the band's name is unclear. One source says that it was taken from the William S. Burroughs novel \"The Naked Lunch\". The liner notes for the 2007 re-release of \"The Mugwumps\" reports that Jim Hendricks claimed that the name came from", "title": "The Mugwumps (band)" }, { "id": "8381711", "text": "McKenna. The band adopted the name The Rogues when singer George Olliver (born January 25, 1946 in Toronto) and former Robbie Lane & The Disciples guitarist Domenic Troiano (born Dominic Michaele Antonio Troiano, January 17, 1946 in Modugno, Italy, naturalized Canadian in 1955) joined in 1965. For a very brief period at the end of 1965, future Blood, Sweat & Tears singer David Clayton-Thomas also augmented the line up after parting with his previous support band, The Shays. In the spring of 1966, The Rogues (minus Clayton-Thomas) briefly became The Five Rogues and consolidated their local reputation with regular appearances", "title": "Mandala (band)" }, { "id": "14113913", "text": "Supercharged (album) Supercharged is the eighth album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, produced by David Foster, Benjamin Wright and Bobby Colomby (former drummer of the rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears), and released in 1980 on the Capitol label. \"Supercharged\" is similar in style to the group's previous album \"Madam Butterfly\", and although not as highly regarded at its predecessor, critical reaction is generally positive. Lead single \"Bad Times\" reached the R&B top 10 and #47 on the pop chart, the group's first showing on that chart since \"More Than a Woman\" in 1977. \"Supercharged\" made #20 on the R&B", "title": "Supercharged (album)" }, { "id": "1454175", "text": "first folk rock smash hit, reaching number 1 on both the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The single's success initiated the folk rock boom of 1965 and 1966, during which a profusion of Byrds-influenced acts flooded the American and British charts. In particular, the Byrds' influence can be discerned in mid-1960s recordings by acts such as the Lovin' Spoonful, Barry McGuire, the Mamas & the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Turtles, We Five, Love, and Sonny & Cher. It was during the rehearsals at World Pacific that the band began to develop the blend of", "title": "Folk rock" }, { "id": "4809117", "text": "and Free’s “All Right Now”. Original members: Studio albums: Live albums: Compilations: Sources: Humble Pie Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Steve Marriott in Essex during 1969. They are known as one of the late 1960s' first supergroups and found success on both sides of the Atlantic with such songs as \"Black Coffee\", \"30 Days in the Hole\", \"I Don't Need No Doctor\" and \"Natural Born Bugie\". The original band line-up featured lead vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott from Small Faces, vocalist and guitarist Peter Frampton from The Herd, former Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley and a", "title": "Humble Pie" }, { "id": "872540", "text": "The 5th Dimension The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire includes pop, R&B, soul, jazz, light opera and Broadway—the melange was coined as \"Champagne Soul\". Formed as The Versatiles in late 1965, the group changed its name to the hipper \"The 5th Dimension\" by 1966. They became well-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for their popular hits: \"Up, Up and Away\", \"Stoned Soul Picnic\", \"Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)\", \"Wedding Bell Blues\", \"Never My Love\", \"One Less Bell to Answer\", \"(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All\", and", "title": "The 5th Dimension" }, { "id": "1342895", "text": "Badfinger Badfinger were a Welsh rock band formed in Swansea that were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Often called \"Beatlesque\", their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, Tom Evans, and Joey Molland. They are recognised for their influence on the 1970s power pop genre. The band evolved from an earlier group called the Iveys, formed in 1961, which became the first group signed by the Beatles' Apple label in 1968. The band renamed themselves Badfinger, after the working title for the Beatles' 1967 song \"With a Little Help from My Friends\" (\"Bad Finger Boogie\"). From 1968", "title": "Badfinger" }, { "id": "3984007", "text": "as The Avalanches, Bob Sinclar, the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C.. Cerrone was born in Vitry-sur-Seine to the son of Italian immigrants. At the age of 12 he started playing drums and listening to Otis Redding songs. Cerrone's passion for music was discouraged by his father, who tried to distract him from his obsession. By the end of the 1960s, he was fascinated by Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others. At the age of 17, he convinced Gilbert Trigano to hire rock bands for his holiday clubs: Club Med (Club Mediterranée). Cerrone became the A&R scout", "title": "Cerrone" }, { "id": "342460", "text": "American brand of progressive rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat & Tears, to more pop rock orientated bands like Boston, Foreigner, Kansas, Journey, and Styx. These, beside British bands Supertramp and ELO, all demonstrated a prog rock influence and while ranking among the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, heralding the era of \"pomp\" or \"arena rock\", which would last until the costs of complex shows (often with theatrical staging and special effects), would be replaced by more economical rock festivals as major live venues in the 1990s. The instrumental strand", "title": "Rock music" }, { "id": "5207465", "text": "The Frost The Frost was an American psychedelic rock band from Alpena, Michigan in the late 1960s, led by singer-guitarist, Dick Wagner, who went on to play with Ursa Major, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Dan Page and Kevin Ulgenalp in the 1970s. The rest of the band consisted of Gordy Garris (bass guitar), Bob Rigg (drums), and Don Hartman (guitar). The band formed from the remains of The Bossmen. Dick Wagner had just been rejected from the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears so he fully devoted his time to The Frost. The band's first large-scale performance came at", "title": "The Frost" }, { "id": "13038246", "text": "Devil's Anvil The Devil's Anvil was a 1960s hard rock band based in New York City. They released one album, entitled \"Hard Rock from the Middle East\", in 1967, showcasing a mix of 1960s hard-rock sound with Arab, Greek and Turkish songs and melodies. Instrumental in the band's formation was producer Felix Pappalardi, who helped sign them with Columbia Records. Unfortunately for The Devil's Anvil, their one and only album, \"Hard Rock from the Middle East\", was released during escalating tensions between Israel and neighboring Arab countries and the subsequent Arab–Israeli War in 1967. Subsequently, radio stations in the States", "title": "Devil's Anvil" }, { "id": "1983030", "text": "me.\" In June 2010, Holmes brought suit against Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for copyright infringement, claiming to have written and recorded \"Dazed and Confused\" two years before it appeared on Led Zeppelin's debut album. In court documents Holmes cited a 1967 copyright registration for \"Dazed and Confused\" which was renewed in 1995. The case was \"dismissed with prejudice\" on January 17, 2012, after the parties reached an undisclosed settlement out of court in the fall of 2011. By late-1966, English rock group the Yardbirds' presence in the Top 40 market had been replaced by constant touring. In July 1967,", "title": "Dazed and Confused (song)" }, { "id": "16419595", "text": "(Bobby Doyle, Ken Russell, Kenny Rogers) \"Bobby Doyle\" Albums \"Bobby Doyle Three\" \"Bobby Doyle\" Appearances \"Spades/Slades\" \"Bobby Doyle Three\" \"Bobby Doyle\" Bobby Doyle (jazz vocalist) Robert Glen \"Bobby\" Doyle (August 14, 1939 – July 30, 2006) was an American singer, bassist, and pianist. He is best known for his early work with a young Kenny Rogers and for a brief stint with Blood, Sweat & Tears. He played piano on two tracks on BS&T's 1972 album \"New Blood\". Doyle joined the doo-wop group The Spades (later The Slades) in 1957 while still at McCallum High School in Austin. In 1960", "title": "Bobby Doyle (jazz vocalist)" }, { "id": "2068332", "text": "The Cryan' Shames, Ides of March, The Mauds, Mason Proffit, H.P. Lovecraft, most notably The Buckinghams, among others. The Buckinghams topped the Hot 100 charts in 1966 with their song 'Kind of a Drag'. The Shadows of Knight's cover of Van Morrison's \"Gloria\" is still a classic 40 years later. The Ides of March (band) topped the chart with \"Vehicle\". This was a great period during the 1960s where Chicago was a very happening place both musically and nationally with the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Sly and the Family Stone riot. This fad died with the growth of", "title": "Music of Illinois" }, { "id": "1342900", "text": "garnered interest from record labels. Ray Davies of The Kinks auditioned to produce them, recording three of their songs at a 4-track demo studio in London's Old Kent Road on 15 January 1967: \"Taxi\" and \"Sausage And Eggs\", songs by Ham; and Griffiths' \"I Believe in You Girl\". On 8 December 1966, Collins and the group signed a five-year contract giving Collins a 20% share of net receipts, the same as the individual group members, but only after managerial expenses had been deducted. Collins said at the time, \"Look, I can't promise you lads anything, except blood, sweat and tears\".", "title": "Badfinger" }, { "id": "12570606", "text": "kinkiness into rock lyrics -- were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle.\" The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965). The band was initially active between 1965 and 1973, and was briefly managed by the pop artist Andy Warhol, serving as the house band at the Factory and Warhol's \"Exploding Plastic Inevitable\" events from 1966 to 1967. Their debut album, \"The Velvet Underground & Nico\" (with German-born singer and", "title": "The Velvet Underground" }, { "id": "6542780", "text": "Pearson and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1967, Brecker ventured into jazz-rock with the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, on their first album \"Child Is Father to the Man\", but left to join the Horace Silver Quintet. Brecker recorded his first solo album, \"Score\", in 1968, featuring his brother Michael Brecker. After Horace Silver, Randy Brecker joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers before teaming up with brother Michael, Barry Rogers, Billy Cobham, and John Abercrombie to form the fusion group Dreams. The group recorded two albums: \"Dreams\" and \"Imagine My Surprise\" for Columbia Records before they disbanded in 1971. In", "title": "Randy Brecker" }, { "id": "5658066", "text": "of the group. Though they strove to carry on under Miles' direction, the Electric Flag was effectively finished. They issued the late 1968 album \"\", but personality conflicts, differing aesthetics, and a series of drug problems hastened the band's downfall. Though the Electric Flag was together in its original configuration less than a year, the band made a strong impression on critics and musicians, primarily in the San Francisco area where they were based. One of the first rock groups to include horns, the Electric Flag preceded the earliest edition of Blood, Sweat and Tears with Al Kooper. Al Kooper", "title": "The Electric Flag" }, { "id": "11437224", "text": "albums that included \"Hotel California\" (1976). During the 1970s, a similar style of country rock called southern rock (fusing rock, country, and blues music, and focusing on electric guitars and vocals) was enjoying popularity with country audiences, thanks to such non-country acts as The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Marshall Tucker Band. The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Blood, Sweat and Tears, to more pop rock oriented bands like Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Kansas and Styx. These, beside British bands Supertramp and Electric Light", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "1312239", "text": "leaving the group, he recorded a solo studio album. He was offered the role of lead vocalist for Blood, Sweat & Tears, but turned down the offer as \"too commercial\". Chilton had known Chris Bell for some time: Both lived in Memphis, each had spent time recording music at Ardent Studios, and each, when aged 13, had been impressed by the music of the Beatles during the band's 1964 debut U.S. tour. A song Chilton wrote nearly six years after he first witnessed a Beatles performance, \"Thirteen\", referred to the event with the line \"rock 'n' roll is here to", "title": "Big Star" }, { "id": "4404613", "text": "Robin Trower Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as \"Robin Trower\". Robin Trower was born in Catford, London, but grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. In 1962, he formed a group that became The Paramounts, later including Westcliff High School pupil Gary Brooker. The Paramounts disbanded in 1966 to pursue individual projects. During this time, Trower created a local three-piece band called the Jam (not to be confused with the later group", "title": "Robin Trower" }, { "id": "11993152", "text": "on it. Reed would go through numerous costume changes and actions ranging from a policeman to a bride to illustrate each song. Quite often he would leap manically about the audience, lost in an almost primal scream presentation. However, underpinning this was a tight backing band who could shift from punk rock (\"Trainspotting\") to scat-funk (\"Salt, Sperm, Saliva, Sweat\"). Since 2009, Reed has been living on and off in China, playing gigs in Beijing and played the first ever rock gigs in the southwestern city of Zunyi, a town with a population equivalent to Glasgow, Manchester or Liverpool. The band's", "title": "Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants" }, { "id": "4373147", "text": "Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)\" and brief commercial success. Guitarist Steve Howe later joined progressive rock band Yes, whilst Twink joined The Pretty Things in order to complete their concept album, \"S.F. Sorrow\", before forming The Pink Fairies. John Wood moved into music production. As The In Crowd: As Tomorrow: Tomorrow (band) Tomorrow (previously known as The In-Crowd and before that as Four Plus One) were a 1960s psychedelic rock, pop and freakbeat band. Despite critical acclaim and support from DJ John Peel who featured them on his \"Perfumed Garden\" radio show, the band was not a great success in commercial", "title": "Tomorrow (band)" }, { "id": "9935012", "text": "The Rats (British band) The Rats were an English rock band, first established in 1963, from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1966, Mick Ronson joined The Rats, then including singer Benny Marshall, bassist Geoff Appleby, and drummer Jim Simpson (who was subsequently replaced by Clive Taylor and then John Cambridge). The group played the local circuit, and made a few unsuccessful trips to London and Paris. In 1967, The Rats recorded the one-off psychedelic track, \"The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone\" at Fairview Studios in Willerby, Hull, and can be heard on the 2008 release \"Front Room", "title": "The Rats (British band)" }, { "id": "12570537", "text": "The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965). The band was initially active between 1965 and 1973, and was briefly managed by the pop artist Andy Warhol, serving as the house band at the Factory and Warhol's \"Exploding Plastic Inevitable\" events from 1966 to 1967. Their debut album, \"The Velvet Underground & Nico\" (with German-born singer and model Nico), was released in 1967 to critical indifference and poor sales, but", "title": "The Velvet Underground" }, { "id": "17439178", "text": "experimental pop groups. According to \"The New York Times\", Barrett and his subsequent solo albums \"became a touchstone for experimental pop musicians\". By the late 1960s, highly experimental pop music, or sounds that expanded the idea of the typical popular song, was positively received by young audiences, which cultural essayist Gerald Lyn Early credits to bands like Cream, Traffic, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and \"of course\", the Beatles. Drummer John Densmore believed that the Doors were on the cutting-edge of experimental pop music until he listened to the Beatles' album \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\" (1967), which he described", "title": "Experimental pop" }, { "id": "13267962", "text": "singles, including \"I Need You\" and \"Hold On Baby\", were successes in Michigan but didn't catch on nationally. Lead singer Scott Morgan was asked to join Blood, Sweat & Tears, but he declined the offer. The group's only full-length, a self-titled effort, arrived on Crewe Records at the beginning of 1970, and the group split up soon after; Morgan went on to play with several other Detroit-area groups over the next three decades, including Sonic's Rendezvous Band (with Fred Smith of MC5) and several of his own bands. The lyrics of Iggy Pop's track \"Get Up And Get Out\" from", "title": "The Rationals" }, { "id": "1640752", "text": "the Gates of Dawn\" was voted 347th on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the \"500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". Architecture students Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright and art student Syd Barrett had performed under various group names since 1962, and began touring as \"The Pink Floyd Sound\" in 1965. They turned professional on 1 February 1967 when they signed with EMI, with an advance fee of £5,000. Their first single, a song about a kleptomaniac transvestite titled \"Arnold Layne\", was released on 11 March to mild controversy, as Radio London refused to air it. About three weeks", "title": "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" }, { "id": "4041351", "text": "utilizing two trumpets, a trombone and a saxophone, a combination he took from the influence of the wind section of the rock group Blood, Sweat and Tears (in honor of which his band recorded a successful version of “Spinning Wheel”). Roberto always considered variety as the key to success, leading him to include in his musical repertoire everything from go-go to the romantic, the same in English as in Spanish. Roberto Roena and his Apollo Sound’s first album produced hits of great impact like “Tú loco loco y yo tranquilo,” “El escapulario,” and “El sordo.” In fact, it was Apollo", "title": "Roberto Roena" }, { "id": "10003059", "text": "he eventually became a chain smoker. In the mid-1960s, the Nasution siblings formed a band; Chrisye and Joris watched them play songs by Uriah Heep and Blood, Sweat & Tears. In 1968 Chrisye registered at the Christian University of Indonesia (UKI) to fulfill his father's wish that he become an engineer. Around 1969, however, Gauri invited him to join the Nasutions' band, Sabda Nada, as a replacement for their bassist Eddi Odek who was ill. Pleased with his performance, the Nasutions asked him to stay as a permanent member. The group had a regular gig at Mini Disko on Juanda", "title": "Chrisye" }, { "id": "9367273", "text": "as a \"plea for love and understanding.\" \"Pet Sounds\" served as a major source of inspiration for other contemporary acts, most notably directly inspiring the Beatles' \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\". The single \"Good Vibrations\" soared to number one globally, completely changing the perception of what a record could be. It was during this period that the highly anticipated album \"Smile\" was to be released. However, the project collapsed and The Beach Boys released a downgraded version called \"Smiley Smile\", which failed to make a big commercial impact but was also highly influential, most notably on The Who's Pete", "title": "Counterculture of the 1960s" }, { "id": "8826842", "text": "\"Give Me Money\" / \"Sour Suite\". Side One: \"Hound Dog\" / \"She Does\" / \"Turn To Me\" / \"Caledonian Mission\" / \"Currency\" / \"Your Way To Tell Me Go\". Side Two: \"Celebrity Ball\" / \"Baby You're Not To Blame\" / \"I Want You\" / \"Take Me Back\" / \"Genevieve\" / \"Give Me Money\". Plastic Penny Plastic Penny was an English 1960s pop band, formed in November 1967 before splitting up in August 1969. The group had one hit single, early in 1968, with the song \"Everything I Am\". Most of the members went on to greater fame with other bands", "title": "Plastic Penny" }, { "id": "8834176", "text": "to Graham. The term \"East Bay Grease\" has been used to describe the San Francisco Bay Area's brass horn heavy funk-rock sound of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Cold Blood was one of the pioneer bands of this sound. Other bands include Tower of Power, Chicago, and Blood Sweat And Tears. The Tower of Power horn players have performed with Cold Blood on a regular basis since the early 1970s. Skip Mesquite and Mic Gillette have been members of both Tower of Power and Cold Blood. The band disbanded in the late 1970s. Pense suspended her music career in the", "title": "Cold Blood (band)" }, { "id": "8471104", "text": "Ottawa to join the band Heart, which evolved into The Modern Rock Quartet. Jim Jones meanwhile played with several Toronto bands, including The Artist Jazz Band. McKenna joined The Ugly Ducklings before forming the highly respected blues outfit, McKenna Mendelson Mainline in the summer of 1968. Little joined forces with future Blood, Sweat & Tears’ singer David Clayton-Thomas in his group David Clayton-Thomas Combine in February 1968 (appearing on the original version of \"Spinning Wheel\") and then joined The Georgian IV People (later better known as Chimo!). Gibson, McKenna and Little discussed the idea of reforming the band in February,", "title": "Luke & The Apostles" }, { "id": "4708037", "text": "The Open Mind (band) The Open Mind was an English psychedelic rock band formed in London, and active in the 1960s and 1970s. The band was formed in 1963 by four musicians from Putney, South West London. Initially named The Apaches formed by Tim du Feu, Mike Brancaccio and Philip Fox and their friend Ray Nye. Nye left in 1965 and another friend, Terry Schindler, joined instead. The band became The Drag Set, who released a little-known single in February 1967, \"Day and Night\" / \"Get Out of My Way\". Shortly thereafter, they changed their name to The Open Mind", "title": "The Open Mind (band)" }, { "id": "1397405", "text": "1967 in music The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its \"Summer of Love\" in San Francisco. It saw major releases from The Beatles (\"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\" and \"Magical Mystery Tour\"), Small Faces (\"Itchycoo Park\"), Eric Burdon & The Animals (\"Winds of Change\"), Big Brother and The Holding Company (\"Big Brother and The Holding Company\"), The Doors (\"The Doors\" and \"Strange Days\"), Jefferson Airplane (\"Surrealistic Pillow\" and \"After Bathing at Baxter's\"), Moby Grape (\"Moby Grape)\", Traffic (\"Mr. Fantasy\"), Pink Floyd (\"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn\"), Love (\"Forever Changes)\",", "title": "1967 in music" }, { "id": "6588681", "text": "group allegedly stole their property, they are now banned from returning to the Download Festival. Lead singer Donny Tourette was brought before Cambridge Magistrates Court in June 2005, for criminal damage during a show at Cambridge Anglia Ruskin University in February 2005. He was ordered to pay £775 of compensation, court costs and fines. During June 2006, Towers of London released their debut album \"Blood, Sweat and Towers\". It was produced by Stacy Jones and Bill Lefler. The album featured thirteen tracks, including the five singles they have released to date. In the spring of 2006, the band travelled to", "title": "Towers of London (band)" }, { "id": "1314198", "text": "in early 1976, Colomby arranged for Jaco to join the band, though he stayed for only about three months. On April 1, 1976 Jaco officially joined Weather Report where he became world-famous. When Jaco left BS&T, he was briefly succeeded by Keith Jones, before Danny Trifan stepped in. In 1975, Blood, Sweat & Tears was offered a slot at a Jazz concert to be held in Newport, Rhode Island. The city government viewed the band as a \"rock\" band and was concerned that it would attract a rowdy audience; it threatened to revoke the concert permit if Blood, Sweat &", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "1443416", "text": "Small Faces Small Faces were an English rock band from East London. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston, although by 1966 Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboardist. The band is remembered as one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of the 1960s with memorable hit songs such as \"Itchycoo Park\", \"Lazy Sunday\", \"All or Nothing\", and \"Tin Soldier\", as well as their concept album \"Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake\". They later evolved into one of the UK's most successful psychedelic bands until 1969. The", "title": "Small Faces" }, { "id": "8421747", "text": "their final show in Philadelphia on September 16, 1967. Jackson, who had lost interest in being a singer, left the band to work initially as a road manager for Bruce Cockburn’s new group, The Flying Circus. He then became a promoter under his real name, Michael Ferry. Finley also left to reassess his musical future, leaving the remaining members to travel to New York with future Blood, Sweat & Tears singer David Clayton-Thomas and perform at The Scene. Billed as David Clayton-Thomas & The Phoenix, the group performed at least one set of shows (from October 19–22) before Thomas was", "title": "Jon and Lee & the Checkmates" }, { "id": "3513560", "text": "Canadian/American group the Band and the California-based Creedence Clearwater Revival, both of which mixed basic rock and roll with folk, country and blues, to be among the most successful and influential bands of the late 1960s. The same movement saw the beginning of the recording careers of Californian solo artists like Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George. The back to basics tendency would also be evident in the Rolling Stones' \"Beggars Banquet\" (1968) and \"Exile on Main St.\" (1972), the Beatles' \"The White Album\" (1968) and \"Let It Be\" (1970), the Doors' \"Morrison Hotel\" (1970) and \"L.A. Woman\" (1971),", "title": "Roots rock" }, { "id": "7776986", "text": "Endless River\" and overseeing the cover for Pink Floyd member David Gilmour's solo album \"Rattle That Lock\". Aubrey Powell (designer) Aubrey \"Po\" Powell (born 23 September 1946) co-founded the album cover design company Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1967. The company ran successfully for 15 years until 1982. Hipgnosis created some of the most innovative and surreal record cover art of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for many of the most famous rock bands of the era including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Peter Gabriel, Bad Company, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Scorpions, Styx, Syd Barrett, and", "title": "Aubrey Powell (designer)" }, { "id": "6280098", "text": "with familiar songs (like \"Blue Suede Shoes\" and \"Money (That's What I Want)\") that suited the mood of the program. Rock and roll revival Rock and Roll Revival was a back-to-basics musical trend of the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a sort-of backlash against the heavier and psychedelic rock sounds then in vogue. As the Sixties ended, several early rock and rollers like Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley & His Comets and Bo Diddley, who had been out of fashion since the British Invasion, experienced a resurgence in popularity, performing their old hits", "title": "Rock and roll revival" }, { "id": "7462373", "text": "a feature of the band's act. During 1964 the Big Roll Band started playing regularly at the Flamingo Club in Soho, London until Money joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. On 17 September 1966 Money with the band reached #25 in the U.K singles charts, with \"Big Time Operator\". In July 1967 the Big Roll Band became Dantalian's Chariot and in spite of a lack of chart success as such, the band found itself at the heart of a new counter culture, sharing concert line-ups with Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. A single, \"Madman Running", "title": "Zoot Money" }, { "id": "15717095", "text": "plus 1966-1968 in the studio - \"I'll Go Crazy\"/\"Jump Back\"/\"Along Came John\"/\"Back Door Blues\"/\"It Should've Been Me\"/\"Sweet Little Rock And Roller\"/\"My Wife Can't Cook\"/\"Rags And Old Iron\"/\"The Cat\"/\"Feelin' Sad\"/\"Bright Lights, Big City\"/\"Fina\"/\"The Star Of The Show\"/\"The Mound Moves\"/\"It Should've Been Me (EP Version)\"/\"Nick Knack\"/\"I Really Learnt How To Cry\"/\"Stop The Wedding\"/\"Just A Passing Phase\"/\"What Cha Gonna Do 'Bout It\"/\"Coffee Song\" Zoot Money's Big Roll Band Zoot Money's Big Roll Band is a British rhythm and blues and soul group, also influenced by jazz, formed in England in the early autumn of 1961. The band has had a number of personnel", "title": "Zoot Money's Big Roll Band" }, { "id": "5026968", "text": "Sweat & Tears when he stopped performing with the group in 1976. Along with Roy Halee he co-produced the group's 1977 album \"Brand New Day\". After many changes in the group membership he became (in the end) the de facto owner of the Blood Sweat & Tears name. He produced the debut solo album by jazz bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius in 1976 and The Jacksons' comeback album \"Destiny\" in 1978. He played drums and percussion on Eddie Palmieri's Grammy nominated album \"Lucumi, Macumba & Voodoo\" in 1978. For a few years in the late 1980s Colomby was a reporter for", "title": "Bobby Colomby" }, { "id": "17224334", "text": "Kooper also discusses his days as a successful songwriter who co-authored the hit \"This Diamond Ring\"; his membership in The Blues Project; his forming and leaving the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears; his collaborations and friendship with blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield; and, his discovery and early production of Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd. Critical reception to \"Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards\" was positive, with the \"Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture\" commenting that it was \"a genuinely funny read\". The book also garnered a positive review from \"The Morton Report\", who commented that it was a \"great book\" and that", "title": "Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards" }, { "id": "1624384", "text": "pop essence that makes the hybrid work. This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt. Pepper era of the late '60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form... This is the sound of a group of virtuosos enjoying itself in the newly open possibilities of pop music. Maybe it couldn't have lasted; anyway, it didn't.\" Blood, Sweat & Tears Additional musicians Album - Billboard (United States) Child Is Father to", "title": "Child Is Father to the Man" }, { "id": "7364222", "text": "Johnny Kidd (singer) Frederick Albert Heath (23 December 1935 – 7 October 1966), known professionally as Johnny Kidd, was an English singer–songwriter, best remembered as the lead vocalist for the rock and roll band Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. He was one of the few pre-Beatles British rockers to achieve worldwide fame, mainly for his 1960 hit, \"Shakin' All Over\". Frederick Albert \"Freddie\" Heath was born in 1935 in Willesden, North London, England. He began playing guitar in a skiffle group in about 1956. The group, known as \"The Frantic Four\" and later as \"The Nutters\", covered primarily skiffle, pop", "title": "Johnny Kidd (singer)" }, { "id": "15157907", "text": "disrupting Salvation Army public meetings and on occasion had assaulted Salvation Army Soldiers and Officers. The 'Skeleton Army' adopted the tunes of The Salvation Army, but altered their words, and wore cap bands on their hats reading 'Skeleton Army'. 'Skeletons' used banners with skulls and crossbones; sometimes there were two coffins and a statement like, “Blood and Thunder” (mocking the Salvation Army's war cry \"Blood and Fire\") or the three Bs: “Beef”, “Beer” and “Bacca” - again mocking the Salvation Army's three S's - \"Soup\", \"Soap\" and \"Salvation\". Banners also had pictures of monkeys, rats and the devil. They paraded", "title": "Charles Jeffries" }, { "id": "1314177", "text": "Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears is a jazz-rock American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation. The group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, The Band and the Rolling Stones as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements. They were originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since their beginnings, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles. The band is", "title": "Blood, Sweat & Tears" }, { "id": "8351833", "text": "The Mugwumps (band) The Mugwumps were a 1960s folk rock band, based in New York City, that featured later members of the Mamas & the Papas and the Lovin' Spoonful. They released one self-titled album in 1967 and two singles. The origin of the band's name is unclear. One source says that it was taken from the William S. Burroughs novel \"The Naked Lunch\". The liner notes for the 2007 re-release of \"The Mugwumps\" reports that Jim Hendricks claimed that the name came from music producer Erik Jacobsen. Denny Doherty claimed that the name came from his Newfoundland grandmother. (Historically,", "title": "The Mugwumps (band)" }, { "id": "620314", "text": "Family.\" Symphonic rock artists in the late 1960s had some chart success, including the singles \"Nights in White Satin\" (the Moody Blues, 1967) and \"A Whiter Shade of Pale\" (Procol Harum, 1967). The Moody Blues established the popularity of symphonic rock when they recorded \"Days of Future Passed\" together with the London Festival Orchestra, and Procol Harum began to use a greater variety of acoustic instruments, particularly on their 1969 album \"A Salty Dog\". Classical influences sometimes took the form of pieces adapted from or inspired by classical works, such as Jeff Beck's \"Beck's Bolero\" and parts of the Nice's", "title": "Progressive rock" }, { "id": "9502797", "text": "Pistols, the Ramones, The Clash, and The Jam with influences from 1960s British rock bands such as the Small Faces, and The Who, football chants, pub rock bands such as Dr. Feelgood, Eddie and the Hot Rods, and The 101ers, and glam rock bands such as Slade and Sweet. Although Oi! has come to be considered mainly a skinhead-orientated genre, the first Oi! bands were composed mostly of punk rockers and people who fit neither the skinhead nor punk label. First-generation Oi! bands such as Sham 69 and Cock Sparrer were around for years before the word \"Oi!\" was used", "title": "Oi!" }, { "id": "17472703", "text": "Ultimately, this collection isn't as detailed as Blood, Sweat & Tears Greatest Hits, but it's still a good bargain for the budget-conscious.\" Super Hits (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) Super Hits is a budget compilation album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears released by Columbia Records in 1998. This ten song collection draws four songs from each of the band's first two albums \"Child Is Father to the Man\" and \"Blood, Sweat & Tears\". Writing for Allmusic, critic Al Campbell wrote, \"Super Hits samples ten tracks recorded by Blood, Sweat & Tears for Columbia Records in the late '60s", "title": "Super Hits (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)" }, { "id": "5669155", "text": "friends with a saxophonist named Walter Parazaider. Parazaider invited Guercio to hear his new band, \"The Big Thing\", and Guercio offered to manage and produce them. He relocated the band to Los Angeles in 1968, convinced them to change their name to \"The Chicago Transit Authority\", and arranged for them to appear in local clubs where they quickly became popular. While recording their first album for CBS/Columbia, Guercio was also approached about producing a second album for Blood, Sweat & Tears. Both of these highly successful albums were released in 1969, and \"Blood, Sweat & Tears\" won Guercio an Album", "title": "James William Guercio" }, { "id": "1488663", "text": "a former waitress and Playboy Bunny. Harry had been a member of a folk-rock band, the Wind in the Willows, in the late 1960s. In July 1974, Stein and Harry parted ways with the Stilettoes and Elda Gentile, the band's originator, forming a new band with ex-Stilettoes bandmates Billy O'Connor (drums; born October 4, 1953, Germany, died March 29, 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and Fred Smith (bass). Originally billed as Angel and the Snake for two shows in August 1974, they renamed themselves \"Blondie\" by October 1974. The name derived from comments made by truck drivers who catcalled \"Hey, Blondie\" to", "title": "Blondie (band)" }, { "id": "5783476", "text": "world... and I'm one of them!\" Guy Stevens Guy Stevens (13 April 1943 – 28 August 1981) was a British music industry figure whose roles included DJ, record producer, and band manager. He was influential in promoting R&B music in Britain in the 1960s, gave the rock bands Procol Harum and Mott the Hoople their distinctive names, and co-produced The Clash's album \"London Calling\". Stevens was born in East Dulwich, London. His father died when he was six, and at the age of 11 he was enrolled at Woolverstone Hall boarding school near Ipswich. After being expelled for rebelliousness, he", "title": "Guy Stevens" }, { "id": "4754615", "text": "David Clayton-Thomas David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition \"Spinning Wheel\" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Clayton-Thomas began his music career in the early 1960s, working the clubs on Toronto's Yonge Street, where he discovered his love of singing and playing the blues.", "title": "David Clayton-Thomas" }, { "id": "6221229", "text": "The Purple Gang (band) The Purple Gang are a British rock band active intermittently since the 1960s. Although they were associated with the London psychedelic scene, they originated in Stockport, then in Cheshire, as The Young Contemporaries jugband. The band adopted the name, The Purple Gang, when they changed their image to the well-dressed, clean-cut \"gangster\" style in the 1960s. In London, they engaged Joe Boyd as their record producer, and shared a studio with Pink Floyd as they recorded their first single, \"Granny Takes A Trip\" (named after the eponymous shop in the Kings Road). Pink Floyd were making", "title": "The Purple Gang (band)" } ]

[ "The Sharks (West Side Story)", "Gee, Officer Krupke", "Westside Story", "West Side Story 2008", "Riff (character)", "West side story", "The Jets (West Side Story)", "Jet Song", "West Side Story", "West Side Story (musical)" ]

[ { "id": "7922647", "text": "I Feel Pretty \"I Feel Pretty\" is a song from the 1957 musical \"West Side Story\". \"The New York Times\" explained that \"Mr. Sondheim…has said he was never particularly fond of his lyrics in 'West Side Story,' especially 'I Feel Pretty, later expressing that \"The idea of the song is so simple\". The original stage version of the lyrics were altered in the making of the movie version of West Side Story due to a change in the scenes occurrence. Making 'I feel pretty and witty and bright/And I pity/Any girl who isn't me tonight' into 'I feel pretty, and", "title": "I Feel Pretty" }, { "id": "457922", "text": "the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes \"Something's Coming\", \"Maria\", \"America\", \"Somewhere\", \"Tonight\", \"Jet Song\", \"I Feel Pretty\", \"A Boy Like That\", \"One Hand, One Heart\", \"Gee, Officer Krupke\", and \"Cool\". The original 1957 Broadway", "title": "West Side Story" }, { "id": "7922650", "text": "and Julie Andrews. Little Richard covered the song as part of the 1996 RCA Victor tribute album \"The Songs of West Side Story\". The song was mashed up with the song \"Unpretty\" by TLC in a \"Glee\" episode to create \"I Feel Pretty/Unpretty\", a duet that attempts to show the irony in people feeling pretty on the outside but unpretty on the inside. I Feel Pretty \"I Feel Pretty\" is a song from the 1957 musical \"West Side Story\". \"The New York Times\" explained that \"Mr. Sondheim…has said he was never particularly fond of his lyrics in 'West Side Story,'", "title": "I Feel Pretty" }, { "id": "5033900", "text": "Grant, the character Asner played in the series \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\" and \"Lou Grant\". The song Homer sings upon being given the food critic job is set to the tune of \"I Feel Pretty\" from the musical \"West Side Story\". The restaurant Planet Springfield is a parody of Planet Hollywood, containing items such as the film script for \"The Cable Guy\" (1996), Herbie from \"The Love Bug\" (1968), a model of the RMS Titanic from \"Titanic\" (1997), an alien similar to those from \"Mars Attacks!\" (1996), models of a TIE fighter, an X-wing fighter and C-3PO from the", "title": "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" }, { "id": "7922648", "text": "witty and gay/And I pity/Any girl who isn’t me today'. In the movie this night scene was changed to the daytime, and presumably for this reason, the rhyming words \"bright\" and \"tonight\" were changed to \"gay\" and \"today.\" In the musical, Maria is not yet aware that her love, Tony, has just killed her brother Bernardo, while in the film version, the song occurs before Bernardo's death. In the bridal shop where she works, Maria sings about being happy and feeling beautiful because she is \"loved by a pretty wonderful boy\", while her coworkers tease her about her silly behavior.", "title": "I Feel Pretty" }, { "id": "15560195", "text": "extended play \"\". It sold 25,000 copies in its second week, and stayed at the top of the soundtracks chart for three consecutive weeks. All tracks on the album have been released as singles, available for digital download. \"Glee\" cover of Adele's \"Turning Tables\", performed by Paltrow, has charted at number sixty-six on both the Canadian Hot 100 and the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The single sold 47,000 copies in its first week in the US. A mash-up of \"I Feel Pretty\" from the musical \"West Side Story\" and \"Unpretty\" by TLC reached number twenty-two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100", "title": "Glee: The Music, Volume 6" }, { "id": "12611366", "text": "advertising and television industry awards. \"Pretty\" follows a day in the life of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova. It shows her getting ready, leaving The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and travelling by limousine to a match at New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium pursued by paparazzi. Every person she passes on the way sings a line from \"I Feel Pretty\", a song performed by the character Maria in the second act of the stage musical \"West Side Story\". She arrives at the game, where fellow players, reporters, camera crew, the ball boys and girls, announcers, and umpire sing the chorus along with", "title": "Pretty (advertisement)" }, { "id": "7922649", "text": "Robert Cummings of AllMusic comments that the song \"features one of Bernstein's more memorable melodies: its first four notes, deliciously rhythmic in their rising contour, repeat, then are reduced to three, then to two. …Bernstein's instrumentation colors the music with a Latin character…and so does the girls' chorus that enters midway through. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics deftly capture Maria's bliss and newfound sense of confidence\". Birmingham Mail described the song as \"delightful\", while The Tab deemed it a \"classic\". Applause Meter called it \"sweetly charming\" and VCOnStage called it \"operatic\". The song has been covered by many artists, including Annie Ross", "title": "I Feel Pretty" }, { "id": "13585651", "text": "how to unleash his anger in healthy doses to avoid it building up. Many of the people involved, including the flight attendant and the judge are all Buddy's friends. When he ask about the sky marshal who tasered him if he was involved with Buddy, Linda reveals he wasn't and was just having a bad day. The three attend a picnic with Buddy's other patients, where Dave plays a final joke on Buddy with a friend holding the group up with a water gun and the film ends as the friends sing \"I Feel Pretty\" from \"West Side Story\" together.", "title": "Anger Management (film)" }, { "id": "7498518", "text": "the Rumble in place of the song \"Cool\" which is sung instead \"after\" the Rumble; the song \"I Feel Pretty\" is also sung before the Rumble instead of after. In addition, the song \"America\" was sung in-between the two love songs \"Maria\" and \"Tonight\", instead of having the two love songs being sung consecutively. The \"Somewhere\" Ballet was omitted, because it slowed down the pace of the film, and was sung instead by Tony and Maria. Reprises of the lyrics were omitted as well, especially in the songs \"One Hand, One Heart\" and \"A Boy Like That\". Some lyrics were", "title": "West Side Story (film)" }, { "id": "10028803", "text": "a tribute to musical theater songs about dancing. Jackman received his second prime time Emmy nomination for his performance. “I Won’t Dance” from Roberta (1935), music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields “Never Gonna Dance” from Swing Time (1936), music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields “You’re Just in Love” from Call Me Madam (1950), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin “Never Gonna Dance” (see above) “Broadway Melody Ballet” from Singin’ in the Rain (1952), music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard", "title": "59th Tony Awards" }, { "id": "896780", "text": "runs on Broadway, including such successful musicals as \"Hair\", \"Godspell\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"Rent\", \"Grey Gardens\", \"Urinetown\", \"Avenue Q\", \"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\", \"Rock of Ages\", \"In the Heights\", \"Spring Awakening\", \"Next to Normal\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", \"Fun Home\", \"Hamilton\" and \"Dear Evan Hansen\". In particular, two that became Broadway hits, \"Grease\" and \"A Chorus Line\", encouraged other producers to premiere their shows Off-Broadway. Plays that have moved from Off-Broadway houses to Broadway include \"Doubt\", \"I Am My Own Wife\", \"Bridge & Tunnel\", \"The Normal Heart\", and \"Coastal", "title": "Off-Broadway" }, { "id": "272889", "text": "on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of \"Victor/Victoria\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\" and the 1996 film of \"Evita\". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with \"Moulin Rouge!\" (2001). This was followed by \"Chicago\" (2002); \"Phantom of the Opera\" (2004); \"Dreamgirls\" (2006); \"Hairspray\", \"Enchanted\" and \"\" (all in 2007); \"Mamma Mia!\" (2008); \"Nine\" (2009); \"Les Misérables\" and \"Pitch Perfect\" (both in 2012), \"Into The Woods\" (2014) and \"La La Land\" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's \"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\" (2000)", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "12858697", "text": "that began in the 1890s, the Princess Theatre musicals of the early 20th century, and comedies in the 1920s and 1930s (such as the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein), with \"Oklahoma!\" (1943), musicals moved in a more dramatic direction. Famous musicals over the subsequent decades included \"My Fair Lady\" (1956), \"West Side Story\" (1957), \"The Fantasticks\" (1960), \"Hair\" (1967), \"A Chorus Line\" (1975), \"Les Misérables\" (1980), \"Into the Woods\" (1986), and \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986), as well as more contemporary hits including \"Rent\" (1994), \"The Lion King\" (1997), \"Wicked\" (2003), and \"Hamilton\" (2015). Musical theatre may be produced", "title": "Theatre" }, { "id": "1447809", "text": "the Southern U.S., its racial theme provoked controversy, for which its authors were unapologetic. Several of its songs, including \"Bali Ha'i\", \"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair\", \"Some Enchanted Evening\", \"There Is Nothing Like a Dame\", \"Happy Talk\", \"Younger Than Springtime\", and \"I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy\", have become popular standards. The production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Libretto, and it is the only musical production to win Tony Awards in all four acting categories. Its original cast album was the bestselling record of the 1940s, and other recordings", "title": "South Pacific (musical)" }, { "id": "15560196", "text": "and also became a top forty hit in Canada, Ireland, and the UK. Selling 112,000 copies in the US, its appearance marked the first time \"I Feel Pretty\" charted on the Hot 100. Unless otherwise indicated, Information is taken from Liner Notes Source: Allmusic Glee: The Music, Volume 6 Glee: The Music, Volume 6 is the eighth soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series \"Glee\", released on May 23, 2011 through the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Columbia Records. The album serves as the sixth and final release for the series' second season, and contains", "title": "Glee: The Music, Volume 6" }, { "id": "15327304", "text": "Life, but struggled to find an acceptable concept. Disney CEO Michael Eisner suggested a tie-in with the upcoming Pixar film \"A Bug's Life\", and the creative team developed a story based around the characters from the film. Visual effects studio Rhythm and Hues was brought in to produce the 3-D animated portion of the show, while Disney special effects teams created the rest of the experience, including animatronic characters, wind, water, and foul smells. The lobby music overture consists of insect renditions of \"One\" from A Chorus Line, \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"Tomorrow\" from Annie, \"I Feel Pretty\" from West", "title": "It's Tough to Be a Bug!" }, { "id": "252433", "text": "released in the 1970s, the latter winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End. Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included \"The Apple\", \"Xanadu\", \"The Blues Brothers\", \"Annie\", \"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life\", \"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\", \"Victor Victoria\", \"Footloose\", \"Fast Forward\", \"A Chorus Line\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\", \"Forbidden Zone\", \"Absolute Beginners\", \"Labyrinth\", \"Evita\", and \"Everyone Says I Love You\". However, \"Can't Stop the Music\", starring the Village People, was", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "457933", "text": "added to the second act. He was outvoted on other issues: he felt the lyrics to \"America\" and \"I Feel Pretty\" were too witty for the characters singing them, but they stayed in the score and proved to be audience favorites. Another song, \"Kid Stuff\", was added and quickly removed during the Washington, D.C. tryout when Laurents convinced the others it was helping tip the balance of the show into typical musical comedy. Bernstein composed \"West Side Story\" and \"Candide\" concurrently, which led to some switches of material between the two works. Tony and Maria's duet, \"One Hand, One Heart\",", "title": "West Side Story" }, { "id": "252426", "text": "could be relied upon for sure-fire hits. Audiences for them lessened and fewer musical films were produced as the genre became less mainstream and more specialized. In the 1960s, the critical and box-office success of the films \"West Side Story\", \"Gypsy\", \"The Music Man\", \"Bye Bye Birdie\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Mary Poppins\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\", \"The Jungle Book\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"Oliver!\", and \"Funny Girl\" suggested that the traditional musical was in good health, while French filmmaker Jacques Demy's jazz musicals \"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg\" and \"The Young Girls", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "4270977", "text": "productions that originated at the Playhouse before finding success on Broadway are The Who's \"Tommy\", Matthew Broderick's revival of \"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\", \"Jane Eyre\", \"Dracula, the Musical\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"Cry Baby\", \"Bonnie and Clyde\", The Pulitzer Prize-winning \"I Am My Own Wife\", \"700 Sundays\", \"Jersey Boys\", \"Memphis, Peter and the Starcatcher, Chaplin, Hands on a Hardbody\", Des McAnuff's revival of \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" and \"Zhivago\". La Jolla Playhouse began the Page To Stage Play Development Program in 2001 to facilitate the development of new plays and musicals, offering audiences the rare opportunity to experience", "title": "La Jolla Playhouse" }, { "id": "15446684", "text": "a recurring character. Other characters seen in \"Born This Way\" include glee club members Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr.), Sam Evans and Lauren Zizes, Kurt's boyfriend Blaine Anderson, school bully Azimio (James Earl), Principal Figgins, and Karofsky's father, Paul (Daniel Roebuck). In addition to \"Born This Way\", the other songs covered in the episode were Keane's \"Somewhere Only We Know\", \"As If We Never Said Goodbye\" from the musical \"Sunset Boulevard\", a mash-up of \"I Feel Pretty\" from \"West Side Story\" and \"Unpretty\" by TLC, \"I've Gotta Be Me\" from the musical \"Golden Rainbow\", and Duck Sauce's \"Barbra Streisand\". All", "title": "Born This Way (Glee)" }, { "id": "252432", "text": "musicals were still being made that were financially and/or critically less successful than in the musical's heyday. They include \"1776\", \"The Wiz\", \"At Long Last Love\", \"Mame\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Lost Horizon\",\" Godspell\", \"Phantom of the Paradise\", \"Funny Lady\" (Barbra Streisand's sequel to \"Funny Girl\"), \"A Little Night Music\", and \"Hair\" amongst others. The critical wrath against \"At Long Last Love\", in particular, was so strong that it was never released on home video. Fantasy musical films \"Scrooge\", \"The Blue Bird\", \"The Little Prince\", \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", \"Pete's Dragon\", and Disney's \"Bedknobs and Broomsticks\" were also", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "252416", "text": "Diggers of Broadway\" (1929). This film broke all box office records and remained the highest-grossing film ever produced until 1939. Suddenly, the market became flooded with musicals, revues, and operettas. The following all-color musicals were produced in 1929 and 1930 alone: \"The Show of Shows\" (1929), \"Sally\" (1929), \"The Vagabond King\" (1930), \"Follow Thru\" (1930), \"Bright Lights\" (1930), \"Golden Dawn\" (1930), \"Hold Everything\" (1930), \"The Rogue Song\" (1930), \"Song of the Flame\" (1930), \"Song of the West\" (1930), \"Sweet Kitty Bellairs\" (1930), \"Under a Texas Moon\" (1930), \"Bride of the Regiment\" (1930), \"Whoopee!\" (1930), \"King of Jazz\" (1930), \"Viennese Nights\"", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "252435", "text": "Other successful animated musicals included \"Aladdin\", \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\", and \"Pocahontas\" from Disney proper, \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\" from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, \"The Prince of Egypt\" from DreamWorks, \"Anastasia\" from Fox and Don Bluth, and \"\" from Paramount. (\"Beauty and the Beast\" and \"The Lion King\" were adapted for the stage after their blockbuster success.) In the 21st century, movie musicals were reborn with darker musicals, epic drama musicals and comedy-drama musicals such as \"Moulin Rouge!\", \"Chicago\", \"Dreamgirls\", \"\", \"Les Misérables\", and \"La La Land\" all of which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "252428", "text": "\"Mary Poppins\" and \"The Jungle Book\", two of Disney's biggest hits of all time. The phenomenal box-office performance of \"The Sound of Music\" gave the major Hollywood studios more confidence to produce lengthy, large-budget musicals. Despite the resounding success of some of these films, Hollywood also produced a large number of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste. The commercially and/or critically unsuccessful films included \"Camelot\", \"Finian's Rainbow\", \"Hello Dolly!\", \"Sweet Charity\", \"Doctor Dolittle\", \"Star!\", \"Darling Lili\", \"Goodbye, Mr. Chips\", \"Paint Your Wagon\", \"Song of Norway\", \"On a Clear Day You", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "9391384", "text": "has more than 50 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including , No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot in rep, Love Letters, The Country House, The Assembled Parties,\"Nice Work If You Can Get It\", \"Venus in Fur\",\"Wit\", \"Anything Goes\", \"A View From the Bridge\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Seascape\", \"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Anna in the Tropics\", and revivals of \"The Music Man\" and \"Kiss Me, Kate\". His recent off-Broadway work includes Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater), Ripcord Manhattan Theater Club), \"How I Learned to Drive\" for 2nd Stage, \"Twelfth Night\", \"All's Well\", \"Measure for Measure\"", "title": "Peter Kaczorowski" }, { "id": "4128592", "text": "popular musicals of the 1950s include \"Love Me Tender\" which starred Elvis Presley, \"High Society\", \"An American in Paris\", \"Singin' in the Rain\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"The Band Wagon\", \"Show Boat\", \"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers\", \"Gigi\", \"Daddy Long Legs\", \"Funny Face\", \"Calamity Jane\", \"Porgy and Bess\", \"Carmen Jones\", and many others. The Walt Disney Studios enjoyed a decade of prosperity with animated feature-length films \"Cinderella\", \"Alice in Wonderland\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Lady and the Tramp\" (Disney's first wide-screen animated film), and \"Sleeping Beauty\". The studio began producing live-action period and historical films such as \"The Sword and the Rose\", \"Davy", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "3454747", "text": "for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1998, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". In 2006, it ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. It is 1932, the depth of the Depression, and noted Broadway producers Jones (Robert McWade) and Barry (Ned Sparks) are putting on \"Pretty Lady\", a musical starring Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels). She is involved with wealthy Abner Dillon (Guy Kibbee), the show's \"angel\" (financial backer), but while she is busy keeping him both", "title": "42nd Street (film)" }, { "id": "469536", "text": "Playhouse\", \"Gimme a Break!\", \"Punky Brewster\", \"Taxi\", \"Happy Days\", \"St. Elsewhere\", \"MacGyver\", \"L.A. Law\", \"Magnum, P.I.\", \"M*A*S*H\", \"Barney Miller\", \"WKRP in Cincinnati\", \"Laverne & Shirley\", \"Mork & Mindy\", \"Miami Vice\", \"The Jeffersons\", \"The Facts of Life\", \"Hill Street Blues\", \"T.J. Hooker\", \"The Cosby Show\", \"Highway To Heaven\", \"Murder, She Wrote\", \"227\", \"Matlock\", \"\", \"Night Court\", \"Who's the Boss?\", \"Family Matters\", \"Charles in Charge\", \"The Hogan Family\", \"Perfect Strangers\", \"Designing Women\", \"Amen\", \"Head of the Class\", \"Murphy Brown\", \"The Wonder Years\", \"Empty Nest\", \"Coach\", \"Doogie Howser M.D.\", \"Quantum Leap\", \"Saved by the Bell\", \"Roseanne\", \"Full House\", \"The Golden Girls\",\"Three's Company\", \"Cheers\",", "title": "1980s" }, { "id": "272808", "text": "to such groundbreaking works as \"Show Boat\" (1927) and \"Oklahoma!\" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include \"West Side Story\" (1957), \"The Fantasticks\" (1960), \"Hair\" (1967), \"A Chorus Line\" (1975), \"Les Misérables\" (1985), \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986), \"Rent\" (1996), \"The Producers\" (2001), \"Wicked\" (2003) and \"Hamilton\" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "469471", "text": "such as \"Roseanne\", \"Coach\", \"Empty Nest\", \"Mr. Belvedere\", \"227\", \"Cheers\", \"The Cosby Show\", \"Growing Pains\", \"Night Court\", \"The Hogan Family\", \"A Different World\", \"Amen\", \"ALF\", \"Perfect Strangers\", \"Family Matters\", \"Charles in Charge\", \"Saved by the Bell\", \"My Two Dads\", \"Newhart\", \"Dear John\", \"Designing Women\", \"The Golden Girls\", \"Who's the Boss?\", \"Head of the Class\", and \"Seinfeld\", which premiered in the eighties, and \"Frasier\", a spin-off of the 1980s hit \"Cheers\" were viewed throughout the 1990s. These sitcoms, along with \"Friends\", \"That '70s Show\", \"Ellen\", \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\", \"Full House\", \"Nurses\", \"The Parkers\", \"Herman's Head\", \"Murphy Brown\", \"The Wonder", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "2437360", "text": "Opera\", as well as to more nostalgic fare. However, the rock musical achieved a renaissance in the 1990s, due in no small part to the popularity of Jonathan Larson's rock musical \"Rent\" (1996). This was followed by Off-Broadway rock musicals like \"\" (1997) and \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\" (1998), John Cameron Mitchell's Off-Broadway show about a transgender rocker. The end of the 1980s saw the beginning of a new form, jukebox musicals, such as \"Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story\", \"Mamma Mia!\" and \"Jersey Boys\", which feature the songs of a popular band, performer or genre. The rock musical", "title": "Rock musical" }, { "id": "15446699", "text": "ugly ducklings\", and Futterman wrote, \"It's a poignant moment, and the inclusion of \"West Side Story\" 'I Feel Pretty' makes for a great pop/theater mash-up that reminds us of what \"Glee\" is at its heart.\" Kurt's performance of \"As If We Never Said Goodbye\" was also met with critical acclaim. Brown stated that the song was \"absolutely stunning in every conceivable way.\" She thought that he had the emotional connection, the musicality, and the storytelling ability \"down pat\". Gonzalez gave the song an \"A−\" and wrote, \"Kurt apparently picked up a few helpful notes ... from his Warbler brothers and", "title": "Born This Way (Glee)" }, { "id": "8892313", "text": "to The Beatles\", \"Forbidden Broadway\", \"Spring Awakening\", \"Mamma Mia!\", \"Wicked\", \"101 Dalmatians Musical\", Oprah Winfrey Presents \"The Color Purple\", \"Chicago\", \"Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy\", \"Cats\", \"Annie\", \"The Wizard of Oz\", \"Avenue Q\", \"Monty Python's Spamalot\", \"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Twelve Angry Men\" starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt, \"Wicked\", \"\", \"Rent\", \"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels\", and \"The Light in the Piazza\". Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts The Arsht Center is a performing arts center and is located Miami, Florida. It is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States.", "title": "Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts" }, { "id": "6632101", "text": "\"Starlight Express\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\", \"Monty Python's Spamalot\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"West Side Story\", \"Jesus Christ Superstar\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"The Rocky Horror Show\", \"Fame - The Musical\", \"Never Forget\", \"Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical\", \"Cabaret\", \"Blood Brothers\", \"Saturday Night Fever\", \"Carousel\", \"Footloose - The Musical\", \"Grease\", \"Anything Goes\", \"Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake\", \"Our House\", \"Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story\", \"Carousel\", \"Tap Dogs\", \"Taboo\", \"Flashdance - The Musical\", \"Annie\", \"Annie Get Your Gun\", \"\", \"Dancing in the Streets\", \"Sister Act\", \"An Inspector Calls\", \"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels\", \"Rock of Ages\", \"Chicago\",", "title": "New Wimbledon Theatre" }, { "id": "7945053", "text": "Notre Dame High School has an active performing arts department which presents three productions annually: a fall drama or comedy, a late-winter musical, and a late-spring comedy, drama, or musical. Past performances have included \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Show Boat\", \"Kiss Me, Kate\", \"Godspell\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Inherit the Wind\", \"Grease\", \"West Side Story\", \"The Crucible\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"You Can't Take It with You\", \"Scapino!\", \"Les Misérables\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Footloose\", \"Seussical\", \"Hairspray\" and \"Anything Goes\" in March 2016. The musicals annually perform for audiences from 3,500-5,000. Along with theatrical productions, a dance program entitled \"Fusion\",", "title": "Notre Dame High School (New Jersey)" }, { "id": "272883", "text": "\"the closest to traditional musical theatre\" and was \"one pathway to the future.\" However, most major-market 21st-century productions have taken a safe route, with revivals of familiar fare, such as \"Fiddler on the Roof\", \"A Chorus Line\", \"South Pacific\", \"Gypsy\", \"Hair\", \"West Side Story\" and \"Grease\", or with adaptations of other proven material, such as literature (\"The Scarlet Pimpernel\", \"Wicked\" and \"Fun Home\"), hoping that the shows would have a built-in audience as a result. This trend is especially persistent with film adaptations, including (\"The Producers\", \"Spamalot\", \"Hairspray\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"The Color Purple\", \"Xanadu\", \"Billy Elliot\", \"Shrek\", \"Waitress\" and \"Groundhog", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "4590740", "text": "Roman Scandals Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley. The song \"Keep Young and Beautiful\" is from this film. In addition to the starring actors in the picture, the elaborate dance numbers are performed by the \"Goldwyn Girls\" (who in this film include future stars such as Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard and Barbara Pepper). The title of the film is a pun on Roman sandals. When", "title": "Roman Scandals" }, { "id": "12133709", "text": "\"Glory Days\", \"Merrily We Roll Along\", \"The Witches of Eastwick\", \"Saving Aimee\", \"Into the Woods\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Nevermore\", \"Assassins\", \"The Highest Yellow\", \"One Red Flower\", \"Allegro\", \"Twentieth Century\", \"110 in the Shade\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", \"The Gospel According to Fishman\", \"Grand Hotel\", \"The Rhythm Club\", \"Over & Over\", \"The Fix\", \"Working\", \"The Rink\", \"Cabaret\", \"First Lady Suite\", \"Wings\", \"Poor Superman\", \"Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love\", \"Passion\", \"Company\", \"Sweeney Todd\", \"Follies\", \"Pacific Overtures\", \"Ace\", \"Les Misérables, and Showboat. Awards Eric D. Schaeffer Eric D. Schaeffer is an American theater director and producer based in", "title": "Eric D. Schaeffer" }, { "id": "4678769", "text": "world première of her ballet \"Circe\". Next was a string of Broadway musicals, including \"Funny Girl\" in 1966 with Barbra Streisand, \"Sweet Charity\" (1967), and \"Promises, Promises\" (1969). \"The Threepenny Opera\" was revived in 1972. In 1976, Bernard Slade's \"Same Time, Next Year\" was a hit, as was \"I Love My Wife\" (1977), and \"Bedroom Farce\" (1978). In 1982, \"Underneath the Arches\" was a long-running hit. Andrew Lloyd Webber's \"Aspects of Love\" (1989) smashed all previous box-office records at the theatre, running for 1,325 performances. More recent productions are listed below. Refurbishment was carried out in 2004 to increase the", "title": "Prince of Wales Theatre" }, { "id": "8608044", "text": "Ediss. The show also had a run in New York. Songs included \"Friville\", \"The Lass with the Lasso\", \"Three Little Pebbles\" and \"Ladies, Beware! (When the Lights are low)\". Critics praised Stuart's score but observed that the plot of the piece was thin. But they concluded that this did not matter: In a luxurious lounge at the New Hotel, London, the lovely Peggy Barrison heads a dainty band of manicurists, and Albert Umbles, a charming hairdresser, is an immense favourite with the ladies. Peggy finds herself hopelessly smitten with him, and he is also in love with her. They are", "title": "Peggy (musical)" }, { "id": "10852410", "text": "in classic American musical theatre, new musicals, and \"re-thought\" musicals. Broadway has long considered The Marriott Theatre a prime venue for launching shows into the regional market with premiere productions of \"A Chorus Line\", \"Chess\", \"Baby\", \"Grand Hotel\", \"They're Playing Our Song\", \"The Goodbye Girl\", \"The First\", \"Miss Saigon\", \"Cats\", \"Sunset Boulevard\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\", \"The Producers\" and \"Little Women\". A founding member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, The Marriott Theatre fosters artists in creating new works for the stage. The result has been a string of American and World Premieres including \"Matador\", which", "title": "Marriott Theatre" }, { "id": "8515012", "text": "just scored a hit with \"Lollipops and Roses\"; Como's RCA Victor labelmate Elvis Presley had done the same with \"Can't Help Falling in Love\", from his film \"Blue Hawaii\"; Tony Bennett was already popularizing the wistful \"Once Upon a Time\" from the Broadway musical \"All American\"; and Andy Williams had claimed the year's Oscar winner, \"Moon River\" from \"Breakfast at Tiffany's\". The other tracks included \"Maria\", newly popular due to the movie version of \"West Side Story\", Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"My Favorite Things\" from the 1959 musical \"The Sound of Music\", and \"The Sweetest Sounds\" from Richard Rodgers' new, solely", "title": "By Request (Perry Como album)" }, { "id": "3590381", "text": "four Sherman Brothers' musicals ranked in the \"Top 10 Favorite Children's Films of All Time\" in a (British) nationwide poll reported by the BBC. \"The Jungle Book\" (1967)_ranked at #7, \"Mary Poppins\" (1964) ranked at #8, \"The Aristocats\" (1970) ranked at #9 and \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\" (1968) topped the list at #1. A new Disney and Cameron Mackintosh production of \"Mary Poppins: The Stage Musical\" made its world premiere at the Prince Edward Theatre in December 2004 and features the Sherman Brothers classic songs. In June 2005, Robert B. Sherman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with", "title": "Robert B. Sherman" }, { "id": "889299", "text": "network had failed to meet the projected number of new subscribers they had hoped to attract with the series. Over its run, \"Passions\" featured several storylines and sequences paying homage to or parodying other television series, films, books, and musicals like \"Gone with the Wind\", \"Carrie\", \"Titanic\", \"I Dream of Jeannie\", \"Brokeback Mountain\", \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\", \"\", \"The Wizard of Oz\", \"The Da Vinci Code\", \"The Little Mermaid\" and \"Wicked\". A 2003 fantasy sequence imitated the \"Cell Block Tango\" number from the 2002 film \"Chicago\"; \"Passions\" version of the song, \"I Ain't Sorry,\" received a 2004 Daytime Emmy Award", "title": "Passions" }, { "id": "15446706", "text": "featured debuted on numerous musical charts. The show's rendition of \"Born This Way\" debuted at number forty-four on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, on an issue dated for May 4, 2011. It sold 73,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release as a digitally downloadable single. The mash-up of \"I Feel Pretty / Unpretty\" was the highest charted single featured in the episode, debuting at number twenty-two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It also peaked at number thirteen on the Digital 100 charts and sold 112,000 digital downloads in the United States in its first week of", "title": "Born This Way (Glee)" }, { "id": "16150287", "text": "highest-grossing film of the year. It is the highest worldwide grossing live action musical film of all time. It is also the UK's fastest and best selling DVD of all time, and in 2013, was announced as Amazon UK's best-selling DVD of all time. More recently, Craymer also produced the flop \"Viva Forever!\", a musical based on the songs of the Spice Girls, which was written by Jennifer Saunders and opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in late 2012. The show failed to reach the levels of other work she has been fortunate to be associated with and was panned by", "title": "Judy Craymer" }, { "id": "6143999", "text": "a circus queen in \"Sunny\" (1925), with music by Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. A box-office smash, it featured the classic \"Who?\", and made her the highest paid star on Broadway. In 1928, after reuniting with Ziegfeld, she starred in his production of the successful George Gershwin musical \"Rosalie\", then in \"Smiles\" (1930) with Fred Astaire, a rare Ziegfeld box office failure. Miller's movie career was short-lived and less successful than her stage career. She made only three films: adaptations of \"Sally\" (1929); and \"Sunny\" (1930); and \"Her Majesty Love\" (1931), with W. C. Fields. Her last Broadway show,", "title": "Marilyn Miller" }, { "id": "9198479", "text": "dog... [and] includes a reference to her infamous sex video.\" The lyrics include a line from the 1939 film, \"The Wizard of Oz\": \"I'm gonna get you my pretty, and your little dog too.\" A music video was made for \"Rip It Up\". The track was originally titled \"Nothing to Lose\". It debuted at No. 67 on the ARIA Singles Chart and peaked at No. 49 for one week before leaving the top 50 altogether. \"Rip It Up\" was released in the United Kingdom as the fourth single from \"Shine On\" and as a limited edition \"7\" vinyl. It failed", "title": "Rip It Up (Jet song)" }, { "id": "655401", "text": "at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007. Denise Van Outen introduced songs from \"Whistle Down the Wind\", \"The Beautiful Game\", \"Tell Me on a Sunday\", \"The Woman in White\", \"Evita\" and \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\" – as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"The Sound of Music\", which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium, and the 2002 musical \"Bombay Dreams\". In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber" }, { "id": "2156027", "text": "There were a number of changes made between the 1993 and 1998 revivals, despite the similarities in creative team. The cabaret number \"Two Ladies\" was staged with the Emcee, a cabaret girl, and a cabaret boy in drag and included a shadow play simulating various sexual positions. The score was entirely re-orchestrated, using synthesizer effects and expanding the stage band, with all the instruments now being played by the cabaret girls and boys. The brutally satiric \"Sitting Pretty\", with its mocking references to deprivation, despair and hunger, was eliminated entirely, as it had been in the film version, and where", "title": "Cabaret (musical)" }, { "id": "252451", "text": "interest in the then-moribund Western musical genre, and subsequently films such as \"Chicago\", \"The Producers\", \"Rent\", \"Dreamgirls\", \"Hairspray\", \"\", \"Across the Universe\", \"The Phantom of the Opera\", \"Enchanted\" and \"Mamma Mia!\" were produced, fuelling a renaissance of the genre. \"The Guru\" and \"The 40-Year-Old Virgin\" also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences; the Bollywood musical \"Lagaan\" (2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; two other Bollywood films \"Devdas\" (2002) and \"Rang De Basanti\" (2006) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning \"Slumdog Millionaire\" (2008)", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "295287", "text": "were followed by others. During 1966, Simon had four shows playing at Broadway theatres simultaneously: \"Sweet Charity\", \"The Star-Spangled Girl\", \"The Odd Couple\" and \"Barefoot in the Park\". His professional association with producer Emanuel Azenberg began with \"The Sunshine Boys\" and continued with \"The Good Doctor\", \"God's Favorite\", \"Chapter Two\", \"They're Playing Our Song\", \"I Ought to Be in Pictures\", \"Brighton Beach Memoirs\", \"Biloxi Blues\", \"Broadway Bound\", \"Jake's Women\", \"The Goodbye Girl\" and \"Laughter on the 23rd Floor\", among others. His subjects ranged from serious to romantic comedy to more serious drama and less humor. Overall, he garnered seventeen Tony", "title": "Neil Simon" }, { "id": "16241440", "text": "Disney XD. On February 24, 2012, Walt Disney Records re-published the music video in high-definition on The Muppets Studio' official YouTube channel. Past winners include; \"When You Wish Upon a Star\", from \"Pinocchio\", \"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah\", from \"Song of the South\", \"Chim Chim Cher-ee\" from \"Mary Poppins\", \"Under the Sea\" from \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Beauty and the Beast\" from the eponymous film, \"A Whole New World\" from \"Aladdin\", \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight\" from \"The Lion King\", \"Colors of the Wind\" from \"Pocahontas\", \"You'll Be in My Heart\" from \"Tarzan\", \"If I Didn't Have You\" from \"Monsters, Inc.\", and \"We Belong", "title": "Man or Muppet" }, { "id": "3675191", "text": "\"Santa Fe\" on \"The View\". The Paper Mill Playhouse version included new songs \"The News Is Getting Better\" that was replaced on Broadway by \"The Bottom Line\" and \"Don't Come a-Knocking\" that was replaced on Broadway with \"That's Rich\", and the \"I Never Planned on You/Don't Come a-Knocking\" Medley and \"Then I See You Again\" sung by Katherine and Jack was replaced with \"Something to Believe In\". \"Fansies\" was the term dubbed to fans of Newsies during the Papermill Playhouse run of the show during Newsies Fan Day, where cast members of the movie and the original musical cast met", "title": "Newsies" }, { "id": "9394232", "text": "Ward the Musical\", Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical telling the story of the Profumo scandal. \"Party Animals\", \"The Bill\", \"Kidulthood\", \"The Fugitives\", \"Murder City\", \"Auf Wiedersehen, Pet\", \"The Last Detective\", \"Rosemary & Thyme\", \"Heartbeat\", \"Beech is Back\", \"Relic Hunters\", \"Casualty\", \"The Merchant of Venice\", \"The Escort\", \"Unfinished Business\", \"Peak Practice\", \"Doctor Finlay\", \"Poetry Readings\", \"Ffizz\", \"Fellow Traveller\", \"Museums of Madness\", \"The Black Candle\", \"Taking the Floor\", \"Boon\", \"The Chief\", \"Six Characters in Search of an Author\" as well as \"Lewis\". Alexander Hanson (actor) Alexander Harald St John Hanson-Akins (born 28 April 1961) is a Norwegian-born British stage actor who has appeared", "title": "Alexander Hanson (actor)" }, { "id": "15446708", "text": "version of \"Somewhere Only We Know\" trailed behind at number forty-seven. On May 6, three of the singles appeared on the Canadian Hot 100. The \"I Feel Pretty / Unpretty\" mash-up peaked the highest out of all the singles, debuting at twenty-eight. It was followed by \"Born This Way\" and \"Somewhere Only We Know\", which debuted at number thirty-one and fifty-two on the charts, respectively. Born This Way (Glee) \"Born This Way\" is the eighteenth episode of the second season of the American television series \"Glee\", and the fortieth episode overall. It originally aired on Fox in the United States", "title": "Born This Way (Glee)" }, { "id": "4590742", "text": "court intrigue and a murder plot against the evil Emperor Valerius (Edward Arnold) himself. The film was one of United Artists' most popular films of the year. Roman Scandals Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley. The song \"Keep Young and Beautiful\" is from this film. In addition to the starring actors in the picture, the elaborate dance numbers are performed by the \"Goldwyn Girls\" (who", "title": "Roman Scandals" }, { "id": "405254", "text": "ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, such as \"Edelweiss\", \"My Favorite Things\", \"Climb Ev'ry Mountain\", \"Do-Re-Mi\", and the title song \"The Sound of Music\". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It", "title": "The Sound of Music" }, { "id": "7597910", "text": "being \"Will the Sun Ever Shine Again\" from the 2004 film \"Home on the Range\". \"On the Record\" includes a total of eight Academy Award for Best Song winners: \"When You Wish Upon a Star\" from \"Pinocchio\", \"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah\" from \"Song of the South\", \"Under the Sea\" from \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Beauty and the Beast\" from \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"A Whole New World\" from \"Aladdin\", \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight\" from \"The Lion King\", \"Colors of the Wind\" from \"Pocahontas\", and \"You'll Be in My Heart\" from \"Tarzan\". The catalogue of music does not only come from the screen,", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "id": "469414", "text": "Zeppelin was the most successful musical act of the 1970s, having sold more than 300 million records since 1969. Oscar winners of the decade were \"Patton\" (1970), \"The French Connection\" (1971), \"The Godfather\" (1972), \"The Sting\" (1973), \"The Godfather Part II\" (1974), \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" (1975), \"Rocky\" (1976), \"Annie Hall\" (1977), \"The Deer Hunter\" (1978), and \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1979). The top ten highest-grossing films of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest grossing): \"Star Wars\", \"Jaws\", \"Grease\", \"The Exorcist\", \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\", \"Superman\", \"The Godfather\", \"Saturday Night Fever\", \"Rocky\", and \"Jaws", "title": "1970s" }, { "id": "8892427", "text": "Woods\", \"Little Women\", \"Once Upon A Mattress\", \"The Mousetrap\", \"A Christmas Story\", \"Once On This Island\", \"Fools\", \"A Christmas Carol\", \"Seussical the Musical\", \"Twelve Angry Men\", \"Taming of the Shrew\", \"West Side Story\", \"The Diviners\", \"Hamlet\", \"Alice\", \"Rent\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Les Misérables\", \"The Winter's Tale\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"Peter and the Starcatcher\", \"Lazarus Rising\", \"1984\", \"The Addams Family\", \"Twelfth Night\", and \"Little Women\". 4th place at dimond bar high school for show choir (2016) Henry J. Kaiser High School (California) Henry J. Kaiser High School is a small to medium-sized high school located at 11155 Almond Avenue in Fontana, California. Kaiser", "title": "Henry J. Kaiser High School (California)" }, { "id": "2606430", "text": "back-to-back Broadway flops in the mid-1950s with \"Me and Juliet\" and \"Pipe Dream\". While \"Oklahoma!\" had broken new ground in 1943, any new project in the late 1950s would have to compete with modern musicals and techniques, like the brutal realism in \"West Side Story\", and with other Broadway musical hits such as \"The Music Man\", \"My Fair Lady\" and \"The Pajama Game\". Rodgers and Hammerstein had made it their rule to begin work on their next musical as soon as the last opened on Broadway, but by the start of 1957, six months after \"Pipe Dream\" closed, the pair", "title": "Flower Drum Song" }, { "id": "16399435", "text": "suffers bullying and a beating by classmates (\"The Four Marys\"). Her friend John drives away the bullies. Years later, parents in tow, Susan meets John again at a parish dance, where he invites an incredulous Susan, who has never had a boyfriend, to dance with him (\"Beautiful Sunday\", \"Knock Three Times\", \"Una Paloma Blanca\"). Their comic, awkward efforts eventually turn dreamily romantic (\"Perfect Day\"). Susan goes to The Happy Valley pub's karaoke night, presided over by an Elvis-imitating compere who fancies himself the best singer around (\"Something Tells Me\"). Several regulars attempt to impress (\"Crazy\" and \"Heartbreak Hotel\"), and Susan's", "title": "I Dreamed a Dream (musical)" }, { "id": "252437", "text": "(ABBA), \"Rock of Ages\", and \"Sunshine on Leith\" (The Proclaimers). Original ones included \"Across the Universe\" (The Beatles), \"Moulin Rouge!\" (various pop hits), and \"Idlewild\" (Outkast). Disney also returned to musicals with \"Enchanted\", \"The Princess and the Frog\", \"Tangled\", \"Winnie the Pooh\", \"The Muppets\", \"Frozen\", \"Muppets Most Wanted\", \"Into the Woods\", \"Moana\", and \"Mary Poppins Returns\". Following a string of successes with live action fantasy adaptations of several of their animated features, Disney produced a live action version of \"Beauty and the Beast\", the first of this live action fantasy adaptation pack to be an all-out musical, and features new", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "6330533", "text": "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' \"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'\" is the opening song from the musical \"Oklahoma!\", which premiered on Broadway in 1943. It was written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The leading male character in \"Oklahoma!\", Curly McLain, sings the song at the beginning of the first scene of the musical. The refrain runs: \"Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! / Oh, what a beautiful day! / I've got a beautiful feelin' / Ev'rythin's goin' my way.\" Curly's \"brimming optimism is perfectly captured by Rodgers' ebullient music and Hammerstein's buoyant pastoral lyrics.\" This was the", "title": "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" }, { "id": "694727", "text": "Fair Lady\" and \"Camelot\". \"Gigi\" was a box-office and critical success which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. From it came several hit songs, including \"Thank Heaven For Little Girls\", \"I Remember It Well\", the \"Waltz at Maxim's\", and the Oscar-winning title song. The film was the last MGM musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, an honor that had previously gone to \"The Broadway Melody\" (1929), \"The Great Ziegfeld\" (1936), and \"An American in Paris\" (1951). The very last musical film produced by the \"Freed Unit\" was an adaptation of the Broadway musical \"Bells Are Ringing\" (1960) with", "title": "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" }, { "id": "272871", "text": "left a message of racial tolerance. By the end of the 1960s, musicals became racially integrated, with black and white cast members even covering each other's roles, as they did in \"Hair\". Homosexuality has also been explored in musicals, starting with \"Hair\", and even more overtly in \"La Cage aux Folles\", \"Falsettos\", \"Rent\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\" and other shows in recent decades. \"Parade\" is a sensitive exploration of both anti-Semitism and historical American racism, and \"Ragtime\" similarly explores the experience of immigrants and minorities in America. After the success of \"Hair\", rock musicals flourished in the 1970s, with", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "10677767", "text": "many pre-Broadway productions because of Broadway In Chicago. These productions include \"The Pirate Queen\", \"The Producers\", \"Movin' Out\", \"Mamma Mia!\", \"Aida\", \"All Shook Up\", \"Sweet Smell of Success\", \"Tallulah\", \"A Thousand Clowns\", \"Sweet Charity\", \"Spamalot\", \"Blast!\", \"The Addams Family\", \"Kinky Boots\", \"Big Fish\", \"The Last Ship\" and \"The SpongeBob Musical\". Broadway In Chicago was also responsible for bringing many long-run productions to the city including \"Wicked\", \"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\", Disney's \"The Lion King\", \"Jersey Boys\", \"Ragtime\", \"The Book of Mormon\" and \"Hamilton\". Broadway In Chicago Broadway In Chicago is a theatrical production company. It was formed", "title": "Broadway In Chicago" }, { "id": "2079897", "text": "I Am\", with the song \"I'm Feeling You\", appearing on the American teen television drama \"One Tree Hill\", and joined country music stars Rascal Flatts on a U.S. tour. They initially toured with Gavin DeGraw, Tyler Hilton and Bethany Joy Galeotti, which was also written into the show during the second season. The group was nominated for the 2006 CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the Year and for a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song \"Leave the Pieces\" in December 2006. \"Stand Still, Look Pretty\" was certified Gold by the", "title": "Michelle Branch" }, { "id": "10670139", "text": "a memoir, entitled \"The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo\". It held the top position on \"The New York Times\" Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks in September 2016 and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Schumer made her Broadway debut in 2017 with Steve Martin's comedy play \"Meteor Shower\", about two couples in 1993 who spend an evening with each other. Her performance received acclaim and garnered her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2018, she starred in the comedy film \"I Feel Pretty\".", "title": "Amy Schumer" }, { "id": "7758954", "text": "McCartney, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Mark Knopfler and Sting. In November 1997, John performed in the BBC's Children in Need charity single \"Perfect Day\", which reached number one in the UK. In the musical theatre world, \"The Lion King\" musical debuted on Broadway in 1997 and the West End in 1999. In 2014, it had grossed over $6 billion and became the top-earning title in box-office history for both stage productions and films, surpassing the record previously held by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical \"The Phantom of the Opera\". In addition to \"The Lion King\", John also composed music for", "title": "Elton John" }, { "id": "2156041", "text": "reminds her that it could be his child, and seems to convince her to have the baby. Ernst enters and offers Cliff a job—picking up a suitcase in Paris and delivering it to his \"client\" in Berlin—easy money. The Emcee comments on this with the song \"Sitting Pretty\" (or, in later versions, \"Money\"). Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider has caught one of her boarders, Fräulein Kost, bringing sailors into her room. Fräulein Schneider forbids her from doing it again, but Fräulein Kost threatens to leave. She also mentions that she has seen Fräulein Schneider with Herr Schultz in her room. Herr Schultz", "title": "Cabaret (musical)" }, { "id": "3270418", "text": "on a musical about hippie culture. As research, they associated with a group of youths in the East Village who were dropping out and dodging the draft. They talked to people in the streets and people they know, and read articles about hippie culture and youths being kicked out of school for growing their hair long. They wrote lyrics to thirteen songs (\"Ain't Got No\", \"I Got Life\", \"Reading and Writing\", \"Don't Put It Down\", \"Sodomy\", \"Colored Spade\", \"Manchester, England\", \"Frank Mills\", \"We Look at One Another\", \"Hair\", \"Aquarius\", \"Easy to Be Hard\", \"Good Morning Starshine\" and \"Where Do I", "title": "Gerome Ragni" }, { "id": "13780066", "text": "the Sand\"), Anita Bryant (\"Till There Was You\", \"Paper Roses\"), Connie Francis (\"Who’s Sorry Now\", \"Among My Souvenirs\", \"My Happiness\"), Gogi Grant (\"Suddenly There’s a Valley\", \"The Wayward Wind\"), Bobby Darin (\"Dream Lover\", \"Beyond the Sea\", \"Mack the Knife\"), and Andy Williams (\"Canadian Sunset\", \"Butterfly\", \"Hawaiian Wedding Song\"). Even Rock ‘n’ Roll icon Elvis Presley spent the rest of his career alternating between Pop and Rock (\"Love Me Tender\", \"Loving You\", \"I Love You Because\"). Pop would resurface on the charts in the mid-1960s as \"Adult Contemporary\". In 1951, Little Richard Penniman began recording for RCA Records in the late-1940s", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "id": "719093", "text": "(Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase), Original Song (Irving Berlin for \"Cheek to Cheek\"), and Dance Direction (Hermes Pan for \"Piccolino\" and \"Top Hat\"). In 1990, \"Top Hat\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film ranked number 15 on the 2006 American Film Institute's list of best musicals. \"Top Hat\" has been nostalgically referenced — particularly its \"Cheek to Cheek\" segment — in many films, including \"The Purple Rose of Cairo\" (1985), \"The English Patient\" (1996), \"The Green Mile\" (1999),\"La La Land\"", "title": "Top Hat" }, { "id": "9903868", "text": "as ever\". Tracy Dye of \"Bustle\" identified \"Part of Your World\" as her \"favorite Disney song of all time.\" \"Entertainment Weekly\"'s Esther Zuckerman described \"Part of Your World\" as \"a perfect 'I Want' song,\" comparing it positively to “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” from the stage musical \"My Fair Lady\" (1956). In 2013, Disney released a digitally remastered Diamond Edition of \"The Little Mermaid\" on Blu-ray/DVD. Some fans of the film noticed that an error had occurred during the remastering process that resulted in two brief segments from the \"Part of Your World\" sequence to play in reversed order, appearing in", "title": "Part of Your World" }, { "id": "903009", "text": "\"Steptoe and Son\", the sitcom became firmly entrenched in the television schedules. Some of the most successful examples include \"To The Manor Born,\" \"As Time Goes By\", \"Steptoe and Son\", \"Dad's Army\", \"Keeping Up Appearances\", \"Red Dwarf\", \"The Good Life\", \"The Likely Lads\", \"Fawlty Towers\", \"Allo Allo\", \"The Good Life\", \"Are You Being Served?\", \"Yes Minister\", \"Only Fools and Horses\", \"Drop The Dead Donkey\", \"Men Behaving Badly\", \"The IT Crowd\", \"Absolutely Fabulous\", \"The Vicar of Dibley\", \"The Mighty Boosh\", \"Father Ted\", \"Mr. Bean\", \"Blackadder\", \"One Foot in the Grave\", \"The Brittas Empire\", \"I'm Alan Partridge\", \" Some Mothers Do 'Ave", "title": "British comedy" }, { "id": "10672517", "text": "Alive and Well and Living in Paris\", and \"Songs for a New World\"; absurdist musicals such as \"Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock\", and \"Anyone Can Whistle\"; concept musicals such as \"Company\", \"Assassins\", \"Urinetown\", \"Chicago\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", and \"Cabaret\"; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, such as \"Evita\", \"Man of La Mancha\", \"Camelot\", \"Pippin\", \"Sweeney Todd\", \"Grease\", and \"Into the Woods\". New Line claims to take philosophical and practical inspiration from theatre models of the 1960s, including Caffé Cino, Cafe LaMaMa ETC, Judson Poets Theatre, Joan Littlewood's People’s Theatre Workshop in London, and", "title": "New Line Theatre" }, { "id": "771199", "text": "itself out. Except for a few outposts of rock, like \"Dreamgirls\" (1981) and \"Little Shop of Horrors\" (1982), audience tastes in the 1980s turned to megamusicals with pop scores, like \"Les Misérables\" (1985) and \"The Phantom of the Opera\" (1986). Some later rock musicals, such as \"Rent\" (1996) and \"Spring Awakening\" (2006), as well as jukebox musicals featuring rock music, like \"We Will Rock You\" (2002) and \"Rock of Ages\" (2009), have found success. But the rock musical did not quickly come to dominate the musical theatre stage after \"Hair\". Critic Clive Barnes commented, \"There really weren't any rock musicals.", "title": "Hair (musical)" }, { "id": "5809158", "text": "the Goodman has staged over the years include \"Hay Fever\", \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"The Little Foxes\", \"You Can't Take it with You\", \"Born Yesterday\", \"Pal Joey\", \"To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play)\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"Talley's Folly\", \"A House Not Meant to Stand\", \"A Soldier's Play\", \"Fences\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"The Visit\", \"Dancing at Lughnasa\", \"Arcadia\", \"Floyd Collins\", \"Hollywood Arms\", \"Dinner with Friends\", \"The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?\", \"The Light in the Piazza\", \"I Am My Own Wife\", and \"Rabbit Hole\". Goodman Theatre Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A", "title": "Goodman Theatre" }, { "id": "18553305", "text": "United States and Canada and $759.5 million in other countries for a worldwide gross of $1.263 billion. With a production budget of $254 million, it is the most expensive musical ever made. In just ten days, it became the highest-grossing live-action musical of all time, beating the nine-year-old record held by \"Mamma Mia!\". It is currently the second-biggest musical ever overall, behind Disney's \"Frozen\" (2013). Worldwide, the film proved to be a global phenomenon, earning a total of $357 million over its four-day opening weekend from 56 markets. Critics said the film was playing like superhero movies amongst women. It", "title": "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)" }, { "id": "272896", "text": "and Green Onions\", \"Over the Rainbow: the all-new all-gay... extravaganza\" and \"Bangbroek Mountain\" and \"In Briefs – a queer little Musical\" have been produced successfully. Successful musicals from continental Europe include shows from (among other countries) Germany (\"Elixier\" and \"Ludwig II\"), Austria (\"Tanz der Vampire\", \"Elisabeth\", \"Mozart!\" and \"Rebecca\"), Czech Republic (\"Dracula\"), France (\"Notre-Dame de Paris\", \"Les Misérables\", \"Roméo et Juliette\" and \"Mozart, l'opéra rock\") and Spain (\"Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar\" and \"The Musical Sancho Panza\"). Japan has recently seen the growth of an indigenous form of musical theatre, both animated and live action, mostly based on Anime and", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "20249163", "text": "questioning her sense of self and her own superficial behaviour, she suffers a new head injury in a fall in the shower. When she awakens, she perceives her real physical appearance. Devastated at the belief that her magical transformation has been reversed and she is no longer beautiful, she tearfully leaves the hotel and immediately returns to New York alone - missing the crucial work presentation she was due to give. Back in New York, she holes herself up in her apartment - avoiding Ethan and Avery's calls, binge-drinking and eating junk food. Drunk and miserable, she turns up at", "title": "I Feel Pretty (film)" }, { "id": "469473", "text": "World\", \"Ned and Stacey\", \"Becker\", \"Veronica's Closet\", \"Two Guys and a Girl\", \"The Drew Carey Show\", \"Wings\", \"The John Larroquette Show\", \"Caroline in the City\", \"Sports Night\", \"Home Improvement\", \"Will & Grace\", \"Married... with Children\", \"Evening Shade\", \"Cosby\", \"Spin City\", \"The Nanny\", \"3rd Rock from the Sun\", \"Suddenly Susan\", \"Cybill\", \"Just Shoot Me!\", \"Everybody Loves Raymond\", and \"Dharma and Greg\" turned TV in new directions and defined the humor of the decade. In early 1993, one of the last westerns ever to air on television was \"Walker, Texas Ranger\", a crime drama which also starred Chuck Norris as the title", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "3683693", "text": "the Aisle\" (1951) and \"Plain and Fancy\" (1955) had respectable runs, but the venue had its greatest success with the smash hit \"My Fair Lady\" which ran from 1956 to 1962 for 2,717 performances. The Hellinger marquee during the run of \"Two on the Aisle\" may be seen briefly, at approximately 46 minutes, in the 1952 MGM film \"Pat and Mike\". In the 1960s, the Hellinger continued its run as one of Broadway's key musical houses with, among others, the shows \"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever\" (1965) and \"Coco\" (1969), Katharine Hepburn's only Broadway musical. The Nederlander", "title": "Mark Hellinger Theatre" }, { "id": "5064757", "text": "(2015). Similarly, hit Broadway plays are often adapted into films, whether from musicals or dramas. Some examples of American film adaptations based on successful Broadway plays are \"Arsenic and Old Lace\" (1944), \"Born Yesterday\" (1950), \"Harvey\" (1950), \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1951), \"The Odd Couple\" (1968), \"The Boys in the Band\" (1970), \"Agnes of God\" (1985), \"Children of a Lesser God\" (1986), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), \"Real Women Have Curves\" (2002), \"Rabbit Hole\" (2010), and \"Fences\" (2016). On one hand, theatrical adaptation does not involve as many interpolations or elisions as novel adaptation, but on the other, the demands of", "title": "Film adaptation" }, { "id": "615851", "text": "home by her man at the front: furs from Oslo, a silk dress from Paris etc., until finally, from Russia, she receives her widow's veil. Apart from \"Mack the Knife\" and \"Pirate Jenny\" from \"The Threepenny Opera\", his most famous songs include \"Alabama Song\" (from \"Mahagonny\"), \"Surabaya Johnny\" (from \"Happy End\"), \"Speak Low\" (from \"One Touch of Venus\"), \"Lost in the Stars\" (from the musical of that name), \"My Ship\" (from \"Lady in the Dark\"), and \"September Song\" (from \"Knickerbocker Holiday\"). Weill suffered a heart attack shortly after his 50th birthday and died on April 3, 1950, in New York", "title": "Kurt Weill" }, { "id": "10393630", "text": "a season of classic films which included \"All About Eve\", \"Casablanca\", \"The Apartment\", \"Brief Encounter\", \"Guys and Dolls\", and \"The Great Escape\". Hallowe'en's \"Scream Cinema Monster Mash\" offered audiences \"Ghost\", \"Child's Play\", \"The Shining\", \"Evil Dead II\", \"The Thing\", \"Night of the Living Dead\", and the surprise film, \"The Mist\", in black and white. The latest series of classics shown was the \"Ministry of Musicals\" which featured the best Hollywood musicals and contemporary classics. The programme of films screened included Oklahoma, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Last Waltz, Labyrinth, This is", "title": "Screen Cinema" }, { "id": "3404782", "text": "also started contributing songs to motion pictures, beginning with \"I'm Afraid of You\" (lyrics by Ralph Rainger and Edward Eliscu) in \"Queen High\" (1930). Among other Broadway musicals for which Schwartz wrote the music are: \"The Band Wagon\" (1931), \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1951), \"By the Beautiful Sea\" (1954), \"The Gay Life\" (1961), and \"Jennie\" (1963). His films include the MGM musical \"The Band Wagon\" (1953) with lyricist Howard Dietz. Schwartz also worked as a producer, for Columbia Pictures. His work includes the musical \"Cover Girl\" (1944) and the Cole Porter biographical film \"Night and Day\" (1946). Schwartz was", "title": "Arthur Schwartz" }, { "id": "736715", "text": "two films were shot back-to-back. Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including \"Gigi\", \"West Side Story\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"The Sound of Music\", \"Oliver!\", and \"Chicago\". \"The Artist\" (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and dream sequence with sound effects) was the first silent film since \"Wings\" to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's \"The Patriot\". It was the first Best Picture winner to be shot entirely in black-and-white since 1960's \"The Apartment.\" (\"Schindler's List\", the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but it", "title": "Academy Award for Best Picture" }, { "id": "3075314", "text": "film \"Hairspray\" was turned into a hit Broadway musical that swept the 2003 Tony Awards, and a film adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in theaters on July 20, 2007, to positive reviews and commercial success. \"Cry-Baby\", itself a musical, was also converted into a Broadway musical. In 2004, the NC-17-rated \"A Dirty Shame\" marked a return to his earlier, more controversial work of the 1970s. He had a cameo in \"Jackass Number Two\", which starred \"Dirty Shame\" co-star Johnny Knoxville, and another small role as paparazzo Pete Peters in 2004's \"Seed of Chucky\". In 2007, Waters became the", "title": "John Waters" }, { "id": "469472", "text": "Years\", \"Living Single\", \"Step by Step\", \"NewsRadio\", \"Blossom\", \"The Norm Show\", \"The Hughleys\", \"Love & War\", \"Dave's World\", \"The King of Queens\", \"Hearts Afire\", \"Major Dad\", \"Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane\", \"\", \"Fired Up\", \"Jesse\", \"For Your Love\", \"The Steve Harvey Show\", \"The Larry Sanders Show\", \"Sex and the City\", \"Arliss\", \"Dream On\", \"Grace Under Fire\", \"Mad About You\", \"Sabrina the Teenage Witch\", \"The Naked Truth\", \"The Jeff Foxworthy Show\", \"The Jamie Foxx Show\", \"Smart Guy\", \"The Wayans Bros.\", \"Malcolm & Eddie\", \"Clueless\", \"Moesha\", \"The Parent 'Hood\", \"Unhappily Ever After\", \"Roc\", \"Martin\", \"Hangin' with Mr. Cooper\", \"Sister, Sister\", \"Boy Meets", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "13780061", "text": "You\", \"Jealousy (Jalousie)\", \"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)\", \"I Believe\", \"Granada\", \"Moonlight Gambler\", and \"Rawhide\". Johnnie Ray had a long run of hits in the early half of the decade, often backed by The Four Lads, including: \"Cry\", \"The Little White Cloud That Cried\", \"Walking My Baby Back Home\", \"Please, Mr. Sun\", and \"Just Walkin' in the Rain\". The Four Lads racked up some hits on their own with \"Who Needs You\", \"No, Not Much\", \"Standin' on the Corner\", and \"Moments to Remember\". Nat \"King\" Cole dominated the charts throughout the decade with such timeless classics as \"Unforgettable\", \"Mona", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "id": "19194415", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical) SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (originally titled The SpongeBob Musical) is a stage musical, co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau with songs by various artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. It is based on the Nickelodeon animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and made its world premiere in June 2016 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in December 2017. The musical opened to critical acclaim. With twelve Tony Award nominations, it tied for most-nominated production at the 2018 72nd Tony Awards with \"Mean Girls\". The show closed at", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)" }, { "id": "3293104", "text": "for the Manhattan Project, searched for land to build a nuclear research facility that would retain America's pre-eminence in that field. The former Camp Upton was chosen to become such a facility, being renamed Brookhaven National Laboratory - operated for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) by AUI, a consortium of universities. Irving Berlin, while stationed at Camp Upton, wrote a musical, \"Yip, Yip, Yaphank\", which included the memorable song \"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.\" The musical was turned into a 1943 movie \"This Is The Army\" which starred Ronald Reagan. Camp Upton Camp", "title": "Camp Upton" }, { "id": "743336", "text": "for Baryshnikov he was \".\" Extremely modest about his singing abilities (he frequently claimed that he could not sing, but the critics rated him as among the finest), Astaire introduced some of the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, in particular, Cole Porter's: \"Night and Day\" in \"Gay Divorce\" (1932) and \"So Near and yet So Far\" in \"You'll Never Get Rich\" (1941), Irving Berlin's \"Isn't This a Lovely Day?\", \"Cheek to Cheek\" and \"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails\" in \"Top Hat\" (1935), \"Let's Face the Music and Dance\" in \"Follow the Fleet\" (1936) and \"Change Partners\"", "title": "Fred Astaire" }, { "id": "19508861", "text": "just all of my favourite songs!\" Marina became the ‘Leading Lady [of Australian theatre]’ after show stopping performances in musicals such as; \"Les Misérables\", \"Phantom Of The Opera\", \"Cats\", \"The Pirates of Penzance\", \"The Student Prince\", \"Anything Goes\", \"West Side Story\", \"The Secret Garden\", \"Show Boat\", \"Annie Get Your Gun\", \"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels\", \"Mary Poppins\" and numerous others. Marina was signed to Sony Music Australia in 1991 and released three albums over the next three years that sold over 160K copies combined. She released three more studio and a live album with Ambition Entertainment between 2012-2014. In 2006, Prior was", "title": "Leading Lady: The Ultimate Collection" }, { "id": "215928", "text": "of these are as follows: In addition to revivals of his most popular shows, Kern's music has been posthumously featured in a variety of revues, musicals and concerts on and off Broadway. Among the more than 700 songs by Kern are such classics as \"All the Things You Are\", \"Bill\", \"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man\", \"A Fine Romance\", \"The Folks Who Live On the Hill\", \"I'll Be Hard to Handle\", \"I'm Old Fashioned\", \"I've Told Ev'ry Little Star\", \"The Last Time I Saw Paris\", \"Let's Begin\", \"Long Ago (and Far Away)\", \"Look for the Silver Lining\", \"Lovely to Look At\",", "title": "Jerome Kern" } ]

[ "Jana Novotná", "Jana Novotna" ]

[ { "id": "3504549", "text": "in 2009. In April 2007, Jaeger and several former athletes, including Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Tony Hawk, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Muhammad Ali, appeared on the American morning television talk show \"Good Morning America\" to announce their formation of a new charity entitled \"Athletes for Hope\" with the goal of encouraging their fellow athletes to think philanthropically. Oprah Winfrey describes Jaeger as a superstar turned superhero. SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number played. Andrea Jaeger Andrea Jaeger ( ; born June 4, 1965) is a former World No. 2 professional tennis", "title": "Andrea Jaeger" }, { "id": "17052520", "text": "the mid-2010s. His rise to reach the world No. 1 ranking in November 2016 and keep it to finish the year at the top position has further helped cement his position in the Big Four. Separately, it has been claimed that the current era in tennis should be seen as having a \"Big Five\", with Juan Martín del Potro, Marin Čilić, and Stan Wawrinka suggested as expansions to the Big Four. Wawrinka in particular is the only active player outside the Big Four to have won more than one Slam title, having won three (the same number as Murray), defeating", "title": "Big Four (tennis)" }, { "id": "1432160", "text": "Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the \"Open Era\" among female players behind Graf and Martina Navratilova. Williams holds the most Grand Slam titles", "title": "Serena Williams" }, { "id": "1446748", "text": "Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 40 in the WTA singles rankings. She is generally regarded as one of the all-time greats of women's tennis and, along with younger sister Serena Williams, is credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women's professional tennis tour. Williams has been ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on three occasions, for a total of 11 weeks. She first reached the No. 1 ranking on February 25, 2002, the first", "title": "Venus Williams" }, { "id": "7620238", "text": "Barrett, Bud Collins, Barry Lorge and Judith Elian) ranked Arthur Ashe as the No. 1 in the world while his ATP ranking was only 4th; in 1977, no one, except the ATP ranking, considered that Connors was the best player in the world, and everyone thought that Borg and Vilas were the top two tennis players; and in 1978 everyone and, in particular, the ITF recognized that the Swede was the World Champion. In 1982 and in 1989, respectively, Connors and Becker, both winners of Wimbledon and the US Open, were considered as World Champions even though the ATP ranked", "title": "World number 1 ranked male tennis players" }, { "id": "1432313", "text": "process of writing a TV show storyline, which will be converted into script form by her agency. She stated that the show will represent subject matter from a mix of popular American television shows such as \"Desperate Housewives\", and \"Family Guy\". Williams released her first solo autobiography entitled \"On the Line\", following the 2009 US Open. Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first", "title": "Serena Williams" }, { "id": "6835071", "text": "singles winner), Kelly Jones (NCAA doubles winner and world No. 1 doubles player), and Martin Laurendeau (Captain of the Canadian Davis Cup Team). Fox has worked as a broadcaster, writer, and lecturer. He has authored several books, including \"Think to Win: The Strategic Dimension of Tennis\" (1993), \"If I'm The Better Player, Why Can't I Win?\", and \"The Winner's Mind: A Competitor's Guide to Sports and Business Success\". He is a former editor of \"Tennis Magazine\". Allen has published two videos, titled \"Allen Fox's Ultimate Tennis Lesson\" (2001) and \"Allen Fox's Ultimate Tennis Drills\" (2001). Fox lives in San Luis", "title": "Allen Fox" }, { "id": "10646453", "text": "second highest-paid female athlete in the world in the annual Forbes list of 2017. Kerber has received the following awards: Angelique Kerber Angelique Kerber (; born 18 January 1988) is a German professional tennis player and former world No. 1, and a three time Grand Slam champion. Having made her professional debut in 2003, Kerber rose to prominence upon reaching the semifinals of the 2011 US Open as the No. 92 ranked player in the world. She ascended to the top of the rankings on 12 September 2016, thus becoming the twenty-second and oldest player to achieve the number-one ranking", "title": "Angelique Kerber" }, { "id": "10646383", "text": "Angelique Kerber Angelique Kerber (; born 18 January 1988) is a German professional tennis player and former world No. 1, and a three time Grand Slam champion. Having made her professional debut in 2003, Kerber rose to prominence upon reaching the semifinals of the 2011 US Open as the No. 92 ranked player in the world. She ascended to the top of the rankings on 12 September 2016, thus becoming the twenty-second and oldest player to achieve the number-one ranking for the first time and the first new number-one player since Victoria Azarenka in 2012. A left-hander, known for her", "title": "Angelique Kerber" }, { "id": "1431152", "text": "Furthermore, she is the only tennis player to have won each Grand Slam tournament at least four times. Graf was ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeks—the longest period for which any player, male or female, has held the number-one ranking since the WTA and the Association of Tennis Professionals began issuing rankings. She won 107 singles titles, which ranks her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova (167 titles) and Chris Evert (157 titles). She and Margaret Court are the only players, male or female, to win three", "title": "Steffi Graf" }, { "id": "4500724", "text": "his favorite Japanese anime, \"Dragon Ball\". CNN released an article about Nadal's childhood inspiration, and called him \"the Dragon Ball of tennis\" owing to his unorthodox style \"from another planet\". In addition to tennis and football, Nadal enjoys playing golf and poker. In April 2014 he played the world's No. 1 female poker player, Vanessa Selbst, in a poker game in Monaco. Nadal's autobiography, \"Rafa\" (Hyperion, 2012, ), written with assistance from John Carlin, was published in August 2011. Nadal has been dating long-time girlfriend María Francisca (Xisca) Perelló since 2005. <section begin=\"singles-perf\" />\"Current through the 2018 US Open.\"<section end=\"singles-perf\"", "title": "Rafael Nadal" }, { "id": "20802627", "text": "in less than an hour. World No. 1 and defending champion Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Lleyton Hewitt, Feliciano López, Marcos Baghdatis, David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco and Tomáš Berdych advanced to the next round of the men's top half of the draw, alongside twenty-ninth seed Andreas Seppi, who overcame Frenchman Florent Serra at the end of a close five-setter, on the final score of 6–3, 6–7(4), 6–2, 6–7(5), 6–4. The shock of the day came as former World No. 1, 2000 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion, and now 75th-ranked Marat Safin took out ATP No. 3, 2007 Wimbledon semifinalist", "title": "2008 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries" }, { "id": "10716074", "text": "final at the French Open, and won four events during the season. One of the big stories of the year was the shock retirement of Justine Henin on May 14, less than two weeks before she was set to defend her French Open title. She became the first player to retire while ranked at No. 1 in the world. Henin later returned for the 2010 season. Justine Henin started the season as the No. 1 ranked player in the world. Following her impressive 2007 season and victory at the warm-up tournament in Sydney, she was considered the outright favourite to", "title": "2008 WTA Tour" }, { "id": "4106091", "text": "no fewer than six players who have reached the number 1 world ranking: Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Patrick Rafter, Andy Roddick and Gustavo Kuerten. He also beat Stefan Edberg (another former number 1) in a money tournament in England on Grass - at the time, Arthurs' singles ranking was 1100 and Edberg's was 2, making for one of the biggest differences in ranking between winner and loser on the Tour that year. In his last ever Australian Open match the Aussie retired just three games into his third-round match against American Mardy Fish due to a rare reaction", "title": "Wayne Arthurs (tennis)" }, { "id": "1906304", "text": "athletics, to the point that he has been called a living legend in his own time. Given his achievements, many players and analysts have considered Federer to be the greatest tennis player of all time. No other male tennis player has won 20 major singles titles in the Open Era, and he has been in 30 major finals, including 10 in a row. He has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for longer than any other male player. He was also ranked No. 1 at the age of 36. Federer has won a record eight Wimbledon", "title": "Roger Federer" }, { "id": "7620220", "text": "by official organizations such as the United States Lawn Tennis Association were based on judgments made by men and women and not on mathematical formulas assigning points for wins or losses. In 1938, for instance, when Don Budge won the amateur Grand Slam, it was easy to conclude that Budge was not only the U.S. No. 1 but also the world No. 1 amateur player. It was far more difficult, however, to decide who was the best overall player, amateur or professional, for that year because both Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry, now professionals, were still at the top of", "title": "World number 1 ranked male tennis players" }, { "id": "2354328", "text": "Marat Safin Marat Mubinovich Safin (, ; born 27 January 1980) is a Russian politician and retired professional tennis player. He achieved the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 1 singles ranking on November 20, 2000. Nobody taller than Safin has ever reached the No. 1 ranking. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved No. 1 rankings. On court, Safin was famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper. Safin began his professional tennis career in 1997, and", "title": "Marat Safin" }, { "id": "1830024", "text": "tennis players before the Open Era]] Don Budge John Donald (\"Don\" or \"Donnie\") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all four Grand Slam events in his career after Fred Perry, and is still the youngest to achieve", "title": "Don Budge" }, { "id": "1810672", "text": "the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, citing fatigue. Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis on 14 May 2008, and requested the WTA to remove her name from the rankings immediately. Her announcement was a surprise because Henin was still ranked world No. 1 and was considered the favorite for the French Open, where she would have been the three-time defending champion. She said she felt no sadness about her retirement because she believed it was a release from a game she had focused on for twenty years. She also said that in the future, she would", "title": "Justine Henin" }, { "id": "13694377", "text": "Lleyton Hewitt career statistics This is a list of the main career statistics of Australian tennis player, Lleyton Hewitt. To date, Hewitt has won thirty ATP singles titles including two grand slam singles titles, two ATP Masters 1000 singles titles and two year-ending championships. He was also the runner-up at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, 2004 US Open and 2005 Australian Open. Hewitt was first ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) on November 19, 2001. In 1997, aged 15 years and 11 months, Hewitt qualified for the Australian Open, becoming the youngest qualifier in the", "title": "Lleyton Hewitt career statistics" }, { "id": "13694391", "text": "record against players who held a top 10 ranking, with those who reached No. 1 in bold Lleyton Hewitt career statistics This is a list of the main career statistics of Australian tennis player, Lleyton Hewitt. To date, Hewitt has won thirty ATP singles titles including two grand slam singles titles, two ATP Masters 1000 singles titles and two year-ending championships. He was also the runner-up at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, 2004 US Open and 2005 Australian Open. Hewitt was first ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) on November 19, 2001. In 1997, aged", "title": "Lleyton Hewitt career statistics" }, { "id": "633246", "text": "Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked World No. 1 on eight different occasions, for a total of 98 weeks. Davenport is one of five women who have been the year-end World No. 1 at least four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) since 1975; the others are Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams. She has achieved the No. 1 ranking in doubles as well. Noted for her powerful and reliable groundstrokes, Davenport won a total of 55 WTA Tour singles titles, including three", "title": "Lindsay Davenport" }, { "id": "11432843", "text": "tennis, as well as courses for improving one's tennis game. Anderson plays the guitar and is a fan of the British rock band Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. His favourite TV show is \"House of Cards\". \"This table is current through the 2018 ATP Finals.\" Anderson's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in boldface Kevin Anderson (tennis) Kevin Anderson (born 18 May 1986) is a South African professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 6 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)", "title": "Kevin Anderson (tennis)" }, { "id": "1907140", "text": "At the French Open, Clijsters reached the final for the second time in three years, after defeating Nadia Petrova. In the final, Clijsters lost to Henin 0–6, 4–6, and again at the US open, 5–7, 1–6. She also lost in the semifinal at Wimbledon to Venus Williams, after leading by a set and a break. On 11 August 2003, Clijsters attained the world no. 1 ranking, holding the spot for 12 non-consecutive weeks during the remainder of the year, and was the first player to be top ranked by the WTA without first winning a Grand Slam singles title. On", "title": "Kim Clijsters" }, { "id": "15557281", "text": "history of the sport. In a 1992 episode of his TV series Tennis Television With Brad Holbrook, the host referred to Oscar Wegner as \"The Father of Modern Tennis\", initiating a reference that has been widely used and debated over the years, particularly in the past decade. Holbrook, who was largely responsible for launching Wegner's career in the USA, is himself an avid tennis player and fan. Wegner denies that he \"invented\" modern tennis: \"I didn't discover something new. It's the way the top players play. If you go back 60 years there are some players that were already playing", "title": "Oscar Wegner" }, { "id": "1907141", "text": "18 August 2003, Clijsters also attained the world no. 1 ranking in doubles, joining a very select group of only four players—Martina Navratilova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Martina Hingis, and Lindsay Davenport—having reached the world no. 1 ranking in singles and doubles simultaneously. Through 2016, only Serena Williams has managed to join this group. The world no. 1 ranking was again at stake in October during the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Filderstadt, Germany. Clijsters rallied from a set down to beat Henin. The match marked only the eighth time that the top two players battled for the", "title": "Kim Clijsters" }, { "id": "5425959", "text": "Johan Kriek Johan Kriek (born April 5, 1958) is a South African-American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek won two Australian Opens and reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open, as well as the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. He won 14 professional singles and 8 doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 7. Kriek's most memorable wins include victories over Andre Agassi, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Guillermo Vilas, Stefan Edberg, Michael Chang, Vitas Gerulaitis and Björn", "title": "Johan Kriek" }, { "id": "17052480", "text": "Finals, Murray beat Djokovic 6–3 6–4, claiming the title and the No. 1 spot at the end of the year, and ending 2016 on a 24-match winning streak, the longest of his career. He became the second player after Andre Agassi to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, ATP Finals, Olympic and Masters titles, and the first to do so in the same calendar year. 2016 marked the first year since 2003 that neither Federer, Nadal or Djokovic finished the year as world number 1. Despite his struggles with form throughout the second half of the year, Djokovic still ended", "title": "Big Four (tennis)" }, { "id": "2354361", "text": "Novgorod. Marat Safin Marat Mubinovich Safin (, ; born 27 January 1980) is a Russian politician and retired professional tennis player. He achieved the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 1 singles ranking on November 20, 2000. Nobody taller than Safin has ever reached the No. 1 ranking. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved No. 1 rankings. On court, Safin was famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper. Safin began his professional tennis career in 1997,", "title": "Marat Safin" }, { "id": "16166", "text": "Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the greatest service returner ever to play the game and was described by the BBC upon his retirement as \"perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history\". As a result, he is credited for helping to revive the", "title": "Andre Agassi" }, { "id": "1586305", "text": "Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. He held the top ATP ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men's singles records: 109 titles (he is the only man to win 100), 1535 matches played, and 1256 match wins. His titles include eight majors (five US Open, two Wimbledon, one Australian Open),", "title": "Jimmy Connors" }, { "id": "3517664", "text": "Tony Trabert Marion Anthony Trabert (born August 16, 1930) is a retired American former World No. 1 tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Trabert in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. Trabert was the No. 1 ranked player in the world in both 1953 and 1955 and the winner of ten major titles – five in singles and five in doubles. Trabert took his keen mind and aptitude for tennis and created a career that", "title": "Tony Trabert" }, { "id": "1810649", "text": "the inaugural winner of the Whirlpool 6th Sense Player of the Year, which honors the player who has demonstrated the most sixth sense intuition, that is to say \"heightened intelligence, unbeatable performance and pinpoint precision\". In January, Henin returned to competitive tennis at the tournament in Sydney, a tune-up for the Australian Open. She was seeded fifth and played former world No. 1 (and newly returned to competitive tennis) Martina Hingis in a much hyped first round match. Henin won 6–3, 6–3. At the Australian Open, Henin defeated top-ranked Lindsay Davenport and fourth ranked Maria Sharapova in three-set matches to", "title": "Justine Henin" }, { "id": "10152", "text": "in the World\" in US and UK editions. By contrast, ESPN – citing the degree of hype as compared to actual accomplishments as a singles player – ranked Kournikova 18th in its \"25 Biggest Sports Flops of the Past 25 Years\". Kournikova was also ranked No. 1 in the ESPN Classic series \"Who's number 1?\" when the series featured sport's most overrated athletes. She continued to be the most searched athlete on the Internet through 2008 even though she had retired from the professional tennis circuit years earlier. After slipping from first to sixth among athletes in 2009, she moved", "title": "Anna Kournikova" }, { "id": "4484978", "text": "for the BBC's tennis coverage, particularly at Wimbledon. Lloyd is known for his trademark catchphrases, using the analogy of food and drink to describe tennis shots. For example, if a shot is too weak he will claim that it was \"undercooked\" or \"needed more mustard.\" Conversely, if a shot is overhit he will describe it as \"overcooked\", having \"too much juice\", or \"having too much mustard.\" He worked for Sky Sports on their coverage of the US Open 2009. In 1979, Lloyd married the World No. 1 woman player, American Chris Evert (who became Chris Evert-Lloyd). The media-styled \"golden couple\"", "title": "John Lloyd (tennis)" }, { "id": "1907156", "text": "semifinal match with Amélie Mauresmo. Despite the loss, the ranking points she accumulated were enough to regain the world no. 1 ranking, a position she last held on 9 November 2003. She was the first tennis player, male or female, to rise from outside the top 100 (world no. 134) to world no. 1 in less than a year. Clijsters' loss to Mauresmo in the Australian Open semifinal was due to an ankle injury. Although she had been expected to miss at least eight weeks to recover, Clijsters returned two weeks later at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp. She", "title": "Kim Clijsters" }, { "id": "4749662", "text": "the pen]]). In the men's game, Gustavo Kuerten is the most successful Brazilian player, with three wins at Roland Garros (1997, 2000, 2001) as well as being ranked number one in the world for almost a full year. However, bad administration and lack of serious support resulted in poor results in the present years and scarcity of national-level competitiveness. Today, Thomaz Bellucci is Brazil's best-known player, having been ranked among the top 30 players in the world according to the ATP Rankings. In doubles, the country has been stronger, especially with Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares. The former has been", "title": "Sport in Brazil" }, { "id": "5369090", "text": "World Number 14. The most famous match of El Aynaoui's career came in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 2003. In the Round of 16, El Aynaoui defeated the World No. 1, Lleyton Hewitt, 6–7, 7–6, 7–6, 6–4, in a very high quality match, thus setting up a quarter-final showdown with the up-and-coming American Andy Roddick (who would reach the World No. 1 ranking later that year). The five-set, five-hour match included the then longest fifth set in Grand Slam tennis history (since surpassed by the marathon Wimbledon 2010 match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut). Roddick won the", "title": "Younes El Aynaoui" }, { "id": "12423068", "text": "Sampras were born fifteen and a half months apart. Agassi's birthday is April 29, 1970, while Sampras's is August 12, 1971. A different viewpoint of their career evolution is offered by taking the season they ended with an age of 16 as starting point, and comparing their accomplishments at the same age. For instance in 1996, Agassi finished the season being 26 years old and holding 3 Grand Slam titles. Agassi–Sampras rivalry Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are retired professional men's tennis players who were both ranked World No. 1 during the 1990s, Sampras holding the world's top-rank spot for", "title": "Agassi–Sampras rivalry" }, { "id": "1906182", "text": "Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 3 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player—and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016. He re-entered the top ten following his victory at", "title": "Roger Federer" }, { "id": "1725563", "text": "is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players in the history of the sport. The members of the press, notably Lance Tingay of \"The Daily Telegraph\", issued rankings for amateur players before the start of the Open Era and for all players after the start of that era. Laver was ranked by the press as the world No. 1 player in 1961 and 1962 (as an amateur) and in 1968 and 1969 (as a professional). According to the article, Bill Tilden was the best player for seven years and Pancho Gonzales for eight years. While Laver was indisputably", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "10957465", "text": "a list of players who have achieved the number one position in singles since the inception of the rankings in 1973: \"Last update: 17 December 2018\" Notes<br> In 2009 a new point system was introduced where points were roughly doubled. The following is a list of players who were ranked world No.5 or higher but not No.1 in the period since the 1973 introduction of the ATP computer rankings: ATP Rankings The ATP Rankings are the objective merit-based method used by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for determining the qualification for entry as well as the seeding of players", "title": "ATP Rankings" }, { "id": "5426086", "text": "Exile\". He was married to Rita Anderson Jarvis, onetime English tournament player. He died 13 September 2001 in Tooting, London aged 79. Ivan Blatný wrote a poem called \"Wimbledon\" which addresses Drobný. Jaroslav Drobný Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 - 13 September 2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of Great Britain in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1954, he became the first and, to date, only player with African citizenship to", "title": "Jaroslav Drobný" }, { "id": "20802647", "text": "Wimbledon is traditionally a rest day, without any play, and this was the case in 2008. The seventh day of the competition, consequently, was Monday 30 June. Five-time Wimbledon winner, defending champion and World No. 1 Roger Federer advanced to the tournament's quarterfinals for the seventh time in ten participations past former World No. 1 and 2002 Wimbledon titlist Lleyton Hewitt after less than two hours of play, on the score of 7–6(7), 6–2, 6–4, while second seed, 2006 and 2007 finalist Rafael Nadal left no hopes to seventeenth seed Mikhail Youzhny, as he defeated the Russian 6–3, 6–3, 6–1.", "title": "2008 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries" }, { "id": "9608343", "text": "matches. Due to the way the rankings are accrued, Nadal became number one on August 18, the day after the Olympic tournament, although this had been confirmed earlier. Nadal was therefore considered a strong favorite, as was Federer, who, despite reaching two Grand Slam finals, had had a poor year by his standards. Other top-ten players considered to be favorites included the reigning Australian Open champion, Novak Djokovic, Spanish world No. 4 and 2007 Tennis Masters Cup finalist David Ferrer, James Blake, David Nalbandian, Nikolay Davydenko and British player Andy Murray, who was lauded in the British press after winning", "title": "Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "8112541", "text": "2008. Simon's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in boldface In June 2012, shortly after being appointed to the ATP Player Council, Simon told press at Wimbledon that he believed men's tennis was more exciting to watch and that since men played longer matches at the major tournaments, they should be paid more than women. Gilles Simon Gilles Simon (; born 27 December 1984) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 6 attained on 5 January 2009. He", "title": "Gilles Simon" }, { "id": "4646821", "text": "Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (; born 25 June 1982), nicknamed \"Misha\" and \"Colonel\" by his fans, is a Russian retired professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the first time on 13 August 2007, and reached a career peak of World No. 8 in January 2008, and again in October 2010. Youzhny reached the quarterfinals of all grand slams; going beyond the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2006 and 2010. The closest he came to a", "title": "Mikhail Youzhny" }, { "id": "7150863", "text": "fastest ever ATP Tour victory when he beat Shan Jiang 6–0, 6–0 in only 25 minutes at the Shanghai Open in 2001. During his career he defeated some current, future and past number-one ranked players, including: John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Jim Courier, Thomas Muster, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Gustavo Kuerten, Carlos Moya, Marcelo Ríos, and Roger Federer in his only duel (Clavet won in 2000 at the Cincinnati Masters). Clavet told Swiss newspaper Blick his defeat of Federer was one of his most important wins as he considers Federer \"the greatest tennis player of all time\". However, he", "title": "Francisco Clavet" }, { "id": "1828061", "text": "events at least twice. She also is unique in having completed a boxed set before the start of the open era in 1968 and a separate boxed set after the start of the open era. Court lost a heavily publicised and US–televised challenge match to a former World No. 1 male tennis player, the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs, on 13 May 1973, in Ramona, California. Court was the top-ranked women's player at the time, and it has been reported that she did not take the match seriously because it was a mere exhibition. Using a mixture of lobs and drop shots,", "title": "Margaret Court" }, { "id": "4347518", "text": "Many top tennis players have participated in the league over the years, including King, Rod Laver, Björn Borg, Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Evonne Goolagong, Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport, Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis. Connors and Goolagong were not allowed to participate in the 1974 French Open due to their associations with WTT. Connors' exclusion from the French Open denied him the opportunity to become the first male player since Rod Laver to win all four Major singles titles in a calendar year. League play resumed in", "title": "World TeamTennis" }, { "id": "6724968", "text": "are never going to be, you know, a looker. You are never going to be somebody like a Sharapova, you're never going to be 5ft 11, you're never going to be somebody with long legs, so you have to compensate for that. You are going to have to be the most dogged, determined fighter that anyone has ever seen on the tennis court if you are going to make it', and she kind of is.\" Inverdale's words prompted criticism on Twitter and other social media, with some alleging they had complained of his \"sexist and patronising\" view of women's tennis", "title": "John Inverdale" }, { "id": "5431742", "text": "Manuel Santana Manuel Martínez Santana, also known as Manolo Santana (born 10 May 1938), is a former tennis champion from Spain who was ranked as amateur World No. 1 in 1966 for \"Lance Tingay\". He was born in Madrid. Before winning Wimbledon he was quoted as saying \"Grass is just for cows.\" He thought that tennis should be played on artificial surfaces as opposed to lawn tennis courts like the ones at Wimbledon. This statement has been echoed throughout the years by numerous players including Ivan Lendl, Marat Safin, Marcelo Ríos, and, despite his 1973 victory at Wimbledon, Jan Kodeš.", "title": "Manuel Santana" }, { "id": "11163277", "text": "becoming the third man in the Open era after Ilie Năstase and Björn Borg to win the French Open without dropping a set for the entire tournament. He would later replicate this feat in 2010 and 2017. This was the final Grand Slam and World Tour appearance of former world No. 1 and three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten. He lost to Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round and retired from professional tennis shortly after. \"Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.\" 2008 French Open – Men's Singles Rafael Nadal was the 3-time defending champion", "title": "2008 French Open – Men's Singles" }, { "id": "2688115", "text": "Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976), nicknamed Guga, is a retired World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open singles title three times (1997, 2000, and 2001), and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. Kuerten suffered many problems with injuries which resulted in his non-attendances at many tournaments between 2002 and 2005. After a few failed attempted comebacks, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008. During his career he won 20 singles and 8 doubles titles. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2016,", "title": "Gustavo Kuerten" }, { "id": "15669235", "text": "matches before losing in the quarterfinals to Dimitar Kuzmanov. At the Sofia Open, Stebe won his first ATP World Tour match for over three and a half years by beating Teymuraz Gabashvili in the first round. He then won in the Round of 16 in Geneva against Jan-Lennard Struff as a Lucky Loser. \"Current till 2018 Australian Open.\" Stebe's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10 (as of 8 October 2018).<br> Cedrik-Marcel Stebe Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (; born 9 October 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No.", "title": "Cedrik-Marcel Stebe" }, { "id": "20328853", "text": "as the ATP No. 1 ranked men's singles player. This win is also the first time since the French Open 2004 that Roger Federer was knocked out by a player who hasn't won a grand slam tournament. 2010 French Open – Day-by-day summaries This list is a below in the form of day-by-day summaries: In the Men's singles many of seeded players made it through led by 2009 finalist Robin Söderling, Mikhail Youzhny and Marin Čilić. While Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was pushed to the limit by German Daniel Brands as he came through 7–5 in the fifth. Tsonga was joined by", "title": "2010 French Open – Day-by-day summaries" }, { "id": "1431156", "text": "Graf as the greatest female tennis player ever in their list of 100 greatest tennis players of all time. In November 2018, Tennis.com polled its readers to choose the greatest women's tennis player of all time and Steffi was selected as the best. Along with countryman Boris Becker, Graf was considered instrumental in popularizing tennis in Germany, where it has remained a highly popular sport ever since. Graf retired in 1999 while she was ranked world No. 3. She married former world No. 1 men's tennis player Andre Agassi in October 2001. They have two children – Jaden Gil and", "title": "Steffi Graf" }, { "id": "1068018", "text": "talks about me being the smart one. Let me tell you, Billie Jean's the smartest one, the cleverest one you'll ever see. She was the one who was able to channel everything into winning, into being the most consummate tennis player. , another frequent opponent of King, said, For a time, I think I was as close to Billie Jean as anyone ever was. But as soon as I got to the point where I could read her too well, she tried to dissociate the relationship. She doesn't want to risk appearing weak in front of anybody. She told me", "title": "Billie Jean King" }, { "id": "7620221", "text": "their form. Two different sources, however, carefully studied the performances of the players for that year and both concluded that Budge was the best overall player, with Vines a close second. For the previous year, 1937, one of these same sources concluded that all three players, Perry, Vines, and Budge, deserved to be called the co-world No. 1 players. In 1946 Bobby Riggs, a professional, had established himself as the best player in the world. In 1947, he was still the best professional player but Jack Kramer as an amateur player won Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships. Kramer, having turned", "title": "World number 1 ranked male tennis players" }, { "id": "2684598", "text": "Marcelo Ríos Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga (; born 26 December 1975) is a former world No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed \"El Chino\" (\"The Chinese\") and \"El zurdo de Vitacura\" (\"The Lefty from Vitacura\"), he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles rankings in 1998. He held the world No. 1 ranking for six weeks. He also held the top ranking in both juniors and seniors. He was the first player to win all three clay-court Masters Series tournaments (Monte Carlo, Rome, and Hamburg) since the format", "title": "Marcelo Ríos" }, { "id": "1616775", "text": "Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova ( ; born Martina Šubertová ; October 18, 1956) is a former Czechoslovak and later American professional tennis player and coach. In 2005, \"Tennis\" magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1975 through 2005 and she is considered one of the best, if not the best, female tennis players of all time. Navratilova was world No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for", "title": "Martina Navratilova" }, { "id": "401903", "text": "about who is the greatest female singles player of all time with Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams being the three players most often nominated. In March 2012 the TennisChannel published a combined list of the 100 greatest men and women tennis players of all time. It ranked Steffi Graf as the greatest female player (in 3rd place overall), followed by Martina Navratilova (4th place) and Margaret Court (8th place). The rankings were determined by an international panel. Sportswriter John Wertheim of Sports Illustrated stated in an article in July 2010 that Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis", "title": "Tennis" }, { "id": "1830004", "text": "Don Budge John Donald (\"Don\" or \"Donnie\") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all four Grand Slam events in his career after Fred Perry, and is still the youngest to achieve that feat. He won 10 majors,", "title": "Don Budge" }, { "id": "252776", "text": "left ankle. After that, she continued to struggle with injuries and was not able to recapture her best form. In February 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis, due to her injuries and being in pain. \"I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies.\" In several interviews, she has indicated she wishes to return to her home country and coach full-time. During this segment of her tennis career, Hingis won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles events. She held the world No. 1 singles ranking", "title": "Martina Hingis" }, { "id": "11922623", "text": "the Madrid/Hamburg open six times (2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2012), and winning various other clay court tournaments. During interviews, many fellow and former players have regarded both Federer and Nadal as among the best tennis players of all time. In November 2010, former player Björn Borg stated that he believed Federer to be the greatest player of all time, but \"Rafa has the chance to be the greatest player\" if he stays healthy. Former player and commentator John McEnroe was of a similar opinion, noting in 2010 that \"there is an argument to be made that Rafael Nadal", "title": "Federer–Nadal rivalry" }, { "id": "12068150", "text": "early 2008 season and placed runner-up in the 2008 French Open. After the 2008 French Open, Krajan was joined by Dejan Vojnović, retired Croatian Olympic sprinter, who became Safina's fitness coach. Her continued string of good results earned her the 2008 WTA Most Improved Player award, and the World No. 1 spot in April 2009. Safina described Krajan as \"totally different from any other tennis coach\" due to his patience and positive approach, as opposed to being preoccupied with correcting flaws in one's game. Safina and Krajan parted ways in May 2010. In June of the same year Krajan started", "title": "Željko Krajan" }, { "id": "17052560", "text": "career. Not only that but he became the first man in the open-era to hold three Grand Slam tournament titles on three different surfaces at the same time. This victory over Federer many believed brought about a change in the tennis standings as Nadal was now clearly the No. 1 player after Federer had that title for over 4 and a half years consecutively with Nadal deemed the second best for nearly 3 years of that. The defeat brought Federer to tears as he came to terms with his loss. The match statistics followed a similar pattern to those at", "title": "Big Four (tennis)" }, { "id": "3525364", "text": "was instead year-end world No. 2, behind Jimmy Connors (who won the Masters and six other titles and was the runner-up at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1977). Nevertheless \"World Tennis\" magazine listed Vilas as 1977 year-end world No. 1 and Borg, No. 2. Argentine journalist Eduardo Puppo and Romanian mathematician Marian Ciulpan investigated the 1973–78 period records, and delivered a detailed report with more than 1,200 pages in which they came to the conclusion that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 for five weeks in 1975 as well as during the first two weeks of 1976 and", "title": "Guillermo Vilas" }, { "id": "20449063", "text": "reach the quarterfinals in order to preserve his world No. 1 ranking. However, after receiving a first round bye, he was upset by Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round. At world No. 175, Kokkinakis was the lowest ranked player to defeat a world No. 1 since Francisco Clavet defeated Lleyton Hewitt at the same tournament in 2003. With this loss, he lost the world No. 1 ranking back to Rafael Nadal. Federer then announced that he would skip the entire clay court season, including the French Open, for the second consecutive year. Despite this, he spent one more", "title": "2018 Roger Federer tennis season" }, { "id": "18554407", "text": "impact on the result. After the match, Djokovic was quoted as saying \"I'm full of joy right now. It's going to give me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season.\" 2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries The 2013 Australian Open described in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries. In men's singles, on the opening day, play began with the defending champion and world no. 1, Novak Djokovic, dismantling Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu. The other top seeds cruised through with 4th-seed David Ferrer winning over Olivier Rochus and 5th-seed Tomáš Berdych over Michael Russell. Last year's quarterfinalist Kei", "title": "2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries" }, { "id": "55517", "text": "Björn Borg Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player widely considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the sport. Between 1974 and 1981 he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles (six at the French Open and five consecutive at Wimbledon). He also won three year-end championships and 15 Grand Prix Super Series titles. Overall, he set numerous records that still stand. A teenage sensation at the start of his career, Borg's unprecedented stardom and consistent success helped", "title": "Björn Borg" }, { "id": "1586351", "text": "to the stadium. The charges were dismissed by a judge on February 10, 2009. On July 24, 2018, LiveWire Ergogenics, Inc. announced that Connors joined the firm as a spokesman and advisor. LiveWire Ergogenics focuses on special purpose real estate acquisitions and the licensing and management of fully compliant turnkey production facilities for cannabis-based products and services. Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. He held the top ATP ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974", "title": "Jimmy Connors" }, { "id": "237559", "text": "Lleyton Hewitt Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world No. 1. He is the last Australian male to win a men's singles Grand Slam title. In November 2001 Hewitt became the youngest male ever to be ranked No. 1 in the world in singles at the age of . He won 30 singles titles and 3 doubles titles, his highlights being the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles titles, the 2000 US Open men's doubles title, back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles in 2001 and 2002, and the Davis Cup", "title": "Lleyton Hewitt" }, { "id": "2223211", "text": "with It\" with his real-life wife Brooklyn Decker. Andy Roddick Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former world No. 1 professional tennis player. Roddick became world No. 1 shortly after he won the title at the 2003 US Open, defeating French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final and overtaking him as the top-ranked player in the process. Despite several more years as one of the world's best players, the 2003 US Open title would remain his only Grand Slam triumph. He is the most recent North American male player to win a Grand Slam", "title": "Andy Roddick" }, { "id": "3235052", "text": "Tennis and Croquet Club, organiser of the Wimbledon Championships, ranks her among the five greatest Wimbledon champions. On 24 May 2016, Google had a doodle in celebration for Suzanne's 117th birthday. In 2017, a Google Doodle honored her on International Women's Day. According to Wallis Myers of \"The Daily Telegraph\" and the \"Daily Mail\", Lenglen was ranked in the world top ten from 1921 (when the rankings began) through 1926 and was the world No. 1 player in each of those years. During her career, Lenglen won 81 singles titles, nine of which were achieved without losing a single game.", "title": "Suzanne Lenglen" }, { "id": "1434983", "text": "showing in Sydney, but then struggled over the next few months, winning just 2 of his 12 matches after Sydney. Following his first-round loss to Nicolás Lapentti at the 1999 French Open, he hung up his racquet at the age of 31. Muster remains the only world no. 1 singles player who has never managed to win a men's singles match at Wimbledon throughout his whole career. Muster only lost one Davis Cup singles match on clay in his career, when Goran Ivanišević defeated him in April 1997, 6–7, 7–5, 6–7, 6–2, 7–5, despite Muster having won 112 of his", "title": "Thomas Muster" }, { "id": "17769101", "text": "to a player born in the 1990s and the first time a teenager had beaten the World No. 1 at a Grand Slam since Nadal himself beat Roger Federer at the 2005 French Open. Nadal was the defending champion of all three tournaments, but had to withdraw from each because he was unable to recover from a right wrist injury that he suffered while practicing on July 29. Nadal returned to action from his wrist injury after three months away from the tour with a dominant two set victory over Richard Gasquet. He won the next round as well, but", "title": "2014 Rafael Nadal tennis season" }, { "id": "16388296", "text": "women. The United States was credited with the most great players (38), followed by Australia (17), France (7), Great Britain (6) and Czechoslovakia (5). Forty-three players made the list from the Americas, 39 from Europe and 18 from Oceania. Note: Bolded players are still active today. Slams figures reflect number of wins in Singles draws and are up-to-date, meaning that they may now be higher than the numbers used to determine the March 2012 list. 100 Greatest of All Time 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by Tennis Channel", "title": "100 Greatest of All Time" }, { "id": "16248", "text": "in August 2014. The Fund purchased a 4.6-acre plot in Henderson, Nevada to house the Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, which will relocate from its campus inside a church. By winning the 1999 French Open, Agassi completed a men's singles Career Grand Slam. He is the 5th of 8 male players in history (after Budge, Perry, Laver, Emerson and before Federer, Nadal and Djokovic) to achieve this. Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from", "title": "Andre Agassi" }, { "id": "1725570", "text": "Gonzales, Tilden, Jimmy Connors, Fred Perry, and Lew Hoad. In a poll by the Associated Press in 2000, Laver was voted \"The Male Tennis Player of the Century\", ahead of Pete Sampras, Tilden, Borg, Budge, McEnroe and Hoad (tied), Rosewall and Roy Emerson (tied), and Kramer. In an article in \"Tennis Week\" in 2007, the tennis historian Raymond Lee statistically analysed the all-time best players. Laver topped his list ahead of Tilden and Borg (tied), Roger Federer, Gonzales, Rosewall, Budge, Ivan Lendl, Connors, Sampras, McEnroe, and Kramer. In 2009 it was written that Rod Laver \"is considered by most folks", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "3358575", "text": "21 greatest players of all time. Kramer went on to say, \"... and while his amateur record is of no consequence, he beat everyone in the pros but Gonzales and me. We beat him with good second serves\". A year earlier, another World No. 1 player, Ellsworth Vines, the man that Kramer called the greatest player of all time at the height of his game, had published a lesser-known book called \"Tennis: Myth and Method\", co-written with Gene Vier. Vines devotes the first part of the book to individual chapters about the ten greatest tennis players from Don Budge through", "title": "Pancho Segura" }, { "id": "9299090", "text": "the more glamorous Moorilla Hobart International, part of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, with over $US145,000 in prize money, and recently having featured former world number ones Kim Clijsters (2000 Champion), Serena Williams and Justine Henin, and also other top players such as Patty Schnyder (1998 Champion), Alicia Molik (2003 Champion), American veteran Amy Frazier (2004 Champion) and Australian Open and Wimbledon semifinalist Zheng Jie (2005 Champion). Midway through 2009, the Tasmanian Government announced a $2.25 million to fund redevelopments to the Domain Tennis Centre over 2009-10. This announcement was to ensure that the Moorilla Hobart International tournament was retained.", "title": "Hobart International Tennis Centre" }, { "id": "2354329", "text": "held the No. 1 ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 US Open, defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final. Safin helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semifinals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. At the time of his retirement in November 2009, he was ranked No. 61 in the world. In 2011, he", "title": "Marat Safin" }, { "id": "5593549", "text": "Caroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki (R) (; ; born 11 July 1990) is a Danish professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles. She is also the first woman from a Scandinavian country to hold the top ranking position and 20th in the Open Era. She finished on top of the rankings in both 2010 and 2011. She has won 30 WTA singles titles, including six in 2010 and 2011, the most in a year by a WTA player from 2008–2011. She was runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the 2010 WTA Tour Championships to Kim", "title": "Caroline Wozniacki" }, { "id": "11432808", "text": "Kevin Anderson (tennis) Kevin Anderson (born 18 May 1986) is a South African professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 6 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as of 8 October 2018. He became the top-ranked male South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas. He achieved his career-high ranking of world No. 5 on 16 July 2018. He was the first South African to be ranked in the top 5 since Kevin Curren was No. 5 on 23 September 1985. On", "title": "Kevin Anderson (tennis)" }, { "id": "3367537", "text": "Frank Sedgman Francis \"Frank\" Arthur Sedgman, AM (born 29 October 1927) is a retired World No. 1 amateur tennis champion. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and player, included Sedgman in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. Sedgman is one of only five tennis players all-time to win a multiple slam set in two disciplines, matching Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams. In 1951 he and Ken McGregor won the men's doubles Grand Slam. Sedgman turned professional in 1953. In a five-year span from 1948 through 1952 Sedgman won", "title": "Frank Sedgman" }, { "id": "2681372", "text": "the World No. 1. Some, among them Newcombe and the panel of journalists which made the 1971 WCT draw, considered Laver the best player because he won most tournaments (15), earned the most prize money and had a dominantly positive head-to-head record against both Rosewall (5–0) and Newcombe (3–0). But Laver failed at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, the two big tournaments, losing each time in the round of 16. Other tennis pundits, as Joe McCauley (World Tennis) or Lance Tingay (Daily Telegraph), narrowly ranked Newcombe first because he won the most prestigious tournament, Wimbledon with Rosewall second and Laver", "title": "Ken Rosewall" }, { "id": "12402874", "text": "Julie Coin Julie Coin (; born 2 December 1982) is a retired French professional tennis player. Coin recorded the biggest win of her career by defeating the world No. 1 ranked female singles player, and top seed, Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 US Open. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 60, achieved on 27 July 2009. Her career-high doubles ranking is world No. 49, achieved on 19 April 2010. Her parents are Philippe and Doriane Coin. They were competitive team handball players. Coin played at Clemson University, where she was an All-American, All-ACC, and ACC Player of the Year.", "title": "Julie Coin" }, { "id": "752237", "text": "retirement until August 2003, just prior to the US Open. He chose not to defend his title there, but his retirement announcement was timed so that he could say farewell at a special ceremony organized for him at the Open. At the time of his retirement, many regarded Sampras as the greatest player of all time. Sampras won 64 top-level singles titles (including 14 Grand Slam titles, 11 Super 9/ATP Masters Series/ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles and five Tennis Masters Cup titles) and two doubles titles. He was ranked the world No. 1 for a total of 286 weeks", "title": "Pete Sampras" }, { "id": "7121715", "text": "Michael Joyce (tennis) Michael T. Joyce (born February 1, 1973) is an American former tennis player, who turned professional in 1991. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 64 in April 1996. He also became a coach of professional players, most notably former world number one, Maria Sharapova from 2004-2011. He reached the final of the Wimbledon Jr event in 1991. On the professional tour, Joyce won 3 Challenger events and reached the 4th round of the 1995 Wimbledon Championships. He was the subject of an essay by David Foster Wallace in \"Esquire\"; the essay was", "title": "Michael Joyce (tennis)" }, { "id": "8140943", "text": "Grass Court Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, and he followed it up in July by winning the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island. Mahut is known for being part of the longest match in professional tennis history against John Isner in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. He holds a number of tennis records and awards for the match, including the most points won in a single match (502) and most games won by a losing player (91). Mahut is also a prolific doubles player, reaching a career high of world No. 1 in 6 June 2016.", "title": "Nicolas Mahut" }, { "id": "10654217", "text": "John Isner John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American professional tennis player who is the No. 10 ranked in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and has been ranked as high as No. 8. Considered one of the best servers ever to play on the ATP World Tour, Isner achieved his career-high singles ranking in July 2018 by virtue of his maiden Masters 1000 crown at the 2018 Miami Open and a semifinals appearance at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. He currently has the second-most aces in the history of the ATP World Tour, having", "title": "John Isner" }, { "id": "14124467", "text": "Santoro, who going into the tournament had world rankings of 41 and 57, while 8th seed Kevin Anderson was ranked outside the top 100, at 115. Arguably its four most famous champions are former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, former World No. 4 Greg Rusedski, former two-time Grand Slam runner-up Mark Philippoussis, and two-time Australian Open winner Johan Kriek. Hall of Fame Tennis Championships The Hall of Fame Championships is an international tennis tournament that has been held every year in July since 1976 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, the original location of the", "title": "Hall of Fame Tennis Championships" }, { "id": "11657485", "text": "2012 statement, Djokovic is \"probably a top eight player in tennis history\". Andre Agassi stated in September 2012 that Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic \"may very well be the greatest three players to ever play tennis\". In March 2012, contemporary competitor Andy Murray described Djokovic as 'one of the greatest players ever'. In his September 2013 men's greatest players of all-time list, \"International Business Times\"' writer Jason Le Miere put the Serb in seventh place. In January 2014, ESPN writer Howard Bryant called him 'arguably the best pure tennis player in the world'. In April 2015, Henman offered another comment on", "title": "Novak Djokovic" }, { "id": "1810668", "text": "2003 and 2006. She was the first player since Lindsay Davenport to end the year ranked world No. 1 consecutively for two years (Davenport was ranked year-end world No. 1 in 2004–2005). She also ended the year with a 63–4 record, having lost to only four players: Lucie Šafářová, Serena Williams, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Marion Bartoli. Her winning percentage of 94% was the best since Steffi Graf's 1995 season (Serena Williams surpassed her in 2013 with 95%). Henin started the year as the world No. 1. 14 January marked Henin's 100th career week as world No. 1, and on 10", "title": "Justine Henin" }, { "id": "7620240", "text": "tournaments at the time, later rankings by tennis historians or sports statisticians are not considered in the listing of No. 1 and No. 2 players. Before 1913 very few sources are available but Richard Yallop in \"Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club 100 Years in Australian Tennis\" stated that Norman Brookes was the champion of the world in 1907 and Len and Shelley Richardson in \"Anthony Wilding A Sporting Life\" cite the opinions of A. E. Crawley (an early-twentieth-century British journalist) and Anthony Wilding (the New Zealand tennis player). Other years dating back to 1913 also present difficulties and ambiguities.", "title": "World number 1 ranked male tennis players" }, { "id": "13968205", "text": "2003 JPMorgan Chase Open The 2003 JPMorgan Chase Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the Tier II Series of the 2004 WTA Tour. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and took place in Los Angeles, California, United States, from August 4 through August 10, 2003. First-seeded Kim Clijsters won the singles title and earned $97,000 first-prize money. As a result of her win Clijsters became the world No. 1 ranked player for the first time in her career and the first female player to do so without winning a", "title": "2003 JPMorgan Chase Open" }, { "id": "8140994", "text": "Janko Tipsarević Janko Tipsarević (, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he has won four ATP World Tour titles, one ATP doubles title, three Futures, and 15 Challenger titles. Tipsarević also won the 2001 Australian Open Junior title. Tipsarević has achieved two victories over a World No. 1 player, having defeated compatriot Novak Djokovic twice. He also has thirteen victories against other players in the top 10: four wins against Tomáš Berdych, and one each against Fernando González, Mikhail", "title": "Janko Tipsarević" }, { "id": "19249194", "text": "2016, and ensured that he would hold the year-end No. 1 ranking for the first time. In his very first tournament as the world No. 1, arguably the most impressive facet of the event was defeating the world No. 7 Cilic, No. 5 Nishikori, No. 3 Wawrinka, No. 4 Raonic, and No. 2 Djokovic in five successive matches. The last time a player defeated 5 of the top-7 players was when Roger Federer defeated No. 7 Ferrer, No. 5 Murray, No. 4 Soderling, No. 3 Djokovic, and No. 1 Nadal in the 2010 event. It also meant that Murray would", "title": "2016 Andy Murray tennis season" }, { "id": "17768084", "text": "2014 Serena Williams tennis season The 2014 Serena Williams tennis season officially began on 30 December with the start of the 2014 WTA Tour, and follows on from an 18-match winning streak which began at the end of the 2013 Season. Williams finished the year at no. 1, and held the ranking for the entire year, which had not been done since Steffi Graf in 1996. It is also fourth time that Williams ended as the number 1 player in the year. Based on her performance in 2014, she was named 'World Champion' for the fifth time and the third", "title": "2014 Serena Williams tennis season" } ]

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[ { "id": "17875664", "text": "the program was overtaken by the Boeing 707 on the trans-Atlantic run. The Comet 4 was developed into the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod which retired in June 2011. Following the grounding of the Comet 1, the Tu-104 became the first jet airliner to provide a sustained and reliable service, its introduction having been delayed pending the outcome of investigations into the Comet crashes. It was the world's only jet airliner in operation between 1956 and 1958 (after which the Comet 4 and Boeing 707 entered service). The plane was operated by Aeroflot (from 1956) and Czech Airlines ČSA (from 1957). ČSA", "title": "Post-war aviation" }, { "id": "5039030", "text": "passengers than piston-powered airliners, air fares also declined (relative to inflation), so people from a greater range of socioeconomic classes could afford to travel outside their own countries. Besides the pure jet, the turbine driven propeller engines offered improvements of the piston engine delivering a smoother ride and better fuel efficiency. One exception to jet-powered domination by large airliners was the contra-rotating propellers turboprop design that powered the Tu-114 (first flight 1957). This airliner was able to match or even exceed the speed, capacity and range of contemporary jets; however, the use of such powerplants in large airframes was totally", "title": "Jet Age" }, { "id": "2185742", "text": "airline in the world, older are only Dutch KLM (1919), Colombian Avianca (1919), Australian Qantas (1920) and Soviet/Russian Aeroflot (1923). It is also the second airline to initiate successful jet airliner services (in 1957 using the Tu-104) and simultaneously the first airline in the world to fly regular jet-only routes (between Prague and Moscow). ČSA was founded on 6 October 1923, by the Czechoslovak government as ČSA \"Československé státní aerolinie\" (Czechoslovak State Airlines). Twenty-three days later its first transport flight took place, flying between Prague and Bratislava. It operated only domestic services until its first international flight from Prague to", "title": "Czech Airlines" }, { "id": "5039034", "text": "and fourteen of all versions were built. However, the first jet airliner to provide a sustained and dependable service was the Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 (201 built) which was the only jet airliner in operation worldwide between 1956 and 1958 (the Comet having been withdrawn in 1954 due to structural failure issues). The Comet and Tu-104 were later outstripped in production by the American Boeing 707 (which entered service in 1958) and Douglas DC-8, which joined it in the skies over the next few years. Other types of the period included the French Sud Aviation Caravelle. When the Boeing 707 began", "title": "Jet Age" }, { "id": "235669", "text": "Lockheed's design could be manufactured. In the end, orders for the Lockheed tanker were dropped rather than supporting two tanker designs. Lockheed never produced its jet airliner, while Boeing would eventually dominate the market with a family of airliners based on the 707. In 1954, the Air Force placed an initial order for 29 KC-135As, the first of an eventual 820 of all variants of the basic C-135 family. The first aircraft flew in August 1956 and the initial production Stratotanker was delivered to Castle Air Force Base, California, in June 1957. The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air", "title": "Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker" }, { "id": "1765103", "text": "Tupolev Tu-104 The Tupolev Tu-104 (NATO reporting name: Camel) was a twinjet medium-range narrow-body turbojet-powered Soviet airliner. It was the second to enter in regular service, behind the British de Havilland Comet, and was the sole jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958, when the British jetliner was grounded due to safety matters. In 1957, Czechoslovak Airlines – ČSA, (now Czech Airlines) became the first airline in the world to fly a route exclusively with jet airliners, using the Tu-104A variant between Prague and Moscow. In civil service, the Tu-104 carried over 90 million passengers with Aeroflot (then", "title": "Tupolev Tu-104" }, { "id": "1765112", "text": "http://www.airforce.ru/content/english-pages/2344-interview-civil-aviation-pilot-hsu-v-m-yanchenko/ Tupolev Tu-104 The Tupolev Tu-104 (NATO reporting name: Camel) was a twinjet medium-range narrow-body turbojet-powered Soviet airliner. It was the second to enter in regular service, behind the British de Havilland Comet, and was the sole jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958, when the British jetliner was grounded due to safety matters. In 1957, Czechoslovak Airlines – ČSA, (now Czech Airlines) became the first airline in the world to fly a route exclusively with jet airliners, using the Tu-104A variant between Prague and Moscow. In civil service, the Tu-104 carried over 90 million passengers with Aeroflot", "title": "Tupolev Tu-104" }, { "id": "10065224", "text": "its in-development VC10. The company considered three possible contenders for the specification; two of these were four-engined developments of the early Comet, the world's first jet-powered airliner: the D.H.119 and the D.H.120, the latter being also intended to be offered to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In July 1957, de Havilland made another submission in the form of the D.H.121; this proposal was furnished with three Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines and greatly resembled the eventual production aircraft. By August 1957, the D.H.121 proposal had been revised; differences included the adoption of the in-development Rolls-Royce Medway turbofan engine, and an expansion", "title": "Hawker Siddeley Trident" }, { "id": "1554489", "text": "with the same long airframe with a wingspan, but varying in engines and fuel capacity, and with maximum weights of about 240,000–260,000 lb (109–118 metric tons). Douglas steadfastly refused to offer different fuselage sizes. The maiden flight was planned for December 1957, with entry into revenue service in 1959. Well aware that they were lagging behind Boeing, Douglas began a major marketing push. Douglas' previous thinking about the airliner market seemed to be coming true; the transition to turbine power looked likely to be to turboprops rather than turbojets. The pioneering 40–60-seat Vickers Viscount was in service and proving popular", "title": "Douglas DC-8" }, { "id": "1945982", "text": "He commented that the Constellation's wingspan was longer than the distance of his first flight. On September 29, 1957, a TWA L-1649A flew from Los Angeles to London in 18 hours and 32 minutes (about at ). The L-1649A holds the record for the longest-duration, non-stop passenger flight aboard a piston-powered airliner. On TWA's first London-to-San Francisco flight on October 1–2, 1957, the aircraft stayed aloft for 23 hours and 19 minutes (about at ). The advent of jet airliners such as the de Havilland Comet, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, Convair 880, and Sud Aviation Caravelle rendered the piston-engine Constellation", "title": "Lockheed Constellation" }, { "id": "1841441", "text": "Canada was the first scheduled international flight out of Atlanta. Atlanta's first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight was the Delta/Pan Am interchange DC-8 to Europe starting in 1964; the first scheduled nonstop to Mexico was Eastern's flight to Mexico City around 1972. Nonstops to Europe started in 1978 and to Asia in 1992–93. In 1957 Atlanta saw its first jet airliner: a prototype Sud Aviation Caravelle that was touring the country arrived from Washington D.C. The first scheduled turbine airliners were Capital Viscounts in June 1956; the first scheduled jets were Delta DC-8s in September 1959. Atlanta was the country's busiest airport,", "title": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport" }, { "id": "4571940", "text": "Colombian airline, LANSA. Until TACA de Venezuela was completely absorbed by LAV in 1958, the route to Bogotá was flown using TACA aircraft in TACA livery. During the 1950s, LAV opened a transatlantic service and began flying to Panama (in 1953). The Constellation fleet was upgraded to L-1049G Super Constellations. An order for the first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, was placed, but with the Comet crashes of the 1950s, the airline never got their Comet jets. On 24 March 1956, LAV introduced its first turboprop, a Vickers Viscount 701 which was to replace the older piston engined", "title": "Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela" }, { "id": "15048060", "text": "11, 1956. (The prototype [N1649] was the property of Lockheed until the early 1970s when it was sold in Japan.) Airline service began on June 1, 1957 on a Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight from New York to London and Frankfurt. TWA called their L-1649s \"Jetstreams\" and flew them on longer domestic routes and on flights from New York to Europe and beyond. In July 1958 TWA scheduled 60 flights a week from Europe to New York; 30 were L-1649s, including seven nonstops a week from Paris, five from London, four from Frankfurt, two each from Madrid, Lisbon and Geneva,", "title": "Lockheed L-1649 Starliner" }, { "id": "1800909", "text": "Geoffrey de Havilland Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. His Mosquito has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built, and his Comet was the first jet airliner to go into production. Born at Magdala House, Terriers, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, de Havilland was the second son of The Reverend Charles de Havilland (1854–1920) and his first wife, Alice Jeannette (née Saunders) (1854–1911). He was educated at Nuneaton Grammar School, St Edward's School, Oxford and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering (from", "title": "Geoffrey de Havilland" }, { "id": "4434652", "text": "1943, the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter aircraft, went into service in the German Luftwaffe. In October 1947, the Bell X-1 was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to 2010. The Boeing 747 was the world's biggest passenger aircraft from 1970 until it was surpassed by the Airbus A380 in 2005. An aircraft propeller, or \"airscrew\", converts rotary motion from an engine", "title": "Airplane" }, { "id": "18682156", "text": "commercial flight in the world is Singapore Airlines' SQ22 which flies from Singapore to Newark. From 1943 to 1945, Qantas operated \"The Double Sunrise\", a weekly flight between Perth, Australia and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), with average flight times of 28 (maximum of 33) hours using a Consolidated PBY Catalina. On 1–2 October 1957, a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1649 Starliner, the ultimate piston-engine airliner in terms of range and endurance, flew the inaugural London–San Francisco polar route in 23 hours, 19 minutes. In June 1961, El Al began a route from New York City to Tel Aviv. Previously tested", "title": "Ultra long-haul" }, { "id": "762805", "text": "ushering in the Jet Age. It established Boeing as one of the largest manufacturers of passenger aircraft, and led to the later series of airliners with \"7x7\" designations. The later 720, 727, 737, and 757 share elements of the 707's fuselage design. The 707 was developed from the Boeing 367-80, a prototype jet first flown in 1954. A larger fuselage cross-section and other modifications resulted in the initial-production 707-120, powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet engines, which first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan American World Airways began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958. Later derivatives included the", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "2125029", "text": "Limited (the supplier of the Caravelle's Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines). While much of the airliner's development, including its maiden flight on 27 May 1955, was conducted by SNCASE. By the time that the Caravelle entered revenue service on 26 April 1959, the firm had been merged into the larger Sud Aviation conglomerate. Within a few years of commencing passenger services, the Caravelle became one of the most successful European first-generation jetliners. The airliner achieved substantial sales to operators throughout Europe and even managed to penetrate the United States market, United Airlines placing an order for 20 Caravelles. The Caravelle established", "title": "Sud Aviation Caravelle" }, { "id": "4397691", "text": "Rolls-Royce Avon The Rolls-Royce Avon was the first axial flow jet engine designed and produced by Rolls-Royce. Introduced in 1950, the engine went on to become one of their most successful post-World War II engine designs. It was used in a wide variety of aircraft, both military and civilian, as well as versions for stationary and maritime power. An English Electric Canberra powered by two Avons made the first un-refuelled non-stop transatlantic flight by a jet, and a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 powered by four Avons made the first scheduled transatlantic crossing by a jet airliner. Production of the", "title": "Rolls-Royce Avon" }, { "id": "762804", "text": "Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is a mid-sized, long-range, narrow-body, four-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1958 to 1979. Its name is commonly pronounced as \"seven oh seven\". Versions of the aircraft have a capacity from 140 to 219 passengers and a range of . Developed as Boeing's first jet airliner, the 707 is a swept-wing design with podded engines. Although it was not the first jetliner in service, the 707 was the first to be commercially successful. Dominating passenger air transport in the 1960s and remaining common through the 1970s, the 707 is generally credited with", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "1874715", "text": "never reached production; however the term \"jetliner\" came into use as a generic term for passenger jet aircraft. These first jet airliners were followed some years later by the Sud Aviation Caravelle from France, the Tupolev Tu-104 from the Soviet Union (2nd in service), and the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880 from the United States. National prestige was attached to developing prototypes and bringing these early designs into service. There was also a strong nationalism in purchasing policy, so that US Boeing and Douglas aircraft became closely associated with Pan Am, while BOAC ordered British Comets. Pan Am", "title": "Jet airliner" }, { "id": "1874712", "text": "Jet airliner A jet airliner (or jetliner, in its portmanteau form) is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft). Airliners usually have two or four jet engines; three-engined designs were popular in the 1970s but are less common today. Airliners are commonly classified as either the generally long-haul wide-body aircraft or narrow-body aircraft. Most airliners today are powered by jet engines, because they are capable of safely operating at high speeds and generate sufficient thrust to power large-capacity aircraft. The first jetliners, introduced in the 1950s, used the simpler turbojet engine; these were quickly supplanted by designs using", "title": "Jet airliner" }, { "id": "17875663", "text": "into the operational Yakovlev Yak-38. Entering service in 1978, the Yak-38 was limited in both payload capability and hot-and-high performance, and saw only limited deployment. The British de Havilland Comet was the first jet airliner to fly (1949), the first in service (1952), and the first to offer a regular jet-powered transatlantic service (1958). One hundred and fourteen of all versions were built but the Comet 1 had serious design problems, and out of nine original aircraft, four crashed (one at takeoff and three broke up in flight), which grounded the entire fleet. The Comet 4 solved these problems but", "title": "Post-war aviation" }, { "id": "21010256", "text": "explained: In late ’58 there was a very major plant, Avro up in Malton, Ontario, building aircraft. They had developed the Avro Arrow [Canada’s first supersonic aircraft], which was apparently superb. They built a half-dozen, the customer being the Canadian government. It was generally acknowledged to be the best aircraft of its type—a fighter—in the world at that time. For a variety of reasons that are still hotly debated, the prime minister at that time [1957–1963], John Diefenbaker, canceled the contract. Whoosh! Avro had no choice but to immediately shut down, they were so wedded to that program. Diefenbaker canceled", "title": "George Harding Cuthbertson" }, { "id": "12348341", "text": "377 in 1950 and the first order for the 707 in 1955, Boeing was shut out of the commercial aircraft market. In the mid-1950s technology had advanced significantly, which gave Boeing the opportunity to develop and manufacture new products. One of the first was the guided short-range missile used to intercept enemy aircraft. By that time the Cold War had become a fact of life, and Boeing used its short-range missile technology to develop and build an intercontinental missile. In 1958, Boeing began delivery of its 707, the United States' first commercial jet airliner, in response to the British De", "title": "Boeing" }, { "id": "5039033", "text": "1930s and 1940s. In the history of military aviation it began in 1944 with the introduction into service of the Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance bomber and the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter during World War II. In commercial aviation the jet age was introduced to Britain in 1952 with the first scheduled flight of the de Havilland Comet airliner and to America some years later with the first American-built jet airliners. The British de Havilland Comet was the first jet airliner to fly (1949), the first in service (1952), and the first to offer a regular transatlantic service (1958). One hundred", "title": "Jet Age" }, { "id": "762850", "text": "has been in a total of 246 major aviation occurrences and, 172 hull-loss occurrences with 3,022 fatalities. Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is a mid-sized, long-range, narrow-body, four-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1958 to 1979. Its name is commonly pronounced as \"seven oh seven\". Versions of the aircraft have a capacity from 140 to 219 passengers and a range of . Developed as Boeing's first jet airliner, the 707 is a swept-wing design with podded engines. Although it was not the first jetliner in service, the 707 was the first to be commercially successful. Dominating passenger", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "853524", "text": "United Kingdom's De Havilland Comets (having held the distinction of being the first jetliner in the world), they ultimately waited for Boeing to release their first jetliner, and thus was the launch customer of the Boeing 707, placing an order for 20 in October 1955. It also ordered 25 of Douglas's DC-8, which could seat six across (the 707 originally was to be 144 inches (3.66 m) wide with five-abreast seating; Boeing widened it to match the DC-8). The combined order value was $269 million. Pan Am's first scheduled jet flight was from New York Idlewild to Paris Le Bourget", "title": "Pan American World Airways" }, { "id": "17875665", "text": "became the first airline in the world to fly jet-only routes, using the Tu-104A variant. The first western jet airliner with significant commercial success was the Boeing 707. It began service on the New York to London route in 1958, the first year that more trans-Atlantic passengers traveled by air than by ship. Comparable long-range airliner designs were the DC-8, VC10 and Il-62. The Boeing 747, the \"Jumbo jet\", was the first widebody aircraft that reduced the cost of flying and further accelerated the Jet Age. One exception to the domination by turbofan engines was the turboprop-powered Tupolev Tu-114 (first", "title": "Post-war aviation" }, { "id": "20481589", "text": "Penny & Giles Penny & Giles (P&G) was a British engineering company in Dorset (former Hampshire) that made flight recorders (black boxes). The company was founded in 1956 by Prof William Alfred Penny and James Giles. It made high-reliability wire-wound potentiometers for aircraft in flight testing. In 1957 it made the first aircraft data recorder with magnetic recording on a stainless steel wire, known as a \"black box\". In 1963, the Ministry of Aviation informed the UK aircraft industry that all civil airliners would have to have flight data recorders. In April 1973, Penny and Giles Conductive Plastics received a", "title": "Penny & Giles" }, { "id": "18490555", "text": "Later jet airliners including the revised Comet 4 were designed to be fail-safe: in the event of, for example, a skin-failure due to cracking the damage would be localised and not catastrophic. In October 1958 BOAC operated the first transatlantic jet service with the larger and longer-range Comet 4. In the 1950s turbine powered airliners were developing rapidly, and the Comet and the seriously delayed Bristol Britannia were soon rendered obsolescent by the flight of the swept-wing Boeing 367–80 (707 prototype) in 1954. In 1953 Vickers had started building the swept wing VC-7/V-1000 with Rolls-Royce Conway turbofan engines, but BOAC", "title": "British Overseas Airways Corporation" }, { "id": "4058153", "text": "Duxford Aviation Society. The Society is a registered charity (No. 285809) and states two objectives; to educate the public by collecting and exhibiting historic aircraft, military vehicles and boats, and to support the Imperial War Museum. The Society was formed in 1975 from a divergence of members of the East Anglian Aviation Society, which now operates the Bassingbourn Tower Museum at the former RAF Bassingbourn. Duxford Aviation Society preserves and maintains the Civil Aviation Collection. Especially notable aircraft in the collection include a de Havilland Comet which made the first eastbound jet-powered trans-Atlantic passenger flight on 4 October 1958, and", "title": "Imperial War Museum Duxford" }, { "id": "2259536", "text": "Hawker Siddeley HS 748 The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed by the British firm Avro in the late 1950s as a replacement for the aging DC-3s then in widespread service as feederliners. Avro concentrated on performance, notably for STOL operations, and found a dedicated market. 380 aircraft were built by Hawker Siddeley. A larger, stretched development of the HS 748, the BAe ATP, attempted to compete with the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 but saw a limited production run. The original 748 design was started in 1958, after the Duncan Sandys 1957 Defence White", "title": "Hawker Siddeley HS 748" }, { "id": "9980277", "text": "the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter for the United States Air Force. In all, 943 C-97s were built in the Renton plant. In May 1954 the prototype of what would become the Boeing 707, the Boeing 367-80, was rolled out at the Renton plant starting a long association with the production of the Boeing 707 line. When the first production Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker first flew in August 1956 from Renton it was named \"City of Renton\". The first production Boeing 707 was rolled out at Renton on 28 October 1957 and production continued to the last 707. The Boeing 707 final assembly", "title": "Boeing Renton Factory" }, { "id": "3727559", "text": "Rolls-Royce Dart The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a long-lived British turboprop engine designed, built and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited. First run in 1946, it powered the first Vickers Viscount maiden flight in 1948, and in the Viscount was the first turboprop engine to enter airline service, with British European Airways (BEA), in 1950. On 29 July 1948 a flight between Northolt and Paris–Le Bourget Airport with 14 paying passengers in a Dart-powered Viscount was the first scheduled airline flight by any turbine-powered aircraft. The Dart was still in production when the last Fokker F27 Friendships and Hawker Siddeley HS 748s", "title": "Rolls-Royce Dart" }, { "id": "2701694", "text": "de la Aviación Naval) at Bahía Blanca. As of July 2018, a total of 2 Electras remain in active airliner service. Other aircraft are in service as air tankers as follows: Of the total of 170 Electras built, as of June 2011, 58 have been written off because of crashes and other accidents. Lockheed L-188 Electra The Lockheed L-188 Electra is an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed. First flown in 1957, it was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States. Initial sales were good, but after two fatal crashes that led to expensive modifications to fix", "title": "Lockheed L-188 Electra" }, { "id": "11377494", "text": "In mid-2002 the state held 54%. On 4 August 1948 Max Hymans was appointed the president. During his 13-year tenure he would implement modernisation practices centred on the introduction of jet aircraft. In 1949 the company became a co-founder of Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA), an airline telecommunications services company. In 1952 Air France moved its operations and engineering base to the new Paris Orly Airport South terminal. By then the network covered 250,000 km. Air France entered the jet age in 1953 with the original, short-lived de Havilland Comet series 1, the world's first jetliner. During the mid-1950s", "title": "Air France" }, { "id": "602171", "text": "maintenance base and sold on to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) at a profit. The following year, ATL's engineering arm cannibalised a number of unairworthy Yorks and Lancasters Laker had purchased to rebuild the salvaged parts into three airworthy Yorks. ATL also became one of many post-war aircraft manufacturers seeking to develop a successor to the then ubiquitous Douglas DC-3 piston airliner that continued playing a prominent role in the fleets of many of the world's airlines well into the 1950s. ATL's answer was the ATL-90 Accountant, which first flew on 9 July 1957. The Accountant was designed for 28", "title": "Aviation Traders" }, { "id": "9599916", "text": "Aviation Traders Accountant The Aviation Traders ATL-90 Accountant was a 1950s British twin-engined 28-passenger turboprop airliner built at Southend Airport England by Aviation Traders, a member of the airline and aircraft engineering group controlled by Freddie Laker. The ATL-90 Accountant was a turboprop airliner designed as a replacement for the Douglas DC-3. It was powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops and first flew from Southend on 9 July 1957. The only Accountant, initially flown using the test serial G-41-1, but quickly registered G-ATEL, was displayed at the Farnborough Airshow in September 1957 but did not attract much commercial interest. The", "title": "Aviation Traders Accountant" }, { "id": "5571111", "text": "Grumman to diversify its product lines. The initial market survey indicated that 100 - 200 of this type could be sold each year. Lippert's initial proposal was made under the project name \"Farmair 1000.\" The first G-164, which was built by Grumman (N74054), was equipped with a Continental W670 Series 6A-16 powerplant. This ship accomplished its maiden flight on May 27, 1957 with Grumman test pilot Hank Kurt at the controls. This initial flight test consisted of three short familiarization hops with the take-off weight set at 3122 lbs, and the c.g. at 31.2%. Flight tests 2 & 3, with", "title": "Grumman Ag Cat" }, { "id": "10333533", "text": "the RB.108, Gourdon and Arbizon engines respectively. Miles Student The Miles M.100 Student was built as a lightweight trainer as a private venture by F.G. and George Miles with development started in 1953. Although not specifically a Miles product, it was promoted as a British Royal Air Force trainer but failed to enter production. Building on the company's experience with the M.77 \"Sparrowjet\", the M.100 Student was a two-seat, side-by-side, all-metal jet trainer. The M.100 prototype was powered by a 400 kgf (882 lb) thrust Turbomeca Marbore turbojet and flew for the first time on 15 May 1957. Miles had", "title": "Miles Student" }, { "id": "2125838", "text": "Avro Canada C102 Jetliner The Avro C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949. It was beaten to the air by only 13 days by the de Havilland Comet, thereby becoming the second jet airliner in the world. The name \"Jetliner\" was chosen as a shortening of the term \"jet airliner\", a term which is still in popular usage in Canada and the United States. The aircraft was considered suitable for busy routes along the US eastern seaboard and garnered intense interest, notably from Howard Hughes who even offered to start production", "title": "Avro Canada C102 Jetliner" }, { "id": "6801111", "text": "In 1941 Hives quickly decided ‘to go all out for the gas turbine’, ensuring the company’s leading role in developing jet engines for civil and military aviation. Vice Chief of Air Staff Sir Wilfrid Freeman, one of the masterminds behind the dramatic advances in British aircraft production before and during World War 2, paid tribute to Hives's dedication in a letter to his wife: Hives became managing director in 1946 and chairman of Rolls-Royce from 1950 till 1957. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 1943 Birthday Honours and on 7 July 1950 he", "title": "Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives" }, { "id": "15340778", "text": "Peter Girard Peter Frank \"Pete\" Girard (May 5, 1918 – February 12, 2011) was a United States Army Air Corps pilot, Chief Engineering Test Pilot for Ryan Aeronautical, and the first man to hover in jet vertical flight. This feat was accomplished November 24, 1953 during tests that would culminate in the development of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. He would later accomplish the first full-cycle vertical takeoff, horizontal flight, and vertical landing in a jet aircraft on April 11, 1957 at Edwards Air Force Base. Prior to working with Ryan, Girard had worked at Curtiss-Wright in St. Louis, Missouri and", "title": "Peter Girard" }, { "id": "2701679", "text": "Lockheed L-188 Electra The Lockheed L-188 Electra is an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed. First flown in 1957, it was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States. Initial sales were good, but after two fatal crashes that led to expensive modifications to fix a design defect, no more were ordered. With its unique high power-to-weight ratio, huge propellers and very short wings (resulting in the majority of the wingspan being enveloped in propwash), large Fowler flaps which significantly increased effective wing area when extended, and four-engined design, the airplane had airfield performance capabilities unmatched by many", "title": "Lockheed L-188 Electra" }, { "id": "853523", "text": "hold its own against TWA's Super Constellations and Starliners. In 1957 Pan Am started DC-7C flights direct from the West Coast of the United States to London and Paris with a fuel stop in Canada or Greenland. The introduction of the faster Bristol Britannia turboprop by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) between New York and London from December 19, 1957 ended Pan Am's competitive leadership there. In January 1958 Pan Am scheduled 47 flights a week east from Idlewild to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and beyond; the following August there were 65. Although Pan Am contemplated on purchasing the", "title": "Pan American World Airways" }, { "id": "20335645", "text": "Alan Samuel Butler Alan Butler (22 November 1898 —24 May 1987), full name Alan Samuel Butler, was (claimed his obituary in \"The Times\") the first private aeroplane owner-driver. From 1923 Butler was chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company —which he financed— until 1950, a year when De Havilland employed 20,000 people and was building Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner. He was born in Gloucestershire near Bristol in 1898 to Marion née Cochran and Samuel Butler, a prosperous merchant in Bristol and inventor holding a number of patents. His father died in July 1906 leaving 7-year old Alan wealthy.", "title": "Alan Samuel Butler" }, { "id": "19642", "text": "fleets of state-owned carriers such as Czechoslovak ČSA, Soviet Aeroflot and East-German Interflug. The Vickers Viscount and Lockheed L-188 Electra inaugurated turboprop transport. On 4 October 1958, BOAC started transatlantic flights between London Heathrow and New York Idlewild with a Comet 4, and Pan Am followed on 26 October with a B707 service between New York and Paris. The next big boost for the airlines would come in the 1970s, when the Boeing 747, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and Lockheed L-1011 inaugurated widebody (\"jumbo jet\") service, which is still the standard in international travel. The Tupolev Tu-144 and its Western counterpart,", "title": "Airline" }, { "id": "2123854", "text": "Sud Aviation, at the direction of the French and British governments, formed a consortium with BAC in November 1962 to merge their design and production efforts to create Concorde. The company designed helicopters which went on to be built in large numbers, including the Alouette II (the first production helicopter powered by a gas turbine; first flight in 1955), the Puma (1965) and Gazelle (1967). In 1967 an agreement between the British and French governments arranged for joint production and procurement of the Puma and Gazelle, together with the British Westland Lynx. Sud Aviation merged with Nord Aviation and \"Société", "title": "Sud Aviation" }, { "id": "9111009", "text": "after producing several variations of the YS-11, NAMC hoped to introduce a jet airliner in order to compete with those being produced in the U.S. by companies such as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Unfortunately, because of the prohibitive cost of both manufacturing a jet engine in-house and also purchasing pre-fabricated engines from companies like Rolls-Royce, NAMC was forced to scrap its plans. Wracked by 36 billion Yen in debt (approximately $151 million based on the exchange rate at the time), NAMC disbanded on March 23, 1983. At their first meeting in April 1957, the seven companies making up NAMC planned", "title": "Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation" }, { "id": "634160", "text": "Instruments of Byfleet developed the world's first multi-channel flight data recorders in 1965. Although the Comet is generally accepted as the world's first production-run jet airliner, the first jet airliner ever built (individual) was a Nene-powered Vickers VC.1 Viking on 6 April 1948 from Wisley Airfield; the world's first turboprop airliner would fly from there on 16 July 1948 by Mutt Summers. In 1939 at Cowes (Northwood) John Godeck invented the plan position indicator method of radar display as most commonly known ever since; the site became Plessey Radar in 1965, and currently is run by BAE Systems. Sperry Gyroscope", "title": "South East England" }, { "id": "4570837", "text": "(1957) and all subsequent jet airliners. One immediately noticeable legacy of the Comet disasters is the oval windows on every jet airliner; the metal fatigue cracks that destroyed the Comets were initiated by the small radius corners on the Comet 1’s almost square windows. The Comet fuselage was redesigned and the Comet 4 (1958) went on to become a successful airliner, pioneering the first transatlantic jet service, but the program never really recovered from these disasters and was overtaken by the Boeing 707. The Concorde had to deal with particularly high pressure differentials because it flew at unusually high altitude", "title": "Cabin pressurization" }, { "id": "762811", "text": "Douglas competition, Boeing soon realized this would not provide a viable payload, so it widened the fuselage to to allow five-abreast seating and use of the KC-135's tooling. Douglas Aircraft had launched its DC-8 with a fuselage width of . The airlines liked the extra space and six-abreast seating, so Boeing increased the 707's width again to compete, this time to . The first flight of the first-production 707-120 took place on December 20, 1957, and FAA certification followed on September 18, 1958. Both test pilots Joseph John \"Tym\" Tymczyszyn and James R. Gannett were awarded the first Iven C.", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "14895906", "text": "1, Comet 2 and Comet 3, de Havilland Sea Vixen, Dove 8, Heron 1 and 2, and the Vampire night fighter. Fairbrother played an important part in recovering from the Comet disasters of 1954 due to structural fatigue. He managed the flight testing of the modified Comet 3, and Comet 4, 4B and 4C. Tony Fairbrother was married with two sons. Tony Fairbrother Anthony James Fairbrother (4 May 1926, Coventry – 7 December 2004) was an English engineer who was the flight-test engineer on the maiden flight of the de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, the world's first jet airliner, in", "title": "Tony Fairbrother" }, { "id": "1346622", "text": "and became known as the \"Airline To The Stars\". In the 1950s, the TWA Moonliner was the tallest structure at Disneyland and depicted atomic-powered travel to come in 1986. TWA suffered from its late entry to the jet age, and Hughes placed an order for 63 Convair 880s at a cost of $400 million. The transaction ultimately resulted in Hughes losing control of the airline because outside creditors financing the deal did not want Hughes controlling both development and operation of aircraft. In 1958, TWA became the first major airline to hire an African American flight attendant, hiring Margaret Grant", "title": "Trans World Airlines" }, { "id": "2125848", "text": "Two years later, the first prototype, CF-EJD (-X), began taxiing tests, and first flew on 10 August 1949, only 25 months after the design had started, and only 13 days after the first flight of the DH Comet. A delay caused by runway construction at the company's home, Malton airport, combined with repairs necessitated by external nacelle skin \"buckling\", prevented the Jetliner from being the first jet-powered airliner to fly. On its second flight, on 16 August, the landing gear failed to extend, and the Jetliner had to make a belly landing. However, the damage was minor, and the aircraft", "title": "Avro Canada C102 Jetliner" }, { "id": "5262718", "text": "late 1940s two developments encouraged Boeing to begin considering building a passenger jet. The first was the maiden flight in 1947 of the B-47 Stratojet. The second was the maiden flight in 1949 of the world’s first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet. Boeing President Bill Allen led a company delegation to the UK in summer 1950, where they saw the Comet fly at the Farnborough Airshow, and also visited the de Havilland factory at Hatfield, Hertfordshire where the Comets were being built. Boeing felt it had mastered the swept wing and podded engines which it saw as key technologies", "title": "Boeing 367-80" }, { "id": "2573693", "text": "adopted the Stratocruiser were British Overseas Airways Corporation, American Overseas Airlines (merged with Pan Am in 1950) and United Airlines. The last 377 was delivered to BOAC in May 1950. On this delivery flight, Boeing engineer Wellwood Beall accompanied the final 377 to England, and returned with news of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet airliner, and its appeal. The tenure of the Stratocruiser with United ended in 1954, when United had the opportunity to sell them to BOAC after finding them unprofitable without the extra mail subsidies enjoyed by Pan Am and Northwest. As the launch customer, Pan", "title": "Boeing 377 Stratocruiser" }, { "id": "620649", "text": "factory was built next to Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam in 1951. A number of military planes were built there under license, among them the Gloster Meteor twin-jet fighter and Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter. A second production and maintenance facility was established at Woensdrecht. In 1958, the F-27 Friendship was introduced, Fokker's most successful postwar airliner. The Dutch government contributed 27 million guilders to its development. Powered by the Rolls-Royce Dart, it became the world's best-selling turboprop airliner, reaching almost 800 units sold by 1986, including 206 under licence by Fairchild. Also, a military version of the F-27, the F-27 Troopship, was", "title": "Fokker" }, { "id": "8506035", "text": "important new developments at the time: swept wings and a tailless configuration on a supersonic jet fighter. Designer and company founder, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, had already begun the D.H.106 Comet development process and was considering that radical configuration for the world's first jet airliner. As Project Engineer on the D.H.108, with only a team of 8–10 draughtsmen and engineers, Frost created a remarkable aircraft by marrying the front fuselage of the de Havilland Vampire to a swept wing and short stubby vertical tail to make the first British swept wing jet, soon to be unofficially known as the \"Swallow.\"", "title": "John Carver Meadows Frost" }, { "id": "18667547", "text": "will also sometimes fly ground routes, instead of a great circle route, for the same reason. From 1943 to 1945, Qantas operated \"The Double Sunrise\", a weekly flight between Perth, Australia and Koggala Lagoon in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) with average flight times of 28 hours, using a Consolidated PBY Catalina. One of these flights remains the record holder for longest time airborne (for a commercial flight) at 32 hours, 9 minutes. On October 1–2, 1957, a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1649 Starliner, the ultimate piston-engine airliner in terms of range and endurance, flew the inaugural London–San Francisco polar route", "title": "Longest flights" }, { "id": "2718941", "text": "A flight school owner at the New Smyrna Beach Airport has restored a DC-7 to serve as a restaurant, the DC-7 Grille, but it never opened. A DC-7 tail number C-0921 (nicknamed \"Charlie 21\") was installed at Iliff Preschool in Denver in 1971 and is still serving as a kindergarten classroom. Douglas DC-7 The Douglas DC-7 is a transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958. It was the last major piston engine-powered transport made by Douglas, being developed shortly after the earliest jet airliner—the de Havilland Comet—entered service and only a few years before the", "title": "Douglas DC-7" }, { "id": "2185746", "text": "the world's airlines to fly jet services, taking delivery/putting in service the first Tupolev Tu-104A in 1957. ČSA was the only airline other than Aeroflot to operate the Tu-104 which was the world's first successful jet airliner. The service operated by the Tu-104A from 1957 between Prague and Moscow was the first jet-only connection (other airlines used both jets and piston/turboprop aircraft simultaneously). The first transatlantic services started on 3 February 1962 with a flight to Havana, using a Bristol Britannia turboprop leased from Cubana de Aviación. CSA's transatlantic flights were code-shared with Cubana's own services to Prague, and Cubana's", "title": "Czech Airlines" }, { "id": "1836910", "text": "Business jet A business jet, private jet, or bizjet is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people. Business jets may be adapted for other roles, such as the evacuation of casualties or express parcel deliveries, and some are used by public bodies, government officials or the armed forces. The Lockheed JetStar, seating ten passengers and two crew, first flew on 4 September 1957. 204 aircraft were produced from 1957 to 1978, powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT12 turbojets, then Garrett TFE731 turbofans for a MTOW, then two General Electric CF700 turbofans. The smaller, MTOW North American", "title": "Business jet" }, { "id": "18508897", "text": "the Comet 1, the subsequent Comet disasters where metal fatigue caused the in-flight destruction of three aircraft, with a loss of 99 passengers and crew, the re-introduction of the Comet 4 and the inauguration of the first jet-powered transatlantic services in October 1958. He would later be instrumental in the purchase of the Boeing 707, which introduced the first by-pass turbofan engine, the Rolls-Royce Conway into passenger service. He left BOAC along with his chairman Matthew Slattery, over disagreements with the Government concerning financial support in return for purchasing the Vickers VC10. He moved to Cunard as a director and", "title": "Basil Smallpeice" }, { "id": "10698137", "text": "1923. The firm manufactured a number of foreign designs under licence, such as the French Potez 25, Czechoslovakian Avia BH-33 and English Hawker Fury; Bristol Blenheim as well as the locally designed Ikarus ŠM; Ikarus IO; SIM-VIII; Ikarus IK-2; Ikarus Orkan. All the company's production facilities were destroyed during World War II, but rebuilt in 1946 and nationalised soon thereafter. Significant post-war aircraft included the Ikarus 451M, Yugoslavia's first domestically-designed and built jet plane (1952), the Ikarus S-451MM that set a world airspeed record in 1957, and the Ikarus S-451M that set one in 1960. After that, aircraft production was", "title": "Ikarbus" }, { "id": "2357810", "text": "passenger comfort being noticeably improved over the F27. The Fokker 50 ultimately replaced the F27 in production. In November 1958, the first production aircraft, an F27-100 model, was delivered to Irish airline Aer Lingus; it performed its first revenue flight in the following month. Other early customers of the Friendship included Braathens SAFE and Luxair in Europe; New Zealand National Airways Corporation; Trans Australia Airlines and its Australian competitors Ansett and East-West Airlines; and Turkish Airlines. Initial sales for the type were slow, which led to Fokker seeking financial support from banks and from the Dutch government in order to", "title": "Fokker F27 Friendship" }, { "id": "1574761", "text": "with a flying boat service, Empire Airways \"Caledonia\" reduced this to 15 hours. In the post-war period times were reduced again by the advent of land based airliners, such as the Lockheed Constellation. Hopes in 1952 were expressed for the new de Havilland Comet jetliner, though these were dashed by the succession of crashes that halted the Comet programme. A regular jetliner service was finally introduced in 1958 with the Boeing 707 and the DC 8, cutting the crossing to 7 hours. The final step in the quest for trans-Atlantic speed was the BAC Concorde, which set a record in", "title": "Blue Riband" }, { "id": "3275378", "text": "for supremacy with arch-rival William Boeing and the company he founded, Boeing. Douglas gained the upper hand, particularly with his revolutionary and highly successful Douglas DC-3 airliner and its equally popular World War II military transport version, the C-47; at the start of the war, his airplanes made up 80% of all commercial aircraft in service. However, he lagged behind in the jet age and was overtaken and surpassed by Boeing. He retired in 1957. Douglas was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second son of an assistant cashier at the National Park Bank. He attended Trinity Chapel School and", "title": "Donald Wills Douglas Sr." }, { "id": "10333531", "text": "Miles Student The Miles M.100 Student was built as a lightweight trainer as a private venture by F.G. and George Miles with development started in 1953. Although not specifically a Miles product, it was promoted as a British Royal Air Force trainer but failed to enter production. Building on the company's experience with the M.77 \"Sparrowjet\", the M.100 Student was a two-seat, side-by-side, all-metal jet trainer. The M.100 prototype was powered by a 400 kgf (882 lb) thrust Turbomeca Marbore turbojet and flew for the first time on 15 May 1957. Miles had hoped to secure an RAF order, but", "title": "Miles Student" }, { "id": "6439479", "text": "the use of an afterburner-equipped turbojet engine. The first prototype Super Mystère B.1, powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon RA.7R, took to the air on 2 March 1955. The aircraft broke the sound barrier in level flight the following day. As the Super Mystère B.2, sometimes known as the SMB.2, the aircraft entered production in 1957. The production version differed from the prototype by having a more powerful SNECMA Atar 101G engine. A total of 180 Super Mystère B.2s were built. In 1958, two Super Mystère B.4 prototypes were built. Equipped with a new 48° swept wing and a more powerful", "title": "Dassault Super Mystère" }, { "id": "1541636", "text": "De Havilland Comet The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at its Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wing roots, a pressurised cabin, and large square windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet, comfortable passenger cabin and was commercially promising at its debut in 1952. However, within a year of entering airline service, problems started to emerge, with three Comets lost within", "title": "De Havilland Comet" }, { "id": "1874714", "text": "after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, editor of \"Flight\" magazine, said, \"Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft\" The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952. Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner, which", "title": "Jet airliner" }, { "id": "2357801", "text": "Fokker F27 Friendship The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It has the distinction of being the most numerous post-war aircraft to have been manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful European airliners of its era. The F27 was developed during the early 1950s with the expressed intent of producing a capable successor to the earlier piston engine-powered airliners that had become commonplace on the market, such as the successful Douglas DC-3. A key innovation of the F27 was the adoption of the Rolls-Royce", "title": "Fokker F27 Friendship" }, { "id": "762837", "text": "center section tanks. Its first flight was on January 11, 1958; 69 turbojet 707-320s were delivered through January 1963, the first passengers being carried (by Pan Am) in August 1959. The 707-420 was identical to the −320, but fitted with Rolls-Royce Conway 508 (RCo.12) turbofans (or by-pass turbojets as Rolls-Royce called them) of 18,000 lb (79 kN) thrust each. The first announced customer was Lufthansa. BOAC's controversial order was announced six months later, but the British carrier got the first service-ready aircraft off the production line. The British Air Registration Board refused to give the aircraft a certificate of airworthiness,", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "1554481", "text": "freighters. After World War II Douglas had a commanding position in the commercial aviation market. Boeing had pointed the way to the modern all-metal airliner in 1933 with its Model 247, but Douglas, more than any other company, made commercial air travel a reality. Douglas produced a succession of piston-engined aircraft (DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, DC-5, DC-6, and DC-7) through the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. When de Havilland flew the first jet airliner, the Comet, in 1949, Douglas felt no need to rush into anything new. Their U.S. competitors at Lockheed and Convair felt the same way: that there would be", "title": "Douglas DC-8" }, { "id": "15852596", "text": "metal construction. It was powered by two Ivchenko AI-14 driving two-bladed wooden propellers, while its wings were fitted with leading edge slats and trailing edge flaps to ease operations out of small airfields. A crew of two and 8 to 10 passengers were carried in the aircraft's fuselage. The Beijing 1 made its maiden flight on 24 September 1958, and was handed over to the Chinese civil aviation authorities on 1 October 1958, the 9th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China. It was the first passenger airliner designed and built in the People's Republic. Although contemporary", "title": "Beijing 1" }, { "id": "5039035", "text": "service on the New York to London route in 1958, this became the first year that more trans-Atlantic passengers traveled by air than by ship. As the number of passengers soared, it became impractical to increase the number of aircraft flying from the major hub airports. Instead, designers created even larger widebody airliners and the engine manufacturers responded with larger, more powerful and also more fuel-efficient engines. The first \"jumbo jet\" was the Boeing 747, and it both increased airport passenger capacity and reduced the cost of air travel, further accelerating the social changes brought about by the Jet Age.", "title": "Jet Age" }, { "id": "1841485", "text": "providing space for gates and planes. (Pre-war airport designs had favored ever-larger single terminals, exemplified by Berlin's Tempelhof.) Other innovations Burke brought to the O'Hare design included underground refueling, direct highway access to the front of terminals, and direct rail access, all of which are utilized at airports worldwide today. O'Hare was the site of the world's first jet bridge in 1958, and successfully adapted slip form paving, developed for the nation's new Interstate highway system, for seamless concrete runways. In 1949, the City renamed the facility O'Hare Field to honor Edward \"Butch\" O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first flying ace", "title": "O'Hare International Airport" }, { "id": "9437802", "text": "all-inclusive packages to Spain's Costa Brava. These combined flights to Perpignan in Southern France with onward coach connections, with prices starting from £32.50 for travel on Mondays (£36 for weekend travel). 1957 was also the year Eagle joined IATA. On 26 July 1957, Eagle formed an overseas subsidiary, named Eagle Airways (Bermuda), in preparation for the launch of transatlantic scheduled services between Bermuda and New York, using Viscount 800 turboprop aircraft. Within a year of launching its first transatlantic scheduled route, the airline's North Atlantic scheduled operation extended to Montreal, Baltimore, Washington and Nassau. In 1958, Eagle acquired the first", "title": "British Eagle" }, { "id": "20257412", "text": "Historic Flight Foundation The Historic Flight Foundation (HFF) is an aviation museum located at Paine Field in Mukilteo, Washington. The museum collects, restores, and flies historic aircraft from the period between Charles Lindbergh’s solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 and the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 in 1957, a 30-year period when airplanes evolved from relatively simple wood and fabric biplanes to commercial jets. Each aircraft in the collection demonstrates a great leap forward in aerospace engineering and also has a compelling back story. The collection’s Douglas DC-3 was manufactured at the Douglas Aircraft Company’s Long Beach plant as", "title": "Historic Flight Foundation" }, { "id": "11992984", "text": "1953, leadership was taken over by Pavel Alexandrovich Soloviev, and the OKB was referred to afterwards as the \"Soloviev Design Bureau\". Under Soloviev, the company became notable for the D-15 engine that powered the Myasishchev M-50 in 1957. Other notable designs included the D-25 turboshaft and D-20 and D-30 turbofans. Since 1989, and up to June, 2001, with a break in 1995-1997, the enterprise was headed by Yuri Evgenievich Reshetnikov. The Perm Engine Company was established in 1997 as a subsidiary of Perm Motors Company, inheriting the gas turbine production facility and the rich traditions of the largest company of", "title": "Aviadvigatel" }, { "id": "2122311", "text": "Four-engined bombers, such as the Avro Lancaster and Boeing B-29 Superfortress, with their range and massive carrying capacity, were natural prototypes for post-war next-generation airliners. Jet engine technology also accelerated due to wartime development of jet aircraft. In 1953, the De Havilland Comet became the first commercial jet airliner; the Sud Aviation Caravelle, Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 followed, and much long-distance travel was done by air. The Italian Line's and , launched in 1962 and 1963, were two of the last ocean liners to be built primarily for liner service across the North Atlantic. Cunard's transatlantic liner, \"Queen Elizabeth", "title": "Ocean liner" }, { "id": "1765013", "text": "Ilyushin\" Current operators: Former operators: Ilyushin Il-18 The Ilyushin Il-18 (; NATO reporting name: Coot) is a large turboprop airliner that first flew in 1957 and became one of the best known and durable Soviet aircraft of its era. The Il-18 was one of the world's principal airliners for several decades and was widely exported. Due to the aircraft's airframe durability, many examples achieved over 45,000 flight hours and the type remains operational in both military and (to a lesser extent) civilian capacities. The Il-18's successor was the long range Il-62 jet airliner. Two Soviet aircraft shared the designation Ilyushin", "title": "Ilyushin Il-18" }, { "id": "762832", "text": "lb (57.8 kN) with water injection. Maximum takeoff weight was 247,000 lb and first flight was on December 20, 1957. Major orders were the launch order for 20 707-121 aircraft by Pan Am and an American Airlines order for 30 707-123 aircraft. The first revenue flight was on October 26, 1958; 56 were built, plus seven short-bodied −138s; the last −120 was delivered to Western in May 1960. The 707-138 was a −120 with a fuselage 10 ft shorter than the others, with 5 ft (three frames) removed ahead and behind the wing, giving increased range. Maximum takeoff weight was", "title": "Boeing 707" }, { "id": "634082", "text": "GEC Avionics in 1984, and also had GEC Computers. Glues for the Mosquito wooden airframe were developed by Norman de Bruyne at his Duxford-based Aero Research Limited, which invented Araldite; the site is now owned by Hexcel. The Mosquito fuselage was made from two halves of balsawood (Ochroma) from Ecuador, and Canadian Birch, which had a Madapolam fabric over the surface; the wings were made from plywood and spruce. De Havilland built the Comet (the world's first jet airliner, first flying in July 1949 when piloted by John Cunningham, powered by DH jet engines, and designed by R.E. Bishop) at", "title": "East of England" }, { "id": "3170223", "text": "Boeing C-135 Stratolifter The Boeing C-135 Stratolifter is a transport aircraft derived from the prototype Boeing 367-80 jet airliner (also the basis for the 707) in the early 1950s. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707. Boeing gave the aircraft the internal designation of Model 717. Since the first one was built in August 1956, the C-135 and its variants have been a fixture of the United States Air Force. A large majority of the 820 units were developed as KC-135A Stratotankers for mid-air refueling. However, they have also performed numerous transport and special-duty functions. Forty-five", "title": "Boeing C-135 Stratolifter" }, { "id": "900187", "text": "In order to meet these goals, Aeroflot introduced higher capacity turbojet and turbine-prop aircraft on key domestic routes, and on services to Aeroflot destinations abroad. A major step for Aeroflot occurred on 15 September 1956 when the Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner entered service on the Moscow-Omsk-Irkutsk route, marking the world's first sustained jet airline service. The airline began international flights with the type on 12 October 1956 under the command of Boris Bugayev with flights from Moscow to Prague. The aircraft placed Aeroflot in an enviable position, as airlines in the West had operated throughout the 1950s with large piston-engined", "title": "Aeroflot" }, { "id": "3947004", "text": "Lockheed Constellations. In 1955 they became the first U.S. operator of the British manufactured, four engine Vickers Viscount, the first passenger turboprop airliner. The Viscount propjets were deployed on the flagship Washington-Chicago route and the airline had planned to fly them on expanded service; however, Capital was mostly stymied by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). The CAB also refused Capital a requested subsidy. Still, Capital's passenger-miles in 1957 were 88% more than 1955. On November 14, 1956 a Capital pilot reported seeing a blue-white ball in the sky. The pilot, Captain William J. Hull, was a senior captain who", "title": "Capital Airlines" }, { "id": "290634", "text": "also flew the Douglas DC-3, Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, North American F-86 Sabre, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Douglas F5D-1 Skylancer, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Boeing B-47 Stratojet and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, and was one of eight elite pilots involved in the Parasev paraglider research vehicle program. Over his career, he flew more than 200 different models of aircraft. His first flight in a rocket-powered aircraft was on August 15, 1957, in the Bell X-1B, to an altitude of . On landing, the poorly designed nose landing gear failed, as had happened on about a dozen previous flights of the Bell", "title": "Neil Armstrong" }, { "id": "4434642", "text": "The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013. First attested in English in the late 19th century (prior to the first sustained powered flight), the word \"airplane\", like \"aeroplane\", derives from the French \"aéroplane\", which comes from the Greek ἀήρ (\"aēr\"), \"air\" and either Latin \"planus\", \"level\", or Greek πλάνος (\"planos\"), \"wandering\". \"\"Aéroplane\"\" originally referred just to the wing, as", "title": "Airplane" }, { "id": "223310", "text": "directors remained under the control of private shareholders. On 25 July 1957, the airline introduced its flight simulator for the Douglas DC-7C – the last KLM aircraft with piston engines – which opened the transpolar route from Amsterdam via Anchorage to Tokyo on 1 November 1958. Each crew flying the transpolar route over the Arctic was equipped with a winter survival kit, including a 7.62 mm selective-fire AR-10 carbine for use against polar bears, in the event the plane was forced down onto the polar ice. The four-engine turboprop Vickers Viscount 800 was introduced on European routes in 1957. Beginning", "title": "KLM" }, { "id": "2357802", "text": "Dart turboprop engine, which produced substantially less vibration and noise which provided improved conditions for passengers; another major comfort feature was cabin pressurisation. Innovative manufacturing techniques were also employed in the aircraft's construction. On 24 November 1955, the F27 performed its maiden flight; on 19 November 1958, the type was introduced to revenue service. Shortly after its introduction, the F27 was recognised as being a commercial success. Under a licensing arrangement reached between Fokker and the U.S. aircraft manufacturer Fairchild, the F27 was manufactured in the United States by the latter; Fairchild went on to independently develop a stretched version", "title": "Fokker F27 Friendship" }, { "id": "1765004", "text": "Ilyushin Il-18 The Ilyushin Il-18 (; NATO reporting name: Coot) is a large turboprop airliner that first flew in 1957 and became one of the best known and durable Soviet aircraft of its era. The Il-18 was one of the world's principal airliners for several decades and was widely exported. Due to the aircraft's airframe durability, many examples achieved over 45,000 flight hours and the type remains operational in both military and (to a lesser extent) civilian capacities. The Il-18's successor was the long range Il-62 jet airliner. Two Soviet aircraft shared the designation Ilyushin Il-18. The first Il-18 was", "title": "Ilyushin Il-18" }, { "id": "2709960", "text": "Skyray was fitted instead with the Pratt & Whitney J57, a more powerful but larger engine. Production aircraft were not delivered until early 1956, while the United States Marine Corps received their first in 1957. In total, 419 F4D-1 (later designated F-6 in the unified designation system) aircraft were produced. Its unique design also played a part in making the Skyray one of the best-known early jet fighters. It was affectionately known as the \"Ford\" (after the \"Four\" and \"D\" of its designation). In 1953, Edward H. Heinemann was awarded the Collier Trophy in recognition of his design work on", "title": "Douglas F4D Skyray" }, { "id": "4570835", "text": "That increase in cruise altitudes required far more rigorous engineering of the fuselage, and in the beginning not all the engineering problems were fully understood. The world’s first commercial jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet (1949) designed with a service ceiling of . It was the first time that a large diameter, pressurized fuselage with windows had been built and flown at this altitude. Initially, the design was very successful but two catastrophic airframe failures in 1954 resulting in the total loss of the aircraft, passengers and crew grounded what was then the entire world jet airliner fleet.", "title": "Cabin pressurization" }, { "id": "3909554", "text": "United States Air Force (USAF) requirement that was later dropped due to budget cuts. Lockheed decided to continue the project on its own for the business market. The first two prototypes were equipped with two Bristol Siddeley Orpheus engines, the first of these flying on 4 September 1957. The second of these was also equipped with the wing-mounted \"slipper tanks\", which was originally to be an option. Lockheed attempted to arrange a contract to produce the Orpheus in the US, but when these negotiations failed it re-engined the second prototype with four Pratt & Whitney JT12s in 1959. The slipper", "title": "Lockheed JetStar" }, { "id": "2915182", "text": "and in a site was bought in Bordes near Pau. Turbomeca progressively moved into this site between the autumn of 1941 and June 1942. In November 1942, Szydlowski fled to Switzerland. Between October 1942 and 1944, the production stalled and the workforce dropped from about 300 to about 50. From 1950, Safran Helicopter Engines produced the tiny centrifugal flow Palas turbojet, producing 1.6 kN (353 lbf). The Palas was also produced by Blackburn and General Aircraft in the UK and Continental in the USA. From 1957, it manufactured the Bastan turboprop for the Aérospatiale N 262 airliner. Blackburn had a", "title": "Safran Helicopter Engines" }, { "id": "8218820", "text": "Fokker F26 The Fokker F26 was an early jet airliner design by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer, Fokker. During the era before the Second World War, Fokker was one of the world's largest manufacturers of passenger aircraft. After the re-emergence of the Fokker company in 1945 (its founder, Anthony Fokker, had died in the United States in 1939), the company made ambitious plans for reconquering the market it once dominated. Therefore, in 1946, the company came up with a design of a jetliner. The design materialised through cooperation between Fokker, the Dutch airline company KLM, and the Dutch national institute for", "title": "Fokker F26" }, { "id": "14893954", "text": "circumnavigate the globe nonstop, when it made the journey in 94 hours and one minute in 1949, assisted by refueling the plane in flight. Operation Power Flite Operation Power Flite was a United States Air Force mission in which three Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses became the first jet aircraft to circle the world nonstop, when they made the journey in January 1957 in 45 hours and 19 minutes, using in-flight refueling to stay aloft. The mission was intended to demonstrate that the United States had the ability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world. Led by Major General Archie", "title": "Operation Power Flite" } ]

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[ { "id": "11013808", "text": "James Caan (entrepreneur) James Caan (born Nazim Khan, 28 December 1960) is a British-Pakistani entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known as a former investor on the BBC television programme \"Dragons’ Den\", in which he was one of the Dragons from 2007 to 2010. More recently, he has hosted \"The Business Class\" on CNBC, a series which sees him joined by experts from a cross-section of industries to analyse and advise innovative UK small and medium enterprises. He is also Chairman of the UK Government's Start Up Loans Scheme, which supports entrepreneurs with funding and mentoring to start their", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "2450427", "text": "motion pictures star located at 6648 Hollywood Boulevard. Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in the Bronx, New York, the son of Sophie (née Falkenstein; June 24, 1915 – January 18, 2016) and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany. His father was a meat dealer and butcher. One of three siblings, Caan grew up in Sunnyside, Queens. He was educated in New York City, and later attended Michigan State University. He later transferred to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, but did not graduate. His classmates at Hofstra included Francis Ford Coppola and Lainie Kazan. While studying at Hofstra", "title": "James Caan" }, { "id": "11013829", "text": "the Businessman of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards. On 29 October 2015, Caan was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 16 in the list of 100 Most Influential British Entrepreneurs. List of British Pakistanis James Caan (entrepreneur) James Caan (born Nazim Khan, 28 December 1960) is a British-Pakistani entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known as a former investor on the BBC television programme \"Dragons’ Den\", in which he was one of the Dragons from 2007 to 2010. More recently, he has hosted \"The Business Class\" on CNBC, a series which sees him joined by", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "11013809", "text": "own business. Caan initially achieved success in the recruitment industry, founding the recruitment company Alexander Mann in 1985, which he sold in 2002. In 1993, he co-founded the executive head-hunting firm Humana International, in which he sold his stake in 1999. He is also the founder and current CEO of the UK-based private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw. In 2013, he was named Chairman of the Year at the International Business Awards. Caan has been involved in a number of charitable activities and founded the James Caan Foundation in 2006. Born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Caan's family emigrated to the United", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "11013810", "text": "Kingdom when he was two years old. His father came to the UK without any money or knowing the language but was able to build a successful business from scratch. He subsequently established a clothing company in Brick Lane, east London. Caan's father had intended him to join the family business once his formal education was completed, but Caan decided he wanted to find his own way in the world. At 16, before he had begun his O-Levels, he left home and moved to a flat in Kensington. This led to Caan's being estranged from his father for many years.", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "2450454", "text": "to Sheila Marie Ryan (a former girlfriend of Elvis Presley's) in 1976 was short-lived; they divorced the following year. Their son, Scott Caan, who also is an actor, was born August 23, 1976. Caan was married to Ingrid Hajek from September 1990 to March 1994; they had a son, Alexander James Caan, born 1991. He married Linda Stokes on October 7, 1995, they have two sons, James Arthur Caan (born 1995) and Jacob Nicholas Caan (born 1998). They divorced in 2009, citing irreconcilable differences. In 1993, a 25-year-old West Hollywood man apparently lost his footing and tumbled to his death", "title": "James Caan" }, { "id": "7179991", "text": "another Portsmouth district, Copnor Road passes through Hilsea as well as through Copnor itself. Copnor is one of the smaller districts of Portsmouth. James Callaghan, who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 until 1979 and was in parliament from 1945 until 1987, was born at 38 Funtington Road in Copnor on 27 March 1912. He lived there until around 1930, and at the time of his death in March 2005 was living in Ringmer, East Sussex. Copnor Copnor is an area of Portsmouth, England, located on the eastern side of Portsea Island. The population of Copnor", "title": "Copnor" }, { "id": "2450425", "text": "James Caan James Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. After early roles in \"The Glory Guys\" (1965), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, \"El Dorado\" (1967), and \"The Rain People\" (1969), he came to prominence in the 1970s with significant roles in films such as \"Brian's Song\" (1971), \"Cinderella Liberty\" (1973), \"The Gambler\" (1974), \"Freebie and the Bean\" (1974), \"Rollerball\" (1975), \"Funny Lady\" (1975), \"A Bridge Too Far\" (1977) and \"Chapter Two\" (1979). For his signature role in \"The Godfather\" (1972), that of hot-tempered Sonny Corleone, Caan was nominated for the Academy Award for", "title": "James Caan" }, { "id": "2450456", "text": "eldest daughter Tara and one from his son Scott. James Caan James Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. After early roles in \"The Glory Guys\" (1965), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, \"El Dorado\" (1967), and \"The Rain People\" (1969), he came to prominence in the 1970s with significant roles in films such as \"Brian's Song\" (1971), \"Cinderella Liberty\" (1973), \"The Gambler\" (1974), \"Freebie and the Bean\" (1974), \"Rollerball\" (1975), \"Funny Lady\" (1975), \"A Bridge Too Far\" (1977) and \"Chapter Two\" (1979). For his signature role in \"The Godfather\" (1972), that of hot-tempered Sonny", "title": "James Caan" }, { "id": "623697", "text": "38 Funtington Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, England, on 27 March 1912. He took his middle name from his father, James (1877–1921), who was the son of an Irish Catholic father who had fled to England during the Great Irish Famine, and a Jewish mother. Callaghan's father ran away from home in the 1890s to join the Royal Navy; as he was a year too young to enlist, he gave a false date of birth and changed his surname from Garogher to Callaghan, so that his true identity could not be traced. He rose to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. His", "title": "James Callaghan" }, { "id": "4917060", "text": "James Roosevelt James \"Jimmy\" Roosevelt II (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician. The oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, he received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Marine Corps officer during World War II. He served as an official Secretary to the President and in the United States House of Representatives. Roosevelt was born in New York City at 123 East 36th Street. He attended the Potomac School and the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and the Groton School", "title": "James Roosevelt" }, { "id": "220817", "text": "Westerner whose mother ran a boardinghouse, a man who grew up with hotcakes and salmon and meatloaf in his blood. A man who was born a hundred years ago on the other side of the country, in a city, Portland, that at the time was every bit as cosmopolitan as, say, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. James Beard died of heart failure on January 21, 1985 at his home in New York City at age 81. He was cremated and his ashes scattered over the beach in Gearhart, Oregon, where he spent summers as a child. In 1995, \"Love and Kisses and a", "title": "James Beard" }, { "id": "18949276", "text": "of Western Australia. Sir James's wife died in early 1995, and he died on 30 September in the same year. James McCusker (banker) Sir James Alexander McCusker (2 December 1913 – 30 September 1994) was a prominent Australian financial services industry figure and philanthropist during the 20th century. McCusker was born in North Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Highgate Primary School in the Perth suburb of Highgate before winning a scholarship to Perth Modern School, which he attended until aged 14 when, due to his parents' financial circumstances, he left to join the Commonwealth Bank as a junior clerk.", "title": "James McCusker (banker)" }, { "id": "14332055", "text": "James Lloydovich Patterson James Lloydovich Patterson (, ; born 17 July 1933) is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent. James Lloydovich Patterson was born in Moscow on July 17, 1933, the eldest of three children born to an African American immigrant to the Soviet Union and his Ukrainian wife. Having arrived in the USSR as an unemployed actor looking for work during the Great Depression in 1932, James Patterson's father Lloyd Patterson, just 22, decided to remain permanently after meeting and falling in love with James' mother, the theater artist Vera Ippolitovna", "title": "James Lloydovich Patterson" }, { "id": "5097220", "text": "Japan, the former Soviet Union, the USA and UK, and his native Germany, where it became \"the archetypal soundtrack of any German cellar bar party\", and made him the \"most commercially successful bandleader\" of the second half of the 20th century. Last was born to Louis and Martha Last in Bremen, Germany. He was the younger brother of Robert Last and Werner Last (aka Kai Warner). His father was an official at the postal and public works department of the city of Bremen and Last grew up in the suburb of Sebaldsbrück. He began studying the piano at age 10,", "title": "James Last" }, { "id": "11129323", "text": "associate producer of the 2002 film \"This Thing of Ours\", which stars James Caan. He also helped finance the $22,000 pornographic film \"Deep Throat\" which generated $30–50 million dollars, and \"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre\", a horror film which earned over $30 million from a $300,000 investment. He was born in Naples, Italy to Carmine Franzese and Maria Corvola, although his birth year is a source of confusion. Federal prison records say that he was born February 6, 1917. However, his son, Michael Franzese, says that his father was actually born in 1919. He grew up with 3 brothers. He", "title": "John Franzese" }, { "id": "11013827", "text": "offering to buy a baby from a family that was a victim of the 2010 Pakistan flood. Caan insisted the offer had been made with good intentions, but stated that he regretted the incident and described his behaviour as \"clearly wrong\". Caan was later filmed saying: \"If there's an opportunity to give a life a chance of survival, it's more an emotional response than a rational decision.\", \"What I have to remember is that I am here to build a village. That child belongs to that family\". Caan is involved with and supports other charities including The Prince's Trust, Marie", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "11013825", "text": "a primary focus on children's access to education and healthcare. The JCF has funded the construction of a new school at his birthplace Lahore, located in the eastern province of Punjab. Since first purchasing a barren plot of land and opening the 16-classroom school in 2005, the TCF School, named after Caan’s father, educates over 420 children aged between 5-11. In July 2010, Caan flew to Pakistan immediately after the worst flooding in the country's history and personally purchased, prepared and delivered emergency food parcels to families in the Northern village of Nowshera. Upon his return to the UK Caan", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "3830237", "text": "Scott Caan Scott Andrew Caan (born August 23, 1976) is an American actor. He currently stars as Detective Danny \"Danno\" Williams in the CBS television series \"Hawaii Five-0\" (2010–present), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Caan is also known for his recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series \"Entourage\" (2009–2011). He was also a part of 1990s rap group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist. The duo went by the names Mad Skillz and Mudfoot, respectively. Caan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor James Caan and Sheila Marie Ryan,", "title": "Scott Caan" }, { "id": "3756063", "text": "James Burchett James Charles Sholto Burchett Queen's Counsel, born in Goodooga, New South Wales, on 11 October 1930, died 30 September 2012, was Justice of the Federal Court of Australia between June 1985 and October 2000 and was president of the Australian Copyright Tribunal. In 1996 he handed a series of judgements which delayed the start of the Super League rugby league breakaway competition. He conducted the 2001 Inquiry into Military Justice in the Australian Defence Force, which concluded that there was not a culture of widespread or systemic avoidance of due disciplinary processes, nor the use of violence to", "title": "James Burchett" }, { "id": "11013812", "text": "in the early 1980s. His first office was in Pall Mall but was so small that the door could not be fully opened as it was blocked by his desk. He purposely chose the prestigious address to add credibility to his business. Caan did not excel at school and did not attend university as an undergraduate, but graduated from the 7-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2003. He founded the recruitment company Alexander Mann in 1987. In 1993 Caan co-founded the executive headhunting firm Humana International with Doug Bugie, eventually growing the business to over 147 offices", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "3830238", "text": "an actress and former model. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Germany. He has an older half-sister named Tara Caan and three younger half-brothers named Alexander James Caan (born 1991), Jacob Nicholas Caan (born 1995), and James Arthur Caan (born 1998). Caan was a roadie for the rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain. Caan was also a member of the hip-hop group The Whooliganz as Mad Skillz (with producer and fellow MC The Alchemist as Mudfoot). The Alchemist and he, when performing as the rap duo the Whooliganz in the early '90s, received a record deal with", "title": "Scott Caan" }, { "id": "206587", "text": "World War II and served as president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years. James Francis \"Jimmy\" Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His biographers disagree as to the actual location: either on the corner of Avenue D and 8th Street or in a top-floor apartment at 391 East 8th Street, the address that his birth certificate indicates. His father, James Francis Cagney Sr. (1875–1918), was of Irish descent. At the time of his son's birth, he was a bartender and amateur boxer, though on Cagney's birth certificate, he is listed", "title": "James Cagney" }, { "id": "11013824", "text": "the government scheme, providing loans of around £2,500 to the 18- to 30-year-olds to start their own businesses. Originally, the goal of Start Up Loans was to help 1,000 businesses obtain government and private sector investments to fund these new ventures, however as of 2014, James Caan has helped provide funding and mentorship to more than 18,000 start ups. Caan founded the James Caan Foundation (JCF) in 2006 after he took a ‘gap year’ to visit his homeland of Pakistan. The JCF supports charities in the UK and seeks to promote greater awareness of issues facing the developing world, with", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "14301050", "text": "Hamilton Bradshaw's holdings. Caan's past experience is reflected in Hamilton Bradshaw's holdings in recruitment. Caan's first company, recruitment pioneer Alexander Mann, became one of the UK's most successful recruitment firms of the late 20th century. While Hamilton Bradshaw has a diverse range of investments, its CEO's experience in recruitment has led the company to invest in these types of businesses. After CEO and founder James Caan joined Dragons' Den in 2007, Hamilton Bradshaw's scope was expanded. This is because Caan's investments on Dragons' Den are managed by HB. In fact, James Caan has pursued 15 pitches on the Den, with", "title": "Hamilton Bradshaw" }, { "id": "206582", "text": "James Cagney James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film (though primarily known for the latter). Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as \"The Public Enemy\" (1931), \"Taxi!\" (1932), \"Angels with Dirty Faces\" (1938), and \"White Heat\" (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. In 1999, the American Film Institute", "title": "James Cagney" }, { "id": "12373011", "text": "the early twentieth century. While the Lumiere Brothers are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, it is American cinema that has emerged as the most dominant force in the industry. Its history can be separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period. Actor James Dean, who appeared in films during the classical Hollywood era until his untimely death, is widely regarded as an American cultural icon of teenage disillusionment. American independent cinema was revitalized in the late 1980s and early 1990s when another new generation of moviemakers, including", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "853042", "text": "his predecessors in his youth. Macmillan was the last Prime Minister born during the Victorian era, the last to have served in the First World War, and the last to receive an hereditary peerage. At the time of his death he was the longest-lived prime minister in British history, a record he held until James Callaghan surpassed him on 13 February 2005. Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853–1936), a publisher, and his wife, the former Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856–1937), an artist and socialite from Spencer, Indiana. He had two", "title": "Harold Macmillan" }, { "id": "14301047", "text": "Hamilton Bradshaw Hamilton Bradshaw is a mid-market private equity firm with headquarters in London, England. The company was founded in 2003, by UK serial entrepreneur and former Dragons' Den panelist James Caan. Hamilton Bradshaw's main offices are located in Mayfair, London. Hamilton Bradshaw (HB) can be segmented into private equity, venture capital, recruitment, and real estate. Hamilton Bradshaw's focus is on acquiring companies that have unique selling points (USPs). In Caan's book, \"The Real Deal\", he affirms that, “If you don't have a Unique Selling Point – you're dead in the water.\" To ensure that this is present in business", "title": "Hamilton Bradshaw" }, { "id": "4791417", "text": "Jim Cavill James Freeman Cavill (c.1862 –1952 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland) a Brisbane hotelier, was one of the pioneers of the Gold Coast, Australia. Information about his early life is sketchy as he told a number of conflicting stories, which cannot be validated from official records. He often claimed to be born in Carlton, Melbourne but also claimed to be born in Sydney as the son of Frederick Cavill (1839–1927), a champion swimmer, and Maria Rhodes a cousin of Cecil Rhodes. From 1903–1913, Jim Cavill was a hairdresser with premises in Edward Street, Brisbane. Although an employer himself, he campaigned", "title": "Jim Cavill" }, { "id": "4847148", "text": "for decades to have the verdict overturned. In 1998, a police inquiry concluded he was wrongfully convicted and the case was sent to the Court of Appeal, which ruled in 2002 that a DNA test conclusively proved Hanratty's guilt beyond any doubt. James Hanratty was born on 4 October 1936 in Farnborough, Kent, the eldest of four sons of James Francis Hanratty (1907–1978) and his wife Mary Ann Hanratty (1917–1999). By 1937, the family had moved to Wembley in northwest London. Hanratty's early years were troubled. Long before his trial for the A6 murder, he had already been described as", "title": "James Hanratty" }, { "id": "10903772", "text": "James Goodfellow James Goodfellow OBE (born 1937 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish inventor. He was educated at St Mirin's Academy in his home town. In 1966, he patented personal identification number (PIN) technology, and the cash machine. He was a development engineer given the project of developing an automatic cash dispenser in 1965. His system accepted a machine readable encrypted card, with a numerical PIN keypad. Despite being appointed an OBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for his invention of the personal identification number, Goodfellow regrets the lack of recognition and compensation for his inventiveness, since PIN codes", "title": "James Goodfellow" }, { "id": "20321814", "text": "James von Klemperer James von Klemperer is a New York-based American architect. He is president of the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). He is known for his contributions to the designs of new cities, urban mixed-use clusters, and supertall buildings, including the Lotte World Tower, currently the world's fifth tallest building, and One Vanderbilt, currently under construction next to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. He also played a primary role in establishing KPF's practice in Asia in the early 1990s. von Klemperer was born in 1957 in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Klemens von Klemperer (Historian) and Elizabeth von Klemperer (Literary", "title": "James von Klemperer" }, { "id": "12032550", "text": "James Roosevelt (lawyer) James Roosevelt III (born November 9, 1945) is an attorney, Democratic Party official, and a grandson of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. As of 2017, he is the co-chair of the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee, a position he has held since 1995. Roosevelt was born on November 9, 1945 to Congressman James Roosevelt (1907–1991) and Romelle Theresa Schneider (1915–2002). His two full siblings are Michael (born December 7, 1946) and Anna (born January 10, 1948). Through his father, he has two elder half-sisters (Sara and Kate), a younger half-brother", "title": "James Roosevelt (lawyer)" }, { "id": "4103837", "text": "is an autonomous and spontaneous production of the soul. James Hillman James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut. Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He was the third child of four born to Madeleine and Julian Hillman. James was born in Breakers Hotel, one of the hotels his father owned. His", "title": "James Hillman" }, { "id": "10695827", "text": "The suggestions in the \"Daily Mail\" report were rejected by the BBC who said the new Dragon would be chosen by their \"business credentials\" and not ethnicity. A BBC spokesman said it was normal that the show sometimes changed its team. Farleigh's replacement was the British-Pakistani businessman James Caan. In April 2010, the \"Daily Mail\" reported that James Caan and Duncan Bannatyne were involved in a 'bitter row' over tax. Bannatyne claimed Pakistan-born Caan had an 'unfair' business advantage due to his non-domiciled tax status. He complained that, because Caan does not pay UK tax on his overseas earnings, he", "title": "Dragons' Den (UK TV programme)" }, { "id": "4791420", "text": "the Cavill mall, in Surfers Paradise were named in honor of James 'Jim' Cavill; previously it had been named Meyer's Ferry Road or just Ferry Road. Jim Cavill died at the Surfers Paradise Hotel on 5 March 1952 and was buried in the Southport cemetery. Jim Cavill James Freeman Cavill (c.1862 –1952 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland) a Brisbane hotelier, was one of the pioneers of the Gold Coast, Australia. Information about his early life is sketchy as he told a number of conflicting stories, which cannot be validated from official records. He often claimed to be born in Carlton, Melbourne", "title": "Jim Cavill" }, { "id": "11013817", "text": "founded Hamilton Bradshaw Venture Partners. In 2012/13, Caan launched Hamilton Bradshaw Real Estate (HBRE) to invest in \"disruptive property start-ups\". James Caan was recognised in the 2015 New Year Honours List, with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to entrepreneurship and charitable services through the James Caan Foundation. Caan, Chairman of Start Up Loans, which has supported thousands of people with funding and mentoring to start their own business was “delighted and privileged” to receive the accolade. This award is recognition for the 23,000 new businesses set up through the scheme as well as his", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "5429975", "text": "this on.\" He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to drama and to the community in Northern Ireland. James Nesbitt William James Nesbitt, (born 15 January 1965) is an actor and presenter from Northern Ireland. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become", "title": "James Nesbitt" }, { "id": "14332059", "text": "his mother immigrated to the United States from the Russian Federation in the 1990s. Following the death of his mother in 2001, Patterson has lived mostly in seclusion and ill health, but continues to write poetry. James Lloydovich Patterson James Lloydovich Patterson (, ; born 17 July 1933) is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent. James Lloydovich Patterson was born in Moscow on July 17, 1933, the eldest of three children born to an African American immigrant to the Soviet Union and his Ukrainian wife. Having arrived in the USSR as an", "title": "James Lloydovich Patterson" }, { "id": "9132876", "text": "of Financial Law and Ethics at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2018, he was appointed to sit part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong William Blair (judge) Sir William James Lynton Blair (born 31 March 1950) is a retired British judge. He was previously a Queen's Counsel, specialising in domestic and international banking and finance law. He is the elder brother of former British prime minister Tony Blair. Blair was born in Scotland to Leo Charles Lynton Blair, a barrister and later a lecturer in law, and Hazel Corscadden. Like his brother Tony, the", "title": "William Blair (judge)" }, { "id": "2484292", "text": "James Stirling (architect) Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect. Stirling worked in partnership with James Gowan from 1956 to 1963, then with Michael Wilford from 1971 until 1992. Stirling was born in Glasgow. His year of birth is widely quoted as 1926 but his longstanding friend Sir Sandy Wilson later stated it was 1924. The family moved to Liverpool when James was an infant, where he attended Quarry Bank High School. During World War II, he joined the Black Watch before transferring to the Parachute Regiment. He was parachuted behind German", "title": "James Stirling (architect)" }, { "id": "2484301", "text": "required for the highest level of architectural achievement.\" Rather more cuttingly, Jonathan Meades says that \"His buildings, like their bombastic maker, looked tough but were perpetual invalids, basket cases.\" James Stirling (architect) Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect. Stirling worked in partnership with James Gowan from 1956 to 1963, then with Michael Wilford from 1971 until 1992. Stirling was born in Glasgow. His year of birth is widely quoted as 1926 but his longstanding friend Sir Sandy Wilson later stated it was 1924. The family moved to Liverpool when James was", "title": "James Stirling (architect)" }, { "id": "13712381", "text": "the New Cities Foundation (a global non-profit focused on the future of cities). His cousin is the British psychotherapist, Susie Orbach. James Rossant wrote a memoir which he published privately and shared with members of his family. Writings: Drawings: James Rossant James Stephan Rossant (August 17, 1928 – December 15, 2009) was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture. A long-time Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is best known for his master plan of Reston, Virginia, the Lower Manhattan Plan, and the UN-sponsored master plan for Dodoma, Tanzania. He was a partner of the architectural firm", "title": "James Rossant" }, { "id": "353254", "text": "from Anna, a Roman Catholic, Murdoch was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KSG), a papal honour awarded by Pope John Paul II. While Murdoch would often attend Mass with Torv, he never converted to Catholicism. Torv and Murdoch had three children: Elisabeth Murdoch (born in Sydney, Australia on 22 August 1968), Lachlan Murdoch (born in London, UK on 8 September 1971), and James Murdoch, (born in London on 13 December 1972). Murdoch's companies published two novels by his then wife: \"Family Business\" (1988) and \"Coming to Terms\" (1991), both considered to be vanity", "title": "Rupert Murdoch" }, { "id": "2492936", "text": "by relocating and developing stores to anchor the malls. In more recent years, the chain has continued to follow consumer traffic, echoing the retailing trend of opening some freestanding stores, including some next door to competitors. Certain stores are located in power centers. The company has been an Internet retailer since 1998. It has streamlined its catalog and distribution while undergoing renovation improvements at store level. James Cash Penney was born in Hamilton, Missouri. After graduating from high school, Penney worked for a local retailer. He relocated to Colorado at the advice of a doctor, hoping that a better climate", "title": "J. C. Penney" }, { "id": "14929555", "text": "James W. Huston (author) James Webb Huston (October 26, 1953 – April 14, 2016) was an American author and lawyer, best known for his popular military and legal thrillers. A graduate of TOPGUN, he served as a naval flight officer and worked in naval intelligence before going on to become a \"New York Times\" best-selling author. Huston was born and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. His father, James A. Huston, was a Purdue University history professor and highly decorated World War II veteran who published several books on military and diplomatic history. In 2009, James A. Huston was awarded", "title": "James W. Huston (author)" }, { "id": "5429914", "text": "James Nesbitt William James Nesbitt, (born 15 January 1965) is an actor and presenter from Northern Ireland. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical \"Up", "title": "James Nesbitt" }, { "id": "9824634", "text": "James Fleck James Douglas Fleck, (born February 10, 1931), sometimes known as Jim Fleck, is a Canadian businessman, and academic. Fleck was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on February 10, 1931 to Robert Douglas and Norma Marie Fleck. He married Margaret Evelyn Fleck (née Humprhys) in 1953. They have four children—Robert, Ellen, David and Christopher, five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. In 1982, Margaret was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada and has had an active career as a minister and certified chaplain. Fleck is interested in the arts, is a private collector, and in sports, particularly", "title": "James Fleck" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "10903773", "text": "are ubiquitous today. In 2016 he was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. James Goodfellow James Goodfellow OBE (born 1937 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish inventor. He was educated at St Mirin's Academy in his home town. In 1966, he patented personal identification number (PIN) technology, and the cash machine. He was a development engineer given the project of developing an automatic cash dispenser in 1965. His system accepted a machine readable encrypted card, with a numerical PIN keypad. Despite being appointed an OBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for his invention of the personal identification", "title": "James Goodfellow" }, { "id": "5220802", "text": "James Cash Penney James Cash \"J. C.\" Penney Jr. (September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the J. C. Penney stores in 1902. J.C. Penney was born on September 16, 1875, on a farm outside of Hamilton, Caldwell County, Missouri. He was the seventh of twelve children, only six of whom lived to adulthood, born to James Cash Penney, Sr. and Mary Frances (née Paxton) Penney. Penney's father was a Baptist preacher and farmer whose strict discipline included making his son pay for his own clothing once he reached his late pre-teens.", "title": "James Cash Penney" }, { "id": "9803186", "text": "James Beard (architect) James Albert \"Jim\" Beard (born 1924) is a significant Wellington architect, town planner, and landscape architect. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. A Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects since 1969 has in the past been closely involved in the institute at a national level. Including the Education Committee (1968–1970), Publications Committee (1965–1969), Journal Committee (1963–1964) and Library and Journal Committee (1964–1965). He was the President of the Wellington Architectural Centre (1962), a Committee Member (1958–1960, 1982–1986), and is currently a life member. His service to the design community also included involvement with the", "title": "James Beard (architect)" }, { "id": "2450443", "text": "to distract from their directorial prowess. There were actors who were good and capable, but they would distract from the special effects. It was a period of time when I said, 'I'm not going to work again.'\" He walked off the set of \"The Holcroft Covenant\" and was replaced by Michael Caine. Caan devoted much of his time during these years to coaching children's sports. In 1985 he was in a car crash. Caan considered retiring for good but instead of being \"set for life,\" as he believed, he found out one day that \"I was flat-ass broke... I didn't", "title": "James Caan" }, { "id": "3207475", "text": "J. L. Carr Joseph Lloyd Carr (20 May 1912 – 26 February 1994), who called himself \"Jim\" or even \"James\", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric. Carr was born in Thirsk Junction, Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire, into a Wesleyan Methodist family. His father Joseph, the eleventh son of a farmer, went to work for the railways, eventually becoming a station master for the North Eastern Railway. Carr was given the same Christian name as his father and the middle name Lloyd, after David Lloyd George, the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer. He adopted the names Jim and James in", "title": "J. L. Carr" }, { "id": "12261943", "text": "Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list. James Byron Dean was born on February 8, 1931, at the Seven Gables apartment on the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana, the only child of Winton Dean and Mildred Marie Wilson. He was primarily of English descent, with smaller amounts of German, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. He also claimed that his father was part Native American, while", "title": "James Dean" }, { "id": "4103815", "text": "James Hillman James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut. Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He was the third child of four born to Madeleine and Julian Hillman. James was born in Breakers Hotel, one of the hotels his father owned. His maternal grandfather was Joseph Krauskopf, a rabbi in the", "title": "James Hillman" }, { "id": "329102", "text": "the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth. His father Marc Isambard Brunel worked for the Royal Navy and invented the world's first production line to mass manufacture pulley blocks for the rigging in Royal Navy vessels. James Callaghan, who was British prime minister from 1976 to 1979, was born and raised in Portsmouth. He was the son of a Protestant Northern Irish petty officer in the Royal Navy and was also the only person to have held all four Great Offices of State, having previously served as Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Chancellor. John Pounds, the founder of the ragged", "title": "Portsmouth" }, { "id": "6759305", "text": "Robertson joined the Advisory Board of International Simultaneous Policy Organization which seeks to end the usual deadlock in tackling global issues through an international simultaneous policy. Robertson's latest book is the \"Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough?\" (Green Books, 2012). He and his wife live in Oxfordshire. James Robertson (activist) James Robertson (born 11 August 1928), a British-born political and economic thinker and activist, became an independent writer and speaker in 1974 after an early career as a British civil servant. He studied Greats at Balliol College, Oxford from 1946 to 1950 where he played cricket and rugby union, and ran", "title": "James Robertson (activist)" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "14929563", "text": "and The Price of Power. Lt. Kent \"Rat\" Rathman, versatile and legendary Navy SEAL. He was introduced in The Shadows of Power and reappears in Secret Justice. James W. Huston (author) James Webb Huston (October 26, 1953 – April 14, 2016) was an American author and lawyer, best known for his popular military and legal thrillers. A graduate of TOPGUN, he served as a naval flight officer and worked in naval intelligence before going on to become a \"New York Times\" best-selling author. Huston was born and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. His father, James A. Huston, was a", "title": "James W. Huston (author)" }, { "id": "1690575", "text": "City, University of London continued to host the James Cameron Memorial Lecture, but the prize was replaced with the Eric Robbins Prize. The James Cameron Memorial Lecture was given by: James Cameron (journalist) Mark James Walter Cameron CBE (17 June 1911 – 26 January 1985) was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given. Cameron was born in Battersea, London, of Scottish parentage; his father, William Ernest Cameron, was a barrister who wrote novels under the pseudonym Mark Allerton. His mother was Margaret Douglas (Robertson) Cameron. Cameron began as an office dogsbody with", "title": "James Cameron (journalist)" }, { "id": "19598358", "text": "Florida History\", Fall 1992, Vol. 20 #4, p. 6. [7] Ibid. [8] Ibid, pp. 7–10. [9] “Who’s Who in American Art”, 1953 edition. Sources: James Lunnon James Lunnon (October 3, 1897 – November 27, 1954) was a British-born, American-based artist and engineer during the first half of the twentieth century. He was known primarily for his portraits of the wealthy and famous, including such notables as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Frank Buck, and Will Rogers. James Lunnon was born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England on October 3, 1897. His father was a miller later active in Labour politics as a Member", "title": "James Lunnon" }, { "id": "11013815", "text": "them 'stand on their own two feet', he was accused of hypocrisy when it emerged that he had employed his own daughter in one of his companies. Caan responded that his daughter's recruitment process had been \"rigorous\", and stated that the outburst around this revelation would not detract from his six-month effort to campaign for a breakdown of employment barriers. However, in an interview with The Independent Caan admitted, \"‘I would find it very difficult not to help my child’\". In the same year, he invested in the managed office provider Avanta, which he sold three years later to the", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "6690133", "text": "was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. In 1995, Freed was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He died on December 15, 2005, of Parkinson's disease, at age 75 in his home in Manhattan, in New York City. James Ingo Freed James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930 – December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. After coming to the United States at age nine with his sister Betty, followed later by their parents, he studied at the Illinois Institute of", "title": "James Ingo Freed" }, { "id": "13612246", "text": "J. B. Webb James Bawtree (Jim) Webb, OBE (1929–2009) was influential in shaping Australia's international relations and overseas aid programs during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. His parents were Francis (Frank) and Gwendolyn Webb, who also had two daughters, Nancy, the older, and Elizabeth, the younger. From his mother's side of the family Webb drew a strong Wesleyan Methodist background. This contributed a major social justice streak to Webb's origins and to his lifelong views on politics and society. From his mother and aunt he gained a love of language, enquiry and learning; and from his father extraordinary social and", "title": "J. B. Webb" }, { "id": "12261990", "text": "had become friends after they first met on the set of \"Giant\", referred to Dean as gay during a speech at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2001. Biographer Darwin Porter believes that Dean was more likely omnisexual, and that his trysts were often opportunistic and designed to further his career. Publisher: Sandy Beach, A (February 26, 2018) James Dean James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, \"Rebel Without a Cause\"", "title": "James Dean" }, { "id": "206667", "text": "degree, Cagney turned the tables upon the college's faculty by writing and submitting a paper on soil conservation. Cagney, born in 1899 (prior to widespread use of automobiles), loved horses from childhood. As a child, he often sat on the horses of local deliverymen, and rode in horse-drawn streetcars with his mother. As an adult, well after horses were replaced by automobiles as the primary mode of transportation, Cagney raised horses on his farms, specializing in Morgans, a breed of which he was particularly fond. Cagney was a keen sailor and owned boats harbored on both US coasts, His joy", "title": "James Cagney" }, { "id": "409774", "text": "\"The Waste Land,\") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and \"one of the twentieth century's major poets\". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "18949268", "text": "James McCusker (banker) Sir James Alexander McCusker (2 December 1913 – 30 September 1994) was a prominent Australian financial services industry figure and philanthropist during the 20th century. McCusker was born in North Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Highgate Primary School in the Perth suburb of Highgate before winning a scholarship to Perth Modern School, which he attended until aged 14 when, due to his parents' financial circumstances, he left to join the Commonwealth Bank as a junior clerk. When World War II broke out, he joined the AIF, and became a sergeant with the First Armored Division. When", "title": "James McCusker (banker)" }, { "id": "816402", "text": "Sir Charlie Chaplin. Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to Mabel Hattersley (Gaunt) and John Mason. His father was a wealthy textile merchant. He was educated at Marlborough College, and earned a first in Architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he became involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time. Mason had no formal training in acting and initially embarked upon it for fun. After Cambridge, Mason made his stage debut in Aldershot in \"The Rascal\" in 1931. He joined the Old Vic theatre in London under the guidance of Tyrone Guthrie. In 1933 Alexander", "title": "James Mason" }, { "id": "19598350", "text": "James Lunnon James Lunnon (October 3, 1897 – November 27, 1954) was a British-born, American-based artist and engineer during the first half of the twentieth century. He was known primarily for his portraits of the wealthy and famous, including such notables as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Frank Buck, and Will Rogers. James Lunnon was born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England on October 3, 1897. His father was a miller later active in Labour politics as a Member of Parliament, while his mother was a concert violinist and painter.[1] For about three years he attended Malvern Public School in Worcestershire, England, before", "title": "James Lunnon" }, { "id": "3826218", "text": "the James Patterson Pledge with Scholastic Book Clubs to put books in the hands of young readers. James Patterson James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist. Among his works are the \"Alex Cross\", \"Michael Bennett\", \"Women's Murder Club\", \"Maximum Ride\", \"Daniel X\", \"NYPD Red\", \"Witch and Wizard\", and \"Private\" series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction and romance novels. His books have sold more than 300 million copies and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. In 2016, Patterson topped \"Forbes\" list of highest-paid authors for the third consecutive year,", "title": "James Patterson" }, { "id": "16283705", "text": "James Wightman Davidson James Wightman Davidson (1 October 1915 – 8 April 1973) was a New Zealand historian and constitutional adviser. Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University from 1950 to 1973, Davidson has been described as the \"founding father of modern Pacific Islands historiography as well as constitutional adviser to a succession of Island territories in the throes of decolonisation\". Davidson was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 1 October 1915. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School and Victoria University College before studying as a doctoral student at St John's College, Cambridge. He gained his", "title": "James Wightman Davidson" }, { "id": "11061226", "text": "Jim Clayton (businessman) James L. Clayton, Sr. (born 1934) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Clayton Homes in 1966 and built it into the United States' largest producer and seller of manufactured housing, a publicly traded company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003 for $1.7 billion. James L. Clayton was born March 2, 1934 in Finger, Tennessee. His father was a sharecropper. As a child, he aspired to become a country music singer. After high school, he went to Memphis to attend college and perform in honky tonks. After becoming ill at the end of", "title": "Jim Clayton (businessman)" }, { "id": "11901488", "text": "equipment, more specifically \"a terabyte of hard disks\". Similarly, filmmaker Robert Townsend financed part of \"Hollywood Shuffle\" using credit cards. Director Kevin Smith funded \"Clerks\" in part by maxing out several credit cards. Actor Richard Hatch also financed his production of \"\" partly through his credit cards. Famed hedge fund manager Bruce Kovner began his career (and, later on, his firm Caxton Associates) in financial markets by borrowing from his credit card. UK entrepreneur James Caan (as seen on \"Dragons' Den\") financed his first business using several credit cards. Travellers from the U.S. had encountered problems abroad because many countries", "title": "Credit card" }, { "id": "2193395", "text": "James Fox William Fox (born 19 May 1939), known professionally as James Fox, is an English actor, from a well-known acting family. He appeared in several notable films of the 1960s and early 1970s, including \"The Servant\", \"Thoroughly Modern Millie\" and \"Performance\", before quitting the screen for several years to be an evangelical Christian. He has since appeared in a wide range of film and TV productions. Fox was born in London, the son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and the film producer Robert Fox. His maternal grandfather", "title": "James Fox" }, { "id": "5974276", "text": "to the fashion world: he brought brilliance and quality to styles meant to be bought off the rack\" Galanos never married. He was the uncle of fine jewelry designer Diana Vincent, of Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. He retired in 1998 and lived in Palm Springs, California and West Hollywood. Galanos died on October 30, 2016 at the age of 92. James Galanos James Galanos (September 20, 1924 – October 30, 2016) was an American fashion designer and couturier. James Galanos was born September 20, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents. His mother, Helen Gorgoliatos, and his father,", "title": "James Galanos" }, { "id": "469545", "text": "20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts;", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "5974246", "text": "James Galanos James Galanos (September 20, 1924 – October 30, 2016) was an American fashion designer and couturier. James Galanos was born September 20, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents. His mother, Helen Gorgoliatos, and his father, Gregory Galanos, a frustrated artist, ran a restaurant in southern New Jersey, where Galanos had his first glimpses of well-dressed women. He grew up a shy boy and learned to work hard from an early age. Galanos recalled that he was \"a loner, surrounded by three sisters. I never sewed; I just sketched. It was simply instinctive. As a", "title": "James Galanos" }, { "id": "2020439", "text": "James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, \"A Death in the Family\" (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, at Highland Avenue and 15th Street, which was renamed James Agee Street, in 1909, in what is now the Fort Sanders neighborhood. When Agee was six, his father was killed", "title": "James Agee" }, { "id": "13503869", "text": "James Gamble Rogers II James Gamble Rogers II (January 24, 1901 – October 30, 1990) was a celebrated American architect practicing primarily in Winter Park, Florida in the middle years of the twentieth century. He is noted for suavely elegant residential and commercial work, in the Spanish Revival, Mediterranean Revival, French Provincial, and Colonial Revival styles. His occasional forays into the Art Deco and International Style also garnered outstanding contributions to the built environment. Rogers was born on January 24, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois, to John Arthur Rogers and Elizabeth Baird Rogers. His father, as well as his paternal uncle", "title": "James Gamble Rogers II" }, { "id": "11013811", "text": "Other than a Saturday job at Mr Buyright, Caan had no formal experience of work and so went to a recruitment agency to find some. His first job was door to door sales, which he found tiring. At this point, he knew he wanted to work in an office. He went back to the recruitment agency and asked for something that was indoors and saw a job working for Grand Metropolitan. He worked for several recruitment companies and started a fashion boutique with his wife before deciding he wanted to start his own company. Caan started his own recruitment company", "title": "James Caan (entrepreneur)" }, { "id": "666955", "text": "James Dewar Sir James Dewar FRS FRSE (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than 25 years. James Dewar was born in Kincardine, Perthshire (now in Fife) in 1842, the youngest of six boys of Ann Dewar and Thomas Dewar, a vintner. He was educated at Kincardine Parish School and then Dollar Academy. His parents died when he", "title": "James Dewar" }, { "id": "5692403", "text": "he had been visiting his family and saxophonist Noble \"Thin Man\" Watts, back to his home in The Bronx. <br> Spruill's work may be found on a number of compilation albums, including the following: Wild Jimmy Spruill James Edgar Spruill (June 9, 1934 – February 3, 1996), also known as Wild Jimmy Spruill, was an American New York based session guitarist, whose guitar solos featured on many rhythm and blues and pop hits of the 1950s and 1960s. Spruill was born into a sharecropping family in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. As a child he listened to both country music", "title": "Wild Jimmy Spruill" }, { "id": "4680212", "text": "Charles James (designer) Charles Wilson Brega James (18 July 1906 – 23 September 1978) was an English-American fashion designer. He is best known for his ballgowns and highly structured aesthetic. James is one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century and continues to influence new generations of designers. James' father, Ralph Ernest Haweis James, was a British army officer and instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His mother, Louise Enders Brega, came from a wealthy Chicago family. In 1919, he attended Harrow School where he met Evelyn Waugh, Francis Cyril Rose, and Cecil Beaton, with whom he", "title": "Charles James (designer)" }, { "id": "9803196", "text": "\"Unbuilt Wellington,\" at the Wellington City Art Gallery. James Beard (architect) James Albert \"Jim\" Beard (born 1924) is a significant Wellington architect, town planner, and landscape architect. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. A Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects since 1969 has in the past been closely involved in the institute at a national level. Including the Education Committee (1968–1970), Publications Committee (1965–1969), Journal Committee (1963–1964) and Library and Journal Committee (1964–1965). He was the President of the Wellington Architectural Centre (1962), a Committee Member (1958–1960, 1982–1986), and is currently a life member. His service to", "title": "James Beard (architect)" }, { "id": "15486969", "text": "James White (financier) James White (17 May 1877 – 29 June 1927) was an English financier, property developer and speculator. From a working-class family in Lancashire, he worked at a number of jobs before becoming well known in the years before the First World War as a boxing promoter. From that, he moved into property and other transactions, making large sums of money in major deals. He became a racehorse owner and theatre proprietor. White finally overreached himself financially, and being unable to meet his huge liabilities, committed suicide at the age of 50. White was born in Rochdale, Lancashire,", "title": "James White (financier)" }, { "id": "11028553", "text": "published very little. He was the editor of the \"Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic\". J Milton Cowan J Milton (\"Milt\") Cowan (February 22, 1907 – December 20, 1993) was an American linguist. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cowan was the son of a butcher, who, hesitating between the first names James and John when the boy was born, decided to give him neither but to let the boy make the choice himself when he grew up. However, Cowan never chose one, referring to himself as \"J, no period, Milton Cowan\". As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ", "title": "J Milton Cowan" }, { "id": "12091716", "text": "the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours, Coe was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services. In 1997, he received the John Britten Award from the Design Institute of New Zealand. This award is the highest recognition given by DINZ to an outstanding individual for leadership, vision and achievement both in NZ and internationally. James Coe Herbert James Bowkett Coe (26 September 1917 - 17 December 2003), better known as James or Jim Coe, was a New Zealand artist, art teacher, industrial designer and early champion of ergonomic design. Coe was born in Timaru in 1917. He attended", "title": "James Coe" }, { "id": "7571835", "text": "James Cosmo James Ronald Gordon Copeland, MBE (born 27 October 1947), known professionally as James Cosmo, is a Scottish actor known for his appearances in films including \"Highlander\", \"Braveheart\", \"Trainspotting\", \"Troy\", \"\", \"Ben-Hur\" and \"Wonder Woman\", as well as television series such as \"Game of Thrones\" and \"Sons of Anarchy\". On 3 January 2017 Cosmo entered the nineteenth series of \"Celebrity Big Brother\", on Day 19 of the series he won a pass to the final on 3 February 2017 and finished in fourth place. James Cosmo was born in Dumbarton Cottage Hospital, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK and attended Hartfield Primary", "title": "James Cosmo" }, { "id": "14239136", "text": "James de Givenchy James Claude Taffin de Givenchy (born August 27, 1963) is a French-born, New York-based jewelry designer and the owner of the jewelry company Taffin (founded in 1996). Givenchy grew up in Beauvais, a small town in the suburbs of Paris where the Parfums Givenchy has its factory and where his father, Jean Claude Taffin de Givenchy (1925–2009) and his uncle, the couturier Hubert de Givenchy, were born. James is one of 7 children born from the union of Patricia Taffin de Givenchy (born Myrick) and Jean Claude Taffin de Givenchy. James de Givenchy moved to New York", "title": "James de Givenchy" }, { "id": "3207486", "text": "to develop children's English language skills. J. L. Carr Joseph Lloyd Carr (20 May 1912 – 26 February 1994), who called himself \"Jim\" or even \"James\", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric. Carr was born in Thirsk Junction, Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire, into a Wesleyan Methodist family. His father Joseph, the eleventh son of a farmer, went to work for the railways, eventually becoming a station master for the North Eastern Railway. Carr was given the same Christian name as his father and the middle name Lloyd, after David Lloyd George, the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer. He adopted", "title": "J. L. Carr" }, { "id": "13712376", "text": "James Rossant James Stephan Rossant (August 17, 1928 – December 15, 2009) was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture. A long-time Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is best known for his master plan of Reston, Virginia, the Lower Manhattan Plan, and the UN-sponsored master plan for Dodoma, Tanzania. He was a partner of the architectural firm Conklin & Rossant and principal of James Rossant Architects. Born in Sydenham Hospital, New York City, Rossant grew up in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science. He studied architecture at Columbia University, the University", "title": "James Rossant" }, { "id": "220806", "text": "James Beard James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 23, 1985) was an American cook, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. Beard was a champion of American cuisine who taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. His legacy lives on in twenty books, other writings and his foundation's annual James Beard awards in a number of culinary genres. James Andrews Beard was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903 to Elizabeth and John Beard. His mother operated the Gladstone Hotel, and his father worked at the city's customs house. The family vacationed on the Pacific coast in", "title": "James Beard" }, { "id": "206588", "text": "as a telegraphist. His mother was Carolyn Elizabeth (née Nelson; 1877–1945); her father was a Norwegian ship captain while her mother was Irish. Cagney was the second of seven children, two of whom died within months of birth. He was sickly as a young child—so much so that his mother feared he would die before he could be baptized. He later attributed his sickness to the poverty his family had to endure. The family moved twice while he was still young, first to East 79th Street, and then to East 96th Street. He was confirmed at St. Francis de Sales", "title": "James Cagney" }, { "id": "4449212", "text": "Jan Morris Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL (born 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the \"Pax Britannica\" trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City. A trans woman, she was published under her birth name, James, until 1972, when she had sex reassignment after transitioning from living as male to living as female. Born in England of an English mother and Welsh father, Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, and", "title": "Jan Morris" }, { "id": "15131182", "text": "1911) and Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford (both born in 1913). (However, Reagan, Nixon and Ford served in World War II with members of the Greatest Generation.) Living members of this generation include Richard Arvine Overton, the oldest living World War II veteran. For deceased celebrities born in this era, see G.I. Generation. Interbellum Generation Interbellum Generation is a term (derived from the Latin \"inter\" \"between\" and \"bellum\" \"war\") that is sometimes used to denote persons born in the United States during the first decade of the 20th century, often expressed specifically as the years 1901 to 1913. The", "title": "Interbellum Generation" }, { "id": "18272673", "text": "J. R. James John Richings \"Jimmy\" James OBE (27 October 1912 – 22 September 1980) was a British town planner who was influential in the era following the Second World War, and was Chief Planner at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government from 1961 to 1967. It was said of him that \"no-one in post-war Britain matched the range of the beneficial influences of his work\" in town and country planning. He was born in Stanley, County Durham, and was educated at Wolsingham County Grammar School and King's College London, graduating with a degree in geography in 1935. In", "title": "J. R. James" }, { "id": "4371461", "text": "Wall Street. He married Antoinette Granato (1916-1942) around 1940 and she died of cancer in 1942 after being hospitalized for 2 months. In 1991 his company began reconstruction of the Fifth Avenue headquarters of the American Irish Historical Society. James died December 24, 1997 in Larchmont, New York. James Gerard Kennedy Sr. James Gerard Kennedy Sr. (February 7, 1907 – December 24, 1997) aka James G. Kennedy, was the founder, president, and chairman of James G. Kennedy & Company, Inc. in New York City. James was born in 1907 in Harlem, New York City, the son of James Joseph Kennedy", "title": "James Gerard Kennedy Sr." } ]

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[ { "id": "19897633", "text": "Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway Stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons, vehicles, ammunition and other equipment have been located in Norway since 1981 as part of what is currently designated the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N). This material is stored in a network of climate-controlled caves and buildings near the city of Trondheim, and is drawn upon as part of worldwide US military operations. Norway has met most of the costs of the MCPP-N since the 1990s, and the sites are mainly staffed by Norwegians. The US military began storing equipment in Norway during 1981 after a memorandum of understanding", "title": "Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway" }, { "id": "483168", "text": "end of the war, around 80 Jews returned to the city. Out of the 135 individuals sent to Auschwitz, only five remained in Norway. It is unclear how many others, if any, survived. The synagogue was repaired in 1947. In May 1997, a Jewish museum was opened in Trondheim. At the turn of the 21st century, 120 Jews were living in Trondheim. Trondheim is situated where the River Nidelva meets Trondheim Fjord with an excellent harbour and sheltered condition. The river used to be deep enough for most boats in the Middle Ages. An avalanche of mud and stones made", "title": "Trondheim" }, { "id": "19897638", "text": "Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway included the following facilities in 2015. At this time the two aviation reception sites were located in above-ground buildings, and the other sites were in caves. Works consulted Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway Stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons, vehicles, ammunition and other equipment have been located in Norway since 1981 as part of what is currently designated the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N). This material is stored in a network of climate-controlled caves and buildings near the city of Trondheim, and is drawn upon as part of worldwide US military operations. Norway has met most of", "title": "Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway" }, { "id": "4020175", "text": "to sell her had fallen through before being sold for scrap in 1928. \"Nidaros\" was ordered by Norway in 1913 to supplement the older and classes of coastal defense ships. She would have been known in Norway as P/S \"Nidaros\"; P/S stands for \"Panserskip\" (\"armoured ship\"), while \"Nidaros\" was the old name for the Norwegian city of Trondheim. However, when the First World War broke out, the Royal Navy requisitioned most warships under construction in Britain for foreign powers and refunded the two-thirds of the \"Bjørgvin\"s £370,000 purchase price already paid by the Norwegians. \"Nidaros\" was laid down by Armstrong", "title": "HMS Gorgon (1914)" }, { "id": "3358729", "text": "Louis, Mauritius. On August 3, 2017, the boat visited Trondheim Seilforening in Trondheim, Norway. People lined up to see the great ship. On November 29, 2017 the boat visited Odesa port in Odesa, Ukraine. During the 2017 Deployment, the ship visited Rotterdam, Netherlands; Kiel, Germany (as a part of Kiel Week); Reykjavik, Iceland; Rota, Spain; Trondheim, Norway; Bergen, Norway; Riga, Latvia; Lisbon, Portugal; Souda Bay, Greece; Manama, Bahrain; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Odessa, Ukraine prior to returning to Norfolk, VA on December 23, 2017. The ship's crew also earned their Blue Nose for crossing into the Arctic Circle. USS James", "title": "USS James E. Williams" }, { "id": "4067277", "text": "Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland in the west to the municipality of Steinkjer in the north, passing the city of Trondheim on its way. Its maximum depth is , between Agdenes and Indre Fosen. The largest islands in the fjord are Ytterøya and Tautra; the small island of Munkholmen is located near the harbor of Trondheim; and there are several islands at the entrance", "title": "Trondheim Fjord" }, { "id": "4732125", "text": "Gällivare. It was hoped that this would divert German forces away from France, and open a war front in south Sweden. It was also agreed that mines would be laid in Norwegian waters (Operation Wilfred) and that the mining should be followed by the landing of troops at four Norwegian ports: Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. Because of Anglo-French arguments, the date of the mining was postponed from 5 April to 8 April. The postponement was catastrophic. On 1 April, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler had ordered the German invasion of Norway to begin on 9 April; so, when on the", "title": "German occupation of Norway" }, { "id": "1855083", "text": "Grimsby connections: Grimsby's twin cities include: As a port with extensive trading ties to Continental Europe, the Nordic nations and Baltic Europe, the town plays host to honorary consulates of Denmark, Iceland, and Norway. Swedish and Finnish honorary consulates are located in Immingham, and that of Germany at Barrow-upon-Humber. The people of Norway send a tree to the town of Grimsby every Christmas since the end of the Second World War. The Norwegian city of Trondheim sent a tree for 40 years until 2003, since then the tree has been donated by the northern Norwegian town of Sortland, and placed", "title": "Grimsby" }, { "id": "13852972", "text": "fort and the cheers of thousands of well-wishers. This was the first of a series of farewells as \"Fram\" sailed round the coast and moved northward, reaching Bergen on 1 July (where there was a great banquet in Nansen's honour), Trondheim on 5 July and Tromsø, north of the Arctic Circle, a week later. The last Norwegian port of call was Vardø, where \"Fram\" arrived on 18 July. After the final provisions were taken on board, Nansen, Sverdrup, Hansen and Blessing spent their last hours ashore in a sauna, being beaten with birch twigs by two young girls. The first", "title": "Nansen's Fram expedition" }, { "id": "483153", "text": "Trondheim Trondheim (; historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It has a population of 193,501 (4th quarter 2017), and is the third-most populous municipality in Norway, although the fourth largest urban area. It is the third largest city in the country, with a population (2013) of 169,972 inhabitants within the city borders. Trondheim lies on the south shore of Trondheim Fjord at the mouth of the River Nidelva. The city is dominated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF), St. Olavs University", "title": "Trondheim" }, { "id": "13978932", "text": "Council of Europe. There are around 18,000 Norwegians living in the United Kingdom and around 13,395 British people living in Norway. British people are one of the largest immigrant groups in many cities. The cities with the most Britons are Oslo (2,535), Stavanger (1,542), Bergen (1,014), Bærum (716), Trondheim (360), Asker (307), Kristiansand (238), Drammen (144) and Fredrikstad (111). Queen Elizabeth II has made three state visits to Norway during her reign, in 1955, 1981 and most recently in 2001 when she was received by King Harald V. The Royal Marines train annually in Norway, and are integrated into Norway's", "title": "Norway–United Kingdom relations" }, { "id": "14808359", "text": "a move strongly supported by \"Großadmiral\"s Erich Raeder and Karl Dönitz. Adolf Hitler stated that the city was to become \"a German Singapore\", and it eventually became one of his favorite architectural projects. During the war itself, the port city was already turned into a major base for German U-Boat submarines, Dora I. The conquest of Norway by the \"Wehrmacht\" presented the military leadership of the Third \"Reich\" with new opportunities for expansion. The city of Trondheim and its accompanying bay were determined to be very favorably located strategically for several reasons. Prior to the outbreak of war, the retired", "title": "Nordstern (city)" }, { "id": "4067282", "text": "living around the fjord Sogn'.) Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland in the west to the municipality of Steinkjer in the north, passing the city of Trondheim on its way. Its maximum depth is , between Agdenes and Indre Fosen. The largest islands in the fjord are Ytterøya and Tautra; the small island of Munkholmen is located near the harbor of Trondheim; and there are", "title": "Trondheim Fjord" }, { "id": "679786", "text": "eastern part of the country and the inner part of the long fjords, where the ice cover was thickest. This is a slow process, and for thousands of years following the end of the ice age, the sea covered substantial areas of what is today dry land. The sea reached what is today an elevation of 221 m in Oslo (Aker), 25 m in Stavanger, 5 m near Stad, 180 m in Trondheim, 50 m in Tromsø and 75 m in Kirkenes. This old seabed is now among the best agricultural land in the country. The glaciers in the higher", "title": "Geography of Norway" }, { "id": "16200297", "text": "morning of 25 December. Extreme high storm surge in Finnmark estimated to be 50–80 cm over normal sea levels, although this was due to the preceding storm Cato (Oliver). In Norway comparison was made with the New Year's Day Storm of 1992, however this storm was not as strong Patrick (Dagmar) is believed to be the third strongest storm to hit Norway in 50 years. A large landslide on 1 January 2012 close to the Norwegian city of Trondheim has been attributed to the warm weather and large amounts of rain the system brought to the area, which resulted in", "title": "Cyclone Dagmar" }, { "id": "3854468", "text": "for target practice and sunk in 2001 by a single DM2A3 torpedo launched from the \"Utstein\" (S 302). \"Bergen\" was decommissioned in August 2005. On 17 March 2006 at 20:10 CET, \"Trondheim\" ran aground off Lines island in Sør-Trøndelag. No injuries among the 121-man crew were reported. The incident was reported from the ship itself, and at 20:30 it came loose again. Water flooded two compartments (paint storage and forward pump room) of the ship. The compartments were sealed and three ships were sent to assist the frigate. The frigate was towed to port in Bergen by the coast guard", "title": "Oslo-class frigate" }, { "id": "17761277", "text": "Faro, Sagres. EV1 The Atlantic Coast Route EuroVelo 1 (EV1), named the \"Atlantic Coast Route\", is a long EuroVelo long-distance cycling route running from North Cape in Norway to Sagres in Portugal. This north-south route runs (mostly) along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean of Western Europe and passes successively through six countries: Norway, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. North Cape (EV7, EV11), Tromsø, Vestvågøy, Bodø, Trondheim (EV3), Alesund, Bergen (EV12). Note that since 2008, ferry services no longer operate Bergen in Norway and the Scottish city of Aberdeen. This can be done by air, however. Aberdeen", "title": "EV1 The Atlantic Coast Route" }, { "id": "4067279", "text": "for the petroleum sector. A yard in Indre Fosen completed the luxurious apartment ship \"MS The World\". Fiborgtangen is a peninsula along the eastern shore of the fjord where a large paper mill owned by Norske Skog is located. The Trondheimsfjord has rich marine life, with both southern and northern species; at least 90 species of fish have been observed, and the fjord has the largest biological production among Norway's fjords. In recent years, deep water corals (\"Lophelia pertusa\") were discovered in the fjord, not far from the city of Trondheim. Several of the best salmon rivers in Norway empty", "title": "Trondheim Fjord" }, { "id": "191019", "text": "due to its easterly maritime position affected by the waters of the cold Baffin Island Current. This means that the tree line is much further south in the eastern part of Canada, being as southbound, in spite of low elevation, as northern Labrador. In comparison, the climate of Iqaluit is severely cold compared to Gulf Stream locations on the same latitude. For example, the Norwegian city of Trondheim has an annual mean temperature milder. The highest temperature ever recorded in Iqaluit was on 21 July 2008. The lowest temperature ever recorded was on 10 February 1967. Apex, officially and functionally", "title": "Iqaluit" }, { "id": "2423833", "text": "Caribbean on 23 February to return to Norfolk, arriving there five days later. For the next two months, \"Argonaut\" prepared for a North Atlantic and Mediterranean cruise. She sailed on 26 May and made her first port call at Trondheim, Norway. The submarine also visited Cuxhaven, Germany; Leith, Scotland; Rota, Spain; Naples, Italy; and Valletta, Malta, before returning to her home port on 20 September. She remained in the local operating area through the duration of the year. The submarine traveled to New London on 6 February 1968, entered drydock there on 9 February, and remained in it through 26", "title": "USS Argonaut (SS-475)" }, { "id": "17442552", "text": "Circle is divided among 8 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland) and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey). The climate inside the Arctic Circle is generally cold, but the coastal areas of Norway have a generally mild climate as a result of the Gulf Stream, which makes the ports of northern Norway and northwest Russia ice-free all year long. In the interior, summers can be quite warm, while winters are extremely cold. For example, summer temperatures in Norilsk, Russia will sometimes reach as high", "title": "Arctic Circle" }, { "id": "17761275", "text": "EV1 The Atlantic Coast Route EuroVelo 1 (EV1), named the \"Atlantic Coast Route\", is a long EuroVelo long-distance cycling route running from North Cape in Norway to Sagres in Portugal. This north-south route runs (mostly) along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean of Western Europe and passes successively through six countries: Norway, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. North Cape (EV7, EV11), Tromsø, Vestvågøy, Bodø, Trondheim (EV3), Alesund, Bergen (EV12). Note that since 2008, ferry services no longer operate Bergen in Norway and the Scottish city of Aberdeen. This can be done by air, however. Aberdeen (EV12), Inverness", "title": "EV1 The Atlantic Coast Route" }, { "id": "11357097", "text": "also agreed that mines would be laid in Norwegian waters and that the mining should be followed by the landing of troops at four Norwegian ports: Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. Because of Anglo-French arguments, the date of the mining was postponed from 5 to 8 April. The postponement was catastrophic. Hitler had on 1 April ordered the German invasion of Norway to begin on 9 April; so, when on 8 April the Norwegian government was preoccupied with earnest protest about the British mine laying, the German expeditions were well on their way. The German invasions for the most part", "title": "Reichskommissariat Norwegen" }, { "id": "11283621", "text": "to King Harald V and prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. This caused a small diplomatic turmoil, since the Norwegian import regulations require a quarantine of four months for dogs entering Norway from a non-European country, and neither the king nor the prime minister were willing to keep the dogs. To avoid hurting the feelings of the Kyrgyz delegation, the mayor of the city of Trondheim, Rita Ottervik, decided to take care of the two puppies, which were later given to experienced dog owners after they had passed quarantine. Since 2005, a national kennel club exists in Kyrgyzstan, which has been", "title": "Taigan" }, { "id": "13364887", "text": "Dora II Dora II (Dora 2) is an unfinished German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker in Trondheim, Norway, which is next to Dora I (Dora 1). Construction of the bunker (designated by the Germans as DORA II) was undertaken during the Second World War, but the complex was never finished unlike Dora I. Trondheim was traditionally referred to as \"Drontheim\" in German, and the name \"DORA\" is the letter \"D\" in the German phonetic alphabet. Following the occupation of Norway in 1940, it was soon realised that the country only had limited facilities for minor naval repairs. More", "title": "Dora II" }, { "id": "1863558", "text": "fund the building of new ring roads so that the heaviest traffic would not have to pass through the city centre. But part of the reason for this traffic is that Trondheim Port is located on an artificial island only accessible via the city centre and Trondheim has yet to do like most cities and move its port out of the city centre, like the London Docklands and Fjordbyen in Oslo. There are ongoing discussions on whether the port should be moved from its current location. The lack of a bypass outside the residential areas, along with less than optimal", "title": "Trondheim toll scheme" }, { "id": "15108794", "text": "was measured 30 November in Orléans, France. This is the lowest temperature in November at sea level in France. Ice and snow led to power outages in Orléans. Trondheim, Norway's third-biggest city, located in Central Norway, experienced the coldest November since the beginning of recording temperatures in 1788. Especially the last week of November saw temperatures below normal. Severe blizzards hit southern Sweden and Denmark, affecting flights at Copenhagen Airport. Over of snow fell. Helsinki and Stockholm recorded their coldest November nights on record, at . According to thelocal.se Sweden had its coldest and snowiest start to the winter in", "title": "Winter of 2010–11 in Europe" }, { "id": "3392243", "text": ", while the Small Archipelago Trail makes a short cut over the island of Själö in Nagu. Besides the centre of Nagu itself, the beautiful small island of Själö, with its tragic and touching history as a disclosed island for lepers and the mentally ill, has grown into the main touristic site of Nagu. The ferry from the central harbour of Nagu to Själö takes 20 minutes. St Olav Waterway Nagu is situated by the St Olav Waterway route, a part of the Scandinavian St Olav Ways that end in Trondheim, Norway. St Olav Waterway is the first route in", "title": "Nagu" }, { "id": "3271452", "text": "NSC conducted negotiations with NASA on 31 October 2002, resulting in an understanding of NASA being able to provide $US20 million towards the line, paid of seven years. The following day Telenor stated they were not interested in participating in the venture. Telenor changed its opinion in the following weeks and agreed to press forward on 18 November. The invitation to tender was issued on 21 December, with a deadline of 3 February. Bringing the line out from Andøya was selected because it is the only trawler-free area along the Norwegian coast north of Trondheim. The tender deadline was extended", "title": "Svalbard Undersea Cable System" }, { "id": "7422253", "text": "Dora I Dora I (Dora 1) is a former German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker built in Trondheim, Norway. Construction of the bunker (designated by the Germans as DORA I) was undertaken during the Second World War. Nearby is the uncompleted Dora II (Dora 2). Trondheim was traditionally referred to as \"Drontheim\" in German, and the name \"DORA\" is the letter \"D\" in the German phonetic alphabet. Following the occupation of Norway in 1940, it was soon realised that the country only had limited facilities for minor naval repairs. More extensive work usually meant a return to Germany.", "title": "Dora I" }, { "id": "3821501", "text": "of the 19th century for Östersund to truly become a city, after the arrival of the railroad and the economic liberalization of that time. Östersund is situated in inland Scandinavia and connected to Sundsvall in the east on the Swedish coast, and Trondheim in the west at the shores of the Norwegian sea. Östersund is located in the middle of Scandinavia, in the middle of Sweden, in the middle of Jämtland County and in the middle of Östersund Municipality. As the most centrally located city in Sweden, the city credits itself as the \"centre of Sweden\". Östersund is marketed as", "title": "Östersund" }, { "id": "14354678", "text": "German U-boat bases in occupied Norway German U-boat bases in occupied Norway operated between 1940 and 1945, when the \"Kriegsmarine\" (German navy), converted several naval bases in Norway into submarine bases. Norwegian coastal cities became available to the \"Kriegsmarine\" after the invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940. Following the conclusion of the Norwegian Campaign (June 1940), the occupying Germans began to transfer U-boats stationed in Germany to many Norwegian port cities such as Bergen, Narvik, Trondheim, Hammerfest and Kirkenes. Initial planning for many U-boat bunkers began in late 1940. Starting in 1941, the Todt Organisation began the construction", "title": "German U-boat bases in occupied Norway" }, { "id": "14354689", "text": "long by wide, with four pens capable of holding six U-boats. German U-boat bases in occupied Norway German U-boat bases in occupied Norway operated between 1940 and 1945, when the \"Kriegsmarine\" (German navy), converted several naval bases in Norway into submarine bases. Norwegian coastal cities became available to the \"Kriegsmarine\" after the invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940. Following the conclusion of the Norwegian Campaign (June 1940), the occupying Germans began to transfer U-boats stationed in Germany to many Norwegian port cities such as Bergen, Narvik, Trondheim, Hammerfest and Kirkenes. Initial planning for many U-boat bunkers began in", "title": "German U-boat bases in occupied Norway" }, { "id": "11677001", "text": "the Americans, after taking numbered clothing from dead non-Jews. Paltiel died at the age of 83 and was buried in Trondheim, the city where he was born. The government of Norway decided to honor Paltiel by giving him a state funeral. Prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said: \"With Julius Paltiel, Norway has lost a central witness from the Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War. As one of the few Norwegian Jews that survived, Paltiel has until the last been a clear voice for all who wanted to learn from his and his generation's experiences.\" The funeral was attended by", "title": "Julius Paltiel" }, { "id": "1489002", "text": "the Swedish Council of the Realm forced Charles to renounce his claim on Norway to King Christian. In the summer of 1450, Christian sailed to Norway with a large fleet, and on 2 August he was crowned king of Norway in Trondheim. On 29 August, a union treaty between Denmark and Norway was signed in Bergen. Norway had of old been a hereditary monarchy, but this had become less and less a reality, as at the last royal successions, hereditary claims had been bypassed for political reasons. It was now explicitly stated that Norway, as well as Denmark, was an", "title": "Christian I of Denmark" }, { "id": "7935123", "text": "Soviet nuclear attack subs racing at high speed for the gap between Greenland and Iceland. Split your forces as you see fit, but stop those ships and subs! Our satellites also show pictures of Backfire bombers loading up at their home bases -watch-out for those long-range Kingfish missiles. Scenarios 7 - 10 may be played individually or as part of a four scenario campaign A Soviet invasion fleet is heading for Trondheim, Norway and your small task force is all that stands between them and it. With some sharp strategy, quick reactions, and some luck, you’ll complete your objective by", "title": "Strike Fleet" }, { "id": "4291449", "text": "North Sea sortie, \"Admiral Hipper\" was assigned to the forces tasked with the invasion of Norway, codenamed Operation \"Weserübung\". The ship was assigned as the flagship of Group 2, along with the destroyers \"Paul Jakobi\", \"Theodor Riedel\", \"Friedrich Eckoldt\", and \"Bruno Heinemann\". \"KzS\" Heye was given command of Group 2 during the operation. The five ships carried a total of 1,700 Wehrmacht mountain troops, whose objective was the port of Trondheim; the ships loaded the troops in Cuxhaven. The ships steamed to the Schillig roadstead outside Wilhelmshaven, where they joined Group 1, consisting of ten destroyers, and the battleships \"Scharnhorst\"", "title": "German cruiser Admiral Hipper" }, { "id": "11785058", "text": "off Africa’s west coast. In addition to ocean bottoms, scientists find \"Lophelia\" colonies on North Sea oil installations, although oil and gas production may introduce noxious substances into the local environment. The world's largest known deep-water \"Lophelia\" coral complex is the Røst Reef. It lies between deep, west of Røst island in the Lofoten archipelago, in Norway, inside the Arctic Circle. Discovered during a routine survey in May 2002, the reef is still largely intact. It is approximately long by wide. Some further south is the Sula Reef, located on the Sula Ridge, west of Trondheim on the mid-Norwegian Shelf,", "title": "Deep-water coral" }, { "id": "9922973", "text": "of this fish is about The black goby is native to shallow waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Its range extends from Cape Blanc in Mauritania to Trondheim in Norway and the Baltic Sea and it is usually found at depths less than . Its typical habitat is lagoons, estuaries and inshore waters, on sandy or muddy bottoms and among seagrasses and seaweeds, and it occasionally moves into fresh water. The black goby feeds on small invertebrates on the seabed. It breeds in the summer at which time the male creates a territory", "title": "Black goby" }, { "id": "18030057", "text": "of Penang in the Indian Ocean, on 1 October 1944 until the end of the war. On her final long trip back to Norway carrying vital supplies from the Far East, she struck an iceberg south of Greenland, but reached Trondheim safely on 19 April 1945, with very little fuel remaining. \"U-861\" surrendered on 9 May 1945 at Trondheim, Norway. She was transferred to Lisahally, Northern Ireland shortly afterwards. She was sunk by the Royal Navy on 31 December 1945 in position as part of Operation Deadlight. German submarine U-861 German submarine \"U-861\" was a long-range Type IXD2 U-boat built", "title": "German submarine U-861" }, { "id": "14354682", "text": "occupation, several of the nation's naval ports were turned into U-boat bases that were used to harass Allied shipping in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. These included Bergen, Narvik, Trondheim, Hammerfest and Kirkenes. Over 240 U-boats were stationed in Norway at various times during the war, most of them were members of the 11th U-boat Flotilla which had 190 U-boats in its fleet during the flotilla's career. Other well-known flotillas in Norway included the 13th and 14th flotillas. The southern port of Bergen was captured by the Germans on 9 April 1940, on the first day of the invasion.", "title": "German U-boat bases in occupied Norway" }, { "id": "13364890", "text": "the roof was completed). In 1947 and 1948 the port authority conducted cleanup and blasting on Dora II. Part of the walls on the uncompleted sides were blasted away. Dora II is used as a shipyard and as a warehouse and garage for boats and cars by companies such as Trondheim Verft AS and Skipsmaling AS. Dora II Dora II (Dora 2) is an unfinished German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker in Trondheim, Norway, which is next to Dora I (Dora 1). Construction of the bunker (designated by the Germans as DORA II) was undertaken during the Second", "title": "Dora II" }, { "id": "10769167", "text": "Internet in Norway The Internet in Norway had its beginnings in 1971 when Norway became the first non-English speaking country on the net. In 1971 NORSAR (Norwegian Seismic Array) at Kjeller just outside Oslo was connected by satellite to the SDAC (Seismic Data Analysis Center) in Virginia, US as part of ARPANET in order to monitor nuclear test-ban treaties with the Soviet Union. .no is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Norway. Norid, the domain name registry, is based in Trondheim, is owned by the state-owned Uninett and operates under supervision of the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority.", "title": "Internet in Norway" }, { "id": "1509533", "text": "and is the site of Vardø Lighthouse. The mouth of the Varangerfjorden lies along the municipality's eastern coast. The port of Vardø, on the Barents Sea, remains ice-free all year round thanks to the warm North Atlantic drift. Vardø has a tundra climate (Köppen: \"ETf\"). that borders on a subarctic climate (Köppen: \"Dfc\"). Excluding high mountain areas, it is the only town in Norway proper that has polar climate. As its warmest month does not reach 10 °C, the minimum temperature required for tree growth, the land is tundra and is treeless. The \"midnight sun\" is above the horizon from", "title": "Vardø" }, { "id": "12983047", "text": "Norway–Romania relations Norway–Romania relations are foreign relations between Norway and Romania. Both countries established diplomatic relations on April 3, 1917. Norway has an embassy in Bucharest and an honorary consulate in Constanţa. Romania has an embassy in Oslo and 4 honorary consulates (in Bergen, Kristiansand, Stavanger and Trondheim). Both countries are full members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and of the Council of Europe. The earliest contact between the Romanian and Norwegian people may have been in the 9th century AD when Varangians began trading with the Byzantine Empire along routes that led through Romania. There are a number", "title": "Norway–Romania relations" }, { "id": "20719990", "text": "was (T. Thommesen & Søn) who operated her as a sealing ship in arctic waters, with a crew of 45, and with 8 seal-hunt boats on board. Thommesen sold her to her new owner Auguste Fosse in 1908. Her port of registry was changed to Trondheim Her captain at that time was I. E. Samuelsen. Her crew is under suspicion of covering up a part of the \"Titanic\" story. The BBC in 1962 issued a scoop in a television documentary commemorating the anniversary of the sinking by releasing internationally a news item based on the deathbed statement of Henrik Bergethon", "title": "City of New York (1885 ship)" }, { "id": "9345832", "text": "that \"time got lost\" after his ship encountered a \"glowing light\" in the ocean. Trondheim's boat is stolen and his first mate is murdered. Trondheim is later attacked by a Norwegian pirate whaler named Olafsson, who has not aged despite being on the ship for the past two days. Mulder, Scully, and Trondheim eventually begin to age unnaturally. Scully develops a theory that the \"Ardent\" is sailing near a metallic object beneath the ocean, and that it has caused free radicals to rapidly oxidize their bodies and age them. When Mulder notices that the ship's sewage pipe is the only", "title": "Død Kalm" }, { "id": "482310", "text": "Ages, and was considered to be the most important municipality in the region at the time. The natural harbour in Lille-fosen, close to where Kristiansund is located today was also frequently used for fishing purposes. During the 17th century a small settlement developed around the area we know today as Kristiansund harbour. As more and more settlers arrived, the area became an important trading port for fishing and the lumber transportation along the coast. The Dano-Norwegian government established a customs station here, which was controlled by the main trading port in Trondheim. Dutch sailors brought the knowledge of clipfish production", "title": "Kristiansund" }, { "id": "14170719", "text": "dialect. Inishowen, which lost its Gaeltacht areas in the early 20th century, used the East Ulster dialect. For the UK fleet as a whole, over the past 15 years there has been a sharp decline in demersal fishing, a fluctuating but relatively stationary situation for pelagic fish and an increase in Norway lobster (nephrops) fisheries. Since most of the pelagic and demersal fishing is carried out by North Sea-based vessels, it is the nephrops fishery that dominates the fisheries economy for ports facing the west of Scotland waters. A number of alterations and new regulations were introduced to the UK", "title": "Seas west of Scotland" }, { "id": "16200298", "text": "50 people being evacuated. The pier area of Trondheim was badly damaged during the storm, heavily damaging the façade of the Pirbadet water park. A F2 tornado was reported in Hellesylt, Norway. The Tanker BW Thames was disabled and adrift northwest of Bergen as the storm approached, however the crew were able to regain power and survived the storm without incident. The Russian trawler Krasnoselsk sank in Hundeidvika harbour, Sykkylven, Norway. Dagmar knocked out 390 Telenor communication masts leaving 40,000 customers without mobile or landline telephone connections. Royal Dutch Shell's Ormen Lange gas processing plant was inoperable after its electricity", "title": "Cyclone Dagmar" }, { "id": "16315590", "text": "in Trondheim, though this is a little deceptive. After the British Royal Navy captured two at the Battle of Silda, the Danes built two more to replace them. The two new schooners received the same names (\"Thor\" and \"Balder\") as the lost schooners. Thus there was only a maximum of eight schooners on active duty at any one time. Eight of the schooners were still in service in 1814, all of them based in the Norwegian ports of Bergen and Trondheim. Under the Treaty of Kiel, which provided for the separation of Norway from Denmark, those naval vessels in Norwegian", "title": "Norwegian Gunships" }, { "id": "17194251", "text": "Agnar Bachen Agnar Bachen (1922–1996) was a Norwegian, later naturalized British ship captain. He is mainly notable for having taken the first major shipment of grain from the City of Duluth, Minnesota to Europe establishing Duluth as port city on America’s fourth seacoast one year before the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway in 1959. Born in Hoybakken near Trondheim, Norway 1922, Bachen was the third son and youngest child of Captain Hans Petter Bachen. Following in his father’s footsteps Bachen started his maritime career at the age of 14 when he stowed away aboard his uncle’s windjammer cargo ship.", "title": "Agnar Bachen" }, { "id": "12389599", "text": "sank another two ships and then around the Cape of Good Hope to join the \"Monsun Gruppe\" of U-boats operating in the Indian Ocean. He sank another two ships, bringing his career total to 19 ships sunk, totalling , and four ships damaged (), before reaching Penang on 23 September 1944. \"U-861\" left Soerabaya, Dutch East Indies, in January 1945 carrying a cargo of vital materials, but only two torpedoes, and reached Trondheim, Norway, in April, just before the German surrender. Oesten was a technical advisor for the 2005 submarine simulator \"Silent Hunter III\". As commander of , and Oesten", "title": "Jürgen Oesten" }, { "id": "15251937", "text": "Transparent goby Aphia minuta, the transparent goby, is a species of the goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where it can be found from Trondheim, Norway to Morocco. It is also found in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is a pelagic species, inhabiting inshore waters and estuaries. It can be found at depths of from the surface to , though it is usually found at , over sandy and muddy bottoms and also in eelgrass beds. This species can reach a length of TL. It is an important species to local commercial fisheries. It", "title": "Transparent goby" }, { "id": "16209204", "text": "the coastal/fjord areas in the west while the eastern areas, Østlandet, were inhabited by \"austmenn\" (eastern men). Nordenfjells Nordenfjells or Nordafjells (\"North of the Mountains\") is currently a name for the area of Norway north of mountain range of Dovrefjell. The term is largely used when referring collectively to Central Norway and Northern Norway. Until around 1800 the name also included all of Western Norway. The largest city is Trondheim, with the Trondheim Region having a population of 260,000. Historically, an administrative division of Norway in Sønnenfjells and Nordenfjells has been used from the Middle Ages until around 1800. The", "title": "Nordenfjells" }, { "id": "4276622", "text": "selling the brand in 2009. Despite this, Amazon have since been criticised for employing internal security guards with far-right connections, who wore the same clothing. Various designs by Thor Steinar have had Norwegian flags and Norwegian names, such as Trondheim, Nordfjord, Nordstrand or Bergen. The official stores selling the clothes are also named after the oldest Norwegian city, Tønsberg. The government filed a complaint against the use of the Norwegian flag in February 2008. The legal complaint however failed and it is unlikely that a second attempt will be made. The Norwegian Embassy, the Norwegian Office for Foreign Affairs were", "title": "Thor Steinar" }, { "id": "1468201", "text": "his death in 1028. This type of cross was very common in medieval Norway. Rogaland is mainly a coastal region with fjords, beaches, and islands, the principal island being Karmøy. The vast Boknafjorden is the largest bay, with many fjords branching off from it. Stavanger/Sandnes, the third-largest urban area of Norway, is in central Rogaland and it includes the large city of Stavanger and the neighboring municipalities of Sandnes, Randaberg, and Sola. Together, this conurbation is ranked above the city Trondheim in population rankings in Norway. There are many cities/towns in Rogaland other than Stavanger and Sandnes. They include Haugesund,", "title": "Rogaland" }, { "id": "285451", "text": "century, though his attempt to introduce the religion was rejected. Born sometime in between 963–969, Olav Tryggvasson set off raiding in England with 390 ships. He attacked London during this raiding. Arriving back in Norway in 995, Olav landed in Moster. There he built a church which became the first Christian church ever built in Norway. From Moster, Olav sailed north to Trondheim where he was proclaimed King of Norway by the Eyrathing in 995. Feudalism never really developed in Norway or Sweden, as it did in the rest of Europe. However, the administration of government took on a very", "title": "Norway" }, { "id": "6508419", "text": "the most he employed 100 men, and exported up to of lumber each year. Also located at Hommelvik were two wharfs owned by NSB, and one of the major imports was coal for the Swedish State Railways. World War I proved to be a boom for the Meråker Line. The line suddenly became a transit corridor for shipments from Russia, as well as from Sweden, to the ports in Trondheim and Hommelvik. To cope with the increased traffic, NSB had to both rent equipment from Sweden and acquire ten new Class 21 and Class 35 locomotives between 1913 and 1918.", "title": "Meråker Line" }, { "id": "6369936", "text": "but the occupation of France only a few months after Norway's surrender rather overshadowed the Scandinavian country as far as bunkers for U-boats was concerned. Nonetheless, a requirement for protection was identified. With the liberation of France in 1944, Norway regained its importance, but for barely a year. The Norwegian bunkers in Bergen and Trondheim were originally designed to have two floors, the lower one for U-boats, the upper one for accommodation, workshops and offices. However, with the project running six months late, plans for the second storey were abandoned. Control of the Bergen project came under the German Naval", "title": "Submarine pen" }, { "id": "10715049", "text": "the surface water of the open oceans. Deep sea fishing involves the fish below 1 000 feet. However, regulation of the deep sea within each country’s 200 mile limit is in its infancy, and it is non-existent elsewhere. One deep-sea fish, blue whiting, has a sustainable catch of 1 000 000 tons a year. Norway alone catches 880 000 tons a year. There is a history of fishery mismanagement ever since the industrial revolution. Industrial fishing began during the late 1800s where steam-powered trawlers operated in Western Europe. Local fisherman noticed that fish populations were being systematically wiped out. Half", "title": "The End of the Line (book)" }, { "id": "17194254", "text": "Ducal Decree and made Ambassador Extraordinary by dignitaries from the city of Duluth who also held a public holiday in celebration of the historic event. The St Lawrence Deep Waterway opened one year later in 1959. Agnar Bachen Agnar Bachen (1922–1996) was a Norwegian, later naturalized British ship captain. He is mainly notable for having taken the first major shipment of grain from the City of Duluth, Minnesota to Europe establishing Duluth as port city on America’s fourth seacoast one year before the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway in 1959. Born in Hoybakken near Trondheim, Norway 1922, Bachen was", "title": "Agnar Bachen" }, { "id": "7372608", "text": "(Russia), Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia). Occasional imports of steel products come from the near continent. The tidal dock generally only accommodates one vessel at a time. New Holland Pier, with berths for three ships, is capable of accommodating larger vessels through its location in the deeper part of the channel. Since the early 1980s it been used for the import and export of bulk cargo between the UK and parts of Scandinavia and Europe, the Black Sea and North Africa. The village and port is served by New Holland railway station. New Holland, Lincolnshire New Holland is a small", "title": "New Holland, Lincolnshire" }, { "id": "7422254", "text": "The capitulation of France two months later overshadowed the strategic importance of Norway to some extent, but it was still regarded as a better location for access to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans than Germany. Nevertheless, better protection for U-boats from aerial attack was required so a bunker-building programme was instigated. German U-boat bases in occupied Norway operated between 1940 and 1945, when the Kriegsmarine (German navy), converted several naval bases in Norway into submarine bases. Trondheim was an important U-boat base in Norway during the war. It was the home of the 13th U-boat Flotilla and it had 55", "title": "Dora I" }, { "id": "666113", "text": "a large boom, stimulated by the abolishing of the British Navigation Acts. By 1880 there were 60,000 Norwegian seamen and the country had the world's third-largest merchant marine. As the first coast-to-coast railway, the Røros Line connected the capital to Trondheim in 1877. Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1875 and introduced the Norwegian krone with a gold standard, along with the metric system being introduced. Annual parliamentary sessions were introduced from 1869 and in 1872 ministers were, though a constitutional amendment, required to meet in Parliament to defend their policies. The king, despite having no constitutional right to", "title": "History of Norway" }, { "id": "2633331", "text": "to Finland, via Norway, and aid the Finnish Army during its Winter War with the Soviet Union. On 12 March, however, the Finnish, severely outnumbered by the Russians, surrendered, thus cancelling the order. On 4 April, the 49th Division ceased to function and the 146th and 148th Brigades (with the 147th Brigade remaining in England), both very poorly trained and equipped, took part in the short and ill-fated Norwegian Campaign, that were intended to retake the ports of Trondheim and Narvik from the German Army. The 146th Brigade came under command of \"Mauriceforce\", with the 148th under \"Sickleforce\". The poorly", "title": "49th (West Riding) Infantry Division" }, { "id": "12180089", "text": "launched from Fosen Mekaniske Verksted on 12 May 1989. The long ship has a capacity of 105 cars and 315 people. MF \"Trondheim\" was launched from Fosen Mekaniske Verksted on 17 December 1992. The long ship has a capacity of 124 cars and 315 people. Flakk–Rørvik Ferry The Flakk–Rørvik Ferry is an automobile ferry in Trøndelag county, Norway. The line is part of Norwegian County Road 715, which connects the Fosen peninsula with the city of Trondheim. The crossing of Trondheimsfjord is performed with the two double-ended ferries MF \"Fosen\" and MF \"Trondheim\" and operated by Fosen Trafikklag, making 32", "title": "Flakk–Rørvik Ferry" }, { "id": "12363184", "text": "Greenland Sea and Labrador Sea. Countries bordering the Arctic Ocean are: Russia, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the United States. There are several ports and harbors around the Arctic Ocean In Alaska, the main ports are Barrow () and Prudhoe Bay (). In Canada, ships may anchor at Churchill (Port of Churchill) () in Manitoba, Nanisivik (Nanisivik Naval Facility) () in Nunavut, Tuktoyaktuk () or Inuvik () in the Northwest Territories. In Greenland, the main port is at Nuuk (Nuuk Port and Harbour) (). In Norway, Kirkenes () and Vardø () are ports on the mainland. Also, there is Longyearbyen", "title": "Arctic Ocean" }, { "id": "284022", "text": "between and among rivers, artificial harbours, and the sea. The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea with the Baltic Sea, is the most heavily used artificial seaway in the world reporting an average of 89 ships per day not including sporting boats and other small watercraft in 2009. It saves an average of , instead of the voyage around the Jutland peninsula. The North Sea Canal connects Amsterdam with the North Sea. North Sea The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between the United Kingdom (particularly England and Scotland), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands,", "title": "North Sea" }, { "id": "6110545", "text": "submarine was launched on 20 March 1941. \"U-570\" was commissioned into the \"Kriegsmarine\" on 15 May 1941. After a series of short testing and commissioning trips in the Baltic, she moved to Norway where she carried out short training voyages and fired practice torpedoes. By 25 July, she had moved to the German U-boat base at Lofjord, part of Trondheimsfjord, around north of Trondheim. In late August 1941, B-Dienst (the German naval codebreaking organisation) became aware of a large concentration of Allied merchant ships in the region of the North Atlantic south of Iceland. Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered 16 U-boats", "title": "HMS Graph" }, { "id": "12047890", "text": "the port of Trondheim might do. Although the first phase of the operation had been scheduled for 8 May, no word was received from the 'Heralds' and so Doomsday was postponed by twenty-four hours. Contact was successfully established on 9 May and the first units of Force 134 arrived in Norway to begin their occupation, including the first elements of 1st Airborne Division and the Norwegian Parachute Company. All but one of the transport aircraft belonging to the first phase took off and landed in Norway without incident. Phase II was accelerated to compensate for the delay, with aircraft scheduled", "title": "Operation Doomsday" }, { "id": "14607803", "text": "Full City Full City is a Panama-flagged bulk carrier made infamous by running aground after an engine failure during a storm at the island of Saastein (Såstein) outside Langesund, Telemark, Norway, spilling 700 tons of heavy bunker fuel oil in a sensitive wildlife refuge area on 31 July 2009. \"Full City\" was built by Hakodate Dockyard Co. Ltd. in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1995. The vessel was pulled off the rocks and first towed to Stathelle, and later to Gothenburg for full drydock repairs. On 5 May 2011, as part of NATO's counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield, the carrier USS \"Carl", "title": "Full City" }, { "id": "17244611", "text": "Port of Gothenburg The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg () is the largest port in the Nordic countries, with over 11,000 ship visits per year from over 140 destinations worldwide. As the only Swedish port with the capacity to cope with the very largest modern, ocean-going container ships, Gothenburg handles nearly 30% of the country's foreign trade, comprising 39 million tonnes of freight per year. The port is situated on both sides of the estuary of Göta älv in Gothenburg. The north shore, \"Norra Älvstranden\", is on Hisingen island and the south shore, \"Södra Älvstranden\", is on the mainland. It is", "title": "Port of Gothenburg" }, { "id": "285539", "text": "are provided for passenger train operations. NSB operates long-haul trains, including night trains, regional services and four commuter train systems, around Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. Norway has approximately of road network, of which are paved and are motorway. The four tiers of road routes are national, county, municipal and private, with national and primary county roads numbered en route. The most important national routes are part of the European route scheme. The two most prominent are the E6 going north-south through the entire country, and the E39, which follows the West Coast. National and county roads are managed by", "title": "Norway" }, { "id": "679800", "text": "and Vestlandet loses early morning light but gains more evening daylight with this timezone. Daylight saving time (GMT + 2) is observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. The difference between low tide and high tide is small on the southern coast and large in the north; ranging from on average 0.17 m in Mandal to about 0.30 m in Oslo and Stavanger, 0.90 m in Bergen, 1.80 m in Trondheim, Bodø and Hammerfest and as much as 2.17 m in Vadsø. The climate of Norway is much more temperate than expected for such", "title": "Geography of Norway" }, { "id": "5175465", "text": "flying there on a small aeroplane fitted with skis. The North Pole scene was filmed in May 1992, after the rest of the series had been shot, as weather conditions were more suitable then as the ice was too fragile the previous year. From there, he heads to Greenland, then the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where the towns of Ny Ålesund and Longyearbyen are located. From there he sails across the Barents Sea on a supply ship to the Norwegian port city of Tromsø, where he visits a statue of Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole.", "title": "Pole to Pole" }, { "id": "1756195", "text": "urban tolling in the main corridors of Norway's three major cities: Bergen (1986), Oslo (1990), and Trondheim (1991). In Bergen cars can only enter the central area using a toll road, so that the effect is similar to a congestion charge. Though initially intended only to raise revenues to finance road infrastructure, the urban toll ring at Oslo created an unintended congestion pricing effect, as traffic decreased by around 5%. The Trondheim Toll Scheme also has congestion pricing effects, as charges vary by time of day. The Norwegian authorities pursued authorization to implement congestion charges in cities, and legislation was", "title": "Congestion pricing" }, { "id": "11771690", "text": "North Norway has a long history, it is known from the viking age. The Russians traded, through the principality in Novgorod, with the Sami people in North Norway from the middle ages until the beginning of the 17th century. In early summer, the catch from the winter- and spring fisheries in North Norway were bought and shipped south to Trondheim and Bergen by traders, mainly stockfish made from cod. The six weeks from 10 July to 20 August was referred to as \"maggot time\", because the fish was difficult to conserve in summer, and there were no market southwards for", "title": "Pomor trade" }, { "id": "16714956", "text": "have been killed in service since 1945. History of the Norwegian Police Service The Norwegian Police Service is the civilian police agency for Norway. The police service dates to the 13th century when sheriffs were first appointed. The first chief of police was appointed for Trondheim in 1686, and Oslo received a uniformed police corps in 1859. Police districts were introduced in 1894, with the current structure dating from 2003. The police force in Norway was established during the 13th century. Originally the 60 to 80 sheriffs (\"lensmann\") were predominantly used for writ of execution and to a less degree", "title": "History of the Norwegian Police Service" }, { "id": "11968114", "text": "exploratory wells near the Iraqi border. Other firms with large business interests in Syria include steel pipe manufacturer TMK, gas producer ITERA, and national carrier Aeroflot. Russia–Syria relations Russia–Syria relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Russia and Syria. Russia has an embassy in Damascus and Syria has an embassy in Moscow. Russia enjoys a historically strong, stable, and friendly relationship with Syria, as it did until the Arab Spring with most of the Arab countries. Russia's only Mediterranean naval base for its Black Sea Fleet is located in the Syrian port of Tartus. Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union", "title": "Russia–Syria relations" }, { "id": "13667828", "text": "more dominant along the Trondheimsfjord. The county has ten percent of the country's agricultural output, and no other county has so high a percentage of its production from farming. Farms traditionally have a square lot of buildings, with the house, called a trønderlån, being thin and long. Fishing is an important industry along the coast, particularly in Ytre Namdal, and Trondheim Fjord is the fjord with the highest yield in Norway. Fish farming, particularly of salmon, has seen a rapid growth since the 1970s. Most of the fish is exported to Continental Europe, and to a less degree the Far", "title": "Nord-Trøndelag" }, { "id": "17341835", "text": "reoccupying Norway, entering port at Trondheim on 16 May 1945 after minesweepers of the 9th Minesweeping Flotilla had cleared the harbour and its approaches of naval mines. She spent the summer of 1945 on operations in the North Sea. After the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945, \"Viceroy\" was decommissioned and placed in reserve, being no longer carried on the Royal Navys active list by October 1945. She was placed on the disposal list in 1947 and sold on 17 May 1947 or in June 1948 (sources differ) to G. W. Brunton of Grangemouth, Scotland, for scrapping. She arrived", "title": "HMS Viceroy (D91)" }, { "id": "8033691", "text": "vice admiral Jan Reksten, former military second in command stating, \"\"Russia is a country where the state has a say over all commercial or semi-state business. It's clear, very few people know what happens on these vessels,\" stating the sale of Olavsvern was \"a double loss\" as \"Norway's armed forces lost an important base and now there are Russian vessels docked there.\" Olavsvern Olavsvern is a decommissioned Royal Norwegian Navy base located just outside the city of Tromsø. It is located along the European route E8 at the entrance to the Ramfjorden from the Balsfjorden. The base is a massive", "title": "Olavsvern" }, { "id": "3594544", "text": "built from 1993 to 1999. The North Cape Tunnel is part of the European route E69 highway and it is long and reaches a depth of below sea level. For a time, it was one of the longest and deepest subsea tunnels in the world. Fog or ice may occur inside the tunnel, even in summer. Norway's Hurtigruten ferry service stops at the town of Honningsvåg on Magerøya since the waters around the island remain ice-free all year round due to the warm North Atlantic drift. Honningsvåg Airport is located on the eastern part of the island. Magerøya Magerøya ()", "title": "Magerøya" }, { "id": "4150191", "text": "to acknowledge that its assessment of the oil remaining in Brent Spar’s storage tanks had been grossly overestimated. Following Shell's decision to pursue only on-shore disposal options, as favoured by Greenpeace and its supporters, Brent Spar was given temporary moorings in a Norwegian fjord. In January 1998, Shell announced its decision to re-use much of the main structure in the construction of new harbour facilities near Stavanger, Norway. Brent \"E\" was a floating oil storage facility constructed in 1976 and moored approximately from the Brent \"A\" oil rig. It was jointly owned by Shell and Esso, and operated wholly by", "title": "Brent Spar" }, { "id": "14872116", "text": "was called its 'sustainable strategy of internationalization' and 'the many prestigious assignments carried out worldwide'. In a survey by temporary employment company Randstad Holding of 12,000 Belgians in early 2010 DEME was proclaimed one of the most attractive employers in Belgium. The history of DEME and the Belgian ocean engineering industry at large should be seen against the background of three peculiar conditions: the need for Belgian people to keep open their sea lanes through the Flemish Banks in the North Sea; the efforts to maintain free access to the deep inland port of Antwerp; and their perennial struggle against", "title": "DEME" }, { "id": "1464470", "text": "a more used homonym in modern Norwegian that means \"luck\". The Old Norse word \"Hel\" is the same as today's English \"Hell\", and as a proper noun, \"Hel\" was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is \"\". Among English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about \"Hell frozen over\". Temperatures in Hell can reach during winter. British punk band The Boys recorded their third album in the village, and as a result named it \"To Hell with the Boys\". Trondheim Airport Værnes is used", "title": "Hell, Norway" }, { "id": "2720473", "text": "Bodø. Due to the thick smoke 14 people died of smoke inhalation. Today a memorial to the incident stands at Bodø. On October 21, 1962 MS \"Sanct Svithun\" ran onto a reef in the maritime area Folda in Nord-Trøndelag because of a major navigational error after leaving Trondheim. Of 89 persons on board (passengers, crew and two postal officers) 41 died. In 2011 suffered an engine room fire, leading to two deaths among the crew. Hurtigruten Hurtigruten (\"Express Route\", also known as the Norwegian Coastal Express) is a Norwegian cruise, ferry and cargo operator. The company was founded in 1893", "title": "Hurtigruten" }, { "id": "12180087", "text": "Flakk–Rørvik Ferry The Flakk–Rørvik Ferry is an automobile ferry in Trøndelag county, Norway. The line is part of Norwegian County Road 715, which connects the Fosen peninsula with the city of Trondheim. The crossing of Trondheimsfjord is performed with the two double-ended ferries MF \"Fosen\" and MF \"Trondheim\" and operated by Fosen Trafikklag, making 32 crossings each day each at 25 minutes. In 2007, the line had a daily ridership of 1815 people and 2081 vehicles. It is the fourth most trafficked car ferry line in Norway. The ferry line was created in 1978 when it replaced the Skansen–Vanvikan Ferry", "title": "Flakk–Rørvik Ferry" }, { "id": "3945846", "text": "iron ore from Sweden (on which Germany depended), were exported; this route was especially important during the winter months when much of the Baltic Sea was frozen over. Narvik became of greater significance to the British when it became apparent that Operation \"Catherine\", a plan to gain control of the Baltic Sea, would not be realized. \"Großadmiral\" Erich Raeder had pointed out several times in 1939 the potential danger to Germany of Britain seizing the initiative and launching its own invasion in Scandinavia – if the powerful Royal Navy had bases at Bergen, Narvik and Trondheim, the North Sea would", "title": "Norwegian Campaign" }, { "id": "17244613", "text": "products. The port is large and deep enough to accommodate even very large ships, such as the \"Maya\" of the Mediterranean Shipping Company that arrived at the port on 21December 2015. It was then the world's largest container ship, long with a draft of and a 19,224 TEU capacity. Port of Gothenburg The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg () is the largest port in the Nordic countries, with over 11,000 ship visits per year from over 140 destinations worldwide. As the only Swedish port with the capacity to cope with the very largest modern, ocean-going container ships, Gothenburg handles nearly 30%", "title": "Port of Gothenburg" }, { "id": "9996353", "text": "Brattøra Brattøra is an artificial island in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island is located at the mouth of the river Nidelva just north of the city centre (Midtbyen), west of Nyhavna, and south of Trondheimsfjord. There is a canal that divides the mainland from what is now the island of Brattøra. In addition to some commercial offices, most of the island is used by Trondheim Central Station and Trondheim Port. The island is connected to the western parts of Trondheim by the Skansen Tunnel which was completed in 2010. Since the late 1990s, there has", "title": "Brattøra" }, { "id": "18751666", "text": "HNoMS Trondheim (F302) HNoMS \"Trondheim\" (pennant number F302) was an of the Royal Norwegian Navy. On 17 March 2006 at 20:10 CET, \"Trondheim\" ran aground off Lines island in Sør-Trøndelag. No injuries among the 121-man crew were reported. The incident was reported from the ship itself, and at 20:30 it came loose again. Water flooded two compartments (paint storage and forward pump room) of the ship. The compartments were sealed and three ships were sent to assist the frigate. The frigate was towed to port in Bergen by the coast guard vessel . HNoMS \"Trondheim\" was used after decommissioning as", "title": "HNoMS Trondheim (F302)" }, { "id": "7622300", "text": "became the \"Alkmini A\". Despite undergoing a refit for GA Ferries she never entered service with them but was instead chartered to Kystlink of Norway. She is now named \"Pride of Telemark\". In 2007, she collided with the harbour at Hirtshals. She was repaired and continued her service. In September 2011 the \"Pride of Telemark\" departed Farsund for breaking up at the Indian port of Alang It has been confirmed that Pride of Telemark was beached at Alang on 27 October 2011. Gothenburg–Frederikshavn. Stena Line 1983–1996 Dover–Calais. Stena Line 1996–1998 Dover–Calais. P&O Stena Line 1998–2002 Dover–Calais. P&O Ferries 2002–2004 Langesund–Strömstad.", "title": "MS Pride of Telemark" }, { "id": "4125300", "text": "and all the paraphernalia of modern war.\" The rest of the first day's debate saw speeches both supporting and criticising the Chamberlain government; they included two devastating attacks on the conduct of the campaign and of the war by Conservative backbenchers whose views carried weight. Sir Roger Keyes, Conservative Member of Parliament for a constituency in the naval town of Portsmouth, a hero of the First World War and an Admiral of the Fleet no longer on the active list, spoke on the conduct of naval operations, particularly the abortive operations to retake Trondheim. Harold Nicolson called it the most", "title": "Norway Debate" }, { "id": "1510145", "text": "Narvik and participated in retaking Narvik on 28 May 1940. A street in Harstad is named \"Gen. Fleischers Gate\" in his honour. Operation Judgement, Kilbotn took place on 4 May 1945, when the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy attacked a U-boat base at Kilbotn, a village in the Harstad district, sinking two ships and a U-boat. Harstad is also the hometown of the Norwegian army band \"Forsvarets Musikkorps Nord Norge\" with professional musicians. The towns airport is Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes, located on the mainland, by road from the town center. The airport offers daily flights to Oslo, Trondheim,", "title": "Harstad" }, { "id": "2505746", "text": "of about 3,000 people, mostly Norwegian and Russian, who worked in the mining industry. Drift mines were linked to the shore by overhead cable tracks or rails and coal dumped in winter was collected after the summer thaw. By 1939 production was about a year, roughly evenly divided between Norway and Russia. From 25 July to 9 August 1940, the sailed from Trondheim to search the area from Tromsø to Bear Island and Svalbard (formerly Spitsbergen) and intercept British ships returning from Petsamo but found only a Finnish freighter. Action to deny Germany its coal exports was mooted by the", "title": "Operation Gauntlet" }, { "id": "6117406", "text": "was operating off the Norwegian coast. Lonsdale decided to enter Stavangerfjord, a hazardous operation and reached the port of Stavanger using the novel Asdic equipment. There were four merchant ships in the harbour, but they all carried neutral flags; Lonsdale's requests to attack a seaplane base and land a shore party to sabotage the railway met with firm refusals; and the German naval craft they encountered had too shallow a draught for \"Seal\"s torpedoes to hit. The disappointed crew returned to Rosyth, narrowly escaping a torpedo attack at the same place and time as that in which was lost. Having", "title": "HMS Seal (N37)" }, { "id": "20366022", "text": "operation to intervene. Because the bulk of Britain's Regular Army had already deployed to France, most of the troops available for the Norwegian Campaign were part-time soldiers of the Territorial Army (TA). After a failed attempt to seize Trondheim, the main Allied objective became the port of Narvik. A base was established on the island of Harstad just outside Narvikfjord, and an airstrip at Skånland on the opposite coast, with an anti-aircraft (AA) allocation of light (LAA) and heavy (HAA) guns of the Royal Artillery (RA). 6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade HQ was assembled under the command of Brigadier F.N.C. Rossiter and", "title": "6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)" }, { "id": "2720466", "text": "Hurtigruten Hurtigruten (\"Express Route\", also known as the Norwegian Coastal Express) is a Norwegian cruise, ferry and cargo operator. The company was founded in 1893 to operate voyages on Norway's western and northern coast between Bergen and Kirkenes. Hurtigruten ships sail almost the entire length of the country, crossing the arctic circle and completing the round-trip journey in 11 days. The trip has been described as the \"World's Most Beautiful Sea Voyage,\" with stops in such places as Bergen, the Geiranger fjord, and the Lofoten Islands. The company has nearly 2% of the worldwide cruise market. More recently, Hurtigruten has", "title": "Hurtigruten" } ]

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[ { "id": "79160", "text": "Camp David Camp David is the country retreat for the President of the United States. It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland, also near Emmitsburg, Maryland about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Washington, D.C. It is officially known as the Naval Support Facility Thurmont, because it is technically a military installation, and staffing is primarily provided by the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Originally known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was built as a camp for federal government agents and their families by the Works Progress Administration. Construction started", "title": "Camp David" }, { "id": "79163", "text": "in the residence; a total of three planes were intercepted over that July 9 weekend. Camp David Camp David is the country retreat for the President of the United States. It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland, also near Emmitsburg, Maryland about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Washington, D.C. It is officially known as the Naval Support Facility Thurmont, because it is technically a military installation, and staffing is primarily provided by the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Originally known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was built as a", "title": "Camp David" }, { "id": "322380", "text": "Palace,\" the \"President’s House,\" and the \"Executive Mansion.\" Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901. Facilities that are available to the president include access to the White House staff, medical care, recreation, housekeeping, and security services. The federal government pays for state dinners and other official functions, but the president pays for personal, family, and guest dry cleaning and food. Camp David, officially titled Naval Support Facility Thurmont, a mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, is the president's country residence. A place of solitude and tranquility, the site has been used extensively to host", "title": "President of the United States" }, { "id": "17290768", "text": "words of one newspaper report) \"the appearance of a city under siege on this Mother's Day.\" U.S. President John F. Kennedy ended a vacation at Camp David (near Thurmont, Maryland) early in order to respond to the situation. Conflicted about whether to deploy federal troops, Kennedy wanted to save face after the violence in Birmingham became covered as international news, and he wanted to protect the truce that had just been established. At the same time, he did not want to set a precedent that might compel routine military interventions, and he feared a backlash among southern white Democrats who", "title": "Birmingham riot of 1963" }, { "id": "727577", "text": "the occasional Tibetan monks in saffron robes. The name \"Shangri-La\" has become a byword for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the fact that the bombers had flown from an aircraft carrier remained highly classified, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the press facetiously that they had taken off from Shangri-La. The Navy subsequently gave that name to an aircraft carrier, and Roosevelt named his Maryland presidential retreat \"Shangri-La\". (Later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, and that name has been used", "title": "James Hilton (novelist)" }, { "id": "4869201", "text": "and the Potomac River. (Note that a local tradition asserts that \"Catoctin\" means \"place of many deer\" in an Indian language.) Catoctin Mountain is perhaps best known as the site of Camp David, a mountain retreat for presidents of the United States. It was first used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, who called it \"Shangri-La\". In the 1950s President Dwight Eisenhower renamed it Camp David, after his grandson David Eisenhower. The resort is extremely well guarded by the United States Secret Service, and only approved guests of the President are allowed into the retreat. Due to its", "title": "Catoctin Mountain" }, { "id": "560720", "text": "Frederick County, Maryland Frederick County is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 240,336. The county seat is Frederick. Frederick County is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Like other outlying sections of the Washington metropolitan area, Frederick County has experienced a rapid population increase in recent years. It borders the southern border of Pennsylvania and the northeastern border of Virginia. The county is home to Catoctin Mountain Park (encompassing the presidential retreat Camp David) and to the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick. It has also", "title": "Frederick County, Maryland" }, { "id": "79161", "text": "in 1935 and was completed in 1938. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt converted it to a presidential retreat and renamed it \"Shangri-La\" (for the fictional Himalayan paradise in the 1933 novel \"Lost Horizon\" by British author James Hilton, which he had jokingly referenced as the source of the Doolittle Raid earlier that year). Camp David received its present name from Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson, both named David. The Catoctin Mountain Park does not indicate the location of Camp David on park maps due to privacy and security concerns, although it can be seen", "title": "Camp David" }, { "id": "2255835", "text": "Prohibited areas in the United States are published in the \"Federal Register\" and are depicted on aeronautical charts. The area is charted as a “P” followed by a number (e.g., P-49). Examples of prohibited areas include Camp David and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where the White House and the Congressional buildings are located. Restricted areas are areas where operations are hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft and contain airspace within which the flight of aircraft, while not wholly prohibited, is subject to restrictions. Activities within these areas must be confined because of their nature, or limitations may be imposed upon", "title": "Airspace" }, { "id": "1090393", "text": "Thurmont, Maryland Thurmont is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 6,170 at the 2010 census. The town is located in the northern part of Frederick County (north of Frederick, Maryland, the county seat), approximately ten miles from the Pennsylvania border, along U.S. Highway 15. It is very close to Cunningham Falls State Park and Catoctin Mountain Park, which contains the presidential retreat of Camp David. Thurmont is also home to Catoctin Colorfest, an arts and crafts festival that draws in about 125,000 people each autumn. In 2005, Thurmont was designated as a \"Main Street Maryland", "title": "Thurmont, Maryland" }, { "id": "11941169", "text": "maintenance augmentation units) as part of the Carrier Air Wings deployed aboard aircraft carriers. The Marine Corps Security Force Regiment provides infantry-based security battalions and Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team companies to guard and defend high-priority and overseas Navy bases. Security for the Presidential Retreat located aboard the Naval Support Activity Thurmont, viz., \"Camp David\" is provided by the Marine infantry battalion stationed as part of the garrison aboard Marine Barracks Washington. Cooperation between the two services includes the training and instruction of some future Marine Corps officers (most are trained and commissioned through Marine Corps OCS), all Marine Corps Naval", "title": "United States Marine Corps" }, { "id": "8935147", "text": "the surface of the earth within which the flight of aircraft is prohibited. Such areas are established for security or other reasons associated with the national welfare. These areas are published in the Federal Register and are depicted on aeronautical charts.\" Some prohibited airspace may be supplemented via NOTAMs. For example, Prohibited Area 40 (P-40) and Restricted Area 4009 (R4009) often have additional restricted airspace added via a NOTAM when the President of the United States visits Camp David in Maryland, while normally the airspace outside of P-40 and R4009 is not prohibited/restricted. Violating prohibited airspace established for national security", "title": "Prohibited airspace" }, { "id": "17797039", "text": "girl with an extraordinary genius. Now, only by working with his embattled partner, Michelle Maxwell, can he catch a killer…and solve a stunning mystery that threatens the entire nation. \"Publication Date\": April 24, 2007 \"Pages\": 420 (Hardcover) A daring kidnapping turns a children’s birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat, into a national security nightmare. Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell don’t want to get involved. But years ago Sean saved the First Lady’s husband, then a senator, from political disaster. Now the president’s wife presses Sean and Michelle into a desperate search", "title": "King and Maxwell (book series)" }, { "id": "11363831", "text": "the President and dictating the tenor of his daily schedule. Watson lived with his wife, professional pianist Frances Nash Watson, on a Virginia estate called Kenwood. The land, just beyond Monticello, was once owned by Thomas Jefferson, and the estate house was designed by FDR's cousin, celebrated architect William A. Delano. Watson and FDR were personally close above and beyond their close professional ties, and FDR adopted Kenwood as his \"Camp David\" during his presidency and retreated there on several occasions for vacation. The guest cottage was built in 1940-41 for Roosevelt, though he stayed there on only one occasion,", "title": "Edwin \"Pa\" Watson" }, { "id": "6280219", "text": "the Interior Harold L. Ickes reported, \"President Roosevelt is not able to make such use of the camp as President Hoover undoubtedly had in mind. Whether it is to continue to be a Presidential camp must, therefore, be left for future determination.\" FDR went on to establish his retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland at Camp Shangri-La, later renamed Camp David. While the Park Service pledged to maintain Rapidan Camp, in 1936, \"The New York Times\" described rust and dry rot at the camp, which was still protected by seven Marines. The \"historic log\" Hoover and MacDonald had conferred", "title": "Rapidan Camp" }, { "id": "616838", "text": "and 35 miles respectively to the west-northwest. While Gettysburg National Battlefield of 1863 lies approximately to the north-northeast. The reconstructed home of Barbara Fritchie stands on West Patrick Street, just past Carroll Creek linear park. Fritchie, a significant figure in Maryland history in her own right, is buried in Frederick's Mount Olivet Cemetery. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill quoted Whittier's poem to President Franklin D. Roosevelt when they stopped here in 1941 on a car trip to the presidential retreat, then called \"Shangra-La\" (now \"Camp David\") within the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont. Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839–1911) was born at", "title": "Frederick, Maryland" }, { "id": "719234", "text": "popular novels of the 20th Century. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the Presidential hideaway in Maryland after Shangri-La. (It has since been renamed Camp David.) Likewise Roosevelt initially claimed the Doolittle Raid came from Shangri-La; this inspired the name of the aircraft carrier USS \"Shangri-La\". A one-hour adaptation by James Hilton and Barbara Burnham was broadcast on the BBC National Programme at 20:30 on 1 August 1935, with a cast that included Esme Percy as the High Lama, Ben Welden as Barnard, Barbara Couper as Miss Brinklow, Jon Swinley as Conway and Cathleen Cordell as Lo Tsen. It was", "title": "Lost Horizon" }, { "id": "19665631", "text": "hut has an electricity generator and a solar panel which charges 24 and 12 volt batteries. Inside is a wooden stove, its fireplace made from a fly wheel, and a conventional wood burning fuel stove. Similar to other huts in the area, any internal divisions are made of insubstantial materials, of hessian, scrap timber and iron. An A-frame building, known as \"Camp David \" on Crystal Hill, on lot 8, was built off-site and re-erected in Easter 1984. It measures approximately in length, in width and is high at its apex. A Trimdeck roof is supported by steel struts. It", "title": "Tomahawk Creek Huts" }, { "id": "4869049", "text": "but were not taken up by the House, and therefore did not become law. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Originally planned to provide recreational camps for federal employees, one of the camps eventually became the home of the Presidential retreat, Camp David. The Presidential retreat is not open or accessible to the public; however, the eastern hardwood forest of Catoctin Mountain Park does have many other attractions for visitors, some of which include camping, picnicking, fishing, of hiking trails, and scenic mountain vistas. Catoctin Mountain Park Catoctin Mountain Park, located in north-central", "title": "Catoctin Mountain Park" }, { "id": "4974986", "text": "David Eisenhower Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948) is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. Presidential retreat, Camp David. He is the only grandson of the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the son-in-law of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon. David Eisenhower was born on March 31, 1948, in West Point, Orange County, New York, to Barbara (Thompson) and John Eisenhower. His father was a U.S. Army officer, and his grandfather was future President of the United States of", "title": "David Eisenhower" }, { "id": "13901911", "text": "no-one - including Isabella should actually know about the time-traveling. During this episode, it is implied that Isabella marries either Phineas or Ferb, though none of the characters remember this. It is also implied that Phineas wins at least one Nobel Prize as the future Linda says the future Phineas is \"in Switzerland for the Awards Ceremony.\" Ferb is likely President of the United States as he is stated to be \"at Camp David\", a resort specially made for Presidents since Eisenhower, although his British birth, and not being 35 years old yet, would ordinarily prevent this. A more likely", "title": "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" }, { "id": "2267040", "text": "She played a critical role in designing and overseeing the construction of a rustic presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp in Madison County, Virginia. It was a precursor of the current presidential retreat, Camp David. The Hoovers had two sons: Lou Henry Hoover died of a heart attack in New York City on January 7, 1944. She was found dead in her bedroom by her husband, who came to kiss her good night. She predeceased her husband by 20 years, and was originally buried in Palo Alto, California. Naturally, her husband was devastated by her death, and he never considered remarrying.", "title": "Lou Henry Hoover" }, { "id": "4869202", "text": "proximity to Washington, D.C., and its beautiful mountain scenery, Camp David has proven to be a popular weekend \"getaway\" for many United States presidents, and approximately 1/3 of Catoctin Mountain Park can be closed to the public on short notice. Catoctin Mountain Catoctin Mountain, along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains, forms the easternmost mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are in turn a part of the Appalachian Mountains range. The ridge runs northeast/southwest for about departing from South Mountain near Emmitsburg, Maryland, and running south past Leesburg, Virginia, where it disappears into the Piedmont in a", "title": "Catoctin Mountain" }, { "id": "10929184", "text": "north. Catoctin Mountain Park contains three historic camps: Camp Greentop, Camp Misty Mount, and the Presidential retreat Camp David. MD 77 follows a curvaceous route along the narrow valley of Hunting Creek to descend Catoctin Mountain. The state highway emerges from the mountain valley just west of the town of Thurmont, where the highway becomes Main Street and meets U.S. Route 15 (Catoctin Mountain Highway) at a folded diamond interchange. MD 77 intersects Church Street and Water Street in the center of town; Church Street heads north as MD 550. The two state highways run concurrently through the eastern part", "title": "Maryland Route 77" }, { "id": "7760589", "text": "Tenet as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cheney remained physically apart from Bush for security reasons. For a period, Cheney stayed at a variety of undisclosed locations, out of public view. Cheney later revealed in his memoir \"In My Time\" that these \"undisclosed locations\" included his official Vice Presidential residence, his home in Wyoming, and Camp David. He also utilized a heavy security detail, employing a motorcade of 12 to 18 government vehicles for his daily commute from the Vice Presidential residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory to the White House. On the", "title": "Dick Cheney" }, { "id": "18799819", "text": "Trout Run (retreat) Trout Run is a property in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Maryland, that was visited on several occasions by Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. Originally called Catoctin Lodge, it is located about away from the presidential retreat at Camp David and was established by one of Hoover's senior aides. It subsequently became the property of the family of a senior State Department official, who owned it for nearly 70 years, before it was acquired in 2013 by an arm of the Church of Scientology. It became the focus of controversy in 2015 when", "title": "Trout Run (retreat)" }, { "id": "5433372", "text": "White House Communications Agency The White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Corps (WHSC) and then the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the United States Department of War on 25 March 1942 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was created to provide secure normal, secret, and emergency communications requirements in support of the President. The organization provided mobile radio, Teletype, telegraph, telephone and cryptographic aides in the White House and at \"Shangri-La\" (now known as Camp David). The organizational mission was to provide a premier communication system that would enable", "title": "White House Communications Agency" }, { "id": "285665", "text": "stations open to community programming are offered on cable systems in Bismarck, Dickinson, Fargo, and Jamestown. North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "id": "285596", "text": "North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with its neighboring state, South Dakota. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo. In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its economic performance, particularly with the oil extraction from the Bakken formation, which lies beneath the northwestern", "title": "North Dakota" }, { "id": "4032064", "text": "the unrestricted category, there exists states that are \"fully unrestricted,\" where no permit is required for lawful open or concealed carry, and \"partially unrestricted,\" where certain forms of concealed carry may be legal without a permit, while other forms of carry may require a permit. Among U.S. states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho (residents only), Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota (residents only; concealed carry only), Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming (residents only) are fully unrestricted, and allow those who are not prohibited from owning a firearm to carry a concealed firearm in any place not deemed off-limits by", "title": "Concealed carry in the United States" }, { "id": "5433377", "text": "handpicked infantrymen selected for this special duty as part of Presidential Support Duty. White House Communications Agency The White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Corps (WHSC) and then the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the United States Department of War on 25 March 1942 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was created to provide secure normal, secret, and emergency communications requirements in support of the President. The organization provided mobile radio, Teletype, telegraph, telephone and cryptographic aides in the White House and at \"Shangri-La\" (now known as Camp David).", "title": "White House Communications Agency" }, { "id": "20004943", "text": "Bush took both overnight and multiple-day trips throughout the country. In contrast, Trump's domestic travels had largely been limited to a two-hour flight radius of Washington, D.C., and his only overnight stays were at Camp David, Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. One of the benefits that Trump is speculated to obtain from such trips is more favorable coverage from local news outlets in the areas visited. Most of Trump's trips to Wisconsin were focused on the Milwaukee area in the southeast part of the state, which Trump won in 2016 by a significantly smaller margin than Mitt", "title": "Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "9573931", "text": "U.S. Route 1 in New York U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Key West, Florida, to the Canada–United States border at Fort Kent, Maine. In the U.S. state of New York, US 1 extends from the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan to the Connecticut state line at Port Chester. It closely parallels Interstate 95 (I-95) for much of its course, and does not serve as a major trunk route within the state. It does not overlap with any other roads besides I-95 and (briefly) US 9, and few other state", "title": "U.S. Route 1 in New York" }, { "id": "5470483", "text": "carry Vermont. The previous three Democratic presidential candidates to carry the state were all from the South (Lyndon B. Johnson was from Texas, Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Al Gore from Tennessee), even though Vermont is a northern state. Primary date: March 2, 2004 Source 2004 United States presidential election in Vermont The 2004 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 3 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont is the home state of United", "title": "2004 United States presidential election in Vermont" }, { "id": "3133386", "text": "Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. In Connecticut, dogs are not permitted to run at large except in the situation of hunting. Still, if the dog has vicious propensities and the owner still allows it to run at large and a person is bitten, the owner can be fined for up to $1,000 and is also liable for 6 months of prison unless the victim has", "title": "Leash" }, { "id": "2210019", "text": "held a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday December 14 of that year, sponsored by the Keene Birthday Club. Keene, Virginia Keene is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. As of the 1990 census, the town had a total population of 10. The town is known for being the location of the last sighting of a passenger pigeon in the wild, by Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt had \"the first Camp David\", called Pine Knot, here from 1905. Christ Church Glendower, Plain Dealing, and The Rectory are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a", "title": "Keene, Virginia" }, { "id": "16575583", "text": "could become \"Camp David North\". In 2017 it became one of the three official presidential residencies, the other two being Trump Tower in New York and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. In May 2017, Trump started to use the property for weekend retreats during the summer when Mar-a-Lago is closed for the season. Trump stated that staying at his property in Bedminster is less expensive and disruptive than going to Trump Tower in New York City. This made the property the \"Summer White House\". In August 2017, the estate was used as a working vacation of the President for a duration of", "title": "Trump National Golf Club (Bedminster, New Jersey)" }, { "id": "14349461", "text": "Salt Belt The term Salt Belt refers to states, in the United States, in which large quantities of salt are applied to roads during the winter season to control snow and ice. States in the salt belt include Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington DC. Other states such as Colorado and Utah are also considered part of the Salt Belt but use less corrosive substances. Road salt is a common cause for corrosion of", "title": "Salt Belt" }, { "id": "2907699", "text": "take the lead role in coordinating the Watergate cover-up from an early stage, and that this cover-up was working very well for many months. Certain aspects of the scandal had come to light before the 1972 elections, but Nixon was re-elected to a second presidential term by a significant margin. On March 22, 1973, Nixon requested that Dean put together a report with everything he knew about the Watergate matter, and even invited him to take a retreat to Camp David to do so. Dean did go to Camp David and performed some work on this report, but since he", "title": "John Dean" }, { "id": "6158736", "text": "serious bodily injury or death to another person. In most jurisdictions it is only accepted under conditions of extreme necessity and last resort. The states that have legislatively adopted stand-your-ground laws are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. The states that have adopted stand-your-ground in practice, either through case law/precedent, jury instructions or by other means, are California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington. States that have adopted stand-your-ground, but limit", "title": "Stand-your-ground law" }, { "id": "6280199", "text": "Rapidan Camp Rapidan Camp (also known at times as Camp Hoover) in Shenandoah National Park in Madison County, Virginia, was built by U.S. President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, and served as their rustic retreat throughout Hoover's administration from 1929 to 1933. The first family's residential cabin was known as the \"Brown House\" in contrast to their more famous residence, the White House. Rapidan Camp was precursor of the current presidential retreat, Camp David. In November 1928, Herbert Hoover was overwhelmingly elected as 31st President of the United States. While all preceding Presidents came from the Eastern", "title": "Rapidan Camp" }, { "id": "100370", "text": "Delaware Delaware () is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the north by Pennsylvania, and to the east by New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor. Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula. It is the second smallest and sixth least populous state, but the sixth most densely populated. Delaware's largest city is Wilmington. The state is divided", "title": "Delaware" }, { "id": "12818898", "text": "$287,533 in the state. Barack Obama raised $337,053. Obama and his interest groups spent $639,435. McCain and his interest groups spent just $1,531. Obama didn't visit the state, as McCain visited the state once, in Sturgis, South Dakota. South Dakota, a predominantly Republican state, has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon B. Johnson won the state in the landslide Election of 1964. A sparsely populated state with a rural and conservative lifestyle of many of the state's inhabitants, since then, the state has been won handily by the Republicans. McCain was able to keep South Dakota in", "title": "2008 United States presidential election in South Dakota" }, { "id": "20037213", "text": "Orange One Orange One is a U.S. Navy-operated facility located in the Appalachian Mountains, extending underneath Camp David, the U.S. President’s country retreat. Described in one account as a \"fortress\", it was designed for use by the president as a military headquarters during an emergency. According to the diary of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who toured the facility in 1959, Orange One can house a staff of 200 persons in two separate wings and is a \"fortress ... hewn out of the rock\". Bill Gulley has said Orange One can be accessed by an elevator from Aspen Lodge, the", "title": "Orange One" }, { "id": "5470480", "text": "2004 United States presidential election in Vermont The 2004 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 3 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont is the home state of United States presidential candidate and anti-war advocate Howard Dean, its former governor. Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, over incumbent Republican President George W. Bush of Texas. Kerry received 58.94% of the vote to Bush's 38.80%, a Democratic victory margin", "title": "2004 United States presidential election in Vermont" }, { "id": "16178426", "text": "David M. Camp David M. Camp (April 21, 1788 – February 20, 1871) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor from 1836 to 1841 under Governor Silas H. Jennison. David Manning Camp was born in Tunbridge, Vermont on April 21, 1788. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1810, and in 1813 moved to Derby to become a US Customs Collector. Camp subsequently studied law with William Brayton, attained admission to the bar, and became an attorney in Newport. He served as Orleans County State's Attorney in 1815. He was a member of the Vermont", "title": "David M. Camp" }, { "id": "18527681", "text": "research and theoretical work have made major conceptual contributions to the field of community organization. Jack Rothman was born in 1927 in the State of New York. He, as well as his older sister, are the offspring of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Rothman served as a Pharmacist Mate in the U.S. Navy during World War II and under assignment as a Fleet Marine was stationed with the Marine guard at Camp David, which was called Shangri-La at the time. After the war, he obtained his bachelor's degree from City College of New York. From there, he moved on to", "title": "Jack Rothman" }, { "id": "8415", "text": "the 90s °F (the low-to-mid 30s °C), while in the winter, the temperature can fall below . Precipitation is sparse in the Interior, often less than a year, but what precipitation falls in the winter tends to stay the entire winter. The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in Alaska are both in the Interior. The highest is in Fort Yukon (which is just inside the arctic circle) on June 27, 1915, making Alaska tied with Hawaii as the state with the lowest high temperature in the United States. The lowest official Alaska temperature is in Prospect Creek on January 23,", "title": "Alaska" }, { "id": "4974987", "text": "America, and former Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower. His father would go on to be a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserve, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1969–1971), and a renowned military historian. His grandfather would become president of Columbia University (1948–1953), and later the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961). After assuming the presidency in 1953, President Eisenhower named the presidential mountain retreat, formerly Camp Shangri-La, Camp David, after his grandson. Eisenhower graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1966. He received his B.A. degree in history", "title": "David Eisenhower" }, { "id": "19388964", "text": "Presidential Emergency Facility A Presidential Emergency Facility (PEF), also called Presidential Emergency Relocation Centers and VIP Evacuation and Support Facilities, is a fortified, working residence intended for use by the President of the United States should normal presidential residences, such as the White House or Camp David, be destroyed or overrun during war or other types of national emergencies. Some Presidential Emergency Facilities are specially designated sections of existing government and military installations, while others are dedicated sites that have been purpose-built. Various sources state there are, or were, between 9 and 75 such facilities. In his 1984 journalistic expose", "title": "Presidential Emergency Facility" }, { "id": "12311649", "text": "design modifications at Greentop to accommodate handicapped children reduced capacity to 98. Greentop is also known as Camp 2: Camp 1 is Camp Misty Mount and Camp 3, originally called Camp Hi-Catoctin and located at a much higher elevation, became Camp David. Camp Greentop Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Camp Greentop Camp Greentop is located in Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland. The camp was built by the Works Progress Administration labor program in the development of what was then known as the Catoctin Mountain Recreational Demonstration Area, and comprises 22 rustic", "title": "Camp Greentop" }, { "id": "10572595", "text": "Peres on March 19, 2008. Nepal is the first and until recently only country in South Asia to recognize the existence of Israel. Nepal has maintained diplomatic relations and continues to support the right of Israel to exist within secure and internationally recognized boundaries. Nepal voted in favour of Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), which upheld the right of all the states in the region to live in peace. Nepal has also welcomed every initiative from whatever quarter that seeks to resolve the Middle East problems like the Camp David Accord signed between Egypt and Israel in", "title": "Israel–Nepal relations" }, { "id": "14261250", "text": "Guantánamo Bay. The detainment areas consist of three camps: Camp Delta (which includes Camp Echo), Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray, the last of which has been closed. The facility is often referred to as Guantanamo, or Gitmo. After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, prisoners captured in Afghanistan were moved there beginning in early 2002. After the Bush administration asserted that detainees were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in \"Hamdan v. Rumsfeld\" on June 29, 2006, that they", "title": "Legal issues related to the September 11 attacks" }, { "id": "5570115", "text": "the law is not in direct conflict with the other adjudicating state. NRS 166.015(3). In fact, the Nevada law does not even require that the trust assets be located within Nevada, so long as one of the trustees declares his/her domicile as Nevada. NRS 166.015(1)(d). The following other states now have a DAPT statute: Delaware, Mississippi (as of July 31, 2014, see Miss. Code 91-9-701 et seq.), South Dakota, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utah, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Because estates and trusts are largely governed by state law in the United States, individual states each may have their", "title": "Spendthrift trust" }, { "id": "4536990", "text": "Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The following states do not recognize holographic wills made within the state, but recognize such wills under a \"foreign wills\" provision (i.e., the will was drafted wholly within, and in accordance with and is valid under the laws of, another jurisdiction): Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana (which refers to it as a \"foreign testament\" provision.), Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. Maryland and New York recognize holographic wills only if made by members", "title": "Holographic will" }, { "id": "3585151", "text": ", 28 states and the District of Columbia allow registered voters to indicate a party preference when registering to vote; the following 22 states (mostly in the South and the Midwest) do not provide for party preferences in voter registration: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The partisan breakdown \"demographics\" provided in the following table are obtained from that state's party registration figures (from late 2014 whenever possible) where indicated. Only Wyoming has a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as", "title": "Political party strength in U.S. states" }, { "id": "16164337", "text": "listed states will be recognized in Washington State, so long as the handgun is carried in accordance with Washington law: Idaho (Idaho Enhanced Permit only), Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan (non-resident concealed pistol licenses issued by Washington state are not recognized by Michigan), North Carolina, North Dakota (Class 1 North Dakota permits only), Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah. Washington state law also carves exemptions into state law regarding Concealed Pistol Licenses. RCW 9.41.060, section 8: \"Any person engaging in a lawful outdoor recreational activity such as hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, or horseback riding, only if, considering all of the attendant circumstances, including but", "title": "Gun laws in Washington" }, { "id": "19115807", "text": "President's Guest House The President's Guest House, commonly known as Blair House, is a complex of four formerly separate buildings—Blair House, Lee House, Peter Parker House, and 704 Jackson Place—located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. A major interior renovation of these 19th century residences between the 1950s and 1980s resulted in their reconstitution as a single facility. The President's Guest House is one of several residences owned by the United States government for use by the President and Vice President of the United States; other such residences include the White House, Camp David, One Observatory Circle,", "title": "President's Guest House" }, { "id": "5202169", "text": "Camp Becket Camp Becket, also known as Camp Becket-in-the-Berkshires, is a YMCA summer camp for boys in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Founded in 1903 by George Hannum on Rudd Pond in Becket, Massachusetts, it is one of the oldest continually operational summer camps in the United States, and is consistently rated among the best camps of its kind. The camp continues to teach core values espoused by its second director, Henry Gibson (tenure, 1904-1927). These include the eight \"Becket Mottos\": The camp is divided into four units, called villages, that each contain eight to ten cabins. From youngest to", "title": "Camp Becket" }, { "id": "20746623", "text": "to data provided by the company, there were 250 stores and 1,500 selling areas. The mother company Clinton was named after Bill Clinton, who was President of the United States when it was founded, while Camp David was chosen after the country retreat for the President. Soccx references Bill Clinton's pet cat Socks and Chelsea his daughter Chelsea Clinton. The names are considered as a successful example of the country-of-origin effect. Camp David (fashion) Camp David (stylised as CAMP DAVID) is a fashion label of Clinton Großhandels-GmbH founded in 1997 and headquartered in Hoppegarten, Brandenburg. The label produces men's clothing", "title": "Camp David (fashion)" }, { "id": "5240281", "text": "site on the Catoctin Mountain, which today is known as Camp David. Strong set up a trust fund in 1947 that maintains a trail system and other tourist facilities at Sugarloaf Mountain. The mountain and its immediate environs continue to be open to the public, but they are privately owned by Stronghold, Incorporated. Sugarloaf Mountain is an example of a monadnock — an isolated hill or small mountain rising abruptly from gently sloping or level surrounding land. It appears to be either an outlier to the east of the main mass of Catoctin Mountain, or a root remnant of the", "title": "Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)" }, { "id": "8575433", "text": "governor, and Fisk was re-elected as Senate Speaker. Almost immediately following the results of the 1861 election, William \"Bull\" Nelson established Camp Dick Robinson, a Union recruiting camp, in Garrard County. When Crittenden objected to this violation of Kentucky's neutrality, Nelson replied, \"That a camp of loyal Union men, native Kentuckians, should assemble in camp under the flag of the Union and upon their native soil [and] should be a cause of apprehension is something I do not clearly understand.\" Governor Magoffin appealed to President Lincoln to close the camp, but he refused. Meanwhile, Confederate volunteers covertly crossed the Tennessee", "title": "Kentucky in the American Civil War" }, { "id": "12430768", "text": "features, the National Industrial Recovery Act authorized federal purchases of land considered submarginal for farming but valuable for recreation purposes. By 1936, 46 projects containing had been set up in 24 different states, mostly near metropolitan centers, to provide outdoor recreation for people from crowded cities. It was intended from the beginning that most of these projects would be turned over to states and cities for operation and in 1942 Congress provided the necessary authority. By 1946 most of the conveyances had been completed. The National Park Service retained Catoctin Mountain Park, site of Camp David, but 4,500 of its", "title": "History of the National Park Service" }, { "id": "6158737", "text": "it to only when a person is within their vehicle, are North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The states that have castle doctrine only with the duty to retreat in public are Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. This means that people can use deadly force in their home, car, or other form of abode but have to retreat in public. Vermont and Washington, D.C. require citizens to flee from criminal assailants, even within their own homes. Stand-your-ground laws are frequently labeled \"shoot first\" laws by opposition groups, including the Brady Campaign", "title": "Stand-your-ground law" }, { "id": "527530", "text": "identify critical functions and develop preventative measures to continue functions should disruption occur. A Continuity of Operations Plan (or Continuity of Government Plan) has been a part of U.S. government operations since President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that the government of the United States would be able to continue operating after a nuclear war. These measures included construction of underground facilities such as \"Mount Weather\", a hollowed-out putatively nuclear-weapon-proof mountain in northeastern Virginia; and Raven Rock Mountain Complex near Camp David in Maryland. The public can now tour one such facility, intended", "title": "United States federal government continuity of operations" }, { "id": "7525343", "text": "law such as a crime that is violent in nature, or a sexual offense, or felony driving while intoxicated; they will entail extradition from all states in the United States. Theft charges and small drug crimes are the exception; for instance, if a minor crime is committed in Florida, a person apprehended in Idaho will not be extradited back to the original crime's jurisdiction. Federal charges are governed by US federal law and most states, with the exceptions of South Carolina and Missouri, have adopted the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act. In practice, Florida, Alaska, and Hawaii typically do not extradite", "title": "Extradition law in the United States" }, { "id": "3151626", "text": "the original cottages. In the aftermath of the American Civil War, such evangelical camp meetings gained wide recognition and a substantial increase in popularity as a result of a holiness movement camp meeting in Vineland, New Jersey in 1867. In the mid-Atlantic states, the Methodist Church led many of these camp meetings and established semi-permanent sites for summer seasons. Ocean Grove, New Jersey, founded in 1869, has been called the \"Queen of the Victorian Methodist Camp Meetings.\" Similar areas include Cape May Point, New Jersey, with others in Maryland and New York. At the end of the nineteenth century, believers", "title": "Camp meeting" }, { "id": "446595", "text": "from Vermont. Racing series in Vermont include NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, American Canadian Tour, and Vermont's own Tiger Sportsman Series. State symbols include: Vermont is the birthplace of former U.S. Presidents Chester A. Arthur and Calvin Coolidge. The following were either born in Vermont or resided there for a substantial period during their lives. Vermont Vermont () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont", "title": "Vermont" }, { "id": "16211017", "text": "37.5%, thus winning the state's eleven electoral votes, despite the fact that Massachusetts is Romney's home state and he had been Governor of the state from 2003 to 2007. This was the first time a presidential candidate lost his home state since Al Gore lost Tennessee in the 2000 election. Romney also became the first Republican candidate to lose their home-state since Richard Nixon lost his home-state of New York to Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Massachusetts has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984. It was also the sixth straight election (beginning in 1992) in which the Democratic", "title": "2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts" }, { "id": "8882864", "text": "America: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Beyond these eleven states, there is some dispute as to which of the following six states should also be included: Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Of these six \"border\" states, Delaware and Oklahoma probably have the weakest claim to be included in the American South. Though a slave-holding state until the end of the American Civil War, Delaware never seceded, and today is culturally closer to the urban Mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Oklahoma was a sparsely populated territory at", "title": "Southern art" }, { "id": "12311674", "text": "3, originally called Camp Hi-Catoctin and located at a much higher elevation, became Camp David. Camp Misty Mount Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Camp Misty Mount Historic District Camp Misty Mount is located in Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland. The camp was built by the Works Progress Administration labor program in the development of what was then known as the Catoctin Mountain Recreational Development Area, and comprises 35 rustic log buildings including sleeping cabins, administrative buildings and lodges. All were built between 1935 and 1938. The buildings are a simplified version", "title": "Camp Misty Mount Historic District" }, { "id": "4032070", "text": "a required fee. These requirements vary widely by jurisdiction, with some having few or none of these and others having most or all. The following are shall-issue states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (for permits issued by local authorities), South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The territory of Guam is also Shall-Issue with the passage of Bill 296.", "title": "Concealed carry in the United States" }, { "id": "5953139", "text": "Delaware (song) \"Delaware\" is a popular song, written by Irving Gordon. The song was published in 1959 and has references to 15 states of the United States. The states were portrayed, in the form of puns, as: Della wear, New Jersey, Calla 'phone ya, how ar' ya, Missus sip, mini-soda, Ora gone, I'll ask 'er, taxes, Wiscon sin, new brass key, Arkan saw, Tenne see, Flora die and misery. Gordon was apparently inspired to write the song after the success of another song that he wrote punning on the name of States of the United States of America: \"Mister and", "title": "Delaware (song)" }, { "id": "5082633", "text": "into doing the federal government's bidding by threatening to refuse noncomplying states' citizens the privileges and immunities enjoyed by other states' citizens\" Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington State have joined Maine and Utah in passing legislation opposing Real ID. Similar resolutions are pending in Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Other states have moved aggressively to upgrade their IDs since 9/11, and still others", "title": "Real ID Act" }, { "id": "342150", "text": "Towers now serve as an event venue and host the local Chamber of Commerce, which operates a tourist information center. The Newport Tower has been hypothesized to be of Viking origin, although most experts believe that it was a Colonial-era windmill. Rhode Island Rhode Island (), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest state in area, the seventh least populous, and the second most densely populated. It has the longest official name of any state. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to", "title": "Rhode Island" }, { "id": "100601", "text": "age of three. Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, John Eisenhower (1922–2013), was born in Denver, Colorado. John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971. Coincidentally, John graduated from West Point on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He married Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947. John and Barbara had four children: David, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968. Eisenhower was a golf", "title": "Dwight D. Eisenhower" }, { "id": "5285925", "text": "based on national surveys, administrative data and other sources of information indicate that the current population may range as high as 20-30,000,000. SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 (for the year 2000) Normally, a state is considered to be majority–minority because of its ethnic/racial makeup, but other criteria is occasionally used, such as religion, disability, or age. For example, the majority of Utah residents are Mormons, a Christian denomination that is a religious minority throughout the rest of the United States. In addition to Utah, Rhode Island and Louisiana, which have Roman Catholic majorities, are the only states in the U.S.", "title": "Majority minority" }, { "id": "16178429", "text": "also named David M. Camp, was Clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1869 to 1878 and also served as a member of the Vermont House. St. Mary Star of the Sea (Newport, Vermont) David M. Camp David M. Camp (April 21, 1788 – February 20, 1871) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor from 1836 to 1841 under Governor Silas H. Jennison. David Manning Camp was born in Tunbridge, Vermont on April 21, 1788. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1810, and in 1813 moved to Derby to become a US Customs", "title": "David M. Camp" }, { "id": "12567119", "text": "is faced with a huge dilemma when she accidentally comes off as condemning the \"Return to Family\" policy on an MTV special by accidentally implying that she and David have had sex. Sam receives mostly negative backlash for her remarks, but is supported by her friends and family for being honest. When she goes to Camp David during Thanksgiving, she waits in her room all night for David to come, but he never does. Feeling furious, she sneaks into David's room and berates him for his mixed-messages over them having sex. David replies that he didn't mean to imply that", "title": "Ready or Not (novel)" }, { "id": "4859876", "text": "of elderly women living in a retirement community. The Keepers, who name themselves after Bible verses, believe the Fire-us was a miracle sent to cleanse the Earth and allow the chosen ones to start afresh. An adolescent girl, Cory- named after a verse in Corinthians- has grown disillusioned with the movement after her older sister was \"chosen\" to become one of the leader's companions, and she joins the Family as they head to Camp David, where the President supposedly is, the Keepers hot on their trail. At Camp David, it is revealed that the President is none other than the", "title": "Jennifer Armstrong" }, { "id": "1206080", "text": "Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Waynesboro is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the southern border of the state. Waynesboro is in the Cumberland Valley between Hagerstown, Maryland, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of Chambersburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. It is 2 miles north of the Mason–Dixon line and close to Camp David and the Raven Rock Mountain Complex. The population within the borough limits was 10,568 at the 2010 census. When combined with the surrounding Washington and Quincy Townships, the population of greater Waynesboro is 28,285. The Waynesboro Area School District serves", "title": "Waynesboro, Pennsylvania" }, { "id": "9576863", "text": "his major assignments from the CIA was to assassinate Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia. Tito traveled to Brazil and Kavaja followed, but the chance to kill the leader was foiled when Tito stayed indoors for his entire stay. Kavaja followed Tito from Brazil to Chile, Mexico, and the United States. Upon arrival in America, he and his companions had to be especially careful because he was wanted by the FBI, which did not always share sources with the CIA. Kavaja claimed that in 1971, he staked out Camp David (near Thurmont, Maryland), disguised as a Maryland State Trooper, in", "title": "Nikola Kavaja" }, { "id": "5953141", "text": "of \"Delaware\" is held by Sony/ATV Music Publishing from whom permission must be obtained to reproduce the lyrics. Delaware (song) \"Delaware\" is a popular song, written by Irving Gordon. The song was published in 1959 and has references to 15 states of the United States. The states were portrayed, in the form of puns, as: Della wear, New Jersey, Calla 'phone ya, how ar' ya, Missus sip, mini-soda, Ora gone, I'll ask 'er, taxes, Wiscon sin, new brass key, Arkan saw, Tenne see, Flora die and misery. Gordon was apparently inspired to write the song after the success of another", "title": "Delaware (song)" }, { "id": "16159358", "text": "Handgun License by requesting a hearing before the Department of Public Safety within 35 days of receipt of an Order of Denial for a CHL. An unfavorable ruling on the appeal by the DPS may be further appealed through the New Mexico courts. New Mexico currently recognizes concealed carry permits from or has reciprocal agreements with the following states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. New Mexico does not issue CCW permits to non-residents, except for Active", "title": "Gun laws in New Mexico" }, { "id": "387391", "text": "for the purpose of promoting and encouraging rifle shooting on a \"scientific\" basis. In 1872, with financial help from New York state, a site on Long Island, the Creed Farm, was purchased for the purpose of building a rifle range. Named Creedmoor, the range opened in 1872, and became the site of the first National Matches until New York politics forced the NRA to move the matches to Sea Girt, New Jersey. The popularity of the National Matches soon forced the event to be moved to its present, much larger location: Camp Perry. In 1903, the U.S. Congress created the", "title": "Shooting sports" }, { "id": "13368408", "text": "Same-sex marriage in New England Even before the \"Obergefell v. Hodges\" Supreme Court ruling making same-sex marriage legal across all the states of the United States, same-sex marriage was legal in all of the New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as in the neighboring states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. The New England region has been noted for being the nucleus of the same-sex marriage movement in the United States, with the region having among the most widespread and earliest legal support of any region. In 2004, Massachusetts", "title": "Same-sex marriage in New England" }, { "id": "10372459", "text": "with his family until 1958, entertaining and hosting dignitaries and US Presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt en route to Shangri-La, later dubbed Camp David. Himes was the founder, president, and chairman of the board of directors of Group Hospitalization, Inc., Washington, D.C.. He engaged in various business interests in Washington, New York City, and elsewhere. He died in Washington, D.C., on September 9, 1960, and was interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Joseph H. Himes Joseph Hendrix Himes (August 15, 1885 – September 9, 1960) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in New Oxford, Pennsylvania, Himes attended the public schools,", "title": "Joseph H. Himes" }, { "id": "19803200", "text": "buying of votes has receded as a significant issue.\" Jurisdictions that currently prohibit ballot selfies are: Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Illinois's laws are the strictest of all. While most states with anti-ballot selfie laws make the offense a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, in Illinois, taking a ballot selfie is a felony punishable by 1–3 years in prison. Jurisdictions that currently allow ballot selfies or do not enforce laws against them are: Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,", "title": "Ballot selfie" }, { "id": "17842231", "text": "MBE score with another state's bar examination. The Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) is a collection of essay questions largely concerning the common law administered as a part of the bar examination in 33 jurisdictions of the United States: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland (beginning 2018), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina (beginning 2019), North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Palau, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The MEE can cover any of the following areas: MEE", "title": "Uniform Bar Examination" }, { "id": "2592356", "text": "concealed carry in public areas particularly schools and bars without a permit or passed \"Stand Your Ground Laws\" — which remove the duty to retreat and allow people to shoot potential assailants. Eventually, states were graded indicating the overall strengths or weakness of gun laws. Ten States with the strongest gun laws ranked from strongest starting with California, then New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Maryland, Illinois, Rhode Island and finally Michigan. The states with weakest gun laws were ranked as follow: South Dakota, Arizona, Mississippi, Vermont, Louisiana, Montana, Wyoming, Kentucky, Kansas, and Oklahoma. A comparable study of state", "title": "Gun politics in the United States" }, { "id": "20562889", "text": "Camp Gallagher Camp Gallagher is a co-ed overnight summer camp primarily for middle schoolers and high schoolers located on Case Inlet in Lakebay, Washington... It was founded in 1970. Camp Gallagher is operated by Friends of Camp Gallagher, a non-religious, community-based nonprofit, and is accredited by the American Camping Association. Camp Gallagher is located on 155 acres of land in the South Puget Sound. The grounds are made up of a sand beach, grassy areas and forest. It is situated due west of both Harstine Island and McMicken Island, and off the southeast corner of Herron Island. In 1963, the", "title": "Camp Gallagher" }, { "id": "17145826", "text": "a presidential retreat called Shangri-La. President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David during his administration. The Eisenhowers donated a significant library of books to the Foxville School where the children of some of the workers at Camp David attended. Closed in 1962, Foxville's school was the last two-room school in operation in Frederick County, Maryland. Much of the historical architecture which survives today in Foxville is of vernacular design and employ local resources such as log and stone. Several notable structures in the village have been preserved. These include the Wolfe Tavern, a two-story log structure built around", "title": "Foxville, Maryland" }, { "id": "284869", "text": "Nevada Nevada () is a state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, but the 9th least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the state's four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada's capital, however, is Carson City. Nevada is officially known as the \"Silver State\" because of the importance of", "title": "Nevada" }, { "id": "15406156", "text": "Camp Pendleton (Virginia) Camp Pendleton is a state military reservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia, named after Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, who served as Robert E. Lee's chief of artillery during the Civil War. It lies on the Atlantic coast slightly east of Naval Air Station Oceana. The facility was laid out in 1911, with construction beginning in 1912, as the State Rifle Range for the use of the state militia. Between 1922 and 1942, it was named after the then serving Governor of Virginia, being firstly named Camp Trinkle (1922–1926), then Camp Byrd (1926–1930), Camp Pollard (1930–1934), Camp Peery", "title": "Camp Pendleton (Virginia)" }, { "id": "20166195", "text": "his running mate California Governor Hiram Johnson. Wilson won Connecticut by a narrow margin of 3.28 percent, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to win the state. While Taft lost the state, his 35.88% of the popular vote made it his fifth strongest state in terms of popular vote percentage after Utah, New Hampshire, Vermont and New Mexico. 1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut The 1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States Presidential Election which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight", "title": "1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut" }, { "id": "6932155", "text": "established. On January 3, 1959, Alaska joined the union as the 49th state. Soon after, Anchorage faced a severe housing shortage, which was solved partially by suburban expansion. In January 1964, Anchorage became a City and Borough. Anchorage also has unsuccessfully bid for the Winter Olympic Games several times, with the most recent being in 1994. On March 27, 1964 at 5:36 P.M. AST, Anchorage was hit by the Good Friday earthquake, which caused tremendous destruction. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake was the largest ever recorded in North America, and Anchorage lay only 75 miles (120 km) from its epicenter. It", "title": "History of Anchorage, Alaska" }, { "id": "15732271", "text": "giving Obama 51.98% of the vote to Mitt Romney's 46.40%, a Democratic victory margin of 5.58%. New Hampshire held its primaries on January 10, 2012. The state is historically the first in the nation to hold presidential primaries, and moved its date up from February after Florida moved its primary date to January 31. Because New Hampshire has a proportional-delegate primary, the state's 12 national delegates will be allocated in proportion to candidates' percent of the popular vote. Incumbent president Barack Obama won all the delegates and was renominated. A Democratic presidential candidates debate, held at Saint Anselm College in", "title": "2012 United States presidential election in New Hampshire" }, { "id": "12565227", "text": "swelled by more than 100,000 volunteers, the U.S. government believed it could now spare enough men to again occupy the Utah Territory. In addition, it was important to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along what later became known as the California Trail. Col. Patrick E. Connor marched into Utah with a regiment of California volunteers. His soldiers, of the 3rd California Infantry, constructed a small garrison just three miles (5 km) east of the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City. The post, named Camp Douglas for former Illinois presidential candidate and congressman Stephen A. Douglas, was officially", "title": "Utah in the American Civil War" }, { "id": "13924648", "text": "Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wyoming) and the District of Columbia have laws against possession of alcohol by minors, but they do not prohibit its consumption by minors. Fourteen states (Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia) specifically permit minors to drink alcohol given to them by their parents or by someone entrusted by their parents. Many states also permit the drinking of alcohol under the age of 21 for religious or health reasons. Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, has", "title": "Alcohol law" }, { "id": "16211018", "text": "presidential candidate swept every one of the state's fourteen counties. Consequently, Romney became the first candidate since Theodore Roosevelt one hundred years earlier to claim an electoral vote yet win no county in his home state. The 2012 election also marks the third consecutive instance where a major party's presidential candidate who considered Massachusetts as his home state lost (this also happened in 1988 and 2004 when Michael Dukakis and John Kerry respectively lost their bids). Incumbent president Barack Obama won the Democratic Primary with 81% of the vote. He wasn't challenged in the primary and the rest of the", "title": "2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts" } ]

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[ { "id": "2109490", "text": "Statue of Freedom The Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford (1814–1857) that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Originally named Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, a U.S. government publication now states that the statue \"is officially known as the \"Statue of Freedom\"\". The statue depicts a female figure bearing a military helmet and holding a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath and shield in her left. The \"Statue of Freedom\" is a colossal bronze", "title": "Statue of Freedom" }, { "id": "388698", "text": "Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "388713", "text": "be fully dressed in flowing robes. Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold. Crawford's statue was designed in the early 1850s. It was originally to be crowned with a \"pileus\", the cap given to emancipated slaves in ancient Rome. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as President of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the \"pileus\" would be taken as an abolitionist symbol. He ordered that it be changed to", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "2242801", "text": "the poem was written. The \"huddled masses\" are the many immigrants coming to the United States (many of them through Ellis Island at the port of New York). Paul Auster wrote that \"Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world.\" John T. Cunningham wrote that \"The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships", "title": "The New Colossus" }, { "id": "2109501", "text": "Service Medal also depicts the statue on the obverse (front face) of the medal. Statue of Freedom The Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford (1814–1857) that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Originally named Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, a U.S. government publication now states that the statue \"is officially known as the \"Statue of Freedom\"\". The statue depicts a female figure bearing a military helmet and holding a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel", "title": "Statue of Freedom" }, { "id": "13762568", "text": "Bartholdi Fountain The Bartholdi Fountain is a monumental public fountain, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who later created the Statue of Liberty. The fountain was originally made for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now located at the corner of Independence Avenue and First Street, SW, in the United States Botanic Garden, on the grounds of the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C.. The Fountain of Light and Water, commonly called the Bartholdi fountain, was created for the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition which celebrated the 100th birthday of the United States. It was designed by French sculptor Frédéric", "title": "Bartholdi Fountain" }, { "id": "13762563", "text": "Bartholdi Fountain The Bartholdi Fountain is a monumental public fountain, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who later created the Statue of Liberty. The fountain was originally made for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now located at the corner of Independence Avenue and First Street, SW, in the United States Botanic Garden, on the grounds of the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C.. The Fountain of Light and Water, commonly called the Bartholdi fountain, was created for the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition which celebrated the 100th birthday of the United States. It was designed by French sculptor Frédéric", "title": "Bartholdi Fountain" }, { "id": "2109492", "text": "Sun. She wears a military helmet adorned with stars and an eagle's head which is itself crowned by an umbrella-like crest of feathers. Although not actually called , she shares many of her iconic characteristics. \"Freedom\" stands atop a cast-iron globe encircled with one of the national mottoes, \"E pluribus unum\". The lower part of the base is decorated with fasces and wreaths. Ten bronze points tipped with platinum are attached to her headdress, shoulders, and shield for protection from lightning. A monumental statue for the top of the national Capitol appeared in architect Thomas U. Walter's original drawing for", "title": "Statue of Freedom" }, { "id": "388714", "text": "a helmet. Delacroix's figure wears a \"pileus\", and Bartholdi at first considered placing one on his figure as well. Instead, he used a diadem, or crown, to top its head. In so doing, he avoided a reference to Marianne, who invariably wears a \"pileus\". The seven rays form a halo or aureole. They evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents, and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world. Bartholdi's early models were all similar in concept: a female figure in neoclassical style representing liberty, wearing a \"stola\" and \"pella\" (gown and cloak, common", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "2171520", "text": "most immigrants came from Ireland and Germany. Ellis Island opened in 1892, and between 1880 and 1920, most immigrants were German and Eastern European Jews, Poles, and other eastern and southern Europeans, including many Italians. By 1925, New York City's population outnumbered that of London, making it the most populous city in the world. Arguably New York's most identifiable symbol, \"Liberty Enlightening the World\" (the Statue of Liberty), a gift from France for the American centennial, was completed in 1886. By the early 20th century, the statue was regarded as the \"Mother of Exiles\"—a symbol of hope to immigrants. New", "title": "History of New York (state)" }, { "id": "20406530", "text": "SS Frederick Bartholdi SS \"Frederick Bartholdi\" was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Frederick Bartholdi, French sculptor who is best known for designing \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. \"Frederick Bartholdi\" was laid down on 29 August 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1503, by J.A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia; sponsored by Mrs. O.H. Hall, and launched on 9 November 1943. She was allocated to the West India Steamship Company, on 11 November 1943. On 24 December 1943, she ran aground off", "title": "SS Frederick Bartholdi" }, { "id": "7385977", "text": "Statue of Liberty National Monument The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States National Monument located in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island. It includes \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, situated on Liberty Island, and the former immigration station at Ellis Island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. The monument is managed by the National Park Service as part of the National Parks of New York Harbor office. President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a", "title": "Statue of Liberty National Monument" }, { "id": "816024", "text": "1871, not finishing the massive sandstone statue until 1880. In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, where he pitched the idea of a massive statue gifted from the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence. The idea, which had first been broached to him in 1865 by his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. After years of work and fundraising, the statue was inaugurated in 1886. During this period, Bartholdi also sculpted a number of monuments for American cities, such as a", "title": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi" }, { "id": "816030", "text": "born, at 30 Rue des Marchands. Bartholdi's other major works include a variety of statues at Clermont-Ferrand, in Paris, and in other places. Notable works include: Notes Sources Further reading Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, 2 August 1834. He was born to a family of German Protestant (Alsatian) and Italian heritage, with his family name Romanticized from Barthold. Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791–1836) and Augusta", "title": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi" }, { "id": "560999", "text": "its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed \"New York\" after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries", "title": "Manhattan" }, { "id": "20406532", "text": "in September 1944, at Kames Bay. SS Frederick Bartholdi SS \"Frederick Bartholdi\" was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Frederick Bartholdi, French sculptor who is best known for designing \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. \"Frederick Bartholdi\" was laid down on 29 August 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1503, by J.A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia; sponsored by Mrs. O.H. Hall, and launched on 9 November 1943. She was allocated to the West India Steamship Company, on 11 November 1943. On 24", "title": "SS Frederick Bartholdi" }, { "id": "17035950", "text": "Eugène Secrétan Pierre-Eugène Secrétan, (1836, Saulx – 1899, Paris), was a French industrialist and art collector. According to the Museum of the City of New York he was a French copper industrialist who made his fortune in copper production. He donated 60,000 kilos of copper in the 1870s to make \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. He later lost his wealth in the when his \"Société industriel et commerciale des métaux\" went bankrupt after an attempt to corner the market on copper. After the copper crash in March 1889, he sold his extended art collection", "title": "Eugène Secrétan" }, { "id": "388699", "text": "carries a \"tabula ansata\" inscribed in Roman numerals with \"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI\" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "406280", "text": "in a parade, or to provide illumination in any after-dark celebration. Modern torches suitable for juggling are made of a wooden and metal or metal only stave with one end wrapped in a Kevlar wick. This wick is soaked in a flammable liquid, usually paraffin (kerosene). The torch is a common emblem of both enlightenment and hope. Thus the Statue of Liberty, actually \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", lifts her torch. Crossed reversed torches were signs of mourning that appear on Greek and Roman funerary monuments—a torch pointed downwards symbolizes death, while a torch held up symbolizes life, truth and the", "title": "Torch" }, { "id": "17035953", "text": "\"Elmore's French Patent Copper Depositing Company\". Eugène Secrétan Pierre-Eugène Secrétan, (1836, Saulx – 1899, Paris), was a French industrialist and art collector. According to the Museum of the City of New York he was a French copper industrialist who made his fortune in copper production. He donated 60,000 kilos of copper in the 1870s to make \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. He later lost his wealth in the when his \"Société industriel et commerciale des métaux\" went bankrupt after an attempt to corner the market on copper. After the copper crash in March 1889,", "title": "Eugène Secrétan" }, { "id": "2903675", "text": "1848, the park became the home of a large population of statues; first the Queens and famous women of France, lined along the terraces; then, in 1880s and 1890s, monuments to writers and artists, a small-scale model by Bartholdi of his \"Liberty Enlightening the World\" (commonly known as the Statue of Liberty) and one modern sculpture by Zadkine. In 1865, during the reconstruction of Paris by Louis Napoleon, the rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée, (now rue Auguste-Comte) was extended into the park, cutting off about seven hectares, including a large part of the old nursery garden. The building of new", "title": "Jardin du Luxembourg" }, { "id": "816019", "text": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, 2 August 1834. He was born to a family of German Protestant (Alsatian) and Italian heritage, with his family name Romanticized from Barthold. Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791–1836) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi ( Beysser; 1801–1891), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who", "title": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi" }, { "id": "2199518", "text": "Liberty (goddess) Liberty is a loose term in English for the goddess or personification of the concept of liberty, and is represented by the Roman Goddess Libertas, by Marianne, the national symbol of France, and by many others. The Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi is a well-known example in art, a gift from France to the United States. The ancient Roman goddess Libertas was honored during the second Punic War by a temple erected on the Aventine Hill in Rome by the father of Tiberius Gracchus. A statue in her honor also was raised", "title": "Liberty (goddess)" }, { "id": "19988918", "text": "Bartholdi designed and built \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", which became known as the Statue of Liberty, and placed it in New York Harbor in the United States. Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia, also known as Progress Carrying the Light to Asia or pedestal committee; was a plan for a colossal neoclassical sculpture. Designed in the late 1860s by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, the project was to be a statue of a robed female figure bearing a torch at the entryway of the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt. Both the khedive", "title": "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia" }, { "id": "5992414", "text": "a celebration as Remembrance Day. This statue, in New York City's harbor, occupies the place of our timeline's Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty was not built in this timeline because relations between the United States and France are poor due to France's support of the Confederate States. Rather than the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island (still under the name of Bedloe's Island) is taken up by a similar but more grim German-influenced statue known as the Statue of Remembrance holding the \"Sword of Vengeance\". Whenever either Germany gave the statue to the United States or the USA building", "title": "Institutions in the Southern Victory Series" }, { "id": "7634129", "text": "were burned. What records remain show that it originally came from the company Edbrooke & Burnham in Salem, Ohio. The statue's name prior to its christening is unknown, but it has possessed the names \"Miss Freedom, Liberty, and Goddess of Liberty\". The statue wears a Phrygian cap, or pileus, adorned with a star. It wears a robe and holds a torch in her right hand and a sword in her left. The torch is meant to represent the guidance to a higher state and people who lost their lives in order to gain freedom. The light represents truth and enlightenment,", "title": "Miss Freedom" }, { "id": "2963113", "text": "is now a replica one-third the size of the original \"The Republic\" statue. The designers used the Statue of Liberty as inspiration when they were creating the original. Today the 1/3 size statue of \"The Republic\" stands at the site of the 1893 Expositions Administration Building. Known originally as \"South Park\", the landscape had eastern and western divisions connected by a grand boulevard named the Midway Plaisance. The eastern division became known as \"Lake Park\"; however, in 1880 the commission asked the public to suggest official names for both the eastern and western divisions. The names \"Jackson\" and \"Washington\" were", "title": "Jackson Park (Chicago)" }, { "id": "2495103", "text": "outmoded and obsolete, disused and its substantial stone walls were then used as the distinctive base for the Statue of Liberty given by the Third French Republic for the American 1876 centenary celebrations. It had become a part of the base for the Statue of Liberty after the island was first seen by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the statue's sculptor. The National Park Service (which had been created in 1916) took over operations of the island in two stages: in 1933, and the remainder in 1937. The military installation was completely removed by 1944. The statue, entitled \"Liberty Enlightening the World\",", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "2495115", "text": "Utility services, including electricity, water, and sewage, to Liberty and Ellis Islands are provided from the New Jersey side. Mail is delivered from Battery Park. Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\"). The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Liberty Island became", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "7634127", "text": "Miss Freedom Miss Freedom, originally christened as Goddess of Liberty, is the name of the statue adorning the dome of the Georgia State Capitol since 1889. Commissioned in 1888, the hollow copper statue is painted white, weighs over 1600 lbs and is over 26 feet tall. She was sculpted with a torch in her right hand and a sword in her left. The torch is a functioning Mercury vapor lamp, casting a blue-green light at night. The torch in her right hand was supposed to be a working light continuously, but it remained dark until it was reconstructed in 1959.", "title": "Miss Freedom" }, { "id": "20849558", "text": "pieces of Ancient Levantine art depict prayer through the raising of both hands to just above the chin, with the figures either standing or kneeling. The symbol of the cross itself, representing Jesus’ crucifixion, is another reference to hand-raising, as Jesus was nailed to the cross with his hands raised. This event has been depicted countless times in art, architecture and jewellery. The Statue of Liberty, which can be found on Liberty Island in New York, is a very well-known sculptural art piece depicting a woman holding a torch with her hand raised in the air. The sculpture was built", "title": "Raising hands" }, { "id": "2495095", "text": "Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\"). The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Liberty Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1937 through Presidential Proclamation 2250, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1966, it was listed", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "388732", "text": "the decade. The Liberty statue project was not the only such undertaking that had difficulty raising money: construction of the obelisk later known as the Washington Monument sometimes stalled for years; it would ultimately take over three-and-a-half decades to complete. There was criticism both of Bartholdi's statue and of the fact that the gift required Americans to foot the bill for the pedestal. In the years following the Civil War, most Americans preferred realistic artworks depicting heroes and events from the nation's history, rather than allegorical works like the Liberty statue. There was also a feeling that Americans should design", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "15479013", "text": "late 19th-century urban design\": There are three sets of buildings: The district was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. David H. King, Jr., the developer of what came to be called \"Striver's Row\", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. The townhouses in his new project, which were originally called the \"King Model Houses\", were intended for upper-middle-class", "title": "St. Nicholas Historic District" }, { "id": "2079987", "text": "States from 1785 until 1790, after which the capital moved to Philadelphia. New York City has been the country's largest city since 1790. In 1792, the Buttonwood Agreement, made by a group of merchants, created what is now the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan. Today, many people in the metropolitan area work in this important stock exchange. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and its democracy. Large-scale", "title": "New York metropolitan area" }, { "id": "388716", "text": "classical contours and applied simplified modeling, reflecting the huge scale of the project and its solemn purpose. Bartholdi wrote of his technique: Bartholdi made alterations in the design as the project evolved. Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War. The erected statue does stride over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand; he settled on a \"tabula ansata\", used to evoke the concept of law. Though", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "2357279", "text": "The painting inspired Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", known as the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was given to the United States as a gift from the French a half-century after \"Liberty Leading the People\" was painted. The statue, which holds a torch in its hand, takes a more stable, immovable stance than that of the woman in the painting. An engraved version of part of the painting, along with a depiction of Delacroix, was featured on the 100 franc note from 1978 to 1995. The painting has had an influence on classical music. George", "title": "Liberty Leading the People" }, { "id": "7634130", "text": "while the sword symbolizes the fight of people who seek liberty. Miss Freedom Miss Freedom, originally christened as Goddess of Liberty, is the name of the statue adorning the dome of the Georgia State Capitol since 1889. Commissioned in 1888, the hollow copper statue is painted white, weighs over 1600 lbs and is over 26 feet tall. She was sculpted with a torch in her right hand and a sword in her left. The torch is a functioning Mercury vapor lamp, casting a blue-green light at night. The torch in her right hand was supposed to be a working light", "title": "Miss Freedom" }, { "id": "18837879", "text": "Bartholdi Park Bartholdi Park is a public park named after French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who is known primarily for designing the Statue of Liberty. It is located at the corner of Independence Avenue and Washington Avenue. Bartholdi Park is part of the United States Botanic Garden located on the grounds of the United States Capitol. Bartholdi Park was created as an exclave of the United States Botanic Garden in 1932, following the gardens move from their original location at the base of the Capitol in 1927. Originally created as a showcase for American horticulture, the park has continued this", "title": "Bartholdi Park" }, { "id": "3857220", "text": "of changing the wing insignia. Chaumont AB is located not far from the workshops of Frédéric Bartholdi – the French architect which designed the Statue of Liberty. The new design incorporated the Statue of Liberty, and throughout Europe the 48th became known as the \"Statue of Liberty\" Wing. On 4 July 1954 the mayor of the town of Chaumont bestowed the honorary title of the Statue de la Liberté (Statue of Liberty) Wing upon the 48th. It is the only USAF unit with both an official name and a numerical designation. Not long after the wing proudly took on the", "title": "48th Fighter Wing" }, { "id": "2635078", "text": "of the Marne, as a gift to the French people in exchange for the Statue of Liberty. Called, in French, \"La Liberté éplorée\" (\"The Tearful Liberty\") the statue, located in Meaux, France, is over seven stories tall, at . While work started on the statue in 1924, it was not finished until 1932. At the time of its dedication, it was the world's largest stone monument. In 2011, the opened next to the monument. The World War I Memorial, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, houses a bronze version of the statue. Selected to sculpt the fourth issue of the long", "title": "Frederick William MacMonnies" }, { "id": "2199520", "text": "hand. Another hand may hold a sword pointing downward. Depictions familiar to Americans include the following: In the early decades of the 20th Century, Liberty mostly displaced Columbia, who was widely used as the National personification of the US during the 19th Century. Liberty (goddess) Liberty is a loose term in English for the goddess or personification of the concept of liberty, and is represented by the Roman Goddess Libertas, by Marianne, the national symbol of France, and by many others. The Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi is a well-known example in art, a", "title": "Liberty (goddess)" }, { "id": "388719", "text": "of the Franco-American Union as its fundraising arm. With the announcement, the statue was given a name, \"Liberty Enlightening the World\". The French would finance the statue; Americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal. The announcement provoked a generally favorable reaction in France, though many Frenchmen resented the United States for not coming to their aid during the war with Prussia. French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life. Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "388701", "text": "the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the \"New York World\", started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "1841897", "text": "Newark. After the hijacking and crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in the September 11 attacks in 2001 while \"en route\" from Newark to San Francisco, the airport's name was changed from \"Newark International Airport\" to \"Newark Liberty International Airport\" in 2002. This name was chosen over the initial proposal, \"Liberty International Airport at Newark\", and pays tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks and to the landmark Statue of Liberty, lying just east of the airport. A modern control tower was built in 2002 and opened in 2003. It is the fourth and tallest tower in the", "title": "Newark Liberty International Airport" }, { "id": "388702", "text": "of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. Public access to the balcony around the torch has been barred for safety since 1916. According to the National Park Service, the idea for the Statue of Liberty was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between de Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "19908130", "text": "off the veil. The prominence of the statue of reflects and honors the bravery and willpower of women who abandoned the veil. Fuad Abdurahmanov created the original statue from gypsum in 1951. The monument was restored in 1957 and recreated using bronze. The bronze statue was named “Liberty” and was displayed at the exposition of the Museum of Arts. Several officials who saw the monument decided is would be move to central Baku in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Soviet government. Abdurahmanov then began work on a larger version of the monument, and in it was completed in", "title": "Statue of a Liberated Woman" }, { "id": "2509701", "text": "hoards of Roman silver found in England and northern France with many pieces using these techniques. The prehistoric Gundestrup cauldron has relief panels on separate thin sheets on both the inside and outside. The largest known sculpture created with this technique is the Statue of Liberty, properly \"Liberté éclairant le monde,\" which translates as \"\"Liberty Enlightening The World\",\" in Upper New York Bay. The statue was formed by copper repoussé in sections using wooden structures to shape each piece during the hammering process. A second example of monumental copper repoussé sculpture is \"Portlandia\" by Raymond Kaskey, which was installed in", "title": "Repoussé and chasing" }, { "id": "388703", "text": "the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: \"If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort—a common work of both our nations.\" The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870. In another essay on their website, the Park Service suggested that Laboulaye was minded to honor the Union victory and its consequences, \"With the abolition of slavery and", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "388711", "text": "as an embodiment of the United States in the manner that Britannia was identified with the United Kingdom and Marianne came to represent France. Columbia had supplanted the earlier figure of an Indian princess, which had come to be regarded as uncivilized and derogatory toward Americans. The other significant female icon in American culture was a representation of Liberty, derived from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves. A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's \"Statue of", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "5022759", "text": "copper apron (250 ft. tall) was placed over the pedestal to prevent future damage. Overall, the majority of the statue would likely survive the test of time if an apocalyptic event happened on Earth, as it does in many of the following movies. Statue of Liberty in popular culture After its unveiling in 1886, the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") quickly became iconic, and began to be featured on countless posters, and in pictures and books. The statue's likeness has also appeared in motion pictures, television programs, music videos, and video games, and its likeness has been used", "title": "Statue of Liberty in popular culture" }, { "id": "4967670", "text": "Liberty spikes Liberty spikes is styling hair in long, thick, upright spikes. The style, now associated with the punk subculture, is so named because of the resemblance to the spikes on the head of the Statue of Liberty. Liberty spikes trace their origins to the Ancient Britons. Warriors washed their long hair in lime water, which also bleached it blond. This hairstyle was highly symbolic as a badge of honor and manhood: Celts were not allowed to spike or cut their hair until they had killed an enemy. After the subjugation of Britain spiked hair fell out of use in", "title": "Liberty spikes" }, { "id": "388710", "text": "defeat by the Prussians. One of these was the \"Lion of Belfort\", a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone below the fortress of Belfort, which during the war had resisted a Prussian siege for over three months. The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty. In early American history, two female figures were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation. One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "12798089", "text": "of Whittington's will kept at Guildhall that prescribes this fails to mention a statue, or him and his cat. This statue was actually the female Liberty (\"Libertas\" carved on the hat) with a cat at her feet, but it was \"alluding to\" Richard Whittington, as explained by Maitland. The stone Liberty was one of a set of seven, the others being Peace, Plenty, Concord, and Justice, Mercy, and Truth. This Whittington statue (Liberty statue) was taken down when the old Newgate was being demolished, in 1766 or 1776, to be placed in the new Newgate Prison. The Liberty statue could", "title": "Dick Whittington and His Cat" }, { "id": "7150014", "text": "on U.S. coins, took a more positive view of Barber's coinage: \"the last word as to their aesthetic merits has yet to be written. Little admired or collected for more than three generations after their appearance [writing in 1971], these essentially conservative but most dignified coins have suddenly become extremely popular with collectors\". Vermeule argued that \"the designs of Barber's coins were more attuned to the times than he perhaps realized. The plumpish, matronly \"gravitas\" of Liberty had come to America seven years earlier in the person of Frédéric Bartholdi's giant statue [the Statue of Liberty] ... \" He suggested", "title": "Barber coinage" }, { "id": "388779", "text": "of the statue, made of stamped copper and in height, to states and municipalities across the United States. Though not a true replica, the statue known as the Goddess of Democracy temporarily erected during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was similarly inspired by French democratic traditions—the sculptors took care to avoid a direct imitation of the Statue of Liberty. Among other recreations of New York City structures, a replica of the statue is part of the exterior of the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. As an American icon, the Statue of Liberty has been depicted", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "5022755", "text": "Statue of Liberty in popular culture After its unveiling in 1886, the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") quickly became iconic, and began to be featured on countless posters, and in pictures and books. The statue's likeness has also appeared in motion pictures, television programs, music videos, and video games, and its likeness has been used in logos, on commemorative coins, and in theatrical productions. It remains a popular local, national, and international political symbol of freedom. As a famous landmark, damage and destruction of the statue has been used to symbolize the end of mankind or the destruction", "title": "Statue of Liberty in popular culture" }, { "id": "168580", "text": "the Pediment was redesigned to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It depicts Victoria enthroned, surrounded by emblematic figures of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, alongside the colonies of the British Empire. Ewing also designed the apex sculptures of Truth, Riches, and Honour, and the statues of The Four Seasons on the Chamber's tower. The central apex figure of Truth is popularly known as Glasgow's Statue of Liberty, because of its close resemblance to the similarly posed, but very much larger, statue in New York harbour. The entrance hall of the Chambers displays a mosaic of the city's coat of arms", "title": "Glasgow City Chambers" }, { "id": "4408374", "text": "Miss America (DC Comics) Miss America is a fictional comic book superheroine from the . She was first created by Quality Comics in \"Military Comics\" #1 (August 1941), and was carried over to DC Comics when they purchased Quality in the 1950s. While the original Golden Age character is in public domain, the subsequent versions created by DC Comics are not. Miss America is originally Joan Dale, a courageous reporter who had a dream in which the Statue of Liberty appeared to her and, giving her the power to transmute elements, instructed her to battle evil. Joan awakes to find", "title": "Miss America (DC Comics)" }, { "id": "388759", "text": "Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island as Liberty Island, a change advocated by Bartholdi generations earlier. The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it. Nearby Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon. The museum's backers never provided it with an endowment", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "388715", "text": "in depictions of Roman goddesses) and holding a torch aloft. According to popular accounts, the face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother, but Regis Huber, the curator of the Bartholdi Museum is on record as saying that this, as well as other similar speculations, have no basis in fact. He designed the figure with a strong, uncomplicated silhouette, which would be set off well by its dramatic harbor placement and allow passengers on vessels entering New York Bay to experience a changing perspective on the statue as they proceeded toward Manhattan. He gave it bold", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "17012148", "text": "arguably the more famous statue, at least until Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi completed \"Lady Liberty\" in Paris in 1884, and it was shipped to the United States in 1885. Despite one major mishap – the upper half of the soldier fell into the Potomac River while being unloaded at Washington, D.C. – the statue was transported by canal barge to Sharpsburg, and carried on rollers to the National Cemetery. Installed on a new and taller pedestal (attributed to architect George Keller), the monument was dedicated on September 17, 1880 – the eighteenth anniversary of the battle. George Hess, the first superintendent", "title": "The American Volunteer (statue)" }, { "id": "1522364", "text": "Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labour and look forward!\" Zangwill thus combined the metaphor of the \"crucible\" or \"melting pot\" with a celebration of the United States as an ideal republic and a new promised land. The prophetic words of his Jewish protagonist against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty allude to Emma Lazarus's famous poem \"The New Colossus\" (1883), which celebrated the statue as a symbol of American democracy and", "title": "Melting pot" }, { "id": "15045941", "text": "The Spirit of Houston The Spirit of Houston was planned to be a 555-foot statue in Houston, Texas. The project was abandoned after the architect, Doug Michels, died. The planners felt that the city had an image problem in response to Houston not being chosen for the 2012 Olympics. The ambitious design was meant to be a multi colored, reflective statue representing friendship, the origin of the name of the state of Texas. It would have been the largest statue in the world and twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. Doug Michels is commonly known for being the", "title": "The Spirit of Houston" }, { "id": "7941792", "text": "control of French Indochina during World War II, the statue was toppled on August 1, 1945, after being deemed a vestige of the colonial government along with other statues erected by the French. A 30-foot replica can also be seen at the Westfield Marion shopping complex in Adelaide, South Australia. Replicas of the Statue of Liberty Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") have been created worldwide. On the occasion of the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Frédéric Bartholdi crafted a smaller version of \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", which he subsequently gave to the Musée du", "title": "Replicas of the Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "1621520", "text": "walls were painted white to hide the damage caused by the fire. At the beginning of the 20th century, two new wings were added to support the development of the government. The United States Capitol was constructed in successive stages starting in 1792. Shortly after the completion of its construction, it was partially burned by the British during the War of 1812. Its reconstruction began in 1815 and did not end until 1830. During the 1850s, the building was greatly expanded by Thomas U. Walter. In 1863, the imposing \"Statue of Freedom\", was placed on the top of the current", "title": "Architecture of the United States" }, { "id": "874348", "text": "The Greek equivalent of the goddess Libertas is Eleutheria, the personification of liberty. As \"Liberty\", Libertas was depicted on the obverse (heads side) of most coinage in the U.S. into the twentieth century. The goddess Libertas is also depicted on the Great Seal of France, created in 1848. This is the image which later influenced French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi in the creation of his statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. Libertas was associated with the pileus, commonly worn by the freed slave: Libertas was also recognized in ancient Rome by the rod (\"vindicta\" or \"festuca\"), used ceremonially in the act", "title": "Libertas" }, { "id": "388734", "text": "inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811. Since 1823, it had rarely been used, though during the Civil War, it had served as a recruiting station. The fortifications of the structure were in the shape of an eleven-point star. The statue's foundation and pedestal were aligned so that it would face southeast, greeting ships entering the harbor from the Atlantic Ocean. In 1881, the New York committee commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design the pedestal. Within months, Hunt submitted a detailed plan, indicating that he expected construction to take about nine months.", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "7941764", "text": "Replicas of the Statue of Liberty Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") have been created worldwide. On the occasion of the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Frédéric Bartholdi crafted a smaller version of \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", which he subsequently gave to the Musée du Luxembourg. In 1905, the statue was placed outside the museum in the Jardin du Luxembourg, where it stood for over a century, until 2014. It currently stands within the entrance hall to the Musée d'Orsay, and a newly constructed bronze replica stands in its place in the Jardin du Luxembourg.", "title": "Replicas of the Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "3945359", "text": "a waitress named \"Libby\" from a diner, as a Statue of Liberty figure holding up a glass of orange juice on a small plate in one hand (in place of the torch on the Statue), and a foldable restaurant menu in the other hand, on which 'Breakfast in America' is written. The background featured a city made from a cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery (for the wharfs), eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup and mustard bottles, all spraypainted white. The twin World Trade Center towers appear as two stacks of boxes and the plate of breakfast represents Battery Park, the departure point for the", "title": "Breakfast in America" }, { "id": "5515135", "text": "based his design on the female figure he had designed in creating New York City's monument to General William Tecumseh Sherman, but the sculptor's ultimate inspiration was the Nike of Samothrace. The figure for the Sherman monument was modeled by Henrietta Anderson, one of the artist's favorite subjects. On the coin, Liberty holds a torch in one hand, representing enlightenment; an olive branch in the other, a symbol of peace. She strides across a rocky outcrop; behind her are the United States Capitol and the rays of the sun. The figure is surrounded by 46 stars, one for each of", "title": "Saint-Gaudens double eagle" }, { "id": "3105166", "text": "the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, with the city", "title": "New York City" }, { "id": "12650417", "text": "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Strengthen the Arm of Liberty was the Boy Scouts of America's theme for the organization's fortieth anniversary celebration in 1950. The campaign was inaugurated in February with a dramatic ceremony held at the base of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\"). Approximately 200 BSA Statue of Liberty replicas were installed across the United States. Hundreds of smaller replicas of the Statue of Liberty have been created worldwide. The classical appearance (Roman stola, sandals, facial expression) derives from Libertas, ancient Rome's goddess of freedom from slavery, oppression, and tyranny. Her raised right foot is", "title": "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" }, { "id": "816026", "text": "including oil painting, watercolor, photography, and drawing. Bartholdi, who received the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1886, died of tuberculosis in Paris on 4 October 1904, aged 70. In 1876, he married Jeanne-Emile Baheux in Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout his life Bartholdi maintained his childhood family home in Colmar, France, and after his death in 1904, in 1922 it was made into the Bartholdi Museum. The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", better known as the Statue of Liberty. Soon after the establishment of the French Third Republic, the project", "title": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi" }, { "id": "15748626", "text": "Turban Head eagle The Turban Head eagle, also known as the Capped Bust eagle, was a ten-dollar gold piece, or eagle, struck by the United States Mint from 1795 to 1804. The piece was designed by Robert Scot, and was the first in the eagle series, which continued until the Mint ceased striking gold coins for circulation in 1933. The common name is a misnomer; Liberty does not wear a turban but a cap, believed by some to be a \"pileus\" or Phrygian cap (Liberty cap): her hair twisting around the headgear makes it resemble a turban. The eagle was", "title": "Turban Head eagle" }, { "id": "5846158", "text": "a wealthy English merchant in New York and granddaughter of Captain Bethlow, a Huguenot after whom Bedloe's Island is named. Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor is now known as Liberty Island and the site of the Statue of Liberty. Their only child was: Margaret died in December 1758 and was interred in a burial vault constructed 200 yards north of the Livingston family home at Clermont. Livingston died on June 27, 1775 at the age of 87 and was buried with his wife in the family vault. Upon his death, the \"Lower Manor\" became the property of his only", "title": "Robert Livingston (1688–1775)" }, { "id": "388749", "text": "the United States became a free nation \"in reality\": When the torch was illuminated on the evening of the statue's dedication, it produced only a faint gleam, barely visible from Manhattan. The \"World\" characterized it as \"more like a glowworm than a beacon.\" Bartholdi suggested gilding the statue to increase its ability to reflect light, but this proved too expensive. The United States Lighthouse Board took over the Statue of Liberty in 1887 and pledged to install equipment to enhance the torch's effect; in spite of its efforts, the statue remained virtually invisible at night. When Bartholdi returned to the", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "2109491", "text": "standing figure tall and weighing approximately 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg). Her crest peaks at 288 feet (88 m) above the east front plaza of the U.S. Capitol. She is a female, allegorical figure whose right hand holds the hilt of a sheathed sword, while a laurel wreath of victory and the Shield of the United States are clasped in her left hand. Her chiton is secured by a brooch inscribed \"U.S.\" and is partially covered by a heavy, Native American–style fringed blanket thrown over her left shoulder. She faces east towards the main entrance of the building and the rising", "title": "Statue of Freedom" }, { "id": "2196841", "text": "and Lorraine. In this timeline's New York City, there is no Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island, nor does the name get changed to Liberty Island – as relations between the United States and France are poor, due to France's support for the Confederacy, and there is no question of the French donating such a statue to the Americans. Instead, the island is taken up by a similar but more grim German-influenced statue known as the Statue of Remembrance holding the \"Sword of Vengeance\". Whenever either Germany gave the statue to the United States or the USA built it itself", "title": "How Few Remain" }, { "id": "15045942", "text": "architect behind Cadillac Ranch. The Spirit of Houston The Spirit of Houston was planned to be a 555-foot statue in Houston, Texas. The project was abandoned after the architect, Doug Michels, died. The planners felt that the city had an image problem in response to Houston not being chosen for the 2012 Olympics. The ambitious design was meant to be a multi colored, reflective statue representing friendship, the origin of the name of the state of Texas. It would have been the largest statue in the world and twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. Doug Michels is commonly", "title": "The Spirit of Houston" }, { "id": "547713", "text": "can also develop other uses, i.e., Alexander Calder's mobile, which is now commonly used over babies' cribs. Funds generated from patents on inventions in art, design and architecture can support the realization of the invention or other creative work. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 1879 design patent on the Statue of Liberty helped fund the famous statue because it covered small replicas, including those sold as souvenirs. The Timeline for invention in the arts lists the most notable artistic inventors Invention An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall", "title": "Invention" }, { "id": "2705320", "text": "dominance through military power and historical events. A statue of Nike stood in the \"cella\", or otherwise referred to as a \"naos\". Nike was originally the \"winged victory\" goddess (\"see\" the winged Nike of Samothrace). The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it \"Apteros Nike\" or wingless victory, and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city. The friezes of the building's entablature were decorated on all sides with relief sculpture in the idealized classical style of the 5th century BC. The north", "title": "Temple of Athena Nike" }, { "id": "388783", "text": "it is seen half-buried in sand. It is knocked over in the science-fiction film \"Independence Day\" and in \"Cloverfield\" the head is ripped off. In Jack Finney's time-travel novel \"Time and Again\", the right arm of the statue, on display in the early 1880s in Madison Square Park, plays a crucial role. Robert Holdstock, consulting editor of \"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\", wondered in 1979: Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue,", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "156624", "text": "engineer to help him to realise the Statue of Liberty. Some work had already been carried out by Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc, but he had died in 1879. Eiffel was selected because of his experience with wind stresses. Eiffel devised a structure consisting of a four-legged pylon to support the copper sheeting which made up the body of the statue. The entire statue was erected at the Eiffel works in Paris before being dismantled and shipped to the United States. In 1886 Eiffel also designed the dome for the Astronomical Observatory in Nice. This was the most important building in a complex", "title": "Gustave Eiffel" }, { "id": "388707", "text": "the war, Napoleon III was captured and deposed. Bartholdi's home province of Alsace was lost to the Prussians, and a more liberal republic was installed in France. As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans. In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye. Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island (now named Liberty Island) as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "15396575", "text": "the statue's remarkable structure. The second hypothesis was that the Americans, after having uncrated the different sections of the statue in 1886, incorrectly reassembled the structural framework. The third hypothesis is that the statue’s creator, Bartholdi, was aesthetically dissatisfied when the statue was fully assembled and displayed in Paris on or just prior to July 4, 1884, and that he must have willingly sacrificed the structural integrity for his aesthetic vision. One of the main architects of the restoration project was initially convinced that the second hypothesis was correct, but according to a quoted and published statement, recent research had", "title": "Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "8410294", "text": "hated by Stalin himself, it was moved in 1952 amid controversy, and replaced with a straightforward Soviet-style representation of Gogol by sculptor Nikolai Tomsky. Similarly Andreyev's figure of \"Freedom\" (loosely, the \"Statue of Liberty\") was erected with a 26-meter obelisk in Tverskaya Street in 1919, to commemorate the Soviet Constitution. It was blown up in 1941 and replaced with the equestrian statue of Yuri Dolgorukiy, by sculptor Sergei Orlov, completed in 1954. Andreyev's later work is strongly associated with the Soviet Socialist realism style, and he's known for his extensive studies of \"Leniniana\", producing some 100 sculptures and 200 graphic", "title": "Nikolay Andreyev" }, { "id": "739757", "text": "On July 4, 1776 they adopted the Declaration of Independence and this date is celebrated as the nation's birthday. Historian George Billias says: On September 9, 1776, Congress officially changed the nation's name to the United States of America. Until this point, the nation was known as the \"United Colonies of America\" The new nation was founded on Enlightenment ideals of liberalism in what Thomas Jefferson called the unalienable rights to \"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\", and dedicated strongly to republican principles. Republicanism emphasized the people are sovereign (not hereditary kings), demanded civic duty, feared corruption, and rejected", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "6017783", "text": "Édouard René de Laboulaye Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye () (18 January 1811 – 25 May 1883) was a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. In 1865 he originated the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He got the idea thinking that this would help strengthen their relationship with the United States. Laboulaye was received at the bar in 1842, and was chosen professor of comparative law at the Collège de France in 1849. Following the Paris Commune of 1870, he", "title": "Édouard René de Laboulaye" }, { "id": "20894348", "text": "the first settlement there \"New York Alki\" before moving to modern-day Downtown Seattle. The site was near a location proposed for a \"grand monument\" in the 1911 city plan outlined by Virgil Bogue. The original statue was constructed using stamped copper sheets and was repeatedly damaged by vandals. The entire statue was knocked off its base by vandals in 1975, requiring $350 in repairs funded by the city's parks department. A miniature version of the statue, left inside the larger statue's pedestal base, was re-discovered with a ripped arm that mirrored the acts of an earlier vandal. It was the", "title": "Statue of Liberty (Seattle)" }, { "id": "18102556", "text": "Seine. The center of the garden was occupied by a long series of cascades ending in a large basin at the bottom at the bottom of the hill. The cascade was lined with statues of animals and of female figures representing the five continents (the statues now decorate the square next to the Musée D'Orsay). The largest piece of statuary in the garden was the head of the Statue of Liberty, made before the rest of the statue, and displayed in order to raise funds for its completion. When the Exposition was finished, the gardens were redesigned into an English", "title": "History of parks and gardens of Paris" }, { "id": "7968880", "text": "Miss Liberty Miss Liberty is a 1949 Broadway musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\") in 1886. The score includes the song \"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor\", a musical setting of Emma Lazarus's sonnet \"The New Colossus\" (1883), which was placed at the base of the monument in 1903. In 1885, \"New York Herald\" publisher James Gordon Bennett assigns novice reporter Horace Miller to find the woman who served as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's model for the", "title": "Miss Liberty" }, { "id": "20753510", "text": "Washington at the battle scene, his horse is startled, while Washington looks sternly at his British foe. The statue was formerly dedicated by President James Buchanan on February 20, 1860. The statue was placed at Washington Circle Park in Washington D.C. Mills' statue is said to be the most life like of Washington in existence. One year, one month, and twenty-three days later, after its dedication, the nation that Washington created, would be plunged into a devastating Civil War. The Federal City (\"Washington D.C.\"), during Washington's lifetime, was originally designed for the place of Washington's memorial. Architect Pierre L'Enfant had", "title": "Post-presidency of George Washington" }, { "id": "2825997", "text": "the late 18th century.\" According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal (not necessarily true) evidence for the use of \"gadget\" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book \"Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper\" containing the earliest known usage in print. A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was \"invented\" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version", "title": "Gadget" }, { "id": "4179364", "text": "Statue of Liberty play The Statue of Liberty is a trick play in American football named after the Statue of Liberty. Although many variations of the play exist, the most common involves the quarterback taking the snap from the center, dropping back, and gripping the ball with two hands as if he were to throw. He then places the ball behind his back with his non-throwing hand, while pump-faking a throw to one side of the field. While his arm is still in motion during the fake throw, he hands the ball off behind his back to a running back", "title": "Statue of Liberty play" }, { "id": "15420654", "text": "Medal of Freedom (1945) The Medal of Freedom was a decoration established by President Harry S. Truman to honor civilians whose actions aided in the war efforts of the United States and its allies. It was intended to be awarded by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, or the Secretary of the Navy, but Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy also authorized awards. The medal is a bronze disc whose obverse features the profile of the Statue of Freedom of the US Capitol Building, with the word \"FREEDOM\" in capital letters in an arc at the", "title": "Medal of Freedom (1945)" }, { "id": "15003890", "text": "on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll paint for her.\" Critics found the personification of Liberty far too realistic. Liberty, personified by Marianne, symbol of the nation, as both an allegorical goddess-figure and a robust woman of the people, an approach that contemporary critics denounced as \"ignoble\". Politicians regarded the dramatic painting as highly politically provocative. For this reason the French government quietly removed it from public view. It inspired the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was given to the United States as a gift from the French", "title": "Ma Jir Bo" }, { "id": "388770", "text": "Anthony Weiner made the statue's reopening a personal crusade. On May 17, 2009, President Barack Obama's Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced that as a \"special gift\" to America, the statue would be reopened to the public as of July 4, but that only a limited number of people would be permitted to ascend to the crown each day. The statue, including the pedestal and base, closed on October 29, 2011, for installation of new elevators and staircases and to bring other facilities, such as restrooms, up to code. The statue was reopened on October 28, 2012, only to", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "5311238", "text": "note. On the left is the \"Statue of Freedom\" that sits atop the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. However, at the time of issue, the \"Statue of Freedom\" was a work in progress and was not completed until 1862 and was not placed atop the Capitol dome until 1863. The base of the statue reads , but only \"\" is visible on the note. The border of the note features the word printed numerous times horizontally at the top, bottom, and right of the note and vertically on the left of the note. The issuing bank note company was", "title": "Demand Note" }, { "id": "19288637", "text": "Birth of the New World The Birth of the New World (colloquially known as La Estatua de Colón, literally meaning \"The Statue of Columbus\") is a bronze sculpture located on the Atlantic coastline of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. When completed in 2016, it became the tallest sculpture in North America, surpassing Mexico's Guerrero Chimalli, which measures including its base. Originally conceived by Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli as a monument to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, \"Birth of the New World\" was constructed in 1991. The statue prominently depicts Columbus controlling an anachronistic depiction of a steering wheel,", "title": "Birth of the New World" } ]

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It was heard in the \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" film trailer. WLS (AM) used the theme in the mid-1960s for their secret agent radio serial \"The Wild Adventures of Peter Fugitive\" that appeared on \"The Art Roberts Show\". \"007 Theme\", not to be confused with the \"James Bond Theme\", is an adventure theme composed by John Barry in 1963", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "10219878", "text": "UK charts with a different arrangement of the Bond theme from that heard in the film. The title song was sung by Matt Monro. Monro's vocal version is played during the film (as source music on a radio) and properly over the film's end titles. The title credit music is a lively instrumental version of the tune preceded by a brief Barry-composed \"James Bond is Back\" then segueing into the \"James Bond Theme\". On the original film soundtrack, Alan Haven played a jazzy organ over the theme but this version was not released on the soundtrack album. The tune also", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4283804", "text": "the only film to have more than one opening theme. The \"James Bond Theme\" reached 13 in the UK Singles Chart, and remained in the charts for 13 weeks. The opening credits of \"From Russia with Love\" were accompanied by an instrumental version of the main theme, arranged by John Barry and written by Lionel Bart. A single by The John Barry Orchestra reached 39 in the U.K. At the film's end, a vocal version by English singer Matt Monro is heard. This song spent 13 weeks in the U.K. charts, peaking at 20. \"Goldfinger\" was the third soundtrack composed", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "10219876", "text": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack) From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name. This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer. John Barry, arranger of Monty Norman's \"James Bond Theme\" for \"Dr. No\", would be the dominant Bond series composer for most of its history and the inspiration for fellow series composer, David Arnold (who uses cues from this soundtrack in his own for \"Tomorrow Never Dies\"). The theme song was composed by Lionel Bart of Oliver! fame and sung by Matt Monro. Following the", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "1623394", "text": "his tenure with the film series, Barry's music, variously brassy and moody, achieved very wide appeal. For \"From Russia with Love\" he composed \"007\", an alternative James Bond signature theme, which is featured in four other Bond films (\"Thunderball\", \"You Only Live Twice\", \"Diamonds Are Forever\" and \"Moonraker\"). The theme \"Stalking\", for the teaser sequence of \"From Russia with Love\", was covered by colleague Marvin Hamlisch for \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" (1977). (The music and lyrics for \"From Russia with Love\"'s title song were written by Lionel Bart, whose musical theatre credits included \"Oliver!\") Barry also contributed indirectly to", "title": "John Barry (composer)" }, { "id": "1417416", "text": "known for creating the book, music and lyrics for \"Oliver!\", he was described by Andrew Lloyd Webber as \"the father of the modern British musical\". In 1963 he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for \"Oliver!\", and the 1968 film version of the musical won a total of 6 Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other notable compositions include the theme song to the James Bond film \"From Russia with Love\", and the hit songs \"Living Doll\" by Cliff Richard, \"Far Away\" by Shirley Bassey, \"Do You Mind?\" (recorded by both Anthony Newley and", "title": "Lionel Bart" }, { "id": "1417422", "text": "Richard) and \"Rock with the Cavemen\", \"Handful of Songs\", \"Butterfingers\" and \"Little White Bull\" (for Tommy Steele). During this period, Steele and Mike Pratt were his songwriting partners. He won three Ivor Novello Awards in 1957, a further four in 1958, and two in 1960. He wrote the theme song for the 1963 James Bond film \"From Russia with Love\". His other hits include: \"Do You Mind?\" (recorded by both Anthony Newley and Andy Williams), \"Big Time\" (a 1961 cover by Jack Jones of his \"Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be\" show tune), \"Easy Going Me\" (Adam Faith), and \"Always", "title": "Lionel Bart" }, { "id": "8652817", "text": "work in the United Kingdom due to tax reasons. The soundtrack, in comparison to other Bond films of the time, is more disco-oriented and included a new disco rendition of the \"James Bond Theme\", titled \"Bond 77\" which Hamlisch admitted was somewhat influenced by You Should Be Dancing by The Bee Gees An element of the Barry style remains in the suspenseful film sequence in which Bond and Amasova try to track down Jaws at an antiquated site in Egypt. The accompanying Hamlisch music echoes Barry's \"Stalking,\" from the pre-credit fantasy sequence of \"From Russia with Love\", featuring Bond (Sean", "title": "The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4283810", "text": "was originally proposed as the opening credits music, only to be replaced by the eponymous title track as sung by Tom Jones. \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" featured an instrumental theme tune, something which remains unique amongst the post-\"From Russia with Love\" films, and included a vocal theme in the form of Louis Armstrong's performance of \"We Have All the Time in the World\", written by John Barry and Hal David. A number of Bond films include one (or more) additional songs in the soundtrack. Some of these pieces of music, such as \"We Have All the Time in the", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "3331120", "text": "for Britain\" with \"My Kind of Girl\". His follow-up hits included that song, plus \"Softly as I Leave You\" (1962) and the song from the James Bond film \"From Russia with Love\" (1963). For the latter, his vocals were not used in the opening titles, as became the standard for the series; they were heard on a radio during the film and over the final credits. At the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, singing \"I Love the Little Things,\" Monro finished second behind Italy's 16-year-old Gigliola Cinquetti, despite an \"excellent performance of the only English language song of the night.\" The", "title": "Matt Monro" }, { "id": "3331115", "text": "notable recordings include the UK Top 10 hits: \"Portrait Of My Love\", \"My Kind of Girl\", \"Softly As I Leave You\", \"Walk Away\" and \"Yesterday\" (Originally by The Beatles). He also recorded several film themes such as \"From Russia With Love\" for the James Bond film of the same name, \"Born Free\" for the film of the same name and \"On Days Like These\" for \"The Italian Job\". He was born Terence Edward Parsons in Shoreditch, London and attended Duncombe School in Islington, and Elliott School, Putney. He was first noticed while serving in the British armed forces in Hong", "title": "Matt Monro" }, { "id": "10219882", "text": "<nowiki>*</nowiki> Not heard in the film From Russia with Love (soundtrack) From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name. This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer. John Barry, arranger of Monty Norman's \"James Bond Theme\" for \"Dr. No\", would be the dominant Bond series composer for most of its history and the inspiration for fellow series composer, David Arnold (who uses cues from this soundtrack in his own for \"Tomorrow Never Dies\"). The theme song was composed by Lionel Bart of Oliver! fame and", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10215277", "text": "Service\" unless it was written operatically, in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. Leslie Bricusse had considered lyrics for the title song but director Peter R. Hunt allowed an instrumental title theme in the tradition of the first two Bond films. (Though \"From Russia with Love\" had a song at the end, sung by Matt Monro). The track is notable for its incorporation of the Moog synthesizer in its recurring bassline. Its distinctive sound would become a mainstay of soundtracks in the 1970s. The theme, \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", is used in the film as an action theme alternate", "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10219877", "text": "decision of the producers not to use Monty Norman, though keeping his \"James Bond Theme\", Harry Saltzman decided on using the then popular Lionel Bart of \"Oliver!\" fame. Bart was unable to read or write music, but he offered to compose the music and lyrics for a title song to the film. The producers chose John Barry to score the film. Barry had not only arranged and conducted the \"James Bond Theme\" from the previous film, but had already scored some films such as \"Beat Girl\" and \"Never Let Go\". Barry's group also charted at 13 in the November 1962", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "826310", "text": "the main themes of three films in the James Bond series. Although Martin did not produce the theme for the second Bond film, \"From Russia with Love\", he was responsible for the signing of Matt Monro to EMI, just months prior to his recording of the song of the same title. Martin also produced two of the best-known James Bond themes. The first was \"Goldfinger\" by Shirley Bassey in 1964. The second, in 1973, was \"Live and Let Die\" by Paul McCartney and Wings for the film of the same name. He also composed and produced the film's score. In", "title": "George Martin" }, { "id": "8465287", "text": "keeping with the film's theme of gold and metal, make heavy use of brass, and also metallic chimes. The film's score is described as \"brassy and raunchy\" with \"a sassy sexiness to it\". \"Goldfinger\" began the tradition of Bond theme songs introduced over the opening title sequence, the style of the song from the pop genre and using popular artists. [Although the title song, sung by Matt Monro, in \"From Russia with Love\" was introduced in a few phrases on Bond's first appearance, a full rendition on the sound track only commenced for the final scene on the waters at", "title": "Goldfinger (film)" }, { "id": "1623388", "text": "a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Barry was hired and the result was one of the most famous signature tunes in film history, the \"James Bond Theme\". (Credit goes to Monty Norman, see here.) When the producers of the Bond series engaged Lionel Bart to score the next James Bond film \"From Russia with Love\" (1963), they discovered that Bart could neither read nor write music. Though Bart wrote a title song for the film, the producers remembered Barry's arrangement of the James Bond Theme and his composing and arranging for several films with Adam", "title": "John Barry (composer)" }, { "id": "9748439", "text": "electric guitar, definitely an instrument of rock 'n' roll ... it represented everything about the character you would want: It was cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable. And he did it in two minutes\". The theme was arranged by John Barry, who was uncredited for the arrangement but credited for his performance. After the financial success of \"Dr. No\", United Artists doubled the budget offered to Eon Productions to $2 million for the company's next film, \"From Russia with Love\". The film was shot in Europe, which had turned out to be the more profitable market for \"Dr.", "title": "James Bond in film" }, { "id": "8516670", "text": "of ridiculous stories. We went back, talked to Lionel, and then he wrote 'From Russia with Love.<nowiki></nowiki> In this film, Barry introduced the percussive theme \"007\"—action music that came to be considered the \"secondary James Bond theme\". He composed it to have a lighter, enthusiastic and more adventurous theme to relax the audience. The arrangement appears twice on the soundtrack album; the second version, entitled \"007 Takes the Lektor\", is the one used during the gunfight at the Gypsy camp and also during Bond's theft of the Lektor decoding machine. The completed film features a holdover from the Monty Norman-supervised", "title": "From Russia with Love (film)" }, { "id": "8516619", "text": "passages – a trend which Barry would continue in the 1980s with scores such as \"Out of Africa\" and \"Somewhere in Time\". For \"Moonraker\", Barry uses for the first time since \"Diamonds Are Forever\" (1971), a piece of music called \"007\" (on track 7), and \"Bond smells a rat\", the secondary Bond theme composed by Barry which was introduced in \"From Russia with Love\" during Bond's escape with the Lektor; some classical music pieces were also included in the film. For the scene where Bond visits Drax in his chateau, Drax plays Frédéric Chopin's Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major", "title": "Moonraker (film)" }, { "id": "9748441", "text": "in the series with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer, although Lionel Bart wrote the title song \"From Russia with Love\", sung by Matt Monro. Principal photography began on 1 April 1963 and concluded on 23 August. Filming took place in Turkey, Pinewood Studios and Venice, with Scotland and Switzerland doubling for the Orient Express journey through Eastern Europe. While the previous two films had concentrated on the Caribbean and Europe, \"Goldfinger\" was chosen by Eon for the third film, with the American cinema market in mind. Because Terence Young was refused a share of the profits, he declined", "title": "James Bond in film" }, { "id": "8386978", "text": "given to Bond by Q, it was also a Geiger counter in the plot. \"Thunderball\" was the third James Bond score composed by John Barry, after \"From Russia with Love\" and \"Goldfinger\". The original title song was entitled \"Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang\", taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The title theme was written by Barry and Leslie Bricusse; the song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey, and later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick, whose version was not released until the 1990s. The song was removed from the title credits", "title": "Thunderball (film)" }, { "id": "10229509", "text": "to the theme songs by Duran Duran, one is pinned to henchwoman May Day, one is pinned to the action set-pieces and one appears more generally throughout the film. Barry often called the secondary themes he composed as \"action themes\" that underscored the action on the screen with hints of the film's theme song, the \"James Bond Theme\" itself, or simply another theme used only in that particular film. Such themes were occasionally reused, such as his \"007 Theme\", originally composed for \"From Russia with Love\" but brought back for four subsequent Bond pictures. The action theme composed for this", "title": "A View to a Kill (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "2693513", "text": "Arnold was hired to score the installment and, returning the compliment to the man he refers to as \"The guvnor\", included musical references to Barry's score for \"From Russia with Love\" (as well as, of course, the \"James Bond Theme\" by Monty Norman). Arnold scored the four subsequent Bond films: \"The World Is Not Enough\", \"Die Another Day\" (in which he included references to John Barry's score for \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\"), \"Casino Royale\" and \"Quantum of Solace\". Arnold did not score the 23rd James Bond film, \"Skyfall\", with Thomas Newman taking his place. Arnold commented that Newman had", "title": "David Arnold" }, { "id": "4283799", "text": "for the Bond film, \"From Russia with Love\". \"The John Barry Seven\" had pop chart hit with a cover version of Elmer Bernstein's theme to \"The Magnificent Seven\" that featured seven beats repeated throughout the theme. Barry used seven beats throughout the \"007 Theme\". It became a secondary theme for the Bond films, being used throughout the series, primarily during action scenes. Here are its most notable appearances: The theme has not been featured in its entirety in a Bond film since its use in \"Moonraker\". This piece of music was also used by Al Primo, the news director at", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "10215194", "text": "depth\" as seen through the soundtracks he produced since \"From Russia with Love\", movie producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman allowed him to write the theme song for \"Goldfinger\" in addition to the soundtrack. Barry created the melody for the song before drafting the lyrics with the help of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. The theme was first sung by Newley at a demo session on May 14, 1964 in. At the behest of Barry, Shirley Bassey was chosen to sing the track. On Bassey, Barry was quoted saying \"Nobody could have sung it like her; she had that great", "title": "Goldfinger (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4288449", "text": "James Bond Theme The \"James Bond Theme\" is the main signature theme of the James Bond films and has featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since \"Dr. No\", released in 1962. The piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in almost every James Bond film. The \"James Bond Theme\" has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens \"Dr. No\" and then again in the opening credits of \"From Russia with Love\" (1963). It has been used as music over the end credits for \"Dr. No\", \"Thunderball\" (1965), \"On", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "10219881", "text": "the completed film. The album was the last of the Bond soundtrack albums to feature more than the usual six tracks per record side. The soundtrack album reached 28 on the \"Variety\" charts in March 1964 with the title song becoming Unart Music's most recorded song. Other cover versions of the \"James Bond Theme\" were also released to coincide with the film. Barry also released different cover versions of the title song and \"007\" on his Ember records for the pop charts. The Roland Shaw Orchestra performed cover versions of most of the music of Barry's soundtrack on several albums.", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10561203", "text": "Licence to Kill (soundtrack) The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th James Bond film of the same name, was released by MCA Records in 1989. Because the usual James Bond composer John Barry (who had scored almost every film from \"From Russia with Love\" onwards) was not available at the time as he was undergoing throat surgery, the soundtrack's more upbeat and suspenseful score was composed and conducted by Michael Kamen. Initially Eric Clapton and Vic Flick were asked to write and perform the theme song to \"Licence to Kill\". The theme was said to have been a new", "title": "Licence to Kill (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4288457", "text": "the primary use of the \"James Bond Theme\" has been with action scenes. The first appearance of the \"James Bond Theme\" was in \"Dr. No\". There it was used as part of the actual gunbarrel and main title sequence. In \"From Russia with Love\", the \"James Bond Theme\" appears not only in the gunbarrel pre-title sequence, but as part of the main title theme and in the track \"James Bond with Bongos\". It is a slower, jazzier, somewhat punchier rendition than the original orchestration. The original Barry arrangement from \"Dr. No\" is heard during a check of Bond's room for", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "8516651", "text": "Golden Gun\"), a postscript action scene after the main climax, a theme song with lyrics, and the line \"James Bond will return/be back\" in the credits. Ian Fleming's novel was a Cold War thriller but the producers replaced the Soviet undercover agency SMERSH with the crime syndicate SPECTRE so as to avoid controversial political overtones. The SPECTRE training grounds were inspired by the film \"Spartacus\". The original screenwriter was Len Deighton, who accompanied Harry Saltzman, Syd Cain, and Terence Young to Istanbul but he was replaced because of a lack of progress. Thus, two of \"Dr. No\"s writers, Johanna Harwood", "title": "From Russia with Love (film)" }, { "id": "17998106", "text": "Marshall Royal and Count Basie's solos on \"Thunderball\". Dryden conceded that the album could be \"safely bypassed by most jazz fans\" but said that Basie's fans might \"find this surprising LP worth the investment\". Basie Meets Bond Basie Meets Bond is a 1966 album by Count Basie and his orchestra. The album is a collection of musical pieces from the first four James Bond films; \"Dr No\", \"From Russia with Love\", \"Goldfinger\" and \"Thunderball\". The album was Basie's first for United Records, and was produced by Teddy Reig. Ken Dryden, writing on Allmusic.com said of the album that \"While it", "title": "Basie Meets Bond" }, { "id": "2556282", "text": "Surf-n-Burn Surf-N-Burn was a 1997 surf-rock album by the Blue Stingrays. Its tracks express a variety of moods, from the secret agent intrigue of \"Russian Roulette\" and \"Goldfinger\" (a cover of the theme from the James Bond film of the same name), to the soft surfing themes \"Surfer's Life\" and \"Green Sea\", to the beach-shack rave-ups (complete with audience noise) \"Monsoon\" and \"Super Hero\", all in the styles of the early surf-rockers. This disc's liner notes tell a fictitious story of origins of the Blue Stingrays—claiming they formed in 1959 and were among both the earliest and most influential surf-rockers;", "title": "Surf-n-Burn" }, { "id": "2123467", "text": "Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in \"The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone\" (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie \"From Russia with Love\" (1963). In 1922 Lenya was seen by her future husband, German", "title": "Lotte Lenya" }, { "id": "4538537", "text": "former kind of roles. Wilson screen tested for \"The Living Daylights\" (1987) for the role of James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam d'Abo (the Bond girl in \"The Living Daylights\") as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from \"From Russia with Love\" (1963). Wilson was featured in a series of Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad, years later in 1998. Wilson released \"Musicals\" on the EMI label in 1989 (re-issued in 2004), with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre", "title": "Lambert Wilson" }, { "id": "4288464", "text": "concluding bars. An electronic rhythm was added to the gunbarrel of \"The World Is Not Enough\". The typical Bond guitar line can be heard during some action scenes. The \"Die Another Day\" gunbarrel recalls the version of \"From Russia with Love\" but with a more techno-influenced rhythm. It also contains the guitar riff of the \"James Bond Theme\". Craig's first James Bond film, \"Casino Royale\", does not feature the \"James Bond Theme\" in its entirety until the very end of the movie during a climactic scene. In \"Casino Royale\", the main notes of the song \"You Know My Name\" are", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "8587314", "text": "is being constructed and continues to play until three or four SPECTRE helicopters encounter Bond, at which point the music changes to the \"James Bond Theme\". Giving the score a Japanese flavour, John Leach played the koto in the film, The theme \"Kronos Unveiled\" from the score of Pixar's 2004 film \"The Incredibles\" bears a close resemblance to the track \"Capsule in Space\" (reprised in \"Soviet Capsule\"), while the film's trailer had used Barry's original \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" theme. Propellerheads' cover of Barry's \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" with David Arnold also incorporates, in its full 9-minute version,", "title": "You Only Live Twice (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "2449573", "text": "Hearted Melody\", with Sherman Edwards; the 1962 Joanie Sommers hit \"Johnny Get Angry\" also with Edwards; and \"99 Miles From L.A.\" with Albert Hammond, recorded by Hammond and later Art Garfunkel. With Paul Hampton, David co-wrote the country standard \"Sea of Heartbreak\", a hit for Don Gibson and others. David contributed lyrics to three James Bond film themes: in addition to \"The Look of Love\" from \"Casino Royale\" with Bacharach, he wrote \"We Have All the Time in the World\", with John Barry and sung by Louis Armstrong for the 1969 film \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", and in 1979,", "title": "Hal David" }, { "id": "10215448", "text": "Dominican Republic. The score for \"Moonraker\" marked a turning point in Barry's output, abandoning the Kentonesque brass of his earlier Bond scores and instead scoring the film with slow, rich string passages—a trend which Barry would continue in the 1980s with scores such as \"Out of Africa\" and \"Somewhere in Time\". \"Moonraker\" uses for the first time since \"Diamonds Are Forever\" a piece of music called \"007\" (briefly, and late in track 7, \"Bond Arrives in Rio and Boat Chase\"), the secondary Bond theme composed by Barry which was introduced in \"From Russia with Love\". This is the only time", "title": "Moonraker (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10219879", "text": "appears in a soft string arrangement as a theme for Tania. In Germany, the original release featured an end title track cover version called \"Die Wolga ist Weit\" sung by Ruthe Berlé. Originally planning to use local Turkish music as Norman had used Jamaican music on \"Dr No\", Barry accompanied the film crew to Istanbul, however he found nothing suitable for the film. Recalling his visit to Istanbul, John Barry said, \"It was like no place I'd ever been in my life. [The Trip] was supposedly to seep up the music, so Noel Rogers and I used to go 'round", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10215281", "text": "not in the chronological order in which they occur in the film. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (\"OHMSS\") is the soundtrack for the sixth James Bond film of the same name. The soundtrack to this film was composed, arranged, and conducted by John Barry; it was his fifth successive Bond film. The opening theme proved a challenge; the convention was to include the film's title in the opening song's lyrics; the film became the first in the series since \"From Russia with Love\" to deviate from this rule. Barry felt it would be difficult", "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10507715", "text": "in two or more of the tracks listed. Two of them are pinned to location, three are pinned to characters Necros, Kara and Koskov, one is pinned to the title song by a-ha, one is pinned to the Mujahedin and one is the Monty Norman James Bond Theme. The Living Daylights Theme Necros' Theme Mujahedin Theme James Bond Theme Kara's Theme Koskov's Theme Vienna Theme / If There Was a Man Afghanistan Theme In addition to the above, the film features a number of pieces of classical music – naturally, since it involves an international-standard cellist in Kara Milovy. Mozart's", "title": "The Living Daylights (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10215276", "text": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (\"OHMSS\") is the soundtrack for the sixth James Bond film of the same name. The soundtrack to this film was composed, arranged, and conducted by John Barry; it was his fifth successive Bond film. The opening theme proved a challenge; the convention was to include the film's title in the opening song's lyrics; the film became the first in the series since \"From Russia with Love\" to deviate from this rule. Barry felt it would be difficult to compose a theme song containing the title \"On Her Majesty's Secret", "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "17998105", "text": "Basie Meets Bond Basie Meets Bond is a 1966 album by Count Basie and his orchestra. The album is a collection of musical pieces from the first four James Bond films; \"Dr No\", \"From Russia with Love\", \"Goldfinger\" and \"Thunderball\". The album was Basie's first for United Records, and was produced by Teddy Reig. Ken Dryden, writing on Allmusic.com said of the album that \"While it seems doubtful that Basie added any of this music to his regular band repertoire, his band does its best to do justice to the arrangements.\" Dryden praised Eddie \"Lockjaw\" Davis's solo on \"Goldfinger\" and", "title": "Basie Meets Bond" }, { "id": "208196", "text": "have also been two independent productions of Bond films: \"Casino Royale\" (a 1967 spoof) and \"Never Say Never Again\" (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, \"Thunderball\"). In 2015 the series was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion, making \"James Bond\" one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond's cars, his guns, and the gadgets with which", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "10219767", "text": "a brief theme for Miss Moneypenny, the music from the tarantula scene, and Dr. No's death (reused during the climax of the helicopter attack in \"From Russia with Love\" but not on that soundtrack album either). Dr. No (soundtrack) Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the first James Bond film of the same name. Composer Monty Norman was selected by producer Albert R. Broccoli after Broccoli backed a musical of Norman's \"Belle\" or \"The Ballad of Dr. Crippen\" written by Wolf Mankowitz, a frequent collaborator with Norman and an original screenwriter for \"Dr. No\". Norman's only previous film score", "title": "Dr. No (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4283807", "text": "the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as did Bill Conti's \"For Your Eyes Only\", which was performed by Sheena Easton. It was not until the 2013 Oscars that a Bond theme song finally won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the theme song from \"Skyfall\" by Adele. Thomas Newman's score also got the first nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Score in the series since Hamlisch's own for \"The Spy Who Loved Me\", while winning the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Adele's song also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "12682194", "text": "Lev Leshchenko Lev Valerjanovich Leshchenko (; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who was best known for his rendition of \"Den Pobedy\" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song \"Do svidanja, Moskva\". Lev Leshchenko was born on 1 February 1942 in Moscow, Soviet Union. His father, Valerjan Andreevich (1904–2004), was a Red Army officer who was at war outside of Moscow. He was accorded with medals for participation in the Second World War. His mother, Claudia Petrovna Leshchenko (1915 to 1943), died shortly after Leshchenko was born. His grandparents, along with his stepmother Irina Pavlovna Leshchenko,", "title": "Lev Leshchenko" }, { "id": "11867066", "text": "composed by John Barry, who was nominated for a 1964 Grammy Award for Outstanding Original Music. The original album has been re-released on CD with many of the tracks available in the public domain on various John Barry collections. The tune \"Greensleeves\" occurs throughout the score. Unusually, it was not Barry but Johnnie Spence who conducted the score for the film and album release. Like Barry, Spence was signed to Ember Records: as Matt Monro's musical director, he had conducted the version of Barry's \"From Russia with Love\" song used in the film earlier in 1963. In addition to showcasing", "title": "Elizabeth Taylor in London" }, { "id": "4283808", "text": "Media. Sam Smith's \"Writing's on the Wall\" from \"Spectre\" would also win the Oscar for Best Original Song. Duran Duran and John Barry's \"A View To A Kill\" topped the singles charts in the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100, the only Bond theme to hit 1 in the United States. No James Bond theme had topped the charts in the UK until Sam Smith's \"Writing's on the Wall\" entered the charts at number one on 2 October 2015. Several of the later films have alternative theme songs, often during the closing credits. \"The Living Daylights\" featured The Pretenders performing \"If There", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "5461123", "text": "Don Black (lyricist) Don Black, (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Lulu, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Meat Loaf, Michael Jackson, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Hayley Westenra, A. R. Rahman, Marvin Hamlisch and Debbie Wiseman. Allmusic stated that \"Black is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for the James Bond theme songs he co-wrote with composer John Barry: \"Thunderball\", \"Diamonds Are Forever\" and \"The Man with the Golden Gun\".\" Black", "title": "Don Black (lyricist)" }, { "id": "2842371", "text": "\"Property of a Lady\", which is the name of one of Ian Fleming's short stories released in more recent editions of the collection \"Octopussy and The Living Daylights\". In a bit of diegesis that \"breaks the fourth wall\", Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the \"James Bond Theme\" on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the City Palace. Like his fictional counterpart, the real Vijay had a distinct fear of snakes and found it difficult to hold the basket during filming. After being absent in \"For Your Eyes Only\" due to", "title": "Octopussy" }, { "id": "2944356", "text": "Rita Coolidge Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on \"Billboard\" magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her most famous recordings include \"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher\", \"We're All Alone\", and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film \"Octopussy\": \"All Time High\". Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University. After singing around Memphis (including a stint singing jingles), she was discovered by Delaney & Bonnie, who worked", "title": "Rita Coolidge" }, { "id": "5461125", "text": "a song-plugger. He also had a brief spell as a comic. He was personal manager to the singer Matt Monro for many years and also provided songs for him (usually writing English language lyrics to continental songs). These included \"Walk Away\" (music: Udo Jürgens) and \"For Mamma\" (music: Charles Aznavour). Black's first film work was the lyrics for the theme of the James Bond entry \"Thunderball\" (1965). His association with the Bond series continued over several decades, with \"Diamonds Are Forever\" and \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", in collaboration with John Barry, and Surrender for \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" and", "title": "Don Black (lyricist)" }, { "id": "6847990", "text": "Amongst other studio work, in 1977, Juber was booked by London-based orchestral contractor David Katz along with session drummer Peter Boita to go to Paris for a week to record in Barclay Records' studios to make an album with Charles Aznavour. Sung entirely in French, the album, \"Je n'ai pas vu le temps passer...\", went on to become one of Aznavour's biggest selling French language albums of all time. Perhaps most famously, Juber played the James Bond theme for the movie \"The Spy Who Loved Me\". Juber gave up a lucrative and successful studio career when invited to join Paul", "title": "Laurence Juber" }, { "id": "11028402", "text": "Richard cover \"Long Tall Sally\" was the only song that had previously been recorded by the Beatles. McCartney wanted the tour to avoid large venues; most of the small halls they played had capacities of fewer than 3,000 people. In March 1973, Wings achieved their first US number-one single, \"My Love\", included on their second LP, \"Red Rose Speedway\", a US number one and UK top five. McCartney's collaboration with Linda and former Beatles producer Martin resulted in the song \"Live and Let Die\", which was the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. Nominated for", "title": "Paul McCartney" }, { "id": "9124812", "text": "Llorenna. The song was referenced and then performed by Mark Wahlberg and Norah Jones in the film \"Ted\". All Time High \"All Time High\" is a 1983 single release by Rita Coolidge introduced as the theme song for the James Bond film \"Octopussy\". \"All Time High\" marked the return of regular James Bond theme composer John Barry after his absence from the \"For Your Eyes Only\" soundtrack for tax problems. He wanted to work again with Don Black, but his commitments to the musical \"Merlin\" forced Barry to seek another lyricist. Tim Rice quickly accepted the invitation. Barry's friend Phil", "title": "All Time High" }, { "id": "8794877", "text": "aggressive than any other Bond theme has been, maybe since Paul McCartney ['s 'Live and Let Die']\". Cornell stated that the biggest two influences on \"You Know My Name\" were Tom Jones, who performed the theme for \"Thunderball\", and Paul McCartney, who composed and performed the theme for \"Live and Let Die\". \"I decided that I was going to sing it like Tom Jones, in that crooning style. I wanted people to hear my voice,\" Cornell said. \"And 'Live and Let Die' is a fantastic song. Paul McCartney wouldn't have written it if not for that movie. I [also] wanted", "title": "You Know My Name" }, { "id": "3316872", "text": "realistic enough to lead many viewers to believe that the BBC had actually blown up a church as part of the filming. The BBC received a number of letters complaining about this. The clip of the Brigadier's helicopter blowing up as it crashes into the heat shield is borrowed from the James Bond film \"From Russia with Love\". The incantation that the Master uses in summoning Azal is actually the nursery rhyme \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\" said backwards, as well as Damaris Hayman's name said backwards. Following transmission of episode one, the story was discussed by BBC1 controller Paul", "title": "The Dæmons" }, { "id": "10057381", "text": "\"Crashing\" written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and produced by Big Talk Productions for Channel 4. Dee has recorded a number of musicals, concerts and dramas for radio, including \"Carousel\" and \"Finian's Rainbow\" for BBC Radio 2, and she has played Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny in radio dramatisations of the James Bond classics \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\", \"From Russia With Love\", \"Dr No\" and Thunderball, as well as a role in Michael Frayn's \"Skios\", all directed by Martin Jarvis. In 2013 she was invited by composer Guy Barker to be the narrator in his new orchestral work \"That Obscure", "title": "Janie Dee" }, { "id": "570925", "text": "who could \"slide from soulful rasp to pop croon, with a voice as husky as it was pretty\". Jones has sold over 100 million records with thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom and nineteen in the United States, including \"It's Not Unusual\", \"What's New Pussycat\", the theme song for the 1965 James Bond film \"Thunderball\", \"Delilah\", \"Green, Green Grass of Home\", \"She's a Lady\", \"Kiss\" and \"Sex Bomb\". Jones made his acting debut playing the leading role in the 1979 television film \"Pleasure Cove\" as well as playing himself in Tim Burton's 1996 film \"Mars Attacks!\" In 2012,", "title": "Tom Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "10014735", "text": "she enjoyed the experience. After a break from the screen, Romain emerged from semi-retirement as the title character in the Anthony Perkins/Stephen Sondheim-scripted mystery thriller \"The Last of Sheila\" (1973), her last screen role. She married Leslie Bricusse, composer of musicals (including Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Scrooge and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and lyricist for the classic James Bond themes \"Goldfinger\" and \"You Only Live Twice\", and she later turned down a seven-year contract with Federico Fellini because it meant working away from her Hollywood-based husband and young son. Yvonne Romain Yvonne Romain (born", "title": "Yvonne Romain" }, { "id": "9748502", "text": "in Puerto Rico, while in the UK, Epsom Downs Racecourse and the Nene Valley Railway were both used. For the scenes of the fictional Russian location of Severnaya, and other effects, Derek Meddings built a number of miniature sets at Leavesden. Meddings had worked on the Bond films since \"Live and Let Die\" and died before the film's release; \"GoldenEye\" was dedicated to his memory. The soundtrack to \"GoldenEye\" was composed and performed by Éric Serra. Prolific Bond composer John Barry turned down an offer by Barbara Broccoli to score the film. The theme song, \"GoldenEye\", was written by Bono", "title": "James Bond in film" }, { "id": "2113619", "text": "cover interpretations in \"\", which featured major artists performing the former James Bond title songs in new arrangements. Arnold said that his score aimed for \"a classic sound but [with] a modern approach\", combining techno music with a recognisably Barry-inspired \"classic Bond\" sound–notably Arnold borrowed from Barry's score for \"From Russia with Love\". The score was done across a period of six months, with Arnold writing music and revising previous pieces as he received edited footage of the film. The music for the indoor car chase sequence was co-written with the band Propellerheads, who had worked with Arnold on \"Shaken", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "9103147", "text": "James Bond. Not released but also heard in the film is a brief homage to John Williams' familiar theme from \"Jaws\", when an unseen underwater horror (it is revealed to be an attacker in a JIM diving suit) approaches within the sunken ship. This was the third Bond film in a row to wittily include familiar music from a classic film. Additionally, notes from the title song to \"The Spy Who Loved Me\", \"Nobody Does It Better\", can be heard as the tones of a key code for a security door early in the film. For Your Eyes Only (soundtrack)", "title": "For Your Eyes Only (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "13926198", "text": "Alan Haven Alan Haven (1 April 1935 – 7 January 2016), born in Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom, was an English jazz organist. His original name was Alan Halpern and he was Jewish. He lived off Kings Road and attended Kings Road School Prestwich. When he was around 10-11 he played an Harmonica and played it extremely well sounding like Larry Adler. After 1946 I lost contact with him.. He was known for his collaborations with John Barry in the James Bond films \"From Russia with Love\" (1963) and \"Goldfinger\" (1964), the comedy film \"A Jolly Bad Fellow\" (1964), and in", "title": "Alan Haven" }, { "id": "8512884", "text": "Lani Hall Lani Hall (born November 6, 1945) is an American singer, lyricist, author, and the wife of Herb Alpert. From 1966 to 1971 she performed as lead vocalist for Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66. In 1972 she released her first solo album \"Sundown Lady\", but she may be best known for her rendition of the theme song to the 1983 James Bond film \"Never Say Never Again\". In 1986 she was awarded her first Grammy Award for \"Es Fácil Amar\" as \"Best Latin Pop Performance.\" After that year she largely retired, resurfacing in 1998 with the solo album \"Brasil", "title": "Lani Hall" }, { "id": "6342660", "text": "The Greatest Hits (Lulu album) The Greatest Hits is a 2003 Lulu album charting her 40-year career in music from 1964's UK top-ten hit \"Shout\" through 2002's \"We've Got Tonight,\" a UK top-five duet with Ronan Keating. It also covers everything in between, including her 1967 US 1 Hit \"To Sir With Love\", the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winner \"Boom Bang-a-Bang\", the 1974 James Bond theme \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", and the 1993 UK No. 1 Hit \"Relight My Fire\" (a duet with Take That). The album combines her UK hits such as \"The Boat That I Row\"", "title": "The Greatest Hits (Lulu album)" }, { "id": "8516418", "text": "Institute as the 67th greatest song as part of their 100 Years Series. The soundtrack to the film was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, who filled in for veteran John Barry, who was unavailable to work in the United Kingdom because of tax reasons. The soundtrack, in comparison to other \"Bond\" films of the time, is more disco-oriented and included a new disco rendition of \"The James Bond Theme\" titled \"Bond 77\"; several pieces of classical music were also included in the score. For instance, while feeding a duplicitous secretary to a shark, Stromberg plays Bach's \"Air on the G String\",", "title": "The Spy Who Loved Me (film)" }, { "id": "1961562", "text": "Is to Keep Breathing\". In April, \"When I Grow Up\" was released to Modern Rock radio. \"When I Grow Up\" was then featured on the movie \"Big Daddy\". \"Version 2.0\" was awarded the European Platinum Award by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for 1 million sales across Europe and US. \"You Look So Fine\" was released as the final single from \"Version 2.0\" worldwide, as Garbage toured Europe, including headlining in Edinburgh to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament. On August 4, Garbage was contracted to perform the theme for the James Bond film \"The World Is", "title": "Garbage (band)" }, { "id": "10838519", "text": "film \"3 People I've Never Heard Of\". She stars in the award winning series \"Englishman in L.A.\" (Amazon) with actors Cameron Moir (\"Non Stop\"), Eddie Jemison (\"HUNG, Oceans 11, 12,13\") and Ashley Fink (Glee) for which she was just awarded \"\"Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Web Series\"\" by LA WEB FEST. Tamela can be heard singing the Bond-esque theme song \"\"Love and the Gun\"\" in both English and Italian in the feature film \"Rob the Mob\" (Millennium Films/Lakeshore Records) directed by Raymond De Felitta (\"City Island\"). She has just returned to the United States after filming the Indian drama \"One", "title": "Tamela D'Amico" }, { "id": "12682198", "text": "Lev Leschenko</ref> in 1999 Leshchenko got a star on the Star Square in Moscow. In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russian annexation of Crimea. For this he was banned from entering Ukraine. Crimea is since March 2014 under dispute by Russia and Ukraine. Lev Leshchenko Lev Valerjanovich Leshchenko (; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who was best known for his rendition of \"Den Pobedy\" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song \"Do svidanja, Moskva\". Lev Leshchenko was born on 1 February", "title": "Lev Leshchenko" }, { "id": "2842372", "text": "tax problems, John Barry returned to do his ninth Bond score. Barry made frequent references to the James Bond Theme to reinforce \"Octopussy\" as the official Bond film, given that motif could not be featured in \"Never Say Never Again\", and opted to include only subtle references to the music of India, avoiding instruments such as the sitar for feeling that authentic music \"didn't work dramatically\". He also wrote opening theme \"All Time High\" with lyricist Tim Rice. \"All Time High\", sung by Rita Coolidge, is one of seven musical themes in the James Bond series whose song titles do", "title": "Octopussy" }, { "id": "10215279", "text": "Since then, the Bond theme has been rearranged in many ways after \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\". Barry also composed the love song \"We Have All the Time in the World\" sung by Louis Armstrong. With lyrics by Burt Bacharach's regular lyricist Hal David, it is heard during the Bond–Tracy courtship montage, bridging Draco's birthday party in Portugal and Bond's burglary of the Gebrüder Gumbold law office in Bern, Switzerland. \"We Have All the Time in the World\" is often mistakenly referred to as the opening credits theme. It was Armstrong's last recorded song (he died of a heart attack", "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "9256733", "text": "Cornell was first reported to be writing and performing the song on July 20, 2006 by the Finnish newspaper \"Ilta-Sanomat\". \"You Know My Name\" is the first theme song since 1983's \"Octopussy\" to use a different title than the film, and Cornell is the first male performer since a-ha (in 1987's \"The Living Daylights\"). It is only the fourth Bond theme (after the opening medley of \"Dr. No\", the instrumental theme from \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" and \"All Time High\" from \"Octopussy\") to make no reference to the title of the film. The soundtrack was completed early in the", "title": "Casino Royale (2006 soundtrack)" }, { "id": "4288461", "text": "Spy Who Loved Me\", titled \"Bond 77\", featured a disco sound, reflecting a style of music which was very popular at the time. \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" returned briefly to using the surf-rock guitar associated with the theme from the early days. One unusual instance occurred in \"Octopussy\", when Bond's contact, who is disguised as a snake charmer played a few notes of the tune for Roger Moore's James Bond, presumably as a pre-arranged identification signal; this is an example of the tune being used as diegetic music. In the last Bond film of Roger Moore, \"A View to", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "4381344", "text": "and studied operatic singing. Gayson played a major role in the Hammer horror film \"The Revenge of Frankenstein\" and appeared on television in series such as \"The Saint\" (which starred a future James Bond, Roger Moore) and \"The Avengers\". She played the Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the 1962 London production of \"The Sound of Music\", during which time she also filmed scenes for the first two Bond films, \"Dr. No\" (1962) and \"From Russia with Love\" (1963). She remained a regular in London theatre, appearing in, among other productions, the comedy \"The Grass Is Greener\" (1971). In the early 1990s,", "title": "Eunice Gayson" }, { "id": "8516682", "text": "always start out trying to make another \"From Russia with Love\" and end up with another \"Thunderball\".\" Sean Connery, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig also consider this their favourite Bond film. Albert Broccoli listed it with \"Goldfinger\" and \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" as one of his top three favourites, explaining that he felt \"it was with this film that the Bond style and formula were perfected\". In 2005, the \"\" video game was developed by Electronic Arts and released on 1 November 2005 in North America. It follows the storyline of the book and", "title": "From Russia with Love (film)" }, { "id": "10167398", "text": "played songs in live concerts and has often been extended into a \"sing-along\" with the audience, as featured on the live album \"How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head\". In live performances, Paul Waaktaar often included the main James Bond Theme in his guitar solo. Evan Cater of Allmusic said the song was \"a strong sample of \"Seven and the Ragged Tiger\"-influenced Europop, enhanced by Morten Harket's powerhouse falsetto vocals.\" South African heavy metal band The Narrow released a cover version in 2005. The music video, which was directed by Steve Barron, was shot at the 007", "title": "The Living Daylights (song)" }, { "id": "11196750", "text": "David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, the BET Awards and MTV New Year's Eve in Times Square. In 2011, Niia began performing The Best of 007 in New York. Backed by a 14 piece orchestra, Niia paid homage to the soundtrack of James Bond films including classics \"Goldfinger\", \"Thunderball\", and \"The Spy Who Loved Me\". She has also released covers of the classic track Mad World by Tears for Fears, Jai Paul's viral hit BTSTU, and Cher's Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down). In February 2013, Niia self-released her single \"Made For You\"", "title": "Niia" }, { "id": "8386979", "text": "after producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were worried that a theme song to a James Bond film would not work well if the song did not have the title of the film in its lyrics. Barry then teamed up with lyricist Don Black and wrote \"Thunderball\", which was sung by Tom Jones, who according to Bond production legend, fainted in the recording booth when singing the song's final note. Jones said of it, \"I closed my eyes and I held the note for so long when I opened my eyes the room was spinning.\" Country musician Johnny Cash", "title": "Thunderball (film)" }, { "id": "4288459", "text": "\"Little Nellie\" autogyro fight scene. The George Lazenby film \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" used a unique high-pitched arrangement with the melody played on a Moog synthesizer. The cue is called \"This Never Happened to the Other Feller\" and a similar recording was used over the film's end credits. The film has a downbeat ending and the explosive burst of the \"James Bond Theme\" at the film's very end suggests Bond will return in spite of the situation he finds himself in at the climax of this movie. With the return of Sean Connery in \"Diamonds Are Forever\", the guitar", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "10067213", "text": "The Man with the Golden Gun (soundtrack) The Man with the Golden Gun is the soundtrack for the ninth James Bond film of the same name. The theme tune was performed by Lulu, composed by John Barry, and the lyrics to the song were written by Don Black. Alice Cooper claims his song \"The Man With The Golden Gun\" was to be used by the film's producers until it was dropped for Lulu's song instead. Cooper's song appears on his album \"Muscle of Love\". Barry considered the theme tune – the only Bond film title track not to chart as", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "10219880", "text": "to these nightclubs and listen to all this stuff. We had the strangest week, and really came away with nothing, except a lot of ridiculous stories. We went back, talked to Lionel, and then he wrote 'From Russia with Love.<nowiki>\"</nowiki> The soundtrack's original recordings are thought to be lost and did not appear when the Bond soundtrack albums were issued in remastered form on CD. The album is different from the film with the album's recording of the main titles sounding slower and not featuring the organ played by Alan Haven. Several tracks on the album do not appear in", "title": "From Russia with Love (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "6423711", "text": "Now\", featuring tracks from James Bond soundtracks and new compositions. In 2005, he played on the soundtrack of the \"From Russia With Love\" video game by Electronic Arts. In 2008, his autobiography, \"Vic Flick Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond\" (), was published by Bearmanor Media. On October 5, 2012, Vic Flick was honored at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for \"The Music of Bond: The First 50 Years.\" He played the \"James Bond Theme\" on his 1939 Clifford Essex Paragon De Luxe “James Bond” Guitar to a live audience. He also was interviewed", "title": "Vic Flick" }, { "id": "10561206", "text": "\"Wedding Party\", used during the wedding of Felix Leiter to Della Churchill, makes reference to the track \"Jump Up\" from the first Bond film, \"Dr. No\". Licence to Kill (soundtrack) The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th James Bond film of the same name, was released by MCA Records in 1989. Because the usual James Bond composer John Barry (who had scored almost every film from \"From Russia with Love\" onwards) was not available at the time as he was undergoing throat surgery, the soundtrack's more upbeat and suspenseful score was composed and conducted by Michael Kamen. Initially Eric", "title": "Licence to Kill (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "19234527", "text": "performances. On 17 August it was announced Rhiannon would be performing a one-off concert celebrating the works of Marni Nixon, following her death in July. In April 2017, Rhiannon returned to The Pheasantry with \"For Your Ears Only\", a concert celebrating the theme songs from the James Bond films. In August, she performed at the same venue, as well as Lauderdale House in her show \"Music That Made The Millennials\". In 2018, Rhiannon finished writing her musical, \"The Year Without A Summer\". After being workshopped in January, the musical was launched on 9 February at the Arts Theatre in London.", "title": "Rhiannon Drake" }, { "id": "4283805", "text": "by John Barry, and this time the theme song had lyrics written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. The soundtrack reached 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and spent 70 weeks on the charts. It also peaked at 14 on the UK Albums Chart, and received the Bond series first Grammy Award nomination, Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show. Welsh singer Shirley Bassey has performed the most Bond themes – she recorded the themes to \"Goldfinger\", \"Diamonds Are Forever\", and \"Moonraker\". Bassey also recorded her own versions of \"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang\" for \"Thunderball\" and it", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "10138113", "text": "a brighter, clearer sound to baroque performances. In 2004, Steele-Perkins received the Monk Award for his significant and lifelong contribution to the field of early brass music. In addition to his work with classical orchestras and period instruments, Steele-Perkins has developed a body of television and film work which is universally recognisable today - most famously he played the theme tune to the popular British television programme \"Antiques Roadshow\", the James Bond film \"For Your Eyes Only\" and \"\". Steele-Perkins has also accompanied some of the world's greatest singers, recording Handel's \"Let the bright Seraphim\" with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa", "title": "Crispian Steele-Perkins" }, { "id": "8516671", "text": "\"Dr. No\" music; the post-rocket-launch music from \"Dr. No\" is played in \"From Russia with Love\" during the helicopter and speedboat attacks. \"From Russia with Love\" premiered on 10 October 1963 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. Ian Fleming, Sean Connery and Walter Gotell attended the premiere. The following year, it was released in 16 countries worldwide, with the United States premiere on 8 April 1964, at New York's Astor Theatre. Upon its first release, \"From Russia with Love\" doubled \"Dr. No\"s gross by earning $12.5 million ($ million in dollars) at the worldwide box office. After reissue it", "title": "From Russia with Love (film)" }, { "id": "1453785", "text": "Lulu (singer) Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. Later in her career she had hits internationally with \"To Sir with Love\" from the 1967 film of the same name and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film \"The Man with the Golden Gun\". In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest 1969 winning entry \"Boom Bang-a-Bang\", and in the UK for her 1964 hit \"Shout\", which was performed at the closing", "title": "Lulu (singer)" }, { "id": "285907", "text": "of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, \"Nancy In London\", Sinatra states that she was \"scared to death\" of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: \"Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?\" There are two versions of the Bond theme. The first is the lushly orchestrated track featured during the opening and closing credits of the film. The second—and more guitar-heavy—version appeared on the double A-sided single with \"Jackson\", though the Bond theme stalled at No.44 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"Jackson\"/\"You Only Live Twice\" was more successful in the U.K., reaching No.11 on the singles", "title": "Nancy Sinatra" }, { "id": "1975113", "text": "The piece is featured prominently in the film \"V for Vendetta\". The melody of Dan Fogelberg's top ten hit \"Same Old Lang Syne\" is drawn from the distinctive leitmotif that represents the Russian forces in the piece. In \"\", the RYNO V weapon plays the \"1812\" Overture while firing. In \"\", part of the overture's finale plays when the Claptrap character enters Pirate Ship Mode. Bond the four-girl 'crossover' string quartet produced a truncated rock version of the Overture at their concert in the Albert Hall in London. 1812 Overture The Year 1812 Solemn Overture, festival overture in E major,", "title": "1812 Overture" }, { "id": "1567270", "text": "the seven-month sessions was the Linda composition \"Seaside Woman\", which was finally issued in 1977, credited to \"Suzy and the Red Stripes\". Near the end of the \"Red Rose Speedway\" sessions, in October 1972, Wings recorded the theme song to the James Bond film \"Live and Let Die\", which reunited McCartney with Beatles producer/arranger George Martin. Issued as a non-album single in mid-1973, \"Live and Let Die\" became a worldwide hit and has remained a highlight of McCartney's post-Wings concert performances (often accompanied by pyrotechnics). That same year, McCartney and Wings filmed a TV special, the critically maligned \"James Paul", "title": "Paul McCartney and Wings" }, { "id": "4283809", "text": "Was a Man,\" composed by John Barry with Chrissie Hynde. \"Licence to Kill\" has \"If You Asked Me To\" sung by Patti Labelle. \"GoldenEye\" featured Éric Serra's \"The Experience of Love\". \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" included k.d. lang's \"Surrender\" during the closing credits, a song which was originally proposed by composer David Arnold to be the title sequence theme instead of the Sheryl Crow title song. The \"Surrender\" theme is heard throughout the score while the melody of Sheryl Crow's song is not used again during the film. This hearkens back to the \"Thunderball\" soundtrack, where \"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang\"", "title": "James Bond music" }, { "id": "8512891", "text": "fiction and nonfiction stories that describe women coping with the vicissitudes of life. Hall enjoys spending time with her three children and six grandchildren, and she lives with her husband in California. Lani Hall Lani Hall (born November 6, 1945) is an American singer, lyricist, author, and the wife of Herb Alpert. From 1966 to 1971 she performed as lead vocalist for Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66. In 1972 she released her first solo album \"Sundown Lady\", but she may be best known for her rendition of the theme song to the 1983 James Bond film \"Never Say Never Again\".", "title": "Lani Hall" }, { "id": "8442635", "text": "the title \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" unless it were written operatically, in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. Leslie Bricusse had considered lyrics for the title song but director Peter R. Hunt allowed an instrumental title theme in the tradition of the first two Bond films. The theme was described as \"one of the best title cuts, a wordless Moog-driven monster, suitable for skiing at breakneck speed or dancing with equal abandon.\" Barry also composed the love song \"We Have All the Time in the World\", with lyrics by Burt Bacharach's regular lyricist Hal David, sung by Louis Armstrong.", "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)" }, { "id": "4288460", "text": "made a comeback along with a full orchestral version during a hovercraft sequence. On the soundtrack this track is named \"Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd/Bond to Holland.\" When Roger Moore came to the role, the \"James Bond Theme\" became a string orchestra driven piece. Likewise, in \"Live and Let Die\", the James Bond theme was featured in a Funk-inspired version of the tune reflecting the music of Blaxploitation films popular at the time. After that in 1974 John Barry composed the theme and song but sung by Lulu. The brief quote of the theme in the pre-credits music of \"The", "title": "James Bond Theme" }, { "id": "2906851", "text": "General Gogol; however, Walter Gotell was too sick to handle the major role, and the character of Leonid Pushkin replaced Gogol, who appears briefly at the end of the film, having transferred to the Soviet diplomatic service. This was Gogol's final appearance in a James Bond film. Morten Harket, the lead vocalist of the Norwegian rock group A-ha (which performed the film's title song), was offered a small role as a villain's henchman in the film, but declined, because of lack of time and because he felt they wanted to cast him due to his popularity rather than his acting.", "title": "The Living Daylights" } ]

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[ { "id": "5366150", "text": "acquisition in late 2014, all Hess gas stations will be rebranded as Speedway gas stations by the end of 2017. The transaction completed the transformation of Hess into an energy company focused solely on exploration and production, effectively reversing the Amerada merger almost 50 years prior. \"The New York Times\" reported on October 28, 1990, that a barge with a load of of kerosene struck a reef in the Hudson River, spilling of fuel. Immediately, Hess assumed responsibility for the cleanup; the Coast Guard worked alongside the Red Star company to clean and to contain the spill to one area.", "title": "Hess Corporation" }, { "id": "6236586", "text": "by BP for all costs related to the oil spill, including those arising under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. In December 2015, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ordered Anadarko to pay a civil fine under the Clean Water Act of $159.5 million, or $50 per barrel of oil spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The judge stated Anadarko was not at fault for the spill, but the company's 25% ownership stake made it responsible. Barbier wrote that the $159.5 million fine \"strikes the appropriate balance between Anadarko's lack of culpability and the extreme seriousness", "title": "Anadarko Petroleum" }, { "id": "20047721", "text": "and repaired at a shipyard in New York City. After the collision, \"World Prodigy\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with two violations of the Clean Water Act and Ballard Shipping with one. Both the captain and company pleaded guilty; Ballard paid $1 million and Georgudis $10,000 in fines. In December 1990, the National Transportation Safety Board released the results of their investigation of the spill, finding that Captain Georgudis had been suffering from sleep deprivation and was distracted by working on paperwork at the time of the collision. \"World Prodigy\", having arrived at the mouth of the bay earlier than", "title": "1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill" }, { "id": "132640", "text": "the claim, stating that there was a long-standing agreement to allow the use of dispersants to clean up spills, thus Exxon did not require permission to use them, and that in fact Exxon had not had enough dispersant on hand to effectively handle a spill of the size created by the \"Valdez\". Exxon filed claims in October 1990 against the Coast Guard, asking to be reimbursed for cleanup costs and damages awarded to plaintiffs in any lawsuits filed by the State of Alaska or the federal government against Exxon. The company claimed that the Coast Guard was \"wholly or partially", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "4731147", "text": "Joseph Hazelwood Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood (born September 24, 1946) is an American sailor. He was the captain of \"Exxon Valdez\" during its 1989 oil spill. He was accused of being intoxicated which contributed to the disaster, but was cleared of this charge at his 1990 trial after witnesses testified that he was sober around the time of the accident. Hazelwood was convicted of a lesser charge, negligent discharge of oil (a misdemeanor), fined $50,000, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service. Hazelwood was born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, but was raised in Huntington, Long Island, New York. His father, Joseph", "title": "Joseph Hazelwood" }, { "id": "14660815", "text": "estimated the company's total spill-related expenses do not exceed $37.2 billion. The United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 limits BP's liability for non-cleanup costs to $75 million unless gross negligence is proven. BP has said it would pay for all cleanup and remediation regardless of the statutory liability cap. Nevertheless, some Democratic lawmakers sought to pass legislation that would increase the liability limit to $10 billion. Analysts for Swiss Re have estimated that the total insured losses from the accident could reach $3.5 billion. According to UBS, final losses could be $12 billion. According to Willis Group Holdings, total", "title": "Economic effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill" }, { "id": "17067396", "text": "where he was in the Litigation Department. While at Kirkland, Carden was a member of the team that represented Amoco in connection with the oil spill that resulted from the grounding of the Amoco Cadiz. Carden was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Coffield Ungaretti, before joining the Chicago office of Jones Day in 1990. In 2000 Carden moved from Chicago to the firm’s New York office. Carden led Jones Day’s New York Trial Practice department, which included its Intellectual Property and Labor practices. Carden later became Co-Chair of the Jones Day’s worldwide Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice.", "title": "David L. Carden" }, { "id": "1325842", "text": "played an impromptu lunchtime set in front of Exxon headquarters in New York with a banner reading, \"Midnight Oil Makes You Dance, Exxon Oil Makes Us Sick,\" protesting the Exxon Valdez oil spill the previous year. In February 1990, \"Blue Sky Mining\", produced by Livesey, was released by CBS/Columbia. It peaked at No. 1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums charts. It stayed at No. 1 for two weeks in Australia and had Top 5 chart success in Sweden, Switzerland and Norway. It peaked at No. 20 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 28 on the UK charts.", "title": "Midnight Oil" }, { "id": "13305171", "text": "to make up the economic losses from that time out of work. Over a year after the spill, the owners of the tug and barge were given criminal charges because the Oil Pollution act of 1990 had made it illegal to negligently discharge harmful quantities of oil into the United States' navigable waters. The owners paid a total of $9.5 million in criminal and other costs. As a result of the severe weather during the time of the spill, the oil spread quickly to the deeper levels of water, making clean up a more difficult and the skimming method less", "title": "North Cape oil spill" }, { "id": "6270720", "text": "Colonial Pipeline Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, \"is the largest U.S. refined products pipeline system and can carry more than 3 million barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel between the U.S. Gulf Coast and the New York Harbor area.\" The company was founded in 1961 and construction of the pipeline began in 1962. The pipeline is 5,500-miles (8,850-km) long. Colonial had seven spills in four years in the late 20th century, three of which (1996 to 1999) caused significant environmental damage to waterways in the Southeast. The Environmental Protection Agency alleged these were the result of gross negligence,", "title": "Colonial Pipeline" }, { "id": "14574943", "text": "Eric Nalder Eric Nalder is an American investigative journalist based in Seattle, Washington. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes. Nalder graduated from the University of Washington, with a B.A. in 1968. He writes for the website \"SeattlePI.com\", and is senior enterprise reporter for Hearst Newspapers. Nalder and three colleagues with \"The Seattle Times\" shared the National Reporting Pulitzer in 1990 for their \"coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath\". At the same time he was personally an Explanatory Journalism Pulitzer finalist for \"a revealing series about oil-tanker safety and the failure of industry and government to adequately", "title": "Eric Nalder" }, { "id": "12330620", "text": "second largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident, the U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. An initial award of $5 billion USD punitive was reduced to $507.5 million by the US Supreme Court in June 2008, and distributions of this award have commenced. In 1994, Mobil established a subsidiary MEGAS (Mobil European Gas) which became responsible for its Mobil's natural gas operations in Europe. In 1996, Mobil and British Petroleum merged their European refining and marketing of fuels and lubricants businesses. Mobil had 30% stake in fuels and 51% stake in", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "3023454", "text": "majority of the shipping industry. Vessel owners objected that additional oil spill penalties imposed by the states are free from OPA limitations of the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851. Ultimately, the threat of unlimited liability under the OPA and other state statutes has led countless oil shipping companies to reduce oil trade to and from the ports of the United States. However, there were positive reactions from the oil industries despite the newly enforced codes and regulations. In 1990, the oil industry united to form the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MRSC), a non-profit corporation whose expenses would be compensated", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "10251496", "text": "Kaczynski targeted Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas Mosser due to a belief Exxon had consulted with Burson-Marsteller during the Valdez oil spill. Burson-Marsteller stated that they had advised Exxon in the past and had been asked to review and analyze Exxon's handling of the disaster afterwards, but had not been engaged to manage the crisis itself. In the 1990s the company also received considerable attention for PR campaigns on behalf of tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris Companies Inc.) in which it was engaged to discredit anti-smoking research and legislation attempts. In 1993 Burson-Marsteller helped organize a response to a 1992 United", "title": "Burson-Marsteller" }, { "id": "13734991", "text": "but there is a board of directors made up of representatives of Shoreline Mutual's members who provide executive oversight. These include Gregory McGrath who is CFO at Omega Navigation Enterprises, and Carolyn Webster who is Risk Manager at Disney Cruise Line. Edward Ross, who is the Insurance Coordinator at Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd, is the acting chairman of the Shoreline Board of Directors. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was introduced in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. Under this legislation every ship entering United States waters has to prove evidence of its ability to pay", "title": "Shoreline Managers" }, { "id": "3023455", "text": "by the oil producers and transporters. The major MRSC responsibility was to develop new response plans for oil spills cleanups and for the OPA-required remediation. Shipping companies like the Exxon Shipping reacted positively OPA's efforts to reduce their risk of liability for oil spill disasters. To help ensure OPA compliance, Exxon Shipping compiled all state and federal regulations to which they must abide. Several independent and non-U.S. companies and operators, however, may avoid operations in the United States ports due to the OPA liability. Though the majority of elicited reactions and criticism from the enactment of OPA has been negative,", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "14660749", "text": "to approve the settlement, saying its actions \"did not constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct\". Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a company responsible is liable for only $75 million in economic damages, provided it did not exhibit \"gross negligence\" and the federal government picks up the next $1 billion. In response to the BP filing and in order to ensure that BP could not use its filing and any possible acceptance of the settlement to escape a judgement of gross negligence, on August 31, 2012, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed papers describing the spill as an", "title": "Deepwater Horizon litigation" }, { "id": "6270743", "text": "undertaking in which our country has participated in recent years.\" List of pipelines Colonial Pipeline Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, \"is the largest U.S. refined products pipeline system and can carry more than 3 million barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel between the U.S. Gulf Coast and the New York Harbor area.\" The company was founded in 1961 and construction of the pipeline began in 1962. The pipeline is 5,500-miles (8,850-km) long. Colonial had seven spills in four years in the late 20th century, three of which (1996 to 1999) caused significant environmental damage to waterways in the", "title": "Colonial Pipeline" }, { "id": "6008057", "text": "out more than 1,000 employees, cutting off healthcare and pay. On April 2, 1990, the natural gas lines serving homes in Danvers, Massachusetts were accidentally over-pressurized by a Boston Gas Co. worker. This resulted in fires and explosions along Lafayette St., Maple St., Venice St. and Beaver Park Av. Six people had to be treated for injuries. National Grid plc National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in Warwick, United Kingdom. Its principal activities are in the United Kingdom and Northeastern United States. It has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, and", "title": "National Grid plc" }, { "id": "17813326", "text": "Mega Borg Oil Spill The \"Mega Borg\" Oil Spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on June 8, 1990, roughly 50 miles off the coast of Texas, when the oil tanker \"Mega Borg\" caught on fire and exploded. The cleanup was one of the first practical uses of bioremediation. At 11:30 PM on the evening of Saturday June 8, 1990, an explosion in the cargo room of the Norwegian oil tanker the \"Mega Borg\" “ruptured the bulkhead between the pump room and the engine room”, causing the ship to catch fire and begin to leak oil. The 853-foot-long, 15-year-old vessel", "title": "Mega Borg Oil Spill" }, { "id": "8552150", "text": "Hansa Carrier The Hansa Carrier is a container ship. On 27 May 1990, en route from Korea to the United States, the ship encountered a storm which caused the loss of 21 40-foot cargo containers south of the Alaska Peninsula, near . Five of these cargo containers contained 61,000 Nike shoes, each of which carried a unique serial number which later made it possible to clearly identify them as part of the spilled cargo. The \"Great Shoe Spill of 1990\" was one of the several occasions when shipping accidents have contributed to the knowledge of ocean currents and aided scientists", "title": "Hansa Carrier" }, { "id": "5869783", "text": "most iconic structure at the refinery, the Wet Gas Scrubber. Visible from the New Jersey Turnpike with its giant plumes of water vapor, this device eliminates 7-8 tons of dust per day as well as gases generated from the catalytic cracking process. To this day it is recognized as one of the most efficient and effective units of its kind in the world. On the night of January 1–2, 1990, a cracked underwater pipeline leaked about of fuel oil into the Arthur Kill. Because the waterway was already so heavily industrialized, Exxon argued that it should not have to pay", "title": "Bayway Refinery" }, { "id": "1325904", "text": "& Collectors, James Reyne, The Saints, Crowded House, and INXS. All sales proceeds were donated to the National Coalition of Aboriginal Organisations. During 1989 to 1993 and 1998 to 2002, Peter Garrett, the band's lead singer, was the President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, whilst during 1993 to 1998 he was on the International Board of Greenpeace. In 1990 Midnight Oil played an impromptu lunchtime set in front of Exxon headquarters in New York with a banner reading, \"Midnight Oil Makes You Dance, Exxon Oil Makes Us Sick,\" protesting the Exxon Valdez oil spill the previous year. \"Arctic World\" was", "title": "Diesel and Dust" }, { "id": "19066106", "text": "of smoke inhalation. The fire started on the promenade deck and was started by a cutting torch. Damage was estimated at $2 million ($ today). \"Bermuda Star\" ran aground in Buzzards Bay, five miles from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in poor visibility in June 1990. The ship sustained a 90 ft long tear in the hull, two feet wide near the fuel tanks. Over a thousand passengers were evacuated and about of number 6 fuel oil was spilled. The ship was to be towed to a drydock in New York for repairs. The incident occurred in the days following the June", "title": "SS Argentina (1958)" }, { "id": "997627", "text": "the company changed its name to HKN, Inc. Harken attracted attention because of the role played in its affairs during the 1980s by George W. Bush, later the President of the United States. On June 22, 1990, while he was a member of the company's board of directors, Bush sold stock in Harken shortly before the company announced substantial losses. This transaction resulted in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of probable insider trading. A transaction associated with the financial endowment of Harvard University was also investigated. In 2000, a subsidiary of the company received a 20-year concession to", "title": "HKN, Inc." }, { "id": "8624022", "text": "once home to many oil refineries for more than a century. In 1950, the predecessor of the ExxonMobil oil company was alleged to have spilled of oil into Newtown Creek in what is one of the worst oil spills in United States history. Oil continues seeping into a city waterway decades after the leak was first noticed. The oil business has largely moved elsewhere, but countless small and large spills went unnoticed for decades and eventually formed a subterranean blob of more than . Authorities have been aware of the problem since 1978. Exxon Mobil accepted responsibility for much of", "title": "Environmental issues in New York City" }, { "id": "4001479", "text": "Kaman-class (La Combattante IIa type) missile patrol boat \"Joshan\", which launched a Harpoon missile at the US vessels. \"Simpson\" immediately returned missile fire, striking \"Joshan\" in her superstructure. \"Joshan\" was then sunk by combined gunfire. \"Simpson\" was awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award and the Combat Action Ribbon for this operation, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for the deployment. 20 February 1990, \"Simpson\" rescued 22 crew members from , a reflagged Kuwaiti tanker carrying $9 million in naphtha and gas oil. \"Surf City\" was transiting near the Iranian island of Abu Musa when it exploded, killing two and forcing", "title": "USS Simpson (FFG-56)" }, { "id": "20464747", "text": "the 7th, strong winds pulled \"New York\" off its anchorage and out to sea. A few hours later the ship started leaking before heavy winds took the promenade deck away. Of the 53 people on board, 17 drowned and 36 held onto flotsam until they were rescued by the steamship \"Galveston\". In addition to the loss of life, as much as $40,000 in precious metals and cash went down with the ship. In 1990, an unnamed amateur diver from Louisiana found the wreck of the \"New York\" using a fish-finding sonar machine, a LORAN navigational device, and data gathered from", "title": "New York (1837 steamboat)" }, { "id": "17813337", "text": "would do a number of things, including creating multiple new federal response teams, creating a new fleet of special containment booms and skimmers. Mega Borg Oil Spill The \"Mega Borg\" Oil Spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on June 8, 1990, roughly 50 miles off the coast of Texas, when the oil tanker \"Mega Borg\" caught on fire and exploded. The cleanup was one of the first practical uses of bioremediation. At 11:30 PM on the evening of Saturday June 8, 1990, an explosion in the cargo room of the Norwegian oil tanker the \"Mega Borg\" “ruptured the bulkhead", "title": "Mega Borg Oil Spill" }, { "id": "694863", "text": "felonies – three counts of stock parking and three counts of stock manipulation. It also agreed to pay a fine of $650 million – at the time, the largest fine ever levied under securities laws. Milken left the firm after his own indictment in March 1989. On February 13, 1990, after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Exchange, and the Federal Reserve, Drexel Burnham Lambert officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The combination of decreasing interest rates, loosening lending standards, and regulatory", "title": "Leveraged buyout" }, { "id": "14156509", "text": "government provided funding for the spill on January 14 and it became a United States Coast Guard directed response. The Governments of Puerto Rico, the United States, and other groups, sued the owners of the two vessels for clean up costs and natural resource damages. Criminal prosecutions were brought against the owners of the two vessels due to issues of crew negligence and the act of knowingly sending a vessel to sea in an unseaworthy condition. The three owners of the barge were charged with criminal negligence based on laws from the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. One of the", "title": "Morris J. Berman oil spill" }, { "id": "8552153", "text": "to the south. Hansa Carrier The Hansa Carrier is a container ship. On 27 May 1990, en route from Korea to the United States, the ship encountered a storm which caused the loss of 21 40-foot cargo containers south of the Alaska Peninsula, near . Five of these cargo containers contained 61,000 Nike shoes, each of which carried a unique serial number which later made it possible to clearly identify them as part of the spilled cargo. The \"Great Shoe Spill of 1990\" was one of the several occasions when shipping accidents have contributed to the knowledge of ocean currents", "title": "Hansa Carrier" }, { "id": "19534509", "text": "or was fired. The analyst refused to retract the statements, and his firm fired him for ostensibly unrelated reasons. Trump Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy in November 1990, the first of several such bankruptcies. After, the NYSE ordered the firm to compensate the analyst $750,000; the analyst did not release the details of his settlement with Trump. In 1991, Trump sued the manufacturers of a helicopter that crashed in 1989, killing three executives of his New Jersey hotel casino business. The helicopter fell 2,800 feet after the main four-blade rotor and tail rotor broke off the craft, killing Jonathan Benanav, an", "title": "Legal affairs of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "15625359", "text": "debates is illustrated in the question \"who is liable in the case of a vessel spill?\" The cargo owner or the ship operator/ owner? Another significant issue was the interaction of domestic legislation and international measures. In 1980's, international agreements being considered would take over oil spills federal and state laws adding further complexity to party liability. However, after the \"Exxon Valdez\" incident, the short comings of the patchy framework for oil spill governance was apparent and growing pressure placed on lawmakers resulted in the establishment of the more comprehensive Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The Oil Pollution Act (1990):", "title": "Oil spill governance in the United States" }, { "id": "8537707", "text": "\"Crash Course\" by Julie Whipple focuses on the events of the night of the crash, the investigation and aftermath of the crash. Other aircraft accidents involving faulty landing gear indicator lights include: In addition, Avianca Flight 52 crashed into New York City on January 25, 1990, from fuel exhaustion after being put in three holding patterns over the course of the flight. Air traffic control had not been made aware of the aircraft's state. United Airlines Flight 173 United Airlines Flight 173 was a scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Portland International Airport", "title": "United Airlines Flight 173" }, { "id": "6279854", "text": "and rebranded the European, U.S., and Asia Pacific investment banks as Credit Suisse First Boston, making one global brand. In the late 1990s, CSFB purchased the equity division of Barclays Bank, Barclays de Zoete Wedd (\"BZW\"). BZW was considered second-tier and CSFB reportedly bought BZW from Barclays for £1 plus assumption of debt - primarily to obtain BZW's client list. A permanent injunction prevented First Boston from offering shares in Gulf Oil company, due to lack of interest in share offering, and the Iraq Desert Storm campaign. A Nevada judge issued a cease and desist order to stop Barclays from", "title": "First Boston" }, { "id": "14660744", "text": "out punitive damages against Cameron International, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig. On 4 September 2014, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled in the Clean Water Act trial that BP was guilty of gross negligence and willful misconduct under the Act. He described BP's actions as \"reckless,\" while he said Transocean's and Halliburton's actions were \"negligent.\" He apportioned 67% of the blame for the spill to BP, 30% to Transocean, and 3% to Halliburton. Fines would be apportioned commensurate with the degree of negligence of the parties, measured against the number of barrels of oil", "title": "Deepwater Horizon litigation" }, { "id": "2078893", "text": "from fires and radioactive waste leakage plagued the facility under Dow's management. In 1957 a fire burned plutonium dust in the facility and sent radioactive particles into the atmosphere. The Department of Energy transferred management of the facility to Rockwell International in 1975. In 1990, nearby residents filed a class action lawsuit against Dow and Rockwell for environmental contamination of the area; the case was litigated in federal court. In 2008 a federal judge ordered Dow and Rockwell to pay a combined $925 million in damages to the plaintiffs. However, in September 2010, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed", "title": "Dow Chemical Company" }, { "id": "3023453", "text": "the Oil Pollution Act to avoid potential responsibility and compensation in the case of a disaster. President Bush also predicted that the enactment of the OPA could lead to larger oil shipping companies being replaced by the smaller shipping companies to avoid liability. In particular, smaller companies with limited resources would lack the finances to remediate oil spill disasters. Not just the oil industry, but also the vessel owners and operators would be held liable for an oil spill, facing a significant increase in financial responsibility. The OPA's liability increase for vessel owners raised fears and concerns from the vast", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "20073662", "text": "Mount Vernon, New York with of gasoline. At 00:22 local time, \"Nebraska\" rammed \"Empress Bay\" amidships, triggering an explosion of gasoline aboard the tanker and spilling oil that ignited on the surface of the river. The ships collided almost directly under the Manhattan Bridge, and flames reached about upwards to scorch the bridge's deck and damage subway tracks. Two tugboats, eight New York Fire Department fireboats, and eleven Coast Guard patrol boats responded to the collision, and the fire was controlled by about 01:15. The spread of the gasoline slick led the Coast Guard to close the river in the", "title": "1958 East River collision" }, { "id": "10593938", "text": "Edison steam pipe explosions have occurred in New York City since 1987. One of the most significant events occurred near Gramercy Park in 1989, killing two Con Edison workers and one bystander, and causing damage of several million U.S. dollars. The utility eventually pleaded guilty to lying about asbestos contamination from that accident, and paid a $2 million fine. A steam pipe explosion at Washington Square in 2000 near the New York University Bobst Library left a 15-foot (4.5 m) crater in the pavement on Washington Square South, scattering debris and leaving traces of asbestos in the air. The New", "title": "2007 New York City steam explosion" }, { "id": "2049308", "text": "July 30, 1990, Vincent banned New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner from baseball for life after Steinbrenner paid Howard Spira, a small-time gambler, $40,000 for \"dirt\" on his outfielder Dave Winfield after Winfield sued Steinbrenner for failing to pay his foundation the $300,000 guaranteed in his contract. Steinbrenner was eventually reinstated in 1993 (one year after Vincent left office). Per Fay Vincent's interview on WFAN (NY) on July 14, 2010 (the day after Steinbrenner died), Vincent had wanted to suspend Steinbrenner for only two years. It was Steinbrenner who asked for a lifetime ban as he was tired of baseball", "title": "Fay Vincent" }, { "id": "11451191", "text": "using a \"yard tractor train system\". The vessel represented 19.6 percent of Marine Atlantic's fleet in 2005. In 1990 asbestos was found in use on the vessel. Management made the decision to encapsulate the asbestos. In November 2007, 60 workers on \"Atlantic Freighter\" were told they should be tested for asbestos exposure. \"Atlantic Freighter\" was chartered by the United States Military Sealift Command in December 1990, and served two supply missions to the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War. The vessel was captained by Neil Hillier, and crewed by 25 volunteers. Fisheries and Oceans Minister, Fred Mifflin was credited with", "title": "MV Atlantic Freighter" }, { "id": "7608300", "text": "as Amazon Watch and ChevronToxico have attempted to document the oil spills, ecological damage and human impacts of these operations. Prof. Judith Kimerling of CUNY School of Law in 1991 published a book \"Amazon Crude\" () which details many of these problems. Petroecuador has been the sole owner and operator of the oil facilities since 1990. In 2000–2008, the company was responsible for 1,415 oil spills. Petroecuador has also failed to clean up sites that were its responsibility under the joint venture. Comparable national companies like Petrobras, Petro-Canada, Statoil and Qatar Petroleum have much higher environmental standards. Between the years", "title": "Petroecuador" }, { "id": "12133857", "text": "Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that the punitive damages awarded to the victims of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill should be reduced from US$2.5 billion to US$500 million. The case was appealed from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit had also ruled that Exxon could be held liable for the reckless conduct of the ship's captain, Joseph J. Hazelwood, who had left the bridge during the disaster and had", "title": "Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker" }, { "id": "997625", "text": "HKN, Inc. HKN, Inc., formerly Harken Energy Corporation, is a petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Southlake, Texas. It is notable for the Harken Energy scandal, which involved allegations of insider trading by George W. Bush in 1990. In 1973, the company was founded as an unprofitable collection of Texas oil wells for investors seeking tax write-offs. In 1986, the company acquired Spectrum 7 for 200,000 shares from George W. Bush. After the sale of his company, Bush served on the board of directors of the company and received $80,000-$100,000 per year in consulting fees. Bush", "title": "HKN, Inc." }, { "id": "9691944", "text": "than . The first pumps were installed at the site in late 1979, and recovery efforts have increased over the years. The pump systems are operated by the site owners ExxonMobil, BP and, more recently, ChevronTexaco. Environmentalist organizations have said that there was little effort until the early 1990s and have labelled the clean up operations \"rudimentary\". In January 2006 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, backed by the involved companies, asserted that of spilled oil had been recovered and cleaned up. In 2007 a report by the United States Environmental Protection Agency on the spill raised the", "title": "Greenpoint oil spill" }, { "id": "12330656", "text": "a further accident. After a trial, a jury ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion in punitive damages, though an appeals court reduced that amount by half. Exxon appealed further, and on June 25, 2008, the United States Supreme Court lowered the amount to $500 million. In 2009, Exxon still uses more single-hull tankers than the rest of the largest ten oil companies combined, including the Valdez's sister ship, the SeaRiver Long Beach. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on July 17, 2007 that he had filed suit against the Exxon Mobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co. to", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "11197069", "text": "Navy Yard Computer Center, and the Washington Navy Yard Officers Club. In New York City, the sites bombed were the Staten Island Federal Building, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, the South African consulate, and the offices of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. On September 6, 1990 \"The New York Times\" reported that Whitehorn, Evans and Buck had agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and destruction of Government property. Prosecutors agreed to drop bombing charges against Rosenberg, Blunk and Berkman, who were already serving long prison terms (Rosenberg and Blunk 58 years, Berkman 10) for possession of explosives and weapons. Whitehorn also", "title": "Laura Whitehorn" }, { "id": "14540160", "text": "blame for the spill to BP, 30% to Transocean, and 3% to Halliburton. Fines would be apportioned commensurate with the degree of negligence of the parties, measured against the number of barrels of oil spilled. Under the Clean Water Act fines can be based on a cost per barrel of up to $4,300, at the discretion of the judge. The number of barrels was in dispute at the conclusion of the trial with BP arguing 2.5 million barrels were spilled over the 87 days the spill lasted, while the court found that 4.2 million barrels were spilled. BP issued a", "title": "Deepwater Horizon explosion" }, { "id": "9477768", "text": "in 1987, he became chairman and CEO, taking over from Clifton C. Garvin. During his tenure as head of Exxon, he moved the corporate headquarters from New York to Irving, Texas, increased reserves, and expanded the chemical operations of the corporation. He was at the helm of the company when the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in 1989. He faced criticism for his response to the oil spill — his slow public response and his demeanor in interviews were noted and the focus of criticism of the company. Rawl retired from Exxon in 1993 at the mandatory retirement age of", "title": "Lawrence G. Rawl" }, { "id": "20073664", "text": "abandoned by her owners, leaving her the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corp requested bids from private firms to salvage her, and she was eventually refloated on September 9. 1958 East River collision On the morning of June 25, 1958, two ships collided in the East River in New York City, resulting in a fire, a gasoline spill, and the deaths of two crewmembers. The vessels involved in the incident were the \"Nebraska\", a cargo ship owned by Swedish company Rederi A/B Transatlantic, and the \"Empress Bay\", a tanker owned by New York–based Petroleum Tankers Corporation. At", "title": "1958 East River collision" }, { "id": "14488818", "text": "be appealed. Barbier ruled that BP had acted with “conscious disregard of known risks\" and rejected BP's assertion that other parties were equally responsible for the oil spill. His ruling stated that BP \"employees took risks that led to the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history,” that the company was “reckless,” and determined that several crucial BP decisions were “primarily driven by a desire to save time and money, rather than ensuring that the well was secure.” The ruling means that BP, which had already spent more than $28 billion on cleanup costs and damage claims, may be liable for", "title": "Deepwater Horizon oil spill" }, { "id": "10210983", "text": "Hazelwood, Milligan, Miceli, Truitt, Nimmich, and Richard Froede, the Armed Services Medical Examiner. In early March 1990, the House Armed Services Committee released its report, titled \"USS \"Iowa\" Tragedy: An Investigative Failure\". The report criticized the Navy for failing to investigate every natural possible cause before concluding that the explosion was an intentional act. The report also criticized the Navy for allowing the turret and projectile to become contaminated; for permitting evidence to be thrown overboard; for endorsing Milligan's report prior to completing the technical investigation; and for neglecting to disclose the nature of the disagreement with the FBI laboratory", "title": "USS Iowa turret explosion" }, { "id": "4634988", "text": "California-based 11th Coast Guard District and Pacific Regional Coordinator for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It is noteworthy that Kime was promoted from rear admiral (a two-star rank) to admiral (a four-star rank), never having held the three-star rank of vice admiral. As commandant, he was passionate about maritime safety and environmental protection issues, and oversaw implementation of the landmark Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and established the position of Drug Interdiction Coordinator. In the wake of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill, he pioneered how the Coast Guard prevents and responds to oil and hazardous chemical spills, significantly", "title": "J. William Kime" }, { "id": "13305172", "text": "effective. Several organizations worked together to create a restoration plan following the spill. The primary organizations involved were the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, and the United States Coast Guard. Captain Patrick A. Turlo was the commander on science for the Coast Guard. This was the first oil spill whose damages were to be assessed by the new federal regulations of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a law designed to compensate the public for losses resulting from an oil spill. Projects included restocking wildlife populations", "title": "North Cape oil spill" }, { "id": "2241034", "text": "RJR Nabisco RJR Nabisco, Inc., was an American conglomerate, selling tobacco and food products, headquartered in the Calyon Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. RJR Nabisco stopped operating as a single entity in 1999; however, both RJR (as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) and Nabisco (now part of Mondelēz International) still exist. RJR Nabisco was formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1988 RJR Nabisco was purchased by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in what was at the time the largest leveraged buyout in history. In 1999, due to concerns about tobacco", "title": "RJR Nabisco" }, { "id": "1586108", "text": "the end, KKR lost $700 million on RJR. Drexel reached an agreement with the government in which it pleaded \"nolo contendere\" (no contest) to six felonies – three counts of stock parking and three counts of stock manipulation. It also agreed to pay a fine of $650 million – at the time, the largest fine ever levied under securities laws. Milken left the firm after his own indictment in March 1989. On 13 February 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Exchange", "title": "Private equity" }, { "id": "14532586", "text": "still ordered to pay hundreds of millions in damages. Cox, James (1993). “Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in the Oilfield: Changing the NORM”. \"Tulane Law Review\" 67(4), 1197-1230. Digges, Diana (January 7, 2002). “Billion-Dollar Blockbuster Against Oil Industry: Retired Judge Claims Exxon Mobil Contaminated His Land With Radioactive Waste”. \"Lawyers Weekly USA\", pp. 1–4. Schneider, Keith (December 24, 1990). “2 Suits 2 Suits on Radium Cleanup Test Oil Industry’s Liability”. \"The New York Times\". https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/us/2-suits-on-radium-cleanup-test-oil-industry-s-liability.html?pagewanted=1 Schneider, Keith (December 3, 1990). “Radiation Danger Found in Oilfields Across the Nation”. \"The New York Times\". https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/03/us/radiation-danger-found-in-oilfields-across-the-nation.html?pagewanted=all Schneider, Keith (December 26, 1990). “U.S. Wrestles With", "title": "Stuart H. Smith" }, { "id": "2394353", "text": "references to apparently conflicting data and deferrals of legal responsibility, among other strategies. For example, a New York State Department of Health study, completed in May 2007, was able to find no evidence that vapors were coming from the spill into people's homes. Although ExxonMobil has been slowly removing oil from its former facilities in the area under two 1990 agreements with the state, they have denied liability for the oil leaking into Newtown Creek and suggested fault lies instead with the former Paragon Oil, now Chevron Corporation. However, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) \"Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Spill Study Brooklyn,", "title": "Greenpoint, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "4608747", "text": "Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel Burnham Lambert was an American investment bank that was forced into bankruptcy in February 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken. At its height, it was a Bulge Bracket bank, as the fifth-largest investment bank in the United States. I.W. \"Tubby\" Burnham, a 1931 graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founded the firm in 1935 as Burnham and Company, a small New York City–based retail brokerage. Burnham started the firm with $100,000 of capital (equivalent to $ million in ),", "title": "Drexel Burnham Lambert" }, { "id": "17813336", "text": "Refuges near Galveston’s shores, nearby salt marches, and oyster reefs were all in potential danger depending on the extent of the slick’s spread. On June 29, 1990, it was reported that tar balls from the \"Mega Borg\" spill were appearing as far away as Louisiana beaches. The \"Mega Borg\" spill brought attention to the 984 protocols, legislation that has been held up in Senate since 1985. The Protocols passed the House, but have not been ratified due to arguments over international liabilities and whether or not the US should join international funding groups for oil spills. If ratified, the protocols", "title": "Mega Borg Oil Spill" }, { "id": "9376484", "text": "SeaRiver Maritime SeaRiver Maritime is a privately held subsidiary wholly owned by ExxonMobil. The company was formed in the early 1990s by Exxon when it spun off its maritime operations into the new company following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. In 1994, SeaRiver applied for a federal subsidy to operate tankers in the Persian Gulf. The petition stated they needed the money to stay competitive, because the \"S/R Mediterranean\" (the new name for the Exxon Valdez vessel) was unable to operate in Prince William Sound following the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which prohibits the", "title": "SeaRiver Maritime" }, { "id": "14723066", "text": "and violating environmental laws. While the Obama administration initially received some of the blame for its response to the accident, critical coverage diminished over time and focused more on the responsibility of BP and its CEO Tony Hayward. The coverage generally broke down along three chronological phases – the first was that BP was responsible for the spill, the second was that the company was working to solve it and would create a fund to compensate those adversely effected, and the third was that BP had successfully capped the well. One study finds the media overwhelming used an \"economic consequences", "title": "Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill" }, { "id": "360002", "text": "such as loading cargo, discharging cargo, and taking on fuel oil. 91% of the operational oil spills were small, resulting in less than 7 tons per spill. Spills resulting from accidents like collisions, groundings, hull failures, and explosions are much larger, with 84% of these involving losses of over 700 tons. Following the \"Exxon Valdez\" spill, the United States passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA-90), which included a stipulation that all tankers entering its waters be double-hulled by 2015. Following the sinkings of \"Erika\" (1999) and \"Prestige\" (2002), the European Union passed its own stringent anti-pollution packages (known", "title": "Ship" }, { "id": "360001", "text": "modern oil tankers must be considered something of a threat to the environment. An oil tanker can carry of crude oil, or . This is more than six times the amount spilled in the widely known \"Exxon Valdez\" incident. In this spill, the ship ran aground and dumped of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite efforts of scientists, managers, and volunteers, over 400,000 seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and immense numbers of fish were killed. The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation has researched 9,351 accidental spills since 1974. According to this study, most spills result from routine operations", "title": "Ship" }, { "id": "2200455", "text": "a result of AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse or self-inflicted wounds. The company stated that \"There are certain lifestyle decisions that we are just not going to assure the results of.\" Fortunes declined in the late 1980s as the US economy began to slow down, and Circle K filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 1990; Eller resigned as CEO. Some underperforming locations were sold or closed. In 1993 the company was purchased by Investcorp, an international investment group, and emerged from bankruptcy. In 1996, Circle K was acquired by Tosco Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer, but kept", "title": "Circle K" }, { "id": "132642", "text": "a number of recommendations, such as changes to the work patterns of Exxon crew in order to address the causes of the accident. In response to the spill, the United States Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). The legislation included a clause that prohibits any vessel that, after March 22, 1989, has caused an oil spill of more than in any marine area, from operating in Prince William Sound. In April 1998, the company argued in a legal action against the Federal government that the ship should be allowed back into Alaskan waters. Exxon claimed OPA was", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "12330601", "text": "oil spills in terms of damage to the environment. ExxonMobil has a history of lobbying for climate change denial and against the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The company has also been the target of accusations of improperly dealing with human rights issues, influence on American foreign policy, and its impact on the future of nations. ExxonMobil was formed in 1999 by the merger of two major oil companies, Exxon and Mobil. Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of Standard Oil, established by John D. Rockefeller and partners in 1870 as the", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "16945042", "text": "remained loyal to Kenneth. Kenneth's New York salon was destroyed by fire on May 16, 1990. Following the fire, despite hoping to rebuild the business, Kenneth was evicted from his old salon due to a fire-or-earthquake clause held by his landlords. In addition to this, it emerged that the company was not an S corporation, meaning he would have had to pay both personal and corporate tax on any insurance money, effectively cancelling out any reimbursement. Kenneth rented six chairs in a beauty parlor in the Helmsley Palace Hotel for two years, followed by one third of his staff, and", "title": "Mr. Kenneth" }, { "id": "12330598", "text": "ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York). The world's 9th largest company by revenue, ExxonMobil from 1996 to 2017 varied from the first to sixth largest publicly traded company by market capitalization. The company was ranked ninth globally in the Forbes Global 2000 list", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "12379993", "text": "of industrial accidents that occurred through the 2000s, and its public image was severely damaged after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf Oil spill. In the immediate aftermath of the spill, BP initially downplayed the severity of the incident, and made many of the same PR errors that Exxon had made after the \"Exxon Valdez\" disaster. CEO Tony Hayward was criticised for his statements and had committed several gaffes, including stating that he \"wanted his life back.\" Some in the media commended BP for some of its social media efforts, such as the use of Twitter and Facebook as well", "title": "BP" }, { "id": "5739561", "text": "United States Rubber Company The United States Rubber Company (Uniroyal) is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives and operations and maintenance activities (O&MA) at the government-owned contractor-operated facilities. It was founded in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1892. It was one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and became Uniroyal, Inc., as part of creating a unified brand for its products and subsidiaries in 1961. In 1990, Uniroyal was acquired by French tire maker Michelin and ceased to exist as", "title": "United States Rubber Company" }, { "id": "15994356", "text": "United States courts (using the 1978 exchange rate and with interest added this came to at least US$1.6 billion). In 1984, U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. McGarr held that Amoco was liable for damages when he issued his trial verdict, after 3 1/2 years of legal proceedings. Further, the judge ruled that Amoco had put off needed maintenance on the vessel in order to keep it at sea. In 1992, US oil giant Amoco has decided not to appeal against the US court order that it must pay US$200 million to the French government. Amoco Cadiz oil spill The", "title": "Amoco Cadiz oil spill" }, { "id": "5498504", "text": "States Supreme Court in \"District of Columbia v. Heller\". The District argued that its Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 should not be restricted by the Second Amendment. The ban was overturned by the Supreme Court. In February 2008, Dellinger represented Exxon Mobil Corporation in the Supreme Court in \"Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker\", which addressed whether certain punitive damages are available under federal maritime law. This case relates to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989. On March 5, 2010, the \"Washington Post\" published an op-ed by Dellinger defending Karl Thompson, a former subordinate of his. Nine lawyers who", "title": "Walter E. Dellinger III" }, { "id": "14660738", "text": "in federal court in New Orleans blaming BP PLC for the Gulf oil spill, describing the spill as an example of \"gross negligence and willful misconduct.\" BP rejected the charges, saying \"BP believes it was not grossly negligent and looks forward to presenting evidence on this issue at trial in January.\" The DOJ also said Transocean, the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig, is guilty of gross negligence as well. The DOJ brief strongly criticized officials for failing to rerun a \"negative pressure test\" when the first test revealed a pressure anomaly from the well. Despite acknowledging the", "title": "Deepwater Horizon litigation" }, { "id": "20073661", "text": "1958 East River collision On the morning of June 25, 1958, two ships collided in the East River in New York City, resulting in a fire, a gasoline spill, and the deaths of two crewmembers. The vessels involved in the incident were the \"Nebraska\", a cargo ship owned by Swedish company Rederi A/B Transatlantic, and the \"Empress Bay\", a tanker owned by New York–based Petroleum Tankers Corporation. At the time of the collision, \"Nebraska\" was bound south from New Haven, Connecticut to Newark, New Jersey with a cargo of automobiles and \"Empress Bay\" was outbound from Bayonne, New Jersey to", "title": "1958 East River collision" }, { "id": "17688972", "text": "completed a financial restructure that included the corporate spin-off of Berry into a separate company. In July 2018, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. In December 1993, an oil pipeline owned by the company leaked, resulting in a spill of 84,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into McGrath Lake, near Oxnard, California. Berry had acquired the 40-year-old pipeline from Chevron Corporation in 1990 after it had been abandoned for 10 years. The line had been used to transport natural gas, yet Berry began to pump crude oil through it without making any upgrades. Moreover, it", "title": "Berry Petroleum Company" }, { "id": "11869848", "text": "City, the sites bombed were the Staten Island Federal Building, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, the South African consulate, and the offices of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. On September 6, 1990 \"The New York Times\" reported that Whitehorn, Evans and Buck had agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and destruction of government property. Prosecutors agreed to drop bombing charges against Rosenberg, Blunk and Berkman, who were already serving long prison terms (Rosenberg and Blunk 58 years, Berkman 10) for possession of explosives and weapons. Whitehorn also agreed to plead guilty to fraud in the possession of false identification documents found", "title": "Resistance Conspiracy case" }, { "id": "19209086", "text": "final year, O'Donnell worked as the president and chief operating officer of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In October 1989, three top executives for The Trump Organization were killed when their helicopter crashed. Trump expressed his condolences, and stated that he had chosen not to board the helicopter shortly before it crashed. O'Donnell had been passed over for a key position, and angrily quit his job at Trump Plaza in April 1990, after stating that Trump criticized Stephen Hyde, who ran Trump's Atlantic City operations and was killed in the helicopter crash. O'Donnell went", "title": "Trumped! (book)" }, { "id": "7718271", "text": "on 3,500 cable systems, reaching a potential audience of 35 million homes across the country. FNN moved into newly built modern TV studios and production facilities in the Wang building in Los Angeles and in New York's Rockefeller Center. In 1990—only months after beginning its biggest advertising campaign ever—FNN fell prey to two of the main topics of its broadcasts, a financial scandal and an accounting dispute. During that year's audit, the network's auditor, Deloitte & Touche, discovered irregularities on the part of its chief financial officer, C. Steven Bolen. The irregularities were serious enough that Deloitte said its 1989", "title": "Financial News Network" }, { "id": "4646390", "text": "Buckeye Partners Buckeye Partners, headquartered in Houston, Texas in the, United States, is one of the primary distributors of petroleum in the East and Mid-West of the United States. Buckeye manages over of petroleum pipelines, as well as over 100 truck-loading terminals. Many of the pipelines follow historic Northeastern railroad rights-of-way, and the firm is a surviving fragment of the defunct Penn Central railroad. Buckeye pipelines supply aviation fuel to major airports in New York City. The firm's property was listed by United States federal prosecutors as being among the targets of the 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack", "title": "Buckeye Partners" }, { "id": "11187400", "text": "The O'Brien's Group O'Brien's Response Management is the largest oil spill management company in the United States Company founder Jim O'Brien fought his first oil spill in 1969 as an officer with the United States Coast Guard. In 1983 he retired to form his own company, O'Brien's Oil Pollution Service, known as \"OOPS Inc.\", in Slidell, Louisiana. O'Brien soon gained fame in the 1980s as the \"Red Adair of oil spill cleanup\". O'Brien also helped manage the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. Following that event the United States enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, requiring ships to carry", "title": "The O'Brien's Group" }, { "id": "132637", "text": "official position was that punitive damages greater than $25 million were not justified because the spill resulted from an accident, and because Exxon spent an estimated $2 billion cleaning up the spill and a further $1 billion to settle related civil and criminal charges. Attorneys for the plaintiffs contended that Exxon bore responsibility for the accident because the company \"put a drunk in charge of a tanker in Prince William Sound.\" Exxon recovered a significant portion of clean-up and legal expenses through insurance claims associated with the grounding of the \"Exxon Valdez\". Also, in 1991, Exxon made a quiet, separate", "title": "Exxon Valdez oil spill" }, { "id": "12330619", "text": "the Exxon Building (1251 Avenue of the Americas), its former headquarters in Rockefeller Center, to a unit of Mitsui Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. in 1986 for $610 million, and in 1989, moved its headquarters from Manhattan, New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas. John Walsh, president of Exxon subsidiary Friendswood Development Company, stated that Exxon left New York because the costs were too high. On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled more than of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the", "title": "ExxonMobil" }, { "id": "2291655", "text": "EMI bought the French group Holophane to gain access to its luminaire subsidiary, Europhane. The Jardine relationship in Asia was developed into an 18-year joint-venture, and the lighting brands of Sydney-based Howard Smith were acquired. On 14 November 1990, Thorn announced that it had agreed to sell its principal light source interests to GE of the US. Under the agreement, GE acquired the lamp plants at Enfield, Leicester and Wimbledon, as well as Thorn's 51% in SIVI Illuminazione in Italy and 100% holding in Gluhlampenfabrik Jahn, a small specialist manufacturer in Germany. Thorn subsequently closed its Merthyr Tydfil lamp factory,", "title": "Thorn Lighting" }, { "id": "3860837", "text": "Avianca Flight 52 Avianca Flight 52 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá to New York, via Medellín that crashed on January 25, 1990, at 21:34 (). The Boeing 707 flying this route ran out of fuel after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), causing the aircraft to crash onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island. Eight of the nine crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash", "title": "Avianca Flight 52" }, { "id": "15983353", "text": "the compensation payment when a storm caused the remains of the wreck to fall off the reef onto the seabed and marine demolition experts said it was too dangerous to remove it. The second most extreme oil spill New Zealand has experienced since 1990 was the Jody F. Millennium log ship incident. The ship broke free from several of her moorings in Gisborne Harbour due to huge swells on Wednesday 6 February 2002. Tugboats attempted to bring the ship alongside the wharf, but it was then decided to take the ship to sea. A big swell hit the ship which", "title": "Rena oil spill" }, { "id": "1593703", "text": "dismissal of these charges on the grounds that Suffolk County lacked authority under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and that the allegations of a history of racketeering did not qualify as a continuing criminal enterprise. Palast has also taken issue with the official story behind the grounding of the \"Exxon Valdez\", claiming the sobriety of the \"Valdez\"'s captain was not an issue in the accident. According to Palast, the main cause of the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill in 1989 was not human error, but an Exxon decision not to use the ship's radar in order to save money.", "title": "Greg Palast" }, { "id": "10206744", "text": "Barbados as well. VECO also was a worldwide player in the oil industry, having divisions in many major oil markets, including the Sudan, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and Syria. VECO had a major impact on the economy of Alaska and employed over 5,000 people worldwide. On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, spilling eleven million gallons of crude oil into the waters of Prince William Sound. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the second largest in United States history, after the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon spill. Under Allen's guidance, VECO (along with", "title": "Bill Allen (businessman)" }, { "id": "14808082", "text": "controlled by Barone and investors. At the closing of the transaction. Wells Fargo bid on and ultimately purchased First Security. Other notable acquisitions in the 1990s included positions in publicly traded companies such as Park Ohio, Rockefeller Center Properties, Scott's Liquid Gold, Rocky Brands, Olympic Steel, and Bull & Bear Group, a New York-based money management firm. During the late 1990s the Maxus Investment Group purchased an ownership position in Donna Karan. In December 2000, Louis Vuitton had plans to purchase Donna Karan, at a price which Barone felt was low. The offer price was eventually raised by $22 million.", "title": "Richard A. Barone" }, { "id": "1502969", "text": "and its characters. It also bought a TV station in New York City, WWOR-TV (renamed from WOR-TV), in 1987, from RKO General, which was in the midst of a licensing scandal. In November 1990, Japanese multinational conglomerate Matsushita Electric agreed to acquire MCA for US$6.59 billion. MCA was forced to sell WWOR-TV in 1991 by the Federal Communications Commission, because foreign companies could not own over 25% of a US TV station. In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80% of MCA from Matsushita. On December 9, 1996, the new owners dropped the MCA name; the company became Universal Studios, Inc.,", "title": "MCA Inc." }, { "id": "2594738", "text": "of Tyco International, and, for the next several years, the company again adopted an aggressive acquisition strategy, eventually acquiring (by some accounts) over 3,000 other companies between 1991 and 2001. Major acquisitions in the 1990s included: Wormald International Limited, Neotecha, Hindle/Winn, Classic Medical, Uni-Patch, Promeon, Preferred Pipe, Kendall International Co., Tectron Tube, Unistrut, Earth Technology Corporation, Professional Medical Products, Inc., Thorn Security, Carlisle, Watts Waterworks Businesses, Sempell, ElectroStar, American Pipe & Tube, Submarine Systems Inc., Keystone, INBRAND, Sherwood Davis & Geck, United States Surgical, Wells Fargo Alarm, AMP, Raychem, Glynwed, Temasa and Central Sprinkler designs. To reflect Tyco's global presence", "title": "Tyco International" }, { "id": "12793628", "text": "law that were gradually received into the courts' jurisprudence. Older cases had suggested that there was no special right to pierce the veil in favor of tort victims, even where pedestrians had been hit by a tram owned by a bankrupt-subsidiary corporation, or by taxi-cabs that were owned by undercapitalized subsidiary corporations. More modern authority suggested a different approach. In a case concerning one of the worst oil spills in history, caused by the \"Amoco Cadiz\" which was owned through subsidiaries of the Amoco Corporation, the Illinois court that heard the case stated that the parent corporation was liable by", "title": "United States corporate law" }, { "id": "17365342", "text": "father, was Herbert O. Fisher, Jr. At age 81, Fisher died on July 29, 1990, after suffering congestive heart failure. At the time of his death, he lived in the Smoke Rise gated community in Kinnelon, New Jersey, his family home since 1955. Herbert O. Fisher Herbert O. Fisher (March 6, 1909 – July 29, 1990) was an American test pilot and an aviation executive, overseeing aviation projects at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He worked for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Fisher flew as a pilot for over 50 years, racking up 19,351 accident and violation free", "title": "Herbert O. Fisher" }, { "id": "18604434", "text": "of an Indian restaurant was in the city of New York, acquisition and renaming of Vishvarama Hotels to ITC Hotels Limited, setting up of two new ventures - the ITC Classic Finance Limited and ITC Agro Tech Limited under its umbrella. ITC also entered into the edible oils industry with the launch of 'Sundrop' brand of cooking oils in 1988. Tribeni Tissues Limited was acquired in 1990. K L Chugh assumed the role of chairman in 1991 and ITC Global Holding Private limited was started as an international trading company in Singapore in 1992. In 1994, all the hotels under", "title": "ITC Limited" }, { "id": "2953496", "text": "of Deloitte Haskins & Sells member firms rejected the merger with Touche Ross and shortly thereafter merged with Coopers & Lybrand to form Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte (later to merge with Price Waterhouse to become PwC). Some member firms of Touche Ross also rejected the merger with Deloitte Haskins & Sells and merged with other firms. In UK, Touche Ross merged with Spicer & Oppenheim in 1990. At the time of the US-led mergers to form Deloitte & Touche, the name of the international firm was a problem, because there was no worldwide exclusive access to the names \"Deloitte\" or", "title": "Deloitte" }, { "id": "16931235", "text": "Refinery was the first of five currently operating in Washington state, built by General Petroleum Corp in 1954. The original capacity was rated at 35,000 barrels per stream day. General Petroleum was a subsidiary of Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) and was integrated into Mobil Chemical Co when the company formed in 1960. BP took control of the refinery in 1988 when its wholly owned subsidiary, Sohio, received the plant from Mobil Oil in exchange for $152.5 million and crude oil inventories. In 1993, Tosco Corp, a California-based downstream and marketing corporation, bought the refinery from BP. The", "title": "Ferndale Refinery" }, { "id": "3023440", "text": "production, transportation, and distribution industries. Laws governing oil spills in the United States began in 1851 with the Limitation of Liability Act. This statue, in an attempt to protect the shipping industry, stated that vessel owners were liable for incident-related costs up to the post-incident value of their vessel. The shortcomings of this law were revealed in 1967 with the release of over 100,000 tons of crude oil into the English Channel from the Torrey Canyon. Of the $8 million of cleanup-related costs, the owners of the Torrey Canyon were held liable for only $50—the value of the only remaining", "title": "Oil Pollution Act of 1990" }, { "id": "13498778", "text": "English v. General Electric Co. English v. General Electric, 496 U.S. 72 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that state-law claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress is not pre-empted by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Petitioner English, a laboratory technician at a nuclear facility operated by respondent General Electric Company (GE), complained to GE's management and to the Federal Government about several perceived violations of nuclear-safety standards at the facility, including the failure of her co-workers to clean up radioactive spills in the laboratory. Frustrated by GE's failure to address her", "title": "English v. General Electric Co." } ]

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[ { "id": "1341120", "text": "The history of The Human League's Fast Product era is covered in the 2015 documentary, Big Gold Dream. The Human League The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album \"Dare\" in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit \"Don't You Want Me.\" The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including", "title": "The Human League" }, { "id": "1341056", "text": "The Human League The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album \"Dare\" in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit \"Don't You Want Me.\" The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including \"Mirror Man,\" \"(Keep Feeling) Fascination,\" \"The Lebanon,\" \"Human\" (a US No. 1) and \"Tell Me When.\" The only", "title": "The Human League" }, { "id": "4638974", "text": "voted by the British public as the nation's 7th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. The lyrics were originally inspired after lead singer Philip Oakey read a photo-story in a teen-girl's magazine. Originally conceived and recorded in the studio as a male solo, Oakey was inspired by the film \"A Star Is Born\" and decided to turn the song into a conflicting duet with one of the band's two teenage female vocalists. Susan Ann Sulley was then asked to take on the role. Up until then, she and the other female vocalist Joanne Catherall had only been", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "4638973", "text": "Don't You Want Me \"Don't You Want Me\" is a single by British synthpop group The Human League, released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album \"Dare\" (1981). It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording and was the 1981 Christmas number one in the UK, where it has since sold over 1,560,000 copies, making it the 23rd most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It later topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982 where it stayed for three weeks. In 2015 the song was", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "4485482", "text": "Philip Oakey Philip Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of English synth-pop band the Human League. Aside from the Human League, he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers. Oakey was one of the most visually distinctive music artists of the early 1980s. At the height of their success, The Human League released the triple platinum-certified album \"Dare\" and Oakey co-wrote and sang the multi-million selling single \"Don't You Want Me\", which was a", "title": "Philip Oakey" }, { "id": "12565617", "text": "during the 1980s and saw great commercial success, such as David Bowie, Phil Collins, John Lennon, Billy Ocean, Sheena Easton and Paul McCartney. Many British pop bands also dominated the American charts in the early 1980s. Many of them became popular due to their constant exposure on MTV, these bands included The Human League, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Wham!. Between the four, they have had 9 U.S. number ones with hits like \"Don't You Want Me Baby\", \"Karma Chameleon\", \"The Reflex\" and \"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go\" In the later part of the decade Rick Astley, George Michael", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "6472128", "text": "with backing vocals from Catherall. Premiering in December 1981, the video was played on British television frequently. The memorable opening scene of the video has Catherall, in a fur coat standing on a rural road corner. The night is freezing, she is surrounded by swirling mist and accompanied by the deep opening synth chords. The video captured the imagination of the British public. The effects of the music and emotional lyrics, as well as the cinematic production values, helped propel \"Don't You Want Me\" to the UK number one spot. 1981 also saw the start up of cable TV channel", "title": "Joanne Catherall" }, { "id": "4485753", "text": "the band, but because of its extraordinary commercial success Virgin's Draper decided he wanted yet another single from the album before the end of 1981. By Christmas 1981 \"Dare\" had gone platinum in the UK, and the Human League had a number-one album and number-one single concurrently in the UK charts. \"Dare\" would eventually remain in the UK Albums Chart for an enduring 71 weeks. A remix album based on \"Dare\", called \"Love and Dancing\", was released a year later in 1982. The single \"Don't You Want Me\" had been released with a very expensive and elaborate promotional video created", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "4485491", "text": "UK and achieve multi-platinum status. At the end of 1981, the fourth and final single from the album, \"Don't You Want Me\", gave the band their first number one and went on to sell over 1.5 million in the UK, staying at number one for five weeks. It also topped the chart in the US the following year, selling another million copies there. By the end of 1981/82 Oakey and the Human League would be famous worldwide. In mid-1981, Oakey and Catherall commenced a long-term relationship that lasted until the end of the decade. Oakey and Catherall split amicably in", "title": "Philip Oakey" }, { "id": "13261159", "text": "Don't You Want Me (Felix song) \"Don't You Want Me\" is a dance / electronic song recorded by British DJ and producer Francis Wright, known under the pseudonym of Felix. It was released as his debut single from his album \"#1\" in late 1992. Musically, it samples Jomanda's \"Don't You Want My Love\" and credited as Felix featuring Jomanda (remixed by Rollo and Red Jerry). It topped the chart in Finland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. It also went to number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Play chart and on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. It reached number", "title": "Don't You Want Me (Felix song)" }, { "id": "1341084", "text": "Virgin executive Simon Draper instructed that a fourth single be released from the album before the end of 1981. His choice was to be \"Don't You Want Me\", a track Oakey considered to be a filler and the weakest track on the album. Oakey fought the decision believing it would damage the band, but was over-ruled by Draper and \"Don't You Want Me\" was released in November 1981. Aided by an expensive music video (a rarity at the time) directed by film maker Steve Barron, the single went to No. 1 for five weeks over the 1981 Christmas period. \"Don't", "title": "The Human League" }, { "id": "1341087", "text": "himself has said: \"We thought we were the punkiest band in Sheffield.\" Capitalising on the success of the album and their recent No. 1 hit single, \"Being Boiled\" was re-released and became a Top 10 hit in early 1982. The band toured for the first time together internationally. Concurrently, \"Dare\" (later renamed \"Dare!\") was released in the US by A&M Records and \"Don't You Want Me\" also reached No. 1 there in the summer of 1982. A remix album of \"Dare\" entitled \"Love and Dancing\" was released under the group name \"The League Unlimited Orchestra\" (a tribute to Barry White's", "title": "The Human League" }, { "id": "13261161", "text": "logo even appears several times on the artwork. 1995 remixes Don't You Want Me (Felix song) \"Don't You Want Me\" is a dance / electronic song recorded by British DJ and producer Francis Wright, known under the pseudonym of Felix. It was released as his debut single from his album \"#1\" in late 1992. Musically, it samples Jomanda's \"Don't You Want My Love\" and credited as Felix featuring Jomanda (remixed by Rollo and Red Jerry). It topped the chart in Finland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. It also went to number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Play chart and", "title": "Don't You Want Me (Felix song)" }, { "id": "1170371", "text": "(1981), which produced a series of hit singles. These included \"Don't You Want Me\", which reached number one in the UK at the end of 1981. Synth-pop reached its commercial peak in the UK in the winter of 1981–2, with bands such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan, Ultravox, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and even Kraftwerk, enjoying top ten hits. In early 1982 synthesizers were so dominant that the Musicians Union attempted to limit their use. By the end of 1982, these acts had been joined in the charts by synth-based singles from Thomas Dolby, Blancmange, and Tears for", "title": "Synth-pop" }, { "id": "4485750", "text": "Oakey about good and bad relationships. It includes references to his own various relationships, their problems and successes; with Oakey often referring to himself. Complete with the famous lyric \"This is Phil talking!\" (a line inspired by a similar reference by Iggy Pop), it also contains two cryptic references to one of Oakey's influences, Lou Reed. It was released as a single in August 1981. \"Don't You Want Me\" is a conflicting male/female duet on the subject of jealousy and romantic obsession. The male protagonist of the song (Oakey) is a svengali figure who turns a female waitress (sung by", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "934569", "text": "Virgin's Head of Publicity (and later, also Director of Production), the Pistols rocketed the label to success. Shortly afterwards, the Nottingham record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols' album \"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols\" in the window. Afterwards they signed other new wave groups: Public Image Ltd, Boxer, Culture Club, Fingerprintz, Gillan, Holly and the Italians, Human League (whose \"Don't You Want Me\" was the label's first chart-topping single, in 1981), Magazine, Skids, the Motors, Penetration, the Ruts, Shooting Star, Simple Minds, and XTC. After modified versions of the", "title": "Virgin Records" }, { "id": "10754010", "text": "Marsh left to form Heaven 17. Necessity forced him to become a musician and he quickly learned keyboards. He and Oakey co-wrote some of the new Human League's songs including the number one hit \"Don't You Want Me\", plus tracks such as \"Darkness\", \"I Am the Law\" and \"The Things That Dreams Are Made Of\" for the album \"Dare\". Wright is also credited with the iconic album sleeve design for \"Dare\". He remained a key member of the Human League during the early 1980s both as a composer and keyboard player. He left the band in 1986 after becoming disillusioned", "title": "Philip Adrian Wright" }, { "id": "4485755", "text": "(US) release from the Virgin's original release in the UK. The release of \"Dare!\" immediately mirrored the success of the UK; and in mid 1982 it reached number three in the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the single \"Don't You Want Me\" was at number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Although critics were not as universally applauding as in the UK, the commercial success of \"Dare!\" would set the scene for the band's return to the US charts a number of times in later years. \"Dare\" earned considerable income for record labels Virgin and A&M; in Virgin's case, it gave", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "4638980", "text": "and shot to number one the following week, remaining there over the Christmas period for a total of five weeks. It ultimately became the biggest selling single to be released in 1981, and the fifth biggest selling single of the entire decade. Its success was repeated six months later in the US, with \"Don't You Want Me\" hitting No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for three weeks. \"Billboard\" magazine ranked it as the sixth-biggest hit of 1982. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA the same year for sales of a million copies. It is notable as the", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "4638976", "text": "so much that it was relegated to the last track on side two of the (then) vinyl album. Before the release of \"Dare\", three of its tracks—\"The Sound of the Crowd\", \"Love Action (I Believe in Love)\", and \"Open Your Heart\"—had already been released as successful singles. With a hit album and three hit singles in a row, Virgin's chief executive Simon Draper decided to release one more single from the album before the end of 1981. His choice, \"Don't You Want Me\", instantly caused a row with Oakey who did not want another single to be released because he", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "4965253", "text": "Rezillos\" is now considered a classic album of the first wave of British punk, but the group split up four months after its release, following internal arguments about their future direction. After the Rezillos split, the band's guitarist and principal songwriter, Jo Callis, briefly joined a couple of unsuccessful Edinburgh post-punk groups before being invited to join The Human League. He went on to co-write some of The Human League's best known songs during their most successful period, including their biggest worldwide hit, \"Don't You Want Me\". The Rezillos' vocalists, Eugene Reynolds and Fay Fife, formed the Revillos, a group", "title": "The Rezillos" }, { "id": "10751537", "text": "Oakey revealed that it was about Adam Ant. Oakey had become concerned that Ant was starting to believe his own publicity, and was in danger of losing touch with reality. Oakey had avoided revealing this at the time for fear of offending the song's subject. The song was released as a single in the UK in November 1982. It was the first new single the band had released since the phenomenal success of \"Don't You Want Me\" almost a year earlier. The single was tipped by the media as their second Christmas number-one single in the UK, but peaked just", "title": "Mirror Man (The Human League song)" }, { "id": "9722749", "text": "Hardbag Hardbag is a genre of electronic dance music popular in the mid-1990s. Having evolved out of the handbag house scene in 1993–1994, the genre enjoyed massive, albeit brief, popularity, with several hardbag releases achieving positions in the upper echelons of the UK chart. It was at the time sometimes confused with Nu-NRG, yet the styles were discernibly different. \"Don't You Want Me\" by Felix is largely considered to be the track that launched the hardbag explosion. Produced by Rollo Armstrong of Faithless, Red Jerry and Felix, \"Don't You Want Me\" was released in 1992, scoring a Top 10 placing", "title": "Hardbag" }, { "id": "8207130", "text": "released in November 1981 and became a top 10 hit in December, being placed at No.5 for the Christmas chart. The following week it was placed at No.2, behind The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\", before finally taking over at No.1 in January. It remained there for two weeks, before falling out of the charts after 16 weeks - the group's longest run on the UK singles chart. The song became the group's biggest-selling single in the UK, outselling their Eurovision winner \"Making Your Mind Up\", to finish as the 41st biggest-seller of the 1980s. It also reached No.1", "title": "The Land of Make Believe" }, { "id": "4887213", "text": "was produced by Hill and featured a strong melody. Released in November, it hit the charts and by Christmas was in the top five. In January 1982, it overtook The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\" to reach No.1. It stayed there for two weeks and remained in the UK charts for 16 weeks — becoming the group's biggest selling single and one of the top selling singles of the decade. It also reached No.1 in the Netherlands and Ireland and became the group's best-selling single in Germany. The song has since been hailed as an \"Eighties classic\" and is", "title": "Bucks Fizz" }, { "id": "5479475", "text": "Jomanda (group) Jomanda was an American female house music vocal trio from New Jersey. Members included Joanne Thomas, Cheri Williams, and Renee Washington. Jomanda had several hits on the US \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Play chart during the first half of the 1990s, including \"Got a Love for You,\" which reached #1 in 1991. The song also crossed over to the mainstream, going Top 40 (peaking at #40) on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In 1993, the trio returned to #1 on the dance chart with \"Don't You Want Me,\" a track credited to Felix featuring Jomanda. Group member Joanne", "title": "Jomanda (group)" }, { "id": "9722752", "text": "examples of the genre: Hardbag Hardbag is a genre of electronic dance music popular in the mid-1990s. Having evolved out of the handbag house scene in 1993–1994, the genre enjoyed massive, albeit brief, popularity, with several hardbag releases achieving positions in the upper echelons of the UK chart. It was at the time sometimes confused with Nu-NRG, yet the styles were discernibly different. \"Don't You Want Me\" by Felix is largely considered to be the track that launched the hardbag explosion. Produced by Rollo Armstrong of Faithless, Red Jerry and Felix, \"Don't You Want Me\" was released in 1992, scoring", "title": "Hardbag" }, { "id": "7162045", "text": "Albums of the 1980s\". In 2012, \"Slant Magazine\" placed the album at number 100 on its list of the best albums of the 1980s. Club Classics Vol. One Club Classics Vol. One (USA title: Keep On Movin') is the debut album by the British group Soul II Soul. Released in 1989, the album featured the group's hit singles \"Keep on Movin'\" and \"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)\", the latter of which was a UK number-one hit and the fifth best-selling single in the UK that year. The album also reached number one and was certified triple platinum", "title": "Club Classics Vol. One" }, { "id": "12050741", "text": "deemed groundbreaking. The advert won several major advertising awards in 1997, notably a Cannes Gold Lion and a Silver Pencil from D&AD in London. It has been voted one of the 100 best commercials of all time and was popular for its latent jingoism and the fact that it appears to have been filmed in one continuous shot. The advert also saw the re-release of \"Don't You Want Me\" by Felix, which features in the advert, as a CD and cassette release, which also featured the Tango Blackcurrant logo. It reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. \"St George\"", "title": "St George (advertisement)" }, { "id": "4638989", "text": "UK top 75, peaking at #59. The B-side, \"If It Makes You Feel Good\", featured on the album. The song was included as a bonus track on the 2009 reissue of her album. CD single 7\" single 12\" single British band The Farm released a cover of The Human League version of \"Don't You Want Me\" in October 1992 which got to no. 18 in the UK charts, making it their third most successful single after 1990's All Together Now and Groovy Train. An uncredited female singer features as lead vocal on the second verse, as sung by Susanne Sulley", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "13124067", "text": "Alcazar discography This is the discography of Swedish dance/pop group Alcazar, who have released three studio albums on Sony BMG, one compilation and one EP album Alcazar rose to fame with their debut album, \"Casino\", and the third single from it \"Crying at the Discoteque\". It produced a chain of singles including the internationally successful \"Sexual Guarantee\", and \"Don't You Want Me\". After Casino and unsuccessful try to win Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song Not a Sinner Nor a Saint, they released their second studio album, \"Alcazarized\", which was commercially successful and produced a few international singles, such as the", "title": "Alcazar discography" }, { "id": "4485730", "text": "areas of pop music. The album and its four singles were large successes, particularly the international hit \"Don't You Want Me\". The album reached #1 in the UK and was certified Triple Platinum by the BPI. A remix album based on \"Dare\", \"Love and Dancing\", was released in 1982. \"Dare\" is the third studio album from the Human League but differs greatly from their previous two, \"Reproduction\" and \"Travelogue\". This is due to a split in the original line up, the subsequent reformation of the band with new personnel and the difference in musical style under Philip Oakey's direction. In", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "13124068", "text": "first single Not a Sinner Nor a Saint, Ménage à Trois and This Is the World We Live In. Alcazar discography This is the discography of Swedish dance/pop group Alcazar, who have released three studio albums on Sony BMG, one compilation and one EP album Alcazar rose to fame with their debut album, \"Casino\", and the third single from it \"Crying at the Discoteque\". It produced a chain of singles including the internationally successful \"Sexual Guarantee\", and \"Don't You Want Me\". After Casino and unsuccessful try to win Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song Not a Sinner Nor a Saint, they", "title": "Alcazar discography" }, { "id": "8405127", "text": "Don't You Want Me (Jody Watley song) \"Don't You Want Me\" is the third single from singer Jody Watley's eponymous debut album. The song was produced by Bernard Edwards of Chic-fame and written by Jody Watley, Franne Golde and David Paul Bryant. Watley's previous single, \"Still a Thrill,\" fared well in dance and R&B markets, but less-so in the mainstream. This prompted her label, MCA, to go in a more pop-friendly direction. \"Don't You Want Me\" was one of the biggest crossover singles for the year 1987, reaching top ten on the \"Billboard\" pop and R&B charts and becoming a", "title": "Don't You Want Me (Jody Watley song)" }, { "id": "5758909", "text": "number 6 in October. From Italy, 49ers scored two of the biggest dance hits of the year; \"Touch Me\" peaked at number 3, and the follow-up, \"Don't You Love Me\", which contained a sample from Jody Watley's song \"Don't You Want Me\", made number 12. Meanwhile, Dutch trio Twenty 4 Seven hit the Top 20 twice with their two hits, \"I Can't Stand It\" (No.7) and \"Are You Dreaming\" (No.17); both tracks were fronted by US rapper, Captain Hollywood. Manchester in the UK was the base of 808 State who scored two Top 10 hits this year, one with fellow", "title": "1990 in British music" }, { "id": "8405128", "text": "number-one dance club hit. \"Don't You Want Me\" was sampled extensively in the 49ers' 1990 hit \"Don't You Love Me?\". Remixed eurodance versions have appeared on the Dancemania series albums, including \"Dancemania SPEED 2\" issued in 1999. \"Don't You Want Me\" landed in the Top 40 of the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 singles chart the week of October 24, 1987, advancing from #56 to #40. The song reached #6 on December 19, 1987 and remained there for three consecutive weeks. Don't You Want Me (Jody Watley song) \"Don't You Want Me\" is the third single from singer Jody Watley's eponymous", "title": "Don't You Want Me (Jody Watley song)" }, { "id": "18339305", "text": "in January 2011. Hooj Choons Hooj Choons is a house record label formed by Alex Simons and Red Jerry (real name Jeremy Dickens) in 1990. The first release was \"Carnival de Casa\" by Rio Rhythm Band, however, it was not until 1992's release of Felix's \"Don't You Want Me\", which Red Jerry and Faithless founder-member Rollo co-produced, that Hooj Choons had their first crossover hit. Over the next ten years, Hooj Choons had several notable releases including productions from artists such as Diss-Cuss, Tilt, Oliver Lieb and JX. The label has built up a huge roster of popular club hits", "title": "Hooj Choons" }, { "id": "2982325", "text": "by BMG). In 1992, Rollo co-wrote and co-produced Felix's hit single \"Don't You Want Me\", which reached number 1 in Finland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, as well as reaching number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, Rollo is known for his production work on Dido's albums as well as singer/songwriter Kristine W's debut album, \"Land of the Living\". Rollo composed the official melody of the UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2012. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Song for his work with A.R. Rahman and Dido on 'If", "title": "Rollo Armstrong" }, { "id": "4638981", "text": "first song featuring the revolutionary Linn LM-1 drum machine to hit No. 1 on the UK charts and also the first LM-1 track to top the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song was re-released in October 1995 as CD, cassette and 12\" single featuring new remixes by Snap! and Red Jerry, peaking at No. 16 on the UK chart. The release coincided with the issue of the group's second \"Greatest Hits\" compilation album shortly afterwards, which featured the Snap 7\" remix. As of November 2012, \"Don't You Want Me\" is the 23rd best-selling single in the UK with 1.55 million copies", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "9556268", "text": "number nine on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It received positive reviews from music critics, and its chart success caused Len to be considered a one-hit wonder. The song earned a nomination for \"Best Single\" at the Juno Awards of 2000. The backdrop is based on a sample of a short instrumental portion of the Andrea True Connection's 1976 disco single \"More, More, More\", which Diamond wrote and composed specifically for the Connection's lead singer, former porn star Andrea True. Supposedly inspired by The Human League's 1981 synthpop hit \"Don't You Want Me\", the song's vocals alternate between Marc and", "title": "Steal My Sunshine" }, { "id": "4638982", "text": "sold. On 23 March 2014 the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 19 and debuted at number 1 in the Scottish singles charts thanks to a social media campaign by fans of Aberdeen Football Club. In 1981 record company Virgin were becoming aware that the promotional music video was evolving into an important marketing tool, with MTV being launched that year. Because it was agreed that the video for Open Your Heart had looked \"cheap and nasty\", Virgin commissioned a much more elaborate and expensive promotional video for \"Don't You Want Me\". The video for the song was", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "8636509", "text": "description and will point out in interviews that the band has never stopped recording and performing since its formation in 1977. The band had collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra prior to signing with EastWest. The official music video for the song was shot entirely on location in Prague in the Czech Republic and directed by Andy Morahan. \"Billboard\" were favourable, writing: \"British synth-pop act that enjoyed a high profile during the '80s returns with a percolating swinger, which harkens back to its now-classic hits, \"Don't You Want Me\" and \"Fascination\". Dave Thompson of Allmusic agreed that \"Tell Me When\" echoes", "title": "Tell Me When" }, { "id": "3778997", "text": "\"You get frustrated sometimes when you know that your heart is really buried in your art, and you know more success equals being more mediocre. So you have to redefine success, and you can't compete with people who don't do what you do.\" Initially, the album was going to include a duet between the band's frontman and Garbage vocalist Shirley Manson. The track – a cover of The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\" (1981) – was recorded after the two artists met at a Yeah Yeah Yeahs concert and enjoyed each other's company. After the cover's completion, Marilyn admitted", "title": "Lest We Forget: The Best Of" }, { "id": "5793490", "text": "Felix (musician) Felix (born Francis Wright) is a British producer and DJ. He is known for his hit track \"Don't You Want Me\" and his underground house project \"The Party Crashers\". Felix was born in Chelmsford, Essex. His passion for music began early with a love of Soul & Funk from the \"Street Sounds\" compilations and the House Sound of Chicago. At the age of 15, after exploring a brief interest in Hip Hop, he decided to create his own music and began getting involved with DJ'ing. After a handful of releases, Felix's 1992 track \"Don't You Want Me\" changed", "title": "Felix (musician)" }, { "id": "1785143", "text": "1974, which neatly coincided with Zander's Dells contract expiring in September of that year. In 1974, Zander accepted the second invitation to join Cheap Trick, and the classic line-up of Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson and Bun E. Carlos was in place. Cheap Trick's 1979 album, \"Cheap Trick at Budokan\", catapulted the band to stardom. The band reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts in 1979 with \"I Want You to Want Me\" and topped the charts in 1988 with \"The Flame\". Cheap Trick has performed more than 5,000 shows, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall", "title": "Robin Zander" }, { "id": "18339303", "text": "Hooj Choons Hooj Choons is a house record label formed by Alex Simons and Red Jerry (real name Jeremy Dickens) in 1990. The first release was \"Carnival de Casa\" by Rio Rhythm Band, however, it was not until 1992's release of Felix's \"Don't You Want Me\", which Red Jerry and Faithless founder-member Rollo co-produced, that Hooj Choons had their first crossover hit. Over the next ten years, Hooj Choons had several notable releases including productions from artists such as Diss-Cuss, Tilt, Oliver Lieb and JX. The label has built up a huge roster of popular club hits and smaller underground", "title": "Hooj Choons" }, { "id": "1461277", "text": "Simple Minds Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band. They formed in Glasgow in 1977 and became the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. They achieved five UK Albums chart number one albums during their career and have sold an estimated 70 million albums. Despite various personnel changes, they continue to record and tour. The band scored a string of hit singles, becoming best known internationally for their 1985 hit \"Don't You (Forget About Me)\", from the soundtrack of the film \"The Breakfast Club\". Their other more prominent hits include \"Alive and Kicking\" and \"Belfast Child\" (UK #1).", "title": "Simple Minds" }, { "id": "4638987", "text": "first verse and chorus over the accompanying background music. Fiat's use of the song prompted legal action from The Human League, who lost the case to Virgin. Susan Sulley later complained: \"Now even if we wanted to use the song for a more worthy company, we can't because it will always be associated with a particular brand.\" A campaign was started by Aberdeen F.C. fans in March 2014 to get the song to number one on the UK Singles Chart after their Scottish League Cup final victory against Inverness CT. The song peaked at No. 4 in the iTunes Download", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "1341118", "text": "the band undertook the 'XXXV Tour' across Europe and the UK, to celebrate 35 years in existence. The shows were critically acclaimed. The UK's \"Daily Telegraph\" said \"as good a night's entertainment as you are likely to find anywhere on the planet\". In March 2014, \"Don't You Want Me\" re-entered the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart, thanks to a social media campaign from the fans of Aberdeen F.C., who won the Scottish League Cup the previous weekend. They have adopted the song as a terrace chant, citing their midfielder Peter Pawlett with the lyrics changed to \"Peter Pawlett", "title": "The Human League" }, { "id": "4065905", "text": "No. 1 in the UK the following year. This success was short-lived, and their first single for a major label (Sony Records), \"Love See No Colour\" (1992), did not perform well, which led to a split from producers Pete Heller and Terry Farley. The band joined up with Mark Saunders, who had produced Erasure and The Cure. They released a cover version of The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\", which reached the Top 20 in 1992. In 1994, they released the album \"Hullabaloo\" on the Sire label, followed by their last major single. Despite being a group largely supporting", "title": "The Farm (British band)" }, { "id": "8692570", "text": "to May that year. Another play, \"The Tank\" (2004), was co-written with his older brother Steve. On 18 March 2006 Thomas appeared on SBS-TV's music series, \"RocKwiz\", which included his solo performance of \"Away Away\" and a duet with Mazzella covering The Human League's 1981 single, \"Don't You Want Me\". On 12 March 2007 he released another album, \"Paddock Buddy\", on the Liberation Music label. In 2011 he reunited with former Weddings Parties Anything band mate, Wallace, to form Roving Commission. In February 2012 Thomas issued a solo album, \"Last of the Tourists\", which had been recorded in Portland, Oregon", "title": "Mick Thomas" }, { "id": "11549681", "text": "on the follow-up release of \"Louise\". However, the unexpected runaway success of the independent Giorgio Moroder/Philip Oakey movie soundtrack single \"Together in Electric Dreams\" in late summer 1984 prompted them to reconsider and release \"Louise\" as a single in October 1984. Despite modest support from Virgin and the band, it went to number 13 in the UK Chart spending a total of 10 weeks in the charts. The Single cover artwork by designer Ken Ansell is a reverse reproduction of the artwork to \"Don’t You Want Me\". The Louise cover has an inset montage of a menacing Ian Burden glowering", "title": "Louise (The Human League song)" }, { "id": "4485756", "text": "the label the first chart-topping album since Mike Oldfield's \"Tubular Bells\" in 1973. \"Don't You Want Me\" was the label's first ever chart-topping single. The success of \"Dare\" was responsible for saving the label from impending bankruptcy. A very grateful Richard Branson sent Philip Oakey a motorcycle as a thank you present, but Oakey had to return it as he couldn't ride it. As well as the commercial success in the US under A&M, in 1982 \"Dare\" was also highly successful in Australia, Japan, France and Germany. \"Dare\" has been re-released a number of times since its original creation. Later", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "12565666", "text": "You Really Want To Hurt Me\", \"Time (Clock of the Heart)\" and \"Karma Chameleon\". As well as Boy George having his own UK number one with his cover of Bread's \"Everything I Own\", he is considered a major icon of this era. Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood's initially controversial dance-pop gave them three consecutive UK number ones in 1984, until they faded away in the mid-1980s. Dead or Alive, also from Liverpool, was another popular dance pop band in the mid-1980s. It was fronted by lead singer Pete Burns. Probably the most successful British pop band of the era", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "6472129", "text": "MTV in the US, dedicated to playing music videos. However, the channel was limited in that music videos were a new medium, and there were relatively few available. The syndication by Virgin Records of \"Don't You Want Me\"'s promo to MTV, and ensuing airplay, brought The Human League to US audiences. The subsequent (and admittedly) unexpected interest prompted Virgin Records to release \"Dare\" in the US as \"Don't You Want Me\" rose in the US charts to number one, aided by the promo video. At one time the British media erroneously reported that Catherall and Oakey had married, a story", "title": "Joanne Catherall" }, { "id": "13046150", "text": "Aberdeen fans to get The Human League song 'Don't You Want Me' to Number One in the charts following the success of their version singing 'Peter Pawlett baby'. Pawlett did not play regularly for Aberdeen in the following seasons, as Niall McGinn and Jonny Hayes were the first choice wingers. On 9 March 2017, English League One side Milton Keynes Dons announced that Pawlett had signed a pre-contract deal to join the club at the end of the 2016–17 season. Pawlett made his first appearance for his new club on 5 August 2017 in a 0–1 home defeat to Wigan", "title": "Peter Pawlett" }, { "id": "11610111", "text": "number one on the \"Billboard\" Country chart, followed by \"My Baby Thinks He's a Train\" and \"Blue Moon with a Heartache,\" which also reached the top spot. The album's follow-up effort, \"Somewhere in the Stars\" (1982) produced three Top 20 hits on the \"Billboard\" chart. After a 3-year hiatus, Cash issued \"Rhythm & Romance\" in 1985, which reached #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums list. It spawned four Top 10 singles. This included the number one single, \"I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me,\" which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1986. Her", "title": "Rosanne Cash discography" }, { "id": "4638978", "text": "to The 100 Club, a restaurant/bar in Sheffield. Today, the song is widely considered a classic of its era. In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for AllMusic, described the song as \"a devastating chronicle of a frayed romance wrapped in the greatest pop hooks and production of its year.\" Oakey still describes it as over-rated, but acknowledges his initial dismissal was misguided and claims pride in the track. Oakey is also at pains to point out another misconception: that it is not a love song, but \"a nasty song about sexual power politics\". \"Don't You Want Me\"", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "5478569", "text": "is Josy Gil Persia) and reached #20 on the French Singles Chart. It was followed by \"Shadows\" one year later. After this, the group recruited Dawn Mitchell to front the act. \"Touch Me\" was partially based on an Aretha Franklin sample (\"Rock-a-Lott\"), whilst its chorus line was taken from Alysha Warren's song, \"Touch Me\". \"Don't You Love Me\" featured a vocal sample from Jody Watley's hit \"Don't You Want Me\" and peaked at number 78 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Other borrowed phrases and hooks are dispersed throughout the accompanying album. It was revealed that Mitchell was Lip-syncing the vocals", "title": "49ers (band)" }, { "id": "7162042", "text": "Club Classics Vol. One Club Classics Vol. One (USA title: Keep On Movin') is the debut album by the British group Soul II Soul. Released in 1989, the album featured the group's hit singles \"Keep on Movin'\" and \"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)\", the latter of which was a UK number-one hit and the fifth best-selling single in the UK that year. The album also reached number one and was certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 900,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached the Top 20. The single", "title": "Club Classics Vol. One" }, { "id": "6907659", "text": "During the 1990s Next Plateau had several hits on the American charts and some international charts with Paperboy’s “Ditty”; Sybil’s “Don’t Make Me Over” and “Walk On By”; Boy Krazy’s “That’s What Love Can Do”; KWS’s “Please Don’t Go”; and with their biggest act, the female trio Salt-N-Pepa, with their numerous hits which included \"Expression\", \"Do You Want Me\", and “Let’s Talk About Sex”. In 1992, Next Plateau was distributed by PolyGram until 1996 when distribution was switched to Roadrunner Records, which was at the time was distributed by RED Distribution until the company's assets (excluding the company's name) was", "title": "Next Plateau Entertainment" }, { "id": "12565651", "text": "profiled the life of Loretta Lynn (with Sissy Spacek in the lead role), while Willie Nelson also had a series of acting credits. Dolly Parton had much success in the 1980s, with several leading movie roles, two No. 1 albums and 13 number one hits, and having many successful tours; she also teamed up with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt in 1987 for the multi-plaitnum \"Trio\" album. Others who had been around for a while and continued to have great success were Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Hank Williams Jr. and Tammy Wynette. In addition", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "3738353", "text": "vocalists. On August 28, 2017, Melissa Bell died after suffering from kidney failure. The group appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on New Year's Eve in 2017. Soul II Soul Soul II Soul are a British musical group formed in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and US top five hit \"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)\", and \"Keep On Movin'\" which reached number five in the UK and number 11 in the US. They won two Grammy Awards, and have been nominated for five Brit Awards—twice for Best British Group. The group", "title": "Soul II Soul" }, { "id": "9949679", "text": "Rosanna (song) \"Rosanna\" is a song written by David Paich and performed by the American rock band Toto, the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album \"Toto IV\". This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations. \"Rosanna\" was also nominated for the Song of the Year award. The song \"Rosanna\" peaked at No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, behind two different songs, \"Don't You Want Me\" by The Human League and \"Eye of the Tiger\" by Survivor. It was also one of the band's most successful", "title": "Rosanna (song)" }, { "id": "4485739", "text": "be the track \"Don't You Want Me\", the conflicting male/female duet about jealousy and romantic obsession that Oakey had recorded with teenage backing singer Susanne Sulley. Oakey was unhappy with the decision and originally fought it, believing it to be the weakest track on \"Dare\"; for that reason it had been relegated to the last track on the B-side of the vinyl album. Oakey was eventually overruled by Virgin. It would go on to become the band's greatest ever hit, selling millions of copies worldwide and becoming the 25th highest ever selling single in the UK (as of 2007). It", "title": "Dare (album)" }, { "id": "6472127", "text": "November 1981, with the Human League fully in the public eye, and sales of the album \"Dare\" soaring, Virgin records decided to pull one more single from \"Dare\". Oakey had always disliked the track \"Don't You Want Me\". Virgin Records had more faith; they commissioned an expensive and elaborate promo video to accompany the release of \"Don't You Want Me\". Shot on 35mm film rather than videotape, the promo was filmed in late November 1981 in Slough, Berkshire, UK. The scenario was \"a movie shoot for a murder mystery film\", and is lyrically a conflicting duet between Oakey and Sulley", "title": "Joanne Catherall" }, { "id": "2530218", "text": "\"Ever so lonely\" reached the top ten. The Second British Invasion consisted of acts that came mainly out of the synthpop and New Romantic genres. These acts received exposure in the United States on the cable music channel MTV which launched in 1981. British artists, unlike many of their American counterparts, had learned how to use the music video early on. Several British acts signed to independent labels were able to outmarket and outsell American artists that were signed with major labels. With considerable boost from MTV airplay during July 1982, The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\" had a", "title": "Music of the United Kingdom (1980s)" }, { "id": "4837083", "text": "Cheryl Baker Cheryl Baker (born Rita Maria Crudgington; 8 March 1954) is a British television presenter and singer. She was a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. The group had 20 singles reach the UK top 60 between 1981 and 1988, including three number one hits with \"Making Your Mind Up\" (1981), \"The Land of Make Believe\" (1981) and \"My Camera Never Lies\" (1982). Baker left the group in 1993. She had previously represented the UK at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the band Co-Co. In 2004, she", "title": "Cheryl Baker" }, { "id": "12050757", "text": "revolutionary, at the time. The idea came from George Michaelides of Michaelides & Bednash. Vizeum UK's joint managing director, Matt Andrews, considered Michaelides to be a worthy candidate for a legacy prize at the 2006 Channel 4 TV Planning Awards, citing his scheduling idea for the advertisement as a reason. Andrews explained: An unreleased and unfinished remix of hardbag musician Felix's 1992 song \"Don't You Want Me\" features in \"St George\"; by the time of the broadcast of the advertisement, the remix had been updated to become the \"'96 Pugilist Mix\", featuring samples of Ray Gardner's dialogue from the advertisement.", "title": "St George (advertisement)" }, { "id": "12565664", "text": "Slayer, Anthrax, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Twisted Sister and others. Phil Collins had three UK number one singles in the 80s, seven US number one singles, another with Genesis, and when his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, Collins had more top 40 hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the 1980s than any other artist. His former Genesis colleague, Peter Gabriel, also had a very successful solo career, which included a US number one single and three top ten UK hits (including a duet with Kate Bush).", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "9556270", "text": "on an 8-track 1/2 inch recorder, and she threw the reel in a closet. Marc stated that \"Steal My Sunshine\" did not make much of an impression on him, so Len did not originally plan to include it on \"You Can't Stop the Bum Rush\". The master recording was under his bed, so the group was almost unable to find the song. When producing \"Steal My Sunshine\", Marc Costanzo wanted to make a song similar to The Human League's 1981 synthpop single \"Don't You Want Me.\" As a result, the song's structure is characterized by alternating between male and female", "title": "Steal My Sunshine" }, { "id": "9550459", "text": "(When the Heart Guides the Hand)\" and \"Putting Holes in Happiness\"). The band supported the album with the Rape of the World Tour. After spending time around the end of the Grotesk Burlesk Tour in severe depression and contemplating his permanent departure from the music industry, Manson had a change of heart and recorded a duet of \"Don't You Want Me\" with Shirley Manson. This was originally intended to support the forthcoming best-of release but was felt by both artists not to live up to their standards and has yet to see release. \"\" was released on September 28, 2004,", "title": "Eat Me, Drink Me" }, { "id": "5793491", "text": "his career. In an interview with AXS celebrating the track's 23 year release, Felix said he \"was working a 9-to-5 job when the song first came out. It was just such a massive, massive hit.It caught a lot of people off guard and it changed [his] life completely because [he] jumped into it full-time... making music, then touring, DJing, and producing.\" The track, which sampled Jomanda's \"Don't You Want My Love\" (remixed by Rollo and Red Jerry), went to number one on the \"Billboard\" European Hot 100 Singles and Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. It also reached number 6 in", "title": "Felix (musician)" }, { "id": "12565668", "text": "had two iconic music videos for \"Addicted to Love\" and \"Simply Irresistible\". The Bee Gees 1987 single \"You Win Again\" reached number one, making them first group to score a UK #1 hit in each of three decades: the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Other British artists who achieved success in the pop charts in the 80s included Paul McCartney, Elton John, Culture Club, The Fixx, Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Kate Bush, Billy Idol, Paul Young, Elvis Costello, Simple Minds, Billy Ocean, Tears for Fears, UB40, Madness and Sade. In 1988, Irish singer Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career with", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "4638979", "text": "was released in the UK on 27 November 1981. The B side was \"Seconds\" another track lifted straight from the \"Dare\" album. Like previous singles, a 12\" version was also issued featuring the original version of \"Don't You Want Me\" and \"Seconds\" on the A side and an \"extended dance mix\" lasting seven and a half minutes on the B side. This mix is also features on the \"Love and Dancing\" album released under the name of The League Unlimited Orchestra in 1982. To the amazement of the band (and especially Oakey), it entered the UK Singles Chart at No.9", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "10042683", "text": "for 13 weeks. The single also hit the Australian Top 5 and had minor chart success in New Zealand and the Netherlands. It was the only song from the brief Oakey/Moroder partnership that achieved commercial success, and was released as a single in the United States in 1988. The film \"Electric Dreams\" was director Steve Barron's first full feature film. Barron's prior work included conceiving and directing a number of innovative music videos during the early 1980s. His biggest success up to that point had been as director of the music video for The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\"", "title": "Together in Electric Dreams" }, { "id": "7093206", "text": "Greatest Dance Songs\" in 2006. \"The Guardian\" featured the song on their \"A history of modern music: Dance\" in 2011. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 18th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. The song was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, as part of an extended dance sequence involving popular British songs from the 1960s through the 2010s. Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) \"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)\" is a song by British R&B band Soul II Soul. It", "title": "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" }, { "id": "7584364", "text": "together with Collage, she released the single \"Don't You Want Me\", exclusively for the German market. The single is a cover of the song by The Human League. In 2009, Lil Suzy released a new song called \"Dance Tonight\", available exclusively for download on iTunes. Lil Suzy is regarded as one of the top freestyle singers and was best known for the club hit \"Take Me in Your Arms\" (written by John Romano and Julian Hernandez), which charted at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1992 (when she was 13 years old) and was named \"Billboard\" magazine's Best", "title": "Lil Suzy" }, { "id": "2530198", "text": "Queen and David Bowie, but were dominated by post punk, and then from about 1981 by new romantic acts. There were also more conventional pop acts, including Bucks Fizz, whose light lyrics and simple tempos gave them three number ones after their Eurovision Song Contest victory in 1981. The dance-pop music of Frankie goes to Hollywood, initially controversial, gave them three consecutive number ones in 1984, until they faded away in the mid-1980s. Probably the most successful British pop band of the era were the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had", "title": "Music of the United Kingdom (1980s)" }, { "id": "10621420", "text": "week of June 16, 2007. The Watley cover was produced by DJ Spinna and featured Nile Rodgers on guitar. Bernard Edwards, Chic's co-founder (and co-writer of \"I Want Your Love\"), had previously produced a massive hit for Watley in the form of her 1987 single \"Don't You Want Me\". I Want Your Love (Chic song) \"I Want Your Love\" is a song by American band Chic from their second album \"C'est Chic\" (1978). Featuring a solo lead vocal by Alfa Anderson, the song became a very successful follow-up to their iconic hit single \"Le Freak\". In the United States, \"I", "title": "I Want Your Love (Chic song)" }, { "id": "10498362", "text": "original mono Fast Product version was released as a single in August 1980 through EMI Records, failing to chart. This stereo remix was then reissued in January 1982, this time reaching Number 6 in the UK Charts, shortly after the band's commercial breakthrough with \"Dare\" and \"Don't You Want Me\". It was later included on their \"Greatest Hits\" anthology released in 1988. It has also been released on subsequent \"greatest hits\" albums. 7\" Single (1978 Fast Product release) Holiday '80 EP (Virgin Records release) 1980 EMI release and 1982 EMI reissue \"Being Boiled\" was one of the first mainstream British", "title": "Being Boiled" }, { "id": "10095827", "text": "Cell used a synthesized melody on their 1981 hit \"Tainted Love\". Nick Rhodes, keyboardist of Duran Duran, used various synthesizers including the Roland Jupiter-4 and Jupiter-8. Chart hits include Depeche Mode's \"Just Can't Get Enough\" (1981), The Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\" and Giorgio Moroder's Take My Breath Away (1986) for Berlin. Other notable synthpop groups included New Order, Visage, Japan, Men Without Hats, Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Eurythmics, Yazoo, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Heaven 17, Erasure, Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, Kajagoogoo, ABC, Naked Eyes, Devo, and the early work of Tears for", "title": "Synthesizer" }, { "id": "12565650", "text": "Restless Heart and Exile, the latter which previously enjoyed success with the pop hit \"Kiss You All Over\". Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans. George Jones, one of the longest-running acts of the time, recorded several successful singles, including the critically acclaimed \"He Stopped Loving Her Today\". Conway Twitty continued to have a series of No. 1 hits, with 1986's \"Desperado Love\" becoming his 40th chart-topper on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart, a record that stood for nearly 20 years. The movie \"Coal Miner's Daughter\"", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "5793492", "text": "the UK Singles Chart in 1992. A remix of the song,\"Don't You Want Me: Pugilist Mix\", formed the soundtrack to the 1997 TV commercial for Blackcurrant Tango. \"Don't You Want Me\" was also sampled by David Guetta and Snoop Dogg on their collaboration \"Wet\" (\"Sweat\" - clean version) in 2011. \"Don't You Want Me\" was sampled by Meck in 2007, to provide the majority of the music for his single, \"Feels Like Home\". In 2008, Madonna used elements of Meck's version during \"Like a Prayer\" on the Sticky & Sweet Tour. Other UK charting singles for Felix included \"It Will", "title": "Felix (musician)" }, { "id": "12816860", "text": "chart. \"Daddy's Home\" was held off number 1 for 4 weeks running by the Human League's \"Don't You Want Me\", but earned gold certification from the BPI for sales over half a million. The track was recorded live on 1 May 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon, for a rock 'n' roll special to be broadcast later by BBC Television. \"Broken Doll\" is a cover of a Wreckless Eric single from 1980. Reportedly, Richard also wanted to record Eric's \"(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World\" too, but only if he could change some of the lyrics - which Eric refused. \"Young", "title": "Wired for Sound" }, { "id": "3752033", "text": "Richard Coles Richard Keith Robert Coles (born 26 March 1962) is an English musician, journalist and Church of England priest. Now vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire, he was formerly the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three Top Ten hits, including the Number 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a dance version of \"Don't Leave Me This Way\". He also appears frequently on radio and television as well as in newspapers. In March 2011 he became the regular host of BBC Radio 4's \"Saturday Live\" programme. Coles was born in Northampton, England.", "title": "Richard Coles" }, { "id": "4638977", "text": "was convinced that \"the public were now sick of hearing The Human League\" and the choice of the \"poor quality filler track\" would almost certainly be a disaster, wrecking the group's new-found popularity. Virgin were adamant that a fourth single would be released and Oakey finally agreed on the condition that a large colour poster accompany the 7\" single, because he felt fans would \"feel ripped off\" by the 'substandard' single alone. The Human League often added cryptic references to their productions and the record sleeve of \"Don't You Want Me\" featured the suffix of \"100\". This was a reference", "title": "Don't You Want Me" }, { "id": "9397731", "text": "with his Stock Aitken Waterman-produced hit \"Nothing Can Divide Us\" which reached number 5 and he would go on to outsell even Kylie the following year. Popular teenage acts other than Minogue to emerge this year included the American singer Tiffany who scored three Top 10 hits including the No.1 \"I Think We're Alone Now\" while fellow American teenage star Debbie Gibson also crossed over to the British Charts and had four Top 20 hits. Gibson's biggest hit was the 1980s-compilation staple \"Shake Your Love\" which reached number 7 in January. Meanwhile, from Italy came Sabrina whose infamous appearances in", "title": "1988 in British music" }, { "id": "3752036", "text": "in the Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project film \"\", which won the Grierson Award. Coles joined Bronski Beat (initially on saxophone) in 1983. In 1984 Somerville left Bronski Beat and he and Coles formed The Communards, who were together for just over three years and had three UK Top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986 with a version of \"Don't Leave Me This Way\", which was at Number 1 for four weeks. They split in 1988 and Somerville went solo. Coles provided narration for the Style Council's film \"JerUSAlem\" in 1987 and also started a career as", "title": "Richard Coles" }, { "id": "9857899", "text": "1980 in British music This is a summary of 1980 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The 1980s got off to an odd start with a very varied list of artists reaching No. 1 in the singles chart. Kenny Rogers, The Jam and Odyssey were among those vying for the top position. The \"Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums\" stated that the year had a very dated appearance, because of a number of songs reaching No. 1 which had been recorded years previously, such as the \"Theme from M*A*S*H*\" and Don", "title": "1980 in British music" }, { "id": "2450374", "text": "Daughter\" profiled the life of Loretta Lynn (with Sissy Spacek in the lead role), while Willie Nelson also had a series of acting credits. Dolly Parton had much success in the 1980s, with several leading movie roles, two No. 1 albums and 13 number one hits, and having many successful tours. Others who had been around for a while and continued to have great success were Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Hank Williams Jr. and Tammy Wynette. Music history of the United States in the 1980s Popular music of the United States in the 1980s", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1980s" }, { "id": "12565667", "text": "were the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 and 1986. George Michael released his debut solo album, \"Faith\" in 1987, and would go on to have seven UK number one singles. The 1985 concert Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium would see some of the biggest British artists of the era perform, with Queen stealing the show. Bonnie Tyler had major hits with \"Total Eclipse of the Heart\" and \"Holding Out for a Hero\", while Robert Palmer's", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "9857900", "text": "McLean's cover of Roy Orbison's \"Crying\". The Ska and Mod revivals reached their peak this year, with strong chart showings by The Jam, The Specials and Madness. 1970s favourites ABBA and Blondie both had their last years as chart heavyweights, clocking up 5 No.1 singles between them. David Bowie scored his second No.1 this year, while the death of John Lennon at the end of the year gave him his first chart topper (and would dominate the early months of 1981). Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a No.1 album, and The Police finished the year", "title": "1980 in British music" }, { "id": "1461296", "text": "and in support of the Pretenders in the US while Hynde was pregnant with Kerr's daughter. The marriage lasted until 1990. Despite the band's new-found popularity in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia, Simple Minds remained essentially unknown in the US. The band's UK releases on Arista were not picked up by Arista USA who had 'right of first refusal' for their releases. The 1985 film \"The Breakfast Club\" broke Simple Minds into the US market, when the band achieved their only No. 1 U.S. pop hit in April 1985 with the film's closing track, \"Don't You (Forget About Me)\".", "title": "Simple Minds" }, { "id": "4442695", "text": "song on the Hot 100 during the 1980s in terms of the number of weeks spent at number one. The guitar solo was performed by Steve Lukather. \"Physical\" was both preceded and followed in the #1 chart position by recordings of the duo Hall & Oates. \"Private Eyes\" was dethroned by \"Physical\" in November 1981, and \"Physical\" was dethroned by \"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)\" the following January. \"Physical\" held \"Waiting for a Girl Like You\" by Foreigner at #2 off the top of the Hot 100 for nine weeks, and \"I Can't Go For That\" held", "title": "Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)" }, { "id": "4381003", "text": "\"Never Be You\", and two other Country Top 10 singles, \"Hold On\" and \"Second to No One\". \"Rhythm & Romance\" drew high critical praise for its fusion of country and pop. \"I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me\" won the 1985 Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; \"Hold On\" won the 1987 Robert J. Burton Award from BMI as the Most Performed Song of the Year. In the '80s, Cash curtailed her touring for childbearing and raising a family (three daughters with Crowell, as well as Crowell's daughter by his first marriage, Hannah). She continued to record", "title": "Rosanne Cash" }, { "id": "2450373", "text": "as Restless Heart and Exile, the latter which previously enjoyed success with the pop hit \"Kiss You All Over\". Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans. George Jones, one of the longest-running acts of the time, recorded several successful singles, including the critically acclaimed \"He Stopped Loving Her Today\". Conway Twitty continued to have a series of No. 1 hits, with 1986's \"Desperado Love\" becoming his 40th chart-topper on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart, a record that stood for nearly 20 years. The movie \"Coal Miner's", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1980s" }, { "id": "3531728", "text": "members: Andreas Lundstedt, Tess Merkel, and Annika Kjærgaard. Their first single, \"Shine On\", was a hit in Sweden, but it was with their second release, \"Crying at the Discoteque\" (which heavily sampled Sheila and B. Devotion's 1979 hit \"Spacer\"), that they achieved success across Europe. Both singles appeared on their album, \"Casino\", written and produced by fellow Swedes Alexander Bard and Anders Hansson. Later editions of \"Casino\" contain a cover of The Human League's hit \"Don't You Want Me\", which also served as the third single off the album. In the United States, Alcazar gained moderate success. \"Crying at the", "title": "Alcazar (band)" }, { "id": "4887203", "text": "they were commercially unsuccessful in the United States), but the UK remained their biggest market, where they had three No.1 singles with \"Making Your Mind Up\" (1981), \"The Land of Make Believe\" (1981) and \"My Camera Never Lies\" (1982) and became one of the top-selling groups of the 1980s. They also had UK Top 10 hits with \"Now Those Days Are Gone\" (1982), \"If You Can't Stand the Heat\" (1982), \"When We Were Young\" (1983) and \"New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)\" (1986). Bucks Fizz have sold over 15 million records worldwide. The line-up of the group has changed a number of", "title": "Bucks Fizz" }, { "id": "1341104", "text": "with Me Tonight\" also reached the UK Top 40, and a new remix of \"Don't You Want Me\" was released to capitalise on the band's revitalised profile. This was in the run up to a new \"greatest hits\" compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first \"Greatest Hits\" album from 1988. A change in management at EastWest in 1998 saw the cancellation of the band's contract once again. Afterward, the band co-headlined with Culture Club and Howard Jones on VH1's 1980s \"Big Rewind\" nostalgia tour and made other concert and public appearances throughout 1997–2000. In 2000, the", "title": "The Human League" } ]

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[ { "id": "13984074", "text": "The arrival of 21-year-old Greta serves as a catalyst to get Hannah out of bed and into Rachel's room. Greta poses as a random student doing an interview for class, but turns out to be Rachel's biological great-granddaughter, whom Hannah had only met as a young child. Greta has a complicated relationship with her grandmother, Marge, who has never truly accepted Hannah as any sort of important mother figure. Greta, a young lesbian, is fully committed to the rights of Hannah and Rachel, and schemes to bring the family together. In an emotional final scene, Rachel lays comatose, while Hannah,", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "13984071", "text": "a feature-length motion picture shot in HD for distribution in worldwide theatrical and ancillary markets. It stars Sharon Gless, Maureen Gallagher, Kelli Strickland, Ann Hagemann, Taylor Miller, and Jax Jackson. The film is produced by Ripe Fruit Films, LLC. Set mostly in a nursing home, 70-something Hannah is kept separate from her lifelong friend and lover Rachel, who is not expected to emerge from her coma. The nurses follow the orders of Rachel's daughter Marge, who claims her mother would be upset by a visit from Hannah. While Hannah's heart is breaking at the thought of not being able to", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "1636711", "text": "and July 1972, O'Sullivan was in Denver, Colorado, to star in the Elitch Theatre production of \"Butterflies are Free\" with Karen Grassle and Brandon deWilde. The show ended on July 1, 1972. When her daughter, actress Mia Farrow, became involved with Woody Allen both professionally and romantically, she appeared in \"Hannah and Her Sisters\", playing Farrow's mother. She had roles in \"Peggy Sue Got Married\" (1986) and the science fiction oddity \"Stranded\" (1987). Mia Farrow named one of her own sons Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow for her mother. In 1994, she appeared with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in \"Hart to", "title": "Maureen O'Sullivan" }, { "id": "3559650", "text": "also featured in Woody Allen's critically acclaimed \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall's melodrama \"Beaches\" (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky's \"Black Swan\" (2010). Establishing a reputation early in her career as a \"hippie\", Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six-year relationship with actor David Carradine, with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change in stage name that she later", "title": "Barbara Hershey" }, { "id": "13984070", "text": "Hannah Free Hannah Free is a 2009 American lesbian romance film, adapted from Claudia Allen's play of the same name. It is a story about living, loving, and letting go. Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenged their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial. \"Hannah Free\" is", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "1065553", "text": "Hannah and Her Sisters Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters. The film's ensemble cast also includes Carrie Fisher, Farrow's mother Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan (in his final film role), Max von Sydow, and Julie Kavner. Daniel Stern, Richard Jenkins, Fred Melamed, Lewis Black, Joanna", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "3411582", "text": "Marlo Thomas Margaret Julia \"Marlo\" Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist known for starring on the sitcom \"That Girl\" (1966–1971) and her award-winning children's franchise \"Free to Be... You and Me\". She has received four Emmys, a Golden Globe, and the George Foster Peabody Award for her work in television, and she has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She has also received a Grammy award for her children’s album \"\". In 2014, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White", "title": "Marlo Thomas" }, { "id": "1065554", "text": "Gleason, John Turturro, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all have minor roles, while Tony Roberts and Sam Waterston make uncredited cameo appearances. Several of Farrow's children, including Soon-Yi Previn (who married Allen in 1997), have credited and uncredited roles, mostly as Thanksgiving extras. \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" was, for a long time, Allen's biggest box office hit (forgoing adjustment for inflation), with a North American gross of US$40 million. The film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. It is often considered one of Allen's major works, with critics continuing to praise its writing and", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "19862380", "text": "Rose Styron is her godmother. In 1979, Mia Farrow ended her marriage to André Previn and began a long-term relationship with Woody Allen. Allen later adopted two of Farrow's adopted children: Dylan Farrow (also known as Eliza) and Moses Farrow. Farrow also gave birth to Ronan Farrow in 1987. Previn attended Marymount School of New York and Rider University. She graduated from Drew University and earned a Master's Degree in Special Education from Columbia University. During her teens, Previn made an uncredited appearance in \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" (1986), which starred Mia Farrow and was directed by Woody Allen. Previn", "title": "Soon-Yi Previn" }, { "id": "3267883", "text": "Network cable television series \"Burn Notice\", playing Michael Westen's (Jeffrey Donovan) mother, Madeline Westen. In addition, Gless was a guest star on several episodes of the FX Network cable television series \"Nip/Tuck\" as an unstable agent named Colleen Rose, a role that netted her an Emmy Award nomination. In 2009, Gless starred in her first leading role as a lesbian character in the independent film \"Hannah Free\" (Ripe Fruit Films), described as a film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home. The film is based on a screenplay by the Jeff Award-winning", "title": "Sharon Gless" }, { "id": "1065564", "text": "about someone else and his obsession with mortality.\" Allen admits the role of Hannah was based on Farrow being \"a romanticised perception of Mia. She's very stable, she has eight children now, and she's able to run her career and have good relationships with her sister and her mother. I'm very impressed with those qualities, and I thought if she had two unstable sisters, it would be interesting.\" Allen says he was also inspired by the title. \"I thought I'd like to make a film called \"Hannah and Her Sisters\"\", he said, saying this prompted him to give Hannah two", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "13984077", "text": "of the house into all the necessary sets, like the nursing home, Alaska shed, and various living spaces. Hannah Free Hannah Free is a 2009 American lesbian romance film, adapted from Claudia Allen's play of the same name. It is a story about living, loving, and letting go. Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenged their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "13984072", "text": "say goodbye, her mind is full of memories of their life together, and she is frequently visited by a younger, spirit Rachel. Hannah sees, hears, and experiences her, but to anyone else, Hannah appears to be talking to herself. Frustrated by feeling like a prisoner, Hannah grumbles, pleads to see Rachel, and writes in her journal. The backstory gradually emerges. Hannah transitioned easily from tomboy to openly gay while Rachel gave in to societal expectations, married, raised twins, and kept one foot in the closet most of her life, even though everyone knew about her and Hannah. Having Hannah around", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "1867074", "text": "promote the book, which contributed to the Adamsons' new-found international celebrity. She spent the rest of her life raising money for wildlife, thanks to the popularity of \"Born Free\". The book was followed by \"Living Free\", which is about Elsa as a mother to her cubs, and \"Forever Free\", which tells of the release of the cubs Jespah, Gopa and Little Elsa. Adamson shared book proceeds with various conservation projects. While television specials kept the Adamsons' cause in the spotlight, Adamson spent her last 10 years travelling the world, giving speeches about the perils faced by wildlife in Africa. A", "title": "Joy Adamson" }, { "id": "18679620", "text": "female despite coming from a wealthy background. Hannah is left with the responsibility of caring for her deceased sister's children Oscar (Jake Speer) and Evelyn MacGuire (Philippa Northeast). Howarth told a Yahoo!7 reporter that \"Hannah has to now struggle to stay selfless and responsible, to make sure the twins have the life their mother wanted for them.\" Hannah is a strong and determined woman who is prepared to fiercely fight for the interests of her family. But Howarth noted that despite this, \"[Hannah] needs to feel loved as she has a fear of being alone.\" Howarth described Hannah's qualities as", "title": "Hannah Wilson (Home and Away)" }, { "id": "1417290", "text": "performances categories since \"The Last Picture Show\" six years earlier in 1971, and would be followed by \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" nine years later in 1986. The film also received a leading ten nominations at the 32nd British Academy Film Awards and won the highest four including Best Film. The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the United States, enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with", "title": "Julia (1977 film)" }, { "id": "3559664", "text": "Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. The film also earned Hershey a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She described her part as \"a wonderful gift.\" Hershey followed \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" with back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for \"Shy People\" and for her appearance as anti-apartheid activist Diana Roth in \"A World Apart\" (1988). Her character in the latter film was based on Ruth First. Also in the 1980s, she portrayed Errol Flynn's first wife, actress Lili Damita, in the TV movie adaptation of \"My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of", "title": "Barbara Hershey" }, { "id": "1390747", "text": "Caicos ceremony. Victor Garber, who officiated the ceremony, and his partner, Rainer Andreesen, were the only guests. They announced their separation in June 2015. They jointly filed for divorce in April 2017 and it was finalized in October 2018. Affleck and Garner have three children together: daughters Violet Anne (b. December 2005), Seraphina \"Sera\" Rose Elizabeth (b. January 2009), and son Samuel \"Sam\" Garner (b. February 2012). In their divorce filings, Affleck and Garner sought joint physical and legal custody of their children. While Affleck believes paparazzi attention is \"part of the deal\" of stardom, he has spoken out against", "title": "Ben Affleck" }, { "id": "14819798", "text": "the album closes with 'Barefoot Cinderella,' an easygoing pop track that sounds remarkably like Cyrus' hit 'Party in the U.S.A.,' \"Hannah Montana Forever\" proves that everyone involved with Hannah was ready to move on.\" \"Entertainment Weekly\" was more gracious, awarding the album a B+ and saying, \"Miley Cyrus struck out with this summer's whiny \"Can't Be Tamed\", but she's in finer form on \"Hannah Montana Forever\", the soundtrack to her TV show's final season. Credit the would-be film star's relief at finally hanging up Hannah's blond wig; there's no mistaking the glee with which she sings \"I'm free as a", "title": "Hannah Montana Forever" }, { "id": "20526217", "text": "Woody Allen sexual assault allegation In August 1992, the American film director Woody Allen was accused by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, then seven years old, of having sexually assaulted her in the home of her adoptive mother, the actress Mia Farrow, in Bridgewater, Connecticut. Allen has repeatedly denied the allegation. When the allegation was made, Farrow and Allen had been in a 12-year relationship and had three children together: two adopted children, Dylan and Moses, and one biological son, Satchel (now known as Ronan Farrow). The assault is alleged to have taken place eight months after Farrow learned that", "title": "Woody Allen sexual assault allegation" }, { "id": "2863549", "text": "seen through the eyes of his assistant, Tony Fitzjohn. George is portrayed by Richard Harris, and Honor Blackman makes a brief appearance as Joy. The one-hour \"Nature\" documentary \"Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story\" was released on PBS stations in January 2011. It includes a collection of archival footage and an exploration into the lives of Joy and George Adamson during the years following release of the film. Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion", "title": "Born Free" }, { "id": "2863865", "text": "continue his television and film careers. In 1969, Carradine met actress Barbara Hershey while the two of them were working on \"Heaven with a Gun\". The pair lived together until 1975. They appeared in other films together, including Martin Scorsese's \"Boxcar Bertha\". In 1972, they appeared together in a nude \"Playboy\" spread, recreating some sex scenes from \"Boxcar Bertha\". That year, Hershey gave birth to their son, Free (who at age nine changed his name to Tom, much to his father's chagrin). The couple's relationship fell apart around the time of Carradine's 1974 burglary arrest, when Carradine began an affair", "title": "David Carradine" }, { "id": "8928261", "text": "(Franc Luz), a recently divorced lawyer. Winnie looks after Thomas' three children, Gene, 13-year-old Jessie (Alyson Hannigan) and 16-year-old Robb (Paul Scherrer) who are still adjusting to their parents' divorce and their move from New York City to suburban Connecticut. Thomas has no idea that Winnie is a witch, but all his three children do. Although Winnie is good-hearted and never means any harm, her powers frequently get her and the family into trouble. Winnie often has to scramble to get out of various situations while keeping Thomas from learning her secret. In the unaired pilot, Christopher Rich portrayed the", "title": "Free Spirit (TV series)" }, { "id": "1065565", "text": "sisters. He was interested in making something about the relationship between sisters which he felt was more complex than that between brothers. \"Maybe that comes from childhood; my mother had seven sisters and their children were female so all I knew were aunts and female cousins.\" Mia Farrow later wrote that Allen had been intrigued about the subject of sisters for a long time. His earlier co-stars Janet Margolin had two sisters, and Diane Keaton had two, and Farrow had three. She says Allen gave her an early copy of \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" saying she could play whatever sister", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "3559663", "text": "For the role of Harriet Bird, Hershey had chosen a particular hat as her \"anchor\". Director Barry Levinson disagreed with her choice, but she insisted on wearing it. Levinson later cast Hershey as the wife of Danny DeVito's character in the comedy \"Tin Men\" (1987). In 1986, Hershey left her native California and moved with her son to Manhattan. Three days later, she met briefly with Woody Allen, who offered her the role of Lee in \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" (1986). In addition to a Manhattan apartment, Hershey bought an antique home in rural Connecticut. The Allen picture won three", "title": "Barbara Hershey" }, { "id": "4986797", "text": "Wild Card (TV series) Wild Card (also known as Zoe Busiek: Wild Card) is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005. Zoe Busiek is a former Las Vegas blackjack dealer whose life takes an unexpected turn when her sister dies in a car accident and she has to take care of her sister's three children, teenaged Taylor, preteen Cliff, and little kid Hannah. When the insurance company denies the family a financial settlement Zoe takes matters into", "title": "Wild Card (TV series)" }, { "id": "12120083", "text": "by Bronson (Frank Morgan) and Carrie (Winifred Harris), is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie (Henry Wadsworth) and Marion (Miriam Hopkins) are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil (Carole Lombard), and Marion falls in love with Henry Morgan (Charles Starrett), an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves. Cast notes: A typographical error in the title cards for this film turned starlet \"Carol Lombard\" into \"\"Carole\" Lombard\", a name she kept for the remainder of her career. David Gray and Avery Hopwood's play,", "title": "Fast and Loose (1930 film)" }, { "id": "6175836", "text": "2018. Hader has stated that his comedy influences are Monty Python, Mel Brooks and Eddie Murphy. In 2006, Hader married writer-director Maggie Carey. They have three daughters together: Hannah Kathryn, born October 6, 2009, Harper, born July 28, 2012, and Hayley Clementine, born November 15, 2014. Hader and Carey announced their separation in 2017. Hader filed for divorce in December 2017. The uncontested divorce reached a settlement on March 1, 2018 and they were restored to single persons on June 23, 2018. Bill Hader William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, producer", "title": "Bill Hader" }, { "id": "7514699", "text": "with Margaret when she witnesses him beating a worker whom he has caught smoking in the mill, thus endangering all the workers. Gradually, Margaret gets used to Thornton, but his mother Hannah (Sinéad Cusack) and sister Fanny (Jo Joyner) disapprove of her, believing her haughty and alien to the customs of the North. In the meantime, Margaret attempts to do charitable work among the working classes, and thus comes into contact with Nicholas Higgins (Brendan Coyle) and his daughter, Bessy (Anna Maxwell Martin), who contracted Pneumoconiosis from exposure to the cotton-fibres in the mills. When Bessy became ill at Hamper's", "title": "North & South (TV serial)" }, { "id": "13984075", "text": "Marge and Greta hash out their differences. Together, they say goodbye to Rachel, and lovingly set her free. \"Hannah Free\" was adapted by Claudia Allen from her own play. Claudia Allen is a playwright-in-residence at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. A hallmark of Allen’s plays is the portrayal of strong, compassionate women. Author’s note: “Few plays are written about elderly lesbians. Fewer plays deal with their extreme vulnerability in a system that doesn’t recognize our rights. I wanted to deal with those issues while also creating a love story about two women who loved each other for decades despite a", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "19179470", "text": "night performance of Children of a Lesser God. In Chicago, Walker worked and taught acting at Victory Gardens Theater, where she played Georgie in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels and the \"Chicago Tribune\"'s review said, \"she's a sharp, funny, delightful comic actress, and she anchors the production in warmth, grace, spontaneity and beauty.\" She was also in Murder in Green Meadows by Doug Post, and Claudia Allen's Hannah Free, which garnered her the Actress of the Year Award from the Academy of Theatre Artists and Friends. Walker also received a nomination by the Joseph Jefferson Award committee for Outstanding Achievement by", "title": "Pamela Gaye Walker" }, { "id": "2863543", "text": "boss, gives the couple three months to either rehabilitate Elsa to the wild, or send her to a zoo. Joy opposes sending Elsa to a zoo, and spends much time attempting to reintroduce Elsa to the life of a wild lion in a distant reserve. At last, she succeeds, and with mixed feelings and a breaking heart, she returns her friend to the wild. The Adamsons then depart for their home in England; a year later they return to Kenya for a week, hoping to find Elsa. They do, and happily discover she hasn't forgotten them and is the mother", "title": "Born Free" }, { "id": "12000262", "text": "Home Free (1993 TV series) Home Free is an American sitcom starring Matthew Perry, Marian Mercer and Diana Canova that aired on ABC from March 31, 1993 to July 2, 1993. The series was created by Tim O'Donnell and Richard Gurman. Matt Bailey (Perry) is a free-spirited, if somewhat lazy, 22-year-old freelance journalist enjoying the good life at home with his indulgent mom Grace (Mercer). He wasn't so concerned about completing his ascent into full-fledged adulthood, nor was he ever in a hurry to get out on his own, until his older, recently divorced sister Vanessa (Canova) returned home with", "title": "Home Free (1993 TV series)" }, { "id": "4171604", "text": "George Adamson George Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the \"Baba ya Simba\" (\"Father of Lions\" in Swahili), was a British wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, are best known through the movie \"Born Free\" and best-selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they had raised and later released into the wild. Several other films have been made based on Adamson's life. George Alexander Graham Adamson was born 3 February 1906 in Etawah, India to British parents.", "title": "George Adamson" }, { "id": "1065574", "text": "in a 2016 poll of \"Time Out\" contributors, with editor Joshua Rothkopf singling out the character of Holly as \"the kind of desperate, flailing Manhattanite that future director-writers would spin entire careers out of\". Hannah and Her Sisters Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters.", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "6234462", "text": "Charlotte Lucas Charlotte Lucas (born 29 May 1979) is an English actress and painter. Born into an acting family, Lucas is the granddaughter of Linden Travers, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's \"The Lady Vanishes\" and Guy Leon. Charlotte is the great niece of Bill Travers who appeared in \"Born Free\". Charlotte's mother is Susan Travers who starred in \"Peeping Tom\". Lucas is the second cousin of actresses Penelope Wilton, Bill Travers' son Will, Richard Morant and Anna Massey. Her first cousin is BBC newsreader, Alice Bhandhukravi. She is best known for her role as Selena Geeson in \"Bad Girls\". She", "title": "Charlotte Lucas" }, { "id": "10995419", "text": "Cisco Adler Cisco Sam Adler (born September 6, 1978) is an American musician and Grammy-nominated record producer. Adler is the son of music producer and film director Lou Adler and Phyllis Somer. He has an older half-brother, Nicholai Adler, from his father's relationship with actress Britt Ekland. His father is the brother-in-law of actress Daryl Hannah through his marriage to her sister Page. Cisco is married to fashion model Barbara Stoyanoff; they have one child and a dog named Stosh. Adler has collaborated extensively with hip-hop artist Shwayze. Their first single, \"Buzzin',\" reached number 46 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100,", "title": "Cisco Adler" }, { "id": "1825506", "text": "cubs. Elsa the lioness Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters \"Big One\" and \"Lustica\" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few weeks old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild. Her story is told in several books by the Adamsons, as well as the 1966 motion picture \"Born Free\". Elsa and her sisters were orphaned", "title": "Elsa the lioness" }, { "id": "7280841", "text": "1998), and Harry (b. 2001). They have lived in Los Angeles since 1996, moved back to Sydney in 2005 but returned soon after to reside in the US. Rigg is close friends with actresses Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman, who are also the godmothers of Stella and Harry, respectively. Rebecca Rigg Rebecca Rigg (born 31 December 1967) is an Australian actress, best known for her roles in \"Fatty Finn\" and \"Ellie Parker\". Rebecca Rigg was born in Sydney, Australia. Her Australian television appearances include the television series \"Rafferty's Rules\"; the ABC TV-movies, \"Joh's Jury\", \"Come In Spinner\", and \"Naked\", as", "title": "Rebecca Rigg" }, { "id": "110210", "text": "2006, \"I Will Always Loathe You\", 2007 and \"Kiss It All Goodbye\", 2010). She was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She appeared as an overprotective mother in the comedy \"Frank McKlusky, C.I.\". (2002) She made a cameo appearance in the comedy film \"\", starring Sandra Bullock. She was featured in \"The Book Lady\", (2008) a documentary film about her campaign for children's literacy. Parton had expected to reprise her television role as Hannah's godmother in the musical comedy film \"\" (2009), but the character was omitted from the final screenplay. She had a voice role in", "title": "Dolly Parton" }, { "id": "3923934", "text": "feel much better about myself. [...] I lost weight because being fat was making me miserable and threatening my health. I'm not sure why anyone would criticise me for that.\" In January 2011, Waterman announced she was expecting a child fathered by Huw Higginson, a former \"The Bill\" star. Higginson left his wife of 14 years and mother of his two children. She gave birth to a son via emergency Caesarean section in June 2011. Hannah Waterman Hannah Waterman-Groves (born 22 July 1975) is an English actress, daughter of \"Minder\" star Dennis Waterman and actress Patricia Maynard. A former pupil", "title": "Hannah Waterman" }, { "id": "16886029", "text": "Skye Townsend Skylar Christan \"Skye\" Townsend (born September 1, 1993) is an American actress, R&B-soul and pop singer. She is the youngest daughter of actor, director and comedian, Robert Townsend. Townsend released her debut EP album \"Vomit\" online via Digital Download on May 5, 2012. The EP featured collaborations from artist like Karina Pasian & Chris O'Bannon\" on (\"Go Fish!\"), \"Micky Munday\" on (\"Hazel\") and Wyann Vaughn on (\"Free\") inspired by Deniece Williams's 1976 hit \"Free\". The majority of \"Vomit\" was produced by Jonathan \"JMBeatz\" Malone, Waren Vaughn, Vybe, Rey Reel and more. Later on, videos were directed by her", "title": "Skye Townsend" }, { "id": "2863541", "text": "Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym \"Gerald L.C. Copley\"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book \"Born Free\". The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. \"Born Free\", and its musical", "title": "Born Free" }, { "id": "12057587", "text": "weekly poker game, with Katherine joining the other housewives. After the game, they all return to their homes. Gaby, still caring for a blind Carlos, has let herself go, and is now the mother of two young girls who are named Juanita and Celia. Bree, reunited with Orson, is now a successful cookbook author, and her son Andrew is her assistant. Lynette is still married to Tom, and their children are out of control: Preston has just been arrested for breaking into a car and taking it for a \"joyride,\" while Porter has already served time in a juvenile detention", "title": "Free (Desperate Housewives)" }, { "id": "12136130", "text": "40th British Academy Film Awards The 40th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1987, honoured the best films of 1986. James Ivory's A Room with a View won the awards for Best Film, Actress, Supporting Actress, Production Design and Costume Design. \"Hannah and Her Sisters\", directed by Woody Allen, won two awards: Best Director and Best Screenplay-Original. \"A Room with a View\" Bob Hoskins - \"Mona Lisa\" Ray McAnally - \"The Mission\" Maggie Smith - \"A Room with a View\" Judi Dench - \"A Room with a View\" \"Hannah and Her Sisters\"", "title": "40th British Academy Film Awards" }, { "id": "18350328", "text": "Gavin Free. In addition Gworb has an organ known as the \"Gavichal\", which is a combination of Michael Jones' and Gavin Free's names. Jones was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey to \"devout Roman Catholic parents.\" On May 9, 2014, Jones married long-time girlfriend and Rooster Teeth voice actor Lindsay Tuggey. During Rooster Teeth's 2016 Extra Life livestream, the couple announced that they are expecting a child, which was later revealed to be a girl in January 2017. They announced the birth of their daughter, Iris Elise Jones, born May 24, 2017. On August 5, 2018, Jones announced at RTX 2018", "title": "Michael Jones (actor)" }, { "id": "3411598", "text": "receive, at a White House ceremony. Thomas was in a long relationship with playwright Herb Gardner. In 1977 Thomas was a guest on \"Donahue\", the television talk show, when she and host Phil Donahue \"fell in love at first sight.\" They were married on May 21, 1980. Thomas raised five stepchildren as a result of her marriage to Donahue. Marlo Thomas Margaret Julia \"Marlo\" Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist known for starring on the sitcom \"That Girl\" (1966–1971) and her award-winning children's franchise \"Free to Be... You and Me\". She has", "title": "Marlo Thomas" }, { "id": "7191265", "text": "2005, the \"Western Mail\" ranked Myles seventh whilst she ranked fifth in 2008, 7th in 2009, 8th in 2010 and 10th in 2011. In June 2010, Myles was honoured with a fellowship from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Myles met Bradley Freegard at the National Youth Theatre in 1994, and they married in Italy on 18 May 2013. Myles and Freegard have two daughters, born in 2009 and 2014. Filming \"Torchwood\"s fourth series in 2011 saw Myles relocate with her family to America's Hollywood Hills, living \"literally underneath the Hollywood sign\". Myles has described California as the", "title": "Eve Myles" }, { "id": "3035468", "text": "roles in \"It's My Turn\" and \"I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can\", both starring Jill Clayburgh in the lead roles. In 1984, she starred in \"Footloose\", as the reverend's wife and Ariel's mother. Under Woody Allen's direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" in 1987 and \"Bullets over Broadway\" in 1995. She also appeared in three other Woody Allen films: \"The Purple Rose of Cairo\" (1985), \"Radio Days\" (1987) and \"September\" (1987). She followed her first Oscar success with performances in \"The Lost Boys\" (1987) and \"Bright Lights, Big City\" (1988).", "title": "Dianne Wiest" }, { "id": "1825502", "text": "Elsa the lioness Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters \"Big One\" and \"Lustica\" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few weeks old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild. Her story is told in several books by the Adamsons, as well as the 1966 motion picture \"Born Free\". Elsa and her sisters were orphaned on", "title": "Elsa the lioness" }, { "id": "13984073", "text": "was like flying a rainbow flag. Hannah was born to wander. Rachel never left Michigan, but Hannah spent time in Alaska, South America, and during WWII, stationed in New Mexico as a WAC. She had affairs with other women in her travels and they remained good friends, but Rachel always was her true love. There are many flashbacks that show Hannah and Rachel in many aspects of their relationship: being in love, making love, and arguing. In the nursing home, Hannah deals with the annoying but well-meaning staff members, a bewildered resident, a nasty evangelist, and an equally nasty Marge.", "title": "Hannah Free" }, { "id": "3197729", "text": "Tracey Gold Tracey Gold (born Tracey Claire Fisher; May 16, 1969) is an American actress and former child star best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom \"Growing Pains\". Gold was born in New York City. Her younger sister is fellow actress Missy Gold, who appeared on the sitcom \"Benson\" from 1979 to 1986; their mother, Bonnie Fisher, was an advertising executive. The name \"Gold\" is a shortened form of the name acquired by Tracey and Missy when they were adopted by Harry Goldstein, who married Fisher when Tracey was a preschooler; an actor in his own right", "title": "Tracey Gold" }, { "id": "2832749", "text": "1976), Gustaf (b. 1980), Sam (b. 1982), Bill (b. 1990), Eija (b. 1992) and Valter (b. 1995). Alexander, Gustaf, Bill and Valter are also actors, while Eija is a former model. Skarsgård and My divorced in May 2007. Stellan married Megan Everett in January 2009. The couple has two sons together Ossian and Kolbjörn. Skarsgård has had a vasectomy, stating that he felt eight children was enough. Actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly named their son Stellan after Skarsgård. Skarsgård was brought up by humanist, atheist parents and had an atheist grandfather and a deeply religious grandmother. According to Skarsgård,", "title": "Stellan Skarsgård" }, { "id": "13930543", "text": "start in 1845 when she began studying obstetrics in Okayama Domain under another of Siebold's students, , through the introduction of Ninomiya Keisaku. She cut her studies with Sōken short when in 1851 he impregnated her. She returned to Nagasaki, where she gave birth in 1852 to a daughter, whom she named , meaning \"free\", symbolizing that heaven had granted her this child \"for free\". Her account of her mother's life is amongst those that assert Ine's pregnancy resulted from Sōken having raped her, though hard evidence is lacking. Ine was to rebuff Sōken's attempts to become involved in Tada's", "title": "Kusumoto Ine" }, { "id": "18010768", "text": "Express\" (2017), and as the voice of Cottontail in \"Peter Rabbit\" (2018). Daisy Ridley was born on 10 April 1992 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Maida Vale. She is the youngest of three daughters born to Louise Fawkner-Corbett, a banker, and Christopher Ridley, a photographer. She has two older sisters, Kika Rose and Poppy Sophia. Her mother's family, the Fawkner-Corbetts, were landed gentry with a military and medical background. Her great-uncle was \"Dad's Army\" actor and playwright Arnold Ridley. While growing up, her favourite film was \"Matilda\" (1996), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's story, with the title", "title": "Daisy Ridley" }, { "id": "11237330", "text": "he fell ill almost immediately afterwards, and died soon after; his final programme was broadcast 12 days after his death. Keith married Pearl Rebuck in 1941 and their son Sir Brian Keith (born 14 April 1944) has been a High Court judge since 2001. He was the elder brother of fellow actor David Kossoff, whose son Paul Kossoff was guitarist with the rock band Free. Both he and David were children of Russian-Jewish immigrants. In the mid-1960s Keith's \"wild\" and beautiful teenaged daughter, Linda Keith, became well connected culturally in the early days of \"Swinging London\". She was photographed by", "title": "Alan Keith" }, { "id": "3907350", "text": "reside in Englewood, Florida, and have five children: Robert (who played Vinton in the 1990 film \"Goodfellas\"), Kristin, Christopher, Jennifer (who later legally changed her first name to Hannah after getting married), and Rebecca. In 2015 after contracting a serious case of shingles, Bobby Vinton retired from live performing and recording. Vinton spoke to his fans and friends in February 2018 on The Cousin Brucie Show on Sirius XM radio and encouraged all to get a shingles vaccination. He said he is very happy living in Florida enjoying his beautiful ocean views. Bobby Vinton Facebook sites are very active with", "title": "Bobby Vinton" }, { "id": "8865104", "text": "Daryl Hannah and James Remar. Terrible critical notices and a cold reception from the public combined to make \"Clan of the Cave Bear\" a less than career-building move. It was at this point that he met his future wife, Lisa Greenberg, with whom he has two children: Samuel Jackson Waites and Michaela Kate Waites. Tom next played Otis the baby-stealer in ABC's \"All My Children\" for approximately 9 months, while performing Israel Horovitz's \"North Shore Fish\" at the WPA Theater in NYC alongside John Pankow, Christine Estabrook, Wendie Malick and Laura San Giacomo. Tom also made guest appearances in such", "title": "Thomas G. Waites" }, { "id": "2265620", "text": "Marcus in a secluded hideaway, after which, all four characters were abruptly written out and number 9 was sold to Lindsey Corkhill. Although the offending Simpson characters had been quickly dispatched, other characters such as Jimmy and Lindsey Corkhill were used in many similarly sensational and often unbelievable storylines and viewers' dwindling interest in \"Brookside\" has been blamed on the overuse of these. The character of Lindsey was played by Claire Sweeney, and due to the popularity of the actress at the time, many storylines involved her and young daughter, Kylie (Hannah Dowd). In just two years, the character transformed", "title": "Brookside" }, { "id": "4050998", "text": "Woody Allen said that Farrow may indeed be Sinatra's son: \"In my opinion, he's my child … I think he is, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. I paid for child support for him for his whole childhood, and I don't think that's very fair if he's not mine.\" Ronan Farrow Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is an American journalist, lawyer, and former government advisor. He is the son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen. In late 2017, Farrow's articles in \"The New Yorker\" helped uncover the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations. For", "title": "Ronan Farrow" }, { "id": "3172287", "text": "the time. Schumacher and Marion Dougherty met with a countless number before any were cast. Schumacher envisioned the character of Star as being a waifish blonde, similar to Meg Ryan, but he was convinced by Jason Patric to consider Jami Gertz, who had just worked with Patric in \"Solarbabies\" (1986). Schumacher was impressed, but only at Patric's insistence did he finally cast Gertz. Schumacher was surprised when his first choice for the role of Lucy, Dianne Wiest, accepted the role, as she had just recently won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" (1986). After", "title": "The Lost Boys" }, { "id": "16995087", "text": "and Cole have a brief reunion with Hope before they hand her over to a grateful Marcie and her husband, Michael McBain. After overhearing Starr talking about her regrets, Marcie returns Hope to Starr on June 15, 2009. Hope's godparents are Markko Rivera and Langston Wilde. In September 2009, Cole is working undercover for the police; Starr and Hope are kidnapped by Russian mobsters on orders from Mayor Lowell. They are rescued by Brody Lovett. In October 2010, Hope and Starr are kidnapped by Elijah Clarke but escape, only to be kidnapped again by Hannah O'Connor. They later escape her", "title": "One Life to Live characters (2000s)" }, { "id": "12592801", "text": "Adoption by celebrities Josephine Baker, as a part of the Civil Rights Movement, protested against racism by adopting twelve orphans of different skin color. In the 2000s, the couples Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt and Madonna/Guy Ritchie drew media and public attention by adopting several children from Third World countries. The adoptions have been criticized because of alleged preference shown to the parents due to their wealth or celebrity status. Other celebrities who adopted children from abroad are Mia Farrow (10 children, one of them later marrying Farrow's former partner Woody Allen), Dan Marino, Sharon Stone, Ewan McGregor, Meg Ryan, Mary-Louise Parker,", "title": "Adoption by celebrities" }, { "id": "10995421", "text": "Adler was arrested in 2008 for assaulting an employee of the Fargo, North Dakota, club where he and Shwayze were performing but was released shortly after being taken into custody. Studio albums Cody Simpson - Free Selected songs Cisco Adler Cisco Sam Adler (born September 6, 1978) is an American musician and Grammy-nominated record producer. Adler is the son of music producer and film director Lou Adler and Phyllis Somer. He has an older half-brother, Nicholai Adler, from his father's relationship with actress Britt Ekland. His father is the brother-in-law of actress Daryl Hannah through his marriage to her sister", "title": "Cisco Adler" }, { "id": "20090830", "text": "mail order company for children's supplies. Schweiger married actor Til Schweiger on 19 June 1995. They have four children: Valentin Florian Schweiger (born 17 September 1995), Luna Marie Schweiger (born 11 January 1997), Lilli Camille Schweiger (born 17 July 1998), and Emma Tiger Schweiger (born 26 October 2002). Schweiger and Carlson separated in 2005 and were divorced in 2014. In July 2016, Schweiger publicly announced that she would renounce her American citizenship if Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November that year. Dana Schweiger Dana Schweiger (née Carlsen; born 29 February 1968) is an American television presenter, entrepreneur", "title": "Dana Schweiger" }, { "id": "16012263", "text": "countless productions across New Zealand and in Australia. The exhaustive and comprehensive list can be found at Theatre Aotearoa Database. Harcourt is the daughter of Dame Kate Harcourt (née Fulton) and Peter Harcourt. Her younger brother Gordon Harcourt was a presenter on \"Fair Go\". Harcourt is married to Stuart McKenzie. Together they have three children: Peter (born 1998), Thomasin McKenzie (born 2000) and Davida (born 2006). Thomasin started following her mother and grandmother into acting in 2014, portraying the teenage Louise Nicholas in the television film \"Consent\", Pixie Hannah on \"Shortland Street\", and Lucy Lewis in \"Lucy Lewis Can't Lose\".", "title": "Miranda Harcourt" }, { "id": "6568072", "text": "1901, and died at his home in St. George in 1904. Wiman was a proponent of reciprocity, now known as free trade, between Canada and the United States. Wiman had four sons, Henry, William who married Anna Deere-a great granddaughter of John Deere- the couple were the parents of Dwight Deere Wiman (Broadway producer) as well as Charles Deere Wiman; Frank and Louis, and two daughters. Grandchildren of William and Anna include Nancy \"Trink\" Deere Wiman, Anna Deere Wiman, Katherine Deere Wiman, Damaris Deere Wiman (last surviving grandchild), Mary Jane Wiman, and Patricia Deere Wiman, while some of the great", "title": "Erastus Wiman" }, { "id": "48628", "text": "Paltrow, who died of oral cancer in 2002. She and Paltrow had two children together, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. Danner co-starred with her daughter in the 1992 television film \"Cruel Doubt\" and again in the 2003 film \"Sylvia\", in which she portrayed Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth's title role of Sylvia Plath. Danner was a practitioner of transcendental meditation, which she \"found very helpful and comforting.\" Blythe Danner Blythe Katherine Danner Paltrow (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in", "title": "Blythe Danner" }, { "id": "10704561", "text": "winner Eva Avila and was a track on Avila's debut album \"Somewhere Else\". Also, along with Klaus Derendorf and Tom Nichols, Pearson also shares a writing credit in British singer and actress Dani Harmer's debut single Free, which was released in the UK on 25 May 2009, taken from Harmer's upcoming album. The song was originally recorded by Pearson herself and was made an iTunes-only B-side of her single \"Don't Miss You\" in 2007. In 2011 Pearson contributed the song \"Aftershock\" on Demi Lovato's third album Unbroken, released on 20 September 2011. Amy Pearson Amy Elizabeth Pearson (born 19 July", "title": "Amy Pearson" }, { "id": "10940957", "text": "Year at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards. Besides being a regular in King's movies, England is best known for her role as Claire in \"Free Enterprise\". She has appeared in 14 movies and has made several guest appearances on various television shows. In 1998, England was voted one of \"People\"'s \"Most Beautiful Stars.\" Audie has been married to director/producer, Peter M. Lenkov for many years and they have two sons together. Lenkov has two daughters from a previous relationship. As of 2014, she hasn't been credited on any other roles since 2000. Audie England Adrienne Marie \"Audie\" England (born", "title": "Audie England" }, { "id": "12623376", "text": "happy life with his beautiful wife throughout a five-year period. In the pilot, he has to take in his sisters three children: Jordan (Jeremy Suarez), Bryana (Dee Dee Davis) and Vanessa (Camille Winbush). At first his patience is put to the test on a daily basis from Vanessa's attitude and Jordan's insecurities, but as the show progressed, he began to love and support the children as if they were his own. He frequently threatens to beat his children, saying things like, \"Bust yo head 'til the white meat shows!\" and \"Excuse me, America...I gotta go stunt one of them kids", "title": "Bernie McCullough" }, { "id": "17077112", "text": "Parris Mosteller Parris Hank Mosteller (born July 5, 2001) is an American child actor who is best known for playing his role of Stink in \"Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer\". Mosteller was born in New York City, NY. The youngest of five children to Rosa Mosteller (née Cedarbrook). He has an older sister named Rose Josie Mosteller (born July 10, 1996) Rose Mosteller is also an actress. He has another older sister named Maisey Hattie Mosteller (born July 14, 1996) He has one more older sister named Josie McKenna Mosteller (born July 1, 1996) He spent most of", "title": "Parris Mosteller" }, { "id": "7645792", "text": "London. She is the daughter of Andrew, an entrepreneur, and Clare Gordon, a homemaker. She is the eldest of their eight children (five brothers and two sisters to her). She studied Art History and Italian at University College London and trained at the New York City method acting school Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in 2008. She graduated in 2012 from LAMDA and now lives in Los Angeles & London. She is an avid reader and enjoys tennis and horseback riding. \"Tiny Ruins: Carriages\" (video short) (post-production) Hannah Taylor-Gordon Hannah Taylor-Gordon (born 6 March 1987) is an English actress.", "title": "Hannah Taylor-Gordon" }, { "id": "1283819", "text": "Baker launched a brief comedy career. He played Casanova in the 1993 movie \"UFO\" In November 2009, his biography, \"From Tiny Acorns: The Kenny Baker Story\", was written with Ken Mills and published by Writestuff Autographs. Baker resided in Preston, Lancashire. He was married to actress Eileen Baker (who co-starred with him in the 1977 film \"Wombling Free\") from 1970 until she died in 1993. Although Eileen also had dwarfism, this was not inherited by their two children. Baker was invited to attend the premiere of \"\" in Los Angeles in December 2015, but was too ill to travel to", "title": "Kenny Baker (English actor)" }, { "id": "17003852", "text": "Greer Grammer Kandace Greer Grammer (born February 15, 1992) is an American actress and former beauty queen. She is best known for her role as Lissa Miller in the hit MTV series \"Awkward\". Grammer was born in Los Angeles, California to actor Kelsey Grammer and make-up artist Barrie Buckner. Her parents were never married. Through her father, she has three half-sisters: Spencer (born 1983), Mason (born 2001), and Faith (born 2012) and three half-brothers: Jude (born 2004), Gabriel (born 2014), and James (born 2016). She was raised primarily by her mother in Malibu, California. She was named after actress Greer", "title": "Greer Grammer" }, { "id": "1935238", "text": "and later formed Free\". In 2018 a CD/DVD set was released which captured the final show from the ‘Free Spirit’ tour filmed at the Royal Albert Hall on 28 May 2017. In the summer of 2018 Rodgers toured with Jeff Beck. Paul Rodgers married Machiko Shimizu in 1971, and has two children from that marriage, Steve and Jasmine. The two children are also musicians and singers who formed a band, Bôa, in the 1990s. Paul Rodgers also has another child from a previous relationship who resides in his hometown of Middlesbrough, England. Rodgers and Shimizu divorced in 1996. On 26", "title": "Paul Rodgers" }, { "id": "12317775", "text": "Fritz Von Erich, and she is the daughter of Kerry Von Erich. She has an older sister named Hollie. She has two sons; Daniel and a son named Tripp born on August 30, 2012. In 2016, she gave birth to her first daughter, Barbara. Adkisson runs her own advertising company in Southern California. In early 2009, she was diagnosed with meningitis after complaining of a migraine, but made a full recovery. Von Erich defended the title with either Rayne or Sky under the Freebird Rule. Lacey Von Erich Lacey Dawn Adkisson (born July 17, 1986) is an American retired professional", "title": "Lacey Von Erich" }, { "id": "1065560", "text": "and Elliot's marriage that had been conveyed to Holly through Lee (having been transmitted first from Elliot). Although this threatens to expose the affair between Elliot and Lee, Elliot soon disavows disclosing any such details. Holly sets aside her script, and instead writes a story inspired by her own life, which Mickey reads and admires greatly, vowing to help her get it produced and leading to their second date. A minor arc in the film tells part of the story of Norma and Evan. They are the parents of Hannah and her two sisters, and still have acting careers of", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "3319932", "text": "explains that William wishes to practice being a good father; and \"Dudley Pippin\" with Robert Morse and Billy De Wolfe, based on stories by Phil Ressner. A number of pieces from the record did not make the special, most for lack of time, although \"Housework\" was left off due to the somewhat condescending tone it lent to its' description of domestic workers. Marlo Thomas says in the Emmy Legends 40th anniversary interview: The children pictured on the original LP jacket were schoolmates of Abigail, Robin, and David Pogrebin, children of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, then editor of \"Ms.\" Most of the", "title": "Free to Be... You and Me" }, { "id": "5547649", "text": "The Parent Trap (1998 film) The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner's German novel \"Lottie and Lisa\" (\"Das doppelte Lottchen\"). Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson star as a divorced couple who separated shortly after their identical twin daughters' birth; Lindsay Lohan stars (in her film debut) as both twins, Hallie Parker and Annie James, who are fortuitously reunited at summer camp after being separated at birth.", "title": "The Parent Trap (1998 film)" }, { "id": "11895502", "text": "of Perth. Ledger had relationships with actresses Lisa Zane, Heather Graham and Naomi Watts. In 2004, he met and began dating actress Michelle Williams on the set of \"Brokeback Mountain\". Their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born on 28 October 2005 in New York City. Matilda's godparents are \"Brokeback\" co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and Williams' \"Dawson's Creek\" co-star Busy Philipps. In January 2006, Ledger put his residence in Bronte, New South Wales up for sale, and returned to the United States, where he shared a house with Williams, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, from 2005 to 2007. In September 2007, Williams' father confirmed", "title": "Heath Ledger" }, { "id": "17442508", "text": "taken away from home in the middle of the night on accusations that he and Charles Taylor have embezzled aid relief for their own personal use. Woodrow is eventually able to successfully free himself but as a condition of his release Hannah is forced to return to America without her sons. Hannah is secretly relieved at the idea of abandoning her children and husband, though she mourns her separation from her chimpanzees. In America Hannah decides to visit her parents for the first time in 15 years. After surprising her mother she learns that her father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage", "title": "The Darling (novel)" }, { "id": "1065557", "text": "television writer, is present mostly in scenes outside of the primary story. Flashbacks reveal that his marriage to Hannah fell apart after they were unable to have children because of his infertility. However, they had twins who are not biologically his, before divorcing. He also went on a disastrous date with Hannah's sister Holly, when they were set up after the divorce. A hypochondriac, he goes to his doctor complaining of hearing loss, and is frightened by the possibility that it might be a brain tumor. When tests prove that he is perfectly healthy, he is initially overjoyed, but then", "title": "Hannah and Her Sisters" }, { "id": "5777167", "text": "as Alfalfa, and Ross Bagley as Buckwheat; with cameos by the Olsen twins, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Reba McEntire, Daryl Hannah, Donald Trump and Raven-Symoné. \"The Little Rascals\" was a moderate success for Universal, bringing in $51,764,950 at the box office. In 2014, Universal Pictures released a direct-to-video film, \"The Little Rascals Save the Day\". This was a second film loosely based on the series and featuring interpretations of classic \"Our Gang\" shorts, including \"Helping Grandma\", \"Mike Fright\", and \"Birthday Blues\". The film was directed by Alex Zamm, and starred Jet Jurgensmeyer as Spanky, Drew Justice as Alfalfa, Eden Wood", "title": "Our Gang" }, { "id": "900356", "text": "Bonnie Franklin, Melissa Gilbert, Danielle Brisebois, Erika Eleniak, Max Pomeranc, Christina Ricci, Shelley Fabares, Candace Cameron Bure, Karron Graves, Gaby Hoffmann, Hilary Duff, Molly Ringwald, Stacy Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lisa Whelchel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Soleil Moon Frye, Melissa Joan Hart, Dean Stockwell, Fred Savage, Neil Patrick Harris, Michelle Chia, Shawn Lee, Joshua Ang, Aloysius Pang, and other Academy Award winners and nominees include; Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt, Irene Cara, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank, Christian Bale, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Many actors' careers are short-lived and this is also", "title": "Child actor" }, { "id": "4536582", "text": "\"I Am Elizabeth Smart\" as Brian David Mitchell, based on the 2002 abduction and captivity of Elizabeth Smart. In 1997, Ulrich married English actress Georgina Cates, whom he met at an Academy Awards party. Their wedding was a small ceremony held on their farmland in Madison County, Virginia, with only the preacher and their canine companions as guests. Together, the couple have twins, son Jakob Dylan and daughter Naiia Rose, born in 2001. Skeet and Georgina divorced in 2005, citing irreconcilable differences. In February 2013, Ulrich was in court for a contempt hearing in which it was alleged he owed", "title": "Skeet Ulrich" }, { "id": "12785980", "text": "romance with co-star Billy Campbell. They were involved for five years before they broke up in 1996. Connelly then had a relationship with photographer David Dugan, with whom she had a son, Kai, born in 1997. On January 1, 2003, in a private family ceremony in Scotland she married actor Paul Bettany, whom she had met while working on \"A Beautiful Mind\". The couple's first child Stellan was born on August 5 the same year. She gave birth to her third child, Agnes, on May 31, 2011, in New York City. On November 14, 2005, Connelly was named Amnesty International", "title": "Jennifer Connelly" }, { "id": "353260", "text": "its stock. In 2007, the company issued Murdoch's older children voting stock. Murdoch has two children with Wendi Deng: Grace (b. New York, 19 November 2001) and Chloe (b. New York, 17 July 2003). It was revealed in September 2011 that Tony Blair is Grace's godfather. There is reported to be tension between Murdoch and his oldest children over the terms of a trust holding the family's 28.5% stake in News Corporation, estimated in 2005 to be worth about $6.1 billion. Under the trust, his children by Wendi Deng share in the proceeds of the stock but have no voting", "title": "Rupert Murdoch" }, { "id": "3466294", "text": "origins (though not as humble as he claims). He marries Mr. Gradgrind's daughter Louisa, some 30 years his junior, in what turns out to be a loveless marriage. They have no children. Bounderby is callous, self-centred and ultimately revealed to be a liar and fraud. Louisa (Loo) Gradgrind, later Louisa Bounderby, is the eldest child of the Gradgrind family. She has been taught to suppress her feelings and finds it hard to express herself clearly, saying as a child that she has \"unmanageable thoughts.\" After her unhappy marriage, she is tempted to adultery by James Harthouse, but resists him and", "title": "Hard Times (novel)" }, { "id": "1455295", "text": "on CNN on April 13, 2009, Hurt's agent declined to respond, but Hurt issued a statement the following day, which said: \"My own recollection is that we both apologized and both did a great deal to heal our lives. Of course, I did and do apologize for any pain I caused. And I know we have both grown. I wish Marlee and her family nothing but good.\" Hurt has four children: one with Sandra Jennings, two with Heidi Henderson, and one with French actress, film director and screenwriter Sandrine Bonnaire. During filming of \"Kiss of the Spider Woman\", Hurt and", "title": "William Hurt" }, { "id": "12446503", "text": "2011. Len Green (Pete Postlethwaite) is a bank robber. During his long career as a getaway driver, he has served many sentences and spent a fair proportion of his life behind bars. Now middle-aged, with a very expensive house, bought with the proceeds of the robberies, and an attractive wife, Gloria (Geraldine James) and five daughters, four of whom are grown up – Faith (Claire Rushbrook), Hope (Kaye Wragg), Chastity (Laura Rogers), Charity (Caroline Hayes) and Dolores (Billie Cook) (the only one who is still a child) – to whom he is devoted, he resolves to change his lifestyle and", "title": "The Sins" }, { "id": "11342394", "text": "Coretta Coretta (foaled February 11, 1994 in Ireland) is a Thoroughbred racemare who competed in the United States. She was bred and raced by Gerald Leigh, proprietor of England's Eydon Hall Stud. Leigh owned and bred her dam, Free At Last, who was a daughter of the 1978 Epsom and Irish Derby winner, Shirley Heights. A philanthropist with a strong social conscience who was a member of the Council of Management for the Animal Health Trust, Gerald Leigh named Free At Last for those words contained in Martin Luther King's August 28, 1963, \"I Have a Dream\" speech. Leigh named", "title": "Coretta" }, { "id": "15523174", "text": "Paul Young, Mary Alice's imprisoned widower. Kathryn Joosten (Karen McCluskey), Kevin Rahm (Lee McDermott) and Tuc Watkins (Bob Hunter), all of whom were \"starring\" castmembers in the previous season, were demoted to \"also starring\" in this season. Also starring were Charlie Carver, Joshua Logan Moore and Darcy Rose Byrnes respectively as Porter, Parker and Penny Scavo, Lynette's children, as well as child actor Mason Vale Cotton portraying M.J. Delfino, Susan's son. Many established guest stars and former regulars reprised their roles in this season, and new ones were introduced. Part of Gabrielle's storyline were Tony Plana portraying Alejandro Perez, Gabrielle's", "title": "Desperate Housewives (season 8)" }, { "id": "9661046", "text": "2012. She is also the ex-sister-in-law to Swedish soccer player Magnus Hedman, who was married to her sister Magdalena. The Sisters made \"Time\" Magazine's List of European Heroes for their charity work. Magdalena along with Hannah have donated earnings from their modeling to aid orphanages in Nagpur in central India. The sisters maintain that they never have strayed too far from their Pentecostal upbringing and that their commitment for charity was inherited from their mother Linda Bergling who worked as a missionary in Asia and Africa. Not only have the donated money to the cause but they have built two", "title": "Hannah Graaf" }, { "id": "16003890", "text": "1986 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 21st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1987, honored the best filmmaking of 1986. 1. Blue Velvet<br> 2. \"Hannah and Her Sisters\"<br> 3. \"Platoon\" 1. David Lynch – \"Blue Velvet\"<br> 2. Andrei Tarkovsky – \"The Sacrifice\" (\"Offret\")<br> 3. Oliver Stone – \"Platoon\" and \"Salvador\" 1. Bob Hoskins – \"Mona Lisa\"<br> 2. Jeff Goldblum – \"The Fly\"<br> 3. Paul Newman – \"The Color of Money\" 1. Chloe Webb – \"Sid and Nancy\"<br> 2. Sandrine Bonnaire – \"Vagabond\" (\"Sans toit ni loi\")<br> 2. Kathleen Turner – \"Peggy Sue Got Married\"", "title": "1986 National Society of Film Critics Awards" }, { "id": "16912344", "text": "Nightshade (1995) A break in the country has sinister repercussions for the Brady Family. \"Cast includes: Emily Richard, Simon Ward, Jarrah Venables\" The Gingerbread House (1996) Two children are left alone in the house of their dead grandfather. \"Cast includes: Danielle Hawley, Danny Barnham, Ian Johnstone, Gordon Griffin, Brian Sibley, Wendy Jones, Patsy Byrne\" Awayday (1997) \"Cast includes: Daniel Cogan, David Comerford, Tom Golding, Shanie Hanley, Rachel Malin\" The CFU continued to operate for the first decade of the new millennium, but lack of funding prevented them from making any further feature films. On 9 August 2011 the Children's Film", "title": "Children's Film Unit" }, { "id": "5757885", "text": "Sicangco in a Muslim ceremony at the New Bilibid Prison social hall. He was granted a conditional pardon and released in 1998 by President Fidel Ramos. In November 2016, Padilla was granted an absolute pardon from President Rodrigo Duterte to endow him full civil and political rights. He has four children with Liezl: a son named Ali and three daughters: Queenie, Kylie, who are actresses, and Zhen-Zhen. He also has a daughter named Camille Orosa, a model and aspiring actress, with former model Leah Orosa. He is Bela, Daniel Padilla, and Mark Anthony Fernandez's uncle. Robin is also the great", "title": "Robin Padilla" }, { "id": "5186842", "text": "her breakout role. In 2002, she was given the role of Gretel in the motion picture: \"Hansel and Gretel\", as well as Alexandra, the President's daughter, in \"\". Momsen's career came to a halt for over three years until she received a lead role in the WB series \"Misconceptions\", which never aired. After that, she also appeared in the 2006 film \"Saving Shiloh\". She also auditioned for the title role in \"Hannah Montana\", and was in the top three, but the role was instead awarded to Miley Cyrus—a decision that Momsen was happy with in retrospect. In 2007, she starred", "title": "Taylor Momsen" }, { "id": "13427528", "text": "Polly Duniam Polly Duniam (born 15 March 1987 in London, England) is a British actress, dancer and model. Along with her twin sister, Sophie Duniam, she gained fame in the BBC series \"Home Farm Twins\" portraying Hannah Moore, one of the twins in the title during the late 1990s. She grew up in Cromer, Norfolk with a love of dancing and singing that stems from her dance instructor mother. This helped both sisters gain a year-long contract with \"We Will Rock You\" in their mid teens. Both twins have been touring with the Pet Shop Boys on an 18-month contract.", "title": "Polly Duniam" }, { "id": "4854378", "text": "attempting to work things out, stating, \"Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps back to move forward\". In April 2009, Pink stated that the couple had gone to marriage counseling and were back together – they were never divorced. In June 2011, Hart and Pink welcomed their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage. The couple released photographs of their daughter via People Magazine. The money paid to the Harts was donated to children's charities among them was the Ronald McDonald House and Autism Speaks. On November 12, 2016, Pink announced she was expecting her second child with", "title": "Carey Hart" } ]

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[ { "id": "14386167", "text": "up with Marshall Thompson and Creadel \"Red\" Jones of the Desideros to form the Hi-lites. Noting that the name Hi-lites was already in use, and wishing to add a tribute to their home town of Chicago, they changed their name to \"The Chi-Lites\" in 1964. Clarence Johnson left later that year, and their name was subsequently shortened to the Chi-Lites. Eugene Record was the musical group's primary songwriter and lead singer, though he frequently collaborated with others, including Barbara Acklin. Their major hits came in 1971 and 1972, \"Have You Seen Her\" and \"Oh Girl\", the latter becoming a #1", "title": "The Chi-Lites" }, { "id": "1531390", "text": "recordings which established Brunswick as a major force in R&B and soul music in the mid-1960s and into the 1970s were supervised by producer Carl Davis in Chicago. He joined the label after helping to revive Jackie Wilson's recording career with his production on Wilson's 1966 hit, \"Whispers\". Wilson and Davis collaborated the following year for one of the label's biggest selling singles, \"Higher And Higher\", which sold over two million copies (No. 1 R&B, No. 5 pop). The Chi-Lites recorded two No. 1 R&B hits in the 1970s for Brunswick, \"Have You Seen Her\" and \"Oh Girl\", both co-written", "title": "Brunswick Records" }, { "id": "5161372", "text": "up with two members of another local group to form The Hi-Lites and eventually changing the name to The Chi-Lites. After a few unsuccessful singles, the group was signed by Brunswick production chief in Chicago, Carl Davies. Record wrote or co-wrote (often with singer Barbara Acklin) a long series of hits for the group, including million-sellers,\"Have You Seen Her\" and \"Oh Girl\", as well as major hits, such as \"Homely Girl\" and \"Give More Power To The People\". He also wrote and produced for other artists, mostly on Brunswick, including Acklin, Jackie Wilson, The Lost Generation, Otis Leavill, and later,", "title": "Eugene Record" }, { "id": "5093782", "text": "Barbara Acklin Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter, who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was \"Love Makes a Woman\" (1968). As a songwriter, she is best known for co-writing the multi-million-selling \"Have You Seen Her\" (1971) with Eugene Record, lead singer of the Chi-Lites. Acklin was born in Oakland, California and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois in 1948. She was encouraged to sing as a child; by the age of 11, she sang regularly as a soloist at", "title": "Barbara Acklin" }, { "id": "5093774", "text": "Barbara Acklin Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter, who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was \"Love Makes a Woman\" (1968). As a songwriter, she is best known for co-writing the multi-million-selling \"Have You Seen Her\" (1971) with Eugene Record, lead singer of the Chi-Lites. Acklin was born in Oakland, California and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois in 1948. She was encouraged to sing as a child; by the age of 11, she sang regularly as a soloist at", "title": "Barbara Acklin" }, { "id": "9844751", "text": "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People is the third studio album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1971 on the Brunswick label. The album includes the hit single \"Have You Seen Her\", which reached No. 1 on the R&B chart and No. 3 on \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It was also successful on the UK Singles Chart, reaching No. 32. The song was later covered by MC Hammer in 1990. The title track, which peaked", "title": "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People" }, { "id": "5093779", "text": "Call It Trouble\" (1973). At the same time, she continued her successful writing partnership with Eugene Record. Impressed by the monologues on Isaac Hayes' album \"Hot Buttered Soul\" (1969), Record and Acklin wrote \"Have You Seen Her\", which was originally an album track on the Chi-Lites' album \"(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People\" (1971) before being released as a single. It reached no. 1 on the R&B chart and no. 3 on the US pop chart, and twice made the UK top ten (no. 3 in 1972 and no. 5 in 1975). In 1990, the song became", "title": "Barbara Acklin" }, { "id": "3697839", "text": "Clark's departure in 1966 and Crosby's growing restlessness allowed Hillman the opportunity to develop as a singer and songwriter in the group. He came into his own on the Byrds' 1967 album \"Younger Than Yesterday\", co-writing and sharing lead vocals with McGuinn on the hit \"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star\". Hillman also wrote (and sang) the minor hit \"Have You Seen Her Face\", \"Thoughts and Words\", \"Time Between\" and \"The Girl with No Name\", the latter two demonstrating his bluegrass and country roots. Hillman's prominence continued with the Byrds' next album, \"The Notorious Byrd Brothers\",", "title": "Chris Hillman" }, { "id": "14230460", "text": "stalled in the lower reaches of both the pop and R&B charts, but did become a top 5 hit in the UK. After the release of \"Half a Love\", The Chi-Lites released three further non-album singles for Brunswick before leaving the company in 1976. Their final Brunswick release \"You Don't Have to Go\" passed by largely unnoticed in the US, but was a major 1976 summer hit in the UK where it became jointly the group's highest-charting single, matching the #3 position reached by \"Have You Seen Her\" over four years earlier. The 1999 Edsel Records reissue of \"Half a", "title": "Half a Love" }, { "id": "9482627", "text": "the age of 56. Tarnopol's best known hit recordings were “Oh Girl” and “Have You Seen Her” by the Chi-Lites, the Young-Holt Unlimited’s “Soulful Strut” and “Wack Wack,” the Tyrone Davis classics “Turn Back The Hands Of Time” and “Can I Change My Mind” and Jackie Wilson's “Lonely Teardrops,” “Baby Workout” and “Higher & Higher.” Many of the songs that Tarnopol first recorded have been sampled by artists such as Jay-Z, Paul Wall, Fantasia, Jaheim, Joss Stone and Beyoncé. Brunswick Records is still owned by the Tarnopol family and Nat's son Paul is president of the company. Nat, his wife", "title": "Nat Tarnopol" }, { "id": "8487861", "text": "Have You Seen Her \"Have You Seen Her\" is a song recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites, and released on Brunswick Records in 1971. Composed by the lead singer Eugene Record and Barbara Acklin, the song was included on the group's 1971 album \"(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People\". The Chi-Lites recorded \"Have You Seen Her\" in a style owing much to the doo-wop traditions of the late 1950s, after the success of another such song earlier in the year, The Temptations' \"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me).\" The song begins and ends with", "title": "Have You Seen Her" }, { "id": "8487864", "text": "\"Sleepwalking\". In 2013, voice actors Rob Paulsen and John DiMaggio performed a short parody version mocking the Anthony Weiner Scandal. They incorrectly attributed the song to The Stylistics. The song was included in the 2001 list of songs that Clear Channel Communications warned its radio stations that they \"might not want to play\" after 9/11 - presumably because family members and loved ones of the victims and those missing would find the lyrics unsettling. Have You Seen Her \"Have You Seen Her\" is a song recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites, and released on Brunswick Records in 1971.", "title": "Have You Seen Her" }, { "id": "8487863", "text": "the Billboard R&B Singles chart in November 1971. It also reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1972. The most significant cover of \"Have You Seen Her\" was recorded by MC Hammer, for his successful 1990 LP, \"Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em\", which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #8 on the UK Singles Chart. The Barron Knights produced a parody version. Patrick Simmons (of The Doobie Brothers) recorded a cover version on his 1983 solo album \"Arcade\". \"X Factor series 2\" contestant Maria Lawson used a sample of the song for her 2006 debut single", "title": "Have You Seen Her" }, { "id": "5161374", "text": "several albums on various labels before leaving again. Becoming a born-again Christian, he produced a gospel album on his own Evergreen label. He also continued to make occasional guest appearances with the group. In 1978, he appeared on \"Saturday Night Live\" with Michael Palin. He performed \"Have You Seen Her\" and \"Trying to Get to You\". He is a co-writer of the 2003 Beyoncé hit record \"Crazy in Love\", thanks to its sampling of the Chi-Lites' \"Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)\". His writing contribution earned him a Grammy award. He died on July 22, 2005, in Chicago, after", "title": "Eugene Record" }, { "id": "8487843", "text": "Oh Girl \"Oh Girl\" is a single recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites and released on Brunswick Records in 1972. Included on the group's 1972 album \"A Lonely Man\", \"Oh Girl\" centers on a relationship on the verge of break-up. The song is led by Eugene Record, who also wrote and produced it. \"Oh Girl\" was the Chi-Lites' first and only No. 1 single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at that position in May 1972 for one week. The single also reached the top position of the \"Billboard\" R&B Singles chart the following month, remaining in that", "title": "Oh Girl" }, { "id": "2450321", "text": "the 20th century, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which center around \"The Day the Music Died\" and popular music of the rock era. The early 1970s marked the departure of Diana Ross from The Supremes and the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel. Ross, Simon and Art Garfunkel all continued hugely successful recording careers throughout the decade and beyond. Several of their songs are listed among the biggest hits of the 1970s: Simon & Garfunkel's \"Bridge Over Troubled Water,\" Simon's solo hit \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,\" and Ross' \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough.\" Country rock, formed from", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "8487844", "text": "position for two weeks. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 13 song for 1972. In addition, it reached No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1972. The song prominently features a harmonica. Oh Girl \"Oh Girl\" is a single recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites and released on Brunswick Records in 1972. Included on the group's 1972 album \"A Lonely Man\", \"Oh Girl\" centers on a relationship on the verge of break-up. The song is led by Eugene Record, who also wrote and produced it. \"Oh Girl\" was the Chi-Lites' first and only No. 1 single", "title": "Oh Girl" }, { "id": "4711604", "text": "\"Time Between\" and \"The Girl with No Name\"—like \"Mr. Spaceman\" from the band's previous album—anticipated the experimentation with country music that would color the Byrds' subsequent albums. In addition to these two country-tinged songs, Hillman also contributed the LSD-influenced \"Thoughts and Words\", a metaphysical meditation on human relationships that featured the sitar-like sound of backwards guitar effects. A fourth Hillman-penned song on the album, the British Invasion-influenced \"Have You Seen Her Face\", was considered commercial enough to be issued as a single in the U.S. some months after the release of the album. Tim Connors had remarked on his Byrdwatcher", "title": "Younger Than Yesterday" }, { "id": "6725687", "text": "Charlie, 'O.K., release it. I bet it does nothing.'\" \"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet\" debuted at number 65 on September 21, 1974 and shot to the top of the Hot 100 seven weeks later. It was the only US number 1 single in BTO's history. (While in The Guess Who, Randy had penned only one other chart-topper, \"American Woman\", which hit number 1 in 1970.) \"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet\" also holds the record for falling farthest on the chart before returning to the Top 10. After falling to number 34 two weeks after being in the number 1 spot,", "title": "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Bachman–Turner Overdrive song)" }, { "id": "11437239", "text": "topping hit with \"Want Ads\", as did Labelle with \"Lady Marmalade\" and A Taste of Honey with \"Boogie Oogie Oogie\". Other examples of the girl group were Love Unlimited and The Three Degrees who scored a number two pop hit with \"When Will I See You Again\" but topped the chart when they teamed with Mother, Sister, Father, Brother (MSFB) on the Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP). The Commodores were another group that played from a diverse repertoire, including R&B, funk, and pop. Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "2971426", "text": "Betty Boo Alison Moira Clarkson (born 6 March 1970 in Kensington, London), better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and pop rap artist. She first came to mainstream prominence in the late 1980s following a collaboration with The Beatmasters on the song \"Hey DJ/I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)\". Between 1990 and 1992 she had a successful solo career, which spawned a number of chart-placing singles, most notably \"Doin' the Do\", \"Where Are You Baby?\", and \"Let Me Take You There\". Clarkson studied sound engineering at the Holloway School of Audio Engineering before having a", "title": "Betty Boo" }, { "id": "8695466", "text": "led him to country. He signed first with Mega Records and then with Shannon Records and later on with ABC Records and Elektra Records. After releasing the 1970 cult classic \"Same People That You Meet Going Up You Meet Coming Down\" on Dunhill Records, Head's music reached the U.S. country music Top 100 24 times by the mid-1980s, while landing three Top 20 hits: \"The Most Wanted Woman in Town\", (1975) \"Come To Me\" and \"Now You See Em, Now You Don't\" both in 1977 and recorded on the ABC/Dot label reaching No. 16 and No. 19, respectively. Even the", "title": "Roy Head" }, { "id": "2450341", "text": "Sedaka (\"Laughter in the Rain\" and \"Bad Blood\", both 1975), and Frankie Valli as both a solo artist (1975's \"My Eyes Adored You\") and with The Four Seasons (1976's \"December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)\"). In addition, Perry Como—one of the most successful pre-rock era artists—enjoyed continued success, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale (as most of his fans were adults who grew up during the 1940s and early 1950s, and not the rock record-buying youth); his most successful hits of the decade were \"It's Impossible\" (1970) and the Don McLean song \"And I Love Her So\" (1973). Two of", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "2722618", "text": "from The Supremes's \"Baby Love\" (1964), Aretha Franklin's \"Rock Steady\" (1971) and Irene Cara's \"What A Feeling\" (1983), respectively. \"60s 70s 80s\" became a huge success in Japan, reaching number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, and sold over 293,000 units in that region, becoming Amuro's first number-one single since \"I Have Never Seen\" and her highest selling single since \"Baby Don't Cry\". On March 25, 2008, Amuro was awarded \"Best Female Video\" for \"Hide & Seek\" (from the album \"Play\") at Space Shower Music Video Awards. \"Hide & Seek\" also won the award for \"Best R&B Video\" at MTV", "title": "Namie Amuro" }, { "id": "2450332", "text": "'Til You Get Enough\" and \"Rock with You.\" The Commodores were another group that played from a diverse repertoire, including R&B, funk and pop. Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the group's biggest 1970s hits, including \"Easy,\" \"Three Times a Lady\" and \"Still.\" Some of the more notable pop groups during the 1970s were the Carpenters, the Jackson 5, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Bee Gees, Electric Light Orchestra, the Eagles and Gladys Knight & the Pips. Male soloists who characterized the pop music", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "2450373", "text": "as Restless Heart and Exile, the latter which previously enjoyed success with the pop hit \"Kiss You All Over\". Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans. George Jones, one of the longest-running acts of the time, recorded several successful singles, including the critically acclaimed \"He Stopped Loving Her Today\". Conway Twitty continued to have a series of No. 1 hits, with 1986's \"Desperado Love\" becoming his 40th chart-topper on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart, a record that stood for nearly 20 years. The movie \"Coal Miner's", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1980s" }, { "id": "12565650", "text": "Restless Heart and Exile, the latter which previously enjoyed success with the pop hit \"Kiss You All Over\". Despite the prevailing pop country sound, enduring acts from the 1970s and earlier continued to enjoy great success with fans. George Jones, one of the longest-running acts of the time, recorded several successful singles, including the critically acclaimed \"He Stopped Loving Her Today\". Conway Twitty continued to have a series of No. 1 hits, with 1986's \"Desperado Love\" becoming his 40th chart-topper on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart, a record that stood for nearly 20 years. The movie \"Coal Miner's Daughter\"", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "2971441", "text": "at the Penn Festival. Betty Boo Alison Moira Clarkson (born 6 March 1970 in Kensington, London), better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and pop rap artist. She first came to mainstream prominence in the late 1980s following a collaboration with The Beatmasters on the song \"Hey DJ/I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)\". Between 1990 and 1992 she had a successful solo career, which spawned a number of chart-placing singles, most notably \"Doin' the Do\", \"Where Are You Baby?\", and \"Let Me Take You There\". Clarkson studied sound engineering at the Holloway School of Audio", "title": "Betty Boo" }, { "id": "2450336", "text": "success with country audiences through radio airplay and sales. The most successful of these artists included The Bellamy Brothers, Charlie Rich, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas and Kenny Rogers. Newton-John, an Australian pop singer, was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, sparking a debate that continues to this day — what is country music? A group of traditional-minded artists, troubled by this trend, formed the short-lived Association of Country Entertainers, in an attempt to bring back traditional honky-tonk sounds to the forefront. The debate continued into 1975, a year where six", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "1134497", "text": "the studio sequences, owing to her touring schedule, in the Band's \"The Last Waltz\", singing \"Evangeline\". Burton left the Hot Band in 1976, choosing to remain with Elvis Presley's band, and was replaced by English guitarist Albert Lee. Harris's commercial apex was \"Luxury Liner\", released in 1977, which remains one of her definitive records. On \"Luxury Liner\", Harris's mix of songs from Chuck Berry (\"(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie\"), Gram Parsons (the title track and \"She\"), the Carter Family (\"Hello Stranger\") and Kitty Wells (\"Making Believe\") illustrate a continuity and artistic merit to country music often overlooked at", "title": "Emmylou Harris" }, { "id": "13679557", "text": "Yesterday\" he is credited as the sole songwriter of four tracks, as well as the co-writer of \"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star\" with Jim McGuinn. Critics have made mention of the song's strident structure and melody, which was greatly influenced by the British Invasion groups of the mid-1960s and complemented by Hillman's melodic, Paul McCartney-esque bass playing. The song also features a faux country and western lead guitar solo played by McGuinn on rhythm guitarist David Crosby's Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar. \"Have You Seen Her Face\" was released as the third single to be taken", "title": "Have You Seen Her Face" }, { "id": "1455521", "text": "been and continues to be used in many filmmaking and television shows to date, and appears on soundtrack/compilation albums as well. Follow-up successes included a cover of the Chi-Lites' \"Have You Seen Her\" and \"Pray\" (a beat sampled from Prince's \"When Doves Cry\" and Faith No More's \"We Care a Lot\"), which was his biggest hit in the US, peaking at No. 2. \"Pray\" was also a major UK success, peaking at No. 8. The album went on to become the first hip-hop album to earn diamond status, selling more than 18 million units to date. During 1990, Hammer toured", "title": "MC Hammer" }, { "id": "13679556", "text": "Have You Seen Her Face \"Have You Seen Her Face\" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by the group's bass player Chris Hillman and included on their 1967 album \"Younger Than Yesterday\". \"Have You Seen Her Face\" was written following a recording session for trumpet player Hugh Masekela, which Hillman attended in 1966. Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan has commented that the bassist blossomed as a songwriter during that year. On the Byrds' previous album, \"Fifth Dimension\", Hillman's only songwriting contribution had been a shared writing credit for the instrumental \"Captain Soul\", but on \"Younger Than", "title": "Have You Seen Her Face" }, { "id": "10884849", "text": "with: Mouth & MacNeal. This duo scored big hits not only in their homeland but also abroad between 1971 and 1974: Luv' (1977–present) is a female pop trio he formed with the help from Piet Souer and a manager, Han Meijer (later replaced by Pim Ter Linde). This girl group had popular hit records in large part of Continental Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among their hit singles were: \"U.O.Me\", \"You're the Greatest Lover\", \"Trojan Horse\", \"Casanova\" and \"Ooh, Yes I Do\". This formation sold seven million records. In addition", "title": "Hans van Hemert" }, { "id": "11437254", "text": "of the late 1950s and early 1960s successfully revived their careers during the early- to mid-1970s after several years of inactivity. The most successful of these were Ricky Nelson (\"Garden Party\", 1972), Paul Anka (\"(You're) Having My Baby\", 1974), Neil Sedaka (\"Laughter in the Rain\" and \"Bad Blood\", both 1975), and Frankie Valli as both a solo artist (1975's \"My Eyes Adored You\") and with The Four Seasons (1976's \"December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)\"). In addition, Perry Como—one of the most successful pre-rock era artists—enjoyed continued success, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale (as most of his fans were", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "4193290", "text": "publicly since his last tour ended in October 2015. Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Dr. Hook (shortened from Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show in 1975), an American blue-eyed soul, rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including \"Sylvia's Mother\", \"The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'\" (both 1972), \"Only Sixteen\" (1975), \"A Little Bit More\" (1976), \"Sharing the Night Together\" (1978), \"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman\" (1979), \"Better Love Next Time\" (1979), and \"Sexy Eyes\" (1980). In addition to their own material, Dr. Hook and", "title": "Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show" }, { "id": "14124682", "text": "girl groups cemented the girl group form and sentiment and provided inspiration for many future groups. Entering the 1970s, The Supremes had continued success with top 10 hits \"Up the Ladder to the Roof\" and \"Stoned Love\" along with six other singles charting on Billboard's top 40. Only two other girl groups made top 10 chartings through 1974 with \"Want Ads\" by Honey Cone and \"When Will I See You Again\" by the Three Degrees (which had roots in the 1960s and in 1970, like the Chantels in 1958, began their top 40 pop career with \"Maybe\"). Patti LaBelle and", "title": "Girl group" }, { "id": "11437229", "text": "Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Barry White, and Rod Stewart. Female soloists who epitomized the 1970s included Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge, Olivia Newton-John and Helen Reddy. Some of the most popular music acts of the day got their own network television variety shows, which were very popular in the 70s. Acts like Sonny & Cher, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Tony Orlando and Dawn, husband and wife team Captain & Tennille, brother and sister Donny & Marie Osmond. Soft rock was prominently featured on many Top", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "5620866", "text": "Stevie Wright Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock and roll band the Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. Early hits for the Easybeats were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including, \"She's So Fine\" (No. 3, 1965), \"Wedding Ring\" (No. 7, 1965), \"Women (Make You Feel Alright)\" (No. 4, 1966), \"Come and See Her\" (No. 3, 1966), \"I'll Make You", "title": "Stevie Wright" }, { "id": "1297229", "text": "no longer give encores at its live shows. \"Pendulum\", released in December 1970, was another top seller, spawning a Top 10 hit with \"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?\". John Fogerty included Hammond B3 Organ on many of the \"Pendulum\" tracks, notably \"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?\", in recognition of the deep respect and influence of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, with whom the members of the band had jammed. The single's flip side, \"Hey Tonight\", was also a hit. Tom Fogerty decided he had had enough of his younger brother and resigned from CCR in late 1970 after", "title": "Creedence Clearwater Revival" }, { "id": "9694109", "text": "Sleepwalking (Maria Lawson song) \"Sleepwalking\" is the debut single from \"The X Factor\" UK series 2 finalist, Maria Lawson. The song features a sample of The Chi-Lites hit single \"Have You Seen Her\". The track was released on 14 August 2006 and charted at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. That same week, fellow series 2 finalist Chico also released a single. However, Lawsons track charted four places higher. Sleepwalking generally received positive criticism in the UK and was A-listed on BBC Radio 2. To date, the song has sold over 35,000 copies in the UK alone. Sleepwalking also", "title": "Sleepwalking (Maria Lawson song)" }, { "id": "13679558", "text": "from the Byrds' \"Younger Than Yesterday\" album on May 22, 1967. It reached number 74 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song was issued as a single in most international markets, but not in the United Kingdom. Despite its relatively poor showing on the U.S. charts, critical reaction to the song was positive, with \"Record World\" describing it as a \"pretty contemporary love song\" and \"Billboard\" magazine commenting that \"the quartet has a strong commercial entry in this easy-beat folk-rocker with a compelling lyric.\" In recent years, Thomas Ward of the Allmusic website has described the song as \"magnificent\" and", "title": "Have You Seen Her Face" }, { "id": "7674219", "text": "works within the Philadelphia School System encouraging young people to become involved in the performing arts. Eddie Holman Eddie Holman (born June 3, 1946) is an American singer and recording artist. He is best known for his 1970 hit song \"Hey There Lonely Girl\". His specialty ranges from R&B and pop to gospel. Holman was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in New York City. His mother, noticing that he loved to sing even as early as the age of two, introduced him to the piano and the guitar, where he quickly revealed a natural aptitude. His abilities, however, were", "title": "Eddie Holman" }, { "id": "1306574", "text": "flower petals. She appeared on the cover of \"Time\" magazine in June. Franklin's success expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded the multi-week R&B number one \"Don't Play That Song (You Lied)\", as well as the top-ten singles \"Spanish Harlem\", \"Rock Steady\" and \"Day Dreaming\". Some of these releases were from the acclaimed albums \"Spirit in the Dark\" and \"Young, Gifted and Black\". She returned to Gospel music in a two-night, live-church recording, with the album, \"Amazing Grace\", in which she reinterpreted standards such as Mahalia Jackson's \"How I Got Over\". \"Amazing Grace\" sold more than two million", "title": "Aretha Franklin" }, { "id": "419609", "text": "marriage to Bianca Jagger ended in 1977, although they had long been estranged. Although the Rolling Stones remained popular through the early 1970s, music critics had begun to grow dismissive of the band's output, and record sales failed to meet expectations. By the mid-1970s, after punk rock became influential, many people had begun to view the Rolling Stones as an outdated band. The group's fortunes changed in 1978, after the band released \"Some Girls\", which included the hit single \"Miss You\", the country ballad \"Far Away Eyes\", \"Beast of Burden\" and \"Shattered\". In part as a response to punk, many", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "5620885", "text": "the Allstars Stevie Wright Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock and roll band the Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. Early hits for the Easybeats were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including, \"She's So Fine\" (No. 3, 1965), \"Wedding Ring\" (No. 7, 1965), \"Women (Make You Feel Alright)\" (No. 4, 1966), \"Come and See Her\" (No. 3, 1966), \"I'll", "title": "Stevie Wright" }, { "id": "4156185", "text": "that Arden had paid them everything he owed them. Kenney Jones has mixed memories of the band's stormy relationship with Arden: Arden tried to rekindle his former glories as a family entertainer by releasing a single of his own in 1967: \"Sunrise Sunset\", from the musical \"Fiddler on the Roof\", but it failed to chart. Arden returned to music management in 1968 when he signed the Move. He struck gold when two groups formed by ex-Move members, ELO and Wizzard (1972), started having international hits such as \"See My Baby Jive\" and \"Angel Fingers\" (1973) and ELO with \"10538 Overture\"", "title": "Don Arden" }, { "id": "11437243", "text": "Murray and Campbell, several artists who were not initially marketed as country were enjoying crossover success with country audiences through radio airplay and sales. The most successful of these artists included The Bellamy Brothers, Charlie Rich, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas and Kenny Rogers. Newton-John, an Australian pop singer, was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1974, sparking a debate that continues to this day — what is country music? A group of traditional-minded artists, troubled by this trend, formed the short-lived Association of Country Entertainers, in an attempt to", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "4870814", "text": "1969. The album was her last with Atkins, and she followed it in 1970 with two releases, \"Forever Yours\" and \"Country Boy and Country Girl\", a collection of pairings with Jimmy Dean. Around the time of \"Have You Heard Dottie West\", released in 1971, she left her husband Bill and, in 1972, married drummer Byron Metcalf, who was 12 years her junior. Due possibly in part to her recent stratospheric success with duets, her solo career suffered between 1969 and 1972. Most of her singles released at the time had failed even to peak in the Top 40, and her", "title": "Dottie West" }, { "id": "14132542", "text": "the R&B chart and peaking at No. 5 on the pop chart. It is frequently cited as the group's best recording. AllMusic reviewer Craig Lytle describes the album as \"flawless\" and \"exquisite\". A Lonely Man A Lonely Man is the fourth studio album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1972 on the Brunswick label. \"A Lonely Man\" includes The Chi-Lites most successful single \"Oh Girl\", which topped both the pop and R&B charts and peaked at No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart, the eight and", "title": "A Lonely Man" }, { "id": "9952129", "text": "Keni Burke Kenneth M. \"Keni\" Burke (born September 28, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who began his career with four siblings in the 1970s band the Five Stairsteps. As a member of the Five Stairsteps, Burke wrote the group's first minor hit \"You Waited Too Long\" in 1966, but the group would see their biggest success with the million-selling song \"O-o-h Child\" in 1970. The group went on to sign with George Harrison's Dark Horse Records in 1975, and had their next hit with the Burke-penned \"From Us to You\", from their 1976 album \"2nd", "title": "Keni Burke" }, { "id": "9503321", "text": "businessman Sam Kirkpatrick, who formed the independent label Prairie Dust Records to showcase Hunley's talents. After some minor success on the country music charts, Hunley caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records, who signed him in 1978. Hunley recorded five albums with Warner Bros., released several singles on MCA Records and Capitol Records, and achieved more than 20 charted hits, including “Weekend Friend,” “No Relief In Sight,” and “Oh Girl”. He toured throughout the U.S., playing large venues around the country with other musical acts, including Alabama, the Oak Ridge Boys, Larry Gatlin, George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Hunley recorded", "title": "Con Hunley" }, { "id": "4002626", "text": "record's sole producer. The most sonically adventurous CCR album, \"Pendulum\" is noted for its widespread use of horns and keyboards, in contrast to the group's previous albums, which were dominated by guitar. Among several lesser-known Fogerty songs (\"Pagan Baby\", \"Sailor's Lament\", \"It's Just a Thought\", \"Born to Move\") were two top-ten hits, \"Hey Tonight\" and \"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?\". Both songs reached number eight in 1971. It also contains an uncharacteristic venture into avant-garde psychedelia, the closing instrumental \"Rude Awakening #2\". The album was recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, and took a month to complete—an", "title": "Pendulum (Creedence Clearwater Revival album)" }, { "id": "4711595", "text": "24 on the \"Billboard\" Top LPs chart and reached number 37 on the UK Albums Chart. It was preceded by the \"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star\" single in January 1967, which reached the Top 30 of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Two additional singles taken from the album, \"My Back Pages\" and \"Have You Seen Her Face\", were also moderately successful on the \"Billboard\" singles chart. However, none of the singles taken from the album charted in the United Kingdom. Music critics Richie Unterberger and David Fricke have both remarked that although it was largely overlooked", "title": "Younger Than Yesterday" }, { "id": "13679561", "text": "his \"Live...My Truck Is My Home\" album. Additionally, a version of the song by the underground indie rock band Sex Clark Five was included as a bonus track on the 1996 reissue of their \"Strum and Drum!\" album. Have You Seen Her Face \"Have You Seen Her Face\" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by the group's bass player Chris Hillman and included on their 1967 album \"Younger Than Yesterday\". \"Have You Seen Her Face\" was written following a recording session for trumpet player Hugh Masekela, which Hillman attended in 1966. Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan", "title": "Have You Seen Her Face" }, { "id": "364634", "text": "Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the bestselling music groups of the 1960s and became counterculture icons of the decade's social revolution, alongside artists such as the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan. Their biggest hits—including \"The Sound of Silence\" (1964), \"Mrs. Robinson\" (1968), \"The Boxer\" (1969), and \"Bridge over Troubled Water\" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide. The duo met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing", "title": "Simon & Garfunkel" }, { "id": "11437232", "text": "death of Buddy Holly, became one of popular music's most-recognized songs of the 20th century, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which center around \"The Day the Music Died\" and popular music of the rock era. The early 1970s marked the departure of Diana Ross from The Supremes and the break-up of Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles. All continued hugely successful recording careers throughout the decade. Some of their songs are that among the hits of the early 1970s: Simon & Garfunkel's \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\", Simon's solo hit \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\", The Beatles \"Let", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "2450316", "text": "By the middle of the decade, various trends were vying for popular success. Sly & the Family Stone's pop-funk had spawned singers like Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, alongside George Clinton's spacy P Funk extravaganzas, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band led a wave of country rock bands. Light progressive-rock bands like Kansas, Journey, Chicago and Styx had long-running popularity. Bruce Springsteen garnered critical acclaim during much of the decade, finally breaking through in a big way very late in the 1970s. Disco, especially The Bee Gees and Donna Summer, were dominating the charts the last few years of", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "9694110", "text": "charted at number 44 in Ireland and at number 67 in Australia. However, the Australian release was released on download alone. The single was the first and only track to be lifted from the British singers debut album \"Maria Lawson.\" A new single entitled Breaking Me Down\" followed in 2008. Sleepwalking (Maria Lawson song) \"Sleepwalking\" is the debut single from \"The X Factor\" UK series 2 finalist, Maria Lawson. The song features a sample of The Chi-Lites hit single \"Have You Seen Her\". The track was released on 14 August 2006 and charted at number 20 on the UK Singles", "title": "Sleepwalking (Maria Lawson song)" }, { "id": "4193270", "text": "Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Dr. Hook (shortened from Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show in 1975), an American blue-eyed soul, rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including \"Sylvia's Mother\", \"The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'\" (both 1972), \"Only Sixteen\" (1975), \"A Little Bit More\" (1976), \"Sharing the Night Together\" (1978), \"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman\" (1979), \"Better Love Next Time\" (1979), and \"Sexy Eyes\" (1980). In addition to their own material, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show performed songs written by the poet", "title": "Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show" }, { "id": "2450342", "text": "popular music's most successful artists died within six weeks of each other in 1977: Elvis Presley (on August 16) and Bing Crosby (on October 14). Presley—whose top 1970s hit was \"Burning Love\" in 1972— ranked among the top artists of the rock era, while Crosby was among the most successful pre-rock era artists. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed. Music history of the United States in the 1970s Popular music of the", "title": "Music history of the United States in the 1970s" }, { "id": "11437258", "text": "known European groups ever, as well as one of the few groups from a non-English speaking country to gain international success with several back-to-back No. 1 albums and singles in most of the major music markets. \"Waterloo\", \"Mamma Mia\", \"Take a Chance on Me\", \"Knowing Me, Knowing You\", \"Dancing Queen\" and \"The Winner Takes It All are just some of ABBA's most popular and most successful songs. One of the first events of the 1970s was the break-up of The Beatles in the spring of 1970. Paul McCartney formed a new group, Wings, and continued to enjoy great mainstream success.", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "5714886", "text": "Loggins and Messina Loggins and Messina is an American rock-pop duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who achieved their success in the early to mid-1970s. Among their well-known songs are \"Danny's Song\", \"House at Pooh Corner\", and \"Your Mama Don't Dance\". After selling more than 16 million records and becoming one of the leading musical duos of the 1970s, Loggins and Messina broke up in 1976. Although Messina would find only limited popularity following the breakup, Loggins went on to be a 1980s hitmaker. In 2005 and again in 2009, Loggins and Messina have rejoined for tours in", "title": "Loggins and Messina" }, { "id": "4434157", "text": "100 chart because it was released only as a twelve-inch single. However, the album was a #1 success for 21 weeks, due primarily to this single, the first time ever for a rap recording on the pop charts. The song has been and continues to be used in many movies and television shows to date, and appears on soundtrack and compilation albums as well. Follow-up singles included \"Have You Seen Her\" (a cover of the Chi-Lites) and \"Pray\" (a beat sampled from Prince's \"When Doves Cry\" and Faith No More's \"We Care a Lot\"), which was his biggest hit in", "title": "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" }, { "id": "7674213", "text": "Eddie Holman Eddie Holman (born June 3, 1946) is an American singer and recording artist. He is best known for his 1970 hit song \"Hey There Lonely Girl\". His specialty ranges from R&B and pop to gospel. Holman was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in New York City. His mother, noticing that he loved to sing even as early as the age of two, introduced him to the piano and the guitar, where he quickly revealed a natural aptitude. His abilities, however, were confined mostly to church and family gatherings. At age ten, Eddie Holman stepped onto the stage", "title": "Eddie Holman" }, { "id": "2068254", "text": "the World formed in Flint in 1982. They had a Billboard Hot 100 #1 song with \"Oh Sheila\" in 1985. 1960s pop-rock singer Del Shannon came from Coopersville near Grand Rapids. He had the #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit \"Runaway\" in 1961. Singer Madonna, born Madonna Ciccone in Bay City, later living in the Rochester area (and attended the University of Michigan), rose to be considered the \"Queen of Pop\" by many. Her long career began in the early 1980s and she continues to top charts today. Madonna had 12 #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including \"Like a", "title": "Music of Michigan" }, { "id": "18335313", "text": "You\" went on to top the UK and US charts the following year. Chrysalis Records missed out on signing The Kinks, the Sex Pistols and Dire Straits but nevertheless prospered as one of the UK's pioneering independent labels. In 1977, Ellis decided to spend $500,000 buying Blondie's contract from the New York label Private Stock. Chrysalis reissued the band's eponymous debut and turned their iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry into the ultimate pop star of the late 1970s and early '80s. Blondie went on to sell 40 million albums and topped the singles and album charts on several occasions. Their success", "title": "Chris Wright (music industry executive)" }, { "id": "14918843", "text": "on May 30, 2006 with numerous hits for George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Mark Chesnutt and many others. Arlene Harden also went solo and released 3 albums, 2 for Columbia Records as Arlene Harden and 1 for Capitol Records reverting to the original spelling Arleen. She had a total of eighteen singles for Columbia Records, Capitol Records and Elektra Records between 1967 and 1978, fifteen of which were on Columbia. Her biggest chart success came with the female version of the Roy Orbison hit \"Oh Pretty Woman\". \"Lovin' Man (Oh Pretty Woman)\" in 1970. Also notable was \"True Love", "title": "The Harden Trio" }, { "id": "11437255", "text": "adults who grew up during the 1940s and early 1950s, and not the rock record-buying youth); his most successful hits of the decade were \"It's Impossible\" (1970) and the Don McLean song \"And I Love Her So\" (1973). Two of popular music's most successful artists died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. Elvis Presley, the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18, 1977. Bing Crosby, who sold about half a billion records, died October 14, 1977. His single, White Christmas, remains as the best selling", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "11437271", "text": "\"I Just Want to Be Your Everything\" and \"Shadow Dancing\". The most successful Australian female artist of the decade, Olivia Newton-John, became a leading singer in the 1970s in both the popular and country genres and realized several number one hits, including the songs, \"Let Me Be There\" and \"I Honestly Love You\" for which she received three Grammys. Additional top music acts in Australia and New Zealand included: Little River Band, Sherbet, Skyhooks, John Paul Young, Marcia Hines, Jon English, Richard Clapton, Dragon, Hush and the Ted Mulry Gang. The Wailers, a band started by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "12340814", "text": "Top 10 of the \"Billboard\" R&B singles chart, charting at #9, and \"I Can't Stand to See You Cry\", which charted at #45 Pop, and #21 R&B. The album also featured a cover of The Stylistics' 1971 hit \"Betcha By Golly Wow\", the \"Theme from \"Love Story\"\", and covers of the Michael Jackson solo hit, \"Got to Be There\" (featuring outstanding guitar work by Miracle Marv Tarplin), and The Chi-Lites'#1 hit, \"Oh Girl\". The album also features songs composed by Ashford & Simpson, Stevie Wonder and Syretta Wright, Bobby Miller, who was responsible for The Dells' long string of hits,", "title": "Flying High Together" }, { "id": "11437247", "text": "Milsap, Eddie Rabbitt, and Linda Ronstadt were some of the other artists who also found success on both the country and pop charts with their records as well. The most successful of the female artist in the 1970s was Loretta Lynn, releasing her best selling album \"Coal Miner's Daughter\" in 1970. She gained a total of seven number one albums, and 20 number one hit singles including her biggest hit single, 1970s \"Coal Miner's Daughter,\" which went on to sell more than 500,000 copies to date. Several of Lynn's siblings gained national recording contracts, and it was her youngest sister,", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "4711602", "text": "he is credited as the sole songwriter of \"Have You Seen Her Face\", \"Time Between\", \"Thoughts and Words\", and \"The Girl with No Name\", with all four tracks featuring him as the lead vocalist. Hillman is also credited as the co-writer of \"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star\", which he sings with McGuinn and Crosby. \"Younger Than Yesterday\" found the Byrds expanding their musical style in several different directions. Music critic John Harris has described the album as the Byrds' \"West Coastified version of the \"Revolver\" aesthetic\", with reference to the Beatles' 1966 album. Chris Hillman", "title": "Younger Than Yesterday" }, { "id": "7085506", "text": "record producers. Another artist who benefited greatly from his association with Sherrill was Charlie Rich. Rich had been a marginally successful performer of blues and early rock and roll, scoring a minor hit with the tune \"Lonely Weekends\", but it was his early 1970s work with Sherrill, particularly the countrypolitan hits \"Behind Closed Doors\" and \"The Most Beautiful Girl\", that brought Rich to national and international prominence. Along with songwriter Norro Wilson, Sherrill won a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Song for Rich's version of the song \"A Very Special Love Song\". By 1975, Sherrill was regarded as", "title": "Billy Sherrill" }, { "id": "11437236", "text": "and \"Killing Me Softly\". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" and \"Sir Duke\" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both best male Pop and R & B vocal performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977. The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "2539614", "text": "solo career; in 1979, he and Tarplin co-wrote his signature hit, \"Cruisin'\". Following his reunion with the original Miracles on \"Motown 25\", Robinson became dependent on cocaine, which affected his life and career. He broke the addiction in the late 1980s and revived his singing career, with the Grammy-winning Top 10 hit single, \"Just to See Her\". In 1986, Smokey's marriage with Claudette Robinson ended in divorce while Bobby's marriage to Marvelettes member Wanda Young ended in 1975. After the release of a 35th anniversary commemorative compilation album in 1993, Ronnie White and Bobby Rogers decided to regroup the Miracles", "title": "The Miracles" }, { "id": "3675761", "text": "Wynonie Harris whose records reached the top of the newly christened \"rhythm and blues\" charts. In 1947, blues singer Roy Brown recorded \"Good Rocking Tonight\", a song that parodied church music by appropriating its references, including the word \"rocking\" and the gospel call \"Have you heard the news?\", relating them to very worldly lyrics about dancing, drinking and sex. The song became much more successful the following year when recorded by Wynonie Harris, whose version changed the steady blues rhythm to an uptempo gospel beat, and it was re-recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954 as his second single. A craze", "title": "Origins of rock and roll" }, { "id": "12565629", "text": "who found success first in the United Kingdom, then in her home market. Various older rock bands made a comeback. Bands originating from the early to mid-1960s such as The Beach Boys and The Kinks had hits with \"Kokomo\", \"Come Dancing\" and \"Do It Again\". Bands with popularity in the mid-1970s such as the Steve Miller Band and Steely Dan also had hits with \"Abracadabra\" and \"Hey Nineteen\". Singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen released his blockbuster album \"Born In The USA\", which produced a record-tying 7 hit singles. Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood sparked a revival of Atomic blues", "title": "1980s in music" }, { "id": "11437249", "text": "Billboard country chart, but none of them had sustained, long-term success. Besides Lynn-Twitty duet pairing, there were other notable duet pairings during the 1970s, including George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Married in 1968, the two had their first duet hit together in 1972 with \"Take Me\" (a remake of Jones' 1965 solo hit), and went on to have three No. 1 hits together. The two went through an acrimonious divorce in 1975, due in part to Jones' increasingly erratic behavior worsened by substance abuse problems, but the two did continue recording together afterward, releasing their most successful hit, the ironic", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "16022886", "text": "the record under the name The Rubettes, it quickly became a number one hit. Other Rubettes hits followed, plus chart success for Mac & Katie Kissoon. The label continued to enjoy success throughout the 1970s and early 1980s until 1983, when the label released their last single, \"You Don't Care About I\" by Elite. In total State released over 100 singles and over 20 albums between 1975 and 1983. State found success in the United States, most notably with the 1978 release \"Oh Honey\" by Delegation, which peaked at number 6 in the US \"Billboard\" R&B chart. The song has", "title": "State Records" }, { "id": "469412", "text": "Mandrell; all scored hits throughout the 70s which reached both country and pop charts. The genre also saw its golden age of vocal duos and groups in this decade; with Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, the Bellamy Brothers, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Statler Brothers, Dave & Sugar, and The Kendalls. A major event in music in the early 1970s was the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, all at the age of 27. Two of popular music's most successful artists from other", "title": "1970s" }, { "id": "9004992", "text": "The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer is a compilation album by American singer Donna Summer released by Universal Music on September 30, 2003. It features most of Summer's best known songs from the 1970s disco era, during which she became the most successful female of that genre, plus some of her hits from the 1980s, during which time she experimented with different genres. \"The Journey\" was released in the UK on the back of her appearance on the TV special \"Disco Mania\" which celebrated the 1970s disco era and saw", "title": "The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer" }, { "id": "3697844", "text": "cut. He was also an in-demand studio musician, playing and singing on sessions for Gene Clark, Dillard & Clark, Poco, Dan Fogelberg and others. After an early 1977 British tour reunited him with Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark, the trio stayed together for two McGuinn-Clark-Hillman albums (on which Hillman continued his songwriting collaboration with Knobler) and one under the McGuinn-Hillman name, with a hit single in 1979's \"Don't You Write Her Off\". By the early 1980s Hillman had returned to his bluegrass and country roots, recording two acclaimed (mainly acoustic) albums for Sugar Hill Records with singer/guitarist/banjo player Herb Pedersen", "title": "Chris Hillman" }, { "id": "5786482", "text": "John Farrar John Clifford Farrar ( ; born 8 November 1945) is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–64), The Strangers (1964–70), Marvin, Welch & Farrar (1970–73), and The Shadows (1973–76); in 1980 he released a solo eponymous album. As a songwriter and producer, he worked with Olivia Newton-John from 1971 through 1989. He wrote her number-one hit singles: \"Have You Never Been Mellow\" (1975), \"You're the One That I Want\" (1978 duet with John Travolta), \"Hopelessly Devoted to You\"", "title": "John Farrar" }, { "id": "3773284", "text": "in the \"Los Angeles Times\" over his black music chart success. Freddie Jackson Frederick Anthony \"Freddie\" Jackson (born October 2, 1956) is an American Grammy-nominated singer. Originally from New York, Jackson began his professional music career in the late 1970s with the California funk band Mystic Merlin. Among his well–known R&B/Soul hits are \"Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)\" (1985), \"Have You Ever Loved Somebody\" (1986), \"Jam Tonight\" (1986), \"Do Me Again\" (1990) and \"You Are My Lady\" (1985). He contributed to the soundtrack for the 1989 film, \"All Dogs Go to Heaven\" with the Michael Lloyd-produced duet \"Love", "title": "Freddie Jackson" }, { "id": "856498", "text": "assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955. Martin produced and released a mix of product including comedy recordings of the Goons, the pianist Mrs Mills, and teen idol Adam Faith. In 1962, Martin signed the Beatles, at the time an unknown struggling rock band from Liverpool. During the 1960s, with artists such as Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer, the Fourmost, and contemporary Manchester band the Hollies also signed to the label, Parlophone became one of the world's most famous and prestigious record labels. For several years, Parlophone claimed the best-selling UK single \"She Loves You\", and the best-selling", "title": "Parlophone" }, { "id": "3660186", "text": "(1975–1982) that gave WBR the American distribution rights for leading British and European rock acts including Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Roxy Music, King Crimson and Kraftwerk. Aided by the growth of FM radio and the album oriented rock format, LPs became the primary vehicle of Warner Bros. sales successes throughout the 1970s, although artists such as the Doobie Brothers and America also scored many major US and international hit singles. One of the first Warner Bros. albums to achieve both critical and commercial success in the early 1970s was Van Morrison's third solo LP \"Moondance\" (January 1970) which", "title": "Warner Bros. Records" }, { "id": "1521930", "text": "Bob Welch (musician) Robert Lawrence Welch Jr. (August 31, 1945 – June 7, 2012) was an American musician who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included \"Hot Love, Cold World\", \"Ebony Eyes\", \"Precious Love\", and his signature song, \"Sentimental Lady\". Welch was born in Los Angeles, California, into a show business family. Welch's father was movie producer and screenwriter Robert L. Welch, who worked at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, producing films starring Paramount's top box office stars, Bob Hope and Bing", "title": "Bob Welch (musician)" }, { "id": "7048318", "text": "in 2016. Their third album, \"Crooked Calypso\", was released in July 2017, with a tour beginning later that year. Jacqui Abbott Jacqueline \"Jacqui\" Abbott (born 10 November 1973) is an English singer who was the female vocalist with the band The Beautiful South from 1994 to 2000, following the departure of Briana Corrigan. With Abbott, the band released several Top 10 singles. Amongst their most successful hits during her stint were: \"Rotterdam\", \"Perfect 10\", \"Don't Marry Her\" and \"Dream a Little Dream of Me\". Abbott was discovered by Beautiful South co-founder Paul Heaton after she and a friend met him", "title": "Jacqui Abbott" }, { "id": "2778330", "text": "Lynn Anderson Lynn Rene Anderson (September 26, 1947 – July 30, 2015) was an American country music singer known for a string of hits from the 1960s to the 1980s, most notably her worldwide hit and signature song \"Rose Garden\" (1970). Anderson's crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television helped her become one of the most popular and successful country stars of the 1970s. Anderson charted 12 No. 1, 18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hit singles. In addition to being named \"Top Female Vocalist\" by the Academy of Country Music (ACM) twice and \"Female Vocalist", "title": "Lynn Anderson" }, { "id": "10730144", "text": "Will Birch Will Birch (born 12 September 1948) is an English music journalist, songwriter, record producer and drummer. Birch was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. He played drums in various bands in the Southend area before helping to form The Kursaal Flyers in 1973. Featuring singer Paul Shuttleworth, the Flyers developed a strong live reputation on London's pub rock scene in the mid 1970s, and released several albums. Their biggest commercial success came with the uncharacteristic Mike Batt produced hit single, \"Little Does She Know\", in 1976, which Birch co-wrote. After The Kursaal Flyers disbanded in late 1977, Birch formed", "title": "Will Birch" }, { "id": "12866303", "text": "most \"Billboard\" Hot 100 charted singles, making her one of few women in the rock era with as many chart entries. She has reached the Top 10 on the Hot 100 during each of four decades—the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s—placing her in a tie for second place in that category as of May 2014, alongside Aerosmith, Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Whitney Houston, only behind Michael Jackson. Cher's span of top 10 records on the Hot 100 stretches for a total of 33 years, one month and three weeks (not counting the Sonny and Cher hits \"I Got You Babe\"", "title": "Cher singles discography" }, { "id": "8487862", "text": "a narrator remarking on how he was once happy with a woman; however, she left him, so he passes the days by partaking in leisurely activities. However, much to the dismay of the narrator, the woman does not return, or attempt to communicate with him as he had hoped. The narrator ends the song by musing on how foolish he was for believing the woman of his dreams would always be around. Some radio edits have omitted the spoken dialogue for just the singing portions. The song peaked at #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and reached the top of", "title": "Have You Seen Her" }, { "id": "13535551", "text": "\"You to Me Are Everything\" and \"Can't Get By Without You\", UK chart number 1 and 2 respectively, produced by writers Ken Gold and Michael Deanne, and later tracks written by band members Chris and Eddie Amoo and produced by them with Dennis Weinreich. Gold also masterminded and produced British soul/funk group Delegation, who scored several moderate hits including \"Where Is The Love (We Used To Know)\" and the international hit \"Oh Honey\". The 1977 for \"Saturday Night Fever\", mostly featured songs by British soul/disco act Bee Gees, who also produced the project, and went on to become the best-selling", "title": "British soul" }, { "id": "3660214", "text": "a record-setting 10 consecutive weeks, and earning a Platinum certification from the RIAA. It became the most successful single of the 1970s in the United States, setting what was then a new record for longest run at #1 in the US and surpassing Elvis Presley's \"Hound Dog\". Boone's success also earned her Grammy nominations for \"Best Female Pop Vocal Performance \" and \"Record of the Year\" and won her the 1977 Grammy for \"Best New Artist\" and the 1977 American Music Award for \"Favorite Pop Single\". The song also earned Joe Brooks the 1977 \"Song of the Year\" Grammy (tied", "title": "Warner Bros. Records" }, { "id": "14004000", "text": "Nick Richards Nicholas Richards (born 1960) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as frontman of 1980s synthpop/new wave band Boys Don't Cry. As a solo artist, Nikki Richards (not to be confused with the early '90s R&B singer of the same name), aged 18, released the singles \"If I Could Tell the World\" and \"I Wonder What You're Doing Tonight\" on Ember Records in 1978. A third single \"Oh Boy!\" written by Brian Wade and produced by Alan Winstanley followed in 1979. Richards then moved to RCA Records for three more singles; \"Tokyo Rising\", \"Factory Girl\" and", "title": "Nick Richards" }, { "id": "4942711", "text": "the fifth most successful female country artist of the 1970s, according to Billboard Magazine, behind Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, and Lynn Anderson. For a better part of the 70s, Fargo stayed high on the charts with songs like \"It Do Feel Good,\" and \"Mr. Doodles.\" Fargo had another successful album with Dot in 1974, releasing \"Miss Donna Fargo\", which spawned three Top 10 hits, including \"You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine.\" This song peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart. In 1975, she released \"Whatever I Say Means I Love You\" (ABC/MCA),", "title": "Donna Fargo" }, { "id": "15267338", "text": "Rory Bourke Rory Michael Bourke (born July 14, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio is an American country music songwriter and music publisher. Bourke moved to Nashville in 1964 and worked for a period in the promotional department of Mercury Records. His songwriting career took off in the early 1970s and he soon racked up tracks recorded by Charlie Rich, Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Billy Crash Craddock, Olivia Newton-John, and many others. His most successful song was \"The Most Beautiful Girl\", cowritten with Billy Sherrill and Norro Wilson, recorded by Rich and a number-one record in both the country and pop fields.", "title": "Rory Bourke" }, { "id": "2907139", "text": "some of Hendrix's best known songs, including the Experience's first three singles, which, though omitted from the British edition of the LP, were top ten hits in the UK: \"Purple Haze\", \"Hey Joe\", and \"The Wind Cries Mary\". In 2005, \"Rolling Stone\" ranked \"Are You Experienced\" 15th on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The magazine placed four songs from the album on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: \"Purple Haze\" (17), \"Foxy Lady\" (153), \"Hey Joe\" (201), and \"The Wind Cries Mary\" (379). That same year, the record was one of", "title": "Are You Experienced" }, { "id": "9004994", "text": "two tracks are consequently not available on the UK single-disc edition of \"The Journey\". The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer is a compilation album by American singer Donna Summer released by Universal Music on September 30, 2003. It features most of Summer's best known songs from the 1970s disco era, during which she became the most successful female of that genre, plus some of her hits from the 1980s, during which time she experimented with different genres. \"The Journey\" was released in the UK on the back of her appearance", "title": "The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer" } ]

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[ { "id": "567965", "text": "the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. After Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of a \"Father's Day\" was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father, when in December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested that her pastor Robert Thomas Webb", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836844", "text": "Father's Day (United States) Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. The tradition was said to be started from a memorial service held for a large group of men who died in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907. It was first proposed by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington in 1909. It is currently celebrated in the United States annually on the third Sunday in June. Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fathers,", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567998", "text": "at the grandparents' house. In recent years, families also started having dinner out, and as on Mother's Day, it is one of the busiest days for restaurants. At school, children handcraft their present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies have all sorts of special offers for fathers: socks, ties, electronics, suits, and men's healthcare products. In [[New Zealand]], Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and it is not a public holiday. Fathers' Day seems to have been first observed at [[St Matthew's, Auckland|St Matthew's Church]], [[Auckland]] on 14 July 1929 and first appeared in commercial advertising", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567970", "text": "idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, \"sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city\". However, in the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s, Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present for fathers. By 1938, she had the help", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567986", "text": "big piece of ham. In the late 19th century the religious component was progressively lost, especially in urban areas such as Berlin, and groups of men organized walking excursions with beer and ham. By the 20th century, alcohol consumption had become a major part of the tradition. Many people will take the following Friday off at work, and some schools are closed on that Friday as well; many people then use the resulting four-day-long weekend for a short vacation. Father's Day, is observed on the feast day of Fathers. It is celebrated as a public international day, like in many", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567974", "text": "holiday, but the spelling \"Father's Day\" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress. The officially recognized date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women). But the congratulations are traditionally, nationally", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567962", "text": "Father's Day Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic Europe, it has been celebrated on March 19 (St. Joseph's Day) since the Middle Ages. This celebration was brought by the Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America, where March 19 is often still used for it, though many countries in Europe and the Americas have adopted the U.S. date, which is the third Sunday of June. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March, April and", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5187621", "text": "the Spokane Ministerial Alliance and suggested her own father's birthday, of June 5, as the day of honor for fathers. The Alliance chose the third Sunday in June instead. The first Father's Day was celebrated June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. Although observance of the holiday faded in the 1920s, over time, the idea of Father's Day became popular and embraced across the nation. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent a telegraph to Spokane praising Father's Day services. William Jennings Bryan was another early admirer of the observance. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the", "title": "Sonora Smart Dodd" }, { "id": "17836846", "text": "prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since 1938 she had", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567983", "text": "in France. In 1950, they introduced \"la Fête des Pères\", which would take place every third Sunday of June (following the American example). Their slogan « Nos papas nous l'ont dit, pour la fête des pères, ils désirent tous un Flaminaire » (Our fathers told us, for father's day, they all want a Flaminaire). In 1952, the holiday was officially decreed. A national father's day committee was set up to give a prize for fathers that deserved it most (originally, candidates were nominated by the social services of each town hall's/mayor's office); This complements \"la Fête des Mères\" (Mother's day)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836854", "text": "2016 NBA Finals. The FireKeepers Casino 400 NASCAR auto race at Michigan International Speedway is sometimes held on Father's Day. In the United States, Dodd used the \"Fathers' Day\" spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling \"Father's Day\" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress. Father's Day (United States) Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "17836853", "text": "first to celebrate such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the \"Portland Oregonian\". Harry C. Meek, member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek claimed that the third Sunday of June was chosen because it was his birthday (it would have been more natural to choose his father's birthday). The Lions Club has named him \"Originator of Father's Day\". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday. The U.S. Open golf tournament is scheduled to finish on Father's Day, as was the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567971", "text": "of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the holiday's commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday for its first few decades, viewing it as nothing more than an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. However, the said merchants remained resilient and even incorporated these attacks into their advertisements. By the mid-1980s, the Father's Day Council wrote, \"(...) [Father's Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the men's gift-oriented industries.\" A bill to accord national", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567975", "text": "accepted by all fathers, other adult men and male children as well. <nowiki>**</nowiki>There is no official Father's Day of the P.R. China. During the Republican period prior to 1949, Father's Day on August 8 was first celebrated in Shanghai in 1945. Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. There have been attempts to change the date to August 24, to commemorate the day on which the \"Father of the Nation\" José de San Martín became a father. In 1953, the proposal to celebrate Father's Day in all educational establishments on August 24, in honor of", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567973", "text": "for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus \"[singling] out just one of our two parents\". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 in honor of men and boys who are not fathers. In the United States, Dodd used the \"Fathers' Day\" spelling on her original petition for the", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567968", "text": "such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the \"Portland Oregonian\". Harry C. Meek, a member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek said that the third Sunday in June was chosen because it was his birthday. The Lions Club has named him the \"Originator of Father's Day\". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday. On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836847", "text": "the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. But the trade groups did not give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid-1980s the Father's Council wrote that \"(...) [Father's Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "567964", "text": "19 March. The Catholic Church actively supported the custom of a celebration of fatherhood on St. Joseph's day from either the last years of the 14th century or from the early 15th century, apparently on the initiative of the Franciscans. In the Coptic Church, the celebration of fatherhood is also observed on St Joseph's Day, but the Copts observe this celebration on July 20. This Coptic celebration may date back to the fifth century. Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "17836848", "text": "men's gift-oriented industries.\" A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "148050", "text": "in the early years of the 20th century, and modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous. The custom of merrymaking and feasting at Christmastide first appears in the historical record during the High Middle Ages (c 1100–1300). This almost certainly represented a continuation of pre-Christian midwinter celebrations in Britain of which—as the historian Ronald Hutton has pointed out—\"we have no details at all.\" Personifications came later, and when they did they reflected the existing custom. The first known English personification of Christmas was associated with merry-making, singing and drinking. A carol attributed to Richard", "title": "Father Christmas" }, { "id": "17836849", "text": "40 years while honoring mothers, thus \"[singling] out just one of our two parents\". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers. A \"Father's Day\" service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "17836845", "text": "fathering, and fatherhood. Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "10724628", "text": "what had become a publicity stunt. Many Wobblies were incarcerated, including feminist labor leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who published her account in the local \"Industrial Worker\". Spokane is known as the birthplace of the national movement started by Sonora Smart Dodd that led to the proposal and eventual establishment of Father's Day as a national holiday in the U.S. The first observation of Father's Day in Spokane was on June 19, 1910. Sonora conceived the idea in Spokane's Central Methodist Episcopal Church while listening to a Mother's Day sermon. After decades of slow growth, Spokane businessmen headed by King Cole", "title": "History of Spokane, Washington" }, { "id": "20367589", "text": "child's development. Early maturing girls have been found to be at risk for teenage pregnancy, drinking and weight problems, and giving birth to low birth weight infants. Father-Daughter Day Father-Daughter Day (sometimes called National Father-Daughter Day) is a holiday recognized annually on the second Sunday of October in the United States, honoring the relationship between a father and a daughter. Unlike Mother's Day and Father's Day, it is not federally recognized. The U.S. holiday was originally conceived by Smokey Robinson to honor his relationship with his six daughters. In human development the relationship between fathers and sons overshadows the bond", "title": "Father-Daughter Day" }, { "id": "3218265", "text": "events that took place between c. 1964 and 1972, and to memories of the counterculture, flower power, protests of 1968 and other things happening at the time. Often, such a nominal decade will come to be known by a title, such as the \"Swinging Sixties\" (1960s), the \"Warring Forties\" (1940s) and the \"Roaring Twenties\" (1920s). This practice is occasionally also used for decades of earlier centuries, for example references to the 1890s as the \"Gay Nineties\" or \"Naughty Nineties\". Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which", "title": "Decade" }, { "id": "13739008", "text": "and sign the Kyoto treaty, which set mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions. The celebration of the ending of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century was at New Year's Day, 2000. 20th-century events The 20th-century events include many notable events which occurred throughout the 20th century, which began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. In Europe, the British Empire achieved the height of its power. Germany and Italy, which came into existence as unified nations in the second half of the 19th century, grew in power, challenging", "title": "20th-century events" }, { "id": "568008", "text": "in Thailand, and even overseas at Thai organizations. It first gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s as part of a campaign by Prime Minister [[Prem Tinsulanonda]] to promote Thailand's royal family. [[Mother's Day]] is celebrated on the birthday of Queen [[Sirikit]], August 12. In [[Trinidad and Tobago]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday. In [[Turkey]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday. In [[United Arab Emirates]], Father's Day is celebrated on June 21, generally coinciding with [[midsummer]]'s day. In the United", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "20367586", "text": "Father-Daughter Day Father-Daughter Day (sometimes called National Father-Daughter Day) is a holiday recognized annually on the second Sunday of October in the United States, honoring the relationship between a father and a daughter. Unlike Mother's Day and Father's Day, it is not federally recognized. The U.S. holiday was originally conceived by Smokey Robinson to honor his relationship with his six daughters. In human development the relationship between fathers and sons overshadows the bond with daughters. This holiday promotes the development of young women through their father. Robinson stated: “There are many different kinds of families today, and we know that", "title": "Father-Daughter Day" }, { "id": "567972", "text": "recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak at a Father's Day celebration and he wanted to make it an officially recognized federal holiday, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed throughout the entire nation, but he stopped short at issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a Father's Day proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567999", "text": "the following year. By 1931 other churches had adopted the day. In 1935 much of Australia moved to mark the day at the beginning of September and New Zealand followed, with a [[Wellington]] advert in 1937, a [[Christchurch]] Salvation Army service in 1938 and in Auckland from 1939. In [[Norway]], Father's day (\"Farsdag\"), is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is not a public holiday. Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The [[Rutgers WPF]] launched a campaign titled 'Greening PakistanPromoting Responsible Fatherhood' on Father's Day (Sunday June 18, 2017) across Pakistan to promote active", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "21012746", "text": "a bringer of gifts. The popular American myth of Santa Claus arrived in England in the 1850s and Father Christmas started to take on Santa's attributes. By the 1880s the new customs had become established, with the nocturnal visitor sometimes being known as Santa Claus and sometimes as Father Christmas. He was often illustrated wearing a long red hooded gown trimmed with white fur. Any residual distinctions between Father Christmas and Santa Claus largely faded away in the early years of the 20th century, and modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous. English festivals", "title": "English festivals" }, { "id": "469631", "text": "17-year-old Pelé. The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 1950s The 1950s (pronounced \"nineteen-fifties\"; commonly abbreviated as the 50s or Fifties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late-1940s to a hot competition between the United States and", "title": "1950s" }, { "id": "148101", "text": "always the most common colour—and he could sometimes be found in a gown of brown, green, blue or white. Mass media approval of the red costume came following a Coca-Cola advertising campaign that was launched in 1931. Father Christmas's common form for much of the 20th century was described by his entry in the \"Oxford English Dictionary\". He is \"the personification of Christmas as a benevolent old man with a flowing white beard, wearing a red sleeved gown and hood trimmed with white fur, and carrying a sack of Christmas presents\". One of the OED's sources is a 1919 cartoon", "title": "Father Christmas" }, { "id": "469814", "text": "The following articles contain brief timelines listing the most prominent events of the decade: 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929 1920s The 1920s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. In North America, it is frequently referred to as the \"Roaring Twenties\" or the \"Jazz Age\", while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the \"Golden Age Twenties\" because of the economic boom following World War I. French speakers refer to the period", "title": "1920s" }, { "id": "568009", "text": "Kingdom Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The day does not have a long tradition; \"The English Year\" (2006) states that it entered British popular culture \"sometime after the Second World War, not without opposition\". In the US, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Typically, families gather to celebrate the father figures in their lives. In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting [[greeting cards]] and gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools (if in session) and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts. The", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469545", "text": "20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts;", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "567989", "text": "celebrated in all of [[India]]. But is observed the third Sunday of June by mostly westernized urban centers. The event is not a public holiday. The day is usually celebrated only in bigger cities of India like Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kanpur, Bengaluru, Kolkata and others. After this day was first observed in the United States in 1908 and gradually gained popularity, Indian metropolitan cities, much later, followed suit by recognising this event. In India, the day is usually celebrated with children giving gifts like greeting cards, electronic gadgets, shirts, coffee mugs or books to their fathers. In [[Indonesia]],", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469572", "text": "research and practice of science led to advancement in the fields of communication, engineering, travel, medicine, and war. 20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "567994", "text": "of June and is not a public holiday. In [[Malaysia]], Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June. Malta has followed the international trend and celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June. As in the case of Mother’s Day, the introduction of Father’s Day celebrations in Malta was encouraged by [[Frans Said|Frans H Said]] (Uncle Frans of the children’s radio programmes). The first mention of Father’s Day was in June 1977, and the day is now part of the local events calendar. (The Times of Malta 11 June 2017) ( Il-Mument - Maltese newspaper- 18 June 2017)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "6008038", "text": "Robbery\" (1903) and \"A California Hold Up\" (1906)—the most commercially successful film of the pre-nickelodeon era. Gangster films began appearing as early as 1910, but became popular only with the advent of sound in film in the 1930s. The genre was boosted by the events of the prohibition era, such as bootlegging and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, the existence of real-life gangsters (e.g., Al Capone) and the rise of contemporary organized crime and escalation of urban violence. These movies flaunted the archetypal exploits of \"swaggering, cruel, wily, tough, and law-defying bootleggers and urban gangsters.\" With the arrival", "title": "Gun culture in the United States" }, { "id": "13738911", "text": "20th-century events The 20th-century events include many notable events which occurred throughout the 20th century, which began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. In Europe, the British Empire achieved the height of its power. Germany and Italy, which came into existence as unified nations in the second half of the 19th century, grew in power, challenging the traditional hegemony of Britain and France. With nationalism in full force at this time, the European powers competed with each other for land, military strength and economic power. On the very first day of", "title": "20th-century events" }, { "id": "567967", "text": "even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced by the press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event and never talked to other persons about it. In 1911, Jane Addams proposed that a citywide Father's Day celebration be held in Chicago, but she was turned down. In 1912, there was a Father's Day celebration in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J.J. Berringer of the Irvington Methodist Church. They mistakenly believed that they had been the first to celebrate", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469819", "text": "de France starts for the first time in 1903. The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1900 • 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909 1900s (decade) The 1900s (pronounced \"nineteen-hundreds\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The term \"nineteen-hundreds\" can also mean the entire century 1900–1999 years beginning with a 19 (see 1900s). The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. There are several main varieties", "title": "1900s (decade)" }, { "id": "77682", "text": "drew a new image of \"Santa Claus\" annually, beginning in 1863. By the 1880s, Nast's Santa had evolved into the modern vision of the figure, perhaps based on the English figure of Father Christmas. The image was standardized by advertisers in the 1920s and continues through the present day. Father Christmas, a jolly, stout, bearded man who typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, predates the Santa Claus character. He is first recorded in early 17th century England, but was associated with holiday merrymaking and drunkenness rather than the bringing of gifts. In Victorian Britain, his image was remade", "title": "Christmas" }, { "id": "567992", "text": "In [[Kenya]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In [[South Korea]], Parents' day is celebrated on May 8 and is not a public holiday. In [[Latvia]], Father's Day (Tēvu diena) is celebrated on the second Sunday of September and is not a public holiday. In Latvia people did not always celebrate this day because of the USSR's influence with its own holidays. This day in Latvia was 'officially born' in 2008 when it was celebrated and marked in the calendar for the first time on September 14 (second September Sunday)", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5672846", "text": "main crop. The Finley Agricultural & Pastoral Association was formed in 1912 and held its first show on 17 September 1913. The agricultural show is still held annually on the first Sunday in September (Father's Day). Periods of severe drought, combined with the Great Depression of the early 1930s, forced many farmers to abandon their holdings. In 1935, construction on the Mulwala Canal began in order to provide employment and bring water to the area’s rich farmland, with irrigation reaching the area in 1939, celebrated with a 'Back-To-Finley' event. This enabled the region to prosper with beef and dairy cattle,", "title": "Finley, New South Wales" }, { "id": "3794301", "text": "presentations A Presentation of historic documents and vintage artifacts that identify timelines, economic status, historic events and locations of ancestors. Family Reunion Month A Proclamation in 1985 To raise awareness of a growing trend of runaway children and newly formed organizations to help reunite families of runaways the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 64, has designated the period between Mother's Day, May 12, and Father's Day, June 16, 1985, as \"Family Reunion Month\" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this period. National Family Reunion Month While some commercial enterprises have dubbed August as", "title": "Family reunion" }, { "id": "469808", "text": "1920s The 1920s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. In North America, it is frequently referred to as the \"Roaring Twenties\" or the \"Jazz Age\", while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the \"Golden Age Twenties\" because of the economic boom following World War I. French speakers refer to the period as the \"\"Années folles\"\" (\"Crazy Years\"), emphasizing the era's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. The economic prosperity experienced by many countries during the 1920s (especially the United States) was similar in nature to", "title": "1920s" }, { "id": "17836851", "text": "town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council. Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4. The local church and Council were overwhelmed and they did not even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person,", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "568001", "text": "perhaps due to [[American Colonial Period (Philippines)|American influence]] and as proclaimed in 1988 by Philippine President [[Corazon Aquino]].. In [[Poland]], Father's Day (in Polish: Dzień Ojca) is celebrated on June 23 and is not a public holiday. Father's Day (\"Dia do Pai\") is celebrated on March 19 (see Roman Catholic tradition below) in Portugal. Father's Day is not a bank holiday. In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called the Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19, though in certain countries Father's Day has become a secular celebration. It is also common for Catholics to", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "5309575", "text": "declaring the day designated as Mothers' Day as Parents' Day. This was due to finding petitions to set a special date for Fathers’ Day not advisable as there are already set of numerous holidays set, and deeming it more fitting to celebrate both Mothers' and Fathers' Day together and not apart. In 1980, a proclamation was issued declaring first Sunday and the first Monday of December as Father's Day and Mother's Day respectively. In 1988, the issued presidential proclamation followed the international day of celebration of Father's and Mother's Day which most Filipinos are familiar with. However, then President Estrada", "title": "Parents' Day" }, { "id": "568002", "text": "honor their \"spiritual father,\" their parish priest, on Father's Day. The Law instituting the Father's day celebration in Romania passed on September 29th, 2009 and stated that Father's day will be celebrated annually on the second Sunday of May. First time it was celebrated on [[May 9th]] 2010. This year it was celebrated on [[ May]] 2019. The next dates this celebration will take place are: [[ May]] 2020, [[ May]] 2021, [[ May]] 2022, [[ May]] 2023, [[ May]] 2024, [[ May]] 2025 and [[ May]] 2026. Russia continues the [[Soviet Union]]'s tradition of celebrating [[Defender of the Fatherland", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "1247348", "text": "Collections. On the campus of Gonzaga University, the Crosby House, Bing Crosby's childhood home, houses the Bing Crosby Memorabilia Room, the world's largest Crosby collection with around 200 pieces. Spokane is known as the birthplace of the national movement started by Sonora Smart Dodd that led to the proposal and eventual establishment of Father's Day as a national holiday in the U.S. The first observation of Father's Day in Spokane was on June 19, 1910. Sonora conceived the idea in Spokane's Central Methodist Episcopal Church, while listening to a Mother's Day sermon. The Lilac Bloomsday Run, held in the spring", "title": "Spokane, Washington" }, { "id": "469825", "text": "and Chicago. The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919 1910s The 1910s (pronounced \"nineteen-tens\", also abbreviated as the \"teens\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919. The 1910s represented the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy", "title": "1910s" }, { "id": "3218263", "text": "(\"60s\" or \"sixties\"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in \"The Great Depression of the 1930s\" or \"The Roaring Twenties\". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year \"zero\", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its \"first\" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the \"second\" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although \"the 1960s\" comprises the years", "title": "Decade" }, { "id": "567988", "text": "Fathers are recognized and celebrated on this day with cards, gifts, breakfast, lunch brunch or early Sunday dinner; whether enjoying the day at the beach or mountains, spending family time or doing favourite activities . Children exclaim \"\"bonne fête papa\"\", while everyone wishes all fathers \"\"bonne Fête des Pères\"\". (Happy Father's Day) In Hong Kong, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In Hungary, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day [[(Telugu: ఫాదర్స్ డే)], Tamil: Thanthaiyar Thinam, தந்தையர் தினம்]is not", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "15345699", "text": "this unique look at the Jazz Age. Few decades have been filled with so much yet ended so quickly as the 1920s. Businesses boomed, the stock market soared, and heroes were abundant. Before the 1920s ended in the worst stock market crash in history, America underwent a transformation from 19th century Victorian life and business to a 20th-century dynamo, setting the standard for a transformed society and industrial giant. This special exhibit featured Richard Byrd's polar flight suit, Man o' War's saddle, a brick from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a suit worn by Henry Ford, Ernest Hemingway's passport, Charles", "title": "Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum" }, { "id": "9238173", "text": "Mid-twentieth century baby boom The middle of the twentieth century was marked by significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the West, resulting in the famous baby boomer generation. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending dates of the post-war baby boom, but it is most often agreed to have begun in 1946 immediately after World War II; some place it earlier, at the increase of births during 1941–1943. The boom coincided with the marriage boom, a significant increase in nuptiality. The baby boom started to decline as", "title": "Mid-twentieth century baby boom" }, { "id": "8568744", "text": "is celebrated on July 26, the feast day of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Ministry of Education (Republic of China) initiated Grandparents' Day (祖父母節, \"Zǔfùmǔ Jié\") in Taiwan on 29 August 2010, on the last Sunday in August annually, shortly before schoolchildren would start a new semester. The celebration was introduced to the UK in 1990 by the charity Age Concern. It has been celebrated on the first Sunday in October since 2008, although it is not widely advertised and has not been as commercially successful as Mother's and Father's Day. Businesses", "title": "National Grandparents Day" }, { "id": "567977", "text": "a single, unified project. In Aruba, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September, which is the first Sunday of Spring in Australia, and is not a public holiday. At school, children often handcraft a present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies have all sorts of special offers for fathers: socks, ties, electronics, suits, and men's healthcare products. Most families present fathers with gifts and cards, and share a meal to show appreciation, much like Mother's Day. YMCA Victoria continues", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "13887790", "text": "and Dorothy Day grew out of the same impetuses to put Catholic social teaching into action. The Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems (1923–1937) was conceived by Fr. Raymond McGowan as a way of bringing together Catholic leaders in the fields of theology, labor, and business, with a view to promoting awareness and discussion of Catholic social teaching. Its first meeting was held in Milwaukee. While it was the venue for important discussions during its existence, its demise was due in part to lack of participation by business executives who perceived the dominant tone of the group as anti-business. The 1960s", "title": "20th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States" }, { "id": "567980", "text": "Father's Day. In People's Republic of China, there is no official Father's Day. Some people celebrate on the third Sunday of June, according to the tradition of the United States. Prior to the People's Republic, when the Republic of China governed from Nanjing, Father's Day was celebrated on August 8. This was determined by the fact that the eighth (\"ba\") day of the eighth (\"ba\") month makes two \"eights\" (八八, \"ba-ba\"), which sounds similar to the colloquial word for \"daddy\" (\"ba-ba\"，爸爸). It is still celebrated on this date in areas still under the control of the Republic of China, including", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "21012745", "text": "pamphleteers, linking the old traditions with their cause, adopted Old Father Christmas as the symbol of 'the good old days' of feasting and good cheer. Following the Restoration in 1660, Father Christmas's profile declined. His character was maintained during the late 18th and into the 19th century by the Christmas folk plays later known as mummers plays. Until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with adult feasting and merry-making. He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents, nocturnal visits, stockings or chimneys. But as later Victorian Christmases developed into child-centric family festivals, Father Christmas became", "title": "English festivals" }, { "id": "567969", "text": "war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Several local clergymen accepted the", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567976", "text": "José de San Martín, was raised to the General Direction of Schools of Mendoza Province. The day was celebrated for the first time in 1958, on the third Sunday of June, but it was not included in the school calendars due to pressure from several groups. Schools in the Mendoza Province continued to celebrate Father's Day on August 24, and, in 1982, the provincial governor passed a law declaring Father's Day in the province to be celebrated on that day. In 2004, a proposal to change the date to August 24 were presented to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469817", "text": "1900s (decade) The 1900s (pronounced \"nineteen-hundreds\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The term \"nineteen-hundreds\" can also mean the entire century 1900–1999 years beginning with a 19 (see 1900s). The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. There are several main varieties of how individual years of the decade are pronounced in American English. Using 1906 as an example, they are \"nineteen-oh-six\", \"nineteen-six\", and \"nineteen-aught-six\". Which variety is most prominent depends somewhat on global region and generation. In American English, \"nineteen-oh-six\" is the most common;", "title": "1900s (decade)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "470093", "text": "Nineties,\" was not coined until the 1920s. This decade was also part of the Gilded Age, a phrase coined by Mark Twain, alluding to the seemingly profitable era that was riddled with crime and poverty. 1896 saw the first edition of the modern Olympic Games. 1885-1913 Annie Oakley, Li'l Sure Shot performed throughout US and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 1890s The 1890s was the ten-year period from the years 1890 to 1899. In the United States, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression sparked by the Panic of 1893, as well as several strikes in", "title": "1890s" }, { "id": "567875", "text": "to be celebrated with the whole family. It used to be celebrated on 8 December, the same date of the Conception of the Virgin celebration. In Romania, Mother's Day has been celebrated on the first Sunday of May since 2010. Law 319/2009 made both Mother's Day and Father's Day official holidays in Romania. The measure was passed thanks to campaign efforts from the Alliance Fighting Discrimination Against Fathers (TATA). Previously, Mother's Day was celebrated on 8 March, as part of International Women's Day (a tradition dating back to when Romania was part of the Eastern bloc). Today, Mother's Day and", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "567984", "text": "which was made official in France in 1928 and added to the calendar in Vichy in 1941. In Germany, Father's Day (\"Vatertag\") is celebrated differently from other parts of the world. It is always celebrated on Ascension Day (the Thursday forty days after Easter), which is a federal holiday. Regionally, it is also called men's day, \"Männertag\", or gentlemen's day, \"Herrentag\". It is a tradition for groups of males (young and old but usually excluding pre-teenage boys) to do a hiking tour with one or more smaller wagons, \"\", pulled by manpower. In the wagons are wine or beer bottles", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "2762974", "text": "interests. With industrialization and economic growth, workers arrived to join in the seemingly boundless prosperity. Increasingly, these workers came from Asia as well as Europe. The mix of cultures and diversity was a source of strength, but also, often, of conflict. The early part of the 20th century was a time of great change and talk between immigrants and the First Nations, all of whom found their lives changing rapidly. The dominance of the economy by big business was accompanied by an often militant labour movement. The first major sympathy strike was in 1903 when railway employees struck against the", "title": "History of British Columbia" }, { "id": "2666539", "text": "among women during the early 20th century. Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men wore hats when out of doors, \"Straw Hat Day\", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer. The exact date of Straw Hat Day might vary slightly from place to place. For example, in Philadelphia, it was May 15; at the University of Pennsylvania, it was the second Saturday in May. Its cold-weather counterpart was \"Felt", "title": "Boater" }, { "id": "567887", "text": "soldiers brought the US Mother's Day celebration to the UK, and the holiday was merged with the Mothering Sunday traditions still celebrated in the Church of England. By the 1950s, the celebration became popular again in the whole of the UK, thanks to the efforts of UK merchants, who saw in the festival a great commercial opportunity. People from UK started celebrating Mother's Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the same day on which Mothering Sunday had been celebrated for centuries. Some Mothering Sunday traditions were revived, such as the tradition of eating cake on that day, although celebrants", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "567873", "text": "declare the first Monday of December as Mother's Day \"to honor these fabulous women who brought forth God's children into this world.\" In response, Governor-General Charles Yeater issued Circular No. 33 declaring the celebration. In 1937 President Manuel L. Quezon issued Presidential Proclamation No. 213, changing the name of the occasion from \"Mother's Day\" to \"Parent's Day\" to address the complaints that there wasn't a \"Father's Day\". In 1980 President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Proclamation No. 2037 proclaiming the date as both Mother's Day and Father's Day. In 1988 President Corazon Aquino issued Presidential Proclamation No. 266, changing Mother's Day", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "567982", "text": "are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day (\"Dan svetog Josipa\"), March 19. It is not a public holiday. In Denmark, Father's Day is celebrated on June 5. It coincides with Constitution Day. In Estonia, Father's day (\"Isadepäev\") is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is an established flag day and a national holiday. In Finland, Father's Day (\"Isänpäivä\", \"Fars dag\") is celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is an established flag day. In France lighter manufacturer \"Flaminaire\" introduced the idea of father's day first in 1949 for commercial reasons. Director \"Marcel Quercia\" wanted to sell their lighter", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469443", "text": "1990s The 1990s (pronounced \"nineteen-nineties\" and abbreviated as the nineties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. In the absence of world communism, which collapsed in the first two years of the decade, the 1990s was politically", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "8568745", "text": "specialising in gifts and greeting cards have started merging the respective grandparents days with Mother's Day and Father's Day to try to boost sales. Congress passed the legislation proclaiming the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents' Day in the U.S. and, on August 3, 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter signed the proclamation. The flower of the U.S. National Grandparents Day is the forget-me-not which blooms in the spring. As a result, seasonal flowers are given in appreciation to grandparents on this day. In 2004, the National Grandparents Day Council of Chula Vista, California announced that \"A Song for Grandma", "title": "National Grandparents Day" }, { "id": "469490", "text": "an innovative platformer for the PlayStation. The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 1990s The 1990s (pronounced \"nineteen-nineties\" and abbreviated as the nineties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "2691823", "text": "and referendums heated up politics in most states over a period of decades, as national prohibition was finally passed in 1919 (and repealed in 1933), serving as a major issue between the wet Democrats and the dry GOP. Prior to the Gilded Age, the time commonly referred to as the old immigration saw the first real boom of new arrivals to the United States. During the Gilded Age, approximately 20 million immigrants came to the United States in what is known as the new immigration. Some of them were prosperous farmers who had the cash to buy land and tools", "title": "Gilded Age" }, { "id": "568005", "text": "දිනය & in Tamil: Thanthaiyar Thinam, தந்தையர் தினம்), is observed on the third Sunday of June. It is not a public holiday. Many schools hold special events to honor fathers. In [[Sudan]], Father's Day (عيد الأب), is celebrated on the twenty-first of June. In [[Sweden]], Father's day (\"Fars dag\"), is celebrated on the second Sunday of November, but is not a public holiday. In Taiwan, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on August 8, the eighth day of the eighth month of the year. In [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]], the pronunciation of the number eight is", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469603", "text": "1950s The 1950s (pronounced \"nineteen-fifties\"; commonly abbreviated as the 50s or Fifties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late-1940s to a hot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union by the early-1960s. Clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginnings of the decade and the beginning of the", "title": "1950s" }, { "id": "568000", "text": "fatherhood and responsibility for the care and upbringing of children. Father's Day is not a public holiday in Pakistan. In [[Peru]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. People usually give a present to their fathers and spend time with him mostly during a family meal. In the [[Philippines]], Father's Day (as well as [[Mother's Day]]) is officially celebrated every first Monday of December according to a recent presidential proclamation, but it is not a public holiday. It is more widely observed by the public on the 3rd Sunday of June", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469442", "text": "especially from India and other parts of the world, were fashionable. Much of the 1970s fashion styles were influenced by the hippie movement. Significant fashion trends of the 1970s include: The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 1970s The 1970s (pronounced \"nineteen-seventies\", commonly abbreviated as the \"Seventies\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly", "title": "1970s" }, { "id": "432777", "text": "a National Health Service, more council housing and nationalisation of several major industries. Britain faced a severe financial crisis, and responded by reducing her international responsibilities and by sharing the hardships of an \"age of austerity\". Large loans from the United States and Marshall Plan grants helped rebuild and modernise its infrastructure and business practices. Rationing and conscription dragged on well into the post war years, and the country suffered one of the worst winters on record. Nevertheless, morale was boosted by events such as the marriage of Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and the Festival of Britain in 1951. Labour", "title": "History of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1454002", "text": "those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the \"Father of Veterans Day.\" U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also", "title": "Veterans Day" }, { "id": "3415341", "text": "first space age that lasted from the 1950s with the launch of Sputnik to the mid-1980s. Electrification spread rapidly in the 20th century. At the beginning of the century electric power was for the most part only available to wealthy people in a few major cities such as New York, London, Paris, and Newcastle upon Tyne, but by the time the World Wide Web was invented in 1990 an estimated 62 percent of homes worldwide had electric power, including about a third of households in the rural developing world. Birth control also became widespread during the 20th century. Electron microscopes", "title": "History of technology" }, { "id": "739835", "text": "Spanish flu pandemic. In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol were prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition. The result was that in cities illegal alcohol became a big business, largely controlled by racketeers. The second Ku Klux Klan grew rapidly in 1922–25, then collapsed. Immigration laws were passed to strictly limit the number of new entries. The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties due to the great economic prosperity during this period. Jazz became popular among the younger generation, and thus the decade was also called the Jazz Age. The Great Depression (1929–39) and the New Deal", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "5802461", "text": "1917 Duchamp presented a white porcelain urinal signed \"R. Mutt\" as work of art, becoming the father of the \"readymade\". The killing fields of the war (nearly one-tenth of the French adult male population had been killed or wounded) had made many see the absurdity of existence. This was also the period when the \"Lost Generation\" took hold: rich Americans enjoying the liberties of Prohibition-free France in the 1920s and poor G.I.'s going abroad for the first time. Paris was also, for African-Americans, amazingly free of the racial restrictions found in America (James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Josephine Baker). When Dada", "title": "20th-century French art" }, { "id": "3985287", "text": "the elevation of the importance of the \"father\" in Latvian society. The national holiday, \"Father's Day\" has been proposed with the corresponding encouragements for fathers to take their paternal responsibilities seriously. Stiffer penalties for \"deadbeat dads\" who avoid paying child support have been enacted. The first chairman of party, Ēriks Jēkabsons, resigned as Minister of the Interior. Later, due to various disagreements about the direction that the party was taking, he left the party itself and became an independent MP. Following the 2005 municipal election, a Jūrmala businessman Germans Milušs attempted to bribe the members of city council to ensure", "title": "Latvia's First Party" }, { "id": "5187623", "text": "of Chicago, painting, writing poetry, and working in fashion design in Hollywood. Sonora Smart Dodd Sonora Smart Dodd (February 18, 1882 – March 22, 1978) was the daughter of American Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart and was responsible for the founding of Father's Day. Sonora Louise Smart was born in Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Arkansas to farmer William Jackson Smart (1842-1919) and his wife Ellen Victoria Cheek Smart (1851-1898). William Smart was a sergeant in the Union's First Arkansas Light Artillery during the Civil War. When Sonora was seven years old, the Smart family moved from Marion, Arkansas to", "title": "Sonora Smart Dodd" }, { "id": "567805", "text": "Mother's Day Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father's Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents Day. The modern Mother's day began in the United States, at the initiative of Ann Reeves Jarvis in the early 20th century. This is not (directly) related to the many traditional celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have", "title": "Mother's Day" }, { "id": "568010", "text": "[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open golf tournament]] is scheduled to finish on Father's Day, as was the [[2016 NBA Finals]]. In [[Ukraine]], Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. In Venezuela, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Traditionally, as on Mother's Day, families gather together and have lunch, usually at the grandparents' house. In recent years, families also started having lunch out, and as on Mother's Day, it is one of the busiest days for restaurants. At school, children handcraft their present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "567979", "text": "the second Sunday of August. Publicist Sylvio Bhering picked the day in honor of Saint Joachim, patron of fathers. While it is not an official holiday (see Public holidays in Brazil), it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's father or father figure. In Canada, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day typically involves spending time with one's father or the father figures in one's life. Small family gatherings and the giving of gifts may be part of the festivities organized for", "title": "Father's Day" }, { "id": "469759", "text": "a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II. The following articles contain brief timelines listing the most prominent events of the decade. 1940s The 1940s (pronounced \"nineteen-forties\" and commonly abbreviated as the \"Forties\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. The consequences of", "title": "1940s" }, { "id": "8956152", "text": "Machine Age The Machine Age is an era that includes the early 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be about 1880 to 1945. Considered to be at a peak in the time between the first and second world wars, it forms a late part of the Second Industrial Revolution. The 1940s saw the beginning of the Atomic Age, where modern physics saw new applications such as the atomic bomb, the first computers, and the transistor. The Digital Revolution ended the intellectual model of the machine age founded in the mechanical and heralding a", "title": "Machine Age" }, { "id": "5187622", "text": "third Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972, President Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the 3rd Sunday of June each year. Dodd was honored at Expo '74, the World's Fair, in Spokane in 1974. She died four years later at the age of ninety-six, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Terrace in Spokane. Besides her advocacy for Father's Day, Dodd was also active in the Spokane chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In the 1920s, Dodd spent some time away from Spokane, studying at the School of the Art Institute", "title": "Sonora Smart Dodd" }, { "id": "6810189", "text": "street during the second half of the 19th century. Elaborate hotels such as the Divine Lorraine and the Majestic were centers for night life. Standing over 10 stories tall the Lorraine was one of the tallest residential structures in Philadelphia. Private clubs such as the Columbia and Mercantile were popular during the Gilded Age. At the turn of the 20th century, Broad Street transformed from a bustling boulevard to a cultural magnet for music and the arts. January 1, 1901 introduced the very first Mummers Day parade which has become a staple of Philadelphia culture. Jazz and gospel gained popularity", "title": "Broad Street (Philadelphia)" }, { "id": "17836850", "text": "Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her father, Methodist minister Fletcher Golden. Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" }, { "id": "17745212", "text": "1940s. It began with what he suggests was best January in cinema history. \"The Grapes of Wrath\", \"His Girl Friday\" and \"The Shop Around the Corner\", all considered classics, were released in January 1940. Later in the decade, other classic films would first reach screens during January, such as \"Sullivan's Travels\", \"Shadow of a Doubt\" and \"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\". A few months after \"Treasure\"'s release, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in \"United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.\", holding that it was a violation of antitrust law for the studios to own theater chains as", "title": "Dump months" }, { "id": "17836852", "text": "who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it. Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis' crusade to establish Mother's Day; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) away from Fairmont. In 1911, Jane Addams proposed a citywide Father's Day in Chicago, but she was turned down. In 1912, there was a Father's Day celebration in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J. J. Berringer of the Irvingtom Methodist Church. They believed mistakenly that they had been the", "title": "Father's Day (United States)" } ]

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[ { "id": "5838652", "text": "Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial is a public airport located in Utqiagvik, the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the state. Situated on the Chukchi Sea at a latitude of 71.29°N, the airport is the farthest north of any in US territory. The airport is named after American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, both of whom died about away at Point Barrow in a 1935 airplane crash. Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport", "title": "Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport" }, { "id": "1994418", "text": "Will Rogers World Airport Will Rogers World Airport , Will Rogers Airport or simply Will Rogers, is an American passenger airport in Oklahoma City located about 6 miles (8 km) Southwest of downtown Oklahoma City. It is a civil-military airport on 8,081 acres (3,270 ha) of land. Although the official IATA and ICAO airport codes for Will Rogers World Airport are OKC and KOKC, it is common practice to refer to it as \"WRWA\" or \"Will Rogers\". The airport is named for comedian and legendary cowboy Will Rogers, an Oklahoma native who died in an airplane crash near Barrow, Alaska", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "1994419", "text": "in 1935. The city's other major airport, Wiley Post Airport, along with the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport in Barrow, Alaska, are named for Wiley Post, who also died in the same crash. Will Rogers World Airport is the only airport to use the designation \"World\" in addition to no reference to its city location. Although Will Rogers offers US Customs and Immigration Services, there are currently no scheduled international flights. Will Rogers World Airport is the busiest passenger airport in the state of Oklahoma. In 2017, the airport handled 3.92 million passengers, marking its busiest year on record. Southwest", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "1398091", "text": "in Saranac Lake, New York was renamed as the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by the National Vaudeville Artists association. On November 4, 1948, the United States Post Office commemorated Rogers with a three-cent postage stamp. In 1979, it issued a United States Postal Service 15-cent stamp of him as part of the \"Performing Arts\" series. The Barrow, Alaska airport (BRW), located about 16 miles (26 km) from the location of the fatal airplane crash, is known as the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport. The final ship of the Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarines, , launched in 1966 and commissioned the", "title": "Will Rogers" }, { "id": "5838653", "text": "has one asphalt paved runway (7/25) measuring . For the 12-month period ending January 11, 2011, the airport had 12,010 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 50% air taxi, 37% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial and fewer than 1% military. At that time there were 8 aircraft based at this airport: 1 jet, 3 helicopters, 1 multi-engine, and 3 single-engine. Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial is a public airport located in Utqiagvik, the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state", "title": "Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport" }, { "id": "1398085", "text": "constructed in nearby Claremore on the site purchased by Rogers in 1911 for his retirement home. On May 19, 1944, Rogers's body was moved from a holding vault in Glendale, California, to the tomb. After his wife Betty died later that year, she was also interred there. A casting of the Davidson sculpture that stands in National Statuary Hall, paid for by Davidson, was installed at the museum. Both the birthplace and the museum are open to the public. Many landmarks were named in Rogers' honor: Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, where a recent expansion and renovation included", "title": "Will Rogers" }, { "id": "1994444", "text": "Rogers Airport. Both occupants survived, one had minor injuries. On November 15, 2016, a Southwest Airlines employee, Michael Winchester was shot and killed in a parking garage; a 45-year-old suspect, Lloyd Dean Buie, was subsequently found dead of an apparently self-inflicted wound. Winchester was the father of Kansas City Chiefs long snapper James Winchester and himself a former punter and member of the Oklahoma Sooners' 1985 national championship college team. Will Rogers World Airport Will Rogers World Airport , Will Rogers Airport or simply Will Rogers, is an American passenger airport in Oklahoma City located about 6 miles (8 km)", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "14943879", "text": "Rogers Executive Airport Rogers Executive Airport , also known as Carter Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the central business district of Rogers, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a \"general aviation\" facility. Rogers Executive Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 1,359 feet (414 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,011 by 100 feet (1,832 x 30 m).", "title": "Rogers Executive Airport" }, { "id": "2898324", "text": "for $25,000. Two monuments at the crash site commemorate the death of the two men and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The nearby Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport located in Utqiagvik, Alaska bears their names. Wiley Post Airport, a large FAA designated reliever airport in Oklahoma City, is named after Post. Oklahoma City's major commercial airport is named after Will Rogers, so that both victims of the crash are honored by airports in Oklahoma City. The Will Rogers – Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base is a seaplane base located on Lake Washington, at the north end", "title": "Wiley Post" }, { "id": "2787607", "text": "JPATS was formed in 1985 from the merger of the Marshals Service air fleet with that of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. JPATS completes over 350,000 prisoner/alien movements per year. Air fleet operations are located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with hubs in Las Vegas, Nevada; Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Additionally, the Federal Transfer Center at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was built especially to facilitate prisoner transport on JPATS. Usually, the airline employs Boeing 737-400 aircraft to transport convicts and illegal residents of the United States for extradition. Smaller jets and turboprops are also used to transport", "title": "Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System" }, { "id": "3269316", "text": "Wiley Post Airport Wiley Post Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located seven nautical miles (13 km) northwest of the central business district of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was named after Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, who died in the same 1935 crash as the namesake of the city's other major airport, Will Rogers World Airport. It is the FAA-designated reliever airport for Will Rogers World Airport and serves business and corporate air travelers and functions as a center for general aviation. In addition, the northwest Oklahoma City airport provides an environment for aviation-related", "title": "Wiley Post Airport" }, { "id": "6354194", "text": "city in the nation dissected by two interstate highways that reach the entire length of the nation (Interstate 40 E-W and Interstate 35 N-S). Oklahoma City is a major air transportation and maintenance center, with three major airports and numerous other smaller ones. Will Rogers World Airport (OKC) is the principal commercial airport of the state and is the anchor of the city's network; located on the SW side of the city, the airport is completing the second phase of an expansion plan and is currently expanding its non-stop flight offerings (with emphasis on its top-15 O/D destinations). Will Rogers", "title": "Transportation in Oklahoma City" }, { "id": "683324", "text": "to I-35 near the suburb of Moore, Oklahoma. Northwest Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 3) runs from North Classen Boulevard in north-central Oklahoma City to the northwestern suburbs. Oklahoma City is traversed by the following major expressways: Oklahoma City is served by two primary airports, Will Rogers World Airport and the much smaller Wiley Post Airport (incidentally, the two honorees died in the same plane crash in Alaska) Will Rogers World Airport is the state's busiest commercial airport, with just under 4 million passengers served in 2017, a historic record. Tinker Air Force Base, in southeast Oklahoma City, is the largest", "title": "Oklahoma City" }, { "id": "1007702", "text": "The rest of the newspaper is the Northwest Arkansas edition of the \"Arkansas Democrat-Gazette\" (the \"B section\" is the regular \"Democrat-Gazette\" \"A section,\" complete with front page and masthead). Rogers Municipal Airport (ROG), also known as Carter Field, is home to Walmart's air fleet. All commercial aviation, however, goes through the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA), located about 15 miles west of Rogers in Highfill. Rogers, Arkansas Rogers is located in Northwest Arkansas, United States, one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country. Rogers was the location of the first Walmart store, whose corporate headquarters is located in", "title": "Rogers, Arkansas" }, { "id": "301037", "text": "Oklahoma's busiest highway, with a daily traffic volume of 123,300 cars. In 2010, the state had the nation's third-highest number of bridges classified as structurally deficient, with nearly 5,212 bridges in disrepair, including 235 National Highway System Bridges. Oklahoma's largest commercial airport is Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, averaging a yearly passenger count of more than 3.5 million (1.7 million boardings) in 2010. Tulsa International Airport, the state's second-largest commercial airport, served more than 1.3 million boardings in 2010. Between the two, six airlines operate in Oklahoma. In terms of traffic, R. L. Jones Jr. (Riverside) Airport in", "title": "Oklahoma" }, { "id": "8892518", "text": "tankers and heli-tankers leased by the USFS. Resources include fueling, retardant loading for aerial tankers, communications, and some quartering for aircrew, helitack, and ground fire-fighting teams. Rogers Field has two runways: Runway 5/23 is closed indefinitely and no longer maintained. Rogers Field Rogers Field is a public airport bordering the southwest of the town of Chester, serving Plumas County, California, USA. The airport has two runways (only one of which is still opened and maintained, however) and is mostly used for general aviation and USFS/CDF access. In addition to its civil-aviation role it also serves as the Chester Air Attack", "title": "Rogers Field" }, { "id": "2940365", "text": "era of racial segregation had ended. In 1972 Georgians elected Andrew Young to Congress as the first African American since Reconstruction. In 1980, construction was completed on an expansion of William B. Hartsfield International Airport. The busiest in the world, it was designed to accommodate up to 55 million passengers a year. The airport became a major engine for economic growth. With the advantages of cheap real estate, low taxes, Right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference, the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of finance, insurance, and real estate companies, as well as the convention and", "title": "History of Georgia (U.S. state)" }, { "id": "997091", "text": "in 1896 as the retail Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Station. In the late 20th century, the building was used as Brower's Cafe. In 1901, a United States Post Office was opened. In 1935, the famous humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post made an unplanned stop at Walakpa Bay south of Utqiagvik, en route to the city. As they took off again, their plane stalled and plunged into a river, killing them both. Two memorials have been erected at the location, now called the Rogers-Post Site. Another memorial is located in Utqiagvik, where the airport was renamed as the", "title": "Utqiagvik, Alaska" }, { "id": "1994420", "text": "Airlines carries the most passengers at Will Rogers World Airport, with a market share of over 35%. The airport first opened in 1911 as Oklahoma City Municipal Airfield. It was renamed in Rogers' honor in 1941. During World War II Will Rogers Field was a major training facility for the United States Army Air Forces; many fighter and bomber units were activated and received initial training there. The December 1951 C&GS chart shows 5497-ft runway 3, 3801-ft runway 8, 5652-ft runway 12 and 5100-ft runway 17. The April 1957 OAG showed 21 daily non-stop departures on Braniff International Airways, 15", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "2013842", "text": "in the United States to be ranked in the top ten. What is now Jackson–Evers International Airport opened in 1963, a new airport to replace Hawkins Field, Jackson's airport since 1928. Delta Air Lines's first flight, from Dallas Love Field, landed at Hawkins Field in 1929. The new airport was named Allen C. Thompson Field (after the Mayor of Jackson at the time, who was instrumental in obtaining the land for the airfield), which remains the name for the land on which the airport is built. The airport was \"Jackson Municipal Airport\". Following a decision by the Jackson City Council", "title": "Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport" }, { "id": "7931696", "text": "Renton Municipal Airport Renton Municipal Airport is a public use airport located in Renton, a city in King County, Washington, United States. The airport was renamed Clayton Scott Field in 2005 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Clayton Scott. The airport's northern boundary is Lake Washington and the Will Rogers - Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base. Renton Airport has a floating dock and a launching ramp for conversion from wheeled landings to water takeoffs and landings. The airport is owned by the City of Renton and is a general aviation airport which serves Renton and other nearby communities. It provides", "title": "Renton Municipal Airport" }, { "id": "1843678", "text": "1953 became \"LaGuardia Airport\", named for Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of New York when the airport was built. LaGuardia has been frequently criticized for some of its outdated facilities. Former Vice President Joe Biden compared LaGuardia to a \"third world country\" and the airport has been ranked in numerous customer surveys as the worst in the United States. Among pilots, it is referred to as \"USS LaGuardia\", because the runways are short and surrounded by water, thus giving the feel of landing on an aircraft carrier. On July 27, 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a reconstruction plan", "title": "LaGuardia Airport" }, { "id": "7537750", "text": "United States, including hubs such as Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte and Houston, among others. With roughly one million passengers per year, it is one of the fastest growing airports of its size in the country. A new terminal was opened at the airport in 2007 with 10 gates, expandable to 60, and runways can accommodate the Boeing 747 and large military aircraft. Branson Airport is the only privately built airport in the country, and also has flights to select cities in the United States, although no major airlines serve the airport and service is minor and sporadic, meaning that Springfield-Branson", "title": "Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri" }, { "id": "1332077", "text": "land formerly owned by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This airport is privately owned, and it is thought to be the largest privately owned commercial airport in the United States. Its construction involved flattening the tops of a series of Ozark Mountains and is thought to be the largest earth moving project in the history of the state. Previously, the closest commercial airport was Springfield–Branson National Airport northwest of Branson, owned by the city of Springfield. Just after 1 a.m. on February 29, 2012, the city of Branson sustained damage from an EF-2 tornado in the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak. At", "title": "Branson, Missouri" }, { "id": "8892517", "text": "Rogers Field Rogers Field is a public airport bordering the southwest of the town of Chester, serving Plumas County, California, USA. The airport has two runways (only one of which is still opened and maintained, however) and is mostly used for general aviation and USFS/CDF access. In addition to its civil-aviation role it also serves as the Chester Air Attack Base, a logistical & coordination facility owned and managed by Lassen National Forest (LNF), USFS, for the support of the LNF Air Attack 06, Copter 510, California Department of Forestry's aerial firefighting aircraft (both fixed-wing and helicopter) and other air", "title": "Rogers Field" }, { "id": "8083501", "text": "it fourth among general aviation (GA) airports and thirtieth among all airports, according to a 2007 FAA report. It also was the busiest in Oklahoma, outranking both Will Rogers World Airport and Tulsa International. In the 1950s, the city of Tulsa decided to build a second airport to alleviate congestion around Tulsa International Airport. A consulting group hired by the city performed a site selection study. In February, 1955, the group recommended a site on the west side of the Arkansas River, just north of Jenks, Oklahoma. Construction began in 1957. The facility was originally called Riverside Airport, but was", "title": "Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport" }, { "id": "1841434", "text": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is an international airport located south of Atlanta's central business district, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. The airport has 209 domestic and international gates. ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,902 ha) of land and has five parallel runways. The airport has international service within North America and to countries in South America, Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia. As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield–Jackson ranks sixth. Many", "title": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport" }, { "id": "1994423", "text": "hit by the tornado. The company decided in August 2013 not to re-open the facility and exit the OKC market. The airport once partnered with Tinker AFB in presenting Aerospace America airshow. By the late 1990s the Oklahoma City Airport Trust deemed the 1967-built terminal building unsuitable. Following the adoption of a three phase master plan, preparations for renovating the airport were launched in 2001. The old twin concourses (visible in the 1995 photograph) were demolished to make way for a larger terminal with integrated concourses, high ceilings, and modern facilities. A $110 million multi-phase expansion and renovation project, designed", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "6193053", "text": "Interstate 240 (Oklahoma) Interstate 240 (abbreviated I-240) is an Interstate Highway in Oklahoma, United States, that runs 16.22 miles (26.1 km) west from Interstate 40 to Interstate 44 in southern Oklahoma City. After its terminus in southwest Oklahoma City, the main I-240 roadbed becomes Interstate 44 and Airport Road toward Will Rogers World Airport. The interstate overlaps SH-3, the longest Oklahoma state highway, for its entire length. Major destinations along the route include Tinker Air Force Base and the heavily populated Southside of Oklahoma City. With just under of commercial space, I-240 is a major corridor of retail, industrial and", "title": "Interstate 240 (Oklahoma)" }, { "id": "11373234", "text": "West Woodward Airport West Woodward Airport is in Woodward County, Oklahoma, seven miles west of Woodward, which owns it. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a \"general aviation\" airport. Second Air Force until 1944. Sub-field of Will Rogers Field. 354th Army Air Forces Base Unit Central DC-3s stopped for a few years starting around 1951. The airport covers 1,310 acres (530 ha) at an elevation of 2,189 feet (667 m). It has two runways: 17/35 is 5,502 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m) concrete and 5/23 is 2,500 by 60 feet (762 x 18", "title": "West Woodward Airport" }, { "id": "1841476", "text": "parody Star Wars episode of Family Guy entitled \"It's a Trap!\", Stewie Griffin, playing Darth Vader, joked that \"Even though we're in a galaxy far, far away, we still have to change in Atlanta.\" Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is an international airport located south of Atlanta's central business district, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. The airport has 209 domestic and international gates. ATL covers 4,700 acres (1,902 ha) of land and has five", "title": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport" }, { "id": "1841450", "text": "of the fifth runway, a new control tower was built to see the entire length of the runway. The new control tower is the tallest in the United States, with a height of over . The old control tower, away from the new control tower, was demolished August 5, 2006. Atlanta City Council voted on October 20, 2003, to rename the airport Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, to honor former mayor Maynard Jackson, who died June 23, 2003. The council planned to drop Hartsfield's name from the airport, but public outcry prevented this. In April 2007 an \"end-around taxiway\" opened, Taxiway", "title": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport" }, { "id": "7495941", "text": "Santa Fe Depot (Oklahoma City) Santa Fe Depot, also known as the Santa Fe Transit Hub, is a historic train station located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Amtrak's \"Heartland Flyer\" makes daily round-trip service from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. The station is the designated Intermodal Transit Hub for the region and as of 2016 is under renovation to accommodate this enhanced use. Santa Fe shares the same station ID, OKC, with the IATA code for Oklahoma City's International airport, Will Rogers World Airport. The station was built in 1934 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It", "title": "Santa Fe Depot (Oklahoma City)" }, { "id": "74079", "text": "In 2016, 23.7 percent of Cleveland households lacked a car, while the national average was 8.7 percent. Cleveland averaged 1.19 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is the city's major airport and an international airport that formerly served as a main hub for United Airlines. It holds the distinction of having the first airport-to-downtown rapid transit connection in North America, established in 1968. In 1930, the airport was the site of the first airfield lighting system and the first air traffic control tower. Originally known as Cleveland Municipal Airport, it", "title": "Cleveland" }, { "id": "1910556", "text": "The first flight was on June 3, 1952. In its full year of operation in 1953, more than 1.4 million passengers used the terminal. \"Greater Pitt\" was then considered modern and spacious. The airport terminal was the largest in the United States, second only to Idlewild Airport's (now JFK Airport) in New York when it was completed five years later. The airport's capacity is one of its most valuable assets. The airport was designed by local architect Joseph W. Hoover. One of the features of his style is the use of simple, exposed concrete, steel, and glass materials. The terminal", "title": "Pittsburgh International Airport" }, { "id": "1398079", "text": "mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast to Russia. He attached a Lockheed Explorer wing to a Lockheed Orion fuselage, fitting floats for landing in the lakes of Alaska and Siberia. Rogers visited Post often at the airport in Burbank, California, while he was modifying the aircraft. He asked Post to fly him through Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column. After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left Lake Washington in Renton in the Lockheed Orion-Explorer in early August and then made several stops in Alaska. While Post piloted the aircraft, Rogers wrote", "title": "Will Rogers" }, { "id": "2898321", "text": "of a wrecked experimental Lockheed Explorer. The Explorer wing was six feet longer in span than the Orion's original wing, an advantage that extended the range of the hybrid aircraft. As the Explorer wing did not have retractable landing gear, it also lent itself to the fitting of floats for landing in the lakes of Alaska and Siberia. Lockheed refused to make the modifications Post requested on the grounds that the two designs were incompatible and potentially a dangerous mix, so Wiley made the changes himself. Post's friend Will Rogers visited him often at the airport in Burbank, California, while", "title": "Wiley Post" }, { "id": "1863099", "text": "rather than integrate it; he claimed that President Lyndon Johnson and communists put him out of business. The building was purchased by Georgia Tech in 1965; it was used for many years as the placement center, and was later known as the Ajax building. It was demolished on May 14 and 15, 2009. During his ownership of the Pickrick, Maddox, a Democrat, failed in two bids for mayor of Atlanta. In 1957, he lost to incumbent William B. Hartsfield, for whom the large airport is named. Hartsfield had pursued a more moderate approach to racial matters. In 1961, Maddox lost", "title": "Lester Maddox" }, { "id": "14943880", "text": "For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2015, the airport had 32,000 aircraft operations, an average of 88 per day: 94% general aviation and 6% air taxi. In September 2016, there were 116 aircraft based at this airport: 78 single-engine, 12 multi-engine, 25 jets, and 1 helicopter. Beaver Lake Aviation is the airport's full service FBO. The airport also features a fully staffed Control Tower, as well as on site Index A ARFF coverage provided by Rogers Fire Department Station 3. Beaver Lake Aviation's website is http://www.beaverlakeaviation.com/ Rogers Executive Airport Rogers Executive Airport , also known as Carter Field, is", "title": "Rogers Executive Airport" }, { "id": "11373235", "text": "m) asphalt. In the year ending June 2, 2011 the airport had 6,000 general aviation aircraft operations, average 16 per day. 36 aircraft were then based at the airport: 86% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 3% jet, and 6% ultralight. West Woodward Airport West Woodward Airport is in Woodward County, Oklahoma, seven miles west of Woodward, which owns it. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a \"general aviation\" airport. Second Air Force until 1944. Sub-field of Will Rogers Field. 354th Army Air Forces Base Unit Central DC-3s stopped for a few years starting around 1951. The airport", "title": "West Woodward Airport" }, { "id": "5236920", "text": "Transportation in New York City The transportation system of New York City is a network of complex infrastructural systems. New York City, being the most populous city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes one of the largest subway systems in the world; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel; and an aerial tramway. New York City's airport system, which includes John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport (located in New Jersey), Stewart Airport and a few smaller facilities, is one of the largest in the world. New York City is also home", "title": "Transportation in New York City" }, { "id": "3159544", "text": "Peter O. Knight Airport Peter O. Knight Airport is an airport on Davis Islands, five minutes () from downtown Tampa, Florida. Built as a Works Progress Administration project, it was Tampa's main airport from 1935 to 1945, and is still used by general aviation operators today because of its proximity to the central city. The airport was named for prominent attorney and businessman Peter O. Knight, namesake of Holland & Knight. The airport's original administration building was torn down in the 1960s, and replaced by the current building. Although seaplanes aren't quite as popular anymore, the basin is still there", "title": "Peter O. Knight Airport" }, { "id": "10121301", "text": "from Quebec to Labrador, and between Labrador and the island of Newfoundland. Air travel first entered as a viable alternative to transcontinental railroads, and to the then-primitive (or non-existent) road networks that crossed the United States and Canada in the early 1930s, but truly increased in popularity after the Second World War. Most of the continent's busiest airports are located in the United States. In fact the U.S. has 9 of North America's 10 busiest airports, including the world's busiest, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. The busiest airport in North America outside the United States is Toronto Pearson International", "title": "Transportation in North America" }, { "id": "15817332", "text": "and overnight lows were also significantly above norm. The heat was so extreme, that OGE, the area's main electricity provider, refused to cut off electric service in the month of August, as it felt that this might result in deaths among the elderly, many of whom used electric power to air-condition their homes. The following data is for the weather station at Will Rogers World Airport, located southwest of the city, which during the summer, experienced a peak temperature of 110F. Due to the urban heat island effect, most of the urban area of Oklahoma City was even hotter than", "title": "2011 North American heat wave" }, { "id": "8547923", "text": "Gustavus Airport Gustavus Airport is a state owned, public use airport located in Gustavus, a city in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,828 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,822 enplanements in 2009, and 9,996 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015-2019, which categorized it as a \"nonprimary commercial service\" airport based on 9,509 enplanements in 2014. Gustavus Airport covers an area of 1,821 acres (737", "title": "Gustavus Airport" }, { "id": "1954213", "text": "California native who became stationed at Tinker Air Force Base three weeks earlier – was assigned to work the late shift as a forecaster for the base's Air Weather Service office that evening, analyzing U.S. Weather Bureau surface maps and upper-air charts that failed to note atmospheric instability and moisture content present over Oklahoma that would be suitable for producing thunderstorm activity, erroneously forecasting dry conditions for that night. Thunderstorms soon developed southwest of Oklahoma City, and at 9:30 p.m., forecasters from Will Rogers Airport sent a warning to Tinker that the storm encroaching the city was producing wind gusts", "title": "Tornado warning" }, { "id": "1915829", "text": "handled 19,291,412 passengers, 278,145 aircraft movements and processed 412,270 metric tons of cargo. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a large-hub primary commercial service facility. HNL opened in March 1927 as John Rodgers Airport, named after World War I naval officer John Rodgers. It was funded by the territorial legislature and the Chamber of Commerce, and was the first full airport in Hawaii: aircraft had previously been limited to small landing strips, fields or seaplane docks. From 1939 to 1943, the adjacent Keehi", "title": "Daniel K. Inouye International Airport" }, { "id": "1335266", "text": "not pass through South Dakota. Five domestic airlines (Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Allegiant Air, and Frontier Airlines) serve Sioux Falls Regional Airport. The airport is also known as Joe Foss Field (in honor of famed aviator and former Governor Joe Foss). Airlines offer non-stop flight service to a number of major U.S. airports, including Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Denver International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Orlando Sanford International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport, McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas) and St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport.", "title": "Sioux Falls, South Dakota" }, { "id": "6193058", "text": "Once completed, Interstate 240 was 31.76 miles (51.11 km) long. As part of Oklahoma's 75th anniversary (Diamond Jubilee) celebrations in 1982, ODOT extended I-44 to Lawton and Wichita Falls, Texas along the H.E. Bailey Turnpike. This caused I-240 to be truncated to its current western terminus near Will Rogers World Airport. Interstate 240 (Oklahoma) Interstate 240 (abbreviated I-240) is an Interstate Highway in Oklahoma, United States, that runs 16.22 miles (26.1 km) west from Interstate 40 to Interstate 44 in southern Oklahoma City. After its terminus in southwest Oklahoma City, the main I-240 roadbed becomes Interstate 44 and Airport Road", "title": "Interstate 240 (Oklahoma)" }, { "id": "11595136", "text": "land formerly belonging to Tennessee Ernie Ford. The land was originally purchased by Glenn Patch, a publisher of Computer Shopper and other magazines, in 1990 when he bought in the area to develop the Branson Creek complex. Patch sold the 922 acres to Branson Airport, LLC in 2007. Patch also owns the franchise for the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theatre in Branson. The owners have put the naming rights for the FBO, the terminal, and the entire airport up for sale. The construction of the airport, which involved the flattening of several Ozark Mountains, is claimed to be the largest", "title": "Branson Airport" }, { "id": "1994437", "text": "Wiley Post Airport and Clarence E. Page Airport. The Airport Trust is led by Director Mark Kranenburg. Will Rogers World Airport has a separate terminal facility used by air taxi and corporate service, although most of these flights use the Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma City's FAA-designated reliever facility. AAR Oklahoma has a major maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility and regional headquarters at Will Rogers World Airport, in addition to other aircraft maintenance and aircraft on ground organizations. ARINC has major facilities on the airport premises, including plans to double the size of their current facility. Atlantic Aviation has a fixed-base", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "1910439", "text": "and the first airfield lighting system, all in 1930; and it was the first U.S. airport to be directly connected to a local or regional rail transit system, in 1968. It was also the first airport to employ a two-level terminal design separating arrivals from departures. The airport was named after its founder, former city manager William R. Hopkins, on his 82nd birthday in 1951. United Airlines established its eastern-most domestic hub in Cleveland after World War II, which it maintained until the mid-1980s, when it closed its Cleveland hub and moved capacity to a new hub at Washington–Dulles. Following", "title": "Cleveland Hopkins International Airport" }, { "id": "1994421", "text": "on American Airlines, 5 on Central Airlines, 4 on Continental Airlines and 3 on TWA. A TWA Constellation aircraft flew non-stop from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles but eastward non-stops didn't reach beyond Wichita, Kansas, Tulsa or Dallas, Texas. Oklahoma City began non-stop flights to Chicago starting in 1966. Great Plains Airlines, a regional airline based in Tulsa, made Will Rogers World Airport a hub in 2001, with non-stop flights to Tulsa, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Colorado Springs, Colorado and direct or connecting flights to Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis, Chicago, and Washington. The airline had hoped to reach additional East", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "19613635", "text": "such an entity existed. He believed that dirigibles were the aircraft of the future, so as a real estate investor, and entrepreneur he started planning in 1919 to buy up farms in the Hybla Valley of Fairfax County, Virginia (USA). He bought some in the 1920s from different land owners. His idea was to turn the dairy farms into the world's largest airport, with the longest runways anywhere in the world. The airport was to be an international base for all kinds of aircraft. Woodhouse called his future intended airport the \"George Washington Air Junction\" because it was on land", "title": "George Washington Air Junction" }, { "id": "951216", "text": "Clayton County, Georgia Clayton County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 259,424. The county seat is Jonesboro. Clayton County is included in the \"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area\". It is the home of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The county was established in 1858 and named in honor of Augustin Smith Clayton (1783–1839), who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1832 until 1835. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is", "title": "Clayton County, Georgia" }, { "id": "951199", "text": "Clayton County, Georgia Clayton County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 259,424. The county seat is Jonesboro. Clayton County is included in the \"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area\". It is the home of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The county was established in 1858 and named in honor of Augustin Smith Clayton (1783–1839), who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1832 until 1835. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is", "title": "Clayton County, Georgia" }, { "id": "1984527", "text": "southeast of Fort Myers, making it the third-largest airport in the United States in terms of land size (after Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth). 6,000 acres of the land has been conserved as swamp lands and set aside for environmental mitigation. Prior to the opening of the airport, the region was served by Page Field in Fort Myers. By the 1970s, however, it had become clear that Page Field would be too small to handle increasing future demand for commercial flights into the region. Expanding Page Field was determined to be impractical because its airfield was constrained by U.S. 41 to", "title": "Southwest Florida International Airport" }, { "id": "1815115", "text": "16 gates. On March 20, 2012, the municipal airport commission voted to rename the airport the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, after former United States President Bill Clinton and his wife, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The name Adams Field will continue to be used when referring to the airport's runways and air traffic and will be the airport's official designator. In October 2013, \"Travel + Leisure\" released a survey of travelers that ranked Clinton National Airport as the worst of the 67 domestic airports considered in the survey. The survey report cited long lines and few", "title": "Clinton National Airport" }, { "id": "1910438", "text": "Cleveland Hopkins is operated by the Cleveland Department of Port Control, which also includes Burke Lakefront Airport located downtown. In 2018, Airports Council International ranked Cleveland Hopkins the most improved North American airport in the 2017 Airport Service Quality Survey. Cleveland Hopkins is of particular importance to the history of commercial air travel due to a number of first-in-the-world innovations that would eventually become the global standard. Founded in 1925, it was the first municipality-owned facility of its kind in the United States. It was the site of the first air traffic control tower, the first ground-to-air radio control system,", "title": "Cleveland Hopkins International Airport" }, { "id": "7780503", "text": "commercial service. It is also New England's fourth-largest airport by passenger volume, behind Boston Logan in Massachusetts, Bradley International in Connecticut, and T. F. Green in Rhode Island. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a small hub primary commercial service facility. The facility was known as Manchester Airport until April 18, 2006, when it added \"Boston Regional\" to advertise its proximity to Boston, about to the south. Certified for Cat III B Instrument Landing operations, the airport has a reputation for never surrendering", "title": "Manchester–Boston Regional Airport" }, { "id": "9012224", "text": "Minto Al Wright Airport Minto Al Wright Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Minto, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Formerly known as Minto Airport, it was renamed in August 2009 to honor Al Wright, an Alaskan aviation pioneer and founder of Wright Air Service. Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 154 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 193 enplanements in 2009, and 294", "title": "Minto Al Wright Airport" }, { "id": "4416805", "text": "occurred within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on November 13, 2014 for a deadline to publish new aeronautical charts and airport directories. The new terminal opened on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. The airport is named after Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His boyhood home, museum, and Presidential Library are at the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene, Kansas. The airport is the site of the Cessna headquarters and main manufacturing plant, as well as a Bombardier service center for Learjet and other business jet aircraft. Over the past 90+ years the largest airport", "title": "Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport" }, { "id": "15290915", "text": "services during and for 30 days after an emergency declaration went into effect, and will remain in effect for 180 days after the declaration order for prices of repairs, remodeling and construction. The Salvation Army of Central Oklahoma opened three shelters and one warming station for those stranded by the storm outdoors, the homeless, and those who lost power during the storm; two in Oklahoma City, one in Norman and one in El Reno, with teams from the Oklahoma chapter of the American Red Cross placed on standby. Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City and Tulsa International Airport were", "title": "January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American blizzard" }, { "id": "9250770", "text": "roads, such as rural two-lane roads, rural divided expressways and interstates, and urban interstates are posted at 75 mph (121 km/h), but some rural freeways and interstates have 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits, and one toll road, Texas State Highway 130, has an 85 mph (137 km/h) speed limit, the highest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, located nearly equidistant from downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth, is the largest airport in the state, the second largest in the United States, and fourth largest in the world. The airport is the headquarters for American Airlines. Texas's", "title": "Transportation in Texas" }, { "id": "11510580", "text": "of the then-unnamed field led to its rededication on July 16, 1926. It was given the name Hoover Field in honor of then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, a major promoter of civil aviation. Hoover Field suffered from numerous, highly dangerous safety issues, including nearby hills, high-tension electrical power lines near the field, an amusement park to one side, a landfill that was on fire (and which sometimes obscured the field), unpaved sod runways, tall smokestacks blocking the approaches, and more. Almost as soon as it opened, there were calls to close Hoover Field and build a large, modern airport at", "title": "Washington Airport" }, { "id": "15427916", "text": "Seward Airport Seward Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (2.3 miles; 3.7 km) northeast of the central business district of Seward, a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a \"general aviation\" facility. The airport was built during World War II. It was named Walseth Air Force Base and was closed by the United States Air Force in April 1947. It was excessed to the War Assets Administration and taken over by the", "title": "Seward Airport" }, { "id": "7589212", "text": "Buckland Airport Buckland Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Buckland, a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is situated on the Buckland River. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BVK by the FAA and BKC by the IATA (which assigned BVK to Huacaraje, Bolivia). The airport's ICAO identifier is PABL. Buckland Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 31 feet (9 m) above mean", "title": "Buckland Airport" }, { "id": "1994436", "text": "hub is built on the west side of the airport grounds, off of Taxiway G. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol operate their national training facility on airport grounds. They operate a hangar on the north side of the airport, off of Taxiway N, north of the JPATS Hangar. The Oklahoma City Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol meets on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm on the grounds of the Oklahoma Air National Guard base on the West side of the field. The City of Oklahoma City Department of Airports manages Will Rogers World Airport and the other city-owned airports:", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "7589213", "text": "sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a gravel surface measuring 3,200 by 75 feet (975 x 23 m). Buckland Airport Buckland Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Buckland, a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is situated on the Buckland River. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BVK by the FAA and BKC by the IATA (which assigned BVK to Huacaraje, Bolivia). The", "title": "Buckland Airport" }, { "id": "3540329", "text": "Frontier Flying Service Frontier Flying Service (now d/b/a Ravn Connect) is an American airline headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It operates an extensive network of year-round scheduled commuter services and postal services to Alaska bush communities, primarily north of Fairbanks, as well as charter services to the lower 48 and Canada. Its main base is in Fairbanks (Fairbanks International Airport), with hubs in Utqiagvik (Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport), Anchorage (Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport), Kotzebue (Ralph Wien Memorial Airport) and Bethel (Bethel Airport). Frontier Flying Service was established in 1950 by retired Air Force Colonel Richard McIntyre, catering", "title": "Frontier Flying Service" }, { "id": "16846972", "text": "stimulate a sense of belonging and ownership. The rebranding reinforced the sense that the airport was something owned by the locality.\" Pakey later co-credited his Peel Holding's Chairman John Whittaker with the idea which he originally had on visiting John Wayne Orange County Airport. It was in June 2001 when, not long after the John Lennon naming was announced, Pakey and Peel received the acknowledgement for inspiring the renaming of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport from the President of the airport. Pakey secured major growth from the likes of easyJet and Ryanair at Liverpool, as well as many new", "title": "Neil Pakey" }, { "id": "455844", "text": "Washington Dulles International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport ( ) is an international airport in the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia, west of downtown Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles the 52nd Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies straddling the Loudoun-Fairfax Most of the airport is in the unincorporated community of Dulles in Loudoun County, with a small portion in the unincorporated community of", "title": "Washington Dulles International Airport" }, { "id": "1915830", "text": "Lagoon was dredged for use by seaplanes, and the dredged soil was moved to HNL to provide more space for conventional airplanes. The U.S. military grounded all civil aircraft and took over all civil airports after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Rodgers Field was designated Naval Air Station Honolulu. The Navy built a control tower and terminal building, and some commercial traffic was allowed during daylight hours. Rodgers Field was returned to the Territory of Hawaii in 1946. At the time, at , it was one of the largest airports in the United States, with four paved land runways", "title": "Daniel K. Inouye International Airport" }, { "id": "8387759", "text": "PBS station KETA-TV (owned by the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority member network), Fox affiliate KOKH-TV, CW affiliate KOCB, independent station KAUT-TV, MyNetworkTV affiliate KSBI, and Ion Television owned-and-operated station KOPX-TV. The region is also home to the Trinity Broadcasting Network owned-and-operated station KTBO-TV and Norman-based Daystar owned-and-operated station KOCM. Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City is the primary airport of the region and the busiest in the state. The airport has one terminal with 17 gates, but is in the process of expansion. Wiley Post Airport in Bethany and Max Westheimer Airport in Norman serve as reliever airports for", "title": "Central Oklahoma" }, { "id": "4789794", "text": "of 2015, a number of freight railroads were operating in Massachusetts, with CSX being the largest carrier. Massachusetts has a total of of freight trackage in operation. The major airport in the state is Boston-Logan International Airport. The airport served 33.5 million passengers in 2015, up from 31.6 million in 2014, and is used by around 40 airlines with a total of 103 gates. Logan International Airport has service to numerous cities throughout the United States, as well as international service to Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Logan, Hanscom Field in Bedford, and Worcester Regional Airport are", "title": "Massachusetts" }, { "id": "1191577", "text": "Enid City Railway. The street cars were later replaced by buses, following a declaration by the Enid government that made streetcars illegal. Since 1984, the Transit, operated by Enid Public Transportation, has been in operation, providing on-demand shuttle services. The Transit also offers service to Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport, Greyhound Bus Service, and Amtrak Train Station. Enid's electricity is provided by Oklahoma Gas & Electric and natural gas by Oklahoma Natural Gas Company. The City of Enid provides water, wastewater, and trash collection services. Internet, television, and telephone providers include Suddenlink Communications, Pioneer Telephone, and AT&T. Enid's Frank Frantz", "title": "Enid, Oklahoma" }, { "id": "992799", "text": "classes, community workshops, local courses, as well as dual credit for high school students. 11% of Unalaska residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree. The state of Alaska owns a paved runway, where daily flights are scheduled. Because of the very harsh weather conditions around Unalaska Airport, about a fifth of those flights are cancelled. A seaplane base is also available. The state of Alaska changed the name of the airport in 2002 to \"Tom Madsen Airport\", after a bush pilot killed in an accident that year, although the FAA still uses the airport's original", "title": "Unalaska, Alaska" }, { "id": "6470284", "text": "the sandbars and extended the jetties. In 1938, James Cagney, a famous Hollywood actor at the time, purchased Collins Island. The US Coast Guard used this island during World War II and Cagney eventually sold the island in 1948. Later in the 20th century, Newport Beach became the home of a number of famous celebrities. The most popular Newport Beach celebrity was John Wayne, also known as “the Duke”. Orange County later named its airport for Wayne. Other celebrities residing and/or keeping boats in Newport Beach included James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley Temple, and Errol Flynn. Furthermore, \"Roy Rogers and", "title": "History of Newport Beach, California" }, { "id": "4808661", "text": "Champion Air Champion Air was an airline based in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. It operated general charter services to sports teams, vacation wholesalers and government agencies. It also offered limited scheduled service. Its main base was Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, with hubs at Denver International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. The airline ceased all operations on May 31, 2008. Until its shutdown, the airline was a prime contractor for the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System. In 1987,", "title": "Champion Air" }, { "id": "8239514", "text": "Ford Airport (Dearborn) Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, United States was one of the first modern airports in the world. It operated from 1924 to 1947, and the site is now part of Ford Motor Company's Dearborn Proving Ground. The airport was about 360 acres (1.5 km²) in size. This airport saw many world and U.S. \"firsts\": the first U.S. airport hotel, the first concrete runways, first U.S. scheduled passenger service, first contracted airmail service, first radio control for a commercial flight, first U.S. passenger terminal. The buildings were designed by architect Albert Kahn and are considered to have greatly", "title": "Ford Airport (Dearborn)" }, { "id": "4820105", "text": "St. Thomas with nonstop service to Miami. Also historically the airport hosted Air Force One and Two, respectively, carrying Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Joseph Biden using Boeing 707s and later Boeing 757s. Cyril E. King Airport also hosted a number of charter airliners, from the 757 to the 767 to the DC-10. It was known as Harry S Truman Airport until 1984, when it was renamed to honor Cyril Emmanuel King, the second elected governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands. A new passenger terminal opened in November 1990 and retained the name. Cyril E. King Airport covers an area", "title": "Cyril E. King Airport" }, { "id": "1238056", "text": "served by four U.S. routes: 70, 183, 283, and 287. Bus transportation is available to Amarillo and Dallas-Fort Worth. Wilbarger County Airport is located 5 miles north of Vernon and the nearest airport with scheduled flights is Wichita Falls Municipal Airport 50 miles to the east, which predominantly offers flights of commuter airlines to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The nearest international airports from Vernon with major airline connections include Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, and Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo. The area is also served by a BNSF line bypassing downtown from", "title": "Vernon, Texas" }, { "id": "1193978", "text": "serves only Native Americans, Soonercare members and insured AST employees. There is no public transportation. Residents must rely on automobiles due to the rural location. Passenger rail service is available on the Heartland Flyer from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas at the Norman Amtrak station. The nearest commercial airport is Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. A widening of Highway 9 to four lanes through Pink is scheduled to begin with right-of-way purchases and utility relocation in 2019. Pink, Oklahoma Pink is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan", "title": "Pink, Oklahoma" }, { "id": "213826", "text": "Jimmy Carter. He had attended Carter's inaugural ball \"as a member of the loyal opposition\", as he described it. In 1998, he was awarded the Naval Heritage Award by the US Navy Memorial Foundation for his support of the Navy and military during his film career. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) named Wayne 13th among the Greatest Male Screen Legends of Classic Hollywood cinema. Various public locations are named in honor of Wayne, including the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, where a nine-foot bronze statue of him stands at the entrance; the John Wayne Marina for", "title": "John Wayne" }, { "id": "1914763", "text": "Tokyo and São Paulo, Brazil. By the time the 1959 airport terminal building opened, the name \"Moisant International Airport\" was being used for the New Orleans facility. In 1961, the name was changed to \"New Orleans International Airport\". In July 2001, to honor the 100th anniversary of Louis Armstrong's birth (August 4, 1901), the airport's name became \"Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport\". During the administration of Morrison's successor, Vic Schiro, the government sponsored studies of the feasibility of relocating New Orleans International Airport to a new site, contemporaneous with similar efforts that were ultimately successful in Houston (George Bush", "title": "Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport" }, { "id": "8547925", "text": "Airlines with Boeing 737 aircraft. Gustavus Airport Gustavus Airport is a state owned, public use airport located in Gustavus, a city in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,828 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,822 enplanements in 2009, and 9,996 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015-2019, which categorized it as a \"nonprimary commercial service\" airport based on 9,509 enplanements in 2014. Gustavus Airport covers an", "title": "Gustavus Airport" }, { "id": "7560092", "text": "Harbor Airport. In 2002, the State of Alaska renamed it Tom Madsen Airport in honor of Charles Thomas Madsen Sr., a bush pilot who was killed in an airplane accident that year. However, the Federal Aviation Administration still refers to it as Unalaska Airport. Scheduled commercial airline service is provided by PenAir, a code share partner of Alaska Airlines. At one point Alaska Airlines operated Boeing 737-200 Combi jetliners to the airport with these aircraft transporting a combination of passengers and freight on the main deck of the aircraft. However, due to load restrictions as a result of the short", "title": "Unalaska Airport" }, { "id": "1854050", "text": "the Boeing 757. (Some larger cargo aircraft fly from SNA, such as the FedEx A310/300.) Some gates are built to handle planes up to the size of a Boeing 767, which could operate with payload/fuel load restrictions. No wide-body passenger airliners have ever been scheduled at SNA. John Wayne Airport is from Orange County's main attraction – the Disneyland Resort. (Los Angeles International Airport is from Disneyland.) A statue of John Wayne, the airport's eponym, welcomes passengers in the arrivals area on the lower level. The first airstrip on the grounds was constructed in 1923, when Eddie Martin signed a", "title": "John Wayne Airport" }, { "id": "4925029", "text": "(6.3 million passengers/year) and Louisville International Airport (3.4 million passengers/year). Blue Grass airport opened with a star-shaped layout. In World War II it was used by pilots training at Bowman for dead-stick landing practice in preparation for glider assaults. Blue Grass Field was Auric Goldfinger's flight destination in the James Bond film \"Goldfinger\". Blue Grass Airport Blue Grass Airport is a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, 6 miles west of downtown Lexington. Located among world-renowned horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Course, Blue Grass Airport is the primary airport serving central and eastern Kentucky. More than", "title": "Blue Grass Airport" }, { "id": "1841453", "text": "impact of more than $19.8 billion. Since the opening of Concourse F in May 2012, the airport now has 200 gates which is the most at any airport. In December 2015, the airport became the first airport in the world to serve 100 million passengers in a year. In 1999, Hartsfield–Jackson's leadership established the Development Program: \"Focus On the Future\" involving multiple construction projects with the intention of preparing the airport to handle a projected demand of 121 million passengers in 2015. The program was originally budgeted at $5.4 billion over a ten-year period, but the total is now revised", "title": "Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport" }, { "id": "9012226", "text": "and 50% general aviation. Minto Al Wright Airport Minto Al Wright Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Minto, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Formerly known as Minto Airport, it was renamed in August 2009 to honor Al Wright, an Alaskan aviation pioneer and founder of Wright Air Service. Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 154 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 193 enplanements", "title": "Minto Al Wright Airport" }, { "id": "3718778", "text": "chapters of the Ninety-Nines give their own flight scholarships to benefit local woman aviators. Aspiring professional pilots can find career guidance and mentors in the Ninety-Nines \"Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative\" program. The Ninety-Nines are owners and custodians of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas. The birthplace and early childhood home of early aviator Amelia Earhart was declared a National Historic Site and has been returned to its turn-of-the-century condition by the \"99s\" and features an abundance of personal and family memorabilia. Their international headquarters building on Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is home to the", "title": "Ninety-Nines" }, { "id": "1398078", "text": "to utilitarian methods and his ever-optimistic faith in future progress. Rogers became an advocate for the aviation industry after noticing advancements in Europe and befriending Charles Lindbergh, the most famous American aviator of the era. During his 1926 European trip, Rogers witnessed the European advances in commercial air service and compared them to the almost nonexistent facilities in the United States. Rogers' newspaper columns frequently emphasized the safety record, speed, and convenience of this means of transportation, and he helped shape public opinion on the subject. In 1935 the famed aviator Wiley Post, an Oklahoman, became interested in surveying a", "title": "Will Rogers" }, { "id": "10490377", "text": "Red Dog Airport Red Dog Airport is a private-use airport located at Red Dog Mine, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is privately owned by the NANA (Northwest Arctic Native Association) Regional Corporation. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 6,312 x 100 ft. (1,924 x 30 m). As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 7,968 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 8,475 enplanements (105 scheduled + 8,370 unscheduled) in 2006. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Red Dog Airport is assigned", "title": "Red Dog Airport" }, { "id": "6354195", "text": "also serves as a major maintenance facility with numerous companies providing maintenance to large passenger aircraft. In addition, JPATS has its hub facility at the airport and numerous cargo carriers and air shuttles operate at the airport. Wiley Post Airport (PWA) is located in the West Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany and is the FAA-designated reliever airport for Will Rogers World Airport. It also is the primary general and corporate aviation airport for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Tinker Air Force Base is the largest military air depot in the nation and is located in SE Oklahoma County. Clarence E.", "title": "Transportation in Oklahoma City" }, { "id": "438089", "text": "U.S.-based; American Airlines is number one after its 2013 acquisition by U.S. Airways. Of the world's 30 busiest passenger airports, 12 of them are in the United States, including the busiest, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The US is the second-largest energy consumer in total use. The U.S. ranks seventh in energy consumption per capita after Canada and a number of other countries. The majority of this energy is derived from fossil fuels: in 2005, it was estimated that 40% of the nation's energy came from petroleum, 23% from coal, and 23% from natural gas. Nuclear power supplied 8.4% and renewable", "title": "Economy of the United States" }, { "id": "1994425", "text": "new transportation plaza and driving lanes. Phase-II included a new concourse constructed to the west of the central terminal area, which was renovated to match the interior and exterior designs of the new concourse. The 1960s-built concourses were then demolished after the new concourse opened in 2005. The entire phase was completed in November 2006. Phase-III project calls for the construction of a new concourse to the east, with at least eight more gates as well as expanded retail, restaurant, and baggage areas. Will Rogers World Airport has a single three-level terminal with 17 departure gates along the West Concourse", "title": "Will Rogers World Airport" }, { "id": "383963", "text": "natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, Royal Botanic Garden and Hyde Park, the oldest parkland in the country. Built attractions such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House are also well known to international visitors. The main passenger airport serving the metropolitan area is Kingsford-Smith Airport, one of the world's oldest continually operating airports. Established in 1906, Central station, the largest and busiest railway station in the state, is the main hub of the city's rail network. The first people to inhabit the area now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "10262766", "text": "the airport was one of the largest in the United States, second only to Idlewild Airport (now JFK Airport) in New York. The airport was designed by a local architect named Josep W. Hoover. One of the primary features of his style is the use of simple, exposed concrete, steel, and glass materials. The terminal building was constructed in \"stepped\" levels: the first floor extended farther than the second, the second floor extended farther than the third, etc. Such a design meant that the uncovered roof of the lower level could then be used as an observation deck. In addition", "title": "History of aviation in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "8908180", "text": "runway designated 2/20 with a gravel surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m). The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service: Golovin Airport Golovin Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Golovin, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,753 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, an increase of 8.4% from the 1,617 enplanements in 2009. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a \"general aviation\" airport. Golovin Airport", "title": "Golovin Airport" } ]

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[ { "id": "2808431", "text": "than 10 million certified units in the United States. Williams was active in the music industry for 74 years. Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, to Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, Williams attended Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of his family's move to California. Williams had three older brothers—Bob, Don, and Dick Williams. His first performance was in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. He and his brothers formed the Williams Brothers quartet in late", "title": "Andy Williams" }, { "id": "7886013", "text": "Charles Andrew Williams Charles Andrew \"Andy\" Williams (born February 8, 1986) is a convicted murderer who, as a 15-year-old, perpetrated the shooting at Santana High School on March 5, 2001. In the shooting, two students were killed and 13 others were wounded. Williams is currently serving life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years. Known by his family as \"Andrew\" or \"Andy\" for short and born in Frederick, Maryland on February 8, 1986, he was the first born child of Jeff and Linda Williams. Andy has one half brother, Michael. In the summer of 2000, Jeff and", "title": "Charles Andrew Williams" }, { "id": "2808465", "text": "met through a mutual friend. They made their homes at Branson, Missouri and La Quinta, California, where he was known as the \"honorary mayor\". Williams was a noted collector of modern art and his homes have been featured in \"Architectural Digest\". Williams' birthplace in Iowa is a tourist attraction and is open most of the year. Williams was an avid golfer and hosted the PGA Tour golf tournament in San Diego from 1968–1988 at Torrey Pines. Then known as the \"Andy Williams San Diego Open\", the tournament continues as the Farmers Insurance Open, usually played in February. He was also", "title": "Andy Williams" }, { "id": "7886026", "text": "2025. He will be 39 years old. Charles Andrew Williams Charles Andrew \"Andy\" Williams (born February 8, 1986) is a convicted murderer who, as a 15-year-old, perpetrated the shooting at Santana High School on March 5, 2001. In the shooting, two students were killed and 13 others were wounded. Williams is currently serving life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years. Known by his family as \"Andrew\" or \"Andy\" for short and born in Frederick, Maryland on February 8, 1986, he was the first born child of Jeff and Linda Williams. Andy has one half brother, Michael.", "title": "Charles Andrew Williams" }, { "id": "11452855", "text": "Solihull Borough, before he was signed by First Division side Coventry City in 1985 for a fee of £20,000, at the age of 23. He played ten games for the club, before he was allowed to sign with Rotherham United of the Third Division in October 1986. The \"Millers\" were relegated at the end of the 1987–88 season after losing to Swansea City at the semi-final stage of the Fourth Division play-offs. Despite this, Williams was still chosen in the PFA Team of the Year for his strong performances throughout the season. His performances also won him a £175,000 move", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1962)" }, { "id": "17904625", "text": "Dick Williams (singer) Richard Blaine Williams (June 7, 1926 – May 5, 2018) was an American singer and actor. He was the older brother of Andy Williams and the two of them appeared together as The Williams Brothers. Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, he attended Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of his family's move to California. Williams had three brothers: Bob, Don, and Andy. One of his first", "title": "Dick Williams (singer)" }, { "id": "20224477", "text": "impossible to answer (e.g., ‘In which decade of the 20th century was Pablo Picasso born?’ The answer is impossible as he was born in the 19th century). If a contestant buzzes in and identifies it as \"impossible\", their opponents lose two lives, but they lose two lives of their own if they give an answer to an impossible question or say \"impossible\" to a question that is possible and so has a correct answer. The finalist who makes it to this round now faces a question, based on a random category, in which they have ten seconds to pick three", "title": "Impossible (game show)" }, { "id": "3784569", "text": "on display at the RAAF Museum in Point Cook, were carried into space and back on a shuttle flight by Australian-born astronaut Dr Andy Thomas. The Williams Foundation, named in his honour, was launched in February 2009 \"to broaden public debate on issues relating to Australian defence and security\". Richard Williams (RAAF officer) Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, (3 August 18907 February 1980) is widely regarded as the \"father\" of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He was the first military pilot trained in Australia, and went on to command Australian and British fighter units in World War I. A", "title": "Richard Williams (RAAF officer)" }, { "id": "10852191", "text": "year. He lives near Bristol. Andy Williams (Welsh footballer) Andrew Phillip Rees Williams (born 8 October 1977) is a former professional footballer who played as a winger. Williams began his playing career as a trainee at Southampton. During his time at Southampton he played just 21 league games, which included coming on as a substitute as Southampton won 3-2 against Liverpool at Anfield in February 1998. After a brief loan spell at Swindon Town in 1999, the Wiltshire club signed him on a permanent basis and he went on to make a total of 47 appearances in all competitions in", "title": "Andy Williams (Welsh footballer)" }, { "id": "4666", "text": "Andy Warhol and his Polaroid camera was revealed at Union Square in New York City. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings \"Campbell's Soup Cans\" (1962) and \"Marilyn Diptych\" (1962), the", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "19784466", "text": "Andy Williams (surgeon) Andrew \"Andy\" Michael Williams (born 14 March 1964) is a British knee and sports surgeon who specialises in ligament injuries. He is known for treating professional athletes, including Premier League footballers. and English Premiership rugby union players. Williams is a Reader at Imperial College London and co-founder of London musculoskeletal health centre Fortius Clinic. He was named in \"The Times\"’ 2011 list of Britain’s top surgeons. Williams qualified as a surgeon at King's College Hospital, London in 1987. He completed his orthopaedic training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore in 1996, before undertaking a year-long", "title": "Andy Williams (surgeon)" }, { "id": "12825058", "text": "Williams Christmas Special\" from 1962 through the 1990s. Albums: Robert F. Williams, known as, Bob Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, USA on January 1, 1918. He was a singer and actor. He was on The Andy Williams Christmas Show in 1971. He was a singer on the movie Janie in 1944. He was a singer in Something in the Wind. He united with his brothers yearly from 1962 to 1990 for The Andy Williams Christmas. He died on September 23, 2003 in Terra Bella, California, USA. Donald J. Williams, known as, Don Williams was born in Wall Lake,", "title": "The Williams Brothers" }, { "id": "11452857", "text": "in the face with a cricket bat. United then went on to power to a fourth-place finish in the top-flight in 1990–91, with Williams making five starts and seven substitute appearances. Restricted to the odd appearance by the form of the Leeds midfield, in December 1991 he was loaned out to Second Division side Port Vale. He played five games for the \"Valiants\", who would finish the season in last place; in contrast Williams returned to Elland Road, where manager Howard Wilkinson was in the process of bringing Leeds the First Division title. Williams would be gone before the end", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1962)" }, { "id": "506568", "text": "a solo artist. He is also one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold 75 million records worldwide. Williams also topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart, racking up almost 50% more plays than the Sugababes at number 2. In 2014, he was awarded the freedom of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour. Williams was born on 13 February 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. His parents, Janet (\"née\" Farrell) and Peter Williams (also known as Pete Conway), ran a pub called the Red Lion in", "title": "Robbie Williams" }, { "id": "12825061", "text": "dynamic singer/dancers standing in for the original Williams Brothers, Liza performed musical hits (with the original vocal arrangements) from the famous act, including such numbers as \"I Love a Violin,\" “Clap Yo' Hands,\" “Jubilee Time\", and \"Hello Hello\". The show won a Tony Award, and was subsequently released on a double CD- preserving the nightclub material in a state-of-the-art recording. Twin brothers Andrew Williams and David Williams (born February 22, 1959 in Henderson, Nevada, USA), nephews of singer Andy Williams, from Henderson, Nevada, recorded as the Williams Brothers in the 1990s, and made the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 with their song", "title": "The Williams Brothers" }, { "id": "10852189", "text": "Andy Williams (Welsh footballer) Andrew Phillip Rees Williams (born 8 October 1977) is a former professional footballer who played as a winger. Williams began his playing career as a trainee at Southampton. During his time at Southampton he played just 21 league games, which included coming on as a substitute as Southampton won 3-2 against Liverpool at Anfield in February 1998. After a brief loan spell at Swindon Town in 1999, the Wiltshire club signed him on a permanent basis and he went on to make a total of 47 appearances in all competitions in his twenty months at the", "title": "Andy Williams (Welsh footballer)" }, { "id": "8418017", "text": "Andy Milligan Andy Milligan (February 12, 1929 – June 3, 1991) was an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker, whose work includes 27 films made between 1965 and 1988. In spite of the fact that he directed a number of films that have become cult favorites with horror movie buffs, he died in abject poverty in 1991 from AIDS and was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Los Angeles, California. Andrew Jackson Milligan Jr. was born on February 12, 1929, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a self-taught filmmaker and was responsible for much of the creative activity on", "title": "Andy Milligan" }, { "id": "3746727", "text": "together to make the best of it.\" Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland currently ranked No. 257 in men's singles as of 17 December 2018. Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting activities and is a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion, winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals and former world No. 1. Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the 2012 US Open final, becoming the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand", "title": "Andy Murray" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "11493244", "text": "Austin Music Hall of Fame in 1988. Williams performed regularly until the time of his death in Austin at the age of 92. Roosevelt Williams Roosevelt Thomas \"Grey Ghost\" Williams (December 7, 1903 – July 17, 1996) was an African American blues pianist, with a 70-year career spanning from the 1920s through the 1990s. Williams was born in Bastrop, Texas, United States, and received only basic musical training when he was a teenager. He traveled to the area dances and roadhouses by riding empty boxcars. He would seem to appear out of nowhere and then disappear immediately after performing, which", "title": "Roosevelt Williams" }, { "id": "5304570", "text": "polygamy. Generally, when a poem stays with me a long time that poem delivers the goods\". Throughout his life, Oscar Williams eschewed his Jewish background. He was always mysterious about his origins and was buried by an Episcopal Church. He was survived by a son, Strephon Kaplan-Williams, who was raised in boarding schools and hardly ever interacted with his parents. His papers are housed at the Indiana University Lilly Library. Oscar Williams Oscar Kaplan (December 29, 1900 – October 10, 1964), known by his pen name Oscar Williams, was an American anthologist and poet. Williams was born Oscar Kaplan in", "title": "Oscar Williams" }, { "id": "11452856", "text": "to Leeds United in November 1988, then a Second Division side. He went on to make nineteen appearances in 1988–89, eleven of which were as a substitute. He was the first signing of manager Howard Wilkinson. Leeds won promotion back to the top-flight after topping the Second Division table at the end of the 1989–90 season; Williams made thirteen league starts, scoring two goals (against Watford and Barnsley). His first team appearances were limited by a groin injury. After spending five months out with his groin problem he then suffered a fractured cheekbone after teammate Vinnie Jones accidentally hit him", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1962)" }, { "id": "4593", "text": "Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings \"Campbell's Soup Cans\" (1962) and \"Marilyn Diptych\" (1962), the experimental film \"Chelsea Girls\" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the \"Exploding Plastic Inevitable\"", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "3855710", "text": "was married at the time; Longet and Austin later married and still live in Aspen. After the criminal trial, the Sabich family initiated civil proceedings in order to sue Longet. The case was eventually resolved out of court, with the provision that Longet never discuss or write about the murder or the settlement. Claudine Longet Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) is a French singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to American singer and television entertainer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has", "title": "Claudine Longet" }, { "id": "10160824", "text": "musicians. Furthermore, Avant-Mier contends, Russell acquiesced because, from an early age, he seemed to be more comfortable with his American rather than Mexican culture. However, Avant-Mier does not take into consideration (as explained earlier) the context of the place and period that Russell had been born and reared in the United States during the first half of the 20th century and its influence on one's self-identity. The country experienced two World Wars, a Great Depression, and a wave of nationalism and patriotism that fostered a common and united national identity, rather than ethnic pride. Yet, although Russell spoke and understood", "title": "Andy Russell (singer)" }, { "id": "5327684", "text": "Andy Fraser Andrew McLan Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15. Fraser was born in the Paddington area of Central London and started playing the piano at the age of five. He was trained classically until twelve, when he switched to guitar. By thirteen he was playing in East End, West Indian clubs and after being expelled from school in 1968 at the age of 15,", "title": "Andy Fraser" }, { "id": "5837293", "text": "the hands of the king's agents. This letter was a catalyst for an international outcry against the regime running the Congo, which had caused millions of deaths. Williams was born free in 1849 in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, to African Americans Thomas and Ellen Rouse Williams. The state had abolished slavery after the American Revolution. He was the oldest of four children; his brothers were John, Thomas and Harry Lawsom Williams. The boys had limited educations. For a time Williams lived in a \"house of refuge\", where he learned barbering, considered a skilled and advantageous trade at the time. During the", "title": "George Washington Williams" }, { "id": "3941980", "text": "he has written two other autobiographies and a number of fiction books. He has also co-written a book on psychopathy, claiming that he exhibits many psychopathic traits. McNab was born on 28 December 1959. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in Southwark in a Harrods shopping bag, he was brought up in Peckham, with his adoptive family. He did not do well in school, dropped out and worked at various odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was involved in petty criminality, finally being arrested for burglary in 1976. Partly inspired by his brother's time in the", "title": "Andy McNab" }, { "id": "11452858", "text": "of the season however, and in February 1992 he was sold on to Notts County for a £115,000 fee. County were struggling in the First Division, and lost their top-flight status at the end of the 1991–92 season. After a mid-table finish in 1992–93, County loaned Williams out to Second Division Huddersfield Town at the start of the 1993–94 campaign. He played six games for the \"Terriers\", before he was allowed to re-sign with former club Rotherham United in October 1993. He struggled with a knee injury, and at the end of the 1994–95 season he moved on to league", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1962)" }, { "id": "12825062", "text": "\"Can't Cry Hard Enough\" in 1992. As teen idols, they also made the Hot 100 in 1974, billed as \"Andy and David Williams\", with the No. 92 entry \"What's Your Name\". This followed an appearance in \"The Partridge Family\". The Williams Brothers The Williams Brothers were a singing quartet that performed extensively on radio, movies, nightclubs, and television from 1938 through the 1990s. The four Williams Brothers—Bob, Don, Dick and Andy Williams—formed a singing quartet in the mid-1930s in Wall Lake, Iowa. Their father, Jay Williams, managed and promoted the group. They entertained on radio stations, first at WHO in", "title": "The Williams Brothers" }, { "id": "2808463", "text": "then followed by gunfire—saying \"Hey, it's fine with me. I love what you're doing with it.\" The record company later blocked Limbaugh's use of the recording. Williams was a guest on the \"Glenn Beck Radio Program\" in December 2009, introduced by his own 1960s recording of \"Little Altar Boy\". Williams met French-born Claudine Longet when he came to her aid on a Las Vegas road. She was a dancer at the time at the Folies Bergère. They married on December 15, 1961 and over the next eight years they had three children—Noelle, Christian, and Robert. After separating in 1970, Williams", "title": "Andy Williams" }, { "id": "5327694", "text": "his home in California of a heart attack caused by Atherosclerosis. Fraser is survived by his daughters Hannah and Jasmine Fraser. Andy Fraser Andrew McLan Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15. Fraser was born in the Paddington area of Central London and started playing the piano at the age of five. He was trained classically until twelve, when he switched to guitar. By thirteen he", "title": "Andy Fraser" }, { "id": "469572", "text": "research and practice of science led to advancement in the fields of communication, engineering, travel, medicine, and war. 20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "782235", "text": "novels, which surveys the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Wales. Another novelist of the post-Second-World-War era was Raymond Williams (1921–88). Born near Abergavenny, Williams continued the earlier tradition of writing from a left-wing perspective on the Welsh industrial scene in his trilogy \"Border Country\" (1960), \"Second Generation\" (1964), and \"The Fight for Manod\" (1979). He also enjoyed a reputation as a cultural historian. The National Museum [of] Wales was founded by royal charter in 1907 and is now a Welsh Government sponsored body. The National Museum is made up of seven sites across the country, including the National Museum", "title": "Wales" }, { "id": "4894966", "text": "Francis Lai Francis Albert Lai (; 26 April 19327 November 2018) was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film \"Love Story\". The soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the \"Billboard\" album charts and the film's theme, \"Where Do I Begin\", was a hit single for Andy Williams. Lai was born on 26 April 1932, in Nice, France, the son of market gardeners of Italian origin. From a very early age Lai was fascinated by music", "title": "Francis Lai" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "1360411", "text": "2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top twenty highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation). John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, to Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet. Williams has said of his lineage, \"My father was a Maine man—we were very close. My mother was from Boston. My father's parents ran a department store in Bangor, Maine, and my mother's father was a cabinetmaker. [...] People with those roots are not inclined to be lazy.\"", "title": "John Williams" }, { "id": "10852190", "text": "club, scoring one goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers. In 2001, he gave up playing full-time football due to injury. He joined Bath City, and began a career with the police. He spent three years in Bath before being forced to entirely retire from football due to a knee injury in 2004. Williams won two full caps for Wales, against Brazil in 1997 and Malta in 1998. He was brought up in Bishop Sutton, attending the local secondary school Chew Valley School. Andy now works at Future Publishing in Bath where he recently received an award for his 'Outstanding Contribution' over the", "title": "Andy Williams (Welsh footballer)" }, { "id": "3746578", "text": "first British man to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles since Fred Perry in 1936. Murray is the men's singles 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist, making him the only tennis player, male or female, to have won two Olympic singles titles. He featured in Great Britain's Davis Cup-winning team in 2015, going 11–0 in his matches (8 singles and 3 doubles) as they secured their first Davis Cup title since 1936. Andy Murray was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Judy Murray (née Erskine) and William Murray. His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine, was a professional footballer in the late", "title": "Andy Murray" }, { "id": "9010456", "text": "England, King is a Wales international, qualifying through his grandfather. He made his international debut in 2009, and has gone on to earn 50 caps. He was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of UEFA Euro 2016. King was born in Barnstaple, Devon on holiday and was brought up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He attended Furze Platt Senior School and joined Chelsea when he was nine years old. After being released in 2004 when he was 15 years old, he joined the Leicester City youth academy. He was given a squad number for the 2006–07 season. During that season,", "title": "Andy King (footballer, born 1988)" }, { "id": "1446748", "text": "Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 40 in the WTA singles rankings. She is generally regarded as one of the all-time greats of women's tennis and, along with younger sister Serena Williams, is credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women's professional tennis tour. Williams has been ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on three occasions, for a total of 11 weeks. She first reached the No. 1 ranking on February 25, 2002, the first", "title": "Venus Williams" }, { "id": "1446752", "text": "titles, Williams trails only Serena among active players on the WTA Tour with most singles titles. Her 35-match winning streak from the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2000 Generali Ladies Linz tournament final is the longest since January 1, 2000. She is also one of only three active WTA players to have reached the finals of all four Grand Slams, along with Serena and Maria Sharapova. Williams was born in Lynwood, California, to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. Her talents were apparent at the age of seven when a professional local tennis player named Tony Chesta spotted Williams and quickly", "title": "Venus Williams" }, { "id": "469545", "text": "20th century The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts;", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "3746577", "text": "Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland currently ranked No. 257 in men's singles as of 17 December 2018. Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting activities and is a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion, winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals and former world No. 1. Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the 2012 US Open final, becoming the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament. Murray is also the", "title": "Andy Murray" }, { "id": "3218265", "text": "events that took place between c. 1964 and 1972, and to memories of the counterculture, flower power, protests of 1968 and other things happening at the time. Often, such a nominal decade will come to be known by a title, such as the \"Swinging Sixties\" (1960s), the \"Warring Forties\" (1940s) and the \"Roaring Twenties\" (1920s). This practice is occasionally also used for decades of earlier centuries, for example references to the 1890s as the \"Gay Nineties\" or \"Naughty Nineties\". Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which", "title": "Decade" }, { "id": "19004903", "text": "revolutionized the cedar top and is considered the greatest maker in that material. Fleta's guitars from this period are known as the \" Rolls-Royce\" of the classical guitar world. Throughout the 20th Century, he was championed by guitarists such as Andrés Segovia, John Williams and Alirio Diaz. Ignacio Fleta Ignacio Fleta Pescador (31 July 1897 – 11 August 1977) was a Spanish luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as guitars, violins, cellos, violas, as well as historical instruments. Fleta is widely regarded as one of the foremost guitar makers in the history of the instrument and sometimes described", "title": "Ignacio Fleta" }, { "id": "11493241", "text": "Roosevelt Williams Roosevelt Thomas \"Grey Ghost\" Williams (December 7, 1903 – July 17, 1996) was an African American blues pianist, with a 70-year career spanning from the 1920s through the 1990s. Williams was born in Bastrop, Texas, United States, and received only basic musical training when he was a teenager. He traveled to the area dances and roadhouses by riding empty boxcars. He would seem to appear out of nowhere and then disappear immediately after performing, which earned him the nickname, \"Grey Ghost.\" In 1940, author William A. Owens made a live recording of Williams singing \"Hitler Blues,\" a song", "title": "Roosevelt Williams" }, { "id": "1068283", "text": "Andy Griffith Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer, whose career spanned seven decades of music and television. Known for his southern drawl, his characters with a folksy-friendly personality, and his gruff, gregarious voice, Griffith was a Tony Award nominee for two roles, and gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film \"A Face in the Crowd\" (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead roles of Andy Taylor in the sitcom \"The Andy Griffith Show\" (1960–1968)", "title": "Andy Griffith" }, { "id": "3117859", "text": "George Williams (YMCA) Sir George Williams (11 October 18216 November 1905) was an English philanthropist and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support young people to belong, contribute and thrive in their communities. Williams was born on a farm in Dulverton, Somerset, England and baptized into the Church of England. As a young man, he described himself as a \"careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow\". After an accident, his family sent him to Bridgwater to be an apprentice at a draper's shop. In 1837, Williams", "title": "George Williams (YMCA)" }, { "id": "576667", "text": "20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century. Owens was the youngest of ten children, three girls and seven boys, born to Henry Cleveland Owens (a sharecropper) and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913. \"J.C.\", as he was called, was nine years old when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, for better opportunities, as part of the Great Migration, when 1.5 million African Americans left the segregated South. When his new teacher asked his name (to enter in her roll", "title": "Jesse Owens" }, { "id": "20813425", "text": "Andy (goose) Andy (born 1987, died October 19, 1991) was a goose that was born without webbed feet. It became well known as the sneaker wearing goose. Andy was killed by an unknown person. The grey goose was born in 1987 without webbed feet and lived on a farm in Harvard, Nebraska. When Andy was two years old, Gene Fleming from nearby Hastings became aware of the plight of the bird. Fleming was a member of a local charity for disabled children and inventor and he thought he would be able to help. Fleming took care of Andy and his", "title": "Andy (goose)" }, { "id": "2879106", "text": "Andy Cole Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971) is an English former professional footballer. Playing as a striker, his career lasted from 1988 to 2008. He is most notably remembered for his time in the Premier League, with Manchester United, where he spent six years of his career, winning numerous trophies in the process. He also played in the top division of English football for Arsenal, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth and Sunderland, as well as in the Football League for Bristol City, Birmingham City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest. He is the third-highest goalscorer in Premier", "title": "Andy Cole" }, { "id": "6094137", "text": "Andy King (footballer, born 1956) Andrew Edward King (14 August 1956 – 27 May 2015) was an English professional footballer. He was capped twice by England at Under-21 level. King was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, and began his career as an apprentice with his home town side, Luton Town, turning professional in July 1974. He left to join Everton in April 1976 for a fee of £35,000 and became a crowd favourite with his tremendous skills in midfield and a knack for scoring goals. Most notably he scored a spectacular goal to win Everton's first Merseyside derby for seven years", "title": "Andy King (footballer, born 1956)" }, { "id": "469817", "text": "1900s (decade) The 1900s (pronounced \"nineteen-hundreds\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The term \"nineteen-hundreds\" can also mean the entire century 1900–1999 years beginning with a 19 (see 1900s). The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. There are several main varieties of how individual years of the decade are pronounced in American English. Using 1906 as an example, they are \"nineteen-oh-six\", \"nineteen-six\", and \"nineteen-aught-six\". Which variety is most prominent depends somewhat on global region and generation. In American English, \"nineteen-oh-six\" is the most common;", "title": "1900s (decade)" }, { "id": "5821782", "text": "in the history of the game. He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at centre-back on the Hurling Team of the Century in 1984 and the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000. John Keane was born in Waterford, on 18 February 1917, into a family that was steeped in the traditions of Gaelic Ireland. His childhood years were spent among like-minded neighbours in the city's Barrack Street. Keane was educated at Mount Sion School, a great hurling nursery and a cradle of all things Gaelic and nationalist where he became the star", "title": "John Keane (hurler)" }, { "id": "19806471", "text": "Facebook advertisements prior to the 2016 presidential election included (among others) ads claiming that Williams was Clinton's son. Williams has five children and is unmarried. Danney Williams Danney Lee Williams Jr. (born December 7, 1985) is a biracial man from Little Rock, Arkansas who claims to be the biological son of Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States. In 1999, a paternity test excluded Clinton as the father, and the story has been described as \"a cruel hoax by the boy's mother\". Williams was born in 1985 to Danney Williams Sr. and Bobbie Ann Williams, a former prostitute.", "title": "Danney Williams" }, { "id": "20783126", "text": "he's said everything he wants with his art. His health started to decline and he began to withdraw from friends. His last exhibition was in 1985, at the International Art Fair in Tokyo, Japan, representing Denmark. His health worsening, he died in 1998 due to liver cancer. He was 77 years old. Walter H. Williams Walter Henry Williams Jr. (August 11, 1920 – June 13, 1998) was an American-born artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His earlier works focused on the harsh urban environment of Harlem where he spent his childhood, though he is most notable for his dreamlike, nostalgic images", "title": "Walter H. Williams" }, { "id": "2808467", "text": "chemotherapy treatment in Houston, Texas, he and his wife moved to a rented home in Malibu, California in order to be closer to cancer specialists in the Los Angeles area. On September 25, 2012, Williams died of bladder cancer at the age of 84 at his home in Branson, Missouri. Williams was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled into the artificial waterway at his theater in Branson. The memorial service for Williams was held a month later. \"The Andy Williams Show\" won three Emmy Awards in 1963, 1966, and 1967 for Outstanding Variety Series. Andy Williams also earned six Grammy", "title": "Andy Williams" }, { "id": "8287006", "text": "£100,000 bid was rejected by Hereford, but at the end of January a £150,000 bid was accepted. However Williams turned down a move to the Gasheads, having already stated he was happy at Hereford and was not interested in moving to a club in the same division. When Bristol Rovers gained promotion to League One, speculation intensified that he would make the move, and on 5 July 2007 the transfer was finally confirmed. Williams made his debut for Bristol Rovers on 11 August 2007, scoring four minutes after appearing as a substitute for Rickie Lambert. On 1 September 2008, Williams", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1986)" }, { "id": "2390242", "text": "and the United States, including Chuck Berry, Billy Fury, Herman's Hermits and Tom Jones. AllMusic called White \"one of the busier drummers in England from the late '50s through the mid-'70s\". Andy White was born in Glasgow on 27 July 1930, the son of a baker. At the age of 12, he started playing drums in a pipe band, and became a professional session musician at the age of 17. In the 1950s and early 1960s, White played drums with a number of swing and traditional jazz groups and musicians. In 1958 he formed a big band jazz outfit and", "title": "Andy White (drummer)" }, { "id": "6005683", "text": "Andy Mackay Andrew \"Andy\" Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member (playing oboe and saxophone) of the art rock group Roxy Music. In addition, he has taught music and provided scores for television, while his CV as a session musician encompasses some of the most noteworthy and recognisable names in the music business. Mackay was born in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, and grew up in central London, attending Westminster City School where he was a chorister in the choir of St Margaret's, Westminster. A classically trained woodwind player, he studied music and English", "title": "Andy Mackay" }, { "id": "16921898", "text": "in 2012. Williams' debut album \"The Child of Lov\" was released in June 2013 and features contributions from DOOM, Thundercat and Damon Albarn. He suffered from Marfan syndrome and died of complications of surgery on 10 December 2013. The Child of Lov Martijn William Zimri Teerlinck (31 March 1987 – 10 December 2013), known as Cole Williams, or The Child of Lov, was a poet and a musician born in Belgium, but raised in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, The Netherlands. The debut single \"Heal\" was released by Domino Recording Company’s sister label Double Six on 26 November 2012. The accompanying video", "title": "The Child of Lov" }, { "id": "5257657", "text": "1994. After a fire destroyed their recording studio on Blossom Street in the Ancoats area of Manchester on the Williams twins' birthday in 1996, they started anew as the more indie-oriented act Doves in 1998. An unreleased collection of tracks meant to be featured on the band's second full-length album was issued in 1998 as \"Delta Tapes\". Peak chart positions Sub Sub Sub Sub were an English dance act from Handforth, Cheshire composed of Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams. The threesome met at school in 1985 and became regulars at The Haçienda while composing their own", "title": "Sub Sub" }, { "id": "11957078", "text": "2005–06 Hereford United F.C. season The 2005–06 season of Hereford United F.C. was the 9th season in the Conference. All the members of the squad were signed on free transfers, in keeping with previous squads. Hereford finished second in the league for the third season running and, unlike the previous seasons, progressed to the play-off final. A 3–2 extra-time victory over Halifax Town secured promotion back to the Football League after a nine-year spell in non-league football. This season saw the emergence of Andy Williams, a product of the youth system at Hereford. (*) - Hereford won 4-3 on penalties", "title": "2005–06 Hereford United F.C. season" }, { "id": "11957079", "text": "2005–06 Hereford United F.C. season The 2005–06 season of Hereford United F.C. was the 9th season in the Conference. All the members of the squad were signed on free transfers, in keeping with previous squads. Hereford finished second in the league for the third season running and, unlike the previous seasons, progressed to the play-off final. A 3–2 extra-time victory over Halifax Town secured promotion back to the Football League after a nine-year spell in non-league football. This season saw the emergence of Andy Williams, a product of the youth system at Hereford. (*) - Hereford won 4-3 on penalties", "title": "2005–06 Hereford United F.C. season" }, { "id": "4638152", "text": "and Steele released the instrumental house music single, \"Tired of Getting Pushed Around\", under the name of Two Men, A Drum Machine and A Trumpet. It reached #18 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2002, Cox formed Cribabi with Japanese vocalist, Yukari Fujiu, and released the album \"Volume\" on his own Fidela record label. Andy Cox Andy Cox (born Andrew Cox 25 January 1956 ) is a British guitarist, who along with Dave Wakeling, founded The Beat in 1978. He was born in Birmingham. The Beat achieved eight Top 40 singles and three hit albums in the UK before announcing", "title": "Andy Cox" }, { "id": "14070373", "text": "Jeff Williams (cyclist) Jeffrey Williams (born 18 August 1958) is an English former professional road racing cyclist from Manchester. He rode for Great Britain at the Olympic Games, and won several national championship titles. In 1979 Williams won his first British National Hill Climb Championships setting a new course record that still stands to this day. A rival, Andy Hitchens, who remembers it well, said: \"Williams looked like he'd been on starvation rations for months — he was built like a sparrow. Some people assume that there was a howling tailwind that day, but there wasn't. It was sunny, but", "title": "Jeff Williams (cyclist)" }, { "id": "3746579", "text": "1950s. Murray is a supporter of Hibernian Football Club, one of the teams his grandfather represented. Murray began playing tennis at the age of three when his mother Judy took him to play on the local courts. He played in his first competitive tournament at age five and by the time he was eight he was competing with adults in the Central District Tennis League. Murray's elder brother, Jamie, is also a professional tennis player, playing on the doubles circuit, and became a multiple Grand Slam winner in the discipline (both men's and mixed). Murray grew up in Dunblane and", "title": "Andy Murray" }, { "id": "17981645", "text": "Education from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Love was named as one among 100 of the best school managers in North America by \"Educator\" Magazine in 1984. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, Love was the second of five children born to Alvin E. and Burnett C. Love (née Williams; 1912–1997), Love was raised in Bakersfield, California, after her family migrated there during the 1940s. Love became interested in being a teacher at an early age; following in the footsteps of her grandfather, Andrew A. Williams, who was a run-away slave at age twelve, and a teacher and founder of", "title": "Ruth B. Love" }, { "id": "889961", "text": "Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by precipitous declines and raging comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 15 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he", "title": "Mickey Rooney" }, { "id": "5304567", "text": "Oscar Williams Oscar Kaplan (December 29, 1900 – October 10, 1964), known by his pen name Oscar Williams, was an American anthologist and poet. Williams was born Oscar Kaplan in Letychiv, Ukraine, son of Jewish parents Mouzya Kaplan and Chana Rapoport. He emigrated to New York at the age of seven. His first book, \"Golden Darkness\", was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Among his influential anthologies are \"Master Poems of the English Language\", \"Immortal Poems of the English Language\", \"The Pocket Book of Modern Verse\", and the \"Little Treasury Poetry Series\", which were used in colleges and high schools", "title": "Oscar Williams" }, { "id": "3210804", "text": "acclaimed the British Best All-Rounder. Royston is the birthplace of comedian Charlie Williams. The mountaineer Andy Cave originates from Royston, and was a coal miner until the 1984-85 miners' strike, at which point he dedicated himself to mountaineering. He is also notable for his research into the dialect of Yorkshire pit villages. His 2001 doctorate stated that Royston had a slightly different accent to the surrounding villages, as many of the miners who came to work at Monkton Colliery on its opening travelled from the Black Country, where several mines had closed. This hypothesis was later tested by Kate Burland,", "title": "Royston, South Yorkshire" }, { "id": "6406619", "text": "by Shrewsbury sculptor Jane Robbins. Reg Smythe Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running \"Andy Capp\" comic strip. He was born in Hartlepool, Teesside, England, the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife Florence, née Pearce. With his father long-term unemployed, he grew up in poverty. He attended Galley's Field School in West Hartlepool, but left at fourteen to take a job as a butcher's errand boy. In 1936, after a period of unemployment, he joined the Royal", "title": "Reg Smythe" }, { "id": "8287005", "text": "itself against Halifax. He signed a new contract with the club in March 2006. His first season in the Football League saw him played out of position on the right wing for the majority of the season resulting in 48 first team appearance, with only Rob Purdie and Alan Connell making more appearances. Williams' eight goals also made him third highest goalscorer, and he was awarded the Away Goal of the Season for his goal against Bury. Williams was the subject of two transfer bids from Bristol Rovers during the course of the season. At the end of August a", "title": "Andy Williams (footballer, born 1986)" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "17060567", "text": "recently Thomson spoke out against the new timing clock introduced for the 2013 World Indoor Championships. Andy Thomson (bowls) Andrew 'Andy' Edward Thomson MBE is a lawn and indoor bowler. Thomson was born in Fife, Scotland on 26 November 1955 and represented Scotland before deciding to represent England. Thomson won the Buckhaven Club Championship at the age of 16 and one year later was the Fife under-30 champion. In 1978 he won the Scottish junior indoor title. After moving to Kent he claimed the 1981 EBA national singles. In 1993 he partnered Gary Smith as the pair won the World", "title": "Andy Thomson (bowls)" }, { "id": "13476468", "text": "Peter Williams (English rugby player) Peter Nicholas Williams (born in Wigan) is an English-born former physical education, and history teacher, a physiotherapist and Dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England and Lancashire, and at club level for Orrell R.U.F.C., as a Fly-half, i.e. number 10, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and Wales, and at club level for Salford, as a . Peter Williams was the second footballer, after Thomas Woods, to play rugby union for England, and rugby", "title": "Peter Williams (English rugby player)" }, { "id": "551640", "text": "Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier \"Tennessee\" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of \"The Glass Menagerie\" (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1947), \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" (1955), and \"Sweet Bird of Youth\" (1959). With his", "title": "Tennessee Williams" }, { "id": "12888603", "text": "Andy Anson Andrew Edward Anson (born ) is a British businessman primarily known for his work in the sports and media industries. He is the Global President of Teneo Sports, a leading CEO advisory business based out of New York. Prior to joining Teneo, Anson was president of Fanatics International (formerly Kitbag), where he spent five-and-a-half years. The son of a bank manager, Anson was born at the Boundary Park Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, and grew up in nearby Rochdale. He began playing football at a young age and, despite being a fan of Manchester United, played for Manchester City's", "title": "Andy Anson" }, { "id": "2808468", "text": "nominations: Other honors include: Andy Williams' extensive discography began with the release of the 1948 single \"Jubilee\" as a member of the Williams Brothers alongside Kay Thompson. He recorded his first solo album, \"Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen,\" 8 years later, and remained active in the music industry for the next 56 years, completing a total of 43 studio albums, alongside compilation albums and more. Notes Sources Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and three platinum-certified. He", "title": "Andy Williams" }, { "id": "576776", "text": "amidst fears that he was favourable toward Germany. He was voted the third greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a poll of 139 academics organised by MORI, and in 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. Lloyd George was born on 17 January 1863 in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, to Welsh parents, and was brought up as a Welsh-speaker. He is so far the only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh and to have spoken English as a second language. His father, William George, had been a teacher in both London and", "title": "David Lloyd George" }, { "id": "3844468", "text": "Cleveland Williams Cleveland \"Big Cat\" Williams (June 6, 1933 – September 3, 1999) was an American heavyweight boxer who fought in the 1950s through the 1970s. A \"Ring Magazine\" poll once rated him as one of the finest boxers never to win a title. He made an imposing figure, tall with an impressive athletic broad shouldered build. Williams turned professional in 1951 and fought many of the best heavyweights of his era. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the 6 ft 3 in Williams was a top-rated heavyweight. His quest to obtain a title fight, however, was consistently derailed.", "title": "Cleveland Williams" }, { "id": "4390881", "text": "Spencer Williams (actor) Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy on TV's \"The Amos 'n' Andy Show\" and for directing the 1941 race film \"The Blood of Jesus.\" Williams was a pioneer African-American film producer and director. Williams (who was sometimes billed as Spencer Williams Jr.) was born in Vidalia, Louisiana, where the family lived on Magnolia Street. As a youngster, he attended Wards Academy in Natchez, Mississippi. He moved to New York City when he was a teenager and secured work as call boy", "title": "Spencer Williams (actor)" }, { "id": "20813427", "text": "to give hope to people with disabilities. On October 19, 1991, Andy disappeared, and a day later he was found dead in a local park with his head and wings removed. The local community collected US$10,000 as a reward to apprehend the murderer; however, the killer could not be identified. Gravestone of Andy Andy (goose) Andy (born 1987, died October 19, 1991) was a goose that was born without webbed feet. It became well known as the sneaker wearing goose. Andy was killed by an unknown person. The grey goose was born in 1987 without webbed feet and lived on", "title": "Andy (goose)" }, { "id": "678606", "text": "Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York City to a family of Lithuanian Jews. Through his father Moshe, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist, he was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. In late 1919, Moshe and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed the family name from Mnuchin to Menuhin. Menuhin's sisters were concert pianist and human", "title": "Yehudi Menuhin" }, { "id": "6222957", "text": "1920, defeating the Democratic incumbent Theodore Roosevelt) as the youngest president in US history. He also held the distinction of being the first president born in the 20th century whereas Sinclair was the first born after the War of Secession. Dewey's victory might be intended to parallel Clement Attlee's surprising landslide victory over Winston Churchill at the end of the Second World War in our timeline. His U.S.-German partnership is reminiscent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Policemen idea. Frederick Douglass was still trying to tell the United States of the suffering of the African-American slaves in the Confederacy twenty", "title": "Historical characters in the Southern Victory Series" }, { "id": "551642", "text": "Lanier Williams III was born in Columbus, Mississippi, of English, Welsh, and Huguenot ancestry, the second child of Edwina Dakin (August 9, 1884 – June 1, 1980) and Cornelius Coffin \"C. C.\" Williams (August 21, 1879 – March 27, 1957). His father was a traveling shoe salesman who became alcoholic and was frequently away from home. His mother, Edwina, was the daughter of Rose O. Dakin, a music teacher, and the Reverend Walter Dakin, an Episcopal priest from Illinois who was assigned to a parish in Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after Williams' birth. Williams lived in his parsonage with his family", "title": "Tennessee Williams" }, { "id": "7628901", "text": "which has involved the establishment of The Ladywood Community School of Music. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours. On 30 January 2008, a few weeks before his 90th birthday, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Birmingham Conservatoire during a ceremony at Symphony Hall. The centenary of Andy's birth, and his continuing legacy, was celebrated at Birmingham Town Hall, with a concert featuring The Notebenders Big Band and guests. Andy Hamilton (saxophonist) Andy Raphael Thomas Hamilton, MBE (26 March 1918 – 3 June 2012) was a Jamaican-born", "title": "Andy Hamilton (saxophonist)" }, { "id": "9377349", "text": "an occasion for national mourning. However, in September 1959, Scripps-Howard journalist Lowell K. Bridwell revealed that he could not find \"one single scrap\" of substantiating evidence to back up Williams's age or claims of military service, or anyone else's for that matter. Moreover, the 1860 census listed Williams as age 5 in June 1860, suggesting that he was born in November 1854. When he died December 19, 1959, according to his \"New York Times\" obituary, \"a newspaper story said a check had failed to find evidence to support the claim. Back in the times when Williams was born, there was", "title": "Walter Williams (centenarian)" }, { "id": "6406611", "text": "Reg Smythe Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running \"Andy Capp\" comic strip. He was born in Hartlepool, Teesside, England, the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife Florence, née Pearce. With his father long-term unemployed, he grew up in poverty. He attended Galley's Field School in West Hartlepool, but left at fourteen to take a job as a butcher's errand boy. In 1936, after a period of unemployment, he joined the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, and was posted", "title": "Reg Smythe" }, { "id": "7384868", "text": "there when they met; they married in 2005, and had their first child in 2006. He also plays golf, in a local society named after him. Andy Hicks Andy Hicks (born 10 August 1973 in Tavistock, Devon, England) is an English former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur. Nicknamed \"The Cream of Devon\", Hicks was a semi-finalist at both the World Snooker Championship and UK Championship in 1995, and the same stage at four other ranking tournaments. A Masters semi-finalist in 1996, he was ranked within the world's top 32 players between 1995 and 2000, and again", "title": "Andy Hicks" }, { "id": "20140829", "text": "Geisha Williams Geisha J. Williams (nee Jimenez, born 1961/62) is an American businesswoman. She has been the president and CEO of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) since March 2017. She was born Geisha J. Jimenez in Cuba. At the age of five, Geisha emigrated to the US with her parents, after her father, a political prisoner, was released from prison. Her father worked various jobs to provide for his family and went on to own their own grocery store. She has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Miami and an MBA from Nova Southeastern", "title": "Geisha Williams" }, { "id": "17855800", "text": "Gilbert Nicholls Gilbert Ernest Nicholls (July 23, 1878 – January 17, 1950) was an English-American professional golfer, prominent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had eight top-10 finishes in the U.S. Open. Nicholls was born in Dover, Kent, England on July 23, 1878 to Frank Nicholls (1851–1930) and Lois Elizabeth Cordrey (1855–1935). After working in Cannes, France, the two Nicholls brothers emigrated to the United States in 1897 and 1898, when golf was growing rapidly in North America. He had an older brother Bernard (also known as Ben), also an excellent competitive golfer, who posted five top-10", "title": "Gilbert Nicholls" }, { "id": "1849235", "text": "of the University of Wales. John Fitchett Marsh (1818–1880), who had been responsible for establishing the first municipal library at Warrington, retired to Hardwick Court at Chepstow in 1873 and wrote on the history of the castle. The entomologist Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901) was born at nearby Sedbury Park, the house owned by her father, the antiquary George Ormerod. H.E. Fulford (1859–1929), born in Chepstow of Australian parents, joined the British Foreign Service and for several decades occupied important consular posts in China. Able Seaman William Charles Williams (1880–1915), who was born in Shropshire but raised in Chepstow, was posthumously", "title": "Chepstow" }, { "id": "3138436", "text": "across the decades, from synth pop superstar Gary Numan to electro-techno duo Adult\". Leigh was born in Chorley, Lancashire, England. His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. He attended St Mary's Primary and St Augustine's Secondary schools. During his youth in the 1960s he embraced the lifestyle of a mod and a hippy. He experimented with tape recorders and synthesisers while on a scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London. His first band, formed whilst at art college in Preston, was called Woolly Fish. Prior to 1973, he was singing and playing a", "title": "John Foxx" }, { "id": "3931473", "text": "but grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. His father, Bobby Williams, played for the Jamaican national team in the 1960s. Andy Williams (Jamaican footballer) Andrew \"Andy\" Williams (born 23 September 1977 in Toronto) is a Canadian-born retired Jamaican footballer who last played as a midfielder for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer. Williams played college soccer for the University of Rhode Island where he remains the team's all-time leading scorer, with 52 goals and 45 assists. After spending a couple of years in his home country with Real Mona, Williams joined Major League Soccer in 1998 with the Columbus Crew,", "title": "Andy Williams (Jamaican footballer)" }, { "id": "8372543", "text": "Andy Chapman Andrew Chapman (born 18 September 1959) is an English retired-American soccer player who saw his greatest success as an indoor player in the United States. He spent six seasons in the American Soccer League, ten in the Major Indoor Soccer League, four in the National Professional Soccer League and two in the Continental Indoor Soccer League. Chapman was born in London, England, on 18 September 1959. An Arsenal signee at age 16, he turned pro the following year. Chapman went to the United States in the summer of 1978 to play outdoors for the California Sunshine of the", "title": "Andy Chapman" }, { "id": "8372538", "text": "Andy Chapman Andrew Chapman (born 18 September 1959) is an English retired-American soccer player who saw his greatest success as an indoor player in the United States. He spent six seasons in the American Soccer League, ten in the Major Indoor Soccer League, four in the National Professional Soccer League and two in the Continental Indoor Soccer League. Chapman was born in London, England, on 18 September 1959. An Arsenal signee at age 16, he turned pro the following year. Chapman went to the United States in the summer of 1978 to play outdoors for the California Sunshine of the", "title": "Andy Chapman" }, { "id": "8954794", "text": "Andy McLaren Andy McLaren (born 5 June 1973 in Glasgow) is a Scottish professional footballer. He began his career in 1989 with Dundee United where he was for 10 years and was part of the team when they won the Scottish Cup in 1994. He had trouble with cannabis and cocaine and spent time in rehab before returning to football in June 2000. In 2009, to help others to avoid the pitfalls that he experienced, he established the A&M Training and Development organisation. McLaren, a winger, began his career in 1989 with Dundee United where he remained for 10 years,", "title": "Andy McLaren" }, { "id": "15909695", "text": "W. T. Williams William Thomas (Bill) Williams FAA OBE (18 April 1913 – 15 October 1995) was an English and Australian botanist and plant taxonomist, known for his work on algorithms for numerical taxonomy. Williams was born 18 April 1913 in Fulham, London, England, the only child of a Welsh coal miner. He went to the Stationers' Company's School in London and then to the Imperial College of Science and Technology, also in London, from which he earned a bachelor's degree 1933, a PhD and diploma in 1940, and a D.Sc. in 1956. While studying for his PhD, Williams taught", "title": "W. T. Williams" } ]

[ "J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye" ]

[ { "id": "4719529", "text": "commit the murder. Bardo was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Bardo carried a red paperback copy of \"The Catcher in the Rye\" when he murdered Schaeffer, which he tossed onto the roof of a building as he fled. He insisted that it was coincidental and that he was not emulating Mark David Chapman, who had also carried a copy with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980. As a consequence of Bardo's actions and his methods of obtaining Schaeffer's address, the U.S. Congress passed the", "title": "Robert John Bardo" }, { "id": "1950588", "text": "Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\" until he was arrested by the police. He referred to the novel as his statement and later said that his objective was to acquire fame and notoriety. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Chapman", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950629", "text": "to New York shortly prior to the murder. Claims include Chapman was a \"Manchurian candidate\", including speculation on links to the CIA's Project MKULTRA. At least one author has argued forensic evidence proves Chapman did not commit the murder. Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "6703513", "text": "Murder of John Lennon John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. On the evening of Monday, 8 December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. After sustaining four major gunshot wounds, Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "id": "6405190", "text": "to the shooting than \"Chapter 27\". On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's \"The Catcher in the Rye\". In one instant, an anonymous, socially awkward and mentally unstable 25-year-old fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music. A", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "1314296", "text": "musical based on Studs Terkel's non-fiction book \"\", which Terkel himself hosted, and Taylor himself appeared in that production as a trucker; he performed \"Brother Trucker\" in character.) Taylor also appeared on the No Nukes concert in Madison Square Garden, where he made a memorable live performance of \"Mockingbird\" with his wife Carly. The concert appeared on both the \"No Nukes\" album and film. On December 7, 1980, Taylor had an encounter with Mark David Chapman, who would assassinate John Lennon just one day later. Taylor told the BBC in 2010: \"The guy had sort of pinned me to the", "title": "James Taylor" }, { "id": "211427", "text": "additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album \"Milk and Honey\", which was released posthumously, in 1984. \"Double Fantasy\" was jointly released by Lennon and Ono very shortly before his death; the album was not well received and drew comments such as \"Melody Maker\"'s \"indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn\". After an evening at the Record Plant on 8 December 1980, Lennon and Ono returned to their Manhattan apartment in a limousine at around 10:50p.m. (EST). They exited the vehicle and walked through the archway of The Dakota, when lone gunman Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times in", "title": "John Lennon" }, { "id": "8122097", "text": "been a discussion of depression as exhibited in Holden Caulfield. The best-known event associated with \"The Catcher in the Rye\" is arguably Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon. Chapman identified with the novel's narrator to the extent that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. On the night he shot Lennon, Chapman was found with a copy of the book in which he had written \"This is my statement\" and signed Holden's name. Later, he read a passage from the novel to address the court during his sentencing. Daniel Stashower speculated that Chapman had wanted Lennon's innocence", "title": "The Catcher in the Rye in popular culture" }, { "id": "1554779", "text": "John Bardo's murder of Rebecca Schaeffer and John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Additionally, after fatally shooting John Lennon, Mark David Chapman was arrested with a copy of the book that he had purchased that same day, inside of which he had written: \"To Holden Caulfield, From Holden Caulfield, This is my statement\". Early in his career, Salinger expressed a willingness to have his work adapted for the screen. In 1949, a critically panned film version of his short story \"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut\" was released; renamed \"My Foolish Heart\", the film took great liberties with Salinger's plot", "title": "The Catcher in the Rye" }, { "id": "11221514", "text": "I Just Shot John Lennon \"I Just Shot John Lennon\" is a song from The Cranberries' album \"To the Faithful Departed\". It is a narrative of the events of the night of December 8, 1980, the night that musician John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City. It is one of many tributes to Lennon, and also one of many other songs to recall the events of the night. After the narrative, there is commentary: \"What a sad, and sorry and sickening sight\". The title of the song comes from the", "title": "I Just Shot John Lennon" }, { "id": "6670041", "text": "don't believe in Jesus\", but also sang that he did not believe in the Bible, Buddha, the \"Gita\", and the Beatles. Critics of Lennon's lyrics have also focused on the line \"Imagine there's no heaven\" from his 1971 song \"Imagine\". Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who had become a born-again Christian in 1970 and was incensed by Lennon's \"more popular than Jesus\" remark, calling it blasphemy. He later stated that he was further enraged by the songs \"God\" and \"Imagine\", even singing the latter with the altered lyric: \"Imagine John Lennon dead\". Notes Citations", "title": "More popular than Jesus" }, { "id": "1950602", "text": "list,\" Bowie later said. \"Chapman had a front-row ticket to \"The Elephant Man\" the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row. I can't tell you how difficult that was to go on. I almost didn't make it through the performance.\" Chapman went to New York in October 1980, intending to kill Lennon, but left in order to obtain ammunition from his unwitting friend in Atlanta, Dana Reeves, before returning in November. It is rumored that, during one", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "6703523", "text": "report of shots fired at the Dakota. The officers arrived around two minutes later and found Chapman standing very calmly on West 72nd Street. They reported that Chapman had dropped the revolver to the ground and was holding a paperback book, J. D. Salinger's \"The Catcher in the Rye\". They immediately put Chapman in handcuffs and placed him in the back seat of their squad car. Chapman made no attempt to flee or resist arrest. Officer Herb Frauenberger and his partner Tony Palma were the second team, arriving a few minutes later. They found Lennon lying face down on the", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "id": "6405193", "text": "27\" is based on this text. The title \"Chapter 27\" suggests a continuation of J. D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\", which has twenty-six chapters, and which Chapman was carrying when he shot John Lennon. Chapman was obsessed with the book, to the point of attempting to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. According to the British music magazine \"Mojo\", the title was also inspired by \"Chapter 27\" of Robert Rosen's book \"\" (2000). Rosen's book explores the numerological meaning of the number 27, \"the triple 9\", a number of profound importance to John Lennon. Lennon", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "11221515", "text": "words said by Chapman that evening. After being asked, \"Do you know what you've done?\" Chapman calmly replied, \"Yes, I just shot John Lennon\". The Cranberries performed the song live on \"Late Night with David Letterman\" in 1995. Another live-session of the song is available on their single \"Salvation\". I Just Shot John Lennon \"I Just Shot John Lennon\" is a song from The Cranberries' album \"To the Faithful Departed\". It is a narrative of the events of the night of December 8, 1980, the night that musician John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The", "title": "I Just Shot John Lennon" }, { "id": "6405188", "text": "Chapter 27 Chapter 27 is a 2007 biographical drama film depicting the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. It was written and directed by Jarrett Schaefer, based on the book \"Let Me Take You Down\" by Jack Jones, produced by Robert Salerno, and stars Jared Leto as Chapman. The film takes place in December 1980, and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche. Its title is a reference to J. D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\", which has twenty-six chapters, and suggests a continuation of the book. As an independent production, it was picked", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "6670021", "text": "to religion in his songs \"God\" (1970) and \"Imagine\" (1971). He was murdered in December 1980 by Mark David Chapman, a born-again Christian who was incensed by the \"more popular than Jesus\" remark. In March 1966, London's \"Evening Standard\" ran a weekly series of articles titled \"How Does a Beatle Live?\" that featured, in chronological order, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. The articles were written by journalist Maureen Cleave, who knew the group well and had interviewed them regularly since the start of Beatlemania in the UK. Three years previously she had described them as \"the", "title": "More popular than Jesus" }, { "id": "1950614", "text": "the case amid threats of lynching. Police feared Lennon fans might storm the hospital, so they transferred Chapman to Rikers Island for his personal safety. At the initial hearing in January 1981, Chapman's new lawyer, Jonathan Marks, instructed him to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. In February, Chapman sent a handwritten statement to \"The New York Times\" urging everyone to read \"The Catcher in the Rye,\" calling it an \"extraordinary book that holds many answers.\" The defense team sought to establish witnesses as to Chapman's mental state at the time of the killing. It was", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "8329828", "text": "is the basis of all life...then you are my soul. And your life is my life. This is the first letter of what I hope will be an everlasting correspondence. Your greatest fan, Douglas Breen. \"The Fan\" was shot in New York City from April 1 to June 1980. The film received a great deal of media attention due to being released a few months after the murder of John Lennon, who was shot to death by Mark David Chapman, a former fan, outside his apartment building The Dakota, a building where Bacall had been living for many years. However,", "title": "The Fan (1981 film)" }, { "id": "5226754", "text": "Walking on Thin Ice \"Walking on Thin Ice\" is a song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix when he was shot. The song was both a critical and commercial success. Lennon's lead guitar work on the track, which he recorded on 4 December 1980, was his final creative act. He used", "title": "Walking on Thin Ice" }, { "id": "6899019", "text": "Christ, while a retinue of servants tended to his every need.\" Rosen says that he used his memory of Lennon’s diaries as “a roadmap to the truth.” The final part of the book, \"The Coda\", focuses on the mental disintegration of Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, and includes \"Chapter 27\", the so-called missing chapter of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of disaffected youth, \"The Catcher in the Rye\", that \"inspired\" Chapman to murder Lennon. It was Chapman's goal, according to Rosen, to write \"Chapter 27\" \"in Lennon's blood.\" Originally written in 1982, the manuscript remained unpublished for 18 years. Soft Skull", "title": "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon" }, { "id": "13184348", "text": "love him. On 8 December 1980, in New York City, Mark David Chapman shot dead pop star Lennon. His motive was that he felt Lennon was a hypocrite for espousing universal brotherhood, whilst at the same time being a multi-millionaire enjoying a lavish lifestyle far beyond the reach of the large majority of people. On 22 August 1922 in County Cork, Ireland, Irish nationalist leader who fought for Irish independence was shot dead by Anti-Treaty IRA gunmen as they believe he betrayed the Irish Republic. On 21 August 1940 in Mexico City, Bolshevik leader Trotsky was killed with a mountaineering", "title": "Infamous Assassinations" }, { "id": "8122213", "text": "son Sean with Ono. The acoustic demo of \"Watching the Wheels\" is featured in the ending credits to the 2009 film \"Funny People\". The song features a hammered dulcimer accompanying the lead piano. The photograph on the cover was taken by Paul Goresh, a fan of Lennon who also took the infamous photo of Lennon signing a copy of \"Double Fantasy\" for his killer, Mark David Chapman. Both photos were taken at the same place, in front of the Dakota building, which was the site of his 1980 shooting. Later, Chapman was recorded in police custody reciting the line \"People", "title": "Watching the Wheels" }, { "id": "1950589", "text": "had been a fan of the Beatles, but after becoming a born-again Presbyterian, was incensed by Lennon's much-publicized 1966 remark about the group being \"more popular than Jesus\". In the years leading up to the murder, he developed a series of obsessions, including artwork, music and Lennon. \"The Catcher in the Rye\" took on great personal significance for him, to the extent he reportedly wished to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. He also contemplated killing other public figures, including Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, and then-president Ronald Reagan. At the time of the killing, he had no prior", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950613", "text": "crime. \"I believe there was a demonic power at work,\" he said. Chapman initially embraced his old religion with new fervor as a result; but after McGowan revealed information to the press Chapman had told him in confidence, Chapman disavowed his renewed interest in Christianity and reverted to his initial explanation: he had killed Lennon to promote the reading of \"The Catcher in the Rye\". When asked why it was so important for people to read the book, Chapman said he \"didn't know\" and \"didn't really care either—that was not his job.\" Chapman's first court-appointed lawyer, Herbert Adlerberg, withdrew from", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950609", "text": "saying anything and Lennon did not turn around. Chapman remained at the scene and appeared to be reading \"The Catcher in the Rye\" when the NYPD officers arrived and arrested him without incident. The first responders recognized Lennon's wounds were severe and decided not to wait for an ambulance. They rushed the mortally wounded musician to Roosevelt Hospital in a squad car, but nothing could be done to save him. Lennon was pronounced dead by Dr. Stephan Lynn at 11:07 p.m. In his statement to police three hours later, Chapman stated, \"I'm sure the big part of me is Holden", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "11323695", "text": "life three months prior and contains many flashbacks to his earlier life and upbringing, while exploring in detail his infatuation with J.D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\" and the links between this and his motivation for killing Lennon. The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon is a 2006 British biographical drama film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon. The film was written and directed by Andrew Piddington and stars Jonas Ball, Robert C. Kirk and Thomas A. McMahon. British-produced, it was not released in the United States until 2008 and received", "title": "The Killing of John Lennon" }, { "id": "2156155", "text": "apocryphal lore has Crash attempting to write \"Here lies Darby Crash\" on the wall as he lay dying, but not finishing. In reality, he wrote a short note to Darby Crash Band bassist David \"Bosco\" Danford that stated \"My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco.\" His death was largely overshadowed by that of John Lennon, who was killed by Mark David Chapman in New York just one day after Crash's suicide. His female friend Casey Cola Hopkins was with him that night, at her mother's main house. Casey was supposed to have died with him in the coach", "title": "Darby Crash" }, { "id": "14404873", "text": "confusion and alienation by J.D. Salinger, plays a large part in \"The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs\". The episode references the controversial reception the book has received over the years for its risqué elements and vulgar language. Mr. Garrison tells the students the book has only recently been lifted from the South Park Elementary's banned books list, a reference to past censorship the book has received in public schools. The episode also refers to the alleged role \"The Catcher in the Rye\" played in inspiring Mark David Chapman to shoot and kill musician John Lennon, and John Hinckley, Jr. to attempt", "title": "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" }, { "id": "1950601", "text": "His planning has been described as \"muddled.\" He said he had an alternate hit list of potential targets in mind, including Paul McCartney, Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, George C. Scott, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and George Ariyoshi. Lennon was chosen because Chapman found him to be the most accessible. The only criterion for the list, he said, was being \"famous; that was it.\" He thought that he would achieve \"instant notoriety [and] fame\" by killing them. On the day of the murder, David Bowie was appearing on Broadway in the play \"The Elephant Man\". \"I was second on his", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "862257", "text": "Rutles' \"Hold My Hand\" from Warner Bros Records. The cover of the album was done by well-known commercial artist William Stout, who had made a name for himself drawing the cover artwork for some of the best-looking Beatles bootleg records in the 1970s. His cover drawing included a representation of Mark David Chapman, the man who had killed John Lennon, which generated an immense backlash. Rhino responded by recalling the album and reissuing it with a new, innocuous cover, which they announced in this press release. A clip from \"All You Need Is Cash\" appeared on this compilation of comedy", "title": "The Rutles" }, { "id": "1950603", "text": "of his New York visits, he traveled to Woodstock searching for another target of obsession, Todd Rundgren. Chapman, when he was apprehended, was wearing a promo t-shirt for Rundgren's album \"Hermit of Mink Hollow\" and had a copy of \"Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren\" in his hotel room. Rundgren was not aware of the connections until \"way after the fact\". After being inspired by the film \"Ordinary People\", Chapman returned to Hawaii, telling his wife he had been obsessed with killing Lennon. He showed her the gun and bullets, but she did not inform the police or mental health", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950597", "text": "American woman named Gloria Abe, whom he married on June 2, 1979. Chapman went to work at Castle Memorial Hospital as a printer, working alone rather than with staff and patients. He was fired by the hospital, rehired, then got into a shouting match with a nurse and quit. Chapman then took a job as a night security guard and began drinking heavily. He developed a series of obsessions, including artwork, \"The Catcher in the Rye\", music and the musician John Lennon. In September 1980, he wrote a letter to a friend, Lynda Irish, in which he stated, \"I'm going", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "5812378", "text": "the ease with which Mark David Chapman had become famous after killing Lennon. A friend said that at the time of John Hinckley, Jr.'s attempt on the life of President Reagan, Sarjeant had said \"I would like to be the first one to take a pot shot at the Queen\". The police found that Sarjeant had written \"I am going to stun and mystify the world. I will become the most famous teenager in the world.\" Investigations by psychiatrists found that Sarjeant did not have any abnormalities within the Mental Health Act 1983. Sarjeant became the first person since 1966", "title": "Marcus Sarjeant" }, { "id": "8983532", "text": "marked the end of the Beatles as a group. He later wrote a biography, \"John Lennon: One Day at a Time\", published by Grove Press in 1976. A 1980 reissue (with updates) of this book inadvertently played a role in Lennon's murder, as Mark David Chapman bought and read a copy, discovering Lennon wasn't living in retirement at Tittenhurst Park as Chapman had thought, and that Lennon had resumed his musical career in New York. Some years before this, after meeting musician Howard Devoto in New York and again in California in 1979, Fawcett decided to return to London at", "title": "Anthony Fawcett" }, { "id": "1950626", "text": "to controversy about the novel. Some links have been drawn between Chapman and the book's themes of adolescent sensitivity and depression on the one hand, and anti-social and violent thoughts on the other. This connection was made in the play \"Six Degrees of Separation\" and its film adaptation by the character played by Will Smith. Links have sometimes been drawn between Chapman's actions and those of other killers or attempted killers. After John Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan – less than four months after Lennon's murder – police found a copy of \"Catcher in the Rye\" among his personal", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950610", "text": "Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.\" Chapman was charged with second degree murder. He told police he had used hollow-point bullets \"because they are more deadly\" and \"to ensure Lennon's death\". Gloria Chapman, who had known of her husband's preparations for killing Lennon but took no action because Chapman did not follow through at the time of the acknowledgement, was not charged. Chapman later said he harbored a \"deep-seated resentment\" toward his wife, \"that she didn't go to somebody, even the police, and say, 'Look, my husband's bought", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950604", "text": "services. Chapman said the message \"Thou Shalt Not Kill\" flashed on the television at him and was on a wall hanging his wife put up in their apartment. He made an appointment to see a clinical psychologist, but he did not keep the appointment and flew back to New York on December 6, 1980. At one point, he considered ending his life by jumping from the Statue of Liberty. The next day, Chapman accosted singer-songwriter James Taylor at the 72nd Street subway station. According to Taylor, \"The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "3783520", "text": "York State Legislature swiftly passed preemptive legal statutes anyway, the first legal restriction of its kind in the U.S. The original New York law was invoked in New York eleven times between 1977 and 1990, including once against Mark David Chapman, the murderer of musician John Lennon. Critics argued that the law infringed on freedom of speech and therefore violated the First Amendment, and that \"Son of Sam\" laws take away the financial incentive for many criminals to tell their stories, some of which (such as the Watergate scandal and the assassination of John F. Kennedy) were of vital interest", "title": "Son of Sam law" }, { "id": "1950598", "text": "nuts.\" He signed the letter, \"The Catcher in the Rye.\" Chapman had no criminal convictions prior to his trip to New York City to kill Lennon. In a letter written from prison, Chapman indicated that he believed he had been forgiven by Jesus for shooting Lennon. Chapman, a Beatles fan who had idolized Lennon, allegedly started planning to kill him three months prior to the murder. Chapman turned against Lennon after making his religious conversion; he was angry about Lennon's well-publicized 1966 comment that Beatles were \"more popular than Jesus.\" Some members of Chapman's prayer group made a joke in", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "5226760", "text": "half of the directing duo Rainbows & Vampires) directed an animated black and white video featuring the \"Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix Edit\" of the song. Walking on Thin Ice \"Walking on Thin Ice\" is a song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix when he was shot. The song was both", "title": "Walking on Thin Ice" }, { "id": "6305178", "text": "The Late Great Johnny Ace \"The Late Great Johnny Ace\" is a song by Paul Simon, which appears on his 1983 \"Hearts and Bones\" album. The song initially sings of the rhythm and blues singer Johnny Ace, who is said to have shot himself in a game of Russian roulette in 1954 (eyewitness accounts say otherwise). Simon goes on to reference former Beatle John Lennon, who was murdered on December 8, 1980, as well as referencing John F. Kennedy who was assassinated in 1963. The following year Beatlemania started (Simon was living in London at the time), and in the", "title": "The Late Great Johnny Ace" }, { "id": "5294049", "text": "manager Allen Klein as someone who had the Beatles' best interests in mind, and who was railroaded by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when he was tried, convicted, and served prison time for insider trading and securities fraud. Goldman implies that Mark David Chapman's murder of John Lennon may have been part of a conspiracy by fundamentalist Christians. Chapman was a fundamentalist who viewed Lennon as a corrupter of youth. Goldman does not offer any conclusions, but mentions that the NYPD files on Lennon's murder are sealed and any conclusive answer would have to wait until the files are", "title": "The Lives of John Lennon" }, { "id": "6405209", "text": "work. It's not just films, you're always talking about it [Lennon's murder].\" Sean Lennon, Lennon's son, has gone on record calling the production and making of the film, including Lindsay Lohan's involvement with it, \"tacky.\" Lennon also stated that Lohan understood his feelings and, despite his criticism, they were friends and he did not want to hurt her feelings. The film received substantial accolades from critics who praised the depiction of the mental state of Mark David Chapman in the days leading up the murder of John Lennon in December 1980. Chapter 27 Chapter 27 is a 2007 biographical drama", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "20126146", "text": "by Edward I. Koch in 1981. In 1980, Edwards was named an acting justice of New York Supreme Court, and several months later, presided over his best-known case, that of Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon. The charge was second-degree murder, which carried a maximum sentence of 25 years to life. After several hearings regarding his competency and against the advice of his lawyer, Chapman pleaded guilty on June 22, 1981. In accepting the plea, Judge Edwards informed Chapman that he would hand down a sentence of only 20 years to life because he had entered his guilty plea", "title": "Dennis Edwards Jr." }, { "id": "2910650", "text": "Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ. A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would \"lead them to heaven\". Terrorism scholar Aref M. Al-Khattar has listed The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), Defensive Action, the Montana Freemen, and some \"Christian militia\" as groups that \"can be placed under the category of far-right-wing terrorism\" that \"has a religious (Christian) component\". Mark David Chapman accused John Lennon of blasphemy before murdering him in 1980. Chapman", "title": "Christian terrorism" }, { "id": "1950605", "text": "maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested and he was going to get in touch with John Lennon.\" He also reportedly offered cocaine to a taxi driver. That night, Chapman and his wife talked on the phone about getting help with his problems by first working on his relationship with God. On December 8, Chapman left his room at the Sheraton Hotel, leaving personal items behind the police would later find. He bought a copy of \"The Catcher in the Rye\" in which he wrote", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "6703522", "text": "and realizing the severity of the musician's multiple injuries, he covered Lennon's chest with his uniform jacket, removed his blood-covered glasses, and summoned the police. Chapman then removed his coat and hat in preparation for the arrival of police—to show he was not carrying any concealed weapons—and remained standing on West 72nd Street. Perdomo shouted at Chapman, \"Do you know what you've done?\", to which Chapman calmly replied, \"Yes, I just shot John Lennon.\" Officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen were the first policemen to arrive at the scene; they were at 72nd Street and Broadway when they heard a", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "id": "1950617", "text": "explicable, and she implied the judge did not want to allow an independent competency assessment. The district attorney argued Chapman committed the murder as an easy route to fame. When Chapman was asked if he had anything to say, he rose and read the passage from \"The Catcher in the Rye\", when Holden tells his little sister, Phoebe, what he wants to do with his life: I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950627", "text": "belongings. In a cassette tape he left in his hotel room, Hinckley stated that he mourned Lennon's death and reflected: \"One of my idols was murdered, and now [Jodie Foster's] the only one left. ... Anything that I might do in 1981 would be solely for Jodie Foster's sake.\" Furthermore, Hinckley's father, John Hinckley, Sr, was president of World Vision, for whom Chapman was employed. Randy Seaver, a writer for \"The Portland Press Herald\" who experienced mental illness in Tucson, Arizona, the same city as Jared Lee Loughner, suggested examples such as Chapman's show the need to challenge stigma about", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "14510970", "text": "point where he meets Yoko Ono and develops a relationship with her. Some years later in John's career with the Beatles he becomes deeply depressed and is visited by a version of his cosmic self who tells him(self) that he needs to stop being so down on himself and get back to work writing and performing music. He agrees but little does John know former President of the United States Richard Nixon has an anti-Lennon plan in place and splinter cell assassin named Mark David Chapman has been brain-washed to kill Lennon when commanded to. So Lennon exits his apartment", "title": "The Beatles Experience" }, { "id": "4688946", "text": "suggested that the lyrics of the song are a reference to the murder of John Lennon despite the fact that the events in the song do not correspond with those of Lennon's murder. Lennon was shot four times just before 11 pm, whereas in the song the time is 4 am and the number of shots is six. Also, the night Lennon was shot (8 December 1980) was a new moon, so there was no moonlight, and in the song it is Saturday night while Lennon was killed on a Monday night. When asked if \"Moonlight Shadow\" is a reference", "title": "Moonlight Shadow" }, { "id": "2284280", "text": "book \"\" that Hefner had sexually assaulted Stratten during her first night as a Playmate. Publishers for the book removed the word \"rape\" under pressure from Hefner's lawyers. On August 13, 1980, the day before Stratten was murdered, Snider bought a used, 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun from a private seller he found in a local classified ad. Later that evening in a conversation with friends, Snider described how he had purchased a gun that day and cryptically finished by declaring that he was \"going to take up hunting.\" During the same conversation, barely more than 12 hours before the murder, an", "title": "Dorothy Stratten" }, { "id": "8122098", "text": "to be preserved by death, inspired by Holden's wish to preserve children's innocence despite Holden's later realization that children should be left alone. After John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found \"The Catcher in the Rye\" among half a dozen other books in his hotel room. Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989 and murdered her. Peter Falconio was reported to be reading the novel prior to his disappearance from the Barrow Creek area. Although Salinger had refused a film", "title": "The Catcher in the Rye in popular culture" }, { "id": "9622499", "text": "the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. It takes place in December 1980, and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche. The script took Schaefer four years to write, but when it was finished, the film came together quickly. With the help of producers Alexandra Milchan and Robert Salerno, Schaefer cast Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman. \"Chapter 27\" premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received polarized reactions from critics. It later went into limited theatrical release in the United States on March 28, 2008. \"Chapter 27\" was cited as one of the", "title": "Jarrett Schaefer" }, { "id": "464902", "text": "in Manhattan), Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months. \"Walking on Thin Ice (For John)\" was released as a single less than a month later, and became Ono's first chart success, peaking at No. 58 and gaining major underground airplay. In 1981, she released the album \"Season of Glass\", which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. This photograph sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about", "title": "Yoko Ono" }, { "id": "9622500", "text": "most controversial films of 2007. The film received substantial accolades from critics who praised the depiction of the mental state of Mark David Chapman in the days leading up the murder of John Lennon in December 1980. It won the Debut Feature Prize for Schaefer at the Zurich Film Festival. Jarrett Schaefer Jarrett Schaefer (born 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature debut, \"Chapter 27\" (2007), premiered and received substantial media and critical attention at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Born on a U.S. Air Force base in Germany but raised in the United States, Schaefer studied", "title": "Jarrett Schaefer" }, { "id": "16273910", "text": "Harrison wrote as a tribute to his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon, who had been fatally shot in New York City on 8 December 1980. Its inclusion on the single led many listeners to assume that \"Writing's on the Wall\" also addressed Lennon's murder, particularly with the line referring to friends who are unexpectedly \"shot away\". Author Robert Rodriguez comments that, had the scheduled release of \"Somewhere in England\" taken place in late 1980, \"listeners would doubtless have been chilled by the song's prescience\". Coinciding with the public's outpouring of grief in reaction to Lennon's death, the single was a", "title": "Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song)" }, { "id": "3194697", "text": "world, using the term \"monotony of the yeah yeah yeah and whatever it is called\". British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home made a gaffe in February 1964: his speechwriters, trying to make him appear in touch with popular culture, wrote him the line, \"I'm too modest to claim the country loves us, but you know that can't be bad.\" However, he appeared not to understand the reference, and actually said, \"but you know, err, that can't be too bad.\" On 10 December 1980, following the murder of John Lennon in Manhattan two nights previously, British tabloid newspaper \"The Sun\" printed the", "title": "She Loves You" }, { "id": "14859905", "text": "John Lennon's murder in December 1980. Lennon had taken offence at Harrison's book, telling interviewer David Sheff: \"I was hurt by it ... By glaring omission in the book, my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil ... I'm not in the book.\" Harrison, in fact, does mention Lennon several times (although not as a musical influence, which was the point of Lennon's displeasure). In December 1987, Harrison was asked about Lennon's comments by Selina Scott on the television show \"West 57th Street\". He told her: \"[Lennon] was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line", "title": "I, Me, Mine" }, { "id": "10715693", "text": "Keith Elliot Greenberg Keith Elliot Greenberg is a \"New York Times\" best-selling author, and television producer. He was born in The Bronx on May 5, 1959, and went to Bayside High School in Queens, graduating in January 1977. He attended a number of colleges in the New York area. His many books include \"Menudo,\" \"To Be the Man,\" \"Erik is Homeless,\" and \"Zack's Story\". In November 2010, Backbeat Books released \"December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died,\" Greenberg's minute-by-minute account of the last day of John Lennon's life. He has written articles for \"WWE\" magazine, \"Playboy\", \"Men's Journal\", \"HuffPost\",", "title": "Keith Elliot Greenberg" }, { "id": "4958308", "text": "week, and 1 million by its third week in the UK. In the UK, \"Love\" was excerpted as a single in the UK, (featuring a version of the song without the slow fade-ins) and managed to reach number 41. \"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)\" was released as the B-side to \"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)\", which was released by Geffen, in a brand-new picture sleeve, in the US. The front and back cover photographs for \"The John Lennon Collection\" were taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980; Lennon was murdered later that evening. All songs by John Lennon,", "title": "The John Lennon Collection" }, { "id": "13554678", "text": "for the families of those killed in the riots, which took place at the Apollo Theater in New York. This performance was released on the 1998 \"John Lennon Anthology\" box set. Coincidentally, Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, was incarcerated in Attica Correctional Facility on a life sentence from 1981 until 2012, when he was moved to Wende Correctional Facility. Personnel on the \"Some Time in New York City\" recording are: Attica State (song) \"Attica State\" is a song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It appeared on the album, \"Some Time in New York City\". The song is a lamentation", "title": "Attica State (song)" }, { "id": "11323694", "text": "The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon is a 2006 British biographical drama film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon. The film was written and directed by Andrew Piddington and stars Jonas Ball, Robert C. Kirk and Thomas A. McMahon. British-produced, it was not released in the United States until 2008 and received much less attention than the similarly themed American-produced independent film \"Chapter 27\" produced in 2007. While \"Chapter 27\" deals almost wholly with the actions of Mark Chapman during the three days before his murder of Lennon, this film chronicles his", "title": "The Killing of John Lennon" }, { "id": "16803927", "text": "Yoko Ono are, among others, ambassadors of the Non-Violence Project. NVP's signature logo is the Non-Violence also known as the Knotted Gun. It has been created by the Swedish artist, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd as a memorial tribute to John Lennon after he was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, in New York City. One of the 3 original bronze sculptures is displayed at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The Knotted Gun has become a worldwide symbol of the non-violence movement. Several replicas of this sculpture can be found around the world, including the Olympic Museum in", "title": "The Non-Violence Project" }, { "id": "5746477", "text": "the song after its single release that suggested John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, should be released from prison to shoot Bono, a statement that \"Hot Press\" called \"poisonous\" and \"tasteless\". The publication was more receptive to the song after the release of \"All That You Can't Leave Behind\", saying the album \"eas[es] in with the heat-hazy optimism\" of the track. \"Beautiful Day\" finished in fourth place on the \"Best Singles\" list from \"The Village Voice\"s 2000 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. The song won three Grammy Awards in 2001—Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rock", "title": "Beautiful Day" }, { "id": "9343402", "text": "Stop the Cavalry \"Stop the Cavalry\" is a song written and performed by the English musician Jona Lewie, released in 1980 and now heard as a Christmas song. The song peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in December 1980, at one point only being kept from number one by two re-issued songs by John Lennon, who had been murdered on 8 December. In an interview for Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Christmas Moments\", Lewie said that the song was never intended as a Christmas hit, and that it was a protest song. The line 'Wish I was at", "title": "Stop the Cavalry" }, { "id": "2688856", "text": "filmed in the Forbidden City and became the first ever American music video shot in the People's Republic of China in its entirety. Hundreds of costumed extras were employed for the shoot, inspired by the empires of ancient Chinese dynasties. Leto drew inspiration from Bernardo Bertolucci's historical drama \"The Last Emperor\" (1987) as well as the work of Akira Kurosawa. In 2007, Leto starred in the biographical film \"Chapter 27\". He portrayed Mark David Chapman, a fanatic fan of The Beatles and the murderer of John Lennon. Leto prepared for his role by relying on interviews with Chapman and on", "title": "Jared Leto" }, { "id": "16273900", "text": "Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song) \"Writing's on the Wall\" is a song by English musician George Harrison from his 1981 album \"Somewhere in England\". It was also the B-side of the album's lead single, \"All Those Years Ago\", which Harrison wrote as a tribute to his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon. In his lyrics, Harrison sings of the transient nature of life and the importance of recognising a spiritual purpose. Although the song was written long before Lennon's murder in New York in December 1980, the lyrics' reference to how easily friends can be shot down and killed", "title": "Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song)" }, { "id": "1950608", "text": "that evening, but he probably would have tried another day. Around 10:50 p.m., Lennon and Ono returned to the Dakota in a limousine. They got out of the vehicle, passed Chapman and walked toward the archway entrance of the building. From the street behind them, Chapman fired five hollow-point bullets from a .38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back and shoulder, puncturing his left lung and left subclavian artery. At the time, one newspaper reported before Chapman fired, he softly called out \"Mr. Lennon\" and dropped into a combat stance. Chapman said he does not recall", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "6703514", "text": "Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York on 10 December; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first media report of Lennon's death to a U.S. national audience was announced by sportscaster Howard Cosell, on ABC's \"Monday Night Football\". Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of Lennon and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life imprisonment. He has remained in prison ever since, having been denied parole ten times amidst campaigns against his release after he became eligible in 2000. Photographer Annie", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "id": "11502097", "text": "of the hotel. He had told his wife he was going for a walk but instead took an elevator to the roof. In 1976 Jeff Bayonne purchased the Manhattan Bridge Club, a duplicate bridge club which had been on the sixteenth floor of the hotel for decades. In 1992 he acquired the Gotham, a declining contract bridge club across the hall. In October 1980 Mark David Chapman stayed at the Waldorf Astoria, the YMCA, and the Olcott Hotel before he assassinated John Lennon. In the mid 80's cult icon Tiny Tim and then manager Rick Hendrix lived at the Olcott", "title": "Olcott Hotel" }, { "id": "14510971", "text": "building The Dakota and is gunned down by Chapman. John is now dead and back in his plane (which is apparently heaven) he looks down at his former life and decides to make sure Chapman cannot get out of his murder charge on government pardon. He enters Chapman's thoughts and tells him to plead guilty. John then narrates once more the rest of his band mates' lives from 1980 through to the present and John one last time addresses the reader, saying that he has found peace and learned that peace can be found anywhere if one just imagines it.", "title": "The Beatles Experience" }, { "id": "7342438", "text": "dated from 1987 has revealed that Chapman was once considered for the part of Data in \"\". The similarity between his name and that of John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, prevented him in 1985 from playing Lennon in \"\", a biographical film produced by NBC; Yoko Ono had been deeply involved in the production and had herself been initially impressed with his audition and approved his casting prior to discovering his full name was Mark Lindsay Chapman. She then nixed his casting on the grounds it was \"bad karma\", and a great deal of press attention was given to", "title": "Mark Lindsay Chapman" }, { "id": "2129646", "text": "\"Double Fantasy\" seems an impressive feat for a new label, but at the time Lennon stated that Geffen was the only one with enough confidence in him to agree to a deal without hearing the record first. Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife and partner, stated that Geffen was the only label head to pay attention to her. In December 1980, Lennon was murdered and \"Double Fantasy\" became a massive seller. Over the years Geffen Records/DGC has become well known as a label, releasing works by the likes of Olivia Newton-John, Asia with Steve Howe and John Wetton, Elton John, Cher, Sonic", "title": "David Geffen" }, { "id": "4056153", "text": "her life before and with Lennon, and containing her own illustrations and poetry. Lennon tried to stop the publication of the book after an excerpt was published in a newspaper. On 9 December 1980 (UK time), whilst staying at Starr's ex-wife's home, she received a phone call from Starr, two hours after Lennon had been shot in New York. \"The memory of Ringo's words, the sound of his tearful voice crackling over the transatlantic line, is crystal clear: 'Cynthia, I'm so sorry, John's dead'. I had only one clear thought. My son, our son, [Julian] was at home in bed,", "title": "Cynthia Lennon" }, { "id": "12330371", "text": "ever aired on TV without commentaries. The Jets won by a score of 24–17, though both teams had already been eliminated from playoff contention. It was during the ABC broadcast of the \"Monday Night Football\" game on December 8, 1980, against the Patriots that Howard Cosell announced that John Lennon had been shot and killed. 1980 Miami Dolphins season The 1980 Miami Dolphins season was the 15th year of existence for the Miami Dolphins franchise. Quarterback Bob Griese retired after the season, following a 14-year career with the Dolphins. However, in Griese's final season the Dolphins would only play mediocre", "title": "1980 Miami Dolphins season" }, { "id": "1950623", "text": "which is east of Buffalo. Chapman refused all requests for interviews following the murder and during his first six years at Attica. James R. Gaines interviewed him and wrote a three-part, 18,000-word \"People\" magazine series in February and March 1987. Chapman told the parole board he regretted the interview. He later gave a series of audio-taped interviews to Jack Jones of the Rochester \"Democrat and Chronicle.\" In 1992, Jones published a book, \"Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon\". Also in 1992, Chapman gave two television interviews. On December", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "3716848", "text": "They recorded two Harrison originals – \"Wrack My Brain\" and \"All Those Years Ago\" – plus a cover of \"You Belong to Me\" for Starr's album \"Can't Fight Lightning\" (later released as \"Stop and Smell the Roses\"). The two other songs were completed but \"All Those Years Ago\" was left unfinished. Starr later admitted that the key was too high for him to sing. On 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment building, the Dakota. After the shock and devastation of Lennon's murder, Harrison decided to utilise the unfinished recording of \"All Those Years Ago\". He", "title": "Somewhere in England" }, { "id": "469528", "text": "in similar fashion. John Lennon was shot outside his home in New York City on the night of December 8, 1980. Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1980. Bob Marley died from a lentiginous skin melanoma on May 11, 1981. Harry Chapin died of a car accident on July 16, 1981. Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his home in Los Angeles on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday. Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads died in an airplane crash on March 19, 1982. Karen Carpenter died", "title": "1980s" }, { "id": "6405194", "text": "was deeply interested in numerology, particularly \"Cheiro's Book of Numbers\", along with nine and all its multiples. It was Chapman's goal, according to Rosen, to write Chapter 27 \"in Lennon's blood\". Like Chapman, Schaefer is a fan of both The Beatles and J.D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\", and said he began the script to try to understand \"how someone could be inspired to kill anyone as a result of being exposed to this kind of beautiful art. It really bothered me, because Lennon and Salinger have always made me feel so much better, and so much less", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "18431513", "text": "If I Was a River (album) If I Was a River is the tenth studio album from American singer-songwriter Willie Nile. The all-piano album was released in November 2014 under River House Records. Nile recorded If I Was a River on the same Steinway grand piano that he played the night John Lennon was killed, December 8, 1980. Nile was in Studio \"A\" at The Record Plant in New York City making \"Golden Down\" and John and Yoko were working on \"Walking on Thin Ice\" in Studio C that night. If I Was a River has been positively received and", "title": "If I Was a River (album)" }, { "id": "6405203", "text": "obvious that some people would love it and others would not.\" On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 18% based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: \"Despite Jared Leto's committed performance, \"Chapter 27\" fails to penetrate to mind of Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer.\" On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\". Andrew O'Hehir from \"Salon\" wrote, \"Some viewers may well find \"Chapter 27\" sleazy", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "id": "20561084", "text": "sought to make amends following the singer's fatal shooting in New York in December 1980. For the John Lennon commemorative issue of \"Rolling Stone\", Wenner wrote an effusive feature article that lauded Lennon's achievements during and after the Beatles. Having renewed his friendship with Ono, Wenner also used the magazine to champion her work and to defend Lennon's legacy against author Albert Goldman's depiction in the controversial 1988 biography \"The Lives of John Lennon\". McCartney believed that this commemorative issue, along with other posthumous tributes to Lennon, afforded his former bandmate a messiah-like status that served to diminish the importance", "title": "Lennon Remembers" }, { "id": "6715890", "text": "arrest, a spectacle that calmed a city his murders had left on edge. Three years later, following Mark David Chapman's arrest after he killed John Lennon, police took precautions against the sort of revenge killing that had happened to Oswald. In the 1980s, white-collar criminals began to be perp-walked as well, as federal prosecutors saw the public-relations value of the practice. During his tenure as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rudolph Giuliani often had Wall Street investment bankers perp-walked. Defendants such as Richard Wigton, a Kidder Peabody trader accused of insider trading, were arrested at", "title": "Perp walk" }, { "id": "6952757", "text": "cutting of the film. It has been suggested that Paramount Pictures was keen to remove the offending footage due to the backlash they had received from releasing \"Friday the 13th\" the previous year. The second reason, that Mihalka attributes, is that the movie was cut due to the murder of John Lennon in December 1980, stating that there was a major backlash against movie violence in the wake of his death. An uncensored cut of \"My Bloody Valentine\" remained unavailable to the public for nearly thirty years after its original theatrical release. When Paramount released the film on DVD in", "title": "My Bloody Valentine (film)" }, { "id": "6276360", "text": "Strong Arm of the Law Strong Arm of The Law is the third studio album by the English heavy metal band Saxon. It was released in 1980, four months after \"Wheels of Steel\", and debuted on the UK chart at No. 11. \"Dallas 1 PM\" concerns the assassination of John F. Kennedy. \"We thought, 'Should we put one shot in there or should we put three?'\" recalled singer Biff Byford. \"In the end we went down the conspiracy theory route and had three shots.\" According to guitarist Graham Oliver, the title track was inspired by an incident where the band", "title": "Strong Arm of the Law" }, { "id": "11028488", "text": "the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn't have any kind of blow-up.\" On 9 December 1980, McCartney followed the news that Lennon had been murdered the previous night; Lennon's death created a media frenzy around the surviving members of the band. McCartney was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio that evening when he was surrounded by reporters who asked him for his reaction; he responded: \"It's a drag\". The press quickly criticised him for what appeared to be a superficial response. He later explained, \"When John was killed somebody stuck a microphone", "title": "Paul McCartney" }, { "id": "18879270", "text": "Fantasy\" with producer Jack Douglas. \"Double Fantasy\" had been out a few weeks when Douglas and Lennon decided to have a song they had just finished, Yoko Ono's \"Walking on Thin Ice\", mastered with Marino at Sterling Sound for a single release. On the evening of December 8, 1980, after finishing up a session at the Record Plant, Douglas said to Lennon \"See you in the morning\" as they planned to have breakfast together at 9am before heading to Sterling, but John Lennon was gunned down 20 minutes later on his way back to the Dakota.Marino received his first and", "title": "George Marino" }, { "id": "3531658", "text": "uniformed man. Spencer had a shotgun licence and was regularly allowed to shoot at Yew Tree Farm. However, he was eliminated from police inquiries within a few months after the arrest of the four other suspects. Shortly afterwards, Spencer shot dead 70-year-old Hubert Wilkes at neighbouring Holloway Farm. Like Carl, Hubert Wilkes had been shot while sitting on a sofa. Spencer was jailed for life in 1980 and served 15 years before being paroled in 1995. Spencer is featured in a book, \"Scapegoat for Murder: The Truth About the Killing of Carl Bridgewater\" (D&B Publishing), written by true crime author,", "title": "Bridgewater Four" }, { "id": "10347213", "text": "Antmusic \"Antmusic\" is a song by English rock band Adam and the Ants, released as the third single in the UK in 1980 from the album \"Kings of the Wild Frontier\" (released 3 November 1980). \"Antmusic\" peaked at No. 2 in the UK in January 1981, being held off the top by the re-release of John Lennon's \"Imagine\" after his murder in New York City on 8 December 1980. In Australia, the single spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Kent Music Report and earned the band platinum certification for sales of over 100,000 copies. It also reached No.", "title": "Antmusic" }, { "id": "1952163", "text": "grounds that his confession was obtained by torture. England: David Chapman, who was sentenced to hang in November 1965 for the murder of a swimming pool nightwatchman in Scarborough. He was released from prison in 1979 and later died in a car accident. Scotland: Patrick McCarron in 1964 for shooting his wife. He committed suicide in prison in 1970. Wales: Edgar Black, who was reprieved on 6 November 1963. He had shot his wife's lover in Cardiff. The Criminal Damage Act 1971 abolished the offence of arson in royal dockyards. The Naval Discipline Act 1957 reduced the scope of capital", "title": "Capital punishment in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "5428270", "text": "1981, he covered Dave Mason's \"We Just Disagree\" and Dion's \"Abraham, Martin & John\". Some fans took the latter as a veiled ode to John Lennon, who was shot and killed the preceding winter, but in fact most of Dylan's performances of this song had been in the month immediately preceding Lennon's death, as a staple in the November–December 1980 US tour. Clinton Heylin notes, \"Dylan was audibly coming to the end of this particular road.\" The year 1982 began with personal tragedy when Dylan's close and longtime friend Howard Alk was found dead at Rundown Studios on New Year's", "title": "Shot of Love" }, { "id": "6703540", "text": "That same year she also released \"Walking on Thin Ice\", the song the Lennons had mixed at the Record Plant less than an hour before he was murdered, as a single. Chapman pleaded guilty in 1981 to murdering Lennon. Under the terms of his guilty plea, he was sentenced to 20-years-to-life and later automatically became eligible for parole in 2000. However, Chapman has been denied parole ten times and remains incarcerated at the Wende Correctional Facility. Jay Hastings, the Dakota doorman who tried to help Lennon, sold the shirt he was wearing that night, stained with Lennon's blood, at auction", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "id": "1950600", "text": "Day at a Time\", about Lennon's lifestyle in New York. According to his wife Gloria, \"He was angry that Lennon would preach love and peace but yet [sic] have millions [of dollars].\" Chapman later said, \"He told us to imagine no possessions and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music.\" He also recalled having listened to Lennon's \"John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band\" album in the weeks before the murder:", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950593", "text": "a summer camp counselor at the South De Kalb County, Georgia YMCA; he was very popular with the children, who nicknamed him \"Nemo\", and was made assistant director after winning an award for Outstanding Counselor. Those who knew him in the caretaking professions unanimously called him an outstanding worker. Chapman read J.D. Salinger's \"The Catcher in the Rye\" on the recommendation of a friend. The novel eventually took on great personal significance for him, to the extent he reportedly wished to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. After graduating from Columbia High School, Chapman moved for a time", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "1950607", "text": "Ono left the Dakota for a recording session at Record Plant Studios. As they walked toward their limousine, Chapman shook hands with Lennon and asked for him to sign a copy of his album, \"Double Fantasy.\" Amateur photographer Paul Goresh took a photo of Lennon signing Chapman's album. In a later interview, Chapman said he tried to get Goresh to stay and he asked another Lennon fan who was lingering at the building's entrance to go out with him that night. He suggested if the girl had accepted his invitation or Goresh had stayed, he would not have murdered Lennon", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "id": "5294041", "text": "due to snorting cocaine, which he supposedly did at the Hit Factory recording studio where he and Ono recorded their album \"Double Fantasy\". Goldman does not cite a single name of anyone who might have witnessed this at the studio. Goldman alleges further that on December 8, 1980 (the day of Lennon's murder) not only did the singer's cocaine snorting warrant plastic surgery, but he was in such bad physical condition from drug abuse and lack of exercise that during his autopsy the medical examiner recorded observations to that effect, overlooking the four bullet wounds momentarily. The overarching theme of", "title": "The Lives of John Lennon" }, { "id": "14509376", "text": "computer-science, accounting and finally ended with AA in Business Administration. He then went to Florida International University and majored in International Marketing. His interest in music was sparked after attending a concert by The Police, at the now defunct Sunrise Musical Theater in Sunrise, FL on Monday, December 8, 1980 (a very memorable night - John Lennon's assassination). He bought a bass guitar for ten dollars at a local pawnshop and started to play with his two best friends Carlos \"Freak\" Alvarez and Kenny Nunez. In 1984, they formed 'FORGET THE NAME' (later FtN), a band that Tillan was a", "title": "Jose Tillan" }, { "id": "464875", "text": "island of Viðey, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavík, Iceland. Each year, between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light high into the sky. In 2009, Ono created an exhibit called \"John Lennon: The New York City Years\" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The exhibit used music, photographs, and personal items to depict Lennon's life in New York, and a portion of the cost of each ticket was donated to Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Lennon and Ono. Every time Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman", "title": "Yoko Ono" } ]

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[ { "id": "6824407", "text": "Hammett (film) Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammett's neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, an old friend from Hammett's days as a Pinkerton agent. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. San Francisco-based", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "1292587", "text": "the bantering, romantically involved detective duo has become a well-used trope in literature, stage, screen, and television ever since. The characters first appear in Dashiell Hammett's best-selling last novel \"The Thin Man\" (1934). Nick is an alcoholic former private detective who retired when he married Nora, a wealthy Nob Hill heiress. Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian Hellman, and the characters' boozy, flippant dialogue on their relationship. (The novel also mentions that Nick was once a Pinkerton detective, as was Hammett.) The novel is considered one of the seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels,", "title": "Nick and Nora Charles" }, { "id": "714961", "text": "he almost takes the life of someone who knows too much. Cast notes: The film was based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, released in January 1934. Hammett's novel drew on his experiences as a union-busting Pinkerton detective in Butte, Montana. Hammett based Nick and Nora's banter upon his rocky on-again, off-again relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. MGM paid Hammett $21,000 for the screen rights to the novel. The screenplay was written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who had been married for three years. Director W.S. Van Dyke encouraged them to use Hammett's writing as", "title": "The Thin Man (film)" }, { "id": "1849428", "text": "director Rian Johnson's debut feature, \"Brick\", was inspired by the novels of Dashiell Hammett, particularly \"Red Harves\"t. Science-fiction writer David Drake has said that he took the plot of his novel \"The Sharp End\" (1993) from \"Red Harvest\". Red Harvest Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road massacre. \"Time\"", "title": "Red Harvest" }, { "id": "8779939", "text": "the early life of one of those heroes: Dashiell Hammett, the originator of the hard-boiled crime novel. As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century. Atkins' 2010 novel \"Infamous\" is based on the 1933 Charles Urschel kidnapping and subsequent misadventures of the gangster spouses George \"Machine Gun\" and Kathryn Kelly. In 2011 Atkins was selected by the estate of Robert B. Parker to take over writing the Spenser series of novels. \"The Boston Globe\" wrote that while some people might", "title": "Ace Atkins" }, { "id": "7493142", "text": "leave, Spade calls the police and tells them where to pick up the pair. Spade then angrily confronts O'Shaughnessy, telling her he knows she killed Archer to implicate Thursby, her unwanted accomplice. She confesses, but begs Spade to not turn her over to the police. Despite his feelings for her, Spade gives O'Shaughnessy up. Though Hammett had once worked as a private detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in San Francisco (and used his birth name \"Samuel\" for the story's protagonist), he wrote of the book's main character in 1934: Spade has no original. He is a dream man in", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)" }, { "id": "1292541", "text": "daughters with the income he made from his writing. Hammett was first published in 1922 in the magazine \"The Smart Set\". Known for the authenticity and realism of his writing, he drew on his experiences as a Pinkerton operative. Hammett wrote most of his detective fiction while he was living in San Francisco in the 1920s; streets and other locations in San Francisco are frequently mentioned in his stories. He said that \"All my characters were based on people I've known personally, or known about.\" His novels were some of the first to use dialogue that sounded authentic to the", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "585578", "text": "Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of \"Drunk History\". Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series \"The Pinkertons\", played by Angus Macfadyen. Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of \"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams\", by Don Galloway (1937-2009), and in the 1994 American biographical western film \"Frank and Jesse\" by William Atherton. In but in these cases, as in the others, he seems to be portrayed with an American accent, although he was Scottish by birth, and may still have retained his Scots accent. Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "10078419", "text": "author's only series sleuth, making only a couple of appearances after the early 1930s. Instead, Eberhart wrote mostly \"standalone\" mysteries, something fairly unusual for a crime writer with such a large output. Eberhart was one of the more prolific of the practitioners of the classic romantic suspense novel that had begun with some of the earliest work of Anna Katherine Green and was brought to its height by Mary Roberts Rinehart in the early 20th century. There had been many female sleuths featured in short stories previously, and Rinehart had introduced her own nurse-detective, Hilda Adams, aka \"Miss Pinkerton,\" in", "title": "Mignon G. Eberhart" }, { "id": "6824408", "text": "Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to honor a debt. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as \"Sam,\" is holed up in a cheap apartment, hard at work at his typewriter each day. He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits. One day, a friend and mentor from his Pinkerton days, Jimmy Ryan, turns up with a request, that Hammett help him track", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "708370", "text": "this, but pleads that she is in love with Spade. Maybe he does care for her, Spade admits, but \"I won't play the sap for you\" – for personal as well as professional reasons. If she can get off with a long prison term, he'll wait for her; but if she hangs, so be it. When the police arrive, he turns her in and the police tell him Wilmer has just shot Gutman dead. Although Hammett himself worked for a time as a private detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in San Francisco (and used his given name, Samuel, for", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (novel)" }, { "id": "9498316", "text": "depict relatively little violence. Pronzini has written and published more than three hundred short stories. They have been published in a variety of markets, including some of the last issues of both \"Adventure\" and \"Argosy\" magazines, generally considered the first American pulp magazines. Pronzini's work has also appeared in \"Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine\", \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\", \"Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine\", \"The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\", \"Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine\", and \"Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology\". His short story collection, \"Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services\" (1998), is based in the 1890s and centers on Sabina Carpenter, a Pinkerton detective", "title": "Bill Pronzini" }, { "id": "7753280", "text": "and a nursemaid to Daisy. Poirot then flatters Hildegarde Schmidt by saying he knows a good cook when he sees one, and asks for a photo of the maid Paulette, with whom Miss Schmidt was friendly. Foscarelli, when asked, vehemently denies ever having been in private service as a chauffeur. Hardman reveals he is, in fact, a Pinkerton detective hired to guard Cassetti. When shown the photo of Paulette, he breaks down and reveals he was a policeman in America, was in love with Paulette, and feels responsible for her suicide. After concluding his investigation, Poirot gathers the suspects in", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)" }, { "id": "1849419", "text": "Red Harvest Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road massacre. \"Time\" included \"Red Harvest\" in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book \"a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror.\" \"Red Harvest\" was originally serialized", "title": "Red Harvest" }, { "id": "585575", "text": "Some were published after his death, and they are considered to have been more motivated by a desire to promote his detective agency than a literary endeavour. Most historians believe that Allan Pinkerton hired ghostwriters, but the books nonetheless bear his name and no doubt reflect his views. In the 1951 feature film \"The Tall Target\", a historical drama loosely based upon the Baltimore Plot, Allan Pinkerton is portrayed by Scottish actor Robert Malcolm. The M-G-M production starred Dick Powell and was directed by Anthony Mann. In the 1956 episode \"The Pinkertons\" of the ABC/Desilu western television series, \"The Life", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "9745945", "text": "The trial temporarily destroyed the last vestiges of labor unionism in the anthracite area. More important, it gave the public the impression ... that miners were by nature criminal in character ... Reports of McParland's success against the Molly Maguires came to the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels. Conan Doyle wrote McParland into \"The Valley of Fear\", creating an encounter between the fictional Sherlock Holmes, and a character whose history loosely recalled McParland's experiences with the Molly Maguires. Conan Doyle had met William Pinkerton on an ocean voyage, where the writer became", "title": "James McParland" }, { "id": "7484520", "text": "Clell Miller (John Pyper-Ferguson), and Arch Clements (Nick Sadler), begin to feel oppressed by the Chicago railroad investors. They set off on a trail of bank robberies, train heists, and stage holdups while evading the dogged pursuit of Allan Pinkerton (William Atherton) and his detective agency. The music score was composed by Mark McKenzie and released by Intrada Records. Frank and Jesse Frank and Jesse (also known as Frank & Jesse) is a 1994 American biographical western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James. Based on the", "title": "Frank and Jesse" }, { "id": "585574", "text": "agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man. Though Pinkerton considered himself pro-labor, he opposed strikes and distrusted labor unions. Allan Pinkerton was so famous that for decades after his death, his surname was a slang term for a private eye. The \"Mr. Pinkerton\" novels, by American mystery writer Zenith Jones Brown (under the pseudonym David Frome), were about Welsh-born amateur detective Evan Pinkerton and may have been inspired by the slang term. Pinkerton produced numerous popular detective books, ostensibly based on his own exploits and those of his agents.", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "722030", "text": "Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him. In 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. Although little-remembered today, Pollaky's fame at the time was such that he was mentioned in various books of the 1870s and immortalized as \"Paddington\" Pollaky for his \"keen penetration\" in the 1881 comic opera, \"Patience\". In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency – a private detective agency – in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect", "title": "Private investigator" }, { "id": "14474476", "text": "Southern Pacific Railroad company maintained its headquarters in the building after its earthquake renovations from 1907 until 1917 when it moved to its own building now at One Market Plaza. The F. W. Woolworth Company store located on basement level and first and second floors was the largest in the chain until 1992, when it was downsized, and later closed in 1996. More recent major tenants include the flagship stores for retailers Gap, Urban Outfitters, and Anthropologie. The Pinkerton Detective Agency had an office in Room 314 of the building, and employed Dashiell Hammett, an author of hard-boiled detective novels,", "title": "Flood Building" }, { "id": "1292537", "text": "Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (\"The Maltese Falcon\"), Nick and Nora Charles (\"The Thin Man\"), and the Continental Op (\"Red Harvest\" and \"The Dain Curse\"). Hammett \"is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time\". In his obituary in \"The New York Times\", he was described as \"the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction.\" \"Time\" magazine included", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "19793541", "text": "Cornwall (John Rue), whose assets become a gang target. In response he recruits a team of agents from the Pinkerton Detective Agency, led by Agent Milton (John Hickok) and his subordinate Agent Ross (Jim Bentley), to hunt down the gang. The gang also encounter the Saint Denis-based Italian crime lord Angelo Bronte (Jim Pirri), and Dutch's nemesis Colm O'Driscoll (Andrew Berg), leader of the rival O'Driscoll gang. Other rivals include the Del Lobo, Laramie, Skinner, and Murfree gangs, and the warring Gray and Braithwaite families. Other characters include Rains Fall (Graham Greene) and Eagle Flies (Jeremiah Bitsui), members of the", "title": "Red Dead Redemption 2" }, { "id": "2864053", "text": "argument about a card game. Harrison shot first, but missed. Levy aimed carefully and hit Harrison, who died a week later. Not as well known today but famous in his time was the dapper, derby-wearing train robber Marion Hedgepeth, who despite his swell appearance, \"was a deadly killer and one of the fastest guns in the Wild, Wild West\". William Pinkerton, whose National Detective Agency had sought to capture Hedgepeth and his gang for years, noted that Hedgepeth once gunned down another outlaw who had already unholstered his pistol before Hedgepath had drawn his revolver. The infamous assassin Tom Horn", "title": "Gunfighter" }, { "id": "1998556", "text": "Felix Leiter Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the \"James Bond\" series. The character is an operative for the CIA and Bond's friend. After losing a leg and his hand to a shark attack, Leiter joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The name \"Felix\" comes from the middle name of Fleming's friend Ivar Bryce, while the name \"Leiter\" was the surname of Fleming's friend Marion Oates Leiter Charles, then wife of Thomas Leiter. Leiter also appeared in novels by continuation authors, as well as ten films and one television episode, \"Casino Royale\" (\"Climax!\", season one, episode", "title": "Felix Leiter" }, { "id": "8642279", "text": "book titled \"A Texas Cow Boy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony\". A year later, it was published, to wide acclaim, and became one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy written by someone who had actually lived the life. In 1886, bored with the mundane life of a merchant, Siringo moved to Chicago, where first-hand observation of the city's labor conflict (which he attributed to foreign anarchism) moved him to join the Pinkerton Detective Agency, using gunman Pat Garrett's name as a reference to get the job, having met Garrett several", "title": "Charlie Siringo" }, { "id": "5608503", "text": "g) of lead. Tranter's most common bores were: With the onset of the American Civil War, the Confederate States began buying British arms in quantity and Tranter's high-quality weapons were much esteemed. The New Orleans importers Messrs Hyde & Goodrich and A. B. Griswold & Co (who later manufactured his own pistols) distributed Tranters. Tranter also produced percussion rifles that used a revolver cylinder instead of a magazine. These rifles were produced in various configurations including both single and double trigger mechanisms. Two Tranters were carried by the famous detective Allan Pinkerton, whose detective agency protected U.S. officials prior to", "title": "William Tranter" }, { "id": "2113627", "text": "taking over his business. The novel also attempts to merge Benson's series with the films, particularly by continuing a middle-of-the-road approach to John Gardner's continuity. Notably it includes a reference to the film version of \"You Only Live Twice\" where he states that Bond was lying to Miss Moneypenny when he said he had taken a course in Asian languages. \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" also mentions Felix Leiter, although it states that Leiter had worked for Pinkertons Detective Agency, which is thus exclusive to the literary series. Subsequent Bond novels by Benson were affected by \"Tomorrow Never Dies\", specifically Bond's weapon", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "16838159", "text": "Laird & Lee Laird & Lee was a Chicago-based book publisher known for its dime novel fiction and dictionaries. Its paperbacks were primarily distributed at railroads and newsstands instead of bookstores. The firm was founded in 1883 by Frederick C. Laird (c. 1863 - ) and William Henry Lee (c. 1863- 1913). Lee bought out Laird in 1894. Their publications included the \"Pinkerton Detective Series\" (1887-1901). After Lee died in 1913 without heirs to his $200,000 fortune, the firm eventually became a division of Laidlaw Brothers, which was a division of Albert Whitman & Company. Some mystery surrounded Lee's background,", "title": "Laird & Lee" }, { "id": "2414225", "text": "At Rosser's insistence, Frank exposed his body to demonstrate that he had no cuts or injuries and the police found no blood on the suit that Frank said he had worn on Saturday. The police found no blood stains on the laundry at Frank's house. Frank then met with his assistant, N. V. Darley, and Harry Scott of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, whom Frank hired to help investigate the case. The Pinkerton detectives investigated many leads, ranging from crime scene evidence to allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Frank. The Pinkertons were required to submit duplicates of", "title": "Leo Frank" }, { "id": "1862337", "text": "typified by the cowboy—and outdoor activity and sports generally—was essential if American men were to avoid the softness and rot produced by an easy life in the city. Will Rogers, the son of a Cherokee judge in Oklahoma, started with rope tricks and fancy riding, but by 1919 discovered his audiences were even more enchanted with his wit in his representation of the wisdom of the common man. Others who contributed to enhancing the romantic image of the American cowboy include Charles Siringo (1855–1928) and Andy Adams (1859–1935). Cowboy, Pinkerton detective, and western author, Siringo was the first authentic cowboy", "title": "American frontier" }, { "id": "10916626", "text": "The Cavalier's Cup The Cavalier's Cup is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and the final appearance in novel form of the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. At Telford Old Hall, the past is a constant reminder in the present. Long-dead Cavalier Sir Byng Rawdon still haunts the house, and lately has been making his ghostly presence known, it seems. During his lifetime, he etched a poem into a leaded-glass", "title": "The Cavalier's Cup" }, { "id": "7493147", "text": "to appear in a stage play. Hammett remembers that the character \"had two originals, one an artist, the other a woman who came to Pinkerton's San Francisco office to hire an operative to discharge her housekeeper, but neither of these women was a criminal.\" The character of the sinister \"Fat Man\" Kasper Gutman was based on A. Maundy Gregory, an overweight British detective-turned-entrepreneur who was involved in many sophisticated endeavors and capers, including a search for a long-lost treasure not unlike the jeweled Falcon. However, the character was not easily cast, and it took some time before producer Hal Wallis", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)" }, { "id": "14015119", "text": "one has a contemporary (e.g. 1930's) setting, making the flashback sequence pitting undercover detective Douglas against the Scowrers somewhat problematical since, historically, the real-life incident on which this sequence is based, Pinkerton operative James McParland's infiltration of the Molly Maguires, occurred in the 1870s, a full half-century earlier. \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"a mellow, evenly paced British film that renders to Holmes what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have rendered to him: Interest, respect and affection...Mr. Wontner decorates a calabash pipe with commendable skill, contributing a splendid portrait of fiction's first detective. Lyn Harding is capital as Moriarty and", "title": "The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes" }, { "id": "4354841", "text": "of Inspector Tobias Gregson in Doyle's work. Explanations for this have been a matter of debate for readers. Although Gregson's meeting with Holmes is coincidental, he is swift to grasp the implications of getting his help and claims to have been grateful for his work with the Yard in the past. The Pinkerton detective Leverton is called \"the hero of the Long Island cave mystery\" by Holmes. But there is no explanation of what the Long Island cave mystery entailed. This is considered by some to be one of untold cases of the Holmesian canon, though it doesn't seem to", "title": "The Adventure of the Red Circle" }, { "id": "3210833", "text": "April 9, 1892, and was a prime suspect for the assassinations of ranchers John A. Tisdale and Orley \"Ranger\" Jones. The Pinkerton Agency forced Horn to resign in 1894. In his memoir, \"Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and Anarchism\", Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo wrote that \"William A. Pinkerton told me that Tom Horn was guilty of the crime, but that his people could not allow him to go to prison while in their employ.\" Siringo would later indicate that he respected Horn's abilities at tracking, and that he was a very talented agent, but had a wicked element. In 1895, Horn", "title": "Tom Horn" }, { "id": "15561971", "text": "responsible? Why was I not told!?' Historian Andrew Cook has suggested that Steinhauer's plot to blow up the Bank of England could have been Ian Fleming's inspiration for the character and plot of Auric Goldfinger. Gustav Steinhauer Gustav Steinhauer was born in Berlin c. 1870. He was an officer of the Imperial German Navy who in 1901 became head of the British section of the German Admiralty's intelligence service, the Nachrichten-Abteilung, 'N'. He had trained at the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago and spoke fluent English with an American accent. Steinhauer had been part of Kaiser Wilhelm II's bodyguard at", "title": "Gustav Steinhauer" }, { "id": "2864061", "text": "deputy sheriff under sheriff Johnny Behan. Many shootouts involving lawmen were caused by disputes arising from these alternative occupations, rather than the lawman's attempts to enforce the law. Tom Horn, historically cited as an assassin, served both as a deputy sheriff and as a Pinkerton detective, a job in which he shot at least three people as a killer for hire. Ben Thompson, best known as a gunfighter and gambler, was a very successful chief of police in Austin, Texas. King Fisher had great success as a county sheriff in Texas. Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid both wore badges", "title": "Gunfighter" }, { "id": "18689233", "text": "cowrote with B.V. Shann. He married Kathleen Walsh in 1928. In his last years, he moved to Dublin, where he died in 1972. Marten Cumberland Sydney Walter Martin \"Marten\" Cumberland (23 July 1892 – 1972) was a British journalist, novelist and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonym, Kevin O'Hara. He specialised in the detective/mystery genre and created the character of Inspector Saturnin Dax, a French policeman. During World War I, he served as a radio operator in the Merchant Marine. After the war, he worked successively for several newspapers and publishing houses as a writer. He also composed some", "title": "Marten Cumberland" }, { "id": "16942064", "text": "London: a district with a population of 67,000 poor and dispossessed. The men of H Division had hunted the Ripper and failed to find him. When more women are murdered on the streets of Whitechapel, the police begin to wonder if the killer has returned. Among the factories, rookeries, chop shops (food establishments), brothels and pubs, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) team up with former US Army surgeon and Pinkerton agent Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to investigate the killings. They frequently cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna", "title": "Ripper Street" }, { "id": "10530597", "text": "process. The emergence of union-busting as an industry is a relatively new phenomenon and is described in Martin Levitt's book \"Confessions of A Union Buster.\" Prior to the emergence of the union-avoidance industry, practitioners were mainly \"goon squads\" also used for strike-breaking. In the U.S., the largest and most well-known \"goon squad\" for hire was the Pinkerton Detective Agency, still active today, though in a different capacity. William W. Delaney's \"My Father Was Killed By Pinkerton Men\" is a song about the violence that often surrounded early American labor strife. The most famous movie about organizing is the 1979 factually-based", "title": "Union organizer" }, { "id": "7989892", "text": "automobile accident. A puzzling codicil to the Russells' will, a break-in at the family house, and a failed attempt on Mary's life quickly draw Holmes and eventually Mary into an investigation of the real cause of her parents' death. Holmes and Russell team up with a former Pinkerton agent Dashiell Hammett, several residents of Chinatown, and a cast of irregulars to solve the mystery that has plagued Mary for ten years. On their way back to Britain from India, Holmes and Russell stop at Russell's childhood home in San Francisco. As they approach San Francisco, Russell becomes more and more", "title": "Locked Rooms" }, { "id": "2840179", "text": "War II and thwarting Nazi spies. The crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) created the archetypal British aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923. Peter Haddon first played Wimsey in \"The Silent Passenger\" (1935), written by Sayers specifically for the screen. This was followed by \"Busman's Honeymoon\" (1940), also released as \"Haunted Honeymoon\", with Robert Montgomery as Wimsey. Later, Montgomery would also play Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe in \"The Lady in the Lake\" (1947). Doubleday's The Crime Club imprint published a variety of mystery novels that also inspired a radio show. Universal Pictures struck a deal to produce a", "title": "Mystery film" }, { "id": "11585157", "text": "the help of his Shakespeare aficionado brother Frank, he therefore simply redefines the term \"poor\" for his own benefit, and along with Cole Younger the two begin robbing trains en masse, forcing Lucky Luke to move out and stop them with the somewhat inept assistance of two Pinkerton detectives. Jesse James (Lucky Luke) Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press. It is based on the true", "title": "Jesse James (Lucky Luke)" }, { "id": "17422665", "text": "the Ripper\" Whitechapel murders. The Criminologist (magazine) The Criminologist was a crime magazine, published quarterly in the United Kingdom between 1967 and 1998. It was edited by writer Nigel Morland, who worked as a crime journalist and also as a writer of crime fiction, creating the detective \"Palmyra Pym\" in 1935. The Criminologist is known for publishing an article in its November 1970 issue by Thomas Stowell titled \"Jack the Ripper - A solution?\" The article was the original source for the Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories by appearing to implicate Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale,", "title": "The Criminologist (magazine)" }, { "id": "13017826", "text": "George Samuel Dougherty George Samuel Dougherty (April 5, 1865 – July 16, 1931) was an American law enforcement officer, detective and writer. He was considered one of the leading detectives in the United States, first for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and then as a private investigator, and was responsible for the capture of many notorious criminals during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While serving as Second Deputy Police Commissioner and head of the NYPD Detectives Bureau, he is credited for his assistance in solving the 1912 murder of Herman Rosenthal which ultimately resulted in the conviction and execution", "title": "George Samuel Dougherty" }, { "id": "14169180", "text": "of the uncanny\" and \"a sense of the odds that are stacked against the novel's hero\". The fact that the Stewart case proved too much for even the Pinkerton Detective Agency to solve also could be an opportunity for Stoker to detract from \"the American reputation for efficiency\" and thus \"incriminat[e] Marjory\". Archibald Hunter, a young Englishman, is passing his leisure time near Cruden Bay in the small Scottish village of Whinnyfold when he has a vision of a couple walking past him, carrying a tiny coffin. Archibald also notices a strange old woman watching him. Later, he finds out", "title": "The Mystery of the Sea" }, { "id": "10346640", "text": "photograph with a grid numerically coded for the colour in each square, and to transmit the numerical data to Murdoch via telegraph—with the end result that the foreign officer has essentially sent Murdoch a bitmap image they call a \"facsimile\"—a telefax. Detective Murdoch is assisted by the three other main characters: Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig), Doctor Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy), and the inexperienced but eager Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), who aspires to be a mystery novel writer. Brackenreid, Murdoch's immediate superior, is a blunt and sceptical Yorkshireman with a fondness for whisky who prefers conventional methods of detection over", "title": "Murdoch Mysteries" }, { "id": "8657585", "text": "ruthless American gang run by the brothers Jack and Seraffimo Spang. He follows the trail from London to New York. To earn his fee for carrying the diamonds he is instructed by a gang member, Shady Tree, to bet on a rigged horse race in nearby Saratoga. There Bond meets Felix Leiter, a former CIA agent working at Pinkertons as a private detective investigating crooked horse racing. Leiter bribes the jockey to ensure the failure of the plot to rig the race, and asks Bond to make the pay-off. When he goes to make the payment, he witnesses two homosexual", "title": "Diamonds Are Forever (novel)" }, { "id": "12572956", "text": "that he and Dowling hid in a cellar on West 52nd Street where they attempted to destroy evidence of their crime by disposing of the gun and scattered papers. These were later found by detectives and used to trace the murder to them. Mordecai Saltzman, an undercover detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, testified at the trial that his conversations with both Mulraney and Dowling that an unpaid debt of $50 may have also been a motive for the murder. The crime was later referenced in the 2003 historical novel \"And All The Saints\" by Michael Walsh. Martin McBreen Martin", "title": "Martin McBreen" }, { "id": "10896630", "text": "The telling is done in Carter Dickson's usual long and diffuse talk which he thinks conversation; oddities are added for pseudo suspense; people shout, whirl, say What! in italics, and generally the thing is irritation unrelieved even by a second murder.\" The White Priory Murders The White Priory Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale, assisted by Scotland Yard Inspector Humphrey Masters. Marcia Tait is a Hollywood star who has come", "title": "The White Priory Murders" }, { "id": "17334500", "text": "residence at the Imperial Hotel. There she met a young John Kilpatrick. They embarked on an affair, and Kilpatrick delayed his return home to New York. His family became concerned about his ever-lengthening travels and dwindling funds and hired a Pinkerton detective to travel to Tokyo to determine what was delaying him. Upon discovering that May Dugas was the source of Kilpatrick’s delay, Detective Edwards used what leverage he could, primarily his knowledge of Dugas’s life as a prostitute, to persuade her to release Kilpatrick from her clutches. Dugas did leave Kilpatrick, who returned to New York, only to commit", "title": "May Dugas de Pallandt van Eerde" }, { "id": "6757284", "text": "Edmund Crispin (1921-1978), Cyril Hare (1900-1958), and many more. Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), was a New Zealander but was also British, as was her detective Roderick Alleyn. Georges Simenon was from Belgium and wrote in French; his detective, Jules Maigret, was a Frenchman. Some writers, such as Mary Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine, Earl Derr Biggers, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner and Elizabeth Daley , were American but had similar styles. Others, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain, had a more hard-boiled, American style. Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh are often described", "title": "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" }, { "id": "20154306", "text": "Kentucky, known as the Harlan County War or Bloody Harlan, is the basis for that element of the plot. Both Sheriff JH Blair and Florence Reese are historical characters, with Reese's folk song \"Which Side Are You On?\" (performed in the second episode) being inspired by Sheriff Blair's actions during the Harlan County War. Both the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which employs Creeley Turner, and the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, which employs Connie Nunn, are historical agencies that focused on strikebreaking in the 1930s. Likewise, the villainous Black Legion vigilante group in \"Damnation\" is based on the 1930s militant", "title": "Damnation (TV series)" }, { "id": "17422664", "text": "The Criminologist (magazine) The Criminologist was a crime magazine, published quarterly in the United Kingdom between 1967 and 1998. It was edited by writer Nigel Morland, who worked as a crime journalist and also as a writer of crime fiction, creating the detective \"Palmyra Pym\" in 1935. The Criminologist is known for publishing an article in its November 1970 issue by Thomas Stowell titled \"Jack the Ripper - A solution?\" The article was the original source for the Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories by appearing to implicate Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, in the 1888 \"Jack", "title": "The Criminologist (magazine)" }, { "id": "2046936", "text": "In the books, Douglas strongly implies that Irene's mother was Lola Montez and her father possibly Ludwig I of Bavaria. Douglas provides Irene with a back story as a pint-size child vaudeville performer who was trained as an opera singer before going to work as a Pinkerton detective. In a series of novels by John Lescroart, it is stated that Adler and Holmes had a son, Auguste Lupa, and it is implied that he later changes his name to Nero Wolfe. In the 2009 novel \"The Language of Bees\" by Laurie R. King, it is stated that Irene Adler, who", "title": "Irene Adler" }, { "id": "6542108", "text": "real murder victim was Charles \"Charley\" Bigelow, an undercover Pinkerton detective who was posing as Jesse James and committing robberies - thus incurring the wrath and vengeance of the real Jesse James. This theory holds that there was a \"murder hoax conspiracy\" involving several people (all close friends of the real Jesse James), who conspired together to murder someone, and who then all swore before the investigating officials that the murder victim was Jesse James. The goal of the conspirators was to manipulate and/or \"control\" the murder evidence in such a way that the law enforcement and judicial authorities involved", "title": "J. Frank Dalton" }, { "id": "3210830", "text": "owned by Robert Bowen, where he became one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Mart Blevins in 1887. He claimed that throughout the war, he was the \"mediator\" of the conflict, serving as a deputy sheriff under three famous Arizona lawmen: William Owen \"Buckey\" O'Neill, Commodore Perry Owens, and Glenn Reynolds. Horn also participated with Reynolds in a lynching of three suspected rustlers in August 1888. As a deputy sheriff, Horn drew the attention of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency due to his tracking abilities. Hired by the agency in late 1889 or early 1890, he handled investigations", "title": "Tom Horn" }, { "id": "4468615", "text": "to profit from the crimes. He appears in eleven novels published between 1930 and 1950, including \"The Sullen Sky Mystery\" (1935), widely regarded as Bailey's magnum opus. Bailey's works were published in a number of magazines, primarily The Windsor Magazine but also \"Adventure\" and \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. See Radio plays and talks also H. C. Bailey Henry Christopher Bailey (1878–1961) was an English author of detective fiction. Bailey wrote mainly short stories featuring a medically qualified detective called Reggie Fortune. Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much", "title": "H. C. Bailey" }, { "id": "13453733", "text": "Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas \"Joe\" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional \"Dan Kearney and Associates\" (the \"DKA Files\") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels \"Hammett\" (1975; made into the 1982 film \"Hammett\"), \"Spade & Archer\" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's \"The Maltese", "title": "Joe Gores" }, { "id": "6824412", "text": "A number of actors from the \"Golden Age\" of Hollywood were cast in the film, including Hank Worden, Royal Dano, and Elisha Cook, Jr. (who played Wilmer \"the gunsel\" in John Huston's 1941 film \"The Maltese Falcon\"). Hammett (film) Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "10900413", "text": "The Punch and Judy Murders The Punch and Judy Murders (also published under the title \"The Magic Lantern Murders\") is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale. Kenwood Blake, introduced in the previous Sir Henry Merrivale mystery \"The Unicorn Murders\", is about to marry his fellow British Secret Service operative, Evelyn Cheyne, 24 hours from now. He is sidetracked by an urgent telegram from Sir Henry asking him to come to Torquay to play an", "title": "The Punch and Judy Murders" }, { "id": "11317", "text": "Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, \"The Mousetrap\", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13120140", "text": "a gambling cheat\", and that he was in fear of his life and acting in self-defense at the time of the murder. Although there were reports that O'Brien was on his death bed in New Caledonia in December 1898, noted detective William Pinkerton publicly denied these claims and said that he heard from O'Brien through his brother who had received a letter from him two months before. According to the letter, O'Brien wrote that \"he was in good health and that his punishment was not severe\". He spent another six years on the island until French officials reported his death", "title": "Tom O'Brien (swindler)" }, { "id": "11074596", "text": "as a young detective in the Canadian TV series \"The Pinkertons\", played by Martha MacIsaac. Kate Warne Kate Warne (1833 – January 28, 1868) was the first female detective, in 1856, in the Pinkerton Detective Agency and the United States. Very little is known about Kate Warne prior to her working for Allan Pinkerton, except that she was born in Erin, Chemung County, New York and was a widow by age 23. Pinkerton, in his book \"The Spy of the Rebellion\" (1883), described her as: [a] commanding person, with clear cut, expressive features ... a slender, brown-haired woman, graceful in", "title": "Kate Warne" }, { "id": "8237218", "text": "in the \"Golden Age\" tradition of mystery writing. Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write three novels under the pen name Peter Lear. Novels featuring Victorian era detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb and his assistant Constable Thackeray. The novels were adapted into a Granada TV Series simply entitled \"Cribb\" (1979–81). The Series starred Alan Dobie as Cribb, with William Simons as Thackeray. The series is available on DVD in the UK, the US, and Canada. BBC Radio's Saturday Night Theatre adapted six of the novels: Peter Lovesey Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936),", "title": "Peter Lovesey" }, { "id": "585579", "text": "Pinkerton agency before becoming an author, and his experiences influenced the character of the Continental Op who was a Continental Detective Agency operative, similar to the Pinkertons. Allan Pinkerton Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Allan Pinkerton was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife, Isobel McQueen, on August 25, 1819. He left school at the age of 10 after his father's death. Pinkerton read voraciously and was largely self-educated. A cooper by trade, Pinkerton was", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "6018641", "text": "Top Secret security clearance at a government think tank. Her fiction career began with literary short stories published under her own name and several pulp fiction novels under male pseudonyms such as G.H. Stone, Gayle Stone, Nick Carter, and Don Pendleton. She also wrote three novels in The Three Investigators, a YA mystery novel series. With Robert Ludlum, she created the Covert-One series and wrote three of the books. In 2004, she co-founded and was elected co-president (with David Morrell) of International Thriller Writers, Inc. \"The Last Spymaster\" was awarded the 2006 Novel of the Year prize from the Military", "title": "Gayle Lynds" }, { "id": "20870448", "text": "Vanity Fair (2018 TV series) Vanity Fair is a 2018 ITV and Amazon Studios 7-part television series period drama based on the 1848 novel \"Vanity Fair\" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It was produced by Mammoth Screen. The series stars Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp, Tom Bateman as Captain Rawdon Crawley and Michael Palin as the author William Makepeace Thackeray. A cottage on Chevening House Estate, Sevenoaks in Kent was used for filming and featured as Rawdons’ Cottage. Further filming took place in Sevenoaks at Squerryes Court for filming Miss Pinkertons’ (Suranne Jones) school interiors. A scene on the promenade, featuring", "title": "Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)" }, { "id": "12827199", "text": "an underworld gathering hosted by saloonkeeper Mush Riley. It was at this banquet that the guest were treated to a mystery main course which Riley later revealed to be a Newfoundland dog. He operated with a great deal of cooperation from the New York Police Department, reportedly having as many as 30 police officers on his payroll, until his eventual arrest. Noble ran a faro house on Broadway during the American Civil War, as well a faro bank with Charles Brockway. It was during this time that he fell prey to a practical joke by Allen Pinkerton, famed detective and", "title": "Dan Noble" }, { "id": "1292577", "text": "Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel \"The Valley of Fear\" (1914–1915). A Pinkerton agent also appears in a small role in \"The Adventure of the Red Circle\", a 1911 Holmes story. A 1970 film, \"The Molly Maguires\", was loosely based upon the incident as well. On July 6, 1892, during the Homestead Strike, 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago were called in by Carnegie Steel's Henry Clay Frick to protect the Pittsburgh-area mill and strikebreakers. This resulted in a firefight and siege in which 16 men were killed and 23 others were wounded. To restore order, two brigades of", "title": "Pinkerton (detective agency)" }, { "id": "2146850", "text": "A former governor of Idaho, Steunenberg had clashed with the WFM in previous strikes. Harry Orchard, a former WFM member who had once acted as WFM President Charles Moyer's bodyguard was arrested for the crime, and evidence was found in his hotel room. Famed Pinkerton detective James McParland, who had infiltrated and helped to destroy the Molly Maguires, was placed in charge of the investigation. Before the trial, McParland ordered that Orchard be placed on death row in the Boise penitentiary, with restricted food rations and under constant surveillance. After McParland had prepared his investigation, he met with Orchard over", "title": "Bill Haywood" }, { "id": "12047559", "text": "Bertram Fletcher Robinson Bertram Fletcher Robinson (22 August 1870 – 21 January 1907) was an English sportsman, journalist, author and Liberal Unionist Party campaigner. Between 1893 and 1907, he wrote nearly three hundred items, including a series of short stories that feature a detective called \"Addington Peace\". However, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his literary collaborations with his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse. Bertram Fletcher Robinson (affectionately referred to as either 'Bobbles' or 'Bertie') was born on 22 August 1870 at 80 Rose Lane, Mossley Hill, Liverpool. In early 1882, he relocated with his family to", "title": "Bertram Fletcher Robinson" }, { "id": "13271631", "text": "Isaac Bell Isaac Bell is the main character in a series of Clive Cussler branded books. The lean, blonde-haired man is the chief investigator (for most of the novels and chapters) for the VanDorn Detective agency, based loosely on the US Pinkertons. The Van Dorn detective agency is headed up by Joseph (Joe) VanDorn, an Irishman most recently from Chicago. Isaac Bell is the son of Ebenezer Bell and grandson of Isaiah Bell, two fictional prominent Boston bankers. He gets married to then filmmaker Marion Morgan in \"The Thief\". Bell had met and become romantically involved with Ms. Morgan in", "title": "Isaac Bell" }, { "id": "3162273", "text": "updated in the 1990s with Henning Mankell's detective character Kurt Wallander and in the 2000s with Stieg Larsson's \"Millennium\" trilogy featuring Lisbeth Salander. The basic concept has, by extension, given rise to the entire Scandinavian noir scene. The Mystery Writers of America, in 1995, rated The Laughing Policeman as the 2nd best police procedural, after Tony Hillerman's Dance Hall of the Dead. Martin Beck Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, collectively titled \"The Story of a Crime\". The stories are frequently", "title": "Martin Beck" }, { "id": "1998562", "text": "no longer with the CIA, but employed as a private detective by Pinkerton Detective Agency, although he was on the reserve of the CIA and was recalled for \"Goldfinger\", \"Thunderball\" and \"The Man with the Golden Gun\". Fleming had flown to the US in August 1954 to research the background to \"Diamonds Are Forever\"; his friend Ernest Cuneo introduced him to a rich socialite, William Woodward, Jr., who drove a Studillac—a Studebaker with a powerful Cadillac engine. According to Bond scholar Henry Chancellor, \"the speed and comfort of it impressed Ian, and he shamelessly appropriated this car\" for Leiter to", "title": "Felix Leiter" }, { "id": "4667471", "text": "Francis Durbridge Francis Henry Durbridge () (25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English playwright and author. Durbridge was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher. He continued to do so while studying English at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 1933, he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk before selling a radio play, \"Promotion\", to the BBC at the age of 21. Durbridge created the character of Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective, in the 1930s.", "title": "Francis Durbridge" }, { "id": "9745946", "text": "fascinated by the \"singular and terrible narrative\" of the Molly Maguires. Later, however, \"William Pinkerton's and Arthur Conan Doyle's friendship ended over the rendition of some Pinkerton exploits in fictional form ...\" Patrick Campbell, a relative of one of the executed Mollies, who wrote \"A Molly Maguire Story\", learned from a McParland relative that McParland's two brothers, Edward and Charles, also went undercover against the Mollies. Campbell speculates that the break between Pinkerton and Conan Doyle may have resulted because, [The McParland character in \"The Valley of Fear\"] was portrayed as being very wealthy [suggesting a possible 'pay off' ...", "title": "James McParland" }, { "id": "346393", "text": "Parker). All but \"Playback\" have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is considered to be a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other \"Black Mask\" writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with \"private detective\". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be", "title": "Raymond Chandler" }, { "id": "17171659", "text": "Shetland (TV series) Shetland is a British television crime drama television series, made by ITV Studios for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One, that first broadcast on 10 March 2013. Initially based upon the novels of Ann Cleeves, the series was brought to screen by David Kane, who has remained a principal writer through all four series. The series stars Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez, a detective inspector working for the Shetland police, Alison O'Donnell as Detective Sergeant Alison \"Tosh\" Macintosh, and Steven Robertson as Detective Constable Sandy Wilson. Mark Bonnar, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Julie Graham, and Anne", "title": "Shetland (TV series)" }, { "id": "100782", "text": "the law as protecting the murderer and destroying the innocent. Thomas Skinner Sturr's anonymous \"Richmond, or stories in the life of a Bow Street officer\" was published in London in 1827; the Danish crime story \"The Rector of Veilbye\" by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829; and the Norwegian crime novel \"Mordet paa Maskinbygger Roolfsen\" (\"The Murder of Engine Maker Roolfsen\") by Maurits Hansen was published in December 1839. \"Das Fräulein von Scuderi\" is an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder", "title": "Detective fiction" }, { "id": "1410911", "text": "Ngaio Marsh Dame Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. Marsh is known as one of the \"Queens of Crime\", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). The Ngaio Marsh Award is awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing. Marsh", "title": "Ngaio Marsh" }, { "id": "13093802", "text": "Works was then sold to Schlund, who renamed the company Aston Arms Co. Ltd. and the brand name to the Schlund Revolver. The factory closed down in 1891. Only 600 Kynock revolvers of all versions and models were ever made. Famous users of Tranter revolvers included Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart, and Ben Hall, the Australian bushranger, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It is also known that Dr Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun owned an 80-bore (.38-calibre) First Model Tranter Pocket Revolver with a 4.29-inch [109mm]", "title": "Tranter (revolver)" }, { "id": "1883794", "text": "Henning Mankell Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television. He was a left-wing social critic and activist. In his books and plays he constantly highlighted social inequality issues and injustices in Sweden and abroad. In 2010, Mankell was on board one of the ships in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was boarded by Israeli military forces. He was below deck when eight or nine", "title": "Henning Mankell" }, { "id": "2989686", "text": "translated into 21 languages. His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors. Mosley made publishing history in 1997 by foregoing an advance to give the manuscript of \"Gone Fishin' \" to a small, independent publisher, Black Classic Press in Baltimore, run by former Black Panther Paul Coates. His first published book, \"Devil in a Blue Dress\", was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. The world premiere of", "title": "Walter Mosley" }, { "id": "3684085", "text": "Anthony Gilbert (author) Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (15 February 1899 – 9 December 1973), was an English crime writer who was a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson. She also wrote nongenre fiction as Anne Meredith and published one crime novel and an autobiography (\"Three-a-Penny\", 1940) under the Meredith name. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best-known character, Arthur Crook. Crook is a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the sophisticated detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Philo Vance, who dominated the mystery field when Gilbert introduced him. Instead of", "title": "Anthony Gilbert (author)" }, { "id": "3016094", "text": "and Bullwinkle\" (1959–1964) and \"The Fugitive\" (1963–1967). Finding fewer onscreen roles in the 1950s, he changed from actor to producer-director with television work, narration, and a series of Warner Bros. films in the 1960s. Conrad found stardom as a detective in the TV series \"Cannon\" (1971–1976) and \"Nero Wolfe\" (1981), and as district attorney Jason Lochinvar \"J.L.\" \"Fatman\" McCabe in the legal drama \"Jake and the Fatman\" (1987–1992). William Conrad (also known as John William Conrad) was born John William Cann, Jr., on September 27, 1920, in Louisville, Kentucky. His parents, John William Cann and Ida Mae Upchurch Cann, owned", "title": "William Conrad" }, { "id": "585577", "text": "Greenhow. In the HBO series \"Boardwalk Empire\", an agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency runs an undercover operation to coax a murder confession out of a major character. Pinkerton is a major character in the 2001 film \"American Outlaws\", portrayed by Timothy Dalton. Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2013 film \"Saving Lincoln\", which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War. Pinkerton is played by Marcus J. Freed. Charlie Day portrayed", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "11448568", "text": "The Silent Passenger The Silent Passenger is a British black-and-white mystery film produced in 1935 at Ealing Studios, London. This was the first film outing for novelist Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. It was based on an original story written by Sayers specifically for the screen. Her amateur sleuth was portrayed as a somewhat eccentric comical aristocrat who solved murders in spite of himself. A blackmailer is murdered by the husband of one of his victims, railway detective Henry Camberley (Donald Wolfit), but it is the innocent John Ryder (John Loder) who is suspected of the", "title": "The Silent Passenger" }, { "id": "2095662", "text": "investigation against the Krays, Detective Superintendent Leonard \"Nipper\" Read. However, the Piranhas' described methods seem to resemble more closely those used by the rival Richardson Gang and their associate \"Mad\" Frankie Fraser. The bizarre creature \"Spiny Norman\" is possibly a subtle reference to the notorious former head of the London Drug Squad, Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher. The sketch is introduced by a piece of music (the Intermezzo from Sibelius's Karelia Suite) which was used for many years, until 1992, to introduce the Thames Television (and previously Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London) current affairs series \"This Week.\" A slightly re-worked version of", "title": "Piranha Brothers" }, { "id": "1665896", "text": "It is the last to be directed by Michael Winner. Kersey returns to battle with New York street punk gangs while receiving tacit support from a local NYPD lieutenant (Ed Lauter). Bronson did \"Murphy's Law\" (1986) for Cannon with Thompson. It co-stars Carrie Snodgress, and Kathleen Wilhoite. Jack Murphy (Bronson), a hardened, antisocial LAPD detective, frequently escapes the harsh reality that his ex-wife (Tompkins) has become a stripper and his career is going nowhere by drinking. His world is turned upside down, however, when he is framed by ex-convict Joan Freeman (Snodgress) for putting her in prison earlier in his", "title": "Charles Bronson" }, { "id": "4236367", "text": "Simon Spurrier Simon \"Si\" Spurrier is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC. Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for \"2000 AD\", like \"Lobster Random\", \"Bec & Kawl\", \"The Simping Detective\" and \"Harry Kipling\", as well as a number of stories for the flagship character \"Judge Dredd\". In recent years he has broken into the American comic book industry, writing mainly for Marvel Comics. He is currently the writer of \"X-Force\", which stars", "title": "Simon Spurrier" }, { "id": "18204535", "text": "The Maverick Queen The Maverick Queen is a 1956 American Trucolor western film starring Barbara Stanwyck as the title character and Barry Sullivan as an undercover Pinkerton detective out to stop outlaws Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch. The film was based on the novel by Zane Grey. A stranger, calling himself Jeff Young, imposes on rancher Lucy Lee for a meal and a night's rest, then saves her from being robbed. Jeff helps deliver her cattle to town, where he encounters Kit Banion running her saloon, the Maverick Queen. Kit is secretly in cahoots with the", "title": "The Maverick Queen" }, { "id": "6253181", "text": "He also created the offbeat 1984 sitcom \"Lame Ducks\". In the 1980s and 1990s, Hammond wrote for popular ITV police/detective shows \"The Gentle Touch\", \"The Bill\" and \"Wycliffe\", as well as for \"Doctor Finlay\", the new production of the 1960s BBC series \"Dr. Finlay's Casebook\". He returned to the science fiction genre by writing an episode of the 1998 Sky One series \"Space Island One\", although his episode was ultimately one of those that went untransmitted until 2002. Work in the 2000s included many episodes of the popular murder mystery series \"Midsomer Murders\". He is best known for the creation", "title": "Peter J. Hammond" }, { "id": "3198110", "text": "Bad Girls (1994 film) Bad Girls is a 1994 American western adventure film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and written by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner. It stars Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore. The film follows four former prostitutes on the run following a justifiable homicide and prison escape, who later encounter difficulties involving bank robbery and Pinkerton detectives. Kaplan previously directed two of the film's stars: Masterson in \"Immediate Family\" (1989) and Stowe in \"Unlawful Entry\" (1992). Cody, Anita, Eileen and Lily work together in a brothel. When Anita is abused by a customer, Cody", "title": "Bad Girls (1994 film)" }, { "id": "10347475", "text": "Press. Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel \"Raven Black\". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series \"Vera\" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series \"Shetland\". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary", "title": "Ann Cleeves" }, { "id": "10347472", "text": "Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel \"Raven Black\". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series \"Vera\" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series \"Shetland\". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate", "title": "Ann Cleeves" }, { "id": "3067389", "text": "no one was apprehended or prosecuted for Little's murder there have been a number of speculations. The author Dashiell Hammett was working as a strikebreaker in Butte for Pinkerton's, and (allegedly) turned down an offer of $5,000 to assassinate Little. Hammett later made use of his experiences in Butte to write \"Red Harvest\". 'In her memoirs Lillian Hellman, Hammett's companion, said he told her he was offered to murder Little. \"Through the years he was to repeat that bribe offer so many times that I came to believe … that it was a kind of key to his life. He", "title": "Frank Little (unionist)" }, { "id": "9772997", "text": "a stack of documents which had been signed by McParland, attesting to the authenticity of his observations. Many reporters thought that the witness's testimony indicated \"...that many of the infiltrators were actually agents provocateurs who'd committed crimes to bring the unions into disrepute.\" Morris Friedman Morris Friedman was, until 1905, the private stenographer for Pinkerton detective James McParland. Friedman came to the attention of the public when he published an exposé of anti-union actions by the private detective industry which was called \"The Pinkerton Labor Spy\". The book focused in particular on how mining and ore milling companies used spies", "title": "Morris Friedman" }, { "id": "8595755", "text": "about fifty miles west of Rawlins, and this time Lefors led the posse. However, they again had no success, and the robbers escaped. That same year, former lawman, scout, tracker and longtime killer for hire Tom Horn began his investigation on the Wilcox robbery case, working on contract with the Pinkerton Detective Agency to solve the case, and with whom he had been employed many years before. He generated productive information which was later passed to Charlie Siringo via the agency, obtained from explosives expert Bill Speck. Through that information, the investigators were able to identify who had killed Sheriff", "title": "Joe Lefors" }, { "id": "9225964", "text": "the day including Queen Liz, Big Mary, \"Black\" Lena Kleinschmidt, Adam Worth, Sophie Lyons, and George Leonidas Leslie as well as judges and police officials. However, in 1884, New York District Attorney Peter B. Olney hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to infiltrate Mandelbaum's organization. An agent, posing as a prospective thief, arranged to have several marked bolts of silk stolen from a store where it was discovered in a police raid on her home the following morning. Arrested with her son Julius and clerk Herman Stroude, Mandelbaum was released on bail and fled the United States with an estimated $1", "title": "Fredericka Mandelbaum" } ]

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[ { "id": "12356946", "text": "the interview made clear she was a reporter (and who did indeed, at the close, take pictures of Salinger as he departed). According to the first account, the interview ended \"disastrously\" when a local passer-by from Cornish attempted to shake the famous author's hand, at which point Salinger became enraged. A further account of the interview published later in \"The Paris Review\", purportedly by Eppes as author, has been disowned by Eppes and separately ascribed as a derived work of Review Editor George Plimpton. Although Salinger tried to escape public exposure as much as possible, he continued to struggle with", "title": "J. D. Salinger" }, { "id": "4365481", "text": "more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime (and often were completely or relatively unknown) include Greek philosopher Socrates; scientist Galileo Galilei; 1800s-era poet John Keats; painter Vincent van Gogh; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe; singer Eva Cassidy; comedian Bill Hicks; writer Emily Dickinson; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977; writer Franz Kafka; singer Jeff Buckley; diarist Anne Frank; philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; writer John Kennedy Toole (who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death); author Stieg Larsson (who died with his \"Millennium\" novels unpublished); musician,", "title": "Celebrity culture" }, { "id": "11574624", "text": "volume of letters between Conrad and Laurence Davies. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Karl's book \"American Fiction, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History & Critical Evaluation\" is infamous for omitting William Saroyan, one of the 20th century's most popular, esteemed, and influential writers. Frederick Karl Frederick Robert Karl (1927–2004) was a literary biographer, best known for his work on Joseph Conrad, a literary critic, and an editor. He spent 25 years teaching at City College of New York and then followed with 18 years", "title": "Frederick Karl" }, { "id": "6144950", "text": "Cockney School The \"Cockney School\" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in the form of hostile reviews in \"Blackwood's Magazine\" in 1817. Its primary target was Leigh Hunt, but John Keats and William Hazlitt were also included. Only Keats could properly be regarded as a cockney. Hazlitt was not even born in London. John Scott died after a duel over the controversy. Each of the writers was derided for a slightly different quality. Keats, for example, was accused of \"low diction\" for", "title": "Cockney School" }, { "id": "8465857", "text": "John Steinbeck, \"The Heart of the Matter\" by Graham Greene and \"The African Queen\" by C. S. Forester. Other authors banned included Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Thomas Mann, John Cowper Powys, Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh. Irish writers who were censored included Austin Clarke, Benedict Kiely, Edna O'Brien, Kate O'Brien, Frank O'Connor and Seán Ó Faoláin. In 1950, Robert Graves described the Irish censorship laws as 'the fiercest literary censorship this side of the Iron Curtain.' The Arts Council of Ireland, an autonomous body established by the government to promote,", "title": "Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland)" }, { "id": "2944906", "text": "the highest representation, with fifteen recipients. The most recent recipient in 2017 was Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. Only one winner has ever been stripped of the award – US cyclist Lance Armstrong, whose 2003 award was rescinded by the BBC following the UCI's 2012 decision to strip Armstrong of his titles and ban him for life from the sport. In 2018, the award was renamed BBC World Sport Star of the Year. Along with the change of name, votes could be cast from outside of the UK for the first time. This table lists the total number of awards", "title": "BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year" }, { "id": "19140028", "text": "Sassoon; Louis Golding and Louis Esson. Outside the world of politics, Henderson's also contributed to the then-burgeoning modernist movement through publishing the periodical \"Coterie\", a quarterly journal of poetry, prose, literary criticism and art from authors and artists including T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, Douglas Goldring, Edward Wadsworth, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, André Derain, Amedeo Modigliani, Nina Hamnett, and Moïse Kisling, as well as publishing Thomas Moult's \"Voices\" anthologies. \"Russian Ballet\" by David Bomberg, the only surviving Vorticist book, was published by Henderson's after Bomberg and his wife were expelled from a performance of \"Ballets Russes\"", "title": "Henderson's" }, { "id": "429241", "text": "classics Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne (the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh), Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton; the controversial D. H. Lawrence; the modernist Virginia Woolf; the satirist Evelyn Waugh; the prophetic novelist George Orwell; the popular novelists W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene; the crime writer Agatha Christie (the best-selling novelist of all time); Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond); the poets T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes; the fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling; the graphic novelists Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "4968465", "text": "pioneer, and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, the centenary of whose birth occurred in 2012. The Beat poet Michael McClure called the book \"a collection of inspirations … as rich and dark as wasp honey\". At the end of 2012, Huxley Scientific Press published \"Shelley at Oxford: Blasphemy, Book-Burning, and Bedlam\", written by Williams during the bicentenary of Shelley's expulsion from Oxford for atheism, aged 19. An inspiring full-length poem about Shelley the rebel, it shows us the intellectual revolutionary who defied and was punished by the Establishment. Williams regularly published new work on the digital, resurrected International Times. \"Royal Babylon:", "title": "Heathcote Williams" }, { "id": "2025889", "text": "Day. World Book Day is observed in Britain and the Crown Dependencies on the first Thursday in March annually. British recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Rudyard Kipling (1907), John Galsworthy (1932), T. S. Eliot (1948), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), William Golding (1983), V. S. Naipaul (2001), Harold Pinter (2005) Doris Lessing (2007), and Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). Literary prizes for which writers from the United Kingdom are eligible include: British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "3692581", "text": "\"pot and pills.\" This sermon was published under the title \"Another King\". Anna Coote was subsequently suspended as editor by the SRC. The following rectorial election was won by Kenneth Allsop. University lecturer Chris Brand, who had published controversial work on race and intelligence, and had castigated perceived feminist promiscuity, single-parenting and paedohysteria, was asked to leave the university in 1997 for bringing it into \"disrepute\". \"The Student\" had been instrumental in calling for his sacking after his book, \"The g Factor\", was published. Finally, Brand was compensated for unfair dismissal; and \"The Student\" published in 2003 a further example", "title": "The Student (newspaper)" }, { "id": "11387818", "text": "silk lining. This infuriated Felix Hageman and after having kept his identity as Lord Lister author a secret for almost a quarter of a century, as he was not very proud about this part of his penmanship, he made his identity public in a reaction to De Groene Amsterdammer to strengthen his claim that Lord Lister would never wear a cape with a red lining, but would as a gentleman always wear a cape with a white silk lining. Nevertheless, in 1940 the Dutch poet-journalist-critic Halbo C. Kool published his own story \"Lord Lister en de toverspiegel\" (\"Lord Lister and", "title": "Raffles (Lord Lister)" }, { "id": "11545653", "text": "John Joseph Stockdale John Joseph Stockdale (1770, 1776 or 1777 – 16 February 1847) was an English publisher and editor with something of a reputation as a pornographer. He sought to blackmail a number of public figures over the \"memoirs\" of society courtesan Harriette Wilson, drawing the notorious retort from the Duke of Wellington, \"Publish and be damned!\" He also famously sued the parliamentary reporter Hansard over an allegation that he had published an indecent book and became involved in an important constitutional clash between parliament and the courts that ultimately brought about a change in the law. The son", "title": "John Joseph Stockdale" }, { "id": "7878017", "text": "works would be entering the public domain if not for the copyright extension that has occurred several times in the past several decades. Public Domain Day in 2010 celebrated the entry to the public domain in many countries of the works of authors such as Sigmund Freud, William Butler Yeats, Ford Madox Ford and Arthur Rackham. In 2011 it celebrated the public domain status of Isaac Babel, Walter Benjamin, John Buchan, Mikhail Bulgakov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emma Goldman, Paul Klee, Selma Lagerlof, Leon Trotsky, Vito Volterra, Nathanael West, and others. It is not clear when Public Domain Day started to", "title": "Public Domain Day" }, { "id": "3692323", "text": "In 1983, Oates was asked whether he regretted not pursuing his degree in journalism. He replied that he did not—and admitted that he had in fact never intended to finish it. Despite 30 years as a chart-topping performer and sought-after producer, Oates did not release a solo album until 2002's \"Phunk Shui\". Oates took part, along with Jamie Cullum, in the song \"Greatest Mistake\" by Handsome Boy Modeling School. The song appears on the 2004 album \"White People\". Oates's second solo album, \"1000 Miles of Life\", was released on August 23, 2008. As reported by \"Billboard\", Oates will be starring", "title": "John Oates" }, { "id": "5326049", "text": "times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe”), Erica Jong, and Germaine Greer (“Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”), leftists including Philip Caputo (“You’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy”) and Toni Morrison (“At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American”), novelists including Milan Kundera, Chinua Achebe, and Anthony Burgess, entertainment figures", "title": "Justin Kaplan" }, { "id": "14211824", "text": "Elizabeth Martha Brown Elizabeth Martha Brown (c. 1811–9 August 1856), née Clark, was the last woman to be publicly hanged in Dorset, England. She was executed outside Dorchester Prison after being convicted of the murder of her second husband, John Brown, on 22 July, just 13 days earlier. The prosecution said she had attacked him with an axe after he had taken a whip to her. Among the crowd of 3,000–4,000 who watched the hanging of Brown was the English novelist, Thomas Hardy, 16 years old at the time, standing close to the gallows. He wrote 70 years later that", "title": "Elizabeth Martha Brown" }, { "id": "2174771", "text": "he has a reputation for avoiding award ceremonies. He was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for \"Life & Times of Michael K\" in 1983, and again for \"Disgrace\" in 1999. Two other authors have since managed this – Peter Carey (in 1988 and 2001) and Hilary Mantel (in 2009 and 2012). \"Summertime\", named on the 2009 longlist, was an early favourite to win an unprecedented third Booker Prize for Coetzee. It subsequently made the shortlist, but lost out to bookmakers' favourite and eventual winner \"Wolf Hall\" by Hilary Mantel. Coetzee was also longlisted in", "title": "J. M. Coetzee" }, { "id": "19566373", "text": "Austen novels. He also explained regrettable exclusions, such as Light Years, Gravity's Rainbow, Crash, A Confederacy of Dunces, Slaughterhouse Five, All the Pretty Horses, Wise Blood, The Pursuit of Love, Rebecca and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He also commented on purposeful exclusions owing to his personal preference, such as books by Elizabeth Gaskell, Norman Mailer, Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Walter Scott and Iris Murdoch, the latter of which had caused a surge of controversy in the disclusion of The Black Prince. He aroused controversy again, however, in, at the end of this article, including a list of his opinion of", "title": "The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English" }, { "id": "3946019", "text": "joke, to pretend to the public that his dull poets were really great poets, to print things by false names. (Curll had published numerous works by \"Joseph Gay\" to trick the public into thinking they were by John Gay.) For his victory, she awards Curll a tapestry showing the fates of famous Dunces. On it, he sees Daniel Defoe with his ears chopped off, John Tutchin being whipped publicly through western England, two political journalists clubbed to death (on the same day), and himself being wrapped in a blanket and whipped by the schoolboys of Westminster (for having printed an", "title": "The Dunciad" }, { "id": "119477", "text": "Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and Lewis Carroll. Since then England has continued to produce novelists such as George Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling. The traditional folk music of England is centuries old and has contributed to several genres prominently; mostly sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music. It has its own distinct variations and regional peculiarities. Wynkyn de Worde printed ballads of Robin Hood from the 16th century are", "title": "England" }, { "id": "20166996", "text": "of debris that has washed ashore, and none have been modernized with running water or electricity. Over the last century, many famous artists have spent time in the Dune Shacks for creative inspiration, including: playwright Eugene O'Neill (\"A Streetcar Named Desire\", \"Death of a Salesman\"), poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (\"Walden\", \"Civil Disobedience\"), abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (\"Mural on Indian Red Ground\", \"No. 5, 1948\") and iconoclast novelist Jack Kerouac (\"The Town and the City\", \"Big Sur\"). During each one of the seven days Bannon spent at C-Scape Dune Shack, he wrote and recorded a piano-driven track through", "title": "Dunedevil" }, { "id": "453396", "text": "of W. B. Yeats\", \"The Unknown Citizen\", \"Law Like Love\", \"September 1, 1939\", and \"In Memory of Sigmund Freud\" (all written in America). The elegies for Yeats and Freud are partly anti-heroic statements, in which great deeds are performed, not by unique geniuses whom others cannot hope to imitate, but by otherwise ordinary individuals who were \"silly like us\" (Yeats) or of whom it could be said \"he wasn't clever at all\" (Freud), and who became teachers of others, not awe-inspiring heroes. In 1940 Auden wrote a long philosophical poem \"New Year Letter\", which appeared with miscellaneous notes and other", "title": "W. H. Auden" }, { "id": "168799", "text": "there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould (profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O'Neill. Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious (John Reed) or frivolous (Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square Arch, proclaiming the founding of \"The Independent Republic of Greenwich", "title": "Greenwich Village" }, { "id": "1406879", "text": "for example, Hazlitt notes that \"it has been said of Mr. Wordsworth, that 'he hates conchology, that he hates the Venus of Medicis.'...\" (Hazlitt's own words in an article some years back). Indirectly apologising for his earlier tirade, Hazlitt here brings in a list of writers and artists, like Milton and Poussin, for whom Wordsworth did show appreciation. Coleridge, whom Hazlitt had once idolised, gets special attention, but, again, with an attempt to moderate earlier criticisms. At an earlier time Hazlitt had dismissed most of Coleridge's prose as \"dreary trash\". Much of \"The Friend\" was \"sophistry\". The \"Statesman's Manual\" was", "title": "William Hazlitt" }, { "id": "13950821", "text": "in English society before World War II . . . to label it as anti-Semitic ridicule is crudely reductive.\" Shelden is the author of Graham Greene's entry in the \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\" (\"ODNB\"). In \"Mark Twain: Man in White\" (2010) Shelden wrote about the last four years of Twain's life (1906–1910), when the novelist began wearing his iconic white suit. The biography portrayed Twain as a vibrant figure who worked hard in old age to promote his image as a great popular entertainer, and to boost his reputation as a serious social critic and literary artist. Writing in", "title": "Michael Shelden" }, { "id": "928335", "text": "for Fiction and a place among the academic canon of contemporary postmodern novelists. DeLillo remained as detached as ever from his growing reputation: when called upon to give an acceptance speech for the Award, he simply said, \"I'm sorry I couldn't be here tonight, but I thank you all for coming,\" and then sat down. The influence and impact of \"White Noise\" can be seen in the writing of such authors as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Richard Powers (who provides an introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of the novel).", "title": "Don DeLillo" }, { "id": "5303337", "text": "Also present was the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, who subsequently wrote an anti-capital punishment essay, \"On Going to See a Man Hanged\". He wrote, \"I came away that morning with a disgust for murder, but it was for the murder I saw done … I feel myself shamed and degraded at the brutal curiosity that took me to that spot.\" Soon afterwards the murder scene was portrayed in a peep-show at a travelling fair. Notes Bibliography Lord William Russell Lord William Russell (20 August 1767 – 5 May 1840) was a member of the British aristocratic Russell family and longtime", "title": "Lord William Russell" }, { "id": "1359785", "text": "photograph of himself in a white suit to 18-year-old Edward W. Bok, later publisher of the \"Ladies Home Journal\", with a handwritten dated note. It did eventually become his trademark, as illustrated in anecdotes about this eccentricity (such as the time he wore a white summer suit to a Congressional hearing during the winter). McMasters' \"The Mark Twain Encyclopedia\" states that Twain did not wear a white suit in his last three years, except at one banquet speech. In his autobiography, Twain writes of his early experiments with wearing white out-of-season: Next after fine colors, I like plain white. One", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "id": "6683643", "text": "as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim have become pop standards. Playwright Eugene O'Neill won the Nobel literature prize in 1936; other acclaimed U.S. dramatists include multiple Pulitzer Prize winners Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and August Wilson. Choreographers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham helped create modern dance, while George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were leaders in 20th-century ballet. Although little known at the time, Charles Ives's work of the 1910s established him as the first major U.S. composer in the classical tradition, while experimentalists such as Henry Cowell and John Cage created a distinctive American approach to classical composition.", "title": "United States" }, { "id": "3420198", "text": "he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers. Although his proper place among Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by Thackeray, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, and Siegfried Sassoon, and earned the tributes of laymen as distinguished and diverse as William Morris, Lord Rosebery, and Theodore Roosevelt. There is a statue of Jorrocks by John Mills outside 96 George Street, Croydon, London. The R. S. Surtees Society was founded in", "title": "Robert Smith Surtees" }, { "id": "5916930", "text": "and was a member of several National Endowment for the Arts panels. He has taught classes on film at Columbia University and Long Island University. In 1992, White was one of nine newspaper and magazine writers to win the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. In January 2014, White was expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle for allegedly heckling director Steve McQueen at an event for the film \"12 Years a Slave\". White maintained his innocence, and characterized his expulsion as a \"smear campaign\". White received an Anti-Censorship Award at the 35th annual American Book Awards for", "title": "Armond White" }, { "id": "7700368", "text": "Shelley Memorial The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on \"The Necessity of Atheism\". Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there. In 2005, the college acquired some of Shelley's letters to further enhance its connection with the poet. The memorial consists of a white marble sculpture of a reclining nude and dead Shelley washed up on", "title": "Shelley Memorial" }, { "id": "7498396", "text": "by birth, by life and work.\"After ouster from power in 1964, Khrushchev read the novel and felt great regret for having banned the book at all. As a result of this and the intercession of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Pasternak was not expelled from his homeland. Ultimately, Bill Mauldin produced a political cartoon lampooning the Soviet State's campaign against Boris Pasternak. The cartoon depicts Pasternak and another convict splitting trees in the snow. In the caption, Pasternak says, \"I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?\" The cartoon won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in", "title": "Doctor Zhivago (novel)" }, { "id": "5769818", "text": "Labour government's decision to cancel the visit to Cape Town by the Royal Yacht \"Britannia\". He subsequently spoke at Essex University, but had to have police protection, while a mob outside demonstrated singing \"The Red Flag\". In June, he raised the matter of the IRA's London march with the Home Secretary and asked why it had not been banned under the Public Order Act. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book, \"The Gulag Archipelago\", was banned from United Nations bookstalls in Geneva, on the grounds that it was offensive to a member nation, John Biggs-Davison asked James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, if he", "title": "John Biggs-Davison" }, { "id": "4450135", "text": "way true to nature, and the man I shall portray will be myself.\" His example was soon followed: not long after publication, many other writers (such as Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal, De Quincey, Casanova and Alfieri) wrote their own similarly-styled autobiographies. The \"Confessions\" is also noted for its detailed account of Rousseau's more humiliating and shameful moments. For instance, Rousseau recounts an incident when, while a servant, he covered up his theft of a ribbon by framing a young girl—who was working in the house—for the crime. In addition, Rousseau explains the manner in which he disposes of the five children", "title": "Confessions (Rousseau)" }, { "id": "20012220", "text": "other child being singer Tara Newley. His portraits of Sir Nigel Hawthorne in character as Mad King George III were commissioned by the English National Theatre to promote their production of Alan Bennett's play \"The Madness of George III\". His portrait of writer Dominick Dunne scribbling in his notebook during his coverage for Vanity Fair of the OJ Simpson trial in Los Angeles was chosen for the cover of Dunne's best-selling memoir about the trial, \"Another City, Not My Own\". In 2006, Newley's full-length portrait of Hawthorne was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection celebrating", "title": "Alexander Newley" }, { "id": "2370975", "text": "but was rejected by the Board of Trustees, who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went, instead, to Edith Wharton for \"The Age of Innocence\". In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for \"Arrowsmith.\" In 1930, Lewis was the first American ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. While a Nobel Prize is awarded to the author not the work, and itself does not cite a particular work for which he was chosen, \"Main Street\" was Lewis' best-known work and enormously popular at the time. In the Nobel committee's presentation speech, both \"Main Street\" and \"Arrowsmith\"", "title": "Main Street (novel)" }, { "id": "12755611", "text": "Harriet Westbrook—gives a new dimension to the expulsion, reinforcing Hogg's implication of political motives (\"an affair of party\"). Shelley was given the choice to be reinstated after his father intervened, on the condition that he would have to recant his avowed views. His refusal to do so led to a falling-out with his father. Four months after being sent down from Oxford, on 28 August 1811, the 19-year-old Shelley eloped to Scotland with the 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, a pupil at the same boarding school as Shelley's sisters, whom his father had forbidden him to see. Harriet Westbrook had been writing", "title": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" }, { "id": "1621644", "text": "me.\" The opening of another Dickinson poem toys with her position as a woman in a male-dominated society and an unrecognized poet: \"I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?\" American poetry arguably reached its peak in the early-to-mid-20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens and his \"Harmonium\" (1923) and \"The Auroras of Autumn\" (1950), T. S. Eliot and his \"The Waste Land\" (1922), Robert Frost and his \"North of Boston\" (1914) and \"New Hampshire\" (1923), Hart Crane and his \"White Buildings\" (1926) and the epic cycle, \"The Bridge\" (1930), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "4158147", "text": "told the truth. Through January, he thought, the Squires had very likely been travelling through Dorset, Hampshire, and then London, and had not been in Enfield Wash to kidnap Canning. On 13 March, he therefore ordered Canning arrested, for perjury. Gascoyne's investigation caused a press frenzy. The output of the writers and publishers of Grub Street emboldened opinions about the case, and in some instances reinforced long-held stereotypes of \"wicked Gypsies and a poor innocent girl refusing to yield her honour\". The Canningites stirred up anti-gypsy sentiment with a range of pamphlets and advertisements, one of which named the now", "title": "Elizabeth Canning" }, { "id": "2023373", "text": "of the selections have been prescient. At least 12 of those identified have subsequently either won or been short-listed for major literary awards such as the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize. The recognition of Adam Thirlwell and Monica Ali on the 2003 list was controversial, as neither had yet published a novel. Thirlwell's debut novel, \"Politics\", later met with mixed reviews. Ali's \"Brick Lane\" was widely praised. Dan Rhodes contacted others on the 2003 list to try to persuade them to make a joint statement in protest against the Iraq War, which was gaining momentum at the time. Not", "title": "Granta" }, { "id": "3930105", "text": "who in 1786 had attempted to stab King George III with a dessert knife. They also composed a novel together, \"Lenora\", but could not find a printer who was willing to publish such a subversive work. In early 1811, Shelley and Hogg published \"The Necessity of Atheism\", which outraged the Oxford authorities. Although it was published anonymously, suspicion soon fell on the pair. They refused either to acknowledge or to deny writing the work, and were expelled from Oxford as a result. After leaving Oxford, Hogg was sent to York to serve a legal apprenticeship. Timothy Shelley was furious when", "title": "Thomas Jefferson Hogg" }, { "id": "10398443", "text": "Paris and passed on to the \"New York Times\", on the theory that the news would have a greater impact if carried first by the \"Times\" than the avowedly anti-communist Radio Liberty. The trial was universally condemned in the Western media and drew criticism from public figures from around the world. PEN International as well as individual writers such as W. H. Auden, William Styron and Hannah Arendt expressed their indignation. Others who petitioned for the writers' release were Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Lillian Hellman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Philip Roth, Marguerite Duras and Philip Toynbee. After Sinyavsky", "title": "Sinyavsky–Daniel trial" }, { "id": "7698678", "text": "Amelia Bullmore Amelia Mary Bullmore (born ) is an English actor, screenwriter, and playwright. She is known for her roles in \"Coronation Street\" (1990–92), \"I'm Alan Partridge\" (2002), \"Ashes to Ashes\" (2008–09), \"Twenty Twelve\" (2011–12), and \"Scott & Bailey\" (2011–14). Bullmore began writing in 1994. Her writing credits include episodes of \"This Life\", \"Attachments\", \"Black Cab\", and \"Scott & Bailey.\" Bullmore was born in Chelsea, London, to Jeremy Bullmore, an advertising executive, and Pamela Bullmore (née Green), a gardening writer. She has two older brothers, one of whom is neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist Edward Bullmore and the other who is documentary", "title": "Amelia Bullmore" }, { "id": "12363896", "text": "Amundsen, Henry James, Jack Johnson, Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, George V of the United Kingdom, Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, The Red Baron, T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Mata Hari, Lenin, Henry Ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer Suzanne Lenglen, Anna Pavlova, Nellie Melba, Amy Johnson, Malcolm Campbell, Henry Seagrave, Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudolph Valentino, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Coco Chanel, Noël Coward,", "title": "Fame in the 20th Century" }, { "id": "1787541", "text": "of the day, including musician Charles Burney (father of Frances Burney), poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, scientist and poet Erasmus Darwin, lawyer and radical Thomas Erskine, novelist Mary Hays, playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and poet Robert Southey. A wide array of periodicals reviewed her works, including the \"Anti-Jacobin Review\", the \"Analytical Review\", the \"British Critic\", \"The Critical Review\", the \"European Magazine\", the \"Gentleman's Magazine\", the \"Monthly Magazine\", and the \"Universal Magazine\". Smith earned the most money between 1787 and 1798, after which she was no longer as popular; several reasons have been suggested for the public's declining interest in Smith, including", "title": "Charlotte Turner Smith" }, { "id": "970800", "text": "Exhibition\" in 1912. George Frampton's statue of Peter Pan, \"erected in Hyde Park in 1912 ... immediately became a source of contention, sparking debate about the role of public statuary and its role in spaces of recreation.\" In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, A.A. Milne, D. H. Lawrence, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse. Apart from these famous writers, this was a period when a", "title": "Edwardian era" }, { "id": "51090", "text": "prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's \"Cry, the Beloved Country\", beating Norman Mailer's \"The Naked and the Dead\", Graham Greene's \"The Heart of the Matter\" and Evelyn Waugh's \"The Loved One\". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's \"The Good Soldier\", beating \"The Thirty-Nine Steps\" (John Buchan), \"Of Human Bondage\" (W. Somerset Maugham), \"Psmith, Journalist\" (P. G. Wodehouse) and \"The Voyage Out\" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction", "title": "Booker Prize" }, { "id": "10413479", "text": "grounds in Peterborough, NH, to such figures as Aaron Copland (1961), Robert Frost (1962), Georgia O’Keeffe (1972), Leonard Bernstein (1987), Stephen Sondheim (2013), and Betye Saar (2014). MacDowell Colony Chairman, Fellow, and author Michael Chabon, hosts the ceremony typically held on the second Sunday in August beginning at noon. Following the award ceremony, guests can have picnic lunches before open studio tours, which are hosted by MacDowell artists-in-residence. Edward MacDowell Medal The Edward MacDowell Medal is an award which has been given since 1960 to one person annually who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture and the arts.", "title": "Edward MacDowell Medal" }, { "id": "9574722", "text": "most well-known writers, actors and artists, such as Poe, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Horace Greeley, Richard Henry Stoddard, Andrew Carnegie, Mary Mapes Dodge, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Butler, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Delia Bacon, Grace Greenwood, Bayard Taylor, William Cullen Bryant, Helen Hunt Jackson, actress Fanny Kemble, Daniel Webster, and many more. Her friend Kate Sanborn started her literary lecturing career at these receptions. Said a Boston writer: \"It was not so much what Mrs. Botta did for literature with her own pen, as what she helped others to do, that will make her name", "title": "Anne Lynch Botta" }, { "id": "1861374", "text": "Patch for the BBC, and more recently about shell shock for the charity Combat Stress, and climate change for the song cycle he finished for Cambridge University with Peter Maxwell Davies.\" On 14 March 2002, as part of the 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002, Motion unveiled a blue plaque on the front wall of 28 St Thomas Street, Southwark, to commemorate the sharing of lodgings there by John Keats and Henry Stephens while they were medical students at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in 1815–16. In 2003, Motion wrote \"Regime change\", a poem in protest at the", "title": "Andrew Motion" }, { "id": "16157017", "text": "Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, John Dos Passos, and Helen Keller as well as English authors Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley, Irish writer James Joyce and Soviet authors including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorki, Isaac Babel, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ilya Ehrenburg. The burning of the books represents a culmination of the persecution of those authors whose verbal or written opinions were opposed to Nazi ideology. Many artists, writers and scientists were banned from working and publication. Their works", "title": "Wolfgang Herrmann" }, { "id": "2394510", "text": "the Lyrics; Friends; Army Wives; Cheers; Sex and the City; Frasier; Scrubs\"; and \"The X-Files\". ICM Partners represents recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and other literary honors. Among the agency’s clients are Patricia Cornwell, Thomas Friedman, Anna Quindlen, E.L. Doctorow, Walter Isaacson, Carl Hiaasen, Tom Bissell, Anthony Swofford, Chris Cleave, Candace Bushnell, John Feinstein, Ann Patchett, Carol Higgins Clark and Steve Martin. In addition, the agency represents the estates of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Arthur Miller, E.B. White, and Tennessee Williams, among others. The agency routinely represents more than 100 titles on the New York", "title": "ICM Partners" }, { "id": "3541789", "text": "In the late 1970s, Merwin moved to Hawaii and eventually was divorced from Dido Milroy. He married Paula Dunaway in 1983. In 1952 Merwin's first book of poetry, \"A Mask for Janus\", was published in the Yale Younger Poets Series. W. H. Auden selected the work for that distinction. Later, in 1971 Auden and Merwin would exchange harsh words in the pages of \"The New York Review of Books\". Merwin had published \"On Being Awarded the Pulitzer Prize\" in the June 3, 1971 issue of \"The New York Review of Books,\" outlining his objections to the Vietnam War and stating", "title": "W. S. Merwin" }, { "id": "19259422", "text": "party and the government.\" In the book, Senator Nick Xenophon was said to have been '\"infamously excluded from university for a period as punishment for stuffing a ballot box full of voting papers he had somehow procured\", which was denied by Xenophon. In February 2015, Random House issued a public apology to Xenophon and paid a confidential cash settlement. Xenophon continued to request a personal apology from Gillard. On 6 August 2015, Gillard published a personal apology to Xenophon in a number of Australian newspapers. The book has received generally favourable reviews, with \"The Conversation\" noting \"For those looking for", "title": "My Story (Julia Gillard autobiography)" }, { "id": "12446674", "text": "festival is 5–14 October 2018. Highlighted speakers include Michael Parkinson, Prue Leith, William Boyd, Kate Atkinson, John Torode, Pat Barker, and Mary Beard. Described as a 'literary lovers dream', the Festival has hosted the talents of some of the world's leading novelists, poets, humorists, historians, philosophers, actors and politicians. Previous guests include: DanTDM, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ruth Rendell, Gordon Brown, Martin Amis, Judi Dench, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Ian Hislop, Stephen Hawking, Richard Hammond, Armando Iannucci, Rik Mayall, Rory Bremner, Jon Snow, Simon Schama, Michael Buerk, Bruce Parry, Sophie Dahl, Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, A. C. Grayling, Sebastian Faulks,", "title": "Cheltenham Literature Festival" }, { "id": "409774", "text": "\"The Waste Land,\") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and \"one of the twentieth century's major poets\". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "3584899", "text": "be fans of DC Comics. As stated above, the delusional British PM and his ministers don DC superhero garb; his caped white whippet 'Krypto' is hurled to its doom from a 10 Downing Street window for its \"fly around the block\". Semi-generic Superman adventures and specific characters (e.g. Doctor Destiny) are frequently mentioned. (The best known example is probably, \"Can't make Prime Minister's questions, Brainiac has escaped from the Phantom Zone\"). An Iranian mullah is mentioned to have \"dressed as Aquaman\". Ed Bishop's character Jay Garrick has the same name as the Golden Age Flash. The elderly American farming couple", "title": "Whoops Apocalypse" }, { "id": "8120674", "text": "Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Goethe and Zola, including most of the work of April FitzLyon, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. From 1963 to 1975, Calder was in partnership with Marion Boyars, and the company was known as Calder and Boyars. The championing of freedom of speech led to Calder's involvement in a number of prosecutions for obscenity, including one in 1966 for publishing Hubert Selby Jr's \"Last Exit to Brooklyn.\" While the initial trial resulted in a guilty verdict, the case was won on appeal, and effectively ended literary censorship in", "title": "John Calder" }, { "id": "2924400", "text": "under laws forbidding sexual relations outside marriage and may face consequent punishments, including stoning. Illegitimacy has for centuries provided a motif and plot element to works of fiction by prominent authors, including William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, \"père\", Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, \"fils\", George Eliot, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, Alphonse Daudet, Bolesław Prus, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, C. S. Forester, Marcel Pagnol, Grace Metalious, John Irving, and George R. R. Martin. Legitimacy (family law) Legitimacy, in traditional Western common", "title": "Legitimacy (family law)" }, { "id": "5410768", "text": "The Fool's Progress The Fool's Progress is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1988. The book is a semi-autobiographical novel about a man, Henry Holyoak Lightcap, who refuses to submit to modern commercial society. Unlike Abbey's most famous fiction work, \"The Monkey Wrench Gang\", which concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, \"The Fool's Progress\" focuses on the journey of Henry across America. Edward Abbey considered it to be his \"fat masterpiece.\" It was the final book published in his lifetime; his final novel was \"Hayduke Lives\". After", "title": "The Fool's Progress" }, { "id": "3138446", "text": "he felt divorced from any contemporary musical influences. However, he did produce, co-write and play on \"Pressure Points\", by Anne Clark, the same year. After \"In Mysterious Ways\", Foxx temporarily left his career in pop music. He sold his recording studio and returned to his earlier career as a graphic artist, working under his real name of Dennis Leigh. Examples of this work include the book covers of Salman Rushdie's \"The Moor's Last Sigh\", Jeanette Winterson's \"Sexing the Cherry\", Anthony Burgess' \"A Dead Man in Deptford\", and several books in the Arden Shakespeare series. Foxx began to find inspiration in", "title": "John Foxx" }, { "id": "14191733", "text": "Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Rembrandt, and Vincent van Gogh. World literature was enriched by the works of Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Bunyan, John Donne, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, William Wordsworth, Jonathan Swift, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Theodor Fontane, Washington Irving, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Galsworthy, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, John Updike, and many others. The view of the Roman Catholic Church is that Protestant denominations cannot be considered churches but rather that they are", "title": "Protestantism" }, { "id": "13950829", "text": "glinting spectacles and thick locks of ginger hair erupting from the sides of his hat, he has the look of a mad computer hacker, just released on parole.\" Michael Shelden Michael Shelden (born 1951) is an American biographer and teacher, notable for his authorized biography of George Orwell, his history of Cyril Connolly’s \"Horizon\" magazine, his controversial biography of Graham Greene, and his study of the last years of Mark Twain, \"Man in White\". In March 2013 his \"Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill\" was published. In 2016 his biography of Herman Melville, \"Melville in Love\", was published by", "title": "Michael Shelden" }, { "id": "16295730", "text": "and impeachments on charges of corruption and misrule in India. Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India, was impeached in 1788 and acquitted in 1795 after a seven-year-long trial. Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, MP for Shrewsbury, was forced to defend himself against charges brought against him in the House of Commons. Pitt's India Act of 1784 gave the British government effective control of the private company for the first time. The new policies were designed for an elite civil service career that minimized temptations for corruption. Nabob A nabob is a conspicuously wealthy White man deriving his fortune in the", "title": "Nabob" }, { "id": "4984349", "text": "range from stereotypes, such as the English white van driver (\"White Van Man\") and new-agers (\"Dog on a String\"), to the more specific, such as the TSA (\"Bring it on\") and even particular individuals such as Andrew Lloyd Webber (\"Somebody Else\"). Their poignant song \"Swansong\" sets a poem about the damage to the environment caused by rubbish over a version of \"The Swan\" from \"The Carnival of the Animals\" by Saint-Saëns. They performed several items at the BBC Comedy Prom 2011 hosted by Tim Minchin. In 2012 they announced on their official website that after thirty years they had ended", "title": "Kit and The Widow" }, { "id": "3866037", "text": "is 'done' and 'not done'.\" Orwell, in his essay \"Raffles and Miss Blandish\", observes that when Raffles feels remorse, it \"is almost purely social; he has disgraced 'the old school', he has lost his right to enter 'decent society', he has forfeited his amateur status and become a cad\". E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left", "title": "E. W. Hornung" }, { "id": "5410770", "text": "review calling it \"an epic exploration of Abbey's passionate loves and hatreds.\" The Fool's Progress The Fool's Progress is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1988. The book is a semi-autobiographical novel about a man, Henry Holyoak Lightcap, who refuses to submit to modern commercial society. Unlike Abbey's most famous fiction work, \"The Monkey Wrench Gang\", which concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, \"The Fool's Progress\" focuses on the journey of Henry across America. Edward Abbey considered it to be his \"fat masterpiece.\" It was the final", "title": "The Fool's Progress" }, { "id": "2126734", "text": "(WTT). Just two days before the start of the Wimbledon tournament, it had been announced that Connors was now suing Ashe for $5 million for comments in a letter Ashe had written to ATP members in his role as president, criticizing Connors' insistence that Davis Cup captain Dennis Ralston should be fired and Connors' \"unpatriotic\" boycott of the competition which had started after Ralston left him out of the team against the West Indies in Jamaica in March 1972. On final day, Ashe pointedly and symbolically wore red, white and blue wristbands throughout the match and wore his U.S.A. emblazoned", "title": "Arthur Ashe" }, { "id": "2025861", "text": "fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include \"The Forsyte Saga\" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of \"The Old Wives' Tale\" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "462722", "text": "But disaster struck when a servant found condoms among Empson's possessions and claimed to have caught him \"in flagrante delicto\" with a woman. As a result, not only did he have his scholarship revoked, but his name was struck from the college records, he lost his prospects of a fellowship and he was banished from the city. After his banishment from Cambridge Empson supported himself for a brief period as a freelance critic and journalist, living in Bloomsbury until 1930, when he signed a three-year contract to teach in Japan after his tutor Richards had failed to find him a", "title": "William Empson" }, { "id": "43070", "text": "Chirico, Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy. On the day of the preview, however, he was expelled from the Surrealist Group by André Breton, who ordered the poet Paul Éluard to take down his pictures. Gysin was 19 years old. His biographer, John Geiger, suggests the arbitrary expulsion \"had the effect of a curse. Years later, he blamed other failures on the Breton incident. It gave rise to conspiracy theories about the powerful interests who seek control of the art world. He gave various explanations for the expulsion, the more elaborate involving 'insubordination' or \"lèse majesté\"", "title": "Brion Gysin" }, { "id": "11965939", "text": "of Enver Hoxha, particularly after an appeal by the Writers League to Harry Truman and Clement Attlee for Western recognition of Albania. In 1946, Hoxha accused Malëshova of \"rightist deviation\" and expelled him from the communist party. Following his dismissal, persecution of the writers ensued, many of whom were harassed and imprisoned by the authorities. Malëshova spent the rest of his life as a warehouseman in Fier, shunned by almost all his fellow citizens. If anyone dared speak to him, he would pinch his lips with his fingers, to remind them of the vow of eternal silence which would ensure", "title": "Sejfulla Malëshova" }, { "id": "20397957", "text": "pornography under Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The case came as a test to the Act. In 2016 Richardson represented Coronation Street actor Marc Anwar who became the centre of a racism row after posting a controversial comment about Indians on Twitter, which resulted in his sacking from the ITV soap. As a judge, Richardson presided over Joe Orton's retrial in 2012. Orton was an English writer who in 1962 was sentenced to six months imprisonment for historic sexual offences and fined for stealing and damaging Islington Public Library books. Prosecution insisted on retrial fifty", "title": "Nigel Richardson" }, { "id": "3050399", "text": "Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012). In 2014, \"This Is Not My Hat\" by Jon Klassen won both the Greenaway Medal and the American Caldecott Medal, which recognises a picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. This is the first time the same book has won both medals. The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible. Indeed, \"This Is Not My Hat\" was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by Walker Books and its American subsidiary Candlewick Press. Gail E. Haley was the first illustrator to", "title": "Kate Greenaway Medal" }, { "id": "366366", "text": "stories), non-fiction, and poetry. Several of his works were collaborations. Works Resources Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include \"The Jungle Book\" (1894), \"Kim\" (1901), and many short stories, including \"The Man Who Would Be King\" (1888). His poems include \"Mandalay\" (1890), \"Gunga Din\" (1890), \"The Gods of the Copybook Headings\" (1919), \"The White Man's Burden\" (1899), and \"If—\" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in", "title": "Rudyard Kipling" }, { "id": "10081082", "text": "Crowley; and Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff. Novelists Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, André Malraux, Nikos Kazantzakis, André Gide, Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Vladimir Bartol; psychologists Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, C. G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May and Kazimierz Dąbrowski; poets John Davidson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens and William Butler Yeats; painters Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko; playwrights George Bernard Shaw, Antonin Artaud, August Strindberg, and Eugene O'Neill; and authors H. P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, Menno ter Braak, Richard Wright, Robert E. Howard, and Jack London.", "title": "Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche" }, { "id": "206127", "text": "rebellious, brave, adventurous, funny and irreverent, she liked nothing better than a good fight, preferably against a pompous and hypocritical target\". Rowling has described Jane Austen as her favourite author, calling \"Emma\" her favourite book in \"O, The Oprah Magazine\". As a child, Rowling has said her early influences included \"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe\" by C.S. Lewis, \"The Little White Horse\" by Elizabeth Goudge, and \"Manxmouse\" by Paul Gallico. Rowling is known for her centre-left political views. In September 2008, on the eve of the Labour Party Conference, Rowling announced that she had donated £1 million to", "title": "J. K. Rowling" }, { "id": "7313292", "text": "Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others. During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould (profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O'Neill. Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious (John Reed) or frivolous (Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square Arch, proclaiming the founding of \"The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village\"). In 1924, the Cherry Lane Theatre was established. Located at 38 Commerce Street, it is New York City's", "title": "West Village" }, { "id": "5704651", "text": "calling it an \"appalling and moribund monkey language\". Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards reported Lewis's comments to the police and to the Press Complaints Commission. In 2014 comments Lewis made in a \"Spectator\" article led to publishers Biteback Publishing withdrawing an offer of a book deal. In his review of a Dusty Springfield biography Lewis had said: \"Call me a crazy old physiognomist, but my theory is that you can always spot a lesbian by her big thrusting chin. Celebrity Eskimo Sandi Toksvig, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, Clare Balding, Vita Sackville-West, God love them: there's a touch of Desperate Dan", "title": "Roger Lewis" }, { "id": "541634", "text": "work than its reputation for dour pessimism suggests. Larkin's public persona was that of the no-nonsense, solitary Englishman who disliked fame and had no patience for the trappings of the public literary life. The posthumous publication by Anthony Thwaite in 1992 of his letters triggered controversy about his personal life and political views, described by John Banville as hair-raising, but also in places hilarious. Lisa Jardine called him a \"casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist\", but the academic John Osborne argued in 2008 that \"the worst that anyone has discovered about Larkin are some crass letters and a taste", "title": "Philip Larkin" }, { "id": "12375227", "text": "in the last decade of the nineteenth-century, while Synge's plays belong to the first decade of the twentieth-century. Synge's most famous play, \"The Playboy of the Western World\", \"caused outrage and riots when it was first performed\" in Dublin in 1907. George Bernard Shaw turned the Edwardian theatre into an arena for debate about important political and social issues. Novelists who are not considered modernists include H. G. Wells (1866–1946), John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932) whose works include \"The Forsyte Saga\" (1906–21), and E.M. Forster's (1879–1970), though Forster's work is \"frequently regarded as containing both modernist and", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "3109321", "text": "'Portrait Of Us As Snow White', Jill Munro, 'Le Nez', Tony D'Arpino, 'A Romp In Brompton Cemetery', Kerry Darbyshire, 'The Earth Of Cumberland Is My Earth'. Judges: Sir Andrew Motion Charles Causley Charles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall. Causley was born at Launceston in Cornwall and was educated there and at a teacher training college in Peterborough. His father died in 1924 from long-standing injuries", "title": "Charles Causley" }, { "id": "6975947", "text": "them Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Edmund White, Julian Barnes, Graham Swift as well as such iconic writers as Ryszard Kapuściński, Angela Carter, Bret Easton Ellis, and Michael Herr, among many others, leading \"The Times\" of London to describe his tenure as producing \"the Picador Generation\". In 1987 Mehta moved from London to New York to head the legendary American literary imprint Alfred A. Knopf as President and Editor-in-Chief. Mehta was hand-picked by Robert Gottlieb who was leaving Alfred A. Knopf to edit \"the New Yorker\". Under Mehta, Knopf has published six Nobel literature laureates, numerous Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize and", "title": "Sonny Mehta" }, { "id": "9991193", "text": "worse. He tells Horton about his days at West Point, when he wrote what, to him, was a revelatory history paper about societal obsessions, such as monarchy and slavery, that got bigger and more all-consuming until they collapsed. His hopes for distinction were dashed when his tutor pointed out that Arnold J. Toynbee had already covered the same ground. Still, he realizes that he has been witness to just such a collapse. Summoning what leadership he can muster, he decides that he and only he can take the next step. He explains this to Horton. Back on the street, Chase,", "title": "Critical Mass (Pohl and Kornbluth short story)" }, { "id": "731441", "text": "Mirror\" stated that Wodehouse \"lived luxuriously because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, ... [he] was not ready to share her suffering. He hadn't the guts ... even to stick it out in the internment camp.\" In the House of Commons Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, regretted Wodehouse's actions. Several libraries removed Wodehouse novels from their shelves. On 15 July the journalist William Connor, under his pen name Cassandra, broadcast a postscript to the news programme railing against Wodehouse. According to \"The Times\", the broadcast \"provoked a storm of complaint ... from", "title": "P. G. Wodehouse" }, { "id": "10988983", "text": "Nobel Lecture has been the source of much discussion. In an article published in \"The Chronicle of Higher Education\" on 11 November 2005, entitled \"Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics,\" Middlebury College English professor Jay Parini observes that \"In the weeks that have passed since Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there has been incessant chatter on both sides of the Atlantic, some of it unflattering,\" as \"from the right, in particular, the American reaction to the Pinter award has been one of outrage,\" whereas \"the reaction to the award from Pinter's peers––Michael Frayn, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, and others––has", "title": "Art, Truth and Politics" }, { "id": "12373004", "text": "Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\" (1851), Twain's \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\" (1925), and Harper Lee's \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" (1960)—", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "5714535", "text": "R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - June 13, 2002 in Bethany, Connecticut) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton. \"The New York Times\" called the book \"a beautifully wrought, rounded portrait of the whole woman, including the part of her that remained in shade during her life\" and said that the \"expansive, elegant biography ... can", "title": "R. W. B. Lewis" }, { "id": "3260236", "text": "the man, and it was captioned \"Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking\". After being widely criticized on social media websites such as Twitter as seemingly endorsing date rape and alcohol-facilitated sexual assault, Bloomingdales responded with an apology: \"In reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor taste. Bloomingdale’s sincerely apologizes for this error in judgment.\" The most notable case of alcohol problems associated with the drink was the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 23–25 December 1826. Alcohol possession at", "title": "Eggnog" }, { "id": "4339037", "text": "suicide, and a photograph of Lewis Stone as he lay dying in his driveway after a heart attack. It also published alleged excerpts from Mary Astor's diary, graphically detailing her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. Although many of Anger's claims have been denounced as untrue since the book's initial publication, it is responsible for many oft-quoted urban legends. For example, it claimed that Clara Bow engaged in sex with the entire USC football team – including a young John Wayne – a falsehood which has been debunked several times. Bow's sons considered suing Anger at the time of the", "title": "Hollywood Babylon" }, { "id": "5665172", "text": "beginning of the 20th century included Helen Allingham, Edmund Blampied, Alexander Boyd, Frank Brangwyn, Randolph Caldecott, John Charles Dollman, James H. Dowd, Godefroy Durand, Luke Fildes, Harry Furniss, John Percival Gülich, George du Maurier, Phil May, Ernest Prater, Leonard Raven-Hill, Sidney Sime, Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne), George Stampa, Edmund Sullivan, Bert Thomas, F. H. Townsend, Harrison Weir, and Henry Woods. Writers for the paper included George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard and Anthony Trollope. Malcolm Charles Salaman was employed there from 1890 to 1899. Beatrice Grimshaw travelled the South Pacific reporting on her experiences for the \"Daily Graphic\". Mary", "title": "The Graphic" }, { "id": "1951096", "text": "and Anne), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote (often paradoxically) of their expectations of war, and/or their experiences in the trenches. The most widely popular writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels include \"The Jungle Book\" and \"The Man Who Would Be King\". His poem \"If—\" is a national favourite. Like William Ernest Henley's poem", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "12363900", "text": "Farouk I, Aga Khan III, Prince Aly Khan, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Charlton Heston, Aristotle Onassis, Maria Callas, Evita Peron, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Colonel Tom Parker, Pele, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Christine Keeler, John Profumo, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Sellers, Steve McQueen, Rudolph Nureyev, Yuri Gagarin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Brian Epstein, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Che Guevara, William Calley, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Jane Fonda, Leonid Brezhnev, William Shatner,", "title": "Fame in the 20th Century" }, { "id": "13209756", "text": "created worldwide media coverage, which saw its author appear on radio and television programmes across the globe, including American news programmes and TV talk shows such as \"Good Morning America\". Rejecting Jane \"Rejecting Jane\" is the title of a 2007 article by British author David Lassman. The article, which was published in Issue 28 of \"Jane Austen's Regency World\" magazine, is a critique of the publishing industry through their inadvertent rejection of Jane Austen. Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' - a play on Austen's original \"nom de plume\" \"A Lady\" - Lassman sent out the opening chapters of \"Pride and", "title": "Rejecting Jane" }, { "id": "6494736", "text": "like Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, John Sack, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Garry Wills, Gina Berriault, and Nora Ephron. His editorial risks extended into graphic innovation by publishing George Lois's iconic covers like Sonny Liston wearing a Santa Clause hat, Andy Warhol disappearing in a can of Campbell's soup, and Muhammad Ali posing as St. Sebastian. Fiction editor Gordon Lish brought in stories by Raymond Carver. Diane Arbus contributed photographs. Robert Benton and David Newman thought up the Dubious Achievement Awards (and in their spare time wrote the screenplay for the movie \"Bonnie and Clyde\"). More", "title": "Harold Hayes" }, { "id": "1981040", "text": "books. Such writers could expect more control of their work, greater profits, or both. Among such authors were Lewis Carroll, who paid the expenses of publishing \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and most of his subsequent work. Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works. Not all of these well-known authors were successful in their ventures; Mark Twain's publishing business, for example, went bankrupt. Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939", "title": "Vanity press" }, { "id": "798277", "text": "a peace deal with Germany. Testifying before a Parliamentary inquiry in 1947, former Express employee and future MP Michael Foot alleged that Beaverbrook kept a blacklist of notable public figures who were to be denied any publicity in his papers because of personal disputes. Foot said they included Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Robeson, Haile Selassie and Noël Coward. Beaverbrook himself gave evidence before the inquiry and vehemently denied the allegations; Express Newspapers general manager E.J. Robertson denied that Robeson had been blacklisted, but did admit that Coward had been \"boycotted\" because he had enraged Beaverbrook with his film \"In Which", "title": "Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook" }, { "id": "2025879", "text": "(gentleman detective, Lord Peter Wimsey), Margery Allingham (Albert Campion – supposedly created as a parody of Sayers' Wimsey) and New Zealander Dame Ngaio Marsh (Roderick Alleyn). Georgette Heyer created the historical romance genre, and also wrote detective fiction. A major work of science fiction, from the early 20th century, is \"A Voyage to Arcturus\" by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920, and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's \"Space Trilogy\". From the early 1930s to late 1940s, an informal literary discussion group associated with the English faculty at the University of Oxford were \"The Inklings\". Its", "title": "British literature" } ]

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[ { "id": "5856173", "text": "group of ambulant actors in the provinces to present both scenes of farce and sophisticated, inserted tales. Cyrano de Bergerac (made famous by Edmond Rostand's 19th-century play) wrote two novels which, 60 years before \"Gulliver's Travels\" or Voltaire (or science fiction), use a journey to magical lands (the moon and the sun) as pretexts for satirizing contemporary philosophy and morals. By the end of the 17th century, Cyrano's works would inspire a number of philosophical novels, in which Frenchmen travel to foreign lands and strange utopias. The early half of the 17th century also saw the continued popularity of the", "title": "17th-century French literature" }, { "id": "15359219", "text": "Julia Verlanger (1986- ), the Prix Jules Verne (1927–1933; 1958–1963), the Prix Ozone (1977–2000) and the Prix Tour Eiffel (1997–2002). French science fiction French science fiction is a substantial genre of French literature. It remains an active and productive genre which has evolved in conjunction with anglophone science fiction and other French and international literature. As far back as the 17th century, space exploration and aliens can be found in Cyrano de Bergerac's \"Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon\" (1657) and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's \"Entretien sur la Pluralité des Mondes\" (1686). Voltaire's 1752 short", "title": "French science fiction" }, { "id": "19687763", "text": "Second Empire was Jules Verne (1828–1905), who lived on what is now Avenue Jules-Verne. He worked at the Theatre Lyrique and the Paris stock exchange, while he did research for his stories at the National Library. he wrote his first stories and novels in Paris, including \"Journey to the Center of the Earth\" !(1864), \"From the Earth to the Moon\" (1864) and \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\" (1865). During the \"Belle Époque\" Paris was the home and inspiration for some of France's most famous writers. Victor Hugo was sixty-eight when he returned to Paris from Brussels in 1871 and", "title": "Writers in Paris" }, { "id": "15195932", "text": "by Maria de Wilde, was published in 1755. The book's influence continued into the 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe in an appendix to \"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall\" called it \"a singular and somewhat ingenious little book\". Poe assumed the author to be French, an assumption also made by Jules Verne in his \"From the Earth to the Moon\" (1865), suggesting that they may have been using Baudoin's translation. H. G. Wells's \"The First Men in the Moon\" (1901) has several parallels with Godwin's fantasy, including the use of a stone to induce weightlessness. But \"The Man in", "title": "The Man in the Moone" }, { "id": "5726683", "text": "Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne (known as Journey to the Moon in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a point-and-click adventure game with pre-rendered graphics, developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company for the PC in 2005. The game's story focuses on a French adventurer's journey to the moon in the 19th century, and the ancient lunar civilization he subsequently finds. \"Voyage\" is loosely based on the novels \"From the Earth to the Moon\" and \"Around the Moon\" by science fiction author Jules Verne, and the novel \"The First Men in the", "title": "Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne" }, { "id": "14280079", "text": "in his unfinished prose work “An Island in the Moon” Even after the end of the Romantic period, Balloonomania continued to have an effect on later literary work, including on the early science fiction writer Jules Verne who wrote the book Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, about the ballooning adventures of two explorers and their manservant in Africa. The military applications of hot air balloons were recognized early, with Joseph Montgolfier jokingly suggesting in 1782 that the French could fly an entire army suspended underneath hundreds of paper bags into Gibraltar to seize it from the British. Military", "title": "Balloonomania" }, { "id": "210565", "text": "Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (; ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Jules Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the \"Voyages extraordinaires\", a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including \"Journey to the Center of the Earth\" (1864), \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\" (1870), and \"Around the World", "title": "Jules Verne" }, { "id": "2810580", "text": "him for \"A Trip to the Moon\", Méliès credited Jules Verne's novels \"From the Earth to the Moon\" (1865) and \"Around the Moon\" (1870). Cinema historians, the mid-20th-century French writer Georges Sadoul first among them, have frequently suggested H. G. Wells's \"The First Men in the Moon\" (1901), a French translation of which was published a few months before Méliès made the film, as another likely influence. Sadoul argued that the first half of the film (up to the shooting of the projectile) is derived from Verne and that the second half (the travelers' adventures on and in the moon)", "title": "A Trip to the Moon" }, { "id": "4063736", "text": "Henri-Pierre Roché Henri-Pierre Roché (28 May 1879 – 9 April 1959) was a French author who was deeply involved with the artistic avant-garde in Paris and the Dada movement. Late in life, Roché published two novels: his first was \"Jules et Jim\" (1953), a semi-autobiographical work published when he was 74. His second novel, \"Les deux anglaises et le continent\" (Two English Girls, 1956), was also inspired by his life. Both were adapted as films by the director François Truffaut, in 1962 and 1971 respectively. The popularity of the film \"Jules et Jim\" brought renewed attention to Roché's novels and", "title": "Henri-Pierre Roché" }, { "id": "19315961", "text": "Cultural influence of Jules Verne Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best known for his \"Voyages extraordinaires\" series, has had a wide influence in both scientific and literary fields. The pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\", and his autobiography begins \"Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life.\" William Beebe, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Ballard found similar early inspiration in the novel, and Jacques Cousteau called it his \"shipboard bible\". The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own", "title": "Cultural influence of Jules Verne" }, { "id": "788903", "text": "was a pupil of French polymath Pierre Gassendi, a canon of the Catholic Church who tried to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. Cyrano de Bergerac's works \"L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune\" (\"\"Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon\"\", published posthumously, 1657) and \"Les États et Empires du Soleil\" (\"The States and Empires of the Sun\", 1662) are classics of early modern science fiction. In the former, Cyrano travels to the moon using rockets powered by firecrackers (it may be the earliest description of a space flight by use of a vessel that", "title": "Cyrano de Bergerac" }, { "id": "12048520", "text": "pp. 30–33) five days after the return of the crew to earth, and was later released as part of a hardback book. On the front cover is an image of Tintin and his friends welcoming the Apollo 11 crew (or, more specifically, Neil Armstrong) onto the moon, as a joke that Tintin reached the moon years before in the book \"Explorers on the Moon\". Minor comics by Hergé Hergé, the Belgian comics author best known for \"The Adventures of Tintin\", also created a number of short-lived, lesser-known comic strips. \"L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet\" (\"The Extraordinary Adventure", "title": "Minor comics by Hergé" }, { "id": "1638976", "text": "Wind, Sand and Stars Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes) is a memoir by the French aristocrat aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a winner of several literary awards. It deals with themes such as friendship, death, heroism, and solidarity among colleagues, and illustrates the author's opinions of what makes life worth living. It was first published in France in February 1939, and was then translated by Lewis Galantière and published in English by Reynal and Hitchcock in the United States later the same year. In his autobiographical work Saint-Exupéry, an early pioneering aviator, evokes a series of", "title": "Wind, Sand and Stars" }, { "id": "728476", "text": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella \"The Little Prince\" (\"Le Petit Prince\") and for his lyrical aviation writings, including \"Wind, Sand and Stars\" and \"Night Flight\". Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. At the outbreak of war, he joined", "title": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" }, { "id": "15359209", "text": "French science fiction French science fiction is a substantial genre of French literature. It remains an active and productive genre which has evolved in conjunction with anglophone science fiction and other French and international literature. As far back as the 17th century, space exploration and aliens can be found in Cyrano de Bergerac's \"Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon\" (1657) and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's \"Entretien sur la Pluralité des Mondes\" (1686). Voltaire's 1752 short stories \"Micromégas\" and \"Plato's Dream\" are particularly prophetic of the future of science fiction. Also worthy of note are Simon", "title": "French science fiction" }, { "id": "425485", "text": "book \"Edgar Poe et ses œuvres\" (\"Edgar Allan Poe and his Works\"). Verne even has a character mention Poe's story in \"From the Earth to the Moon\". It is not difficult to see Poe's works, published in France as \"Histoires extraordinaires\" (\"\"Extraordinary Stories\"\"), as one of the influences on Verne's \"Voyages extraordinaires\" (\"\"Extraordinary Journeys\"\"). The first human-carrying lighter-than-air craft of any type to cross the Atlantic was in 1919. The British dirigible R-34, a direct copy of the German L-33 which crashed in Britain during World War I. The 3559.5 mile flight from Britain to New York City took 108", "title": "The Balloon-Hoax" }, { "id": "3918537", "text": "wrote his play \"Deburau\" (1918) he included it as the only specimen of the mime’s art. Carné did the same (if we may exempt the obviously fabricated \"The Palace of Illusions, or Lovers of the Moon\", in which Baptiste appears as a moonstruck, loveless, suicidal Pierrot, an invention of Carné's screenwriter, Jacques Prévert). It stands today, for the nonscholarly public, as the supreme exemplar of Deburau’s pantomime. And what of Deburau and Pierrot-the-friend-of-the-moon? In the many scenarios in manuscript at the Archives Nationales de France, no connection is visible—save in one, and that, like \"The Ol’ Clo’s Man\", is a", "title": "Jean-Gaspard Deburau" }, { "id": "14950611", "text": "French space program The French space program includes both civil and military spaceflight activities. It is the 3rd oldest institutional space program in history, along with the USSR and the US; and the largest space program in Europe. Space travel has long been a significant ambition in French culture. From the Gobelins' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, to Jules Verne's 1865 novel \"De la terre à la lune\" and George Méliès' 1902 movie \"Voyage dans la lune\", space and rocketry were present in French society long before the technological means appeared to allow the development of a space exploration", "title": "French space program" }, { "id": "17134309", "text": "Jules Verne bibliography Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the \"Voyages Extraordinaires\", Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction and on surrealism, their innovative use of modernist literary techniques such as self-reflexivity, and their complex combination of positivist and romantic ideologies. Unless otherwise referenced, the information presented here is derived from the research of Volker Dehs, Jean-Michel Margot, Zvi Har’El, and William Butcher. Three publication dates for each book are given because, in the", "title": "Jules Verne bibliography" }, { "id": "11244211", "text": "in spy fiction and some detective fiction throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, but none of his later works made any considerable impact. Arthur B. Evans, \"Gustave Le Rouge, Pioneer of French Science Fiction.\" \"Science Fiction Studies\" 29. (March 2002): 1-14. Gustave Le Rouge Gustave Henri Joseph Le Rouge (22 July 1867 - 24 February 1938) was a French writer who embodied the evolution of modern science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century, by moving it away from the juvenile adventures of Jules Verne and incorporating real people into his stories, thus bridging the gap between Vernian and", "title": "Gustave Le Rouge" }, { "id": "19315973", "text": "counted Verne as a main influence on his own fiction as well as on literature and science the world over, saying \"We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.\" Other literary figures known to have been influenced by Verne include Paul Claudel, François Mauriac, Blaise Cendrars, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Aymé, René Barjavel, Claude Roy, Michel Butor, and Roland Barthes. Verne is also often cited as a major influence of the science fiction genre steampunk, though Verne's works themselves are not of the genre. Cultural influence of Jules Verne Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best", "title": "Cultural influence of Jules Verne" }, { "id": "3540185", "text": "Voyages extraordinaires The Voyages extraordinaires (literally Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys) is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905. According to Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel, the goal of the \"Voyages\" was \"to outline all the geographical, geological, physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format ... the history of the universe.\" Verne's meticulous attention to detail and scientific trivia, coupled with his sense of wonder and exploration, form the backbone of the \"Voyages\". Part of the reason for the broad appeal", "title": "Voyages extraordinaires" }, { "id": "16383581", "text": "as early science fiction, including Jonathan Swift's novel \"Gulliver's Travels\", which is also an example of fantastic voyages exploring both contemporary social commentary, and some ideas of the unknown and \"modern\" science. The French comic book series \"De cape et de crocs\", created by writer Alain Ayroles and artist Jean-Luc Masbou, draws inspiration from \"The Other World\" and makes frequent references to the work and its author. Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon () was the first of three satirical novels written by", "title": "Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon" }, { "id": "3514498", "text": "translations and lectures. In 2002, Miller published a book on Butor entitled \"Prisms and Rainbows: Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jiri Kolar, and Pierre Alechinsky.\" His works include: Michel Butor Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French writer. Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. He has taught in Egypt, Manchester, Thessaloniki, the United States, and Geneva. He has won many literary awards for his work, including the Prix Apollo, the Prix Fénéon; and the Prix Renaudot. Journalists and", "title": "Michel Butor" }, { "id": "1743934", "text": "as seen in the anthologies \"Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of \"The Scientific Romance\" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920\" and \"Scientific Romance in Britain: 1890-1950\". One of the earliest writers to be described in this way was French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion, whose \"Recits de l'infini\" and \"La fin du monde\" have both been described as scientific romances. The term is most widely applied to Jules Verne, such as in the 1879 edition of the \"American Cyclopædia\", and H. G. Wells, whose historical society continues to refer to his work as 'scientific romances' today. Edgar", "title": "Scientific romance" }, { "id": "12326830", "text": "Jean-Marc Rochette Jean-Marc Rochette (born 23 April 1956) is a French painter, illustrator and comics creator. He is best known and recognized for the comic book series \"Edmond le Cochon\" and \"Le Transperceneige\", as well as for his illustrations of the literary classic \"Candide ou l'optimisme\" by Voltaire, and Homer's \"Odyssey\". Jean-Marc Rochette became known as a comic creator and illustrator with the story of \"Edmond le Cochon\", with Martin Veyron, and (in succession of Alexis) \"Le Transperceneige\", initially with Jacques Lob and later with Benjamin Legrand. \"Le Transperceneige\" received the Angoulême Religious Award in 1985, which was the award's", "title": "Jean-Marc Rochette" }, { "id": "4255839", "text": "and artists. Important foreign writers who have lived and worked in France (especially Paris) in the twentieth century include: Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugène Ionesco. Some of the most important works of the century were written by foreign authors in French (Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett). France has been more permissive in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: Joyce's \"Ulysses\" (published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922), Vladimir Nabokov's \"Lolita\" and", "title": "France in the twentieth century" }, { "id": "19687768", "text": "at the front on 5 September 1914; Marcel Proust (1871–1922), born in the first year of the \"Belle Époque\", completed in 1913 the first part of In Search of Lost Time, begun in 1902; Jules Renard (1864–1910); Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), the young poet with whom Verlaine had a passionate but disastrous affair; Romain Rolland (1866–1944); Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), author of the world-renowned \"Cyrano de Bergerac\"; Paul Verlaine (1844–1890). Paris was also the home of one of the greatest Russian writers of the period, Ivan Turgenev. The Irish playwright Oscar Wilde spent his last months in Paris, after his imprisonment in", "title": "Writers in Paris" }, { "id": "8209945", "text": "of any other nation. The first Nobel Prize in Literature was a French author, while France's latest Nobel prize in literature is Patrick Modiano, who was awarded the prize in 2014. Jean-Paul Sartre was also the first nominee in the committee's history to refuse the prize in 1964. Medieval philosophy was dominated by Scholasticism until the emergence of Humanism in the Renaissance. Modern philosophy began in France in the 17th century with the philosophy of René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Nicolas Malebranche. Descartes revitalised Western philosophy, which had been declined after the Greek and Roman eras. His \"Meditations on First", "title": "France" }, { "id": "19315965", "text": "calling it \"a marvelous book, which impressed and fascinated me more than any other\", and adding \"I sometimes re-read it still, each time finding anew the joys and enthusiasm of my childhood\". The French general Hubert Lyautey took much inspiration from the explorations in Verne's novels. When one of his more ambitious foreign projects was met with the reply \"All this, sir, it's like doing a Jules Verne\", Lyautey famously responded: \"Yes, sir, it's like doing a Jules Verne, because for twenty years, the people who move forward have been doing a Jules Verne.\" David Hanson named the Artificial Intelligence", "title": "Cultural influence of Jules Verne" }, { "id": "282246", "text": "Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"; earlier rendered as \"Remembrance of Things Past\"), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "4856046", "text": "of recent French history. Key figures of French history who contributed to the founding of the French nation, such as the national heroine Joan of Arc, the kings Philip Augustus, Saint Louis, and Louis XIV or French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte were largely ignored. 11. Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) - Novelist, playwright and film director. 12. Georges Brassens (1921-1981) - Singer and songwriter . 13. Fernandel (1903-1971) - Singer, actor and comedian. 14. Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) - Poet and fabulist. 15. Jules Verne (1828-1905) – Science fiction author. 16. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) – Military leader and emperor. 17. Louis de", "title": "The Greatest Frenchman" }, { "id": "5873521", "text": "Tristia). Although Ronsard attempted a long epic poem of the origins of the French monarchy entitled \"La Franciade\" (modeled on Virgil and Homer), this experiment was largely judged a failure, and he remains most remembered today for his various collections of \"Amours\" (or love poems), \"Odes\" and \"Hymnes\". Jacques Peletier du Mans's later encyclopedic collection \"L'Amour des amours\", consisting of a sonnet cycle and a series of poems describing meteors, planets and the heavens, would influence the poets Jean Antoine de Baïf and Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (whose \"Semaine\" is a Baroque description of the creation of the world).", "title": "French Renaissance literature" }, { "id": "2853656", "text": "on beginning this story after the culmination of \"Prisoners of the Sun\", but both his wife Germaine Remi and his close friend Marcel Dehaye convinced him to proceed with \"Land of Black Gold\" (1950), a story that he had previously left unfinished, instead. Seeking advice on the story, Hergé consulted his friend Bernard Heuvelmans, who had authored the non-fiction book \"L'Homme parmi les étoiles\" (\"Man Among the Stars\") (1944). In autumn 1947, Heuvelmans and Jacques Van Melkebeke developed a script for the story, which they gave to Hergé. This version based Calculus' lunar expedition in a fictional location, Radio City,", "title": "Explorers on the Moon" }, { "id": "8969692", "text": "Charles Duits Charles Duits (1925–1991) was a French writer of the \"fantastique\". Duits was a friend of André Breton and the surrealists. He wrote poetry and experimented with peyote. \"Thousand and One Nights\" and the Indian \"Ramayana\" both influenced his work. As a novelist, Duits, bears comparison with Gustave Flaubert and with fellow French fantasist Christia Sylf. \"Ptah Hotep\" (1971) and \"Nefer\" (1978) together comprise a heroic fantasy take place in a Earth with two moons, one called Athenade and the other Thana. The novels take place during the time of Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. \"Ptah Hotep\" is", "title": "Charles Duits" }, { "id": "17939324", "text": "Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), who became private secretary to the half-brother and senior advisor of Napoleon III, Charles de Morny. His book \"Lettres de mon moulin\" (1866) became a French classic. One of the most popular writers of the Second Empire was Jules Verne (1828-1905), who lived on what is now Avenue Jules-Verne. He worked at the Théâtre Lyrique and the Paris stock exchange (the Paris Bourse), while he did research for his stories at the National Library. He wrote his first stories and novels in Paris, including \"Journey to the Center of the Earth\" (1864), \"From the Earth to the", "title": "Paris during the Second Empire" }, { "id": "5863228", "text": "the Parnassians—which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and (early in his career) Paul Verlaine—who (using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment (elements of which echo the philosophical work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose aesthetic theories would also have an influence on the symbolists). Modern science and geography were united with romantic adventure in the works of Jules Verne", "title": "19th-century French literature" }, { "id": "5607948", "text": "work is influenced by writers like Ray Bradbury, Radu Tudoran and Bertolt Brecht. The titles include \"The Horses of Voroneţ\" (1974), \"The Colour of the Sky\" (1981), \"Silver Wings\" (1983) and \"Rise and Walk\" (1989). Keeping a sense of proportion, it is reasonable to draw a parallel between Davidovici and the French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry. They both found a source of literary inspiration in their profession, and they both died, at about the same age, flying a fighter plane. Beside his narrative work, Doru Davidovici is known for his essay on the UFOs, \"My colleagues from", "title": "Doru Davidovici" }, { "id": "7007351", "text": "flights, the longest about 600 meters. the \"Hydravion\" has survived and is displayed in the Musée de l'Air in Paris. Henri Fabre was soon contacted by Glenn Curtiss and Gabriel Voisin who used his invention to develop their own seaplanes. As late as 1971, the aged Fabre could still be seen sailing his own boat single-handedly in Marseille harbor. He died at the age of 101 as one of the last living pioneers of human flight. Henri Fabre Henri Fabre (November 29, 1882 – June 30, 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the", "title": "Henri Fabre" }, { "id": "11244206", "text": "Gustave Le Rouge Gustave Henri Joseph Le Rouge (22 July 1867 - 24 February 1938) was a French writer who embodied the evolution of modern science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century, by moving it away from the juvenile adventures of Jules Verne and incorporating real people into his stories, thus bridging the gap between Vernian and Wellsian science fiction. Le Rouge was born at Valognes, Manche. He burst onto the literary scene with \"La Conspiration des Milliardaires\" [The Billionaires' Conspiracy] (1899-1900), co-written with Gustave Guitton, in which American billionaire William Boltyn uses Thomas Edison's \"Metal Men\" (Karel", "title": "Gustave Le Rouge" }, { "id": "8209944", "text": "Under the Sea\"), Émile Zola (\"Les Rougon-Macquart\"), Honoré de Balzac (\"La Comédie humaine\"), Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier and Stendhal (\"The Red and the Black\", \"The Charterhouse of Parma\"), whose works are among the most well known in France and the world. The Prix Goncourt is a French literary prize first awarded in 1903. Important writers of the 20th century include Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Antoine de Saint Exupéry wrote \"Little Prince\", which has remained popular for decades with children and adults around the world. , French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those", "title": "France" }, { "id": "15359210", "text": "Tyssot de Patot's \"Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé\" (1710), which features a Lost World, \"La Vie, Les Aventures et Le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange\" (1720), which features a Hollow Earth, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's \"L'An 2440\" (1771), which depicts a future France, and Nicolas-Edmé Restif de la Bretonne's \"La Découverte Australe par un Homme Volant\" (1781) notorious for his prophetic inventions. Other notable proto-science fiction authors and works of the 18th and 19th century include: However, modern French science fiction, and arguably science fiction as a whole, begins with Jules Verne (1828–1905), the author of", "title": "French science fiction" }, { "id": "677047", "text": "Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département (southwestern France). His father was Jean-Pierre Gautier, a fairly cultured", "title": "Théophile Gautier" }, { "id": "1638982", "text": "of June 24, 1968, in downtown Montréal, one day before the federal election. Wind, Sand and Stars Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes) is a memoir by the French aristocrat aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a winner of several literary awards. It deals with themes such as friendship, death, heroism, and solidarity among colleagues, and illustrates the author's opinions of what makes life worth living. It was first published in France in February 1939, and was then translated by Lewis Galantière and published in English by Reynal and Hitchcock in the United States later the same year.", "title": "Wind, Sand and Stars" }, { "id": "7309099", "text": "also sought to come to terms with the new industrial age. The works of the Englishman Charles Dickens (including his novels \"Oliver Twist\" and \"A Christmas Carol\") and the Frenchman Victor Hugo (including \"Les Miserables\") remain among the best known and widely influential. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol (\"Dead Souls\"). Then came Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Turgenev. Leo Tolstoy (\"War and Peace\", \"Anna Karenina\") and Fyodor Dostoevsky (\"Crime and Punishment\", \"The Idiot\", \"The Brothers Karamazov\") soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the", "title": "History of Western civilization" }, { "id": "9876987", "text": "mysticism as opposed to science. Bayard's artwork accompanying From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne is considered among the first Space Art of a scientific nature. Émile Bayard Émile-Antoine Bayard (November 2, 1837 – 6 December 1891) was a French illustrator born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. A student of Léon Cogniet, he is best known by many for his illustration of Cosette from \"Les Misérables\" by Victor Hugo. He died in Cairo. Starting in 1853, Bayard was a student of Cogniet for five years, publishing his first cartoons at the age of fifteen, often using the anagrammatic pseudonym,", "title": "Émile Bayard" }, { "id": "2678411", "text": "early albums were influenced by such \"comic-dynamic\" artists as Morris (\"Lucky Luke\"), André Franquin (\"Spirou et Fantasio\") and Jack Davis (\"Mad\" magazine), leading Jean-Pierre Andrevon to refer to \"Valérian\" as \"a kind of \"Lucky Luke\" of space-time\". As the series progressed, Mézières developed a more realistic style, akin to that of Jijé, though in more recent albums he has returned to the more cartoonish style of the earlier stories. \"Valérian's\" arrival on the French comics scene was contemporaneous with the debuts of other notable French science fiction strips including \"Luc Orient\" by Greg and Eddy Paape and \"Lone Sloane\" by", "title": "Valérian and Laureline" }, { "id": "3540188", "text": "this day the most translated science fiction author in the world as well as one of the most continually reprinted and widely read French authors. Though often scientifically outdated, his \"Voyages\" still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences among the young. The \"Voyages\" are frequently adapted into film, from Georges Méliès' fanciful 1902 film \"Le Voyage dans la Lune\" (aka \"A Trip to the Moon\"), to Walt Disney's 1954 adaptation of \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\", to the 2004 version of \"Around the World in", "title": "Voyages extraordinaires" }, { "id": "282270", "text": "traps of nationalism and class sectarianism. Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"; earlier rendered as \"Remembrance of Things Past\"), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "643638", "text": "Edmond Rostand Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his play \"Cyrano de Bergerac\". Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, \"Les Romanesques\", was adapted to the musical comedy \"The Fantasticks\". Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus, and a member of the Marseille Academy and the", "title": "Edmond Rostand" }, { "id": "2853649", "text": "suggestions of Hergé's friends Bernard Heuvelmans and Jacques Van Melkebeke, \"Explorers on the Moon\" was produced following Hergé's extensive research into the possibility of human space travel – a feat that had yet to be achieved – with the cartoonist seeking for the work to be as realistic as possible. Hergé continued \"The Adventures of Tintin\" with \"The Calculus Affair\", while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. Critics have praised the illustrative detail of the book, but have expressed mixed views of the story. The volume was adapted for both the 1957 Belvision animated", "title": "Explorers on the Moon" }, { "id": "8059610", "text": "Government of France, so he had some justified grievance. Verne was successfully defended by Raymond Poincaré, later president of France. A letter to Verne's brother Paul seems to suggest, however, that after all Turpin was indeed the model for Roch. The character of Roch and his revolutionary powerful explosive might also have been inspired by the real-life Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and later reportedly regretted having introduced such a destructive force into the world. The book was written and published when France was in the throes of the Dreyfus Affair, Frenchmen were deeply divided over whether or not the", "title": "Facing the Flag" }, { "id": "1434274", "text": "(\"Un Métier de Seigneur\"), a spy thriller partly based on Boulle's real-life experience working as a secret agent during the Second World War. The movie is being produced by Tessa Bell and Andrea Chung. Pierre Boulle died in Paris, France on 30 January 1994, at age 81, three weeks before his 82nd birthday. Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, \"The Bridge over the River Kwai\" (1952) and \"Planet of the Apes\" (1963), that were both made into award-winning films. Boulle was an engineer serving as a", "title": "Pierre Boulle" }, { "id": "13603587", "text": "Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well-known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include \"A Trip to the Moon\" (1902) and \"The Impossible Voyage\" (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered", "title": "Georges Méliès" }, { "id": "210623", "text": "Claudel, Jean Cocteau, François Mauriac, Raymond Roussel, Claude Roy, Julio Cortázar, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, and Jean-Paul Sartre, while scientists and explorers who acknowledged Verne's inspiration have included Richard E. Byrd, Yuri Gagarin, Simon Lake, Hubert Lyautey, Guglielmo Marconi, Fridtjof Nansen, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Wernher von Braun, and Jack Parsons. He is credited with helping inspire the \"steampunk\" genre, a literary and social movement that glamorizes science fiction based on 19th-century technology. Ray Bradbury summed up Verne's influence on literature and science the world over by saying: \"We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.\" Jules Verne Jules", "title": "Jules Verne" }, { "id": "15843749", "text": "narrative was published in 1995 by Delgado, who published a complete, critical edition of the text in 2001. Rivas was evidently influenced by European narratives of lunar exploration, including Lucian's \"True History\", Sir Francis Bacon's \"New Atlantis\", Johannes Kepler's \"Somnium\", Francis Godwin's \"The Man in the Moone\", John Wilkins' \"Discovery of a New World\", Cyrano de Bergerac's \"The Voyage to the Moon\", Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's \"Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds\", and Voltaire's \"Micromégas\". \"Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures\" (syzygy and quadrature are terms in astronomy) consists of two parts—the first is an account of a lunar voyage by", "title": "Manuel Antonio de Rivas" }, { "id": "19687772", "text": "writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, and the English poet, critic novelist and editor Ford Maddox Ford. In 1920, the Irish author James Joyce received an invitation from the poet Ezra Pound to spend a week with him in Paris. He ended up remaining for twenty years, writing two of his major works, \"Ulysses\" and \"Finnegans Wake\". After the war began, in late 1940, he moved to Zurich, where he died. The Russian émigré Vladimir Nabokov lived in Paris from 1937 until 1940, when he left for the United States. Eric Arthur Blair, better known under his pen name George", "title": "Writers in Paris" }, { "id": "748234", "text": "1974 and A Flea in Her Ear in 1982. Charles Morey's English adaptation of \"Tailleur pour dames\", titled \"The Ladies Man\", was first performed in 2007. Georges Feydeau Georges Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his many lively farces. He wrote over sixty plays and was a forerunner of Vaudeville. Georges Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Boguslawa Zalewska. At the age of twenty, Feydeau wrote his first comic monologue in earnest. He found", "title": "Georges Feydeau" }, { "id": "19315972", "text": "connected to him, and his works of science fiction had a major influence on my own career. He is among the top five people I wish I could have met in person.\" The English novelist Margaret Drabble was deeply influenced by \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\" as a child and remains a fervent admirer of Verne. She comments: \"I used to be somewhat ashamed of my love of Verne, but have recently discovered that he is the darling of the French avant-garde, who take him far more seriously than we Anglo-Saxons do. So I'm in good company.\" Ray Bradbury", "title": "Cultural influence of Jules Verne" }, { "id": "4649211", "text": "Musset, who best exemplifies romantic melancholy. By the middle of the century, an attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians—which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and (early in his career) Paul Verlaine—who (using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment (elements of which echo the philosophical work of", "title": "French poetry" }, { "id": "992960", "text": "Pasteur; Louis de Broglie; and Henri Poincaré. Many notable French writers have not become members of the Académie française. During 1855, the writer Arsène Houssaye devised the expression \"forty-first seat\" for deserving individuals who were never elected to the Académie, either because their candidacies were rejected, because they were never candidates, or because they died before appropriate vacancies arose. Notable French authors who never became academicians include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph de Maistre, Honoré de Balzac, René Descartes, Denis Diderot, Romain Rolland, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Molière, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Théophile Gautier, and Émile Zola. The official uniform", "title": "Académie française" }, { "id": "12326832", "text": "botté (Puss 'n' Boots)\". He gained further reputation for his watercolor illustrations of the literature classics \"Candide\" by \"Voltaire\" and \"Homer's Odyssey\". As a painter, his works include watercolor as well as oil paintings, and figurative as well as abstract interpretations of themes. Jean-Marc Rochette Jean-Marc Rochette (born 23 April 1956) is a French painter, illustrator and comics creator. He is best known and recognized for the comic book series \"Edmond le Cochon\" and \"Le Transperceneige\", as well as for his illustrations of the literary classic \"Candide ou l'optimisme\" by Voltaire, and Homer's \"Odyssey\". Jean-Marc Rochette became known as a", "title": "Jean-Marc Rochette" }, { "id": "6115960", "text": "by his rival Jean Racine, who also wrote tragedies based on the stories of Bajazet (Bayezid I) and Phaedra (\"The only difference between Pradon and me is that I know how to write\", Racine is reported to have said), and Racine's supporter Nicolas Boileau. This rivalry was particularly intense when Pradon brought out his \"Phèdre et Hippolyte\" at the same time as Racine's \"Phèdre\" (the writers Donneau de Visé and Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny both took Pradon's side), and throughout his life Pradon wrote several attacks on Boileau. He died in Paris. Pradon's plays have been largely denigrated by modern", "title": "Jacques Pradon" }, { "id": "728478", "text": "to have died at that time. Prior to the war, Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as an aviator. His literary works – among them \"The Little Prince\", translated into 300 languages and dialects – posthumously boosted his stature to national hero status in France. He earned further widespread recognition with international translations of his other works. His 1939 philosophical memoir \"Wind, Sand and Stars\" (\"Terre des hommes\" in French) became the name of an international humanitarian group, and was also used to create the central theme of the most successful world's fair of the 20th century, Expo 67 in", "title": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" }, { "id": "4063740", "text": "his later years, he wrote and published two successful novels. His first novel, \"Jules et Jim\" (1952), was published when he was 74. His second novel, also inspired by his life, was \"Les deux anglaises et le continent\" (Two English Girls, 1956). Both novels, although written by a man who was quite advanced in age, express a vitality and freshness not often seen in French romantic stories of the time. After \"Jules et Jim\" was adapted by François Truffaut as the 1962 film \"Jules et Jim\", both of Roché's novels attracted widespread interest and sales. Since the late 20th century,", "title": "Henri-Pierre Roché" }, { "id": "18436005", "text": "Les Aigles de Vishan Lour (Eagles of Vishan Lour) Princesse en danger (Princess in Danger) Pierre Bottero Pierre Bottero (February 15, 1964 – November 8, 2009) was a French writer. He was born February 15, 1964 in Barcelonnette, in the Alps. As a very young man, he came to live in Provence; a region he never left since then. He said by the way that he wouldn’t be able to live without sun, mistral and cicadas. Married and father of a family, he worked as a primary school teacher for a long time, before turning completely towards writing. Passionate by", "title": "Pierre Bottero" }, { "id": "7739095", "text": "\"Gipsies on the Road\" were both published by \"Convorbiri\" in March 1870. Before this moment, Baudelaire's work had been entirely unknown to Romanians, and casually ignored by Maiorescu, who preferred German Romanticism. Later, Pogor published adapted samples from other modern French figures (Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Sully Prudhomme, Jean Richepin) alternating them with classical works by Horace (Ode III.26, in 1871) and Virgil (\"Copa\", in 1873). He and other \"Convorbiri Literare\" writers pioneered translations from American literature, most notably from the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. This was still just a fraction of Pogor's activity in the", "title": "Vasile Pogor" }, { "id": "7168215", "text": "Boussenard's best-known book \"Le Capitaine Casse-Cou\" (1901) was set at the time of the Boer War. \"L'île en feu\" (1898) fictionalized Cuba's struggle for independence. Aspiring to emulate Jules Verne, Boussenard also turned out several science fiction novels, notably \"Les secrets de monsieur Synthèse\" (1888) and \"Dix mille ans dans un bloc de glace\" (1890), both translated by Brian Stableford in 2013 under the title \"Monsieur Synthesis\" Louis Henri Boussenard Louis Henri Boussenard (4 October 1847, Escrennes, Loiret – 11 September 1910 in Orléans) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed \"the French Rider Haggard\" during his lifetime, but", "title": "Louis Henri Boussenard" }, { "id": "1465120", "text": "Nobel prize winner Frédéric Mistral's fame was in part due to the praise of Alphonse de Lamartine in the fortieth edition of his periodical \"Cours familier de littérature\", following the publication of Mistral's long poem \"Mirèio\". Mistral is the most revered writer in modern Occitan literature. Lamartine is considered to be the first French romantic poet (though Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé was working on similar innovations at the same time), and was acknowledged by Paul Verlaine and the Symbolists as an important influence. Alphonse de Lamartine was also an Orientalist with a particular interest in Lebanon and the Middle East.", "title": "Alphonse de Lamartine" }, { "id": "10043792", "text": "Pierre Joffroy Pierre Joffroy (born 1929 in Lorraine, France) is a French author, dramaturge and journalist who wrote for \"Paris Match\", \"Libération\" and \"L'Express\". At present he lives in Paris. In France Joffroy released numerous novels, stage plays and articles. For a period of 30 years he worked on a biography of Kurt Gerstein before he finally released the book \"A Spy for God\", which deals with Kurt Gerstein's story and the decades of the author's research. Within the framework of an interview with Deutschlandfunk(DLF) the French author declared, that he considered Kurt Gerstein to be \"one of the most", "title": "Pierre Joffroy" }, { "id": "8060277", "text": "intimate tragedy. His multi-thematic \"Coup de Trafalgar\" (1934) and \"Les Demoiselles du large\" (1938) gained as little recognition as his more slapstick plays such as \"Le Loup-Garou\" (1939) and \"Le Sabre de mon père\" (1951). Vitrac died in Paris in 1952. Only after his death did Vitrac reach popular stardom status with Jean Anouilh's 1962 production of \"Victor, or Power to the Children\". Roger Vitrac Roger Vitrac (; 17 November 1899 – 22 January 1952) was a French surrealist playwright and poet. Born in Pinsac, Roger Vitrac moved to Paris in 1910. As a young man, he was influenced by", "title": "Roger Vitrac" }, { "id": "14950612", "text": "program. During the late 18th century, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Jacques Charles and the Montgolfier brothers are seen as worldwide precursors and explorers of aeronautics, with the world record altitude then reached by a human at 7,016 metres (23,018 ft) performed by Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac in 1804. Those names, their numerous students and their works will mark the early expertise of France's space program in all types of air balloons since. In the beginning of the twentieth century, the origins of the French space program are tied to French technological developments in aerospace and astronautics, notably the nascent airplane and rocket", "title": "French space program" }, { "id": "5329050", "text": "From there he moved on to the \"Daily Mail\", where he contributed a column called 'At the Sign of the Blue Moon', selections from which were published in 1924 and 1925. Wyndham-Lewis lived in Paris from the mid-1920s while doing historical research for his entertaining biography of François Villon. Later biographies of French subjects included Louis XI, the Emperor Charles V, Ronsard, Molière, Rabelais and Gilles de Rais. He also wrote works on Boswell, Goya and Cervantes. After returning to Britain, Lewis published as 'Mustard and Cress' in the \"Sunday Referee\" until 1935 and then returned as a columnist to", "title": "D. B. Wyndham Lewis" }, { "id": "686281", "text": "not chosen for the voyage list and remained behind in France. At the time, Bonaparte was interested in serving in the navy rather than army because of his proficiency in mathematics and artillery, both valued skills on warships. Copying the work methods of Cook's scientists, the scientists on this voyage would base their calculations of longitude on precision watches and the distance between the moon and the sun followed by theodolite triangulations or bearings taken from the ship, the same as those taken by Cook to produce his maps of the Pacific islands. As regards geography, Lapérouse decisively showed the", "title": "Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse" }, { "id": "524836", "text": "Victor Hugo Victor Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels \"Les Misérables\", 1862, and \"The Hunchback of Notre-Dame\" (), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as (\"The Contemplations\") and (\"The Legend of the Ages\"). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play \"Cromwell\" and drama \"Hernani\". Many of his works have inspired", "title": "Victor Hugo" }, { "id": "3918540", "text": "with everything white (and pure: swans, lilies, snow, moons, Pierrots), the legendary star of the Funambules and what Jules Laforgue called Our Lady the Moon became inseparable. Albert Giraud's \"Pierrot lunaire\" (1884) marked a watershed in the moon-maddening of Pierrot, as did the song-cycle that Arnold Schoenberg derived from it (1912). If Carné’s hero had not been moonstruck, his audiences would still be wondering why. Jean-Gaspard Deburau Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; July 31, 1796 – June 17, 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a celebrated Bohemian-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at", "title": "Jean-Gaspard Deburau" }, { "id": "17760605", "text": "James Baldwin, the philosopher John Locke and C. S. Lewis. In an interview with the broadsheet newspaper The Times with Ed Potton, Clementine expressed his feelings of hating the works of William Shakespeare as a child as it was all his teachers always taught him so he preferably went to his local library to read the other William, William Blake. Whilst in Paris, he discovered French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud including poet-singers such as Leo Ferré, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour with whom he sang and recorded the song 'You've got to", "title": "Benjamin Clementine" }, { "id": "5863247", "text": "The influence of surrealism will be of great importance on poets like Saint-John Perse or Edmond Jabès, for example. Others, such as Georges Bataille, created their own movement and group in reaction. The Swiss writer Blaise Cendrars was close to Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob and the artists Chagall and Léger, and his work has similarities with both surrealism and cubism. In the first half of the century the genre of the novel also went through further changes. Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novels—such as \"Voyage au bout de la nuit\" (\"Journey to the End of Night\") -- used an elliptical, oral, and", "title": "20th-century French literature" }, { "id": "3644282", "text": "Paris. Like Jules Verne, he was another discovery of publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. He \"collaborated\" with Verne on \"Les Cinq Cent Millions de la Begum\" (1879), \"L'Étoile du Sud\" (1884) and \"L'Épave du Cynthia\" (1885). Some scholars believe that these works were based on manuscripts written by Grousset and rewritten by Verne at Hetzel's request. One of Grousset's most interesting science fiction novels was \"Les Exilés de la Terre — Selene-Company Limited\" (1887), probably one of the most fanciful cosmic tales of all times. In it, a consortium which intends to exploit the Moon’s mineral resources decides that, since our satellite", "title": "Paschal Grousset" }, { "id": "3018895", "text": "Albert Camus. Yet, paradoxically, despite being marginalized by critics and the literary establishment, the \"fantastique\" thrived as never before, both in terms of quality and quantity. Significant foreign influences on French modern \"fantastique\" include Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, H. P. Lovecraft, Dino Buzzati, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov and Richard Matheson. Other more recent influences included Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard, none of whom were well known in France before the early 1980s. The growth in popularity of heroic fantasy during the last decade is a tribute to the Americanization of world culture. Some of", "title": "Fantastique" }, { "id": "5863237", "text": "world, including Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Luigi Pirandello, the British and American detective novel, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht and many others. In turn, French literature has also had a radical impact on world literature. Because of the creative spirit of the French literary and artistic movements at the beginning of the century, France gained the reputation as being the necessary destination for writers and artists. Important foreign writers who have lived and worked in France (especially Paris) in the twentieth century include: Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,", "title": "20th-century French literature" }, { "id": "8209893", "text": "laid the foundations of thermodynamics, and Louis Pasteur, a pioneer of microbiology. Other eminent French scientists of the 19th century have their names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Famous French scientists of the 20th century include the mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré, physicists Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, remained famous for their work on radioactivity, the physicist Paul Langevin and virologist Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV AIDS. Hand transplantation was developed on 23 September 1998 in Lyon by a team assembled from different countries around the world including Jean-Michel Dubernard who, shortly thereafter, performed the first successful double hand", "title": "France" }, { "id": "5863206", "text": "drawing readers by its pre-romantic depiction of nature and romantic love. Another popular example was \"Paul et Virginie\" by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1787). The \"romans éclatés\", roughly translated \"Novels broken apart\", such as \"Jacques le fataliste et son maître\" (Eng: \"Jacques the Fatalist and His Master\") (1773) and \"le Neveu de Rameau\" (Eng: \"The Nephew of Rameau\") (1762) by Diderot are almost impossible to classify, but resemble the modernist novels that would come a century or more later. Literary stories of people's lives were popular throughout the 18th century, with such popular books as \"la Vie de mon père\"", "title": "18th-century French literature" }, { "id": "210602", "text": "that would make him an unambiguous hero. Verne, after fighting vehemently against the change, finally invented a compromise in which Nemo's past is left mysterious. After this disagreement, Verne became notably cooler in his dealings with Hetzel, taking suggestions into consideration but often rejecting them outright. From that point, Verne published two or more volumes a year. The most successful of these are: \"Voyage au centre de la Terre\" (\"Journey to the Center of the Earth\", 1864); \"De la Terre à la Lune\" (\"From the Earth to the Moon\", 1865); \"Vingt mille lieues sous les mers\" (\"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under", "title": "Jules Verne" }, { "id": "524898", "text": "of divinity. Peace and harmony rule these realms, Their beings know not the word 'war'. </poem> Poems of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels \"Les Misérables\", 1862, and \"The Hunchback of Notre-Dame\" (), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as (\"The Contemplations\") and (\"The Legend of the Ages\"). Hugo was at", "title": "Victor Hugo" }, { "id": "8355339", "text": "of the French language, betraying Germanic and Russian influences, was unusually well-suited to creating larger-than-life heroic characters and epic romances. She knew how to build full-blown, intricately detailed baroque universes. Nathalie Henneberg Nathalie Henneberg (October 23, 1910, Batumi – June 24, 1977, Paris) was a French science fiction writer, a precursor of modern French heroic fantasy. She was married to, and collaborated with, Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen (1899–1959). Henneberg got her start writing with her husband, apparently collaborating without attribution on several of his novels. German-born Charles Henneberg wrote a series of flamboyant space operas featuring superheroic protagonists, often", "title": "Nathalie Henneberg" }, { "id": "8298600", "text": "which a squadron of Napoleonic soldiers kidnapped by aliens conquer a space empire, a theme reminiscent of Poul Anderson's \"High Crusade\" and the author's earlier \"L'Empire du Baphomet\" (translated into English as \"Cosmic Crusaders\"). His other series included the adventures of the dashing \"Alex Courville\", a hero not unlike Anderson’s \"Dominic Flandry\", and the saga of the \"Cities in Space\" (1979–85), reminiscent of James Blish's renowned series. Pierre Barbet (writer) Pierre Barbet (16 May 1925 – 20 July 1995) was the main pseudonym used by French science fiction writer and pharmacist Claude Avice. Claude Avice also used the pseudonyms of", "title": "Pierre Barbet (writer)" }, { "id": "601870", "text": "strive to drive the other to doom is the type of mental hostility that Strindberg strove to describe. He intended his plays to be impartial and objective, citing a desire to make literature akin to a science. Following the inner turmoil that he experienced during the \"Inferno crisis,\" he wrote an important book in French, \"Inferno\" (1896–7) in which he dramatised his experiences. He also exchanged a few cryptic letters with Friedrich Nietzsche. Strindberg subsequently ended his association with Naturalism and began to produce works informed by Symbolism. He is considered one of the pioneers of the modern European stage", "title": "August Strindberg" }, { "id": "3018313", "text": "H. G. Wells or Olaf Stapledon in his concepts and his way of dealing with them in his novels. He was the second most important figure after Jules Verne in the history of modern French science fiction. Because his writing was not translated into English before his death, and his readers did not always understand his science fiction novels, his impact on the early evolution of the genre was limited. Rosny’s first science fiction tale was the short story \"Les Xipéhuz [The Shapes]\" (1887), in which primitive humans (the story takes place a thousand years before Babylonian times) encounter inorganic", "title": "J.-H. Rosny aîné" }, { "id": "5863227", "text": "Zola in particular his \"Les Rougon-Macquart\" novel cycle, which includes \"Germinal\", \"L'Assommoir\", \"Nana\", \"Le Ventre de Paris\", \"La Bête humaine,\" and \"L'Œuvre\" \"(The Masterpiece)\", in which the social success or failure of two branches of a family is explained by physical, social and hereditary laws. Other writers who have been labeled naturalists include: Alphonse Daudet, Jules Vallès, Joris-Karl Huysmans (later a leading \"decadent\" and rebel against naturalism), Edmond de Goncourt and his brother Jules de Goncourt, and (in a very different vein) Paul Bourget. An attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as", "title": "19th-century French literature" }, { "id": "8209942", "text": "was to sum up all the knowledge of his century (in fields such as arts, sciences, languages, philosophy) and to present them to the people, in order to fight ignorance and obscurantism. During that same century, Charles Perrault was a prolific writer of famous children's fairy tales including \"Puss in Boots\", \"Cinderella\", \"Sleeping Beauty\" and \"Bluebeard\". At the start of the 19th century, symbolist poetry was an important movement in French literature, with poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. The 19th century saw the writings of many renowned French authors. Victor Hugo is sometimes seen as", "title": "France" }, { "id": "6726749", "text": "American form of this sensibility centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism, these darker contemporaries emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction, as well as the difficulties inherent in attempts at social reform. French authors such as Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud echoed the dark themes found in the German and English literature. Baudelaire was one of the first French writers to admire Edgar Allan Poe, but this admiration or even adulation of Poe became widespread in French literary circles", "title": "Dark romanticism" }, { "id": "14442894", "text": "theoretical (Mario Perniola 2009: 95). From this perspective Piranesi addresses the two inclinations of magnificence (good and evil) already identified by Plato. It is interesting however, to see that Piranesi’s alternative interpretation had an extensive influence on the European and American imagination. There is an endless list of poets, artists and others that go from the early Romantics such as William Beckford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, through a succession of French and American authors from Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. The disturbing influences of the \"Prisons\" also caught", "title": "Sarah F. Maclaren" }, { "id": "216327", "text": "Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater world research in a series of books, perhaps the most successful being his first book, \"\", published in 1953. Cousteau also directed films, most notably the documentary adaptation of the book, \"The Silent World\", which won a Palme d'or at the 1956 Cannes Film", "title": "Jacques Cousteau" }, { "id": "19888556", "text": "was admired by Maurice Barres, Anna de Noailles, Robert de Montesquiou and Colette. He won the Prix of the Académie française Fallen in love with the thirty years younger Jeanne Humbert, he married her at the town hall of Sannois on November 8, 1928. She survived him more than half a century and published her autobiography \"Le cœur a ses raisons\" in 1986, on vanity press. Posthumous Louis de Robert Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911. He became friends with Émile Zola during the", "title": "Louis de Robert" }, { "id": "4343466", "text": "Pierre La Mure Pierre La Mure (15 June 1909 - 28 December 1976) was a French author. La Mure was born in Nice, in department Alpes-Maritimes. He published the 1950 novel \"Moulin Rouge\" about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also produced the book \"Beyond Desire\" about the life of Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel \"Claire de Lune\" on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published during 1962. He died in California, USA, aged 67.", "title": "Pierre La Mure" }, { "id": "4343465", "text": "Pierre La Mure Pierre La Mure (15 June 1909 - 28 December 1976) was a French author. La Mure was born in Nice, in department Alpes-Maritimes. He published the 1950 novel \"Moulin Rouge\" about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also produced the book \"Beyond Desire\" about the life of Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel \"Claire de Lune\" on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published during 1962. He died in California, USA, aged 67.", "title": "Pierre La Mure" }, { "id": "1483437", "text": "the nineteenth century. Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel \"The Moonstone\" (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, while \"The Woman in White\" is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels. H. G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like \"The Time Machine\" (1895), and \"The War of the Worlds\" (1898) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne (1828–1905), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre. He also wrote realistic fiction about the", "title": "English novel" }, { "id": "10501212", "text": "the authors to have seen scientific data involve collaborative research between scientists and biotechnology companies. Authors occasionally forgo claiming authorship, for a number of reasons. Historically some authors have published anonymously to shield themselves when presenting controversial claims. A key example is Robert Chambers' anonymous publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a speculative, pre-Darwinian work on the origins of life and the cosmos. The book argued for an evolutionary view of life in the same spirit as the late Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck had long been discredited among intellectuals by this time and evolutionary (or development) theories", "title": "Academic authorship" }, { "id": "210608", "text": "largest body of work is the \"Voyages extraordinaires\" series, which includes all of his novels except for the two rejected manuscripts \"Paris in the Twentieth Century\" and \"Backwards to Britain\" (published posthumously in 1994 and 1989, respectively) and for projects left unfinished at his death (many of which would be posthumously adapted or rewritten for publication by his son Michel). Verne also wrote many plays, poems, song texts, operetta libretti, and short stories, as well as a variety of essays and miscellaneous non-fiction. After his debut under Hetzel, Verne was enthusiastically received in France by writers and scientists alike, with", "title": "Jules Verne" } ]

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[ { "id": "4855684", "text": "Betty Smith Betty Smith (December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American author. She is best known for her 1943 novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,\" which became an immediate bestseller and is now considered one of the great American novels of the 20th century. The book was later adapted to the screen in the movie of the same title, directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner. Smith was born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner on December 15, 1896, in Brooklyn, New York, to first-generation German-Americans John C. Wehner, a waiter,", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "4855692", "text": "her work in drama. Her other novels include \"Tomorrow Will Be Better\" (1947), \"Maggie-Now\" (1958) and \"Joy in the Morning\" (1963). On January 17, 1972, Smith died of pneumonia in Shelton, Connecticut at the age of 75. She is buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Betty Smith Betty Smith (December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American author. She is best known for her 1943 novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,\" which became an immediate bestseller and is now considered one of the great American novels of the 20th century. The book was later", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "4853734", "text": "the ailanthus silkmoth, a moth involved in silk production. Ailanthus has become a part of western culture as well, with the tree serving as the central metaphor and subject matter of the best-selling American novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" by Betty Smith. The tree was first brought from China to Europe in the 1740s and to the United States in 1784. It was one of the first trees brought west during a time when \"chinoiserie\" was dominating European arts, and was initially hailed as a beautiful garden specimen. However, enthusiasm soon waned after gardeners became familiar with its suckering", "title": "Ailanthus altissima" }, { "id": "14823975", "text": "Crane published the epic poem \"The Bridge\", using the Brooklyn Bridge as central symbol and poetic starting point. The novels of Henry Miller include reflections on several of the ethnic German and Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the 1890s and early 20th century; his novels \"Tropic of Capricorn\" and \"The Rosy Crucifixion\" include long tracts describing his childhood and young adulthood spent in the borough. Betty Smith's 1943 book \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,\" and the 1945 film based on it, are among the best-known early works about life in Brooklyn. The \"tree\" in the title is the \"Tree of", "title": "Culture of Brooklyn" }, { "id": "4853778", "text": "a \"good-for-nothing ailanthus stump sprout\", meaning the child is irresponsible. This derives from the literature of Zhuangzi, a Taoist philosopher, who referred to a tree that had developed from a sprout at the stump and was thus unsuitable for carpentry due to its irregular shape. Later scholars associated this tree with ailanthus and applied the metaphor to children who, like stump sprouts of the tree, will not develop into a worthwhile human being if they don't follow rules or traditions. The 1943 book \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" by Betty Smith uses the tree of heaven as its central metaphor,", "title": "Ailanthus altissima" }, { "id": "16620168", "text": "A Tree Grows in Springfield \"A Tree Grows in Springfield\" is the sixth episode of the 24th season of \"The Simpsons\". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 25, 2012, and was seen by around 7.46 million people during this broadcast. The name of this episode is a reference to the American book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Homer is heavily depressed over his life, and Lisa decides to cheer him up by purchasing a raffle ticket at fundraiser at Springfield Elementary School. Homer wins a MyPad and soon becomes obsessed", "title": "A Tree Grows in Springfield" }, { "id": "4395586", "text": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith. The story focuses on an impoverished but aspirational adolescent girl and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success. It was also released in an Armed Services Edition, the size of a paperback, to fit in a uniform pocket. One Marine wrote to Smith, \"I can't explain the emotional reaction that took place in this dead heart of mine...A surge of confidence has swept", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)" }, { "id": "4395611", "text": "often forced to endure when pregnant out of wedlock. Other issues the book addresses include: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith. The story focuses on an impoverished but aspirational adolescent girl and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success. It was also released in an Armed Services Edition, the size of a paperback, to fit in a uniform pocket. One Marine wrote to Smith, \"I can't explain the emotional", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)" }, { "id": "4855690", "text": "showed an interest in 1942. Working with editors, the novel was accepted for publication and in 1943 released with the title \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.\" Eleven days before \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" was published, she married Joseph Piper Jones, a columnist for the \"Chapel Hill Weekly,\" August 7, 1943. (Note: In Smith's entry in the \"Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P-S,\" it's stated she married Jones \"three\" days before the book's publication. Whether 11 or three days prior is correct will depend on which date was used for the publication of \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.\"", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "4855686", "text": "49 through fourth grade before transferring to PS 18 and then finally PS 23 in Greenpoint. While some sources report she attended Girls' High School, her biographer reports that she was obliged to quit school by her mother to help support the family, as her alcoholic father worked only sporadically. It was these early life experiences in Williamsburg and Greenpoint Brooklyn, which served as the framework to her first novel, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1943). Smith became an active member of a social service center on Jackson street called the School Settlement Association, and it was likely there rather", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "2508959", "text": "Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak\" by Charles De Coster (published 1867), Thyl was born with a caul. In Betty Smith's novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", Francie Nolan is born with a caul. The midwife who officiated the birth stole the caul and later sold it for $2 to a sailor from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was believed that whoever wore a caul could not drown. A prophecy given to an infant born with the caul is the basis of the Grimm fairy tale \"The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs\". In \"The Shipping News\", the Pulitzer Prize winning", "title": "Caul" }, { "id": "17548674", "text": "No. 1. The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped \"The New York Times\" Fiction Best Sellers list in 1944. The most popular books of the year were \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", by Betty Smith and \"Strange Fruit\", by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A \"sleeper\" success, \"A Tree Grows\" had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot. Somerset Maugham's mystical \"The Razor's Edge\" spent several weeks at No. 2, four times displacing \"Strange", "title": "The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944" }, { "id": "17548673", "text": "The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped \"The New York Times\" Fiction Best Sellers list in 1944. The most popular books of the year were \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", by Betty Smith and \"Strange Fruit\", by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A \"sleeper\" success, \"A Tree Grows\" had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot. Somerset Maugham's mystical \"The Razor's Edge\" spent several weeks at No. 2, four times displacing \"Strange Fruit\" at", "title": "The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944" }, { "id": "3723977", "text": "by a German immigrant named Albert Voigt. Neir's Tavern, founded in Woodhaven in 1829 and in nearly continuous operation since then (except during Prohibition) is one of the older bars in the United States. The Crystal Manor Hotel building, once considered a refined hotel for businessmen, survives at Woodhaven Blvd and Jamaica Ave. and the brick exterior has remained largely the same for more than 100 years. Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, wrote most of the book in Woodhaven, at Forest Parkway near 85th Drive (though the story is set in nearby Cypress Hills). The Woodhaven", "title": "Woodhaven, Queens" }, { "id": "4855685", "text": "and Katherine (or Catherine) Hummel. She had a younger brother, William, and a younger sister, Regina. At the time of her birth the family was living at 207 Ewen Street (now Manhattan Avenue). At age four they were living at 227 Stagg Street, and would move several times to various tenements on Montrose Avenue and Hopkins Street before settling in a tenement at the top floor of 702 Grand Street that served as the basis for \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\". As a child she made great use of the then-new public library on nearby Leonard Street. Smith attended PS", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "14291788", "text": "design the building, which was completed in 1889. For many years, the hotel remained the tallest building in the locality, becoming a \"familiar and appreciated\" sight to the locals. It was home to several prominent artists, including etcher Joseph Pennell, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset, and Betty Smith, author of \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\". The building was remodelled in 1958, and at this time given a coat of \"neutral-toned\" paint which caused it to lose some of its polychromatic appeal. In 1980, work began on converting the hotel into condominiums, but the building caught fire during the renovation and", "title": "Hotel Margaret" }, { "id": "7234812", "text": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American romantic drama film that marked the debut of Elia Kazan as a film director. Adapted by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith, the period drama focuses on an impoverished, but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century. Peggy Ann Garner received the Academy Juvenile Award for her performance as Francie Nolan, the adolescent girl at the center of the coming-of-age story. Other stars are Dorothy McGuire, Joan", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)" }, { "id": "4855691", "text": "At any rate, Smith married just a few days before the book's publication, which made her a public figure.) After eight years of marriage, Jones and Smith were divorced in December 1951. Shortly thereafter, she married Robert Voris Finch, whom she had known since her days at Yale. He died February 4, 1959, and Smith never remarried. Smith teamed with George Abbott to write the book for the 1951 musical adaptation of \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\". Throughout her life, she worked as a dramatist, receiving many awards and fellowships including the Rockefeller Fellowship and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship for", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "7234825", "text": "Elia Kazan Collection\" (2010). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American romantic drama film that marked the debut of Elia Kazan as a film director. Adapted by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith, the period drama focuses on an impoverished, but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century. Peggy Ann Garner received the Academy Juvenile Award for her performance as Francie Nolan, the adolescent girl at the center of the coming-of-age story. Other stars", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)" }, { "id": "7372967", "text": "student - including taking the title role in \"The Return of Buck Gavin\" (also written by Wolfe) in the Playmakers' first bill of plays on March 14 and 15, 1919. Betty Smith, who would later write A Tree Grows in Brooklyn from her home in Chapel Hill, first came to town in 1936 as part of the WPA Federal Theater Project, and wrote many plays for the company. In the late 1940s, Andy Griffith had featured roles in several Playmakers performances, including Gilbert and Sullivan's \"The Mikado\" and \"HMS Pinafore.\" Other notable writers associated with the Carolina Playmakers include Paul", "title": "PlayMakers Repertory Company" }, { "id": "11738652", "text": "insider coverage and acerbic wit. During the 1951 season, when the Brooklyn Dodgers were in the process of losing a 13-game lead and the pennant to the crosstown rival New York Giants, one of Young's columns began, \"The tree that grows in Brooklyn is an apple tree.\" This remark referred to the colloquialism \"taking the apple\", which was then used to describe an athlete choking. Previously, Young had agitated for the dismissal of Dodgers manager Burt Shotton, or \"KOBS\" in Youngspeak. \"Daily News\" readers knew that \"KOBS\" was Young's acronym for \"Kindly Old Burt Shotton\", and was not intended as", "title": "Dick Young (sportswriter)" }, { "id": "5459489", "text": "of the most popular ASE books was \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1943) by Betty Smith, and the ASE's distribution of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel \"The Great Gatsby\" helped revive interest in the book. In 1944, the Council launched Oversees Editions, Inc, a subsidiary aimed at distributing American books to civilian populations abroad, to promote a positive view of American culture. With the end of World War II, the Council on Books in Wartime ceased active operations on Jan 31, 1946 but maintained its corporate entities to deal with the dispersal of remaining funds and the safekeeping of records. Some", "title": "Council on Books in Wartime" }, { "id": "14823977", "text": "neighborhood of Park Slope is home to many contemporary writers, including Jonathan Safran Foer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Franzen, Rick Moody, Jennifer Egan, Kathryn Harrison, Paul Auster, Franco Ambriz, Nicole Krauss, Colson Whitehead, Darin Strauss, Siri Hustvedt and Suketu Mehta, among others. Brooklyn has played a key role in multiple films of various genres, from the 1917 Fatty Arbuckle comedy \"Coney Island\" to the 2011 coming-out film \"Pariah\". One iconic Brooklyn film is 1945's \"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn\", based on Betty Smith's novel of the same name. It was the first film directed by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James", "title": "Culture of Brooklyn" }, { "id": "20409218", "text": "Egan to attend a diver's reunion where she struggled into a US Army Mark V diving suit complete with heavy brass helmet and lead boots. Egan also met with Alfred Kolkin, an 86-year-old man who had worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a machinist during World War II. The \"Los Angeles Review of Books\", comparing Egan's novel to \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", wrote that \"Manhattan Beach\" is one of the rare books by a woman author that captures the viewpoint of a woman of New York. \"Time\" wrote that Egan's \"prose is exquisite\" and that she gives the", "title": "Manhattan Beach (novel)" }, { "id": "9795953", "text": "weary from years of broken promises, daughter Francie idolizes her father, and Aunt Cissy is the victim of a string of romantic misadventures with common-law husbands, each of which she insists on calling \"Harry\" after her first lover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Betty Smith, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. First produced in 1951, the musical is based on Smith's autobiographical novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1943), but when Shirley Booth was cast as Aunt Cissy, a secondary character", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical)" }, { "id": "1437615", "text": "Wolfe was \"the over-bloated Li'l Abner of literature.\" Southerner and Harvard historian David Herbert Donald's biography of Wolfe, \"Look Homeward,\" won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1988. Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", Robert Morgan, author of \"Gap Creek\", and \"Prince of Tides\" author Pat Conroy, who has said, \"My writing career began the instant I finished \"Look Homeward, Angel\".\" Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Ray Bradbury was influenced by Wolfe, and included him as a character in his books. Earl Hamner, Jr., who went on to create the", "title": "Thomas Wolfe" }, { "id": "4395587", "text": "through me, and I feel that maybe a fellow has a fighting chance in this world after all.\" The main metaphor of the book is the hardy Tree of Heaven, whose persistent ability to grow and flourish even in the inner city mirrors the protagonist's desire to better herself. The novel is split into five \"books\", each covering a different period in the characters' lives. Book One opens in 1912 and introduces 11-year-old Francie Nolan, who lives in the Williamsburg tenement neighborhood of Brooklyn with her 10-year-old brother Cornelius (\"Neeley\" for short) and their parents, Johnny and Katie. Francie relies", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)" }, { "id": "9795949", "text": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Betty Smith, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. First produced in 1951, the musical is based on Smith's autobiographical novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1943), but when Shirley Booth was cast as Aunt Cissy, a secondary character in the novel, the prominence of this role was expanded and tailored to Booth's comedic talents, diminishing the relative importance of other characters, in particular young Francie, through whose eyes the plot of the novel unfolds. After two", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical)" }, { "id": "10155105", "text": "Betty mentions \"Wild Hogs\" in the airline scene. \"Wild Hogs\" is another Disney-related property, as the 2007 film is produced by Touchstone Pictures. In one scene Justin makes a reference to West Side Story; Rita Moreno starred in the 1961 film, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in which she portrayed Anita. The title of the Episode, 'A Tree Grows in Guadalajara', hints to the 1945 film and book 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn', in which the film's main character, Francie Nolan, comes of age while working to support her family, which links with the story of", "title": "A Tree Grows in Guadalajara" }, { "id": "3096948", "text": "Side. Williamsburg itself soon became the most densely populated neighborhood in New York City, which in turn was the most densely populated city in the United States. The novel \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" addresses a young girl growing up in the tenements of Williamsburg during this era. Brooklyn Union Gas in the early 20th century consolidated its coal gas production to Williamsburg at 370 Vandervoort Avenue, closing the Gowanus Canal gasworks. The 1970s energy crisis led the company to build a syngas factory. Late in the century, facilities were built to import liquefied natural gas from overseas. The intersection", "title": "Williamsburg, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "2097366", "text": "term, not used by Mumford, characterizes an area's capability to support life up through its levels of complexity. Before the advent of technology, most areas of the planet were bioviable at some level or other; however, where certain forms of technology advance rapidly, bioviability decreases dramatically. Slag heaps, poisoned waters, parking lots, and concrete cities, for example, are extremely limited in terms of their bioviability, illustrated in the somewhat startling 1943 novel title \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", and non-bioviable regions are common to cinema in the form of dystopias (e.g., \"Bladerunner\"). Mumford did not believe it was necessary for", "title": "Lewis Mumford" }, { "id": "1584616", "text": "'50s resonated with his astute choices. He first personally rescued a cumbersome cut of \"The Song Of Bernadette\" (1943), recutting the completed film into a surprise hit that made a star of newcomer Jennifer Jones, who won the Oscar. He relented to actor Otto Preminger's fervent wish to direct a modest thriller called \"Laura\" (1944), putting Clifton Webb in his Oscar-nominated role as Gene Tierney's controlling mentor, with David Raksin's haunting score. Leading theater director Elia Kazan was carefully nurtured through his first film, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1945), based on a popular novel. It did so well, he", "title": "Darryl F. Zanuck" }, { "id": "1473456", "text": "St. Patrick's Day, per Smith's instructions. Smith's grandchildren cut the ribbon when the world's tallest skyscraper opened on May 1, 1931, which was May Day, an international labor celebration. It had been completed in 13 months, a record for such a large project. As with the Brooklyn Bridge, which Smith had seen being built from his Lower East Side boyhood home, the Empire State Building was a vision and an achievement constructed by combining the interests of all, rather than being divided by interests of a few. Smith continued to promote the Empire State Building, derided as the \"Empty State", "title": "Al Smith" }, { "id": "19967371", "text": "North Carolina in 1938. In her book, \"Chapel Hill In Plain Sight\", Athas writes that \"moving from paradise was an adventure in earthly demotion... In 1936 Daddy decided the South offered more opportunity. He chose Chapel Hill, North Carolina, because it had a state university we could attend for little money, and he established a beachhead where we would join him.\" Athas attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she graduated in 1943. During her time as a writing student at UNC she worked with Phillips Russell and Betty Smith, the author of \"A Tree Grows", "title": "Daphne Athas" }, { "id": "2266076", "text": "in London. Granny Smith The Granny Smith is a tip-bearing apple cultivar, which originated in Australia in 1868. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The tree is thought to be a hybrid of \"Malus sylvestris\", the European wild apple, with the North American apple \"Malus pumila\" as the polleniser. The fruit is hard, with a light green skin and crisp, juicy flesh. The flavour is tart and acidic, limiting its consumption raw. However, it remains firm when baked, making it a very popular cooking apple used in pies, where it can", "title": "Granny Smith" }, { "id": "2266064", "text": "Granny Smith The Granny Smith is a tip-bearing apple cultivar, which originated in Australia in 1868. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The tree is thought to be a hybrid of \"Malus sylvestris\", the European wild apple, with the North American apple \"Malus pumila\" as the polleniser. The fruit is hard, with a light green skin and crisp, juicy flesh. The flavour is tart and acidic, limiting its consumption raw. However, it remains firm when baked, making it a very popular cooking apple used in pies, where it can be sweetened.", "title": "Granny Smith" }, { "id": "579360", "text": "Brooklyn Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn also has several bridge connections to the boroughs of Manhattan (across the East River) and Staten Island (across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge). Since 1896, the borough has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which", "title": "Brooklyn" }, { "id": "8797577", "text": "and sees that it is the then-recent novel, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", which was obviously the inspiration for the cartoon's title. Bugs says to himself and the audience, in a rare quiet and reflective moment, \"Ya know, maybe I oughta read dis t'ing!\" As the underscore reprises an instrumental bar of \"Rosie O'Grady\", Bugs is seen walking away from the camera and toward the city's skyscrapers, while reading the book and humming along until the animation irises out. The short was originally based on a short autobiographical piece of the same name that was published in the December issue", "title": "A Hare Grows in Manhattan" }, { "id": "9250212", "text": "\"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\". Even though the family was exceptionally poor, the characters experienced \"moments of hope and sheer beauty\". She uses this philosophy in her own writing, saying, \"If you love the people you create, you can see the hope there.\" As a writer she consciously writes for a younger audience. There are authors who write about adolescence or from a youth's point of view, but their work is intended for adult audiences. Woodson writes about childhood and adolescence with an audience of youth in mind. In an interview on National Public Radio (NPR) she said, \"I'm writing", "title": "Jacqueline Woodson" }, { "id": "12366130", "text": "has about 7,500 species organised into 300 genera, 37 tribes, and three subfamilies. A number of plants of the spurge family are of considerable economic importance. Prominent plants include cassava (\"Manihot esculenta\"), castor oil plant (\"Ricinus communis\"), Barbados nut (\"Jatropha curcas\"), and the Para rubber tree (\"Hevea brasiliensis\"). Many are grown as ornamental plants, such as poinsettia (\"Euphorbia pulcherrima\"). Leafy spurge (\"Euphorbia esula\") and Chinese tallow (\"Triadica sebifera\") are invasive weeds in North America. In medicine, some species of the Euphorbiaceae proved effective against genital herpes (HSV-2). Some species, despite their medicinal benefits, are facing the risk of becoming extinct.", "title": "Euphorbiaceae" }, { "id": "7234813", "text": "Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, and James Dunn, who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Francie's father. The screenplay was adapted for radio in 1949 and television in 1974. In 2010, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film depicts several months in the life of the Nolans, an Irish American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. The film covers a much shorter timespan than the book, which", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)" }, { "id": "5497326", "text": "United States with the colonists in 1629. In 1847, Henderson Lewelling brought 700 fruit trees of \"Napoleon Bigarreau\" from Iowa to Oregon’s Willamette Valley to start a cherry orchard. Seth Lewelling joined his brother Henderson in 1850, he renamed the tree 'Royal Ann'. Seth later developed the Bing cherry. Sweet cherry trees are labeled as being very delicate and finicky. They are not a popular choice for growing with hobby gardeners because they can be very time consuming. Tips for facilitating growth and harvesting include bending the branches. Sweet cherry trees grow vertically very quickly, as more nutrients from sunlight", "title": "Royal Ann cherry" }, { "id": "583360", "text": "the bridge's Manhattan anchorage in order to fund the bridge. Opened in 1876, the vaults were used to store wine, as they were always at . This was called the \"Blue Grotto\" because of a shrine to the Virgin Mary next to an opening at the entrance. When \"New York\" magazine visited one of the cellars in 1978, it discovered on the wall a \"fading inscription\" reading: \"Who loveth not wine, women and song, he remaineth a fool his whole life long.\" The bridge was conceived by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling in 1852, who spent part of the next", "title": "Brooklyn Bridge" }, { "id": "14744799", "text": "Ted has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey (Taylor Swift), who wants to see a \"real tree\" more than anything in the world, so he decides to find one in order to impress her. His energetic Granny Norma (Betty White) secretly tells Ted the legend of the Once-ler, who will tell anyone about trees if they bring him fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail. When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler (Ed Helms), he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty, barren wasteland. Once the boy finds him, the Once-ler", "title": "The Lorax (film)" }, { "id": "8656658", "text": "marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after\" with \"a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts.\" She helped to establish the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. Her first husband was Herbert Solow, editor of the \"Menorah Journal\". After marrying her second husband, screenwriter Frank Davis, she moved to California in 1935. Slesinger was responsible for the screenplays, among others, of \"The Good Earth\" (1937) and, at the end of her life, she adapted \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1946) with Davis, which won them an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.", "title": "Tess Slesinger" }, { "id": "2266065", "text": "The apple goes from being completely green to turning yellow when overripe. It is claimed to be the third most popular apple in America by the US Apple Association.. The Granny Smith was one of four apples honored by the United States Postal Service in a 2013 set of four 33¢ stamps commemorating historic strains, joined by Northern Spy, Baldwin, and Golden Delicious. The Granny Smith Cultivar originated in Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia (now a suburb of Sydney) in 1868. Its discoverer, Maria Ann Smith, had emigrated to the district from Beckley, East Sussex in 1839 with her husband", "title": "Granny Smith" }, { "id": "9349395", "text": "Henry as 'a slow-growing hemispherical bush that has not increased appreciably in size for many years'. Green describes 'Nana' as growing some 60 cm in 10 to 12 years. The low height of the tree should ensure that it avoids colonisation by Scolytus bark beetles and thus remain free of Dutch elm disease. The Späth nursery of Berlin marketed \"U. montana nana\" in the late 19th century. It was introduced to the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa, Canada, in 1898. A 'Nana' appeared as \"U. nana\", 'Dwarf American elm', a \"very small\" elm with compact habit, in Kelsey's 1904 catalogue, New York.", "title": "Ulmus glabra 'Nana'" }, { "id": "7718967", "text": "not allow for the usual selective breeding methodologies, and so all navel oranges can be considered fruits from that single, nearly two-hundred-year-old tree: they have exactly the same genetic make-up as the original tree and are, therefore, clones. This case is similar to that of the common yellow seedless banana, the Cavendish, or that of the Granny Smith apple. On rare occasions, however, further mutations can lead to new varieties. Cara cara oranges (also called \"red navel\") are a type of navel orange grown mainly in Venezuela, South Africa and in California's San Joaquin Valley. They are sweet and comparatively", "title": "Orange (fruit)" }, { "id": "5162559", "text": "translations): Despite these Biblical references to \"willows\", whether in Latin or English, the trees growing in Babylon along the Euphrates River in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and named \"gharab\" in early Hebrew, are not willows (\"Salix\") in either the modern or the classical sense, but the Euphrates poplar \"(Populus euphratica),\" with willow-like leaves on long, drooping shoots, in the related genus \"Populus.\" Both \"Populus\" and \"Salix\" are in the plant family Salicaceae, the willow family. These Babylonian trees are correctly called poplars, not willows, in the New International Version of the \"Bible\" (English, 1978): Salix babylonica Salix babylonica (Babylon willow", "title": "Salix babylonica" }, { "id": "7234824", "text": "United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: James Dunn and Connie Marshall starred in a CBS Radio adaptation of \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" that aired April 28, 1949, on \"Hallmark Playhouse\". The screenplay was adapted for a 1974 NBC television film directed by Joseph Hardy, starring Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, Pamelyn Ferdin, and James Olson. \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" was released on Region 1 DVD as part of the 20th Century Fox Home Video box set, \"The", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)" }, { "id": "3416089", "text": "Peggy Ann Garner Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 – October 16, 1984) was an American actress. As a child actress, Garner had her first film role in 1938. At the 18th Academy Awards, Garner won the Academy Juvenile Award, recognizing her body of contributions to film in 1945, particularly in \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" and \"Junior Miss\". Featured roles in such films as \"Black Widow\" (1954) did not help to establish her in mature film roles, although she progressed to theatrical work and she made acting appearances on television as an adult. Born in Canton, Ohio, Peggy Ann", "title": "Peggy Ann Garner" }, { "id": "5832735", "text": "beech (\"Fagus grandifolia\"), American sweetgum (\"Liquidambar styraciflua\"), and Black cherry (\"Prunus serotina\"). Several trees here are more than 150 years old, and create a canopy with an under-layer of Dogwood (\"Cornus (genus)\"), Virginia creeper (\"Parthenocissus quinquefolia\"), Sassafras (\"Sassafras albidum\"), and Corktree (\"Genus Phellodendron\"). The park was ravaged in 1912 by the chestnut blight, and for a time was used for lumbering; about the same time, greenhouses were set up to grow plants for parks throughout the city. These have since been moved to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Bronx Park. The Brooklyn-Queens Greenway also runs through Forest Park, westward to", "title": "Forest Park (Queens)" }, { "id": "13333645", "text": "the loss of chlorophyll and expose the beta-carotenes (the orange color). Apples are not native to North America, but today the North American continent boasts the greatest diversity of apples in the world. Part of this is due to \"Johnny Appleseed,\" real name John Chapman. Chapman spent 48 years travelling all along the American northwest spreading apple seeds and planting trees. While apples come in literally thousands of varieties, the majority of the apple market is based on three: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith. Ornamental plants can be found in almost any store, and many people have at", "title": "Economic botany" }, { "id": "11529464", "text": "of its illustrious authors at his or her best, it is nevertheless a sturdy and pleasant entertainment.\" A cast recording of the original production was released by Capitol Records in 1954. By the Beautiful Sea (musical) By the Beautiful Sea is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. Like Schwartz’s previous musical, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", also starring Shirley Booth, the musical is set in Brooklyn just after the start of the 20th century (1907). \"By the Beautiful Sea\" played on Broadway in 1954. \"By the", "title": "By the Beautiful Sea (musical)" }, { "id": "732275", "text": "in the book. In a letter written to his sister Didi from the Western Sahara's Cape Juby, where he was the manager of an airmail stopover station in 1928, he tells of raising a fennec that he adored. In the novella, the fox, believed to be modelled after the author's intimate New York City friend, Silvia Hamilton Reinhardt, tells the prince that his rose is unique and special, as she is the one he loves. The novella's iconic phrase, \"One sees clearly only with the heart\", is believed to have been suggested by Reinhardt. The fearsome, grasping baobab trees, researchers", "title": "The Little Prince" }, { "id": "4395608", "text": "she feels differently after falling in love with Lee. However, at the end of the novel, Francie goes to college with a promise ring from Ben and hope of a future with him. Although the book addresses many different issues—poverty, alcoholism, lying, etc.—its main theme is the need for tenacity: the determination to rise above difficult circumstances. Although there are naturalistic elements in the book, it is not fundamentally naturalistic. The Nolans are financially restricted by poverty yet find ways to enjoy life and satisfy their needs and wants. For example, Francie can become intoxicated just by looking at flowers.", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)" }, { "id": "1800367", "text": "to the recording.\" On the evening after the first day's shooting, Corbijn told the band about Joshua trees (\"Yucca brevifolia\"), hardy and twisted plants in the deserts of the American Southwest, and he suggested their use on the sleeve. Bono was pleased to discover the religious significance of the plant's etymology; according to Mormon legend, early settlers named the plant after the Old Testament prophet Joshua, as the tree's stretching branches reminded them of Joshua raising his hands in prayer. The following day, Bono declared that the album should be titled \"The Joshua Tree\". That morning, while driving on Route", "title": "The Joshua Tree" }, { "id": "10196730", "text": "on Mt. Hygeia farm in Foster, Rhode Island, at the turn of the 20th century. The 'Rhode Island Greening' was one of the most popular apples grown in New York in the 19th century. It is tender, crisp, juicy, and quite tart, and similar to the 'Granny Smith'. The fruit is large, uniformly round in shape, and flattened on the ends, with a dark, waxy, green skin that turns a greenish-yellow when fully ripe. It ripens from September to October, keeping well into February or longer. Rhode Island Greening ] The 'Rhode Island Greening' is an old, historic American apple", "title": "Rhode Island Greening" }, { "id": "6392592", "text": "and on to others, with niches and passageways of every description. The nave and other rooms were the grassy plots; the walls were trees, shrubs, and bamboo; the pillars were old tree trunks.\" The arboretum collection includes bamboo, beech, birch, black cherry, black walnut, box elder, buckeye, camellia, cherry laurel, cow oak, clethra, crape myrtle, cypress, dogwood, elm, fig, Formosan gum, green hawthorn, hickory, hop hornbeam, holly, illicium, ironwood, Japanese maple, \"Justicia\", ligustrum, magnolia, live oak, loquat, pecan, persimmon, pine, red maple, red oak, sassafras, sawtooth oak, short leaf pine, silver bell, silver maple, sourwood, spruce pine, sugar maple, sweet", "title": "LSU Hilltop Arboretum" }, { "id": "10854717", "text": "of trees are also grown and sold. In Alabama, for example, types of trees grown for use as Christmas trees include eastern white pine, redcedar, Virginia pine, Leyland cypress, and Arizona cypress. In Florida, the sand pine and spruce pine are among the 20,000 grown in the state each year. In Great Britain, Nordmann fir is a popular species, largely due to its needle-holding qualities. Other popular trees in Britain are Norway spruce, Serbian spruce, and Scots pine, the last of which is slightly rarer; it has sharp needles which do not shed easily. In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a", "title": "Christmas tree cultivation" }, { "id": "10428491", "text": "Nurse tree A nurse tree is a larger, faster-growing tree that shelters a small, slower-growing tree or plant. The nurse tree can provide shade, shelter from wind, or protection from animals who would feed on the smaller plant. For example, the Norway Spruce (Picea abies) and Larch (Larix) can function as a nurse for hardwoods. In the Sonoran desert, Palo Verde, Ironwood or mesquite trees serve as nurse trees for young saguaro cacti. As the Saguaro grows and becomes more acclimated to the desert sun, the older tree may die, leaving the saguaro alone. In fact, as the Saguaro grows", "title": "Nurse tree" }, { "id": "9439661", "text": "been the creation of American authors, beginning in the mid-19th century. In 1889, the poet Katharine Lee Bates popularized Mrs. Claus in the poem \"Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride\". \"\"Is There a Santa Claus?\"\" was the title of an editorial appearing in the 21 September 1897 edition of \"The New York Sun\". The editorial, which included the famous reply \"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus\", has become an indelible part of popular Christmas lore in the United States and Canada. L. Frank Baum's \"The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus\", a 1902 children's book, further popularized Santa", "title": "Santa Claus" }, { "id": "2768126", "text": "sporadically during the 1950s and became regular practice in the mid to late 1960s. Also in the Sturges quad is the famous \"Seuss Spruce,\" so called because it looks like a Dr. Seuss illustration. It is said that the tree's shape was due to being weighed down by ice and snow during the particularly tough winter of 1991. Now the tree simply grows in a crooked and slightly spiral shape. It's more likely that the tree is the cultivated variety Picea Glauca 'Pendula' or a similar spruce. Adding to the Seussian quality of the tree is the fact that the", "title": "State University of New York at Geneseo" }, { "id": "17639522", "text": "Magnolia grandiflora (Brooklyn) The Magnolia grandiflora at 679 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn is one of two trees that are designated a New York City landmark. The specimen is a rare example of a flourishing laurel magnolia growing as far north as New York. The tree was brought as a seedling from North Carolina and planted around 1885 by William Lemken. Beginning in the 1950s, it was protected by Hattie Carthan, who enlisted neighborhood schoolchildren to help raise money to protect the tree, which was threatened by the construction of a parking lot. After the tree's designation as a landmark, Carthan founded", "title": "Magnolia grandiflora (Brooklyn)" }, { "id": "2266067", "text": "his father had been invited to Smith's farm to inspect a chance seedling that had sprung near a creek. Smith had dumped there, among the ferns, the remains of French crab-apples that had been grown in Tasmania. Another story recounted that Smith had been testing French crab-apples for cooking, and, throwing the apple cores out her window as she worked, had found that the new cultivar had sprung up underneath her kitchen windowsill. Whatever the case, Smith took it upon herself to propagate the new cultivar on her property, finding the apples good for cooking and for general consumption. Having", "title": "Granny Smith" }, { "id": "2550681", "text": "instruction of John Evelyn and described by Elwes as \"one of the finest and most imposing avenues in the world\". The wych elms were felled in 1943. E. M. Forster cites a particular wych elm, one that grew at his childhood home of Rooks Nest, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, sixteen times in his novel \"Howards End\". This tree overhangs the house of the title and is said to have a \"...\"girth that a dozen men could not have spanned\"...\" Forster describes the tree as \"...\"a comrade, bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots\".\" The wych elm of the novel", "title": "Ulmus glabra" }, { "id": "5537760", "text": "sp.\"), lodgepole pine (\"Pinus contorta\"), limber pine (\"Pinus flexilis\"), mountain hemlock (\"Tsuga mertensiana\"), ponderosa pine (\"Pinus ponderosa\"), and giant sequoia (\"Sequoiadendron giganteum\") (Jacoby, 2000a).” “In the southern hemisphere, successful crossdating has been achieved on alerce (\"Fitroya cupressoides\") and pehuen (\"Araucaria araucana\"), also known as 'Chilean pine' or the 'monkey puzzle tree,' specimens in South America, kauri (\"Agathis australis\") specimens in New Zealand, clanwilliam cedar (\"Widdringtonia cedarbergensis\") specimens in Australia and Tasmania, and huon pine (\"Lagarostrobus franklinii\") in Tasmania (Jacoby, 2000al; Norton, 1990).” The main application of tree research laboratory science or dendroarchaeology is to produce records of past climates that", "title": "Dendroarchaeology" }, { "id": "8346654", "text": "Naval Live Oaks Area was purchased with the goal of reserving the valuable live oaks resources for shipbuilders. President John Quincy Adams is credited for the authorization to establish this federal tree farm. Superintendent Henry Marie Brackenridge, who lived on the tree farm, experimented with cultivating the live oak tree. He was perhaps the United States' first federal forester. The practice of using live oaks in shipbuilding was well established in America by 1700. Early famous live oak vessels include the USS \"Hancock\" (1776), an American revolutionary privateer, and the USS \"Constitution\" (1797) and USS \"Constellation\" (1797). The USS \"Constitution\"", "title": "Naval Live Oaks Reservation" }, { "id": "1400928", "text": "cartoon featured lively tunes, and a childlike simplicity of message. This animated short was included in \"Disney's American Legends\", a compilation of four animated shorts. Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed is on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of Nova, Ohio. Some marketers claim it is a Rambo, more than a century before John Chapman was born. Some even make the claim that the Rambo was \"Johnny Appleseed's favorite variety\", ignoring that he had religious objections to grafting and preferred wild apples to all named varieties. It appears most nurseries are calling the tree the", "title": "Johnny Appleseed" }, { "id": "583395", "text": "Story of the Brooklyn Bridge\". This stage play focuses on the dramatic events of the Roebling family as they endeavor to build the Brooklyn Bridge. Tagline for the play reads: \"A drama about the men who built the Brooklyn Bridge–and the woman who finished it.\" Notes Further reading Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge has a main span of and a height of above mean high water. It is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the", "title": "Brooklyn Bridge" }, { "id": "9666680", "text": "decided to proceed in writing a novel concentrated on the Holocaust, personal accounts like Elie Wiesel's memoirs gave Spinelli insight. Orchard Books acquired the United Kingdom publishing rights for \"Milkweed\". They previously had sales of 15,000 for Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl. Milkweed received the 2004 Golden Kite Award for Fiction and the 2003 Carolyn W. Field Award for Fiction. Examples of symbolism in \"Milkweed\" are angels and milkweed pods. In \"The Horn Book Magazine\" Peter D. noted that “[the] angel statue and [the] milkweed plant that somehow grows in the ghetto,” were a few of the novel’s motifs. Likewise, Suzanne Manczuk", "title": "Milkweed (novel)" }, { "id": "329933", "text": "moderate source of dietary fiber and no other essential nutrients in significant amounts (table, USDA National Nutrient Database). Pears grow in the sublime orchard of Alcinous, in \"Odyssey\" vii: \"Therein grow trees, tall and luxuriant, pears and pomegranates and apple-trees with their bright fruit, and sweet figs, and luxuriant olives. Of these the fruit perishes not nor fails in winter or in summer, but lasts throughout the year.\" 'A Partridge in a Pear Tree' is the first gift in \"The Twelve Days of Christmas\" cumulative song. This verse is repeated twelve times in the song. The pear tree was an", "title": "Pear" }, { "id": "644784", "text": "a synonym for longevity\". Saying that someone is \"as old as Methuselah\" is a humorous way of saying that someone is very elderly. The word \"Methuselarity,\" a portmanteau of Methuselah and singularity, was coined by Aubrey de Grey to mean a future point in time when all of the medical conditions that cause human death would be eliminated, and death would occur only by accident or homicide. A -year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (\"Pinus longaeva\") tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California is called Methuselah. The lyrics of George Gershwin's song \"It Ain't Necessarily", "title": "Methuselah" }, { "id": "17663219", "text": "with an amber-colored head capsule. The pupa is \"mummy-like\", yellowish-white, and spiny. This bark beetle feeds on the developing bark on and around the root crowns of tree seedlings, especially the phloem. It also infests stumps, logs, and fallen trees. It prefers pines, and is a widespread pest of wild and cultivated Monterey pines (\"Pinus radiata\") in particular. Other recorded host trees include silver fir (\"Abies alba\"), colonial pine (\"Araucaria cunninghamii\"), Port Orford cedar (\"Chamaecyparis lawsoniana\"), common larch (\"Larix decidua\"), Sitka spruce (\"Picea sitchensis\"), Douglas-fir (\"Pseudotsuga menziesii\"), and coast redwood (\"Sequoia sempervirens\"). The beetle reproduces in the inner bark layer", "title": "Hylastes ater" }, { "id": "19535459", "text": "Adrian Janes. After 1858 the area of Janes Hill in St. Mary's Park in the Bronx (the largest and one of the original six parks in the Bronx borough) was known for the owner of its land, Adrian Janes. With a cast iron span of 50 feet and a walkway made of ipe (a wood in the genus handroanthus), the Bow Bridge is \"like a Victorian confection reflected in the waters of Central Park's lake.\" In 1964 the Brooklyn Bridge was designated a National Historic Landmark, and in 1972 it was recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Adrian", "title": "Adrian Janes" }, { "id": "4394891", "text": "types of hardwood trees as well as citrus trees, pecan, apple, Australian pine, hibiscus, sycamore, willow, pear, mulberry, pigeon pea, Chinaberry, poplar, litchi, kumquat, Japanese red cedar, oak, and \"Ficus\". The citrus long-horned beetle poses an unprecedented threat to the environment in North America because it attacks healthy trees and has no natural enemies. Not only are greenbelts, urban landscapes and backyard trees at jeopardy, but also orchards, forests, and endangered salmon, and wildlife habitat. The citrus long-horned beetle was first discovered in the U.S. in April 1999, when a single beetle was found in a nursery greenhouse in Athens,", "title": "Citrus long-horned beetle" }, { "id": "1368862", "text": "heterophylla the Norfolk Island pine and Araucaria bidwillii, Bunya Pine, in Australia. The recently found 'Wollemi pine', \"Wollemia\", discovered in south-east Australia, is classed in the plant family Araucariaceae. Their common ancestry dates to a time when Australia, Antarctica, and South America were linked by land — all three continents were once part of the supercontinent known as Gondwana. Araucaria araucana Araucaria araucana (commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, or Chilean pine) is an evergreen tree growing to 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft) in diameter and 30–40 m (100–130 ft) in height. It is native to central", "title": "Araucaria araucana" }, { "id": "10841078", "text": "summer of 2011. She has appeared in a number of television shows, including The View, CW 11 morning news, and the Today Show for interviews pertaining to her role in \"Spring Awakening\". Zaken also appeared in \"Betrayal\" an episode of the 2008 season of long running crime drama \"Law & Order\" as the character Amanda, and \"The Ex-Files\", an episode of \"Gossip Girl\" on September 22, 2008. Zaken has appeared in a number of Off- Broadway and regional productions, including the critically acclaimed \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" at the Goodspeed Opera House. Zaken won the \"Best Debut\" award from", "title": "Remy Zaken" }, { "id": "1459792", "text": "Actress for Dern. Speaking on the challenge of adapting such a packed book, Hornby said it was really a case of boiling everything down and making the realisation that he could have made a two-hour film without mentioning walking at all. In 2015, he wrote the script for the film \"Brooklyn\", an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's novel of the same name. Tim Robey of \"The Daily Telegraph\" said it was \"his strongest work ever as a screenwriter\". According to Metacritic, the film is on eighty \"top 10\" lists for 2015. He was nominated for his second Oscar for writing the", "title": "Nick Hornby" }, { "id": "20156652", "text": "to be avoided for security reasons. Admission is charged for visitors and vehicles. The nature park is situated inside the Fatih Forest, which has a dense middle-aged vegetation. The plants are mostly deciduous trees, however there are also coniferous trees. These are Kasnak oak (\"Quercus vulcanica\"), Turkey oak (\"Quercus cerris\"), common hornbeam (\"Carpinus betulus\"), sweet chestnut (\"Castanea sativa\"), oriental plane (\"Platanus orientalis\"), common ash (\"Fraxinus excelsior\"), blackthorn (\"Prunus spinosa\"), black pine (\"Pinus nigra\"), black pine (\"Pinus nigra\"), blackbeery (\"Rubus\"), spineless butcher's-broom (\"Ruscus hypoglossum\"), giant heather (\"Erica arborea\"), Japanese laurel (\"Aucuba japonica\"), laurestine (\"AViburnum tinus\"), Australian laurel (\"Pittosporum tobira\") and European", "title": "Fatih Sultan Mehmet Nature Park" }, { "id": "2523428", "text": "before you on the river! It's really a magnificent place to live. This section of Brooklyn is very old, but all the houses are in splendid condition and have not been invaded by foreigners... His ambition to synthesize America was expressed in \"The Bridge\" (1930), intended to be an uplifting counter to Eliot's \"The Waste Land\". The Brooklyn Bridge is both the poem's central symbol and its poetic starting point. Crane found what a place to start his synthesis in Brooklyn. Arts patron Otto H. Kahn gave him $2,000 to begin work on the epic poem. When he wore out", "title": "Hart Crane" }, { "id": "2052997", "text": "Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, \"White Teeth\" (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Her most recent book is \"Feel Free\" (2018), a collection of essays. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Smith was born Sadie Smith in Willesden in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith. At the age of 14, she changed her name to", "title": "Zadie Smith" }, { "id": "2272956", "text": "through magical practices, but it also replaced the angel that Smith said had appeared to him with a white salamander. After the letter had been purchased for the church and become public knowledge, LDS Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words \"white salamander\" could be reconciled with Smith's Angel Moroni because, in the 1820s, the word \"salamander\" might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a \"being that is able to live in fire is a good approximation of the description Joseph Smith gave of the Angel", "title": "Mark Hofmann" }, { "id": "5498361", "text": "M26 rootstocks for practical use. In 1975, Auvil brought the \"Rainier Cherry\" to the north western United States and in the next year he developed double row planting for Granny Smith apple trees. In 1981, Auvil was named for the second time \"Grower of the Year\" on top of being awarded the \"Outstanding Citizen of the Year\" award by the Apple Blossom Festival. In 1986, the Washington State Cherry Commission honored Auvil the \"Cherry King\". In both 1989, Auvil had received the Gamma Sigma Delta \"Award of Merit\". To kick off the new decade in the 1990s, Auvil was named", "title": "Grady Auvil" }, { "id": "7712462", "text": "east of the Mississippi River. Native: It is considered an exploitably vulnerable species in New York, a threatened species in New Hampshire and a special concern in Rhode Island. Conopholis americana Conopholis americana (American cancer-root or squawroot or bumeh or bear corn) is a perennial, non-photosynthesizing (or \"\") parasitic plant, from the family Orobanchaceae and more recently from the genus \"Conopholis\" but also listed as \"Orobanche\", native but not endemic to North America and when blooming, resembles a pine cone or cob of corn growing from the roots of mostly oak and beech trees. \"Conopholis americana\" is parasitic on the", "title": "Conopholis americana" }, { "id": "2142971", "text": "trees are mostly dioecious, with male and female cones found on separate trees, though occasional individuals are monoecious or change sex with time. The female cones, usually high on the top of the tree, are globose, and vary in size among species from diameter. They contain 80–200 large edible seeds, similar to pine nuts, though larger. The male cones are smaller, long, and narrow to broad cylindrical, broad. The genus is familiar to many people as the genus of the distinctive Chilean pine or monkey-puzzle tree (\"Araucaria araucana\"). The genus is named after the Spanish exonym \"Araucano\" (\"from Arauco\") applied", "title": "Araucaria" }, { "id": "17538991", "text": "New York City stage debut as a member of the theatre collective Group Theatre throughout its run from 1931 to 1941, receiving praise for the role of the chief striker's wife in Clifford Odets' play \"Waiting for Lefty\". After Group Theatre ended in 1941, Nelson relocated to Hollywood. Throughout the 1940s, she made a number of movies for 20th Century Fox and other Hollywood studios. One of these was \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" (1945), directed by fellow Group Theatre member Elia Kazan. She also appeared in Kazan's film \"The Sea of Grass\" in 1947. As her career began to", "title": "Ruth Nelson (actress)" }, { "id": "9848738", "text": "and the Fritter Tree.\" In the story, Smith comes to America in 1854 on the promise that there are \"fritter trees\" there. Tricked into slavery, he later escapes, joins the Union army and, after the war, heads out west where he chases Billy the Kid and rides with Jesse James. The first film, \"Charlie Smith at 131\" (30 minutes) was made 1973 and directed by Michael Rabiger for the BBC \"Yesterday's Witness\" series. Charlie Smith (centenarian) Charlie Smith was a centenarian noted for claiming to be the oldest person in the United States. Smith stated that he had been born", "title": "Charlie Smith (centenarian)" }, { "id": "12367863", "text": "branches extend to various worlds. Various creatures live on it. In India, Kalpavriksha is a wish-fulfilling tree, one of the nine jewels that emerged from the primitive ocean. Icons are placed beneath it to be worshipped, tree nymphs inhabit the branches and it grants favours to the devout who tie threads round the trunk. Democracy started in North America when the Great Peacemaker formed the Iroquois Confederacy, inspiring the warriors of the original five American nations to bury their weapons under the Tree of Peace, an eastern white pine (\"Pinus strobus\"). In the creation story in the Bible, the tree", "title": "Tree" }, { "id": "11529458", "text": "By the Beautiful Sea (musical) By the Beautiful Sea is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. Like Schwartz’s previous musical, \"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\", also starring Shirley Booth, the musical is set in Brooklyn just after the start of the 20th century (1907). \"By the Beautiful Sea\" played on Broadway in 1954. \"By the Beautiful Sea\" played in pre-Broadway tryouts in New Haven at the Shubert Theatre starting February 15, 1954; in Boston starting February 23; and Philadelphia starting March 16. The musical opened on", "title": "By the Beautiful Sea (musical)" }, { "id": "6019937", "text": "the wild, even visiting Chile to see monkey puzzle trees (\"Araucaria araucana\"). The work remains a source of information on trees and arboriculture. Henry John Elwes Henry John Elwes, FRS (16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922) was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalaya and Korea. He was one of the first group of 60 people to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. Author of \"Monograph of the Genus Lilium\" (1880), and \"The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland\"", "title": "Henry John Elwes" }, { "id": "3889618", "text": "The Kubota Gardens contain many varieties of trees and plants including Kuretake (\"Phyllostachys nigra\" or Black Bamboo), Japanese Maple (\"Acer palmatum\"), Blue Atlas Cedar (\"Cedrus atlanticus Glauca\"), and Norway Spruce (\"Picea abies\"). Kubota Garden Kubota Garden is a 20-acre (81,000 m²) Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. A public park since 1987, it was started in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota, a Japanese emigrant. Today, it is maintained as a public park by the Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Kubota Garden Foundation. Fujitaro Kubota emigrated from Shikoku, Japan in 1907 and established the Kubota Gardening Company", "title": "Kubota Garden" }, { "id": "15581583", "text": "E. B. White introduced the theme to young readers in his classic \"Charlotte's Web\", in 1952. For many years \"Charlotte's Web\" was the accepted template for addressing mortality in children's books. Then Smith's story appeared, a story in which animals do not stand-in for humans. In the 1970s, literary realism had taken hold, and Smith was at the vanguard of the movement, acquainting young readers with \"the darker, harsher side of life.\" According to author and blogger Pauline Dewan; \"Many writers believe that authors do not help children by sheltering them from the problems of the real world.\" Indeed, many", "title": "A Taste of Blackberries" }, { "id": "19269146", "text": "First World War. In addition to the monument, Hillcrest Veterans Square contains a flagpole and a red maple tree. Hillcrest Veterans Square Hillcrest Veterans Square is a triangle-shaped public park located in the Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York City. The square contains a monument erected by Hillcrest Post No. 1078 of the American Legion. In 2005, the park’s original monument to the veterans was replaced by a more detailed design. The new monument contains a plaque from the original monument along with excerpts from the poem “We Shall Keep the Faith” by Moina Michael. Its mention of the poppies growing", "title": "Hillcrest Veterans Square" }, { "id": "4855687", "text": "than her apartment that the tree grew which gave name to her book. It was there, in 1917, that she first met her future first husband, George H. E. Smith, the coach of her debate team and a fellow German-American whose family name had been changed during WWI from Schmidt. After moving briefly to Richmond Hill, Queens, with her mother and stepfather, she eloped with George Smith to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he pursued a law degree at the University of Michigan. They married October 18, 1919. During the couple's extended stay in Ann Arbor, Smith gave birth to two", "title": "Betty Smith" }, { "id": "19041782", "text": ", and a circumference of at breast height. In 1955, the American Forests Association declared the tree the largest of its species in the United States. It only held the title for three weeks, before the association identified a larger American sycamore in Maryland. Despite losing its national title, the sycamore remained the largest American sycamore in West Virginia. Following a 1963 survey of large trees in West Virginia, the Webster Sycamore was named the second-largest tree after a white oak (\"Quercus alba\") in Randolph County. The land upon which the Webster Sycamore was located was owned by the Pardee", "title": "Webster Sycamore" }, { "id": "12823070", "text": "the perilous sea voyage around Cape Horn. Lobb found the journey through the mountains gruelling, having to travel though snow that he described as \"five feet deep, frozen so hard that the mules made no impression and the cold was intense\", causing him to collapse ill with fever on several occasions. James Veitch's instructions to Lobb included a request to locate and bring back seeds of the Chile pine (more popularly known as the \"monkey-puzzle tree\") (\"Araucaria araucana\") which had originally been introduced to Britain by Archibald Menzies in 1795. Veitch had seen a young specimen at Kew Gardens grown", "title": "William Lobb" }, { "id": "778819", "text": "the cedar, those parts of the island not covered in buildings and tarmac are now densely covered in trees and shrubbery, including allspice (\"Pimenta dioica \"), fiddlewood, Norfolk Island pine (\"Araucaria heterophylla\"), bay grape (\"Coccoloba uvifera\"), Surinam cherry (\"Eugenia uniflora\"), poinciana (\"Delonix regia\"), fan palms, coconut palm (\"Cocos nucifera\"), royal palm (\"Roystonea\"), pittusporum, Natal plum, loquat (\"Eriobotrya japonica\"), oleander (\"Nerium oleander\"), and hibiscus. Most of the introduced species have proved to be unequal to Bermuda's frequently fierce weather. A succession of winter storms and a few powerful hurricanes that have struck over the last two decades have reduced woodlands, and", "title": "Geography of Bermuda" }, { "id": "583357", "text": "Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge has a main span of and a height of above mean high water. It is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States and was the world's first steel-wire suspension bridge, as well as the first fixed crossing across the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge started construction in 1869 and was completed fourteen years later in 1883. It was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the", "title": "Brooklyn Bridge" }, { "id": "4395595", "text": "future relationship with him. The Nolans prepare for Katie's wedding and the move from their Brooklyn apartment to McShane's home. Francie pays one last visit to some of her favorite childhood places and reflects on all the people who have come and gone in her life. She is struck by how much of Johnny's character lives on in Neely who has become a talented jazz/ragtime piano player. Before she leaves the apartment, Francie notices the Tree of Heaven that has grown and re-sprouted in the building's yard despite all efforts to destroy it, seeing in it a metaphor for her", "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)" } ]

[ "Herb and Tootsie Woodley" ]

[ { "id": "2513673", "text": "over all he surveys, with one notable exception—his formidable and domineering wife, Cora. Blondie and Dagwood's best friends are their next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, although Dagwood and Herb's friendship is frequently volatile. Lou is the burly, tattooed owner of Lou's Diner, the less-than-five-star establishment where Dagwood often eats during his lunch hour. Other regular supporting characters include the long-suffering mailman, Mr. Beasley; Elmo Tuttle, a pesky neighborhood kid who often asks Dagwood to play; and a never-ending parade of overbearing door-to-door salesmen. There are several running gags in \"Blondie\", reflecting the trend after Chic Young's death for the", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "3529372", "text": "Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip \"Blondie\". He first appeared some time before 17 February 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J. C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. The Bumsteads' first baby, Alexander, was originally named Baby Dumpling. The name of his younger sister, Cookie, was chosen by readers in a", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "3529374", "text": "getting ready before the carpool leaves without him, getting to work on time, his boss J.C. Dithers, and Cookie's many dates. He is often suspicious of her dates and keeps a close watch on them when they come to the house. Other characters in his universe include Elmo Tuttle, a pesky little neighborhood kid who wanders in and out of the Bumstead house, next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Lou, the sarcastic cook in a local diner, and Mr. Dithers' domineering wife, Cora. Dagwood's birthday is July 20. Over the years, Dagwood has appeared not only in daily newspapers, but", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "17366754", "text": "Blondie on a Budget Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth. It was the fifth entry into the long-running Blondie series of films, which ran between 1938 and 1950. Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat. Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join. Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to", "title": "Blondie on a Budget" }, { "id": "12048767", "text": "O'Byrne as the hapless mailman, always getting run over by Dagwood hurrying out the door, late for work. \"Blondie\" stars Patricia Harty and Will Hutchins as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, a suburban couple raising a precocious daughter. Plots mixed typical sitcom tropes from home life and work life. The series is best remembered for its opening theme, which featured the comic strip characters in animated form before transforming into the actors playing the characters. Like the 1957 version, which lasted only one season, the series was not a hit, lasting a total of 13 weeks before being canceled. Ferdin and", "title": "Blondie (1968 TV series)" }, { "id": "3529376", "text": "another appearance in \"Garfield \"comic strips in August 20, 2005 to invite Jon and Garfield for his and Blondie's anniversary party. In the song \"Homemade Mummy\" alternative rapper Aesop Rock briefly refers to Dagwood. Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip \"Blondie\". He first appeared some time before 17 February 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J. C. Dithers & Company", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "16216165", "text": "Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory is a 1942 American film, and the 12th entry in the Blondie series. Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie’s husband Dagwood isn’t happy with coming home every night finding a note, saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives. And her son, Baby, is left on his own all the time. The family dog, Daisy, roams freely around the house with no one to look after it.", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "2513669", "text": "Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, and John Marshall. Despite these changes, \"Blondie\" has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. Since 2006, \"Blondie\" has also been available via email through King Features' DailyINK service. Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier \"pretty girl\" creations \"Beautiful Bab\" and \"Dumb Dora\", \"Blondie\" focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune. The name \"Boopadoop\" derives from the scat singing lyric that", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "4695576", "text": "many suspects in a case that remains unsolved. Lake died of a heart attack in Indian Wells, California, on January 9, 1987, and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the Douras family mausoleum, along with actress Marion Davies and her husband, Horace G. Brown. Lake's widow Patricia was interred there upon her death in 1993. Arthur Lake (actor) Arthur Lake (born Arthur Silverlake Jr., April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of \"Blondie\", to life in film, radio and television. Lake was born in 1905,", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "3529373", "text": "national contest. The family circle is rounded out by Daisy the dog. The origin of both Dagwood's last name and Daisy's name came from Chic Young's long-time friend Arthur Bumstead and his dog, Daisy. His favorite things in life include his wife Blondie, his kids, naps on the sofa, long baths, and food. Dagwood was famous for concocting tall, multi-layered sandwiches topped with an olive on a toothpick, and the term \"Dagwood sandwich\" has entered American English. He frequently has problems with door-to-door salesmen, rude telemarketers and store salespeople, crashing into the mailman (Mr. Beasley) as he rushes from home,", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "4695571", "text": "Arthur Lake (actor) Arthur Lake (born Arthur Silverlake Jr., April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of \"Blondie\", to life in film, radio and television. Lake was born in 1905, when his father and uncle were touring with a circus in an aerial act known as \"The Flying Silverlakes\". His mother, Edith Goodwin, was an actress. His parents later appeared in vaudeville in a skit \"Family Affair\", traveling throughout the South and Southwest United States. Arthur first appeared on stage as a baby in Uncle Tom's Cabin", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "9296671", "text": "(as an infant) in \"Blondie's Blessed Event\", the eleventh entry in the series. Daisy had pups in the twelfth episode, \"Blondie For Victory\" (1942). Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, were oddly missing from the series. Pamela Britton portrayed Blondie in the 1957 TV series opposite Arthur Lake. Patricia Harty had the title role in the 1968 TV series. Neither \"Blondie\" TV series lasted a full season. \"Blondie Goes to Hollywood,\" by Carol Lynn Scherling. Albany, 2010. BearManor Media. . Blondie (radio) Blondie is a", "title": "Blondie (radio)" }, { "id": "6119952", "text": "radio sitcom \"Blondie\" in the mid-1940s, Lake replaced her as the voice of Blondie Bumstead for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake, who played Blondie's spouse, Dagwood. In 1954, Lake also co-starred with her husband in an early television sitcom he created called \"Meet the Family\". Lake was selected by the Motion Picture Publicists Association to be one of the MPPA 'Baby Stars' of 1940, an award similar to the WAMPAS Baby Stars selections of 1922 through 1934. Patricia Lake Patricia Van Cleeve Lake (between 1919 and 1923 – October 3, 1993), known", "title": "Patricia Lake" }, { "id": "16203290", "text": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble Blondie Has Servant Trouble is a 1940 American film, the sixth of the series of 28 Blondie movies. Blondie proves to be a real nuisance to her husband Dagwood and causes domestic disturbance in the Bumstead home, when she insists on getting a maid. Dagwood is forced to take the request seriously, and asks his boss, J.C. Dithers, for a raise. As a rule, Dithers refuses the raise, but instead he offers Dagwood and his family a two-week stay at a country house, complete with servants. The house is the size of a palace, formerly owned", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "11817065", "text": "Blondie Goes to College Blondie Goes to College is a 1942 Columbia comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is a part of the \"Blondie\" series, starring Penny Singleton in the title role. This was the tenth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is forced to receive a college diploma in order to remain a worker at the Dithers Construction Company. He goes to school with his wife Blondie (Penny Singleton), until they get the news married couples are not allowed. They decide to pretend they aren't a couple. A", "title": "Blondie Goes to College" }, { "id": "15406957", "text": "Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie Plays Cupid is a 1940 American comedy film starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and directed by Frank R. Strayer. Also in the cast is Glenn Ford. It is the seventh of the 28 \"Blondie\" films Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4 July celebrations. The ranch is a peaceful place in the country, but trouble starts already on the way over there, when the Bumsteads board the wrong train and have to hitchhike most", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "12048766", "text": "Blondie (1968 TV series) Blondie (also known as The New Blondie) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968–69 television season. The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that was based on the comic strip of the same name. The series stars Patricia Harty at the title character and Will Hutchins as her husband Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real life wife Henny Backus playing Cora Dithers. The series also featured the noted child character actress Pamelyn Ferdin as the Bumstead's daughter, Cookie, and character actor Bryan", "title": "Blondie (1968 TV series)" }, { "id": "8937636", "text": "Hanley Stafford Hanley Stafford (born Alfred John Austin 22 September 1899 in Hanley, England, United Kingdom; died 9 September 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an actor principally on radio. He is remembered best for playing Lancelot Higgins on \"The Baby Snooks Show\". Stafford also assumed the role of Mr. Dithers, the boss of Dagwood Bumstead on the \"Blondie\" radio program. He is commemorated by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Stafford emigrated from England to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1911. He enlisted in the 43rd Battalion of the Canadian Scottish Infantry in 1915, was wounded in the Third", "title": "Hanley Stafford" }, { "id": "16216171", "text": "of a military uniform. Dagwood returns to his home, with his wife, and isn’t bothered anymore by the Housewives of America. Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory is a 1942 American film, and the 12th entry in the Blondie series. Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie’s husband Dagwood isn’t happy with coming home every night finding a note, saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives. And her son, Baby, is left on", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "5557096", "text": "\"D.O.A.\", also in 1950. She made her third film of the year in the Red Skelton vehicle, \"Watch the Birdie\" (1951). It was 19 years before she returned to the big screen. Britton portrayed the title role of the TV version of the Chic Young newspaper comic strip \"Blondie\" (1957), opposite Arthur Lake as her husband, \"Dagwood Bumstead\". Britton was married on April 8, 1943, in Texas, to Captain Arthur Steel after they met on a blind date arranged by one of her sisters. After the wedding, he was posted to Italy on active service while Britton remained working at", "title": "Pamela Britton" }, { "id": "13962417", "text": "actress Ellen Morgan. Around this time, Norton reached what she considered the peak of her radio career. Ron Beck, former producer of the Colgate-Palmolive shows, had entered into production with his own company. He obtained scripts of \"Blondie\", an American show based on Chic Young's comic strip of the same name, and set about producing an Australian version of them. Willie Fennell played Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie's rather put-upon husband, but competition for the title role was very keen. Norton won it from a large field of auditioning actresses. \"Blondie\" went to air in November 1951, but its run was not", "title": "Kerry Norton-Smyser" }, { "id": "2513683", "text": "wiseguy neighbor Alvin Fuddle. Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. Hale left the series in 1945 and was succeeded by Jerome Cowan as George M. Radcliffe in \"Blondie's Big Moment\". In the last film, \"Beware of Blondie\", the Dithers character returned, played by Edward Earle and shown from the back. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, did not appear in the series until \"Beware of Blondie\". They were played by Emory Parnell and Isabel Withers. In 1943 Columbia felt the series was slipping, and ended the string with \"It's a Great", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "15406960", "text": "so happy over the new source of income that he consents to Charlie marrying his daughter after all, and the Bumsteads finish their weekend holiday at the hospital, in peace and quiet. Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie Plays Cupid is a 1940 American comedy film starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and directed by Frank R. Strayer. Also in the cast is Glenn Ford. It is the seventh of the 28 \"Blondie\" films Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "2513670", "text": "was popularized by Helen Kane's 1928 song \"I Wanna Be Loved by You.\" On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie and Dagwood were married. After a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike by Dagwood to get his parents' blessing, as they strongly disapproved of his marrying beneath his class, they disinherited him. Left only with a check to pay for their honeymoon, the Bumsteads were forced to become a middle-class suburban family. The marriage was a significant media event, given the comic strip's popularity. The catalog for the University of Florida's 2005 exhibition, \"75 Years of Blondie, 1930–2005,\" notes: \"Dagwood", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513678", "text": "each morning racing to meet his carpool rather than chasing after a missed streetcar or city bus. Even Mr. Beasley, the mail carrier, now dresses in short-sleeve shirts and walking shorts, rather than the military-style uniform of days gone by. During the late 1990s and 2000–2001, Alexander worked part-time after high school at the order counter of a fast food restaurant, the Burger Barn. There are still occasional references to Cookie and her babysitting. Daisy, who once had a litter of puppies that lived with the family, is now the only dog seen in the Bumstead household. Cookie and Alexander", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "9029323", "text": "Pen vomiting profusely in Violet's face, two biplanes colliding in midair, Dagwood Bumstead getting kicked in the groin by his wife, Blondie, which causes his head to pop off, resulting in another blood gush, Mickey Mouse getting hit over the head by a lead pipe, Rocky Balboa getting punched in the face by Popeye, and Godzilla squeezing Dr. Pepper out of a giant soda can. It ends with Charlie Brown announcing that \"Happiness is a warm \"uzi\"\" in a thick Germanic accent reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a cut to him smoking a cigarette in bed with the Little Red-Haired", "title": "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "11758432", "text": "Ann Barnes Ann Barnes (June 17, 1945 – September 13, 2005) was an actress and pop singer, best known for appearing as Cookie Bumstead on the short-lived television series \"Blondie\" (1957), based on the popular Chic Young comic strip. In the series executive-produced by Hal Roach, Arthur Lake reprised the role of Dagwood, first essayed in the feature films produced by Columbia Pictures in the 1930s–1940’s. “Blondie” was played in the TV series by Pamela Britton. Barnes played the Bumsteads' daughter as a bright, precocious girl, full of worldly wisdom, and terribly fond of cake. The energetic actress would often", "title": "Ann Barnes" }, { "id": "2513671", "text": "Bumstead and family, including Daisy and the pups, live in the suburbs of Joplin, Missouri,\" according to the August 1946 issue of \"The Joplin Globe\", citing Chic Young. The Bumstead family has grown, with the addition of a son named Alexander (originally \"Baby Dumpling\") on April 15, 1934, a daughter named Cookie on April 11, 1941, a dog, Daisy, and her litter of five unnamed pups. In the 1960s, Cookie and Alexander grew into teenagers (who uncannily resemble their parents), but they stopped growing during the 1960s when Young realized that they had to remain teenagers to maintain the family", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "4695574", "text": "at 6646 Hollywood Blvd. Many of the actors on the radio show noted Lake's commitment to the program, stating that on the day of the broadcast, Lake \"was\" Dagwood Bumstead. Far from being upset about being typecast, Lake continued to embrace the role of Dagwood in a short-lived 1957 \"Blondie\" TV series, then even into the 1960s and beyond; he would often give speeches to Rotary clubs and other civic organizations, eagerly posing for pictures with a Dagwood sandwich. Lake became very friendly with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and his mistress Marion Davies. He was a frequent guest at", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "8785941", "text": "television. In 1950, NBC optioned Telecomics' product and repackaged it as \"NBC Comics\". In 1951, Slesinger acquired the rights to make a \"Blondie\" television show with Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumsteadand his wife \"Pat Lake\" starred as \"Blondie.\" at the request of \"Randolph Hearst\" who cared for her as if she was his daughter. Pat Lake nee:Patricia Van Cleeve Lake an American socialite, actress and radio comedian, was also \"Marion Davies\"nice. Slesinger was completing the pilot episode at the time of his death on December 17, 1953. Amid the shock and confusion of his unexpected passing, the reels of the", "title": "Stephen Slesinger" }, { "id": "15406958", "text": "of the way. The young couple that picks them up, Millie and Charlie, are on their way to get married and elope together, without their parents' consents. The Bumsteads have to accompany the young couple to court and the wedding ceremony, but the wedding is interrupted by Millie's father, Mr Tucker, storming in with a shotgun. Mr Tucker then takes the car, with Dagwood, his son and their dog still in it, and drives off. Charlie is forced to take Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch, and in she encourages him to have another go at marrying Millie and elop. unfortunately", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "2810249", "text": "or wooden skewer usually crowns the edible structure. \"Dagwood sandwich\" has been included in \"Webster's New World Dictionary\", and \"Dagwood\" (referring to the sandwich) has been included in the \"American Heritage Dictionary\". Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip \"Blondie\", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to \"Blondie\" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's", "title": "Dagwood sandwich" }, { "id": "3529375", "text": "in comic books, Big Little Books, Whitman novels for children, and other print materials, as well as radio, film, and television. Arthur Lake played Dagwood in the \"Blondie\" film series (1938–50) and the short-lived 1957 TV series \"Blondie\", while Will Hutchins played him in a revival series (1968–69). He makes several cameo appearances in \"Garfield Gets Real\", alongside Grimmy from \"Mother Goose and Grimm\". Dagwood and his wife also made a cameo appearance in a \"Garfield\" strip originally published April 1, 1997. On a fourth wall break, Garfield refers to this as \"moving to a different comic strip\". Dagwood made", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "2513676", "text": "does Blondie wear her previous hat and gloves when leaving the house. Although some bedroom and bathroom scenes still show him in polka-dot boxer shorts, Dagwood no longer wears garters to hold up his socks. When at home, he frequently wears sport shirts, his standard dress shirt with one large button in the middle is slowly disappearing, and he no longer smokes a pipe at all. Blondie now often wears slacks, and she is no longer depicted as a housewife since she teamed with Tootsie Woodley to launch a catering business in 1991. Dagwood still knocks heads with his boss,", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "16203291", "text": "by Batterson, a newly deceased magician. With the consent of his wife, Dagwood accepts the offer, and they prepare for take off to the country. They arrive at the empty house during a terrible thunderstorm, and find out from a local that the place definitely is haunted in some way. When they enter the house they realize that the house truly must be haunted, since it shows definite signs of a poltergeist living there with chairs starting to move around. A man named Horatio Jones is in fact responsible for the haunting by moving the chairs, covered by a white", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "2810248", "text": "Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip \"Blondie\", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to \"Blondie\" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's illustrated Dagwood sandwich remain obscure, it appears to contain large quantities and varieties of cold cuts, sliced cheese and vegetables separated by additional slices of bread. An olive pierced by a toothpick", "title": "Dagwood sandwich" }, { "id": "6770579", "text": "Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of the comic strip \"Blondie\". He travelled to South Africa to appear in \"Shangani Patrol\" (1970) playing Frederick Russell Burnham. Back in the US, Hutchins guest starred on \"Love, American Style\", \"Emergency!\", \"Chase\", \"Movin' On\", \"The Streets of San Francisco\", and \"The Quest\". He was in \"The Horror at 37,000 Feet\" (1973), \"Slumber Party '57\" (1976), and \"The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington\" (1977). He also began appearing in circuses. Hutchins had roles in \"Roar\" (1981), \"Gunfighter\" (1999) and \"The Romantics\" (2010). Hutchins was married to Chris Burnett, sister of Carol Burnett, with", "title": "Will Hutchins" }, { "id": "5053087", "text": "supposedly comprises the rediscovered \"lost tapes\" of an abandoned, never-aired American sitcom created by \"Brandon Thalburg Jnr\". In 1937, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun live in Berlin, next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. Hitler and Braun have little in common with their historical counterparts, acting more like a stock sitcom husband and wife. Hitler, for example, appears in a golfing sweater and cravat as well as military garb. The Goldensteins are similarly hackneyed characters. The show is a spoof — not of the Third Reich, but of the sort of sitcoms produced in the United States", "title": "Heil Honey I'm Home!" }, { "id": "17285600", "text": "Blondie's Holiday Blondie's Holiday is a 1947 black-and-white comedy film, directed by Abby Berlin. The film is based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Constance Lee. This was the twentieth of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943. Daisy, the dog, appeared in every film except this one, as he was playing \"Curley\" in the 1947 film \"Red Stallion\" Dagwood Bumstead is an architect who has managed to convince the prominent bank president Samuel Breckenridge to let his firm have the contract", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "4695573", "text": "(1930). During this early sound film era, he typically played light romantic roles, usually with a comic \"Mama's Boy\" tone to them, in films such as \"Indiscreet\" (1931), which starred Gloria Swanson. He also had a substantial part as the bellhop in the 1937 film \"Topper\". Arthur Lake is best known for portraying the \"Blondie\" comic strip character of Dagwood Bumstead in twenty-eight Blondie films produced by Columbia Pictures from 1938 to 1950. He was also the voice of Dagwood on the radio series, which ran from 1938 to 1950, earning him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "16216167", "text": "scene and takes up camp at a nearby hotel, and comes visiting Dagwood in his home. When Dithers is at the Bumstead house, a soldier from the delegation by the name of Herschel Smith comes to look for his host. Seeing the soldier and aware of Dagwood’s predicament, Dithers comes up with a plan to disband the Housewives of America once and for all. He urges Dagwood to borrow the soldier’s uniform, and go to the camp where the women’s group are staying overnight on a training mission. Dagwood is to inform Blondie that he has enlisted in the army.", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "1000473", "text": "were to the same woman, Adeline Blondieau, from 1990 to 1992, and from 1994 to 1995. Inaugurated by Nicolas Sarkozy his fifth and final marriage was to Læticia Boudou from 1996 until his death. The couple adopted two girls from Vietnam: Jade Odette Désirée, born 3 August 2004 (formerly Bùi Thị Hoà), in November 2004, and Joy (Maï-Hường), born 27 July 2008, in December 2008. Hallyday, who resided in Los Angeles, owned a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 2006 to 2015 to avoid the high tax rate imposed by the French government. Hallyday said that he would have moved his", "title": "Johnny Hallyday" }, { "id": "2513675", "text": "were noted by their histrionic humor as well for having 12 panels, switching to the standard half-page format in 1986. While the distinctive look and running gags of \"Blondie\" have been carefully preserved through the decades, a number of details have been altered to keep up with changing times. The Bumstead kitchen, which remained essentially unchanged from the 1930s through the 1960s, has slowly acquired a more modern look (no more legs on the gas range and no more refrigerators shown with the compressor assembly on the top). Dagwood no longer wears a hat when he goes to work, nor", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "6949614", "text": "Jonathan Hale Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley, March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Corps. Hale is most well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the \"Blondie\" film series in the 1940s. He is also notable for playing Inspector Fernack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures. In 1950 he made two appearances in \"The Cisco Kid\" as Barry Owens. He also appeared in two different episodes of \"Adventures of Superman\": \"The Evil", "title": "Jonathan Hale" }, { "id": "6759041", "text": "Fantasio Fantasio is a fictional character from the \"Spirou et Fantasio\" comic strip. He was introduced in 1944 by Jijé, who was then drawing Spirou's adventures. Fantasio is Spirou's best friend and co-adventurer, a graphic reporter with an uncontrolled imagination and a mop of blond hair. In his early incarnation, he was considerably taller than Spirou, with a clown-like demeanour, and his hairstyle resembled that of Blondie character Dagwood Bumstead. In the Franquin era, he and Spirou became more alike. He has an evil megalomaniac cousin, Zantafio, who is his sworn enemy but bears a strong physical resemblance to him.", "title": "Fantasio" }, { "id": "12421401", "text": "the character as a \"50s radio guy on coke.\" The \"giggity\" phrase was inspired by Steve Marmel's Jerry Lewis impression. Quagmire is a bachelor who works as a commercial airline pilot. He lives on Spooner Street where he is a neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin, Cleveland Brown and Joe Swanson. He has had two spouses: Joan, a maid for the Griffins who died; and Charmise, a prostitute whom he divorced. The former episode, \"I Take Thee Quagmire\", was acknowledged by MacFarlane as the first to have a plot revolving around Quagmire. During his time in Korea in service in", "title": "Glenn Quagmire" }, { "id": "2265600", "text": "arrived in very quick succession; Mick Johnson (Louis Emerick) had been a lodger with Harry Cross in 1989 but in early 1990, the character was joined by his estranged wife Josie (Suzanne Packer) and their children Leo and Gemma (Naomi Kamanga). Max and Patricia Farnham (Steven Pinder and Gabrielle Glaister) moved into number 7 in September and were the soap's new 'professional' couple, along with their son Thomas, and live-in nanny Margaret Clemence (Nicola Stephenson). In direct contrast, working-class Ron and DD Dixon (Vince Earl and Irene Marot) drove onto Brookside Close during October in the 'Moby', a huge mobile", "title": "Brookside" }, { "id": "17366755", "text": "suspect that they are having an affair. After Dagwood wins money in a competition he decides to buy Blondie a fur coat, but uses Joan to try it on for size. Blondie sees them in the shop together and mistakenly thinks he is buying it for Joan. She decides to leave Dagwood for good, only to have a last minute change of heart. Blondie on a Budget Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth. It was the fifth entry into the long-running Blondie", "title": "Blondie on a Budget" }, { "id": "6759043", "text": "Prunelle. Fantasio Fantasio is a fictional character from the \"Spirou et Fantasio\" comic strip. He was introduced in 1944 by Jijé, who was then drawing Spirou's adventures. Fantasio is Spirou's best friend and co-adventurer, a graphic reporter with an uncontrolled imagination and a mop of blond hair. In his early incarnation, he was considerably taller than Spirou, with a clown-like demeanour, and his hairstyle resembled that of Blondie character Dagwood Bumstead. In the Franquin era, he and Spirou became more alike. He has an evil megalomaniac cousin, Zantafio, who is his sworn enemy but bears a strong physical resemblance to", "title": "Fantasio" }, { "id": "2304518", "text": "childhood, and actor Gene Raymond, and appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's \"The Great Temptations\". She also toured in nightclubs and roadshows of plays and musicals. Singleton appeared as a nightclub singer in \"After the Thin Man\", and was credited at this time as Dorothy McNulty. She was cast opposite Arthur Lake (as Dagwood) in the feature film \"Blondie\" in 1938, based on the comic strip by Chic Young. They repeated their roles on a radio comedy beginning in 1939 and in guest appearances on other radio shows. As Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, they proved so popular that a succession", "title": "Penny Singleton" }, { "id": "7452843", "text": "the Lansdowne in Primrose Hill, and he also works at Claridge's. In 2014, Jones appeared with three of the original Damage members—Rahsaan J Bromfield, Andrez Harriott and Noel Simpson—in the second series of \"The Big Reunion\" on ITV2. Since 1998, he has been in an on-off relationship with Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton. The couple became engaged on 21 January 2011. The couple have two sons: Beau Lee Jones, born on 10 August 2007, and Tate Lee Jones, born on 6 May 2011. In 1997, his brother was stabbed to death during a fight in a London pub. Jade Jones", "title": "Jade Jones (singer)" }, { "id": "17285601", "text": "to erect a new bank building in town. When Dagwood’s boss at the architect firm, George Radcliffe, hears about the contract, he is ecstatic and offers Dagwood a modest raise of $2.50. When Dagwood immediately tell his wife Blondie the good news over the telephone, she mistakes the numbers and believes he has gotten a $250 raise. She tells her friends about the fantastic news, and word gets around that Dagwood has made a fortune on his success. A class reunion is around the corner and Blondie is on the committee planning the festivities. When the rest of the committee,", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "1994790", "text": "in the film, some of their characteristics, as well as the basic plot, are significantly different. The novel is set in the present day and in a strange universe in which real humans and cartoon characters co-exist. The cartoons of the novel are primarily comic strip characters, as opposed to animated cartoon stars, with famous strip characters making cameos, such as Dick Tracy, Snoopy, Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, Beetle Bailey, and Hägar the Horrible. Strips are produced by photographing cartoon characters. In this version, \"toon\" characters speak in word balloons which appear above their heads as they talk. Although some", "title": "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" }, { "id": "16203292", "text": "blanket. He has been ordered to do this as an initiation to a lodge he is trying to get membership in. The haunting continues later in the night when two more persons, Anna and Eric Vaughn, arrive and pretends to be servants, and start a series of frightening events, like sliding panels and moving shadows. Later Anna and Horation disappear from the house, and Dagwood finds a newspaper clipping with a picture of Eric. He reads that his servant is responsible for plunging a knife into the back of an attorney, claiming that he stole Eric’s inventions and gave them", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "18383617", "text": "The Middle (season 6) The sixth season of the television comedy series \"The Middle\" began airing on September 24, 2014, on ABC in the United States. It is produced by Blackie and Blondie Productions and Warner Bros. Television with series creators DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler as executive producers. The show features Frances \"Frankie\" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a working-class, Midwestern woman married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn) who resides in the small fictional town of Orson, Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer). On May 8, 2014, ABC renewed", "title": "The Middle (season 6)" }, { "id": "20790829", "text": "his interest shortly afterwards. \"Being there felt wrong, and it still does today\" he told \"Los Angeles\" magazine in 2012. Cliff Cantor took over his brother's share and ran the club afterwards. Almost a year later, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of American football player and actor O. J. Simpson, and Ronald Goldman, a waiter, were found dead with similar injuries at Browns home in Brentwood. O.J. was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and acquitted at trial. In September 1994, Simpson's lawyers moved to have Judge Lance Ito allow them to review the LAPD's", "title": "Brett Cantor" }, { "id": "2012934", "text": "\"real\" by the authorities at Linkedin. In 1998, the characters from the comic strip \"Blondie\", including Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, were licensed for use at A&W franchisees as part of an \"All American Food\" campaign. In the 1960s, a character named Chubby Chicken appeared on all Chubby burgers. In early 2013, A&W introduced its first new product in several years: a six-ounce version of its soft-serve blended dessert treat. Mini Polar Swirls were the first product to be launched on Vine. The following summer, 250 of A&W's restaurants began hand-breading their chicken tenders, moving towards higher-quality menu items and expanding", "title": "A&W Restaurants" }, { "id": "9900845", "text": "woman. One of her more steady radio gigs was on the \"Blondie\" radio series in the part of Cora Dithers, the domineering wife of Dagwood Bumstead's boss. Allman became a familiar face to television viewers in the 1950s with numerous guest appearances on many programs of the era, usually situation comedies. She made multiple appearances on \"I Married Joan\", \"December Bride\", \"The Bob Cummings Show\", and \"The Abbott and Costello Show\", and three appearances on \"I Love Lucy\". In 1957, she reprised her role of Cora Dithers in a short-lived TV adaption of \"Blondie\". Allman had earlier played the role", "title": "Elvia Allman" }, { "id": "7028922", "text": "O. J. Simpson murder case The O. J. Simpson murder case (officially People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson) was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster, and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. On the morning of June 13, 1994, they were found stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Simpson was a person of interest in", "title": "O. J. Simpson murder case" }, { "id": "17285602", "text": "including bigmouth housewife Cynthia Thompson and Paul Madison, who were Dagwood’s highschool suitor, hears about Dagwood’s fortune, they suggest he pay the bill of $400 for the fancy dinner at the reunion. Blondie has no choice but to accept to defend Dagwood’s honor. Dagwood panics when he hears what Blondie has promised in his name, and starts a desperate search for money to pay for the dinner he can’t afford. He sees no other alternative than to try to gamble up the money on the horse race track. He talks to a gambling expert named Pete Brody to learn how", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "3532271", "text": "Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Shaun Majumder, David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Malin Åkerman, and Neil Patrick Harris, who plays a fictionalized version of himself. Investment banker Harold Lee is persuaded by his colleagues to do their work while they leave for the weekend. Meanwhile, Kumar Patel attends a medical school interview, but intentionally botches it to prevent getting accepted. Harold is attracted to his neighbor, Maria, but is unable to admit his feelings. After smoking marijuana with Kumar, and seeing an advertisement for White Castle, the pair decide to get hamburgers to satisfy their hunger. After traveling", "title": "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" }, { "id": "5362150", "text": "Maltese Falcon\" and Thomas Mara, the hapless district attorney who has to prosecute Santa Claus in \"Miracle on 34th Street\". Cowan also played Dagwood Bumstead's boss Mr. Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia Pictures' \"Blondie\" series. He also appeared in \"Deadline at Dawn\", \"June Bride\", and \"High Sierra\". In 1959 he played Horatio Styles in the episode \"Winter Song\" of \"The Alaskans\", with Roger Moore. That same year, he made two guest appearances in \"Perry Mason\", starring Raymond Burr. He played murdered playwright Royce in \"The Case of the Lost Last Act\" and then Victor Latimore in \"The Case of", "title": "Jerome Cowan" }, { "id": "16625655", "text": "brothers' guilt, the separate juries deadlocked on the charges, resulting in a mistrial. At their second trial, in 1996, which had one jury and was not televised, the two were convicted and are presently serving life sentences. Within a year of the first Menendez brothers' trial, in June 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of football star O. J. Simpson, and Ron Goldman, a waiter at a restaurant near her home in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood, were found brutally murdered in front of her home. A few days later, police charged Simpson with the crime. After a televised live slow-speed", "title": "Perry Mason moment" }, { "id": "1496620", "text": "Steptoe and Son Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business. They live at Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962–65, followed by a second run from 1970-74. The theme tune, \"Old Ned\", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 poll by the BBC to find \"Britain's Best Sitcom\". It was remade in the United States as \"Sanford and Son\", in Sweden as \"Albert & Herbert\", in the Netherlands as \"Stiefbeen", "title": "Steptoe and Son" }, { "id": "2764135", "text": "gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). When his first son, Wayne, died of diphtheria in 1937, Young took a year's hiatus; the experience made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling. After Young and his wife spent a year traveling in Europe, he began \"Blondie\" once again, quelling rumors that he might not return to the strip. With films, radio, television and products, the strip became a licensing and media bonanza that made Young a wealthy man. During his lifetime, he produced", "title": "Chic Young" }, { "id": "14883721", "text": "Patrick Star Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". He is voiced by actor Bill Fagerbakke and was created and designed by marine biologist and cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg. He first appeared on television in the series' pilot episode \"Help Wanted\" on May 1, 1999. Seen as an overweight, dimwitted pink starfish, Patrick lives under a rock in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom next door to Squidward Tentacles' moai. His most significant character trait is his lack of common sense, which sometimes leads him and his best friend, SpongeBob SquarePants, into trouble. Patrick", "title": "Patrick Star" }, { "id": "2941218", "text": "living on the cul-de-sac is corporate lawyer Richard Avery (John Pleshette) and his real estate agent wife Laura (Constance McCashin), who have a young son, Jason. Other neighbors include the young couple Kenny Ward (James Houghton), a record producer, and his wife Ginger (Kim Lankford), a kindergarten teacher. Early in the series, Gary becomes a salesman at Knots Landing Motors, and deals with visits from his wealthy brothers from Dallas, Bobby (guest star Patrick Duffy) and J. R. Ewing (guest star Larry Hagman). Gary and Valene get a visit from their teenage daughter Lucy (Charlene Tilton), although she decides to", "title": "Knots Landing" }, { "id": "7161470", "text": "same three crooks were hunting for hidden treasure, and entwined this with a romantic sub-plot. Freddie Widgeon is renting a villa called Peacehaven in the idyllic South London suburb of Valley Fields (which also featured in Big Money), and working, unhappily, in the office of Shoesmith, Shoesmith, Shoesmith and Shoesmith, solicitors. Soapy Molloy has just moved out of the house next door (Castlewood), to be replaced by the novelist Leila Yorke. Leila is published Popgood and Grooly, largely owned by Oofy Prosser. It turns out that Soapy has left some diamonds or \"ice\" (stolen from Oofy’s wife Myrtle) in the", "title": "Ice in the Bedroom" }, { "id": "1496646", "text": "2007, Season 6 and Season 7 in 2008 and Season 8 in 2009. Steptoe and Son Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business. They live at Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962–65, followed by a second run from 1970-74. The theme tune, \"Old Ned\", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 poll by the BBC to find \"Britain's Best Sitcom\". It was remade in the United States as \"Sanford", "title": "Steptoe and Son" }, { "id": "19653961", "text": "played Cookie (the Bumsteads' daughter) in the radio version of \"Blondie\", Kathy (the Andersons' younger daughter) on the radio version of \"Father Knows Best\" and Glory Mae (the \"little girl who lives next door\") on \"The Jack Carson Show\". She was also heard on \"Luke Slaughter of Tombstone\", \"Cavalcade of America\" and the radio version of \"Have Gun, Will Travel\". Nilsson was seen in \"Suspense\" (1946), \"The Actress\" (1953) and \"The Green-Eyed Blonde\" (1957). She also appeared on the TV series \"Official Detective\" as Mary in the 1957 episode 'The Night It Rained Bullets'. Norma Jean Nilsson Norma Jean Nilsson", "title": "Norma Jean Nilsson" }, { "id": "16056821", "text": "Good Vibes (U.S. TV series) Good Vibes is an American adult animated sitcom created by David Gordon Green and Brad Ableson and Mike Clements for MTV. The series follows the exploits of recent New Jersey transplant Mondo and his new best friend Woodie as they live their life in Playa Del Toro, a fictional Southern California beach town. The show was originally sold to Fox in 2008, and a pilot produced. When Fox passed, the producers looked for other buyers and in 2010 they received a series order at MTV. On February 24, 2012, the series was cancelled after one", "title": "Good Vibes (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "9296670", "text": "to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches - and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of letters, (which preceded the title sequence in almost every film). The films were typical of family-fare situational comedies of the period, and are endearingly funny in a low-key way. As the series progressed, the Bumstead children grew from toddlers to young adults onscreen. Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander) reprised his role in all the films. Daughter Cookie was played by three different child actresses, beginning in 1942 with her first appearance", "title": "Blondie (radio)" }, { "id": "9215433", "text": "Bumstead. Dogwood Bumshed is slightly larger than a playhouse. Colene stores her important possessions there, such as her journal and her picture of a horse, captioned \"For Whom Was That Neigh?\", which is the basis for her imaginary pet horse, \"Maresy Doats\". The specific name of Darius' anchor mode is unknown; Colene calls it the \"Land of Laughter\" or the \"Kingdom of Laughter.\" Sympathetic magic (such as emotional transfer and conjuration) is native to this mode. Psionic power is operational. The people of Darius' mode live and work on daises high above the ground, due to the numerous sharp crystals", "title": "Mode series" }, { "id": "7397413", "text": "of frankfurter and bun, generally with condiments such as ketchup and mustard, but sometimes served with additional toppings such as fried onion or shredded cheese. Artificial cased frankfurters are the most widely available while skinless types are sometimes sold as \"American style\". Smaller cocktail sized frankfurters are also common. One variation is the Dagwood Dog which consists of a frankfurt on a stick covered in either wheat-based or corn-based batters, deep fried and dipped in ketchup. It is also known as a Pluto Pup or Dippy Dog, depending on the region. A battered sav is a saveloy deep fried in", "title": "Hot dog variations" }, { "id": "9215432", "text": "is a contemporary town or small city in Oklahoma. This mode is portrayed realistically, with ordinary laws of physics; however, psionic power and some other forms of magic are functional though somewhat limited. Colene's house, which is in the suburbs, is close enough to her school that she is able to walk there. Colene calls her house the \"Charles Mansion,\" a pun on Charles Manson. She spends much of her time in Dogwood Bumshed, a wooden shed behind the house, so named because of the dogwood tree it stands under and as a pun on the comic strip character Dagwood", "title": "Mode series" }, { "id": "5584211", "text": "The condoms, which were called O-Daddies and bore interesting names and colors, were made in a house by a mom-and-pop firm, Velma and Rhino Gross. Dove's lengthiest stay was with the people who inhabited the twin worlds of Oliver Finnerty's brothel and Doc Dockery's speakeasy. In the brothel he found, in addition to his old friend Kitty Twist, who had become a prostitute, Hallie Breedlove, a onetime schoolteacher who was the star of Finnerty's string of girls. Hallie was in love with Achilles Schmidt, a former circus strongman whose legs had been cut off by a train. \"Legless\" Schmidt's upper", "title": "A Walk on the Wild Side" }, { "id": "16056823", "text": "and winning little show given enough time\". The show achieved a metascore of 58 on Metacritic and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70%, with an average rating of 6.15/10. It was cancelled by MTV on February 24, 2012 due to low ratings. Good Vibes (U.S. TV series) Good Vibes is an American adult animated sitcom created by David Gordon Green and Brad Ableson and Mike Clements for MTV. The series follows the exploits of recent New Jersey transplant Mondo and his new best friend Woodie as they live their life in Playa Del Toro, a fictional Southern California beach town.", "title": "Good Vibes (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "16216166", "text": "The household is falling apart, and the same goes for all the other households in the neighborhood. The other husbands are experiencing very similar situations. they blame Blondie for all this, since she is the one who started the ”Housewives of America”. They go to Dagwood and demand that he acts to put an end to the commotion, and get his wife to dissolve the group entirely. in another different turn of events, Dagwood’s boss, J.C. Dithers, has been thrown out of his home, which is to be used by a delegation of soldiers visiting the area. Dithers flees the", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "9296668", "text": "Family\". In its final season, the series was on ABC as a Sustaining Program from October 6, 1949, to July 6, 1950, first airing Thursdays at 8pm and then (from May) 8:30pm. The radio show ended the same year as the \"Blondie\" film series (1938–50). Others in the cast: Leone Ledoux (Alexander and Cookie Bumstead), Tommy Cook (Alexander as of May 1943), Larry Sims (Alexander as of Summer 1946), Jeffrey Silver (Alexander by 1949), Marlene Aames (Cookie by 1946), Norma Jean Nilsson (Cookie in 1947), Joan Rae (Cookie after 1947), Hanley Stafford (J.C. Dithers), Elvia Allman (Mrs. Dithers), Frank Nelson", "title": "Blondie (radio)" }, { "id": "2523772", "text": "and football analyst Marcus Allen, during her separation from Simpson. Allen denies the allegation, though it is backed by multiple members of his and Brown's inner circle, such as Simpson, Faye Resnick, confidants to Sheila Weller, and Simpson's defense attorneys, who claimed Allen confessed the affair to Simpson. Simpson nonetheless let his friend get married at Simpson's North Rockingham Avenue estate. Brown lived at 875 South Bundy Drive, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, with her two children. Early on the morning of June 13, 1994, Brown, aged 35, was found dead outside her home along with restaurant waiter Ron Goldman,", "title": "Nicole Brown Simpson" }, { "id": "6008350", "text": "at a fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob's favorite pastimes include \"jellyfishing\" (which involves catching jellyfish with a net in a manner similar to butterfly catching) and blowing soap bubbles into elaborate shapes. Living two houses down from SpongeBob is his best friend Patrick Star, a dim-witted yet friendly pink starfish who resides under a rock. Despite his mental setbacks, Patrick still sees himself as intelligent. Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob's next-door neighbor and co-worker at the Krusty Krab, is an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus, who lives in an Easter Island moai. He enjoys playing the clarinet and painting self-portraits,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "8472564", "text": "Hollywood to get into the burgeoning film industry. Arthur changed his professional name to Arthur Lake and later achieved great success as \"Dagwood Bumstead\" in the \"Blondie\" movie series. Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in \"dumb\" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Calverton telephone operator in \"Lassie\". Lake played the role for the entire ten", "title": "Florence Lake" }, { "id": "9670654", "text": "films are often unquestioningly consigned to the B-movie category, but even here there is ambiguity, as scholar James Naremore describes: The most profitable B pictures functioned much like the comic strips in the daily newspapers, showing the continuing adventures of Roy Rogers [Republic], Boston Blackie [Columbia], the Bowery Boys [Warner Bros./Universal], Blondie and Dagwood [Columbia], Charlie Chan [Fox/Monogram], and so on. Even a major studio like MGM [the industry leader from 1931 through 1941] was equipped with a so-called B unit that specialized in these serial productions. At MGM, however, the Andy Hardy, Dr. Kildaire , and Thin Man films", "title": "B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)" }, { "id": "13099000", "text": "Movie Stars (TV series) Movie Stars is an American sitcom that aired on The WB from 1999 to 2000. It stars Harry Hamlin and Jennifer Grant as famous Hollywood actors trying to raise their children. Reese Hardin (Hamlin) was the star of over-the-top but high-grossing action films while Jacey Watts (Grant), his second wife, was an often-nominated dramatic actress. They lived in a fancy house in Malibu, California, (next door to Tom Hanks, who was never seen) and raising their children, Apache and Moonglow. Also living with them were Reese's less successful brother Todd and Lori, Reese's daughter from his", "title": "Movie Stars (TV series)" }, { "id": "10310862", "text": "Daisy will attend. Nick successfully sets up a meeting between Daisy and Jay at his neighboring cottage in West Egg where the two meet for the first time in five years, which leads to an affair. At the Buchanan home, Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, Nick and his girlfriend Jordan Baker decide to visit New York City, Tom taking Gatsby's yellow 1932 Duesenberg with Jordan and Nick while Daisy and Gatsby drive alone. Once the group reach the city, they throw a party that turns into a confrontation between Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. Though Gatsby insisted that Daisy never loved Tom, Daisy", "title": "Daisy Buchanan" }, { "id": "6993191", "text": "eleventh series of \"Dancing on Ice\". In a 2000 interview, Blackwood claimed that if he had not made it in show business he would have been \"a graphic designer, designing buildings\" (\"sic\"). He became the step-brother of supermodel Naomi Campbell when his father married her mother in the 1980s, until their divorce several years later. His cousin is the actor and comedian Vas Blackwood. Blackwood has said he once attempted suicide after filing for bankruptcy in 2003. He has a son, Keaun, born in January 2001. Richard Blackwood Richard Clifford Blackwood (born 15 May 1972) is a British comedian, actor", "title": "Richard Blackwood" }, { "id": "16310445", "text": "The Middle (season 3) The third season of the television comedy series \"The Middle\" began airing on September 21, 2011 and concluded on May 23, 2012, on ABC in the United States. It is produced by Blackie and Blondie Productions and Warner Bros. Television with series creators DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler as executive producers. The show features Frances \"Frankie\" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a working-class, Midwestern woman married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn) who resides in the small fictional town of Orson, Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer).", "title": "The Middle (season 3)" }, { "id": "8943619", "text": "and always helps to thwart Sybil and Cedric. Ted and Lily Turine - Played by Phil Eason and Steve Nallon Ted and Lily own the Seaview Guest House, where Sid stays. Iris - Lily's identical twin sister who visits Seaview Guest House in one episode. Madge - Played by Sue Dacre - The housekeeper at the Seaview Guest House. Gran - An old woman who takes a shine to Sid. She owns a cat called Norman. Joe - Played by Phil Eason - Seaman who takes care of the Mermaid Molly galleon moored in the harbour. Owns a parrot called", "title": "The Spooks of Bottle Bay" }, { "id": "14630902", "text": "departed in 2011 after the characters were axed by series producer, Stuart Blackburn. It was announced in October, 2011, that Gaynor Faye had joined the cast as Megan Macey, Declan's half sister. On 29 September 2014, Merrells announced that he had quit \"Emmerdale\" in order to spend more time with his family. Of his departure, Merrells commented \"it was never going to be a job for life and I've stayed way longer than I thought I would.\" While he is at a hotel, Declan meets Charity Tate (Emma Atkins), who flirts with him and then steals his car. Declan later", "title": "Declan Macey" }, { "id": "16216168", "text": "When Dagwood arrives to the camp all the women are already gone, except for Blondie. The women was scared off by an odd-looking man who was sneaking around the camp, believing that he indeed was a spy, trying to perform an act of sabotage on the nearby dam. Seeing Dagwood in his dashing uniform overwhelmes Blondie and makes her realize that her rightful place is in her home, as support of her brave husband going off to war. Sitting in his underwear at Dagwood’s house, Herschel gets the message that he is to report back to active duty. He gets", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "3783122", "text": "Bianca Jagger, Lesley-Anne Down, Carl Sagan, Mrs. William Shatner, and many ex-wives of errant playboy sheiks. During his heyday Mitchelson owned a 38-room Beverly Hills mansion (which now belongs to Johnny Depp) and four Rolls-Royce automobiles. In his Century City office he had a chair owned by Rudolph Valentino and an illuminated ceiling of Botticelli's Venus which matched his belt buckle. He made a brief cameo appearance on \"The Golden Girls\" (\"There Goes the Bride\"); his role was as a lawyer for Stanley Zbornak, ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak. In the episode, he produced a prenuptial agreement which Dorothy had to", "title": "Marvin Mitchelson" }, { "id": "16203293", "text": "to Batterson, the former owner of the house. The clip also says that Eric claims to be the rightful heir to the estate and the house. When Blondie hears about this she regrets that she asked for servants in the first place. Dagwood sets out to catch Eric, and succeeds just in time to prevent the man from stabbing his own wife Blondie in the back. When the press hears about the events that lead to Eric’s capture, they name Dagwood a hero, and he finally gets his raise from his boss. Blondie Has Servant Trouble Blondie Has Servant Trouble", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "4235712", "text": "his wife, June Allyson. Powell was an old friend of both Robert Wagner and Aaron Spelling. The actual estate, known as Amber Hills, is situated on 48 acres in the Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood, Los Angeles. In the series, the Harts' address is given as 3100 Willow Pond Road, Bel Air: the real address of the house is 3100 Mandeville Canyon Road. As with most of the Spelling library series under the control of Sony Pictures Television, the series was remastered from the original masters in the 2000s for widescreen high definition presentation. This version of the series is", "title": "Hart to Hart" }, { "id": "15401047", "text": "Patricia Harty (actress) Patricia Harty (born November 5, 1941 in Washington, D.C.), also known professionally as Trisha Hart, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, \"Occasional Wife\" (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, \"Blondie\" (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, \"The Bob Crane Show\" (1975) as Ellie Wilcox and \"Herbie, the Love Bug\" (1982) as Susan MacLane. She also appeared on Broadway in \"Fiorello!\" and \"Sail Away\". Harty married \"Occasional Wife\" co-star Michael Callan in June 1968. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had been associate producer on \"The", "title": "Patricia Harty (actress)" }, { "id": "5158959", "text": "count Boris Slattery, lives in the fictional English seaside town of Maidenhair Bay, in the house of the Dongeon family (which is believed to be modelled after V. S. Naipaul's \"A House for Mr Biswas\"). His marriage to Flower Dongeon is decaying. His companion is Dr. Cohen, who is a dying alcoholic. Boris also has sex with an underaged teenager, June Furlough. He also fantasizes about Ines, a Swedish summer guest, who is the \"girl in the head\". Boris is believed to be modelled after Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov's \"Lolita\". Like its two predecessors, the book met only middling", "title": "J. G. Farrell" }, { "id": "13609585", "text": "where she attended Milwards Primary School and Stewards Comprehensive School. She moved with her family to Woodford in East London in 1991 and took a Performing Arts Course at Epping Forest College in Loughton, Essex. She won a scholarship to RADA and also to LAMDA but chose RADA. In 2005 she married actor Gary Turner (who had appeared as Carlos Diaz in the TV soap-opera \"Emmerdale\"). They separated in 2014 and Norris lives in the Essex countryside with their two daughters. She married radio presenter Dominic Atkins in June 2017. In June 1997, just before officially graduating from RADA, she", "title": "Carli Norris" }, { "id": "1763130", "text": "several boyfriends over the course of the series; his most enduring relationship was with film buff Dudley Butterfield (Chard Hayward). As the series progressed it increasingly focused on comedic characters such as brassy winebar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly), and her inventor husband Les (Gordon McDougall), no-nonsense Flo Patterson (Bunney Brooke), and the bookish bumbling Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin), who proved irresistible to the ladies. Reg and Edie MacDonald (Mike Dorsey and Wendy Blacklock) and their bubbly daughter, Marilyn (Frances Hargreaves), arrived at the start of 1974 as three more comedic characters. One memorable cliffhanger was the explosion in the", "title": "Number 96 (TV series)" }, { "id": "1709779", "text": "play themselves. These include David's longtime friend Richard Lewis as well as Ted Danson and his wife, Mary Steenburgen, who all have recurring roles as fictionalized versions of themselves. The show is set and filmed in various affluent Westside communities of (and occasionally in downtown) Los Angeles, as well as in the adjacent cities of Beverly Hills, Culver City, Brentwood, and Santa Monica. David's hometown of New York City is also featured in some episodes, most prominently in the eighth season. Although David maintains an office, he leads a semiretired life in the series and is rarely shown working regularly,", "title": "Curb Your Enthusiasm" }, { "id": "3159741", "text": "moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph), is a middle-aged married Jewish woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the last two BBC series, the location is changed to nearby Hainault, Essex before returning to Chigwell in series 10 (the first aired on ITV). The series ended its original BBC One run on Christmas Eve 1998 after nine years, but returned just over 15 years later, on 2 January 2014, on ITV, for its tenth series overall, running for eight episodes. The opening episode of the", "title": "Birds of a Feather" }, { "id": "5020143", "text": "New York City hospital. Starring Edie Falco of \"The Sopranos\", the series premiered on Showtime in June 2009, with Wallem and Brixius serving as showrunners for the series and sharing executive producer duties with Caryn Mandabach. Wallem married singer Melissa Etheridge on May 31, 2014 in San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California, two days earlier they both turned 53. Linda Wallem Linda Wallem (born May 29, 1961) is an American actress, writer, and producer. Wallem was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She is the older sister of actor Stephen Wallem who co-stars on her show \"Nurse", "title": "Linda Wallem" } ]

[ "Green Hornet (film)", "Green Hornet, The", "Green Hornet", "Brit Reid", "Green Hornet (comics)", "The green hornet", "The Green Hornet", "Britt Reid" ]

[ { "id": "1064711", "text": "became a juvenile sidekick to the Masked Man, is Dan Reid. When Trendle and Striker later created \"The Green Hornet\" in 1936, they made this Dan Reid the father of Britt Reid, alias the Green Hornet, thereby making the Lone Ranger the Green Hornet's great-uncle. Throughout \"The Lone Ranger\" radio series, Dan was played by Ernest Winstanley, Bob Martin, Clarence Weitzel, James Lipton and Dick Beals. The Lone Ranger's nephew made his first appearance in \"Heading North\" (December 14, 1942) under the name \"Dan Frisby\", the grandson of Grandma Frisby. The two lived in an area described as \"the high", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "15230227", "text": "Koshchei\" from Igor Stravinsky's \"The Firebird\" was usually used after this announced part: The original version (first used in episode 28 [May 3, 1936]) went like this: One relatively minor aspect of the character that tends to be given limited exposure in the actual productions is his blood relationship to the Lone Ranger, another character created by Striker. The Lone Ranger's nephew was Dan Reid. In the Green Hornet radio shows, the Hornet's father was likewise named Dan Reid, making Britt Reid the Lone Ranger's grandnephew. In the November 11, 1947, radio show episode \"Too Hot to Handle\", Britt tells", "title": "The Green Hornet (radio series)" }, { "id": "1689779", "text": "and the general public believe the Hornet to be a wanted criminal, Reid uses that perception to help him infiltrate the underworld, leaving behind for the police the criminals and any incriminating evidence he has found. In the original radio incarnation, Britt Reid is the son of Dan Reid, Jr., the nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger, making the Green Hornet the grand-nephew of the Ranger. The relationship is alluded to at least once in the radio shows, when Dan Reid visits his son to question him on why Britt has never captured the Hornet. On learning the truth", "title": "Green Hornet" }, { "id": "18837224", "text": "Versus Dracula\" and \"Star Trek\". On January 20, 2000, Courtney died at his home as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chuck Courtney (actor) Charles T. Courtney Jr. (July 23, 1930 – January 20, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dan Reid Jr., the Lone Ranger's nephew, in the television version of \"The Lone Ranger\". Courtney's mother, Elizabeth Courtney, was a costume designer at Columbia. Courtney first played Reid in \"The Lone Ranger\" in 1950. Between then and 1955, he made 13 more appearances in that role. He appeared in films", "title": "Chuck Courtney (actor)" }, { "id": "541007", "text": "Father O'Neill, who plays racquetball with Dr. Sanjay, who recently removed the appendix of Kim, who dumped you sophomore year. So you see, we're practically brothers.\" In a similar vein, Dave Barry, in a column describing the unexpected complications that emerged when he attempted to find out the precise wording of the Lone Ranger's catchphrase, connected the Lone Ranger to Kevin Bacon in the following way: the Lone Ranger was the Green Hornet's great-uncle; the Green Hornet and O. J. Simpson both hung out with people named Kato; Simpson and Robert Wagner co-starred in \"The Towering Inferno\"; Wagner and Bacon", "title": "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" }, { "id": "1064710", "text": "have someone to talk to. He was named by James Jewell, who also came up with the term \"Kemosabe\" based on the name of a summer camp owned by his father-in-law in upstate Michigan. In the local Native American language, \"Tonto\" meant \"wild one\". The character spoke in broken English that emphasized Tonto had learned it as a second language. Because means \"stupid\" or \"ignorant\" in Spanish, the character is renamed \"\" (Spanish for \"bull\") or \"\" in Spanish-speaking countries. The name of Captain Reid's son, the Lone Ranger's nephew, a character introduced in the radio series in 1942, who", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "18837223", "text": "Chuck Courtney (actor) Charles T. Courtney Jr. (July 23, 1930 – January 20, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dan Reid Jr., the Lone Ranger's nephew, in the television version of \"The Lone Ranger\". Courtney's mother, Elizabeth Courtney, was a costume designer at Columbia. Courtney first played Reid in \"The Lone Ranger\" in 1950. Between then and 1955, he made 13 more appearances in that role. He appeared in films and television series' such as \"The Virginian\", \"Pet Sematary\", \"The Wild Wild West\", \"Rio Lobo\", \"Wagon Train\", \"The Cowboys\", \"Billy the Kid", "title": "Chuck Courtney (actor)" }, { "id": "1064727", "text": "the 2006 Reeves biography. Burton wrote, \"Bass Reeves is the closest real person to resemble the Lone Ranger\". Burton also documents that Reeve's career as a law man was widely known and celebrated in his time. Burton cites many similarities between Reeves and the Lone Ranger (wearing disguises, having a Native American partner, riding a white and grey horse, giving out silver keepsakes, possessing legendary marksmanship and horsemanship etc.) Other suggested inspirations were Zorro and Robin Hood. The radio series inspired a spinoff called \"The Green Hornet,\" which depicts the son of the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan, Britt Reid, originally", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "1064714", "text": "reaching Fort Laramie found two messages waiting: one that Captain Reid (voiced in this story by Al Hodge) had been killed in an ambush at Bryant's Gap and the other that her own husband had been killed in an explosion. Taking Dan and certain items concerning his identity (including a small gold locket containing a picture of Dan's parents and a picture of Captain Reid's brother), Grandma Frisby travelled to Martinsville and raised Dan as her grandson. On hearing this story, The Lone Ranger reveals his true identity and his own story to Grandma Frisby and promises that he will", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "4731627", "text": "Hillbillies\", \"Preview Tonight\", and \"The Milton Berle Show\". In 1966, ABC-TV revived George W. Trendle's famous radio character in a new series, \"The Green Hornet\". Van Williams signed with 20th Century-Fox to portray the mysterious masked hero and his alter ego, newspaper editor Britt Reid (son of Dan Reid, Jr. who was the nephew of John Reid, aka \"The Lone Ranger\" although The Lone Ranger was not given that as his official true identity name). Williams played the role straight, unlike the lampoon comedy approach of the same producer's \"Batman\" show. He and co-star Bruce Lee also made three guest", "title": "Van Williams" }, { "id": "12877749", "text": "Rupert Soames Rupert Christopher Soames OBE (born 18 May 1959) is a British businessman, CEO of the outsourcing company Serco. Soames was born in Croydon, Surrey, to Lord and Lady Soames. He is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, The 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, The Baroness Baden-Powell. His brother is the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames. Soames was educated at St. Aubyns Preparatory School in", "title": "Rupert Soames" }, { "id": "14177836", "text": "framed for a crime he did not commit. The character had originated as the star of a radio series (1930s to 1950s), and it had previously been adapted to movie serials, comic books, and other media. Owing in part to George W. Trendle and Fran Striker having created all the central characters and developed the core formats of both radio shows, Britt Reid shares the same family name as the Lone Ranger, as Britt's father had been the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid. Despite character co-creator George W. Trendle's failed efforts to generate interest in a Green Hornet TV series", "title": "The Green Hornet (TV series)" }, { "id": "1470065", "text": "people in the UK. Fiennes was born in Ipswich, on 22 December 1962. He is the eldest child of Mark Fiennes (1933–2004), a farmer and photographer, and Jennifer Lash (1938–1993), a writer. He has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His surname is of Norman origin. His grandfathers were industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes (1907–1994) and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash (1901–1975). His great-great-uncle was Edward Pomeroy Colley, a civil engineer and first class passenger who died in the sinking of . Fiennes is an eighth cousin of Charles, Prince of Wales, and a third cousin of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes and author William", "title": "Ralph Fiennes" }, { "id": "3514955", "text": "in the United States Air Force. Lipton portrayed Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger's nephew, on WXYZ Radio's \"The Lone Ranger\". He initially studied to be a lawyer in New York, and turned to acting to finance his education. He wrote for several soap operas, \"Another World\", \"The Edge of Night\", \"Guiding Light\", \"The Best of Everything\", \"Return to Peyton Place\" and \"Capitol\", as well as acting for over ten years on \"The Guiding Light\". Lipton studied two and half years with Stella Adler, four years with Harold Clurman, and two years with Robert Lewis. He also started studying voice and", "title": "James Lipton" }, { "id": "11565670", "text": "not be ashamed to have a monkey for his ancestor, but he would be ashamed to be connected with a man who used his great gifts to obscure the truth. One eyewitness suggests that Wilberforce's question to Huxley may have been \"whether, in the vast shaky state of the law of development, as laid down by Darwin, any one can be so enamoured of this so-called law, or hypothesis, as to go into jubilation for his great great grandfather having been an ape or a gorilla?\", whereas another suggests he may have said that \"it was of little consequence to", "title": "1860 Oxford evolution debate" }, { "id": "5454375", "text": "and \"him go\" type lines as written and Todd was given back the role of Tonto. Trendle had a reputation for keeping his performers working for low pay even when the show was a big money maker. This episode may have been another of Trendle's maneuvers to demonstrate that the actors could be replaced. Other radio roles for Todd included recurring but less significant parts on \"The Green Hornet\" as Dan Reid, the title character's father and the now elderly version of the Lone Ranger's nephew, and on \"Challenge of the Yukon\", as Inspector Conrad, Sgt. Preston's superior in the", "title": "John Todd (actor)" }, { "id": "1064715", "text": "care for Dan like his own son. Before Grandma Frisby passes away, The Lone Ranger removes his mask and lets her see his face. Her last words are \"Ride on, Lone Ranger ... ride on forever ... with Danny at your side.\" The Lone Ranger takes the grieving Dan outside the cabin, gives him the locket and reveals their true relationship. Dan Reid Jr. would go on to be a recurring character throughout the remainder of the series, riding with The Lone Ranger and Tonto on his own horse Victor. Eventually, Dan Reid Jr. would be sent East to gain", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "9419021", "text": "Erasmus Darwin Barlow Erasmus Darwin Barlow, FRCPsych, FZS (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Born in London in 1915, he was the second son of Sir Alan Barlow, son of Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician. His mother was Lady Nora Barlow, daughter of Sir Horace Darwin. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Although Erasmus has been a common name in the family since the time of his great-great-great-grandfather Erasmus Darwin, he was named after his mother's brother, his uncle Erasmus Darwin IV who was killed at the Second Battle", "title": "Erasmus Darwin Barlow" }, { "id": "19117404", "text": "Haines pretends to be grieved about not finding the silver however, Sally is grateful for his efforts. The Duchess \"(Alice Fleming)\" is afraid that Sally will lose her money and so she offers financial help while she sends for her nephew, Red Ryder \"(Wild Bill Elliott)\", and his Indian Pal, Little Beaver \"(Robert Blake)\". When Red, now a Texas Ranger, and Little Beaver show up in Silver City, Sheriff Haines’ son, Tommy \"(Jack McClendon)\" returns home, having graduated from college. When Betcha and his gang try to rob a stagecoach, Red thwarts their attempt. Whitey escapes and head back to", "title": "Lone Texas Ranger" }, { "id": "1064713", "text": "1942), the dying Grandma Frisby reveals to The Lone Ranger Dan's true identity and how he came to be with her. Fifteen years previously, Grandma Frisby had been part of a wagon train travelling to Fort Laramie. Also on that wagon train had been Linda Reid, wife of Texas Ranger Captain Dan Reid, and her six-month-old son Dan Jr., who were travelling from their home in Virginia to join her husband. Before the wagon train could reach Fort Laramie, Indians attacked it and Linda Reid was among those killed. Grandma Frisby took charge and care of Dan Jr., but upon", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "12877753", "text": "married Camilla Dunne, daughter of Sir Thomas Dunne, KG, KCVO in 1988. They have three children: Arthur (1990), Daisy (1992), and Jack (1994). Jack Soames has served as a Page of Honour. Rupert Soames Rupert Christopher Soames OBE (born 18 May 1959) is a British businessman, CEO of the outsourcing company Serco. Soames was born in Croydon, Surrey, to Lord and Lady Soames. He is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders", "title": "Rupert Soames" }, { "id": "8255619", "text": "and philanthropist, and socialite Martha (née Bulloch) Roosevelt. Her paternal grandparents were Douglas Robinson, Sr. and Frances Monroe. Her great-grandfather was James Monroe, a member of the House of Representatives from New York and the nephew of U.S. President James Monroe. She enjoyed a childhood of privilege and grew up on her parents' New Jersey estate. Travel and horseback rides were part of Corinne's childhood. Like her cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, she attended Allenswood Academy a private finishing school in Wimbledon, near London, England, under the tutelage of Mlle. Marie Souvestre and though she enjoyed the school itself, she found Souvestre", "title": "Corinne Alsop Cole" }, { "id": "1806232", "text": "freemasonry agree that there is no evidence that he was, though his son (also named Charles Carroll) is known to have been a member. A scene which did not make the final cut of the film (but appears as a deleted scene on the DVD) shows then-President Jackson rushing out of the White House to find Carroll's body in a carriage. Unable to meet with Jackson in time, Carroll takes into his confidence his carriage driver, Thomas Gates, the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Nicolas Cage's character, Benjamin Franklin Gates. From Carroll, Thomas receives the last known clue to the Treasure of the", "title": "Charles Carroll of Carrollton" }, { "id": "4625386", "text": "of the Zoological Society of London, and broadcasts for Radio 3 and 4 on poetry, wildlife and music. In 2013 she joined King's College London, where she is Professor of Poetry. Padel is daughter of psychoanalyst John Hunter Padel and Hilda Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow and Nora Barlow née Darwin, granddaughter of Charles Darwin, through whom Padel is Darwin's great-great-grandchild. Her brother is historian Oliver Padel; cousins include prison reformer Una Padel, sculptor Phyllida Barlow, mathematician Martin T. Barlow and biographer Randal Keynes; her uncle is Horace Barlow. Padel was born in Wimpole Street where her great-grandfather Sir", "title": "Ruth Padel" }, { "id": "5683454", "text": "script department. In Detroit, James Lipton portrayed the Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reid, during the early 1940s. Striker was extremely prolific. In addition to writing 156 \"Lone Ranger\" scripts a year, he wrote \"The Green Hornet\" (built around the Lone Ranger's descendant, Britt Reid) and a short-lived series, \"Ned Jordan Secret Agent\". He scripted various \"Lone Ranger\" novels, two movie serials, and \"The Lone Ranger\" comic strip. He also contributed scripts to \"Challenge of the Yukon\" (later adapted for television as \"Sergeant Preston of the Yukon\"). Striker's work as a comic strip writer extended to writing \"The Green Hornet\" comic", "title": "Fran Striker" }, { "id": "9975321", "text": "Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (Ludwig Ernst Andreas Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen), (25 October 1931 – 16 November 1937), was the eldest son of Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, an older sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the first great-great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was killed at age six in an airplane crash in 1937. He, his parents, younger brother Alexander, and grandmother Grand Duchess Eleonore were flying to London to attend the wedding of his uncle Prince", "title": "Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine" }, { "id": "3605788", "text": "Piers Haggard Piers Inigo Haggard OBE (born 18 March 1939) is a British theatre, film and television director, although he has worked mostly in the latter. Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire. He is the great-great-nephew of H. Rider Haggard, and is the son of the actor, poet and novelist Stephen Haggard who died in 1943. Haggard is married to stained glass artist Anna Sklovsky, with whom he has two children, the actress Daisy Haggard, and William Haggard who is an architect. He has four children by his first marriage, Sarah, Claire,", "title": "Piers Haggard" }, { "id": "3687119", "text": "Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) Edward Kitchener \"Ted\" Trotter, better known simply as Grandad, was a character in the BBC sitcom \"Only Fools and Horses\" from 1981 to 1984. He was played by Lennard Pearce in the original series, and was portrayed by Phil Daniels in the prequel, \"Rock & Chips\". The character was grandfather to Del Boy, and Rodney Trotter, and older brother to Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield). Lennard Pearce's death in December 1984 was written into the series with the death of the character. Born in Peckham Rye, London in 1905, Grandad stated that his earliest memories were", "title": "Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)" }, { "id": "12991926", "text": "Hamilton Coolidge Hamilton Coolidge (September 1, 1895 – October 27, 1918), was an American pursuit pilot, flying ace in World War I, and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. Coolidge was the great-great-great grandson of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and the best friend of Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. Ham Coolidge and Quentin Roosevelt attended Groton School together, attended Harvard together, and served together in the U.S. Army Air Service First Pursuit Group in France. They were killed in action within a few months of each other in 1918. Coolidge dropped out of Harvard College during", "title": "Hamilton Coolidge" }, { "id": "14943589", "text": "pilot for a new television series, starred Chad Michael Murray as the Lone Ranger (the name of the Ranger's secret identity was changed from \"John Reid\" to \"Luke Hartman\") and Nathaniel Arcand as his Native American companion Tonto. This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year-old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded in the midst of the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto, and subsequently becomes smitten with", "title": "The Lone Ranger (2003 film)" }, { "id": "7138230", "text": "Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks to the generosity of a person he called his \"fairy godmother\" as she paid his school fees) Shackleton went on to read natural sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to Master of Arts. In 1967 Cambridge awarded", "title": "Nicholas Shackleton" }, { "id": "12880968", "text": "prologue scene set in Bolivia in 1908. Butch Cassidy writes a letter to his family, enclosing a belt buckle engraved with a treasure map. Cassidy and his accomplice, Harry Longabaugh (the \"Sundance Kid\"), attempt to elude capture when their hideout is surrounded by Bolivian police. The film then shifts to Circleville, Utah, in 1951, where Butch Cassidy's 16-year-old great-nephew, Roy Parker, defends his infamous ancestor's reputation despite the opposition of Sam, his stern grandfather, Cassidy's younger brother. Sam resents Roy's interest in Cassidy, even acquiescing in the boy's brief jailing on a trumped-up charge, where he scolds him, \"I spent", "title": "Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy" }, { "id": "5349761", "text": "Dr. John Mercer Walker Sr. (S&B 1931) and Louis Walker (S&B 1936); and his nephew, the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush (S&B 1947); and Bush's son (therefore George's great-nephew), the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush (S&B 1968). Walker was an original owner of the New York Mets, a team which he co-founded in 1960 with Joan Whitney Payson. He married Mary Carter (20 November 1905 – 5 September 1998) on October 29, 1927. They had three children, one of whom was George Herbert Walker III, the former United States Ambassador to", "title": "George Herbert Walker Jr." }, { "id": "4550430", "text": "Nathaniel Claiborne Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (November 14, 1777 – August 15, 1859) was a nineteenth-century politician from Virginia. He was the brother of William Charles Cole Claiborne, the nephew of Thomas Claiborne, the uncle of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne and the great-great-great granduncle of Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs and Claiborne de Borda Pell. He was a descendant of Colonel William Claiborne (1600–1677), who was born in Crayford, Kent, England and settled in the Colony of Virginia. Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Claiborne was schooled at a local academy as a child. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and was a member", "title": "Nathaniel Claiborne" }, { "id": "424232", "text": "any stories. Coincidentally, her maiden name is the same as the last name of the main character in \"Darkwing Duck.\" Quagmire McDuck was Dingus McDuck's brother and Scrooge McDuck's great uncle. He inherited a silver watch from his ancestor Hugh \"Seafoam\" McDuck and passed it on to his nephew Fergus. After his death, Quagmire's estate remained unclaimed. Quagmire appears in the Carl Barks story \"The Heirloom Watch\" (1955). Angus \"Pothole\" McDuck (born 1829) is the first child of Dingus and Molly McDuck, and is Scrooge's uncle. Angus was born in Glasgow in 1829. He was first mentioned in \"The Great", "title": "Clan McDuck" }, { "id": "1485879", "text": "Ring is then found by a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Sixty years later, Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday in the Shire, reuniting with his old friend, Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo reveals that he intends to leave the Shire for one last adventure, and he leaves his inheritance, including the Ring, to his nephew, Frodo. Although Bilbo has begun to become corrupted by the Ring and tries to keep it for himself, Gandalf intervenes. Gandalf, suspicious of the Ring, tells Frodo to keep it secret and to keep it safe. Gandalf then investigates the Ring, discovers its true identity, and returns", "title": "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" }, { "id": "11073475", "text": "person's nearest male relative should he have no brothers or sons of his own. Sister-son is used to describe some knights who are nephews to King Arthur and is imitated by J. R. R. Tolkien, especially in lists of Kings of Rohan or dwarves where the sister-son is also heir. \"Sister-daughter\" is a less common parallel term for niece. The terms grandniece (great-niece) and grandnephew (great-nephew) correspond to those of granduncle (great-uncle) and grandaunt (great-aunt), expressing a third-degree relationship. For (poorly standardized) terminology such as \"second granduncle\", see first cousins twice removed. Niece and nephew In the language of kinship,", "title": "Niece and nephew" }, { "id": "12425218", "text": "Kildare Coot, a nephew of Grandma Duck. Italian artist Corrado Mastantuono created Bum Bum Ghigno, a cynical, grumpy and not too good looking Duck who teams up with Donald and Gyro a lot. The American artist William Van Horn also introduced a new character: Rumpus McFowl, an old and rather corpulent Duck with a giant appetite and laziness, who is first said to be a cousin of Scrooge. Only later, Scrooge reveals to his nephews Rumpus is actually his half-brother. Later, Rumpus also finds out. Working for the Danish editor Egmont, artist Daniel Branca (1951–2005) and script-writers Paul Halas and", "title": "Donald Duck" }, { "id": "424243", "text": "expressing apparent disapproval of Scrooge; in reality, however, he's angry because Scrooge hasn't been a part of his life. In the 1993 NES game \"DuckTales 2\", Scrooge and his nephews found a piece of a treasure map that led to the lost treasure of a character named Fergus McDuck. However, this Fergus is not Scrooge's father but Scrooge's great-great-uncle. Downy McDuck (née O'Drake; 1840–1897) is Scrooge McDuck's mother. She was created by Don Rosa and first appears in \"The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck\". She is of Irish origin and was born in 1840. She was a very devoted", "title": "Clan McDuck" }, { "id": "827200", "text": "Rosa, Blackheart Beagle semi-retired in 1947, following a failed attempt at robbing Scrooge's Money Bin. In \"The\" \"Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck\", Scrooge first met The Beagle Boys in his Mississippi riverboat days, circa 1880. Those Beagle Boys included Blackheart Beagle and his three sons. Scrooge first met the modern third generation Beagle Boys during Christmas 1947, which was when he first met his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and met his nephew Donald Duck for the second time. Since then the Beagle Boys have been a constant threat to Scrooge's Money Bin. The third generation of the Beagle", "title": "Beagle Boys" }, { "id": "5480933", "text": "Pistons, along with Reggie Bullock and Marcus Morris, in exchange for a 2020 second-round draft pick. He spent the preseason in Arizona rehabbing from knee and foot injuries, and on October 26, 2015, he was waived by the Pistons. Granger was raised in a religious household by Jehovah's Witnesses. Granger's younger brother, Scotty, is a musical artist and songwriter. Granger is the great-nephew of the \"Queen of Gospel\", Mahalia Jackson. Granger has a wife and three children. Granger is actively involved in the \"Dribble to Stop Diabetes\" campaign due to his family's history with diabetes. On the side, toward the", "title": "Danny Granger" }, { "id": "592025", "text": "her husband William Hough. Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell was the great-grandson of Richard Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell's nephew. Actor Danny Dyer discovered that he was the fifteen times great-grandson of Cromwell in the BBC series \"Who Do You Think You Are?\" Thomas Cromwell was a patron of Hans Holbein the Younger, as were St. Thomas More and Anne Boleyn. In the New York Frick Collection, two portraits by Holbein hang facing each other on the same wall of the Study, one depicting Thomas Cromwell, the other Thomas More, whose execution he had procured. Cromwell has been portrayed in a number of", "title": "Thomas Cromwell" }, { "id": "13894031", "text": "Carey Cash The Rev. Carey Cash is a US Navy chaplain currently assigned to USS John C. Stennis as Command Chaplain. A 6 ft 4in graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina and of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Rev. Cash nearly became a professional football player. He is the great-nephew of the singer Johnny Cash. Cash was born in Nashville, Tennessee to an accomplished, deeply religious family. His father, Roy Cash, Jr., was a fighter pilot in the Navy for 30 years. His mother, Billie, runs a Christian ministry and is the author of several books about her faith. His", "title": "Carey Cash" }, { "id": "20120515", "text": "Who Attacked Ken? \"Who Attacked Ken?\" is a storyline from the ITV soap opera, \"Coronation Street\". The story began on 27 March 2017, during an episode in which the show's longest-serving character, Ken Barlow (William Roache), is pushed down the stairs by an unknown assailant. The planning of the storyline and filming the episodes remained a secret until the after the first episode was broadcast. ITV released a poll to the \"Coronation Street\" website so fans could share their thoughts of who pushed Ken. Fans and viewers used the poll, with the majority's thoughts of the attacker was Ken's grandson", "title": "Who Attacked Ken?" }, { "id": "3886501", "text": "Max Baer Jr. Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dimwitted adopted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". After the death of Donna Douglas in January 2015, Baer became the last surviving member of that show's main cast. Baer was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland, California, in 1937, the son of boxing champion Max Baer and his wife Mary Ellen Sullivan. His father was of German, Jewish, and Scots-Irish descent. His brother and sister", "title": "Max Baer Jr." }, { "id": "9299589", "text": "were up to so much mischief that Donald finally got fed up with it and decided that something must be done. By chance, he ran across a scout group of the Junior Woodchucks, and this inspired him to send his nephews to join the organisation. At the annual grand jamboree of the Junior Woodchucks, the boys discovered that their own great-grandmother is the daughter of the organisation's founder. Thus interested, the boys wanted to join the Junior Woodchucks immediately. The chiefs originally didn't want to accept them, but when they learned they were the great-great-grandchildren of their original founder, they", "title": "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N." }, { "id": "4161655", "text": "1987. A number of references including the 1997 edition of The Register of the Victoria Cross list Sergeant Major John Grieve VC (Crimea, 1854) and Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve (Belgium, 1917) as great uncle and great nephew. This connection was suggested by an article in The Times on 29 May 1964. The article said John Grieve sent home £75 from the Crimea to Robert Grieve and that if Robert Grieve was his brother and also emigrated, then some relationship may be established between the Crimean VC and an Australian First World War VC, Robert Grieve. However, descendents of both Grieve", "title": "Robert Grieve" }, { "id": "4664620", "text": "wild inspiration. The painting is in the Tate Britain collection. It was presented to the Tate by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon in memory of his friend and fellow officer Julian Dadd, a great-nephew of the artist, and of his two brothers who gave their lives in the First World War. The Queen song \"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke\" from the album \"Queen II\" was born of Freddie Mercury's appreciation of the work; it makes direct reference to the painting's characters as detailed in Dadd's poem. Terry Pratchett's novel \"The Wee Free Men\" contains a scene inspired by the painting. The", "title": "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" }, { "id": "15623697", "text": "fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His doctoral students include Steven N. Evans. Martin T. Barlow Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992. Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (1916–2006) and his wife Yvonne. He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora (née Darwin), through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow (also FRS and Fellow of Trinity). In 1994 he married Colleen", "title": "Martin T. Barlow" }, { "id": "2835911", "text": "Charles Francis Adams Jr. Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author and historian. He was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a railroad regulator and executive, an author of historical works, and a member of the Massachusetts Park Commission. Adams was born into a family with a long legacy in American public life. He was the great-grandson of United States President John Adams, and the", "title": "Charles Francis Adams Jr." }, { "id": "9985101", "text": "Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978) Prince Sigismund of Prussia (Wilhelm Viktor Karl August Heinrich Sigismund; 27 November 1896 at Kiel – 14 November 1978 at Puntarenas, Costa Rica), was the second son of Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine. He was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. A great-grandson of Queen Victoria through both his parents, he was the only one of three brothers who did not have the hemophilia common among her descendants. On 11 July 1919 at Hemmelmark, he married Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (4", "title": "Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978)" }, { "id": "7671364", "text": "game follows the basic premise of the Lone Rangers mythos. The player takes control of the Lone Ranger, a former Texas Ranger whose comrades were murdered by an outlaw named Butch Cavendish. While the game's instruction manual deviates from the original radio serials and TV series by claiming that Dan Reid was John Reid's father, the game itself remains true to its source material by identifying one of the murdered rangers as the Lone Ranger's brother. Using an overall storyline that is similar to the film \"The Legend of the Lone Ranger\", the game's ultimate goal involves rescuing the U.S.", "title": "The Lone Ranger (video game)" }, { "id": "7138237", "text": "married to Vivien Law, a linguistic scholar. Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks to the generosity of a person he called his \"fairy godmother\" as she paid his school fees) Shackleton went on to read natural sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to", "title": "Nicholas Shackleton" }, { "id": "15623695", "text": "Martin T. Barlow Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992. Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (1916–2006) and his wife Yvonne. He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora (née Darwin), through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow (also FRS and Fellow of Trinity). In 1994 he married Colleen McLaughlin. He was educated Sussex House School, St Paul's School, London, Trinity College,", "title": "Martin T. Barlow" }, { "id": "11193871", "text": "Carotene (horse) Carotene (foaled 1983 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who holds the filly or mare record for winning the most Sovereign Awards. Bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms, she was a daughter of the British sire Great Nephew, who also sired Epsom Derby winners Grundy and Shergar. Carotene's dam was Carrot Top, a mare David Willmot purchased in foal from the Whitney family at the 1982 dispersal sale of their bloodstock in the United Kingdom. Carotene was trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Roger Attfield and raced from a base at", "title": "Carotene (horse)" }, { "id": "3687474", "text": "least fifteen cellars, gaining the nickname of \"The Ferret\" in the process. After the war, Albert joined the Merchant Navy. In spite of his past with the Royal and Merchant Navies, Albert cannot swim. He lost contact with his brother, Edward (Grandad Trotter) because of a fight over Albert's future wife Ada to whom they were both attracted. Despite this, he attended Edward's funeral. Uncle Albert, as he was known by his two great nephews, Del Boy and Rodney, joined the cast in 1985 during the episode \"Strained Relations\" when he attended the funeral of his older brother Edward. Shortly", "title": "Uncle Albert" }, { "id": "15622748", "text": "Chris Darwin Christopher William Darwin (born 16 March 1961 in London) lives in Australia and works on his goal of halting the global mass extinction of species. He is the ambassador of the charity Bush Heritage Australia. He is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. Darwin was born in 1961 in London. He is the son of George Erasmus Darwin, a metallurgist, known as \"Erasmus\", and his wife Shuna (née Service). He has an older brother Robert George Darwin and a younger sister, Sarah Vogel. He is descended from Charles Darwin via Charles's son George Howard Darwin (1845-1912); his son William", "title": "Chris Darwin" }, { "id": "7405452", "text": "Charles, Prince Napoléon Charles, Prince Napoléon (\"Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon\"; born 19 October 1950), is a French politician, and is recognised by some Bonapartists as the head of the Imperial House of France and as heir to the rights and legacy established by his great-great-grand-uncle, Emperor Napoléon I. Other Bonapartists consider his son, Jean-Christophe, to be the current head of the house and heir. Charles is the elder son of the late Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914–1997), and as such a great-great-grandson in the male line of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Napoléon's youngest brother. As neither Napoléon I nor", "title": "Charles, Prince Napoléon" }, { "id": "9980403", "text": "Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (Friedrich Wilhelm August Victor Leopold Ludwig; 7 October 1870 – 29 May 1873) was the haemophiliac second son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, one of the daughters of Queen Victoria. He was also a maternal great-uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh through his eldest sister Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Friedrich, called \"Frittie\" in the family, was a cheerful and lively child despite his illness. \"Leopold\" was added as one of his names in", "title": "Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine" }, { "id": "12045006", "text": "who worked in banking and became vice president of a bank in Hawaii. Obama grew up with her and remembered that when he was a child, his grandmother \"read me the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and told me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something.\" Charles Thomas Payne is Madelyn Dunham's younger brother and Obama's great-uncle. He was born in 1925. Payne served during World War II in the U.S. Army 89th Infantry Division. Obama has often described Payne's role in", "title": "Family of Barack Obama" }, { "id": "9241264", "text": "masked crime fighter named Britt Reid and was descended from the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid. He was assisted by his Japanese (changed to Filipino after Pearl harbor) valet Kato, who used martial arts. Fran Striker wrote most of the scripts for the series. In 1937, Trendle licensed Republic Pictures to produce a movie version of The Lone Ranger. Trendle was not happy with changes that were made in the movie adaptations and hired attorney Raymond Meurer to oversee licensing of the franchise. However, Trendle did like the incidental music Republic used on the serial's soundtrack and acquired the right", "title": "George W. Trendle" }, { "id": "11227267", "text": "of the Century\". He was retired to stud at the end of 1975 and had some success as a sire of winners. He was exported to Japan where he died in 1992. Grundy was a chestnut horse with a white blaze and flaxen mane and tail. bred by Overbury Stud near Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England. He was a son of Great Nephew who also sired Epsom Derby winner Shergar and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame filly, Carotene. His dam, Word From Lundy, was a daughter of the French runner Worden, whose wins included Italy's Premio Roma and the", "title": "Grundy (horse)" }, { "id": "14140497", "text": "David Ogilvy Barrie (Charles) David (Ogilvy) Barrie CBE (born 9 November 1953) is a former British diplomat, arts administrator and campaigner. Now an author, he is the great great nephew of the playwright, Sir James Matthew Barrie. Barrie served in the British Diplomatic Service and Cabinet Office from 1975 to 1989, and was closely involved in Anglo-Irish relations, including the negotiations that led to the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. From 1989 to 1992 he was Executive Director of The Japan Festival 1991 - a nationwide celebration of Japanese culture which took place in the UK in 1991. Barrie was Chair", "title": "David Ogilvy Barrie" }, { "id": "16264940", "text": "The Duke's turf career was ended by his death in 1802. Skyscraper's sire was Highflyer (1774), an undefeated racehorse who became the greatest stallion of his time. His grandsire was the noble Herod, the foundation sire through whom Skyscraper was in the direct male line of the Byerley Turk, while his granddam was Rachel, whose grandsire was the Godolphin Arabian. Skyscraper's dam was Everlasting, a mare by the unbeaten Eclipse. He was a half brother to the mare Sister to Goldfinch (1785), the third dam of Hannibal, who won the Derby in 1804. Skyscraper was given his name, which is", "title": "Skyscraper (horse)" }, { "id": "11762950", "text": "and with Dickensian names which lightly disguise the real people Jacob had known. It contains many amusing incidents, such as his account of losing his virginity to a bored married woman (\"Madame Bovary\"). It also introduces some original reflections, ranging from how easy it is for an Englishman with the right accent to seduce American girls, to an analogy between his great-great-uncle General John Jacob and the spirit of Marxist revolution. The opening chapter, \"Post Bellum Omne Animal Triste\", describes the author travelling home to England after the war in the company of \"Harrington Square\" the railway shunter's son who", "title": "Scenes from a Bourgeois Life" }, { "id": "14913865", "text": "Gary Epper Gary Alan Epper (December 31, 1944 - December 1, 2007 in Los Angeles, California) was an American stunt performer, coordinator and occasional actor. Part of a major stunt family dynasty in Hollywood, he was the son of John Epper, the brother of fellow Star Trek stuntmen Tony Epper and Andy Epper and stuntwoman Jeannie Epper. His family traces its lineage back to \"a colonel in Napoleon's army\" and his great-grandson, a multi-lingual Swiss who eventually lived in California where he began the family tradition in stunt work and the tradition has passed down from each generation. Epper worked", "title": "Gary Epper" }, { "id": "7639316", "text": "Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau) The Old Protestant Cemetery (; ) is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China. It was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Portuguese Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony. It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer (his wife Maria is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Penang), Royal Navy captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-grand-uncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph", "title": "Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)" }, { "id": "9044018", "text": "Alan Howard Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE (5 August 1937 – 14 February 2015) was an English actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000. Howard was born in Croydon, Surrey, the only son of actor Arthur Howard and his wife Jean Compton (Mackenzie). His uncle was Leslie Howard, the film star, while his aunt was the casting director Irene Howard. On his mother's side he was also a great-nephew of the actress Fay Compton and the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. He", "title": "Alan Howard" }, { "id": "7407146", "text": "Sir Thomas Barlow, 3rd Baronet Commodore Sir Thomas Erasmus Barlow, 3rd Baronet (23 January 1914 – 12 October 2003) was an officer in the Royal Navy. Barlow was the eldest son of the Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Bt, and his wife Nora Darwin. His younger brother was the visual neuroscientist Horace Barlow. His maternal grandfather was Horace Darwin, and amongst his great-grandfathers were the naturalist Charles Darwin, the statistician and civil servant Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, and the royal physician Sir Thomas Barlow. After being educated at Winchester College, Barlow entered the Royal Navy in 1932 as a Cadet.", "title": "Sir Thomas Barlow, 3rd Baronet" }, { "id": "1574464", "text": "appears in the Thrilling Adventure Hour serialized segment \"Tales from the Black Lagoon\". Notes Bibliography Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels (born Harold Preston Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk Canadian actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series \"The Lone Ranger\". Silverheels was born Harold Preston Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A.G. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children", "title": "Jay Silverheels" }, { "id": "13487270", "text": "were used to depict Secretariat in the film, chief among them Trolley Boy, whose great-great-grandsire was the real-life Secretariat, and Longshot Max, whose bloodline includes Secretariat's sire, Bold Ruler, as well as his grandsire, Princequillo. \"Secretariat\" has received mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 64% based on 144 reviews, with an average score of 6.1/10. The site's critical consensus is: \"Rousing, heartwarming, and squarely traditional, \"Secretariat\" offers exactly what you'd expect from an inspirational Disney drama – no more, no less.\" \"Chicago Sun-Times\" film critic Roger Ebert gives the film a four out", "title": "Secretariat (film)" }, { "id": "1574453", "text": "Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels (born Harold Preston Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk Canadian actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series \"The Lone Ranger\". Silverheels was born Harold Preston Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A.G. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children of Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith, MC, Cayuga, and his wife Mabel Phoebe Doxtater, also", "title": "Jay Silverheels" }, { "id": "3903138", "text": "El Camino was turned into a Figure 8 race car, James discarded plans for a spoiler on the vehicle, sarcastically citing the first rule. Starting with season 4, the winning team also donated a toolkit to a high school of their choice. Host Jesse James claims to be the great-great-grandson of a cousin of the legendary wild west outlaw, Jesse James. Jesse G. James has both mechanical and metal fabricating expertise and is the founder, owner and head bike builder for his custom chopper shop, West Coast Choppers. Jesse said he liked monsters that went fast and did something. He", "title": "Monster Garage" }, { "id": "12380780", "text": "Charles T. Payne Charles Thomas Payne (February 1925 – August 1, 2014) was an American who served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was 20 years old. A brother of Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, Payne was former President Barack Obama's great uncle and was mentioned in Obama's speeches, including the one given in 2009 commemorating the anniversary of D-Day. Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating Ohrdruf forced labor camp. There was brief media attention when", "title": "Charles T. Payne" }, { "id": "5282806", "text": "Ian Bostridge Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer. Bostridge was born in London, the son of Leslie Bostridge and Lillian (née Clark). His father was a chartered surveyor. Bostridge is the great-grandson of the Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper from the early twentieth century, John \"Tiny\" Joyce. He was a Queen's scholar at Westminster School. He attended St John's College, Oxford, where he secured a First in modern history and St John's College, Cambridge, where he received an M.Phil in the history and philosophy of", "title": "Ian Bostridge" }, { "id": "10776443", "text": "it was sold to the Manchester Corporation, due to the encroachment of the city on its estate. Elizabeth Tindal-Carill-Worsley, who sold the estate, was the granddaughter of the explorer and physician Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, son of the eminent scientist, physician and poet Dr Erasmus Darwin. She married Nicolas Tindal of Aylesbury, a great grand-nephew of Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1829 – 1843. Their grandson, Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley (known as Tindal), was a bomber pilot in the Second World War and a major instigator of the \"Great Escape\". His son, Charles Tindal, is", "title": "Worsley baronets" }, { "id": "11318475", "text": "Nasser al-Qudwa Nasser Al Qudwa (), also spelled Nasser Al-Kidwa, (born 1953), is the nephew of the late Yasser Arafat. Al Qudwa was born in 1953. He attended Cairo University, graduating with a degree in dentistry in 1979. Then became an executive member of the Palestinian Red Crescent shortly after. Al Qudwa joined Fatah in 1969. He became president of the General Union of Palestinian Students in 1974. He is also a central-committee member of Fatah. Qudwa represented his uncle Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization as an unofficial observer in the United Nations in 1987, then as a", "title": "Nasser al-Qudwa" }, { "id": "2472027", "text": "the son of Lord and Lady Soames, and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell. His brother is the industrialist Rupert Soames. Simon Hoggart, writing in \"The Guardian\", related an anecdote of Soames' childhood: \"He gave me the true version of what I had always suspected was an apocryphal story. In or around 1953, when Soames was five, he didn't know how important his grandfather was until someone told him. So he walked up to the old man's bedroom, managed to get past the valets and the secretaries, and found him sitting up", "title": "Nicholas Soames" }, { "id": "3886512", "text": "and Donna Douglas both had visited Ebsen in the hospital. With the 2015 death of co-star Donna Douglas, Baer is the only surviving cast member. Max Baer Jr. Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dimwitted adopted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". After the death of Donna Douglas in January 2015, Baer became the last surviving member of that show's main cast. Baer was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland, California, in 1937, the", "title": "Max Baer Jr." }, { "id": "1064754", "text": "of the President of the United States, whom the Lone Ranger's nemesis, \"Butch\" Cavendish, has kidnapped. \"The Lone Ranger\" program offered many radio premiums, including the Lone Ranger Six-Shooter Ring and the Lone Ranger Deputy Badge. Some used a silver bullet motif. One ring had a miniature of one of his six-guns atop it, with a flint and striking wheel, as used in cigarette lighters, so that \"fanning\" the miniature pistol would produce a shower of sparks. During World War II, the premiums adapted to the times. In 1942, the program offered the Kix Blackout Kit. Some premiums were rather", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "20068495", "text": "to have adopted a new appreciation for them. As the four of them sit in the room, Mr. Pim again returns, this time to tell them that he got the first name of the Pelwittle man wrong - though he originally told them it was \"Henry\" Pelwittle, his name was actually \"Ernest\" Pelwittle. George Marden is the husband of Olivia Marden, the uncle of Dinah, and the nephew of Lady Marden. He is extremely old-fashioned, and is noted as saying \"what was good enough for his great-great-grandfather is good enough for him.\" He is a man of 40-odd years, and", "title": "Mr. Pim Passes By" }, { "id": "1984122", "text": "Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films, including \"The Time Machine\" (1960), \"The Birds\" (1963), and \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\" (1961). Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and Mona Taylor (née Thompson), a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian", "title": "Rod Taylor" }, { "id": "7405468", "text": "Lacroute. Charles, Prince Napoléon Charles, Prince Napoléon (\"Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon\"; born 19 October 1950), is a French politician, and is recognised by some Bonapartists as the head of the Imperial House of France and as heir to the rights and legacy established by his great-great-grand-uncle, Emperor Napoléon I. Other Bonapartists consider his son, Jean-Christophe, to be the current head of the house and heir. Charles is the elder son of the late Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914–1997), and as such a great-great-grandson in the male line of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Napoléon's youngest brother. As neither Napoléon I", "title": "Charles, Prince Napoléon" }, { "id": "19985776", "text": "the 1960s, Hamilton was President of the National Association of Probation Officers. In 1961, Hamilton made a trip to Kingston on Thames with Queen Elizabeth II. He was both her Vice Lord Lieutenant at that time and the great-uncle of Jack Brooksbank, the Queen's grandson-in-law. Brooksbank's grandmother, Celia Brooksbank (née Coke), was the sister of Baroness Hamilton of Dalzell (née Rosemary Coke) whom Lord Hamilton had married in 1935. Lord Hamilton was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1987 New Year Honours. John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell John d'Henin Hamilton,", "title": "John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell" }, { "id": "5619294", "text": "Tom Voyce Thomas Michael Dunstan Voyce (born 5 January 1981) is a former English rugby union player who played at wing or fullback. He previously played for England. Voyce married Anna Wood in September 2015. Born 5 January 1981 in Truro, Cornwall. Voyce's great uncle, Thomas Anthony Voyce, won 27 caps for England, while playing for Gloucester Rugby, during the 1920s and was a member of the first double Grand Slam winning team. He went on to become President of the RFU in 1960–61. Voyce was educated at Penair School, Truro and then studied at King's College, Taunton. Outside the", "title": "Tom Voyce" }, { "id": "19334946", "text": "John Eliot Bowen John Eliot Bowen (June 8, 1858 – January 3, 1890) was an American author. John Elliot Bowen was born on June 8, 1858 in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the fifth of seven sons born to Henry Chandler Bowen (1813–1896) and Lucy Maria Tappan (1825–1863). He was a direct descendant, on his father's side, from the Apostle Eliot, whose name he bore. On his mother's side, he was a great-grand nephew of Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother was Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1852–1935). Bowen graduated from Yale College in 1881. On July 16, 1881, he sailed with his", "title": "John Eliot Bowen" }, { "id": "5899991", "text": "Mr. O'Malley Mr. O'Malley was a character in the ground-breaking, intellectual comic strip \"Barnaby\", by cartoonist Crockett Johnson. He was the fairy godfather of five-year-old Barnaby. Jackeen J. O'Malley first appeared in response to Barnaby's wish for a fairy godmother. He was a , cigar smoking man with an overcoat and four tiny pink wings, and was a member of the Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society. His magic wand was the stub of his half-smoked Havana cigar. Mr. O'Malley's conceit was matched only by his inability to grant the simplest childhood request, and his misguided", "title": "Mr. O'Malley" }, { "id": "2781210", "text": "Orange County Choppers), with Gas Monkey Garage (featured on the Discovery series \"Fast N' Loud\") entering the competition in 2012. James's Discovery Channel website states that his great-great-grandfather was the notorious outlaw's cousin. However, Eric James, president of the James Preservation Trust, which tracks claims of being a relative of the outlaw, says it cannot find a record of him in the family tree, and has asked him to provide a family genealogy and DNA sample for the trust to review; he has not provided the requested information. James has three children: a daughter and a son with his first", "title": "Jesse James (customizer)" }, { "id": "2681474", "text": "director of the Peace Corps. Through his mother, he is a nephew of World War II casualty Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, and Senator Ted Kennedy. Anthony Shriver is the youngest of five children. He graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1984. He then attended Brown University before transferring to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated in 1988 with a double major in theology and history. Shriver is the founder and chairman of Best Buddies International a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which he created in 1989. Best", "title": "Anthony Shriver" }, { "id": "12800495", "text": "in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Gerald Charles Dickens (actor) Gerald Roderick Charles Dickens (born 9 October 1963) is an English actor and performer best known for his one man shows based on the novels of his great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens. He was the President of the Dickens Fellowship from 2005 to 2007. Born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the fourth child and second son of David Kenneth Charles Dickens (1925–2005) and his wife Betty (1927–2010), Dickens is the grandson of Gerald Charles Dickens RN (after whom he was named) and the great-grandson of Henry Fielding Dickens KC; he is also the cousin of", "title": "Gerald Charles Dickens (actor)" }, { "id": "7573144", "text": "40,000-strong army of Osman Pasha at Vidin. The Russians lost only 1,500 men, compared with losses of 10,000 for their opponents. On 4 February 1811, Kamensky caught fever and was transported to Odessa for convalescence, leaving Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in command. He died three months later at the age of 34. Kamensky is related to actress Helen Mirren, whose great-great-great-great-grandfather was his father. Nikolay Kamensky Count Nikolay Mikhailovich Kamensky (; 27 December 1776 – 4 May 1811) was a Russian general who outlived his father, Field Marshal Mikhail Kamensky, by two years. Nikolay and his elder brother Sergei", "title": "Nikolay Kamensky" }, { "id": "14360777", "text": "Smith, later Principal of the University of Aberdeen. He was survived by son Rab Butler and daughter Iris Mary Butler. His great-grandson, Justin Welby, was inducted as Archbishop of Canterbury on 21 March 2013. Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, (19 May 1873 – 7 November 1952) was Governor of the Central Provinces of British India 1925–33, Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 1933–37, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1937–48. He was the grandson of scholar and churchman George Butler, the brother of Indian administrator Harcourt Butler, and the father of noted British politician Rab", "title": "Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler" }, { "id": "13894033", "text": "served as Senior Protestant Chaplain at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Carey Cash The Rev. Carey Cash is a US Navy chaplain currently assigned to USS John C. Stennis as Command Chaplain. A 6 ft 4in graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina and of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Rev. Cash nearly became a professional football player. He is the great-nephew of the singer Johnny Cash. Cash was born in Nashville, Tennessee to an accomplished, deeply religious family. His father, Roy Cash, Jr., was a fighter pilot in the Navy for 30 years. His mother, Billie, runs", "title": "Carey Cash" }, { "id": "6819392", "text": "Hallam Tennyson (radio producer) Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson (10 December 1920 – 21 December 2005) was a British radio producer. He was born in Chelsea, the son of Sir Charles Tennyson and his wife Lady Ivy (née Pretious), and the great-grandson of the Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. He married Margot Wallach in Kensington, London in 1946. She was born 30 March 1921 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and died 19 April 1999 in Highgate, London. He and his wife Margot had a son, Jonathan Tennyson (born 1955), and a daughter. After the", "title": "Hallam Tennyson (radio producer)" }, { "id": "721641", "text": "appointed him Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy (the highest title in the organisation) and Canada appointed him to the highest ranks available in all three branches of the Canadian Armed Forces. On their 70th wedding anniversary, 20 November 2017, the Queen appointed him Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) of the Royal Victorian Order, making him the first British national since his late uncle, the first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to be entitled to wear the breast stars of four orders of chivalry in the United Kingdom. Philip is a great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, and as such belongs", "title": "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh" }, { "id": "14139299", "text": "Himyar (horse) Himyar (1875 – December 30, 1905) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Although successful as a racehorse he is most notable as the sire of 1898 Kentucky Derby winner Plaudit and Domino, the grandsire of Colin and Peter Pan. Himyar lived to be thirty years old, outliving both Domino and his famous grandson Commando, who both died young. Himyar was a light bay colt sired by Alarm, who was a son of the British-bred stallion Eclipse (by Orlando). His dam Hira was sired by the 19th-century foundation sire, Lexington. Himyar was foaled in 1875 at Dixiana Farm,", "title": "Himyar (horse)" }, { "id": "18273156", "text": "on June 19, 2013. Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives on February 28, 2013, by Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Massachusetts), a former Peace Corps volunteer and grand-nephew of President Kennedy. It was the first congressional bill sponsored by Kennedy. The legislation (H.R.915) was co-sponsored by Representatives Farr, Tom Petri (R-Wisconsin), Mike Honda (D-California), and John Garamendi (D-California)—all former Peace Corps volunteers. It was favorably reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on the Budget on January 23, 2104. H.R.915 differed from S.230 only in including a 10-point section on the \"findings", "title": "Peace Corps Commemorative" }, { "id": "1064703", "text": "the basic story of the origin of the Lone Ranger is the same in most versions of the franchise. A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew \"Butch\" Cavendish is betrayed by a civilian guide named Collins and is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. Later, an Indian named Tonto stumbles onto the scene and discovers one ranger is barely alive, and he nurses the man back to health. In some versions, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children.", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "12747009", "text": "the collapse of the Roman Coliseum's wall; the disappearance of the nose on the Sphinx; an ancestor who was a matador in Spain; Woodpecker Raleigh, who introduced the king-size cigarette; a family member who rode the Mayflower; another who chopped down the cherry tree and didn't tell a lie; a great-granduncle named Wyatt Earp Woodpecker out West; and the story of Apache Woodpecker, who strolled in Gay Paree. When Woody's story ends, the kids want to match their ancestors' adventures, but what a disappointment when he tells them that they'll merely take a trip to the Moon. International Woodpecker International", "title": "International Woodpecker" }, { "id": "14025657", "text": "is asked of readers of the original in having to forgo old beliefs of who and what Dracula is. It’s best to just enjoy it for what it is: another vampire story for October\". Winnipeg Free Press reviewer Kenneth MacKendrick called it \"tempting enough to read and bad enough to be controversial, striking a balance between sensationalism and mediocrity\". Dracula the Un-dead Dracula the Un-dead is a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel \"Dracula\". The book was written by Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Previously, Holt had been a direct-to-DVD horror screenwriter, and Stoker a track", "title": "Dracula the Un-dead" } ]

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[ { "id": "953821", "text": "William Moulton Marston William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (), was an American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, greatly influenced Wonder Woman's creation. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. Marston was born in the Cliftondale section of Saugus, Massachusetts, the son of Annie Dalton (née Moulton) and Frederick William Marston. Marston", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "953837", "text": "submission through eroticism. Marston's life is depicted in \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\", a biographical drama also portraying Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Olive Byrne, and the creation of Wonder Woman. Dr. Marston is portrayed in the film by Welsh actor Luke Evans. William Moulton Marston William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (), was an American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "6346868", "text": "Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth Holloway Marston (February 20, 1893 – March 27, 1993) was an American attorney and psychologist. She is credited, with her husband William Moulton Marston, for the development of the systolic blood pressure measurement used to detect deception. She is also credited as the inspiration for her husband's comic book creation \"Wonder Woman\", a character also fashioned on their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne. Marston was born Sadie Holloway in the Isle of Man and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of an English mother, Daisy, and William George Washington Holloway, an American bank clerk.", "title": "Elizabeth Holloway Marston" }, { "id": "532899", "text": "female cartoonist Tarpé Mills on April 6, 1941; the Phantom Lady, introduced in Quality Comics \"Police Comics\" #1 (Aug. 1941); the Black Cat, introduced in Harvey Comics' \"Pocket Comics\" #1 (also Aug. 1941); and the Black Canary, introduced in \"Flash Comics\" #86 (Aug. 1947) as a supporting character. The most iconic comic book superheroine, who debuted during the Golden Age, is Wonder Woman. Modeled from the myth of the Amazons of Greek mythology, she was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, with help and inspiration from his wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive Byrne. Wonder Woman's first appearance was", "title": "Superhero" }, { "id": "1052556", "text": "of her homeland, she adopts her civilian identity Diana Prince. Wonder Woman was created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter. Marston's wife, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byrne, are credited as being his inspiration for the character's appearance. Marston's comics featured his ideas on DISC theory, and the character drew a great deal of inspiration from early feminists, and especially from birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger; in particular, her piece \"Woman and the New Race\". Wonder Woman's origin story relates that she was sculpted from clay by", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "1052561", "text": "be a woman: Marston introduced the idea to Gaines. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed \"Wonder Woman\", whom he believed to be a model of that era's unconventional, liberated woman. Marston also drew inspiration from the bracelets worn by Olive Byrne, who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship. Wonder Woman debuted in \"All Star Comics\" #8 (cover date Dec/Jan 1941/1942, released in October 1941), scripted by Marston. Marston was the creator of a systolic-blood-pressure-measuring apparatus, which was crucial to the development of the polygraph (lie detector). Marston's experience with polygraphs convinced him that women were more honest than men", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "19367945", "text": "As reported by Jill Lepore in the book \"The Secret History of Wonder Woman\", Olive has been credited by some as being Marston's inspiration. for the physical appearance of his iconic character, Wonder Woman, Marston himself only remarked that a pair of bracelets that Byrne frequently wore inspired the ones that would become an important feature of the comic book heroine. Byrne's life is depicted in \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\", a biographical drama also portraying Elizabeth Holloway Marston, her husband William Moulton Marston, and the creation of Wonder Woman. Byrne is portrayed in the film by Australian actress", "title": "Olive Byrne" }, { "id": "7230399", "text": "DISC assessment DISC is a behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four different personality traits which are currently Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S), and Conscientiousness (C). This theory was then developed into a behavioral assessment tool by industrial psychologist Walter Vernon Clarke. Marston was a lawyer and a psychologist; he also contributed to the first polygraph test, authored self-help books and created the character Wonder Woman. His major contribution to psychology came when he generated the DISC characteristics of emotions and behavior of normal people (at the time, 'normal'", "title": "DISC assessment" }, { "id": "953829", "text": "tell the backstory of \"Wonder Woman,\" including his unorthodox personal life with two idealistic and strong women, Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Marston, with a connection to Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Marston's character was a native of an all-female utopia of Amazons who became a crime-fighting U.S. government agent, using her superhuman strength and agility, and her ability to force villains to submit and tell the truth by binding them with her magic lasso. Her appearance was believed by some to be based somewhat on Olive Byrne, and her heavy bronze bracelets (which", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "19774929", "text": "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a 2017 American biographical drama film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created the fictional character Wonder Woman. The film, directed and written by Angela Robinson, stars Luke Evans as Marston, Rebecca Hall as his legal wife Elizabeth and Bella Heathcote as the Marstons' polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne. JJ Feild, Oliver Platt and Connie Britton also star. The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on October 13, 2017. It received positive reviews from critics, who", "title": "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" }, { "id": "7980003", "text": "and elaborated upon these statements in an op-ed for \"The Hollywood Reporter.\" In his book, \"Seduction of the Innocent\", psychiatrist and anti-comic book crusader Fredric Wertham wrote that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext to her character, a claim somewhat strengthened by the character's creator, William Moulton Marston having admitted as much. As well, Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian, calling the \"homosexual connotation of the Wonder Woman type of story is psychologically unmistakable\", and considered Wonder Woman to be \"Lesbian counterpart of Batman\" Wertham notes in the Chapter \"Those Wicked Men\" in that", "title": "Cultural impact of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "1267940", "text": "to \"Mart Dellon and Bill Finger\". National later absorbed All-American. National's practice in the 1950s made formal bylines rare in comics, with DC regularly granting credit only to Kane; William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, under his pseudonym of Charles Moulton; and to Sheldon Mayer. In 1989, Kane acknowledged Finger as \"a contributing force\" in the character's creation, and wrote, \"Now that my long-time friend and collaborator is gone, I must admit that Bill never received the fame and recognition he deserved. He was an unsung hero ... I often tell my wife, if I could go back fifteen", "title": "Bill Finger" }, { "id": "953824", "text": "of the polygraph, when he subsequently embarked on a career in entertainment and comic book writing and appeared as a salesman in ads for Gillette Razors, using a polygraph motif. From his psychological work, Marston became convinced that women were more honest than men in certain situations and could work faster and more accurately. During his lifetime, Marston championed the latent abilities and causes of the women of his day. Marston was also a writer of essays in popular psychology. In 1928, he published \"Emotions of Normal People,\" which elaborated the DISC Theory. Marston viewed people behaving along two axes,", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "12330926", "text": "Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's \"The Hobbit\". Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's film origin story, \"Dracula Untold\". In 2017, Evans starred as Gaston in Disney's live action adaptation of \"Beauty and the Beast\", and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston, creator of fictional character Wonder Woman, in the biographical drama \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\". Evans was born on Easter Sunday, 15 April 1979, in Pontypool, and brought up in Aberbargoed, a small town in the Rhymney Valley, Wales, the only child of Yvonne and David Evans. He was raised as", "title": "Luke Evans (actor)" }, { "id": "6265519", "text": "illness (ranging from mild obsessiveness to full-blown insanity), possessing a diminutive stature, and harboring a misogynistic hatred of women. The character of Doctor Psycho was created by William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman and author of her original adventures. Marston, a psychologist, created Doctor Psycho as a murderous psychopath with an intense hatred of women. The character was partly inspired by actor Lon Chaney (\"Man of a thousand faces\") and partly by Marston's undergraduate advisor Hugo Münsterberg, who was opposed to women's suffrage and feminism, and was into metaphysics. Doctor Psycho was also one of several villains created for", "title": "Doctor Psycho" }, { "id": "6323206", "text": "period before, during and after World War I, on understanding and perfecting the systolic blood-pressure test while working on his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University. Blood pressure was one of several elements measured in the polygraph tests that were being perfected since as far back as Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, in 1895. Marston's wife, psychologist and lawyer Elizabeth Holloway Marston, one of his inspirations for the Wonder Woman character, also played a key role in his lie detector research. But the lie detector had nothing to do with Marston's creation of the Magic Lasso. Wonder Woman's \"Magic Lasso\" or", "title": "Lasso of Truth" }, { "id": "796965", "text": "wife, who suggested to him that 'When she got mad or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb (Lamb, 2001). Although Elizabeth is not listed as Marston’s collaborator in his early work, Lamb, Matte (1996), and others refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's work on her husband's deception research. She also appears in a picture taken in his polygraph laboratory in the 1920s (reproduced in Marston, 1938). Despite his predecessor's contributions, Marston styled himself the \"father of the polygraph\". (Today he is often equally or more noted as the creator of the comic book character Wonder Woman.) Marston remained the", "title": "Polygraph" }, { "id": "6346872", "text": "both Olive Byrne and Elizabeth were models for the character. Marston died on March 27, 1993, just a month after her 100th birthday. Marston's life is depicted in \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\", a fictional biographical drama also portraying her husband William Moulton Marston, Olive Byrne, and the creation of Wonder Woman. Marston is portrayed in the film by British actress Rebecca Hall. Asteroid 101813 Elizabethmarston was named in her memory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 () along with the naming of Asteroid 102234 Olivebyrne. Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth", "title": "Elizabeth Holloway Marston" }, { "id": "1052663", "text": "Friends\" as well as the 1970s live-action show \"Wonder Woman\". The character has been featured in direct-to-DVD animated films and CGI theatrical releases, such as \"The Lego Movie\" (2014). Within the live-action DC Extended Universe films, Wonder Woman debuted in \"\" (2016) and was featured as the main character in \"Wonder Woman\" (2017). In November 2017, she appeared in the DCEU release \"Justice League.\" The 2017 film, \"Professor Marston & the Wonder Women\", tells the story of the polyamorous relationship between William Moulton Marston, his wife and fellow psychologist Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their lover Olive Byrne; the invention of", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "7965231", "text": "\"Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics\" (July, 1941). His most lasting work came when the 61-year-old artist brought William Moulton Marston's Amazonian superheroine Wonder Woman to life on the pages of comic books (even though Peter went on to be uncredited in her creation) in December 1941. Peter notably changed his Gibson technique to an Art Nouveau-influenced cartooning style for the new series. In April 1942, he opened his own studio at 130 W. 42nd Street in Manhattan. In March 1944, the success of the \"Wonder Woman\" comics and newspaper strip led to the opening of the Marston Art Studio at 331", "title": "H. G. Peter" }, { "id": "6323205", "text": "Lasso of Truth The Lasso of Truth is a weapon wielded by DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira. It is also known as the Magic Lasso or the Lasso of Hestia. It was created by William Moulton Marston, inventor of the lie detector, as an allegory for feminine charm, but it later became more popular as a device to extract truth from people. The lariat forces anyone it captures into submission; compelling its captives to obey the wielder of the lasso and tell the truth. William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman but he also worked, in the", "title": "Lasso of Truth" }, { "id": "953827", "text": "of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was the idea of Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, to create a female superhero. Marston recommended an idea for a new kind of superhero, one who would conquer not with fists or firepower, but with love. \"Fine,\" said Elizabeth. \"but make her a woman.\" Marston introduced the idea to Max Gaines, co-founder with Jack Liebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed Wonder Woman, basing her character on the unconventional, liberated, powerful modern women of his day. Marston's pseudonym, Charles Moulton, combined his own and Gaines's middle names. In a 1943 issue", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "1394051", "text": "muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as gay partners), were met with derision within the comics industry. (Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much; however, Wertham also claimed that Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian.) Citing one of Wertham's arguments, that 95% of children in reform school read comics proves that comics cause juvenile delinquency (this is an example of the well-known logical fallacy correlation implies causation), Stan Lee recounted that Wertham \"said things that impressed the public, and", "title": "Fredric Wertham" }, { "id": "7018671", "text": "#19 (Nov. 1940). Wonder Woman was introduced in a nine-page story in \"All Star Comics\" #8 (Jan. 1942), the product of psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and Max Charles Gaines, and drawn by artist Harry G. Peter. All-American Publications All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that merged to form the modern day DC Comics, one of two largest publishers of comic books in the United States. Superheroes created for All-American include the original Atom, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman, all in the 1940s' Golden Age of Comic Books. Max Gaines,", "title": "All-American Publications" }, { "id": "3908911", "text": "images of female nudity concealed in drawings or Batman and Robin as gay partners), met with derision within the comics industry. Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much; however, Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian. It should also be noted that at this time homosexuality was still viewed as a mental disorder by society, it was even still officially classified as such by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Wertham also claimed that Superman was both", "title": "Seduction of the Innocent" }, { "id": "953830", "text": "she used to deflect bullets) were inspired by the jewelry bracelets worn by Byrne. After her name \"Suprema\" was replaced with \"Wonder Woman,\" which was a popular term at the time that described women who were exceptionally gifted, the character made her debut in \"All Star Comics\" #8 in December 1941. Wonder Woman next appeared in \"Sensation Comics\" #1 (January 1942), and six months later, \"Wonder Woman\" #1 debuted. Except for four months in 1986, the series has been in print ever since. The stories were initially written by Marston and illustrated by newspaper artist Harry Peter. During his life", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "7979999", "text": "Wonder Woman's costume or T-shirt representations of said costume. Wonder Woman entered the cultural lexicon, as characters were compared to Wonder Woman due to their athletic prowess, beauty and/or height. Cobie Smulders performed the voice for Wonder Woman in 2014's \"The Lego Movie\". Wonder Woman reappeared briefly as a non-speaking character in follow-up \"The Lego Batman Movie\" (2017). The first live action theatrical film featuring Wonder Woman was 2016's \"\". The second was 2017's \"Wonder Woman\". \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\" is a 2017 film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created Wonder Woman. The film, directed and", "title": "Cultural impact of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "19002600", "text": "Ethel Byrne Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) was an American progressive era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger. Ethel and Margaret were the daughters of Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Higgins. Ethel Byrne's daughter, Olive Byrne, was an important muse to the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston. Ethel and Margaret Sanger had a troubled relationship as reported by Jill Lepore in \"The Secret History of Wonder Woman.\" It has also been noted that Anne Higgins gave preferential treatment to Ethel, much to the dismay of her sister Margaret Sanger and that caused", "title": "Ethel Byrne" }, { "id": "7980001", "text": "someone's imagination not in any way related to my family.\" In another interview with Rob Salkowitz for \"Forbes\", Marston argues against two aspects of the film. The first lies in the depiction of Elizabeth and Olive: “The relationship between Gram [Elizabeth Marston] and Dots [Olive Byrne] is wrong; they were as sisters, not lovers.” The second part revolves around the depiction of the origin of Wonder Woman, which has “William Moulton Marston presenting an idea for a female hero, and Elizabeth naysaying the idea, declaring that nobody would ever publish it.” Christie Marston states instead that when her grandfather was", "title": "Cultural impact of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "142873", "text": "and a \"deconstruction of the acceptable, liberal 'whole' woman towards a multiple, shifting postmodernist sense of female 'selfhood'\". Feminist science fiction is evidenced in the globally popular mediums of comic books, manga, and graphic novels. One of the first appearances of a strong female character was that of the superhero Wonder Woman, co-created by husband and wife team William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. In December 1941, Wonder Woman came to life on the pages of \"All Star Comics\", and in the intervening years has been reincarnated in from animated TV series to live-action films, with significant cultural impact.", "title": "Feminist science fiction" }, { "id": "15375602", "text": "Berlin-born filmmaker. Heathcote starred as Olive Byrne, partner of psychologists and comic book authors William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston, in the 2017 biographical film \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\". Heathcote was cast as Susan Parsons in the CBS All Access drama \"Strange Angel\" in 2018. The show is an adaptation of George Pendle's novel \"Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons\". Heathcote became engaged to film director Andrew Dominik in 2017, after seven years together. Bella Heathcote Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress. She began her acting career in", "title": "Bella Heathcote" }, { "id": "19367937", "text": "Olive Byrne Mary Olive Byrne (), known professionally as Olive Richard (February 19, 1904 – May 19, 1985), was as an American homemaker and polyamorous life partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She was the daughter of famous Progressive activist Ethel Byrne who famously opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States with her sister Margaret Sanger. She has been credited as an inspiration for the comic book character, Wonder Woman. Olive was delivered by her aunt Margret Sanger to the Byrne family in Corning, New York, 1904. Two years later her mother Ethel Byrne would", "title": "Olive Byrne" }, { "id": "6595192", "text": "compiled the Collected Reprints of the Institution from 1959 to 1975, and compiled the Oceanographic Index, 1971-1976. Mary Sears met Olive Byrne and William Moulton Marston while she was in college, and was the inspiration for the fictional character Etta Candy (Wonder Woman's best friend). Sears was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964. On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 1985, \"Deep-Sea Research\" dedicated an issue to Sears, noting that she \"has probably played a greater role in the advancement of oceanographic studies than any other woman.\" She received an honorary doctor", "title": "Mary Sears (oceanographer)" }, { "id": "796964", "text": "blood pressure for police cases, a 1904 device by Vittorio Benussi used to measure breathing, and an abandoned project by American William Moulton Marston which used blood pressure to examine German prisoners of war (POWs). Marston’s machine indicated a strong positive correlation between systolic blood pressure and lying. Marston wrote a second paper on the concept in 1915, when finishing his undergraduate studies. He entered Harvard Law School and graduated in 1918, re-publishing his earlier work in 1917. Marston's main inspiration for the device was his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston. \"According to Marston’s son, it was his mother Elizabeth, Marston’s", "title": "Polygraph" }, { "id": "7134629", "text": "Invisible plane The Invisible Plane is the fictional DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. Created by William Moulton Marston as an allegory of the feminine compliance that women of the Depression era relied on to survive in the male-dominated work place, it first appeared in \"Sensation Comics\" #1 (Jan. 1942). The Pre-Crisis version of the invisible plane was a necessity because before the \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\" rewrote Wonder Woman's history—along with the histories of many other heroes—Wonder Woman simply could not fly. She grew increasingly powerful through the Silver Age of comic books", "title": "Invisible plane" }, { "id": "9547155", "text": "by superpowered male characters such as the Green Lantern, Batman, and its flagship character, Superman. The first widely recognizable female superhero is Wonder Woman, created by William Moulton Marston for All-American Publications, one of three companies that would merge to form DC Comics. Marston intended the character to be a strong female role-model for girls, with \"all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.\" Female characters in early science fiction films such as Barbarella (1968) were often portrayed as simple sex kittens. Professor Sherrie Inness has said that the portrayals of tough women", "title": "Gender in speculative fiction" }, { "id": "8615822", "text": "Hypnota Hypnota the Great (; a.k.a. Hypnotic Woman) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc., an enemy team. She first appeared in the comic \"Wonder Woman\" (Vol. 1) #11 and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head during the rehearsal of one of her act's illusions. Experimental surgery saved her life, but it also released a \"blue electric ray of dominance\"", "title": "Hypnota" }, { "id": "8615521", "text": "Zara (comics) Zara, Priestess of the Crimson Flame is a villain who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman. She was also a member of the super-villain team Villainy Inc. She debuted in \"Comic Cavalcade\" #5 and was created by Dr. William Moulton Marston as an example of the follies of misandry and another embodiment of emotionally misaligned women whom Wonder Woman must reform. The past of Zara was that she was an Arab girl and wore belly dancer attire. According to her tales, she was sold into slavery as a child; which created in her an intense hatred of men.", "title": "Zara (comics)" }, { "id": "8615826", "text": "which could control the minds of anyone who fell under the rays' influence. Hypnota Hypnota the Great (; a.k.a. Hypnotic Woman) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc., an enemy team. She first appeared in the comic \"Wonder Woman\" (Vol. 1) #11 and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head during the rehearsal of one of her act's illusions. Experimental surgery", "title": "Hypnota" }, { "id": "12027388", "text": "debut, she was featured in \"Sensation Comics\" #1 (January 1942), and six months later appeared in her own comic book series (Summer 1942). Wonder Woman took her place beside the extant superheroines or antiheroes Fantomah, Black Widow, Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, and Canada's Nelvana of the Northern Lights. Until his death in 1947, Dr. William Moulton Marston was credited with writing all of the Wonder Woman stories; however, later in life, he hired assistant Joye Hummel to ghostwrite stories for him. H. G. Peter penciled the book in a simplistic yet easily identifiable style. Armed with bulletproof bracelets, a magic lasso,", "title": "Publication history of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "12330932", "text": "Jeremy Irons. In January 2015, Evans officially exited \"The Crow\" to pursue other projects. The same year, he was named one of \"GQ\"s 50 best dressed British men. In 2016, Evans appeared in the thriller film \"The Girl on the Train\", co-starring Emily Blunt. In 2017, he had the villainous role of Gaston in Disney's live action remake, \"Beauty and the Beast\", which co-stars Emma Watson; and also played the lead role, William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, in the film \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\". In 2018, Evans stars in TNT drama \"The Alienist\", as newspaper", "title": "Luke Evans (actor)" }, { "id": "953832", "text": "has bled into his design of his Wonder Woman mythology. This theme of diametrics took the form of his emphasis on certain masculine and feminine configurations as well as dominance and submission. Marston's \"Wonder Woman\" is an early example of bondage themes that were entering popular culture in the 1930s. Physical and mental submission appears again and again throughout Marston's comics work, with Wonder Woman and her criminal opponents frequently being tied up (or otherwise restrained), and her Amazonian sisters engaging in frequent wrestling and bondage play. These elements were softened by later writers of the series, who dropped such", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "19155867", "text": "project at various points. Warner Bros. announced the film in 2010 and Jenkins signed on to direct in 2015. Inspiration for \"Wonder Woman\" was drawn from Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston's 1940s stories and George Pérez's 1980s stories about Wonder Woman, as well as the New 52 incarnation of the character. Principal photography began on November 21, 2015, with filming taking place in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy before wrapping up on May 9, 2016, the 123rd anniversary of Marston's birth. Additional filming took place in November 2016. \"Wonder Woman\" had its world premiere in Shanghai on May", "title": "Wonder Woman (2017 film)" }, { "id": "19002606", "text": "mentioned by name and unlike her older sister is not a household name. Ethel Byrne had a stroke and died in 1955. She did not live to see the legalization of the birth control pill as she died five years before it received FDA approval. Ethel Byrne Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) was an American progressive era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger. Ethel and Margaret were the daughters of Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Higgins. Ethel Byrne's daughter, Olive Byrne, was an important muse to the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston.", "title": "Ethel Byrne" }, { "id": "1052611", "text": "pecs and an impractically big body. That makes them feel like the hero they want to be. And my hero, in my head, has really long legs.\" This corresponds to the original intent by William Moulton Marston, who wanted his character to be alluringly feminine. The Pre-Crisis version of the invisible plane was a necessity because before \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\" rewrote Wonder Woman's history – along with the histories of many other heroes – Wonder Woman could not fly. She grew increasingly powerful during and after the Silver Age of Comic Books, acquiring the power to ride wind currents", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "1052679", "text": "Grant Morrison stated \"I sat down and I thought, 'I don't want to do this warrior woman thing.' I can understand why they're doing it, I get all that, but that's not what [Wonder Woman creator] William Marston wanted, that's not what he wanted at all! His original concept for Wonder Woman was an answer to comics that he thought were filled with images of blood-curdling masculinity, and you see the latest shots of Gal Gadot in the costume, and it's all sword and shield and her snarling at the camera. Marston's Diana was a doctor, a healer, a scientist.\"", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "3483866", "text": "stories featuring the heroes teaming up to fight crime. \"All Star Comics\" #8 (cover dated January 1942) featured the first appearance of Wonder Woman in an eight-page story written by William Moulton Marston, under the pen name of \"Charles Moulton\" with art by H. G. Peter. The insert story was included to test reader interest in the Wonder Woman concept. It generated enough positive fan response that Wonder Woman would be awarded the lead feature in the \"Sensation Comics\" anthology title starting from issue #1. That same issue saw the induction of Doctor Mid-Nite and Starman as members of the", "title": "All Star Comics" }, { "id": "9204288", "text": "that \"crime comics\" were a serious cause of juvenile delinquency, citing overt or covert depictions of violence, sex, drug use, and other adult fare. Wertham asserted, largely based on undocumented anecdotes, that reading this material encouraged similar behavior in children. Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes (e.g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings of muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as homosexual partners), were met with derision within the comics industry. His claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as", "title": "Crime comics" }, { "id": "1052687", "text": "of female empowerment. Paquette acknowledged that Wonder Woman has become more than just a beloved character, she is a symbol for feminism. \"By bringing in sex and, yes, bondage, it reasserts [William Moulton Marston's core] idea that it is okay for women to have a healthy sexual appetite.\" Paquette elaborated more on this by pointing out the blatant double standards in comics when it comes to sex: \"Could Wonder Woman really ever have a healthy and active sex life without it becoming political fodder for Fox News? And what of women and girls who want to be like her? Do", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "953823", "text": "pressure test, which became one component of the modern polygraph invented by John Augustus Larson in Berkeley, California. Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, suggested a connection between emotion and blood pressure to William, observing that, \"[w]hen she got mad or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb\". Although Elizabeth is not listed as Marston's collaborator in his early work, Lamb, Matte (1996), and others refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's own work on her husband's research. She also appears in a picture taken in his laboratory in the 1920s (reproduced by Marston, 1938). Marston set out to commercialize Larson's invention", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "5028477", "text": "less-charitably, a rip-off of William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman (first appearance on All Star Comics, No. 8, December 1941). But people who have spoken with Ravelo personally claimed that the Filipino comics legend based Darna on his own mother who raised him single-handedly. Mars, a young and struggling cartoonist then, brought his superheroine idea as the Philippines’ answer to Superman to various publications both in the Philippines and in the United States but was rejected because publishers kept telling him \"female superheroes will not sell\". So Ravelo shelved his concept for the duration of the war. Years after the war,", "title": "Darna" }, { "id": "12027395", "text": "IDW Publishing in 2014. Several of the World War II-era comic book stories featuring Wonder Woman were collected by Chartwell Books in 2015. Upon William Moulton Marston's death in 1947, Robert Kanigher took up the writing duties on \"Wonder Woman\". Diana was written as a less feminist character, and began to resemble other traditional American heroines. Peter produced the art on the title through issue #97, when the elderly artist was fired (he died soon afterward). During this time, Diana's abilities expanded. Her earrings provided her the air she needed to breathe in outer space, and she piloted an \"invisible", "title": "Publication history of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "20647050", "text": "Joye Hummel Joye Hummel (Joye Murchison Kelly) (b. April 4, 1924) ghost-wrote a number of \"Wonder Woman\" stories between 1944 and 1947. She was 19 years old when she began. When William Moulton Marston – the original Wonder Woman writer – became terminally ill, Hummel took over. Her first stories appeared in the Spring of 1945 in issue 12 of \"Wonder Woman\". Within three years of her in this writing role, the character became a huge success. Hummel was the first woman to write these stories for \"Wonder Woman\" and was in fact the first female writer for superhero comics.", "title": "Joye Hummel" }, { "id": "7979996", "text": "steadily increased over the years, having served as an iconic exemplar of the feminist movement and a continuing symbol of female empowerment. As such, she appears in numerous media, from cereal box covers and popular magazines to being referenced both directly and indirectly in film, animation and television programming. As a cultural icon, she is the subject of several homages and parodies in many forms of media. Wonder Woman's viewpoints and characteristics reflect those of her creator, William Moulton Marston, who was a strong supporter of feminist ideals and female empowerment: Wonder Woman is the subject of a 1978 -", "title": "Cultural impact of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "9445340", "text": "Comics' superheroine Wonder Woman. The Amazons of Paradise Island were first created by William Moulton Marston as allegories of his love leaders and as part of the origin story of his creation, Wonder Woman, who is also an allegory for the ideal love leader. These Amazons were a race of immortal super-women that lived on the magical Paradise Island. Granted life by Gaea, and favored by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, the Amazons thrived in peace for centuries, but remained aloof from the world of Man. The youngest, strongest, and most human of the Amazons, Princess Diana, left her protective", "title": "Amazons (DC Comics)" }, { "id": "9462033", "text": "Princess Diana winning the tournament and traveling to the United States in 1941 (coinciding with the character's Earth-Two history). Wonder Woman (Earth-Two) Wonder Woman of Earth-Two is a fictional DC Comics superheroine retconned from original stories by Wonder Woman writer and creator William Moulton Marston and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This version of Wonder Woman first appeared in \"All Star Comics\" #8 (December 1941). This was after DC Comics established a multiverse in their published stories to explain how heroes could have been active before (and during) World War II and retain their youth and (subsequent) origins during the", "title": "Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)" }, { "id": "746410", "text": "the 1895 summer election, losing by 197 votes. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours. Haggard died on 14 May 1925 in Marylebone, London aged 68. His ashes were buried at St Mary's Church, Ditchingham. His papers are held at the Norfolk Record Office. Haggard's stories are still widely read today. Ayesha, the female protagonist of \"She\", has been cited as a prototype by psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud (in \"The Interpretation of Dreams\") and Carl Jung. Her epithet \"She Who Must", "title": "H. Rider Haggard" }, { "id": "7653001", "text": "in \"Wonder Woman\" #1, volume 1, published in the summer of 1942, written and created by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston as the embodiment of all abnormal emotions, evil, and essentially all that Wonder Woman was against. In the very next issue, he reappeared under his Roman name, Mars. He would retain this name until February 1987, when comics writer/artist George Pérez restored the Greek name Ares as part of his reboot of the Wonder Woman mythos. As the narrative continuity of Wonder Woman comics have been adjusted by different writers throughout the years, various versions of Mars/Ares, with", "title": "Ares (DC Comics)" }, { "id": "20647051", "text": "At the time, she did not receive any recognition. She married David W. Murchison, then Jack Kelly. In 2018, Hummel won the 2018 Bill Finger Award from San Diego Comic-Con International. Joye Hummel Joye Hummel (Joye Murchison Kelly) (b. April 4, 1924) ghost-wrote a number of \"Wonder Woman\" stories between 1944 and 1947. She was 19 years old when she began. When William Moulton Marston – the original Wonder Woman writer – became terminally ill, Hummel took over. Her first stories appeared in the Spring of 1945 in issue 12 of \"Wonder Woman\". Within three years of her in this", "title": "Joye Hummel" }, { "id": "3190649", "text": "local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona. In the international 1972 pageant, representing the United States, she reached the semifinals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she made her first acting appearance, in an episode of the 1974 police drama \"Nakia\" entitled \"Roots of Anger\". She soon began making appearances on such TV shows as \"Starsky and Hutch\" and \"Cos\", as well as appearances in several \"B\" movies. Wonder Woman, the fictional superheroine character, was created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton", "title": "Lynda Carter" }, { "id": "19367946", "text": "Bella Heathcote. Asteroid 102234 Olivebyrne was named in her memory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 () along with the naming of asteroid 101813 Elizabethmarston. Olive Byrne Mary Olive Byrne (), known professionally as Olive Richard (February 19, 1904 – May 19, 1985), was as an American homemaker and polyamorous life partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She was the daughter of famous Progressive activist Ethel Byrne who famously opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States with her sister Margaret Sanger. She has been credited as", "title": "Olive Byrne" }, { "id": "1535475", "text": "called Salfordians, and the city has been the birthplace and home to notable people of national and international acclaim. Amongst the most notable persons of historic significance with a connection to Salford are Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the founders of the British suffragette movement, who lived in Salford, and the scientist James Prescott Joule, who was born and raised in Salford. The novelist Walter Greenwood (\"Love on the Dole\") and the dramatist Shelagh Delaney (\"A Taste of Honey\") were both born in, and wrote about, Salford. Musicians Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, who were members of Joy Division – which", "title": "Salford" }, { "id": "953831", "text": "Marston had written many articles and books on various psychological topics, but his last six years of writing were devoted to his comics creation. William Moulton Marston died of cancer on May 2, 1947, in Rye, New York, seven days shy of his 54th birthday. After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death in 1985, aged 81; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100. In 1985, Marston was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication \"Fifty Who Made DC Great\". William Moulton Marston's philosophy of diametric opposites", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "7134640", "text": "is now the equivalent of a human corpse. While it can still function in its traditional shape of an invisible plane, it can no longer alter its shape and is now a lifeless inanimate object that is neither intelligent nor self-aware. Invisible plane The Invisible Plane is the fictional DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. Created by William Moulton Marston as an allegory of the feminine compliance that women of the Depression era relied on to survive in the male-dominated work place, it first appeared in \"Sensation Comics\" #1 (Jan. 1942). The Pre-Crisis version", "title": "Invisible plane" }, { "id": "3630022", "text": "was heavily criticized by Hereward Carrington and Théodore Flournoy. On 18 December 1909, in New York, with the help of a hidden man lying under a table, Münsterberg caught Palladino levitating a table with her foot. Some investigators were originally baffled how Palladino could move curtains from a distance when all the doors and windows in the séance room were closed. According to Münsterberg she moved the curtains by releasing a jet of air from a rubber bulb that she had in her hand. Münsterberg was an academic mentor to William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman. Hugo Münsterberg Hugo", "title": "Hugo Münsterberg" }, { "id": "1052672", "text": "to emulate her unapologetic assertiveness.\" Charlotte Howell notes in her essay titled \"‘Tricky’ Connotations: Wonder Woman as DC’s Brand Disruptor\" that Wonder Woman is, \"inherently disruptive to masculine superhero franchise branding because, according to her creator William Moulton Marston, she was intended to be 'psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, [he] believe[d], should rule the world.'\" Continuing her legacy as an influential feminist icon, in 2015 Wonder Woman became the first superhero to officiate a same-sex wedding in a comic series. On October 21, 2016, the United Nations controversially named Wonder Woman a UN Honorary Ambassador for", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "16968127", "text": "Wonder Woman (1974 film) Wonder Woman is a 1974 American made-for-television superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Vincent McEveety and starring Cathy Lee Crosby. The film was a pilot for an intended television series being considered by ABC. Ratings were described as \"respectable but not exactly wondrous,\" and ABC did not pick up the pilot. Instead, Warner Brothers and ABC developed a different Wonder Woman television concept that fit the more traditional presentation of the character as created by William Moulton Marston, turning away from the 1968–72 era that had influenced the", "title": "Wonder Woman (1974 film)" }, { "id": "9479390", "text": "DC line was dominated by superpowered male characters such as the Green Lantern, Batman, and its flagship character, Superman. According to the Fall 2001 issue of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was his wife Elizabeth Hollowy's idea to create a female superhero. Marston introduced the idea to Max Gaines, cofounder (along with Jack Liebowitz) of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed \"Wonder Woman\" with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconventional, liberated woman). In creating Wonder Woman, Marston was also inspired by Olive Byrne, who lived with the couple in a polygamous/polyamorous relationship.", "title": "Portrayal of women in American comics" }, { "id": "9462011", "text": "Wonder Woman (Earth-Two) Wonder Woman of Earth-Two is a fictional DC Comics superheroine retconned from original stories by Wonder Woman writer and creator William Moulton Marston and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This version of Wonder Woman first appeared in \"All Star Comics\" #8 (December 1941). This was after DC Comics established a multiverse in their published stories to explain how heroes could have been active before (and during) World War II and retain their youth and (subsequent) origins during the 1960s. The Earth-Two Wonder Woman was first featured as a character separate from Wonder Woman (known as Earth-One Wonder", "title": "Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)" }, { "id": "19155885", "text": "of the Allies during World War II). As for story development, Jenkins credits the stories by the character's creator William Moulton Marston in the 1940s and George Perez's seminal stories in the 1980s in which he modernized the character. In addition, it follows some aspects of DC Comics' origin changes in The New 52 reboot, where Diana is the daughter of Zeus. Jenkins cited Richard Donner's \"Superman\" as an inspiration. In late 2013, Zack Snyder cast Gal Gadot in the role of Wonder Woman for the 2016 film, \"\" over Élodie Yung and Olga Kurylenko. Some fans initially reacted to", "title": "Wonder Woman (2017 film)" }, { "id": "3814085", "text": "washed up on the shore of the Serpentine? What had become of her? For Holmes it proves rather an elementary case, for he has dealt with similar cases and this one is not so complex to unravel, despite the confusion it causes Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade. Holmes finds Hatty and the strange man from the front pew, and the \"dénouement\" takes the form of Holmes having Hatty explain herself to Lord Robert. Hatty and the mystery man, Francis H. Moulton, were husband and wife. They parted on the day of their wedding so that he could try to amass", "title": "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" }, { "id": "2089966", "text": "aspects of her personality into the character. Quinn was also inspired by a mutual female friend's \"stormy but nonviolent relationship\", according to Timm. The 1994 graphic novel \"\" recounts the character's origin story. Written and drawn by Dini and Timm, the comic book is told in the style and continuity of \"Batman: The Animated Series\". It describes Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel, PhD as an Arkham Asylum psychologist who falls in love with the Joker and becomes his accomplice and on-again, off-again girlfriend. The story received wide praise and won the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Single Issue Comic of", "title": "Harley Quinn" }, { "id": "7630894", "text": "Etta Candy Etta Candy is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as the best friend of the superhero Wonder Woman. A spirited, vivacious young woman with a devil-may-care attitude, Etta first appeared in \"Sensation Comics\" #2 (1942), written by Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston. Enrolled in the fictional Holliday College for Women (and often accompanied by her fellow students, \"the Holliday Girls\"), Etta would become a constant feature of Wonder Woman's Golden Age adventures, effectively functioning as both the hero's plucky sidekick and her best friend in Man's World. Unapologetically proud of her", "title": "Etta Candy" }, { "id": "1052560", "text": "Superman. Modern historians divide 20th century history of American superhero comics into \"four ages\", akin to the \"Ages of Man\". In an October 25, 1940, interview with the \"Family Circle\" magazine, William Moulton Marston discussed the unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium. This article caught the attention of comics publisher Max Gaines, who hired Marston as an educational consultant for National Periodicals and All-American Publications, two of the companies that would merge to form DC Comics. At that time, Marston wanted to create his own new superhero; Marston's wife and fellow psychologist Elizabeth suggested to him that it should", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "1052670", "text": "friends and allies to teach lessons of peace and equality.”. The origin of Wonder Woman and the psychological reasoning behind why William Morton Marston created her in the way he did illustrated Marston's educational, ethical, and moral values. \"William Marston intended her to be a feminist character, showing young boys the illimitable possibilities of a woman who could be considered just as strong as the famed Superman.\" Gladys L. Knight explains the impact and influences that superheroes have on us in society ranging from the 1870s until the present day. Marc DiPaolo introduces us to Wonder Woman's creator and history", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "953833", "text": "characters as the Nazi-like blond female slaver Eviless completely, despite her having formed the original Villainy Inc. of Wonder Woman's enemies (in \"Wonder Woman\" #28, the last by Marston.) Though Marston had described female nature as being more capable of submission emotion, in his other writings and interviews, he referred to submission as a noble practice and did not shy away from the sexual implications, saying: One of the purposes of these bondage depictions was to induce eroticism in readers as a part of what he called \"sex love training.\" Through his Wonder Woman comics, he aimed to condition readers", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "6475568", "text": "prolonged exposure to the ray. The Amazons are shown to reside on the planet Venus in the 853rd century. There they use the Purple Ray to revive their warriors from temporary death brought about by brutal gladiatoral battles the Amazons engage in among one another. Purple Ray The Purple Ray, created by William Moulton Marston and featured in Wonder Woman comics, is a fictional healing device that brought a person back from the dead. Prior to the comic book storyline \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\", Diana invented the Purple Ray in order to heal Steve Trevor from injuries he sustained when", "title": "Purple Ray" }, { "id": "4623619", "text": "Giganta Giganta is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. A longtime enemy of Wonder Woman and an occasional foil for The Atom, Giganta possesses the superhuman ability to increase her physical size and mass, effectively transforming into a giantess. Her first appearance (\"Wonder Woman\" #9, volume 1, published in 1944), written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, presents her as a brutish strongwoman. Later adaptations (including appearances on Hanna-Barbera's popular cartoon series \"Challenge of the Super Friends\" in the 1970s) introduced Giganta's size-changing ability, a feature which has been retained to date. Giganta was", "title": "Giganta" }, { "id": "14707737", "text": "known as a state cipher, the stream cipher was invented in 1917 by Gilbert Sandford Vernam at Bell Labs. 1917 Marshmallow creme 1918 Superheterodyne receiver 1918 French dip sandwich 1918 Torque wrench 1918 Crystal oscillator 1918 Grocery bag 1918 Hydraulic brake 1919 Blender 1919 Silica gel 1919 Toaster (pop-up) 1920 Eskimo Pie 1920 Jungle gym 1921 Polygraph Not to be confused with an earlier and different invention with the same name, a polygraph, popularly referred to as a lie detector, is an instrument that measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while", "title": "Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)" }, { "id": "3366989", "text": "the character following the death of creator William Moulton Marston in 1947), to new editor Dennis O'Neil in \"Wonder Woman\" #178 (dated October 1968). According to the new writer/artist Mike Sekowsky, the reason for the change was: \"[T]he sales on the old WW were so bad that the book was going to be dropped. The new Wonder Woman was given a chance -- (a last chance for the book) and it worked!\" Diana Prince gave herself a \"mod\" makeover in order to go undercover when Trevor was accused of being a double-agent. The following issue, the Amazons claimed they needed", "title": "Diana Prince" }, { "id": "13063328", "text": "Paula von Gunther Baroness Paula von Gunther is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. Created by William Moulton Marston as an adversary for his comic book heroine Wonder Woman in \"Sensation Comics\" #4, the Baroness would become the Amazing Amazon's first recurring enemy. Though in her earliest appearances she was a cold-blooded Nazi spy and saboteur, the Baroness would reform into Wonder Woman's ally (albeit one who occasionally lapsed into villainy), appearing in Wonder Woman stories throughout the Golden, Silver and Bronze Age of Comics. In the late 1990s, the Baroness was returned to her", "title": "Paula von Gunther" }, { "id": "10427918", "text": "Mental radio The mental radio is a fictional object that features prominently in the Golden Age and some later adventures of DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman. It was created by William Moulton Marston as an allegory for intuitive telepathy, or ESP, which he believed was a real phenomenon. The mental radio device was created by the scientifically advanced Amazon nation on Paradise Island. It first appeared in \"Sensation Comics\" #3. It was frequently used throughout the Golden Age as a means for Wonder Woman to maintain communications with her mother and fellow Amazons on Paradise Island and for Wonder Woman's", "title": "Mental radio" }, { "id": "8614116", "text": "Queen Clea Queen Clea is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an adversary for the superhero Wonder Woman. The ruthless dictator of Venturia, a remote kingdom on the sunken continent of Atlantis, she first appeared in 1944 in \"Wonder Woman\" #8, volume 1, written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and illustrated by Harry G. Peter. After several clashes with Wonder Woman, Queen Clea became a member of Villainy Inc., a team of super-villainesses consisting of several of Wonder Woman's Golden Age foes, including the Cheetah, Giganta and Doctor Poison. She made", "title": "Queen Clea" }, { "id": "19774930", "text": "praised Robinson's direction and the performances of its stars. The story is told in flashbacks set during a 1945 testimony that William Moulton Marston gives to representatives of the Child Study Association of America. In the year 1928, William and his wife Elizabeth teach and work on their research at the associated Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. One day, William hires one of his students, Olive Byrne (daughter of Ethel Byrne and niece of Margaret Sanger – two famous suffragists and feminists of the 20th century) as a research assistant. Olive aids in the Marstons' work in inventing the lie detector", "title": "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" }, { "id": "2674087", "text": "gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at least the mid-1880s. Wilkie Collins's novel \"The Moonstone\" (1868), a tale of a Scotland Yard detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the genre. As detective fiction rose to worldwide popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, many of the pioneering and most popular characters, at least in the English-speaking world, were private investigators or amateurs. See C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Miss", "title": "Police procedural" }, { "id": "2357832", "text": "continuity by DC comics, it was absolutely key to the character Dr. Marston, an ardent feminist and practicing psychologist, was creating. His point was that women are not actually inferior to men (the standard assumption at the time and throughout much of history), they are oppressed. The only reason they are \"weaker\" is because they allow men to make them so. Female submission Female submission describes an activity or relationship in which a female submits to the dominance of a sexual partner. The submission can be voluntary and consensual, such as in BDSM. The dominant partner is usually a man,", "title": "Female submission" }, { "id": "20381385", "text": "key fetish art innovators, including Irving Klaw, John Willie, Eric Stanton, and Leonard Burtman. The subject of a book tribute, \"Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Art,\" he is also featured in the independent biopic on Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston. The film \"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women\", written and directed by Angela Robinson, features Charles Guyette as the costumer for Wonder Woman's real-life inspiration, Olive Byrne. Guyette is played by actor JJ Feild. Charles Guyette Charles Guyette (August 14, 1902 – June, 1976) was a pioneer of fetish style, the first person in the United States to produce", "title": "Charles Guyette" }, { "id": "3833230", "text": "one of the Amazons, Calliope, that he had been a Nazi agent all along. Despite his love for Diana, he states he loves his homeland more than he could ever love a woman. Wonder Woman then chokes Steve to death with the lasso. His betrayal influences Diana's ruthless ethics in the \"Injustice\" series. Steve Trevor General Steven Rockwell Trevor is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superheroine Wonder Woman. The character was created by William Moulton Marston and first appeared in \"All Star Comics\" #8 (Dec. 1941). Steve Trevor", "title": "Steve Trevor" }, { "id": "7100622", "text": "Though Collins is sometimes credited with inventing the detective story, others give that honour to Edgar Allan Poe, whose \"Murders in the Rue Morgue\" (1841) was 27 years earlier than Collins' \"The Moonstone\". However, Collins almost certainly began the tradition of female sleuths continued by Agatha Christie with Miss Marple and, in more modern times, V. I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky's private detective. The Law and the Lady The Law and the Lady is a detective story, published in 1875 by Wilkie Collins. It is not quite as sensational in style as \"The Moonstone\" and \"The Woman in White\". Valeria Brinton", "title": "The Law and the Lady" }, { "id": "1052681", "text": "she does.” William Marston's earliest works were notorious for containing subversive \"bondage and sapphic-undertones\" subtext. Fredric Wertham's \"Seduction of the Innocent\" referred to her as the \"lesbian counterpart to Batman\" (whom he also identified as a homosexual). After Marston's death in 1947, DC Comics downplayed her sexuality; the sexual imagery disappeared from the \"Wonder Woman\" comic, along with Wonder Woman's super powers. During the Comics Code Authority-decades since, Wonder Woman's subversiveness had been gradually stripped away; subsequent comic book writers and artists didn't do much more than hint at Wonder Woman's erotic legacy. Similar to whitewashing, Wonder Woman's queerness was", "title": "Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "11317", "text": "Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, \"The Mousetrap\", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "7980000", "text": "written by Angela Robinson, stars Luke Evans as Marston, Rebecca Hall as his legal wife Elizabeth and Bella Heathcote as Olive Byrne, their lover and the third member of their closed polyamorous triad. However, in an interview with Mark Walters, William Moulton Marston’s granddaughter Christie Marston stated that the film is historically inaccurate. She said that the creators of the film did not contact her family and that the “depiction of the family and Wonder Woman’s origins are made up”. She also posted a statement on Twitter saying that \"the film is not a true story. It is based on", "title": "Cultural impact of Wonder Woman" }, { "id": "19774934", "text": "on the lie detector as well as Elizabeth and Olive in real life, and intend to support the feminist movement to further equal rights for women through a populist medium. He pitches his ideas to Max Gaines, then publisher at National Periodical Publications (today DC Comics), who ultimately accepts the comic and suggests simplifying the female superhero's name to \"Wonder Woman\". \"Wonder Woman\" is an instant hit, leading to prosperity for the Marstons/Byrne family. However, one day, their neighbor Mary wanders into their home by coincidence and walks into the three of them having sex. This incident leads to their", "title": "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" }, { "id": "953828", "text": "of \"The American Scholar\", Marston wrote: \"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.\" In 2017, a majority of Marston's personal papers arrived at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; this collection helps to", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "953822", "text": "was educated at Harvard University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and receiving his B.A. in 1915, an LL.B. in 1918, and a PhD in Psychology in 1921. After teaching at American University in Washington, D.C., and Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, Marston traveled to Universal Studios in California in 1929, where he spent a year as Director of Public Services. Marston had 2 children each with both his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and partner Olive Byrne. Elizabeth supported the family financially while Olive Byrne stayed home to take care of all four children. Marston was the creator of the systolic blood", "title": "William Moulton Marston" }, { "id": "9479391", "text": "In a 1943 issue of \"The American Scholar\", Marston wrote: Some of Marston Moulton's early stories included Wonder Woman as president of the United States and as a modern-day Incan Sun God, both non-traditional roles for women. Despite such portrayals of women in leadership roles, however, editor Sheldon Mayer was disturbed by the recurring bondage imagery. If Wonder Woman's bracelets were chained together, she became as weak as any other woman. According to Marston this imagery of bondage was a reflection of the suffrage movement's use bondage as well. He insisted it was important that she could be seen freeing", "title": "Portrayal of women in American comics" }, { "id": "15992871", "text": "Moulton Marston depicted the origin story the Amazons as Greek women who had been bound by the wrists by men, who at one point realized their power and broke free. They then moved to their own women-only island, where, in the absence of male oppression, they grew progressively stronger and longer lived. The \"Bracelets of Submission\" were still worn as a cautionary reminder: to forfeit one's independence by allowing male dominance over their will sapped them of their own power. The inspiration to give Diana bracelets came from the pair of bracelets worn by Olive Byrne, creator William Moulton Marston's", "title": "Wonder Woman's bracelets" }, { "id": "9479389", "text": "interview conducted by former student Olive Byrne (under the pseudonym 'Olive Richard') and published in \"Family Circle\", titled \"Don't Laugh at the Comics\", William Moulton Marston described what he saw as the great educational potential of comic books (a follow up article was published two years later in 1942.) This article caught the attention of comics publisher Max Gaines, who hired Marston as an educational consultant for National Periodicals and All-American Publications, two of the companies that would merge to form the future DC Comics. At that time, Marston decided to develop a new superhero. In the early 1940s the", "title": "Portrayal of women in American comics" }, { "id": "1001138", "text": "a Jewish household. His father was Max Gaines, who as publisher of the All-American Comics division of DC Comics was also an influential figure in the history of comics. The elder Gaines tested the idea of packaging and selling comics on newsstands in 1933. In 1941, Max Gaines accepted William Moulton Marston's proposal for the first successful female superhero, Wonder Woman. With the publication of Dr. Fredric Wertham's \"Seduction of the Innocent\", comic books like those that Gaines published attracted the attention of the U.S. Congress. In 1954, Gaines testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. In the following", "title": "William Gaines" }, { "id": "100784", "text": "underworld and undercover surveillance, rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect. Detective fiction in the English-speaking world is considered to have begun in 1841 with the publication of Poe's \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\", featuring \"the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupin\". When the character first appeared, the word detective did not even exist. However, the character's name, \"Dupin\", originated from the English word dupe or deception. Poe devised a \"plot formula that's been successful ever since, give or take a few shifting variables.\" Poe followed with further Auguste Dupin tales: \"The Mystery of Marie", "title": "Detective fiction" } ]

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[ { "id": "4243748", "text": "something happens.'\" Du Maurier and her husband, \"Tommy Browning, like Rebecca and Maximilian de Winter, were not faithful to one another.\" Subsequent to the novel's publication, \"Jan Ricardo, tragically, died during the Second World War. She threw herself under a train.\" Childhood visits to Milton Hall, Cambridgeshire (then in Northamptonshire) home of the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam family, may have influenced the descriptions of Manderley. The famous opening line of the book \"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.\" is an iambic hexameter. The last line of the book \"And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "6327042", "text": "to the perfect sentence: \"Last night, I dreamt of Glocca Morra...again.\" (The reference parodies: \"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again\", the famous first line of Daphne du Maurier's \"Rebecca.\") The song is referenced in the \"Sports Night\" episode \"Celebrities\" (Season 2, Episode 15) and the song title is directly used as the title of an episode from Season 1 (Episode 17). When Goody Rickles (Don Rickles' sillier look-alike) comically mangles the name of the deadly compound \"Pyrogranulate\" in the comic book \"Jimmy Olsen\" 139, by Jack Kirby, what comes out is \"Pyro-Glocca-Morra\". In an episode of \"All", "title": "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" }, { "id": "5409056", "text": "is told by Ellie Julyan, the Colonel's youngest daughter, who cares for her father at home. The narrative shifts produce a very different structure from the original \"Rebecca\", as well as a more postmodern tone that emphasizes the various narrators' unreliability. Also, the book is sometimes placed in a separate genre: while \"Rebecca\" is classified as a Gothic novel (du Maurier detested its categorization as a romance), \"Rebecca’s Tale\" is often considered a mystery. \"Rebecca’s Tale\" continues twenty years after du Maurier's conclusion and begins with the same classic line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Most", "title": "Rebecca's Tale" }, { "id": "15641845", "text": "The King's General The King's General is a novel, published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier. It was the first novel Du Maurier wrote while living at Menabilly, the setting for an earlier novel \"Rebecca\", where it is called 'Manderley'. The writing of the novel was accompanied by prolific research, in which Du Maurier was assisted by Oenone Rashleigh and historian A. L. Rowse, to ensure the historical accuracy of her presentation of the Devon/Cornwall setting at the time of the Civil War. The historical precision and accuracy made it popular among local people, but the", "title": "The King's General" }, { "id": "4243773", "text": "lucky one, returning like a wayward son to Manderley, I'd never be the same...\". Steve Hackett included a song entitled \"Rebecca,\" inspired by the novel, on his album \"To Watch the Storms\". In 2013, Devon watchmakers Du Maurier Watches, founded by the grandson of Daphne du Maurier, released a limited edition collection of two watches inspired by the characters from the novel – The Rebecca and The Maxim. Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, \"Rebecca\" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "10258121", "text": "well as the four-episode series \"Special Task Force MSS\" (2011), and \"The True Colors of Gang and Cheol\" (2012). He returned to theater in early 2013. Based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier and the 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock, the gothic musical \"Rebecca\" takes place in Manderley, a stately mansion owned by aristocratic widower Maxim DeWinter (played by Oh), whose memory of Rebecca, his beautiful dead wife who drowned in a boating accident, keeps haunting him and his new bride. Jukebox musical \"Those Days\" (also known as \"The Days\") featured folk-rock singer Kim Kwang-seok's", "title": "Oh Man-seok" }, { "id": "4243736", "text": "Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, \"Rebecca\" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never gone out of print. The novel is remembered especially for the character Mrs Danvers, the fictional estate Manderley, and its opening line: While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian “Maxim” de Winter, a 42-year-old widower. After a fortnight of courtship,", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "758088", "text": "of the \"nation's best-loved novel\" on the BBC's 2003 survey The Big Read. Other significant works include \"The Scapegoat\", \"The House on the Strand\", and \"The King's General\". The last is set in the middle of the first and second English Civil Wars, written from the Royalist perspective of Du Maurier's adopted Cornwall. Several of Du Maurier's other novels have also been adapted for the screen, including \"Jamaica Inn\", \"Frenchman's Creek\", \"Hungry Hill\", and \"My Cousin Rachel\". The Hitchcock film \"The Birds\" (1963) is based on a treatment of one of her short stories, as is the film \"Don't Look", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "2836250", "text": "Manderley Manderley is the fictional estate of the character Maxim de Winter, and it plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, \"Rebecca\", and in the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. Located in southern England (often said to be Cornwall as this was where the author lived and was explicitly stated as such in the Hitchcock adaptation), Manderley is a typical country estate: it is filled with family heirlooms, is run by a large domestic staff and is open to the public on certain days. In spite of the house's beauty, the main character, the unnamed \"I\", who", "title": "Manderley" }, { "id": "12747246", "text": "Felicity Clare McGougan (1961–2013), by whom he has two children, formerly a secretarial assistant to prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Today Menabilly and most of the grounds remain private although two cottages on the estate are rented as holiday lets. The house was the inspiration, along with Milton Hall, Cambridgeshire, for \"Manderley\", the house in du Maurier's novel \"Rebecca\" (1938). Like Menabilly, the fictional Manderley was hidden in woods and could not be seen from the shore. Du Maurier's novel \"The King's General\" is also set here and features the skeleton found in the cellar. Menabilly Menabilly (, meaning \"stone of", "title": "Menabilly" }, { "id": "1483454", "text": "been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote \"Rebecca\", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) \"Of Human Bondage\" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (1934), \"Death on the Nile\" (1937), and \"And Then There Were None\" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction", "title": "English novel" }, { "id": "14899812", "text": "Mrs. Danvers Mrs. Danvers (whose first name is never given) is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel \"Rebecca\". Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian \"Maxim\" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, the eponymous Rebecca. Nicknamed \"Danny\" by Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers was Rebecca's maid as a child and following the death of her previous mistress, persecutes the new Mrs. de Winter. Danvers resents the new Mrs. de Winter, convinced she is trying to \"take Rebecca's place\" despite the two women never meeting and being nothing", "title": "Mrs. Danvers" }, { "id": "2836252", "text": "Menabilly, was influential in her descriptions of the setting, though a much smaller house. Several years after writing the novel, she leased the manor (1945–1967) from the Rashleigh family, who have owned it since the 16th century. Like Menabilly, Manderley could not be seen from the road. Manderley Manderley is the fictional estate of the character Maxim de Winter, and it plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, \"Rebecca\", and in the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. Located in southern England (often said to be Cornwall as this was where the author lived and was explicitly stated", "title": "Manderley" }, { "id": "68754", "text": "his novels are mainly set in Cornwall. Daphne du Maurier lived at Menabilly near Fowey and many of her novels had Cornish settings, including \"Rebecca\", \"Jamaica Inn\", \"Frenchman's Creek\", \"My Cousin Rachel\", and \"The House on the Strand\". She is also noted for writing \"Vanishing Cornwall\". Cornwall provided the inspiration for \"The Birds\", one of her terrifying series of short stories, made famous as a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Medieval Cornwall is the setting of the trilogy by Monica Furlong, \"Wise Child\", \"Juniper\", and \"Colman\", as well as part of Charles Kingsley's \"Hereward the Wake\". Conan Doyle's \"The Adventure of", "title": "Cornwall" }, { "id": "758084", "text": "Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as \"moody and resonant\" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels \"Rebecca\", \"My Cousin Rachel\", and \"Jamaica Inn\", and the short stories \"The Birds\" and \"Don't Look Now/Not After Midnight\". Du Maurier spent much of", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "758093", "text": "time\". In later life, she wrote non-fiction, including several biographies such as \"Gerald\", her father's biography. \"The Glass-Blowers\" traces her French Huguenot ancestry and vividly depicts the French Revolution. \"The du Mauriers\" traces the family's move from France to England in the 19th century. \"The House on the Strand\" (1969) combines elements of \"mental time-travel\", a tragic love affair in 14th-century Cornwall, and the dangers of using mind-altering drugs. Her final novel, \"Rule Britannia\" (1972), satirises resentment of British people in general and Cornish people in particular at the increasing U.S. dominance of Britain's affairs. Du Maurier wrote three plays.", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "14899819", "text": "Jasper Fforde's \"Thursday Next\" series, in the book world, they have accidentally made Mrs. Danvers clones, which they use as troops against The Mispeling Vyrus. In \"Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction\", Adrian refers to his current girlfriend Marigold Flowers as having the same driving force of Mrs. Danvers. Mrs. Danvers Mrs. Danvers (whose first name is never given) is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel \"Rebecca\". Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian \"Maxim\" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, the eponymous", "title": "Mrs. Danvers" }, { "id": "7100051", "text": "Rebecca (musical) Rebecca is a German-language musical based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was written by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), the authors of the musicals \"Elisabeth\", \"Mozart!\" and \"Marie Antoinette\". The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who", "title": "Rebecca (musical)" }, { "id": "3863240", "text": "was a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens and was one of the pioneers of the historical novel, exemplified by his most popular work, \"The Last Days of Pompeii\". He is best remembered today for the opening line to the novel \"Paul Clifford\", which begins \"It was a dark and stormy night...\" and is considered by some to be the worst opening sentence in the English language. However, Bulwer-Lytton is also responsible for well-known sayings such as \"The pen is mightier than the sword\" from his play \"Richelieu\". Despite being a very popular author for 19th-century readers, few people today", "title": "Lytton, British Columbia" }, { "id": "13571270", "text": "Mrs de Winter Mrs de Winter is a novel by Susan Hill published in 1993. It is the sequel to the novel \"Rebecca\" by Daphne du Maurier. When Manderley burned, tormented Maxim de Winter and his demure second wife fled the ghosts of a dark, unspoken yesterday and now have come home to England, to bury what was and start anew. But the sensual warmth of a golden autumn cannot mask the chill of a lingering evil. For October's gentle breeze whispers that Rebecca -beautiful, mysterious, malevolent Rebecca- is haunting their lives once more. Critical reviews have been generally bad,", "title": "Mrs de Winter" }, { "id": "4243754", "text": "as well as translations listed below. In the US, du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read. In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years in a poll by bookseller W H Smith. Other novels in the shortlist were \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Pride and Prejudice\" by Jane Austen, \"Jane Eyre\" by Charlotte Bronte, and \"1984\" by George Orwell. The first adaptation of", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "4018831", "text": "Eyeless in Gaza (novel) Eyeless in Gaza is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. The title originates from a phrase in John Milton's \"Samson Agonistes\": The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill. The chapters of the book are not ordered chronologically. Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir \"Jigsaw\" that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter", "title": "Eyeless in Gaza (novel)" }, { "id": "7988029", "text": "gitanilla\" itself has been filmed three times, but never in English. \"The Bohemian Girl\" is mentioned in the short stories \"Clay\" and \"Eveline\" by James Joyce which are both parts of \"Dubliners\". In \"Clay\", the character Maria sings some lines from \"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls\". The aria is quoted again in Joyce's novel \"Finnegans Wake\". Booth Tarkington mentions the opera, though not by name, in \"The Two Vanrevels\", and quotes a line of the aria \"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls\". The opera is mentioned, and the aria is referred to several times, in the novel", "title": "The Bohemian Girl" }, { "id": "6574885", "text": "book \"The Fifty Worst Films of All Time\". Jamaica Inn (film) Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel \"Rebecca\" and short story \"The Birds\"). It stars Charles Laughton and features Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819; the", "title": "Jamaica Inn (film)" }, { "id": "1457909", "text": "name \"Holt\" was taken from the military bank of Holt & Company where Hibbert had an account. Published by Doubleday in the United States and Collins in the United Kingdom, \"Mistress of Mellyn\" became an instant international bestseller and revived the Gothic romantic suspense genre. \"Mistress of Mellyn\" was a clever weaving of elements from earlier Gothic novels such as \"Jane Eyre (1847)\", \"The Woman in White (1859)\", and \"Rebecca (1938)\". Its setting in Cornwall made the resemblance to \"Rebecca (1938)\" so remarkable that it was speculated that \"Victoria Holt\" was a pseudonym for Daphne du Maurier. After six Victoria", "title": "Eleanor Hibbert" }, { "id": "2244760", "text": "Margaret Forster Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. She is best known for her 1965 novel \"Georgy Girl\", which was made into a successful film of the same name and inspired a hit song by The Seekers, as well as her 2003 novel \"Diary of an Ordinary Woman\"; her biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and her memoirs \"Hidden Lives\" and \"Precious Lives\". Forster was born in the Raffles council estate in Carlisle, England. She came from a working-class background. Her father, Arthur Forster,", "title": "Margaret Forster" }, { "id": "758087", "text": "her father. On meeting Tallulah Bankhead, Du Maurier was quoted as saying that Bankhead was the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. The novel \"Rebecca\" (1938) was one of du Maurier's most successful works. It was an immediate hit, selling nearly 3 million copies between 1938 and 1965. The novel has never gone out of print, and has been adapted for both stage and screen several times. In the U.S. Du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In the UK, it was listed at number 14", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "758100", "text": "novel into French and sent it to a publisher in Paris, who she learned was also Ms. du Maurier's [publisher] only after \"Rebecca\" became a worldwide success. The novels have identical plots and even some identical episodes.\" Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel \"The Birds\" (1936) in her short story \"The Birds\" (1952). Du Maurier had been working as a reader for Baker's publisher Peter Davies at the time he submitted the book. When Hitchcock's \"The Birds\" was released in 1963, based on du Maurier's story, Baker considered, but was advised against, pursuing costly litigation", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "11290308", "text": "Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from \"Good Morning -- Midnight\", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, \"Houdini's Ghost\" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local businessman Palinurus 'Pal' Maciver, who has killed himself in similar circumstances to those of his father, who shot himself ten years earlier. However, what begins as a routine", "title": "Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel)" }, { "id": "5618293", "text": "the heart of man desire?\" Another passage is also quoted in the book \"Into the Wild\": The last page of the story is also quoted in full in the Philip Roth novel \"The Counterlife\". The Mountain Goats song \"Family Happiness\" takes its name from the novella and includes the line \"Started quoting Tolstoy into the machine/I had no idea what you meant\". Theater Atelier Piotr Fomenko in Moscow adapted the novella to the stage. The play premiered in September 2000 and remains part of the theater's repertoire. Family Happiness Family Happiness (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is an 1859 novella", "title": "Family Happiness" }, { "id": "7121873", "text": "Anne Brontë's \"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall\" (1996). He was also cast in the TV films \"Nightlife\" (1996, with Katrin Cartlidge and Jane Horrocks), \"The Girl\" (1996) and \"Wings the Legacy\" (1996, with Una Stubbs). Also in 1996, Cake was in \"True Blue\", a British sports film based on the book \"\" by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson, and in an episode of \"The Thin Blue Line\". Cake next worked in \"Cows\" (1997), played Jack Favell in the 1997 Anglo-German miniseries \"Rebecca\", based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, and portrayed Peter Templer in", "title": "Jonathan Cake" }, { "id": "3129581", "text": "Dimitri as well as his environment and storylines. Maxim de Winter's estate, Manderley, provided the inspiration for Dimitri's Pine Valley estate, Wildwind. The design was taken from both the description in Du Maurier's book and the depiction from the film \"Rebecca\", a 1940 adaptation of the novel by Alfred Hitchcock. Like Mr. Rochester, the wife Dimitri falsely claims died years ago is revealed to be alive just before his marriage to another woman. Nixon infused elements of those literatures into the Dimitri and Natalie romance with as well. \"There's a gothic quality to it\", she said, referring to the couple.", "title": "Dimitri Marick" }, { "id": "758091", "text": "novel \"Mary Anne\" (1954) is a fictionalised account of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776–1852), who, from 1803–08, was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827). He was the \"Grand Old Duke of York\" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III, and brother of King George IV and King William IV. The central character of her last novel, \"Rule Britannia\", is an aging actress, thought to be based on Gladys Cooper (to whom it is dedicated). Du Maurier's short stories are darker: \"The Birds\", \"Don't Look Now\", \"The Apple Tree\", and \"The", "title": "Daphne du Maurier" }, { "id": "1887870", "text": "in Rye; Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Hythe for a few years during World War II; H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Stephen Crane, Radclyffe Hall, Noël Coward, Edith Nesbit, Rumer Godden, Malcolm Saville, and Conrad Aiken. Rudyard Kipling and his \"Smugglers' Song\" are famous. According to Norman Wright's book \"The Famous Five: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know\", it was Rye that inspired Enid Blyton when she wrote \"Five Go to Smuggler's Top\". The 1947 British historical drama film \"The Loves of Joanna Godden\" based on the novel by Sheila Kaye-Smith and directed by Charles Frend is", "title": "Romney Marsh" }, { "id": "3129564", "text": "Dimitri Marick Dimitri Marick is a fictional character from the American ABC soap opera \"All My Children\". The role has been most notably portrayed by Michael Nader, previously famed for his role on \"Dynasty\". Former head writers Agnes Nixon and Lorraine Broderick created the character in 1991, designing him as a brooding and mysterious character based on heroes from gothic literature, such as Maxim de Winter from Daphne du Maurier's novel \"Rebecca\" and Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's novel \"Wuthering Heights\".<ref name=\"SOD 11/26/91 \"></ref><ref name=\"SOW 11/14/91 \"></ref> The character's introduction raised \"All My Children\" in the Nielsen ratings and was credited", "title": "Dimitri Marick" }, { "id": "6574871", "text": "Jamaica Inn (film) Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel \"Rebecca\" and short story \"The Birds\"). It stars Charles Laughton and features Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819; the real Jamaica Inn still exists, and is a", "title": "Jamaica Inn (film)" }, { "id": "8201039", "text": "My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier \"Rebecca\", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter Louise come to lunch", "title": "My Cousin Rachel" }, { "id": "1683203", "text": "C. H. B. Kitchin Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin (17 October 1895 – 4 April 1967) was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best known for his four mystery novels featuring the sleuth Malcolm Warren (\"Death of My Aunt\", \"Crime at Christmas\", \"Death of His Uncle\", and \"The Cornish Fox\"), but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers. His best-known novels are \"The Auction Sale\", \"Streamers Waving\", and \"Mr. Balcony\". He was one of Francis King's two mentors, the other being J. R. Ackerley. His other works include \"The Book of Life\", \"Ten", "title": "C. H. B. Kitchin" }, { "id": "1557638", "text": "the sense of reading a report of facts. The first sentence says: \"All this happened, more or less.\" (In 2010 this was ranked No. 38 on the \"American Book Review\"s list of \"100 Best First Lines from Novels.\") The opening sentences of the novel have been said to contain the aesthetic \"method statement\" of the entire novel. The author later appears as a sick fellow prisoner in Billy Pilgrim's World War II. The Narrator notes this saying: \"That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.\" The story repeatedly refers to real and fictional novels and", "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five" }, { "id": "8658632", "text": "in a black bus. Science fiction author James K. Morrow, reviewing the novel for \"The Washington Post\", admired Powers's \"brio, bravado and a salutary measure of lunacy\" in writing the book, saying, \"Much of the novel's labyrinthine plot concerns Frank and Daphne's efforts to survive three deliriously eventful days in 1987, right after the Harmonic Convergence of hippie lore, when various political, religious and eschatological factions try to steal Einstein's \"maschinchen\" along with other components possessed by his hapless descendants. ... \"Three Days to Never\" is a beguiling genre omelet, a mélange of forms ranging from alternate history to science", "title": "Three Days to Never" }, { "id": "8201048", "text": "the novel takes place. My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier \"Rebecca\", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter", "title": "My Cousin Rachel" }, { "id": "2257523", "text": "roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, \"with his opium-smoking and native women\", affirmed that Flory's \"deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's \"Lord Jim\" through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.\" Jeffrey Meyers, in a 1975 guide to Orwell's work, wrote of the E. M. Forster connection that, \"\"Burmese Days\" was strongly influenced by \"A Passage to India\", which was published in 1924 when Orwell was serving in Burma. Both novels concern an Englishman's friendship with an Indian doctor, and a", "title": "Burmese Days" }, { "id": "4759094", "text": "names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier, who was a friend of Hitchcock. Hitchcock later adapted three novels written by du Maurier's daughter Daphne du Maurier: \"Jamaica Inn\", \"Rebecca\" and \"The Birds\". Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the film as a man walking past the murder victim's house. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead. The German language version of the film, \"Mary\", was shot simultaneously on the same set with German speaking actors. Miles Mander reprised", "title": "Murder! (1930 film)" }, { "id": "15249471", "text": "1938: Daphne Du Maurier, \"Rebecca\" 1939: John Steinbeck, \"The Grapes of Wrath\" 1940: Richard Llewellyn, \"How Green Was My Valley\" 1936: Norah Lofts, \"I Met a Gypsy\" (short stories) 1937: Lawrence Watkin, \"On Borrowed Time\" (novel) 1938: see nonfiction 1939: Elgin Groseclose, \"Ararat\" (novel) 1940: see nonfiction 1941: George Sessions Perry, \"Hold Autumn in Your Hand\" (novel) 1935: Charles G. Finney, \"The Circus of Dr. Lao\" (novel) 1936: see nonfiction 1937: see nonfiction 1938: see nonfiction 1939: Dalton Trumbo, \"Johnny Got His Gun\" (novel) National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual", "title": "National Book Award for Fiction" }, { "id": "4243786", "text": "Rebecca (1940 film) Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson and George Sanders in supporting roles. The film", "title": "Rebecca (1940 film)" }, { "id": "17472839", "text": "Rule Britannia (novel) Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz. The novel is set in a fictional near future in which the UK's recent withdrawal from the EEC has brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy. Emma, 20, lives with her elderly grandmother, Mad (short for ‘Madam’), a famous retired actress, in the small village of Poldrea in Cornwall. They share a large house near the coast with Mad's six ‘maladjusted’ adopted sons who range in age from 3 to 18. One morning, Emma wakes to the sound of aeroplanes overhead. An", "title": "Rule Britannia (novel)" }, { "id": "9377431", "text": "it is merely the surviving portion of a novel. As Deirdre Bair puts it: \"Unfortunately, he quickly reached a point beyond which he could go no further. He gave the fragment the self-explanatory title of \"From An Abandoned Work\" and went on to other things.\" The title may recall a line from \"Hamlet\" (the prototypical madman): \"What a piece of work is man\". But, if Beckett is alluding to this speech then it would be ironically, even contemptuously; the narrator has given up on himself implied by the final phrase, \"my body doing its best without me.\" J. D. O’Hara", "title": "From an Abandoned Work" }, { "id": "782479", "text": "minds. Art triumphs over the destructive power of time. This element of his artistic thought is clearly inherited from romantic platonism, but Proust crosses it with a new intensity in describing jealousy, desire and self-doubt. (Note the last quatrain of Baudelaire's poem \"Une Charogne\": \"Then, O my beauty! say to the worms who will / Devour you with kisses, / That I have kept the form and the divine essence / Of my decomposed love!\"). Proust begins his novel with the statement, \"For a long time I used to go to bed early.\" This leads to lengthy discussion of his", "title": "In Search of Lost Time" }, { "id": "20483926", "text": "had for the last 100 years of burning and destroying everything would almost be excusable if we were really, really happy. The music on this record is looking at that.\" The title \"Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt\" is a reference to a line in Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel \"Slaughterhouse-Five\", one of Moby's favorite books; he was struck by the line's \"utopian simplicity\". Two songs from the album, \"Mere Anarchy\" and \"The Ceremony of Innocence\", are named after lines from W. B. Yeats' 1919 poem \"The Second Coming\", which resonated with him as \"a horrifying description of what we're going", "title": "Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt (Moby album)" }, { "id": "14899814", "text": "and the fact Maxim knew about her affairs. In the end, having failed to break up the marriage, Mrs. Danvers disappears and soon after, Manderley is set on fire. In the book's final scene, Maxim and Mrs. de Winter are driving back from London and see their beloved home in flames. In the novel, Mrs. Danvers' fate is unknown; early in the novel, the narrator, looking back on the events of the story, writes, \"Mrs. Danvers. I wonder what she is doing now.\" Mrs. Danvers was first, and most famously, portrayed by Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation released", "title": "Mrs. Danvers" }, { "id": "1399179", "text": "killers. \"The Spiral Staircase\" also features an early use of jump scares. British writer Agatha Christie's particularly influential 1939 novel \"Ten Little Indians\" (adapted in 1945 as \"And Then There Were None\"), centers on a group of people with secret pasts who are killed one-by-one on an isolated island. Each of the murders mirrors a verse from a nursery rhyme, merging the themes of childhood innocence and vengeful murder. \"House of Wax\" (1953), \"The Bad Seed\" (1956), \"Screaming Mimi\" (1958), \"Jack the Ripper\" (1959), and \"Cover Girl Killer\" (1959) all incorporated Christie's literary themes. Alfred Hitchcock's \"Psycho\" (1960) used visuals", "title": "Slasher film" }, { "id": "7588465", "text": "characters Callisto and Diana. A narrative hook can also take the form of a short, often shocking passage discussing an important event in the life of one of the work's characters. The device establishes character voice and introduces a theme of the work. In Anna Quindlen's \"Black and Blue\", the opening sentence recounts the first time the protagonist endured abuse from her husband, which is the core theme of the novel. Opening lines that introduce an important event without providing specifics, such as \"And then, after six years, she saw him again.\" from Katherine Mansfield's \"A Dill Pickle\", pique the", "title": "Narrative hook" }, { "id": "8780777", "text": "Pyrenees into Spain. An insight into the origin of the title of the book is found in the second episode the BBC Four documentary series \"Travellers' Century\" presented by Benedict Allen. In the episode, which looks at \"As I Walked Out...\", a friend of Lee reveals that the title of the book comes from a Gloucestershire folk song. The traditional song \"The Banks of Sweet Primroses\" starts with the line 'As I walked out one mid-summer morning'. Robert McFarlane compares Lee's travels with those of his contemporary, Patrick Leigh Fermor. Both walked across a Europe in political turmoil. McFarlane praises", "title": "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" }, { "id": "10607500", "text": "since 2002 to win the award. The sequel to \"Wolf Hall\", called \"Bring Up the Bodies\", was published in May 2012 to wide acclaim. It won the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and the 2012 Man Booker Prize; Mantel thus became the first British writer and the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize more than once. Mantel is working on the third novel of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, called \"The Mirror and the Light\". Set in England between 1558 and 1603, during the time of Elizabeth I. Victorian novelist Charles Kingsley's \"Westward Ho!\" (1855) is a British", "title": "Historical romance" }, { "id": "8712617", "text": "left behind. Blackadder is, of course, devastated (comically excusing himself for a second to shout \"\"OH GOD, NO!!!\"\"). Johnson, however, departs in a fit of rage on realising that his dictionary is missing the word \"sausage\" after he reads Baldrick's \"semi-autobiographical\" novel (\"\"Once upon a time there was a lovely little sausage called Baldrick, and it lived happily ever after.\"\"), as well as the word \"aardvark\". As Blackadder laments the loss of his novel and chance at wealth, the Prince attempts to console him and orders Baldrick to light another fire. The episode ends with Baldrick obliviously throwing the dictionary", "title": "Ink and Incapability" }, { "id": "1583296", "text": "El Cielo (album) El Cielo is the second album from the American progressive/alternative rock rock band, dredg. It was released on October 8, 2002 on Interscope Records. Like dredg's first album, \"Leitmotif\", \"El Cielo\" is a concept album. The title can be translated to mean \"the sky\" or \"the heaven\" in Spanish, and to mean \"peace and freedom of expression\" in dreams. One of dredg's main influences on the album, \"El Cielo\", was a painting by Salvador Dalí entitled \"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening\", which is also what the acronym", "title": "El Cielo (album)" }, { "id": "3740367", "text": "room where the author Maurier lived of various items owned by her including her writing desk and typewriter. Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling, it was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel \"Jamaica Inn\", which was made into the film \"Jamaica Inn\" in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Located just off the A30, near the middle of the moor close to the hamlet of Bolventor, it was used as a staging post for changing horses. As well", "title": "Jamaica Inn" }, { "id": "9602066", "text": "The Dandelion Girl \"The Dandelion Girl\" is a science fiction short story written by American science fiction author Robert F. Young. The story, roughly 5,600 words, first appeared in \"The Saturday Evening Post\" on April 1, 1961. The story was later republished in a Robert F. Young short story collection in 1965 called \"The Worlds of Robert F Young: Sixteen Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy\". The line \"Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.\" from the story appears six times throughout the text and is the only full line that is repeated.", "title": "The Dandelion Girl" }, { "id": "9798482", "text": "the phone but suddenly finds he is unable to grip it. The ending is left open: is Dick dead, paralysed or simply collapsing? Daphne du Maurier said of it: \"What about the hero of \"The House on the Strand\"? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don’t really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don’t you?\" The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with", "title": "The House on the Strand" }, { "id": "6917157", "text": "noon\" is the last line spoken by the Fool. I'll Go to Bed at Noon I'll Go to Bed at Noon (2004), is a book by author Gerard Woodward. It was shortlisted for Booker Prize (2004). Set in the north London suburb of Palmers Green in the 1970s, the story opens with Colette Jones attending the funeral of her elder brother's wife, followed by her failed attempts to save him from excessive drinking. Alcoholism also destroys the life of Colette's son, a talented pianist, whom she tries to exile from her house. The title was inspired by the William Shakespeare", "title": "I'll Go to Bed at Noon" }, { "id": "14406388", "text": "her head. A police officer InspectorMuhammed Kutty (Siddique) comes to investigate the case. He concludes that Sumithra committed suicide as she was suffering from a terminal illness. But Balan and his brother-in-law Shekhar(Lalu Alex) who conducted a parallel investigation on Sumithra's death finds the real murderer of Sumithra and he is arrested by Inspector Muhammed. It is a rehash of the 1938 book named \"Rebecca\" written by Daphne du Maurier which was adapted into film with the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. The music was composed by Ouseppachan and lyrics were written by Shibu Chakravarthy. Sasneham Sumithra Sasneham Sumithra is", "title": "Sasneham Sumithra" }, { "id": "13799275", "text": "Daphne du Maurier, Henry James, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens. As children, Roderick and Caroline changed the hands of a broken clock to twenty minutes to nine, thinking it amusing to reflect the stopped clocks of Miss Havisham's house from Dickens' \"Great Expectations\". Like the narrator of du Maurier's \"Rebecca\", Faraday has no first name; the man overcome by the house in Poe's \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" is also named Roderick. Peter Cannon in \"Publishers Weekly\" writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' \"The Turn of the Screw\" and Shirley Jackson's \"The Haunting of Hill", "title": "The Little Stranger" }, { "id": "14996218", "text": "of the preceding twelve\". The idea of a clock striking thirteen times has shown up many times in literature. The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\" when it starts with, \"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen\". The famous children's book \"Tom's Midnight Garden\" by Philippa Pearce speaks of this phenomenon when it says \"When Tom hears old Mrs Bartholomew's grandfather clock in the hall striking thirteen, he goes to investigate\". Thomas Hardy's \"Far from the Madding Crowd\" (1874) 'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's", "title": "Thirteenth stroke of the clock" }, { "id": "5302719", "text": "at St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick. The poet Laurence Binyon wrote \"For the Fallen\" (first published in 1914) while sitting on the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps and a stone plaque was erected in 2001 to commemorate the fact. The plaque bears the inscription \"For The Fallen Composed on these cliffs 1914\" The plaque also bears the fourth stanza (sometimes referred to as 'The Ode') of the poem. Novels or parts of novels set in Cornwall include:- Daphne du Maurier lived in Fowey, Cornwall and many of her novels had Cornish settings, including \"Rebecca\", \"Jamaica Inn\", \"Frenchman's Creek\", \"My", "title": "Culture of Cornwall" }, { "id": "1789036", "text": "echoed in by Alice Munro's \"Save the Reaper\" (1998), the end of which reads: \"Eve would lie down [...] with nothing in her head but the rustle of the deep tall corn which might have stopped growing now but still made its live noise after dark\" (book version). The Dutch folk band The Black Atlantic took the name of their 2012 EP \"Darkling I listen\" from the start line 51. The poem is quoted in Chapter 1 of P. G. Wodehouse's novel \"Full Moon\" (1947): \"'Coming here? Freddie?'.A numbness seemed to be paining his sense, as though of hemlock he", "title": "Ode to a Nightingale" }, { "id": "15359183", "text": "lyrics \"I saw, I came, I conquered Or should I say, I saw I conquered, I came\". The phrase has also been heavily referenced in literature and film. The title of French poet Victor Hugo's \"Veni, vidi, vixi\" (\"I came, I saw, I lived\"), written after the death of his daughter Leopoldine at age 19 in 1843, uses the allusion with its first verse: \"J'ai bien assez vécu...\"(\"I have lived quite long enough...\"). Peter Venkman, one of the protagonists in the 1984 film \"Ghostbusters\", delivers a humorous variation: \"We came. We saw. We kicked its ass!\" This line was among", "title": "Veni, vidi, vici" }, { "id": "782513", "text": "another character tells Trent that he always knew the other suspect was innocent, because \"I shot Manderson myself.\" These are Trent's final words to the killer: Another example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U.S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel \"The Burglar in the Library\" (1997). The burglar of the title is Bernie Rhodenbarr, who has booked a weekend at an English-style country house just to steal a signed, and therefore very valuable, first edition of Chandler's \"The Big Sleep\", which he knows has", "title": "Whodunit" }, { "id": "11290309", "text": "case of an apparent copycat suicide soon develops into something of a more sinister nature, revealing family secrets, corporate chicanery involving the arms trade, government agents and Iraq. Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from \"Good Morning -- Midnight\", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, \"Houdini's Ghost\" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local", "title": "Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel)" }, { "id": "6575140", "text": "Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called \"Jamaica Inn\", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists and is a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor. The plot follows a group of murderous wreckers who run ships aground, kill the sailors and steal the cargo. Mary Yellan, twenty years old, was brought up on a farm", "title": "Jamaica Inn (novel)" }, { "id": "4690120", "text": "seemingly artless, simplistic Christie prose is mined with deceits. Inside the old, absurd conventions of the Country House mystery she reworks the least likely person trick with a freshness rivalling the originality she displayed nearly 50 years ago in \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\". For the egotistic Poirot, hero of some 40 books… it is a dazzlingly theatrical finish. 'Goodbye, cher ami', runs his final message to the hapless Hastings. 'They were good days.' For addicts, everywhere, they were among the best. Two months later, Coady nominated \"Curtain\" as his \"Book of the Year\" in a column of critic's choices.", "title": "Curtain (novel)" }, { "id": "11435592", "text": "Finishing the Hat \"For the Desperate Housewives episode, see Finishing the Hat (Desperate Housewives).\" Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes is a book by American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The book contains Sondheim's lyrics from his first professionally staged show, \"Saturday Night\" (1954) through \"West Side Story\", \"\", \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\", \"Anyone Can Whistle\", \"Do I Hear a Waltz?\", \"Company\", \"Follies\", \"A Little Night Music\", \"The Frogs\", \"Pacific Overtures\", \"\", and ending with \"Merrily We Roll Along\" (1981), stopping just short", "title": "Finishing the Hat" }, { "id": "3740354", "text": "Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling, it was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel \"Jamaica Inn\", which was made into the film \"Jamaica Inn\" in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Located just off the A30, near the middle of the moor close to the hamlet of Bolventor, it was used as a staging post for changing horses. As well as the Hitchcock film, there has been a 1983 television series, \"Jamaica Inn\", starring Jane Seymour, and a", "title": "Jamaica Inn" }, { "id": "7100055", "text": "hotel in Monte Carlo. Her employer is a wealthy American, Mrs. Van Hopper (\"Du wirst niemals eine Lady\"). Widowed, aristocratic Maxim de Winter enters, as the hotel guests gossip (\"Er verlor unerwartet seine Frau, Rebecca\"). In the dramatic hills near Monte Carlo, Maxim kisses Ich; the inexperienced girl is swept off her feet by his worldly charm. Back in the hotel, Ich is alone (\"Zeit in einer Flashe\") Maxim comes in and asks Ich to marry him. Maxim and Ich honeymoon in Italy and then drive up to his stately Cornwall estate, Manderley. The servants enter (\"Die neue Mrs. de", "title": "Rebecca (musical)" }, { "id": "327906", "text": "the 1960s. Occasional examples in English were created in the 19th century. Several in French and Latin date to the [[Middle Ages]]. There are also line-unit palindromes. Palindromes often consist of a sentence or phrase, e.g., \"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm\", \"Was it a car or a cat I saw?\", \"Murder for a jar of red rum\" or \"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog\". Punctuation, capitalization, and spaces are usually ignored. Some, such as \"Rats live on no evil star\", \"Live on time, emit no evil\", and \"Step on no pets\", include the spaces. Semordnilap (palindromes spelled", "title": "Palindrome" }, { "id": "3625", "text": "Selznick picture \"Rebecca\" (1940) was Hitchcock's first American film, set in a Hollywood version of England's Cornwall and based on a novel by English novelist Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The story concerns a naïve (and unnamed) young woman who marries a widowed aristocrat. She goes to live in his huge English country house, and struggles with the lingering reputation of his elegant and worldly first wife Rebecca, who died under mysterious circumstances. The film won Best Picture at the 13th Academy Awards; the statuette was given to Selznick, as the film's producer. Hitchcock", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock" }, { "id": "17261611", "text": "poem \"Verborgenheit\", Georg Büchner's 1828 poem \"\" and 1836 short story \"Lenz\", Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1832 poem \"Faust, Part Two\", Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883 novel \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\", Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 film \"Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom\", the 1600 song \"Sorrow, Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentant Tears\" by John Dowland, Wolfgang Koeppen's 1954 novel \"Death in Rome\" (the book Katze is shown reading and being buried with, itself referencing Thomas Mann's 1912 novel \"Death in Venice\" and Dante Alighieri's 1321 poem \"Inferno\"), or Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in addition to \"Psalms\" 23 and \"1 Chronicles\" 22:1, while Frederick", "title": "Melancholie der Engel" }, { "id": "17472844", "text": "she tells the doctor that he had better go down into the basement, where Mad has been asleep for a very long time. The novel concludes with the helicopters still flying eastward into the sun. The book is dedicated to the actress Gladys Cooper, who died in 1971. Cooper had been one of the leading ladies of Daphne's father, the actor and impresario Gerald du Maurier. Du Maurier started work on the novel early in 1972, following up an idea she had had for \"a funny novel … mocking everything\". It was to be \"a mockup of what this country", "title": "Rule Britannia (novel)" }, { "id": "19631850", "text": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 \"The Birds\", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. Ken Loach's admired 1969 \"Kes\", based on Barry Hines's 1968 novel \"A Kestrel for a Knave\", tells a story of a boy coming of age by training a kestrel. Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create disgusting and terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts, such as in Ridley Scott's 1979 film \"Alien\". Plants too, both real and invented, play many roles in literature and", "title": "Human uses of living things" }, { "id": "14351798", "text": "is a euphemism for death. (The older novel includes a philosophical reflection on \"sleeping the big sleep\".) Continuing the play on words, the sequel derives its name from famous lines from Prince Hamlet's soliloquy in \"Hamlet\", a tragedy by William Shakespeare: \"to die: to sleep— / To sleep, perchance to dream\" (Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 63–64). One reviewer snarkily suggested alternate titles including \"Maybe to Dream\", \"The Bigger Sleep\", and \"Sleep Bigger\". Reviewing the novel for \"The New York Times\", author Martin Amis wrote that it \"never amounts to more than a nostalgic curiosity\" while finding the text \"candidly", "title": "Perchance to Dream (novel)" }, { "id": "7618638", "text": "says, \"I am Death\" and Everyman's answer is the first great line in English drama: \"Oh, Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.\" When I thought of you least. Everyman (novel) Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The book begins at the funeral of its protagonist. The remainder of the book, which ends with his death, looks mournfully back on episodes from his life, including his childhood, where he and his", "title": "Everyman (novel)" }, { "id": "10076130", "text": "marriage ended. Birch and her second husband, Martin Butler, moved back to the North West in 1989. She currently lives with her family in Lancaster, where her husband teaches at Lancaster and Morecambe College. The author of eleven novels, Birch won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for \"Life in the Palace\", and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with \"The Fog Line\" in 1991; Her novel \"Turn Again Home\" was on the long list for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Her novel \"Jamrach's Menagerie\" was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011, and shortlisted", "title": "Carol Birch" }, { "id": "331920", "text": "London's pubs had closed. The closures have been ascribed to factors such as changing tastes, rise in the cost of beer due to applied taxes and the increase in the Muslim population. Inns and taverns feature throughout English literature and poetry, from The Tabard Inn in Chaucer's \"Canterbury Tales\" onwards. The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. Jamaica Inn near Bolventor in Cornwall gave its name to a 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier and a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of", "title": "Pub" }, { "id": "8357138", "text": "Him Like You\", and \"First Night\". The album title is a line taken from the opening lines of the song \"Stuck Between Stations\" (\"There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right/Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together\"), which in turn refers to a quote from American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel \"On the Road\" and its narrator, Sal Paradise. The title is repeated in the lyrics in \"First Night.\" \"Boys and Girls in America\" has sold 94,000 albums as of April 2010. The album received a metascore of 85 out of", "title": "Boys and Girls in America" }, { "id": "2448089", "text": "realised they were saved from death. Conradi states that the direct source of the title is Paul Valéry's poem \"Le Cimetiere Marin\" (\"The Graveyard by the Sea\"). A line in the poem's final stanza quotes the Greeks' shouts: \"La mer, la mer, toujours recommencėe\" (The Sea, the sea, forever restarting). Murdoch refers to the poem in several of her books, and this stanza appears in full at the end of chapter 4 in her 1963 novel \" The Unicorn\". A four-part adaptation of \"The Sea, The Sea\" by Richard Crane, directed by Faynia Williams appeared as the Classic Serial on", "title": "The Sea, the Sea" }, { "id": "10607512", "text": "\"The Englishman's Boy\", \"The Last Crossing\", and \"A Good Man\" set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection, \"Man Descending\", in 1982, the second for his novel, \"The Englishman's Boy\", in 1996, and the third for his short story collection \"Daddy Lenin and Other Stories\"in 2015. These novels could also fall into the Western subgenre, but always feature a Native American protagonist whose \"heritage is integral to the story.\" These romances \"[emphasize] instinct, creativity, freedom, and the longing to escape from the strictures of", "title": "Historical romance" }, { "id": "5187172", "text": "men were brought before \"Hanging\" Judge Isaac Parker. He twice sentenced them to death, the first sentence not being carried out due to an unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court. They were hanged on July 1, 1896 at 1 pm at Fort Smith. A slightly modified account of the gang's crimes is the basis for the novel \"Winding Stair\" by Douglas C. Jones. The Buck gang, \"Hanging Judge\" Isaac Parker, half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill, and the socio-political environment at the death of Indian Territory are the subjects of the 2011 historical novel \"I Dreamt I Was in Heaven -", "title": "Rufus Buck Gang" }, { "id": "11055593", "text": "Bart being lovingly tucked into bed by Marge and contentedly saying \"This is the life.\" The episode's plot is a parody of Daphne du Maurier's novel \"The Scapegoat\", while Simon's horse Shadowfax is named after Gandalf's horse from \"The Lord of the Rings\" series. The episode's couch gag, with the family being swept up in a tornado and taken to a black and white farm is a reference to \"The Wizard of Oz\". Additionally, Apu has an issue of \"Tales From the Kwik-E-Mart\", a parody of the comic series \"Tales from the Crypt\". Early in the episode, Homer makes a", "title": "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" }, { "id": "12947177", "text": "example of Burns's literary influence in the US is seen in the choice by novelist John Steinbeck of the title of his 1937 novel, \"Of Mice and Men\", taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of \"To a Mouse\": \"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.\" Burns's influence on American vernacular poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton has been acknowledged by their biographers. When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song \"A Red, Red Rose\" as the lyric that had", "title": "Robert Burns" }, { "id": "4759072", "text": "Rich and Strange Rich and Strange, released in the United States as East of Shanghai, is a 1931 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from the novel by Dale Collins. The title is an allusion to words of Ariel's song \"Full fathom five\" in Shakespeare's \"The Tempest\". A couple, Fred (Henry Kendall) and Emily Hill (Joan Barry), living a mundane middle-class life in London, receive a letter informing them that an uncle will give them, as an advance against their", "title": "Rich and Strange" }, { "id": "11038500", "text": "€3.8 million, reportedly outbidding Michael Flatley, who also viewed the house. Based on her interest in Daphne du Maurier's \"Rebecca\", Enya renamed the castle \"Manderley\" for the fictional house that plays a central role in the 1938 novel. Because of threats from stalkers, Enya reinforced the security of the castle, installing new solid timber entrance gates, raising the surrounding of stone wall to more than , and placing railings atop some sections. Despite these changes, around mid-August 2005, there were two separate security breaches while Enya was at the castle (her security system includes a panic room). Manderley Castle Manderley", "title": "Manderley Castle" }, { "id": "11167094", "text": "The Cabin in the Cotton The Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll. The film perhaps is best known for a line of dialogue spoken by a platinum-blonde Bette Davis in a Southern drawl -- \"I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.\" -- a line lifted directly from the book. In later years it was immortalized by Davis impersonators and quoted in the 1995 film \"Get Shorty\". Marvin Blake is", "title": "The Cabin in the Cotton" }, { "id": "366267", "text": "Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include \"The Jungle Book\" (1894), \"Kim\" (1901), and many short stories, including \"The Man Who Would Be King\" (1888). His poems include \"Mandalay\" (1890), \"Gunga Din\" (1890), \"The Gods of the Copybook Headings\" (1919), \"The White Man's Burden\" (1899), and \"If—\" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of", "title": "Rudyard Kipling" }, { "id": "11575096", "text": "a fortune teller's tent, has unravelled a supposed suicide and has had to confront his best friend Arthur over his involvement in the murder of an obnoxious businessman. \"A Fête Worse than Death\" (2007) \"Mad About the Boy?\" (2009) \"As if by Magic\" (2009) \"A Hundred Thousand Dragons\" (2011) \"Off the Record\" (2011) \"Trouble Brewing\" (2012) \"Blood From a Stone\" (2013) \"After the Exhibition\" (2014) \"The Chessman\" (2015) Dolores Gordon-Smith Dolores Gordon-Smith (born 1958) is a British novelist. She is best known for writing \"The Jack Haldean\" murder mysteries, the first of which, \"A Fête Worse than Death\" was published", "title": "Dolores Gordon-Smith" }, { "id": "16025592", "text": "his autobiography \"I Follow but Myself\" Baker stated that it bore some resemblance to \"The Terror\" by Arthur Machen (first published 1917). When Alfred Hitchcock's \"The Birds\" was released in 1963, ostensibly based on a short story \"The Birds\" (1952) by Daphne du Maurier, Baker considered pursuing litigation against Universal Studios. but eventually decided against doing so because legal counsel considered that the works were substantially different. The opinion states: \"The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it could be.\" Du Maurier denied that she had taken the idea", "title": "Frank Baker (author)" }, { "id": "4775912", "text": "the story, the introduction to the Oxford edition of the \"Christmas Books\" does. In Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\", Ishmael describes a windswept and cold night from the perspective of Lazarus (\"Poor Lazarus, chattering his teeth against the curbstone...\") and Dives (\"...the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals\"). The poem \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" by T. S. Eliot contains the lines: 'To say: \"I am Lazarus, come from the dead,/Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all\"' in reference to Dives' request to have Beggar Lazarus return from the dead to tell", "title": "Rich man and Lazarus" }, { "id": "176551", "text": "billows of the seas of the boisterous mob\"), the cognate accusative (\"I dreamed a dream,\" \"Liverpool was created with the Creation\"), and the parallel (\"Closer home does it go than a rammer; and fighting with steel is a play without ever an interlude\"). A passage from \"Redburn\" (see quotebox) shows how all these different ways of alluding interlock and result in a fabric texture of Biblical language, though there is very little direct quotation. In addition to this, Melville successfully imitates three Biblical strains: he sustains the apocalyptic for a whole chapter of \"Mardi;\" the prophetic strain is expressed in", "title": "Herman Melville" }, { "id": "17895166", "text": "briefly, at the end of the story. In his first appearance in a novel, the 1959 police procedural \"Blood and Judgement\", Petrella is a \"probationary\" Detective Sergeant at the (fictional) Q Division of the London Metropolitan Police. By the final novel in the series, \"Roller Coaster\", he has worked his way up to become a Superintendent. Gilbert attributes reading the poem \"Who Has Seen The Wind?\" by Christina Rossetti during a boring church sermon as the inspiration for the first Petrella mystery. The lines \"But when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through\" caused Gilbert to suddenly visualize", "title": "Patrick Petrella" }, { "id": "18436375", "text": "all. Over three fateful September days, these lives cross in a whirlwind of brutality, laughter, tragedy and love that will change them forever. In the autumn of 2013, a new chapter began in Tore Renberg’s career. Renberg was known for his five novels spanning the young life and adulthood of \"Jarle Klepp\" (\"The Man Who Loved Yngve\", \"The Orheim Company\", \"Charlotte Isabel Hansen / I Travel Alone\", \"Pixley Mapogo\", \"These Are My Old Days\") - a literary character resembling, to a certain extent, the author himself. However, Renberg was eager to challenge himself and take his literature a step further,", "title": "See You Tomorrow" }, { "id": "6077049", "text": "Life\", John-Rice) Can You Feel the Pain Tonight? (\"Can You Feel the Love Tonight?\", John-Rice) Patti Lupone (\"Anything Goes\", Porter) I Get a Kick Out of Me (\"I Get a Kick Out of You\", Porter) It's Martin Guerre (\"I'm Martin Guerre\", Boubil-Schönberg-Clark) I Couldn't Hit that Note (\"I Could've Danced All Night\", Lerner-Lowe) Into the Words (\"Into the Woods\", Sondheim) Somewhat Overindulgent (\"Over the Rainbow\", Arlen-Harburg) Les Misérables (\"C'est Magnifique\", Porter) End of the Play (\"End of the Day\", Boubil-Schönberg) I Dreamed a Show (\"I Dreamed a Dream\", Boubil-Schönberg) Bring It Down (\"Bring Him Home\", Boubil-Schönberg) Imitation is the Sincerest", "title": "Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition" }, { "id": "8437758", "text": "poetry, signifies qualities of both flirtatiousness and intellectual aspiration, George du Maurier based large parts of \"Trilby\" on his experiences as a student in Parisian bohemia during the 1850s. Poe's 1842 story was based on the unsolved murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers near New York City, subtitled \"A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'\", it was the first detective story to attempt the solution of a real crime. The most enduring grisette is Mimi in Henri Murger’s novel (and subsequent play) \"Scènes de la vie de Bohème\", the source for Puccini's famous opera \"La bohème.\" In 1848 William", "title": "Bohemian style" } ]

[ "La Gioconda (disambiguation)", "La Gioconda", "La gioconda", "La Giaconda" ]

[ { "id": "793077", "text": "Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (; or La Gioconda , ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as \"the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world\". The \"Mona Lisa\" is also one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at $100 million in 1962, which is worth nearly $800 million in 2017. The painting is thought to be a", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "248558", "text": "of the most reproduced works of art; countless copies have been made in every medium from carpets to cameos. Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the \"Mona Lisa\" or \"la Gioconda\", the laughing one. In the present era, it is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Its fame rests, in particular, on the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality perhaps due to the subtly shadowed corners of the mouth and eyes such that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined. The shadowy quality", "title": "Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "793079", "text": "the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. The title of the painting, which is known in English as \"Mona Lisa\", comes from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote \"Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife.\" \"Mona\" in Italian is a polite form of address originating as \"ma donna\" – similar to \"Ma’am\", \"Madam\", or \"my lady\" in English. This became \"madonna\", and its contraction \"mona\". The title of the painting, though", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "3553980", "text": "Mona Lisa Smile Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the \"Mona Lisa\", the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance, the highest ever earned by", "title": "Mona Lisa Smile" }, { "id": "11274901", "text": "Mona (name) Mona is a female, and sometimes male, given name and a surname of multiple origins. As a given name, Mona can have the following meanings and origins; In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monika or, rarely, of Ramona or Simona. It is sometimes associated with the title of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, although in that context the word Mona is actually a title rather than a name. The word mona also means \"cute\", \"monkey\" and \"doll\" in Spanish. In Sweden, Mona's name day is May", "title": "Mona (name)" }, { "id": "11073168", "text": "Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song) \"Mona Lisa\" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film \"Captain Carey, U.S.A.\" (1950). The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait \"Mona Lisa\" painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950. Musical arrangement was handled by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra. The recording was originally the B-side of \"The Greatest Inventor Of Them All.\" In an \"American Songwriter\" magazine interview, Jay Livingston recalled that the original", "title": "Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)" }, { "id": "3553993", "text": "film to shoot on campus. Mona Lisa Smile Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the \"Mona Lisa\", the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance,", "title": "Mona Lisa Smile" }, { "id": "793125", "text": "1913 by Hugh Blaker, an art connoisseur. The painting was presented to the media in 2012 by the Mona Lisa Foundation. It is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The painting is claimed by a majority of experts to be mostly an original work of Leonardo dating from the early 16th century. Other experts, including Zöllner and Kemp, deny the attribution. Notes Bibliography Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (; or La Gioconda , ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as \"the best", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "11073174", "text": "Amiga label. Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song) \"Mona Lisa\" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film \"Captain Carey, U.S.A.\" (1950). The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait \"Mona Lisa\" painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950. Musical arrangement was handled by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra. The recording was originally the B-side of \"The Greatest Inventor Of Them All.\" In an \"American Songwriter\" magazine interview, Jay Livingston recalled that", "title": "Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)" }, { "id": "16727596", "text": "T-shirts, her likeness has also been re-imagined using coffee, toast, seaweed, Rubik's Cubes, and computer chips, to name only a few. Now over five-hundred years since her creation, the perpetuation of \"Mona Lisa\"'s influence is reinforced with every reinterpretation. At the start of the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned by Florentine nobleman Francesco del Giocondo to paint a portrait of his wife, Lisa. The painting is believed to have been undertaken between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo's portrait of \"Mona Lisa\" (\"Mona\" or \"Monna\" being the Italian honorific for \"Madame\") has been on display as part of the permanent", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "11439771", "text": "Speculations about Mona Lisa The 16th-century portrait Mona Lisa, or \"La Gioconda\" (\"La Joconde\"), painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci, has been the subject of a considerable deal of speculation. It has for a long time been argued that after Leonardo's death the painting was cut down by having part of the panel at both sides removed. Early copies depict columns on both sides of the figure. Only the edges of the bases can be seen in the original. However, some art historians, such as Martin Kemp, now argue that the painting has not been", "title": "Speculations about Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "12352533", "text": "use challenged as infringement, but to require payment of a reasonable royalty. The most famous derivative work in the world has been said to be \"L.H.O.O.Q.\", also known as the \"Mona Lisa With a Moustache\". Generations of U.S. copyright law professors — since at least the 1950s — have used it as a paradigmatic example. Marcel Duchamp created the work by adding, among other things, a moustache, goatee, and the caption \"\" (meaning in French \"She is hot in the ass\") to Leonardo's iconic work. These few seemingly insubstantial additions were highly transformative because they incensed contemporary French bourgeoisie by", "title": "Derivative work" }, { "id": "10065003", "text": "L.H.O.O.Q. L.H.O.O.Q. () is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made. The readymade involves taking mundane, often utilitarian objects not generally considered to be art and transforming them, by adding to them, changing them, or (as in the case of his most famous work \"Fountain\") simply renaming and reorienting them and placing them in an appropriate setting. In \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" the \"objet trouvé\" (\"found object\") is a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" onto which Duchamp drew", "title": "L.H.O.O.Q." }, { "id": "8401823", "text": "Isleworth Mona Lisa The Isleworth Mona Lisa is an oil-on-canvas painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\". In 2015 and 2016, peer-reviewed academic publications concerning it confirmed its attribution to Leonardo da Vinci. In 1913 English connoisseur Hugh Blaker spotted and acquired the painting which had been hanging for over a century in a manor house in Somerset, having been bought in Italy as an original Leonardo. In a monograph published shortly thereafter, Blaker's stepfather, John R Eyre, proposed that two versions of the Mona Lisa had been worked on by Leonardo; the \"Isleworth\" picture (named", "title": "Isleworth Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "793080", "text": "traditionally spelled \"Mona\" (as used by Vasari), is also commonly spelled in modern Italian as \"Monna Lisa\" (\"\" being a vulgarity in some Italian dialects) but this is rare in English. Vasari's account of the \"Mona Lisa\" comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death. It has long been the best-known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter. Leonardo's assistant Salaì, at his death in 1524, owned a portrait which in his personal papers was named \"la Gioconda\", a painting bequeathed to him by Leonardo. That", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "16727607", "text": "in 1919 may have inadvertently set the standard for modern manifestations of \"Mona Lisa\" simply by adding a goatee to an existing postcard print of Leonardo's original. Duchamp pioneered the concept of \"readymades\", which involves taking mundane objects not generally considered to be art and transforming them artistically, sometimes by simply renaming them and placing them in a gallery setting. In \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" the \"found object\" is a \"Mona Lisa\" postcard onto which Duchamp drew a goatee in pencil and appended the title. The title, Duchamp is said to have admitted in his later years, is a pun. The letters L-H-O-O-Q", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "12262039", "text": "flourished in Ancient Greek and especially Roman sculpture, where sitters demanded individualized and realistic portraits, even unflattering ones. One of the best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled \"Mona Lisa\", which is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects—which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still", "title": "Painting" }, { "id": "21013681", "text": "da Vincis masterpiece Mona Lisa has become part of our cultural memory and has inspired many artists of the 20th century to create their own works with the painting. George Pusenkoff also dealt with the Mona Lisa. In 1993 he painted his first work with an image of the Mona Lisa. It's title is \"said Duchamp\". Since then, he has repeatedly worked with the image of Mona Lisa, to an extent as no other artist before him:\" For Pusenkoff, the Mona Lisa has become his female alter ego, an iconic representation of his own artistic identity.\" In 1995 George Pusenkoff", "title": "George Pusenkoff" }, { "id": "19562556", "text": "Mona Lisa (Prado's version) The copy of the \"Mona Lisa\" is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's famous \"Mona Lisa\" (which is held by the Louvre Museum, Paris). The copy painting has been displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid (Spain) since 1819, but was considered for decades a worthless copy. However, after its restoration in 2012, the Prado's \"Mona Lisa\" was claimed to be the earliest replica of Leonardo's masterpiece. Although there are dozens of surviving replicas of \"Mona Lisa\" from the 16th and 17th centuries, the \"Prado's Mona Lisa\" is said to be,", "title": "Mona Lisa (Prado's version)" }, { "id": "16727595", "text": "perfect their painting techniques and prove their skills. Contemporary \"Mona Lisa\" replicas are often created in conjunction with events or exhibitions related to Leonardo da Vinci, for publicity. Her portrait, considered public domain and therefore outside of copyright protection, has also been exploited to make political statements. Known even to people with no art background, the mere use of \"Mona Lisa\"'s name – immortalized in Academy Award-winning lyrics sung by Nat King Cole (Best Original Song, 1950) – is capable of stirring public interest and intrigue. Aside from countless print-reproductions of Leonardo's original \"Mona Lisa\" on postcards, coffee mugs and", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "10832396", "text": "of betrayal, love, and loss, which unravels the mysteries surrounding Leonardo da Vinci's most famous portrait, \"Mona Lisa\", and its links with the main character Lisa Gherardini, with added plot twists. I, Mona Lisa I, Mona Lisa (UK title Painting Mona Lisa) is a historical novel by Jeanne Kalogridis about Lisa Gherardini, the model for Leonardo da Vinci's painting \"Mona Lisa\". Lisa is portrayed as a young Italian woman who learns about the murder of Giuliano de' Medici, the brother of Lorenzo de' Medici in the Pazzi conspiracy. Guiliano's murder casts a shadow, especially as one of the killers has", "title": "I, Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "19562564", "text": "la Almedina or Hernando de los Llanos. The painting cannot be considered as a typical workshop copy due to its careful and thorough execution, as well as its use of materials such as lapis lazuli or red lacquer. Mona Lisa (Prado's version) The copy of the \"Mona Lisa\" is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's famous \"Mona Lisa\" (which is held by the Louvre Museum, Paris). The copy painting has been displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid (Spain) since 1819, but was considered for decades a worthless copy. However, after its restoration in 2012,", "title": "Mona Lisa (Prado's version)" }, { "id": "4864598", "text": "the possession of the people. Today about six million people visit the painting each year at the Louvre in Paris, where it is part of a French national collection. Lisa del Giocondo Lisa del Giocondo (; née Gherardini ; June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman, member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the \"Mona Lisa\", her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth", "title": "Lisa del Giocondo" }, { "id": "12334087", "text": "Day They Stole the Mona Lisa\", written in 1981, is about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. In the book, Reit asserted that there were \"two\" genuine \"Mona Lisas\" in the world: the one in the Louvre, and an earlier version of the work painted by Leonardo da Vinci which was being held in a bank vault in New Jersey (the so-called \"Vernon Mona Lisa\"). A long-planned movie adaptation of the book has never materialized, although the Internet Movie Database lists a movie by the same title tentatively planned for 2009. In addition to those", "title": "Seymour Reit" }, { "id": "11439793", "text": "he had had no access to the actual painting, said that after \"every laboratory test possible\" in 2004 and 2009 that \"no inscriptions, letters or numbers, were discovered during the tests.\" and that \"The ageing of the painting on wood has caused a great number of cracks to appear in the paint, which have caused a number of shapes to appear that have often been subject to over-interpretation\". Speculations about Mona Lisa The 16th-century portrait Mona Lisa, or \"La Gioconda\" (\"La Joconde\"), painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci, has been the subject of a considerable", "title": "Speculations about Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "248566", "text": "large drawing (160×100 cm) in black chalk on coloured paper of \"The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist\" in the National Gallery, London. This drawing employs the subtle \"sfumato\" technique of shading, in the manner of the \"Mona Lisa\". It is thought that Leonardo never made a painting from it, the closest similarity being to \"The Virgin and Child with St. Anne\" in the Louvre. Other drawings of interest include numerous studies generally referred to as \"caricatures\" because, although exaggerated, they appear to be based upon observation of live models. Vasari relates that if Leonardo", "title": "Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "17655673", "text": "The Smile (book) The Smile (2008) is one of Donna Jo Napoli's young adult novels. With \"spot-on flair for infusing history with coolness Napoli details a slice of the life of Monna Elisabetta, better known as Mona Lisa. While the story is fictional, some important historical figures enter the plot: Leonardo da Vinci and members of the famous Medici family are among the few. Set in Renaissance Florence, the story follows Elisabetta as she journeys to reach the moment of da Vinci's painting, detailing the secret behind her infamous smile. As a budding only daughter of a wealthy silk merchant", "title": "The Smile (book)" }, { "id": "15249569", "text": "and I started writing, so it was gonna end up sounding different, sonically.\" The music has been described as a combination of buzzsaw riffs, punchy percussion and literate, multi-layered lyrics. The song's title is, of course, an allusion to \"Mona Lisa\", the famous Renaissance-era oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting inspired Panic!, which pulls their style from the nostalgic romanticism of the Elizabethan and Victorian eras. In a 2011 interview, Urie regarded the name and theme of the song as neither male nor female. “That whole thing with Mona Lisa was the idea that there is this character.", "title": "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "10832395", "text": "I, Mona Lisa I, Mona Lisa (UK title Painting Mona Lisa) is a historical novel by Jeanne Kalogridis about Lisa Gherardini, the model for Leonardo da Vinci's painting \"Mona Lisa\". Lisa is portrayed as a young Italian woman who learns about the murder of Giuliano de' Medici, the brother of Lorenzo de' Medici in the Pazzi conspiracy. Guiliano's murder casts a shadow, especially as one of the killers has not been found. She later falls in love with Giuliano's namesake, Lorenzo's son Giuliano in the aftermath of Girolamo Savonarola's uprising in the late 15th century. It's an intricately woven tale", "title": "I, Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "16727601", "text": "confirmed its attribution to Leonardo da Vinci. In 2011, the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain, announced discovery of what may be the earliest known replica. Miguel Falomir, heading the Department of Italian Renaissance Painting at the time of the discovery, stated the Prado \"had no idea of (the painting's) significance\" until a recent restoration. Recovered from the Prado's vaults, the replica – which El Mundo newspaper dubbed \"\"Mona Lisa\"'s twin\" (\"above, far right\") – was reportedly painted simultaneously alongside Leonardo as he painted his own \"Mona Lisa\"; in the same studio, by a \"key\" student. It was painted on walnut.", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "7623121", "text": "onto a passing car, and most of the police leave the museum to follow. He and Neveu return to the body, and Langdon realizes the numbers are out of sequence to tell them that the letters are also out of sequence; the words are anagrams. He deciphers \"Draconian Devil\" as \"Leonardo da Vinci\" and \"Oh Lame Saint\" as \"The \"Mona Lisa\"\". As they head to the painting, Langdon speculates \"PS\" could also refer to the Priory of Sion. His theory is strengthened when Neveu remembers seeing the letters together with a fleur-de-lis when she was a child; \"PS\" combined with", "title": "The Da Vinci Code (video game)" }, { "id": "6061617", "text": "Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter and polymath who achieved legendary fame and iconic status within his own lifetime. His renown primarily rests upon his brilliant achievements as a painter, the \"Mona Lisa\" and the \"Last Supper\", being two of the most famous artworks ever created, but also upon his diverse skills as a scientist and inventor. He became so highly valued during his lifetime that the King of France bore him home like a trophy of war, supported him in his old age and,", "title": "Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "14707089", "text": "during this period Leonardo had taken a commission from Francesco del Giocondo to paint his wife, \"'.\" Here \"Mona\" was not intended as a name, but as an abbreviation of ', the Italian literary form of \"Lady\". Agostino Vespucci Agostino Vespucci was an Italian chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. He is most well known for helping to confirm the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" as Lisa del Giocondo, but is also the author of a number of surviving letters and manuscripts. The identity of the young woman in Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\" had been", "title": "Agostino Vespucci" }, { "id": "6392174", "text": "portraiture to traditional religious and classical subjects. Leonardo and Pisanello were among the first Italian artists to add allegorical symbols to their secular portraits. One of best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled \"Mona Lisa\", named for Lisa del Giocondo, a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The famous \"Mona Lisa smile\" is an excellent example of applying subtle asymmetry to a face. In his notebooks, Leonardo advises on the qualities of light in portrait painting: A very high degree of", "title": "Portrait painting" }, { "id": "4864582", "text": "Lisa del Giocondo Lisa del Giocondo (; née Gherardini ; June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman, member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the \"Mona Lisa\", her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class", "title": "Lisa del Giocondo" }, { "id": "16727605", "text": "represented in the original \"Mona Lisa\". Joos van Cleve, a Flemish artist active in the years following \"Mona Lisa\"'s creation, also painted a nude titled \"Mona Vanna\". Though the figure portrayed in van Cleve's painting bears no resemblance to Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\", the artist was known to mimic themes and techniques of Leonardo da Vinci, in this case the positioning of the figure and the delicate brushwork reminiscent of Leonardo's sfumato. The artwork, dating to the mid-16th century, is in the collection of the National Gallery, Prague. By the 20th century, \"Mona Lisa\" had already been a victim of satirical", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "14335744", "text": "other typefaces and typographical characters. Leonardo da Vinci, born in 1452 in Vinci, was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any of his contemporaries, epitomized the creative energy of the Renaissance. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time, and his Mona Lisa is regarded by many to be the most famous painting in the world. His anatomical drawings have never been surpassed in detail and accuracy, and are still in use today. Michelangelo was born in Florence in", "title": "Italophilia" }, { "id": "6732151", "text": "that it is simply a masterful portrait of a woman. Olson and Meisel also take issue with the idea that Leonardo painted the \"Mona Lisa\" as a self-portrait, and that this idea is based on the fact that points of congruency are found between Leonardo's face and the Mona Lisa's. Olson and Meisel respond that points of congruency can be found among many faces, which is how computer morphing of faces is facilitated. The title of the book is not consistent with naming conventions, because \"Da Vinci\" was not Leonardo's surname. As Tom Chivers of \"The Daily Telegraph\" comments, \"[Leonardo]", "title": "Criticism of The Da Vinci Code" }, { "id": "1674476", "text": "reference to their names. The individuals portrayed were members of the ruling elite, priests, warriors and even distinguished artisans. They were represented during several stages of their lives. The faces of gods were also depicted. To date, no portraits of women have been found. There is particular emphasis on the representation of the details of headdresses, hairstyles, body adornment and face painting. One of the best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled \"Mona Lisa\", which is a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. What has been claimed as the world's oldest known portrait was found in", "title": "Portrait" }, { "id": "11608526", "text": "Dan Castellaneta's mother, Elsie Castellaneta, and Harry Shearer's mother, Dora K. Warren. The title is a reference to the famous Da Vinci painting, the \"Mona Lisa\". This is the third \"Simpsons\" episode to be named after the painting, after \"Moaning Lisa\", \"Moe'N'a Lisa\" and before \"Loan-a Lisa\". Homer compares Mona's disappearances to the show \"Scrubs\" when he says \"You keep disappearing and reappearing — and it's not funny.\" When Homer escapes on the Union Jack parachute, it parodies the film \"The Spy Who Loved Me\". The ESPY Awards features Lance Armstrong and Fozzie Bear. The \"Stuff-N-Hug\" store at the Springfield", "title": "Mona Leaves-a" }, { "id": "10267344", "text": "crochet and table-carpets. More than any other artist, he advanced the study and painting of \"atmosphere\". In his paintings such as the \"Mona Lisa\" (c.1503-1517) and \"Virgin of the Rocks\" (1483-1486) (the earliest complete work fully of his hand), he used light and shade with such subtlety that, for want of a better word, it became known as Leonardo's \"sfumato\" or \"smoke\". He exhibited a revolutionary use of colour by defining the transition between figures by colour modulation instead of by actual lines. His work invited the viewer into a mysterious world of shifting shadows, chaotic mountains and whirling torrents.", "title": "Italian Renaissance painting" }, { "id": "1453109", "text": "of the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart with \"The Ride\"' (1983) and \"Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile\" (1984). \"The Ride\" recounts a drifter's encounter with the ghost of country music legend Hank Williams. \"Mona Lisa\" is a mid-tempo ballad about a broken love affair, featuring allusions to the famous painting by Leonardo. He also just missed the top 10 in early 1985 with \"She Used to Love Me a Lot.\" In 1990, Coe reissued his independent albums \"Nothing Sacred\" and \"Underground Album\" on compact disc, as well as the compilation \"18 X-Rated Hits\". Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful", "title": "David Allan Coe" }, { "id": "793123", "text": "YouTube. A 2014 \"New Yorker\" magazine cartoon parodies the supposed enigma of the \"Mona Lisa\" smile in an animation showing progressively maniacal smiles. A version of \"Mona Lisa\" known as \"Mujer de mano de Leonardo Abince\" (\"Woman by Leonardo da Vinci's hand\") held in Madrid's Museo del Prado was for centuries considered to be a work by Leonardo. However, since its restoration in 2012 it is considered to have been executed by one of Leonardo's pupils in his studio at the same time as \"Mona Lisa\" was being painted. Their conclusion, based on analysis obtained after the picture underwent extensive", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "16727600", "text": "1778 and was rediscovered in 1913 by Hugh Blaker, an art connoisseur. The painting was presented to the media in 2012 by the Mona Lisa Foundation. It is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\". The painting is claimed by a majority of experts to be mostly an original work of Leonardo dating from the early 16th century: a survey of all published opinions shows that 22 experts are certain that the major parts of the \"Isleworth Mona Lisa\" are the work of Leonardo da Vinci. In 2015 and 2016, peer-reviewed academic publications concerning it", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "16727604", "text": "uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte, who owned another of Leonardo's paintings. Facial features bear only vague resemblance, but landscape, compositional and technical details correspond to those of the \"Mona Lisa\" known worldwide today. A student and companion of Leonardo da Vinci known as Salaì painted one of the nude interpretations of \"Mona Lisa\" known, titled \"Mona Vanna\". Salai's version is thought by some to have been \"based on\" the nude sometimes attributed to Leonardo, which is considered a lost work. Discussion among experts exists as to whether Salai, known to have modeled for Leonardo, may in fact have been the sitter", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "12378948", "text": "the viewer to a merely passive or non-interactive receiver. \"Aristocratic cool\", known as sprezzatura, has existed in Europe for centuries, particularly when relating to frank amorality and love or illicit pleasures behind closed doors; Raphael's \"Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione\" and Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" are classic examples of \"sprezzatura\". The \"sprezzatura\" of the Mona Lisa is seen in both her smile and the positioning of her hands. Both the smile and hands are intended to convey her grandeur, self-confidence and societal position. Sprezzatura means, literally, disdain and detachment. It is the art of refraining from the appearance of trying", "title": "Cool (aesthetic)" }, { "id": "11439783", "text": "are continued. During 2006, \"Mona Lisa\" underwent a major scientific observation that proved through infrared cameras she was originally wearing a bonnet and clutching her chair, something that da Vinci decided to change as an afterthought. One long-standing mystery of the painting is why \"Mona Lisa\" features very faint eyebrows and apparently does not have any eyelashes. In October 2007, Pascal Cotte, a French engineer and inventor, says he discovered with a high-definition camera that Leonardo da Vinci originally did paint eyebrows and eyelashes. Creating an ultra-high resolution close-up that magnified \"Mona Lisa\"s face 24 times, Cotte says he found", "title": "Speculations about Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "10618013", "text": "17, 1991, he was featured in an episode of \"Nova\", called \"The Fine Art of Faking It\". Tetro currently produces copies and pastiches for private clients. He continues to use the techniques he used in producing forgeries, but is required by a court order to sign all of his works. Tetro has a daughter and several grandchildren. In a painting called \"Mona Sabrina\", Tetro painted a portrait of his granddaughter as Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\". In May 2011 the Australian Art Series Hotel Group announced a competition in which people who stay a night at one of its hotels", "title": "Tony Tetro" }, { "id": "15890033", "text": "nobleman in whose family it had been for nearly 100 years. This discovery led to the conjecture that Leonardo painted two portraits of Lisa del Giocondo: the famous one in The Louvre, and the one discovered by Blaker, who bought the painting and took it to his studio in Isleworth, London, from which it takes its name. According to \"Encyclopedia Americana\" and \"The New York Times\", The Isleworth Mona Lisa has been attributed to Leonardo, and is thought to be the unfinished portrait from which Raphael made his famous sketch (which is in the Louvre museum), and is in no", "title": "Hugh Blaker" }, { "id": "9898179", "text": "artist, he advanced the study of \"atmosphere\". In his paintings such as the \"Mona Lisa\" and \"Virgin of the Rocks\", he used light and shade with such subtlety that, for want of a better word, it became known as Leonardo's \"sfumato\" or \"smoke\". Simultaneous to inviting the viewer into a mysterious world of shifting shadows, chaotic mountains and whirling torrents, Leonardo achieved a degree of realism in the expression of human emotion, prefigured by Giotto but unknown since Masaccio's \"Adam and Eve\". Leonardo's \"Last Supper\", painted in the refectory of a monastery in Milan, became the benchmark for religious narrative", "title": "Florentine painting" }, { "id": "17655681", "text": "Piero and his two brothers, Giuliano being one of them, to flee. This information added tension of Napoli's story and Giuliano's disappearance gave cause to her half-smile. The \"Mona Lisa\" \"The Smile\" refers to the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Several questions surround the mysterious painting, focusing most pointedly at the debate over who the true muse was or whether she was merely an invention of da Vinci's imagination. Napoli took the most proposed muse, Lisa Gherardini and her known husband, Francesco del Giocondo, and created a story for them based on life in Florence in the late", "title": "The Smile (book)" }, { "id": "16727594", "text": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" is one of the most recognizable and famous works of art in the world, and also one of the most replicated and reinterpreted. \"Mona Lisa\" replicas were already being painted during Leonardo's lifetime by his own students and contemporaries. Some are claimed to be the work of Leonardo himself, and remain disputed by scholars. Prominent 20th-century artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí have also produced derivative works, manipulating \"Mona Lisa\"'s image to suit their own aesthetic. Replicating Renaissance masterpieces continues to be a way for aspiring artists to", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "11439775", "text": "the public on September 27, 2012. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has dated the piece to Leonardo's lifetime, and an expert in sacred geometry says it conforms to the artist's basic line structures. The same claim has been made for a version in the Vernon collection. The Vernon \"Mona Lisa\" is particularly interesting because it was originally part of the collection at the Louvre. Another version, dating from c. 1616, was given in c. 1790 to Joshua Reynolds by the Duke of Leeds in exchange for a Reynolds self-portrait. Reynolds thought it to be the real painting", "title": "Speculations about Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "10335714", "text": "commissioned artworks as decoration for their homes, of increasingly secular subject matter. These small intimate pictures, which are now nearly all in museums, were most often done for private ownership, but might occasionally grace a small altar in a chapel. During the latter half of the 15th century, there was a proliferation of portraits. Although the subjects of some of them were later remembered for their achievements or their noble lineage, the identities of many have been lost and that of even the most famous portrait of all time, Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\", is open to speculation and controversy.", "title": "Themes in Italian Renaissance painting" }, { "id": "12696965", "text": "by Judge Pierre N. Leval in the \"Harvard Law Review\", \"Toward a Fair Use Standard\", which the Supreme Court quoted and cited extensively in its \"Campbell\" opinion. In his article, Judge Leval explained the social importance of transformative use of another's work and what justifies such a taking: Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., a parody of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, and also known as the \"Mona Lisa With a Moustache\", is an example of a highly transformative work that accomplishes its transformative effect with what seems to be a minimum of added material. L.H.O.O.Q. has been described as the most famous derivative work", "title": "Transformativeness" }, { "id": "19562558", "text": "made in the 1666 inventory in the Galleria del Mediodia of the Alcazar in Madrid as \"Mujer de mano de Leonardo Abince\" (\"Woman by Leonardo da Vinci's hand\"). However, it is still unknown when the portrait entered the Spanish Royal Collection, though it could have been already in Spain in the early years of the 17th century. Since the Prado's founding in 1819, the replica has been part of its permanent collection, habitually displayed in the museum. Previous to its restoration, the painting was catalogued as an anonymous copy from the first quarter of the 16th century. However, it usually", "title": "Mona Lisa (Prado's version)" }, { "id": "248545", "text": "and a glutton\", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions and spent a fortune on clothes. Nevertheless, Leonardo treated him with great indulgence, and he remained in Leonardo's household for the next thirty years. Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo \"taught him a great deal about painting\", his work is generally considered to be of less artistic merit than others among Leonardo's pupils, such as Marco d'Oggiono and Boltraffio. In 1515, he painted a nude version of the \"Mona Lisa\", known", "title": "Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "793084", "text": "Isabela Gualanda, Caterina Sforza—even Salaì and Leonardo himself—are all among the list of posited models portrayed in the painting. The consensus of art historians in the 21st century maintains the long-held traditional opinion, that the painting depicts Lisa del Giocondo. Leonardo da Vinci is thought by some to have begun painting the \"Mona Lisa\" in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy. Although the Louvre states that it was \"doubtless painted between 1503 and 1506\", the art historian Martin Kemp says there are some difficulties in confirming the actual dates with certainty. In addition, many Leonardo experts, such as Carlo Pedretti", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "17655674", "text": "in Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta finds herself on the brink of an inevitable arranged marriage. In the interest of conflict, Elisabetta longs for love rather than an arrangement. When she attends the funeral of one of Florence's most powerful men, Lorenzo de' Medici, she finds hope for that love. Leonardo da Vinci meets young Elisabetta at Lorenzo's funeral and declares that one day, when she is ready, he will paint her. It is Leonardo who introduces her to the son of Lorenzo, Giuliano de Medici. Giuliano nicknames her \"Mona Lisa\" and is responsible for bringing out her infamous smile. Through brief", "title": "The Smile (book)" }, { "id": "16727603", "text": "were part of a 2009 exhibition of artwork inspired by \"Mona Lisa\". Displayed at the Museo Ideale in Leonardo's hometown of Vinci, near Florence, some believe one of the paintings – dating from Leonardo's time – to be the work of Leonardo himself, and it has at times been credited to him. Other experts theorize the painting, one of at least six known to exist, may be just another copy painted by \"followers\" of Leonardo. Scholarly dispute persists as to artist, subject and origin. The nude in question, discovered behind a wall in a private library, reportedly belonged to an", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "12352730", "text": "they have been used as the launching point for transformative retellings such as Tom Stoppard's \"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\" and Troma Entertainment's \"Romeo and Juliet\". Marcel Duchamp's \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" is a derivative of Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\", one of thousands of derivative works based on the public domain painting. Some works may never fully lapse into the public domain. A perpetual crown copyright is held for the Authorized King James Version of the Bible in the UK. While the copyright has expired for the Peter Pan works by J. M. Barrie (the play \"Peter Pan, or the Boy Who", "title": "Public domain" }, { "id": "16727618", "text": "\"Horton Hears A Who\", the Mayor Ned McDodd shows his only son Jojo a family gallery where in one part his great grandmother is parodied as the Mona Lisa. And in \"\", there is a cake that Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy have baked with a picture of the Mona Lisa inside. \"Mona Lisa\" replicas are sometimes directly or indirectly embellished as commentary of contemporary events. Exhibitions or events with ties to Leonardo da Vinci or Renaissance art also provide an opportunity for local artists to exploit \"Mona Lisa\"'s image toward promoting the events. The resulting artworks represent a broad spectrum", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "6061622", "text": "portrait as Mona Lisa\" in 1954. In 1963 following the painting's visit to the United States, Andy Warhol created serigraph prints of multiple \"Mona Lisa\"s called \"Thirty are Better than One\", like his works of Marilyn Monroe (\"Twenty-five Coloured Marilyns\", 1962), Elvis Presley (1964) and Campbell's soup (1961–1962). \"Il Gran Cavallo\". This monumental bronze horse, 7 metres (24 feet) high, is a conjectural re-creation of a clay horse that was created in Milan by Leonardo da Vinci for the Ludovico Sforza and was intended to be cast in bronze. Leonardo never finished the project because of war with France, and", "title": "Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "15193215", "text": "The Second Mrs. Giaconda The Second Mrs. Giaconda, later The Second Mrs. Gioconda, is a historical novel for children by E. L. Konigsburg. Set primarily in Milan, Italy, it features Leonardo da Vinci, his servant Salai, and duchess Beatrice d'Este. Through the experiences of Salai narrated in third person, it explores the background of da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\". The book was published by Atheneum in 1975, manufactured by Halliday Lithograph Corporation with ten black-and-white museum plates of da Vinci paintings and drawings, of which several figure in the story. A prologue opens by asking, \"Why did Leonardo da Vinci choose", "title": "The Second Mrs. Giaconda" }, { "id": "15003877", "text": "people. The ability to achieve a true likeness was greatly valued until the mid-nineteenth century. However, once photographs became common, artists could use their skills to show something about the subject that no camera could match. In addition to showing the person, a great portrait suggests a history, personality, mood and feeling. Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\", 1507 captures the essence of the portrait in that it is compelling, and the view feels a connection to the person who is portrayed, yet it is also mysterious. For the viewer, self-portraits provide insight into the personality and possibly information about the", "title": "Ma Jir Bo" }, { "id": "15193221", "text": "The American Library Association named \"The Second Mrs. Gioconda\" a Best Book of the Year for Young Adults for 1975. The Second Mrs. Giaconda The Second Mrs. Giaconda, later The Second Mrs. Gioconda, is a historical novel for children by E. L. Konigsburg. Set primarily in Milan, Italy, it features Leonardo da Vinci, his servant Salai, and duchess Beatrice d'Este. Through the experiences of Salai narrated in third person, it explores the background of da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\". The book was published by Atheneum in 1975, manufactured by Halliday Lithograph Corporation with ten black-and-white museum plates of da Vinci paintings", "title": "The Second Mrs. Giaconda" }, { "id": "8401824", "text": "after the location of Blaker's studio in Isleworth, west London) being the first. The painting was subsequently bought by Henry F. Pulitzer, who argued that it was Leonardo's only real portrait of Lisa Gherardini. It belongs to a private collection and is not on display to the public, but has been examined by many experts in recent years, and been filmed for a TV documentary. According to Leonardo's early biographer Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo had started to paint \"Mona Lisa\" in 1503, but \"left it unfinished\". However, a fully finished painting of a \"certain Florentine lady\" surfaced again in 1517, shortly", "title": "Isleworth Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "20121166", "text": "dressed in the height of fashion in this period, was also the patron saint of childbirth, so there may be a degree of deliberate ambiguity in images of her. Some Italian Renaissance portraits thought to be of pregnant women show them wearing a gauzy underdress called a \"guarnello\", often associated with pregnancy or the period after childbirth. These include Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, where the garment first became visible under infra-red scans in 2006, suggesting that Lisa del Giocondo, the sitter, was pregnant or just had a baby when she was painted. Another painting with a \"guarnello\" is Botticelli's", "title": "Pregnancy in art" }, { "id": "3929277", "text": "portrays the great philosophers and scientists of ancient Greece in a setting of classical arches. Raphael was thus making a connection between the culture of classical antiquity and the Italian culture of his time. Leonardo da Vinci painted two of the most famous works of Renaissance art, the wallpainting \"The Last Supper\" and the portrait \"Mona Lisa\". Leonardo had one of the most searching minds in all history. He wanted to know how everything that he saw in nature worked. In over 4,000 pages of notebooks, he drew detailed diagrams and wrote his observations. Leonardo made careful drawings of human", "title": "Italian art" }, { "id": "1435986", "text": "Sfumato Sfumato (, ) is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane. Leonardo da Vinci was the most prominent practitioner of sfumato, based on his research in optics and human vision, and his experimentation with the camera obscura. He used it in many works, including the \"Virgin of the Rocks\" and in his famous painting of the \"Mona Lisa\". He described sfumato as \"without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focus plane\". According to the theory of the", "title": "Sfumato" }, { "id": "16727614", "text": "magnets, appearing in advertisements for fashion and travel industries, and on the cover of magazines. Leonardo da Vinci's own status as \"genius\" has been suggested as a factor contributing to the mystique of his creation. The eyes of Leonardo's original \"Mona Lisa\" appear within cover-graphics for Dan Brown's fictional novel \"The Da Vinci Code\". The \"Mona Lisa\" portrait also appeared in the teaser trailer for the 2006 film of the same name, although a replica was used for filming, appears only briefly in the film, and plays a very small part in the story. Along with Vermeer's \"Girl with a", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "960381", "text": "Navarre, who began writing her book entitled \"L'Heptaméron\" while living there. In 1516, King Francis I of France invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and provided him with the Clos Lucé, then called Château de Cloux, as a place to stay and work. Leonardo, a famous painter and inventor, arrived with three of his paintings, namely the \"Mona Lisa\", \"Sainte Anne\", and \"Saint Jean Baptiste\". Leonardo lived at the Clos Lucé for the last three years of his life, and died there on 2 May 1519. Today, the Clos Lucé is a Leonardo da Vinci museum that reflects the prestigious", "title": "Clos Lucé" }, { "id": "19562560", "text": "Sainte Anne\", from 29 March to 25 June 2012. The oxidized varnishes indicated that the black repaint had been made 200 years after the copy was painted, that is to say, not before 1750. During this restoration process, the copy was also submitted to a study of infrared reflectography and radiography, where the results revealed that the painting had been made in the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci at the same time as the original \"Mona Lisa\" was painted. The \"key\" of this discovery was the underlying drawing, as it is the same but with different style in both paintings,", "title": "Mona Lisa (Prado's version)" }, { "id": "17213753", "text": "prominent 20th century painter Henri Matisse, Sophie's great-grandfather. Henri Matisse died in 1954, aged 85, eleven years before Sophie's birth. Family members expressed concern as to Sophie's use of the \"Matisse\" name, and in her youth she was discouraged from admitting to be a descendent of her famous great-grandfather. Only by incidentally noticing her family name on museum walls did Sophie come to consider that her great-grandfather may have been someone \"exceptional.\" Sophie Matisse's step-grandfather was the artist Marcel Duchamp, who famously reinterpreted Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" in his \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" by adding a mustache. Duchamp married Sophie's grandmother Alexina", "title": "Sophie Matisse" }, { "id": "793114", "text": "Louvre\", but the painting was known more by the intelligentsia than the general public. The 1911 theft of the \"Mona Lisa\" and its subsequent return was reported worldwide, leading to a massive increase in public recognition of the painting. During the 20th century it was an object for mass reproduction, merchandising, lampooning and speculation, and was claimed to have been reproduced in \"300 paintings and 2,000 advertisements\". It has been said that the \"Mona Lisa\" was regarded as \"just another Leonardo until early last century, when the scandal of the painting's theft from the Louvre and subsequent return kept a", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "17655683", "text": "mystery that surrounds the identity of the Mona Lisa that gave rise to the creation of Napoli's novel. The Smile (book) The Smile (2008) is one of Donna Jo Napoli's young adult novels. With \"spot-on flair for infusing history with coolness Napoli details a slice of the life of Monna Elisabetta, better known as Mona Lisa. While the story is fictional, some important historical figures enter the plot: Leonardo da Vinci and members of the famous Medici family are among the few. Set in Renaissance Florence, the story follows Elisabetta as she journeys to reach the moment of da Vinci's", "title": "The Smile (book)" }, { "id": "7308998", "text": "the Middle Ages, as well as the vernacular, in their case Tuscan Italian. As the calendar reached the year 1500, Europe was blossoming – with Leonardo da Vinci painting his \"Mona Lisa\" portrait not long after Christopher Columbus reached the Americas (1492), Amerigo Vespucci proofed that America is not a part of India and hence the new world derived from his name, the Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama sailed around Africa into the Indian Ocean and Michelangelo completed his paintings of Old Testament themes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (the expense of such artistic exuberance did", "title": "History of Western civilization" }, { "id": "231833", "text": "to depict the significant events of a greater spiritual world\". The High Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\", \"Virgin and Child with St. Anne\", \"St. John the Baptist\", and \"Madonna of the Rocks\". Caravaggio is represented by \"The Fortune Teller\" and \"Death of the Virgin\". From 16th century Venice, the Louvre displays Titian's \"Le Concert Champetre\", \"The Entombment\" and \"The Crowning with Thorns\". The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze, was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre. La Caze gave 584 paintings", "title": "Louvre" }, { "id": "8401835", "text": "copies, and concluded that both \"Mona Lisa\" and the \"Isleworth Mona Lisa\" were original works by Leonardo. In 2016, in another academic publication, Professors Asmus, Parfenov and Elford published the results of scientific examinations that established to their satisfaction that the same artist painted the face of both the \"Mona Lisa\" and the \"Isleworth Mona Lisa\". In 2017, Gérard Boudin de l'Arche published a comprehensive historical account and stated that Leonardo painted the \"Isleworth Mona Lisa\" before the Louvre \"Mona Lisa\". Isleworth Mona Lisa The Isleworth Mona Lisa is an oil-on-canvas painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's", "title": "Isleworth Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "14707086", "text": "Agostino Vespucci Agostino Vespucci was an Italian chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. He is most well known for helping to confirm the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" as Lisa del Giocondo, but is also the author of a number of surviving letters and manuscripts. The identity of the young woman in Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\" had been difficult to ascertain due to a lack of decisive contemporary sources of information about the painting. This changed upon the discovery of a comment written by Vespucci in the margin of a 1477 edition of Cicero's \",", "title": "Agostino Vespucci" }, { "id": "16727599", "text": "modification – are considered \"new\" works eligible for copyright protection. A fine example is artist Marcel Duchamp's \"L.H.O.O.Q.\", a 1919 work of art in which Duchamp embellished existing print-reproductions of Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\" by merely adding a goatee (\"shown below\"). While copyright laws do not protect Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\", Duchamp's \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" falls within parameters of copyright law constituting \"new\" works. For such reasons, \"Mona Lisa\" is commonly referenced academically in copyright courses. A version of the \"Mona Lisa\" known as the \"Isleworth Mona Lisa\" and also known as the \"Earlier Mona Lisa\" was first bought by an English nobleman in", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "16727597", "text": "collection at Paris' Louvre museum since 1797. It is also known as \"La Joconde\" in French and \"La Gioconda\" in Italian, and has been known by other names in the past. There is a new study setting the beginning of the Mona Lisa to an earlier date that thought before, pre-1478, contrary to Vasari's narrative. Replicas of \"Mona Lisa\" date back to the 16th century, including sculptures and etchings inspired by the painting. But even by the start of the 20th century, historian Donald Sassoon has stated, \"Mona Lisa\" was still \"just a well-respected painting by a famous old master,", "title": "Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations" }, { "id": "793083", "text": "(\"happy\" or \"jovial\") or, literally, \"the jocund one\", a pun on the feminine form of Lisa's married name, \"Giocondo\". In French, the title \"La Joconde\" has the same meaning. Before that discovery, scholars had developed several alternative views as to the subject of the painting. Some argued that Lisa del Giocondo was the subject of a different portrait, identifying at least four other paintings as the \"Mona Lisa\" referred to by Vasari. Several other women have been proposed as the subject of the painting. Isabella of Aragon, Cecilia Gallerani, Costanza d'Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla, Isabella d'Este, Pacifica Brandano or Brandino,", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "13814206", "text": "called to tell Max that a thief had stolen four of the worlds' greatest treasures—the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre museum in Paris; the Hope Diamond at New York's museum of Natural History, on loan from the Smithsonian; the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London; and a billion dollars in gold bullion at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Max went to his house to see how his family was. They weren't frozen anymore. Max returned to his school, and his teacher told him that he missed out on the excitement—the whole world had been frozen.", "title": "Maximum Boy" }, { "id": "6286096", "text": "de Valfierno. The notion of stealing the \"Mona Lisa\" and making six copies to sell to private collectors is similar to a plot element in the \"Doctor Who\" story \"City of Death\": Through time travel, Leonardo da Vinci is forced to make copies of his own work, which would then be sold in 1979. In the 1985 television series \"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\" starring Jeremy Brett, \"The Final Problem\" episode begins with the theft of the \"Mona Lisa\", masterminded by Moriarty to sell prepared fakes to collectors. Holmes recovers the original painting just before Moriarty makes a sale to", "title": "Eduardo de Valfierno" }, { "id": "793078", "text": "portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. Recent academic work suggests that it would not have been started before 1513. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797. The subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition,", "title": "Mona Lisa" }, { "id": "14801610", "text": "Beatrice von Dovsky Beatrice von Dovsky (14 November 1866, Vienna – 18 July 1923, Vienna) was an Austrian poet, writer, and actress. She is best known for writing the libretto for Max von Schillings's opera \"Mona Lisa\" which she presented to the composer in the spring of 1913. The subject was very topical at the time, because the painting by Leonardo da Vinci had been stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and rediscovered in Florence in 1913. The opera premiered successfully at the Staatsoper Stuttgart in September 1915, and, while not part of the standard opera repertory, has been commercially", "title": "Beatrice von Dovsky" }, { "id": "248548", "text": "and geology; his interest in physiognomy and the way humans register emotion in expression and gesture; his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition; and his use of subtle gradation of tone. All these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the \"Mona Lisa\", the \"Last Supper\", and the \"Virgin of the Rocks\". Leonardo first gained notoriety for his work on the \"Baptism of Christ\", painted in conjunction with Verrocchio. Two other paintings appear to date from his time at Verrocchio's workshop, both of which are Annunciations. One is small, long and high. It is a", "title": "Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "4864596", "text": "to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife\" (). The portrait's Italian name \"La Gioconda\" is the feminine form of her married name. In French it is known by the variant \"La Joconde\". Though derived from Lisa's married name there is the added significance that the name derives from the word for \"happy\" (in English, \"jocund\") or \"the happy one\". Speculation assigned Lisa's name to at least four different paintings and her identity to at least ten different people. By the end of the 20th century, the painting was a global icon that had been", "title": "Lisa del Giocondo" }, { "id": "15545290", "text": "Lifelike experience \"Lifelike\" is an adjective that relates to anything that simulates real life, in accordance with its laws. Its goal is to immerse individuals into what is called a lifelike experience. It gets as close as possible to real life behavior, appearance, senses, etc., therefore enabling its subject to experience what is happening as if it were real. In other words, simulating reality with its physical laws is the objective of lifelike experience. Lifelike experience is an idea which has evolved since the time when a painting was considered lifelike. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is", "title": "Lifelike experience" }, { "id": "960382", "text": "history of the region and includes forty models of the various machines designed by Leonardo. The museum also includes a copy of the \"Mona Lisa\", painted in 1654 by Ambroise Dubois. Clos Lucé The Château du Clos Lucé (or simply Clos Lucé) is a large château in the city of Amboise, France. The place is famous for being the official residence of Leonardo da Vinci between 1516 and 1519, when Leonardo died. Clos Lucé is located at 500 metres from the royal Château d'Amboise, to which it is connected by an underground passageway. Built by in the middle of the", "title": "Clos Lucé" }, { "id": "6061618", "text": "according to legend, cradled his head as he died. Leonardo's portrait was used, within his own lifetime, as the iconic image of Plato in Raphael's \"School of Athens\". His biography was written in superlative terms by Vasari. He has been repeatedly acclaimed the greatest genius to have lived. His painting of the \"Mona Lisa\" has been the most imitated artwork of all time and his drawing the \"Vitruvian Man\" iconically represents the fusion of Art and Science. Leonardo's biography has appeared in many forms, both scholarly and fictionalized. Every known aspect of his life has been scrutinized and analyzed. His", "title": "Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "5187370", "text": "high level of mercury, which was used (ineffectively) to treat syphilis, and had given a black color to the tooth enamel, most of which had been removed by abrading. They concluded that she was poisoned by her own medicine. Isabella was first suggested as the subject of da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" in 1979. This presupposes that the painting took place in the 1490s, during da Vinci's Milanese period. However, the painting has officially been dated as later, likely ruling Isabella out as the subject. Additionally, Isabella was never recognised during her lifetime as the subject of the painting. Those who", "title": "Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan" }, { "id": "248559", "text": "for which the work is renowned came to be called \"sfumato\", or Leonardo's smoke. Vasari, who is generally thought to have known the painting only by repute, said that \"the smile was so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original\". Other characteristics of the painting are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details; the dramatic landscape background, in which the world seems to be in a state of flux; the subdued colouring; and the", "title": "Leonardo da Vinci" }, { "id": "204071", "text": "Covo. Being a leader of fashion, she ordered the finest clothing, including furs as well as the newest distillations of perfume, which she concocted herself and sent as presents. Her style of dressing in caps ('capigliari') and plunging décolletage was imitated throughout Italy and at the French court. Isabella d'Este has been proposed as a plausible candidate for Leonardo's \"Mona Lisa\" of c. 1503–1506, usually considered a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. (Lisa was the wife of a merchant in Florence and Giorgio Vasari wrote of her portrait by Leonardo – it remains open whether this is the portrait now", "title": "Isabella d'Este" }, { "id": "13952445", "text": "of Pope Silverius by Antonina, wife of Belisarius\". The prize winning painting was purchased for the Civic Museum of Turin. In 1863, Maccari painted \"Leonardo che ritrae la Gioconda\" (commonly translated \"Leonardo [da Vinci] painting the Mona Lisa\") which won an award in 1865. In his home town Siena he decorated the \"Sala del Risorgimento\" in the public palace with frescoes that were well received by critics. Between 1882 and 1888 Maccari painted a series of frescoes depicting famous events in the history of the Senate of Ancient Roman at the \"Sala Maccari\" in the Salone d'Onore (Reception Hall) of", "title": "Cesare Maccari" }, { "id": "19209037", "text": "the face of Dalí and one original $10,000 bill in each of his strong hands. In one way, this is an interpretation of the well-known ready-made L.H.O.O.Q. of the French-American painter Marcel Duchamp from the time of Dadaism, which shows the world-famous painting of the Mona Lisa with mustache and goatee. On the other hand, Dali – identified by his trademark mustache – is personified as the new icon in place of the (former) \"art icon \"La Gioconda\"\". The last photo is a good example of Halsman's and Dalí's intentions and also involves the reader. Besides the publishing history, Halsman", "title": "Dali's Mustache" }, { "id": "530513", "text": "implying that the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and availability. It may also have been intended as a Freudian joke, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's alleged homosexuality. Duchamp gave a \"loose\" translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as \"there is fire down below\" in a late interview with Arturo Schwarz. According to Rhonda Roland Shearer, the apparent \"Mona Lisa\" reproduction is in fact a copy modeled partly on Duchamp's own face. Research published by Shearer also speculates that Duchamp himself may have created some of the objects which he claimed to be \"found objects\". Duchamp worked on", "title": "Marcel Duchamp" }, { "id": "12942992", "text": "something beyond its materiality is to identify it as a sign. It is then recognized as referring to an object outside of itself, a woman, or \"Mona Lisa\". The image does not seem to denote religious meaning and can therefore be assumed to be a portrait. This interpretation leads to a chain of possible interpretations: who was the sitter in relation to Leonardo da Vinci? What significance did she have to him? Or, maybe she is an icon for all of womankind. This chain of interpretation, or “unlimited semiosis” is endless; the art historian's job is to place boundaries on", "title": "Art history" }, { "id": "9103294", "text": "and former road manager for the 1960s pop group, Unit 4 + 2. He convinced government officials to invest £2 million — derived from profits earned from their major export, marine deposits rich in phosphates — in the production, a fact later gleefully exploited by the critics in their scathing reviews. The rambling plot — which started and ended with its protagonist on his deathbed, his completed masterpiece at his side — centered on the struggling artist da Vinci's commission to paint a young woman named Lisa, betrothed to nobleman Francesco Del Giocondo. The artist and his model engage in", "title": "Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love" } ]

[ "Minnehaha", "Minniehaha" ]

[ { "id": "8352913", "text": "York City. Site of the 53-foot (16 m) Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park is one of the city's oldest and most popular parks, receiving over 500,000 visitors each year. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow named Hiawatha's wife Minnehaha for the Minneapolis waterfall in \"The Song of Hiawatha\", a bestselling and often-parodied 19th century poem. \"Runner's World\" ranks the Twin Cities as America's sixth best city for runners. Team Ortho sponsors the Minneapolis Marathon, Half Marathon and 5K which began in 2009 with more than 1,500 starters. The Twin Cities Marathon run in Minneapolis and Saint Paul every October draws 250,000 spectators. The race", "title": "Minneapolis" }, { "id": "20515998", "text": "of the 53-foot (16 m) Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park is one of the city's oldest and most popular parks, receiving over 850,000 visitors each year. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow named Hiawatha's wife Minnehaha for the Minneapolis waterfall in \"The Song of Hiawatha\", a bestselling and often-parodied 19th century poem. The first natural swimming pool in the United States opened in Webber Park in 2015. The outdoor pool does not use any chemicals, rather it uses natural filters and plants in several container ponds to keep the water clean. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board facilities include of land and water, 179", "title": "Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board" }, { "id": "5079748", "text": "Minnehaha Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\". She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean \"laughing water\", literally translates to \"waterfall\" or \"rapid water\" in Dakota. The figure of Minnehaha inspired later art works such as paintings, sculpture and music. \"The Death of Minnehaha\" is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death scene inspired themes in the 'New World' symphony by Antonín Dvořák. Longfellow's poem was set in a cantata trilogy,", "title": "Minnehaha" }, { "id": "5079753", "text": "Salgari, \"Sulle Frontiere del Far-West\" (1908), \"La Scotennatrice\" (1909), \"Le Selve Ardenti\" (1910), and \"La Vendetta di Minnehaha\" (?). Minnehaha Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\". She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean \"laughing water\", literally translates to \"waterfall\" or \"rapid water\" in Dakota. The figure of Minnehaha inspired later art works such as paintings, sculpture and music. \"The Death of Minnehaha\" is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death", "title": "Minnehaha" }, { "id": "3452535", "text": "Longfellow's epic poem features Hiawatha, a Native American hero who falls in love with Minnehaha, a Native American woman who later dies during a severe winter. Longfellow never visited the falls himself. He was inspired by the writings of Mary H. Eastman and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and by a daguerreotype created by Alexander Hesler when he chose the name for Hiawatha's lover. The image was taken in 1852, according to a letter written by Hesler, as discussed in \"Minnesota History\" magazine. Beginning in 1828, steamboats began to travel the Mississippi River as far north as St. Paul, the upper limit", "title": "Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis)" }, { "id": "2982618", "text": "Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines.in Ojibwe Nokomis means Grandmother. According to the poem, \"From the full moon fell Nokomis/Fell the beautiful Nokomis\". She bears a daughter, Wenonah. Despite Nokomis' warnings, Wenonah allows herself to be seduced by the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis, \"Till she bore a son in sorrow/Bore a son of love and sorrow/Thus was born", "title": "Nokomis" }, { "id": "2588663", "text": "The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "3123782", "text": "hyphen, said to be following a printer's typographical error. In 1894, his father Dr. Daniel Taylor was appointed coroner for the British Empire in the Province of Senegambia. In 1899 Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Walmisley, whom he had met as a fellow student at the Royal College of Music. Six years older than him, Jessie had left the college in 1893. Her parents objected to the marriage because Taylor was of mixed-race parentage, but relented and attended the wedding. The couple had a son, named Hiawatha (1900–1980) after a Native American immortalised in poetry, and a daughter Gwendolyn Avril (1903–1998). Both", "title": "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor" }, { "id": "2588668", "text": "Shawondasee, the South Wind, falls in love with a dandelion, mistaking it for a golden-haired maiden. In Chapter III, in \"unremembered ages\", a woman named Nokomis falls from the moon. Nokomis gives birth to Wenonah, who grows to be a beautiful young woman. Nokomis warns her not to be seduced by the West Wind (Mudjekeewis) but she does not heed her mother, becomes pregnant and bears Hiawatha. In the ensuing chapters, Hiawatha has childhood adventures, falls in love with Minnehaha, slays the evil magician Pearl-Feather, invents written language, discovers corn and other episodes. Minnehaha dies in a severe winter. The", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "3123778", "text": "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 18751 September 1912) was an English composer and conductor of mixed race; his mother was an English woman and his father was a Sierra Leone Creole physician. Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the \"African Mahler\" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He was particularly known for his three cantatas based on the epic poem, \"Song of Hiawatha\" by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 22. He married an Englishwoman,", "title": "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor" }, { "id": "2588666", "text": "of Longfellow's poem nevertheless led to the name \"Hiawatha\" becoming attached to a number of locales and enterprises in areas more historically associated with the Ojibwe than the Iroquois. The poem was published on November 10, 1855, by Ticknor and Fields and was an immediate success. In 1857, Longfellow calculated that it had sold 50,000 copies. Longfellow chose to set \"The Song of Hiawatha\" at the Pictured Rocks, one of the locations along the south shore of Lake Superior favored by narrators of the Manabozho stories. The \"Song\" presents a legend of Hiawatha and his lover \"Minnehaha\" in 22 chapters", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "8146254", "text": "in American frontier history could be criticized by a later generation as racist, Schoolcraft had a strong interest in the Ojibwa religion, mythology, and culture. Schoolcraft energetically collected local Ojibwa stories and tales, many of which his mixed-race wife Jane Johnston Schoolcraft told him or translated for him. All of his books were published under his name, with little credit to her or her family. The Massachusetts poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow studied Schoolcraft's works for themes and inspiration for his epic poem, \"The Song of Hiawatha\". To Americans of European ancestry, this Romantic poem and its title character were authentic", "title": "Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum" }, { "id": "16160473", "text": "MV Kwasind M/V \"Kwasind\" is a passenger ferry built in 1912 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is long. She was built by the Polson Iron Works and cost $13,000. Her name was taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about Hiawatha, as the yacht club's previous ferry is \"Hiawatha\". \"Kwasind\" has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1912. She was converted from a steam engine to a diesel engine in the 1940s. On July 29, 2000, both \"Kwasind\", and the yacht club's older ferry, \"Hiawatha\", were sunk by vandals. The \"Kwasind\" was", "title": "MV Kwasind" }, { "id": "13420392", "text": "Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minnehaha. The romance is obstructed by a threatened war between the two tribes, instigated by a hot-headed Ojibway tribe", "title": "Hiawatha (1952 film)" }, { "id": "1074981", "text": "Winona, Kansas Winona is a city in Logan County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 162. Winona was originally known as Gopher, and under the latter name was founded in 1884. It was renamed Winona in 1887. The community is named after the character Wenonah, the mother of Hiawatha in Longfellow's epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" (1855). Winona is located at (39.061639, -101.244995). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Winona has a semi-arid", "title": "Winona, Kansas" }, { "id": "14611105", "text": "of \"fantastic art\". More recently, the singer Marianne Faithfull has described it as \"a fairy tale that morphs into something far more grotesque – a psycho-sexual Expressionist fable\". The title \"Mine-Haha\" is a Germanised form of \"Minnehaha\", the name of Hiawatha’s lover in \"The Song of Hiawatha\" by Longfellow. Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (German: \"Mine-Haha oder Über die körperliche Erziehung der jungen Mädchen\") is a novella by German dramatist Frank Wedekind, first published in its final form in 1903. The novella purports to be an autobiographical", "title": "Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls" }, { "id": "16160474", "text": "refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while \"Hiawatha\" required further repair. MV Kwasind M/V \"Kwasind\" is a passenger ferry built in 1912 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is long. She was built by the Polson Iron Works and cost $13,000. Her name was taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about Hiawatha, as the yacht club's previous ferry is \"Hiawatha\". \"Kwasind\" has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1912. She was converted from a steam engine to a diesel engine in the 1940s. On July 29,", "title": "MV Kwasind" }, { "id": "12757733", "text": "Hyperion (Longfellow novel) Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, \"Voices of the Night\". \"Hyperion\" follows a young American protagonist named Paul Flemming as he travels through Germany. The character's wandering is partially inspired by the death of a friend. The author had also recently lost someone close to him. Longfellow's first wife, Mary Storer Potter, died in Rotterdam in the Netherlands after a miscarriage in 1836; Longfellow was deeply saddened by her death and noted in his diary:", "title": "Hyperion (Longfellow novel)" }, { "id": "3648330", "text": "Lake Nokomis Lake Nokomis is one of several lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The lake was previously named Lake Amelia in honor of Captain George Gooding's daughter, Amelia, in 1819. Its current name was adopted in 1910 to honor Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha (legendary Indian hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, \"The Song of Hiawatha\"). It is located in the southern part of the city, west of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Hiawatha. The lake is oval in shape, with a long axis running southwest to northeast. Because the lower part of the lake is crossed by Cedar Avenue", "title": "Lake Nokomis" }, { "id": "756525", "text": "Wadsworth (1845–1921), Fanny (1847–1848), Alice Mary (1850–1928), Edith (1853–1915), and Anne Allegra (1855–1934). Their second-youngest daughter was Edith who married Richard Henry Dana III, son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. who wrote \"Two Years Before the Mast\". Their daughter Fanny was born on April 7, 1847, and Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep administered ether to the mother as the first obstetric anesthetic in the United States. Longfellow published his epic poem \"Evangeline\" for the first time a few months later on November 1, 1847. His literary income was increasing considerably; in 1840, he had made $219 from his work, but 1850", "title": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" }, { "id": "5079749", "text": "\"The Song of Hiawatha\" in 1898–1900 by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Longfellow's poem also inspired Hugo Kaun's symphonic poems \"Minnehaha\" and \"Hiawatha\" composed in 1901. The character's name has been bestowed upon things, especially in the Great Lakes region of the United States. A ship bearing the name Minnehaha wrecked off the western shore of Lake Michigan in 1893, only 38 years after Longfellow's poem was published. A Minnehaha Bay adjoins the small town of Sturgeon Falls in Ontario, Canada. Minnesota claims Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park, Minnehaha Creek, Minnehaha Academy, and a boat bearing her name once operated by", "title": "Minnehaha" }, { "id": "20120983", "text": "Lewis' series includes \"Wooing of Hiawatha\" (or \"The Old Arrowmaker and His Daughter\"),1866-1872, which one of six is in The Walter O. Evans Collection at the SCAD Museum of Art, and \"The Marriage of Hiawatha and Minnehaha\" (or \"Hiawatha's Marriage\")\",\" 1866–1868, rediscovered in 1991, which one of two is in the collection of Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. \"Hiawatha\" was included in a group exhibition in 2017 called \"On Such a Night as This\" at American Contemporary Art Galleries in New York surveying rare works by historic African American artists. Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha are", "title": "Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis" }, { "id": "5519222", "text": "most famous poems including \"Paul Revere's Ride\" and \"The Village Blacksmith\", as well as longer works such as \"Evangeline\", \"The Song of Hiawatha\", and \"The Courtship of Miles Standish\". He published 11 poetry collections, two novels, three epic poems, and several plays while living in this house, as well as a translation of Dante Alighieri's \"Divine Comedy\". He and his wife most often referred to it as \"Craigie House\" or \"Craigie Castle\". Longfellow oversaw the creation of a formal garden, and his wife oversaw decorating the interior. She purchased several items from Tiffany & Co. in New York, as well", "title": "Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site" }, { "id": "20120981", "text": "and best-selling poem “The Song of Hiawatha” (1855) about the Ojibwa warrior, Hiawatha's tragic story with his lover from a rival tribe, Minnehaha (Dakota). There are three busts of Hiawatha in existence and four of the Minnehaha busts. In addition to paying tribute to her heritage, Lewis also took agency by utilizing concepts of the Noble Savage in these works, idealizing and fantasizing the form and dress of the two fictional characters. Unlike other images of this theme and time, Lewis subversively focused not on their naked flesh, which historically attracted male collectors, but on decorating their bodies in clothing,", "title": "Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis" }, { "id": "11513232", "text": "and even during the winter months whilst carrying passengers. Until this time all emigrants were only carried in spring and summer when conditions allowed. She was the most famous ship owned by the McCorkell's and was known as the \"Green Yacht from Derry\". The \"Minnehaha\" was named after the poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Over the next thirty years, six more ships were to join the fleet named after the same poem. The \"Minnehaha\" was one of the few ships to trade in New York to the Federal side during the American Civil War. She carried", "title": "McCorkell Line" }, { "id": "9052949", "text": "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day \"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day\" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem \"Christmas Bells\" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The song tells of the narrator's despair, upon hearing Christmas bells, that \"hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men\". The carol concludes with the bells carrying renewed hope for peace among men. In 1861, two years before writing this poem, Longfellow's personal peace was shaken when his second wife of 18 years, to whom he was very devoted, was tragically burned", "title": "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" }, { "id": "1052946", "text": "Wenona, Illinois Wenona is a city in Marshall and LaSalle counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 1,056 at the 2010 census, down from 1,065 in 2000. The Marshall County portion of Wenona is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the small portion that lies in LaSalle County is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city derives its name from Wenonah, Hiawatha's mother in Longfellow's poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\". Wenona is located at (41.053080, −89.053415). Most of the city lies in Marshall County, although a small portion extends into southern LaSalle County.", "title": "Wenona, Illinois" }, { "id": "20900778", "text": "Hiawatha (sculpture) Hiawath is a 19th century sculpture executed in marble by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The work, which depicts the Iroquois leader Hiawatha, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpted his interpretation of the famed Iroquois leader between 1872 and 1874. He was inspired to create the work by \"The Song of Hiawatha\", an 1855 epic poem by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem was well received by American audiences, and the epic work resulted in a rekindling of interest in Hiawatha and the waxing days of the Iroquois Confederacy. The poem is", "title": "Hiawatha (sculpture)" }, { "id": "607856", "text": "over 40 years after Revere's death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the midnight ride the subject of his poem \"Paul Revere's Ride\" which opens: Longfellow's poem is not historically accurate, but the inaccuracies were deliberate. Longfellow had researched the historical event, using such works as George Bancroft's \"History of the United States\", but he changed the facts for poetic effect. The poem was one of a series in which he sought to create American legends; earlier examples include \"The Song of Hiawatha\" (1855) and \"The Courtship of Miles Standish\" (1858). Longfellow was successful in creating a legend: Revere's stature rose significantly", "title": "Paul Revere" }, { "id": "18705983", "text": "Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" (1855). The film stars Jesse Cornplanter of the Seneca people and Soon-goot, a 17-year-old unknown actress. The movie is the first feature film to use a cast of American Indians. The story begins along the Lake Superior Michigan shoreline with the appearance of a mighty spirit that tells the Indians a peacekeeper will bring wisdom and unite the warring tribes. Hiawatha is born to Wenonah and after her death her mother Nokomis raises", "title": "Hiawatha (1913 film)" }, { "id": "18988977", "text": "touch me\"\". As Jack turns and walks away his butt has actually been burned by the candle. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe struggles to take care of her kids and the camera then pans over to her husband who is sitting in a chair relaxing while reading a newspaper. The next scene features \"Little Hiawatha\". Hiawatha then shoots his arrow into the air like the poem implies. Soon an eagle lands next to Hiawatha and returns his arrow that apparently hit him in the tail feather. The final rhyme in the short is The Night Before Christmas.", "title": "A Gander at Mother Goose" }, { "id": "18705989", "text": "only an abridged copy of the film. Hiawatha (1913 film) Hiawatha is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" (1855). The film stars Jesse Cornplanter of the Seneca people and Soon-goot, a 17-year-old unknown actress. The movie is the first feature film to use a cast of American Indians. The story begins along the Lake Superior Michigan shoreline with the appearance of a mighty spirit that tells the Indians a peacekeeper will bring wisdom and unite the warring tribes. Hiawatha is born to Wenonah and", "title": "Hiawatha (1913 film)" }, { "id": "2150643", "text": "marriage came as a considerable shock to Jane Elton, Arthur's cousin. Jesse probably died two years after his wife, in 1889. Their eldest son was given the forenames Arthur Henry Hallam. Emilia Tennyson appears as a character in the story \"Conjugial \"[sic]\" Angel\" by A. S. Byatt in the book \"Angels and Insects\". Emilia Tennyson Emilia Tennyson (1811–1887), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's poem, \"In Memoriam A.H.H.\", was written. Emilia met Hallam through her brother, and they became engaged in", "title": "Emilia Tennyson" }, { "id": "1773652", "text": "Alden (b. 1599, d. 1687), his wife Priscilla Mullins and her parents William and Alice Mullins. The story of the romance between John and Priscilla is the subject of a famous narrative poem by Longfellow \"The Courtship of Miles Standish\". He was also a nephew of Charity Bryant, a Vermont seamstress who is the subject of Rachel Hope Cleves's 2014 book \"Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America\". William Cullen Bryant described their relationship: \"If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of", "title": "William Cullen Bryant" }, { "id": "15246945", "text": "In 1843, Longfellow was given the house as a wedding gift by his father-in-law Nathan Appleton, when Longfellow married Nathan's daughter Frances. The price of the house at that time was $10,000. Longfellow's wife Frances, also called Fanny, was the first American woman to receive anesthesia during childbirth, giving birth in the house at 105 Brattle Street. Longfellow and his wife Frances had two sons as well as the three daughters memorialized in his 1860 poem \"The Children's Hour\" as \"grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair.\" All three daughters later had houses on Brattle Street, Alice", "title": "Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts)" }, { "id": "2150642", "text": "Emilia Tennyson Emilia Tennyson (1811–1887), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's poem, \"In Memoriam A.H.H.\", was written. Emilia met Hallam through her brother, and they became engaged in 1832. However, the couple were never to marry, as Hallam died suddenly while travelling abroad in 1833. There was much concern for Emily's well-being on the death of Arthur. She later married Richard Jesse, then a midshipman in the British Royal Navy, who later rose at least to the rank of captain. Their", "title": "Emilia Tennyson" }, { "id": "13973303", "text": "Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was the first wife of American poet T. S. Eliot, whom she wed in 1915, while he was studying at Oxford. They were never compatible; he seems to have been seeking a pretext to stay in England, in defiance of his family, by marrying an English bride. Haigh-Wood had always suffered from serious health problems, compounded by insecurity about her social class. It is clear that her disastrous marriage worsened her condition. Eliot would not consider divorce, but formally separated from her in 1933. She was committed", "title": "Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot" }, { "id": "4261519", "text": "Duxbury, Massachusetts. The exact location of her grave is unknown, but there is a marker honoring her. She is known to literary history as the unrequited love of newly widowed Captain Miles Standish, the colony's military advisor, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem \"The Courtship of Miles Standish.\" According to the poem, Standish asked his good friend John Alden to propose to Priscilla on his behalf, only to have Priscilla ask, \"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?\" Longfellow was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla, and based his poem on a romanticized version of a family tradition although,", "title": "Priscilla Alden" }, { "id": "756524", "text": "her house. They were soon married; Nathan Appleton bought the Craigie House as a wedding present, and Longfellow lived there for the rest of his life. His love for Fanny is evident in the following lines from his only love poem, the sonnet \"The Evening Star\" which he wrote in October 1845: \"O my beloved, my sweet Hesperus! My morning and my evening star of love!\" He once attended a ball without her and noted, \"The lights seemed dimmer, the music sadder, the flowers fewer, and the women less fair.\" He and Fanny had six children: Charles Appleton (1844–1893), Ernest", "title": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" }, { "id": "642448", "text": "\"Chaucer as narrator\" who rails at \"Fortune\" that she shall not take his friend from him. While the envoy playfully hints to Lancaster that Chaucer would certainly appreciate a boost to his status or income, the poem \"Fortune\" distinctively shows his deep appreciation and affection for John of Gaunt. During his marriage to Constance, John of Gaunt fathered four children by a mistress, the widow Katherine Swynford (whose sister Philippa de Roet was married to Chaucer). Prior to her widowhood, Katherine had borne at least two, possibly three, children to Lancastrian knight Sir Hugh Swynford. The known names of these", "title": "John of Gaunt" }, { "id": "815962", "text": "While the author of that poem remains disputed, there seems to be a connection between two of the top candidates and the Order of the Garter, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Enguerrand de Coucy, seventh Sire de Coucy. De Coucy was married to King Edward III's daughter, Isabella, and was given admittance to the Order of the Garter on their wedding day.\" Soon after the founding of the Order, women were appointed \"Ladies of the Garter\", but were not made companions. King Henry VII discontinued the practice in 1488; his mother, Margaret Beaufort, was the last Lady", "title": "Order of the Garter" }, { "id": "3596176", "text": "of the novel is 19-year-old Maud Slivenowicz, whose major source of knowledge is \"Reader's Digest\". Her mother, Evangeline, has five children by five different deadbeat fathers. Without a regular income, the Slivenowicz family dream of becoming movie stars, and at the end of the book it seems one of Maud's brothers might actually be given a role in a television commercial. The title of the book relates to a famous line in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\". By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama", "title": "By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee" }, { "id": "10331482", "text": "Fanny Imlay Frances \"Fanny\" Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the daughter, born out of wedlock, of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works. Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife and their combined family of five children. Fanny's half-sister Mary grew up to write \"Frankenstein\" and married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading Romantic poet, who composed a poem", "title": "Fanny Imlay" }, { "id": "10386612", "text": "which, in this case, lent itself naturally to telling the story of a guy who woos his woman with poetry.\" The title of the song is a reference to the 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Diamond chose to reference Longfellow specifically after recalling an instance in which, while in his teens, Diamond had used one of the poet's works to successfully seduce a significantly older woman. Longfellow Serenade \"Longfellow Serenade\" is the title of a 1974 song by the American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. It was written by Diamond, produced by Tom Catalano, and included on Diamond's album \"Serenade\". \"Longfellow", "title": "Longfellow Serenade" }, { "id": "13973321", "text": "and Irene Fassett. Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was the first wife of American poet T. S. Eliot, whom she wed in 1915, while he was studying at Oxford. They were never compatible; he seems to have been seeking a pretext to stay in England, in defiance of his family, by marrying an English bride. Haigh-Wood had always suffered from serious health problems, compounded by insecurity about her social class. It is clear that her disastrous marriage worsened her condition. Eliot would not consider divorce, but formally separated from her in 1933.", "title": "Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot" }, { "id": "2882412", "text": "Lady Byron Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (\"née\" Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron. A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron’s reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about an alleged incest Lord Byron had with his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's", "title": "Lady Byron" }, { "id": "164274", "text": "Roet) in 1396. Chaucer's \"Book of the Duchess\" (also known as the \"Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse\") was written in commemoration of Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's first wife. The poem refers to John and Blanche in allegory as the narrator relates the tale of \"A long castel with walles white/Be Seynt Johan, on a ryche hil\" (1318–1319) who is mourning grievously after the death of his love, \"And goode faire White she het/That was my lady name ryght\" (948–949). The phrase \"long castel\" is a reference to Lancaster (also called \"Loncastel\" and \"Longcastell\"), \"walles white\" is thought to", "title": "Geoffrey Chaucer" }, { "id": "9696004", "text": "Mabbott's definitive \"Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe\" in 1969 as \"An Acrostic.\" The poem mentions \"Endymion,\" possibly referring to an 1818 poem by John Keats with that name. The \"L. E. L.\" in the third line may be Letitia Elizabeth Landon, an English artist known for signing her work with those initials. \"Zantippe\" in line four is actually Xanthippe, wife of Socrates. The spelling of the name was changed to fit the acrostic. This poem is based on stories from the Qur'an, and tells of the afterlife in the place called Al Aaraaf. Poe included it as the major", "title": "Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" }, { "id": "2588692", "text": "Much later, Mary Montgomery Koppel (b.1982) incorporated Ojibwe flute music for her setting of \"The death of Minnehaha\" (2013) for two voices with piano and flute accompaniment. The most celebrated setting of Longfellow's story was the cantata trilogy, \"The Song of Hiawatha\" (1898–1900), by the Sierra Leone-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The first part, \"Hiawatha's Wedding Feast\" (Op. 30, No. 1), based on cantos 11–12 of the poem, was particularly famous for well over 50 years, receiving thousands of performances in the UK, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Though it slipped from popularity in the late 20th century,", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "15966940", "text": "Evangeline (1919 film) Evangeline is a 1919 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The star of the film was Walsh's wife, who at the time was Miriam Cooper in the oft filmed story based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was filmed previously in 1908, 1911, and 1914. Currently \"Evangeline\" is considered to be a lost film. As described in a film magazine, Evangeline (cooper) and Gabriel (Roscoe), young people of a small village, gain the consent of their parents and announce their wedding. On the", "title": "Evangeline (1919 film)" }, { "id": "10354337", "text": "tall, lean, had a protruding chin, and wore a top hat. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said that \"he abstained while others indulged, he walked while others rode, he worked while others slept.\" Frances \"Fanny\" Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (18171861), wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882), called him \"the lean doctor... the good-natured Don-Quixote.\" He was reported to have a net worth of $500,000 in 1846, which is equal to $12,592,230 in 2012 money. Parkman was murdered on Friday, November 23, 1849. After an extensive search by Derastus Clapp and other police officers from Francis Tukey's newly formed Boston police", "title": "George Parkman" }, { "id": "6101568", "text": "\"Hiawatha\" (1909) starring Gladys Hulette, a one-reel drama short based on the 1855 poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. At a time when leading screen players worked anonymously, IMP performers Florence Lawrence, formerly known as \"The Biograph Girl,\" and King Baggot became the first \"movie stars\" to be given billing and screen credits, a marquee as well as promotion in advertising, which contributed to the creation of the star system. In the early 20th century, the Motion Picture Patents Company, or the Trust, was fought by the unlicensed independent films (dubbed \"pirates\" or \"outlaws\"), led by Laemmle.", "title": "Independent Moving Pictures" }, { "id": "11784010", "text": "scene in the Catherine Cookson novel (and the 1998 Festival Film and Television motion picture production) \"The Round Tower\". The Children's Hour (poem) \"The Children's Hour\" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of \"The Atlantic Monthly.\" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: \"grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair.\" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above.", "title": "The Children's Hour (poem)" }, { "id": "14374724", "text": "of France), captured at Agincourt and imprisoned for twenty-five years in England and who during his long captivity, became the greatest poet of the 15th century in the French language. In 1423 she married Richard of Montfort, son of John IV, Duke of Brittany, and Joanna of Navarre, later Queen of England as wife of Henry Bolingbroke. Margaret succeeded her brother Philip as Countess of Vertus. She and Richard had seven children, of whom only two, Francis and Catherine, would have progeny. In 1458 Francis succeeded his uncle Arthur III as Duke of Brittany. Margaret, widowed in 1438, lived for", "title": "Margaret, Countess of Vertus" }, { "id": "10349495", "text": "evidence to identify a body. George Parkman (February 19, 1790 – November 23, 1849), a Boston Brahmin, belonged to one of the city's richest families. He was a well-known figure in the streets of Boston, which he walked daily, collecting his rents (a thrifty man, he did not own a horse). He was tall and lean, with a protruding chin, and wore a top hat. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. said that \"he abstained while others indulged, he walked while others rode, he worked while others slept.\" Fanny Longfellow, wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, called him \"the lean doctor", "title": "Parkman–Webster murder case" }, { "id": "18705987", "text": "cast smeared with bronze paint\" was a target for ridicule. Laemmle's story ended with Hiawatha and Minnehaha happily embracing, but Moore's \"Hiawatha\" follows Longfellow's poem in which Minnehaha dies and Hiawatha welcomes the arrival of the missionary, who converts the Indians to the Christian faith. In 1910, Laemmle followed up his 1909 version of \"Hiawatha\" with the sequel, \"The Death of Minnehaha\". \"Hiawatha\" opened at New York City's Berkeley theater where it achieved \"splendid sales\", according to the \"Moving Picture News\". Moore distributed \"Hiawatha\" selling the film by states rights to 12 states. A review in \"Moving Picture World\" praised", "title": "Hiawatha (1913 film)" }, { "id": "3760370", "text": "Hygd Queen Hygd, introduced in line 1925 of the poem \"Beowulf\", is the wife of King Hygelac of Geatland. She is the daughter of Hæreth. After Beowulf defeats Grendel and Grendel's mother, he and his men returned to their native country, where they are received by Hygelac and Hygd. Hygd is beautiful, wise, courteous, and attentive. She pours mead in the drinking horns of the warriors thus fulfilling (in the same vein as Wealhþeow, the queen of Denmark) the important role of \"hostess\" and cup-bearer in the poem. The poet juxtaposes this virtue with the vice of Queen Modþryð (who", "title": "Hygd" }, { "id": "5192603", "text": "USS Pocahontas (1852) The first USS \"Pocahontas, a screw steamer built at Medford, Massachusetts in 1852 as \"City of Boston\", and purchased by the Navy at Boston, Massachusetts on 20 March 1855, was the first United States Navy ship to be named for Pocahontas, the Algonquian wife of Virginia colonist John Rolfe. She was originally commissioned as USS \"Despatch — the second U.S. Navy ship of that name — on 17 January 1856, with Lieutenant T. M. Crossan in command, and was recommissioned and renamed in 1860, seeing action in the American Civil War. As \"Pocahontas\", one of her junior", "title": "USS Pocahontas (1852)" }, { "id": "460362", "text": "was rejected. He later admitted that from that point \"the troubling of my life began\". Yeats proposed to Gonne three more times: in 1899, 1900 and 1901. She refused each proposal, and in 1903, to his dismay, married the Irish nationalist Major John MacBride. His only other love affair during this period was with Olivia Shakespear, whom he first met in 1894, and parted from in 1897. Yeats derided MacBride in letters and in poetry. He was horrified by Gonne's marriage, at losing his muse to another man; in addition, her conversion to Catholicism before marriage offended him; Yeats was", "title": "W. B. Yeats" }, { "id": "756547", "text": "eyesight. He wrote to friend Charles Sumner: \"I do not believe anyone \"can\" be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart\". He had difficulty coping with the death of his second wife. Longfellow was very quiet, reserved, and private; in later years, he was known for being unsocial and avoided leaving home. Longfellow had become one of the first American celebrities and was also popular in Europe. It was reported that 10,000 copies of \"The Courtship of Miles Standish\" sold in London in a single day. Children adored him; \"The Village Blacksmith\"'s \"spreading chestnut-tree\" was cut down and", "title": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" }, { "id": "1144712", "text": "The borough was named for the mother of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work \"The Song of Hiawatha\". It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold. Wenonah was founded in 1871 by Philadelphia businessmen as a country resort, drawn by its location along the Mantua Creek and on the West Jersey Railroad. Over the next 40 years, numerous dams were installed to create recreational lakes. From 1902 until the Great Depression, Wenonah Military Academy, a private military school, trained cadets there. Throughout its history, Wenonah has been almost exclusively a residential area. Over 21% of the borough's land", "title": "Wenonah, New Jersey" }, { "id": "20940963", "text": "R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle. Over her long lifetime she suffered many changes of ownership and name changes (and was variously known as the \"Clara\", \"Polygon\", \"La Valette\", \"Akbas\" and \"Yenigundogdu\"), but between 1913 and 1915 she had reverted to the name \"Hiawatha\" and was owned by Noel Pemberton Billing and registered in London. In 1916 she was converted to a salvage vessel and between November 1917 to 1919 she was employed on Admiralty service as the \"La Valette\". She was eventually (in 1966) converted into a cargo vessel and ended her life in Turkey, where she was finally broken", "title": "SY Hildegarde and SY Hiawatha" }, { "id": "18883093", "text": "(the 'Major'); with Whistler signing family correspondence as the 'General' when he did not sign with his butterfly signature. Maud Franklin had been Whistler’s main model since the 1870s and became Whistler’s mistress. She called herself \"Mrs Whistler\", with Whistler usually referring to her in company as \"Madame\". Whistler showed no intention of marrying Maud. Through his friendship with Edward Godwin, Whistler become close to Beatrice (or \"Trixie\" as he called her). Whistler painted her in the full-length portrait titled \"Harmony in Red: Lamplight\" (GLAHA 46315). In 1885 Beatrice separated from her husband as a result of his compulsive philandering.", "title": "Beatrice Whistler" }, { "id": "17789185", "text": "Hiawatha and Minnehaha Hiawatha and Minnehaha is a sculpture by Jacob Fjelde that has stood in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis since the early twentieth century. Now a popular fixture of the park, its placement there was originally controversial. In 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published a book-length poem entitled \"The Song of Hiawatha\". Longfellow never visited Minnesota, but he set his poem among the Ojibwe and Dakota of the region. The poem's story line was based on traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) tales, as recorded, sometimes incorrectly, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. \"The Song of Hiawatha\" was widely read and had significant cultural influence", "title": "Hiawatha and Minnehaha" }, { "id": "756517", "text": "trip, about six months into her pregnancy. She did not recover and died after several weeks of illness at the age of 22 on November 29, 1835. Longfellow had her body embalmed immediately and placed in a lead coffin inside an oak coffin, which was shipped to Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston. He was deeply saddened by her death and wrote: \"One thought occupies me night and day ... She is dead – She is dead! All day I am weary and sad\". Three years later, he was inspired to write the poem \"Footsteps of Angels\" about her. Several years", "title": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" }, { "id": "11784003", "text": "The Children's Hour (poem) \"The Children's Hour\" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of \"The Atlantic Monthly.\" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: \"grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair.\" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as an approaching army about to enter through a \"sudden rush\" and a \"sudden raid\" via", "title": "The Children's Hour (poem)" }, { "id": "17578791", "text": "Wig-Wam Bam \"Wig-Wam Bam\" is a song by British glam rock band Sweet, written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, released as a single in September 1972. It was the first Sweet single on which the band members played their instruments, as previous singles featured producer Phil Wainman on drums, and session musicians John Roberts and Pip Williams on bass and guitars respectively. The song appeared in \"Rock & Chips\". The song's lyrics are inspired by Henry Longfellow's \"Hiawatha\" poem from 1855. The story is about a Native American named Hiawatha. He doesn't bother much about Minnehaha, but Minnehaha", "title": "Wig-Wam Bam" }, { "id": "16695698", "text": "Richard Henry Dana III Richard Henry Dana III (January 3, 1851 – December 16, 1931) was an American lawyer and civil service reformer. Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; he married in 1878, Edith Longfellow (1853–1915), the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. They had four sons, Richard Henry Dana IV and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana III, and another. In 1922 he remarried to Helen Ford Mumford (1865–1934). Dana graduated from Harvard University. In 1874, he looked back on those years: \"Days in college were happy-go-lucky times, even for the most studious and athletic.\"", "title": "Richard Henry Dana III" }, { "id": "2588700", "text": "1950). American landscape painters referred to the poem to add an epic dimension to their patriotic celebration of the wonders of the national landscape. Albert Bierstadt presented his sunset piece, \"The Departure of Hiawatha,\" to Longfellow in 1868 when the poet was in England to receive an honorary degree at the University of Cambridge. Other examples include Thomas Moran's \"Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way along the Heavens\" (1875), held by the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the panoramic waterfalls of \"Hiawatha and Minnehaha on their Honeymoon\" (1885) by Jerome Thompson (1814 – 1886). Thomas Eakins made", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "11362215", "text": "Personal life of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden, a militant Islamist and founder of al Qaeda in 1988, believed Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdrew support for Israel and withdrew military forces from Islamic countries. He was indicted in United States federal court for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, and was on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. In 1974, at the age of 18, bin Laden married his first wife Najwa", "title": "Personal life of Osama bin Laden" }, { "id": "20630712", "text": "part of the folklore trope of the Poison dress. \"\"They [Jason and Medea] went to Corinth, and lived there happily for ten years, till Creon, king of Corinth, betrothed his daughter Glauce to Jason, who married her and divorced Medea. But she invoked the gods by whom Jason had sworn, and after often upbraiding him with his ingratitude she sent the bride a robe steeped in poison, which when Glauce had put on, she was consumed with fierce fire along with her father, who went to her rescue.\"\" The Shirt of Nessus is a mythological piece of clothing given to", "title": "Shirt of Flame" }, { "id": "13383835", "text": "Hepzibah Swan Hepzibah Swan née Clarke (died August 14, 1825) was an American socialite of Boston, Massachusetts. She was a wealthy and well connected heiress who was among the most cosmopolitan, intelligent, and erudite of ladies in Federal Boston. Madame Swan was said to be charismatic, not least because of her wealth but also in good measure because of her effusive personal charm. Lifelong friends included revolutionary war heroes Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, Charles Bulfinch, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, and Harrison Otis. In 1776 she married Scotland-born James Swan, and in the course of the marriage had four children: Hepzibah,", "title": "Hepzibah Swan" }, { "id": "2588672", "text": "between the original stories, as \"reshaped by Schoolcraft,\" and the episodes in the poem are but superficial, and Longfellow omits important details essential to Ojibwe narrative construction, characterization, and theme. This is the case even with \"Hiawatha’s Fishing,\" the episode closest to its source. Some important parts of the poem were more or less Longfellow's invention from fragments or his imagination. \"The courtship of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, the least 'Indian' of any of the events in \"Hiawatha\", has come for many readers to stand as the typical American Indian tale.\" Also, \"in exercising the function of selecting incidents to make", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "3856590", "text": "and their second daughter Maria died in 1894 during childbirth, leaving behind Richard and their daughter Hesper. After Muriel's death he carried with him at all times, including while married to his second wife, an urn containing Muriel's ashes. Rupert Brooke, who met Le Gallienne in 1913 onboard a ship bound for the United States but did not warm to him, wrote a short poem \"For Mildred's Urn\" satirising this behaviour. In 1897 he married the Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard. She became stepmother to Hesper and their daughter Eva was born 11 January 1899. In 1901 and 1902, he was", "title": "Richard Le Gallienne" }, { "id": "3648335", "text": "crappie, bluegill, bowfin, largemouth bass, carp, golden shiner, hybrid sunfish, pumpkinseed, tiger muskellunge, walleye, white sucker, yellow bullhead, and yellow perch. Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's walleye and white sucker due to mercury contamination. Lake Nokomis Lake Nokomis is one of several lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The lake was previously named Lake Amelia in honor of Captain George Gooding's daughter, Amelia, in 1819. Its current name was adopted in 1910 to honor Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha (legendary Indian hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, \"The Song of Hiawatha\"). It is located in the southern", "title": "Lake Nokomis" }, { "id": "2588665", "text": "south shore of Lake Superior for a figure of their folklore, a trickster-transformer. But in his journal entry for June 28, 1854, he wrote, \"Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'—that being another name for the same personage.\" Longfellow, following Schoolcraft, was mistaken in thinking the names were synonyms. In Ojibwe lore the figure of Manabozho is legendary but the name Hiawatha is unknown. The name Hiawatha derives from the name of a historical figure associated with the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations, then located in present-day New York and Pennsylvania. The popularity", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "9865489", "text": "Minnehaha Falls was purchased as a park in 1889. The park was named after a character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, \"The Song of Hiawatha\". In 1906, Theodore Wirth came to Minneapolis as the parks superintendent. During his tenure, the park system increased from 1810 acres (7.3 km²) in 57 properties to 5421 acres (21.9 km²) in 144 properties. The park system, organized around the Minneapolis chain of lakes (including Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet, Lake Hiawatha, and Lake Nokomis) became a model for park planners around the world. He also encouraged active recreation", "title": "History of Minneapolis" }, { "id": "10013882", "text": "Nathan Appleton Residence The Nathan Appleton Residence, also known as the Appleton-Parker House, is a historic house located at 39–40 Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its association with revolutionary textile manufacturer Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), and as the site in 1843 of the wedding of his daughter Frances and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The house is an excellent early 19th century design of Alexander Parris. This pair of brick townhouses rise three stories, and are joined by a common firewall. When built in 1821, they were essentially mirror", "title": "Nathan Appleton Residence" }, { "id": "17129537", "text": "name. The hero of the novel, Arthur Walsingham, is a romantic poet and scholar in love with Viola, a woman married to his best friend. Viola and her husband die, leaving their daughter, also named Viola, in Walsingham's care. Much of the novel is dedicated to the younger Viola's upper class education, apparently intended to be an example for other women. When Viola is grown, she and Walsingham marry. The novel also extolls the virtues of the Susquehanna River and life in the vicinity of Lake Erie. Portraits of Campbell by Thomas Sully and John Henry Brown are owned by", "title": "Juliet H. Lewis Campbell" }, { "id": "6021877", "text": "member. There is a tradition that when Dickens visited Boston, a line of New England portraitists was already fawning on shore, hoping to be the first to capture the great novelist's image on canvas. But Francis Alexander reached the writer well ahead of his peers—by traveling in a small advance boat to greet Dickens as his vessel entered the harbor. American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (whom Alexander also painted) would later coin the verb \"Alexandered\" (as in, wangled), sniffing that such and such a person had \"Alexandered\" his way into a highly coveted invitation to a party. Alexander married Lucia", "title": "Francis Alexander" }, { "id": "15401089", "text": "Robert Stoepel Robert Auguste Stoepel (1821 – October 1, 1887) was a German-born American composer and conductor. His compositions include \"Hiawatha\", a symphony for orchestra and vocal soloists, as well as incidental music for plays, piano works, songs, and several operas. Born in Berlin, Stoepel worked in Paris and London, but spent a large portion of his career in New York City where he died at the age of 66. From 1857 until their divorce in 1869, he was married to the actress Matilda Heron. Their daughter Bijou Heron was also an actress. He was born Auguste Stöpel in Berlin,", "title": "Robert Stoepel" }, { "id": "15889921", "text": "civil war. Another great inspiration of hers was the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his poem, \"The Song of Hiawatha\", and she sculpted a bust in his honor due to her admiration. As described by Anne Whitney, \"Mr L. sat to her & they think it is now quite a creditable performance, better I think than many likenesses of him.\" Another well-known sculpture of hers, \"Forever Free\", stands in white marble. Inspired by the Emancipation Proclamation, it depicts a man with his hand raised with a broken chain and shackle. Beside the man is a woman on her knees", "title": "Native American women in the arts" }, { "id": "19283910", "text": "bear his name: the mother identified him as a \"Charles Clairmont\", adopting the name Clairmont for herself and both her children, to disguise their illegitimacy. A few years later, she married the writer and philosopher William Godwin, so Lethbridge's daughter grew up in a literary household with a blended family, including Godwin's stepdaughter (Fanny Imlay) and daughter by his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft. When the younger of these, Mary, eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claire Clairmont accompanied them on their flight to Europe. Through Shelley, she formed an attachment to Lord Byron, and bore him a daughter. Thus", "title": "Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet" }, { "id": "2725598", "text": "together, and their cultured, wealthy family was well known in the area. Jane was also known as \"Bamewawagezhikaquay\" (Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky). Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and culture, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem \"The Song of Hiawatha\". Jane and Henry had four children together: The Schoolcrafts sent Janee and John to a boarding school in Detroit for part of their education. Janee at 11 could handle the transition, but John at nine had a more difficult time and missed his parents.", "title": "Henry Schoolcraft" }, { "id": "14249378", "text": "and 1856, Mary Webb toured the northeastern United States, including a performance of \"Uncle Tom\" attended by Longfellow, who wrote, \"A striking scene, this Cleopatra with a white wreath in her dark hair, and a sweet, musical voice, reading to a great, unimpassioned, immovable Boston audience.\" Stowe then helped to arrange a transatlantic tour for the Webbs, and provided a letter of introduction which included her own praise and a postscript that Longfellow had been \"much pleased with Mrs. Webb's reading of his new poem \"Hiawatha\"\". The Webbs traveled to England in 1856, where Mary's dramatic readings garnered further acclaim.", "title": "Frank J. Webb" }, { "id": "12118155", "text": "a crown of laurel for Skelton himself, portrays Margery as a shy, kind girl, and compares her to primrose and columbine. The other nine women from the poem are: Elizabeth Howard, Muriel Howard, Lady Anne Dacre of the South, Margaret Tynley, Jane Blenner-Haiset, Isabel Pennell, Margaret Hussey, Gertrude Statham, and Isabel Knyght. On October 22, 1494, Margery married Sir John Seymour (1476 – 21 December 1536) of Wulfhall, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. On the same day, her father Henry remarried Lady Elizabeth Scrope. Margery and her husband had ten children together: It is presumed that Margery and John had a good", "title": "Margery Wentworth" }, { "id": "836508", "text": "her. The Song of Songs bears strong similarities to the Sumerian love poems involving Inanna and Dumuzid, particularly in its usage of natural symbolism to represent the lovers' physicality. (\"Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?\") is almost certainly a reference to Inanna-Ishtar. mentions Inanna's husband Dumuzid under his later East Semitic name Tammuz and describes a group of women mourning Tammuz's death while sitting near the north gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. The cult of Inanna-Ishtar also heavily influenced the cult", "title": "Inanna" }, { "id": "756523", "text": "the poems were \"so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast\". A critic for \"The Dial\" agreed, calling it \"the thinnest of all Mr. Longfellow's thin books; spirited and polished like its forerunners; but the topic would warrant a deeper tone\". The New England Anti-Slavery Association, however, was satisfied enough with the collection to reprint it for further distribution. On May 10, 1843, after seven years, Longfellow received a letter from Fanny Appleton agreeing to marry him. He was too restless to take a carriage and walked 90 minutes to meet her at", "title": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" }, { "id": "2322180", "text": "in the name of the Lord, that you — Orrin Porter Rockwell — so long as ye shall remain loyal and true to thy faith, need fear no enemy. Cut not thy hair and no bullet or blade can harm thee. The promise echoes that given by an angel to the parents of the Biblical Samson. Rockwell did at one time cut his hair. Upon hearing of a widow who was balding from typhoid fever, he gave up his famous long hair to make the woman a wig. The recipient of the hair was Agnes Coolbrith Smith Pickett, widow of", "title": "Porter Rockwell" }, { "id": "11918602", "text": "Dora Wordsworth Dorothy \"Dora\" Wordsworth (16 August 1804 – 9 July 1847) was the only surviving daughter of William Wordsworth (1770–1850). Her infancy inspired Wordsworth to write \"Address to My Infant Daughter\" in her honour. As an adult, she is further immortalised by him in the 1828 poem \"The Triad\", along with Edith Southey and Sara Coleridge, daughters of her father's fellow Lake Poets. In 1843, at the age of 39, Dora Wordsworth married Edward Quillinan against her father's wishes. Throughout her life, she formed intense romantic attachments to both genders, the most significant being her friendship with Maria Jane", "title": "Dora Wordsworth" }, { "id": "20704251", "text": "Anna Chamber Anne Chamber (also known as Anna Grenville-Temple, Countess Temple) (died 7 April 1777) was a British noblewoman and poet. Chamber and her elder sister Mary were co-heirs to their late parents' estate. On 7 May 1737, Chamber married Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple. In 1742, their only child, Elizabeth, died at age four. The couple reportedly had a large income. Anne's dowry was reportedly £50,000 and Richard was erroneously referred to as the richest man in England. Chamber is known for her poetry, which she took up as an adult. Horace Walpole's company published 100 of her poems", "title": "Anna Chamber" }, { "id": "9961884", "text": "title and estates, and Thomas, born in 1797. She died following the birth of Thomas, aged only 23. Sarah became known as the Cottage Countess, and never seemed to have adapted to her role as the mistress of a great household. The episode is recounted in Tennyson's poem \"The Lord of Burleigh\" (1835, published 1842), and was investigated by Elisabeth Inglis-Jones in her book \"The Lord of Burghley\" and by Andrew Harris for his book \"The Vernons of Hanbury Hall\". In 1800 Exeter took as his third wife Elizabeth Anne Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell and former wife of Douglas", "title": "Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter" }, { "id": "12189486", "text": "make the best of things\". The next day, he wrote \"A Psalm of Life\". Longfellow was further inspired by the death of his first wife, Mary Storer Potter, and attempted to convince himself to have \"a heart for any fate\". The poem was first published in the October 1838 issue of \"The Knickerbocker\", though it was attributed only to \"L.\" Longfellow was promised five dollars for its publication, though he never received payment. This original publication also included a slightly altered quote from Richard Crashaw as an epigram: \"Life that shall send / A challenge to its end, / And", "title": "A Psalm of Life" }, { "id": "2588706", "text": "from the poem. The most famous was the 1937 Silly Symphony \"Little Hiawatha,\" whose hero is a small boy whose pants keep falling down. The 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon \"Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt\" features Bugs Bunny and a pint-sized version of Hiawatha in quest of rabbit stew. The 1944 MGM cartoon \"Big Heel-watha,\" directed by Tex Avery, follows the overweight title character's effort to win the hand of the chief's daughter by catching Screwy Squirrel. The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "3289768", "text": "begins \"Fair ship, that from the Italian shore | Saileth the placid ocean-plains\" and imagines the return of Hallam's body from Italy. Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the poem ends with a description of the marriage of Tennyson's sister. \"In Memoriam\" is written in four-line ABBA stanzas of iambic tetrameter, and such stanzas are now called In Memoriam Stanzas. Though not metrically unusual, given", "title": "In Memoriam A.H.H." }, { "id": "5352367", "text": "Tan Swie Hian completed a painting of Kwa and Lee Kuan Yew entitled \"A Couple\". The painting, which took Tan five years to complete, was partially damaged by a fire in 2013. It depicts Kwa and Lee in their youth, is based on a 1946 black-and-white photograph of the couple in the University of Cambridge, and incorporates in its background Tan's poem written in memory of Kwa. Tan said, \"I have always felt [Madam Kwa] was a great woman who, despite her intelligence and capability, was also a humble and dedicated wife.\" \"A Couple\" was donated to the National Library", "title": "Kwa Geok Choo" }, { "id": "12405870", "text": "was that Hiawatha, In his wisdom taught the people All the mysteries of painting, All the art of Picture-Writing, On the smooth bark of the birch-tree, On the white skin of the reindeer, On the grave-posts of the village…\"\" (WRS) \"Hiawatha traveled far to the west, to the land of the Dacotahs, to woo Minnehaha, the daughter of the Arrow Maker. Just before reaching the Arrow Maker’s wigwam, he stopped to shoot a deer to bring as a present.\" To his arrow whispered, \"Swerve not!\" Sent it singing on its errand, To the red heart of the roebuck; Threw the", "title": "William Russell Sweet" }, { "id": "2470496", "text": "Grace Coolidge Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (January 3, 1879 – July 8, 1957) was the wife of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and the Second Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 with a bachelor of arts degree in teaching and joined the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech in Northampton, Massachusetts to teach deaf children to communicate by lip reading, rather than by signing. She met Calvin Coolidge in 1904, and", "title": "Grace Coolidge" }, { "id": "2588697", "text": "\"The arrow-maker and his daughter\", later called \"The Wooing of Hiawatha\", was modelled in 1866 and carved in 1872. By that time she had achieved success with individual heads of Hiawatha and Minnehaha. Carved in Rome, these are now held by the Newark Museum in New Jersey. In 1872 Lewis carved \"The Marriage of Hiawatha\" in marble, a work purchased in 2010 by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Other 19th-century sculptors inspired by the epic were Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose marble statue of the seated Hiawatha (1874) is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Jacob Fjelde, who created a", "title": "The Song of Hiawatha" }, { "id": "3467716", "text": "In recognition of this fact, for example, preeminent Old English scholar Michael Alexander has chosen the title \"\"Wulf\"\" for his own reproduction of it in \"The Earliest English Poems\" (Penguin, 1973). It has also been known to be titled simply as \"Eadwacer\". The title \"Wulf and Eadwacer\", however, though apocryphal, has gained such widespread acceptance over time that in the majority of texts it is accepted regardless of the treatment of the titular name(s) and character(s). The speaker of the poem is evidently separated from her lover and/or husband, Wulf, both symbolically and materially (\"Ƿulf is on iege, | ic", "title": "Wulf and Eadwacer" } ]

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[ { "id": "18191877", "text": "the James Bond movies \"Never Say Never Again\" and \"Thunderball\". Members of the American Beat Movement Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, and Herbert Huncke were all Merchant Mariners. It is perhaps not surprising that the writers of \"Moby Dick\", \"The American Practical Navigator\", and \"Two Years Before the Mast\" were Merchant Mariners. It might be surprising that the writers of \"Borat\", \"A Hard Day's Night\", and \"Cool Hand Luke\" were. A number of U.S. Merchant Mariners from World War II later played well known television characters. The list includes Milburn Drysdale on \"The Beverly Hillbillies\", Archie Bunker on \"All", "title": "Sailor" }, { "id": "17653952", "text": "Salinger (book) Salinger is a \"New York Times\" best-selling biography by David Shields and Shane Salerno published by Simon & Schuster in September 2013. The book is an oral biographical portrait of reclusive American author J. D. Salinger. It explores Salinger’s life, with emphasis on his military service in World War II, his post-traumatic stress disorder, his subsequent writing career, his retreat from fame, his religious beliefs and his relationships with teenage girls. \"Salinger\" debuted at #6 on the \"New York Times\" bestsellers list and stayed on the list for three weeks. It was #1 on the \"Los Angeles Times\"", "title": "Salinger (book)" }, { "id": "17653964", "text": "is 3.6 out of 5 stars, indicating positive reviews. Salinger (book) Salinger is a \"New York Times\" best-selling biography by David Shields and Shane Salerno published by Simon & Schuster in September 2013. The book is an oral biographical portrait of reclusive American author J. D. Salinger. It explores Salinger’s life, with emphasis on his military service in World War II, his post-traumatic stress disorder, his subsequent writing career, his retreat from fame, his religious beliefs and his relationships with teenage girls. \"Salinger\" debuted at #6 on the \"New York Times\" bestsellers list and stayed on the list for three", "title": "Salinger (book)" }, { "id": "10656471", "text": "Hollywood scriptwriter and his relationship with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. Amazon Prime's 2015 television series \"\" recounts Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda, as well as his writing career. It stars David Hoflin as Fitzgerald and Christina Ricci as Zelda. F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the \"Lost", "title": "F. Scott Fitzgerald" }, { "id": "722433", "text": "The cultural critic Harold Bloom has written that Gore Vidal believed that his sexuality had denied him full recognition from the literary community in the United States but Bloom contends that such limited recognition owed more to Vidal writing in the unfashionable, plot-orientated genre of historical fiction, than with whom Vidal shared a pillow. In 2009, the Man of Letters Gore Vidal was named honorary president of the American Humanist Association. The literary career of Gore Vidal began with the success of the military novel \"Williwaw\", a men-at-war story derived from his Alaskan Harbor Detachment duty during the Second World", "title": "Gore Vidal" }, { "id": "13751260", "text": "Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 1965 documentary about Leonard Cohen, co-directed by Don Owen and Donald Brittain, and written by Brittain. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Genie Award in the TV-Information category. The documentary captures Cohen's career as a noted poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. The original idea for the film had involved documenting a tour of Canadian poets, including Irving Layton and Earle Birney; however, that idea was abandoned when the filmmakers", "title": "Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen" }, { "id": "18000168", "text": "phase of the war was spent with the American Pacific Fleet in the last battles against Japan. Despite his work as a correspondent he still found time to write \"The Sun Shall Greet Them,\" (1941), \"Tunnel from Calais\" (1943), and \"Road to Tunis,\" (1944). After the war, he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his service during the conflict. Working for the \"Sunday Times\" foreign news service under former naval intelligence officer (and later creator of James Bond), Ian Fleming, Divine travelled widely. He claimed to be the only journalist to charge expenses for an", "title": "David Divine" }, { "id": "3633710", "text": "Higgins (Cliff Robertson) asked Mr. Wabash, \"You served with Col. Donovan in the OSS, didn't you, sir?\" Wabash (John Houseman) replies, \"I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm. It doesn't seem like much of a war now, but it was.\" In 2011 the American singer-songwriter Tom Russell released the song \"Sterling Hayden\" on his album \"Mesabi\". Hayden, under his nom de guerre Lieutenant John Hamilton, and his role as an OSS agent play a secondary part in the 2012 novel \"Death's Door: A Billy Boyle World War II mystery\" by author James R. Benn. Hayden/Hamilton assists", "title": "Sterling Hayden" }, { "id": "9561492", "text": "In three years of service during the Second World War he saw action in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea and survived the mining of a landing craft. He called himself 'Bill' in the navy because his shipmates kept ridiculing the name Conrad. His name wasn't changed to 'Phillips' until he started acting. His father had been using the name 'Conrad Phillips' as a pen name for his thriller writing, and suggested that his son use this as his stage name. In his autobiography, Conrad said that he regretted making that decision. He studied at RADA, and", "title": "Conrad Phillips" }, { "id": "6721263", "text": "James B. Allardice James B. Allardice (March 20, 1919, Canton, Ohio — February 15, 1966) was an American television comedy writer of the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II he served in the US Army where he wrote the play \"At War with the Army\". Following the war, Allardice attended Yale University where his play was later on Broadway in 1949 and filmed in the same year with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Allardice is best known for his collaborations with writing partner Tom Adair on a number of American 1960s TV sitcoms including \"The Munsters\", \"F Troop\", \"My", "title": "James B. Allardice" }, { "id": "17822554", "text": "Ben Starr Benjamin Starr (October 18, 1921 – January 19, 2014) was an American television producer, creator, writer and playwright. Born in Manhattan, New York, to Russian immigrants, Starr grew up in Brooklyn and worked in his parents' doughnut factory. He attended City College, later graduated from UCLA, and served in World War II. He became a second lieutenant navigator stationed in England and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the military, he began writing comedy for radio stars, such as Al Jolson, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and George Burns. He started his television writing career for the live program", "title": "Ben Starr" }, { "id": "19014490", "text": "Rebel in the Rye Rebel in the Rye is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed and written by Danny Strong. It is based on the book \"J. D. Salinger: A Life\" by Kenneth Slawenski, about the life of writer J. D. Salinger during and after World War II. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, Brian d'Arcy James, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, and Lucy Boynton. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2017, and was released by IFC Films on September 8, 2017. The life of author J.", "title": "Rebel in the Rye" }, { "id": "10656430", "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the \"Lost Generation\" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: \"This Side of Paradise\", \"The Beautiful and Damned\", \"The Great Gatsby\", and \"Tender Is", "title": "F. Scott Fitzgerald" }, { "id": "4683834", "text": "Steven Pressfield Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943, while his father was stationed there, in the Navy. He graduated from Duke University in 1965 and in 1966 joined the Marine Corps. In the years following, he worked as an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a mental hospital, fruit-picker in Washington state, and screenwriter. His struggles to make a living as an author, including the period when he was homeless and living out of the back of", "title": "Steven Pressfield" }, { "id": "2088621", "text": "the work of writers such as Masefield in having a more practical, rather than romantic, tone. Bullen, an Englishman, was an experienced shantyman, who sailed during the heyday of shanties to ports in the Southern U.S. and the Caribbean. He took a firm stance that only true work songs should be included in his collection, thus resisting the temptation to let shanties slide into the genres of ballads or other off-duty songs. (Pressure of his publisher forced him to include two sea songs, clearly demarcated, at the end of the book.) And rather than shape the shanties to appear as", "title": "Sea shanty" }, { "id": "13751261", "text": "decided the other poets would not serve as charismatic film subjects. Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 1965 documentary about Leonard Cohen, co-directed by Don Owen and Donald Brittain, and written by Brittain. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Genie Award in the TV-Information category. The documentary captures Cohen's career as a noted poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. The original idea for the film had involved documenting a tour of Canadian poets, including Irving Layton", "title": "Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen" }, { "id": "4675476", "text": "biographical details regarding Wallace-Johnson's activities during this time period are hard to discern, as Wallace-Johnson contradicted himself in his autobiographical notes and his personal reminisces. He took a job as either a sailor on an American ocean liner sailing between the United States and Africa or as an engine hand for Elder Dempster Lines; in an interview, he stated the former, while in a lecture at the Easter School he claimed the latter. He normally travelled to English-speaking areas, but on occasion, he journeyed to French, Spanish and Portuguese territories on the African continent. He joined the United Kingdom National", "title": "I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson" }, { "id": "4281118", "text": "events, and the subsequent film that was produced based upon his work. Late in his life he was given the Dutch American Heritage Award. He did not see himself as unusual, and when honored was ever mindful of the friends that he had lost. In an interview in July with De Telegraaf, Mr. Hazelhoff Roelfzema said he had received too much recognition for his wartime exploits. \"I became a war hero because I stuck out, because I wrote about my experiences.\" He went on to offer: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (3 April 1917 – 26 September 2007)", "title": "Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema" }, { "id": "7904658", "text": "George Olesen George Olesen (December 6, 1924 – October 15, 2013) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work as a penciller on popular comic strip \"The Phantom\". He worked with the character for around forty years, although he did not get any official credit for it until penciller Sy Barry retired and Keith Williams took over as the new inker. Olesen also illustrated a few Phantom stories for the Scandinavian Phantom comics, which he both pencilled and inked. During World War II Olesen served as a B-24 pilot in the Burma campaign. After the war he", "title": "George Olesen" }, { "id": "16111629", "text": "wife. Kronick resides in Los Angeles. Directing Credits Writing Credits Producing Credits William Kronick William Kronick is an American film and television writer, director and producer. He worked in the film industry from 1960 to 2000, when he segued into writing novels. Born to European emigrants, William Kronick After graduation William Kronick was drafted into the U.S. Navy where he became a Photographer’s Mate. During a North Atlantic exercise in Stockholm, Sweden Kronick met Alf Sjoberg who arranged for Kronick, once out of the Navy, to apprentice with Ingmar Bergman on his next film \"The Magician\". Upon returning to New", "title": "William Kronick" }, { "id": "1402699", "text": "created after each tour from footage shot on location. However, the footage and shows were owned by Hope's own production company, which made them very lucrative ventures for him, as outlined by writer Richard Zoglin in his 2014 biography \"Hope: Entertainer of the Century.\" Hope sometimes recruited his own family members for USO travel. His wife, Dolores, sang from atop an armored vehicle during the Desert Storm tour, and granddaughter Miranda appeared alongside him on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean. Of Hope's USO shows in World War II, novelist John Steinbeck, who then was working as a war", "title": "Bob Hope" }, { "id": "12356912", "text": "Oona began seeing Charlie Chaplin, whom she eventually married. In late 1941, Salinger briefly worked on a Caribbean cruise ship, serving as an activity director and possibly as a performer. The same year, Salinger began submitting short stories to \"The New Yorker\". Seven of Salinger's stories were rejected by the magazine that year, including \"Lunch for Three\", \"Monologue for a Watery Highball\", and \"I Went to School with Adolf Hitler\". In December 1941, however, the publication accepted \"Slight Rebellion off Madison\", a Manhattan-set story about a disaffected teenager named Holden Caulfield with \"pre-war jitters\". When Japan carried out the attack", "title": "J. D. Salinger" }, { "id": "2146595", "text": "and fishing—made Cliveden a destination for film stars, politicians, world-leaders, writers and artists. The heyday of entertaining at Cliveden was between the two World Wars when the Astors held regular weekend house parties. Guests at the time included: Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Joseph Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Amy Johnson, F.D. Roosevelt, H.H. Asquith, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), A.J. Balfour and the writers Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Edith Wharton. The tradition of high-profile guests visiting the house continues to this day, largely due to the house's conversion into a hotel. Also at this time the entertainer Joyce", "title": "Cliveden" }, { "id": "5632890", "text": "Charles Muñoz Charles Carroll Muñoz (July 2, 1926 – February 22, 2018) was an American poet, fiction writer and publisher. He wrote as Charles Muñoz and under the pseudonyms T. P. Caravan and TP Caravan. Muñoz served as a WWII navy aerial gunner in Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. After the war he worked as a United States Merchant Marine radio officer, sailing on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships, and later for several years on munitions ships bound for duty in the wars in Korea and Vietnam. He came ashore for good and married the former Bernardine Martin. For a", "title": "Charles Muñoz" }, { "id": "19972181", "text": "she was briefly married in 1966. Saunders discovered her fiance, actor Albert Dekker dead in his Hollywood home in 1968. The death was ruled to be accidental. Jeraldine Saunders Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923) is an American writer and lecturer, best known as the creator of \"The Love Boat\", an ABC Television series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers. The program was based on her 1974 book, \"Love Boats\", her anecdotal account of her time employed as the first full time female cruise director. Saunders is currently", "title": "Jeraldine Saunders" }, { "id": "16417004", "text": "Dušan Velkaverh Dušan Velkaverh (12 September 1943 – 1 February 2016) was a Slovenian lyricist. Dušan Velkaverh was born on 12 September 1943 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) to a Slovene sailor and to an English nurse. In 1942, during World War II, his father joined the crew of an alliance ship, torpedoed off the coast of South America. He met his wife, a daughter of a colonial clerk, in the hospital where he was recovering. Velkaverh was born a year later. Soon after his birth, the family moved to New York City, where they stayed for a short", "title": "Dušan Velkaverh" }, { "id": "7238519", "text": "friendship with Jack Hargreaves, who, as an enthusiastic populariser of \"messing about in boats\", filmed \"Young Tiger\" - W22 68 - departing the Solent for America. Rayner's letter, dated 14 December 1965, awaiting her young skipper, Hargreaves' stepson, at a poste restante in Bridgetown Barbados, read \"Welcome to the Caribbean and well done! I think this is a justified remark because if you do not get this letter you won't have done so well! I am so glad you have Susanna with you. I shall of course calm down anyone who gets jumpy because I have complete confidence in you", "title": "Denys Rayner" }, { "id": "19227550", "text": "Panama, Jack Rose, Sherwood Schwartz, and Schwartz's brother Al. His writing eventually grew to fifteen and some of the newcomers to the show included Milt Josefsberg, Larry Gelbart and Hal Block. The program saw its highest ratings during World War II. According to Crossley, \"Pepsodent\" was the no. 1 rated program on the air for two consecutive years (1942–43; 1943–44) receiving a Hooperating of 40.9 in 1942. As the war ensued, Hope tried to enlist in the service. However, he was told he could better serve as an entertainer. With that, Hope joined the United Service Organizations (USO). With his", "title": "The Pepsodent Show" }, { "id": "19014491", "text": "D. Salinger from his youth to the World War II era, including his romantic life and the publication of his debut novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\". On April 29, 2014, it was announced that screenwriter-actor Danny Strong would make his directorial debut with biographical film \"Salinger's War\", based on the non-fiction book \"J. D. Salinger: A Life\" by Kenneth Slawenski, about the life of young author J. D. Salinger during the early 1940s. Strong bought the book with his own money and adapted the film's script, which Black Label Media would finance, while Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, and Thad", "title": "Rebel in the Rye" }, { "id": "15919972", "text": "the position he had deservedly won\". Masefield characterised Scott as \"dogmatic, aloof and ill, reluctant to delegate to the Captains of the ships\". Nevil Shute Norway, better known as the novelist Nevil Shute, was chief calculator (and later deputy chief engineer) under Barnes Wallis on the design of the R100 and a passenger on that ship's transatlantic flight. In his 1954 autobiography, , Shute criticised Scott for his decision to pass through, rather than avoid, a thunderstorm on the outbound leg of that flight; according to Shute, \"even with the lesser knowledge of those days, Scott should have known better\".", "title": "George Herbert Scott" }, { "id": "11813280", "text": "Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac in America: A Journey With Isaac Bashevis Singer is a 1986 documentary made by director Amram Nowak and producer Kirk Simon. The documentary \"Isaac in America: A Journey With Isaac Bashevis Singer\" presents a unique and close characterization of the celebrated writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was filmed only a few years before he died, and depicts the author looking back on his professional and life experiences. Singer is best known for his Yiddish stories, which have a universal appeal. He went on to win a Nobel Prize in literature.", "title": "Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer" }, { "id": "11156840", "text": "Scott Meredith Scott Meredith, born Arthur Scott Feldman (1923, New York City, NY – 1993, Manhasset, NY) was a prominent American literary agent, and founder of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. His clients included famous and successful writers such as Richard S. Prather, Morris West, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, P.G. Wodehouse and Philip K. Dick. He wrote some short fiction himself as a young man. In 1946 he founded the Scott Meredith Literary Agency with his brother Sydney Meredith. Their first client was P.G. Wodehouse. During his career, he innovated many of the basic practices of his", "title": "Scott Meredith" }, { "id": "12027085", "text": "Arthur Stratton Arthur Mills Perce Stratton (1911 – 3 September 1975) was an American author and traveller. He was a playwright, a novelist, an OSS agent, a teacher in Turkey, and an assistant college professor in the US, before working for the CIA for about ten years and becoming a travel writer and biographer. While serving with the American Field Service as a World War II ambulance driver, he was twice awarded the Croix de guerre for bravery under fire, the first time on the Western Front, the second in North Africa. Stratton was born in Brunswick, Maine, the son", "title": "Arthur Stratton" }, { "id": "4800242", "text": "Carl Sigman Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) was an American songwriter. Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his bar exams to practice in the state of New York. Instead of law, encouraged by his friend Johnny Mercer, he embarked on a songwriting career, that saw him become one of the most prominent and successful songwriters in American music history. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his efforts in Africa, during World War II. Although Sigman wrote many song melodies, he was primarily a lyricist who collaborated with", "title": "Carl Sigman" }, { "id": "2751569", "text": "Richard Hooker (author) Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work was his novel \"\" (1968), based on his harrowing drama and comedic experiences as a wartime army surgeon doctor during the Korean War (1950–1953) and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for an award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie – M*A*S*H (1970) and two years later in an acclaimed long running television series (1972–1983) of the same name. Born in Trenton, New Jersey,", "title": "Richard Hooker (author)" }, { "id": "10098993", "text": "in the movie \"Edward Scissorhands\", starring Johnny Depp. His early song \"He's So Unusual\" was covered by Cyndi Lauper on her breakout album, the similarly titled \"She's So Unusual.\" Silver died on November 24, 1966, in New York. Abner Silver Abner Silberman (28 December, 1899, New York City, New York, United States - 24 November, 1966) as pen name Abner Silver, was an American songwriter who worked primarily during the Tin Pan Alley era of the craft. Usually composing the music while others handled the lyrics, Silver wrote for half a century, starting with World War I–era songs such as", "title": "Abner Silver" }, { "id": "11946455", "text": "last entry dated July 21, 1968. Novelist T. R. Pearson wrote the book \"Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting\" (2006), summarizing Willis's adventures. Willis's adventure on Devil's Island was featured in the Season 4 premiere of \"Drunk History\" on Comedy Central\".\" William Willis (sailor) William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans. Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg to sail around Cape Horn. A few days after New Years, 1938 (Page 5, \"Damned", "title": "William Willis (sailor)" }, { "id": "71204", "text": "C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott \"C. S.\" Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Two of the Hornblower books, \"A Ship of the Line\" and \"Flying Colours\", were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include \"The African Queen\" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). Forester was born in Cairo and, after a family", "title": "C. S. Forester" }, { "id": "7350891", "text": "of the Hollywood blacklist. Chase suffered a stroke on 12 December 1970. He died in March 1971. The Borden Chase cocktail is named after him. Borden Chase Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer. Born Frank Fowler, he left school at fourteen went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York City's Holland Tunnel, where he worked with Norman Redwood. He turned to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. He changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly", "title": "Borden Chase" }, { "id": "10230700", "text": "Thomas R. St. George Thomas R. St. George (November 23, 1919 – July 29, 2014) was an American author, World War II veteran, reporter, editor, columnist and screenwriter. He was born in Simpson, Minnesota. His best known work is \"C/O Postmaster\", a semi-autobiographical description of his experiences in Australia as a U.S. soldier in 1942. This book was a best seller and Time Book of the Month Club selection in 1943. St. George published a sequel to \"Postmaster\" in 1945, titled \"Proceed Without Delay\", which chronicled his further adventures in the Pacific Theater during World War II, as a writer", "title": "Thomas R. St. George" }, { "id": "14398740", "text": "Richard Jessup Richard Jessup (January 2, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia - October 22, 1982 in Nokomis, Florida) was an American author and screenwriter. He also wrote under the name of Richard Telfair. Mr. Jessup spent his early years in and out of a local orphanage before running away to sea as a merchant seaman. In an interview in 1970, he said that he had read himself around the world, ferreting out English-language bookshops at each port of call and reading a book a day while at sea. During this time, he copied \"War and Peace\" on a typewriter while afloat,", "title": "Richard Jessup" }, { "id": "12088210", "text": "on Pearl Harbor and was commissioned a lieutenant in August 1942. For the duration of the war he served on supply vessels in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the latter as assistant communications officer on the cargo ship \"USS Virgo\" and also the \"USS Rotanin\". During his 14 months aboard the \"Virgo\", Heggen wrote a collection of vignettes about daily life on the ship, which he described as sailing \"from Tedium to Apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to Monotony\". Like his fictional alter ego Doug Roberts, he felt \"left out\" of the war", "title": "Thomas Heggen" }, { "id": "7139836", "text": "1965, Childress was featured in the BBC presentation \"The Negro in the American Theatre\". From 1966 to 1968, she was a scholar-in-residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. In conjunction with her composer husband, Nathan Woodard, she wrote a number of musical plays, including \"Young Martin Luther King\" (originally entitled \"The Freedom Drum\") in 1968 and \"Sea Island Song\" (1977). Alice Childress is also known for her young adult novels, among which are \"Those Other People\" (1989) and \"A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich\" (1973). She adapted the latter as a screenplay for the 1978 feature", "title": "Alice Childress" }, { "id": "9978777", "text": "NBC in September 1954. Saidy is the father of the international chess master Anthony Saidy. Fred Saidy Fred Saidy (February 11, 1907 - May 14, 1982) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles, California, Saidy began his writing career in 1943 with the screenplay for the Red Skelton comedy \"I Dood It\". The following year, he scripted both the Lucille Ball-Dick Powell feature film \"Meet the People\" and the book for the Harold Arlen-E. Y. Harburg musical \"Bloomer Girl\". It was the first of several collaborations with Harburg, which included \"Finian's Rainbow\" (1947), \"Flahooley\" (1951), \"Jamaica\" (1957),", "title": "Fred Saidy" }, { "id": "10324077", "text": "passenger ship to transport explosives? Had Winston Churchill sacrificed the ship to draw the United States into a war she had been reluctant to join? Now, nearly a century later, the facts are separated from the fiction as Spencer and his researchers sort through the details on a painstaking quest to finally raise the truth up from the depths. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide. \"Remember the Lusitania! Avenge the Lusitania!\" These are the words that inspired many young US citizens to volunteer for service during the First World War. The sinking of this great British oceangoing liner provoked outrage around", "title": "Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea" }, { "id": "12356902", "text": "J. D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger (; January 1, 1919 January 27, 2010) was an American writer known for his widely read novel, \"The Catcher in the Rye\". Following his early success publishing short stories and \"The Catcher in the Rye\", Salinger led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in \"Story\" magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II. In", "title": "J. D. Salinger" }, { "id": "658546", "text": "Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to", "title": "Roald Dahl" }, { "id": "10178998", "text": "constitute volumes in four-book series, all written in the tradition of the Horatio Alger stories—hard work and honesty will lead to success. Beach's novels, which were highly popular when they were first printed in the years of 1907 to 1922, were instrumental in planting the seeds for naval careers in the minds of many of the men who served as naval officers during World War II. His autobiography, \"From Annapolis to Scapa Flow: the Autobiography of Edward L. Beach Sr.\" was published in 2003, having been edited by his son Edward L. Beach Jr., who was also a career naval", "title": "Edward L. Beach Sr." }, { "id": "14398741", "text": "corrected all the errors, then threw the work over the side. In 1948, he left the sea behind and began a career as a full-time writer, averaging 10 hours a day at the typewriter. He designed and built a home in Connecticut, where he lived until moving to Florida a few years ago. Several of his novels drew upon his experiences at sea; one of them, \"Sailor,\" about a youth who signs on as a merchant seaman and sails around the world, was described in The New York Times as a seafaring novel \"written with salt spray and affection.\" Mr.", "title": "Richard Jessup" }, { "id": "891836", "text": "the most popular works of Cole Porter and those of George and Ira Gershwin pre-date World War II, while the works of Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern date to World War I. Classic pop includes the song output of the Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and many others. The swing era made stars of many popular singers", "title": "Traditional pop music" }, { "id": "181355", "text": "weekends a year on the water, with a particular fondness for sailing around Catalina Island. He once said, \"An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.\" He also joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve offering the use of his own yacht, Santana, for Coast Guard use. It was rumored Bogart attempted to enlist but was turned down because of his age. The suspenseful \"Dark Passage\" (1947) was Bogart and Bacall's next pairing. Its first third is shot subjectively, that is from the point-of-view of", "title": "Humphrey Bogart" }, { "id": "12731409", "text": "name of \"Olle i Skratthult\". But little did he suspect that he would soon establish himself as America's foremost Swedish comedian, storyteller and singer. Like our great American actors and entertainers \"Olle i Skratthult\" now offers his songs and stories for sale, and it is to be hoped that this little book will do well since it contains many of the choice pieces with which \"Olle\" has had great success, written by such well-known Swedish humorists as Gustaf Fröding, F.A. Dahlgren and Jödde i Göljaryd. This book has been published to earn a little extra income and to make \"Olle\"", "title": "Hjalmar Peterson" }, { "id": "7746331", "text": "Gandhi, Yasser Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Richard Nixon and others, singers and tenors like Luciano Pavarotti, Yves Montand, Ray Charles, Bob Geldof, Serge Gainsbourg, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, writers like Maxim Gorky, Orson Welles, Rebecca West, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Ivo Andrić and many others. The pictures of the famous visitors are in a hotel hallways. Hotel Moskva has been depicted or referenced in various works of music, film, and literature. Miroslav Krleža's NIN Prize-winning 1962 novel \"Zastave\" features several references to Hotel Moskva. Set in the turbulent 1912–1922 period, it follows the lives and fates of", "title": "Hotel Moskva, Belgrade" }, { "id": "2475891", "text": "and Have Not\" (1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation. After \"The Jazz Singer\" was released in 1927, Warner Bros. gained huge success and were able to acquire their own string of movie theaters, after purchasing Stanley Theaters and First National Productions in 1928. MGM had also owned the", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "id": "9978774", "text": "Fred Saidy Fred Saidy (February 11, 1907 - May 14, 1982) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles, California, Saidy began his writing career in 1943 with the screenplay for the Red Skelton comedy \"I Dood It\". The following year, he scripted both the Lucille Ball-Dick Powell feature film \"Meet the People\" and the book for the Harold Arlen-E. Y. Harburg musical \"Bloomer Girl\". It was the first of several collaborations with Harburg, which included \"Finian's Rainbow\" (1947), \"Flahooley\" (1951), \"Jamaica\" (1957), and \"The Happiest Girl in the World\" (1961). He was nominated for the Tony Award", "title": "Fred Saidy" }, { "id": "16111625", "text": "William Kronick William Kronick is an American film and television writer, director and producer. He worked in the film industry from 1960 to 2000, when he segued into writing novels. Born to European emigrants, William Kronick After graduation William Kronick was drafted into the U.S. Navy where he became a Photographer’s Mate. During a North Atlantic exercise in Stockholm, Sweden Kronick met Alf Sjoberg who arranged for Kronick, once out of the Navy, to apprentice with Ingmar Bergman on his next film \"The Magician\". Upon returning to New York Kronick found a job as Production Assistant with Louis de Rochemont", "title": "William Kronick" }, { "id": "5488314", "text": "characters that might help him improve as an actor and that the \"actors I look up to started doing their best work in their early 30s and I'll be hitting that age ... I'm just trying to learn\". He portrayed American author J. D. Salinger in Danny Strong's \"Rebel in the Rye\", which chronicles Salinger's life from his youth to the World War II era and the years preceding the publication of his debut novel, \"The Catcher in the Rye\". Hoult auditioned for the role because he was intrigued by the film's script and Salinger's enigmatic personality; \"I didn’t know", "title": "Nicholas Hoult" }, { "id": "591588", "text": "his initial cons were committed on ocean liners sailing between the Atlantic ports of France and New York City; amongst the schemes he pulled on rich travellers included one in which he posed as a musical producer who sought investment in a non-existent Broadway production. It was during this time that Miller eventually chose to change his identity to that of \"Count Victor Lustig\", an alias he favoured greatly amongst the many he operated under. When the services of Trans-Atlantic liners were suspended in the wake of World War I, Lustig found himself in search of new territory to make", "title": "Victor Lustig" }, { "id": "10618516", "text": "O'Clock High\", continued his association with Quinn Martin Productions. Richard L. Newhafer Richard L. Newhafer (March 6, 1921—October 12, 1974) was an American novelist, teleplay writer and television director whose experience as a highly decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War played a key role in his books and in his contribution to ABC's 1960s series \"Combat!\" and \"Twelve O'Clock High\". A native of Chicago, Richard Newhafer was a student at Loyola Academy, the University of Notre Dame, and DePaul University. In his early twenties at the start of World War II, he became a Naval Aviator,", "title": "Richard L. Newhafer" }, { "id": "6061900", "text": "Edward Anhalt Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 – September 3, 2000) was a noted screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, one of his five wives, during World War II to write pulp fiction. During World War II, Anhalt served with the Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California as a scenarist for training films. After the war, the Anhalts graduated to writing screenplays for thrillers, initially using the joint pseudonym Andrew Holt. Put under contract by Columbia, the", "title": "Edward Anhalt" }, { "id": "1185660", "text": "Born on the Fourth of July Born on the Fourth of July, published in 1976, is the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, \"The Yankee Doodle Boy\" (also known as \"Yankee Doodle Dandy\"). The book was adapted into a 1989 Academy Award winning film of the same name co-written by Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. \"Born on the Fourth of July\" was written", "title": "Born on the Fourth of July" }, { "id": "16098574", "text": "The Sea Is My Brother The Sea Is My Brother is a novel by the American author Jack Kerouac, published in 2011. The novel was written in 1942 and remained unpublished throughout Kerouac's lifetime due to his dissatisfaction with the novel. The plot and its characters are based on Kerouac's experience in United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Kerouac served on the troop transport from July through October 1942 before returning to Columbia University. The \"Dorchester\" would be torpedoed three months after Kerouac's departure with most of the 600-man crew dying including the Four Chaplains. This service inspired", "title": "The Sea Is My Brother" }, { "id": "10727", "text": "I had to say? I said \"Bless Daddy,\" so what can it be? Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me.\" </poem> A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War", "title": "A. A. Milne" }, { "id": "11399660", "text": "Sade\", \"Gibby\" (an autobiographical novel about a fighter pilot) and \"Bill Idelson's Writing Class\". Bill Idelson Bill Idelson (August 21, 1919 – December 31, 2007) was an actor, writer, director and producer widely known for his teenage role as Rush Gook on the radio comedy \"Vic and Sade\" and his recurring television role as Herman Glimscher on \"The Dick Van Dyke Show\" in the 1960s. Idelson was born in Forest Park, Illinois, his parents were Russian immigrants. He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals as a night", "title": "Bill Idelson" }, { "id": "1667646", "text": "in Edinburgh while he worked for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. He later became a United States citizen. As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars. He was surprised to", "title": "Bernard Cornwell" }, { "id": "16519959", "text": "ESB. The new designation was pursuant to a memorandum sent to Secretary Mabus from Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert dated 31 August 2015. USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2) USNS \"John Glenn\" (T-ESD-2), (\"formerly\" MLP-2) is a United States Navy Expeditionary Transfer Dock ship named in honor of John Glenn, a Naval Aviator, retired United States Marine Corps colonel, veteran of World War II and the Korean War, astronaut, and United States senator. The Expeditionary Transfer Dock is a new concept, part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force of the future. To control costs, the ships will not be built to", "title": "USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2)" }, { "id": "1567543", "text": "and severely injuring Broadway singer Jane Froman. Froman returned to Europe on crutches in 1945 to again entertain the troops. She later married the co-pilot who saved her life in that crash, and her story was made into the 1952 film \"With a Song in My Heart\", with Froman providing the actual singing voice. Others, such as Al Jolson, the first entertainer to go overseas in World War II, contracted malaria, resulting in the loss of his lung, cutting short his tour. One author wrote that by the end of the war \"the USO amounted to the biggest enterprise American", "title": "United Service Organizations" }, { "id": "10702", "text": "A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London to parents John Vine Milne, who was born in Jamaica, and Sarah Marie", "title": "A. A. Milne" }, { "id": "15261300", "text": "States and abroad. His chief collaborators included Hoffman, Sigler, Mann Curtis, Sammy Lerner, Ed Nelson, Kay Twomey and Allan Roberts. 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1939: 1942: 1947: 1948: 1949: 1950: Al Goodhart Al Goodhart (January 26, 1905 – November 30, 1955) a member of ASCAP, was born in New York City and attended DeWitt Clinton High School. During his lifetime he was a radio announcer, vaudeville pianist and special materials writer. He also owned a theatrical agency. After his 1931 hit \"I Apologize\" he concentrated on composing music being most prolific during the 1930s. He traveled", "title": "Al Goodhart" }, { "id": "772015", "text": "Lee Marvin was cast as one of the sailors, not only for his acting, but also because of his knowledge of ships at sea. Marvin had served in the U.S. Marines from the beginning of American involvement in World War II through the Battle of Saipan, in which he was wounded. As a result, he became an unofficial technical adviser for the film. Before choosing Dmytryk for \"The Caine Mutiny,\" Kramer had hired the director for three low-budget films. Dmytryk had previously been blacklisted, and the success of the film helped revive his career. \"The Caine Mutiny\" would be the", "title": "The Caine Mutiny (film)" }, { "id": "4365481", "text": "more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime (and often were completely or relatively unknown) include Greek philosopher Socrates; scientist Galileo Galilei; 1800s-era poet John Keats; painter Vincent van Gogh; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe; singer Eva Cassidy; comedian Bill Hicks; writer Emily Dickinson; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977; writer Franz Kafka; singer Jeff Buckley; diarist Anne Frank; philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; writer John Kennedy Toole (who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death); author Stieg Larsson (who died with his \"Millennium\" novels unpublished); musician,", "title": "Celebrity culture" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "10618513", "text": "Richard L. Newhafer Richard L. Newhafer (March 6, 1921—October 12, 1974) was an American novelist, teleplay writer and television director whose experience as a highly decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War played a key role in his books and in his contribution to ABC's 1960s series \"Combat!\" and \"Twelve O'Clock High\". A native of Chicago, Richard Newhafer was a student at Loyola Academy, the University of Notre Dame, and DePaul University. In his early twenties at the start of World War II, he became a Naval Aviator, took part in extensive military operations and was credited", "title": "Richard L. Newhafer" }, { "id": "2271685", "text": "account of his own Second World War experiences, \"D-Day: A Personal Reminiscence\" (1984). He used the pseudonym Alexander Kent (the real name of friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War) for his Bolitho novels and his real name for his other novels and non-fiction. In addition to being an author, Reeman also taught the art of navigation for yachting and served as a technical advisor for films. Reeman was married twice. First to Winifred Melville and later after he was widowed, to Canadian author Kimberley Jordan in 1985. aka The Royal Marines Saga Douglas Reeman Douglas", "title": "Douglas Reeman" }, { "id": "13400616", "text": "aircraft back to base for a successful landing. Upon inspection, over 600 holes were counted in the aircraft. After the war, Beaty was offered a regular commission with the RAF. However, he turned down the opportunity and joined BOAC where he was posted to the carrier's flagship route across the North Atlantic. His flying career with BOAC was short-lived. Soon, he took up writing on a full-time basis. Beaty wrote 20 novels, under the names Paul Stanton and Robert Stanton, starting at the end of his commercial flying career and continuing almost until his death. Flying has an important place", "title": "David Beaty (author)" }, { "id": "3333450", "text": "parents. His father was a grape farmer. The novelist William Saroyan was his first cousin and a life-long friend. Bagdasarian served as a Staff sergeant (SSgt) in the United States Army Air Forces. During World War II, from January 1941 to December 1945, he was stationed in Europe. His later stage name \"David Seville\" originated from the fact that he was stationed in the city of Seville in Spain. Bagdasarian's Broadway debut was in 1939 when he played the newsboy in \"The Time of Your Life\" by William Saroyan, his cousin. He also appeared in minor roles in several films,", "title": "Ross Bagdasarian Sr." }, { "id": "9807856", "text": "of head injuries suffered in a car accident. Some of White's works have been adapted to motion pictures. His original screenplays for \"House on Haunted Hill\" and \"13 Ghosts\" were both adapted for remakes. Robb White Robb White III (June 20, 1909 – November 24, 1990) was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels. Most of the latter had a maritime setting, often the Pacific Navy during World War II. White was best known for juvenile fiction, though he has proven popular with adults as well. Nearly all his books are out of print; nevertheless, White has", "title": "Robb White" }, { "id": "13348559", "text": "“Chicago boys” and their experiences on the USS \"Fuller\", a World War II assault transport ship, that served primarily in the Pacific Theatre. \"The Lady Gangster: A Sailor’s Memoir\" received awards and accolades, and recognition by the United States Navy, which named Staecker a \"Writer on Deck\" in 2012 and hosted him on a speaking tour for American bases in the Mediterranean. \"Sailor Man: The Troubled Life and Times of J.P. Nunnally, USN\" (non-fiction), followed in 2015, from the letters of a sailor who served on the USS \"Fuller\" along with Irvin Staecker, Del’s father. Another critically acclaimed work, \"Sailor", "title": "Del Staecker" }, { "id": "16519955", "text": "USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2) USNS \"John Glenn\" (T-ESD-2), (\"formerly\" MLP-2) is a United States Navy Expeditionary Transfer Dock ship named in honor of John Glenn, a Naval Aviator, retired United States Marine Corps colonel, veteran of World War II and the Korean War, astronaut, and United States senator. The Expeditionary Transfer Dock is a new concept, part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force of the future. To control costs, the ships will not be built to combat vessel standards and are designed primarily to support three military hovercraft (such as the Landing Craft Air Cushion), vehicle staging with a sideport ramp", "title": "USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2)" }, { "id": "208555", "text": "headaches and they diagnosed me dementia praecox and sent me here.\" The medical examiner reported that Kerouac's military adjustment was poor, quoting Kerouac: \"I just can't stand it; I like to be by myself.\" Two days later he was honorably discharged on psychiatric grounds (he was of \"indifferent character\" with a diagnosis of \"schizoid personality\"). While serving in the United States Merchant Marine, Kerouac wrote his first novel, \"The Sea Is My Brother\". Although written in 1942, the book was not published until 2011, some 42 years after Kerouac's death and 70 years after it was written. Kerouac described the", "title": "Jack Kerouac" }, { "id": "17154322", "text": "J. Allan Bosworth Allan Bernard Bosworth (1925), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, is an American author of children's adventure books. His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, is also a writer. Bosworth began writing while still a radioman aboard USS \"Missouri\". World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home. A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the \"Chronicle\". Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full time basis. He lived in Salem, Virginia,", "title": "J. Allan Bosworth" }, { "id": "13886123", "text": "spent the next several decades writing, recording and touring with and for musicians including Sly and the Family Stone, Brian Wilson, Dave Mason, Jeff Beck, Barry Goldberg, Maurice White, Aerosmith, Michael Schenker, Engelbert Humperdinck, Wayne Newton, Tanya Tucker, Bill Champlin, Willie Nelson, Mick Fleetwood and many others. Raymond Louis Kennedy Raymond Louis \"Ray\" Kennedy (November 26, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, based in Los Angeles. His works span multiple genres including R&B, pop, rock, jazz, fusion, acid rock, country and many others. He co-wrote \"Sail On, Sailor\", one of The Beach", "title": "Raymond Louis Kennedy" }, { "id": "13224172", "text": "financed his journeys through lecturing and writing books, which were published by Rupert Hart-Davis. Pye, alongside US photographer, journalist and yachtsman Carleton Mitchell, has been said to symbolise a key change in the history of yachting in the West Indies. Both were amateur sailors who cruised the Caribbean after World War II in small boats, and many followed in the wake of their voyages. \"Red Mains’l\" covers his voyage to Portugal, Madeira, the West Indies, Florida, the Azores and back. While \"The Sea is for Sailing\" takes \"Moonraker\" from Fowey to the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and across the", "title": "Peter Pye" }, { "id": "10358437", "text": "commentary for the short-lived cable network CNN-Sports Illustrated. His 2008 book \"The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf and Armed Robbery\" told the true story of John Montague, a 1930s California-based amateur called \"the greatest golfer in the world\" by sportswriting legend Grantland Rice, who later turned out to be a fugitive wanted for armed robbery in New York State. Most recently, Montville wrote \"Sting Like a Bee: Muhammed Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971\" which focuses on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military. Leigh Montville Leigh Montville (born", "title": "Leigh Montville" }, { "id": "19567346", "text": "Neil Hollander Neil Hollander (born 1939) is an American writer, film director and producer, journalist and sailor who has sailed across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. He has conducted more than thirty interviews with Nobel Prize winners, and his work has been exhibited in a number of museums, among them the Smithsonian, the Deutsches Museum and the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok. As an author, he is largely collected by libraries worldwide. Born in 1939 in New York City During his career, Hollander has gone through several professions and has lived in various parts of the world, including Thailand,", "title": "Neil Hollander" }, { "id": "10263434", "text": "he worked as a producer/director production manager and senior director/writer/ producer for local television stations, and later in Nashville in advertising. . After being laid off when the advertising company he worked for failed, he returned to his early interest in writing fiction with his creation of Lewrie in \"The King's Coat\" in 1988, published in 1989. Dewey Lambdin Dewey Lambdin (born 1945) is an American nautical historical novelist. He is best known for his Alan Lewrie naval adventure series, spanning the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Besides the Alan Lewrie series, he is also the author of \"What", "title": "Dewey Lambdin" }, { "id": "9146537", "text": "Brotherhood of Man) and so began a lifelong friendship. Years later Hiller gave Spiro his first publishing deal, and later still was to be involved in producing him in his singing career as 'Hoagy Pogey'. In 1944, aged 18, Spiro volunteered for the Royal Navy and did his training in Chatham, Kent, where he qualified as a nurse, and was sent to Iceland to work on an American naval base. After the World War II ended, he knew that he wanted a career in the music industry, rather than taking over the family shop. He enrolled at Carnegie Hall, where", "title": "Harold Spiro" }, { "id": "1655945", "text": "Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. \"Riders of the Purple Sage\" (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, his books have had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, \"Dick Powell's Zane Grey", "title": "Zane Grey" }, { "id": "12707661", "text": "John Edward Jennings John Edward Jennings (1906–1973) was an American historical novelist, author of many best-selling novels of American history and seagoing adventure. He also wrote several nonfiction books on history. John Edward Jennings, Jr., was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied engineering and literature at Columbia University. He had his first experience of seafaring at age 19 as a hand aboard a tramp steamer in the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean. In World War II he served as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy and was the head of the US Naval Aviation History Unit. He first", "title": "John Edward Jennings" }, { "id": "2122315", "text": "a dry berthed hotel on Bintan Island, Indonesia. Post-war ocean liners that are preserved are (1952), docked in Philadelphia since 1996; (1958), moored in Rotterdam as a museum and hotel since 2008; and \"Queen Elizabeth 2\" (1967), floating luxury hotel and museum at Mina Rashid, Dubai since 2018. Two former ocean liners remain in service as cruise ships operating under Cruise & Maritime Voyages, these ship are: (1965) (former MS \"Alexandr Pushkin\"), and (1948), originally which is famous for colliding with in 1956. Since their beginning in the 19th century, ocean liners must meet growing demands. The first liners were", "title": "Ocean liner" }, { "id": "1727058", "text": "term expiration up to eighteen additional months. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt: Under Harry S. Truman: Under Dwight D. Eisenhower: Under John F. Kennedy: Under Lyndon B. Johnson: Under Richard Nixon: Under Gerald Ford: Under Jimmy Carter: Under Ronald Reagan: Under George H. W. Bush: Under Bill Clinton: Under George W. Bush: Under Barack Obama: Under Donald Trump: Securities and Exchange Commission appointees Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States. As of 2011, their terms last five years and are staggered so that one commissioner's term ends on June 5 of", "title": "Securities and Exchange Commission appointees" }, { "id": "4980542", "text": "encountered Dorothy again and married her. As of 2017, this project – which O'Neill had hoped to produce with Lifetime television – has not been realized, and it is unknown whether O'Neill is still attempting to get it produced, or if Raucher consented to its production. Summer of '42 Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher (b. 1928). It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island (off the coast of Cape Cod), embarks on a one-sided romance with", "title": "Summer of '42" }, { "id": "12252042", "text": "(cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee, which years later he would adopt as his legal name. Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that because of the low social status of comic books, he was so embarrassed that he used a pen name so that nobody would associate his real name with comics when he some day wrote the Great American Novel. This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss. He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, \"'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent\", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation", "title": "Stan Lee" }, { "id": "16199505", "text": "that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair. Cambridge University Press is publishing the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in annotated editions. Film Television F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the \"Lost Generation\" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: \"This Side of Paradise\", \"The Beautiful", "title": "F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography" }, { "id": "697507", "text": "1942. Weak eyesight prevented military service. He found a job as a rigger at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California, and enrolled in an Army Intelligence program to learn Japanese, but washed out. In 1943, he memorized an eye chart and became an able seaman in the Merchant Marine. In later years, boating remained his favorite recreation; boats and voyages are a frequent motif in his work. He worked as a seaman, a rigger, a surveyor, a ceramicist, and a carpenter before he established himself fully as a writer, which did not occur until the 1970s. From his youth, Vance", "title": "Jack Vance" }, { "id": "12363897", "text": "Gertrude Lawrence, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, T. S. Eliot, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mae West, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Bruno Hauptmann Benito Mussolini, George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun, Johnny Weissmuller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, The Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Arturo Toscanini, Walt Disney, Gary Cooper, Howard Hughes, Amy Johnson, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Jean Harlow, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer", "title": "Fame in the 20th Century" }, { "id": "3585975", "text": "University of Iowa, he defended his master’s thesis in English Literature, on the writer Wilkie Collins, at the University of Virginia. During World War II he enlisted in the Army Air Forces on 6 April 1944. He attended Officers’ Candidate School at Yale, where Glenn Miller played in the mess hall. He served with the 723rd Army Air Forces Base Unit as a Cryptographic Officer (0224). The bulk of his time was spent in the Caribbean where he wrote and performed songs when not deciphering phantom enemy submarine signals. Up to the time of his discharge on 4 June 1946,", "title": "Michael Brown (writer)" }, { "id": "9092416", "text": "age of 67. In 1949, Feldkamp adapted General Dwight D. Eisenhower's book \"Crusade in Europe\" for a 26-part television series which featured actual film footage of World War II and won the Peabody Award. Additionally, he wrote for another 26-part television series called \"Crusade in the Pacific\" which premiered in 1951. He also independently produced three movies, \"Operation Manhunt\" (1954), \"The Silken Affair\" (1956), and \"Triple Cross\" (1966). Feldkamp served as a friend and literary editor to American humorist Will Cuppy and worked extensively on many of the author's satirical history novels. After Cuppy died in 1949, both Feldkamp and", "title": "Fred Feldkamp" }, { "id": "19972180", "text": "Jeraldine Saunders Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923) is an American writer and lecturer, best known as the creator of \"The Love Boat\", an ABC Television series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers. The program was based on her 1974 book, \"Love Boats\", her anecdotal account of her time employed as the first full time female cruise director. Saunders is currently the author of Omarr’s Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column read by hundreds of thousands worldwide and that was originally created by Sydney Omarr, to whom", "title": "Jeraldine Saunders" }, { "id": "685159", "text": "suits and was chauffeured around Paris in a Rolls-Royce. Sir Fitzroy Maclean was another possible model for Bond, based on his wartime work behind enemy lines in the Balkans, as was the MI6 double agent Duško Popov. Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including the same golf handicap, his taste for scrambled eggs, his love of gambling, and use of the same brand of toiletries. After the publication of \"Casino Royale\", Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story. Twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published between", "title": "Ian Fleming" } ]

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[ { "id": "8010207", "text": "example, a window was added in the Robert Levin House despite Wright's wishes, and he never signed the house. A similar expression of dismay from one of the Kalamazoo clients at about this same time had resulted in Wright imperiously rolling up his drawings and saying, \"Madam, you are not worthy of a Frank Lloyd Wright home.\" That couple was left with the problem of finding a new architect. But in Mrs. Mossberg's case, things went differently. \"Why do you need a window in your kitchen?\" asked Wright. \"Why, Mr. Wright, to see my birds,\" Mrs. Mossberg replied. \"Well then,", "title": "Herman T. Mossberg Residence" }, { "id": "14718306", "text": "to line it. Falls Church was to have a home designed by a famous architect during the inter-war years—if only he would agree. \"Of course I will give you a house,\" responded architect Frank Lloyd Wright to the request by Loren Pope, a Falls Church resident. The Pope-Leighey House, as it would later be called, was built at 1005 Locust Street, just outside the town limit. Nestled in rolling woodland, the house was a Usonian home with concrete floors coated with red-colored wax, piano hinges on the doors, and radiant heating. Wright visited Falls Church numerous times during construction in", "title": "History of Falls Church" }, { "id": "10341595", "text": "home on his expanded property. Frank Lloyd Wright accounted in his autobiography that Moore had been approached by many architects, including Norman S. Patton, before Wright himself was asked to design the project in 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Moore reportedly traveled to Wright’s newly opened downtown Chicago studio in the Schindler Building to request his services rather than simply calling at the emerging architect’s house across the street. Moore had apparently not come to Wright in admiration of his design style. According to Wright, he proclaimed that “I don’t want you to give us anything like the house you did", "title": "Nathan G. Moore House" }, { "id": "12368303", "text": "a reflecting pool. The second floor has the main entrance, guest room, and a two-story living room with a fireplace and balcony. The third floor contained Millard's bedroom with a balcony overlooking the living room and outdoor terrace. Like many of Wright's homes, Millard House suffered from leaks during rains. After the house flooded in a storm, Millard wrote a letter to Wright complaining about the inadequate storm drain that resulted in the basement filling entirely with muddy water and the water rising to six inches (152 mm) in the dining room. Millard added a separate studio in 1926, designed", "title": "Millard House" }, { "id": "10158981", "text": "21. \"Punky's Dilemma\" – 2:14 22. \"Mrs. Robinson\" – 4:04 23. \"A Hazy Shade of Winter\" – 2:17 24. \"At the Zoo\" – 2:22 Disc three \"Bridge over Troubled Water\" 1. \"Bridge over Troubled Water\" – 4:54 2. \"El Condor Pasa (If I Could)\" – 3:05 3. \"Cecilia\" – 2:54 4. \"Keep the Customer Satisfied\" – 2:33 5. \"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright\" – 3:47 6. \"The Boxer\" – 5:09 7. \"Baby Driver\" – 3:14 8. \"The Only Living Boy in New York\" – 3:59 9. \"Why Don't You Write Me\" – 2:45 10. \"Bye Bye Love\" – 2:55 11.", "title": "Collected Works (Simon and Garfunkel album)" }, { "id": "13306639", "text": "sparking comparisons to the hot-headed British chef Gordon Ramsay. One customer requested the food but, upon receiving it, he changed his mind and sent them back to the kitchen. Thornton then allegedly emerged from the kitchen with the chips and slammed them down on the man's table, with the remark: \"They were cooked specially for you, so you eat them, you d***head\". Asked about the incident by broadcaster Joe Duffy on his RTÉ Radio 1 \"Liveline\" programme, Thornton stressed that he had not so much been infuriated by the request of chips (he supposedly provides them for younger customers on", "title": "Kevin Thornton (chef)" }, { "id": "16320859", "text": "along a bicycle paper route he had. Wright responded to the letter with a typed and signed note on Taliesin West stationery. The note stated that \"A house for Eddie is an opportunity... but just now I am too busy to concentrate on it.\" Wright implored the boy to write again a year later to see if he was a little less busy. Jim followed the suggestion laid out by Wright and a year later wrote again asking for a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed doghouse. Not long after sending out this second letter a full set of working drawings arrived in", "title": "Eddie's House" }, { "id": "1415611", "text": "a restaurant reads \"Positively NO CREDIT. This means YOU, Wimpy.\" Wimpy had other frequently used lines in the original comic strip. On some occasions, Wimpy tries to placate someone by saying, \"I'd like to invite you over to my house for a duck dinner.\" He then moves away quickly to a safe distance and yells, \"You bring the ducks!\" Another such line was, \"Jones is my name...I'm one of the Jones boys\" – an attempt to defuse a hostile situation with a mistaken identity. To deflect an enemy's wrath, he would sometimes indicate a third party and say, \"Let's you", "title": "J. Wellington Wimpy" }, { "id": "1921797", "text": "show's producers. It emerged that Clarkson had been involved in a dispute over catering while filming on location in Hawes, North Yorkshire. Clarkson had been offered soup and a cold meat platter, instead of the steak he wanted, because the hotel chef had gone home. The BBC announced that the next episode of the show would not be broadcast on 15 March. It was later announced through the BBC's website that the network would be likely to drop the remaining two episodes of the series as well in the wake of the incident, which involved Clarkson punching producer Oisin Tymon,", "title": "Jeremy Clarkson" }, { "id": "12623486", "text": "a faithfully rendered, certified Wright design. In 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a commission from Ahmed Chahroudi to build a house on a island the engineer owned in Lake Mahopac, Petre (historically spelled \"Petra\", from the Latin for \"rock\", reflecting the prominence where the home was to be constructed). Chahroudi would later state that during a lunch meeting with Wright and Edgar Kaufmann, the owner of Wright’s celebrated Fallingwater, the architect told Kaufmann: \"When I finish the house on the island, it will surpass your Fallingwater\". Wright worked on designing a one-story, house for three months, but the project", "title": "Massaro House" }, { "id": "2238371", "text": "Stamfordham, the King's Private Secretary, who in turn delivered it to the King. King George supposedly replied, \"Oh, bugger Bognor.\" Lord Stamfordham then went back to the petitioners and told them, \"the King has been graciously pleased to grant your request.\" A slightly different version of the \"Bugger Bognor\" incident is that the King, upon being told, shortly before his death, that he would soon be well enough to revisit the town, uttered the words \"Bugger Bognor!\" Although there is little evidence that these words were actually spoken in this context, and although the sea air helped the King to", "title": "Bognor Regis" }, { "id": "2956517", "text": "a live post-match radio interview - declared himself \"absolutely buggered\", a turn of phrase considered shocking at the time. It is famously alleged that the last words of King George V were \"Bugger Bognor\", in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis . Variations on the phrase \"bugger it\" are commonly used to imply frustration, admission of defeat or the sense that something is not worth doing, as in \"bugger this for a lark\" or \"bugger this for a game of soldiers\". As an interjection, \"bugger\" is sometimes used as a single-word", "title": "Bugger" }, { "id": "12635757", "text": "Rayward–Shepherd House The Rayward–Shepherd House, also known as Tirranna and as the John L. Rayward House, was designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1955 for Joyce and John Rayward. Although commissioned by the Raywards, Herman R. Shepherd completed the design after purchasing it in 1964. William Allin Storrer credits Shepherd's actions with salvaging the house, repairing the poor work that Storrer attributes to John Rayward's \"constant pursuit of the lowest bid.\" \"Tirranna\" is an Australian aboriginal word meaning \"running waters,\" an apt name for this spectacular residence. Located on a pond just", "title": "Rayward–Shepherd House" }, { "id": "16069805", "text": "creating a \"police state\". On 3 April 2009, Berlusconi appeared to have annoyed Queen Elizabeth II at a photo session during the G20 summit. During the photo session, Berlusconi shouted \"Mr. Obama, Mr. Obama\", prompting her to turn around and chastise Berlusconi, “What is it? Why does he have to shout?”. The following day, at the NATO meeting in Kehl, Berlusconi was seen talking on his mobile phone, while Merkel and other NATO leaders waited for him for a photo on a Rhine bridge (afterwards, Berlusconi claimed he was talking to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about accepting the", "title": "Controversies surrounding Silvio Berlusconi" }, { "id": "8010208", "text": "you shall have your window,\" Wright responded. And in fact, the Mossberg house as built has a large bank of French doors in the kitchen, looking directly into the back yard. Wright was also famous for having eliminated basements from his residential designs. The Mossberg house has a basement, again, at Mrs. Mossberg's request. Gertrude Mossberg bore a striking resemblance to Frank Lloyd Wright's beloved Aunt Susan, wife of the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, which may have been among the reasons he worked so sympathetically with the Mossbergs. Building the house The house was constructed by the well-known South Bend", "title": "Herman T. Mossberg Residence" }, { "id": "20835132", "text": "Expo. In addition Boyd engaged Bill Smith of McConnell Smith & Johnson to administer the building contract on a day-to-day level. Robin Boyd and Dr Lyons worked on the design for the Lyons House in a collaborative manner, both in person and by correspondence (which Dr Lyons has carefully retained). Dr Lyons remarked, \"You give an architect a problem, not an answer.\". Geoffrey Serle later commented:, 'These were very congenial clients, with artistic and intellectual interests in keeping with Boyd's, as were a large proportion of his customers who had singled him out on the basis of his radical reputation.'", "title": "Lyons House, Sydney" }, { "id": "134617", "text": "He also adopted Svetlana Milanoff, the daughter of his third wife, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright. His wives were: His children with Catherine were: His children with Olgivanna were: Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called \"the best all-time work", "title": "Frank Lloyd Wright" }, { "id": "913145", "text": "first twenty or so years of owning his own telephone he habitually answered calls with the phrase: \"Yes, Lord?\" (\"Just in case,\" he once said.) Later on he changed it to: \"Oh yes?\" in a querulous tone of voice. His openness to strangers extended to accepting dinner invitations from almost anyone. Whilst he expected the host would pay for dinner, Crisp did his best to \"sing for his supper\" by regaling his host with wonderful stories and yarns much as he did in his theatrical performances. Dinner with him was said to be one of the best shows in New", "title": "Quentin Crisp" }, { "id": "14823871", "text": "casual visitors. When a star struck American came to visit, he was informed that \"Mr Spencer is not able to receive visitors.\" The American gentleman replied: \"But I have come all the way from New York on purpose, Sir! I assure you that with us the name of Herbert Spencer...\" But this importuning was too much for the sofa-confined philosopher who called out: \"Send him away! Don’t let him come in!\" The reply was: \"I have heard the voice of Herbert Spencer! I can now return to New York satisfied!\" During one dinner with her family, James Barrie was not", "title": "Rosaline Masson" }, { "id": "1278997", "text": "which potential donations could be sent; Geldof interrupted him in mid-flow and shouted \"Fuck the address, let's get the numbers\". Although the phrase \"give us your fucking money\" has passed into folklore, Geldof has stated that it was never uttered. \"Private Eye\" magazine made great humorous capital out of this outburst, emphasising Geldof's Irish accent which meant the profanities were heard as \"fock\" or \"focking\". After the outburst, donations increased to £300 per second. Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as", "title": "Live Aid" }, { "id": "12994386", "text": "of the Department during Morey's absence in Europe, invited Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright had recently published a number of pieces on architectural theory, but had little to do at the time, and the recent Wall Street Crash had made it look unlikely that he would get any new commissions for the time being. Despite this, Levine suggests that Wright's reason for accepting the offer was not primarily financial, but rather the \"prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him\". According to the original donation by Kahn, each series was to consist of eight lectures, but Wright", "title": "Kahn Lectures" }, { "id": "4200440", "text": "The writer has one fervent wish that includes both. It is for a house created by you.\" He closed with the plea, \"Will you create a house for us? Will you?\" The architect's reply was brief: \"Dear Loren Pope: Of course I am ready to give you a house.\" Born in Minneapolis, Pope grew up in northern Virginia. He was a Democrat, in a family of stalwart Republicans. Pope married and divorced Charlotte Swart Pope and Ida Wallace Pope. Pope was married 24 years to Viola Barrett Greenland Pope, who lived to the age of 96. Loren Pope Loren Brooks", "title": "Loren Pope" }, { "id": "1921437", "text": "and now (here the pathos of the appeal was swept under in a burst of angry indignation) do you want me to build and get skinned, skinned? These people are not fit to live in a nice house. Let them go where they can, and let my house stand.\" In spite of the genuine anguish of the appeal, it was downright amusing to find that his anger was provoked less by the anticipated waste of luxury on his tenants than by distrust of his own kind, the builder. He knew intuitively what to expect. The result showed that Mr. Murphy", "title": "Apartment" }, { "id": "302459", "text": "Palace. After reporting to the King, Chamberlain and his wife appeared on the Palace balcony with the King and Queen. He then went to Downing Street; both the street and the front hall of Number 10 were packed. As he headed upstairs to address the crowd from a first-floor window, someone called to him, \"Neville, go up to the window and say 'peace for our time'.\" Chamberlain turned around and responded, \"No, I don't do that sort of thing.\" Nevertheless, Chamberlain recalled the words of his predecessor, Benjamin Disraeli and his return from the Congress of Berlin in his statement", "title": "Neville Chamberlain" }, { "id": "4200439", "text": "Change Lives, Inc (CTCL). The CTCL engages in promotional activities, information sessions and outreach activities with high school counselers and college placement agencies. Pope was also known for commissioning the Pope-Leighey House in 1939, designed and constructed originally in Falls Church, Virginia, by Frank Lloyd Wright. Pope, who was working as a $50-a-week copy editor at the Washington \"Evening Star\" (his employer financed the construction), convinced Wright to build the small house by writing him a famously flattering letter. Pope opened, \"There are certain things a man wants during life, and, of life. Material things and things of the spirit.", "title": "Loren Pope" }, { "id": "1460319", "text": "same day. During the broadcast of Live Aid, Geldof shocked viewers into giving cash by not only twice mouthing profanities but also by slamming his fist on the table and ordering them not to go out to the pub but to stay in and watch the show. Nearly seven hours into the concert in London, Geldof gave an infamous interview in which he used the word \"fuck\". The BBC presenter David Hepworth, conducting the interview, had attempted to provide a list of addresses to which potential donations should be sent; Geldof interrupted him in mid-flow and shouted: \"Fuck the address,", "title": "Bob Geldof" }, { "id": "14439421", "text": "Basing House to be delivered to me for the use of the King and Parliament. If this be refused, the ensuing inconvenience will rest upon yourself. I desire a speedy answer, and rest. My Lord, your humble servant, Heebeet Moeley\". To which the Marquis returned this reply : \"Sir, — It is a crooked demand, and shall receive its answer suitable. I keep the House in the right of my Sovereign, and will do it in despight of your forces. Your letter I will preserve as a testimony of your rebellion. Winchestee\". The siege was then renewed with great vigour", "title": "Siege of Basing House" }, { "id": "15771113", "text": "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright \"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright\" is a song written by Paul Simon that was originally released on Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 album \"Bridge over Troubled Water\". It has since been released on several Simon & Garfunkel compilation albums. It has also been recorded by the London Pops Orchestra and Joe Chindamo trio. Art Garfunkel has stated that the origin of the song came from his request that Paul Simon write a song about the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright while Simon has stated that he wrote the song, despite not knowing who Wright was. Garfunkel", "title": "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" }, { "id": "3432230", "text": "the goddamn face.\" (This comment was a joking throwback to Buckley's famous response to Gore Vidal, when, during another Vietnam debate, Vidal called Buckley a \"crypto-Nazi\".) Buckley addressed his guests as \"Mr.\" or \"Mrs.\" He once called Margaret Thatcher \"Margaret\" because he thought she had addressed him as \"Bill\". He was embarrassed later when he saw the transcript and realized she had been referring to a legislative bill. He immediately wrote a personal letter of apology to the Prime Minister. Prominent guests on the program included: For the show's 15th anniversary in 1981, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vernon Jordan, Henry", "title": "Firing Line (TV series)" }, { "id": "10396123", "text": "glimpse into the subconscious mind of Wright. The Balch house is listed as a contributing property to a U.S. federally Registered Historic District. The Oscar Balch House was one of the first homes designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright upon his return from an extended trip to Europe, during which he designed no houses. Wright had traveled to Europe with Mamah Borthwick, a client's wife. This flaunting of public morality lost him friends, clients and his family. Amongst those who by contrast stood by Wright was the interior decorator Oscar Balch. Balch was one of two partners in the decorating", "title": "Oscar B. Balch House" }, { "id": "4587123", "text": "under scrutiny from animal rights group PETA. The group claimed that the fishbowl containing \"Wright Stuff\" fish, Brad and Jen, was too small. On the 27 May show, Wright told viewers that the show's resident vet would look into the matter. On 13 August 2008, Asian entrepreneur James Caan appeared on the programme and mocked Prince Charles wearing a kilt. Caan held up a copy of a UK daily newspaper, which showed the Prince wearing a kilt, and remarked that people should not take him too seriously because he was wearing a \"skirt\". He apologised later in the show, saying", "title": "The Wright Stuff" }, { "id": "134540", "text": "Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called \"the best all-time work of American architecture\". His creative period spanned more than 70 years. Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture,", "title": "Frank Lloyd Wright" }, { "id": "17092310", "text": "King's Men\" who said \"There's always something\". \"Time\" television critic James Poniewozik, notes that by the end of the first episode Frank establishes that his metaphor of choice is meat because both literally and figuratively it is his preference. He may begin a day with a celebratory rack of ribs, because \"I’m feelin’ hungry today!\", but also he describes life with meat metaphors: he describes the White House Chief of Staff with grudging admiration: \"She’s as tough as a two-dollar steak.\"; he plans to destroy an enemy the way \"you devour a whale. One bite at a time.\"; and he", "title": "Chapter 1 (House of Cards)" }, { "id": "8161613", "text": "of the Gullichsens’ vision of ‘the good life’ which they believed industrialization would eventually make available to the majority in the newly independent state. Aalto began work on the Villa towards the end of 1937, and was given an almost free hand by his clients. His first proposal was a rustic hut modeled on vernacular farmhouses. Early in 1938, however, inspiration came from a radically different source, the residence named ‘Fallingwater’ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which had just received international acclaim thanks to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and publication in \"Life\" and", "title": "Villa Mairea" }, { "id": "8097370", "text": "jotted the words \"Crackerbox Palace\" down on a cigarette pack, and later wrote the song. The song includes references to Greif (\"I met a Mr. Greif\") and to Lord Buckley (\"know that the Lord is well and inside of you\"). Harrison says “It’s twoo, it’s twoo” during an instrumental break, a line said by Madeline Kahn's German seductress-for-hire character Lili Von Shtupp in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy \"Blazing Saddles\". A whimsical promotional film accompanied the single which was first shown on 20 November 1976 episode of \"Saturday Night Live\". Directed by Monty Python's Eric Idle, the film featured Harrison,", "title": "Crackerbox Palace" }, { "id": "2494298", "text": "\"had to be there [the House of Commons] on time\", \"Question Time\" host David Dimbleby, replied \"Like a job, in other words?\" and fellow panellist Caroline Lucas added 'welcome to the real world', both of which prompted amusement and applause amongst the audience. Pickles was asked to pay back £300 following the MP's expenses scandal, which he had claimed for cleaning. Pickles married Irene Coates in 1976 in Staincliffe, a district of Batley in West Yorkshire. On 22 May 2015 it was announced that Pickles was to be appointed a Knight Bachelor. He was nominated for a Life Peerage by", "title": "Eric Pickles" }, { "id": "1415608", "text": "a time – e.g., in \"Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor\" he is seen grinding meat or eating burgers almost the entire time – however, he is usually too cheap to pay for them himself. A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of the diner owned by Rough House into buying his meal for him. His best-known catchphrase started in 1931 as, \"Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Thursday.\" In 1932, this then became the famous, \"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.\" Rough House explains why Wimpy is able to get", "title": "J. Wellington Wimpy" }, { "id": "383561", "text": "his diary, Pepys recorded his observations as follows: The wind was driving the fire westward, so he ordered the boat to go to Whitehall and became the first person to inform the king of the fire. According to his entry of 2 September 1666, Pepys recommended to the king that homes be pulled down in the path of the fire in order to stem its progress. Accepting this advice, the king told him to go to Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth and tell him to start pulling down houses. Pepys took a coach back as far as St Paul's Cathedral before", "title": "Samuel Pepys" }, { "id": "257959", "text": "end of the big furry hat segment (where Colbert and in this specific instance Cleese, create nonsensical rules), Cleese says, \"Do you want to come back to my place?\" and Stephen answers, \"I thought you'd never ask.\" At Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his eulogy by reprising euphemisms from the sketch. In 1998 there was a follow up with their \"Live at Aspen\", with the supposed ashes of Chapman. Midway through the interview, Terry Gilliam put his feet up on the table and knocked the urn off, spilling the ashes and prompting a frantic, slapstick attempt to clean", "title": "Dead Parrot sketch" }, { "id": "19968128", "text": "period, by amalgamating the East Asian hip-and-gable roof (入母屋, \"Irimoya\") style and floor plan of Phoenix Hall Byōdō-in, into an earthquake resistant building. In March 1916, Following Shimoda's submission, the project architect was changed to Frank Lloyd Wright, who signed memorandum with the Imperial Household. When Wright's design plans became known to Shimoda, he made claims that his work had been plagiarised. The Imperial Hotels executives conceded to the considerable demands for compensation that Shimoda had made, during a six-year copyright dispute over the architectural designs for the hotel. A review of Shimoda's work conducted by the Akita Prefectural Museum", "title": "Imperial Crown Style" }, { "id": "1524238", "text": "green shoots of recovery\" or \"singing in his bath\". He replied by quoting the Edith Piaf song \"Je ne regrette rien\", a dry response which raised a laugh at the press conference but which played poorly when quoted later on the television that evening and afterwards. When called to defend him on \"Newsnight\" his friend the former Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt caused further merriment by claiming that Lamont could do an excellent impersonation of a Scops-owl (whose cry, Lamont later explained, \"sounds like a tennis ball emitter\"). Three weeks after the government's massive loss in the by-election, on 27 May", "title": "Norman Lamont" }, { "id": "12641227", "text": "one of the largest collections of designs done by Wright in the early twentieth century. The house is a beautiful example of Wright's ongoing pursuit of the \"destruction of the box,\" and gives visitors a wonderful experience with its continuous open and flowing spaces and transparency . Wright's invention of the transparent corner, which can be seen in the way the tall windows meet at a corner looking out onto the back porch area of the house, allows the interior space to have an even greater sense of openness and calm. Another architectural signature of Frank Lloyd Wright is also", "title": "Bachman–Wilson House" }, { "id": "13544952", "text": "European Architectural Heritage Year awards for its sympathy with its Georgian surroundings. After Devane graduated from UCD, he began working in the architecture practice of Robinson & Keefe. After a short time, Devane was offered a partnership with the practice, but decided to postpone any agreement. Around this time Devane made contact with American Architect, Frank Wright Lloyd. In his letter to Wright, Devane said \"I cannot make up my mind whether you are in truth a great architect - or just another phony.\" to which Wright replied \"Come along and see.\" In 1946 Devane travelled to America to attend", "title": "Andrew Devane" }, { "id": "160872", "text": "then CBS before moving to NBC. It moved from radio to television on October 5, 1950, and ran for eleven years. Filmed before an audience, the show consisted of Marx bantering with the contestants and ad-libbing jokes before briefly quizzing them. The show was responsible for popularizing the phrases \"Say the secret word and the duck will come down and give you fifty dollars,\" \"Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?\" and \"What color is the White House?\" (asked to reward a losing contestant a consolation prize). Throughout his career, Marx introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including \"Hooray for", "title": "Groucho Marx" }, { "id": "13306845", "text": "Stephen's Green in 2002. Thornton's Restaurant was embroiled in a controversy in 2007 surrounding Thornton's alleged refusal to sell chips to his restaurant customers, sparking comparisons to British chef Gordon Ramsay. A customer requested the food but, upon receiving it, he changed his mind and sent them back to the kitchen. Thornton then allegedly emerged from the kitchen with the chips and slammed them down on the man's table, with the remark: “They were cooked specially for you, so you eat them, you dickhead”. He later is alleged to have called them \"wankers\" before removing them from his restaurant. Asked", "title": "Thornton's Restaurant" }, { "id": "8078228", "text": "a loaded revolver. The opening scenes of \"Ulysses\" are set the morning after this incident. Gogarty is immortalised as \"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan\" (the opening words of the novel). The tower now contains a museum dedicated to Joyce and displays some of his possessions and other ephemera associated with \"Ulysses\" (e.g., an empty pot of \"Plumtree's Potted Meat\"). The living space is set up to resemble its 1904 appearance, and contains a ceramic panther to represent one seen in a dream by a resident. It is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday. The Tower became a", "title": "James Joyce Tower and Museum" }, { "id": "10396122", "text": "Oscar B. Balch House The Oscar B. Balch House is a home located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The Prairie style Balch House was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1911. The home was the first house Wright designed after returning from a trip to Europe with a client's wife. The subsequent social exile cost the architect friends, clients, and his family. The house is one of the first Wright houses to employ a flat roof which gives the home a horizontal linearity. Historian Thomas O'Gorman noted that the home may provide a", "title": "Oscar B. Balch House" }, { "id": "13502563", "text": "Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (English translation: \"The Virgin on the Roof\") is a 1953 American comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Carl Zuckmayer is a German language translation of the script for \"The Moon is Blue\" by F. Hugh Herbert, based on his 1951 play. A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets", "title": "Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach" }, { "id": "14840146", "text": "first) is in the bathroom. David Browne suggested that the name may be derived from the patron of music, Saint Cecilia. It has an unusually fast tempo compared to their prior songs. Featuring the rockabilly style of The Everly Brothers, \"Keep the Customer Satisfied\" recounts the exhausting tours that Simon grew tired of, a similar theme to that of their earlier song \"Homeward Bound\". \"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright\" is a tribute to the architect Frank Lloyd Wright but also to Garfunkel, who wanted to train as an architect. It chronicles the early career of the duo and predicts their", "title": "Bridge over Troubled Water" }, { "id": "14383079", "text": "cellular phone, and Woods's loss of commercial endorsements as a result of his infidelity. The episode also parodies the alleged fight that was reported between Woods and Nordegren on Thanksgiving in which Nordegren attacked Woods's car with a golf club and caused him to crash into a fire hydrant. \"Sexual Healing\" also included a version of the public apology Woods delivered on February 2010, which was closely covered and examined by the mainstream media. The episode aired only a few days after Woods publicly announced he would return to golf at the 2010 Masters Tournament in April. The shock and", "title": "Sexual Healing (South Park)" }, { "id": "2663904", "text": "that week's prize in a misleading way, to make it sound much more interesting. One such prize was \"a new house... roof... tile.\" Red gives out sage advice from behind his fly tying workbench, usually talking to older men about married life or coping with changing society (\"Let's face it\", he quipped in one episode, \"these days, if you're not young, you're old\"). This segment always concluded with, \"Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.\" Red and another character, standing together at the base of the basement stairs in a close-up, giving men advice on how to", "title": "The Red Green Show" }, { "id": "8444541", "text": "deserved them.\" Pope subsequently wrote the architect, beginning his letter \"Dear Mr. Wright, There are certain things a man wants during life, and of life. Material things and things of the spirit. The writer has one fervent wish that includes both. It is a house created by you.\" After Wright agreed, Pope subsequently visited another Usonian home of Wright's design and met Wright at Taliesin. The architect originally designed a house of . Mr. Pope at the time made $50 per week, and borrowing the money for the house proved difficult, with one lender counseling Pope the home would be", "title": "Pope–Leighey House" }, { "id": "11238493", "text": "Michael Forbes (farmer) Michael Forbes (born circa 1952) is a farmer, part-time salmon fisherman and quarry worker from near Balmedie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who became known after his refusal to sell his land to billionaire Donald Trump, who was planning to build an extensive luxury golf course complex in the area with hindrance from the governing SNP Alex Salmond. Forbes's farm, which is said by Trump to be in a state of disrepair, has the words \"NO GOLF COURSE\" painted on a shed. He attracted media attention in the United States for standing up to Trump. Forbes has insisted that", "title": "Michael Forbes (farmer)" }, { "id": "11238489", "text": "Michael Forbes (farmer) Michael Forbes (born circa 1952) is a farmer, part-time salmon fisherman and quarry worker from near Balmedie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who became known after his refusal to sell his land to billionaire Donald Trump, who was planning to build an extensive luxury golf course complex in the area with hindrance from the governing SNP Alex Salmond. Forbes's farm, which is said by Trump to be in a state of disrepair, has the words \"NO GOLF COURSE\" painted on a shed. He attracted media attention in the United States for standing up to Trump. Forbes has insisted that", "title": "Michael Forbes (farmer)" }, { "id": "4572034", "text": "Stratton began his rise to stardom in the United States. Stratton’s fame grew at an astonishing rate, and his popularity and celebrity surpassed that of any actor within his lifetime. On his return home from his second tour in 1847, aboard the SS \"Cambria\", he attracted the attention of the explorer John Palliser who \"was not a little surprised, on entering the state-cabin, to hear the most unnatural shrill little pipe exclaiming, “Waiter! bring me a Welsh rabbit”. During the voyage, General Tom Thumb contributed to a collection for the relief of famine victims in Ireland. Stratton’s first performances in", "title": "General Tom Thumb" }, { "id": "211536", "text": "announced a reuniting performance to be held in July 2014. In a Reddit Ask Me Anything interview, Cleese expressed regret that he had turned down the role played by Robin Williams in \"The Birdcage\", the butler in \"The Remains of the Day\", and the clergyman played by Peter Cook in \"The Princess Bride\". In his \"Alimony Tour\" Cleese explained the origin of his fondness for black humour, the only thing that he inherited from his mother. Examples of it are the Dead Parrot sketch, \"The Kipper and the Corpse\" episode of \"Fawlty Towers\", his clip for the 1992 BBC2 mockumentary", "title": "John Cleese" }, { "id": "4187", "text": "the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit. When Bell spoke the sentence \"Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you\" into the liquid transmitter, Watson, listening at the receiving end in an adjoining room, heard the words clearly. Although Bell was, and still is, accused of stealing the telephone from Gray, Bell used Gray's water transmitter design only after Bell's patent had been granted, and only as a proof of concept scientific experiment, to prove to his own satisfaction that intelligible \"articulate speech\" (Bell's words) could be electrically transmitted. After March", "title": "Alexander Graham Bell" }, { "id": "7558329", "text": "his funding has been cut, causing him to pack up Deep 13 and cut loose the \"Satellite of Love\". The end of the episode is a parody of \"\", in which an old Clayton tries to reach a Monolith-like giant videocassette labeled \"The Worst Film Ever Made\". In the final scene, he is reborn as a . When Pearl muses about another chance to raise her son, he utters his final words of the Comedy Central series: \"Oh, poopie.\" When he was leaving the show, Trace Beaulieu said, \"It's kind of bittersweet, but it was time for me to go,\".", "title": "Dr. Clayton Forrester (Mystery Science Theater 3000)" }, { "id": "6902146", "text": "who was seated next to him on the dais, and said, \"Yeah, how come?\"—then slumped into his lap. Berle's shout of \"Is there a doctor in the house?\" was initially thought to be a humorous ad lib, but the gravity of the situation quickly became clear. Einstein was carried backstage, where five physicians in attendance (the event was a charity benefit for local hospitals) worked to revive him. One surgeon used his pen knife to make an incision for open heart massage; another used the ends of an electric cord as a makeshift defibrillator. With the remaining comedians on the", "title": "Harry Einstein" }, { "id": "6423968", "text": "the last one, says \"[The letter is from] Norm Macdonald—who is that?\" Earlier in 1999, Macdonald made a cameo appearance in the Andy Kaufman biographical drama \"Man on the Moon\". When Michael Richards refused to portray himself in the scene reenacting the famous \"Fridays\" incident in which Kaufman threw water in his face, Macdonald stepped in to play Richards, although he was not referred to by name. In 2000, Macdonald played the starring role for the second time in a motion picture, \"Screwed\", which fared poorly at the box office. On November 12, 2000, he appeared on the Celebrity Edition", "title": "Norm Macdonald" }, { "id": "3608502", "text": "the famous rock musician (and self-confessed former alcoholic) Jimmy Barnes. Since then, the company has continued to use the \"Give 'em the Bird\" slogan and middle finger gesturing in additional advertising and promotional activities. In November 2012, Jimmy Russell, the Wild Turkey Master Distiller, publicly called for U.S. President Barack Obama to \"Give us the bird\", as a way of offering to provide a home for that year's White House Thanksgiving Day turkey (which is traditionally \"pardoned\" by the president) – saying the turkey would become the brand's official \"spokesbird\". In 2016, Matthew McConaughey was hired as creative director and", "title": "Wild Turkey (bourbon)" }, { "id": "10473348", "text": "by his first teacher, Joseph Silsbee. The house is considered a contributing property to both a local and federally Registered Historic District. The Harrison P. Young House was first built during the 1870s for Harrison P. Young based upon a design by William E. Coman. In 1895 it was remodeled by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the same client. The Young House is atypical to the other design work by Wright found in the neighborhood, though, its steeply pitched roof is closely identified with some of his other early work. The Young House was perhaps most influenced by", "title": "Harrison P. Young House" }, { "id": "767343", "text": "mixed reviews and did poorly at the box office, ultimately grossing $14.6 million in the United States against its budget of $15 million, though it later developed a cult following. In 1954, six strangers are invited to a dinner party at Hill House, a secluded New England mansion. They are met by the butler, Wadsworth, who gives each of them a pseudonym, with none of them knowing or being addressed by their real names. The guests – Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet – are served by Wadsworth and the maid, Yvette. During", "title": "Clue (film)" }, { "id": "2771475", "text": "heavy hints as to tax changes planned in the budget. For example, while playing golf, he shouted \"Tee up!\", which was taken as a suggestion that the duties on tea were to rise. Thomas was made a Freeman of Newport in 1924. In May 2011 a casket given to him to celebrate the occasion was purchased at auction for Newport Museum. Despite his humble origins he had a reputation for mixing well with all levels of society. Among the Labour ministers he was a favourite with George V It was from laughing at a bawdy joke Thomas told the king", "title": "J. H. Thomas" }, { "id": "10465003", "text": "district. The Francis J. Woolley House was named for the lawyer for whom architect Frank Lloyd Wright originally designed it, Francis J. Woolley. The building's design has been called a \"Queen Anne splendor,\" a style represented by the Woolley House's massive bay windows and projecting roof masses. Like other early Wright works, the design is much more conventional than later high-style examples of Wright's Prairie School such as the Heurtley House. \"The New York Times\" quipped in a 1996 article that the \"two-story frame house with a hip roof that could almost pass for the vernacular architecture of the period.\"", "title": "Francis J. Woolley House" }, { "id": "1359778", "text": "passage of boat, was a measure on the sounding line. Twain is an archaic term for \"two\", as in \"The veil of the temple was rent in twain.\" The riverboatman's cry was \"mark twain\" or, more fully, \"by the mark twain\", meaning \"according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]\", that is, \"The water is deep and it is safe to pass.\" Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In \"Life on the Mississippi\", he wrote: Captain Isaiah Sellers was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "id": "13572604", "text": "robotically.\" He went on to praise the winners of the night, but he ended his review with the words, \"Dead. In. The. Water.\" Television critic Tim Goodman of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" commented, \"In what could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history, a bad and risky idea — letting two actors host — played out in spectacularly unwatchable fashion on the biggest of all nights for the film world.\" He also added, \"These Oscars were a bore-fest that seemed to drag on relentlessly but listlessly.\" Gail Pennington of the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" wrote that the ceremony", "title": "83rd Academy Awards" }, { "id": "12360709", "text": "was not to be taken as a serious, legally binding offer. It was an invitation to treat, mere puffery, a gimmick. But the Court of Appeal held that to a reasonable man Carbolic had made a serious offer, accentuated by their reassuring statement, \"£1000 is deposited\". Equally, people had given good consideration for the offer by going to the \"distinct inconvenience\" of using a faulty product. \"Read the advertisement how you will, and twist it about as you will\", said Lord Justice Lindley, \"here is a distinct promise expressed in language which is perfectly unmistakable\". \"Consideration\" indicates the fact that", "title": "Law" }, { "id": "8902250", "text": "unemployment. Sir Humphrey now obliges him and gives a full and frank personal opinion on how joblessness could be halved by cutting benefits and compelling the 'so-called' unemployed to accept offers of work, thereby removing them from the register \"before you could say 'parasite'.\" However, the interview tape is still running… Sir Humphrey is sent a copy of the tape along with a note from the BBC. He is anxious that Bernard should hear his interview, but the tape only contains the 'off the record' comments and Sir Humphrey is aghast. Bernard is similarly astounded that his master could be", "title": "The Tangled Web" }, { "id": "7043077", "text": "friendship between the Magrills and Formans and Lester frequented the restaurant almost five days a week for sixty years. Legend has it that Lester visited the Great Neck restaurant one evening and when mistreated by the Maitre'd, he asked to use the house phone. He turned to the offending host and stated, 'It's for you'. On the other end of the phone an irate Sol Forman fired the offending host on the spot and Magrill was immediately seated. A rave from über-critic Craig Claiborne in \"The New York Times\" was proof that Forman and Sloyer had kept the Luger faith—and", "title": "Peter Luger Steak House" }, { "id": "8112687", "text": "In a statement released on its website, Judy Shepard, chair of the MSF, declined the gift, saying that \"because the lawsuit presumably involves the physical attack prompted by Mr. Hilton's admitted use of an anti-gay slur, the Foundation will be unable to accept any funds obtained in such a manner.\" Hilton received little sympathy in the media over the incident, a fact he addressed in his video blog. John Mayer made comments ridiculing Hilton and the incident on his Twitter page, resulting in a volley of insults between the two. Gawker viewed Hilton's public apology with skepticism, being of the", "title": "Perez Hilton" }, { "id": "15321088", "text": "into water.\" Socrates replied, \"You are going to throw me into the water.\" Socrates's response is a sophism that puts Plato in a difficult situation. He could not throw Socrates into water, because by doing this Plato would have violated his promise to let Socrates cross the bridge if he speaks the truth. On the other hand, if Plato would have allowed Socrates to cross the bridge, it would have meant that Socrates said an untruth when he replied \"You are going to throw me into the water,\" and he therefore should have been thrown into the water. In other", "title": "Pinocchio paradox" }, { "id": "8527955", "text": "treated him with great kindness. When the stranger was about to leave, he turned to face the town and uttered the curse: \"Semerwater rise, and Semerwater sink, And swallow the town all save this house, Where they gave me food and drink.\" An alternative version as told by locals; \"Semerwater rise, Semerwater sink, drown all the people In the village except for this house which gave me meat\". And as soon as this was said, the waters of the lake rose up and flooded the village, drowning the proud inhabitants and leaving only the hovel of the poor couple on", "title": "Semerwater" }, { "id": "20835157", "text": "tiles. The Klip-Lok roof has been replaced (like for like). Although Boyd's plans called for the use of Jarrah timber for the deck of the pool, this couldn't be obtained at the time of construction and Tallowwood was used instead. That timber has since been replaced with Blackbutt when Tallowwood could no longer be obtained. The mirror wall in the dining room was not part of Boyd's design. Boyd preferred open space but Lyons wanted a TV nook next to the kitchen. A relative suggested using a mirror wall to divide the space and the Lyons have been happy with", "title": "Lyons House, Sydney" }, { "id": "1103168", "text": "a.m. on Friday October 19, the day of Nixon's deadline for appealing to the Supreme Court (otherwise the Court of Appeals decision would become final), Cox received a letter from Wright dated the previous night. It purported to confirm Cox's \"rejection\" of Richardson's \"very reasonable proposal.\" There was no mention of the four conditions. He wrote that he would telephone at 10:00 a.m. to find out if there was any reason to continue talking. Cox, who until then had publicly and privately spoken of the integrity of Wright, told his colleagues: \"very clever lies.\" Cox wrote a note to Wright", "title": "Archibald Cox" }, { "id": "10178649", "text": "office with two City gents (Michael Palin and Terry Jones). On a table near the window stand two architectural models of tower blocks. Mr. Tid informs the City gents that he has invited the architects responsible to explain the advantages of their respective designs. First to arrive is Mr. Wiggin (John Cleese), who describes his architectural design and modern construction, and then explains his killing technique starting with a conveyor belt and 'rotating knives'. It turns out that Mr. Wiggin mainly designs slaughterhouses and has misunderstood the owners' attitude to their tenants. When Mr. Wiggin fails to persuade them to", "title": "Architects Sketch" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "934428", "text": "2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship. In response, Shatner asked \"how much would you pay \"me\" to do it?\" In August 2007, Branson announced on \"The Colbert Report\" that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert. He later doused political satirist and talk show host Stephen Colbert with water from his mug. Branson subsequently took a retaliatory splash from Colbert. The interview quickly ended, with both laughing as shown on the episode aired on Comedy Central on 22 August 2007. The interview was promoted on \"The", "title": "Richard Branson" }, { "id": "13300800", "text": "properties came across the article and resolved to purchase the property. It came on the market shortly after and LaFetra’s offer was accepted. Within a week of the purchase LaFetra received a phone message from Pierre Koenig stating: “Hello, this is Pierre, your architect, and I want to talk.” Soon after LaFetra was told by Koenig that “he ought not to have to change anything in the house but, if he needed to, he should get in touch with him.” Soon after a friendship began and by 2000 LaFetra had commissioned Koenig to design a new home for him on", "title": "Bailey House – Case Study House" }, { "id": "12760986", "text": "got to go – it's 10 after 2..\" (clubs were only licensed to stay open until 2am); and with Harry's bass still pulsing, Bobby didn't miss a beat, repeats the statement, then retorts, \" well tell the police to come on in!\" Womack attempted to wrap up, with Wright closing, \"Ladies and gentleman Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack\", but the house wanted more, Bobby came back and gave them one more – the police just stood at the door...listening! In 1972 Bobby released the album Understanding (Bobby Womack album). The album reached No. 43 on the \"Billboard\" pop albums chart and", "title": "Harry Womack" }, { "id": "134584", "text": "were usually constructed without basements or attics, all features that Wright had been promoting since the early 20th century. Usonian houses were Wright's response to the transformation of domestic life that occurred in the early 20th century when servants had become less prominent or completely absent from most American households. By developing homes with progressively more open plans, Wright allotted the woman of the house a 'workspace', as he often called the kitchen, where she could keep track of and be available for the children and/or guests in the dining room. As in the Prairie Houses, Usonian living areas had", "title": "Frank Lloyd Wright" }, { "id": "16320858", "text": "about his black Labrador Retriever Eddie staying outside in the winter, and decided he needed a doghouse to stay warm. Jim subsequently wrote a letter to Frank Lloyd Wright stating, \"I would appreciate it if you would design me a doghouse which would be easy to build but would go with our house.\" Jim continued to explain Eddie's dimensions (\"two and a half feet high and three feet long\"), his dog's age (\"four years old or in dog life 28 years\"), and his ability to pay for the plans and materials of the doghouse with earned money from delivering newspapers", "title": "Eddie's House" }, { "id": "3038722", "text": "Netherlands, as well as traveling and studying. When it was decided to make the movie about his life called \"Serpico\", Al Pacino invited Serpico to stay with him at a house that Pacino had rented in Montauk, New York. When Pacino asked why he had stepped forward, Serpico replied, \"Well, Al, I don't know. I guess I would have to say it would be because... if I didn't, who would I be when I listened to a piece of music?\" He has credited his grandfather who had once been assaulted and robbed, and his uncle, a respected policeman in Italy,", "title": "Frank Serpico" }, { "id": "13364349", "text": "in those circumstances if either the master had \"maliciously designed\" to injure his servant, or he had \"positively guaranteed\" his safety. Seizing upon this opening, Serjeant Goulbourne stated that after the verdict \"it will be intended that the master was aware of the danger, and that he denied to the servant that there was any danger.\" Parke, B. then posed a hypothetical: \"Suppose I send my servant on the roof, to clear away the snow; if the roof gives way am I liable?\" Serjeant Goulbourne replied that the present case differed because \"it is not a mere state of insufficiency;", "title": "Priestley v Fowler" }, { "id": "8866114", "text": "Hamburger greeting callers with 'You're not on the air!' and 'Poolside SHIT with Neil Hamburger' (phrases that would be used again in future episodes), and bemused conversations between Hamburger, guest King Buzzo and Tom Green. With one angry caller, Hamburger claimed that Bob Dole had censored the show, to which the caller replied 'Yeah, fuck Bob Dole!'. Hamburger then suggested the caller 'go down to the local wall' and spray paint 'Fuck Bob Dole' on it, to which the caller replied 'I'll spray paint everything'. This has become a joke with fans of \"Poolside Chats\", who bring up their dislike", "title": "Poolside Chats" }, { "id": "9390051", "text": "\"For Gratidius raised a tempest in a ladle, as the saying is\". Then in the early 3rd century AD, Athenaeus, in the \"Deipnosophistae\", has Dorion ridiculing the description of a tempest in the \"Nautilus\" of Timotheus by saying that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan. The phrase also appeared in its French form \"une tempête dans un verre d'eau\" (a tempest in a glass of water), to refer to the popular uprising in the Republic of Geneva near the end of the 18th century. One of the earliest occurrences in print of the modern version", "title": "Tempest in a teapot" }, { "id": "9802491", "text": "subsequently \"resisted all efforts to spare his life\" and walked calmly into the execution chamber at 10:00 p.m; the Associated Press reporter at the scene wrote that \"James Donald French got what he demanded: death in the electric chair,\" and commented that \"He faced death with the same cockiness he faced life.\" In later years, French's last words before his death by electric chair would be said to have been \"How's this for your headline? 'French Fries'\". The story appeared as early as 1977 in \"The Book of Lists\", but contemporaneous accounts of the execution mentioned only one of the", "title": "James French (murderer)" }, { "id": "12922748", "text": "so, calling his home a \"sucker\" for getting stuck with the bill. Marge and Homer visit their mortgage broker, Gil Gunderson, after receiving a letter and find out that their adjustable rate mortgage payment has increased drastically because of Homer's ineptitude. The Simpson home goes up for auction and after seeing the Simpsons' sorrow, Ned Flanders outbids Mr. Burns, purchasing the home for $101,000 and then offers to let the Simpsons move back in and rent the property from him. The Simpsons thank Ned with a song and a small celebration, when Marge notices the sink faucet dripping. Ned offers", "title": "No Loan Again, Naturally" }, { "id": "374241", "text": "words is usually quite different from their originals. Popular examples include \"Trottwaa\" (from \"trottoir\"), \"Fissääl\" (from \"ficelle\"), and the imperative or greeting \"aalleh!\" (from \"allez!\"). The English sentence 'My house is green' is pronounced almost the same in the Rhine Franconian variant: \"Mei Haus is grien\". The main difference lies in the pronunciation of the \"r\" sound. Regional beer brewer Karlsberg has taken advantage of the Saarlandish dialect to create clever advertising for its staple product, UrPils. Examples include a trio of men enjoying a beer, flanked by baby carriages, the slogan reading \"\"Mutter schafft\"\" (meaning \"Mom's at work\" in", "title": "Saarland" }, { "id": "15882812", "text": "Lowe. His design was probably altered by Robert and Georgiana Lowe. Completed in 1845, Bronte House is among the oldest buildings in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. The name Bronte is a late 19th. century conceit and suggests a much grander residence than is really the case. Early records refer to the house simply and more appropriately as 'Mr. Lowe's Cottage at Cugee'. Even the appellation Bronte is a relatively recent one. In 1799, Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies, created Lord Nelson, Duke of Bronte. In ancient Greek, the word \"Bronte\" means \"Cyclops\" or \"Thunder\" (Lady Hamilton used", "title": "Bronte House" }, { "id": "539189", "text": "released a statement on his website and took sole responsibility for the accident, calling it a \"private matter\" and crediting his wife for helping him from the car. On November 30, Woods announced that he would not be appearing at his own charity golf tournament, the Chevron World Challenge, nor any other tournaments in 2009, due to his injuries. On December 2, following \"Us Weekly\"s previous day reporting of a purported mistress and subsequent release of a voicemail message allegedly left by Woods for the woman, Woods released a further statement. He admitted \"transgressions\" and apologized to \"all of those", "title": "Tiger Woods" }, { "id": "6263260", "text": "Mermaid’. Apparently they were seen as too elitist. The wine in question seems to be the same as sack. Jonson and Beaumont both mentioned the tavern in their verse. Jonson's \"Inviting a Friend to Supper\" refers to \"A pure cup of rich Canary wine, / Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine\". Beaumont, in his verse letter to Jonson, describes \"things we have seen done / At the Mermaid\", including...words that have been<br>So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,<br>As if that every one from whence they came,<br>Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.Two hundred", "title": "Mermaid Tavern" }, { "id": "8613996", "text": "caveat having been filed first.\" In commenting on letters Gray and Bell wrote to each other before the trials, Gray wrote \"Two or three letters passed and in one of them I told him of the caveat. In his [Bell's] answer he said, \"<nowiki>'</nowiki>I do not know about your caveat, except that it had something to do with a wire vibrating in water',\" or words to that effect. 'Vibrating in water' was the whole thing. How would he know that much?\" About his caveat, Gray wrote \"I showed Bell \"how\" to make the telephone. He could not mistake it, because", "title": "Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy" }, { "id": "13050546", "text": "Morra?\"). As the butler swears he'll get rid of Daffy permanently, the wily duck starts interrogating the butler à la Humphrey Bogart (\"Not so fast, my man, Godfrey! It becomes increasingly apparent that I'm not wanted around here!\"), accusing him of not wanting Cubish to return to his good health (\"Are we to assume that there is anything significant in this attitude of yours? That A: A butler might not \"want\" his master to recover his good health? That B: Said butler should endeavor to remove from the premises the only person capable of restoring said health, to said master?!\").", "title": "Daffy Dilly" }, { "id": "8010201", "text": "Herman T. Mossberg Residence Herman T. Mossberg Residence is a house designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built for Herman T. Mossberg and his wife Gertrude in 1948 in South Bend, Indiana, and remains in private hands today. It is one of two Wright residences in South Bend, the other being the K. C. DeRhodes House. Mr. Mossberg grew up in Chicago and it was his youthful appreciation of Wright's Robie House that instilled an idea that, if possible, he would like to have a house like that one day. The Mossbergs settled in South Bend,", "title": "Herman T. Mossberg Residence" }, { "id": "3655437", "text": "Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. (March 31, 1890 – May 31, 1978) commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect, active primarily in Los Angeles and Southern California. He was a landscape architect for various Los Angeles projects (1922–24), provided the shells for the Hollywood Bowl (1926–28), and produced the Swedenborg Memorial Chapel (or Wayfarer's Chapel) at Rancho Palos Verdes, California (1946–71). His name is frequently confused with that of his more famous father, Frank Lloyd Wright. Born on March 31, 1890, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. was the son of renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Wright's first", "title": "Lloyd Wright" }, { "id": "7591455", "text": "Jesse R. Zeigler House The Reverend Jesse R. Ziegler Residence is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Frankfort, Kentucky. The Ziegler house is the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure built in Kentucky during the lifetime of the famous architect. The design came from a chance meeting between Ziegler and Wright while both were traveling to Europe in late October 1909. They struck up a conversation and the commission of this structure, completed the following year, was the result. The structure is a typical example of Wright's \"A Fireproof House for $5000\". The structure was placed on the National Register of", "title": "Jesse R. Zeigler House" }, { "id": "12937382", "text": "the river being a favoured method of transport on London. With the Banqueting House, it is one of the few surviving reminders in London of the Italianate court style of Charles I. The water gate is believed to have been designed by Stone. However, like the Banqueting House, the design of the water gate has been attributed to Inigo Jones, with Stone only being credited with the building. It has also been attributed to the diplomat and painter Sir Balthazar Gerbier. The similarity of the architecture to the Danby Gate (\"below\") and its bold vermicelli rusticated design in a confident", "title": "Nicholas Stone" }, { "id": "1502623", "text": "the president's visit to the defeated city, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Shakespearean actor known for playing both Richard and Richmond. Booth's notorious, final words from the stage were \"\"Sic semper tyrannis\"\". The 2010 film, \"The King's Speech\", features a scene where the king's speech therapist Lionel Logue, as played by Geoffrey Rush, auditions for the role by reciting the lines, \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York\". Shakespeare critic Keith Jones believes that the film in general sets up its main character as a kind", "title": "Richard III (play)" }, { "id": "566909", "text": "an animated adaptation of \"King Kong\", were inconsistent in terms of both critical and commercial reception. Moore eventually disowned the \"Arthur\" sequel, but, in later years, Cook would wind him up by claiming he preferred \"Arthur 2: On the Rocks\" to \"Arthur\". In 1986 he once again hosted \"Saturday Night Live\", albeit without Peter Cook this time. Moore was the subject of the British \"This Is Your Life\"—for a second time—in March 1987 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at his Venice Beach restaurant; he had previously been honoured by the programme in December 1972. In addition to acting,", "title": "Dudley Moore" } ]

[ "Mammy was Pansy; Pappy, Lucifer" ]

[ { "id": "32642", "text": "commentary, \"Li'l Abner\" is considered a classic of the genre. The comic strip stars Li'l Abner Yokum—the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents—scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum. \"Yokum\" was a combination of \"yokel\" and \"hokum\", although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965–1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price. \"It's phonetic Hebrew—that's what it is, all right—and that's what I was getting at with the name Yokum, more so than any attempt to sound \"hickish,\"\" said", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "1876794", "text": "million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp \"had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South.\" Li'l Abner Yokum: Abner was 6' 3\" and perpetually 19 \"y'ars\" old. A naïve, simpleminded, gullible and sweet-natured hillbilly, he lived in a ramshackle log cabin with his pint-sized parents. Capp derived the family name \"Yokum\" as a combination of \"yokel\" and \"hokum\". In Capp's satirical and often complex plots, Abner was a country bumpkin Candide — a paragon of innocence in a sardonically dark and cynical", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "7216807", "text": "Li'l Abner (1959 film) Li'l Abner is a 1959 musical film based on the comic strip of the same name created by Al Capp and the successful Broadway musical of the same name that opened in 1956. The movie was produced by Norman Panama and directed by Melvin Frank (co-writers of the Broadway production). It was the second film to be based on the comic strip, the first being RKO's 1940 film, \"Li'l Abner\". It's a \"typical day\" in Dogpatch, U. S. A., a hillbilly town where Abner Yokum lives with his parents. Mammy Yokum insists on giving Abner his", "title": "Li'l Abner (1959 film)" }, { "id": "5987275", "text": "Salomey Salomey was the Yokums' beloved pet pig in the classic comic strip \"Li'l Abner\", by cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979). Salomey, whose name was a pun on both salami and Salome, was supposedly the last female \"Hammus alabammus\"—an adorable species of pig, which led to a number of story arcs. Cute, lovable, and intelligent (arguably smarter than the male Yokums, Li'l Abner and Pappy), she was accepted as part of the family. One story from 1942 concerned the kidnapping of Salomey by \"the world's greatest sportsman hogbreeder\" J. R. Fangsley, who wanted to breed her with the last male Hammus", "title": "Salomey" }, { "id": "5987277", "text": "(Students for a Democratic Society). Capp, who lived right outside Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, weathered severe criticism from the Left for this continuity, but stood by his satire of the era's excesses by militant student protesters. Salomey Salomey was the Yokums' beloved pet pig in the classic comic strip \"Li'l Abner\", by cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979). Salomey, whose name was a pun on both salami and Salome, was supposedly the last female \"Hammus alabammus\"—an adorable species of pig, which led to a number of story arcs. Cute, lovable, and intelligent (arguably smarter than the male Yokums, Li'l Abner and Pappy),", "title": "Salomey" }, { "id": "1876800", "text": "phrase, however, is \"Good is better than evil becuz it's \"nicer!\"\" (Upon his retirement in 1977, Capp declared Mammy to be his personal favorite of all his characters.) Pappy Yokum: Born Lucifer Ornamental Yokum, pint-sized Pappy had the misfortune of being the patriarch in a family that didn't have one. Pappy was so lazy and ineffectual, he didn't even bathe himself. Mammy was regularly seen scrubbing Pappy in an outdoor oak tub (\"Once a month, rain or shine\"). Ironing Pappy's trousers fell under her wifely duties as well, although she didn't bother with preliminaries — like waiting for Pappy to", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "1876802", "text": "evil. Of course Mammy solved the problem with a tooth extraction, and ended the episode with her most famous dictum. Honest Abe Yokum: Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae's little boy was born in 1953 \"after a pregnancy that ambled on so long that readers began sending me medical books,\" wrote Capp. Initially known as \"Mysterious Yokum\" (there was even an Ideal doll marketed under this name) due to a debate regarding his gender (he was stuck in a pants-shaped stovepipe for the first six weeks), he was renamed \"Honest Abe\" (after President Abraham Lincoln) to thwart his early tendency to", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "32631", "text": "dealt with northern urban experiences until the year Capp introduced \"Li'l Abner,\" the first strip based in the South. Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years teaching the world about Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. M. Thomas Inge says Capp made a large personal fortune on the strip and \"had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South\". Born in New Haven, Connecticut, of East European Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda (Davidson) Caplin.", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "1876804", "text": "after dishonestly producing a fraudulent pair he confess to the truth at the last second. Tiny Yokum: \"Tiny\" was a misnomer; Li'l Abner's kid brother remained perpetually innocent and 15½ \"y'ars\" old — despite the fact that he was an imposing, tall behemoth. Tiny was unknown to the strip until September 1954, when a relative who had been raising him reminded Mammy that she'd given birth to a second \"chile\" while visiting her 15 years earlier. (The relative explained that she would have dropped him off sooner, but waited until she happened to be in the neighborhood.) Capp introduced Tiny", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "1876805", "text": "to fill the bachelor role played reliably for nearly two decades by Li'l Abner himself, until his fateful 1952 marriage threw the carefully orchestrated dynamic of the strip out of whack for a period. Pursued by local lovelies Hopeful Mudd and Boyless Bailey, Tiny was even dumber and more awkward than Abner, if that can be imagined. Tiny initially sported a bulbous nose like both of his parents, but eventually, (through a plot contrivance) he was given a nose job, and his shaggy blond hair was buzz cut to make him more appealing. Salomey: The Yokums' beloved pet. Cute, lovable", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "1876796", "text": "Daisy Mae Scragg, the virtuous, voluptuous, barefoot Dogpatch damsel and scion of the Yokums' blood feud enemies — the Scraggs, her bloodthirsty, semi-evolved kinfolk. For 18 years, Abner slipped out of Daisy Mae's marital crosshairs time and time again. When Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to tie the knot, it was a major media event. It even made the cover of \"Life\" magazine on March 31, 1952 — illustrating an article by Capp titled \"It's Hideously True!! The Creator of \"Li'l Abner\" Tells Why His Hero Is \"(SOB!)\" Wed!!\" Daisy Mae Yokum (née Scragg):", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "32632", "text": "His brothers, Elliott and Jerome, were cartoonists, and his sister, Madeline, was a publicist. Capp's parents were both natives of Latvia whose families had migrated to New Haven in the 1880s. \"My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants,\" wrote Capp in 1978. \"Their fathers had found that the great promise of America was true — it was no crime to be a Jew.\" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "1876798", "text": "Daisy Mae's nuptials were a major source of media attention, landing them on the aforementioned cover of \"Life\" magazine's March 31, 1952, issue. Once married, Abner became relatively domesticated. Like Mammy Yokum and the other \"wimmenfolk\" in Dogpatch, Daisy Mae did all the work, domestic and otherwise — while the useless menfolk generally did nothing whatsoever. Mammy Yokum: Born Pansy Hunks, Mammy was the scrawny, highly principled \"sassiety\" leader and bare knuckle \"champeen\" of the town of Dogpatch. She married the inconsequential Pappy Yokum in 1902; they produced two strapping sons twice their own size. Mammy dominated the Yokum clan", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "5892776", "text": "Illustrators. He began drawing \"Abbie an' Slats\" in 1937. The strip followed the experiences of a rural spinster raising her young cousin, a streetwise urban child. It was the idea of Al Capp, who intended to start a second strip to build upon the success of his popular \"Li'l Abner\". Instead of drawing it himself, Capp recruited Van Buren. Initially, Van Buren turned him down, but he was soon lured by the prospect of steady work, as he had just had his first and only child with his wife, Fern. The strip was carried in 400 newspapers but did not", "title": "Raeburn Van Buren" }, { "id": "32668", "text": "instrumental in changing those rules. The NCS finally accepted female members the following year. In December 1952, Capp published an article in \"Real\" magazine titled \"The REAL Powers in America\" that further challenged the conventional attitudes of the day: \"The real powers in America are \"women\"—the wives and sweethearts behind the masculine dummies ...\" Highlights of the 1950s included the much-heralded marriage of Abner and Daisy Mae in 1952, the birth of their son \"Honest Abe\" Yokum in 1953, and in 1954, the introduction of Abner's enormous, long lost kid brother Tiny Yokum, who filled Abner's place as a bachelor", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "32643", "text": "Capp. \"That was a fortunate coincidence, of course, that the name should pack a backwoods connotation. But it's a godly conceit, really, playing off a godly name—\"Joachim\" means 'God's determination', something like that—that also happens to have a rustic ring to it.\" The Yokums live in the backwater hamlet of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Described by its creator as \"an average stone-age community,\" Dogpatch mostly consists of hopelessly ramshackle log cabins, pine trees, \"tarnip\" fields and \"hawg\" wallows. Whatever energy Abner had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae Scragg, his sexy, well-endowed (but virtuous) girlfriend—until Capp finally gave in", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "32719", "text": "\"The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me,\" (from \"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,\" 1751). \"Neither the strip's shifting political leanings nor the slide of its final few years had any bearing on its status as a classic; and in 1995, it was recognized as such by the U.S. Postal Service,\" according to \"Toonopedia\". \"Li'l Abner\" was one of 20 American comic strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of USPS commemorative stamps. Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum (formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art),", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "300473", "text": "Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (, '; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin, was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization . He was a Saudi Arabian until 1994 (stateless thereafter), a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Bin Ladens father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group. His mother, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family based in Latakia, Syria. He was born in Saudi Arabia", "title": "Osama bin Laden" }, { "id": "1876793", "text": "Li'l Abner Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977. It was originally distributed by United Feature Syndicate, and later by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li'l Abner, the first strip based in the South. The comic strip had 60", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "2372857", "text": "first brought Adams national attention. \"It's a Typical Day\" as the citizens of Dogpatch, U.S.A. go about their daily activities. As usual, sweet, curvaceous Daisy Mae Scragg is pursuing Li'l Abner Yokum who, despite being a strapping, handsome young man, isn't interested in girls or employment. Abner's domineering, diminutive Mammy sends Daisy Mae to tell Abner to come to the Cornpone Meetin' in the town square. At the fishing hole with his friends, Abner lazily reflects that if he could be anyone in the world, he'd rather be himself (\"If I had my Druthers\"). Daisy Mae tells the young men", "title": "Li'l Abner (musical)" }, { "id": "8581388", "text": "York, on September 29, 1915, the eldest of three children of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His mother, the former Ida Yanowitz, came to the United States in 1904 and worked in the garment industry. His father, Joseph, immigrated in 1913 after attending a commercial college in the Ukraine and being stationed in Harbin, China, as a soldier during the Russo-Japanese War. Handlin's parents were passionately devoted to literature and the life of the mind. Their experience of religious persecution in Czarist Russia made them fiercely devoted to democracy and social justice (Handlin was a proto-\"red diaper baby.\") The couple owned a grocery", "title": "Oscar Handlin" }, { "id": "14505399", "text": "Ilacoin Christian J. A. Faloye (born July 15, 1973), known by his stage names Ilacoin (or simply Coin), is an American rapper and producer. He is the grandson of Yoruba royalty, the son of Nigerian immigrants, but raised mostly by a single American mother. His father, before he was 1 would move him around all of New York to Delaware to New Jersey back to Harlem, where he finally became settled at age 9, living across the street from Tupac Shakur and family. There in Harlem with the absence of a father, a latchkey child, he would begin to become", "title": "Ilacoin" }, { "id": "32630", "text": "Al Capp Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip \"Li'l Abner\", which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips \"Abbie an' Slats\" (in the years 1937–45) and \"Long Sam\" (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his \"unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning\". Comic strips", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "2372860", "text": "asks Abner if he will let her catch him on Sadie Hawkins Day and tries to persuade him that he deserves to marry a girl like her, and Abner agrees that she should marry a boy like him (\"Namely You\"). The townspeople lament that their beloved home has been declared an \"Unnecessary Town\". It turns out that Mammy Yokum's Yokumberry Tonic, which she makes from the one-of-a-kind Yokumberry tree growing outside her home, is what has made Abner so strong and handsome. When a short, pudgy government scientist is given a spoonful, he turns into a tall, muscular man. Abner", "title": "Li'l Abner (musical)" }, { "id": "32724", "text": "reprinting of the entire 43-year history of \"Li'l Abner\" spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010. Al Capp Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip \"Li'l Abner\", which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips \"Abbie an' Slats\" (in the years 1937–45) and \"Long Sam\" (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "3475908", "text": "born near Binyamina in the British Mandate of Palestine. According to Olmert, his parents, Bella (Wagman) and Mordechai Olmert, escaped \"persecution in Ukraine and Russia, and found sanctuary in Harbin, China. They emigrated to Israel to fulfill their dream of building a Jewish and democratic state living in peace in the land of our ancestors.\" His father later became a member of the Knesset for Herut. Olmert's childhood included membership in the Beitar Youth Organization and dealing with the fact that his parents were often blacklisted and alienated due to their affiliation with the Jewish militia group the Irgun. They", "title": "Ehud Olmert" }, { "id": "15232189", "text": "one of whom called the remark \"frightening\". In an interview with Bloomberg view, Cain argued that he is a \"black American\" rather than an \"African American\" since he is able to trace his ancestors within the U.S., describing Barack Obama as \"more of an international ... look, he was raised in Kenya, his mother was white from Kansas and her family had an influence on him, it's true, but his dad was Kenyan\". Interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out that Obama had spent 4 years of his childhood abroad, and that it was in Indonesia – not Kenya, at which point", "title": "Herman Cain 2012 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "300484", "text": "his large family on shooting trips and picnics in the desert. Bin Laden's father Mohammed died in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot Jim Harrington misjudged a landing. Bin Laden's eldest half-brother, Salem bin Laden, the subsequent head of the bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas, in the United States, when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines. The FBI described bin Laden as an adult as tall and thin, between and in height and weighing about , although the author Lawrence Wright, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book", "title": "Osama bin Laden" }, { "id": "4760295", "text": "Jonathan and Martha Kent Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent, often referred to as \"Pa\" and \"Ma\" Kent (respectively), are the fictional adoptive parents of Superman. They live in the rural town of Smallville, Kansas. In most versions of Superman's origin story, Jonathan and Martha were the first to come across the rocket that brought the infant Kal-El, with their adopting him shortly thereafter, renaming him Clark Kent, \"Clark\" being Martha's maiden name. The Kents are usually portrayed as caring parents who instill within Clark a strong sense of morals, and they encourage Clark to use his powers for the betterment", "title": "Jonathan and Martha Kent" }, { "id": "542593", "text": "of volunteers from the Jewish Legion. Yitzhak's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in Mogilev in Belarus. Her father, a rabbi, opposed the Zionist movement and sent Rosa to a Christian high school for girls in Gomel, which gave her a broad general education. Early on, Rosa took an interest in political and social causes. In 1919, she traveled to Palestine on the steamship \"Ruslan\". After working on a kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, she moved to Jerusalem. Rabin's parents met in Jerusalem during the 1920 Nebi Musa riots. They moved to Tel Aviv's Chlenov", "title": "Yitzhak Rabin" }, { "id": "9317290", "text": "1992 film. When Aladdin is initially introduced, he is eighteen years old. He never received a formal education, and has only learned by living on the streets of Agrabah. He has to steal food in the local market in order to survive. He was born to Cassim and his wife. When Aladdin was only an infant, his father left him and his mother in order to find a better life for his family. When Aladdin was two, his mother was captured by bandits and was presumed dead. Aladdin's parents were too poor to provide clothing for their son. When Aladdin", "title": "Aladdin (Disney character)" }, { "id": "1876803", "text": "steal. His first words were \"po'k chop,\" and that remained his favorite food. Though his uncle Tiny was perpetually frozen at 15½ \"y'ars\" old, Honest Abe gradually grew from infant to grade school age, and became a dead ringer for Washable Jones — the star of Capp's early \"topper\" strip. He would eventually acquire a couple of supporting character friends for his own semi-regularly featured adventures in the strip. In one storyline he lives up to his nickname when during a nationwide search for George Washington’s missing socks (the finder gets to shake the President of the United States’s hand)", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "18430361", "text": "stereotypical Moroccan family, the members of which hold a dim view of the ethnic gap in Israel – Beber refuses to honor the moment of silence on Holocaust Remembrance Day, mockingly stating \"I will stand when they teach about my 'shtetl' in Morocco!\" – and instantly dub her \"mayonnaise\" referring to her pale complexion. Aviel confronts the provincial, superstitious-religious, and poverty-stricken world he believed he left behind: His estranged, miserly, eccentric father and his entire family of nine souls reside in a cramped apartment. His mother, Vivienne, is a superstitious diabetic who has a complex relationship with her own mother,", "title": "Zaguri Imperia" }, { "id": "564500", "text": "1963. His father, Kyriacos Panayiotou (nicknamed \"Jack\"), was a Greek Cypriot restaurateur who emigrated to England in the 1950s. His mother, Lesley Angold (\"née\" Harrison), was an English dancer. In June 2008, Michael told the \"Los Angeles Times\" that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she married a non-Jewish man and raised her children with no knowledge of their Jewish background due to her fear during World War II. Michael spent most of his childhood in Kingsbury, London, in the home his parents bought soon after his birth; he attended Roe Green Junior School and Kingsbury High School. His older", "title": "George Michael" }, { "id": "32647", "text": "characters and ideas that it defies summary,\" according to cultural historian Anthony Harkins. \"Yet though Capp's storylines often wandered far afield, his hillbilly setting remained a central touchstone, serving both as a microcosm and a distorting carnival mirror of broader American society.\" The strip's popularity grew from an original eight papers, to ultimately more than 900. At its peak, \"Li'l Abner\" was estimated to have been read daily in the United States by 60 to 70 million people (the U.S. population at the time was only 180 million), with adult readers far outnumbering children. Many communities, high schools and colleges", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "2894607", "text": "July 23, 1967, in the Rochester suburb of Fairport, New York. His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), came from nearby Waterloo and worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming a lawyer and eventually a family court judge. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of Geneva, New York, and worked for the Xerox Corporation. Along with one brother, Gordy, Hoffman has two sisters, Jill and Emily. Hoffman was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Mass as a child, but did not have a heavily religious upbringing. His parents divorced when he was nine, and the children were raised", "title": "Philip Seymour Hoffman" }, { "id": "6242968", "text": "They live in Karen, Nairobi and have a second home at central Farm, in Siaya County. The couple have four children: Fidel (1973–2015), Rosemary (born 1977), Raila Jr. (born 1979) and Winnie (born 1990). Fidel was named after Fidel Castro and Winnie after Winnie Mandela. Winnie is currently studying Communication and International Area Studies as a double major student at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In an interview with BBC News in January 2008, Odinga asserted that he was the first cousin of U.S. president Barack Obama through Obama's father. However, Barack Obama's paternal uncle denied any direct relation to Odinga,", "title": "Raila Odinga" }, { "id": "12245476", "text": "Salome are among the most notable in the history of the Herodian dynasty, and some were involved with the Jesus Movement as well. The next sub-section deals with the grandchildren Costobar and Saul; and the last sub-section gives an overview of all their immediate descendants. Costobar and Saul were royal [Herodian] brothers, and kinsmen of Antipas [b. Alexas], and of Agrippa [II] While Josephus - as we now have it - does not specify the parents of Costobar and Saul, the name “Costobar” provides a clue: their grandfather was very likely Costobar(us), the second husband of Salome, the sister of", "title": "Costobarus" }, { "id": "32993", "text": "He was called \"Snorky\" by his closest friends, a term for a sharp dresser. Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin at age 19 on December 30, 1918. She was Irish Catholic and earlier that month had given birth to their son Albert Francis \"Sonny\" Capone. Capone was under the age of 21, and his parents had to consent in writing to the marriage. By all accounts, the two had a happy marriage despite his gang life. At about 20 years of age, Capone left New York for Chicago at the invitation of Johnny Torrio, who was imported by crime boss James", "title": "Al Capone" }, { "id": "3675914", "text": "Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (; 1908 – 3 September 1967) was a multi-millionaire Saudi businessman working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group and became the wealthiest non-royal Saudi, establishing the wealth and prestige of the Bin Laden family. He was the father of Osama bin Laden. Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on the Hadhramaut coast of south Yemen in 1908 to Awad bin Aboud bin Laden, a Kindite Hadhrami tribesman from al-Rubat, a village in Wadi Doan; Mohammed's paternal grandfather was Aboud bin Laden,", "title": "Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden" }, { "id": "19709224", "text": "Sweden it ran in Hemmets Journal as \"Grosshandlare Petterkvist och hans sekreterare\" (\"Merchant Peter Kvist and His Secretary\"). \"Somebody's Stenog\" was successful enough that Al Capp, shopping \"Li'l Abner\" in the mid 1930s, was pressured to instead draw a strip similar to Hayward's. Hayward married Stella Kelly on August 28, 1907. They had a daughter, Joyce. Hayward died in New York City on July 25, 1939. A. E. Hayward Alfred Earl Hayward (1884 – 1939), was a 20th century American comic strip artist. He was known professionally as A. E. Hayward for his comics work although he used his full", "title": "A. E. Hayward" }, { "id": "17644098", "text": "Israeli descent is Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian, writer and Golden Globe-winning actor. His mother came from Israel. Others include entertainer Uri Geller and professional wrestler Noam Dar. In 2008, six Israelis were counted amongst the top 50 richest people in the UK, according to the \"Sunday Times\" Rich List, equal to the number of people born in the UK who made the top 50. They include Lev Leviev (worth £2.5 billion); Benny Steinmetz; and brothers Eddie and Saul Zakai. Israelis in the United Kingdom Israelis in the United Kingdom are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom who were originally", "title": "Israelis in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "6360632", "text": "Los Angeles. He and his older sister, Shimona (married name: Kushner), were the children of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire and grew up in a Zionist household in Boyle Heights. His father was a founder of the Hebrew Teachers Union in Los Angeles, and both parents, who were born in Ukraine, were founders of North American Habonim, a Labor Zionist youth movement. Yaroslavsky recalled that his parents spoke to their children only in Hebrew to prepare them for emigrating to Israel. They took their children to that country when Shimona was thirteen and Zev was five. Shimona later emigrated", "title": "Zev Yaroslavsky" }, { "id": "17661251", "text": "two of them resolve to protect and look after it. Ten years later in 1967 a young koala named Bunyip Bluegum discovers that he is not an orphan and sets out on a quest to find his parents, Meg and Tom Bluegum. The old crew and the koala paths cross on the road when Bunyip stumbles into the middle of an attempt by thieves to steal the everlasting pudding from Bill and his first mate Sam. <ref name=\"Magic-Pudding/imdb\"></ref> The film was first released in Australia on 14 December 2000. The VHS tape and DVD were released in Australia in May", "title": "The Magic Pudding (film)" }, { "id": "2028554", "text": "over its head. Cartoonist Al Capp ascribed to the shmoo the following curious characteristics: In a sequence beginning in late August 1948, Li'l Abner discovers the shmoos when he ventures into the forbidden \"Valley of the Shmoon\" following the mysterious and musical sound they make (from which their name derives). Abner is thrown off a cliff and into the valley below by a primitive \"large gal\" (as he addresses her), whose job is to guard the valley. (This character is never seen again.) There, against the frantic protestations of a naked, heavily bearded old man who shepherds the shmoos, Abner", "title": "Shmoo" }, { "id": "3952041", "text": "Brooklyn borough of New York City, on October 22, 1903. Of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, he was the youngest of the five sons of Jennie (Gorovitz) and Solomon Horwitz. Because he was the youngest, his brothers called him \"Babe\" to tease him. The name \"Babe\" stuck with him all his life, although when his elder brother Shemp Howard married Gertrude Frank, who was also nicknamed \"Babe\", the brothers called him \"Curly\" to avoid confusion. His full formal Hebrew name was \"Yehudah Lev ben Shlomo Natan ha Levi.\" A quiet child, Howard rarely caused problems for his parents (something in which older", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "id": "11654044", "text": "Abraham's family tree Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Jewish people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and his wife’s servant Hagar. Although Abraham's forefathers were from southern Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq) according to the biblical narrative, Yahweh led Abraham on a journey to the land of Canaan, which he promised to his descendants. The genealogy of Abraham appears in Genesis 5, Genesis 10:1-7, 20, 22-23, 31-32, and Genesis 11. The documentary hypothesis attributes these genealogies to the Priestly", "title": "Abraham's family tree" }, { "id": "2028553", "text": "Shmoo The shmoo (plural: shmoon, also shmoos) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979); the character first appeared in comic strip \"Li'l Abner\" on August 31, 1948. The popular character has gone on to influence pop culture, language and even science. A shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with stubby legs. It has smooth skin, eyebrows and sparse whiskers—but no arms, nose or ears. Its feet are short and round but dextrous, as the shmoo's comic book adventures make clear. It has a rich gamut of facial expressions and often expresses love by exuding hearts", "title": "Shmoo" }, { "id": "13514829", "text": "in theatrical style (hence the strip's name). It could be classified as a gag-a-day comic in those days. \"Thimble Theatre's\" first main characters were the thin Olive Oyl and her boyfriend Harold Hamgravy. After the strip moved away from its initial focus, it settled into a comedy-adventure style featuring Olive, Ham Gravy, and Olive's enterprising brother Castor Oyl. Olive's parents Cole and Nana Oyl also made frequent appearances. Popeye first appeared in the strip on January 17, 1929 as a minor character. He was initially hired by Castor Oyl and Ham to crew a ship for a voyage to Dice", "title": "Popeye" }, { "id": "2781648", "text": "Best Male Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama as well as two additional SAG Awards for Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Tony Soprano was born in 1959, to Livia and Johnny Soprano. His father was a \"capo\" in the DiMeo crime family. He grew up living with his parents and two sisters, Janice and Barbara, in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Tony's paternal grandfather, Corrado Soprano Sr., was an Italian immigrant and master stonemason who helped to build a church in Tony's old", "title": "Tony Soprano" }, { "id": "6292068", "text": "never equalled the popularity of \"Li'l Abner\". Capp abandoned the strip in 1945, turning the writing chores over to his brother Elliot Caplin. Taking on Andy Sprague as an assistant in 1947, Van Buren continued to draw the strip, and it ended with his retirement in 1971. Van Buren continued \"Abbie an' Slats\" for 34 years, retiring in 1971. The National Cartoonists Society named him to their Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1937, the story began with stubborn, street-wise Aubrey Eustace Scrapple, aka Slats, recently orphaned in New York. Arriving by train in a small town of Crabtree Corners,", "title": "Abbie an' Slats" }, { "id": "5233911", "text": "(24 APR [18]96). They are not leopards, however. Their mother is a mountain lion or cougar and their father is a leopard. They take after their father decidedly, and are the daintiest little members of the cat family ever born in captivity. In fact they are the only ones of their kind, so far as known, ever born, either within the confines of a cage or anywhere else. These black and yellow youngsters were on exhibition yesterday and were admired by all who saw them. They will probably be on view the rest of the time the circus exhibits in", "title": "Pumapard" }, { "id": "94309", "text": "the third great-grandson of the family's founding patriarch who was, by most accounts, a German immigrant. His ancestors included German American, African American, and Native American. In Mingus's autobiography \"Beneath the Underdog\" his mother was described as \"the daughter of an Englishman and a Chinese woman\", and his father was the son \"of a black farm worker and a Swedish woman\". Charles Mingus Sr. claims to have been raised by his mother and her husband as a white person until he was fourteen, when his mother revealed to her family that the child's true father was a black slave, after", "title": "Charles Mingus" }, { "id": "11719441", "text": "Early life and career of Barack Obama Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Rachuonyo District, British Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States). Barack Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama started a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to", "title": "Early life and career of Barack Obama" }, { "id": "18720751", "text": "back on his early childhood in then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) with his mother Fania (Natalie Portman) and father Arieh (Gilad Kahana). His parents are Eastern European Jews living in Jerusalem, which his mother finds difficult as her sisters and family live in Tel Aviv and communication between them is difficult. Amos, an only child, is particularly close with his mother, who frequently tells him stories based on her childhood that often have unhappy or violent endings. Amos' parents regularly lend him out to a childless couple they are friends with. On one occasion this couple take him", "title": "A Tale of Love and Darkness (film)" }, { "id": "1436333", "text": "world. Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where his mother, Rachel was visiting relatives. He spent his childhood years in Paris, France, where his parents had emigrated from Lithuania in the early 1920s. Kahneman and his family were in Paris when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. His father, Efrayim was picked up in the first major round-up of French Jews, but he was released after six weeks due to the intervention of his employer, Eugène Schueller. The family was on the run for the remainder of the war, and survived, except for", "title": "Daniel Kahneman" }, { "id": "8404999", "text": "Bud Daley Leavitt Leo \"Bud\" Daley (born October 7, 1932), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1955–1964. Leavitt was his father's name. Leo was for St. Leo from his mother's Catholicism. He was called Bud because his mother was an only child and she always wanted a child like her cousin, Buddy Walker. As a player Daley made his home in Long Beach, California. He was successful in public relations and a skilled speaker. In the offseason he once appeared in seventy-two towns in six states. Daley was a knuckleball pitcher. who threw", "title": "Bud Daley" }, { "id": "32669", "text": "in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race. In 1952, Capp and his characters graced the covers of both \"Life\" and \"TV Guide\". 1956 saw the debut of the Bald Iggle, considered by some \"Abner\" enthusiasts to be the creative high point of the strip, as well as Mammy's revelatory encounter with the \"Square Eyes\" Family—Capp's thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance. (This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called \"Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery!\", and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith later that year.) Two years later, Capp's studio issued \"Martin Luther King and", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "19852424", "text": "Joseph Kushner Joseph Kushner (né Berkowitz; October 10, 1922 – October 5, 1985) was an American real estate magnate, the father of Murray Kushner and Charles Kushner, grandfather of Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner, and Marc Kushner. At the end of his career, he owned over 4,000 apartments, houses, and properties, which he willed to his family. He was born in October 1922 to Chana and Moshe Berkowitz In August 1945, he married Reichel \"Rae\" Kushner (February 27, 1923 – 2004) in Budapest. Rae Kushner is from the city of Navahrudak, and is remembered for their participation in the escape (via", "title": "Joseph Kushner" }, { "id": "32640", "text": "through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager. (This was years before the Tennessee Valley Authority Act brought basic utilities like electricity and running water to the region.) Leaving \"Joe Palooka\", Capp sold \"Li'l Abner\" to United Feature Syndicate (later known as United Media). The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight North American newspapers—including the \"New York Mirror\"—and was an immediate success. Alfred G. Caplin eventually became \"Al Capp\" because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame. Capp had it changed legally in 1949. His younger brother Elliot", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "1298394", "text": "\"The 10 Best Rappers of All Time\" list by \"Billboard\". Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones was born on September 14, 1973, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III), is a jazz and blues musician from Mississippi. His mother, Fannie Ann (Little) Jones, was a Postal Service worker from North Carolina. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret who is best known as \"Jungle\", a member of the hip-hop group Bravehearts. His father took his name \"Olu Dara\" from the Yoruba people. His African DNA indicates he has roots in countries with high Yoruba", "title": "Nas" }, { "id": "12535330", "text": "born as Asa Yoelson () in the Jewish village of Srednike () now known as Seredžius, near Kaunas in Lithuania, part of the Russian Empire. He was the fifth and youngest child of Moses Rubin Yoelson (c. 1858 – December 23, 1945) and Nechama \"Naomi\" Cantor (c. 1858 – February 6, 1895); his four siblings were Rose (c. 1879-1939), Etta (c. 1880-1948), another sister who died in infancy, and Hirsch (Harry) (c. 1882-1953). Jolson did not know his date of birth, as birth records were not kept at that time in that region, and he gave his birth year as", "title": "Al Jolson" }, { "id": "2651456", "text": "who had been born in Jerusalem to a Sephardi-Jewish family originally from İzmir and a father who had been born in Romania and moved to Palestine with his parents as a child. Har-Zion's father, Eliyahu Horowitz, had moved to Palestine from Russia. When Har-Zion was three years old, the family moved to Rishpon, where his two sisters Shoshana and Rachel were born. When he was 14, his parents divorced, and Har-Zion moved to kibbutz Ein Harod with his father while his mother and sisters moved to kibbutz Beit Alfa. As a child, Har-Zion spent much of his free time watching", "title": "Meir Har-Zion" }, { "id": "17874819", "text": "it had cancelled the series after three seasons. Bassam \"Barry\" Al-Fayeed, the younger of two sons of an infamous Middle-Eastern tyrant, has been running from his past for 20 years. Now a pediatrician living in the United States, he has an American wife, son and daughter, and no desire to revisit his familial origins. However, when he is reluctantly compelled to return to his home country (the fictional Abuddin) for his nephew's wedding, he is quickly drawn into a taut political crisis when his father passes away in the midst of a growing popular revolution against the ruling family. Bassam", "title": "Tyrant (TV series)" }, { "id": "4219898", "text": "Mikva taught law at University of Chicago Law School, Georgetown Law Center and at Northwestern University. He mentored future President of the United States Barack Obama during his early years in law. In 2014, Obama honored Mikva by presenting him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mikva was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Ida (Fishman) and Henry Abraham Mikva, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Mikva and his parents spoke Yiddish at home. During the Great Depression, his father was often unemployed and the family relied on welfare. Abner attended local public schools. During World War II, he enlisted and was", "title": "Abner Mikva" }, { "id": "1876801", "text": "remove them first. Pappy is dull-witted and gullible (in one storyline after he is conned by Marry'n Sam into buying Vanishing cream because he thinks it makes him \"invisible\" when he picks a fight with his nemesis Earthquake McGoon), but not completely without guile. He had an unfortunate predilection for snitching \"presarved tarnips\" and smoking corn silk behind the woodshed — much to his chagrin when Mammy caught him. Pappy Yokum wasn't always feckless, however. After his lower wisdom teeth grew so long that they squeezed his cerebral Goodness Gland and emerged as forehead horns, he proved himself capable of", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "14875526", "text": "George Alexis Weymouth George Alexis Weymouth (June 2, 1936 – April 24, 2016), better known as Frolic Weymouth, was an American artist, whip or stager, and conservationist. He served on the United States Commission of Fine Arts in the 1970s and was a member of the Du Pont family. His mother, Dulcinea \"Deo\" Ophelia Payne du Pont (November 28, 1909 – February 8, 1981), was the eldest of Eugene Eleuthere du Pont's (August 27, 1882-December 15, 1954) four daughters. Frolic was six generations removed from Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the DuPont corporation. In 1930, Dulcinea married investment", "title": "George Alexis Weymouth" }, { "id": "848119", "text": "Dogs\"; and Paolo Sorrentino's \"Youth\". Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio from 1995 to 2017. Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam (née Klein) and Harry Keitel, who were Jewish emigrants from Romania and Poland, respectively. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hat maker. Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School. At the age of sixteen, he decided", "title": "Harvey Keitel" }, { "id": "3558902", "text": "\"Minnie's Boys\". Minnie Marx Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg, 9 November 1865 or 1864 – 13 September 1929) was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean. Marx was born Miene Schönberg in Dornum, Germany. Her parents Fanny née Salomons (1829–1898) and Levy \"Lafe\" Schönberg (1823–1919) were members of the local Jewish community. Her mother was a yodeling harpist, her father a ventriloquist. Her younger brother, Abraham Elieser Adolf, the future \"Al Shean\", was born in 1868. About 1880 the family emigrated to New York City, where Minnie", "title": "Minnie Marx" }, { "id": "2825225", "text": "Gallagher and Shean Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful musical comedy double act on vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Edward Gallagher (1873 – March 28, 1929) and Al Shean (real name \"Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg\"; May 12, 1868 – August 12, 1949); Shean was the maternal uncle of the Marx Brothers. Both comedians were relatively obscure vaudeville performers before they teamed up. Gallagher and Shean first joined forces during the tour of \"The Rose Maid\" in 1912, but they quarreled and split up two years later. They next appeared together in 1920, through the", "title": "Gallagher and Shean" }, { "id": "5688788", "text": "related to the Horowitz family. On his mother's side, he was related to the Günzburg family; on his father's side, to the Frankel family of Vienna. His known ancestry runs as follows: Despite his father dying at age 18, Yom-Tov is believed to have had three siblings: brother Joseph d. 1659, sister Perel and another unknown sister. It is possible but unclear whether the addition of Oettingen and Wallerstein to their names means his ancestors had connections by marriage with the noble families of the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein. Yom-Tov and Rachel probably had 16 children, at least six sons and", "title": "Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller" }, { "id": "3558899", "text": "Minnie Marx Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg, 9 November 1865 or 1864 – 13 September 1929) was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean. Marx was born Miene Schönberg in Dornum, Germany. Her parents Fanny née Salomons (1829–1898) and Levy \"Lafe\" Schönberg (1823–1919) were members of the local Jewish community. Her mother was a yodeling harpist, her father a ventriloquist. Her younger brother, Abraham Elieser Adolf, the future \"Al Shean\", was born in 1868. About 1880 the family emigrated to New York City, where Minnie married Samuel", "title": "Minnie Marx" }, { "id": "18238593", "text": "making his Broadway debut as Nels. The play revolves around the life of a loving Norwegian immigrant family, the Hansons, living on Steiner Street in San Francisco soon after the turn of the 20th century. Told through the nostalgic eye of Katrin, one of three daughters, it is the story of a working-class family trying to live the American dream. Papa Hanson is a blue-collar worker; he and Mama attempt to raise their four children so that they understand the difference between right and wrong, between selfishness and selflessness. They are assisted by Mama's uncle, Uncle Chris, whose gruff exterior", "title": "I Remember Mama (play)" }, { "id": "1876861", "text": "and Johnny Carson. Animation Live-action Since his death in 1979, Al Capp and his work have been the subject of more than 40 books, including three biographies. Underground cartoonist and \"Li'l Abner\" expert Denis Kitchen has published, co-published, edited, or otherwise served as consultant on nearly all of them. Kitchen is currently compiling a monograph on the life and career of Al Capp. Li'l Abner Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "32654", "text": "Fry\" (a.k.a. \"Small Change\"), and \"Advice fo' Chillun.\" According to comics historian Coulton Waugh, a 1947 poll of newspaper readers who claimed they ignored the comics page altogether revealed that many confessed to making a single exception: \"Li'l Abner\". \"When \"Li'l Abner\" made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers. Capp turned that world upside-down by routinely injecting politics and social commentary into \"Li'l Abner\". The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "3926922", "text": "Al Shean Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg (12 May 1868 – 12 August 1949), known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers. Shean was born in Dornum, Germany, on 12 May 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg. His father was a magician. His sister, Minnie, married Sam \"Frenchie\" Marx; their children would become the Marx Brothers. After making", "title": "Al Shean" }, { "id": "42170", "text": "born on 21 December 1804 at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, London, the second child and eldest son of Isaac D'Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria (Miriam), \"née\" Basevi. The family was of Sephardic Jewish Italian mercantile background. All of Disraeli's grandparents and great-grandparents were born in Italy; Isaac's father, Benjamin, moved to England from Venice in 1748. Disraeli later romanticised his origins, claiming that his father's family was of grand Spanish and Venetian descent; in fact Isaac's family was of no great distinction, but on Disraeli's mother's side, in which he took no interest, there were", "title": "Benjamin Disraeli" }, { "id": "11688381", "text": "C.C. Capwell Channing Creighton \"C.C.\" Capwell, Sr. is a fictional character on the American soap opera \"Santa Barbara\", most notably portrayed by Jed Allan. C.C. is the town's patriarch, a wealthy businessman and a father of four other prominent characters, Kelly, Eden, Ted and Mason Capwell. The first actor hired to play the role of C.C. Capwell was Lloyd Bochner, but he suffered a heart attack which prevented him from starring in the series. Instead, the producers cast Peter Mark Richman, who played the role from July 30 to September 12, 1984, after which he was fired by the producers", "title": "C.C. Capwell" }, { "id": "8581495", "text": "Yaltah Menuhin Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Yaltah was born in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Yaltah was named after her mother, Marutha's, home town of Yalta in Crimea. At the age of three, she became part of the rigorous regime already imposed on her siblings: the family employed tutors for the children, and Yaltah", "title": "Yaltah Menuhin" }, { "id": "11664619", "text": "Barack Obama Sr. Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (; 18 June 1936 – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, \"Dreams from My Father\" (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii. There, Obama met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961, and with whom he had a son,", "title": "Barack Obama Sr." }, { "id": "605542", "text": "Cat\" (1994), which was turned into an animated series that aired on PBS. Despite her success, Tan has also received substantial criticism for her depictions of Chinese culture and apparent adherence to stereotypes. Tan was born in Oakland, California. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who traveled to the United States in order to escape the chaos of the Chinese Civil War. Tan attended Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale for one year. When she was fifteen years old, her father", "title": "Amy Tan" }, { "id": "12045051", "text": "a secretary at Spiegel catalog and a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obamas' young children. She continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family; she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration. Some media outlets dubbed Robinson as the \"First Granny\". Marian took Sasha and Malia to school daily. Michelle Obama's father, born August 1, 1935, died March 6, 1991, married Michelle's mother, Marian Shields, on October 27, 1960. Robinson was a pump worker at the", "title": "Family of Barack Obama" }, { "id": "12535331", "text": "1885. In 1891, his father, who was qualified as a rabbi and cantor, moved to New York City to secure a better future for his family. By 1894, Moses Yoelson could afford to pay the fare to bring Nechama and their four children to the U.S. By the time they arrived—as steerage passengers on the S/S \"Umbria\" arriving at the Port of New York on April 9, 1894—he had found work as a cantor at Talmud Torah Congregation in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where the family was reunited. Hard times hit the family when his mother, Naomi,", "title": "Al Jolson" }, { "id": "4423450", "text": "To Schulz's delight, the syndicate preferred the strip; however, the name \"Li'l Folks\" was too close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's \"Li'l Abner\" and a strip titled \"Little Folks\". To avoid confusion, the syndicate chose the name \"Peanuts\", after the peanut gallery featured in the \"Howdy Doody\" TV show. \"Peanuts\" made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. \"Li'l Folks\" saw the first use of the name Charlie Brown on May 30, 1948, although Schulz applied the name in four gags to three different boys, as well as one buried", "title": "Li'l Folks" }, { "id": "4080444", "text": "beside or within a trailer park, as a place for dogs and cats to roam about without leashes. 47th Fighter Squadron is known as the DogPatcher's their A-10C aircraft are named after the characters from Lil Abner. Each airplane has artwork depicting these characters located on the inside of the boarding ladder door Dogpatch Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip, \"Li'l Abner\" (1934–1977). In Capp's own words, Dogpatch was \"an average stone-age community nestled in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills somewhere.\" The inhabitants were mostly lazy hillbillies, who usually wanted", "title": "Dogpatch" }, { "id": "11807867", "text": "Angelina Jolie) and TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes). \"Desilu Productions\" was a Los Angeles, California-based company jointly owned by couple and actors Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Miramax is the combination of the first names of the parents of the Weinstein brothers. On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, The New York Times crossword included the quip, \"How I wish Natalie Portman dated Jacques Cousteau, so I could call them 'Portmanteau'\". Holidays are another example, as in Thanksgivukkah, a portmanteau neologism given to the convergence of the American holiday of Thanksgiving and the first day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah", "title": "Portmanteau" }, { "id": "11654049", "text": "and Elisha and Jonah and Lot - and all [of them] We preferred over the worlds. And [some] among their fathers and their descendants and their brothers - and We chose them and We guided them to a straight path.\" Vs.83-87 S.6 Abraham's family tree Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Jewish people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and his wife’s servant Hagar. Although Abraham's forefathers were from southern Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq) according to the biblical narrative,", "title": "Abraham's family tree" }, { "id": "1415543", "text": "in salads. Segar's newspaper strips also featured a number of her relatives named after other oils, including her brother, Castor Oyl, their mother, Nana Oyl (after \"banana oil\", a mild slang phrase of the time used in the same way as \"horsefeathers\", i.e. \"nonsense\"), their father, Cole Oyl, and Castor's estranged wife, Cylinda Oyl; more recently, Olive's nieces Diesel Oyl and Violet Oyl have appeared in the cartoons. Also among Olive's family are her two uncles, Otto (Auto) Oyl and intrepid explorer Lubry Kent Oyl. Lubry Kent's gift to Castor and Olive, a lucky Whiffle Hen, led them into the", "title": "Olive Oyl" }, { "id": "4780328", "text": "in the mining town of Orkney, near the city of Klerksdorp (and not too far from Johannesburg), and followed the exploits of an Afrikaner family named \"Van Tonder\", a common Afrikaans surname. The head of the household, Hendrik (played by Zack du Plessis), worked on the mines and his wife, Maggie (Annette Engelbrecht), was a housewife. They had four children (oldest to youngest): Ouboet, Bennie, Hester and Wimpie. Ouboet (Frank Opperman) was a car mechanic. He and his wife, Yolanda (Sally Campher), had a little baby of their own, named Hendrik after his grandfather. \"Ouboet\" is an Afrikaans term of", "title": "Orkney Snork Nie" }, { "id": "1370883", "text": "1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively. Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican, and his mother was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised \"mostly Jewish\" and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York, where he attended West Babylon High School. Rivera's family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and his mother took to spelling their surname as \"Riviera\" to avoid having bigotry directed at them (and only his sister Sharon did not have her surname misspelled.). When I was born, my mother filled in", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "id": "3005740", "text": "his family. In a secondary plotline, Alyosha befriends a group of school boys, whose fate adds a hopeful message to the conclusion of the novel. Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, widely rumored to be the illegitimate son of Fyodor Karamazov, is the son of \"Reeking Lizaveta\", a mute woman of the street who died in childbirth. His name, Smerdyakov, means \"son of the 'reeking one'\". He was brought up by Fyodor Karamazov's trusted servant Grigory Vasilievich Kutuzov and his wife Marfa. Smerdyakov grows up in the Karamazov house as a servant, working as Fyodor's lackey and cook. He is morose and sullen,", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "4387919", "text": "role in his son's early career as an actor. He used to screen scripts for him, and was instrumental in getting Leo to play Rimbaud in the 1995 film \"Total Eclipse\". George Paul DiCaprio met Irmelin Indenbirken (born 1943), a German immigrant, in college; the two later married and moved to Los Angeles. The couple had one son, Leonardo DiCaprio, and divorced shortly after, when the boy was a year old. DiCaprio married Peggy Ferrar in 1995, in a ceremony presided over by counterculture icon Timothy Leary. (DiCaprio had collaborated with him on the comic book \"Neurocomics\"). DiCaprio is stepfather", "title": "George DiCaprio" }, { "id": "10653015", "text": "Lady Sybil Cuffe (daughter of Lord Desart, an Irish peer) having married the diplomat eldest son (also named William Bayard Cutting) of the rich and philanthropic New York family. Her parents travelled widely after their marriage, particularly in Italy, where her father contracted tuberculosis. Her father, who came from an extremely wealthy American family, travelled the globe in search of relief from symptoms of the tuberculosis that would kill him in 1910, at the age of 29. Before he died, he wrote to his wife, Sibyl, a British aristocrat, that he wanted their young daughter, Iris, to grow up in", "title": "Iris Origo" }, { "id": "11764308", "text": "\"Elohai\" (God), released in 2010, used footage from Oz's Bar Mitzvah as a music video, as well as sampling an old recording of his grandfather singing. The song \"Lo haya lano klum\" (We Had Nothing) tells the story of the exodus of the Mizrahi Jews from their native countries, and the video features Oz' mother Rachel Uzan. Oz is the author of two books: \"Petty Hoodlum\" (2002) and \"Moshe Chuato and the Raven\" (1996). He organized a demonstration in 2007 to raise public awareness of the tragedy of his home town, which is constantly under missile attack from the Gaza", "title": "Kobi Oz" }, { "id": "3356671", "text": "in Tom Veitch's \"Dark Empire II\" comic book miniseries (May 1995). He is first referred to as Han Solo, Jr. by his father, but Leia corrects him, having named the baby after her biological father, Anakin Skywalker, as a reminder of hope. However, Anakin still fears the name and his grandfather's legacy. On October 1, 1995, Nancy Richardson started the \"Junior Jedi Knights\" series with \"The Golden Globe\" starring Anakin and his best friend Tahiri Veila. Anakin was now an eleven-year-old child starting his training at the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. Richardson continued Anakin's adventures in the following two", "title": "Solo family" }, { "id": "15530837", "text": "Yellow Peppers Yellow Peppers (Hebrew: פלפלים צהובים; Pilpelim Tzehubym), also known as The A Word, is an Israeli drama television program about a family that raises an autistic child in a rural village lacking any therapeutic resources. The programme was well received by critics. It was also presented as a part to the World Autism Awareness Day at the United Nations. Ayellet (Alma Zack) makes good money as the village tailor, and when her father, Meir (Yehuda Barkan), turns to agricultural politics, her husband, Yaniv, turns the family farm into a profitable business exporting yellow peppers. Both men help her", "title": "Yellow Peppers" }, { "id": "267450", "text": "led unsuccessful protests to change the school name to Malcolm X High, to honor the major African-American leader who had been killed in New York by political opponents. After attaining his GED, Abu-Jamal studied briefly at Goddard College in rural Vermont. He returned to Philadelphia. Cook adopted the surname Abu-Jamal (\"father of Jamal\" in Arabic) after the birth of his first child, son Jamal, on July 18, 1971. He married Jamal's mother Biba in 1973, but they did not stay together long. Their daughter, Lateefa, was born shortly after the wedding. The couple divorced. In 1977 Abu-Jamal married again, to", "title": "Mumia Abu-Jamal" }, { "id": "15562510", "text": "Yvonne Levy Kushner Yvonne Kushner (née Levy; October 12, 1906 – February 8, 1990) was an American actress and socialite in New York and Washington, DC. She became a philanthropist for women's health and Jewish causes. Yvonne Levy was born on October 12, 1906, in New Iberia, Louisiana, as the youngest of three children of Leopold and Blanche (née Coguenhem) Levy. Her father was originally from Alsace and emigrated to the United States in 1879. He worked in New Orleans as a merchant and in real estate. He was born in Wingersheim, Alsace, in 1864, when it was part of", "title": "Yvonne Levy Kushner" }, { "id": "1616216", "text": "times imprisoned, exiled and received a nominal death sentence by his father's regime. Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he was killed alongside his brother Qusay and nephew Mustapha by Task Force 121 after a three-hour gunfight in Mosul. Uday Saddam was born in Tikrit to Saddam Hussein and Sajida Talfah while his father was in prison. Although his status as Saddam's elder son made him Saddam's prospective successor, Uday fell out of favour with his father. In October 1988, at a party in honour of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday murdered his", "title": "Uday Hussein" }, { "id": "3288240", "text": "(short for Minerva); their sons Sam and baby James; wealthy Uncle Bim; and their annoying maid Mary. They had a cat named Hope and a dog named Buck. The idea was envisioned by Joseph Patterson, editor and publisher of the \"Chicago Tribune\", who was important in the early histories of \"Little Orphan Annie\" and other long-run comic strips. Patterson referred to the masses as \"gumps\" and thought a strip about the domestic lives of ordinary people and their ordinary activities would appeal to the average American newspaper reader. He hired Smith to write and draw the strip, and it was", "title": "The Gumps" } ]

[ "The good doctor was Henry; the evil Mr. Hyde, Edward" ]

[ { "id": "2215416", "text": "wife Julia Hammersley. Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll (an Anglican priest; sometime Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral and Chaplain of Malta), was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who borrowed the family name for his famous novella \"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". In 1848 her family left London and moved to Bramley House, Surrey, where she spent her formative years. She never married and had no children. Jekyll was one half of one of the most influential and historical partnerships of the Arts and Crafts movement, thanks to her association with the English architect, Edwin Lutyens, for whose projects she", "title": "Gertrude Jekyll" }, { "id": "18080566", "text": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase \"Jekyll", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "20019368", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life is a four-act play written in 1897 by Luella Forepaugh and George F. Fish. It is an adaptation of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", an 1886 novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on Henry Jekyll, a respected London doctor, and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. After Hyde murders a vicar, Jekyll's friends suspect he is helping the killer, but the truth is that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person.", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life" }, { "id": "1787492", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character) Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alternative personality, Mr. Edward Hyde, is a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". He is the title character, but the main protagonist is Gabriel John Utterson. Dr. Henry Jekyll feels he is battling between the good and bad within himself, thus leading to the struggle with his alter ego, Edward Hyde. He spends his life trying to repress evil urges that are not fitting for a man of his stature. He develops a serum in an attempt to mask", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)" }, { "id": "1787502", "text": "at the hospital where Jekyll is employed, Lucy, and Stride. Robert Cuccioli originated the role(s) for the first U.S. tour in 1995, and on Broadway in 1997. Other notable actors to play the role(s) include: Jack Wagner, David Hasselhoff, Rob Evan, and Constantine Maroulis in the 2013 revival. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character) Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alternative personality, Mr. Edward Hyde, is a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". He is the title character, but the main protagonist is Gabriel John Utterson. Dr. Henry Jekyll feels he", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)" }, { "id": "18535822", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by Thomas Russell Sullivan in collaboration with the actor Richard Mansfield. It is an adaptation of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", an 1886 novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on the respected London doctor Henry Jekyll and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. After Hyde murders the father of Jekyll's fiancée, Jekyll's friends discover that he and Jekyll are the same person; Jekyll has developed a potion that allows him to transform himself", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)" }, { "id": "1291950", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons. The film is an adaptation of \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac. March's performance has been much lauded, and earned him his first Academy Award. Dr. Henry Jekyll", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)" }, { "id": "1291936", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons. The film is an adaptation of \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac. March's performance has been much lauded, and earned him his first Academy Award. Dr. Henry Jekyll", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)" }, { "id": "8803629", "text": "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1953 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, and co-stars Boris Karloff. Inspired by the 1886 novella \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson, the film follows the story of two American detectives visiting Edwardian London who become involved with the hunt for Dr. Jekyll, who is responsible for a series of murders. A rash of murders (by an unknown \"monster\") is plaguing London,", "title": "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" }, { "id": "20028177", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888 play) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by John McKinney in collaboration with the actor Daniel E. Bandmann. It is an adaptation of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", an 1886 novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on Henry Jekyll, a respected London doctor, and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. After Hyde murders a vicar, Jekyll's friends suspect he is helping the killer, but the truth is that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Jekyll has developed a", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888 play)" }, { "id": "8528817", "text": "the box is opened, Hyde is dominant. In a flashback triggered by genetic memory, Hyde has a vision of a meeting between Jekyll and Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". Stevenson agrees to write a fictional version of Jekyll's case but reveals that he knows the truth: there is no potion. Instead, Jekyll was transformed into Hyde by his love for Alice, a maid within his household. Flashbacks into Jackman's own life show his Hyde first manifesting fully during a seaside holiday with Claire, after the pair were accosted by hooligans. Enraged", "title": "Jekyll (TV series)" }, { "id": "9221581", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde is a 1995 British-Canadian-American comedy film starring Tim Daly, Sean Young and Lysette Anthony. The film is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror novel \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". The story takes place in modern times and concerns a bumbling chemist who tampers with his great-grandfather's formula, accidentally transforming himself into a beautiful businesswoman who is hellbent on taking over his life. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a perfumer working at a major fragrance company. His projects have failed and the chief executive, Mrs. Unterveldt (Polly", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde" }, { "id": "367940", "text": "island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area. Literary works Musical works About Websites Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are \"Treasure Island\", \"Kidnapped\", \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", and \"A Child's Garden of Verses\". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "14614736", "text": "and Mr. Hyde\" (1886), a lawyer named Mr. Utterson speaks with his friend Richard Enfield about an encounter he had with a repulsive hunchbacked man named Mr. Hyde. Soon Utterson finds that one of his clients, Dr. Jekyll, has written his will, giving all of his property to this strange man. It is revealed that Jekyll and Hyde are in fact one and the same, and that Jekyll has been using a potion he formulated to go between the two personalities. Hyde torments the town, while Jekyll apologizes and humbles his friends for Hyde's sake. Stevenson's novel invites hatred towards", "title": "Monster literature" }, { "id": "20019381", "text": "1908 silent movie \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" was a filmed theatrical performance of an abbreviated version of the 1897 play by Forepaugh and Fish. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life is a four-act play written in 1897 by Luella Forepaugh and George F. Fish. It is an adaptation of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", an 1886 novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on Henry Jekyll, a respected London doctor, and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal.", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life" }, { "id": "8904191", "text": "Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde was a British children's television series which aired on BBC One in the UK for 53 episodes between 1995 and 1998. The programme was a comedy with its premise being loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic novella, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Olivia Hallinan plays an intelligent schoolgirl named Julia Jekyll who makes a special drink called an elixir for a science project, but two school bullies named Nicola and Sharon known as \"The Blister Sisters\" ruin her experiment by placing all kinds of dangerous things in her drink", "title": "Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde" }, { "id": "5883751", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is a 1971 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their third adaptation of the story after \"The Ugly Duckling\" and \"The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll\". The film is notable for showing Jekyll transform into a female Hyde; it also incorporates into the plot aspects of the historical Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare cases. The two characters were", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" }, { "id": "5831439", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1941 horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner. The production also features Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, and Sara Allgood. Its storyline is based on the gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. Dr. Henry Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Mr. Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil and violent Hyde can be: he", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)" }, { "id": "367891", "text": "Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are \"Treasure Island\", \"Kidnapped\", \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", and \"A Child's Garden of Verses\". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J.", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "18535859", "text": "films; some returned to Stevenson's novella, and others spun new variations from aspects of earlier versions. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by Thomas Russell Sullivan in collaboration with the actor Richard Mansfield. It is an adaptation of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", an 1886 novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on the respected London doctor Henry Jekyll and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. After Hyde murders the father of Jekyll's fiancée, Jekyll's friends discover that he and", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)" }, { "id": "8904194", "text": "hippie headmaster Memphis Rocket, his doting elderly mother who is a horrendous cook, and Lester Blister, the Blister sisters' cruel and scheming uncle who wishes to take over the school. Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde was a British children's television series which aired on BBC One in the UK for 53 episodes between 1995 and 1998. The programme was a comedy with its premise being loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic novella, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Olivia Hallinan plays an intelligent schoolgirl named Julia Jekyll who makes a special drink called an elixir", "title": "Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde" }, { "id": "13840806", "text": "Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Mr. Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, and since the 1880s dozens of stage and film adaptations have been produced. Until 2012, with the publication of \"Strange Case of Mr. Bodkin and Father Whitechapel\" by Elias Keller, there had", "title": "Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" }, { "id": "9113084", "text": "consider his dangerous research. Alice and her father also visit Jekyll’s rooms, but although apologetic, the doctor insists on devoting his time to his patients. That night, however, Jekyll undertakes a dangerous experiment, swallowing a drug intended to releases his evil self. His body convulses, and he transforms into a hunched, twisted figure. The strange creature emerges from Jekyll’s room, bearing a note in Jekyll’s handwriting that orders the household staff to treat the stranger – “Mr Hyde” – as himself. Hyde then slips out into the night, terrorising the patrons of a nearby tavern before finding himself lodgings. From", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913 film)" }, { "id": "19837098", "text": "Eugene Chantrelle Eugene Marie Chantrelle (1834 in Nantes – 31 May 1878 in Edinburgh) was a French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and who was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Dyer. He is claimed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Dr Jekyll featured in \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". Stevenson met Chantrelle at the home of Victor Richon, Stevenson's old French master. Chantrelle was hanged for his crimes at Calton Prison in Edinburgh. Chantrelle was teaching French at the private Newington Academy in Edinburgh when he began a relationship with", "title": "Eugene Chantrelle" }, { "id": "12290303", "text": "prologue set in 1860, where Mr. Hyde is chased down in the streets of London, after murdering his wife at their Soho flat. He escapes to the house of Dr. Jekyll, where he prepares the potion that will transform him back to the respected doctor. Unfortunately, the mob has already set the house ablaze. The flames drive Hyde to the top floor, and in attempt to leap to the ground, he meets his demise when he falls to the ground. As he dies, he changes back to Dr. Jekyll. John Utterson and Dr. Lanyon (original characters from Stevenson's novel) mourn", "title": "The Son of Dr. Jekyll" }, { "id": "13840808", "text": "with the character's physical appearance, sometimes depicting him with bestial or monstrous features. There are over 123 film versions, not including stage and radio, as well as a number of parodies and imitations. Notable examples are listed below in chronological order. Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Mr. Hyde. The work is", "title": "Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" }, { "id": "367916", "text": "Dorset, a residential area in Bournemouth. It was during his time in Bournemouth that he wrote the story \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", naming the character Mr. Poole after the town of Poole which is situated next to Bournemouth. In Westbourne, he named his house \"Skerryvore\" after the tallest lighthouse in Scotland, which his uncle Alan had built (1838–44). In the wintertime, Stevenson travelled to France and lived at Davos Platz and the Chalet de Solitude at Hyères, where he was very happy for a time. \"I have so many things to make life sweet for me,\"", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "367917", "text": "he wrote, \"it seems a pity I cannot have that other one thing—health. But though you will be angry to hear it, I believe, for myself at least, what is is best.\" In spite of his ill health, he produced the bulk of his best-known work during these years. \"Treasure Island\" was published under the pseudonym \"Captain George North\" and became his first widely popular book; he wrote it during this time, along with \"Kidnapped\", \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (which established his wider reputation), \"\", \"A Child's Garden of Verses\", and \"Underwoods\". He gave a copy", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "9168254", "text": "Mary Reilly (novel) Mary Reilly is a 1990 parallel novel by American writer Valerie Martin. It is inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990 and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1991. Martin's novel was the basis for the 1996 film of the same name starring Julia Roberts in the title role. The novel is about a young girl working at the home of Dr. Henry Jekyll who falls in love with her master. Jekyll's \"assistant\", Edward Hyde,", "title": "Mary Reilly (novel)" }, { "id": "18080574", "text": "was borrowed from Reverend Walter Jekyll, a friend of Stevenson and younger brother of horticulturalist and landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll. Gabriel John Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield reach the door of a large house on their weekly walk. Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Enfield forced Hyde to pay £100 to avoid a scandal. Hyde brought them to this door and provided a cheque signed by a reputable gentleman (later revealed to be Doctor Henry Jekyll, a friend and client of Utterson).", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "1787500", "text": "face execution for his crimes or choose to kill himself. Jekyll noted that, in either case, the end of his letter marked the end of his life. He ended the letter saying, \"I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end\". With these words, both the document and the novella come to a close. The original pronunciation of Jekyll was \"Jeekul\", which was the pronunciation used in Stevenson's native Scotland. This is also the pronunciation of Gertrude Jekyll. While there are adaptations of the book, the section depicts the different portrayals in different media appearances: The story", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)" }, { "id": "10696712", "text": "prostitute to lure the killer into a trap, but is kidnapped. Allan and Dupin trace the killer to his apartment and find Mina, but are attacked by a large monster. After a brief fight, Allan forces the monster out of the apartment window, and the fall renders it unconscious. Once on the \"Nautilus\", the monster transforms into a frail, terrified man with no memory of recent events. The man is Dr Henry Jekyll, while the monster is his alter ego Mr Hyde. Mina bids farewell to Dupin, and the \"Nautilus\" leaves Paris. When the League return to London, Bond sets", "title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One" }, { "id": "18080598", "text": "Armitage. A Musical was created by Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden, and Leslie Bricusse: \"Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller - The Complete Work\" (1994). S. G. Hulme Beaman illustrated a 1930s edition. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "9051460", "text": "up and confides that he would rather simply go home with the gentleman as a \"pet\", since it would be easier for both of them. As the gentleman brings Bugs home, he remarks that it is strange that Bugs calls him \"Doc\" because, \"I happen to be a doctor.\" The camera then pans up to show that the name above the apartment is none other than Dr. Jekyll. Inside the house, Bugs gets used to his new surroundings. Going into a room with a door marked \"laboratory\" in search of a carrot for Bugs, Dr. Jekyll sees the fizzing, red", "title": "Hyde and Hare" }, { "id": "1827562", "text": "portrayed by Linda Eder) works as a prostitute and stripper in a small London club called The Red Rat, where she meets a multi-dimension man named Doctor Henry Jekyll, who turns into his evil persona Mr. Edward Hyde. Lucy performs the song \"Bring on the Men\" during a show at The Red Rat (which was later replaced with \"Good 'n' Evil\" in the Broadway production, some claiming \"Bring on the Men\" was too \"risqué\"). In \"Neighbours\" (1985), the character of Daphne is originally a stripper at Des's bucks party, and eventually goes on to marry him. \"Married... with Children\" (1987–97)", "title": "Stripper" }, { "id": "9103993", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1912 horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886) and on the play version (1887) of Thomas Russell Sullivan. Directed by Lucius Henderson, the film stars actor (later noted film director) James Cruze in the dual roles of Jekyll and Hyde. White-haired Dr. Jekyll has secretly locked himself in his laboratory administering himself with a vial of formula. He slumps into his chair with his head on his chest. Slowly, as the drug takes effect, a", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)" }, { "id": "1787493", "text": "this hidden evil. However, in doing so, Jekyll transforms into Hyde, a hideous creature without compassion or remorse. Jekyll has a friendly personality, but as Hyde, he becomes mysterious and violent. As time goes by, Hyde grows in power and eventually manifests whenever Jekyll shows signs of physical or moral weakness, no longer needing the serum to be released. Stevenson never says exactly what Hyde does on his nightly forays, generally saying that it is something of an evil and lustful nature. Thus, in the context of the times, it is abhorrent to Victorian religious morality. Hyde may have been", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)" }, { "id": "664013", "text": "sun had set upon him; that the billows had rolled over him; that the Car of Juggernaut had crushed him; and also that the deadly Upass tree of Java had blighted him.\" The figurative sense of the English word, with the idea of \"something that demands blind devotion or merciless sacrifice\" became common in the mid-nineteenth century. For example, it was used to describe the out-of-control character Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson's \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". Other notable writers to have used the word this way range from H.G. Wells and Longfellow to Joe Klein.", "title": "Juggernaut" }, { "id": "20019370", "text": "Reverend Edward Leigh, relates a story about how he intervened when he saw a girl trampled by a man named Edward Hyde. Utterson is dismayed to hear the name Edward Hyde, because his friend and client Dr. Henry Jekyll recently made a new will that gives his estate to a mysterious friend named Edward Hyde. After the vicar leaves, Dr. Lanyon arrives. Utterson asks Lanyon if he knows Hyde, but he does not; he and Jekyll have become more distant recently due to scientific disagreements. Jekyll, who lives next door to the vicarage, passes by on his way to see", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life" }, { "id": "3681895", "text": "Life,\" which was unsuccessful. However, Stevenson remained fascinated by the dichotomy between Brodie's respectable façade and his real nature, and this paradox inspired him to write the novel \"The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde,\" which he published in 1886. Deacon Brodie is commemorated by a pub of that name on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, on the corner of the Lawnmarket and Bank Street which leads down to the Mound; and a close off the Royal Mile, which contained his family residence and workshops, now bears the name \"Brodie's Close.\" A further two pubs carry his name, one in", "title": "William Brodie" }, { "id": "14985488", "text": "The Ugly Duckling (1959 film) The Ugly Duckling is a 1959 British comedy film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee and Reginald Beckwith. The film is a comic adaptation of the \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" storyline and the opening credits include \"with ideas stolen from Robert Louis Stevenson\". The film has no connection to the Hans Christian Andersen story. The tagline on posters was \"HE'S A CHANGED MAN AFTER TAKING JEKYLL'S FAMILY REMEDY.\" Henry Jeckle (Bernard Bresslaw) is a bungling, awkward and socially inept man working in his brother’s pharmacy, which is still named after", "title": "The Ugly Duckling (1959 film)" }, { "id": "4412190", "text": "character of Lucy Harris (originally portrayed by Linda Eder) works as a prostitute and stripper in a small London club called The Red Rat, where she meets a multi-dimension man named Doctor Henry Jekyll, who turns into his evil persona Mr. Edward Hyde. Lucy performs the song 'Bring on the Men' during a show at the Red Rat (which was later replaced with 'Good 'n' Evil' in the Broadway production, some claiming 'Bring on the Men' was too 'risqué'.). In \"Neighbours\" (1985), the character of Daphne is originally a stripper at Des's bucks party, and eventually goes on to marry", "title": "Strip club" }, { "id": "18080570", "text": "murder of his wife in May 1878. Chantrelle, who had appeared to lead a normal life in the city, poisoned his wife with opium. According to author Jeremy Hodges, Stevenson was present throughout the trial and as \"the evidence unfolded he found himself, like Dr Jekyll, 'aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde'.\" Moreover, it was believed that the teacher had committed other murders both in France and Britain by poisoning his victims at supper parties with a \"favourite dish of toasted cheese and opium\". Louis Vivet, a mental patient who was suffering from dissociative identity disorder, caught Frederic W.", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "6978045", "text": "Emma Tennant Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was a British novelist and editor. She was known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories such as \"Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde\" (from Robert Louis Stevenson’s \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\"). She also published work under the name Catherine Aydy. Tennant was of Scottish extraction, the daughter of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron", "title": "Emma Tennant" }, { "id": "11536436", "text": "London, died at her home on Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, in 1795 and was buried at Kew. Cavendish Square features in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel \"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" as the home of Dr Lanyon, Jekyll's former best friend. The bronze statue on the south side of the square (facing John Lewis) is of William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1802–1848). Known simply as Lord George Bentinck, he was MP for King's Lynn, Norfolk. The statue is by Thomas Campbell and was erected in 1848. Underground at Cavendish Square, there is a car park with spaces for 521 cars and", "title": "Cavendish Square" }, { "id": "9103995", "text": "appearing as Hyde in some scenes. The film is in the public domain, along with all films released before 1923. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1912 horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886) and on the play version (1887) of Thomas Russell Sullivan. Directed by Lucius Henderson, the film stars actor (later noted film director) James Cruze in the dual roles of Jekyll and Hyde. White-haired Dr. Jekyll has secretly locked himself in his laboratory administering himself with a vial", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)" }, { "id": "9604115", "text": "Batman: Two Faces Batman: Two Faces is a DC Comics \"Elseworlds\" comic book, published in 1998. Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with art by Anthony Williams and Tom Palmer. The story is based on the novel \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A Victorian-era Bruce Wayne, tries to purge both his own evil side and that of Two-Face, while a serial killer named the Joker roams the streets. \"Batman: Two Faces\" is the prequel to \"The Superman Monster\" comic book. Main characters Secondary characters and cameos It's the year 1886, Bruce Wayne", "title": "Batman: Two Faces" }, { "id": "6881417", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film, which stars John Barrymore, is based on the 1886 novella \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. John S. Robertson directed the production, and Clara Beranger wrote this adaptation's screenplay or “scenario”. The story, set in late Victorian London, portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separating the dual personalities he thinks defines all humans: one good, the other evil. The film is", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film)" }, { "id": "7644199", "text": "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a 1960 horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, and co-stars Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and David Kossoff. It was written by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the 1886 novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. In contrast to other film versions, Jekyll was portrayed as a rather bland and faceless person, while Hyde was presented as suave and handsome. This reflects director Fisher's belief in what critics (such as", "title": "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" }, { "id": "15777636", "text": "recreating his lost files, is contacted by Mr. Utterson regarding the recent strange behavior of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, including his role in the death of a young girl and a mysterious assistant known only as \"Edward Hyde\". Investigating Jekyll's lab, Holmes and Watson's examination of the tissue consumed by dead flies in the lab reveals that Jekyll has access to a revenant, but a confrontation with Jekyll that night reveals that he \"is\" the revenant; having suffered a psychotic breakdown from stress prior to the revenant outbreak that fractured his personality, Jekyll initially maintained control through a serum", "title": "Victorian Undead" }, { "id": "20019376", "text": "In the laboratory, Jekyll gives a monologue explaining that he can no longer find the ingredients for his potion, and therefore will soon revert to Hyde without the ability to transform back. Alice comes to the laboratory and sees that Jekyll appears ill. He tells her they will marry when he is better, but when she leaves he monologues that he will die soon, then he transforms into Hyde. When Utterson and Poole come to the laboratory, Hyde commits suicide by drinking poison, declaring that he has also killed Jekyll. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote \"Strange Case of", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life" }, { "id": "5831451", "text": "drinking a potion he created, Bugs Bunny turns to the audience, breaking the fourth wall, and remarks, \"I think Spencer Tracy did it much better!\" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1941 horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner. The production also features Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, and Sara Allgood. Its storyline is based on the gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. Dr. Henry Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) believes", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)" }, { "id": "3754941", "text": "given a younger brother named Frank. And in the 1995 movie \"Here Come the Munsters\" he is given a sister named Elsa who resembles the Bride of Frankenstein. She is also married to Mr. Hyde, who transforms into Dr. Jekyll. Herman is employed by Gateman, Goodbury and Graves, a funeral home in Mockingbird Heights, having started out as a \"box boy c. 1953.\" Herman's co-workers sometimes remark on his height and strength, but otherwise do not appear to find his appearance and color (green) out of the ordinary. Occasionally, Herman is picked up by \"the company car\" (a hearse), which", "title": "Herman Munster" }, { "id": "6084800", "text": "Jekyll & Hyde Club The Jekyll & Hyde Club is a theme restaurant owned by Eerie World Entertainment in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. The name and theme derive from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Victorian gothic novel \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". The Jekyll & Hyde restaurants' theme is spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes, with detailed decorations, set pieces, and actors who roam the restaurant and entertain patrons. Characters include Mr. Aloysius Goole, the wacky chief mortician, Jervis, the hyperactive and high-pitched French butler, and the charmingly", "title": "Jekyll & Hyde Club" }, { "id": "6356694", "text": "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (film) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 2006 adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. It was directed by John Carl Buechler, and produced by Peter Davy. The film is set in modern times instead of Victorian England. Dr. Henry Jekyll has succeeded in curing a higher primate of its serious heart condition. He tests the serum on himself, resulting in dire consequences; he is transformed into the evil Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll does not realize that Hyde is a manifestation of himself, and develops a", "title": "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (film)" }, { "id": "15645518", "text": "and also collected and published Scottish ballads. His first prose work, Waverley in 1814, is often called the first historical novel. It launched a highly successful career that probably more than any other helped define and popularise Scottish cultural identity. In the late 19th century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like \"Kidnapped\" and \"Treasure Island\". Arthur Conan Doyle's \"Sherlock Holmes\" stories helped found the tradition of detective", "title": "Scotland in the modern era" }, { "id": "5883754", "text": "when she discovers this mysterious woman, but when she confronts Jekyll, to explain the sudden appearance of his female alter ego, he calls her Mrs. Edwina Hyde, saying she is his widowed sister who has come to live with him. Howard, on the other hand, develops a lust for Mrs. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll soon finds that his serum requires a regular supply of female hormones to maintain its effect, necessitating the killing of young girls. Burke and Hare supply his needs but their criminal activities are uncovered. Burke is lynched by a mob and Hare blinded. The doctor decides to", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" }, { "id": "15819899", "text": "prior to his engagement to the austere Miss Fanny Osborne (Marina Pierro). The guests arrive and are various dignitaries and officials. After a meal, the doctor is summoned to his laboratory, to get his will. He returns to the living room when a scream is heard where one of his guests has been discovered raped and murdered. Henry Jekyll transforms to his alter ego, Mr. Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), by taking a bath filled with a chemical cocktail. He emerges physically transformed. His alter ego has none of the restrictions of morality and he proceeds to rape and torture various guests.", "title": "Docteur Jekyll et les femmes" }, { "id": "6084804", "text": "service on Wednesdays. Jekyll & Hyde Club The Jekyll & Hyde Club is a theme restaurant owned by Eerie World Entertainment in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. The name and theme derive from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Victorian gothic novel \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". The Jekyll & Hyde restaurants' theme is spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes, with detailed decorations, set pieces, and actors who roam the restaurant and entertain patrons. Characters include Mr. Aloysius Goole, the wacky chief mortician, Jervis, the hyperactive and high-pitched French butler,", "title": "Jekyll & Hyde Club" }, { "id": "18535826", "text": "at Sir Danvers' home. Dr. Lanyon brings word that Agnes' fiancé, Dr. Henry Jekyll, will be late to the gathering. He then repeats a second-hand story about a man named Hyde, who injured a child in a collision on the street. The story upsets Utterson because Jekyll recently made a new will that gives his estate to a mysterious friend named Edward Hyde. Jekyll arrives; Utterson confronts him about the will, but Jekyll refuses to consider changing it. Jekyll tells Agnes that they should end their engagement because of sins he has committed, but will not explain. Agnes refuses to", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)" }, { "id": "15675998", "text": "The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll Daughter of Dr. Jekyll is a low-budget black-and-white 1957 American horror film produced by Jack Pollexfen, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and released by Allied Artists. The film is a variation on the 1886 gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It stars Gloria Talbott, John Agar and Arthur Shields. In the film, Janet Smith (Gloria Talbott) learns that she is not only the daughter of the infamous werewolf Dr. Henry Jekyll, but is convinced by her guardian, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields), that she has inherited her father's", "title": "The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" }, { "id": "1321929", "text": "mind of genius. Hunter was the basis for the character Jack Tearguts in William Blake's unfinished satirical novel, \"An Island in the Moon\". He is a principal character in Hilary Mantel's 1998 novel, \"The Giant, O'Brien\". His Leicester Square house possibly was the inspiration for the home of Dr Jekyll of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". Hunter's house had two entrances, one through which the living area for his family was accessible, and another, leading to a separate street, which provided access to his museum and dissecting rooms. This pattern echoes", "title": "John Hunter (surgeon)" }, { "id": "3988810", "text": "to be an idiomatic expression for \"true friendship.\" Thus, Denis Diderot's short story, \"The Two Friends from Bourbonne\" (1770), begins \"There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne.\" The canines Bummer and Lazarus were eulogized as \"the Damon and Pythias of San Francisco\" upon Bummer's death in 1865. In Robert Louis Stevenson's novella \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\", Henry Jekyll's two oldest friends, Dr. Lanyon and Mr. Utterson (a lawyer), have the following exchange while discussing Dr. Jekyll's apparent self-imposed isolation: ...said Utterson. “I thought you had", "title": "Damon and Pythias" }, { "id": "7919015", "text": "I, Monster I, Monster is a 1971 British horror film directed by Stephen Weeks (his feature debut) for Amicus Productions. It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\", with the main characters' names changed to Dr. Charles Marlowe and Mr. Edward Blake. Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder. Utterson (Cushing), Marlowe's lawyer, believes that Blake is blackmailing his friend until he discovers the truth. It stars", "title": "I, Monster" }, { "id": "4042229", "text": "attracted the attention of Victorian society at large. Journalists, letter writers, and amateur detectives all suggested names either in press or to the police. Most were not and could not be taken seriously. For example, at the time of the murders, Richard Mansfield, a famous actor, starred in a theatrical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's book \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". The subject matter of horrific murder in the London streets and Mansfield's convincing portrayal led letter writers to accuse him of being the Ripper. William Henry Bury (25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889) had recently", "title": "Jack the Ripper suspects" }, { "id": "7919017", "text": "and it is now seen as a very faithful adaptation with Drew Hunt of \"Chicago Reader\" listing it as one of Christopher Lee's five best roles. I, Monster I, Monster is a 1971 British horror film directed by Stephen Weeks (his feature debut) for Amicus Productions. It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\", with the main characters' names changed to Dr. Charles Marlowe and Mr. Edward Blake. Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward", "title": "I, Monster" }, { "id": "14985489", "text": "their great-great-grandfather: \"Dr Henry Jekyll M.D. - Pharmacy, Estabd. 1812\". One day, Henry discovers an old formula created by Jekyll which claims to turn \"a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon\". He eagerly mixes the formula, takes one drink, and is transformed into the suave, dashing and self-confident Teddy Hyde, who makes a big impression at the local dance hall and with the ladies. He also joins a gang of crooks and becomes a key figure in carrying out a daring and ambitious jewel robbery. However, when the formula wears off after a few hours, Teddy changes", "title": "The Ugly Duckling (1959 film)" }, { "id": "4637983", "text": "title transitioned into \"Dark Avengers\" beginning with issue #175. Calvin Zabo was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was a morally abject but brilliant biochemist who was fascinated by the effect of hormones on human physiology. One of his favorite stories was Stevenson's 1886 classic, \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". He was convinced that the experiment Dr. Jekyll performed in the story could actually be accomplished, and became obsessed with the idea of unleashing his full bestial nature in a superhuman form. However, he needed money to do this, so he robbed his various employers systematically. Though", "title": "Mister Hyde (comics)" }, { "id": "17603211", "text": "of Anthony Trollope. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850–94) work included the urban Gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), which explored the psychological consequences of modernity. Stevenson was also crucial to the further development of the historical novel with historical adventures in books like \"Kidnapped\" (1886) and \"Treasure Island\" (1893) and particularly \"The Master of Ballantrae\" (1888), which used historical backgrounds as a mechanism for exploring modern concerns through allegory. Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859–1930) \"Sherlock Holmes\" stories produced the archetypal detective figure and helped", "title": "Novel in Scotland" }, { "id": "18080578", "text": "a way to transform himself and thereby indulge his vices without fear of detection. Jekyll's transformed personality, Hyde, was evil, self-indulgent, and uncaring to anyone but himself. Initially, Jekyll controlled the transformations with the serum, but one night in August, he became Hyde involuntarily in his sleep. Jekyll resolved to cease becoming Hyde. One night, he had a moment of weakness and drank the serum. Hyde, furious at having been caged for so long, killed Carew. Horrified, Jekyll tried more adamantly to stop the transformations. Then, in early January, he transformed involuntarily while awake. Far from his laboratory and hunted", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "18535830", "text": "Lanyon tries to help Jekyll re-create the formula, but they are unable to find an ingredient. Jekyll asks Lanyon to bring Agnes to him, but Jekyll turns into Hyde before Lanyon returns. Utterson and Newcome arrive to arrest Hyde; knowing he can no longer transform back into Jekyll, Hyde commits suicide by taking poison. The play was produced at the Boston Museum, Broadway's Madison Square Theatre and the Lyceum Theatre in London's West End with the following casts: The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" in 1885 when he was living in", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)" }, { "id": "18080573", "text": "cocaine while other biographers said he used ergot. However, the standard history, according to the accounts of his wife and son (and himself), says he was bed-ridden and sick while writing it. According to Osbourne, \"The mere physical feat was tremendous and, instead of harming him, it roused and cheered him inexpressibly\". He continued to refine the work for four to six weeks after the initial re-write. The novella was written in the southern English seaside town of Bournemouth, where Stevenson had moved due to ill health, to benefit from its sea air and warmer southern climate. The name Jekyll", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "20028179", "text": "Both plays opened in London in August 1888, but Bandmann's production was quickly closed due to legal action by Stevenson's publisher. In the first act, attorney J. G. Utterson is at a London vicarage, talking to the vicar, Reverend William Howell. Howell relates a story about how he intervened when he saw a boy being beaten by a man named Edward Hyde. Utterson is dismayed to hear the name Edward Hyde. After the vicar leaves, Utterson speaks with Dr. Lanyon, then with Dr. Henry Jekyll, who lives next door to the vicarage. After Jekyll and Utterson leave, Lanyon speaks to", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888 play)" }, { "id": "367892", "text": "M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson \"seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins\". Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–87), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–97). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, he changed the spelling of \"Lewis\" to \"Louis\", and he dropped \"Balfour\" in 1873. Lighthouse design was the family's profession; Thomas's father (Robert's grandfather) was famous civil engineer Robert Stevenson, and Thomas's", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "12290302", "text": "The Son of Dr. Jekyll The Son of Dr. Jekyll is a 1951 American horror film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews and Alexander Knox. Financed and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it is based on a screenplay by Jack Pollexfen and Mortimer Braus. The film is a continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's original classic 1886 novella \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". Jack Pollexfen, the scriptwriter of this film, wrote and produced a sequel in the same vein, \"The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll\" (1957), starring Gloria Talbott. The film begins with a", "title": "The Son of Dr. Jekyll" }, { "id": "3158717", "text": "examining the shot in which Alma and Elisabet's faces are combined, compared its repulsive effect to that of seeing Robert Louis Stevenson's character Mr. Hyde instead of his benign alter ego, Dr. Jekyll. Singer wrote that Bergman expanded on Stevenson's exploration of duality, the \"good and evil, light and dark aspects of our nature\", depicting it as \"oneness\" in the shot. Gado saw \"Persona\" as a \"double-threaded process of discovery involving motherhood\". Elisabet's withdrawal into silence could be her rejection of motherhood, the only role the actress could not slough off. The nurse realizes that she has done what Elisabet", "title": "Persona (1966 film)" }, { "id": "19114045", "text": "Jekyll and Hyde (TV series) Jekyll and Hyde is a British fantasy TV drama consisting of 10 episodes. It aired on ITV in the United Kingdom from 25 October to 27 December 2015. On 5 January 2016 the creator Charlie Higson announced via his Twitter feed that ITV had declined a second series. Based loosely on the \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", it creates the character of Dr. Robert Jekyll, a grandson of the Victorian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who has inherited his grandfather's split personality and violent alter-ego. The series takes place in 1930s London and Ceylon.", "title": "Jekyll and Hyde (TV series)" }, { "id": "20028186", "text": "he transforms into Hyde. When Utterson and Poole come to the study door, Hyde commits suicide by drinking poison. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" in 1885. In January 1886, it was published in the United Kingdom by Longmans, Green & Co. It was published that same month by Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States, where it was also frequently pirated due to the lack of copyright protections in the US for works originally published in the UK. Despite the opportunity to adapt without authorization, the actor Richard Mansfield secured", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888 play)" }, { "id": "5999695", "text": "after him and dedicated to his memory. Stevenson lived there while recovering his health as he was crossing the United States to court his future wife Fanny Osbourne. While there, he often dined \"on the cuff,\" as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza. Several years later, Stevenson sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. Stevenson wrote some articles for the", "title": "Monterey State Historic Park" }, { "id": "17607656", "text": "many of them historical or studies of manners set in Scotland and England, including \"The Minister's Wife\" (1886) and \"Kirsteen\" (1890). Her series the \"Chronicles of Carlingford\" has been compared with the best work of Anthony Trollope. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors gained international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850–94) work included the urban Gothic novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), which explored the psychological consequences of modernity. Stevenson was also crucial to the further development of the historical novel with historical adventures in books such as \"Kidnapped\" (1886) and \"Treasure Island\"", "title": "Scottish literature in the nineteenth century" }, { "id": "367912", "text": "\"on the cuff,\" as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza; several years later, he sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. While in Monterey, he wrote an evocative article about \"the Old Pacific Capital\" of Monterey. By December 1879, Stevenson had recovered his health enough to continue to San Francisco where he struggled \"all alone on forty-five cents a day,", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "1787495", "text": "and then Jekyll's. The first reveals that Lanyon’s deterioration and eventual death resulted from the shock of seeing Hyde drinking a serum or potion and as a result of doing so, turning into Jekyll. The second letter explains that Jekyll, having previously indulged unstated vices (and with it the fear that discovery would lead to his losing his social position) found a way to transform himself and thereby indulge his vices without fear of detection. But Jekyll's transformed personality, Hyde, was effectively a sociopath — evil, self-indulgent, and utterly uncaring to anyone but himself. Initially, Jekyll was able to control", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)" }, { "id": "1519204", "text": "Voyage dans la Lune\", generally considered the first science fiction film, and a film that used early trick photography to depict a spacecraft's journey to the moon. Several early films merged the science fiction and horror genres. Examples of this are \"Frankenstein\" (1910), a film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, and \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1920), based on the psychological tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. Taking a more adventurous tack, \"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\" (1916) is a film based on Jules Verne’s famous novel of a wondrous submarine and its vengeful captain. In the 1920s, European filmmakers tended", "title": "Science fiction film" }, { "id": "9110533", "text": "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde is a 1925 silent, black-and-white comedy film, directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock (also the producer). The film itself is both a spoof of the previous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films (e.g. \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1912) and \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1920)) and the well-famed novel by Robert Louis Stevenson \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.\" The film stars Stan Laurel as the title characters. Dr. Stanislaus Pyckle, (a play of the actor's name, Stan Laurel), successfully separates the good and evil of", "title": "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" }, { "id": "8528810", "text": "Jekyll (TV series) Jekyll is a British television drama serial produced by Hartswood Films and Stagescreen Productions for BBC One. The series also received funding from BBC America. Steven Moffat wrote all six episodes, with Douglas Mackinnon and Matt Lipsey each directing three episodes. The series is described by its creators as a sequel to the novella \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", rather than an adaptation of it, with the Robert Louis Stevenson tale serving as a backstory within the series. It stars James Nesbitt as Tom Jackman, a modern-day descendant of Dr. Jekyll, who has recently", "title": "Jekyll (TV series)" }, { "id": "20359413", "text": "The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek is a 2006 Australian thriller film directed by Nathan Hill. \"The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek\" is modern day adaptation of classic novel \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" written by Robert Louis Stevenson.The story follows Dr. Jekyll and his friend and lawyer Mr Utterson, who believes that something has gone wrong with Jekyll. Jekyll plans to kill his friend Dr Lanyon one night at his mansion during a party where all of their friends have gathered, because he found out about his", "title": "The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek" }, { "id": "18080582", "text": "interest not only in Jekyll but also regarding Hyde. He comes to the conclusion that human downfall results from indulging oneself in topics of interest. As a result of this line of reasoning, he lives life as a recluse and \"dampens his taste for the finer items of life\". Utterson concludes that Jekyll lives life as he wishes by enjoying his occupation. Utterson is a good, kind, loyal and honest friend to Henry Jekyll. Dr Jekyll is a \"large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty with something of a slyish cast\", who occasionally feels he is battling between the good and", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "5768785", "text": "the Ripper\", the Ripper's daughter (played by Angharad Rees) grows up to become a murderess after she sees her father kill her mother. In \"Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde\", Dr. Henry Jekyll transforms into the evil predatory woman Sister Hyde and is also responsible for the Ripper murders. In \"Terror in the Wax Museum\" (1973), a murderer disguises himself as a waxwork of the Ripper. \"The Veil\" episode \"Jack the Ripper\" (1958) is a made-for-television film introduced by Boris Karloff, in which a clairvoyant identifies the Ripper as a respectable surgeon whose death has been faked to cover his incarceration", "title": "Jack the Ripper in fiction" }, { "id": "12375208", "text": "George MacDonald, the influential author of \"The Princess and the Goblin\" and \"Phantastes\" (1858). Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel \"The Moonstone\" (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was an important Scottish writer at the end of the nineteenth century, author of \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), and the historical novel \"Kidnapped\" (1886). H.G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like \"The Time Machine\" (1895), and \"The War of the Worlds\" (1898) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians,", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "9113085", "text": "these rooms he begins a career of evil, until one night he attacks and injures a crippled child. Outraged witnesses corner Hyde and force him to agree to compensate the boy. Hyde reluctantly leads one man back to Jekyll’s house and gives him money. During this passage of events, a worried Dr. Utterson sees Hyde entering Jekyll’s house. Inside, Hyde takes a potion that transforms him back to Jekyll. The doctor swears that he will abandon his experiments and never tempt fate again; but that night, without taking the drug, he turns spontaneously into Hyde. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913 film)" }, { "id": "10944077", "text": "propping itself up with its forelegs on the bed-end and staring at them in bed. According to Walter Scott, the house, which remained unoccupied after the incident, was demolished in 1830. The story of Weir has been proposed as an influence on \"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", by Robert Louis Stevenson. The 2000 novel \"The Fanatic\" by James Robertson features Weir as a character and uses the events surrounding him as a central aspect of the novel's narrative and themes. Thomas Weir Major Thomas Weir (1599 – 1670) was a Scottish soldier and presumed occultist, executed for bestiality, incest and", "title": "Thomas Weir" }, { "id": "17416825", "text": "the life of Julius Caesar called \"The High and Mighty Caesar.\" They also collaborated on a musical based on the lives of Nicholas and Alexandra called \"The Last Tsar\". In 1980, Cuden and Wildhorn wrote the first two versions that they would create of a musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.\" The second version that they wrote, which Cuden then titled, \"Jekyll & Hyde\", was completed in 1986. The musical was nearly produced on Broadway in 1988, with Terrence Mann set to star, but the production never came to", "title": "Steve Cuden" }, { "id": "8528819", "text": "and in a near-vegetative state. Sophia explains that Jackman is a descendant of Doctor Jekyll, (who died a virgin), through Mr Hyde, and by chance a perfect natural genetic duplicate, \"a perfect throwback, a chance in a million\". Klein and Utterson had discovered this and had him under surveillance for almost his entire life, from when he was six-months-old. In order to trigger his transformation into Hyde, they created a clone of Alice, the maid whom Jekyll had loved. This clone is Claire herself. Hyde tries to rescue Jackman's family from Klein and Utterson, killing Syme and many other personnel.", "title": "Jekyll (TV series)" }, { "id": "7644201", "text": "learn the depths of the human mind. By testing the potion on himself, he transforms into Mr. Edward Hyde, a young and handsome, but also murderous and lecherous man. Soon, Hyde becomes bored with conventional debauchery and when his eyes catch Kitty, he decides he must have her. When Kitty rejects him, Hyde rapes her and leaves her unconscious. When Kitty wakes up in the bed, she immediately notices that Hyde has scratched her neck in various places. Distressed, Kitty walks over to the table where she finds a note written to her. When Kitty goes into the other room", "title": "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" }, { "id": "18080568", "text": "Christmas annual. According to his essay, \"A Chapter on Dreams\" (\"Scribner's\", Jan. 1888), he racked his brains for an idea for a story and had a dream, and upon wakening had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". Biographer Graham Balfour quoted Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson: In the small hours of one morning,[...]I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. He said angrily: \"Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.\" I had", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "18080569", "text": "awakened him at the first transformation scene. Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, wrote: \"I don't believe that there was ever such a literary feat before as the writing of \"Dr Jekyll\". I remember the first reading as though it were yesterday. Louis came downstairs in a fever; read nearly half the book aloud; and then, while we were still gasping, he was away again, and busy writing. I doubt if the first draft took so long as three days.\" Inspiration may also have come from the writer's friendship with Edinburgh-based French teacher Eugene Chantrelle, who was convicted and executed for the", "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" }, { "id": "10110315", "text": "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Brent Jekyll is running for Congress and as part of his campaign is trying to get foreigners out of America (this includes the Munsters). There is a more sinister part of the story as it seems that Hyde was sabotaged and transformed into Jekyll purposely, to bring forward a politician without a past who people would listen to. As the story unfolds, the family tries to save the day. With Herman arrested and placed in jail, Grandpa creates a replica of him from spare parts and uses it", "title": "Here Come the Munsters" }, { "id": "12696925", "text": "The Nutty Professor (2008 film) The Nutty Professor (also known as The Nutty Professor II: Facing the Fear) is a 2008 American-Canadian computer-animated comedy sequel to the 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name and based on the story \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" by Robert Louis Stevenson, produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and The Weinstein Company and distributed by Genius Products. Lewis reprises his role of Julius Kelp and produces the film. Drake Bell plays the voice of Harold Kelp, Julius's grandson. The film bears no relation to the Eddie Murphy series of comedies that Lewis", "title": "The Nutty Professor (2008 film)" }, { "id": "6308356", "text": "the series, the programme makers acknowledge these as errors but also point out they are in fact perfectly feasible, given Sam's situation. As the popularity of the series grew, the hunting of such anachronisms became a favourite pastime among \"Life on Mars\" fans. Hyde, a town to the east of Manchester, is used as Sam's former police division as a clue that his 1973 self is an \"alter ego\", as in Robert Louis Stevenson's \"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\". Critical reaction to the first series of \"Life on Mars\" was extremely positive. Steve O'Brien, writing for", "title": "Life on Mars (UK TV series)" }, { "id": "7653122", "text": "his texts. Also \"La increíble historia del Dr. Floït & Mr. Pla\" (1997), a production by \"Els Joglars\", which recreates the work of Robert Louis Stevenson where the characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are, respectively, a Catalan industrialist obsessed with wealth and, on the other side, an educated and indulgent writer which personifies the opposed values of industrial bourgeoisie, based on Pla. His liberal-conservative thought, skeptical and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, still resounds today, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment the same as it did the previous establishment. His books remain in", "title": "Josep Pla" } ]

[ "He changed his last name to West--and became famous as Nathanael West, author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust" ]

[ { "id": "11301723", "text": "\"Go West, young man\" is a reference to a famous phrase by Horace Greeley, who, in a 13 July 1865 editorial, advised: \"Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.\" The song was performed live by Genesis on their 1978 tour and was used as a frequent opening number on their 1980 tour, but the song was not performed live thereafter. In Japan and North America it was released as a single, but re-titled as \"Go West Young Man (In the Motherlode)\". Deep in the Motherlode \"Deep in the Motherlode\", also titled \"Go West Young Man", "title": "Deep in the Motherlode" }, { "id": "5786021", "text": "enclosed grounds at Cold Spring October 7 & 8. The Fair returned to Aurora in 1854 and 1855. The year 1855 was distinguished by two important circumstances in the history of the Ag society. First it was then for the first time, that admission fee of 12 ½ cents was imposed. Secondly, it was the year that famed newspaper editor and once candidate for President Horace Greeley spoke as a main attraction. Greeley is noted for his famous admonition, \"Go west, young man, go west!\" His speech at the Fair was a practical talk – on drainage, the use of", "title": "Erie County Fair" }, { "id": "5754593", "text": "James McClatchy James McClatchy (1824–1883) was an American newspaper editor. Although he is thought of as founder of \"The Sacramento Bee\", which grew into The McClatchy Company, James McClatchy was actually the newspaper's second editor, taking over just days after the newspaper began publication as \"The Daily Bee\" in February 1857. Born in 1824 in Ireland, McClatchy was a young journalist on the editorial staff of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune in 1848, when news of a gold strike on Northern California's American River reached the East. Taking the advice of his employer, who famously declared \"Go west, young man,\"", "title": "James McClatchy" }, { "id": "1469853", "text": "Congress to make public lands available for purchase at cheap rates to settlers. He told his readers, \"Fly, scatter through the country, go to the Great West, anything rather than remain here ... the West is the true destination.\" In 1838, he advised \"any young man\" about to start in the world, \"Go to the West: there your capabilities are sure to be appreciated and your energy and industry rewarded.\" In 1838, Greeley met Albany editor Thurlow Weed. Weed spoke for a liberal faction of the Whigs in his newspaper the Albany \"Evening Journal\". He hired Greeley as editor of", "title": "Horace Greeley" }, { "id": "12990481", "text": "Indiana Congressman Richard W. Thompson over whether or not Soule could trick readers by forging a Greeley article. Grinnell College historian Joseph Frazier Wall claims that Greeley himself denied providing that advice, and \"[spent] the rest of this life vigorously protesting that he had never given this advice to Grinnell or anyone else ...\". In a footnote Wall states Go West, young man \"Go West, young man\" is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley concerning America's expansion westward, related to the then-popular concept of Manifest Destiny. No one", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "3228169", "text": "supervision. Borah passed the bar examination in September 1887, and went into partnership with his brother-in-law. The mayor of Lyons appointed Borah as city attorney in 1889, but the young lawyer felt that he was destined for bigger things than a small Kansas town suffering in the hard times that persisted on the prairie in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Following the advice attributed to Horace Greeley, Borah chose to go west and grow up with the country. In October 1890, uncertain of his destination, he boarded the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha. On the advice of a gambler", "title": "William Borah" }, { "id": "4961001", "text": "Territory West of the Cascades\", to promote investment in the region. He took ship for San Francisco, then journeyed east by the new transcontinental railroad, hoping to get the railroads to expand to his region. He met with newspaper editor Horace Greeley (known for his famous advice, \"Go West, young man\") and with railroad mogul Jay Cooke as part of his promotional blitz. Cooke, who was building the Northern Pacific Railway to cross the northern tier of the country, not only bought up Meeker's pamphlets to give away to potential investors, but hired Meeker to drum up interest in his", "title": "Ezra Meeker" }, { "id": "8449191", "text": "Go West, Young Man Go West, Young Man is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Mae West, Warren William, and Randolph Scott. Released by Paramount Pictures and based on the play \"Personal Appearance\" by Lawrence Riley, the film is about a movie star who gets stranded out in the country and trifles with a young man's affections. The phrase \"Go West, Young Man\" is often attributed to \"New York Tribune\" founder Horace Greeley, and often misattributed to Indiana journalist John B. L. Soule, but the latest research shows it to be a paraphrase. Mavis Arden", "title": "Go West, Young Man" }, { "id": "12990476", "text": "Go West, young man \"Go West, young man\" is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley concerning America's expansion westward, related to the then-popular concept of Manifest Destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print. In 2010, Timothy Hughes of \"Rare & Early Newspapers\" (blog) examined Greeley's writings and concluded: \"Here is the Tribune of that date and I've scoured through the issue yet never found the quote. The closest I could come is in 'The Homstead Law' article, page 4 column 4, where", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "12990479", "text": "text does not appear in that issue of the newspaper. The actual editorial instead encourages American Civil War veterans to take advantage of the Homestead Act and colonize the public lands: \"The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations\" gives the full quotation as, \"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country\", from \"Hints toward Reforms\" (1850) by Horace Greeley, but the phrase does not occur in that book. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell claimed in his autobiography that Horace Greeley first addressed the advice to him in 1833, before sending him off to Illinois to report on the Illinois Agricultural State Fair.", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "20567489", "text": "John B. L. Soule John Babsone Lane Soule (1815–1891) was an American publisher, minister, poet and professor. Originally from Maine, he went to Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated in 1840 from Bowdoin College in Maine. Soule is credited with using the phrase \"Go West, young man, go West\" in an 1851 \"Terre Haute Express\" editorial, 14 years before a similar phrase was famously used by Horace Greeley in reference to western expansion in North America. The phrase is often attributed to Greeley. Greeley even reportedly tried to give Soule credit, but some journalists insisted Greeley had expressed those", "title": "John B. L. Soule" }, { "id": "12700587", "text": "contestants participated to write on the advantages of joining the army. One of the judges was General John J. Pershing. Out of this pool, Campbell came in first place. The first line of his essay read: “As Horace Greely once said, ‘Young man, go West.’ We now say, ‘Young man, join the Army.’” Later, he began his higher-level education at Iowa State University, where he majored in chemical engineering and came first in his class. Afterward, he earned his master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his education after attending Harvard Business School. His intelligence and interest", "title": "Donald L. Campbell" }, { "id": "12990478", "text": "favored westward expansion. He saw the fertile farmland of the west as an ideal place for people willing to work hard for the opportunity to succeed. The phrase came to symbolize the idea that agriculture could solve many of the nation's problems of poverty and unemployment characteristic of the big cities of the East. It is one of the most commonly quoted sayings from the nineteenth century and may have had some influence on the course of American history. Some sources have claimed the phrase is derived from Greeley's July 13, 1865 editorial in the \"New York Tribune\", but this", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "12990477", "text": "he mentioned: ' ... We earnestly urge upon all such to turn their faces Westward and colonize the public lands ... '. (See text image).\" Some claim it was first stated by John Babsone Lane Soule in an 1851 editorial in the \"Terre Haute Express\", \"Go west young man, and grow up with the country\"; and that Greeley later used the quote in his own editorial in 1865. An analysis of this phrase in the 2007 \"Skagit River Journal\" concludes: \"the primary-source historical record contains not a shred of evidence that Soule had anything to do with the phrase.\" Greeley", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "20567491", "text": "Arts, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity from various schools. Baird died May 28, 1887. John B. L. Soule John Babsone Lane Soule (1815–1891) was an American publisher, minister, poet and professor. Originally from Maine, he went to Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated in 1840 from Bowdoin College in Maine. Soule is credited with using the phrase \"Go West, young man, go West\" in an 1851 \"Terre Haute Express\" editorial, 14 years before a similar phrase was famously used by Horace Greeley in reference to western expansion in North America. The phrase is often attributed to Greeley.", "title": "John B. L. Soule" }, { "id": "1469843", "text": "He wrote for or edited several publications and involved himself in Whig Party politics, taking a significant part in William Henry Harrison's successful 1840 presidential campaign. The following year, he founded the \"Tribune\", which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country through weekly editions sent by mail. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed. He popularized the slogan \"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.\" He endlessly promoted utopian reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance,", "title": "Horace Greeley" }, { "id": "11783170", "text": "Estimated attendance in that first official festival was 2,500 people. In an effort to give the event some national recognition the Greeley Spud Rodeo era ended and, thus, began the age of the \"Go West with Greeley\" Rodeo. The name taken from the famous phrase by the city's name sake, Horace Greeley, who said \"Go west young man. Go west.\" The Greeley Independence Stampede entitlement came in 1972 by means of a community contest and featured: Pro Rodeos; kids rodeo; country and classic rock concerts; televised July 4 parade, a demolition derby, carnival midway, western art show, free stage entertainment,", "title": "Greeley Stampede" }, { "id": "15455058", "text": "Go East, Young Man Go East, Young Man: The Early Years is a memoir written by United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. It describes his childhood and early adult life, ending with his appointment to the Court in 1939 at age 40. The title, a play on the famous American expression \"Go West, young man\", alludes to Douglas's upbringing in the Western United States – being uprooted often, eventually landing in Yakima, Washington – followed by his legal education and professional success in the Eastern United States. It was published by Random House in April 1974 and is", "title": "Go East, Young Man" }, { "id": "944838", "text": "Greeley County, Kansas Greeley County (county code GL) is a county located in western Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,247, which makes it the least populous county in Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Tribune. The county is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the \"New York Tribune\". Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France", "title": "Greeley County, Kansas" }, { "id": "7865985", "text": "nineteenth century quote \"Go West, young man\" commonly attributed to Horace Greeley, a rallying cry for the colonization of the American West. Though Victor Willis denies writing the song with a gay theme in mind (the lyrics imply a more traditional, monogamous if not explicitly heterosexual romantic relationship between the singer and his lover), \"Go West\" is generally understood as an expression of the 1970s sentiment of San Francisco as a utopia for the Gay Liberation movement. Both the 7\" and 12\" versions of the song were subsequently collected in various greatest hits collections, including a 1997 radio remix which", "title": "Go West (song)" }, { "id": "2150701", "text": "Nathanael West Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: \"Miss Lonelyhearts\" (1933) and \"The Day of the Locust\" (1939), set repectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City, the first child of Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Anuta (Anna, née Wallenstein, 1878–1935) and Max (Morduch) Weinstein (1878–1932), from Kovno, Russia (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), who maintained an upper middle class household in a Jewish neighborhood on the Upper West Side. West displayed little ambition", "title": "Nathanael West" }, { "id": "12317739", "text": "Connecticut, Foote's ancestry was English—from Yorkshire before 1630. After preparatory schooling as a youth, he attended Yale College's Sheffield Scientific School, but left in 1868 before graduating. From there he began his early career in business and construction ventures along the eastern seaboard of the US and in the West Indies basin. Immersing himself in learning the civil engineering practicum, with application in mining operations, young Arthur Foote became an exemplar of the motto \"Go West, young man\"; he aspired to making his career and fortune in the 'new' West, first in California. In 1873, he landed in San Francisco,", "title": "Arthur De Wint Foote" }, { "id": "1074069", "text": "Horace, Kansas Horace is a city in Greeley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 70. Horace was founded in 1886. The city is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the \"New York Tribune\". Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". A post office was opened in Horace in 1886, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1965. On November 6, 2007, voters in rural Greeley County and in Tribune approved a consolidation of the county and the city. Horace, however, decided against consolidation.", "title": "Horace, Kansas" }, { "id": "12990480", "text": "Grinnell reports the full conversation as: Many people believe Horace Greeley did not coin this phrase at all, but merely popularized it. He may have borrowed it from John B. L. Soule who may have published it in an editorial of his own in an 1851 edition of the \"Terre Haute Express\". However, the phrase does not occur in the 1851 edition of the \"Terre Haute Express\", and the Soule theory may date no earlier than 1890. Author Ralph Keyes also suggests Soule as the source, offering an account in which the line originated from a bet between Soule and", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "1074076", "text": "Tribune, Kansas Tribune is a city in and the county seat of Greeley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 741. Tribune was founded in 1886. The railroad depot was built in 1887, at which time Tribune was designated as the county seat. The city is named after the \"New York Tribune\", of which Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York was the editor. Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". As of January 1, 2009, the City of Tribune and Greeley County have operated as a unified government. The resulting", "title": "Tribune, Kansas" }, { "id": "653973", "text": "[and in] 1772 Alexander Henry had prospected for copper on the Ontonagon River near Victoria.\" When Horace Greeley said, \"Go West, young man\" he was referring to the copper rush in \"Michigan's western Upper Peninsula.\" Many Cornish and Finnish immigrants arrived in the Houghton area to work in the copper mines; both groups have had a great influence on the culture and cuisine of the local area. The Finns and others called much of the area Copper Island. Smaller numbers of French-Canadian immigrants moved to Houghton, while more of them settled elsewhere in Houghton County. The last nearby mines closed", "title": "Houghton, Michigan" }, { "id": "15455064", "text": "Danelski, as well as some of Douglas's past associates, said that while Douglas may have exaggerated at times, Murphy's biography had not proven the worst such incidences. Go East, Young Man Go East, Young Man: The Early Years is a memoir written by United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. It describes his childhood and early adult life, ending with his appointment to the Court in 1939 at age 40. The title, a play on the famous American expression \"Go West, young man\", alludes to Douglas's upbringing in the Western United States – being uprooted often, eventually landing in", "title": "Go East, Young Man" }, { "id": "12439731", "text": "Buster Keaton classic often compared to the Charlie Chaplin classics. The story follows a down-and-out Midwesterner following Horace Greeley's adage \"Go West, young man!\" Classic hilarity in this film includes a milking scene and a card game. (Roscoe \"Fatty\" Arbuckle makes an in-drag cameo.) The original soundtrack recording also includes Kermit Driscoll on acoustic and electric basses and Joey Barron on percussion. Frisell and his band performed the music to all three films at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, NY, in May 1993. The warmly recorded albums are adventurous and evocative. Critics described Bill Frisell's inspired episodic work with Keaton's films", "title": "Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton" }, { "id": "5035442", "text": "Josiah Bushnell Grinnell Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (December 22, 1821 – March 31, 1891) was a U.S. Congressman from Iowa's 4th congressional district, an ordained Congregational minister, founder of Grinnell, Iowa and benefactor of Grinnell College. Grinnell was born in New Haven, Vermont, in 1821. He studied the Classics and graduated from Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City in 1847. He held pastorates in Washington, D.C., and New York City before moving to Iowa. Grinnell was the young man to whom Horace Greeley is quoted as having given the famous advice, \"Go West, young man.\" Grinnell was also involved in", "title": "Josiah Bushnell Grinnell" }, { "id": "928831", "text": "Greeley County, Nebraska Greeley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,538. Its county seat is Greeley. In the Nebraska license plate system, Greeley County is represented by the prefix 62 (it had the 62nd-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). Greeley County was created in 1871 and organized in 1872. It was named after Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor and politician of the mid-19th century. Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". According", "title": "Greeley County, Nebraska" }, { "id": "13110456", "text": "is not played out.'\" The Lincoln-Douglas debates became so well known that Lincoln gave personally signed presentation copies of the debates to his best friends and political associates. The one given to Archibald Williams was inscribed in Lincoln's handwriting: \"To Hon: Archibald Williams, with respects of A. Lincoln.\" It was one more sign of Lincoln's close friendship and strong political alliance with Archibald Williams. On December 25, 1859, a number of leading Republicans in Quincy, Illinois, including Archibald Williams, met with Horace Greeley, a prominent national journalist and editor of the \"New York Tribune.\" Greeley had famously stated \"Go west,", "title": "Archibald Williams (judge)" }, { "id": "1074075", "text": "the poverty line, including 25.5% of under eighteens and none of those over 64. Horace, Kansas Horace is a city in Greeley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 70. Horace was founded in 1886. The city is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the \"New York Tribune\". Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". A post office was opened in Horace in 1886, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1965. On November 6, 2007, voters in rural Greeley County and in Tribune", "title": "Horace, Kansas" }, { "id": "2150702", "text": "in academics, dropping out of high school and only gaining admission into Tufts College by forging his high school transcript. After being expelled from Tufts, West got into Brown University by appropriating the transcript of a fellow Tufts student, his cousin, Nathan Weinstein. Although West did little schoolwork at Brown, he read extensively. He ignored the realist fiction of his American contemporaries in favor of French surrealists and British and Irish poets of the 1890s, in particular Oscar Wilde. West's interests focused on unusual literary style as well as unusual content. He became interested in Christianity and mysticism, as experienced", "title": "Nathanael West" }, { "id": "11968556", "text": "servant may be called by a hand clap as much as a child might \"ask for milk.\" Mands differ from other verbal operants in that they primarily benefit the speaker, whereas other verbal operants function primarily for the benefit of the listener. This is not to say that mands function exclusively in favor of the speaker, however; Skinner gives the example of the advice, \"Go west!\" as having the potential to yield consequences which will be reinforcing to both speaker and listener. When warnings such as \"Look out!\" are heeded, the listener may avoid aversive stimulation. The Lamarre & Holland", "title": "Mand (psychology)" }, { "id": "18110218", "text": "Stoddard Martin Stoddard Hurd Martin(1811-1865) was an American carpenter and master builder from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Freesoiler member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1849. He was a son of Stoddard Martin (1781-1868) of North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and in a tradition made famous by Horace Greeley's quote 'Go West, young man' took a trail which led him eventually to Madison, Wisconsin, where he built a domicile which was one of the first in the future capital of the state. He was descended from early settlers of Massachusetts, including through his grandmother, Sarah Williams", "title": "Stoddard Martin" }, { "id": "18110219", "text": "Martin, the Reverend Solomon Stoddard and Governors Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Dudley. Stoddard Martin Stoddard Hurd Martin(1811-1865) was an American carpenter and master builder from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Freesoiler member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1849. He was a son of Stoddard Martin (1781-1868) of North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and in a tradition made famous by Horace Greeley's quote 'Go West, young man' took a trail which led him eventually to Madison, Wisconsin, where he built a domicile which was one of the first in the future capital of the state. He was", "title": "Stoddard Martin" }, { "id": "6315572", "text": "See a man about a dog To see a man about a dog or horse is an English idiom, usually used as a way to apologize for one's imminent departure or absence—generally to euphemistically conceal one's true purpose, such as going to use the toilet or going to buy a drink. The original non-facetious meaning was probably to place or settle a bet on a racing dog. The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play \"Flying Scud\" in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, \"Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to", "title": "See a man about a dog" }, { "id": "8449192", "text": "(Mae West), is a movie star who gets romantically involved with a politician. She makes plans to meet him at her next tour stop but her Rolls Royce breaks down and she is left stranded in the middle of a rural town. Her manager arranges for her to stay at a local boarding house. She immediately set her eyes on the young mechanic, fixing her car, Bud Norton, played by Randolph Scott. West sings the Arthur Johnston/John Burke song, \"I Was Saying to the Moon\" as she is trying to seduce Scott. \"The New York Times\" wrote that the film", "title": "Go West, Young Man" }, { "id": "8449194", "text": "New Yorker\". \"We mustn't, of course, ever allow anything to curb Mae West, so it is with relief that we find her in this film no more shy than before.\" Go West, Young Man Go West, Young Man is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Mae West, Warren William, and Randolph Scott. Released by Paramount Pictures and based on the play \"Personal Appearance\" by Lawrence Riley, the film is about a movie star who gets stranded out in the country and trifles with a young man's affections. The phrase \"Go West, Young Man\" is often", "title": "Go West, Young Man" }, { "id": "1176518", "text": "Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the \"New York Tribune\". Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto \"Go West, young man\". The city is bordered on the west by the Sheyenne River, a tributary of the Red River of the North. To reduce damage from seasonal flooding, which sometimes was very severe, the state and federal government collaborated on the Sheyenne Diversion Project, constructing a canal and associated support in 1990-1992 to move Sheyenne flood waters to the west and south of Horace, and north past the western side of West Fargo. This has proved its worth, protecting", "title": "Horace, North Dakota" }, { "id": "12995322", "text": "narrator notes that Ben's fiancée Samantha Pierce (Liane Balaban) despises motorcycles, but he buys it. Finishing a Tim Hortons coffee, he rolls up the cup's rim to see if he has won a prize, but sees only a message that reads \"Go West Young Man\". He breaks the news of his cancer to Samantha, as well as his desire to take a two-day excursion on the motorcycle. She objects, arguing that he should begin treatment immediately, but he feels a need for an adventure before \"becoming a patient\". He asks Samantha to come with him, but she refuses, and he", "title": "One Week (2008 film)" }, { "id": "1469848", "text": "of the \"Northern Spectator\", a newspaper in East Poultney, Vermont. There, he learned the mechanics of a printer's job, and acquired a reputation as the town encyclopedia, reading his way through the local library. When the paper closed in 1830, the young man went west to join his family, living near Erie, Pennsylvania. He remained there only briefly, going from town to town seeking newspaper employment, and was hired by the \"Erie Gazette\". Although ambitious for greater things, he remained until 1831 to help support his father. While there, he became a Universalist, breaking from his Congregationalist upbringing. In late", "title": "Horace Greeley" }, { "id": "170266", "text": "Greeley supposedly wrote \"Go West, young man, go West.\" However, Greeley vehemently denied ever saying this to Grinnell, or to anyone. The name of the corporation, \"The Trustees of Iowa College,\" remained, but in 1909 the name \"Grinnell College\" was adopted by the trustees for the institution. In its early years, the College experienced setbacks. Although two students received bachelor of arts degrees in 1854 (the first to be granted by a college west of the Mississippi River), within 10 years the Civil War had claimed most of Grinnell's students and professors. In the decade following the war, growth resumed:", "title": "Grinnell College" }, { "id": "197556", "text": "a standardized virtual machine called the Z-machine. As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter had to be ported to new computer architectures only once per architecture, rather than once per game. Each game file included a sophisticated parser which allowed the user to type complex instructions to the game. Unlike earlier works of interactive fiction which only understood commands of the form 'verb noun', Infocom's parser could understand a wider variety of sentences. For instance one might type \"open the large door, then go west\", or \"go to festeron\". With the", "title": "Infocom" }, { "id": "4280040", "text": "that of \"A Christmas Carol\". Asking the upper classes to stop interfering with his life and leave him to die, Will Fern makes a bitter reference to the biblical Book of Ruth, deliberately misquoting Ruth's \"Whither thou goest, I will go\" speech. The novel's setting is contemporary and the 1840s (the \"Hungry Forties\") were a time of social and political unrest. Trotty's conviction that poor people are naturally wicked is influenced by an article in his newspaper about a young woman who has tried to drown herself and her child, and this motif returns at the climax of the book,", "title": "The Chimes" }, { "id": "115623", "text": "M. Nixon, Will You Please Go Now!\" was published in major newspapers through the column of his friend Art Buchwald. The line \"a person's a person, no matter \"how\" small!!\" from \"Horton Hears a Who!\" has been used widely as a slogan by the pro-life movement in the U.S., despite the objections of Geisel's widow. The line was first used in such a way in 1986; he demanded a retraction and received one. Geisel made a point of not beginning to write his stories with a moral in mind, stating that \"kids can see a moral coming a mile off.\"", "title": "Dr. Seuss" }, { "id": "409607", "text": "could see the hangings (for a fee). On one occasion, the stands collapsed, reportedly killing and injuring hundreds of people. This did not prove a deterrent, however, and the executions continued to be treated as public holidays, with London apprentices being given the day off for them. One such event was depicted by William Hogarth in his satirical print, \"The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn\" (1747). Tyburn was commonly invoked in euphemisms for capital punishment—for instance, to \"take a ride to Tyburn\" (or simply \"go west\") was to go to one's hanging, \"Lord of the Manor of Tyburn\" was the", "title": "Tyburn" }, { "id": "5501410", "text": "an international record, as well as for his nearly 40-year sailing career that includes a non-stop solo circumnavigation in 2005 at age 71. It was only the second time the award to honor adventure boating has been presented by the organization. Sailing west-to-east to circle the globe in a wind-driven craft is no small feat but rarely is the plan to go \"westwardly\" instead — the \"wrong way around\" — against the prevailing winds, currents and waves. This route puts immense stresses on the vessel and crew, and for solo sailors, days can pass with little or no sleep when", "title": "Minoru Saitō" }, { "id": "12241761", "text": "Volunteer Regiment. Three weeks later he married Harriet Zinnia Currier before leaving with his unit. He was present at many important battles, including the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Siege of Vicksburg and mustered out on June 4, 1865. He states in his autobiography that after the war, he \"took Horace Greeley's advice\" (Go West, young man) and in 1866 went west in a covered wagon to establish a homestead near Marion, Ohio. Due to poor weather and being an inexperienced farmer, his crops failed for several years in a row. He was so poor he was unable to afford", "title": "Charles Henry Morrill" }, { "id": "974228", "text": "however, makes complete accuracy possible. Isaac's brother Benn Pitman, who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, was responsible for introducing the method to America. The record for fast writing with Pitman shorthand is 350 wpm during a two-minute test by Nathan Behrin in 1922. Nathan Behrin wrote on Pitman shorthand in 1914: The seeker after high speed should devote himself to obtaining a thorough mastery of the principles of his system of shorthand. Not until the ability to write shorthand without mental hesitation has been acquired, should speed practice begin. A student observing the note-taking of an experienced stenographer will be struck", "title": "Shorthand" }, { "id": "18557975", "text": "\"Two Men in a Boat: Illyrian Shores\", is a “story of a romantic voyage in the wake of the Venetians … from Cofu to Venice” while \"Two Men in a Boat: Chasing Spring\" was inspired by a quote Norman once heard: \"Spring travels up through Britain at the pace of a walking man. (This) struck Norman as an intensely romantic notion, and, along with his partner Derek Frost, he set out to find the proof\" which led them on a journey, chasing spring up the west coast of the British Isles. These trips were recorded both in Norman's books as", "title": "Jeremy Norman" }, { "id": "2230842", "text": "familiarly lain there, as a Newfoundland dog; the sight of that household boat evoked a thousand trustful associations...\" Herman Melville \"Benito Cereno\" \"Your fatuous specialist is now beginning to rebuke \"secondrate\" newspapers for using such phrases as \"to suddenly go\" and \"to boldly say\". I ask you, Sir, to put this man out without interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between \"to suddenly go\", \"to go suddenly\" and \"suddenly to go\". Set him adrift and try an intelligent Newfoundland dog in his place.\" George Bernard Shaw, letter to the Chronicle newspaper (1892) Notes Newfoundland dog The Newfoundland dog is", "title": "Newfoundland dog" }, { "id": "2086366", "text": "21 years, to the day. When people reach this \"Lastday\" they report to a \"Sleepshop\" in which they are willingly executed via a pleasure-inducing toxic gas. A person's age is revealed by their \"palm flower\" crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years, yellow (age 0–6), then blue (age 7–13), then red (age 14–20), then blinks red and black on Lastday, and finally turns black at 21. \"Runners\" are those who refuse to report to a Sleepshop and attempt to avoid their fate by escaping to Sanctuary. Logan 3 is a \"Deep Sleep", "title": "Logan's Run" }, { "id": "3663148", "text": "The title “In Search of the Miraculous” was a reference to P.D. Ouspensky's mystical book \"In Search of the Miraculous\". On 9 July 1975, Ader set off in a modified “Guppy 13” pocket cruiser named \"Ocean Wave\", to make his single-handed west–east crossing of the North Atlantic. He estimated that the voyage should take him some two and a half months. His unmanned boat was found nine months after he had set sail, floating nearly vertically in the water, bow down, 200 nautical miles (360 km) due west of Land's End, 100 nautical miles SW of Ireland. \"Ocean Wave\" was", "title": "Bas Jan Ader" }, { "id": "13242794", "text": "\"Teens in the Wild\". Fifteen-year-old Mikey from County Westmeath has a habit of telling the truth and being verbally abusive both at home and in school. He has been known to unexpectedly disappear for several hours on numerous occasions. He is regularly involved in street brawls. Was stabbed on numerous occasions going to the shop to buy sugar for the tae. Mikeys favorite quote on the famous show was \"if noël goes, I'll go, jaysus I love noël ha.\" Mikey is a top buzzer now though, and his brother ripped his foreskin and is frequently referred to as 'birdman' due", "title": "Teens in the Wild" }, { "id": "6512246", "text": "men own the property; they move out to find the treasure and discover that it is a \"salted gold mine\" when they finally examine the dollars that inspired them to purchase the property in the first place (none were manufactured before the Civil War). Part 2 Flem and Eula depart for Jefferson. The men outside Varner's store speculate on Flem's next move; his \"horse-trading\" has become proverbial. Margaret Dunn has discussed parallelisms and contrasts between \"The Hamlet\" and \"Go Down, Moses\", the idea of 'freedom', and how Flem imitates and builds upon the actions of Will Varner. Joseph Gold has", "title": "The Hamlet" }, { "id": "2391936", "text": "Professional Adventure Writer Professional Adventure Writer or PAW (sometimes called PAWS for Professional Adventure Writing System) is a program that allows the user to write textual adventure games with graphic illustrations. It was written by Tim Gilberts, Graeme Yeandle and Phil Wade, based on Yeandle's earlier system called The Quill. PAW was published by Gilsoft in 1986 and quickly gained a loyal following. PAW improved over The Quill in several ways. In particular, its textual input parser was more sophisticated, meaning inputs were no longer confined to the two-word telegraphic \"verb noun\" (e.g. \"GO WEST; TAKE LAMP\") style. PAW also", "title": "Professional Adventure Writer" }, { "id": "12916153", "text": "The long-running BBC programme \"Songs of Praise\" invited viewers to vote for their favourite carols throughout 2005. Tens of thousands of votes were cast, and the Calypso Carol was one of the top ten choices, performed at the Songs of Praise 2005 Christmas Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Calypso Carol The Calypso Carol is a popular modern Christmas carol, with the opening line \"See him lying on a bed of straw\". It has often been introduced by BBC announcers and others as a traditional folk carol from the West Indies. The calypso of the title refers to its West", "title": "Calypso Carol" }, { "id": "3867134", "text": "as news stories, while more common events appear less often, thus distorting the perceptions of news consumers of what constitutes normal rates of occurrence. The phenomenon is also described in the journalistic saying, \"You never read about a plane that did not crash\". The phrase was coined by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922), a British newspaper magnate, but is also attributed to \"New York Sun\" editor John B. Bogart (1848–1921): \"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.\" The quote is also", "title": "Man bites dog (journalism)" }, { "id": "8503363", "text": "Daylight Saving Act of 1917 The Daylight Saving Act of 1917 was enacted by the Dominion of Newfoundland to adopt daylight saving time (DST), thus making it one of the first jurisdictions in North America to do so, only a year after the United Kingdom on May 21, 1916. DST was not instituted in the United States until March 31, 1918. While living in Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote a satirical essay, in which he suggested that Parisians get up earlier in the morning. Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895.", "title": "Daylight Saving Act of 1917" }, { "id": "12397898", "text": "The evidence mounts; so do the bodies. So Morse downs another pint, unleashes his pit bull instincts, and solves a mystery that defies all logic. The novel is divided into three books - the first mile, the second mile and the third mile. The title is a reference to the biblical sentence \"And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain\" as in St Matthew, Chapter Five, Verse Forty-One. The third mile could also indirectly refer to a particularly elaborate scheme used in the book to lure three of the college staff to London. There are", "title": "The Riddle of the Third Mile" }, { "id": "1083852", "text": "the great westward movement of the late 19th century. When travelers were asked their destination, they would often reply \"west we go\". Another more specific tale, recounted in John Churchill Chase's \"Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children\" is that the name was the specific outcome of an 1871 meeting of a railroad board of directors in New York, where planning was undertaken to use the site as an eastern terminus (\"...west we go from there\"). There has been further speculation that this use of \"Westwego\" as a place name may have been influenced by the board members' familiarity with the name of", "title": "Westwego, Louisiana" }, { "id": "6098179", "text": "presented \"Young England\", a patriotic play written by the Rev. Walter Reynolds, then 83. It received such amusingly bad reviews that it became a cult hit and played to full houses for 278 performances before transferring to two other West End theatres. \"Intended by its author as a serious work celebrating the triumph of good over evil and the virtues of the Boy Scout Movement, it was received as an uproarious comedy. Before long, audiences had learned the key lines and were joining in at all the choicest moments. The scoutmistress rarely said the line 'I must go and attend", "title": "Victoria Palace Theatre" }, { "id": "1469852", "text": "in Washington, D.C. on his way south to observe Congress. He took no honeymoon with his new wife, returning to work while his wife took up a teaching job in New York City. One of the positions taken by \"The New-Yorker\" was that the unemployed of the cities should seek lives in the developing American West (in the 1830s, the West encompassed today's Midwestern states). The harsh winter of 1836–1837 and the financial crisis that developed soon after made many New Yorkers homeless and destitute. In his journal, Greeley urged new immigrants to buy guide books on the West, and", "title": "Horace Greeley" }, { "id": "12640906", "text": "follow the line of constant latitude home. This was known as \"running down a westing\" if westbound, or easting if eastbound. In Farley Mowat's book Westviking, he gives examples from the Norse Sagas of Vikings using this practice to hop reliably from Norway to the Faroes, then Iceland, then Greenland, then North America, and then back to Ireland, with very primitive instruments. Determining latitude was relatively easy in that it could be found from the altitude of the sun at noon with the aid of a table giving the sun's declination for the day. Latitude can also be determined from", "title": "Longitude (book)" }, { "id": "6306297", "text": "Go West (1940 film) Go West is the tenth Marx Bros. film, in which Groucho, Chico, and Harpo head to the American West and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that a stolen property deed is retrieved. It was directed by Edward Buzzell and written by Irving Brecher, who receives the original screenplay credit. Confidence man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho) heads west to find his fortune. In the train station, he encounters crafty brothers Joseph (Chico) and Rusty Panello (Harpo) who manage to swindle his money. The Panellos are friends with an old miner named Dan Wilson (Tully Marshall)", "title": "Go West (1940 film)" }, { "id": "14720187", "text": "up against a stone pier finally with such violence as to render him insensible. On 17 May 1873, he ascended from Reading, Pa., in a balloon made of manilla paper enclosed with a light network, the whole weighing but 48 pounds, although it contained of gas. He travelled before landing. Donaldson was a convert to John Wise's theory of a constant current blowing from west to east at a height of , and, as the veteran aeronaut had said a balloon could cross the ocean in this current, Donaldson was ready to take the venture, and so announced his intention", "title": "Washington Harrison Donaldson" }, { "id": "5962503", "text": "Prudent man rule The Prudent Man Rule is based on common law stemming from the 1830 Massachusetts court formulation, \"Harvard College v. Amory\" The prudent man rule, written by Massachusetts Justice Samuel Putnam (1768-1853), directs trustees \"to observe how men of prudence, discretion and intelligence manage their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income, as well as the probable safety of the capital to be invested.\" Under the Prudent Man Rule, when the governing trust instrument is silent concerning the types of investments permitted, the fiduciary", "title": "Prudent man rule" }, { "id": "16780406", "text": "suicide note, in the summer of 1945. Jim never dreams, until near the end of the novel, when he has a dream of the \"Safe Bomb\", which destroys property without harming people. Jim is aware of being in the future, and of using the two-become-one teleportation. Sarah's parents were Alexander and Margaret Mayne. Margaret, as a young girl in 1885, was told to \"go west\" by the Hermit-Inventor of New York. She did so in 1893, reporting for her uncle on the Chicago World's Fair. Touring the West, she returns, reporting on Jacob Coxey as she passes through Pennsylvania. She", "title": "Women and Men" }, { "id": "14075607", "text": "Skalk The skalk refers to the Scottish Hebridean tradition of drinking a dram of whisky as an aperitif before breakfast. The word is an anglicization of the Scots Gaelic word \"scailg\" meaning literally \"a sharp blow to the head.\" The tradition was notably observed by the English writer Samuel Johnson during his tour of the Western Isles of Scotland. In his \"A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland\", Johnson remarks that \"A man of the Hebrides, for of the woman's diet I can give no account, as soon as he appears in the morning, swallows a glass of whisky;", "title": "Skalk" }, { "id": "1359778", "text": "passage of boat, was a measure on the sounding line. Twain is an archaic term for \"two\", as in \"The veil of the temple was rent in twain.\" The riverboatman's cry was \"mark twain\" or, more fully, \"by the mark twain\", meaning \"according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]\", that is, \"The water is deep and it is safe to pass.\" Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In \"Life on the Mississippi\", he wrote: Captain Isaiah Sellers was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "id": "81912", "text": "an essential element in the lives of monks, who are instructed, \"Do nothing without counsel.\" Monks are warned to \"beware of a proud independence, and learn true lowliness as they obey without murmuring and hesitation.\" According to the Rule, there are three components to mortification: \"not to disagree in mind, not to speak as one pleases with the tongue, not to go anywhere with complete freedom.\" This mirrors the words of Jesus, \"For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.\" (John 6:38) In the tenth and", "title": "Columbanus" }, { "id": "19880013", "text": "of the West never abated; in an article published near the end of his life in the \"Western Historical Quarterly\" of the Western History Association entitled \"I Discover Western History\", Osgood wrote \"As I drive westward, the words of the prophet Isaiah come to me, 'For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands'.\" Ernest Staples Osgood Ernest Staples Osgood (October 29, 1888 – June 22, 1983) was an American historian of the", "title": "Ernest Staples Osgood" }, { "id": "1064721", "text": "at 7:30 pm Eastern Time, the introduction, voiced by Fred Foy, had become \"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear\", followed by, \"From out of the west with the speed of light and a hearty 'Hi-yo, Silver! The intro was later changed to: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver! The Lone Ranger! ... With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States! Nowhere in the pages of", "title": "Lone Ranger" }, { "id": "7509738", "text": "his counsel: “Flee without hesitation when exile is the only means of securing religious freedom; have no regard to your worldly career or your property, but go at once.” The ethical wills of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries are similar to earlier, but they tend to be more learned and less simple. Andrew Weil, MD, promotes preparing an “‘ethical will as a gift of spiritual health”’ to leave to family in \"Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being\", and asserts that the ethical will’s “main importance is what it gives the writer in the midst of", "title": "Ethical will" }, { "id": "18708852", "text": "The North-West Passage The North-West Passage is an 1874 painting by John Everett Millais. It depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book. On the desk is a large chart depicting complex passageways between incompletely charted islands. Millais exhibited the painting with the subtitle \"It might be done and England should do it\", a line imagined to be spoken by the aged sailor. The title and subtitle refer to the repeated failure of British expeditions to find the northwest", "title": "The North-West Passage" }, { "id": "14565842", "text": "a MP, had made an unwanted pass at him, describing him as a \"pound shop Harvey Weinstein\". Story said that he had been invited back to Pincher's flat, where Pincher massaged his neck and talked about his \"future in the Conservative party\", before changing into a bathrobe. Pincher said that \"I do not recognise either the events or the interpretation placed on them\" and that \"if Mr Story has ever felt offended by anything I said then I can only apologise to him\". On 23 December 2017, the Conservative Party's investigating panel determined that Pincher had not breached the code", "title": "Christopher Pincher" }, { "id": "11097398", "text": "eclipses) that were unfortunately impractical at sea. Whatever could be discovered from solving the problem at sea would only improve the determination of longitude on land. In order to avoid problems with not knowing one's position accurately, navigators have, where possible, relied on taking advantage of their knowledge of latitude. They would sail to the latitude of their destination, turn toward their destination and follow a line of constant latitude. This was known as \"running down a westing\" (if westbound, easting otherwise). This prevented a ship from taking the most direct route (a great circle) or a route with the", "title": "History of longitude" }, { "id": "15291364", "text": "man and boy experience a redemptive epiphany as they simultaneously recognize in the figurine a symbol of human suffering and the imputed mercy that comes from such suffering. The story ends with them leaving the city and, after getting off the train, standing at the station in a mild state of shock. Mr. Head experiences again this mysterious divine mercy, and Nelson says that he's glad he went \"but I'll never go back again!\" The Artificial Nigger \"The Artificial Nigger\" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection \"A Good Man", "title": "The Artificial Nigger" }, { "id": "7426119", "text": "Parliament in 1835. It was Brunel's vision that passengers would be able to purchase one ticket at London Paddington and travel from London to New York, changing from the Great Western Railway to the \"Great Western\" steamship at the terminus in Neyland, West Wales. He surveyed the entire length of the route between London and Bristol himself, with the help of many including his Solicitor Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol Law Firm Osborne Clarke who on one occasion rowed Brunel down the River Avon himself to survey the bank of the river for the route. Brunel made two controversial decisions: to", "title": "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" }, { "id": "8899776", "text": "more upbeat as he lays down his latest idea of where the future of Trotter's Independent Traders lies to Rodney and Grandad. He suggests they participate in the second-hand car trade. Del buys a faulty Ford Cortina MkII Crayford Convertible that it is being used as a part-exchange for a Vanden Plas in Boycie's used car lot. Del sells the Cortina to an Australian man for £199, much to Rodney's annoyance who concludes that it is a death trap thanks to the severely worn brakes. Rodney is particularly unimpressed to hear that instead of changing the oil, Del simply removed", "title": "Go West Young Man (Only Fools and Horses)" }, { "id": "5109824", "text": "and sleep deprivation. At times he described what might be described as trantric or altered states – safe in the cocoon of his sodden kayak while storms raged around him for days. He was convinced that in a survival situation the mind gave up long before the body (or indeed the craft), and to help accomplish the second trip he trained himself in sleep deprivation as well as mentally, which he described at times as prayer, meditation, autogenic training and ingraining his sub-conscious with affirmational mottos like \"I will make it\" and \"Keep going west\". In the light of these", "title": "Hannes Lindemann" }, { "id": "5964600", "text": "\"there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.\" The concept of the \"flâneur\" has also become meaningful in architecture and urban planning, describing people who are indirectly and unintentionally affected by a particular design they experience only in passing. In 1917, the Swiss writer Robert Walser published a short story called \"Der Spaziergang\" (\"The Walk\"), a veritable outcome", "title": "Flâneur" }, { "id": "1253348", "text": "of America. On the 17th day of July they sailed from Liverpool harbor on board a sailing vessel named the \"Republic\", and after a voyage of six weeks and two days arrived safely in New York City on the 30th of August, 1845. . . . After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces \"Westward,\" a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land. The next portion of the journey", "title": "Cambria, Wisconsin" }, { "id": "5962508", "text": "as the \"Prudent Investor Rule\". The logic is this: an asset may be too risky to put all your money in (thus failing the Prudent Man Rule) but may still be very diversifying and therefore beneficial in a small proportion of the total portfolio. Prudent man rule The Prudent Man Rule is based on common law stemming from the 1830 Massachusetts court formulation, \"Harvard College v. Amory\" The prudent man rule, written by Massachusetts Justice Samuel Putnam (1768-1853), directs trustees \"to observe how men of prudence, discretion and intelligence manage their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in", "title": "Prudent man rule" }, { "id": "10281389", "text": "that I can still respond to\". The song has a \"Go West, young man\" motif in the structure of a conversation between an old man named Joe and a young and hopeful kid. Joe was modeled after a \"grumpy\" old man he had met while his dad was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler Air Force Base. He also stated \"I remember vividly having this mental picture of the stretch of the coastline traveling with my family when I was younger. Ventura Highway itself, there is no such beast, what I was really trying to depict was the Pacific Coast", "title": "Ventura Highway" }, { "id": "16690669", "text": "G. S. Morris notes that \"the lines 'Till some blind hand / Shall brush my wing' seem to follow the feathered shuttlecock directly into the little girl's racquet\". The poem catches the narrator in an act of thoughtlessness that leads to the contemplation of the act and its implications. The fly suffers from uncontrollable circumstances, just as the narrator does. This humbling simile has caused the narrator to move from thoughtlessness to thought, and, as \"thought is life\", from death to life, allowing the conclusion, \"Then am I / A happy fly / If I live, / Or if I", "title": "The Fly (poem)" }, { "id": "11964549", "text": "well, even, following an Imperial Order of 1882, 'as guests'. The question arises: \"How could the Japanese behave with such kindness towards their prisoners in World War I and then, less than thirty years later, act with such cruelty?\" In the opening decades of the twentieth century Japan appeared enthusiastically to adopt western values, 'from dancing to democracy'. As far back as 1885 a Japanese academic had coined what became a popular slogan - \"Abandon Asia, go for the West.\" Crown Prince Hirohito had visited London in the early 1920s. Like the rest of the country, the Japanese monarchy was", "title": "Horror in the East" }, { "id": "2947770", "text": "said and pointed to a negro child standing in the door of a shack. 'Wouldn't that make a picture. In the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald used the word \"pickaninnies\" to describe young black children playing in the street, in his short story \"The Ice Palace\". Throughout his 1935 travel book \"Journey Without Maps\", British author Graham Greene uses \"piccaninny\" as a general term for African children. In Margaret Mitchell's best-selling 1936 epic \"Gone with the Wind\", Melanie Wilkes objects to her husband's intended move to New York City because it would mean that their son Beau would be educated alongside", "title": "Pickaninny" }, { "id": "4580163", "text": "alas! I'll not see her again \"No, but with my last breath O my dear Canada! My sad gaze Will go to you.\" </poem> This is the 1927 English version by John Murray Gibbon. Only the first verse preserves the ABAB rhyme pattern of the original French; thereafter it varies. It is singable but sacrifices much accuracy and arguably emotional depth in the translation. Note that the use of the word 'lad' here means a young adult man, as was common in the time period. <poem> Once a Canadian lad, Exiled from hearth and home, Wandered, alone and sad, Through", "title": "Un Canadien errant" }, { "id": "786184", "text": "\"howay\" (\"hurry up!\"; \"come on!\") \"Howay\" is broadly comparable to the invocation \"Come on!\" or the French \"Allez-y!\" (\"Go on!\"). Examples of common use include \"Howay man!\", meaning \"come on\" or \"hurry up\", \"Howay the lads!\" as a term of encouragement for a sports team for example (the players' tunnel at St James' Park has this phrase just above the entrance to the pitch), or \"Ho'way!?\" (with stress on the second syllable) expressing incredulity or disbelief. The literal opposite of this phrase is \"haddaway\" (\"go away\"); although not as common as \"howay\", it is perhaps most commonly used in the", "title": "Geordie" }, { "id": "7598911", "text": "(as the plural implies more than one), then would report Rebekah's brother and mother suggesting that she stay first two days, and then when Eliezer said that that was too long, nonsensically suggesting ten days. The Gemara thus deduced that , \"yamim\", must mean \"a year\" in as implies when it says, \"if a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year (, \"yamim\") shall he have the right of redemption.\" Thus might mean, \"Let the maiden abide with us a year, or", "title": "Behar" }, { "id": "11403162", "text": "words from the \"Miserere\", at Beethoven's own funeral in 1827. They were also played as instrumental pieces at the funeral of William Gladstone in Westminster Abbey in 1898. The two \"Aequali\" in C minor of Anton Bruckner date from 1847 and are for three trombones. Three years earlier, in 1844, the little-known Wenzel Lambel (1788–1861) of Linz had published ten equali for three or four trombones. Stravinsky scored \"In memoriam Dylan Thomas\", his setting of \"Do not go gentle into that good night\", for tenor, string quartet and four trombones, which may be an \"echo\" of the tradition. Equale An", "title": "Equale" }, { "id": "4615916", "text": "of the book derives from the traditional call of boat-taxis on the River Thames, which would call \"Eastward ho!\" and \"Westward ho!\" to show their destination. \"Ho!\" is an interjection or a call to attract passengers, without a specific meaning besides \"hey!\" or \"come!\" The title is also a nod towards the play \"Westward Ho!\", written by John Webster and Thomas Dekker in 1604, which satirised the perils of the westward expansion of London. The full title of Kingsley's novel is Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon,", "title": "Westward Ho! (novel)" }, { "id": "5881231", "text": "it was proposed to use steam traction at similar service speeds with six carriages. A trial return run between London and Leeds was made with modified A1 locomotive number 4472, \"Flying Scotsman\"; on the return trip with 6 coaches weighing it attained (160 km/h) just outside in Lincolnshire for just over . There were earlier claims to this speed, notably by the Great Western locomotive 3440 \"City of Truro\", but this 1933 run is generally considered to be the first reliably recorded instance. On a later trial run to Newcastle upon Tyne and back in 1935, A3 number 2750 \"Papyrus\"", "title": "LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3" }, { "id": "340179", "text": "\"Call Me Mr. Brown\", directed by Scott Hicks and produced by Terry Jennings, relates to this incident. On 4 July 1997 a copycat extortion attempt was thwarted by police and Qantas security staff. In November 2005 it was revealed that Qantas had a policy of not seating adult male passengers next to unaccompanied children. This led to accusations of discrimination. The policy came to light following an incident in 2004 when Mark Wolsay, who was seated next to a young boy on a Qantas flight in New Zealand, was asked to change seats with a female passenger. A steward informed", "title": "Qantas" }, { "id": "9554626", "text": "(Keaton) sells the last of his possessions, keeping only a few trinkets and a picture of his mother. Unable to find a job in the city, he goes west and manages to get a job at a cattle ranch despite having no experience. Meanwhile, a neglected cow named Brown Eyes fails to give milk and is sent out to the field along with the other cattle. As Friendless tries to figure out how to milk a cow, he's told to go out and help the other ranch hands bring in the cattle. Unsuccessful in riding a horse, he falls off", "title": "Go West (1925 film)" }, { "id": "2423961", "text": "\"That McNaughton had no idea that a corps required a minimum of 24 hour warning in order to execute a major task is borne out by the following timings: at 2335 hours on 6 March, he directed 2 Corps to advance east across the Thames through 1 Corps; at 1615 hours, the next day he gave counter orders to effect the western envelopment that night; at 2130 hours on 10 March he issued orders for operations the following day; and at 2259 hours 11 March, he gave orders for operations on 12 March\". Sir James Grigg, the British War Secretary,", "title": "Andrew McNaughton" }, { "id": "1415616", "text": "meat grinder. He refuses to eat a cheese sandwich that Olive Oyl offers him. He tries to make an ape into a hamburger, but the ape refuses to submit. The Plunder Island storyline also contained a creative alteration of one of Wimpy's famous lines. Upon coming to a cannibal island, a cannibal says to Wimpy, \"Come on down to the house for a duck dinner...you BE the duck\". In one storyline, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, and Castor Oyl go on a trip to the desert to find gold. After leaving his landlady with an enormous amount of bills, he gets", "title": "J. Wellington Wimpy" }, { "id": "20707746", "text": "he was convinced of the importance of telling his story uncensored and bringing it up-to-date with the events that occurred after the first book's publication. In 2015, Elaine Feuer subsequently published his second book \"The Last Waltz: Love, Death & Betrayal,\" which included his court trial and was widely acclaimed with outstanding reviews and book sales. \"The Last Waltz\" became part of a set of three books, including Elaine Feuer's \"To Gently Leave This Life: The Right to Die\" and \"Traveling In and Out of Heaven\". These books have been used extensively to assist the right-to-die organisations in the United", "title": "Sean Davison" } ]

[ "Kāla", "Kala", "Kala (disambiguation)", "Kala, Mazandaran", "KALA" ]

[ { "id": "7614136", "text": "character Binns and his role in bringing the Porters to Africa; the novel brought them there through the improbable coincidence of a second mutiny. John and Alice Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke (True Boardman and Kathleen Kirkham), are passengers on the \"Fuwalda\", a ship bound for Africa. When the vessel is taken over by mutineers the sailor Binns (George B. French) saves them from being murdered, but they are marooned on the tropical coast. After their deaths their infant son is adopted by Kala, an ape, who raises him as her own. The young Tarzan (Gordon Griffith) grows to maturity", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)" }, { "id": "19722482", "text": "result: \"By curtain time more than 15,000 children were lined up for several blocks on each side of the movie house.\" The theater added two showings to accommodate the crowd. This version was syndicated in addition to being carried on the Mutual-Don Lee West Coast Network. and on CBS. March 22, 1952 - June 27, 1953. Tarzan (radio program) As told in the \"Tarzan\" book series, the episodes centered around young Lord Greystoke, who was raised by a female ape as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and Jane Parker, a girl who was separated from a safari. Vincent Terrace wrote", "title": "Tarzan (radio program)" }, { "id": "19722477", "text": "Tarzan (radio program) As told in the \"Tarzan\" book series, the episodes centered around young Lord Greystoke, who was raised by a female ape as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and Jane Parker, a girl who was separated from a safari. Vincent Terrace wrote in his book, \"Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows\", \"Stories relate Tarzan's efforts to protect his adopted homeland from evildoers.\" Producers of the transcribed programs added a touch of authenticity by going to zoos to record sounds of jungle animals and then using those sounds in appropriate places in episodes. The initial", "title": "Tarzan (radio program)" }, { "id": "11111538", "text": "not been preserved, and no prints of it are known to survive today. The film opens with flashbacks from \"Tarzan of the Apes\" to establish the back story. The African expedition led by Professor Porter (Thomas Jefferson) to find Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln), the ape-raised heir of Lord Greystoke, has been crowned with success, and Tarzan and Porter's daughter Jane (Enid Markey) are in love. The party now prepares to return to civilization when it is attacked by natives and separated from the ape-man. Tarzan's paternal cousin William Cecil Clayton (Colin Kenny), the current Lord Greystoke, desiring to keep his wealth", "title": "The Romance of Tarzan" }, { "id": "6624142", "text": "Mangani Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, \"Mangani\" (meaning \"great-ape\") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan. The \"Mangani\" are described by Burroughs as approximately man-sized, and appear to be a species intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas. He also described them as “man-like apes which the natives of the Gobi speak", "title": "Mangani" }, { "id": "6624152", "text": "in this film, adult \"Mangani\" are portrayed by human actors in ape costumes, while the roles of immature \"Mangani\" are taken by chimpanzees. However, the Mangani language is not used in the film, with subtitles or otherwise, and as a result the name \"Tarzan\" is used nowhere in the film, except in the title. Walt Disney Pictures' 1999 animated feature film \"Tarzan\", its sequels, and the television series \"The Legend of Tarzan\" based on it, portray the apes who raised Tarzan as gorillas. The only use of the term \"Mangani\" in the television series is as the proper name of", "title": "Mangani" }, { "id": "17896674", "text": "popular Tarzan character. Burroughs set his novel near the village of Mbonga, among the Beti people and their closely related ethnic group called the Fang people. The initial Tarzan story, where infant John is discovered by apes and raised by a female ape, built on the colonial era stereotype of cannibalistic Africans in the equatorial forests. The story, states Shoup, provided a contrast of \"pure uncorrupted\" noble Tarzan in the midst of a barbaric cannibalistic society. The Tarzan syndicate became a global sensation, was widely followed, created some 89 movies in the 100 years that followed, and launched numerous comic", "title": "Beti people" }, { "id": "13560300", "text": "II is born. At one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak. The infant is then adopted by the she-ape Kala. Clayton is named \"Tarzan\" (\"White Skin\" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage. As a boy, feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, he discovers his true parents' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books. Using basic primers with pictures, over many years he teaches himself to read English, but having never heard it, cannot", "title": "Tarzan (book series)" }, { "id": "6620356", "text": "by a hunger-crazed Fat Freddy in an episode of \"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers\". In Portuguese, \"Kreegah bundolo\" was translated as \"\"Krig-Ha, Bandolo!\"\" and it names an album by the Brazilian rocker Raul Seixas. In the comic strip Dilbert dated 2/7/1995, Dogbert uses this phrase in speaking with Dilbert after he has been home telecommuting too long. Kreegah bundolo Kreegah bundolo is a phrase that Tarzan—and the tribe of apes that raised him—cry out to warn of danger, for example, \"Kreegah bundolo! White men come with hunt sticks. Kill!\" According to the fictional ape language worked out by Tarzan creator", "title": "Kreegah bundolo" }, { "id": "4930398", "text": "named Kala hears the cries of the orphaned infant, and finds him in the treehouse. Kala encounters Sabor, and escapes with the infant in her possession. Kala takes the infant back to her troop to raise as her own, an action of which her mate, Kerchak, the leader disapproves. Kala raises the human child, naming him Tarzan. At age five, Tarzan begins to befriend other animals, including his adoptive cousin and Kala and Kerchak's niece Terk and a paranoid male elephant named Tantor; but he is treated differently due to his different physique, so he makes great efforts to improve", "title": "Tarzan (1999 film)" }, { "id": "16827740", "text": "into the valley, and taken back to her nest, where the kindly she-ape nurses him back to health. Befriending three young gorillas, Johnny is adopted into the troop and discards his former identity, choosing to be called \"Tarzan\", a name he made up meaning \"Ape with no fur\". As the years pass, Tarzan grows up learning the ways and skills of the jungle animals, such as golden monkeys and an African leopard. By the time he is a teenager, his senses and reflexes are honed to such a point that he can catch a striking viper with one hand. Tarzan", "title": "Tarzan (2013 film)" }, { "id": "9242486", "text": "Kala (Tarzan) Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, \"Tarzan of the Apes\", and in movies and other media based on it. She is the adoptive mother of Tarzan. In the novel, Kala is a female in a band of \"Mangani\", a fictional species of Great Ape intermediate between real life chimpanzees and gorillas. She saves the infant Tarzan from the murderous fury of Kerchak, the mad leader of the ape band, after the latter kills Tarzan's human father. Kala goes on to rear the human baby as her own while protecting him against", "title": "Kala (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "13021575", "text": "Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the \"Mangani\" great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 25 sequels, several authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized. The film version of Tarzan as the noble savage (\"“Me Tarzan, You Jane”\"), as acted by Johnny", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "id": "17902574", "text": "village helping to care for local children. There she met Tarzan who had become feral after being orphaned and was raised by apes. He had saved Jane's life by shielding her from a mangani attack, and suffered severe injuries. Jane took the injured Tarzan home, nursed him back to health, and the two fell in love. That night, as the tribe sleeps, Rom and his mercenaries raid the village, kidnap John and Jane, and kill the tribe's leader. Rom's team takes the captives to a nearby steamboat, but Williams rescues John before he can be taken away. With the aid", "title": "The Legend of Tarzan (film)" }, { "id": "4399783", "text": "Philippe expresses his hope that perhaps they may someday be reunited. In a departure from most previous Tarzan films, \"Greystoke\" returned to Burroughs' original novel for many elements of its plot. It also utilized a number of corrective ideas first put forth by science fiction author Philip José Farmer in his mock-biography \"Tarzan Alive\", most notably Farmer's explanation of how the speech-deprived ape man was later able to acquire language by showing Tarzan to be a natural mimic. According to Burroughs' original concept, the apes who raised Tarzan actually had a rudimentary vocal language, and this is portrayed in the", "title": "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" }, { "id": "4399776", "text": "shipwrecked on the African coast. John builds a home in the trees, and Alice gives birth to a son. Alice later grows ill from malaria and dies. While John is grieving her, the tree house is visited by curious great apes, one of whom kills him. One female of the group, Kala, who is carrying her dead infant, hears the cries of the infant human in his crib. She adopts the boy and raises him as a member of the Mangani. At age five, the boy is still trying to fit in with his ape family. When a black panther", "title": "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" }, { "id": "8374946", "text": "used for close ups of a roaring leopard and the clumsy back-projection in the \"underwater\" scenes make it a treat for lovers of the ludicrous. The plot of the film reprises that of the 1932 version, with James Parker (Douglas) Harry Holt (Danova) and Parker's daughter Jane (Barnes) on an expedition in Africa in which they encounter Tarzan, a wild man raised by apes. Various adventures ensue. The film was made at the same time as another Tarzan film, \"Tarzan's Greatest Adventure\" produced by Sy Weintraub. MGM had kept the remake rights to the 1932 \"Tarzan the Ape Man\", enabling", "title": "Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959 film)" }, { "id": "3818772", "text": "is then adopted by the she-ape Kala. Clayton is named \"Tarzan\" (\"White Skin\" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage. As a boy, feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, he discovers his true parents' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books. Using basic primers with pictures, over many years he teaches himself to read English, but having never heard it, cannot speak it. Upon his return from one visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a huge gorilla which he manages to kill with his", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes" }, { "id": "13021626", "text": "The Jungle Warrior\" In 2013, he has published the third book \"Tarzan: The Savage Lands\". Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the \"Mangani\" great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 25 sequels, several authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized. The film", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "id": "6624143", "text": "of in whispers; but which no white man ever had seen [before Tarzan]” (\"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\": \"The Battle for Teeka\") implying a connection to the Almas or Yeti. There have been a number of attempts to identify the fictional \"Mangani\" with an actual primate species. Science fiction author Philip José Farmer speculated they might be a variety of \"Australopithecus\" in his pseudo-biography of Tarzan, \"Tarzan Alive\". Walt Disney Pictures' 1999 animated feature film \"Tarzan\", its sequels, and the television series \"The Legend of Tarzan\" based on it, portray the apes who raised Tarzan as gorillas, though in the books", "title": "Mangani" }, { "id": "20630752", "text": "Jungle Love (film) Jungle Love is a Hindi action adventure film of Bollywood based on the Tarzan story. This was directed by V. Menon and produced by Rajkumar Ludhani The film was released on 12 July 1990 in the banner of Ram Lakhan Production. A chimpanzee of Amazonian jungle saves a baby and raises him as her own. He becomes the Tarzan of the jungle. A gang of treasure hunters come to the jungle with two young ladies accompanying them. One of them, Rita is captured by a cannibalistic tribe. Tarzan saves her and befriends Rita. Rita gives him a", "title": "Jungle Love (film)" }, { "id": "9242491", "text": "Tublat. Late in the movie Kala is shot by mercenaries, seemingly dying, though she is subsequently shown to have recovered. Kala (Tarzan) Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, \"Tarzan of the Apes\", and in movies and other media based on it. She is the adoptive mother of Tarzan. In the novel, Kala is a female in a band of \"Mangani\", a fictional species of Great Ape intermediate between real life chimpanzees and gorillas. She saves the infant Tarzan from the murderous fury of Kerchak, the mad leader of the ape band, after the", "title": "Kala (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "13021576", "text": "Weissmuller, does not reflect the original character in the novels, who is gracious and highly sophisticated. Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Soon after his parents' death, Tarzan became a feral child, and his tribe of apes are known as the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. Burroughs added stories occurring during", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "id": "524211", "text": "films: \"Ciao, les mecs\" (1979), \"Le bar du téléphone\" (1980), \"Asphalte\" (1981), \"Une sale affaire\" (1981), \"Putain d'histoire d'amour\" (1981), \"Douchka\" (1981), \"Légitime violence\" (1982) and one episode of \"Cinéma 16\" (1982). Around that time director Hugh Hudson had just finished his Academy Award-winning film \"Chariots of Fire\" (1981), and Warner Brothers was desperate to hire him to direct another film. After looking at all their available scripts he chose to do a film adaptation of novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs' iconic character \"Tarzan\", a man who was raised by an unknown species of great apes in the jungle. Hudson wanted", "title": "Christopher Lambert" }, { "id": "5232973", "text": "the \"white ape\" is actually Tarzan, an uncivilized white man raised by apes living in the jungle. James continues to pursue Tarzan with the purpose of capturing him, dead or alive, and bringing him back to England. Realizing that James is on his trail, Tarzan kidnaps Jane. Jane and Tarzan become fascinated by each other. Jane is then kidnapped by natives who intend to make her a wife of the tribe leader, forcing Tarzan into action. In a 2012 interview with the film history magazine \"Filmfax\", co-writer Gary Goddard revealed that he had originally been commissioned to write a screenplay", "title": "Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)" }, { "id": "9242488", "text": "of Kala has also appeared in the syndicated comic strip Tarzan and in Tarzan comic books, in a portrayal essentially faithful to Burroughs's conception, generally in adaptations of the original novel. Kala was also faithfully represented in the first Tazan movie, a 1918 silent film adapting the novel, and the 1984 film \"\". The 1957 Tarzan movie \"Tarzan and the Lost Safari\" conflates Kala with Kerchak in a mention by the ape man of his adoption as a baby by a she-ape. The account echoes Burroughs's version of Tarzan's youth, but names Kerchak rather than Kala as his ape foster", "title": "Kala (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "18133673", "text": "Ursus in the Valley of the Lions Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (, also known as \" Valley of the Lions\") is a 1962 Italian peplum film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Although it was the fourth film in the Italian \"Ursus\" series, it was the first to provide Ursus with an origin story, explaining how he was raised by a lioness (very similar to \"Tarzan of the Apes\" in plot). Ed Fury once again played Ursus, and Alberto Lupo played the villanous Ajak. When the film was distributed in the USA, the title was shortened to simply", "title": "Ursus in the Valley of the Lions" }, { "id": "12069062", "text": "Africa, where their son, John Clayton, Jr., is born. The baby is orphaned when both parents die of a mysterious disease, but is adopted by Kala and Kerchak, members of the tribe of Brown Apes. The baby, christened Tarzan (\"White Skin\") by Kala, grows to adulthood among the apes, and eventually discovers the cabin where his parents lived. He teaches himself to read and write using the books there. He also discovers a cache of gold coins secreted beneath a loose floorboard in the cabin. Jane Porter, her father, Professor Archimedes Porter, and Esmerelda, their cockney housekeeper, are shipwrecked at", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes (1999 film)" }, { "id": "7369162", "text": "son barely survive a shipwreck and land in Africa. They construct a tree house for their son before being killed by a leopard. In the African Jungle, Kerchak, the leader of a tribe of gorillas admires his new infant son with his mate, Kala (\"Two Worlds\"). The leopard suddenly appears and kidnaps the newborn baby gorilla. Kala goes off to find her son but finds the human boy instead and names him Tarzan. She mothers him and raises him despite Kerchak's refusal to treat Tarzan as his son (\"You'll Be In My Heart\"). As a young child, Tarzan finds that", "title": "Tarzan (musical)" }, { "id": "6602502", "text": "fight with Clayton. He, Kala, and Terk do not speak in the game. The character of Kerchak has also appeared in the syndicated comic strip \"Tarzan\" and in Tarzan comic books, in a portrayal essentially faithful to Burroughs's conception, generally in adaptations of the original novel. The 1957 Tarzan movie \"Tarzan and the Lost Safari\" conflates Kerchak with Kala in a mention by the ape man to the female lead of his adoption as a baby by a she-ape. The account echoes Burroughs's version of Tarzan's youth, but names Kerchak rather than Kala as his ape foster mother. While neither", "title": "Kerchak" }, { "id": "3818793", "text": "series as needed for accuracy. That series had Burroughs' daughter, Joan, in the role of Jane. Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine \"The All-Story\" in October 1912. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle, to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. The character was so popular that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes" }, { "id": "5573334", "text": "finds herself happy: \"Not a bit afraid, not a bit sorry.\" As she returns to her father, her feelings are brought to a test. She wants Tarzan to come with her to London, and to be part of her world. But Tarzan turns his back on her and returns to the jungle. Her father tells her that is where Tarzan belongs, she cries, \"No dad, he belongs to me.\" The expedition is captured by a tribe of aggressive dwarfs. Jane sends Tarzan's ape friend Cheeta (Jiggs) for help, bringing Tarzan to their rescue. During the rescue, Tarzan summons elephants and", "title": "Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)" }, { "id": "11014738", "text": "with Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Djimon Hounsou. Disney's animated \"Tarzan\" (1999) marked a new beginning for the ape man, taking its inspiration equally from Burroughs and \"\". Its major innovations were recasting the original fictitious ape species that adopted Tarzan as gorillas and turning William Cecil Clayton, his paternal cousin and rival for the affections of Jane in the early novels, into a brawny out-and-out villain known only as \"Clayton.\" Tarzan was voiced by actor Tony Goldwyn and Jane by Minnie Driver. Two direct-to-video sequels followed, \"Tarzan & Jane\" (2002), and \"Tarzan II\" (2005), a re-exploration of the", "title": "Tarzan in film and other non-print media" }, { "id": "4978768", "text": "recounted \"lost worlds\" and \"lost tribes\", the most successful being H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard and Conan Doyle. Hudson's book has endured as literature because of its evocative and lyrical prose, and his naturalist's keen vision of the jungle. Rima also exemplifies the \"natural man\", a philosophical notion put forth by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, that someone raised away from corrupting civilisation would be naturally pure of heart and attuned to their environment. Tarzan, raised by apes, and Mowgli, raised by wolves, are Rima's literary cousins. In the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation, the editor says,", "title": "Green Mansions" }, { "id": "7216021", "text": "rescuing the two women. Burroughs uses lionesses more sparingly in later volumes in the series. In Chapter 5 of the sixth book, \"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\" (1919), the ape man observes a \"Sabor\" mourning her dead cub. In Chapter 1 of the ninth book, \"Tarzan and the Golden Lion\" (1923), a \"Sabor\" is killed by a black warrior, leaving an orphan cub that Tarzan names Jad-bal-ja, raises, and makes one of his principal animal allies. Another \"Sabor\" features as the mate of Jad-bal-ja in \"Tarzan and the Lion Man\" (1934), the seventeenth book, appearing in Chapters 14 and 16. In", "title": "Sabor (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "7153892", "text": "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an animated series created by the Filmation studio for CBS, starting in 1976. There are a total of 36 episodes produced over the first four seasons. \"The jungle: Here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and", "title": "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" }, { "id": "16539004", "text": "Disney's Tarzan (video game) Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is an action platformer video game developed by Eurocom and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999 based on the Disney animated film \"Tarzan\". Konami published the game for its Japanese release. It was also released for PC systems in 1999 and for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. A variant of the game for the Game Boy Color was developed by Digital Eclipse and released in 1999. The player takes control of the eponymous Tarzan, an orphan child who was adopted and raised by gorillas.", "title": "Disney's Tarzan (video game)" }, { "id": "4930397", "text": "place at the North American box office since \"Pocahontas\" (1995). The film has led to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation, a television series, and two direct-to-video sequels: \"Tarzan & Jane\" (2002) and \"Tarzan II\" (2005). In the early 1860s, an English couple and their infant son escape from a shipwreck, and end up near an uncharted rainforest off the Congolese coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The couple build themselves a treehouse from the ship's wreckage, but they are killed by a leopard named Sabor. After losing her own son to Sabor, a female gorilla", "title": "Tarzan (1999 film)" }, { "id": "13440097", "text": "that he himself will be the next chief, but his treachery is exposed and he is banished from the tribe. The tribe as a whole is menaced on one occasion by toxic wastewater from an illegal mining operation. Oddly, Queen La of Opar is portrayed as a former Waziri. In the 2016 movie \"The Legend of Tarzan\", the Waziri are recast as the Kuba, a tribe the young Jane Porter's father had served as a missionary, and to which she had brought the severely injured Tarzan after he had saved her from an ape attack. In the film, Muviro appears", "title": "Waziri (fictional tribe)" }, { "id": "20630753", "text": "name Raja and falls in love with him. The music of the film is composed by Anand-Milind, and the lead singers are Manhar Udhas, Anuradha Paudwal, Falguni Singh and Sadhana Sargam. Jungle Love (film) Jungle Love is a Hindi action adventure film of Bollywood based on the Tarzan story. This was directed by V. Menon and produced by Rajkumar Ludhani The film was released on 12 July 1990 in the banner of Ram Lakhan Production. A chimpanzee of Amazonian jungle saves a baby and raises him as her own. He becomes the Tarzan of the jungle. A gang of treasure", "title": "Jungle Love (film)" }, { "id": "6620355", "text": "Kreegah bundolo Kreegah bundolo is a phrase that Tarzan—and the tribe of apes that raised him—cry out to warn of danger, for example, \"Kreegah bundolo! White men come with hunt sticks. Kill!\" According to the fictional ape language worked out by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, the literal translation of the phrase would be \"Beware, (I) kill!\" \"Kreegah Bundola\" is one of a few names for the Frank Zappa song whose most popular title seems to be \"Let's Move to Cleveland\". It is also utilized in Bruce Coville's \"Allbright\" series as Grakker's \"violence\" module boot-up sound byte. It was uttered", "title": "Kreegah bundolo" }, { "id": "18235689", "text": "success, grossing over $966 million, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2016 and the 40th-highest-grossing film of all time, and was praised for its visual effects, musical score, direction, faithfulness to the original animated film, and vocal performances, particularly those of Murray, Kingsley, and Elba. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film won the award for Best Visual Effects. Mowgli is a \"man cub\" raised by the wolf Raksha and her pack, led by Akela, in an Indian jungle ever since he was brought to them as a baby by the black panther Bagheera. Bagheera trains Mowgli to learn the", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "5739828", "text": "Sheena (film) Sheena, also known as Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, is a 1984 fantasy-adventure film based on a comic-book character that first appeared in the late 1930s, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. A hybrid of action-adventure and soap opera–style drama, \"Sheena\" was shot on location in Kenya. It tells the tale of a female version of Tarzan who was raised in the fictional African country of Tigora by the equally fictional Zambouli tribe. The movie starred Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, and Trevor Thomas. It was directed by John Guillermin and written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., who had previously collaborated", "title": "Sheena (film)" }, { "id": "11014747", "text": "of Tarzan films that began with \"Tarzan's Greatest Adventure\" in 1959. Weintraub had dispensed with Jane and portrayed his ape man as well-spoken and sophisticated. Though Ely's Tarzan did not have Jane, he was accompanied by Cheeta the chimpanzee from the movies and a child sidekick, the orphan boy Jai (Manuel Padilla, Jr.), who also played the similar roles of Ramel and Pepe in \"Tarzan and the Valley of Gold\" (1966) and \"Tarzan and the Great River\" (1967). The character Jai first appeared in the film \"Tarzan Goes to India\", played by a young actor of the same name. An", "title": "Tarzan in film and other non-print media" }, { "id": "6602496", "text": "beginning of the original novel, Kerchak leads his band against Tarzan's marooned father and kills him; the infant Tarzan is saved by a female Mangani named Kala, who rears the baby and protects him against Kerchak, primarily by the policy of physical avoidance by which most of his wary subjects deal with their unpredictable king. However, after Tarzan reaches adulthood, the ape man's deeds and cleverness raise him to a prominence in the band Kerchak finds impossible to ignore, and the king attacks his human subject. The fight proves Kerchak's undoing, as Tarzan kills the tyrant, succeeding him for a", "title": "Kerchak" }, { "id": "8356052", "text": "on to play a prominent role in later Tarzan novels.) Maddened, the ape-man seeks revenge not only on the perpetrators of the tragedy but all Germans, and sets out for the battle front of the war in east Africa. On the way he has a run-in with a lion (or \"Numa\", as it is called by the apes among whom Tarzan was raised), which he traps in a gulch by blocking the entrance. At the front he infiltrates the German headquarters and seizes Major Schneider, the officer he believes led the raid on his estate. Returning to the gulch, he", "title": "Tarzan the Untamed" }, { "id": "12069063", "text": "the same location, and soon Jane and Tarzan fall in love. The Porters and Esmerelda are rescued and sail to America, believing that Tarzan has been killed. Tarzan, with the help of Lieutenant Paul D'Arnot, sails to Baltimore, Maryland where he is reunited with Jane. Tarzan's identity as Lord Greystoke is discovered, and he and Jane are married and return to Africa. The voice cast was uncredited in this film. \"Child of My Dreams\", \"Tarzan of the Apes\" and \"Everlasting Love\". The film was released as part of the Sony Wonder \"Enchanted Tales\" series. The film was produced in 1997,", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes (1999 film)" }, { "id": "4817771", "text": "The Legend of Tarzan (TV series) The Legend of Tarzan is an American animated television series created by Walt Disney Television, based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and also based on \"Tarzan\" by Walt Disney Pictures same name. The series picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane (whom he has since married) adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter; Tantor, the germophobic red elephant; and", "title": "The Legend of Tarzan (TV series)" }, { "id": "148703", "text": "to 1939's \"The Wizard of Oz\". Also notable of the era, the iconic 1933 film \"King Kong\" borrows heavily from the Lost World subgenre of fantasy fiction as does such films as the 1935 adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's novel \"She\" about an African expedition that discovers an immortal queen known as Ayesha \"She who must be obeyed\". Frank Capra's 1937 picture \"Lost Horizon\" transported audiences to the Himalayan fantasy kingdom of Shangri-La, where the residents magically never age. Other noteworthy fantasy films of the 30s include \"Tarzan the Ape Man\" in 1932 starring Johnny Weissmuller starting a successful series", "title": "Fantasy film" }, { "id": "5573333", "text": "Man\" in 1959 and in 1981, but each was a different adaptation of Rice Burroughs' novel. James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith) and Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton) travel in Africa on a quest for the legendary elephant burial grounds and their ivory. They are joined by Parker's daughter Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan). Holt is attracted to Jane, and tries somewhat ineffectively to protect her from the jungle's dangers. He notably fails to prevent her abduction by the jungle's guardian, the mysterious Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and his ape allies. The experience is terrifying to Jane at first, but as their relationship develops, she", "title": "Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)" }, { "id": "2815054", "text": "Superman Blue!\". There, readers saw possible pasts that could have happened, but did not happen. One such story has Superman being raised by apes in imitation of Tarzan, an idea that would be recycled into a later \"Elseworlds\" tale where Tarzan and Superman were switched at birth. Possible present times were shown, such as one story where Jonathan and Martha Kent, touched by pity, adopt a recently orphaned Bruce Wayne and raise him along with their own son, Clark. Thus, the present shows Superman and Batman as brothers, with Clark protecting Gotham and working for the \"Gotham Gazette\" instead of", "title": "Elseworlds" }, { "id": "12909886", "text": "Jiggs (chimpanzee) Jiggs (\"c.\" 1929 – February 28, 1938) was a male chimpanzee and animal actor who originated the character of Cheeta in the 1930s Hollywood Tarzan movies. He was owned and trained by Tony and Jacqueline Gentry. In a likely apocryphal account Jiggs was said to have been brought over from Africa by Gary Cooper, who sold him because the animal occasionally went berserk. More reliably, Jacqueline Gentry claimed to have raised and trained Jiggs from infancy. He is stated to have been brought up with a collie named Spanky and to have later refused to do any film", "title": "Jiggs (chimpanzee)" }, { "id": "1825502", "text": "Elsa the lioness Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters \"Big One\" and \"Lustica\" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few weeks old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild. Her story is told in several books by the Adamsons, as well as the 1966 motion picture \"Born Free\". Elsa and her sisters were orphaned on", "title": "Elsa the lioness" }, { "id": "10921134", "text": "has been killed in the quake. The bear rescues the girl (and her teddy bear) and raises her as his own cub like a female version of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, high in the inaccessible mountains, naming her “Pyrénée” after them (Perhaps not coincidentally, a \"pyrénée\" is also a type of fairy). Later on she also learns philosophy and wisdom from a blind old eagle, and eventually - like Mowgli - has to try to make her way back to human society. The French Pyrénées were home to two people that may have served as inspiration for the story. The Girl", "title": "Pyrénée" }, { "id": "13021577", "text": "Tarzan's adolescence in his sixth Tarzan book, \"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\". Tarzan is his ape name (meaning \"White-Skin\"); his English name is \"John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke\" (according to Burroughs in \"Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle\"; Earl of Greystoke in later, less canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie \"Greystoke\"). In fact, Burroughs's narrator in \"Tarzan of the Apes\" describes both Clayton and Greystoke as fictitious names – implying that, within the fictional world that Tarzan inhabits, he may have a different \"real\" name. As an eighteen-year-old young adult, Tarzan meets a young American woman, Jane Porter. She, her father, and others", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "id": "4171604", "text": "George Adamson George Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the \"Baba ya Simba\" (\"Father of Lions\" in Swahili), was a British wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, are best known through the movie \"Born Free\" and best-selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they had raised and later released into the wild. Several other films have been made based on Adamson's life. George Alexander Graham Adamson was born 3 February 1906 in Etawah, India to British parents.", "title": "George Adamson" }, { "id": "7369159", "text": "Tarzan (musical) Tarzan is a musical based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1999 film of the same name. The songs are written by Phil Collins with a book by David Henry Hwang. The musical mostly follows the plot of the Disney film: Tarzan is raised by gorillas, meets Jane, a young English naturalist, and falls in love. Jane's entourage plans to kill the gorillas, and Tarzan's loyalties are tested. The original Broadway production opened in 2006, directed and designed by Bob Crowley with choreography by Meryl Tankard. The production ran for 35 previews and 486 performances. Subsequently, the show", "title": "Tarzan (musical)" }, { "id": "9686339", "text": "slide as they near the mountain. He is exposed by Tarzan after his third attempt, and fights Basuli, who defeats and banishes him from the tribe for his treachery. Muviro is last seen walking away into the mist with an angry face, implying he may return for revenge. In the 2016 movie \"The Legend of Tarzan\", Muviro, portrayed by Yule Masiteng, is chief of the Kuba, a tribe the young Jane Porter's father had served as a missionary, and to which she had brought the severely injured Tarzan after he had saved her from an ape attack. In the film,", "title": "Muviro" }, { "id": "7584696", "text": "adaptation of the original story, contradicting it on numerous points of the story. Early Tarzan films portrayed Jane Porter and (occasionally) her father faithfully to the portrayal in the novels. The 1932 sound film \"Tarzan the Ape Man\" and its sequels changed the character's name to Jane Parker, portraying her as English rather than American and making her and Tarzan the adoptive parents of an orphan they named \"Boy\". In addition, the name of Jane's father in the first film is James Parker. Remakes of the 1932 film, (\"Tarzan, the Ape Man\" (1959) and \"Tarzan, the Ape Man\" (1981)) reprised", "title": "Jane Porter (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "1825506", "text": "cubs. Elsa the lioness Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters \"Big One\" and \"Lustica\" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few weeks old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild. Her story is told in several books by the Adamsons, as well as the 1966 motion picture \"Born Free\". Elsa and her sisters were orphaned", "title": "Elsa the lioness" }, { "id": "9445351", "text": "Sparing them from being cruelly drowned, he raised them as his own sons. In this continuity, the Queen Hippolyta is depicted as having blond hair and is the biological mother of Diana. She conceived her daughter after an after-battle liaison with Zeus, master of the gods of Olympus. She invented the \"molded from clay\" story to protect Diana from Hera. The fiercest and wisest among the Amazons holds the prestigious title \"Wonder Woman – the definition of an Heroic Champion and Ambassador-at-Large. Queen Hippolyta was the previous \"Wonder Woman\" when she freed her people from slavery and led them to", "title": "Amazons (DC Comics)" }, { "id": "3818770", "text": "Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine \"The All-Story\" in October 1912. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle, to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. The character was so popular that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. For the novel's centennial anniversary, Library of America published a hardcover edition based on the original", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes" }, { "id": "7614137", "text": "among the apes, becoming their king. Binns, returning to find the Claytons after ten years’ captivity among the Arabs, discovers the ape man and travels to England to report his survival to his family. An expedition led by scientist Professor Porter (Thomas Jefferson) is launched to investigate. Meanwhile, Kala has been killed by a native, who is killed in turn by the now-adult Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln). The villagers kidnap Porter’s daughter Jane (Enid Markey); Tarzan rescues and romances her, and she comes to accept his love. \"Tarzan of the Apes\" was filmed in 1917 in Morgan City, Louisiana, utilizing Louisiana", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)" }, { "id": "3185668", "text": "far brighter than George, whom George refers to as \"Fella.\" (the phrase in the title song \"\"[W}hile Fella and Ursula stay in step...\"\" is meant to show that they are the same person.) George's closest friend is an ape named Ape (voiced by Paul Frees impersonating Ronald Colman) who, like Ursula, is far more intelligent than George. George has a pet elephant named Shep, who behaves like a lap dog, or, as George refers to him, a \"great big peanut-lovin' poochie,\" and who George thinks is a dog. Also of note is the Tooky Tooky (or Tookie Tookie) bird famous", "title": "George of the Jungle" }, { "id": "8032273", "text": "his ape parents, and has two huge black helicopters (Tyger's \"giant birds\") patrol the area to keep outsiders out, and insiders in. Ultimately, neither Tyger nor Boygur get what they desire. Tyger cannot handle the harshness of his newfound reality, and Boygur is shocked and appalled when the jungle superman he's raised is far from innocent. At the end of the book, Boygur sadly notes that \"things went their own way.\" Critics' reaction to the book varied wildly. While many admired the creativity of Farmer's premise and his exploration and deconstruction of Burroughs' Tarzan mythos, others condemned the book for", "title": "Lord Tyger" }, { "id": "12069061", "text": "Tarzan of the Apes (1999 film) Tarzan of the Apes is a 1999 animated musical adventure film produced by Diane Eskenazi and Darcy Wright and written by Mark Young (based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs). Richard Wagner's \"Ride of the Valkyries\" was used as the score during the opening scenes of the film. It was released directly to home video on March 9, 1999. The apes appear to be chimpanzees in this version, unlike the unrelated 1999 Disney film in which they are gorillas. John and Alice Clayton (Lord and Lady Greystoke) are marooned on the coast of", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes (1999 film)" }, { "id": "6602503", "text": "actually appears in the film (nor any other ape character, aside from the ubiquitous Cheeta), the direct reference to the original Burroughs story is unusual for a movie of this period. In the 2013 computer-animated film \"Tarzan\", Kerchak is a silverback male gorilla leading a troop of gorillas, mated to Kala, with whom he has a baby. Challenged by the rogue Tublat, he successfully defends his dominance, only to be treacherously brained with a rock by Tublat immediately after. Tublat then takes over the troop. Kala later adopts Tarzan to take the place of her deceased child, and Tarzan grows", "title": "Kerchak" }, { "id": "20592744", "text": "William Cecil Clayton William Cecil Clayton is a recurring fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. William Cecil Clayton is a paternal cousin of John Clayton (Tarzan), whom he much resembles, and holder of the title of Lord Greystoke to which the latter is rightful heir. William serves as contrast to Tarzan, representing what the Ape-Man would likely have become had he led a normal life rather than being raised by apes, and is his rival for the affections of Jane Porter. He first appeared in", "title": "William Cecil Clayton" }, { "id": "164669", "text": "In the myth of the birth of Heracles, it is Hera herself who sits at the door, delaying the birth of Heracles until her protégé, Eurystheus, had been born first. The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo makes the monster Typhaon the offspring of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia. She gave the creature to Python to raise. In the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Hera's seated cult figure was older than the warrior figure of Zeus that accompanied it. Homer expressed her relationship with", "title": "Hera" }, { "id": "2711119", "text": "\"Warrior\". L. Miller also reprinted many other American series including the early 1950s \"Eerie\" and \"Black Magic\" in black and white format. These usually contain the American stories which relate to the cover but also contain other additional gems toward the back of the comic to fill-up the 64 pages. \"Sheena, Queen of the Jungle\", a female version of Tarzan (with an element of H. Rider Haggard's \"\"She who must be obeyed\"\" – She... Na!), was licensed from Will Eisner's Eisner-Iger studio for a British and Australasian tabloid, \"Wags\", in 1937. The success of this character led to the \"Wags\"", "title": "British comics" }, { "id": "8356054", "text": "between Kircher and Captain Fritz Schneider, brother of the major Tarzan threw to the lion previously, and the actual commander of the force that burned the estate. Killing Schneider, Tarzan believes his vengeance complete. Abandoning his vendetta against the Germans he departs for the jungle, swearing off all company with mankind. Seeking a band of \"Mangani\", the apes among whom he had been raised, Tarzan crosses a desert, undergoing great privations. Indeed, the desert is almost his undoing. He only survives by feigning death to lure a vulture (\"Ska\" in the ape language) following him into his reach; he then", "title": "Tarzan the Untamed" }, { "id": "4930409", "text": "restructured by redefining the role of the villain and inventing a way to endanger the gorillas. In this departure from Burrough's novel, a villain named Clayton was created to serve as a guide for Professor Archimedes Q. Porter and his daughter, Jane. In addition to this, Kerchak was re-characterized from a savage silverback into the protector of the gorilla tribe. In January 1997, husband-and-wife screenwriting duo Bob Tzudiker and Noni White were hired to help refocus and add humor to the script as a way to balance the emotional weight of the film. Comedy writer Dave Reynolds was also brought", "title": "Tarzan (1999 film)" }, { "id": "13560299", "text": "(It has been adapted for the cinema more times than any book) Even though the copyright on \"Tarzan of the Apes\" has expired in the United States, the name Tarzan is still protected as a trademark of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Also, the work remains under copyright in some other countries where copyright terms are longer. The novel tells the story of John Clayton II . John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke of England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888; after an unstated amount of time later, their son John Clayton", "title": "Tarzan (book series)" }, { "id": "7923131", "text": "by Spanish translation. The name Juan Artz denotes \"Juan Bear\", where ' is the word for \"bear\". The story begins by stating \"They say that Juan was raised by a she-bear in the mountains because his mother had no breast\". This pattern where not a male but female bear is involved, and suckles the infant, is given by Delarue as one of the alternative origins for hero in the tale group, but it is not exhibited in many examples in his list. This motif of a she-bear raising the hero is paralleled by Orson, in \"Valentine and Orson\", a tale", "title": "Jean de l'Ours" }, { "id": "9242489", "text": "mother. While neither actually appears in the film (nor any other ape character, aside from the ubiquitous Cheeta), the direct reference to the original Burroughs story is unusual for a movie of this period. In Disney's \"Tarzan\" (1999) and its direct-to-video sequel, Burroughs's \"Great Apes\" are gorillas, and Kala is the mate of Kerchak (a much more benign figure in the film) rather than Tublat, who himself appears in the Disney animated TV series as the rogue tyrant instead. In the film's retelling Tarzan's parents are killed by Sabor the leopard, and Kala saves the infant Tarzan from Sabor, not", "title": "Kala (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "7180699", "text": "voices for the younger versions of Tarzan, Terk, and Tantor. They are joined by new characters voiced by George Carlin, Estelle Harris, Brad Garrett, and Ron Perlman. As a young boy being raised by gorillas after his parents were killed in an African jungle, Tarzan is worried that a fabled monster known as the Zugor will someday attempt to capture him. He is disappointed that he can't run as quickly as the other young apes in his family, and his attempts to prove himself keep resulting in chaos, disappointing Kerchak. When an accident leaves his ape mother, Kala, thinking that", "title": "Tarzan II" }, { "id": "3818774", "text": "to placate him. A few years later when Tarzan is 21 years of age, a new party is marooned on the coast, including 19 year old Jane Porter, the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen. Tarzan's cousin, William Cecil Clayton, unwitting usurper of the ape man's ancestral English estate, is also among the party. Tarzan spies on the newcomers, aids them in secret, and saves Jane from the perils of the jungle. Among the party was French naval officer Paul D'Arnot. While rescuing D'Arnot from the natives, a rescue ship recovers the castaways. D'Arnot teaches Tarzan to speak French", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes" }, { "id": "13021582", "text": "even better if he is able to bury it a week so that putrefaction has had a chance to tenderize it a bit. Tarzan's primitivist philosophy was absorbed by countless fans, amongst whom was Jane Goodall, who describes the Tarzan series as having a major influence on her childhood. She states that she felt she would be a much better spouse for Tarzan than his fictional wife, Jane, and that when she first began to live among and study the chimpanzees she was fulfilling her childhood dream of living among the great apes just as Tarzan did. Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "id": "16414914", "text": "Tublat Tublat is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, \"Tarzan of the Apes\" and one of its sequels, \"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\", as well as animated films, television series and other media based on them. In the novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" Tublat (whose name means \"Broken Nose\") is a member of a tribal band of Mangani, a fictional species of great apes intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas. In the beginning of the original novel, Tublat's mate Kala saves the infant Tarzan from the murderous fury of Kerchak, the mad leader of the ape band,", "title": "Tublat" }, { "id": "9603061", "text": "London for the rainy season. Tarzan's adversaries from the previous novel, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, escape prison and kidnap the Greystoke heir. Their trap is elaborate and insidious, leading both Tarzan and Jane to be kidnapped as well. Rokoff exiles Tarzan on a jungle island, informing him that Jack will be left with a cannibal tribe to be raised as one of their own, while Jane's fate is to be left to his imagination. Using his jungle skill and primal intelligence, Tarzan wins the help of Sheeta, the vicious panther, a tribe of great apes led by the intelligent", "title": "The Beasts of Tarzan" }, { "id": "1675906", "text": "Cheeta Cheeta (sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta and Chita) is a chimpanzee character who appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan movies of the 1930s–1960s as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan. Cheeta has usually been characterized as male, but sometimes as female, and has been portrayed by chimpanzees of both sexes. While the character of Cheeta is inextricably associated in the public mind with Tarzan, no chimpanzees appear in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that inspired the films. The closest analog to Cheeta in the Burroughs novels is Tarzan's", "title": "Cheeta" }, { "id": "4171605", "text": "Educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, England, he moved to Kenya in 1925. After a series of jobs, which included time as a gold prospector, goat trader and professional safari hunter, he joined Kenya's game department in 1938 and was Senior Wildlife Warden of the Northern Frontier District. Six years later, he married Joy. It was in 1956 that he raised the lioness cub, Elsa, whom he helped to release into the wild and who became the subject of the 1966 feature film \"Born Free\" based on the book written by Joy. Adamson retired as a wildlife warden in 1961", "title": "George Adamson" }, { "id": "9603377", "text": "252-253, dated August–September 1976, and the third in \"Tarzan\" no. 257, dated January 1977. Burne Hogarth, illustrator and former Tarzan comic strip artist, adapted four of the stories, including \"Tarzan's First Love\", \"The Capture of Tarzan\", \"The God of Tarzan\" and \"The Nightmare\" in his showcase graphic novel \"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\" (1976), a follow-up to his earlier graphic novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" (1972), which adapted the original Tarzan novel. Marvel Comics adapted seven of the stories, including \"Tarzan Rescues the Moon\", \"The God of Tarzan\", \"The Lion\", \"A Jungle Joke\" and \"The Battle for Teeka\" in \"Tarzan, Lord", "title": "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" }, { "id": "3818771", "text": "book with an introduction by Thomas Mallon in April 2012 (). Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior; racial superiority; civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human; sexuality; and escapism. John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Earl and Countess of Greystoke from England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. Some time later, their son John Clayton II is born. When he is one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak. The infant", "title": "Tarzan of the Apes" }, { "id": "18290316", "text": "he died. Leher now grown-up and known as Tarzan (John Cawas), has been brought up in the jungle and there are some amusing incidents between Leela and Tarzan, due to his lack of language skills. Tarzan saves Leela from Bihari’s unwanted advances. The story then moves to tribal cannibals trying to attack the group along with Tarzan, with ‘stunt scenes’ involving the cast and animals like elephants, the dog Moti, lions and apes. The story ends with the grandfather re-uniting with Tarzan and the mentally unstable mother meeting up with them. The music was composed by Mohammed Master with lyrics", "title": "Toofani Tarzan" }, { "id": "765036", "text": "Gift,\" Farmer also explored the Tarzan theme combined with time travel, using the transparently reverse-syllabled name of \"Sahhindar\" for his hero (and the book's initials, TLG, as code for \"Tarzan, Lord Greystoke\"). A short story on this theme is \"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod\" (1968): \"if William S. rather than Edgar Rice [Burroughs] had written Tarzan,\" Farmer also wrote \"Lord Tyger\" (1970) about a ruthless millionaire who tries to create a real Tarzan by having a child kidnapped and then brought up subject to the same tragic events which shaped Tarzan in the original books. In his incomplete", "title": "Philip José Farmer" }, { "id": "11014780", "text": "use lethal force. \"\" is a revisionist version in which Lord Greystoke grows up in England, while Kal-El is raised by the apes as \"Argozan\", although the two switch roles at the conclusion with Greystoke remaining in the jungle while Kal-El returns to the city, Greystoke stating in a letter to his parents that he feels as though he has found his true place. Tarzan also fought the Predators in the \"\" miniseries. In 2015, Sequential Pulp Comics, a graphic novel imprint distributed by Dark Horse Comics, published \"Jungle Tales of Tarzan\" by writer Martin Powell and artists Pablo Marcos,", "title": "Tarzan in comics" }, { "id": "8741679", "text": "Tarzan in Manhattan Tarzan in Manhattan is a 1989 action adventure CBS television film. Joe Lara portrays Tarzan, and Kim Crosby appears as Jane Porter. Tony Curtis and Jan-Michael Vincent co-star. The telefilm was produced by Max A. Keller, Micheline H. Keller and Gina Scheerer, written by Anna Sandor and William Gough (based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Michael Schultz. It aired on April 15, 1989. Tarzan leaves Africa and goes to present-day New York City to seek vengeance for the murder of his Ape mother Kala, and to rescue Cheeta who was taken by", "title": "Tarzan in Manhattan" }, { "id": "13560308", "text": "La, high priestess of the lost city of Opar. When the sacrificial ceremony is fortuitously interrupted, she hides Tarzan and promises to lead him to freedom. But the ape man escapes on his own, locates a treasure chamber, and manages to rejoin the Waziri. Meanwhile, Hazel Strong has reached Cape Town where she meets Jane and her father, Professor Porter, together with Jane's fiancé, Tarzan's cousin William Cecil Clayton. They are all invited on a cruise up the west coast of Africa aboard the \"Lady Alice\", the yacht of another friend, Lord Tennington. Rokoff, now using the alias of M.", "title": "Tarzan (book series)" }, { "id": "5585320", "text": "climbing structures made from telephone poles. The whole two acres would be surrounded by an electric fence. After some finishing touches, such as human resources like a café and a children's playground, the sanctuary was finally complete and was named Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre. In July 1987, Cronin was able to bring the first group of nine chimps from the Templers' half-way house to Monkey World. Once at the park, the chimpanzees were rehabilitated and housed in their new accommodations. Also within the park was one hand-reared female Bornean orang-utan named Amy, who was brought by Jeremy Keeling, whose", "title": "Jim Cronin (zoo keeper)" }, { "id": "13560322", "text": "battle front of the war in west Africa. On the way he has a run-in with a lion (or \"Numa\", as it is called by the apes among whom Tarzan was raised), which he traps in a gulch by blocking the entrance. Upon reaching the front he infiltrates the German headquarters and seizes Major Schneider, the officer he believes led the raid on his estate. Returning to the gulch, he throws Schneider to the lion. Tarzan goes on to help the British forces in various ways, including setting the lion loose in the enemy trenches. Tarzan later kills von Goss,", "title": "Tarzan (book series)" }, { "id": "7369180", "text": "offer such character insights as, 'My heart is beating faster, I must know more about her. ... She makes me feel so alive'. Even for a kiddie musical, that's a pretty weak effort.\" Tarzan (musical) Tarzan is a musical based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1999 film of the same name. The songs are written by Phil Collins with a book by David Henry Hwang. The musical mostly follows the plot of the Disney film: Tarzan is raised by gorillas, meets Jane, a young English naturalist, and falls in love. Jane's entourage plans to kill the gorillas, and Tarzan's", "title": "Tarzan (musical)" }, { "id": "6088965", "text": "Revenant (video game) Revenant is an action role-playing video game by Cinematix Studios, released in 1999 by the publisher Eidos Interactive. The main character of the story is \"Locke D'Averam\", a revenant named after the house of Averam, which raised him from the dead. His real name is never revealed in the game. Immediately after being brought back from Anserak (Hell), Locke is sent on a quest by his new master, Sardok, who is the advisor to Lord Tendrick, ruler of the island. The quest is to locate and rescue the Tendricks' long-missing daughter, Andria, who was kidnapped by a", "title": "Revenant (video game)" }, { "id": "8786067", "text": "weeks until Jane and William Clayton are surprised in the forest by a lion. Clayton loses Jane's respect by cowering in fear before the beast instead of defending her. But they are not attacked, and discover the lion dead, speared by an unknown hand. Their hidden savior is in fact Tarzan, who leaves without revealing himself, not realizing whom he was rescuing. Jane breaks off her engagement to William. Later Jane is kidnapped and taken to Opar by a party of the Oparian ape-men who were pursuing their escaped sacrifice, Tarzan. The ape man learns of her capture and tracks", "title": "The Return of Tarzan" }, { "id": "11279356", "text": "the lions. Meanwhile, the Prince's son is cured. The Prince, realizing how wrong he has been, orders the High Priest, Tarzan, all of Tarzan's friends, and all the slave girls freed. Production of the film was announced on June 23, 1949, after producer Sol Lesser signed a new distribution agreement for his \"Tarzan\" pictures with RKO Pictures. The working title of the film had been \"Tarzan and the Golden Lion\" (the same as the 1927 silent picture). But the June 23 announcement changed it to \"Tarzan and the Slave Girl\" as well as naming Lex Barker as the star. On", "title": "Tarzan and the Slave Girl" }, { "id": "11014726", "text": "were P. Dempsey Tabler and James Pierce (who married the daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs). The first Tarzan sound film was \"Tarzan the Tiger\" (1929), featuring Frank Merrill as the Ape Man, shot as a silent but partially dubbed for release. It was Merrill’s second Tarzan movie, and it cost him the role, as his voice was deemed unsuitable for the part. The most popular series of Tarzan films began with \"Tarzan the Ape Man\" (1932), starring Johnny Weissmüller and Maureen O'Sullivan. Weissmüller, the son of ethnic-German immigrants from Romania, was already well known as a five-time Olympic gold medalist", "title": "Tarzan in film and other non-print media" }, { "id": "4399774", "text": "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" (1912). Christopher Lambert stars as Tarzan (though the name Tarzan is never used in the film's dialogue) and Andie MacDowell as Jane; the cast also includes Ralph Richardson (in his final film appearance), Ian Holm, James Fox, Cheryl Campbell, and Ian Charleson. The film received a mixed-to-positive critical reception upon its release, with many praising the film as a welcome", "title": "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" }, { "id": "11991520", "text": "by Captain Sam Bishop (Jan Murray), a riverboat pilot, and Bishop's young ward, Pepe (Manuel Padilla Jr.), as well as Baron (a lion) and Cheeta (a chimpanzee). On their way they encounter Dr. Ann Philips (Diana Millay), who has witnessed the destruction of a village, and wants to continue fighting a plague by giving much-needed inoculations to natives who live along the Amazon River. The movie was filmed entirely on location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro Zoo, Parque Lage and Tijuca Forest). Dinky, the chimp portraying Cheeta, bit Mike Henry on the jaw during filming, requiring twenty", "title": "Tarzan and the Great River" }, { "id": "4671097", "text": "Shasta of the Wolves Shasta of the Wolves is a feral child novel by British-born American children's author Olaf Baker. The novel was originally published in 1919 by Dodd, Mead and Company with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, and was reprinted a number of times up until 1959. On a mountain in the Pacific Northwest, apparently in the 19th century, the she-wolf Nitka discovers an abandoned Native American baby and is inspired by the \"Spirit of the Wild\" to raise him alongside her own cubs. He has no name of his own to begin with, although the author calls him", "title": "Shasta of the Wolves" }, { "id": "4399786", "text": "Towne retaliated by demanding that the name of his dog (P.H. Vazak) appear in the screen credit for his screenplay; the name received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. The dialogue of Andie MacDowell, who played Jane, was dubbed in post-production by Glenn Close. According to Hudson, this was due to MacDowell's southern US accent, which he did not want for the film, and the fact that she was not (at the time) a trained actor. The young Jane featured at the beginning of the film is portrayed as American, which is consistent with Burroughs. Sir Ralph Richardson, who", "title": "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" } ]

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[ { "id": "20449641", "text": "Mitchell's \"Gone with the Wind\" (1936), Carnegie’s \"How to Win Friends and Influence People\" (1937), Spock’s \"Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care\" (1946), Harris’ \"I'm OK – You're OK\" (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's \"All the President's Men\" (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren’s \"Purpose-Driven Life\" (2002) and Brown's \"Da Vinci Code\" (2003). The influential \"New York Times Best Seller list\" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington. Some notable collections of books of the United States include: The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004,", "title": "Books in the United States" }, { "id": "14370728", "text": "Beauchamp, QC, a series that continued with \"April Fool\", \"Kill All the Judges\", \"Snow Job\", and \"I'll See You in My Dreams\". Deverell's sixteen published novels also include \"High Crimes\", \"Mecca\", \"The Dance of Shiva\", \"Platinum Blue\", \"Mindfield\", \"Kill All the Lawyers\", \"Street Legal\", \"Slander\", \"The Laughing Falcon\", and \"Mind Games\". He is the author of the true crime book \"A Life on Trial – the Case of Robert Frisbee\", based on a notorious murder trial which he defended. He has achieved recognition for suffusing his novels with satire. Both \"Kill All the Judges\" and \"Snow Job\" were shortlisted for", "title": "William Deverell" }, { "id": "9673299", "text": "Sellers, as can be found combing the \"New York Times\" Best Seller Lists. Notable among these are \"A Man Called Intrepid\", \"American Conspiracies\", \"Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook\", \"Gameknight999 Series\", \"Man Who Killed Kennedy\". Recent best sellers include \"Kitty Genovese\", \"Hands of War\", \"Secrets of the Notebook\", \"Search for Anne Perry\", \"Surgeon in Blue\", \"Spymistress\". and \"Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit\" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing that Skakel is not guilty of the Murder of Martha Moxley for which he was convicted in 2002 but released pending a new", "title": "Skyhorse Publishing" }, { "id": "8813367", "text": "Preserve and Protect Preserve and Protect is a 1968 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the third sequel to \"Advise and Consent\", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and is followed by two alternate sequels of its own, \"Come Nineveh, Come Tyre\" (1973) and \"The Promise of Joy\" (1975). \"Advise and Consent\" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in paperback and e-book format in 2014. After winning his party's nomination in \"Capable of Honor\", newly elected U.S. President Harley Hudson dies", "title": "Preserve and Protect" }, { "id": "11416555", "text": "\"where big, pivotal things have happened to [the Doctor]\". Roberts and Davies held an unofficial contest to see how many references to Christie's works could be inserted. Titles that were noted were: \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\"; \"Why Didn't They Ask Evans\"; \"The Body in the Library\"; \"The Secret Adversary\"; \"N or M?\"; \"Nemesis\"; \"Cat Among the Pigeons\"; \"Dead Man's Folly\"; \"They Do It With Mirrors\"; \"Appointment with Death\"; \"Cards on the Table\"; \"Sparkling Cyanide\"; \"Endless Night\"; \"Crooked House\"; \"Death in the Clouds\"; \"The Moving Finger\"; \"Taken at the Flood\"; \"Death Comes as the End\"; \"Murder on the Orient Express\"", "title": "The Unicorn and the Wasp" }, { "id": "3243467", "text": "include: novels featuring characters John Knox & Grace Chu--\"The Red Room\" (2014);\"Choke Point\" (2013);\"The Risk Agent\" (2012); novels featuring the character Walt Fleming--\"In Harm's Way\" (2010), \"Killer Summer\" (2009), \"Killer View\" (2008), and \"Killer Weekend\" (2007); novels featuring the character Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews--\"The Body of David Hayes\" (2004), \"The Art of Deception\" (2002), \"Middle of Nowhere\" (2000), \"The First Victim\" (1999), \"The Pied Piper\" (1998), \"Beyond Recognition\" (1997), \"No Witnesses\" (1994), \"The Angel Maker\" (1993), and \"Undercurrents\" (1988). Standalone novels include: \"Cut and Run\" (2005), \"The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer\" (2001)--(under the pseudonym of Joyce Readon, Ph.D), \"Parallel", "title": "Ridley Pearson" }, { "id": "17376031", "text": "Valerie Sayers Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: \"The Powers\" (2013); \"Brain Fever\" (1996); \"The Distance Between Us\" (1994); \"Who Do You Love\" (1991); \"How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine\" (1989); and \"Due East\" (1987). \"Brain Fever\" and \"Who Do You Love\" were named \"New York Times\" \"Notable Books of the Year\", and the 2002 film \"Due East\" is based on her first two novels. Reviewing \"Who Do You Love\", \"The Chicago Tribune\" declared: \"To say that Valerie Sayers is a natural-born writer wildly underestimates the facts….", "title": "Valerie Sayers" }, { "id": "4138602", "text": "Shadow\". At the age of 40, increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide by slitting his wrists. Johnson was largely unknown to the wider reading public at the time of his death, but has a growing cult following. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, \"Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry\" (1973), was released in 2000. Singer-songwriter Joe Pernice paid tribute to Johnson on the 2006 Pernice Brothers album \"Live a Little\". Jonathan Coe's 2004 biography \"Like a Fiery Elephant\" (winner of the 2005", "title": "B. S. Johnson" }, { "id": "18812425", "text": "\"buoyant\" for the same reason that it is \"ultimately, a little disappointing\": namely, \"Morrow doesn't care as much [as Vonnegut]\". A sequel, \"Blameless in Abaddon\", was published in 1996, and a second sequel, \"The Eternal Footman\", was published in 1999. Towing Jehovah Towing Jehovah is a 1994 fantasy novel by American writer James K. Morrow, published by Harcourt Brace. The book is about the death of God and the subsequent towing of his body across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1995 it received the World Fantasy Award for best novel, with two additional best novel awards. It was followed by two", "title": "Towing Jehovah" }, { "id": "9930117", "text": "the Peninsula. The vivid description of battles speedily procured for it an enormous sale; but it only produced £20 for its author. A sequel entitled \"The Highlanders in Belgium\" soon followed. Then came \"The Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp\", of which the popularity equalled that of his first novel. \"The Yellow Frigate\", \"Bothwell\", \"Jane Seton\", and many more succeeded, and from that time to his death never a year passed without one, often two, and even three novels being produced. His last works of fiction were 'Love's Labour Won' (1888), dealing with incidents of Burmese dacoity, and \"Playing with Fire\" (1887),", "title": "James Grant (author)" }, { "id": "477891", "text": "\"Advise and Consent\". That novel, out of print for nearly 15 years, ranked #27 on the 2013 BookFinder.com list of the Top 100 Most Searched for Out of Print Books before WordFire reissued it in February 2014. The company also reprinted \"Advise and Consent\" five sequels — \"A Shade of Difference\" (1962), \"Capable of Honor\" (1966), \"Preserve and Protect\" (1968), \"Come Nineveh, Come Tyre\" (1973) and \"The Promise of Joy\" (1975) — as well as Drury's later novels \"Mark Coffin, U.S.S.\" (1979) and \"Decision\" (1983). WordFire released four previously unpublished novels by Frank Herbert, who died in 1986: \"High-Opp\" (2012),", "title": "Kevin J. Anderson" }, { "id": "3977143", "text": "Song of Solomon (novel) Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon \"Milkman\" Dead III, an :African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. This book won the National Books Critics Award, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. In 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course named it the 25th best English-language novel of the 20th century. \"Song of Solomon\" opens with the suicide of Robert Smith, an insurance agent and member of", "title": "Song of Solomon (novel)" }, { "id": "14485206", "text": "be the most influential is \"\" by Lew Wallace, and published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. It remained the best-selling American novel of all time, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\" (1852) in sales and remaining at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's \"Gone with the Wind\" (1936). \"Ben-Hur\" is a bildungsroman and adventure novel that follows the tumultuous life of its protagonist, Judah Ben-Hur. He is a fictional Jewish noble from Jerusalem who suffers betrayal (by a boyhood friend) and consequently his enslavement and his family's imprisonment", "title": "Bible fiction" }, { "id": "11437033", "text": "two novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The world of fiction saw a return of the muckraker. Books by John Blair and Robert Engler warned of the problems caused by America's dependence on oil while Sidney Lens' \"The Day Before Doomsday\" warned of nuclear annihilation. Mario Puzo's much-awaited follow-up to \"The Godfather\", \"Fools Die\", was released in 1978 and instantly became a best seller. Notable works such as William Styron's Holocaust epic, \"Sophie's Choice\", rounded out the decade. Kurt Vonnegut's \"Jailbird\" reflected the comic results of the Watergate scandal while Nadine Gordimer continued to write in favor of an end", "title": "Literature in the 1970s" }, { "id": "7549494", "text": "and \"A Very Touchy Subject\". The latter also became a television movie, entitled \"Can a Guy Say No?\" Another novel, \"Workin' For Peanuts\", was adapted to a television movie with the same title. A trilogy of mystery thrillers for older young adult readers includes \"Wish You Were Dead\", \"Blood on My Hands\", and \"Kill You Last\". Strasser has also written a number of young adult series, including \"Impact Zone\" (about surfing), \"Drift X\" (about drift car competitions), and \"Here Comes Heavenly\" (about a punk nanny with magical powers). His books for middle-graders include \"CON-fidence\", \"The Diving Bell\", and \"Abe Lincoln", "title": "Todd Strasser" }, { "id": "2157606", "text": "Nat Turner\", John Ball's \"In the Heat of the Night\", Colleen McCullough's \"The Thorn Birds\", Yasunari Kawabata's \"The Lake\", John Updike's \"Rabbit Redux\" and \"Rabbit is Rich\", and \"The Inheritors\", \"Pincher Martin\", \"The Spire\" and \"The Pyramid\" and \"Rites of Passage\" by William Golding. His own works include both novels and dramas; \"Men of God\" (1974), \"Sarusok\" (1974), \"Magyar Médeia\" (1976), \"Rácsok\" (1979), \"Találkozások\" (1980) are among the most notable. He is also the author of \"Encounters\" (essays, 1980), \"Homecoming and Shavings\" (short stories, 1991), \"Hungarian Medea\" (play, 1979), \"Iron Bars\" (play, 1979), \"Balance\" (play, 1990). Göncz worked incredibly hard", "title": "Árpád Göncz" }, { "id": "2475914", "text": "\"Beauty and the Beast\", \"\", \"Basic Instinct\", \"Unforgiven\", \"The Bodyguard\", \"Aladdin\", \"Sister Act\", \"Mrs. Doubtfire\", \"Sleepless in Seattle\", \"The Fugitive\", \"Jurassic Park\", \"Schindler's List\", \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\", \"The Lion King\", \"Forrest Gump\", \"Pulp Fiction\", \"Clueless\", \"Apollo 13\", \"Toy Story\", \"Seven\", \"Braveheart\", \"Independence Day\", \"Matilda\", \"Jerry Maguire\", \"Scream\", \"Good Will Hunting\", \"Men In Black\", \"\", \"My Best Friend's Wedding\", \"Titanic\", \"Saving Private Ryan\", \"Mulan\", \"Fight Club\", \"The Matrix\", \"The Green Mile\", \"The Sixth Sense\", \"American Beauty\", \"\", \"Gladiator\", \"Harry Potter\", \"Ocean's Eleven\", \"Moulin Rouge\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"The Princess Diaries\", \"Gangs of New York\", \"The Lord of the Rings\", \"Pirates of", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "id": "5151567", "text": "in the domain of mainstream or art literature. Nobel Prize-winner André Gide's semi-autobiographical novel \"The Immoralist\" (1902) finds a newly married man reawakened by his attraction to a series of young Arab boys. Though Bayard Taylor's \"Joseph and His Friend\" (1870) had been the first American gay novel, Edward Prime-Stevenson's \"\" (1906) was the first in which the homosexual couple were happy and united at the end. Initially published privately under the pseudonym \"Xavier Mayne\", it tells the story of a British aristocrat and a Hungarian soldier whose new friendship turns into love. In Thomas Mann's 1912 novella \"Death in", "title": "Gay literature" }, { "id": "1607366", "text": "stories: Norma Khouri Norma Khouri is the pen name of author Norma Bagain Toliopoulos (born Norma Bagain in Jordan in 1970). She is the author of the book titled \"Honor Lost\" (titled \"Forbidden Love\" in Australia, Britain, and Commonwealth nations). The book was published by Random House in 2003. The book, which became a bestseller, purported to describe the honor killing of her best friend in Jordan. After criticism from Jordanian writers and groups in regards to numerous errors, the book was exposed as a literary hoax in 2004. Khouri was born in Jordan in 1970, and moved to Chicago", "title": "Norma Khouri" }, { "id": "4802717", "text": "most important African-American writers of the 20th century. Her first novel, \"The Bluest Eye\", was published in 1970. Among her most famous novels is \"Beloved\", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. This story describes a slave who found freedom but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery. Another important novel is \"Song of Solomon\", a tale about materialism, unrequited love, and brotherhood. Morrison is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the 1970s novelist and poet Alice Walker wrote a famous essay that brought Zora Neale Hurston", "title": "African-American literature" }, { "id": "4964202", "text": "Kane and Abel (novel) Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United Statesinternational success. It reached No. 1 on the \"New York Times\" best-seller list. The sequel to Kane and Abel is \"The Prodigal Daughter\", in which Florentyna Kane is the protagonist. \"Kane & Abel\" is among the top 100 list of best-selling books in the world, with a similar number of copies sold as \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" and \"Gone with the Wind\". In 2003, \"Kane and Abel\" was listed at number 96 on", "title": "Kane and Abel (novel)" }, { "id": "17376035", "text": "and in Bryan Giemza's \"Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South\" (2013). Sayers's essay \"The Word Cure: Cancer, Language, and Prayer\" appears in the journal \"Image\". Valerie Sayers Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: \"The Powers\" (2013); \"Brain Fever\" (1996); \"The Distance Between Us\" (1994); \"Who Do You Love\" (1991); \"How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine\" (1989); and \"Due East\" (1987). \"Brain Fever\" and \"Who Do You Love\" were named \"New York Times\" \"Notable Books of the Year\", and the 2002 film \"Due East\" is", "title": "Valerie Sayers" }, { "id": "13682279", "text": "have produced and distributed such Best Picture Oscar winners as \"Gandhi\" (1982); \"Amadeus\" (1984); \"Platoon\" (1986); \"The Last Emperor\" (1987); \"Driving Miss Daisy\" (1989); \"Dances with Wolves\" (1990); \"The Silence of the Lambs\" (1991); \"Braveheart\" (1995); \"The English Patient\" (1996); \"Shakespeare in Love\" (1998); \"Chicago\" (2002); \"\" (2003); \"Million Dollar Baby\" (2004); \"Crash\" (2004); \"The Departed\" (2006); \"No Country for Old Men\" (2007) \"Slumdog Millionaire\" (2008), \"The Hurt Locker\", (2009); \"The King's Speech\" (2010); and \"The Artist\" (2011). Most recently, some of the world's most prominent films were produced, distributed and financed by IFTA Members: \"Milk\" (2008); \"The Reader\" (2008);", "title": "Independent Film & Television Alliance" }, { "id": "7673135", "text": "Avery Corman Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935) is an American novelist. He is known for the books \"Oh, God!\" (1971) and \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1977) both adapted into successful films of the same names. Corman is the author of the novels \"Oh, God!\" (1971), the basis for the 1977 film; \"The Bust-Out King\" (1977); \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1977), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 1979 film of the same name; \"The Old Neighborhood\" (1980); \"50\" (1987); \"Prized Possessions\" (1991); \"The Big Hype\" (1992); \"A Perfect Divorce\" (2004); and \"The Boyfriend from Hell\" (2006). And he is the author", "title": "Avery Corman" }, { "id": "766156", "text": "screen. As at January 2018, he has published 44 books. The first five best sellers were spy thrillers: \"Eye of the Needle\" (1978), \"Triple\" (1979), \"The Key to Rebecca \"(1980), \"The Man from St. Petersburg\" (1982) and \"Lie Down with Lions\" (1986). \"On Wings of Eagles\" (1983) was the true story of how two of Ross Perot's employees were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. The next three novels, \"Night Over Water\" (1991), \"A Dangerous Fortune\" (1993) and \"A Place Called Freedom\" (1995) were more historical than thriller, but he returned to the thriller genre with \"The Third", "title": "Ken Follett" }, { "id": "4656489", "text": "Independence Day (Ford novel) Independence Day is a 1995 novel by Richard Ford and the sequel to Ford's 1986 novel \"The Sportswriter\". This novel is the second in what is now a four-part series, the first being \"The Sportswriter\". It was followed by \"The Lay of the Land\" (2006) and \"Let Me Be Frank With You\" (2014). \"Independence Day\" won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1996, becoming the first novel ever to win both awards in a single year. The novel follows Frank Bascombe, a New Jersey real estate agent (and ex-sportswriter), through the titular holiday", "title": "Independence Day (Ford novel)" }, { "id": "7534021", "text": "Point Blanc Point Blanc is the second book in the \"Alex Rider\" series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001 and in North America on April 15, 2002, under the alternate title Point Blank. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In 2007, it was adapted into a graphic novel, written by Antony Johnston, and illustrated by Kanako Damerum and Yuzuru Takasaki. The book opens with the death of American electronics billionaire Michael J. Roscoe in an elevator shaft, a friend of Blunt's", "title": "Point Blanc" }, { "id": "10463172", "text": "of the Samuel Johnson Prize (1999). Facing bad publicity and a tarnished reputation, the NCR Award closed out with \"A People's Tragedy\" in 1997. Source 1988-1995: NCR Book Award The NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, established in 1987 and sponsored by NCR Corporation, was for a time the UK's major award for non-fiction. Closing in 1997 after a period of decline and scandal, it is best remembered as the forerunner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize. The award was founded at a time when there were no major non-fiction awards in Britain comparable to the highly successful Booker Prize for", "title": "NCR Book Award" }, { "id": "7130161", "text": "writer and a particular body of work for \"significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature\". Duncan won the annual award in 1992 and the young adult librarians now name six books published from 1966 to 1987, the autobiographical \"Chapters\" and five novels: \"Ransom\", \"I Know What You Did Last Summer\", \"Summer of Fear\", \"Killing Mr. Griffin\", and \"The Twisted Window\". The citation observes, \"Whether accepting responsibility for the death of an English teacher or admitting to their responsibility for a hit and run accident, Duncan's characters face a universal truth—your actions are important and you are responsible for them.\"", "title": "Lois Duncan" }, { "id": "1379062", "text": "of Morbius\", \"Empire of the Sun\", \"Brighton Rock\", \"Fair Stood the Wind for France\", \"Fluke\", \"Great Speeches in History\", \"How Proust Can Change Your Life\", \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"Peter Pan\", \"The Alchemist\", \"The Day of the Triffids\", \"The Hairy Hands\", \"The Lives of Christopher Chant\", \"The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous\", \"The Queen's Man\", \"The Solitaire Mystery\", \"The Swimming Pool Library\", \"The Two Destinies\", \"The Velveteen Rabbit\", \"The Way I Found Her\", \"The Way to Dusty Death\", \"The Woodlanders\", \"Under the Net\", \"Wuthering Heights\" and Philip Pullman's \"Grimm Tales for Young and Old\". In June 2012, West recorded an English", "title": "Samuel West" }, { "id": "2869019", "text": "His early books \"Lud Heat\" (1975) and \"Suicide Bridge\" (1979) were a mixture of essay, fiction and poetry; they were followed by \"White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings\" (1987), a novel juxtaposing the tale of a disreputable band of bookdealers on the hunt for a priceless copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's \"A Study in Scarlet\" and the Jack the Ripper murders (here attributed to the physician William Gull). Sinclair was for some time perhaps best known for the novel \"Downriver\" (1991), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Award. It envisages the UK under the rule of", "title": "Iain Sinclair" }, { "id": "8813372", "text": "but does not specify how or on which side, and the situation does not resolve itself before the end of the novel. Preserve and Protect Preserve and Protect is a 1968 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the third sequel to \"Advise and Consent\", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and is followed by two alternate sequels of its own, \"Come Nineveh, Come Tyre\" (1973) and \"The Promise of Joy\" (1975). \"Advise and Consent\" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in", "title": "Preserve and Protect" }, { "id": "15324919", "text": "group's extensive drug use; an in-depth look at Frank Sinatra and his alleged Mafia ties; and the 40th and 50th birthdays of Elizabeth Taylor. His book \"Hearts\" (1971) concerned the rivalry between Houston surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley at the dawn of the heart transplant era. \"Richie: The Ultimate Tragedy Between One Decent Man and the Son He Loved\" (1973) was the story of a Long Island man who killed his drug-addicted son. This was made into a TV-movie called \"The Death of Richie\". Thompson's most successful book, \"Lost!\" (1975), was his account of the true story of two", "title": "Thomas Thompson (American author)" }, { "id": "3911724", "text": "\"Cabbagetown\" (first published in abridged form in 1950; restored version published in 1968) \"The Sin Sniper\" (1970) \"A Nice Place to Visit\" (1970) \"Death in Don Mills\" (1975) \"The Intruders\" (1976; something of a sequel to \"Cabbagetown\") \"Murder Has Your Number\" (1950) \"Don't Deal Five Deuces\" (1992; novel completed by Paul Steuwe after Garner's death) \"The Yellow Sweater\" (1952) \"Hugh Garner's Best Stories\" (1963; winner of the 1963 Governor General's Award) \"Men and Women\" (1966) \"Violation of the Virgins\" (1971) \"One Mile of Ice\" \"The Moose and the Sparrow\" (1966) \"The Father\" (1958) \"Author, Author!\" (1964; essays) \"One Damned Thing", "title": "Hugh Garner" }, { "id": "11487", "text": "on the Orient Express\" (1934). Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\", whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, \"Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?\" Aside from \"Roger Ackroyd\", the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including \"Murder on the Orient Express\", \"The ABC Murders\" (1935), \"Cards on the Table\" (1936), and \"Death on the Nile\" (1937), a tale of multiple homicide upon", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "1607362", "text": "Norma Khouri Norma Khouri is the pen name of author Norma Bagain Toliopoulos (born Norma Bagain in Jordan in 1970). She is the author of the book titled \"Honor Lost\" (titled \"Forbidden Love\" in Australia, Britain, and Commonwealth nations). The book was published by Random House in 2003. The book, which became a bestseller, purported to describe the honor killing of her best friend in Jordan. After criticism from Jordanian writers and groups in regards to numerous errors, the book was exposed as a literary hoax in 2004. Khouri was born in Jordan in 1970, and moved to Chicago in", "title": "Norma Khouri" }, { "id": "467005", "text": "teacher, and a mysterious angel-like figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, \"The Paper Men\" (1984) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer, and a sea trilogy \"To the Ends of the Earth\", which includes the \"Rites of Passage\" (1980), \"Close Quarters\" (1987), and \"Fire Down Below\" (1989), the first book of which (originally intended as a stand-alone novel) won the Booker Prize. William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel \"Lord of the Flies\", he won a", "title": "William Golding" }, { "id": "1621685", "text": "important works of the 20th century, and his final novel, unfinished at the time of his death, The Pale King (2011), has garnered much praise and attention. In addition to his novels, he also authored three acclaimed short story collections: \"Girl with Curious Hair\" (1989), \"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men\" (1999) and \"\" (2004). Jonathan Franzen, Wallace's friend and contemporary, rose to prominence after the 2001 publication of his National Book Award-winning third novel, \"The Corrections\". He began his writing career in 1988 with the well-received \"The Twenty-Seventh City\", a novel centering on his native St. Louis, but did not", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "1592169", "text": "37 languages. While some of Binchy's novels are complete stories (\"Circle of Friends\", \"Light a Penny Candle\"), many others revolve around a cast of interrelated characters (\"The Copper Beech\", \"Silver Wedding\", \"The Lilac Bus\", \"Evening Class\", and \"Heart and Soul\"). Her later novels, \"Evening Class\", \"Scarlet Feather\", \"Quentins\", and \"Tara Road\", feature a cast of recurring characters. Binchy announced in 2000 that she would not tour any more of her novels, but would instead be devoting her time to other activities and to her husband, Gordon Snell. Five further novels were published before her death: \"Quentins\" (2002), \"Nights of Rain", "title": "Maeve Binchy" }, { "id": "19498115", "text": "(1978) and \"Enduring Love\" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with \"Amsterdam\". \"Atonement\" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's Whitbread Book Award winning novel \"White Teeth\" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book \"The Sense of an Ending\", while three of his earlier books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize: \"Flaubert's", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "816401", "text": "\"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\", \"Lolita\", \"North by Northwest\", \"The Prisoner of Zenda\", \"Journey to the Centre of the Earth\", \"A Touch of Larceny\", \"Bigger Than Life\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Georgy Girl\", \"The Deadly Affair\", \"Age of Consent\", \"Heaven Can Wait\", \"The Boys from Brazil\", \"The Verdict\", \"Mandingo\", \"Murder by Decree\" and \"Salem's Lot.\" Mason was nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes (winning the Golden Globe in 1955 for \"A Star is Born\") and two BAFTA Awards throughout his career. Following his death in 1984, his ashes were interred near the tomb of his close friend, fellow English actor", "title": "James Mason" }, { "id": "8694528", "text": "full-time writer, broadcaster and speaker. The bestselling \"Diana’s Story\", published in 1989, was followed by \"Lost for Words\", \"The Cat Who Came in from the Cold\", \"I’m a Stranger Here Myself\", \"Enough to Make a Cat Laugh\", \"A Play On Words\" and \"Paws in the Proceedings\". Deric Longden's first two books were adapted for television, the first retitled \"Wide-Eyed and Legless\". The second, \"Lost for Words\", was screened in January 1999 and won the Emmy for best foreign drama and a BAFTA for Thora Hird as best actress. After the death of Diana, he married writer Aileen Armitage in 1990", "title": "Deric Longden" }, { "id": "216601", "text": "\"Vertigo\". His roles in \"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington\", \"The Philadelphia Story\", \"It's a Wonderful Life\", \"Harvey\", and \"Anatomy of a Murder\" earned him Academy Award nominations—with one win for \"The Philadelphia Story\". Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as \"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington\", \"The Mortal Storm\", \"The Philadelphia Story\", \"Harvey\", \"It's a Wonderful Life\", \"Shenandoah\", \"The Glenn Miller Story\", \"Rear Window\", \"Rope\", \"The Man Who Knew Too Much\", \"The Shop Around the Corner\", \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\" and \"Vertigo\". He is the most represented", "title": "James Stewart" }, { "id": "1607363", "text": "the United States with her parents in 1973. She attended a Catholic school in South Chicago. In 1993 she married John Toliopoulos, the father of her two children, Zoe and Christopher. In about 2001, Khouri, Toliopoulos and their children moved to Australia, from where she published a non-fiction account of the honour killing of her best friend in Jordan. After the revelation of her literary hoax made headline news, she moved back to the United States. She is the subject of the acclaimed 2007 film \"Forbidden Lie$\". On July 24, 2004 Malcolm Knox, literary editor of the \"Sydney Morning Herald\",", "title": "Norma Khouri" }, { "id": "3870948", "text": "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand He Died with a Felafel in His Hand is a non-fiction novel by Australian author John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press (). The story consists of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Brisbane and other cities in Australia with variously dubious housemates. The title refers to a deceased heroin addict found in one such house. The book was subsequently adapted into the longest running stage play in Australian history and, in 2001, was made into a film by Richard Lowenstein, starring Noah Taylor,", "title": "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand" }, { "id": "734635", "text": "Tom Ripley, a charming criminal who murders a rich man and steals his identity. Highsmith wrote four sequels: \"Ripley Under Ground\" (1970), \"Ripley's Game\" (1974), \"The Boy Who Followed Ripley\" (1980) and \"Ripley Under Water\" (1991), about Ripley's exploits as a con artist and serial killer who always gets away with his crimes. The series—collectively dubbed \"The Ripliad\"—are some of Highsmith's most popular works and have sold millions of copies worldwide. The \"suave, agreeable and utterly amoral\" Ripley is Highsmith's most famous character, and has been critically acclaimed for being \"both a likable character and a cold-blooded killer.\" He has", "title": "Patricia Highsmith" }, { "id": "2518606", "text": "Years\", \"Balmoral\" (also known as \"Liberty Hall\"), and \"Noises Off\", which critic Frank Rich in his book \"The Hot Seat\" claimed \"is, was, and probably always will be the funniest play written in my lifetime.\" His novels include \"Headlong\" (shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize), \"The Tin Men\" (won the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award), \"The Russian Interpreter\" (1967, Hawthornden Prize) \"Towards the End of the Morning\", \"Sweet Dreams\", \"A Landing on the Sun\", \"A Very Private Life\", \"Now You Know\" and \"Skios, long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012\". His novel, \"Spies\", was long listed for the Man Booker", "title": "Michael Frayn" }, { "id": "5463812", "text": "Immortal Cimoli\", \"Through A Glass, Darkly\", \"Double Jeopardy\", \"Till Death\", \"Judgement Day\", \"One Minute to Midnight\", \"Prophecy\", \"The End of Innocence\", \"Manhunt\", \"Glory Days\", \"Dramatic License\", \"Money No Object\", \"Haunted\", \"Little Tin God\", \"The Messenger\", \"The Valkyrie\", \"Comes a Horseman\", \"\", \"The Ransom of Richard Redstone\", \"Duende\", \"The Stone of Scone\", \"Forgive Us Our Trespasses\", \"The Modern Prometheus\", \"Archangel\", \"Avatar\", \"Armageddon\", \"Sins of the Father\", \"Diplomatic Immunity\", \"Patient Number 7\", \"Black Tower\", \"Unusual Suspects\", \"Justice\", \"Deadly Exposure\", \"To Be\", \"Not To Be\" Books – \"\", \", , , , , , , , , \", \"\", \"\", \"\" Comics –", "title": "Duncan MacLeod" }, { "id": "9582617", "text": "of Nowhere\", in which DCI Feiffer must figure out why in the pre-dawn hours, four people in a plate-glass-filled van with Chinese Opera blaring out the tape deck were driving on the wrong side of a deserted motorway, miles from the nearest on-ramp, before dying in a violent collision with an oncoming lorry. Sixteen novels were published between 1975 and 1998: \"Yellowthread Street\" (1975), \"The Hatchet Man\" (1976), \"Gelignite\" (1976), \"Thin Air\" (1977), \"Skulduggery\" (1979), \"Sci-fi\" (1981), \"Perfect End\" (1981), \"War Machine\" (1982), \"The Far Away Man\" (1984), \"Roadshow\" (1985), \"Head First\" (1986), \"Frogmouth\" (1987), \"Out of Nowhere\" (1988), \"Inches\"", "title": "Yellowthread Street" }, { "id": "15713450", "text": "but has been short-listed for five awards, the highest being second place for the Young Adults book of Fictional Events, gaining it a phenomenal reputation of selling 134,000 in a month, the 14th-best-selling book of the UK 1996. Blue Genes Blue Genes is the fifth story in the \"Kate Brannigan Series\" written by popular Scottish author Val McDermid. Written in 1996 the book has mature content and was advised not for younger readers as it has themes of sexual responses and death. The book starts with Kate Brannigan, a conniving PI announcing the fake death of her boyfriend in the", "title": "Blue Genes" }, { "id": "1462686", "text": "later achieved greater fame, including Sean Pertwee (\"The King of Clubs\", 1989; \"Dead Man's Folly\", 2013), Joely Richardson (\"The Dream\", 1989), Polly Walker (\"Peril at End House\", 1990), Samantha Bond (\"The Adventure of the Cheap Flat\", 1990), Christopher Eccleston (\"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe\", 1992), Hermione Norris (\"Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan\", 1993), Damian Lewis (\"Hickory Dickory Dock\", 1995), Jamie Bamber (\"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\", 2000), Russell Tovey (\"Evil Under the Sun\", 2001), Emily Blunt (\"Death on the Nile\", 2004), Alice Eve (\"The Mystery of the Blue Train\", 2005), Michael Fassbender (\"After the Funeral\", 2006), Toby Jones, Aiden", "title": "Agatha Christie's Poirot" }, { "id": "18723473", "text": "(2006) and \"Florida Heat Wave\" (2011), which he edited. Lister’s literary thrillers include \"Double Exposure\" (2009), \"Thunder Beach\" (2010), \"Burnt Offerings\" (2012), \"Separation Anxiety\" (2013), and \"A Certain Retribution\" (2014). His latest book is \"Innocent Blood\", about the Atlanta murders of 1979–81. \"The Song of Suffering\" (1995) \"Why the Worst Sinners Must Be Saints\" (1996) \"Power in the Blood\" (1997) \"Blood of the Lamb\" (2004) \"Flesh and Blood\" (2006) \"North Florida Noir\" (2006) \"Another Quiet Night in Desperation\" (2008) \"Double Exposure\" (2009) \"The Body and the Blood\" (2010) \"Florida Heat Wave\" (2010) \"Thunder Beach\" (2010) \"The Big Goodbye\" (2011) \"Delta", "title": "Michael Lister" }, { "id": "13506817", "text": "until his death of a kidney condition in 1927. Keable's most famous publication was his first novel, \"Simon Called Peter\", but he produced a prodigious literary output, spanning theological tracts through poetry to travel guides. \"Simon Called Peter\"'s sequel, \"Recompense\", was made into a film, and his later novels all attracted substantial attention. His writings generally met with much greater popular than critical approbation, and \"Simon Called Peter\" was sufficiently incendiary to be banned. The book nonetheless became a contemporary best-seller. Much of Keable's fiction contained autobiographical elements, often centring on his attitudes toward and experience of the Christian religious", "title": "Robert Keable" }, { "id": "9767961", "text": "Star\" (1950), which was praised by André Gide and Thomas Mann, \"The Hero Continues\" (1960), which is likely based on Williams, \"Two People\" (1965) which is about a love affair between a New York stockbroker whose wife has left him and a 17-year-old Italian boy in Rome, and \"Tanaquil\" (1972), which is based on the life of George Platt Lynes. \"Lost Friendships\", a memoir of his friendship with Capote and Williams, was published in 1987. It is regarded by some as his best book. In June 2011 it was announced that Yale University will administer the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell", "title": "Donald Windham" }, { "id": "14000730", "text": "time before he can turn his attention either to his friend or to his son. Captain's Glory Captain's Glory is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based upon the television series \"\". The novel was released in 2006 in hardcover format. It is the final novel in the \"Totality\" trilogy. The story began with \"Captain's Peril\" and continued with \"Captain's Blood\". With the civil war on Romulus averted, Kirk is finally free to seek out the truth behind the death of his oldest and closest friend. Was Spock killed by the shadowy organisation known as", "title": "Captain's Glory" }, { "id": "14145652", "text": "Send Him Victorious Send Him Victorious is a political thriller, written in 1968 by Andrew Osmond, a former officer of Gurkha troops and diplomat, and Douglas Hurd, a former diplomat who later became a MP and Cabinet minister. The book was the first in a trilogy, the other two titles being \"The Smile on the Face of the Tiger\" and \"Scotch on the Rocks\". It looks ahead from 1968 and into the future, in a time where Queen Elizabeth II is no longer the monarch of the United Kingdom and has been succeeded by a King (presumably the former Prince", "title": "Send Him Victorious" }, { "id": "1415222", "text": "in the back pages of the UK first editions of \"The Listerdale Mystery\", \"Why Didn't They Ask Evans\", and \"Parker Pyne Investigates\" claimed that \"Murder on the Orient Express\" had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series. Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express" }, { "id": "16078739", "text": "\"Homeless Bird\" 1999: Kimberly Willis Holt, \"When Zachary Beaver Came to Town\" 1998: Louis Sachar, \"Holes\" 1997: Han Nolan, \"Dancing on the Edge\" 1996: Victor Martinez, \"Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida\" (\"my life\", fiction) 1984 to 1995: no awards Two authors have won two Children's or Young People's awards twice. Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Children's Literature award in 1970 for \"A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw\" and shared the Fiction award in 1974 for \"A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories\". National Book Award for Young People's Literature The National Book Award", "title": "National Book Award for Young People's Literature" }, { "id": "13470005", "text": "area of scientific research, especially to produce antivenom. Inspector Ghote believes the murder victim died from the bite of a Russell's Viper. In fact the victim was killed by manual strangulation \"Asking Questions\" was released in 1996, the year that H. R. F. Keating was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Outstanding Services to Crime Literature by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. The British editions of the book often refer to the award on the front cover. Asking Questions It is the twentieth novel in the Inspector Ghote series and the twenty-second book, due to the publication of", "title": "Asking Questions" }, { "id": "6328058", "text": "also included \"Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth\" (1976), \"Red Skelton\" (1979), \"The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney\" (1988), \"The Secret Life of Bob Hope\" and the tennis-themed murder mystery \"Set to Kill\" (both 1993). His next novel, \"Tulip\" (2004) was a thriller-mystery and it was followed in 2008 by \"Lust For Death\", a roman à clef about a Bob Hope-like character named Jack Faith. His 1974 book on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis entitled \"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself)\" was adapted into the 2002 made-for-television movie \"Martin and Lewis\". Marx also wrote several books featuring", "title": "Arthur Marx" }, { "id": "4243754", "text": "as well as translations listed below. In the US, du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read. In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years in a poll by bookseller W H Smith. Other novels in the shortlist were \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Pride and Prejudice\" by Jane Austen, \"Jane Eyre\" by Charlotte Bronte, and \"1984\" by George Orwell. The first adaptation of", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "11010705", "text": "other types of adjectives sometimes occur. Examples: \"Apocalypse Now Redux\", \"Bad Moon Rising\", \"Body Electric\", \"Brideshead Revisited\", \"Chicken Little\", \"Chronicle of a Death Foretold\", \"A Dream Deferred\", \"Hannibal Rising\", \"Hercules Unchained\", \"House Beautiful\", \"Jupiter Ascending\", \"The Life Aquatic\", \"A Love Supreme\", \"The Matrix Reloaded\", \"Monsters Unleashed\", \"Orpheus Descending\", \"Paradise Lost\", \"Paradise Regained\", \"Prometheus Unbound\", \"The Road Not Taken\", \"Sonic Unleashed\", \"Tarzan Triumphant\", \"Time Remembered\", \"The World Unseen\". Nouns may have other modifiers besides adjectives. Some kinds of modifiers tend to precede the noun, while others tend to come after. Determiners (including articles, possessives, demonstratives, etc.) come before the noun. Noun", "title": "Postpositive adjective" }, { "id": "1602397", "text": "Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book \"In Cold Blood\" (1966). Capote", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "13389245", "text": "Swati Kaushal Swati Kaushal is an Indian author and the author of the five bestselling novels, \"Piece of Cake\" (2004), \"A Girl Like Me\" (2008, \"Drop Dead\" (2012), \"Lethal Spice\" (2014), and \"A Few Good Friends\" (2017). In 2013, Kaushal was nominated to the \"L'Oreal Women of Worth Award\" in the Literature category. Kaushal was born and brought up in New Delhi and her stories are based on her personal experiences. An MBA from IIM Calcutta, she has worked with Nestle India Limited and Nokia Mobile Phones, India. Kaushal lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. \"Piece of Cake\"", "title": "Swati Kaushal" }, { "id": "6311042", "text": "former valet, which were blocked for publication in England by Queen Elizabeth. In the early 1990s Goldberg promoted a conspiracy theory book about the suicide death of Clinton White House aide, Vincent Foster, and several books dealing with Clinton's purported sexual infidelities including one by Arkansas State Troopers who alleged they had procured women to have sex with then-Governor Clinton. None of the Clinton-themed books were ever published. Goldberg was also the agent for former detective Mark Fuhrman's bestselling account of the O.J. Simpson trial, \"Murder in Brentwood\". Goldberg has written several novels. \"Friends in High Places\" co-written with Sondra", "title": "Lucianne Goldberg" }, { "id": "17490776", "text": "the bond that develops between the Langs and the Morgans from their first meeting in 1937 through their eventual separation on the occasion of Charity's death from cancer. Crossing to Safety Crossing to Safety is a 1987 semi-autobiographical novel by \"The Dean of Western Writers\", Wallace Stegner. It gained broad literary acclaim and commercial popularity. In \"Crossing to Safety\", Stegner explores the mysteries of friendship, and it extends Stegner's distinguished body of work that had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize (for 1971's \"Angle of Repose\") and the National Book Award (for 1976's \"The Spectator Bird\"). \"Publishers Weekly\" described the", "title": "Crossing to Safety" }, { "id": "5647910", "text": "Limits\", which he then self-published. \"I had just finished reading \"The Government Racket: Washington Waste from A to Z\", by Martin L. Gross. It is without a doubt the most disheartening and enlightening book about politics that I've ever read. I was out jogging one day wondering what it would take to really change Washington, when my thoughts turned to a friend who had been shot and killed in Washington, D.C., several summers earlier. As I continued running, a story started to unfold.\" Pocket Books published the hardcover edition of \"Term Limits\" in 1998, and the mass market paperback of", "title": "Vince Flynn" }, { "id": "5276074", "text": "Butler's People\", said it was his impression that the Margaret Mitchell estate was \"thoroughly embarrassed\" by \"Scarlett\". \"Scarlett\", universally panned by critics, nevertheless was a commercial success. The book sold millions of copies and remains in print. The publication of the book effectively extended the term of the copyright on \"Gone With The Wind\" which, under the law existing in 1991, was set to expire in 2011. When discussing the possibility of his own works receiving unauthorized sequels after his death, \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" author George R. R. Martin called such books \"abominations, to my mind, like", "title": "Scarlett (Ripley novel)" }, { "id": "2911057", "text": "Meyer, \"The West End Horror\" (1976) and \"The Canary Trainer\" (1993), neither of which has been adapted to film. \"The Seven-Per-Cent Solution\" was ranked ninth in the \"Publishers Weekly\" list of bestselling novels from 1974 and made \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list for forty weeks between September 15, 1974 and June 22, 1975. An introduction states that two canonical Holmes adventures were fabrications. These are \"The Final Problem\", in which Holmes apparently died along with Prof. James Moriarty, and \"The Empty House\", wherein Holmes reappeared after a three-year absence and revealed that he had not been killed after", "title": "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" }, { "id": "10297084", "text": "of the same name in \"Ruddigore\"; \"The West End Horror\", by Nicholas Meyer, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving a production of \"The Grand Duke\" (1976); \"The Plain Old Man\" by Charlotte MacLeod (1985; \"The Sorcerer\"); \"Perish in July\" by Mollie Hardwick (1989; \"Yeomen\") \"Ruddy Gore\" by Kerry Greenwood (a Phryne Fisher book, 1995; \"Ruddigore\"); \"Murder and Sullivan\" by Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1997; \"Ruddigore\"); \"Death of a Pooh-Bah\" by Karen Sturges (2000; \"Mikado\"). and \"Vengeance Dire\" by Roberta Morrell (2001; \"Pirates\"); Other mystery books and stories involve Gilbert and/or Sullivan to a lesser degree. The Dalziel and Pascoe books of Reginald", "title": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan" }, { "id": "5967259", "text": "Thomas Mallon Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the \"bystanders\" to larger historical events. He is the author of nine books of fiction, including \"Henry and Clara\", \"Two Moons\", \"Dewey Defeats Truman\", \"Aurora 7\", \"Bandbox\", \"Fellow Travelers\", \"Watergate\", and most recently \"Finale\". He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (\"Stolen Words\"), diaries (\"A Book of One's Own\"), letters (\"Yours Ever\") and the Kennedy assassination (\"Mrs. Paine's Garage\"), as well as two volumes", "title": "Thomas Mallon" }, { "id": "3747130", "text": "Mouth\". Parsons is the author of the novel \"Man and Boy\" (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including \"The Kids\" (1976), \"Platinum Logic\" (1981) and \"Limelight Blues\" (1983), before he found mainstream success by focusing on the tribulations of thirty-something men. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – \"One For My Baby\" (2001), \"Man and Wife\" (2003), \"The Family Way\" (2004), \"Stories We Could Tell\" (2006), \"My Favourite Wife\" (2008), \"Starting Over\" (2009), \"Men From the Boys\" (2010), \"The Murder Bag\" (2014), and \"The Slaughter Man\" (2015). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional", "title": "Tony Parsons (British journalist)" }, { "id": "13536616", "text": "a dozen languages. Bennett died on June 27, 2009, at the age of 96 at his home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Novels for Adults Catacombs (Abelard-Schuman, 1959); Murder Money (Crest, 1963); Death is a Silent Room (Abelard-Schuman, 1965) Novels for Young Adults Deathman, Do Not Follow Me (Meredith Press, 1968); The Deadly Gift (Meredith Press, 1969); Masks: A Love Story (Franklin Watts, 1972); The Killing Tree (Franklin Watts, 1972); Shadows Offstage (Nelson, 1974); The Long Black Coat (Delacorte Press, 1973); The Dangling Witness (Delacorte Press, 1974); Say Hello to the Hit Man (Delacorte Press, 1976); The Birthday Murderer (Delacorte", "title": "Jay Bennett (author)" }, { "id": "8818287", "text": "in southern states. \"Advise and Consent\" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in paperback and e-book format in 2014. A Shade of Difference A Shade of Difference () is a 1962 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the first sequel to \"Advise and Consent\", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and was followed in 1966 by \"Capable of Honor\". The novel focuses on the politics among delegations to the United Nations and the troubles that Third World nations cause the United", "title": "A Shade of Difference" }, { "id": "15319223", "text": "and personal friend Buck Henry – actor, director, and Oscar-nominated screenwriter (\"The Graduate\") – and an epilogue by the author, both of which are dated May 2010. Henry introduces Leland and his \"crazy kids,\" while Hayward’s epilogue discusses the years since \"Haywire\" was first published, thanks Henry for urging her to finish writing it, and, most notably, covers her brother William’s death (he shot himself in the heart in 2008). The \"epilogue is remarkable for its uninflected tone. She offers nothing remotely consoling about redemption or overcoming adversity. And that is one of the most bracing and strangely affirming aspects", "title": "Haywire (book)" }, { "id": "7144924", "text": "Doug Richardson Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist, who specializes in action movies and thrillers. He first made an impression with his as yet unproduced spec script \"Hell Bent... and Back\" which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel \"58 Minutes\" which became the basis for the sequel \"Die Hard 2\". Other screenplays include \"Bad Boys\" and \"Hostage\". His novels include \"99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriler\", \"Blood Money\", \"The Safety Expert\", \"True Believers\", and \"Dark Horse\". Richardson's first non-fiction book, \"The Smoking Gun: True Tales from Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches\" is", "title": "Doug Richardson" }, { "id": "1884285", "text": "time a book in the series was published in both countries at the same time. The novel won a Hugo Award, the only \"Harry Potter\" novel to do so, in 2001. The book was adapted into a film, which was released worldwide on 18 November 2005, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Throughout the three previous novels in the \"Harry Potter\" series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the difficulties of growing up, and the added challenge of being a famed wizard: when Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, the most powerful Dark wizard in history, killed", "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" }, { "id": "1483453", "text": "\"The Cement Garden\" (1978) and \"Enduring Love\" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with \"Amsterdam\", while \"Atonement\" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's (born 1975) Whitbread Book Award winning novel \"White Teeth\" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book \"The Sense of an Ending\", while three of his earlier books had", "title": "English novel" }, { "id": "808799", "text": "the book ahead of the Bible as one \"every adult should read before they die\". It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown. \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" was Lee's only published book until \"Go Set a Watchman\", an earlier draft of \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity", "title": "To Kill a Mockingbird" }, { "id": "10910659", "text": "Under Kilimanjaro Under Kilimanjaro is a non-fiction novel by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961), edited and published posthumously by Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming. It is based upon journals that he wrote while he was on his last safari. It is a longer and re-edited version of \"True at First Light\". In 2007, it won the Eric Hoffer Award for Best Academic Press. \"True at First Light\" was published in 1999. The book was presented as a \"fictional memoir\". Six years later the work was republished a second time as \"Under Kilimanjaro\". The work", "title": "Under Kilimanjaro" }, { "id": "10796032", "text": "of the Negev) and the Israeli Olympic fencing team. After graduating in 1970 from Tel Aviv University, he earned his MBA at Oregon State University. He has been a technology businessman and is the author of eight international best-selling novels, which have been translated into 21 languages around the world: \"Hour of the Assassins\", \"Scorpion\", \"Dragonfire\" (a main selection of the Book of the Month Club in Britain), \"War of the Raven\" and the other books of the Scorpion and Homeland series: \"Scorpion Betrayal\", \"Scorpion Winter\", \"Scorpion Deception\", and \"\", a bestselling original novel prequel to the hit award-winning \"Homeland\"", "title": "Andrew Kaplan" }, { "id": "9132893", "text": "\"The Corpse Had A Familiar Face\" inspired two TV Movies starring Elizabeth Montgomery \"The Corpse Had a Familiar Face\" (1994) and \"Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan\" (1995). Her novel \"Nobody Lives Forever\" was made into a TV Movie in 1998. Buchanan was embarrassed in 1990 when she was quoted extensively in the book \"Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow\", by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell.Burdick ... led her to believe that he was seeking only background information, never used a tape recorder or took notes, asked her to", "title": "Edna Buchanan" }, { "id": "13655939", "text": "five picture books for children with \"New York Times\" best-selling illustrator, Lynn Munsinger, including: \"Hunter's Best Friend at School\", \"Hunter and Stripe and the Soccer Showdown\", and \"Hunter's Big Sister\". Their most recent illustrated book, \"A String of Hearts\", was released in January, 2011. L. M. Elliott L.M. Elliott is pen name of Laura Malone Elliott. She was born on September 17, 1957, close to Washington, DC. award-winning author of young adult novels, including \"Under a War-Torn Sky\" (2001), \"Flying South\" (2003), \"Give Me Liberty\" (2008), and \"A Troubled Peace\" (2009), the sequel to \"Under a War-Torn Sky\". Elliott was", "title": "L. M. Elliott" }, { "id": "1738415", "text": "P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The new short story is titled \"A Study in Emerald\" (2004) and is modelled with a parallel structure. A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation", "title": "A Study in Scarlet" }, { "id": "10554436", "text": "A Friend to Die For A Friend to Die For (also known as Death of a Cheerleader in the UK and during Lifetime television airings) is a 1994 American psychological thriller television film directed by William A. Graham. Written by Dan Bronson, the film is based on the real-life murder of Kirsten Costas, who was killed by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984. The film was the highest-rated TV movie of 1994. In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, a man witnesses student Stacey Lockwood (Tori Spelling) (whom he drove home after she went to his house to telephone", "title": "A Friend to Die For" }, { "id": "14000728", "text": "Captain's Glory Captain's Glory is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based upon the television series \"\". The novel was released in 2006 in hardcover format. It is the final novel in the \"Totality\" trilogy. The story began with \"Captain's Peril\" and continued with \"Captain's Blood\". With the civil war on Romulus averted, Kirk is finally free to seek out the truth behind the death of his oldest and closest friend. Was Spock killed by the shadowy organisation known as the Totality? A generous offer from Starfleet provides him with the starship he needs in", "title": "Captain's Glory" }, { "id": "12627632", "text": "Pale Gray for Guilt Pale Gray for Guilt (1968) is the ninth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. The plot revolves around McGee's investigation into the death of his close friend Tush Bannon, who he suspects has been murdered because of his refusal to sell his waterfront property to developers. In terms of series continuity, \"Pale Gray for Guilt\" is particularly important in that it involves a love interest, Puss Killian, who is central to the final book: \"The Lonely Silver Rain\". When McGee visits Tush Bannon, his wife Janine and their children at their motel/marina,", "title": "Pale Gray for Guilt" }, { "id": "1396672", "text": "Carnegie runner-up, a distinction then used 29 times in 24 years. Fine is one of seven authors to win two Carnegie Medals (1936–2012) and the only author of three Highly Commended books. Fine was the second Children's Laureate (2001–03) and received the OBE for services to literature in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List. The three \"Sudden\" books were reissued as one, \"Genie, Genie, Genie\" (2004) . \"The Killjoy\" (1986) \"In Cold Domain\" (1994) \"Taking the Devil's Advice\" (1990) \"Telling Liddy\" (1998) \"All Bones and Lies\" (2001) \"Raking the Ashes\" (2005) \"Our Precious Lulu\" (2009) \"Walk on Water, Walk on", "title": "Anne Fine" }, { "id": "6079375", "text": "in 1970, and over the next twenty-one years eleven more entries in the series were written: \"Death Claims\" (1973), \"Troublemaker\" (1975), \"The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of\" (1978), \"Skinflick\" (1979), \"Gravedigger\" (1982), \"Nightwork\" (1984), \"The Little Dog Laughed\" (1986), \"Early Graves\" (1987), \"Obedience\" (1988), \"The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning\" (1990), and \"A Country of Old Men\" (1991). No Exit Books, a British publisher, issued an omnibus volume, \"The Complete Brandstetter\", in 2007 (). Hansen also created a second private investigator, Hack Bohannon, a former deputy sheriff who quits the force after fourteen years because of his disapproval of", "title": "Joseph Hansen (writer)" }, { "id": "13109304", "text": "and 1970 editions of the same yearly collection. \"The immense Journey of the Late Season Traveler\" was anthologized in All Our Secrets Are The Same: New Fiction From Esquire. His volume of fiction, \"An End to Chivalry\", a short novel and five stories, published by Atlantic-Little Brown, received the Rosenthal Award of the Academy of Arts & Letters in 1966. The story of Dwight H. Johnson, a black Vietnam War veteran who had won the Medal of Honor for valor in combat and was shot and killed by police in 1971 while holding up a Detroit convenience store, became the", "title": "Tom Cole (writer)" }, { "id": "545139", "text": "it as the most influential Christian book of the 19th century. Others named it one of the best-selling novels of all time. At the time of \"Ben-Hur\"'s one hundredth anniversary in 1980, it had \"never been out of print\" and had been adapted for the stage and several motion pictures. One historian, Victor Davis Hanson, has argued that \"Ben-Hur\" drew from Wallace's life, particularly his experiences at Shiloh, and the damage it did to his reputation. The book's main character, Judah Ben-Hur, accidentally causes injury to a high-ranking Roman commander, for which he and his family suffer tribulations and calumny.", "title": "Lew Wallace" }, { "id": "3936498", "text": "in crime fiction. He worked as a reviewer of detective fiction for \"The Times Literary Supplement\" and the \"London Evening Standard\" and wrote a theoretical book—\"\"Murder Will Out\": The Detective in Fiction\" (OUP, 1989)—and two crime novels, \"Swan Song\" (1982) and \"Greek Gifts\" (1988). As emeritus, Binyon became a prize-winning author with a biography of Aleksandr Pushkin, \"Pushkin: A Biography\" (2002), it was the Samuel Johnson Prize winner of 2003. Binyon was married twice, first to Felicity Butterwick (1974–1992) and, after a divorce, to Helen Ellis (from 2000 up to his death). He died, aged 68, of sudden heart failure", "title": "T. J. Binyon" }, { "id": "20204431", "text": "A Very English Scandal A Very English Scandal is a true crime non-fiction novel by John Preston. It was first published on 5 May 2016 by Viking Press and by Other Press in the United States. The novel details the 1970s Thorpe affair in Britain, in which former Liberal Party leader, Jeremy Thorpe, was tried and acquitted of conspiring to murder his alleged former lover, Norman Scott. In 1979, former Member of Parliament, Jeremy Thorpe, stood trial over accusations that he hired a hitman to kill his alleged ex-lover, Norman Scott. \"A Very English Scandal\" chronicles Thorpe's early, secretive love", "title": "A Very English Scandal" }, { "id": "9730344", "text": "films, including \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\", \"Jaws\", \"Scrooged\", \"\", \"Coming to America\", \"Indiana Jones\", \"\", \"The Package\", \"The Karate Kid III\", \"The Little Mermaid\", \"Field of Dreams\", \"Glory\", \"The War of the Roses\", \"Always\", \"Hard to Kill\", \"Nightbreed\", \"Pretty Woman\", \"Hoffa\", \"The Edge\", \"Soldier\", \"Dick Tracy\", \"Home Alone\", \"Edward Scissorhands\", \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", \"Misery\", \"Hook\", \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"Final Analysis\", \"The Rocketeer\", \"Sleepwalkers\", \"\", \"\", \"Jurassic Park\", \"Wyatt Earp\", \"Outbreak\", \"First Knight\", \"Small Soldiers\", \"Far and Away\", \"Dinosaur\", \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\", \"Batman Returns\", \"Batman Forever\", \"Peter Pan\", \"\", \"National Treasure\", \"Treasure Planet\", \"The Simpsons Movie\", \"Spaceballs\", \"\",", "title": "Malcolm McNab" }, { "id": "10993379", "text": "planet he hadn't visited before. In the years after 9/11 he published at least one book annually, all of them bestsellers. According to Scholl-Latour, he was the best selling non-fiction author in Germany for the last 25 years. He was critical of immigration into Europe, saying “He who half-absorbs Calcutta does not save Calcutta, but becomes Calcutta himself”. Among his most successful books are the best-sellers \"Der Tod im Reisfeld\" [Death in the Rice-fields] (1980), \"Allah ist mit den Standhaften\" [Allah is with the Steadfast] (1983), \"Mord am grossen Fluss\" [Murder at the Great River] (1986), \"Mit Frankreich leben\" [Living", "title": "Peter Scholl-Latour" }, { "id": "10924134", "text": "are: \"Operation Rhine Maiden\" (1975); \"Operation Crucible\" (1977); \"Operation Valkyrie\" (1978); \"Operation Cobra\" (1993); \"Operation Titan\" (1994); \"Operation Crisis\" (1995); \"Operation Thor\" (1995); \"Operation Defiant\" (1996); and \"Operation Safeguard\" (2007). Other books include: \"Of Masks and Minds\" (1954), \"Laws be Their Enemy\" (1955), \"Lydia Trendennis\" (1957), \"The Sin and the Sinners\" (1958), \"The Grotto of Tiberius\" (1961), \"The Devil Behind Me\" (1962), \"The Dark Cliffs\" (1962), \"The Storm Knight\" (1966), \"A Killing for the Hawks\" (1966), \"The Wider Sea of Love\" (1969), \"Waterloo\" (a 1970 novelisation, based on the 1970 film), \"The Persuaders!\" (3 volumes of novelisations in 1972, based", "title": "Frederick E. Smith" }, { "id": "9876040", "text": "novel\". The novel has been compared to William Faulkner's \"Absalom, Absalom!\" in both form and content. In 1970, the novel was adapted into a film, which was also marketed under the name \"Never Give An Inch\". The film was directed by Paul Newman, who starred alongside Henry Fonda. It was nominated for two Oscars. A stage adaptation, written and directed by Aaron Posner, premiered in Portland, Oregon, at Portland Center Stage on April 4, 2008. Sometimes a Great Notion Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. While \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" (1962) is", "title": "Sometimes a Great Notion" }, { "id": "8251143", "text": "Rowling was asked by the Royal Society of Literature to nominate her top ten books every child should read. Included in her list were \"Wuthering Heights\" by Emily Brontë, \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" by Roald Dahl, \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, \"David Copperfield\" by Charles Dickens, \"Hamlet\" by William Shakespeare, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Animal Farm\" by George Orwell, \"The Tale of Two Bad Mice\" by Beatrix Potter, \"The Catcher in the Rye\" by J. D. Salinger and \"Catch-22\" by Joseph Heller. There are a number of fictional works to which \"Harry Potter\" has been repeatedly", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "id": "5624416", "text": "Ardingly. Mrs Lancaster mentioned \"ten past eleven\", though, while Ardingly's recollection placed the mentioned time at \"12.10\". This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from its description in the book. The novel is also cited to have been the \"inspiration\" of what was dubbed \"The Mensa Murder\". In 1988, George Trepal, a Mensa Club member, poisoned his neighbours, Pye and Peggy Carr and their children, with thallium introduced in a Coca-Cola Classic bottles eight-pack. Peggy Carr succumbed while the others survived", "title": "The Pale Horse" }, { "id": "409913", "text": "of \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\" led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's \"best-loved novel.\" In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100. Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice following the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall. Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew", "title": "The Hound of the Baskervilles" } ]

[ "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" ]

[ { "id": "1480316", "text": "she released an autobiography, \"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It\", which became a best seller and was reprinted with a new chapter in 1970. West guest-starred on television, including \"The Dean Martin Show\" in 1959 and \"The Red Skelton Show\" in 1960, to promote her autobiography, and a lengthy interview on \"Person to Person\" with Charles Collingwood, which was censored by CBS in 1959, and never aired. CBS executives felt members of the television audience were not ready to see a nude marble statue of West, which rested on her piano. In 1964, she made a guest appearance on", "title": "Mae West" }, { "id": "1480290", "text": "not a \"burn your bra\" type feminist. Since the 1920s, she was also an early supporter of gay rights. In her 1959 autobiography, \"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It\", West strongly objected to hypocrisy while also disparaging homosexuality: “In many ways homosexuality is a danger to the entire social system of Western civilization. Certainly a nation should be made aware of its presence — without moral mottoes — and its effects on children recruited to it in their innocence. I had no objection to it as a cult of jaded inverts... involved only with themselves. It was its secret,", "title": "Mae West" }, { "id": "17177279", "text": "West herself was an avid supporter of gay rights during her entire life, though in her 1959 autobiography, \"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It\", West disparaged homosexuality, writing, “In many ways homosexuality is a danger to the entire social system of Western civilization. Certainly a nation should be made aware of its presence — without moral mottoes — and its effects on children recruited to it in their innocence. I had no objection to it as a cult of jaded inverts... involved only with themselves. It was its secret, anti-social aspects I wanted to bring into the sun. As", "title": "The Drag (play)" }, { "id": "16253901", "text": "The Box (Grass book) The Box () is a 2008 fictionalised autobiography by the German writer Günter Grass. It has the subtitle \"Tales from the Darkroom\" (\"Dunkelkammergeschichten\"). In the narrative, the 80-year-old Grass' eight children, at their father's request, record conversations where they say what they think of him. \"The Box\" follows the writer's previous memoir book, \"Peeling the Onion\" from 2006, which ended in 1959 with the literary success of \"The Tin Drum\". It was followed by \"Grimm's Words\" in 2010. Miranda Seymour of \"The Daily Telegraph\" wrote that \"\"The Box\" is not a wholly successful work. Capricious Mariechen", "title": "The Box (Grass book)" }, { "id": "9137509", "text": "mother's death that she has been left no inheritance. Diana takes demeaning jobs, including a striptease. She becomes violent and is hospitalized. Her only hope at salvation is an offer to write her memoirs, and old friend Linc returns to her life, offering some badly needed kindness. The film was based on the best selling 1957 autobiography, by Barrymore and Gerold Frank. Frank had previously worked on \"I'll Cry Tomorrow\", a popular book about another alcoholic celebrity, Lillian Roth. \"There's no message, I didn't set out to point a moral\", said Barrymore. \"But writing it has been a cleansing process.", "title": "Too Much, Too Soon" }, { "id": "10360159", "text": "may not have seen \"Liliom\", it is possible that they were familiar with the successful 1956 film version of \"Carousel\", which contains essentially the same line. However, King has stated that their friend who inspired the song had used that exact phrase. Carole King, in that same radio interview, said that she was sorry she had ever had anything to do with the song. She was a survivor of repeated domestic abuse (but not from Goffin, who had been her husband from 1959 to 1969). He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) \"He Hit Me (And It Felt", "title": "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" }, { "id": "3013226", "text": "in Victoria. By the 1950s the shopping precinct began to develop and by the 1960s was a well established shopping village. Hollywood glamour came to Mt Eliza in 1959 when movie stars Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner arrived to shoot the Stanley Kramer film, On The Beach, based on the novel of the same name by British novelist Nevil Shute who had lived at nearby Langwarrin. Adjacent to Sunnyside beach sits a historical property Morning Star Estate. Morning Star Estate is a distinctive example of a Victorian era mansion built as a rural or holiday retreat on the", "title": "Mount Eliza, Victoria" }, { "id": "9554831", "text": "granted to Mullally as, apart from being a resident of the island himself, he had been the only one of a pack of journalists to show appropriate respect for the feelings of the couple on their special occasion. Mullally's first novel was the 1958 world best-seller \"Danse Macabre\". This was followed by eleven more titles. His semi-autobiographical novel \"Clancy\" was dramatised by BBC TV in five one-hour episodes in 1975 and 1977 under the title \"Looking for Clancy\", starring Robert Powell and Keith Drinkel. Between books, Mullally compiled and wrote with the collaboration with the BBC an album, \"The Sounds", "title": "Frederic Mullally" }, { "id": "6770926", "text": "Alias Jesse James Alias Jesse James is a 1959 American Western comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod (his last) and starring Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming. Based on a story by Robert St. Aubrey and Bert Lawrence, the film is about an outlaw who tries to kill an insurance agent who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. Costumes by Edith Head. Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance", "title": "Alias Jesse James" }, { "id": "13138564", "text": "The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant is the 1968 autobiography of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, adapted into a 1975 film of the same name starring John Hurt. The book began as a 1964 radio interview with Crisp conducted by his friend and fellow eccentric Philip O'Connor. A managing director at Jonathan Cape heard the interview and commissioned the publication. Having sold only 3,500 copies when first released, the book became a success when it was republished following the television movie broadcast. The book contains many anecdotes about Crisp's life from childhood to middle age, including troubles", "title": "The Naked Civil Servant (book)" }, { "id": "12100235", "text": "Water<br> The Rocket Post<br> Rockets Galore<br> Rob Roy<br> Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue S Safe Haven<br> Salt on Our Skin<br> Shallow Grave<br> Shepherd on the Rock<br> The Silver Fleet<br> Sixteen Years of Alcohol<br> Skagerrak<br> Skyfall<br> Small Faces<br> Soft Top Hard Shoulder<br> Solid Air<br> The Spy in Black<br> The Spy Who Loved Me<br> Staggered<br> Strictly Sinatra<br> Supergirl<br> Sweet Sixteen T That Sinking Feeling<br> The 39 Steps (1935)<br> The Thirty Nine Steps (1959)<br> The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)<br> This Is Not a Love Song<br> To Catch a Spy<br> To End All Wars<br> Trainspotting<br> Trouble in the Glen<br> Tunes of Glory U Under", "title": "Cinema of Scotland" }, { "id": "7554124", "text": "for the kidnapping and the full three-year sentence for the escape. Under these terms, which he accepted, Touhy would have been eligible for release in April 1961. Touhy's autobiography, \"The Stolen Years\", was published in the fall of 1959. John Factor sued Touhy for libel for the statements published in the book. On November 13, 1959, Touhy was granted parole for his escape. He left Stateville on November 24, 1959 – 25 years and nine months to the day after his incarceration. Two days later, a federal judge refused to throw out his 1933 conviction despite convincing evidence of prosecutorial", "title": "Roger Touhy" }, { "id": "7025140", "text": "Behan (who worked there circa 1948-49 according to his memoirs \"Confessions of an Irish Rebel\"), and even, occasionally, the Duke of Windsor. In the 1960 Ian Fleming short story \"From a View to a Kill\", James Bond recalls visiting Harry's Bar during his first visit to Paris at age 16. He followed the instructions in Harry's advertisement in the Continental Daily Mail, and told his taxi driver 'Sank Roo Doe Noo'. He recalls \"That had started one of the memorable evenings of his life, culminating in the loss, almost simultaneous, of his virginity and his notecase\". In the first chapter", "title": "Harry's New York Bar" }, { "id": "4394243", "text": "The Young Philadelphians The Young Philadelphians is a 1959 drama film starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith, and directed by Vincent Sherman. The film is based on the 1956 novel, \"The Philadelphian\", by Richard P. Powell. Newlywed Kate Judson Lawrence (Diane Brewster) is distraught to discover on her wedding night that her upper-class Philadelphia Main Line husband, William Lawrence III (Adam West), is unable to consummate their marriage for an unspecified reason that is suggested is he is a homosexual. After he leaves her that night she seeks comfort from longtime working-class friend and former beau", "title": "The Young Philadelphians" }, { "id": "495997", "text": "who played a police inspector in the psychological thriller \"Bunny Lake Is Missing\" (1965), shot in England, recalled in his autobiography \"Confessions of an Actor\" that he found Preminger a \"bully\". Adam West, who portrayed the lead in the 1960s \"Batman\" television series, echoed Olivier's opinion. He remembered Preminger, who played Mr. Freeze, as being rude and unpleasant, especially when he disregarded the typical thespian etiquette of subtly cooperating when being helped to his feet, in a scene by West and Burt Ward. Beginning in 1965, Preminger made a string of films in which he attempted to make stories that", "title": "Otto Preminger" }, { "id": "2888824", "text": "adaptation of what L. Frank Baum envisioned. In 1995, Gregory Maguire published the novel \"Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West\", which was adapted into the wildly successful Broadway musical \"Wicked\". The story describes the life of the Wicked Witch of the West and other events prior to Dorothy's arrival. For the film's 56th anniversary, a 1995 stage show also titled \"The Wizard of Oz\" was based upon it and the book by L. Frank Baum. It toured from 1995 to 2012, except for 2004. In 2005, The Muppets Studio produced \"The Muppets' Wizard of", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)" }, { "id": "1385830", "text": "as I suppose a man would feel if he were exposed stark-naked under a strong spotlight before a large audience.\" Leopold's autobiography, \"Life Plus 99 Years\", was published in 1958. In beginning his account with the immediate aftermath of the crime, he engendered widespread criticism for his deliberate refusal (expressly stated in the book) to recount his childhood, or to describe any details of the murder itself. He was also accused of writing the book solely as a means of rehabilitating his public image by ignoring the dark side of his past. In 1959, Leopold sought unsuccessfully to block production", "title": "Leopold and Loeb" }, { "id": "6715622", "text": "reading Hawthorn's 1958 autobiography, \"Challenge Me the Race\", was embittered when he found that Hawthorn now disclaimed all responsibility for the crash without identifying who had caused it. With Levegh dead, Macklin presumed that Hawthorn's implication was that he (Macklin) had been responsible, and he began a libel action. The action was still unresolved when Hawthorn was killed in a non-racing crash on the Guildford bypass in 1959, ironically when overtaking a Mercedes-Benz in his Jaguar. The official government inquiry into the accident called officials, drivers, and team personnel to be questioned and give evidence. The wreckage was examined and", "title": "1955 Le Mans disaster" }, { "id": "586037", "text": "wife moved to Falmouth, The White Cottage in Fenwick Road, and in the post-war period he published \"There is No Armour\" (1948), \"The Houses in Between\" (1951), \"A Sunset Touch\" (1953), \"These Lovers Fled Away\" (1955), \"Time and the Hour\" (1957), \"All The Day Long \" (1959), \"I Met a Lady\" (1961), and his last book was \"Winds of the Day\" (1964). Spring also produced three volumes of autobiography: \"Heaven Lies About Us, A Fragment of Infancy\" (1939); \"In the Meantime\" (1942); and \"And Another Thing\" (1946), later published in one volume as \"The Autobiography of Howard Spring\" (Collins, 1972).", "title": "Howard Spring" }, { "id": "1698874", "text": "Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel \"The Nun's Story\". The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Her 1956 book \"The Nun's Story\" was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, \"The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure\" published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group", "title": "Kathryn Hulme" }, { "id": "15779472", "text": "and hearing the news of the actor's early death. The book is known for its depictions of major figures from the Classic Hollywood period including Jack L. Warner, John Barrymore, Bruce Cabot, Flynn's first wife Lili Damita and director Michael Curtiz. Flynn also writes of falling in love with co-star Olivia de Havilland. \"This is a major autobiography in the tradition of Cellini, Casanova, and Frank Harris.\" – \"The Guardian\" \"Flynn set the record straight and is brutally honest in his posthumously published self-portrait. This restored version of the 1959 original contains numerous passages deleted from earlier editions for fear", "title": "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" }, { "id": "13236443", "text": "Floods of Fear Floods of Fear is a 1959 British thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood and Harry H. Corbett. During a flood, two convicts (Keel and Cusack) escape, but they become marooned in a house, along with one of their prison guards (Corbett) and a young woman (Heywood) who lives there. Howard Keel recalled the filming in his autobiography \"Only Make Believe: My Life in Show Business\": \"All the flood scenes were filmed on one of the large stages at Pinewood Studios. The water had to be both dirty and cold, and it", "title": "Floods of Fear" }, { "id": "7839607", "text": "This second pressing claims that \"On Doing an Evil Deed Blues\", \"In Christ There Is No East or West\", \"The Transcendental Waterfall\", and \"Uncloudy Day\" are 1964 rerecordings and the rest (\"St. Louis Blues\", \"Poor Boy Long Ways from Home\", \"John Henry\", \"Desperate Man Blues\", \"Sun Gonna Shine in My Back Door Someday Blues\", and \"Sligo River Blues\") are the original 1959 versions. \"Uncloudy Day\" was actually the same recording, as was \"St. Louis Blues\" in an edited version. The 1959 album contained a version of Blind Blake's \"West Coast Blues\", which (despite being rerecorded in 1964) was not included", "title": "Blind Joe Death" }, { "id": "1512987", "text": "Championships in the 1970s, and 1980s. The gates were erected at the Kop; their design includes representations of the three European Cups Paisley won during his tenure, the crest of his birthplace in Hetton-le-Hole, and the crest of Liverpool F.C. The Shankly Gates, in tribute of Bill Shankly, Paisley's predecessor between 1959 and 1974, are at the Anfield Road end. Their design includes a Scottish flag, a Scottish thistle, the Liverpool badge, and the words \"You'll Never Walk Alone\". Anfield stadium is a UEFA category 4 stadium. Plans to replace Anfield were originally initiated by Liverpool F.C. in May 2002.", "title": "Anfield" }, { "id": "10674967", "text": "ensuing accident. \"Fate Is the Hunter\" was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 memoir of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result, as it bore no relation to the book which was about Gann's own early flying career, that he asked to have his name removed from the credits. In his autobiography, \"A Hostage to Fortune\", Gann wrote, \"They obliged and, as a result, I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably\". (Some prints of the film were released with Gann's name still in", "title": "Fate Is the Hunter (film)" }, { "id": "9701819", "text": "his autobiography, \"Theo,\" \"What was unusual about this production (\"My Side of the Mountain\") was that they asked me not only to sing and play, but to write the songs as well. With the exception of one French-Canadian tune, 'Un Canadien Errant,' for which I wrote the English lyrics, for all the others I wrote the words and music.\" My Side of the Mountain (film) My Side of the Mountain is a 1969 film adaptation of the 1959 novel of the same name, by Jean Craighead George. It was directed by James B. Clark. The story revolves around twelve-year-old Sam", "title": "My Side of the Mountain (film)" }, { "id": "2508751", "text": "the subject of the show, \"cheerfully admit[ting] that she had been a hopeless drunk for 16 years before being rescued by Alcoholics Anonymous.\" Edwards described Roth's condition as \"impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity\" and brought on a psychiatrist who had treated her, a brother-in-law \"who had paid her bills\" and several \"glamorous foul-weather friends\" such as Lita Grey Chaplin and Ruby Keeler. Roth's story became the basis of her 1954 autobiography and 1955 film adaption, \"I'll Cry Tomorrow\", with Edwards appearing as himself. Kate Newcomb, a doctor who practiced in a \"70-mile circle\" around", "title": "This Is Your Life" }, { "id": "8607391", "text": "Story\" is, though, it is equaled and, arguably, surpassed - in a rather different idiom - by another filmed Broadway hit: Mervyn LeRoy’s \"Gypsy\". Arthur Laurents' book (for) \"West Side Story\" (adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman), though largely craftsmanlike, falls short of his libretto for \"Gypsy\" (scripted on celluloid by Leonard Spigelgass), based on the memoirs of the transatlantic stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The dialogue and situations in \"Gypsy\" have more wit, bite and emotional range, and the characterizations are more complex. \"Variety\" noted, \"There is a wonderfully funny sequence involving three nails-hard strippers which comes when \"Gypsy\"", "title": "Gypsy (1962 film)" }, { "id": "5040924", "text": "Homesteader's Story\", \"Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy\", \"The Trail-Driving Rooster\", and \"Recollection Creek\". His novel \"Old Yeller\" won the Newbery honor, and was adapted into a 1957 Walt Disney Studios film. \"Old Yeller\" has two sequels – \"Savage Sam\" (1962), which also became a Walt Disney film in 1963, and \"Little Arliss\", published posthumously in 1978. \"Old Yeller\" was the novel that Gipson considered his best work. Set in the Texas Hill Country in the 1860s just after the American Civil War, the story is about the 14-year-old boy Travis Coates (played by Tommy Kirk in the film)", "title": "Fred Gipson" }, { "id": "11957753", "text": "friend of both authors, said similar words at or after both riots. \"Young Cassidy\" brings this parallel history (the riots of \"The Plough and the Stars\" and \"The Playboy of the Western World\") to vivid life, tied together by the character of Yeats. Based on Seán O'Casey's autobiography \"Mirror in my House\" (the umbrella title under which the six autobiographies he published from 1939 to 1956 were republished, in two large volumes, in 1956), the movie began production in 1964, changing his name in the film to John Cassidy. O'Casey had read earlier drafts of the movie, and gave his", "title": "Young Cassidy" }, { "id": "12739028", "text": "The Meaning of Witchcraft The Meaning of Witchcraft is a non-fiction book written by Gerald Gardner. Gardner, known to many in the modern sense as the \"Father of Wicca\", based the book around his experiences with the religion of Wicca and the New Forest Coven. It was first published in 1959, only after the British Parliament repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1735, and proved to be Gardner's final book. The Wicca religion as expounded by Gardner was focused on a goddess, identified with the night sky and with wild nature, and a horned god who represented the fertilizing powers of", "title": "The Meaning of Witchcraft" }, { "id": "2624152", "text": "said that when she learned that James Joyce's \"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\" was autobiographical, it made her realise where she might turn, should she want to write herself. \"Unhappy houses are a very good incubation for stories,\" she said. In London she started work as a reader for Hutchinson, where on the basis of her reports she was commissioned, for £50, to write a novel. She published her first book, \"The Country Girls\", in 1960. This was the first part of a trilogy of novels (later collected as \"The Country Girls Trilogy\"), which included \"The", "title": "Edna O'Brien" }, { "id": "5810309", "text": "her novels, including \"Lummox\" (1923), \"Back Street\" (1931), and \"Imitation of Life\" (1933), lost popularity over time and were mostly out-of-print as of the 2000s, they were bestsellers when first published and were translated into many languages. She also published over 300 short stories during her lifetime. Hurst is known for the film adaptations of her works, including \"Imitation of Life\" (1934), starring Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, and Warren William; \"Imitation of Life\" (1959), starring Lana Turner; \"Humoresque\" (1946), starring Joan Crawford; and \"Young at Heart\" (1954), starring Frank Sinatra. Hurst was born on October 19, 1885, in", "title": "Fannie Hurst" }, { "id": "3569479", "text": "Little Me (novel) Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, or simply Little Me, was the parody \"confessional\" self-indulgent autobiography of \"Belle Poitrine\" (French for \"Pretty Bosom\"). It was written by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with \"Auntie Mame\". A bestseller when introduced in book form, the work was also later staged on Broadway as a musical. The heavily illustrated work featured numerous photographs by Cris Alexander, who combined retouched stock photographs with original photographs taken to create Belle Poitrine's life. Published in 1961, it was considered pretty risqué at", "title": "Little Me (novel)" }, { "id": "2937163", "text": "of Grand Fenwick is a monarchy led by the Duchess Gloriana XII. In the novel \"The Mouse that Roared\", she is a young woman of twenty-two, and marries Tully Bascomb. In \"The Mouse on the Moon\" and \"The Mouse on Wall Street\", she is in her mid-thirties. In \"The Mouse that Saved the West\", she is forty-two, and Tully has been dead for some time. In the 1959 film version, she is a parody of Queen Victoria who is still wearing mourning for her husband, Prince Louis of Bosnia-Herzegovina, who has been \"missing\" from a tiger hunt for 27 years.", "title": "Grand Fenwick" }, { "id": "14841174", "text": "sequels to \"Warlock\", though they do not portray the same principal characters or setting. The three novels together form the \"Legends West\" trilogy. In 1959, \"Warlock\" was adapted into a film of the same name starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn. When violence threatens the frontier boomtown of Warlock, a Citizens' Committee determines to take action against criminal cowboys and cattle rustlers. A gunslinger named Clay Blaisedell, who has achieved considerable renown in Texas, is hired as town marshal to keep the peace. He is followed to Warlock by his close friend Tom Morgan, a gambler and saloon", "title": "Warlock (Hall novel)" }, { "id": "12778882", "text": "on earth. And the angels grew lonely Took you because they were lonely I'm lonely too, Sonny Boy. Singer Eddie Fisher was always called \"Sonny Boy\" by his family because of the popularity of this song, which was recorded the same year as Fisher's birth. In his autobiography, Fisher wrote that even after he was married to Elizabeth Taylor in 1959, earning $40,000 a week performing in Las Vegas, spending time with Frank Sinatra and Rocky Marciano, and had songs at the top of the charts, his family still called him \"Sonny Boy\". In 1929, the song was performed by", "title": "Sonny Boy (song)" }, { "id": "12739032", "text": "which England has ever given the world. The Meaning of Witchcraft The Meaning of Witchcraft is a non-fiction book written by Gerald Gardner. Gardner, known to many in the modern sense as the \"Father of Wicca\", based the book around his experiences with the religion of Wicca and the New Forest Coven. It was first published in 1959, only after the British Parliament repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1735, and proved to be Gardner's final book. The Wicca religion as expounded by Gardner was focused on a goddess, identified with the night sky and with wild nature, and a horned", "title": "The Meaning of Witchcraft" }, { "id": "1001456", "text": "\"This Is Your Life\", then formally dissolved their partnership in 1957. In his posthumously-published 1959 autobiography, \"My Wicked, Wicked Ways\", Errol Flynn claims that he triggered the breakup. Flynn, an inveterate practical joker, invited them, along with their wives and children, to his house for dinner, and afterwards, he commenced to show a home movie that \"accidentally\" turned out to be hard-core pornography. While Flynn pretended to be baffled, Costello and Abbott each blamed the other for the film's substitution. In his last years, Costello made about ten solo appearances on \"The Steve Allen Show\" doing many of the old", "title": "Abbott and Costello" }, { "id": "11701792", "text": "\"Batman\" among many others. Gries won Emmy Awards for his direction on \"East Side/West Side\" in 1964 and \"The Glass House\" in 1972. In the cinema, Gries both wrote and directed the adventure film \"Serpent Island\" (1954) starring Sonny Tufts, and the Korean War film \"Hell's Horizon\" (1955) starring John Ireland. Between television directing gigs, Gries helmed \"The Girl in the Woods\", a 1958 drama starring Forrest Tucker and Barton MacLane. Gries both wrote the screenplay and directed the 1959 Jack Buetel western \"Mustang!\" before concentrating his efforts exclusively on television for almost a decade. In a triumphant return to", "title": "Tom Gries" }, { "id": "6480715", "text": "\"Wildweed\". The cover of \"Wildweed\" featured an atmospheric black and white photo depicting Pierce in the rural American wilderness (actually, it was a piece of wasteland in southern England !) with an ethereal look on his face and a shotgun over his shoulder, fitting well with the mood and lyrical content of the album. \"Wildweed\" opens with \"Love and Desperation\", a lyrical masterwork about the darker elements of love and obsession. \"Wildweed\" also contains three spoken-word pieces, originally released as a bonus e.p., a foreshadowing of the literary talent Pierce was to display in his autobiography, \"Go Tell the Mountain\",", "title": "Jeffrey Lee Pierce" }, { "id": "2389764", "text": "A horror thriller \"A Safe Darkness\", the cop thriller \"Bump City\" and the UFO thriller \"The Devil's Triangle\". It was also reported that Friedkin is to direct an HBO movie about the life of the provocative entertainer, Mae West starring Bette Midler entitled \"Mae West in Sex\" as West based on her memoirs written by Harvey Fierstein. Also, Friedkin is talks to directing Don Winslow's crime novel, \"The Winter of Frankie Machine\". The moving image collection of William Friedkin is held at the Academy Film Archive. The material at the Academy Film Archive is complemented by material in the William", "title": "William Friedkin" }, { "id": "988732", "text": "The Big Bopper Jiles Perry \"J. P.\" Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), known as The Big Bopper, was an American musician, singer and songwriter whose rockabilly look, style, voice, and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star. He is best known for his 1958 recording of \"Chantilly Lace\". On February 3, 1959, Richardson died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, along with music stars Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson. The accident was famously referred to as \"The Day the Music Died\" in Don McLean's 1971 song \"American", "title": "The Big Bopper" }, { "id": "10239886", "text": "Barrie. In 1958, she achieved great success with her first novel \"Parrish\". The book tells the story of a man who goes to work on a Connecticut tobacco farm. It was well-received and became a bestseller. It was subsequently made into a movie in 1961 starring Troy Donahue. In 1958, Ms. Savage appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show \"To Tell The Truth.\" Mildred Savage Mildred Spitz Savage (June 26, 1919 – October 7, 2011) was an American author known for her best-selling novel \"Parrish\". The second of three children, she was born in New London, Connecticut,", "title": "Mildred Savage" }, { "id": "2659803", "text": "near 48th Street. Murray's finances continued to collapse, and for most of her later life she lived in poverty. She was the subject of an authorized biography, \"The Self-Enchanted\" (1959), written by Jane Ardmore, that has often been incorrectly called Murray's autobiography. On the evening of February 19, 1964, 78-year-old Murray was found disoriented in St. Louis, thinking that she had completed a bus trip to New York. Murray explained to a Salvation Army officer that she had become lost trying to find her hotel, which she had forgotten the name of. She also refused bus fare back to Los", "title": "Mae Murray" }, { "id": "4241763", "text": "his native Ireland make a token invasion of the US to get aid. He then developed this into a novel changing Ireland to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Anthony Boucher praised the novel as \"utterly delightful...a very nearly perfect book, on no account to be missed.\" \"The Mouse That Roared\" was made into a 1959 film starring Peter Sellers in three roles: Duchess Gloriana XII; Count Rupert Mountjoy, the Prime Minister; and Tully Bascomb, the military leader – and Jean Seberg, as Helen Kokintz, as an added love interest. Other cast members included: William Hartnell as Sergeant-at-Arms Will Buckley; David", "title": "The Mouse That Roared" }, { "id": "12464716", "text": "season was the astonishing win over West Ham United in the FA Cup third round replay at Upton Park with a score of 5 goals to 1. This win showcased the amazing talents of Denis Law, who within 2 months broke the transfer record for a British player after transferring to Manchester City for £55,000. 1959–60 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season Huddersfield Town's 1959–60 campaign was Town's best season following their relegation from Division 1 4 years earlier. The main points of the season were the resignation of Bill Shankly, who would then lead Liverpool to greatness in his years in", "title": "1959–60 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season" }, { "id": "9142021", "text": "17th Golden Globe Awards The 17th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1959 films, were held on March 10, 1960. \"' Anthony Franciosa - \"Career\" \"' Jack Lemmon - \"Some Like It Hot\" \"' Elizabeth Taylor - \"Suddenly, Last Summer\" \"' Marilyn Monroe - \"Some Like It Hot\" \"' William Wyler - \"Ben-Hur\" \"' \"Ben-Hur\" \"' \"Some Like It Hot\" \"' \"Porgy and Bess\" Ernest Gold - \"On the Beach\" \"' Stephen Boyd - \"Ben-Hur\" \"' Susan Kohner - \"Imitation of Life\" \"' \"The Diary of Anne Frank\" Barry Coe Troy Donahue George Hamilton James Shigeta\" Angie", "title": "17th Golden Globe Awards" }, { "id": "8846224", "text": "Stood Still\" (1951), \"From Here to Eternity\" (1953), Walt Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's \"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\" (1954) as John Howard, and \"The Horse Soldiers\" (1959). Portraying a newspaper editor in \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\" (1962), his memorable line was: \"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.\" He also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's \"North by Northwest\" (1959). His radio career included a brief star turn as the title role in a short-lived crime drama, \"The Whisperer\" (1951), somewhat loosely derived from the longtime crime hit \"The Whistler\". Young played attorney", "title": "Carleton Young" }, { "id": "700304", "text": "Darin's \"Queen of the Hop\" made the Top 10 on both the US pop and R&B charts and also charted in the UK, \"Dream Lover\", a multi-million seller, reached #2 in the US and became a UK #1, and \"Mack the Knife\" (August 1959) went to #1 in both the US and the UK, sold over 2 million copies and won the 1960 Grammy Award for 'Record of the Year'. \"Beyond the Sea\", an English-language version of the Charles Trenet hit \"La Mer\", became his fourth consecutive US/UK Top 10 hit. Darin later signed with Capitol Records and left for", "title": "Atlantic Records" }, { "id": "7047829", "text": "with a 3–2 victory over his former side Swansea Town. Ford still holds the club record for the fastest goal scored for the club, which he set on 23 October 1954 against Charlton Athletic, after just fifteen seconds. After leaving Cardiff in 1956, he released his autobiography \"I Lead the Attack\" in which he revealed that he was involved in an illegal-payments scandal while at Sunderland, with the club attempting to circumvent the maximum wage at the time by offering payments and other incentives to players. Ford detailed several ways that Sunderland's board of directors had attempted to add extra", "title": "Trevor Ford" }, { "id": "1602431", "text": "who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "7599549", "text": "National Velvet (film) National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, and a young Elizabeth Taylor. In 2003, \"National Velvet\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" \"National Velvet\" is the story of a 12-year-old, horse-crazy girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England. She wins a spirited gelding in", "title": "National Velvet (film)" }, { "id": "9098943", "text": "befriends and has adventures with numerous influential eighteenth-century figures, including Lawrence Washington, George Hadley, Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, Henry Fielding and, especially, Benjamin Franklin during Franklin's years in England. Towards the end of his life, Fezziwig returns to his childhood home, accompanied by his apprentice Ebenezer Scrooge. The novel was originally published by favoritetrainers.com books as \"The Autobiography of Fezziwig\", but re-released in 2015. Mr. Fezziwig Mr. Fezziwig is a character from the novel \"A Christmas Carol\" created by Charles Dickens to provide contrast with Ebenezer Scrooge's attitudes towards business ethics. Scrooge, who apprenticed under Fezziwig, is the very antithesis", "title": "Mr. Fezziwig" }, { "id": "1393415", "text": "and 1951, a period in which McCulley published 52 short stories with the character for the \"West Magazine\". \"Zorro Rides the Trail!\", which appeared in \"Max Brand's Western Magazine\" in 1954, is the last story to be published during the author's lifetime, and the second-to-last story overall. The last, \"The Mask of Zorro\" (not to be confused with the 1998 film), was published posthumously in \"Short Stories for Men\" in 1959. These stories ignore Zorro's public revelation of his identity. \"The Curse of Capistrano\" eventually sold more than 50 million copies, becoming one of the most sold books of all", "title": "Zorro" }, { "id": "19967076", "text": "the Hawaiian kingdom and the friendship of the British government. The site of the ceremony was later made into a park in honor of the event and named Thomas Square. Following the restoration of sovereignty at Thomas Square, King Kamehameha III held an afternoon thanksgiving service at Kawaiahaʻo Church where he uttered the phrase: \"Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono\" (\"The life of the land is preserved in the righteousness of the people\"). This phrase was adopted in 1959 as the motto of the state of Hawaii. The king declared a ten-day holiday and the entire", "title": "Sovereignty Restoration Day" }, { "id": "1315101", "text": "for the series, including \"The Cat in the Hat Comes Back\" (1958), \"Green Eggs and Ham\" (1960), \"Hop on Pop\" (1963), and \"Fox in Socks\" (1965). He initially used word lists of limited vocabularies to create these books, as he had with \"The Cat in the Hat\", but moved away from the lists as he came to believe \"that a child could learn any amount of words if fed them slowly and if the books were amply illustrated\". Other authors also contributed notable books to the series, including \"A Fly Went By\" (1958), \"Sam and the Firefly\" (1958), \"Go, Dog.", "title": "The Cat in the Hat" }, { "id": "9963007", "text": "various artists. \"Wang Dang Doodle\" was composed by Willie Dixon during the second part of his songwriting career, from 1959 to 1964. During this period, he wrote many of his best-known songs, including \"Back Door Man\", \"Spoonful\", \"The Red Rooster\" (better-known as \"Little Red Rooster\"), \"I Ain't Superstitious\", \"You Shook Me\", \"You Need Love\" (adapted by Led Zeppelin for \"Whole Lotta Love\"), and \"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover\". In his autobiography, Dixon explained that the phrase \"wang dang doodle\" \"meant a good time, especially if the guy came in from the South. A wang dang meant having", "title": "Wang Dang Doodle" }, { "id": "10495943", "text": "Pioneer, Go Home! Pioneer, Go Home! is a satirical novel by Richard P. Powell, first published in 1959. The novel follows a New Jersey family, The Kwimpers, who move to Columbiana, a fictional state that resembles Florida, and squat on the side of a highway where a new bridge is being built, outraging local officials. The book was adapted into a play by Herman Raucher and also an Elvis Presley film, \"Follow that Dream\" (1962). In 2009 a 50th anniversary edition of \"Pioneer, Go Home!\" was released and includes a previously unpublished preface by the author. The Kwimper family of", "title": "Pioneer, Go Home!" }, { "id": "1674400", "text": "In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including \"Casino Royale\" (1953), \"Live and Let Die\" (1954), \"Dr. No\" (1958), \"Goldfinger\" (1959), \"Thunderball\" (1961), \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel \"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold\" (1963), is often regarded", "title": "Genre fiction" }, { "id": "1428694", "text": "upon two randomly selected words—cat and hat. Up until the mid-1950s, there was a degree of separation between illustrated educational books and illustrated picture books. That changed with \"The Cat in the Hat\" in 1957. Because of the success of \"The Cat In The Hat\" an independent publishing company was formed, called Beginner Books. The second book in the series was nearly as popular, \"The Cat in the Hat Comes Back\", published in 1958. Other books in the series were \"Sam and the Firefly\" (1958), \"Green Eggs and Ham\" (1960), \"Are You My Mother?\" (1960), \"Go, Dog. Go!\" (1961), \"Hop", "title": "Picture book" }, { "id": "5349290", "text": "has written two autobiographies \"That's The Way The Ball Bounces\" in 1969 and \"True Grit\" in 2006. Frank McLintock Francis \"Frank\" McLintock MBE (born 28 December 1939) is a former Scotland international footballer and football manager. He also worked as a sports agent and football pundit in his later life. He began his career in Scottish Junior football with Shawfield, before earning a professional contract with English First Division club Leicester City in December 1956. He played in two FA Cup final defeats before he was sold to Arsenal for £80,000 in October 1964. He had a poor start to", "title": "Frank McLintock" }, { "id": "13129729", "text": "Micí Mac Gabhann Micí Mac Gabhann (November 22, 1865 Cloughaneely, County Donegal, Ireland - November 29, 1948) was a seanchaí and memoirist from the County Donegal Gaeltacht. He is best known for his posthumously published emigration memoir \"Rotha Mór an tSaoil\" (1959). It was dictated to his folklorist son-in law Seán Ó hEochaidh and polished for publication by Proinsias Ó Conluainn. The account won wide praise and was translated into English by Valentin Iremonger as \"The Hard Road to Klondike\" (1962). Micí Mac Gabhann was born \"in a little thatched cottage\" near the Atlantic Ocean in Derryconnor Townland on 22", "title": "Micí Mac Gabhann" }, { "id": "3096726", "text": "was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing \"The Cat in the Hat\" using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you. \"Green Eggs and Ham\" was published on August 12, 1960.", "title": "Green Eggs and Ham" }, { "id": "8612852", "text": "Salkey taught English at Walworth Secondary School (also known as Mina Road school), an early comprehensive just off the Old Kent Road in South-east London. His first novel, \"A Quality of Violence\" – set around 1900 in a remote area of Jamaica, and narrated in a Jamaican patois – was published in 1959, and his second, \"Escape to An Autumn Pavement\", in 1960. That same year Salkey edited one of the first anthologies of Caribbean short stories, \"West Indian Stories\", and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of folklore and popular culture. His novels that followed were \"The", "title": "Andrew Salkey" }, { "id": "14645177", "text": "II, and he collaborated with Bartley Crum on a book about the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, \"Behind the Silken Curtain: a Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East\" (Simon & Schuster, 1947). He wrote a biography of Judy Garland entitled \"Judy\" (1975), considered by many to be the definitive book on Garland, and co-wrote Zsa Zsa Gabor's autobiography \"Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story\" (1960). \"I'll Cry Tomorrow\" (1954), co-written with Lillian Roth and columnist Mike Connolly, was an international bestseller, more than seven million copies in more than twenty languages. It was adapted as", "title": "Gerold Frank" }, { "id": "1698876", "text": "account of Habets' life as a nun. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography \"We Lived as Children\", Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel \"The Nun's Story\". The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Her 1956 book \"The Nun's Story\" was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, \"The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure\" published by Little, Brown & Co. was", "title": "Kathryn Hulme" }, { "id": "13236445", "text": "Dallas star Howard Keel, Steptoe and Son's Harry H Corbett, Cyril Cusack and, in particular, damsel in distress Anne Heywood this is typical, and unremarkable, British 1950s B-movie fare.\" Floods of Fear Floods of Fear is a 1959 British thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood and Harry H. Corbett. During a flood, two convicts (Keel and Cusack) escape, but they become marooned in a house, along with one of their prison guards (Corbett) and a young woman (Heywood) who lives there. Howard Keel recalled the filming in his autobiography \"Only Make Believe: My Life", "title": "Floods of Fear" }, { "id": "10266139", "text": "The Miracle Worker (1962 film) The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film about Anne Sullivan, blind tutor to Helen Keller, directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series \"Playhouse 90\". Gibson's original source material was \"The Story of My Life\", the 1902 autobiography of Helen Keller. The film went on to be an instant critical success and a moderate commercial success. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director for Arthur Penn, and", "title": "The Miracle Worker (1962 film)" }, { "id": "7646179", "text": "were also to be found in some form elsewhere: The Invisible Writing The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40 (1954) is a book by Arthur Koestler. It follows on from \"Arrow in the Blue\", published a mere two years earlier, and which described his life from his birth in 1905, to 1931, and deals with a much shorter period, a mere eight years (as opposed to the twenty six of the previous volume). This was nonetheless, a highly significant period in Koestler's life, as it involved his membership and subsequent alienation from the Communist movement. As well", "title": "The Invisible Writing" }, { "id": "4128583", "text": "of the 1950s include:\"Guys and Dolls\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Kismet\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Fanny\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Silk Stockings\", \"Damn Yankees\", \"Bells Are Ringing\", \"Candide\", \"The Most Happy Fella\", \"The Music Man\", and \"West Side Story\" among others. During the 1950s, some important and award-winning dramas included: \"The Rose Tattoo\" by Tennessee Williams, \"The Crucible\" by Arthur Miller, \"Picnic\" by William Inge, \"The Teahouse of the August Moon\" adapted from the novel by Vern Sneider by John Patrick, \"The Desperate Hours\" by Joseph Hayes, \"The Diary of Anne Frank\" adapted from the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, \"Bus Stop\" by", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "1746938", "text": "but was unsuccessful. American television producer Bob Mann wanted Michener to co-create a weekly anthology series from \"Tales of the South Pacific\" and serve as narrator. Rodgers and Hammerstein, however, had bought all dramatic rights to the novel and did not relinquish their ownership. Michener did lend his name to a different television series, \"Adventures in Paradise\", in 1959, starring Gardner McKay as Captain Adam Troy in the sailing ship \"Tiki III\". Michener was a popular writer during his lifetime; his novels sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. His novel \"Hawaii\" (1959), well-timed on its publication when Hawaii became", "title": "James A. Michener" }, { "id": "210980", "text": "Night\". Lemmon was Spacey's mentor, and reportedly taught Spacey that people who do well in a business have an obligation to \"send the elevator back down\" to help lift people starting out on the ground floor. In his autobiography, \"My Life\", Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anyone, even if they deserved it. This kindness backfired for Reynolds: prior to accepting the lead in \"W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings\" (1975), directed by John G. Avildsen, Reynolds asked Lemmon, whom Avildsen had directed in \"Save the Tiger\" (1973) for an opinion of Avildsen as", "title": "Jack Lemmon" }, { "id": "15455064", "text": "Danelski, as well as some of Douglas's past associates, said that while Douglas may have exaggerated at times, Murphy's biography had not proven the worst such incidences. Go East, Young Man Go East, Young Man: The Early Years is a memoir written by United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. It describes his childhood and early adult life, ending with his appointment to the Court in 1939 at age 40. The title, a play on the famous American expression \"Go West, young man\", alludes to Douglas's upbringing in the Western United States – being uprooted often, eventually landing in", "title": "Go East, Young Man" }, { "id": "14135610", "text": "The Mouse That Roared (film) The Mouse That Roared is a 1959 British satirical Eastman Color comedy film based on Leonard Wibberley's novel \"The Mouse That Roared\" (1955). It stars Peter Sellers in three roles: Duchess Gloriana XII; Count Rupert Mountjoy, the Prime Minister; and Tully Bascomb, the military leader; and co-stars Jean Seberg. The film was directed by Jack Arnold, and the screenplay was written by Roger MacDougall and Stanley Mann. The minuscule European Duchy of Grand Fenwick is bankrupted when an American company comes up with a cheaper imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled Pinot Grand Fenwick", "title": "The Mouse That Roared (film)" }, { "id": "11867349", "text": "film \"The Psychopath\", the original working title for which was \"Schizo\". A different thread within fictional portrayals of psychopathy continued to focus on rebelliously antisocial characters. The title of the 1955 film \"Rebel Without a Cause\", starring James Dean, came from a 1944 book of the same name detailing the hypno-analysis of a diagnosed psychopath. In the book, psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner also discussed psychopaths in general as pointlessly selfish individuals who appear unable to accept society's rules. In Ken Kesey's 1962 novel \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\", Randle McMurphy, after being admitted to a mental institution, is repeatedly", "title": "Fictional portrayals of psychopaths" }, { "id": "17787916", "text": "Gypsy Colt Gypsy Colt is a 1954 Ansco Color film about an eponymous horse. The films basic plot was taken from \"Lassie Come Home\". A 60-minute version of \"Gypsy Colt\" was made available in 1967 as part of the weekly TV anthology \"Off to See the Wizard\". A young girl, Meg (Donna Corcoran), is disheartened when her parents Frank (Ward Bond) and Em MacWade (Frances Dee) are forced to sell her favorite horse, Gypsy Colt, to a rancher. Gypsy Colt escapes several times, ultimately taking a 500-mile journey to return to his rightful owner. According to MGM records the movie", "title": "Gypsy Colt" }, { "id": "4071074", "text": "NFL in rushing yards and be named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. An injury to his left knee in the 1970 preseason as well as subsequent injuries kept him sidelined for most of his final two seasons. His friendship with Bears teammate Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970, inspired Sayers to write his autobiography, \"I Am Third\", which in turn was the basis for the 1971 made-for-TV movie \"Brian's Song\". Sayers was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977 at age 34, and remains the youngest person to receive the honor. He was", "title": "Gale Sayers" }, { "id": "12760628", "text": "Advertisements for Myself Advertisements for Myself is an omnibus collection of fiction, essays, verse, and fragments by Norman Mailer, with autobiographical commentaries that he calls \"advertisements.\" \"Advertisements\" was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959 after Mailer secured his reputation with \"The Naked and the Dead\", then endured setbacks with the less-enthusiastic reception of \"Barbary Shore\" (1951) and \"The Deer Park\" (1955). \"Advertisements\", though chaotic, unapologetically defiant, and often funny, marks the beginning of Mailer's mature style. \"Advertisements\" helped to usher in the sixties with its new interest in counterculture, politics, sexual liberation—a radical departure from an America that was", "title": "Advertisements for Myself" }, { "id": "6128109", "text": "is inspired by Enochian, a language associated with occult and Satanic ceremonies. The Springwood Minimum Security Prison is a parody of Allenwood Minimum Security Prison. When Lisa drives, she is listening to \"St. Elmo's Fire\" by John Parr, a choice David Mirkin found \"very sad\". \"Archie Comics\" characters Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, Moose Mason and Jughead Jones are shown throwing Homer on the Simpsons' lawn and warning him to \"stay out of Riverdale!\" Some of the deceased voters are Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, who all died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The epitaph", "title": "Sideshow Bob Roberts" }, { "id": "17414851", "text": "The Miracle Worker (1979 film) The Miracle Worker is a 1979 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series \"Playhouse 90\". Gibson's original source material was \"The Story of My Life\", the 1902 autobiography of Helen Keller. The play was adapted for the screen before, in 1962. The film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan's struggles to teach her. It starred Patty Duke (who played Helen Keller in the original 1962 film, for which she won", "title": "The Miracle Worker (1979 film)" }, { "id": "10921262", "text": "out why, how, and when. The problem is that the list of candidates is about the size of a phone book, and Frankie is rapidly running out of time. \"Frankie Machine\" is the name of the card-dealing, heroin-addicted protagonist in Nelson Algren's 1949 novel \"The Man With the Golden Arm\", a role played by Frank Sinatra in the 1955 film directed by Otto Preminger. Frank Machin is also the name of the main character played by Richard Harris in Lindsay Anderson's feature film debut \"This Sporting Life\". In November 2005, prior to the publishing of \"The Winter of Frankie Machine\",", "title": "The Winter of Frankie Machine" }, { "id": "18170228", "text": "in Farmington, Connecticut. Howie had a terrific sense of humor and a story told by Gertrude French illustrates this. in 1959, as a salesman for the Fuller Brush Company, Howie was out driving one day down a long, steep hill, and at the last moment as car turned out in front of him and a fender bender ensued. Howie got out, and checked on the elderly driver of the second car, and the driver exclaimed \"I thought I could make it!\". Howie would tell this story over and over again and just laugh out loud at what the old man", "title": "Howie Stange" }, { "id": "12464714", "text": "1959–60 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season Huddersfield Town's 1959–60 campaign was Town's best season following their relegation from Division 1 4 years earlier. The main points of the season were the resignation of Bill Shankly, who would then lead Liverpool to greatness in his years in charge. Their FA Cup win over West Ham United in the third round replay at Upton Park, which would inadvertently lead to the departure of Denis Law to Manchester City for a record-breaking fee of £55,000. Bill Shankly made good progress with Town at the start of the season, leading them to 5 wins in", "title": "1959–60 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season" }, { "id": "4241756", "text": "New York Was Invaded\". It was published as a book in February 1955 by Little, Brown. The British edition used the author's original intended title, \"The Wrath of Grapes\", a play on John Steinbeck's \"The Grapes of Wrath\". Wibberley wrote one prequel (1958's \"Beware of the Mouse\") and three sequels: \"The Mouse on the Moon\" (1962), \"The Mouse on Wall Street\" (1969), and \"The Mouse that Saved the West\" (1981). Each placed the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick in a series of absurd situations in which it faced superpowers and won. The tiny (three miles by five miles) European Duchy", "title": "The Mouse That Roared" }, { "id": "4462590", "text": "not according to form, but because of their money-making potential off the pitch. To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the \"Galáctico\" policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography \"El Macca\" (a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), in 2004 as the \"Disneyfication of Real Madrid\" upon his departure from the club; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming", "title": "Steve McManaman" }, { "id": "13667593", "text": "others. The Miracle Worker (2000 film) The Miracle Worker is a 2000 biographical television film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series \"Playhouse 90\". Gibson's original source material was \"The Story of My Life\", the 1902 autobiography of Helen Keller. The play was adapted for the screen twice before, in 1962 and 1979. The film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan's struggles to teach her. This movie is the story about Anne Sullivan, and her efforts in working with", "title": "The Miracle Worker (2000 film)" }, { "id": "8445802", "text": "Cuba-exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. \"Waiting for Snow in Havana\" is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth-with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas- becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1, 1959. Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made", "title": "Waiting for Snow in Havana" }, { "id": "4023961", "text": "I Am Spock I Am Spock is the second volume of actor and director Leonard Nimoy's autobiography. The book was published in 1995, four years after the release of the last \"Star Trek\" motion picture starring the entire original cast, and covers the majority of Nimoy's time with \"Star Trek\" in general and Mr. Spock in particular. The book's title was a reference to the first volume of his autobiography, \"I Am Not Spock\", which had been published in 1975. At that time Nimoy had sought to distance his own personality from that of the character of Spock, although he", "title": "I Am Spock" }, { "id": "15226365", "text": "practicing sadistic torture. 12. \"Orphans in Gethsemane\" (1961), located in the present, is a barely disguised autobiography. The work is divided into two parts - \"For Passion, For Heaven\" and \"The Great Confession\". The first novel deals with the Western pioneer influences and especially the sexual evolution (and psychological implications) for 'Vridar' (Vardis). His life was difficult, challenged by divorce and suicide. The second book describes an intellectual journey, in particular the research, reading and discussions undertaken before writing the \"Testament\". Testament of Man The Testament of Man (1943-1960), a twelve-volume series of novels by the American author Vardis Fisher,", "title": "Testament of Man" }, { "id": "772219", "text": "his Richard III. Christopher Plummer played the title role. A film version was released in 2012, with Plummer again taking the main role. Barrymore had been a friend and drinking companion of Fields. In the 1976 film \"W.C. Fields and Me\", Barrymore was played by Jack Cassidy. Barrymore's friend, Errol Flynn, played him in a 1958 film \"Too Much, Too Soon\", an adaptation of the autobiography of Diana Barrymore, with Dorothy Malone playing the female lead. Howard Thompson, the film critic of \"The New York Times\", wrote that \"Flynn, as the late John Barrymore, a moody, wild-drinking ruin of a", "title": "John Barrymore" }, { "id": "335811", "text": "of \"The Twilight Zone\" in 1959 (\"Judgment Night\"). Disappointed in his limited career development, in the late 1950s Macnee was daily smoking 80 cigarettes and drinking a bottle of whisky. Not long before his career-making role in \"The Avengers\", Macnee took a break from acting and served as one of the London-based producers for the classic documentary series \"The Valiant Years\", based on the Second World War memoirs of Winston Churchill. While working in London on the Churchill series, Macnee was offered the part in \"The Avengers\" (1961−69), (originally intended to be known as Jonathan Steed), for which he became", "title": "Patrick Macnee" }, { "id": "7334217", "text": "me in gaol, the book both sold well and received a wonderful press. Flannelled Fool Flannelled Fool: A Slice of a Life in the Thirties is an autobiography by T. C. Worsley, published in 1967. It takes its title from a phrase in \"The Islanders\", a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Though \"Flannelled Fool\" is subtitled \"A Slice of a Life in the Thirties\", much of it treats the author's childhood and education at Marlborough College before he began a schoolmastering career at Wellington College in 1929. The frank accounts of many of its personages, only thinly disguised by false names,", "title": "Flannelled Fool" }, { "id": "14586169", "text": "rise above that weakness.\" And again: \"Napoleon's guiding purpose in the Empire was to export liberty, equality, justice and sovereignty of the people,\" is qualified a little later by \"It is true there were blots on the imperial picture. Too often Napoleon acted brusquely, while Jerome overspent…\" In Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, \"My Life\", he writes, \"I still remember sitting in front of the fire on a cold winter day as Hillary and I read Vincent Cronin's biography of Napoleon together.\" Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography Napoleon (1971) also published as Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography in 1972 is a", "title": "Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography" }, { "id": "13628320", "text": "posing the issue [of what Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he not been assassinated] in terms of deception and intrigue, 'JFK and Vietnam' doesn't give you a clue.\" Based on the examination of 250,000 pages of government documents, Newman's 1995 book \"Oswald and the CIA\" presents the narrative that the \"CIA had a keen operational interest in Lee Harvey Oswald from the day he defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 until the day he was murdered in the basement of the Dallas Police Department.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" summarized it as: \"Exhaustive, tedious, and diffuse, this study eschews sensationalism", "title": "John M. Newman" }, { "id": "13405491", "text": "filmed as \"Beachhead\" in 1954. It was republished as \"Walk Into Hell\" in 1963. Hubler became a Hollywood Scriptwriter with a screenplay based on Jim Corbett's \"Man-Eaters of Kumaon\". This led him to be signed as a scriptwriter for Belsam Productions to write a trio of films for Tom Conway. In addition to Reagan's autobiography, he also wrote \"SAC: The Strategic Air Command\" (1958), \"St. Louis Woman\" with Helen Traubel (1959), \"Big Eight: A Biography of an Airplane\" (1960) \"Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight\" (1961) and \"The Cole Porter Story as told to Richard G. Hubler\" (1965). In", "title": "Richard G. Hubler" }, { "id": "2208430", "text": "wants to be like Lady Diana Manners. Enid Bagnold published \"The Loved and Envied\" () in 1951. The novel, based on Lady Diana and her group of friends, dealt with the effects of ageing on a beautiful woman. Oliver Anderson dedicated \"Random Rendezvous\", published in 1955, to \"Diana Cooper and Jenny Day\". Diana Cooper Autobiography: \"The Rainbow Comes and Goes\" (1958), \"The Light of Common Day\" (1959), \"Trumpets From The Steep\", (1960)\" (); Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc. New York 1985, second printing 1988. In 2013, her son, John Julius Norwich, edited a volume of her letters to", "title": "Lady Diana Cooper" }, { "id": "651685", "text": "with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The show ran over seven years and won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Hart picked up the Tony for Best Director. Hart also wrote some screenplays, including \"Gentleman's Agreement\" (1947) – for which he received an Oscar nomination – \"Hans Christian Andersen\" (1952) and \"A Star Is Born\" (1954). He wrote a memoir, \"Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart\", which was released in 1959. It was adapted to \"film\" in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart. The last show Hart directed was the Lerner and", "title": "Moss Hart" }, { "id": "5050814", "text": "combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (\"Living Doll\" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single", "title": "The Shadows" }, { "id": "2368179", "text": "the age of 84, O'Casey died of a heart attack, in Torquay, Devon. He was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium. In 1965, his autobiography \"Mirror in my House\" (the umbrella title under which the six autobiographies he published from 1939 to 1956 were republished, in two large volumes, in 1956) was turned into a film based on his life called \"Young Cassidy\". The film was directed by Jack Cardiff (and John Ford) featuring Rod Taylor (as O'Casey), Flora Robson, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave. O'Casey was married to Irish actress Eileen Carey Reynolds (1903–1995) from", "title": "Seán O'Casey" } ]

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[ { "id": "3722323", "text": "\"Replay\" hides his identity by using the name Alan Cochran. Behind Doubleday's cover blurb, \"A Terrifying Novel of Murder in a Swinging Social Club,\" the storyline follows two Los Angeles detectives investigating a trio of murders. Doubleday described the book with this summary: The 1988 World Fantasy Award went to Grimwood for his novel \"Replay\" (Arbor House, 1987), the compelling account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body. He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the previous 25 years. This happens repeatedly with different events in", "title": "Ken Grimwood" }, { "id": "2178887", "text": "Doubleday (publisher) Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday, who had formed a partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure. One of their first bestsellers was", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1881825", "text": "a distinctive jacket designed by noted American artist Paul Bacon. The US first edition's launch was considerably aided by two glowing reviews in the \"New York Times\" by senior daily book reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt three days before its release, and by the American mystery writer Stanley Bernard Ellin the week after. In mid-October it reached No. 1 on the \"Times\" \"Best Seller List\" for fiction and by mid-December 136,000 copies of Viking's US edition were already in print. Over two-and-a-half million copies were sold worldwide by 1975. As in the UK, over forty years later \"The Day of the Jackal\"", "title": "The Day of the Jackal" }, { "id": "2178893", "text": "in the UK and the Netherlands. Nelson Doubleday, Jr. sold the publishing company to Bertelsmann in 1986 for a reported $475 million. The deal did not include the Mets which Nelson Doubleday and minority owner Fred Wilpon had purchased from Doubleday & Company for $85 million. In 2002, Doubleday sold his stake in the Mets to Wilpon for $135 million after a feud of the monetary value of the team. In 1988, portions of the firm became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998. In late 2008 and", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "2178889", "text": "many of its executives on Fourth Street. In 1916, company co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page was named Ambassador to Great Britain. In 1922, Doubleday founded their juvenile department, the second in the nation, with May Massee as head. In 1927, Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran, then the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world. In 1946, the company became \"Doubleday and Company\". Nelson Doubleday resigned as president, but continued as chairman of the board until his death on January 11, 1949. Douglas Black took over as president from 1946 to 1963.", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "9143142", "text": "and others. In 1987, IPG was acquired by Chicago Review Press (CRP) an independent publisher founded at about the same time as IPG. IPG acquired Paul & Company, an 11-year-old distributor of university presses, in 2001. IPG now sells directly to universities. In 2006, IPG acquired Trafalgar Square Publishing, founded in 1973, which is the distributor of more than 100 publishers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Germany, representing more than 20,000 titles. Its roster includes HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, and Penguin Random House from the UK and Allen and Unwin and Penguin Random House from Australia; these publisher's", "title": "Independent Publishers Group" }, { "id": "198307", "text": "and success of \"The Wasp Factory\", Banks began to write full-time. His editor at Macmillan, James Hale, advised him to write one book a year and Banks agreed to this schedule. His second novel \"Walking on Glass\" was published in 1985. \"The Bridge\" followed in 1986, and \"Espedair Street\", published in 1987, was later broadcast as a series on BBC Radio 4. His first published science fiction book \"Consider Phlebas\" was released in 1987 and was the first of several novels of the acclaimed Culture series. Banks cited Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, M. John", "title": "Iain Banks" }, { "id": "8604727", "text": "Schuster, first run issues of the book were distributed by both publishing companies at the same time. Printed in Great Britain, it enjoyed immediate success. Reported in an article by Tom Wolfe, an initial printing in England sold 50,000 copies the first day, and Simon & Schuster had a first printing of 90,000 in the USA. There have been numerous reprints and subsequent editions, in hard cover and paperback, as recent as the year 2010. The first edition preface was written by Paul McCartney. Lennon was adept at free association and improvisation in his linguistic explorations, which can be seen", "title": "In His Own Write" }, { "id": "10844856", "text": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast \"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast\" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of \"Harper's Magazine\" criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism. After being serialized in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, Wolfe's first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was published in 1987. Prior to the novel, Wolfe had made his career as a journalist and author of non-fiction books. Wolfe had been a pioneer of \"New Journalism,\" a style of non-fiction that relied heavily on novelistic techniques such as the use of scene, dialogue, first-person point of view from the", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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The novel then appeared in Danish and Dutch translations. Two editions of a Swedish translation were withdrawn at the author's request. Despite initial trepidation, there was no official response in the U.S., and the first American edition was issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons in August 1958. The book was into a third printing within days and became the first since \"Gone with the Wind\" to sell 100,000 copies in its first three weeks.", "title": "Lolita" }, { "id": "895802", "text": "May 30, 2003. In 2011, \"The Lion King\" was converted to 3D for a two-week limited theatrical re-issue and subsequent 3D Blu-ray release. The film opened at the number one spot on Friday, September 16, 2011, with $8.9 million and finished the weekend with $30.2 million, ranking number one at the box office. This made \"The Lion King\" the first re-issue release to earn the number-one slot at the American weekend box office since the re-issue of \"Return of the Jedi\" in March 1997. The film also achieved the fourth-highest September opening weekend of all time. It held off very", "title": "The Lion King" }, { "id": "3238498", "text": "cinematically, and by MCA Home Video for home media. \"Cry Freedom\" premiered in cinemas nationwide in the United States on 6 November 1987 grossing $5,899,797 in domestic ticket receipts. The film was at its widest release showing in 479 cinemas nationwide. It was generally met with positive critical reviews before its initial screening in cinemas. South African authorities unexpectedly allowed the film to be screened in cinemas without cuts or restrictions, despite the publication of Biko's writings being banned at the time of its release. Following a news story depicting the demolition of a slum in East London, South Africa,", "title": "Cry Freedom" }, { "id": "2656056", "text": "Simon R. Green Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is a British science fiction and fantasy author. Green was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester. He began his writing career in 1973, sold his first story \"Manslayer\" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, \"Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds\" in 1979. Green began his rise to success in 1988 when he sold seven novels and in 1989 when he received a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the Kevin Costner film \"\",", "title": "Simon R. Green" }, { "id": "5725246", "text": "three novels were each on the hardcover best-seller list.<ref name=\"NYT_2000/06/24\"></ref> On 12 April 2007, Barnes & Noble declared that \"Deathly Hallows\" had broken its pre-order record, with more than 500,000 copies pre-ordered through its site. For the release of \"Goblet of Fire\", 9,000 FedEx trucks were used with no other purpose than to deliver the book. Together, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble pre-sold more than 700,000 copies of the book. In the United States, the book's initial printing run was 3.8 million copies. This record statistic was broken by \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\", with 8.5 million,", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "id": "10844864", "text": "to Dream\". Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast \"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast\" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of \"Harper's Magazine\" criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism. After being serialized in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, Wolfe's first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was published in 1987. Prior to the novel, Wolfe had made his career as a journalist and author of non-fiction books. Wolfe had been a pioneer of \"New Journalism,\" a style of non-fiction that relied heavily on novelistic techniques such as the use of scene, dialogue, first-person point of view", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "5725247", "text": "which was then shattered by \"Half-Blood Prince\" with 10.8 million copies. 6.9 million copies of \"Prince\" were sold in the U.S. within the first 24 hours of its release; in the United Kingdom more than two million copies were sold on the first day. The initial U.S. print run for \"Deathly Hallows\" was 12 million copies, and more than a million were pre-ordered through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The \"Harry Potter\" series has been recognised by a host of awards since the initial publication of \"Philosopher's Stone\" including four Whitaker Platinum Book Awards (all of which were awarded in", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "id": "5299883", "text": "Today Show\", the first print run of 15,000 sold out and 100,000 more copies were printed. In Britain, the book received a boost from its choice as a \"Richard & Judy\" book club recommendation—nearly 45,000 copies were sold in one week. It was named the 2003 Amazon.com Book of the Year. A December 2003 article in \"The Observer\" reported that although \"a tiny minority of American reviewers\" felt that the novel was \"gimmicky\", it was still \"a publishing sensation\". At that point, the novel had been sold to publishers in 15 countries. As of March 2009, it had sold almost", "title": "The Time Traveler's Wife" }, { "id": "8843124", "text": "Watson and Crick's \"The Double Helix\". Finally he joined St. Martin's Press and, eleven years after entering publishing, he was appointed the CEO. His maverick strategy – which included publishing more fiction than any other house in America – helped St. Martin's expand its annual billings from two-and-a-half-million dollars to over a quarter-billion. In the 1980s he had St. Martin's launch its own mass-market paperback line, the first hardcover house to do that since Simon and Schuster founded Pocket Books in 1939. Meantime he was editing bestsellers ranging from \"All Creatures Great and Small\" to \"The Silence of the Lambs\".", "title": "Thomas McCormack (writer)" }, { "id": "5521588", "text": "with a remixed version of \"Living on My Own\", the original version of which made number 50 in 1985, making it the first remix of a previously charted single to reach number 1. The biggest selling single of the year came from Meat Loaf, who hit #1 for seven weeks from October with \"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)\". It came from the album \"\", also the biggest selling of the year. Finally, as usual, December saw the Christmas number one single. Meat Loaf's successor at number 1 was Mr. Blobby, a popular character on the", "title": "1993 in British music" }, { "id": "9596259", "text": "folded into New Line's parent company Warner Bros. Entertainment Film Distributors have released many BAFTA- and Oscar-winning films including \"The Departed\", \"Million Dollar Baby\", \"Gosford Park\", \"Brokeback Mountain\" and \"The Artist\". List of films distributed include: 1974: 1975: 1976: 1978: 1979: 1981: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1985: 1986: 1987: 1988: 1989: 1990: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1996: 1997: 1998: 1999: 2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: 2004: 2005: 2006: 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: 2018: Entertainment Film Distributors Entertainment Film Distributors is a British distributor of independent films in the UK and Ireland for various production", "title": "Entertainment Film Distributors" }, { "id": "761405", "text": "company remove the telephone from his house. As a result, when King received word that the book was chosen for publication, his phone was out of service. Doubleday editor William Thompson – who would eventually become King's close friend – sent a telegram to King's house in late March or early April 1973 which read: \"Carrie Officially A Doubleday Book. $2,500 Advance Against Royalties. Congrats, Kid - The Future Lies Ahead, Bill.\" According to King, he bought a new Ford Pinto with the money from the advance. Then, on Mother's Day, May 13, 1973, just a month or so later,", "title": "Carrie (novel)" }, { "id": "15195904", "text": "Inanimatus\", an edition criticised by literary critic Kathleen Tillotson as lacking in textual care and consistency. H. W. Lawton's review published six years earlier mentions a second copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, V.20973 (now RES P- V- 752 (6)), an omission also noted by Tillotson. For the text of his 2009 edition, William Poole collated a copy in the Bodleian Library Oxford (Ashm. 940(1)) with that in the British Library. The printer of the first edition of \"The Man in the Moone\" is identified on the title page as John Norton, and the book was sold by Joshua", "title": "The Man in the Moone" }, { "id": "7052462", "text": "and \"The Green Mile\", the latter two of which were nominated for multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first to bring the Dollar Deal to the public eye was author Stephen J. Spignesi in his exhaustive volume \"The Stephen King Encyclopedia\", wherein he writes about two student short adaptations: \"The Last Rung on the Ladder\" (1987) by James Cole and Dan Thron and \"The Lawnmower Man\" (1987) by Jim Gonis. As Dollar Babies were not intended to be seen by the public beyond film festivals and school presentations, and not commercially sold or openly traded prior to", "title": "Dollar Baby" }, { "id": "14508244", "text": "competitive team again until the mid-1980s, marking the first time that both New York teams were competitive at the same time, both on the field and at the box office. In January 1980, the Payson heirs sold the Mets franchise to the Doubleday publishing company for $21.1 million, a record amount at that time. Nelson Doubleday, Jr. was named chairman of the board while minority shareholder Fred Wilpon took the role of club president. In February, Wilpon hired longtime Baltimore Orioles executive Frank Cashen as general manager who began the process of rebuilding the Mets much in the same way", "title": "History of the New York Mets" }, { "id": "9198624", "text": "save \"Frankenstein the Man\" and allow the natural true being to re-emerge. The US Administration sentences the creature, whom it regards as a danger to the state, and disposes of it in a branch of Guantánamo. Bernd Dost last novel is called \"Der Zug ohne Wiederkehr\" (The train of no return). The novel clearly continues the humanistic and humanitarian ideas of \"the enraged\" and \"Mensch Frankenstein\". It was published in 2008. 1972: 1973: 1974: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1981: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1985: 1986: 1987: 1988: 1989: 1990: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1996: 1997: 1998: 1999: 2000:", "title": "Bernd Dost" }, { "id": "4530179", "text": "mature, substantial record\". Back for the Attack Back for the Attack is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Dokken, released on November 2, 1987 through Elektra Records. A remastered edition featuring a bonus track was reissued in 2009 through Warner Music Japan. It is the band's best-selling album, reaching No. 13 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200 and remaining on that chart for 33 weeks. Three singles also charted on \"Billboard\"'s Mainstream Rock chart: \"Dream Warriors\" reached No. 22, \"Prisoner\" at No. 37, and \"Burning Like a Flame\" at No. 20 as well as No. 72 on the", "title": "Back for the Attack" }, { "id": "2178891", "text": "was the largest publisher in the US, with annual sales of over 30 million books. Doubleday's son-in-law John Sargent was president and CEO from 1963 to 1978. In 1967 the company purchased the Dallas-based Trigg-Vaughn group of radio and TV stations to create Doubleday Broadcasting. After expanding during the 1970s and 1980s, Doubleday sold the broadcasting division in 1986. Nelson Doubleday, Jr. succeeded John Sargent as President and CEO from 1978 to 1985. In 1980, the company bought the New York Mets baseball team. The Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series in 1986 in a", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "1800374", "text": "with an initial shipment of 300,000 copies in the US. It was the first new release to be made available on the compact disc, vinyl record, and cassette tape formats on the same date. Record stores in Britain and Ireland opened at midnight to accommodate the large number of fans who had queued outside to buy the album. \"The Joshua Tree\" debuted on the UK Albums Chart on 21 March 1987 at number one with 235,000 copies sold in its opening week, making it the fastest-selling album in UK history to that point. It received a platinum certification in the", "title": "The Joshua Tree" }, { "id": "2626140", "text": "meet his high standards. These letters grew increasingly frequent and more severe as he aged. One striking example is the six-year-long war of words he waged against the Eastman Kodak Company over a roll of lost film. Alfred A. Knopf Sr. Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (September 12, 1892August 11, 1984) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding,", "title": "Alfred A. Knopf Sr." }, { "id": "1480182", "text": "The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The \"Journal\", along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The \"Journal\" has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. \"The Wall Street Journal\" is one of the largest newspapers in the United States by circulation. According to News Corp, in its June", "title": "The Wall Street Journal" }, { "id": "4530176", "text": "Back for the Attack Back for the Attack is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Dokken, released on November 2, 1987 through Elektra Records. A remastered edition featuring a bonus track was reissued in 2009 through Warner Music Japan. It is the band's best-selling album, reaching No. 13 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200 and remaining on that chart for 33 weeks. Three singles also charted on \"Billboard\"'s Mainstream Rock chart: \"Dream Warriors\" reached No. 22, \"Prisoner\" at No. 37, and \"Burning Like a Flame\" at No. 20 as well as No. 72 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100.", "title": "Back for the Attack" }, { "id": "3768057", "text": "deemed controversial at the time of the film' release, as noted by Derek Malcom, writing for \"The Guardian\": \"Gothic\" premiered at the 30th London Film Festival on 30 November 1986. According to Dan Ireland, who later worked with Russell, the film was a financial success on video. It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on 10 April 1987, grossing $32,061 on its opening weekend; it went on to gross a total of $916,172. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50% based on , with a weighted average rating of 5.8/10. For the film's", "title": "Gothic (film)" }, { "id": "15246314", "text": "the service and suspensions of the service for certain periods. Failing to comply with the above rules is a crime punishable by a fine of up to $100,000. Similar provisions exist in the NPPA to enable the circulation of foreign newspapers in Singapore to be restricted. In February 1987, the \"Asian Wall Street Journal\" was declared to have engaged in domestic politics and its circulation was limited to 400 copies. The newspaper's publisher, Dow Jones Publishing Co. (Asia) Inc., applied unsuccessfully to the High Court for \"certiorari\" to quash the Minister's orders. On appeal to the Court of Appeal, Dow", "title": "Article 14 of the Constitution of Singapore" }, { "id": "11937681", "text": "the Mott's apple juice fortune, which was spurred by easy access to the now-defunct Long Island Motor Parkway, as well as the establishment of the Doubleday publishing group’s corporate headquarters. Doubleday's headquarters, known as Country Life Press, remained in Garden City until Bertelsmann took over the firm in the mid-1980s. The plant closed in 1988 and has been converted to offices for Bookspan, a media firm partly owned by Doubleday. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh departed on his famous solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in East Garden City. Housing construction slowed after the 1929 stock market crash. But in the", "title": "Garden City, New York" }, { "id": "5587425", "text": "with 1.3 million. The initial print run for \"Half-Blood Prince\" was a record-breaking 10.8 million. Within the first 24 hours of release, the book sold 9 million copies worldwide, 2 million in the UK and about 6.9 million in the US, which prompted Scholastic to rush an additional 2.7 million copies into print. Within the first nine weeks of publication, 11 million copies of the US edition were reported to have been sold. The US audiobook, read by Jim Dale, set sales records with 165,000 sold over two days, besting the adaptation of \"Order of the Phoenix\" by twenty percent.", "title": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" }, { "id": "1542939", "text": "as \"The Martian\", which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. Self-publishing is also incentivizing to some authors because it allows them to retain full control over their work, from writing to editing, and copywriting. Of course, the author also has to bear the financial risks all on his/her own. Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. As of 2013, it is part of Penguin Random House, which is jointly owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann and British global education and publishing company Pearson PLC. Random House was founded in", "title": "Random House" }, { "id": "11544358", "text": "Necropolitan Press Necropolitan Press, founded in 1993 by editor and author Jeffrey Thomas, is an independent publisher in the genres of horror, science-fiction, dark fantasy, and \"the Unclassifiable.\" Necropolitan Press ceased producing new releases in 2001. In March 2008, it was announced that Necropolitan Press would be resuming a publication schedule, beginning with Paul G. Tremblay's \"The Harlequin & The Train\" novella. Jeffrey Thomas founded Necropolitan Press in 1993 in reaction to his discovery of the then-flourishing small press, causing him to become so enthused with the idea that he \"developed the desire to produce some publication or other\" of", "title": "Necropolitan Press" }, { "id": "5729845", "text": "The team also saw attendance rise significantly and earn $6 million. In 1985, Doubleday saw a decline in sales from 1980 and hired James R. McLaughlin, the head of Dell, a Doubleday subsidiary, to streamline and downsize. In 1986, Doubleday sold the publishing company to Bertelsmann AG for a reported $475 million. In 2002, Doubleday sold his stake in the Mets to Wilpon for $135 million. He married Florence McKim, the daughter of Lillian Bostwick Phipps and Ogden Phipps. By 1972 they had divorced. In 1973, he married Sandra Pine Barnett (nicknamed Sandy). He had 5 daughters and 1 son.", "title": "Nelson Doubleday Jr." }, { "id": "2178894", "text": "early 2009, the Doubleday imprint merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In October of 2008, Doubleday laid off about 10% of its staff (16 people) across all departments. The following are imprints that exist or have existed under Doubleday: Doubleday (publisher) Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "2150118", "text": "the Warner Bros. show \"Popular\". \"Q\" listed \"No Angel\" as one of the best 50 albums of 2001. \"No Angel\" was first released in North America on 1 June 1999 and entered the Top Heatseekers chart at number fifty a month and a half later. Twelve months after its original release, it hit number one on the chart and simultaneously entered the Billboard 200 at No. 144, which was attributed to extensive touring by Dido in clubs and small venues across the country and radio exposure in adult contemporary stations. However, \"No Angel\" continued to climb up the chart afterwards", "title": "No Angel" }, { "id": "5512777", "text": "10 non-consecutive weeks. It sold 1,134,000 copies in its first week of release, shattering the previous Nielsen SoundScan record held by Garth Brooks for single-week record sales. This record was subsequently overtaken in 2000 by NSYNC with \"No Strings Attached\". \"Millennium\" sold nearly 500,000 copies in the U.S. on its first day alone, setting a record for first-day sales. \"Millennium\" became the best-selling album of 1999, selling 9,445,732 albums. \"Millennium\" remained on the \"Billboard\" chart for 93 weeks, eventually selling over 13 million copies in the United States and being certified 13 times platinum. As of October 2014, the album", "title": "Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)" }, { "id": "5806617", "text": "weakest-selling studio album up to that point. Peaking at number 8 in the UK, its chart life was brief, while in the US, \"Press to Play\" failed to go gold, peaking at number 30 and selling only 250,000 copies. The follow-up singles, \"Pretty Little Head\" and \"Only Love Remains\", performed poorly on the charts. As a result of this disappointing commercial reception, author Howard Sounes writes, McCartney appointed a former Polydor Records executive, Richard Ogden, as his manager, \"to help revive his career\". In 1993, \"Press to Play\" was remastered and reissued on the CD as part of \"The Paul", "title": "Press to Play" }, { "id": "5008536", "text": "Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Olympia Press has been re-established and is currently operating out of Washington, London, and Frankfurt. Olympia Press Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic fiction and avant-garde literary fiction, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's \"Lolita\". It specialized in books which could not be published (without legal action) in the English-speaking world, and correctly assumed that the French, who were unable to read", "title": "Olympia Press" }, { "id": "3626595", "text": "Terry McMillan Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American author. Her work is characterized by relatable female protagonists. McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan. She received a B.A. in journalism in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended the Master of Fine Arts program in film at Columbia University. McMillan's first book, \"Mama\", was published in 1987. Unsatisfied with her publisher's limited promotion of Mama, McMillian promoted her own debut novel by writing thousands of booksellers, particularly African-American bookstores, and the book soon sold out of its initial first hardcover printing of 5,000 copies.", "title": "Terry McMillan" }, { "id": "18839059", "text": "de Maurier, Edith Pargeter and Ruth Rendell. She was one of a number of editors who famously turned down William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Noble retired from Doubleday in 1973, but continued to work as a freelance editor for the publishing house for many years. She died in 2001. Barbara Noble Barbara Noble (1907–2001) was an English publisher and novelist. She wrote 6 novels of her own, and as head of the London office of Doubleday was instrumental in the publication of thousands of others. Barbara Noble was born in 1907 in North London. In 1914 the family moved", "title": "Barbara Noble" }, { "id": "8684131", "text": "a storyline from the earlier \"The Saint\" comic strip. The plot, as described by Barer, is science fiction, and depicts Templar's attempts to stop the distribution of a performance-enhancing drug that endows athletes with super-human strength. Barer writes that neither Charteris nor Lee were particularly happy with the final manuscript, although Charteris did \"copious rewrites\". Breaking a pattern he had maintained for nearly 40 years, Charteris chose not to submit \"Bet on the Saint\" to his longtime British publishers, Hodder & Stoughton. Instead, he submitted it solely to Doubleday, the company that ran The Crime Club imprint which had published", "title": "Bet on the Saint" }, { "id": "830580", "text": "Walt Disney Pictures banner. \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\" opened in the United States on June 22, 1988, grossing $11,226,239 in 1,045 theaters during its opening weekend, ranking first place in the domestic box office. The film went on to gross $156,452,370 in North America and $173,351,588 internationally, coming to a worldwide total of $329,803,958. At the time of release, \"Roger Rabbit\" was the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film was also the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, behind only \"Rain Man\". Zemeckis has revealed a three-dimensional reissue could be possible. \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\" was first released on VHS on", "title": "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" }, { "id": "15066160", "text": "several larger publishing houses before Gaspereau picked it up, had originally been published in a limited run of just 800 copies; however, the award win pushed demand for the book well beyond the 1,000 copies per week that the company's printing press could produce at maximum capacity, resulting in the book being unavailable in stores for almost two weeks after the Giller announcement. The company in the meantime announced that it had sold the novel's trade paperback rights to Douglas & McIntyre, while it will continue to print a smaller run of the novel's original edition for book collectors. Gaspereau", "title": "Gaspereau Press" }, { "id": "5312481", "text": "15, 2009 with an initial print run of 6.5 million copies, the largest first printing in publisher Random House's history. Electronic versions such as eBook and Audible book versions were also made available on the same date. The American release audio book was read by Paul Michael, who also performed the audio book for \"The Da Vinci Code\". The book immediately broke sales records, becoming the fastest selling adult-market novel in history, with over one million copies sold on the first day of release. By the end of the first week, a total of two million copies had been sold", "title": "The Lost Symbol" }, { "id": "7105905", "text": "the USBA's membership. Later Mr. Vargas would sell his interest leaving Mr. Anderson the largest share holder. After 22 months in bankruptcy protection On September 24, 1987, the United States Federal Bankruptcy Court approved the ABA's plan for financial reorganization and removed it from Chapter 11 as well it should have been since it promised exorbitant gifts to the various national number ones that year, including the amateurs. For instance, the eventual amateur No.1 Mike King received a $14,500 Glastron boat and a Honda Reflex motorcycle valued at $1,600 for a total value of $16,100. To reiterate, the top amateur", "title": "American Bicycle Association" }, { "id": "12682066", "text": "Andersen Press Andersen Press is a British book publishing company. It was founded in 1976 by Klaus Flugge, and was named after Hans Christian Andersen. Random House has a holding in the company and has a strong association with Andersen. The first book on the list was Goldilocks and the Three Bears by the then newly discovered Tony Ross, who wrote the popular children's series The Little Princess. The Andersen Press list now consists of over 1000 published titles, the majority of which are still in print. Andersen Press specialises in picture books and children’s fiction and the authors that", "title": "Andersen Press" }, { "id": "9637462", "text": "graphic design business. After purchasing her first computer for her business, Putney realized that it would make writing very easy. She began work on her first novel, a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a three-book contract immediately. In 1987 that first novel, \"The Diabolical Baron\", was published. Since then, she has published twenty-nine books (as of January 2007). Her books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the \"New York Times\", \"USAToday\", and \"Publishers Weekly.\" The vast majority of her works have been historical romance,", "title": "Mary Jo Putney" }, { "id": "18475517", "text": "number SGH 777. The print run was limited to 2500, with each copy signed by Harrison and West. The book was priced at £235 and available via mail order only. Genesis also offered the book as a limited-edition series of enlarged prints. The release coincided with Harrison's uncharacteristically high-profile publicity for \"Cloud Nine\", which was a critical and commercial success when issued in November 1987. In an interview published in \"Musician\" magazine that same month, Harrison spoke of a planned second volume with West,<ref name=\"White/Musician\">Timothy White, \"George Harrison – Reconsidered\", \"Musician\", November 1987, p. 58.</ref> and he defended the exclusivity", "title": "Songs by George Harrison" }, { "id": "7075733", "text": "Sphere Books Sphere Books is the name of two British paperback publishers. The original Sphere Books was launched in 1966 by Thomson Corporation. Sphere was sold to Pearson PLC in 1985 and became part of Penguin. The name was retired in 1990. In 1976, Sphere paid $225,000 for the British publishing rights from Ballantine Books for the novelisation of a forthcoming science fiction film, \"\" by George Lucas (ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster). The book, like the film \"Star Wars\" released the following year, was an enormous success and sold out its initial print run. Sphere also published the UK", "title": "Sphere Books" }, { "id": "14311464", "text": "party to influence American domestic politics. On February 11, 2015, Lyons fingered US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger as the single person responsible for twice preventing a joint France-America takedown of the Khomeini regime in Iran in August 1987. He went on to state \"Islam is a political movement masquerading as a religion.\" On September 30, 2018, The Washington Times retracted a column by Lyons published March 1, 2018, online, and apologized to Aaron Rich, brother of Seth Rich, for the column as part of a lawsuit settlement. The Washington Times said the column contained statements about Aaron Rich that", "title": "James Lyons (admiral)" }, { "id": "6106587", "text": "our environment.\" The revised cover was done by Andy Engell, based on a design by tattoo artist Bill White Jr., who had designed the artwork for a tattoo Rose had acquired the previous year. The artwork featured each of the five band members' skulls layered on a cross. The band's first single was \"It's So Easy\", released on June 15, 1987 in the UK only, where it reached number eighty-four on the UK Singles Chart In the U.S., \"Welcome to the Jungle\" was issued as the album's first single in October, with an accompanying music video. Initially, the album and", "title": "Guns N' Roses" }, { "id": "10430355", "text": "as his buyout fee. In 1948, Greenberg founded Gnome Press with David Kyle, a fellow member of the Hydra Club, a New York-based science fiction club. \"The Carnelian Cube\" was the first book published by the new press. Greenberg edited a number of themed anthologies for Gnome Press. He was involved in disputes with authors concerning payment, and Isaac Asimov called him a \"crook\". Greenberg, with Gnome Press, was the first publisher of Asimov's epic Foundation Trilogy, but those rights were long ago transferred to Doubleday. Ultimately, Gnome Press was not successful and it went out of business in 1962.", "title": "Martin Greenberg" }, { "id": "11339715", "text": "previous record for the fastest selling book in one day, previously being \"Sex\" by Madonna in 1992. A week after its release, \"Miss America\" hit the top spot on the \"New York Times\" Best Seller list, knocking off \"My American Journey\" by Colin Powell. In total, the book was listed on the list for more than four months, a period of 16 weeks in total. The book sold more than nine copies for every one copy of the next best-selling book on the list. By the end of 1995, \"Miss America\" had sold 1,398,880 hardcover copies, making it the third", "title": "Miss America (book)" }, { "id": "2178890", "text": "Black's tenure, attracted numerous public figures to the publishing company, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Robert Taft, and Audre Malroux; and was a strong opponent to censorship feeling that it was his responsibility to the American public to publish controversial titles. Black also expanded Doubleday's publishing program by opening two new printing plants; creating a new line of quality paperbacks, under the imprint Anchor Books; attracting new book clubs to it's book club division; opening 30 new retail stores in 25 cities; and opening new editorial offices in San Francisco, London, and Paris. By 1947, Doubleday", "title": "Doubleday (publisher)" }, { "id": "989617", "text": "The Independent The Independent is a British online newspaper. Established in 1986 as an independent national morning newspaper published in London, it was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in 2010. The last printed edition of \"The Independent\" was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions. Nicknamed the \"Indy\", it began as a broadsheet, but changed to tabloid format in 2003. Until September 2011, the paper described itself on the banner at the top of every newspaper as \"free from party political bias,", "title": "The Independent" }, { "id": "5864588", "text": "have been moved between volumes for later editions, the later-edition placement is listed. The \"B&N\" category shows if a Barnes & Noble trade paperback is available (only 12 were published). The ISBN listed is that of the first-published silver editions (not the variant/embossed foil editions). Marvel Masterworks Marvel Masterworks is an American collection of hardcover and trade paperback comic book reprints published by Marvel Comics. The collection started in 1987, with volumes reprinting the issues of \"The Amazing Spider-Man\", \"The Fantastic Four\", \"The X-Men\", and \"The Avengers\". Approximately 10 issues are reprinted in each volume. In 2013 Masterworks published its", "title": "Marvel Masterworks" }, { "id": "7997307", "text": "a model, with the band performing to camera. The UK version was filmed both in color as well as in black and white in a film studio. First released in Britain, the song peaked at #4 on the UK charts in August 1986. Upon its release in the United States, the previously unknown band's debut single shot to number one on 2 May 1987, and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached #4 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #24 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and (in a remix version) #37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play", "title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" }, { "id": "955226", "text": "Five publishers rejected the work as too shocking. Sinclair was about to self-publish a shortened version of the novel in a \"Sustainer's Edition\" for subscribers when Doubleday, Page came on board; on February 28, 1906 the Doubleday edition was published simultaneously with Sinclair's of 5,000 which appeared under the imprint of “The Jungle Publishing Company” with the Socialist Party’s symbol embossed on the cover, both using the same plates. In the first 6 weeks, the book sold 25,000 copies. It has been in print ever since, including four more self-published editions (1920, 1935, 1942, 1945). Sinclair dedicated the book \"To", "title": "The Jungle" }, { "id": "14440448", "text": "upon receiving the book's first edition in 1987 from an acquaintance, \"I looked at it and thought, 'I don't know anything about this part of the world,' and three weeks later, at about 3 in the morning, I picked it up and felt all the electrons around me shift.\" The original edition was published in English in 1984 by Nilgiri Press, and a year later by Random House. Foreign (non-English) editions have been published in Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, and Turkish. A second edition was published 1999 in the US by Nilgiri Press, and English-language editions have been published in", "title": "Nonviolent Soldier of Islam" }, { "id": "4146080", "text": "Greg Penny. \"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\" has come to be regarded as John's best and most popular album, and is his best-selling studio album. Three singles were released in the US: \"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\", \"Bennie and the Jets\" and \"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting\". In the US it was certified gold in October 1973, 5× platinum in March 1993, and eventually 8× platinum in February 2014 by the RIAA. The album was ranked No. 91 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was also placed at No. 59 in Channel 4's", "title": "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" }, { "id": "13184376", "text": "from a more national and international perspective, as well as graphic novels. Among recent acquisitions are \"Belonging\" by Umi Sinha, \"Blackheath\" by Adam Baron, and \"Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago\" by Douglas Cowie. Benjamin Johncock's novel \"The Pilot\", published by Myriad in 2016, won the Best First Novel Award from the Authors' Club. The Myriad non-fiction list includes books by such notable authors as Lorna Goodison (\"Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures\"), Cynthia Enloe (\"The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy\") and Michael Norton OBE (\"365 Ways to Change the World\"). In May 2017 a merger was", "title": "Myriad Editions" }, { "id": "20439071", "text": "the National Newspaper Association’s Freedom of Information Committee.\" Marshall was inducted into the Arizona Newspapers Association Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year as Don Bolles and Charles E. Thornton. Induction was previously a posthumous honor; Marshall was among the first journalists to be inducted during his lifetime. Marshall was one of the founders of Temple Solel reform synagogue in Paradise Valley, Arizona. After Marshall sold the \"Progress\" in 1987, he and Maxine founded The Marshall Fund of Arizona. The fund distributed over $5 million to cultural and charitable concerns. Marshall penned his autobiography, \"Dateline History\", shortly before his", "title": "Jonathan Marshall" }, { "id": "16544714", "text": "commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. Returning series: Arrived series: New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" New series: Returning series:\" Not returning from 2011–12:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" New series: Returning series: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2011–12:\" 2012–13 Canadian network television schedule The 2012–13 network television schedules for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada", "title": "2012–13 Canadian network television schedule" }, { "id": "4557030", "text": "biggest selling single to never make the top 5 is \"Chasing Cars\" by Snow Patrol, which peaked at number 6 and has sold more copies than \"The A Team\". The biggest selling single not to reach the top 10 is \"Numb\" by Linkin Park which never charted higher than #14. Downloads grew steadily in popularity after first being integrated into the chart in 2004. In early September the UK Official Download Chart was launched, and a new live recording of Westlife's \"Flying Without Wings\" was the first number-one. The first number one to chart without ever receiving a UK physical", "title": "UK Singles Chart records and statistics" }, { "id": "2279836", "text": "Panshin. After conflicts with Ace head Donald A. Wollheim, he worked as a freelancer. He edited an original story anthology series called \"Universe\", and a popular series of \"The Best Science Fiction of the Year\" anthologies that ran from 1972 until his death in 1987. He also edited numerous one-off anthologies over the same time span. He was nominated for the Hugo for Best Editor thirteen times (1973–1975, 1977–1979, 1981–1987), winning twice (1985 and 1987). His win in 1985 was the first time a freelance editor had won. Terry Carr commissioned a first novel from William Gibson for the second", "title": "Terry Carr" }, { "id": "522830", "text": "Mercury's close friend and advisor, Capital London radio DJ Kenny Everett, played a pivotal role in giving the single exposure. It is the third-best-selling single of all time in the UK, surpassed only by Band Aid's \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\" and Elton John's \"Candle in the Wind 1997\", and is the best-selling commercial single (i.e. \"not\" for-charity) in the UK. It also reached number nine in the United States (a 1992 re-release reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for five weeks). It is the only single ever to sell a million copies on two separate occasions, and", "title": "Queen (band)" }, { "id": "3583404", "text": "Adelphi University. In recent years, he has written considerably less literary criticism than he did in the 1980s. Much of it has appeared in \"The Hudson Review\". In 1987, his book \"The Contemporary Stylist\" was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The year after, Graywolf Press issued Diminishing Fictions, a collection of essays on the modern novel. Reviewing it in the \"Chicago Tribune\", Jack Fuller complained of \"sour notes,\" such as \"undeserved sneers,\" but concluded that \"What redeems Bawer's excesses is the persuasive case he makes that he is on a desperate rescue mission.\" Graywolf published Bawer's second collection of essays", "title": "Bruce Bawer" }, { "id": "405479", "text": "a serial in six parts, and later \"Equal Rites\". Subsequently, the hardback rights were taken by the publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd, which remained Pratchett's publisher until 1997, Colin Smythe having become Pratchett's agent. Pratchett was the first fantasy author published by Gollancz. Pratchett gave up working for the CEGB to make his living through writing in 1987, after finishing the fourth Discworld novel, \"Mort\". His sales increased quickly and many of his books occupied top places on the best-seller list; he was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. According to \"The Times\", Pratchett was the top-selling and highest", "title": "Terry Pratchett" }, { "id": "11961018", "text": "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You \"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You\" is a song written by Enrique \"Kiki\" Garcia and Gloria Estefan, and released by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine in 1987 as the lead single from the album \"Let It Loose\" (and the European version of the album \"Anything for You\"). It was their fourth Top 10 (and second Top 5) single on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number five. In the UK it took a year and a half for the single to become a chart hit. First released in June 1987 as the first single", "title": "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" }, { "id": "5397175", "text": "and emerging writers that remain friends and colleagues to this day. She was invited to join a writing group called The Bombay Bicycle Club and the diligence with which its members approached the art of literary critique set her on the path to becoming a published writer. Her most recent book, \"Cool Water\" (released as \"Juliet in August\" in the US), won the Governor General's Award for English fiction in Canada. It has been published in several countries since then, including France and Australia. Her first book, \"The Wednesday Flower Man,\" was published in 1987 by the burgeoning Saskatchewan press", "title": "Dianne Warren" }, { "id": "6479707", "text": "sold through its Pick-A-Book operation (a later, revised incarnation of the Fantasy Book Club), an early form of direct-mail sales that formed the basic idea for Doubleday's more successful Science Fiction Book Club. Most of the Gnome Press books were hardcover, but some few titles saw later paperback editions as Greenberg experimented, using his remaining stock of unbound sheets, with several titles bound in inexpensive paper covers as a test to see if such an effort could help to keep the company afloat. But with his Pick-A-Book hardcover titles already going for as little as $1.00 per book, the experiment", "title": "Gnome Press" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "110903", "text": "children. Bellamy's early novels, including \"Six to One\" (1878), \"Dr. Heidenhoff's Process\" (1880), and \"Miss Ludington's Sister\" (1885) were unremarkable works, making use of standard psychological plots. A turn to utopian science fiction with \"Looking Backward, 2000–1887,\" published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame. The publisher of the book could scarcely keep up with demand. Within a year the book had sold some 200,000 copies and by the end of the 19th century it had sold more copies than any other book published in America up to that time except for \"Uncle Tom's", "title": "Edward Bellamy" }, { "id": "3061254", "text": "it as they did in making the game\". In issue 255, August 2013, the score of 2% was matched by the review of the re-released , originally given 3% when it first launched. In the US edition, the lowest score awarded was 4%, given to \"Mad Dog McCree\", unseating the previously lowest-rated game, \"Skydive!\", given 5%. There are two main editions of \"PC Gamer\", a British version and an American version, both are published by Future plc. Founded in the United Kingdom in November 1993, the American sister version was launched a year later in June 1994. There are also", "title": "PC Gamer" }, { "id": "12107595", "text": "21 September 1987. The \"Where's Wally?\" books were published in the United Kingdom by Walker Books and in the United States under the title \"Where's Waldo?\" first by Little, Brown and Company before being taken on by Candlewick Press (Walker Books' American subsidiary publishing company). The first four titles were originally printed in Italy, but later reprinted in China. The books became extremely popular and were localised for many different territories, with name changes for Wally in certain regions. The franchise also spawned other media in a more storyline-based form, including , a comic strip and a series of video", "title": "Where's Wally?" }, { "id": "18963021", "text": "assassination, as well as Ronald Reagan's attempted assassination. \"The Boy in the Bubble\", like \"Graceland\", took three to four months to create. \"The Boy in the Bubble\" performed on singles charts in several territories worldwide. In the U.S., the song reached a peak of No. 86 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on March 21, 1987; it spent four weeks on the chart as a whole. It performed better on the magazine's Album Rock Tracks chart, where it placed at No. 15 on March 28, 1987, where it spent nine weeks total. In the United Kingdom, the song premiered on the", "title": "The Boy in the Bubble" }, { "id": "3378819", "text": "2007, Barnes & Noble declared that \"Deathly Hallows\" had broken its pre-order record, with more than 500,000 copies pre-ordered through its site. On opening day, a record 8.3 million copies were sold in the United States (over 96 per second), and 2.65 million copies in the United Kingdom. It holds the Guinness World record for fastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours for US sales. At WH Smith, sales reportedly reached a rate of 15 books sold per second. By June 2008, nearly a year after it was published, worldwide sales were reportedly around 44 million. \"Harry Potter and", "title": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" }, { "id": "1266247", "text": "is 75.1%. In 2017, sales of the RTL Group were €6.373 billion. Penguin Random House is the world's largest book publishing company. The company was created in 2013 through the merger of the publishing businesses of Bertelsmann and Pearson. With the acquisition of Random House in 1998, Bertelsmann already became the largest book publisher in the English-speaking world. 250 publishing houses on five continents are part of the company, including Random House and Penguin Books, but also Doubleday, Knopf and Viking. The German \"Verlagsgruppe Random House\" (Goldmann, Heyne and others), based in Munich, is not part of Penguin Random House,", "title": "Bertelsmann" }, { "id": "5922290", "text": "Susanna Clarke. \"The Historian\" was the first debut novel to land at number one on \"The New York Times\" bestseller list in its first week on sale, and as of 2005 was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in U.S. history. The book sold more copies on its first day in print than \"The Da Vinci Code\" – 70,000 copies were sold in the first week alone. As of the middle of August 2005, the novel had already sold 915,000 copies in the U.S. and had gone through six printings. (For comparison, according to \"Publishers Weekly\", only ten fiction books sold", "title": "The Historian" }, { "id": "11692907", "text": "particularly to the number of nominations given to the critically reviled Nickelback. The following were the 2009 Juno nominees and winners: Winner: Sam Roberts Other Nominees: Winner: Nickelback Other Nominees: Winner: Lights Other Nominees: Winner: The Stills Other nominees: Winner: Daniel Lanois, \"Here Is What Is\" and \"Not Fighting Anymore\" (Daniel Lanois) Other nominees: Winner: Kevin Churko, \"Disappearing\" and \"The Big Bang\" (Simon Collins) Other nominees: Winner: City and Colour, \"Waiting...\", \"Sleeping Sickness\", \"The Girl\" Other nominees: Winner: Nickelback Other nominees: Winner: \"Dark Horse\", Nickelback Other nominees: Winner: \"Running for the Drum\", Buffy Sainte-Marie Other nominees: Winner: \"Is It O.K.\",", "title": "Juno Awards of 2009" }, { "id": "7967491", "text": "McKegg as Aunt Dolly, Billy T. James as Pawai, Brian Sergent as Spit Murphy, Marshall Napier as Hunk Murphy and Michael Haigh as the Rugby Commentator. Kerridge-Odeon acquired distribution rights to the film. New Zealand musician Dave Dobbyn scored the music for the film and its soundtrack. The soundtrack's first single, \"Slice of Heaven\" (featuring Herbs), was released before the film and topped the charts in New Zealand for eight weeks from 5 October to 23 November 1986. It also went to number 1 in Australia for four weeks in May/June 1987.. A second single, \"You Oughta Be in Love\",", "title": "Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale" }, { "id": "13915697", "text": "television shows, with the US book launch featuring an exclusive interview by Bryant Gumbel on NBC's \"Today\" show. Film rights were purchased in 1987, leading to the $12 million 1994 CBS/CBC miniseries, \"Million Dollar Babies\", which won the ratings sweep in its time slot. The book was re-released to tie-in with the television broadcast and the French edition of the book became one of the best-selling books in Quebec history. In total, \"Time of Their Lives\" sold an estimated quarter million copies, making it one of Canada's best selling titles. John wrote and published (Hushion House/General Publishing) the non-fiction narrative,", "title": "John Nihmey" }, { "id": "3007668", "text": "Sinclair's 1906 novel \"The Jungle\" was published in two variant forms. A \"Sustainers' Edition\", published by the Jungle Publishing Company, was sent to subscribers who had advanced funds to Sinclair. The first trade edition was published by Doubleday, Page to be sold in bookstores. Many book collectors place maximum value on the earliest bound copies of a book—promotional advance copies, bound galleys, uncorrected proofs, and advance reading copies sent by publishers to book reviewers and booksellers. It is true that these are rarer than the production copies; but given that these were not printed from a different setting of type", "title": "Edition (book)" }, { "id": "2991064", "text": "played around North America. These games were often referred to locally as \"town ball\", though other names such as \"round-ball\" and \"base-ball\" were also used. Among the earliest examples to receive a detailed description—albeit five decades after the fact, in a letter from an attendee to \"Sporting Life\" magazine—took place in Beachville, Ontario, in 1838. There were many similarities to modern baseball, and some crucial differences: five bases (or \"byes\"); first bye just from the home bye; batter out if a hit ball was caught after the first bounce. The once widely accepted story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in", "title": "History of baseball" }, { "id": "3631992", "text": "its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version. Lyne's fourth film was the blockbuster \"Fatal Attraction\", which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987. The story of a happily married lawyer (Michael Douglas) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman (Glenn Close), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed \"the zeitgeist hit of the decade\" by \"TIME Magazine\", \"Fatal Attraction\" earned six Academy Award nominations including Best", "title": "Adrian Lyne" }, { "id": "2131376", "text": "away as Skipton Moor. There is also a small stone circle known as The Twelve Apostles. On 1 December 1987, Phillip Spencer, a retired policeman saw and photographed what he believed was an alien being on the Moor. He said he saw the strange creature rush up the hill and give a signal to him with one of its arms as if telling him not to approach. He later saw a dome-topped craft at the top of the hill after following the being which shot into the air at a blinding speed. The \"Daily Telegraph\" included this event in a", "title": "Ilkley Moor" }, { "id": "4757864", "text": "His most commercially successful period occurred between 1975's \"Born to Run\" and 1987's \"Tunnel of Love\". 1984's \"Born in the U.S.A.\" launched Springsteen into superstardom and the album went on to become one of the biggest selling albums of all-time producing seven top-10 hit singles, tied for the most ever with Michael Jackson's \"Thriller\" and Janet Jackson's \"Rhythm Nation 1814\". Springsteen has steadily maintained a loyal audience since his 80s success, and experienced a renewed commercial strength since 2002's \"The Rising\", the first in a string of consecutive successful albums following a 1999 reunion with The E Street Band with", "title": "Bruce Springsteen discography" }, { "id": "1510698", "text": "Hybrid Theory Hybrid Theory is the debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000, through Warner Bros. Records. As of 2017, the album has been certified diamond by the RIAA for sales in the band's home country of United States, with over eleven million units, peaking at number two on the US \"Billboard\" 200, and it also has reached high positions on other charts worldwide, with 32 million copies sold, making it the best-selling debut album since Guns N' Roses' \"Appetite for Destruction\" (1987) and the best-selling rock album of the 21st century. Recorded", "title": "Hybrid Theory" }, { "id": "8166932", "text": "in 1990. The Schocken family today has a 60% share of the newspaper. Salman Schocken also founded the Schocken Publishing House Ltd. and, in New York in 1945 with the aid of Hannah Arendt and Nahum Glatzer, opened another branch, Schocken Books. In 1987 Schocken Books became an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House, owned by widely diversified media corporation Bertelsmann, since 1998. Schocken became a board member of the Jewish National Fund and helped with the purchase of land in the Haifa Bay area. Schocken became the patron of Shmuel Yosef Agnon already during his", "title": "Salman Schocken" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "2989686", "text": "translated into 21 languages. His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors. Mosley made publishing history in 1997 by foregoing an advance to give the manuscript of \"Gone Fishin' \" to a small, independent publisher, Black Classic Press in Baltimore, run by former Black Panther Paul Coates. His first published book, \"Devil in a Blue Dress\", was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. The world premiere of", "title": "Walter Mosley" }, { "id": "2764587", "text": "follow-up to \"A Private Heaven\", entitled \"Do You\" (1985), was produced by Nile Rodgers and achieved gold status, although it failed to generate any breakout singles of the chart calibre of \"Strut\" or \"Sugar Walls\". In late 1985, Easton contributed \"It's Christmas (All Over the World)\" to the holiday release \"Santa Claus The Movie\". In 1987, the release of a follow-up album, \"No Sound But a Heart\" (1987), was hampered in the United States after an initial single release, \"Eternity\" (another Prince composition), failed to reach the pop, R&B or adult contemporary charts. The album's release moved from February to", "title": "Sheena Easton" } ]

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[ { "id": "208704", "text": "written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of \"Jabberwocky\". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape. \"Jabberwocky\" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as \"galumphing\" and \"chortle\". A decade before the publication of \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and the sequel \"Through the Looking-Glass\", Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become \"Jabberwocky\" while in Croft on Tees, close to", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "11947284", "text": "grow up? Lewis Carroll arrives and interrupts the reverie telling them that he has a book in which the story is written in a backside down and inside out way. Alice begins her journey into looking-glass world – she enters a tulgey wood where she is uncertain of what she is seeking. A chorus reminds her to beware the manxome foe with his vorpal blade and especially avoid the Jabberwock. Alice moves through the garden of live flowers, each one of whom has a personal remark to make on her appearance. Alice's threat that she will pick the live flowers", "title": "Through the Looking Glass (opera)" }, { "id": "1285018", "text": "was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. Unable to finish the three different songs, he combined them into one. The lyrics also included the phrase \"Lucy in the sky\", a reference to the Beatles' earlier song \"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\". The walrus refers to Lewis Carroll's poem \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\" (from the book \"Through the Looking-Glass\"). Lennon later expressed dismay upon belatedly realising that the walrus was a villain in the poem. The final piece of the song came together when Lennon's friend and former fellow member of the Quarrymen, Pete Shotton visited,", "title": "I Am the Walrus" }, { "id": "748651", "text": "drawing by his four-year-old son Julian. A hallucinatory chapter from Lewis Carroll 1871 novel \"Through the Looking-Glass\", a favourite of Lennon's, inspired the song's atmosphere. McCartney later commented that although the title's apparent drug reference was unintentional, the lyrics were purposely written for a psychedelic song. The first verse begins with what Womack characterises as \"an invitation in the form of an imperative\" through the line: \"Picture yourself in a boat on a river\", and continues with imaginative imagery, including \"tangerine trees\", \"rocking horse people\" and \"newspaper taxis\". In Womack's view, with the merging of Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's Lowrey", "title": "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" }, { "id": "570339", "text": "As a character and literary allusion, he has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture, particularly English author Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1872), in which he was described as an egg. The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026. The rhyme is one of the best known in the English language. The common text from 1954 is: <poem>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.</poem> It is", "title": "Humpty Dumpty" }, { "id": "11947287", "text": "many as six impossible things before breakfast. The Young Alices offer the advice that it is better to suffer now for crimes one might commit, to which Alice replies that she has never heard such a thing. Alice, accompanied by Lewis Carroll and the Young Alices, embark on a boat journey on \"a perfect summer's day\". Alice leaning out of the boat trying to grasp the rushes and Carroll remembering how the story poured from him, while a sheep knits, unobserved by Alice. Alice meets Humpty Dumpty (\"Are you the Jabberwock?\" asks Young Alice) who explains to her how words", "title": "Through the Looking Glass (opera)" }, { "id": "208725", "text": "Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! </poem> Some of the words that Carroll created, such as \"chortled\" and \"galumphing\", have entered the English language and are listed in the \"Oxford English Dictionary\". The word \"jabberwocky\" itself has come to refer to nonsense language. In American Sign Language, Eric Malzkuhn invented the sign for \"chortled\" and it subsequently, and unintentionally, caught on and became a part of American Sign Language's lexicon as well. A song called \"Beware the", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "11398667", "text": "$3.00. The book's title, a quote from verse three of the White Knight's poem, \"Haddocks' Eyes\" from chapter eight of \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871) by Lewis Carroll, is also word play on the word \"Tell\", used to describe an archaeological mound or site. Christie first thought of writing the book in 1938 and wrote to her literary agent, Edmund Cork, in July of that year, suggesting the project and telling him that it would be \"not at all serious or archaeological\". In the event, she wrote the book during the Second World War after her husband, Max Mallowan, had been", "title": "Come, Tell Me How You Live" }, { "id": "8834360", "text": "Betty in Blunderland Betty in Blunderland is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is based on \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll. Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the white rabbit. She \"awakes\" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass and disguises as Alice into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings \"How Do You Do\" (to the tune of \"Everyone Says I Love You\") to them. When the Jabberwock steals Betty away, everyone comes", "title": "Betty in Blunderland" }, { "id": "19365857", "text": "songs' lyrics were adapted from poems from \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll, and Carroll was credited as co-writer with Hutt. Hutt would later reflect \"I'd learnt the guitar in the Fifties, but I couldn't write words\". Hutt played sitar on \"Which Dreamed It\". Initial copies of the single featured a picture sleeve reproducing John Tenniel's original illustration of the Jabberwock. The band's name also comes from a poem by Lewis Carroll, \"Beautiful Soup\", from \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\". Both sides of the single were included in the Rubble series - \"Jabberwock\" in the 14th volume and \"Which Dreamed It\"", "title": "Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup" }, { "id": "1285189", "text": "song was issued leading up to the release of the 50th anniversary special edition of \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\"; the story about Julian's painting was confirmed as the inspiration of the song, as opposed to the LSD reference. According to both Lennon and McCartney, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of \"Alice In Wonderland.\" Lennon had read and admired the works of Lewis Carroll, and the title of Julian's drawing reminded him of the \"Which Dreamed it?\" chapter of \"Through the Looking Glass\" in which Alice floats in a \"boat beneath a sunny sky\": It", "title": "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" }, { "id": "6856145", "text": "Song Index number of 20170. It is usually given with the lyrics: The legend of the two animals may have been intensified by the Acts of Union 1707 and it was one year later that William King (1663–1712) recorded a verse very similar to the first stanza of the modern rhyme. This seems to have grown to include several other verses. Apart from those above only one survives: This rhyme was played upon by Lewis Carroll, who incorporated the lion and the unicorn as characters in \"Through the Looking-Glass\". Here, the crown they are fighting for belongs to the White", "title": "The Lion and the Unicorn" }, { "id": "186530", "text": "published the following poem anonymously under the name \"Upon the Lonely Moor\". It bears an obvious resemblance to \"Haddocks' Eyes.\" Haddocks' Eyes Haddocks' Eyes is a term for the name of a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\", . \"Haddocks' Eyes\" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of \"name\": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus introducing different levels of symbolization. It was discussed in several works on logic and philosophy. The White Knight explains to Alice a confusing nomenclature", "title": "Haddocks' Eyes" }, { "id": "14385048", "text": "Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and its sequel \"Through the Looking-Glass\". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems \"Jabberwocky\" and \"The Hunting of the Snark\" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for", "title": "Lewis Carroll" }, { "id": "11807858", "text": "more existing words that all relate to a singular concept. A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, \"starfish\" is a compound, not a portmanteau, of \"star\" and \"fish\"; whereas a hypothetical portmanteau of \"star\" and \"fish\" might be \"stish\". The word \"portmanteau\" was first used in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in \"Jabberwocky\", where \"slithy\" means \"slimy and lithe\" and \"mimsy\" is \"miserable", "title": "Portmanteau" }, { "id": "570348", "text": "he claimed to have found them in an \"old dusty library, [in] an even older book\", but did not state what the book was or where it was found. It has been pointed out that the two additional verses are not in the style of the seventeenth century or of the existing rhyme, and that they do not fit with the earliest printed versions of the rhyme, which do not mention horses and men. Humpty Dumpty appears in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1872). Alice's remark that he is \"exactly like an egg\" he finds \"very provoking\"; Alice clarifies that", "title": "Humpty Dumpty" }, { "id": "4373523", "text": "My Heart and Lute \"My Heart and Lute\", sometimes known by its first line, \"I give thee all, I can no more\", is a song/poem by Thomas Moore. In \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called \"Ways and Means\" sung by the White Knight. <poem> I give thee all—I can no more Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. A lute whose gentle song reveals the soul of love full well; And, better far, a heart that feels Much more", "title": "My Heart and Lute" }, { "id": "14492693", "text": "Signorelli joined the band to record their final album titled \"Hunter's Moon\", which also featured guest appearances by Motherhead Bug vocalist David Ouimet, former drummer Ted Parsons and composer J. G. Thirlwell. Due to obligations with other bands, Of Cabbages and Kings rarely had time to tour and disbanded in the early nineties. Of Cabbages and Kings (band) Of Cabbages and Kings is an American noise rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Its name is a quote from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\". The band's sound has been described as a \"highly visceral attack\" that is \"founded on a vivid technical", "title": "Of Cabbages and Kings (band)" }, { "id": "6995898", "text": "is used on the poster for the film. Mickey falls asleep after reading \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll. An astral projection of himself (presumably Mickey in his dream state) leaves his body and passes through his mirror into an alternate version of his house. His furniture and possessions have come to life and are complete with faces and personalities, but most of them remain motionless. He jumps on a rocking chair that throws him off in annoyance while a nearby coat rack watches in surprise, and lands on the foot rest that behaves like a puppy while Mickey rides", "title": "Thru the Mirror" }, { "id": "8057329", "text": "Alice's Meadow Alice's Meadow is the name given to a small field in the Oxfordshire parish of Fencott and Murcott, England. It became the focus of a campaign by local people and Friends of the Earth in the 1980s, who opposed government plans to route the M40 motorway across Otmoor. The name 'Alice's Meadow' is a reference to Lewis Carroll's book \"Through the Looking-Glass,\" which is said to have been partly inspired by the 'chessboard-like' field pattern of Otmoor. It lies to the north of Otmoor, between Fencott and Murcott, and was directly on a proposed route for the motorway,", "title": "Alice's Meadow" }, { "id": "11111709", "text": "references to Lewis Carroll's book \"Alice in Wonderland\" with an appearance of young girl exiting the room through a small door, two portly gentlemen who resemble Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee and an observation made by Kershaw to \"Through the Looking Glass\". At the beginning of the music video Kershaw is seen trying to get through a door with a screwdriver. The video ends with the camera moving up away from Kershaw to reveal that the question mark is lying in the street, at which point a man in a green costume seen earlier in the video comes and picks it up.", "title": "The Riddle (Nik Kershaw song)" }, { "id": "5704189", "text": "be more original if she strained less after originality. I should expect her book to be very popular.\" In Book III, Chapter I(i) Jane Harding quotes the line \"Come, tell me how you live!\" from verse three of the White Knight's poem, \"Haddocks' Eyes\", from Chapter eight of \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871) by Lewis Carroll. This quote was later used by Christie as the title of her 1946 book of travel literature. The dedication of the book reads: \"To the memory of my best and truest friend, my mother.\" Giant's Bread Giant's Bread is a novel by British writer Agatha", "title": "Giant's Bread" }, { "id": "4625763", "text": "an explanatory tangent to the Law of Extinction. The Red Queen Hypothesis captures the idea that there is a constant 'arms race' between co-evolving species. Its name is a reference to the Red Queen's race in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\", in which the chess board moves such that Alice must continue running just to stay in the same place. Van Valen also defined the Ecological Species Concept in 1976, in contrast to Ernst Mayr's Biological Species Concept. In 1991, he proposed that HeLa cells be defined as a new species, which was named \"Helacyton gartleri\". Van Valen originated the", "title": "Leigh Van Valen" }, { "id": "6284332", "text": "of Vanities!\" </poem> In Lewis Carroll's fantasy \"Through the Looking-Glass\", Alice's movements about the Old Sheep Shop provoke its proprietor (the White Queen transformed into a sheep) to ask, \"Are you a child, or a teetotum?\" In Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 dark comedy short story \"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether\", one of the patients of the asylum is described as believing he had been converted into a \"tee-totum\": \"And then,\" said the friend who had whispered, \"there was Boullard, the tee-totum. I call him the tee-totum because, in fact, he was seized with the droll but not", "title": "Teetotum" }, { "id": "2328174", "text": "Vorpal sword \"Vorpal sword\" and \"vorpal blade\" are phrases used by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem \"Jabberwocky\", which have been taken up in several other media. Carroll never provided a definition. The term has been adopted by the roleplaying game \"Dungeons & Dragons\", where \"vorpal\" blades have the ability to decapitate opponents on lucky strikes. Carroll published \"Through the Looking-Glass\" in 1871. Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads the poem \"Jabberwocky\", which Humpty Dumpty later attempts to explain, to her increasing consternation. One of the poem's several nonsense adjectives, \"vorpal\" is twice used to describe the sword a", "title": "Vorpal sword" }, { "id": "13105553", "text": "on that she is the only one who can say \"Off with their heads\" with such flair, and convinces the Queen to allow the beheadings to take place in the land of the Looking-Glass. The Queen delights in the truth of her signature phrase (\"Off With Their Heads\"). Lewis Carroll leads Alice to a hall of mirrors, where she believes she has found Chloe. However, she realizes she is talking to a young Alice. She finally learns why she was brought to Wonderland: to remember and love who she is and was (\"Once More I Can See\"). Back at the", "title": "Wonderland (musical)" }, { "id": "7777472", "text": "Things Run Fast\", and fully -and dramatically -orchestrated on her 2002 retrospective \"Travelogue\". The Rolling Stones paraphrase the verse in the title of their 1969 compilation album \"Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)\". Macklemore uses the verse \"Love is patient. Love is kind\" in his 2012 song, \"Same Love\". Video game developer Arkane Studios paraphrased the title of Lewis Carroll's book by linking it with the verse, as the title for a chapter in their game \"Prey\": \"Through the Looking Glass Darkly\". The text is drawn on / paraphrased in Lauryn Hill's song 'Tell Him' hidden on 'The", "title": "1 Corinthians 13" }, { "id": "2431332", "text": "the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams\", satirising the disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, written by John Byrom (1692–1763): Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. While the familiar form of the rhyme was not printed until around 1805, when it appeared in \"Original Ditties for the Nursery\", it is possible that Byrom was drawing on an existing rhyme. The characters are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There\" (1871).", "title": "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" }, { "id": "7186591", "text": "Unbirthday An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event that is typically celebrated on any or all of the 364 (365 on leap years) days in which it is not the person's birthday. It is a neologism coined by Lewis Carroll in his \"Through the Looking-Glass\", giving rise to \"The Unbirthday Song\" in the 1951 Disney animated feature film \"Alice in Wonderland\". One's unbirthday should not be confused with one's half-birthday, which only occurs once a year. In \"Through the Looking-Glass\", Humpty Dumpty is wearing a cravat (which Alice at first mistakes for a belt) which he says was given", "title": "Unbirthday" }, { "id": "2328176", "text": "himself explained that many of the poem's words were portmanteau words playfully combining existing words from English, such that \"frumious\" meant \"fuming and furious\", \"mimsy\" meant \"flimsy and miserable\" and \"slithy\" meant \"lithe and slimy\". Carroll seems never to have supplied meaning for \"vorpal\", at one point writing, \"I am afraid I can't explain 'vorpal blade' for you—nor yet 'tulgey wood', although Alexander L. Taylor notes (in his Carroll biography \"The White Knight\") that \"vorpal\" can be formed by taking letters alternately from \"verbal\" and \"gospel\". Vorpal sword \"Vorpal sword\" and \"vorpal blade\" are phrases used by Lewis Carroll in", "title": "Vorpal sword" }, { "id": "9890124", "text": "which he has to modify so that adults can understand them, he will include this verse exactly as she told it to him. In 1942, Emma and Scott have encountered Carroll's fantasy book \"Through the Looking-Glass\", containing the poem \"Jabberwocky\". In its words, they identified the time-space equation that guided their production, organization, and operation of the abstract machine. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) One day, their father hears the children's cries of excitement from upstairs in their house, and he arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom just in time to", "title": "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" }, { "id": "430788", "text": "verses as \"Jabberwocky\" and \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings. Chapter One – Looking-Glass House: Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls \"Snowdrop\") and a black kitten (whom she calls \"Kitty\") when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up onto the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this", "title": "Through the Looking-Glass" }, { "id": "6210988", "text": "and the parliamentary constituency of Cheltenham. The Parish Council has a local Parish Plan which includes detail on its boundaries, urban and countryside areas, its responsibilities, its community profiles and action plan. It consults within the community. A house in Cudnall Street has a particular literary connection. Its mirror inspired author Lewis Carroll to write the story \"Through the Looking-Glass\". Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 54, 1932, pp.145-165, The Manor of Charlton Kings, later Ashley, by F. B. Welch Charlton Kings Charlton Kings is a contiguous village adjoining or suburb of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. The", "title": "Charlton Kings" }, { "id": "1717978", "text": "acrostic poem written in English by Edgar Allan Poe is entitled simply \"An Acrostic\": <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em\"> Elizabeth it is in vain you say \"Love not\"—thou sayest it in so sweet a way: In vain those words from thee or L.E.L. Zantippe's talents had enforced so well: Ah! if that language from thy heart arise, Breath it less gently forth—and veil thine eyes. Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried To cure his love—was cured of all beside— His follie—pride—and passion—for he died. </poem> In Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\", the final chapter \"A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky\" is an acrostic", "title": "Acrostic" }, { "id": "5781387", "text": "being able to prove his identity), or he can stay in 1995 with Jo. After he makes his choice the mirror begins to ripple and everyone must get to the time period they wish to remain in before the mirror vanishes from both periods. Louisa Iredale has a copy of Lewis Carroll's book \"Through the Looking-Glass\" in her bedroom. This is in homage to Lewis Carroll's book, which also involves a girl travelling through a mirror, albeit to another world. A novelised version of the \"Mirror, Mirror\" television story was written by Hilary Bell, one of the many co-writers of", "title": "Mirror, Mirror (TV series)" }, { "id": "2431334", "text": "enantiomorphs — three-dimensional mirror images. Evidence for these assumptions cannot be found in any of Lewis Carroll's writings. Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of", "title": "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" }, { "id": "5872366", "text": "of the same name. The band had already been inspired by Carroll's work when naming their label, Wonderland, which was derived from \"Alice in Wonderland\". The record was also an ode to David Bowie's \"Pin Ups\", a covers album recorded in the early 1970s. After spending more than a year working on 1986's \"Tinderbox\", the Banshees wanted spontaneity, and quickly returned to the studio after the tour, to record their own covers album. It was a project they had been considering since recording a version of the Beatles's \"Dear Prudence\" in 1983. For the \"Looking Glass\" sessions, which took place", "title": "Through the Looking Glass (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)" }, { "id": "4417334", "text": "as a mainstay on the band's setlist since the album's release, and is included on their 2001 live release \"Live on the Edge of Forever\", along with \"Church of the Machine\" and \"Through the Looking Glass\". \"Smoke and Mirrors\" cites Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor (Kyrie eleison) (1749) in the instrumental interlude after the second chorus. \"Sonata\" contains parts of the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 (\"Pathétique\") (1799). \"Through the Looking Glass\" is based on Lewis Carroll's novel \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871), the sequel to \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" (1865). \"Orion - The", "title": "Twilight in Olympus" }, { "id": "529414", "text": "painting, early forms of multimedia, and more. It seemed as though only the most outlandish ideas attracted any attention, leading Froese to comment: \"In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible.\" As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line \"tangerine trees and marmalade skies\" from The Beatles' track \"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\". Froese was fascinated by technology and skilled in using it to create music. He built", "title": "Tangerine Dream" }, { "id": "11947288", "text": "are very important and who also sings her his very disturbing song, \"I sent a message to the fish.\" Alice finds herself in a square where a picnic takes place. Alice is introduced to the food, oysters, a leg of mutton and a pudding. An argument breaks out amongst the picnickers over who eats what and how much until a voice calls out reminding them that they are deep in a tulgey wood. Is it the Jabberwock? Alice, the mature woman, seeks permission from the White Knight to grow up. He captures her soul in a photograph. The Young Alice", "title": "Through the Looking Glass (opera)" }, { "id": "8834361", "text": "to her rescue. Betty wakes up back in her living room, just in time to prevent the white rabbit from again escaping from her puzzle. Betty in Blunderland Betty in Blunderland is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is based on \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll. Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the white rabbit. She \"awakes\" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass and disguises as Alice into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland", "title": "Betty in Blunderland" }, { "id": "2431331", "text": "Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of the nursery rhyme include: The words \"Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee\" make their first appearance in print in \"one of", "title": "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" }, { "id": "11371", "text": "autobiographical travel book \"Come, Tell Me How You Live\" is a quote from verse three of the White Knight's poem, \"Haddocks' Eyes\" from chapter eight of \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll, and is a play on the word \"tell\", an archaeological mound. The title of \"The Mousetrap\" is purportedly an allusion to Shakespeare's play \"Hamlet\", in which \"The Mousetrap\" is Hamlet's answer to Claudius's inquiry about the name of the play whose prologue and first scene he and his court have just watched (III, ii). Seven stories are built around words from well known children's nursery rhymes: \"And Then", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13036031", "text": "The Sheep The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's book, \"Through the Looking-Glass\", the sequel to his book \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.\" The Sheep is first mentioned in the fifth chapter of \"Through the Looking-Glass\", \"Wool and Water\". The White Queen is talking to Alice, when she suddenly starts \"baa-ing\" and then seems to 'wrap herself in wool'. Alice figures out she is in a shop, and that The White Queen has turned into a sheep. The Sheep sits in her chair knitting as Alice looks around the shop. She", "title": "The Sheep" }, { "id": "186528", "text": "Haddocks' Eyes Haddocks' Eyes is a term for the name of a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\", . \"Haddocks' Eyes\" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of \"name\": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus introducing different levels of symbolization. It was discussed in several works on logic and philosophy. The White Knight explains to Alice a confusing nomenclature for the song. The complicated terminology distinguishing between 'the song, what the song is called, the name of the song,", "title": "Haddocks' Eyes" }, { "id": "4373524", "text": "than lute could tell. Though love and song may fail, alas! To keep life's clouds away, At least 'twill make them lighter pass Or gild them if they stay. And ev'n if care, at moments, flings A discord o'er life's happy strain, Let love but gently touch the strings, 'Twill all be sweet again! </poem> The Art of Love My Heart and Lute \"My Heart and Lute\", sometimes known by its first line, \"I give thee all, I can no more\", is a song/poem by Thomas Moore. In \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in", "title": "My Heart and Lute" }, { "id": "17994940", "text": "extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors.\" The expression \"banana republic\" has been used widely since that time, particularly in political commentaries. Cabbages and Kings (novel) Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\", featured in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking Glass\". Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by", "title": "Cabbages and Kings (novel)" }, { "id": "12605734", "text": "while walking on Barton Fell near Ullswater. It was during this walk that he \"[recollected] the emotion in tranquility\" and associated the leech-gatherer he had met two years earlier with his current experience. The first version of the poem was written between 3–9 May 1802 under the title of \"The Leech-Gatherer\", but Wordsworth considerably revised the poem during the following months after it was reviewed by his fiancée, Mary Hutchinson, and her sister Sara. In the 1871 novel \"Through the Looking-Glass\", Lewis Carroll parodies \"Resolution and Independence\" with the poem \"Haddocks' Eyes\". Resolution and Independence \"Resolution and Independence\" is a", "title": "Resolution and Independence" }, { "id": "16356798", "text": "all mysteriously turned yellow. Harrison said in a 1990 interview: Bob or Tom came up with the idea: \"Look out your window, the grass ain't green ...\" and I said, \"It's kinda yellow ...\" then somebody else said, \"See what I mean?\" So then we got the next bit: \"Look up your chimney, the sky ain't blue, it's kinda yellow ...\" It became a joke almost every time the third line came, it kept being \"yellow\". It's quite funny because the last words are, \"Look into the future in your mystic crystal ball, see if it ain't yellow ... see", "title": "Inside Out (Traveling Wilburys song)" }, { "id": "460918", "text": "Lewis Chessmen from northern Europe are carved from walrus ivory. Because of its distinctive appearance, great bulk, and immediately recognizable whiskers and tusks, the walrus also appears in the popular cultures of peoples with little direct experience with the animal, particularly in English children's literature. Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\" that appears in his 1871 book \"Through the Looking-Glass\". In the poem, the eponymous antiheroes use trickery to consume a great number of oysters. Although Carroll accurately portrays the biological walrus's appetite for bivalve mollusks, oysters, primarily nearshore and intertidal", "title": "Walrus" }, { "id": "430787", "text": "Through the Looking-Glass Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) (also known as \"Alice through the Looking-Glass\" or simply \"Through the Looking-Glass\") is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc) \"Through the Looking-Glass\" includes such", "title": "Through the Looking-Glass" }, { "id": "13036033", "text": "in the water if one fails to feather properly). Alice's attention is then put onto some scented rushes growing in the water. She tries picking them, but they are only 'dream rushes' and melt away. She then \"catches a crab\" and they are all suddenly in the shop again. Alice buys an egg from the Sheep (that ends up turning into Humpty Dumpty) and the two part ways. The Sheep The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's book, \"Through the Looking-Glass\", the sequel to his book \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.\"", "title": "The Sheep" }, { "id": "7140023", "text": "semantic knowledge to choose words. Lewis Carroll's explanation, which gave rise to the use of 'portmanteau' for such combinations, was: Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all. For instance, take the two words \"fuming\" and \"furious.\" Make up your mind that you will say both words ... you will say \"frumious.\" The errors are based on similarity of meanings, rather than phonological similarities, and the morphemes or phonemes stay in the same position within the syllable. Some languages, like Japanese, encourage the shortening and merging of", "title": "Blend word" }, { "id": "208727", "text": "An abridged version of the poem is spoken by the Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp). Jabberwocky \"Jabberwocky\" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named \"the Jabberwock\". It was included in his 1871 novel \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\", the sequel to \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\". The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "17994937", "text": "Cabbages and Kings (novel) Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\", featured in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking Glass\". Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. \"Cabbages and Kings\" can be classified as Fix-up novel. In the", "title": "Cabbages and Kings (novel)" }, { "id": "556545", "text": "the poem, among them existential angst, an allegory for tuberculosis, and a mockery of the Tichborne case. \"The Hunting of the Snark\" has been alluded to in various works and has been adapted for musicals, opera, plays, and music. \"The Hunting of the Snark\" shares its fictional setting with Lewis Carroll's earlier poem \"Jabberwocky\" published in his children's novel \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871). Eight nonsense words from \"Jabberwocky\" appear in \"The Hunting of the Snark\": bandersnatch, beamish, frumious, galumphing, jubjub, mimsiest (which previously appeared as mimsy in \"Jabberwocky\"), outgrabe and uffish. In a letter to the mother of his young", "title": "The Hunting of the Snark" }, { "id": "208703", "text": "Jabberwocky \"Jabberwocky\" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named \"the Jabberwock\". It was included in his 1871 novel \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\", the sequel to \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\". The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verses on the pages are", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "11611484", "text": "sliding down the poker. He balances very badly\"). She soon leaves him alone, however, when she sees the poetry-book in which \"Jabberwocky\" is written. When Alice sees the White King next, in a later chapter, he is, along with many other characters in the story, the size of a normal adult. Humpty Dumpty, as a chesspiece, is \"taken\" (symbolised by his notorious fall from where he sits) and the White King appears with his soldiers, presumably in hopes of putting him back together. He and Alice begin characteristic Wonderland/Looking-Glass banter, as well as the usual Carrollian word play (\"I only", "title": "White King (Through the Looking-Glass)" }, { "id": "2364736", "text": "found in \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\" by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word \"jabberwocky\" is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literary nonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways. Its best-known exponent is Edward Lear, author of \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme \"Hey Diddle Diddle\" could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works", "title": "Nonsense" }, { "id": "3178379", "text": "Snark (Lewis Carroll) The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem \"The Hunting of the Snark\". His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so. According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an \"agony in eight fits\" – was the final line, \"For the snark was a boojum, you see\". Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer was he did not know and could not explain. Later commentators have offered many", "title": "Snark (Lewis Carroll)" }, { "id": "3336815", "text": "Jabberwocky (film) Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father. The film's title is taken from the nonsense poem \"Jabberwocky\" from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871). The film, Gilliam's first as a solo director, received a mixed response from critics and audiences. Dennis Cooper is a young cooper apprentice living in poverty, working for his father and determined to marry Griselda Fishfinger. Dennis' father becomes terminally ill,", "title": "Jabberwocky (film)" }, { "id": "7516191", "text": "from a combination of both sources. Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with \"A Book of Nonsense\", 1846) and other famous texts such as \"The Owl and the Pussycat\", \"The Dong with a Luminous Nose,\" \"\" and \"The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World\". Lewis Carroll continued this trend, making literary nonsense a worldwide phenomenon with \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" (1865) and \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871). Carroll's poem \"Jabberwocky\", which appears in the latter book, is often considered quintessential", "title": "Literary nonsense" }, { "id": "4238012", "text": "Red Queen's race The Red Queen's race is an incident that appears in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" and involves both the Red Queen, a representation of a Queen in chess, and Alice constantly running but remaining in the same spot. \"Well, in our country,\" said Alice, still panting a little, \"you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.\" \"A slow sort of country!\" said the Queen. \"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get", "title": "Red Queen's race" }, { "id": "556542", "text": "The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem \"Jabberwocky\" in his children's novel \"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871). As for the word \"Snark\", Carroll did not give it any meaning. The word \"snarking\" had been used in 1866 to describe a sound. Henry Holiday, the illustrator of the poem, thought of it as a \"tragedy\". The plot", "title": "The Hunting of the Snark" }, { "id": "13240416", "text": "Cherry Blossom Clinic \"Cherry Blossom Clinic\" is a song by British rock band The Move. The song tells the story of a man slipping into madness and what he imagines as he hallucinates in his clinic room. The song features a string and brass arrangement by Tony Visconti. Keeping with the theme of madness, a line in the song about a \"teatray in the sky\" is a reference from Lewis Carroll's \"Alice in Wonderland\". Although scheduled as the next single after the top 10 hit \"Flowers in the Rain\", the release was cancelled in the wake of a scandal surrounding", "title": "Cherry Blossom Clinic" }, { "id": "6995897", "text": "Thru the Mirror Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists in 1936. In this cartoon short, Mickey has a \"Through the Looking-Glass\"-type dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a Fred Astaire dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world. The title is written as \"Thru the Mirror\" on the title card, but the alternative spelling Through the Mirror", "title": "Thru the Mirror" }, { "id": "13026693", "text": "show that group selection was severely limited in its strength; though newer models do admit the possibility of significant multi-level selection. In 1973, Leigh Van Valen proposed the term \"Red Queen,\" which he took from \"Through the Looking-Glass\" by Lewis Carroll, to describe a scenario where a species involved in one or more evolutionary arms races would have to constantly change just to keep pace with the species with which it was co-evolving. Hamilton, Williams and others suggested that this idea might explain the evolution of sexual reproduction: the increased genetic diversity caused by sexual reproduction would help maintain resistance", "title": "History of evolutionary thought" }, { "id": "5445265", "text": "of the golden section are often found in the spirals of nature's designs, quoting Pythagoras: \"Everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape\". Donald learns that mathematics applies not only to nature, architecture, and music, but also to games that are played on geometrical surfaces, including chess, baseball, football, basketball, hopscotch, and three-cushion billiards. Donald even volunteers the game Tiddlywinks, but the Spirit does not pursue this option. Themes of Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" are scattered throughout the chess scene; Carroll himself was both a writer and a mathematician. The extended billiards scene, which features a non-speaking live", "title": "Donald in Mathmagic Land" }, { "id": "3244864", "text": "\"Through the Looking-Glass\" (1871): Wilson uses part of this quotation at the front of his novel. Lewis Carroll is referring to a ninth- to eleventh-century style in English drawing, in which the figures are shown in swaying positions with the palms held out in exaggerated positions. \"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes\" has also been used as the title of several subsequent literary works. John Maddocks' review of Carleton S. Coon's \"The Origin of Races\" for the first issue of \"New York Review of Books\" in February 1963, was headed \"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes\". \"History Today\" titled its report of the opening of a new museum", "title": "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes" }, { "id": "570358", "text": "album inspired by Lewis Carroll called \"The Mad Hatter\", 1978). In the Dolly Parton song \"Starting Over Again\", it's all the king's horses and all the king's men who can't put the divorced couple back together again. In an extra verse in one version of ABBA's \"On and On and On\", Humpty Dumpty is mentioned as being afraid of falling off the wall. The Australian children’s television programme Play School, in the song \"Oomba Baroomba\", says: <poem>Humpty Dumpty sat up in bed, Eating yellow bananas. Where do you think he put the skins? Down his striped pyjamas!</poem> TurboTax, a U.S.", "title": "Humpty Dumpty" }, { "id": "6995904", "text": "clock into a drawer. Thru the Mirror Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists in 1936. In this cartoon short, Mickey has a \"Through the Looking-Glass\"-type dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a Fred Astaire dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world. The title is written as \"Thru the Mirror\" on the title card, but the alternative", "title": "Thru the Mirror" }, { "id": "208710", "text": "for his readership; the poem is, after all, part of a dream. In later writings he discussed some of his lexicon, commenting that he did not know the specific meanings or sources of some of the words; the linguistic ambiguity and uncertainty throughout both the book and the poem may largely be the point. In \"Through the Looking-Glass\", the character of Humpty Dumpty, in response to Alice's request, explains to her the non-sense words from the first stanza of the poem; however, Carroll's personal commentary on several of the words differ from Humpty's. For example, following the poem, a \"rath\"", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "1285180", "text": "a result, the song was the subject of a BBC radio ban. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song, although he got the inspiration from an LSD trip. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's \"Alice in Wonderland\" books. The Beatles recorded \"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\" in March 1967. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and drone provided by an Indian tambura. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre.", "title": "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" }, { "id": "2316779", "text": "Karpos, of Zephyrus (the West Wind) and Chloris (Spring). When Karpos drowned in a swimming race, Kalamos also drowned and was transformed into a reed, whose rustling in the wind was interpreted as a sigh of lamentation. The plant was a favorite of Henry David Thoreau (who called it \"sweet flag\"), and also of Walt Whitman, who added a section called the \"Calamus\" poems, to the third edition of \"Leaves of Grass\" (1860). In the poems the calamus is used as a symbol of love, lust, and affection. Lewis Carroll uses the plant in \"Through the Looking-Glass\" as a symbol", "title": "Acorus calamus" }, { "id": "1285190", "text": "was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that. McCartney remembered of the song's composition, \"We did the whole thing like an \"Alice In Wonderland\" idea, being in a boat on the river ... Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky. This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit.\" He later recalled helping", "title": "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" }, { "id": "15427881", "text": "use Vilain's words—\"suggestive\" and the imaginative penetration beneath the \"here-and-now\" daring and provocative. Like Laforgue after him, Giraud uses neologisms (\"Bourrèle!\" [\"Executioner!\" or \"Torturer!\"]), unusual word choices (\"patte\" [which usually means \"paw\"] for Pierrot's foot), and ambiguities (\"Arlequin porte un arc-en-ciel\", meaning \"Harlequin bears [or \"carries\" or \"wears\"] a rainbow\") to enrich the fantastic atmosphere of the poems. His syntax is sometimes elliptical or fractured, as in the first line of the cycle: \"Je rêve un théâtre de chambre\" (\"I dream a chamber theater\"), instead of the usual \"Je rêve \"d'un\" théâtre de chambre\". And the imagery, especially in the", "title": "Pierrot lunaire (book)" }, { "id": "5308088", "text": "Theatre Parade Theatre Parade was a British television programme, one of the world's very first regular series, broadcast by the BBC Television Service from its inception during 1936 until 1938. The programme presented excerpts from popular London theatre productions of the time performed by the theatre cast from the BBC's studios at Alexandra Palace. Among the productions (by George More O'Ferrall) included in the strand were the first ever television presentations of Lewis Carroll's works \"Alice Through the Looking-Glass\" (a twenty-five-minute excerpt, transmitted on 22 January 1937) and \"Alice in Wonderland\" (29 April, 1 May and 26 December 1937). The", "title": "Theatre Parade" }, { "id": "2072058", "text": "subgenres, including power pop artists like Raspberries and Big Star who blurred the line between the two styles, and folk rock artists such as Simon and Garfunkel. The term \"jangle pop\" was not used during the original movement of the 1960s, but was popularized later, during the 1980s, as a reference to the lyric \"In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come following you\" from the Byrds' 1965 recording of Bob Dylan's \"Mr. Tambourine Man\", as well as the chiming sound of the 12-string Rickenbacker's upper-register strings. 1980s post-punk and new wave artists were influenced by the pioneering jangle pop groups", "title": "Jangle pop" }, { "id": "9127955", "text": "Front\": Jam tomorrow Jam tomorrow or jam to-morrow (older spelling) is an expression for a never-fulfilled promise. It originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book \"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There\". This is a pun on a mnemonic for the usage of the Latin word \"iam\" (formerly often written and pronounced \"jam\"), which means \"at this time\", but only in the future or past tense, not in the present (which is instead \"nunc\" \"now\"). In the book, the White Queen offers Alice \"jam every other day\" as an inducement to work for her: In more recent times, the", "title": "Jam tomorrow" }, { "id": "9127953", "text": "Jam tomorrow Jam tomorrow or jam to-morrow (older spelling) is an expression for a never-fulfilled promise. It originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book \"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There\". This is a pun on a mnemonic for the usage of the Latin word \"iam\" (formerly often written and pronounced \"jam\"), which means \"at this time\", but only in the future or past tense, not in the present (which is instead \"nunc\" \"now\"). In the book, the White Queen offers Alice \"jam every other day\" as an inducement to work for her: In more recent times, the phrase", "title": "Jam tomorrow" }, { "id": "12978861", "text": "lick me in the arse\". More idiomatically, the phrase could be translated \"kiss my arse\" (American English \"kiss my ass\"). The second pun in the canon is based on the single Latin word \"jonicu\". Winternitz (1958) explains that when this word is sung repeatedly and rapidly, as in the canon, its syllables are liable to be heard as the Italian word \"cujoni\", or in modern writing \"coglioni\", meaning \"balls, testicles\". The line thus translates as \"It is difficult to lick my arse and balls\". Michael Quinn writes, \"Mozart clearly relished the incongruity resulting from ribald verse set as a canon,", "title": "Difficile lectu" }, { "id": "1278709", "text": "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! \"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!\" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Beatles for their 1967 album \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\". It was written and composed by John Lennon with additional input claimed by Paul McCartney. The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney. Most of the lyrics came from a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal appearance at Rochdale. It was one of three songs from the \"Sgt. Pepper\" album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase \"Henry the Horse\"", "title": "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" }, { "id": "413493", "text": "simultaneously released two albums, \"Alice\" and \"Blood Money\". Both collections had been written almost 10 years previously and were based on theatrical collaborations with Robert Wilson; the former a musical play about Lewis Carroll, and the latter an interpretation of Georg Büchner's play fragment \"Woyzeck\". Both albums revisit the tango, Tin Pan Alley, and spoken-word influences of \"Swordfishtrombones\", while the lyrics are both profoundly cynical and melancholic, exemplified by \"Misery is the River of the World\" and \"Everything Goes to Hell.\" \"Diamond in Your Mind\", which Waits wrote for Wilson's \"Woyzeck\", did not appear on \"Blood Money\"; however, it did", "title": "Tom Waits" }, { "id": "13240418", "text": "his ballet \"The Nutcracker\". Cherry Blossom Clinic \"Cherry Blossom Clinic\" is a song by British rock band The Move. The song tells the story of a man slipping into madness and what he imagines as he hallucinates in his clinic room. The song features a string and brass arrangement by Tony Visconti. Keeping with the theme of madness, a line in the song about a \"teatray in the sky\" is a reference from Lewis Carroll's \"Alice in Wonderland\". Although scheduled as the next single after the top 10 hit \"Flowers in the Rain\", the release was cancelled in the wake", "title": "Cherry Blossom Clinic" }, { "id": "20086724", "text": "his lost friendship with time and sings a little of the recitation he sang at the concert, which is a distorted parody of a popular nursery rhyme (\"Twinkle, Twinkle, little bat...\") The March Hare suggests the subject be changed and the Hatter votes for a story. After pinching and pulling the sleepy Dormouse awake, the March Hare and Hatter beg for a story, whilst Alice asks politely. The Dormouse tells a bizarre tale of three sisters who lived in a well and drew treacle from it. A curious Alice questions the logic of the story and is insulted by the", "title": "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (2001 Adrian Mitchell stage adaptation)" }, { "id": "748643", "text": "of the song at the time, McCartney later suggested that the line referred to either drugs or sex. The meaning of \"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\" became the subject of speculation, as many believed that the title was code for LSD. The song was banned by the BBC, as was \"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!\", for its reference to \"Henry the Horse\", a phrase that contains two common slang terms for heroin. Fans speculated that Henry the Horse was a drug dealer and \"Fixing a Hole\" was a reference to heroin use. Others noted lyrics such as", "title": "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" }, { "id": "10034942", "text": "that makes one sit up and take notice.\" Movie Music UK called the song \"wholly unremarkable ... it doesn't help that Alanis Morissette can't pronounce the word 'wunderkind' properly - it comes out as \"wander\" (as in walk around aimlessly) and \"kind\" (as in being nice to someone).\" Similarly, Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com wrote \"wait until you hear Alanis Morissette belt out her classless pronunciation of '[w]underkind'\", and compared it to Annie Lennox's \"Into the West\", a song on the soundtrack for the 2003 film \"\". \"Wunderkind\" was nominated for the 2006 Golden Globe for \"Best Original Song\" (see 63rd", "title": "Wunderkind (song)" }, { "id": "1356468", "text": "used commonly. \"Brunch\" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). Lewis Carroll's \"snark\" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be created through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing words or simply through playing with sounds. Neologisms can become popular through memetics, by way of mass media, the Internet, and word of mouth, including academic discourse in many fields renowned for their use of distinctive jargon, and often become accepted parts of the language. Other times, however, they disappear from common use just as readily as they appeared. Whether a neologism continues", "title": "Neologism" }, { "id": "14492691", "text": "Of Cabbages and Kings (band) Of Cabbages and Kings is an American noise rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Its name is a quote from Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\". The band's sound has been described as a \"highly visceral attack\" that is \"founded on a vivid technical mastery owing little to the commonly revered tenets of speed and/or flash, instead conjuring a brutal, primal power and intensity virtually unmatched in modern music.\" Formed from the ashes of the Bag People in 1985, the band's original lineup consisted of Algis Kizys (bass, vocals), Carolyn Master (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Ted Parsons", "title": "Of Cabbages and Kings (band)" }, { "id": "14385066", "text": "of which one has survived: \"La Guida di Bragia\". In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A romantic poem called \"Solitude\" appeared in \"The Train\" under the authorship of \"Lewis Carroll\". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: \"Lewis\" was the anglicised form of \"Ludovicus\", which was the Latin for \"Lutwidge\", and \"Carroll\" an Irish surname similar to the Latin name \"Carolus\", from which comes the name \"Charles\". The transition went as follows: \"Charles Lutwidge\" translated into Latin as \"Carolus Ludovicus\". This was then translated back into English", "title": "Lewis Carroll" }, { "id": "10905231", "text": "different times. The album contains parodies of Beatles numbers such as \"Ouch!\" (\"Help!\"), \"Hold My Hand\" (\"I Want to Hold Your Hand\", \"All My Loving\", \"She Loves You\" and \"Eight Days a Week\"), \"With a Girl Like You\" (\"If I Fell\"), \"Living in Hope\" (\"Don't Pass Me By\"), \"Love Life\" (\"All You Need is Love\"), \"Good Times Roll\" (\"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\"), \"Nevertheless\" (\"Within You Without You\", \"The Inner Light\"), \"Let’s Be Natural\" (“Julia (Beatles song)”\"Dear Prudence\"), \"Another Day\" (\"Martha My Dear\"), \"Piggy in the Middle\" (\"I Am the Walrus\") and \"Doubleback Alley\" (\"Penny Lane\"). The CD reissue", "title": "The Rutles (album)" }, { "id": "15593715", "text": "in 1973, Harrison viewed the concept of Apple as Lennon and McCartney's egos \"running away with themselves or with each other\". Harrison's relief from the tedium of business meetings through February and March 1969 was reflected in his composition \"Here Comes the Sun\", which he wrote in Eric Clapton's garden while \"sag[ging] off\" from Apple. Around the same time, Harrison wrote \"Run of the Mill\", a song addressing the failure of friendships within the band – or as he put it, \"the problem of partnerships\". The song title was a play on \"trouble at t'mill\", a Northern English term for", "title": "Run of the Mill (George Harrison song)" }, { "id": "4727405", "text": "success is arguably the source for the proverbial nature of his name in subsequent English culture—as when Anthony Trollope wrote a century later of \"the elegant fluency of a practised Lothario\". An allusion is made to Lothario in William Faulkner's \"Absalom, Absalom!\" when referring to Charles Bon, the proclaimed ladies-man and woman-seducer who is about to marry a woman while already being married. In the opera \"Mignon\" by Ambroise Thomas, Lothario is the elderly father of the heroine and in no way a seducer. The Bart Howard song, famously performed by Frank Sinatra, \"Man in the Looking Glass\" contains these", "title": "Lothario" }, { "id": "8938375", "text": "thirty-seven students were divided according to aptitude into three classes; the Sixth, Fifth, and Third class. The first graduating class in 1880 included Alice M. Mills, Charlotte W. Rogers, Vida D. Scudder, Mary L. Mason, Alice S. Rollins, and Miriam S. Witherspoon; all six were accepted to Smith College. In 1888, Abbie Farwell Brown, Sybil Collar, and Virginia Holbrook decided to create a school newspaper. The name \"Jabberwock\" was picked from a list that Abbie Farwell Brown submitted. It was taken from \"Jabberwocky\", the famous nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in \"Through the Looking Glass\". They wrote to Lewis", "title": "Boston Latin Academy" }, { "id": "14385068", "text": "widely assumed for many years to have derived his own \"Alice\" from Alice Liddell; the acrostic poem at the end of \"Through the Looking-Glass\" spells out her name in full, and there are also many superficial references to her hidden in the text of both books. It has been noted that Dodgson himself repeatedly denied in later life that his \"little heroine\" was based on any real child, and he frequently dedicated his works to girls of his acquaintance, adding their names in acrostic poems at the beginning of the text. Gertrude Chataway's name appears in this form at the", "title": "Lewis Carroll" }, { "id": "7054017", "text": "character presents Walser as an outsider travelling the Earth. Additionally, like Melville's renowned narrator, Walser considers himself the sole narrator, hoping to expose Fevvers for the fake that he initially believes her to be. In a further parallel, Walser soon withdraws into the background and becomes a mere commentator as Fevvers and Lizzie take the reins as the narrators of their own mesmerizing tale. Lewis Carroll: Many of the remarkable occurrences and exaggerated or absurd characters reflect Carroll's Alice books (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass), and the journey of the Hunting of the Snark. Walser himself quotes Alice", "title": "Nights at the Circus" }, { "id": "413484", "text": "one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative—and often harrowing—effect... Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.\" \"Bone Machine\" was awarded a Grammy in the Best Alternative Album category. On December 19, 1992 \"Alice\", Waits's second theatrical project with Robert Wilson, premiered at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll (\"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and \"Through the Looking-Glass\", in particular), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story,", "title": "Tom Waits" }, { "id": "9340362", "text": "Ann Stephens Ann Stephens (21 May 1931 – 15 July 1966) was a British child actress and singer, popular in the 1940s. She was born in London. In July 1941 she recorded several songs, including a popular version of \"The Teddy Bears' Picnic\", \"Dicky Bird Hop\" (with Franklin Engelmann) and a setting by Harold Fraser-Simson of one of A. A. Milne's verses about Christopher Robin, \"Buckingham Palace,\" which was often featured on the BBC Light Programme's Children's Favourites. In the same year she played Alice in musical recordings based on Lewis Carroll's \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and \"Through the Looking", "title": "Ann Stephens" }, { "id": "14676483", "text": "& Blue song \"Polka-Dot Undies\", which begins: Teasing rhymes have been popular since the 17th century. Though fairly rare in canonical literature, examples of mind rhyme can be found in the work of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore and others. In Lewis Carroll's \"'Tis the Voice of the Lobster\" it is generally assumed that the last words of the interrupted poem could be supplied by the reader as \"— eating the Owl\". Mind rhyme Mind rhyme is the suggestion of a rhyme which is left unsaid and must be inferred by the listener. Mind rhyme may be achieved either", "title": "Mind rhyme" }, { "id": "430794", "text": "\"crabs\" and \"feathers\". Chapter Six – Humpty Dumpty: After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in \"Jabberwocky\". In the process, he introduces Alice to the concept of portmanteau words, before his inevitable fall. Chapter Seven – The Lion and the Unicorn: \"\"All the king's horses and all the king's men\"\" come to Humpty Dumpty's assistance, and are accompanied by the White King, along with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out a nursery rhyme by fighting", "title": "Through the Looking-Glass" } ]

[ "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat did the dining in the poem of the same name by Edward Lear. A runcible spoon is a three-pronged fork, that's curved like a spoon and has a cutting edge" ]

[ { "id": "5128165", "text": "bong trees grow and discover a pig with a ring in his nose in a wood. They buy the ring for a shilling and are married the next day by a turkey. They dine on mince and quince using a \"runcible spoon\", then dance hand-in-hand on the sand in the moonlight. Portions of an unfinished sequel, \"The Children of the Owl and the Pussycat\" were published first posthumously, during 1938. How the pair procreated is unspecified but the children are part fowl and part cat. All love to eat mice. The family live round places with weird names where their", "title": "The Owl and the Pussycat" }, { "id": "14635919", "text": "the 1920s (several decades after Lear's death), modern dictionaries have generally defined a \"runcible spoon\" as a fork with three broad curved tines and a sharpened edge, used with pickles or hors d'oeuvres, such as a pickle fork. It is used as a synonym for \"spork\". However, this definition is not consistent with Lear's drawing, in which it is a ladle, nor does it account for the other \"runcible\" objects in Lear's poems. It is most often used to mean a \"grapefruit spoon\", a spoon with serrated edges around the bowl, or sometimes to mean a serving-spoon with a slotted", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "5128163", "text": "The Owl and the Pussycat \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book \"Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets\". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term \"runcible\", used for the phrase \"runcible spoon\", was invented for the poem. \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title", "title": "The Owl and the Pussycat" }, { "id": "14635917", "text": "Runcible \"Runcible\" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the \"runcible spoon\" used by the Owl and the Pussycat. The word \"runcible\" was apparently one of Lear's favourite inventions, appearing in several of his works in reference to a number of different objects. In his verse self-portrait, \"The Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense\", it is noted that \"he weareth a runcible hat\". Other poems include mention of a \"runcible cat\", a \"runcible goose\" (in the sense of \"silly person\"), and a \"runcible wall\". Edward", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "14635920", "text": "bowl. \"Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable\" defines a runcible spoon as: \"A horn spoon with a bowl at each end, one the size of a table-spoon and the other the size of a tea-spoon. There is a joint midway between the two bowls by which the bowls can be folded over.\" The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as \"a sharp-edged fork with three broad curved prongs\". Neither dictionary cites a source for these definitions. The \"Notes & Queries\" column in \"The Guardian\" also raised the question \"What is a runcible spoon?\" The fanciful answers proposed by readers included that it", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "5154915", "text": "at Swindon University) is named after the utensil with which The Owl and the Pussycat dine on \"mince and slices of quince\" in a nonsense rhyme by Edward Lear. Detective Inspector Oswald Mandias of Yorkshire CID (the policeman investigating the theft of the Jane Eyre manuscript from the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth) is named after Ozymandias, the eponymous subject of Shelley's 1818 sonnet. The head of JurisFiction. During the events of \"Lost in a Good Book\" and \"The Well of Lost Plots\", this position is filled by an unnamed individual who is only ever referred to by his title.", "title": "Characters in the Thursday Next series" }, { "id": "14635918", "text": "Lear's best-known poem, \"The Owl and the Pussycat\", published in 1871, includes the passage: Another mention of this piece of cutlery appears in the alphabetical illustrations \"Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures\". Its entry for D reads Lear often illustrated his own poems, and he drew a picture of the \"dolomphious duck\" holding in its beak a round-bowled spoon containing a frog. Lear does not appear to have had any firm idea of what the word \"runcible\" means. His whimsical nonsense verse celebrates words primarily for their sound, and a specific definition is not needed to appreciate his work. However, since", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "14635921", "text": "was a variety of spoon designed by Lear's friend George Runcy for the use of infants, or that it was a reference to a butler named Robert Runcie whose job included polishing the silver spoons. The final contribution pointed out that neither of these explained the runcible cat in \"The Pobble Who Has No Toes\" and simply suggested that \"runcible objects (spoons or cats) exist no more than pobbles or feline-hiboutic matrimony\". \"The Straight Dope\", while treating \"runcible\" as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word \"runcible\" etymologically to Roncevaux —", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "5128166", "text": "mother the cat died falling from a tall tree.This made the Owl become a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness. The money is all spent but the Owl still sings to the original guitar. The Owl and the Pussycat \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book \"Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets\". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term \"runcible\", used for the phrase", "title": "The Owl and the Pussycat" }, { "id": "14635922", "text": "the connection being that a runcible spoon's cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. \"The Straight Dope\" adds that \"modern students of runciosity\" link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective \"rouncival\", meaning \"gigantic\", also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. The whimsical feel of the word \"runcible\" has led to its appearance in diverse arenas. Runcible \"Runcible\" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The", "title": "Runcible" }, { "id": "137025", "text": "phrase \"runcible spoon,\" occurs in the closing lines of \"The Owl and the Pussycat,\" and is now found in many English dictionaries: Though famous for his neologisms, Lear used a number of other devices in his works in order to defy reader expectations. For example, \"Cold Are the Crabs\" conforms to the sonnet tradition until its dramatically foreshortened last line. Today, limericks are invariably typeset as four plus one lines. Lear's limericks, however, were published in a variety of formats; it appears that Lear wrote them in manuscript in as many lines as there was room for beneath the picture.", "title": "Edward Lear" }, { "id": "13388316", "text": "The gold belt-buckle is an unusual find, and would have been worn by a man; we know that belts decorated in various forms were important symbols of office or status in late Roman times, though few elements of them have survived. Its decoration, of a satyr carrying a \"pedum\" (shepherd's crook) and a bunch of grapes, accords with other hints at Bacchic imagery throughout the assemblage, in both the jewellery and the tableware. For example, the running feline animal on spoon (\"cochlear\") (item 66), originally identified as a panther or leopard, and referred to as the 'panther spoon', is certainly", "title": "Thetford Hoard" }, { "id": "18279516", "text": "the book, with several criticising the creation of shepherd's pie using canned mince and frozen mashed potato. Aldo Zilli compared the use of tinned lamb mince to dog food, while Brian Turner suggested that Smith would not eat those products herself. Simon Rimmer said that \"Convenience food has its place, but Delia has gone too far with the frozen mashed potato and the tinned meat.\" Dave Myers, one half of The Hairy Bikers, said that he couldn't conceive how the idea was meant to help with saving time, saying \"Why would you want to use a tin of mince to", "title": "How to Cheat at Cooking" }, { "id": "573809", "text": "the Middle English poem known as \"The Alliterative Morte Arthure\" (c.1400): \"Flesh flourisht of fermison, with frumentee noble.\" The dish, described as 'furmity' and served with fruit and a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a role in the plot of Thomas Hardy's novel \"The Mayor of Casterbridge\". It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll's \"Through the Looking-Glass\" as a food that snapdragon flies live on. Steve Roud, librarian and folklorist, compiled a compendium of \"The English Year\" including three recipes for frumenty. They show considerable variation with place and time. A healthy dose of spirit is often", "title": "Frumenty" }, { "id": "16537882", "text": "The Fox and the Weasel The Fox and the Weasel is a title used to cover a complex of fables in which a number of other animals figure in a story with the same basic situation involving the unfortunate effects of greed. Of Greek origin, it is counted as one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 24 in the Perry Index. In Greek versions of the story, a lean and hungry fox finds food left by shepherds in the hollow of a tree but is unable to get out again because it has eaten so much. Another fox hears its", "title": "The Fox and the Weasel" }, { "id": "2359171", "text": "Hey Diddle Diddle \"Hey Diddle Diddle\" (also \"Hi Diddle Diddle\", \"The Cat and the Fiddle\", or \"The Cow Jumped Over the Moon\") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478. A common modern version of the rhyme is<poem>Hey Diddle Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.</poem> The rhyme is the source of the English expression \"over the moon\", meaning \"delighted, thrilled, extremely happy\". <score vorbis=\"1\"> \\new Staff « \\clef treble \\key f", "title": "Hey Diddle Diddle" }, { "id": "8461233", "text": "Adversary\" was adapted into a teleplay and broadcast in 1983 by London Weekend Television as part of that television network's \"Partners in Crime\" series. Another story, the short story \"The Sunningdale Mystery\" from the \"Partners in Crime\" series, opens with Tommy and his partner Tuppence eating in an A.B.C. shop having a cheese cake. In a poem composed in 1917 and first published in 1919, T.S. Eliot asks, \"Where are the eagles and the trumpets?\" His answer: Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. <br>Over buttered scones and crumpets <br>Weeping, weeping multitudes <br>Droop in a hundred A.B.C.’s. The story is set in", "title": "Aerated Bread Company" }, { "id": "18000654", "text": "\"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\" by Dodie Smith \"Just William\" by Richmal Crompton \"Born to Run\" by Michael Morpurgo \"David Copperfield\" by Charles Dickens \"Shadow, the Sheep-Dog\" by Enid Blyton \"The Knife of Never Letting Go\" by Patrick Ness \"Because of Winn-Dixie\" by Kate DiCamillo \"The Werepuppy\" by Jacqueline Wilson </poem> The \"Pets' Corner\" section of the book is where famous authors (such as Horrid Henry's Francesca Simon and The Magic Faraway Tree's Enid Blyton) talk about their pets. CBBC has done a book club report on it by Katie Thistleton, citing part of it as a \"brilliant read\". People", "title": "Paws and Whiskers" }, { "id": "6849960", "text": "their sleep; nothing more is said of them. Gorcrow is an old term for Carrion crow, a common Eurasian scavenging bird. The Mewlips The Mewlips is a hobbit poem, appearing in the work \"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil\" by J.R.R. Tolkien. It concerns the \"Mewlips\", an imaginary race of evil creatures that feed on passers by, collecting their bones in a sack. The poem describes the long and lonely road needed to reach the Mewlips, travelling beyond the Merlock Mountains, and through the marsh of Tode and the wood of \"hanging trees and gallows-weed\". None of these names appear on", "title": "The Mewlips" }, { "id": "6231390", "text": "serving food that does not involve liquid; the cheeseboard is perhaps the most common type in the West. An individual salt dish or squat open salt cellar placed near a trencher was called a \"trencher salt\". A \"trencherman\" is one devoted to eating and drinking, often to excess; one with a hearty appetite, a gourmand. A secondary use, generally archaic, is one who frequents another's table, in essence a pilferer of another's food. A \"trencher-fed pack\" is a pack of foxhounds or harriers in which the hounds are kept individually by hunt members and only assembled as a pack to", "title": "Trencher (tableware)" }, { "id": "13719048", "text": "Blake's \"The Tiger\" and Rudyard Kipling's \"A Smuggler's Song\": \"Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark\". Though agreeing that the metre is \"almost indispensable for comic purposes\", the editors also selected serious examples, by among others Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts and Robert Browning – \"The Lost Leader\": \"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat\". Nonetheless the poet most represented in this section is Edward Lear, with \"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat\", \"The Quangle Wangle's Hat\" and \"How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear\". In their introduction to this section,", "title": "An Eton Poetry Book" }, { "id": "14277611", "text": "apart as Scotland and Nova Scotia, where they are referred to as \"Cliar Sheanachain\" (Senchan's lot) or \"Cleith Sheanchair\". A popular Highland tale featuring Senchan is \"Great Bríd of the Horses\" which is based on 'Tromdámh Guaire'. William Shakespeare mentions the power of Irish poets \"\"rhyming rats to death\"\", a remark apparently based on an incident when Seanchan, finding that rats had eaten his dinner, uttered the vindictive aer: \"\"Rats have sharp snouts/Yet are poor fighters...\"\" which killed ten of them on the spot. Senchán Torpéist Senchán Torpéist (c. 560–647 AD) was a Gaelic-Irish poet. Seanchan Torpest was the Chief", "title": "Senchán Torpéist" }, { "id": "2364736", "text": "found in \"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\" by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word \"jabberwocky\" is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literary nonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways. Its best-known exponent is Edward Lear, author of \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme \"Hey Diddle Diddle\" could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works", "title": "Nonsense" }, { "id": "16539274", "text": "as the template for Richard Johnson's version of the story of St. George and the dragon, in his immensely popular romance \"The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom\" (1596–97). Shakespeare's lines in \"Henry VIII\", Act I, scene 1, \"that former fabulous story/Being now seen possible enough, got credit,/That Bevis was believed\", show his knowledge of the romance. In \"King Lear\" Act III, scene iv, Edgar's lines \"But mice and rats, and such small deer,/Have been Tom’s food for seven long year\" are taken from \"Beves\"’s \"Rattes and myce and suche smal dere/Was his mete that seven yere\". Similar", "title": "Beves of Hamtoun (poem)" }, { "id": "6736136", "text": "about spoo by fans on various internet message boards on which he frequently participated. At first, Straczynski's responses were terse: \"Spoo is.\" In another early post, he explained how he created the word: \"Spoo is Oops spelled backward.\" He eventually noted that the taste of spoo is that of \"Meat Jello. Served chilled.\" After years of speculation from \"Babylon 5\" fans, Straczynski finally offered an extensive explanation of the origins and nature of spoo. He said spoo are tiny, pasty, mealworm-like creatures that travel slowly in herds. Their main behavior is sighing, which \"can reportedly induce unparalleled bouts of depression\"", "title": "Spoo" }, { "id": "2638268", "text": "Mail\". In 1978, at age 34, he retired from the newspaper in order to pursue novel-writing as his primary career, inspired by some long-ago reading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's \"The Secret Garden\". His first novel, \"Duncton Wood\", an allegorical tale about a community of moles, was published in 1980. It was followed by two sequels, forming \"The Duncton Chronicles\", and also a second trilogy, \"The Book of Silence\". William Horwood has also written two stand-alone novels intertwining the lives of humans and of eagles (\"The Stonor Eagles\" and \"Callanish\"), and \"The Wolves of Time\" duology. \"Skallagrigg,\" his 1987 novel about", "title": "William Horwood (novelist)" }, { "id": "1426037", "text": "of whom claimed that Lecter unwittingly ate his sister as well. All media in which Lecter appears portray him as intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. He is frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals from his victims' flesh, the most famous example being his admission that he once ate a census taker's liver \"with some fava beans and a nice Chianti\" (a \"big Amarone\" in the novel). He is deeply offended by rudeness, and frequently kills people who have bad manners. Prior to his capture and imprisonment, he was a member of Baltimore, Maryland's", "title": "Hannibal Lecter" }, { "id": "12877526", "text": "way he ate them. He'd put a dab of mustard on each and eat it whole, shell and all.' The Irish American A.C. behemoths always were the life of any party.\" Another tale of the Irish Whales' voracious appetites came from Arthur Daly's typewriter twenty-two years later. In a \"Times\" column in 1964 he wrote: \"Some of their more prodigious feats were at the table. The Irish American A.C. was competing in Baltimore when (Simon) Gillis placed an order for a post-meet snack with the head waiter at a local restaurant. He ordered 27 dozen oysters and six huge T-bone", "title": "Irish Whales" }, { "id": "6101919", "text": "presence of arsenic sulfides and warning of arsenic poisoning. A late 18th century silver spoon can still be regularly bought for less than £10, but the sale of the Benson Collection at Christies in June 2013 saw many spoons make high five figure sums, with the top price for a single spoon being £91,000 for a spoon dating from circa 1440. The phrase \"born with a silver spoon in his mouth\" appeared in print in English as early as 1719, in Peter Anthony Motteux's translation of the novel \"Don Quixote\": \"Mum, Teresa, quoth Sancho, 'tis not all Gold that glisters", "title": "Silver spoon" }, { "id": "3420194", "text": "France in 1940. The character \"Stalky\" (based on Lionel Dunsterville) from Rudyard Kipling's \"Stalky & Co.\" (1899) has Surtees's \"Handley Cross\" by heart and quotes from it repeatedly. The novels of Surtees are mentioned several times in Siegfried Sassoon's 1928 autobiographical novel \"Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man\". Mr. Jorrocks' phrase \"my beloved 'earers\" often appears in the speech of children in the books of Monica Marsden. Anthony Blanche, as he prepares Charles Ryder for their dinner outing to Thame in \"Brideshead Revisited\", says that they will \"imagine ourselves…where? Not on a j-j-jaunt with J-J-Jorrocks anyway. \" \"There were \"Jorrocks' Jaunts", "title": "Robert Smith Surtees" }, { "id": "41259", "text": "author's works are as follows: Shakespeare: \"\"Sir Toby Belch\": She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me: what o' that?\" \"Twelfth Night\" (c. 1600) Act II Scene III Webster: \"\"Mistress Tenterhook\"': You are a sweet beagle\" \"Westward Ho\" (1607) Act III Scene IV:2 Dryden: \"The rest in shape a beagle's whelp throughout, With broader forehead and a sharper snout\" \"The Cock and the Fox\", and again: \"About her feet were little beagles seen\" in \"Palamon and Arcite\" both from \"Fables, Ancient and Modern\" (1700) Tickell: \"Here let me trace beneath the purpled morn, The deep-mouth'd beagle, and the sprightly", "title": "Beagle" }, { "id": "11976894", "text": "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Mini Grey, published by Jonathan Cape in 2006. It won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the U.K. It was also bronze runner up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years.> The title alludes to \"Hey Diddle Diddle\", an English nursery rhyme whose last line is \"And the Dish ran away with the Spoon\". According to the British librarians, the", "title": "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon" }, { "id": "11075756", "text": "series) and Tom Baker (on \"The Boy Who Kicked Pigs\"). \"Mouse Noses on Toast\" by Daren King won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize (ages 6–8 years) in 2006, after which King and Roberts collaborated on other titles including \"Peter the Penguin Pioneer\", \"Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots\" and \"The Frightfully Friendly Ghosties\" series. Roberts also creates picture books for younger readers, some in collaboration with other writers. The best known may be those written by the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate, Julia Donaldson (\"Tyrannosaurus Drip\", \"The Troll\" and most recently \"Jack and the Flum Flum Tree\"). Others include \"Iggy Peck,", "title": "David Roberts (illustrator)" }, { "id": "17533636", "text": "his head he stayed in his basket and hardly dared to move. Mrs Sprod cooked too much so she let Monty have the extra meat chop. In \"Monty's picnic\" the Sprod family were going to the seaside. When they stopped for petrol Monty sneaked out to the picnic hamper on top of the car to eat the mince pies. The car started again whilst Monty was still in the hamper and he got sick. When the Sprod family realised Monty was gone they screeched to a halt and Monty was hurled out though he was not hurt but the picnic", "title": "Monty the Dog who wears glasses" }, { "id": "208711", "text": "is described by Humpty as \"a sort of green pig\". Carroll's notes for the original in \"Mischmasch\" suggest a \"rath\" is \"a species of Badger\" that \"lived chiefly on cheese\" and had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag. The appendices to certain \"Looking Glass\" editions, however, state that the creature is \"a species of land turtle\" that lived on swallows and oysters. Later critics added their own interpretations of the lexicon, often without reference to Carroll's own contextual commentary. An extended analysis of the poem and Carroll's commentary is given in the book \"The", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "13701068", "text": "15th-century cookbook gives a bake mete recipe for a pear custard pie. Describing the franklin in the 14th-century classic \"The Canterbury Tales\", Chaucer said: \"\"Withoute bake mete was nevere his hous, Of fissh and flessh, and that so plentvous\"\". The best meat might be reserved for the wealthy, while their servants ate inferior pies made of the left-over \"umbles\" – liver, heart, tripes, and other offal, hence the term \"eating humble pie\". In medieval times, birds that might be found in a game pie included heron, crane, crow, swan, stork, cormorant, and bittern as well as smaller birds trapped by", "title": "Game pie" }, { "id": "69928", "text": "based on context. Other people in the Middle Ages occasionally disputed its applicability; for instance, the 15th-century French poet Martin le Franc, wrote: <poem>Don't you see that it was forbidden That anyone should eat of an animal Unless it had a cleft foot And chewed its cud? To eat of a hare no one dared Neither of sow nor of piglet, Yet should you now be offered any, You would take many a morsel.</poem> Cross-dressing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain was frequent among actors, and the theater was at the time the most popular form of entertainment. There was a", "title": "Cross-dressing" }, { "id": "20211147", "text": "her grandmother, but she discovers that there is a note pinned to her pillow. The note reads, \"Dear Red: Got tired of waiting. Have gone to Three Bears' house to eat up Little Goldilocks. Love, the Wolf\". Red immediately goes to the telephone and starts dialing. As sleepy little Golilocks (presumably from eating 3 big bowls of porridge) is climbing the stairs, the phone rings. She runs back down stairs and answers the phone. It's Red calling to warn her about the Wolf. She passes the note to Goldilocks over the split frame and as she finishes reading the note,", "title": "The Bear's Tale" }, { "id": "6612748", "text": "received with much acclaim and extended his fame to a wider audience. He illustrated the 1910 edition of Charles Dickens' \"The Pickwick Papers\". A popular book by Aldin was \"Sleeping Partners\", a sequence of pastel drawings of his dogs on a couch. It included his Irish Wolfhound Micky, a puppy he purchased from Florence Nagle as a gift for his wife, and his favourite model, Cracker, a Bull Terrier with a dark patch over one eye. Aldin moved to the Henley area as his interest in hunting, horses and dogs increased and in 1910 he became Master of the South", "title": "Cecil Aldin" }, { "id": "5673883", "text": "400 swans and 400 herons, 113 oxen, six wild bulls, 608 pikes and bream, 12 porpoises and seals, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, 2000 pigs, 1000 capons, 400 plovers, 200 dozen of a bird called 'rees' (i.e. ruffs), 4000 mallard and teals, 204 kids and 204 bitterns, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 400 woodcocks, 100 curlews, 1000 egrets, over 500 stags, bucks and roes, 4000 cold and 1500 hot venison pies, 4000 dishes of jelly, 4000 baked tarts, 2000 hot custards with a proportionate quantity of bread, sugared delicacies and cakes, and 300 tuns of ale and 100 tuns of wine. As", "title": "George Neville (Archbishop)" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "14691753", "text": "until its split in the 1240s. It was common for Mongol armies to follow different groups of animals (such as herds of horses or oxen or flocks of sheep) that provided the necessary protein for the warriors' diets. Marco Polo also recorded descriptions of the culinary customs of the Mongol warriors, indicating that the flesh of a single pony could provide one day's sustenance for 100 warriors. When Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan (1215–1294) invaded Moscow, he and his warriors introduced minced horsemeat to the Muscovites. This was later called \"steak tartare\". The city states of what is now Germany", "title": "History of the hamburger" }, { "id": "6885016", "text": "documentary use of words, based on suggestions from the British public. Victoria Coren then took the evidence they had found to a panel of \"OED\" staff, who decided whether this evidence was sufficient to include in the dictionary. \"Balderdash and Piffle\" is also the name given to two books written by Alex Games. The first, titled \"Balderdash and Piffle\" was published by BBC Books in 2006. A second book, also by Alex Games and published by BBC Books, is titled \"Balderdash and Piffle: One sandwich short of a dog's dinner\" and accompanied the second series of the show. The two", "title": "Balderdash and Piffle" }, { "id": "1286066", "text": "(\"Meleagris gallopavo\") have a diet primarily of vegetation, they will eat insects, mice, lizards, and amphibians, wading in water to hunt for the latter. Domestic hens (\"Gallus domesticus\") share this opportunistic behaviour and will eat insects, mice, worms, and amphibians. The tragopans (\"Tragopan\"), mikado pheasant (\"Syrmaticus mikado\"), and several species of grouse and ptarmigan are exceptional in their largely vegetarian and arboreal foraging habitats; grouse are especially notable for being able to feed on plants rich in terpenes and quinones – such as sagebrush or conifers –, which are often avoided by other herbivores. Many species of moderate altitudes—for example", "title": "Galliformes" }, { "id": "20859614", "text": "picnic placed in one footnote spanning several pages. Two and a Half Men in a Boat Two and a Half Men in a Boat is a 1993 travelogue book written by English novelist, screenwriter and playwright Nigel Williams describing his travel on the Thames inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's book Three Men in a Boat. The book has been described as\"a whimsical account of a lazy trip up the Thames with friends\" but was written to pay a tax bill of 28,000 pounds. Like Jerome, Williams travels in a skiff with his dog Badger and two friends, BBC executive Alan", "title": "Two and a Half Men in a Boat" }, { "id": "15605331", "text": "from any other book by Elizabeth David. Yet in a sense it includes them, holds them together. We feel closer to Mrs David herself in this book, and I suppose it is the closest we are likely to get to an autobiography\" The article from which the volume takes its title is an essay on \"the almost primitive and elemental meal evoked by the words: 'Let's just have an omelette and a glass of wine.'\" Among the other subjects are profiles of people including Norman Douglas, Marcel Boulestin, Mrs Beeton, and \"A gourmet in Edwardian London\", Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis. Several", "title": "Elizabeth David bibliography" }, { "id": "8251143", "text": "Rowling was asked by the Royal Society of Literature to nominate her top ten books every child should read. Included in her list were \"Wuthering Heights\" by Emily Brontë, \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" by Roald Dahl, \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, \"David Copperfield\" by Charles Dickens, \"Hamlet\" by William Shakespeare, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Animal Farm\" by George Orwell, \"The Tale of Two Bad Mice\" by Beatrix Potter, \"The Catcher in the Rye\" by J. D. Salinger and \"Catch-22\" by Joseph Heller. There are a number of fictional works to which \"Harry Potter\" has been repeatedly", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "id": "830705", "text": "the risk of flying from place to place while having the possible downside of sending the player to a location they hadn't intended to go. Squiggs are fairly small fish that are typically eaten \"oolated.\" The fish were a key plot element in the Don Rosa story \"Oolated Luck,\" and the words \"squigg\" and \"oolated\" were coined by Rosa's idol Carl Barks in an earlier story, which Rosa based his story on. Conserved oolated squiggs are fairly cheap and wholesome food but don't taste particularly good, and smell worse. Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander once took part in a competition", "title": "Donald Duck universe" }, { "id": "1750302", "text": "Common brushtail possum The common brushtail possum (\"Trichosurus vulpecula\", from the Greek for \"furry tailed\" and the Latin for \"little fox\", previously in the genus \"Phalangista\") is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, it is native to Australia, and the second largest of the possums. Like most possums, the common brushtail possum is nocturnal. It is mainly a folivore, but has been known to eat small mammals such as rats. In most Australian habitats, leaves of eucalyptus are a significant part of the diet but rarely the sole item eaten. The tail is prehensile and naked on its", "title": "Common brushtail possum" }, { "id": "499344", "text": "to Dalí when he was staring at a runny piece of Camembert cheese on a hot August day. The elephant is also a recurring image in Dalí's works. It appeared in his 1944 work \"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening\". The elephants, inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture base in Rome of an elephant carrying an ancient obelisk, are portrayed \"with long, multijointed, almost invisible legs of desire\" along with obelisks on their backs. Coupled with the image of their brittle legs, these encumbrances, noted for their phallic overtones, create a", "title": "Salvador Dalí" }, { "id": "5844313", "text": "a princess who takes refuge in a cave inhabited by three Russian princes dressed in bearskins. She eats their food and hides under a bed. In 1865, Charles Dickens referenced a similar tale in \"Our Mutual Friend\", but in that story the house belongs to hobgoblins rather than bears. Dickens' reference however suggests a yet-to-be-discovered analogue or source. Hunting rituals and ceremonies have been suggested and dismissed as possible origins. In 1894, \"Scrapefoot\", a tale with a fox as antagonist that bears striking similarities to Southey's story, was uncovered by the folklorist Joseph Jacobs and may predate Southey's version in", "title": "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" }, { "id": "1592171", "text": "creates, her ability to do this is the reason why she is one of the top five Irish writers. She also is one of very few authors who portray the Catholic church in a positive light. In 1994, Binchy appeared on \"Morningside\" with Peter Gzowski. In 1999, Binchy appeared on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\". In 2009, she appeared on \"The Meaning of Life\" with Gay Byrne. Binchy and her husband had a cameo appearance together in \"Fair City\" on 14 December 2011, during which the couple dined in The Hungry Pig. In 1978, Binchy won a Jacob's Award for her", "title": "Maeve Binchy" }, { "id": "2025842", "text": "his novels \"The Ordeal of Richard Fevered\" (1859) and \"The Egotist\" (1879). \"His reputation stood very high well into\" the 20th century but then seriously declined. An interest in rural matters and the changing social and economic situation of the countryside is seen in the novels of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928). A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. He gained fame as the author of such novels as, \"Far from the Madding Crowd\" (1874), \"The Mayor of Casterbridge\" (1886), \"Tess of the d'Urbervilles\"", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "2005717", "text": "as Geoffrey Chaucer's \"Canterbury Tales\" (1387), Miguel de Cervantes' \"Don Quixote\" (1605), William Shakespeare's \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\" (c.1608), Laurence Sterne's \"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman\" (1759), William Makepeace Thackeray's \"Vanity Fair\" (1847), as well as more recent works such as J.R.R. Tolkien's \"The Lord of the Rings\" (1954–1955), or Douglas Adams' \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\" (1979). Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's \"Lost in the Funhouse\", Robert Coover's \"The Babysitter\" and \"The Magic Poker\", Kurt Vonnegut's \"Slaughterhouse-Five\", John Fowles' \"The French Lieutenant's Woman\", Thomas", "title": "Metafiction" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "383592", "text": "Nighy, and in the 2010s it was serialised as part of the \"Woman's Hour\" radio magazine programme. One audiobook edition of Pepys' diary selections is narrated by Kenneth Branagh. A fictionalised Pepys narrates the second chapter of Harry Turtledove's science fiction novel \"A Different Flesh\" (serialised 1985–1988, book form 1988). This chapter is entitled \"And So to Bed\" and written in the form of entries from the Pepys diary. The entries detail Pepys' encounter with American \"Homo erectus\" specimens (imported to London as beasts of burden) and his formation of the \"transformational theory of life,\" thus causing evolutionary theory to", "title": "Samuel Pepys" }, { "id": "8870507", "text": "bodyguards, and conduct business outside. On the day that Rothstein was killed, his last place before the murder was Lindy's and he received a phone call at Lindy´s. Damon Runyon was a big fan and wrote the restaurant into his books as \"Mindy's.\" The musical \"Guys and Dolls\", based on Runyon's writings, immortalizes Lindy's in one of its songs. The commonly told \"Waiter, there's a fly in my soup\" joke is theorised to have originated at Lindy's during its original incarnation. Lindy's Lindy's was a deli and restaurant chain with three locations in Manhattan, New York City. Lindy's closed as", "title": "Lindy's" }, { "id": "6632579", "text": "Jan Brett Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She is known for colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures ranging from Scandinavia to Africa. Her best-known titles include \"The Mitten\", \"The Hat\", and \"Gingerbread Baby\". She has adapted or retold numerous traditional stories such as the Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks and has illustrated some classics such as \"\"The Owl and the Pussycat\"\". Brett was born and still lives in Massachusetts. She decided to be an illustrator as a child and recalls, \"I felt that I", "title": "Jan Brett" }, { "id": "17148147", "text": "serving a more plausible dinner, beginning with the \"gustatio\", which was a composed salad of mallow leaves, lettuce, chopped leeks, mint, arugula, mackerel garnished with rue, sliced eggs, and marinated sow udder. The main course was succulent cuts of kid, beans, greens, a chicken, and leftover ham, followed by a dessert of fresh fruit and vintage wine. Roman books on agriculture include a few recipes. A book-length collection of Roman recipes is attributed to Apicius, a name for several figures in antiquity that became synonymous with \"gourmet\": \"the recipes are written haphazardly, as if someone familiar with the workings of", "title": "Food and dining in the Roman Empire" }, { "id": "1807752", "text": "Tintner include \"The Secret Garden\" (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; \"Poor Girl\" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; \"The Peacock Spring\" (1975), by Rumer Godden; \"Ghost Story\" (1975) by Peter Straub; \"The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly\" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and \"Miles and Flora\" (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include \"Affinity\" (1999), by Sarah Waters; \"A Jealous Ghost\" (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and \"Florence & Giles\" (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by \"The Turn of the Screw\" include \"The Turning\" (2012) by Francine Prose and \"Tighter\" (2011) by Adele Griffin.", "title": "The Turn of the Screw" }, { "id": "208724", "text": "relating to the parodied subject, as in Frank Jacobs's \"If Lewis Carroll Were a Hollywood Press Agent in the Thirties\" in \"Mad for Better or Verse\". Other writers use the poem as a form, much like a sonnet, and create their own words for it as in \"Strunklemiss\" by S. K. Azoulay or the poem \"Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly\" recited by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in Douglas Adams' \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\", a book which contains numerous other references and homages to Carroll's work. <poem> Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.", "title": "Jabberwocky" }, { "id": "17725827", "text": "and Fortunio<br> Medusa: A wanton's Goates braine, and the Liver of a purple Doove. A Cockes eye, and a Capons spurre, the left legge of a Quaile: a Ganders tung, a mounting Eagles tayle. Macbeth- Second Witch: Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, The \"deceived lover\" plot is a version of that used in \"Much Ado About Nothing\". Fidele and Fortunio Fidele and Fortunio was a comedy written by Anthony Munday", "title": "Fidele and Fortunio" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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But their rich and delicious metropolitan feast is interrupted by a couple of dogs which force the rodent cousins to abandon their meal and scurry to safety. After this, the country mouse decides to return home, preferring security to opulence or, as the 13th-century preacher Odo of Cheriton phrased it, \"I'd rather gnaw a bean than be gnawed by continual fear\". The story was widespread in Classical times and there is an early Greek version by Babrius (Fable 108). Horace included it as part of one of his satires (II.6), ending on this", "title": "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" }, { "id": "15608882", "text": "Shaw and others in a charity matinée performance of Gilbert's \"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern\" at the Garrick Theatre. Newnham-Davis was best known for his writings about food and wine. His \"Dinners and Diners – Where and How to Dine in London\" was published in 1899, with a second edition in 1901. In 1903 he published \"The Gourmet's Guide to Europe\", written in collaboration with Algernon Bastard. A second edition was published in 1908 and a third in 1911. \"The New York Times\" wrote of him: \"He is not of a domestic turn. The people of the gay world he affects breakfast", "title": "Nathaniel Newnham-Davis" }, { "id": "19613346", "text": "\"Whistlejacket\". Animals as varied as bees, beetles, mice, foxes, crocodiles and elephants play a wide variety of roles in literature and film, from \"Aesop's Fables\" of the classical era to Rudyard Kipling's \"Just So Stories\" and Beatrix Potter's \"little books\" starting with the 1901 \"Tale of Peter Rabbit\". A genre of films has been based on oversized insects, including the pioneering 1954 \"Them!\", featuring giant ants mutated by radiation, and the 1957 \"The Deadly Mantis\". Birds have occasionally featured in film, as in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 \"The Birds\", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which", "title": "Human uses of animals" }, { "id": "647596", "text": "a variety of fabulous and frightening grotesques or monsters. These included the chimera, a mythical hybrid creature which usually had the body of a lion and the head of a goat, and the Strix or stryge, a creature resembling an owl or bat, which was said to eat human flesh. The \"strix\" appeared in classical Roman literature; it was described by the Roman poet Ovid, who was widely read in the Middle Ages, as a large-headed bird with transfixed eyes, rapacious beak, and greyish white wings. They were part of the visual message for the illiterate worshipers, symbols of the", "title": "Gothic architecture" }, { "id": "6900163", "text": "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a children's picture book written by Eugene Trivizas (Evgenios Trivizas), illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and first published by Heinemann in 1993. The story is a comically inverted version of the classic \"Three Little Pigs\", a traditional fable published in the 19th century. Oxenbury was highly commended runner-up for the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. The \"Highly Commended\" distinction was used 31 times in 29 years to 2002,", "title": "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig" }, { "id": "766991", "text": "ingenuity and craftiness, and Dandelion's and Bluebell's poetry and storytelling all have parallels in the epic poem \"Odyssey\". Kenneth Kitchell declared, \"Hazel stands in the tradition of Odysseus, Aeneas, and others\". Tolkien scholar John Rateliff calls Adams's novel an \"Aeneid\" \"what-if\" book: what if the seer Cassandra (Fiver) had been believed and she and a company had fled Troy (Sandleford Warren) before its destruction? What if Hazel and his companions, like Odysseus, encounter a seductive home at Cowslip's Warren (Land of the Lotus Eaters)? Rateliff goes on to compare the rabbits' battle with Woundwort's Efrafans to Aeneas's fight with Turnus's", "title": "Watership Down" }, { "id": "7995178", "text": "begins to suspect the Gingerbreadman is a hired assassin and attempts to question the Quangle-Wangle, a reclusive industrialist. The solution to the mystery involves secret industrial and government conspiracies and the mysterious Fourth bear... After more investigations Jack comes across a cottage of three bears who knew Goldilocks. They say that she ate the little bear's porridge and broke his bed, like the rhyme. He also makes investigations into Ursine Developments, the flats for bears. You came across these at the start of the book when Jack caught them smuggling oats into the flats for oat addicts. This is illegal", "title": "The Fourth Bear" }, { "id": "349301", "text": "egg, olives, bay leaves, laurel twig, and anise. He gives instructions for kneading bread, making porridge, Placenta cake, brine, various wines, preserving lentils, planting asparagus, curing ham, and fattening geese and squab. The Roman poet Horace mentions another Roman favorite, the olive, in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: \"As for me, olives, endives, and smooth mallows provide sustenance.\" Meat, fish and produce were a part of the Roman diet at all levels of society. Romans valued fresh fruit, and had a diverse variety available to them. Wine was considered the basic drink, consumed at", "title": "Roman Republic" }, { "id": "2098769", "text": "characterized by influences that can be traced back to the chivalry tales of Medieval Europe, such as the legends of Robin Hood and King Arthur. It soon created its own drafts based on classic examples like \"The Mark of Zorro\" (1920), \"The Three Musketeers (1921)\", \"Scaramouche (1923)\" and \"The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)\". Some films did also use motifs of pirate stories. Often these films were adaptations of classic historic novels published by well-known authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Baroness Emma Orczy, Sir Walter Scott, Johnston McCulley, and Edmond Rostand. Swashbucklers are one of the most flamboyant Hollywood film", "title": "Swashbuckler" }, { "id": "5627485", "text": "reply \"Here, by these rocks / And his favourite food is roasted fox\", with similar lines for the remaining two predators. \"The Gruffalo\" was sent to Reid Books in 1995. Donaldson sent the text to Axel Scheffler, whom she had met only once or twice, briefly, following the publication of \"A Squash and a Squeeze\". Within days Macmillan Children's Books made an offer to publish \"The Gruffalo\", which was illustrated by Scheffler and published in 1999. \"The Gruffalo\" was an immediate success, going on to win several awards, including the Smarties Prize (1999). It has subsequently been translated into more", "title": "Julia Donaldson" }, { "id": "7706864", "text": "market was in truth the ship's cook who had planned to turn Little Pig Robinson into a fine feast for the ship's men. With the help of the ship's resident cat, Little Pig Robinson escapes on a rowboat and finds his way to \"the land where the Bong tree grows\". Some time later Pig Robinson meets the Owl and the Pussycat there. Potter began writing \"The Tale of Little Pig Robinson\" in 1893 after a holiday to Falmouth and other coastal towns where she gained inspiration from the landscape. \"Pig Robinson\" was written as a prequel to Edward Lear's poem", "title": "The Tale of Little Pig Robinson" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "12772059", "text": "in \"The Times\". The reviewer declared, \"Women in a thriller should be decorative, not pivotal.\" The \"TLS\", in contrast, praised the book's description of atmosphere and scenery. Each year links to corresponding \"[year] in literature\" or \"[year] in poetry\" article: Buchan also wrote introductions for literary works — including \"Don Quixote\" and the 1994 Oxford Classics edition of his father's thriler \"Mr Standfast\". William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir William James de L'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (10 January 1916 – 29 June 2008), also known as \"William Tweedsmuir\", was an English peer and author of novels, short stories, memoirs and", "title": "William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir" }, { "id": "7323947", "text": "\"Barclay's Beat\" starring Jeff Garland. For the screen, he adapted the play \"Spinning Into Butter\" starring Sarah Jessica Parker. His screenplays include \"Thinly Disguised\", \"High D/Low C\" and \"Dashing Through The Snow\". His novels include \"The Pug That Ate Paris\", a humorous novel about a Paris-based talking dog food critic bon vivant. He also wrote \"The Eiffel Tower Prophecy\" which is a Paris time-travel novel. In 2013 his parody on the pundit Ann Coulter came out: \"Never Trust Ann Coulter: An Unauthorized, Autobiographical Parody\". He is co-author with Sheldon Woodbury of the George W. Bush parody \"W. The First Hundred", "title": "D. B. Gilles" }, { "id": "5844326", "text": "turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their beds, at which point is the climax of Goldilocks being discovered. This follows three earlier sequences of Goldilocks trying the bowls of porridge, chairs, and beds successively, each time finding the third \"just right\". Author Christopher Booker characterises this as the \"dialectical three\", where \"the first is wrong in one way, the second in another or opposite way, and only the third, in the middle, is just right\". Booker continues: \"This idea that the way forward lies in finding an exact middle", "title": "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" }, { "id": "1407496", "text": "Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for \"The Wind in the Willows\" (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote \"The Reluctant Dragon\". Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's \"Toad of Toad Hall\" was the first. The Disney films \"The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad\" and \"The Reluctant Dragon\" are other adaptations. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a little more than a year old, his father,", "title": "Kenneth Grahame" }, { "id": "3420190", "text": "his own with the \"New Sporting Magazine\" in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as \"Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities\" in 1838. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, and Surtees produced more Jorrocks novels in the same vein, notably \"Handley Cross\" and \"Hillingdon Hall\", where the description of the house is very reminiscent of Hamsterley. Another hero, Soapey Sponge, appears in \"Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour\", possibly Surtees best work. All Surtees' novels were composed at Hamsterley Hall, where he wrote standing up at a desk, like Victor Hugo.", "title": "Robert Smith Surtees" }, { "id": "6849959", "text": "The Mewlips The Mewlips is a hobbit poem, appearing in the work \"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil\" by J.R.R. Tolkien. It concerns the \"Mewlips\", an imaginary race of evil creatures that feed on passers by, collecting their bones in a sack. The poem describes the long and lonely road needed to reach the Mewlips, travelling beyond the Merlock Mountains, and through the marsh of Tode and the wood of \"hanging trees and gallows-weed\". None of these names appear on any of the official maps of Middle-earth. There is a mention, in the same poem, of \"gorcrows\", creatures who croak in", "title": "The Mewlips" }, { "id": "3101629", "text": "In 2005, 13 Hands Publications compiled all of his poetry and released \"The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen, Vol I: 1995–2005\". The original books released were \"Beer, Blood and Ashes\" (1995), \"Eat the Worm\" (1995), \"Burning in Paradise\" (1998), and the now out-of-print \"A Blessing of the Hounds\" (2002), \"46 Down; A Book of Dreams and Other Ramblings\" (2004) and \"When Pets Kill\" (2005). His friend, Dennis Hopper, described his poetry as a throwback to the Beat Generation: \"I like him better than Kerouac: raunchier, more poignant, he's got street language, images I can relate to, blows my mind", "title": "Michael Madsen" }, { "id": "5155188", "text": "and character development. For example, some of the names of the main characters in the novel are reminiscent of their Shakespearean counterparts. Larry is Lear, Ginny is Goneril, Rose is Regan, and Caroline is Cordelia. The role of the Cooks' neighbors, Harold Clark and his sons Loren and Jess, also rework the importance of Gloucester, Edgar and Edmund in \"King Lear.\" The novel maintains major themes present in \"Lear\", namely: gender roles, appearances vs. reality, generational conflict, hierarchical structures (the Great chain of being), madness, and the powerful force of nature. A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres is a 1991", "title": "A Thousand Acres" }, { "id": "1521596", "text": "(including letters from Christopher Isherwood and John Gielgud). Pongo, the canine protagonist of \"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\", was named after Smith's own pet Dalmatian, the first of nine. Smith got the idea for her novel when a friend remarked of her own dalmatians: \"Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat!\" The story was adapted by Disney as a 1961 animated film, \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\". Smith wrote a sequel published in 1967, \"The Starlight Barking\". Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys \"Dodie\" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best", "title": "Dodie Smith" }, { "id": "5844312", "text": "woman runs away when discovered, but Mure's old woman is impaled on the steeple of St Paul's Cathedral. Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie point out in \"The Classic Fairy Tales\" (1999) that the tale has a \"partial analogue\" in \"Snow White\": the lost princess enters the dwarfs' house, tastes their food, and falls asleep in one of their beds. In a manner similar to the three bears, the dwarfs cry, \"Someone's been sitting in my chair!\", \"Someone's been eating off my plate!\", and \"Someone's been sleeping in my bed!\" The Opies also point to similarities in a Norwegian tale about", "title": "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" }, { "id": "19566368", "text": "Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous", "title": "The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English" }, { "id": "10054717", "text": "disguise) hands Bugs a booklet talking about the Tasmanian devil and the many things it eats. Bugs reads: \"Eats aardvarks, anteaters, bears, wild boars, cats, bats, dogs, pigs, elephants, antelopes, pheasants, ferrets, giraffes, gazelles — a likely story but there ain't no such animal.\" While Bugs is going through the list from stoats, goats, pigs, ostrich, etc., the Tasmanian devil comes roaring in and spots Bugs Bunny still reading the booklet as he completes the list from octopuses, penguins, people, warthogs, yaks, newts, walruses, wildebeest and then states \"What?! No Rabbits?!\" The Tasmanian devil greedily says that it 'especially' eats", "title": "Bedevilled Rabbit" }, { "id": "1678931", "text": "show, \"Arctic Boosh\", which remains the template for their live work. In 2001, Lee published his first novel, \"The Perfect Fool\"; it was republished in 2008. In the same year he performed \"Pea Green Boat\", a stand-up show which revolved around the deconstruction of the Edward Lear poem \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" and a tale of his own broken toilet. This would later be condensed to focus mainly on the poem itself, and a 15-minute version aired on Radio 4. In 2007, Go Faster Stripe released a 25-minute edit on CD & 10\" Vinyl. During late 2000 and early", "title": "Stewart Lee" }, { "id": "1840992", "text": "one Azog, while Gollum is described as having eaten a young Goblin-imp (Goblins often being synonymous with orcs) shortly before he first met Bilbo (which seems to be alluded to in \"The Lord of the Rings\" films when Gollum goes on (with himself) about how unpleasant-tasting orcs are and that sweet Hobbit meat would suit Shelob better). In an unpublished letter, written in 1963 to a Mrs. Munsby (and auctioned in 2002 at Sotheby's), Tolkien confirmed that female Orcs did exist. He wrote: \"There must have been orc-women. But in stories that seldom if ever see the Orcs except as", "title": "Orc (Middle-earth)" }, { "id": "10844863", "text": "Babbitry of art in a new, white suit.\" Wolfe wrote later works in the genre of \"fictional novels,\" 1998's \"A Man in Full\" and 2004's \"I Am Charlotte Simmons\". The essay launched a feud between Wolfe and other prominent literary figures that never ended. In 2000, he called John Irving, John Updike and Norman Mailer, \"the three stooges\" in response to their criticisms of his novels. Irving, for example, had dismissed Wolfe's work as \"yak\" and \"journalistic hyperbole.\" Similar name-calling surrounded the release of \"I Am Charlotte Simmons\". The essay was also cited and critiqued in Jonathan Franzen's essay \"Perchance", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "3143371", "text": "superstitious seamen accept one as a Hand of Glory and the other as a unicorn's horn, and regard them as good luck charms. Seamen drink the spirits, leaving the hand much deteriorated, and put out to dry, to see what could be saved. The Marine Captain's dog, Naseby, eats the hand, and an emetic only recovers the bones. The narwhal tusk is broken when a drunken Killick and an even more drunken ship's boy drop and break it - something that makes the domineering Killick suddenly very unpopular with his shipmates. A measure of goodwill and luck are restored on", "title": "The Hundred Days (novel)" }, { "id": "5402875", "text": "The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers and Vermicious knids that live in the forest. Worst of all", "title": "The Minpins" }, { "id": "7906296", "text": "of Here!\". The final saw him challenged to eat a large cupful of live mealworms (which he managed in three mouthfuls), two fried tarantulas, three live cockroaches, ostrich anus and a camel's penis. In July 2016, Fogarty was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire. Fogarty married Michaela in 1991. They owned a house in Lytham St Annes and have two children. Forgarty is patron of local charity North West Blood Bikes - Lancs & Lakes and will be opening their new headquarters in December 2017. Carl Fogarty Carl George Fogarty, (born 1 July 1965), often known", "title": "Carl Fogarty" }, { "id": "721908", "text": "field. Steinbeck wrote this book and \"The Grapes of Wrath\" in what is now Monte Sereno, California. An early draft of \"Of Mice and Men\" was eaten by Steinbeck's dog, named Max. Attaining the greatest positive response of any of his works up to that time, Steinbeck's novella was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection before it was published. Praise for the work came from many notable critics, including Maxine Garrard (\"Enquirer-Sun\"), Christopher Morley, and Harry Thornton Moore (\"New Republic\"). \"New York Times\" critic Ralph Thompson described the novella as a \"grand little book, for all its", "title": "Of Mice and Men" }, { "id": "6399727", "text": "with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as The Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the second bolgia of 8th Circle of Hell. An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many literary works. Examples include Wormtongue from J. R. R. Tolkien's \"The Lord of the Rings\", Goneril and Regan from \"King Lear\", and Iago from \"Othello\". Historians and philosophers have paid attention to flattery as a problem in ethics and politics. Plutarch wrote", "title": "Flattery" }, { "id": "15894382", "text": "Dark Hills (Edward Arlington Robinson) 1950 Spring, the Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashe) 1950-51 Tulmutuous Moment (Lew Sarett) 1951* Desire in Spring (Francis Ledwidge) 1952 Evening (Rupert Brooke) 1952* To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe) 1953 Remember Me (Christina Rossetti) 1954 The Blackbird (William Ernest Henley) 1955 Music When Soft Voices Die (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 1957 Dry Spell (Lizzi Morrison) 1957* River Roses (D.H. Lawrence) 1958* Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold) 1958 In the Evening of Inhabiting Mists (Linda Joy) 1959* Spring (Jack Wertz) 1960* The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear) 1960 Bobby Shafto (Mother Goose) 1961 Laura Sleeping (Charles Cotton) 1962", "title": "Richard Faith" }, { "id": "17352640", "text": "John Constable, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Martin (\"Landscape with a Castle\"), J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Ford Madox Brown, James McNeill Whistler (\")\". \"The Canterbury Tales\" and the novels \"Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded\" (Pamela Andrews, Mr B), \"The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle\" (Jack Hatchway, Commodore Trunnion), \"Tristram Shandy\", \"A Sentimental Journey\" (Parson Yorick), \"The Mill on the Floss\", \"Wuthering Heights\" (Catherine Earnshaw).<br> 16. A long poem in the style of William Blake, celebrating English poetry from Cædmon to Ernest Dowson.<br> 18. \"Le Morte d'Arthur\" (Fisher King, Merlin). T.S. Eliot Reaction to the novel was largely negative. Many critics found Ackroyd's", "title": "English Music (novel)" }, { "id": "12687624", "text": "\"Broad are their pennons, of the human form / Their neck and countenance, armed with talons keen / These sit and wail on the dreary mystic wood.\" In March 1918, \"The Wood of the Self-Murderers\" was sold by Linnell's estate, through Christie's, for £7,665 to the British National Art Collections Fund. The Art Collections Fund presented the painting to the Tate in 1919. The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William", "title": "The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides" }, { "id": "5649907", "text": "belonged from the 1620s to the 1830s to the Osbaldestons, a branch of a prominent Lancashire family; the most notable member of the family was Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of London 1762–64. The manor passed by inheritance to the Mitford family, of whom the most notable was the novelist Bertram Mitford. It was the main market town for the East Riding of Yorkshire and is said to be the last place in England where King Stephen kept his wolfhounds. It has a number of important buildings including Low Hall. The original hall, which dates from the 11th century, and Hunmanby Hall,", "title": "Hunmanby" }, { "id": "11129616", "text": "University of Oxford in popular culture The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Quickly becoming part of the cultural imagination, Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer in his \"Canterbury Tales\" referred to a \"Clerk [student] of Oxenford\": \"For him was levere have at his beddes heed/ Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,/ of Aristotle and his philosophie/ Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie\". By 1989, 533 Oxford-based novels had been identified, and the number continues to rise. Literary works include: Fictional universities based on Oxford include Terry", "title": "University of Oxford in popular culture" } ]

[ "Rudyard Kipling, in The Ballad of East and West" ]

[ { "id": "8088371", "text": "geometric shapes. Edges become soft, then hard. Images overlap. Some take on new configurations. Seven screens repeat the same pictures simultaneously. Although the viewer doesn't know what to expect, the celebrities are real, the film lends credibility and therefore all seems plausible.\" Paik followed up the piece in 1986 with \"Bye Bye Kipling\", a satellite installation linking New York, Seoul, and Tokyo. The title alluded to a famous quotation by Rudyard Kipling: \"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.\" Good Morning, Mr. Orwell \"Good Morning, Mr. Orwell\" was the first international satellite \"installation\" by", "title": "Good Morning, Mr. Orwell" }, { "id": "18426242", "text": "to live in British India and included depictions of mixed marriages (for example in \"Lilamani\" and its sequels) between Indians and the English as a positive means of bringing East and West together. She countered Kipling's aphorism of \"East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet\" with, At the same time, she also held the view that the British bloodline should not be diluted too much (as in the book, \"Desmond's Daughter\"). Maud Diver Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall; 9 September 1867 – 14 October 1945) was an English author in British India", "title": "Maud Diver" }, { "id": "17746082", "text": "Training School to accommodate her needs. Three students from the Harris Memorial Training School became her first student nurses, and the following year she was assisted by several American nurses as well. She made many house calls during her time at the clinic as an opportunity to follow up with her patients, as well as to tell them about Christianity. She started to develop sympathy for her patients, writing, \"It is nonsense to say 'East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet', for 'In Christ there is no East or West, in Him no North", "title": "Rebecca Parrish" }, { "id": "12513480", "text": "is West, and never the twain shall meet,\" \"Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment seat;\" \"But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,\" \"When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!\"</poem> This may be read as saying that 'it is indisputable that geographic points of the compass will never meet in this life, but that when two strong men [\"or\" equals] meet, the accidents of birth, whether of nationality, race, or family, do not matter at all—the mutual respect such individuals have, each", "title": "The Ballad of East and West" }, { "id": "16454979", "text": "France, Hungary, Poland and Latvia. Puterbrot's works can be found in: Based on the information from the Album-catalogue of works 1965—1993: According to , «Eduard Puterbrot was universal: theatre set design, painting, easel graphics, poster, small plastic art». «The artist viewed all the landscape of mountainous country surrounding him from the childhood as a huge theater stage. Dagestan nourished his art work constantly.» As evaluated by the art critic, Puterbrot had refuted the known formula by Rudyard Kipling (from The Ballad of East and West) \"East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet\". In his", "title": "Eduard Puterbrot" }, { "id": "4259583", "text": "reads: \"Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet\". George Khan is a Pakistani Muslim who has lived in Britain since 1937. He has a wife in Pakistan. He and his second wife Ella, a British Roman Catholic woman of Irish descent, have been married for twenty-five years and have seven children together; Nazir, Abdul, Tariq, Maneer, Saleem, Meenah and Sajid. George and Ella run a popular fish and chip shop in the neighborhood. While George is obsessed with the 1971 war between East and West Pakistan and arranging marriages for his children, the", "title": "East Is East (1999 film)" }, { "id": "1343989", "text": "from Kipling's \"The Ballad of East and West\" — '...and never the twain shall meet...' — reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None was selected, but the entry \"Technology Without an Interesting Name\" continues to haunt the standard.\" For example, the \"Encyclopedia of Information Technology\" lists \"Technology Without an Interesting Name\" as the official meaning of TWAIN. Objectives of the TWAIN Working Group and", "title": "TWAIN" }, { "id": "15865842", "text": "A. R. Harwood Alexander Roy Harwood (1897–1980), better known as A. R. Harwood, or Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also worked in exhibition. He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the shooting of \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" (1925). He returned to Australia and produced and directed \"The Man Who Forgot\" (1927). Harwood went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty years. Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that \"what Harwood lacked", "title": "A. R. Harwood" }, { "id": "12513479", "text": "and Kamal's son swear blood brotherhood. The two young men ride back to the British fort, where Kamal's son is greeted with hostility by the guards. The Colonel's son admonishes them that his companion is now no longer a border thief, but a fellow soldier. Its first line is often quoted, sometimes to ascribe racism to Kipling, particularly in regard to the British Empire. Those who quote it thus often completely miss the third and fourth lines. The full refrain, with which the poem opens and closes, includes a contradiction of the opening line. <poem>\"Oh, East is East, and West", "title": "The Ballad of East and West" }, { "id": "4325800", "text": "By the time of Byron and Sir Walter Scott, effective copyright laws existed, at least in England, and many authors depended heavily on their income from their large royalties. America remained a zone of piracy until the mid-nineteenth century, a fact of which Charles Dickens and Mark Twain bitterly complained. By the middle of the 19th century, a situation akin to modern publication had emerged, where most bestsellers were written for a popular taste and are now almost entirely forgotten, with odd exceptions such as \"East Lynne\" (remembered only for the line \"Gone, gone, and never called me mother!\"), the", "title": "Bestseller" }, { "id": "9903802", "text": "she starred in the French film \"La Femme et le pantin\" (1928), directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Montenegro came to Hollywood in June 1930 with a contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She was seventeen years old and could not speak English; however, in three months time Montenegro became fluent enough to play the leading female part of Tamea Larrieau, Leslie Howard's love interest in the film, \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" (1931). \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" is the English language version of a story written by Peter B. Kyne and was directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Prior to this performance, Montenegro", "title": "Conchita Montenegro" }, { "id": "774850", "text": "tomb. Of his interesting life, Hawker himself wrote: \"What a life mine would be if it were all written and published in a book.\" Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of \"The Song of the Western Men\" with its chorus line of \"And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!\", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of \"The Song of the Western Men\"", "title": "Robert Stephen Hawker" }, { "id": "5294874", "text": "and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers, and also co-starred Robin Kermode (later replaced by Christopher Morris), Julia Watson (later replaced by Tacy Kneale), Honor Blackman, Teddy Turner, Derek Deadman, Maria Charles and Zara Nutley. It was made by Thames Television for the ITV network. Since it finished, it has been repeated a few times on satellite television: first on UK Gold and later on ITV3. The title is taken from the Rudyard Kipling poem \"The Ballad of East and West\". The show's theme tune was composed by Jack Trombey and the track was entitled \"Domino\". Oliver Smallbridge, played by", "title": "Never the Twain" }, { "id": "4259582", "text": "East Is East (1999 film) East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George (Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella (Linda Bassett). \"East Is East\" is based on the play \"East is East\" by Ayub Khan-Din, which opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 1996 and Royal Court Theatre in November 1996. The title derives from the Rudyard Kipling poem \"The Ballad of East and West\", of which the opening line", "title": "East Is East (1999 film)" }, { "id": "15691383", "text": "of the picture the audience is made to feel with him the fallacy of his action is deserting his former life, the tone of the picture will be kept at a level sufficient to satisfy the standards of the Code.\" Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film) Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the book by Peter B. Kyne. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea", "title": "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)" }, { "id": "15691380", "text": "\"El Vuolo de Ibis [The Flight of the Ibis]\"/ It is clear that Howard and Montenegro were fond of each other as evidenced by photos taken of the two in Madrid, Spain, in May, 1943, shortly before Howard's death. Rey Ximena's book also discusses the claim by Montenegro that she facilitated a meeting between Howard and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco at the request of Winston Churchill to convince Franco not to enter World War II on the side of the Axis powers. Arthur Freed wrote the theme song, \"Islands of Love.\" Although \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" is not considered", "title": "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)" }, { "id": "15691374", "text": "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film) Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the book by Peter B. Kyne. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures \"The Pagan\" and \"White Shadows in the South Seas\". The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name. Dan Pritchard (Leslie Howard) is a partner along with his father (C. Aubrey Smith) in a", "title": "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)" }, { "id": "1029500", "text": "the year. In 2008, the library received on loan the Gary Lee Price sculpture \"Ever the Twain Shall Meet,\" depicting Twain in the company of Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, two fictional characters he created. The composer Charles Ives titled the second movement of his \"Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)\" as \"Putnam's Camp, Redding Connecticut.\" The composition is renowned for Ives attempt to produce an auditory experience akin to that experienced by a child at a parade, borrowing elements of several patriotic songs including \"Yankee Doodle Dandy\" and employing orchestral techniques to approximate the parade experience,", "title": "Redding, Connecticut" }, { "id": "8846224", "text": "Stood Still\" (1951), \"From Here to Eternity\" (1953), Walt Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's \"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\" (1954) as John Howard, and \"The Horse Soldiers\" (1959). Portraying a newspaper editor in \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\" (1962), his memorable line was: \"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.\" He also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's \"North by Northwest\" (1959). His radio career included a brief star turn as the title role in a short-lived crime drama, \"The Whisperer\" (1951), somewhat loosely derived from the longtime crime hit \"The Whistler\". Young played attorney", "title": "Carleton Young" }, { "id": "9903808", "text": "Aires, Argentina, on 24 September 1939, was much better known. A short time later Montenegro and Roulien were divorced. In 1944, Montenegro married the Spanish diplomat Ricardo Giménez Arnau, a senior member of the far right Falangist Party and Ambassador to the Holy See. Following a rare interview with Montenegro shortly before her death, Spanish author José Rey Ximena claims in his book, \"El Vuolo de Ibis [The Flight of the Ibis]\" that British actor Leslie Howard, with whom Montenegro had an affair after the pair starred together in \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" (1931), used Montenegro to get close", "title": "Conchita Montenegro" }, { "id": "412539", "text": "\"a fav'rite has no friend\", \"[k]now one false step is ne'er retrieved\" and \"nor all that glisters, gold\". (Walpole later displayed the fatal china vase (the tub) on a pedestal at his house in Strawberry Hill.) Gray's surviving letters also show his sharp observation and playful sense of humour. He is well known for his phrase, \"where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.\" The phrase, from \"\", is possibly one of the most misconstrued phrases in English literature. Gray is not promoting ignorance, but is reflecting with nostalgia on a time when he was allowed to be ignorant,", "title": "Thomas Gray" }, { "id": "4059192", "text": "(NAACP) awards annually for outstanding achievement by an African American. He also received honorary degrees from Howard University and Atlanta University. \"Nobody Knows: Songs of Harry T. Burleigh\", an album of his works by Karen Parks (co-produced by Parks and Grammy-winning producer David Macias), debuted at No. 2 on \"Billboard\"′s Traditional Classical Album Chart upon its 2008 release. Burleigh is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on September 11. Also, works he edited or transposed continue in the 1982 Hymnal, including No. 529 (\"In Christ there is no East or West\"). Other", "title": "Harry Burleigh" }, { "id": "774840", "text": "Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of \"The Song of the Western Men\" with its chorus line of \"And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!\", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of \"The Song of the Western Men\" in the serial magazine \"Household Words\". Hawker was born in the clergy house of Charles Church, Plymouth, on 3 December 1803. He was the", "title": "Robert Stephen Hawker" }, { "id": "1395961", "text": "P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum (; July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017). He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, though he said of himself: \"I am a showman by profession… and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me\". According to his critics, his personal aim was \"to put money in his own coffers.\" He is widely credited with coining the adage \"There's a sucker born every minute\", although no evidence can be found of", "title": "P. T. Barnum" }, { "id": "6218834", "text": "menagerie. Forepaugh was responsible for many innovations in circus history, which influenced circuses for many years. Memory of Forepaugh's circuses continued into the early 20th century. As late as 1928, the poet Vachel Lindsay wrote, \"And elephants Adam Forepaugh bred/ In the wilds of the U. S. A./ In his happy Yankee way.\" The quote \"There's a sucker born every minute, but none of them ever die\" is often attributed to P. T. Barnum. The source of the quote is most likely famous con-man Joseph (\"Paper Collar\" Joe) Bessimer. Forepaugh attributed the quote to Barnum in a newspaper interview in", "title": "Adam Forepaugh" }, { "id": "1621645", "text": "his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, \"Paterson\", Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir \"Life on the Mississippi\" and the novels \"Adventures of Tom Sawyer\" and \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\". Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "2282477", "text": "colourful full-length coats, albeit now dulled over time. They might give the impression of three faded flowers. \"Drab nondescript hats … shade [their] faces.\" Vi's opening line recalls the Three Witches of Shakespeare's \"Macbeth\": \"When did we three last meet?\" (\"When shall we three meet again?\" - \"Macbeth\": Act 1, Scene 1). \"Their names, especially Ru's, recall the names of the flowers which Ophelia distributes to King Claudius and his court in her mad scene\" (\"Hamlet\" - Act 4, Scene 5). Ru's/Vi's names bring to mind the phrases rue/flow which hold certain applicable implications to what transpires. When together they", "title": "Come and Go" }, { "id": "16424970", "text": "Maung Thit Min Maung Thit Min, born Dewa, was a prominent Burmese composer and writer. His father Colonel Tin Soe was a member of Burma's Revolutionary Council (RC). He is a second son of U Tin Soe and Daw Mya Mya Than. He studied his secondary education through St. Paul High School (State High School No. 6 Botataung, Yangon). He began his writing career in 1971 and wrote fictional works including \"The Sun Rises in the East and Sets in the West\" (), \"An Untold Story\" (), \"Hug Me\" () and \"Tomorrow is Blue\" (). He began writing and composing", "title": "Maung Thit Min" }, { "id": "3575084", "text": "authors. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, what has come to be known as the \"fab five\" were published: \"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\" (1969), an autobiography of the early years of American poet Maya Angelou; \"The Friends\" (1973) by Rosa Guy; the semi-autobiographical \"The Bell Jar\" (US 1963, under a pseudonym; UK 1967) by poet Sylvia Plath; \"Bless the Beasts and Children\" (1970) by Glendon Swarthout; and \"Deathwatch\" (1972) by Robb White, which was awarded 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America. The works of Angelou, Guy, and Plath were", "title": "Young adult fiction" }, { "id": "19498089", "text": "Charles Darwin (1809–82) (\"On Origin of Species\") (1859), Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), James G. Frazer (1854–1941), Karl Marx (1818–83) (\"Das Kapital\", 1867), and the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), among others. The continental art movements of Impressionism, and later Cubism, were also important inspirations for modernist writers. Important literary precursors of modernism, were: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81) (\"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880); Walt Whitman (1819–92) (\"Leaves of Grass\") (1855–91); Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) (\"Les Fleurs du mal\"), Rimbaud (1854–91) (\"Illuminations\", 1874); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially his later plays. A major British lyric poet", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "5705828", "text": "sources have been suggested as an inspiration for Burns. A contemporary poem, \"O fare thee well, my dearest dear\", written by a Lieutenant Hinches bears a striking similarity to Burns's verse, notably the lines which refer to \"ten thousand miles\" and \"Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear\". A ballad originating from the same period entitled \"The Turtle Dove\" also contains similar lines, such as \"Though I go ten thousand mile, my dear\" and \"Oh, the stars will never fall down from the sky/Nor the rocks never melt with the sun\". Of particular note is a collection of verse", "title": "A Red, Red Rose" }, { "id": "1621604", "text": "the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote too about the war. Ernest Hemingway became famous with \"The Sun Also Rises\" and \"A Farewell to Arms\"; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner became one of the greatest American writers with novels like \"The Sound and the Fury\". American poetry reached a peak after World War I with such writers as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. American drama attained international status at the time with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize.", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "559772", "text": "political risks from individuals, groups or states that disagree with them); or to make their name better suit another language. Examples of well-known writers who used a pen name include: George Eliot (1819–1880), whose real name was Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans; George Orwell (1903–1950), whose real name was Eric Blair; George Sand (1804–1876), whose real name was Lucile Aurore Dupin; Dr. Seuss (1904–1991), whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel; Stendhal (1783–1842), whose real name was Marie-Henri Beyle and Mark Twain (1835–1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Apart from the large numbers of works attributable only to", "title": "Writer" }, { "id": "1359706", "text": "Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\" (1876) and its sequel, the \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1885), the latter often called \"The Great American Novel\". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for \"Tom Sawyer\" and \"Huckleberry Finn\". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "id": "5326048", "text": "because I have the sense people think I’m goofing off.” No goof-off, Kaplan began reading through all 25,000 quotations, weeding out some 3,500 obscure or unmemorable quotations from forgotten 19th century poets et al. and replacing them with more recent quotations from Elvis Presley, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky (“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”) Erich Segal (“Love means never having to say you're sorry”), musicians including James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Jackson, feminists including Susan Brownmiller (“Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric", "title": "Justin Kaplan" }, { "id": "863415", "text": "when they appeared on stage in the UK in \"Her Cardboard Lover\" (1927), with Merle Oberon while filming \"The Scarlet Pimpernel\" (1934), and with Conchita Montenegro, with whom he had appeared in the film \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\" (1931). There were also rumours of affairs with Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy during filming of \"The Animal Kingdom\". Howard fell in love with Violette Cunnington in 1938 while working on the film \"Pygmalion\". She was secretary to Gabriel Pascal who was producing the film; she became Howard's secretary and lover, and they travelled to the United States and lived together", "title": "Leslie Howard" }, { "id": "8912545", "text": "careful to conceal his Judaism yet also eager to locate a place of refuge for his persecuted fellow countrymen. Wiesenthal argued that Columbus' concept of sailing west to reach the Indies was less the result of geographical theories than of his faith in certain Biblical texts—specifically the Book of Isaiah. He repeatedly cited two verses from that book: \"Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them,\" (60:9); and \"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth\" (65:17). Wiesenthal claimed that", "title": "Origin theories of Christopher Columbus" }, { "id": "7533774", "text": "comes from William Shakespeare's \"Hamlet\" probably written in 1600; \"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw\". The original quote was changed from \"Handsaw\" to \"Hacksaw\" to reference the Aksak meter that is prevalent in Balkan and Turkish music. In the original \"Don Quixote\", Cervantes contrasted black and white rather than a hawk and a hand-saw. The Smollet translation, however, reads, \"...therefore, let every man lay his hand upon his heart and not pretend to mistake an hawk for a hand-saw; for, we are all as God made us, and many", "title": "A Hawk and a Hacksaw" }, { "id": "6905129", "text": "values of \"n\". Nagel and Newman consider the question raised by the parallel postulate to be \"...perhaps the most significant development in its long-range effects upon subsequent mathematical history\" (p. 9). The question is: can the axiom that two parallel lines \"...will not meet even 'at infinity'\" (footnote, ibid) be derived from the other axioms of Euclid's geometry? It was not until work in the nineteenth century by \"... Gauss, Bolyai, Lobachevsky, and Riemann, that the impossibility of deducing the parallel axiom from the others was demonstrated. This outcome was of the greatest intellectual importance. ...a \"proof\" can be given", "title": "Proof of impossibility" }, { "id": "12947177", "text": "example of Burns's literary influence in the US is seen in the choice by novelist John Steinbeck of the title of his 1937 novel, \"Of Mice and Men\", taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of \"To a Mouse\": \"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.\" Burns's influence on American vernacular poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton has been acknowledged by their biographers. When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song \"A Red, Red Rose\" as the lyric that had", "title": "Robert Burns" }, { "id": "9159487", "text": "a column in the \"Hollywood Citizen-News\" which he signed \"N.N.W.,\" explaining that the initials came from a Shakespeare line, \"I am but mad when the wind is North North West.\" Morton Thompson Morton Thompson (c. 1907 – July 7, 1953) was an American writer of newspaper journalism, novels and film screenplays. Amongst his works were a collection of journalistic memoirs called \"Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player\", and the novels \"Not as a Stranger\" (which was turned into a film directed by Stanley Kramer) and \"The Cry and the Covenant\". He was also the inventor of the Thompson Turkey. He was", "title": "Morton Thompson" }, { "id": "696441", "text": "of a stroke at the age of 22. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including \"Idylls of the King\", \"Ulysses\", and \"Tithonus\". During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including \"Nature, red in tooth and claw\" (\"In Memoriam A.H.H.\"), \"'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all\", \"Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die\", \"My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure\",", "title": "Alfred, Lord Tennyson" }, { "id": "17712747", "text": "West Meets East, Volume 2 West Meets East, Volume 2 is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968. It is the second album in a trilogy of collaborations between the two artists, after the Grammy Award-winning \"West Meets East\" (1967).<ref name=\"Massey/Shankar obit\">Reginald Massey, \"Ravi Shankar obituary\", \"The Guardian\", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 3 December 2013).</ref> The release followed Menuhin and Shankar's duet on 10 December 1967 at the United Nations in New York, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As part of his utopian ideal, international", "title": "West Meets East, Volume 2" }, { "id": "3657789", "text": "the flageolet, both of which she used in the process of the composition of her poetry. Blamire has been described as 'unquestionably the greatest female poet of [the Romantic] age' and, by Jonathan Wordsworth, a great-nephew of William Wordsworth, 'as important as the other Romantic poets writing during the eighteenth century'. Blamire's song \"And Ye shall walk in silk attire\", referenced by Charles Dickens in The Old Curiosity Shop is well known. Her magnum opus is \"Stoklewath, or The Cumbrian Village\". Blamire was born at Cardew Hall, near Cardew, Cumberland, on 12 January 1747. Her parents were William Blamire, a", "title": "Susanna Blamire" }, { "id": "6478399", "text": "Waterloo\" An explicit connection of Sir Walter Scott's name with the by-then familiar exclamation is found in a poem published 15 August 1871, on the centenary anniversary of Scott's birth: Mark Twain also uses the phrase to reference Sir Walter Scott and his writing. Twain's disdain for Scott is evident in \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" (1889), in which the main character repeatedly utters \"great Scott\" as an oath, and in \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1884), where he names a sinking boat the \"Walter Scott\". John William De Forest, in \"Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty\"", "title": "Great Scott" }, { "id": "12584071", "text": "almost 900 US and Canadian libraries. Robert Quackenbush Robert Mead Quackenbush (born July 23, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as \"Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line\", a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse (inventor of the telegraph), and \"Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens\", published in 1984. His most widely known book, \"Henry's Awful Mistake\", published by Parents Magazine", "title": "Robert Quackenbush" }, { "id": "18606815", "text": "simple kind<br>I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence<br>And an old fashioned millionaire. The song's lyricist and composer, Marvin A. \"Marve\" Fisher (June 21, 1907 – September 1, 1957), was an Illinois-born and Los Angeles-based writer of comic and novelty songs, including \"Ring Those Christmas Bells\", recorded by Peggy Lee and others, which Fisher co-wrote with Gus Levene. He is sometimes confused with another songwriter, Marvin Fisher (1916–1993), who wrote \"When Sunny Gets Blue\" and \"Destination Moon\", and was the son of Fred Fisher. Just an Old Fashioned Girl \"Just An Old Fashioned Girl\" is a popular", "title": "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" }, { "id": "7309099", "text": "also sought to come to terms with the new industrial age. The works of the Englishman Charles Dickens (including his novels \"Oliver Twist\" and \"A Christmas Carol\") and the Frenchman Victor Hugo (including \"Les Miserables\") remain among the best known and widely influential. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol (\"Dead Souls\"). Then came Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Turgenev. Leo Tolstoy (\"War and Peace\", \"Anna Karenina\") and Fyodor Dostoevsky (\"Crime and Punishment\", \"The Idiot\", \"The Brothers Karamazov\") soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the", "title": "History of Western civilization" }, { "id": "193727", "text": "trip down the Hudson River, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)\". Mark Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper between 1876 and 1883. Paul Needham, who supervised the authentication of the manuscript for Sotheby's books and manuscripts department in New York in 1991, stated, \"What you see is [Clemens'] attempt to move away from pure literary writing to dialect writing\". For example, Twain revised the opening line of \"Huck Finn\" three times. He initially wrote, \"You will not know about me\",", "title": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" }, { "id": "4129550", "text": "\"I'd rather be Capra than God, if there is a Capra.\" Kanin and Katharine Hepburn were the only witnesses to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's wedding in California on August 31, 1940. In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become \"Woman of the Year\" right before Garson enlisted in the army. He is also quoted as saying, \"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.\" His most famous quote, from his hit play \"Born Yesterday,\" is on a New York City Public Library plaque", "title": "Garson Kanin" }, { "id": "11016574", "text": "the Romantics. Brooks thus includes \"\" by Wordsworth and \"Tears, Idle Tears\" by Tennyson along with the Pope, Gray, and Keats poems. He claims that Wordsworth and Tennyson frequently wrote better (i.e., more paradoxically) than even they were aware. Wordsworth sought to write directly and forcefully, without sophistry or wordplay. But his language is, according to Brooks, nevertheless paradoxical. For example, Brooks takes the opening lines of Wordsworth's sonnet, \"It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free:\" It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun, Breathless with adoration... Brooks points out that", "title": "The Well Wrought Urn" }, { "id": "8714852", "text": "interruption, worthless. It turns out to embody something appalling and widespread in the culture.\" The volume has been archived in the National Library of Australia. When the Lights Go Down (book) When The Lights Go Down, Complete Reviews 1975-1980, is the sixth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael. All material in the book originally appeared in \"The New Yorker\". The collection begins with an appreciation of Cary Grant. \" Mae West's raucous invitation to him - 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' - was echoed thirty years later by Audrey Hepburn in \"Charade\": 'Won't", "title": "When the Lights Go Down (book)" }, { "id": "12373003", "text": "American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. America's first internationally popular writers were James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century. They painted an American literary landscape full of humor and adventure. These were followed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau who established a distinctive American literary voice in the middle of the nineteenth century. Mark Twain, Henry James, and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "10317012", "text": "side. The two Twains merge and fly off to meet the comet, leaving the airship in the hands of the youngsters. The concept was inspired by a famous quote by the author: Twain died on April 21, 1910, one day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion in 1910. Included are sketches taken from \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\", \"The Mysterious Stranger\", \"The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Letters from the Earth)\", \"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven\" and a rendering of Twain's first story, \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\". References are made to his other works, including \"The Damned Human", "title": "The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)" }, { "id": "2967744", "text": "to know so much that ain't so.\" Hong Kong movie \"Revenge: A Love Story\" ends with his quote \"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.\" \"The old miser who has accumulated his millions, and sits down on them afterwards, reminds me of a fly that has fallen into a barrel of molasses\" Josh Billings Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818October 14, 1885). He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century. Shaw", "title": "Josh Billings" }, { "id": "12969692", "text": "and Walter Travers in defence of the current Church of England settlement. It brought replies by Dudley Fenner and Travers. It also provoked the first of the tracts by Martin Marprelate, \"Oh read over D. John Bridges ... Printed at the cost and charges of M. Marprelate gentleman\" (1588). He was formerly considered a possible author of \"Gammer Gurton's Needle\", now attributed to William Stevenson. He is known to have coined the phrase, \"a fool and his money are soon parted,\" originally written in the 1587 \"Defence\" treatise. John Bridges (bishop) John Bridges (1536–1618) was an English bishop. Born in", "title": "John Bridges (bishop)" }, { "id": "119477", "text": "Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and Lewis Carroll. Since then England has continued to produce novelists such as George Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling. The traditional folk music of England is centuries old and has contributed to several genres prominently; mostly sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music. It has its own distinct variations and regional peculiarities. Wynkyn de Worde printed ballads of Robin Hood from the 16th century are", "title": "England" }, { "id": "398846", "text": "has been deeply influential in the field of literary criticism. This influence can be seen in such critics as A. O. Lovejoy and I. A. Richards. Coleridge is probably best known for his long poems, \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\" and \"Christabel\". Even those who have never read the \"Rime\" have come under its influence: its words have given the English language the metaphor of an albatross around one's neck, the quotation of \"water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink\" (almost always rendered as \"but not a drop to drink\"), and the phrase \"a sadder and a wiser", "title": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" }, { "id": "15691378", "text": "up with her bare-chested native boyfriend to help her forget. In 1931, Leslie Howard was new to Hollywood, having only appeared in two films, \"Outward Bound\" (1930) and \"Devotion\" (1931). In the spring of 1931, he was filming \"Never the Twain Shall Meet\", \"A Free Soul\" with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and \"Five and Ten\" with Marion Davies—shooting one movie in the morning and another in the afternoon. This led to Howard's lifelong distaste for film acting, the studio system, contracts and the typical schedules required of a Hollywood actor. He said that a \"typical 'talkie'...is manufactured on the", "title": "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)" }, { "id": "1981040", "text": "books. Such writers could expect more control of their work, greater profits, or both. Among such authors were Lewis Carroll, who paid the expenses of publishing \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and most of his subsequent work. Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works. Not all of these well-known authors were successful in their ventures; Mark Twain's publishing business, for example, went bankrupt. Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939", "title": "Vanity press" }, { "id": "12373004", "text": "Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\" (1851), Twain's \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\" (1925), and Harper Lee's \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" (1960)—", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "13570003", "text": "lucidity,\" \"the charge of being a 'journalist' appealing only to the commonest collective emotion,\" and \"the charge of writing jingles.\" All those charges, and more, could be levelled against Service's best known and best loved works. Certainly Service's verse was derivative of Kipling's. In \"The Cremation of Sam McGee\", for instance, he uses the form of Kipling's \"The Ballad of East and West\". In his E. J. Pratt lecture \"Silence In the Sea,\" critic Northrop Frye argued that Service's verse was not \"serious poetry,\" but something else he called \"popular poetry\": \"the idioms of popular and serious poetry remain inexorably", "title": "Robert W. Service" }, { "id": "1808818", "text": "II. The quote from the 20 August 1940 speech was changed when the movie was released on DVD in 2003. Onscreen, instead of the quote about \"The Few,\" this Churchill quote appears: \"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.\" The 2004 Special Edition, however, reverts to the quotation about The Few: \"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\" The film is generally faithful to events and, although merging some characters, it sticks to the", "title": "Battle of Britain (film)" }, { "id": "12816878", "text": "a funeral salute. Carols, hymns, and seasonal songs were sung during the period, with some, such as \"Deck the Halls\", \"Oh Come All Ye Faithful\", and Mendelssohn's \"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing\" (1840), still sung today. American musical contributions to the season include \"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear\" (1850), \"Jingle Bells\" (1857), \"We Three Kings of Orient Are\" (1857) and \"Up on the Housetop\" (1860). Although popular in Europe at the time, Christmas cards were scarce in the United States, and would not enjoy widespread use until the 1870s. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his pacifist poem, \"Christmas Bells\" on", "title": "Christmas in the American Civil War" }, { "id": "20385411", "text": "the Links\" by Agatha Christie, Cecil B. DeMille’s \"The Ten Commandments\", Aldous Huxley’s \"Antic Hay\", and Winston Churchill’s \"The World Crisis\". While Christie, Huxley, and Churchill were all non-American authors, these works were also published in the United States and their copyright was registered and renewed. Hence, copyright will expire in 2019. \"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\" by Robert Frost also enters the public domain. 2019 in public domain When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that enter the public domain in 2019. Since laws vary globally, the", "title": "2019 in public domain" }, { "id": "3674335", "text": "use of slave dialect (Irish too was a favourite) tended to limit the appeal of Work's works and make them frowned upon today. However, \"Kingdom Coming\" appeared in the Jerome Kern show \"Good Morning, Dearie\" on Broadway in 1921, and was heard in the background in the 1944 Judy Garland film \"Meet Me in St. Louis\". 1862 also saw his novelty song \"Grafted Into the Army\", followed in 1863 by \"Babylon is Fallen\" (\"Don't you see the black clouds risin' ober yonder\"), \"The Song of a Thousand Years\", and \"God Save the Nation\". His 1864 effort \"Wake Nicodemus\" was popular", "title": "Henry Clay Work" }, { "id": "20166996", "text": "of debris that has washed ashore, and none have been modernized with running water or electricity. Over the last century, many famous artists have spent time in the Dune Shacks for creative inspiration, including: playwright Eugene O'Neill (\"A Streetcar Named Desire\", \"Death of a Salesman\"), poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (\"Walden\", \"Civil Disobedience\"), abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (\"Mural on Indian Red Ground\", \"No. 5, 1948\") and iconoclast novelist Jack Kerouac (\"The Town and the City\", \"Big Sur\"). During each one of the seven days Bannon spent at C-Scape Dune Shack, he wrote and recorded a piano-driven track through", "title": "Dunedevil" }, { "id": "18904629", "text": "society based on cooperation rather than competition. The French Revolution of 1789, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote, \"abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property\". The French Revolution was preceded and influenced by the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose \"Social Contract\" famously began: \"Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains\". Rousseau is credited with influencing socialist thought, but it was François-Noël Babeuf, and his \"Conspiracy of Equals\", who is credited with providing a model for left-wing and communist movements of the 19th century. Marx and Engels drew from these socialist or communist ideas born in the", "title": "History of socialism" }, { "id": "7185618", "text": "century, when it began to be used alongside the classical form Marcus. In the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde this was the name of a king of Cornwall. It was also borne by the American author Mark Twain (1835–1910), real name Samuel Clemens, the author of 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'. He actually took his pen name from a call used by riverboat workers on the Mississippi River to indicate a depth of two fathoms. This is also the usual English spelling of the name of the 1st-century BC Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Mark (name) Mark is", "title": "Mark (name)" }, { "id": "12715771", "text": "The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book \"A Bend in the River\". \"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.\" French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage", "title": "The World Is What It Is" }, { "id": "4128583", "text": "of the 1950s include:\"Guys and Dolls\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Kismet\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Fanny\", \"Peter Pan\", \"Silk Stockings\", \"Damn Yankees\", \"Bells Are Ringing\", \"Candide\", \"The Most Happy Fella\", \"The Music Man\", and \"West Side Story\" among others. During the 1950s, some important and award-winning dramas included: \"The Rose Tattoo\" by Tennessee Williams, \"The Crucible\" by Arthur Miller, \"Picnic\" by William Inge, \"The Teahouse of the August Moon\" adapted from the novel by Vern Sneider by John Patrick, \"The Desperate Hours\" by Joseph Hayes, \"The Diary of Anne Frank\" adapted from the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, \"Bus Stop\" by", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "11846463", "text": "39 and returned again to teach in 1956 - 57. Carr also reported that it was his first novel, but the book failed initially to find a publisher. When it had been accepted by Viking Penguin, Carr took it back and spent two days rewriting it. The early titles of the novel were apparently \"Oh, My America\", a quotation from John Donne and \"To the West, To the West\", an immigrant song, although Carr may not have been entirely serious. When the novel was published Carr issued from his Quince Tree Press a small, 16 page companion volume called \"Gidner's", "title": "The Battle of Pollocks Crossing" }, { "id": "9649061", "text": "allusion croaking \"Nevermore!\" (invoking Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem, \"The Raven\"). The following week a dove is sent forth and subsequently returns with an olive branch, an indication of dry land. Shortly thereafter, God commands Noah to emerge from the ark (\"Come out with your wife and your sons and daughters there / and set the animals free and the birds of the air\"). The work closes with a waltz as God avows never to send another flood, a pledge confirmed by the newly created rainbow (\"This is my promise to you, the rainbow overhead: violet, indigo, blue and green,", "title": "Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo" }, { "id": "11413902", "text": "3). This sentence is an exclamation critical of present-day attitudes and trends, sometimes used jokingly or wryly. For example, Edgar Allan Poe used the phrase as the title and subject of his poem, \"O, Tempora! O, Mores!\", in which he criticized the manners of the men of his time. The musical comedians Flanders and Swann, used the term where Flanders proclaimed \"O tempora, O mores - Oh Times, Oh Daily Mirror!\" It is pronounced by a drunken poet in the 1936 movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The expression is used in the play and movie \"Inherit the Wind\", a", "title": "O tempora o mores!" }, { "id": "5039585", "text": "thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds\" are thought to be a possible inspiration for the more famous lines by Thomas Gray contained in his \"Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard\" as follows: \"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.\" However John Armstrong's use of floral metaphor in the \"Oeconomy of Love\" refers to the unnecessary shedding of semen whilst the author cautions young men against sexual practices that he condemns in his role as poet and physician. Strangely what must have been", "title": "John Armstrong (poet)" }, { "id": "367891", "text": "Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are \"Treasure Island\", \"Kidnapped\", \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", and \"A Child's Garden of Verses\". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J.", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "9686537", "text": "member of the First Internationale and opponent of Marxist ideology. Perhaps the most famous Pole to settle in the UK at the end of the 19th-century, having gained British citizenship in 1886, was the seafarer turned early modernist novelist, Józef Korzeniowski, better known by his pen name, Joseph Conrad. He was the highly influential author of such works as \"Almayer's Folly\", \"The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'\", \"Heart of Darkness\", \"Lord Jim\", \"Nostromo\", \"The Secret Agent\", \"The Duel\", \"Under Western Eyes\", and \"Victory\", many of which have been turned into films. At the end of the 19th-c. London, along with Zurich", "title": "Poles in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "6683638", "text": "of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice by the middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, is now recognized as an essential American poet. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\" (1851), Twain's \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\" (1925) and Harper Lee's \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" (1960)—may be", "title": "United States" }, { "id": "720563", "text": "B. Toklas\", written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner and an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention. Two quotes from her works have become widely known: \"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose\" and \"there is no there there\", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland, California. Her books include \"Q.E.D.\" (1903), about a lesbian romantic affair involving several of Stein's friends,", "title": "Gertrude Stein" }, { "id": "7212491", "text": "the Hillcrest Cemetery. Condolences came from across the country, including a brief message from King George V, but the commencement of World War I soon overshadowed this event. Operations at Hillcrest mine continued until 1939. A monument to the Hillcrest mine disaster and the lives lost has been placed at the Hillcrest cemetery. In 1990, Canadian folk-singer James Keelaghan recorded \"Hillcrest Mine\", one of his best-known songs. The disaster is also featured in the song \"Coal Miner\" (album Heads Is East, Tails Is West, 2014) by Alberta-based Rocky Mountain Folk-Pop singer Joal Kamps. Another explosion occurred in the Hillcrest mine", "title": "Hillcrest mine disaster" }, { "id": "8786357", "text": "successes, including \"The Emperor Jones\", \"Anna Christie\" (Pulitzer Prize 1922), \"Desire Under the Elms\" (1924), \"Strange Interlude\" (Pulitzer Prize 1928), \"Mourning Becomes Electra\" (1931), \"The Iceman Cometh\" (1939) and his only well-known comedy, \"Ah, Wilderness!\". After his death, his magnum opus and masterwork \"Long Day's Journey into Night\" was published and is often regarded to be one of the finest American plays of the 20th century. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the creation of the Federal Theatre Project (1935–39), a New Deal program which funded theatre and other live artistic performances throughout the country. National director", "title": "Twentieth-century theatre" }, { "id": "12990476", "text": "Go West, young man \"Go West, young man\" is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley concerning America's expansion westward, related to the then-popular concept of Manifest Destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print. In 2010, Timothy Hughes of \"Rare & Early Newspapers\" (blog) examined Greeley's writings and concluded: \"Here is the Tribune of that date and I've scoured through the issue yet never found the quote. The closest I could come is in 'The Homstead Law' article, page 4 column 4, where", "title": "Go West, young man" }, { "id": "14191733", "text": "Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Rembrandt, and Vincent van Gogh. World literature was enriched by the works of Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Bunyan, John Donne, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, William Wordsworth, Jonathan Swift, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Theodor Fontane, Washington Irving, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Galsworthy, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, John Updike, and many others. The view of the Roman Catholic Church is that Protestant denominations cannot be considered churches but rather that they are", "title": "Protestantism" }, { "id": "12584070", "text": "Robert Quackenbush Robert Mead Quackenbush (born July 23, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as \"Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line\", a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse (inventor of the telegraph), and \"Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens\", published in 1984. His most widely known book, \"Henry's Awful Mistake\", published by Parents Magazine Press in 1980, is present in", "title": "Robert Quackenbush" }, { "id": "1990403", "text": "Isabella Bird. American writers include Mark Twain aboard the \"Ajax\" as a travel journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle, and Herman Melville as a whaler. Twain's unfinished novel of Hawaii was incorporated into his A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, with King Arthur bearing striking similarities to Kamehameha V, the first reigning monarch Twain was to meet. The \"modernizing\" potential offered by the Connecticut Yankee from the future is a satire of the potentially negative Protestant Missionary influence on Hawaiian life. Melville's writing of the Pacific includes Typee and Omoo (considered factual travel accounts when published) and his Pacific", "title": "Tourism in Hawaii" }, { "id": "393158", "text": "In 1876, Stéphane Mallarmé wrote \"The Afternoon of a Faun\", a first-person narrative poem about a faun who attempts to kiss two beautiful nymphs while they are sleeping together. He accidentally wakes them up. Startled, they transform into white water birds and fly away, leaving the faun to play his pan pipes alone. Claude Debussy composed a symphonic poem \"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune\" (\"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun\"), which was first performed in 1894. The late nineteenth-century German Existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was either unaware of or chose to ignore the fact that, in all the earliest", "title": "Satyr" }, { "id": "4731918", "text": "that there is no shortage of new victims, nor of con men, nor of honest men. In the 1930 John Dos Passos novel \"The 42nd Parallel\", the quotation is attributed to Mark Twain. There's a sucker born every minute \"There's a sucker born every minute\" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he actually said it. Early examples of its use are found among gamblers and confidence men. Barnum's biographer Arthur H. Saxon tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this phrase but was", "title": "There's a sucker born every minute" }, { "id": "4089068", "text": "American literature as a whole. Poe, however, strongly disliked transcendentalism. Another American Romantic poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular poet of his day. He was one of the first American celebrities and was also popular in Europe, and it was reported that 10,000 copies of \"The Courtship of Miles Standish\" sold in London in a single day. However, Longfellow's popularity rapidly declined, beginning shortly after his death and into the twentieth century as academics began to appreciate poets like Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Robert Frost. In the twentieth century, literary scholar Kermit Vanderbilt noted, \"Increasingly", "title": "Romantic poetry" }, { "id": "4206212", "text": "two other works by Angela Carter: \"The Bloody Chamber\" and \"Nights at the Circus\". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: \"\"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare\"\", a song title from the musical \"Kiss Me, Kate\" based on Shakespeare's \"The Taming of the Shrew\", and the quote \"How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters\" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of \"Wise Children\", Angela Carter", "title": "Wise Children" }, { "id": "5974207", "text": "pollination, integrating the East and the West, with the requisite understanding of both cultures. He can be regarded as the founder of the contemporary Chinese musical idiom, one whose music sets the standard and an example for succeeding generations to emulate. Chou's revolutionary insights brought about a broader and more integrated perception of Chinese music by scholars and laymen East and West. He recognizes the intrinsic contribution of qin music and the singletone concept to Chinese music, and more importantly, he recognizes their value to composers. (\"The Twain Meet\" by Leighton Kerner.) Also important to his music is the refinement", "title": "Chou Wen-chung" }, { "id": "4550924", "text": "the poem which describe \"the shore\" and state, \"Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink\" may relate to the reference to water in Keats' epitaph. His name will sink in water as the fame of writing will. William Flesch notes the poem's echoes of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Comparisons have also been made to Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 for references to time, endings, and the sea and to Sonnet 64 for references to time destroying man-made creations. When I Have Fears \"When I Have Fears\" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "id": "12375211", "text": "the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels \"Adventures of Tom Sawyer\" (1876) and \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "19498093", "text": "educated in America. His most famous works are: \"Prufrock\" (1915), \"The Wasteland\" (1921) and \"Four Quartets\" (1935–42). Ezra Pound was not only a major poet, first publishing part of \"The Cantos\" in 1917, but an important mentor for other poets, most significantly in his editorial advice for Eliot's poem \"The Wasteland\". Other important American poets writing early in the 20th century were William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), Robert Frost (1874–1963), who published his first collection in England in 1913, and H.D. (1886–1961). Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), an American expatriate living in Paris, famous for her line \"Rose is a rose is a", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "8033869", "text": "Michael Patrick Hearn Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include \"The Annotated Wizard of Oz\" (1971/2000), \"The Annotated Christmas Carol\" (1977/2003), and \"The Annotated Huckleberry Finn\" (2001). He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville, \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" by L. Frank Baum, and \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" by Mark Twain. He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous", "title": "Michael Patrick Hearn" }, { "id": "6580757", "text": "humor to that of performance and performer. His value notwithstanding, Twain represents only one strain of humor in the United States. Another famous American humorist of the 19th century was Ambrose Bierce, whose most famous work is the cynical \"Devil's Dictionary\". Popular humorists who spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries included Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938), who wrote \"My Sweetheart\", and Hayden Carruth (1862–1932), who wrote \"Uncle Bentley and the Roosters\". Early 20th-century American humorists included members of the Algonquin Round Table (named for the Algonquin Hotel), such as Dorothy Parker, SJ Perelman and Robert Benchley. In more recent", "title": "American humor" }, { "id": "6115092", "text": "include Rebecca Clarke’s \"Eight o’ clock\" (1928); \"Yonder see the morning blink\" (1929) by Freda Mary Swain (1902–1985); and \"The Deserter\" included in Elisabeth Lutyens \"6 Songs\" (1934–1936). Post-war settings include \"The night is freezing fast\" (1958) by Margarita L. Merriman (b.1927); \"We’ll to the woods no more\" (1962) by Mayme Chanwai (b. Hong Kong, 1939); \"The half moon westers low\" (1965) by the American Susan Calvin; \"The laws of God, the laws of man\" by Joyce Howard Barrell; and \"Her strong enchantments failing\" (retitled as \"The queen of air and darkness\"), together with \"Eight o’clock\", by Elaine Hugh-Jones (2011).", "title": "Last Poems" }, { "id": "8714849", "text": "When the Lights Go Down (book) When The Lights Go Down, Complete Reviews 1975-1980, is the sixth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael. All material in the book originally appeared in \"The New Yorker\". The collection begins with an appreciation of Cary Grant. \" Mae West's raucous invitation to him - 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' - was echoed thirty years later by Audrey Hepburn in \"Charade\": 'Won't you come in for a minute? I don't bite, you know, unless it's called for.' And then, purringly, 'Do you know what's wrong with you?", "title": "When the Lights Go Down (book)" }, { "id": "5552012", "text": "Traill. Australian literature has the poets Adam Lindsay Gordon and Banjo Paterson, who wrote \"Waltzing Matilda\", and New Zealand literature includes Thomas Bracken and Frederick Edward Maning. From the sphere of literature of the United States during this time are some of the country's greats including: Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry James, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. The problem with the classification of \"Victorian literature\" is the great difference between the early works of the period and the later works which had more in common", "title": "Victorian literature" }, { "id": "13176015", "text": "John Henry Hopkins Jr. John Henry Hopkins Jr. (October 28, 1820 – August 14, 1891) was an American clergyman and hymnodist, most famous for composing the song \"We Three Kings of Orient Are\" in 1857 (even though it does not appear in print until his \"Carols, Hymns and Song\" in 1863). Hopkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of John Henry Hopkins, an Episcopal bishop. Hopkins graduated from the University of Vermont with an A.B. in 1839, and then a Master's Degree in 1845. After a stint as a journalist, he graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1850,", "title": "John Henry Hopkins Jr." }, { "id": "7941743", "text": "editors are said to have been dubious about the commercial prospects for the book (1946), but it became recognised as a classic itself, celebrated for the smooth and original prose, and the forerunner of Penguin's successful series of translated classics. Often, though, he embroidered Homer's verse, following the principle that has since become known as dynamic equivalence or thought-for-thought translation. Whereas a literal translation would read, for example, \"As soon as Dawn appeared, fresh and rosy-fingered,\" Rieu's version offered, \"No sooner had the tender Dawn shown her roses in the East.\" Some of his renderings seem anachronistic or in the", "title": "E. V. Rieu" } ]

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[ { "id": "1411971", "text": "stock footage to each of the seven movements of the Holst suite. John Coulthart wrote \"familiar Russell obsessions appear: Nazis, naked women and the inevitable crucifixion.\" After essentially disappearing for decades, in 2016 the film was re-released on DVD by Arthaus Musik. Russell's first feature film was \"French Dressing\" (1964), a comedy loosely based on Roger Vadim's \"And God Created Woman\"; its critical and commercial failure sent Russell back to the BBC. One of his films there, in 1965, was \"Always on Sunday\", a bio-pic of the late 19th century French naive painter Henri Rousseau (known as Le Douanier). This", "title": "Ken Russell" }, { "id": "1594021", "text": "Never on Sunday Never on Sunday (, ) is a 1960 Greek black-and-white romantic comedy film. The film tells the story of Ilya, a self-employed, free-spirited prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist from Middletown, Connecticut - a classical scholar enamored of all things Greek. Homer feels Ilya's life style typifies the degradation of Greek classical culture, and attempts to steer her onto the path of morality, while, at the same time, Ilya attempts to loosen Homer up. It constitutes a variation of the Pygmalion plus \"hooker with a heart of gold\"", "title": "Never on Sunday" }, { "id": "4538606", "text": "Pittsburgh Steelers. Though he made the Pro Bowl two more times, he never made it back to the playoffs, and the team's best finish was second in the conference in 1962. During his last year in the NFL, he published his autobiography \"Always on Sunday\". Later he stated that the biggest disappointment in his football career was having never won a championship for the Pittsburgh Steelers and specifically, Art Rooney. By the time Layne retired before the 1963 season, he owned the NFL records for passing attempts (3,700), completions (1,814), touchdowns (196), yards (26,768), and interceptions (243). He left the", "title": "Bobby Layne" }, { "id": "453258", "text": "through the Cabinet and Parliament; he carried his Department with him. These ministerial merits are not as common as might be thought.\" Between 1966 and 1988, an eight-volume biography of Churchill was published, started by Randolph Churchill but completed largely by Martin Gilbert after the former's death in 1968. Rhodes James suggested that this official biography was a \"labour of love\" for Randolph Churchill, and that \"what was so admirable in the son, was ... less desirable in the biographer.\" According to Allen Packwood, director of the Churchill Archives Centre, even during his own lifetime Churchill was an \"incredibly complex,", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "id": "2547845", "text": "by a Houston, Texas television station show that the FBI worried that Coretta Scott King would \"tie the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights movement.\" The FBI studied her memoir and concluded that her \"selfless, magnanimous, decorous attitude is belied by...[her] actual shrewd, calculating, businesslike activities.\" A spokesman for the King family said that they were aware of the surveillance, but had not realized how extensive it was. Every year after the assassination of her husband in 1968, Coretta attended a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to mark his birthday on January 15. She fought for years", "title": "Coretta Scott King" }, { "id": "13823886", "text": "a preventive nuclear attack against China as well as the information about the Moscow metro bombing of 1977; he ascribed the latter to dissidents, which gave the authorities a pretext for a harsh crackdown. In 1968, a few months before the publication of \"Twenty Letters to a Friend\" by Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva (who had defected two years prior), Louis brought out the KGB's unauthorized copy in Germany to damp the sensation. He was instrumental in smuggling both Khrushchev's memoirs and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \"Cancer Ward\" to the West, although in the latter case he is believed to have had", "title": "Victor Louis (journalist)" }, { "id": "4855120", "text": "agreed to it and the resulting authorised biography, \"\", was published in 1968. John Lennon mentioned in his 1970 \"Rolling Stone\" interview that he considered the book \"bullshit\", though Lennon at the time was vigorously debunking the Beatles' myth and anyone who had helped to create it. In 1972 Davies wrote a book about football, \"The Glory Game\", a behind-the-scenes portrait of Tottenham Hotspur. Davies also wrote a column about his daily life in \"Punch\" called \"Father's Day\", presenting himself as a harried paterfamilias. In 1974 he was sent by \"The Sunday Times\" to look at a comprehensive school in", "title": "Hunter Davies" }, { "id": "2438109", "text": "Gitta Sereny Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp. Born and initially raised in Austria, she was the author of five books, including \"The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered\" (1972) and \"Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth\" (1995). Sereny was awarded the Duff Cooper", "title": "Gitta Sereny" }, { "id": "14645175", "text": "Gerold Frank Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 – September 17, 1998) was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the \"as told to\" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books, however, are \"The Boston Strangler\" (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and \"An American Death\" (1972), about the assassination of Martin Luther King. Frank was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was a tailor and owned a dress shop. He graduated from Ohio State University and moved to Greenwich Village", "title": "Gerold Frank" }, { "id": "6821325", "text": "at the age of just 16, Robin Lee Graham set out from southern California to sail around the world in his sailboat \"Dove\", and in 1970 he successfully completed the youngest (at age 16–21) solo circumnavigation. Following in Chichester's wake, Alec Rose, a 58-year-old British grocer, set off in 1967 to sail solo around the world. He completed his voyage on July 4, 1968, after two stops, and was knighted the following day. He subsequently wrote a book, \"My Lively Lady\", about his voyage. Despite his failure in the Golden Globe, Chay Blyth had decided that endurance sailing was for", "title": "Single-handed sailing" }, { "id": "13138564", "text": "The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant is the 1968 autobiography of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, adapted into a 1975 film of the same name starring John Hurt. The book began as a 1964 radio interview with Crisp conducted by his friend and fellow eccentric Philip O'Connor. A managing director at Jonathan Cape heard the interview and commissioned the publication. Having sold only 3,500 copies when first released, the book became a success when it was republished following the television movie broadcast. The book contains many anecdotes about Crisp's life from childhood to middle age, including troubles", "title": "The Naked Civil Servant (book)" }, { "id": "4056162", "text": "owner. In September 2005, she published a new biography, \"John\", re-examining her life with Lennon and the years afterwards, including the events following his death. Michel Faber, writing in \"The Guardian\", said of the book: \"\"John\" is Cynthia's attempt to prove how much more she was worth. In theory, the disclosures of Lennon's loyal partner from 1958 to 1968 cannot fail to be valuable. On the page, the potential withers\". In 2006, she and her son attended the Las Vegas premiere of the Cirque du Soleil production of \"Love\", which marked a rare public appearance with Ono. In 2009, she", "title": "Cynthia Lennon" }, { "id": "10482455", "text": "up to the value of £25-0-0d.\" He made a one-match comeback for the 1968 European Cup Final, but then disappeared into obscurity, though he presumably continued to support the club until the day he died. Frank Hilton and Ronnie McWilliams both had spells \"under the umbrella\", but the practice of the \"friendly mascot\" had to be abandoned soon after, due to the rise of hooliganism in the United Kingdom. The current Manchester United mascot, Fred the Red represents the club's nickname, \"The Red Devils\". He wears a shirt with the number 55 on it and usually dances in front of", "title": "Manchester United F.C. mascots" }, { "id": "8697911", "text": "his critics. Some critiqued Sherman as sometimes being \"very Madison Avenue-ish.\" Rethinking his 1963 rejection of writer George Plimpton's proposal to allow Plimpton to pose in training camp as a rookie quarterback (resulting in bestseller and movie \"Paper Lion\"), in 1966 Sherman and Mara accepted author Eliot Asinof's proposal to spend two years with the team having total freedom and unlimited access to players, coaches, and executives, even closed coaches meetings. This resulted in a never-before seen behind-the-scenes look of the inner world of the professionals, \"Seven Days To Sunday\", published in 1968 (whose opening line is, \"Allie Sherman's hundred-hour", "title": "Allie Sherman" }, { "id": "6481863", "text": "Enrique Guzmán or Los Teen Tops performed cover versions of songs by Elvis Presley, Paul Anka, Nancy Sinatra and others. On September 13, 1969, Televisa, a Mexican company and the world's largest Spanish-language television network launched the variety show \"Siempre en Domingo\" (\"Always on Sundays\") hosted by Raúl Velasco. \"Siempre en Domingo\" became one of the most popular TV shows in Latin America with about 420 million television viewers around the world (according to Televisa and their partners). \"Siempre en Domingo\" was a TV show where many artists performed and debuted. At the time, an appearance was a hallmark of", "title": "Mexican pop music" }, { "id": "14541338", "text": "and confrontation with Joseph Stalin during the end of World War II, his decision to create the Marshall Plan, his decision to send troops to the Korean War, his decision to recognize the state of Israel, and his decision to desegregate the United States armed forces. After writing \"Mornings on Horseback\", which was McCullough's first biography and consisted of an in-depth look at a small period in the life of former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, McCullough wanted to do a more full biography, \"a mural instead of a Vermeer.\" At first, McCullough attempted to write a biography about Pablo", "title": "Truman (book)" }, { "id": "9250975", "text": "Raúl Velasco Raúl Velasco (April 24, 1933 – November 26, 2006) was the Mexican host/producer of the TV show \"Siempre en Domingo\" (\"Always on Sunday\") which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts of the world where Spanish entertainment programs are broadcast. Raúl Velasco began this program as co-host of a Sunday afternoon special in 1969 called \"Domingos Espectaculares\" (\"Spectacular Sundays\"). One of Raúl Velasco's catch phrases was, \"Aun hay mas\" (\"There's more to follow\"). For a short while, \"Siempre en Domingo\" was known as \"Aun hay mas\" because Raúl Velasco would always", "title": "Raúl Velasco" }, { "id": "19550494", "text": "The Greatest: My Own Story The Greatest: My Own Story is a 1975 autobiography of heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who was three times World Heavyweight Champion and has been called the greatest heavyweight from all eras. It is written in collaboration with Richard Durham and edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Written in his own words, the heavyweight champion chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring. The book is a multifaceted portrait of Muhammad Ali as sports legend; unapologetic anti-war advocate; goodwill ambassador; fighter, lover, poet, and provocateur. It is alleged that Ali was not", "title": "The Greatest: My Own Story" }, { "id": "2214641", "text": "She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. Trudeau graduated in 1969 from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. As an 18-year-old vacationing in Tahiti with her family, she met Pierre Trudeau, who was then Minister of Justice. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she in fact thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree \"flower child\", nearly thirty years younger than he, and began to pursue her. Pierre Trudeau was still a bachelor when he became Prime Minister in 1968. They", "title": "Margaret Trudeau" }, { "id": "16690240", "text": "founder of Zoe's Place, a hospice for children in Coventry. Jack Scarisbrick Professor John Joseph Scarisbrick (often shortened to J.J. Scarisbrick) is a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick. He is also noted as the co-founder with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick of LIFE, a British pro-life charity founded in 1970. Born in 1928 in London, Scarisbrick was educated at The John Fisher School and later Christ's College, Cambridge, after spending two years in the Royal Air Force. He specialises in Tudor history and his most critically acclaimed work is \"Henry VIII\", first published in 1968. He received", "title": "Jack Scarisbrick" }, { "id": "3806670", "text": "Schlesinger served as special assistant and \"court historian\" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled \"A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House\", which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 1968, Schlesinger actively supported the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, which ended with Kennedy's assassination in Los Angeles. Schlesinger wrote a popular biography, \"Robert Kennedy and His Times\", several years later. He later popularized the term \"imperial presidency\" during the Nixon administration", "title": "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr." }, { "id": "3943049", "text": "the only Kennedy aide to publish writings; historian and special assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir \"A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House\" during the same time period. Sorensen's biography, \"Kennedy\", was published during 1965 and became an international bestseller. Sorensen later joined the U.S. law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was of counsel, while still staying involved in politics. He was involved with Democratic campaigns and was a major adviser of Robert F. Kennedy in Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. During the next four decades, Sorensen", "title": "Ted Sorensen" }, { "id": "271158", "text": "would be redesigned to depict various historical events that had occurred at the Lincoln Memorial. Among the planned designs are images from King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech and the 1939 concert by opera singer Marian Anderson. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and", "title": "Martin Luther King Jr." }, { "id": "16690239", "text": "Jack Scarisbrick Professor John Joseph Scarisbrick (often shortened to J.J. Scarisbrick) is a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick. He is also noted as the co-founder with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick of LIFE, a British pro-life charity founded in 1970. Born in 1928 in London, Scarisbrick was educated at The John Fisher School and later Christ's College, Cambridge, after spending two years in the Royal Air Force. He specialises in Tudor history and his most critically acclaimed work is \"Henry VIII\", first published in 1968. He received an MBE in 2015 for services to vulnerable people as", "title": "Jack Scarisbrick" }, { "id": "6782746", "text": "known each other for many years previously. She became the prime minister's wife in 1966, and was known for her energy and flamboyance. She was widowed in December 1967, when her husband disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria. Zara published her autobiography in 1968, and the following year remarried to Jeff Bate, another politician. She was widowed for a second time in 1984, and subsequently retired to the Gold Coast. She was born in Kew, Victoria as Zara Kate Dickins. She was educated at Ruyton Girls' School and Toorak College. In 1930, she and her friend Bettine 'Betty' James", "title": "Zara Bate" }, { "id": "652025", "text": "By the late 1960s however, Spock's opposition to the Vietnam War had damaged his reputation; the 1968 edition of \"Baby and Child Care\" sold half as many copies of the prior edition. Later in life Spock wrote a book entitled \"Dr. Spock on Vietnam\" and co-wrote an autobiography entitled \"Spock on Spock\" (with Mary Morgan Spock), in which he stated his attitude toward aging: \"Delay and Deny\". In the seventh edition of \"Baby and Child Care,\" published a few weeks after he died, Spock advocated for a bold change in children's diets, recommending that all children switch to a vegan", "title": "Benjamin Spock" }, { "id": "1362933", "text": "Aristotle Onassis Aristotle Socrates Onassis (; , \"Aristotelis Onasis\"; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975), commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a Greek shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was known for his business success, his great wealth and also his personal life, including his marriage to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos); his affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas; and his 1968 marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of American President John F. Kennedy. Onassis", "title": "Aristotle Onassis" }, { "id": "6804125", "text": "set in 1968, Mainwaring, who was born in 1885, would have been 82 years old then and 60 at the end of the Second World War. In a radio sequel to \"Dad's Army\", \"It Sticks Out Half a Mile\", which is set in 1948 (three years after the Second World War ended), it is revealed that Mainwaring spent two years manufacturing cuckoo clocks in Switzerland. However, the first episode of \"Dad's Army\" shines light on Mainwaring's future: briefly set in the then present-day 1968, it features Mainwaring as guest of honour at the launch of Walmington's \"I'm Backing Britain\" campaign,", "title": "Captain Mainwaring" }, { "id": "4862715", "text": "are Charles, Prince of Wales; media mogul Rupert Murdoch; actress Portia de Rossi; John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia 1968–1971; Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, King of Malaysia 2006–2011; Tim Macartney-Snape, mountaineer and author; billionaire businessman Kerry Packer; and singer-songwriter Missy Higgins. \"The Corian\" is the journal of the Geelong Grammar School. Published as \"The Geelong Grammar School Annual\" (1875–76), \"The Geelong Grammar School Quarterly\" (1877–1913) and \"The Corian\" (1914–present). Published quarterly from 1877, it reverted to an annual in 1992. Salve schola te pia laude efferamus, pueri et pullae usque te amamus, O Corio praenitens ludo et labore, floreas", "title": "Geelong Grammar School" }, { "id": "9994454", "text": "Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story is a 1980 made-for-television movie about the life of Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rocky Bleier, portrayed by Robert Urich. Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Injured by a bullet to the thigh and a hand grenade to the lower right leg, Rocky is told that he will never walk again. Not only does he walk again after", "title": "Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story" }, { "id": "14205071", "text": "1968 I'm Backing Britain campaign, was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. David Morley (writer) David Morley (born March 1962) is a British writer and radio producer. Morley wrote a biography of UK politician George Galloway, \"Gorgeous George: The Life and Adventures of George Galloway\" (2007). The book's foreword was written by broadcaster Clive Anderson. \"The Daily Telegraph\" pulled a favorable review just before publication due to advice from its lawyers, who considered it too risky as they had previously lost a libel case to Galloway. Morley is a former producer of BBC Radio 2's \"Clive Anderson's Chat Room\" and", "title": "David Morley (writer)" }, { "id": "13981557", "text": "Gérard Mendel Gérard Mendel (1930 – 14 October 2004) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. His popularity began when he published his 1968 work \"La révolte contre le père\" (The revolt against the father). Deleuze and Guattari assessed this book as one example of the \"drivel on Oedipus\". Mendel argued that the father \"died over a period of thousands of years\" and that the \"internalization\" corresponding to the paternal image was produced during the Paleolithic right up until the start of the Neolithic, \"approximately 8,000 years ago\". Deleuze and Guattari mention this work as an example of the cop-like tone", "title": "Gérard Mendel" }, { "id": "211463", "text": "domestic security service MI5, suggested that Lennon had given money to the IRA, though this was swiftly denied by Ono. Biographer Bill Harry records that following Bloody Sunday, Lennon and Ono financially supported the production of the film \"The Irish Tapes\", a political documentary with a Republican slant. According to FBI surveillance reports, and confirmed by Tariq Ali in 2006, Lennon was sympathetic to the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group formed in Britain in 1968. However, the FBI considered Lennon to have limited effectiveness as a revolutionary, as he was \"constantly under the influence of narcotics\". In 1973, Lennon", "title": "John Lennon" }, { "id": "13138565", "text": "he faced by refusing to hide his homosexuality and flamboyant lifestyle during a time when such behaviour was criminalized in the United Kingdom. Crisp also recalls his various jobs including book designer, nude model, and prostitute. The title derives from Crisp's quip about being an art model: employed by schools, models are ultimately paid by the Department for Education. They are essentially civil employees who are naked during office hours. The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant is the 1968 autobiography of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, adapted into a 1975 film of the same name starring John", "title": "The Naked Civil Servant (book)" }, { "id": "10184731", "text": "It Always Rains on Sunday It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel by the same name, directed by Robert Hamer. The film has been compared with the poetic realism movement in the French cinema of a few years earlier by the British writers Robert Murphy, in the \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\", and Graham Fuller. The film concerns events one Sunday (23 March 1947, according to the announcement blackboard at the local underground station) in Bethnal Green, a part of the East End of London that was suffering the effects of", "title": "It Always Rains on Sunday" }, { "id": "2797572", "text": "own show on Radio 2, \"Madeley on Sunday\" (previously \"Made on Sunday\"), covering for Terry Wogan's \"Weekend Wogan\" over Wogan's holidays. Wogan died in January 2016; and Madeley's show became a semi-permanent replacement. From April 2016 the slot was shared between Madeley and Michael Ball, with Madeley presenting for approximately 10 weeks a year and Ball taking the remainder. In 2002, the couple co-wrote their autobiography, \"Richard and Judy: The Autobiography\", published by Hodder & Stoughton. In 2008, Madeley wrote the book \"Fathers and Sons\", which charts his family history; it was published by Simon & Schuster. Madeley is the", "title": "Richard Madeley" }, { "id": "735395", "text": "an episode of the NBC sitcom \"Diff'rent Strokes\". The show's title itself was inspired by the quote \"Different strokes for different folks\" popularized in 1966 by Ali, who also inspired the title of the 1967 Syl Johnson song \"Different Strokes\", one of the most sampled songs in pop music history. He also wrote several best-selling books about his career, including \"\" and \"The Soul of a Butterfly\". The Muhammad Ali Effect, named after Ali, is a term that came into use in psychology in the 1980s, as he stated in his autobiography \"\": \"I only said I was the greatest,", "title": "Muhammad Ali" }, { "id": "5810654", "text": "Observateur\", and \"L'Histoire\". He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film about the Vietnam War entitled \"In the Year of the Pig\". Lacouture was also director for publication at \"Seuil\", one of the main French publishers, from 1961 to 1982, and professor at the IEP of Paris between 1969 and 1972. He was mainly known to the public because of his biographies, including the lives of Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Léon Blum, De Gaulle, François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Germaine Tillion, Champollion, Jacques Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy. A dedicated music lover, Lacouture was also president of", "title": "Jean Lacouture" }, { "id": "16909487", "text": "dug up turtle eggs to eat. In 2011 he made recompense by returning to release newly hatched turtles into the wild. He remembers his personal encounters with mountain gorillas, blue whales and giant tortoises. He documented how blue whales, driven to near-extinction by hunting, were now making a comeback thanks to conservation efforts from pressure groups like Greenpeace. The plight of other threatened species were also highlighted, including the alarming decline in amphibians, insects, otters and rhinoceroses. The launch of Apollo 8 in 1968 allowed us to think globally and see the threat to the planet with views of the", "title": "Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild" }, { "id": "2713925", "text": "Fanny Brice Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series \"The Baby Snooks Show\". Thirteen years after her death, Brice was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the 1964 musical\" Funny Girl\"; Streisand also starred in its 1968 film adaptation, for which she won an Oscar. Fania Borach was born in Manhattan, New York", "title": "Fanny Brice" }, { "id": "14742669", "text": "and recorded his first international album with the hit \"Los Hombres no deben llorar\", followed by \"Mi corazón lloro\" (\"My heart cried\"), \"Usted me dejo llorando\" (\"You left me crying\"), \"Tema de amor para una chiquilina\" (\"A little girl's love's theme\"), \"Nunca mas podré olvidarte\" (\"I'll never forget you\"), \"Por culpa de tu amor\" (\"Because of your love\"), among others. In 1976 he debuted in Raúl Velasco's \"Siempre en Domingo\" (\"Always on Sunday\"). Since then, he has given shows across the world. Jorge F. Ayala (King Clave) befriended the singer Roberto Sanchez (who later became the famous Sandro), and one", "title": "King Clave" }, { "id": "12174347", "text": "theologian Leonardo Boff was twice ordered to cease publishing and teaching. While Pope John Paul II was criticized for his severity in dealing with proponents of the movement, he maintained that the Church, in its efforts to champion the poor, should not do so by resorting to violence or partisan politics. The movement is still alive in Latin America today, though the Church now faces the challenge of Pentecostal revival in much of the region. The sexual revolution of the 1960s brought challenging issues for the Church. Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical \"Humanae Vitae\" reaffirmed the Catholic Church's traditional view", "title": "History of the Catholic Church" }, { "id": "13565524", "text": "MLB pitcher, Dock Ellis who infamously pitched a no-hitter on LSD. \"A Life in the Day\" about Brian Epstein who found a group in England that he insisted he could make “bigger than Elvis”: Brian Epstein managed The Beatles’ until his untimely death in 1967. Permut is also producing \"The Rabbit Garden\" based on the life of award-winning Polish born author Jerzy Kosinski who was accused of plagiarism for his novel \"The Painted Bird.\" David Permut is a leading Hollywood producer who continues to shine a bright light on unbelievable real life stories as only a visionary can. Additionally, Permut", "title": "David Permut" }, { "id": "3784123", "text": "The couple had one child, Mary Catherine O'Shea (born 1953). The family lived for several decades in Thousand Oaks, California. In later years she developed a passion for painting and also occupied her time doting on her three grandsons. She converted to Roman Catholicism by way of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. A lifelong Republican, she endorsed Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972, and longtime friend Ronald Reagan in 1980. Mayo died of pneumonia and complications of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on January 17, 2005, aged 84, at a nursing home in Thousand Oaks. Her death was reported the", "title": "Virginia Mayo" }, { "id": "11183716", "text": "John Byrne Cooke John Byrne Cooke (October 5, 1940 – September 3, 2017) was an American author, musician, and photographer. He was the son of Alistair Cooke, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the 1960s, he played with the bluegrass band, the Charles River Valley Boys, and was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her death in 1970. He wrote 'On The Road with Janis Joplin', detailing the period of Joplin's life from her first appearance at Monterey Pop Festival until her death. Cooke wrote several Western fiction novels, and book reviews for the \"New York Times\",", "title": "John Byrne Cooke" }, { "id": "2274394", "text": "at an American trade fair at Sokolniki Park in Moscow in 1959—the one in which Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev had their famous Kitchen Debate. A widely circulated black-and-white photograph of the event was taken by Safire. Safire joined Nixon's campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon's 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and for Spiro Agnew; he is well known for having created Agnew's famous term, \"\"nattering nabobs of negativism.\"\" Safire prepared a speech called \"In Event of Moon Disaster\" for President Nixon to read on television if the Apollo 11", "title": "William Safire" }, { "id": "7702206", "text": "Tim McIntire Tim McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably best known for his portrayal of disc jockey Alan Freed in the film \"American Hot Wax\" (1978). He portrayed country music singer George Jones in the 1981 television movie \"Stand By Your Man\", which was based on the best-selling autobiography by country music singer Tammy Wynette. McIntire co-starred in the 1968 pilot \"Justice For All\" (which later became \"All In The Family\") as Dickie. After it became a series with Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, the part of the son-in-law was renamed Mike", "title": "Tim McIntire" }, { "id": "7277485", "text": "martyr who was killed with arrows because of his faith. In his painting Botticini depicts the Saint bound to a wooden pole, with arrows piercing his torso. In April 1968, Esquire Magazine imitated Botticini's painting in their cover shot of their article on Muhammad Ali, \"The Passion of Muhammed Ali\". The cover was meant to relate the persecution of Saint Sebastian to the persecution of Muhammad Ali when we was stripped of his heavyweight boxing title for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. George Lois, the art director of the magazine at the time, came up with the idea", "title": "Francesco Botticini" }, { "id": "617889", "text": "Kenneth Horne Charles Kenneth Horne, generally known as Kenneth Horne, (27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman. He is perhaps best remembered for his work on three BBC Radio series: \"Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh\" (1944–54), \"Beyond Our Ken\" (1958–64) and \"Round the Horne\" (1965–68). The son of a clergyman who was also a politician, Horne had a burgeoning business career with Triplex Safety Glass, which was interrupted by service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. While serving in a barrage balloon unit, he was asked to broadcast as a quizmaster on the BBC", "title": "Kenneth Horne" }, { "id": "9198203", "text": "as \"Come Dancing\", \"The Good Old Days\" and the Miss World competition. In later life, he lived in the village of Rowen, near Conwy in North Wales. In 1968, he became Head of Children's programmes for Yorkshire Television. The following year, he began hosting \"Stars on Sunday\". Yates introduced the show seated at an electric organ, placed in front of a stained-glass window. One of his many observations was, \"We can't see round the bend in the road, but God can.\" The programme attracted many special guests, including Harry Secombe, Dame Anna Neagle, and Gracie Fields. He was quoted as", "title": "Jess Yates" }, { "id": "11751011", "text": "Graham Lord Graham Lord (16 February 1943 – 13 June 2015) was a British biographer and novelist. His biographies include those of Jeffrey Bernard, James Herriot, Dick Francis, Arthur Lowe, David Niven, John Mortimer and Joan Collins. He was the literary editor of the \"Sunday Express\" for 23 years, from 1969 to 1992. Lord was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), raised in Mozambique, educated at Falcon College, Zimbabwe and took an honours degree in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he edited the university newspaper \"Varsity\". After working briefly for the \"Cambridge Evening News\", in 1965 he joined the", "title": "Graham Lord" }, { "id": "4137112", "text": "a situation that requires courage, skill, or tenacity (as opposed to someone sitting on the sidelines and watching), is sometimes referred to as \"the man in the arena\". The \"Man in the Arena\" passage was quoted by another US president, Richard Nixon, both in his victory speech on November 6, 1968, and in his resignation address to the nation on August 8, 1974: Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, 'whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,", "title": "Citizenship in a Republic" }, { "id": "11131874", "text": "University of London, obtaining a Ph.D. in economics. By the early 1970s Dugdale had become politically radicalised due to the 1968 student protests, and she had also been inspired after visiting Cuba. By 1972 she had devoted herself to helping the poor, after resigning from her job as an economist for the government, selling her house in Chelsea, and moving into a flat in Tottenham with her lover, Walter Heaton, who described himself as a \"revolutionary socialist\". Heaton was a court-martialled former guardsman and militant shop steward who was married with two daughters, and had been imprisoned for several minor", "title": "Rose Dugdale" }, { "id": "12753779", "text": "for the documentaries \"The Hunt\" (2001) and \"Hunt For Jack the Ripper\" (2001). He has also co-authored a number of historical books, namely: Keith Skinner Keith Skinner (born 1949) is a British actor and crime historian and author. He worked as an actor in cinema and television. His career began when he starred as Bruno in the 1966 film \"Mademoiselle\". In 1968, he was cast in Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of \"Romeo and Juliet\" as Balthasar, Romeo's manservant and trusted friend. He appears at various stages in the film including galloping on horseback to tell Romeo (played by Leonard Whiting) of", "title": "Keith Skinner" }, { "id": "14610176", "text": "embroiled in the Vietnam War, takes no action to save Israel, nor does any other country (except for a valiant but futile sending of some planes from the Netherlands). As Sirhan Sirhan returned home to Jordan to celebrate the conquest of Israel, Robert F. Kennedy was never assassinated and went on to defeat Richard Nixon in the 1968 election, becoming the 38th President (Hubert Humphrey became the 37th President in the book's alternate timeline following LBJ's resignation in January 1968). Meanwhile, Egyptian troops capture and publicly execute Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv. The victorious Arab armies establish new secret police", "title": "If Israel Lost the War" }, { "id": "15338570", "text": "biography of her mother, \"Clementine Churchill\", in 1979. She offered insights into the Churchill family to various biographers, prominently including Sir Martin Gilbert, who became the authorised biographer of Sir Winston Churchill after the death of Churchill's son, Randolph, in 1968. Additionally, she published a book of letters between Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, editing the letters as well as providing bridging material that placed the letters in personal, family, and historical context. In 1980, Lady Soames was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her public service, particularly in Rhodesia. One of her", "title": "Mary Soames" }, { "id": "20792127", "text": "by the Nazis in 1938). Einstein planted a weeping willow in 1951, and the space was opened to the public. Today the space belongs to Jost Einstein, Siegbert's grandson, who is the director of the Center for Nature Conservation of Bad Buchau. After the end of the war, Siegbert married Elsa Schlittler; because she was an Aryan, Siegbert had additional privileges under the Nazis. They had two children, Rolf Einstein and Kurt Einstein, who were raised Protestant Christians. He was a distant relative of Albert Einstein. He died on December 24, 1968 at the age of 79 and was the", "title": "Siegbert Einstein" }, { "id": "3523799", "text": "Tom Okker Thomas Samuel Okker (nicknamed \"the Flying Dutchman\"; born 22 February 1944) is a Dutch former tennis player who was active from the mid-1960s until 1980. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of World No. 3 in 1974. He also was ranked World No. 1 in doubles in 1969. Okker was born in Amsterdam, is Jewish on his father's side, and identifies as Jewish. Okker's father was Jewish, and was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, but managed to go into hiding by assuming", "title": "Tom Okker" }, { "id": "1733508", "text": "Jerry Quarry Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed \"Irish\" or \"The Bellflower Bomber\", was an American heavyweight boxer. Quarry was rated by \"Ring Magazine\" as the most popular fighter in the sport, from 1968 to 1971, during the peak of his career. His most famous bouts were against world champions Floyd Patterson, Jimmy Ellis, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton. His professional career record of 53 wins-9 losses-4 draws included wins over some of the best heavyweights of his era, 1965–75. Quarry also had a remarkably successful amateur boxing career. Also briefly a Hollywood actor,", "title": "Jerry Quarry" }, { "id": "17461540", "text": "day later, the Evangelical Alliance reiterated their previous statement that Anthony's claims had been found to be untrue. Tony Anthony (evangelist) Tony Anthony (born as Andonis Andreou Athanasiou on 30 July 1971, name changed by deed poll in 1975 to Andonis Andrew Anthony, but known since childhood as Tony) is a British Christian evangelist. He became prominent following the 2004 publication of his autobiography, \"Taming The Tiger\", in which he claimed to have been a violent criminal before converting to Christianity. The book was well received by the Christian community, and Anthony began an international ministry as an evangelist. Tony", "title": "Tony Anthony (evangelist)" }, { "id": "7110638", "text": "police action against many Quebec dissidents and great public controversy. \"\" is the title of a 1999 documentary by Catherine Annau. The phrase has also been the title of several biographies of Trudeau, e.g., Larry Zolf's \"Just Watch Me: Remembering Pierre Trudeau\" (1984); Ron Coleman's \"Just Watch Me: Trudeau's Tragic Legacy\" (2003); and the 2nd volume of John English's biography, \"Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000\" (2009). In March 2013, Trudeau's son Justin, while running for the Liberal Party leadership, made a rare gesture of evoking his father's memory during his campaign by repeating this phrase.", "title": "Just watch me" }, { "id": "7191599", "text": "as Soviet agents. MI5 maintained a file on Wilson, repeatedly investigating him over the course of several decades before officially concluding that Wilson had had no relationship with the KGB; nor had it ever found evidence of Soviet penetration of the Labour Party. Wilson claimed he was a staunch anti-Communist. In his 1976 memoir \"Walking on Water\", Hugh Cudlipp recounts a meeting he arranged at the request of Cecil King, the head of the International Publishing Corporation (IPC), between King and Lord Mountbatten of Burma. The meeting took place on 8 May 1968. Attending were Mountbatten, King, Cudlipp, and Sir", "title": "Harold Wilson conspiracy theories" }, { "id": "9002562", "text": "Alain LeRoy Locke Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged \"Dean\"— of the Harlem Renaissance. As a result, popular listings of influential African Americans have repeatedly included him. On March 19, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: \"We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the", "title": "Alain LeRoy Locke" }, { "id": "13767135", "text": "Ghez called it \"a strange psychological analysis of Walt and his works\". The Disney Version The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney is a 1968 book by Richard Schickel. It is a biography of the life of Walt Disney. It was one of the first polemical books about Disney that it takes a harshly critical view of much of his work. Stephen J. Whitfield of Brandeis University wrote that the book was \"One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture ... unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable\" while Pauline Kael described it", "title": "The Disney Version" }, { "id": "125422", "text": "that contained, to varying degrees, elements of existential or proto-existential thought. The philosophy's influence even reached pulp literature shortly after the turn of the 20th century, as seen in the existential disparity witnessed in Man's lack of control of his fate in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Since the late 1960s, a great deal of cultural activity in literature contains postmodernist as well as existential elements. Books such as \"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\" (1968) (now republished as \"Blade Runner\") by Philip K. Dick, \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" by Kurt Vonnegut, \"Fight Club\" by Chuck Palahniuk and \"Formless Meanderings\" by Bharath Srinivasan", "title": "Existentialism" }, { "id": "2713944", "text": "Covington, was slated to open in November 2010, directed by Ellen Dempsey. Fanny Brice Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series \"The Baby Snooks Show\". Thirteen years after her death, Brice was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the 1964 musical\" Funny Girl\"; Streisand also starred in its 1968 film adaptation, for which", "title": "Fanny Brice" }, { "id": "6259544", "text": "Che! (1969 film) Che! is a 1969 American biographical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Omar Sharif as Marxist revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara. It follows Guevara from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in Bolivia in 1967, although the film does not portray the formative pre-Cuban revolution sections of Che's life as described in the autobiographical book \"The Motorcycle Diaries\" (1993). The film tells of Che Guevara (Omar Sharif), a young Argentine doctor who proves his mettle during the Cuban guerrilla war in the late 1950s. He gains the respect of his men", "title": "Che! (1969 film)" }, { "id": "13728272", "text": "I'd ever felt\". Having long shared Harrison's interest in meditation and Indian religious texts, Scottish singer Donovan also recognised the Maharishi as the \"guide\" they had been searching for. The Maharishi received considerable media coverage in the West, particularly in the United States, where \"Life\" magazine devoted a cover article to the TM phenomenon and declared 1968 \"the Year of the Guru\". Many members of the mainstream press remained suspicious of the Maharishi's motives, however; the British satirical magazine \"Private Eye\" nicknamed him \"Veririchi Lotsamoney Yogi Bear\". Lennon defended the Maharishi's requirement that his students donate a week's wages to", "title": "The Beatles in India" }, { "id": "1760931", "text": "indecencies with minors. Reve sometimes welcomed the publicity, but also complained about his continual struggle with the authorities, public opinion and the press. Reve was prosecuted in 1966 for allegedly breaking a law against blasphemy. In \"Nader tot U\" he describes the narrator's love-making to God, a visitor to his house incarnated in a one-year-old mouse-grey donkey. In April 1968 he was acquitted by the High Council. Although it would take decades for the Netherlands to decriminalize blasphemy, in 2013 the law was abolished, the outcome of this case — known as the “Donkey Trial” — rendered the existing law", "title": "Gerard Reve" }, { "id": "820103", "text": "King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his creation and leadership of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights and social and economic justice in the Civil Rights Movement. It uses only original newsreel and other primary material, unvarnished and unretouched, and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 through his assassination in 1968. The original newsreel segments are framed by celebrity narrators Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Burt", "title": "King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis" }, { "id": "2737786", "text": "nominees. Holland accepted an offer to film a three-part drama for HBO about Jan Palach, who immolated himself in January 1969 to protest \"normalization\" after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The resulting miniseries, \"Burning Bush\", has been shown in Poland and Germany and selected for a Special Presentation screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She also won the Czech Lion Award in the Best Director category for this TV series. On 1 December 2013, the film screened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where Holland was invited to deliver the Rajiv", "title": "Agnieszka Holland" }, { "id": "9530551", "text": "book \"If I Did It\" based on interviews with Simpson. The book was published by Beaufort Books, a New York City publishing house owned by parent company Kampmann & Company/Midpoint Trade Books. All rights and proceeds from the book were awarded to the family of murder victim Ron Goldman. O. J. Simpson Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed The Juice, is an American former running back, broadcaster, actor, advertising spokesman, and convicted robber. Simpson attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he played football for the USC Trojans and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. He played", "title": "O. J. Simpson" }, { "id": "19603890", "text": "of Wall Street\", that became Scorsese's highest-grossing film worldwide. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort and recounts his career as a stockbroker and the rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street that led to his downfall. The film was listed on many critics Top Ten lists for the year and the decade and received five Academy Awards nominations. In October 2018, he was cast in the Martin Scorsese-directed film adaptation of the David Grann's New York Times bestseller book \"Killers of the Flower Moon\". Shooting is planned to begin in Summer 2019.", "title": "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio" }, { "id": "18923527", "text": "hiding with 55 others, leading him to be listed as one of the ten most wanted men in Quebec. In September 1968, Tremblay claimed that God had elevated him to the papacy, superseding Collin, with the title Pope Gregory XVII. Eight months later Collin acknowledged him as pope. Tremblay linked his papacy with the prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette, as had Collin. Over the following 40 years, Tremblay was the subject of numerous police investigations into charges of kidnapping, illegal detention and child abuse. One former member filed a civil suit for $25m in 2001, claiming physical and", "title": "Jean-Gaston Tremblay" }, { "id": "1725535", "text": "Rod Laver Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938), better known as Rod Laver, is an Australian former tennis player. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He also was the No. 1 ranked amateur in 1961–62. Laver's 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history. This included his all-time men's record of 10 or more titles per year for seven consecutive years (1964–70). He excelled on all of the court surfaces of his time: grass, clay, hard, carpet,", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "3861790", "text": "which originated in the state of California in the early 1970s when teenagers imitated their motocross heroes on their bicycles. Children were racing standard road bikes off-road, around purpose-built tracks in the Netherlands. The 1971 motorcycle racing documentary \"On Any Sunday\" is generally credited with inspiring the movement nationally in the US. In the opening scene, kids are shown riding their Schwinn Sting-Rays off-road. It was not until the middle of the decade the sport achieved critical mass, and manufacturers began creating bicycles designed specially for the sport. It has grown into an international sport with several different disciplines. In", "title": "History of the bicycle" }, { "id": "512096", "text": "he and his aides then entered a narrow kitchen pantry on their way to a banquet room to meet with reporters. In the pantry Kennedy and five others were shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Rosicrucian Palestinian of Christian background and Jordanian citizenship, who hated Kennedy because of his support for Israel. Sirhan admitted his guilt, was convicted of murder, and is still in prison. In recent years some have cast doubt on Sirhan's guilt, including Sirhan himself, who said he was \"brainwashed\" into killing Kennedy and was a patsy. Political historians still debate whether Kennedy could have won the", "title": "1968 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "14350278", "text": "1968 election. In his famous interviews with newsman David Frost, and elsewhere, Nixon had always denied any participation in what history has come to call the Chennault Affair - after Anna Chennault, the Nixon campaign's go-between with South Vietnam. Farrell's discovery earned praise from his peers. On April 16, 2018 the Pulitzer Prize board announced that \"Richard Nixon: The Life\" was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. On April 13, 2018, the New-York Historical Society awarded Farrell the title of \"American Historian Laureate,\" and presented him with the $50,000 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American", "title": "John A. Farrell" }, { "id": "16111102", "text": "Hoover vs. The Kennedys Hoover vs. The Kennedys: The Second Civil War is a four-hour 1987 made-for-television mini-series depicting the political struggles between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President John F. Kennedy and Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy. The film takes place between the 1960 Democratic National Convention in July 1960 and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, with the majority of the mini-series focusing on the Kennedy Administration (1961–1963). Other sub-plots include Bobby Kennedy's frustration with his elder brother's politically risky womanizing and his often turbulent relationship with Hoover and the Civil Rights leadership of the", "title": "Hoover vs. The Kennedys" }, { "id": "3561530", "text": "of British life during the decade. Among his topics were prominent people including Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson – dubbed the Walrus and the Carpenter by Levin – and institutions such as the monarchy, the churches and the British Empire in its last days. Among the individual events examined in the book were the 1968 student riots and the prosecution for obscenity of the publishers of \"Lady Chatterley's Lover\". Levin's interest in indexes developed from his work on \"The Pendulum Years\". He compiled his own index for the book, \"and swore a mighty oath, when I had finished the task,", "title": "Bernard Levin" }, { "id": "14145652", "text": "Send Him Victorious Send Him Victorious is a political thriller, written in 1968 by Andrew Osmond, a former officer of Gurkha troops and diplomat, and Douglas Hurd, a former diplomat who later became a MP and Cabinet minister. The book was the first in a trilogy, the other two titles being \"The Smile on the Face of the Tiger\" and \"Scotch on the Rocks\". It looks ahead from 1968 and into the future, in a time where Queen Elizabeth II is no longer the monarch of the United Kingdom and has been succeeded by a King (presumably the former Prince", "title": "Send Him Victorious" }, { "id": "9250982", "text": "search within their souls for all the feelings that have been hidden since childhood. On September 13, 1969, a new musical variety show came out on television, becoming the most popular and traditional in Mexico: \"Siempre en Domingo\" (\"Always on Sunday\"). This TV show achieved fame in USA, Latin America, Asia and Europe. \"Siempre en Domingo\" was a TV show where many artists performed and debuted. In the beginning, most of the artists performing on \"Siempre en Domingo\" were from Spain, Central and South America. However, the TV show became more and more popular, and soon many Mexican singers wanted", "title": "Raúl Velasco" }, { "id": "464551", "text": "were not victorious on their own, King Hussein let the Palestinians take credit. Some have alleged that Arafat himself was on the battlefield, but the details of his involvement are unclear. However, his allies–as well as Israeli intelligence–confirm that he urged his men throughout the battle to hold their ground and continue fighting. The battle was covered in detail by \"Time\", and Arafat's face appeared on the cover of the 13 December 1968 issue, bringing his image to the world for the first time. Amid the post-war environment, the profiles of Arafat and Fatah were raised by this important turning", "title": "Yasser Arafat" }, { "id": "8983535", "text": "organising major events for the Tate Gallery such as the opening of the new wing containing the Turner Gallery. Fawcett is mentioned in \"Shout! The Beatles in their Generation\", by journalist Philip Norman, and in Shotton's memoir \"The Beatles, Lennon and Me\". He may also be the \"Anthony\" heard mentioned in \"Radio Play\", a track on \"\". Anthony Fawcett Anthony Fawcett is a British writer, art critic, and a former personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1968 till 1970. He took over the role briefly held by Lennon's boyhood friend Peter Shotton, after Shotton's resignation from Apple", "title": "Anthony Fawcett" }, { "id": "1725563", "text": "is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players in the history of the sport. The members of the press, notably Lance Tingay of \"The Daily Telegraph\", issued rankings for amateur players before the start of the Open Era and for all players after the start of that era. Laver was ranked by the press as the world No. 1 player in 1961 and 1962 (as an amateur) and in 1968 and 1969 (as a professional). According to the article, Bill Tilden was the best player for seven years and Pancho Gonzales for eight years. While Laver was indisputably", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "8577900", "text": "In his autobiography \"Waylon\", Jennings recalled of the song, \"I waited a damn year to cut that song; Charlie Louvin's bass player had the original version for Capitol. I didn't want to cover him. I think he outsang me on it, but I had the best track. I knew it had the potential to go all the way, and it might had not 'Harper Valley P.T.A.' kept it out of the number-one slot.\" In Canada, the song reached Number One on the \"RPM\" Country Tracks charts for the week ending September 30, 1968. Jennings would perform the song as part", "title": "Only the Greatest" }, { "id": "13148142", "text": "role in the Civil Rights Movement. Their history as a focal point for the Black community and as a link between the Black and White worlds made them natural for this purpose. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was but one of many notable Black ministers involved in the movement. He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. King received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent civil disobedience. He was assassinated in 1968. Ralph David Abernathy, Bernard Lee, Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian and Jesse Jackson are", "title": "History of Christianity in the United States" }, { "id": "5344725", "text": "subtitled: \"A Biography of the President Whose Uncompromising Honesty and Integrity Failed America in a Time of Crisis\" (1968). His biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt was entitled \"FDR: An Architect of an Era.\" \"A Stricken Land\" was his memoir about his years in Puerto Rico. This book was reprinted in 2007 by the Muñoz Marín Foundation. Tugwell also wrote the foreword to Edward C. Banfield's first published work, \"Government Project\" (Free Press, 1951), a history of one of Tugwell's collective farm programs in California. Tugwell's autobiographies include \"The Light of Other Days\" (1962), \"To the Lesser Heights of Morningside\" (1982),", "title": "Rexford Tugwell" }, { "id": "741869", "text": "the shooting. After Robert Kennedy's death, Jacqueline reportedly suffered a relapse of the depression she had suffered in the days following her husband's assassination nearly five years prior. She came to fear for her life and those of her children, saying: \"If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country\". On October 20, 1968, Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children. The wedding took place on Skorpios, Onassis' private Greek", "title": "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" }, { "id": "5977085", "text": "The Man and the Hour \"The Man and the Hour\" is the pilot episode of the British comedy sitcom \"Dad's Army\". It originally aired on Wednesday 31 July 1968 and was later adapted for radio. On the outbreak of the Second World War, a local bank manager, George Mainwaring, takes it upon himself to form a unit of Local Defence Volunteers in the Kent town of Walmington-on-Sea. It starts in present-day (1968) with local Walmington-on-Sea dignitary George Mainwaring announcing that he is backing Britain. A flash back shows on a TV screen showing scenes from the Second World War and", "title": "The Man and the Hour" }, { "id": "20685691", "text": "The Beatles: The Authorised Biography The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career. Davies published revised editions of the book in 1982, 1985, 2002 and 2009. In 1966, Hunter Davies was working as the Atticus columnist for the \"Sunday Times\" newspaper and had written two books, one", "title": "The Beatles: The Authorised Biography" }, { "id": "811654", "text": "For her consistent support of the Czechoslovak democratization movement (the so-called \"Prague Spring\") in 1968, and during the purges which followed the Soviet-led invasion in August 1968, she was deprived of the right to travel abroad and participate in public sport events both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. Čáslavská was effectively forced into retirement, and was considered a \"persona non grata\" for many years in her home country. Czechoslovak authorities refused to publish her autobiography, and insisted that it be heavily censored when it was released in Japan. She was granted leave to work as a coach in Mexico, but reportedly", "title": "Věra Čáslavská" }, { "id": "1999300", "text": "1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, called Perry one of the six greatest players of all time. \"Kings of the Court\", a video-tape documentary made in 1997 in conjunction with the International Tennis Hall of Fame, named Perry one of the ten greatest players of all time. But this documentary only considered those players who played before the Open era of tennis that began in 1968, with the exception of Rod Laver, who spanned both eras, so that all of the more recent great players are missing. Kramer, however, had several caveats about Perry.", "title": "Fred Perry" }, { "id": "7636773", "text": "Scientologists. It was reissued in two substantially modified editions, in 1968 (minus chapter 11 of the original book and under the current title of \"Scientology: A History of Man\"), in 1988, and again in 2007, this time with a set of lectures expanding on the content. Since 1968, the book's jacket has displayed a picture of a hirsute, unkempt \"caveman\" dressed in a fur, eating the raw meat from a thigh bone of an animal. This appears to refer to one of the past-life incidents described by Hubbard in the book. Many Scientology books have similar curious pictures on their", "title": "Scientology: A History of Man" }, { "id": "12305216", "text": "with proponents of the movement, he maintained that the Church, in its efforts to champion the poor, should not do so by resorting to violence or partisan politics. The movement is still alive in Latin America today, though the Church now faces the challenge of Pentecostal revival in much of the region. The sexual revolution of the 1960s brought challenging issues for the Church. Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical \"Humanae Vitae\" affirmed the sanctity of life from conception to natural death and rejected the use of contraception; both abortion and euthanasia were considered to be murder. The Church's rejection of", "title": "History of the Catholic Church since 1962" }, { "id": "7433084", "text": "he resigned due to poor health. Altaf Husain resigned from the Industry ministry 10 days before his death. He died on 25 May 1968 and was buried with state honours in Model Colony cemetery. The street in Karachi where Dawn was first published is today known as \"Altaf Husain Road.\" Regarded as a model by young writers he excelled in the role of the crusader. Dawn remarked eight years after his death: Altaf Husain Altaf Husain (, ; 26 January 1900 – 15 May 1968), was an eminent East Pakistani educationist, journalist, and Pakistan Movement . He is noted as", "title": "Altaf Husain" }, { "id": "512097", "text": "Democratic nomination had he lived. Some historians, such as Theodore H. White and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., have argued that Kennedy's broad appeal and famed charisma would have convinced the party bosses at the Democratic Convention to give him the nomination. Jack Newfield, author of \"RFK: A Memoir\", stated in a 1998 interview that on the night he was assassinated, \"[Kennedy] had a phone conversation with Mayor Daley of Chicago, and Mayor Daley all but promised to throw the Illinois delegates to Bobby at the convention in August 1968. I think he said to me, and Pete Hamill, 'Daley is", "title": "1968 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "12924013", "text": "Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. Kennedy, like his brothers John and Edward, was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. After", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "17257182", "text": "Unclaimed Unclaimed is a 2013 Canadian documentary film about a man who claims to be former Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, who was declared dead after being shot down over Laos on a classified mission on 20 May 1968. The documentary is written, directed, and produced by Michael Jorgensen. It follows Tom Faunce, a veteran of the Vietnam War, in tracking down the man who claimed to be Robertson. Faunce was skeptical of Robertson's identity but eventually became convinced. He convinced Jorgensen to make a documentary about Robertson's story as a way to unite the man", "title": "Unclaimed" }, { "id": "20685713", "text": "time that Lennon made his comments in \"Rolling Stone\". Harris described it as \"admirably researched and brimming with access – but stymied by his artless prose, and the constraints of being the band's in-house writer\". The Beatles: The Authorised Biography The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their", "title": "The Beatles: The Authorised Biography" } ]

[ "In a hospital dispensary--where she worked during World War I" ]

[ { "id": "11318", "text": "Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\", featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. \"Guinness World Records\" lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13065788", "text": "even though she thought the character to be \"rather insufferable\". Following the publication of the 1975 novel \"Curtain\", Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of \"The New York Times\". Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Ashfield, Torquay, Devon. She met her future husband just before the First World War; after he was sent to the Western Front, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a", "title": "Agatha Christie bibliography" }, { "id": "11346", "text": "stories there: a short story \"The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding\" in the story collection of the same name, and the novel \"After the Funeral\". \"Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all its servants and grandeur being woven into her plots. The descriptions of the fictional Chimneys, Stoneygates, and other houses in her stories are mostly Abney in various forms.\" During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels. For example, the use", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "3963545", "text": "took his own life, as described by Phaedo, and has indeed been used to treat whooping cough and asthma. The \"poisons act\" referred to is the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933, and \"Schedule 1\" is part 1 of the associated Poisons List. Christie's professional background in poisons often shows in her works. The painting that is hung upon the wall of Cecilia Williams' room, described as a \"blind girl sitting on an orange\", is by George Frederic Watts and is called \"Hope\". In it, a blind girl is featured with a harp which, though it has only one string left,", "title": "Five Little Pigs" }, { "id": "2307124", "text": "the Apothecaries' Act in 1815 and 1998, the Society also set the qualifying examination for Apothecaries' Assistants or Dispensers. Agatha Christie sat this exam in 1917, studying for which is likely to have served her well in her description of more than 80 poisonings in her books. Since 1928, when the Society instituted the first postgraduate qualification in Midwifery (the Mastery of Midwifery, MMSA), the Apothecaries have pioneered 15 further such diplomas in specialist subjects not offered by the Universities, Medical Royal Colleges or any other medical body. This includes the diploma in the Forensic and Clinical Aspects of Sexual", "title": "Worshipful Society of Apothecaries" }, { "id": "11347", "text": "of thallium as a poison was suggested to her by UCH Chief Pharmacist Harold Davis (later appointed Chief Pharmacist at the UK Ministry of Health), and in \"The Pale Horse\", published in 1961, she employed it to dispatch a series of victims, the first clue to the murder method coming from the victims' loss of hair. So accurate was her description of thallium poisoning that on at least one occasion it helped solve a case that was baffling doctors. Christie lived in Chelsea, first in Cresswell Place and later in Sheffield Terrace. Both properties are now marked by blue plaques.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "5339554", "text": "of Mrs. Christie's accustomed skill and economy of effect, but it is a pity that the plot turns upon a legal point familiar to all and yet so misconceived that many readers will feel the tale is deprived of plausibility.\" Robert Barnard: \"A variation on the usual triangle theme and the only time Christie uses the lovely-woman-in-the-dock-accused-of-murder ploy. Elegiac, more emotionally involving than is usual in Christie, but the ingenuity and superb clueing put it among the very best of the classic titles. Her knowledge of poison is well to the fore, but the amateur will also benefit from a", "title": "Sad Cypress" }, { "id": "13579005", "text": "never solved and her doctor was also found dead a few months later, of strychnine poisoning. Miss Mounstephen was later arrested for allegedly tampering with her friend’s bottle of sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it, though the court found her not guilty. The case later inspired two works, Agatha Christie's first novel, \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\" (1920) and also writer Ruskin Bond's \"In A Crystal Ball — A Mussoorie Mystery\". Apparently, Rudyard Kipling had written to Arthur Conan Doyle, urging him to write a story about a \"murder by suggestion\". Though Conan Doyle never visited to investigate,", "title": "Savoy Hotel (Mussoorie)" }, { "id": "11317", "text": "Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, \"The Mousetrap\", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "11335", "text": "her service in September 1918. After the war, Agatha and Archie Christie settled in a flat at 5 Northwick Terrace in St. John's Wood, northwest London. Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's \"The Woman in White\" and \"The Moonstone\", as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\", featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large \"magnificent moustaches\" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "11349", "text": "her 1941 thriller \"N or M?\", which was about a hunt for a pair of deadly fifth columnists in wartime England. MI5 was afraid that Christie had a spy in Britain's top-secret codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. The agency's fears were allayed when Christie told her friend, the codebreaker Dilly Knox, \"I was stuck there on my way by train from Oxford to London and took revenge by giving the name to one of my least lovable characters.\" In honour of her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1956 New", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "1714224", "text": "husband on her dying lips. Poirot has a few questions for her fortune-hunting new spouse, her aimless stepsons, her private doctor, and her hired companion. The answers are positively poisonous. Who's responsible, and why, can only be revealed by the master detective himself.\" (Book jacket, Berkley Book edition April 1984) In his book, \"A Talent to Deceive – An Appreciation of Agatha Christie\", Robert Barnard wrote: In the \"Binge!\" article of \"Entertainment Weekly\" Issue #1343-44 (26 December 2014–3 January 2015), the writers picked \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\" as an \"EW favorite\" on the list of the \"Nine Great Christie", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "2071732", "text": "the Table\", \"Hallowe'en Party\" and \"The Pale Horse\"), and by Julia McKenzie (\"Mrs McGinty's Dead\", \"Dead Man's Folly\", and \"Elephants Can Remember\"). Ariadne Oliver Ariadne Oliver is a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie. She is a mystery novelist and a friend of Hercule Poirot. Mrs Oliver often assists Poirot in his cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She often claims to be endowed with particular \"feminine intuition\", but it usually leads her astray. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel \"Hallowe'en Party\". In the books, Oliver's most famous", "title": "Ariadne Oliver" }, { "id": "1616400", "text": "each of her detective stories. The result is that, in her latest book, we note qualities of humour, composition and subtlety which we would have thought beyond the reach of the writer of \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\". Of course, the gift of bamboozlement, with which Agatha Christie was born, remains, and has never been seen to better advantage than in this close, diverting and largely analytical problem. \"Cards on the Table\" is perhaps the most perfect of the little grey cells.\" \"The Scotsman\" (19 November 1936) wrote: \"There was a time when M. Hercule Poirot thought of going into", "title": "Cards on the Table" }, { "id": "19885172", "text": "Frances Micklethwait Frances Mary Gore Micklethwait (1867– 25 March 1950), was an English research chemist, among the first to study and seek an antidote to mustard gas during the First World War. She received an MBE for her top secret wartime work, which has since come to light. Micklethwait was born in Blackwood, Yorkshire, the first daughter of a Yorkshire farmer and a Parisian mother. Biographies generally give 1868 as her year of birth, but this is disputed by official records. She was educated privately and then studied at the Swanley Horticultural College in Kent, which admitted women from 1897,", "title": "Frances Micklethwait" }, { "id": "9262550", "text": "The Alphabet Murders The Alphabet Murders is a British detective film based on the novel \"The A.B.C. Murders\" by Agatha Christie, starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot. Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon happens to be a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger. As he and Captain Hastings look into the crimes, a beautiful woman with an interesting monogram named Amanda Beatrice Cross becomes the focus of their investigation, at least until", "title": "The Alphabet Murders" }, { "id": "5555051", "text": "conclusions has more or less over-shadowed her amazing versatility, not only in background and incident, but in character-drawing and actual style. The story here is told by a trained nurse – as has been done by other eminent mystery novelists. Nurse Leatheran holds her own with them all. This latest Christie opus is a smooth, highly original and completely absorbing tale\". In \"The Observer\" 12 July 1936 issue, \"Torquemada\" (Edward Powys Mathers) wrote that \"Agatha Christie has a humorous, well-observed story amongst the ruins of Tell Yarimjah, and her latest method of murder, which got me guessing fruitlessly, has, as", "title": "Murder in Mesopotamia" }, { "id": "2071722", "text": "Ariadne Oliver Ariadne Oliver is a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie. She is a mystery novelist and a friend of Hercule Poirot. Mrs Oliver often assists Poirot in his cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She often claims to be endowed with particular \"feminine intuition\", but it usually leads her astray. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel \"Hallowe'en Party\". In the books, Oliver's most famous works are those featuring her vegetarian Finnish detective Sven Hjerson. Since she knows nothing of Finland, Oliver frequently laments Hjerson's existence. In", "title": "Ariadne Oliver" }, { "id": "20895818", "text": "from reading Agatha Christie's \"\"The Pale Horse\"\", in which the killer uses thallium, stressing on the fact that the substance is hard to trace. Solovyov chose his wife Olga as his first victim, with whom he had been since school and had lived together for 14 years. For a while, he threw small amounts of poison into her food, which caused her to die on December 9, 2003. The doctors could not establish that it was poisoning. The next victim was to be Solovyov's neighbor, whom he suspected of stealing a car battery, but as a result of a tragic", "title": "Vyacheslav Solovyov (serial killer)" }, { "id": "11656487", "text": "records. The Egyptians are also thought to have come into knowledge about elements such as antimony, copper, crude arsenic, lead, opium, and mandrake (among others) which are mentioned in papyri. Egyptians are now thought to be the first to master distillation, and to manipulate the poison that can be retrieved from apricot kernels. Cleopatra is said to have poisoned herself with an asp after hearing of Marc Antony's demise. Prior to her death, she was said to have sent many of her maidservants to act as guinea pigs to test different poisons, including belladonna, henbane, and the strychnine tree's seed.", "title": "History of poison" }, { "id": "17119598", "text": "Gillian Gill Gillian Catherine Gill (born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of \"Agatha Christie\" (1990), \"Mary Baker Eddy\" (1998), \"Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale\" (2004), and \"We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals\" (2009). Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales. She attended Cardiff High School for Girls, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. She obtained her Ph.D. in March 1972, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled \"André", "title": "Gillian Gill" }, { "id": "2071727", "text": "the suspects, which in turn allows her to discover a hidden motive that even the police were unable to find; in \"Elephants Can Remember\", she again interviews witnesses, but none of the essential ones. She is more usually used for comic relief or to provide a deus ex machina through her intuitive or sudden insights, a function that is especially apparent in \"Third Girl\", in which she furnishes Poirot with virtually every important clue, or in \"The Pale Horse\", where she inadvertently helps the investigators to determine the type of poison used to kill the murder victims, saving the life", "title": "Ariadne Oliver" }, { "id": "11077749", "text": "German in 1909. The \"Carlsberg Papyrus\" – It is the property of the Carlsberg Foundation. The papyrus covers diseases of the eye and pregnancy. The \"Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus\" – This papyrus is named after Sir Alfred Chester Beatty who donated 19 papyri to the British Museum. The remedies in these texts are generally related to magic and focus on conditions that involve headaches and anorectal ailments. The \"Brooklyn Papyrus\" – Focusing mainly on snakebites, the Brooklyn Papyrus speaks of remedial methods for poisons obtained from snakes, scorpions, and tarantulas. The Brooklyn Papyrus currently resides in the Brooklyn Museum. Egyptian", "title": "Egyptian medical papyri" }, { "id": "5615050", "text": "Taken at the Flood Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . . and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946. The novel tells a story of post-World War", "title": "Taken at the Flood" }, { "id": "1876918", "text": "estates and superstores on the outskirts on Brixham Road. The Torbay Picture House (now closed) is believed to have been Europe's oldest purpose-built cinema and was built in 1907. Seat 2 Row 2 of the circle was the favourite seat of Torquay-born crime novelist Agatha Christie, who lived in neighbouring Galmpton. The cinemas and theatres in her books are all said to be based on the Torbay Picture House. It was also used as a location for the 1984 Donald Sutherland film \"Ordeal by Innocence\" and the 1981 film \"The French Lieutenant's Woman\" (which was filmed mainly at Lyme Regis", "title": "Paignton" }, { "id": "5554872", "text": "and the proof of the first wife, Sir Charles storms out of the room, in order to \"choose his exit\". It is implied he chooses the quicker option of suicide. A shaken and emotional Egg is then taken home by Manders, leaving Poirot and Satterthwaite to contemplate that they could have been the victims to the poison cocktail, at Sir Charles' party. Three Act Tragedy Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts and", "title": "Three Act Tragedy" }, { "id": "10691106", "text": "London to Carsely in the Cotswolds when she sold her public-relations firm in Mayfair and took early retirement. She solves murders in each of the earlier books, but in the fifteenth book \"Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance\" (2004) Agatha sets up her own detective agency. The police, and even some of her acquaintances, insist that she solves crimes through accident and luck. In the first book, \"Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death\" (1992), Agatha is 53. She was born Agatha Styles in a tower block slum in Birmingham to Joseph and Margaret Styles, both unemployed drunks living on", "title": "Agatha Raisin" }, { "id": "2852528", "text": "admired by her future mother-in-law, Mrs Marguerite Mallowan, who penned a note in a leather-bound copy she commissioned of this book together with \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\" and \"The Hollow\". The note read \"Passing a bookshop while I was in Paris in 1932, I bought \"The Secret of Chimneys\", now almost unobtainable. I had just heard of Agatha Christie. Though not a reader of detective stories, her book captivated me so much that I never left it until I had finished it. Soon after she married my son, whom she had met in Mesopotamia while he was working under", "title": "The Secret of Chimneys" }, { "id": "3685205", "text": "detective Hercule Poirot—one of the longest gaps in the entire series. Christie, who often admitted that she did not like Poirot (a fact parodied by her recurring novelist character Ariadne Oliver), particularly disliked his appearance in this novel. His late arrival, jarring, given the established atmosphere, led Christie to claim in her \"\" that she \"ruined [her own novel] by the introduction of Poirot\". Agatha Christie's successful career foresaw the use of her eight owned houses as settings for her novels, which were Taken at the Flood, Dead Man's Folly, Five Little Pigs, A Pocket Full of Rye, and Crooked", "title": "The Hollow" }, { "id": "1590998", "text": "contribution to mystery fiction in the 1920s was the development of the juvenile mystery by Edward Stratemeyer. Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene pseudonyms respectively (and were later written by his daughter, Harriet Adams, and other authors). The 1920s also gave rise to one of the most popular mystery authors of all time, Agatha Christie, whose works include \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (1934), \"Death on the Nile\" (1937), and the world's best-selling mystery \"And Then There Were None\" (1939). The massive popularity of pulp", "title": "Mystery fiction" }, { "id": "11345", "text": "set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as \"And Then There Were None\") were set in and around Torquay, where she was raised. Christie's 1934 novel \"Murder on the Orient Express\" was written in the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust. Christie often stayed at Abney Hall, Cheshire, owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts, basing at least two", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13065787", "text": "Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others,", "title": "Agatha Christie bibliography" }, { "id": "17119599", "text": "Malraux: A Study of a Novelist\". She emigrated to the United States after marrying, and taught at Northeastern University, Wellesley, Harvard, and Yale, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and director of the Women's Studies Program. Gillian Gill Gillian Catherine Gill (born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of \"Agatha Christie\" (1990), \"Mary Baker Eddy\" (1998), \"Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale\" (2004), and \"We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals\" (2009). Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales.", "title": "Gillian Gill" }, { "id": "5555169", "text": "stupidity, and there is nothing left for the critic but to offer his usual tribute of praise to another of Mrs Christie's successes. She does indeed this sort of thing so superlatively well that one is ungratefully tempted to wish she would do something just a little well different, even if less well.\" In the \"Daily Mirror\" (8 July 1937), Mary Dell wrote: \"Once I had started reading, I did not have to rely on Bob or his cleverness to keep me interested. This is Agatha Christie at her best.\" She concluded, \"Here's a book that will keep all thriller", "title": "Dumb Witness" }, { "id": "5502316", "text": "for several years during World War I, as tenant of Lollingdon Farm, at the foot of the Berkshire Downs. He was Poet Laureate from 1936 to his death in 1967 and is most famous for a series of poems and sonnets entitled \"Lollingdon Downs\" and his poem \"Sea-Fever\", which has been set to music by John Ireland. The grave of novelist Dame Agatha Christie is in the churchyard of St Mary's. She lived with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, at Winterbrook House, in the north of the parish, from about 1934 and died there in 1976. She and", "title": "Cholsey" }, { "id": "12682086", "text": "Her latest book, published in 2016, \"The Woman on the Orient Express,\" is a novel with a fictional version Agatha Christie as its heroine. Ashford currently lives on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth. Lindsay Ashford Lindsay Ashford is a British crime novelist and journalist. Her style of writing has been compared to that of Vivien Armstrong, Linda Fairstein and Frances Fyfield. Many of her books follow the character of Megan Rhys, an investigative psychologist. Raised in Wolverhampton, Ashford became the first woman to graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge in its 550-year history. She gained a degree in criminology. Ashford was", "title": "Lindsay Ashford" }, { "id": "11340", "text": "police, and a newspaper offered a £100 reward. Over a thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes scoured the rural landscape. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even gave a spirit medium one of Christie's gloves to find the missing woman. Dorothy L. Sayers visited the house in Surrey, later using the scenario in her book \"Unnatural Death\". Christie's disappearance was featured on the front page of \"The New York Times\". Despite the extensive manhunt, she was not found for 10 days. On 14 December 1926, she was found at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel (now the Old Swan Hotel) in Harrogate,", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "14887947", "text": "(with)...tasteful grounds\", John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baronet (1799-1871) (after 1858 Baron Churston), whose paternal grandmother was Susanna Yarde (1740-1810), heiress of Churston, was using it as a residence for his eldest son, himself residing at the grander Lupton House. Agatha Christie was a regular visitor when the property was owned by Lord Churston. She donated a stained glass window to the parish church and is believed to have been inspired to write her 1923 murder mystery novel \"The Murder on the Links\", about a murder on a golf course in Northern France, whilst a guest at Churston Court. Lord Churston sold", "title": "Churston Court" }, { "id": "15423600", "text": "that followed the death of Sargon II in 705 BC or when Nineveh fell and was destroyed in 612 BC. Mallowan's wife was the famous British crime novelist, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), who was fascinated with archaeology, and who accompanied her husband on the Nimrud excavations. Christie helped photograph and preserve many of the ivories found during the excavations, explaining in her autobiography that she cleaned the ivories using a fine knitting needle, an orange stick and a pot of face cream. The collection of ivories uncovered by Mallowan were divided between Iraq and Britain, where they remained at the British", "title": "Nimrud ivories" }, { "id": "7313527", "text": "self-defense revolver to the island. After the deaths of Thomas Rogers' by axe and Emily Brent from anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, Lombard announces that his revolver has been stolen, and a search for it is fruitless. Naracott discovers he has been poisoned with the fictional drug Solidamide, but he obtains a remedy: a bottle of the fictional \"Bellman's Universal Application\". During a blackout after dinner that night, Wargrave is killed by a shot to the head. In the morning, however, Wargrave's body is missing along with Armstrong, whose drowned body will later wash up on the shore. Wargrave's", "title": "Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None" }, { "id": "1483454", "text": "been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote \"Rebecca\", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) \"Of Human Bondage\" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (1934), \"Death on the Nile\" (1937), and \"And Then There Were None\" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction", "title": "English novel" }, { "id": "8975113", "text": "they had one daughter. Wentworth wrote a series of 32 crime novels in the classic whodunit style, featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional private detective, in London, England. Miss Silver works closely with Scotland Yard, especially Inspector Frank Abbott, and is fond of quoting the poet Tennyson. Miss Silver is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie. \"Miss Silver is well known in the better circles of society, and she finds entree to the troubled households of the upper classes with little difficulty. In most of Miss Silver's", "title": "Patricia Wentworth" }, { "id": "11376", "text": "the house; the English were of all kinds\". Christie published relatively few non-fiction works: Often referred to as the \"Queen of Crime\" or \"Queen of Mystery\", Agatha Christie is the world's best-selling mystery writer and is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation. Some critics, however, have regarded Christie's plotting as superior to her skill with other literary elements. Novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay \"The Simple Art of Murder\", and American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his \"New Yorker\" essay, \"Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?\"", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13065795", "text": "her on her own or as a member of a group. The definitive study of Agatha Christie's stage plays is \"Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, A Life in Theatre\" by Julius Green. Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular", "title": "Agatha Christie bibliography" }, { "id": "21011296", "text": "Jean Lamont Barclay. Joseph Tillie Dr Joseph Tillie FRSE (1859–1898) was a 19th-century Scottish physician and pharmacologist with a special knowledge of \"exotic poisons\" such as curare. He was born in Edinburgh on 20 January 1859, the son of Thomas Tillie, a relatively wealthy tailor with a shop at 369 High Street on the Royal Mile. The family lived at 11 Castle Terrace, a Georgian townhouse viewing onto Edinburgh Castle. He originally trained as a banker and worked as an accountant for the Union Bank of Scotland. He first took a general degree at Edinburgh, graduating in 1883 then studied", "title": "Joseph Tillie" }, { "id": "18027692", "text": "to a large country house near Godalming called Juniper Hill on Hydon Heath. Christie continued to play golf at Sunningdale Golf Club. Nancy died in 1958 at the age of 58, and Christie died four years later. Archie Christie Archibald Christie, (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie. They wed in 1914 and divorced in 1928. During that period Agatha wrote some of the most renowned detective novels. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained", "title": "Archie Christie" }, { "id": "5624416", "text": "Ardingly. Mrs Lancaster mentioned \"ten past eleven\", though, while Ardingly's recollection placed the mentioned time at \"12.10\". This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from its description in the book. The novel is also cited to have been the \"inspiration\" of what was dubbed \"The Mensa Murder\". In 1988, George Trepal, a Mensa Club member, poisoned his neighbours, Pye and Peggy Carr and their children, with thallium introduced in a Coca-Cola Classic bottles eight-pack. Peggy Carr succumbed while the others survived", "title": "The Pale Horse" }, { "id": "13065790", "text": "at March 2018, was still running; in 2009 the London run exceeded 25,000 performances. In September 2015 a public vote identified \"And Then There Were None\"—originally published in 1939 under the name \"Ten Little Niggers\"—as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write. In September 1930 Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions and she used the experiences as a basis for some plots, including \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (1934), \"Murder in Mesopotamia\" (1936) and \"Death on the Nile\" (1937). She", "title": "Agatha Christie bibliography" }, { "id": "7119145", "text": "Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John Le Carre and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local garden club. Dorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to minister James", "title": "Dorothy Gilman" }, { "id": "15251247", "text": "protagonist, the novel has won multiple awards and is the first in a proposed 10-book series. As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her 2 older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13) who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family's country manor home located in the English village of Bishop's Lacey. Flavia has braces and pigtails like a typical 11-year-old girl, but she is also a brilliant amateur chemist with a specialty in poisons and a fully equipped, personal laboratory on the top floor of her home. With her scientific notebook at the", "title": "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" }, { "id": "878467", "text": "consists of recent first publications usually no older than a few years. Furthermore, only a select few authors have achieved the status of \"classics\" for their published works. A classic is any text that can be received and accepted universally, because they transcend context. A popular, well known example is Agatha Christie, whose texts, originally published between 1920 and her death in 1976, are available in UK and US editions in all English speaking nations. Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of", "title": "Crime fiction" }, { "id": "19885176", "text": "also worked on the Index for the revised edition of Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. Frances Micklethwait Frances Mary Gore Micklethwait (1867– 25 March 1950), was an English research chemist, among the first to study and seek an antidote to mustard gas during the First World War. She received an MBE for her top secret wartime work, which has since come to light. Micklethwait was born in Blackwood, Yorkshire, the first daughter of a Yorkshire farmer and a Parisian mother. Biographies generally give 1868 as her year of birth, but this is disputed by official records. She was educated privately", "title": "Frances Micklethwait" }, { "id": "1462686", "text": "later achieved greater fame, including Sean Pertwee (\"The King of Clubs\", 1989; \"Dead Man's Folly\", 2013), Joely Richardson (\"The Dream\", 1989), Polly Walker (\"Peril at End House\", 1990), Samantha Bond (\"The Adventure of the Cheap Flat\", 1990), Christopher Eccleston (\"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe\", 1992), Hermione Norris (\"Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan\", 1993), Damian Lewis (\"Hickory Dickory Dock\", 1995), Jamie Bamber (\"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\", 2000), Russell Tovey (\"Evil Under the Sun\", 2001), Emily Blunt (\"Death on the Nile\", 2004), Alice Eve (\"The Mystery of the Blue Train\", 2005), Michael Fassbender (\"After the Funeral\", 2006), Toby Jones, Aiden", "title": "Agatha Christie's Poirot" }, { "id": "10691109", "text": "poisoning. Frustrated, Agatha set out to find the poisoner and clear her own name. Agatha Raisin Agatha Raisin is a fictional detective in a series of humorous mystery novels by Marion Chesney using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton. They are published in the U.K. by Constable & Robinson and in the U.S.A. by St. Martins Press. Raisin has been played by Penelope Keith on BBC Radio 4, and by Ashley Jensen in the television series \"Agatha Raisin\". The pilot aired on Sky 1 in December 2014. A full 8-part series, filmed during 2015, began airing on Sky 1 in June", "title": "Agatha Raisin" }, { "id": "2899446", "text": "Christie and to provide her with the best opportunities for displaying her own skill. A fault-finding critic may, however, wonder whether M. Poirot is not growing just a little too fond of keeping to himself such important facts as the bullet-hole in the table. If he is to enjoy all, a reader should also know all.\" Mary Dell in the \"Daily Mirror\" of 11 November 1937 said, \"Agatha Christie is just grand. Usually if you get a good plot there is something wrong with the writing or the characters. But with her – you have everything that makes a first-class", "title": "Death on the Nile" }, { "id": "4214925", "text": "won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial \"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit\", and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series \"Marple\". She was born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Donald and Norah (née Burns) McKeown. She had Irish ancestors; her maternal grandfather came from Kilkenny while her paternal grandfather came from Belfast. Her father, a printers' compositor, ran the Labour Party branch in Old Windsor, a safe Conservative seat. McEwan won a scholarship to attend Windsor", "title": "Geraldine McEwan" }, { "id": "1481599", "text": "of strychnine poisoning are listed below in table 2. For occupational exposures to strychnine, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have set exposure limits at 0.15 mg/m over an 8-hour work day. Because strychnine produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction, strychnine poisoning is often portrayed in literature and film including authors Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. Strychnine may be introduced into the body orally, by inhalation, or by injection. It is a potently bitter substance, and in humans has been shown to", "title": "Strychnine" }, { "id": "1983279", "text": "who wished for someone to fall in love with them, and fatal poison to those who wished for someone to die. The art of poisoning had become a regular science at the time, having been perfected, in part, by Giulia Tofana, a professional female poisoner in Italy, only a few decades before La Voisin. La Voisin provided a large variety of poisons for her clients and had a network of poison providers working for her, notably the apothecary Catherine Trianon. Her knowledge of poisons was apparently not so thorough as that of less well-known sorcerers, or it would be difficult", "title": "La Voisin" }, { "id": "1481610", "text": "been used to kill dogs, cats, and birds in Europe as far back as 1640. The structure of strychnine was first determined in 1946 by Sir Robert Robinson and in 1954 this alkaloid was synthesized in a laboratory by Robert B. Woodward. This is one of the most famous syntheses in the history of organic chemistry. Both chemists won the Nobel prize (Robinson in 1947 and Woodward in 1965). Strychnine has been used as a plot device in the author Agatha Christie's murder mysteries. Strychnine was popularly used as an athletic performance enhancer and recreational stimulant in the late 19th", "title": "Strychnine" }, { "id": "3596769", "text": "shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God? Lord Gorell shared the presidency with Agatha Christie, who only agreed to accept the role if a co-president was appointed to conduct the club's proceedings. Detection Club The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John", "title": "Detection Club" }, { "id": "14759092", "text": "witches' Sabbath and Will-o'-the-wisp at the Île d'Orléans. James MacPherson Le Moine (\"Maple Leaves\", 1863) and William Kirby, following in his footsteps (\"The Golden Dog\", 1877), made her a professional poisoner, a direct descendant of La Voisin, famous for her purported role in The Affair of the Poisons. Writers and historians such as Louis Fréchette and Pierre-Georges Roy have tried to give Corriveau's history, but without completely separating the facts from the anachronistic fantasies added in legend and novels. The figure of Corriveau still inspires novels, songs and plays and is the subject of argument (was she guilty or not?).", "title": "Marie-Josephte Corriveau" }, { "id": "9384477", "text": "opportunities to venture outside the train into the snowy exterior environment. The sole player character is Antoinette Marceau, an employee of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. She is aided throughout her investigation by famous detective Hercule Poirot, as well as his friend Dr. Constantine. Ten of the thirteen murder suspects from Christie's novel are included in the game adaption. These suspects are Count and Countess Andrenyi, Colonel Arbuthnot, Mary Debenham, Princess Dragomiroff, Greta Ohlsson, Antonio Foscarelli, Cyrus Hardman, Caroline Hubbard, Hector McQueen, and several staff on the Orient Express. The victim is Samuel Ratchett. In total, there are twenty characters", "title": "Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express" }, { "id": "10853530", "text": "kind. She is the daughter of a chemistry professor. She gets in a bad accident during one of the Irregulars' adventures in The Shadow City. She is first introduced at a Girl Scouts meeting, where she has just \"succeeded in refining a particularly dangerous strain of botulism\", which is described as a poison that can reverse wrinkles and all signs of age. She is the scientist of the group, and inventor of many clever concoctions, including several explosives; Morlock's Miracle Mixture, a self-made substance which repels poisons when digested; and Fille Fiable a concoction used to make one seem trustworthy.", "title": "Kiki Strike" }, { "id": "11348", "text": "In 1934, she and Max Mallowan purchased Winterbrook House in Winterbrook, a hamlet adjoining the small market town of Wallingford, then within the bounds of Cholsey and in Berkshire. This was their main residence for the rest of their lives and the place where Christie did most of her writing. This house, too, bears a blue plaque. Christie led a quiet life despite being known in the town of Wallingford, where she was for many years President of the local amateur dramatic society. Around 1941–42, the British intelligence agency MI5 investigated Christie after a character called Major Bletchley appeared in", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "5568731", "text": "can say that this is well up in the first six. The humour and humanity of its detail raise a question which only one person can give an answer. Agatha Christie has grown accustomed to working her embroidery on a background of black. Could she, or could she not, leave death and detection out, and embroider as well on green? I believe she is one of the few detective novelists who could. If she would let herself try, just for fun. I believe it would be very good fun for other people, too.\" E.R. Punshon in \"The Guardian\"s issue of", "title": "Murder Is Easy" }, { "id": "8924062", "text": "Robert Barnard Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. Born at Burnham on Crouch in Essex, Barnard was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School and at Balliol College in Oxford. His first crime novel, \"A Little Local Murder\", was published in 1976. The novel was written while he was a lecturer at University of Tromsø in Norway. He went on to write more than 40 other books and numerous short stories. Barnard said that his favourite crime writer was Agatha Christie. In 1980 he published a critique of her", "title": "Robert Barnard" }, { "id": "16875603", "text": "Royal Castle Hotel The Royal Castle Hotel is a hotel in Dartmouth, Devon, England. Guests have included Queen Victoria, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary (who later became Mary II of England). The hotel was used as a location for the 1984 film, \"Ordeal by Innocence\", which was based on the 1958 Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Agatha Christie renamed the hotel the Royal George in 'The Regatta Mystery', a short story that first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1936 and which currently forms part of the 1991 short story collection Problem at Pollensa Bay. It holds three", "title": "Royal Castle Hotel" }, { "id": "13579004", "text": "which included writers, academics, film-makers and people from other walks of life. Savoy Hotel is around 32 km from the nearest railhead, Dehradun Railway Station and 55 km from Jolly Grant Airport. Mussoorie Bus Station is the nearest bus terminal. In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist, came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mountstephen, also a spiritualist who specialised in seances and crystal-gazing. One morning after Miss Mountstephen had returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. The murder was", "title": "Savoy Hotel (Mussoorie)" }, { "id": "5049150", "text": "Rudge and Pound were both keen readers of mystery and detective novels: this was the era of Agatha Christie, whose books earned her a fortune. Seeking to do the same, Pound and Rudge began in the 1930s, but never completed, a detective novel of their own; titled \"The Blue Spill\", it centred on the escapades of a Surrey detective. As World War II approached, Rudge limited her travel outside of Italy, last playing in London in 1935. By this time, Pound was vehemently pro-Mussolini and had begun broadcasting his views on Radio Rome, with Rudge's support. In 1941, they thought", "title": "Olga Rudge" }, { "id": "9939499", "text": "Strychnine poisoning Strychnine poisoning can be fatal to humans and other animals and can occur by inhalation, swallowing or absorption through eyes or mouth. It produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction, making it quite noticeable and a common choice for assassinations and poison attacks. For this reason, strychnine poisoning is often portrayed in literature and film, such as the murder mysteries written by Agatha Christie. Ten to twenty minutes after exposure, the body's muscles begin to spasm, starting with the head and neck in the form of trismus and risus sardonicus. The", "title": "Strychnine poisoning" }, { "id": "12506270", "text": "and 1901 are 639 and 549. Dittisham has given its name to the Dittisham plum, a dessert variety grown here. The fictitious Lady Dittisham is one of the main characters In Agatha Christie's \"Five Little Pigs\". Dittisham Dittisham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county of Devon. It is situated on the west bank of the tidal River Dart, some upstream of Dartmouth. The Greenway Ferry carries pedestrians across the river from Dittisham to Greenway Quay, adjacent to the Greenway Estate. Once the home of the crime writer Agatha Christie, this has", "title": "Dittisham" }, { "id": "2071723", "text": "many of her appearances, Oliver – and her feelings toward Hjerson – reflect Agatha Christie's own frustrations as an author, particularly with the Belgian Hercule Poirot (an example of self-insertion). The self-caricature has also been used to discuss Christie's own follies in her earlier novels. For instance, in \"Mrs McGinty's Dead\", Mrs Oliver talks of having made the blowpipe a foot long (30 cm) in one of her novels, whereas the actual length is something like four-and-a-half feet () – the same mistake Christie made in \"Death in the Clouds\". In \"The Pale Horse\", Mrs Oliver becomes acquainted with the", "title": "Ariadne Oliver" }, { "id": "10280259", "text": "his horse abducted a woodcutter's daughter who was forced into the deep water and drowned. According to the legend, the maiden can be seen at midnight. This legend appears to have come from a book written by Martin Tupper in 1858 called Stephan Langton or The Days Of King John (A Romance of the Silent Pool). The story is based on real historic characters including Stephen Langton, a former Archbishop of Canterbury and King John. In December 1926, when crime writer Agatha Christie infamously disappeared, it was feared that she had drowned in the Silent Pool after her car was", "title": "Silent Pool" }, { "id": "14535271", "text": "Goneril poisons Regan's drink after learning that they share a desire for Edmund. Regan cries, \"Sick, O sick!\" to which Goneril replies in an aside, \"If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine,\" (5.3. 97–98). Regan quickly becomes ill and dies offstage. Regan, like her elder sister, is unnecessarily cruel. After Gloucester's eyes have been plucked out, she orders to \"Go, thrust him out the gates, and let him smell/his way to Dover.\" (3.7. 94–95). Stanley Cavell notes Regan's characteristic relish building upon and outdoing others' evils: \"[S]he has no ideas of her own, her special vileness is always to increase the", "title": "Regan (King Lear)" }, { "id": "1821437", "text": "Powys Mathers) said, \"Ingenuity ... is a mild term for Mrs Christie's gift. In \"The A.B.C. Murders\", rightly chosen by the [crime] club as its book of the month, she has quite altered her method of attack upon the reader, and yet the truth behind this fantastic series of killings is as fairly elusive as any previous truth which Poirot has had to capture for us. The reader adopts two quite different mental attitudes as he reads. At first, and for a great many pages, he is asking himself: \"Is Agatha Christie going to let me down? Does she think", "title": "The A.B.C. Murders" }, { "id": "13065791", "text": "also wrote the autobiographical travel book \"Come, Tell Me How You Live\" (1946), which described their life in Syria; her biographer, Janet Morgan, reports that \"archaeologists have celebrated ... [Christie's] contribution to Near Eastern exploration\". Christie died in January 1976, her reputation as a crime novelist high. Her biographer, H. R. F. Keating, describes Christie as \"a towering figure in the history of crime literature\", while her obituarist in \"The Times\" considers that, following the death of Dorothy L. Sayers in 1957, Christie was \"the undoubted queen of her profession\". Initially in chronological order by UK publication date, even when", "title": "Agatha Christie bibliography" }, { "id": "2916792", "text": "nurses. As well as this there were some very large hotels and three film studios: Lemville, Elstree and Hellingforth. St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel \"The Mystery of the Blue Train\". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book", "title": "St. Mary Mead" }, { "id": "4874447", "text": "such letter found next to her. This novel features the elderly detective Miss Marple in a relatively minor role, \"a little old lady sleuth who doesn't seem to do much\". She enters the story after the police have failed to solve the crime in the final quarter of the book, and in a handful of scenes. The novel was well-received when it was published: \"Agatha Christie is at it again, lifting the lid off delphiniums and weaving the scarlet warp all over the pastel pouffe..\" One reviewer noted that Miss Marple \"sets the stage for the final exposure of the", "title": "The Moving Finger" }, { "id": "2840219", "text": "ten films based on the ever-popular novels of Agatha Christie have been released. Two with eccentric sleuth Hercule Poirot, \"Evil Under the Sun\" (1982), \"Appointment with Death\" (1988), and one with Miss Marple \"The Mirror Crack'd\" (1980). Christie herself became the subject of a mystery film in 1979's \"Agatha\" starring Vanessa Redgrave. The film was a fictional speculation on her famous 11-day disappearance in 1926. Complex murder mysteries related to military men began with \"Crossfire\" (1947). More recent examples include \"A Soldier's Story\" (1984), \"No Way Out\" (1987), \"The Presidio\" (1988), \"A Few Good Men\" (1992), \"Courage Under Fire\" (1996),", "title": "Mystery film" }, { "id": "1410911", "text": "Ngaio Marsh Dame Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. Marsh is known as one of the \"Queens of Crime\", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). The Ngaio Marsh Award is awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing. Marsh", "title": "Ngaio Marsh" }, { "id": "21011293", "text": "Joseph Tillie Dr Joseph Tillie FRSE (1859–1898) was a 19th-century Scottish physician and pharmacologist with a special knowledge of \"exotic poisons\" such as curare. He was born in Edinburgh on 20 January 1859, the son of Thomas Tillie, a relatively wealthy tailor with a shop at 369 High Street on the Royal Mile. The family lived at 11 Castle Terrace, a Georgian townhouse viewing onto Edinburgh Castle. He originally trained as a banker and worked as an accountant for the Union Bank of Scotland. He first took a general degree at Edinburgh, graduating in 1883 then studied Medicine, graduated MB", "title": "Joseph Tillie" }, { "id": "4043021", "text": "Notes on a Scandal Notes on a Scandal (What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal in the U.S.) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil. The novel was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. A film version was released in 2006, starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including nominations for Dench and Blanchett. Barbara, a veteran history teacher at a comprehensive school in London, is a lonely, unmarried woman in her early", "title": "Notes on a Scandal" }, { "id": "5571325", "text": "is too forced to rank with her best Number One form, but the suspect race is up to scratch and readability is high. Making allowances for six years of spam and cataclysm, quite a credible performance.\" An unnamed reviewer in the \"Toronto Daily Star\" of 24 February 1945 said, \"Suspense is well maintained and suspicion well divided. While this mystery lacks Hercule Poirot, it should nevertheless please all Agatha Christie fans, especially those who like the murders in the fast, sophisticated set.\" Robert Barnard: \"Murder in the past, previously accepted as suicide. Upper-class tart gets her come-uppance in smart London", "title": "Sparkling Cyanide" }, { "id": "12301928", "text": "of premium hi-fi equipment. A refurbishment of the Old Swan and its 136 rooms was finalised in 2006. In December 1926 the author Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared from her home. She was missing for a total of eleven days, during which the police conducted a major manhunt, and there was speculation that she had committed suicide. The disappearance even drew other crime writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers into the search, Conan Doyle's interest in the occult prompting to take one of Christie's gloves to a medium. After about ten days (having checked into the Swan Hydropathic", "title": "Old Swan Hotel" }, { "id": "7301398", "text": "tea. Campion heads to the house and meets the famous Caroline Faraday, who hires him to help them resolve matters. Oates analyses the teacup and finds traces of conium poison (hemlock, the poison that was used to execute Socrates, and one of the species in the carrot genus, including dill, and parsnip), while Campion finds a stash of weight-loss pills in Julia's room. Uncle William approaches Marcus, telling him he has been suffering from blackouts, and Campion also finds the old man's service revolver is missing, along with some cord from the same (unused) room. Later, Campion finds William in", "title": "Police at the Funeral" }, { "id": "4874460", "text": "sleuth who doesn't seem to do much but who sets the stage for the final exposure of the murderer.\" The writer and critic Robert Barnard wrote \"Poison pen in Mayhem Parva, inevitably leading to murder. A good and varied cast list, some humour, and stronger than usual romantic interest of an ugly-duckling-into-swan type. One of the few times Christie gives short measure, and none the worse for that.\" In the \"Binge!\" article of \"Entertainment Weekly\" of December 2014 – January 2015, the writers picked \"The Moving Finger\" as a Christie favourite on the list of the \"Nine Great Christie Novels\".", "title": "The Moving Finger" }, { "id": "1464494", "text": "It also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from \"Murder, She Said\", which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel \"\". The show revolves around the day-to-day life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless, widowed, retired English teacher who becomes a successful mystery writer. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a small coastal community in Maine, and maintains her links with all of her old friends, never letting her success go to", "title": "Murder, She Wrote" }, { "id": "7119151", "text": "movie \"The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax\" in 1999. Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John Le Carre and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local garden club. Dorothy Gilman was born in", "title": "Dorothy Gilman" }, { "id": "11364", "text": "the Christie family gave their \"full backing\" to the release of a new Poirot story, \"The Monogram Murders\", which was written by British author Sophie Hannah. Hannah later released a second Poirot mystery, \"Closed Casket\", in 2016. Christie's reputation as \"The Queen of Crime\" was built upon the large number of classic motifs that she introduced, or for which she provided the most famous example. Christie built these tropes into what is now considered classic mystery structure: a murder is committed, there are multiple suspects who are all concealing secrets, and the detective gradually uncovers these secrets over the course", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "18285545", "text": "Agatha Christie Memorial The Agatha Christie Memorial is a memorial to author and playwright Agatha Christie, located at the intersection of Cranbourn Street and Great Newport Street by St Martin's Cross near Covent Garden, in London, United Kingdom. It is located in the heart of London's theatre district. This was chosen to pay homage to Christie's contribution to theatre: her murder mystery play \"The Mousetrap\" is the world's longest-running show, and she was the first female playwright to have three plays performing simultaneously in the West End. The memorial depicts a book with Christie at its centre. It is about", "title": "Agatha Christie Memorial" }, { "id": "18696257", "text": "Manjiri Prabhu Manjiri Prabhu (born 30 September 1964) is an Indian author, TV producer and filmmaker. She has been hailed as the 'Desi Agatha Christie' by the media and is acknowledged as being the first woman writer of mystery fiction in India. Manjiri Atmaram Prabhu was born in Pune to Atmaram Prabhu, a businessman and Shobha Prabhu, a prominent astrologer in a family of five siblings. Manjiri started experimenting with novels at a young age and acknowledges Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie as her early inspiration. She attended St. Joseph's High School and did her graduation and Masters in French", "title": "Manjiri Prabhu" }, { "id": "2996672", "text": "transamination using alanine:5-keto-octanal aminotransferase. The amine then spontaneously cyclizes and is dehydrated to form the coniine precursor γ–coniceine. This is then reduced using NADPH dependent y-coniceine reductase to form coniine. Coniine is the murder weapon in Agatha Christie's mystery novel \"Five Little Pigs\". Coniine Coniine refers to a poisonous chemical compound, an alkaloid present in and isolable from poison hemlock (\"Conium maculatum\"), where its presence has been a source of significant economic, medical, and historico-cultural interest; coniine is also produced by the yellow pitcher plant (\"Sarracenia flava\"), and fool's parsley (\"Aethusa cynapium\"). Its ingestion and extended exposure are toxic to", "title": "Coniine" }, { "id": "11901068", "text": "and krav maga, and studied books about the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and Mossad history. William Thomas of \"Empire\" termed the film a \"smart, tense, well-acted thriller\", and noted that Chastain \"pulses with strength and vulnerability\" in her part. She also appeared as Mary Debenham in an episode of the British television series \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\", based on Agatha Christie's 1934 novel \"Murder on the Orient Express\". After struggling for a breakthrough in film, Chastain had six releases in 2011, and received wide recognition for several of them. The first of the roles was as the wife of Michael Shannon's", "title": "Jessica Chastain" }, { "id": "8020473", "text": "to Southsea, Hampshire. She died at 33 of alcohol poisoning two years later on Tuesday 24 (possibly 17) September 1878. The novel \"So Evil My Love\" by Joseph Shearing (pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen) has elements of the Bravo poisoning in its plot. It was later made into a film. The novel \"Below Suspicion\" by John Dickson Carr also has elements of the Bravo case in the first murder. Agatha Christie's \"Ordeal by Innocence\" refers to the Bravo case as a case unsolved, the permanent shade of suspicion thus destroying the lives of the innocent (Florence Bravo, Dr. Gully and Mrs.", "title": "Charles Bravo" }, { "id": "5555041", "text": "Murder in Mesopotamia Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The cover was designed by Robin McCartney. The book features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq, and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to the Royal Cemetery at Ur where", "title": "Murder in Mesopotamia" }, { "id": "18027677", "text": "Archie Christie Archibald Christie, (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie. They wed in 1914 and divorced in 1928. During that period Agatha wrote some of the most renowned detective novels. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year. Shortly after this, Christie married Nancy Neele, and the couple lived quietly for the rest of their lives. Christie became a successful businessman and was invited to be on the boards of", "title": "Archie Christie" }, { "id": "1667823", "text": "events. Both letters were published in full in the next issue. The writer also gained some fame after her letter to \"New York World\" magazine was published. Corelli claimed that she had warned George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (one of the finders of the tomb of Tutankhamun) about the \"dire punishment\" likely to occur to those who rifle Egyptian tombs, claiming to cite an ancient book that indicated that poisons had been left after burials. Corelli spent her final years in Stratford-upon-Avon. There she fought hard for the preservation of Stratford's 17th-century buildings, and donated money to help their", "title": "Marie Corelli" }, { "id": "10781934", "text": "\"The Road of Dreams\" (with the first under the slightly amended title of \"World Hymn, 1914\"). The book is divided into four sections: The final section includes a poem titled \"In a Dispensary\" which mentions many of the poisons that Christie would use in her long fictional career. The \"Times Literary Supplement\" in its issue of 26 February 1925 praised \"A Masque from Italy\" and other selected poems whilst stating that \"her talent, however, is too delicate to turn a ballad convincingly\" and \"World Hymn, 1914\" was a \"subject too large for her hand to grasp\". It did conclude, however,", "title": "The Road of Dreams" }, { "id": "857910", "text": "The following is a list of 12 BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Miss Marple Novels by Agatha Christie in which Whitfield plays Marple. June Whitfield Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress. Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy \"Take It From Here\" from 1953. Television soon followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career. In 1966, Whitfield played the leading role in the television sitcom \"Beggar My Neighbour\" which ran for three series. She was also in four \"Carry On\" films: \"Nurse\", \"Abroad\", \"Girls\" and \"Columbus\". In", "title": "June Whitfield" }, { "id": "2343101", "text": "Lord Caterham ruefully mentions that his doctor advised him to “avoid all worry. So easy for a man sitting in his consulting room in Harley Street to say that.” Earlier in the book, a surgeon in Harley Street is mentioned among names listed in a phone book. In Agatha Christie’s \"And Then There Were None\" (1938), murder victium Dr Edward Armstrong is a Harley Street physician. In Agatha Christie’s \"Crooked House\" (1949), Edith de Haviland visits Harley Street. In the movie The Revenge of Frankenstein Dr Victor Frankenstein aka Dr Franck after his brain transplant begins his medical practice on", "title": "Harley Street" } ]

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[ { "id": "1750687", "text": "the flow of structure (interrupting a comfortable structure), taking the conversation towards an expected crude form with evoking questions, doubts, self-conscientiousness (creating intentional misunderstandings) or layering the existing pattern with multiple anchors...etc. It is important to quit the bantering with the sensibility of playground rules, both parties shouldn't obsess on topping each other, continuously after a certain point of interest. It is as Shakespeare said \"Brevity is the soul of wit.\" One element of conversation is discussion: sharing opinions on subjects that are thought of during the conversation. In polite society the subject changes before discussion becomes dispute or controversial.", "title": "Conversation" }, { "id": "230059", "text": "Bjarne Stroustrup's \"Make Simple Tasks Simple!\", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's \"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away\". Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, urged his designers to \"Simplify, then add lightness\". Heath Robinson machines and Rube Goldberg's machines, intentionally overly-complex solutions to simple tasks or problems, are humorous examples of \"non-KISS\" solutions. Also Shakespeare's \"Brevity is the soul of wit\". A variant — \"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler\" — is attributed to Albert Einstein, although this may be", "title": "KISS principle" }, { "id": "114254", "text": "Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as \"The New Yorker\" and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "114282", "text": "as a Well 1944 Collected Poetry 1996 The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker 1929 Close Harmony 1953 Ladies of the Corridor 1949 The Fan 1942 Saboteur 1937 A Star is Born 1936 Suzy 1938 Sweethearts 1938 Trade Winds 1941 Week-End for Three 1947 Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "114255", "text": "politics resulted in the being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a \"wisecracker.\" Nevertheless, both her literary output and reputation for sharp wit have endured. Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 to Jacob Henry and Eliza Annie Rothschild (née Marston) at 732 Ocean Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey. Her parents had a summer beach cottage there. Dorothy's mother was of Scottish descent, and her father was of German Jewish descent. Parker wrote in her essay \"My Hometown\" that her parents returned to their", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "114265", "text": "often witty, were also spare and incisive, and more bittersweet than comic; her style is often described as sardonic. Parker eventually separated from her husband, divorcing in 1928. She had a number of affairs, her lovers including reporter-turned-playwright Charles MacArthur and the publisher Seward Collins. Her relationship with MacArthur resulted in a pregnancy. Parker is alleged to have said, \"how like me, to put all my eggs into one bastard.\" She had an abortion, and fell into a depression that culminated in her first attempt at suicide. Toward the end of this period, Parker began to become more politically aware", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "114269", "text": "for servicemen stationed overseas. With an introduction by Somerset Maugham, the volume compiled over two dozen of Parker's short stories, along with selected poems from \"Enough Rope\", \"Sunset Gun\", and \"Death and Taxes\". It was published in the United States in 1944 under the title \"The Portable Dorothy Parker\". Hers is one of three \"Portable\" series, including volumes devoted to William Shakespeare and The Bible, that have remained in continuous print. During the 1930s and 1940s, Parker became an increasingly vocal advocate of civil liberties and civil rights, and a frequent critic of authority figures. During the Great Depression, she", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "2342630", "text": "Wit Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. A wit is a person skilled at making clever and funny remarks. Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack. As in the wit of Dorothy Parker's set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as in many epigrams), and perhaps more ingenious than funny. A quip is an observation or saying that has some wit but perhaps descends into sarcasm, or otherwise is short of a point, and a witticism also suggests the diminutive.", "title": "Wit" }, { "id": "114262", "text": "Tower\" and \"The New Yorker\" as well as \"Life\", \"McCall's\" and \"The New Republic\". Parker published her first volume of poetry, \"Enough Rope\", in 1926. The collection sold 47,000 copies and garnered impressive reviews. \"The Nation\" described her verse as \"caked with a salty humor, rough with splinters of disillusion, and tarred with a bright black authenticity\". Although some critics, notably \"The New York Times\" reviewer, dismissed her work as \"flapper verse\", the volume helped affirm Parker's reputation for sparkling wit. Parker released two more volumes of verse, \"Sunset Gun\" (1928) and \"Death and Taxes\" (1931), along with the short", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "114261", "text": "and \"Life\". When Harold Ross founded \"The New Yorker\" in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a board of editors established by Ross to allay concerns of his investors. Parker's first piece for the magazine was published in its second issue. Parker became famous for her short, viciously humorous poems, many highlighting ludicrous aspects of her many (largely unsuccessful) romantic affairs and others wistfully considering the appeal of suicide. The next 15 years were Parker's greatest period of productivity and success. In the 1920s alone she published some 300 poems and free verses in \"Vanity Fair\", \"Vogue\", \"The Conning", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "76972", "text": "was commonly referred to as \"Silent Cal\". A possibly apocryphal story has it that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, \"I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.\" He replied, \"You lose.\" Dorothy Parker, upon learning that Coolidge had died, reportedly remarked, \"How can they tell?\" Coolidge often seemed uncomfortable among fashionable Washington society; when asked why he continued to attend so many of their dinner parties, he replied, \"Got to eat somewhere.\" Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a leading Republican wit, underscored Coolidge's silence and his dour", "title": "Calvin Coolidge" }, { "id": "2769971", "text": "apartment he shared with \"The New Yorker\" founders Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, Woollcott moved first into the Hotel des Artistes on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, then to an apartment at the far end of East 52nd Street. The members of the Algonquin Round Table had a debate as to what to call his new home. Franklin P. Adams suggested that he name it after the Indian word \"Ocowoica,\" meaning \"The-Little-Apartment-On-The-East-River-That-It-Is-Difficult-To-Find-A-Taxicab-Near.\" But Dorothy Parker came up with the definitive name: Wit's End. Woollcott yearned to be as creative as the people with whom he surrounded himself.", "title": "Alexander Woollcott" }, { "id": "13105884", "text": "and a 13th-century troubadour grappling with her verse as her homeland collapses. In 1988, Meade published the biography \"Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?\", which remains an authoritative source of the author's life and work. New interest in Parker led to the making of the 1994 film \"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle\", starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. Meade further explored Parker in her 2004 book \"Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties\". The work covered three other notable female writers of the Jazz Age—Edna St. Vincent Millay, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Edna Ferber. Both the \"San", "title": "Marion Meade" }, { "id": "1659256", "text": "of this scene portrays him in a much more sinister light; most productions, including Laurence Olivier's famous 1948 film version, choose to remove it. The respective productions starring Richard Burton and Kenneth Branagh both include it. Although Hume Cronyn plays Polonius mostly for laughs in the Burton production, Polonius is more sinister than comic in Branagh's version. Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1 Scene 3 (\"Neither a borrower nor a lender be\"; \"To thine own self be true\") and Act 2 Scene 2 (\"Brevity is the soul of wit\"; and \"Though this be madness, yet there is", "title": "Polonius" }, { "id": "114257", "text": "with sister Helen, although their father was Jewish and her stepmother was Protestant. (Mercedes de Acosta was a classmate.) Parker once joked that she was asked to leave following her characterization of the Immaculate Conception as \"spontaneous combustion\". Her stepmother died in 1903, when Parker was nine. Parker later attended Miss Dana's School, a finishing school in Morristown, New Jersey. She graduated from Miss Dana's School in 1911, at the age of 18. Following her father's death in 1913, she played piano at a dancing school to earn a living while she worked on her poetry. Dorothy Rothschild sold her", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "11998041", "text": "Margaret Halsey Margaret Halsey (February 13, 1910 – February 4, 1997) was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book \"With Malice Towards Some\" (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. According to her obituary in \"The New York Times\", she was \"a witty writer with an acute social concern, [and] was compared to Dorothy Parker and H. L.", "title": "Margaret Halsey" }, { "id": "1627857", "text": "to the flapper wisecracking tenacity 30 years later. Writers in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos and illustrators such as Russell Patterson, John Held, Jr., Ethel Hays and Faith Burrows popularized the flapper look and lifestyle through their works, and flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless, and independent. Among those who criticized the flapper craze was writer-critic Dorothy Parker, who penned \"Flappers: A Hate Song\" to poke fun at the fad. The secretary of labor denounced the \"flippancy of the cigarette smoking, cocktail-drinking flapper\". A Harvard psychologist reported that flappers had \"the lowest", "title": "Flapper" }, { "id": "3472587", "text": "to occasional borrowing of a Benchley topic for his own reflection and writings. Eventually, he began lobbying gently for Benchley to compile his columns into book form, and in 1922 was delighted with the result of his nagging. For his part – in a tribute to Leacock – Benchley later said he wrote everything Leacock ever wrote. They had a marvelous friendship. Benchley began at \"Vanity Fair\" with fellow \"Harvard Lampoon\" and Hasty Pudding Theatricals alumnus Robert Emmet Sherwood and future friend and collaborator Dorothy Parker, who had taken over theatre criticism from P. G. Wodehouse years earlier. The format", "title": "Robert Benchley" }, { "id": "1673665", "text": "be considered the English equivalent of Bennett Cerf: a writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panelist on the BBC radio quiz \"The News Quiz\" and a team captain on BBC television's \"Call My Bluff\". Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of \"Punch\" magazine. Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an author known for comic fantasy novels, most notably the \"Discworld\" series of 41 novels. He was strongly influenced by Wodehouse, Sharpe, Jerome, Coren, and Twain. Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a writer for \"Vanity Fair\", \"Vogue\" and other magazines, playwright, and a close", "title": "Humorist" }, { "id": "2769969", "text": "like a dishonest Abe Lincoln.\" He claimed the Brandy Alexander cocktail was named for him. Woollcott was renowned for his savage tongue. He dismissed Oscar Levant, the notable wit and pianist, by observing, \"There is absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.\" He often greeted friends with \"Hello, Repulsive.\" When a waiter asked him to repeat his order, he demanded \"muffins filled with pus.\" His judgments were frequently eccentric. Dorothy Parker once said: \"I remember hearing Woollcott say reading Proust is like lying in someone else's dirty bath water. And then he'd go into ecstasy about", "title": "Alexander Woollcott" }, { "id": "3901786", "text": "king Anaxandridas II of Sparta and bore his son, king Cleomenes I. Chilon of Sparta said also the famous Ancient Greek proverb: \"Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν \" in English \" less is more\" or \" brevity is the soul of wit\" or \" brevity is a way of philosophy\" which means that the best way of being philosopher is through brevity and describes the way of Spartans' way of thinking and attitude. Diogenes Laertius describes him as a writer of elegiac poems, and attributes many sayings to him: According to an inscription at the Bath of the Seven Sages in", "title": "Chilon of Sparta" }, { "id": "13633655", "text": "female title in business. It is the equivalent to the male title \"Mr.\" as neither is marital status specific. \"Miss\" was formerly the default title for businesswomen, but has largely been replaced by Ms. in this context. It was a default title for actresses \"(Miss Helen Hayes, Miss Barbara Stanwyck)\" or other celebrities \"(Miss Amelia Earhart)\". Such default usage has also proved problematic; the poet Dorothy Parker was often referred to as \"Miss Parker\", even though \"Parker\" was the name of her first husband and she herself preferred \"Mrs. Parker\". Later in the century, the use of \"Miss\" or \"Mrs.\"", "title": "Miss" }, { "id": "364181", "text": "its hidden fear of it. Herein lies its venom, its amazing energy of hate, and quite frequently, its grief, like a black frame around glittering images. Herein lie its contradictions, and its power.’ Many social critics of this same time in the United States, such as Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in particular is noted for having said that \"one horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms\" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. Novelist Sinclair Lewis was known for his satirical stories such as \"Main Street\" (1920), \"Babbitt\"", "title": "Satire" }, { "id": "654231", "text": "Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso, and he introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Parker acquired the nickname \"Yardbird\" early in his career on the", "title": "Charlie Parker" }, { "id": "114259", "text": "in for the vacationing P. G. Wodehouse. At the magazine, she met Robert Benchley, who became a close friend, and Robert E. Sherwood. The trio began lunching at the Algonquin Hotel on a near-daily basis and became founding members of what became known as the Algonquin Round Table. The Round Table numbered among its members the newspaper columnists Franklin Pierce Adams and Alexander Woollcott. Through their publication of Parker's lunchtime remarks and short verses, particularly in Adams' column \"The Conning Tower\", Dorothy began developing a national reputation as a wit. When the group was informed that famously taciturn former president", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "3717696", "text": "Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker and Deems Taylor. Having one's work published in \"The Conning Tower\" was enough to launch a career, as in the case of Dorothy Parker and James Thurber. Parker quipped, \"He raised me from a couplet.\" Parker dedicated her 1936 publication of collected poems, \"Not So Deep as a Well\", to F.P.A. Many of the poems in that collection were originally published in \"The Conning Tower\". Much later, the writer E. B. White freely admitted his sense of awe: \"I used to walk quickly past the house in", "title": "Franklin P. Adams" }, { "id": "5898796", "text": "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac The Memoirs of an Amnesiac is the autobiography of composer, radio, and television personality Oscar Levant. Published in 1965 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, it was Levant's second best-seller, following a quarter-century after his first book, \"A Smattering of Ignorance\". Levant intersperses his reminisces about Hollywood in its heyday with one-liners and pithy quotes by himself and others. When asked about writing a book on Victor Herbert by a publisher, for example, Levant remarked \"I wouldn't even \"read\" one!\" Dorothy Parker, when Levant asked her if she ever took sleeping pills, supposedly answered, \"In a", "title": "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac" }, { "id": "2769968", "text": "observations punctuated with acidic anecdotes. Sponsored by Cream of Wheat (1934–35) and Grainger Tobacco (1937–38), it continued until January 6, 1938. He had no reservations about using this forum to promote his own books, and the continual mentions of his book \"While Rome Burns\" (1934) probably helped make it a bestseller. Woollcott was one of the most quoted men of his generation. Among Woollcott's classics is his description of the Los Angeles area as \"Seven suburbs in search of a city\"—a quip often attributed to his friend Dorothy Parker. Describing \"The New Yorker\" editor Harold Ross, he said: \"He looks", "title": "Alexander Woollcott" }, { "id": "114260", "text": "Calvin Coolidge had died, Parker remarked, \"How could they tell?\" This was one of her more famous comments. Parker's caustic wit as a critic initially proved popular, but she was eventually terminated by \"Vanity Fair\" in 1920 after her criticisms too often offended powerful producers. In solidarity, both Benchley and Sherwood resigned in protest. She soon started working for \"Ainslee's Magazine\", which had a higher circulation. She also published pieces in \"Vanity Fair\", which was happier to publish her than employ her, \"The Smart Set\", and \"The American Mercury\", but also in the popular \"Ladies’ Home Journal\", \"Saturday Evening Post\",", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "7849125", "text": "chairs and orgies of footsie around the public/private sectors since the Clinton era...\" Books Short Fiction Animated Series Plays Cintra Wilson Cintra Wilson (born 1967) is an American writer, performer and cultural critic. Declared as \"the Dorothy Parker of the cyber age\", she is best known for her commentary on popular culture which is often humorous and irreverent in tone. She contributed to the \"New York Times\" for its \"Critical Shopper\" series and is considered one of the 50 \"most influential people working in New York fashion\". Wilson is also a regular contributor to the \"Hartford Advocate\" for her political", "title": "Cintra Wilson" }, { "id": "10656456", "text": "Mortuary. Among the attendees at a visitation held at a funeral home was Dorothy Parker, who reportedly cried and murmured \"the poor son-of-a-bitch\", a line from Jay Gatsby's funeral in Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\". His body was transported to Maryland, where his funeral was attended by twenty or thirty people in Bethesda; among the attendees were his only child, Frances \"Scottie\" Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith (then aged 19), and his editor, Maxwell Perkins. At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic", "title": "F. Scott Fitzgerald" }, { "id": "14760522", "text": "Mopsy Mopsy was a comic strip created in 1939 by Gladys Parker, who was one of the few female cartoonists of the era. The strip had a long run over three decades. Parker modeled the character of Mopsy after herself. In 1946, she recalled, \"I got the idea for Mopsy when the cartoonist Rube Goldberg said my hair looked like a mop. That was several years ago, and she has been my main interest ever since.\" Mopsy is an independent and witty, if ditzy, woman. She enjoys activities such as golf, fishing, and painting. Parker was a fashion illustrator and", "title": "Mopsy" }, { "id": "11982727", "text": "anatomical while the other is a metaphorical reference to caring and meaning well. Tendentious jokes are jokes that have to contain lust, hostility or both. The comic meant applying “to one and the same act of ideation, two different ideational methods” (Freud, 1905, 300; as cited in Matte, G. (2001)). William Shakespeare’s Falstaff would be an example of Freud's \"comic,\" generating laughter by expressing previously repressed inhibition. An upset American says at Sunday School: \"Roosevelt is my Shepherd; I am in want. He makes me to lie down on park benches; he leads me in the paths of destruction for", "title": "Humor in Freud" }, { "id": "5741476", "text": "a tryout of Willard Mack's play, \"Kick In\". In her youth she was a Broadway leading lady, starring in plays such as the 1915 comedy \"Sadie Love\". In 1921, Dorothy Parker memorialized her in verse: If all the tears you shed so lavishly / Were gathered, as they left each brimming eye. / And were collected in a crystal sea, / The envious ocean would curl up and dry— / So awful in its mightiness, that lake, / So fathomless, that clear and salty deep. / For, oh, it seems your gentle heart must break, / To see you weep.", "title": "Marjorie Rambeau" }, { "id": "15175456", "text": "or psychological, regarding comfort and personal self-confidence, or having a sense of belonging or worth in society. It began as an academic concept, but has since been invoked more widely, outside of academia. The concept of privilege arguably dates back to 1903 when American sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois published the essay \"The Souls of Black Folk\", in which he wrote that although African Americans were observant about white Americans and conscious of racial discrimination, white Americans did not think much about African Americans, nor about the effects of racial discrimination. In 1935, Du Bois wrote about", "title": "Social privilege" }, { "id": "15511515", "text": "Miss Dana's School for Young Ladies Miss Dana's School for Young Ladies was a private boarding and finishing school founded in 1860 as the Morris Female Institute, in Morristown, New Jersey at 163 South Street, near Madison Avenue. In 1877 it was leased and renamed by Miss E. Elizabeth Dana, daughter of famed author, jurist, and progressive politician Robert Henry Dana, Jr., of Cambridge, MA. The school closed in 1912 following the death of Miss Dana. Miss Dana's most notable student was Dorothy Rothschild, later becoming known as Dorothy Parker, a popular American writer and poet as well as a", "title": "Miss Dana's School for Young Ladies" }, { "id": "14305967", "text": "to make him up... he is as influenced as much by Woody Allen, Dr Seuss and Morrissey as he is by William Burroughs and Joe Orton. As one of the brave ones — and one of Britain's most shameless writers — HP Tinker has been peddling his own brand of surrealism for years now, in stories littered with pop cultural references where you are likely to meet Dorothy Parker, Tom Paulin, Paul Gauguin as you are Dean Martin and Morrissey.\" (\"Dogmatika\" website) \"The Times\" has praised his \"hilarious deadpan surrealism\", \"The Independent\" thought him \"unusual, arresting, smart and very funny\"", "title": "HP Tinker" }, { "id": "1741771", "text": "sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction. Ephron's parents based the ingenue character in the play and film version of \"Take Her, She's Mine\" on the 22-year-old Nora and her letters from college. Both her parents became alcoholics during their declining years. As a high school student, Nora Ephron dreamed of going to New York City to become another Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer, satirist, and critic. Ephron has cited her high school journalism teacher, Charles Simms, to inspire her to pursue a career in journalism. Ephron graduated from Beverly Hills High", "title": "Nora Ephron" }, { "id": "13110763", "text": "all stocking the same styles. For her, the only useful purpose of fashion was to entertain, i.e., \"to give a little additional gaiety to life\". \"Life\" magazine used the publication of \"Fashion Is Spinach\" to present its readers with a series of fashions photos so they could determine which deserved which of Hawes' two labels, \"fashion\" or \"style\". The magazine quoted her: According to one fashion historian, Hawes's stylish writing made her \"the Dorothy Parker of fashion criticism, with her snappy tone and tell-it-straight attitude\", and suggests this was the true cause of her notoriety: \"In reality, her clothes did", "title": "Elizabeth Hawes" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "538799", "text": "Dorothy Parker quipped, \"She runs the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B.\" Already tied to a ten-week contract, she had to endure the embarrassment of rapidly declining box office sales. Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, \"My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you.\" Hepburn did not want to continue in a failing show, so she paid Harris $14,000, her life savings, to close the production instead. She later referred to Harris as \"hands-down the most diabolical person I have ever", "title": "Katharine Hepburn" }, { "id": "8428666", "text": "What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell is This? is the fourth studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1995 on Epic Records. The album gets its name from a quotation by American wit Dorothy Parker. The album was written primarily while Bergmann was in rehab, recovering from his prior battles with drug addiction. In its year end poll of its newspapers' music critics, Southam Newspapers named the album as one of the ten best albums of 1995, with \"London Free Press\" critic Ian Gillespie lauding Bergmann as \"a Canadian rock genius, doomed to hover around the edges of", "title": "What Fresh Hell Is This?" }, { "id": "8257690", "text": "Gatsby\" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in Dorothy Parker's award-winning short story of 1929, \"Big Blonde.\" The song also contains variations on the phrase \"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer\" (substituting, \"e.g.\", \"children\" for \"poorer\"); though this phrase predates the song, its use increased with the song's popularity. \"Ain't We Got Fun\" follows the structure of a foxtrot. The melody uses mainly quarter notes, and has an unsyncopated refrain made up largely of variations on a repeated four-note phrase. The \"Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia\" describes it as a \"Roaring Twenties favourite\" and praises its vibrancy, \"zesty", "title": "Ain't We Got Fun" }, { "id": "114275", "text": "Parker died on June 7, 1967, of a heart attack at the age of 73. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's death, her estate was bequeathed by his family to the NAACP. Her executor, Lillian Hellman, bitterly but unsuccessfully contested this disposition. Her ashes remained unclaimed in various places, including her attorney Paul O'Dwyer's filing cabinet, for approximately 17 years. In 1988, the NAACP claimed Parker's remains and designed a memorial garden for them outside its Baltimore headquarters. The plaque reads, On August 22, 1992, the 99th anniversary of Parker's birth, the", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "2660865", "text": "statements seriously – and find them silly ... This may seem an absurd mistake but, alas! it is none the less common. On the other hand there are those who succeed too well, who swallow 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty ...,' as the quintessence of an aesthetic philosophy, not as the expression of a certain blend of feelings, and proceed into a complete stalemate of muddle-mindedness as a result of their linguistic naivety. Poet and critic T. S. Eliot, in his 1929 \"Dante\" essay, responded to Richards: I am at first inclined to agree ... But on re-reading the whole", "title": "Ode on a Grecian Urn" }, { "id": "2327132", "text": "stick something sharp in their eyes while they're watching it and doesn't talk down to kids.\" She wanted the family dynamic to be important because \"It’s a constant evolution ... You never run out of conflict.\" The show's pace, dialogue, and focus on class divisions was heavily inspired by the screwball comedies of the 1930s and Katharine Hepburn–Spencer Tracy films. Sherman-Palladino was also influenced by the \"acerbic wit\" of Dorothy Parker. The pilot episode of \"Gilmore Girls\" received financial support from the script development fund of the Family Friendly Programming Forum, which includes some of the nation's leading advertisers, making", "title": "Gilmore Girls" }, { "id": "8582482", "text": "roughly 1929. The film shows how the group drifted apart once the 1920s ended, as Hollywood beckoned for some and as they grew older. In 1987, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The Ten-Year Lunch The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is a 1987 American documentary film about the Algonquin Round Table, a floating group of writers and actors in the \"Roaring Twenties\" in New York City, which included great names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross and Harpo Marx. It", "title": "The Ten-Year Lunch" }, { "id": "4172605", "text": "Roy Acuff objected that the strip perpetuated stereotypes of hillbilly culture. DeBeck is credited with introducing or popularizing a number of neologisms and catchphrases via \"Barney Google\", including \"heebie-jeebies\", \"horsefeathers\", \"hotsy totsy\", \"balls of fire\", \"time's a-wastin'\", \"touched in the head\", and \"bodacious\". Charles M. Schulz, creator of the \"Peanuts\" comic strip, was nicknamed \"Sparky\" after DeBeck's racehorse character, and DeBeck's drawing style has been an influence on contemporary cartooning and popular culture, and on such later cartoonists as Robert Crumb and Bobby London. The \"Barney Google\" Sunday page for September 18, 1938 was placed in the time capsule at", "title": "Billy DeBeck" }, { "id": "9174202", "text": "of men. In 1935, John Neville Wheeler, head of the North American Newspaper Alliance, which was becoming the preeminent press service, recruited her to write NANA's syndicated Hollywood column. She describes having \"landed in the film capital on two left feet\" and needing to temper her brash outspokenness with film industry sensibilities. In her autobiographical book \"A College of One\", she relates the dichotomy between dealing with \"notoriously ignorant\" filmmakers and the discomfort she felt over her own limited education and background in the company of her colleagues in journalism and screenwriters, mentioning Robert Benchley, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and", "title": "Sheilah Graham" }, { "id": "3177090", "text": "critically accepted—the most famous review of Asquith's work came from New York wit Dorothy Parker, who wrote, \"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.\" Asquith was known for her outspokenness and acerbic wit. A possibly apocryphal but typical story has her meeting the American film actress Jean Harlow and correcting Harlow's mispronunciation of her first name – \"No, no; the 't' is silent, as in 'Harlow'.\" The story was recorded by the Liberal MP Robert Bernays in his diary entry for 26 June 1934, but Bernays does", "title": "Margot Asquith" }, { "id": "13706227", "text": "and Newspaper Enterprise Association for seven years. She was given the opportunity to draw for the comic strip \"Flapper Fanny\", and later took over the publication entirely. After drawing the flapper strip \"Gay and Her Gang\" in 1928-29, she took over Ethel Hays' \"Flapper Fanny Says\" panel, which she did for NEA from 1930 to 1936. She also did a comic strip series for Lux Soap during the 1930s. Developing \"Mopsy\" in 1939, Parker modeled the character on herself. In 1946, she recalled, \"I got the idea for Mopsy when the cartoonist Rube Goldberg said my hair looked like a", "title": "Gladys Parker" }, { "id": "114266", "text": "and active. What would become a lifelong commitment to activism began in 1927 when she became concerned about the pending executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Parker travelled to Boston to protest the proceedings. She and fellow Round Tabler Ruth Hale were arrested, and Parker eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of \"loitering and sauntering,\" paying a $5 fine. In 1932 Parker met Alan Campbell, an actor with aspirations to become a screenwriter. They married two years later in Raton, New Mexico. Campbell's mixed parentage was the reverse of Parker's: he had a Jewish mother and a Scottish father. She learned", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "7909616", "text": "managed by Blanche Long, and Mrs. Parker delivered speeches on the candidate's behalf. One of her high-powered speeches — and Dodd had taught her speech at Oakdale High School — televised across the state was called \"All that Glitters Is Not Gold.\" The title referred to a line from Shakespeare, but it was really an effective attack on the \"reform\" record of McKeithen's intraparty opponent, former Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison. In her stern, tough, no-nonsense demeanor, Mrs. Parker was in fact playing the role as \"hatchet woman\" for the McKeithen forces. A similar newspaper ad entitled \"The Myth of Mr.", "title": "Mary Evelyn Parker" }, { "id": "17758212", "text": "divorce 17 years later, and subsequently got a job as a secretary and then as a copy writer at an advertising firm. Her 1960 marriage to her second husband, design engineer Herbert La Mers, produced one daughter, and lasted until his death in 2003. La Mers published her first poem in \"The Southern Churchman\" when she was seven years old. Since then her poetry has appeared in \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"The Saturday Evening Post\", \"Collier's\", \"Light Quarterly\", and several anthologies. Her work, usually humorous and always metrical, has been characterized as \"a marriage of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash\".", "title": "Joyce La Mers" }, { "id": "3324546", "text": "George Safford Parker George Safford Parker (November 1, 1863 – July 19, 1937) was an American inventor and industrialist. Parker was a telegraphy instructor in Janesville, Wisconsin, and had a sideline repairing and selling fountain pens. Dismayed by the unreliability of the pens, he experimented with ways to prevent ink leaks. In 1888, Parker founded the Parker Pen Company. The next year he received his first fountain pen patent. By 1908, his factory on Main Street in Janesville was reportedly the largest pen manufacturing facility in the world. Parker eventually became one of the world's premier pen brands, and one", "title": "George Safford Parker" }, { "id": "13706225", "text": "Gladys Parker Gladys Parker (1910 – April 28, 1966) was an American cartoonist for comic strips and a fashion designer in Hollywood. She is best known as the creator of the comic strip \"Mopsy\", which had a long run over three decades. Parker was one of the few female cartoonists working between the 1930s and 1950s. Growing up in Tonawanda, New York, Parker took dance lessons at the age of seven after winning a \"most beautiful child\" contest. She taught herself to draw while recuperating from a leg injury, often using herself as her model, and began selling cartoons to", "title": "Gladys Parker" }, { "id": "161", "text": "1959's \"Kaddish\", which had its first public reading at a Catholic Worker Friday Night meeting, possibly due to its associations with Thomas Merton. Ginsberg's poetry was strongly influenced by Modernism (most importantly the American style of Modernism pioneered by William Carlos Williams), Romanticism (specifically William Blake and John Keats), the beat and cadence of jazz (specifically that of bop musicians such as Charlie Parker), and his Kagyu Buddhist practice and Jewish background. He considered himself to have inherited the visionary poetic mantle handed down from the English poet and artist William Blake, the American poet Walt Whitman and the Spanish", "title": "Allen Ginsberg" }, { "id": "6111746", "text": "decided it was a \"work of the literary imagination which had no business in the courts\". Although many readers were scandalized, a solid cadre of distinguished critics and scholars embraced his work from the start, including John Cowper Powys, Dame Edith, Dorothy Parker, and Susan Sontag, who warmly defended him against puritanical critics. Tennessee Williams was also an early admirer of Purdy's work. In January 1966, an incendiary manifesto by Stanley Kauffmann set forth a bluntly damning and prejudicial way of criticizing works by homosexual writers. The article stirred the arts community. This finger in the wind of the so-called", "title": "James Purdy" }, { "id": "5898798", "text": "June and his three daughters endured his numerous eccentricities, superstitions, and hangups. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac The Memoirs of an Amnesiac is the autobiography of composer, radio, and television personality Oscar Levant. Published in 1965 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, it was Levant's second best-seller, following a quarter-century after his first book, \"A Smattering of Ignorance\". Levant intersperses his reminisces about Hollywood in its heyday with one-liners and pithy quotes by himself and others. When asked about writing a book on Victor Herbert by a publisher, for example, Levant remarked \"I wouldn't even \"read\" one!\" Dorothy Parker, when Levant", "title": "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac" }, { "id": "8921302", "text": "Parker reportedly did not offer an explanation for her long life, and simply advised questioners that the most important thing was \"more education\". The Heritage House Convalescent Center planned two parties to celebrate her 115th birthday, a public celebration one and a private family one. One hundred fifteen multicolored balloons were released at each, because Parker enjoyed watching them float into the sky. Parker was included in a book for children, \"Girls are Best\" (2009), as the oldest woman in the world. She died at her nursing home seven months after her birthday, on November 26, 2008, aged 115 years", "title": "Edna Parker" }, { "id": "6012669", "text": "John F. Kennedy, Kaufman took a Buddhist vow of silence that lasted until the end of the Vietnam War in 1973. He broke his silence by reciting his poem \"All Those Ships that Never Sailed,\" the first lines of which are: In 1944, Kaufman married Ida Berrocal. They had one daughter, Antoinette Victoria Marie (Nagle), born in New York City in 1945 (died 2008). He married Eileen Singe (1922–2015) in 1958; they had one child, Parker, named for Charlie Parker. He died aged 60 in 1986 from emphysema and cirrhosis in San Francisco. Bob Kaufman Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18,", "title": "Bob Kaufman" }, { "id": "6580757", "text": "humor to that of performance and performer. His value notwithstanding, Twain represents only one strain of humor in the United States. Another famous American humorist of the 19th century was Ambrose Bierce, whose most famous work is the cynical \"Devil's Dictionary\". Popular humorists who spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries included Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938), who wrote \"My Sweetheart\", and Hayden Carruth (1862–1932), who wrote \"Uncle Bentley and the Roosters\". Early 20th-century American humorists included members of the Algonquin Round Table (named for the Algonquin Hotel), such as Dorothy Parker, SJ Perelman and Robert Benchley. In more recent", "title": "American humor" }, { "id": "3324504", "text": "was not in use. The company's first successful pen, released in 1899, was the Parker Jointless. The Lucky Curve feed was used in various forms until 1928. From the 1920s to the 1960s, before the development of the ballpoint pen, Parker was either number one or number two in worldwide writing instrument sales. In 1931 Parker created Quink (quick drying ink), which eliminated the need for blotting. In 1941 the company developed the most widely used model of fountain pen in history (over $400 million worth of sales in its 30-year history), the Parker 51. Manufacturing facilities were set up", "title": "Parker Pen Company" }, { "id": "639828", "text": "\"a splendid trophy for all who are interested in reading and writing.\" American poet Dorothy Parker once proclaimedIf you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of \"The Elements of Style\". The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. Criticism of \"Strunk & White\" has largely focused on claims that it has a prescriptivist nature, or that it has become a general anachronism in the face of modern English usage. In criticizing \"The Elements of Style\", Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics", "title": "The Elements of Style" }, { "id": "13105885", "text": "Francisco Chronicle\" and \"The Washington Post\" named it among the best books of the year., \"Kirkus Reviews\" called it \"largely apocryphal and hardly scholarly, but a lot of fun.\" In 2006 Meade edited Parker’s collected works, \"The Portable Dorothy Parker\", updating the 60-year-old anthology with fresh material and many personal letters. Penguin Books commissioned a jacket from the well known illustrator Seth. Her 1995 HarperCollins book \"Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase\" recorded the journey of Keaton from a Kansas medicine show to vaudeville headliner to cinematic pioneer. Her 2000 biography \"The Unruly Life of Woody Allen\" was, \"The New", "title": "Marion Meade" }, { "id": "1998673", "text": "Brothers' comic homage to 1950s comedy, \"The Hudsucker Proxy\" (1994). Leigh took her first lead role as the writer and critic Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph's film \"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle\" (1994). She received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, as well as Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and Fort Lauderdale Film Critics Best Actress Award. In another change of pace, she starred in Agnieszka Holland's version of the Henry James novel \"Washington Square\" (1997), as a mousy 19th-century heiress courted by a gold digger.", "title": "Jennifer Jason Leigh" }, { "id": "2451806", "text": "be intended as a challenge. The question is often difficult or impossible to answer. In the example, \"What have the Romans ever done for us?\" (\"Monty Python's Life of Brian\") the question functions as a negative assertion. It is intended to mean \"The Romans have never done anything for us!\". When Shakespeare's Mark Antony exclaims: \"Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?\" it functions as an assertion that Caesar possesses such rare qualities they may never be seen again. (\"Julius Caesar\", Act 3, scene 2, 257) Negative assertions may function as positives in sarcastic contexts. For example, in \"Smoking", "title": "Rhetorical question" }, { "id": "3545678", "text": "L. Mencken in 1920, by professor David Allen Robertson in 1921, and by critic George Jean Nathan in 1935. In 1932, poet Wilfred J. Funk publicized Funk & Wagnalls dictionary with a top ten list of beautiful words, which did not include \"cellar door\". Writers were polled afterwards for their own candidates, and three included \"cellar door\": Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dorothy Parker, and Albert Payson Terhune. \"The Baltimore Sun\" responded: The teenage protagonist of Norman Mailer's 1967 novel \"Why Are We in Vietnam?\" attributes the observation to \"a committee of Language Hump-type professors ... back in 1936 \". Richard", "title": "Cellar door" }, { "id": "2342631", "text": "Repartee is the wit of the quick answer and capping comment: the snappy comeback and neat retort. (Wilde: \"I wish I'd said that.\" Whistler: \"You will, Oscar, you will\".) Wit in poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style, and was prevalent in the time of English playwright Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with the phrase \"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit\". It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be laugh-aloud funny; in fact wit can be a thin disguise for more poignant feelings that are", "title": "Wit" }, { "id": "114271", "text": "as the whole American working class\", although they may not have been intending to support the Party cause. Parker also served as chair of the Joint Anti-Fascist Rescue Committee's fundraising arm, \"Spanish Refugee Appeal.\" She organized Project Rescue Ship to transport Loyalist veterans to Mexico, headed Spanish Children's Relief, and lent her name to many other left-wing causes and organizations. Her former Round Table friends saw less and less of her, and her relationship with Robert Benchley became particularly strained (although they would reconcile). Parker met S. J. Perelman at a party in 1932 and, despite a rocky start (Perelman", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "7193557", "text": "W. C. Fields), and \"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.\" When President Calvin Coolidge died in 1933, Mizner's comment was \"How do they know?\" (Coolidge was known as taciturn.) Mizner has suffered the same fate as Dorothy Parker; both are vividly remembered today for their witty repartee rather than for specific literary works. Irving Berlin (a friend of Addison) wrote a song about Wilson: \"Black Sheep Has Come Back to the Fold\". He began but did not complete a musical based on Wilson's life. Anita Loos and Robert Hopkins based the", "title": "Wilson Mizner" }, { "id": "13315121", "text": "wit\", \"imagination\", \"fantasy\", \"estimation\", and \"memory\". \"Common wit\" corresponds to Aristotle's concept of \"common sense\" (sensus communis), and \"estimation\" roughly corresponds to the modern notion of instinct. Shakespeare himself refers to these wits several times, in \"Romeo and Juliet\" (Act I, scene 4, and Act II, scene iv), \"King Lear\" (Act III, scene iv), \"Much Ado About Nothing\" (Act I, scene i, 55), and \"Twelfth Night\" (Act IV, scene ii, 92). He distinguished between the five wits and the five senses, as can be seen from Sonnet 141. The five wits are derived from the faculties of the soul that", "title": "Five wits" }, { "id": "3327066", "text": "Parker's other pens of this generation were just as capable of using it. The Parker \"51\" was first made available only in 1941, ten years after Quink's development. Two inks that were best used with the \"51\" specifically were the later, fast-drying Double Quink and the extra-fast Superchrome. The pen and the ink were both named \"51\" to mark 1939, the company's 51st year of existence, during which development was completed (U.S. design patent No. 116,097). By giving the pen a number instead of a name, Parker avoided the problem of translating a name into other languages. The \"51\" was", "title": "Parker 51" }, { "id": "654150", "text": "Dizzy Gillespie John Birks \"Dizzy\" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became", "title": "Dizzy Gillespie" }, { "id": "10178836", "text": "the Billboard Music Awards. The first involved Cher, who reflected on her career in accepting an award in 2002: \"I've also had critics for the last forty years saying I was on my way out every year. Right. So fuck 'em.\" The second passage came in an exchange between Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in 2003 in which Richie asked, \"Have you ever tried cleaning cow shit off a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple.\" The majority decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, reversed the lower appellate court's decision that the FCC's move was \"arbitrary and capricious.\" \"The commission", "title": "Censorship in the United States" }, { "id": "293802", "text": "not even at the hour of her death.\" Ninon de l'Enclos is a relatively obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much better known in France where her name is synonymous with wit and beauty. Saint-Simon noted \"Ninon made friends among the great in every walk of life, had wit and intelligence enough to keep them, and, what is more, to keep them friendly with one another.\" Dorothy Parker wrote the poem \"Ninon De L'Enclos On Her Last Birthday\" and also referred to Ninon in another of her poems, \"Words Of Comfort To Be Scratched On A Mirror\", writing,", "title": "Ninon de l'Enclos" }, { "id": "114256", "text": "Manhattan apartment shortly after Labor Day so that she could be called a true New Yorker. Her mother died in West End in July 1898, when Parker was a month shy of turning five. Her father remarried in 1900 to Eleanor Frances Lewis (1851–1903). Parker hated her father, whom she accused of physical abuse; and despised her stepmother, whom she refused to call \"mother\", \"stepmother\", or \"Eleanor\", instead referring to her as \"the housekeeper\". She grew up on the Upper West Side and attended a Roman Catholic elementary school at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament on West 79th Street", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "261500", "text": "with \"Finnegans Wake\". Also by 1930 Modernism began to influence mainstream culture, so that, for example, \"The New Yorker\" magazine began publishing work, influenced by Modernism, by young writers and humorists like Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, E. B. White, S. J. Perelman, and James Thurber, amongst others. Perelman is highly regarded for his humorous short stories that he published in magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, most often in \"The New Yorker\", which are considered to be the first examples of surrealist humor in America. Modern ideas in art also began to appear more frequently in commercials and logos, an", "title": "Modernism" }, { "id": "16259184", "text": "the USA underwent an economic boom and widespread social change, leading to the appearance of the \"flapper\", a female subculture receiving a lot of media attention at the time. Flappers enjoyed partying, jazz music and free dating, and defied many of the social norms surrounding women at the time. Several female cartoonists picked up on the flapper stereotype, often working in a stylish art deco style, including Ethel Hays (with her comic strip \"Marianne\" and her famous cartoon \"Flapper Fanny\"), Virginia Huget (\"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes\", \"Babs in Society\"), Gladys Parker (\"Gay and her Gang\") and Marjorie Henderson Buell (\"Dashing Dot\").", "title": "Female comics creators" }, { "id": "13706231", "text": "retired with her. She was 56 when she died of lung cancer in 1966. Gladys Parker Gladys Parker (1910 – April 28, 1966) was an American cartoonist for comic strips and a fashion designer in Hollywood. She is best known as the creator of the comic strip \"Mopsy\", which had a long run over three decades. Parker was one of the few female cartoonists working between the 1930s and 1950s. Growing up in Tonawanda, New York, Parker took dance lessons at the age of seven after winning a \"most beautiful child\" contest. She taught herself to draw while recuperating from", "title": "Gladys Parker" }, { "id": "7342904", "text": "received love letters from readers and praise from chefs and was known as a \"merciless\" critic, \"the Dorothy Parker of restaurant critics\". After more than 30 years as the magazine's \"insatiable critic\", Greene retired for \"a more normal life\" in 2000, but continued as a columnist until 2008, the magazine's 40th anniversary as well as her own. She was then fired. Glenn Collins wrote in \"The New York Times\": \"But even among those who might have seen it coming, many were taken aback at the expulsion of the sensualist who influenced the way a generation of New Yorkers ate, and", "title": "Gael Greene" }, { "id": "114280", "text": "received a number of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination. Television creator Amy Sherman-Palladino named her production company 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions' in tribute to Parker. Tucson actress Lesley Abrams wrote and performed the one-woman show \"Dorothy Parker's Last Call\" in 2009 in Tucson, Arizona at the Winding Road Theater Ensemble. She reprised the role at the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson in 2014. The play was selected to be part of the Capital Fringe Festival in DC in 2010. In 2014, lyrics taken from her book of poetry \"Not So Deep as a Well\" were, with", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "16044074", "text": "Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York in October 1988. In her spare time, Dorothy was an avid golfer . She participated in several Galesburg All-City Championships, while her other hobbies included bowling, contract bridge, knitting, needlepoint and watching sports, especially the National Basketball Association games. She also was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. She died in 2008 at the age of 80. Batting Pitching Collective fielding Dorothy Naum Dorothy Mary Naum Parker (January 5, 1928 – September 23, 2008) was a catcher, infielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional", "title": "Dorothy Naum" }, { "id": "2245952", "text": "when he was studying ship engineering, but Pessoa himself had never visited, and mistakenly assumed that \"Furness\" was the name of a river. According to narrative exposition in Chapter five of Dorothy L. Sayers' 1926 novel \"Clouds of Witness\", Inspector Charles Parker, Lord Peter Wimsey's friend and eventual brother-in-law, attended Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School. Renowned novelist D. H. Lawrence was in Barrow during the outbreak of World War I and wrote about his experiences in the town. The 2015 novel \"Career of Evil\" by J. K. Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith was parially set in Barrow. There is one paid-for evening daily", "title": "Barrow-in-Furness" }, { "id": "654259", "text": "B between East 7th and East 10th Streets was given the honorary designation \"Charlie Parker Place\" in 1992. Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso, and he introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from", "title": "Charlie Parker" }, { "id": "114264", "text": "\"The Lady Next Door\". Some of Parker's most popular work was published in \"The New Yorker\" in the form of acerbic book reviews under the byline \"Constant Reader\". Her response to the whimsy of A. A. Milne's \"The House at Pooh Corner\" was \"Tonstant Weader fwowed up.\" Her reviews appeared semi-regularly from 1927 to 1933, were widely read, and were later published in a collection under the name \"Constant Reader\" in 1970. Her best-known short story, \"Big Blonde,\" published in \"The Bookman\" magazine, was awarded the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929. Her short stories, though", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "10312637", "text": "a woman about women. She continued to produce books based on her columns into the mid 1990s, while becoming a writer for television with Kate and Allie, then moving to Hollywood, where she worked on Dear John. In 1986 she wrote a play, \"A Girl's Guide to Chaos\" that was also published as a book. The \"New York Times\" said of her that \"Like Dorothy Parker, Ms. Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies.\" Douglas Adams said she was \"like P.G. Wodehouse if he wrote about sex\". \"Kirkus\" summed them", "title": "Cynthia Heimel" }, { "id": "1366384", "text": "Bud Powell Earl Rudolph \"Bud\" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist. Though Thelonious Monk was a close friend and influence, his greatest piano influence was Art Tatum. Along with Charlie Parker, Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern jazz, or bebop. His virtuosity led many to call him the Charlie Parker of the piano. Powell was also a composer, and many jazz critics credit his works and his playing as having \"greatly extended the range of jazz harmony.\" Powell's father was a stride pianist. Powell took", "title": "Bud Powell" }, { "id": "16044068", "text": "Dorothy Naum Dorothy Mary Naum Parker (January 5, 1928 – September 23, 2008) was a catcher, infielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 112 lb, she batted and threw right-handed. Dorothy Naum played many different positions during her eight seasons in the league. Originally a catcher, she later was moved to the middle infield positions before emerging as a solid starting pitcher. Though her fastball was fairly tepid, she had good control of her curveball and changeup. She led all pitchers for the best earned run average in 1951, and", "title": "Dorothy Naum" }, { "id": "3472613", "text": "the perspective of Dorothy Parker. Campbell Scott portrayed Robert Benchley. Benchley's humor was molded during his time at Harvard. While his skills as an orator were already known by classmates and friends, it was not until his work at the \"Lampoon\" that his style formed. The prominent styles of humor were then \"crackerbarrel\", which relied on devices such as dialects and a disdain for formal education in the style of humorists such as Artemis Ward and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, and a more \"genteel\" style of humor, very literary and upper-class in nature, a style popularized by Oliver Wendell Holmes. While", "title": "Robert Benchley" }, { "id": "20817303", "text": "sought to remove them. Parker began to aggressively lobby in favor of the reauthorization and sought to convince members of Congress to support both it and its tribal provisions, so much so that then-president Obama got to know her by her native name and her \"toes bled\" from all the walking. She attended national cable news programs and provided interviews to newspapers across the country in support of the legislation. While lobbying the opponents of the bill, Parker felt she was \"up against some of the worst discrimination I've ever seen in my entire life\" and that Native American women", "title": "Deborah Parker" }, { "id": "20809074", "text": "\"Girls\" by Clyde Fitch (1908 and 1909), \"The Torches\" (1917), \"The Woman on the Index\" (1918), and \"Those Who Walk in Darkness\" (1919). On the Boston stage, with her husband Lester Lonergan, she starred in \"An Idyl of Erin\" (1910). Dorothy Parker wrote of \"The Woman on the Index\" in \"Vanity Fair\", saying \"The thing was so well done. You know yourself that with a cast including Julia Dean, Amy Ricard, and Lester Lonergan, you can't really have such a terrible evening.\" Amy Ricard made her political views in favor of women's suffrage public, wearing a \"Votes for Women\" pin", "title": "Amy Ricard" }, { "id": "4380536", "text": "James, during their marriage. Nicolette Powell died on 13 August 1993, after jumping off the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In an interview prior to her death, Fame said that they had stayed happily married because of her \"charm, beauty, forbearance and understanding\". Fame is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance and has played concerts to raise funds for the organisation. Fame's 1966 \"Music Talk\" has been sampled by: Georgie Fame Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a", "title": "Georgie Fame" }, { "id": "10539846", "text": "time and praising, for example, the \"wise and resilient\" Mrs Stafford of Charlotte Smith's autobiographical novel \"Emmeline\" (1788). In highlighting this character, she \"singles out ... the knowledgeable mother figure who has felt and thought deeply\", one who resembles the women she described in \"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman\" (1792) as having \"power ... over themselves\". She derides the \"derivative, prescriptive, imitative, and affected\" and celebrates the \"natural, innovative, [and] imaginative\". Evincing a particular regard for the works of Thomas Holcroft, such as \"Anna St. Ives\" (1792), Wollstonecraft celebrated their championing of innate nobility and virtue over aristocratic", "title": "Analytical Review" }, { "id": "4655467", "text": "Charlie Parker (cricketer) Charles Warrington Leonard \"Charlie\" Parker (14 October 1882, Prestbury, Gloucestershire – 11 July 1959, Cranleigh, Surrey) was an English cricketer, who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first-class cricket, behind Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman. Parker paid no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate on golf. He only took to cricket around 1900 and was recommended to Gloucestershire by W. G. Grace in 1903. However, he played only twice in first-class cricket before 1907. From then on, he played regularly, and despite several excellent performances, he was always", "title": "Charlie Parker (cricketer)" }, { "id": "8015003", "text": "Shakespears Sister took their name from the song. Shakespeare's Sister (song) \"Shakespeare's Sister\" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths. Released in March 1985, it reached No. 26 in the UK Singles Chart. It is also featured on the compilation albums \"Louder Than Bombs\" and \"The World Won't Listen\". The title refers to a section of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay \"A Room of One's Own\" in which she argues that if William Shakespeare had had a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it. Sean O'Hagan", "title": "Shakespeare's Sister (song)" }, { "id": "18500854", "text": "to 1950s. \"Changing one's name is to Jewish males what fixing one's nose is to Jewish females, a way of passing,\" writes film historian Patricia Erens. One of the actresses to undergo surgery was Fanny Brice, inspiring commentator Dorothy Parker to comment that she \"cut off her nose to spite her race.\" According to Erens, this fashion ended with Barbra Streisand, whose nose is a signature feature. \"Unlike characters in the films of the 1930s and 1940s, she is not a Jew in name only, and certainly she is the first major female star in the history of motion pictures", "title": "Jewish nose" }, { "id": "114263", "text": "story collections \"Laments for the Living\" (1930) and \"After Such Pleasures\" (1933). \"Not So Deep as a Well\" (1936) collected much of the material previously published in \"Rope\", \"Gun\", and \"Death\" and she re-released her fiction with a few new pieces in 1939 under the title \"Here Lies\". She collaborated with playwright Elmer Rice to create \"Close Harmony\", which ran on Broadway in December 1924. The play was well received in out-of-town previews and was favorably reviewed in New York but it closed after a run of just 24 performances. It did become a successful touring production under the title", "title": "Dorothy Parker" }, { "id": "10951539", "text": "Sugawara Akitada for a complete bibliography. Her first short story about Sugawara Akitada (\"\"Instruments of Murder\"\") was published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in October 1997. She was the winner of Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story in 2000, with \"Akitada's First Case\", published in 1999. These two short stories and others about Akitada, listed below, were collected in October 2013 in \"\"Akitada and the Way of Justice: The Akitada Stories\"\". Not included in this book are the short stories: \"Death and Cherry Blossoms,\" (published instead in the collection \"Three Tales of Love and", "title": "I. J. Parker" }, { "id": "4155062", "text": "Street is a triumph for Miss Cornell and the splendid company with which she has surrounded herself.\" All other critics were uniform in praise of her acting: using adjectives such as superb, eloquent, exalted, dark, rhythmic, luminous, haunting, lyric, ravishing. Dorothy Parker, known for her caustic wit and unsentimental reviews, wrote that although she did not think it a good play, she \"paid it the tribute of tears.\" Further, \"Miss Katharine Cornell is a completely lovely Elizabeth Barrett... It is little wonder that Miss Cornell is so worshipped; she has romance, or, if you like better the word of the", "title": "Katharine Cornell" } ]

[ "The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann" ]

[ { "id": "14996218", "text": "of the preceding twelve\". The idea of a clock striking thirteen times has shown up many times in literature. The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\" when it starts with, \"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen\". The famous children's book \"Tom's Midnight Garden\" by Philippa Pearce speaks of this phenomenon when it says \"When Tom hears old Mrs Bartholomew's grandfather clock in the hall striking thirteen, he goes to investigate\". Thomas Hardy's \"Far from the Madding Crowd\" (1874) 'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's", "title": "Thirteenth stroke of the clock" }, { "id": "16126437", "text": "Weekly, and Booklist. All of her books reviewed at \"Romantic Times\" have received a 4 Star or above. She's made the USA Today bestseller list with multiple titles, including \"Romancing the Duke\", \"Say Yes to the Marquess\", \"Once Upon a Winter's Eve\", \"A Week To Be Wicked\", \"A Lady By Midnight\", \"Beauty and the Blacksmith\", and \"Any Duchess Will Do\". Her debut novel \"Goddess of the Hunt\" garnered much praise, with \"Romantic Times\" making it a Top Pick and calling it \"a daring debut... From the hilarious opening to the poignant climax, Dare uses wit and wisdom, humor and sensuality", "title": "Tessa Dare" }, { "id": "9151657", "text": "Curse of the Blue Tattoo The Curse of the Blue Tattoo is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer. It continues the story of orphaned London girl, Jacky Faber, in the early 19th century. The story began in \"Bloody Jack\", and continues in \"Under the Jolly Roger\", \"In the Belly of the Bloodhound\", \"Mississippi Jack\", \"My Bonny Light Horseman\", \"Rapture of the Deep\", \"The Wake of the Lorelei Lee\", and \"The Mark of the Golden Dragon\". At the end of \"Bloody Jack\", Jacky Faber is exposed as a girl and sent to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston,", "title": "Curse of the Blue Tattoo" }, { "id": "138555", "text": "7 and 8, 2013, on BBC Radio 4 Extra. In 1984, the novel was adapted into a computer text adventure game of the same name by the software company Trillium. In June 2009, a graphic novel edition of the book was published. Entitled \"Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation\", the paperback graphic adaptation was illustrated by Tim Hamilton. The introduction in the novel is written by Bradbury. Michael Moore's 2004 documentary \"Fahrenheit 9/11\" refers to Bradbury's novel and the September 11 attacks, emphasized by the film's tagline \"\"The temperature where freedom burns\"\". The film takes a critical look at", "title": "Fahrenheit 451" }, { "id": "19566377", "text": "The God of Small Things, and the third Toni Morrison's Beloved. The fourth was Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, fifth, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, then Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, followed by David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, then Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, nine with J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, concluding the top ten with Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer, eleventh being J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, twelfth, Alasdair Gray's , thirteenth, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein, penultimately Alice Walker's The Colour Purple, and finally, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge", "title": "The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "8851583", "text": "A Soap Bubble and Inertia A Soap Bubble and Inertia is the debut album by Canadian alternative rock band The Gandharvas. It was released in 1994 on the Thermometer Sound Surface record label. By February 1995, the album had sold 30,000 units in Canada. The album's title is taken from a line in the novel \"Notes from Underground\" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The album's single, \"The First Day of Spring,\" was named Song of the Year for 1994 (CASBY Award) by The Edge 102.1 in Toronto, Ontario. In 2007 the same radio station ranked the song #14 in their \"Top 102", "title": "A Soap Bubble and Inertia" }, { "id": "3886211", "text": "the film refers to Ray Bradbury's novel \"Fahrenheit 451\" and the September 11 attacks of 2001. The \"Fahrenheit 451\" reference is emphasized by the film's tagline \"\"The temperature where freedom burns\"\" (compare with \"Fahrenheit 451's\" tagline, \"\"The temperature at which books burn\"\"). Moore has stated that the title came from the subject of an e-mail he received from a fan shortly after September 11. Bradbury was upset by what he considered the appropriation of his title, and wanted the film renamed. The conservative political action group Move America Forward mounted a letter-writing campaign pressuring theater chains not to screen the", "title": "Fahrenheit 9/11 controversies" }, { "id": "8609886", "text": "Anglomaniacs\", which appeared in \"The Century\" without her name. It ranked her at once among the best of the novelists. Some of her other works included, \"Golden Rod\", \"The Story of Helen Troy\", \"Woman's Handiwork in Modern Houses\", \"Old-Fashioned Fairy Book\", \"Bric-a-Brac Stories\", \"Flower de Hundred\", \"Miy Lord Fairfax of Greenway Court\", \"The Homes and Haunts of Washington\", \"The Russian Honeymoon\", \"Sweet Bells Out of Tune\", \"A Daughter of the South and Other Tales\", \"Bar Harbor Days\", and \"An edelweiss of the Sierras, Golden-rod, and other tales\". Constance Fairfax Cary was born at Port Gibson, Mississippi, April 25, 1843 (or", "title": "Constance Cary Harrison" }, { "id": "3035490", "text": "the United States in 2012. According to the publisher, it is companion piece but not explicitly a sequel to \"The Bride Stripped Bare\". The Bride Stripped Bare (novel) The Bride Stripped Bare is a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously. The title is borrowed from the painting \"The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even\" (also known as \"The Large Glass\") by Marcel Duchamp. It went on the become the best-selling book by an Australian author in 2003. In 2005, it was announced that Australian screenwriter Andrew Bovell, who penned the award-winning film drama,", "title": "The Bride Stripped Bare (novel)" }, { "id": "12750368", "text": "Deborah Smith Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 35 novels in romance and women's fiction. Her books include 21 series romances under her real name and under two pen names (Jackie Leigh and Jacquelyn Lennox). Her bigger novels include \"Miracle\", \"Blue Willow\", \"Silk and Stone\", \"A Place To Call Home\", \"When Venus Fell\", \"On Bear Mountain\", \"Charming Grace\", \"Sweet Hush\", \"The Stone Flower Garden\", \"Alice at Heart\", \"Diary of a Radical Mermaid\", \"The Crossroads Cafe\", \"A Gentle Rain\", and \"Solomon's Seal: Discovery\". \"A Gentle Rain\" was a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist in", "title": "Deborah Smith" }, { "id": "9168255", "text": "is generally considered her nemesis. \"Mary Reilly\" adds more details and substance to the original book, \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\", by telling the story from the unique perspective of the housemaid, Mary Reilly. Mary Reilly (novel) Mary Reilly is a 1990 parallel novel by American writer Valerie Martin. It is inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\". It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990 and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1991. Martin's novel was the basis for the 1996 film", "title": "Mary Reilly (novel)" }, { "id": "16435191", "text": "Brown's 2009 novel, \"The Lost Symbol\", which sold 550,946 copies. It also fell short of Rowling's last release, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", that sold 2.6 million copies and became the fastest-selling book in history, a record that was lost to Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' in 2015. It became the 15th best-selling book of 2012 during its first week of release. Little, Brown and Company has announced that within the first three weeks the book's total sales have topped one million copies in English in all formats across all territories, including the US and the UK The", "title": "The Casual Vacancy" }, { "id": "14770743", "text": "theatres and worked as a production assistant at ORF (\"Österreichischer Rundfunk\" - Austrian Broadcasting). Her first novel, \"Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer?\" (1977) (How does the Salt get into the Sea?) became a sensational bestseller which sold several hundred thousand copies throughout the German language region. The heavily autobiographical first-person story tells of the monotony of everyday married life and of unsuccessful attempts to flee this world. In 1988 the novel was dramatised in a German film by Peter Beauvais, starring Nicolin Kunz and Siemen Rühaak. Although her later works did not achieve the success of her first novel,", "title": "Brigitte Schwaiger" }, { "id": "2443832", "text": "the rumours in a 2011 interview, tracing the shoes rumour to a joke, and the heated lake to the fact that the previous owners of the house had installed it. Her first novel, \"A Woman of Substance\", became an enduring best-seller and according to Reuters, it ranks as one of the top-ten best-selling novels of all time. \"A Woman Of Substance\" has been followed by 28 others – all best-sellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Bradford's books have sold more than 92 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Ten of her books have been", "title": "Barbara Taylor Bradford" }, { "id": "11010705", "text": "other types of adjectives sometimes occur. Examples: \"Apocalypse Now Redux\", \"Bad Moon Rising\", \"Body Electric\", \"Brideshead Revisited\", \"Chicken Little\", \"Chronicle of a Death Foretold\", \"A Dream Deferred\", \"Hannibal Rising\", \"Hercules Unchained\", \"House Beautiful\", \"Jupiter Ascending\", \"The Life Aquatic\", \"A Love Supreme\", \"The Matrix Reloaded\", \"Monsters Unleashed\", \"Orpheus Descending\", \"Paradise Lost\", \"Paradise Regained\", \"Prometheus Unbound\", \"The Road Not Taken\", \"Sonic Unleashed\", \"Tarzan Triumphant\", \"Time Remembered\", \"The World Unseen\". Nouns may have other modifiers besides adjectives. Some kinds of modifiers tend to precede the noun, while others tend to come after. Determiners (including articles, possessives, demonstratives, etc.) come before the noun. Noun", "title": "Postpositive adjective" }, { "id": "268214", "text": "a \"Great American Novel\" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it \"one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world\" and \"the greatest book of the sea ever written\". Its opening sentence, \"Call me Ishmael\", is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing \"Moby-Dick\" in February 1850, and would eventually take 18 months to write the book, a full year more than he had first anticipated. Writing was interrupted by his making the", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "id": "9722794", "text": "Fortune's Rocks (novel) Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by \"Sea Glass\", \"The Pilot's Wife\" and \"Body Surfing\". In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident 15-year-old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads", "title": "Fortune's Rocks (novel)" }, { "id": "712572", "text": "a writing retreat and an occasional home. The cottage, on the verge of Lake Ontario, was the place she spent many summer vacations while growing up. Urquhart now resides in South-Eastern Ontario with her husband Tony Urquhart. Urquhart is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels including: \"The Whirlpool\" (entitled \"Niagara\" in France), the first Canadian book to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur livre etranger (Best Foreign Book Award); \"Changing Heaven\"; \"Away\", winner of the Trillium Award and a finalist for the prestigious International Dublin Literary Award; \"The Underpainter\", winner of the Governor General’s Award and a finalist for", "title": "Jane Urquhart" }, { "id": "8851584", "text": "Canadian New Rock Songs of All Time\" list. All tracks by The Gandharvas (Lyrics - Paul Jago) A Soap Bubble and Inertia A Soap Bubble and Inertia is the debut album by Canadian alternative rock band The Gandharvas. It was released in 1994 on the Thermometer Sound Surface record label. By February 1995, the album had sold 30,000 units in Canada. The album's title is taken from a line in the novel \"Notes from Underground\" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The album's single, \"The First Day of Spring,\" was named Song of the Year for 1994 (CASBY Award) by The Edge 102.1", "title": "A Soap Bubble and Inertia" }, { "id": "4243754", "text": "as well as translations listed below. In the US, du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read. In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years in a poll by bookseller W H Smith. Other novels in the shortlist were \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Pride and Prejudice\" by Jane Austen, \"Jane Eyre\" by Charlotte Bronte, and \"1984\" by George Orwell. The first adaptation of", "title": "Rebecca (novel)" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "424512", "text": "Lost\": she climbs over the wall of the paradisal garden in contempt of the command to enter only by the gate, and proceeds to tempt Digory as Satan tempted Eve, with lies and half-truths. Similarly, the Lady of the Green Kirtle in \"The Silver Chair\" recalls both the snake-woman Errour in \"The Faerie Queene\" and Satan's transformation into a snake in \"Paradise Lost\". Lewis read Edith Nesbit's children's books as a child and was greatly fond of them. He described \"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\" around the time of its completion as \"a children's book in the tradition", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "id": "7691789", "text": "Bloody Jack (novel) Bloody Jack, fully titled Bloody Jack: Being An Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer. It is centered on an orphaned girl in London in the early 19th century. The story is continued in \"Curse of the Blue Tattoo\", \"Under the Jolly Roger\", \"In the Belly of the Bloodhound\", \"Mississippi Jack\", \"My Bonny Light Horseman\", \"Rapture of the Deep\", \"The Wake of the Lorelei Lee\", \"The Mark of the Golden Dragon\", \"Viva Jacquelina!\", \"Boston Jacky\", and \"Wild Rover No More.\" After losing her entire family to", "title": "Bloody Jack (novel)" }, { "id": "15980513", "text": "Blanche on the Lam Blanche on the Lam is a mystery novel by author Barbara Neely. Blanche on the Lam is the first in a series by Barbara Neely. This novel brings to light the intelligence and power of an African-America domestic female worker in the midst of a racist and sexist society. The book won the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. The series continues with \"Blanche among the Talented Tenth\" (1994), \"Blanche Cleans Up\" (1998), and \"Blanche Passes Go\" (2000). Throughout European and American history, upper", "title": "Blanche on the Lam" }, { "id": "2562498", "text": "Alexandra Ripley Alexandra Ripley, \"née\" Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of \"Scarlett\" (1991), written as a sequel to \"Gone with the Wind\". Her first novel was \"Who's the Lady in the President's Bed?\" (1972). \"Charleston\" (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books \"On Leaving Charleston\" (1984), \"The Time Returns\" (1985), and \"New Orleans Legacy\" (1987). Born Alexandra Elizabeth Braid in Charleston, South Carolina, she attended the elite Ashley Hall and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New", "title": "Alexandra Ripley" }, { "id": "13329305", "text": "a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by \"Paste\" Magazine. An award-winning film adaptation was released in 2017. \"When She Woke\" is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's \"The Scarlet Letter\", set in a future theocratic America where criminals are punished by being \"chromed\" – having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime – and released into the general population to survive as best they can. Hillary Jordan", "title": "Hillary Jordan" }, { "id": "546183", "text": "warmth, affection and physical unison.\" \"Phoenix II: Uncollected Writings,\" Ed. Warren Roberts and Harry T. Moore (New York) 1970In his later years Lawrence developed the potentialities of the short novel form in \"St Mawr\", \"The Virgin and the Gypsy\" and \"The Escaped Cock\". Lawrence's best-known short stories include \"The Captain's Doll\", \"The Fox\", \"The Ladybird\", \"Odour of Chrysanthemums\", \"The Princess\", \"The Rocking-Horse Winner\", \"St Mawr\", \"The Virgin and the Gypsy\" and \"The Woman who Rode Away\". (\"The Virgin and the Gypsy\" was published as a novella after he died.) Among his most praised collections is \"The Prussian Officer and Other", "title": "D. H. Lawrence" }, { "id": "782513", "text": "another character tells Trent that he always knew the other suspect was innocent, because \"I shot Manderson myself.\" These are Trent's final words to the killer: Another example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U.S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel \"The Burglar in the Library\" (1997). The burglar of the title is Bernie Rhodenbarr, who has booked a weekend at an English-style country house just to steal a signed, and therefore very valuable, first edition of Chandler's \"The Big Sleep\", which he knows has", "title": "Whodunit" }, { "id": "17376031", "text": "Valerie Sayers Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: \"The Powers\" (2013); \"Brain Fever\" (1996); \"The Distance Between Us\" (1994); \"Who Do You Love\" (1991); \"How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine\" (1989); and \"Due East\" (1987). \"Brain Fever\" and \"Who Do You Love\" were named \"New York Times\" \"Notable Books of the Year\", and the 2002 film \"Due East\" is based on her first two novels. Reviewing \"Who Do You Love\", \"The Chicago Tribune\" declared: \"To say that Valerie Sayers is a natural-born writer wildly underestimates the facts….", "title": "Valerie Sayers" }, { "id": "10921873", "text": "seem more speculative than logical.\" Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel) Double, Double (also published as \"The Case of the Seven Murders\") is a novel that was published in 1949 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set in the imaginary New England town of Wrightsville, US. Ellery Queen investigates a series of murders that seem to be related by an old rhyme: \"Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief\". And at least one person in Wrightsville calls Ellery Queen \"Chief\". \"The last full-fledged Wrightsville novel is as usual strong on characterizations. But some of the", "title": "Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel)" }, { "id": "3788655", "text": "Marian Keyes Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She is an Irish Book Awards winner. By March 2017 over 35 million copies of her twelve novels preceding \"The Break\" (2017) have been sold and been translated into 33 languages. She became known worldwide for \"Watermelon\", \"Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married\", \"Rachel's Holiday\", \"Last Chance Saloon\", \"Anybody Out There\", and \"This Charming Man\", with themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence. Born in Limerick and raised in Monkstown (Dublin), Keyes graduated from Dublin", "title": "Marian Keyes" }, { "id": "10921872", "text": "Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel) Double, Double (also published as \"The Case of the Seven Murders\") is a novel that was published in 1949 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set in the imaginary New England town of Wrightsville, US. Ellery Queen investigates a series of murders that seem to be related by an old rhyme: \"Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief\". And at least one person in Wrightsville calls Ellery Queen \"Chief\". \"The last full-fledged Wrightsville novel is as usual strong on characterizations. But some of the deductions made from the clues", "title": "Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel)" }, { "id": "11437032", "text": "about the Civil Rights Movement, and Renata Adler released the feminist classic, \"Speedboat\". By the late seventies, a former English teacher from Maine had become one of the most popular genre novelists with his tales of horror and suspense. Stephen King's 1974 novel, \"Carrie\", became a best seller and spawned a popular 1976 film. He followed \"Carrie\" with \"'Salem's Lot\", a vampire tale; \"The Shining\", a spooky romp set in a deserted hotel; \"The Stand\", a post-apocalyptic shocker; and \"The Dead Zone\", about a comatose man who awakens with psychic abilities. King also released a collection of short stories and", "title": "Literature in the 1970s" }, { "id": "16348529", "text": "1947 with \"Mrs. Mike\", the fictionalized story of their friend Katherine Mary Flannigan who married a Mountie and moved from Boston to the Canadian wilderness. It became a bestseller and inspired a 1950 film adaptation. The two Freedmans wrote nine more novels together, and Freedman wrote several more by herself. Her later works, including \"Mary, Mary Quite Contrary\" (1968) and \"Sappho: The Tenth Muse\" (1998) have been called \"ardently feminist.\" Her book \"Joshua Son of None\" (1973) was a political thriller about the clandestine cloning of a young assassinated President (strongly implied to be, although never actually named as, John", "title": "Nancy Freedman" }, { "id": "9151663", "text": "to save Pimm and her students, the entire building is lost. Fearing arrest, Jacky flees Boston and joins the crew of a whaling ship as a servant. 2004, USA, Harcourt Trade Publishers , Trade Paperback Curse of the Blue Tattoo The Curse of the Blue Tattoo is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer. It continues the story of orphaned London girl, Jacky Faber, in the early 19th century. The story began in \"Bloody Jack\", and continues in \"Under the Jolly Roger\", \"In the Belly of the Bloodhound\", \"Mississippi Jack\", \"My Bonny Light Horseman\", \"Rapture of the Deep\", \"The Wake of", "title": "Curse of the Blue Tattoo" }, { "id": "7156005", "text": "made a fleeting appearance in \"The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont\", by Robert Barr. French Leave (novel) French Leave is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 20 January 1956 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 28 September 1959 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York. The title stems from the expression french leave - to leave without saying goodbye to one's host or hostess. This happy-ending, warm-glowing story is about three American girls and their adventures in France: a story of love at first sight, of mineral-water millionaires, of rascally", "title": "French Leave (novel)" }, { "id": "880728", "text": "most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's \"best-loved novels.\" John Buchan wrote \"The Thirty-Nine Steps\" while he was ill in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness which remained with him all his life. The novel was his first \"shocker\", as he called it – a story combining personal and political dramas. The novel marked a turning point in Buchan's literary career and introduced his adventuring hero, Richard Hannay. He described a \"shocker\" as an adventure where the events", "title": "The Thirty-Nine Steps" }, { "id": "1521584", "text": "Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys \"Dodie\" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel \"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\" (1956). Other works include \"I Capture the Castle\" (1948), and \"The Starlight Barking\" (1967). \"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel \"I Capture the Castle\" was adapted into a 2003 movie version. \"I Capture the Castle\" was voted number 82 as \"one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels\" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003).", "title": "Dodie Smith" }, { "id": "2973224", "text": "White Oleander White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child (Astrid) who is separated from her mother (Ingrid) and placed in a series of foster homes. It deals with themes of motherhood. The book was selected for Oprah's Book Club in May 1999, after which it became a national bestseller. It was adapted as a 2002 film. Astrid Magnussen is a 12-year-old girl living in Los Angeles, California. She lives with her mother, Ingrid Magnussen, a self-centered, cold-hearted and eccentric poet. Astrid's father, Klaus Anders, left before Astrid was", "title": "White Oleander" }, { "id": "7870290", "text": "The Bridesmaid The Bridesmaid is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1989. It is generally considered a fan-favourite, and was adapted into an acclaimed 2004 film by Claude Chabrol (who had previous adapted Rendell's earlier novel \"A Judgement in Stone\", with great success). The novel's protagonist is Philip Wardman, a relatively normal young man (unusually so for traditional Rendell protagonists), whose only particularly strong feeling is that he hates violence. Philip lives at home with his mother and sister, and his feminine ideal is exemplified by a beautiful statue of Flora, a nymph, in their garden.", "title": "The Bridesmaid" }, { "id": "7092037", "text": "Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel) Red Sky at Morning is a 1968 novel by Richard Bradford. It was made into a 1971 film of the same name. The book follows Josh Arnold, a young man whose family relocates from Mobile, Alabama to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. It was regarded as a \"true delight\" (\"Washington Post Book World\") and a \"novel of consequence\" (\"New York Times Book Review\"). Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story. The title of the novel comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme, \"\"Red sky at morning,", "title": "Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel)" }, { "id": "2052802", "text": "the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era; in 1990 John Sutherland called it the \"most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century\". This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write \"A Study in Scarlet\", which introduced the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, \"\"Hansom Cab\" was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'.\" After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, \"Professor Brankel's Secret\" (), Hume returned to England in 1888. His third novel was titled \"Madame Midas\" and it was based on the life of the mine and newspaper owner Alice", "title": "Fergus Hume" }, { "id": "8488393", "text": "Richard Dooling Richard Patrick Dooling (born 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel \"White Man's Grave\", a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries \"Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital\". Dooling's first novel, \"Critical Care\" (1992), was made into a 1997 movie of the same title, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick. His next three novels—\"White Man's Grave\" (1994), \"Brain Storm\" (1998), and \"Bet Your Life\" (2002)—were all \"New York Times\" Notable Books. In conjunction with \"Kingdom Hospital\", he", "title": "Richard Dooling" }, { "id": "1379062", "text": "of Morbius\", \"Empire of the Sun\", \"Brighton Rock\", \"Fair Stood the Wind for France\", \"Fluke\", \"Great Speeches in History\", \"How Proust Can Change Your Life\", \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"Peter Pan\", \"The Alchemist\", \"The Day of the Triffids\", \"The Hairy Hands\", \"The Lives of Christopher Chant\", \"The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous\", \"The Queen's Man\", \"The Solitaire Mystery\", \"The Swimming Pool Library\", \"The Two Destinies\", \"The Velveteen Rabbit\", \"The Way I Found Her\", \"The Way to Dusty Death\", \"The Woodlanders\", \"Under the Net\", \"Wuthering Heights\" and Philip Pullman's \"Grimm Tales for Young and Old\". In June 2012, West recorded an English", "title": "Samuel West" }, { "id": "11319", "text": "2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. \"And Then There Were None\" is Christie's best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Christie's stage play \"The Mousetrap\" holds the world record for longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "20449641", "text": "Mitchell's \"Gone with the Wind\" (1936), Carnegie’s \"How to Win Friends and Influence People\" (1937), Spock’s \"Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care\" (1946), Harris’ \"I'm OK – You're OK\" (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's \"All the President's Men\" (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren’s \"Purpose-Driven Life\" (2002) and Brown's \"Da Vinci Code\" (2003). The influential \"New York Times Best Seller list\" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington. Some notable collections of books of the United States include: The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004,", "title": "Books in the United States" }, { "id": "14794245", "text": "Margaret Peterson Margaret Peterson (1883 – 1933) was a popular English novelist. Peterson also wrote under the pseudonym Glint Green. In 1913, she won the 250-guinea Melrose prize for her first novel \"The Lure of the Little Drum\". \"Blind Eyes\" (1914) \"Tony Bellew\" (1914) \"Just Because\" (1915) \"The Love of Navarre\" (1915) \"To Love\" (1915) \"The Women's Message\"(1915) \"Butterfly Wings\" (1916) \"Fate and the Watcher\" (1917) \"Love's Burden\" (1918) \"The Death Drum\" (1919) \"Moon Mountains\" (1920) \"Love is Enough\" (1921) \"Dust of Desire\" (1922) \"The First Stone\" (1923) \"Deadly Nightshade\" (1924) \"The Pitiful Rebellion\" (1925) \"Pamela and Her Lion Man\"", "title": "Margaret Peterson" }, { "id": "12963865", "text": "Vandam has some similarity with the plot of the original \"Rebecca\". In both, a Plebeian girl falls in love with a member of the British ruling class, but feels overwhelmed and overshadowed by the memory of his aristocratic first wife – and in both cases, eventually turns out to be a much better mate than that first wife\". \"The Key to Rebecca\" was an immediate best-seller, becoming a main selection of the Book of the Month Club, with an initial printing of 100,000 copies within days and having been serialised in several magazines, even before any reviews had been published.", "title": "The Key to Rebecca" }, { "id": "1602406", "text": "outside immediately and pick up the pages,\" Shields wrote. When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name \"Harper Lee\", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as \"Nellie\". Published July 11, 1960, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted \"Best Novel of the Century\" in a poll by the \"Library Journal\". Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "4563719", "text": "of them alone in his office, the President accuses him of possessing the worst human quality of all, ingratitude. Principal photography occurred from October 18 to December 20, 1937. The working title of the film and the title of the novel on which it was based, \"Benefits Forgot\", was taken from a quotation in William Shakespeare's \"As You Like It\", Act II, Scene 7: \"Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, that dost not bite so nigh as benefits forgot.\" The title of the picture, \"Of Human Hearts\", was selected by MGM after a nationwide contest was advertised on the studio's radio", "title": "Of Human Hearts" }, { "id": "8858766", "text": "Turgenev did the same with Bazarov in \"Father and Sons\". The disease features, too, in a variety of English novels of the Victorian era, including Charles Dickens's 1848 \"Dombey and Son\", Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 \"North and South\", and Mrs. Humphry Ward's 1900 \"Eleanor\". Several novels by different authors have been set in a sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers, including Thomas Mann's \"The Magic Mountain\", Beatrice Harraden's \"Ships That Pass in the Night\", W. Somerset Maugham's 1938 short story \"Sanatorium\", set in the north of Scotland and based on his own experience in a Scottish sanatorium in 1919, A. E. Ellis's \"The", "title": "Tuberculosis in human culture" }, { "id": "13331121", "text": "and \"The End of All Songs\". A duology of comic spy adventures (revised from two Nick Allard books, see below): In 2010, Moorcock wrote a \"Doctor Who\" novel, \"The Coming of the Terraphiles\". A version of Jerry Cornelius makes an appearance. As well as writing one of the Sexton Blake novels, \"Caribbean Crisis\" (1962), Moorcock wrote \"The Metatemporal Detective\", a collection including \"The Affair of the Seven Virgins\", \"Crimson Eyes\", \"The Ghost Warriors\", \"The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade\", \"The Case of the Nazi Canary\", \"Sir Milk-and-Blood\", \"The Mystery of the Texas Twister\", \"London Flesh\", \"The Pleasure Garden of Felipe", "title": "Michael Moorcock bibliography" }, { "id": "17568290", "text": "The Mississippi Bubble The Mississippi Bubble is a 1902 novel by American author Emerson Hough. It was Hough's first bestseller, and the fourth-best selling novel in the United States in 1902. The historical novel revolves around the story of John Law (1671-1729) and the \"Mississippi Bubble\", an economic bubble of speculative investment in the French colony of Louisiana. The book sold well from the time of its release, with \"The New York Times\" reporting 1,000 copies selling per day in the first month of its release. It became the number one best-selling book in America for the month in the", "title": "The Mississippi Bubble" }, { "id": "747535", "text": "fire in a runaway reaction caused by the catalyst. Fatally injured in a crash landing, he crawls to the sea so that bacteria in his body can initiate new life on Earth. In John Christopher's novel \"The Death of Grass\" (1956), a mutated virus kills cereal crops and other grasses throughout Eurasia, causing famine. Kurt Vonnegut 's novel \"Cat's Cradle\" (1963) ends with all the bodies of water turning into \"ice-nine\", a fictional phase of ice that forms at room temperature. In J. G. Ballard's novel \"The Burning World\" (1964, expanded into \"The Drought\" in 1965), pollution in the oceans", "title": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction" }, { "id": "8100697", "text": "3. Pigs at a Picnic (1999) 4. Pup at the Palace (2000) 5. Porpoise in a Pool (2001) 6. Stallion in a Stable (2002) 7. Siamese in the Sun (2003) 1. Sheepdog in the Snow (1995) 2. Kitten in the Cold (1996) 3. Fox in the Frost (1997) 4. Hamster in the Holly (1998) 5. Pony in a Package/Pony at the Post (UK title) (1999) 6. Mouse in the Mistletoe (2000) 7. Terrier in the Tinsel (2001) 8. Cats in the Candlelight (2002) 9. Racehorse in the Rain (2003) 10. Collie with a Card (2004) Valentine Special 11. Bunny in", "title": "Animal Ark" }, { "id": "6948566", "text": "1996. \"Chloe\" followed soon after, and tells of a woman travelling around the four countries of the UK during the four seasons of the year and her various sensual exploits en route. \"Polly\", about a teacher exchange trip between America and England, was published in 1998 and \"Cat\", about a sports journalist covering the Tour de France, in 2000. Further titles were \"Fen\" (2001), set in the art world and \"Pip\", about a female clown (2004). Her seventh novel, \"Love Rules\" (2005), about whether one listens to one's head or follows one's heart, was published in 2005. \"Home Truths\", which", "title": "Freya North" }, { "id": "3850925", "text": "– qualities which some modernists conscientiously preserve or even exaggerate.\" The translation of \"Hippolytus\" remains in print in the Penguin selection, \"Eight Great Tragedies\", ed. Sylvan Barnet. Of Lucas's novels the best received was \"Cécile\" (1930), a tale of love, society and politics in the France of 1775–1776. Lucas dedicated the book to T. E. Lawrence, a friend and admirer. He wrote two further historical novels, \"Doctor Dido\" (1938), set in Cambridge in 1792–1812, and \"The English Agent: A Tale of the Peninsular War\" (1969), set in Spain in 1808; and a novella, \"The Woman Clothed with the Sun\" (1937),", "title": "F. L. Lucas" }, { "id": "16471001", "text": "The Racketeer (novel) The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel written by John Grisham that was released on October 23, 2012 by Doubleday with an initial printing of 1.5 million copies. It was one of the best selling books of 2012 and spent several weeks atop various best seller lists. The protagonist Malcolm Bannister, an African American and former United States Marine, is an attorney in a modest Virginia small-town law firm. A real estate transaction which he undertook in good faith turns out to have involved the purchase of a secluded hunting lodge where a crooked Capitol Hill lobbyist", "title": "The Racketeer (novel)" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "18513792", "text": "Lost Harmony<br> Mid Pleasures<br> Missing<br> Mrs Duncan's Eccentricity<br> My First Offer<br> My only Novel<br> Nettie Dunkayne<br> Nora's Love Test<br> Notes from a German Band<br> Old Myddelton's Money<br> On a Monument<br> On the Line<br> One Summer Month<br> One Terrible Christmas Eve<br> One Winter Night<br> Page Ninety-Two<br> Pennie's Choice<br> Ploughed by Moments<br> Reaping the Whirlwind<br> Ricardo’s Benefit<br> Sir Rupert's Room<br> Stop Thief!<br> The Arrandel Motto<br> The Blackbird's Nest<br> The End if a Fairy Tale<br> The Housekeeper's Story<br> By The Night Express<br> The Old Bell Ringer (poem)<br> The Sorrow of a Secret Story<br> The Squire's Legacy<br> Through the Breakers<br> Through the Wind and", "title": "Mary Cecil Hay" }, { "id": "4067544", "text": "finding his voice as a writer, until eventually he sets off for Paris, where the activities depicted in \"Tropic of Cancer\" begin. Tropic of Capricorn (novel) Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's \"Tropic of Cancer\", it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. During a three-week vacation from Western Union in 1922, Miller wrote his first novel, \"Clipped Wings\", a study of 12 Western Union", "title": "Tropic of Capricorn (novel)" }, { "id": "5463812", "text": "Immortal Cimoli\", \"Through A Glass, Darkly\", \"Double Jeopardy\", \"Till Death\", \"Judgement Day\", \"One Minute to Midnight\", \"Prophecy\", \"The End of Innocence\", \"Manhunt\", \"Glory Days\", \"Dramatic License\", \"Money No Object\", \"Haunted\", \"Little Tin God\", \"The Messenger\", \"The Valkyrie\", \"Comes a Horseman\", \"\", \"The Ransom of Richard Redstone\", \"Duende\", \"The Stone of Scone\", \"Forgive Us Our Trespasses\", \"The Modern Prometheus\", \"Archangel\", \"Avatar\", \"Armageddon\", \"Sins of the Father\", \"Diplomatic Immunity\", \"Patient Number 7\", \"Black Tower\", \"Unusual Suspects\", \"Justice\", \"Deadly Exposure\", \"To Be\", \"Not To Be\" Books – \"\", \", , , , , , , , , \", \"\", \"\", \"\" Comics –", "title": "Duncan MacLeod" }, { "id": "4662385", "text": "her childhood dream of becoming a writer. In between watching her children and taking care of the house, she was able to finish her first book, \"Amethyst\" (in which the heroine was a jeweler—as Royal says, \"write what you know!\"). \"Amethyst\" was followed by \"Emerald,\" \"Amber,\" \"Forevermore\" (her contribution to the anthology published as \"In Praise of Younger Men\"), \"Violet,\" \"Lily,\" and \"Rose,\" all of which are set in the Restoration era. Then she wrote \"Lost in Temptation,\" \"Tempting Juliana,\" and \"The Art of Temptation,\" which are all set in the Regency era. She is currently working on young-adult versions", "title": "Lauren Royal" }, { "id": "7092038", "text": "sailor take warning\"\". Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel) Red Sky at Morning is a 1968 novel by Richard Bradford. It was made into a 1971 film of the same name. The book follows Josh Arnold, a young man whose family relocates from Mobile, Alabama to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. It was regarded as a \"true delight\" (\"Washington Post Book World\") and a \"novel of consequence\" (\"New York Times Book Review\"). Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story. The title of the novel comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme, \"\"Red", "title": "Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel)" }, { "id": "4361355", "text": "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered \"the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century\". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\" (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. \"Ben-Hur\" remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's \"Gone with the Wind\" (1936). The 1959 MGM film adaptation", "title": "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" }, { "id": "7351846", "text": "American edition by Doubleday. The authors followed up their success with a sequel, \"Casino for Sale\" (1938), featuring all the survivors from the first novel and bringing to the fore Stroganoff's rival impresario, the rich and vulgar Lord Buttonhooke. It was published in the US as \"Murder à la Stroganoff\". \"The Elephant is White\" (1939), tells the story of a young Englishman and the complications arising from his visit to a Russian night club in Paris. It was not well reviewed. A third Stroganoff novel, \"Envoy on Excursion\" (1940) was a comic spy-thriller, with Quill now working for British intelligence.", "title": "S. J. Simon" }, { "id": "13098682", "text": "Minus Eighty Minus Eighty is the first published adventure in the graphic novel series featuring The Bear Rider. The term \"minus eighty\" refers to the temperature in degrees which can cause some pure waters to suddenly turn to ice after just a little movement; hence, also to an underground cavern in which the beginning of the story is set. First published in Turkey in June 2008, the concept took time in the making: Yalcin Didman, one of the famed Turkish comic book creators, introduced his post-apocalyptic dystopia in the pages of some comics magazine in the early 1990s. However, the", "title": "Minus Eighty" }, { "id": "18138236", "text": "A Summer Bird-Cage A Summer Bird-Cage is the 1963 debut novel by Margaret Drabble published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The title of the novel is taken from a quotation from the play \"The White Devil\" by John Webster: ‘\"Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.\" The novel centres on two characters who are sisters, Sarah and Louise. At the beginning of the story Sarah (who has recently graduated from Oxford University) has", "title": "A Summer Bird-Cage" }, { "id": "11416555", "text": "\"where big, pivotal things have happened to [the Doctor]\". Roberts and Davies held an unofficial contest to see how many references to Christie's works could be inserted. Titles that were noted were: \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\"; \"Why Didn't They Ask Evans\"; \"The Body in the Library\"; \"The Secret Adversary\"; \"N or M?\"; \"Nemesis\"; \"Cat Among the Pigeons\"; \"Dead Man's Folly\"; \"They Do It With Mirrors\"; \"Appointment with Death\"; \"Cards on the Table\"; \"Sparkling Cyanide\"; \"Endless Night\"; \"Crooked House\"; \"Death in the Clouds\"; \"The Moving Finger\"; \"Taken at the Flood\"; \"Death Comes as the End\"; \"Murder on the Orient Express\"", "title": "The Unicorn and the Wasp" }, { "id": "19451085", "text": "traditional storyteller.\" The Virgin in the Garden The Virgin in the Garden is a 1978 realist novel by English novelist A. S. Byatt. Set during the same year as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the novel revolves around a play about Elizabeth I of England. The novel has strong use of symbolism, which the New York Times called \"overloaded\", that points towards Elizabeth I. The novel is the first of a quartet, followed by \"Still Life\" (1985), \"Babel Tower\" (1996), and \"A Whistling Woman\" (2002). \"The New York Times\" describes the writing of \"Byatt is essentially a fine, careful", "title": "The Virgin in the Garden" }, { "id": "14861299", "text": "Nine Coaches Waiting Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels to the Château Valmy, near Thonon-les-Bains, France, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself tangled in a plot to murder her charge and tries to save him, which eventually results in the revelation of a dark secret. <br> Linda's name is short for Belinda, \"or", "title": "Nine Coaches Waiting" }, { "id": "9375071", "text": "and a great admirer of Graham Greene, Behm turned an unfilmed script for producer Philip Yordan into a novel, \"The Eye of the Beholder\". His first had been \"Queen of the Night\" (1977), written when Behm was in his forties. Echoing the infamous 1974 film \"The Night Porter\" and foreshadowing D.M. Thomas' \"The White Hotel\" (1981) and Steve Erickson's \"Tours of the Black Clock\" (1989), it’s a highly picturesque first-person account of a sexually voracious young woman’s exploits in Nazi Germany. \"The Eye of the Beholder\" (1980) centers on a detective known only as the \"Eye\" who is fixated on", "title": "Marc Behm" }, { "id": "206005", "text": "novelist with, as critic Boyd Tonkin puts it, \"a career that teasingly follows Irving's own\". Irving has had four novels reach number one on the bestseller list of \"The New York Times\": \"The Hotel New Hampshire\" (September 27, 1981), which stayed number one for seven weeks, and was in the top 15 for over 27 weeks; \"The Cider House Rules\" (June 16, 1985); \"A Widow for One Year\" (June 14, 1998); and \"The Fourth Hand\" (July 29, 2001). Since the publication of \"Garp\" made him independently wealthy, Irving has sporadically accepted short-term teaching positions (including one at his \"alma mater\",", "title": "John Irving" }, { "id": "2939092", "text": "Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 – November 30, 2000) was an American author of children's books and young adult novels. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels \"Moccasin Trail\" (1952), \"The Golden Goblet\" (1962), and \"The Moorchild\" (1997). \"A Really Weird Summer\" (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are \"Greensleeves\", \"The Seventeenth Swap\", \"The Striped Ships\" and \"Mara, Daughter of the Nile\".", "title": "Eloise Jarvis McGraw" }, { "id": "18205041", "text": "\"An Autumn Crush\" was released the same year and was shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan prize. Johnson was delighted by this as she and Nathan were friends until the latter’s untimely death in 2006. \"White Wedding\" was published in 2012 and entered the \"Sunday Times\" top ten best seller chart. \"A Winter Flame\" was also published in 2012 and again entered the Sunday Times best seller chart as did \"It’s Raining Men\", published 2013, which won the 2014 Romantic Novelists’ Award for Comedy Romance. Johnson’s 2014 release, \"The Teashop on the Corner\" smashed all her previous sales records and, again,", "title": "Milly Johnson" }, { "id": "19451084", "text": "The Virgin in the Garden The Virgin in the Garden is a 1978 realist novel by English novelist A. S. Byatt. Set during the same year as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the novel revolves around a play about Elizabeth I of England. The novel has strong use of symbolism, which the New York Times called \"overloaded\", that points towards Elizabeth I. The novel is the first of a quartet, followed by \"Still Life\" (1985), \"Babel Tower\" (1996), and \"A Whistling Woman\" (2002). \"The New York Times\" describes the writing of \"Byatt is essentially a fine, careful and very", "title": "The Virgin in the Garden" }, { "id": "3904648", "text": "before Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list (Non-Fiction) on October 21, 1962, where it stayed for one week, being replaced by Rachel Carson's \"Silent Spring\" on October 28. In the Steinbeck novel \"The Pastures of Heaven\", one of the characters regards Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes\" as one of the single greatest works of English literature and eventually names his infant son Robert Louis. Later on, Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title \"Travels with", "title": "Travels with Charley" }, { "id": "19498114", "text": "1972 and \"Nights at the Circus\" 1984. Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who published from the 1960s into the 21st century. Her older sister, A. S. Byatt (born 1936) is best known for \"Possession\" published in 1990. Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists. His best-known novels are \"Money\" (1984) and \"London Fields\" (1989). Pat Barker (born 1943) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include \"The Cement Garden\"", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "2778284", "text": "three days. Its sequel, \"The Professor at the Breakfast-Table\", was released shortly after beginning in serialized installments in January 1859. Holmes's first novel, \"Elsie Venner\", was published serially in the \"Atlantic\" beginning in December 1859. Originally entitled \"The Professor's Story\", the novel is about a neurotic young woman whose mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant, making her daughter's personality half-woman, half-snake. The novel drew a wide range of comments, including praise from John Greenleaf Whittier and condemnation from church papers, which claimed the work a product of heresy. Also in December of that year, Holmes sent medication to", "title": "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr." }, { "id": "4663800", "text": "The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise and became an instant bestseller. A film adaptation, directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights, was released in 2009. The novel's title is taken from a quotation at the story's conclusion, when Susie ponders her friends' and family's", "title": "The Lovely Bones" }, { "id": "15960152", "text": "Cat Gone Blind in his Eighteenth Summer\" \"Ballade of the Open Mike\" \"In Other News\" \"Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance\" \"Crickets: a Late Chorale\" \"Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat\" \"Poem for a 75th Birthday\" \"The Geniuses Among Us\" \"Any Constellation\" \"Glass Under Glass\" \"To the Mother of a Dead Marine\" \"The Blue Water Buffalo\" \"Sappho Under the Arches\" \"On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother was a Jew\" \"Surveying the Damage\" \"The Wilderness Has No Straight Lines\" \"Crickets: a late Chorale\" \"Valentine for a Bashful Boy\" \"Cover Letter\" \"Another Reason Never to Live North of 43 Degrees Latitude, Especially Near", "title": "Marilyn Taylor" }, { "id": "7958949", "text": "in his own past have been altered - and a lethal force from South America's prehistory has been released. The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of the RMS Titanic as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults - and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin. The Left Handed Hummingbird was Kate Orman's first published novel. There are several references to the serial \"The Aztecs\". The Left-Handed Hummingbird The Left-Handed Hummingbird is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the", "title": "The Left-Handed Hummingbird" }, { "id": "3970539", "text": "she began working as an editorial assistant with Macmillan's Dictionary of Art, then later joined St. James Press, serving as a reference book editor. Her first novel, \"The Virgin Blue\", was published in the UK in 1997 and was chosen by W H Smith for their showcase of new authors. Her second novel, entitled \"Girl with a Pearl Earring\", was published in 1999. The work, which was based on the famous painting by Vermeer, has been translated into 38 languages. As of 2014, it has sold over five million copies worldwide. It won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in", "title": "Tracy Chevalier" }, { "id": "11825260", "text": "is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. \"Wuthering Heights\", \"A Female Philoctetes\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Fahrenheit 451\", \"Herakles\", \"Cyrano de Bergerac\", \"Taming Of The Shrew\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Importance Of Being Earnest\", \"Six Characters In Search Of An Author\", \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"As You Like It\", \"An Enemy Of The People\", \"The Iliad\", \"The Comedy of Errors\", \"Catch-22\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Prometheus Bound\" with David Oyelowo, \"Romeo & Juliet\", \"The Canterbury Tales\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Hamlet\", \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde\", H G Wells' \"The Invisible Man\", with choreographer Doug Varone, \"Twelfth Night\", \"A Very Naughty Greek Play\", \"Oedipus", "title": "Aquila Theatre" }, { "id": "18403704", "text": "C.W. Gortner C.W. Gortner is an American author of historical fiction, including the novels \"The Last Queen\", \"The Confessions of Catherine de Medici\", and the \"Spymaster Trilogy\". His novels are translated in over 25 languages. \"The Queen’s Vow\" was an international bestseller in Poland. \"Mademoiselle Chanel\" was a USA Today bestseller, an American Booksellers Association bestseller, and both \"The Last Queen\" and \"Marlene\" were Marin Independent Journal bestsellers. He was named one of the top ten historical novelists by The Washington Independent Review of Books and has delivered keynote speeches as a Guest of Honor at the Historical Novel Society", "title": "C.W. Gortner" }, { "id": "8132624", "text": "The Crimson Petal and the White The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England. The title is from an 1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson entitled \"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal\", the opening line of which is \"Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white.\" The novel was published (by Canongate) in hardback in the UK in 2002, with a paperback edition following the next year. Canongate also published \"The Apple\", a selection of short stories based on characters from \"The Crimson Petal and the White\", in 2006. The novel details", "title": "The Crimson Petal and the White" }, { "id": "11046392", "text": "of her life. Roberts' first novel, \"The Time of Man\" (1926), about the daughter of a Kentucky tenant farmer, garnered her an international reputation. She went on to write several more successful and critically acclaimed novels throughout the 1920s and 30s, including \"The Great Meadow\" (1930), an historical novel about the early settling of Kentucky; \"A Buried Treasure\" (1931), about a rural Kentucky farm family who finds a pot of gold; \"He Sent Forth a Raven\" (1935), which reflects the contrasting World War I era ideological forces, and \"Black Is My Truelove's Hair\" (1938), the story of a shamed woman's", "title": "Elizabeth Madox Roberts" }, { "id": "7551730", "text": "evolved into a more derogatory assessment of antiquated roles with critiques from popular feminist writers like Virginia Woolf. Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel \"The Awakening\", is a literary example of the \"angel in the house.\" Another example is in the \"What Katy Did\" novels of Susan Coolidge about a pre-pubescent tomboy who becomes a paraplegic. They are based on her own life in 19th Century America. Katy eventually walks again, but not before she learns to become the \"angel in the house\", that is, the socially acceptable \"ideal\" of docile womanhood. In Thomas Hardy's \"The Return of", "title": "The Angel in the House" }, { "id": "8251143", "text": "Rowling was asked by the Royal Society of Literature to nominate her top ten books every child should read. Included in her list were \"Wuthering Heights\" by Emily Brontë, \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" by Roald Dahl, \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, \"David Copperfield\" by Charles Dickens, \"Hamlet\" by William Shakespeare, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, \"Animal Farm\" by George Orwell, \"The Tale of Two Bad Mice\" by Beatrix Potter, \"The Catcher in the Rye\" by J. D. Salinger and \"Catch-22\" by Joseph Heller. There are a number of fictional works to which \"Harry Potter\" has been repeatedly", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "id": "10732676", "text": "writing a short story, \"At the Green Dragon\", published in 1894. Her early works include \"Little Rosebud: Or, Things Will Take a Turn\" (1891), as well as \"\" (1893), a best-seller which sold over one million copies. The love story set in a tuberculosis sanatorium, follows protagonist, Bernadine, an independent teacher, writer and activist, who falls in love with Robert, a notorious womanizer, according to other patients. After recovering and leaving the sanatorium, Robert follows Bernadine to England where the two are to get married. The popular novel ends rather tragically with Bernadine dying suddenly in a traffic accident. Though", "title": "Beatrice Harraden" }, { "id": "20894977", "text": "Forum a massive start. The vividly discussed screen adaptation of the novel screened in Swedish cinemas at the same time as the book was released. Other titles during Forum’s first year were Hjalmar Bergman’s \"Chefen Fru Ingeborg,\" Alexis Carrel’s \"Den okända människan (Man, The Unknown),\" E. M. Forster’s \"En färd till Indien (A Passage to India), The Travels of Marco Polo,\" Strindberg’s \"Röda Rummet\" \"(The Red Room),\" Voltaire’s \"Candide\" och Steinbeck’s \"Riddarna kring Dannys bord\" \"(Tortilla Flat).\" Subsequent titles in the Forum Library are, among others, Strindberg’s \"Röda rummet\", Austen’s \"Stolthet och fördom\" \"(Pride and Prejudice)\", Swift’s \"Gullivers resor (Gulliver’s", "title": "Bokförlaget Forum" }, { "id": "1707574", "text": "Seville\", 1929. \"The Outsider\", 1931. \"Sally in Our Alley\", 1931. \"The Water Gipsies\", 1932. \"Nine till Six\", 1932. \"Forbidden Territory\", 1934. \"The Passing of the Third Floor Back\", 1935. \"It's in the Bag\", 1945. \"The Ring\", 1927. \"Juno and the Paycock\", 1929. \"Murder\", 1930. \"The Skin Game\", 1931. \"Rich and Strange\", 1931. \"Number Seventeen\", 1932. \"Waltzes from Vienna\", 1934. \"The 39 Steps\", 1935. \"The Secret Agent\", 1936. \"Sabotage\", 1936. \"Young and Innocent\", 1937. \"The Lady Vanishes\", 1938. \"Jamaica Inn\", 1939. \"Suspicion\", 1941. \"Shadow of a Doubt\", 1943. \"The Paradine Case\", 1947. \"Stage Fright\", 1950. \"I Confess\", 1953 Alma Reville Alma", "title": "Alma Reville" }, { "id": "205994", "text": "John Irving John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of \"The World According to Garp\" in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including \"The Cider House Rules\" (1985), \"A Prayer for Owen Meany\" (1989), and \"A Widow for One Year\" (1998) have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of \"The Cider House Rules\". Five of his novels have been adapted into films (\"Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow\").", "title": "John Irving" }, { "id": "4697820", "text": "and the Miracle Man\". The autobiographical coming-of-age novel is written as a diary that starts in 1952 with an 11-year-old protagonist, Daisy Fay Harper. Daisy uses diary entries to tell the story of her alcoholic father's get-rich-quick schemes and her well-mannered mother. The book stayed on the \"New York Times\" bestseller list for 10 weeks. Perhaps her best-known novel, \"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe\" was published in 1987 and remained on the \"New York Times\" bestseller list for 36 weeks. It was praised by both Harper Lee and Eudora Welty. The novel is told in both past", "title": "Fannie Flagg" }, { "id": "13699909", "text": "Seventeen (Serafin novel) Seventeen is a 2004 novel by American author Shan Serafin. Originally published as a work for adults in English, the story now reaches a demographic of young adults and college students in several countries throughout the world, particularly females. Seventeen is the story of a female adolescent named Sophia. The premise is that of a seventeen-year-old, who, in grappling with the angst of finding one's place in the world, gives herself seven days to either find her purpose or end her life. This, Serafin's literary debut, is of additional significance because he wrote it from the point", "title": "Seventeen (Serafin novel)" }, { "id": "2850496", "text": "\"I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion,\" echoing the theme of converging voices re-telling history. The book was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction in 1987. Ondaatje's later and more famous novel \"The English Patient\" is, in part, a sequel to \"In the Skin of a Lion\", continuing the characters of Hana and Caravaggio, as well as revealing the fate of this novel's main character, Patrick Lewis. The first chapter, \"Little Seeds,\" describes the growing years of the main character, Patrick", "title": "In the Skin of a Lion" }, { "id": "12133709", "text": "\"Glory Days\", \"Merrily We Roll Along\", \"The Witches of Eastwick\", \"Saving Aimee\", \"Into the Woods\", \"My Fair Lady\", \"Nevermore\", \"Assassins\", \"The Highest Yellow\", \"One Red Flower\", \"Allegro\", \"Twentieth Century\", \"110 in the Shade\", \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", \"The Gospel According to Fishman\", \"Grand Hotel\", \"The Rhythm Club\", \"Over & Over\", \"The Fix\", \"Working\", \"The Rink\", \"Cabaret\", \"First Lady Suite\", \"Wings\", \"Poor Superman\", \"Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love\", \"Passion\", \"Company\", \"Sweeney Todd\", \"Follies\", \"Pacific Overtures\", \"Ace\", \"Les Misérables, and Showboat. Awards Eric D. Schaeffer Eric D. Schaeffer is an American theater director and producer based in", "title": "Eric D. Schaeffer" }, { "id": "19566369", "text": "Huxley (1932) 57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) 58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932) 59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) 60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938) 61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938) 62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) 63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939) 64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939) 65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946) 67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) 68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947) 69. The Heat of", "title": "The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English" }, { "id": "2475898", "text": "Goes to Washington\", \"Wuthering Heights\", \"Only Angels Have Wings\", \"Ninotchka\" and \"Midnight\". Among the other films from the Golden Age period that are now considered to be classics: \"Casablanca\", \"It's a Wonderful Life\", \"It Happened One Night\", the original \"King Kong\", \"Mutiny on the Bounty\", \"Top Hat\", \"City Lights\", \"Red River\", \"The Lady from Shanghai\", \"Rear Window\", \"On the Waterfront\", \"Rebel Without a Cause\", \"Some Like It Hot,\" and \"The Manchurian Candidate\". The studio system and the Golden Age of Hollywood succumbed to two forces that developed in the late 1940s: In 1938, Walt Disney's \"Snow White and the Seven", "title": "Cinema of the United States" } ]

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[ { "id": "11439", "text": "\"little grey cells\". Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective, Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté, who first appeared in the 1910 novel \"At the Villa Rose\" and predates the first Poirot novel by ten years. Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920. His Belgian nationality was interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany, which also provided a plausible explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "11335", "text": "her service in September 1918. After the war, Agatha and Archie Christie settled in a flat at 5 Northwick Terrace in St. John's Wood, northwest London. Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's \"The Woman in White\" and \"The Moonstone\", as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\", featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large \"magnificent moustaches\" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "19908418", "text": "age of detective fiction, including a blueprint sketch of the house where the murder takes place, an armchair detective's guide featured in Christie and Poirot's debut, \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\". The novel takes place in the Irish Free State, an independent state founded in 1922 and lasting until 1937. References to the Free State and Irish nationalism are made in the story, such as the destruction by rebels of homes belonging to descendants of the landed gentry. This is the second novel by Hannah to feature Christie's popular hero, Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian policeman turned private investigator. Its", "title": "Closed Casket (novel)" }, { "id": "11450", "text": "childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: \"But we did not go into Spa itself. We left the main road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside.\" Christie strongly implies that this \"quiet retreat in the Ardennes\" near Spa is the location of the Poirot family home. An alternative tradition holds that Poirot was born in the village of Ellezelles (province of Hainaut, Belgium). A few memorials dedicated to Hercule Poirot can be seen in the centre of this village. There", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "5615050", "text": "Taken at the Flood Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . . and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946. The novel tells a story of post-World War", "title": "Taken at the Flood" }, { "id": "3772875", "text": "Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The novel features Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot, who takes a holiday in Devon. During his stay, he notices a young woman who is flirtatious and attractive, but not well liked by a number of guests. When she is", "title": "Evil Under the Sun" }, { "id": "1714208", "text": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. \"Styles\" was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "5555041", "text": "Murder in Mesopotamia Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The cover was designed by Robin McCartney. The book features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq, and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to the Royal Cemetery at Ur where", "title": "Murder in Mesopotamia" }, { "id": "11503", "text": "a spoof of Indian TV suspense drama \"CID\" as \"\"Qissa Missing Dimaag Ka: C.I.D Qtiyapa\"\". In the first episode, when Ujjwal is shown to browse for the best detectives of the world, David Suchet appears as Poirot in his search. Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 42 novels, one play (\"Black Coffee\"), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "4902902", "text": "The Mystery of the Blue Train The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving", "title": "The Mystery of the Blue Train" }, { "id": "11478", "text": "former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England. He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them and for his tendency to unknowingly \"stumble\" onto the truth. Hastings marries and has four children – two sons and two daughters. As a loyal, albeit somewhat naïve companion, Hastings is to", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "7085558", "text": "Black Coffee (novel) Black Coffee is a novelisation by the Australian-born writer and opera expert Charles Osborne of the 1930 play of the same name by crime fiction author Agatha Christie. The novelisation was first published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins on 2 November 1998 and in the United States by St. Martin's Press on 31 December 1998. It features Christie's famous literary creation Hercule Poirot, a London-based Belgian private detective. Until the 1998 publication of the novel, the play on which it was based was one of the least known pieces in the Christie canon. The publication proved", "title": "Black Coffee (novel)" }, { "id": "1714223", "text": "British Weekly\" praised the novel but was overly generous in giving away the identity of the murderers. To wit, \"The Bodley Head\" quoted excerpts from this review in future books by Christie but, understandably, did not use those passages which gave away the identity of the culprits. \"Introducing Hercule Poirot, the brilliant – and eccentric – detective who, at a friend's request, steps out of retirement – and into the shadows of a classic mystery on the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court, found in her locked bedroom with the name of her late", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "5506348", "text": "Appointment with Death Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. Holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister, \"You do see, don't", "title": "Appointment with Death" }, { "id": "11437", "text": "Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 42 novels, one play (\"Black Coffee\"), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh and John Malkovich. Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "1462675", "text": "Agatha Christie's Poirot Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's Poirot) is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet stars as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the United States. The programme ran for 13 series and 70 episodes in total; each episode was adapted from a novel or short story by Christie that featured Poirot, and consequently in each", "title": "Agatha Christie's Poirot" }, { "id": "309068", "text": "the Colombian journalist, Cruz studied hundreds of interviews of Vallejo. Cruz had a supporting role in Kenneth Branagh's \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (2017), the fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel of the same name. The mystery–drama ensemble film follows world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot, who seeks to solve a murder on the famous European train in the 1930s. Cruz plays missionary and passenger Pilar Estravados, a Hispanic version of the novel's Swedish Greta Ohlsson, opposite Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Judi Dench. The film has grossed $306 million worldwide and received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with praise", "title": "Penélope Cruz" }, { "id": "2484718", "text": "edition (which is also repeated opposite the title page) reads:Three near escapes from death in three days! Is it accident or design? And then a fourth mysterious incident happens, leaving no doubt that some sinister hand is striking at Miss Buckley, the charming young owner of the mysterious End House. The fourth attempt, unfortunately for the would-be murderer, is made in the garden of a Cornish Riviera hotel where Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, is staying. Poirot immediately investigates the case and relentlessly unravels a murder mystery that must rank as one of the most brilliant that Agatha Christie", "title": "Peril at End House" }, { "id": "1462695", "text": "favourite. Eastman chose the fourth after having Gunning darken the tone. Suchet travels to Brussels, where he is feted by the police chief and mayor. He then goes to Ellezelles, which claims to be the birthplace of Poirot, and he is shown a birth certificate as proof. It says the date was 1 April, \"April Fools' Day\" (no year mentioned). Finally, Suchet travels on the Orient Express and recounts filming the episode \"Dead Man's Folly\" last at Greenway to finish on a high note. Suchet was proud to have completed the entire Poirot canon by the time of the broadcast", "title": "Agatha Christie's Poirot" }, { "id": "1497761", "text": "frost along with snowfall. Spa is quite gloomy year round although averaging both a drier and sunnier climate than nearby locations Stavelot and Malmedy that are also surrounding the race track. The 1975 film \"Barry Lyndon\" is partly set in Spa during the eighteenth century. The 1975 film \"Belle\" is wholly set in contemporary Spa and its environs. Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot was born in Spa. Spa is twinned with: Spa, Belgium Spa () is a Belgian town located in the Province of Liège, and the town where the term spa originates. The town of Spa is situated", "title": "Spa, Belgium" }, { "id": "11441", "text": "1960, she felt that he was a \"detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep\". Yet the public loved him and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked. Captain Arthur Hastings's first description of Poirot: Agatha Christie's initial description of Poirot in \"The Murder on the Orient Express\": In the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. (In \"\", Poirot admits he was wounded when he first came to England.) Poirot has green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining \"like a", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "6481564", "text": "Sacrebleu Sacrebleu is a dated French profanity meant as a cry of surprise or happiness. The expression today is not used in the major French-speaking countries France, Belgium, Canada (Québec) or Switzerland, but in the English-speaking world it is well known from Agatha Christie's books about the fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Most French dictionaries state \"sacrebleu\" to be equivalent to \"sacredieu\". The phrase originated from the words \"sacré dieu\". At varying points in history this was considered to be taking God's name in vain which is forbidden in the Ten Commandments. It was then changed to 'bleu' (blue) which", "title": "Sacrebleu" }, { "id": "100827", "text": "detective fiction. Doyle attempted to kill the character off after twenty-three stories, but by popular request, he continued to write the Sherlock Holmes series. Sherlock Holmes is not only referenced as the titular character, but has also influenced many other areas outside of detective fiction. For example, the BBC-produced TV series Sherlock gained a very large fandom after first airing in 2010, imbuing a renewed interest in the character in the general public. Because of the popularity of Holmes, Conan Doyle was often regarded as being “as well-known as Queen Victoria”. Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian private detective, created", "title": "Detective fiction" }, { "id": "373069", "text": "Seychelles Seychelles ( ; French: ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (; Creole: \"Repiblik Sesel\"), is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. The capital of the 115-island country, Victoria, lies east of mainland East Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Comoros, Mayotte (region of France), Madagascar, Réunion (region of France) and Mauritius to the south. With a population of roughly , it has the smallest population of any sovereign African country. Seychelles is a member of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations. After proclamation of independence from", "title": "Seychelles" }, { "id": "1714225", "text": "Novels\". The story is told in the first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence. It is set in a large, isolated country manor. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves. The plot includes a number of red herrings and surprise twists. \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\" launched Christie's writing career. Christie and her husband subsequently named their house \"Styles\". Hercule Poirot, who first appeared in this novel, would go on to become one of the", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "1714232", "text": "in the US (the other being \"The Secret Adversary\"). The copyright on the book will not expire in some Western countries before 2047. The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. \"Styles\" was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp,", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "11456", "text": "of Police of Brussels, until \"the Great War\" (World War I) forced him to leave for England. (In \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\" Poirot had retired at age 55 in 1905) I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked. So much had he become the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot. During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee (although he returned a few times). On 16 July 1916 he again", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "11452", "text": "and English, Poirot is also fluent in German. Gustave[...] was not a policeman. I have dealt with policemen all my life and I \"know\". He could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself. Hercule Poirot was active in the Brussels police force by 1893. Very little mention is made about this part of his life, but in \"The Nemean Lion\" (1939) Poirot refers to a Belgian case of his in which \"a wealthy soap manufacturer[...] poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary\". As Poirot was", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "4902924", "text": "a complicated and intricate crime when the Blue Train steams into Nice the following morning and it is discovered that murder has been done. The Mystery of the Blue Train The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot boards", "title": "The Mystery of the Blue Train" }, { "id": "3850430", "text": "A. E. W. Mason Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, \"The Four Feathers\" and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot. His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime; though many of the silent versions have been lost or forgotten, the Korda productions of \"Fire Over England\" (1937) and", "title": "A. E. W. Mason" }, { "id": "5624470", "text": "The Clocks The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects. He is challenged to prove his claim that a crime can be solved by", "title": "The Clocks" }, { "id": "11317", "text": "Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, \"The Mousetrap\", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "11479", "text": "Poirot what Watson is to Sherlock Holmes. Hastings is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by \"The Big Four\" and displaying unwavering loyalty towards Poirot. However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to protect his wife. Later, though, he tells Poirot to draw back and escape the trap. The two are an airtight team until Hastings meets and marries Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer half his age, after investigating the \"Murder on the Links\". They later emigrate to Argentina, leaving Poirot", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "8695319", "text": "and showing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot. When forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he chose Poirot. The two were an airtight team until Hastings met and married Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer he met in \"The Murder on the Links\". They later emigrated to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind a \"very unhappy old man\". A mystery writer who is loosely based on Agatha Christie herself. Poirot's secretary, Miss Lemon, has few human weaknesses. The only two mistakes she is ever recorded making are a typing error in \"Hickory Dickory Dock\" and the mismailing of", "title": "Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories" }, { "id": "1821378", "text": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows. He is not long at this", "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" }, { "id": "8695318", "text": "Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories This page details the other fictional characters created by Agatha Christie in her stories about the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Hastings first meets Poirot during his years as a private detective in Europe. Almost immediately after they both arrive in England, he becomes Poirot's partner, and appears in many of the novels and stories. Poirot's view of Hastings was of a man with plenty of imagination but not a great deal of brains. Hastings was capable of great bravery when the going got tough, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by the \"Big Four\"", "title": "Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories" }, { "id": "5624382", "text": "Cat Among the Pigeons Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6), and the US edition at $2.95. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the story relates it to Christie's", "title": "Cat Among the Pigeons" }, { "id": "729631", "text": "— she straddles the boundaries between embodying a symbol and granting the character enough interiority to feel like a flesh and blood woman, too.\" Pfeiffer had a supporting role in Kenneth Branagh's \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (2017), the fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel of the same name. The mystery–drama ensemble film follows world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot, who seeks to solve a murder on the famous European train in the 1930s. Pfeiffer played an aging socialite with Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, and Judi Dench. Pfeiffer sang the song \"Never Forget\", which plays over the film's closing credits and", "title": "Michelle Pfeiffer" }, { "id": "2020042", "text": "The Murder on the Links The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), and the US edition at $1.75. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is", "title": "The Murder on the Links" }, { "id": "9710859", "text": "been murdered. The plot revolves around a stolen formula, with Poirot deducing which of Sir Claud's house guests/family members is the killer. \"The Times\" reviewed the work in its issue of 9 December 1930, saying that, \"Mrs Christie steers her play with much dexterity; yet there are times when it is perilously near the doldrums. Always it is saved by Hercule Poirot, the great French [\"sic\"] detective, who theorizes with the gusto of a man for whom the visible world hardly exists. He carries us with him, for he does not take himself too seriously, and he salts his shrewdness", "title": "Black Coffee (play)" }, { "id": "5624488", "text": "(Volume 156, Number 1) issue of \"Cosmopolitan\" with illustrations by Al Parker. The Clocks The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects. He is", "title": "The Clocks" }, { "id": "11448", "text": "to despise you. They say – a foreigner – he can't even speak English properly. ... Also I boast! An Englishman he says often, \"A fellow who thinks as much of himself as that cannot be worth much.\" ... And so, you see, I put people off their guard. In later novels, Christie often uses the word \"mountebank\" when characters describe Poirot, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud. Poirot's investigating techniques assist him solving cases; \"For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "11440", "text": "available to solve mysteries at an English country house. At the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy towards the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's \"casus belli\" for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised the \"Rape of Belgium\". Poirot first appeared in \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\" (published in 1920) and exited in \"Curtain\" (published in 1975). Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of \"The New York Times\". By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot \"insufferable\", and, by", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "307847", "text": "results from its complex administrative history before independence. The word \"papua\" is derived from an old local term of uncertain origin. \"New Guinea\" (\"Nueva Guinea\") was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez. In 1545, he noted the resemblance of the people to those he had earlier seen along the Guinea coast of Africa. Guinea, in its turn, is etymologically derived from the Portuguese word \"Guiné\". The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning \"land of the blacks\" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants. In the", "title": "Papua New Guinea" }, { "id": "7581396", "text": "Death on the Nile (1978 film) Death on the Nile is a 1978 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's 1937 novel of the same name, directed by John Guillermin and adapted by Anthony Shaffer. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, played by Peter Ustinov, plus an all-star supporting cast including Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, George Kennedy and Jack Warden. It takes place in Egypt in 1937, mostly on a period paddle steamer on the Nile River. Many of the cultural highlights of Egypt are also featured in the film, such as", "title": "Death on the Nile (1978 film)" }, { "id": "19175217", "text": "over $351 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the cast's performances and the production value, but some criticism for not adding anything new to previous adaptations. A sequel, titled \"Death on the Nile\", is scheduled for a release on October 2, 2020. In 1934, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The obsessive-compulsive sleuth — who seeks balance in life, and considers his case-solving ability to see a lie amid truth to be a curse — wants to rest in Istanbul, but must return to", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)" }, { "id": "11451", "text": "appears to be no reference to this in Christie's writings, but the town of Ellezelles cherishes a copy of Poirot's birth certificate in a local memorial 'attesting' Poirot's birth, naming his father and mother as Jules-Louis Poirot and Godelieve Poirot. Christie wrote that Poirot is a Catholic by birth, but not much is described about his later religious convictions, except sporadic references to his \"going to church\". Christie provides little information regarding Poirot's childhood, only mentioning in \"Three Act Tragedy\" that he comes from a large family with little wealth, and has at least one younger sister. Apart from French", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "7753286", "text": "Mallowan, \"Agatha herself has always been allergic to the adaptation of her books by the cinema, but was persuaded to give a rather grudging appreciation to this one.\" According to one report, Christie gave approval because she liked the previous films of the producers, \"Romeo and Juliet\" and \"Tales of Beatrix Potter\". Christie's biographer Gwen Robyns quoted her as saying, \"It was well made except for one mistake. It was Albert Finney, as my detective Hercule Poirot. I wrote that he had the finest moustache in England — and he didn't in the film. I thought that a pity —", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)" }, { "id": "16547889", "text": "the constituent country have always been officially known as Surinam or Suriname, in both Dutch and English, the colony was often unofficially and semi-officially referred to as Dutch Guiana (Dutch: \"Nederlands Guiana\") in the 19th and 20th century, in an analogy to British Guiana and French Guiana. Using this term for Suriname is problematic, however, as historically Suriname was only one of many Dutch colonies in the Guianas, others being Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and Pomeroon, which after being taken over by the United Kingdom in 1814 were united into British Guiana in 1831. Before 1814, the term Dutch Guiana did", "title": "Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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Miss Agatha Christie, however, has invested the type with a new vitality in her Hercule Poirot, and in \"Poirot Investigates\" she relates some more of his adventures. Poirot is most things that the conventional sleuth is not. He is gay, gallant, transparently vain, and the adroitness with which he solves a mystery has more of the manner of the prestidigitator than of the cold-blooded, relentless tracker-down of crime of most detective stories. He has a Gallic taste for the dramatic, and in \"The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor\" he perhaps gives it", "title": "Poirot Investigates" }, { "id": "1616400", "text": "each of her detective stories. The result is that, in her latest book, we note qualities of humour, composition and subtlety which we would have thought beyond the reach of the writer of \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\". Of course, the gift of bamboozlement, with which Agatha Christie was born, remains, and has never been seen to better advantage than in this close, diverting and largely analytical problem. \"Cards on the Table\" is perhaps the most perfect of the little grey cells.\" \"The Scotsman\" (19 November 1936) wrote: \"There was a time when M. Hercule Poirot thought of going into", "title": "Cards on the Table" }, { "id": "1821426", "text": "The A.B.C. Murders The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as \"A.B.C.\". The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936, retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year, was retailed at $2.00. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and", "title": "The A.B.C. Murders" }, { "id": "2484701", "text": "Peril at End House Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Christie's private detective Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, and is the sixth novel featuring Poirot. Poirot and Hastings vacation in Cornwall, meeting young Magdala \"Nick\" Buckley and", "title": "Peril at End House" }, { "id": "1324647", "text": "David Suchet David Suchet, ( ; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British stage and television. He played Edward Teller in the TV serial \"Oppenheimer\" and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British serial \"The Way We Live Now\". He earned international recognition and acclaim for his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\", for which he received a 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nomination. Suchet was born in London, the son of Joan Patricia (\"née\"", "title": "David Suchet" }, { "id": "1462700", "text": "it was adapted into a novel in 1998, with the permission of the Christie Estate, it was not previously available in novel format. David Suchet did give a live reading of the original play version for the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, and therefore felt that he had done justice to the entire authentic canon. Agatha Christie's Poirot Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's Poirot) is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet stars as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot. Initially produced by LWT, the", "title": "Agatha Christie's Poirot" }, { "id": "5615171", "text": "Mrs McGinty's Dead Mrs. McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). The Detective Book Club issued an edition, also in 1952, as Blood Will Tell. The novel features the characters Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. The story is a \"village mystery\", a subgenre of whodunit which Christie usually reserved for Miss Marple. The", "title": "Mrs McGinty's Dead" }, { "id": "878467", "text": "consists of recent first publications usually no older than a few years. Furthermore, only a select few authors have achieved the status of \"classics\" for their published works. A classic is any text that can be received and accepted universally, because they transcend context. A popular, well known example is Agatha Christie, whose texts, originally published between 1920 and her death in 1976, are available in UK and US editions in all English speaking nations. Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of", "title": "Crime fiction" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "11318", "text": "Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\", featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. \"Guinness World Records\" lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "11486", "text": "\"Agatha Christie's Poirot\", Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson. In the film, \"Thirteen at Dinner\" (1985), adapted from \"Lord Edgware Dies\", the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations. The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (\"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\"), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (\"Curtain\"), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, \"Murder", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "11481", "text": "Poirot describes this in his final farewell letter to Hastings as the catalyst that prompted him to eliminate the man himself, as Poirot \"knew\" that his friend was not a murderer and refused to let a man capable of manipulating Hastings in such a manner go on. Detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature. Like Christie, she is not overly fond of the detective whom she is most famous for creating–in Ariadne's case, Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson. We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances and has a", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "8047316", "text": "146,401 people born in Jamaica, 21,601 from Barbados, 21,283 from Trinidad and Tobago, 20,872 from Guyana, 9,783 from Grenada, 8,265 from Saint Lucia, 7,983 from Montserrat, 7,091 from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 6,739 from Dominica, 6,519 from Saint Kitts and Nevis, 3,891 from Antigua and Barbuda and 498 from Anguilla. Detailed country-of-birth data from the 2011 Census is published separately for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England and Wales, 160,095 residents reported their country of birth as Jamaica, 22,872 Trinidad and Tobago, 18,672 Barbados, 9,274 Grenada, 9,096 St Lucia, 7,390 St Vincent and the Grenadines, 7,270", "title": "British African-Caribbean people" }, { "id": "1714211", "text": "Dartmoor. The character of Hercule Poirot was inspired by her experience working as a nurse, ministering to Belgian soldiers during the First World War, and by Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay. The manuscript was rejected by Hodder and Stoughton and Methuen. Christie then submitted the manuscript to The Bodley Head. After keeping the submission for several months, The Bodley Head's founder, John Lane at The Bodley Head offered to accept it, provided that Christie make slight changes to the ending. She revised the next-to-last chapter, changing the setto of Poirot's grand revelation from a courtroom to the Styles", "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" }, { "id": "11449", "text": "away...\" At the end, Poirot usually reveals his description of the sequence of events and his deductions to a room of suspects, often leading to the culprit's apprehension. Christie was purposely vague about Poirot's origins, as he is thought to be an elderly man even in the early novels. In \"An Autobiography,\" she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920. At the time, however, she had no idea she would write works featuring him for decades to come. A brief passage in \"The Big Four\" provides original information about Poirot's birth or at least", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "9262550", "text": "The Alphabet Murders The Alphabet Murders is a British detective film based on the novel \"The A.B.C. Murders\" by Agatha Christie, starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot. Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon happens to be a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger. As he and Captain Hastings look into the crimes, a beautiful woman with an interesting monogram named Amanda Beatrice Cross becomes the focus of their investigation, at least until", "title": "The Alphabet Murders" }, { "id": "1415222", "text": "in the back pages of the UK first editions of \"The Listerdale Mystery\", \"Why Didn't They Ask Evans\", and \"Parker Pyne Investigates\" claimed that \"Murder on the Orient Express\" had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series. Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express" }, { "id": "14333240", "text": "Chris Agee Christopher Robert Agee (born 18 January 1956, in San Francisco) is a poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland. He holds dual American and Irish citizenship, and has spent most of his adult life in Ireland. He spends part of each year on the Dalmatian island of Korčula, near Dubrovnik, in Croatia. Agee grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. During the last three years of secondary school, he attended Phillips Academy (Andover), before spending a year of French language study at the Université d’Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. He attended Harvard University, where he", "title": "Chris Agee" }, { "id": "11494", "text": "series would span a quarter-century or that the classically trained Suchet would complete the entire catalogue of whodunits featuring the eccentric Belgian investigator, including 33 novels and dozens of short stories.\" His final appearance was in an adaptation of \"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case\", aired on 13 November 2013. During the time that it was filmed, Suchet expressed his sadness at his final farewell to the Poirot character whom he had loved: Poirot's death was the end of a long journey for me. I had only ever wanted to play Dame Agatha's true Poirot [...] He was as real to me", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "10897448", "text": "and Ukraine. Colombia and Samoa have since endorsed the document. \"Absent\": Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Montenegro, Morocco, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Tajikistan, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu. In contrast to the Declaration's initial rejection by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States over legal concerns (all 4 countries later switched their positions to accepting the declaration as a non-legally-binding document), United Nations officials and other world leaders expressed pleasure", "title": "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" }, { "id": "172161", "text": "Most recently, in February 2004, a \"coup d'état\" originating in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A provisional government took control with security provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The name Haiti (or \"Hayti\") comes from the indigenous Taíno language which was the native name given to the entire island of Hispaniola to mean, \"land of high mountains.\" The \"h\" is silent in French and the \"ï\" in \"Haïti\", is a diacritical mark used to show that the second vowel is pronounced separately, as in the word \"naïve\".", "title": "Haiti" }, { "id": "3963531", "text": "Five Little Pigs Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of Murder in Retrospect and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November 1942. The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00. The book features Hercule Poirot. The novel is notable as a rigorous attempt to demonstrate Poirot's repeatedly stated contention", "title": "Five Little Pigs" }, { "id": "5624683", "text": "Third Girl Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens", "title": "Third Girl" }, { "id": "5624694", "text": "Third Girl Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens", "title": "Third Girl" }, { "id": "2166246", "text": "Marajó island of the Amazon river delta in the southeast. Although the Dutch colony of Surinam has always been officially known as Surinam or Suriname, in both Dutch and English, the colony was often unofficially and semi-officially referred to as Dutch Guiana (Dutch: \"Nederlands Guiana\") in the 19th and 20th century, in an analogy to British Guiana and French Guiana. Using this term for Suriname is problematic, however, as historically Suriname was only one of many Dutch colonies in the Guianas, others being Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and Pomeroon, which after being taken over by the United Kingdom in 1814, were", "title": "Dutch colonisation of the Guianas" }, { "id": "11459", "text": "to Hastings, it was chosen by Poirot \"entirely on account of its strict geometrical appearance and proportion\" and described as the \"newest type of service flat\". (The Florin Court building was actually built in 1936, decades after Poirot fictionally moved in.) His first case in this period was \"The Affair at the Victory Ball\", which allowed Poirot to enter high society and begin his career as a private detective. Between the world wars, Poirot travelled all over Europe, Africa, Asia, and half of South America investigating crimes and solving murders. Most of his cases occurred during this time and he", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "5711398", "text": "\"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\" as follows: The Labours of Hercules The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947 and in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective. His regular associates (his secretary, Miss Lemon, and valet,", "title": "The Labours of Hercules" }, { "id": "12982660", "text": "French Guiana French Guiana (pronounced or , ; ) is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the Guyanas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. Since 1981, when Belize became independent, French Guiana has been the only territory of the mainland Americas that is still part of a European country. With a land area of , French Guiana is the second-largest region of France and the largest outermost region within the European Union. It has a very low population density, with only . Half", "title": "French Guiana" }, { "id": "238180", "text": "Lesotho Lesotho (, ) officially the Kingdom of Lesotho () is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population of around /1e6 round 0 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho was previously the British Crown Colony of Basutoland, but it declared independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is now a fully sovereign state that is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The name \"Lesotho\" roughly translates to \"the land of the", "title": "Lesotho" }, { "id": "572950", "text": "elegant and refined while causing chaos. As rendered by Sellers, Clouseau’s faux French accent became more exaggerated in successive films (for example, pronouncing \"room\" as \"reum\"; \"Pope\" as \"Peup\"; \"bomb\" as \"beumb\"; and \"bumps\" as \"beumps\" or \"bimps\"), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters had difficulty understanding what he was saying. Much of that humour was lost in the French dubbing, wherein the French post-synchronization gave Clouseau an odd-sounding, nasal voice. Clouseau's immense ego, eccentricity, exaggerated French accent, and prominent mustache were derived from Hercule Poirot, the fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha", "title": "Inspector Clouseau" }, { "id": "11461", "text": "The \"mal de mer\" – it is horrible suffering! It was during this time he met the Countess Vera Rossakoff, a glamorous jewel thief. The history of the Countess is, like Poirot's, steeped in mystery. She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question. Even Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff offered wildly varying accounts of her early life. Poirot later became smitten with the woman and allowed her to escape justice. It is the misfortune of small,", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "8130046", "text": "mainly Great Britain (United Kingdom), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France and Ireland. Mauritians Mauritians (singular Mauritian; ; Creole: \"Morisien\") are nationals or natives of the Republic of Mauritius and their descendants. Mauritius is a multiethnic society, descended from Indian, African, Chinese and European (mostly of French origin) ancestry. Mauritian Creoles trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who were brought to work the sugar fields. When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius. Indentured labour began with Chinese, Malay, African", "title": "Mauritians" }, { "id": "11460", "text": "was at the height of his powers at this point in his life. In \"The Murder on the Links\", the Belgian pits his grey cells against a French murderer. In the Middle East, he solved the cases \"Death on the Nile\" and \"Murder in Mesopotamia\" with ease and even survived \"An Appointment with Death\". As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved \"The Murder on the Orient Express\". However he did not travel to North America, the West Indies, the Caribbean or Oceania, probably to avoid sea sickness. It is this villainous sea that troubles me!", "title": "Hercule Poirot" }, { "id": "1821414", "text": "novel adaptation on 20 August 2007, adapted and illustrated by Bruno Lachard (). This was translated from the edition first published in France by in 2004 under the title, \"Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd\". The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot retires to a village", "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" }, { "id": "307913", "text": "be reached by light aircraft or on foot. Jacksons International Airport is the major international airport in Papua New Guinea, located from Port Moresby. In addition to two international airfields, Papua New Guinea has 578 airstrips, most of which are unpaved. Government General information Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ; ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern", "title": "Papua New Guinea" }, { "id": "1719996", "text": "Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 10 March 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. Hercule Poirot travels back to England on the midday flight from Paris", "title": "Death in the Clouds" }, { "id": "1821389", "text": "have to be elucidated before the true criminal can be discovered\". The review then gave a brief synopsis before concluding with \"It is all very puzzling, but the great Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian detective, solves the mystery. It may safely be asserted that very few readers will do so.\" A long review in \"The New York Times Book Review\", read in part: There are doubtless many detective stories more exciting and blood-curdling than \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\", but this reviewer has recently read very few which provide greater analytical stimulation. This story, though it is inferior to them", "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" }, { "id": "238231", "text": "the world for gender parity, while neighboring South Africa ranks 17th. Lesotho Lesotho (, ) officially the Kingdom of Lesotho () is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population of around /1e6 round 0 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho was previously the British Crown Colony of Basutoland, but it declared independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is now a fully sovereign state that is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Southern African Development Community", "title": "Lesotho" }, { "id": "11629725", "text": "largely the result of British expertise and technology: towards the end of the 19th century, Scottish engineer George Slight designed and constructed 70 lighthouses, most of which are still in operation. Chile currently has the largest population descendants of British in Latin America. Over 700,000 Chileans may have British (English, Scottish and Welsh) or Irish origin, amounting to about 4% of Chile's population. Also to note is that the Australian prime minister Chris Watson was born in Valparaiso of British/New Zealand and German-Chilean parentage. Isabel Allende's first husband, Michael Frias, is of significant British ancestry. British Chilean The British Chileans", "title": "British Chilean" }, { "id": "543926", "text": "is pending. In Africa, as of September 2018, homosexuality is legal in 20 of 54 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles and South Africa) and in all 8 territories (Canary Islands, Ceuta, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Madeira, Mayotte, Melilla, Réunion and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) by a total of 28. However, in a few countries in Africa where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced", "title": "Violence against LGBT people" }, { "id": "307839", "text": "Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ; ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. This followed nearly 60", "title": "Papua New Guinea" }, { "id": "7676573", "text": "Evil Under the Sun (1982 film) Evil Under the Sun is a 1982 British mystery film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. It was directed by Guy Hamilton, and stars Peter Ustinov in his second theatrical appearance as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. A hiker finds a dead woman on the Yorkshire moors; the victim, who has been strangled, is identified as Alice Ruber. Shortly afterwards, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) examines a diamond belonging to millionaire industrialist Sir Horace Blatt (Colin Blakely), and declares it a fake. Assured that Sir Horace gave", "title": "Evil Under the Sun (1982 film)" }, { "id": "1324676", "text": "Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. David Suchet David Suchet, ( ; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British stage and television. He played Edward Teller in the TV serial \"Oppenheimer\" and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British serial \"The Way We Live Now\". He earned international recognition and acclaim for his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\", for which he received a 1991 British Academy of Film", "title": "David Suchet" }, { "id": "14235434", "text": "require a visa to the following countries: <br> <br> The card must be used in conjunction with a passport and has the following advantages: Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination. Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area. Many countries require passport validity of", "title": "Visa requirements for Russian citizens" }, { "id": "4552685", "text": "British diaspora in Africa The British diaspora in Africa is a population group broadly defined as English-speaking white Africans of mainly (but not only) British descent who live in or come from Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority live in South Africa and other Southern African countries including Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Namibia (South West Africa), Botswana (Bechuanaland Protectorate), Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Lesotho (Basutoland) and Swaziland (Formerly under British rule). There are also sizable numbers in Kenya (Kenya Colony), Nigeria (British Nigeria) and Ghana (Gold Coast Colony). Their first language is usually English. The majority of white Africans who speak English as a", "title": "British diaspora in Africa" }, { "id": "3685205", "text": "detective Hercule Poirot—one of the longest gaps in the entire series. Christie, who often admitted that she did not like Poirot (a fact parodied by her recurring novelist character Ariadne Oliver), particularly disliked his appearance in this novel. His late arrival, jarring, given the established atmosphere, led Christie to claim in her \"\" that she \"ruined [her own novel] by the introduction of Poirot\". Agatha Christie's successful career foresaw the use of her eight owned houses as settings for her novels, which were Taken at the Flood, Dead Man's Folly, Five Little Pigs, A Pocket Full of Rye, and Crooked", "title": "The Hollow" }, { "id": "12516751", "text": "Guyanese people Guyanese people are people identified with the country of Guyana, which is located on the northern coast of South America and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam. Geographically, Guyana is part of the South American mainland, however it is much more similar to the nearby island nations of the Caribbean such as Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada with respect to culture. In fact, Guyana is considered a Caribbean country even though it is not an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, as are most Caribbean nations. Guyana", "title": "Guyanese people" }, { "id": "11358", "text": "in 2015. As part of that deal, the BBC broadcast \"Partners In Crime\" and \"And Then There Were None\", both in 2015. Subsequent productions have included \"The Witness for the Prosecution\" but plans to televise \"Ordeal by Innocence\" at Christmas 2017 were delayed due to controversy surrounding one of the cast members. The three-part adaptation aired in April 2018. A three-part adaptation of \"The A.B.C. Murders\" starring John Malkovich and Rupert Grint began filming in June 2018 for later broadcast. Christie's first book, \"The Mysterious Affair at Styles\", was published in 1920 and introduced the detective Hercule Poirot, who became", "title": "Agatha Christie" } ]

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[ { "id": "1551920", "text": "Features Syndicate, was animated by Paramount Cartoon Studios in the U.S. and Artransa Film Studios in Sydney, Australia, and was first broadcast in Beetle Bailey (1963 TV series) and Beetle Bailey (1989 TV series). The opening credits included the sound of a bugle reveille, followed by a theme song specifically composed for the cartoon: The repeat of the name of Beetle Bailey is shouted by an angry Sgt. Snorkel. Beetle was voiced by comic actor and director Howard Morris with Allan Melvin as the voice of Sarge. Other King Features properties, such as \"Snuffy Smith\" and \"Krazy Kat\", also appeared", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1551912", "text": "a college student at Rockview University. The characters in that early strip were modeled after Walker's Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri. On March 13, 1951, during the strip's first year, Beetle quit school and enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he has remained ever since. Most of the humor in \"Beetle Bailey\" revolves around the inept characters stationed at Camp Swampy (inspired by Camp Crowder, where Walker had once been stationed while in the Army), which is located near the town of Hurleyburg at \"Parris Island, S.C.\". Private Bailey is a lazy sort who usually naps", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1551915", "text": "style. He can only be seen without it once—in the original strip when he was still a college student. The strip was pulled and never ran in any newspaper. It has only been printed in various books on the strip's history. One daily strip had Sarge scare Beetle's hat off, but Beetle was wearing sunglasses. One running gag has Sergeant Snorkel hanging helplessly from a small tree branch after having fallen off a cliff (first time August 16, 1956). While he is never shown falling off, or even walking close to the edge of a cliff, he always seems to", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1551913", "text": "and avoids work, and thus is often the subject of verbal and physical chastising from his superior officer, Sergeant Snorkel. The characters never seem to see combat themselves, with the exception of mock battles and combat drills. In fact, they seem to be in their own version of stereotypical comic strip purgatory (initially basic training, they now appear to be stuck in time in a regular infantry division). The uniforms of Beetle Bailey are still the uniforms of the late 1940s to early 1970s Army, with green fatigues and baseball caps as the basic uniform, and the open jeep as", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1551921", "text": "in the syndicated series, under the collective title \"Beetle Bailey and His Friends\". June Foray did the voice of Bunny, plus all of the female characters involved. A 30-minute animated TV special co-written by Mort Walker and Hank Saroyan was produced for CBS in 1989, but did not air due to management changes at the CBS network. It has been released on DVD alongside the 1960s cartoons. Greg Whalen played Beetle, Bob Bergen portrayed Killer, Henry Corden was Sgt. Snorkel, Frank Welker was both Zero and Otto, Linda Gary voiced both Miss Buxley and Ms. Blips and General Halftrack was", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "6689039", "text": "Crowder in the 1940s and when he created the 1960s-era \"The Dick Van Dyke Show\", he made the post the setting where Rob and Laura Petrie, portrayed by actors Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, met; Rob was a sergeant in Special Services and Laura was a USO dancer. Cartoonist Mort Walker was also stationed there and drew inspiration for Camp Swampy of his \"Beetle Bailey\" comic strip. Jean Shepherd featured many stories of his time at Camp Crowder in various monologues. The post is also notable as the birthplace of landmark LabVIEW programmer Michael Porter. In 1946, the", "title": "Fort Crowder" }, { "id": "1551911", "text": "Beetle Bailey Beetle Bailey (begun on September 4, 1950) is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker. It is set on a fictional United States Army post. In the years just before Walker's death in 2018 (at age 94), it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Over the years, Mort Walker had been assisted by (among others) Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons Neal, Brian and Greg Walker. After Mort Walker's death, his granddaughter Janie Walker-Yates and her husband Mike Yates began illustrating the strip. Beetle was originally", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "12557737", "text": "as the widespread usage of \"shit on a shingle\" for chipped beef. Certain military expressions, like friendly fire, are a frequent source of satirical humor. Notable cartoonists of military humor include Bill Mauldin, Dave Breger, George Baker, Shel Silverstein and Vernon Grant. The best-known comic strip about military life is Mort Walker's long-run \"Beetle Bailey\", set in a United States Army military post where a number of inept characters are stationed. Also notable are George Baker's \"Sad Sack\" and Dave Breger's \"Private Breger\". When Roy Crane created the \"Buz Sawyer\" Sunday strip, he put the emphasis not on Sawyer but", "title": "Military humor" }, { "id": "1551923", "text": "plot introduced a wayward computer that promoted Bailey to three-star general. Beetle Bailey Beetle Bailey (begun on September 4, 1950) is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker. It is set on a fictional United States Army post. In the years just before Walker's death in 2018 (at age 94), it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Over the years, Mort Walker had been assisted by (among others) Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons Neal, Brian and Greg Walker. After Mort Walker's death, his granddaughter Janie Walker-Yates and", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1551914", "text": "the basic military vehicle. Sergeant First Class Snorkel wears a green Class A Army dress uniform with heavily wrinkled garrison cap; the officers wear M1 helmet liners painted with their insignia. Despite this 'anachronism,' modern weapons and equipment do make rare appearances. While Beetle Bailey's unit is Company A, one running gag is that the characters are variously seen in different branches of the Army, such as artillery, armor, infantry and paratroops. Beetle is always seen with a hat or helmet covering his forehead and eyes. Even on leave, his \"civvies\" include a pork pie hat worn in the same", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "1420033", "text": "art director of the college's humor magazine, \"Showme\", and was president of the local Kappa Sigma chapter. After graduation, Walker went to New York to pursue a career in cartooning. He began doing \"Spider\", a one-panel series for \"The Saturday Evening Post\", about a lazy, laid-back college student. When he decided he could make more money doing a multi-panel comic strip, \"Spider\" morphed into \"Beetle Bailey\", eventually distributed by King Features Syndicate to 1,800 newspapers in more than 50 countries for a combined readership of 200 million daily. In 1954, Walker and Dik Browne teamed to launch \"Hi and Lois\",", "title": "Mort Walker" }, { "id": "12433628", "text": "prized possessions is the first drawing of Mickey Mouse, by Ub Iwerks for the character's film debut in \"Plane Crazy\" (1928). Begun in 1974, the Hall of Fame was renamed the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame in 1997 after a sponsorship was provided by the Hearst Foundation. The 31 inductees, chosen by non-cartoonist authorities, are: National Cartoon Museum The National Cartoon Museum was an American museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of cartoons, comic strips and animation. It was the brainchild of Mort Walker, creator of \"Beetle Bailey\". The museum opened in 1974, went through several", "title": "National Cartoon Museum" }, { "id": "1420028", "text": "Mort Walker Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips \"Beetle Bailey\" in 1950 and \"Hi and Lois\" in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips. Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, as the third of four children in the family. His siblings were Peggy W. Harman (1915–2012), Robin Ellis Walker (1918–2013) and Marilou W. White (b. 1927). After a couple of years, his family moved to Amarillo, Texas, and later to Kansas City, Missouri, in late 1927, where his father,", "title": "Mort Walker" }, { "id": "6884297", "text": "old movies, the day would come when movie theaters would turn to vintage television for product. This prediction came true with the advent of such TV-based films as \"\" and \"Star Trek\". \"Mister Breger\" also received comic book reprints in \"The Katzenjammer Kids\" (1947), \"Popeye\" (1967), \"Beetle Bailey\" (1969) and \"Flint Comix and Entertainment\" (2009–10). In 1946, Breger became a founding member of the National Cartoonists Society. Dave and Dorathy Breger settled in West Nyack, New York, where they had three children—Dee, Lois and Harry. They were, according to Breger, \"all three artistic\". In the 1960s, Breger taught a cartooning", "title": "Dave Breger" }, { "id": "11149636", "text": "a small township about 20 miles from Wagga Wagga on 17 September 1928. In May 1929 he transferred to Gundagai, and then from May 1932 to April 1939 served successively at Narrandera, Deniliquin and Balranald. He was promoted to constable first class on 23 April 1938. On 20 April 1939 he moved, this time to Moruya, here he was highly commended for his part in the rescue of survivors from the fishing trawler, \"Dureenbee\", which had been attacked by a Japanese submarine on 3 August 1942. He was transferred for the final time, to Blayney, just eight days before his", "title": "Eric Bailey (GC)" }, { "id": "3946586", "text": "G. W. Bailey George William Bailey (born August 27, 1944) is an American stage, television and film actor. Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his \"crusty\" comedic characters such as Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in \"M*A*S*H\" (TV series 1979–1983); Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the \"Police Academy\" films (1984–1994) and Captain Felix Maxwell in \"Mannequin\" (1987). He played the role of Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza on TNT's television crime drama \"The Closer\", and its spinoff series \"Major Crimes\", from 2005 to 2018. Bailey was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He went to Thomas Jefferson", "title": "G. W. Bailey" }, { "id": "6604895", "text": "it snows, Beacon Hill, or Jacob's Ladder, are where many young people and older people gather for snowballing or sledging. The rabbit warren where Cowslip lived in Richard Adams' Watership Down was in High Wood, just north-east of Burghclere village. Burghclere Burghclere is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. According to the 2011 census the village had a population of 1,152. The village is near the border of Hampshire with Berkshire, four miles south of Newbury. It is also very close to Newtown and Old Burghclere. Work by the 20th-century artist Stanley Spencer can be found in the", "title": "Burghclere" }, { "id": "1551917", "text": "strip. While many of the older characters are rarely seen, almost none have been completely retired. The early strip was set at Rockview University. When Beetle joined the Army, all of the other characters were dropped (although both incarnations of the strip include a spectacled intellectual named Plato). Four characters from the original cast (Bitter Bill, Diamond Jim, Freshman, and Sweatsock) made at least one appearance, in the January 5, 1963 strip. Beetle's family, etc.: Camp Swampy: Numerous one-shot characters have appeared over the years, mostly unnamed, including an inspector general who looks like Alfred E. Neuman, and various officers", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "6750086", "text": "Bruderheim Bruderheim is a town in the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada. It is located just north of the junction of Highway 15 and Highway 45, approximately northeast of Edmonton. The town's name is derived from two German words: \"Bruder\" meaning brother and the suffix \"-heim\" meaning home. In English, it translates to \"Home of the Brother\". The Bruderheim area was the recipient of a notable meteorite fall on March 4, 1960—the Bruderheim meteorite. Bruderheim Arena served as a shooting location for the 2005 film \"Santa's Slay\". In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town", "title": "Bruderheim" }, { "id": "1420039", "text": "in 1985. His second wife was Catherine Prentice, whom he married on August 24, 1985. Mort had three step-children via Cathy and her previous marriage. Walker died from complications of pneumonia on January 27, 2018, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 94 years old. He was interred at Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport, Connecticut. Mort Walker Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips \"Beetle Bailey\" in 1950 and \"Hi and Lois\" in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips. Walker", "title": "Mort Walker" }, { "id": "1125945", "text": "rainy season. The cartoonist Mort Walker, who was stationed there, later used it for his fictional \"Camp Swampy\" in his long-running newspaper comic strip, \"Beetle Bailey\". Camp Crowder was deactivated in 1951. While the core of the post was retained, many of the temporary barracks were declared surplus and sold. The base's movie theatre was disassembled and reassembled on the campus of what is today the University of Missouri – Kansas City. It served as the Kansas City Playhouse until being torn down for a new theatre. A portion of its wall, which contains statues of Comedy and Tragedy, are", "title": "Neosho, Missouri" }, { "id": "4188655", "text": "every Christmas and puts on concerts in and around the surrounding area. They also compete in the 1st Section of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Famous people from Otterbourne include Chris Tremlett who plays cricket for England and Surrey, and novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. The village of Otterbourne, on the stream Otter Bourne, lies on the old Roman road between \"Venta Belgarum\" (Winchester) and \"Clausentum\" (Southampton). It appears in the Domesday Book as Otrebourne. The physicist Sir Isaac Newton lodged at Cranbury House in his twilight years, and John Keble, a leader of the Oxford Movement, settled", "title": "Otterbourne" }, { "id": "18908598", "text": "president and is widely admired. The rash eventually fades from his head, but Charlie Brown still fears that the next round thing he expects to see—a sunrise—may continue to look like a baseball. When the sun does rise, it instead looks like Neuman, with a halo reading: \"What! Me Worry?\"! Neuman also appeared as a sight gag in the March 27, 1967 installment of the comic strip \"Beetle Bailey\", as an inspector general. He can also be spotted in \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" #300, helping Peter Parker and Mary Jane move into their new house, while saying, \"Darn! I'm missing the", "title": "Alfred E. Neuman" }, { "id": "7905719", "text": "following a call from police that an unexploded hand grenade had been discovered. The number 36 Mills grenade was then destroyed by demolition. We suspect someone has disposed of it in the field which is highly irresponsible and we would urge this person to contact the police in future.” Middleton Primary School was closed as a result of the find. On 23 November 1944 a Mosquito aircraft which had taken off from nearby Little Snoring airfield crashed into Middleton Fen. Eyewitnesses saw the plane spiralling out of a cloud. It then righted itself before spinning into the ground. Both the", "title": "Middleton, Norfolk" }, { "id": "8113453", "text": "life of World War II secret agent Violette Szabo. Szabo (\"nee\" Bushell) stayed occasionally in the village from childhood until just before her final mission, at a house then called The Old Kennels, which was the home of her cousins the Lucas family. Wormelow Tump Wormelow Tump is a village in Herefordshire, England, south of Hereford and northwest of Ross-on-Wye. The tump itself was a mound which local tradition holds was the burial place of King Arthur's son Amr. The tump was flattened to widen the road in 1896. Wormelow gave its name to a hundred. The Domesday Book mentions", "title": "Wormelow Tump" }, { "id": "8696278", "text": "Its legend has grown, however, because one of the participants simply walked away from the scene, never to be seen again. The incident began with an argument between two local lawmen, Billy Bailey and Mike McCluskie. The two men began arguing on August 11, 1871, over local politics on election day in the \"Red Front Saloon\", located in downtown Newton. The argument developed into a fist fight, with Bailey being knocked outside the saloon and into the street. McCluskie followed, drawing his pistol. He fired two shots at Bailey, hitting him with the second shot in the chest. Bailey died", "title": "Gunfight at Hide Park" }, { "id": "1167573", "text": "resurgence of residential and commercial development in Somers for the next 20 years. Somers grew most rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, after IBM and PepsiCo built large corporate facilities within it. Somers is known for being the \"cradle of the American circus\". It gained this notoriety after Hachaliah Bailey bought an African elephant, which he named \"Old Bet\". Somers was in a minor dispute with Baraboo, Wisconsin, over which community is the \"birthplace\" of the American circus. Bailey intended to use the elephant for farm work, but the number of people it attracted caused Bailey to take her throughout", "title": "Somers, New York" }, { "id": "3995701", "text": "company, where he created the trademark logo for Chiquita. In 1954, Browne and cartoonist Mort Walker co-created the comic strip \"Hi and Lois\", a spin-off of Walker's popular \"Beetle Bailey\" strip, featuring Beetle's sister, brother-in-law and their family. Walker wrote the strip, which Browne illustrated until his death. The series is now drawn by his son Chance and written by Walker's sons. In 1973, Browne created \"Hägar the Horrible\" about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking. The comic is now produced by his son Chris. Both strips have been successful, appearing in hundreds of newspapers for decades. Browne died of cancer", "title": "Dik Browne" }, { "id": "3149079", "text": "the 1990s construction, a length of the River Tame was diverted and canalised. A Wetherspoons pub, the Arthur Robertson, opened later is named after Arthur (known as \"Archie\") Robertson – Birchfield Harriers' first Olympic gold medallist (1908). A memorial to PC Malcolm Walker, of the West Midlands Police is situated outside shops on the city-bound side of Birchfield Road. He died on 4 October 2001, when his motorcycle was struck during a police pursuit. The site of the former Perry Hall is now Perry Hall Park. Perry Park hosted the Birmingham Carnival in 2005. Major roads in the ward and", "title": "Perry Barr" }, { "id": "9526841", "text": "Thomas Mynors Baskerville in 1839. It is said that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a family friend and visitor, with obvious consequences. Clyro Court Farm is much older, being a former monastic grange with some of the buildings dating back to the 14th century. Francis Kilvert was curate of the parish church from 1865 to 1872 and much of his published diaries deal with the people and landscape of Clyro and the surrounding area. This part of Wales, including the villages of Clyro, Capel-y-ffin, Llowes, Glasbury, Llanigon, Painscastle, and the town of Hay-on-Wye, as well as Clifford and Whitney-on-Wye in", "title": "Clyro" }, { "id": "7200252", "text": "railway connection through the \"Biggetalbahn\" to Olpe in the north and through the \"Asdorftalbahn\" to Betzdorf in the south. Nowadays, a great deal of the former right-of-way has been turned into bicycle trails or filled in with earth. Former mayor Hermann Vomhof is at this time Freudenberg's only honorary citizen. Freudenberg is the ancestral village of Apollo XI Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a descendant of Freudenberg Burgermeister Jacob Friesenhagen, circa 1660. Freudenberg, Westphalia Freudenberg is a town in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town lies on the German-Dutch holiday road called the Orange Route, joining towns, cities and", "title": "Freudenberg, Westphalia" }, { "id": "8251970", "text": "ground flora includes Dog's Mercury (\"Mercurialis perennis\"), Bluebell (\"Hyacinthoides non-scripta\"), Stinking Iris (\"Iris foetidissima\"), Traveller's Joy (\"Clematis vitalba\") and Slender False Brome (\"Brachypodium sylvaticum\"). Cleeve Wood, Hanham Cleeve Wood, Hanham is a () is an 8.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in South Gloucestershire, notified in 1966. Cleeve Wood is situated on the steep south facing slopes of the River Avon valley near to the City of Bristol. The primary scientific interest of the wood is the particularly large population of Bath Asparagus (\"Ornithogalum pyrenaicum\") which it supports. The Bath Asparagus in Cleeve Wood represents what is", "title": "Cleeve Wood, Hanham" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "8030272", "text": "more than 20 years. Manchester City's assistant manager, Brian Kidd resides in Alkrington, while former player Nedum Onuoha owns a home in the area. Retired footballer Ashley Ward was also born and brought up in Alkrington. Alkrington Alkrington Garden Village is a surburban area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester England. Historically a part of Lancashire, in the Middle Ages Alkrington was a township in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the hundred of Salford. Once rolling farmland, in 1886 Alkrington was added to the Municipal Borough of Middleton, and developed into a residential area. Alkrington lies", "title": "Alkrington" }, { "id": "4071254", "text": "of Crown Heights, and on the edge of East Flatbush. Pigtown was the site of Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from to . Future drag racer Frederick DiNome and his criminal brother Richard DiNome were born and raised in Pigtown. The neighborhood is now called Wingate. Pigtown, Brooklyn Pigtown was the previous name of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, until approximately the beginning of the 21st century. The community got its name because it was the location of several major pig farms that supplied Brooklyn. Pigtown was at the southern periphery of", "title": "Pigtown, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "14414029", "text": "such as Beetle Bailey, Crock, Mary Worth and Doonesbury. Its goal in this longer story is to capture a self-sustaining food source known as the shmoo, held by Anne (Little Orphan Annie) and her followers underneath \"Bone City\" (B.C.). The world of the Weapon Brown character and the others who inhabit it with him is one that is post-apocalyptic. The world we know as the 'modern' world ends according to Weapon Brown when 'the Dolly Madison Corporation realizes that their artificial flavorings were a hair's breadth away from becoming lethal toxins' (this is a reference to Dolly Madison's snack cakes", "title": "Weapon Brown" }, { "id": "6008350", "text": "at a fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob's favorite pastimes include \"jellyfishing\" (which involves catching jellyfish with a net in a manner similar to butterfly catching) and blowing soap bubbles into elaborate shapes. Living two houses down from SpongeBob is his best friend Patrick Star, a dim-witted yet friendly pink starfish who resides under a rock. Despite his mental setbacks, Patrick still sees himself as intelligent. Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob's next-door neighbor and co-worker at the Krusty Krab, is an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus, who lives in an Easter Island moai. He enjoys playing the clarinet and painting self-portraits,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "12979570", "text": "Canadian, Victoria Canadian is a suburb east of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the rural-urban fringe. At the , Canadian had a population of 3,609. It is primarily a residential area, but has a school, a small shopping area, and several parks and reserves including Sparrow Ground, which has been the subject of much community debate. Originally named Canadian Gully after Canadian immigrant gold digger \"Captain\" Henry Ross, famous for his role in the Eureka Rebellion. Canadian Post Office opened on 1 March 1886 and closed in 1988. Canadian is also the location of Lake Esmond, which", "title": "Canadian, Victoria" }, { "id": "14920423", "text": "a humorous conspiracy theory that the German city of Bielefeld is a phantom settlement, despite that it has a population of over 300,000. Phantom settlement Phantom settlements, or paper towns, are settlements that appear on maps but do not actually exist. They are either accidents or copyright traps. Notable examples include Argleton, Lancashire, UK and Beatosu and Goblu, US. Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map. Thus the phantom settlement became a", "title": "Phantom settlement" }, { "id": "15831767", "text": "and after a seemingly hopeless wander comes across three other elephants (the rest of Coldplay) playing the song in the veld (South African grasslands). One of the elephant costumes is Snork from the fictional band The Banana Splits, identifiable by his glasses and polka-dot ears. The video shifts to the band playing a concert together, before returning to the veld where they run towards the camera. The music video was shot on location in London, Cape Town, the Klein Karoo in the Western Cape and Johannesburg. The bike shop shown is Woodstock Cycleworks in Woodstock, Cape Town. The concert segment", "title": "Paradise (Coldplay song)" }, { "id": "4254117", "text": "Dassin covered it under the title \"Les Champs Élysées\". The guitarist Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses, was also an inhabitant of Stoke-on-Trent in his early years. Ian Fraser Kilmister, known as Lemmy, was an English musician, singer and songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead. Burslem Burslem ( ) is one of the six towns that amalgamated to form the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Burslem is on the eastern ridge of the Fowlea Valley, the Fowlea being one of the main early tributaries of the River Trent. Burslem embraces the areas of Middleport,", "title": "Burslem" }, { "id": "7975849", "text": "Krazy returned. In 1939, Mintz became indebted to his distributor, Columbia Pictures, and subsequently sold his studio to them. Under the name Screen Gems, the studio produced only one more Krazy Kat cartoon, \"The Mouse Exterminator\" in 1940. King Features produced 50 \"Krazy Kat\" cartoons from 1962–1964, most of which were created at Gene Deitch's Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), whilst the rest were produced by Artransa Film Studios in Sydney, Australia. The cartoons were initially televised interspersed with \"Beetle Bailey\" (some of which were also produced by Artransa) and \"Snuffy Smith\" cartoons to form a", "title": "Krazy Kat" }, { "id": "15572142", "text": "(The Incline and The Baltic Inn) and a social club. Other facilities include a take-away, a community hall, a play area, a football pitch, a Baptist chapel and an industrial estate. Some of the village's famous residents include former Welsh international darts captain Eric Burden and Wales goalkeeper Ron Howells. BBC Rugby correspondent Gareth Charles is also from Pont-Henri. Pont-henri Pont-Henri (or Ponthenri) is a small rural village in Wales, located in the centre of the Gwendraeth Valley, halfway between the towns of Carmarthen and Llanelli. Most of the village comes under the Parliamentary constituency of Llanelli and the jurisdiction", "title": "Pont-henri" }, { "id": "10249451", "text": "Mighty Shadow Dr. Winston McGarland Bailey, HBM, DLitt (4 October 1941 – 23 October 2018), better known by his stage name The Mighty Shadow or Shadow, was a calypsonian from Tobago. Bailey was born in Belmont, a suburb of Port of Spain in Trinidad, but grew up in Les Coteaux, Tobago, with his grandparents. He started singing calypsos at the age of 8. At the age of 16 he moved back to Port of Spain, where for a time he was homeless while trying to establish himself. In 1970 he performed as part of the chorus in Mighty Sparrow's 'Young", "title": "Mighty Shadow" }, { "id": "3307174", "text": "Central Otago. Characterised by cold winters and hot, dry summers, the area is only lightly populated, although there has recently been considerable development around the tourist towns of Queenstown and Wanaka. First significant European occupation came with the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully near Lawrence in 1861, which led to the Central Otago goldrush. Other towns and villages include Albert Town, Alexandra, Arrowtown, Bannockburn, Clyde, Cromwell, Hawea, Millers Flat, Naseby, Omakau, Ranfurly, Roxburgh, St. Bathans, and Wedderburn. Since the 19th century, most of the area's economic activity has centred on sheep, stone fruit, and tourism. In recent years, deer", "title": "Central Otago" }, { "id": "6521584", "text": "with the neighbouring parish of East Bilney in 1935. Between 1870 and 1872, an excerpt was written about the town BEETLEY, a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk; 2 miles WSW of Elmham r. station, and 4 N by W of East Dereham. Post Town, Elmham, under Thetford. Acres, 1,770. Real property, £2,870. Pop., 363. Houses, 82. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Bilney, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is good. The Parish Council of Beetley consists of 7 Councillors, who meet on the first Thursday of", "title": "Beetley" }, { "id": "17344913", "text": "tales of the mythical English village of Hogsnorton, named after the Oxfordshire village where \"pigs play on the organ\". Potter's combination of \"mock erudition, absurdity, and nostalgia struck a chord with inter-war audiences and made him a household name\". Just before the Second World War the BBC evacuated most of its staff to Wood Norton Hall, near Evesham; this new base became known as Hogsnorton. In 1940, Potter lamented the decline of music hall entertainment and foreign influences: ...the music-hall is no longer in existence. It was essentially a national institution: no foreigner except as a first or last turn—and", "title": "Gillie Potter" }, { "id": "14720416", "text": "William E. Ward House The William E. Ward House, known locally as Ward's Castle, is located on Magnolia Drive, on the state line between Rye Brook, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. It is a reinforced concrete structure built in the 1870s. Ward, a mechanical engineer, built the house with his friend Robert Mook to demonstrate the viability of the material for building. It is the first reinforced concrete building in the United States. It was later purchased by Mort Walker, creator of the comic strip \"Beetle Bailey\", who opened it as the Museum of Cartoon Art until 1992.", "title": "William E. Ward House" }, { "id": "1551916", "text": "hold on to that same branch, yelling for help. During the first two years of \"Beetle Bailey\"'s run (1950-1952), Walker did all work on the strip himself, including writing, penciling, inking and lettering; however, in 1952 he hired cartoonist Fred Rhoads as his first assistant. After that, numerous people would assist Walker on the strip through the years. As of 2016, the strip was being syndicated (by King Features) in 1,800 papers in the United States and the rest of the world. \"Beetle Bailey\" is unusual in having one of the largest and most varied permanent casts of any comic", "title": "Beetle Bailey" }, { "id": "12953890", "text": "Garth Smith Garth Smith (born Garth Davies, 10 December 1955) and sometimes credited as Garth, was known for being one of the bassists of the Bolton formed punk rock band, Buzzcocks. Garth was born in the Lancashire town of Tyldesley on Saturday December 10th 1955. He was named after the village of Garth in mid Wales, near to the town of Builth Wells where his mother was born and raised. Smith was the original bassist of the band, playing in their first show in the Bolton Institute of Technology, where the other founders of the band, guitarist Pete Shelley and", "title": "Garth Smith" }, { "id": "4826024", "text": "was like a novelist outlining the opening chapters of a book, working on them as written fiction pieces before translating the content to a game. The game begins on a mysterious planet, Porquatz, with the androgynous player, Terry Bailey, exploring his/her subterranean home city by elevator. Terry's mysterious uncle, Smoke Bailey, has recently arrived in a strange craft known as the B-Liner, a hybridized all-terrain vehicle and hot-air balloon. Finding Smoke napping in his room, and waking him from his reverie with repeated shouts, Terry is tasked by Smoke to embark in the B-Liner on a quest for a lost", "title": "In Search of the Most Amazing Thing" }, { "id": "1074223", "text": "founded. In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia westward to Newton by July 1871. The town soon became an important railroad shipping point of Texas cattle. The city was founded in 1871 and named after Newton, Massachusetts, home of some of the Santa Fe stockholders. In August 1871, there was a Gunfight at Hide Park, in which a total of eight men were killed. The incident began with an argument between two local lawmen, Billy Bailey and Mike McCluskie. Because of this incident, Newton became known as \"bloody and lawless—the wickedest city", "title": "Newton, Kansas" }, { "id": "4198187", "text": "goods trains (mainly bringing coal from Radstock), which ceased in 1964, and very occasional excursion trains. Pensford viaduct is 995 feet (303 m) long, reaches a maximum height of 95 feet (29 m) to rail level and consists of sixteen arches. The viaduct is now a Grade II listed building. Nearby is Lord's Wood, Pensford, and the village is on the route of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath. Pensford was home to the clarinet player, Acker Bilk. Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead lived in the village from 1979–81. John Perry guitarist with The Only Ones lived here between", "title": "Pensford" }, { "id": "4993475", "text": "a brief period of time before leaving for the U.S. Navy in 1944. Former pro wrestler Chris Kanyon came from Sunnyside. Legendary jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke died at 43–30 46th Street in Sunnyside, and a plaque was erected in his honor by the Greater Astoria Historical Society. Notable films shot in the area include: Several television shows have shot scenes in the neighborhood, including: Sunnyside Gardens Sunnyside, Queens Sunnyside is a middle-class neighborhood in the Western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It shares borders with Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to", "title": "Sunnyside, Queens" }, { "id": "5697340", "text": "Hildasay Ferry and various settings depicted both inside and outside the cottages, including the beach and sand dunes, and the nearby countryside where the fictional new doctor's surgery was built. Boulmer is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Boulmer Boulmer is a village in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast east of Alnwick. It is home to RAF Boulmer. Boulmer has an independent volunteer lifeboat station. The name Boulmer, pronounced \"Boomer\", is a derivation of Bulemer, from the old English bulan-mere (bulls mere). Boulmer was notorious for its smuggling activities, much of which was centred on the Fishing Boat", "title": "Boulmer" }, { "id": "1278127", "text": "Anklam Anklam [], formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the \"Kleines Haff\", the western part of the Stettin Lagoon. Anklam has a population of 14,603 (2005) and was the capital of the former Ostvorpommern district. Since September 2011, it has been part of the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald. In the early Middle Ages, there was an important Scandinavian and Wendish settlement in the area near the present town now known as Altes Lager", "title": "Anklam" }, { "id": "4983888", "text": "nearly 20,000 as of 2017. 1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Ealing wards of Greenford Central, Greenford North, Greenford South, Hanger Hill, Northolt, and Perivale. 1974–1983: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Brent, Cleveland, Horsenden, Mandeville, Perivale, Ravenor, and West End. 1983–1997: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Argyle, Costons, Hobbayne, Mandeville, Perivale, Ravenor, West End, and Wood End. 1997–2010: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Argyle, Costons, Hanger Hill, Hobbayne, Horsenden, Mandeville, Perivale, Pitshanger, Ravenor, West End, and Wood End. 2010–present: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Cleveland, Greenford Broadway, Greenford Green, Hobbayne, North Greenford, Northolt", "title": "Ealing North (UK Parliament constituency)" }, { "id": "4355307", "text": "publication to what it characterizes as the \"16 affluent North Shore suburbs\": Bannockburn, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Fort Sheridan, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Kenilworth, Libertyville, Lincolnshire, Northbrook, Northfield, Riverwoods, Vernon Hills, Wilmette, and Winnetka. Overall, the general usage of the term \"North Shore\" applies to the following suburbs: Bannockburn; Buffalo Grove; Deerfield; Des Plaines; Evanston; Glencoe; Glenview; Golf; Green Oaks; Harwood Heights; Highland Park; Highwood; Hubbard Woods; Kenilworth; Lake Bluff; Lake Forest; Libertyville; Lincolnshire; Lincolnwood; Mettawa; Morton Grove; Niles; Norridge; Northbrook; Northfield; Park Ridge; Riverwoods; Rosemont; Skokie; Vernon Hills; Wheeling; Wilmette; and Winnetka. This geographic area favored by marketeers extends from", "title": "North Shore (Chicago)" }, { "id": "8481384", "text": "town of New Bedford in Northern Ontario. The family drama followed the members of the Bailey family as they lived through a time marked by hardship. \"Wind at My Back\" was loosely based on the books of Max Braithwaite, \"Never Sleep Three in a Bed\" and \"The Night We Stole the Mounties Car\". The series opens in 1932, as Jack and Honey Bailey lose their hardware store and are forced to move back to Jack's hometown in Northern Ontario, where his family owns a silver mine. When Jack dies after being stung by hornets, Honey is forced to leave her", "title": "Wind at My Back" }, { "id": "7192569", "text": "Preston, Washington Preston is an unincorporated and exurban community located east of Seattle in King County, Washington, United States. It was named after railway official William T. Preston. Preston is a historic mill town on the northeast edge of the large Tiger Mountain State Forest, along Interstate 90. Preston, elevation , is located within commuting distance of Seattle and Bellevue. The local Raging River feeds into the Snoqualmie River at Fall City, and offers recreational activities like fly-fishing and swimming. Eastside Fire & Rescue has an all-volunteer fire station, Station 74, staffed by residents of Preston and nearby communities, which", "title": "Preston, Washington" }, { "id": "20207383", "text": "in the Danville area, the Pretoria West Hospital which is found on corner of Sytze Wierda Ave street and Morkel Street. Danville, Pretoria Danville is a predominantly White suburb, to the west of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. After the suburb's first name of Westlands was rejected, a naming competition was held. The suburb was name Danville after the WW2 commander of the Voortrekkerhoogte base, General Daniël Hermanus Pienaar, with the suburb proclaimed in February 1951. Ever since the end of Apartheid, Danville itself has had a white majority, albeit with an ever-increasing black middle-class. In", "title": "Danville, Pretoria" }, { "id": "8258404", "text": "Lassan, Germany Lassan is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. The name possibly derives from an Old Polabian word, \"Lěšane\", meaning \"forest dweller\" or \"forest dwelling\". The town is situated on the Peenestrom river, a branch of the Oder, between Anklam and Wolgast. Both Anklam in the southwest and Wolgast in the north are approximately from Lassan. Part of the municipality are also the villages of Pulow, Papendorf, Klein Jasedow and Waschow. Lassan has a small marina for sailboats and yachts. There is also a campsite for visitors in the town. A museum dedicated to the", "title": "Lassan, Germany" }, { "id": "4254111", "text": "England's fourth division. Near to the town is Burslem Golf Club, a 9-hole course which once had singer Robbie Williams as a Junior Captain. It was opened on 28 September 1907 by vaudeville entertainer and golfer Sir Harry Lauder. On 29 September 2007 his great-nephew Gregory Lauder-Frost as guest-of-honour rededicated it for another century in a formal ceremony. Professional darts player Phil Taylor is from Burslem. Burslem is the site of the main campus of Stoke-on-Trent College, the largest Further Education college in England. The campus specialises in media-production and drama. Stoke Studio College, a studio school for 13- to", "title": "Burslem" }, { "id": "1978583", "text": "Dream\", recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, which reached number one for one week in March 1940 on the U.S. pop singles chart. (Vocalion releases only)</small> Mildred Bailey Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1903 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as \"The Queen of Swing\", \"The Rockin' Chair Lady\" and \"Mrs. Swing\". Some of her best-known hits are \"It's So Peaceful in the Country\", \"Trust in Me\", \"Where Are You?\", \"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart\", \"Small Fry\", \"Please Be Kind\", \"Darn That Dream\", \"Rockin' Chair\",", "title": "Mildred Bailey" }, { "id": "2566178", "text": "CBC production), \"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town\" (a 2011 CBC production), \"The Music Man\", \"Ice Princess\", \"The Town Christmas Forgot\" and \"A History of Violence\" were filmed in the town. In the latter film, Millbrook was depicted as the fictional town of Millbrook, Indiana. The political cartoonist Sam Hunter was born and raised in Millbrook, along with award-winning filmmaker Jared Raab, esteemed marine biologist Dustin Raab, and Juno Award winner singer/songwriter Serena Ryder. Cavan Monaghan Cavan Monaghan (known as Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan until 2007) is a township in Peterborough County in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of the city of Peterborough.", "title": "Cavan Monaghan" }, { "id": "5769415", "text": "S. Lowry, aviator John Alcock, Dodie Smith, the author of \"101 Dalmatians\". Old Trafford also produced two Victoria Cross winners in the First World War: Charles Coverdale, a sergeant in the Manchester Regiment, and James Marshall, an officer in the Lancashire Fusiliers. Rebecca Long-Bailey, MP for Salford and Eccles and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury was born in Trafford. Old Trafford (district) </noinclude> Old Trafford is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, southwest of Manchester city centre, roughly delineated by the crossroads of two old toll gates, Brooks's Bar to the east and Trafford", "title": "Old Trafford (district)" }, { "id": "2828596", "text": "St. Pauli St. Pauli (Sankt Pauli; ) is a quarter of the city of Hamburg belonging to the centrally located Hamburg-Mitte borough. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the nearby Landungsbrücken is a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world-famous red light district around the iconic Reeperbahn area. As of 2016 the area had 22,595 residents. At the beginning of the 17th century it developed as a suburb called 'Hamburger Berg' (Hamburg mountain) outside the gates of the nearby city of Hamburg and close to the city of Altona. The name comes", "title": "St. Pauli" }, { "id": "1574653", "text": "back to Mettmann, and after the last reorganization of 1975/76 the district got back the old name. The cities Langenfeld and Monheim were included into the district then, while Kettwig became part of the city Essen. The district Mettmann is located just south of the Ruhr area, next to the big cities of Düsseldorf. Most famous is the valley of the small river \"Düssel\", the \"Neanderthal\", where the fossils of the human species Neanderthals were first found. Mettmann (district) Mettmann is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring are the Ennepe-Ruhr and the district-free cities Wuppertal,", "title": "Mettmann (district)" }, { "id": "17266348", "text": "Simon's Town Museum Established in 1977, Simon's Town Museum is a community museum situated in Simon's Town, a suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. It is a province-aided museum which receives support from the Government of the Western Cape Province. The Simon's Town Museum was established in 1977 by a group of enthusiastic volunteers, the MOTHS (War veterans of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats) of the “Snoekie Shellhole” and the Simon’s Town Historical Society. At first, the Simon's Town Museum was located in the old Headmaster’s house, but its rapid", "title": "Simon's Town Museum" }, { "id": "13196406", "text": "Leesburg, Idaho Leesburg is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States. It lies at (45.2238080, -114.1139647), along Napias Creek in the Salmon National Forest, west of Salmon. Its altitude is 6,653 feet (2,028 m). The community possessed a post office as late as 1942, but it has since closed. Little remains of the original community. The entire site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. Leesburg was established after gold was discovered at the Leesburg Mine on July 16, 1866. The mining town was named for General Robert E. Lee because most of", "title": "Leesburg, Idaho" }, { "id": "3325968", "text": "Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural district centre in the \"Rheinkreis\" which was renamed \"Pfalz\" (Palatinate) in 1835. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, an ancestor of both Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, was born in Kirchheimbolanden on 22 April 1780. Kirchheimbolanden Kirchheimbolanden, the capital of Donnersbergkreis, is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern. The first part of the name, \"Kirchheim\", dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers", "title": "Kirchheimbolanden" }, { "id": "2237891", "text": "Eastleigh Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester in South Hampshire. It was originally developed as a railway town by the London and South-Western Railway. The town lies on the River Itchen, one of England's premier chalk streams for fly fishing, a designated site of Special Scientific Interest. The modern town of Eastleigh lies on the old Roman road, built in A.D.79 between Winchester \"(Venta Belgarum)\" and Bitterne \"(Clausentum)\". Roman remains discovered in the Eastleigh area, including a Roman lead coffin excavated in 1908, indicate that a settlement probably existed here in Roman times. A Saxon", "title": "Eastleigh" }, { "id": "20207378", "text": "Danville, Pretoria Danville is a predominantly White suburb, to the west of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. After the suburb's first name of Westlands was rejected, a naming competition was held. The suburb was name Danville after the WW2 commander of the Voortrekkerhoogte base, General Daniël Hermanus Pienaar, with the suburb proclaimed in February 1951. Ever since the end of Apartheid, Danville itself has had a white majority, albeit with an ever-increasing black middle-class. In 1956 an Afrikaans and English medium primary school was established in Danville, Pretoria. This school is currently known as Laerskool Geneeral", "title": "Danville, Pretoria" }, { "id": "6712950", "text": "(the man credited with inventing the sandwich). Wiveton church has a memorial to Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal Winner Lt. Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey, one of the heroes of 'The Great Game'. Inside the church there is the joint memorial to Anne Fleming and Catherine Jennis. Wiveton Wiveton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the west bank of the River Glaven, inland from the coast and directly across the river from the village of Cley next the Sea. The larger village of Blakeney is to the west, the town of", "title": "Wiveton" }, { "id": "6704571", "text": "support himself, he sets up a private investigation practice out of his beach house on Coronado Island, in San Diego. Henry Darrow originally starred as Lt. Manny Quinlan. For the second half of the first season, the series was retooled, with the location of the series shifted to Los Angeles, California, due to the high production costs of filming in and around San Diego. The retooling consisted of more than just a location change: a revised theme song and incidental music were composed and new supporting characters were added, notably the irascible Lt. Trench of the Santa Monica Police Department,", "title": "Harry O" }, { "id": "13238580", "text": "Merrill Blosser Merrill Blosser (May 28, 1892 – January 9, 1983) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip \"Freckles and His Friends\", which had a long run (1915–1971). Although his strip was set in the small town of Shadyside, it was obviously based on Blosser's hometown of Nappanee, Indiana, since Blosser often referenced real Nappanee locations, such as Johnson's Drug Store. Six successful cartoonists lived in Nappanee as children, including Fred Neher (\"Life’s Like That\") and Bill Holman (\"Smokey Stover\"). Growing up in Nappanee, where he was born, Blosser was encouraged by his parents to take drawing", "title": "Merrill Blosser" }, { "id": "3946589", "text": "first volunteered with the organization after his goddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia. G. W. Bailey George William Bailey (born August 27, 1944) is an American stage, television and film actor. Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his \"crusty\" comedic characters such as Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in \"M*A*S*H\" (TV series 1979–1983); Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the \"Police Academy\" films (1984–1994) and Captain Felix Maxwell in \"Mannequin\" (1987). He played the role of Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza on TNT's television crime drama \"The Closer\", and its spinoff series \"Major Crimes\", from 2005 to 2018.", "title": "G. W. Bailey" }, { "id": "5159005", "text": "settled. The street runs between Central and Sheung Wan, with Wyndham Street, Arbuthnot Road, Ladder Street, Upper Lascar Row, and Old Bailey Street in the vicinity. It was probably named by Sir John Francis Davis, the second Governor of Hong Kong, after his family home at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. Another origin mentioned for the name is that holly shrubs were growing in the area when the road was constructed. Such plants were not indigenous to the area and would have been imported. Hollywood Road was the second road to be built when the colony of Hong Kong was founded,", "title": "Hollywood Road" }, { "id": "2566310", "text": "is buried in the family vault at the Church of St. Mary's, Berkeley. The Chantry, Jenner's home in Berkeley for 38 years, is now a museum. Jenner also inoculated Local people, free of charge, in a one-room hut in the garden, which he called the \"Temple of Vaccinia\". The hut is considered to be \"the birth-place of public health\". Victoria Cross recipient John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler, was also born here. Berkeley, Gloucestershire Berkeley ( ) is a small town and parish in Gloucestershire, England. It lies in the Vale of Berkeley between the east bank of the River Severn and", "title": "Berkeley, Gloucestershire" }, { "id": "13488225", "text": "Springtown, California Springtown' (formerly, Confederate Corners) is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States. Originally Springtown or Spring Town, the place was named Confederate Corners after some Southerners settled there in the late 1860s. In 2018, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved changing the name to Springtown in reference to Francis and John Spring who had moved in the 1800s to Monterey County from San Francisco.<ref name=\"SC 2018/05/18\"></ref> The place is the inspiration for the fictional small town \"Rebel Corners\" in John Steinbeck's novel \"The Wayward Bus\". It is located south-southwest of Salinas, on California State Route", "title": "Springtown, California" }, { "id": "1167547", "text": "added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Also known as Ward's Castle, it was the home of the National Cartoon Museum, established by Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, from 1976 to 1992. In 1983, 800 Westchester Avenue, described as the \"Taj Mahal of Rye Brook\" and the \"contemporary equivalent to the classical villa,\" was constructed as the General Foods Corporate Headquarters. As of the census of 2000, there were 8,602 people, 3,122 households, and 2,435 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,479.0 people per square mile (957.1/km²). There were 3,224 housing units", "title": "Rye Brook, New York" }, { "id": "16724946", "text": "Moliagul (birthplace of The Flying Doctors, Reverend John Flynn) and Melville Caves located in the Kooyoora State Park. The district is known for its annual Easter Monday Charity Carnival which began in 1871. Rheola is within the Loddon Shire, located 60 kilometers west of Bendigo. Nearby districts include: Kingower, Arnold, Llanelly, Murphys Creek, Moliagul, Logan, Wehla and the Kooyoora State Park. Nearby towns include: Inglewood, Wedderburn, St Arnaud and Dunolly. Rheola, like its neighbouring districts, was founded as gold mining village during the gold rush in the second half of the 19th century. Originally named 'Berlin' (earlier called Byr Lyn", "title": "Rheola, Victoria" }, { "id": "12803142", "text": "Dan Bailey (conservationist) Dan Bailey (March 22, 1904 – 1982) was a fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist. Born on a farm near Russellville, Kentucky, Bailey is best known for the fly shop he established in Livingston, Montana in 1938. Dan Bailey's Fly Shop is still in business today, operated by his son John at 209 West Park Street. Dan Bailey graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, in 1926 and earned a master's degree in physics from the University of Kentucky. He was a teacher in Missouri when he became interested in fly", "title": "Dan Bailey (conservationist)" }, { "id": "3379773", "text": "1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988. Bailey was born in Newport News in Virginia, to the Reverend Joseph James and Ella Mae Ricks Bailey. She was raised in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia. She graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in nearby Norfolk, Virginia, the first city in the region to offer higher education for black students. Blues singer Ruth Brown from Portsmouth, Virginia was one of her classmates. She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap", "title": "Pearl Bailey" }, { "id": "12207551", "text": "two months after their acquisition by ZeniMax Media in June 2009. The story is set in the fictional town of Isenstadt during World War II, which the Nazis have enforced martial law in order to excavate rare \"Nachtsonne\" crystals necessary to access the \"Black Sun\" dimension. As the game progresses, happenings in Isenstadt become stranger (military patrols are replaced by supernatural creatures, etc.). Locations include the town's sewers, a tavern, a hospital, a farm, an underground mining facility, a church, the SS headquarters, a dig site and caverns, a cannery, a radio station, a paranormal base, a general's home, a", "title": "Wolfenstein (2009 video game)" }, { "id": "5697337", "text": "Boulmer Boulmer is a village in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast east of Alnwick. It is home to RAF Boulmer. Boulmer has an independent volunteer lifeboat station. The name Boulmer, pronounced \"Boomer\", is a derivation of Bulemer, from the old English bulan-mere (bulls mere). Boulmer was notorious for its smuggling activities, much of which was centred on the Fishing Boat Inn. In the 18th century, one of the most well-known smugglers, King of the Gypsies William Faa, lived some miles away in the remote Scottish village of Kirk Yetholm. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the village was", "title": "Boulmer" }, { "id": "12189675", "text": "located anywhere in the American heartland, it was obviously based on Blosser's hometown of Nappanee, Indiana, since Blosser often referenced real places in Nappanee, such as Johnson's Drug Store. Nappanee holds the distinction of having the longest city name in the United States containing each letter in its name twice, and six successful cartoonists lived in Nappanee as children, including Fred Neher (\"Life’s Like That\") and Bill Holman (\"Smokey Stover\"). In the 1940s, \"Freckles and His Friends\" carried a topper strip, \"Hector\". By 1945, the strip was carried in 580 daily and 158 Sunday newspapers. At its peak, \"Freckles and", "title": "Freckles and His Friends" }, { "id": "6620076", "text": "raided Madam Ida Bailey's Canary Cottage, a house of prostitution in the Stingaree District and that the usual advance warnings were not made. Hence, reputed customers, Mayor Frary and the chief of police, may have been inconvenienced. Frary's 1904 Craftman style home at 3227 Grim Ave in North Park is now a bed and breakfast. Frary died in 1911 and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego. Frank P. Frary Frank Phineas Frary (December 7, 1856 – August 16, 1911) was an American Republican politician from California. He was born in Fremont, Ohio and moved to San Diego,", "title": "Frank P. Frary" }, { "id": "2169134", "text": "operations at the base referring to the facility as Moose Jaw/Air Vice Marshal C.M. McEwen Airport. Print Radio Television The only television station local to Moose Jaw is CKMJ-TV channel 7, an analogue repeater of CTV station CKCK-DT Regina. Moose Jaw was previously served by CHAB-TV, a television station that existed from 1959 to 1969. In the fictional Harry Potter universe, Moose Jaw is the hometown of the professional Quidditch team the Moose Jaw Meteorites, which are considered one of the most accomplished Quidditch teams in the world. However, in the 1970s they were threatened with disbandment due to trailing", "title": "Moose Jaw" }, { "id": "4671822", "text": "of the Kaiser Chiefs, and John Birch of Leeds, England & Great Britain rugby league teams. The village was also the birthplace of Second World War airman, Sir Augustus Walker of the Royal Air Force. The book \"The Modfather\" was set in Garforth in the late 1970s and early 1980s detailing David Lines adolescence in the village and his obsession with Paul Weller. Garforth \"See also People named Garforth.\" Garforth () is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the", "title": "Garforth" }, { "id": "1323303", "text": "Rose then criticized Widodo for \"ignoring the international outcry\" after the executions took place. Rose's Twitter page has garnered mainstream attention for his criticism of various figures in the Trump administration, as well as other figures such as Apple CEO Tim Cook. Axl Rose W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; born February 6, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and has also been the band's sole constant member since its inception in 1985. In addition to", "title": "Axl Rose" }, { "id": "7915744", "text": "Frogmore, Hampshire Frogmore is a small suburban village in the north east of the civil parish of Yateley in the county of Hampshire, England. The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words \"frogga\" and \"mere\" meaning pool frequented by frogs. It adjoins Darby Green and lies between the towns of Yateley and Blackwater, and lies 32 miles (51 km) west-south-west of London. The county borders of both Berkshire (Bracknell Forest) and Surrey (Surrey Heath) are approximately one mile away. The village, part of the Frogmore & Darby Green ward, is under the administrative jurisdiction of Yateley Town", "title": "Frogmore, Hampshire" }, { "id": "10755939", "text": "and Site of Special Scientific Interest. The bog is the setting for the children's book \"Nellie Longarms Will Get You... If You Don't Watch Out\", by John Bailey and Rose Quigley. In English folklore, the moss is also said to be the home to a headless horseman and 'Ginny Greenteeth'. Wybunbury Lane links the B5071 which runs through the Wybunbury parish to London Road (Stapeley). This lane provides a direct transport link between Wybunbury and the village of Stapeley. Wybunbury Delves C of E Primary School is a Church of England primary school. Wybunbury Delves is a small school with", "title": "Wybunbury" }, { "id": "6732413", "text": "at Tulliallan in Fife. Three Area Commands; Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire relate to the three Councils within the force area. Stirling (Force HQ) and Bannockburn. Stirling Sub-Area Command: Aberfoyle, Arnprior, Balfron, Blanefield, Bridge of Allan, Callander, Crianlarich, Drymen, Dunblane, Killin and Lochearnhead. Falkirk Sub-Area Command: Bainsford, Camelon and Falkirk (HQ). Denny Sub-Area Command: Denny (HQ) and Stenhousemuir. Grangemouth Sub-Area Command: Bo'ness, Grangemouth (HQ) and Maddiston. Alloa (HQ), Tillicoultry and Tullibody. Central Scotland Police Central Scotland Police was the territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council areas of Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire (the former Central region). The headquarters of the", "title": "Central Scotland Police" }, { "id": "8449475", "text": "transcript of the Domesday Book of 1086 indicates that there was a settlement at Kingsnorth controlled by the Manor of Wye. One explanation of the name is that it derived from the Old English cyninges snad, detached land belonging to a royal estate. Another suggestion is that the settlement took its name from Jutish people 'Kyn', kin folk, who settled on a wooded hill or 'snode'. Other early variations of the name are Kyngsnode; Kynsnoth, Kyngesnothe and Kingessnode. The RAF and USAAF occupied RAF Kingsnorth, an airfield close to the village, during World War II. Kingsnorth is bisected by the", "title": "Kingsnorth" }, { "id": "2418277", "text": "won the Somerset Senior Cup for the third time in 2002–03 and reached the 5th round of the FA Vase in 2003–04. They currently play in the Western Football League Division 1. There is a bowls club situated at the Memorial Park. Keynsham leisure centre was built in 1965 by British Gas as a gift to the town. It includes a swimming pool, gymnasium and sauna. Several notable people have been born or lived in Keynsham. The comedian Bill Bailey was raised in the town. Another entertainer Neil Forrester, who was a research assistant and became known as a cast", "title": "Keynsham" }, { "id": "10027732", "text": "up in South Otselic, New York, the daughter of a successful Chenango County farmer. She was reportedly given the nickname \"Billy\" because of her love of the contemporary hit song \"Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey\"; Brown often signed her love letters \"The Kid\" after the Western outlaw Billy the Kid. She attended grammar school in the village, and became close friends with teacher Maud Kenyon Crumb and her husband. In 1904, she moved to nearby Cortland to live with a married sister, and went to work at the Gillette Skirt Company. Chester Gillette, the company owner's nephew, moved to", "title": "Murder of Grace Brown" }, { "id": "3242698", "text": "Point Primary School. Morradoo comes from an Aboriginal word meaning \"powder and shot\", and was the original name for Crib Point. In December 1973, flashing light signals were provided at the Disney Road level crossing. Boom barriers were later provided at the same crossing in 2011. Morradoo has one platform. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Stony Point line services. Platform 1: Ventura Bus Lines operates one route via Morradoo station: Morradoo railway station Morradoo railway station is located on the Stony Point line, in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Crib Point, and opened on 7 November 1960", "title": "Morradoo railway station" }, { "id": "2961569", "text": "Yellowstone Municipal Park – Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road); the Annadale Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue); the Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Central Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues); the Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin Street, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive); and the Russell Sage Playground (located on 68th Avenue, between Booth and Austin Streets). Forest Hills was featured as the home setting for fictional comic book character Spider-Man. The Ramones originated in Forest Hills. The band was recognized with the creation of Ramones", "title": "Forest Hills, Queens" } ]

[ "The farmer and his wife in Grant Wood's classic painting, American Gothic" ]

[ { "id": "4129495", "text": "American Gothic American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the \"American Gothic\" House in Eldon, Iowa, along with \"the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.\" It depicts a farmer standing beside a woman who has been interpreted to be his sister. The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the man is holding a", "title": "American Gothic" }, { "id": "1822270", "text": "she looks older than Wood's sister preferred to think of herself. The dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1867–1950), was from Cedar Rapids. The woman is dressed in a dark print apron mimicking 19th century Americana with a cameo brooch. The couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor. The compositional severity and detailed technique derive from Northern Renaissance paintings, which Grant had looked at during three visits to Europe; after this he became increasingly aware of the Midwest's own legacy, which also informs the work. It is a key image of Regionalism. Wood", "title": "Grant Wood" }, { "id": "4129499", "text": "Byron McKeeby (1867–1950) from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nan, perhaps embarrassed about being depicted as the wife of a man twice her age, told people that her brother had envisioned the couple as father and daughter, rather than husband and wife, which Wood himself confirmed (\"The prim lady with him is his grown-up daughter\") in his letter to a Mrs. Nellie Sudduth in 1941. Elements of the painting stress the vertical that is associated with Gothic architecture. The three-pronged pitchfork is echoed in the stitching of the man's overalls, the Gothic window of the house, and the structure of the man's", "title": "American Gothic" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1822269", "text": "inspiration came from Eldon, southern Iowa, where a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival style with an upper window in the shape of a medieval pointed arch provided the background and also the painting's title. Wood decided to paint the house along with \"the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.\" The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter, figures modeled by the artist's sister, Nan (1900–1990), and his dentist. Wood's sister insisted that the painting depicts the farmer's daughter and not wife, disliking suggestions it was the farmer's wife, since that would mean that", "title": "Grant Wood" }, { "id": "16274296", "text": "of six and ten when they died. Currently, neither of the victims nor any potential suspects have been identified. This case remains unsolved. Babes in the Wood murders (Stanley Park) The Babes in the Wood murders is a name which has been used in the media to refer to a child murder case in which the bodies of multiple victims were found concealed in woodland. The remains of two unidentified victims (murdered in 1947) were discovered in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, January 14, 1953. The investigation was hampered when the medical examiner concluded that the victims", "title": "Babes in the Wood murders (Stanley Park)" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "14402726", "text": "Vincent and the Doctor \"Vincent and the Doctor\" is the tenth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\", first broadcast on BBC One on 5 June 2010. It was written by Richard Curtis and directed by Jonny Campbell and featured an uncredited guest appearance from actor Bill Nighy. Intrigued by an ominous figure in Vincent van Gogh's painting \"The Church at Auvers\", alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) go back in time to meet Van Gogh (Tony Curran) and discover that Auvers-sur-Oise has been plagued by", "title": "Vincent and the Doctor" }, { "id": "19029797", "text": "that he once \"snogged a Zygon\". The Tenth Doctor kissed a Zygon impersonating Queen Elizabeth in \"The Day of the Doctor\". The Doctor resumes the position of \"President of the World\" and the use of the plane afforded by that position, both mentioned in \"Death in Heaven\". However, when he introduces himself as President of the World, he is told, \"yes, we know who you are.\" This is continuation of a running joke from earlier in the series; the Prime Minister Harriet Jones is regularly told this after introducing herself, multiple times in both \"The Christmas Invasion\" (2005), and in", "title": "The Zygon Invasion" }, { "id": "2455091", "text": "a monocle to show his distinction as a count. The \"New Yorker\" mascot Eustace Tilley, an early 19th-century dandy, is depicted using a monocle like a quizzing glass. A monocle is also a distinctive part of the costume of at least three Gilbert & Sullivan characters: Major-General Stanley in \"The Pirates of Penzance\", Sir Joseph Porter in \"H.M.S. Pinafore\", and Reginald Bunthorne in \"Patience\", and composer Sullivan used one himself. In some variant productions, numerous other characters sport the distinctive eyewear, and some noted performers of the \"G&S\" repertoire also have worn a monocle. The Doctor as played by William", "title": "Monocle" }, { "id": "4129498", "text": "After obtaining permission from the Jones family, the house's owners, Wood made a sketch the next day in oil on paperboard from the house's front yard. This sketch displayed a steeper roof and a longer window with a more pronounced ogive than on the actual house, features which eventually adorned the final work. Wood decided to paint the house along with \"the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.\" He recruited his sister Nan (1899–1990) to model the woman, dressing her in a colonial print apron mimicking 19th-century Americana. The man is modeled on Wood's dentist, Dr.", "title": "American Gothic" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "16274295", "text": "Babes in the Wood murders (Stanley Park) The Babes in the Wood murders is a name which has been used in the media to refer to a child murder case in which the bodies of multiple victims were found concealed in woodland. The remains of two unidentified victims (murdered in 1947) were discovered in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, January 14, 1953. The investigation was hampered when the medical examiner concluded that the victims were one male and one female. A DNA test conducted in 1998 proved that both victims were male. They were between the ages", "title": "Babes in the Wood murders (Stanley Park)" }, { "id": "16038117", "text": "transformed in the light of a full moon.\" The natives of The Wood are consistently able to recognize Prue and Curtis as Outsiders, who ought not to be able to enter through the Periphery Bind surrounding The Wood, while only the people of the pastoral and meditative North Wood can see with an unexplained sense that Prue and Curtis have a dual nature, born outside The Wood yet unhindered by the magical barrier that keeps the Outsiders out. Prue McKeel, age 13, is a precocious seventh grader with a talent for nature drawing, an encyclopedic knowledge of birds from a", "title": "Wildwood (novel)" }, { "id": "12992058", "text": "When Stratton retired, he lived in the most esteemed neighborhood of New York, he owned a yacht, and dressed in the nicest clothing he could buy. In 1860, The American Museum had listed and archived thirteen human curiosities in the museum, including an albino family, The Living Aztecs, three dwarfs, a black mother with two albino children, The Swiss Bearded Lady, The Highland Fat Boys, and What Is It? (Henry Johnson, a mentally disabled black man). Barnum introduced the \"man-monkey\" William Henry Johnson, a microcephalic black dwarf who spoke a mysterious language created by Barnum. In 1862, he discovered the", "title": "Freak show" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "12614562", "text": "walrus oosik. Also on display are two mummified human bodies, \"Sylvester\" and \"Sylvia\". \"Sylvester\" (acquired in 1955) functions as an informal symbol of the shop. For years, the general belief has been that he was the victim of a late 19th-century shooting in the Arizona desert, and that the extreme dryness of the desert naturally mummified the body. However, CT scans in 2001, 2005 and an MRI in 2005 suggest an embalmer injected an arsenic-based fluid shortly after death. The body is one of the best-preserved mummies known. Newly published information and a photograph from 1892 indicate that \"Sylvester,\" originally", "title": "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop" }, { "id": "1822263", "text": "of a relationship with his personal secretary. Critic Janet Maslin states that his friends knew him to be \"homosexual and a bit facetious in his masquerade as an overall-clad farm boy.\" University administration dismissed the allegations and Wood would have returned as professor if not for his growing health problems. The day before his 51st birthday, Wood died at the university hospital of pancreatic cancer. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Iowa. When Wood died, his estate went to his sister, Nan Wood Graham, the woman portrayed in \"American Gothic\". When she died in 1990, her estate, along with", "title": "Grant Wood" }, { "id": "951661", "text": "become explicitly part of the story. In the accompanying illustrations by Linley Sambourne, Huxley and Owen are caricatured, studying a captured water baby. In 1892 Thomas Henry Huxley's five-year-old grandson Julian saw this engraving and wrote his grandfather a letter asking: \"Dear Grandpater – Have you seen a Waterbaby? Did you put it in a bottle? Did it wonder if it could get out? Could I see it some day? – Your loving Julian.\" Huxley wrote back a letter (later evoked by the \"New York Sun\"s \"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus\" in 1897): \"My dear Julian – I", "title": "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby" }, { "id": "16569385", "text": "The Way Through the Woods (novel) The Way Through the Woods is a book in the \"Doctor Who\" \"New Series Adventures\" series, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams. For thousands of years, the inhabitants of Foxton have avoided Swallow Woods, but approximately every fifty years a number of people go into the woods and never come out. The Doctor realises this is the result of a spatial distortion caused by a crashed spaceship and discovers that a week after the last disappearances the entire area will be destroyed and replaced with a lake. He has Rory befriend", "title": "The Way Through the Woods (novel)" }, { "id": "4129504", "text": "Coast art circles. Wood was quoted in this period as stating, \"All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.\" The Depression-era understanding of the painting as a depiction of an authentically American scene prompted the first well-known parody, a 1942 photo by Gordon Parks of cleaning woman Ella Watson, shot in Washington, D.C. \"American Gothic\" is a frequently parodied image. It has been lampooned in Broadway shows such as \"The Music Man\", movies such as \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", television shows such as \"Green Acres\" and the \"Dick Van Dyke Show\"", "title": "American Gothic" }, { "id": "12668159", "text": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle. It is the third companion book to \"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?\". Various endangered animals answer the question \"What do you see?\" and the answers are what animal they see. The text is in rhyme. The list of animals includes a panda bear, a bald eagle, a water buffalo, a spider monkey, a green sea turtle, a macaroni penguin, a sea lion, a red wolf, a whooping", "title": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?" }, { "id": "10079304", "text": "that this sculpture was once attached to a body. The grand woman in this photo has her head upturned to the sky, possibly delivering a message to God. She is clothed in forest leaves, and at her sides are figures of moose and buffalo. Between the feet of the woman stands a bearded figure, a pioneer with an axe. His arms are outstretched as if in worship of Canada rising before and above him. Maltwood saw Canada as unspoiled and bountiful, in contrast to the materially driven and spiritually decayed Britain. Maltwood felt a deep connection to the nature of", "title": "Katharine Emma Maltwood" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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Called \"woodwaxes\" in the UK or \"waxy caps\" (together with \"Hygrocybe\" species) in North America, basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically fleshy, often with slimy caps and lamellae that are broadly attached to decurrent. All species are ground-dwelling and ectomycorrhizal (forming an association with living trees) and are typically found in woodland. Around 100 species are recognized worldwide. Fruit bodies of several species are considered edible and are sometimes offered for sale in local markets. \"Hygrophorus\" was first published in 1836 by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries. The", "title": "Hygrophorus" }, { "id": "4129496", "text": "pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia, which are the same as the plants in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother \"Woman with Plants\". \"American Gothic\" is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art and has been widely parodied in American popular culture. In 2016–17, the painting was displayed in Paris at the Musée de l'Orangerie and in London at the Royal Academy of Arts in its first showings outside the United States. In August 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, was driven around Eldon, Iowa,", "title": "American Gothic" }, { "id": "2673081", "text": "Trumbull's 1805 painting of Hamilton that belongs to the portrait collection of New York City Hall. The $10 bill is unique in that it is the only denomination in circulation in which the portrait faces to the left. It also features one of two non-presidents on currently issued U.S. bills, the other being Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. Hamilton is also the only person not born in the continental United States or British America (he was from the West Indies) currently depicted on U.S. paper currency; three others have been depicted in the past: Albert Gallatin, Switzerland ($500 1862/63", "title": "United States ten-dollar bill" }, { "id": "11298480", "text": "\"Evan\" could also be interpreted as \"Heir of the Earth\" or \"The King\". The name is also occasionally given to females, as with actress Evan Rachel Wood. It may be encountered as a surname, but Evans is usual. The popularity of the name Evan for males in the United States rose steadily over the last several decades, going from the 440th-ranked male name in 1957 to peaking at the 35th-ranked male name in 2009. It has since declined somewhat, and dropped out of the top 50 male names in the US in 2013. \"See also: Evan Evan is a Welsh", "title": "Evan" }, { "id": "14900799", "text": "and no banding of any type is seen in a black-and-white photograph of a rainbow (only a smooth gradation of intensity to a maxima, then fading to a minima at the other side of the arc). For colors seen by a normal human eye, the most commonly cited and remembered sequence, in English, is Newton's sevenfold red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (popularly memorized by mnemonics like Roy G. Biv). However, color-blind persons will see fewer colors. Rainbows can be caused by many forms of airborne water. These include not only rain, but also mist, spray, and airborne", "title": "Atmospheric optics" }, { "id": "17585703", "text": "Irish Catholic laborers, Dominic Daley and James Halligan, were seen near the vicinity of the crime, and apprehended. The case became a huge sensation. The men were given a hasty trial and executed in Northampton in June, 1806, before a crowd of 20,000 cheering spectators. Subsequent research has borne out a miscarriage of justice: the men were likely innocent, victims of prejudice and a rush to judgment. Daley and Halligan are now known as the “Irish Sacco and Vanzetti.” They were officially pardoned by Governor Michael Dukakis in 1984. The action opens less than a week before the scheduled execution", "title": "The Garden of Martyrs" }, { "id": "834523", "text": "Natalie Wood Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress. Born in San Francisco to Russian immigrant parents, Wood began her career in film as a child and became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she turned 25 years old. She began acting in films at the age of four and, at age eight, was given a co-starring role in the 1947 classic Christmas film \"Miracle on 34th Street\". As a teenager, her performance in \"Rebel Without a Cause\" (1955) earned her a", "title": "Natalie Wood" }, { "id": "1727058", "text": "term expiration up to eighteen additional months. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt: Under Harry S. Truman: Under Dwight D. Eisenhower: Under John F. Kennedy: Under Lyndon B. Johnson: Under Richard Nixon: Under Gerald Ford: Under Jimmy Carter: Under Ronald Reagan: Under George H. W. Bush: Under Bill Clinton: Under George W. Bush: Under Barack Obama: Under Donald Trump: Securities and Exchange Commission appointees Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States. As of 2011, their terms last five years and are staggered so that one commissioner's term ends on June 5 of", "title": "Securities and Exchange Commission appointees" }, { "id": "13032818", "text": "light-years from Earth. Another open cluster in Gemini is NGC 2158. Visible in large amateur telescopes and very rich, it is more than 12,000 light-years from Earth. The Eskimo Nebula or Clown Face Nebula (NGC 2392) is a planetary nebula with an overall magnitude of 9.2, located 4,000 light-years from Earth. In a small amateur telescope, its 10th magnitude central star is visible, along with its blue-green elliptical disk. It is named for its resemblance to the head of a person wearing a parka. The Medusa Nebula is another planetary nebula, some 1,500 light-years distant. Geminga is a neutron star", "title": "Gemini (constellation)" }, { "id": "5011981", "text": "give up fighting. When he makes a passing remark about the children and their parents, Buffy is struck by the thought that the children's parents were never seen or mentioned, and the fact that no one knows the children's names. After using the Internet to contact Willow, the Scooby Gang learns that every fifty years throughout history, the murdered bodies of two nameless children have been found, resulting in peaceful communities being torn apart by vigilante chaos. The earliest record dating from Germany during 1649, where a cleric from the Black Forest discovered the corpses of \"Hans and Greta Strauss\",", "title": "Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)" }, { "id": "6327353", "text": "Wood (surname) Wood is a surname in the English language. It is common throughout the world, especially countries with historical links to Great Britain. For the most part, the surname Wood originated as a topographic name used to describe a person who lived in, or worked in a wood or forest. This name is derived from the Middle English \"wode\", meaning \"wood\" (from the Old English \"wudu\"). An early occurrence of this surname (of a personal residing near a wood) is \"de la Wode\", recorded in Hertfordshire, England, in 1242. The locational name also appeared in early records Latinised as", "title": "Wood (surname)" }, { "id": "6920284", "text": "of postholes for standing timbers, discovered in 1922, was named Woodhenge by its excavators because of similarities with Stonehenge. The name woodhenge is also used for a series of timber circles found at the Native American site of Cahokia (Cahokia Woodhenge). The timber Seahenge in Norfolk was named as such by journalists writing about its discovery in 1998. In November 2004, a diameter circle of postholes was found in Russia and publicised as the Russian Stonehenge. Other prehistoric sites elsewhere, often also with proposed astronomical alignments, are often described by journalists as being that region's '\"answer to Stonehenge\". In May", "title": "Stonehenge replicas and derivatives" }, { "id": "1822267", "text": "painting \"American Gothic\", which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art, and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognised cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" and Edvard Munch's \"The Scream\". \"American Gothic\" was first exhibited in 1930 at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is still located. It was given a $300 prize and made news stories country-wide, bringing Wood immediate recognition. Since then, it has been borrowed and satirized endlessly for advertisements and cartoons. Art critics who had favorable opinions about the painting, such as Gertrude", "title": "Grant Wood" }, { "id": "1762184", "text": "their personal taste, choosing new furniture, new drapery, and designing their own oval-shaped carpet to take up most of the floor. Artwork is selected from the White House's own collection, or borrowed from museums for the president's term in office. The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and daughter Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to", "title": "Oval Office" }, { "id": "19364114", "text": "Dalai Lama Awakening Dalai Lama Awakening is a 2014 feature-length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich and narrated by actor Harrison Ford. With over 30 minutes of additional footage and a new score, the film is a Director's Cut and revision of \"Dalai Lama Renaissance\", the award winning 2007 documentary. The film presents the journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama. The film features Dr. Michael Beckwith (\"The Secret\"), quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (\"What The Bleep Do We Know\"), radio host and author Thom Hartmann, author", "title": "Dalai Lama Awakening" }, { "id": "1652242", "text": "to the National Trust, containing one of the best collections of arts and crafts movement furnishings and fabrics. East Grinstead House is the headquarters of the (UK and Ireland) Caravan Club. The town is the site of Queen Victoria Hospital, where famed plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe treated burns victims of World War II and formed the Guinea Pig Club. A statue of Sir Archibald McIndoe caring for an injured airman was erected in June 2018 outside Sackville College and was unveiled by HRH The Princess Anne, the Princess Royal. Kidbrooke Park (today Michael Hall School), a home of the Hambro", "title": "East Grinstead" }, { "id": "13989938", "text": "Steven Whyte Steven Whyte (born 17 March 1969) is a sculptor classically trained in the traditional methodology of figurative bronze and portrait sculpture living in Carmel, California who has produced many public memorials and installations in both England and throughout the United States with subjects ranging from miners, to soldiers and fire fighters. He is credited with over fifty life size and larger bronze public figures and major monuments including \"The Silverdale Mining Memorial\", \"The Lance Sergeant Jack Baskeyfield VC Tribute\", \"The Spirit of 1948\", and \"The Dr. John Roberts Monument\". Whyte multimillion-dollar, sixteen-figure monument in San Diego, California entitled", "title": "Steven Whyte" }, { "id": "15251939", "text": "Ve Neill Ve Neill (born Mary Flores; 1951) is an American makeup artist. She has won three Academy Awards, for the films \"Beetlejuice\", \"Mrs. Doubtfire\" and \"Ed Wood\". She has been nominated for eight Oscars in total. Neill recounts that she aspired to be a make-up artist since the age of five and wanted to create monsters. As a child, she was known for painting the faces of her cousins with whatever was at hand, such as lipstick and shoe polish. Her interest in the makeup world was broadened by Leo Lotito, a make-up artist for TV shows who helped", "title": "Ve Neill" }, { "id": "20178120", "text": "later recanted his statements, but he was still convicted of the crime and sentenced to 25 years to life with no chance of parole. In 2015 the case was reopened; it remains unsolved. Disappearance of Sara Anne Wood Sara Anne Wood (born March 4, 1981) is a missing child who was last seen on August 18, 1993. Wood was last seen when she was riding her bicycle at 2:30 pm on August 18, 1993, after leaving her church in Sauquoit, New York. During the evening that Wood disappeared, her bicycle, coloring book and crayons were discovered hidden in an area", "title": "Disappearance of Sara Anne Wood" }, { "id": "5177339", "text": "gnome, carrying a bag of berries up the Gnomes' Stairway to the banquet within Bark Hall, and Grumples and Groodles the Elves, being awakened by Brownie, Dinkie, Rumplelocks and Hereandthere stealing eggs from the crows' nest. Innes also illustrated a 1930 children's book written by his wife Elsie and based on the \"Elfin Oak\". In it, Elsie wrote: The inside cover of Pink Floyd's 1969 album \"Ummagumma\" features a picture of David Gilmour in front of the \"Elfin Oak\". The comedian Spike Milligan was a lifelong fan of the tree, and in 1996 he led a successful campaign to have", "title": "Elfin Oak" }, { "id": "1389253", "text": "dress, from dinner jackets to patriotic T-shirts. Many use the occasion for an exuberant display of Britishness. Union Flags are waved by the Prommers, especially during \"Rule, Britannia!\". Flags, balloons and party poppers are all welcomed – although John Drummond famously discouraged this 'extraneous noise' during his tenure as Director. Sir Henry Wood's bust is adorned with a laurel chaplet by representatives of the Promenaders, who often wipe an imaginary bead of sweat from his forehead or make some similar gentle visual joke. Since 2006, the cost of standing place tickets has remained at just £5.00. Many consider these to", "title": "The Proms" }, { "id": "6011185", "text": "the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, California. Over the years, people from all over the world would come to the school. He retired from the College of the Redwoods in 2002 but continued to work in wood almost to the end of his life, from a shop at his home. His work is displayed in museums in Sweden, Norway, Japan, and the United States, as well as in the homes of some royal families. He became an Elected Fellow, American Craft Council in 2000, and was the first non-British recipient of the Annual Award of the Society of Designer-Craftsman's Centennial Medal", "title": "James Krenov" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "6562128", "text": "Survival, Orienteering or Camping. Sandy Beach's colors are blue and yellow, and their main mascot is Jim the Moose, though they have several other mascots including two bananas, a rock, and a \"crazy\" crocodile. The camp also houses the Reservation Baker, who works in the Bake Shoppe attached to the kitchen. Camp Sandy Beach seventeen campsites are named after famous Americans in history and include the following: Abe Lincoln, Audubon, Backwoods, Davy Crockett, Donald H. Cady, George Washington, Jim Bridger, Jim Bowie, James West, John Glenn, Kit Carson, Lewis & Clark, Neil Armstrong, Norman Rockwell, Richard Byrd, Silver Buffalo, and", "title": "Yawgoog Scout Reservation" }, { "id": "4357712", "text": "and recognized her, and she also did; they were acquaintances from about 30 years earlier. Nancy asked Miss Morrison to walk on ahead as there was apparently a private matter to discuss with this man. She came back very angry, and made her friend swear not to say anything about the incident. This breaks the case wide open for Holmes. He knows that there cannot be many men of this description in the area, and soon identifies him as Henry Wood, and goes with Watson to visit him the next day in his room in the very same street where", "title": "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" }, { "id": "2466724", "text": "Seed\" appear in episodes of \"\", \"\", and the 2013 film \"Star Trek Into Darkness\". On stardate 3141.9, the Federation starship USS \"Enterprise\" finds the derelict SS \"Botany Bay\" adrift in space. A landing party comprising Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), and historian Lieutenant Marla McGivers (Madlyn Rhue) beams over to the freighter. The landing party finds a cargo of 84 humans, 72 of whom are alive in suspended animation after nearly 200 years. McGivers identifies the group's leader who begins to revive and is taken back to", "title": "Space Seed" }, { "id": "110631", "text": "featuring in many subsequent serials and two 1960s motion pictures. They have become as synonymous with \"Doctor Who\" as the Doctor himself, and their behaviour and catchphrases are now part of British popular culture. \"Hiding behind the sofa whenever the Daleks appear\" has been cited as an element of British cultural identity; and a 2008 survey indicated that nine out of ten British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly. In 1999 a Dalek photographed by Lord Snowdon appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture. In 2010, readers of science fiction magazine \"SFX\" voted the Dalek as", "title": "Dalek" }, { "id": "20178118", "text": "Disappearance of Sara Anne Wood Sara Anne Wood (born March 4, 1981) is a missing child who was last seen on August 18, 1993. Wood was last seen when she was riding her bicycle at 2:30 pm on August 18, 1993, after leaving her church in Sauquoit, New York. During the evening that Wood disappeared, her bicycle, coloring book and crayons were discovered hidden in an area of brush off of Hacadam Road. Wood was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt with the words \"Guess Who\" embroidered on the front, with turquoise blue shorts, and with brown sandals. In 1994,", "title": "Disappearance of Sara Anne Wood" }, { "id": "15556160", "text": "Smith, who portrays the Eleventh Doctor, called these aliens \"the scariest monsters in the Show's history\" and Karen Gillan, who portrays the Doctor's companion Amy Pond, commented that the Silence could \"rival the Weeping Angels in terms of scariness\". The Silence shown in \"The Impossible Astronaut\" are depicted as tall humanoids with bulbous heads and mouthless, bony faces, partly inspired by Edvard Munch's \"The Scream\". Their eyes are sunken within their sockets and the skin of their cheeks stretches to the point of their narrow chins. Their large, shrivelled hands resemble a human hand except where the ring and middle", "title": "Silence (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "6983895", "text": "girlfriend in Leytonstone, east London within the preceding 24 hours of the body being found. McLeish was identified as a suspect following a car belonging to him was found abandoned in Bethnal Green, east London. McLeish, who laughed as he was sentenced to two life sentences in 2002, is due to be released from prison in 2017, after being sentenced to a minimum tariff of 16 years minus time served. Other notable cases include the 1974 Babes in the Wood murders by serial killer and paedophile Ronald Jebson and the unsolved double killing of Terence Gooderham and Maxine Arnold, which", "title": "Epping Forest Keepers" }, { "id": "20904084", "text": "of Lange. Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts) and Behold Chablis (Billy Porter), posing as a married couple, purchase the Murder House in Los Angeles, which has been abandoned for several years. Arriving at the house, the two soon suspect the presence of paranormal activity after learning that thirty-six people have died inside the house. They perform a spell which allows them to see the ghosts who can otherwise hide themselves from the living. In the living room, the ghosts of Tate Langdon (Evan Peters) and Dr. Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) are talking about Tate's frustration at being ignored by Ben's daughter,", "title": "Return to Murder House" }, { "id": "236721", "text": "Naish has suggested that Grant may have seen either an otter or a seal and exaggerated his sighting over time. The \"surgeon's photograph\" is reportedly the first photo of the creature's head and neck. Supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London gynaecologist, it was published in the \"Daily Mail\" on 21 April 1934. Wilson's refusal to have his name associated with it led to it being known as the \"surgeon's photograph\". According to Wilson, he was looking at the loch when he saw the monster, grabbed his camera and snapped four photos. Only two exposures came out clearly; the", "title": "Loch Ness Monster" }, { "id": "6087400", "text": "years later in 2003, Park Doo-man, now a businessman, learns from a little girl that the scene had recently been visited by another, unknown man, with a 'nondescript' face. The little girl had asked the man why he was looking at the ditch, and was told that he was reminiscing about something he had done there a long time ago. Park Doo-man, apparently having an epiphany, looks directly at the screen; he uses his same method by making eye contact with the audience to search for (or actually find) the eyes of the killer sitting among them. \"Memories of Murder\"", "title": "Memories of Murder" }, { "id": "5027437", "text": "Walter because of his \"book talk\", and all the more when he fights Dan Reese after Dan insulted Walter, his mother and his friend Faith. At the close of the book he has a vision of 'The Piper' on the hill, piping away, making young men follow him from around the world. This vision is fulfilled in the following book as World War One breaks out. Anne \"Nan\" Blythe: One of the Ingleside twins, Nan is \"Blythe by name and blithe by nature\", being a dainty little maiden with velvety nut-brown eyes and silky nut-brown hair. Her complexion is almost", "title": "Rainbow Valley" }, { "id": "16642898", "text": "models that were constructed by a team of German cabinetmakers for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. In 1998, the Cline family saved the California Mission models from being auctioned off individually and built the museum for their display. The museum also features a life-sized figure of Father Junipero Serra, mission paintings by Robert Morris and Henry Nelson, and two stained-glass panels originally housed in San Francisco's Mission Dolores prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The museum is open to the public daily and admission is free of charge. Cline Cellars Cline Cellars Winery is a family owned and", "title": "Cline Cellars" }, { "id": "4013284", "text": "the world is going to look like when God's will is done.\" Hollywood actors Joan Crawford, Natalie Wood and Jerry Lewis commissioned Keane to paint their portraits. In the 1990s, Tim Burton, a Keane art collector and director of the 2014 biographical film \"Big Eyes\" about the life of Margaret Keane, commissioned the artist to paint a portrait of his then-girlfriend Lisa Marie. Keane's art was bought and presented to the United Nations Children's Fund in 1961 by the Prescolite Manufacturing Corporation. Keane's big eyes paintings have influenced toy designs, Little Miss No Name and Susie Sad Eyes dolls, and", "title": "Margaret Keane" }, { "id": "3395793", "text": "'fairy lights', describing 'a small coloured light used in illuminations' had already entered English: its usage for a string of electrically powered Christmas lights has been common in the UK ever since. The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, a predecessor of today's Con Edison electric utility, he had Christmas tree light bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs", "title": "Christmas lights" }, { "id": "2005745", "text": "Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to the Hyperion tree, a Coast redwood), nor is it the widest (both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to a Great Basin bristlecone pine). With a height of , a diameter of , an estimated bole volume of , and an estimated age of 2,3002,700 years, it is nevertheless among the tallest, widest, and longest-lived of all trees on the planet. General Sherman (tree) General Sherman is a", "title": "General Sherman (tree)" }, { "id": "1879386", "text": "shared and unique nature of their stapes. The wood hoopoes most resemble the true hoopoe with their long down-curved bills and short rounded wings. According to genetic studies, the two genera, \"Phoeniculus\" and \"Rhinopomastus\", appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families. The wood hoopoes are a morphologically distinct group, unlikely to be mistaken for any other. These species are medium-sized ( long, much of which is the tail). They have metallic plumage, often blue, green or purple, and lack a crest. The sexes are similar in", "title": "Wood hoopoe" }, { "id": "964777", "text": "regular-shaped dark area unbroken by bright patches\" that can be seen with the naked eye. Around 1600, William Gilbert made a map of the Moon that names Mare Imbrium \"Regio Magna Orientalis\" (the Large Eastern Region). Michael van Langren's 1645 map named it \"Mare Austriacum\" (the Austrian Sea). Mare Imbrium is visible to the naked eye from Earth. In the traditional 'Man in the Moon' image seen on the Moon in Western folklore, Mare Imbrium forms the man's right eye. On 17 November 1970 at 03:47 Universal Time, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 made a soft landing in the mare,", "title": "Mare Imbrium" }, { "id": "12614556", "text": "million visitors a year. The shop has had many notable customers over the years. Visitors have included Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, Red Skelton, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, James Van Der Beek, and Sylvester Stallone. Cartoonist Robert Ripley of \"Ripley's Believe It or Not\" bought totem poles and other crafts for his New York estate. The store's logs show that Queen Marie of Romania visited and \"sat in the Chinese chair\" and that Louis Tiffany bought \"curios, idols and a mammoth tusk,\" Many museum collections include items purchased from the shop, mostly objects from the Arctic", "title": "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop" }, { "id": "18586558", "text": "Spectre of Newby Church The Spectre of Newby Church (or the \"Newby Monk\") is the name given to an artifact found on a photograph taken in the Church of Christ the Consoler, on the grounds of Newby Hall in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The image was taken in 1963 by the Reverend Kenneth F. Lord. As the artifact appears to resemble a human, much speculation has been had regarding what type of person might be in the image. Most speculation by believers has concluded that it resembles a 16th-century monk, with a white shroud over his face, possibly to mask", "title": "Spectre of Newby Church" }, { "id": "15243755", "text": "dollar coin that had previously been proposed. Leach felt that a dollar coin was not a suitable way to commemorate the individuals, as it was impossible to honor such a large group on a coin whose design was likely to remain unchanged for a long period of time. He also noted that all United States coinage until then had depicted individuals whose principal contributions had been in government and politics rather than the arts. Leach described the specifics of his proposal, stating: The subjects designated were painter Grant Wood, contralto singer Marian Anderson, authors Mark Twain and Willa Cather, musician", "title": "American Arts Commemorative Series medallions" }, { "id": "1175437", "text": "College in Cambridge positions its apostrophe differently and has no article, as it was named for multiple Queens (Margaret of Anjou, the wife of King Henry VI, and Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of King Edward IV). In April 2012, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, a series of commemorative stamps was released featuring A-Z pictures of famous British landmarks. The Queen's College's front quad was used on the Q stamp, alongside other landmarks such as the Angel of the North on A and the Old Bailey on O. One of the most famous feasts", "title": "The Queen's College, Oxford" }, { "id": "6327355", "text": "emigrants from the German-speaking countries Anglicized this name to Wood when they settled in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, et cetera. The name \"Wald\" still exists, too. Also, the name Wood has been modified in many cases by the addition of suffixs to create: Woodard, Woodburn, Woodby, Woodcock, Woodforde, Woodham, Woodly, Woodman, Woodruff, Woodstock, Woodvine, and Woodward. In England and Wales, and on the Isle of Man, Wood is the 26th most-common surname, in Scotland it is the 53rd most-common surname and in the United States the 78th. Wood (surname) Wood is a surname in the", "title": "Wood (surname)" }, { "id": "12205887", "text": "that elephants have excellent memories. The variation \"Women and elephants never forget an injury\" originates from the 1904 book \"Reginald on Besetting Sins\" by British writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known as Saki. This adage seems to have a basis in fact, as reported in \"Scientific American\": \"Seeing the Elephant\" is a 19th-century Americanism denoting a world-weary experience; often used by soldiers, pioneers and adventurers to qualify new and exciting adventures such as the Civil War, the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush. A \"white elephant\" has become a term referring to an expensive burden, particularly when much has", "title": "Cultural depictions of elephants" }, { "id": "12420653", "text": "Noltland, a site on the north coast of the island of Westray has been excavated since the 1980s. In 2009 a lozenge-shaped figurine was discovered, which may have been carved 2500-3000 BC and is believed to be the earliest representation of a human face ever found in Scotland. The face has two dots for eyes, heavy brows and an oblong nose and a pattern of hatches on the body could represent clothing. Archaeologist Richard Strachan described it as a find of \"astonishing rarity\". Skara Brae, Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness together form the Heart of", "title": "Prehistoric Orkney" }, { "id": "7624", "text": "show almost exclusively the type of anthropogonic stories that derive man's origin from clay, earth or blood by means of a divine creation act\". Two wooden figures—the Braak Bog Figures—of \"more than human height\" were unearthed from a peat bog at Braak in Schleswig, Germany. The figures depict a nude male and a nude female. Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that these figures may represent a \"Lord and Lady\" of the Vanir, a group of Norse gods, and that \"another memory of [these wooden deities] may survive in the tradition of the creation of Ask and Embla, the man and woman", "title": "Ask and Embla" }, { "id": "9877299", "text": "on the TV talent show \"New Faces\" in 1974. However, it was only when Wood saw her act in a show by BBC Scotland called \"Eighty-One Take Two\" that she was impressed enough to hire her friend for the show. Imrie played various roles throughout the run, like a co-presenter of McConomy (a spoof TV economy show), and most famously Miss Babs in \"Acorn Antiques\". Imrie said in 2007, \"Miss Babs is still what I'm best known for, even though I don't go around with bright yellow hair.\" During her run in \"As Seen On TV\" Imrie received a fan", "title": "Victoria Wood as Seen on TV" }, { "id": "5375530", "text": "blueprints and multiple Daleks painted in British Army Khaki, Winston Churchill uses them as war weapons, although they are mostly seen to be carrying around files and asking staff, \"Would you care for some tea?\" The Eleventh Doctor is surprised as these khaki Daleks appear to have forgotten their own purpose. This is all part of their plan, however: he proclaims, \"I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!\" which the Daleks back on the ship use as a testimony to activate the progenitor. The five New Paradigm Daleks that appear then exterminate their predecessors with no resistance, as", "title": "History of the Daleks" }, { "id": "9668041", "text": "16 (December 2006 - January 2007), written by Geoff Johns, and most recently in \"\" #9 (November 2009). The Faceless Hunters first come to public attention in 1961 after one of them, Klee Pan, is intercepted trying to steal major world sculptures such as the Mount Rushmore heads and the Easter Island statues. Oregon Highway Patrolmen Bob Colby and Jim Boone are assigned to Mount Rushmore, and confront Klee Pan, who explains that he \" 'comes from Klaramar - a world revolving within an atom on the planet Saturn' \" and he is looking for a stone face left on", "title": "Faceless Hunters" }, { "id": "2372314", "text": "Marie Lloyd Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd ; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as \"The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery\", \"My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)\" and \"Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do\". She received both criticism and praise for her use of innuendo and double entendre during her performances, but enjoyed a long and prosperous career, during which she was affectionately called the \"Queen of the Music", "title": "Marie Lloyd" }, { "id": "10122337", "text": "painting by Grant Wood from 1930. Portraying a pitchfork-holding farmer and a younger woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art. Art critics assumed it was satirical in intent; it was thought to be part of the trend towards increasingly critical depictions of rural America exemplified by Sherwood Anderson's \"1919 Winesburg, Ohio\", Sinclair Lewis' 1920 \"Main Street\", and Carl Van Vechten's \"The Tattooed Countess\" in literature. However, with the onset of the Great Depression, the painting came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American", "title": "Western painting" }, { "id": "5576484", "text": "out into the woods and confront the Bigfoot evidence for themselves,\" Sheaffer accompanied Beckjord on a 5-day Bigfoot expedition in 1999. He was disappointed at Beckjord's continued lack of evidence and attributed Beckjord's interpretations of rock formations, leaves and shadows as Bigfoot faces or skulls to \"the workings of an overzealous imagination.\" CNN correspondent Rusty Dornin wrote in 1997 \"Faces on Mars, the Loch Ness monster, or an alien with a name tag (Andy)--if it's far-fetched and unproved, Beckjord buys it. And it's all on display at his storefront 'museum'.\" Beckjord maintained that \"With the card-carrying skeptics, we will never", "title": "Jon-Erik Beckjord" }, { "id": "2718556", "text": "The patient explains that he has already seen a doctor: SMITH: He told me I had snew in my blood.<br> DALE: What did he told you?<br> SMITH: He told me I had snew in my blood.<br> DALE: Snew? What's snew?<br> SMITH: Nothing. What's new with you? SMITH \"(reacting to Dale spitting on his stethoscope:)\" Doctor, what is that you're doing?<br> DALE: Sterilization. DALE: Now inhale, please.<br> SMITH: What?<br> DALE: Inhale.<br> SMITH: What?<br> DALE: \"Inhale!\" I would like to see you.<br> SMITH: (Inhale) In Hell I would like to see \"you!\"<br> DALE: The whole trouble with you is, you need eyeglasses.<br>", "title": "Smith and Dale" }, { "id": "2379052", "text": "have been written about this perplexing visitant constitute 'ufology'.\" This article was printed eight years after Edward J. Ruppelt of the United States Air Force (USAF) coined the word \"UFO\" in 1951. The modern UFO mythology has three traceable roots: the late 19th century \"mystery airships\" reported in the newspapers of the western United States, \"foo fighters\" reported by Allied airmen during World War II, and the Kenneth Arnold \"flying saucer\" sighting near Mt. Rainier, Washington on June 24, 1947. UFO reports between \"The Great Airship Wave\" and the Arnold sighting were limited in number compared to the post-war period:", "title": "Ufology" }, { "id": "12508853", "text": "Newman's Own, founded in 1982. In 2014, her license with Newman's Own was not renewed and Nell moved on to pursue her ongoing commitment to conservation, organic farming and philanthropy. She and her father were featured together in many of its marketing campaigns, often posed to resemble \"American Gothic\", an iconic painting by Grant Wood. She has been married to Gary Irving since 2005. They reside in California. In 2014, Newman received the prestigious Rachel Carson Award from The National Audubon Society for her environmental leadership. In 2017, Newman was inducted into the Specialty Food Hall of Fame, which “honor(s)", "title": "Nell Newman" }, { "id": "15251943", "text": "notable films she has worked on are \"Austin Powers in Goldmember\", \"The Hunger Games\", \"\", \"A.I. Artificial Intelligence\", \"Hook\", and \"Edward Scissorhands\". Ve Neill Ve Neill (born Mary Flores; 1951) is an American makeup artist. She has won three Academy Awards, for the films \"Beetlejuice\", \"Mrs. Doubtfire\" and \"Ed Wood\". She has been nominated for eight Oscars in total. Neill recounts that she aspired to be a make-up artist since the age of five and wanted to create monsters. As a child, she was known for painting the faces of her cousins with whatever was at hand, such as lipstick", "title": "Ve Neill" }, { "id": "20634594", "text": "body parts, natural land forms, abstract things—essentially objects that do not move, do not possess spirit and generally unable to move. Numerous exceptions to this general rule exist. The body parts -ohpee (-apee), 'hip,' -úhkus (-uhkas), 'finger nail' and woskequah (wushkeeqâh) , 'whale bone'; the English loan words conner (corner) and Testament (Testament) and the kitchen object kunnommaog (kunumuwôk) , 'ladle' or 'spoon' are all animate. The sun and moon, despite being planetary bodies, are inanimate. Although standing trees are animate, names of trees and species are always inanimate, thus the plural form of kꝏwa (k8wa) , 'pine tree,' is", "title": "Massachusett grammar" }, { "id": "15024470", "text": "Mount Cadbury Mount Cadbury () is the easternmost of the Batterbee Mountains, high, standing east-southeast of Mount Ness and inland from George VI Sound on the west coast of Palmer Land. The coast in this vicinity was first seen and photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth, but this mountain seems to have been obscured from Ellsworth's line of sight by clouds or intervening summits. Mount Cadbury was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Mrs. Henry Tyler Cadbury,", "title": "Mount Cadbury" }, { "id": "12750248", "text": "leave it to Woody to choose Dr. Horace N. Buggy, a Scottish-brogue-burring fox, who is, if it's impossible, even madder than he is. The story ends with Woody hurled into a movie theater audience, watching the doctor crack up on screen, and annoying the people beside him (\"\"That doctor sure is a card, isn't he? But I don't think he's near as funny as the woodpecker! Do you think so, mister? Huh? DO you, mister? HUH? I like cartoons! Don't YOU like cartoons??\"\"). Woody Woodpecker (1941 film) Woody Woodpecker is the first animated cartoon short subject in the \"Woody Woodpecker\"", "title": "Woody Woodpecker (1941 film)" }, { "id": "14518399", "text": "Theresa Berkley (d.1836), the writer William Gerhardi (1895–1977), the conductor and founder of The Proms Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869–1944), American journalist and broadcaster Edward R Murrow (1908–1965), World War Two hero Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas (1901–1964), the radio and television writer Ernest Dudley (1908–2006), and the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942). Number 50 Charlotte Street (later renamed 93 Hallam Street) was both the home and official residence from 1875 to 1910 of Jesse Claxton who was the Registrar of Births and Deaths for St Marylebone for 35 years. Numbers 44 and 50 Hallam Street, originally the offices", "title": "Hallam Street" }, { "id": "2403715", "text": "they were at the middle of the 19th Century, including depictions of Blackfeet (\"see also: Blackfoot Confederacy\"), Hidatsa, and Dakota cultures. Of particular interest is a Folsom point discovered in 1926 New Mexico, providing valuable evidence of early American colonization of the Americas. This hall details the lives and technology of traditional Native American peoples in the woodland environments of eastern North America. Particular cultures exhibited include Cree, Mohegan, Ojibwe, and Iroquois. The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, formerly The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, opened on February 10, 2007. Originally known under the name \"Hall", "title": "American Museum of Natural History" }, { "id": "14244293", "text": "eighteen by twenty-four inches, one of which I now have, and it is now within view. I think the likeness of Mr. Lincoln by far the best of the many I have seen elsewhere, and those of General Grant, Admiral Porter, and myself equally good and faithful. I think Admiral Porter gave Healy a written description of our relative positions in that interview, also the dimensions, shape, and furniture of the cabin of the \"Ocean Queen\"; but the rainbow is Healy's—typical, of course, of the coming peace. In this picture I seem to be talking, the others attentively listening. Whether", "title": "The Peacemakers" }, { "id": "2357565", "text": "Seth MacFarlane Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres. MacFarlane is the creator of the TV series \"Family Guy\" (1999–2003, 2005–present) and \"The Orville\" (2017–present), and co-creator of the TV series \"American Dad!\" (2005–present) and \"The Cleveland Show\" (2009–2013). He also wrote, directed, and starred in the films \"Ted\" (2012), its sequel \"Ted 2\" (2015), and \"A Million Ways to Die in the West\" (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he", "title": "Seth MacFarlane" }, { "id": "2032162", "text": "the western spiral arm of the galaxy. It is home to a number of planets, including Earth and Rupert. Earth is \"an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy\". The sapient life-forms on Earth are, in descending order of intelligence, mice, dolphins and humans, the lattermost of whom may or may not be descended from a race of Golgafrinchan telephone-sanitisers, hairdressers, management consultants, and documentary film producers.\" These Golgafrinchans arrived in a space ark which crashed into the planet circa 2 mya, promptly christening", "title": "Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" }, { "id": "2948083", "text": "Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter Raymond Grant, , , and Barbara Rosemary Grant, , , are a British couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University. Each currently holds the position of emeritus professor. They are known for their work with Darwin's finches on Daphne Major, one of the Galápagos Islands. Since 1973, the Grants have spent six months of every year capturing, tagging, and taking blood samples from finches on the island. They have worked to show that natural selection can be seen within a single lifetime, or even within a couple of years. Charles Darwin originally thought that", "title": "Peter and Rosemary Grant" }, { "id": "2764372", "text": "receive it; they are not on \"the same level\" as would be two humans shaking hands, for instance. Many hypotheses have been formulated regarding the identity and meaning of the twelve figures around God. According to an interpretation that was first proposed by the English art critic Walter Pater (1839 – 1894) and is now widely accepted, the person protected by God's left arm represents Eve, due to the figure's feminine appearance and gaze towards Adam, and the eleven other figures symbolically represent the souls of Adam and Eve's unborn progeny, the entire human race. This interpretation has been challenged,", "title": "The Creation of Adam" }, { "id": "1382896", "text": "Sather Tower Sather Tower (frequently called The Campanile) is a bell tower, with clocks on its four faces, on the University of California, Berkeley campus, more commonly known as The Campanile ( ) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice. It is the university's most recognizable symbol. Given by Jane K. Sather in memory of her husband, banker Peder Sather, it is the third-tallest bell-and-clock-tower in the world. Its current 61-bell carillon, built around a nucleus of 12 bells also given by Jane Sather, can be heard for many miles and supports an extensive program of", "title": "Sather Tower" }, { "id": "16274335", "text": "clear that the forensic samples taken as \"tapings\" in 1986 had been so carefully handled by the police and so well preserved by scientists that Altman could present them as a \"time capsule\" that proved Bishop's guilt. On December 10, 2018, after a nine-week trial at the Central Criminal Court — better known as the Old Bailey — with a jury of seven men and five women, they returned a guilty verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and", "title": "Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park)" }, { "id": "18535037", "text": "Wilson Wood (actor) Wilson Wood (born Charles Woodrow Tolkien, February 11, 1915 – October 23, 2004) was an American character actor during the middle of the twentieth century. Born in Huron, North Dakota on February 11, 1915, he made his film debut with a small role in 1946's \"Two Sisters from Boston\", directed by Henry Koster. During his 17-year career he would appear in over 100 films, usually in smaller roles. In 1952 he would star in a serial for Republic Pictures. The 12 part series was titled, \"Zombies of the Stratosphere\", which would be edited down and released in", "title": "Wilson Wood (actor)" }, { "id": "5071736", "text": "Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Jackson, and John F. Kennedy. More recent Presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are often rated among the greatest in public opinion polls, but do not always rank as highly among presidential scholars and historians. The bottom 10 often include James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor, and George W. Bush. Because William Henry Harrison (30 days) and James A. Garfield (200 days, incapacitated after 119 days) both died shortly after taking office, they are usually omitted", "title": "Historical rankings of presidents of the United States" }, { "id": "8119992", "text": "Digging to China Digging to China is a 1997 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay by Karen Janszen focuses on the friendship forged between a precocious pre-teenaged girl with a vivid imagination and a mentally challenged adult male. Set in the mid-1960s, the story centers on ten-year-old Harriet Frankovitz, a lonely outcast who lives with her mother and older sister Gwen in a dilapidated North Carolina motel with cabins shaped like teepees her mother received as part of her divorce settlement. Harriet has a", "title": "Digging to China" }, { "id": "20010930", "text": "Davies' run from 2005–2010, and Moffat's from 2010–2017. The eleventh series was broadcast on Sundays, a first in the programme's history, after regular episodes of the revived era have previously been broadcast on Saturdays. The series introduces Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, a new incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series also introduces Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill as the Doctor's newest travelling companions, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively. The series", "title": "Doctor Who (series 11)" }, { "id": "1382908", "text": "The carillon program remains fully funded by the generous endowment of Jerry and Evelyn Chambers. Sather Tower Sather Tower (frequently called The Campanile) is a bell tower, with clocks on its four faces, on the University of California, Berkeley campus, more commonly known as The Campanile ( ) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice. It is the university's most recognizable symbol. Given by Jane K. Sather in memory of her husband, banker Peder Sather, it is the third-tallest bell-and-clock-tower in the world. Its current 61-bell carillon, built around a nucleus of 12 bells also given", "title": "Sather Tower" }, { "id": "15296103", "text": "Death and the Sculptor Death and the Sculptor, also known as the Milmore Monument and The Angel of Death and the Young Sculptor is a sculpture in bronze, and one of the most important and influential works of art created by sculptor Daniel Chester French. The work was commissioned to mark the grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, of the brothers Joseph (1841-1886), James and Martin Milmore (1844-1883). It has two figures effectively in the round, linked to a background relief behind them. The right-hand figure represents a sculptor, whose hand holding a chisel is gently", "title": "Death and the Sculptor" } ]

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[ { "id": "3927609", "text": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is a children's novel written by Julie Edwards, the married name of singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews. More recent editions credit the book to \"Julie Andrews Edwards\". Three siblings, Ben, Tom, and Melinda Potter (better known as Lindy), meet Professor Savant while visiting the zoo one rainy day. On Halloween, Lindy dares to knock on the spookiest house on the block, which happens to belong to the Professor, and the three become more acquainted with him. After a second meeting, they begin spending time at", "title": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" }, { "id": "3927612", "text": "of another denizen, the Whiffle Bird, to outwit the traps. The kids at last meet the last Whangdoodle. It turns out he wants a female Whangdoodle to be his queen, so he won't be lonely, and Professor Savant's knowledge and talents have the ability to grant the Whangdoodle just that. That is, if the Professor can figure out exactly how to do it. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is a children's novel written by Julie Edwards, the married name of singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews. More recent editions credit the", "title": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" }, { "id": "2954359", "text": "against a forest where Whangdoodles live. One of the firemen of the book refers to the centipede as a Whangdoodle. In \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", Willy Wonka mentions that he saved the Oompa Loompas from Whangdoodles and various other monsters. A different Whangdoodle is described in the children's novel \"The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles\" by singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews (under her married name of Julie Edwards): an intelligent, ungulate-like character capable of changing color to suit its emotions, from whose hind legs grow a new and different set of bedroom slippers each year. It is", "title": "Whangdoodle" }, { "id": "7776897", "text": "constant headache, which causes it always to be in a foul mood. Accordingly, one is advised to never approach a splintercat. \"Splintercat Creek,\" found in the northern Cascade Range of Oregon, is named after this legendary animal. The Splintercat appears in the book \"The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles\" by Julie Andrews Edwards. This particular Splintercat answers to the Prime Minister of Whangdoodland and also enjoys playing Cat's cradle. Splintercat The splintercat (\"Felynx arbordiffisus\") is a legendary creature and fictional animal in the United States. The splintercat is a nocturnal feline animal of great ferocity. It flies through the", "title": "Splintercat" }, { "id": "2954358", "text": "Whangdoodle The Whangdoodle is a fanciful creature in folklore and children's literature, most notably used by British authors Roald Dahl and Julie Andrews. Popularized by a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as \"Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born,\" published in \"The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime\" (1858). Whangdoodle is also an earlier term for a \"fanciful formation\" or a \"gadget . . . thing for which the correct name is not known.\" In Roald Dahl's book \"The Minpins\", one of the main characters is warned by his mother", "title": "Whangdoodle" }, { "id": "3927610", "text": "the Professor's house, where he introduces them to games of concentration and observation. He reveals that there is a magic land called Whangdoodleland that can only be reached through the imagination, and that he is training them to accompany him there. Whangdoodleland is the home of the last Whangdoodle that lived in the world. Once the Whangdoodle, and other creatures that are now considered imaginary, lived in our world. However, fearing that people were losing their imaginations in the pursuit of power and greed, the Whangdoodle created a magic and peaceful world over which he reigns. The professor and the", "title": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" }, { "id": "18384988", "text": "Cammie McGovern Cammie McGovern is the author of four children's novels: The Art of Seeing, Eye Contact\", \"Neighborhood Watch\" and \"Say What You Will\". Cammie was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott (née Watts), a high school teacher, and William Montgomery McGovern, Jr., a university professor. Her older sister is actress Elizabeth McGovern. When Cammie was seven years old, her father accepted a teaching position with UCLA School of Law and the McGoverns moved to Los Angeles. Her paternal grandfather was adventurer William Montgomery McGovern, her maternal great-grandfathers were U.S. diplomat Ethelbert Watts and Admiral Charles P.", "title": "Cammie McGovern" }, { "id": "3927611", "text": "children explore this world. Each time the children return, they venture farther and farther into Whangdoodleland, intending to reach the palace where the Last Whangdoodle resides. However, the Whangdoodle's Prime Minister, the \"Oily Prock\", does not want them to disturb His Highness, and sets up a number of traps, both in Whangdoodleland and the real world to prevent this meeting. He enlists the marvelous and funny creatures of the land in his effort, including the High Behind Splintercat, the Sidewinders, the Oinck, the Gazooks, the Tree Squeaks, and the Swamp Gaboons. The children use their imaginations, intelligence, and the friendship", "title": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" }, { "id": "5402875", "text": "The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers and Vermicious knids that live in the forest. Worst of all", "title": "The Minpins" }, { "id": "9957746", "text": "the child actress Mandy Miller, who was about a year older. She frequently talks about her favourite books and dolls she played with when she was a child. She is still an avid collector of both books and dolls and she also still enjoys reading and writing. Jacky Daydream Jacky Daydream is an autobiographical book about Jacqueline Wilson's childhood, first published in 2007. The book's title refers to a nickname given to the author when she was at school. The teacher, Mr Branson (who the children nicknamed Brandy Balls) would give all the children nicknames according to their character; initially", "title": "Jacky Daydream" }, { "id": "5402879", "text": "the world and to continue his newfound friendship with the Minpins. The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers", "title": "The Minpins" }, { "id": "13061619", "text": "Roberta Leigh Roberta Leigh was an assumed name for Rita Lewin (née Shulman) (22 December 1926 – 19 December 2014) was a British author, artist, composer and television producer. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories under the pseudonyms Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay, Janey Scott and Rozella Lake. She published her first novel in 1950 and was still actively working on new titles until a year before her death. In addition, she created the children's puppet television series \"Sara and Hoppity\", \"Torchy the Battery Boy\", \"Wonder Boy and Tiger\", \"Send for Dithers\" and \"Space Patrol\" (the last of which she", "title": "Roberta Leigh" }, { "id": "9224827", "text": "with the event being aired on MTV. Callaway found the singer's ability to tell a story enticing, and he got the idea to ask her about writing children's books. The publisher believed that Madonna's worldwide name recognition and cross-cultural appeal would attract an audience to a book written by her. He knew from experience that children's book critics can be fussy, but he was persistent with his idea. At the time Madonna had other commitments. It was only after her marriage to director Guy Ritchie and becoming a mother again (in 2000), she decided to take up the idea of", "title": "The English Roses" }, { "id": "18384989", "text": "Snyder, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was congressman Charles P. Snyder.[2][3][4] She currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband and three sons, the oldest of whom is autistic. Many of her life experiences with her family, autism and starting Whole Children influenced her writings. Cammie McGovern Cammie McGovern is the author of four children's novels: The Art of Seeing, Eye Contact\", \"Neighborhood Watch\" and \"Say What You Will\". Cammie was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott (née Watts), a high school teacher, and William Montgomery McGovern, Jr., a university professor. Her older sister is actress Elizabeth McGovern.", "title": "Cammie McGovern" }, { "id": "2954361", "text": "of the song \"The Big Rock Candy Mountain\" include a mention of a Whangdoodle singing in the titular hobo's paradise. This is the case in the version written down and arranged by Charles and Ruth Seeger. This version is used in the Frederic Rzewski composition for violin, piano, and percussion, entitled 'Whangdoodles'. Whangdoodle The Whangdoodle is a fanciful creature in folklore and children's literature, most notably used by British authors Roald Dahl and Julie Andrews. Popularized by a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as \"Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born,\" published in \"The", "title": "Whangdoodle" }, { "id": "5836109", "text": "Kids. In 1996 \"The Last Noo-Noo\" was adapted as a play and performed at the Polka Theatre, London. In 2007, Murphy received an honorary fellowship from University College Falmouth. Murphy also wrote \"Dear Hound\" in 2009 about a deerhound who goes missing after a storm and the quest for his owners to find him. Jill Murphy Jill Murphy (born 5 July 1949) is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for the \"Worst Witch\" novels and the \"Large Family\" picture books. She has been called \"one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the", "title": "Jill Murphy" }, { "id": "15556570", "text": "Hiroshima. Pike now writes under the name Pai Kit Fai, which was given to him by his Chinese in-laws. Loosely translated, it means \"White Person of Letters and Grand Ambition'. He has written two books under this nom de plume, \"The Concubine's Daughter\" and \"Red Lotus\". Fiction: Non Fiction: Animated scripts: Children’s books, 1995–2001: Children’s books, 1964: \"Around the world with Unbearable Bear\" series (adapted by Laurie Sharpe): Geoffry Morgan Pike Geoffrey Morgan Pike (who writes as Geoff Pike and Pai Kit Fai) is an English-born, naturalized Australian writer and cartoonist. Born in Tottenham, Middlesex on 17 October 1929, to", "title": "Geoffry Morgan Pike" }, { "id": "3520654", "text": "the story of a cat with a secret life, was later filmed as \"Famous Fred\" and nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and several BAFTAs. Her other children's books include \"Lulu and the Flying Babies\", \"The Chocolate Wedding\" and \"Lavender\". In the late 1990s Posy returned to the pages of \"The Guardian\" with \"Gemma Bovery\", which reworked the story of Gustave Flaubert's \"Madame Bovary\" into a satirical tale of English expatriates in France. It was published as a graphic novel in 1999 and was made into a feature film, directed by Anne Fontaine in 2014. \"Literary Life\"", "title": "Posy Simmonds" }, { "id": "4949721", "text": "was recommended by Meg Ryan's character in the 1998 film \"You've Got Mail\". Two unpublished short stories by Streatfeild are set to be published by Virago Press in November 2018 and mid-2019 after they were discovered by Streatfeild’s nephew, William Streatfeild and Donna Coonan, the editorial director of Virago Press. Noel Streatfeild Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the \"Shoes\" books, which were not a series. Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 novel \"Ballet Shoes\" (1936), published some of Streatfeild's subsequent children's books using", "title": "Noel Streatfeild" }, { "id": "7765101", "text": "Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for \"Mermaids\", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is \"Starfish, \"which is a sequel to \"Mermaids.\" Her newest book is \"The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,\" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the Best Books on Writing. \"Sweet & Crazy\" (2003) is a novel about a 39-year-old woman who", "title": "Patty Dann" }, { "id": "4820231", "text": "The new edition also received favourable notices; in fact, it was listed as one of the \"Books of the Year\" by \"The Spectator\". Ruby Ferguson Ruby Constance Annie Ferguson (\"née\" Ashby; 28 July 1899 – 11 November 1966), was a British writer of popular fiction, including children's books, romances, and mysteries. She is best known today for her \"Jill\" books, a series of Pullein-Thompsonesque pony books for children and young adults. Ferguson was born in Hebden Bridge and raised in Reeth, North Yorkshire. Her father was the Reverend David Ashby, a Wesleyan minister, and Ferguson herself later became a lay", "title": "Ruby Ferguson" }, { "id": "4046255", "text": "includes three sequels and has been adapted into four CBBC television series: \"\"The Story of Tracy Beaker\", \"Tracy Beaker Returns\", \"The Dumping Ground\", and \"The Tracy Beaker Survival Files\". She has written more than a hundred books over the course of her career. Jacqueline Aitken was born in Bath, Somerset, England in 1945. Her father was a civil servant; her mother was an antiques dealer. Jacqueline spent most of her childhood in Kingston upon Thames, where she went to Latchmere Primary School. She particularly enjoyed books by Noel Streatfeild, as well as American classics like \"Little Women\" and \"What Katy", "title": "Jacqueline Wilson" }, { "id": "8899523", "text": "Mitchell Kriegman Mitchell Kriegman (born June 4, 1952) is an American television writer, director, producer, consultant, story editor, author, composer and actor. He is the creator of \"Clarissa Explains It All\" (1991) for Nickelodeon, \"Bear in the Big Blue House\" (1997) and \"The Book of Pooh\" (2001) for Disney Channel and \"It's a Big Big World\" (2006) for PBS. Kriegman's first novel was \"Being Audrey Hepburn\" (2014). A second novel, \"Things I Can't Explain\", is a reimagining of the protagonist in the \"Clarissa Explains It All\" television series, in her twenties, published in November 2015. Kriegman holds patents for a", "title": "Mitchell Kriegman" }, { "id": "7765104", "text": "NYC.” In 2008, she married Michael Hill, a journalist. She has one son and two stepsons. Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for \"Mermaids\", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is \"Starfish, \"which is a sequel to \"Mermaids.\" Her newest book is \"The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,\" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the", "title": "Patty Dann" }, { "id": "852156", "text": "by the Booker Prize committee. Mark Knopfler included a song titled 'Beryl' dedicated to her and her posthumous award on his 2015 album Tracker. In 2003, Bainbridge's grandson Charlie Russell began filming a documentary, \"Beryl's Last Year\", about her life. The documentary detailed her upbringing and her attempts to write a novel, \"Dear Brutus\" (which later became \"The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress\"); it was broadcast in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2007 on BBC Four. In 2009, Beryl Bainbridge donated the short story \"Goodnight Children, Everywhere\" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by", "title": "Beryl Bainbridge" }, { "id": "18978623", "text": "Adrienne Kress Adrienne Kress is an award-winning, internationally published Canadian writer of Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. Several of her books are currently attached to major Hollywood studios. She was the first children's author to join the ranks of other famous Canadian women, such as Sarah Polley, Cobie Smulders, and Feist, as a \"Toro Woman\", photographed by Frano Deleo for Toro Magazine. Adrienne Kress is a Canadian actor and author of the internationally published and award-winning children's novels \"Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (Selected by the New York Post as one of its post Harry Potter reading suggestions)\" and", "title": "Adrienne Kress" }, { "id": "7172830", "text": "William Joyce (writer) William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1957) is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker. His illustrations have appeared on numerous covers of \"The New Yorker\" and his paintings are displayed nationwide. For the short film \"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore\" (2011), Joyce won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards. He has written and illustrated over fifty children's books including \"George Shrinks\", \"Santa Calls\", \"Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo\", \"Rolie Polie Olie\", \"The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs\" and \"A Day with", "title": "William Joyce (writer)" }, { "id": "2046972", "text": "Jacqueline Susann Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American writer and actress. Her first novel, \"Valley of the Dolls\" (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, \"The Love Machine\" (1969) and \"Once Is Not Enough\" (1973), Susann became the first author to have three consecutive #1 novels on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller List. Jacqueline Susann was born on August 20, 1918, in Philadelphia, a single daughter to a Jewish couple: Robert Susan (1887–1957), a portrait painter, and Rose Jans (1892–1981), a public schoolteacher. As a", "title": "Jacqueline Susann" }, { "id": "2046990", "text": "made publishing history as the first writer to have three consecutive number one novels on the \"Times\" list. The book was filmed in 1975 by Guy Green as \"Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough\", with Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro (in an Oscar-nominated performance), and Deborah Raffin as January. The film, executive-produced by Irving Mansfield, was not a critical favorite, but was a commercial success, grossing $15.7 million (the equivalent of $65.2 million in 2016).) Susann's final work was a novella, \"Dolores\" (Morrow), a \"roman a clef\" about Jacqueline Kennedy, originally written for the February 1974 issue", "title": "Jacqueline Susann" }, { "id": "4732941", "text": "Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean ( ; born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including \"Peter Pan in Scarlet\" (2004), the official sequel to \"Peter Pan\" commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright. Her work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others. McCaughrean was born in London and grew up in North London. She was the youngest of three children. She studied teaching but found her true vocation in writing. She claims", "title": "Geraldine McCaughrean" }, { "id": "4894532", "text": "idealize the innocence of girls and the mother-daughter bond, for example her 1884 work \"\". During the same era, Whistler's \"Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander\" and \"The White Girl\" depict girls in the same light. The European children's literature canon includes many notable works with young female protagonists. Traditional fairy tales have preserved memorable stories about girls. Among these are \"Goldilocks and the Three Bears\", \"Rapunzel\", \"The Princess and the Pea\" and the Brothers Grimm's \"Little Red Riding Hood\". Well-known children's books about girls include \"Alice in Wonderland\", \"Heidi\", \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\", the Nancy Drew", "title": "Girl" }, { "id": "3784355", "text": "Rusbridger appears in the 2016 film \"Snowden\", with a cameo role as a meeting moderator. He has written three children's books, as well as being the co-author (with Ronan Bennett) of a BBC drama, \"Fields of Gold\". In 1982, he married the educationalist Lindsay Mackie. She helped found the educational charity FILMCLUB. They have two daughters (born 1983 and May 1986). His daughter Isabella Rusbridger is also a journalist and is known professionally as \"Bella Mackie\" to distinguish herself from her father. Rusbridger received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Lincoln in September 2009, from the University", "title": "Alan Rusbridger" }, { "id": "1882342", "text": "characters are said by Halliwell to be loosely based on Gordon Ramsay, George Michael, Marilyn Monroe, Vincent van Gogh, Wayne Rooney, and the character Justin Suarez from the TV series \"Ugly Betty\". According to the official site, the book sold more than 250,000 copies in its first five months, making its author Halliwell 2008's most successful female celebrity children's author. In 2010, Halliwell partnered with British retailer Next to create a swimwear collection named \"Geri by Next\". This was followed by a Union Jack-motif clothing range in 2012, inspired by Halliwell's famous 1997 Union Jack dress. In 1999, Halliwell became", "title": "Geri Halliwell" }, { "id": "14716949", "text": "languages worldwide, including over 6 million books in print in the U.S. The series of books are highly collectible and regularly featured in children’s bestseller lists. Georgie Ripper Georgie Ripper (born London, 1977) is a children's book illustrator known for her work on the \"Rainbow Magic\" series of fairy books. She won the Macmillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration in 2000 with \"My Best Friend Bob\" and \"Little Brown Bushrat\" which she authored and illustrated. She has also illustrated \"A Dog Called Whatnot\" and \"Whatnot Takes Charge\" which were written by Linda Newbery. She graduated from Anglia Ruskin University where", "title": "Georgie Ripper" }, { "id": "9430219", "text": "Dreams\", which was named a New York Times \"Best Illustrated Book\". \"Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride\" won a Cuffie Award from Publisher's Weekly; Mr. Lunch won for most memorable character in a lead role. \"Olive, the Other Reindeer\" was a New York Times Bestseller and the movie version was nominated for an Emmy Award. Vivian Walsh (author) Vivian Walsh is a children's book author. Her best selling book \"Olive, the Other Reindeer\" is based on her real life Jack Russell Terrier. The dog, Olive, was later portrayed (with the voice of Drew Barrymore) in the animated version of the", "title": "Vivian Walsh (author)" }, { "id": "7838113", "text": "later formed the basis for two books, \"Cricket Mad\" and \"Football Daft\". In the 1980s, Parkinson wrote a series of children's books called \"The Woofits\" about a family of anthropomorphic dog-like creatures in the fictional Yorkshire coal-mining village of Grimeworth. The books led to a TV series, which he narrated. He wrote a sports column for the \"Daily Telegraph\" and is president of the Sports Journalists' Association. His book \"Parky: My Autobiography\" was published on 2 October 2008. In April 2009, Parkinson wrote about the recently deceased Jade Goody in \"Radio Times\". He described her as \"barely educated, ignorant and", "title": "Michael Parkinson" }, { "id": "4859153", "text": "her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, \"Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen. There will be a feature-length documentary, also by Michaels, to follow. Ingrid Pitt Ingoushka Pitt (née Petrov; 21 November 193723 November 2010), known professionally as Ingrid Pitt, was a Polish-British actress, author, and writer best known for her work in", "title": "Ingrid Pitt" }, { "id": "4981436", "text": "40 years working as a marketing coordinator for the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce. King privately published a small book \"Bonnie Blue Butler: A Gone With the Wind Memoir\" in 2009, mainly selling copies directly to fans via personal appearances and the internet. King died on September 1, 2010, at her home in Fort Bragg, California, at age 76, from lung cancer, survived by her two children Matthew Ned Conlon of Chicago and Katie Conlon Byrne of Hawaii. Cammie King Eleanore Cammack \"Cammie\" King (August 5, 1934 – September 1, 2010) was an American child actress. She is best", "title": "Cammie King" }, { "id": "11048245", "text": "of the Year\"; the 1999 Times Educational Supplement Junior Music Book Award for \"Three Rapping Rats\"; the 2005 Spoken Word Award for the audio version of \"The Silver Spoon Of Solomon Snow\", read by Rik Mayall. Kaye Umansky Kaye Umansky (; born 6 December 1946) is an English children's author and poet. She has written over 130 books for children and her work ranges from picture books to novels. She is best known for the Pongwiffy Series. Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon. Her mother was a music teacher and encouraged her to play from a young age and", "title": "Kaye Umansky" }, { "id": "2047003", "text": "called \"See How Beautiful I Am: The Return of Jackie Susann\", during which a dying Susann discusses her life and career. The show was performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 as well as the New York International Fringe Festival in 2008. Jacqueline Susann Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American writer and actress. Her first novel, \"Valley of the Dolls\" (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, \"The Love Machine\" (1969) and \"Once Is Not Enough\" (1973), Susann became the first author to have", "title": "Jacqueline Susann" }, { "id": "7232753", "text": "Your Life\" when Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Georg Solti and Lord Runcie joined many celebrities, friends and former pupils to pay tribute to her life's work with children and music. Ann is also a successful writer and her ten \"Famous Children\" books are best sellers worldwide. They have been translated into 17 languages, including Indonesian, Finnish, Czech and two Chinese versions. She is an EMI recording artist, specialising in Classical Music and Stories for children. Ann Rachlin is an acknowledged authority on the Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig. For more than thirty years, Ann has", "title": "Ann Rachlin" }, { "id": "16707235", "text": "Teddybears (TV series) Teddybears was a children's television programme broadcast on ITV from 1997 to 2000, based on the books by Susanna Gretz. The show was about the life of five coloured teddy bears and their dog Fred. The show was filmed by Meridian Broadcasting. Journalists have compared \"Teddybears\" as being similar to \"Teletubbies\". \"Teddybears\" is based on Susanna Gretz and Alison Sage's teddy bear books, the first of which was published almost 30 years before the TV programme's creation. \"Teddybear\"s inaugural season began on 5 January 1998. A 1999 article in the \"Bristol Post\" said \"Teddybears\" \"have become a", "title": "Teddybears (TV series)" }, { "id": "17141790", "text": "as well as many theatrical stage plays. Up until her 85th birthday in 1973, she was very active within the entertainment circle and would not entertain the prospect of retirement, despite self-admitted signs of \"phasing out\". Her final film appearance was in \"The Odd Angry Shot\". In her later years, she gradually declined from acting and instead started writing children's books, such as the series \"Shelley\" (which was based on her granddaughter), under the pseudonym of Ellen Bosworth. Many of her books were best-sellers in Australia. During her lifetime, Lorimer also worked as a teacher and a theosophist. Lorimer was", "title": "Enid Lorimer" }, { "id": "18978626", "text": "Conan Doyle into \"The Friday Society\". According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the film rights to \"Alex and the Ironic Gentleman\" have been bought by The Weinstein Company. According to Variety and Quill and Quire, Disney is adapting \"The Explorers\" with Academy Award Nominee Michael De Luca attached as producer. Adrienne Kress Adrienne Kress is an award-winning, internationally published Canadian writer of Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. Several of her books are currently attached to major Hollywood studios. She was the first children's author to join the ranks of other famous Canadian women, such as Sarah Polley, Cobie", "title": "Adrienne Kress" }, { "id": "16038145", "text": "story, White said this \"flitting back and forth\" is an insurmountable \"structural problem\" that is \"intensely wearing\". Rachel Brown of \"The Atlantic\" thought that \"it makes perfect sense that Colin Meloy, the loquacious and imaginative lead singer of the quirky The Decemberists, would write a children's book.\" In contrast, critic Anna Minard from Seattle's \"The Stranger\" and Patrick Ness, in \"The Guardian\", feared that \"Wildwood\" could be one more of a stream of \"baldly mediocre books written by celebrities\", citing children's books by Joy Behar, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Gloria Estefan, and Madonna. Minard and Ness also worried that the", "title": "Wildwood (novel)" }, { "id": "8789257", "text": "role, Anne, in the feature film \"Father\" (1990) in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow. Amongst many other film and television series, she has appeared in Stanley Kubrick's \"A Clockwork Orange\" (1971), \"Queen Kong\" (1976), \"The Shout\" (1978), \"Father\" (1990), and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel \"An Awfully Big Adventure\" (1995), directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. She has written a number of children's books, including her first, \"The Haunted School\", which was produced as a television mini-series and film. Bought by Disney, it won the Chicago International Film Festival Gold Award", "title": "Carol Drinkwater" }, { "id": "7550638", "text": "Natalie Babbitt Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her acclaimed 1975 novel \"Tuck Everlasting\" has been adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She received the Newbery Honor and Christopher Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982. Natalie Moore was born in Dayton, Ohio, on July 28, 1932, Babbitt studied at Laurel School in Cleveland and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was married to Samuel Fisher Babbitt, and the couple had three children,", "title": "Natalie Babbitt" }, { "id": "2798566", "text": "has described herself as an atheist. Her autobiography \"Cloris: My Autobiography\" was published in March 2009. She wrote the bestselling book with Englund, her former husband. Leachman's granddaughter, Anabel Englund, is a singer. In addition to Anabel, Leachman has five other grandchildren—Portia, Skye, Arielle, Jackson, and Hallelujah—and one great-grandson, Braden. Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress and comedian. In a career spanning over seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards (record tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a Daytime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award for her role in \"The Last Picture Show\" (1971).", "title": "Cloris Leachman" }, { "id": "4046254", "text": "Jacqueline Wilson Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature. As her children's novels frequently feature themes of adoption, divorce, and mental illness, they attract controversy. Four of her books appear in the BBC's The Big Read poll of the 100 most popular books in the UK. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Wilson was a UK nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. Wilson is the author of many book series. Her \"Tracy Beaker\" series, inaugurated in 1991 with \"The Story of Tracy Beaker\",", "title": "Jacqueline Wilson" }, { "id": "10146586", "text": "Primrose Cumming Primrose Cumming (1915–2004) was a British writer of children's books. Her writing career spanned over 30 years, and produced some fine examples of the pony book genre, combining accurate observation of human and equine with a certain wry humour. In her most sought-after title \"Silver Snaffles\", Tattles is brilliantly observed: by turns tetchy and patient, he is the archetypal family pony who has long-sufferingly taught generations of children to ride; in contrast, Smug, the evil pony in \"Silver Eagle Carries On\" has a mind strictly her own: “Smug, of course, had no intention of jumping anything, but she", "title": "Primrose Cumming" }, { "id": "1625196", "text": "2002, her book \"Gooney Bird Greene\" won the Rhode Island Children's Book Award. In 2011 she gave the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture; her lecture was titled \"Unleaving: The Staying Power of Gold\". In 2014, Lowry was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Brown University. In 2014, a film of 'The Giver' starring Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep was released to mixed reviews. An animated film of Lowry's book 'The Willoughbys' will be a Netflix film in 2020. Lois Lowry Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with forty-five children's books. She has", "title": "Lois Lowry" }, { "id": "14716948", "text": "Georgie Ripper Georgie Ripper (born London, 1977) is a children's book illustrator known for her work on the \"Rainbow Magic\" series of fairy books. She won the Macmillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration in 2000 with \"My Best Friend Bob\" and \"Little Brown Bushrat\" which she authored and illustrated. She has also illustrated \"A Dog Called Whatnot\" and \"Whatnot Takes Charge\" which were written by Linda Newbery. She graduated from Anglia Ruskin University where she studied Illustration. Her books have sold over 10 million copies in the UK. A publishing phenomenon, “Rainbow Magic” has sold 20+ million copies in 31", "title": "Georgie Ripper" }, { "id": "4064045", "text": "Sterling (Vice Captain), Richard \"Dickie\" and Mary Morton, Thomas \"Tom\" Ingles, Jenny Harman, Jonathan \"Jon\" Warrender, Penelope \"Penny\" Warrender and Harriet Sparrow. Macbeth, or \"Mackie\", is the Morton's Scottish terrier and is present in all books. Notes Bibliography Lone Pine (books) Lone Pine is a series of children's books written by English author Malcolm Saville. Although they were written over a 35-year timespan, between 1943 and 1978, the characters only age by a few years in the course of the series. The earlier books evoke visions of an outdoor 1940s and '50s childhood reminiscent of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books,", "title": "Lone Pine (books)" }, { "id": "6547086", "text": "Linda Chapman Linda Anne Chapman (born 15 January 1969 in Liverpool) is a British writer, principally of series for younger children. She is particularly known for her fantasy books about unicorns, mermaids and magic. She also writes the Spell Sisters series as Amber Castle and the Superpowers series as Alex Cliff (her own pseudonyms). She has written several of the series books published under the names Lucy Daniels, Jenny Dale (Puppy Patrol), Katie Chase (Little Princesses), Daisy Meadows (Rainbow Magic), and Lauren Brooke, either as part of a collective pseudonym or as a ghostwriter. She has written \"about 200\" books.", "title": "Linda Chapman" }, { "id": "19972180", "text": "Jeraldine Saunders Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923) is an American writer and lecturer, best known as the creator of \"The Love Boat\", an ABC Television series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers. The program was based on her 1974 book, \"Love Boats\", her anecdotal account of her time employed as the first full time female cruise director. Saunders is currently the author of Omarr’s Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column read by hundreds of thousands worldwide and that was originally created by Sydney Omarr, to whom", "title": "Jeraldine Saunders" }, { "id": "8198249", "text": "a 2013 pick for their Best Books for Babies list. Cousins' character, Maisy, was featured on a postage stamp published by the U.S. Postal Service in their 2006 Favorite Children's Book Animals Series. Cousins won a Booktrust Best Book Award (BBA) in 2014 for \"Peck,Peck,Peck\". Lucy Cousins Elizabeth 'Lucy' Cousins (born 10 February 1964) is an English author and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her books featuring Maisy Mouse, but she has also published other children's books, such as \"Jazzy in the Jungle\" (2002) and one about Noah's Ark. She lives in Hampshire, England. Cousins, whose", "title": "Lucy Cousins" }, { "id": "3729331", "text": "Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton. The family moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1919. As well as being a vicar, Harry Newton was a diocesan exorcist and often took his children with him when performing exorcisms. In 1927 the family moved to Rye Harbour in", "title": "Monica Edwards" }, { "id": "13508084", "text": "stating \"the film is an ingenious entertainment machine fuelled by a profound understanding of what children enjoy, whether it's cowpats, talking welly boots or piglets doing synchronised swimming. Thompson has written a properly funny script, which is performed superbly by Ifans, Maggie Smith, Bill Bailey, Ralph Fiennes and some estimable child actors.\" Eros Vlahos was nominated for Best Leading Young Actor at the Young Artist Awards 2011 against Noah Ringer for \"The Last Airbender\", Zachary Gordon for \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\" and Jaden Smith (winner) for \"The Karate Kid\". In the UK, the film opened at number one, with", "title": "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang" }, { "id": "9430217", "text": "Vivian Walsh (author) Vivian Walsh is a children's book author. Her best selling book \"Olive, the Other Reindeer\" is based on her real life Jack Russell Terrier. The dog, Olive, was later portrayed (with the voice of Drew Barrymore) in the animated version of the picture book. The TV special was produced by Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons. Ms. Walsh states that when she lived in New York City, her picture book heroes, like the people around her, were all workaholics. The \"Mr. Lunch\" series begins with this line, \"Mr. Lunch was very good at chasing birds, in fact", "title": "Vivian Walsh (author)" }, { "id": "8966911", "text": "their symbiotic collaboration, until the death of Janet in 1979, there was never a book illustrated under either one of their names alone. The first important book the twins worked on was \"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\" by Dodie Smith, who was already a very successful playwright and author. In 1956 she invited them to illustrate her first children's book, and it was an immediate success, captivating parents and children alike. Eventually, Smith's book was made into a feature-length animated film by Walt Disney. The twins' further success with later Smith books, \"The Starlight Barking\" and \"The Midnight Kittens\", made", "title": "Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone" }, { "id": "13925857", "text": "12 years old; Richard, 10, and Johnny, 8, were the children of Jim Abbe, an itinerant photographer, and his wife, the former Polly Platt, once a Ziegfeld girl. Prodded by their mother, the children dictated their memoirs, which Bye sold as \"Around the World in Eleven Years\". According to the Abbe family, Patience Abbe was the primary author. The book was a surprise hit. In 1954, Bye arranged the sale to Hollywood of Lindbergh's best-selling autobiography, \"The Spirit of St. Louis\", for more than $1,000,000. But Bye was initially unenthusiastic about Laura Ingalls Wilder, commenting that the manuscript of her", "title": "George T. Bye" }, { "id": "10924093", "text": "Wintle's Wonders Wintle's Wonders is a children's novel about a theatrical troupe by Noel Streatfeild. It was first published in 1957, and in 1958 was published in the US as Dancing Shoes, a title which has also been used in more recent UK editions. A number of Streatfeild's children's novels have undergone similar retitling, linking them to her most successful book, \"Ballet Shoes\". \"Wintle's Wonders\" draws on the author's own acting experience, and revisits the type of theatrical establishment seen in her adult novels \"The Whicharts\" and \"It Pays to be Good\". As the book begins, Rachel Lennox and her", "title": "Wintle's Wonders" }, { "id": "15831717", "text": "Janette Sebring Lowrey Janette Sebring Lowrey (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1986) was an American children's writer, best known for writing the beloved children's classic, \"The Poky Little Puppy\". Janette Sebring Lowrey was born in Orange, Texas. Lowrey wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but \"The Poky Little Puppy\" remains her best known, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Another well-known work of hers was \"Margaret\", a historical fiction young adult novel, which was published in 1950. It was adapted into \"\", a TV serial which aired on \"The", "title": "Janette Sebring Lowrey" }, { "id": "13061620", "text": "also wrote and produced). Best known as Roberta Leigh, she was born Rita Shulman in London to sometimes-poor Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia. In 1948, she married Michael Lewin, with whom she had one son, and was widowed in 1981. She died age 87 on 19 December 2014. Leigh wrote her first romantic fiction at age 14, while still a schoolgirl at St Mary’s convent in Rhyl. She published a romance in 1950 as Roberta Leigh, the first of over 160 novels. She also published children's books and romances under the pseudonyms Janey Scott, Rachel Lindsay and Rozella", "title": "Roberta Leigh" }, { "id": "16707239", "text": "and Lee Crowley all worked on the series. Teddybears (TV series) Teddybears was a children's television programme broadcast on ITV from 1997 to 2000, based on the books by Susanna Gretz. The show was about the life of five coloured teddy bears and their dog Fred. The show was filmed by Meridian Broadcasting. Journalists have compared \"Teddybears\" as being similar to \"Teletubbies\". \"Teddybears\" is based on Susanna Gretz and Alison Sage's teddy bear books, the first of which was published almost 30 years before the TV programme's creation. \"Teddybear\"s inaugural season began on 5 January 1998. A 1999 article in", "title": "Teddybears (TV series)" }, { "id": "9224847", "text": "adoption of her son David from Malawi. She continued publishing chapter books in the series, with another 12 books published from 2007–2008. The English Roses The English Roses is a children's picture book written by American entertainer Madonna, released on September 15, 2003, by Callaway Arts & Entertainment. The publishing company's owner Nicholas Callaway had always wanted the singer to write a children's book. Madonna took up the opportunity after her second marriage and being inspired by her Kabbalah teacher and her studies of Jewish mysticism. She wanted to write stories where the female protagonists have a more active role", "title": "The English Roses" }, { "id": "12718489", "text": "Aaron Blabey Aaron Blabey (born 1974) is an Australian author of children's books and artist, who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. He is the creator of two best-selling children's series; \"Pig the Pug\" – a picture book series about a mean-spirited little dog – and \"The Bad Guys\" – a New York Times bestselling graphic novel series for junior readers about a gang of scary-looking animals trying to change their bad reputations. In March 2018 it was announced that a film adaptation of \"The Bad Guys\" is in development at DreamWorks Animation with Blabey serving as an Executive", "title": "Aaron Blabey" }, { "id": "4312439", "text": "Twinkle Khanna Twinkle Khanna (born Tina Jatin Khanna on 29 December 1973) is an Indian author, newspaper columnist, film producer, former film actress and interior designer. Her first book \"Mrs Funnybones\" sold over one hundred thousand copies, making her India's highest-selling female writer of 2015. She repeated the success with her second book, \"The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad\", which also went on to sell over 100,000 copies by August 2017. She won the Crossword Book Award 2016 for Mrs Funnybones. Salaam Noni Appa, a story from the anthology has been adapted into a play directed by Lillette Dubey. She is", "title": "Twinkle Khanna" }, { "id": "2954360", "text": "introduced to the protagonists Ben, Tom, and Lindy, and thus to the reader, by the geneticist 'Professor Savant', a scholar of the Whangdoodle and its secret domain. Attempting to visit both, the scientist and children are opposed by the antagonist 'Prock' (the Whangdoodle's second-in-command), until his resources are exhausted by their tenacity. With Prock persuaded to grant their passage, the children discover that the Whangdoodle is oppressed by want of a mate, and convince Savant to create the latter. With this done, the two Whangdoodles are wedded at a great celebration, and the children return to their home. Some versions", "title": "Whangdoodle" }, { "id": "5397034", "text": "considered attending graduate school and perhaps working in languages for the U.S. State Department. However, she decided to give an acting career a chance. Within a short time, Peete found roles on a television series and in two films. Peete's children's book, \"My Brother Charlie\", won her an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in March 2011. In 2012 the book was awarded the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. In March 2016, a reality series debuted entitled \"For Peete's Sake\", documenting the everyday life of her family. Peete was born in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Dolores and Matt", "title": "Holly Robinson Peete" }, { "id": "12584070", "text": "Robert Quackenbush Robert Mead Quackenbush (born July 23, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as \"Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line\", a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse (inventor of the telegraph), and \"Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens\", published in 1984. His most widely known book, \"Henry's Awful Mistake\", published by Parents Magazine Press in 1980, is present in", "title": "Robert Quackenbush" }, { "id": "4312452", "text": "removal of a kidney stone. She has maintained a Twitter account since November 2014. Twinkle Khanna Twinkle Khanna (born Tina Jatin Khanna on 29 December 1973) is an Indian author, newspaper columnist, film producer, former film actress and interior designer. Her first book \"Mrs Funnybones\" sold over one hundred thousand copies, making her India's highest-selling female writer of 2015. She repeated the success with her second book, \"The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad\", which also went on to sell over 100,000 copies by August 2017. She won the Crossword Book Award 2016 for Mrs Funnybones. Salaam Noni Appa, a story from", "title": "Twinkle Khanna" }, { "id": "2163736", "text": "She has also hosted a Sesame Street special, \"When Families Grieve\". The special, which aired on PBS on April 14, 2010, dealt with the issues that children go through when a parent dies. On February 6, 2011, Couric guest-starred on the post-Super Bowl episode of \"Glee\", playing herself interviewing Sue Sylvester after the cheerleading team lost the championship. Sylvester sarcastically referred to Couric as \"Diane Sawyer\" during the segment. Couric is the author of two children's books and a non-fiction collection of essays. Her children's books \"The Brand New Kid\" (2000) and \"The Blue Ribbon Day\" (2004) were illustrated by", "title": "Katie Couric" }, { "id": "1697697", "text": "P. L. Travers Pamela Lyndon Travers, (; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the \"Mary Poppins\" series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published as a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 25, she took", "title": "P. L. Travers" }, { "id": "15831718", "text": "Mickey Mouse Club\" in 1958. Despite her success as an author, Lowrey herself remained in relative obscurity. Janette Sebring Lowrey Janette Sebring Lowrey (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1986) was an American children's writer, best known for writing the beloved children's classic, \"The Poky Little Puppy\". Janette Sebring Lowrey was born in Orange, Texas. Lowrey wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but \"The Poky Little Puppy\" remains her best known, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Another well-known work of hers was \"Margaret\", a historical fiction young adult novel,", "title": "Janette Sebring Lowrey" }, { "id": "893980", "text": "Cate Tiernan Cate Tiernan (born July 24, 1961) is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American author. Writing as Cate Tiernan, she is best known for her \"Sweep\" series, which follows the Wiccan adventures of a cast of high school students. The stories are sold as the \"Wicca\" series in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia, and as \"White Magic\" (\"Magie Blanche\") in Italy and France. Under her own name, she is chiefly known for children's books in the \"Princess\", \"American Gold Gymnasts\", and \"Disney Girls\" series. In 2008 and 2009, Charbonnet collaborated with author James Patterson on", "title": "Cate Tiernan" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "10915961", "text": "that had meant so much to them both. Eventually in 1994, spurred on by decades of letters and pleas from fans now grown up and wishing to share Pookie with their own children, Ivy and her daughters relaunched Pookie Productions Ltd, and republished her books which once again became international bestsellers. The Animal Shelf, animated by award-winning Cosgrove Hall Films, was a Children's BAFTA-nominated TV series on CITV, running to 52 episodes and broadcast in over 50 countries. In 1997 Ivy was the subject of the BBC Scotland documentary “Pookie Flies Again”. An exhibition of her life and work 'The", "title": "Ivy Wallace" }, { "id": "16577683", "text": "in 2009. Lady Gaga, a multiplatinum-selling singer and LGBT rights activist, came out as bisexual in 2009. Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books renowned for his fictional character Joey Pigza, a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Gantos has won several literary awards, including the Newbery Honor, the Newbery Medal, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor from the American Library Association. Angelina Jolie, an Academy Award-winning actress, came out as bisexual in 2003. When asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, \"Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's", "title": "Bisexuality in the United States" }, { "id": "12486983", "text": "CERN following construction of the Large Hadron Collider. Hawking quickly conceded that he had lost his bet and said that Higgs should win the Nobel Prize for Physics, which he did in 2013. In 2007, Hawking and his daughter Lucy published \"George's Secret Key to the Universe\", a children's book designed to explain theoretical physics in an accessible fashion and featuring characters similar to those in the Hawking family. The book was followed by sequels in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2016. In 2002, following a UK-wide vote, the BBC included Hawking in their list of the 100 Greatest Britons. He", "title": "Stephen Hawking" }, { "id": "6153454", "text": "Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver (born May 18, 1957) is an American journalist and author who lives in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her novel \"We Need to Talk About Kevin\", which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name, starring Tilda Swinton. Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver on May 18, 1957, in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a deeply religious family (her father is a Presbyterian minister). At age 15, she informally changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the", "title": "Lionel Shriver" }, { "id": "10876837", "text": "Since \"Party Girl\", Von Scherler Mayer has been writing and directing films, as well as directing television productions. Von Scherler Mayer directed \"Madeline\", a 1998 film based on Ludwig Bemelmans’ famous children’s books about the adventures of a young redhaired French girl. \"Madeline\" starred Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne and Hatty Jones as Madeline. Von Scherler Mayer is married to film composer David Carbonara, with whom she has two daughters. Daisy von Scherler Mayer Daisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer (born 1965) is an American film and television director. Mayer is the daughter of actress Sasha von Scherler", "title": "Daisy von Scherler Mayer" }, { "id": "4820224", "text": "Ruby Ferguson Ruby Constance Annie Ferguson (\"née\" Ashby; 28 July 1899 – 11 November 1966), was a British writer of popular fiction, including children's books, romances, and mysteries. She is best known today for her \"Jill\" books, a series of Pullein-Thompsonesque pony books for children and young adults. Ferguson was born in Hebden Bridge and raised in Reeth, North Yorkshire. Her father was the Reverend David Ashby, a Wesleyan minister, and Ferguson herself later became a lay officer of the Methodist church. She received her education at Bradford Girls Grammar School and then at St Hilda's College at the University", "title": "Ruby Ferguson" }, { "id": "9696621", "text": "Ellen Conford Ellen Conford (March 20, 1942 – March 20, 2015) was an author for children and young adults. Among her writings are the \"Annabel the Actress\" and \"Jenny Archer\" series. Her books have won the Best Book of the Year Citation, Best Book of the International Interest Citation, Best Book of the Year for Children, Parents' Choice Award, and more. Several of her stories have been adapted for television, sometimes by Conford herself. Her children's book \"And This is Laura\" and the story \"Revenge of the Incredible Dr. Rancid and His Youthful Assistant, Jeffrey\" became ABC Weekend Specials, while", "title": "Ellen Conford" }, { "id": "5899679", "text": "further eight books, illustrated by Garth Williams, who had previously illustrated other children's classics like \"Charlotte's Web\" and \"Stuart Little,\" and Erik Blegvad. In 1977 Walt Disney Productions released the animated feature film \"The Rescuers\", which had critical acclaim and financial success when it was released, followed by a sequel, \"The Rescuers Down Under\" in 1990. Sharp died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 14 March 1991. In 2008 all of her adult books except for \"The Eye of Love\" were out of print, but in 2016 Kindle editions of ten of her novels were issued. Margery Sharp Clara Margery Melita Sharp", "title": "Margery Sharp" }, { "id": "8248682", "text": "Barbara Cooney Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on \"Chanticleer and the Fox\" (1958) and \"Ox-Cart Man\" (1979), and a National Book Award for \"Miss Rumphius\" (1982). Her books have been translated into 10 languages. For her contribution as a children's illustrator, Cooney was the U.S. nominee in 1994 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. Cooney was born on 6 August 1917 in Room", "title": "Barbara Cooney" }, { "id": "605541", "text": "Amy Tan Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. Her novel \"The Joy Luck Club\" was adapted into a film in 1993 by director Wayne Wang. Tan has written several other novels, including \"The Kitchen God's Wife\", \"The Hundred Secret Senses\", \"The Bonesetter's Daughter\", \"Saving Fish from Drowning\", and \"The Valley of Amazement\". Tan's latest book is a memoir entitled \"Where The Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir\" (2017). In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: \"The Moon Lady\" (1992) and \"Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese", "title": "Amy Tan" }, { "id": "10507548", "text": "Martha MacIsaac Martha MacIsaac (born October 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in several feature films, including \"Superbad\" (2007), \"The Last House on the Left\" (2009), \"Dead Before Dawn\" (2012), and, most recently, \"Battle of the Sexes\" (2017). She has also worked in television and as a voice actress. MacIsaac was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the youngest of three girls; her mother Irene was one of twelve. MacIsaac started her career playing Emily Byrd Starr in the \"Emily of New Moon\" television series, based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. She has", "title": "Martha MacIsaac" }, { "id": "3729341", "text": "By Publishers in February 2010. Brian Parks' Companion to the Romney Marsh series of books was published in July 2006. Monica Edwards' last new title (Badger Valley) was published in 1976. She spent the next twenty years in traveling, reading and studying natural history. Bill Edwards died in October 1990 and Monica in January 1998. Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on", "title": "Monica Edwards" }, { "id": "15629120", "text": "Awards, Echo Awards, and Connecticut Press Club. She is a member of WoVO(World Voices Organization, for professional international Voice Talents). In 2011 she narrated the 40-minute, National Science Foundation founded documentary \"Ease the Quiet Storm\". Since the early 1990s Kaye has narrated dozens of children's books for several well-known authors, including the 1991 children's book \"Zoo\" by Gail Gibbons, \"Walter the Farting Dog\" by William Kotzwinkle, the 1994 version of David Small's \"Imogene's Antler\", the 1997 audiobook of \"A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt\" by David A. Adler, the 2001 book \"Hedgie's Surprise\" by award-winner Jan Brett, and 2007's \"The", "title": "Randye Kaye" }, { "id": "6123277", "text": "First Lady Laura Bush. She moved into the White House as a ten-week-old puppy on January 6, 2005, shortly before the beginning of President Bush's second term in office. The First Lady and her daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush named their new dog after a character from Oliver Butterworth's 1956 children's book, \"The Enormous Egg\". Miss Beazley and the Bushes' first Scottish Terrier, Barney, became well known United States presidential pets. In 2005, Miss Beazley and Barney were featured in the White House Christmas video, \"A Very Beazley Christmas\", for her first holiday in the White House. Miss Beazley continued", "title": "Miss Beazley (dog)" }, { "id": "2220646", "text": "MacDonald's book, \"Anybody Can Do Anything\". In September 2016, Annie Parnell, MacDonald's great-granddaughter, published a follow-up to the series, \"Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure\" in conjunction with Ann M. Martin, with illustrations by Ben Hatke. Betty MacDonald Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book \"The Egg and I\". She also wrote the \"Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle\" series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington state. MacDonald was born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado. Her official", "title": "Betty MacDonald" }, { "id": "18824029", "text": "Morgan Griffin Morgan Griffin (born 4 June 1992) is an Australian actress. She made her on-screen debut in the popular children’s Series \"The Sleepover Club\" based on the international bestselling children's books. Her other notable roles include Heidi in \"September\" (2007) and Jess in \"Charlie & Boots\" (2009) alongside Australian veteran actor Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson. Her international break came with roles in the films \"Nim's Island\" (2008) with Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin, \"Accidents Happen\" (2009) opposite Geena Davis; and in Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut film UNBROKEN. In 2014 she completed filming \"LOUDER THAN WORDS\"", "title": "Morgan Griffin" }, { "id": "16101322", "text": "and by many other feature films. In 2003, Mondo TV throughout MIM AG and in co-production with NDF, and Caligari Film, launched its 26 episodes series, \"Letters from Felix\", based on the Children's books by Annette Langen and Costanza Droop. It was followed by two 81-minute each featured films: \"Felix: All Around the World\", released in 2005, and \"Felix: The Toy Rabbit and the Time Machine\", released in 2006. In 2004 Mondo TV in co-production with RAI launched \"The Last of the Mohicans\", a 26-episode animated series based on the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. That same year Mondo", "title": "Mondo TV" }, { "id": "11889134", "text": "1998 German feature film \"Run Lola Run\" may also have raised the name's profile, as has Lola, a clever and inquisitive child character in a recently published series of children's picture books by Lauren Child. The naming of several children of celebrities in the past decade has increased the popularity of the name. Madonna uses the nickname \"Lola\" for her daughter Lourdes Leon, born in 1996. Entertainers Kelly Ripa, Chris Rock, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, Carnie Wilson and Annie Lennox all have daughters named Lola. The name was also used for a granddaughter of Camilla Parker Bowles. Lola (given", "title": "Lola (given name)" }, { "id": "10894944", "text": "Blu de Golyer Blu de Golyer (born July 9, 1975) is an American writer and filmmaker. In 2013, Blu wrote and produced \"House of Good and Evil\", starring Rachel Marie Lewis and German actor Christian Oliver. In 2014, he wrote and produced the \"Hillbilly Horror Show\". Blu has also produced the film \"Noah's Ark\". Blu de Golyer is also a published author with his series of children's books \"The Adventures Of Captain Greenspud\". Blu de Golyer is the great nephew of stage actress Mary de Golyer (\"The Red Menace\" 1949). He is also related to oil tycoon Everette Lee DeGolyer.", "title": "Blu de Golyer" }, { "id": "11510172", "text": "Sarah Holland Sarah Holland (born November 1961 in Folkestone, Kent, England) is a writer, actress and singer best known for her 22 romantic novels for Harlequin which have been published in over 130 countries, selling millions of copies worldwide. She has also written for television, newspapers and the screen as well as appearing in films; most notably the multi-award-winning Texan movie \"Artois the Goat\" (2009) and a supporting role with Academy Award-winning American actor Jack Palance in \"Treasure Island\" (1999). Holland wrote her first book, \"Too Hot To Handle\" at 18, and became one of the youngest romantic novelists in", "title": "Sarah Holland" }, { "id": "7032558", "text": "Sophie Kinsella Madeleine Sophie Wickham (née Townley; born 12 December 1969), also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author of chick lit. The first two novels in her best-selling Shopaholic series, \"The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic\" and \"Shopaholic Abroad\", were adapted into the film \"Confessions of a Shopaholic\" (2009). Her books have been translated into over 30 languages. Sophie was born on 12 December 1969, the eldest daughter of David R. and Patricia B. (née Kinsella) Townley. The eldest sister of fellow writers Gemma and Abigail Townley, Sophie Kinsella was educated at Putney High School,", "title": "Sophie Kinsella" }, { "id": "900356", "text": "Bonnie Franklin, Melissa Gilbert, Danielle Brisebois, Erika Eleniak, Max Pomeranc, Christina Ricci, Shelley Fabares, Candace Cameron Bure, Karron Graves, Gaby Hoffmann, Hilary Duff, Molly Ringwald, Stacy Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lisa Whelchel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Soleil Moon Frye, Melissa Joan Hart, Dean Stockwell, Fred Savage, Neil Patrick Harris, Michelle Chia, Shawn Lee, Joshua Ang, Aloysius Pang, and other Academy Award winners and nominees include; Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt, Irene Cara, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank, Christian Bale, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Many actors' careers are short-lived and this is also", "title": "Child actor" }, { "id": "15425927", "text": "2000, she began writing books for children in collaboration with her mother, starting with \"Dumpy the Dumptruck\". They wrote 13 \"Dumpy\" books, of which 12 were illustrated by her father Tony Walton, who had remained friends with her mother despite their divorce. Walton-Hamilton and Andrews have co-written 31 children's books, including the \"Dumpy\" books, \"The Great American Mousical\" (2006), also illustrated by Walton, two \"Bonnie Boadicea\" novels for middle schoolers, the New York Times bestselling\"The Very Fairy Princess\" (2010) series, and two unrelated novels. They have also co-edited two anthologies of poetry and songs, and one concept book, \"Thanks to", "title": "Emma Walton Hamilton" } ]

[ "Manfred B. Lee", "Frederic Dannay", "Manfred Bennington Lee", "Manfred Lee", "Barnaby Ross", "Pseud. Ellery Queen", "Lee, Manfred Bennington", "Dannay, Frederic", "Ellery Queen" ]

[ { "id": "18077259", "text": "Kurt. Kurt has a heart attack and dies. Afterward Brown calls the police and confesses the entire story, but police press do not charges as he is able to help them bring down the international drug ring with which Kurt was working. Kill As Directed Kill As Directed is a novel that was published in 1963 by writing team of Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971) under the pseudonym Ellery Queen. Harrison Brown is a young doctor who is", "title": "Kill As Directed" }, { "id": "18077254", "text": "Kill As Directed Kill As Directed is a novel that was published in 1963 by writing team of Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971) under the pseudonym Ellery Queen. Harrison Brown is a young doctor who is a couple of years removed from medical school and has gone through his father’s modest inheritance trying to set up his private practice. An old friend, Tony Mitchell, who was a lawyer that had a casual professional relationship with Brown’s father, visits", "title": "Kill As Directed" }, { "id": "1379229", "text": "Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers under the Ellery Queen authorial name, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character. Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982), and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971), were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories starring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty popular anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were also published", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "100830", "text": "developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?\" Ellery Queen is a fictional detective-hero, created by Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971), and Frederic Dannay (1905～1982), as well as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee. Ellery Queen first appeared in \"The Roman Hat Mystery\" (1929), and was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of", "title": "Detective fiction" }, { "id": "1379228", "text": "Ellery Queen Ellery Queen is a crime fiction pseudonym created in 1929 by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision. Dannay and Lee's main fictional character, whom they also named Ellery Queen, is a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character were written by Dannay and Lee, and were among the most popular American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. From 1961,", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "1590999", "text": "magazines in the 1930s and 1940s increased interest in mystery fiction. Pulp magazines decreased in popularity in the 1950s with the rise of television so much that the numerous titles available then are reduced to two today: \"Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine\" and \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\". The detective fiction author Ellery Queen (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) is also credited with continuing interest in mystery fiction. Interest in mystery fiction continues to this day because of various television shows which have used mystery themes and the many juvenile and adult novels which continue to be published. There", "title": "Mystery fiction" }, { "id": "1379262", "text": "Magician\" and \"The Mystery of the Vanished Victim\" starred \"Gulliver Queen\", Ellery's nephew. Two collections of true crime stories (based on material gathered by anonymous researchers) written by Lee alone, which were originally published in \"The American Weekly\". All written by Dannay and Lee. Other short story collections exist, such as \"More Adventures of Ellery Queen\" (1940), which reprint stories from two previous collections. and many more Ellery Queen Ellery Queen is a crime fiction pseudonym created in 1929 by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision. Dannay and Lee's", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "1379235", "text": "outlived his cousin by eleven years, the Ellery Queen authorial name died with Manfred Lee. The last novel starring the character Ellery Queen, \"A Fine and Private Place\", was published in 1971, the year of Lee's death. However, \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\", now published by Dell Magazines, continues as a crime fiction magazine as of 2018, currently publishing six \"double issues\" per year. Ellery Queen was created in 1928 when Dannay and Lee entered a writing contest sponsored by \"McClure's\" magazine for the best first mystery novel. They decided to use as their collective pseudonym the same name that they", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "512418", "text": "the attempt was not entirely successful – and the two are still sometimes confused by booksellers. A pen name may be used specifically to hide the identity of the author, as in the case of exposé books about espionage or crime, or explicit erotic fiction. Some prolific authors adopt a pseudonym to disguise the extent of their published output, e.g. Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Co-authors may choose to publish under a collective pseudonym, e.g., P. J. Tracy and Perri O'Shaughnessy. Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee used the name Ellery Queen as both a pen name for their collaborative", "title": "Pseudonym" }, { "id": "3031341", "text": "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, EQMM is named after the fictitious author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen. From 1993, EQMM changed its cover title to be \"Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine\" (without the 's), but the table of contents still retains the full name. Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of the team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who had been writing under", "title": "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" }, { "id": "10921997", "text": "The Origin of Evil The Origin of Evil is a mystery novel by Ellery Queen (pseudonym of American writers Manfred B. Lee and Frederic Dannay), published in 1951. It is set in Los Angeles, US. The beautiful young Laurel Hill asks Ellery Queen to investigate a series of unusual anonymous gifts that have been received by her father, Leander Hill, half of Hill and Priam, Wholesale Jewelers. Roger Priam is Leander's partner, who uses a wheelchair. The latest gift, a dead dog with a mysterious note in a silver casket around its neck, has caused Leander to have a heart", "title": "The Origin of Evil" }, { "id": "565270", "text": "Sutherland, and the editor Victoria Holmes. Collaborative authors may have also their works published under a single pen name. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee published their mystery novels and stories under the pen name Ellery Queen, as well as publishing the work of ghost-writers under the same name. The writers of \"Atlanta Nights\", a deliberately bad book intended to embarrass the publishing firm PublishAmerica, used the pen name Travis Tea. Additionally, the credited author of \"The Expanse\", James S.A. Corey, is an amalgam of the middle names of collaborating writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck respectively, while S.A. are", "title": "Pen name" }, { "id": "1379232", "text": "work that remained in print for many years. Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961. The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay and Lee also wrote four novels about a detective named Drury Lane using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. They allowed the Ellery Queen name to be used as a house name for a number", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "10437537", "text": "the young heir, was born in 1905. This is at odds with accounts in the earliest Queen stories, but Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who co-wrote the novels under the \"Ellery Queen\" pen name, were both born in 1905. To quote some negative criticism of the novel: \"Rhymed threats of murder, accompanied by symbolic objectives, bewilder the guests and annoy the reader. The pervasive vulgarity renders the trick plot even less believable and justifies the contempt of those who dismiss all crime fiction as puerile.\" The Finishing Stroke The Finishing Stroke is a mystery novel by Ellery Queen, published", "title": "The Finishing Stroke" }, { "id": "1379230", "text": "under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay was the founder and longtime editor of \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\", which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. Dannay and Lee also wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross, a name that they later allowed another author to use. Several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, \"Ellery Queen\" served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective-hero they created. During the 1930s and much", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "1379251", "text": "featured Inspector Thumm (at first of the New York police, then later a private investigator) and his crime-solving daughter Patience. The Drury Lane novels are in the whodunit style. \"The Tragedy of X\" and \"The Tragedy of Y\" are variations on the locked-room mystery format. \"The Tragedy of Y\" bears some resemblance to the Ellery Queen novel \"There Was an Old Woman\": both are about eccentric families headed by a matriarch. In the early 1930s, before Dannay and Lee's identity as the authors had been made public, \"Ellery Queen\" and \"Barnaby Ross\" staged a series of public debates in which", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "4505610", "text": "each winners of the prestigious \"Prix du Roman d'Aventures\", awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for \"Le Repos de Bacchus\" during 1938 and Narcejac for \"La Mort est du Voyage\" during 1948, each a so-called locked-room mystery. The pair met during 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileauas a prior winnerhad also been invited. Their collaboration began soon afterward, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (\"Ellery Queen\"). Boileau-Narcejac also wrote the \"Sans Atout\" juvenile fiction series. They", "title": "Boileau-Narcejac" }, { "id": "1379236", "text": "had given their detective. Inspired by the formula and style of the Philo Vance novels by S. S. Van Dine, their entry won the contest, but before it could be published, the magazine closed. Undeterred, the cousins took their novel to other publishers, and \"The Roman Hat Mystery\" was published in 1929. According to H. R. F. Keating, \"Later the cousins took a sharper view of the Philo Vance character, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, 'the biggest prig that ever came down the pike'.\" \"The Roman Hat Mystery\" established a reliable template: a geographic formula title (\"The Dutch", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "1379234", "text": "as the outlines of the characters and Manfred Lee clothed it all in words. But it is unlikely to have been as clear cut as that.\" According to critic Otto Penzler, \"As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction.\" British crime novelist Margery Allingham wrote that Ellery Queen had \"done far more for the detective story than any other two men put together\". Although Frederic Dannay", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "18090729", "text": "Award awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program) The Adventures of Ellery Queen was a radio detective program in the United States. Several iterations of the program appeared on different networks, with the first one broadcast on CBS June 18, 1939, and the last on ABC May 27, 1948. \"The Adventures of Ellery Queen\" grew out of the combined efforts of producer-director George Zachary and writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. Dannay and Lee, who were cousins, originated the Ellery Queen character. Initially they wrote the program's scripts, and Zachary handled production. Beginning", "title": "The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program)" }, { "id": "18090724", "text": "The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program) The Adventures of Ellery Queen was a radio detective program in the United States. Several iterations of the program appeared on different networks, with the first one broadcast on CBS June 18, 1939, and the last on ABC May 27, 1948. \"The Adventures of Ellery Queen\" grew out of the combined efforts of producer-director George Zachary and writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. Dannay and Lee, who were cousins, originated the Ellery Queen character. Initially they wrote the program's scripts, and Zachary handled production. Beginning in 1945, Anthony Boucher replaced Dannay and worked", "title": "The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program)" }, { "id": "11172", "text": "named Solar Pons, of Praed Street in London. The series was greatly admired by such notable writers and critics of mystery and detective fiction as Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay), Anthony Boucher, Vincent Starrett and Howard Haycraft. In his 1944 volume \"The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes\", Ellery Queen wrote of Derleth's \"The Norcross Riddle\", an early Pons story: \"How many budding authors, not even old enough to vote, could have captured the spirit and atmosphere with as much fidelity?\" Queen adds, \"...and his choice of the euphonic Solar Pons is an appealing addition to the fascinating lore of Sherlockian nomenclature.\" Vincent", "title": "August Derleth" }, { "id": "3540825", "text": "success of Lee's first book, readers began to wonder about his identity. Lee has never provided any photograph of himself or revealed anything about his personal life. Whenever he appears in public, he wears a mask and clothes that cover every inch of his body. Some reports say Russell Lee is white, posing as a local Singaporean. Others say he is Jim Aitchison (aka James Lee), but this has never been substantiated. In the books, Lee swears he is Singaporean, with the \"five stars and crescent moon imprinted on each blood cell\". As of 2017, 26 books in the \"True", "title": "Russell Lee (writer)" }, { "id": "1379233", "text": "of novels written by other authors from outlines provided by Dannay, most of them published in the 1960s as paperback originals and not featuring Ellery Queen as a character. Dannay and Lee remained circumspect about their writing methods. Novelist and critic H. R. F. Keating wrote, \"How actually did they do it? Did they sit together and hammer the stuff out word by word? Did one write the dialogue and the other the narration? ... What eventually happened was that Fred Dannay, in principle, produced the plots, the clues, and what would have to be deduced from them as well", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "16672596", "text": "Ursula Torday Ursula Torday (; 19 February 1912 in London, England – 6 March 1997), was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce (), Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, and Charlotte Keppel. In 1961, her novel \"Witches' Sabbath\" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association Ursula Joyce Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (in some sources wrongly 1888) in London, England, United Kingdom, daughter of mixed parentage, her mother Gaia Rose Macdonald, was Scottish, and her father Emil", "title": "Ursula Torday" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "15347690", "text": "In 2007 the Government of Alberta unilaterally cancelled the \"Interim Métis Harvesting Agreement\". The SRD adopted a replacement policy which Morton contended complied with Métis hunting rights as set out in the Supreme Court of Canada's \"R v Powley\" decision. In September 2011, CBC revealed that Norton had been using a \"nom de plume\" – his first and middle names – Frederick Lee – as \"covert email\" while serving as minister of Sustainable Resource Development (SRD). According to a former ministry staff member who spoke with the CBC, the SRD's communications director explained at a July 2007 meeting, to SRD", "title": "Ted Morton" }, { "id": "1370302", "text": "and sky. Later on, when Joel tussles with Idabell (Aubrey Dollar), a tomboyish neighbor who becomes his best friend (a character inspired by the author Harper Lee), the movie has a special force and clarity in its evocation of the physical immediacy of being a child playing outdoors. Notes Bibliography Archival sources Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella \"Breakfast at Tiffany's\"", "title": "Truman Capote" }, { "id": "13227474", "text": "True Singapore Ghost Stories series continues to capture the imagination of Singaporeans.\" - THE STRAITS TIMES \"The material is just so incredibly rich... You just want to read on.\" - THE STRAITS TIMES \"True Singapore Ghost Stories Book 1 is Singapore’s all-time number one bestseller.\" - THE STAR \"Angsana’s Russell Lee is Singapore’s biggest-selling author by a long, long way!\" - THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION \"The results of a Forbes survey commissioned by the National Library Board show that as many as four out of ten Singaporeans prefer to read horror-ghost stories... the most popular fiction is Russell Lee’s True", "title": "True Singapore Ghost Stories" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "1379261", "text": "edited and supervised by Dannay after Lee's death. Unless noted, these novels do not feature Ellery Queen as a character. These novels were edited by Lee and ghosted by various authors, including Frank Belknap Long (who admitted writing two without mentioning the titles), Samuel Duff McCoy, and James Clark Carlisle, Jr., who \"aroused the ire of Lee by farming out the writing of some of the books to a 'sub-ghost', which has made establishing authorship even worse\". All the \"Junior\" novels with a colour in their title starred Djuna (see Ellery Queen), the Queens' houseboy. \"The Mystery of the Merry", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "3031353", "text": "Japanese, French, Italian, German were all once available, but all ceased publication eventually. After Frederic Dannay passed away in 1982, Eleanor Sullivan succeeded his place and began to serve as editor of \"EQMM\". She was the managing editor of the magazine from 1970 to 1982, hand-picked by Frederic Dannay after an interview, and she has written many articles under a pen name for newspapers, magazines and books. During Eleanor Sullivan’s editorship, in 1985, The EQMM Readers Award began: it is an annual award selected by readers of\" EQMM \"of their favorite stories. Since then, it has become one of the", "title": "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" }, { "id": "3031342", "text": "the name since 1929. \"EQMM\" was created to provide a market for mystery fiction above the common run of pulp crime magazines of the day. Dannay served as the magazine's editor-in-chief (although still under the name Ellery Queen) from its creation until his death in 1982, when managing editor Eleanor Sullivan succeeded to the post. Following her death in 1991, Janet Hutchings became editor of \"EQMM\". In \"Bloody Murder\", Julian Symons offered this description of the publication: Around 4 years after Ellery Queen’s successful debut,\" The Roman Hat Mystery\", Dannay and Lee decided to produce a magazine that would publish", "title": "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" }, { "id": "10394507", "text": "but kept everything else the same. All stories that were first printed in \"Ten Detective Aces\" and that have since been reprinted have changed the name of Landin back to Banner.\" By the 1950s, Commings submitted stories to \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\", but Frederic Dannay (half of the writing/editorial team known as Ellery Queen) didn't like the character of Banner, so Commings was never printed in \"EQMM\". It wouldn't be until 1957 that Commings would be able to print another Banner story.\" In 1957, Commings published stories in an offbeat mystery magazine, \"Mystery Digest\". It was during this time that", "title": "Joseph Commings" }, { "id": "3555329", "text": "Before the move to IDW, Peter David acknowledged that \"Fallen Angel\" was based on ideas he had been unable to use during his time writing \"Supergirl\" before it was cancelled, but stopped short of admitting that Lee was, in fact, Linda Lee Danvers (Supergirl). The DC run of the title is consistent with this hypothesis, which would also jibe with the expressed intent to form a \"bridge\" between DC's general-audience and supernatural imprints. Though David remained coy as to whether the two characters were one and the same during the DC run of the title, after it moved to IDW,", "title": "Fallen Angel (comics)" }, { "id": "1972952", "text": "the idea of a free and self-regulating social order. He frequently made use of pseudonyms, including \"Julienne de Cherisy,\" \"Robert Desessarts,\" \"Jules-François Dupuis,\" \"Tristan Hannaniel,\" \"Anne de Launay,\" and \"Michel Thorgal.\" Recently he has been an advocate of a new type of strike, in which service and transportation workers provide services for free and refuse to collect payment or fares. In 2009 Vaneigem was interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist for e-flux. Raoul Vaneigem Raoul Vaneigem (; born 21 March 1934) is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book \"The Revolution of Everyday Life\". He was born in Lessines (Hainaut,", "title": "Raoul Vaneigem" }, { "id": "10227472", "text": "Jason Dark Jason Dark is the 'nom de plume' of Helmut Rellergerd, a prolific author of horror detective fiction in the German language. His work has been favourably compared to that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Helmut Rellergerd pseudonym: Jason Dark (born January 25, 1945 in Altena-Dahle, Sauerland) is a German writer, under the pseudonym of Jason Dark. Jason Dark is one of the most read authors in Germany in his genre. Helmut Rellergerd was born in 1945 in Dahle, the Sauerland and grew up in Dortmund. He and wrote his first novel after he had finished school and the", "title": "Jason Dark" }, { "id": "5937417", "text": "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished until 2008. The book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, \"Junkie\") writes the character \"Will Dennison\" while Kerouac (as \"John Kerouac\"), takes on the character of \"Mike Ryko\". According", "title": "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" }, { "id": "8893158", "text": "Bill Brittain William E. \"Bill\" Brittain (December 16, 1930 – December 16, 2011) was an American writer. He is best known for work set in the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including \"The Wish Giver\", a Newbery Honor Book. Brittain was born in Rochester, New York. He decided he wanted to be a 5th-grade teacher, and in addition to teaching, used to read stories in mystery magazines. After some time, he decided he could do as good a job at writing as some of the authors he read; he got coaching on writing from Frederic Dannay of \"Ellery", "title": "Bill Brittain" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1379252", "text": "one cousin impersonated Queen and the other impersonated Ross, both of them wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. According to H.R.F. Keating, \"People said Ross must be the wit and critic Alexander Woollcott and Queen S. S. Van Dine..., creator of the super-snob detective Philo Vance, on whom 'Ellery Queen' was indeed modeled.\" In the 1960s, the cousins allowed the Barnaby Ross name to be used as a pseudonym for the publication of a series of historical romance novels by Don Tracy. From the 1940s, republications of the Drury Lane books were mostly under the Ellery Queen name. The first", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "8163350", "text": "Brooke Magnanti Brooke Magnanti (born 5 November 1975) is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl known by the working name Taro. Her diary, published as the anonymous blog \"Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl\", became increasingly popular as speculation surrounded the identity of Belle de Jour. Remaining anonymous, Magnanti went on to have her experiences", "title": "Brooke Magnanti" }, { "id": "4694866", "text": "the early 1960s made it possible for him to pursue the other consuming interest of his life: American musical theatre. During this time, he also began writing Western fiction as Frederick H. Christian, a pseudonym derived from his own, his wife Heidi's, and his oldest son's first names. Over the next decade, while working in publishing – with Transworld, then Penguin, Collins, and Granada in London, and later with Ballantine and Warner in New York - he produced 14 Westerns as well as a considerable body of journalism. On 4 July 1973, Nolan quit his job as a highly paid", "title": "Frederick Nolan" }, { "id": "9839704", "text": "André Launay André Joseph Launay is a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lives in Nerja, in the south of Spain; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and three grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel. Visit the Drew Launay website at https://web.archive.org/web/20100924085552/http://www.drewlaunay.com/ where his best sellers are", "title": "André Launay" }, { "id": "512415", "text": "his pen name than his real name. One famous example of this is Samuel Clemens writing under the pen name Mark Twain. British mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name, refused to open letters addressed to him as \"Lewis Carroll\". Some authors, such as Harold Robbins, use several literary pseudonyms. Some pen names have been used for long periods, even decades, without the author's true identity being discovered, such as Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol. Some pen names are not strictly pseudonyms, as they are simply variants", "title": "Pseudonym" }, { "id": "1379231", "text": "of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were based on Dannay and Lee's works. Frederic Dannay, without much involvement from Lee, was founding and directing editor of \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\", generally considered one of the most influential English-language crime fiction magazines of the last sixty-five years. They were also prominent historians in the field, editing numerous collections and anthologies of short stories such as \"The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes\". Their 994-page anthology for the Modern Library, \"101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841–1941\", was a landmark", "title": "Ellery Queen" }, { "id": "455910", "text": "by his biographer after his death in 1997. Before Vollmer died, Burroughs had largely completed his first novel, \"Junkie\", which was written at the urging of Allen Ginsberg, who was instrumental in getting the work published, even as a cheap mass-market paperback. Ace Books published the novel in 1953 as part of an Ace Double under the pen name William Lee, retitling it \"Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict\" (it was later republished as \"Junkie\", then in 1977 as \"Junky\", and finally in 2003 as \"Junky: the definitive text of 'Junk,\"' edited by Oliver Harris'). During 1953, Burroughs was", "title": "William S. Burroughs" }, { "id": "9839705", "text": "being published in most eBook formats. André Launay André Joseph Launay is a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lives in Nerja, in the south of Spain; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and three grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel. Visit the Drew Launay website at", "title": "André Launay" }, { "id": "8807261", "text": "and Harper Lee, nothing is known about Dara's background or the reasons why he writes under a pseudonym. And unlike the pseudonymous Elena Ferrante, Dara has never given an interview or commented on his books. However, he has responded on separate occasions about the influence of William Gaddis on his style. In an indirect reply to a query from the critic Tom LeClair—in which he confirmed that he uses a pseudonym—Dara denied having read either \"The Recognitions\" or \"J R\". In 2014, the critic Steven Moore followed up on this question: “Asked about Gaddis’s possible influence, Dara told me that", "title": "Evan Dara" }, { "id": "4615004", "text": "1990s, two audiobook editions were released, one read by actor David Carradine, and another read by Burroughs himself. Junkie (novel) Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. The novel was considered unpublishable more than it was", "title": "Junkie (novel)" }, { "id": "4789698", "text": "Don Manley Don Manley (born 2 June 1945) is a long-serving setter of crosswords in the UK. He has supplied puzzles for the \"Radio Times\", \"The Spectator\", \"Today\", \"The Independent\", \"The Times\", \"The Daily Telegraph\", \"The Guardian\", and the \"Financial Times\" and the \"Sunday Times\" among others. He is crossword editor of \"Church Times\". He writes under the pseudonyms Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, Bradman, Giovanni,and Izetti (all punningly connected with the name Don or Donald). He has also written a book on devising and solving crosswords, \"Chambers Crossword Manual\" (1986, 5th edition October 2014). He has appeared on the BBC Radio", "title": "Don Manley" }, { "id": "4614995", "text": "Junkie (novel) Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. The novel was considered unpublishable more than it was controversial. Burroughs began it largely at the request and insistence of Allen Ginsberg, who was impressed by Burroughs’s", "title": "Junkie (novel)" }, { "id": "14229869", "text": "Billie and the Real Belle Bare All Billie and the Real Belle Bare All is a one-off television programme that aired on ITV2 on 25 January 2010, ahead of the Series 3 premiere of \"Secret Diary of a Call Girl\". The programme, which took place at The May Fair, consisted of Billie Piper, who stars as Hannah Baxter in \"Secret Diary of a Call Girl\", interviewing Dr. Brooke Magnanti, a former call girl who, until November 2009 remained anonymous, known only by the pseudonym, \"Belle de Jour.\" Magnanti first rose to fame as a blogger who documented her life as", "title": "Billie and the Real Belle Bare All" }, { "id": "118140", "text": "debts increased. Poe gave up on the university after a year, but did not feel welcome returning to Richmond, especially when he learned that his sweetheart Royster had married Alexander Shelton. He traveled to Boston in April 1827, sustaining himself with odd jobs as a clerk and newspaper writer. At some point, he started using the pseudonym Henri Le Rennet. Poe was unable to support himself, so he enlisted in the United States Army as a private on May 27, 1827, using the name \"Edgar A. Perry\". He claimed that he was even though he was 18. He first served", "title": "Edgar Allan Poe" }, { "id": "55228", "text": "Historie\", though, is generally considered to be a reliable source. Johnson may have been an assumed alias. As Johnson's accounts have been corroborated in personal and official dispatches, Lee (1974) considers that whoever he was, he had some access to official correspondence. Konstam speculates further, suggesting that Johnson may have been the English playwright Charles Johnson, the British publisher Charles Rivington, or the writer Daniel Defoe. In his 1951 work \"The Great Days of Piracy\", author George Woodbury wrote that Johnson is \"obviously a pseudonym\", continuing \"one cannot help suspecting that he may have been a pirate himself.\" Despite his", "title": "Blackbeard" }, { "id": "12058069", "text": "1913 he went back to Melbourne, where he worked as a salesman before getting a job as a clerk in the Department of the Navy and began to devote his spare time to writing. He published his first novel \"The Coastlanders\", set in Tasmania, in 1918. He went on to write numerous novels, short stories, poems and a radio play, \"Stampede\" (1937), using his own name and a number of pseudonyms, such as Dennis Adair, Hugh Bohun, Wallace Dixon, Tas East and Eric North. He also jointly used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing with Capel Boake (the pseudonym of", "title": "Bernard Cronin" }, { "id": "2733138", "text": "John Babbacombe Lee John Henry George Lee (1864 – c. 19 March 1945), better known as John \"Babbacombe\" Lee or \"The Man They Couldn't Hang\", was an Englishman famous for surviving three attempts to hang him for murder. Born in Abbotskerswell, Devon, Lee served in the Royal Navy, and was a known thief. In 1885, he was convicted of the brutal murder of his employer, Emma Keyse, at her home at Babbacombe Bay near Torquay on 15 November 1884 with a knife. The evidence was weak and circumstantial, amounting to little more than Lee having been the only male in", "title": "John Babbacombe Lee" }, { "id": "16850654", "text": "Linda Sole Linda Sole (b. 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is an awarded and prolific British writer of romance and suspense novels since 1980, she also writes under the pseudonyms of Lynn Granville, Anne Herries, Emma Quincey, and Juliana Linden. In 2004, her novel \"A Damnable Rogue \" won the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Linda M. Sole was born on 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a ladies hairdresser. At 9, her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire, where she attended the local school. After leaving High", "title": "Linda Sole" }, { "id": "12252042", "text": "(cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee, which years later he would adopt as his legal name. Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that because of the low social status of comic books, he was so embarrassed that he used a pen name so that nobody would associate his real name with comics when he some day wrote the Great American Novel. This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss. He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, \"'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent\", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation", "title": "Stan Lee" }, { "id": "9305456", "text": "style often gives the impression that Löhndorff reports his own adventures. But in many cases this is not the case. However, his travels and adventures were a strong source of inspiration for his stories. The following bibliography lists the first editions of his novels as they are given in the Catalogue of the German National Library. Some of the crime novels he published under the pseudonym of \"Peter Dando\" were later republished under his real name. Many of Löhndorffs novels were translated to—all in all—at least 12 different languages: Danish, English, French, Flemish (Belgium), Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Swedish,", "title": "Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff" }, { "id": "7555245", "text": "poem \"Waltzing Matilda\" (1895) is regarded as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Miles Franklin is the namesake of Australia's most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to the best novel about Australian life. Its first recipient, Patrick White, went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Australian winners of the Booker Prize include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally and Richard Flanagan. Author David Malouf, playwright David Williamson and poet Les Murray are also renowned literary figures. Many of Australia's performing arts companies receive funding through the federal government's Australia Council. There is a symphony orchestra in each state, and a", "title": "Australia" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "9463471", "text": "James Lee (writer) Jim Aitchison (born 1947), better known by his pen name James Lee, is an Australian writer Born in Australia, Aitchison lived in Singapore as a permanent resident there since 1983 until 2010 when he returned to Langwarrin, Victoria. Before he became a full-time writer, Aitchison was a voice actor, and creative director of an advertising agency. He also published books on business and advertising. Aitchison's earliest work was a script for Grace Gibson Radio Productions under the pseudonym David Carrick called \"Under Her Spell\". While working for an advertising agency, Aitchison penned the first two episodes over", "title": "James Lee (writer)" }, { "id": "16672599", "text": "She published her last novel in 1982. Her novel \"Miss Fenny\" (a.k.a. \"The Woman in the Woods\") as Charity (or Lee) Blackstock was nominated for an Edgar Award. In 1961, her novel \"Witches' Sabbath\" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association Ursula Torday died on 6 March 1997, at 85. Ursula Torday Ursula Torday (; 19 February 1912 in London, England – 6 March 1997), was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce (), Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock,", "title": "Ursula Torday" }, { "id": "1426726", "text": "(b) Nicholas Cusanus in 1435. Then by (c) Jean-Charles de Borda in 1784. Later by (d) Hother Hage in 1860 and (e) Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1884. And finally by (f) Peter Emerson in 1986. With the possible exception of (e), none of these 'inventors' knew anything about the inventions of any of their predecessors. The \"Oxford English Dictionary\" credits Mollie Hunter (1922–2012) with following quotation regarding consensus: \"No single group has the right to ignore a consensus of thoughtful opinion\" Japanese companies normally use consensus decision-making, meaning that unanimous support on the board of directors is sought for", "title": "Consensus decision-making" }, { "id": "1602406", "text": "outside immediately and pick up the pages,\" Shields wrote. When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name \"Harper Lee\", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as \"Nellie\". Published July 11, 1960, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted \"Best Novel of the Century\" in a poll by the \"Library Journal\". Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "455969", "text": "a November 2004 episode of the TV series \"\" included an evil character named Dr. Benway (named for an amoral physician who appears in a number of Burroughs' works.) This is an echo of the hospital scene in the movie \"Repo Man,\" made during Burroughs' life-time, in which both Dr. Benway and Mr. Lee (a Burroughs pen name) are paged. Burroughs was cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the \"23 Enigma\": Burroughs appears on the cover of The Beatles' eighth studio album, \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\". Burroughs participated on numerous album releases by", "title": "William S. Burroughs" }, { "id": "5949831", "text": "of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. Cant himself was the model for the Thomas Trumbull character. After Cant died, Asimov dedicated the collection \"Banquets of the Black Widowers\" (1984) to his memory and to that of Frederic Dannay. Gilbert Cant Gilbert Cant (September 16, 1909 – August 1, 1982) was a London-born American journalist. Cant arrived in the U.S. in 1934 and began working for the \"New York Post\" in 1937. He was a war correspondent in the Pacific during World War II and wrote three books on the subject, \"The War at Sea\", \"America's", "title": "Gilbert Cant" }, { "id": "5377578", "text": "etc., all of which was published in the posthumous \"Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie\". On 8 January 1741 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, where his name was registered as \"Frederic Lewis Norden\". Frederic Louis Norden Frederic Louis Norden (22 October 1708 – 22 September 1742) was a Danish naval captain and explorer. Also known as \"Frederick\", \"Frederik\", \"Friderick\", \"Ludwig\", \"Ludvig\" and \"Lewis\", the name used on the first publication of his famous \"Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie\" (Copenhagen, 1755) is \"Frederic Louis Norden\". His name is often shortened \"F. L. Norden\". Norden made a voyage", "title": "Frederic Louis Norden" }, { "id": "512439", "text": "Ramones also had every member take the last name of Ramone. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., an American singer-songwriter used the stage name John Denver. The Australian country musician born Robert Lane changed his name to Tex Morton. Reginald Kenneth Dwight legally changed his name to Elton John in 1972. Pseudonym A pseudonym () or alias () is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym). Pseudonyms include stage names and user names, ring names, pen names, nicknames, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer", "title": "Pseudonym" }, { "id": "4819670", "text": "Supergirl (Linda Danvers) Linda Danvers, formerly known as \"Supergirl\", is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Peter David and artist Gary Frank, she debuted in \"Supergirl\" vol.4 #1 (September 1996). She is not to be confused with Linda Lee Danvers, the secret identity used by the Kara Zor-El incarnation of Supergirl prior to the events of 1985's \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\". Peter David adapted Linda Danvers as a separate character based on that of Kara Zor-El, which had been wiped out of continuity by DC Comics to enhance Superman's status as", "title": "Supergirl (Linda Danvers)" }, { "id": "4789700", "text": "grandsons, and a granddaughter. Don Manley Don Manley (born 2 June 1945) is a long-serving setter of crosswords in the UK. He has supplied puzzles for the \"Radio Times\", \"The Spectator\", \"Today\", \"The Independent\", \"The Times\", \"The Daily Telegraph\", \"The Guardian\", and the \"Financial Times\" and the \"Sunday Times\" among others. He is crossword editor of \"Church Times\". He writes under the pseudonyms Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, Bradman, Giovanni,and Izetti (all punningly connected with the name Don or Donald). He has also written a book on devising and solving crosswords, \"Chambers Crossword Manual\" (1986, 5th edition October 2014). He has appeared", "title": "Don Manley" }, { "id": "10227480", "text": "horror, he replied that it was George W. Bush's activities, particularly in Iraq: these called forth veritable goosebumps of fright upon his skin, he said. Jason Dark Jason Dark is the 'nom de plume' of Helmut Rellergerd, a prolific author of horror detective fiction in the German language. His work has been favourably compared to that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Helmut Rellergerd pseudonym: Jason Dark (born January 25, 1945 in Altena-Dahle, Sauerland) is a German writer, under the pseudonym of Jason Dark. Jason Dark is one of the most read authors in Germany in his genre. Helmut Rellergerd was", "title": "Jason Dark" }, { "id": "11075413", "text": "Film Project (run by Paramount Pictures), and a finalist at the Asian American International Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition. The romantic comedy was supposed to be billed as the feature film directorial debut of acclaimed actor and Tony Award-winning B.D. Wong. Wong left the project at some point very, very late in production, citing “artistic differences” that grew between Wong and the producers. He was replaced as director by Fay Ann Lee, the film’s writer and star. Subsequently, Wong request that his name be completely removed from the movie’s credits, despite the fact that he plays a major supporting role. The", "title": "Falling for Grace" }, { "id": "13250102", "text": "delegative form and the concept of liquid democracy remains unclear. However, Bryan Ford in his paper Delegative Democracy explains the main principles of how it works. In 1884, Charles Dodgson (better known under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll) wrote about political candidates being able to grant their votes, the votes gained on top of the required number to win a seat, to others running for a seat in the Parliament. This could be seen as the first step towards delegative democracy. Based on the work of Jabbusch and James Green-Armytage, liquid democracy can be traced back to reports of William S.", "title": "Delegative democracy" }, { "id": "12342740", "text": "is in control, the world is rudderless.\" Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including \"Watchmen\", \"V for Vendetta\", \"The Ballad of Halo Jones\" and \"From Hell\". Regarded by some as the best graphic novel writer in history, he is widely recognised among his peers and critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing", "title": "Alan Moore" }, { "id": "3595791", "text": "and eventually finds out that his real name was Webb. He had previously been an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency in an elite project in Southeast Asia and Vietnam codenamed Medusa. Following the American forces' withdrawal from Vietnam, he joined Project Treadstone 71, where he was used as bait for the infamous European assassin Carlos the Jackal, and assumed the identity of a mock assassin, Jason Bourne. “Bourne\" took credit for various kills in China and the rest of Asia, acting as a rival to the Jackal, in order to draw him out of hiding. The story of \"The", "title": "The Bourne Supremacy" }, { "id": "2668667", "text": "November 2014, The Guardian published a crossword with the grid and some clues compiled by him but completed by his friend and fellow compiler 'Philistine'. He was described as having a \"mischievous erudition, humility and courage.\" Graham's clue-writing style made him one of the best-loved of all setters. His style falls into a grouping sometimes referred to as \"Araucarian\". This style, of which \"The Guardian\"'s Bunthorne was another notable exponent, has influenced most of the current crop of Guardian setters and contrasts with the more rigid \"Ximenean\" style favoured by \"The Times\". Widely admired for his clever use of cross-references", "title": "John Galbraith Graham" }, { "id": "4614999", "text": "libraries at the time did not buy Ace books, considering them trivial and without literary merit, and Ace paperbacks were never reviewed by literary critics. At the time of its publication, the novel was in a two-book (\"dos-à-dos\") omnibus edition (known as an \"Ace Double\") alongside a previously published 1941 novel called \"Narcotic Agent\" by Maurice Helbrant. Burroughs chose to use the pseudonym \"William Lee\", Lee being his mother's maiden name, for the writing credit. The subtitle of the work was \"Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict\". This edition is a highly desired collectible and even below-average-condition copies have been", "title": "Junkie (novel)" }, { "id": "3973940", "text": "to the song because country life is so intolerable. It is probably the only popular song ever written which contains a reference to brucellosis. The term \"dancing school\" has been used as a euphemism for a brothel since the mid-17th century. The album was dedicated to Ken Millar (1915–1983), a friend of Zevon's who was better known for writing mystery novels under the name Ross MacDonald. All songs written by Warren Zevon, unless otherwise indicated. Album Singles Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The", "title": "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" }, { "id": "2703703", "text": "continuation Bond novel; Amis had previously produced \"The James Bond Dossier\"—a critical analysis of the Bond books—under his own name, and \"The Book of Bond\", a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective agents, using the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William (\"Bill\") Tanner. For the pseudonym, Peter Fleming - Ian Fleming's brother - initially suggested \"George Glidrose\". Jonathan Cape rejected this name, claiming that it had no selling or publicity power. Markham was then chosen. Despite this, Amis's involvement as continuation author was not a secret; American editions of the book identified Amis as the author, though the main Robert Markham credit remained. Amis had", "title": "Robert Markham" }, { "id": "10004916", "text": "things of which we are necessarily ignorant\" describes a branch of philosophy studied by James Frederick Ferrier in the 19th century. Anthropologist Glenn Stone points out that most of the examples of agnotology (such as work promoting tobacco use) do not actually create a lack of knowledge so much as they create confusion. A more accurate term for such writing would be \"ainigmology\", from the root \"ainigma\" (as in \"enigma\"); in Greek this refers to riddles or to language that obscures the true meaning of a story. The availability of such large amounts of knowledge in this information age may", "title": "Agnotology" }, { "id": "512409", "text": "a \"front\" name, such as by screenwriters blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. See also pseudepigraph, for \"falsely\" attributed authorship. Sometimes people change their name in such a manner that the new name becomes permanent and is used by all who know the person. This is not an alias or pseudonym, but in fact a new name. In many countries, including common law countries, a name change can be ratified by a court and become a person's new legal name. For example, in the 1960s, black civil rights campaigner Malcolm Little changed his surname to \"X\", to represent", "title": "Pseudonym" }, { "id": "4644975", "text": "Beat the Devil (film) Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film. The film was directed by John Huston, and starred Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, and featured Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon a novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston made the film as a parody of a genre of film. Although often described as a parody of \"The Maltese Falcon\", which Huston directed and in which Bogart and Lorre appeared, this is not", "title": "Beat the Devil (film)" }, { "id": "12342641", "text": "Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including \"Watchmen\", \"V for Vendetta\", \"The Ballad of Halo Jones\" and \"From Hell\". Regarded by some as the best graphic novel writer in history, he is widely recognised among his peers and critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in", "title": "Alan Moore" }, { "id": "7915939", "text": "Terry Harknett Terry Harknett (born 1936) is a British author. He is author of almost 200 books, mostly pulp novels in the western and crime genres. He has written as a ghostwriter for Peter Haining and under an array of pseudonyms, including George G. Gilman, Joseph Hedges, William M. James, Charles R. Pike, Thomas H. Stone, Frank Chandler, Jane Harman, Alex Peters, William Pine, William Terry, James Russell and David Ford. Some bibliographies list Adam Hardy as one of Harknett's pseudonyms, in fact a nom de plume of Kenneth Bulmer. This is an error resulting from incorrect copyright information printed", "title": "Terry Harknett" }, { "id": "15424198", "text": "on hundreds of albums by a wide variety of artists, including the Beach Boys, Peggy Lee, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder and the Beatles (on their album \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\"). He also wrote books in the 1980s on playing violin, guitar and trumpet. Bluestone lived with his wife \"Le Bluestone\". He died of complications of Parkinson's disease in 1992. 2008: 1999: 1956: 2004: 2003: 1991: 2010: 2009: 2007: 2004: 2003: 2002: 1968: 1965: 1959: 1958: 1957: 2007: 1958: 2010: Harry Bluestone Harry Bluestone (September 30, 1907 – December 22, 1992) was a British violinist who composed", "title": "Harry Bluestone" }, { "id": "10345068", "text": "Anne Wingate Anne Wingate, born in 1943, is a mystery, fantasy, and romance writer currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She owns two publishing houses (including one with her husband), and publishes works under her own name as well as the pseudonyms Lee Martin and Martha G. Webb Wingate was born in 1943 as Martha Anne Guice in Savannah, Georgia, She grew up as a member of the Disciples of Christ Church, and is an adult convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prior to becoming a writer, she worked as a crime scene investigator. In", "title": "Anne Wingate" }, { "id": "512435", "text": "whose full name is Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, wrote his biggest instrumental hit \"Alley Cat\" under the name Frank Bjorn. For a time, the musician Prince used an unpronounceable \"Love Symbol\" as a pseudonym (\"Prince\" is his actual first name rather than a stage name). He wrote the song \"Sugar Walls\" for Sheena Easton under the alias \"Alexander Nevermind\" and \"Manic Monday\" for The Bangles as \"Christopher Tracy\" (he also produced albums early in his career as \"Jamie Starr\"). Many Italian-American singers have used stage names as their birth names were difficult to pronounce, or considered too ethnic for American tastes. Singers", "title": "Pseudonym" }, { "id": "10302385", "text": "Leif Panduro Leif Thormod Panduro (18 April 1923 – 16 January 1977) was a Danish writer, a novelist, short story writer and dramatist. A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rules for one reason or another. \"Rend mig i traditionerne\", (Kick me in the traditions) from 1959 is about an adolescent who finally ends up in an asylum because he thinks society is mad. This novel was made into a film in 1979. \"Fern fra Danmark\" (Mr. Fern from Denmark) is about a man who wakes up in", "title": "Leif Panduro" }, { "id": "640804", "text": "undesired image. Sometimes a performer adopts a name which is unusual or outlandish to attract attention. Other performers use a stage name in order to retain anonymity. The equivalent concept among writers is called a nom de plume or pen name. In radio, the term \"radio name\" or \"air name\" is used. Some individuals who are related to a celebrity take a different last name so they are not perceived to have received undue advantage from their family connection. Examples of these include Joan Fontaine (real name Joan de Havilland, sister of Olivia de Havilland), Luka Bloom (real name Kevin", "title": "Stage name" }, { "id": "1923110", "text": "\"Tonight or Never\" which had recently been made into a motion picture. Garden is cited with other artistic figures of the period in Hugh MacDiarmid's poem \"A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle\" (ll.30–2): <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">Whaur's Isadora Duncan dancin nou, Is Mary Garden in Chicago still And Duncan Grant in Paris – and me fou?</poem> Allen Ginsberg contrasts the relative silence surrounding Garden's death with the uproar caused by the death of Jack Ruby in \"Bayonne Turnpike to Tuscarora,\" from the 1973 award-winning collection \"The Fall of America\": <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em;\"> Mary Garden dead in Aberdeen, New Years' 1967", "title": "Mary Garden" }, { "id": "14385105", "text": "would have considerable doubt about making a diagnosis of epilepsy without further information. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life. On Copenhagen Street in Islington is the Lewis Carroll Children's Library. In 1982, his great-nephew unveiled a memorial stone to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\" and its sequel", "title": "Lewis Carroll" }, { "id": "1526115", "text": "John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, \"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold\" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. In 2011, he was awarded", "title": "John le Carré" }, { "id": "2679658", "text": "Louis Auchincloss Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked. Born in Lawrence, New York, Auchincloss was the son of Priscilla Dixon (née Stanton) and Joseph", "title": "Louis Auchincloss" }, { "id": "4509303", "text": "had a home in Urmston; Herd had owned a local garage that still bears his name. Debbie Moore, founder of Pineapple Dance Studios was born in the area and Danielle Hope, the winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, was also a resident. The 18th-century caricaturist and satirical poet John Collier, who used the pseudonym Tim Bobbins, was born in Urmston in 1708. A self-styled Lancashire Hogarth, his first and most famous work, \"A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mary\", appeared in 1746, the earliest significant piece of published Lancashire dialect. A local public house, \"The Tim", "title": "Urmston" }, { "id": "19855686", "text": "continued writing in different fields, including a sci-fi film treatment, and editing six fine art books on such nationally meritorious painters as Millard Sheets and Ken Potter. From the 90's and into the millennium, Askew wrote about economics and the financial markets for a dozen years. He wrote speeches for the senior management of publicly traded companies as well as speeches on the importance of volunteering in local communities. Dennis Lee Askew Dennis Lee Askew (born April 19, 1953), also known as Den the Pen, is an American poet, musician, painter, author, journalist and community volunteer activist. Askew was raised", "title": "Dennis Lee Askew" }, { "id": "16850656", "text": "of Emma Quincey. Sole and her husband, continued living in Cambridgeshire, with a second home in Norfolk, during years they spend their holidays in Spain. Linda Sole Linda Sole (b. 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is an awarded and prolific British writer of romance and suspense novels since 1980, she also writes under the pseudonyms of Lynn Granville, Anne Herries, Emma Quincey, and Juliana Linden. In 2004, her novel \"A Damnable Rogue \" won the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Linda M. Sole was born on 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, the daughter", "title": "Linda Sole" }, { "id": "19510428", "text": "Charles Franklin (author) Charles Franklin, the pen-name of Frank Hugh Usher, (22 October 1909 - 1976) born in Leicester, Leicestershire, a British author of mystery novels and spy novels. He also wrote under the pen-names Frank Usher, and Frank Lester. Little interested in the whodunit, still in vogue in England in the immediate post-war period, he followed in the footsteps of Peter Cheyney and David Hume and showed a clear penchant for Noir fiction and, less surprisingly, from the 1960s, for spy novels. Under the pseudonym Charles Franklin, he published his first novel, \"Exit Without Permit\", in 1946, with his", "title": "Charles Franklin (author)" } ]

[ "Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Richard III" ]

[ { "id": "12357693", "text": "African American church in Terrell County, Georgia, in September 1962, in which she used the repeated phrase \"I have a dream\". The church burned down after it was used for voter registration meetings. The speech also alludes to in the second stanza of the speech. Additionally, King quotes from (\"I have a dream that every valley shall be exalted ...\") and (\"But let justice roll down like water ...\"). He also alludes to the opening lines of Shakespeare's \"Richard III\" (\"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer ...\") when he remarks that \"this sweltering summer of", "title": "I Have a Dream" }, { "id": "2204960", "text": "who think that Metamorphosis is a writer, and that their colleague, Shakespeare, puts the university playwrights to shame. The audition piece Philomusus is asked to perform is taken from Shakespeare's play, \"Richard III\": \"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of York.\" In this part of the trilogy, Shakespeare is seen as a poet, and also as a dramatist and actor. In the second play, \"The Return from Parnasus\", the character named Gullio, who is lovesick and a fool, is mocked for his worshipful devotion to \"pure Shakspeare and shreds of poetry that he", "title": "Parnassus plays" }, { "id": "1502623", "text": "the president's visit to the defeated city, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Shakespearean actor known for playing both Richard and Richmond. Booth's notorious, final words from the stage were \"\"Sic semper tyrannis\"\". The 2010 film, \"The King's Speech\", features a scene where the king's speech therapist Lionel Logue, as played by Geoffrey Rush, auditions for the role by reciting the lines, \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York\". Shakespeare critic Keith Jones believes that the film in general sets up its main character as a kind", "title": "Richard III (play)" }, { "id": "8942757", "text": "states that he's seen \"West Side Story\", which is based on one of them and loathes the idea of burning \"Richard III\" with its \"unforgettable\" speech that starts with \"Now...\" (presumably referencing the \"Now is the winter of our discontent\" speech), although he cannot remember anything beyond that first word. \"Lolita\" is also burned on the fire, minus one particularly racy page. The song Lister plays on his guitar is \"She's out of My Life\" by Michael Jackson. The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 21 November 1989 in the 9:00pm evening time slot. In", "title": "Marooned (Red Dwarf)" }, { "id": "1502624", "text": "of antithesis to Richard III. The same antithesis was noted by conservative commentator Noah Millman. In the \"Red Dwarf\" episode \"Marooned\", Rimmer objects to Lister's burning of the \"Complete Works of Shakespeare\" in an attempt to maintain enough heat to keep him alive. When challenged, Rimmer claims he can quote from it and embarks upon the soliloquy: \"Now! ... That's all I can remember. You know! That famous speech from \"Richard III\" – 'now, something something something something'.\" John Steinbeck used the opening line for the title of his novel \"The Winter of Our Discontent\". The phrase \"Winter of Discontent\"", "title": "Richard III (play)" }, { "id": "3690611", "text": "best film. Before or after each death in the film, Lionheart recites passages of Shakespeare, giving Price a chance to deliver choice speeches such as \"Hamlet's\" famous third soliloquy (\"To be, or not to be, that is the question...\"); Mark Antony's self-serving eulogy for Caesar from \"Julius Caesar\" (\"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears...\"); \"Now is the winter of our discontent...\" from the beginning of \"Richard III\"; and finally, the raving of the mad \"King Lear\" at the loss of his faithful daughter. The film is sometimes considered to be a spoof or homage of \"The Abominable Dr. Phibes\".", "title": "Theatre of Blood" }, { "id": "12566232", "text": "1951. Invited by his friend Tyrone Guthrie to join the premiere season of the Stratford Festival of Canada, Guinness lived for a brief time in Stratford, Ontario. On 13 July 1953, Guinness spoke the first lines of the first play produced by the festival, Shakespeare's \"Richard III\": \"Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York.\" Guinness won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in \"Dylan\". He next played the title role in \"Macbeth\" opposite Simone Signoret at the Royal Court Theatre in 1966. Guinness made his final stage", "title": "Alec Guinness" }, { "id": "13007811", "text": "Royal Winter Music Royal Winter Music is the name given to two solo works for classical guitar by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. Both works are inspired by characters from Shakespeare. The first work (described as a sonata) was completed in 1976, and is in six movements. The first part, \"Richard of Gloucester\" gives the overall work its name (from Richard's opening monologue \"Now is the winter of our discontent\"). The first piece was premiered by Julian Bream (at whose request Henze had written it) in Berlin on 20 September 1976. The second sonata, written in 1979, continues the", "title": "Royal Winter Music" }, { "id": "1545969", "text": "Paul Daneman as Henry and Rosalind Boxall as Margaret, with \"3 Henry VI\" featuring Alan Bridges as Edward and Edgar Wreford as Richard. Although little was removed from the text, it did end differently from the written play. After Edward has spoken his last lines, everyone leaves the stage except Richard, who walks towards the throne, then turns and looks out to the audience, speaking the first thirty lines of his opening speech from \"Richard III\" (from \"Now is the winter of our discontent\" to \"I am determin'd to prove a villain\"), at which point the curtain falls. Additionally, in", "title": "Henry VI, Part 3" }, { "id": "1502619", "text": "Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (\"Now is the summer of our sweet content made o'ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...\") Richard Loncraine's 1995 film, starring Ian McKellen, is set in a fictional fascist England in the 1930s, and based on an earlier highly successful stage production. Only about half the text of the play is used. The first part of his \"Now is the winter of our discontent...\" soliloquy is a public speech, while the second part is a private monologue. The famous final line of Richard's \"A horse, my kingdom for a", "title": "Richard III (play)" }, { "id": "1379949", "text": "reduced to taking emergency patients only. The phrase \"Winter of Discontent\" is from the opening line of William Shakespeare's \"Richard III\": \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York\", and was first applied to the events of the winter by Robin Chater, a writer at \"Incomes Data Report\". It was subsequently used in a speech by James Callaghan and translated to define a crisis by tabloids – including \"The Sun\". The weather turned very cold in the early months of 1979 with blizzards and deep snow, the coldest since 1962–63,", "title": "Winter of Discontent" }, { "id": "4142536", "text": "Garr, and Tuesday Weld. The Winter of Our Discontent The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's \"Richard III: \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York\"\". The story concerns mainly Ethan Allen Hawley, a former member of Long Island's aristocratic class. Ethan's late father lost the family fortune, and thus Ethan works as a grocery store clerk. His wife Mary and their children resent their mediocre social and economic status, and do not", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "4142523", "text": "The Winter of Our Discontent The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's \"Richard III: \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York\"\". The story concerns mainly Ethan Allen Hawley, a former member of Long Island's aristocratic class. Ethan's late father lost the family fortune, and thus Ethan works as a grocery store clerk. His wife Mary and their children resent their mediocre social and economic status, and do not value the honesty and", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "1545997", "text": "line \"Now is the winter of our discontent;\" the opening line from \"Richard III\". Michael Bogdanov and the English Shakespeare Company presented a different adaptation at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1991, using the same cast as on the touring production. All eight plays from the history cycle were presented over a seven night period, with each play receiving one performance only, and with only twenty-eight actors portraying the nearly five hundred roles. Whilst the other five plays in the cycle were unadapted, the \"Henry VI\" plays were combined into two, using the Barton/Hall structure, with the first was named", "title": "Henry VI, Part 3" }, { "id": "5854791", "text": "sent for that evening. That night, Falstaff dies at the Boar's Head Tavern, and his friends mourn him, saying that he died of a broken heart. The narrator explains that Hal went on to become a good and noble king. Welles' inspiration for \"Chimes at Midnight\" began in 1930 when he was a student at the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois. Welles tried to stage a three-and-a-half-hour combination of several of Shakespeare's historical plays called \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" in which he played Richard III. School officials forced him to make cuts to the production. \"Chimes at", "title": "Chimes at Midnight" }, { "id": "2212069", "text": "goal after gaining encouragement from Mayor David Simpson and the local council, and the Stratford Shakespearean Festival became a legal entity on October 31, 1952. Already established in Canadian theatre, Dora Mavor Moore helped put Patterson in touch with British actor and director Tyrone Guthrie, first with a transatlantic telephone call. On July 13, 1953, actor Alec Guinness spoke the first lines of the first play produced by the festival, a production of \"Richard III\": \"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York.\" Alec Guinness and Irene Worth were among the cast", "title": "Stratford Festival" }, { "id": "426854", "text": "at 5:05pm; episodes 4 and 8 at 5:00pm; episode 7 at 4:40pm; episode 9 at 5:30pm; and episodes 10, 11, 12 and 13 (which followed episode 9 after a gap of more than a year) at 4:00pm. The first of these was an election special, produced in 1974, entitled \"Vote for Froglet\". Inspired by what Postgate referred to as the \"Winter of Discontent\" (a phrase from Shakespeare's play \"Richard III\", usually employed to refer to the winter of 1978–79, but Postgate was referring to the miners' strike in the winter of 1973-74), and inspired partly by his recollections of post-war", "title": "Clangers" }, { "id": "4134630", "text": "Educational Television (NET) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to be the pioneers in presenting nearly complete Shakespeare productions on American television. As a result of Foote, Cone, and Belding Advertising executive and producer Duane C. Bogie's influence, \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\" began to offer original material, such as \"Aunt Mary\" (1979) and \"Thursday's Child \" (1983), although its lineup still primarily consisted of expensive-looking \"Masterpiece Theatre\"-style adaptations of American and European literary classics, such as John Steinbeck's \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" (1983), Robert Louis Stevenson's \"The Master of Ballantrae\" (1984), and Charles Dickens's \"A Tale of Two Cities\" (1980),", "title": "Hallmark Hall of Fame" }, { "id": "13743130", "text": "crashed open. There stood Newton, absolutely plastered, his eyes blazing. He staggered across the room, thrust his face into mine and with slobbering lips and flashing eyes he embarked on the most thrilling rendering I have ever heard of \"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer...\" (What a Richard III he would have been!) From that moment he really took off in the film, but sadly there were only a few days to go—and sadder still, that last bout of drinking was followed shortly after by his death.</poem> \"The New York Times\" review called it a \"competently", "title": "The Beachcomber (1954 film)" }, { "id": "20768824", "text": "(1957) in \"Anna Karenina\" by Leo Tolstoy, Dulchin, The Last Victim by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1946), ambitious careerist engineer Mehti-Aga, \"Deep exploration\" by Alexander Kron, Fyodor Karamazov, \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1961), Baker, \"The Winter of our Discontent\" based on the novel by John Steinbeck (1964). Together with Olga Androvskaya and other \"great old men\" of the Moscow Art Theater – Alexey Gribov, Viktor Stanitsyn and Mikhail Yanshin played in a specially staged for them famous play \"Solo for Clock Chime\" based on the play by Osvald Zahradník (1973). In 1983, he played Pontius Pilate in the play \"The", "title": "Mark Prudkin" }, { "id": "10059782", "text": "\"The Taming of the Shrew\" 2006 \"The Tempest\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) \" 2005 \"Hamlet\", \"As You Like It\" 2004 \"Julius Caesar\", \"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)\" 2003 \"Othello\", \"Macbeth\" 2002 \"A Midsummer Night’s Dream\", \"King Lear\", \"Cymbeline\" 2001 \"Twelfth Night\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Romeo and Juliet\" 2000 \"The Taming of the Shrew\", \"The Winter's Tale\", \"Hamlet\" The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival is an annual Shakespearean theatre festival in Philadelphia. Every year, The Festival produces two or three productions of Shakespeare's plays. Starting out as the Red Heel", "title": "The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival" }, { "id": "14547417", "text": "died January 17, 2000 Georgetown, South Carolina). Hedman was later married to Henry Arthur House with whom she co-wrote a play \"What's the Big Idea\" in 1926. Martha Hedman wrote a book \"Uncle, Aunt and Jezabel\" (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1949). The dedication reads: \"To Henry Arthur -the winter of our discontent was turned into glorious summer\". She subsequently wrote \"Mathias and Mathilda\" (Chapman & Hall. 1951) written under the name, Martha Hedman House. Her sister was London actress Marguerite Leslie (1884 - 1958). Martha Hedman Martha Hedman (August 12, 1883 – June 20, 1974) was a Swedish-American stage", "title": "Martha Hedman" }, { "id": "4142527", "text": "manner, Ethan becomes able to control the covert dealings of the corrupt town businessmen and politicians, but he is confident that he will not be corrupted. He considers that while he had to kill enemy soldiers in the war, he was never a murderer thereafter. Ethan learns that his son won honorable mention in a nationwide essay contest by plagiarizing classic American authors and orators, but when Ethan confronts him, the son denies having any guilty feelings, maintaining that everyone cheats and lies. Perhaps after seeing his own moral decay in his son's actions, and experiencing the guilt of Marullo's", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "4873082", "text": "of the winter of Discontent. His early 1980s plays were directly influenced by the coming to power of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher and the profound social changes they were bringing about. \"Restoration\", as a half-musical parody of Restoration comedies, deals with working class support for the Tories by showing a servant accepting his conviction and eventual execution for a murder committed by his cynical and silly master. \"Summer\" deals with the moral ambiguities of capitalism through the conflict of two women in socialist Yugoslavia. One is the daughter of former landlords, whose compassionate nature does not prevent", "title": "Edward Bond" }, { "id": "12466293", "text": "of satirical sketches and songs in the Private Eye Dining Room, upstairs at Norman's Coach and Horses in Soho. In January 2011, Limits was one of ten cabaret artists, including David Hoyle and Eastend cabaret, who had their own \"Time Out London\" cover in a special edition celebrating the resurgence of cabaret. In 2012, he produced and hosted \"The Winter of Our Discontent\", a satirical/political cabaret at the Arcola Tent that included some of London's top cabaret artists. His 2012 solo Edinburgh Fringe show, \"Post-Mortem\", was shortlisted for TO&ST (Time Out & Soho Theatre) Award and was performed at the", "title": "Dusty Limits" }, { "id": "20345797", "text": "average rating of 7.88 out of 10. Tony Sokol of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 out of 5, saying \"With \"Winter of Our Discontent\", \"American Horror Story: Cult\" goes really dark. The series ventures into a contemporary dystopia, just like the one we're living, only with more sad clowns. Ultimately everyone is a betrayer, and everyone gets stabbed in the back, unless they are knifed in the throat. The show doesn't end on a completely down note, though. In the series' traditional last-minute twist, we learn Ally is going to get her son back after all.\" Kat", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "11825260", "text": "is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. \"Wuthering Heights\", \"A Female Philoctetes\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Fahrenheit 451\", \"Herakles\", \"Cyrano de Bergerac\", \"Taming Of The Shrew\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Importance Of Being Earnest\", \"Six Characters In Search Of An Author\", \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"As You Like It\", \"An Enemy Of The People\", \"The Iliad\", \"The Comedy of Errors\", \"Catch-22\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Prometheus Bound\" with David Oyelowo, \"Romeo & Juliet\", \"The Canterbury Tales\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Hamlet\", \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde\", H G Wells' \"The Invisible Man\", with choreographer Doug Varone, \"Twelfth Night\", \"A Very Naughty Greek Play\", \"Oedipus", "title": "Aquila Theatre" }, { "id": "211179", "text": "of Eden\", James Dean's film debut. \"\" is a travelogue of his 1960 road trip with his poodle Charley. Steinbeck bemoans his lost youth and roots, while dispensing both criticism and praise for America. According to Steinbeck's son Thom, Steinbeck made the journey because he knew he was dying and wanted to see the country one last time. Steinbeck's last novel, \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" (1961), examines moral decline in America. The protagonist Ethan grows discontented with his own moral decline and that of those around him. The book has a very different tone from Steinbeck's amoral and ecological", "title": "John Steinbeck" }, { "id": "20345794", "text": "him that Samuels was unsatisfied with women, and that he needed a man. The two had sex, and Samuels continues to insist to Winter that he's not gay, \"it's much more complex than that.\" Winter throws the gruel in his lap, Furious, he unbuckles his belt and tries to rape her. She takes his gun, and holds it on him. He will not declare himself \"a turd\", as Valerie Solanas would have had him say. She shoots him through the head. In the inner sanctum, a clown-masked Kai bids \"bring the betrayers\" to him as the cultists chant \"my ruler\".", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "12322857", "text": "(\"Dark Skies\"; \"The Awakening\"). His other nominations were shared with David E. Kelley and Brent V. Friedman. Zabel was also nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award for Best Television Episode (\"L.A. Law\"; \"Justice Swerved\") in 1991. The nomination was shared with David E. Kelley. In 2014, his novel, \"Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?\" (originally marketed under the title \"Winter of Our Discontent\"), shared the Sidewise Award with D.J. Taylor's \"The Windsor Faction\". Zabel won a second Sidewise Award in 2018 for his novel \"Once There Was a Way\". Zabel attended Hillsboro High School in Hillsboro, Oregon.", "title": "Bryce Zabel" }, { "id": "14780151", "text": "Dougall has played a wide range of roles in Shakespeare plays, including \"Henry VIII\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Coriolanus\", and \"The Winter’s Tale\" for the Globe Theatre, \"A Midsummer Night’s Dream\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"The Taming of the Shrew\", \"Henry V\", \"The Winter’s Tale\", \"Richard III\", \"The Comedy of Errors\" and \"The Merchant of Venice\" for Propeller, and \"Hamlet\", \"Macbeth\", and \"The Two Gentlemen of Verona\" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works has included \"The Devil is an Ass\", \"The Cherry Orchard\", and \"The Crucible\" for the RSC, \"Saint Joan\" at the Strand Theatre; \"Shadow of a Gunman\" and \"John Bull’s", "title": "John Dougall (actor)" }, { "id": "5809158", "text": "the Goodman has staged over the years include \"Hay Fever\", \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"The Little Foxes\", \"You Can't Take it with You\", \"Born Yesterday\", \"Pal Joey\", \"To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play)\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"Talley's Folly\", \"A House Not Meant to Stand\", \"A Soldier's Play\", \"Fences\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"The Visit\", \"Dancing at Lughnasa\", \"Arcadia\", \"Floyd Collins\", \"Hollywood Arms\", \"Dinner with Friends\", \"The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?\", \"The Light in the Piazza\", \"I Am My Own Wife\", and \"Rabbit Hole\". Goodman Theatre Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A", "title": "Goodman Theatre" }, { "id": "20345789", "text": "skeptical, and vows to take her own action if their situation does not change by the end of the week. Winter visits Kai in the inner sanctum. He says he intended Harrison to work in the kitchen, until they killed him. He sits with his pinky at the ready, and Winter joins him. He explains that her total loyalty is required, and he's about to explain to her her role. He breaks off the pinky ritual and says that Winter is to bear the new Messiah. She is horrified at the thought of incest, but he explains that Samuels is", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "8053703", "text": "III\", \"The Beaux' Stratagem\", \"Love's Labour's Lost\", \"Othello\", \"Lorenzaccio\" (world premiere), \"Macbeth\", \"Cyrano\", \"Five by Tenn\", \"The Winter's Tale\", \"The Silent Woman\", \"The Oedipus Plays\", \"The Duchess of Malfi\", \"Timon of Athens\", \"Don Carlos\", \"Hedda Gabler\", \"King Lear\", \"Coriolanus\", \"Camino Real\", \"A Woman of No Importance\", \"King John\", \"The Merchant of Venice\", \"Peer Gynt\", \"Sweet Bird of Youth\", combined \"Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3\", \"Mourning Becomes Electra\", \"Henry V\", \"Volpone\", combined \"Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2\", \"Richard II\", \"The Doctor's Dilemma\", \"Hamlet\", \"Mother Courage and Her Children\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Richard III\", \"Twelfth", "title": "Michael Kahn (theatre director)" }, { "id": "11705047", "text": "century to the present through the lives of several generations of interconnected families from an east Ohio town. These include \"Glamorgan\", \"Horrid Massacre In Boston\", \"Armitage\", \"Fisher King\", \"Green Man\", \"Sorceress\", \"Tristan\", \"Pendragon\", \"Chronicles\", \"Anima Mundi\", \"Beast With Two Backs\", \"Laestrygonians\", \"The Circus Animals' Desertion\", \"Dramatis Personae\", \"The Reeves Tale\" and \"November\". His cycle of Russian plays includes \"Pushkin\", \"Gogol\", \"An Angler In The Lake Of Darkness\" (about Leo Tolstoy), \"Emotion Memory\" (about Anton Chekhov), \"A Russian Play\", \"Rasputin\", and \"Mandelstam\". His plays about art and artists include \"Hieronymus Bosch\", \"Dutch Interiors\" (about Vermeer), \"Blood Red Roses\" (about the Pre-Raphaelites),", "title": "Don Nigro" }, { "id": "9730205", "text": "Berlin and Frankfurt. In addition to \"The Wars of the Roses\", productions of many individual Shakespeare plays were also presented. They included \"Twelfth Night\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Tempest\", \"Romeo & Juliet\", Antony and Cleopatra and \"As You Like It\". The last production of ROMEO AND JULIET. indeed the closing production ended in Plymouth after touring the world. English Shakespeare Company The English Shakespeare Company was an English theatre company founded in 1986 by Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington to present and promote the works of William Shakespeare on both a national and an international level. Funding came from the state Arts", "title": "English Shakespeare Company" }, { "id": "7973023", "text": "that owns his store is an illegal alien, turns him into the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and receives the store by deceiving the immigrant. Ethan continues to have feelings of depression and anxiety brought about by his uneasy relationship with his wife and kids, risky flirtation with Margie Young-Hunt (Tuesday Weld), and consideration of a bank robbery scheme. Tuesday Weld received an Emmy Award nomination for playing as Margie Young-Hunt. The Winter of Our Discontent (film) The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film directed by Waris Hussein based on the novel of the same name", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent (film)" }, { "id": "4142533", "text": "clear moral purpose, \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" ranks in the upper echelon of Steinbeck’s fiction, alongside \"Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden,\" and, of course, \"The Grapes of Wrath\"\". The novel was the last that Steinbeck completed before his death in 1968. \"The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights\" and the screenplay for \"Zapata\" were both published posthumously in unfinished forms. Steinbeck makes use of an unusual structural device in \"Winter\", switching between three different styles of narrative points of view. The novel is presented in two halves, Part One and Part Two, and", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "6286695", "text": "It.\" The middle grouping of Shakespeare's plays begins in 1599 with \"Julius Caesar.\" For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including \"Macbeth,\" \"Hamlet,\" and \"King Lear.\" The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare's late romances, include \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\", \"Cymbeline\", \"The Winter's Tale\" and \"The Tempest\". The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline", "title": "Shakespeare's plays" }, { "id": "12202415", "text": "the University of the Incarnate Word. He also attended the Toul American High School in France. He currently resides in San Diego, California. Jerry Pilato Jerry Pilato is an American theatrical director. He has directed plays including \"The Foreigner\", \"Four Dogs and a Bone\", \"The Reindeer Monologues\", \"Chicago \", \"Plaza Suite\", \"When Pigs Fly\", \"I Hate Hamlet\", \"First Night\", \"American Buffalo\", \"If We are Women\", \"Taking Sides\", \"Building The Wall\", \"Clever Little Lies\", \"Race\", \"Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon\", \"The Dixie Swim Club\", and \"Stage Fright\". He has received Best Director awards from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council for \"Chicago\", \"When", "title": "Jerry Pilato" }, { "id": "4142532", "text": "as a deeply penetrating study of the American condition. I did not realize, at the time, that we had a condition,\" and he attributes this change of heart to \"our own enriched experience\". In 1983 Carol Ann Kasparek condemned the character of Ethan for his implausibility, and still called Steinbeck’s treatment of American moral decay superficial, although she went on to approve the story's mythic elements. Professor of literature and Steinbeck scholar Stephen K. George wrote, \"With these authors [ Saul Bellow, Brent Weeks, and Ruth Stiles Gannett ] I would contend that, given its multi-layered complexity, intriguing artistry, and", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "4140722", "text": "Nick Nolte; and the comedy \"Serial\" (1980). She played the lead in the TV movies \"A Question of Guilt\" (1978), in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children, \"\" (1980), a remake of \"Madame X\" (1981) and a new version of \"The Rainmaker\" (1982). In feature films Weld had a good support part in Michael Mann's acclaimed 1981 film \"Thief\", opposite James Caan. She played Al Pacino's wife in \"Author! Author!\" (1982) and co-starred with Donald Sutherland in the TV movie \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" (1983). This performance earned her an Emmy nomination. In 1984 she", "title": "Tuesday Weld" }, { "id": "9454133", "text": "revival of \"The Rocky Horror Show\". Since then, The Maverick has become known for its Staged Cinema Productions, in which they stage adaptations of popular and lesser-known films, including \"Night of the Living Dead\" (an annual Halloween production), \"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians\" (an annual Christmas production). Other Maverick productions have included Shakespeare (\"Hamlet\", \"Romeo and Juliet\"), comedy (\"Noises Off\", \"Father of the Bride\", \"Below the Belt\" and \"Picasso at the Lapin Agile\"), drama (\"Angels in America\", \"Stalag 17\", \"A Few Good Men\", \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\", \"The Manchurian Candidate\", \"The Hobbit\", \"American Way\", Frost/Nixon, Long Day's Journey", "title": "Maverick Theater" }, { "id": "4142528", "text": "deportation and the death of Danny, Ethan resolves to commit suicide. His daughter, intuitively understanding his intent, slips a family talisman into his pocket during a long embrace. When Ethan decides to commit the act, he reaches into his pocket to find razorblades and instead finds the talisman. As the tide comes into the alcove in which he has sequestered himself, he struggles to get out in order to return the talisman to his daughter. Edward Weeks of the \"Atlantic Monthly\" immediately reviewed the book as a Steinbeck classic: \"His dialogue is full of life, the entrapment of Ethan is", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "12202414", "text": "Jerry Pilato Jerry Pilato is an American theatrical director. He has directed plays including \"The Foreigner\", \"Four Dogs and a Bone\", \"The Reindeer Monologues\", \"Chicago \", \"Plaza Suite\", \"When Pigs Fly\", \"I Hate Hamlet\", \"First Night\", \"American Buffalo\", \"If We are Women\", \"Taking Sides\", \"Building The Wall\", \"Clever Little Lies\", \"Race\", \"Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon\", \"The Dixie Swim Club\", and \"Stage Fright\". He has received Best Director awards from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council for \"Chicago\", \"When Pigs Fly\", \"I Hate Hamlet\", \"First Night\", \"American Buffalo\", \"If We are Women\", and \"Taking Sides\". Pilato attended the San Antonio College and", "title": "Jerry Pilato" }, { "id": "874105", "text": "but then, to everyone's amazement, the statue shows signs of vitality; it is Hermione, restored to life. As the play ends, Perdita and Florizel are engaged, and the whole company celebrates the miracle. Despite this happy ending typical of Shakespeare's comedies and romances, the impression of the unjust death of young prince Mamillius lingers to the end, being an element of unredeemed tragedy, in addition to the years wasted in separation. The main plot of \"The Winter's Tale\" is taken from Robert Greene's pastoral romance \"Pandosto\", published in 1588. Shakespeare's changes to the plot are uncharacteristically slight, especially in light", "title": "The Winter's Tale" }, { "id": "12375186", "text": "history\". After nine years of work, Johnson's \"A Dictionary of the English Language\" was published in 1755, and it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as \"one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.\" The second half of the 18th century saw the emergence of three major Irish authors: Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) and Laurence Sterne (1713–1768). Goldsmith is the author of \"The Vicar of Wakefield\" (1766), a pastoral poem \"The Deserted Village\" (1770) and two plays, \"The Good-Natur'd Man\" (1768) and \"She Stoops to Conquer\" (1773). Sheridan's first play, \"The Rivals\"", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "2025822", "text": "of Wakefield\" (1766), a pastoral poem \"The Deserted Village\" (1770) and two plays, \"The Good-Natur'd Man\" 1768 and \"She Stoops to Conquer\" 1773. Sheridan was born in Dublin, but his family moved to England in the 1750s. His first play, \"The Rivals\" 1775, was performed at Covent Garden and was an instant success. He went on to become the most significant London playwright of the late 18th century with plays like \"The School for Scandal\" and \"The Critic\". Sterne published his famous novel \"Tristram Shandy\" in parts between 1759 and 1767. The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "5048364", "text": "it smells to heaven\" (Act III, Scene 3, Line 40). Yet his remarkable self-awareness and remorse complicates Claudius's villain status, much like Macbeth. Claudius's fratricide is the corruption permeating the play's world – that which is, in the words of Marcellus (a guard), \"something is rotten in the state of Denmark.\" Shakespeare reminds the audience of the crime several times by having characters mention the story of Cain and Abel, including Claudius himself, who admits being inflicted with \"the primal eldest curse.\" Claudius's cruelty is reflected in his schemes to kill Hamlet – sending him to England to be killed,", "title": "King Claudius" }, { "id": "211184", "text": "Lawrence Durrell, French dramatist Jean Anouilh and Danish author Karen Blixen. The declassified documents showed that he was chosen as the best of a bad lot. \"There aren't any obvious candidates for the Nobel prize and the prize committee is in an unenviable situation,\" wrote committee member Henry Olsson. Although the committee believed Steinbeck's best work was behind him by 1962, committee member Anders Österling believed the release of his novel \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" showed that \"after some signs of slowing down in recent years, [Steinbeck has] regained his position as a social truth-teller [and is an] authentic", "title": "John Steinbeck" }, { "id": "16045034", "text": "opens on an image of the Globe Theatre, with Ringo Starr unfurling a flag with the legend \"Around the Beatles\". The studio setting is arranged as a theatre in the round, (hence the show's name) echoing the seating arrangement of the Globe. The opening act is a humorous rendition of the \"play within a play\", \"Pyramus and Thisbe\" (Act V, Scene I) from William Shakespeare's \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", with Paul McCartney as Pyramus, John Lennon as his lover Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Starr as Lion, and also features Trevor Peacock in the role of Quince. The special", "title": "Around the Beatles" }, { "id": "19469606", "text": "as Artistic Director of Lexington Ballet Company in 2002 and has produced a portfolio of classical and neoclassical repertoire that includes \"Closed on Mondays\", \"Cabbage Moon\", \"Ragtime Love\", \"The Thieving Magpie\", \"The Mirror\", \"Tales of Ordinary Madness\", \"Three roads to Nowhere\", \"Wild Things\", \"Ion Dance\", \"The Hard Rock Ballet\", \"The Bordello Suites\", R\"hapsody in Blue\", \"Fantasy # 3\", \"Bach Cello suites\", \"21 Century Ballet\", \"Nonsense\", \"The Köln Concert\", \"The Haunted\", \"7 Dreams and a Tango\", \"Reincarnations\", \"West Side Story\", \"Fanfare for the Common Man\", \"For the Red White and Blue\", \"Afternoon of a Faun\" and \"The Rite of Spring\". Lexington", "title": "Lexington Ballet Company" }, { "id": "19467798", "text": "life. During his forty years career as a stage actor Shumsky was engaged in more than 500 parts, some of them in Alexander Ostrovsky's plays, including Vikhorev (\"Stay in Your Own Sled\", 1853), Zhadov (\"A Profitable Position\", 1863); Obroshenov (\"Jokers\", 1864); Krutitsky (\"Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man\", 1868), Dobrotvorsky (\"The Poor Bride\", 1853), Schastlivtsev (\"The Forest\", 1871), Margaritov (\"The Belated Love\", 1873), Groznov (\"Truth Is Good, But Happiness' Better\", 1876). In the late 1860s Sumsky retired to start teaching drama at the Moscow Conservatory where in 1869 he produced the opera \"A Life for the Tsar\", by Mikhail Glinka.", "title": "Sergey Shumsky" }, { "id": "7848310", "text": "The New Group The New Group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. Founded by Artistic Director Scott Elliott, The New Group produced its first play, Mike Leigh's \"Ecstasy\", in 1995. Notable productions include \"This Is Our Youth\", \"Curtains\", \"Goose Pimples\", \"Aunt Dan and Lemon\", \"Hurlyburly\", \"Abigail's Party\", \"Rafta, Rafta...\", \"The Starry Messenger\", and \"A Lie of the Mind, The Kid, Intimacy, The Sticks and Bones, and The Spoils. Over the past 20 years, The New Group has received more than 100 awards and nominations for excellence. The New Group's first musical, \"Avenue", "title": "The New Group" }, { "id": "4367404", "text": "weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering\", and notes that by the 1860s the word was used ironically in Germany to refer to oversensitivity to those same concerns. John Steinbeck wrote about this feeling in \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" and referred to it as the \"Welshrats\"; and in \"East of Eden\", Samuel Hamilton feels it after meeting Cathy Trask for the first time. Ralph Ellison uses the term in \"Invisible Man\" with regard to the pathos inherent in the singing of spirituals: \"beneath the swiftness of the hot tempo there was a", "title": "Weltschmerz" }, { "id": "12007445", "text": "the Sea Festival Inc. is a registered charity (No. 891781841RR0001) with the Canada Revenue Agency and is a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association and the Institute of Outdoor Drama.<br><br> 1993 The Tempest 1994 King Lear 1995 Twelfth Night 1996 Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet 1997 Macbeth, Hamlet, I Hate Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III 2000 The Mousetrap, Julius Caesar (play), Love's Labour's Lost 2001 Dial M for Murder, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice and A Streetcar Named Desire (play) 2002 The", "title": "Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland" }, { "id": "6915636", "text": "everything in reverse. National Players is now in its 68th year of touring. This year's productions are Shakespeare's \"Hamlet,\" a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's \"The Grapes of Wrath,\" and an adaptation by Eric Coble of Lois Lowry's \"The Giver\". Tour 67: Shakespeare's \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" and \"Julius Caesar\"; Benjamin Kingsland's adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel \"A Tale of Two Cities\" Tour 66: Shakespeare's \"As You Like It\" and \"The Tempest\"; Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" Tour 65:Shakespeare's \"Macbeth\" and \"Comedy of Errors\"; an adaptation of Homer's \"Odyssey\" The National Players have received", "title": "National Players" }, { "id": "17779582", "text": "mother, as seen in \"Lip-Syncing in the Rain\" and \"Sleepover Suite\". He generally prefers the electric guitar, but is not skilled in other instruments. In the first season, Zack is a huge troublemaker. He generally starts devious schemes, and Cody only complies reluctantly. Cody works as a bag boy at the Paul Revere minimart over the summer during the third season. It becomes a setting and theme for some episodes, most notably \"Summer of Our Discontent\", \"Sink or Swim\", \"Who's the Boss?\" and \"Baggage\". Zack initially shares a room with Bailey Pickett, a smart and intelligent student, who's a girl", "title": "Zack Martin (Suite Life)" }, { "id": "7848313", "text": "awards and nominations, include the Tony Award for Best New Musical. The New Group has produced numerous world premieres including \"Steve\", \"The Spoils\", \"Intimacy\", \"Burning\", \"Russian Transport\", \"Blood From a Stone\", \"The Starry Messenger\", \"The Accomplices\", and \"Avenue Q\". The New Group The New Group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. Founded by Artistic Director Scott Elliott, The New Group produced its first play, Mike Leigh's \"Ecstasy\", in 1995. Notable productions include \"This Is Our Youth\", \"Curtains\", \"Goose Pimples\", \"Aunt Dan and Lemon\", \"Hurlyburly\", \"Abigail's Party\", \"Rafta, Rafta...\", \"The Starry Messenger\", and", "title": "The New Group" }, { "id": "10078644", "text": "of Venice 1990 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1991 Romeo and Juliet & The Comedy of Errors 1992 Henry VIII & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1993 The Tempest & Twelfth Night 1994 As You Like It & Henry V 1995 Much Ado About Nothing & Richard III 1996 Two Gentlemen of Verona & The Merchant of Venice 1997 The Taming of the Shrew & Macbeth 1998 Love's Labour's Lost & Twelfth Night 1999 Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night's Dream 2000 The Comedy of Errors & The Tempest 2001 Much Ado About Nothing & Henry V 2002 The Taming", "title": "Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival" }, { "id": "9207934", "text": "become Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s second producing director, then its artistic director (a title change only), retiring in 1991. Turner died of heart failure on September 2, 2004. Turner directed more than 40 productions at OSF, including \"The Iceman Cometh\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"King Lear\", \"Long Day's Journey into Night\", \"Major Barbara\", \"Macbeth\", \"Mother Courage and Her Children\", \"Pericles Prince of Tyre\", \"The Tempest\", and \"The White Devil\". He directed a number of his own translations of Swedish and Norwegian plays including \"The Dance of Death\", \"An Enemy of the People\", \"The Father\", \"Ghosts\", \"Peer Gynt\", \"Rosmersholm\", and \"The Wild Duck\". Turner", "title": "Jerry Turner (theater director)" }, { "id": "1480054", "text": "tragedies, comedies, and histories. In addition, he wrote his so-called \"problem plays\", or \"bitter comedies\", that includes, amongst others, \"Measure for Measure\", \"Troilus and Cressida\", \"A Winter's Tale\" and \"All's Well that Ends Well\". His early classical and Italianate comedies, like \"A Comedy of Errors\", containing tight double plots and precise comic sequences, give way in the mid-1590s to the romantic atmosphere of his greatest comedies, \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"As You Like It\", and \"Twelfth Night\". After the lyrical \"Richard II\", written almost entirely in verse, Shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories of the", "title": "English drama" }, { "id": "1480055", "text": "late 1590s, \"Henry IV, parts 1\" and \"2\", and \"Henry V\". This period begins and ends with two tragedies: \"Romeo and Juliet\", and \"Julius Caesar\", based on Sir Thomas North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's \"Parallel Lives\", which introduced a new kind of drama. Though most of his plays met with success, it was in his later years, that Shakespeare wrote what have been considered his greatest plays: \"Hamlet\", \"Othello\", \"King Lear\", \"Macbeth\", \"Antony and Cleopatra\". In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: \"Cymbeline\", \"The Winter's Tale\" and \"The Tempest\", as well", "title": "English drama" }, { "id": "11164809", "text": "Pearson, original music by Joseph Church, choreography by Beatrix Porter, text coaching by Maureen Clarke, and was stage managed by Mary Ellen Allison. The production combined modern (Grace Kelly's Monaco) and historical (pastoral 18th century England) periods in a concept centered around a magical transformation that takes place when Mamillius begins to recount \"the winter's tale\" to his mother, Hermione. The concept arose from the moment in the \"First Folio\" text when Mamillius is asked to \"tell's a Tale,\" to which the boy responds with \"There was a man ... dwelt by a Church-yard...\" According to the Riverside program, McDowell's", "title": "Riverside Shakespeare Company" }, { "id": "4882314", "text": "its founding, Dobama has been known for producing alternative work that would not otherwise be seen in Cleveland. This ranges from their initial production in 1959 to a staging of \"The Iceman Cometh\" by Eugene O'Neill and their many productions of new and Off-Broadway work. Notable plays that have seen their Cleveland premiere at Dobama Theatre include \"The Pillowman\", \"The Goat or Who is Sylvia?\", \"The Last Five Years\", \"The Larame Project\", \"Closer\", \"Wit\", \"How I Learned to Drive\", \"All in the Timing\", \"Top Girls\", \"Marvin's Room\", \"Speed the Plow\", \"Cloud Nine\", \"True West\", \"Catch 22\", \"Roots\", \"On the Verge\",", "title": "Dobama Theatre" }, { "id": "509234", "text": "Books\" (1991) starring John Gielgud – which is not so much an adaptation as a reading of the play, combining film, dance, opera, and animation; and a 2010 version with Prospero recast as Prospera, played by Helen Mirren. Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\"; \"Cymbeline\"; \"The Winter's Tale\"; and \"The Tempest\". \"The Two Noble Kinsmen\", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping. The term \"romances\" was first used for these late works in Edward Dowden's \"Shakespeare: A", "title": "Shakespeare's late romances" }, { "id": "10078645", "text": "of the Shrew & Macbeth 2003 Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives & The Winter's Tale 2004 A Midsummer Night's Dream & Twelfth Night 2005 Much Ado About Nothing & Romeo and Juliet 2006 The Comedy of Errors & King Lear 2007 As You Like It & The Tempest 2008 Twelfth Night & The Merchant of Venice 2009 A Midsummer Night's Dream & Macbeth 2010 The Taming of the Shrew & Richard III 2011 The Winter's Tale & The Merry Wives of Windsor 2012 Romeo and Juliet & Much Ado About Nothing 2013 As You Like It & Love's", "title": "Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival" }, { "id": "20345800", "text": "the truth right away. Not ever knowing if what you're seeing is real is quick way to push one out of the story and into viewer-defense mode where nothing good can come. At some point soon, an episode needs to take us through everything straight arrow-style - but would we even trust it then?\" Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story) \"Winter of Our Discontent\" is the eighth episode of the of the anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It aired on October 24, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Joshua Green, and directed by", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "20525817", "text": "Festival have included productions of \"Drama at Inish\", \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\", \"Brief Encounters\", \"The Entertainer\", \"The Mystery of Edwin Drood\", \"The Matchmaker\", \"The Apple Cart\", \"The Seagull\", \"Hobson's Choice\", \"Holiday\", \"Tonight We Improvise\", \"Come Back, Little Sheba\", and \"Lady Windermere's Fan\". She has also appeared in Vancouver Playhouse productions of William Shakespeare plays, including \"Much Ado About Nothing\" and \"Romeo and Juliet\". She appeared in minor supporting roles in the films \"Switching Channels\", \"Ernest Goes to School\", \"Hard Core Logo\", \"Better Than Chocolate\", and \"Best in Show\". On television, she is best known for her role as", "title": "Corrine Koslo" }, { "id": "20345795", "text": "A hooded Beverly and Vincent are led in. Vincent begs to be set free, but admits that he's trying to get Kai healthier. Kai reveals that Vincent created the \"pinky-power\" ritual, Kai engages Vincent in the ritual and severs Vincent's pinky. Winter unmasks herself and looks on in horror as Kai slashes Vincent's throat. He orders the others to drag Vincent's body away. Beverly is untagged and asks what is going on. Kai tells her she threw her all his plans for her away. Winter told Kai that Beverly was the one to kill Samuels, which Beverly declares a lie.", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "5276058", "text": "people strike up a stirring hymn to Yarilo. Prologue Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Audio Recordings (\"Mainly studio recordings\") Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) () is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS) conducted by", "title": "The Snow Maiden" }, { "id": "20345796", "text": "Beverly calls him an insecure, incompetent attention whore. He says that death is too good for her, and instructs to take her to the isolation chamber. He addresses the assembled and welcomes the newest member as Ally unmasks herself (to Ivy's horror) as the new Satanist clown. \"Winter of Our Discontent\" was watched by 2.06 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, \"Winter of Our Discontent\" holds a 77% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "4142530", "text": "in vitality, Steinbeck belied their fears most emphatically with The \"Winter of Our Discontent\" (1961), a novel published last year. Here he attained the same standard which he set in \"The Grapes of Wrath\". Again he holds his position as an independent expounder of the truth with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American, be it good or bad. Saul Bellow also lauded the book, saying: \"John Steinbeck returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so impressive, and so powerful.\" However, many reviewers in America were", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "1565973", "text": "season cost $650,000, but everyone expected it to be a success. Covering the theme of love, it used \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"All's Well That Ends Well\", \"Measure for Measure\" and \"King Lear\". However, the show achieved very poor ratings and was cancelled at the end of the first season. The second season had been set to cover power (\"King Richard the Second\", \"The First Part of King Henry the Fourth\", \"The Tragedy of Richard III\", \"The Taming of the Shrew\", \"Macbeth\" and \"Julius Caesar\"), with the third looking at revenge (\"The Merchant of Venice\", \"Hamlet, Prince of", "title": "BBC Television Shakespeare" }, { "id": "10078643", "text": "The Taming of the Shrew & Julius Caesar 1978 The Winter's Tale & As You Like It 1979 Much Ado About Nothing & Macbeth 1980 Love's Labour's Lost & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1981 The Merchant of Venice & Two Gentlemen of Verona 1982 A Midsummer Night's Dream & King Henry IV; part I 1983 Twelfth Night & Romeo and Juliet 1984 Much Ado About Nothing & The Tempest 1985 Richard III & The Taming of the Shrew 1986 As You Like It & King Lear 1987 Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1988 No Festival 1989 The Merchant", "title": "Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival" }, { "id": "9365704", "text": "the plays were renamed \"Henry VI: Revenge in France\" and \"Henry VI: Revolt in England\". In 2016, \"Richard II\" and \"1 Henry IV\" were combined as was \"2 Henry IV\" and \"Henry V\". The Plays were renamed \"Breath of Kings: Rebellion\" and \"Breath of Kings: Redemption\". Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history This page describes the production history of the Stratford Festival The Stratford Festival (formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the Stratford Festival of Canada and the Stratford Shakepeare Festival) is a summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario. Theatre-goers, actors, and playwrights flock to Stratford", "title": "Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history" }, { "id": "4140706", "text": "for \"The Winter of Our Discontent\" (1983), and a BAFTA for \"Once Upon a Time in America\" (1984). Since the late 1980s, her acting appearances have been infrequent. Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City. Her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, was a member of the Weld family of Massachusetts; he died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her mother, Yosene Balfour Ker, daughter of the artist and \"Life\" illustrator William Balfour Ker, was Lathrop Weld's fourth and final wife. Susan Ker Weld had two siblings, Sarah King Weld (born 1935)", "title": "Tuesday Weld" }, { "id": "1466389", "text": "don't not believe it. His plays have been performed nationwide, including on Broadway and Off-Broadway. His works include \"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You\", \"Beyond Therapy\", \"Baby With the Bathwater\", \"The Nature and Purpose of the Universe\", \"Titanic\", \"A History of the American Film\", \"The Idiots Karamazov\", \"The Marriage of Bette and Boo\", \"Laughing Wild\", \"'Dentity Crisis\", \"The Actor's Nightmare\", \"The Vietnamization of New Jersey\", \"Betty's Summer Vacation\", \"Naomi in the Living Room\", \"Adrift in Macao\", \"Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge\", \"Miss Witherspoon\", \"Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them\", \"Vanya and Sonia and", "title": "Christopher Durang" }, { "id": "509220", "text": "Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\"; \"Cymbeline\"; \"The Winter's Tale\"; and \"The Tempest\". \"The Two Noble Kinsmen\", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping. The term \"romances\" was first used for these late works in Edward Dowden's \"Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art\" (1875). Later writers have generally been content to adopt Dowden's term. Shakespeare's plays cannot be precisely dated, but it is generally agreed that these comedies followed a series of tragedies including", "title": "Shakespeare's late romances" }, { "id": "13167999", "text": "and this unassuming production makes plain its virtues.\"\" Anita Gates also noted O'Brien's leaned down approach, \"\"you always know what you’re going to get: spare, streamlined, playful Shakespeare with laughs (even in the tragedies).\"\" Among the over thirty productions O'Brien directed at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Pericles, All's Well That Ends Well, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream,", "title": "Terrence O'Brien (director)" }, { "id": "8053702", "text": "change and construction of Sidney Harman Hall, part of the new Harman Center for the Arts, which expands artistic opportunities for the Shakespeare Theatre Company and other arts groups. On February 8, 2017, Kahn announced that he will be resigning as Artistic Director in July 2019. Shakespeare Theatre Company Directing Credits: \"Henry IV, Part 1\" and \"Henry IV, Part 2\" in repertory, \"Wallenstein\", \"The Government Inspector\", \"Strange Interlude\", \"The Heir Apparent\" (world premiere), \"Old Times\", \"All's Well That Ends Well\", \"The Liar\", \"Richard II\", \"The Alchemist\", \"Design for Living\", \"The Way of the World\", \"Antony and Cleopatra\", \"Tamburlaine\", \"Hamlet\", \"Richard", "title": "Michael Kahn (theatre director)" }, { "id": "5064757", "text": "(2015). Similarly, hit Broadway plays are often adapted into films, whether from musicals or dramas. Some examples of American film adaptations based on successful Broadway plays are \"Arsenic and Old Lace\" (1944), \"Born Yesterday\" (1950), \"Harvey\" (1950), \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1951), \"The Odd Couple\" (1968), \"The Boys in the Band\" (1970), \"Agnes of God\" (1985), \"Children of a Lesser God\" (1986), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), \"Real Women Have Curves\" (2002), \"Rabbit Hole\" (2010), and \"Fences\" (2016). On one hand, theatrical adaptation does not involve as many interpolations or elisions as novel adaptation, but on the other, the demands of", "title": "Film adaptation" }, { "id": "5830473", "text": "and \"2\", and \"Henry V\". This period begins and ends with two tragedies: \"Romeo and Juliet\", and \"Julius Caesar\", based on Sir Thomas North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's \"Parallel Lives\", which introduced a new kind of drama. Shakespeare's career continued into the Jacobean period, and in the early 17th century Shakespeare wrote the so-called \"problem plays\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Troilus and Cressida\", and \"All's Well That Ends Well\", as well as a number of his best known tragedies, including \"Hamlet\", \"Othello\", \"Macbeth\", \"King Lear\" and \"Anthony and Cleopatra\". The plots of Shakespeare's tragedies often hinge on such fatal errors or", "title": "Elizabethan literature" }, { "id": "6295449", "text": "use in literature usually has sexual connotations. The best known example is in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's play \"The Changeling\", in which an adulterer tells his cuckold \"I coupled with your mate at barley-break; now we are left in hell\". The use of the phrase in Thomas Morley's madrigal \"Now Is the Month of Maying\" probably means something similar to the idiom \"roll in the hay\". Barley-Break Barley-Break is an old English country game frequently mentioned by the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was played by three pairs, each composed of a man and a woman,", "title": "Barley-Break" }, { "id": "4142535", "text": "the seductress Margie Young-Hunt . . . the third person narrative reappears.\" The second exception is the interlude at the start of chapter eleven which is presented by the author as an omniscient narrator, before the chapter reverts to Ethan's point of view. The three different narrative styles are therefore: omniscient narrator (Chapter 11 part); free indirect discourse from multiple points of view (Chapters 1,2,11,12); and first person narrative from a single point of view (the rest of the book). The novel was made into a television movie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1983, featuring Donald Sutherland, Teri", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent" }, { "id": "11681047", "text": "\"Hallmark Hall of Fame\" productions between 1951 and 1958; \"Live from the Met\" and \"Great Performances\" for PBS; and television adaptations of plays such as \"June Moon\", \"Damn Yankees!\", \"A Touch of the Poet\", \"The Taming of the Shrew\", \"The Time of Your Life\", \"Tartuffe\", \"Fifth of July\", \"You Can't Take it with You\", \"The House of Blue Leaves\", \"Our Town\", and \"Death of a Salesman\", which earned him a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Television Film. Browning won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for directing a 1987 special with Plácido Domingo and", "title": "Kirk Browning" }, { "id": "11116760", "text": "In December 1660, the King granted the Duke's Company the exclusive rights to ten of Shakespeare's plays: \"Hamlet\", \"Macbeth\", \"King Lear\", \"Romeo and Juliet\", \"The Tempest\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Henry VIII\", and \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\". In 1661, their first year at Lincoln's Inn Fields, the company revived \"Hamlet\", in a production that employed the innovation of stage scenery. Samuel Pepys saw their production on 24 August; he described it as \"done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton did the Prince's part beyond imagination\". Davenant tried to make the most of the", "title": "Duke's Company" }, { "id": "10005158", "text": "published by Samuel French, which has been performed around the world. Cashmore wrote the following full-length plays and pantomimes: \"What's in a name?\", \"Amber\", \"Trip of a Lifetime\", \"Time Please\", \"A Breed Apart\", \"Amy is Four\", \"Unaccommodated\", \"Bride or Groom?\", \"Seating Plan\", \"New Year's Resolution\". Cashmore wrote three one-act plays: \"Past Lives\", \"Daughter\", and \"Him, Her and Them\". He also performed in two one-man shows, \"An Everyday Actor\" and \"Bill's Clothes\". In 2017, he was selected as the Green Party candidate for Chelsea and Fulham, where he stood for parliament in the 2017 General Election. Cashmore died on 9 November", "title": "Bill Cashmore" }, { "id": "20345798", "text": "Rosenfield from \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the episode a A-, and particularly enjoyed the last scene with its reveals. She is also pleased that the episode doesn't see the threesome scene through to its \"repulsive conclusion\". However, she criticized the use of the Judgement House, calling it \"a blatant ripoff of Se7en\". \"Vulture\"'s Brian Moylan gave the episode a 4 out of 5, with a positive review, saying \"There is a lot of great, cutting Trump satire in this episode. While late-night hosts and facile sitcoms like \"Will & Grace\" go for the easy Cheeto-faced joke, AHS cuts a lot deeper.\"", "title": "Winter of Our Discontent (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "19344405", "text": "Don Homfray Don Homfray (1935–2012) was a BAFTA-winning production designer for the BBC. Homfray was born at Codsall, Staffordshire, in 1935. He studied architecture at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and then worked for the BBC as a production designer in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Homfray was awarded a BAFTA for his work on the 1972 BBC production of \"War and Peace\", and was nominated for his work on \"Germinal\" (1970) and \"Vienna 1900\" (1973). He designed seven of the plays in the BBC Television Shakespeare series: \"Henry IV\", Parts 1 and 2 (1979), \"Henry V\" (1979), \"Hamlet\" (1980), \"A Winter's Tale\" (1981),", "title": "Don Homfray" }, { "id": "5830474", "text": "flaws, which overturn order and destroy the hero and those he loves. In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: \"Cymbeline\", \"The Winter's Tale\" and \"The Tempest\", as well as the collaboration, \"Pericles, Prince of Tyre\". Less bleak than the tragedies, these four plays are graver in tone than the comedies of the 1590s, but they end with reconciliation and the forgiveness of potentially tragic errors. Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays, \"Henry VIII\" and \"The Two Noble Kinsmen\", probably with John Fletcher. Other important figures in the Elizabethan theatre include", "title": "Elizabethan literature" }, { "id": "14382849", "text": "The other said: \"There are still twenty nine.\" The phrase \"30 pieces of silver\" is used more generally to describe a price at which people sell out. In Dostoyevsky's \"Crime and Punishment\", it is echoed in the 30 roubles which the character Sonia earns for selling herself. In the folk-song \"King John and the Bishop\", the bishop's answer to the riddle of how much the king is worth is 29 pieces of silver, as no king is worth more than Jesus. In Shakespeare's play \"Henry IV, Part 2\", the mistress of Falstaff asks \"and didst thou not kiss me, and", "title": "Thirty pieces of silver" }, { "id": "10775539", "text": "Audience\" at the Gielgud Theatre. He had previously been nominated for an Olivier Award in 1994 for his role as Autolycus in the 1992 RSC production of \"The Winter's Tale\". http://www.olivierawards.com/winners/view/item98528/olivier-winners-1994/ McCabe is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), best known for his roles, ranging from comedy (Puck, Autolycus, Thersites, Apemantus) to drama (King John, Iago, Flamineo). He first gained major attention as Puck in the 1989 production of \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", with a production that featured punk fairies and a scrapyard set. As Autolycus, McCabe entered Act III in \"The Winter's Tale\", hanging from a", "title": "Richard McCabe" }, { "id": "1480046", "text": "Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the \"Fall of Lucifer\", the \"Creation and Fall of Man\", \"Cain and Abel\", \"Noah and the Flood\", \"Abraham and Isaac\", the \"Nativity\", the \"Raising of Lazarus\", the \"Passion\", and the \"Resurrection\". Other pageants included the story of \"Moses\", the \"Procession of the Prophets\", \"Christ's Baptism\", the \"Temptation in the Wilderness\", and the \"Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin\". In given cycles, the plays came to be sponsored by the newly emerging Medieval", "title": "English drama" }, { "id": "13908690", "text": "at the leading regional theatres Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Oregon), Hartford Stage (Hartford, Connecticut), Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Massachusetts), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, California), and California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, California). Her passion is Shakespearean classics, heightened language plays, and magic/heightened realism, which is evident in these select directing credits: \"The Winter’s Tale\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Scapin the Cheat\", \"Sleepy\", \"Steel Magnolias\", \"Children of Eden\", \"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\", \"The Burial at Thebes\", \"My California\", \"Medea\", \"Trojan Women\", \"In the Blood\", and \"La Ronde\". Dawn Monique Williams Dawn Monique Williams (born July", "title": "Dawn Monique Williams" }, { "id": "3892837", "text": "the series' best. The Conscience of the King \"The Conscience of the King\" is the thirteenth episode of the of the American science fiction television series, \"\". Written by Barry Trivers and directed by Gerd Oswald, it first aired on December 8, 1966. The episode takes its title from the concluding lines of Act II of \"Hamlet:\" \"The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.\" In the episode, Captain Kirk crosses paths with an actor suspected of having been a mass-murdering dictator many years before. The episode featured the final appearance (in production order) of Grace Lee", "title": "The Conscience of the King" }, { "id": "7973022", "text": "The Winter of Our Discontent (film) The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film directed by Waris Hussein based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. The story is about a Long Islander named Ethan Allen Hawley (played by Donald Sutherland) who works as a clerk in a grocery store he used to own, but which is now owned by an Italian immigrant (played by Michael V. Gazzo). His wife (Teri Garr) and kids want more than what he can give them because of his lowly position. He finds out that the immigrant", "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent (film)" }, { "id": "2969356", "text": "believed that Shakespeare in his retirement was revising his oeuvre \"for definitive publication\". The \"apprentice plays\" which had been reworked were naturally omitted from the Folio. Sams also rejected 20th-century orthodoxy on Shakespeare's collaboration: with the exception of \"Sir Thomas More\", \"Two Noble Kinsmen\" and \"Henry VIII\", the plays were solely his, though many were only partly revised. By Sams' authorship- and dating-arguments, Shakespeare wrote not only the earliest \"modern\" chronicle play, \"The Troublesome Reign\", c.1588, but also \"the earliest known modern comedy and tragedy\", \"A Shrew\" and the Ur-\"Hamlet\" ( = the 1603 Quarto). Sams also argued, more briefly,", "title": "Shakespeare apocrypha" }, { "id": "9391384", "text": "has more than 50 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including , No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot in rep, Love Letters, The Country House, The Assembled Parties,\"Nice Work If You Can Get It\", \"Venus in Fur\",\"Wit\", \"Anything Goes\", \"A View From the Bridge\", \"The Pajama Game\", \"Seascape\", \"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\", \"Wonderful Town\", \"Anna in the Tropics\", and revivals of \"The Music Man\" and \"Kiss Me, Kate\". His recent off-Broadway work includes Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater), Ripcord Manhattan Theater Club), \"How I Learned to Drive\" for 2nd Stage, \"Twelfth Night\", \"All's Well\", \"Measure for Measure\"", "title": "Peter Kaczorowski" } ]

[ "It was the greeting exchanged by Buffalo Bob Smith and Chief Thunderthud on the Howdy Doody TV show in the 1950s" ]

[ { "id": "4954253", "text": "on The Magic Castle, a nightclub in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Marge's line \"I didn't say that for clapping\" is a reference to a speech given by John Wayne while he was intoxicated. Homer wants to buy a singing rubber fish after their first con. At the end of the episode, Bart exclaims “Cowabunga!”, a catch-phrase of the main characters in the animated television series \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\". In the scene where Grampa joins Bart and Homer, Grampa mentions the film \"The Sting II\". In its original American broadcast on December 10, 2000, \"The Great Money", "title": "The Great Money Caper" }, { "id": "14852757", "text": "\"Say Kids! What Time Is It?\", which chronicled the history of \"The Howdy Doody Show\", credited Kean with writing the show's theme song as the program's \"chief writer, philosopher and theoretician\". In his eight years with the show, he scripted \"almost every line spoken and every note sung\", created characters such as Clarabell the Clown and Princess Summerfall Winterspring, and conceived of Howdy Doody's 1948 run for President of the United States. Kean coined the word \"kawabonga\" as a greeting for the character Chief Thunderthud, which was later adopted by surfers as \"cowabunga\" and popularized by Snoopy, the Teenage Mutant", "title": "Edward Kean" }, { "id": "2837279", "text": "walking on a road and he made a speaking cameo along with the other turtles at the end of the episode when a space worm from the 2012 dimension started terrorizing the street. All four turtles see the worm and spring into action while shouting their famous catchphrase, 'Cowabunga'. Townsend Coleman reprised his role as Michelangelo for the cameo. This would mark the first time in over 28 years the 1987 TMNT cast would return to their roles. With exception of Rob Paulsen who returned to the TMNT franchise as Donatello in the 2012 series. The 1987 turtles also had", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837275", "text": "is most associated with the \"Cowabunga\" expression that became a pop culture phenomenon. Michelangelo had a fondness for pizza, even beyond that of the other Turtles; in the Season 3 episode \"Cowabunga, Shredhead\", his pizza cravings annoyed the others so much that Splinter hypnotized him into refusing and denouncing pizza whenever the very word was mentioned, although the hypnosis was lifted at the end of the episode. He was essentially a provider of comic relief, alongside Raphael. Michelangelo began the series with his trademark nunchaku as his weapons, but controversy surrounding the weapons in the United Kingdom led to scenes", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837185", "text": "of appearances in the 2012 series in the episode, The Manhattan Project. He and the other turtles along with Casey and April are seen through a portal by their 2012 counterparts walking on a road and he made a speaking cameo along with the other turtles at the end of the episode when a space worm from the 2012 dimension started terrorizing the street. All four turtles see the worm and spring into action while shouting their famous catchphrase, 'Cowabunga'. Cam Clarke reprised his role as Leonardo for the cameo. This would mark the first time in over 28 years", "title": "Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837278", "text": "these anti-drug PSAs, Michelangelo suggests to a kid being tempted with marijuana that he should \"get a pizza\" to go with it, before the idea is shot down by Donatello. Michelangelo's trademark phrase in this series is the famous \"Cowabunga\". Michelangelo's voice actor was Townsend Coleman in the 1987 series' original English language version and Johnny Castro in the 25th anniversary movie \"Turtles Forever\". Michelangelo also made a couple of appearances in the 2012 series in the episode, The Manhattan Project. He and the other turtles along with Casey and April are seen through a portal by their 2012 counterparts", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837261", "text": "audience, than in the more serious original comic books which were aimed at an older audience. He often coins most of their catchphrases, such as \"Cowabunga!\". Like all of the brothers, he is named after a Renaissance artist; in this case, he is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti. The spelling of the character's name varies from source to source, and he has been alternately shown as both Michelangelo and Michaelangelo. In these original comic books, Michelangelo was initially depicted as fun-loving, carefree, and, while not as aggressive as Raphael, always ready to fight. He is much more serious-natured in the comic", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837229", "text": "2012 series in the episode, The Manhattan Project. He and the other turtles along with Casey and April are seen through a portal by their 2012 counterparts walking on a road and he made a speaking cameo along with the other turtles at the end of the episode when a space worm from the 2012 dimension started terrorizing the street. All four turtles see the worm and spring into action while shouting their famous catchphrase, 'Cowabunga'. This would be Rob Paulsen's second role in the 2012 series, the other being Donatello while he returned to his role as Raphael for", "title": "Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837300", "text": "asks if he can use it from time to time. In the episode \"Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind\", he says \"Booyakabunga\" (a mixture of both Booyakasha and Cowabunga). Michelangelo also has an affinity for animals in this incarnation, as well as a fear of squirrels. Whilst he is more interested in comics and cartoon shows (such as Crognard the Barbarian and Super Robo Mecha Force Five) than animals, he adopted a cat April found on the street after the cat ate some mutagen Mikey had spilled ice cream in, resulting in the arable and delicious Ice Cream Kitty;", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837299", "text": "Later in an episode, he says that Mikey has his \"challenges\" too. And even if Mikey can give his brothers grief, they will always care and love him and have his back. It is heavily implied that this version of Michelangelo has some form of ADHD. Unlike past incarnations, Mikey does not say his famous \"Cowabunga\" catchphrase, but instead says \"BOOYAKASHA!\" He usually does this when doing accomplishing something or attacking an enemy. In the episode \"Meet Mondo Gecko\" the character Jason (AKA Mondo Gecko) uses 'cowabunga' as his own catchphrase, and Michelangelo says it's \"too old school\" but later", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837303", "text": "is 13 years old. Also an artist and awesome skateboarder with a wild colorful, and imaginative personality.\". This incarnation of Michelangelo lacks a surfer accent, and likes to refer to himself as the artist of the group. He possessed more childlike innocence/naiveness. He have also have a strong passion of cooking too. Michelangelo is depicted in the live-action movies as the easy-going, free-spirited turtle. One of his movie catchphrases is, \"I love being a turtle! \" and cowabunga! Owing to his popularity with children, he is given many lines and comes up with several (slightly outrageous) plans to advance plots.", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "741543", "text": "\"¡Ay, caramba!\" and \"Don't have a cow, man!\", were featured on T-shirts manufactured during the production of the early seasons of \"The Simpsons\". \"Cowabunga\" is also commonly associated with Bart, although it was mostly used on the show after it had been used as a slogan on the T-shirts. The use of catchphrase-based humor was mocked in the episode \"Bart Gets Famous\" (season five, 1994) in which Bart lands a popular role on Krusty the Clown's show for saying the line \"I didn't do it.\" The writers chose the phrase \"I didn't do it\" because they wanted a \"lousy\" phrase", "title": "Bart Simpson" }, { "id": "544155", "text": "\"far-out\", \"tubuloso\", \"bodacious\", and possibly the most recognized, \"cowabunga\". On April 21, 1990, a drug-prevention television special was broadcast on ABC, NBC, and CBS named \"Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue\" that featured some of the most popular cartoons at the time; representing TMNT was Michelangelo, voiced by Townsend Coleman. Starting on September 8, 1990 (with a different opening sequence), the show began its run on CBS. The CBS weekend edition ran for a full hour until 1994, initially airing a few Saturday-exclusive episodes back-to-back. Also, a brief \"Turtle Tips\" segment aired between the two episodes, which served as public-service announcement", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" }, { "id": "6554185", "text": "budget of $34 million. Three thousand years ago, warlord Yaotl enters a portal into a parallel universe and becomes immortal, but his four generals are turned to stone. The portal also releases 13 immortal monsters that destroy his army and his enemies. In the present, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have grown apart. After defeating the Shredder, Master Splinter has sent Leonardo to Central America for training, where he protects a village from bandits. Donatello works as an IT specialist, Michelangelo works as a birthday party entertainer called \"Cowabunga Carl\", and Raphael works at night as the vigilante \"Nightwatcher\". April", "title": "TMNT (film)" }, { "id": "4645100", "text": "\"there are themes to the shows we did last year, important themes, I think it's a tribute to how well we executed them that nobody realized we had a point.\" Bart says \"Cowabunga\" for the second time (the first time being in \"The Telltale Head\"), which was commonly associated with Bart through its use as a T-shirt slogan. Mayor Quimby makes his first appearance in this episode, without his trademark sash that says \"Mayor\". The sash was later added because the writers feared that viewers would not recognize him. The episode was the first to feature a new opening sequence,", "title": "Bart Gets an \"F\"" }, { "id": "544136", "text": "was honed with the collaboration of the Murakami-Wolf-Swenson animation firm's writers. Playmates and their team essentially served as associate producers and contributing writers to the miniseries that was first launched to sell-in the toy action figures. Phrases like \"Heroes in a half shell\" and many of the comical catch phrases and battle cries (\"Turtle power!\") came from the writing and conceptualization of this creative team. As the series developed, veteran writer Jack Mendelsohn came on board as both a story editor and scriptwriter. David Wise, Michael Charles Hill, and Michael Reaves wrote most of the scripts. The miniseries was repeated", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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She and the rest of the Foot Clan depart. Yaotl, now mortal, honors the Turtles and Splinter, thanking them for fulfilling his wish before dissipating. Splinter places Yaotl's helmet among his trophy collection, as well as Raphael's \"Nightwatcher\" helmet and Michelangelo's \"Cowabunga Carl\" head. As they return to their roles as the shadowy guardians of New York City, Raphael says that the Turtles will always be brothers. A computer graphics imagery (CGI) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) movie was first announced in 2000, with John Woo supposedly at", "title": "TMNT (film)" }, { "id": "5798700", "text": "the surface, the young Turtles witness bullies picking on young \"Arnie\". Disguising themselves as a human child, they attempt to teach him self-defense. However, their unique perspectives and attitudes resulted in more trouble than help. In the end, however, young Casey angrily jumps to the defense of a friend against the bullies, proclaiming they were no match for \"Arnold Casey Jones!\" In a bit of foreshadowing, he uses a bully's hockey stick against them. His main catchphrase is the battle cry \"Goongala!\". It is also revealed in episode \"The Lesson\" that this came from a young Casey being unable to", "title": "Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837003", "text": "other three movies. However, it should be noted that Raphael felt he was better suited to be in charge and openly asks Splinter why he was not considered for the role. Splinter explains that Raph has not yet mastered control over his rage and is therefore not eligible to be leader. In this film, Donnie also seems to show a bit more emotional care for Mikey than in the previous films. According to the short \"Mikey's Birthday Party\" Donnie helps Mikey with his job as a character entertainer named \"Cowabunga Carl\" by communicating with Mikey via cameras and head gear", "title": "Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "2837304", "text": "In the first movie, he and Donatello were regularly paired together while Leonardo and Raphael were arguing. In the first movie and the first sequel, \"\", he was portrayed by Michelan Sisti; in the second sequel, \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III\", he was portrayed by David Fraser. In all three movies, he was voiced by \"The Brady Bunch\" alum Robbie Rist. In \"TMNT\", Mikey has taken to performing at children's birthday parties as \"Cowabunga Carl\" in order to help make ends meet to support his family. It becomes apparent early in the film that the physical and emotional absence of", "title": "Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "5798701", "text": "pronounce \"-sama\", a battle cry meaning lit. \"Mr. Thunder\", that young Michelangelo kept trying to teach him. \"Goongala\" was the best he could come up with. Despite his lack of intelligence and apparent incompetence, he was early on in the series referred to by Hun as \"Our (the Purple Dragon's) greatest enemy\", and a fighting tournament was held to see which Dragon would have the honor of killing him, indicating how serious a threat the criminal underworld views him as. In the series, Casey has a good heart, but is easily enraged and occasionally bumbling. He loves motorcycles. In a", "title": "Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "10452037", "text": "That's When I Reach for My Revolver \"That's When I Reach for My Revolver\" is a song by Mission of Burma that was written and sung by band member Clint Conley. It appears on their 1981 EP \"Signals, Calls and Marches\". Moby covered the song in 1996 and released it as a single, reaching number fifty on the UK Singles Chart. The title is a reference to the often-mistranslated quotation commonly attributed to Hermann Göring: \"When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver\" — the actual quote is \"Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich", "title": "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" }, { "id": "3798593", "text": "claims that \"War Eagle\" was the name given to the large golden eagle by the Plains Indians because the eagle furnished feathers for use in their war bonnets. According to a 1998 article in the Auburn Plainsman, the most likely origin of the \"War Eagle\" cry grew from a 1913 pep rally at Langdon Hall, where students had gathered the day before the annual football game against the University of Georgia. Cheerleader Gus Graydon told the crowd, \"If we are going to win this game, we'll have to get out there and fight, because this means war.\" During the frenzy,", "title": "War Eagle" }, { "id": "544154", "text": "weekdays and it had 47 more episodes for the new season. There were 28 new syndicated episodes for season 4 and only 13 of those episodes aired in 1990. The \"European Vacation\" episodes were not seen in the United States until USA Network started showing reruns in late 1993 and the \"Awesome Easter\" episodes were not seen until 1991. These episodes were delayed because of animation or scheduling problems. The turtles are also well known for their use of idiomatic expressions characteristic of the surfer lingo of the time, especially by Michelangelo. Words and phrases included \"bummer\", \"dude\", \"bogus\", \"radical\",", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" }, { "id": "13506388", "text": "Head of Comedy, wanted their name to include the word \"circus\" because the BBC referred to the six members wandering around the building as a circus, in particular, \"Baron Von Took's Circus\", after Barry Took, who had brought them to the BBC. The group added \"flying\" to make it sound less like an actual circus and more like something from World War I. The group was coming up with their name at a time when the 1966 Royal Guardsmen song \"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron\" had been at a peak. \"Freiherr\" Manfred von Richthofen, the World War I German flying", "title": "Monty Python's Flying Circus" }, { "id": "6394352", "text": "– or all three – of .\" Examples include a 2001 album titled \"Quiet Is the New Loud\", a 2008 newspaper headline that stated \"Comedy is the new rock 'n' roll\", and the title of and 2013 Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". \"The mother of all \", a hyperbole which has been used to refer to something as \"great\" or \"the greatest of its kind\", became a popular snowclone template in the 1990s. The phrase entered American popular culture in September 1990 at the outset of the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council warned the", "title": "Snowclone" }, { "id": "544182", "text": "Turtles\" (or TMHT, for short), since the British Broadcasting Corp deemed the word \"ninja\" to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program. Consequently, everything related to the Turtles (comic books, video games, toys, etc.) was renamed before being released in the UK as well as various other European countries. The lyrics were also changed, such as changing \"Splinter taught them to be \"ninja\" teens\" to \"Splinter taught them to be \"fighting\" teens\". The policies also had other effects, such as editing out use of Michelangelo's nunchaku (which were at the time banned by James Ferman, chairman of the BBFC,", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" }, { "id": "4542264", "text": "of the second season. After the first two episodes were broadcast, the name was changed to \"Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles\" and the intro was edited, except for season one. In 2007–2008, episodes were aired in their original US unedited form. When shown on the BBC, phrases such as \"Let's kick some shell!\" and \"Bummer!\" were removed from the episodes (the latter may relate to a British slang term for anal sex). The series \"\" was also referred to as Hero Turtles, possibly using the term \"hero\" to separate the television series from the live action movies. The 2003 television series,", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)" }, { "id": "8345631", "text": "were no words in the Navajo language for military machines, weapons, or foreign countries, so these words were substituted with words that did exist in the Navajo language. For example, Britain was spoken as \"between waters\" (toh-ta), a dive bomber was a \"chicken hawk\" (gini), a grenade was a \"potato\" (ni-ma-si) and Germany was \"iron hat\" (besh-be-cha-he). In 2001, 28 Navajo Code Talkers were awarded a Congressional Gold Medals, mostly posthumously. The group has also been commemorated in various media, including books, films, notably \"Windtalkers\" (2002) starring Nicolas Cage, \"Battle Cry\" starring Van Heflin, even a Navajo Code Talker GI", "title": "Native Americans and World War II" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "5118610", "text": "to take Bart's idea to heart. The episode then jumps 1,000 years into the future, when Bart is believed to be the last Prophet of God. In this age, mankind is waging war over whether Bart's teachings were about love and tolerance, or understanding and peace (and whether he was betrayed by his minion Milhouse and ripped apart by snowmobiles until he died). Unable to come to an agreement, one side cries Bart's catchphrase \"Eat my shorts\", the other cries \"Cowabunga\" and both sides engage in a bloody battle. Robert Canning, Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson, and Brain Zormski of IGN", "title": "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star" }, { "id": "4380844", "text": "plan. \"You may find this hard to believe, but in my salad days, my crowning glory was a bright shock of strawberry blonde curls.\" Mr. Burns goes on to say that he can empathise with Homer's experience with male pattern baldness. In a season 3 episode of \"Red vs. Blue\" a zealot delivers a diatribe for his team's lost flag, claiming that the \"days of salad and glory\" are over. The 1996 film \"Independence Day\" contains the line \"Are the salad days over for President Whitmore?\" Episode 33 of the television series \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" is called \"Salad Days\",", "title": "Salad days" }, { "id": "3652801", "text": "must himself be free,\" Johnson replied, \"Who drives fat oxen must himself be fat.\" Although Johnson was objecting to the misuse and overuse of \"freedom\" and was at that time in a vexatious debate over the United States War of Independence (saying, \"Why is it that we hear the loudest cries for liberty from the drivers of Negroes?\"), Brooke was mortified by Johnson's parody and changed the line for his \"Collected Works\". Brooke had a difficult life and made a very poor living. The Licensing Act robbed him of his primary avenue to making a living, for, after the Act,", "title": "Henry Brooke (writer)" }, { "id": "2860300", "text": "the key labels in the British post-punk movement. Following several releases, Watts-Russell developed the idea of collaborating under the name This Mortal Coil. The name is taken from the Monty Python's Flying Circus \"Dead Parrot sketch\", which in turn is a quote from Shakespeare's \"Hamlet\" (\"... what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil...\"). Quoting the 4AD website: One of the label's earliest signings was Modern English. In 1983, Watts-Russell suggested that the band re-record two of its earliest songs, \"Sixteen Days\" and \"Gathering Dust\", as a medley. At the time, the band was closing its", "title": "This Mortal Coil" }, { "id": "19699627", "text": "into his reality to serve as mind-controlled hitmen, in order to prevent Usagi from ever reaching the Temple of the Sky Buddha. A flashback (prequel) shows how Splinter and the four Turtles, as babies, found their underground lair while being pursued by the Kraang. Splinter realizes he has been given a second chance at fatherhood, and names the infant Turtles after his favorite Italian artists of the Renaissance. In an alternate post-apocalyptic future (set half a century later), humanity and most of mutantkind (the Mighty Mutanimals, April O'Neil- who was somehow unable to shield herself from the blast with her", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) (season 5)" }, { "id": "11133290", "text": "the state police academy are automatically promoted to Trooper. The title of address is \"Trooper\". Is a rank commonly used in the western United States associated with the duties of a Game Warden. Currently this title is used in the states of Oregon and Alaska. Early Australian police forces had officers termed troopers, typically mounted police. For example, the classic Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda contains the line \"\"Down came the troopers, one, two, three,\"\" referring to three mounted police who had come to arrest the swagman. The term is no longer in current usage in Australia. Trooper (police rank)", "title": "Trooper (police rank)" }, { "id": "7087409", "text": "animals, \"Ronin\", and \"Daredevil\", which featured ninja clans dueling for control of the New York City underworld. The Turtles' origin contained direct allusions to \"Daredevil\": the traffic accident between a blind man and a truck carrying radioactive ooze, a reference to Daredevil's own story, (indeed in the version told in the first issue, Splinter sees the canister strike a boy's face). The name \"Splinter\" also parodied Daredevil's mentor, a man known as \"Stick.\" The Foot, a clan of evil ninjas who became the Turtles' arch-enemies, likens to the Hand, who were a mysterious and deadly ninja clan in the pages", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "495661", "text": "a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation. However, Forrester cannot produce the letter, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall it or find it. Randall Wallace, the screenwriter of the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\", readily admitted that he copied the line from \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\" Regardless of the provenance of the quote, Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the US. Moreover, he seems later to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been a blunder—even though he was the person who came up with the idea of", "title": "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote" }, { "id": "15249973", "text": "and a small group of friends, pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They obtained permission to visit one of the world's most powerful warships HMS \"Dreadnought\" in Weymouth, Dorset, in what became known as the \"Dreadnought\" hoax. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase \"bunga, bunga!\" which then became a popular catchphrase of the time. Adrian Stephen, had this to say about the phrase: A 1950 Bugs Bunny short \"Bushy Hare\" used the phrase \"Unga Bunga Bunga\" in a nonsensical exchange between Bugs Bunny", "title": "Bunga bunga" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "250862", "text": "performers collaborated with their stunts to perform a combined set of acts. Differing, somewhat confusing accounts are given of the origins of the Python name, although the members agree that its only \"significance\" was that they thought it sounded funny. In the 1998 documentary \"Live at Aspen\" during the US Comedy Arts Festival, where the troupe was awarded the AFI Star Award by the American Film Institute, the group implied that \"Monty\" was selected (Eric Idle's idea) as a gently mocking tribute to Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a legendary British general of World War II; requiring a \"slippery-sounding\" surname, they", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "250861", "text": "were to discover she had her own TV show. \"Baron Von Took's Flying Circus\" was considered as an affectionate tribute to Barry Took, the man who had brought them together. \"Arthur Megapode's Flying Circus\" was suggested, then discarded. The name \"Baron Von Took's Flying Circus\" had the form of \"Baron Manfred von Richthofen's Flying Circus\" of WWI fame, and the new group was forming in a time when the Royal Guardsmen's 1966 song \"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron\" had peaked. The term 'flying circus' was also another name for the popular entertainment of the 1920s known as barnstorming, where multiple", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "11247125", "text": "away hidden in large haystacks. Filming for \"Sock-a-Bye Baby\" commenced between April 28 and May 1, 1942. The film title is a parody of the lullaby \"Rock-a-bye Baby\", likely shared by the similarly-named Popeye cartoon \"Sock-a-Bye, Baby\" from 1934. This short is one of the rare few that contains explicit racial humor. Specifically, after Curly begins singing a song about Japanese people, he catches himself and says \"What am I sayin'? [spits Pew!] on the Japanese.\" The U.S. was at war with Japan during World War II at the time and jingoism was a presence in the media. While washing", "title": "Sock-a-Bye Baby" }, { "id": "6444922", "text": "\"What are we going to do to those Horned Frogs?\" Using a term for frog hunting already used by the student body, he answered his own question, \"Gig 'em, Aggies!\" and made a fist with the thumb extended. The hand signal proved popular, and it became the first hand sign of the Southwest Conference. Gig 'em is also the name of one of the school yells, which is used during football kickoffs. The university's traditions council recognizes another possible origin for the expression. The word \"gig\" is used in the US Army to indicate an infraction of the uniform code,", "title": "Traditions of Texas A&M University" }, { "id": "19834740", "text": "where Michelangelo has had fun with a thief (thereby quoting Batman's line \"I am vengeance, I am the night\" from the \"Nothing to Fear\"), Donatello is alerted by a scanning program on his computer telling him that the Kraang have activated another dimensional portal in the sewers. The Turtles and April follow the energy reading to its source and discover an active portal, just before they are ambushed by Clayface. When Michelangelo gives him the insulting nickname \"Mudbutt\", Clayface concentrates his attacks on the young Turtle, inadvertently moving back in front of the portal in the process. By opening a", "title": "Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures" }, { "id": "19217303", "text": "Texas (to draw a larger following) in 2010, adding vocalists John Ritter and Michael Swank and adopted a metalcore sound. Two years later, the group performed at South by So What?! music festival in Grand Prairie, Texas. The band was named after a phrase used in video game Call of Duty, in which a voice shouts \"Sniper, Relocate\". The band decided to change the pronunciation of the first word to \"\", but decided to spell the word as \"Myka\". In early 2013, Albarado and the group parted ways, with Aaron Robertson taking over on percussion. In July of that year,", "title": "Myka Relocate" }, { "id": "19115563", "text": "commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2014–15:\" 2015–16 Canadian network television schedule The 2015–16 network television schedules for the five major English commercial", "title": "2015–16 Canadian network television schedule" }, { "id": "9914292", "text": "The Music department also relocated to the area vacated by the biology department. The whole project was completed in 2013 and cost £5 million. The school was named after St Crispin, the patron saint of cobblers, tanners and leather workers. The choice of name was perhaps inspired by the famous St Crispin's Day speech from Shakespeare's \"Henry V\", a rousing battle cry from the king before the Battle of Agincourt which was fought on 25 October 1415 (St Crispin's Day). St Crispin's was officially opened on 14 October 1953 by the Right Honourable Florence Horsbrugh, the then Minister of Education.", "title": "St Crispin's School" }, { "id": "4508125", "text": "as a hermit in its sewers and befriends the rats. One day, he comes across four baby turtles which were accidentally dropped by a boy through a sewer grate. Splinter keeps them as pets and treats them like his children. When he finds the turtles near some broken barrels that are oozing glowing pink (later retconned to green) chemical liquid, he tries to clean them with his bare hands. As a result, they are all affected by the leaking chemical, which is a mutagen. The mutagen combines the DNA of living beings who have been in contact. Thus, the turtles,", "title": "Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" }, { "id": "1371270", "text": "\"Scrooge\" is used in English as a word for a person who is miserly and tight-fisted, in spite of the fact that Ebenezer Scrooge later reformed. The character is most often noted for exclaiming \"Bah! Humbug!\" despite uttering this phrase only twice in the entire story. He uses the word \"Humbug\" on its own on seven occasions, although on the seventh we are told he \"stopped at the first syllable\" after realizing Marley's ghost is real. The word is never used again after that in the book. A species of snail is named \"Ba humbugi\" after Scrooge's catchphrase. Ebenezer Scrooge", "title": "Ebenezer Scrooge" }, { "id": "8836208", "text": "court created the opportunity for Henry Tudor to seize power. As with previous episodes of \"The Black Adder\", the end credits of \"The Black Seal\" include an acknowledgement of \"additional dialogue by William Shakespeare\". In this episode, overt Shakespearian reference is limited to Edmund's rousing address to his gang of mercenaries, in which he declares \"\"We few, we happy few, we band of ruthless bastards!\"\" – words adapted from Henry V's St Crispin's Day Speech before the Battle of Agincourt (\"Henry V\", Act 4, Scene III). \"The Black Adder\" series has been noted for blurring the boundaries between traditional situation", "title": "The Black Seal" }, { "id": "6949717", "text": "Führer’s hand. I kiss right in 'der Führer’s face!'\" (the joke being a popular near-contemporary song with this title composed by Oliver Wallace and the subject of a Disney animated short in 1943). Afterwards, Göring exclaims \"Oh, I’m a bad \"flooten-boy-glooten\"!\", a variant on Warner Bros. cartoons' frequently-cited Lou Costello-type catchphrase: \"I'm a bad boy!\". Later, when the jig is up, Bugs rides in on a white horse, dressed as Brünhilde—from Wagnerian opera, to the tune of the \"Pilgrims’ Chorus\" from \"Tannhäuser\"). Entranced, Göring responds by dressing up as Siegfried. The two dance, before Bugs once again makes a fool", "title": "Herr Meets Hare" }, { "id": "13506389", "text": "ace known as The Red Baron, commanded the Jagdgeschwader 1 squadron of planes known as \"The Flying Circus.\" The words \"Monty Python\" were added because they claimed it sounded like a really bad theatrical agent, the sort of person who would have brought them together, with John Cleese suggesting \"Python\" as something slimy and slithery, and Eric Idle suggesting \"Monty\". They later explained that the name Monty \"...made us laugh because Monty to us means Lord Montgomery, our great general of the Second World War\". The BBC had rejected some other names put forward by the group including \"Whither Canada?\",", "title": "Monty Python's Flying Circus" }, { "id": "728340", "text": "to General Makabe. Lucas and artist Ralph McQuarrie also drew inspiration from the robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film \"Silent Running\". The name derives from when Lucas was making one of his earlier films, \"American Graffiti\". Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid. Murch asked for Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in the abbreviated form \"R-2-D-2\". Lucas, who was in the room and had dozed off while working on the script for \"Star Wars\", momentarily woke when he heard the request and, after asking", "title": "R2-D2" }, { "id": "544179", "text": "\"Pizza Power!\" The Turtles' live shows and appearances ceased production in 1996. Although the TMNT had originated as something of a parody, the comic's explosive success led to a wave of small-press, black and white comic parodies of \"TMNT\" itself, including \"Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters\", \"Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos\", and a host of others. Dark Horse Comics' \"Boris the Bear\" was launched in response to these TMNT clones; its first issue was titled \"Boris the Bear Slaughters the Teenage Radioactive Black Belt Mutant Ninja Critters\". Once the Turtles broke into the mainstream, parodies also proliferated in other media, such", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1686976", "text": "crickets, which are black or dark brown, with very long antennae and he dresses like a gentleman from the 19th century. Since his debut in \"Pinocchio\", he has become a recurring iconic Disney character and has made numerous other appearances. The character's name is a play on the exclamation \"Jiminy Cricket!\", a minced oath for \"Jesus Christ\" – which itself was uttered in \"Pinocchio\"s immediate Disney predecessor, 1937's \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" by the seven dwarfs themselves. Another example occurs in the 1939 film \"The Wizard of Oz\", wherein Dorothy (Judy Garland) cries, \"Oh! Oh! Jiminy Crickets!\" when", "title": "Jiminy Cricket" }, { "id": "7875245", "text": "This was due to the vast changes that the program underwent during the German dubbing process, that under Brandt's supervision transformed the show into a much more comedy-oriented spy persiflage contrasting the more subdued, mild humour of the English language original. A quite astounding example of \"Schnoddersynchron\" has been performed with Monty Python's \"Die Ritter der Kokosnuss\" (that is, \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\") where the initial dialogue contains phrases such as: \"Heda! Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?\" (\"Hey there! Who rides so late through night and wind?\", an obvious reference to Goethe's poem \"Der Erlkönig\"),", "title": "German humour" }, { "id": "5820142", "text": "for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1992. Gus also had a small cameo, as an announcer, in the 1998 film \"He Got Game\". Johnson is known primarily for his enthusiasm and excitement that he shares with the game. He often uses signature phrases \"Hurt My Feelings!\", \"Oh my goodness!\", \"Rise and fire... Count it!\", \"Here comes the pain!\", \"He's got 'get away from the cops' speed!\", \"From the parking lot!\", \"And the Runner...Bang!\", \"Pure!\", \"BAM!\", \"Hot Sauce!\", \"Cold-Blooded!\", \"What a game!\", and \"HA-HAAA\". Johnson called numerous sports for CBS Sports, with his most recognized role as a play-by-play", "title": "Gus Johnson (sportscaster)" }, { "id": "5735313", "text": "Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb (code-named Little Boy by the U.S.) on the city of Hiroshima in southwest Honshū. Throughout the day, confused reports reached Tokyo that Hiroshima had been the target of an air raid, which had leveled the city with a \"blinding flash and violent blast\". Later that day, they received U.S. President Truman's broadcast announcing the first use of an atomic bomb, and promising: The Japanese Army and Navy had their own independent atomic-bomb programs and therefore the Japanese understood enough to know how very difficult building it", "title": "Surrender of Japan" }, { "id": "3236944", "text": "Irish Brigade (Union Army) The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade, consisting predominantly of Irish Americans, that served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. The designation of the first regiment in the brigade, the 69th New York Infantry, or the \"Fighting 69th\", continued in later wars. The Irish Brigade was known in part for its famous war cry, the \"Faugh a Ballaugh\", which is an anglicization of the Irish phrase, \"fág an bealach\", meaning \"clear the way\". According to Fox's \"Regimental Losses\", of all Union army brigades, only the 1st Vermont Brigade and Iron Brigade suffered more", "title": "Irish Brigade (Union Army)" }, { "id": "16287006", "text": "from Dimension X in the form of the Triceraton Empire. Despite their best efforts and Shredder violating the Foot Clan's temporary truce with the Turtles by stabbing Splinter during the fight, the ruthless Triceratons activate the Heart of Darkness, a black hole-creating machine which annihilates both the Kraang, the Earth, and everyone on it. But just as it comes to the worst for the Turtles, April, and Casey, they are rescued by a friendly robot by the name of Professor Honeycutt (also known as the Fugitoid) who uses his spacecraft to take the Turtles, April and Casey to a journey", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)" }, { "id": "5651086", "text": "types are Asian, and the film plays the yellow-peril aspects of this to the hilt.\" Newman noted a racist joke in April O'Neil's response to the Foot Clan, \"What's the matter, did I fall behind on my Sony payments?\", finding that the film expressed a \"resentment of Japan's economic strength even while the film is plundering Japan's popular culture.\" Ebert felt there was \"no racism\" in the film. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 40% rating based on reviews from 50 critics. The website's consensus states \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is exactly as advertised: one-liners, brawls, and general silliness.", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)" }, { "id": "15832391", "text": "John Besmehn John Charles Besmehn (born 1964) from San Jose, California, is a writer, director, and producer of animated and live action shows, and a developer of toys and entertainment properties. He co-developed the toy line for \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\", a multibillion-dollar comic book, animated television series and movie franchise, originally conceived by the comic book team, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. He co-created the toy and animation property, B.C. Bikers, about a rogue band of \"chrome age\" dinosaurs who ride motorcycles through an apocalyptic past. Besmehn has also conceived, designed and written for such eclectic kid-fare as the", "title": "John Besmehn" }, { "id": "4542225", "text": "Comics comic book based on the animated show instead of the original black-and-white comics was published throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. Action figures were top-sellers around the world. By 1990, the cartoon series was being shown daily on more than 125 television stations, and the comic books sold 125,000 copies a month. The origins story in the 1987 television series deviates significantly from the original Mirage Studios comics. In this version, Splinter was formerly human, an honorable ninja master named Hamato Yoshi who studied art history as a hobby. He was banished from the Foot Clan (a Japanese", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)" }, { "id": "12589501", "text": "by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, released on August 8, 2014. The was released on June 3, 2016. The first film, \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\", closely follows the storyline from the Mirage comic books, in addition to some of the more lighthearted elements of the cartoons. The film tells the origin story of Splinter and the Turtles, their initial encounters with April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) and Casey Jones (Elias Koteas), and their first confrontation with The Shredder and his Foot Clan. Directed by Steve Barron and released by New Line Cinema, the film showcases the innovative puppetry techniques of Jim", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film series)" }, { "id": "9065752", "text": "of this usage is unknown, although it is hypothesized to have originated with certain Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, for example, \"Football Player! Leonardo\", \"Rockstar! Raphael\", and \"Breakdancer! Michelangelo\". Some comic books, especially superhero comics of the mid-20th century, routinely use the exclamation point instead of the period, which means the character has just realized something; unlike when the question mark appears instead, which means the character is confused, surprised or they do not know what is happening. This tends to lead to exaggerated speech, in line with the other hyperboles common in comic books. A portion of the", "title": "Exclamation mark" }, { "id": "10658582", "text": "December 25, 1942 and closing January 2, 1943 after 11 performances. The title comes from a famous line in Shakespeare's \"Julius Caesar\": \"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.\" This film features a very early appearance by Robert Mitchum, who is briefly seen as a dying soldier. It also marks the final performance by Diana Lewis, who retired following her marriage to William Powell. \"This is the story of thirteen women. Only two of them — Captain Alice Marsh and Lieutenant Mary Smith — were members of the armed forces of the United States. The others were civilians", "title": "Cry 'Havoc' (film)" }, { "id": "16286999", "text": "friend Casey Jones, who helps repel an assault on the turtles' lair. Kirby is eventually restored to his human form when Donatello manages to concoct another Kraang chemical called retro-mutagen, which causes organic beings to reverse their major physical transformations, and help keep it away from former T.C.R.I inventor Baxter Stockman, who gets mutated into Stockman-Fly while under Shredder's employ. Meanwhile, Shredder returns from Japan with the mutated Japanese bounty hunter Tiger Claw as his new second-in-command. Tiger Claw is later sent through a portal to the 1987–1996 animated series reality, but later returns to the 2012 reality. During a", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)" }, { "id": "4542358", "text": "the great grandson of April and Casey. Cody runs a successful and influential technology company and is its sole heir. The newly formatted show saw a brighter tone than its predecessor, and focused on shorter story lines. Some of the previous shows characters did return, however, including Bishop and Baxter Stockman. Instead of a Shredder, Sho'Kanabo, from an extraterrestrial species of parasites, was constantly trying to infect Earth. He eventually is fried by sunlight. Another great change was that though Bishop was still continuing to cheat death, he was now head of a benevolent organization that ensured peace throughout the", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)" }, { "id": "7186591", "text": "Unbirthday An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event that is typically celebrated on any or all of the 364 (365 on leap years) days in which it is not the person's birthday. It is a neologism coined by Lewis Carroll in his \"Through the Looking-Glass\", giving rise to \"The Unbirthday Song\" in the 1951 Disney animated feature film \"Alice in Wonderland\". One's unbirthday should not be confused with one's half-birthday, which only occurs once a year. In \"Through the Looking-Glass\", Humpty Dumpty is wearing a cravat (which Alice at first mistakes for a belt) which he says was given", "title": "Unbirthday" }, { "id": "121755", "text": "Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel \"The Bell Jar\", when the protagonist was reading \"Finnegans Wake\". \"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious\", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie \"Mary Poppins\", does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is \"a word that you say when you don't know what to say.\" The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman. The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes", "title": "Longest word in English" }, { "id": "6612908", "text": "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is an American live-action television series produced by Saban Entertainment, which ran on the Fox Kids network from 1997 to 1998 based on the fictional superhero team. As of August 24, 2018, the series is distributed by Hasbro Studios and the characters are owned by Viacom. The series introduced many new elements to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including a female mutant turtle called Venus (named after the famous statue) and new central antagonists, an army of humanoid dragons known as \"The Rank\" led by the vicious Dragonlord. The series", "title": "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation" }, { "id": "10964163", "text": "and U.S. Army. Geronimo (exclamation) Geronimo is a US Army airborne exclamation occasionally used by jumping skydivers or, more generally, anyone about to jump from a great height, or as a general exclamation of exhilaration. The cry originated in the United States. At least two different explanations place the origins of the exclamation in Fort Benning, Georgia, where some of the first of the US Army's parachute jumps occurred in the 1940s. According to paratrooper Gerard Devlin, this exclamation dates from August 1940 and is attributed to Private Aubrey Eberhardt, member of parachute test platoon at Fort Benning. The parachute", "title": "Geronimo (exclamation)" }, { "id": "449803", "text": "advise the new president, Harry S. Truman, on nuclear weapons. It advised that the atomic bomb should be used against an industrial target in Japan as soon as possible and without warning. Bush was present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on July 16, 1945, for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb. Afterwards, he took his hat off to Oppenheimer in tribute. Before the end of the Second World War, Bush and Conant had foreseen and sought to avoid a possible nuclear arms race. Bush proposed international scientific openness and information sharing as a", "title": "Vannevar Bush" }, { "id": "3719651", "text": "canopy was dead, and prospects for the tree's survival were not favorable. The other tree fronting College Street, while not damaged by the fire, had failed to become properly established. In February 2017, two 30-foot-tall live oaks were planted to replace the two previous failing trees. There are many stories surrounding the origins of Auburn's battle cry, \"War Eagle.\" The most popular account involves the first Auburn football game in 1892 between Auburn and the University of Georgia. According to the story, in the stands that day was an old Civil War soldier with an eagle that he had found", "title": "Auburn Tigers" }, { "id": "11035312", "text": "that \"they are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take 'em away!\" This is a reference to a line spoken by Darth Vader to Princess Leia in the movie \"Star Wars\". The party Peter is invited to is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo. The scene in which Peter is hired as a babysitter of two children is a reference to the film \"Mary Poppins\". When taking the immigration test, Peter is asked who founded America to which he replies \"Dick York\" but then quickly changes his answer to \"Dick Sargent\". This is a reference to the two", "title": "Padre de Familia" }, { "id": "473898", "text": "announced its surrender to the Allied Powers on August 15, 1945, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, officially ending the Pacific War and, therefore, World War II, as Germany had already signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 8, 1945, ending the war in Europe. The two atomic bombings led, in part, to post-war Japan's adopting of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, which forbade the nation from developing nuclear armaments. After the successful Trinity nuclear test July 16, 1945, which was the very first nuclear detonation, the Manhattan project lead manager J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled: Immediately after the", "title": "Nuclear warfare" }, { "id": "5651073", "text": "by the Foot that the Shredder has been brainwashing them to do his dirty work. Realizing this, they all resign from the Foot. The turtles engage the Foot in battle, but the Shredder defeats them. As the Shredder prepares to kill Leonardo, Splinter appears and challenges him to a fight. Splinter names Shredder as Oroku Saki; Saki removes his mask and touches his scar, remembering how Splinter gave it to him. He charges Splinter, who ensnares the Shredder's yari with Michelangelo's nunchaku, leaving him dangling over the roof's edge. Shredder throws a knife from his belt, but when Splinter reaches", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)" }, { "id": "1670585", "text": "Atomic Age The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear (\"atomic\") bomb, \"Trinity\", on July 16, 1945, during World War II. Although nuclear chain reactions had been hypothesized in 1933 and the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1) had taken place in December 1942, the Trinity test and the ensuing bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II represented the first large-scale use of nuclear technology and ushered in profound changes in sociopolitical thinking and the course of technology development. While atomic power", "title": "Atomic Age" }, { "id": "19015407", "text": "possibly also \"wannabe Japanese\") first emerged in 2002 as a term used to describe a white person who is obsessed with Japanese culture, which includes anime and manga. The term weeaboo came from a comic strip created by Nicholas Gurewitch in which the term had no meaning other than it was something unpleasant. According to an unpublished MA thesis, 4chan quickly picked up the word, and applied it in an abusive way in place of the already existing wapanese term. It is debatable whether weeaboo has the same meaning as the Japanese term \"otaku\" (people with obsessive interests) as weeaboo", "title": "Japanophile" }, { "id": "3457112", "text": "of some tracks recorded at Random Falls, a recording studio in New York. The album's title is an homage to former drummer Gary Young, who would frequently yell \"Wowee zowee!\" when excited. The phrase also notably dates to Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's 1966 album \"Freak Out!\", which also displayed the album title in a cartoon speech balloon and featured a track titled \"Wowie Zowie\". \"Dick-Sucking Fool at Pussy-Licking School\" (conceived by Bob Nastanovich) was briefly considered as a potential album title, but discarded after being considered too risque by the rest of the band. Nevertheless, the phrase", "title": "Wowee Zowee" }, { "id": "8280722", "text": "Faugh A Ballagh Faugh a Ballagh ( ; also written Faugh an Beallach) is a battle cry of Irish origin, meaning \"clear the way\". The spelling is an 18th-century anglicization of the Irish language phrase Fág an Bealach , also written \"Fág a' Bealach\". Its first recorded use as a regimental motto was by the 87th (Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot (who later became the Royal Irish Fusiliers) in 1798. It remains the motto of the Royal Irish Regiment today. It was adopted due to the blood curdling battle-cry of Sergeant Patrick Masterson as he tore into the", "title": "Faugh A Ballagh" }, { "id": "5095799", "text": "of a press conference announcing the return of FMW. He served as the executive producer of the promotion. Ezaki was considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the history of professional wrestling and one of the pioneers of high-flying and junior heavyweight wrestling in Japan. He was the innovator of \"Falcon Arrow\" and \"Phoenix Splash\" and also popularized the \"Firebird Splash\", which would become famous in North America as the 450° splash. He was the most popular and greatest star in the history of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, where he spent the entirety of his career. Due to", "title": "Hayabusa (wrestler)" }, { "id": "10964157", "text": "Geronimo (exclamation) Geronimo is a US Army airborne exclamation occasionally used by jumping skydivers or, more generally, anyone about to jump from a great height, or as a general exclamation of exhilaration. The cry originated in the United States. At least two different explanations place the origins of the exclamation in Fort Benning, Georgia, where some of the first of the US Army's parachute jumps occurred in the 1940s. According to paratrooper Gerard Devlin, this exclamation dates from August 1940 and is attributed to Private Aubrey Eberhardt, member of parachute test platoon at Fort Benning. The parachute had only recently", "title": "Geronimo (exclamation)" }, { "id": "4047486", "text": "Joseph Barbera directed the \"Tom and Jerry\" cartoons for the MGM cartoon studio before opening Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1957.) Snagglepuss has three signature catchphrases. His most famous is his perpetual exclamation, \"Heavens to Murgatroyd!\" – a line first uttered by Bert Lahr in the film \"Meet the People\" (1944). Before dashing off (whether to escape or for some other reason), he exclaims \"Exit, stage left!\" (or stage right, and sometimes even up or down), a phrase used in theatrical stage directions. Finally, Snagglepuss tends to add the word \"even\" to the end of his statements. This is done in a", "title": "Snagglepuss" }, { "id": "2602834", "text": "after D-Day and the invasion of Southern France. Due to the Brazilian dictatorship's unwillingness to get more deeply involved in the Allied war effort, by early 1943 a popular saying was: \"It's more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe, than for the FEB to go the front and fight.\" (\"\"Mais fácil uma cobra fumar um cachimbo, do que a FEB embarcar para o combate.\"\"). Before the FEB entered combat, the expression \"a cobra vai fumar\" (\"the snake will smoke\") was often used in Brazil in a context similar to \"when pigs fly\". As a result, the soldiers of", "title": "Brazilian Expeditionary Force" }, { "id": "4170071", "text": "of Angels\" by Thirty Seconds to Mars. White has had the longstanding nickname \"The Flying Tomato\", due to his shock of red hair. In 2006, \"Rolling Stone\" wrote about the nickname, saying, \"he used to embrace it, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown tired of it.\" He has also been nicknamed \"animal\", a reference to a character from \"The Muppet Show\". In February 2009, Red Bull built White a halfpipe completely out of natural snow in the back country of Colorado on the backside of Silverton Mountain, coordinates (37.838801,-107.710299). On September 17, 2012, White was", "title": "Shaun White" }, { "id": "16286994", "text": "of Manhattan when he encounters members of an alien race called the Kraang. During an altercation with these aliens, Yoshi and the turtles are exposed to the Kraang's chemical, called mutagen, which causes organic beings to undergo major physical transformations. Yoshi takes on characteristics of a brown rat and the turtles take on human characteristics. Yoshi retreats to the New York City sewers where he raises the four turtles as his sons and imparts to them his knowledge of ninjutsu. Now teenagers, the turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo) venture to the surface for the first time and learn that", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)" }, { "id": "12589502", "text": "Henson's Creature Shop. The first sequel, titled \"\", expands on the Turtles' origin story while claiming the distinction as Vanilla Ice's film debut. The film was dedicated to puppeteer Jim Henson. It also introduced the Turtles' human friend Keno (Ernie Reyes Jr.) and Shredder's mutant henchmen Tokka and Rahzar. This film was internationally released by 20th Century Fox. The third film in the series, \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III\", features Elias Koteas reprising his role as Casey Jones. The plot revolves around the \"Sacred Sands of Time\", a mystical scepter which transports the Turtles and April back in time to", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film series)" }, { "id": "6463472", "text": "Hooah Hooah is a battle cry used by soldiers in the U.S. Army and airmen in the U.S. Air Force. Originally spelled \"Hough\", the battle cry was first used by members of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment during the Second Seminole War in 1841, after Seminole chief Coacoochee toasted officers of the regiment with a loud \"Hough!\", apparently a corruption of \"How d'ye do!\" Since WWII, the word has been widely used throughout the US Army and gained a more general meaning of \"anything and everything except 'no'. It is comparable to Oorah (Marines) in the United States Marine Corps, and", "title": "Hooah" }, { "id": "286990", "text": "Great to Be Here' and creates one of the few anti-Gulf War protest songs of the era, transforming [ U.S. President George H. W. ] Bush's speech into a pop hook ('Regrettably, we now believe/ That only force will make him leave') and interspersing quotes from Jello Biafra ('don't hate the media, become the media!') and Mario Savio's famous 1964 address to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement\". Between 1994 and 1997 Ninja explored and defined the instrumental hip hop beats sound further (often known as trip hop). Its pioneering influence on the genre became more prevalent with the label's first", "title": "Ninja Tune" }, { "id": "10001434", "text": "Donald Duck allegedly shouts \"F**k you!\" yet in Clarence Nash's semi intelligible voice, he actually says \"Says who?\", which is made clear by the spring's reply - \"Says I!\" Additionally the Motion Picture Production Code, popularly known as the \"Hays Code,\" adopted in 1934, would never have allowed the language in the first place. Due to this controversy, when the cartoon was included on the \"Walt Disney Treasures\" DVD set \"Mickey Mouse in Living Color,\" Donald's line was redubbed as \"Awww, nuts!\", which was originally said in On Ice. However, the DVD release of \"Have a Laugh!, Volume 2\" contains", "title": "Walt Disney Treasures: Wave One" }, { "id": "13005989", "text": "the Golden Claws\" when the Captain storms towards a party of Berber raiders yelling expressions like \"jellyfish\", \"troglodyte\" and \"ectoplasm\". This use of colourful insults proved successful and was a mainstay in subsequent books. Hergé started collecting these types of words for use in Haddock's outbursts, and on occasion even searched dictionaries to come up with inspiration. As a result, Captain Haddock's colourful insults began to include \"bashi-bazouk\", \"visigoths\", \"kleptomaniac\", \"sea gherkin\", \"anacoluthon\", \"pockmark\", \"nincompoop\", \"abominable snowman\", \"nitwits\", \"scoundrels\", \"steam rollers\", \"parasites\", \"vegetarians\", \"floundering oath\", \"carpet seller\", \"blundering Bazookas\", \"Popinjay\", \"bragger\", \"pinheads\", \"miserable slugs\", \"ectomorph\", \"maniacs\", \"pickled herring\"; \"freshwater swabs\",", "title": "Captain Haddock" }, { "id": "6892423", "text": "line 270 of \"Julius Caesar\" (1599), by William Shakespeare: \"Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war\". Forsyth draws upon his journalistic experiences in reporting the 1970 Biafran War between Biafra and Nigeria; though fictional, the African 'Republic of Zangaro', is based upon Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony. The novel's dedication to five men named Giorgio, Christian, Schlee, Big Marc and Black Johnny and \"the others in the unmarked graves\" concludes: \"at least we tried\"—and clearly alludes to Forsyth's time in Biafra; the dark tone and cynical plot of the story stem from the same source. 1970: The", "title": "The Dogs of War (novel)" }, { "id": "8169376", "text": "toward the dam and they explode and demolish it. Finally fed up with Bugs, Jacque fires his rifle into the waterfall not knowing Bugs is not there, thinking he has killed off his nemesis once and for all (\"So much for crazee seek rahbeet! Bah!\"). Nearby, Bugs - at his carrot garden - sees that his record player has been destroyed by Jacque's gunfire. Although mad at first, Bugs calmly declares his famous line: \"Of course you know, this means war.\" Later, a triumphant Jacque boasts about his new steel dam, but quickly finds out that \"his\" water supply has", "title": "Wet Hare" }, { "id": "544137", "text": "three times before it found an audience. Once the product started selling, the show got syndicated and picked up and backed by Group W, which funded the next round of animation. The show then went network, on CBS. Accompanied by the popular \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" 1987 TV series, and the subsequent action figure line, \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" became a mainstream success. At the height of the frenzy, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Turtles' likenesses could be found on a wide range of children's merchandise, from Pez dispensers to skateboards, breakfast cereal, video games, school supplies,", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" } ]

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[ { "id": "121484", "text": "when he received a cable telling him that his father had killed himself. Hemingway was devastated, having earlier written to his father telling him not to worry about financial difficulties; the letter arrived minutes after the suicide. He realized how Hadley must have felt after her own father's suicide in 1903, and he commented, \"I'll probably go the same way.\" Upon his return to Key West in December, Hemingway worked on the draft of \"A Farewell to Arms\" before leaving for France in January. He had finished it in August but delayed the revision. The serialization in \"Scribner's Magazine\" was", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "121485", "text": "scheduled to begin in May, but as late as April, Hemingway was still working on the ending, which he may have rewritten as many as seventeen times. The completed novel was published on September 27. Biographer James Mellow believes \"A Farewell to Arms\" established Hemingway's stature as a major American writer and displayed a level of complexity not apparent in \"The Sun Also Rises\". In Spain in mid-1929, Hemingway researched his next work, \"Death in the Afternoon\". He wanted to write a comprehensive treatise on bullfighting, explaining the \"toreros\" and \"corridas\" complete with glossaries and appendices, because he believed bullfighting", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "710066", "text": "in which Hemingway re-inserted the censored text by hand, so as to provide a corrected text. One of these copies was presented to Maurice Coindreau; the other, to James Joyce. Hemingway's corrected text has not been incorporated into modern published editions of the novel; however, there are some audiobook versions that are uncensored. Also, the novel could not be published in Italy until 1948 because the Fascist regime considered it detrimental to the honor of the Armed Forces, both in its description of the Battle of Caporetto, and for a certain anti-militarism implied in the work. More than one biographer", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "710069", "text": "has also been the target of various controversy. Upon its flimsy publication—due to the medium of its release—through Scriber's Magazine, it was banned from Boston newsstands due to accusations of a pornographic nature, despite Hemingway's deliberate exclusion of graphic descriptions of sex, using omission as a literary device. The novel was first adapted for the stage by Laurence Stallings in 1930, then as a film in 1932, with a 1957 remake. A three-part television miniseries was made in 1966. A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "710068", "text": "dictionary–held upside down. The Italian translation had in fact already been prepared illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano, leading to her arrest in Turin. A Farewell to Arms was met with favorable criticism and is considered one of Hemingway's best literary works. Gore Vidal wrote of the text: \"... a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked ... [Hemingway's] prose.\" The last line of the 1929 \"New York Times\" review reads: \"It is a moving and beautiful book.\" However, since publication, A Farewell to Arms", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "710056", "text": "A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (\"tenente\") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "1039899", "text": "known as the Winter White House as Truman stayed there mostly in the winter months, and used it for official business such as the Truman Doctrine. Dwight D. Eisenhower stayed at the Little White House following a heart attack in 1955. John F. Kennedy visited Key West in March 1961, and in November 1962, a month after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Jimmy Carter visited the Little White House twice with his family after he had left office, in 1996 and 2007. Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway wrote part of \"A Farewell to Arms\" while living above", "title": "Key West" }, { "id": "121456", "text": "his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he reported for a few months for \"The Kansas City Star\" before leaving for the Italian Front to enlist as an ambulance driver in World War I. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel \"A Farewell to Arms\" (1929). In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of what would be four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "710064", "text": "section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth. The novel was first serialized in \"Scribner's Magazine\" in the May 1929 to October 1929 issues. The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies. The success of \"A Farewell to Arms\" made Hemingway financially independent. \"The Hemingway Library Edition\" was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix with the many alternate endings Hemingway wrote for the novel in addition to pieces from early draft manuscripts. The JFK Library", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "11404327", "text": "A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. An earlier film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)" }, { "id": "7278477", "text": "November 19, 1922 the first editor of the magazine, Edward L. Burlingame died. On January 1928 the magazine had a change in format, with the first of the newly formatted issue having a cover design by Rockwell Kent. The June 1929 issue was banned in Boston, Massachusetts due to the article \"A Farewell to Arms\" by Ernest Hemingway. The article was deemed salacious by the public and Boston police barred the magazine from book stands. Charles Scribner's Sons issued the statement that: In 1930 the magazine's editor, Robert Bridges, retired to become a literary adviser for the firm and associate", "title": "Scribner's Magazine" }, { "id": "1074559", "text": "and Overhill Road. They were conceived by landscape architect S. Herbert Hare in 1924. In 1928 Ernest Hemingway and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth Lowry at 6435 Indian Lane. During this time, Hemingway wrote \"A Farewell to Arms\". He later gave an autographed copy of the book to Don Carlos Guffey, the Kansas City doctor who delivered his son Patrick. The inscription, which is now in the University of Missouri-Kansas City library, said \"...with much admiration and grateful remembrance of a Caesarean that was beautifully done and turned out splendidly.\"\" Mission Hills", "title": "Mission Hills, Kansas" }, { "id": "2275744", "text": "was in its eighth printing. In 1927 the novel was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape, titled \"Fiesta\", without the two epigraphs. Two decades later, in 1947, Scribner's released three of Hemingway's works as a boxed set, including \"The Sun Also Rises\", \"A Farewell to Arms\", and \"For Whom the Bell Tolls\". By 1983, \"The Sun Also Rises\" had been in print continuously since its publication in 1926, and was likely one of the most translated titles in the world. At that time Scribner's began to print cheaper mass-market paperbacks of the book, in addition to the more expensive", "title": "The Sun Also Rises" }, { "id": "469917", "text": "memories many harbored of the horrors of World War I. A major seller was \"All Quiet on the Western Front\" by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque was a German who had fought in the war at age eighteen and been wounded in the Third Battle of Ypres. He stated that he intended the book to tell the story \"of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.\" Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\", as well as \"Good-Bye to All That\" by Robert", "title": "1929" }, { "id": "4517001", "text": "to them which were promptly returned, eliciting a letter from Hemingway, who complained, \"I wonder what was the matter, whether the pictures were too accurate and the attitude toward life not sufficiently distorted to please who ever bought the book or what?\" \"In Our Time\" was ignored and forgotten by literary critics for decades. Benson attributes the neglect to various factors. \"The Sun Also Rises\", published the next year, is considered the more important book followed fairly rapidly by the popular \"A Farewell to Arms\" two years after in 1928; critics' general assumption seemed to be that Hemingway's talent lay", "title": "In Our Time (short story collection)" }, { "id": "16316150", "text": "Darwinian evolution.\" Charles Darwin's \"On the Origin of Species\" was soon after banned in parts of America, notably Tennessee. The Tennessee ban remained on the books until 1967, \"when the Supreme Court declared it in conflict with the First and Fourteenth Amendments\". The banning of books became more prevalent during the twentieth century as modernist and progressive writers such as James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck began their literary careers. These authors did not refrain from revealing their opinions about controversial subject matter. For example, Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" depicts the grim realities", "title": "Book censorship in the United States" }, { "id": "1836025", "text": "War- (1929) and \"Behind the Lines\" (1930). Morris served in the British army during the war. \"A Farewell to Arms\" is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (\"Tenente\") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of World War I, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of \"A Farewell to Arms\" cemented Hemingway's", "title": "World War I in literature" }, { "id": "710057", "text": "stature. The book became his first best-seller, and has been called \"the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I.\" The novel has been adapted a number of times, initially for the stage in 1930; as a film in 1932 and again in 1957, and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The 1996 film \"In Love and War\", directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in the events prior to his writing of \"A Farewell to Arms\". The novel is divided into five sections.", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "6647775", "text": "(\"All Quiet on the Western Front\") was a massive, worldwide bestseller, not least for its brutally realistic account of the horrors of trench warfare from the perspective of a German infantryman. Less well known but equally shocking in its account of the horrors of trench warfare is the earlier Stratis Myrivilis' Greek novel \"Life in the Tomb\", which was first published in serialised form in the weekly newspaper \"Kambana\" (April 1923 – January 1924), and then in revised and much expanded form in 1930. Also significant were Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" (1929), Richard Aldington's \"Death of a Hero\"", "title": "War novel" }, { "id": "9616314", "text": "Pfeiffer House and Carriage House The Hemingway-Pfeiffer House, also known as the Pfeiffer House and Carriage House, is a historic house museum at 10th and Cherry Streets in Piggott, Arkansas. It is where novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of his novel, \"A Farewell to Arms\". Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer, the daughter of the owners of the house, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer. Pauline Pfeiffer, Hemingway's second wife, had grown up in the home. Her uncle Gustavus Pfeiffer was a benefactor of the couple, even financing an African safari trip that inspired Hemingway's \"The Green Hills of Africa\". Hemingway did", "title": "Pfeiffer House and Carriage House" }, { "id": "1013327", "text": "After meeting and marrying in Paris in the late 1920s, Hemingway and Pauline made frequent and lengthy visits to her parents' home in Piggott, where Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of \"A Farewell to Arms\", and other works. The Pfeiffer House and Carriage House are now preserved as the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, run by Arkansas State University. The town was mentioned in the 1990s television sitcom \"Evening Shade\", set in Arkansas. The high school football team coached by \"Wood Newton\" (played by Burt Reynolds) celebrated when it tied Piggott High in a game, which it almost always lost. Piggott", "title": "Piggott, Arkansas" }, { "id": "14277010", "text": "and was familiar with the events of Africa during that year, which he describes in the \"Foreword\" to \"True at First Light\". Hemingway contributed an introduction to the 1990 \"Green Hills of Africa\"; the 1991 \"Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift\"; the 2003\" Hemingway on Hunting\"; the 2003 \"Hemingway on War\"; and a \"foreword\" to the 2009 republished edition of his father's \"A Moveable Feast\". For the 2012 special edition of \"A Farewell to Arms\", containing all forty-seven alternative endings, Patrick wrote a personal foreword. His nephew, grandson of Ernest Hemingway, Seán Hemingway wrote the introduction. Patrick Hemingway Patrick Miller", "title": "Patrick Hemingway" }, { "id": "2201589", "text": "character Professor Burris in \"Walden Two\", who is in a confused mood of desperation, lack of orientation, irresolution and indecision. (Prentice Hall 1976, Chapter 31, p. 266). This line is also quoted in Ernest Hemingway's novel \"A Farewell to Arms\", as in Arthur C. Clarke's short story, \"The Ultimate Melody\". The same line appears in full in the opening minutes of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's \"A Matter of Life and Death\" (1946), spoken by the protagonist, pilot and poet Peter Carter: 'But at my back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us", "title": "To His Coy Mistress" }, { "id": "767381", "text": "Morning, Miss Dove\" (1955), opposite Robert Stack, followed by a lead role opposite Gregory Peck in \"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit\", a drama about a World War II veteran. In 1957, she starred as the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the historical drama \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\", based on the 1930 play by Rudolf Besier. She followed this with a lead in the Ernest Hemingway adaptation \"A Farewell to Arms\" (1957), opposite Rock Hudson. The film received mixed reviews, with \"Variety\" noting that \"the relationship between Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones never takes on real dimensions.\" Jones's", "title": "Jennifer Jones" }, { "id": "15329555", "text": "A Farewell to Alms A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is a 2007 book about economic history by Gregory Clark. It is published by Princeton University Press. The book's title is a pun on Ernest Hemingway's novel, \"A Farewell to Arms\". The book discusses the divide between rich and poor nations that came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution in terms of the evolution of particular behaviours that Clark claims first occurred in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts that man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food,", "title": "A Farewell to Alms" }, { "id": "17372959", "text": "could remember all the pictures.\" Aldous Huxley caused a minor literary dispute when he made derisive remarks about Hemingway's allusion to the \"bitter nail holes\" of Mantegna's \"Dead Christ\" in \"A Farewell to Arms\"; Hemingway shot back by saying that the characters the writer makes must genuinely be interested in the art, clearly explaining, \"A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make the reader see he is formally educated, cultured and well-bred is merely a pop-in-jay.\" Of the six references to Mantegna in the entire Hemingway canon, two occur in \"The Revolutionist\".", "title": "The Revolutionist" }, { "id": "710063", "text": "in Italy, which were later used as inspiration. Michael Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described. Because his previous novel, \"The Sun Also Rises\", had been written as a \"roman à clef\", readers assumed \"A Farewell to Arms\" to be autobiographical. \"A Farewell to Arms\" was begun during his time at Willis M. Spear's guest ranch in Wyoming's Bighorns. Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and in Mission Hills, Kansas while she was awaiting delivery of their baby. Pauline underwent a caesarean", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "9616316", "text": "also includes the Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Education Center, a Tudor-style home where Pauline's brother and his wife lived before it was opened to the public in 2004. Pfeiffer House and Carriage House The Hemingway-Pfeiffer House, also known as the Pfeiffer House and Carriage House, is a historic house museum at 10th and Cherry Streets in Piggott, Arkansas. It is where novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of his novel, \"A Farewell to Arms\". Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer, the daughter of the owners of the house, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer. Pauline Pfeiffer, Hemingway's second wife, had grown up in", "title": "Pfeiffer House and Carriage House" }, { "id": "1940935", "text": "Rises\", in 1926. Perkins fought for it over objections to Hemingway's profanity raised by traditionalists in the firm. The commercial success of Hemingway's next novel, \"A Farewell to Arms\" (1929), which topped the best-seller list, silenced colleagues' questions about Perkins' editorial judgment. The greatest professional challenge Perkins faced was posed by Thomas Wolfe's lack of artistic self-discipline. Wolfe wrote voluminously and was greatly attached to each sentence he wrote. After a tremendous struggle, Perkins induced Wolfe to cut 90,000 words from his first novel, \"Look Homeward, Angel\" (1929). His next, \"Of Time and the River\" (1935), was the result of", "title": "Maxwell Perkins" }, { "id": "194150", "text": "copy F. Scott Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\" and Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" in order to learn about the writing styles of the authors. In 1959 \"Time\" fired him for insubordination. Later that year he worked as a reporter for \"The Middletown Daily Record\" in Middletown, New York. He was fired from this job after damaging an office candy machine and arguing with the owner of a local restaurant who happened to be an advertiser with the paper. In 1960, Thompson moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to take a job with the sporting magazine \"El Sportivo\", which folded", "title": "Hunter S. Thompson" }, { "id": "7942285", "text": "the same year she completed her first translation, the Italian edition of the \"Spoon River Anthology\" by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi. In 1948, Pivano met Ernest Hemingway. It turned out to be the beginning of an intense professional relationship and friendship that would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Mondadori published her translation of Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\". In the same year Pivano married designer and architect Ettore Sottsass and moved to Milan, where she would live for the rest of her life. Pivano made her first trip to the United States in 1956 and throughout", "title": "Fernanda Pivano" }, { "id": "6646284", "text": "German periodicals. The same year, Harrison made headlines in \"The New York Times\" when he was arrested en route to Nicaragua, where he planned to interview the Nicaraguan dissident General Augusto César Sandino. In 1930, after such anti-war books as Robert Graves's \"Goodbye to All That\", Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\", and Erich Maria Remarque's \"All Quiet on the Western Front\" (all published in 1929) became bestsellers, publishers took an interest in \"Generals Die in Bed\", many elements of which resembled the other books. Harrison, who was working as a copy editor on the \"Bronx Home News\" was propelled", "title": "Charles Yale Harrison" }, { "id": "11005534", "text": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel \"A Farewell to Arms\" by Ernest Hemingway, with a screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer, the film is about a romantic love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during World War I. The film received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Art Direction. In 1960,", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)" }, { "id": "11005526", "text": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel \"A Farewell to Arms\" by Ernest Hemingway, with a screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer, the film is about a romantic love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during World War I. The film received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Art Direction. In 1960,", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)" }, { "id": "10342346", "text": "the far-flung locations associated with Hemingway, and a two-page tabular summary of Hemingway's life. Michael Palin starts the book by telling of his own introduction to Hemingway's writing, reading \"A Farewell to Arms\", \"For Whom the Bell Tolls\", and \"The Old Man and the Sea\" when he was only 13. But a fascination with Hemingway's authorship is not necessary to appreciate this trip, as it can be simply considered to be an exciting trip following in the footsteps of an exciting person. The trip was done in 1999, 100 years after Hemingway's birth in 1899. The text of this book", "title": "Hemingway Adventure (book)" }, { "id": "2745007", "text": "Strike of 1922 by the socialists was referred to by Mussolini as the \"Caporetto of Italian Socialism\". Many years after the war, Caporetto was still being used to destroy the credibility of the liberal state. The Battle of Caporetto has been the subject of a number of books. The Swedish author F.J. Nordstedt (pseud. Christian Braw) wrote about the battle in his novel \"Caporetto\". The bloody aftermath of Caporetto was vividly described by Ernest Hemingway in his novel \"A Farewell to Arms\". Curzio Malaparte wrote an excoriation of the battle in his first book, \"Viva Caporetto\", published in 1921. It", "title": "Battle of Caporetto" }, { "id": "11005531", "text": "is given all of her romantic love letters, marked \"Return to Sender\". She is taken to the hospital, where her child is delivered stillborn. She herself is in grave danger. Frederic arrives, and just as an armistice between Italy and Austria-Hungary is announced, Catherine tragically dies, with him at her side. In his review in \"The New York Times\", Mordaunt Hall wrote, \"There is too much sentiment and not enough strength in the pictorial conception of Ernest Hemingway's novel ... the film account skips too quickly from one episode to another and the hardships and other experiences of Lieutenant Henry", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)" }, { "id": "10910659", "text": "Under Kilimanjaro Under Kilimanjaro is a non-fiction novel by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961), edited and published posthumously by Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming. It is based upon journals that he wrote while he was on his last safari. It is a longer and re-edited version of \"True at First Light\". In 2007, it won the Eric Hoffer Award for Best Academic Press. \"True at First Light\" was published in 1999. The book was presented as a \"fictional memoir\". Six years later the work was republished a second time as \"Under Kilimanjaro\". The work", "title": "Under Kilimanjaro" }, { "id": "6147993", "text": "monthly Italian science fiction magazine that contributed to the wider diffusion of this genre in Italy. In 1960 Mondadori launched Il Club degli Editori, the first Italian mail-order book club and in 1965 became the first Italian publishing house to launch low-cost paperbacks for sale through newsstands (Oscar Mondadori), an experiment that will be a huge success and that will be imitated by many publishers. The aim of the series was to reach an audience not used to buying in bookshops. The first novel published was A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, who immediately experienced great results in terms", "title": "Arnoldo Mondadori Editore" }, { "id": "832813", "text": "For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with \"The Sun Also Rises\", \"A Farewell to Arms\", and \"The Old Man and the Sea\". Ernest Hemingway wrote \"For Whom the Bell Tolls\" in Havana,", "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls" }, { "id": "13575393", "text": "Too Close to the Sun Too Close to the Sun is a musical with a book by Roberto Trippini and music and lyrics by Trippini and John Robinson, based on a play by Ron Read. The musical is a fictionalized account of the last days in the life of Ernest Hemingway. \"Too Close to the Sun\" began previews at the Comedy Theatre in the West End on 16 July 2009 and officially opened on 24 July. It received uniformly unfavourable reviews and closed on 8 August, bringing its planned eight-week run to an end six weeks early. Directed by Pat", "title": "Too Close to the Sun" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "10910660", "text": "is based on a partially written manuscript, and is about Hemingway's second trip to Africa. \"Under Kilimanjaro\" was edited by Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming who state: “this book deserves as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion, speculation, or textually unsupported attempts at improvement.” Under Kilimanjaro Under Kilimanjaro is a non-fiction novel by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961), edited and published posthumously by Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming. It is based upon journals that he wrote while he was on his last safari. It is a longer and", "title": "Under Kilimanjaro" }, { "id": "2490280", "text": "The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer is a nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway published posthumously in 1985 and written in 1959 and 1960. The book describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, during the \"dangerous summer\" of 1959. It has been cited as Hemingway's last book. \"The Dangerous Summer\" is an edited version of a 75,000-word manuscript Hemingway wrote between October 1959 and May 1960 as an assignment from \"LIFE Magazine\". Hemingway summoned his close friend Will Lang Jr. to come to Spain to deliver the story to \"LIFE Magazine\". The book was edited", "title": "The Dangerous Summer" }, { "id": "10331319", "text": "the book and lyrics for the musical \"Deep River\" (1926), adapted Ernest Hemingway's novel \"A Farewell to Arms\" for the stage in 1930, co-wrote the book for the musicals \"Rainbow\" (1928) with Oscar Hammerstein, and \"Virginia\" (1937) with Owen Davis, and penned the play \"The Streets Are Guarded\" in 1944. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Stallings' novel, the autobiographical \"Plumes\", was published in 1924 and was a huge success, with nine printings in that year alone. It was adapted into King Vidor's \"The Big Parade\", which was quite successful and remained MGM's largest-grossing film until \"Gone", "title": "Laurence Stallings" }, { "id": "3580043", "text": "the landscape go by beneath him. Suddenly, he sees the snow-covered top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and knows that is where he is bound. Helen wakes up in the middle of the night to a strange hyena cry, and finds Harry unresponsive on his cot. \"The Snows of Kilimanjaro\" is regarded as one of Hemingway's greatest works, holding its own alongside \"The Sun Also Rises\" and \"A Farewell to Arms\". The short story was published in August 1936 in Esquire magazine. A film adaptation of the short story, directed by Henry King, written by Casey Robinson, and starring Gregory Peck as", "title": "The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)" }, { "id": "1598490", "text": "the most successful horse trainer in the country. Markham's memoir lingered in obscurity until 1982, when California restaurateur George Gutekunst read a collection of Ernest Hemingway's letters, including one in which Hemingway lavishly praised Markham's writing (if not Markham herself): Intrigued, Gutekunst read \"West with the Night\" and became so enamored of Markham's prose that he helped persuade a California publisher, North Point Press, to re-issue the book in 1983. The re-release of the book launched a remarkable final chapter in the life of the eighty-year-old Markham, who was lauded for her three final years as a great author as", "title": "Beryl Markham" }, { "id": "4101648", "text": "in \"The Waves\". Ernest Hemingway used this poem in his novel, “A Farewell To Arms” (1929). It is also used repeatedly in Marta Randall's book \"Dangerous Games\" (1980). It is mournfully recited by Erika Anderson's cuckold husband Thierry [Judge Reinhold] in the 1991 thriller \"Zandalee\" Thomas Pynchon's first published story, \"The Small Rain\" (1959), takes its title from the poem's second line. The story is reprinted in his collection \"Slow Learner\" (1984). Ernest Hemingway used the poem in \"A Farewell to Arms\" Westron Wynde Westron Wynde is an early 16th-century song whose tune was used as the basis (cantus firmus)", "title": "Westron Wynde" }, { "id": "710067", "text": "suggests that at the base of the censorship of the Fascist regime in the novel there had also been a personal antipathy between the writer and Benito Mussolini. Hemingway had interviewed him in 1923, shortly after he seized power, and in his article in the \"Toronto Star\" he poured scorn on Mussolini, calling him \"the biggest bluff in Europe.\" But, apart from the official reactions, it is known that Mussolini did not like the article at all: Hemingway described Mussolini as trying to impress the media by pretending to be deeply absorbed in reading, while in reality holding a French-English", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "2368469", "text": "17, henceforth incrementing one letter every 32 pages. [*] on page 307. Signature marks change on the 10th impression: [A*] at the bottom of the Table of Contents; [B] at bottom left of page 33 etc. These signature marks remain unchanged through the 14th impression. Paper weight varies from printing to printing. Generally the earlier impressions are thinner than the later. Measurements exclude the binding and end papers; they start from the half-title page and extend to the last story page. The leaves should be pressed tightly when measuring. Measurements are rounded to the nearest half millimeter. The 5th through", "title": "Early American editions of The Hobbit" }, { "id": "11404331", "text": "afterward. Frederick leaves, shocked, and wanders the empty streets. For many years, David O. Selznick had wanted to film the Hemingway novel, but Warner Bros. owned the property and refused to sell it to him. He found himself in an advantageous bargaining position when Warner Bros. bought the remake rights to \"A Star is Born\", to which he owned the foreign rights. Without them, the studio could not release their intended remake with Judy Garland overseas. Selznick offered to relinquish his rights to \"Star\" in exchange for the rights to \"Farewell\", and Warner Bros. agreed. On October 25, 1956, Selznick", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)" }, { "id": "710061", "text": "neutral Switzerland in a rowboat given to him by a barkeep. After interrogation by Swiss authorities, they are allowed to stay in Switzerland. In the final section, Frederic and Catherine live a quiet life in the mountains until she goes into labor. After a long and painful birth, their son is stillborn. Catherine begins to hemorrhage and soon dies, leaving Frederic to return to their hotel in the rain. The novel was based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse who cared", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "1039901", "text": "bought the 907 Whitehead Street house in 1931 as a wedding present. The Hemingways installed a swimming pool for $20,000 in 1937–38 (equivalent to about $ in ). The unexpectedly high cost prompted Hemingway to put a penny in the wet cement of the patio, saying, \"Here, take the last penny I've got!\" The penny is at the north end of the pool. During his stay he wrote or worked on \"Death in the Afternoon\", \"For Whom the Bell Tolls\", \"The Snows of Kilimanjaro\", and \"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber\". He used Depression-era Key West as one of", "title": "Key West" }, { "id": "121483", "text": "him with a prominent forehead scar, which he carried for the rest of his life. When Hemingway was asked about the scar, he was reluctant to answer. After his departure from Paris, Hemingway \"never again lived in a big city\". Hemingway and Pauline traveled to Kansas City, where their son Patrick was born on June 28, 1928. Pauline had a difficult delivery, which Hemingway fictionalized in \"A Farewell to Arms\". After Patrick's birth, Pauline and Hemingway traveled to Wyoming, Massachusetts, and New York. In the winter, he was in New York with Bumby, about to board a train to Florida,", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "4395168", "text": "at King's College Junior School in London where he found himself at risk from \"drunken, mentally disturbed, sexual predators\" among the staff. Wood graduated from Peterhouse at Cambridge University in 1960 with degrees in economics and law. He did his mandatory military service in Cyprus, which inspired his second novel \"Terrible Hard, Says Alice\". Novelist and fellow future Bond writer William Boyd praised the book, citing it as one of the few convincing examples of accounts of war alongside Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" and Joseph Heller's \"Catch-22\". Wood's African experiences inspired two novels: his first, \"Make it Happen", "title": "Christopher Wood (writer)" }, { "id": "2908568", "text": "Trentino-Alto Adige announced that they are to commission a feasibility study to build a new line between Calalzo, Cortina and Toblach. Cortina has attracted many distinguished guests, often inspiring them in their creative work. They include the Italian novelists Dino Buzzati (1906–1972), author of \"The Tartar Steppe\", Goffredo Parise (1929–1986) and Fernanda Pivano (1917–2009). Ernest Hemingway, author of \"A Farewell to Arms\", also arrived in the area in 1918 as a young ambulance driver. Other notable visitors include John Ball (1818–1889), the Irish mountaineer and naturalist who climbed Monte Pelmo in 1857, the Italian mountaineers Emilio Comici (1901–1940), Angelo Dibona", "title": "Cortina d'Ampezzo" }, { "id": "1621604", "text": "the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote too about the war. Ernest Hemingway became famous with \"The Sun Also Rises\" and \"A Farewell to Arms\"; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner became one of the greatest American writers with novels like \"The Sound and the Fury\". American poetry reached a peak after World War I with such writers as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. American drama attained international status at the time with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize.", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "710065", "text": "Hemingway collection has two handwritten pages with possible titles for the book. Most of the titles come from \"The Oxford Book of English Verse\". One of the possible titles Hemingway considered was \"In Another Country and Besides\". This comes from \"The Jew of Malta\" by Christopher Marlowe. The poem \"Portrait of a Lady\" by T. S. Eliot also starts off by quoting this Marlowe work: \"Thou hast committed/ Fornication: but that was in another country,/ And besides, the wench is dead.\" Hemingway's library included both works by Eliot and Marlowe. There are at least two copies of the first edition", "title": "A Farewell to Arms" }, { "id": "2252138", "text": "champion, Sir Henry Lee. This is concluded by the sonnet, \"A Farewell to Arms\", quoted by Thackeray in the seventy-sixth chapter of \"The Newcomes\" and which served as the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same name. To \"The Phoenix Nest\" in 1593 he contributed \"The Praise of Chastity\". Peele belonged to the group of university scholars who, in Greene's phrase, \"spent their wits in making playes.\" Greene went on to say that he was \"in some things rarer, in nothing inferior,\" to Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. This praise was not unfounded. The credit given to Greene and", "title": "George Peele" }, { "id": "9391988", "text": "of Dissent\", \"A Farewell to Arms\" (probably a reference to Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same title, \"A Farewell to Arms\", which is set during the first World War), and \"Halo\" deal with politics, the war in Iraq, and organized religion respectively. The band wrote the lyrics about the Iraq War after conducting research and found that \"a lot of stuff does not add up\", according to Flynn, which angered the band. Machine Head's debut album, \"Burn My Eyes\", featured a similar song titled \"A Thousand Lies\" which dealt with the Gulf War. \"Slanderous\" deals with hate that still exists", "title": "The Blackening" }, { "id": "681051", "text": "least, the early emphatic phase of a new initiative.\" Wells said that \"beyond dispute\", Crane was \"the best writer of our generation, and his untimely death was an irreparable loss to our literature.\" Conrad wrote that Crane was an \"artist\" and \"a seer with a gift for rendering the significant on the surface of things and with an incomparable insight into primitive emotions\". Crane's work has proved inspirational for future writers; not only have scholars drawn similarities between Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" and \"The Red Badge of Courage\", but Crane's fiction is thought to have been an important inspiration", "title": "Stephen Crane" }, { "id": "7304012", "text": "Farewell to Legs \"Farewell to Legs\" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the July 14, 1935 edition of \"This Week\", and in the United Kingdom in the May 1936 issue of the \"Strand\". It was included in the UK collection \"Lord Emsworth and Others\", (1937), and in the U.S. edition of \"Young Men in Spats\" (1936). It is a golf story, narrated by the Oldest Member. The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel, \"A Farewell to Arms\". The betrothal of Evangeline Brackett to Angus McTavish is built,", "title": "Farewell to Legs" }, { "id": "16316151", "text": "of World War I, and the story of the two lovers, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, includes graphic details of a childbirth gone awry. This story strays greatly from traditionalist literature, the majority of American literature at the time, which depicted good prevailing over evil. Some cities, including Boston, banned \"A Farewell to Arms\" in 1929, labeling the book \"salacious.\" In addition, Boston in the 1920s censored other novels such as \"The American Mercury\", \"Elmer Gantry\", \"An American Tragedy\", \"Strange Interlude\", and \"Lady Chatterley’s Lover\". The rise of censorship in Boston aroused local opposition. The Harvard Crimson in 1929 wrote,", "title": "Book censorship in the United States" }, { "id": "15909651", "text": "You Went Away\" (1944), \"Duel in the Sun\" (1946) and \"Portrait of Jennie\" (1948). Selznick ceased his independent productions in 1948. Beginning with Carol Reed's \"The Third Man\" (1949), he entered into a period of co-producing motion pictures with other filmmakers. In 1954, he made his sole venture into television with the production \"Light's Diamond Jubilee\". Selznick retired from filmmaking after producing an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" (1957). Selznick's productions were the recipients of numerous Academy Award nominations. Two of his films—\"Gone With the Wind\" and \"Rebecca\"—won Academy Awards for Best Picture. Six other films that", "title": "David O. Selznick filmography" }, { "id": "121536", "text": "the last hours of his life are authentic; the bullfighter in the corrida represents the pinnacle of a life lived with authenticity. In his paper \"The Uses of Authenticity: Hemingway and the Literary Field\", Timo Müller writes that Hemingway's fiction is successful because the characters live an \"authentic life\", and the \"soldiers, fishers, boxers and backwoodsmen are among the archetypes of authenticity in modern literature\". The theme of emasculation is prevalent in Hemingway's work, most notably in \"The Sun Also Rises\". Emasculation, according to Fiedler, is a result of a generation of wounded soldiers; and of a generation in which", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "16722313", "text": "of that doctrine. As a literary critic, Sydor Rey believed that Boris Pasternak's novel \"Doctor Zhivago\" was deeply indebted to Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\", notwithstanding the fact of Hemingway's having been \"thick-skinned and effect-driven\" as opposed to Pasternak's qualities of fragile intelligence and delicacy. He was an admirer of the works of Thornton Wilder, to whom he dedicated a poem (entitled \"Festyn\" \"A Village Fair\"; translated in \"The Daily Orange\" in 1966 as \"Picnic\"), acknowledging his indebtedness in the writing of \"Księga rozbitków\" to the style of Wilder's play \"Our Town\". His collected papers dating from the period between", "title": "Sydor Rey" }, { "id": "121503", "text": "die: in 1939 William Butler Yeats and Ford Madox Ford; in 1940 Scott Fitzgerald; in 1941 Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce; in 1946 Gertrude Stein; and the following year in 1947, Max Perkins, Hemingway's long-time Scribner's editor and friend. During this period, he suffered from severe headaches, high blood pressure, weight problems, and eventually diabetes—much of which was the result of previous accidents and many years of heavy drinking. Nonetheless, in January 1946, he began work on \"The Garden of Eden\", finishing 800 pages by June. During the post-war years, he also began work on a trilogy tentatively titled \"The", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "4513948", "text": "True at First Light True at First Light is a book by American novelist Ernest Hemingway about his 1953–54 East African safari with his fourth wife Mary, released posthumously in his centennial year in 1999. The book received mostly negative or lukewarm reviews from the popular press and sparked a literary controversy regarding how, and whether, an author's work should be reworked and published after his death. Unlike critics in the popular press, Hemingway scholars generally consider \"True at First Light\" to be complex and a worthy addition to his canon of later fiction. In a two-day period in January", "title": "True at First Light" }, { "id": "16120964", "text": "in \"A Farewell to Arms\", usually symbolizing love and romance. The story's lyricism and \"subtle nuances\" are the strongest of the stories in the collection. Its structure is similar to \"The Three-Day Blow\", which Hemingway would use again in the fishing scenes of \"The Sun Also Rises\". It begins with frequent use of soft sounds, \"snow\", \"solidly\", \"surface\", \"skis\", which reflect the movements of skiing. Tetlow says the \"sensuous language renders the sensation of flight\". The snow is equally visual and tactile. The language captures the rhythm of skiing, with up-and-down movements, the swoop of the slope, yet Nick tries", "title": "Cross Country Snow" }, { "id": "121455", "text": "Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "121511", "text": "words; added chapters to \"The Garden of Eden\"; and worked on \"Islands in the Stream\". The last three were stored in a safe deposit box in Havana, as he focused on the finishing touches for \"A Moveable Feast\". Author Michael Reynolds claims it was during this period that Hemingway slid into depression, from which he was unable to recover. The Finca Vigia became crowded with guests and tourists, as Hemingway, beginning to become unhappy with life there, considered a permanent move to Idaho. In 1959 he bought a home overlooking the Big Wood River, outside Ketchum, and left Cuba—although he", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "121492", "text": "Kert explains, \"she never catered to him the way other women did\". Late in 1937, while in Madrid with Martha, Hemingway wrote his only play, \"The Fifth Column\", as the city was being bombarded by Francoist forces. He returned to Key West for a few months, then back to Spain twice in 1938, where he was present at the Battle of the Ebro, the last republican stand, and he was among the British and American journalists who were some of the last to leave the battle as they crossed the river. In early 1939, Hemingway crossed to Cuba in his", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "121505", "text": "at the critical reception of \"Across the River and Into the Trees\", he wrote the draft of \"The Old Man and the Sea\" in eight weeks, saying that it was \"the best I can write ever for all of my life\". \"The Old Man and the Sea\" became a book-of-the-month selection, made Hemingway an international celebrity, and won the Pulitzer Prize in May 1952, a month before he left for his second trip to Africa. In 1954, while in Africa, Hemingway was almost fatally injured in two successive plane crashes. He chartered a sightseeing flight over the Belgian Congo as", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "832830", "text": "is the automatic weapon. As he had done in \"A Farewell to Arms\", Hemingway employs the fear of modern armament to destroy romantic conceptions of the ancient art of war: combat, sportsmanlike competition and the aspect of hunting. Heroism becomes butchery: the most powerful picture employed here is the shooting of María's parents against the wall of a slaughterhouse. Glory exists in the official dispatches only; here, the \"disillusionment\" theme of \"A Farewell to Arms\" is adapted. The fascist planes are especially dreaded, and when they approach, all hope is lost. The efforts of the partisans seem to vanish and", "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls" }, { "id": "8619908", "text": "of the Isonzo including a number in this area but especially the Battle of Caporetto, a heavy defeat for the Italians with 11,000 killed, 20,000 wounded and 265,000 captured. As points of interest, famed World War II German officer Erwin Rommel fought in this battle as a junior officer, and American author Ernest Hemingway drove an ambulance for the Italian Army (see \"A Farewell to Arms\"). After Caporetto, the Austria-Hungarian advance was forced to stop anyway due to lack of supplies, and after almost a year the Italians were able to reinforce and regain this territory by destroying the Austro-Hungarian", "title": "Fogliano Redipuglia" }, { "id": "2536466", "text": "In this movement Mahler uses an extensive variety of key signatures, which can change as often as every few measures. The middle section features a solo violin and solo flute, which represent the bird the singer describes. The final movement, \"The Farewell\" (for alto, from C minor to C major), is nearly as long as the previous five movements combined. Its text is drawn from two different poems, both involving the theme of leave-taking. Mahler himself added the last lines. This final song is also notable for its text-painting, using a mandolin to represent the singer's lute, imitating bird calls", "title": "Das Lied von der Erde" }, { "id": "10238910", "text": "released the film on DVD in March 2007, separately and as part of five-disc collection entitled \"The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection\", where it was packaged with \"Under My Skin\", \"The Sun Also Rises\", \"A Farewell to Arms\", and \"Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man\". The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American Technicolor film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King, written by Casey Robinson, and starred Gregory Peck as Harry, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava", "title": "The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)" }, { "id": "2881835", "text": "24 hours of the magazine's publication in the U.S., bloggers published the original English text and a translation into Russian on the Web. On April 19, 2018, the editors of \"GQ\" published an article titled \"21 Books You Don’t Have To Read\" in which the editors compiled a list of works they think are overrated and should be passed over, including \"Catcher in the Rye\", \"The Alchemist\", \"Blood Meridian\", \"A Farewell to Arms\", \"The Old Man and the Sea\", \"The Lord of the Rings\", and \"Catch-22.\" \"GQ\"’s review included a criticism of the Holy Bible, calling \"it is repetitive, self-contradictory,", "title": "GQ" }, { "id": "3003849", "text": "depending on condition. One copy in a near mint jacket was listed for sale in 2009 for half a million dollars. The most valuable jackets are usually those on the high spots of literature. Condition is of paramount importance to value. Other examples of highly prized jackets include those on most of Ernest Hemingway's titles, and the first editions of books such as Harper Lee's \"To Kill A Mockingbird,\" J. D. Salinger's \"Catcher in the Rye\" and Dashiell Hammett's \"The Maltese Falcon\", among many others. Prices for dust jackets have become so inflated in recent years that even early reprints", "title": "Dust jacket" }, { "id": "1984839", "text": "was influenced by the non-Darwinian evolutionary writings of Samuel Butler. He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Hudson's best-known novel is \"Green Mansions\" (1904), and his best-known non-fiction is \"Far Away and Long Ago\" (1918), which was made into a film. Ernest Hemingway referred to Hudson's \"The Purple Land\" (1885) in his novel \"The Sun Also Rises\", and to \"Far Away and Long Ago\" in his posthumous novel \"The Garden of Eden\" (1986). In Argentina, Hudson is considered to belong to the national literature as \"Guillermo Enrique Hudson\", the Spanish version of his", "title": "William Henry Hudson" }, { "id": "17673648", "text": "bringing her a copy of Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" - the story of a romance with a British nurse. Though she arrived for humanitarian reasons by the summer of 1986 she says she had developed a strong sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Children of the Siege Children of the Siege is a book by Pauline Cutting. It was first published in 1988 by William Heinemann. The book is an account of Cuttings time, 1985-1987, working as a surgeon in the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Having responded to an", "title": "Children of the Siege" }, { "id": "121478", "text": "became fascinated by bullfighting. It is at this time that he began to be referred to as \"Papa.\" The Hemingways returned to Pamplona in 1924 and a third time in June 1925; that year they brought with them a group of American and British expatriates: Hemingway's Michigan boyhood friend Bill Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lady Duff Twysden (recently divorced), her lover Pat Guthrie, and Harold Loeb. A few days after the fiesta ended, on his birthday (July 21), he began to write the draft of what would become \"The Sun Also Rises\", finishing eight weeks later. A few months later,", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "12925372", "text": "Bourjaily. Carver was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop where he became friends with Bourjaily. Bourjaily's first novel, entitled \"The End of My Life,\" was heavily influenced by Bourjaily's wartime experiences. Critics said that the novel borrowed heavily from the style and tone of Ernest Hemingway. However, the novel was met with praise and was hailed by critic John W. Aldridge as a war novel on the level of Hemingway's \"Farewell to Arms\". Bourjaily's second novel, \"The Hound of Earth\", paints a picture of Cold War America through the eyes of a scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb.", "title": "Vance Bourjaily" }, { "id": "1404062", "text": "poll of the UK's 200 \"best-loved novels\". In 2007 the book was featured as a plot element in an episode of \"South Park\" (series 11, episode 6). The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the", "title": "The Old Man and the Sea" }, { "id": "5350483", "text": "roe\" (verse 3) and \"Sweet guinea-pigs do it, Buy a couple and wait\" (verse 5). The nature of the song is such that it has lent itself over the years to the regular addition of contemporary or topical stanzas. For example, in 1955 the lines \"Even Liberace, we assume, does it,\" \"Ernest Hemingway could -\"just\"- do it\" and many more were added by Noël Coward in his Las Vegas cabaret performance of the song, in which he replaced all of Porter's lyrics with his own. The song has been revived many times since 1928, although usually with only a limited", "title": "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" }, { "id": "8585585", "text": "film \"Sleepers\". He also appeared as a government promoter in the Clint Eastwood feature \"Flags of our Fathers\" and as CIA official Henry Cravely in \"Charlie Wilson's War\". He was cast as Bert Miller, father of the leading female character, in \"\", and in \"The Adjustment Bureau\" played Richardson, a mid-level agent in the mysterious paranormal agency called the Bureau. Slattery narrates the audiobook version of Don DeLillo's 2007 novel \"Falling Man\", Stephen King's 2008 psychological horror novel \"Duma Key\", and Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel \"A Farewell to Arms\". In 2015, Slattery portrayed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. in the Academy", "title": "John Slattery" }, { "id": "832835", "text": "Spanish expression of exasperation \"me cago en la leche\" (which translates to \"I shit in the milk\") repeatedly recurs throughout the novel, translated by Hemingway as \"I obscenity in the milk.\" The book is written in the third person limited omniscient narrative mode. The action and dialogue are punctuated by extensive thought sequences told from the viewpoint of Robert Jordan. The novel also contains thought sequences of other characters, including Pilar and Anselmo. The thought sequences are more extensive than in Hemingway's earlier fiction, notably \"A Farewell to Arms\", and are an important narrative device to explore the principal themes", "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls" }, { "id": "548242", "text": "to Hollywood in April 1932 and negotiated a new contract with Paramount for two films per year, a salary of $4,000 a week, and director and script approval. In 1932, after completing \"Devil and the Deep\" with Tallulah Bankhead to fulfill his old contract, Cooper appeared in \"A Farewell to Arms\", the first film adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel. Co-starring Helen Hayes, a leading New York theatre star and Academy Award winner, and Adolphe Menjou, the film presented Cooper with one of his most ambitious and challenging dramatic roles, playing an American ambulance driver wounded in Italy who falls", "title": "Gary Cooper" }, { "id": "11005532", "text": "are passed over too abruptly, being suggested rather than told ... Gary Cooper gives an earnest and splendid portrayal [and] Helen Hayes is admirable as Catherine ... another clever characterization is contributed by Adolphe Menjou ... it is unfortunate that these three players, serving the picture so well, do not have the opportunity to figure in more really dramatic interludes.\" Dan Callahan of \"Slant Magazine\" notes, \"Hemingway ... was grandly contemptuous of Frank Borzage's version of \"A Farewell to Arms\" ... but time has been kind to the film. It launders out the writer's ... pessimism and replaces it with", "title": "A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)" }, { "id": "457170", "text": "edition of \"Leaves of Grass\", a version that has been nicknamed the \"Deathbed Edition.\" He wrote, \"L. of G. \"at last complete\"—after 33 y'rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old.\" Preparing for death, Whitman commissioned a granite mausoleum shaped like a house for $4,000 and visited it often during construction. In the last week of his life, he was too weak to lift a knife or fork and wrote: \"I suffer all the time: I have no relief, no", "title": "Walt Whitman" }, { "id": "7297422", "text": "door, leaving his wife with the other four men in the house. The final tableau vivant (96–98) depicts Ruth sitting, \"\"relaxed in her chair\",\" as if on a throne. Sam lies motionless on the floor; Joey, who has walked over to Ruth, places his head in her lap; and Lenny, stands looking on. After repeatedly insisting that he is not an old man, and getting no reply from Ruth, who remains silent, Max beseeches her, \"Kiss me\" – the final words of the play. Ruth sits and \"\"continues to touch\" JOEY's \"head, lightly\",\" while Lenny still \"\"stands, watching\"\" (98). In", "title": "The Homecoming" }, { "id": "12486010", "text": "age of 33, after a career that included a tour as sailing master of James Cook's during Cook's third and final voyage (1776–80). The ship's complement was 46 men: a single commissioned officer (Bligh), 43 other Royal Navy personnel, and two civilian botanists. On 23 December 1787, the \"Bounty\" sailed from Spithead for Tahiti. For a full month, the crew attempted to take the ship west, around South America's Cape Horn, but adverse weather prevented this. Bligh then proceeded east, rounding the southern tip of Africa (Cape Agulhas) and crossing the width of the Indian Ocean. During the outward voyage,", "title": "HMS Bounty" }, { "id": "4606317", "text": "Across the River and into the Trees Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1950, after first being serialized in \"Cosmopolitan\" magazine earlier that year. The title derives from the last words of U.S. Civil War Confederate General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” Hemingway's novel opens with Colonel Richard Cantwell, 50 and with a heart problem, duck hunting in Trieste, Italy. It then presents his life in a lengthy flashback, with Cantwell thinking", "title": "Across the River and into the Trees" }, { "id": "7568337", "text": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? \"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?\" is a quotation from Alexander Pope's \"Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot\" of January 1735. It alludes to \"breaking on the wheel\", a form of torture in which victims had their long bones broken by an iron bar while tied to a Catherine wheel. The quotation is used to suggest someone is \"[employing] superabundant effort in the accomplishment of a small matter\". The quotation is sometimes misquoted with \"on\" in place of \"upon\". The line \"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?\" forms line 308 of the \"Epistle", "title": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" }, { "id": "16867327", "text": "of Cowan's close friends at \"Toronto Star\". Hemingway gave Cowan a copy of his first published book entitled \"Three Stories and Ten Poems\". The gift by Hemingway was a first edition from a printing of 300. It includes a personal inscription and signature by Ernest Hemingway. Cowan's copy of the book is sufficiently valuable to be currently priced at a hundred twenty-five thousand US dollars. Cowan juggled many jobs before ending as a writer and a public relations consultant. During the World War I, he paid his way by stevedoring, and guarding a World War I arms plant. He also", "title": "James Alexander Cowan" }, { "id": "6222966", "text": "Italy during World War I), Ernest was strafed by a British aircraft and severely wounded in the groin. After the war, his impotence served as a constant frustration. He ghost-wrote Sylvia Enos' book, \"I Sank Roger Kimball\", and was involved in an affair with his client. He accidentally shoots her when attempting suicide while he is drunk. He then shoots himself in remorse. (In our timeline, Hemingway lived to 1961, shooting himself to death but no one else.) In the Southern Victory Series, he never becomes a prominent author—though he does have work published. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. becomes Chief", "title": "Historical characters in the Southern Victory Series" }, { "id": "17604392", "text": "came together the second time for a great World War. The waters become treacherous and Singaram didn't get his share of Tamil-language magazines through ships. Penang library provided him solace and introduced Hemingway, Tolstoy, Faulkner, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky to him. His influence of Hemingway was very evident in both his works and he considered A Farewell to Arms his favorite and masterpiece of Hemingway. He believed \"A Farewell to Arms\" an important milestone in American literature and rated \"Anna Karenina\" more than \"War and Peace\". Singaram has written only 2 novels and he was so frustrated by the difficulties he", "title": "P. Singaram" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "121546", "text": "Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" } ]

[ "Oakwood, Warrington", "Birchwood", "Gorse Covert", "Locking Stumps", "Birchwood, Cheshire" ]

[ { "id": "525811", "text": "early strips. Schulz also added some fantastical characters, sometimes imbuing inanimate objects with life. Charlie Brown's nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree, is one example. Sally Brown's school building expresses thoughts and feelings about the students and the general business of being a brick building. Linus's security blanket also occasionally displays signs of anthropomorphism. Charlie Brown's pitching mound also sometimes expresses thoughts and opinions (\"Why don't you learn how to pitch, you stupid kid?\"). Schulz received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for \"Peanuts\" in 1962, the Reuben Award in 1955 and 1964 (the first cartoonist to receive the honor", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "5915815", "text": "School is out for the summer and Charlie, Linus, Schroeder, and Pig Pen are planning to spend it reading every comic book, watching television, playing baseball, and playing classical music. However, Lucy tells them that she signed them up for camp. The girls are eager to go, but the boys hate the idea. (Charlie adds that it's like finding out that he was drafted.) The boys shove each other to get on the bus, while the girls line up in order. At camp, Charlie is chosen as captain of the boys' camp. The boys and girls have a swim race", "title": "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6465514", "text": "day, Lucy jokingly suggests that Charlie Brown enter the school spelling bee. Linus, however, considers it a good idea and encourages him despite the jeers of Lucy, Violet, and Patty (\"Failure Face\"). Charlie Brown nervously enters the spelling bee and defeats the other children in his class when he spells \"insecure\", a word he considers his trademark. As Charlie Brown studies for the school championship, he and Linus sing a spelling mnemonic (\"I Before E\") as Snoopy accompanies them on a Jew's harp. In class the next day, Charlie Brown freezes when challenged with \"perceive\", but he recovers when Snoopy", "title": "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3089708", "text": "also together in an allegiance over a common enemy: Lucy, who harasses and bullies Charlie Brown as much as she does Linus. The two are often seen having discussions while sitting on a street curb or leaning up against the brick wall. At some point in the strip, Linus begins to appear sitting behind Charlie Brown in school, despite being a year younger. Linus generally plays second base on Charlie Brown's baseball team, but has substituted as pitcher for Charlie Brown when the latter has been unable to pitch. On these occasions, Linus's skill has served to propel the team", "title": "Linus van Pelt" }, { "id": "6465515", "text": "plays the song's accompaniment outside the school. Crowned champion, the other kids cheerfully follow him home and sing (\"Champion Charlie Brown\"). Lucy proclaims herself his agent, and when his friends suggest that he continue studying, he is confused. They tell him that he must now take part in the National Spelling Bee in New York City, and he is again filled with self-doubt. As Charlie Brown leaves, Linus reluctantly offers him his blanket for good luck, and the other kids cheer him. Back at home, Linus suffers terrible withdrawal after being separated from his blanket. Unable to withstand it, he", "title": "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525739", "text": "He became a shy, timid teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School. One well-known episode in his high school life was the rejection of his drawings by his high school yearbook, which he referred to in Peanuts years later, when he had Lucy ask Charlie Brown to sign a picture he drew of a horse, only to then say it was a prank. A five-foot-tall statue of Snoopy was placed in the school's main office 60 years later. In February 1943, Schulz's mother Dena died after a long illness. At the", "title": "Charles M. Schulz" }, { "id": "525776", "text": "four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. The strip focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant. \"Peanuts\" is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s.", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "6465518", "text": "anybody. Linus tells Charlie Brown that the other kids missed him at school and that his baseball team finally got their first win of the season, but Charlie Brown says he will never return to school again. As Linus leaves, he points out that the world did not end despite Charlie Brown's failure. Charlie Brown thinks for a moment, gets dressed, and goes outside. He sees the other children playing, and when he spots Lucy as she plays with a football which is the same one he failed to kick earlier, he sneaks up behind her to kick it. She", "title": "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525801", "text": "first strip) a beagle, Snoopy. The first addition, Violet, was made on February 7, 1951. Other character introductions that soon followed were Schroeder, on May 30, 1951, as a baby; Lucy, on March 3, 1952; Lucy's baby brother Linus, on September 19, 1952 (after his existence was first mentioned on July 14); and Pig-Pen, on July 13, 1954. Though the strip did not have a lead character at first, it soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, a character developed from some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In early strips, Charlie Brown was depicted as distinctly younger", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "5916506", "text": "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown is the 16th prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired 8:00 PM, Monday, October 24, 1977 on the CBS-TV network. The special was directed by Phil Roman and produced by Bill Melendez. It's homecoming at Charlie Brown's school, and he and Linus are among the escorts for the Homecoming Queen and her court. During the Homecoming Parade, Linus tells Charlie Brown that he (Charlie Brown) will be the escort for the Queen, but he is shocked", "title": "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3089772", "text": "Peppermint Patty Patricia \"Peppermint Patty\" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz' comic strip \"Peanuts\". She is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends (although in \"The Peanuts Movie\" she, along with Marcie and Franklin, lives in the same neighborhood and attends the same school). She has freckles and auburn/brunette hair and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy. She made her first appearance on August 22, 1966. The following year, she made her animated debut in the TV special \"You're in Love, Charlie Brown\"", "title": "Peppermint Patty" }, { "id": "1256892", "text": "the brick wall. At some point in the strip, Linus begins to appear sitting behind Charlie Brown in school, despite being younger than Charlie Brown. During winter, they often play a game of building snow forts from which they throw snowballs at each other. Charlie Brown's best friend after Linus is Schroeder, and Charlie Brown is also one of the few people Schroeder will allow to lounge on his piano, as he and Charlie Brown are good friends, and knows that Charlie Brown respects his love of Beethoven. In fact, when they were younger, Charlie Brown would read Schroeder the", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3237642", "text": "cartoon, he limits Charlie Brown to only two pitches, a high and low straight ball. Schroeder's most significant act of friendship came in \"Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown\". When Violet offers Charlie Brown one of her used Valentine cards (since Charlie received no Valentines the previous day at his school's party), Schroeder thoroughly chastises her, Frieda, Lucy and Sally for their disregard for his feelings and their selfish motive of relieving their guilt. Charlie Brown, however, tells the girls not to listen to him and accepts the card, although he expresses appreciation for Schroeder's gesture. Charlie Brown is one of", "title": "Schroeder (Peanuts)" }, { "id": "3237728", "text": "football in the September 12, 1956 strip, but only because Schroeder was holding the ball. Lucy was named after Louanne van Pelt, a former neighbor of Charles Schulz in Colorado Springs and, according to David Michaelis of Time Magazine, was modeled after Schulz's first wife, Joyce. Lucy van Pelt Lucille \"Lucy\" van Pelt is a character in the syndicated comic strip \":Peanuts\", written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is characterized as a \"fussbudget\", crabby, bossy and opinionated girl who bullies most other characters in the strip, particularly Linus and Charlie", "title": "Lucy van Pelt" }, { "id": "3323276", "text": "an upturned nose. Frieda made her debut on March 6, 1961, when Linus introduced her to Charlie Brown. She was the eleventh permanent character to join the cast, and the first since Sally was born in 1959. She was initially presented, in both the advance press release and the first few strips, as Linus' schoolmate. She sat behind him in class, and although he considered her a friend, he also confessed that because she was such a chatterbox, he hadn't heard a word their teacher said the whole semester. Her most prominent feature is her \"naturally\" curly hair, which she", "title": "Frieda (Peanuts)" }, { "id": "5915837", "text": "ostracized by his schoolmates. On the way to school, he meets Linus and tells him he is frustrated that he cannot enjoy himself like all the other kids at school. But when he notices the Little Red-Haired Girl sitting on a passing bus, Linus immediately realizes that Charlie Brown is in love. Sally does appear and is in love with Linus as usual. During the next-to-last day of school, Charlie Brown agonizes over the Little Red-Haired Girl, trying to think of different ways to get her attention, only to have each attempt fail embarrassingly. First he writes her a love", "title": "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525804", "text": "debuted as very young children—with Schroeder and Linus both in diapers and pre-verbal. Snoopy also started to verbalize his thoughts via thought bubbles. One recurring theme in the strip is Charlie Brown's neighborhood baseball team. Charlie Brown is the team's player–manager and, usually, its pitcher, and Schroeder is the catcher. The other characters make up the rest of the team, including Linus as second baseman and Lucy as right fielder. Charlie Brown is a terrible pitcher, often giving up tremendous hits that either knock him off the mound or disrobe him, leaving only his shorts. The team itself is also", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "5915880", "text": "Snoopy inadvertently arrive in a supermarket and mistake it for the art museum. When Linus shows Charlie Brown and Lucy slides that resemble the works he took pictures of, Charlie Brown's hopes of salvaging his grades are shattered. As he waits for his graded report, he expects the worst of it all. However, everything works out for the best, as his teacher assumes his report is a description of an art museum described through the metaphor of a supermarket and she gives him the grade he needs. Peppermint Patty later apologizes to Charlie Brown for saying bad things to him", "title": "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "2822478", "text": "Unfortunately, a fight ensues between Lucy and Linus over a pencil. The fight spreads, and Charlie Brown decides to leave with his angry friends, leaving Schroeder and Snoopy the only ones singing (\"Glee Club Rehearsal\"). Later, Charlie Brown comes across Lucy teaching Linus about nature the way she views it, with \"facts\" such as bugs pulling the grass to make it grow or snow growing out of the ground in winter. Charlie Brown tries to correct her, but she retaliates with a false explanation, and Charlie Brown bangs his head against a tree in frustration (\"Little Known Facts\"). That evening,", "title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525807", "text": "the strip's first black character, Franklin; a Mexican–Swedish kid named José Peterson; and Peppermint Patty's bookish sidekick Marcie, who calls Peppermint Patty \"Sir\" and Charlie Brown \"Charles\" and sometimes \"Chuck\" (most characters only call him \"Charlie Brown\", though he was known as \"Charles\" to Eudora, \"big brother\" to his sister Sally Brown, \"that round-headed kid\" to Snoopy, and \"Brownie Charles\" to Peggy Jean after misspeaking his name out of nervousness). Several additional family members of the characters were also introduced: Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who became fixated on Linus; Linus and Lucy van Pelt's younger brother Rerun, who for", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "5916511", "text": "that at least it was his first kiss and the story ends with him smiling with quiet satisfaction. Audience reaction was primarily positive, but there were two elements about this special that initially caused negative reaction from viewers: It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown is the 16th prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired 8:00 PM, Monday, October 24, 1977 on the CBS-TV network. The special was directed by Phil Roman and produced by Bill Melendez. It's homecoming at Charlie Brown's school,", "title": "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "7918814", "text": "day to Susan. Linus tries to ask for her address to send her a Christmas card, and she gives an address that turns out to be fake when the card is returned. When Lucy asks Linus why he's so interested in her, he replies flatly: \"She fascinates me.\" Sally decides to give everyone paper airplanes for Christmas and writes her Christmas letter to \"Samantha Claus\" (her beard being a disguise). After school, a furious Sally blames Charlie Brown for not telling her that she was thinking of Santa Claus. Not knowing how to cut down a Christmas tree, Sally decides", "title": "Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales" }, { "id": "1256868", "text": "and married another man. Charlie Brown is a meek, gentle, innocent, kind-hearted character with many anxieties, and is depicted as being shy. He is a child possessed with significant determination and hope but often fails due to his insecurities. Charlie Brown is always referred to by his full name (with the exception of Peppermint Patty who calls him 'Chuck,' and Marcie and Eudora who call him 'Charles') and his usual catchphrase is \"good grief\". Like Schulz, Charlie Brown is the son of a barber. The character is an example of \"the great American un-success story\" in that he fails in", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5916172", "text": "Birchwood School, Schroeder explains a box labelled \"VALENTINES FOR THOSE WE LOVE\" with a slot for putting the cards in. Charlie Brown brings a briefcase hoping he will get lots of valentines. However, after the cards are passed out, it turns out Charlie Brown got nothing. He got nothing except for a candy heart (a candy heart which reads an impolite comment; \"FORGET IT, KID!\"). Angry, Charlie Brown throws the valentine box out the classroom window. Linus also never gave his candy to Miss Othmar because she left with her boyfriend. Sally who still believes the box of candy is", "title": "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5347036", "text": "television special \"You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown\". This film contains a rare occurrence where the adults appear on screen, including having their faces entirely visible, as well as speaking comprehensible lines. Paramount Home Entertainment released this film on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995 in 4:3 format, and released it to DVD (cropped to widescreen) on October 6, 2015. This film came three years after \"Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown\". The fifth Peanuts film, simply titled \"The Peanuts Movie\" came 35 years later, in 2015. At Charlie Brown's school, Linus Van Pelt introduces to his class two French students, Babette", "title": "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)" }, { "id": "6465519", "text": "pulls it away before he can, and welcomes him home and the two look at the audience before the screen fades out. Peppermint Patty and 5 have silent roles. The film was partly based on a series of \"Peanuts\" comic strips originally published in newspapers in 1966. That story had a much different ending: Charlie Brown was eliminated in his class spelling bee right away for misspelling the word \"maze\" (\"M–A–Y–S\" while thinking of baseball legend Willie Mays), thus confirming Violet's prediction that he would make a fool of himself. Charlie Brown then screams at his teacher in frustration, causing", "title": "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "7918747", "text": "It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown is the 35th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced in 1992 but unlike previous specials it was not shown on CBS, and remained unseen until Paramount released it on video in 1996 alongside 1966's \"Charlie Brown's All-Stars\". The special was released by Warner Home Video on October 9, 2012, on the DVD \"Happiness is ... Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go!\" The special follows the spring training of Charlie Brown's baseball team, which is having problems. A child named Leland (Frieda's", "title": "It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6465513", "text": "world,\" he says), Linus assures him that he will eventually win at something...but then promptly makes a liar of himself by beating Charlie at a game of tic-tac-toe. That night, Snoopy has a nightmare where he is a World War I flying ace, and is shot down while fighting an aerial battle with an unshown enemy (presumably the Red Baron), and he takes over Charlie Brown's bed. When Charlie Brown stops at Lucy's psychiatric help booth, she prepares slides to show him all of his faults; the experience only leaves him more depressed. On the way to school the next", "title": "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5915839", "text": "way home, Lucy and Violet jeer at Charlie Brown for a ridiculous answer he gave in class. Linus defends him by revealing that he loves the Little Red-Haired Girl, but this only gives the girls another way to humiliate Charlie Brown. At home Charlie Brown finds out that his sister is wearing her graduation clothes and Sally tells Charlie Brown that she is graduating kindergarten and is going to the 1st grade. That afternoon, Charlie Brown goes over to Lucy's psychiatry booth, but Lucy, already upset over Schroeder ignoring her after she breaks his piano and Beethoven bust, is not", "title": "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5911677", "text": "Why, Charlie Brown, Why? Why, Charlie Brown, Why? is the 33rd prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts\" by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on March 16, 1990 and was also nominated for an Emmy. In a departure of the light-hearted themes presented in previous (and subsequent) \"Peanuts\" specials, the story deals with a new character, named Janice, who is diagnosed with cancer. This is the first \"Peanuts\" special of the 1990s. Janice Emmons is a new friend and classmate of Charlie Brown and Linus, who loves to play on the swings. The special begins with", "title": "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?" }, { "id": "386260", "text": "McCovey's foul smash on the preceding pitch. Giants fan (and resident of nearby Santa Rosa) Charles Schulz made a reference to the real world in one of his \"Peanuts\" comic strips soon afterward. In the first three panels of his 12/22/62 strip, Charlie Brown and Linus are sitting on a porch step, looking glum. In the last panel, Charlie Brown cried to the heavens, \"\"Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?\"\" Some weeks later, the same scene reappeared in the strip with Charlie Brown exclaiming, \"\"Or why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just TWO feet", "title": "San Francisco Giants" }, { "id": "9793173", "text": "golf, girls basketball, cross country and tennis. In 2010-11, Loyola won the state championship in girls cross country. In 2011-12, Loyola won state championships in girls basketball, golf and tennis. Loyola has also won state titles in two club sports—lacrosse and inline hockey. Athletic teams are known as the Flyers and the mascot is Snoopy from the \"Peanuts\" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. Jesuit High School in Shreveport received permission in 1966 by Schulz to use Snoopy as its mascot and Loyola College Prep remains the only school so honored. . The school's athletic teams were originally known as", "title": "Loyola College Prep" }, { "id": "1256894", "text": "and hand signals (one finger means..., two fingers means..., etc.). Charlie Brown received Schroeder's most significant act of friendship in \"Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown\". When Violet offers Charlie Brown one of her used Valentine cards (since Charlie received no Valentines the prior day at his school's party), Schroeder thoroughly chastises her, Frieda, Lucy and Sally for their disregard for his feelings and their selfish motive of relieving their own personal guilt. Charlie Brown, however, tells the girls not to listen to him and accepts the card, although he expressed appreciation for Schroeder's gesture. Peppermint Patty is perhaps Charlie Brown's", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "17287490", "text": "leaving school for the summer, Charlie Brown is surprised when the Little Red-Haired Girl chooses him for a pen pal. Linus convinces Charlie Brown he needs to tell the Little Red-Haired Girl how he feels about her before she leaves for the summer. Racing to her house, he discovers she is about to leave on a bus for summer camp. He tries to chase the bus but is prevented from reaching it. Just as he is about to give up, thinking the whole world is against him, Charlie Brown sees a kite fall from the Kite-Eating Tree. The string becomes", "title": "The Peanuts Movie" }, { "id": "5916263", "text": "Brown\" in 1977. \"You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown\" won Schulz his third Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Special. He previously earned the award for \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\" and \"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving\". You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown is the 14th prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on October 28, 1975. The cartoon begins with Snoopy playing tennis against Woodstock while Linus and Sally are unable to play due to the courts being occupied. (Sally", "title": "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3237719", "text": "Lucy van Pelt Lucille \"Lucy\" van Pelt is a character in the syndicated comic strip \":Peanuts\", written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is characterized as a \"fussbudget\", crabby, bossy and opinionated girl who bullies most other characters in the strip, particularly Linus and Charlie Brown. Lucy often mocks and intimidates others, especially Charlie Brown and her own younger brother, Linus. She also has a strong unrequited crush on Schroeder. She can be quite antagonistic, playing the villain role in a number of stories. Christopher Caldwell has said about the character:", "title": "Lucy van Pelt" }, { "id": "3237625", "text": "should be the same, rejecting Lucy's love interest in him. The closest Schroeder ever got to playing a real piano was playing his toy piano on the piano seat of one. Aside from Snoopy and Linus, Schroeder is Charlie Brown's closest friend. When Violet Gray gave Charlie Brown a used valentine, Schroeder stood up for him and said that he has feelings and that he deserves better. He seems to genuinely respect Charlie Brown, as both a friend and a baseball manager. Schroeder has short, blond hair and he almost always wears a striped shirt. He is the only boy", "title": "Schroeder (Peanuts)" }, { "id": "3089709", "text": "onto an uncharacteristic winning streak. Upon the introduction of Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally Brown, in 1959, Linus had the desire to marry her. However, as the strip progressed, he outgrew this idea, while Sally on the other hand fell in love with Linus, calling him her \"Sweet Babboo\", much to his displeasure. Linus in turn has an innocent crush on his school teacher, Miss Othmar (later Mrs. Hagemeyer). In some of the later 1990s strips he developed an interest in Lydia, the girl who sits behind him, who keeps changing her name and, as Linus is two months older", "title": "Linus van Pelt" }, { "id": "3279733", "text": "at some point.\" Shermy Shermy is a fictional character from the comic strip \"Peanuts\", by Charles Schulz. Schulz named him after a friend from high school. When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first lines of dialogue in the series, ending with \"Good ol' Charlie Brown . . . How I hate him!\" As Peanuts matured, however, Shermy became an extraneous character who was used less and less frequently, until his final appearance in 1969. In a television interview, Schulz said that in the 1950 debut of the strip, it was solely Charlie Brown, Snoopy,", "title": "Shermy" }, { "id": "5911683", "text": "brief rendition of the hymn \"Farther Along\", sung by Becky Reardon. The song played in the background as a tearful and angry Linus struggles to make sense of Janice's illness. Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Marcie, Franklin, Violet, and Shermy appeared but had no lines. The idea for \"Why, Charlie Brown, Why?\" was conceived by Sylvia Cook, a registered nurse at the Stanford Children's Hospital. In December 1985, Cook sent a letter to Charles M. Schulz, asking him to produce a short animated film about cancer for young patients featuring the \"Peanuts\" characters. Schulz was initially doubtful because of the anticipated high", "title": "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?" }, { "id": "5933847", "text": "like his new job and they are moving back. Just then, Lucy (while on her way to tell Schroeder that his \"sweetie\" is back) gets out of the car and says, \"What kind of a neighborhood is this? It didn't change a bit while we were gone,\" to which Linus says, \"Oh yeah. She's back too,\" before Snoopy throws Linus his security blanket back. Patty, Roy, Pig-Pen, Violet, and Shermy have silent roles. This was released for the first time on DVD alongside \"Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales\" as a CVS Pharmacy Exclusive on November 3, 2009 and then solicited to", "title": "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" }, { "id": "3279723", "text": "Shermy Shermy is a fictional character from the comic strip \"Peanuts\", by Charles Schulz. Schulz named him after a friend from high school. When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first lines of dialogue in the series, ending with \"Good ol' Charlie Brown . . . How I hate him!\" As Peanuts matured, however, Shermy became an extraneous character who was used less and less frequently, until his final appearance in 1969. In a television interview, Schulz said that in the 1950 debut of the strip, it was solely Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a few", "title": "Shermy" }, { "id": "5926648", "text": "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown is the 18th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network in March 1979, making it the last \"Peanuts\" TV special of the 1970s. It has been released to DVD by Warner Home Video as a bonus feature to \"You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown\". It appeared in remastered form in the \"Peanuts 1970s Collection Vol. 2\". Charlie Brown decides to enter the Junior Olympics at his school after it is revealed he is not going", "title": "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6114626", "text": "Brown School Brown School is a private, nondenominational elementary and middle school in Schenectady, New York in the United States. It provides instruction for about 300 students in grades one through eight. It also offers nursery and kindergarten programs. In September 1893, Miss Helen \"Nellie\" Churchill Brown opened the Brown School in the front two rooms of her family home at 237 Liberty Street, with 12 pupils, age 8-11. During the early 1900s, Miss Brown's School grew quickly and moved several times, to Park Avenue, 1230 Rugby Road, and eventually in 1906 to 1184 Rugby Road within the G.E. Realty", "title": "Brown School" }, { "id": "3679014", "text": "Linus and Lucy \"Linus and Lucy\" is a popular jazz piano composition written by Vince Guaraldi, appearing in many of the \"Peanuts\" animated television specials. Named for the fictional siblings Linus and Lucy van Pelt, it was released in 1964 on the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album \"Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown\". \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\" introduced the song to a television audience of millions of children beginning in 1965. Since that special, the piece has introduced most of the \"Peanuts\" TV cartoons, with the exceptions of the specials and other TV programs produced between 1979 and 1992.", "title": "Linus and Lucy" }, { "id": "3651667", "text": "self-proclaimed \"Sweet Babboo\"). It is revealed that they have only \"won\" through outright cheating — using a raft equipped with an outboard motor, direction finder, radar and sonar. They also resort to every trick they could think of to hamper or destroy everyone else's chance to even make it to the finish line, much less win the race. The kids are broken into three groups: the boys' group (consisting of Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder, and Franklin), the girls' group (consisting of Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Sally, and Lucy), and Snoopy and Woodstock. Charlie Brown is the very reluctant leader of the", "title": "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "1256901", "text": "is often teased by Violet Gray by bragging about how her dad has more possessions than Charlie Brown's, and he has occasionally been able to deflate her. He often tries to befriend her, only to get turned down. Patty, having one of the weakest individual personalities of the Peanuts cast, usually takes part in mocking Charlie Brown when her friends Lucy and Violet, or others, do so. Charlie Brown and Shermy are generous to each other and were considered to be the best of friends before Linus' maturing in the future years of the strip, although Shermy said he hates", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "9027671", "text": "while Peppermint Patty is stuck in summer school. He and Snoopy get ready for camp. They ride the bus and Peppermint Patty is there saying goodbye. Charlie Brown realizes that most of his friends are going to summer camp with him. Linus is eating a lollipop and Rerun wants one and goes until he sees Joe Agate play marbles. He then decides at summer camp that he wants to be a marbles champ. Joe Agate (played by Taylor Lautner), the bully, decides to play against Rerun on the false pretense of teaching him the game—and quickly cheats him out of", "title": "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5915817", "text": "Lucy. He pins her hand; but she says that kissing her was a foul, and she is the winner. Back at school, Charlie only comes up with 13 words on his essay that he and Linus are forced to write on the first day, having been caught playing hangman in class. Linus gets an A but Charlie gets a C-. Linus then says \"Oh, well, it was a short summer, Charlie Brown\", to which Charlie gloomily replies, \"And it looks like it's going to be a long winter\". On July 7, 2009, it was released on DVD for the first", "title": "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "4341827", "text": "Series to the Oakland A's in a series interrupted by a major earthquake. 1962 World Series (4–3): New York Yankees (A.L.) over San Francisco Giants (N.L.) For the \"Peanuts\" comic strip of December 22, 1962, cartoonist and Giants fan Charles M. Schulz depicted Charlie Brown sitting glumly with Linus, lamenting in the last panel, \"Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?\" The January 28, 1963, strip featured a nearly identical scene, except in the last panel Charlie Brown moaned, \"Or why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball even \"two\" feet higher?\" During the 1981 Major League", "title": "1962 World Series" }, { "id": "5916286", "text": "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown is the 15th prime-time animated television special based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip \"Peanuts\". The subject of the special is Arbor Day, a secular holiday devoted to planting trees. \"It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown\" premiered on the CBS network on March 16, 1976, which is near the dates in which most U.S. states observe Arbor Day. This is the first special to feature the character Rerun van Pelt (younger brother to Linus and Lucy), who had debuted in the \"Peanuts\" comic strip in March 1973. The musical score features", "title": "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5916170", "text": "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is the 13th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on January 28, 1975 and aired annually on CBS from 1975 to 2000. It has aired annually on ABC since 2001. Linus is fond of his teacher, Miss Othmar. To prove his point, he buys her a huge heart-shaped box of chocolates. However, Violet warns him it is probably not smart to fall in love with a teacher. But Linus says that he is fond of", "title": "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5933518", "text": "to the entrance of the big top with his tongue hanging out and his pupils shaped like hearts, then stops. Polly, the dog's trainer, sees Snoopy and pulls him inside. The next day, Peppermint Patty calls Charlie Brown to tell him her school gave all students the day off to see the circus. Charlie Brown tells her that his school will be closed as well, and they decide to attend the circus together. At the circus the children see Snoopy perform as part of a dog act. They all realize it is Snoopy and eventually relish his new career, despite", "title": "Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525774", "text": "people had described him as a \"secular humanist\" though he didn't know one way or another: In 2013, Schulz's widow said: Primary sources Secondary studies Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe \"Sparky\" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist. Schulz is known for the comic strip \"Peanuts\" (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited by cartoonists including Jim Davis, Bill Watterson, and Matt Groening. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul. He", "title": "Charles M. Schulz" }, { "id": "5933848", "text": "the wider market in 2010. It was re-released as part of the box set Snoopy's Holiday Collection on October 1, 2013. Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? is the 24th prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on February 21, 1983. This special begins, when Linus calls the Brown house, and Sally picks up. She gets very excited that her Sweet Babboo is on the other line. He denies that he is that, and tries to ask if Charlie Brown", "title": "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" }, { "id": "525737", "text": "Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe \"Sparky\" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist. Schulz is known for the comic strip \"Peanuts\" (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited by cartoonists including Jim Davis, Bill Watterson, and Matt Groening. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul. He was the only child of Carl Schulz, who was born in Germany, and Dena Halverson, who had Norwegian heritage. His uncle called him \"Sparky\" after", "title": "Charles M. Schulz" }, { "id": "525783", "text": "the entire life of the Sunday strip. Most of the other characters that eventually became the main characters of Peanuts did not appear until later: Violet (February 1951), Schroeder (May 1951), Lucy (March 1952), Linus (September 1952), Pig-Pen (July 1954), Sally (August 1959), Frieda (March 1961), \"Peppermint\" Patty (August 1966), Woodstock (introduced April 1967; given a name in June 1970), Franklin (July 1968), Marcie (July 1971), and Rerun (March 1973). Schulz decided to produce all aspects of the strip himself from the script to the finished art and lettering. Schulz did, however, hire help to produce the comic book adaptations", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "11910794", "text": "instructor with Art Instruction, Inc. He was still employed there when he began sketching the characters that later were developed into \"Peanuts\". Several of the \"Peanuts\" characters, including Charlie Brown, Linus, Frieda and \"the little red-haired girl\" were based on Schulz' co-workers and friends at Art Instruction. Other instructors who were friends of Schulz included Louise Cassidy and Jim Sasseville. Louise Cassidy was the basis for the character of Aunty Climax in a short-lived comic strip by Jim Sasseville. In a 1994 address, Schulz said, \"Art Instruction Inc., it was a wonderful place to get started because the atmosphere was", "title": "Art Instruction Schools" }, { "id": "1063923", "text": "A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special based on the comic strip \"Peanuts\", by Charles M. Schulz. Produced by Lee Mendelson and directed by Bill Melendez, the program made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965. In the special, lead character Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers. After Linus tells Charlie Brown about the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown cheers up, and the Peanuts gang", "title": "A Charlie Brown Christmas" }, { "id": "7864872", "text": "Christmas!\" Charlie Brown sees Marcie and thinks that she is going to give him a Valentine's Day card but she does not. Lucy comes up to Schroeder again and talks about saucepans, and, again, Schroeder cannot stand it. Snoopy imagines that he is a wild animal. Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Linus, and Lucy work on their book reports on Peter Rabbit (\"Book Report\"). Lucy teaches Linus about nature in her own way while Charlie Brown tries to correct her, to no avail (\"Little Known Facts\"). Charlie Brown writes a letter to his pencil pal about his downfall at his baseball game.", "title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special)" }, { "id": "7918822", "text": "It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown is the 38th animated TV special based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip \"Peanuts\". It is one of two direct-to-video \"Peanuts\" specials that have yet to air on U.S. TV (the other is \"It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown\"). The special begins with Linus roller-skating all over town. On his way back from a birthday party, he passes by a garden where he hears someone singing (\"O Mio Babbino Caro\") As he enters the garden, he learns that a little girl", "title": "It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "5933775", "text": "Snoopy, Lucy and Linus are caught up with his kite in Snoopy's doghouse is the same thing. A Charlie Brown Celebration A Charlie Brown Celebration is the 23rd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz, who introduced the hour-long special. It was originally aired on the CBS network on May 24, 1982, and consists of a number of stories adapted from the comic strip. The special was released for the first time on DVD by Warner Home Video on October 4, 2016, as a bonus special to \"Charlie Brown's All-Stars\". The formula", "title": "A Charlie Brown Celebration" }, { "id": "3323281", "text": "see his need for a security blanket as a bad thing, for which he was so grateful that he kissed her hand. Frieda's relationship with Lucy got off to a rocky start when Frieda, as usual, brought up her naturally curly hair almost as soon as they were introduced. Lucy became visibly offended by this, to the point where Linus (performing the introductions) felt it necessary to beg Lucy not to slug her. Despite Frieda's \"faux pas\" the two girls eventually became friends, and when they played baseball for Charlie Brown's team they often spent their time in the outfield", "title": "Frieda (Peanuts)" }, { "id": "1573351", "text": "Charterhouse School Charterhouse is an independent day and boarding school in Godalming, Surrey. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over 800 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years, and is one of the original Great Nine English public schools. Today pupils are still referred to as Carthusians, and ex-pupils as Old Carthusians. Charterhouse charges full boarders up to £39,165 per annum (2018/19) and is among the most expensive Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) schools in the UK. It has educated one British Prime Minister and has", "title": "Charterhouse School" }, { "id": "1063926", "text": "have been staged. ABC currently holds the rights to the special and broadcasts it at least twice during the weeks leading up to Christmas. The Peanuts are celebrating the start of the winter season by ice skating on a frozen pond and singing \"Christmas Time Is Here.\" Leaning against a nearby fence, Charlie Brown tells Linus that despite all the traditions of Christmas presents, Christmas cards and decorations, he still winds up depressed, but is not sure why. Linus dismisses Charlie Brown's attitude as typical, quoting Lucy: \"Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest.\" Charlie", "title": "A Charlie Brown Christmas" }, { "id": "7918813", "text": "and Linus walk by. Upon hearing that, he quickly switches to \"Christmas Time is Here\" (with Woodstock whistling along). He also attempts to make peace with the ferocious cat who lives next door but it takes a ferocious swipe again. Linus tries to decide what kind of letter he should write to Santa. The next day at school, he meets a girl who repeatedly changes her name. When Linus points out that her name of the day, Jezebel, is a hated Old Testament figure who was thrown from a window to her death, the girl changes her name of the", "title": "Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales" }, { "id": "525810", "text": "World War II (the vicious cat who lives next door to Snoopy—not to be confused with Frieda's cat, Faron), and Charlie Brown's unnamed pen pal, known as his \"pencil-pal\" after Charlie Brown fails to master the fountain pen. Adult figures appeared in the strip only once, during a four-week Sunday-comic sequence in 1954 in which Lucy plays in an amateur golf tournament, with Charlie Brown \"coaching\" her. At no time, however, were any adult faces seen (it was also in this sequence that Lucy's family name, van Pelt, was first revealed). There are adult voices in a few of the", "title": "Peanuts" }, { "id": "1348689", "text": "Halloween. In the cold open, Linus and Lucy go out to the local pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. Lucy selects the largest they can find, and makes poor Linus the one to get it back to the house. He becomes distraught when it turns out Lucy is going to gut it to be a jack-o-lantern. After the opening credits, Snoopy helps Charlie Brown finish raking a pile of leaves. But then Linus jumps into the heap with a large lollipop. Then Lucy entices Charlie to kick a football . . . with the usual results. Linus is writing his", "title": "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3323280", "text": "he told her to mind her own business. Linus was the first character in the series that Frieda met. She sat behind him in school, and after they became friends he took her around and introduced her to some of the other kids in the neighborhood. Not much is shown of their friendship beyond those strips that introduce her, but even that early in their relationship they seemed to look out for each other. Linus tried to protect her the first time she unintentionally upset Lucy (see below), and she in turn was one of the few kids who didn't", "title": "Frieda (Peanuts)" }, { "id": "5862033", "text": "dog takes out a boom box and dances to the title song as the opening credits roll. The next segment shows Peppermint Patty and Marcie at school, followed by a gym class, in which Peppermint Patty leads the other characters in a workout while she sings \"I'm in Shape\". The part of the song where she sings \"Hey Linus...!\" is clearly inspired by Toni Basil's 1982 hit song \"Mickey\". The scene changes to a party at the home of Sally and Charlie Brown. The children begin playing a game of \"Simon Says\" before Lucy takes over the game and sings", "title": "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "2822477", "text": "some progress. Charlie Brown steps up to the plate, and despite his valiant efforts, strikes out and loses the game. We learn that this was a flashback, and Charlie Brown expresses his deep sorrow to his pen pal (\"T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game)\"). Lucy takes a crabbiness survey and Linus says that her crabbiness rating is ninety-five. After punching him, she realizes that she, in reality, is really very crabby. Determined not to let what happened at the championship bother him, Charlie Brown decides to join Schroeder's Glee Club and cheer up by singing \"Home on the Range\" with his friends.", "title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6496927", "text": "doesn't know what to do about the Little Red Haired Girl. Linus suggests Charlie Brown should invite her to the school Valentine's Day dance. Charlie Brown agrees, but first asks Linus to talk to her to find out if she likes him. Linus goes over and asks her if she likes Charlie Brown. However, the Little Red Haired girl has no idea there was a kid in their class named Charlie Brown. Later, in class, Charlie Brown tries to impress the Little Red Haired Girl by winking at her. However, before she can notice him, the teacher sends Charlie Brown", "title": "A Charlie Brown Valentine" }, { "id": "2822472", "text": "try to discuss marriage with a musician\" (\"Schroeder\"). Sally is sad because her jump rope tangled up. Snoopy is lying on top of his doghouse, relaxing vacantly and peacefully. He begins to daydream about being a wild jungle beast. In a few minutes, however, he is back to his peaceful state (\"Snoopy\"). Linus enters, holding his blanket and sucking his thumb. Lucy and Sally show up and mock him for this habit. Linus decides to abandon his blanket and move on, only to come running back to it in desperation. After the girls leave, Linus daydreams of a blanket fantasy", "title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6114632", "text": "has also completed construction on a new media center. Brown School Brown School is a private, nondenominational elementary and middle school in Schenectady, New York in the United States. It provides instruction for about 300 students in grades one through eight. It also offers nursery and kindergarten programs. In September 1893, Miss Helen \"Nellie\" Churchill Brown opened the Brown School in the front two rooms of her family home at 237 Liberty Street, with 12 pupils, age 8-11. During the early 1900s, Miss Brown's School grew quickly and moved several times, to Park Avenue, 1230 Rugby Road, and eventually in", "title": "Brown School" }, { "id": "5915878", "text": "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown is the ninth prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on March 11, 1973, and released to DVD as a bonus feature (along with another Peanuts special \"Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown\") on January 2, 2004. It was also released in remastered form as part of the DVD box set, \"Peanuts 1970's Collection, Volume One.\" There are three months of school left and all of the Peanuts gang are", "title": "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "10404397", "text": "adult learners, including Early Childhood Family Education, GED Diploma, language programs and various learning opportunities for community members of all ages. In 1993, St. Paul became the first city in the U.S. to sponsor and open a charter school, now found in most states across the nation. Saint Paul is currently home to 21 charter schools. In 2006, the St. Paul Public Schools celebrated its 150th anniversary. Notable graduates of St. Paul Public Schools include former U.S. Supreme Court justices Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger, civil rights leader Roy Wilkins, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip Charles M. Schulz, and", "title": "Saint Paul Public Schools" }, { "id": "2822470", "text": "some of the young stars of Broadway. The six-member “Peanuts” gang featured Joshua Colley as Charlie Brown, Gregory Diaz as Schroeder, Aidan Gemme as Snoopy, Milly Shapiro as Sally, Mavis Simpson-Ernst as Lucy, and Jeremy T. Villas as Linus. Graydon Peter Yosowitz played the role of Charlie Brown from June 1-7. The show ran from May 24 – June 26, 2016. Charlie Brown stands alone as his friends give their various opinions of him, each overlapping the other. Today everyone is calling him a \"good man\". Charlie Brown is happy and hopeful as usual, but he nevertheless wonders if he", "title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "8381652", "text": "which were installed in 1938. The building was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1991. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Archie Bunker, the fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom \"All in the Family\", attended Flushing High School. Flushing High School Flushing High School is a four-year public high school in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Flushing High School was established by the Village of Flushing in 1875 prior", "title": "Flushing High School" }, { "id": "18627202", "text": "Nicholls has been commissioned for The Old Vic in London, and is in development as of spring 2015. BBC Radio broadcast in 2016 a dramatization, with Margaret Tyzack playing Freddie. At Freddie's At Freddie's is a novel by British author Penelope Fitzgerald. It concerns the run-down, barely viable Temple Stage School, an acting school for children, known as \"Freddie's\", after its headmistress Frieda \"Freddie\" Wentworth. The children regularly perform as fairies in \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", Arthur in \"King John\", and the Lost Boys in \"Peter Pan\". Freddie is relentless in her commitment to traditional stage acting, and continually rejects", "title": "At Freddie's" }, { "id": "7918749", "text": "how you look, it's how you play the game.\" It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown is the 35th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced in 1992 but unlike previous specials it was not shown on CBS, and remained unseen until Paramount released it on video in 1996 alongside 1966's \"Charlie Brown's All-Stars\". The special was released by Warner Home Video on October 9, 2012, on the DVD \"Happiness is ... Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go!\" The special follows the spring training of Charlie Brown's baseball team,", "title": "It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3027750", "text": "of the book's main characters, is generally believed to be based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. The fictional Tom's life also resembles the author's, in that the culminating event of his school career was a cricket match. The novel also features Dr Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), who was the actual headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. \"Tom Brown's School Days\" has been the source for several film and television adaptations. It also influenced the genre of British school novels, which began in the nineteenth century, and led to fictional depictions of schools such as Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School, Mr Chips'", "title": "Tom Brown's School Days" }, { "id": "10878244", "text": "Hollow Fields Hollow Fields is a steampunk-themed original English-language manga written and illustrated by Madeleine Rosca. Volume 1 was released by Seven Seas Entertainment in June 2007, with a second volume released on May 29, 2008, and a third released on January 6, 2009. Volume 4- Titled Hollow Fields and the Perfect Cog released on March 29, 2016. Little Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered - also known", "title": "Hollow Fields" }, { "id": "3612396", "text": "appears in \"All Winners Comics\" #19, published by Timely Comics. \"Sazae-san\", by Machiko Hasegawa debuts in Fukunichi Shimbun. \"Li'l Folks\", the first comic strip by \"Peanuts\" creator Charles M. Schulz, debuts mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the \"St. Paul Pioneer Press\", on June 22. \"Li'l Folks\" can almost be regarded as an embryonic version of \"Peanuts\", containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young man with a fondness for Beethoven a la Schroeder, a dog with a striking resemblance to Snoopy, and even a boy named Charlie Brown. The Association of Comics Magazine", "title": "1940s in comics" }, { "id": "5933837", "text": "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? is the 24th prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on February 21, 1983. This special begins, when Linus calls the Brown house, and Sally picks up. She gets very excited that her Sweet Babboo is on the other line. He denies that he is that, and tries to ask if Charlie Brown is home, but while he is doing so, she asks if he called to ask her to a movie. He gets", "title": "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" }, { "id": "5915844", "text": "firsts: Additionally similar to the fight sequences of the 1966 \"Batman\" series, it was the only known Peanuts special in which the more intense sound effects are actually spelled out in onomatopoeic words: wiggly R's when Charlie Brown's alarm clock goes off, and a very hard, straight word \"Click-clack\" when he opens some school doors getting to school silently, as he is late (however, in \"The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show\" episode \"Linus and Lucy\" the word \"Pow\" can be seen when Snoopy punches somebody in Sally's class). This special was rebroadcast yearly on CBS from June 1968 to June", "title": "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3089795", "text": "doesn't have a mother. The fate of her mother is never revealed in the strip. Peppermint Patty's dad often calls Patty \"a rare gem\". In the cartoons his voice, like those of all adults, is heard as \"wah-wahs\" (made by musician Dean Hubbard). Peppermint Patty Patricia \"Peppermint Patty\" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz' comic strip \"Peanuts\". She is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends (although in \"The Peanuts Movie\" she, along with Marcie and Franklin, lives in the same neighborhood and attends", "title": "Peppermint Patty" }, { "id": "11759896", "text": "Little Known Facts \"Little Known Facts\" is a musical number in the Broadway musical comedy, \"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown\". The music and lyrics were written by Clark Gesner in 1966. The song was in the original Off-Broadway production of the show in 1967 and was also in the revival production in 1999, where it was added an extra stanza by Andrew Lippa. The song is based on several Peanuts comic strips written by Charles M. Schulz. The strips show Lucy van Pelt teaching her younger brother, Linus van Pelt childish facts, that are of course, false. During the", "title": "Little Known Facts" }, { "id": "525770", "text": "and Research Center in Santa Rosa opened on August 17, 2002, two blocks away from his former studio, celebrating his life's work and the art of cartooning. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa, California, celebrated the 60th anniversary of the strip in 2005 by continuing the Peanuts on Parade tradition beginning with \"It's Your Town Charlie Brown\" (2005), \"Summer of Woodstock\" (2006), \"Snoopy's Joe Cool Summer\" (2007), and \"Look Out For Lucy\" (2008). In 2006, \"Forbes\" ranked Schulz as the third-highest earning deceased celebrity, as he had earned", "title": "Charles M. Schulz" }, { "id": "1460529", "text": "and Charlie Brown laugh and happily dance away to conclude a satisfying day, ignoring Lucy's pleads to get her down. Linus eventually pulls Lucy down with his blanket during the closing credits, and Lucy, angry and embarrassed about what happened, gives up and stomps away. It's Magic, Charlie Brown It's Magic, Charlie Brown is the 21st prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip \"Peanuts,\" by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on April 28, 1981. The special was later released on DVD on September 2, 2008 as a bonus feature on Warner Home Video's remastered deluxe DVD of", "title": "It's Magic, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "9027676", "text": "marshmallows and sings. The storyline was an amalgamation of several different series of \"Peanuts\" strips; the \"Joe Agate\" storyline originally appeared in the strip in 1995, and the story involving Peppermint Patty sneaking away from summer school to see Charlie Brown at camp was an adaptation of a series of strips from 1989. The special released on DVD as a bonus special in the remastered deluxe edition of \"You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown\" on October 7, 2008 by Warner Home Video. On October 6, 2015, Warner Home Video released the special on its own DVD with \"It Was a Short", "title": "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "653145", "text": "a source of entertainment for the others; Sidney and Spotty once send him into a field full of cow pats, with misleading directions for getting out. Despite this, they consider him \"one of the kids\". When he moves to the Bash Street Academy 'Erbert receives contact lenses to improve his sight, discarding them when he returns to his old school. Fatty's real name is Fatty Brown, formerly Frederick Joseph Brown. A large, round boy who is always eating, only in later strips is he ridiculed for his weight; he usually reacts by trying to prove the others wrong, but earlier", "title": "The Bash Street Kids" }, { "id": "1256902", "text": "Charlie Brown on the very first Peanuts strip. Charlie Brown had a notably surprisingly successful romantic relationship with Peggy Jean, although this eventually broke up with him when he realized that she already had a boyfriend. Charlie Brown, along with Snoopy, was ranked eighth on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time. Charlie Brown Charlie Brown or Charles Brown Esquire (see “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” movie) is the protagonist of the comic strip \"Peanuts\", syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a \"lovable loser,\" Charlie Brown is one of", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "1533395", "text": "Rugby School. Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece \"Tom Brown's Schooldays\". A substantial part of the 2004 dramatisation of the novel, starring Stephen Fry, was filmed on location at Rugby School. Hughes later set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English gentry, who could not inherit under the laws of primogeniture, naming the town Rugby. The town of Rugby, Tennessee still exists. Rugby is a birthplace of the jet engine. In April 1937 Frank Whittle built the world's first prototype", "title": "Rugby, Warwickshire" }, { "id": "1256846", "text": "boy (\"Charlie Brown\") when asked. He made his official debut in the first \"Peanuts\" comic strip, on October 2, 1950. The strip features Charlie Brown walking by, as two other children named Shermy and Patty look at him. Shermy refers to him as \"Good Ol' Charlie Brown\" as he passes by, but then immediately reveals his hatred toward him once he is gone on the last panel. During the strip's early years, Charlie Brown was much more playful than he is known for, as he often played pranks and jokes on the other characters. On December 21 of the same", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "525769", "text": "a different \"Peanuts\" character were placed on the sidewalks of St. Paul. In 2001, there was \"Charlie Brown Around Town\", 2002 brought \"Looking for Lucy\", in 2003 along came \"Linus Blankets St. Paul\", ending in 2004 with \"Snoopy\" lying on his doghouse. The statues were auctioned off at the end of each summer, so some remain around the city, but others have been relocated. The auction proceeds were used for artist's scholarships and for permanent, bronze statues of the \"Peanuts\" characters. These bronze statues are in Landmark Plaza and Rice Park in downtown St. Paul. The Charles M. Schulz Museum", "title": "Charles M. Schulz" }, { "id": "1256877", "text": "Lucy is now able to see Charlie Brown and the gag occurs. Charlie Brown is the manager and pitcher of a baseball team which frequently loses. His entire team is not skilled, especially his right fielder Lucy van Pelt, who is the worst baseball player in the entire \"Peanuts\" universe. Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy, who is his shortstop, is purported to be his best player, his best friend Linus was his second baseman, and his next closest friend Schroeder, his catcher, once commanded the team on \"Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)\" when Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty,", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "3279997", "text": "playground (Snoopy would bark loudly at anyone who threatened Sally, leading Snoopy to comment, \"I feel like a can of mace!\"), but this ended in disaster when Snoopy saw an old girlfriend of his and ran off to meet her, abandoning Sally and leaving her to get \"slaughtered\" by the playground bullies. Sally has a strong crush on Charlie Brown's friend Linus Van Pelt. She calls him her \"Sweet Babboo\" and when Linus says something Sally finds especially witty or intelligent, she expresses her admiration by asking, \"Isn't he the cutest thing?\" Her crush is a frequent source of embarrassment", "title": "Sally Brown" }, { "id": "5915600", "text": "sung by \"Peanuts\" musical score composer Vince Guaraldi. The plot from \"You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown\" was taken from a story that ran in the comic strip in October 1964, in which Linus runs for school president with Charlie Brown as his running mate. In the original storyline, Linus blows the election (and Charlie's bid for Vice President) after bringing up The Great Pumpkin in his final speech and being laughed off stage–again after leading in the polls at the time. Unlike the television special, Linus' opponent is never seen or mentioned. This special first aired under the title \"You're", "title": "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "1256899", "text": "the two occasionally build sand castles, go to Charlie Brown's house, and watch movies together. Frieda was usually nicer to Charlie Brown than most of the other girls in the neighborhood, which makes them good friends. Unlike Lucy, Patty, and Violet, she seemed to be mindful of his feelings and never teased him or put him down to his face (except for rare moments in the Peanuts specials), though she did get mad at him a few times. She eventually joined Charlie Brown's baseball team as an outfielder but refused to wear a baseball cap because it would hide her", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6563285", "text": "peanut sticking out from the top of his head (which renders him as being not too smart). The boys, along with Mr. Hankey's kids, attempt to revive the Christmas spirit by singing carols on the sidewalk, but are totally ignored. While they lament not getting any presents, Cornwallis begins to wonder about his significance in the world as a piece of poo. While watching a \"Peanuts\" Christmas special, where Snoopy is seen beating a naked Charlie Brown with a board, the boys get the idea to create a short animation to show the townspeople at the local drive-in which they", "title": "A Very Crappy Christmas" } ]

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[ { "id": "1310310", "text": "happiness all around. The amount of money given depends on the age of the child but is usually the same if there is more than one child so that no one feels slighted. It is not uncommon for amounts greater than ¥5,000 (approximately US$50) to be given. The New Year traditions are also a part of Japanese poetry, including haiku (poems with 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven and five) and renga (linked poetry). All of the traditions above would be appropriate to include in haiku as \"kigo\" (season words). There are also haiku that celebrate many of", "title": "Japanese New Year" }, { "id": "164911", "text": "the 5-7-5 pattern. Although the word \"\"on\"\" is sometimes translated as \"syllable\", one \"on\" is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel or doubled consonant, and one for an \"n\" at the end of a syllable. Thus, the word \"haibun\", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four \"on\" in Japanese (ha-i-bu-n); and the word \"\"on\"\" itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two \"on\": the short vowel o and the . This is illustrated by the Issa haiku below, which contains 17 \"on\" but only 15 syllables. Conversely, some sounds,", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "164912", "text": "such as \"kyo\" () may look like two syllables to English speakers but are in fact a single \"on\" (as well as a single syllable) in Japanese. In 1973, the Haiku Society of America noted that the norm for writers of haiku in English was to use 17 syllables, but they also noted a trend toward shorter haiku. Shorter haiku are very much more common in 21st century English haiku writing. Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about 12 syllables in English approximate the duration of 17 Japanese \"on\". Also in translations four lines is more appropriate for", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "164930", "text": "the 17 \"on\" of a traditional Japanese haiku. Because the normal modes of English poetry depend on accentual meter rather than on syllabics, Henderson chose to emphasize the order of events and images in the originals. Nevertheless, many of Henderson's translations were in the five-seven-five pattern. The first haiku written in English was arguably by Ezra Pound, \"In a Station of the Metro\", published in 1913. Since then, the haiku has become a fairly popular form among English-speaking poets. English haiku can follow the traditional Japanese rules, but are frequently less strict, particularly concerning the number of syllables and subject", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "12232126", "text": "with the one-line vertical column in which Japanese haiku are often printed, was lent legitimacy principally by three people: The single-line haiku usually contains fewer than seventeen syllables. A caesura (pause) may be appropriate, dictated by sense or speech rhythm (following the traditional Japanese tradition of a break, marked by the Kireji), and usually little or no punctuation. This form was used by John Wills and, more recently, has been practiced by poets such as M. Kettner, Janice Bostok, Jim Kacian, Chris Gordon, Scott Metz, Stuart Quine, John Barlow, and many others. As the last two examples in particular illustrate,", "title": "Haiku in English" }, { "id": "3195079", "text": "waka. Sometimes they are written in the three-line, seventeen-syllable haiku form, although the most common type of death poem (called a \"jisei\" 辞世) is in the waka form called the tanka (also called a \"jisei-ei\" 辞世詠) which consists of five lines totaling 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)—a form that constitutes over half of surviving death poems.(Ogiu, 317-318). Poetry has long been a core part of Japanese tradition. Death poems are typically graceful, natural, and emotionally neutral, in accordance with the teachings of Buddhism and Shinto. Excepting the earliest works of this tradition, it has been considered inappropriate to mention death explicitly; rather,", "title": "Death poem" }, { "id": "12119814", "text": "Kireji Classical renga developed a tradition of 18 kireji, which were adopted by haikai, thence used for both renku and haiku, the most common of which are listed below: Hokku and haiku consist of 17 Japanese syllables, or on (a phonetic unit identical to the mora), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively. A kireji is typically positioned at the end of one of these three phrases. When it is placed at the end of the final phrase (i.e. the end of the verse), the kireji draws the reader back to the beginning, initiating a circular", "title": "Kireji" }, { "id": "8347925", "text": "build from stone, but the jungles and forests might overgrow the buildings, as in Angkor Wat. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient \"hokku\" (Japanese language: 発句) mode. Haiku consists of three lines: the first and third lines each have five \"morae\" (the rough phonological equivalent of syllables), while the second has seven. Original haiku masters included such figures as Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉); others influenced by Bashō include Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki. In Punjab, India, bhangra is popular. In all countries in Southeast", "title": "Arts by region" }, { "id": "4917958", "text": "the form of a novel. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed comparable innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient \"hokku\" (Japanese language: 発句) mode. Haiku consists of three lines: the first and third lines each have five \"morae\" (the rough phonological equivalent of syllables), while the second has seven. Original haiku masters included such figures as Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉); others influenced by Bashō include Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki. Korean literature begins in the Three Kingdoms Period, and continues through the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties to the modern day. Examples", "title": "Culture of Asia" }, { "id": "12119817", "text": "in translations of such verses into this language, kireji may be represented by punctuation (typically by a dash or an ellipsis), an exclamatory particle (such as 'how...'), or simply left unmarked. The examples below are laid out as follows: Kireji Classical renga developed a tradition of 18 kireji, which were adopted by haikai, thence used for both renku and haiku, the most common of which are listed below: Hokku and haiku consist of 17 Japanese syllables, or on (a phonetic unit identical to the mora), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively. A kireji is typically", "title": "Kireji" }, { "id": "5838005", "text": "5, 7 and 5 moras respectively. Alone among the verses of a poem, the hokku includes a \"kireji\" or \"cutting-word\" which appears at the end of one of its three metrical units. Like all of the other stanzas, a Japanese hokku is traditionally written in a single vertical line. Paralleling the development of haiku in English, poets writing renku in English nowadays seldom adhere to a 5-7-5 syllable format for the hokku, or other \"chōku\" ('long verses'), of their poem. The salutative requirement of the traditional hokku is often disregarded, but the hokku is still typically required to include a", "title": "Hokku" }, { "id": "11806893", "text": "his life. In 1902, he left Kanazawa High Elementary school (equivalent to junior high school today) and started working as a clerk at the Kanazawa Regional Court. His bosses included Haiku-readers such as Kawagoe Bukotsu (河越風骨) and Akakura Kinpu (赤倉錦風) who taught him how to read/compose haiku. After numerous applications to local newspapers, his haiku was first published on October 8, 1904 in Hokkoku Shimbun. Then he used pseudonym of \"Terifumi\" (照文). Eventually, he also started writing poems and tanka (a Japanese poem of thirty‐one syllables). He started to use his pen name - Saisei - in 1906. The name", "title": "Murō Saisei" }, { "id": "164910", "text": "a phrase in the remaining 12 \"on\" (it may not be apparent from the English translation of the Issa that the first five \"on\" mean \"Edo's rain\"). In comparison with English verse typically characterized by syllabic meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as \"\"on\"\" or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 \"on\", in three phrases of five, seven and five \"on\" respectively. Among contemporary poems \"teikei\" ( fixed form) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while \"jiyuritsu\" ( free form) haiku do not. One of the examples below illustrates that traditional haiku masters were not always constrained by", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "6814456", "text": "Asian literature Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia. In Tang and Song dynasty China, famous poets such as Li Bai authored works of great importance. They wrote \"shī\" (Classical Chinese: 詩) poems, which have lines with equal numbers of characters, as well as \"cí\" (詞) poems with mixed line varieties. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed comparable innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient \"hokku\" (Japanese language: 発句) mode. Haiku consists of three lines: the first and third lines each have five \"morae\" (the rough phonological equivalent of syllables), while the", "title": "Asian literature" }, { "id": "307513", "text": "Japanese formal poetry (which was generally referred to as \"waka\"), and was used more heavily to explore personal rather than public themes. By the tenth century, tanka had become the dominant form of Japanese poetry, to the point where the originally general term \"waka\" (\"Japanese poetry\") came to be used exclusively for tanka. Tanka are still widely written today. Haiku is a popular form of unrhymed Japanese poetry, which evolved in the 17th century from the \"hokku\", or opening verse of a renku. Generally written in a single vertical line, the haiku contains three sections totalling 17 \"onji\", structured in", "title": "Poetry" }, { "id": "19527786", "text": "in Geneva in April 1929, Delage took care to specify: \"the author requests these seven short pieces not be interrupted; the tonal sequence is intentional\". \"Haï-kaï\" is a French rendering of the Japanese word (, \"comic, unorthodox\") referring to a genre of Japanese poetry generally tinged with humour. It evolved in the 16th century from the tanka, a poetic form of 31 syllables in five lines in a scheme of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. The \"tanka\" appeared in the Imperial Court at the end of the Nara period in the late 8th century and enjoyed a golden age during the Heian period", "title": "Sept haï-kaïs" }, { "id": "1607053", "text": "moraic system of writing. For example, in the two-syllable word \"mōra\", the \"ō\" is a long vowel and counts as two morae. The word is written in three symbols, モーラ, corresponding here to , each containing one mora. Such scholars also argue that the 5/7/5 pattern of the haiku in modern Japanese is of morae rather than syllables. The Japanese syllable-final \"n\" is also said to be moraic, as is the first part of a geminate consonant. For example, the Japanese name for \"Japan\", 日本, has two different pronunciations, one with three morae (\"Nihon\") and one with four (\"Nippon\"). In", "title": "Mora (linguistics)" }, { "id": "9542635", "text": "transliterated into hiragana. In cases where a hiragana is represented by a pair of symbols each pair (or \"digraph\" e.g. \"kyo\" (きょ)) equates to a single \"on\". When viewed this way, the term \"\"ji\"\" (\"character\") is used in Japanese. In English-language discussions of Japanese poetry, the more familiar word \"syllable\" is sometimes used. Although the use of \"syllable\" is inaccurate, it often happens that the syllable count and the \"on\" count match in Japanese-language haiku. The disjunction between syllables and \"on\" becomes clearer when counting sounds in English-language versions of Japanese poetic forms, such as haiku in English. An English", "title": "On (Japanese prosody)" }, { "id": "11579723", "text": "Haiku in English being as popular as with its Japanese audience. In Yasuda's haiku theory the intent of the haiku is contained in the concept of a \"haiku moment,\" 'that moment of absolute intensity when the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete so that the image lives its own life', (seventeen syllables corresponding to that 'moment', divided into three lines within 'one breath length' ). This notion of the haiku moment has been defined as 'an aesthetic moment' a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as a poet's nature and environment are unified'The passing momentary experience that comes alive through", "title": "Kenneth Yasuda" }, { "id": "11579722", "text": "Knopf, 1947). In \"The Japanese Haiku\", Yasuda presented some Japanese critical theory about haiku, especially featuring comments by early twentieth-century poets and critics. Yasuda's translations apply a 5–7–5 syllable count in English, with the first and third lines end-rhymed.(Yasuda observed that although rhyme, as understood in English, does not exist in the original Japanese, in translations thereof into English they should use all the poetic resources of the language). In the same book, Yasuda contended that 'the underlying aesthetic principles that govern the arts are the same for any form in Japanese or English' and would ensure the possibilities of", "title": "Kenneth Yasuda" }, { "id": "3375835", "text": "noted proponent. Related to \"hokku\" formally, it was generically different. In the late Edo period, a master of haikai, Karai Senryū made an anthology. His style became known as senryū, after his pseudonym. Senryū is a style of satirical poetry whose motifs are taken from daily life in 5–7–5 syllables. Anthologies of senryū in the Edo period collect many 'maeku' or senryū made by ordinary amateur senryū poets adding in front of the latter 7–7 part written by a master. It was a sort of poetry contest and the well written senryū by amateurs were awarded by the master and", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "3157326", "text": "Nadera, and quoted them as saying “Poesia muy alta en tagalo, compuesta de siete silabas, y cuatro versos, llena de metafora.” (16th century) (\"Poetry is quite high in Tagalog, composed of seven syllables, and four verses, full of metaphor.\") Like the Japanese haiku, Tanagas traditionally do not have any titles. They are poetic forms that should speak for themselves. Most are handed down by oral history, and contain proverbial forms, moral lessons, and snippets of a code of ethics. A poetic form similar to the tanaga is the ambahan. Unlike the ambahan whose length is indefinite, the tanaga is a", "title": "Tanaga" }, { "id": "15008102", "text": "Dennis Lindley, who later befriended Ziliak in correspondence over W.S. Gosset and R.A. Fisher. Ziliak was a lead author on the twenty-four statistician team which crafted in 2015-2016 the historic \"American Statistical Association Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values,\" edited by Ronald Wasserstein and Nicole Lazar. In 2001, while teaching at Georgia Tech, Ziliak rediscovered his appreciation for haiku poetry. Haiku are short lyric verse with a budget constraint, conventionally arranged in three lines of 17 sounds (5-7-and-5). He had learned about the medieval Japanese art form back in the 1980s, from a friend in Indianapolis who happened to be", "title": "Stephen Ziliak" }, { "id": "3375839", "text": "single form of poetry. Haiku derives from the earlier hokku. The name was given by Masaoka Shiki (pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902). Tanka is a name for and a type of poem found in the Heian era poetry anthology \"Man'yōshū\". The name was given new life by Masaoka Shiki (pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902). Japanese Contemporary Poetry consists of poetic verses of today, mainly after the 1900s. It includes vast styles and genres of prose including experimental, sensual, dramatic, erotic, and many contemporary poets today are female. Japanese", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "9542638", "text": "or \"queue\" is perceived as a single syllable by English speakers). In \"Nippon\" the doubled \"P\" each is pronounced separately; the final \"N\" is also a separate hiragana, so the two English syllables translate to four \"on\". On (Japanese prosody) The term On (rarely \"Onji\") refers to counting phonetic sounds in Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word \"\"on\"\" (音) means \"sound\". It is used to mean the phonetic units counted in haiku, tanka, and other such poetic forms. Known as \"morae\" to English-speaking linguists, the modern Japanese term for the linguistic concept is either \"haku\" () or \"mōra\"", "title": "On (Japanese prosody)" }, { "id": "164914", "text": "in non-Japanese haiku or by modern writers of Japanese \"free-form\" haiku. The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's \"old pond\": This separates into \"on\" as: Translated: Another haiku by Bashō: This separates into \"on\" as: Translated: This haiku by Bashō illustrates that he was not always constrained to a 5-7-5 \"on\" pattern. It contains 18 \"on\" in the pattern 6-7-5 (\"ō\" or is treated as two \"on\".) This separates into \"on\" as: Translated: This haiku by Issa illustrates that 17 Japanese \"on\" do not always equate to 17 English syllables (\"nan\" counts as two \"on\" and \"nonda\" as three.) This separates", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "19446589", "text": "from the structure of haiku, a Japanese style of poetry which comprises a 5-syllable line, a 7-syllable line, and then another 5-syllable line. Upon its release, the track garnered positive reviews from music critics, who praised the song’s composition and the rap delivery. Due to the song being released digitally and as a B-side to \"Voice\", it was ruled ineligible to chart on Japan’s Oricon Singles Chart. However, it peaked at number 73 on \"Billboard\"'s Japan Hot 100 chart, and number four on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)", "title": "575 (song)" }, { "id": "164936", "text": "South Asia, some other poets also write Haiku from time to time, most notably including the Pakistani poet Omer Tarin, who is also active in the movement for global nuclear disarmament and some of his 'Hiroshima Haiku' have been read at various peace conferences in Japan and the UK. Haiku In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. Previously called \"hokku\", haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "2787933", "text": "modern haiku poets have had to reconsider the construction of kigo and their attribution to the seasons. One of the biggest changes to the local tradition is the creation of the lunar New Year as a seasonal section for kigo. Haiku started as a form of Japanese poetry and is now written in many different languages around the world. William J. Higginson's \"Haiku World\" (1996), which is the first international \"saijiki\", contains more than 1,000 poems, by over 600 poets from 50 countries writing in 25 languages. The writing of haiku around the world has increased with the advent of", "title": "Kigo" }, { "id": "5802293", "text": "of the formats most commonly used in writing renku Renku , or , is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of \"ushin\" renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae. Initially \"haikai no renga\" distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term \"renku\" gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it.", "title": "Renku" }, { "id": "164927", "text": "stimulated the writing of haiku in English. The Japanese-American scholar and translator Kenneth Yasuda published \"The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples\" in 1957. The book includes both translations from Japanese and original poems of his own in English, which had previously appeared in his book titled \"A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku\". In these books Yasuda presented a critical theory about haiku, to which he added comments on haiku poetry by early 20th-century poets and critics. His translations apply a 5–7–5 syllable count in English, with the first and", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "3375798", "text": "are a short, 3-line verse form, which have achieved significant global popularity, and the haiku form has been adapted from Japanese into other languages. Typical of the haiku form is the metrical pattern of 3 lines with a distribution of 5, 7, and 5 \"on\" (also known as morae) within those lines. Other features include the juxtaposition of two images or ideas with a \"kireji\" (\"cutting word\") between them, and a \"kigo\", or seasonal reference, usually drawn from a \"saijiki\", or traditional list of such words. Much of Japanese poetry has been transmitted historically through published anthologies, many of them", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "15997378", "text": "following the weekly lecture. In 1965, Derby tape-recorded and transcribed Suzuki's morning lectures. From 1968, Trudy Dixon edited the lectures into a book, \"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind\", published in 1971. In 1966, the garage was converted to a meditation hall in the style of Sōtō Zen temples in Japan, to Suzuki's design. Construction, by Sangha members, began in June, 1966. \"Haiku Zendo\", named for its seventeen cushions that matched the number of syllables in a haiku poem, was officially opened on August 4, 1966. In 1970, Kobun Chino-sensei became Haiku Zendo's resident teacher. In 1979, the Sangha bought a small", "title": "Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center" }, { "id": "12232116", "text": "popular in English-language schools as a way to encourage the appreciation and writing of poetry. \"Haiku\" is a term sometimes loosely applied to any short, impressionistic poem, but there are certain characteristics that are commonly associated with the genre: Some additional traits are especially associated with English-language haiku (as opposed to Japanese-language haiku): Arguably, the first successful haiku in English was \"In a Station of the Metro\" by Ezra Pound, published in 1913. During the Imagist period, a number of mainstream poets, including Pound, wrote what they called \"hokku\", usually in a five-six-four syllable pattern. American poet Amy Lowell published", "title": "Haiku in English" }, { "id": "5529266", "text": "for a series of iconic camera designs for Eastman Kodak. Adelaide Crapsey's her papers are at the University of Rochester Library archives. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a unique variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a 5-line form of 22 syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her five-line cinquain (now styled as an American cinquain) has a generally iambic meter defined as \"one-stress, two-stress, three-stress, four-stress and suddenly back to one-stress\" and normally consists of 2", "title": "Adelaide Crapsey" }, { "id": "164907", "text": "Haiku In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. Previously called \"hokku\", haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. In Japanese haiku a \"kireji\", or cutting word, typically appears at the end of one of the verse's three phrases. A \"kireji\" fills a role somewhat analogous to a \"caesura\" in classical western poetry or to a volta in sonnets. Depending on which cutting word is chosen, and its", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "5137383", "text": "the Ofudesaki has been translated into a number of languages. A trial translation was published in series in the journal \"Fukugen\" from 1946–7. The first edition English translation was published in 1971, and the sixth edition (the most recent as of 2017) was published in 1993. A volume containing the English (sixth edition), Japanese, and romanization (2nd edition) was published in 1998. The verses of the Ofudesaki are generally in a traditional poetic style known as \"waka\". A \"waka\" poem contains thirty-one syllables and is subdivided into two lines. The Ofudesaki is mostly written in a Japanese phonetic syllabary (a", "title": "Ofudesaki" }, { "id": "1881566", "text": "from those imported from China; within the umbrella of \"waka\" poetry, one of the more popular forms is known as . It consists of a total of 31 Japanese syllables (morae) divided over five lines, in the syllabic pattern 5/7/5/7/7. Asuka period The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka region, about 25 km south of the modern city of Nara. The", "title": "Asuka period" }, { "id": "5802289", "text": "Renku , or , is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of \"ushin\" renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae. Initially \"haikai no renga\" distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term \"renku\" gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it. The oldest known collection of haikai linked verse appears", "title": "Renku" }, { "id": "15345786", "text": "to Tokyo to study Edo period Japanese literature. In 1895, he enrolled in the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō (present-day Waseda University), but soon left the university for a job as an editor and literary criticism for the literary magazine \"Nihonjin\". While working, he also submitted variants on haiku poetry, experimenting with irregular numbers of syllables. He married in 1897. In 1898, Kyoshi came to manage the haiku magazine \"Hototogisu,\" which had been previously edited by Shiki, and moved the headquarters of the magazine from Matsuyama to Tokyo. In \"Hototogisu\", he kept with the traditional style of haiku, as opposed to the", "title": "Kyoshi Takahama" }, { "id": "11028252", "text": "turning point in Japanese warfare; many cite it as the first \"modern\" Japanese battle. Yonekura Shigetsugu rushed the Takeda flank singlehandedly before he was killed by gunfire. His corpse was later impaled on a pike by Nobunaga's forces. (see Battles of Kawanakajima) Following the battle, Nobunaga continued henceforth until he had effectively established control over all of Japan. Yonekura's death poem is often performed in Noh plays to this day, and is a prime example of the Haiku form in death poems. While death poems did not adopt any prescribed form as far as syllables, tone, and length were concerned", "title": "Yonekura Shigetsugu" }, { "id": "3375792", "text": "important Edo period (1603 and 1867, also known as \"Tokugawa\") and modern times; however, the history of poetry often is different than socio-political history. Since the middle of the 19th century, the major forms of Japanese poetry have been \"tanka\" (the modern name for \"waka\"), \"haiku\" and \"shi\" or western-style poetry. Today, the main forms of Japanese poetry include both experimental poetry and poetry that seeks to revive traditional ways. Poets writing in tanka, haiku and shi may seldom write poetry other than in their specific chosen form, although some active poets are eager to collaborate with poets in other", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "2217748", "text": "a school essay, \"Yōken Setsu\" (\"On Western Dogs\"), where he praises the varied utility of western dogs as opposed to Japanese ones, which \"only help in hunting and scare away burglars.\") Contemporary to Shiki was the idea that traditional Japanese poetic short forms, such as the haiku and \"tanka\", were waning due to their incongruity in the modern Meiji period. Shiki, at times, expressed similar sentiments. There were no great living practitioners although these forms of poetry retained some popularity. Despite an atmosphere of decline, only a year or so after his 1883 arrival in Tokyo, Shiki began writing haiku.", "title": "Masaoka Shiki" }, { "id": "2417274", "text": "the greatest \"haikai\" poet. The most favored form of \"renga\" in the Edo period was the , a chain consisting of 36 verses. As a rule, \"kasen\" must refer to flowers (usually cherry blossoms) twice, and three times to the moon. These references are termed and . The first stanza of the \"renga\" chain, the \"hokku\", is the forebear of the modern haiku. The stand-alone hokku was renamed haiku in the Meiji period by the great Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki. Shiki proposed \"haiku\" as an abbreviation of the phrase \"\"haikai no ku\"\" meaning a verse of \"haikai\". For", "title": "Renga" }, { "id": "412812", "text": "Tanka Originally, in the time of the \"Man'yōshū\" (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term \"tanka\" was used to distinguish \"short poems\" from the longer . In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the \"Kokinshū\", the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word \"waka\" became the standard name for this form. Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki revived the term \"tanka\" in the early twentieth century for his statement that \"waka should be renewed and modernized\". \"Haiku\" is also a term of his invention, used", "title": "Tanka" }, { "id": "12739359", "text": "1960s. Upon return to the US he completed his undergraduate studies, obtaining a BA in English at Southern Connecticut State College in 1969. He edited \"Haiku Magazine\" from 1971 to 1976, and ran the literary \"From Here Press\", which published titles by several well-known authors, including Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, and Ruth Stone. Higginson's experience in Japan led him to conclude \"the 17 sound structure of Japanese haiku did not translate into 17 syllables in English\" and in his translations therefrom stressed more upon \"the order of images, the grammar between them (or lack thereof) and the psychological effect", "title": "William J. Higginson" }, { "id": "4245248", "text": "renaissance so that in Middle Scots diction the 15th and 16th century Makars achieved a rich and varied blend of characteristically Germanic Anglic features with newer Latinate and aureate language and principles. In Japanese poetry, the rules for writing traditional haiku require that each poem include a reference to a specific season. For the renga linked-verse form from which haiku derived, the rules specify that certain stanzas should have seasonal references. In both cases, such references are achieved by inclusion of a kigo (season word). Japanese poets regularly use a \"Saijiki\", a kigo dictionary that contains lists of season words,", "title": "Poetic diction" }, { "id": "12232115", "text": "Haiku in English A haiku in English is a very short poem in the English language, following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku. A typical haiku is a three-line observation about a fleeting moment involving nature. The first haiku written in English date from the early 20th century, influenced by English translations of traditional Japanese haiku, and the form has grown in popularity ever since. Many well-known English-language poets have written some haiku, though—perhaps because of their brevity—they are not often considered an important part of their work. Haiku has also proven", "title": "Haiku in English" }, { "id": "10469365", "text": "States and set up his own publishing company to produce a long sequence of books that endeavour to travel over, in thematic sequences, the highways and byways of Japanese poetry. Gill's work focuses on kigo or seasonal keyword thematics in traditional Japanese poetry, ranging widely over haiku, senryū, waka and (狂歌:crazy poems), concentrating in each successive book on sub-themes, with the poems arranged in thematic chains. Characteristically, he provides the original Japanese text, with romanized transliteration, a word-for-word literal gloss, and then multiple versions (what he calls by his portmanteau neologism, \"paraverse\", though the method was used by Hiroaki Sato.", "title": "Robin D. Gill" }, { "id": "6108144", "text": "Roy Arad Roy \"Chicky\" Arad (Hebrew: רועי \"צ'יקי\" ארד, born 1977) is an Israeli poet, singer, script-writer, artist and political activist. Arad is the editor of Maayan magazine for poetry and a journalist in Haaretz. Arad was born in Beersheba. Arad has published eight books. He formed a style that he called \"Kimo\" and defined as \"a Hebrew adaptation of the Japanese Haiku\": it consists of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. It usually describes one frozen scene that has no movement in it, and in practice, the content of the poems is close to Senryū. As an", "title": "Roy Arad" }, { "id": "6814458", "text": "(Japan, 1994). Yasunari Kawabata wrote novels and short stories distinguished by their elegant and spartan diction such as the novels Snow Country and The Master of Go. Asian literature Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia. In Tang and Song dynasty China, famous poets such as Li Bai authored works of great importance. They wrote \"shī\" (Classical Chinese: 詩) poems, which have lines with equal numbers of characters, as well as \"cí\" (詞) poems with mixed line varieties. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed comparable innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient", "title": "Asian literature" }, { "id": "8496595", "text": "poet. There are extant over 1,500 of Enku's Japanese poems in two collections along with a few more written on the back of statues. One collection of 100 poems is called, \"Kesa Niji Hyaku Shu\" (“One Hundred Poems Containing the Two Characters Kesa). The other which is much larger is called \"Otoko Warashi Uta (“Male Child Songs”). Mostly he wrote waka (also known as “tanka”), an ancient five-line verse form with the syllables running usually, 5-7-5-7-7. Themes include his mountain practice, responses to nature and the seasons, romantic pieces and expressions of joy and bliss (he nicknamed himself Kanki Shamon", "title": "Enkū" }, { "id": "4018552", "text": "Fujiwara no Teika , better-known as Fujiwara no Teika (1162 – September 26, 1241), was a Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. His influence was enormous, and he is counted as among the greatest of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form – an ancient poetic form consisting of five lines with a total of 31 syllables. Teika's critical ideas on composing poetry were extremely influential and studied until as late as the Meiji era. A member of a poetic clan, Teika was born to", "title": "Fujiwara no Teika" }, { "id": "164909", "text": "even to the point of occasionally end-stopping a phrase with a . However, renku typically employ \"kireji\". In English, since \"kireji\" have no direct equivalent, poets sometimes use punctuation such as a dash or ellipsis, or an implied break to create a juxtaposition intended to prompt the reader to reflect on the relationship between the two parts. The \"kireji\" in the Bashō examples \"old pond\" and \"the wind of Mt Fuji\" are both \"ya\" (). Neither the remaining Bashō example nor the Issa example contain a \"kireji\" although they do both balance a fragment in the first five \"on\" against", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "307508", "text": "other variations of \"shi\" poetry, generally either a four line (quatrain, or \"jueju\") or else an eight line poem is normal; either way with the even numbered lines rhyming. The line length is scanned by according number of characters (according to the convention that one character equals one syllable), and are predominantly either five or seven characters long, with a caesura before the final three syllables. The lines are generally end-stopped, considered as a series of couplets, and exhibit verbal parallelism as a key poetic device. The \"old style\" verse (\"gushi\") is less formally strict than the \"jintishi\", or regulated", "title": "Poetry" }, { "id": "3031181", "text": "in order to recall the digits of pi. However, where sound-based mnemonics use assonance, extra care must be taken to distinguish \"nine\" and \"five,\" which contain the same vowel sound. In this example, the author assumes the convention that zero is often called \"O.\" The piku follows the rules of conventional haiku (three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables), but with the added mnemonic trick that each word contains the same number of letters as the numerals of pi, e.g. In 2004, Andrew Huang wrote a song that was a mnemonic for the first fifty digits of pi, titled", "title": "Piphilology" }, { "id": "16861146", "text": "Estonian haiku Estonian haiku () is a short poem in Estonian language which has adopted the form and style of the original Japanese haiku. Estonian haiku was first introduced in 2009. The so-called \"Estonian haiku\" is shorter than the Japanese one; the syllable count in Japanese haiku is 5+7+5, while Estonian haiku also goes in three lines but only comprises 4+6+4 syllables. Estonian authors claim that this is a distinctively Estonian form. Traditional haiku have been developed in Estonia since 1960s. Andres Ehin (1940–2011) was the most prominent Estonian-language haiku writer of the 20th century; his bilingual English-Estonian collection \"Moose", "title": "Estonian haiku" }, { "id": "13804873", "text": "Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum The was established in 1989 as part of the cultural building boom in Yamagata celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the city. Located about 20 minutes by train (Senzan Line between Yamagata and Sendai) from Yamagata Station, it sits on the south side of the steep river valley facing Yamadera to the north, the historic temple founded in 860 which is one of the area's most beloved sacred sites and top sightseeing destinations. The Museum focuses on the life of Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) who perfected the art of haiku, the concise 5-7-5 syllable verse", "title": "Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum" }, { "id": "9542634", "text": "Nishi Amane in 1870 as \"letter\". Since then, the term \"onji\" has become obsolete in Japan, and only survives in foreign-language discussion of Japanese poetry. Gilbert and Yoneoka call the use of the word \"\"onji\"\" \"bizarre and mistaken\". It was taken up after a 1978 letter to \"Frogpond: Journal of the Haiku Society of America\" decrying the then-current use of the word \"jion\", which itself appears to have arisen in error. The normal Japanese term in the context of counting sounds in poetry is \"\"on\"\". Counting \"on\" in Japanese poetry is the same as counting characters when the text is", "title": "On (Japanese prosody)" }, { "id": "8685738", "text": "Haikai Haikai (Japanese 俳諧 \"comic, unorthodox\") may refer in both Japanese and English to \"haikai no renga\" (renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. It meant \"vulgar\" or \"earthy\", and often derived its effect from satire and puns, though \"under the influence of [Matsuo] Bashō (1644–1694) the tone of haikai no renga became more serious\". \"Haikai\" may also refer to other poetic forms that embrace the haikai aesthetic, including haiku and senryū (varieties of one-verse haikai), haiga (haikai art, often accompanied by haiku), and haibun (haiku mixed", "title": "Haikai" }, { "id": "8685733", "text": "Haikai Haikai (Japanese 俳諧 \"comic, unorthodox\") may refer in both Japanese and English to \"haikai no renga\" (renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. It meant \"vulgar\" or \"earthy\", and often derived its effect from satire and puns, though \"under the influence of [Matsuo] Bashō (1644–1694) the tone of haikai no renga became more serious\". \"Haikai\" may also refer to other poetic forms that embrace the haikai aesthetic, including haiku and senryū (varieties of one-verse haikai), haiga (haikai art, often accompanied by haiku), and haibun (haiku mixed", "title": "Haikai" }, { "id": "16779917", "text": "In the time of the \"Man'yōshū\" (compiled after 759 AD), the term \"tanka\" was used to distinguish \"short poems\" from the longer . In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the \"Kokin Wakashū\", the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word became the standard name for this form. Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki revived the term \"tanka\" in the early twentieth century as part of his tanka modernization project, similar to his revision of the term \"haiku\". Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate", "title": "Tanka in English" }, { "id": "20459570", "text": "Shintaishi Shintaishi () is a type of Japanese poetry. It specifically refers to poems written in classical Japanese in non-traditional forms (as opposed to the 5-7-5-7-7 \"waka\" and the 5-7-5 \"haiku\") in the Meiji period. Notable practitioners of the form included Yuasa Banketsu and Ochiai Naobumi. It declined in popularity in the first two decades of the twentieth century, in favour of free-form poetry in a more vernacular form of Japanese. \"Shintaishi\" (literally \"new form poetry\") has its origins in the Meiji period. It refers to poetry with a fixed form and written in classical Japanese. Early Japanese bilingual dictionaries", "title": "Shintaishi" }, { "id": "3375827", "text": "in or around the 12th century, some new movements of poetry appeared. First a new lyrical form called \"imayō\" (今様, modern style, a form of \"ryūkōka\") emerged. \"Imayō\" consists of four lines in 8–5 (or 7–5) syllables. Usually it was sung to the accompaniment of instrumental music and dancing. Female dancers (\"shirabyōshi\") danced to the accompaniment of \"imayō\". Major works were compiled into the \"Ryōjin Hishō\" (梁塵秘抄) anthology. Although originally women and commoners are thought to be proponents of the genre, Emperor Go-Shirakawa was famed for his mastery of \"imayō\". Some new trends appeared in \"waka\". There were two opposite", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "910044", "text": "a time criticizing his poetry was literally blasphemous. In the late 19th century, this period of unanimous passion for Bashō's poems came to an end. Masaoka Shiki, arguably Bashō's most famous critic, tore down the long-standing orthodoxy with his bold and candid objections to Bashō's style. However, Shiki was also instrumental in making Bashō's poetry accessible in English, and to leading intellectuals and the Japanese public at large. He invented the term \"haiku\" (replacing \"hokku\") to refer to the freestanding 5-7-5 form which he considered the most artistic and desirable part of the \"haikai no renga\". Critical interpretation of Bashō's", "title": "Matsuo Bashō" }, { "id": "19717159", "text": "following the war, the anger he carried faded and he began to learn about and appreciate Japanese art and culture, which helped him to better understand the war, and led him to feel compelled to visit. The book is an example of \"haibun\", a Japanese literary form in which a group of poems form a larger narrative. Caroline Bokinsky notes that here, unlike others in Brautigan's oeuvre, he is a \"confessional poet, lost and alone in a strange land, unable to communicate.\" Many reviewers commented on a pervasive feeling of loneliness running throughout the text. \"Kirkus Reviews\" described Brautigan's apparent", "title": "June 30th, June 30th" }, { "id": "164929", "text": "Anthology of Poems and Poets from Bashô to Shiki\" by Harold G. Henderson was published by Doubleday Anchor Books. This book was a revision of Henderson's earlier book titled \"The Bamboo Broom\" (Houghton Mifflin, 1934). After World War II, Henderson and Blyth worked for the American Occupation in Japan and for the Imperial Household, respectively, and their shared appreciation of haiku helped form a bond between the two. Henderson translated every hokku and haiku into a rhymed tercet (a-b-a), whereas the Japanese originals never used rhyme. Unlike Yasuda, however, he recognized that 17 syllables in English are generally longer than", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "3375797", "text": "the \"honored guest\" composing a few beginning lines, often in the form of the \"hokku\" (which, as a stand-alone piece, eventually evolved into the haiku). This initial sally was followed by a stanza composed by the \"host.\" This process could continue, sometimes with many stanzas composed by numerous other \"guests\", until the final conclusion. Other collaborative forms of Japanese poetry also evolved, such as the \"renku\" (\"linked-verse\") form. In other cases, the poetry collaborations were more competitive, such as with \"uta-awase\" gatherings, in which Heian period poets composed \"waka\" poems on set themes, with a judge deciding the winner(s). Haiku", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "6789310", "text": "Shōtetsu Shōtetsu (, 1381–1459 CE) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period, and is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition; a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku. He was born in 1381 in a minor fortified town in the then province of Bitchū (now Okayama) to a samurai of middling rank named Komatsu Ysukiyo. About ten years after his birth, Shōtetsu's family moved to Kyoto for unknown reasons. At approximately the age of 15 (by the Occidental count), he was", "title": "Shōtetsu" }, { "id": "1564631", "text": "his poetry, and Nakahara came to be known for his \"bohemian\" lifestyle. Chūya adapted the traditional counts of five and seven used in Japanese \"haiku\" and \"tanka\", but frequently tripped these counts with variations, in order to obtain a rhythmical, musical effect. Several of his poems were used as lyrics in songs, so this musical effect may have been carefully calculated from the start. Chūya's works were rejected by many publishers, and he found acceptance primarily with the smaller literary magazines, including \"Yamamayu\", which he launched together with Kobayashi Hideo, (although on occasion \"Shiki\" and \"Bungakukai\" would condescend to publish", "title": "Chūya Nakahara" }, { "id": "9542637", "text": "a syllable, and hence the four hiragana are also four syllables. In \"Ōsaka\", the initial O is a long (doubled) vowel (denoted with a macron over the vowel in rōmaji), and hence counts as two \"on\". \"Tōkyō\" includes two long vowels, which contribute two \"on\" each in Japanese but only one syllable each in English, which does not distinguish long vowels from short; meanwhile \"kyo\" is perceived by Japanese speakers to be a single sound but in this context is perceived by English speakers as two syllables. (Note that the same sound at the beginning of a word e.g. \"cute\"", "title": "On (Japanese prosody)" }, { "id": "3791757", "text": "line of the first poem in the \"Kojiki\" was written with five characters: This method of writing Japanese syllables by using characters for their Chinese sounds (\"ongana\") was supplemented with indirect methods in the complex mixed script of the \"Man'yōshū\" (c. 759). In \"man'yōgana\", each Old Japanese syllable was represented by a Chinese character. Although any one of several characters could be used for a given syllable, a careful analysis revealed that 88 syllables were distinguished in the \"Kojiki\": The system has the same gaps of \"yi\" and \"wu\" found in later forms of Japanese. However, many syllables that have", "title": "Old Japanese" }, { "id": "164917", "text": "to what is now called \"haiku\". Bashō also used his \"hokku\" as torque points within his short prose sketches and longer travel diaries. This subgenre of \"haikai\" is known as \"haibun\". His best-known work, \"Oku no Hosomichi\", or \"Narrow Roads to the Interior\", is counted as one of the classics of Japanese literature and has been translated into English extensively. Bashō was deified by both the imperial government and Shinto religious headquarters one hundred years after his death because he raised the haikai genre from a playful game of wit to sublime poetry. He continues to be revered as a", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "4063917", "text": "divine. By 1946, Blyth had become Professor of English at Gakushuin University, and became private tutor to the Crown Prince (later emperor) Akihito until the end of his [Blyth's] life. He did much to popularise Zen philosophy and Japanese poetry (particularly \"haiku\") in the West. In 1954, he was awarded a doctorate in literature from Tokyo University, and, in 1959, he received the \"Zuihōshō\" (Order of Merit) Fourth Grade. Blyth died in 1964, probably of a brain tumour and complications from pneumonia, in the Seiroka Hospital in Tokyo. He was buried in the cemetery of the Shokozan Tokei Soji Zenji", "title": "Reginald Horace Blyth" }, { "id": "20459573", "text": "of Naturalism and the vernacular free-form poetry movement (口語自由詩運動), it saw a decline and effectively disappeared. Shintaishi Shintaishi () is a type of Japanese poetry. It specifically refers to poems written in classical Japanese in non-traditional forms (as opposed to the 5-7-5-7-7 \"waka\" and the 5-7-5 \"haiku\") in the Meiji period. Notable practitioners of the form included Yuasa Banketsu and Ochiai Naobumi. It declined in popularity in the first two decades of the twentieth century, in favour of free-form poetry in a more vernacular form of Japanese. \"Shintaishi\" (literally \"new form poetry\") has its origins in the Meiji period. It", "title": "Shintaishi" }, { "id": "16352251", "text": "\"chōka\" had effectively gone extinct, and \"chōka\" had significantly diminished in prominence. As a result, the word \"waka\" became effectively synonymous with \"tanka\", and the word \"tanka\" fell out of use until it was revived at the end of the nineteenth century (see \"Tanka\"). \"Tanka\" (hereafter referred to as \"waka\") consist of five of 5-7-5-7-7 \"on\" or syllabic units. Therefore, \"tanka\" is sometimes called \"Misohitomoji\" (三十一文字), meaning it contains 31 syllables in total. The term \"waka\" originally encompassed a number of differing forms, principally and , but also including bussokusekika, and . These last three forms, however, fell into disuse", "title": "Waka (poetry)" }, { "id": "10469372", "text": "is to be singled out for especial praise.' Robin D. Gill Robin Dallas Gill, born in 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida, USA, and brought up on the island of Key Biscayne in the Florida Keys, is a bilingual author in Japanese and English. He wrote extensively on stereotypes of Japanese identity before moving on to publishing his research on, and translations of Japanese poetry, especially the genres of haiku and senryū. He is considered a 'maverick' writer within the field of Western studies on Edo-period poetry. He writes haiku in Japanese under the \"haigō\" (haikai pen-name) Keigu (敬愚:'Yours foolishly', an", "title": "Robin D. Gill" }, { "id": "910046", "text": "the Imagists, and poets of the Beat Generation. Two of Bashō's poems were popularized in the short story \"Teddy\" written by J. D. Salinger and published in 1952 by \"The New Yorker\" magazine. In 1979, the International Astronomical Union named a crater found on Mercury after him. Matsuo Bashō , born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative \"haikai no renga\" form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). Matsuo Bashō's", "title": "Matsuo Bashō" }, { "id": "2787937", "text": "無季 (no-season). In the pre-Meiji era (before 1868), almost all haiku contained a kigo. For example, Japanese experts have classified only about 10 of Matsuo Bashō's (1644-1694) hokku in the miscellaneous (zō) category (out of about 1,000 hokku). As with most of the pre-Meiji poets, Bashō was primarily a renku poet (that is, he composed linked verse with other poets), so he also wrote plenty of miscellaneous and love stanzas for the interior lines of a renku. Usually about half the stanzas in a renku do not reference a season. The Meiji era poet Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), who recommended several", "title": "Kigo" }, { "id": "3375837", "text": "went out of fashion and was seldom written. As a result, Japanese men of letters lost the traditional background of Chinese literary knowledge. Originally the word \"shi\" meant poetry, especially Chinese poetry, but today it means mainly modern-style poetry in Japanese. \"Shi\" is also known as \"kindai-shi\" (modern poetry). Since World War II, poets and critics have used the name \"gendai-shi\" (contemporary poetry). This includes the poets Kusano Shinpei, Tanikawa Shuntarō and Ishigaki Rin. As for the traditional styles such as \"waka\" and \"haiku,\" the early modern era was also a time of renovation. Yosano Tekkan and later Masaoka Shiki", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "3375834", "text": "by his own haiku poems. Such combination of haiku with painting is known as haiga. Waka underwent a revival, too, in relation to kokugaku, the study of Japanese classics. Kyōka (mad song), a type of satirical waka was also popular. One poetry school of the era was the Danrin school. Hokku renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga). From the time of Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun (in combination with prose). Haikai emerged from the renga of the medieval period. Matsuo Bashō was a", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "19527787", "text": "(794–1185). The haiku form that had appeared by the 17th century also derives from the \"tanka\", reduced to 17 syllables: 5-7-5. Gaston Renondeau noted that the \"haikai\" form \"enjoyed an unparallelled vogue from the end of the 15th century\". The production of haikai has continued into modern times. The \"light\" character of the work does not preclude depth—according to Rodriguez, \"the limited number of words condenses the energy of the poem, a veritable animistic vision of nature\", and thus \"the first lines are loaded with a symbolism suitable to draw Delage's attention, and constitute the first of the \"Sept haï-kaïs\"\".", "title": "Sept haï-kaïs" }, { "id": "1315731", "text": "ends phrases in auxiliary verbs. Whereas English ends in verbs or nouns, which are extremely common, Japanese rappers were limited by the small number of grammatically correct possibilities for ending a phrase. Japanese also lacks the stresses on certain syllables that provide flow to English rapping. Even traditional Japanese poetry was based on the numbers of syllables present, unlike English poetry, which was based on the stresses in a line. Most Japanese lyrical music was also formulated using textual repetition, not relying on the flow of the words. The Japanese also have many ways of indicating class distinctions. English is", "title": "Japanese hip hop" }, { "id": "910045", "text": "poems continued into the 20th century, with notable works by Yamamoto Kenkichi, Imoto Nōichi, and Ogata Tsutomu. The 20th century also saw translations of Bashō's poems into languages and editions around the world. The position of Bashō in Western eyes as the \"haiku\" poet \"par excellence\" gives great influence to his poetry: Western preference for \"haiku\" over more traditional forms such as \"tanka\" or \"renga\" have rendered archetypal status to Bashō as Japanese poet and \"haiku\" as Japanese poetry. Some western scholars even believe that Bashō invented haiku. The impressionistic and concise nature of Bashō's verse greatly influenced Ezra Pound,", "title": "Matsuo Bashō" }, { "id": "412813", "text": "for his revision of standalone hokku, with the same idea. Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the following pattern of \"on\" (often treated as, roughly, the number of syllables per unit or line): The 5-7-5 is called the , and the 7-7 is called the . During the Kojiki and Nihonshoki periods the tanka retained a well defined form, but the history of the mutations of the tanka itself forms an important chapter in haiku history, until the modern revival of tanka began with several poets who began to publish", "title": "Tanka" }, { "id": "558464", "text": "person is chosen to be the reader. As the reader reads a yomifuda, the players race to find its associated torifuda before anybody else does. It is often possible to identify a poem by its first one or two syllables. This game has traditionally been played on New Year's Day since 1904. Competitive karuta has competitions on various levels with the Japan national championship tournament being held every January at Omi shrine (a Shinto shrine) in Ōtsu, Shiga since 1955. A few non-matching games exist that use only the yomifuda. Bouzu Mekuri (), is a simple game of chance originating", "title": "Karuta" }, { "id": "6258550", "text": "a user needs to know, or guess, the pronunciation of a character in order to look it up. The modern Chinese dictionary improvement is alphabetical collation by \"pinyin\" romanization. Japanese \"onbiki\" dictionaries historically changed from poetic \"iroha\" to practical \"gojūon\" ordering around 1890. Compare the former pangram poem (\"i-ro-ha-ni-ho-he-to, chi-ri-nu-ru-wo\", … \"Although flowers glow with color, They are quickly fallen, …) with the latter \"fifty sounds\" 10 consonants by 5 vowels grid (\"a-i-u-e-o, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko\", …). m The first Japanese dictionaries are no longer extant and only known by titles. For example, the \"Nihon Shoki\" (tr. Aston 1896:354) says Emperor Tenmu", "title": "Japanese dictionary" }, { "id": "20203718", "text": "Yuri Yasuda Yuri \"Yureeka\" Yasuda (; born 21 June 1983) also known as Yureeka is a Japanese businesswoman and art collector. Born in Tokyo and raised in New York City, she graduated from Sophia University with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Cultures. Yuri Yasuda was born in Tokyo in 1983. Her great-grandfather, Hizume Masaharu was a doctor as well as a poet who has published a collection of tanka, a thirty-one syllabled verse. Her grandfather, Nobuaki Hizume was the head bureaucrat of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, as well as the former Director-General of Small and Medium Enterprises,", "title": "Yuri Yasuda" }, { "id": "10469362", "text": "Robin D. Gill Robin Dallas Gill, born in 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida, USA, and brought up on the island of Key Biscayne in the Florida Keys, is a bilingual author in Japanese and English. He wrote extensively on stereotypes of Japanese identity before moving on to publishing his research on, and translations of Japanese poetry, especially the genres of haiku and senryū. He is considered a 'maverick' writer within the field of Western studies on Edo-period poetry. He writes haiku in Japanese under the \"haigō\" (haikai pen-name) Keigu (敬愚:'Yours foolishly', an homophonous pun on 敬具:'Yours truly'). Since 2013, he", "title": "Robin D. Gill" }, { "id": "19429784", "text": "B. Yeats wrote \"The Lake Isle of Innisfree\" (1888) with the honey bee couplet \"Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, / And live alone in the bee loud glade\", while he was living in Bedford Park, London. Lafcadio Hearn wrote in his 1901 book \"A Japanese Miscellany\" that Japanese poets had created dragonfly \"haiku\" \"almost as numerous as are the dragonflies themselves in the early autumn.\" The poet Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) wrote \"haiku\" such as \"Crimson pepper pod / add two pairs of wings, and look / darting dragonfly\", relating the autumn season", "title": "Insects in literature" }, { "id": "2950660", "text": "Nevertheless, Saikaku's work is now celebrated for its significance in the development of Japanese fiction. Ihara Saikaku Born as Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677, Saikaku is reported to have composed at least 16,000 haikai stanzas, with some sources placing the number at over", "title": "Ihara Saikaku" }, { "id": "3375846", "text": "poetry: The largest anthology of haiku in Japanese is the 12-volume Bunruihaiku-zenshū (Classified Collection of Haiku) compiled by Masaoka Shiki, completed after his death, which collected haiku by seasonal theme and sub-theme. It includes work dating back to the 15th century. The largest collection of haiku translated into English on any single subject is \"Cherry Blossom Epiphany\" by Robin D. Gill, which contains some 3,000 Japanese haiku on the subject of the cherry blossom.< Gill, Robin D. \"Cherry Blossom Epiphany\", Paraverse Press, 2007 > H. Mack Horton's translation of the 16th-century \"Journal of Sōchō\", by a pre-eminent renga poet of", "title": "Japanese poetry" }, { "id": "9862477", "text": "the personal life of a historical personage.” Thematically, many diaries lay heavy emphasis on time and poetry. The Heian period ushered a revival of Japanese classical poetry, waka, and native vernacular writing, kana. Waka, traditional Japanese thirty-one syllable poetry, was used for purposes ranging from official proclamations and poetry contests to private matters of courtship, and became crucial to success in the life of the aristocracy. Due to the importance of waka in communication, imperial waka anthologies such as the \"Kokinshū\" were compiled as poetic standards. Nikki bungaku grew out of waka's rise in popularity. It has even been speculated", "title": "Poetic diary" }, { "id": "5008098", "text": "description of Japan as the \"Land of the Rising Sun\". \"Nichi\", in compounds, often loses the final \"chi\" and creates a slight pause between the first and second syllables of the compound. When romanised, this pause is represented by a doubling of the first consonant of the second syllable; thus \"nichi\" plus \"kō\" (light) is written and pronounced \"nikkō\", meaning sunlight. Japanese and were historically pronounced \"niti\" (or \"jitu\", reflecting a Late Middle Chinese pronunciation) and \"pon\", respectively. In compounds, however, final voiceless stops (i.e. \"p\", \"t\", \"k\") of the first word were unreleased in Middle Chinese, and the pronunciation", "title": "Names of Japan" }, { "id": "20913764", "text": "and are written in five free lines. As of 2018 at least five Gogyohka magazines existed: \"Gogyohka\", \"Hamakaze\", \"Minami no kaze\", \"Sai\"and \"Kojimachi club\". Five rules of Gogyohka by Enta Kusakabe (1983). Gogyōka Gogyohka（五行歌） is a five-line, untitled, Japanese poetic form. Unlike tanka (57577 syllables), Gogyohka has no restrictions on length. Poets such as Kenji Miyazawa, Jun Ishiwara, Yūgure Maeda, Hakushu Kitahara, Toson Yashiro and Shinobu Orikuchi have written five-line poetry as free-style tankas since the Taishō period around the 1910s. However, they did not name the form. In 1983, Enta Kusakabe named it Gogyohka (五行歌) and for the first", "title": "Gogyōka" }, { "id": "2787930", "text": "four seasons (and modern saijiki usually include a section for the \"New Year\" and another for seasonless (\"muki\") words). Those sections are divided into a standard set of categories, and then the kigo are sorted within their proper category. The most common categories (with some examples of Japanese summer kigo) are: Summer Although haiku are often thought of as poems about nature, two of the seven categories are primarily about human activities (Humanity and Observances). Japan is long from north to south, so the seasonal features vary from place to place. The sense of season in kigo is based on", "title": "Kigo" }, { "id": "1570681", "text": "published with a commentary by Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara that dwelt exclusively on the prior existence of democracy in the Meiji Era and did not make even passing reference to the emperor's \"renunciation of divinity\". This rescript is said to have been drafted by Reginald Horace Blyth and Harold Gould Henderson, who also contributed to the popularisation of Zen and the poetic form of haiku outside Japan. Humanity Declaration The is an imperial rescript issued by the Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) as part of a New Year's statement on 1 January 1946 at the request of the Supreme Commander of the", "title": "Humanity Declaration" }, { "id": "164922", "text": "composition. Shiki's revisionism dealt a severe blow to renku and surviving haikai schools. The term \"hokku\" is now used chiefly in its original sense of the opening verse of a renku, and rarely to distinguish haiku written before Shiki's time. Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travel journal. Haiga is a style of Japanese painting based on the aesthetics of haikai, and usually including a haiku. Today, haiga artists combine haiku with paintings, photographs and other art. The carving of famous haiku on natural stone to make poem monuments", "title": "Haiku" }, { "id": "1421322", "text": "of feet, where a foot consists of two moras. A mora is the unit of which a light syllable contains one and a heavy syllable two. For example, the stems that may be derived from \"Tarō\" are /taro/, consisting of two light syllables, and /taa/, consisting of a single syllable with a long vowel, resulting in \"Taro-chan\" and \"Tā-chan\". The stems that may be derived from \"Hanako\" are /hana/, with two light syllables, /han/, with one syllable closed by a consonant, and /haa/, with one syllable with a long vowel, resulting in \"Hanachan\", \"Hanchan\", and \"Hāchan\". The segmental content is", "title": "Japanese name" }, { "id": "910026", "text": "Matsuo Bashō , born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative \"haikai no renga\" form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned; and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites. Although Bashō is justifiably famous in the West for his hokku, he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku. He is quoted as saying,", "title": "Matsuo Bashō" } ]

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[ { "id": "1622065", "text": "of 2018. In L. Frank Baum's original novel, \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900), on which the film is based, Dorothy wears Silver Shoes. However, the color of the shoes was changed to red in order to take full advantage of the new Technicolor film process being used in big-budget Hollywood films of that era. Film screenwriter Noel Langley is credited with the idea. In the MGM film, an adolescent farm girl named Dorothy (played by Judy Garland), her dog Toto, and their farmhouse are swept away from Kansas by a tornado and taken to the magical Land of Oz.", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "2895694", "text": "given shortly after her unexpected arrival when her farmhouse landed on and killed the previous pair's owner, the Wicked Witch of the East. After knocking her heels together three times and wishing to return home, Dorothy is lifted into the air and transported to Kansas. The shoes however, slip off of Dorothy's feet and are lost forever in the desert. Baum states the silver shoes are never recovered. In the 1939 film the shoes are changed to Ruby Slippers. When Dorothy clicks her heels together she closes her eyes and says: \"\"There's no place like home\"\". She then wakes up", "title": "Land of Oz" }, { "id": "4210654", "text": "rise from the ashes some day: \"\"And there the wicked old Witch stayed for a good long time.\"\"<br> \"\"And did she ever come out?\"\"<br> \"\"Not yet.\"\" L. Frank Baum wrote of silver shoes in his novels. These were changed to Ruby slippers for the 1939 movie, because red showed up better on screen than silver, when the filmmakers decided to use the new Technicolor film process when making The Wizard of Oz. In 2003, the novel was adapted as the Broadway musical \"Wicked\". The musical was produced by Universal Pictures and directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne", "title": "Wicked (Maguire novel)" }, { "id": "12447836", "text": "slippers. This was cut from the final filming of the movie. In \"The Muppets' Wizard of Oz\", the Silver Shoes are portrayed as sparkling, bejeweled, glittery Manolo Blahnik high-heels. The laws of ownership are again displayed in that the Witch of the West tries to cut off Dorothy's feet to obtain the shoes. Once again the shoes remain on Dorothy's feet when she arrives home. When first seen on the feet of the Witch of the East in the 1986 anime version, they are brown peasant's shoes. When the Witch of the North then magically transfers them to Dorothy's feet,", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "12447827", "text": "Silver Shoes The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" as heroine Dorothy Gale's transport home. They are originally owned by the Wicked Witch of the East but passed to Dorothy when her house lands on the Witch. As gathered from the clues throughout the various books and films, the Silver Shoes will only pass to a new owner if they have physically defeated the previous owner, or the previous owner willingly hands them over. \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900) is the only book in the original", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2298836", "text": "to the derelict Emerald City, ruled by Princess Mombi (Princess Langwidere in all but name, as well as keeping Ozma as her slave) and her Wheelers. In the second half of the film, Dorothy, Billina, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump traveled to the Nome King's mountain, to rescue the Scarecrow from the King's ornament collection, which were emerald green unlike the book’s royal purple. The 1939 film \"The Wizard of Oz\"'s famous ruby slippers were used in place of the magic belt. The 1986 anime adaptation of the first novel included this story. It was later shortened and edited", "title": "Ozma of Oz" }, { "id": "3663703", "text": "Wicked Witch of the East The Wicked Witch of the East is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is a crucial character but appears only briefly in Baum's classic children's series of \"Oz\" novels, most notably \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900). The Wicked Witch was a middle aged, malevolent woman who conquered and tyrannized the Munchkin Country in Oz's eastern quadrant, forcing the native Munchkins to slave for her night and day. Her charmed Silver Shoes (famously changed to magic ruby slippers in the 1939 film musical) held many mysterious powers and were her", "title": "Wicked Witch of the East" }, { "id": "20071372", "text": "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz is an American animated children's television series based on L. Frank Baum's novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" and its subsequent books, as well as its 1939 film adaptation. The series debuted on Boomerang SVOD on June 29, 2017. The series was picked up for a second and third season. After the Wicked Witch of the West was melted by water, Queen Ozma has appointed Dorothy Gale the Princess of Emerald City. With her feet firmly grounded in her ruby slippers, Dorothy tackles her royal duties with enthusiasm,", "title": "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "6852384", "text": "Oz].\" Kassinger, in her book \"Gold: From Greek Myth to Computer Chips\", purports that \"The Wizard symbolizes bankers who support the gold standard and oppose adding silver to it... Only Dorothy's \"silver\" slippers can take her home to Kansas,\" meaning that by Dorothy not realizing that she had the silver slippers the whole time, Dorothy, or \"the westerners\", never realized they already had a viable currency of the people. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Political interpretations of \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published", "title": "Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "2499463", "text": "Coronado, influenced its description in later books. Scholars who interpret \"The Wizard of Oz\" as a political allegory see the Emerald City as a metaphor for Washington, D.C. and unsecured \"greenback\" paper money. In this reading of the book, the city's illusory splendor and value are compared with the value of paper money, which also has value only because of a shared illusion or convention. Here, Dorothy gains entry to the Emerald City (Washington, D.C.) wearing the witch's silver slippers (the silver standard), taking the Yellow Brick Road (the gold standard), and met the Wizard (President William McKinley), whose power", "title": "Emerald City" }, { "id": "2895695", "text": "in her bedroom in Kansas believing her experience in Oz to be an elaborate dream. The silver shoes and ruby slippers are also used in several other versions including \"Wicked\" by Gregory Maguire. Here the shoes are constructed as a gift and have a chameleon effect. They are decorated with thousands of glittering glass beads that change colors according to the lighting. They can also appear to be several different colors all at once. The shoes are also lost when Dorothy is teleported back home just like in Baum's novel. The Broadway musical based on Maguire's book further shows that", "title": "Land of Oz" }, { "id": "12447834", "text": "they shock and burn her hands and she cries out in pain. In \"The Wiz\", the shoes are silver high heels. This movie gives further insight into the shoe's magical protection. When Evillene (the witch of the west) tries to obtain them magically, her fingers are bent painfully backwards. In the anime movie, the shoes are once again transformed into the ruby slippers, though they are never referred to by that name. They are heeled shoes with pointed, slightly curled toes, similar to their appearance in Denslow's illustrations. Unlike the book, the shoes are still on Dorothy's feet when she", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2490474", "text": "Munchkins from her evil powers. Dorothy, distressed and confused, wants only to return home. With her magic unable to take Dorothy beyond the country boundaries, Addaperle decides her best bet is to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City in the centre of Oz, to see the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, or \"The Wiz\" for short (\"He's the Wizard\"). She gives Dorothy the Witch of the East's silver slippers, and tells her not to take them off before she reaches home, for they hold a mysterious, but very powerful charm that will keep her safe. Dorothy", "title": "The Wiz" }, { "id": "2351099", "text": "sisterhood of witches as the Witch of the West, but is \"defeated\" by a young girl named Dorothy Gale. Rather than become the new Witch of the West, Dorothy only wishes to go home; a desire Glinda grants by taking her back to see the Wizard, who is presumed to have reverted to his old form since Zelena's magic has been undone. From behind the green curtain, Zelena impersonates the Wizard's voice and gives Dorothy the silver slippers to send her home. Walsh meets Emma Swan and they begin dating. Over the course of eight months, he gets to know", "title": "Wizard of Oz (character)" }, { "id": "3663710", "text": "of Oz\" and Disney's 2013 theatrical film \"Oz the Great and Powerful\". Wicked Witch of the East The Wicked Witch of the East is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is a crucial character but appears only briefly in Baum's classic children's series of \"Oz\" novels, most notably \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900). The Wicked Witch was a middle aged, malevolent woman who conquered and tyrannized the Munchkin Country in Oz's eastern quadrant, forcing the native Munchkins to slave for her night and day. Her charmed Silver Shoes (famously changed to magic ruby slippers", "title": "Wicked Witch of the East" }, { "id": "12447837", "text": "they take on the appearance of white slip-on shoes. When Dorothy is forced to give one of the shoes to the Witch of the West, it reverts to the peasant form. After the Witch is melted and Dorothy is shown wearing it again, it has returned to its white form. The shoes are used twice after they initially send Dorothy home. The first time, she is holding them in her hands when she clicks the heels and drops them. Consequently, Dorothy is transported to Oz and the shoes are left in Kansas (Glinda sends her home). The second time occurs", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "12447838", "text": "while Dorothy is sleeping. Tik-Tok is emitting a distress signal and the shoes activate, transporting Dorothy to the Land of Ev in a beam of light. Her clothes are changed in mid flight. In the 1990 \"The Wizard of Oz\" television series, the Ruby Slippers are used to transport Dorothy back to Oz. They are depicted to possess other powerful magical capabilities that Dorothy did not fully understand, and as such, often served as a form of deus ex machina against hopeless situations. They are no longer depicted as high heels. A unique concept proposed by this series is that", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2332380", "text": "the slippers in the story were instead made of fur (French: \"vair\"), but this interpretation has since been discredited by folklorists. Derek \"The Slipper Man\" Fan holds the Guinness World Records record for wearing a pair of dress slippers for 23 years straight as of June 30, 2007. A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in \"The Wizard of Oz\" sold at Christie's in June 1988 for $165,000. The same pair was resold in May 2000 for $666,000. On both occasions they were the most expensive shoes from a film to be sold at auction. \"Grandpa's Slippers\" is", "title": "Slipper" }, { "id": "2316750", "text": "offer her to take Zelena's place as the Witch of the West, but Dorothy declines; wishing only to return home. With Glinda's help, she is taken to see the Wizard and given a pair of silver slippers to travel to any world. Dorothy thanks the Wizard of Oz (Christopher Gorham) and proceeds to click the slippers' heels three times to send herself home. Only after the girl's departure, Glinda discovers too late that Zelena masqueraded as the Wizard in order to usher Dorothy out of Oz. Upon returning to Kansas, Dorothy tells her family about her experiences in Oz. However,", "title": "Dorothy Gale" }, { "id": "1622064", "text": "Ruby slippers The ruby slippers are the magic pair of shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie \"The Wizard of Oz\". Because of their iconic stature, the ruby slippers are now considered among the most treasured and valuable items of film memorabilia. As is customary for important props, a number of pairs were made for the film, though the exact number is unknown. Five pairs are known to have survived; one pair was stolen from a museum in Grand Rapids, MN in August 2005 and was finally recovered in September", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "12306801", "text": "Out\"; \"Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead\"). The Wicked Witch of the West (who resembles Miss Gulch) arrives to claim her sister's magic ruby slippers and vows to avenge her death. Glinda has already put the slippers on Dorothy's feet, further infuriating the witch. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. The Munchkins tell her that the Wizard of Oz will know what to do (\"Follow the Yellow Brick Road\"). She starts off towards the Emerald City. Dorothy and Toto meet three strange traveling companions, each of whom needs help: The Scarecrow's head is full of straw (\"If I Only", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical)" }, { "id": "1622094", "text": "Karazhan raid instance. The shoes function similarly to the hearthstone that all characters start out with, allowing them to teleport from their current location to the inn where the hearthstone is set. The caption under the statistic lines, much like in the movie, is \"There's no place like home.\" The slippers are part of the twelve \"Foundation Elements\" in the toys-to-life video game \"Lego Dimensions\". Ruby slippers The ruby slippers are the magic pair of shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie \"The Wizard of Oz\". Because of their iconic", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "2895678", "text": "City in the movie uses a much more contemporary Art Deco style than Baum could have imagined. In the book, a giant green wall studded in glittering emeralds surrounds the entire city, whereas in the movie there is only a gate opening. The movie replaces the charmed Silver Shoes with pointed toes of the book with Ruby-Red Slippers. This was because full color motion pictures were still a relatively new technology in 1939, and MGM wanted to show off the visually dazzling process. Shiny red shoes were more impressive in a color motion picture compared to silver ones. Due to", "title": "Land of Oz" }, { "id": "371819", "text": "and \"The Red Shoes\". In the movie adaption of the children's book \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\", a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot. The 1985 comedy \"The Man with One Red Shoe\" features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot. Athletic sneaker collection has also existed as a part of urban subculture in the United States for several decades. Recent decades have seen this trend spread to European nations such as the Czech Republic. A Sneakerhead is a person who owns multiple", "title": "Shoe" }, { "id": "4265888", "text": "there is still hope for the future. The film also has references to \"the Wizard of Oz\", loosely imitating the 1939 movie. A little person instructs Buddy to \"follow the yellow brick road\". Lost Vegas, seen from the distance, looks like the Emerald City. Death is obsessed with a specific object, Buddy's guitar pick, much like the Wicked Witch trying to get Dorothy's red slippers. Finally, Death is killed when sprayed with water, as was the Wicked Witch. When Buddy dies, his body disappears, leaving only his clothes for the kid to take, again like the Wicked Witch. \"Six-String Samurai:", "title": "Six-String Samurai" }, { "id": "12447844", "text": "last time, enabling travel between the Underworld and Oz so that Ruby (Red Riding Hood) can rescue Dorothy from a sleeping curse Zelena has placed her under. Zelena, who is trying to change her ways gives the Slippers over to the heroes so Ruby and Snow White can make their way back to Oz. The \"Dorothy of Oz\" series completely revamps the Silver Shoes. They are instead depicted as red boots created by Selluriah, the Witch of the East. When Mara (codename Dorothy) stomps the heels of said boots, she takes on the form and powers of a witch. This", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2888830", "text": "film based on interviews and research; it was updated in 1989. Because of their iconic stature, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the film are now among the most treasured and valuable film memorabilia in movie history. The silver slippers that Dorothy wore in the book series were changed to ruby to take advantage of the new Technicolor process. Adrian, MGM's chief costume designer, was responsible for the final design. There are five known pairs of the ruby slippers in existence. After filming, the slippers were stored among the studio's extensive collection of costumes and faded from attention.", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)" }, { "id": "2490480", "text": "prevent their eyes from being blinded by the dazzling sights. They enter the city and look about in awe at the richly dressed people that inhabit it (\"Emerald City Ballet\"). The haughty and condescending people laugh and ridicule this odd party for wanting to see the Wizard until they see that Dorothy is wearing the Witch of the East's silver slippers. They are promptly shown right into his palace. Once in the throne room, they are assaulted by a great show of lights, smoke, and pyrotechnics as the Wizard appears in several forms before them (\"So You Wanted To See", "title": "The Wiz" }, { "id": "6852383", "text": "both her own sister witch (Witch of the West) and the Wizard of Oz, leaving herself as undisputed master of all four corners of Oz: North, East, West and South (and presumably the Emerald City). She even showed her truest \"Machiavellian brilliance\" by allowing the story to be entitled after the weakest of her three opponents. Glinda could have told Dorothy that the \"silver slippers would easily do the job [of returning Dorothy to her beloved home] but decided that a destabilizing force such as Dorothy might be just the thing to shake up her other rival [The Wizard of", "title": "Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "2490481", "text": "the Wizard\"). They each plead their case to him, the Tin Man doing so in song (\"What Would I Do If I Could Feel?\"). He agrees on one condition: they must kill Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West. With their goals seeming further out of reach than ever before, Dorothy and her companions sink to the floor in tears. Evillene rules over the yellow land of the west, enslaving its people, the Winkies. She is evil, power hungry, and ruthlessly determined to get her hands on the silver slippers, so that she may increase her power and rule over", "title": "The Wiz" }, { "id": "5934607", "text": "working 'once a day'. The episode \"Crystal Clear\" explains that this was caused by the ball's creator having intentionally stabbed/cracked it with a carving knife, during the witch's theft attempt, in order to prevent her from using its full potential. The Wicked Witch does manage to get the slippers once in the series. However, Truckle manages to steal them from her, and she is unable to use their power to their full advantage. The Cowardly Lion also gets to wear them briefly. The series incorporated visual elements from the 1939 film version, including the Scarecrow's diploma and Dorothy's ruby slippers.", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (TV series)" }, { "id": "7139615", "text": "she just killed the Wicked Witch of the East, as her house landed directly on top of her, and by doing so she freed the Munchkins from slavery. She also tells her that the only person able to send her back home is the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is given the Silver Shoes of the Wicked Witch of the East and sent off along the Yellow Brick Road towards the Emerald City to see the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in hope of getting back to Kansas. On her way to the Wizard, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, made entirely of straw", "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series)" }, { "id": "2316755", "text": "antagonist, Lord Vortech. Lord Vortech imprisons Dorothy and uses the Ruby Slippers as one of the foundation elements needed to create his \"perfect world\". Whatever becomes of Dorothy after Vortech's demise is up for questioning. Dorothy Gale Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the main protagonist in many of his \"Oz\" novels. She first appears in Baum's classic children's novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900) and reappears in most of its sequels. In addition, she is the main character in various adaptations, notably the classic 1939 film adaptation of the novel,", "title": "Dorothy Gale" }, { "id": "12447839", "text": "the Ruby Slippers' magic is linked to the glow of their red coloration. Their powers only function while a dim glow of red light emanates from them, initiated by Dorothy clicking her heels; and the effects of their magic immediately cease after the shoes cease to glow. Also, the Wicked Witch was once able to annul their abilities entirely, by capturing a red Luminary (teardrop-shaped creatures who control all color in Oz) and forcing him to drain the red color from the slippers themselves. However the slippers regained their powers after the Luminary escaped. This series also proposes that the", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2316743", "text": "boat who doff their hats to her as well as miscellaneous debris flying by them. Finally, Dorothy saw Miss Almira Gulch, who was going to abduct Toto to the sheriff, fly on her bicycle outside the window, becoming a witch on a broom. As one of the first movies to be filmed in Technicolor, the director had the color of the famous magic slippers changed from silver to red because the Ruby slippers were more visually appealing on film. She is reunited with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, their three farm workers (Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion's alter egos), and", "title": "Dorothy Gale" }, { "id": "12447846", "text": "to get them back. She has several encounters with Fabletown spy Cinderella, which climaxes with them facing off in the mini-series \"Cinderella: Fables Are Forever\". After deducing that they are actually too big to fit Dorothy, Cinderella takes them and pushes her out of an airship over the Deadly Desert to her apparent death, though her body is not seen. Cinderella then looks over the shoes and decides they're just the right size to fit her. Silver Shoes The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" as heroine", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "3655722", "text": "original novel. She demands the Munchkins reveal who killed her sister, not long after Dorothy's arrival in Oz. She is described by Glinda the Good Witch of the North, not the South as in the book, as \"worse than the other one\". She actively seeks revenge against Dorothy for killing her sister, even though it was \"accidental\". However, as soon as the Witch is reminded of the ruby slippers, all interest in her sister's death vanishes and all she cares about are obtaining \"her\" slippers, which will enable her to conquer Oz. She is more menacing than her literary counterpart,", "title": "Wicked Witch of the West" }, { "id": "12447842", "text": "Green\", shortly before \"The Doctor\", Zelena, the woman who would eventually become the Wicked Witch of the West, goes to the Wizard in order to seek out her family. Upon discovering that she was abandoned by her mother, Cora, and that her half-sister, Regina became Queen and was being trained by Rumpelstiltskin, the Wizard gives Zelena the shoes so that she can travel to the Enchanted Forest to try and replace Regina as Rumpelstiltskin's student. Upon being rejected by him, Zelena turns green with envy. She mocks Rumpelstiltskin with the power of the Silver Slippers, thus causing his later desire", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "1622066", "text": "The house falls on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East, freeing the Munchkins from her tyranny. Glinda the Good Witch of the North arrives via magic bubble and shows Dorothy the dead woman's two feet visibly sticking out from under the house wearing the ruby slippers. When the Wicked Witch of the West comes to claim her dead sister's shoes, Glinda magically transfers them to Dorothy's feet. Glinda tells Dorothy to keep tight inside of them and never take them off, as the slippers must be very powerful or the Wicked Witch would not want them so badly.", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "17942109", "text": "owned the rights to adapt all of Baum's books except \"The Wizard of Oz\", but this did not matter because by 1985 both \"The Land of Oz\" and \"Ozma of Oz\" were in the public domain. The only element that \"Return to Oz\" used from the 1939 movie was the ruby slippers – in the book, the slippers were silver. The ruby slippers had become so iconic due to the MGM movie, Disney paid handsomely for the rights to use them. The 2013 film \"Oz the Great and Powerful\" was technically a prequel to the 1939 movie, but it was", "title": "Copyright status of The Wizard of Oz and related works in the United States" }, { "id": "12990990", "text": "1939 film are clearly labelled as being from the Innes Shoe Company in Los Angeles. On their website, Anello & Davide simply state they have been \"called upon to create unforgettable cinema icons - such as Dorothy's unforgettable red slippers \"The Wizard of Oz\".\". It is more probable that the firm provided the plain red leather shoes with Louis heels that were customised for the 1985 film \"Return To Oz\", or at the very least, made replicas for stage productions. It takes an average of six months to make each pair of custom shoes using a cast of the client's", "title": "Anello & Davide" }, { "id": "16032680", "text": "Glinda, gave the witch's Ruby slippers to Dorothy, but the Wicked Witch of the West appeared and swore to claim the slippers for herself. Glinda sent down Dorothy the Yellow Brick Road to reach the Emerald City and find the famed Wizard of Oz in order to get back home. Tuffy advises them not to follow, but Tom and Jerry keep their promise to protect her and insist on following her. Tuffy wishes to be taller, so he decides to accompany them as he wants to see the Wizard as well. Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy soon reunite with Dorothy and", "title": "Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "8019461", "text": "the previous single, \"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting\", in sales and popularity quickly following its release. In the US, it was certified Gold on 4 January 1974 and Platinum on 13 September 1995 by the RIAA. The Yellow Brick Road is an image taken from the 1939 film adaptation of Lyman Frank Baum's \"The Wizard of Oz\". In that film, Dorothy and her three misfit friends are instructed to follow the yellow brick road in search of the Wizard of Oz, only to find that they had what they were looking for all along. The road leads to the Emerald", "title": "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song)" }, { "id": "1622067", "text": "Throughout the rest of the film, the Wicked Witch schemes to obtain the shoes. When she captures Dorothy, she tries to take the slippers, but receives a painful shock. The Wicked Witch then realizes that the slippers will only come off if the wearer is dead, so she decides to kill Dorothy. Before she does, however, Dorothy accidentally splashes her with a bucket of water, causing her to melt away. At the end, it is revealed that Dorothy can return home by simply closing her eyes, clicking the heels of the slippers together three times and repeating the phrase, \"There's", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "7301091", "text": "gives her and Dandy the slippers. Dorothy, who is being held upside-down from the window, tells Dandy that he will turn to stone if he takes them, but he takes them anyway without being turned to stone. The Witch takes them only to be turned into stone, crumble, and fall apart. The gang returns to the Emerald City, only to find out that the Wizard is, after all, a humbug, unable as he always was to return Dorothy home. Glinda appears to tell Dorothy the reason that her friends didn't turn to stone was because they had brains, a heart,", "title": "Return to Oz (1964 film)" }, { "id": "12447840", "text": "slippers do not necessarily have to be on the user's feet for their powers to work, as Dorothy once used them by tapping the heels together when she held the shoes in her hands (since the ground's sandy surface prevented her from clicking the heels together). Also worth noting in a single episode, is that Truckle, the series' lead Flying Monkey, was once able to wear the Ruby Slippers and thus utilize their powerful magic for his own whims. Even with his generally dim wits and reckless disregard, the slippers gave him sufficient power to overwhelm the Wicked Witch of", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "8508789", "text": "after Dorothy for her silver platform heels (a reference to the book version of \"The Wizard of Oz\" where Dorothy's shoes were silver instead of red as seen in the 1939 film version with Judy Garland). The Wiz then quotes \"Shut up Witch\" as the witch ends up getting doused with Cristal by the Wiz and melts. Afterwards, the party resumes. After the last line of the song, the video cuts back to the woman standing in line, being insulted by the doorman and when he turns his back, the woman sneaks into Brick City unnoticed, with the Wiz's voice", "title": "Oooh." }, { "id": "2946296", "text": "Wizard of Oz\" and also borrows a few elements of it such as the ruby slippers. The plot focuses on an insomniac Dorothy, who returns to the Land of Oz only to discover that the entire country and its inhabitants are facing near extinction at the hands of a villainous king who dwells in a neighboring mountain. Upon her second arrival, she, alongside her pet hen, Billina, befriend a group of new companions, including Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead and the Gump. Together they set out on a quest to save Oz and restore it to its former glory. Development of a", "title": "Return to Oz" }, { "id": "5838356", "text": "through a \"frozen cloud.\" Stratovania proves more substantial when they reach it; Thompson refers to the place as an \"airland\" or \"skyland,\" while the Tin Man calls it an \"airosphere.\" Its altitude is 101,867 feet; the controlled climate is so benign that the people live under canopies rather than in houses. The locale is described in brilliant terms — The Stratovanians themselves are comparably impressive — Their silver footwear recalls the silver slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East in Baum's first Oz book. Thompson's puns maintain the sky theme: the newspaper Strut reads is a \"morning star.\" His", "title": "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "12447835", "text": "arrives in Kansas. In \"Return to Oz\", the Ruby Slippers are used once again. In this movie, the slippers have more power than simply transporting people. They allow the Nome King to conquer Oz and turn every one in the Emerald City to stone. Dorothy later uses the shoes to reverse this process. This extra power is due to the fact the slippers replace the Nome King's Magic Belt. In the original draft of the script, the Nome King had refashioned the slippers into the actual Magic Belt from the novels. Upon his death, they reverted into the form of", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "12447833", "text": "Nessarose the necessary balance to walk. In the Broadway musical adaption of the book, Elphaba is the one who enchants the shoes. Her spell makes the silver shoes burn red hot, turning them into the ruby slippers. The shoes were absent from the 1925 movie. In the 1939 movie the shoes served the same purpose as in the book but were changed to red by its screenwriter Noel Langley. In fact, he gave a notably different appearance than in Denslow's illustrations. This movie proves that the shoes are magically protected. When the Wicked Witch of the West reaches for them,", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2490487", "text": "land of the south, where they are warmly welcomed and invited to rest after their many trials (\"A Rested Body Is a Rested Mind\"). Glinda is a beautiful and gracious sorceress, surrounded by a court of pretty girls. She tells Dorothy that the silver slippers have always had the power to take her home, but like her friends, she needed to believe in their magic and in herself before it was possible (\"If You Believe\"). She bids a tearful goodbye to her friends, and as their faces fade into the darkness, she thinks about what she has gained, lost, and", "title": "The Wiz" }, { "id": "654676", "text": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz () is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 musical film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet", "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "5934604", "text": "The Wizard of Oz (TV series) The Wizard of Oz is an animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment in 1990 to capitalize on the popularity of the 1939 film version, to which DiC had acquired the rights from Turner Entertainment, Co.. The series featured thirteen episodes and premiered on ABC, starting on September 8, 1990. It also aired on YTV from 1990 to 1995 in Canada. Reruns aired on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. Dorothy has decided to return to Oz with Toto using the ruby slippers that showed up on her doorstep. Upon arriving there she reunites", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (TV series)" }, { "id": "19080613", "text": "fire. However, Dorothy counters her assailant with water, causing Zelena to physically melt away. Despite being seemingly dead, Zelena reemerges at the Wizard's Emerald City palace. Glinda offers Dorothy the opportunity to join the sisterhood, but she declines since she only wants to go home. Assuming the Wizard's voice, Zelena sends Dorothy back to Kansas with the silver slippers, and then reveals herself to a shocked Glinda. Zelena reaffirms her goal of changing her own past, and to keep Glinda from finding another sorceress to fulfill the prophecy, she banishes the Witch of the South to the Enchanted Forest. \"", "title": "Zelena (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "id": "9432224", "text": "The Wiz (film) The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure fantasy film produced by Universal Pictures and Motown Productions, and released by Universal Pictures on October 24, 1978. A reimagining of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" featuring an all-black cast, the film was loosely adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical of the same name. It follows the adventures of Dorothy, a shy, twenty-four-year-old Harlem schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to the urban fantasy Land of Oz, which resembles a drug-induced dream version of New York City. Befriended by a Scarecrow, a", "title": "The Wiz (film)" }, { "id": "1192302", "text": "island. The British colonists claimed the island and quickly settled Bermuda. In May 1610, they set forth for Jamestown, this time arriving at their destination. The children's novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\", written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home by a tornado. The story was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900 and has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name", "title": "Storm" }, { "id": "1622256", "text": "to Coxey's Army. In the novel, Dorothy, the Scarecrow (the American farmer), Tin Woodman (the industrial worker), and Cowardly Lion (William Jennings Bryan), march on the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, the Capital (or Washington, D.C.), demanding relief from the Wizard, who is interpreted to be the President. Dorothy's shoes (made of silver in the book, not the familiar ruby that is depicted in the movie) are interpreted to symbolize using free silver instead of the gold standard (the road of yellow brick) because the shortage of gold precipitated the Panic of 1893. In the film adaptation of", "title": "Coxey's Army" }, { "id": "12447845", "text": "power is channeled (rather inexpertly) through the staff Thrysos. The transformation is rather embarrassing, as it involves Mara being momentarily nude and various men are always apt to spot her. It is yet to be revealed if these boots will help Mara return home. The shoes are shown in the DC comics Vertigo series \"Fables\". Dorothy, who's portrayed as a cold, merciless assassin, found that she enjoyed killing after being hired by the Wizard to kill the Witch of the West. However, she loses them on the way back to Kansas over the Deadly Desert, and goes to great lengths", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "9432232", "text": "from the original story). They attempt to put Dorothy, Toto and the Lion into an eternal sleep with magic poppy perfume. Finally reaching the Emerald City (an analogue of the real-life World Trade Center plaza), the quintet gains passage into the city because of Dorothy's ownership of the silver slippers. They marvel at the spectacle of the city and its sophisticated, fashion-forward dancers. They are granted an audience with the Wiz, who lives at the very top of the Towers. He appears to them as a giant fire-breathing metallic head. He will only grant their wishes if they kill the", "title": "The Wiz (film)" }, { "id": "2946305", "text": "the Nome King's mouth. Due to eggs being toxic to Nomes, the Nome King and his subterranean kingdom crumble to pieces all around Dorothy and her friends. Dorothy finds the ruby slippers and wishes she and her friends be returned to a restored Emerald City. There, they mourn the loss of Tik-Tok until Billina notices a green medal stuck to one of the Gump's antlers; Dorothy uses one more \"guess\" and Tik-Tok materializes. At a celebration, Dorothy is asked to be Queen of Oz but refuses, realizing she must return to Kansas eventually. She learns that the girl who helped", "title": "Return to Oz" }, { "id": "12447843", "text": "to obtain them. Using the Silver Slippers again she returns to Oz and dethrones the Wizard. In \"Kansas\" the Slippers appear again, as Zelena, posing as the Wizard of Oz, gives Dorothy the Silver Slippers in order to send her back to Kansas, in the hopes that it would keep Dorothy from becoming a powerful witch herself, and from defeating and replacing Zelena as the Witch of the West. In \"Our Decay\", an adult Dorothy has returned to Oz via the Slippers to face down Zelena and rescue the Scarecrow from her. In \"Ruby Slippers\", the Silver Slippers appear one", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "12627175", "text": "The Wizard of Oz (1993 video game) The Wizard of Oz is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game which is loosely based on the 1939 film \"The Wizard of Oz\". It was developed by Manley & Associates and published by SETA Corporation in 1993. The object in the game is to defeat the Wicked Witch of the West that is trying to take Dorothy's ruby slippers so that Dorothy can return to Kansas. In this video game adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Dorthy finds herself traveling in never-before-seen locations. These include Shy Village, Gamboge Gorge, Maize Meadow, Saffron", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1993 video game)" }, { "id": "4783197", "text": "of the magical Silver Shoes, given to her as a loving gift by her father, and later enchanted by Glinda (in the musical adaptation, the bewitched shoes are Elphaba's doing). Upon being enchanted, the shoes turn into the more famous Ruby Slippers. These shoes allow Nessarose to walk and stand without assistance, and leave her overly confident and more proud, which only fuels her tyrannical reign over the Munchkins. It is Elphaba's quest to retrieve Nessarose's shoes from Dorothy that causes her demise, as she becomes obsessed with obtaining the objects that have always existed as a symbol of neglect", "title": "Nessarose" }, { "id": "5064290", "text": "young, Glinda (Wendy Thatcher) refers to the Good Witch of the North as her sister. Glinda, along with her other good witch counterpart, appear in a little-known 1995 version of \"The Wizard of Oz\" made for British television. After the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, she reveals to Dorothy (Denise Van Outen) that the Ruby Slippers ended up in the possession of the Wicked Witch of the East after falling off the feet of a previous visitor from over the rainbow (Zöe Salmon, in a cameo appearance) after she wished to go back to where she came", "title": "Good Witch of the North" }, { "id": "1622088", "text": "and Moschino. The \"Arabian\" design was displayed with the designer entries. In the 1990–1991 animated TV series \"The Wizard of Oz\" (produced by DiC Animation City), the ruby slippers' powers are significantly enhanced. Not only do they retain their movie-inspired ability to repel the Wicked Witch of the West's touch, as well as the capability to teleport their user (and an unspecified number of companions) to any location desired, but they also demonstrate numerous other attributes and capabilities as well. Among them are the ability to: In this series, Dorothy remains inexperienced and unfamiliar with the shoes' magic, and as", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "5934609", "text": "the film was that Dorothy got herself from Kansas to Oz by clicking her heels in her slippers and saying \"There's no place like Oz\". While the series is mostly based on the 1939 film, there are some issues with the canon of it. In the film, it is largely implied that Oz was a head-trauma-induced delirium, instead of a real place, while in the series it was a real place. The only sequel that depicts Oz as a dream is the 1974 animated film \"Journey Back to Oz\", where Dorothy once again has a head injury before finding herself", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (TV series)" }, { "id": "2316726", "text": "the winged monkeys. She is not afraid of angering the Wicked Witch of the West, as shown when the Witch stole one of Dorothy's slippers, and in retaliation, Dorothy hurled a bucket of water over her, not knowing water was fatal to the witch. She brazenly rebuffs Princess Langwidere's threat to take her head for her collection — \"Well, I b'lieve you won't.\" (Following Anna Laughlin's portrayal of the character in the popular 1903 Broadway version of \"The Wizard of Oz,\" Baum scripts Dorothy to speak in childlike contractions with \"Ozma of Oz\", which she continues to do throughout the", "title": "Dorothy Gale" }, { "id": "1622090", "text": "the Rainbow\". Supposedly an \"Artifact\" – a potentially dangerous and malicious object that grants the wearer dangerous powers – since many artifacts are based on works of fact and fiction. The season 9 episode \"Slumber Party\" of the series \"Supernatural\" features Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. Dorothy, here portrayed as a hard-as-nails fighter, realizes the shoes are the only thing that can kill the seemingly invincible witch. At one point, she admits she never really wore the iconic shoes, having considered it \"tacky\" to wear the shoes of a dead witch. Near the end of the episode, Charlie Bradbury uses", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "9432228", "text": "Released by the snowstorm, Dorothy smashes through an electric \"Oz\" sky sign as she descends from the atmosphere, and which falls upon and kills Evermean, the Wicked Witch of the East who rules Munchkinland. As a result, she frees the Munchkins who populate the playground into which she lands; they had been transformed into graffiti by Evermean for painting the playground walls. Dorothy soon meets the Munchkins' main benefactress, Miss One, the Good Witch of the North, a magical \"numbers runner\" who gives Evermean's pretty charmed silver slippers to her by teleporting them onto Dorothy's feet. However, Dorothy declares she", "title": "The Wiz (film)" }, { "id": "4588204", "text": "the South (Miss Piggy), who tells her that if she clicks her heels together three times, she will be able to go anywhere she desires, contrary to how the Good Witch of the North said to get to the Emerald City. She does so, saying \"take me home to Aunt Em\". She is then spun by the slippers' charm into Kansas, and, much to her surprise, she finds out that Kermit was looking for her, saying that she had the best voice they heard on the whole search, and that she has been chosen to go on the Star Hunt.", "title": "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "6958726", "text": "soul flies on sunshine to Heaven, where no one mentions the red shoes. Andersen named the story's anti-heroine Karen after his own loathed half-sister, Karen Marie Andersen. The origins of the story is based on an incident Andersen witnessed as a small child. His father, who was a shoemaker, was sent a piece of red silk by a rich lady to make a pair of dancing slippers for her daughter. Using some red leather along with the silk, he carefully created a pair of shoes only for the rich customer to tell him they were awful. She said he had", "title": "The Red Shoes (fairy tale)" }, { "id": "2946306", "text": "her escape the hospital is Princess Ozma, Jack's long-lost creator, and the rightful ruler of Oz, who had been enchanted by Mombi at the Nome King's request. Ozma forgives the no-longer-magical Mombi. She takes her place on the throne and Dorothy hands over the ruby slippers. Billina opts to stay in Oz. Ozma sends Dorothy home, promising that Dorothy is welcome to return. Back in Kansas, Dorothy's family finds her on a riverbank. Aunt Em reveals that Worley's hospital was struck by lightning and burned down, and Worley died trying to save his machines. They see Nurse Wilson locked in", "title": "Return to Oz" }, { "id": "2490482", "text": "all of Oz (\"Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News\"). Receiving word of Dorothy and her friends approaching, she sends her Winged Monkeys to kill them (\"Funky Monkeys\"). Catching up to the group in the forest surrounding Evillene's castle, the monkeys dash the Tin Man against rocks until he falls apart, and rip the straw out of the Scarecrow, leaving both of them helpless. Seeing Dorothy's silver slippers, however, they dare not harm her. Instead, they carry her to Evillene's castle along with the Lion. While searching for a way to get the slippers from Dorothy, Evillene forces her and", "title": "The Wiz" }, { "id": "1622070", "text": "his \"Los Angeles Times\" article, \"all the ruby slippers are between Size 5 and 6, varying between B and D widths.\" The four surviving pairs were made from white silk pumps from the Innes Shoe Company in Los Angeles. At the time, many movie studios used plain white silk shoes because they were inexpensive and easy to dye. It is likely that most of the shoes worn by female characters in \"The Wizard of Oz\" were plain Innes shoes with varying heel heights, dyed to match each costume. There is an embossed gold or silver stamp or an embroidered cloth", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "3642222", "text": "from Winfield, Kansas, a farm girl, and a reference to Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic movie \"The Wizard of Oz\" (occasionally wearing Dorothy's ubiquitous pigtails and a gingham dress). She was traveling alone on the \"three-hour tour\", which she had won in a contest, that was lost at sea, and was in her late teens to early twenties — an age which she pinpoints in the season 2, episode 30 \"V for Vitamins\" when she says, \"Women and children first, so I get two votes.\" She tells the others in season 2, episode 18,", "title": "Mary Ann Summers" }, { "id": "7139614", "text": "by L. Frank Baum. The first story arc is an adaptation of the first Oz book, \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\". It follows the adventures of Dorothy, an orphan girl living out in the gray prairies of Kansas with her Aunt Em, her Uncle Henry and her dog Toto. One day, After Em and Uncle Henry leave Dorothy and Toto alone in order to travel into town. A tornado appears, uproots the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, and transports it to the Land of Oz. In Oz Dorothy meets the Good Witch of the North, who tells her that", "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series)" }, { "id": "12447831", "text": "body, but rather brought by Toto from her dwelling (a dark cave). This was possibly done to avert the problem of a person wearing the shoes to be impossible to harm, since in that book the hurricane is created by the Wicked Witch to destroy mankind, and redirected upon her by the Good Witch of the North, who suffers no ill effects for harming her. It is said the Witch only wore the shoes on very special occasions. They are lost just like in Baum's book. In Roger S. Baum's \"Dorothy of Oz\" (1989), Glinda recovers the silver shoes and", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "1622073", "text": "close-up or insert shoes, is in best shape of all, appears to be better made, has no orange felt on the soles and has \"#7 Judy Garland\" written in the lining. According to the Library of Congress, \"it is widely believed that they were used primarily for close-ups and possibly the climactic scene where Dorothy taps her heels together.\" Circular scuff marks on the soles support the theory that they were the ones Garland had on when she clicked her heels together. The lack of felt indicates these were likely also the shoes taken from the feet of the dead", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "6852377", "text": "and the silver shoes Dorothy inherits from the Wicked Witch of the East represents the pro-silver movement. When Dorothy is taken to the Emerald Palace before her audience with the Wizard she is led through seven passages and up three flights of stairs, a subtle reference to the [ Coinage Act of 1873 ] which started the class conflict in America.” Historian Quentin Taylor sees additional metaphors, including: Taylor also claimed a sort of iconography for the cyclone: it was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land", "title": "Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "1622085", "text": "by a British family, who sold them to prominent Oz collector Willard Carroll in a 2001 eBay auction. The Western Costume Company in Hollywood claims to have made Garland's original slippers. While it is likely that Western would have been contracted to make some of \"The Wizard of Oz\"'s many costumes, no records of the original slippers exist to either validate or disprove their claim. In 1989, to commemorate the movie's 50th anniversary, Western produced the only authorized reproductions. Hand-lasted on Judy Garland's original foot mold and completely sequined and jeweled, the reproduction slippers were nearly identical to the originals.", "title": "Ruby slippers" }, { "id": "7301088", "text": "Tin Woodman, called Rusty, by turning herself into a Tin Woman, and dropping him into a pond where he rusted over again. She has also stolen the medal that belonged to the Cowardly Lion, called Dandy, and turned it into a daisy, and is planning to get Dorothy's silver shoes again. Dorothy sets off to find her friends, without knowing the Wicked Witch is watching them in her Crystal Ball. She finds and oils Rusty who has rusted after the Witch tricked him. They find Socrates in a corn field on a pole scaring crows again and get him down.", "title": "Return to Oz (1964 film)" }, { "id": "9432229", "text": "doesn't want the shoes and desperately just wants to get home to Aunt Em. Miss One urges her to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and seek the help of the mysterious \"Wizard\" who she believes holds the power to send Dorothy back to Harlem. After telling her to never take the silver shoes off, Miss One and the Munchkins disappear and Dorothy is left to search for the road on her own. The next morning, Dorothy happens upon a Scarecrow made of garbage and rags, and befriends him after saving him from being viciously teased and", "title": "The Wiz (film)" }, { "id": "11795134", "text": "home. \"Codename: Dorothy.\" Once an ordinary schoolgirl from Seoul, Korea, Mara is the only person able to see the strange “yellow brick road”, and as such, is often mistaken for the legendary “Dorothy” by the majority of Oz's occupants. Despite the assumption by many that she is, indeed, Dorothy, Mara often reacts loudly and protestingly to being called as such, shouting, “My name is Mara...Mara Shin!” By stomping her boots (given to her by Selluriah, the Witch of the East), she can turn into a witch. She is the owner of both the witch's boots (obviously the manhwa's version of", "title": "Dorothy of Oz (manhwa)" }, { "id": "12447841", "text": "the West's magical attacks, and temporarily reduce her to his servant. This once again demonstrates that the shoes' users need not be a skilled/knowledgeable spellcaster, in order to gain great power. The Cowardly Lion also gets to wear them briefly. In the \"Once Upon a Time\" television series, the Silver Slippers are first alluded to in \"The Doctor\", when Rumpelstiltskin sends the Mad Hatter to the Land of Oz in order to locate and retrieve the shoes so that he could travel to the Land without Magic in order to locate his lost son Balefire. In \"It's Not Easy Being", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "2499456", "text": "Emerald City The Emerald City (sometimes called the City of Emeralds) is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900). Located in the center of the Land of Oz, the Emerald City is the end of the famous yellow brick road, which starts in Munchkin Country. In the center of the Emerald City is the Royal Palace of Oz. In the first book, \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900), the walls are green, but the city itself is not. However, when they enter, everyone", "title": "Emerald City" }, { "id": "2566281", "text": "Munchkin A Munchkin is a native of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. They first appear in the classic children's novel \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" (1900) where they welcome Dorothy Gale to their city in Oz. The Munchkins are described as being the same height as Dorothy and they wear only shades of blue clothing, as blue is the Munchkins' favorite color. Blue is also the predominating color that officially represents the eastern quadrant in the Land of Oz. The Munchkins have appeared in various media, including the 1939 film \"The", "title": "Munchkin" }, { "id": "12447830", "text": "that the shoes are gone, having fallen off during her flight and landing somewhere in the Deadly Desert. Though they are mentioned several times in sequels, they never appear again in the original series. In Alexander Melentyevich Volkov's \"The Wizard of the Emerald City\" (1939), the Silver shoes or Serebryaniye bashmachki as they are called in the manuscript, are the source of Elly's (his version of Dorothy) protection instead of the good Witch's kiss. She is therefore attacked once by an Ogre when removing them, and afterward wears them even when she sleeps. They are not taken from the Witch's", "title": "Silver Shoes" }, { "id": "19514130", "text": "surface, and the Wizard arrives shortly thereafter, having managed to tame the flying monkeys that got glued to his balloon with one of his magic potions that made giant bananas for them. With Oz safe once more, the Wizard returns to a formal position in the Emerald City while still leaving the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion in charge, and after Dorothy asks about the ruby slippers, only to learn from Glinda that she's earned the right to keep them permanently, along with the Wizard adding on that she'll need them to visit them in Oz again often, Dorothy takes", "title": "Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz" }, { "id": "18025803", "text": "it turns out that Zelena was the evil threat all along. Glinda then offers Dorothy a chance to join the council of witches, but Dorothy turns her down and says she's sorry and wants to go home. Glinda tells her that the Wizard (who she believes has returned to his normal form) will return her to Kansas. When they arrive to the Wizard's palace, Glinda and Dorothy arrive to see the unseen Wizard, who then grants Dorothy her wish by giving her a pair of silver slippers and disappears back to her world. However, after Dorothy disappears, Glinda discovers that", "title": "Kansas (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "id": "2888757", "text": "helping them see that the attributes they sought (brains, heart, courage) were already within them. He then offers to take Dorothy and Toto home in his hot air balloon. As Dorothy and the Wizard prepare to depart, Toto jumps off and Dorothy goes to catch him, so the balloon leaves with only the Wizard. Glinda appears and tells Dorothy that the Ruby Slippers will take her home. Following Glinda's instructions, Dorothy taps her heels together three times and repeats, \"There's no place like home\". Dorothy wakes up in Kansas surrounded by her family and friends. Everyone dismisses her adventure as", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)" }, { "id": "15020802", "text": "is unhappy with his empty tin chest (\"If I Only Had a Heart\") and invite him to join them. The Wicked Witch of the West threatens to light the Scarecrow on fire unless Dorothy gives her the ruby slippers; Dorothy refuses. In the dark forest, they encounter a very unhappy Lion, afraid of his own tail (\"If I Only Had the Nerve\"). He too joins the group on the road to the Emerald City. Emerging into the light, the friends encounter another obstacle. The Wicked Witch has cast a spell creating a huge field of poppies that puts Dorothy and", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical)" }, { "id": "16032682", "text": "a river if Dorothy refuses to give her the slippers. Although she complies, the Witch is shocked when she tries to take them off. When she remembers that the slippers won't come off as long as Dorothy is alive, the Witch places an hourglass, stating that Dorothy has only hours to live. Tom and Jerry manage to free Toto, who escapes from the castle to get help. Jerry is seen by the Witch and thrown through a window with Tom. They encounter two of the Witch's guards, Droopy and Butch, who accidentally mention the Witch's weakness is water. A chase", "title": "Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "6852376", "text": "people (and even the Good Witches) into believing he is benevolent, wise, and powerful when really he is a selfish, evil humbug. He sends Dorothy into severe danger hoping she will rid him of his enemy the Wicked Witch of the West. He is powerless and, as he admits to Dorothy, \"I'm a very bad Wizard\". Hugh Rockoff suggested in 1990 that the novel was an allegory about the demonetization of silver in 1873, whereby “the cyclone that carried Dorothy to the Land of Oz represents the economic and political upheaval, the yellow brick road stands for the gold standard,", "title": "Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" }, { "id": "2888765", "text": "I'll miss you most of all.\" In his book \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\", Baum describes Kansas as being \"in shades of gray\". Further, Dorothy lived inside a farmhouse which had its paint blistered and washed away by the weather, giving it an air of grayness. The house and property were situated in the middle of a sweeping prairie where the grass was burnt gray by harsh sun. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were \"gray with age\". Effectively, the use of monochrome sepia tones for the Kansas sequences was a stylistic choice that evoked the dull and gray countryside. Much", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)" }, { "id": "2888753", "text": "She awakens to see various figures fly by, including Miss Gulch, who transforms into a witch on a broomstick. The house lands in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as a heroine, as the falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East; only the witch's legs and the ruby slippers on her feet are visible. Her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, arrives to claim the slippers, but Glinda transports them onto Dorothy's feet first. The Wicked Witch of the West swears revenge on Dorothy", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)" }, { "id": "9569658", "text": "the city's brilliancy). Her character is strictly referred to as \"\"the pretty green girl\"\" in this story, and her youthfulness and kindness are emphasized by Baum. She is finally introduced by name in the second Oz book \"The Marvelous Land of Oz\" (1904), where Baum elaborates more about her appearance in detail. She often wears a green silk knee-length skirt, matching silk stockings embroidered with peapods, and green satin slippers with bunches of fresh lettuce for decorations instead of bows or buckles. All around her silken waist four leaf clovers are delicately sewn into the sash and she wears a", "title": "Jellia Jamb" }, { "id": "3655744", "text": "when she shares a bonding moment with her child. During the Dark Siege of Storybrooke, Zelena plans to take Regina's place in Storybrooke including her office. After claiming full custody of her baby, Zelena is transported by Regina (using the Apprentice's Wand) back to Oz, and she claimed they will see each other again. On Zelena's return to Oz, she confronts Dorothy, who is currently in possession of the silver slippers which can transport her to any realm. She holds Dorothy's dog, Toto, hostage in exchange for the shoes. Dorothy tries to knock Zelena out with poppy powder, but before", "title": "Wicked Witch of the West" }, { "id": "11795135", "text": "the ruby slippers) and Thyrsos, a magical glove that when summoned turns into a staff. Thyrsos was previously owned by the Wizard of Oz. Although she lacks the knowledge and experience to use it correctly, when enraged it has been shown that she is capable of mass destruction. It is worth noting that whenever Mara uses the Yellow Brick Road, it is irrelevant where it is positioned: it might go right through a wall and she can cross it as long as she is walking on it, but any pursuer will be unable to find her. The only evidence are", "title": "Dorothy of Oz (manhwa)" }, { "id": "5934606", "text": "to learn to believe in oneself. To combat the idea that the slippers would provide Dorothy with ultimate power against the Witch, they didn't always work correctly, apparently because she wasn't entirely sure how to use them. They often didn't do exactly as she asked, acting unpredictably. In the second episode, she clicks her heels four times to correct the Witch's damage to the Emerald City, as to imply that a fourth click has more power than three. Glinda often told her to only use them as a last resort. Similarly, the Wicked Witch's crystal ball was unpredictable, often only", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (TV series)" } ]

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[ { "id": "4596", "text": "very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled \"Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)\"; his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A 2009 article in \"The Economist\" described Warhol as the \"bellwether of the art market\". Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (\"née\" Zavacká, 1892–1972), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. His parents", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "4666", "text": "Andy Warhol and his Polaroid camera was revealed at Union Square in New York City. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings \"Campbell's Soup Cans\" (1962) and \"Marilyn Diptych\" (1962), the", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "4593", "text": "Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings \"Campbell's Soup Cans\" (1962) and \"Marilyn Diptych\" (1962), the experimental film \"Chelsea Girls\" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the \"Exploding Plastic Inevitable\"", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "10223147", "text": "Julia Warhola Julia Warhola (, November 20, 1891—November 22, 1972) was the mother of the American artist Andy Warhol. Warhola was born Júlia Justína Zavacká to a peasant family in the Rusyn village of Miková, Austria-Hungary (now in northeast Slovakia) and married Andrij Varkhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola) there in 1909. He emigrated to the United States soon after, and in 1921 she followed him to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The couple had three children: Paul, John, and Andrew (Andy). The family lived at several Pittsburgh addresses, but beginning in 1932 at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of the city.", "title": "Julia Warhola" }, { "id": "10223150", "text": "as she goes about her daily domestic routines. In 1971, she returned to Pittsburgh and died a year later. She is buried, alongside her husband and near her son Andy, in St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. Julia Warhola Julia Warhola (, November 20, 1891—November 22, 1972) was the mother of the American artist Andy Warhol. Warhola was born Júlia Justína Zavacká to a peasant family in the Rusyn village of Miková, Austria-Hungary (now in northeast Slovakia) and married Andrij Varkhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola) there in 1909. He emigrated", "title": "Julia Warhola" }, { "id": "4598", "text": "became a successful children's book illustrator. In third grade, Warhol had Sydenham's chorea (also known as St. Vitus' Dance), the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever which causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident. As a teenager, Warhol graduated", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "4594", "text": "(1966–67). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression \"15 minutes of fame.\" In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "19857048", "text": "Florian Picasso Florian Ruiz-Picasso (born 21 February 1990), better known as Florian Picasso, is a Vietnamese-French DJ and record producer based in Cannes. He is a great-grandson of the well-known artist, Pablo Picasso. He gained recognition for collaborations with Martin Garrix and Steve Aoki. In 2016, he was ranked by DJ Mag at 38th on their annual list of Top 100 DJs. Picasso was born in Vietnam and was adopted by Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of the famous artist, Pablo Picasso. He was gladdened when Kanye West named his album, The Life of Pablo after his great-grandfather. He started making", "title": "Florian Picasso" }, { "id": "328540", "text": "accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives. \"Ruiz y Picasso\" were included for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López. His mother was of one quarter Italian descent, from the territory of Genoa.", "title": "Pablo Picasso" }, { "id": "986812", "text": "John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, (; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting \"Christ in the House of His Parents\" (1850) generating considerable controversy, and painting perhaps the embodiment of the school, \"Ophelia\",", "title": "John Everett Millais" }, { "id": "328541", "text": "Though baptized a Catholic, Picasso would later on become an atheist. Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruiz's ancestors were minor aristocrats. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were \"piz, piz\", a shortening of \"lápiz\", the Spanish word for \"pencil\". From the age of seven, Picasso received formal", "title": "Pablo Picasso" }, { "id": "4773408", "text": "clothing designs for Topshop. Stella Vine was born Melissa Jane Robson in Alnwick, Northumberland, England in 1969. She changed her name to \"Stella Vine\" in 1995, inspired by Andy Warhol names. Vine lived with her mother who was a seamstress and her grandmother who was a secretary. Her mother remarried when she was seven, and they relocated to Norwich. Vine said she was \"making things and performing music and plays, as far back as I can remember.\" When she was a child, she used to make water colours in the library, painting Queen Victoria, and copying the Pre-Raphaelites and Greek", "title": "Stella Vine" }, { "id": "4546773", "text": "in New York, which he visited. His portrait by Andy Warhol dates from this trip. For the centenary of Picasso’s birth, he made a medal and a plaque for the artist’s birthplace, which had now become a museum. He made \"Hoplita\", which contained the famous Rubik’s cube, in tribute to the Hungarian mathematician. He held various exhibitions in Europe. His first exhibition in Kuwait took place in 1982. He produced the series \"Desperta Ferro\", ten pieces on a theme that anticipated the \"Almogávares\", and completed \"Neon\" - a sculpture with computer-controlled neon circuits, which gave life to countless combinatorial possibilities", "title": "Miguel Ortiz Berrocal" }, { "id": "640830", "text": "\"h\" from his original name, Stumph. It was still pronounced \"stump,\" but the change ensured his audience wouldn't think to pronounce it \"stumf.\" Singer Jason Derulo uses the phonetic spelling of his given name, Jason Desrouleaux. Andy Warhol dropped an \"a\" from his original name, Warhola, while couturier Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dropped the first of his two surnames. Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi adopted the stage name Rudolph Valentino in part because American casting directors found his original surname difficult to pronounce. Singer George Michael (the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.", "title": "Stage name" }, { "id": "15190121", "text": "John Warhola John Warhola (May 31, 1925 – December 24, 2010) played a pivotal role in maintaining the legacy of his younger brother, pop artist Andy Warhol, assigned responsibility by their father on his deathbed to ensure that Andy attended college and serving as a trustee of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts after his brother's death in 1987. Warhola oversaw the establishment of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia. Warhola was born May 31, 1925, in Pittsburgh, the second of three sons of Ondrej and Julia", "title": "John Warhola" }, { "id": "8586773", "text": "to Frank Patrick in reference to the great hockey players on his Vancouver Millionaires teams of the 1910s-1920s, specifically Cyclone Taylor. Within a major published piece in Interview Magazine that appeared in June 1977, when asked by editor Glenn O’Brien, “Who invented the word superstar?” Andy Warhol, the pop artist known for popularizing the term, responded, “I think it was [the performance artist and filmmaker] Jack Smith.” O’Brien then asked, “And who were the first superstars?” To which Warhol responded, “They were all Jack Smith’s stars; every one of them was really a great person.” The term received widespread and", "title": "Superstar" }, { "id": "12013727", "text": "Fowokan George \"Fowokan\" Kelly (born 1 April 1943) is a Jamaican-born visual artist who lives in Britain and exhibits using the name \"Fowokan\" (a Yoruba word meaning: \"one who creates with the hand\"). He is a largely self-taught artist, who has been practising sculpture since 1980. His work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European. Fowokan's work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west. He has also been a jeweller, essayist, poet and musician (a", "title": "Fowokan" }, { "id": "4505155", "text": "Scottie Wilson Scottie Wilson (6 June 1888 – 1972), born Louis Freeman, was a Scottish, Jewish, outsider artist known particularly for his highly detailed style. Starting his artistic career at the age of 44, his work was admired and collected by the likes of Jean Dubuffet and Pablo Picasso and is generally accepted to be in the forefront of 20th-century outsider art. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, at 24 Ropework Lane, Wilson dropped out of school at the age of 8 to help subsidise his family's meagre income by, amongst other things, selling newspapers on the street. In 1906 he enlisted", "title": "Scottie Wilson" }, { "id": "7105162", "text": "Roberta Latow Muriel Roberta Latow (September 27, 1931 – February 4, 2003) was an American art expert, gallery owner, interior designer, and erotic author. She has been credited with giving Andy Warhol the original idea to paint \"Campbell's Soup Cans\" and the \"200 One-Dollar Bills\" silkscreens, and her written works reflect her travels throughout Europe. Her later erotic fiction also reflected her knowledge and experience in the worlds of art. Latow was born September 27, 1931 in Springfield, Massachusetts. She had an early interest in art and moved to New York City to study interior design at Parsons School of", "title": "Roberta Latow" }, { "id": "17559357", "text": "Steve Kaufman Steven Alan Kaufman (also known as Steve Kaufman, December 29, 1960 – February 12, 2010) was an American pop artist, fine artist, sculptor, stained glass artist, filmmaker, photographer and humanitarian. His entry into the world of serious pop art began in his teens when he became an assistant to Andy Warhol at The Factory studio. Nicknamed \"SAK\" by Warhol, Kaufman eventually executed such pieces as a 144-foot long canvas which later toured the country. Steve Kaufman was born in 1960 in the Bronx, New York, the middle child, surrounded by an extended family, many of whom were painters", "title": "Steve Kaufman" }, { "id": "20949768", "text": "a cocktail of realism, surrealism, and pop, of Edward Hopper meets Salvador Dali meets Andy Warhol.\" He is popularly known by his first name \"Harry\", and distinctively signs his paintings with this moniker. Harry Underwood was born in 1969 in Miami, FL. His father was a carpenter and his mother worked in a supermarket. His family was deeply religious and he attended the Church of God pentecostal church with them until 1982. As a teenager, Harry cleaned pools at motels and bussed tables at the Capri Italian Restaurant in Florida City, FL. He was uprooted by Hurricane Andrew in 1992", "title": "Harry Underwood" }, { "id": "11286217", "text": "Alpers's \"Rembrandt\" coming to resemble an artist like Andy Warhol, the most successful \"entrepreneur of the self\". He accuses Alpers of removing the greatest art categorically from the realm of aesthetics, using it as \"just another counter in the dialectic of material culture. Such, too, is the dismal fate of art history when the study of art is no longer its primary concern.\" Svetlana Leontief was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the only child of Wassily Leontief, a political refugee from the Soviet Union and Nobel laureate economist who pioneered computer modeling, and the poet Estelle Marks. In 1958", "title": "Svetlana Alpers" }, { "id": "2797834", "text": "who was the older brother of Francis Minturn Sedgwick. With her twenty-first birthday, celebrated in Cambridge, and with her coming of age, Sedgwick received an $80,000 trust fund from her maternal grandmother and sought a new life in New York City to pursue a career in modeling. In March 1965, Sedgwick met artist and avant-garde filmmaker Andy Warhol at a party at Lester Persky's apartment. Shortly afterward, she became a frequent visitor to The Factory, Warhol's famed art studio. During one of her subsequent visits, Warhol was filming \"Vinyl\", his interpretation of the novel \"A Clockwork Orange\". Despite \"Vinyl\"s all-male", "title": "Edie Sedgwick" }, { "id": "19061833", "text": "BillyBoy* BillyBoy* (born 10 March 1960) is an artist, socialite and fashion designer who was a muse of Andy Warhol. Born in Vienna, he was adopted by a Russian couple and moved to New York City when he was four. In 1979 BillyBoy* began to design and manufacture costume jewellery under the label \"Surreal \" in Paris. A bracelet made by BillyBoy* and owned by Elizabeth Taylor was sold at auction in 2011 for $6,875. BillyBoy* had a collection of over 11,000 Barbie dolls and 3,000 Ken dolls, and in 1987 authored the book \"Barbie: Her Life and Times\". During", "title": "BillyBoy*" }, { "id": "12306272", "text": "\"Hauptbahnhof\", which means \"central rail station\" in German) and other times just being complete nonsense. The film is very loosely based on Pablo Picasso's life, narrated by Toivo Pawlo, who introduces himself as Elsa Beskow. It opens with a quote by Picasso himself: \"Art is a lie that leads us closer to the truth.\" The story starts with Picasso's birth in Málaga, Spain. His father, Don Jose (Hans Alfredson), is an artist and discovers early his son's talent when the young boy makes a sculpture of Don Jose with his food. When Pablo is old enough (and now portrayed by", "title": "The Adventures of Picasso" }, { "id": "15691556", "text": "2006: 2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: 2000: 1999: 1998: 1997: 1996: 1995: 1994: 1993: 1992: 1991: 1989: 1988: Mbongeni Buthelezi Mbongeni Buthelezi, born 1966 in Johannesburg in South Africa, is an artist who became known for \"painting\" in plastic. Buthelezi attended courses at the African Institute of Art in Johannesburg from 1986 until 1992 and later also at the University of Witwatersrand from 1997 until 1998. He was \"artist in residence\" several times: The material that Mbongeni Buthelezi uses for his \"paintings\" is always waste made of plastic: he cuts it into little pieces and glues them onto the canvas, creating", "title": "Mbongeni Buthelezi" }, { "id": "971184", "text": "Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; 7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit (Master) and \"Sitar maestro\"was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was one of the best-known proponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. In 1999, Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday", "title": "Ravi Shankar" }, { "id": "20545734", "text": "The bronze statue measures 1.4 meters in height, and depicts Picasso sitting on a marble bench taking notes with a pencil. The statue occupies part of a bench, allowing visitors to sit next to it. The house in which Pablo Picasso was born is located at number 15 of the plaza. The house now operates as a museum, and the building is the headquarters of the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation. Plaza de la Merced Plaza de la Merced is a public square located in the barrio La Merced in central Málaga, Spain. The plaza has been a part of the", "title": "Plaza de la Merced" }, { "id": "4595", "text": "The Velvet Underground and founded \"Interview\" magazine. He authored numerous books, including \"The Philosophy of Andy Warhol\" and \"\". He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Many of his creations are", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "16970276", "text": "Samuel Adams Green Samuel Adams Green (May 20, 1940 – March 4, 2011) was an American art curator and director, most associated with his promotion of American pop art, particularly the early works of his friend Andy Warhol. Born in Boston on May 20, 1940, his father Samuel Magee Green was Dean of Fine Arts at Wesleyan University and descended from Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His mother was also a university arts lecturer. During his childhood, his parents gave him a love of art and architecture, which led to him enrolling at the", "title": "Samuel Adams Green" }, { "id": "12296847", "text": "but seen in the imagination only, . . . This little book, unlike the fortieth imitation of somebody's book on Picasso and available everywhere, is a discovery, pictures and commentary moving from an area of the mind now understandably suspect. . . .\" Sheri Martinelli Sheri Martinelli, (January 17, 1918 – November 3, 1996) was an American painter, poet, and muse. Martinelli was born Shirley Burns Brennan in Philadelphia in 1918. Of Irish ancestry, she was the eldest of four children and began using the name Sherry by the time she was a teenager. Later told that her first name", "title": "Sheri Martinelli" }, { "id": "727924", "text": "one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk.\" \"When Matisse dies,\" Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, \"Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is\". Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in a Lithuanian Jewish Hassidic family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk (Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. At the time of his birth, Vitebsk's population was about 66,000, with half the population being Jewish. A picturesque city of churches and synagogues, it was called \"Russian Toledo\", after a cosmopolitan city of the former Spanish Empire.", "title": "Marc Chagall" }, { "id": "2797825", "text": "Edie Sedgwick Edith Minturn Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as \"The Girl of the Year\" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the 1960s. She was dubbed an \"It Girl\", while \"Vogue\" magazine also named her a \"Youthquaker\". Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California, the seventh of eight children of Alice Delano de Forest (1908–1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967), a rancher and sculptor. She was named after her father's", "title": "Edie Sedgwick" }, { "id": "6442167", "text": "Leonid Pasternak Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born \"Yitzhok-Leib\", or \"Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak\"; , 3 April 1862 (N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. Pasternak was born in Odessa to an Orthodox Jewish family on 4 April 1862. The family claimed to be distantly descended, in one line, from Isaac Abrabanel, the famous 15th-century Jewish philosopher and treasurer of Portugal, although no independent evidence of this exists. Leonid's father made an income by renting out a guest house. The courtyard of the guest house, with its adjoining coach-house,", "title": "Leonid Pasternak" }, { "id": "1321981", "text": "Hansen, grew up amid New York's Andy Warhol Factory art scene of the 1960s, where she was a Warhol superstar, but moved to California at age 17, where she met Beck's father. Bibbe's maternal grandmother was Jewish, while her father, artist Al Hansen, was of Norwegian descent and was a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement. Beck has said that he was \"raised celebrating Jewish holidays\" and that he considers himself Jewish. Beck began life in a rooming house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child, he lived in a declining neighborhood near Hollywood Boulevard. He later recalled, \"By the", "title": "Beck" }, { "id": "708744", "text": "of the exhibition.<br> Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and", "title": "Henri Matisse" }, { "id": "17213737", "text": "Sophie Matisse Sophie Alexina Victoire Matisse (born February 13, 1965) is an American contemporary artist. Matisse initially gained notoriety for her series of \"Missing Person\" paintings, in which she appropriated and embellished upon, or subtracted from, recognizable works from art history. Media coverage is often quick to note Sophie Matisse's family background, an art pedigree originating with her great-grandfather, the famous 20th century painter Henri Matisse. Britain's \"Sunday Telegraph\" newspaper in 2003 referred to Sophie as \"art royalty,\" a term occasionally paraphrased when discussing Sophie and her artwork. Sophie Matisse was born in Boston on February 13, 1965, and was", "title": "Sophie Matisse" }, { "id": "4615", "text": "is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.\" Warhol socialized at various nightspots in New York City, including Max's Kansas City; and, later in the 1970s, Studio 54. He was generally regarded as quiet, shy, and a meticulous observer. Art critic Robert Hughes called him \"the white mole of Union Square.\" In 1979, along with his longtime friend Stuart Pivar, Warhol founded the New York Academy of Art. Warhol had a re-emergence of critical and financial success in the 1980s, partially due to his affiliation and friendships with a number of prolific younger artists, who", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "1496515", "text": "László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. Moholy-Nagy was born \"László Weisz\" in Bácsborsód, Hungary to a Jewish family. His cousin was the conductor Sir Georg Solti. He attended Gymnasium in the city of Szeged. He changed his German-Jewish surname to the Magyar surname of his mother's Christian lawyer friend Nagy, who supported the family and", "title": "László Moholy-Nagy" }, { "id": "16970293", "text": "April 21 to August 7, 2011. Samuel Adams Green Samuel Adams Green (May 20, 1940 – March 4, 2011) was an American art curator and director, most associated with his promotion of American pop art, particularly the early works of his friend Andy Warhol. Born in Boston on May 20, 1940, his father Samuel Magee Green was Dean of Fine Arts at Wesleyan University and descended from Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His mother was also a university arts lecturer. During his childhood, his parents gave him a love of art and architecture, which", "title": "Samuel Adams Green" }, { "id": "20940582", "text": "endurance was important to Warhol, \"the idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will\". He was successful in this mission by creating a legacy for himself as a pioneer of Pop Art as well as immortalising the subjects of his work. Warhol's most renowned muse was Marilyn Monroe, an enduring sex symbol and Westernised beauty. Monroe began as a model under her real name Norma. After being scouted whilst working at a military factory, her pale features and blonde hair gained wide recognition and she signed a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox. She appeared", "title": "Untitled from Marilyn Monroe" }, { "id": "9020606", "text": "Thomas Ammann Thomas E. Ammann (1950 – 9 June 1993) was a leading Swiss art dealer in Impressionist and twentieth century art, and a collector of post-war and contemporary art. Born 1950 in Ermatingen, Switzerland, as the youngest of four children (Eveline, Doris, Susan), Ammann became an art collector while still a teenager. Aged 18 he went to work at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich. It was during this time of apprenticeship that Ammann first met Andy Warhol who would become a close friend. In 1977 Ammann went into business for himself. His combination of knowledge, eye for quality, charm,", "title": "Thomas Ammann" }, { "id": "18649553", "text": "for the purposes of display and preservation. In 2007, Thurnauer first exhibited her work \"Portraits grandeur nature\", a series of oversized buttons (each 120 cm in diameter) in resin and epoxy paint displaying the names of well-known artists, mostly male, transformed into names evoking the opposite gender. For example, Marcel Duchamp becomes Marcelle Duchamp and Andy Warhol becomes Annie Warhol. An exception is the button reading Louis Bourgeois, a masculinized version of the name of the artist Louise Bourgeois. This work, which questions both the literal and figurative representation of women in art, propelled her to previously unattained notoriety as", "title": "Agnès Thurnauer" }, { "id": "708707", "text": "Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him", "title": "Henri Matisse" }, { "id": "988022", "text": "was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, to a well-to-do family, the son of María del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta. Diego had a twin brother named Carlos, who died two years after they were born. Rivera was said to have Converso ancestry (having ancestors who were forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism). Rivera wrote in 1935: \"My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life.\" Rivera began drawing at the age of three, a year after his twin brother's death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, rather than punishing him, installed chalkboards and canvas on", "title": "Diego Rivera" }, { "id": "530550", "text": "million (€8.9 million). Duchamp works Essays by Duchamp General resources Audio and video Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century,", "title": "Marcel Duchamp" }, { "id": "2983864", "text": "to the Rock Music Business\" was published in 1996. His anthology of poetry \"Bloodstones and Rhythmic Beasts\" was published 2005. Knopfler was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Louisa Mary, a teacher, and a Hungarian Jewish father, Erwin Knopfler, an architect. When Knopfler was two, his family moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where he grew up and later attended Gosforth Grammar School. By the age of 11, Knopfler owned a guitar, a piano and a drum kit, and by the age of 14, he was playing and singing his own compositions in folk clubs. After attending Bristol", "title": "David Knopfler" }, { "id": "20860687", "text": "Staffan Ahrenberg Staffan Ahrenberg (born 27 September 1957 in Stockholm) is the owner and publisher of the French publishing house Cahiers d'art, an art collector, entrepreneur and film producer. Born the second child of businessman and art collector Theodor Ahrenberg (1912–89) and Ulla Ahrenberg (born Frisell), Ahrenberg spent his childhood in Stockholm and Chexbres, Switzerland, where the family relocated in 1962. He was exposed to art from a young age through his father’s extensive collection, assembled between the late 1940s and 1980s and featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Olle Bærtling, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey", "title": "Staffan Ahrenberg" }, { "id": "4597", "text": "were working-class Lemko emigrants from Mikó, Austria-Hungary (now called Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia). Warhol's father emigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Ruthenian Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two older brothers—Pavol (Paul), the oldest, was born before the family emigrated; Ján was born in Pittsburgh. Pavol's son, James Warhola,", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "19630643", "text": "the 1935 farce of the same name on which the 1936 film, \"It's You I Want\" is based. Over 40 years later, he was retired from films and working as an art restorer, living in New York's East Village, when he was cast in Andy Warhol's 1968 film, \"Flesh\". Maurice Braddell Maurice Braddell (23 November 1900 – 28 July 1990) was an English actor, author and art restorer. Maurice Braddell was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, and lived in New York City for much of his life. He was the son of Sir Thomas Braddell and Lady Violet Nassau (Kirby)", "title": "Maurice Braddell" }, { "id": "9910124", "text": "church bought a farm in a rural part of Allegheny County. Since then, suburban growth has spread to meet the graveyard. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took part of the cemetery grounds to expand Connor Road, and the Port Authority of Allegheny County annexed more of its land for a trolley station. The cemetery is best known as the burial site of the American artist Andy Warhol and his parents. Warhol's fans make pilgrimages to this cemetery and leave tokens including cans of soup on his grave stone to honor his life. St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery St. John", "title": "St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery" }, { "id": "1545012", "text": "cultural infrastructure and the artistic heritage have culminated in the nomination of Málaga as a candidate for the 2016 European Capital of Culture. The painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol and the actor Antonio Banderas were born in Málaga. The magnum opus of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, \"Malagueña\", is named after the music of this region of Spain. The most important business sectors in Málaga are tourism, construction and technology services, but other sectors such as transportation and logistics are beginning to expand. The Andalusia Technology Park (PTA), located in Málaga, has enjoyed", "title": "Málaga" }, { "id": "2002434", "text": "Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst (; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 \"Sunday Times\" Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series", "title": "Damien Hirst" }, { "id": "530479", "text": "Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense", "title": "Marcel Duchamp" }, { "id": "7218594", "text": "Charles Camoin Charles Camoin (; 23 September 1879 – 20 May 1965) was a French expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves. Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning \"the wild beasts\") for their wild, expressionist-like use of color. Camoin always remained close to Matisse. He painted a portrait of Matisse, which is in the permanent collection of the", "title": "Charles Camoin" }, { "id": "4659", "text": "bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume \"Beautiful\" into the grave. Warhol was buried next to his mother and father. A memorial service was held in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1, 1987, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Warhol's will dictated that his entire estate—with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members—would go to create a foundation dedicated to the \"advancement of the visual arts\". Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. In 1987, in accordance with Warhol's will,", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "797942", "text": "J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14,", "title": "J. M. W. Turner" }, { "id": "19233477", "text": "Hans Zatzka Hans Zatzka (8 March 1859 – 17 December 1945 (or 1949)) was an Austrian Academic and fantasy painter. He has sometimes been known as P. Ronsard, Pierre de Ronsard, or H. Zabateri, and had signed many of his works as Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, or Bernard Zatzka. The purpose of Zatzka's vast array of pseudonyms was to avoid penalties of breaking contracts which limited the amount of artwork he could sell. This has caused some art databases to conflate Zatzka's work under the pseudonym Joseph Bernard with the French sculptor with the same name. Hans Zatzka was born", "title": "Hans Zatzka" }, { "id": "7490110", "text": "Bruno Bischofberger Bruno Bischofberger (born 1940) is an art dealer and gallerist from Zurich, Switzerland, and a major figure in the international art market for several decades. He is especially known for bringing American pop art to Europe in the 1960s, and American Neo-Expressionism in the 1980s, his long association with Andy Warhol, and for expanding the use of big money in the European contemporary art market. Bruno Bischofberger was born in 1940. The son of a Zurich doctor, he began collecting antiques at an early age. He studied at the University of Zurich, with a doctoral dissertation on Swiss", "title": "Bruno Bischofberger" }, { "id": "4645", "text": "about his interest in thinking about art as business in \"The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again\". Warhol was gay. Interviewed in 1980, he indicated that he was still a virgin. Biographer Bob Colacello, who was present at the interview, felt it was probably true and that what little sex he had was probably \"a mixture of voyeurism and masturbation—to use [Andy's] word \"abstract\"\". Warhol's assertion of virginity would seem to be contradicted by his hospital treatment in 1960 for condylomata, a sexually transmitted disease. It has also been contradicted by his lovers, including Warhol", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "743398", "text": "She was born at Flower Hospital (now the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center), 1249 5th Avenue, Manhattan, on December 2, 1923, to Greek parents, George Kalogeropoulos (c. 1881 – 1972) and Elmina Evangelia \"Litsa\" (née Demes; originally Dimitriadou; c. 1894 – 1982), although she was christened Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos (). Callas's father had shortened the surname Kalogeropoulos first to \"Kalos\" and subsequently to \"Callas\" in order to make it more manageable. George and Litsa were an ill-matched couple from the beginning; he was easy-going and unambitious, with no interest in the arts, while his wife was vivacious", "title": "Maria Callas" }, { "id": "13750810", "text": "Don Rubbo Don Rubbo (December 5, 1926 – January 1979) was a mentor and guide of Peter Max and an affiliate of Andy Warhol in the mid-1960s. His philosophy of \"life is art, art is life\" inspired and influenced many of his students. Admondo Dondes Rubbo was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In February 1945, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the army where he received three medals for his service to his country. After the war, he settled in New York City, and in 1952 he married Maria Fontanes. They had seven children, Edmund, Linda, Donald, Robert,", "title": "Don Rubbo" }, { "id": "14198637", "text": "painting studio, where the younger Picasso did some of his first artwork. Furthermore, from the windows of the new staircases added for the museum, one can see the tower of the church of Santiago, where Picasso was baptized. Museo Picasso Málaga The Museo Picasso Málaga is a museum in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, the city where artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born. It opened in 2003 in the Buenavista Palace, and has 285 works donated by members of Picasso's family. In 2009, the Fundación Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso that owned the collection merged with the Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga that", "title": "Museo Picasso Málaga" }, { "id": "7707011", "text": "weeks. This is the third Bridge on the site, the first being demolished in early 1884, it's replacement, began construction in 1884, and was open to traffic by 1887. Andy Warhol Bridge Andy Warhol Bridge, also known as the Seventh Street Bridge, spans the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the only bridge in the United States named for a visual artist. It was opened at a cost of $1.5 million on June 17, 1926 in a ceremony attended by 2,000. Named for the artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native, it is one of three parallel bridges called", "title": "Andy Warhol Bridge" }, { "id": "4644", "text": "were written with Pat Hackett.) He adopted the young painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the band The Velvet Underground, presenting them to the public as his latest interest, and collaborating with them. One might even say that he produced people (as in the Warholian \"Superstar\" and the Warholian portrait). He endorsed products, appeared in commercials, and made frequent celebrity guest appearances on television shows and in films (he appeared in everything from \"Love Boat\" to \"Saturday Night Live\" and the Richard Pryor movie \"Dynamite Chicken\"). In this respect Warhol was a fan of \"Art Business\" and \"Business Art\"—he, in fact, wrote", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "6967706", "text": "Hendrik Christian Andersen Hendrik Christian Andersen (April 15, 1872 in Bergen – December 19, 1940 in Rome) was a Norwegian-American sculptor, painter and urban planner. Andersen was born in Bergen, Norway, of parents Anders Andersen from Lærdal and Helene Monsine Monsen from Bergen. He emigrated as an infant with his family to Newport, Rhode Island the following year. As a young man in Newport, Andersen began his work as a sculptor and learned to mingle among the city's wealthy elite, including serving as an art instructor for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 1893, Andersen traveled to Europe to study art and", "title": "Hendrik Christian Andersen" }, { "id": "68831", "text": "the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs \"the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension\". Friedrich was born in the town of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea in what was at the time Swedish Pomerania. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. This shift in ideals was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner", "title": "Caspar David Friedrich" }, { "id": "640539", "text": "a boarding house on East 79th Street. He was joined by the rest of the family once Rabbi Weiss found permanent housing. As a child, Ehrich Weiss took several jobs, making his public début as a 9-year-old trapeze artist, calling himself \"Ehrich, the Prince of the Air\". He was also a champion cross country runner in his youth. When Weiss became a professional magician he began calling himself \"Harry Houdini\", after the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, after reading Robert-Houdin's autobiography in 1890. Weiss incorrectly believed that an \"i\" at the end of a name meant \"like\" in French. In", "title": "Harry Houdini" }, { "id": "282271", "text": "Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (; ; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by many the greatest artist of his lifetime, and by some the greatest artist of all time, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the", "title": "Michelangelo" }, { "id": "20083814", "text": "Richard Bernstein (artist) Richard Frederick Bernstein (October 31, 1939 - October 18, 2002) was an American artist associated with Pop art and the circle of Andy Warhol. For nearly 20 years he was the cover artist for \"Interview Magazine\". Bernstein was born on October 31, 1939, in New York City to a family with an older brother, David and younger sister, Ellen. His father, Herbert Bernstein, was a clothing manufacturer and his mother, Florence, was a homemaker. His mother first took him to the Museum of Modern Art children's school, where he saw works by Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and", "title": "Richard Bernstein (artist)" }, { "id": "2902284", "text": "home of Andy Warhol, and later the residence of fellow pop artist Keith Haring. Haring had his first art show while living in Oakland. NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Marino was also born in Oakland, not far from Warhol's home. Dan Marino Field on Frazier Street was named in honor of its native son. Although they were not contemporaries, Warhol and Marino grew up on the same block with their former houses only a few doors apart. West Oakland, the smallest of the four districts, is bordered by Fifth Avenue in the south, DeSoto Street in the east, the", "title": "Oakland (Pittsburgh)" }, { "id": "5676960", "text": "Monet Mazur Monet H. Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American film and television actress. Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator known for creating the \"tongue\" logo for the Rolling Stones, and her mother Valerie Chasin, who was a model. Mazur is the oldest of four siblings, the only daughter, all given first names that are the last names of famous artists (Monet, a brother named for Matisse, and twin brothers named for Cézanne and Miro). Mazur is of Jewish ancestry on her father's side. Mazur's cousin is Epic Mazur of", "title": "Monet Mazur" }, { "id": "2803607", "text": "Warhol superstars Warhol superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by the pop artist Andy Warhol during the 1960s and early 1970s. These personalities appeared in Warhol's artworks and accompanied him in his social life, epitomizing his famous dictum, \"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes\". Warhol would simply film them, and declare them \"superstars\". The first recognised superstar was Baby Jane Holzer, whom Warhol featured in many of his early film experiments. The superstars would help Warhol generate publicity while Warhol offered fame and attention in return. Warhol's philosophies of art and celebrity", "title": "Warhol superstars" }, { "id": "5384144", "text": "is a young heiress studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moves to New York City with her friend, Chuck Wein (Jimmy Fallon). She is introduced to pop art painter and film-maker Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), who is intrigued by the beautiful, clearly troubled socialite. He asks her to perform in one of his underground, experimental films. She agrees and goes on to star in several of Andy's projects, becoming his muse. She and Chuck become part of the tightly-knit, bohemian social scene at Andy's famous art studio, the Silver Factory. Edie's status as a Warhol superstar and rising youthquake fashion", "title": "Factory Girl (film)" }, { "id": "4646", "text": "muse BillyBoy, who has said they had sex to orgasm: \"When he wasn't being Andy Warhol and when you were just alone with him he was an incredibly generous and very kind person. What seduced me was the Andy Warhol who I saw alone. In fact when I was with him in public he kind of got on my nerves...I'd say: 'You're just obnoxious, I can't bear you.\" Billy Name also denied that Warhol was only a voyeur, saying: \"He was the essence of sexuality. It permeated everything. Andy exuded it, along with his great artistic creativity...It brought a joy", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "4393649", "text": "James Warhola James Warhola (born March 16, 1955) is an American artist who has illustrated more than two dozen children's picture books since 1987. A native of Smock, a coal-mining region in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and of Ukrainian or Rusyn origin, he is the son of Paul Warhola, Andy Warhol's oldest brother. Warhola received a BFA degree in design from Carnegie Mellon University in 1977. From 1977 to 1980 he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Jack Faragasso, then privately with Michael Aviano. Warhola briefly worked for Andy Warhol at \"Interview\" magazine but left", "title": "James Warhola" }, { "id": "13470737", "text": "magnificent Provençal embossed polychrome gilded Córdoba leather paneling lining the library and ceremonial reception room, was removed by the buyers. In 1947 it was transformed into a vacation centre for a maritime welfare organization, \"l'Association pour la gestion des institutions sociales maritimes\". After passing through a series of other owners, the vacant property was finally shown on a whim to the Spanish painter, born in Málaga, Pablo Picasso, in September 1958 by the collector and art critic Douglas Cooper. Picasso was returning from a corrida to attend an exhibition of his own works at the Vendôme pavilion in Aix-en-Provence; he", "title": "Château of Vauvenargues" }, { "id": "16077573", "text": "Roger Schlaifer Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is an American graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol. Schlaifer grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland where he attended Montgomery Blair High School, also the alma mater of Nora Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Ben Stein, Carl Bernstein and Connie Chung. Schlaifer is a 1967 graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA in illustration, and a master's degree in advertising. He took a leave", "title": "Roger Schlaifer" }, { "id": "4652", "text": "was not observed taking Communion or going to Confession and sat or knelt in the pews at the back. The priest thought he was afraid of being recognized; Warhol said he was self-conscious about being seen in a Roman Rite church crossing himself \"in the Orthodox way\" (right to left instead of the reverse). His art is noticeably influenced by the Eastern Christian tradition which was so evident in his places of worship. Warhol's brother has described the artist as \"really religious, but he didn't want people to know about that because [it was] private\". Despite the private nature of", "title": "Andy Warhol" }, { "id": "11777978", "text": "from pre-Columbian Peru home of his paternal grandmother. He created a series of bottle shapes incorporating sculptural depictions. In the last year of his life these evolved into a surreal series of screaming agonizing ceramic vessels. In interviews with journalists he clearly stated that his namesake had been a hindrance to his career. Although his work would never become a pillar of modern art like his father's, his oeuvre was totally original and not a pastiche based on a recognizable name. He expressed that bearing the Gauguin name had been a barrier to museums and art critiques accepting his work", "title": "Jean René Gauguin" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "12725632", "text": "belongings being contaminated by mold. Radon is an odorless gas that has been shown to increase risk of lung cancer. Basement suite tenants are more likely to be injured or die due to a fire in the house. Many landlords do not follow fire code regulations, and often such regulations are not enforced by governments. A number of noted artistic achievements have occurred in basement apartments occupied by struggling authors, painters, and musicians. Andy Warhol made one of his earliest films, \"Mrs. Warhol\" (black-and-white, 66 minutes), in the basement apartment of his house, where his mother (Julia Warhola) lived. Ruth", "title": "Basement apartment" }, { "id": "7486473", "text": "A. R. Penck Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, \"Mike Hammer\", \"T. M.\", \"Mickey Spilane\", \"Theodor Marx\", \"\"a. Y.\"\" or just \"\"Y\"\" (5 October 1939 – 2 May 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. Penck was born in Dresden, Germany. In his early teens he took painting and drawing lessons with Jürgen Böttcher, known by the pseudonym Strawalde, and joined with him to form the renegade artists’ group (“Dresden” spelled backward). He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. After failing to gain admission to the fine-arts", "title": "A. R. Penck" }, { "id": "15946718", "text": "Stuart Pivar Stuart Pivar (born 1930) is a chemist, art collector and author from Brooklyn, New York. Pivar earned a B.Sc in chemistry at Hofstra University. An inventor, he made a large fortune in plastics, founding Chem-Tainer industries in 1959. The business specialised in bulk-storage plastic containers. While remaining active in the plastics industry, he became an independently wealthy investor and buyer on the art scene. Pivar soon met Andy Warhol, becoming one of his closest longtime friends. With Warhol he would go on regular shopping trips to buy \"masterpieces\", which could be objects bought anywhere, from a high-end auction", "title": "Stuart Pivar" }, { "id": "15453937", "text": "Rotten Rita in the song \"Halloween Parade\" on the 1989 album \"New York\". Writing about his first year in New York City for the New York Times, in 2000, Reed recalled returning to find his apartment trashed, and the front door, \"which hung off its hinges\", had a poem by Rita carved into it. Rotten Rita Rotten Rita (real name Kenneth Rapp), was an influential denizen of Andy Warhol's The Factory and was sometimes referred to as \"The Mayor\". Although he worked by day in a fabric store, he spent many nights at the Factory bringing his unique influences to", "title": "Rotten Rita" }, { "id": "211386", "text": "and again in 1994 as a solo artist. Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia (née Stanley) (1914–1958) and Alfred Lennon (1912–1976). Alfred was a merchant seaman of Irish descent who was away at the time of his son's birth. His parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John \"Jack\" Lennon, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother; the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944. When", "title": "John Lennon" }, { "id": "18247123", "text": "Terry Hirst Terry Hirst was a cartoonist and one of the leading figures in Africa's post-independence \"golden age\" of art and scholarship from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s which saw a flowering of work in the arts, cinema and the academic world. Terry Hirst was born in 1932 in Brighton in England. In 1965, Hirst moved to Kenya where he was to spend the rest of his life. Terry Hirst grew up in Brighton in southern England. From an early age Hirst knew that he wanted to be an artist. He was always drawing and every morning as he", "title": "Terry Hirst" }, { "id": "708709", "text": "in the medium of cut paper collage. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, in the Nord department in northern France, the oldest son of a prosperous grain merchant. He grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardie, France. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started to paint in 1889, after his mother brought him art supplies", "title": "Henri Matisse" }, { "id": "51795", "text": "publication in the USSR. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his name in 1988. Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003. Pasternak was born in Moscow on 10 February, into a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. His father was the Post-Impressionist painter, Leonid Pasternak, professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. His mother was Rosa Kaufman, a concert pianist and the", "title": "Boris Pasternak" }, { "id": "12186169", "text": "Joan Fontcuberta Joan Fontcuberta (born 24 February 1955) is a conceptual artist whose best-known works, such as \"Fauna\" and \"Sputnik\", examine the truthfulness of photography. In addition, he is a writer, editor, teacher, and curator. Fontcuberta was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He received a degree in communications from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1977. He worked in advertising in his early career, and his family had also worked in advertising. From 1979 to 1986 he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, after which he earned a living through his art.", "title": "Joan Fontcuberta" }, { "id": "1496527", "text": "In the autumn of 2003, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation, Inc. was established as a source of information about Moholy-Nagy's life and works. In 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York exhibited a retrospective of Moholy-Nagy's work that included painting, film, photography, and sculpture. László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. Moholy-Nagy was born \"László Weisz\"", "title": "László Moholy-Nagy" }, { "id": "1354438", "text": "Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. Her father was a", "title": "Barbara Hepworth" }, { "id": "3154971", "text": "Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, with the poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca, and with the painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso. As these people's paternal names are very common, they are often called with their maternal names (Rubalcaba, Lorca, Picasso). It would nonetheless be a mistake to index José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero under Z as \"Zapatero\", or Federico García Lorca under L as \"Lorca\". In an English-speaking environment, Spanish-named people sometimes hyphenate their surnames to avoid Anglophone confusion or to fill in forms with only one space provided for last name, thus: Mr. José Antonio Gómez-Iglesias. A practical option to spare an explanation", "title": "Spanish naming customs" }, { "id": "18261912", "text": "\"I met him\" he said \"He was a real Bohemian: long white hair, cape, iron foot. I fell in love with the whole idea of being a Bohemian, before they said \"beatnik\".\" Thus inspired by Neave, and already much attracted to French art, Dury began to call himself \"Toulouse\" after the disabled painter Toulouse Lautrec. In 1959, Neave was featured in the Roundabout column of \"The Spectator\" explaining his view of why the bohemian had declined in London. He claimed to be aged 77. The same year, he appeared in the BBC's television programme \"Soho Story\", quoting Omar Khayyam. One", "title": "Iron Foot Jack" }, { "id": "17666829", "text": "is currently writing a comprehensive biography of Andy Warhol, which was bought by publisher HarperCollins. In 2014 Gopnik was named a 2015-2016 resident biography fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University of New York and is a recipient of a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library for 2017-2018. Blake Gopnik Blake Gopnik (born 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American art critic who has lived in New York City since 2011. He previously spent a decade as chief art critic of \"The Washington Post\" and before that was an arts editor and critic in", "title": "Blake Gopnik" }, { "id": "4473209", "text": "the paparazzi have accelerated this trend, turning what may have before been isolated coverage into continuing media coverage even after the initial reason for media interest has passed. On their 1987 album Yoyo Bourgeois Tagg have a song called 15 Minutes In The Sun that is a direct reference to the Warhol statement. In the song \"I Can't Read\", released by David Bowie's Tin Machine in their 1989 debut album and re-released by Bowie in 1997 for the soundtrack of the movie \"The Ice Storm\", the phrase is used in direct reference to Andy Warhol: \"Andy, where's my 15 minutes?\"", "title": "15 minutes of fame" }, { "id": "9470244", "text": "the theories of Freudian psychology led to the depiction of the dream and the unconscious in art in work by Salvador Dalí. Kandinsky's introduction of non-representational art preceded the 1950s American Abstract Expressionist school, including Jackson Pollock, who dripped paint onto the canvas, and Mark Rothko, who created large areas of flat colour. Detachment from the world of imagery was reversed in the 1960s by the Pop Art movement, notably Andy Warhol, where brash commercial imagery became a Fine Art staple. Warhol also minimised the role of the artist, often employing assistants to make his work and using mechanical means", "title": "20th-century art" }, { "id": "13649313", "text": "a result of tension between ethnic minority communities and the city's white majority, stoked by the Anti-Nazi League and the National Front. There were 297 arrests; 187 people charged with riot, 45 with violent disorder leading to 200 jail sentences totalling 604 years. \"Only a few particularly notable names are listed here.\" Among Bradford born people who made significant contributions to the arts were David Hockney, painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who was born in the city and educated at Bradford Grammar School. Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was a composer born to a family of German descent in the", "title": "Bradford" }, { "id": "1779501", "text": "on writing, painting, and printmaking careers. William (Holly) Johnson was born on 9 February 1960 in Liverpool to Eric and Pat (née McGlouchlin) Johnson. Johnson was the third of four children and was nicknamed Billy as a child. He started his education in Liverpool at St Mary's Church of England primary school and at age eleven went to the Liverpool Collegiate School in Everton. At fourteen, Johnson took on the name Holly, inspired by actress Holly Woodlawn, a friend of Andy Warhol. During his second year at the Liverpool Collegiate, Johnson and his friend were teased and nicknamed \"Jolly Johnson\"", "title": "Holly Johnson" }, { "id": "530480", "text": "impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art, and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as \"retinal\" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. Marcel Duchamp was born at Blainville-Crevon in Normandy, France, and grew up in a family that enjoyed cultural activities. The art of painter and engraver , his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and", "title": "Marcel Duchamp" } ]

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[ { "id": "323852", "text": "world by the most accurate method of representing it in paint that he could find. To this end, he structurally ordered whatever he perceived into simple forms and colour planes. His statement \"I want to make of impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums\", and his contention that he was recreating Poussin \"after nature\" underscored his desire to unite observation of nature with the permanence of classical composition. Cézanne was interested in the simplification of naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials: he wanted to \"treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone\" (a tree", "title": "Paul Cézanne" }, { "id": "323846", "text": "Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early", "title": "Paul Cézanne" }, { "id": "323878", "text": "for highest price for a painting; surpassed only by Leonardo da Vinci's \"Salvator Mundi\" in November 2017. Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of", "title": "Paul Cézanne" }, { "id": "8593294", "text": "asks the parrot, \"Polly want a cracker?\" The parrot changes his tune, \"Polly want a cracker! Polly want a cracker! Awk!\" Bugs hands him a lit firecracker, which promptly explodes, blasting all of the parrot's feathers off, leaving him dazed and smoldering. His last words before he faints are, \"Me and my big mouth!\" For the next part, Bugs poses as the now-unconscious parrot to lead Sam into a cannon. Bugs lights the fuse, and then, KABOOM! The cannon explodes and Sam falls out of the barrel. In a series of gags that mildly anticipate the \"Road Runner\" series, Bugs", "title": "Buccaneer Bunny" }, { "id": "15736209", "text": "again with his smell, but fails. The dog then goes over to get a bottle of perfume and sprays it over himself and Pepé. Unable to stand the smell of perfume, Pepé runs off outside, jumps into the icy water and returns to thaw himself out in the fireplace, at which point he catches a cold himself. The pair finally agree to live with the colds and each other since neither can get rid of the other, and as they sneeze, they both say \"Gesundheit!\". Odor of the Day Odor of the Day is a 1948 animated short in the", "title": "Odor of the Day" }, { "id": "19502780", "text": "\"I invented 'wet on wet', I trained him, and ... he thinks he can do it better.\" Art historians have pointed out that the \"wet-on-wet\" (or alla prima) technique actually originated in Flanders during the 15th century, and was used by Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Caravaggio, Paul Cezanne, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet, among many others. Ross was well known for the catchphrases he used while painting such as \"happy little trees\". In most episodes of \"The Joy of Painting\", Ross would note that one of his favorite parts of painting was cleaning the brush. Specifically, he was fond", "title": "Bob Ross" }, { "id": "327906", "text": "the 1960s. Occasional examples in English were created in the 19th century. Several in French and Latin date to the [[Middle Ages]]. There are also line-unit palindromes. Palindromes often consist of a sentence or phrase, e.g., \"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm\", \"Was it a car or a cat I saw?\", \"Murder for a jar of red rum\" or \"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog\". Punctuation, capitalization, and spaces are usually ignored. Some, such as \"Rats live on no evil star\", \"Live on time, emit no evil\", and \"Step on no pets\", include the spaces. Semordnilap (palindromes spelled", "title": "Palindrome" }, { "id": "9649061", "text": "allusion croaking \"Nevermore!\" (invoking Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem, \"The Raven\"). The following week a dove is sent forth and subsequently returns with an olive branch, an indication of dry land. Shortly thereafter, God commands Noah to emerge from the ark (\"Come out with your wife and your sons and daughters there / and set the animals free and the birds of the air\"). The work closes with a waltz as God avows never to send another flood, a pledge confirmed by the newly created rainbow (\"This is my promise to you, the rainbow overhead: violet, indigo, blue and green,", "title": "Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo" }, { "id": "10096677", "text": "is led by the paintings. Some of the world's most memorable art works are recreated, following the same techniques that the artists used at the time. The series reveals how Claude Monet, in a race against time to capture the light, took just 40 minutes to paint his seminal work \"Impression, Sunrise\"; why Édouard Manet's depiction of Olympia, in which his model brazenly gazes out of the canvas, so outraged Parisian society; and how Paul Cézanne's 60 paintings of one mountain, Montagne Saint-Victoire, helped to lay the foundations for Cubism and modern art. Julian Glover plays 80-year-old Monet, the \"Father", "title": "The Impressionists (TV series)" }, { "id": "786184", "text": "\"howay\" (\"hurry up!\"; \"come on!\") \"Howay\" is broadly comparable to the invocation \"Come on!\" or the French \"Allez-y!\" (\"Go on!\"). Examples of common use include \"Howay man!\", meaning \"come on\" or \"hurry up\", \"Howay the lads!\" as a term of encouragement for a sports team for example (the players' tunnel at St James' Park has this phrase just above the entrance to the pitch), or \"Ho'way!?\" (with stress on the second syllable) expressing incredulity or disbelief. The literal opposite of this phrase is \"haddaway\" (\"go away\"); although not as common as \"howay\", it is perhaps most commonly used in the", "title": "Geordie" }, { "id": "8923850", "text": "Angélique de Boer. The Talking Parrot was one of the ten original scenes from 1952, designed by Anton Pieck. The tale is about a naughty princess who used to mock people's voices and movements. She was turned into a parrot by an old fairy whom she ridiculed. When the girl regrets her sins, the fairy vetoes the spell and \"they live happily ever after\". The scene is depicted by the parrot, which records sounds for a few seconds at a time and then plays back any sounds captured on the recording. The scene was titled \"The Naughty Princess\" before being", "title": "Fairytale Forest" }, { "id": "18482094", "text": "other birds on the roof of the stable are painted over finished areas, rather than areas \"reserved\" as would be the case if they had been planned from the start. They appear to come from an even later phase of painting, and have been connected with emblems adopted by Cosimo de' Medici's sons Piero (1416–1469) and Giovanni (1421–1463). The former used a falcon holding a ring, with the motto \"SEMPER\" (\"always\" or \"for ever\" in Latin) and the latter a peacock with the motto \"REGARDE-MOI\" (\"Watch me\" in French). Together with the dog on the grass at the bottom of", "title": "Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)" }, { "id": "18202239", "text": "because fowl is pronounced 'vowl'. Dorset is home to some distinctive words and phrases. Some phrases are alternative versions of popular English sayings, such as, \"Don't teach yer grandma to spin\" which means the same as, \"Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs\", and \"Zet the fox to keep the geese\" is similar to the more popular \"Putting the fox in charge of the henhouse\" but others are peculiar to Dorset. All the goo, meaning all the fashion, was how Barnes described the then new fad for mahogany furniture, in his poem 'Woak Was Good Enough Woonce' and \"That'll happen", "title": "Dorset dialect" }, { "id": "5939525", "text": "Rabbit rabbit rabbit \"Rabbit rabbit rabbit\" is a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words \"rabbit\", \"rabbits\" and/or \"white rabbits\" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good luck for the rest of it. The exact origin of the superstition is unknown, though it was recorded in \"Notes and Queries\" as being said by children in 1909: \"My two daughters are in the habit of saying 'Rabbits!' on the first day of each month. The word must be spoken aloud, and be the first word said in", "title": "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" }, { "id": "1423919", "text": "expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary colour. The Post-Impressionists were dissatisfied with what they felt was the triviality of subject matter and the loss of structure in Impressionist paintings, though they did not agree on the way forward. Georges Seurat and his followers concerned themselves with Pointillism, the systematic use of tiny dots of colour. Paul Cézanne set out to restore a sense of order and structure to painting, to \"make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums\". He achieved this by reducing objects to their basic shapes while retaining the saturated colours of", "title": "Post-Impressionism" }, { "id": "10331425", "text": "cryptic messages. The boys aren't the only ones who want to hear the dead man's secret. Others, including an infamous French art thief, Huganay, have also concluded that the messages are the key to locating a particularly valuable hidden item. The coded message is as follows, by parrots, in order: The messages each stand for something. Little Bo Peep's message talks about calling on Sherlock Holmes, and where would you call on him except for Baker Street? So the parrots give an address on Baker Street. Next is Billy, whose stutter actually is the number of the address, to-to-to-be, or", "title": "The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot" }, { "id": "17135481", "text": "Rupert's plate and Hubert is repulsed by the smell of vinegar) and refuse to eat it, despite Bean eating his and pretending to like it. Bean then heads back to the kitchen and takes peanuts from a bird feeder outside and pours them onto a plate. Meanwhile, Rupert and Hubert turn the clock in the living room to just before midnight. When Bean comes back, the clock chimes and Rupert and Hubert say \"Happy New Year!\". Bean is also happy, saying \"Doesn't time fly while you're enjoying yourself?\". They then link hands (almost forgetting Teddy) and sing \"Auld Lang Syne\"", "title": "Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean" }, { "id": "15427881", "text": "use Vilain's words—\"suggestive\" and the imaginative penetration beneath the \"here-and-now\" daring and provocative. Like Laforgue after him, Giraud uses neologisms (\"Bourrèle!\" [\"Executioner!\" or \"Torturer!\"]), unusual word choices (\"patte\" [which usually means \"paw\"] for Pierrot's foot), and ambiguities (\"Arlequin porte un arc-en-ciel\", meaning \"Harlequin bears [or \"carries\" or \"wears\"] a rainbow\") to enrich the fantastic atmosphere of the poems. His syntax is sometimes elliptical or fractured, as in the first line of the cycle: \"Je rêve un théâtre de chambre\" (\"I dream a chamber theater\"), instead of the usual \"Je rêve \"d'un\" théâtre de chambre\". And the imagery, especially in the", "title": "Pierrot lunaire (book)" }, { "id": "13417319", "text": "as a proverbial example of a safeword. There are several theories on the phrase's origin. One theory is that it derives from a phrase uttered by youngsters in the Roman empire who got into trouble, \"patrue mi patruissime\" (“uncle, my best of uncles”). It may also be based on a joke from 19th-century England about a bullied parrot being coaxed to address his owner's uncle. \"Uncle\" may derive from the Irish \"anacol,\" meaning mercy or quarter, but there is no strong evidence to support this conjecture. There is a common analog in the Arabian Peninsula, the expression \"\" (gol aami),", "title": "Say Uncle" }, { "id": "4817388", "text": "is no profit without working can be paraphrased as “Roasted pigeons/larks/sparrows/geese/chickens/birds don’t fly into one’s mouth”, e.g. Cz. \"Pečeni ptáci nelítají do huby (birds!)\" = Dan. \"Stegte duer flyve ingen i munden (pigeon!)\" = ndl. \"De gebraden duiven vliegen je niet in de mond (pigeons!)\" = E. \"He thinks that larks will fall into his mouth roasted\" = Finn. \"Ei paistetut varpuset suuhun lennä (sparrows!)\" = Fr. \"Les alouettes ne vous tombent pas toutes rôties dans le bec (larks!)\" = G. \"Gebratene Tauben fliegen einem nicht ins Maul (pigeon!)\" = Hungar. \"Senkinek nem repül a szájába a sült galamb (pigeon!)\"", "title": "Eurolinguistics" }, { "id": "17491629", "text": "Mais où est donc Ornicar ? Mais où est donc Ornicar ?, or Mais où est donc Carnior ? and also Ormais, où est donc Nicar ? is a French-language mnemonic that aids in remembering the language's coordinating conjunctions. The sentence translates as \"Where, therefore, is Ornicar?\", or \"Where is Ornicar, then?\", and is a phonetic juxtaposition of the words \"mais\" (but), \"ou\" (or), \"et\" (and), \"donc\" (therefore), \"or\" (however), \"ni\" (nor), and \"car\" (for). The phrase is often learned by French school children, and has influenced French culture, including having an asteroid named after it and inspiring the titles", "title": "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" }, { "id": "12967365", "text": "Flying pigs!\" An identical phrase, used to express impossibilities, exists in Romanian, \"Când o zbura porcul\", literally meaning \"When the pig shall fly\"; an equivalent also implying an animal is \"La Paștele cailor\", literally: \"on horses' Easter\". Similar phrases in English include \"\", the Latin expression \"to the Greek calends\", and \"and monkeys might fly out of my butt\", popularized in Wayne's World skits and movies. They are examples of adynata. In Finnish, the expression \"\"kun lehmät lentävät\"\" (when cows fly) is used because of its alliteration. In French, the most common expression is \"\"quand les poules auront des dents\"\"", "title": "When pigs fly" }, { "id": "17621823", "text": "up in Los Angeles. The title \"Better Out Than In\" is a reference to a quote by impressionist Paul Cézanne, \"All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside.\" In an interview with \"The Village Voice\", Banksy said \"New York calls to graffiti writers like a dirty old lighthouse. We all want to prove ourselves here,\" and that he chose it for the high foot traffic and hiding places. The works Banksy has included in \"Better Out Than In\" primarily consist of stencil graffiti, much of which are political in nature. His first", "title": "Better Out Than In" }, { "id": "17491634", "text": "?\". The mnemonic became the subject of a satirical \"Chuck Norris fact\" in France: \"Chuck Norris knows where Ornicar is\". Mais où est donc Ornicar ? Mais où est donc Ornicar ?, or Mais où est donc Carnior ? and also Ormais, où est donc Nicar ? is a French-language mnemonic that aids in remembering the language's coordinating conjunctions. The sentence translates as \"Where, therefore, is Ornicar?\", or \"Where is Ornicar, then?\", and is a phonetic juxtaposition of the words \"mais\" (but), \"ou\" (or), \"et\" (and), \"donc\" (therefore), \"or\" (however), \"ni\" (nor), and \"car\" (for). The phrase is often learned", "title": "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" }, { "id": "3389998", "text": "data could be interpreted as his being able to estimate quickly and accurately the number of something, better than humans can. When he was tired of being tested, he would say \"Wanna go back\", meaning he wanted to go back to his cage, and in general, he would request where he wanted to be taken by saying \"Wanna go...\", protest if he was taken to a different place, and sit quietly when taken to his preferred spot. He was not trained to say where he wanted to go, but picked it up from being asked where he would like to", "title": "Alex (parrot)" }, { "id": "11778565", "text": "the revival of \"Pretty Polly\", and both Richard D'Oyly Carte and Queen Victoria died during the revival. As a mark of respect, the Savoy Theatre was kept dark for a period of time after each of these sad events. A good-hearted young man, Charlie Brown, has been abroad for some time. He wants to propose to pretty Polly Grey, but he is shy. He brings a talking parrot to her apartment to say the words \"Pretty Polly! I wonder if she ever thinks of me!\", which he hopes will \"break the ice\" for him, but he hides the parrot until", "title": "Pretty Polly (play)" }, { "id": "1423917", "text": "Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne (known as father of Post-impressionism), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. The term \"Post-Impressionism\" was first used by art critic Roger", "title": "Post-Impressionism" }, { "id": "8834058", "text": "all be human,<br> This world would be in rhyme;<br> So be human all the time! Share a tasty carrot with your parrot,<br> Serve your chimpanzee a piece of cheese;<br> Sip a sarsaparilla with your camel or gorilla,<br> With kind regards to all of them from me. Be human, animals can cry;<br> Be human, won't you even try?<br> Don't think you're wonderful just because<br> You weren't born with a tail and claws. Be human, have a tender word,<br> For every animal and bird! It's futile to be brutal,<br> That won't get you a dime;<br> So be human all the time! A", "title": "Be Human (film)" }, { "id": "20156073", "text": "he was sent there with a Loire boatman and en route naturally acquires some of the sea-faring vocabulary. On arrival in Nantes the bird swears like a sailor and the nuns, horrified, send the parrot back to Nevers where it is almost impossible to make it relearn Latin. Nonetheless, the bird ends his days embraced in solicitude to the extent of expiring of indigestion. The librettists cite one passage in its entirety in the first scene: The subject was also used in 1851 for a ballet-pantomime in three acts with music by Édouard Deldevez and Jean-Baptiste Tolbecque and choreography by", "title": "Vert-Vert" }, { "id": "1365108", "text": "day in the studio, McCartney \"gave us a full concert rendition of 'Hey Jude'\". When introducing the composition to Lennon, McCartney assured him that he would \"fix\" the line \"the movement you need is on your shoulder\", reasoning that \"it's a stupid expression; it sounds like a parrot.\" Lennon replied: \"You won't, you know. That's the best line in the song.\" McCartney retained the phrase; he later said of his subsequent live performances of the song: \"that's the line when I think of John, and sometimes I get a little emotional during that moment.\" Although McCartney originally wrote \"Hey Jude\"", "title": "Hey Jude" }, { "id": "10297073", "text": "the song, in addition to the Animaniacs example mentioned above, include \"The Muppet Show\" (season 3, episode 61), which staged a scene in which comedian Gilda Radner and a talking carrot each assayed the Major-General's song and also sampled \"A Policeman's Lot\" and \"Poor Wand'ring One\". Radner told Kermit that she had written to request a 7-foot-tall talking \"parrot\", but he misread her handwriting: she wanted to present \"The Parrots of Penzance\". In an episode of \"Home Improvement\", Al Borland, thinking he was in a sound-proof booth, belts out the first stanza but is heard by everyone. Others include the", "title": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan" }, { "id": "323847", "text": "20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne \"is the father of us all.\" The Cézannes came from the commune of Saint-Sauveur (Hautes-Alpes, Occitania). Paul Cézanne was born on 19 January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence. On 22 February, he was baptized in the Église de la Madeleine, with his grandmother and uncle Louis as godparents, and became a devout Catholic later in life. His father, Louis Auguste Cézanne (1798–1886), a native of Saint-Zacharie (Var), was the co-founder of a banking firm (Banque Cézanne et Cabassol) that prospered throughout the artist's", "title": "Paul Cézanne" }, { "id": "14500629", "text": "was \"Cuatro Mexicanos\"/\"Vivo en la mina\" (I live in the mine), followed by \"Tu serás mi beibi\" (You'll be my baby)/\"Te Quiero Loro\" (Love you parrot) and \"Es por la mañana, el niño sale de la cabaña con su caña para ir a pescar\" (Early morning the kid leaves his cabin just to go fishing)/\"San Serenín\". In 1988, they released their second and last album \"Cómo me pone tu celulitis\" (How I love your cellulite). It was a work in the same genre as the previous, but it was totally ignored. Cuentos Chinos Cuentos Chinos is a Spanish rock music", "title": "Cuentos Chinos" }, { "id": "8483877", "text": "he prudently tells them that he has not, because \"the unicorn is a mythical beast.\" Thus they take the wife away instead, and \"the husband lived happily ever after\". The story ends with, \"Moral: Don't count your boobies before they're hatched\", a play on the popular adage, \"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched\". Thus, the moral advises not to expect one's hopes to be a certainty. An animated version of the story was released by United Productions of America in 1953. The cartoon was directed by William Hurtz, and was originally intended to be part of a feature based", "title": "The Unicorn in the Garden" }, { "id": "482186", "text": "to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?\", signifying that death was a cure for the illness of life. The Greeks believed that even lions were afraid of roosters. Several of Aesop's Fables reference this belief. In the New Testament, Jesus prophesied the betrayal by Peter: \"Jesus answered, 'I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.'\" It happened, and Peter cried bitterly. This made the rooster a symbol for both vigilance and betrayal. Earlier, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen when talking about Jerusalem: \"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you", "title": "Chicken" }, { "id": "2352194", "text": "register) – a tactic that effectively contributes to creating a sonic impression of tenderness and charm\". A recitative for alto is a prayer for future protection, \"\" (Do not forget later, with Your hand)‘’, concluded by a choral \"Amen\" in unison. The surprise is an interpretation of a line quoted from , \"und alles Volk soll sagen: Amen!\" (And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.). The alto performs the last aria, \"\" (Hallelujah, power and might)‘’, repeating and reinforcing the thoughts of the first. The music repeats the main section of the tenor aria, now accompanied by the", "title": "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29" }, { "id": "7794276", "text": "of interesting terms of endearment, including a rather odd assortment of barnyard animals...[like] mon canard (my duck)' – something which may be compared to the British 'baby talk...duckie'. When proper names escape one, terms of endearment can always substitute, producing (as Lacan put it) the 'opacity of the ejaculations of love, when, lacking a signifier to name the object of its epithalamium, it employs the crudest trickery of the imaginary. \"I'll eat you up...Sweetie!\" \"You'll love it...Rat!\"'. Eric Berne identified the marital game of \"Sweetheart\", where 'White makes a subtly derogatory remark about Mrs White, disguised as anecdote, and ends:", "title": "Term of endearment" }, { "id": "9537036", "text": "he they are honoring, he who they have proclaimed King! ... The adulterer has defiled my royal residence: and he, to make his treason more complete, spying upon my sleep and taking advantage of the hour, poured poison on my sleeping lips. ... Avenge me, my son! Avenge your father! ... From your mother, though, turn your anger away, we must leave punishment in the care of heaven.\" The ghost withdraws, his parting words: \"Souviens-toi!\" – \"Remember me!\" Hamlet draws his sword and proclaims his intention to obey the ghost's command (Hamlet: \"Ombre chére, ombre vengeresse, j'exaucerai ton vœu! ...", "title": "Hamlet (Thomas)" }, { "id": "14482208", "text": "or eagle, the Florida Scrub-Jay warns other jays to seek cover by using a thin, shrill-like call. In contrast, an approaching predatory feline provokes a low-pitched \"scolding\" sound, and calls on fellow jays for help in scaring the intruder away. Parrots kept as pets demonstrate contact calls with their human owners. Parrots make their call to establish that the human is within earshot, and continue to make the call (sometimes growing louder into a scream) until acknowledged. The screaming develops in pet parrots, as well as wild flock, when the animal feels like its needs are not being met because", "title": "Contact call" }, { "id": "5059144", "text": "village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice. His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, leading to his sister leaving in disgust with the intention of getting married, but his fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world. He is conscripted into voyaging to Africa to cure a monkey epidemic just as he faces bankruptcy. He has", "title": "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" }, { "id": "6222716", "text": "the setting of the plot; for instance: Seagoon had several catch-phrases, seemingly random gibberish that became his trademarks, such as \"Ying tong yiddle I po!” (followed by a shout of \"“GOOD!”\" by someone else) and \"Needle-nardle-noo\". He would also express intense surprise by repeating the word \"What?!\" rapidly and in rising pitch, as \"Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?\" (in \"The Moon Show\", Grytpype replies to this by saying, \"Only ten whats [watts as in the unit of power used to rate electric lamps]; you're not very bright, are you?\"), and would do likewise with the word \"Yes?\" as \"Yesyesyesyesyesyes?\", generally motivating Grytpype-Thynne to request", "title": "Neddie Seagoon" }, { "id": "8264869", "text": "Mr. Mistoffelees is black and small and can perform many feats of magic that no other cat can do (including producing \"Seven Kittens, right out of a hat\" ), and succeeds in bringing back Old Deuteronomy, and also turning the junkyard's lights on. He is praised by all the cats. The Jellicle choice can now be made. Old Deuteronomy sits down and Grizabella appears for the final time. Old Deuteronomy allows her to have a chance to address the cats. Her faded appearance and lonely disposition have little effect on her song (\"\"Memory\"\"). The appeal succeeds and she is chosen", "title": "Cats (1998 film)" }, { "id": "9477193", "text": "it clear that its inspiration was Edmond Rostand's drama \"Chantecler\" about a cock that believed the sun would not rise unless it crowed first. Several other works claim to be inspired by Chaucer's tale but, like Rostand's play and the 1990 cartoon feature film Rock-a-Doodle based on it, have little connection with the original Renart Cycle version beyond using the name Chanticleer, or variants of it. Chanticleer and the Fox Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of", "title": "Chanticleer and the Fox" }, { "id": "9480572", "text": "in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel \"Treasure Island\" (1883). Her habitual refrain: \"Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!\" In the narrative poem \"The Raven\" by Edgar Allan Poe the titular bird famously recites the word \"Nevermore\" throughout. Talking ravens are a notable element in the series \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" by author George R. R. Martin. One in particular has the ability to say \"Corn!\" when hungry, but many say \"Snow!\" as well. The 2017 \"Doctor Who\" episode \"The Eaters of Light\" depicts talking crows in Scotland at the time of the Picts' wars against the Romans. It further", "title": "Talking bird" }, { "id": "18980938", "text": "feelings of guilt (and confusion) Presley repents, committing to make more traditional choices in his life moving forward (Old Fashioned Guy [Reprise]). Dressed as a male mobster (parrot), Vera performs, (The Sharpest Smile) a cautionary tale about a doomed romance between a parrot and a crocodile named “Pearl” (who is played by Armitage). As the song progresses, “Pearl” chases the “mobster” up and down the stage in a loving attempt to eat the mobster alive. In a private moment, Baalthazar discloses (only to the audience) his obsession with “Crunchy Crackers”. He explains that mankind has systematically used “the devil biscuit”", "title": "Love Birds (musical)" }, { "id": "211507", "text": "the man with a dead Norwegian Blue parrot and a menagerie of other animals all named \"Eric\". He was also known for his working class \"Sergeant Major\" character, who worked as a Police Sergeant, Roman Centurion, etc. He is also seen as the opening announcer with the now famous line \"And now for something completely different\", although in its premiere in the sketch \"Man with Three Buttocks\", the phrase was spoken by Eric Idle. Along with Gilliam's animations, Cleese's work with Graham Chapman provided Python with its darkest and angriest moments, and many of his characters display the seething suppressed", "title": "John Cleese" }, { "id": "12346575", "text": "Psittacism Psittacism is speech or writing that appears mechanical or repetitive in the manner of a parrot. More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning. The word is derived from the Latin term for parrots \"psittaci\" – which in turn derives from the Greek ψιττακός – in an analogy with the ability of some parrots to speak human words but without any knowledge of their meaning. Parrots, in turn, may be used as symbols of psittacism. In Flaubert's story \"Un cœur simple\" the parrot may", "title": "Psittacism" }, { "id": "4426221", "text": "case of Whizzo's Chocolates (hence his name, praline being a kind of hazelnut candy), which produced such gems as Cockroach Cluster, Anthrax Ripple, and the titular Crunchy Frog. Praline's defining moment came in two episodes later, when he attempted to return his recently purchased dead parrot to the pet shop from which he had bought it, not half an hour ago at that very boutique. This segment has been called the comedy team's single best-known sketch, and it led to Praline's appearance in the team's first theatrical release, \"And Now for Something Completely Different\" (1971) which included a remake of", "title": "Mr Praline" }, { "id": "7423198", "text": "bagage, bitte, cingler, équiper (to equip), flotte, fringale, girouette, guichet, hauban, houle, hune, mare, marsouin, mouette, quille, raz, siller, touer, traquer, turbot, vague, varangue, varech\". Others pertain to farming and daily life: \"accroupir, amadouer, bidon, bigot, brayer, brette, cottage, coterie, crochet, duvet, embraser, fi, flâner, guichet, haras, harfang, harnais, houspiller, marmonner, mièvre, nabot, nique, quenotte, raccrocher, ricaner, rincer, rogue\". Likewise, words borrowed from Dutch deal mainly with trade, or are nautical in nature, but not always so: \"affaler, amarrer, anspect, bar (sea-bass), bastringuer, bière (beer), blouse (bump), botte, bouée, bouffer, boulevard, bouquin, cague, cahute, caqueter, choquer, diguer, drôle, dune, équiper", "title": "History of French" }, { "id": "19533124", "text": "(\"vil bétail\" / \"vile cattle\"), while the swan is humanized (\"avec ses gestes fous\" / \"with its mad gestures\"). The memory of the poet is fertilized by the Paris of the Grand Boulevards. The memory which \"sonne à plein souffle du cor\" (\"sounds with the hunting horns\") recalls the death of Roland in La Chanson de Roland, but is also expressed in the line \"mes chers souvenirs sont plus lourds que des rocs\" (\"my dear memories are heavier than rocks\"): the alliterations in [s] (expressive of breath) and in [r] (expressing heaviness) oppose one another, while \"cor\" and \"roc\" are", "title": "The Swan (Baudelaire)" }, { "id": "18404292", "text": "good-bye-ee! Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee. Tho' it's hard to part I know, I'll be tickled to death to go. Don't cry-ee! don't sigh-ee! There's a silver lining in the sky-ee. Bonsoir old thing, cheerio! chin chin! Nah-poo! Toodle-oo! Good-bye-ee! </poem> The salutations at the end of the chorus are from various languages. \"Bonsoir\" is French for goodnight. \"Chin chin\" is a Chinese toast. \"Nahpoo\" and \"toodle-oo\" are corruptions of the French \"il n'y en a plus\" (there is no more) and \"à tout à l'heure\" (see you later). Good-bye-ee! \"Good-bye-ee!\" is a popular song which was", "title": "Good-bye-ee!" }, { "id": "1951118", "text": "Orchard Halliwell was a notable collector of English nursery rhymes. Some of the best known nursery rhymes from Britain are \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\", \"Roses Are Red\", \"Jack and Jill\", \"Cock a doodle doo\", \"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep\", \"The Grand Old Duke of York\", \"London Bridge Is Falling Down\", \"Hey Diddle Diddle\", \"Three Blind Mice\", \"Little Miss Muffet\", \"Pat-a-cake\", \"Pop Goes the Weasel\", \"The Queen of Hearts\", \"Polly Put the Kettle On\", \"Peter Piper\", \"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe\", \"Hickory Dickory Dock\", \"One for Sorrow\", \"This Old Man\", \"Simple Simon\", \"Old Mother Hubbard\", \"Little Bo Peep\", \"Sing a Song of", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "5665339", "text": "alone: « Qui vivra, verra » (\"Whoever lives, will see\" \"He who lives, will see\"). When a relative clause is to serve as an adverb, it takes the same form as when it is to serve as an inanimate noun, except that \"ce\" is omitted before a preposition: « Ils sont allés dîner, après quoi ils sont rentrés » (\"They went out to eat, after which they went home\"); « Ils ne se sont pas du tout parlé, ce qui me semblait étrange » (\"They did not talk to each other at all, which seemed strange to me\"). French has", "title": "French pronouns" }, { "id": "5535944", "text": "raw=\"1\" lang=\"lilypond\"> \\header { \\score { </score> Lyrics in parentheses are sung by the chorus. <poem lang=\"fr\" style=\"float:left;\">[spoken intro] Quand je vous aimerai ? Ma foi, je ne sais pas, Peut-être jamais, peut-être demain. Mais pas aujourd'hui, c'est certain ! [sung] L'amour est un oiseau rebelle Que nul ne peut apprivoiser, Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle, S'il lui convient de refuser. Rien n'y fait, menace ou prière ; L'un parle bien, l'autre se tait, Et c'est l'autre que je préfère ; Il n'a rien dit, mais il me plaît. (L'amour est un oiseau rebelle) L'amour... (Que nul ne", "title": "Habanera (aria)" }, { "id": "2315319", "text": "the king as wanting to impress everyone with his breadth of great knowledge and the importance of one with no need to expound. This reflected the usage in the novel, \"Anna and the King of Siam\", which expressed that king's playful understanding of innumerable things with the phrase, \"&c., &c.\" \"Et cetera\" and derivatives, such as \"etceteras\", have long been, and still are, used airily, humorously or dismissively, often as a cadigan, for example: Et cetera Et cetera (in English; ; ), abbreviated to etc., etc, &c., or &c, is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean", "title": "Et cetera" }, { "id": "8289052", "text": "Peter would deny him three times before the rooster crowed on the following morning. At the rooster's crowing, Peter remembered Jesus's words. Its crowing at the dawning of each new morning made it a symbol of the daily victory of light over darkness and the triumph of good over evil. It is also an emblem of the Christian's attitude of watchfulness and readiness for the sudden return of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment of humankind. That is why, during the Renaissance, the rooster became a symbol of France as a Catholic state and became a", "title": "Gallic rooster" }, { "id": "1469438", "text": "hypocoristics for names, whereby \"Louise\" becomes \"Loulou\", and Zinedine Zidane becomes \"Zizou\"; and in many nursery words, like \"dada\" 'horsie' (vs. \"cheval\" 'horse'), \"tati\" 'auntie' (vs. \"tante\" 'aunt'), or \"tonton\" 'unkie' (vs. \"oncle\" 'uncle'). In Romanian and Catalan, reduplication is not uncommon and it has been used for both the creation of new words (including many from onomatopoeia) and expressions, for example, In colloquial Mexican Spanish it is common to use reduplicated adverbs such as \"luego luego\" (after after) meaning \"immediately\", or \"casi casi\" (almost almost) which intensifies the meaning of 'almost'. The reduplication in the Russian language serves for", "title": "Reduplication" }, { "id": "116038", "text": "its prey. An alternative explanation is that the term entered France via Spain, the , \"maqabir\" (cemetery) being the root of the word. Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people (who were the overwhelming majority) could understand. Frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e.g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers (sometimes described as their ancestors) who warn them, \"Quod fuimus, estis; quod sumus, vos eritis\" (What we were, you are;", "title": "Danse Macabre" }, { "id": "788021", "text": "Tay Ferry, also alluding to the local lighthouse. In literature, a motto is a sentence, phrase, poem, or word prefixed to an essay, chapter, novel, or the like suggestive of its subject matter. It is a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle for the written material that follows. For example, Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes\" uses mottos at the start of each section. Motto A motto (derived from the Latin \"muttum\", 'mutter', by way of Italian \"motto\", 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim; a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of", "title": "Motto" }, { "id": "94932", "text": "under the term \"scat\" (from \"scatology\"). \"The 120 Days of Sodom\", a novel by the Marquis de Sade written in 1785, is full of detailed descriptions of erotic sadomasochistic coprophagia. Thomas Pynchon's award-winning 1973 novel \"Gravity's Rainbow\" contains a detailed scene of coprophagia. François Rabelais, in his classic \"Gargantua and Pantagruel\", often employs the expression \"mâche-merde\" or \"mâchemerde\", meaning \"shit-chewer\". This in turn comes from the Greek comedians Aristophanes and particularly Menander, who often use the term skatophagos (\"σκατοϕφάγος\"). The Austrian actor and pornographic director created the series \"Avantgarde Extreme\" and \"Portrait Extrem\", which explores coprophagy, coprophilia and urolagnia. Modern", "title": "Coprophagia" }, { "id": "10836858", "text": "illuminated by a bare light bulb of toy plastic dinosaurs and other animals in a cardboard box. These shots are intercut with the montage sequence described below. At 00:48:18, we see a plastic red dinosaur and some other animals. Will Jr. asks, \"What's it all for, Professor? Please?\" And Pluggy replies, \"The Last Judgement.\" Pluggy seems to be referring to the biblical passage in the Book of Revelation which describes the war in heaven. Lest we mistake the toy dinosaurs in the box, a few moments later (00:48:34) Virginia (off-screen) cries \"Snakes!\" The French word for 'snake' is 'serpent', the", "title": "King Lear (1987 film)" }, { "id": "3457112", "text": "of some tracks recorded at Random Falls, a recording studio in New York. The album's title is an homage to former drummer Gary Young, who would frequently yell \"Wowee zowee!\" when excited. The phrase also notably dates to Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's 1966 album \"Freak Out!\", which also displayed the album title in a cartoon speech balloon and featured a track titled \"Wowie Zowie\". \"Dick-Sucking Fool at Pussy-Licking School\" (conceived by Bob Nastanovich) was briefly considered as a potential album title, but discarded after being considered too risque by the rest of the band. Nevertheless, the phrase", "title": "Wowee Zowee" }, { "id": "2574429", "text": "the title of the first track, \"Trompe le Monde\", a French phrase meaning \"Fool the World\". Unlike previous albums, the title of the album comes from the name of a song (rather than a song lyric), and is a play on the French phrase \"Trompe-l'œil\"—a painting technique in which the painter fools the viewer into thinking objects presented are real. \"Head On\" is a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain track that was released as a single reaching number 6 in the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart. \"U-Mass\" is a song about the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Black", "title": "Trompe le Monde" }, { "id": "1829686", "text": "(better known in the English-speaking world as \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\"), the French nursery rhymes \"Au clair de la lune\", and \"J'ai du bon tabac\" (the piano plays the same melody upside down), the popular anthem \"Partant pour la Syrie\", as well as the aria \"Una voce poco fa\" from Rossini's \"The Barber of Seville\" can also be heard. The musical joke in this movement, according to Leonard Bernstein's narration on his recording of the work with the New York Philharmonic, is that the musical pieces quoted are the fossils of Saint-Saëns's time. Two pianos and cello: the lushly romantic", "title": "The Carnival of the Animals" }, { "id": "5180432", "text": "of a fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence is contained in the lines uttered by the fox to the little prince: \"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.\" (\"One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.\") Other key thematic messages are articulated by The Fox, such as: \"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed\" and \"It is the time you have devoted to your rose that makes your rose so important.\" The Fox's messages are arguably the most", "title": "The Little Prince (1974 film)" }, { "id": "96417", "text": "in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the \"dean of the Impressionist painters\", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also \"by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality\". Paul Cézanne said \"he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord,\" and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as \"revolutionary\", through his artistic portrayals of the \"common man\", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings", "title": "Camille Pissarro" }, { "id": "3198162", "text": "interrogative, but when it is, in very informal use, it is shortened: \"Qu'est-ce que tu veux ?\" becomes... \"Qu'est-c'tu veux ?\" \"Qu'est-ce que tu as dit?\" becomes... \"Qu'est-c't'as dit?\" A more complex sentence, such as \"il ne savait peut-être plus ce qu'il faisait\" (\"Perhaps he knew no more what he was doing\"), can become \"i n'savait p'têt plus c'qui v'zait\" [in savεp tεt plys kiv zε], or even further relaxed, \"i sa'ait têt' pu c'qui v'zait\" [i saεp tεt pys kiv zε]. Forms of the verb \"estar\" (\"to be\") are often shortened by dropping the first syllable (as if the", "title": "Relaxed pronunciation" }, { "id": "4660532", "text": "continued working furiously to apply the finishing touches came to be referred to as working \"en charrette\", \"in the cart.\" Émile Zola depicted such a scene of feverish activity, a \"nuit de charrette\" or \"charrette night,\" in \"L'Œuvre\" (serialized 1885, published 1886), his fictionalized account of his friendship with Paul Cézanne. The term evolved into the current design-related usage in conjunction with working right up until a deadline. The word \"charrette\" may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the", "title": "Charrette" }, { "id": "14269878", "text": "the god of love on gaining his lady's favor, her love being symbolized by a rose. \" absent, communably, forwelk, fresh, fur, galantine, guerdon, habit, householding, jacounce, jagounce, jargon, jocund, lambskin, lightsome, lozenge, mansuete, masonry, mavis, medlar, mendicity, mendience, miscoveting, misway, mourning black, muid, nock, non-certain, obscure, overgilt, outwine, outstretch, outsling, palasin, papelardy, par coeur, parochial, patter, praise, prill, prime temps, Proteus, quail-pipe, racine, ravisable, recreandise, refraining, reft, resemblable, return, reverie, ribanding, rideled, riverside, roin, roinous, rose-leaf, sailour, Sarsenish, satin, savorous, scutcheon, seemlihead, shutting, slitter, smallish, snort, squirrel, suckeny, tassel, terin, thick-set, thread, timbester, tissue, tress, tretis, villainsly, volage, waterside,", "title": "English words first attested in Chaucer" }, { "id": "257947", "text": "very funny there, if we could find the right context for it\". In early drafts of what would become the Dead Parrot Sketch, the frustrated customer was trying to return a faulty toaster to a shop. Chapman realised that it needed to be \"madder\", and came up with the parrot idea. Over the years, Cleese and Palin have done many versions of the \"Dead Parrot\" sketch for various television shows, record albums, and live performances. \"Dead Parrot\" was voted the top alternative comedy sketch in a Radio Times poll. Mr. Praline (Cleese) enters the pet shop to register a complaint", "title": "Dead Parrot sketch" }, { "id": "7827454", "text": "she refuses: 'Lie there, lie there, you false-hearted man, Lie there instead of me, For if six pretty maidens thou hast drowned here, The seventh has drowned thee.' She rides home, leading the spare horse. Sometimes the story ends here, but often when she arrives home a parrot comments on how late she has returned, saying he is afraid \"Some ruffian hath led you astray\". She promises him a luxurious cage if he keeps her secret, and when her father asks the parrot what makes him \"speak before it is day\" he replies that a cat was going to eat", "title": "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" }, { "id": "3389996", "text": "he said. For example, when Alex was shown an object and was asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly. He could describe a key as a key no matter what its size or color, and could determine how the key was different from others. Looking at a mirror, he said \"what color\", and learned \"grey\" after being told \"grey\" six times. This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked a question (apes who have been trained to use sign-language have so far failed to ever ask a single question). Alex's", "title": "Alex (parrot)" }, { "id": "9537040", "text": "j'avais foi! Je vous aimais, aimez moi!\"\" – \"'In you, O cruel one, I believed. I loved you! Love me too!'\"), then looks at Hamlet. However, he remains silent, then rushes away. Ophélie says ruefully: \"Ah! ce livre a dit vrai!\" – \"Ah! This book spoke the truth!\" and continues her aria (Ophélie: \"Les serments on des ailes!\" – \"Promises have wings!\"). 7. Recitative and arioso. The Queen comes into the garden hoping to find Hamlet. She sees Ophélie's distress and presses her for information as to its cause (The Queen: \"Je croyais près de vous trouver mon fils\" –", "title": "Hamlet (Thomas)" }, { "id": "8449229", "text": "in different states. To be shown in New York, one of the biggest markets, they had to completely re-shoot the final scene. Mae West's character and the Tiger Kid were originally to complete their nuptials without a marriage ceremony; the ceremony had to be included. A publicity stunt went awry when 50 parrots were trained to shout the original title of \"it ain't no sin\". The parrots were subsequently released in the jungles of South America still repeating \"it ain't no sin\" over and over again. Sheet music of the song \"My American Beauty\" was also printed with the film's", "title": "Belle of the Nineties" }, { "id": "1702511", "text": "\"a lot of food\", similar to English constructs such as \"fuck-ton\" or \"shitload\". \"Sacres\" are often used as verbs, too. For example, \"câlisser une volée\" means \"to beat the fuck out of\" or, more literally, \"to give a beating\" where \"câlisser\" is used as a stronger form of \"to give\" (\"donner\" in French). There are constructions like \"détabarnaker\" or \"décrisser\" which means to leave or to destroy, using the \"dé\" prefix, which is about separation. Others include, \"s'en câlicer\" or \"s'en crisser\" (\"not give a damn\"), \"sacrer son camp\" (\"run away\", literally \"consecrate the camp while leaving it\"), and \"décâlisser\".", "title": "Quebec French profanity" }, { "id": "14138557", "text": "Aznavour's song \"Les Deux Pigeons\", which was featured in a segment of the film \"3 Fables of Love\" (1962). The song is a sad one, since in this case the pigeon has not returned home. In common with the fable of La Fontaine, a parallel is drawn between the parting of male friends (\"Un pigeon regrettait son frère\") and a broken heterosexual relationship. A later song by Gérard Manset really only features the fable's opening line, \"Deux pigeons s'aimaient d'amour tendre\", and was issued on his album \"La Vallée de la Paix\" (1994). It contemplates the impossibility of happiness since", "title": "The Two Pigeons" }, { "id": "15399451", "text": "a deal with Lelio: In return for his obeying her commands, she gives him a magic flower that enables him to disappear (the flower only works at night) (\"Ramasse cette rose\"). They exit. Krakamiche returns, moans his fate (\"Ah la sotte existence\") and has a comic duet with his servant Perlimpinpin (\"Eh bien!\"), resulting in the servant being kicked out of the house and Krakamiche leaving. Stella enters and sings of the rain (\"Chanson de la pluie\" or \"Coulez, gouttes fines\"). The Queen returns and tells Stella of her impending meeting with Lelio (\"Sur les yeux de ton père\"). Perlimpinpin", "title": "Le dernier sorcier" }, { "id": "2035263", "text": "is left unclear whether he survived. In \"The Penguin's Nest\", a policeman suffers an electric shock at the hands of the Penguin's accomplices, but he is presumed to survive, as he appears in some later episodes. A catch-phrase popularized by the series was Robin's saying \"Holy [subject], Batman!\" whenever he encountered something startling. This phrase was parodied in the 1995 film \"Batman Forever\". In many episodes, Batman and Robin must get to a high point of a building or other structure. They do this via the Batrope which is thrown and anchored above the high point, and which Batman and", "title": "Batman (TV series)" }, { "id": "323860", "text": "of black. They differ sharply from his earlier watercolours and sketches at the École Spéciale de dessin at Aix-en-Provence in 1859, and their violence of expression is in contrast to his subsequent works. In 1866–67, inspired by the example of Courbet, Cézanne painted a series of paintings with a palette knife. He later called these works, mostly portraits, \"une couillarde\" (\"a coarse word for ostentatious virility\"). Lawrence Gowing has written that Cézanne's palette knife phase \"was not only the invention of modern expressionism, although it was incidentally that; the idea of art as emotional ejaculation made its first appearance at", "title": "Paul Cézanne" }, { "id": "3305872", "text": "ancient Latin adage, i.e. Roman, and discussed by many philosophers and economists. The phrase is misquoted in Act I of Anton Chekhov's play \"The Seagull\". The character Shamrayev conflates it with the phrase \"de mortuis nil nisi bonum\" (in the alternate form: \"de mortuis, aut bene aut nihil\": \"of the dead, either [speak] good or [say] nothing\"), resulting in \"de gustibus aut bene, aut nihil\", \"Let nothing be said of taste but what is good.\" De gustibus non est disputandum De gustibus non est disputandum, or de gustibus non disputandum est, is a Latin maxim meaning \"In matters of taste,", "title": "De gustibus non est disputandum" }, { "id": "4243867", "text": "tale princesses had it easy and how she wants to live happily ever after (\"Happily Ever After\"). King Sextimus has a man to man talk with Dauntless about the birds and the bees completely in pantomime (\"Man to Man Talk\"). The Jester and Minstrel trick the Wizard into telling them of the test and the Jester reminisces about his father's dancing days (\"Very Soft Shoes\"). Sir Harry and Lady Larken run into each other and they confess that their love is stronger than ever (\"Yesterday I Loved You\"). When Fred is finally ready for bed, the Queen brings in various", "title": "Once Upon a Mattress" }, { "id": "8995906", "text": "Bob's your uncle ...And Bob's your uncle means \"and there it is\" or \"and there you have it.\" It is commonly used in United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries. Typically, someone says it to conclude a set of simple instructions or when a result is reached. The meaning is similar to that of the French expression \"et voilà!\" \"Bob's your uncle\" is an exclamation that is used when \"everything is all right\" and the simple means of obtaining the successful result is explained. For example: \"left over right; right over left, and Bob's your uncle – a reef knot.\" Sometimes the", "title": "Bob's your uncle" }, { "id": "4426222", "text": "the sketch. In a second series episode Praline had more pet trouble, this time trying to buy a fish licence for his pet halibut, Eric. In this sketch, he mentions that he also has a cat and a dog named Eric among others and has acquired a (fraudulent) licence for the cat. This final sketch led to Praline singing the song \"Eric The Half-A-Bee\" on the \"Monty Python's Previous Record\" album. Cleese eventually got so fed up with \"doing the one with the parrot\", that he vowed never again to perform the sketch; conversely, the Eric the Half-A-Bee segment is", "title": "Mr Praline" }, { "id": "9747129", "text": "six five degrees. Vessel restricted in ability to deviate from its course. Do not impede. OUT The word \"REPEAT\" should not be used in place of \"SAY AGAIN\", especially in the vicinity of naval or other firing ranges, as \"REPEAT\" is an artillery proword defined in ACP 125 U.S. Supp-2(A) with the wholly different meaning of \"request for the same volume of fire to be fired again with or without corrections or changes\" (e.g. at the same coordinates as the previous round). Please repeat the message you just sent me beginning after the word or phrase said after this proword.", "title": "Procedure word" }, { "id": "1665342", "text": "of French into English. However, in this context, the correct translation of is 'heavens...!' In Monty Python's 1975 movie \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", the French castle guard (John Cleese) orders, when King Arthur (Graham Chapman) doesn't want to go away, his fellow guards to \"\"Fetchez la vache.\"\". The other French guards respond with \"\" and he repeats \"\"Fetchez la vache!\"\". The guards finally get it: fetch ('the cow'), which they then catapult at the Britons. In French, refers to the use of English words sometimes regarded as unwelcome imports or as bad slang. An example would be (also", "title": "Franglais" }, { "id": "5390340", "text": "much like Spanish. The past tense of verbs is marked by the suffix \"-ile\" (\"hamba \"I go, go!\", \"hambile\" \"I went\"), and the future with the modal \"azi\" (\"azi hamba\" \"will go\").\" Here are two examples (all letters are pronounced):- \"Koki Lobin\" Cock Robin \"Zonke nyoni lapa moyo ena kala, ena kala\" All birds of air, they cried, they cried \"Ena izwile ena file lo nyoni Koki Lobin\" They heard the death the bird Cock Robin \"Ena izwile, ena file, ena izwile ena file Cocky Lobin.\" \"Kubani ena bulalile Koki Lobin?\" Who they killed Cock Robin \"Mina kruma lo Sparrow\"", "title": "Fanagalo" }, { "id": "13880923", "text": "Monument. In 1988, the city held a competition for the design, and over 20 artists entered. , a Brazilian architect and sculptor, led the winning team. The monument depicts a man in the “pau de arara,” or parrot’s perch, torture position, in which victims are hung upside down with their wrists and ankles bound. This is a practice that current Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff endured. In 1979, the Brazilian Congress met to consider the proposal for amnesty from the government of João Figueiredo. The House was highly biased towards the military, with soldiers occupying nearly 800 of the 1200 seats.", "title": "Torture Never Again" }, { "id": "7845497", "text": "century both in France and England, this sound de-affricated to ; and from that time has represented before front vowels either for etymological reasons, as in \"lance, cent,\" or to avoid the ambiguity due to the \"etymological\" use of for , as in \"ace, mice, once, pence, defence\". Thus, to show etymology, English spelling has \"advise\", \"devise\" (instead of \"advize\", \"devize\"), while \"advice, device, dice, ice, mice, twice,\" etc., do not reflect etymology; example has extended this to \"hence, pence, defence,\" etc., where there is no etymological reason for using . Former generations also wrote \"\" for \"sense\". Hence, today", "title": "C" }, { "id": "9085158", "text": "\"Beneath a Crozet Trestle Bridge.\" The resulting effort was an album of primarily original material influenced by country blues and folk music. \"The Spirit of the Staircase\", Curreri's 2004 release saw the return of Jeff Romano, who produced and performed on 2002's \"From Long Gones to Hawkmoth\". The title of the record comes from a French expression \"l'esprit d'escalier\", the things you think to say after you are already out the door. His first live album, \"Are You Going to Paul Curreri\" was recorded at Charlottesville's (now-defunct) Gravity Lounge, and released in 2006. Musical backing was provided by Charlottesvillians Randall", "title": "Paul Curreri" }, { "id": "2525117", "text": "intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing. Chopin's most important stylistic legacy is the detachment of the narrator. Birds – In the beginning of the book, a parrot is in a cage shouting to Mr. Pontellier “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right!” this translates to “Leave dammit”. It is clear that the parrot represents Edna’s unspoken feelings towards her husband. It also represents how Edna is caged in her society, without much freedom to live", "title": "The Awakening (Chopin novel)" }, { "id": "2259004", "text": "in a transposed version, on the transverse flute. The arias included were: \"Non e si bello e vago\" (\"With thee is ev'ry pleasure beyond expressing\");\"Non ha piu che temere\" (\"My life my only treasure\"); \"Cara speme\" (\"Cruel creature\"); \"Spera ne ingannai\"; \"La speranza all alma mia\" (\"Hopes beguiling, pleasures smiling\"); \"Chi perde un momento\" (\"While Celia is flying\"); \"Venere bella\" (\"Gazing on my idol\"); \"Se pieta di me non senti\" (\"Welcome death, oh end my sorrow\"); \"V'adoro pupille\" (\"Lamenting, complaining\"); and \"Non disperar\" (\"Oh what a fool was I\"). Again the rival publisher and printer produced \"The favourite songs in", "title": "Giulio Cesare" }, { "id": "17354093", "text": "by a drunken argument with his second wife, Rose Hilton, who was dancing on a verandah, nude, shouting \"oi yoi yoi\", an expression of frustration or exasperation. According to his wife, the argument took place in France in the summer of 1962, before they were married. Hilton has rejected the suggestion that he took conscious inspiration from paintings of dancers and bathers by Cézanne or Matisse, but admitted they were \"probably subconsciously\" important. The painting was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1964. It was also exhibited in a retrospective exhibition of Hilton's work at the", "title": "Oi Yoi Yoi" }, { "id": "4959458", "text": "word: \"mihávas\" ('I have'), \"laknábo\" ('the boy'), \"delvórto\" ('of the word'), \"ĉetáblo\" ('at table'). Exceptions include \"kaj\" 'and', which may be pronounced more distinctly when it has a larger scope than the following word or phrase. Within poetry, of course, the meter determines stress: \"Hó, mia kór’, ne bátu máltrankvíle\" ('Oh my heart, do not beat uneasily'). Emphasis and contrast may override normal stress. Pronouns frequently take stress because of this. In a simple question like \"Ĉu vi vídis?\" ('Did you see?'), the pronoun hardly needs to be said and is unstressed; compare \"Né, dónu al mí\" and ('No, give", "title": "Esperanto phonology" }, { "id": "605475", "text": "shoulda taken that left toin at Albukoikee.\" He first utters that phrase in \"Herr Meets Hare\" (1945), when he emerges in the Black Forest, a cartoon seldom seen today due to its blatantly topical subject matter. When Hermann Göring says to Bugs, \"There is no Las Vegas in 'Chermany'\" and takes a potshot at Bugs, Bugs dives into his hole and says, \"Joimany! Yipe!\", as Bugs realizes he is behind enemy lines. The confused response to his \"left toin\" comment also followed a pattern. For example, when he tunnels into Scotland in \"My Bunny Lies over the Sea\" (1948), while", "title": "Bugs Bunny" }, { "id": "8683876", "text": "was filmed on November 23-27, 1934. The opening theme song is titled \"At the Races,\" composed by Louis Silvers. Curly has a violent reaction to the sight of a live mouse at any time, going into a fit while demanding, \"\"Moe! Larry! The Cheese!\"\". The only cure is for someone to feed him cheese, leading to Curly's manic catchphrase upon sighting a mouse in the film short. The reason for this is explained by Moe & Larry, stating that Curly's father was a rat. An external stimulus — as with Curly spotting the mouse — that causes him to go", "title": "Horses' Collars" }, { "id": "2763828", "text": "master in a college at Rouen. Gresset published \"Vert-Vert\" at Rouen in 1734. It is the humorous story of a parrot, the delight of a convent whose talk was all of prayers and pious ambitions, and how it was conveyed to another convent as a visitor to please the nuns. On the way it falls among bad companions, forgets its convent language, and shocks the sisters on arrival by profane swearing. It is sent back in disgrace, punished by solitude and plain bread, repents, reforms and is finally killed by kindness. The treatment of the subject, the atmosphere which surrounds", "title": "Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset" }, { "id": "6343657", "text": "the Egg\" and \"The Sneetches and Other Stories\". In the first tongue twister, Hooey the parrot reads the book of \"Oh Say Can You Say\" and states that the words in it are all phooey, and when one says them, one's lips will make slips and backflips, and one's tongues may end up in St. Louie. In the second one, a diner owner Finney sells 3 platters of fish which are fresh, fresher, and freshest to which he considers French-fried. In the third one, a skeletal Apatosaurus Dinn at a museum loses his left front shinbones, but with his handy", "title": "Oh Say Can You Say?" }, { "id": "20159631", "text": "cat's tail and he runs away screaming in agony. Realizing the outside world isn't as safe as his cage, the canary flies back home and sings as the cartoon ends. The Discontented Canary The Discontented Canary is a 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Happy Harmonies short directed by Rudolf Ising. The cartoon begins with a canary in his cage and a parrot singing. The canary wants to get out of his cage, but is locked inside. Then, their owner arrives. But she accidentally left the cage open. Then, the canary flies out and goes outside. He descends into a garden and a cat", "title": "The Discontented Canary" }, { "id": "11572935", "text": "come closer, and would be rewarded for stepping up onto the hand. Another example would be for a trainer to wait until a screaming parrot is quiet for a very short time, and then immediately reward it with praise and attention. The owner would then gradually increase the amount of time the parrot must be quiet to receive the extra attention. With this type of positive reinforcement approach to training (see shaping), the parrot is only rewarded for behaviors that bring it closer to the final desired outcome. For this technique to work effectively, it is common to have to", "title": "Parrot training" }, { "id": "18758890", "text": "! </poem> Loup y es-tu? \"Loup y es-tu?\" (or \"Promenons-nous dans les bois\") is a famous French children's song, a \"comptine\" (a \"counting-out song\"). It sings about how a group enters a forest where no wolf is to be seen and \"as long as he isn't there, he won't eat us\". During the refrain the wolf is called, but each time he is busy putting on one of his clothes. Near the end he finally arrives, which is the sign for the children to run away. <poem> Promenons-nous dans les bois, Pendant que le loup n'y est pas. Si le", "title": "Loup y es-tu?" } ]

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[ { "id": "3529372", "text": "Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip \"Blondie\". He first appeared some time before 17 February 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J. C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. The Bumsteads' first baby, Alexander, was originally named Baby Dumpling. The name of his younger sister, Cookie, was chosen by readers in a", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "3529376", "text": "another appearance in \"Garfield \"comic strips in August 20, 2005 to invite Jon and Garfield for his and Blondie's anniversary party. In the song \"Homemade Mummy\" alternative rapper Aesop Rock briefly refers to Dagwood. Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip \"Blondie\". He first appeared some time before 17 February 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J. C. Dithers & Company", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "2513669", "text": "Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, and John Marshall. Despite these changes, \"Blondie\" has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. Since 2006, \"Blondie\" has also been available via email through King Features' DailyINK service. Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier \"pretty girl\" creations \"Beautiful Bab\" and \"Dumb Dora\", \"Blondie\" focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune. The name \"Boopadoop\" derives from the scat singing lyric that", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "17366754", "text": "Blondie on a Budget Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth. It was the fifth entry into the long-running Blondie series of films, which ran between 1938 and 1950. Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat. Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join. Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to", "title": "Blondie on a Budget" }, { "id": "5557096", "text": "\"D.O.A.\", also in 1950. She made her third film of the year in the Red Skelton vehicle, \"Watch the Birdie\" (1951). It was 19 years before she returned to the big screen. Britton portrayed the title role of the TV version of the Chic Young newspaper comic strip \"Blondie\" (1957), opposite Arthur Lake as her husband, \"Dagwood Bumstead\". Britton was married on April 8, 1943, in Texas, to Captain Arthur Steel after they met on a blind date arranged by one of her sisters. After the wedding, he was posted to Italy on active service while Britton remained working at", "title": "Pamela Britton" }, { "id": "2513670", "text": "was popularized by Helen Kane's 1928 song \"I Wanna Be Loved by You.\" On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie and Dagwood were married. After a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike by Dagwood to get his parents' blessing, as they strongly disapproved of his marrying beneath his class, they disinherited him. Left only with a check to pay for their honeymoon, the Bumsteads were forced to become a middle-class suburban family. The marriage was a significant media event, given the comic strip's popularity. The catalog for the University of Florida's 2005 exhibition, \"75 Years of Blondie, 1930–2005,\" notes: \"Dagwood", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "4695571", "text": "Arthur Lake (actor) Arthur Lake (born Arthur Silverlake Jr., April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of \"Blondie\", to life in film, radio and television. Lake was born in 1905, when his father and uncle were touring with a circus in an aerial act known as \"The Flying Silverlakes\". His mother, Edith Goodwin, was an actress. His parents later appeared in vaudeville in a skit \"Family Affair\", traveling throughout the South and Southwest United States. Arthur first appeared on stage as a baby in Uncle Tom's Cabin", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "3529373", "text": "national contest. The family circle is rounded out by Daisy the dog. The origin of both Dagwood's last name and Daisy's name came from Chic Young's long-time friend Arthur Bumstead and his dog, Daisy. His favorite things in life include his wife Blondie, his kids, naps on the sofa, long baths, and food. Dagwood was famous for concocting tall, multi-layered sandwiches topped with an olive on a toothpick, and the term \"Dagwood sandwich\" has entered American English. He frequently has problems with door-to-door salesmen, rude telemarketers and store salespeople, crashing into the mailman (Mr. Beasley) as he rushes from home,", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "4695576", "text": "many suspects in a case that remains unsolved. Lake died of a heart attack in Indian Wells, California, on January 9, 1987, and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the Douras family mausoleum, along with actress Marion Davies and her husband, Horace G. Brown. Lake's widow Patricia was interred there upon her death in 1993. Arthur Lake (actor) Arthur Lake (born Arthur Silverlake Jr., April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of \"Blondie\", to life in film, radio and television. Lake was born in 1905,", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "11817065", "text": "Blondie Goes to College Blondie Goes to College is a 1942 Columbia comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is a part of the \"Blondie\" series, starring Penny Singleton in the title role. This was the tenth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is forced to receive a college diploma in order to remain a worker at the Dithers Construction Company. He goes to school with his wife Blondie (Penny Singleton), until they get the news married couples are not allowed. They decide to pretend they aren't a couple. A", "title": "Blondie Goes to College" }, { "id": "12048767", "text": "O'Byrne as the hapless mailman, always getting run over by Dagwood hurrying out the door, late for work. \"Blondie\" stars Patricia Harty and Will Hutchins as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, a suburban couple raising a precocious daughter. Plots mixed typical sitcom tropes from home life and work life. The series is best remembered for its opening theme, which featured the comic strip characters in animated form before transforming into the actors playing the characters. Like the 1957 version, which lasted only one season, the series was not a hit, lasting a total of 13 weeks before being canceled. Ferdin and", "title": "Blondie (1968 TV series)" }, { "id": "16216165", "text": "Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory is a 1942 American film, and the 12th entry in the Blondie series. Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie’s husband Dagwood isn’t happy with coming home every night finding a note, saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives. And her son, Baby, is left on his own all the time. The family dog, Daisy, roams freely around the house with no one to look after it.", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "13962417", "text": "actress Ellen Morgan. Around this time, Norton reached what she considered the peak of her radio career. Ron Beck, former producer of the Colgate-Palmolive shows, had entered into production with his own company. He obtained scripts of \"Blondie\", an American show based on Chic Young's comic strip of the same name, and set about producing an Australian version of them. Willie Fennell played Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie's rather put-upon husband, but competition for the title role was very keen. Norton won it from a large field of auditioning actresses. \"Blondie\" went to air in November 1951, but its run was not", "title": "Kerry Norton-Smyser" }, { "id": "12048766", "text": "Blondie (1968 TV series) Blondie (also known as The New Blondie) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968–69 television season. The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that was based on the comic strip of the same name. The series stars Patricia Harty at the title character and Will Hutchins as her husband Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real life wife Henny Backus playing Cora Dithers. The series also featured the noted child character actress Pamelyn Ferdin as the Bumstead's daughter, Cookie, and character actor Bryan", "title": "Blondie (1968 TV series)" }, { "id": "8785941", "text": "television. In 1950, NBC optioned Telecomics' product and repackaged it as \"NBC Comics\". In 1951, Slesinger acquired the rights to make a \"Blondie\" television show with Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumsteadand his wife \"Pat Lake\" starred as \"Blondie.\" at the request of \"Randolph Hearst\" who cared for her as if she was his daughter. Pat Lake nee:Patricia Van Cleeve Lake an American socialite, actress and radio comedian, was also \"Marion Davies\"nice. Slesinger was completing the pilot episode at the time of his death on December 17, 1953. Amid the shock and confusion of his unexpected passing, the reels of the", "title": "Stephen Slesinger" }, { "id": "6119952", "text": "radio sitcom \"Blondie\" in the mid-1940s, Lake replaced her as the voice of Blondie Bumstead for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake, who played Blondie's spouse, Dagwood. In 1954, Lake also co-starred with her husband in an early television sitcom he created called \"Meet the Family\". Lake was selected by the Motion Picture Publicists Association to be one of the MPPA 'Baby Stars' of 1940, an award similar to the WAMPAS Baby Stars selections of 1922 through 1934. Patricia Lake Patricia Van Cleeve Lake (between 1919 and 1923 – October 3, 1993), known", "title": "Patricia Lake" }, { "id": "2764135", "text": "gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). When his first son, Wayne, died of diphtheria in 1937, Young took a year's hiatus; the experience made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling. After Young and his wife spent a year traveling in Europe, he began \"Blondie\" once again, quelling rumors that he might not return to the strip. With films, radio, television and products, the strip became a licensing and media bonanza that made Young a wealthy man. During his lifetime, he produced", "title": "Chic Young" }, { "id": "15406957", "text": "Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie Plays Cupid is a 1940 American comedy film starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and directed by Frank R. Strayer. Also in the cast is Glenn Ford. It is the seventh of the 28 \"Blondie\" films Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4 July celebrations. The ranch is a peaceful place in the country, but trouble starts already on the way over there, when the Bumsteads board the wrong train and have to hitchhike most", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "16203290", "text": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble Blondie Has Servant Trouble is a 1940 American film, the sixth of the series of 28 Blondie movies. Blondie proves to be a real nuisance to her husband Dagwood and causes domestic disturbance in the Bumstead home, when she insists on getting a maid. Dagwood is forced to take the request seriously, and asks his boss, J.C. Dithers, for a raise. As a rule, Dithers refuses the raise, but instead he offers Dagwood and his family a two-week stay at a country house, complete with servants. The house is the size of a palace, formerly owned", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "16216171", "text": "of a military uniform. Dagwood returns to his home, with his wife, and isn’t bothered anymore by the Housewives of America. Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory is a 1942 American film, and the 12th entry in the Blondie series. Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie’s husband Dagwood isn’t happy with coming home every night finding a note, saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives. And her son, Baby, is left on", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "15406960", "text": "so happy over the new source of income that he consents to Charlie marrying his daughter after all, and the Bumsteads finish their weekend holiday at the hospital, in peace and quiet. Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie Plays Cupid is a 1940 American comedy film starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and directed by Frank R. Strayer. Also in the cast is Glenn Ford. It is the seventh of the 28 \"Blondie\" films Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "3529375", "text": "in comic books, Big Little Books, Whitman novels for children, and other print materials, as well as radio, film, and television. Arthur Lake played Dagwood in the \"Blondie\" film series (1938–50) and the short-lived 1957 TV series \"Blondie\", while Will Hutchins played him in a revival series (1968–69). He makes several cameo appearances in \"Garfield Gets Real\", alongside Grimmy from \"Mother Goose and Grimm\". Dagwood and his wife also made a cameo appearance in a \"Garfield\" strip originally published April 1, 1997. On a fourth wall break, Garfield refers to this as \"moving to a different comic strip\". Dagwood made", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "2304516", "text": "Penny Singleton Penny Singleton (born Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty, September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American actress. During her 60-year career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular \"Blondie\" radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series \"The Jetsons\". For her contributions to both radio and the motion-picture industry, in 1960, Singleton was honored with two stars as she was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star for radio", "title": "Penny Singleton" }, { "id": "17285600", "text": "Blondie's Holiday Blondie's Holiday is a 1947 black-and-white comedy film, directed by Abby Berlin. The film is based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Constance Lee. This was the twentieth of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943. Daisy, the dog, appeared in every film except this one, as he was playing \"Curley\" in the 1947 film \"Red Stallion\" Dagwood Bumstead is an architect who has managed to convince the prominent bank president Samuel Breckenridge to let his firm have the contract", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "11758432", "text": "Ann Barnes Ann Barnes (June 17, 1945 – September 13, 2005) was an actress and pop singer, best known for appearing as Cookie Bumstead on the short-lived television series \"Blondie\" (1957), based on the popular Chic Young comic strip. In the series executive-produced by Hal Roach, Arthur Lake reprised the role of Dagwood, first essayed in the feature films produced by Columbia Pictures in the 1930s–1940’s. “Blondie” was played in the TV series by Pamela Britton. Barnes played the Bumsteads' daughter as a bright, precocious girl, full of worldly wisdom, and terribly fond of cake. The energetic actress would often", "title": "Ann Barnes" }, { "id": "2513671", "text": "Bumstead and family, including Daisy and the pups, live in the suburbs of Joplin, Missouri,\" according to the August 1946 issue of \"The Joplin Globe\", citing Chic Young. The Bumstead family has grown, with the addition of a son named Alexander (originally \"Baby Dumpling\") on April 15, 1934, a daughter named Cookie on April 11, 1941, a dog, Daisy, and her litter of five unnamed pups. In the 1960s, Cookie and Alexander grew into teenagers (who uncannily resemble their parents), but they stopped growing during the 1960s when Young realized that they had to remain teenagers to maintain the family", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513673", "text": "over all he surveys, with one notable exception—his formidable and domineering wife, Cora. Blondie and Dagwood's best friends are their next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, although Dagwood and Herb's friendship is frequently volatile. Lou is the burly, tattooed owner of Lou's Diner, the less-than-five-star establishment where Dagwood often eats during his lunch hour. Other regular supporting characters include the long-suffering mailman, Mr. Beasley; Elmo Tuttle, a pesky neighborhood kid who often asks Dagwood to play; and a never-ending parade of overbearing door-to-door salesmen. There are several running gags in \"Blondie\", reflecting the trend after Chic Young's death for the", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513668", "text": "Blondie (comic strip) Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. The comic strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the strip, which features the eponymous blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running \"Blondie\" film series (1938–1950) and the popular \"Blondie\" radio program (1939–1950). Chic Young drew \"Blondie\" until his death in 1973, when creative control passed to his son Dean Young, who continues to write the strip. Young has collaborated with a number of artists on \"Blondie\", including Jim Raymond, Mike", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "9029323", "text": "Pen vomiting profusely in Violet's face, two biplanes colliding in midair, Dagwood Bumstead getting kicked in the groin by his wife, Blondie, which causes his head to pop off, resulting in another blood gush, Mickey Mouse getting hit over the head by a lead pipe, Rocky Balboa getting punched in the face by Popeye, and Godzilla squeezing Dr. Pepper out of a giant soda can. It ends with Charlie Brown announcing that \"Happiness is a warm \"uzi\"\" in a thick Germanic accent reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a cut to him smoking a cigarette in bed with the Little Red-Haired", "title": "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "2513676", "text": "does Blondie wear her previous hat and gloves when leaving the house. Although some bedroom and bathroom scenes still show him in polka-dot boxer shorts, Dagwood no longer wears garters to hold up his socks. When at home, he frequently wears sport shirts, his standard dress shirt with one large button in the middle is slowly disappearing, and he no longer smokes a pipe at all. Blondie now often wears slacks, and she is no longer depicted as a housewife since she teamed with Tootsie Woodley to launch a catering business in 1991. Dagwood still knocks heads with his boss,", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2810248", "text": "Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip \"Blondie\", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to \"Blondie\" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's illustrated Dagwood sandwich remain obscure, it appears to contain large quantities and varieties of cold cuts, sliced cheese and vegetables separated by additional slices of bread. An olive pierced by a toothpick", "title": "Dagwood sandwich" }, { "id": "2810249", "text": "or wooden skewer usually crowns the edible structure. \"Dagwood sandwich\" has been included in \"Webster's New World Dictionary\", and \"Dagwood\" (referring to the sandwich) has been included in the \"American Heritage Dictionary\". Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip \"Blondie\", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to \"Blondie\" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's", "title": "Dagwood sandwich" }, { "id": "8937636", "text": "Hanley Stafford Hanley Stafford (born Alfred John Austin 22 September 1899 in Hanley, England, United Kingdom; died 9 September 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an actor principally on radio. He is remembered best for playing Lancelot Higgins on \"The Baby Snooks Show\". Stafford also assumed the role of Mr. Dithers, the boss of Dagwood Bumstead on the \"Blondie\" radio program. He is commemorated by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Stafford emigrated from England to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1911. He enlisted in the 43rd Battalion of the Canadian Scottish Infantry in 1915, was wounded in the Third", "title": "Hanley Stafford" }, { "id": "2513678", "text": "each morning racing to meet his carpool rather than chasing after a missed streetcar or city bus. Even Mr. Beasley, the mail carrier, now dresses in short-sleeve shirts and walking shorts, rather than the military-style uniform of days gone by. During the late 1990s and 2000–2001, Alexander worked part-time after high school at the order counter of a fast food restaurant, the Burger Barn. There are still occasional references to Cookie and her babysitting. Daisy, who once had a litter of puppies that lived with the family, is now the only dog seen in the Bumstead household. Cookie and Alexander", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "4695574", "text": "at 6646 Hollywood Blvd. Many of the actors on the radio show noted Lake's commitment to the program, stating that on the day of the broadcast, Lake \"was\" Dagwood Bumstead. Far from being upset about being typecast, Lake continued to embrace the role of Dagwood in a short-lived 1957 \"Blondie\" TV series, then even into the 1960s and beyond; he would often give speeches to Rotary clubs and other civic organizations, eagerly posing for pictures with a Dagwood sandwich. Lake became very friendly with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and his mistress Marion Davies. He was a frequent guest at", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "3529374", "text": "getting ready before the carpool leaves without him, getting to work on time, his boss J.C. Dithers, and Cookie's many dates. He is often suspicious of her dates and keeps a close watch on them when they come to the house. Other characters in his universe include Elmo Tuttle, a pesky little neighborhood kid who wanders in and out of the Bumstead house, next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Lou, the sarcastic cook in a local diner, and Mr. Dithers' domineering wife, Cora. Dagwood's birthday is July 20. Over the years, Dagwood has appeared not only in daily newspapers, but", "title": "Dagwood Bumstead" }, { "id": "17366755", "text": "suspect that they are having an affair. After Dagwood wins money in a competition he decides to buy Blondie a fur coat, but uses Joan to try it on for size. Blondie sees them in the shop together and mistakenly thinks he is buying it for Joan. She decides to leave Dagwood for good, only to have a last minute change of heart. Blondie on a Budget Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth. It was the fifth entry into the long-running Blondie", "title": "Blondie on a Budget" }, { "id": "1000473", "text": "were to the same woman, Adeline Blondieau, from 1990 to 1992, and from 1994 to 1995. Inaugurated by Nicolas Sarkozy his fifth and final marriage was to Læticia Boudou from 1996 until his death. The couple adopted two girls from Vietnam: Jade Odette Désirée, born 3 August 2004 (formerly Bùi Thị Hoà), in November 2004, and Joy (Maï-Hường), born 27 July 2008, in December 2008. Hallyday, who resided in Los Angeles, owned a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 2006 to 2015 to avoid the high tax rate imposed by the French government. Hallyday said that he would have moved his", "title": "Johnny Hallyday" }, { "id": "2764134", "text": "\"Dumb Dora\", about brunette Dora who \"wasn't as dumb as she looked.\" In 1927, Young married professional harpist Athel Lindorff (d.1979). In the spring of 1930, after six years of \"Dumb Dora\"'s increasing popularity, Young requested more money and strip ownership. This action led to changes, and Paul Fung took over \"Dumb Dora\" in April 1930 when Young dropped it in order to create a new strip. In the summer of 1930, working in his studio in Great Neck, Long Island, Young created \"Blondie\". When it debuted September 8, 1930, it quickly became the most popular comic strip in America,", "title": "Chic Young" }, { "id": "2513675", "text": "were noted by their histrionic humor as well for having 12 panels, switching to the standard half-page format in 1986. While the distinctive look and running gags of \"Blondie\" have been carefully preserved through the decades, a number of details have been altered to keep up with changing times. The Bumstead kitchen, which remained essentially unchanged from the 1930s through the 1960s, has slowly acquired a more modern look (no more legs on the gas range and no more refrigerators shown with the compressor assembly on the top). Dagwood no longer wears a hat when he goes to work, nor", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "9296671", "text": "(as an infant) in \"Blondie's Blessed Event\", the eleventh entry in the series. Daisy had pups in the twelfth episode, \"Blondie For Victory\" (1942). Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, were oddly missing from the series. Pamela Britton portrayed Blondie in the 1957 TV series opposite Arthur Lake. Patricia Harty had the title role in the 1968 TV series. Neither \"Blondie\" TV series lasted a full season. \"Blondie Goes to Hollywood,\" by Carol Lynn Scherling. Albany, 2010. BearManor Media. . Blondie (radio) Blondie is a", "title": "Blondie (radio)" }, { "id": "6770579", "text": "Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of the comic strip \"Blondie\". He travelled to South Africa to appear in \"Shangani Patrol\" (1970) playing Frederick Russell Burnham. Back in the US, Hutchins guest starred on \"Love, American Style\", \"Emergency!\", \"Chase\", \"Movin' On\", \"The Streets of San Francisco\", and \"The Quest\". He was in \"The Horror at 37,000 Feet\" (1973), \"Slumber Party '57\" (1976), and \"The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington\" (1977). He also began appearing in circuses. Hutchins had roles in \"Roar\" (1981), \"Gunfighter\" (1999) and \"The Romantics\" (2010). Hutchins was married to Chris Burnett, sister of Carol Burnett, with", "title": "Will Hutchins" }, { "id": "17285601", "text": "to erect a new bank building in town. When Dagwood’s boss at the architect firm, George Radcliffe, hears about the contract, he is ecstatic and offers Dagwood a modest raise of $2.50. When Dagwood immediately tell his wife Blondie the good news over the telephone, she mistakes the numbers and believes he has gotten a $250 raise. She tells her friends about the fantastic news, and word gets around that Dagwood has made a fortune on his success. A class reunion is around the corner and Blondie is on the committee planning the festivities. When the rest of the committee,", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "1642481", "text": "1958. The \"Betty Boop\" series continues to be a favorite of many critics, and the 1933 \"Betty Boop\" cartoon \"Snow-White\" (not to be confused with Disney's film \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" (1937)) was selected for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 1994. Betty Boop's popularity continues well into present day culture, with references appearing in the comic strip \"Doonesbury\", where the character B.D.'s busty girlfriend/wife is named \"Boopsie\" and the animated reality TV spoof \"Drawn Together\", where Betty is the inspiration for Toot Braunstein. A \"Betty Boop\" musical is in development", "title": "Betty Boop" }, { "id": "9900845", "text": "woman. One of her more steady radio gigs was on the \"Blondie\" radio series in the part of Cora Dithers, the domineering wife of Dagwood Bumstead's boss. Allman became a familiar face to television viewers in the 1950s with numerous guest appearances on many programs of the era, usually situation comedies. She made multiple appearances on \"I Married Joan\", \"December Bride\", \"The Bob Cummings Show\", and \"The Abbott and Costello Show\", and three appearances on \"I Love Lucy\". In 1957, she reprised her role of Cora Dithers in a short-lived TV adaption of \"Blondie\". Allman had earlier played the role", "title": "Elvia Allman" }, { "id": "2304518", "text": "childhood, and actor Gene Raymond, and appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's \"The Great Temptations\". She also toured in nightclubs and roadshows of plays and musicals. Singleton appeared as a nightclub singer in \"After the Thin Man\", and was credited at this time as Dorothy McNulty. She was cast opposite Arthur Lake (as Dagwood) in the feature film \"Blondie\" in 1938, based on the comic strip by Chic Young. They repeated their roles on a radio comedy beginning in 1939 and in guest appearances on other radio shows. As Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, they proved so popular that a succession", "title": "Penny Singleton" }, { "id": "8472564", "text": "Hollywood to get into the burgeoning film industry. Arthur changed his professional name to Arthur Lake and later achieved great success as \"Dagwood Bumstead\" in the \"Blondie\" movie series. Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in \"dumb\" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Calverton telephone operator in \"Lassie\". Lake played the role for the entire ten", "title": "Florence Lake" }, { "id": "657047", "text": "for Public Service. Goldberg serves on the national council advisory board of the National Museum of American Illustration. Goldberg has been married three times — in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter); on September 1, 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988); and on October 1, 1994 to the union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995). She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and Ted Danson, who controversially appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no plans to marry again, commenting \"Some people are not", "title": "Whoopi Goldberg" }, { "id": "4695573", "text": "(1930). During this early sound film era, he typically played light romantic roles, usually with a comic \"Mama's Boy\" tone to them, in films such as \"Indiscreet\" (1931), which starred Gloria Swanson. He also had a substantial part as the bellhop in the 1937 film \"Topper\". Arthur Lake is best known for portraying the \"Blondie\" comic strip character of Dagwood Bumstead in twenty-eight Blondie films produced by Columbia Pictures from 1938 to 1950. He was also the voice of Dagwood on the radio series, which ran from 1938 to 1950, earning him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame", "title": "Arthur Lake (actor)" }, { "id": "2513682", "text": "letters, which preceded the title sequence in almost every film. Columbia was careful to maintain continuity, so each picture progressed from where the last one left off. Thus the Bumstead children grew from toddlers to young adults onscreen. Larry Simms played the Bumsteads' son in all the films; his character was originally called Baby Dumpling, and later became Alexander. Marjorie Kent (born Marjorie Ann Mutchie) joined the series in 1943 as daughter Cookie. Daisy had pups in the 12th feature, \"Blondie for Victory\" (1942). Danny Mummert, who had originally been chosen to play Baby Dumpling, took the continuing role of", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513683", "text": "wiseguy neighbor Alvin Fuddle. Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. Hale left the series in 1945 and was succeeded by Jerome Cowan as George M. Radcliffe in \"Blondie's Big Moment\". In the last film, \"Beware of Blondie\", the Dithers character returned, played by Edward Earle and shown from the back. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, did not appear in the series until \"Beware of Blondie\". They were played by Emory Parnell and Isabel Withers. In 1943 Columbia felt the series was slipping, and ended the string with \"It's a Great", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513681", "text": "was adapted into a long-running series of 28 low-budget theatrical B-features, produced by Columbia Pictures. Beginning with \"Blondie\" in 1938, the series lasted 12 years, through \"Beware of Blondie\" (1950). The two major roles were Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake (whose first starring role was another comic strip character, Harold Teen) as Dagwood. Faithfulness to the comic strip was a major concern of the creators of the series. Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches—and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2513687", "text": "of the Earth, starring King Feature's adventure characters) and shown on CBS, with a second special, \"Second Wedding Workout\", telecast in 1989. Blondie was voiced by Loni Anderson, Dagwood by Frank Welker. Both animated specials are available on the fourth DVD of the \"Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack\". Both of these specials were paired with other comic strip-based specials; the first special was paired with a special based on \"Cathy\"; the second one was paired with \"Hägar the Horrible\". In Video (VHS) In UK: Leisureview Video In 1989. In the episode \"Comic Caper\" (season six episode six) of Jim Henson's Muppet", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "1627885", "text": "more domestically, as the wife of Dagwood Bumstead and aunt of Nancy, respectively – were introduced as flappers. Flapper dresses were straight and loose, leaving the arms bare (sometimes no straps at all) and dropping the waistline to the hips. Silk or rayon stockings were held up by garters. Skirts rose to just below the knee by 1927, allowing flashes of leg to be seen when a girl danced or walked through a breeze, although the way they danced made any long loose skirt flap up to show their legs. To enhance the view, some flappers applied rouge to their", "title": "Flapper" }, { "id": "6134526", "text": "Suffolk, at Harrogate College and in Brussels and Paris. She studied at the Royal College of Music, where her piano teacher was Marmaduke Barton (whose wife's maiden name happened also to be Anna Russell). She had a difficult childhood, and particularly a difficult relationship with her mother, who often shipped her off to live with other relatives for some time. Russell was twice married and divorced, first to John Denison and second to artist Charles Goldhamer. In her \"Who's Who\" entry she described herself as single. In one of Russell's comic routines she said that some of the world's greatest", "title": "Anna Russell" }, { "id": "9670654", "text": "films are often unquestioningly consigned to the B-movie category, but even here there is ambiguity, as scholar James Naremore describes: The most profitable B pictures functioned much like the comic strips in the daily newspapers, showing the continuing adventures of Roy Rogers [Republic], Boston Blackie [Columbia], the Bowery Boys [Warner Bros./Universal], Blondie and Dagwood [Columbia], Charlie Chan [Fox/Monogram], and so on. Even a major studio like MGM [the industry leader from 1931 through 1941] was equipped with a so-called B unit that specialized in these serial productions. At MGM, however, the Andy Hardy, Dr. Kildaire , and Thin Man films", "title": "B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)" }, { "id": "1763130", "text": "several boyfriends over the course of the series; his most enduring relationship was with film buff Dudley Butterfield (Chard Hayward). As the series progressed it increasingly focused on comedic characters such as brassy winebar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly), and her inventor husband Les (Gordon McDougall), no-nonsense Flo Patterson (Bunney Brooke), and the bookish bumbling Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin), who proved irresistible to the ladies. Reg and Edie MacDonald (Mike Dorsey and Wendy Blacklock) and their bubbly daughter, Marilyn (Frances Hargreaves), arrived at the start of 1974 as three more comedic characters. One memorable cliffhanger was the explosion in the", "title": "Number 96 (TV series)" }, { "id": "1627884", "text": "hair\". Despite the scandal flappers generated, their look became fashionable in a toned-down form among respectable older women. Significantly, the flappers removed the corset from female fashion, raised skirt and gown hemlines, and popularized short hair for women. Among actresses closely identified with the style were Tallulah Bankhead, Olive Borden, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Leatrice Joy, Helen Kane, Laura La Plante, Dorothy Mackaill, Colleen Moore, Norma Shearer, Norma Talmadge, Olive Thomas, and Alice White. Beginning in the early 1920s, flappers began appearing in newspaper comic strips; Blondie Boopadoop and Fritzi Ritz – later depicted", "title": "Flapper" }, { "id": "20242415", "text": "husband. In 1987, Joan Lee wrote \"The Pleasure Palace,\" her first novel. Three unpublished novels were found among her possessions. Lee died on July 6, 2017, in Los Angeles from stroke-related complications. She was surrounded by her husband of almost 70 years, and their daughter, Joan. Although multiple sources cited her age as 93 at the time of her death, British birth records show she was, in fact, 95 years old. Joan Boocock Lee Joan Lee (née Boocock; 5 February 1922 – 6 July 2017) was a British-American model and voice actress. She was the wife of comic book writer", "title": "Joan Boocock Lee" }, { "id": "8665241", "text": "Volga Hayworth Volga Margaret Hayworth (August 8, 1897 – January 25, 1945) was an American dancer and vaudevillian under the name Volga Hayworth. A popular showgirl on Broadway, she was the mother of actress Rita Hayworth, who used her mother's maiden name as her professional surname. Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies, met her husband, the Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino in 1916 and married him in 1917. They had three children. She and her husband formed a vaudeville act, \"The Dancing", "title": "Volga Hayworth" }, { "id": "309620", "text": "driver regulations in the private ground transportation industry. Anderson married Tommy Lee, drummer of Mötley Crüe, on February 19, 1995, after knowing him for about 96 hours, or 4 days. They wed on a beach, with Anderson in a bikini. Anderson's mother did not know, and learned of the marriage from \"People\" magazine. During this time, she was known professionally as Pamela Anderson Lee. They have two sons together: Brandon Thomas (born June 5, 1996) and Dylan Jagger (born December 29, 1997). During their tumultuous marriage, Lee was arrested for spousal abuse after assaulting Anderson. He was sentenced to six", "title": "Pamela Anderson" }, { "id": "5570242", "text": "Dean Young (cartoonist) Dean Wayne Young (born July 2, 1938) is the head writer of the popular comic strip \"Blondie\", which he inherited from his father Chic Young, who died in 1973. Since then, Dean Young has collaborated on \"Blondie\" with several artists Jim Raymond (1973–81), Mike Gersher (1981–84), Stan Drake (1984–97) and Denis Lebrun (1997–2005). Currently, \"Blondie\" is drawn by John Marshall, who works with his assistant Frank Cummings. In 1986, Young talked about his gag situations, his approach to the characters of Blondie and Dagwood and satisfying his readers. He also explained how he could be in Vermont", "title": "Dean Young (cartoonist)" }, { "id": "1881997", "text": "he was a choirboy. After he left school, he worked in a bakery and in the Advertising Department of \"The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph\". While working at a pirate radio station Radio London he was advised to change his name to avoid legal problems. He adopted the name \"Everett\" from American film comic actor Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero. Everett married the singer and psychic Audrey \"Lady Lee\" Middleton at Kensington Register Office on 2 June 1969. By September 1979, they had separated, and in the mid-1980s, he publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. One of his first boyfriends,", "title": "Kenny Everett" }, { "id": "744751", "text": "negotiations with RKO. On March 29, 1929, Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper). They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. Ginger dated Mervyn LeRoy in 1932, but they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1987. In 1934, she married actor Lew Ayres (1908–96). They divorced seven years later. In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, Jack Briggs, who was a U.S. Marine. Upon his return from World War II, Briggs showed no interest in continuing his incipient Hollywood career.", "title": "Ginger Rogers" }, { "id": "15401047", "text": "Patricia Harty (actress) Patricia Harty (born November 5, 1941 in Washington, D.C.), also known professionally as Trisha Hart, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, \"Occasional Wife\" (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, \"Blondie\" (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, \"The Bob Crane Show\" (1975) as Ellie Wilcox and \"Herbie, the Love Bug\" (1982) as Susan MacLane. She also appeared on Broadway in \"Fiorello!\" and \"Sail Away\". Harty married \"Occasional Wife\" co-star Michael Callan in June 1968. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had been associate producer on \"The", "title": "Patricia Harty (actress)" }, { "id": "2513685", "text": "radio; the \"Blondie\" radio program had a long run spanning several networks. Initially a 1939 summer replacement program for \"The Eddie Cantor Show\" (sponsored by Camel Cigarettes), \"Blondie\" was heard on CBS until June 1944, when it moved briefly to NBC. Returning to CBS later that year, \"Blondie\" continued there under a new sponsor (Colgate-Palmolive) until June 1949. In its final season, the series was heard on ABC from October 1949 to July 1950. Two \"Blondie\" TV sitcoms have been produced to date, each lasting only one season. Blondie and Dagwood made a brief animated appearance in \"The Fantastic Funnies\",", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "2154895", "text": "named after Shriver in October 2004. The Maria Shriver rose contains starchy-white blooms and a powerful citrus fragrance. Maria Shriver Maria Owings Shriver (; born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, and former First Lady of California. She is the wife of former Governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has received a Peabody Award and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of \"The Alzheimer's Project\", Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a \"television show with a conscience\". She", "title": "Maria Shriver" }, { "id": "8665242", "text": "Cansinos\". Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from undisclosed causes, in Santa Monica, California. Volga Hayworth Volga Margaret Hayworth (August 8, 1897 – January 25, 1945) was an American dancer and vaudevillian under the name Volga Hayworth. A popular showgirl on Broadway, she was the mother of actress Rita Hayworth, who used her mother's maiden name as her professional surname. Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies, met her husband, the Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino in 1916", "title": "Volga Hayworth" }, { "id": "17703", "text": "in his bodybuilding days, \"Arnie\" during his acting career, and \"The Governator\" (a portmanteau of \"Governor\" and \"Terminator\") during his political career. Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver, a niece of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy and daughter of the 1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate and former Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, in 1986. They separated in 2011 after he admitted to having fathered a child with another woman in 1997. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Styria, to Aurelia (\"née\" Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger. His father was the local chief of police and had", "title": "Arnold Schwarzenegger" }, { "id": "11038063", "text": "Leo Dryden George Dryden Wheeler Sr. (6 June 1863 – 21 April 1939), known as Leo Dryden, was an English music hall singer and vocal comic. George Dryden Wheeler was born in London, the son of Sarah Ann (Frost) and George Kingman Wheeler. In 1892, he met music hall performer Hannah Chaplin (stage name Lily Harley), whose young son Charlie would become a leading actor, comedian, and director. They had an affair and a son, George Dryden Wheeler Jr ., leading to the breakdown of her marriage to Charles Chaplin Sr. The couple split up and Dryden kept his son,", "title": "Leo Dryden" }, { "id": "11975100", "text": "Stewart Show\" in 1972. She is retired from television and film but still makes personal appearances arranged through her website. Born in Hollywood, California, Culpepper is the daughter of entertainer Jack Pepper (Edward Jackson Culpepper, 1902–1979), and Pepper's second wife, Dawn. Her father was previously married to Ginger Rogers. Pepper has been married twice. Her first marriage was in 1960 to a man named Mervyn; the marriage came to an end in 1968. Her second marriage was to James Pazillo in 1969; their marriage lasted until 1996. Pepper has one son, Michael (b. 1965), and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "title": "Cynthia Pepper" }, { "id": "20242410", "text": "Joan Boocock Lee Joan Lee (née Boocock; 5 February 1922 – 6 July 2017) was a British-American model and voice actress. She was the wife of comic book writer Stan Lee, whom she met in New York City in the 1940s while working as a hat model. In her later years, Lee became a voice actress and appeared in the \"Spider-Man\" and \"Fantastic Four\" animated series in the 1990s. Kevin Smith referred to Joan as “Stan’s personal superhero” and “Marvel Muse”. Joan Boocock's birth was registered in the first quarter of 1922 in Castle Ward Rural District (now part of", "title": "Joan Boocock Lee" }, { "id": "7476519", "text": "series \"Young, Hot and Talented\" for Channel 5. Taylor opened her own hair and beauty salon 'Taylor Made' in London in March 2011. In 2016 Taylor returned to \"Hollyoaks\" after an 18-year absence. Taylor's father, Alan Murphy, a multi-millionaire, ran the AM Paper toilet roll factory in Skelmersdale. Taylor has frequently been featured in the British tabloid press, as part of the Primrose Hill set with Sadie Frost (actress and ex-wife of Jude Law), and supermodel Kate Moss. Davinia Taylor Davinia Taylor (born Davinia Murphy on 11 November 1977) is an English actress, socialite and interior designer, best known for", "title": "Davinia Taylor" }, { "id": "15356702", "text": "in the 1920s and, in 1931, founded the prominent New York law partnership of Debevoise, Stevenson, Plimpton and Page, now Debevoise & Plimpton L.L.P. At the Paris Olympics, Stevenson ran the last leg in the American 4 × 400 metres relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.16.0. His teammates were Commodore Cochran, Alan Helffrich and Oliver MacDonald. During the World War II, Stevenson and his wife, Eleanor \"Bumpie\" Bumstead Stevenson, a 1923 graduate of Smith College, organized and administered American Red Cross operations in Great Britain, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Both he", "title": "William Stevenson (athlete)" }, { "id": "15401048", "text": "Bob Crane Show\", in 1975. Patricia Harty (actress) Patricia Harty (born November 5, 1941 in Washington, D.C.), also known professionally as Trisha Hart, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, \"Occasional Wife\" (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, \"Blondie\" (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, \"The Bob Crane Show\" (1975) as Ellie Wilcox and \"Herbie, the Love Bug\" (1982) as Susan MacLane. She also appeared on Broadway in \"Fiorello!\" and \"Sail Away\". Harty married \"Occasional Wife\" co-star Michael Callan in June 1968. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had", "title": "Patricia Harty (actress)" }, { "id": "6356874", "text": "(2014), which is loosely based on her short romance with Salinger in the 1940s. Notes References Oona O'Neill Oona O'Neill Chaplin, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize-winning Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of English actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. O'Neill's parents divorced when she was four years old, after which she was raised by her mother in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and rarely saw her father. She first came to the public eye during her time at the Brearley School", "title": "Oona O'Neill" }, { "id": "17097653", "text": "Madoff investment scandal. In 2015, U.S. Marshals auctioned 420 lots of assets belonging to Shana Madoff and her father Peter, pursuant to a court order. Shana Diane Madoff was born in Queens, New York, in 1967, and grew up in Woodbury on the North Shore of Long Island. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992, and from Fordham Law School in 1995. In 1997 she married Scott Skoller, a men's clothing store manager from Roslyn, New York, and changed her name to Shana Skoller. Together they had a daughter, Rebecca, before divorcing. In 2007, she married Eric Swanson,", "title": "Shana Madoff" }, { "id": "16203293", "text": "to Batterson, the former owner of the house. The clip also says that Eric claims to be the rightful heir to the estate and the house. When Blondie hears about this she regrets that she asked for servants in the first place. Dagwood sets out to catch Eric, and succeeds just in time to prevent the man from stabbing his own wife Blondie in the back. When the press hears about the events that lead to Eric’s capture, they name Dagwood a hero, and he finally gets his raise from his boss. Blondie Has Servant Trouble Blondie Has Servant Trouble", "title": "Blondie Has Servant Trouble" }, { "id": "16216166", "text": "The household is falling apart, and the same goes for all the other households in the neighborhood. The other husbands are experiencing very similar situations. they blame Blondie for all this, since she is the one who started the ”Housewives of America”. They go to Dagwood and demand that he acts to put an end to the commotion, and get his wife to dissolve the group entirely. in another different turn of events, Dagwood’s boss, J.C. Dithers, has been thrown out of his home, which is to be used by a delegation of soldiers visiting the area. Dithers flees the", "title": "Blondie for Victory" }, { "id": "11143040", "text": "directors of the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon. On November 7, 2017, he emceed the Boys and Girls Clubs Future Leaders Gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA. In 2007, Smoove married singer Shahidah Omar. They have one daughter and live in Los Angeles. He shortened his name, Jerry Brooks, to \"J. B.\" and added \"Smoove\" as his last name when he began performing stand-up comedy. He is a fan of the New York Yankees and the New Orleans Saints. J. B. Smoove Jerry Angelo Brooks (born December 16, 1964), is an American actor, writer, comedian", "title": "J. B. Smoove" }, { "id": "20408384", "text": "commissioned Andy Warhol to make a portrait of her dachshund Maurice. Beginning in the 1950s, Keiller became involved with several arts institutions. From 1956 to approximately 1970, Keiller assisted Rupert Bruce-Mitford in a study of the burial ship Sutton Hoo, taking photographs of the site. She volunteered at the Tate from 1976 to 1987, where she was known as the \"Marmalade Queen.\" From 1978 to 1985, she was a member of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art advisory committee. Keiller's second husband was Charles R. Style, a brewery manager. They divorced in 1950. In 1951, she married her third", "title": "Gabrielle Keiller" }, { "id": "61114", "text": "some positive reviews, \"Limelight\" was subjected to a wide-scale boycott. Reflecting on this, Maland writes that Chaplin's fall, from an \"unprecedented\" level of popularity, \"may be the most dramatic in the history of stardom in America\". Chaplin did not attempt to return to the United States after his re-entry permit was revoked, and instead sent his wife to settle his affairs. The couple decided to settle in Switzerland and, in January 1953, the family moved into their permanent home: Manoir de Ban, a estate overlooking Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey. Chaplin put his Beverly Hills house and studio up for sale", "title": "Charlie Chaplin" }, { "id": "2523769", "text": "Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the German-American wife of retired professional football player and actor O. J. Simpson and the mother of their two children, Sydney and Justin. She was found murdered at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA on June 13, 1994, along with her friend, 25-year-old American restaurant waiter Ron Goldman. Simpson was charged with both murders; after a controversial and highly-publicized criminal trial, Simpson was acquitted in 1995, but found liable for both deaths in a civil suit in 1997 and ordered to pay $33.5 million", "title": "Nicole Brown Simpson" }, { "id": "114480", "text": "Switzerland. On 24 April 1992, Bowie married Somali-American model Iman in a private ceremony in Lausanne. The wedding was later solemnised on 6 June in Florence. They had one daughter, Alexandria \"Lexi\" Zahra Jones, born in August 2000. The couple resided primarily in New York City and London, as well as owning an apartment in Sydney's Elizabeth Bay. and Britannia Bay House on the island of Mustique, now renamed Mandalay Estate. Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts for a 1972 issue of \"Melody Maker\", coinciding with his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust. According to Buckley,", "title": "David Bowie" }, { "id": "18383617", "text": "The Middle (season 6) The sixth season of the television comedy series \"The Middle\" began airing on September 24, 2014, on ABC in the United States. It is produced by Blackie and Blondie Productions and Warner Bros. Television with series creators DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler as executive producers. The show features Frances \"Frankie\" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a working-class, Midwestern woman married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn) who resides in the small fictional town of Orson, Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer). On May 8, 2014, ABC renewed", "title": "The Middle (season 6)" }, { "id": "11681982", "text": "Harold Hamgravy Harold Hamgravy, better known as Ham Gravy, is an American comics character from the \"Thimble Theatre\" (later \"Popeye\") series, created in 1919 by Elzie Segar. Hamgravy was the original fiancé of the better-known character Olive Oyl, but was often attracted to other women who were considerably wealthy. Hamgravy was depicted as a slacker who preferred getting rich quick rather than earning money honestly. In a later strip, Hamgravy hired a sailor named Popeye to man his ship for a treasure hunt. Intended as a minor supporting character, Popeye proved so popular with readers that he was made a", "title": "Harold Hamgravy" }, { "id": "15406958", "text": "of the way. The young couple that picks them up, Millie and Charlie, are on their way to get married and elope together, without their parents' consents. The Bumsteads have to accompany the young couple to court and the wedding ceremony, but the wedding is interrupted by Millie's father, Mr Tucker, storming in with a shotgun. Mr Tucker then takes the car, with Dagwood, his son and their dog still in it, and drives off. Charlie is forced to take Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch, and in she encourages him to have another go at marrying Millie and elop. unfortunately", "title": "Blondie Plays Cupid" }, { "id": "13976490", "text": "for violating his probation for the 1999 theft, after he was arrested on battery charges involving his then-wife, Joanna Ferrell. He was again twice arrested on charges of battery against Ferrell in 2004, and that same year, he filed for divorce under the name John W. Ferrell, which he had been using during his marriage with Ferrell. In 2014, he was severely injured when he broke his neck in a vehicular accident in Buffalo, New York. After the trial, Lorena attempted to keep a low profile and reverted to the use of her maiden name, Gallo. In December 1997, she", "title": "John and Lorena Bobbitt" }, { "id": "14165361", "text": "Blonde (film) Blonde is a 2001 American made-for-television biographical film on the life of Marilyn Monroe, with Australian actress Poppy Montgomery in the lead role. The film was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates´s 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist novel of the same name. A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with a series of real events in her life. With glimpses into her childhood years, teenaged marriage to first husband James Dougherty, meeting with photographer Otto Ose, career with 20th Century Fox, relationship with her mother, her foster parents, Charles Chaplin Jr. (Cass), Edward G. Robinson Jr. (Eddie G), and her", "title": "Blonde (film)" }, { "id": "2713926", "text": "City, the third child of Rose (née Stern 1867-1941), a Hungarian-Jewish woman who emigrated to America at age ten, and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. The Borachs were saloon owners and had four children: Phillip, born in 1887; Carrie, born in 1889; Fania, born in 1891; and Louis, born in 1893. Under the name Lew Brice, her younger brother also became an entertainer and was the first husband of actress Mae Clarke. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, \"The Girls from Happy Land Starring Sliding Billy Watson\". Two years later she began her association", "title": "Fanny Brice" }, { "id": "4183499", "text": "claimed that the accident left him severely disabled and he had to utilize a wheelchair and crutches for the remainder of his life. In 1962, he attempted suicide after a heavy drinking binge. Beckett was married three times and had one child. He married professional tennis player Beverly Baker on September 28, 1949, in Las Vegas. She was granted a divorce in June 1950. His second marriage was to model and actress Sunny Vickers. They married in 1951 and had one son, Scott Jr., before divorcing in 1957. In 1961, he married Margaret C. Sabo; she remained with him until", "title": "Scotty Beckett" }, { "id": "2513672", "text": "situation structured into the strip for so many decades. Dagwood is the office manager at the office of the J. C. Dithers Construction Company under his dictatorial boss, Julius Caesar Dithers. Mr. Dithers is a \"sawed-off, tin pot Napoleon\" who is always abusing his employees, both verbally and physically. He frequently threatens to fire Dagwood when Dagwood inevitably botches or does not finish his work, sleeps on the job, comes in late, or pesters Dithers for a raise. Dithers characteristically responds by kicking Dagwood in the backside and ordering him back to work. The tyrannical Dithers is lord and master", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "10269343", "text": "Victoria Sellers Victoria Sellers (born 20 January 1965) is a British model, actress, comedian and jewellery designer. Born in London, Sellers attended Lycée Français de Los Angeles in West Los Angeles and Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in the class of 1981. She became friends with the \"Hollywood Madam\" Heidi Fleiss in their teens. She is the only child from the marriage of actor Peter Sellers and actress Britt Ekland. A letter auctioned in 2010, one of the last documents signed by her father before his death, indicates that he was trying to increase the amount of money to", "title": "Victoria Sellers" }, { "id": "17762570", "text": "and an actress, Marr served as a talent spotter. She discovered Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Pat Morita, and Sam Kinison. Sally Marr died on December 14, 1997, about two weeks shy of her 91st birthday, in Los Angeles. She was survived by her granddaughter, Kitty Bruce, the daughter of Lenny Bruce and his ex-wife Honey Harlow. Sally Marr Sally Marr (December 30, 1906 – December 14, 1997) was a stand-up comic, dancer, actress and talent spotter who is best known as being the mother of legendary and seminal comic Lenny Bruce, whose act she influenced. Born Sadie Kitchenberg in Jamaica,", "title": "Sally Marr" }, { "id": "17285602", "text": "including bigmouth housewife Cynthia Thompson and Paul Madison, who were Dagwood’s highschool suitor, hears about Dagwood’s fortune, they suggest he pay the bill of $400 for the fancy dinner at the reunion. Blondie has no choice but to accept to defend Dagwood’s honor. Dagwood panics when he hears what Blondie has promised in his name, and starts a desperate search for money to pay for the dinner he can’t afford. He sees no other alternative than to try to gamble up the money on the horse race track. He talks to a gambling expert named Pete Brody to learn how", "title": "Blondie's Holiday" }, { "id": "10678568", "text": "more famously acerbic W.C. Fields, with whom he established a lifelong friendship. Sutherland's last directing assignment was working on the \"Mack & Myer for Hire\" TV comedies with Joey Faye and Mickey Deans for Sandy Howard TV Productions and Trans-Lux Television in 1965. (Info can be found at www.tvparty.com.) Sutherland was married five times. Among his wives were Marjorie Daw (from 1923 to 1925) and Louise Brooks (from July 1926 to June 1928). He and Brooks met on the set of \"It's the Old Army Game\", which he directed and which also co-starred his aunt Blanche Ring. Brooks and Sutherland", "title": "A. Edward Sutherland" }, { "id": "2764138", "text": "the Apollo Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1973 at age 72. He had been in ill health for some time, remaining near his home in Clearwater, FL. \"Blondie\" is currently written by Chic Young's son, Dean Young, and illustrated by John Marshall with his assistant Frank Cummings. Chic Young received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for \"Blondie\" in 1948, only one of many awards. Chic Young Murat Bernard \"Chic\" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip \"Blondie\". His 1919 \"William McKinley High School Yearbook\" cites his nickname as Chicken,", "title": "Chic Young" }, { "id": "3017978", "text": "still existed between Lee and Neil, as Lee felt that the band had been going in a backward direction since Neil rejoined the group. Lee was also having domestic problems with his wife, model Pamela Anderson, which, after an altercation following an argument, led to him serving time in jail. During this time, Mötley Crüe and Elektra Records severed their 17-year relationship together, with Mötley Crüe gaining full ownership of its music catalog and publishing rights. The break with Elektra allowed the group to form its own label, Mötley Records, to release future projects on. Lee's legal problems forced the", "title": "New Tattoo" }, { "id": "4567168", "text": "Williams and was engaged to former Middlesbrough attacker Jérémie Aliadière. She was briefly married to restaurateur Richard Palmer – ex-husband of Raquel Welch, and is now divorced. In 2014, Dowding uploaded a photo of herself dressed as a murdered Native American chief. This was considered extremely offensive by \"Indian Country Today News\". Leilani Dowding Leilani Dowding (born 30 January 1980) is an English former \"Page 3\" girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and the UK representative at Miss Universe 1998. Dowding grew up in Bournemouth, and has a younger sister Melanie. They were brought up Roman Catholic by their Filipina mother", "title": "Leilani Dowding" }, { "id": "1415812", "text": "Dandy Nichols Dandy Nichols (born Daisy Sander; 21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom \"Till Death Us Do Part\". Born Daisy Sander in Fulham, London, she started her working life as a secretary in a London factory. Twelve years later, after drama, diction and fencing classes, she was spotted in a charity show by a producer, who offered her a job in his repertory theatre company in Cambridge. During her early career", "title": "Dandy Nichols" } ]

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[ { "id": "19505581", "text": "away from a congenital cardiac defect, and his nephew Robin falls to his death through a window. In the immediate aftermath of this, John caves in to his \"inappropriate\" feelings for his housekeeper's sister, Bronwen. He resumes his business life in London with his brother Edmund and falls under the spell of a powerful American millionaire, Armstrong. He's given a choice, marry Constance Armstrong, his American employer's daughter and advance his family's commercial and social standing, or follow his heart and spend the rest of his life with the working-class Welshwoman Bronwen, who is, he feels, the only person who", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505573", "text": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel) \"The Wheel of Fortune\" (1984) is a novel by Susan Howatch and recounts the trials and tribulations of a fictitious British family, the Godwins, who appear to be part of the minor aristocracy. As the title of the novel and Boethius' comments on Fortune as printed on the first page of the very first part suggest, defying the ravages of time and fate forms a central theme to this novel, where the six primary characters seek to challenge fate or to make their own destinies regardless of the social norms or circumstances of the time.", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505591", "text": "Gaunt) and Henry IV's eldest son King Henry V. The Wheel of Fortune (novel) \"The Wheel of Fortune\" (1984) is a novel by Susan Howatch and recounts the trials and tribulations of a fictitious British family, the Godwins, who appear to be part of the minor aristocracy. As the title of the novel and Boethius' comments on Fortune as printed on the first page of the very first part suggest, defying the ravages of time and fate forms a central theme to this novel, where the six primary characters seek to challenge fate or to make their own destinies regardless", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "5686415", "text": "a wide variety of bass guitars. He at various times owned a good selection of Fender Precisions, a Danelectro Longhorn and a Wal bass. After Costello's initial split with the Attractions in 1987, Thomas recorded with such other artists as Billy Bragg, John Wesley Harding, and Suzanne Vega. In 1990 he released his first book \"The Big Wheel\", a memoir in which the key characters are recognizable without ever being identified by name. Costello, for instance, is called \"the singer.\" Apparently annoyed by his depiction in the book, Costello responded with the song \"How To Be Dumb\" on his album", "title": "Bruce Thomas" }, { "id": "19505574", "text": "The book's main events all revolve around a stately Georgian era home named Oxmoon, and are set on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, spanning a period of over forty years in which the owners of Oxmoon all have to face immense challenges, financial hardship and even personal tragedy. The book is divided into six parts, each one based on the point-of-view of several characters, namely: Upon the death of her husband Conor, Ginevra decides to leave New York City, entrust her young children to her late husband's family from Ireland, and return to Wales to stay with her childhood friend,", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "6545503", "text": "Lady Carbury writes a novel entitled \"The Wheel of Fortune\" about a heroine who suffers great financial hardships. Selections from the \"Carmina Burana\", including the two poems quoted above, were set to new music by twentieth-century classical composer Carl Orff, whose well-known \"O Fortuna\" is based on the poem \"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi\". Fortuna does occasionally turn up in modern literature, although these days she has become more or less synonymous with Lady Luck. Her Wheel is less widely used as a symbol, and has been replaced largely by a reputation for fickleness. She is often associated with gamblers, and dice", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "19505575", "text": "the lawyer and politician Robert Godwin (who is also heir presumptive to the Godwin family estate, Oxmoon). Robert, who usually prizes logical thinking, willpower and level-headedness, initially expresses annoyance and worry with his feelings for Ginevra (which are mutually reciprocated), but eventually gives in. As Robert and Ginevra revive their childhood relationship and eventually consummate it, he then decides to marry Ginevra but the marriage is vehemently opposed by his mother Margaret, and Robert soon learns why when he discovers several dark secrets in his family revolving around his father Bobby and his grandmother. Bobby killed his mother's lover, Owen", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505582", "text": "knows his true self. John marries Constance but finds his marriage emotionally unsatisfying, so after finding out he has fathered a child with Bronwen, he leaves Constance, choosing love and ostracism over profit and respectability. He struggles socially while making his living through market farming with Thomas' help. The supportive Bronwen convinces John do the right thing, to relinquish his personal claim to Oxmoon, and to help aid his nephew Kester to succeed Bobby as master of Oxmoon, now that both Robert and Bobby are dying. Home-schooled by Ginevra and living a somewhat sheltered life in a house with a", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505584", "text": "Oxmoon. Once Ginevra dies, Kester comes into his inheritance, but is an incurable romantic who prefers writing over farming, choosing to invest money in indulging his taste for art and sculpture rather than properly running the estate, much to the disgust of his uncle Thomas, and evoking the envy of his cousin Harry, John's son . Harry's jealousy stems from the fact Harry felt that his father should have inherited Oxmoon instead of Ginevra and Kester. Kester's relationship with Thomas becomes more heated and violent when he marries Anna, a German Jew on the run from Hitler's Nazi regime. With", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "13515921", "text": "George Cranmer. He was also introduced to John Churchman, a distinguished London merchant who became Master of the Merchant Taylors Company. It was at this time, according to his first biographer Walton, that Hooker made the \"fatal mistake\" of marrying his landlady's daughter, Jean Churchman. As Walton put it: \"There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals", "title": "Richard Hooker" }, { "id": "3322728", "text": "about her life at St George's Hall, Liverpool as part of the city's Homotopia festival on 15 November 2008, and on 18 February 2009 at the South Bank Centre. She lives in Fulham, South West London. \"April Ashley's Odyssey\", a biography by Duncan Fallowell, was published in 1982. In 2006, Ashley released her autobiography \"The First Lady\" and made TV appearances on Channel Five News, This Morning and BBC News. In one interview, she said, \"This is the real story and contains a lot of things I just couldn't say in 1982\", including alleged affairs with Michael Hutchence, Peter O'Toole,", "title": "April Ashley" }, { "id": "19505583", "text": "dying father and a sainted deceased older brother, Kester Godwin survives an awkward adolescence to become an author. His recollections reveal that he has inherited his mother's emotional intensity, her propensity for melodrama and sensual excess, as well as Robert's competitive spirit and obsessive nature, leaving Kester with a manipulative streak that becomes more apparent in Harry and Hal's stories. Upon his father's passing, Kester's Uncle John, whose brave romantic decision made him a hero in Ginevra's eyes, makes good his promise to the now deceased Robert and attempts to help Kester prepare for his role as the master of", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "17209781", "text": "Western Australian Transport Board, retiring in 1952. As a soldier, in World War I he was awarded the Military Cross, and commanded the 9th Field Company in 1917-18. In World War II he was posted to Army Headquarters, Melbourne; as colonel, then brigadier, he occupied senior engineering staff posts. In retirement, he wrote an autobiography, The Turning Wheel (1960). His parents were Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and Grace Bussell. He had four sisters and two brothers, including Major General Edmund Drake-Brockman (1884-1949) and Lady Deborah Vernon Hackett (1887-1965). In 1917 he married Alice Annie Wardlaw Milne in Hertfordshire, England. She died", "title": "Geoffrey Drake-Brockman (engineer)" }, { "id": "10085960", "text": "know what this was used for?\" In two particularly memorable programmes (\"Horsemen\" and \"The Harvest\" directed by Geoffrey Weaver), Weaver assembled teams of men - some in their eighties - to demonstrate their now-lost skills with horses and in the fields. In his autobiography, Full Circle, Joice wrote that he ‘...was born with a naturally acquisitive and inquisitive nature, always wanting to find out how things worked and where they came from;’ and his own collection of bygone agricultural and domestic items was enormous. In 1979 this lifetime collection came to rest in the old stable block at Holkham Hall", "title": "Dick Joice" }, { "id": "3925658", "text": "Nicky Campbell Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell, OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He has presented the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast programme since 2003, BBC One's Sunday morning show \"The Big Questions\" since 2007, and \"Long Lost Family\" on ITV since 2011. He presented the game show \"Wheel of Fortune\" from 1988 until 1996, and the consumer affairs programme \"Watchdog\" from 2001 to 2009. Campbell was born in Edinburgh and adopted at four days old. He was educated at the independent school Edinburgh Academy. His adoptive mother was a psychiatric", "title": "Nicky Campbell" }, { "id": "19505577", "text": "and Ginevra stay together as husband and wife in London (where Robert has his practice as a lawyer), eventually having two sons of their own together, Robin and Kester. The First World War breaks out, and with it, the first of several family tragedies befalls the Godwin family. Robert's brothers Lionel and Edmund are sent to France, where Lionel is killed in action and Edmund is left psychologically maimed, leaving Robert broken and despondent. He takes up mountaineering, and goes off by himself periodically, leaving a bored and slightly paranoid Ginevra alone in their rural setting, with uncomfortable relations with", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505590", "text": "the auspices of the National Trust. Shortly after the inauguration ceremony, the Godwin family enjoys one last dance in Oxmoon's now restored ballroom before closing for the night. Howatch acknowledges that this novel is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock (\"The Black Prince\") and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II (son of Edward of Woodstock), Henry IV (son of John of", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "5914189", "text": "of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After completing his term in the Senate, he returned to the practice of law. All the while, from 1905 until his death, he was a director of the Farmers' Bank of Delaware. Hughes was married to Caroline Taylor. Their great-granddaughter is actress Perrey Reeves. Hughes died at Lewes and is buried in the Lakeside Methodist Episcopal Cemetery at Dover. His home, Wheel of Fortune, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. U.S. Senators are popularly elected and take office January 3", "title": "James H. Hughes" }, { "id": "6545491", "text": "Rota Fortunae In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (Greek equivalent Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. Fortune appears on all paintings as a woman, sometimes blindfolded, \"puppeteering\" a wheel. The origin of the word is from the \"wheel of fortune\" - the zodiac, referring to the Celestial spheres of which the 8th holds the stars, and the 9th is where the signs of", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "4675572", "text": "the 'theft' of sharing copyrighted works online, solemnly intoning that 'the law is the law.' So is a theft not a theft when the victim is the public, and not a private copyright holder?\" Autobiography of Mark Twain The Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The \"Autobiography\" comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never compiled these writings and dictations into a publishable", "title": "Autobiography of Mark Twain" }, { "id": "7395351", "text": "of Pakistan's first Constitution. In 1949, Asad joined Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the Middle East Division and made efforts to strengthen Pakistan's ties with the Muslim states of the Middle East. In 1952, Asad was appointed as Pakistan's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations in New York – a position that he relinquished in 1952 to write his autobiography (up to the age of 32), \"The Road to Mecca\". Asad contributed much to Pakistan's early political and cultural life but was shunned from the corridors of power. He served this country as the head of the", "title": "Muhammad Asad" }, { "id": "19505585", "text": "the Oxmoon estate in arrears thanks to Kester's mismanagement, John and Thomas are forced to seize control of Oxmoon's management from Kester and Anna. Naturally, Kester vows vengeance to retake back Oxmoon, and on Thomas for having publicly humiliated him and insulted his wife. Harry is seen as the perfect boy - handsome, clever and tough - but we learn he is a lost soul, wanting to follow music and desperate for his father's approval. After Bronwen leaves her beloved John to go to Canada to escape their socially-derided relationship, John resumes his London life with Constance and Harry silently", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19505588", "text": "Kester kills Thomas (in apparent self-defence), Harry chooses to help cover up the killing and make it look like he died in a car crash, but the struggle is far from over. Kester fears Harry exposing his killing of Thomas, while Harry in turn is afraid Kester will deprive him of Oxmoon and frame him for his uncle's death. Harry's story ends with a cliffhanger, following Kester's invitation to Harry to discuss and resolve their differences in an isolated area near a dangerous stretch of cliffs by the seashore. By 1966, Oxmoon is barely a shadow of its prewar self", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "3200104", "text": "Mondavi died at his Yountville home on May 16, 2008 at the age of 94. An autobiography \"Harvests of Joy\" was published in 1998. Robert Mondavi was selected as the \"Decanter\" \"Man of the Year\" in 1989. He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1991. In 2000 he was awarded Doctor of Oenology, Honoris Causa, by the Board of Trustees of Johnson & Wales University. In 2002, he received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2005, he received the Legion of Honour from the French government. On December 5, 2007, California", "title": "Robert Mondavi" }, { "id": "3266660", "text": "has been found as far north as Castlecary, Scotland and an altar and statue can now be viewed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Fortuna's name seems to derive from \"Vortumna\" (she who revolves the year). The earliest reference to the Wheel of Fortune, emblematic of the endless changes in life between prosperity and disaster, is from 55 BC. In Seneca's tragedy \"Agamemnon\", a chorus addresses Fortuna in terms that would remain almost proverbial, and in a high heroic ranting mode that Renaissance writers would emulate: Ovid's description is typical of Roman representations: in a letter from exile he reflects", "title": "Fortuna" }, { "id": "6545501", "text": "of the genitive form \"Fortunae\". Excerpts from two of the collection's better known poems, \"\"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi\" (Fortune, Empress of the World)\" and \"\"Fortune Plango Vulnera\" (I Bemoan the Wounds of Fortune),\" read: \" Fortune and her Wheel have remained an enduring image throughout history. Fortune's wheel can also be found in Thomas More's \"Utopia\". William Shakespeare in \"Hamlet\" wrote of the \"slings and arrows of outrageous fortune\" and, of fortune personified, to \"break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel.\" And in \"Henry V\", Act 3 Scene VI are the lines: Shakespeare also references this Wheel in \"King", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "7121326", "text": "Noah Dietrich Noah Dietrich (February 28, 1889 – February 15, 1982) was an American businessman, who was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes business empire from 1925 to 1957.According to his own memoirs, he left the Hughes operation over a dispute involving putting more of his income on a capital gains basis. The manuscript of his eventual memoir, \"Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes\", may have been a key, if inadvertent, source of novelist Clifford Irving's infamous fake autobiography of Hughes. Dietrich was born on February 28, 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Lutheran minister John Dietrich, and", "title": "Noah Dietrich" }, { "id": "1779104", "text": "chose to remain with the rump 'continuing SDP' after the majority of the party's members voted to merge with the Liberal Party in 1988. He later sat as a crossbencher during his rare appearances in the House of Lords. The duke followed the family tradition of owning racehorses, the most famous of which was Park Top, the subject of the duke's first published book, \"A Romance of The Turf: Park Top\", which was published in 1976. His autobiography, \"Accidents of Fortune\", was published just before his death in 2004. The duke had many disputes over the years with the ramblers", "title": "Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire" }, { "id": "1864887", "text": "other works are the 1950 play \"Flamineo\", based on John Webster's \"The White Devil\", the 1948 biography \"Oscar Wilde\" (extended in 1955 as \"Oscar Wilde, or The Destiny of Homosexuality\"), and various translations including Jonathan Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels\". In 1965 Merle wrote \"Moncada: premier combat de Fidel Castro\" and \"Ahmed Ben Bella\", and around this time translated the diaries of Che Guevara. Until the invasion of Afghanistan by the Red Army, Merle was briefly a member of the Communist Party. He said: Merle's \"major achievement\" was his 13-book series of historical novels, \"Fortune de France\" (1977–2003), which recreate 16th and", "title": "Robert Merle" }, { "id": "19505578", "text": "her inlaws, including straitlaced and judgmental John. She travels to London frequently, to see girlfriends and drink away her worries. Robert confides to Ginevra that following a friend's death in a mountaineering accident, he is terrified of the prospect of dying, especially more so now that Lionel is dead. Robert eventually decides to retire to Oxmoon with Ginevra, but even then that is not the end of their tribulations. Robert suddenly contracts an unnamed degenerative neurological disorder (described in 'Hal' as multiple sclerosis) that first manifests itself as unexplained tremors, later intensifying into full-blown paralysis over the next nine years.", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "529476", "text": "The Wheel of Time The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney Jr., under his pen name of Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, \"The Wheel of Time\" spanned fourteen volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and two companion books. Jordan began writing the first volume, \"The Eye of the World\", in 1984, and it was published in January 1990. The author died in 2007 while working on what was planned to be the twelfth and final volume in the series. He prepared extensive notes so another", "title": "The Wheel of Time" }, { "id": "19505580", "text": "Margaret, suddenly dies following a party, upsetting the balance of the family and unhinging Bobby, who then takes on a mistress, Milly Straker, who turns out to be a gold digger intent on seizing Oxmoon from the Godwins. As Bobby lapses into senility and falls under Straker's control, John, Robert, and their younger brother Thomas vie with her for control of Oxmoon. Due to Bobby's mismanagement a workers' strike breaks out, forcing Straker out of Oxmoon, leaving the mansion and the lands back in the hands of the Godwins. John is also personally affected when his young wife Blanche passes", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "5292626", "text": "Swift with his \"Tristram Shandy\" (1759–1767). Tristram seeks to write his autobiography, but like Swift's narrator in \"A Tale of a Tub\", he worries that nothing in his life can be understood without understanding its context. For example, he tells the reader that at the very moment he was conceived, his mother was saying, \"Did you wind the clock?\". To clarify how he knows this, he explains that his father took care of winding the clock and \"other family business\" on one day a month. To explain why the clock had to be wound then, he has to explain his", "title": "Augustan literature" }, { "id": "6545509", "text": "players to discard their hands and draw new ones. Rota Fortunae In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (Greek equivalent Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. Fortune appears on all paintings as a woman, sometimes blindfolded, \"puppeteering\" a wheel. The origin of the word is from the \"wheel of fortune\" - the zodiac, referring to the Celestial spheres of which the 8th holds the", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "16084035", "text": "months later, Cauet was found guilty of public defamation of an individual and sentenced to a 500 euro fine and one euro in damages. In October 2006, he released a book, \"Mystères, scandales et... fortune\" (Mysteries, Scandals and... Fortune). The same year, he released his autobiography with a deliberately provocative title \"Omar Harfouch: Confessions of a millionaire\", in which he sets things straight with the French \"celebrity scene\" and the so-called \"presse people\". Omar Harfouch Omar Harfouch (Arabic: عمر حرفوش; born 20 April 1969 in Tripoli in Lebanon) is a businessman with dual Lebanese and French citizenship. Owner of a", "title": "Omar Harfouch" }, { "id": "14090305", "text": "True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at a supposedly prolific time in her career. Ekland refers to Peter Sellers as 'Sellers', he in turn called her 'Britvic' She describes his obsessive behaviour and obsession with pleasing the Royal Family, both contributing factors in their ultimate divorce. \"I would squirm with embarrassment at the demeaning lengths he would stoop to", "title": "True Britt" }, { "id": "3568918", "text": "Circuit, and the Ninth Circuit denied a rehearing; Judge Kozinski issued a dissent. The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari. White ultimately was awarded $403,000 in damages. Vanna White Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich; February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and film actress known as the hostess of \"Wheel of Fortune\" since 1982. White was born Vanna Marie Rosich, in Conway, South Carolina, the daughter of Joan Marie and Miguel Angel Rosich. Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and White took the name of her stepfather, Herbert Stackley White Jr., a former real estate broker in", "title": "Vanna White" }, { "id": "206071", "text": "\"The Casual Vacancy\" (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels \"The Cuckoo's Calling\" (2013), \"The Silkworm\" (2014), \"Career of Evil\" (2015), and \"Lethal White\" (2018). Rowling has lived a \"rags to riches\" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author, with sales in excess of £238M. The 2016 \"Sunday Times Rich List\" estimated Rowling's fortune at", "title": "J. K. Rowling" }, { "id": "5464221", "text": "Reg Grundy Reginald Roy Grundy (4 August 1923 – 6 May 2016) was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, one of the pioneers and most successful of his generation, best known for his numerous television productions. He was the creator of game shows such as \"Blankety Blanks\" (based on a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production, \"Match Game\") and \"Wheel of Fortune\" (based on the Merv Griffin production of the same name), before later diversifying into soap operas and serials including \"Prisoner\", \"The Young Doctors\", \"Sons and Daughters\" and \"Neighbours\", which was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2005. Reginald", "title": "Reg Grundy" }, { "id": "4192013", "text": "matter when or by whom it should arise.\" On 3 September 2010, the BBC News website published a profile of Collins that began: \"Former Formula Three driver Ben Collins has won a legal fight to publish an autobiography in which he claims to be The Stig.\" Collins' book, \"The Man in the White Suit,\" was published 16 September 2010. Immediately following the High Court's decision, \"Top Gear\" presenter James May commented, \"Obviously I'm now going to have to take some legal action of my own, because I have been the Stig for the past seven years, and I don't know", "title": "The Stig" }, { "id": "11458284", "text": "was a fellow of the Royal Society and a founder member of the Royal Automobile Club. Evelyn Crompton was born at Sion Hill, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, one of five children. From an early age he was interested in machines and engineering. His autobiography tells how a trip to the Great Exhibition aged 6 had a profound impact on him: \"\"For me, the unforgettable part and focus of the whole exhibition was the Machinery Hall...neither Koh-I-Noor diamond, nor Osler's crystal fountain...had any attractions for me to compare with those of the locomotives, with their brilliantly polished piston rods and brasses burnished", "title": "R. E. B. Crompton" }, { "id": "577134", "text": "1998. Wallis was plagued by rumours of other lovers. The gay American playboy Jimmy Donahue, an heir to the Woolworth fortune, claimed to have had a liaison with the Duchess in the 1950s, but Donahue was notorious for his inventive pranks and rumour-mongering. Wallis's memoirs, \"The Heart Has Its Reasons\", were published in 1956. One of her biographers, Charles Higham, said of the book, \"facts were remorselessly rearranged in what amounted to a self-performed face-lift ... reflecting in abundance its author's politically misguided but winning and desirable personality.\" He describes the Duchess as \"charismatic, electric and compulsively ambitious\". \"The Daily", "title": "Wallis Simpson" }, { "id": "19505579", "text": "By the end of Ginevra's story, Robert is wheelchair-bound and realises his condition will only get worse. Feeling she might be happier married to someone else, Robert offers his wife a divorce but Ginevra declines, vowing to stay on by Robert's side till the bitter end, saying \"I could always walk out on a husband. But I could never turn my back on a friend.\" Back in Oxmoon, John Godwin, one of Robert's surviving brothers, begins planning to take over as the heir of Oxmoon as Robert's disease begins to take hold, but more deaths soon take place. Bobby's wife,", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "19573965", "text": "Kevin Lacz Kevin \"Dauber\" Lacz is a United States Navy SEAL veteran who served two tours in the Iraq War. His platoon's 2006 deployment to Ramadi has been discussed in several books, including Dick Couch's \"The Sheriff of Ramadi\", Jim DeFelice's \"Code Name: Johnny Walker\", and Chris Kyle's New York Times best-selling autobiography, \"American Sniper\". Lacz's presence in the book led to his involvement in the production of and eventual casting in the Clint Eastwood-directed Oscar-winning biopic of the same name (starring Bradley Cooper). Lacz was born in Meriden, Connecticut, where he lived until the age of 12, at which", "title": "Kevin Lacz" }, { "id": "4923314", "text": "William Slater Brown William Slater Brown (November 13, 1896 – June 22, 1997) was an American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best known as the character \"B.\" in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel \"The Enormous Room\". His books, published under the name Slater Brown, include the novel \"The Burning Wheel\" (1943); \"Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys\" (1956), a biography for children; and \"The Heyday of Spiritualism\" (1970), a study of the 19th-century interest in parapsychology and the occult. Brown was born to the physician", "title": "William Slater Brown" }, { "id": "11430063", "text": "Fremantle Australia Fremantle Australia (formerly FremantleMedia Australia) is the Australian arm of global British production and entertainment company Fremantle and was formed in 2006 by the merger of market leader Grundy Television and comedy specialists Crackerjack Productions, who had both previously been acquired by Fremantle. Grundy was founded by Reg Grundy, its first production being \"Wheel of Fortune\" in 1959, which was an original idea devised by Reg for a radio game show, before taking the idea to Sydney television network TCN9 (now part of the Nine Network). The then 36-year-old worked as both the host of the show and", "title": "Fremantle Australia" }, { "id": "1273558", "text": "madness, or cure infertility. The water of the Styx causes immediate death. Book XIV covers geography, describing the Earth, islands, promontories, mountains and caves. The earth is divided into three parts, Asia occupying half the globe, and Europe and Africa each occupying a quarter. Europe is separated from Africa by the Mediterranean, reaching in from the Ocean that flows all around the land. Isidore writes that the \"orbis\" of the earth, translated by Barney as \"globe\", \"derives its name from the roundness of the circle, because it resembles a wheel; hence a small wheel is called a 'small disk' (\"orbiculus\")\".", "title": "Etymologiae" }, { "id": "6545504", "text": "could also be said to have replaced the Wheel as the primary metaphor for uncertain fortune. In his novel, \"The Club Dumas\", Arturo Pérez-Reverte includes a wheel of fortune in one of the illustrations that accompany the text. Ignatius J. Reilly, the central protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's novel \"A Confederacy of Dunces\", states that he believes the Rota Fortunae to be the source of all men's fate. Jerry Garcia recorded a song entitled \"The Wheel\" (co-written with Robert Hunter and Bill Kreutzmann) for his 1972 solo album \"Garcia\", and performed the song regularly with the Grateful Dead from 1976", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "19505576", "text": "Bryn-Davies, to keep him from defrauding the Godwin family of Oxmoon, and has been psychologically damaged ever since. With Margaret's resigned tolerance and understanding, Bobby engaged in many sexual affairs to relieve himself of the guilt of having murdered Owen and one of the women he slept with was a teenaged Ginevra. Notwithstanding the opposition of his family, Robert goes ahead and marries Ginevra, and despite the abrasive differences inherent in their own individual personalities (Ginevra's describes her mind was all \"splashes of colour\" and Robert as \"emotionally colour-blind\") as well as the opposition of Ginevra's children with Conor, Robert", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "2629759", "text": "and asked Korda if he thought anyone would notice, he said. Howatch followed a similar theme in her vast saga, \"The Wheel of Fortune\", where the story of the Godwin family of Oxmoon in Gower, South Wales, is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock (\"The Black Prince\") and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II (son of Edward of Woodstock), Henry IV", "title": "Susan Howatch" }, { "id": "2964519", "text": "Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits \"Wheel of Fortune\" in 1951 and \"(The) Rock and Roll Waltz\" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her \"the only white woman who could sing the blues.\" Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks", "title": "Kay Starr" }, { "id": "1518065", "text": "in support of extending of the Voting Rights Act in 1982. In 1989, Abernathy wrote \"And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography\", a controversial autobiography about his and King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. He was ridiculed for the revelations in the book about Martin Luther King's alleged infidelity. Abernathy eventually became less active in politics and returned to his work as a minister. He died of heart disease on April 17, 1990. His tombstone is engraved with the words \"I tried\". Abernathy, 10th of William and Louivery Abernathy's 12 children, was born on March 11, 1926, on", "title": "Ralph Abernathy" }, { "id": "19594", "text": "\"The Secret of Business is the Management of Men\" (1903), \"James Watt\" (1905) in the Famous Scots Series, \"Problems of Today\" (1907), and his posthumously published \"Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie\" (1920). Carnegie received the honorary Doctor of Laws (DLL) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901, and received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow \"\"in recognition of his munificence\"\" later the same year. In July 1902 he received the Freedom of the city of St Andrews, \"\"in testimony of his great zeal for the welfare of his fellow-men on both sides of the Atlantic\",\" and in October 1902", "title": "Andrew Carnegie" }, { "id": "3568913", "text": "show. On December 13, 1982, White became the regular hostess. Her 1987 autobiography, \"Vanna Speaks!\", was a best-seller. Also in 1987, she was featured in a \"Playboy\" pictorial, showing photos taken of her by her boyfriend (before her career on \"Wheel of Fortune\") wearing see-through lingerie. In 1988, she appeared in the NBC television film \"Goddess of Love\", in which she played Venus; Betsy Palmer co-starred as Juno. The film was panned universally by critics, with \"TV Guide\" joking that White's acting was \"wheely\" bad. Film historian Leonard Maltin added that the picture was \"bottom-of-the-barrel yet, on its own terms,", "title": "Vanna White" }, { "id": "3065171", "text": "with a Doctor of Humane Letters by University President Anthony J. Cernera. Ebersol is the 2014 recipient of the Paul White Award, the highest award presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association. Ebersol was previously married to former \"Wheel of Fortune\" hostess Susan Stafford from 1976-81. They had no children. He has been married to actress Susan Saint James since 1981. They have three children together, Charlie, Willie, and Teddy, who died in a plane crash in 2004. Saint James has two children from a previous marriage. On November 28, 2004, a private charter jet carrying Ebersol and two", "title": "Dick Ebersol" }, { "id": "9107794", "text": "in order to better understand how she functions. After being whisked away by a dragon-pulled chariot, he is guided through Fortune’s abode by Divine Providence (allegorized as a female character). There he sees not one Wheel of Fortune, but three, representing the past, present and future; each is composed of a series of Dante-like circles ruled by different planets. The circles contain examples of virtuous and unvirtuous historical figures. In the seventh circle, he encounters only one figure – Álvaro de Luna, who is seen as a horseman dominating Fortune, a wild horse. Having finished his tour of Fortune’s home,", "title": "Laberinto de Fortuna" }, { "id": "11027351", "text": "season with the New York Rangers hockey team, \"Steal This Dream\", an oral biography of Abbie Hoffman. His book \"The Secret Life of Houdini\", written with magic historian William Kalush, presented research that attempted to prove that early 20th-century American magician Harry Houdini was a spy. The authors also raised the possibility that Houdini had been murdered by a cabal of Spiritualists, prompting Houdini's great-nephew to call for an exhumation of the magician's body to test for poisoning. Sloman's other collaborations include \"Mysterious Stranger\", with the magician David Blaine and \"Scar Tissue\", the autobiography of the Red Hot Chili Peppers", "title": "Larry Sloman" }, { "id": "366994", "text": "Robert Jordan James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the \"Wheel of Time\" series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are highly acclaimed to this day. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Additionally, he ghostwrote an \"international thriller\" that is still believed to have", "title": "Robert Jordan" }, { "id": "3791484", "text": "T. C. Murray Thomas Cornelius Murray (17 January 1873 – 7 March 1959) was an Irish dramatist who was closely associated with the Abbey Theatre. He was born in Macroom, County Cork, and educated at St Patrick's Teacher Training College in Drumcondra, Dublin. He worked as a schoolteacher and in 1900 was appointed headmaster of the national school in Rathduff, Co. Cork. His first play, \"The Wheel of Fortune\", was produced by the Little Theatre in Cork in 1909. It was revised and renamed \"Sovereign Love\" in 1913. Murray had co-founded the theatre with Daniel Corkery, Con O'Leary and Terence", "title": "T. C. Murray" }, { "id": "9772181", "text": "his biographies of Harriet Tubman. He wrote a fantasy novel about an African American nation being carved out of the American South, a country in the shape of Africa. Conrad penned these following works under his name, or with collaboration. Earl Conrad Earl Conrad (17 December 1912 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled \"My Wicked, Wicked Ways\". Conrad was born to Eli and Minnie Cohen", "title": "Earl Conrad" }, { "id": "9613470", "text": "to the Lending Code. The bank is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme with Adam and Company, The One account, Child & Co., Drummonds Bank and Holts under one licence. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group uses branding developed for the Bank on its merger with the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1969. The Group's logo takes the form of an abstract symbol of four inward-pointing arrows known as the \"\"Daisy Wheel\"\" and is based on an arrangement of 36 piles of coins in a 6 by 6 square, representing \"the accumulation and concentration of wealth by the", "title": "Royal Bank of Scotland" }, { "id": "8307007", "text": "no clearance of older gravestones. In 1810 there was a screen between the body of the church and the chancel, which was destroyed in December 2001, which revealed a series of wall paintings. These paintings are similar to that found in the nearby St Botolph, North Cove. The image depicts the theme of the 'Wheel of Fortune' and the unpredictable nature of human affairs. A crowned figure is found sitting on top of a wheel rotating it, to which humankind must follow the rotation. The rotation is circular, so a downturn in human affairs must be inevitably followed by an", "title": "St Andrew, Ilketshall" }, { "id": "23895", "text": "conformed to them. Another autobiography of the period is \"De vita propria\", by the Italian mathematician, physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano (1574). It is often claimed that the earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century \"Book of Margery Kempe\", describing among other things Kempe's pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome although it is, at best, only a partial autobiography and arguably more a memoir of religious experiences. The book remained in manuscript and was not published until 1936. Possibly the first publicly available autobiography written in English was Captan John Smith's autobiography published in 1630", "title": "Autobiography" }, { "id": "9772178", "text": "Earl Conrad Earl Conrad (17 December 1912 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled \"My Wicked, Wicked Ways\". Conrad was born to Eli and Minnie Cohen in Auburn, New York, into a Jewish family with nine siblings. He was \"reared in the Judaic tradition\" but chose to Anglicize his name when he began his career as a professional journalist. He wished to be a writer from", "title": "Earl Conrad" }, { "id": "5437918", "text": "and commonplace assumptions. The novel in three books is virtually all narrative voice, with a few interpolated narratives, such as \"Slawkenbergius's Tale.\" Tristram seeks to write his autobiography, but like Swift's narrator in \"A Tale of a Tub,\" he worries that nothing in his life can be understood without understanding its context. For example, he tells the reader that at the very moment he was conceived, his mother was saying, \"Did you wind the clock?\" To explain how he knows this, he explains that his father took care of winding the clock and \"other family business\" on one day a", "title": "Augustan prose" }, { "id": "3925672", "text": "'March for Elephants and Rhino' and written extensively on the issues for the national press. He works closely with Will Travers, Virginia McKenna and the Born Free Foundation. He has homes in Salford, Clapham and Glenelg. Nicky Campbell Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell, OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He has presented the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast programme since 2003, BBC One's Sunday morning show \"The Big Questions\" since 2007, and \"Long Lost Family\" on ITV since 2011. He presented the game show \"Wheel of Fortune\" from 1988 until 1996,", "title": "Nicky Campbell" }, { "id": "12566242", "text": "can live for the rest of my life in the reasonably modest way I am now used to, that I have no debts and I can afford to refuse work that doesn't appeal to me.\" In his autobiography, \"Blessings In Disguise\", Guinness tells an imaginary interviewer \"Blessed be \"Star Wars\"\", regarding the income it provided. In the final volume of the book \"A Positively Final Appearance\" (1997), Guinness recounts grudgingly giving an autograph to a young fan who claimed to have watched \"Star Wars\" over a hundred times, on the condition that the boy promise to stop watching the film", "title": "Alec Guinness" }, { "id": "19505586", "text": "melts down at boarding school. John's absence from Wales gives young master of the castle Kester more room to live an idyllic life at Oxmoon, which infuriates Harry. He finds some solace in a local, distant relative, with whom he has nothing in common but sexual attraction. They later marry and have four mostly accidental children who cause Harry more trouble than joy. Desperately unhappy, he volunteers for military service to get away from his pain. A moment of pure joy awaits Harry upon his return — since his stepmother Constance died two years ago his father rekindled his relationship", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "5023652", "text": "serial, edited by John McElroy and titled \"The Crusade\", was published by Titan Books in November 1994. It was the tenth in that publisher's series of \"Doctor Who\" script books, following \"Galaxy 4\". At the time that the book was prepared, the BBC archives held only one episode of \"The Crusade\" on video (\"The Wheel of Fortune\") and no audio recordings. In 1991, \"The Wheel of Fortune\", then the only episode known extant, was released on VHS as part of \"The Hartnell Years\" (BBCV 4608), presented by Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, with McCoy giving a brief 're-cap' of events before", "title": "The Crusade (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "9762588", "text": "appendix added addressed to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV as a final plea to move the papacy back to Rome. Petrarch here writes of the wheel of Lady Fortune, Several other works have used the title \"Book without a name\" including those by Liber sine nomine The (The Book without a Name) is a collection of nineteen personal letters written in Latin by the fourteenth century Italian poet and Renaissance humanist Petrarch. The letters being harshly critical of the Avignon papacy, they were withheld from the larger collection of his \"Epistolae familiares\" (\"Letters to Friends\") and assembled in a", "title": "Liber sine nomine" }, { "id": "13925857", "text": "12 years old; Richard, 10, and Johnny, 8, were the children of Jim Abbe, an itinerant photographer, and his wife, the former Polly Platt, once a Ziegfeld girl. Prodded by their mother, the children dictated their memoirs, which Bye sold as \"Around the World in Eleven Years\". According to the Abbe family, Patience Abbe was the primary author. The book was a surprise hit. In 1954, Bye arranged the sale to Hollywood of Lindbergh's best-selling autobiography, \"The Spirit of St. Louis\", for more than $1,000,000. But Bye was initially unenthusiastic about Laura Ingalls Wilder, commenting that the manuscript of her", "title": "George T. Bye" }, { "id": "1759304", "text": "in [this] book of magic, intrigue, and warfare, but very little that is very good.\" In all probability, the title is a tongue-in cheek reference to the similarly titled novel The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean. In addition to sounding alike, both Avalon and Navarone are fictional islands. Some of the imagery in the book is inspired by Tarot art. For example, when Ganelon ties the golden-haired youth by one ankle to a tree branch, this mimics the Tarot card \"The Hanged Man\". The wheel that Corwin dreams about is inspired by the Tarot card \"Wheel of Fortune\". In", "title": "The Guns of Avalon" }, { "id": "3575084", "text": "authors. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, what has come to be known as the \"fab five\" were published: \"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\" (1969), an autobiography of the early years of American poet Maya Angelou; \"The Friends\" (1973) by Rosa Guy; the semi-autobiographical \"The Bell Jar\" (US 1963, under a pseudonym; UK 1967) by poet Sylvia Plath; \"Bless the Beasts and Children\" (1970) by Glendon Swarthout; and \"Deathwatch\" (1972) by Robb White, which was awarded 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America. The works of Angelou, Guy, and Plath were", "title": "Young adult fiction" }, { "id": "5023645", "text": "TARDIS vanish, they agree to keep the story quiet, so as not to look like fools. On board the TARDIS, the crew enjoy a good laugh over their escape. As the TARDIS prepares to land, the power fails and all the interior lights dim. The crew freeze into immobility. Copies of the four episodes were believed lost in the mass deletion of episode recordings in the 1970s, with BBC Enterprises deleting their copies. The BBC Film Library retained a copy of \"The Wheel of Fortune\" that it had accidentally acquired, but a copy of \"The Lion\" had been junked from", "title": "The Crusade (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "1452046", "text": "1942, Buñuel applied for American citizenship, because he anticipated that MoMA would soon be put under federal control. But that same year, Dalí published his autobiography, \"The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí\", in which he made it clear that he had split with Buñuel because the latter was a Communist and an atheist. News of this reached Archbishop Spellman, who angrily confronted Barry with the question: \"Are you aware that you are harbouring in this Museum the Antichrist, the man who made a blasphemous film \"L'Age d'Or\"?\" At the same time, a campaign on the part of Hollywood, through its", "title": "Luis Buñuel" }, { "id": "5709412", "text": "ICon: Steve Jobs iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorized biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc in 1997. It was published in 2005. The book's title is a pun with one connotation that of Jobs as an icon with attributes to be admired, while carrying the negative interpretation as I-(am a)-Con, as in a con man, criticized for charisma used in harmful ways such as the \"reality distortion field\". The non-capitalized \"i\" at the beginning is also in reference to", "title": "ICon: Steve Jobs" }, { "id": "7111148", "text": "the thought of what this entire illicit affair would do to the image of Wall Street. Left alone, Kate and Charlie resolve against suicide. Charlie is determined to come up with a solution and to make a life with Kate. At Wingate's brokerage, the bottom is about to fall out. Even the Senator is resigned to having to live off of only his congressional salary from now on. Suddenly Charley comes in with Kate and the solution to the problem: the legendary old man A.K. himself, in a wheel-chair. Wall Street respects everything A.K. does in the stock market. Doddering", "title": "How Now, Dow Jones" }, { "id": "9416703", "text": "trip over the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and is followed by 28 chapters in which Branson recounts the first 43 years of his life. The book ends in January 1993, in the wake of Virgin Atlantic's victory in their court case against British Airways. An epilogue briefly details events since 1993 including the launch of Virgin Cola, the financial services company Virgin Direct and Branson's charitable bid to run the United Kingdom's National Lottery. Losing My Virginity Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography is the autobiography of the British businessman Richard Branson. Published in 1998, it was later followed by other", "title": "Losing My Virginity" }, { "id": "4871520", "text": "had three sons, John, Christopher (Kip) and Stephen. Fitch died on October 31, 2012, of Merkel cell carcinoma at his home in Connecticut. In addition to numerous articles in magazines as well as the Encyclopædia Britannica, Fitch wrote his autobiography (somewhat prematurely, in 1960), \"Adventure on Wheels\", published by G.P. Putnam & Sons. In 1993 an authorised biography titled \"John Fitch: Racing Through Life\", written by James Grinnell, was published. The book \"Racing Through Life\" by Carl Goodwin also documents Fitch's life. Fitch wrote of his years with the Mercedes-Benz racing team in his 2005 book, \"Racing with Mercedes\" Photo", "title": "John Fitch (racing driver)" }, { "id": "19573973", "text": "to actively support service members and veterans by tending to their medical needs. Kevin Lacz Kevin \"Dauber\" Lacz is a United States Navy SEAL veteran who served two tours in the Iraq War. His platoon's 2006 deployment to Ramadi has been discussed in several books, including Dick Couch's \"The Sheriff of Ramadi\", Jim DeFelice's \"Code Name: Johnny Walker\", and Chris Kyle's New York Times best-selling autobiography, \"American Sniper\". Lacz's presence in the book led to his involvement in the production of and eventual casting in the Clint Eastwood-directed Oscar-winning biopic of the same name (starring Bradley Cooper). Lacz was born", "title": "Kevin Lacz" }, { "id": "6545495", "text": "aid religious instruction. Though classically Fortune's Wheel could be favourable and disadvantageous, medieval writers preferred to concentrate on the tragic aspect, dwelling on downfall of the mighty - serving to remind people of the temporality of earthly things. In the morality play \"Everyman\" (c. 1495), for instance, Death comes unexpectedly to claim the protagonist. Fortune's Wheel has spun Everyman low, and Good Deeds, which he previously neglected, are needed to secure his passage to heaven. Geoffrey Chaucer used the concept of the tragic Wheel of Fortune a great deal. It forms the basis for the \"Monk's Tale\", which recounts stories", "title": "Rota Fortunae" }, { "id": "3568911", "text": "Vanna White Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich; February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and film actress known as the hostess of \"Wheel of Fortune\" since 1982. White was born Vanna Marie Rosich, in Conway, South Carolina, the daughter of Joan Marie and Miguel Angel Rosich. Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and White took the name of her stepfather, Herbert Stackley White Jr., a former real estate broker in what is now North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Before her appearance on TV in 1980, White was a contestant in the Miss Georgia 1978 pageant. White's", "title": "Vanna White" }, { "id": "8459972", "text": "also had guest roles as two separate Romulan characters in \"\" and as Magistrate Augris in the \"\" episode \"Resistance\". In 2003 he co-starred with his son Jonathan in \"Burn: The Robert Wraight Story\". After returning to Canada from Los Angeles in 2002, he began writing novels under the pseudonym Clanash Farjeon (an anagram of his full name). The titles include \"A Handbook for Attendants on the Insane: the Autobiography of Jack the Ripper as Revealed to Clanash Farjeon\" (which has been called 'one of the finest books on historical crime ever published'), \"The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez\", about the", "title": "Alan Scarfe" }, { "id": "7221285", "text": "story in the novel, in which Ebenezer bequeaths his autobiography (\"The Book of Ebenezer Le Page\") to his young artist friend Neville Falla, the motorcycling rebel with a heart of gold. Since its publication in 1981, it has been critically acclaimed, as well as winning the admiration of the people of Guernsey for so accurately capturing the island and its character. John Fowles wrote an enthusiastic introduction to the Book, it was very favorably reviewed by William Golding, among several others, and Harold Bloom included it in \"The Western Canon\". Stephen Orgel wrote that it was 'one of the greatest", "title": "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page" }, { "id": "3889757", "text": "Charlie O'Donnell Charles John O'Donnell (August 12, 1932 – November 1, 2010) was an American radio and television announcer, primarily known for his work on game shows. Among them, he was best known for \"Wheel of Fortune\", where he worked from 1975 to 1980, and again from 1989 until his death. O'Donnell, a native Philadelphian, began his career as a teenager at WCHA in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In 1956, he worked as program director at WHAT, a 250-watt R&B station in Philadelphia, where he discovered and launched the career of future Philadelphia radio personality Hy Lit. When WIBG became top-40 in", "title": "Charlie O'Donnell" }, { "id": "1462354", "text": "Chuck Barris Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer and host. Barris was known for hosting \"The Gong Show\" and creating \"The Dating Game\" and \"The Newlywed Game\". He was also a songwriter who wrote \"Palisades Park\" for Freddy Cannon. Barris wrote an autobiography titled \"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\", which was made into the film of the same name directed by George Clooney. Barris was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1929, the son of Edith (née Cohen) and Nathaniel Barris, a dentist. His", "title": "Chuck Barris" }, { "id": "9219566", "text": "research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, \"The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms\" (1881), he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (\"née\" Wedgwood). He was the grandson of", "title": "Charles Darwin" }, { "id": "19505587", "text": "with Bronwen, the woman Harry considers his mother and his guide towards the good. He arrives at the estate to find her there waiting, and after a tearful reunion, he sees John and Bronwen finally marry. The conflict between the two cousins still remains however, and grows with the eerily coinciding deaths of the young wives of both men. Harry's hatred of Kester only increases when it's revealed that he is estranged from his own young sons (who blame him for their mother's death from complications in childbirth) even as Kester ingratiates himself with one of them, Hal. Yet when", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "10674967", "text": "ensuing accident. \"Fate Is the Hunter\" was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 memoir of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result, as it bore no relation to the book which was about Gann's own early flying career, that he asked to have his name removed from the credits. In his autobiography, \"A Hostage to Fortune\", Gann wrote, \"They obliged and, as a result, I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably\". (Some prints of the film were released with Gann's name still in", "title": "Fate Is the Hunter (film)" }, { "id": "19505589", "text": "and in a state of disrepair due to the lack of funds available for renovation. In Hal Godwin's account, it is revealed that his uncle Kester was found drowned fourteen years before, and so Hal's story is reminiscent of a crime fiction tale as he seeks to prove that his uncle's death was neither due to suicide nor accident. Hal eventually discovers that his father murdered Kester, but along with this terrible revelation, Hal finds an unlikely means of saving Oxmoon thanks to Kester's literary genius. The novel ends with Oxmoon being restored and reopened as a tourist attraction under", "title": "The Wheel of Fortune (novel)" }, { "id": "16971905", "text": "the soundtrack of \"Down and Out in Beverly Hills\". Lifetime Friend Lifetime Friend is an album from Little Richard, his first album in seven years since the release of the 1979 gospel album, \"God's Beautiful City\". Following that album's release and some 1981 recordings, Richard had made no recordings while he continued his career in the ministry. Following the release of his autobiography, \"The Quasar of Rock and Roll\", in 1984, Richard had reemerged in the public eye and was starting to be recognized for his contributions to popular music as one of the founders of rock and roll music.", "title": "Lifetime Friend" }, { "id": "8755280", "text": "President George H. W. Bush's National Commission on America's Urban Families. On Sunday, December 16, 2007, television pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas talked about Bill Wilson's story in his nationally televised program. Wilson is the author of several books, including \"Jesus Doesn’t Live in Brooklyn\", \"The Blind Guide Chronicles\", \"Christianity in the Crosshairs\", and his bestselling autobiography, \"Whose Child is This\"? His newest book, entitled \"One Eyed Kings\" came out in 2009. In addition, Wilson is a popular speaker who travels extensively around the world in an effort to raise funds for his Church and mission", "title": "Bill Wilson (pastor)" }, { "id": "5305862", "text": "Modern Science of Mental Health\" as a key historical event for their movement and the world, and refer to the book as \"Book One.\" In Scientology, years are numbered relative to the first publication of the book: 1990, for example, being \"40 AD\" (After Dianetics). The book is promoted as \"a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch.\" \"Dianetics\" is still heavily promoted today by the Church of Scientology and has been advertised widely on television and in print. Indeed, it has been alleged that the Church", "title": "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" }, { "id": "2141952", "text": "Circuit could hear appeals. Instead, appeals from the Supreme Court of the Philippines were taken directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1979, the Ninth Circuit became the first federal judicial circuit to set up a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel as authorized by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. The cultural and political jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit is just as varied as the land within its geographical borders. In a dissenting opinion in a rights of publicity case involving the \"Wheel of Fortune\" star Vanna White, Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski sardonically noted that \"[f]or better or worse,", "title": "United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" }, { "id": "2386700", "text": "Jim Phantom, who was 19 years younger than her, aged 23. They had a son, Thomas Jefferson (born in 1988). They divorced in 1992. In the 1970s, Ekland was one of the most photographed and talked-about celebrities in the world. In 1980, her best-selling autobiography, \"True Britt\", was published. While Rod Stewart's domestic partner, Ekland inspired his hit song \"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)\" 1977's overall #1 song. The song features a French spoken part from Ekland. In 2004, Ekland was portrayed by Charlize Theron in \"The Life and Death of Peter Sellers\". She accompanied Theron to the Cannes", "title": "Britt Ekland" }, { "id": "16571453", "text": "It appears that the wheel of fortune has turned. With Lady Luck smiling on him, Youcai enters a lucky draw and wins a car. Soon, the story of how the \"prosperous rice bin\" changes his fortune starts to circulate to the point of becoming a legend. Despite Youcai's mother frantically explaining that it is purely nonsense perpetuated by her, nobody is convinced. Hordes of people flock to the rice bin to \"seek fortune and lottery numbers\". Luona banishes the thought of divorce upon hearing of it. She wants to return home to be a virtuous wife and a filial daughter-in-law.", "title": "It Takes Two (Singaporean TV series)" }, { "id": "5259000", "text": "\"Jacked\" provided an inside look at the inner-workings of the video game company Rockstar Games, makers of the controversial Grand Theft Auto series, and attorney Jack Thompson's attempt to destroy it. The book served as the basis for a film on the BBC, \"Game Changer\". Kushner's 2016 autobiography, \"Alligator Candy\", describes the abduction and murder of his preteen brother, Jonathan Kushner. One of the individuals convicted for murder, Johnny Paul Witt, was executed by the State of Florida after a lengthy appeal (see Wainwright v. Witt). David Kushner's book investigates details of the murder and describes the emotional trauma this", "title": "David Kushner" }, { "id": "4309766", "text": "Martin Cullen TD reflected that people should draw inspiration from Nolan's life. \"With grace and courage, and with the support of his family, he never gave up and he never gave in [...] His bold creativity has ensured a written legacy.\" Nolan's autobiography \"Under the Eye of the Clock\" (published 1987), won the Whitbread Award and was named Book of the Year. Although an autobiography, it is narrated by a fictional character named Joseph Meehan who details Nolan's life as a third-person biography. The book reveals the deep relationship between Nolan and his mother, whom he calls Nora. \"Under the", "title": "Christopher Nolan (author)" }, { "id": "4337473", "text": "in \"The Wheel of Fortune\" by Richard Cumberland, a Jewish pedlar in \"The Indian\", as Clown in \"Robinson Crusoe\", and as the Second Gravedigger in \"Hamlet\", alongside John Philip Kemble. Grimaldi's wife Maria and his unborn child died during childbirth on 18 October 1800. To cope with his grief, Grimaldi would often perform two shows a night; one at Sadler's Wells and the other at Drury Lane. With the Christmas season approaching, and the success of \"Peter Wilkins\" still a topic of conversation within theatrical circles, Kemble decided to stage the first Drury Lane pantomime in three years, \"Harlequin Amulet;", "title": "Joseph Grimaldi" }, { "id": "1421068", "text": "Party. This was soon followed by writings for socialist publications such as the \"New Leader\", the \"Socialist Review\" and the \"New Statesman\". During this period it became clear that Hobson favoured capitalist reformation over communist revolution. He was a notable critic of the Labour Government of 1929. During the later years of his life, Hobson published his autobiography, \"Confessions of an Economic Heretic\" (1938). R. H. Tawney wrote the following in \"\" (1920): The greater part of modern property has been attenuated to a pecuniary lien or bond on the product of industry which carries with it a right to", "title": "John A. Hobson" } ]

[ "Al Capp's Li'l Abner" ]

[ { "id": "32648", "text": "staged Sadie Hawkins dances, patterned after the similar annual event in the strip. Li'l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing. In response to the question \"Which side does Abner part his hair on?,\" Capp would answer, \"Both.\" Capp said he finally found the right \"look\" for Li'l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in \"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine\" (1936). In later years, Capp always claimed to have effectively created the miniskirt, when he first put", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "11278413", "text": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romance film based on the novel of the same name. Directed by Henry Hathaway, it stars Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda. It was the second full-length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and the first in color to be shot outdoors, with the approval of the Technicolor Corporation. Much of it was shot at Big Bear Lake in southern California. \"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine\" was the fourth feature film adaptation of John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel,", "title": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)" }, { "id": "8202581", "text": "the names of caricatures were chosen with satirical effect in mind. Hence, Jane Fonda was christened “Jane Fondle” and Brando was named “Marlon Blando” during his \"Last Tango in Paris\" days but Marlon Burpo after his figure ballooned due to the rich foods he was fond of consuming in his later career. The strip also included satirical sketches of well-known cartoon and comic strip characters, such as \"Mad Magazine\"’s Alfred E. Neuman; \"Playboy’\"s \"Little Annie Fanny\"; Walt Disney’s \"Seven Dwarfs\", \"Mickey Mouse\", and \"Donald Duck\"; Walt Kelly’s \"Pogo\", George Herriman’s \"Krazy Kat\", and Bud Fisher's \"Mutt and Jeff\". On their", "title": "Wicked Wanda" }, { "id": "567267", "text": "in lodgings next door to Greta Garbo. In 1935, Fonda starred in the RKO film \"I Dream Too Much\" with the opera star Lily Pons. \"The New York Times\" announced him as \"Henry Fonda, the most likable of the new crop of romantic juveniles.\" Fonda's film career blossomed as he costarred with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray in \"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine\" (1936), the first Technicolor movie filmed outdoors. He starred with ex-wife Margaret Sullavan in \"The Moon's Our Home\", and a short rekindling of their relationship led to a brief but temporary consideration of remarriage. Fonda got", "title": "Henry Fonda" }, { "id": "8586411", "text": "McCarthy era of the 1950s, that their background made them unemployable and who developed various sorts of scams to prey upon the postwar Baby Boomers' search for enlightenment. Crumb has acknowledged that one inspiration for Mr. Natural was a character called The Little Hitchhiker from a comic strip called \"The Squirrel Cage\" by Gene Ahern, which ran from 1936–1953. An homage is sometimes read into this. Mr. Natural also somewhat resembles an E. C. Segar character, Dr. O.G. Wotasnozzle. Mr. Natural's one-piece yellow outfit bears a resemblance to Richard F. Outcault's early comic strip \"The Yellow Kid\". In 1973 a", "title": "Mr. Natural (comics)" }, { "id": "70115", "text": "\"Dilbert\", include an email address in each strip. Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like Lynn Johnston's award-winning \"For Better or For Worse\", the characters age as the years pass. The first strip to feature aging characters was \"Gasoline Alley\". The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous, but tell an ongoing dramatic story. Examples include \"The Phantom\", \"Prince Valiant\", \"Dick Tracy\", \"Mary Worth\", \"Modesty Blaise\", \"Little Orphan Annie\", \"Flash Gordon\", and \"Tarzan\". Sometimes these are spin-offs from comic books, for example \"Superman\", \"Batman\", and \"The Amazing", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "70093", "text": "of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes. Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist. As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous (for example, \"gag-a-day\" strips such as \"Blondie\", \"Bringing Up Father\", \"Marmaduke\", and \"Pearls Before Swine\"). Starting in the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in \"Popeye\", \"Captain Easy\", \"Buck Rogers\", \"Tarzan\", and \"The Adventures of Tintin\". Soap-opera continuity strips such as \"Judge Parker\" and \"Mary Worth\" gained popularity in the 1940s. All are called, generically, comic strips, though cartoonist", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "4172585", "text": "Billy DeBeck William Morgan DeBeck (April 15, 1890 – November 11, 1942), better known as Billy DeBeck, was an American cartoonist. He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip \"Barney Google\", later retitled \"Barney Google and Snuffy Smith\". The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and Spark Plug the race horse. Spark Plug was a merchandising phenomenon, and has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s. DeBeck drew with a scratchy line in a \"big-foot\" style, in which characters had", "title": "Billy DeBeck" }, { "id": "8785936", "text": "which he also illustrated, was chosen by Albert Tillman as one of the 100 best pop-up books ever published and featured on the cover of Tillman's historical survey, \"Pop-Up! Pop-Up!\" (Whalestooth, 1998). Slesinger purchased the rights to the \"Ozark Ike\" comic strip from creator Rufus A. (\"Ray\") Gotto. In 1936, it became his first comic strip in syndication. Other licensing included Tom Mix, \"King of the Royal Mounted\", \"Alley Oop\", \"Captain Easy\", \"Wash Tubbs\", \"Polly the Powers Model\", \"Charlie Chan\", \"Buck Rogers\" and \"Og, Son of Fire\", as well as all Newspaper Enterprise Association comic strips. For these and many", "title": "Stephen Slesinger" }, { "id": "14413993", "text": "with characters and situations based upon hundreds of newspaper-published comic strips dating back to the inception of the form (the installment published October 16, 2012 featured \"The Yellow Kid\", a character/cartoon first appearing in 1895). Characters from \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"Little Orphan Annie\", \"Crock\", \"Dilbert\", \"Popeye\", \"B.C.\", \"Beetle Bailey\", \"The Boondocks\", \"The Wizard of Id\" and \"Broom-Hilda\" are among those prominently featured. Weapon Brown is set in a post apocalyptic world, and the story itself centers around the eponymous character Weapon Brown, who is on a mission to rescue the woman he loves from a former acquaintance: Linus Van Pelt,", "title": "Weapon Brown" }, { "id": "11702519", "text": "name of Jake Wells with The B. F. Keith Supreme Vaudeville Co. After the acquisition of several other local theatres by Lynch Enterprises, The Wells Theatre's was changed to The Imperial Theatre. Throughout the early 1900s the theatre continued to provide the city of Augusta and the surrounding area with great entertainment. In 1929, as vaudevillian acts decreased in popularity and motion pictures enjoyed meteoric success, Miller decided to renovate the Imperial into a full-time movie house in the popular art deco style. In March 1936 \"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,\" starring Henry Fonda and Fred McMurray, became the", "title": "Imperial Theatre (Augusta, Georgia)" }, { "id": "7305430", "text": "Starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, and Fred MacMurray, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Louis Alter and Sidney D. Mitchell's \"A Melody for the Sky.\" It was also awarded the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Color Film. Hathaway's version marked the first time the Technicolor process was used for outdoor filmmaking. The 1916 DeMille adaptation features an additional plot angle of Hale being a revenue agent seeking out \"moonshiners.\" It also omitted much of the subplot concerning the Falin family. Henry Hathaway's 1936 version, which was the first feature film to be", "title": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel)" }, { "id": "605486", "text": "Looney Tunes Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series \"Merrie Melodies\". It was known for introducing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and many other cartoon characters. \"Looney Tunes\" name was inspired by Walt Disney's musical series \"Silly Symphonies\". They initially showcased musical compositions whose rights were held by Warner's music publishing interests", "title": "Looney Tunes" }, { "id": "1256902", "text": "Charlie Brown on the very first Peanuts strip. Charlie Brown had a notably surprisingly successful romantic relationship with Peggy Jean, although this eventually broke up with him when he realized that she already had a boyfriend. Charlie Brown, along with Snoopy, was ranked eighth on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time. Charlie Brown Charlie Brown or Charles Brown Esquire (see “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” movie) is the protagonist of the comic strip \"Peanuts\", syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a \"lovable loser,\" Charlie Brown is one of", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "6878775", "text": "project at Carnegie Mellon has made at least two Big Little Books available online. Thibadeau attempts to \"capture the entire production\" of an old book with facsimile images showing pages with wear and tear. \"We're basically trying to eternalize that book as it is,\" says Thibadeau. The Antique Books Digital Library offers two free Big Little Book titles, \"Tim McCoy on the Tomahawk Trail\" and \"Bronc Peeler The Lone Cowboy\". Fred Harman's \"Bronc Peeler\" was a Western comic strip character who was a precursor to another comic strip drawn by Harman, the more successful \"Red Ryder\". Sam Mendes' film \"Road", "title": "Big Little Book series" }, { "id": "1642481", "text": "1958. The \"Betty Boop\" series continues to be a favorite of many critics, and the 1933 \"Betty Boop\" cartoon \"Snow-White\" (not to be confused with Disney's film \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" (1937)) was selected for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 1994. Betty Boop's popularity continues well into present day culture, with references appearing in the comic strip \"Doonesbury\", where the character B.D.'s busty girlfriend/wife is named \"Boopsie\" and the animated reality TV spoof \"Drawn Together\", where Betty is the inspiration for Toot Braunstein. A \"Betty Boop\" musical is in development", "title": "Betty Boop" }, { "id": "17287485", "text": "Snoopy and Woodstock. The film sees Charlie Brown trying to improve his odds with the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy writes a book about the World War I Flying Ace as he imagines himself as a legend trying to save his love interest and fellow pilot Fifi from the Red Baron and his army. \"The Peanuts Movie\" was released on November 6, 2015, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the original comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\". It grossed $246 million worldwide against a $99 million budget. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes", "title": "The Peanuts Movie" }, { "id": "2621889", "text": "Catholic education. One of the best-known features of Keane's work is the dotted line comics, showing the characters' paths through the neighborhood or house with a thick dotted line. The earliest appearance of the dotted line was on April 8, 1962 (an un-dotted path had first appeared on February 25). This concept has been parodied by other comic strips, including \"Pearls Before Swine\", \"For Better or For Worse\", \"FoxTrot\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"Garfield\", \"Liō\", and \"Marvin\". In an interview, Jeff Keane, who now produces the strip, described how he creates the line: by drawing one continuous black line and then", "title": "The Family Circus" }, { "id": "4667595", "text": "Hathaway's next film was with Cooper, \"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer\" (1935). Hathaway spent some time in India supervising filming of scenes. The movie was a huge hit and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and for which Hathaway won his only nomination for the Academy Award for Directing. Hathaway was now established as one of the main directors on the Paramount lot. He made another with Cooper, \"Peter Ibbetson\" (1935). This was followed by \"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine\" (1936), his first movie in color. He also worked on the troubled \"I Loved a Soldier\"", "title": "Henry Hathaway" }, { "id": "5176607", "text": "Nick Carter debuted in 1886. Tarzan was introduced in 1912, and Zorro found its way to the public in 1919, but El Coyote became even bigger – in Spain. Among other early famous, often masked American novel and/or radio heroes were The Shadow, debuting 1930 (and 1931), plus The Phantom Detective, Doc Savage, The Spider and Lone Ranger in 1933, and Green Hornet in 1936. Some of the very early comic strip superheroes were Buck Rogers introduced in 1928, Dick Tracy 1931, and Flash Gordon in 1934. The most famous comic book (or strip) hero is Superman originated in 1933", "title": "El Coyote (character)" }, { "id": "8983163", "text": "in the 1936 Betty Boop film \"Betty Boop and Little Jimmy\". Little Jimmy Camp in the Angeles National Forest, near Los Angeles, California, is named after the comic strip in honor of Swinnerton, who once stayed there. Little Jimmy Little Jimmy, originally titled Jimmy, was a newspaper comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton. With a publication history from February 14, 1904, to 1958, it was one of the first continuing features and one of the longest running. The title character was a little boy who was constantly forgetting what he was supposed to do and ended up getting into trouble.", "title": "Little Jimmy" }, { "id": "804639", "text": "Flash Gordon (serial) Flash Gordon is a 1936 science fiction film serial. Shown in 13 chapters, it was the first screen adventure for the comic-strip character Flash Gordon that was invented by Alex Raymond only two years earlier in 1934. It tells the story of Flash Gordon's first visit to the planet Mongo and his encounter with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon played the central roles. In 1996, \"Flash Gordon\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being", "title": "Flash Gordon (serial)" }, { "id": "6406619", "text": "by Shrewsbury sculptor Jane Robbins. Reg Smythe Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running \"Andy Capp\" comic strip. He was born in Hartlepool, Teesside, England, the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife Florence, née Pearce. With his father long-term unemployed, he grew up in poverty. He attended Galley's Field School in West Hartlepool, but left at fourteen to take a job as a butcher's errand boy. In 1936, after a period of unemployment, he joined the Royal", "title": "Reg Smythe" }, { "id": "11278419", "text": "\"Best Music, Original Song\". The other song, \"Twilight on the Trail\", became a popular hit and eventually something of a classic. It inspired a 1941 cowboy film of the same name and has been recorded by numerous country, pop, rock and soul singers. \"Trail of the Lonesome Pine\" was recognized at the 1936 Venice Film Festival for a \"Special Recommendation\" for the use of color film. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romance film based on the novel of the same name. Directed by Henry Hathaway, it stars", "title": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)" }, { "id": "12885724", "text": "Li'l Abner (1940 film) Li'l Abner is a 1940 film based on the comic strip \"Li'l Abner\" created by Al Capp. The three most recognizable names associated with the film are Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat, Jeff York as Li'l Abner, and Milton Berle, who co-wrote the title song. This was the first of two films based on the popular Al Capp strip, the second being Paramount's 1959 musical, \"Li'l Abner\", which was also based on the hit 1956 Broadway musical \"Li'l Abner\". Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry", "title": "Li'l Abner (1940 film)" }, { "id": "2947772", "text": "song \"Oh, My Goodness\" to four ethnically stereotyped dolls. The fourth doll, representing a black African woman or girl, is addressed as \"pickaninny\". In the 1936 Hal Roach feature \"General Spanky\" starring the Our Gang children, Buckwheat gets his foot tangled in the cord that blows the whistle on the river boat. Buckwheat is untangled by the captain of the river boat who hands him over to his master and tells him to \"keep an eye on that little pickaninny\". Early editions of the longest-running British children's comic book \"The Beano\", launched in 1938, featured a pickaninny character, Little Peanut,", "title": "Pickaninny" }, { "id": "32644", "text": "to reader pressure and allowed the couple to marry. This newsworthy event made the cover of \"Life\" on March 31, 1952. Capp peopled his comic strip with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin' Sam, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Evil-Eye Fleegle, General Bullmoose, Lena the Hyena, Senator Jack S. Phogbound (Capp's caricature of the anti-New Deal Dixiecrats), the \"(shudder!)\" Scraggs, Available Jones, Nightmare Alice, Earthquake McGoon, and a host of others. Most notably, certainly from a G.I. point of view, are the beautiful, full-figured women like Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Stupefyin' Jones and Moonbeam McSwine (a caricature of his wife", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "6632359", "text": "DeBeck's death from cancer in 1942, Lasswell took over \"Barney Google and Snuffy Smith\". Under Lasswell's tenure, Barney was gradually phased out (although he did reappear occasionally), and the strip's emphasis shifted to Snuffy Smith and his rural setting. Lasswell also introduced his own characters, including Elviney Barlow, Parson Tuttle and Ol' Doc Pritchart. During World War II, Lasswell served as a flight radio operator in Africa and was a staffer for \"Leatherneck Magazine\", for which he created the comic strip \"Sgt. Hashmark\". Lasswell was a prolific inventor and early adopter of new technology. He was one of the first", "title": "Fred Lasswell" }, { "id": "5899992", "text": "attempts never failed to get Barnaby into hot water. Mr. O'Malley was a comic strip original, though in appearance he had a passing resemblance to W.C. Fields. \"Cushlamochree\" (from the Irish \"cuisle mo chroí\", \"beat of my heart\") was his signature cry when shocked by the inevitable down-turn of events in response to his ineffectual meddling in Barnaby's affairs. Throughout the course of his comic career Mr. O'Malley stumbled his way into the U.S. Congress and became a Wall Street tycoon. Mr. O'Malley Mr. O'Malley was a character in the ground-breaking, intellectual comic strip \"Barnaby\", by cartoonist Crockett Johnson. He", "title": "Mr. O'Malley" }, { "id": "11278414", "text": "including 1916 and 1923 silent versions. As with the novel, the film makes extensive use of Appalachian English in the dialogue. Deep in the region of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, a feud between the Kentucky clans of the Tollivers and the Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene. Dave expects to marry a cousin, June, but she takes an immediate shine to the newcomer. Her younger brother Buddie is also impressed with Hale,", "title": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)" }, { "id": "11153006", "text": "1964, after a heart attack that had left him in a coma for months, Crosby died in the asylum on his 73rd birthday. He was buried in Pine Lawn Veterans' Cemetery on Long Island. Percy Crosby Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip \"Skippy\". Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's \"Peanuts\", the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a \"classic... which innovated", "title": "Percy Crosby" }, { "id": "5970707", "text": "Skippy (comic strip) Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature about rambunctious fifth-grader Skippy Skinner, his friends and his enemies, it was adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show. It was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp and was the basis for a wide range of merchandising that includes Skippy peanut butter. An early influence on cartoonist Charles Schulz and an inspiration for his \"Peanuts\", \"Skippy\" is considered one of the classics of the form. In \"Vanity", "title": "Skippy (comic strip)" }, { "id": "9769476", "text": "with four serials annually. The studio made news in 1929 by hiring Tim McCoy to star in its first all-talking serial, \"The Indians Are Coming!\" Epic footage from this western serial turned up again and again in later serials and features. In 1936 Universal scored a coup by licensing the popular comic-strip character Flash Gordon for the screen; the serial was a smash hit, and was even booked into first-run theaters that usually did not bother with chapter plays. Universal followed it up with more pop-culture icons: The Green Hornet and Ace Drummond from radio, and Smilin' Jack and Buck", "title": "Serial film" }, { "id": "11858835", "text": "handful of appearances in the \"Popeye\" cartoons, including \"A Clean Shaven Man\" (1936, nonspeaking role), \"Olive's Boithday Presink\" (1941), and \"Wimpy the Moocher\" (1960). In the 1980 \"Popeye\" film, Geezil was a greengrocer who was constantly arguing with Wimpy, but the two maintained a shaky friendship (at one point, he comments \"Phooey! The Commodore! Besides Wimpy, I hate him best!\"). Geezil was played by Richard Libertini. George W. Geezil George W. Geezil, also known as simply Geezil, is a comic strip character created by E.C. Segar for the \"Thimble Theatre\" (now \"Popeye\") strip. Geezil made his first appearance in the", "title": "George W. Geezil" }, { "id": "6185034", "text": "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran (under various earlier titles) from November 23, 1936, to December 26, 2004. Initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate and then by Field Newspaper Syndicate, it ended at King Features Syndicate. Despite the changes in title, characters, themes and authors, the entire 68-year run formed a single evolving story, from an Indian who teamed up with an adventurous young photojournalist to two longtime friends ready to retire after their long, eventful careers. Created by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon, the strip was written by", "title": "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad" }, { "id": "1552081", "text": "did my imitation of Joe Palooka.\" In the 1994 film \"Pulp Fiction\", character Vincent Vega (John Travolta) disparages the character of boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) for taking a dive saying, \"I ain't your friend, palooka.\" All directed by Lloyd French and starring Robert Norton and Shemp Howard (except the last two with Beverly Phalon and Johnny Burkes). Joe Palooka Joe Palooka is an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher in 1921. The strip debuted in 1930 and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. The strip was adapted to a short-lived", "title": "Joe Palooka" }, { "id": "1268391", "text": "Golden age of American animation The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued until around 1969, by which time theatrical animated shorts had begun losing to the newer medium of television animation. Many popular characters emerged from this period, including Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Goofy, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Porky Pig, Betty Boop, Woody Woodpecker, Droopy, Mighty Mouse, Mr. Magoo, Pink Panther, the Fox and the Crow, George and Junior, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner,", "title": "Golden age of American animation" }, { "id": "9404434", "text": "and I will hug him, and pet him, and squeeze him\" with Mel Blanc doing an unmistakable imitation of Lon Chaney, Jr.'s Lennie. Tex Avery, who worked as a director on Warner-released cartoons during the 1930s and early 1940s, started the \"Of Mice and Men\" trend with \"Of Fox and Hounds\" (1940) and \"Lonesome Lenny\" (1946) featuring Screwy Squirrel. The formula was so successful that it was used again and again in subsequent shorts, notably Robert McKimson's \"Hoppy Go Lucky\" (1952), \"Cat-Tails for Two\" (1953) and Chuck Jones' \"The Abominable Snow Rabbit\" (1961). Many more serious animated features use George", "title": "Of Mice and Men in popular culture" }, { "id": "6943781", "text": "Poopdeck Pappy Poopdeck Pappy is a fictional character featured in the \"Popeye\" (\"Thimble Theatre\") comic strip and animated cartoon spinoffs. Created by E. C. Segar in 1936, the character is Popeye's father, who is between the ages of 85 and 99. Pappy first appeared in \"Thimble Theatre\" not long after Popeye acquired Eugene the Jeep in 1936. Popeye decided to use the creature's supernatural knowledge to find his father. An expedition was set up to go to Poopdeck's home on Barnacle Island, which included Toar the caveman and Olive Oyl. The ungrateful father answered Popeye's greeting with, \"You look like", "title": "Poopdeck Pappy" }, { "id": "1876837", "text": "Marschall in \"America's Great Comic Strip Artists\" (1989). With adult readers far outnumbering juveniles, \"Li'l Abner\" forever cleared away the concept that humor strips were solely the domain of adolescents and children. \"Li'l Abner\" provided a whole new template for contemporary satire and personal expression in comics, paving the way for \"Pogo\", \"Feiffer\", \"Doonesbury\" and \"MAD\". \"Fearless Fosdick\" and other \"Li'l Abner\" comic strip parodies, such as \"Jack Jawbreaker!\" (1947) and \"Little Fanny Gooney\" (1952), were almost certainly an inspiration to Harvey Kurtzman when he created his irreverent \"Mad\", which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied", "title": "Li'l Abner" }, { "id": "14512504", "text": "John McMeel. The company began syndicating Garry Trudeau’s \"Doonesbury\" comic strip in October 1970. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975 for his work on \"Doonesbury\", and the strip is now syndicated in more than 1,400 newspapers worldwide. Over the following decades, the syndicate added other well-known comic strips including \"Ziggy\", \"Cathy\", \"For Better or For Worse\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"The Far Side\", \"FoxTrot\", \"Baldo\", \"The Boondocks\", \"In the Bleachers\", \"Non Sequitur\", \"Stone Soup\", \"Real Life Adventures\", \"Cornered\", \"Lio\", \"Cul De Sac\", \"Thatababy\", \"Wumo\", editorial cartoonists and columnists. Universal Uclick was formed in July 2009 following the", "title": "Andrews McMeel Syndication" }, { "id": "2677949", "text": "Baby Face Finlayson Baby Face Finlayson is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic \"The Beano\", first appearing in issue 1553, dated 22 April 1972. Baby Face Finlayson \"The Cutest Bandit in the West\" is an outlaw from the American Old West, and is, in fact, a baby. His name is derived from the real-life American gangster of the 1930s Baby Face Nelson (real name Lester Joseph Gillis). He was originally a minor character in Little Plum, but was later given a spin-off strip of his own. He rode around in a motorised pram, stealing everything", "title": "Baby Face Finlayson" }, { "id": "2748303", "text": "Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993), whose work appeared under the name \"Marge\", had created two comic strips in the 1920s: \"The Boy Friend\" and \"Dashing Dot\", both with female leads. She first had Little Lulu published in a single-panel cartoon in \"The Saturday Evening Post\" on February 23, 1935, in which Lulu appears as a flower girl at a wedding and strews the aisle with banana peels. The \"Little Lulu\" strip replaced the strip \"Henry\" in the magazine; the \"Post\" requested a similar strip from Buell, and Buell created a little girl character in place of \"Henry\"s little boy as she", "title": "Little Lulu" }, { "id": "12885725", "text": "two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race. Li'l Abner (1940 film) Li'l Abner is a 1940 film based on the comic strip \"Li'l Abner\" created by Al Capp. The three most recognizable names associated with the film are Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat, Jeff York as Li'l Abner, and Milton Berle, who co-wrote the title song. This was the first of two films based on the popular Al Capp strip, the second being Paramount's 1959 musical,", "title": "Li'l Abner (1940 film)" }, { "id": "2757361", "text": "of suburban couple John and Myrtle Sappo. However, Segar later added the character of inventor Professor O. G. Wotasnozzle to \"Sappo\". Wotasnozzle's bizarre machines soon became the focus of the narrative. On January 17, 1929, when Castor Oyl needed a mariner to navigate his ship to Dice Island, Castor picked up an old sailor in the docks named Popeye. Popeye's first line in the strip, upon being asked if he was a sailor, was \"'Ja think I'm a cowboy?\" The character stole the show and became the permanent star. Some of the other notable characters Segar created include J. Wellington", "title": "E. C. Segar" }, { "id": "3553460", "text": "Bil Keane William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011), better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the newspaper comic \"The Family Circus\". It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. Keane was born in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Crescentville and attended parochial school at St. William Parish and Northeast Catholic High School. While a schoolboy, he taught himself to draw by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in \"The New Yorker\". His first cartoon was published on May 21, 1936 on", "title": "Bil Keane" }, { "id": "2513669", "text": "Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, and John Marshall. Despite these changes, \"Blondie\" has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. Since 2006, \"Blondie\" has also been available via email through King Features' DailyINK service. Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier \"pretty girl\" creations \"Beautiful Bab\" and \"Dumb Dora\", \"Blondie\" focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune. The name \"Boopadoop\" derives from the scat singing lyric that", "title": "Blondie (comic strip)" }, { "id": "6185055", "text": "a journalist. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran (under various earlier titles) from November 23, 1936, to December 26, 2004. Initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate and then by Field Newspaper Syndicate, it ended at King Features Syndicate. Despite the changes in title, characters, themes and authors, the entire 68-year run formed a single evolving story, from an Indian who teamed up with an adventurous young photojournalist to two longtime friends ready to retire after their long, eventful careers. Created by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon, the strip was", "title": "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad" }, { "id": "13005994", "text": "a Scottish accent) as well as his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Just as in the comic, he is initially portrayed as a drunk, who is always in search of alcohol. Tintin endeavours to cure the captain of his alcoholism, but eventually discovers that it is an essential component of his character. Captain Haddock Captain Archibald Haddock () is a fictional character in \"The Adventures of Tintin\", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring pipe-smoking Merchant Marine Captain. Haddock is initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character under the control of his treacherous", "title": "Captain Haddock" }, { "id": "70118", "text": "used for political or social commentary. This ranged from the conservative slant of \"Little Orphan Annie\" to the unabashed liberalism of \"Doonesbury\". \"Pogo\" used animals to particularly devastating effect, caricaturing many prominent politicians of the day as animal denizens of Pogo's Okeefenokee Swamp. In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables. Kelly also defended the medium against possible government regulation in the McCarthy era. At a time", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "32719", "text": "\"The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me,\" (from \"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,\" 1751). \"Neither the strip's shifting political leanings nor the slide of its final few years had any bearing on its status as a classic; and in 1995, it was recognized as such by the U.S. Postal Service,\" according to \"Toonopedia\". \"Li'l Abner\" was one of 20 American comic strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of USPS commemorative stamps. Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum (formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art),", "title": "Al Capp" }, { "id": "7813034", "text": "\"ABC's 64-Page Giant\", Splash battles Bunko the Dog (a parody of Bimbo, Betty Boop's canine boyfriend), a 1930s cartoon character who is brought to life in a movie theatre. Accused of plagiarism, Splash is nearly defeated until he tells Bunko what he is doing is in fact a tribute. As he and his companion leave the theatre, they encounter what appears to be DC Comic's Plastic Man. This story has Moore acknowledging the inspirations behind Splash, as well as displaying self-deprecating humour (such as that he is in fact merely copying earlier works). Splash Brannigan Splash Brannigan is a fictional", "title": "Splash Brannigan" }, { "id": "1256842", "text": "Charlie Brown Charlie Brown or Charles Brown Esquire (see “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” movie) is the protagonist of the comic strip \"Peanuts\", syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a \"lovable loser,\" Charlie Brown is one of the great American archetypes and a popular and widely recognized cartoon character. Charlie Brown is characterized as a person who frequently suffers, and as a result is usually nervous and lacks self-confidence. He shows both pessimistic and optimistic attitudes: on some days, he is reluctant to go out because his day might just be", "title": "Charlie Brown" }, { "id": "804645", "text": "thrill-a-minute stuff as Flash battles one adversary after another\" and stated that it was \"the best of the Crabbe trilogy of \"Flash Gordon\" films\". Flash Gordon (serial) Flash Gordon is a 1936 science fiction film serial. Shown in 13 chapters, it was the first screen adventure for the comic-strip character Flash Gordon that was invented by Alex Raymond only two years earlier in 1934. It tells the story of Flash Gordon's first visit to the planet Mongo and his encounter with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon played the", "title": "Flash Gordon (serial)" }, { "id": "6456275", "text": "Drip-Along Daffy Drip-Along Daffy is a Warner Bros. \"Merrie Melodies\" theatrical cartoon short released in 1951 and later re-released in 1959 as a Blue Ribbon, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. This cartoon was produced as a parody of Westerns which were widely popular at the time of its release, and features Daffy Duck as a \"Western-Type Hero\", who, with his trusty \"Comedy Relief\" (Porky Pig) hopes to clean up a violence-filled \"\". In a tongue-in-cheek nod to \"The Lone Ranger\", Daffy's horse is named \"Tinfoil\". The cartoon includes an original song (sung by Porky) \"The Flower", "title": "Drip-Along Daffy" }, { "id": "13005976", "text": "Captain Haddock Captain Archibald Haddock () is a fictional character in \"The Adventures of Tintin\", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring pipe-smoking Merchant Marine Captain. Haddock is initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character under the control of his treacherous first mate Allan, who keeps him drunk and runs his freighter. He regains his command and his dignity, even rising to president of the Society of Sober Sailors (\"The Shooting Star\"), but never gives up his love for rum and whisky, especially Loch Lomond, until the final Tintin adventure, \"Tintin and", "title": "Captain Haddock" }, { "id": "20976101", "text": "Rudolph Dirks, creator of the hugely popular \"The Katzenjammer Kids\" strip, left the Hearst organization for Pulitzer and began a new strip, first titled \"Hans and Fritz\" and then \"The Captain and the Kids\". It featured the same characters seen in \"The Katzenjammer Kids\", and remained nearly as popular (eventually running until 1979). The E. W. Scripps Company acquired the \"New York World\" newspaper and its syndication assets in February 1931, bringing over to Scripps' United Feature Syndicate the popular comic strips \"The Captain and the Kids\", \"Everyday Movies\", \"Fritzi Ritz\", \"Hawkshaw the Detective\", \"Joe Jinks\", and \"Little Mary Mixup\".", "title": "New York World comic strips" }, { "id": "5896165", "text": "Donald Duck in comics Donald Duck, a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company, is today the star of dozens of comic-book and comic-strip stories published each month (in certain parts of the world, each week) around the world. The earliest print mention of Donald Duck is likely in 1931, in the book, \"The Adventures of Mickey Mouse,\" published by David McKay Company, Philadelphia. On the first text page, none of which are numbered, the third paragraph begins, \"Mickey has many friends in the old barn and the barnyard, besides Minnie Mouse. They are Henry Horse and Carolyn Cow", "title": "Donald Duck in comics" }, { "id": "6406611", "text": "Reg Smythe Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running \"Andy Capp\" comic strip. He was born in Hartlepool, Teesside, England, the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife Florence, née Pearce. With his father long-term unemployed, he grew up in poverty. He attended Galley's Field School in West Hartlepool, but left at fourteen to take a job as a butcher's errand boy. In 1936, after a period of unemployment, he joined the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, and was posted", "title": "Reg Smythe" }, { "id": "9903913", "text": "Buck Rogers (serial) Buck Rogers is a 1939 Universal serial film starring Buster Crabbe (who had previously played the title character in two \"Flash Gordon\" serials and would return for a third in 1940) as the eponymous hero, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran and Anthony Warde. It was based on the Buck Rogers character created by Philip Francis Nowlan, which had appeared in magazines and comic strips since 1928. In 1938, Lieutenant Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe) and Buddy Wade (Jackie Moran) are part of the crew of a dirigible flying over the North Pole. They are caught in a savage storm", "title": "Buck Rogers (serial)" }, { "id": "5264828", "text": "Comics Revue Comics Revue is a bi-monthly small press comic book published by Manuscript Press and edited by Rick Norwood. Don Markstein edited the publication from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996. As of 2014, it has published more than 300 issues, making it the longest running independent comic book (beating the record of \"Cerebus the Aardvark\"). It reprints comic strips such as \"Alley Oop\", \"The Amazing Spider-Man\", \"Barnaby\", \"Batman\", \"Buz Sawyer\", \"Casey Ruggles\", \"Flash Gordon\", \"Gasoline Alley\", \"Hägar the Horrible\", \"Krazy Kat\", \"Lance\", \"Latigo\", \"Little Orphan Annie\", \"Mandrake the Magician\", \"Modesty Blaise\", \"O'Neill\", \"Peanuts\", \"The Phantom\", \"Rick O'Shay\",", "title": "Comics Revue" }, { "id": "2969695", "text": "launched with a cover date of 8 March 1975, and was a hit. Wagner continued to write for girls' comics, including scripting gymnastics strip \"Bella at the Bar\" for \"Tammy\", and was appointed editor of the ailing boys' weekly \"Valiant\". Characters he created for this title included the tough New York City cop \"One-Eyed Jack\", drawn by John Cooper, which was inspired by the film \"Dirty Harry\" and became the comic's most popular character, and \"Soldier Sharp\", drawn by Joe Colquhoun, about a cunning coward in World War II. Both strips transferred to \"Battle\" when \"Valiant\" was merged into it", "title": "John Wagner" }, { "id": "11152984", "text": "Percy Crosby Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip \"Skippy\". Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's \"Peanuts\", the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a \"classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson.\" Humorist Corey Ford, writing in \"Vanity Fair\", praised the strip as \"America's most important contribution to humor of the", "title": "Percy Crosby" }, { "id": "6456283", "text": "Two in the . Drip-Along Daffy Drip-Along Daffy is a Warner Bros. \"Merrie Melodies\" theatrical cartoon short released in 1951 and later re-released in 1959 as a Blue Ribbon, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. This cartoon was produced as a parody of Westerns which were widely popular at the time of its release, and features Daffy Duck as a \"Western-Type Hero\", who, with his trusty \"Comedy Relief\" (Porky Pig) hopes to clean up a violence-filled \"\". In a tongue-in-cheek nod to \"The Lone Ranger\", Daffy's horse is named \"Tinfoil\". The cartoon includes an original song (sung", "title": "Drip-Along Daffy" }, { "id": "6319146", "text": "formal art training, became a news cartoonist for the \"New York American\". He entered the fledgling comic-book field 10 years later, contributing such one-page humor strips as \"Bobby\" (whose eponymous character was based on nephew Arthur), \"Peewee\" and \"Happy Daze\" to \"Famous Funnies\", one of those seminal American comic books that reprinted black-and-white newspaper strips in color. Iger became founding editor of another such early comic book, \"Wow, What a Magazine!\", which also included some new material. \"Wow\" lasted four issues (cover-dated July–Sept. & Nov. 1936) but brought Iger together with a 19-year-old Eisner — future creator of \"The Spirit\"", "title": "Jerry Iger" }, { "id": "15933711", "text": "audience could see him) and banter with Berle about the host's alleged lack of talent and originality. The character was likely the inspiration for The Muppets' Statler and Waldorf. Benson became Johnny Carson's favorite comic and appeared frequently on the Carson-hosted \"Tonight Show\". He was honored for Best Documentary at the 2011 Backlot Film Festival for \"The Last First Comic\" uncovering the roots of American comedy also going inside the colorful world of the Burlesque show. Benson married his wife Lillian in November 1936; the 79-year marriage, which lasted until her death in March 2016, remains the longest entertainment industry", "title": "Irving Benson" }, { "id": "70123", "text": "of popular strips - particularly in Spanish - are primarily read over the internet) and ever-shrinking newspaper space. One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held in 1997 on April Fool's Day, an event in which dozens of prominent artists took over each other's strips. \"Garfield\"’s Jim Davis, for example, switched with \"Blondie\"’s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams (\"Dilbert\") traded strips with Bil Keane (\"The Family Circus\"). Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996. While the Switcheroonie was", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "3134650", "text": "characters like \"Tarzan\" and \"Mowgli\" from Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book\". He was fascinated by the Thugs of India, and hence based his first Phantom comic on the \"Singh Brotherhood\". Falk originally considered the idea of calling his character \"The Gray Ghost\", but finally decided that he preferred \"The Phantom\". Falk revealed in an interview that Robin Hood, who was often depicted as wearing tights, inspired the skin-tight costume of \"The Phantom\", which is known to have influenced the entire superhero-industry. In the A&E Network's \"Phantom\" biography program, Falk explained that Ancient Greek stone busts inspired the notion of pupils", "title": "Lee Falk" }, { "id": "523885", "text": "colouring books, and toy spaceships and rayguns. The \"Flash Gordon\" comic strip ran as a daily from 1934 to 1992, with the Sunday strip continuing until 2003. Reprints are still being syndicated by King Features Syndicate. The comic strip follows the adventures of Flash Gordon, a handsome polo player and Yale University graduate, and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov. The story begins with Earth threatened by a collision with the planet Mongo. Dr. Zarkov invents a rocket ship to fly into space in an attempt to stop the disaster. Half mad, he kidnaps Flash and Dale and", "title": "Flash Gordon" }, { "id": "51603", "text": "after the 75th Anniversary Special, fourteen new comic strips joined \"The Beano\" with twelve of these becoming the new Funsize Funnies stories, all of which are parodies of either a celebrity or television show: \"High School Moozical\", \"Neigh-Bours\", \"Celebrity Believe It or Not\", \"I Pity the School\", \"Murs Attacks\", \"Ashley's Banjo\", \"Coronation Bleat\", \"Jose's Back\", \"Simon's Bowel\", \"Guess Who?\", \"Watch-Hog\" and \"Danny Diddly O'Donoghue\" as well as two new one-page stories to replace \"Tricky Dicky\" and \"Big Time Charlie\": \"El Poco Loco\" and \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys\". Stu Munro also took over as both puzzle page artist (as he did", "title": "The Beano" }, { "id": "8003562", "text": "\"Bête Noire\"; the 'hip' jazz-loving and artistic 'beat' spider, Bug Rogers, drawn with only six legs; Paris Juarez Keats Garcia, a poet; Artemisa Rosalinda Gonzalez, a widow determined to marry the bachelor farmer; and Tehuana Mama, Gordo's housekeeper. Initially, \"Gordo\" was designed to be a Mexican version of \"Li'l Abner\", with a highly caricatured style and a lazy overweight title character who spoke in heavily accented English and took naps under a tree wearing a sombrero. The character reflected popular conceptions of Mexicans when the strip was introduced, particularly Leo Carrillo's portrayal of The Cisco Kid's sidekick, Pancho, in film", "title": "Gordo (comic strip)" }, { "id": "14797297", "text": "1973. Australian Galleries ran an exhibit, \"The Phantom Show\", consisting of traditional art inspired by the Phantom, from December 9–21, 2014. Phantom (comics) The Phantom is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional country of Bangalla. The character was created by Lee Falk for the adventure comic strip \"The Phantom\", which debuted in newspapers on February 17, 1936. The Phantom was later depicted in many forms of media, including television shows, movies, and video games. Lee Falk's syndicated newspaper comic strip \"The Phantom\" premiered on February 17, 1936, with the story \"The Singh Brotherhood\", written by Falk and", "title": "Phantom (comics)" }, { "id": "9648262", "text": "a real-life pool hustler named Rudolf Wanderone. Mosconi claimed in an interview at the time of the film's release that the character of Minnesota Fats was based on Wanderone, who at the time was known as \"New York Fatty\". Wanderone immediately adopted the Minnesota Fats nickname and parlayed his association with the film into book and television deals and other ventures. Author Walter Tevis denied for the rest of his life that Wanderone had played any role in the creation of the character. Other players would claim, with greater or lesser degrees of credibility, to have served as models for", "title": "The Hustler (film)" }, { "id": "16656760", "text": "the Wild West. The strip ran in 87 newspapers. The strip was influenced by \"Little Orphan Annie\" - Frankie even has curly red hair. Ben Batsford had previously worked on \"Little Annie Rooney\", which was also influenced by Little Orphan Annie. Frankie Doodle Frankie Doodle, originally called \"The Doodle Family\", is an American comic strip that ran from 1934 to 1938. It was created by Ben Batsford. Frankie was the main character even when he lived with his family. However, they were all written out by 1935. Frankie is pursued throughout the strips by Mr. Shady, a disreputable lawyer who", "title": "Frankie Doodle" }, { "id": "15996911", "text": "as a Billy Bunterish comedy figure, complete with straw boater, Fatty Finn evolved . . . into a knockabout schoolboy innocently living out his days in a never-never urban world'. On August 1924 the title of the strip was changed to \"Fatty Finn\", heralding a change in the strip's direction and the role of the main character. \"Fatty Finn\" came to be recognised as one of the best-drawn comics in Australia and vied with \"Ginger Meggs\" in popularity. In 1927 a film called \"The Kid Stakes\" was produced by Tal Ordell, featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector. The film", "title": "Syd Nicholls" }, { "id": "4706361", "text": "Frank. It is probable, but not clear, that Pancho or Cisco were originally named after the famous Mexican revolutionary general whose nom de guerre was Francisco \"Pancho\" Villa. The Cisco Kid The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story \"The Caballero's Way\", published in the collection \"Heart of the West\", as well as in \"Everybody's Magazine\", v17, July 1907. In films, radio and television, the Kid was depicted as a heroic Mexican caballero, even though he", "title": "The Cisco Kid" }, { "id": "6790873", "text": "Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1983, 1984 and 1986. He won the H.L. Mencken Award for the best cartoon in 1985 and he was selected as \"Punster of the Year\" in 1990. The August 14, 2006 edition of the comic strip \"Candorville\", the August 29, 2006 edition of the comic strip \"Arlo & Janis\", and the September 10, 2006 edition of the comic strip \"Prickly City\" paid tribute to Thaves. Bob Thaves Robert Thaves (October 5, 1924 – August 1, 2006) was the creator of the comic strip \"Frank and Ernest\", which began in 1972. Thaves' desire to become a", "title": "Bob Thaves" }, { "id": "6607924", "text": "Saint-Michel. Another famous work were the adventures of Marzolino Tarantola, an eccentric millionaire engaged along with his butler and the hulking speech-impaired strongman \"Henry the crew\" in a car race across the world, from San Francisco to Paris; the threesome must constantly fend off the dastarldy tricks of their nemesis, \"Professor Moriarty\" and his diminutive lackey, Perfidio. The story is loosely based on the Wacky Races cartoon and the movie The Great Race with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon but both inspirations merely served Bonvi as a pretext to let him draw wild capers across the globe in the early-1900s", "title": "Bonvi" }, { "id": "1415619", "text": "Olive falls for the ploy, but stops falling for it when Wimpy states that he forgot his hiding place. In yet another notable incident, Wimpy had his own lover, Waneeta, but only loved her because her father owned a herd of beef cows. J. Wellington Wimpy J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip \"Popeye\", created by E. C. Segar in 1934 and originally called \"Thimble Theatre\", and in the \"Popeye\" cartoons based upon the strip. Wimpy was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when \"Popeye\"", "title": "J. Wellington Wimpy" }, { "id": "2748302", "text": "Little Lulu Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in \"The Saturday Evening Post\" on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. \"Little Lulu\" replaced Carl Anderson's \"Henry\", which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The \"Little Lulu\" panel continued to run weekly in \"The Saturday Evening Post\" until December 30, 1944. \"Little Lulu\" was created as a result of Anderson's success. Schlesinger Library curator Kathryn Allamong Jacob wrote:", "title": "Little Lulu" }, { "id": "5344829", "text": "1932. On May 16, 1926, Harold Knerr began \"\", a topper to \"The Katzenjammer Kids\", which ran until two years after his death. By 1936, to avoid any association with Adolf Hitler, the dog's name was changed to Schnappsy (a.k.a. Schnapps). Knerr's strip was reformatted for reprints in \"Magic Comics\" in the early 1940s. Billy DeBeck's topper for \"Barney Google\" was \"Parlor Bedroom and Sink\", which evolved into \"Parlor Bedroom and Sink Starring Bunky\" and eventually was titled simply \"Bunky\". In the mid-1930s, DeBeck added alongside \"Bunky\" a single-panel topper, \"Knee-Hi-Knoodles\", depictions of kids' funny remarks (contributed by readers). \"Bunky\"", "title": "Topper (comic strip)" }, { "id": "15256589", "text": "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Dennis and Gnasher (previously titled Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, and originally titled Dennis the Menace) is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic \"The Beano\", published by DC Thomson, of Dundee, Scotland. The comic stars a boy named Dennis the Menace and his Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound Gnasher. The strip first appeared in issue 452, dated 17 March 1951 (on sale 12 March 1951), and is the longest-running strip in the comic. The idea and name of the character emerged when the comic's editor heard a British music hall song with the", "title": "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher" }, { "id": "9849215", "text": "will do anything to stop the airline from doing business. After Tommy becomes a pilot, he prevents a runaway aircraft from crashing into a crowd of children, among other adventures that put him into the public eye. Eventually Taggert and his gang are brought to justice. Tommy goes on to win a movie contract, and win the heart of his sweetheart Betty Lou Barnes (Patricia Farr). \"Tailspin Tommy\" was the first serial to be based on a \"comic strip\". From 1936 to 1945, Universal almost made more serial adaptations of comic strips than both of their rivals, Columbia and Republic,", "title": "Tailspin Tommy (serial)" }, { "id": "12752616", "text": "Panhandle Scandal Panhandle Scandal is the 91st animated cartoon short subject in the \"Woody Woodpecker\" series. Released theatrically on May 18, 1959, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International. Dapper Denver Dooley, a bandit with a price on his head, approaches the town of Rigor Mortis, Texas and sees a sign, \"No Bandits Allowed,\" signed by \"Woody Woodpecker, Marshal.\" He stops and asks a peon where he can find the marshal. The peon replies, \"You mean the one with the red hair, the big nose, who goes 'Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha'?\" The bandit says, \"That's him.\" The", "title": "Panhandle Scandal" }, { "id": "14512506", "text": "Media — along with King Features Syndicate and Creators Syndicate — was one of Andrews McMeel's main competitors in the industry. Well-known comics currently and formerly syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication include \"For Better or For Worse\", \"FoxTrot\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"Garfield\", \"The Boondocks\", \"Doonesbury\", \"Cathy\", \"Pooch Cafe\", \"Baldo\", \"What the Duck\", \"Ink Pen\", \"Liō\", \"Cul de Sac\", \"Ziggy\", \"Tom the Dancing Bug\", \"The Far Side\" and \"Peanuts\" (since February 27, 2011) in newspapers, calendars and books. Andrews McMeel Syndication also owns and operates GoComics.com, a comics aggregate website featuring comic strips currently syndicated in print, online and on mobile", "title": "Andrews McMeel Syndication" }, { "id": "2529969", "text": "unofficially sanctioned the return of the pin-up (albeit fully clothed) with the Strategic Air Command permitting nose art on its bomber force in the Command's last years. The continuation of historic names such as \"Memphis Belle\" was encouraged. Source material for American nose art was varied, ranging from pinups such as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable and cartoon characters such as Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Popeye to patriotic characters (Yankee Doodle) and fictional heroes (Sam Spade). Lucky symbols such as dice and playing cards also inspired nose art, along with references to mortality such as the Grim Reaper. Cartoons", "title": "Nose art" }, { "id": "1551902", "text": "Barnaby (comics) Barnaby was a comic strip which began 20 April 1942 in the newspaper \"PM\" and was later syndicated in 64 American newspapers (for a combined circulation of more than 5,500,000). Created by Crockett Johnson, who is best known today for his children's book \"Harold and the Purple Crayon\", the strip featured a cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic fairy godfather, Jackeen J. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. With a distinctive appearance because of its use of typography, the strip had numerous reprints and was adapted into a 1940s stage production. The usually caustic Dorothy Parker", "title": "Barnaby (comics)" }, { "id": "8031083", "text": "TV debut of \"Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons\". Besides \"TV Tornado\", another similar comic was \"Solo\", which like the former contained strips based on the Mysterons to acquaint readers further with the world of \"Captain Scarlet\". \"TV Tornado\" also followed \"The Lone Ranger\" (1949 – 57), \"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea\" (1964 – 68), \"Tarzan\" (1966 – 68), \"The Saint\" (1962 – 69) and \"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.\" (1964 – 68). \"Solo\" merged with \"TV Tornado\" prior to the latter's own merger with \"TV21\". TV Century 21 TV Century 21, later renamed TV21 (from issue 155), TV21 and", "title": "TV Century 21" }, { "id": "14797234", "text": "Phantom (comics) The Phantom is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional country of Bangalla. The character was created by Lee Falk for the adventure comic strip \"The Phantom\", which debuted in newspapers on February 17, 1936. The Phantom was later depicted in many forms of media, including television shows, movies, and video games. Lee Falk's syndicated newspaper comic strip \"The Phantom\" premiered on February 17, 1936, with the story \"The Singh Brotherhood\", written by Falk and illustrated first by himself, for two weeks, followed by Ray Moore, who was an assistant to artist Phil Davis on Falk's", "title": "Phantom (comics)" }, { "id": "8871551", "text": "the song's storyline, with Barnacle Bimbo romancing Betty and then leaving her to go back to sea. Like many early Fleischer Studios films, this film was inspired by a popular song, a version of \"Barnacle Bill\" written in 1928 by Frank Luther & Carson Robison and performed by Hoagy Carmichael. It has nothing to do with William Bernard, the sailor and California Gold Rush character known as \"Barnacle Bill\". In this cartoon, Betty Boop still retains some of the canine physical characteristics that she had in her first screen appearance, \"Dizzy Dishes.\" Barnacle Bill (1930 film) Barnacle Bill is a", "title": "Barnacle Bill (1930 film)" }, { "id": "10693921", "text": "Ray Moore (comics) Raymond S. Moore (1905 – January 13, 1984), better known as Ray Moore, was the co-creator, together with Lee Falk, and first artist on what would grow to become the world's most popular adventure comic strip, The Phantom, which started in 1936. Moore had previously worked as Phil Davis' assistant on the Lee Falk-created \"Mandrake the Magician\" comic strip, which was why he was thought to be a suitable choice to draw Falk's new creation. Little is known about Ray's personal life, but he was born in Montgomery City, Missouri, in 1905, and he lived most of", "title": "Ray Moore (comics)" }, { "id": "2327412", "text": "including literature, film, and television. Paramount Pictures' Western silent film \"Wild Bill Hickok\" (released on November 18, 1923) was directed by Clifford Smith and stars William S. Hart as Hickok. A print of the film is maintained in the Museum of Modern Art film archive. The movie \"The Plainsman\" (1936), starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, features the relationship between Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane as its main plot line. It is a loose adaptation of J. B. Hickok's life ending with his infamous aces and eights card hand. A highly fictional film account of Hickok's later years and", "title": "Wild Bill Hickok" }, { "id": "12381570", "text": "Rabbit and the March Hare. The oldest funny animal comic strip is James Swinnerton's \"The Little Bears\", which debuted in 1892. The earliest example of funny animals in a British comic strip was Arthur White's \"Jungle Jinks\" (1898-1947), which featured a group of school children, anthropomorphized as animals. The comic strip ran in Playbox, a supplement of Home Chat, for years. \"Jungle Jinks\" in particular paved the way for a whole stream of British comics about cute animal characters: \"Tiger Tim\", \"Teddy Tail\", \"Rupert Bear\"... and so on. An early example of a novel which made exclusive use of funny", "title": "Funny animal" }, { "id": "70116", "text": "Spider-Man\". A number of strips have featured animals ('funny animals') as main characters. Some are non-verbal (\"Marmaduke\", \"The Angriest Dog in the World\"), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, (\"Garfield\", Snoopy in \"Peanuts\"), and some can converse with humans (\"Bloom County\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"Mutts\", \"Citizen Dog\", \"Buckles\", \"Get Fuzzy\", \"Pearls Before Swine\", and \"Pooch Cafe\"). Other strips are centered entirely on animals, as in \"Pogo\" and \"Donald Duck\". Gary Larson's \"The Far Side\" was unusual, as there were no central characters. Instead \"The Far Side\" used a wide variety of characters including humans, monsters, aliens,", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "10451006", "text": "captures the villain on a passing mail hook, leaving the villain tortured over a buzz saw. This short marks the second and last appearance of the characters Piggy and Fluffy. \"Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land\" was released in theaters on November 28, 1931 by Warner Bros. The cartoon's copyright expired in 1959, making it go into public domain. However, the cartoon has been withheld from distribution since 1968. At that time, United Artists owned the rights to most \"Looney Tunes\" and \"Merrie Melodies\" cartoons. \"Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah land\" and ten other cartoons were deemed to feature racist", "title": "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land" }, { "id": "3678861", "text": "\"Dick Tracy\", Capp spoofed many other comic strips in \"Li'l Abner\", including \"Steve Canyon\", \"Superman\" (at least twice; first as \"Jack Jawbreaker!\" in 1947 and again in 1966 as \"Chickensouperman!\"), \"Mary Worth\", \"Peanuts\", \"Rex Morgan, M.D.\", \"Little Annie Rooney\", and \"Little Orphan Annie\". Although they proved fertile sources of parody—most memorably \"Little Fanny Gooney\" (1952), \"Rex Moonlight, M.D.\" (1956),\"Steve Cantor\" and \"Mary Worm\" (1957)—no other strip seemed to provide Capp with the same bottomless well of inspiration as \"Dick Tracy\". Later comic strip parodies were mostly one-shot affairs. They never achieved quite the same degree of repeat success or sustained", "title": "Fearless Fosdick" }, { "id": "11278415", "text": "who begins to educate him and take the boy under his wing. But others from both families do not give this outsider their trust. Upset over the budding romance, Dave sets out after Hale with a rifle but is ambushed by the Falins. The latest round of violence causes June not to want to return home, so Hale sends her to Louisville to live with his sister. A bridge is destroyed by the Falins, causing the accidental death of Buddie. A funeral is held and June returns, newly sophisticated from being in the big city. Family patriarch Buck Falin extends", "title": "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)" }, { "id": "2173811", "text": "the series. About 50 million copies have been sold worldwide. The comic strip was, and still is, published daily in the \"Daily Express\", with many of these stories later being printed in books, and every year since 1936 a Rupert annual has also been released. Rupert Bear has become a well-known character in children's culture in the United Kingdom, and the success of the Rupert stories has led to the creation of several television series based on the character. The character also has a large fan following, with such groups as \"The Followers of Rupert\". Rupert is a bear who", "title": "Rupert Bear" }, { "id": "7287818", "text": "among historians, on how exactly the U.S. army's World War II ¼-ton reconnaissance car became generally known as the \"jeep\" — let alone how the word originated in the first place. Many explanations have proven difficult to verify. With certainty, the term \"jeep\" was already in use \"before\" the war, designating various things; while early jeeps were indicated by many designations and nicknames. As early as spring 1936 a character called Eugene the Jeep was created in E. C. Segar's \"Popeye\" cartoons. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's \"jungle pet\" and was small, able to walk through walls and move between", "title": "Willys MB" }, { "id": "4934220", "text": "Ventriloquist was introduced named Shauna Belzer, first appearing in \"Batgirl\" #20 (July 2013), as created by Gail Simone and Fernando Pasarin. A meek, quiet man named Arnold Wesker (the first Ventriloquist) plans and executes his crimes through a dummy named Scarface, with the dress and persona of a 1920s gangster (complete with pinstripe suit, cigar, and Tommy gun). His name comes from the nickname of Al Capone, after whom Scarface is modeled. Born into a powerful Mafia family, Wesker develops dissociative identity disorder after seeing his mother assassinated by thugs from a rival family. Growing up, his only outlet is", "title": "Ventriloquist (comics)" } ]

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[ { "id": "1393841", "text": "Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem \"Little Orphant Annie\" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York \"Daily News\". The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefactor Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and communism. Following", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "4246378", "text": "\"Chicago Tribune\" and stayed until 1919 when he left to freelance in commercial art. In 1923, while residing in Lombard, Illinois, he became a Freemason. From 1921 to 1924, he did the lettering for Sidney Smith's \"The Gumps\". After he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for \"Little Orphan Otto\", the title was altered by \"Chicago Tribune\" editor Joseph Medill Patterson to \"Little Orphan Annie\", launched August 5, 1924. Gray's first wife, Doris C. Platt, died in late 1925. He married Winifred Frost in 1929, and the couple moved to Greens Farms, Connecticut, spending winters in La Jolla,", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "1393897", "text": "from the Chicago Tribune-New York Times Syndicate, Inc. for the dates 1943, 1959–61 and 1965–68, as well as originals and photocopies of the printed versions of \"Little Orphan Annie\", both daily and Sunday strips. Considering both Cupples & Leon and Pacific Comics Club, the biggest gap is in 1928. Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem \"Little Orphant Annie\" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "4246376", "text": "Harold Gray Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". He is considered to be the first American cartoonist to use a comic strip to express a political philosophy. Harold Gray was born in Kankakee, Illinois on January 20, 1894, to Estella Mary () and Ira Lincoln Gray, a farmer. Both parents died before he finished high school in 1912 in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the family had moved. In 1913, he got his first newspaper job at a Lafayette daily.", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "70124", "text": "a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning (as it is in the comic book industry). In fact, the practice has made possible the longevity of the genre's more popular strips. Examples include \"Little Orphan Annie\" (drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy), and \"Terry and The Pirates\", started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder. A business-driven variation has sometimes led to the same feature", "title": "Comic strip" }, { "id": "1393854", "text": "this little kid and liked her right away,\" Gray said, \"She had common sense, knew how to take care of herself. She had to. Her name was Annie. At the time some 40 strips were using boys as the main characters; only three were using girls. I chose Annie for mine, and made her an orphan, so she'd have no family, no tangling alliances, but freedom to go where she pleased.\" By changing the gender of his lead character, Gray differentiated himself in the field of comics (and likely increased his readership by appealing to female readers). In designing the", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393853", "text": "but \"Little Orphan Annie\" was finally accepted and debuted in a test run on August 5, 1924, in the New York \"Daily News\", a \"Tribune\" owned tabloid. Reader response was positive, and \"Annie\" began appearing as a Sunday strip in the \"Tribune\" on November 2 and as a daily strip on November 10. It was soon offered for syndication and picked up by the \"Toronto Star\" and \"The Atlanta Constitution\". Gray reported in 1952 that Annie's origin lay in a chance meeting he had with a ragamuffin while wandering the streets of Chicago looking for cartooning ideas. \"I talked to", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393849", "text": "and vacant circles for eyes. Her catchphrases are \"Gee whiskers\" and \"Leapin' lizards!\" Annie attributes her lasting youthfulness to her birthday on February 29 in a leap year, and ages only one year in appearance for every four years that pass. Annie is a plucky, generous, compassionate, and optimistic youngster who can hold her own against bullies, and has a strong and intuitive sense of right and wrong. Sandy enters the story in a January 1925 strip as a puppy of no particular breed which Annie rescues from a gang of abusive boys. The girl is working as a drudge", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "5483580", "text": "Story\". Harvey Kurtzman had both Annies in mind when he created his satirical \"Little Annie Fanny\" for \"Playboy\", though the ribald parody owed far more to the original Harold Gray strip. James Joyce referred to \"Little Annie Rooney\" early in the first chapter of \"Finnegans Wake\": \"Arrah, sure, we all love little Anny Ruiny, or, we mean to say, lovelittle Anna Rayiny, when unda her brella, mid piddle med puddle, she ninnygoes nannygoes nancing by.\" Prior to the creation of the identically titled comic strip, Mary Pickford starred as a girl of the slums in William Beaudine's 1925 silent comedy-drama", "title": "Little Annie Rooney" }, { "id": "1393896", "text": "(empty or \"ground glass\") nuclei are a characteristic histological finding in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Harold Gray's work is in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. The Gray collection includes artwork, printed material, correspondence, manuscripts and photographs. Gray's original pen and ink drawings for \"Little Orphan Annie\" daily strips date from 1924 to 1968. The Sunday strips date from 1924 to 1964. Printed material in the collection includes numerous proofs of \"Little Orphan Annie\" daily and Sunday strips (1925–68). Most of these are in bound volumes. There are proofsheets of \"Little Orphan Annie\" daily strips", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1049229", "text": "1920. In 2008, the city of Lombard, Illinois declared April 6 to be \"Ellen Martin Day\" in commemoration of Ms. Martin's historic victory for women's suffrage. William LeRoy built a home in the Italianate style on Lombard's Main Street in 1881. LeRoy specialized in making artificial limbs for civil war veterans and lived in this house until 1900. The house would eventually become the home of Harold Gray's parents and the studio of Harold Gray, the originator of Little Orphan Annie cartoon strip. Harold Gray used the home's study to work on the Annie cartoons, and some features of the", "title": "Lombard, Illinois" }, { "id": "16883649", "text": "a female version of Goodman Beaver for \"Playboy\" magazine called \"Little Annie Fanny\" (1962–88). Goodman Beaver is a naïve and optimistic character, oblivious to the degeneration around him. According to Kurtzman, the character was partially inspired by Voltaire's \"Candide\" and Harold Gray's comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who, like Goodman, was drawn with blank circles for eyes. Art critic Greil Marcus compares Goodman to Young Goodman Brown in Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of the same name—both are pure-souled characters who become disillusioned by the depravity they confront in the world. Kurtzman wrote five Goodman Beaver stories for his long-time collaborator", "title": "Goodman Beaver" }, { "id": "10931513", "text": "Annie (1999 film) Annie is a 1999 American made-for-television musical-comedy-drama film from \"The Wonderful World of Disney\", adapted from the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the 1924 \"Little Orphan Annie\" comic strip by Harold Gray. The musical was previously adapted into a 1982 theatrical film. It was directed by Rob Marshall, written by Irene Mecchi, and produced by Walt Disney Television, Columbia TriStar Television, Storyline Entertainment, and Chris Montan Productions. \"Annie\" marks the first film collaboration between The Walt Disney Company and Columbia Pictures", "title": "Annie (1999 film)" }, { "id": "4246385", "text": "correspondence, manuscripts and photographs. The collection contains a scrapbook, a short story by Gray titled \"Annie\", letters, postcards and telegrams from 1937 to 1967, including correspondence with \"Collier's\", Purdue University, Al Capp and Mort Walker. Gray's appointment books with comic strip dialogue and plots are dated 1929, 1931, 1933–1935, 1937, 1944, 1946, 1949, 1950–59 and 1961. Photographs show Gray drawing and Gray as a U.S. Army officer Harold Gray Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". He is considered to", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "5182586", "text": "outlineless look. Kurtzman's suggestions for the feature's name included \"The Perils of Zelda\", \"The Perils of Irma\", and \"Little Mary Mixup\"; he settled on \"Little Annie Fanny\", its title and logo a parody of Harold Gray's \"Little Orphan Annie\". The cartoonist began submitting story ideas for the multi-page comic strip to Hefner for approval. Over the twenty-six years he wrote the character, he was allowed (with \"Playboy\" substantial budget) to travel for research, photography, and sketching. He followed this with a preliminary script for Hefner, who revised it. Kurtzman then worked out the story's composition, pacing, and action in thumbnail", "title": "Little Annie Fanny" }, { "id": "14406957", "text": "Little Joe (comic strip) Little Joe was a Western comic strip, created in the early 1930s by Ed Leffingwell and later continued by his brother, Robert Leffingwell. Distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, this Sunday strip had a long run spanning four decades. It was never a daily strip. Ed Leffingwell's cousin was Harold Gray, and he began in comics as Gray's assistant on \"Little Orphan Annie\", which explains why the artwork on \"Little Joe\" curiously resembled \"Little Orphan Annie\". \"Little Joe\" began October 1, 1933, but Ed Leffingwell worked on the strip for only three years. When he died", "title": "Little Joe (comic strip)" }, { "id": "1393850", "text": "in Mrs. Bottle's grocery store at the time and manages to keep the puppy briefly concealed. She finally gives him to Paddy Lynch, a gentle man who owns a \"steak joint\" and can give Sandy a good home. Sandy is a mature dog when he suddenly reappears in a May 1925 strip to rescue Annie from gypsy kidnappers. Annie and Sandy remain together thereafter. Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks first appears in a September 1924 strip and reveals a month later he was formerly a small machine shop owner who acquired his enormous wealth producing munitions during World War I. He is", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393852", "text": "mysterious Mister Am, a friend of Warbucks' who wears a Santa Claus–like beard and has a jovial personality. He claims to have lived for millions of years and even having supernatural powers. Some strips hinted that he might even be God. After World War I, cartoonist Harold Gray joined the \"Chicago Tribune\" which, at that time, was being reworked by owner Joseph Medill Patterson into an important national journal. As part of his plan, Patterson wanted to publish comic strips that would lend themselves to nationwide syndication and to film and radio adaptations. Gray's strips were consistently rejected by Patterson,", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393855", "text": "strip, Gray was influenced by his midwestern farm boyhood, Victorian poetry and novels such as Charles Dickens's \"Great Expectations\", Sidney Smith's wildly popular comic strip \"The Gumps\", and the histrionics of the silent films and melodramas of the period. Initially, there was no continuity between the dailies and the Sunday strips, but by the early 1930s the two had become one. The strip (whose title was borrowed from James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem \"Little Orphant Annie\") was \"conservative and topical\", according to the editors of \"The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia\", and \"represents the personal vision\" of Gray", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393865", "text": "groups. Twenty thousand Junior Commandos were reportedly registered in Boston. Gray was praised far and wide for his war effort brainchild. \"Editor & Publisher\" wrote, Harold Gray, \"Little Orphan Annie\" creator, has done one of the biggest jobs to date for the scrap drive. His 'Junior Commando' project, which he inaugurated some months ago, has caught on all around the country, and tons of scrap have been collected and contributed to the campaign. The kids sell the scrap, and the proceeds are turned into stamps and bonds. Not all was rosy for Gray however. He applied for extra gas coupons,", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "7291702", "text": "King Uncle King Uncle is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Jackie Shroff and Anu Agarwal in the lead roles. Shah Rukh Khan, Nagma, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Pooja Ruparel, Deven Verma and Saleem Yousuf Hakroo from Kashmir star in supporting roles. The film was inspired from the 1982 English film \"Annie\" that starred Aileen Marie Quinn and Albert Finney, which in turn is based upon the 1924 comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" by Harold Gray. Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is a strict industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip'. Ashok starts", "title": "King Uncle" }, { "id": "15538233", "text": "as Frank King and Harold Gray. While they act like human characters, they are drawn in an bald, alien-like style, with exaggerated cartoon features and blank circles for eyes that are reminiscent of Gray's \"Little Orphan Annie\" comic strip. For a few years, Drawn and Quarterly publisher and editor-in-chief Chris Oliveros had tried to convince Brown to change the title of \"Yummy Fur\" in the hopes of achieving higher sales. Brown announced in Yummy Fur #32 that he would change the title and start a new series, as the title no longer suited the contents, and he was about to", "title": "Underwater (comics)" }, { "id": "10766773", "text": "Annie (1982 film) Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan which in turn is based on the \"Little Orphan Annie\" comic strip by Harold Gray. Directed by John Huston and written by Carol Sobieski, the film stars Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann and Aileen Quinn as the title character. Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in", "title": "Annie (1982 film)" }, { "id": "4246384", "text": "people. Gray sometimes ghosted \"Little Joe\" (1933–72), the strip by his assistant (and cousin) Ed Leffingwell which was continued by Ed's brother Robert. \"Maw Green\", a spin-off of \"Annie\" was published as a topper to \"Little Orphan Annie\". It mixed vaudeville timing with the same deeply conservative attitudes as \"Annie\". Films, radio and merchandising made Gray a multi-millionaire. He died of cancer at the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla on May 9, 1968, at the age of 74. Harold Gray's work is in the Special Collections Department at the Boston University Library. The Gray collection includes artwork, printed material,", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "4246365", "text": "died in 1968. Retitled \"Annie\", Starr's incarnation of the strip received the National Cartoonists Society's Story Comic Strip Award in 1983 and 1984. Starr continued it successfully until his retirement in 2000. Beginning in 2006, Starr produced new artwork for the covers to the ongoing series of \"On Stage\" reprint volumes published by Classic Comics Press. He died June 30, 2015. Leonard Starr Leonard Starr (October 28, 1925 – June 30, 2015) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip \"On Stage\" and reviving \"Little Orphan Annie\". Born October 28,", "title": "Leonard Starr" }, { "id": "15045177", "text": "the juried exhibition were submitted from across the United States. The selections featured 253 works of art from 132 artists. Hoosier Group artist T. C. Steele and his wife, Selma, attended the opening of the Salon's first exhibition, which was well received by art critics and the public. Among the first exhibition's favorites was a set of three \"Little Orphan Annie\" cartoons from their creator, Harold Gray, a 1917 graduate of Purdue University. Hoosier artists whose work also appeared at the first Salon included all four Hoosier Group members who were still living (T.C. Steele, William Forsyth, Otto Stark, and", "title": "Hoosier Salon" }, { "id": "2266684", "text": "Annie (musical) Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\", with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre). It spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as national tours, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical's songs \"Tomorrow\" and \"It's the Hard Knock Life\" are among its most popular musical numbers. In 1933, eleven-year-old Annie is in", "title": "Annie (musical)" }, { "id": "4246364", "text": "he noted, \"Started writing television scripts in the early 1970s, and in 1984 I was asked to develop and write the bible for the animated television show \"ThunderCats\", and also act as the story editor and head writer. Moved to Westport, Connecticut in 1970 where I still live today.\" Starr eventually wrote 23 episodes for \"ThunderCats\". He also worked on the Rankin Bass series \"Ghost Warrior\" (1985). In 1979 he revived the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". The strip had been in reprints since 1974 after a string of unsuccessful artists had succeeded the famous creator Harold Gray, who had", "title": "Leonard Starr" }, { "id": "14267372", "text": "several classic characters from the company's century-old history. They gained exclusive rights to Bernard Lipfert's 1928 Patsy doll, Patsyette. Effanbee also had the rights to reproduce fashion dolls licensed by Tribune Media like the \"Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter\" series, and the comic strip, \"Little Orphan Annie\". For the first few years after the buyout the Effanbee remained an independent subsidiary of Tonner Doll, however today the two have become a conglomerate run under a singular management. The Effanbee doll lines, while are designed, produced, marketed, and distributed by Tonner Doll, retain the Effanbee name. Tonner Doll Company Tonner Doll Company,", "title": "Tonner Doll Company" }, { "id": "6619086", "text": "Mudge\" to be Annie's parents, which Roosevelt gives without reservation. Daddy Warbucks Lieutenant General Sir Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". He made his first appearance in the Daily News in the \"Annie\" strip on September 27, 1924. In the series he is said to be around 52 years of age. Warbucks was born about 1894, near the small town of Supine. (In Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical, he was born and brought up in Hell's Kitchen New York and is 52 years old as of 1933, thus giving", "title": "Daddy Warbucks" }, { "id": "5483583", "text": "California: Comics Access, 1995. Little Annie Rooney Little Annie Rooney is a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had scored a huge hit with \"Little Orphan Annie\". The name comes from the 1889 popular song of the same name, still familiar to many at the time. Although the King Features strip was an obvious knock-off with several similar parallels, the approach was quite different, and \"Little Annie Rooney\" had a successful", "title": "Little Annie Rooney" }, { "id": "1393871", "text": "run over by a car. Gray responded to the criticism by giving Annie a year-long bout with amnesia that allowed her to trip through several adventures without Daddy. In 1956, a sequence about juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, switchblades, prostitutes, crooked cops, and the ties between teens and adult gangsters unleashed a firestorm of criticism from unions, the clergy and intellectuals with 30 newspapers cancelling the strip. The syndicate ordered Gray to drop the sequence and develop another adventure. Gray died in May 1968 of cancer, and the strip was continued under other cartoonists. Gray's cousin and assistant Robert Leffingwell was", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "10488503", "text": "Little Orphan Airedale Little Orphan Airedale is a Warner Bros. \"Looney Tunes\" cartoon directed by Charles M. Jones and released on October 4, 1947. It was later reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies short. Its major significance is its status as the debut of Jones's character Charlie Dog. The title is a play on \"Little Orphan Annie\". The cartoon's story (which is essentially a re-working of Bob Clampett's 1941 short \"Porky's Pooch\") is about a dog named Rags McMutt, who has just escaped from the dog pound and accidentally meets Charlie, an old friend of his, in a car", "title": "Little Orphan Airedale" }, { "id": "4806349", "text": "dialogue varies according to speech patterns, and sound effects vary according to how close they are to the reader. Brown's drawing style had always changed from project to project. He frequently cited Harold Gray of \"Little Orphan Annie\" as the primary influence on the drawing style of \"Louis Riel\"—restrained artwork which avoids extreme closeups, and blank-eyed characters with large bodies, small heads, and oversized noses. Gray's drawing and compositional style was well suited to the subject of \"Louis Riel\". Gray often used his strip as a public platform for politics, and \"Louis Riel\" was also very public and outward-looking. This", "title": "Louis Riel (comics)" }, { "id": "1393857", "text": "was reviled by some for preaching in the strip to the poor about hard work, initiative, and motivation while living well on his income. In 1935 Punjab, a gigantic, sword-wielding, beturbaned Indian, was introduced to the strip and became one of its iconic characters. Whereas Annie's adventures up to the point of Punjab's appearance were realistic and believable, her adventures following his introduction touched upon the supernatural, the cosmic, and the fantastic. In November 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President and proposed his New Deal. Many, including Gray, saw this and other programs as government interference in private enterprise.", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "2232935", "text": "knowledge of his medium's history. Chief among his early influences were Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, and Bernard Krigstein's \"Master Race\". Though he acknowledged Eisner's early work as an influence, he denied that Eisner's first graphic novel, \"A Contract with God\" (1978), had any impact on \"Maus\". He cited Harold Gray's comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" as having \"influenced \"Maus\" fairly directly\", and praised Gray's work for using a cartoon-based storytelling vocabulary, rather than an illustration-based one. Justin Green's \"Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary\" (1972) inspired Spiegelman to include autobiographical elements in his comics. Spiegelman stated, \"without \"Binky Brown\",", "title": "Maus" }, { "id": "5483577", "text": "Little Annie Rooney Little Annie Rooney is a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had scored a huge hit with \"Little Orphan Annie\". The name comes from the 1889 popular song of the same name, still familiar to many at the time. Although the King Features strip was an obvious knock-off with several similar parallels, the approach was quite different, and \"Little Annie Rooney\" had a successful run from January 10,", "title": "Little Annie Rooney" }, { "id": "18257151", "text": "Little Orphan Annie (1932 film) Little Orphan Annie is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by John S. Robertson and written by Wanda Tuchock and Tom McNamara. It is based on the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" by Harold Gray. The film stars Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson, Matt Moore and Edgar Kennedy. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by RKO Pictures. Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks is going away to find gold. He must leave Annie and Sandy and promises that when he gets back they'll be rich. On the way home, Sandy finds a little boy", "title": "Little Orphan Annie (1932 film)" }, { "id": "15996911", "text": "as a Billy Bunterish comedy figure, complete with straw boater, Fatty Finn evolved . . . into a knockabout schoolboy innocently living out his days in a never-never urban world'. On August 1924 the title of the strip was changed to \"Fatty Finn\", heralding a change in the strip's direction and the role of the main character. \"Fatty Finn\" came to be recognised as one of the best-drawn comics in Australia and vied with \"Ginger Meggs\" in popularity. In 1927 a film called \"The Kid Stakes\" was produced by Tal Ordell, featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector. The film", "title": "Syd Nicholls" }, { "id": "1393889", "text": "worked on the strip over the years. In \"The Penguin Book of Comics\" Belinda is described as \"a perpetual waif, a British counterpart to the transatlantic \"Little Orphan Annie\".\" The strip also influenced \"Little Annie Rooney\" (Jan. 10, 1927-1966) and \"Frankie Doodle\" (1934-1938). In 1995, \"Little Orphan Annie\" was one of 20 American comic strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. \"Little Orphan Annie\" lent itself easily to parody, which was taken up by both Walt Kelly in \"Pogo\" (as \"Little Arf 'n Nonnie\" and later \"Lulu Arfin' Nanny\") and by Al Capp in", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "12472150", "text": "\"When We Were Very Young\" (6 November 1924). Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on 24 December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper \"The Evening News\". It was illustrated by J. H. Dowd. The first collection of Pooh stories appeared in the book \"Winnie-the-Pooh\". The \"Evening News\" Christmas story reappeared as the first chapter of the book. At the beginning, it explained that Pooh was in fact Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had been renamed by the boy. He was renamed after a black bear at London Zoo called Winnie who got her name from", "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh" }, { "id": "1393859", "text": "described \"Annie\" as \"Hooverism in the Funnies\", arguing that Gray's strip was defending utility company bosses then being investigated by the government. The \"Herald Dispatch\" of Huntington, West Virginia stopped running \"Little Orphan Annie\", printing a front page editorial rebuking Gray's politics. A subsequent \"New Republic\" editorial praised the paper's move, and \"The Nation\" likewise voiced its support. In the late 1920s, the strip had taken on a more adult and adventurous feel with Annie encountering killers, gangsters, spies, and saboteurs. It was about this time that Gray, whose politics seem to have been broadly conservative and libertarian with a", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393873", "text": "of spunk. Early in 1974, David Lettick took the strip, but his Annie was drawn in an entirely different and more \"cartoonish\" style, leading to reader complaints, and he left after only three months. In April 1974, the decision was made to reprint Gray's classic strips, beginning in 1936. Subscriptions increased. Following the success of the Broadway musical \"Annie\", the strip was resurrected in 1979 as \"Annie\", written and drawn by Leonard Starr. Starr, the creator of \"Mary Perkins, On Stage\", was the only one besides Gray to achieve notable success with the strip. Upon Starr's retirement in 2000, he", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393842", "text": "Gray's death in 1968, several artists drew the strip and, for a time, \"classic\" strips were reruns. \"Little Orphan Annie\" inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical \"Annie\" in 1977 (which was adapted into a film of the same name three times, one in 1982, one in 1999 and another in 2014). The strip's popularity declined over the years; it was running in only 20 newspapers when it was cancelled on June 13, 2010. The characters now appear occasionally as supporting ones in \"Dick Tracy\". \"Little Orphan", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "11081872", "text": "Little Orphant Annie \"Little Orphant Annie\" is an 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by the Bowen-Merrill Company. First titled \"The Elf Child\", the name was changed by Riley to \"Little Orphant Allie\" at its third printing; however, a typecasting error during printing renamed the poem to its current form. Known as the \"Hoosier poet\", Riley wrote the rhymes in nineteenth-century Hoosier dialect. As one of his most well known poems, it served as the inspiration for the character Little Orphan Annie upon whom was based a comic strip, plays, radio programs, television shows, and movies. The", "title": "Little Orphant Annie" }, { "id": "6619078", "text": "Daddy Warbucks Lieutenant General Sir Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". He made his first appearance in the Daily News in the \"Annie\" strip on September 27, 1924. In the series he is said to be around 52 years of age. Warbucks was born about 1894, near the small town of Supine. (In Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical, he was born and brought up in Hell's Kitchen New York and is 52 years old as of 1933, thus giving him a birthdate of 1881. In the 1982 film, he", "title": "Daddy Warbucks" }, { "id": "3664075", "text": "with \"Louis Riel\" (2003), a historical-biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel. \"Paying for It\" (2011) drew controversy as a polemic in support of decriminalizing prostitution, a theme he explored further with \"Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\" (2016), a book of adaptations of stories from the Bible that Brown believes promote pro-prostitution attitudes among early Christians. Brown draws from a range of influences, including monster and superhero comic books, underground comix, and comic strips such as Harold Gray's \"Little Orphan Annie\". His later works employ a sparse drawing style and flat dialogue. Rather than the traditional", "title": "Chester Brown" }, { "id": "875986", "text": "Winsor McCay Zenas Winsor McCay ( – 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip \"Little Nemo\" (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film \"Gertie the Dinosaur\" (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip \"Dream of the Rarebit Fiend\". From a young age, McCay was a quick, prolific, and technically dextrous artist. He started his professional career making posters and performing for dime museums, and in 1898 began illustrating newspapers and magazines. In 1903 he joined the \"New York Herald\", where he created popular comic strips", "title": "Winsor McCay" }, { "id": "5182590", "text": "work. \"Little Annie Fanny\", first comic strip, was the first multi-page comics feature in a major American magazine. Annie Fanny is the feature's lead character. Like other young women in \"Playboy\" pictorials, Annie is beautiful, buxom, and often unclothed. She is sexually innocent, oblivious to the worldliness around her. Like her forebear Goodman Beaver, Annie was conceived as a modern Candide, above the story's corruptions and temptations. Unlike Goodman, however, Annie is never shocked or offended; she remains blithe. The authors of \"Icons of the American Comic Book\" say Annie \"glides through a changing world with an untiring optimism\" with", "title": "Little Annie Fanny" }, { "id": "18257152", "text": "named Mickey crying behind a fence. Mickey is upset because his grandmother died and he is being forced to go to an orphanage. Little Orphan Annie (1932 film) Little Orphan Annie is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by John S. Robertson and written by Wanda Tuchock and Tom McNamara. It is based on the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" by Harold Gray. The film stars Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson, Matt Moore and Edgar Kennedy. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by RKO Pictures. Oliver \"Daddy\" Warbucks is going away to find gold. He must", "title": "Little Orphan Annie (1932 film)" }, { "id": "8327993", "text": "Winnie-the-Pooh, first named \"Mr. Edward Bear\" by Christopher Robin Milne. In one of the illustrations of \"Teddy Bear\", Winnie-the-Pooh is shown wearing a shirt which was later coloured red when reproduced on a recording produced by Stephen Slesinger. This has become his standard appearance in the Disney adaptations. When We Were Very Young When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled \"Just", "title": "When We Were Very Young" }, { "id": "7929037", "text": "pulp science fiction, religious literature and television clichés. Harold Gray's comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" had an effect on Brown after he discovered some \"Annie\" reprint books in the early 1980s. This was to be a primary influence on later work of Brown's such as \"Louis Riel\". The story began in July 1983 in the second issue of Brown's original \"Yummy Fur\" minicomic, the seven issues of which were reprinted in 1986–87 in the first three issues of the Vortex Comics-published \"Yummy Fur\". \"Ed\" ran in the first eighteen issues of \"Yummy Fur\", along other features, such as Brown's Gospel", "title": "Ed the Happy Clown" }, { "id": "14413993", "text": "with characters and situations based upon hundreds of newspaper-published comic strips dating back to the inception of the form (the installment published October 16, 2012 featured \"The Yellow Kid\", a character/cartoon first appearing in 1895). Characters from \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"Little Orphan Annie\", \"Crock\", \"Dilbert\", \"Popeye\", \"B.C.\", \"Beetle Bailey\", \"The Boondocks\", \"The Wizard of Id\" and \"Broom-Hilda\" are among those prominently featured. Weapon Brown is set in a post apocalyptic world, and the story itself centers around the eponymous character Weapon Brown, who is on a mission to rescue the woman he loves from a former acquaintance: Linus Van Pelt,", "title": "Weapon Brown" }, { "id": "1393867", "text": "Gray showed no remorse, but did discontinue the sequence. Gray was criticized by a Southern newspaper for including a black youngster among the white children in the Junior Commandos. Gray made it clear he was not a reformer, did not believe in breaking down the color line, and was no relation to Eleanor Roosevelt, an ardent supporter of civil rights. He pointed out that Annie was a friend to all, and that most cities in the North had \"large dark towns\". The inclusion of a black character in the Junior Commandos, he explained, was \"merely a casual gesture toward a", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393843", "text": "Annie\" displays literary kinship with the picaresque novel in its seemingly endless string of episodic and unrelated adventures in the life of a character who wanders like an innocent vagabond through a corrupt world. In Annie's first year, the picaresque pattern that characterizes her story is set, with the major players – Annie, Sandy and \"Daddy\" Warbucks – introduced within the strip's first several weeks. The story opens in a dreary and Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold and sarcastic matron Miss Asthma (who eventually is replaced by the equally mean Miss Treat [whose name is", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "4246379", "text": "California. By the 1930s, \"Little Orphan Annie\" had evolved from a crudely drawn melodrama to a crisply rendered atmospheric story with novelistic plot threads. The dialogue consisted mainly of meditations on Gray's own deeply conservative political philosophy. Gray made no secret of his dislike for the New Deal ways of President Franklin Roosevelt and would often decry unions and other things he saw as impediments to the hard-working American way of life. Critic Jeet Heer, who did his thesis on Gray and wrote introductions to IDW's \"Little Orphan Annie\" collections, commented: Gray wasn't really a conservative in the 1920s: he", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "3288240", "text": "(short for Minerva); their sons Sam and baby James; wealthy Uncle Bim; and their annoying maid Mary. They had a cat named Hope and a dog named Buck. The idea was envisioned by Joseph Patterson, editor and publisher of the \"Chicago Tribune\", who was important in the early histories of \"Little Orphan Annie\" and other long-run comic strips. Patterson referred to the masses as \"gumps\" and thought a strip about the domestic lives of ordinary people and their ordinary activities would appeal to the average American newspaper reader. He hired Smith to write and draw the strip, and it was", "title": "The Gumps" }, { "id": "2387176", "text": "Horton Hears a Who! Horton Hears a Who! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and was published in 1954 by Random House. It is the second Dr. Seuss book to feature Horton the Elephant, the first being \"Horton Hatches the Egg\". The Whos would later reappear in \"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\". Miranda Richardson read the book as part of her second audio collection of Dr. Seuss books. The other three books she narrated were \"Oh, the Places You'll Go!\", \"Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?\", and \"Happy Birthday", "title": "Horton Hears a Who!" }, { "id": "1393874", "text": "was succeeded by \"Daily News\" writer Jay Maeder and artist Andrew Pepoy, beginning Monday, June 5, 2000. Pepoy was eventually succeeded by Alan Kupperberg (2001–2004) and Ted Slampyak (2004–2010). The new creators updated the strip's settings and characters for a modern audience, giving Annie a new hairdo and jeans rather than her trademark dress. However, Maeder's new stories never managed to live up to the pathos and emotional engagement of the stories by Gray and Starr. Annie herself was often reduced to a supporting role and was a far less complex character than the girl readers had known for seven", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393848", "text": "place in Europe were reflected in the strips during the 1940s and World War II. Daddy Warbucks was reunited with Annie, as his death was changed to coma, from which he woke in 1945. By this time, the series enlarged its world with the addition of characters such as Asp and Punjab, bodyguards and servants to Annie and Daddy Warbucks. In world-trotting adventures, the characters traveled around the world, with Annie having adventures on her own or with her adopted family. Annie is a 10-year-old orphan. Her distinguishing physical characteristics are a mop of red, curly hair, a red dress", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393851", "text": "a large, powerfully-built bald man, the idealized capitalist, who typically wears a tuxedo and diamond stickpin in his shirtfront. He likes Annie at once, instructing her to call him \"Daddy\", but his wife (a plumber's daughter) is a snobbish, gossiping \"nouveau riche\" who derides her husband's affection for Annie. When Warbucks is suddenly called to Siberia on business, his wife spitefully sends Annie back to the orphanage. Other major characters include Warbucks' right-hand men, Punjab, an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the Asp, an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937. There is also the", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1393856", "text": "and Riley's \"homespun philosophy of hard work, respect for elders, and a cheerful outlook on life\". A \"Fortune\" popularity poll in 1937 indicated \"Little Orphan Annie\" ranked number one and ahead of \"Popeye\", \"Dick Tracy\", \"Bringing Up Father\", \"The Gumps\", \"Blondie\", \"Moon Mullins\", \"Joe Palooka\", \"Li'l Abner\" and \"Tillie the Toiler\". Gray was little affected by the stock market crash of 1929. The strip was more popular than ever and brought him a good income, which was only enhanced when the strip became the basis for a radio program in 1930 and two films in 1932 and 1938. Predictably, Gray", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "10766796", "text": "was planning to produce \"Annie\", a remake of The 1982 film. On May 25, 2012 it was announced that Jay-Z was writing new songs for the film. In January 2013, Sony Pictures selected Will Gluck to direct the film. Oscar nominee, Quvenzhané Wallis was cast as the title character. The film was released on December 19, 2014. Annie (1982 film) Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan which in turn is based on the \"Little Orphan Annie\" comic strip by Harold Gray.", "title": "Annie (1982 film)" }, { "id": "11081884", "text": "while jumping rope in the movie \"Texas Killing Fields\" ( 2011) Texts Little Orphant Annie \"Little Orphant Annie\" is an 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by the Bowen-Merrill Company. First titled \"The Elf Child\", the name was changed by Riley to \"Little Orphant Allie\" at its third printing; however, a typecasting error during printing renamed the poem to its current form. Known as the \"Hoosier poet\", Riley wrote the rhymes in nineteenth-century Hoosier dialect. As one of his most well known poems, it served as the inspiration for the character Little Orphan Annie upon whom was", "title": "Little Orphant Annie" }, { "id": "10766775", "text": "adaptation on December 19, 2014. In 1933 during the Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City which is run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel alcoholic who forces the orphans to clean the building daily. With half of a locket as her only possession, she remains optimistic that her parents, who left her on the doorstep as a baby will return for her. Annie sneaks out with help from a laundry man named Mr. Bundles and adopts a stray dog which she names Sandy. Annie is returned to the orphanage", "title": "Annie (1982 film)" }, { "id": "19110902", "text": "on Harold Gray's eponymous and equally popular comic strip series \"Little Orphan Annie\". The show debuted on WGN/Chicago in 1930, but only became a national hit when it moved to NBC radio's Blue Network in 1931. It was broadcast in the late afternoon and ran for twelve successful years. In 1931, when the show debuted, radio had yet to establish coast-to-coast networks so two separate casts performed—one in San Francisco starring Floy Margaret Hughes and the other in Chicago starring Shirley Bell as Annie, Stanley Andrews as \"Daddy\", and Allan Baruck (and later Mel Tormé) as Joe Corntassel. When coast", "title": "Little Orphan Annie (radio)" }, { "id": "9977510", "text": "Paul Kirchner Paul Kirchner (born January 29, 1952) is an American writer and illustrator who has worked in diverse areas, from comic strips and toy design to advertising and editorial art. Paul Kirchner was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Cooper Union School of Art but left in his third year, when, with the help of Larry Hama and Neal Adams, he began to get work in the comic book industry. He penciled stories for DC’s horror line and assisted on \"Little Orphan Annie\" for Tex Blaisdell, who took over the strip after the death of Harold Gray. In", "title": "Paul Kirchner" }, { "id": "241321", "text": "the strip's copyright, but McCay won a lawsuit that allowed him to continue using the characters. In the \"American\", the strip ran under the title \"In the Land of Wonderful Dreams\". The \"Herald\" was unsuccessful in finding another cartoonist to continue the original strip. McCay left Hearst in May 1924 and returned to the \"Herald Tribune\". He began \"Little Nemo in Slumberland\" afresh that August 3. The new strip displayed the virtuoso technique of the old, but the panels were laid out in an unvarying grid. Nemo took a more passive role in the stories, and there was no continuity.", "title": "Little Nemo" }, { "id": "1393870", "text": "work never hurt any kid,\" Gray affirmed, \"One of the reasons we have so much juvenile delinquency is that kids are forced by law to loaf around on street corners and get into trouble.\" His belief brought upon him the wrath of the labor movement, which staunchly supported the child labor laws. A London newspaper columnist thought some of Gray's sequences a threat to world peace, but a Detroit newspaper supported Gray on his \"shoot first, ask questions later\" foreign policy. Gray was criticized for the gruesome violence in the strips, particularly a sequence in which Annie and Sandy were", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "1986296", "text": "0.01 Gy), which remains common largely in the United States, though \"strongly discouraged\" in the style guide for U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology authors. The gray was named after British physicist Louis Harold Gray, a pioneer in the measurement of X-ray and radium radiation and their effects on living tissue. It was adopted as part of the International System of Units in 1975. One \"gray\" is the absorption of one joule of energy, in the form of ionizing radiation, per kilogram of matter. The CIPM states: \"In order to avoid any risk of confusion between the absorbed dose", "title": "Gray (unit)" }, { "id": "18259937", "text": "Little Orphan Annie (1938 film) Little Orphan Annie is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and written by Budd Schulberg and Samuel Ornitz. It is based on the comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\" by Harold Gray. The film stars Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, J. Farrell MacDonald and J.M. Kerrigan. The film was released on December 2, 1938, by Paramount Pictures. Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald).", "title": "Little Orphan Annie (1938 film)" }, { "id": "4246382", "text": "spirit, and also his fear of those he thought were undermining society by their laziness and meanness. You get a very strong sense of the man in his work, which is one reason it's one of the major comic strips ... Sidney Smith (creator of \"The Gumps\") was a giant of his day whose place in history has largely been forgotten. Throughout the 1920s and later, \"The Gumps\" was one of the top strips in America, loved by millions. What set \"The Gumps\" apart from earlier strips was that, although it had a comic element, Smith also often embraced wholehearted", "title": "Harold Gray" }, { "id": "13875728", "text": "popular as well. Listening to radio broadcasting became a source of nearly free entertainment for millions of Americans. The radio stations had a little bit of everything for all ages, young and old. One of the most common radio shows for young children was \"Little Orphan Annie\". The show is about an adventurous young girl who had an equally adventurous dog named Sandy. Together, Annie and Sandy would try to solve mysteries. The show was so loved by children that they soon began to purchase small items of merchandise such as pins of Annie. Later, an actual film was released", "title": "Entertainment during the Great Depression" }, { "id": "1393890", "text": "\"Li'l Abner\", where Punjab became Punjbag, an oleaginous slob. Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip in \"Mad\" #9 as \"Little Orphan Melvin\", and later Kurtzman produced a long-running series for \"Playboy\", \"Little Annie Fanny\", in which the lead character is a busty, voluptuous waif who continually loses her clothes and falls into strange sexual situations. In \"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers\", Gilbert Shelton satirized the strip as \"Little Orphan Amphetamine\", who is a 1960s teenager who runs away from home, and after being scarred by a series of sexual experiences, returns only to tell \"Daddy\" that he is", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "11352451", "text": "name \"Herbert S. Fine\", combining the first name of a cousin with his mother's maiden name. The term \"Superman\" derives from a common English translation of the term \"Übermensch\", which originated with Friedrich Nietzsche's statement, \"\"Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen\"\" (\"I will teach you all the Superman\"), in his 1883 work \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\". The term \"Superman\" was popularized by George Bernard Shaw with his 1903 play \"Man and Superman\". The character Jane Porter refers to Tarzan as a \"superman\" in the 1912 pulp novel \"Tarzan of the Apes\" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Siegel would later name Tarzan as", "title": "The Reign of the Superman" }, { "id": "12206071", "text": "Brian White (cartoonist) Brian \"H.B.\" White (born 1902; died 1984) was a British cartoonist, creating 'The Nipper' for the Daily Mail between 1933 and 1947. Both \"Keyhole Kate\" and \"Double Trouble\" ran in London's Evening Standard. Early in his career he forged links with Sid Griffiths, who had developed Jerry the Tyke and brought in White who had been one of the team of animators on the 1924 film of George E. Studdy's character Bonzo the dog. They latterly formed the company \"Griffiths and White\" in 1929, working from an office in the Charing Cross Road, London, initially producing animated", "title": "Brian White (cartoonist)" }, { "id": "12206075", "text": "Brian White (cartoonist) Brian \"H.B.\" White (born 1902; died 1984) was a British cartoonist, creating 'The Nipper' for the Daily Mail between 1933 and 1947. Both \"Keyhole Kate\" and \"Double Trouble\" ran in London's Evening Standard. Early in his career he forged links with Sid Griffiths, who had developed Jerry the Tyke and brought in White who had been one of the team of animators on the 1924 film of George E. Studdy's character Bonzo the dog. They latterly formed the company \"Griffiths and White\" in 1929, working from an office in the Charing Cross Road, London, initially producing animated", "title": "Brian White (cartoonist)" }, { "id": "7316667", "text": "\"\"A Man Called Horace\"\" which was featured daily in the \"Daily Mirror\" and \"Daily Record\" until August 1, 2015. This strip was commissioned in 1989 by Mirror Group Newspapers in an attempt to lure the \"Beau Peep\" fan base from the \"Daily Star\". Roger Kettle also scripts \"Andy Capp\" for the \"Daily Mirror\". The strip is drawn by Roger Mahoney. \"Beau Peep\" was originally intended as a parody of \"Beau Geste\", a 1924 adventure novel by British author P. C. Wren, which has itself been adapted for the screen several times, and again parodied even more. However \"Beau Peep\" grew", "title": "Beau Peep" }, { "id": "902197", "text": "Hal Foster Harold Rudolf Foster (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982), better known as Hal Foster, was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip \"Prince Valiant\". His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship and attention to detail. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Foster rode his bike to the United States in 1919 and began to study in Chicago, eventually living in America. In 1928, he began one of the earliest adventure comic strips, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's \"Tarzan\". In 1937, he created his", "title": "Hal Foster" }, { "id": "8031846", "text": "Harold Warp Harold Warp (December 21, 1903 – April 8, 1994) was an American businessman who invented Flex-O-Glass. He also founded Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. Harold Warp was born in a sod house on a farm near Minden, Nebraska. He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. When he was three years old, his father died and his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers moved to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had developed. Their business became successful and in time", "title": "Harold Warp" }, { "id": "1393883", "text": "Annie doesn't become a star. As Bruce Smith remarks in \"The History of Little Orphan Annie\", \"Gray was smart enough never to let [Annie] get too successful.\" In 1977, \"Little Orphan Annie\" was adapted to the Broadway stage as \"Annie\". With music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan, the original production ran from April 21, 1977 to January 2, 1983. The work has been staged internationally. The musical took considerable liberties with the original comic strip plot. The Broadway Annies were Andrea McArdle, Shelly Bruce, Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Smith and Alyson Kirk. Actresses", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "9251004", "text": "Lee Marrs Lee Marrs (born September 5, 1945) is an American cartoonist and animator, and one of the first female underground comix creators. She is best known for her comic book series \"The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp\", which lasted from 1973 to 1977. Lee Marrs attended American University and graduated in 1967 with a degree in Fine Arts. During her time at American University, Marrs was introduced to comic strip artist Tex Blaisell by his daughter, whom she went to school with. Marrs then began assisting Blaisell, working on comics such as \"Little Orphan Annie\", \"Prince Valiant\",", "title": "Lee Marrs" }, { "id": "6812854", "text": "Winnipeg (bear) Winnipeg, or Winnie, (1914 – 12 May 1934) was the name given to a female black bear that lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. Rescued by cavalry veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Winnie is best-remembered for inspiring A. A. Milne's character, Winnie-the-Pooh. Upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Lt. Harry Colebourn of The Fort Garry Horse, a Canadian cavalry regiment, volunteered his service. On 24 August, while en route to Valcartier to report to the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (CAVC) as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he purchased a young", "title": "Winnipeg (bear)" }, { "id": "15617965", "text": "Santiago was influenced by Harold \"Hal\" Rudolf Foster, a comic book artist from the United States who illustrated the \"Tarzan\" (1929) and \"Prince Valiant\" characters. Foster was the creator of \"Prince Valiant\". Because he idolized Foster, Santiago exchanged letters with Foster in 1958 in order to learn the ropes of comic book illustration. Santiago changed his given name and adopted the name \"Hal\" after the name Foster used in the comic book industry. In 1980, Santiago received the Best Illustrator Award from WIKA, an association of Philippine comics distributors. In 1984, WIKA awarded Santiago the Best Written and Illustrated Novel", "title": "Hal Santiago" }, { "id": "1393844", "text": "a play on the word mistreat]). One day, the wealthy but mean-spirited Mrs. Warbucks takes Annie into her home \"on trial.\" She makes it clear that she does not like Annie and tries to send her back to \"the Home\", but one of her society friends catches her in the act, and immediately, to her disgust, she changes her mind. Her husband Oliver, who returned from a business trip, instantly develops a paternal affection for Annie and instructs her to address him as \"Daddy.\" Originally, the Warbucks had a dog named One-Lung, who liked Annie. Their household staff also takes", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "15045197", "text": "member of New Mexico's \"Taos Ten\", and Gustave Baumann, who worked in Brown County, Indiana, for seven years before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1918, were Salon exhibitors. Fairmount, Indiana, native Olive Rush, whose art studio was in Santa Fe, was a Salon prizewinner. In the past, Hoosier cartoonists have been well represented at the Salons. In addition to comic-strip illustrator Harold Gray's \"Little Orphan Annie\", cartoonists who competed for the Salon's prizes and recognition were Frank McKinney \"Kin\" Hubbard's nationally syndicated \"Abe Martin\" cartoons; Gaar Williams, who created \"Among the Folks in History\"; Fontaine Fox, creator of", "title": "Hoosier Salon" }, { "id": "1393858", "text": "Gray railed against Roosevelt and his programs. (Gray even killed Daddy Warbucks off in 1945, believing that Warbucks could not coexist in the world with FDR. But following FDR's death, Gary resurrected Warbucks, who said to Annie, \"Somehow I feel that the climate here has changed since I went away.\") Annie's life was complicated not only by thugs and gangsters but also by New Deal do-gooders and bureaucrats. Organized labor was feared by businessmen and Gray took their side. Some writers and editors took issue with this strip's criticisms of FDR's New Deal and 1930s labor unionism. \"The New Republic\"", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "19795924", "text": "the style of the original drawings by E. H. Shepard. The story was originally available as an audio-video download narrated by the actor Jim Broadbent. Broadbent said \"I have been a fan of Winnie-the-Pooh since I was a boy. In fact I named my very first and much loved teddy Pooh and that can only have been after the A. A. Milne character\". The print version followed in November 2016. A. A. Milne dedicated a 1926 book of songs featuring Pooh, “Teddy Bear and Other Songs\", to the newborn then-Princess Elizabeth. As a little girl, Princess Elizabeth was also presented", "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen" }, { "id": "4760034", "text": "Henley, who had a wooden leg, was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver. Henley was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, the author of \"Peter Pan\". Henley used to address Barrie as \"friend\", which Henley's only daughter, Margaret (1888–1894), who is also buried there along with her parents, mispronounced as \"fwend\" and changed in a childish way to \"fwendy-wendy\". The latter part of this familiar name gave the name of \"Wendy Darling\" which later became the Wendy of \"Peter Pan\". Henley is now chiefly remembered as the author of the poem \"Invictus\". Cockayne Hatley Cockayne Hatley is", "title": "Cockayne Hatley" }, { "id": "4189278", "text": "for the Raggedy Ann name, which he created by combining words from two of James Whitcomb Riley poems, \"The Raggedy Man\" and \"Little Orphant Annie.\" (Riley was a well-known Hoosier poet and a Gruelle family friend and neighbor from the years when they resided in Indianapolis.) The U.S. Patent Office registered Gruelle's trademark application (107328) for the Raggedy Ann name on November 23, 1915. \"Raggedy Ann Stories\" (1918), written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle and published by the P. F. Volland Company, was the first in a series of books about his cloth doll character and her friends. The book's", "title": "Raggedy Ann" }, { "id": "1393860", "text": "decided populist streak, introduced some of his more controversial storylines. He would look into the darker aspects of human nature, such as greed and treachery. The gap between rich and poor was an important theme. His hostility toward labor unions was dramatized in the 1935 story \"Eonite\". Other targets were the New Deal, communism, and corrupt businessmen. Gray was especially critical of the justice system, which he saw as not doing enough to deal with criminals. Thus, some of his storylines featured people taking the law into their own hands. This happened as early as 1927 in an adventure named", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "7959699", "text": "carried no particular name or imprint. The examples listed below are just a few of the many alternative versions of Superman depicted in these stories. Outside comics published by DC Comics, the notoriety of the Superman or \"Übermensch\" archetype makes the character a popular figure to be represented with an analogue in entirely unrelated continuities. Alternative versions of Superman The character of Superman, also known as Kal-El from Krypton, who adopts the identity of Clark Kent when not fulfilling his superhero role, was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and has been continually published in a variety of DC", "title": "Alternative versions of Superman" }, { "id": "9456587", "text": "British athletes. They were made famous by 100m Olympic champion Harold Abrahams (who would be immortalized in the Oscar winning film \"Chariots of Fire\") in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris. In 1958, in Bolton, two of the founder's grandsons, Joe and Jeff Foster, formed a companion company \"Reebok,\" having found the name in a South African dictionary won in a running race by Joe Foster as a boy. The name is Afrikaans for the grey rhebok, a type of African antelope. In 1979, at the Chicago International Sneaker Trade show an American businessman, Paul Fireman, took notice of", "title": "Reebok" }, { "id": "8327992", "text": "When We Were Very Young When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled \"Just Before We Begin\", which, in part, tells readers to imagine for themselves who the narrator is, and that it might be Christopher Robin. The 38th poem in the book, \"Teddy Bear\", that originally appeared in \"Punch\" magazine in February 1924, was the first appearance of the famous character", "title": "When We Were Very Young" }, { "id": "11081878", "text": "change its title to \"Little Orphant Allie\" in an 1889 printing. The printing house incorrectly cast the typeset during the printing, unintentionally renaming the poem to \"Little Orphant Annie\". Riley at first contacted the printing house to have the error corrected, but decided to keep the misprint because of the poem's growing popularity. When reprinted in \"The Orphant Annie Book\" in 1908, the poem was given an additional, introductory verse (\"Little Orphant Annie she knows riddles, rhymes and things! ...\"). During the 1910s and 1920s, the title became the inspiration for the names of Little Orphan Annie and the Raggedy", "title": "Little Orphant Annie" }, { "id": "990285", "text": "became public in 2000. The Seinfelds have one daughter and two sons. Their daughter Sascha was born on November 7, 2000; their first son Julian Kal was born on March 1, 2003; and their second son Shepherd Kellen was born on August 22, 2005—all in New York City. Julian's middle name, Kal, relates to the first name of Seinfeld's father, Kalman, and that of Seinfeld's hero Superman, aka Kal-El. Among Seinfeld's best friends are fellow comedians George Wallace, Larry Miller, and Mario Joyner. In 2000, Jessica Seinfeld launched Baby Buggy, a charity that provides clothing and gear for underprivileged women", "title": "Jerry Seinfeld" }, { "id": "4806325", "text": "drawing style inspired by that of Harold Gray's comic strip \"Little Orphan Annie\". Unusual for comics of the time, it includes a full scholarly apparatus: a foreword, index, bibliography, and end notes. The lengthy, hand-lettered appendix provides insight into Brown's creative process and biases and highlights where he changed historical facts to create a more engaging story, such as incorporating a conspiracy theory not widely accepted by historians. Brown became interested in the issue of property rights while researching the book, which led to a public change in his politics from anarchism to libertarianism. Although Brown intended it to be", "title": "Louis Riel (comics)" }, { "id": "1393888", "text": "Deal for Christmas\", and a reprise of \"Tomorrow.\" Generally favorably received, the production earned two Emmy Awards and George Foster Peabody Award. The 2014 film \"Annie\" was produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith. It starred Quvenzhané Wallis in the title role and Jamie Foxx in the role of Will Stacks (an update of Daddy Warbucks). It was released on December 19, 2014. Between 1936 and October 17, 1959, the comic strip \"Belinda Blue-Eyes\" (later shortened to \"Belinda\") ran in the United Kingdom in the \"Daily Mirror\". Writers Bill Connor and Don Freeman and artists Stephen Dowling and Tony Royle all", "title": "Little Orphan Annie" }, { "id": "96522", "text": "(though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist). Most continuities state that the Kents never had biological children of their own and were usually depicted as middle-aged or elderly when they found Clark. In the Golden and Silver Age versions of his origin, after the Kents retrieved Clark from his rocket, they brought him to the Smallville Orphanage and returned a few days later to formally adopt the orphan, giving him as a first name Martha's maiden name, \"Clark\". In John Byrne's 1986 origin version \"The Man of Steel,\" instead of adopting him through an orphanage,", "title": "Clark Kent" }, { "id": "6987277", "text": "Peter Pan (1924 film) Peter Pan is a 1924 American silent adventure film released by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the play by J. M. Barrie. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Mary Brian as Wendy, and Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell. Anna May Wong, a groundbreaking Chinese-American actress, played the Indian princess Tiger Lily. In the story, Peter Pan, a magical boy who refuses to grow up, brings the Darling children (Wendy, John, and Michael) from London to Neverland, where they have adventures that", "title": "Peter Pan (1924 film)" } ]

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[ { "id": "7350891", "text": "of the Hollywood blacklist. Chase suffered a stroke on 12 December 1970. He died in March 1971. The Borden Chase cocktail is named after him. Borden Chase Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer. Born Frank Fowler, he left school at fourteen went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York City's Holland Tunnel, where he worked with Norman Redwood. He turned to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. He changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly", "title": "Borden Chase" }, { "id": "7350879", "text": "Borden Chase Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer. Born Frank Fowler, he left school at fourteen went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York City's Holland Tunnel, where he worked with Norman Redwood. He turned to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. He changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly getting his nominal inspiration from Borden Milk and Chase Manhattan Bank. Chase wrote a story based on his Holland Tunnel experience with Edward Doherty. Film", "title": "Borden Chase" }, { "id": "937589", "text": "Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel \"The Jungle\", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act", "title": "Upton Sinclair" }, { "id": "19498114", "text": "1972 and \"Nights at the Circus\" 1984. Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who published from the 1960s into the 21st century. Her older sister, A. S. Byatt (born 1936) is best known for \"Possession\" published in 1990. Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists. His best-known novels are \"Money\" (1984) and \"London Fields\" (1989). Pat Barker (born 1943) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include \"The Cement Garden\"", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "4365481", "text": "more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime (and often were completely or relatively unknown) include Greek philosopher Socrates; scientist Galileo Galilei; 1800s-era poet John Keats; painter Vincent van Gogh; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe; singer Eva Cassidy; comedian Bill Hicks; writer Emily Dickinson; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977; writer Franz Kafka; singer Jeff Buckley; diarist Anne Frank; philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; writer John Kennedy Toole (who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death); author Stieg Larsson (who died with his \"Millennium\" novels unpublished); musician,", "title": "Celebrity culture" }, { "id": "1410098", "text": "Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels \"The Magnificent Ambersons\" and \"Alice Adams\". He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor", "title": "Booth Tarkington" }, { "id": "2906959", "text": "Annie Proulx Edna Ann Proulx (; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, \"Postcards\". Her second novel, \"The Shipping News\" (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story \"Brokeback Mountain\" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning", "title": "Annie Proulx" }, { "id": "2475891", "text": "and Have Not\" (1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation. After \"The Jazz Singer\" was released in 1927, Warner Bros. gained huge success and were able to acquire their own string of movie theaters, after purchasing Stanley Theaters and First National Productions in 1928. MGM had also owned the", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "id": "354421", "text": "Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel \"Fahrenheit 451\" (1953), and his science-fiction and horror-story collections, \"The Martian Chronicles\" (1950), \"The Illustrated Man\" (1951), and \"I Sing the Body Electric\" (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel \"Dandelion Wine\" (1957) and", "title": "Ray Bradbury" }, { "id": "20916523", "text": "Norman Mailer bibliography This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books by and about Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the \"New York Times\" bestseller list. Mailer's output included forty-plus books and six decades of bestsellers on a wide range of topics, from World War II to Marilyn Monroe. His biographer J. Michael Lennon calls him the chronicler of the American Century, and a talent whose career has", "title": "Norman Mailer bibliography" }, { "id": "592291", "text": "won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2010s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin's \"Of Thee I Sing\" (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"South Pacific\" (1950), Bock & Harnick's \"Fiorello!\" (1960), Frank Loesser's \"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\" (1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante's \"A Chorus Line\" (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's \"Sunday in the Park with George\" (1985), Jonathan Larson's \"Rent\" (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's \"Next to Normal\" (2010), and Lin-Manuel Miranda's \"Hamilton\" (2016). \"Of Thee I Sing\", \"Sunday in the", "title": "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" }, { "id": "1410114", "text": "fantasizes about winning Miss Pratt by the rescue of precious little Flopit from an automobile's rushing wheels. In June 2019, The Library of America will publish \"Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories\" , collecting \"The Magnificent Ambersons\" and \"Alice Adams\" and \"In the Arena: Stories of Political Life\". Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels \"The Magnificent Ambersons\" and \"Alice Adams\". He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.", "title": "Booth Tarkington" }, { "id": "1621685", "text": "important works of the 20th century, and his final novel, unfinished at the time of his death, The Pale King (2011), has garnered much praise and attention. In addition to his novels, he also authored three acclaimed short story collections: \"Girl with Curious Hair\" (1989), \"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men\" (1999) and \"\" (2004). Jonathan Franzen, Wallace's friend and contemporary, rose to prominence after the 2001 publication of his National Book Award-winning third novel, \"The Corrections\". He began his writing career in 1988 with the well-received \"The Twenty-Seventh City\", a novel centering on his native St. Louis, but did not", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "3269897", "text": "Prize-winning authors, including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, Czesław Miłosz and T. S. Eliot, and Pulitzer Prize authors such as Robert Lowell, John McPhee, Philip Roth, and Bernard Malamud. The FSG brand became so renowned that author Scott Turow turned down a $350,000 advance from a rival publisher for his first novel, \"Presumed Innocent\", so that he could work with Straus, who offered him $200,000. John McPhee speaking at Straus's memorial service said of him, \"He was there in my thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, and was still leading me up the street on a leash", "title": "Roger Williams Straus Jr." }, { "id": "321386", "text": "receive the prize. On the other hand, Jon Fosse, former recipient of the prize, welcomed the decision, saying that Handke was a worthy recipient and deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature. Handke collaborated with director Wim Wenders on a film version of \"The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty\", wrote the script for Wenders' \"The Wrong Move\", and co-wrote the screenplay for Wenders' \"Wings of Desire\" and \"The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez\". He has also directed films, including from his own novels, \"The Left-Handed Woman\" and \"The Absence\". Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist,", "title": "Peter Handke" }, { "id": "10320034", "text": "Don Mankiewicz Don Martin Mankiewicz (January 20, 1922 – April 25, 2015) was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel, \"Trial\". Born in Berlin, Germany, he was the son of Sara (née Aaronson) and the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and brother of journalist Frank Mankiewicz. He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1942. His 1955 novel \"Trial\" won the Harper Prize and was made into a film of the same name. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for \"I Want to Live!\" (1958). Among his many television credits are \"Ironside\",", "title": "Don Mankiewicz" }, { "id": "3310069", "text": "Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel \"The Intuitionist\", and \"The Underground Railroad\" (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship (\"Genius Grant\"). Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He attended Trinity School in Manhattan. Whitehead graduated from Harvard University in 1991; in college he", "title": "Colson Whitehead" }, { "id": "6975947", "text": "them Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Edmund White, Julian Barnes, Graham Swift as well as such iconic writers as Ryszard Kapuściński, Angela Carter, Bret Easton Ellis, and Michael Herr, among many others, leading \"The Times\" of London to describe his tenure as producing \"the Picador Generation\". In 1987 Mehta moved from London to New York to head the legendary American literary imprint Alfred A. Knopf as President and Editor-in-Chief. Mehta was hand-picked by Robert Gottlieb who was leaving Alfred A. Knopf to edit \"the New Yorker\". Under Mehta, Knopf has published six Nobel literature laureates, numerous Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize and", "title": "Sonny Mehta" }, { "id": "20916525", "text": "Listed chronologically, the following are integral books for the study of Norman Mailer. Notes Citations Works Cited Norman Mailer bibliography This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books by and about Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the \"New York Times\" bestseller list. Mailer's output included forty-plus books and six decades of bestsellers on a wide range of topics, from World War II to Marilyn Monroe. His biographer", "title": "Norman Mailer bibliography" }, { "id": "13689860", "text": "will die. The mob backs off. June survives, and successfully gives birth to their son, Bob Lee Swagger. Additionally the plot features two real-life persons from that period: American gangster Bugsy Siegel who was a major driving force behind large-scale development of Las Vegas and his friend, Chicago Outfit courier Virginia Hill. Two other real-life persons appear briefly, and with their identities only hinted at. The first, a screenwriter named \"Bill\", shares a table with Humphrey Bogart at a Hollywood nightclub. This is actually William Faulkner, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, when he was working in the", "title": "Hot Springs (novel)" }, { "id": "3227048", "text": "Kerouac's then-girlfriend Joyce Johnson, started work in 1957, when Sheila Cudahy was a partner at the firm. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Peace Prizes. The publisher is currently a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945 by Roger W. Straus, Jr.", "title": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux" }, { "id": "4134987", "text": "that she enjoyed. After its revival in 2003, books were selected on a more limited basis (three or four a year) Winfrey returned to fiction with her 2007 selections of \"The Road\" by Cormac McCarthy in March and \"Middlesex\" by Jeffrey Eugenides in June. Shortly after its being chosen, \"The Road\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Winfrey conducted the first ever television interview with McCarthy, a famously reclusive author, on June 5, 2007. On October 5, 2007, the latest selection was announced as \"Love in the Time of Cholera\", a 1985 novel by Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel García", "title": "Oprah's Book Club" }, { "id": "3394355", "text": "published pro-Nazi writings. Éditions Gallimard's best-selling authors include Albert Camus (29 million copies), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (26.3 million copies), and J.K. Rowling (whose \"Harry Potter\" series sold 26 million copies). Other important authors include Salman Rushdie, Roald Dahl, Marcel Proust, Philip Roth, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda, and John Steinbeck. As of 2011, its catalog consists of 36 Prix Goncourt winners, 38 writers who have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and ten writers who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 2010 the company had a turnover of million, and over 1,000 employees. Gallimard acquired Groupe Flammarion from", "title": "Éditions Gallimard" }, { "id": "2394510", "text": "the Lyrics; Friends; Army Wives; Cheers; Sex and the City; Frasier; Scrubs\"; and \"The X-Files\". ICM Partners represents recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and other literary honors. Among the agency’s clients are Patricia Cornwell, Thomas Friedman, Anna Quindlen, E.L. Doctorow, Walter Isaacson, Carl Hiaasen, Tom Bissell, Anthony Swofford, Chris Cleave, Candace Bushnell, John Feinstein, Ann Patchett, Carol Higgins Clark and Steve Martin. In addition, the agency represents the estates of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Arthur Miller, E.B. White, and Tennessee Williams, among others. The agency routinely represents more than 100 titles on the New York", "title": "ICM Partners" }, { "id": "1410103", "text": "author. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels \"The Magnificent Ambersons\" and \"Alice Adams\". In 1921 booksellers rated him \"the most significant contemporary American author\" in a poll conducted by \"Publishers' Weekly\". He won the O. Henry Memorial Award in 1931 for his short story \"Cider of Normandy\". His works appeared frequently on best sellers lists throughout his life. In addition to his honorary doctorate from Purdue, and his honorary masters and doctorate from Princeton, Tarkington was awarded an honorary doctorate from Columbia University, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, and several", "title": "Booth Tarkington" }, { "id": "5993496", "text": "reaching best-seller status in that venue in an opinion article for \"The New York Times\". Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France, in 1984. She has also won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2006, for her novel, \"March\" (2005). They have two children. Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include \"One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback\" (1987), \"Baghdad Without a Map\" (1991), \"Confederates in the Attic\" (1998), \"Blue Latitudes\" (AKA \"Into the Blue\") (2002), \"A Voyage Long and Strange:", "title": "Tony Horwitz" }, { "id": "20166996", "text": "of debris that has washed ashore, and none have been modernized with running water or electricity. Over the last century, many famous artists have spent time in the Dune Shacks for creative inspiration, including: playwright Eugene O'Neill (\"A Streetcar Named Desire\", \"Death of a Salesman\"), poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (\"Walden\", \"Civil Disobedience\"), abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (\"Mural on Indian Red Ground\", \"No. 5, 1948\") and iconoclast novelist Jack Kerouac (\"The Town and the City\", \"Big Sur\"). During each one of the seven days Bannon spent at C-Scape Dune Shack, he wrote and recorded a piano-driven track through", "title": "Dunedevil" }, { "id": "9834759", "text": "and starred Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, and Alan Alda. His novel, \"Sutton\", based on the life of bank robber Willie Sutton, was published in 2012. He ghostwrote Phil Knight's memoir, \"Shoe Dog\", published in 2016. J. R. Moehringer John Joseph \"J.R.\" Moehringer (born December 7, 1964) is an American novelist and journalist. In 2000 he won the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing. Moehringer was born in New York City and was raised by a single mother in Manhasset, New York and, later, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He graduated from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale in 1982. He graduated from", "title": "J. R. Moehringer" }, { "id": "5947699", "text": "the movies actually made from his novels, several others have also been sold for filming but never made; these include \"The Eagle and the Iron Cross\" (Sam Spiegel, 1968) and \"The Tin Lizzie Troop\" (Paul Newman, 1977), as well as a number of movie options, now lapsed, on his many stories. Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for \"They Came To Cordura\" by Random House and \"Bless The Beasts & Children\" by Doubleday), he received an O. Henry Prize Short", "title": "Glendon Swarthout" }, { "id": "10243630", "text": "Stieg Larsson Karl Stig-Erland \"Stieg\" Larsson (; ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the \"Millennium\" trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously and adapted as motion pictures. Larsson lived much of his life in Stockholm and worked there with socialist politics and journalism, including as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism. He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. The third novel in the \"Millennium\" trilogy, \"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest\", became the most sold book in", "title": "Stieg Larsson" }, { "id": "1621679", "text": "a subversive commingling of high and low culture. In 1973, he published \"Gravity's Rainbow\", a leading work in this genre, which won the National Book Award and was unanimously nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that year. His other major works include his debut, \"V.\" (1963), \"The Crying of Lot 49\" (1966), \"Mason & Dixon\" (1997), and \"Against the Day\" (2006). Toni Morrison, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writing in a distinctive lyrical prose style, published her controversial debut novel, \"The Bluest Eye\", to critical acclaim in 1970. Coming on the heels of the signing of the", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "211152", "text": "Wasted\" (1990): Rabbit novels Bech books Buchanan books Eastwick books \"The Scarlet Letter\" Trilogy Other novels Books edited by Updike Short Story Collections Poetry Non-fiction, essays and criticism John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his", "title": "John Updike" }, { "id": "3418636", "text": "A. R. Gurney Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A. R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including \"The Dining Room\" (1982), \"Sweet Sue\" (1986/7), and \"The Cocktail Hour\" (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play \"Love Letters\". His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called \"penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat.\" Gurney was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo, New York to Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Sr. (1896-1977), who", "title": "A. R. Gurney" }, { "id": "6683643", "text": "as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim have become pop standards. Playwright Eugene O'Neill won the Nobel literature prize in 1936; other acclaimed U.S. dramatists include multiple Pulitzer Prize winners Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and August Wilson. Choreographers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham helped create modern dance, while George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were leaders in 20th-century ballet. Although little known at the time, Charles Ives's work of the 1910s established him as the first major U.S. composer in the classical tradition, while experimentalists such as Henry Cowell and John Cage created a distinctive American approach to classical composition.", "title": "United States" }, { "id": "902450", "text": "Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include \"The Birthday Party\" (1957), \"The Homecoming\" (1964), and \"Betrayal\" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include \"The Servant\" (1963), \"The Go-Between\" (1971), \"The French Lieutenant's Woman\" (1981), \"The Trial\" (1993), and \"Sleuth\" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and", "title": "Harold Pinter" }, { "id": "9913569", "text": "Mark Lee (American author) Mark W. Lee is an American novelist, children's book writer, poet and playwright. He has worked as a war correspondent and some of these real-life experiences have appeared in his fiction. Lee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Yale University where he became friends with the Pulitzer prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren. Lee dedicated his first novel to Warren. After graduating from Yale in 1973, Lee lived in New York City for several years where he worked as a taxi driver, a language teacher and a security guard. In New York, he", "title": "Mark Lee (American author)" }, { "id": "9497717", "text": "giving the company its new name, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Robert Lowell's book of poems, \"For the Union Dead\" (1964) was the first book to bear his imprint. He became company's chairman in 1973. Among the writers Giroux discovered or developed at FSG were Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Jean Stafford, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Derek Walcott and William Golding. By 2000, FSG books had won 29 literary awards, as well as a dozen Pulitzer Prizes and 20 Nobel Prizes. Giroux worked", "title": "Robert Giroux" }, { "id": "12356923", "text": "writer for \"The New Yorker\", \"She's a cute, talented, lost \"enfante\", and I'm tempted to accommodate her, \"pour le sport\".\" In the 1940s, Salinger confided to several people that he was working on a novel featuring Holden Caulfield, the teenage protagonist of his short story \"Slight Rebellion off Madison\", and \"The Catcher in the Rye\" was published on July 16, 1951, by Little, Brown and Company. The novel's plot is simple, detailing 16-year-old Holden's experiences in New York City following his expulsion and departure from an elite college preparatory school. Not only was he expelled from his current school, he", "title": "J. D. Salinger" }, { "id": "1602431", "text": "who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "721404", "text": "1920s to work in a variety of jobs including errand boy, bookies' runner and inventory clerk in a grocer's. He was employed by Universal Pictures from 1940 to 1957, starting off as a clerk but attaining promotion to executive level. His first book was \"Never Love a Stranger\" (1948). \"The Dream Merchants\" (1949) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era. As usual, Robbins blended his own life experiences with history, melodrama, sex, and glossy high society into a fast-moving story. His 1952 novel, \"A Stone for Danny Fisher,\" was adapted into a", "title": "Harold Robbins" }, { "id": "2421376", "text": "Margaret Widdemer Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection \"The Old Road to Paradise\", shared with Carl Sandburg for \"Cornhuskers\". Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She first came to public attention with her poem \"The Factories\", which treated the subject of", "title": "Margaret Widdemer" }, { "id": "13369147", "text": "his extraordinary endowment. In January 2015, it was announced that he will write the screenplays for the sequels to \"Beetlejuice\" and \"Gremlins\". Through Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are currently developing a number of projects for television and film. Seth Grahame-Smith Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American novelist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of \"The New York Times\" best-selling novels \"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\" and \"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter\", both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer", "title": "Seth Grahame-Smith" }, { "id": "19459373", "text": "London, Washington, New York and St. Louis. While the precipitating event for the publication of \"\"WE\"\" was the solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris, Lindbergh's account of this takes up only 18 pages (pp. 213–230) in the book which is mostly about his life before May 20, 1927. It would not be until Lindbergh wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning \"The Spirit of St. Louis\" a quarter-of-a-century later in 1953 that he provided a first hand book length account of the flight itself. Reviews for the book were generally positive although expressed disappointment that so little of the text", "title": "\"WE\" (1927 book)" }, { "id": "5550944", "text": "A Fable A Fable is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be \"the best work of my life and maybe of my time\". It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but critical reviews were mixed and it is considered one of Faulkner's lesser works. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's \"Catch-22\". The book takes place in France during World War I and stretches through the course of one week in 1918. Corporal", "title": "A Fable" }, { "id": "20202089", "text": "Thomas P. Cullinan Thomas P. Cullinan (November 4, 1919 – June 11, 1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel \"The Beguiled\", which was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017. Cullinan was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in an Irish Catholic family. He graduated from Cathedral Latin High School in 1938, and later attended Case Western Reserve University. In addition to \"The Beguiled\" (1966), Cullinan's novel about the American Civil War, he wrote three novels—\"The Besieged\"", "title": "Thomas P. Cullinan" }, { "id": "15631925", "text": "including Cummings, Crane, H.D., Hemingway, and Toomer. The two Faulkner novels (\"Soldiers' Pay\" and \"Mosquitoes\") are considered among the lesser works of the Nobel prize-winner but still contain modernist devices (such as stream of consciousness) that reflect the direction he took in later fiction. The one exception to this risk-taking investment was Eugene O'Neill. While most of Liveright's avant-garde publications failed to earn out their advances during the 1920s (Hart Crane would die $210 in debt to the house), O'Neill's plays were frequently amongst the firm's top-selling books. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for \"Beyond the Horizon\" in 1920, the", "title": "Boni & Liveright" }, { "id": "5714535", "text": "R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - June 13, 2002 in Bethany, Connecticut) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton. \"The New York Times\" called the book \"a beautifully wrought, rounded portrait of the whole woman, including the part of her that remained in shade during her life\" and said that the \"expansive, elegant biography ... can", "title": "R. W. B. Lewis" }, { "id": "13094263", "text": "Philipp Meyer Philipp Meyer (born January 5, 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels \"American Rust\" and \"The Son\", as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and other places. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show (also called \"The Son\") based on his novel. Meyer won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France. In 2017", "title": "Philipp Meyer" }, { "id": "6109397", "text": "Tenderloin (musical) Tenderloin is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock, their follow-up to the highly successful Pulitzer Prize-winning \"Fiorello!\" a year earlier. The musical is based on a 1959 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Set in the Tenderloin, a red-light district in 1890s Manhattan, the show's story focuses on Reverend Brock, a character loosely based on American clergyman and social reformer Charles Henry Parkhurst. After six previews, the Broadway production, directed by Abbott and choreographed by Joe Layton, opened on October 17, 1960 at the 46th", "title": "Tenderloin (musical)" }, { "id": "2322944", "text": "Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997; Trinity College (Connecticut), Hartford, Connecticut, 1998; The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 2001 (Hon. D.Litt.). Herman Wouk Herman Wouk (; born May 27, 1915) is an American author. His 1951 novel \"The Caine Mutiny\" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include \"The Winds of War\" and \"War and Remembrance\", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as \"This Is My God\", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. \"The Washington Post\" called Wouk,", "title": "Herman Wouk" }, { "id": "13072010", "text": "of numerous authors, serving as an adviser while agreeing to publish the work of several influential authors. By the time she died, 27 Knopf authors had won the Pulitzer Prize and 16 the Nobel Prize. Knopf also worked closely with many American writers, including John Updike, Carl Van Vechten, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes. Knopf helped Carl Van Vechten launch writers of the Harlem Renaissance including Langston Hughes and Nella Larson. According to her biography by Laura Claridge she \"legitimized the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction\" with authors such as Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler and Ross", "title": "Blanche Knopf" }, { "id": "51090", "text": "prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's \"Cry, the Beloved Country\", beating Norman Mailer's \"The Naked and the Dead\", Graham Greene's \"The Heart of the Matter\" and Evelyn Waugh's \"The Loved One\". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's \"The Good Soldier\", beating \"The Thirty-Nine Steps\" (John Buchan), \"Of Human Bondage\" (W. Somerset Maugham), \"Psmith, Journalist\" (P. G. Wodehouse) and \"The Voyage Out\" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction", "title": "Booker Prize" }, { "id": "478785", "text": "performed in the original Broadway casts of Ferber's plays \"Dinner at Eight\" and \"Stage Door\". Ferber died at her home in New York City, of stomach cancer, at the age of 82. Edna Ferber Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels included the Pulitzer Prize-winning \"So Big\" (1924), \"Show Boat\" (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), \"Cimarron\" (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), \"Giant\" (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie) and \"Ice Palace\" (1958), filmed in 1960.", "title": "Edna Ferber" }, { "id": "1811155", "text": "Brautigan, Emile Norman and Jack Kerouac. Big Sur acquired a bohemian reputation with these newcomers. Kerouac followed Miller to Big Sur and included the rugged coast in large parts of two of his novels. He spent a few days in early 1960 at fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon and based his novel \"Big Sur\" on his time there. Well-known individuals have called Big Sur home, including diplomats Nicholas Roosevelt, famed architects Nathaniel A. Owings and Philip Johnson, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, show business celebrities Kim Novak and Allen Funt, and business executives Ted Turner and David", "title": "Big Sur" }, { "id": "1602406", "text": "outside immediately and pick up the pages,\" Shields wrote. When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name \"Harper Lee\", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as \"Nellie\". Published July 11, 1960, \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted \"Best Novel of the Century\" in a poll by the \"Library Journal\". Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "2547074", "text": "James Salter James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, \"The Hunters\". After a brief career in film writing and film directing, in 1979 Salter published the novel \"Solo Faces\". He won numerous literary awards for his works, including belated recognition of works originally criticized at the time of their publication. His", "title": "James Salter" }, { "id": "50044", "text": "William Blake produced an entire cycle of illustrations for the book. Writers Job has inspired or influenced include John Milton (\"Samson Agonistes\"), Dostoevsky (\"The Brothers Karamazov\"), Franz Kafka (\"The Trial\"), Carl Jung (\"Answer to Job\"), Joseph Roth (\"Job\"), and Bernard Malamud. Archibald MacLeish's drama, \"JB\", one of the most prominent uses of the Book of Job in modern literature, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1959. Job's influence can also be seen in the Coen brothers' 2009 film, \"A Serious Man\", which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Terrence Malick's 2011 film \"The Tree of Life\", which won the Palme", "title": "Book of Job" }, { "id": "10310340", "text": "Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup include Fred Normandale, Steve Aylett, Nicholas Lezard and Howard Waldrop. Jack Trevor Story Jack Trevor Story (30 March 1917 – 5 December 1991) was a British novelist, publishing prolifically from the 1940s to the 1970s. His best-known works are the comic mystery \"The Trouble with Harry\" (which was adapted for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name), the Albert Argyle trilogy (\"Live Now, Pay Later\", \"Something for Nothing\" and \"The Urban District Lover\"), and his Horace Spurgeon novels (\"I Sit in Hanger Lane\", \"One Last Mad Embrace\", \"Hitler Needs You\"). He also wrote", "title": "Jack Trevor Story" }, { "id": "460942", "text": "until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, \"A Fable\" (1954) and his last novel \"The Reivers\" (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel \"The Sound and the Fury\" sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were \"As I Lay Dying\" (1930) and \"Light in August\" (1932). \"Absalom, Absalom!\" (1936) appears on similar lists. Born William Cuthbert Falkner in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the first", "title": "William Faulkner" }, { "id": "211092", "text": "John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in \"The New Yorker\" starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for \"The New York Review of Books\". His", "title": "John Updike" }, { "id": "12248981", "text": "The Great Consoler The Great Consoler (, translit. Velikiy uteshitel) is a 1933 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Konstantin Khokhlov. The film is based on the facts from the biography of the American writer O. Henry and on his two novels. Saleswoman Dulcie dreams of a better, beautiful world. Her dreams are based on the stories of writer Bill Porter, who became victim of a judicial verdict and began his literary career in prison. No special misdemeanors are attributed to him and he even enjoys the right of free movement. The administration appreciates the writer because", "title": "The Great Consoler" }, { "id": "937619", "text": "a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters was fully explained in the chapter, \"The Use of Meat\", in the above-mentioned book. Fiction Autobiographical Non-fiction Drama As editor Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize", "title": "Upton Sinclair" }, { "id": "7503567", "text": "William Heffernan William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the \"New York Daily News\". For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel \"Broderick\". He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors. William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery", "title": "William Heffernan" }, { "id": "5714545", "text": "Gress. R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - June 13, 2002 in Bethany, Connecticut) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton. \"The New York Times\" called the book \"a beautifully wrought, rounded portrait of the whole woman, including the part of her that remained in shade during her life\" and said that the \"expansive, elegant biography ...", "title": "R. W. B. Lewis" }, { "id": "12248984", "text": "actors would totally replicate the results on screen. The Great Consoler The Great Consoler (, translit. Velikiy uteshitel) is a 1933 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Konstantin Khokhlov. The film is based on the facts from the biography of the American writer O. Henry and on his two novels. Saleswoman Dulcie dreams of a better, beautiful world. Her dreams are based on the stories of writer Bill Porter, who became victim of a judicial verdict and began his literary career in prison. No special misdemeanors are attributed to him and he even enjoys the right of", "title": "The Great Consoler" }, { "id": "14496711", "text": "Norb Vonnegut Norb Vonnegut (born April 24, 1958) is an American author of Wall Street thrillers and a financial commentator on his blog entitled \"Acrimoney\". He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and received bachelor's and Master of Business Administration degrees from Harvard University. His business career began in the Philippines and took him to Australia, South Carolina, and Rhode Island before he settled into the wealth management profession in New York City. Vonnegut's first novel, \"Top Producer\", earned a \"Publishers Weekly\" starred review and interview as well as positive reviews on the NBC \"Today\" show and in \"USA Today\". On September", "title": "Norb Vonnegut" }, { "id": "17735827", "text": "Nobel Prize for Literature, taught poetry at Boston University. Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, whose novel \"No Country for Old Men\" was made into the Academy Award for Best Picture winning film in 2007, was born in Providence, although he moved to Tennessee when he was a boy. New York Times Bestselling author Dennis Lehane, another native of the Boston area, who was born in Dorchester, wrote the novels that were adapted into the films \"Mystic River\", \"Gone Baby Gone\" and \"Shutter Island\". Largely on the strength of its local writers, Boston was for some years the center of the", "title": "Culture of New England" }, { "id": "1341148", "text": "In 2001, \"The Human Stain\" was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2002, he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists still at work, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy. His 2004 novel \"The Plot Against America\" won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2005 as well as the Society of American Historians’ James Fenimore Cooper Prize. Roth was also awarded the United Kingdom's WH", "title": "Philip Roth" }, { "id": "1621683", "text": "film. Don DeLillo, who rose to literary prominence with the publication of his 1985 novel, \"White Noise\", a work broaching the subjects of death and consumerism and doubling as a piece of comic social criticism, began his writing career in 1971 with \"Americana\". He is listed by Harold Bloom as being among the preeminent contemporary American writers, in the company of such figures as Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, and Thomas Pynchon. His 1997 novel \"Underworld\" chronicles American life through and immediately after the Cold War and is usually considered his masterpiece. It was also the runner-up in a survey that", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "3208441", "text": "by three Nobel Laureates: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and T. S. Eliot. Other playwrights subsequently joined Faber, including Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bennett, Brian Friel, Tony Harrison, David Hare, Frank McGuinness, and Timberlake Wertenbaker. Modern writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Carey, Orhan Pamuk, and Barbara Kingsolver also joined Faber. Having published the theatrical works of Samuel Beckett for several years, the company acquired the rights to the remainder of his oeuvre from the publishing house of John Calder in 2007. Faber announced in October 2011 that Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of the band Pulp, would be joining as editor-at-large, an", "title": "Faber and Faber" }, { "id": "624087", "text": "Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel \"The Bridge of San Luis Rey\", and for the plays \"Our Town\" and \"The Skin of Our Teeth\" — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel \"The Eighth Day\". Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Niven Wilder. All of the Wilder children spent part of their childhood in China. His older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, became Hollis Professor of", "title": "Thornton Wilder" }, { "id": "2322925", "text": "Herman Wouk Herman Wouk (; born May 27, 1915) is an American author. His 1951 novel \"The Caine Mutiny\" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include \"The Winds of War\" and \"War and Remembrance\", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as \"This Is My God\", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. \"The Washington Post\" called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, \"the reclusive dean of American historical novelists.\" Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the", "title": "Herman Wouk" }, { "id": "3281739", "text": "Anne Tyler Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 22 novels, the best known of which are \"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant\" (1982), \"The Accidental Tourist\" (1985), and \"Breathing Lessons\" (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with \"Breathing Lessons\" winning the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded \"The Sunday Times\" Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler’s twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue", "title": "Anne Tyler" }, { "id": "20895377", "text": "Alexandra Styron Claire Alexandra Styron known as Alexandra Styron, is an American author and professor. Styron is the youngest child of author William Styron and poet and human rights activist Rose Burgunder. She grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Martha’s Vineyard. Styron attended Barnard College, and later the MFA Creative Writing program at Columbia University. After a brief stint as an actress, Styron turned to writing and is the author of several books. Her most-noted work, 2011 memoir \"Reading My Father,\" detailed her life growing up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and explored his decades-long struggle with major clinical", "title": "Alexandra Styron" }, { "id": "4651591", "text": "important works by European writers such as \"The Tin Drum\" by Günter Grass, who would later receive a Nobel Prize for his work; \"Madness and Civilization\" by Michel Foucault, \"The Lover\" by Marguerite Duras, and \"Adieux\" by Simone de Beauvoir. By the late 1960s, Pantheon started to bring American writers such as Noam Chomsky, James Loewen and Studs Terkel to European readers. In 1965, RCA bought Random House. Throughout the 1970s, Pantheon continued to publish intellectual and often leftist works of fiction and nonfiction \"without a profit-and-loss sheet in sight\". In other words, Pantheon editors prided themselves on subsidizing the", "title": "Pantheon Books" }, { "id": "1341147", "text": "by Philip Roth just knocked me on my ass... To be in his sixties making work that is so strong, so full of revelations about love and emotional pain, that's the way to live your artistic life. Sustain, sustain, sustain.\" (The above four books are collected as \"Zuckerman Bound\") Two of Roth's works won the National Book Award for Fiction; four others were finalists. Two won National Book Critics Circle awards; again, another five were finalists. He has also won three PEN/Faulkner Awards (\"Operation Shylock,\" \"The Human Stain,\" and \"Everyman\") and a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, \"American Pastoral\".", "title": "Philip Roth" }, { "id": "17889459", "text": "that the public has a role in government.\" Other journalism honored included the \"Boston Globe\"s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, Chris Hamby for investigative reporting, and Eli Saslow for explanatory reporting. \"The Goldfinch\" by Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The judges described the novel, which took Tartt 11 years to write, as \"a beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters\". In addition to the award itself, Tartt received a $100,000 cash prize. She said she was \"surprised\" and \"very happy\" to receive the award, her first major literary prize. Over all, the novel has drawn", "title": "2014 Pulitzer Prize" }, { "id": "12639078", "text": "between August and September 1994. The film was released a few days before the premiere of \"Scarlett\", the sequel of \"Gone with the Wind\". A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce. The film is about the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel writer Margaret Mitchell, who landed to fame when she wrote \"Gone with the Wind\". The film was praised by critics, with them especially complimenting Memphis, Tennessee-born Shannen Doherty's Old Southern accent. Margaret grows up to become a respectable lady in the South, just like", "title": "A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story" }, { "id": "417803", "text": "authoritarianism and communalism, and the nexus between resistance and complicity, but with a typically Pynchonian sense of humor. In 1988, he received a MacArthur Fellowship and, since the early 1990s at least, he has been frequently cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. American literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, and Cormac McCarthy. Pynchon's fifth novel, \"Mason & Dixon\", was published in 1997, though it had been a work in progress since at least January 1975. The meticulously researched novel", "title": "Thomas Pynchon" }, { "id": "16875537", "text": "Edwin Mullhouse Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright is the critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Steven Millhauser, published in 1972 and written in the form of a biography of a fictitious person by a fictitious author. It was Millhauser's best known novel until the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning \"Martin Dressler\" in 1997, and according to Patrick McGrath writing in \"The New York Times\" it is his best work. \"Edwin Mullhouse\" is described by \"Publishers Weekly\" as a 'cult novel'. Jeffrey Cartwright plays Boswell to Edwin Mullhouse's Johnson, and writes", "title": "Edwin Mullhouse" }, { "id": "4726431", "text": "Delia Ephron Delia Ephron ( ; born July 12, 1944) is an American bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright. Ephron was born in New York City, the second eldest of four daughters of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. She is Jewish. Her movies include \"You've Got Mail\", \"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants\", \"Hanging Up\" (based on her novel), and \"Michael\". She has written novels for adults (\"Hanging Up\" and the recent \"The Lion Is In\") and teenagers (\"Frannie in Pieces\" and \"The Girl with the Mermaid Hair\"), books of humor, (\"How to Eat Like a Child\"), and essays. Her journalism", "title": "Delia Ephron" }, { "id": "4281558", "text": "1919. After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of \"Monday Morning\" (1925), written when he was nineteen. \"Craven House\" (1926) and \"Twopence Coloured\" (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play \"Rope\" (1929, known as \"Rope's End\" in America). \"The Midnight Bell\" (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love with a prostitute and was later published along with \"The Siege of Pleasure\" (1932) and \"The Plains of Cement\" (1934) as the semi-autobiographical trilogy \"Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky\" (1935). Hamilton disliked many aspects of modern", "title": "Patrick Hamilton (writer)" }, { "id": "7503568", "text": "Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers. The film rights for \"The Dinosaur Club\" were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million. William Heffernan William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the \"New York Daily News\". For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel \"Broderick\". He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F.", "title": "William Heffernan" }, { "id": "1602397", "text": "Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book \"In Cold Blood\" (1966). Capote", "title": "Harper Lee" }, { "id": "4932941", "text": "In \"Slaughterhouse-Five\", Kurt Vonnegut has Billy Pilgrim in a Manhattan radio studio amongst a group of literary critics there \"to discuss whether the novel was dead or not.\" \"One of them said that it would be a fine time to bury the novel now that a Virginian, one hundred years after Appomattox, had written \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\" – \"a reference to Styron's novel. Bill Clinton has cited the novel as one of his favorite books. The Confessions of Nat Turner The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person", "title": "The Confessions of Nat Turner" }, { "id": "3700184", "text": "for a film, but eventually became a television series instead. \"A Journey to Matecumbe\" was adapted in 1976 as the Disney movie \"Treasure of Matecumbe\". His novel \"Professor Fodorski\" served as the basis for the 1962 musical \"All American\". Taylor died on September 30, 1998, six days after his 86th birthday. Robert Lewis Taylor Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Taylor attended Southern Illinois University for one year. The university now houses his papers. He graduated from the University", "title": "Robert Lewis Taylor" }, { "id": "15087319", "text": "Julia Cheiffetz Julia Cheiffetz (born September 18, 1978) is an Executive Editor at HarperCollins, a division of News Corporation. She has published Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, Greg Graffin, Erica Jong, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Stephen Marche, Cass Sunstein, Jessica Valenti, and Sam Wasson, whose breakout bestseller \"Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.\" was widely acclaimed. In 2008 Cheiffetz acquired \"Devil in the Grove\" by Gilbert King which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was called \"a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice\" by the Pulitzer committee. The film adaptation is currently in development. In 2014 Cheiffetz commissioned and edited the \"New", "title": "Julia Cheiffetz" }, { "id": "4112975", "text": "David McCullough David Gaub McCullough (; born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was \"The Johnstown Flood\" (1968); and he has since written nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Wright brothers. McCullough has also narrated numerous documentaries, such", "title": "David McCullough" }, { "id": "3674033", "text": "Robert Stone (novelist) Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, which he did receive in 1975 for his novel \"Dog Soldiers\". \"Time\" magazine included this novel in its list \"TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005\". \"Dog Soldiers\" was adapted into the film \"Who'll Stop the Rain\" (1978) starring Nick Nolte, from a script that Stone co-wrote. During his lifetime Stone received material support", "title": "Robert Stone (novelist)" }, { "id": "3309968", "text": "The novel uses several incidents from Drury's fifteen years in Washington as pegs for the story, about a controversial nominee for Secretary of State. Addressing the suggestion that the book was a \"roman à clef\", Drury wrote a very sharply worded preface which was only published in the new edition: The novel spent 102 weeks on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. It was adapted into a well-received Broadway play by Loring Mandel, who is known for a highly successful career writing for television. Otto Preminger directed an acclaimed 1962", "title": "Allen Drury" }, { "id": "551640", "text": "Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier \"Tennessee\" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of \"The Glass Menagerie\" (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1947), \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" (1955), and \"Sweet Bird of Youth\" (1959). With his", "title": "Tennessee Williams" }, { "id": "1672822", "text": "John O'Hara John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with \"Appointment in Samarra\" and \"BUtterfield 8\". His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the underappreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work", "title": "John O'Hara" }, { "id": "1575612", "text": "Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel \"The Naked and the Dead\" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel \"Armies of the Night\" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be \"The Executioner's Song\", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after", "title": "Norman Mailer" }, { "id": "3347747", "text": "Charles Gilman Norris Chuck Gilman Norris (April 23, 1881 – July 25, 1945) was an American novelist. He was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a novelist and playwright. His first book was \"The Amateur\" (1916). His other novels include \"Salt\" (1919), \"Brass: A Novel of Marriage\" (1921), \"Bread\" (1923), \"Pig Iron\" (1926), \"Seed: A Novel of Birth Control\" (1930), \"Zest\" (1933), \"Hands\" (1935), and \"Flint\" (1944). Norris was well respected by his literary peers. In a", "title": "Charles Gilman Norris" }, { "id": "2095938", "text": "James Bond film \"Tomorrow Never Dies\". Meyer adapted the Philip Roth novel \"The Human Stain\" into the 2003 film of the same name. In 2006, he teamed with Martin Scorsese to write the screenplay for Scorsese's adaptation of Edmund Morris's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, \"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\". The story traces Roosevelt's early life. The two part, four hour, History Channel event miniseries, \"Houdini\", starring Adrien Brody, aired over Labor Day 2014. Meyer’s script was nominated for a WGA award and the series was nominated for seven Emmys. In 2016, he co-created the Italian-British series \"\"", "title": "Nicholas Meyer" }, { "id": "329298", "text": "Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold", "title": "Pulitzer Prize" }, { "id": "12373008", "text": "four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for literature. After O'Neill, American drama came of age and flourished with the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, William Inge, and Clifford Odets during the first half of the twentieth century. After this fertile period, American theater broke new ground, artistically, with the absurdist forms of Edward Albee in the 1960s. Social commentary has also been a preoccupation of American theater, often addressing issues not discussed in the mainstream. Writers such as Lorraine Hansbury, August Wilson, David Mamet and", "title": "Culture of the United States" }, { "id": "1292595", "text": "John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for \"The Late George Apley\" in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it. Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire. Marquand was the son of Philip Marquand and his wife", "title": "John P. Marquand" }, { "id": "2025861", "text": "fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include \"The Forsyte Saga\" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of \"The Old Wives' Tale\" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "7518602", "text": "Book Award. He edited \"Behold the Dreamers\" by Imbolo Imbue, winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2017 Oprah Book Club selection. Ebershoff has also edited writers such as Charles Bock, Jennifer duBois, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi, Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton, and Pulitzer Prize winners Sonia Nazario, Amy Ellis Nutt, Sebastian Smee, and Robert Massey. Ebershoff was Jane Jacobs's editor on her final two books and was Norman Mailer's editor for the last five years of his life. Working with Truman Capote's estate, he oversaw the Capote publications for Random House, and was the editor of \"The", "title": "David Ebershoff" } ]

[ "Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht" ]

[ { "id": "14287682", "text": "Leland Crooke Leland Crooke is an American actor from stage and film. He is known from several stage plays and films by David Beaird. In February 1980, Crooke gave his stage debut in the play Bal (Richard Nelson's loosely adaption of Bertolt Brecht's play \"Baal\" with James Belushi in title role) which was staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In October of the same year he was cast as Swiss Cheese, the youngest son of Mother Courage in Sharon Ott's adaption of Brecht's play \"Mother Courage and Her Children\" at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1981", "title": "Leland Crooke" }, { "id": "14287684", "text": "roles in television series including \"Key West\" (created by Beaird), \"Matlock\", \"Melrose Place\", \"ER\", \"\", \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\", \"JAG\", \"Angel\", and \"Charmed\". Leland Crooke Leland Crooke is an American actor from stage and film. He is known from several stage plays and films by David Beaird. In February 1980, Crooke gave his stage debut in the play Bal (Richard Nelson's loosely adaption of Bertolt Brecht's play \"Baal\" with James Belushi in title role) which was staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In October of the same year he was cast as Swiss Cheese, the youngest son of Mother", "title": "Leland Crooke" }, { "id": "3440543", "text": "all the European states. It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed \"Mother Courage,\" a wily woman with the Swedish Army, who is determined to make her living from the war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the very war from which she tried to profit. The name of the central character, Mother Courage, is drawn from the picaresque writings of the 17th-century German writer Grimmelshausen. His central character in the early short novel, \"The Runagate Courage,\" also struggles and connives her way through the Thirty Years'", "title": "Mother Courage and Her Children" }, { "id": "3440547", "text": "is set in the 17th century in Europe during the Thirty Years' War. The Recruiting Officer and Sergeant are introduced, both complaining about the difficulty of recruiting soldiers to the war. Anna Fierling (Mother Courage) enters pulling a cart containing provisions for sale to soldiers, and introduces her children Eilif, Kattrin, and Schweizerkas (\"Swiss Cheese\"). The sergeant negotiates a deal with Mother Courage while Eilif is conscripted by the Recruiting Officer. Two years thereafter, Mother Courage argues with a Protestant General's cook over a capon, and Eilif is congratulated by the General for killing peasants and slaughtering their cattle. Eilif", "title": "Mother Courage and Her Children" }, { "id": "10426116", "text": "productions with Digby Day serving as assistant director. As an actor, he appeared in the role of Swiss Cheese in the Midlands premiere of Brecht's \"Mother Courage\" in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1961. He is credited with discovering actors Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Grant. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was the school's first ever directing student. Interview with Richard Digby Day - a British Library Theatre Archive Project sound recording For production photos of some Shakespeare plays Digby Day staged at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park during the early 1970s, visit: http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11870 and http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11649 A brief", "title": "Richard Digby Day" }, { "id": "3440548", "text": "and his mother sing \"The Fishwife and the Soldier\". Mother Courage scolds her son for endangering himself. Three years later, Swiss Cheese works as an army paymaster. The camp prostitute, Yvette Pottier, sings \"The Fraternization Song\". Mother Courage uses this song to warn Kattrin against involving herself with soldiers. Before the Catholic troops arrive, the Cook and Chaplain bring a message from Eilif. Swiss Cheese hides the regiment's paybox from invading soldiers, and Mother Courage and companions change their insignia from Protestant to Catholic. Swiss Cheese is captured and tortured by the Catholics having hidden the paybox by the river.", "title": "Mother Courage and Her Children" }, { "id": "3440549", "text": "Mother Courage attempts bribery to free him, planning to pawn the wagon first and redeem it with the regiment money. When Swiss Cheese claims that he has thrown the box in the river, Mother Courage backtracks on the price, and Swiss Cheese is killed. Fearing to be shot as an accomplice, Mother Courage does not acknowledge his body, and it is discarded. Later, Mother Courage waits outside the General's tent to register a complaint and sings the \"Song of Great Capitulation\" to a young soldier anxious to complain of inadequate pay. The song persuades both to withdraw their complaints. When", "title": "Mother Courage and Her Children" }, { "id": "8446805", "text": "Sam Beckett Dr. Samuel \"Sam\" Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series \"Quantum Leap\", played by Scott Bakula. Initially, the audience knows very little about Sam, much as Sam knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the \"Swiss cheese effect.\" Sam Beckett was born at 12:30 pm EST on August 8, 1953, in Elk Ridge, Indiana to dairy farmer John Samuel Beckett and his wife Thelma Louise Beckett. As a child, he had two cats, named Donner and Blitzen, but never had a dog. Sam was a child prodigy,", "title": "Sam Beckett" }, { "id": "3440557", "text": "Elliott as Katrin, Digby Day as Swiss Cheese, and James Orr as Eiliff. The play received its American premiere at Cleveland Play House in 1958, starring Harriet Brazier as Mother Courage. The play was directed by Benno Frank and the set was designed by Paul Rodgers. The first Broadway production of \"Mother Courage\" opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on 28 March 1963. It was directed by Jerome Robbins, starred Anne Bancroft, and featured Barbara Harris and Gene Wilder. It ran for 52 performances and was nominated for 5 Tonys. During this production Wilder first met Bancroft's then-boyfriend, Mel Brooks.", "title": "Mother Courage and Her Children" }, { "id": "16149164", "text": "identities and the senses at the heart of the plot by adding actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company as stagehands who interrupt the action, leaving audiences to wonder just what kind of innovative dance-theater piece they had witnessed. The production was revived in Zurich in 2010. Besides evening-length classical ballets, numerous contemporary ballets with a story line or evocative meaning, such as \"Verklärte Nacht\" (\"Radiant Night\"), and lighthearted works such as \"Chäs\" (\"Cheese\"), Spoerli produced a number of neoclassical, abstract works. Among them are \"Goldberg Variations\", \"In den Winden im Nichts\" (\"Winds in the Void\"), and \"Wäre heute morgen und", "title": "Heinz Spoerli" }, { "id": "10881605", "text": "The original book by George S. Kaufman centered on Horace J. Fletcher, a Babbitt-like cheese tycoon who tries to maintain his monopoly on the American market by convincing the United States government to declare war on Switzerland. The story ended darkly. The 1930 plot by Ryskind, softened the political overtones, increased the emphasis on romance and added a happy ending. It relegated the war plot to a dream sequence. The incident that incites war concerned chocolate instead of cheese. Workers at the Horace J. Fletcher American Cheese Company sing their daily vocal exercises (\"Fletcher's American Cheese Choral Society\") to start", "title": "Strike Up the Band (musical)" }, { "id": "6223197", "text": "in the kitchen's refrigerator, the only obstacle being the resident house cat. Babbit attempts to coerce Catstello (often by beating him up) into going after the cheese solo, using various methods to get it (which involved Catstello getting hurt). However, in the end, it is Swiss cheese, which Babbit can't stand. Angrily, Catstello beats \"him\" up and begins force-feeding the cheese, uttering one of his archetype Lou Costello's famous lines: \"\"Oh\" — I'm a \"baaaaad\" boy!\" (At one point in \"A Tale of Two Kitties\", he similarly remarks, \"I'm a \"baaaaad\" pussycat!\") They make a cameo in 1946's \"Hollywood Canine", "title": "Babbit and Catstello" }, { "id": "11825260", "text": "is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. \"Wuthering Heights\", \"A Female Philoctetes\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Fahrenheit 451\", \"Herakles\", \"Cyrano de Bergerac\", \"Taming Of The Shrew\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Importance Of Being Earnest\", \"Six Characters In Search Of An Author\", \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"As You Like It\", \"An Enemy Of The People\", \"The Iliad\", \"The Comedy of Errors\", \"Catch-22\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Prometheus Bound\" with David Oyelowo, \"Romeo & Juliet\", \"The Canterbury Tales\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Hamlet\", \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde\", H G Wells' \"The Invisible Man\", with choreographer Doug Varone, \"Twelfth Night\", \"A Very Naughty Greek Play\", \"Oedipus", "title": "Aquila Theatre" }, { "id": "3666639", "text": "office success. It has been revived twice on Broadway and in concert stagings in the U.S. and in London. In 1932, \"Of Thee I Sing\" was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Gershwins and George S. Kaufman had collaborated on a satirical musical in 1927 entitled \"Strike up the Band,\" which played in Philadelphia. The show concerned a cheese manufacturer who sponsors a war against Switzerland because it will be named after him. A version of \"Strike Up the Band,\" with the book altered by Morrie Ryskind, played on Broadway in early 1930. Much of", "title": "Of Thee I Sing" }, { "id": "1678993", "text": "Hancock for a time. After their association with Hancock had ended, they wrote a series of \"Comedy Playhouse\" (1961–62), ten one-off half-hour plays for the BBC. One play in the series, \"The Offer\", was well received, and from this emerged \"Steptoe and Son\" (1962–74), about two rag and bone men, father and son, who live together in a squalid house in West London. This was the basis for the American series \"Sanford and Son\" and the Swedish series \"Albert & Herbert\". Their comedy is characterised by a bleak and somewhat fatalistic tone. \"Steptoe and Son\" in particular is, at times,", "title": "Galton and Simpson" }, { "id": "7633761", "text": "produced. Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" by Johann David Wyss and is the first feature-length film version of the story. In London in 1813, a Swiss father, William Robinson (Thomas Mitchell), wishes to escape the influence of the superficial profligacy of London on his family. His eldest son, Fritz (Tim Holt), is obsessed with Napoleon, whom he considers his hero. His middle son, Jack (Freddie Bartholomew), is a foolish dandy who", "title": "Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film)" }, { "id": "7633753", "text": "Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" by Johann David Wyss and is the first feature-length film version of the story. In London in 1813, a Swiss father, William Robinson (Thomas Mitchell), wishes to escape the influence of the superficial profligacy of London on his family. His eldest son, Fritz (Tim Holt), is obsessed with Napoleon, whom he considers his hero. His middle son, Jack (Freddie Bartholomew), is a foolish dandy who cares", "title": "Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film)" }, { "id": "10967741", "text": "Knight is wearing a suit of armor from the Middle Ages and the Nurse has enormous swollen breasts. It is implied that these two are the parents of the Young Girl and are somehow related to the Young Man as well. The Nurse claims that she is watching the Young Man and Young Girl “screwing” and that it is “incest.” She throws pieces of Swiss cheese wrapped in paper at the Knight who picks them off the ground and eats them. The Nurse and the Knight exit. The Young Man returns and describes his surroundings as the town square, naming", "title": "Jet of Blood" }, { "id": "12295626", "text": "and self-interested courtiers, Antharis, Asprandus, and Iseas. Antharis and Clephis are old rivals; but their children, respectively son Alcidonus and daughter Selina, are in love and secretly married — though parental opposition forces them to conceal the fact and live apart. Timentes comes to be the play's clown substitute, its focus for broad humor. Andrucho and other courtiers convince Timentes that he is being pursued by an angry mob. To hide, Timentes climbs into an empty coffin, and faints from fear. He is thought dead, until he recovers consciousness and climbs back out of the coffin. Later, Timentes gains a", "title": "The Swisser" }, { "id": "3678851", "text": "(One villain, \"Carrot Top,\" could not be tracked by bloodhounds, as he had no blood. His head was a genuine carrot. But Fosdick tracks him to his doom—with a rabbit.) Over the years, other nemeses included: Fosdick is so tough that on the rare occasions he isn't wearing his black suit, he pins his badge to his bare chest. The ramped-up comic violence depicted in \"Fearless Fosdick\" is (usually) bloodless, over-the-top and deliberately surreal. Perpetually ventilated by flying bullets, an iconic \"Fosdick\" trademark was the \"Swiss cheese look\"—with smoking bullet holes revealing his truly two-dimensional cartoon construction. The impervious detective", "title": "Fearless Fosdick" }, { "id": "12295631", "text": "\"A Chaste Maid in Cheapside\" (1613). The moral resolution of the play, in which a rapist makes up for his crime by marrying his victim, is an abomination to modern sensibilities — but an acceptable thing to the minds of the 17th century. It occurs in other plays of the era; a notable example is found in the Fletcher collaboration \"The Queen of Corinth\" (c. 1617), though other instances could also be cited. The Swisser The Swisser is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Arthur Wilson. It was performed by the King's Men in the Blackfriars Theatre", "title": "The Swisser" }, { "id": "7223646", "text": "Crossbow (TV series) Crossbow is a 1987 action/adventure television series that aired on The Family Channel. The series was produced by Steven North and Richard Schlesinger for Robert Halmi Inc., in co-production with French television network FR3, and filmed entirely on location in France. \"Crossbow\" follows the adventures of William Tell (Will Lyman) and takes place in the 14th-century in Switzerland. William Tell and his son Matthew are imprisoned by the tyrannical Gessler (Jeremy Clyde). As Governor (Landburgher in the original story) of Austria, Gessler plans to stop the Swiss uprising. Having split the apple on his son's head with", "title": "Crossbow (TV series)" }, { "id": "12295620", "text": "in the author's hand. \"The Swisser\" shares the primary fault of Caroline drama as a whole; it is unoriginal and highly derivative of earlier works. Felix Schelling catalogued the play's stock elements as \"the lecherous tyrant; the love-lorn girl page; the banished lord...; two old men of noble houses, enemies; their children, in love; poison evaded by the substitution of a sleeping potion; a fair captive generously treated by a chivalrous soldier, her captor; and...consanguinity a bar to virtuous love.\" Schelling cites \"Campaspe\", \"Romeo and Juliet\", \"The Malcontent\", \"Philaster\", and \"'Tis Pity She's a Whore\" as dramatic precedents. (He also", "title": "The Swisser" }, { "id": "11806042", "text": "adapter of \"The Firebugs\" (1963), by Swiss playwright Max Frisch. His more notable scene designs include such plays as \"Men in White\", \"Golden Boy\", \"Casey Jones\", \"All My Sons\", \"Desire Under the Elms\", \"The Flowering Peach\", \"A Hatful of Rain\", \"The Plough and the Stars\", \"Volpone\", \"Tortilla Flat \", \"King Hunger\", \"Processional\", and \"Mother\". His film designs include \"L'Ennemi Publique No.1\" and \"None But the Lonely Heart\". Gorelik was previously an instructor-designer for the School of Theatre, New York City (1921-22), and was on the faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1926-32), the Drama Workshop of the New", "title": "Mordecai Gorelik" }, { "id": "7158014", "text": "Dame of Burn. In 2012, he was featured on the documentary \"Michael Grade's History of the Pantomime Dame\", which also featured clips from the 2011 pantomime \"The York Family Robinson\", a parody of the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. The programme aired in December 2012 on BBC Four. Berwick Kaler Berwick Kaler (born 31 October 1946) is a British actor most famous for playing the dame in York Theatre Royal's annual pantomime, which he also writes and directs. He has been awarded the freedom of the city, and in 2002 received an honorary degree from the", "title": "Berwick Kaler" }, { "id": "19278116", "text": "Cantor and ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York. Coopersmith continued bringing children's stories to the stage with his musical adaption of Johann David Wyss's \"\"Swiss Family Robinson\"\". The play was produced by the prestigious team of Barry and Fran Weissler, who later went on to produce many Broadway musical hits. Coopersmith's \"\"Swiss Family Robinson\"\" toured with the Weissler's National Theater Company, known for bringing high quality plays to high school, college and adult audiences with professional casts throughout America. In 1991, Coopersmith collaborated with Lucy Freeman to co-author \"\"The Mystery of Anna O\"\", a full-length non-musical play", "title": "Jerome Coopersmith" }, { "id": "981075", "text": "of the suffering and death of Jesus in the Stations of the Cross. August Strindberg had pioneered this form with his autobiographical trilogy \"To Damascus\". These plays also often dramatise the struggle against bourgeois values and established authority, frequently personified by the Father. In Sorge's \"The Beggar\", (\"Der Bettler\"), for example, the young hero's mentally ill father raves about the prospect of mining the riches of Mars and is finally poisoned by his son. In Bronnen's \"Parricide\" (\"Vatermord\"), the son stabs his tyrannical father to death, only to have to fend off the frenzied sexual overtures of his mother. In", "title": "Expressionism" }, { "id": "11834698", "text": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of \"Hamlet\" by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert's play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son Prince Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Ophelia. Gilbert's play first appeared in \"Fun\" magazine in 1874 after having been rejected for production by several theatre companies. The first performance of the work was not until June 1891, a benefit matinée at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The play finally ran at the Court", "title": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play)" }, { "id": "469471", "text": "such as \"Roseanne\", \"Coach\", \"Empty Nest\", \"Mr. Belvedere\", \"227\", \"Cheers\", \"The Cosby Show\", \"Growing Pains\", \"Night Court\", \"The Hogan Family\", \"A Different World\", \"Amen\", \"ALF\", \"Perfect Strangers\", \"Family Matters\", \"Charles in Charge\", \"Saved by the Bell\", \"My Two Dads\", \"Newhart\", \"Dear John\", \"Designing Women\", \"The Golden Girls\", \"Who's the Boss?\", \"Head of the Class\", and \"Seinfeld\", which premiered in the eighties, and \"Frasier\", a spin-off of the 1980s hit \"Cheers\" were viewed throughout the 1990s. These sitcoms, along with \"Friends\", \"That '70s Show\", \"Ellen\", \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\", \"Full House\", \"Nurses\", \"The Parkers\", \"Herman's Head\", \"Murphy Brown\", \"The Wonder", "title": "1990s" }, { "id": "8043305", "text": "John Hankin's \"The Two Mr Wetherbys\", the second act of Sheridan's The Critic, and Ibsen's \"John Gabriel Borkman\". Among the plays McMahon produced from 1911–1917 were \"Candida\", \"Getting Married\", \"Major Barbara\", \"The Doctor's Dilemma\", \"Man and Superman\", \"Fanny's First Play\", \"You Never Can Tell\", and \"Pygmalion\", all by George Bernard Shaw; \"Rosmersholm\" and \"An Enemy of the People\" by Henrik Ibsen; \"The Voysey Inheritance\" and \"The Madras House\" by Granville Barker; \"The Pigeon\", \"Strife\" and \"The Fugitive\" by Galsworthy; \"The Seagull\" by Anton Chekhov; \"The Mate\" by Arthur Schnitzler, and many other plays by leading dramatists of the period, including", "title": "Gregan McMahon" }, { "id": "15377965", "text": "scenes in the book. One of the main characters, Kaja Solness, may be a reference to \"The Master Builder\", one of Henrik Ibsen's most well known plays. The play centres on a man named Halvard Solness, whose son is engaged to a woman named Kaja. Nesbø is likely to be familiar with the play, which is a classic of Norwegian culture (and of world theatre in general). The writer has not, however, made any statement on the possible connection between Ibsen's character and his own. The Leopold's Apple device that is a central feature of the novel is an invention", "title": "The Leopard (Nesbø novel)" }, { "id": "633430", "text": "\"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" in 1997 and ended with the seventh and final book \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" in 2007; becoming the best selling book-series in history. The series has been translated into 67 languages, placing Rowling among the most translated authors in history. Adventure stories written specifically for children began in the 19th century. Early examples include Johann David Wyss' \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" (1812), Frederick Marryat's \"The Children of the New Forest\" (1847) and Harriet Martineau's \"The Peasant and the Prince\" (1856). The Victorian era saw the development of the genre, with W.H.G. Kingston,", "title": "Children's literature" }, { "id": "5809158", "text": "the Goodman has staged over the years include \"Hay Fever\", \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"The Little Foxes\", \"You Can't Take it with You\", \"Born Yesterday\", \"Pal Joey\", \"To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play)\", \"Guys and Dolls\", \"Talley's Folly\", \"A House Not Meant to Stand\", \"A Soldier's Play\", \"Fences\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"The Visit\", \"Dancing at Lughnasa\", \"Arcadia\", \"Floyd Collins\", \"Hollywood Arms\", \"Dinner with Friends\", \"The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?\", \"The Light in the Piazza\", \"I Am My Own Wife\", and \"Rabbit Hole\". Goodman Theatre Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A", "title": "Goodman Theatre" }, { "id": "866346", "text": "by comparing her son to Hamlet. Later he tries to come between them, as Hamlet had done with his mother and her new husband. The tragic developments in the plot follow in part from the scorn the mother shows for her son's play. Shakespeare adopted the play-within-a-play device for many of his other plays as well, including \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\"and \"Love's Labours Lost\". Almost the whole of \"The Taming of the Shrew\" is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to", "title": "Story within a story" }, { "id": "12295623", "text": "the play opens, Lombard soldiers are fleeing the battlefield, after defeat by the forces of Ravenna. The Swiss mercenary Andrucho, the title character, observes and comments upon the action. The King of the Lombards enters with his courtiers, including his cowardly and defeated general Timentes. (Andrucho, an unsubtle soldier, functions as something like the King's jester; the King calls him his \"bandog,\" and allows the Swiss to criticize the courtiers with little restraint.) The King demands that Timentes rally the troops and lead a counterattack. Andrucho and the old courtier Clephis speak up critically; Clephis in particular advises the King", "title": "The Swisser" }, { "id": "739302", "text": "to \"bull-bearing Milo\" in Act 2 of \"Troilus and Cressida\". In Emily Brontë's \"Wuthering Heights\", character Catherine Earnshaw refers to the circumstances of Milo's demise when she says, \"Who is to separate us, pray? They'll meet the fate of Milo!\" In Johann Wyss' novel \"Swiss Family Robinson\", the youngest son Franz is entrusted with a bull buffalo to raise, and from which gains comparison to Milo. Alexandre Dumas has the strongest of the Three Musketeers, Porthos, mention \"Milo of Crotona\" saying that he had replicated a list of his feats of strength - all except breaking a cord tied around", "title": "Milo of Croton" }, { "id": "16637011", "text": "Mielziner, Oscar Hammerstein II, Clinton Wilder, Peggy Wood, William Inge, Arthur Miller. Examples of the span of productions include: \"The Doctor's Dilemma\" (George Bernard Shaw), \"The Master Builder\" (Henrik Ibsen), \"Story of a Soldier\" (music drama, Igor Stravinsky), \"Six Characters in Search of an Author\" (Luigi Pirandello), \"The Mother of Us All\" (opera, Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein), \"Measure for Measure\" (William Shakespeare), \"Livin the Life\" (musical based on Mark Twain's Mississippi River Tales), \"The Good Woman of Szechuan\" (Bertolt Brecht), \"Taming of the Shrew\" (William Shakespeare), \"Anna Christie\" (Eugene O'Neill). Balancing these successes were two major impediments to Houghton's", "title": "Norris Houghton" }, { "id": "8053703", "text": "III\", \"The Beaux' Stratagem\", \"Love's Labour's Lost\", \"Othello\", \"Lorenzaccio\" (world premiere), \"Macbeth\", \"Cyrano\", \"Five by Tenn\", \"The Winter's Tale\", \"The Silent Woman\", \"The Oedipus Plays\", \"The Duchess of Malfi\", \"Timon of Athens\", \"Don Carlos\", \"Hedda Gabler\", \"King Lear\", \"Coriolanus\", \"Camino Real\", \"A Woman of No Importance\", \"King John\", \"The Merchant of Venice\", \"Peer Gynt\", \"Sweet Bird of Youth\", combined \"Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3\", \"Mourning Becomes Electra\", \"Henry V\", \"Volpone\", combined \"Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2\", \"Richard II\", \"The Doctor's Dilemma\", \"Hamlet\", \"Mother Courage and Her Children\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"Richard III\", \"Twelfth", "title": "Michael Kahn (theatre director)" }, { "id": "18463270", "text": "is knocked unconscious by a blonde woman and abducted. She awakens in a warehouse, where she is raped by three masked men who demand that her husband stop selling weapons to non-whites, lest they kidnap her again. This episode got 4.29 million viewers on its original network in the United States. IGN gave \"Albification\" a 7.8/10.0 rating, stating; \"Supposedly, Sons is loosely based on Hamlet. There are major differences from the two—there's no one resembling Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for instance—but it fits. Jax is the princely Hamlet; Clay is Claudius, Gemma is Queen Gertrude and Jax's father's manuscript is the", "title": "Albification" }, { "id": "12967562", "text": "Norwegian Ibsen Award. Also, he was nominated for another Brage Prize Award. In 2011 Harstad oversaw the first production of the complete \"Memoirs of a Breadman\"-trilogy at Black Box Teater in Oslo, a theater known for its focus on modern and contemporary theater. The plays are all a mix between comedy, tragedy and absurdism. The first part, \"Akapulco\", takes place in a fictitious Swiss village in Mexico around 1920-1930. The second part, \"Ellis Iland\" is set in Manhattan between 1906 and 1917 and focus on two immigrants, a German man called Barker and a Ukrainian man called Stoklitsky, who struggles", "title": "Johan Harstad" }, { "id": "2809290", "text": "network on October 27, 1995. The series mainly featured plots based on the \"Goosebumps\" books, among them \"The Haunted Mask\" and \"Cuckoo Clock of Doom\". The TV series aired in over 100 countries and it was the number one rated children's TV show for three years in the United States. Margaret Loesch, formerly the CEO of Fox Kids, offered Scholastic a TV deal after her son responded positively to the \"Goosebumps\" book \"Say Cheese and Die\" she had bought for him a day earlier. A book series, titled \"Goosebumps Presents\", was based on the TV series. The first attempt at", "title": "Goosebumps" }, { "id": "10331961", "text": "may have played the lead in \"Philaster\". He played Aretine the spy in \"The Roman Actor\", and had roles in other Massinger plays, \"The Picture\" and \"Believe as You List\"; he played the young lover Alcidonus in Arthur Wilson's \"The Swisser\" (1631). In the mid-1630s Swanston became involved in a major controversy within the King's Men. In the 1633–35 period, comedian John Shank purchased three shares in the Globe Theatre and two in the Blackfriars Theatre from William Heminges, the son and heir of John Heminges. Swanston at the time was a sharer in the acting company, but not in", "title": "Eliard Swanston" }, { "id": "359864", "text": "Swiss cheese Swiss cheese is a generic name in North America for several related varieties of cheese, mainly of North American manufacture, which resemble Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, in Switzerland. Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as \"eyes\". Swiss cheese without eyes is known as \"blind\". (The term is applied to cheeses of this style made outside Switzerland, such as Jarlsberg cheese, which originates in Norway). Three types of bacteria are used in the production of Emmental", "title": "Swiss cheese" }, { "id": "903009", "text": "\"Steptoe and Son\", the sitcom became firmly entrenched in the television schedules. Some of the most successful examples include \"To The Manor Born,\" \"As Time Goes By\", \"Steptoe and Son\", \"Dad's Army\", \"Keeping Up Appearances\", \"Red Dwarf\", \"The Good Life\", \"The Likely Lads\", \"Fawlty Towers\", \"Allo Allo\", \"The Good Life\", \"Are You Being Served?\", \"Yes Minister\", \"Only Fools and Horses\", \"Drop The Dead Donkey\", \"Men Behaving Badly\", \"The IT Crowd\", \"Absolutely Fabulous\", \"The Vicar of Dibley\", \"The Mighty Boosh\", \"Father Ted\", \"Mr. Bean\", \"Blackadder\", \"One Foot in the Grave\", \"The Brittas Empire\", \"I'm Alan Partridge\", \" Some Mothers Do 'Ave", "title": "British comedy" }, { "id": "11496095", "text": "writing of each author's work. Second Stage Productions include \"The Glass Menagerie,\" \"Driving Miss Daisy,\" \"Enter Laughing,\" \"Steel Magnolias,\" \"Lost in Yonkers,\" 'Art,\" \"Greater Tuna,\" \"Steeple People: A Southern Gospel Comedy,\" \"Doubt,\" \"Godspell,\" \"The 39 Steps,\" and \"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).\" In 2008 the Second Stage produced Thorton Wilder's \"Our Town\" as the first ever straight play on The Joseph Stein Stage. 2009 became a banner year for the Second Stage when Neil Simon's \"Barefoot in the Park\" became the first straight play to be incorporated as part of the Round Barn Theatre's main stage season. In", "title": "The Round Barn Theatre" }, { "id": "17183973", "text": "King Victor and King Charles King Victor and King Charles was the second play written by Robert Browning for the stage. He completed it in 1839 for William Macready, who had staged \"Strafford\" two years before, but Macready rejected it as unsuitable and it was never performed. It was published in 1842 as the second number of \"Bells and Pomegranates\". The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730–32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing", "title": "King Victor and King Charles" }, { "id": "2166703", "text": "his 2002 paper for \"The American Historical Review\", \"Buffalo Bill Meets Dracula: William F. Cody, Bram Stoker, and the Frontiers of Racial Decay\", historian Louis S. Warren writes: The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum during Irving's term as sole manager (at the beginning of 1899 the theatre passed into the hands of a limited-liability company) were Arthur Conan Doyle's \"Waterloo\" (1894); J. Comyns Carr's \"King Arthur\" in 1895; \"Cymbeline\", in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896; Sardou's \"Madame Sans-Gene\" in 1897; and \"Peter the Great\", a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898. Irving received a", "title": "Henry Irving" }, { "id": "11252", "text": "Alps as a place of allure and beauty, in his novel \"Julie, or the New Heloise\" (1761), Later the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in \"The Prelude\" (1799). Schiller later wrote the play \"William Tell\" (1804), which tells the story the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Alpine countries began to see an influx of poets,", "title": "Alps" }, { "id": "10384649", "text": "his \"Essais\": Rather than being a direct influence on Shakespeare, however, Montaigne may have been reacting to the same general atmosphere of the time, making the source of these lines one of context rather than direct influence. Within \"Hamlet\", the stories of five murdered fathers' sons are told: Hamlet, Laertes, Fortinbras, Pyrrhus, and Brutus. Each of them faces the question of revenge in a different way. For example, Laertes moves quickly to be \"avenged most throughly of [his] father\", while Fortinbras attacks Poland, rather than the guilty Denmark. Pyrrhus only stays his hand momentarily before avenging his father, Achilles, but", "title": "Critical approaches to Hamlet" }, { "id": "10373842", "text": "studios. BBC Video was well known for its releases of \"Fawlty Towers\", \"Blackadder\", \"Only Fools and Horses\", \"One Foot in the Grave\", \"Dinnerladies\", \"Coupling\", \"Big Cat Diary\", \"2point4 Children\", \"Ballykissangel\", \"Monarch Of The Glen\", \"Hamish MacBeth\", \"Are You Being Served?\", \"Allo Allo\", \"As Time Goes By\", \"Blake's 7\", \"The Young Ones\", \"Bottom\", \"Filthy, Rich and Catflap\", \"Pride & Prejudice\", \"The Naked Chef\", \"The Chronicles of Narnia\", \"The Office\", \"House of Cards\", \"To Play the King\", \"The Final Cut\", \"Life on Earth\", \"The Living Planet\", \"The Trials of Life\", \"Life in the Freezer\", \"The Private Life of Plants\", \"The Life of", "title": "2 Entertain" }, { "id": "5180315", "text": "it was \"a mediocre time-travel bore with barely enough plot for me to accuse of not making sense.\" He criticized the lack of explanation given to the Xindi's involvement in the Temporal Cold War, and said that the plot itself was akin to \"swiss cheese\" due to the number of plot holes. He gave the episode a score of one and a half out of four. A home media release of \"Carpenter Street\" has been as part of the season three DVD box set, released in the United States on September 27, 2005. The Blu-ray release of \"Enterprise\" was announced", "title": "Carpenter Street (Star Trek: Enterprise)" }, { "id": "5064757", "text": "(2015). Similarly, hit Broadway plays are often adapted into films, whether from musicals or dramas. Some examples of American film adaptations based on successful Broadway plays are \"Arsenic and Old Lace\" (1944), \"Born Yesterday\" (1950), \"Harvey\" (1950), \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (1951), \"The Odd Couple\" (1968), \"The Boys in the Band\" (1970), \"Agnes of God\" (1985), \"Children of a Lesser God\" (1986), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), \"Real Women Have Curves\" (2002), \"Rabbit Hole\" (2010), and \"Fences\" (2016). On one hand, theatrical adaptation does not involve as many interpolations or elisions as novel adaptation, but on the other, the demands of", "title": "Film adaptation" }, { "id": "20033645", "text": "existence include \"The Doctor's Dilemma\" (George Bernard Shaw), \"The Master Builder\" (Henrik Ibsen), \"Story of a Soldier\" (music drama, Igor Stravinsky), \"Six Characters in Search of an Author\" (Luigi Pirandello), \"The Mother of Us All\" (opera, Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein), \"Measure for Measure\" (William Shakespeare), \"Livin' the Life\" (musical based on Mark Twain's Mississippi River tales), \"The Good Woman of Szechuan\" (Bertolt Brecht), \"The Taming of the Shrew\" (William Shakespeare), and Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill). Houghton, frustrated by the role of theatrical producer because it precluded him from directing, left the Phoenix to become a professor at Vassar College,", "title": "Phoenix Theatre (New York City)" }, { "id": "9234688", "text": "the Camellias\" (Stuttgart Ballet, 1978), \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" (Stuttgart Ballet, 1983), \"Peer Gynt\" (1989), \"The Seagull\" (2002), \"Death in Venice\" (2003), \"The Little Mermaid\" (Royal Danish Ballet, 2005), \"Liliom\" (2011) and \"Tatiana\" (2014). Of particular importance are his adaptations of plays by William Shakespeare, including \"Romeo and Juliet\" (Frankfurt Ballet, 1971), \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" (1977), \"Othello\" (1985), \"As You Like It\" (1985), \"Hamlet\" (Royal Danish Ballet, 1985) and \"VIVALDI, or What You Will\" (1996). He has reinterpreted and rechoreographed the seminal classics of the 19th century: \"The Nutcracker\" (Frankfurt Ballet, 1971), set in the world of 19th-century ballet,", "title": "John Neumeier" }, { "id": "8599796", "text": "force feeds Babbit the Swiss cheese. Tale of Two Mice Tale of Two Mice is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Frank Tashlin. It is a sequel to 1942's \"A Tale of Two Kitties\", with the Abbott and Costello characterizations (\"Babbit and Catstello\") now cast as mice. They are voiced by Tedd Pierce and Mel Blanc respectively. Babbit sends Catstello to get some cheese from the refrigerator putting Catsello in danger and peril with a cat, until finally Catsello obtains a block of cheese. Babbit doesn't want it, as he doesn't like Swiss cheese.", "title": "Tale of Two Mice" }, { "id": "9303058", "text": "\"Wide Angle\" from 2002–2009 and has served as narrator for a number of \"Nova\" episodes starting in 2007. On stage, Sanders has appeared on Broadway in \"Loose Ends\" (1979), \"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial\" (1983), \"Saint Joan\" (1993), and \"Pygmalion\" (2007). Off-Broadway, he appeared as George W. Bush in Sir David Hare's \"Stuff Happens\" in 2006. He then played in a number of Shakespearean plays: \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" (Bottom, 2007), \"Hamlet\" (Ghost of Hamlet's Father/Player King/Gravedigger, 2008), \"Twelfth Night\" (as Sir Toby Belch, 2009), and the title role in Shakespeare's \"Titus Andronicus\" (2011). Sanders appeared in the Richard Nelson \"Apple", "title": "Jay O. Sanders" }, { "id": "6092911", "text": "the play \"Something About a Soldier\". Roberts is best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. In \"Annie Hall\", he portrayed Alvy Singer's best friend Rob. Other Allen films and/or plays in which he has appeared include both the Broadway and film versions of \"Play It Again, Sam\" (directed by Herbert Ross), \"Radio Days\" (in which his father had a voice role), \"Stardust Memories\", \"Hannah and Her Sisters\", \"A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy\", and Woody Allen's segment for \"The Concert for New York City\". Roberts memorably portrayed the badgering Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle in \"The Taking of Pelham One Two", "title": "Tony Roberts (actor)" }, { "id": "6639139", "text": "film version. He portrayed Jack Lemmon's brother in the screen adaptation of Simon's \"The Prisoner of Second Avenue\", and also appeared in \"Nobody's Fool\" starring Paul Newman. Saks shared a long-term professional association with playwright/comedy writer Neil Simon, directing Simon's plays \"Biloxi Blues\", \"Brighton Beach Memoirs\", \"Jake's Women\", \"Rumors\", \"Lost in Yonkers\", \"Broadway Bound\", \"The Odd Couple\" and \"California Suite\". His additional Broadway credits included \"Enter Laughing\"; \"Half a Sixpence\"; \"Nobody Loves an Albatross\"; \"Mame\"; \"I Love My Wife\"; \"Same Time, Next Year\" and \"Rags\". Among Saks' film directing credits were \"Barefoot in the Park\", \"The Odd Couple\", \"Cactus Flower\"", "title": "Gene Saks" }, { "id": "6526598", "text": "William Tell (play) William Tell () is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera \"Guillaume Tell\" was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play. The play was written by Friedrich Schiller between 1803 and 1804, and published that year in a first edition of 7000 copies. Since its publication, Schiller’s \"William Tell\" has been translated into many languages. Friedrich Schiller (who had never been to Switzerland,", "title": "William Tell (play)" }, { "id": "18513739", "text": "companies and vaudeville during the 1910s and 1920s. In 1924 he would make his Broadway debut, starring as Peter Jekyll in \"The Wonderful Visit\", a play based on the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, who also co-wrote the play. Over the next fifteen years he would appear in almost two dozen productions on the Great White Way, including such notable productions as \"Nocturne\" (1925), \"The Butter and Egg Man\" (1925–26), \"Elmer Gantry\" (1928), \"The Petrified Forest\" (1935) and \"Our Town\" (1938). It was during a revival of \"The Butter and Egg Man\" in London where Fadden", "title": "Tom Fadden" }, { "id": "2254436", "text": "an admirer told the composer that he had heard his opera the previous night, Rossini replied \"What? The whole of it?\". Another version of the story refers only to Act II. In 1864 Offenbach quoted the patriotic trio from Act 2, \"Lorsque la Grèce est un champ de carnage\" in \"La Belle Hélène\". The famous overture to the opera is often heard independently of the complete work. Its high-energy finale, \"March Of The Swiss Soldiers,\" is particularly familiar through its use in the American radio and television shows of \"The Lone Ranger.\" Several portions of the overture were used prominently", "title": "William Tell (opera)" }, { "id": "1522948", "text": "as \"Der Wildfang\", \"Die beiden Klingsberg\" and \"Die deutschen Kleinstädter\", which contain cameos of German life. These plays held the stage in Germany long after the once-famous \"Menschenhass und Reue\" (\"Misanthropy and Repentance\", but known in England as \"The Stranger\"), \"Graf Benjowsky\", and ambitious exotic tragedies like \"Die Sonnenjungfrau\" and \"Die Spanier in Peru\" (which Sheridan adapted as \"Pizarro\") were forgotten. Theatre historians usually consider the runaway success of \"The Stranger\", the English version of \"Menschenhass und Reue\", in both England (where it opened in 1798) and the United States as one of the harbingers of the emerging popularity of", "title": "August von Kotzebue" }, { "id": "3674306", "text": "footage, particularly from \"Hell and High Water\", \"The Enemy Below\" and Allen's \"The Lost World\". Allen had originally intended \"Lost in Space\" (1965–68, CBS TV) to be a family show, a science fiction version of \"The Swiss Family Robinson\". It quickly developed into a children's show with episodes concentrating on the young Will Robinson, the robot and especially the comic villain Dr. Smith. The show popularized several science fiction elements that have since become widespread, such as the comic robot (e.g. \"Silent Running\", \"Star Wars\") or android (\"Logan's Run\", \"\"), the heroic child (\"Voyagers!\", Wesley Crusher), and the wacky lovable", "title": "Irwin Allen" }, { "id": "4001030", "text": "\"Grocery lists. Spelling lists. Laundry lists. The very idea of lists has something inherently narrow, petty, unpoetic about it. \"List, list, O list!\" cried Hamlet’s father’s ghost in exasperation, and I couldn’t agree more …\" His translation of Georges Feydeau's farce, \"A Flea in Her Ear\" was produced at Chicago Shakespeare in 2006, and won the Joseph Jefferson Award for \"new adaptation\". His play, \"Is He Dead?\" adapted from an \"unproduced 1898 comedy\" by Mark Twain, ran on Broadway from December 2007 to March 2008. \"New Jerusalem\", concerning the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, opened Off-Broadway in January 2008 (previews from", "title": "David Ives" }, { "id": "866345", "text": "play \"The Mouse-trap\" (a title that Agatha Christie later took for the long-running play \"The Mousetrap\"). The play \"I Hate Hamlet\" and the movie \"A Midwinter's Tale\" are about a production of \"Hamlet\", which in turn includes a production of \"The Murder of Gonzago\", as does the Hamlet-based film \"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead\" which even features a third-level puppet theatre version within their play. Similarly, in Anton Chekhov's \"The Seagull\" there are specific allusions to \"Hamlet\": in the first act a son stages a play to impress his mother, a professional actress, and her new lover; the mother responds", "title": "Story within a story" }, { "id": "728573", "text": "responsibility for dramatic and dangerous changes to the world, has also been presented in translation. Radio plays published in English include \"Hercules in the Augean Stables\" (\"Herkules und der Stall des Augias\", 1954), \"Incident at Twilight\" (\"Abendstunde im Spätherbst\", 1952) and \"The Mission of the Vega\" (\"Das Unternehmen der Wega\", 1954). The two late works \"Labyrinth\" and \"Turmbau zu Babel\" are a collection of unfinished ideas, stories, and philosophical thoughts. In 1990, he gave two famous speeches, one in honour of Václav Havel (\"Die Schweiz, ein Gefängnis?/Switzerland a Prison?\"), the other in honour of Mikhail Gorbachev (\"Kants Hoffnung/Kant's Hope\"). Dürrenmatt", "title": "Friedrich Dürrenmatt" }, { "id": "6095890", "text": "being elected (8 May 1837) an honorary member of the Garrick Club. For much of his life, Thomas lived in Pangbourne in Berkshire. He wrote about 25 plays, several of which had great popularity, among them \"Columbus, or a World Discovered\" (1792); \"Children in the Wood\" (1793); \"Zorinski\" (1795); \"The Way to Get Married\" (1796); \"A Cure for the Heart Ache\" (1797); \"Speed the Plough\" (1798); \"Secrets Worth Knowing\" (1798); \"The Blind Girl, or A Receipt for Beauty\" (1801); \"The School of Reform, or How to Rule a Husband\" (1805); \"Town and Country, or Which Is Best?\" (1807); \"The Knight", "title": "Thomas Morton (playwright)" }, { "id": "17104264", "text": "another soldier describes their wounded comrades as lucky, because they'll be sent home. The men are then ordered to ride into battle, on leather saddles termed \"cows.\" Rumplestiltskin panics and, believing he is destined to die in battle the next day, crushes his own leg with a hammer. Rumplestiltskin returns home to find Milah cradling their son, Baelfire. She is aghast to see confirmation of the rumor that he took the cowardly action of wounding himself to escape the battle, and she denounces him. He didn't want to leave his son fatherless as his own father did by abandoning him,", "title": "Manhattan (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "id": "709200", "text": "and \"Africanism\" are not proper names, but are capitalized because \"Africa\" is a proper name. Adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and derived common nouns that are capitalized (\"Swiss\" in \"Swiss cheese\"; \"Anglicize\"; \"Calvinistically\"; \"Petrarchism\") are sometimes loosely called \"proper adjectives\" (and so on), but not in mainstream linguistics. Which of these items are capitalized may be merely conventional. \"Abrahamic\", \"Buddhist\", \"Hollywoodize\", \"Freudianism\", and \"Reagonomics\" are capitalized; \"quixotic\", \"bowdlerize\", \"mesmerism\", and \"pasteurization\" are not; \"aeolian\", and \"alpinism\" may be capitalized or not. Some words or some homonyms (depending on how a body of study defines \"word\") have one meaning when capitalized and another", "title": "Proper noun" }, { "id": "19485657", "text": "Andronicus\", \"Ricard III\", Gogol's \"Revisor\", \"Wedding\", \"The Overcoat\", Moliere's \"Don Juan\", Dostoevsky's \"Timid\", \"The House of the Dead\", Tolstoi's \"Kholstomer\", Pushkin's \"Don Juan\", \"King Sultan's Tale\", Chekhov's \"Life is Beautiful\", Bulgakov's \"Master and Marguerit\", Brecht's \"Caucasian Chalk Circle\", \"Fear and Misery of the Third Reich\", \"The Threepenny Opera\" etc. Varsimashvili is also a film director. In 2008 he directed a film version of his very popular play \"Idiotokratia\" (Idiotocracy). In 2009 he directed \"Kvelaferi Kargad Ikneba\" (Everything will be fine), which broke the all time record of sold tickets in history of independent Georgia. After that he directed four more", "title": "Avtandil Varsimashvili" }, { "id": "3420398", "text": "know it's something that would appeal to an international audience.\" In 2014, it was announced that Steve Carell would possibly headline \"Brooklyn Family Robinson\", a modern update of the film. As of 2016, there have been no official announcements, casting or setting of production dates. Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American adventure film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home, loosely based on the 1812 novel \"Der Schweizerische Robinson\" (literally, \"The Swiss Robinson\") by Johann David", "title": "Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)" }, { "id": "1287735", "text": "Guard: In Act IV, Scene v (line 98) he has King Claudius exclaim \"Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door\". However, it may also be due to the word \"Swiss\" having become a generic term for a royal guard in popular European usage. Coincidentally, the present-day gatekeepers of the royal palace of Copenhagen are known as \"schweizere\", \"Swiss\". Swiss Guards Swiss Guards (; ) are the Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century. Foreign military service was outlawed by the revised Swiss Federal Constitution of 1874, with the only", "title": "Swiss Guards" }, { "id": "14779263", "text": "of the story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century \"White Book of Sarnen\", then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century \"Chronicon Helveticum\", and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian \"Vogt\", Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307),", "title": "Shooting an apple off one's child's head" }, { "id": "18702827", "text": "self-produced farces and comedies, but he always returned to the classic comedy roles and serious roles: in 1972 in Zürich \"Nick Bottom\" (Zettel) in Shakespeare's \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" and in 1980 alongside Ruedi Walter in the Swiss German adaption \"Warte uf de Godot\" (\"Waiting For Godot\"). At the Festival Bad Hersfeld Schneider received for his portrayal of \"Sancho Panza\" in Dale Wasserman's musical \"Mann von La Mancha\" the Bad Hersfeld Prize in 1985. Jörg Schneider embodied in 1991 the title role in Molière's \"The Imaginary Invalid\", and in 1992 the role of \"Director Gross\" in \"D'Benachrichtigung\", a Swiss German", "title": "Jörg Schneider" }, { "id": "3420378", "text": "Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American adventure film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home, loosely based on the 1812 novel \"Der Schweizerische Robinson\" (literally, \"The Swiss Robinson\") by Johann David Wyss. The film was directed by Ken Annakin and shot in Tobago and Pinewood Studios outside London. It was the second feature film version of the story (the first film version was released by RKO in 1940) and was a commercial success. \"Swiss Family Robinson\"", "title": "Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)" }, { "id": "14380441", "text": "and Dolls\". He went on to star as Mark Trelawny in \"A Dangerous Obsession\" in Hamburg and as Captain Lombard, in Vienna's English Theatre production of \"And Then There Were None.\" He was subsequently invited back to play Freddy, in George Bernard Shaw's \"Pygmalion\". Roles in Shakespeare include Orsino in \"Twelfth Night\" and Don Pedro in \"Much Ado About Nothing\" (British Shakespeare Company). Simon's other television credits include: \"Shortland Street\", \"EastEnders\", \"\", \"The Knock\", \"Goodnight Sweetheart\", \"Bernard's Watch\", \"Genie in the House\", \"The Bill\", \"Casualty\", \"Holby City\", \"Agony\", \"Murder in Suburbia\", \"Perfect Strangers\", \"Comic Relief\", \"Barbara\", \"Fur TV\" and \"My", "title": "Jay Simon" }, { "id": "11142309", "text": "ascertained. (Our English version of the play has no character named Vespasian, and this could have been a play about the father-and-son Roman emperors Vespasian and Titus. However, a German version of \"Titus Andronicus\" made in Shakespeare's time included a major character named Vespasian, which could indicate a lost earlier version which was taken into Germany.) In the spring of 1594, the plague abated and the London theatres opened for a sustained period. Sussex's Men teamed with Queen Elizabeth's Men for two joint performances of Robert Greene's \"Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay\" in early April; but after that, Sussex's Men", "title": "Sussex's Men" }, { "id": "9889758", "text": "to salute a skunk with \"Heil Hitler!\") chases Daffy to a telephone booth, where Daffy continues to make fun of him, such as nicknaming him \"Von Limburger\" (after the infamously foul-smelling cheese). The much abused Schultz character, an underling in the German Army who always gets the blame when things go wrong, is probably based on a similar character in the popular 1942 Jack Benny film \"To Be or Not to Be\". Daffy then jumps in a plane, narrowly avoiding being shot by \"a \"whole\" mess of Messerschmitts\". When Daffy is shot down by Von Vultur, his plane is literally", "title": "Daffy – The Commando" }, { "id": "14774375", "text": "innovation. Examples of this could be seen many times throughout history, such as the forbidden apple from The Garden of Eden, the apple from Snow White, Newton’s discovery of gravity through the falling apple, the Swiss folk story of Wilhelm Tell and the apple placed on his son’s head and even New York City, often dubbed the Big Apple. Following the long traditions of apples being used as a symbol for such historical advances, the theme of the building will be based on the theme of an apple as well. The building will feature two main sections: the apple core", "title": "Design and Arts Arcadia of Myungseung" }, { "id": "10016227", "text": "City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean – across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant. The stage play follows a similar plotline, but is compressed and made particularly dramatic in the fourth act, which is set in the Swiss Alps. The tension builds to a spectacular scene in which Obenreizer, the villain, confronts the hero George Vendale, at the side of a mountain gorge. It has been performed only once since the 1867 West End premiere, in 1904 at a", "title": "No Thoroughfare" }, { "id": "7786025", "text": "cheese was laid down during a Landsgemeinde in 1463. The cheese also has to bear a stamp of origin, making it one of the earliest protected brands. Schabziger is produced exclusively by Geska (Gesellschaft Schweizer Kräuterkäse-Fabrikanten). It is sold abroad under the name \"Swiss Green Cheese\". In the US it is also sold under the brand Sap Sago. Sap Sago was introduced into New York pharmacies in the 19th century. The name is a corruption of the word Schabziger (pronounced similar to \"shap-tsigeh\" in German), though folk etymology has it that the green herb juice used made to make the", "title": "Schabziger" }, { "id": "11834708", "text": "death. Ophelia suggests that instead of killing the prince, the King should banish him to \"Engle-land\", where \"dwell a cultured race.\" Claudius assents, commenting, \"They're welcome to his philosophic brain.\" Hamlet is banished, and Rosencrantz embraces Ophelia. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of \"Hamlet\" by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert's play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son Prince Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Ophelia. Gilbert's play first appeared in \"Fun\" magazine in 1874", "title": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play)" }, { "id": "8786725", "text": "in a thin paper wrapping and packaged in wooden boxes, six to a box. The cheeses weighed 60 grams each and were called simply \"\"suisse\"\" (Swiss). Today, they are made throughout France. Though the 60-g version is often seen labelled \"petit suisse\", the term is sometimes reserved for the 30-g ones, the larger ones then being referred to as a \"double petit-suisse\", \"double suisse\", or \"suisse double\". Petit suisse Petit-suisse (meaning \"little Swiss cheese\") is a French cheese from the Normandy region. \"Petit-suisse\" is a \"fromage frais\", an unripened, unsalted, smooth, and creamy cheese with a texture closer to a", "title": "Petit suisse" }, { "id": "17959191", "text": "found in works such as \"Dancing with Men\" and \"Marcus Fisher | Say Cheese\", but she has produced as other male characters, including an Arab man, a Norwegian postman and a black man. Ashery's more recent work has been based on Mayakovsky's 1921 play \"Mystery-Bouffe\". This work confronts social and class biases alongside issues of political power and agency. Her performance at the Tate Modern \"The World is Flooding\" in 2014 was followed by an exhibition \"Animal with a Language\" at Waterside Contemporary, both of which saw Ashery work with participants from Freedom from Torture, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration", "title": "Oreet Ashery" }, { "id": "18341860", "text": "Post-Electric Play, Sextet, Beatrice & Virgil, Unidentified Human Remains..., Someone Else, Seussical,\" \"Frost/Nixon\", 7 \"Stories\", \"The Way of the World\", \"London Road\", \"Angels in America\", \"Shopping and Fucking\", \"Hamlet\", \"Fiddler on the Roof\", \"The Alchemist\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Tempest\", \"Titus Andronicus\", \"Elizabeth Rex\", \"Our Country's Good\" and \"The Chocolate Soldier\". His roles in film and television have included \"Angel Square\", \"The Art of Woo\", \"Children of My Heart\", \"Take This Waltz\", \"Slings and Arrows\" and \"The Matthew Shepard Story.\" Atkins has been nominated for ten Dora Mavor Moore Awards for acting and writing, winning four. He won two Doras in 2002,", "title": "Damien Atkins" }, { "id": "272889", "text": "on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of \"Victor/Victoria\", \"Little Shop of Horrors\" and the 1996 film of \"Evita\". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with \"Moulin Rouge!\" (2001). This was followed by \"Chicago\" (2002); \"Phantom of the Opera\" (2004); \"Dreamgirls\" (2006); \"Hairspray\", \"Enchanted\" and \"\" (all in 2007); \"Mamma Mia!\" (2008); \"Nine\" (2009); \"Les Misérables\" and \"Pitch Perfect\" (both in 2012), \"Into The Woods\" (2014) and \"La La Land\" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's \"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\" (2000)", "title": "Musical theatre" }, { "id": "3244020", "text": "and because of his on-camera driving experience from his days on \"Route 66\". He guest starred in three episodes of \"Emergency!\" between 1972 and 1976, during and after \"Adam-12\"s run on NBC, the best known and first of which was the pilot episode \"The Wedsworth-Townsend Act\". After \"Adam-12\", Milner starred as Karl Robinson in a television series version of \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" (1975–1976), produced by Irwin Allen. Most of his following work was as a television guest star, including action-adventure series \"MacGyver\" (as James MacGyver, MacGyver's father), \"Airwolf\", \"Murder, She Wrote\" and \"\". In 1983, Milner hosted a morning", "title": "Martin Milner" }, { "id": "125320", "text": "million, as compared to the approximate annual loss in shipping of $2 million. Initial forays floundered, and Newton, by that time a general, took over direct control of the project. In 1868 Newton decided, with the support of both New York's mercantile class and local real estate interests, to focus on the Hallert's Point Reef off of Queens. The project would involve of tunnels equipped with trains to haul debris out as the reef was eviscerated, creating a reef structured like \"swiss cheese\" which Newton would then blow up. After seven years of digging seven thousand holes, and filling four", "title": "East River" }, { "id": "12815294", "text": "played by Adam. Just before the interval, the Nazis board the stage and promise the audience two loaves of bread and a jar of jam if they board the trains to \"a new life in the east\" on the following morning. They ask the Jews to bring a suitcase each, containing their most precious belongings. The Nazis offer Daniel and his company safe passage to Switzerland if they carry on with the play in order to keep the Jews calm. The company struggles to decide between collaboration with the Nazis in return for their freedom and life, and sacrifying themselves", "title": "Imagine This" }, { "id": "4928890", "text": "11th century's worst Briton. He features as the central villain in the anonymous play \"Edmund Ironside\", now part of the Shakespeare Apocrypha. In this play, Edricus (as his name has been Latinized) is the bastard son of peasants, who raises himself to the level of earl through lies and flattery. Proud of his talent for dishonesty, he would be happy to see either the Danes or the Saxons rule England, but supports the Danes for reasons of personal expediency. Eadric is also a character in a tragedy by the Danish romantic playwright Adam Oehlenschlæger \"Canute the Great\" (1838). Eadric Streona", "title": "Eadric Streona" }, { "id": "8041523", "text": "of the National Theatre. Shakespeare plays in which Cellier has appeared include \"Hamlet\", \"The Merchant of Venice\", \"Othello\", \"Love's Labour's Lost\", \"Measure for Measure\", \"As You Like It\", \"King John\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Cymbeline\" and \"Henry V\", as the Dauphin. Other roles include Pinchard in Georges Feydeau's \"An Absolute Turkey\", Tommy Devon in \"Aunt Edwina\", The Dean of Archeo in \"Body and Soul\", Eric Shelding in \"The Case in Question\", Danforth in \"The Crucible\", Duke Francis in \"The Dark Horse\", Dr. Finache in Jacques Charon's National Theatre production of Feydeau's \"A Flea in her Ear\", Charles Blutham in \"Juno and the", "title": "Peter Cellier" }, { "id": "11772370", "text": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead is a 2009 American independent film written and directed by Jordan Galland. The film's title refers to a fictitious play-within-the-movie, which is a comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s \"Hamlet\" and its aftermath and whose title is a reference to the play \"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\". The cast includes Devon Aoki, John Ventimiglia, Kris Lemche, Ralph Macchio, Jeremy Sisto and Waris Ahluwalia. The film stars Jake Hoffman (son of Dustin Hoffman). An original musical score was composed and performed by Sean Lennon. Shooting began in late November, 2007, and principal photography", "title": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead" }, { "id": "18705162", "text": "Lüthi und Blanc The various plot lines are about the fate of families around the stubborn chocolate factory-owner Jean-Jacques Blanc (Hans Heinz Moser), his wife Johanna (Linda Geiser), whose daughter Catherine (Isabelle von Siebenthal) and her son, and Catherine's husband Martin Lüthi (Hans Schenker). Opponent of the Lüthi and Blanc-clans and \"villain\" of the series is the opaque, scheming bankers and illegitimate son of J.J. Blanc, Michael Frick (Gilles Tschudi). The serial focusses on locations in Zürich and Sainte-Croix, the location of the fictional chocolate factory J. J. Blanc. Lüthi und Blanc was shot at locations in the Canton of", "title": "Lüthi und Blanc" }, { "id": "6419369", "text": "Adventure fiction takes the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting. With a few notable exceptions (such as Baroness Orczy, Leigh Brackett and Marion Zimmer Bradley) adventure fiction as a genre has been largely dominated by male writers, though female writers are now becoming common. Adventure stories written specifically for children began in the 19th century. Early examples include Johann David Wyss' \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" (1812), Frederick Marryat's \"The Children of the New Forest\" (1847), and Harriet Martineau's \"The Peasant and the", "title": "Adventure fiction" }, { "id": "1466389", "text": "don't not believe it. His plays have been performed nationwide, including on Broadway and Off-Broadway. His works include \"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You\", \"Beyond Therapy\", \"Baby With the Bathwater\", \"The Nature and Purpose of the Universe\", \"Titanic\", \"A History of the American Film\", \"The Idiots Karamazov\", \"The Marriage of Bette and Boo\", \"Laughing Wild\", \"'Dentity Crisis\", \"The Actor's Nightmare\", \"The Vietnamization of New Jersey\", \"Betty's Summer Vacation\", \"Naomi in the Living Room\", \"Adrift in Macao\", \"Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge\", \"Miss Witherspoon\", \"Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them\", \"Vanya and Sonia and", "title": "Christopher Durang" }, { "id": "3558841", "text": "in Kars are of meat processing, livestock feed processing, gristmill, yarn, tannery, footwear, cement and brick factories. Among the most famous food products special to Kars region are Kars honey, Kars Kasseri, Kars Gruyère cheese, which tastes like Swiss Emmental cheese, and Kars style roasted goose. Kars contains numerous monuments, the most notable being the ruined Armenian city of Ani and the 9th century Church of the Apostles. Kars was also the setting for the popular novel \"Snow\" by Orhan Pamuk. \"The Siege of Kars, 1855\" is a book published by The Stationery Office, 2000, and is an account of", "title": "Kars Province" }, { "id": "829498", "text": "by the Russian government. The Tevye stories have been adapted for stage and film several times. Sholem Aleichem's own Yiddish stage adaptation was not produced during his lifetime; its first production, by Maurice Schwartz, was in 1919. (Schwartz did a film based on the play twenty years later.) Most famously, it was adapted as the Broadway musical and later film \"Fiddler on the Roof\". The Broadway musical was based on a play written by Arnold Perl called \"Tevye and His Daughters\". \"Tevye the Dairyman\" had three film adaptations: in Yiddish (1939), English (1971) and Russian (1991). \"Tevye the Dairyman\" comprises", "title": "Tevye" }, { "id": "2475914", "text": "\"Beauty and the Beast\", \"\", \"Basic Instinct\", \"Unforgiven\", \"The Bodyguard\", \"Aladdin\", \"Sister Act\", \"Mrs. Doubtfire\", \"Sleepless in Seattle\", \"The Fugitive\", \"Jurassic Park\", \"Schindler's List\", \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\", \"The Lion King\", \"Forrest Gump\", \"Pulp Fiction\", \"Clueless\", \"Apollo 13\", \"Toy Story\", \"Seven\", \"Braveheart\", \"Independence Day\", \"Matilda\", \"Jerry Maguire\", \"Scream\", \"Good Will Hunting\", \"Men In Black\", \"\", \"My Best Friend's Wedding\", \"Titanic\", \"Saving Private Ryan\", \"Mulan\", \"Fight Club\", \"The Matrix\", \"The Green Mile\", \"The Sixth Sense\", \"American Beauty\", \"\", \"Gladiator\", \"Harry Potter\", \"Ocean's Eleven\", \"Moulin Rouge\", \"Legally Blonde\", \"The Princess Diaries\", \"Gangs of New York\", \"The Lord of the Rings\", \"Pirates of", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "id": "3304059", "text": "are: \"Much Ado About Nothing\" (William Shakespeare), \"Henry V\" (William Shakespeare) and \"The Three Musketeers\" (Ken Ludwig). Plays in the new Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre are \"Julius Caesar\" (William Shakespeare) and \"Murder for Two\" (Kinosian and Blair). Plays in the Randall L. Jones Theatre are \"Mary Poppins\" (Sherman, Sherman, Fellowes), \"The Odd Couple\" (Neil Simon) and \"The Cocoanuts\" (Berlin, Kaufman) The Festival was founded in 1961, presented its first season in 1962. It is one of the oldest and largest Shakespearean festivals in North America. The Festival is located in Cedar City, Utah, a community of approximately 28,000", "title": "Utah Shakespeare Festival" }, { "id": "8802989", "text": "In 2004 he played Lee in TV film \"Bella and the Boys\". In 2005 he played the 20-year-old version of Giacomo Casanova's son, Giac, in the television adaptation of \"Casanova\", starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole. In 2006 he played Dr. John Seward in the TV film \"Dracula\". In 2007 he played Napoleon Bonaparte in an episode of BBC's docudrama \"Heroes and Villains\" and had a small part as a book publisher in the satirical drama \"The Trial of Tony Blair\". In 2009 he played Colonel Race in an episode of the 12th series of \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\". In 2011", "title": "Tom Burke (actor)" } ]

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[ { "id": "34541", "text": "loves and defends the simple life. Granny's full name, Daisy Moses, is allegedly an homage to the popular and dearly loved folk artist Anna Mary Robertson, known to the world as Grandma Moses, who died in 1961, a year before \"The Beverly Hillbillies\" made its television debut. Granny is frequently referred to as \"Granny Clampett\" in a number of episodes, but technically she is a Moses. Granny appears in all 274 episodes. Elly May (Donna Douglas in all 274 episodes), the only child of Jed and Rose Ellen Clampett, is a mountain beauty with the body of a pinup girl", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "id": "20398485", "text": "Minnie Reinhardt Minnie Smith Reinhardt (1898–1986) was an American naïve painter, known for her memory paintings. Sometimes called the \"Grandma Moses of Catawba County\", Reinhardt grew up in the community of Jugtown, today called Vale. One of eleven children, she helped out on the family farm from an early age. She also attended school, where she was able to draw. Aged about eighteen, she took a position as a cook at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory. There she performed numerous housekeeping duties; she also learned to sew, which she would do for people around the county. She also helped out in", "title": "Minnie Reinhardt" }, { "id": "20398488", "text": "of her work. Minnie Reinhardt Minnie Smith Reinhardt (1898–1986) was an American naïve painter, known for her memory paintings. Sometimes called the \"Grandma Moses of Catawba County\", Reinhardt grew up in the community of Jugtown, today called Vale. One of eleven children, she helped out on the family farm from an early age. She also attended school, where she was able to draw. Aged about eighteen, she took a position as a cook at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory. There she performed numerous housekeeping duties; she also learned to sew, which she would do for people around the county. She also", "title": "Minnie Reinhardt" }, { "id": "990116", "text": "interest in art throughout her life, including embroidery of pictures with yarn, until arthritis made this pursuit too painful. Anna Mary Robertson was born in Greenwich, New York on September 7, 1860; she was the third of ten children born to Margaret Shanahan Robertson and Russell King Robertson. She was raised with four sisters and five brothers. Her father ran a flax mill and was a farmer. As a child, Moses attended a one-room school for a short period of time. That school is now the Bennington Museum in Vermont, which has the largest collection of her works in the", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "1164716", "text": "Hoosick Falls, New York Hoosick Falls is a village in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 3,501 at the 2010 census. During its peak around 1900, the village had a population of about 7,000. The Capital District Regional Planning Commission projects a further decline in population through 2010 and beyond. The village of Hoosick Falls is near the center of the town of Hoosick on NY 22. The village center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hoosick Falls Historic District. Painter Grandma Moses is buried in the village. The site of the British", "title": "Hoosick Falls, New York" }, { "id": "990130", "text": "was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and Daughters of the American Revolution. Her 100th birthday was proclaimed \"Grandma Moses Day\" by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. \"LIFE\" magazine celebrated her birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960, cover. The children's book \"Grandma Moses Story Book\" was published in 1961. Grandma Moses died at age 101 on December 13, 1961 at the Health Center in Hoosick Falls, New York. She is buried there at the Maple Grove Cemetery. President John F. Kennedy memorialized her: \"The death of Grandma Moses removed a beloved figure from American life.", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "3682930", "text": "as Daisy \"Granny\" Moses, the mother-in-law of patriarch J.D. \"Jed\" Clampett in \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". The character was so named as an honour to the artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who had died aged 100 the previous year and only started her professional career as a painter in her latter years and was better known as Granny Moses. According to Filmways publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny. However, when Ryan read for the role, \"with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get-out\", she just", "title": "Irene Ryan" }, { "id": "14307502", "text": "Nan Phelps Nan Phelps (née Hinkle; August 25, 1904 – January 17, 1990), was an American folk artist from London, Kentucky. Phelps’ work has often been compared to the more famous Grandma Moses in both style and subject matter. Phelps was born in Lily, Laurel County, Kentucky, the second child of Baptist preacher John Hinkle and Lula Hinkle (née Weaver). Phelps paternal grandfather William Hinkle was of Dutch descent. At a very young age, Phelps demonstrated an unusual interest in nature. She spent countless hours studying rocks, flowers, plants, streams, clouds, and small animals. The gift of a nickel box", "title": "Nan Phelps" }, { "id": "990115", "text": "wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild.\" She was a live-in housekeeper for a total of 15 years, starting at 12 years of age. One of her employers noticed her appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, and they supplied her with art materials to create drawings. Moses and her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. In 1905, they returned to the Northeastern United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New York. The couple had ten children, five of whom survived infancy. She expressed an", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "990113", "text": "Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is often cited as an example of an individual who successfully began a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold in the United States and abroad and have been marketed on greeting cards and other merchandise. Moses' paintings are displayed in the collections of many museums. \"Sugaring Off\" was sold for US $1.2 million in 2006. Moses", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "13553997", "text": "the Wigwam. It was erected in March, 2018. Queena Stovall Queena Stovall (20 December 1887 – 27 June 1980) was an American folk artist sometimes called \"The Grandma Moses of Virginia.\" Born Emma Serena Dillard in Amherst County, Virginia, she married at age nineteen and lived on a farm. After her brother persuaded her to take an art class as nearby Randolph-Macon College in Lynchburg, Stoval began painting at age sixty-two, and her career as an artist lasted about two decades. She completed forty-seven paintings before her death, most depicting everyday events of both black and white people living in", "title": "Queena Stovall" }, { "id": "17985982", "text": "American Red Cross and Defense Secretary during the Korean War. Grandma Moses was honored with a 6-cent stamp in 1969 among the American Folklore issue. Born in Greenwich, New York, she retired from Staunton, Virginia farm work in her seventies and began painting. She and her husband spent much of their lives in the Shenandoah Valley. A self-taught artist, discovered in 1939 she produced over 1,500 paintings, including several after her 100th birthday. Her work features rural landscapes with traditional activities evoking simpler times. The stamp is a detail from her \"Fourth of July\" completed in 1951 when she was", "title": "History of Virginia on stamps" }, { "id": "13553994", "text": "Queena Stovall Queena Stovall (20 December 1887 – 27 June 1980) was an American folk artist sometimes called \"The Grandma Moses of Virginia.\" Born Emma Serena Dillard in Amherst County, Virginia, she married at age nineteen and lived on a farm. After her brother persuaded her to take an art class as nearby Randolph-Macon College in Lynchburg, Stoval began painting at age sixty-two, and her career as an artist lasted about two decades. She completed forty-seven paintings before her death, most depicting everyday events of both black and white people living in her native Amherst County. During her lifetime, Stovall", "title": "Queena Stovall" }, { "id": "20377307", "text": "During the 1940s, when works by the Austrian masters were almost impossible to sell, Kallir achieved a major success with the \"discovery\" of the self-taught octogenarian painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses. Known worldwide as \"Grandma\" Moses, she was one of the most famous artists of the Cold-War years, and the most successful female painter of her time. Kallir's approach relied heavily on cooperation with museums and scholarship. In 1960, he collaborated with Thomas Messer to organize the first American museum exhibition of Schiele's work. It opened at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (of which Messer was then director) and traveled", "title": "Otto Kallir" }, { "id": "1997643", "text": "have been made of her dramatized short stories as many readers expect them to be historically accurate. Carr's life itself made her a \"Canadian icon\", according to the \"Canadian Encyclopedia\". As well as being \"an artist of stunning originality and strength\", she was an exceptionally late bloomer, starting the work for which she is best known at the age of 57 (see Grandma Moses). Carr was also an artist who succeeded against the odds, living in an artistically unadventurous society, and working mostly in seclusion away from major art centers, thus making her \"a darling of the women's movement\" (see", "title": "Emily Carr" }, { "id": "18499457", "text": "Ethel Wright Mohamed Ethel Wright Mohamed (October 13, 1906 – February 15, 1992) was an American artist, best known for her embroidered scenes of country life. She is sometimes compared to \"Grandma Moses,\" both for her folk art style of illustration and her late start as an artist. Ethel Lee Wright was born on a farm in Webster County, Mississippi, the eldest child of Elijah Wright and Nina Bell Ramsay Wright. She learned to embroider as a child, from her mother. As a teenager she worked at a bakery in Shaw, Mississippi. Ethel Wright Mohamed returned to embroidery after she", "title": "Ethel Wright Mohamed" }, { "id": "17334742", "text": "Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia) Mount Airy, also known as the Grandma Moses House and Major James Crawford House, is a historic home located at Verona, Augusta County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, single-pile brick I-house. It has a rear 1 1/2-story, brick ell addition with porch built about 1850. Also on the property are a contributing washhouse (c. 1900), shed (c. 1900), and wagon house (c. 1921). The American artist Grandma Moses (1860–1961) and her husband Thomas Solomon Moses owned the house from January 1901 to September 1902. It was the first house they", "title": "Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia)" }, { "id": "14307504", "text": "talent show in 1940, Phelps won a scholarship to attend the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In the 1950s Phelps traveled to New York City with a sample of her work in order to increase her exposure in the art world. During this visit, Phelps’ work gained the attention of Otto Kallir, the founder of the Galerie St. Etienne. Kallir is most widely known for discovering Grandma Moses and promoting her work. This began a long relationship between Phelps and the Galerie St. Etienne that continues today, through the children of Phelps and current Galerie St. Etienne directors Hildegard Bachert and", "title": "Nan Phelps" }, { "id": "14765020", "text": "and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the \"Grandma Moses of the Underground\". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men", "title": "May Wilson" }, { "id": "14307510", "text": "that ranged in size from 1” by 1” miniatures to 6’ by 17’ murals. Additionally, Phelps would paint not only upon canvas but also on natural objects such as seashells and rocks. Phelps works continue to be displayed in galleries, churches, museums, embassies, and private residences throughout the world. Nan Phelps Nan Phelps (née Hinkle; August 25, 1904 – January 17, 1990), was an American folk artist from London, Kentucky. Phelps’ work has often been compared to the more famous Grandma Moses in both style and subject matter. Phelps was born in Lily, Laurel County, Kentucky, the second child of", "title": "Nan Phelps" }, { "id": "14881700", "text": "painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses. It is also known as \"Movement II\" of the Suite. A tune highlighted by flute, oboe and horn, it renders itself to both youth and age. First copyright on April 1, 1952 and renewed on January 4, 1980. \"Grandma Moses Suite\" has been released on CD by DRG Records. \"Jamie\" has never been available on home media. Of the pilot and 22 episodes of \"Jamie\" broadcast live, at least some are known to have survived on film by the Kinescope process. Videotape was not introduced until 1956. The pilot of", "title": "Jamie (TV series)" }, { "id": "990120", "text": "moved to a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York at her husband's urging. When Thomas Moses was about 67 years of age in 1927, he died of a heart attack, after which Anna's son Forrest helped her operate the farm. Anna Moses never married again. She retired and moved to a daughter's home in 1936. Anna Mary was known as either \"Mother Moses\" or \"Grandma Moses,\" and although she first exhibited as \"Mrs. Moses,\" the press dubbed her \"Grandma Moses,\" and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "10939812", "text": "features in the tradition of memory painting. He painted over 400 landscapes, of which a large number reside at The Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, FL. His childlike style is typical of folk art, which embraces art from artists that have little or no formal training and use techniques uniquely their own. Cunningham was familiar with Grandma Moses and even gained the nickname “Grandpa Moses”. His landscapes offer flattened forms shown in profile and human images resembling doll-like figures. He was not a good painter of human figures, but could draw animals a bit better. In fact, Cunningham", "title": "Earl Cunningham" }, { "id": "5273715", "text": "music with grants to composers. Hill also founded the Camargo Foundation in 1967, which administers an artists residency in Cassis, France. Jerome Hill Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine \"The Yale Record\". His 1950 documentary \"Grandma Moses\", written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film \"Albert Schweitzer\". In addition to making films, he", "title": "Jerome Hill" }, { "id": "990131", "text": "The directness and vividness of her paintings restored a primitive freshness to our perception of the American scene. Both her work and her life helped our nation renew its pioneer heritage and recall its roots in the countryside and on the frontier. All Americans mourn her loss.\" After her death, her work was exhibited in several large traveling exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Some of the public collections of her work are: Some of her works are: Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "17334743", "text": "owned in their married lives. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia) Mount Airy, also known as the Grandma Moses House and Major James Crawford House, is a historic home located at Verona, Augusta County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, single-pile brick I-house. It has a rear 1 1/2-story, brick ell addition with porch built about 1850. Also on the property are a contributing washhouse (c. 1900), shed (c. 1900), and wagon house (c. 1921). The American artist Grandma Moses (1860–1961) and her husband Thomas", "title": "Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia)" }, { "id": "5273713", "text": "Jerome Hill Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine \"The Yale Record\". His 1950 documentary \"Grandma Moses\", written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film \"Albert Schweitzer\". In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer. His last film, the autobiographical \"Film Portrait\" (1973), was added to the National Film Registry in", "title": "Jerome Hill" }, { "id": "20377289", "text": "such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Kallir and the Galerie St. Etienne established a place in the American eye for Austrian and German expressionism. The Galerie St. Etienne began representing the work of American folk artists as it attempted to capture the identity of its newfound homeland. In 1940, the Galerie St. Etienne hosted the first one-woman exhibition of the work of Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses. . The gallery gained the exclusive representation of Grandma Moses, who became one of the most renowned American artists of the", "title": "Galerie St. Etienne" }, { "id": "17213753", "text": "prominent 20th century painter Henri Matisse, Sophie's great-grandfather. Henri Matisse died in 1954, aged 85, eleven years before Sophie's birth. Family members expressed concern as to Sophie's use of the \"Matisse\" name, and in her youth she was discouraged from admitting to be a descendent of her famous great-grandfather. Only by incidentally noticing her family name on museum walls did Sophie come to consider that her great-grandfather may have been someone \"exceptional.\" Sophie Matisse's step-grandfather was the artist Marcel Duchamp, who famously reinterpreted Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" in his \"L.H.O.O.Q.\" by adding a mustache. Duchamp married Sophie's grandmother Alexina", "title": "Sophie Matisse" }, { "id": "990121", "text": "she used housepaint to decorate a fireboard. Beginning in 1932, Moses made embroidered pictures of yarn for friends and family. She also created beautiful quilted objects, a form of \"hobby art\" as defined by Lucy R. Lippard. By the age of 76, Moses had developed arthritis, which made embroidery painful. Her sister Celestia suggested that painting would be easier for her, and this idea spurred Moses's painting career in her late 70s. When her right hand began to hurt, she switched to her left hand. What appeared to be an interest in painting at a late age was actually a", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "6341056", "text": "used for untrained artists so fits those who start late in life without artistic training. Hence the classic late bloomer is Grandma Moses whose painting career began in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis. An even older example is Bill Traylor who started drawing at age 83. Another painter who started late in life is Alfred Wallis, who began painting after his wife's death in his 60s. Mary Delany produced her \"paper mosaiks [sic]\" from the age of 71 to 88. Then there is Carmen Herrera, who did have artistic training, but who sold her", "title": "Late bloomer" }, { "id": "7335488", "text": "frequent poster to Instagram, where, , she has more than 960,000 followers. Her Instagram posts frequently include photographs of her with friends or with other people known mostly for having famous parents or grandparents, including Kyra Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy; Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse, great-great-granddaughter of artist Henri Matisse; and EJ Johnson, son of Magic Johnson. The group, whose posed photos are edited by Andrew Warren, has been named the \"rich kids of Instagram\" by the \"New York Post\" and the \"Snap Pack\" by \"The New York Times\" and \"New York\" magazine. Tiffany Trump Tiffany Ariana Trump (born October 13,", "title": "Tiffany Trump" }, { "id": "20611913", "text": "1910 in Kodoc, Poland. She came to Montreal in 1919. Rosenfield later had two children: a daughter and a son. After she turned 45 and her children were older, she began studying sculpting at the École des Beaux-Arts. Joking about her late start in life as a sculptor, Rosenfield's husband liked to call her \"Montreal's Grandma Moses\". Her teachers included Quebec sculptors Armand Filion, Sylvia Daoust and Louis Archambault. Rosenfield was one of the founding members of the Quebec Sculptors' Association in 1962. Although she sometimes worked in wood and bronze, Rosenfield primarily worked in stone, including limestone from Indiana", "title": "Ethel Rosenfield" }, { "id": "10923603", "text": "character Ellery Queen or even mention his name, but not the last. There are many similarities between the character of Aunt Fanny Adams and the real-life naturalist painter Grandma Moses. The Glass Village The Glass Village is a novel that was published in 1954 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set in the imaginary New England town of Shinn Corners, United States. Aunt Fanny Adams, famed artist, is the most notable citizen of the tiny New England town of Shinn Corners. A noted proponent of the naturalist school (\"I paint what I see\") who only began painting at", "title": "The Glass Village" }, { "id": "990119", "text": "Moses lived is still standing (2018), rather badly eroded. Shenandoah Valley Rural Heritage Foundation ential subdivision within corporate Staunton, Virginia. Mount Nebo is the farm on which she made and sold potato chips. The Mount Airy Farm House in which the Moses family lived still stands (2018) To supplement the family income, Anna made potato chips and churned butter from the milk of a cow that she purchased with her savings. Later, the couple bought a farm. Five of the ten children born to them survived infancy. Although she loved living in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1905 Anna and Robert", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "990122", "text": "manifestation of a childhood dream. With no time in her difficult farm-life to pursue painting, she was obliged to set aside her passion to paint. At age 92 she wrote, \"I was quite small, my father would get me and my brothers white paper by the sheet. he liked to see us draw pictures, it was a penny a sheet and lasted longer than candy.\" It was her father's encouragement that fed her passion to paint and this dream was able to manifest later in her life. Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called \"old-timey\"", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "11643478", "text": "\"Entertainment\" or billed \"The Pier\" on 31 January 2001 which starred Miriam Margolyes as Grandmama. Magic Grandad Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on the BBC Two Schools section Watch during 1995. The show saw Magic Grandad, played by Geoffrey Bayldon, take his young grandchildren, played by Kristy Bruce and James Moreno, back in time to see historical events and people such as the Great Fire of London or Florence Nightingale. Cheryl Hall also starred in the show as the children's mother. The programme was said to make learning about history \"fun for youngsters\" and was aimed", "title": "Magic Grandad" }, { "id": "16020476", "text": "My Little Princess My Little Princess is a 2011 French-Romanian drama film directed by Eva Ionesco and inspired by her relationship with her mother, the well-known artistic photographer Irina Ionesco whose pictures of her young daughter caused controversy when they were published back in the 1970s. The film illustrates a situation which at first glance seems to be a paradox: whilst revealing more and more of her daughter to the public the mother seems to get increasingly estranged from her and vice versa. Violetta is raised by her grandmother (\"Mamie\", the French equivalent of \"Grandma\"). Her mother Hanna tries to", "title": "My Little Princess" }, { "id": "3682934", "text": "outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education.\" These scholarships have been awarded by the Irene Ryan Foundation since 1972. Irene Ryan Irene Ryan (born Jessie Irene Noblitt; October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an American actress who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. Ryan is most widely known for her portrayal of Daisy May \"Granny\" Moses, the mother-in-law of Buddy Ebsen's character, on the long-running TV series \"The Beverly Hillbillies\" (1962–1971), for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1963 and 1964. Ryan was born", "title": "Irene Ryan" }, { "id": "3682924", "text": "Irene Ryan Irene Ryan (born Jessie Irene Noblitt; October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an American actress who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. Ryan is most widely known for her portrayal of Daisy May \"Granny\" Moses, the mother-in-law of Buddy Ebsen's character, on the long-running TV series \"The Beverly Hillbillies\" (1962–1971), for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1963 and 1964. Ryan was born Jessie Irene Noblitt on October 17, 1902, in El Paso, Texas. She was the second child and last daughter born", "title": "Irene Ryan" }, { "id": "20558756", "text": "one-man show at the Associated American Artists gallery in New York. Reeves Lewenthal, director of the gallery, said that it was the first time in the gallery’s history that the works of an untutored artist had qualified for such a show. Said Lewenthal, \"[Courlander] is a fantastic primitive who paints completely from memory. He has an inventive spirit uniquely his own. He is on the same level as Grandma Moses. He is definitely a rare find in the art world.\" In fact, Courlander was affectionately dubbed \"Grandpa Moses\" by the Detroit press; other times he was referred to as \"Grandpa", "title": "David Courlander" }, { "id": "20739348", "text": "work of Egon Schiele. Bachert and Kallir also maintain the Grandma Moses archives assembled by Otto Kallir in connection with the Grandma Moses catalogue raisonné. In 1999, Bachert was awarded the Cross of Merit, First Class for outstanding achievement towards rebuilding the Federal Republic of Germany. Bachert recently celebrated her 75th year of work at the Galerie St. Etienne, where she still shares directorial responsibilities with Kallir. “Collecting the Art of Käthe Kollwitz,” in Elizabeth Prelinger, ed., Käthe Kollwitz (Washington D.C. and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). Hildegard Bachert Hildegard Bachert (born April 3, 1921) is a German-born American", "title": "Hildegard Bachert" }, { "id": "19857048", "text": "Florian Picasso Florian Ruiz-Picasso (born 21 February 1990), better known as Florian Picasso, is a Vietnamese-French DJ and record producer based in Cannes. He is a great-grandson of the well-known artist, Pablo Picasso. He gained recognition for collaborations with Martin Garrix and Steve Aoki. In 2016, he was ranked by DJ Mag at 38th on their annual list of Top 100 DJs. Picasso was born in Vietnam and was adopted by Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of the famous artist, Pablo Picasso. He was gladdened when Kanye West named his album, The Life of Pablo after his great-grandfather. He started making", "title": "Florian Picasso" }, { "id": "990123", "text": "New England landscapes. Moses said that she would \"get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.\" From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles. Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, despite her lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life.", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "20739346", "text": "Nierendorf, Otto Kallir hired her to work as his secretary at the Galerie St. Etienne. Bachert was instrumental in cultivating the gallery’s relationship with Grandma Moses, the most famous of the American folk artists represented by the Galerie St. Etienne. She collaborated with Moses by taking dictation for, ‘‘My Life’s History,’’ the artist’s autobiography. Additionally, she specializes in the work of Käthe Kollwitz, a perennial staple at the gallery. When Otto Kallir passed away in 1978, Bachert assumed the role of co-director with Jane Kallir, Kallir’s granddaughter. Bachert and Kallir found many ways to make the historical material the Galerie", "title": "Hildegard Bachert" }, { "id": "16066347", "text": "is interred at the Laredo Catholic Cemetery. Her papers and archives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Austin, held within the university library's Benson Latin American Collection. In 2015, Laredo LULAC named Montemayor winner of the \"Conscience Builder\" designation. Her son, Aurelio Montemayor, an educator in San Antonio, received the award on his mother's behalf. He referred to his mother as \"a very independent woman ... a very strong social worker ... involved in leadership of youth groups.\" In her painting, she was described as the \"Chicano Grandma Moses\". A prolific writer, Montemayor wrote more articles", "title": "Alicia Dickerson Montemayor" }, { "id": "990128", "text": "cameras. In 1950, the National Press Club cited her as one of the five most newsworthy women and the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers honored her as their 1951 Woman of the Year. At age 88, \"Mademoiselle\" magazine named Grandma Moses a \"Young Woman of the Year.\" She was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. The first was bestowed in 1949 from Russell Sage College and the second two years later from the Moore College of Art and Design. President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club trophy Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949.", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "99775", "text": "me as a kid because she was so kind and nurturing.\" Her godfather is director Steven Spielberg. Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew, and her middle name, Blythe, was the surname of the family first used by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore. Barrymore recounted in her 1991 autobiography, \"Little Girl Lost\", early memories of her abusive father, who left the family when Barrymore was 6 months old. They never had anything resembling a significant relationship and seldom spoke to each other. Barrymore grew up on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood until the age", "title": "Drew Barrymore" }, { "id": "6894948", "text": "describe its wide ranging activities, the organization applied to amend its charter and change its corporate name in 2017. As such, the New York State Board of Regents approved the updated charter on March 10 of 2017, formally changing the organization's name from New York State Historical Association to Fenimore Art Museum. The fine art and folk art collections were largely assembled by Stephen C. Clark and include works by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, William Sidney Mount, Benjamin West, Grandma Moses, Ralph Fasanella, and Lavern Kelley. Clare and Eugene Thaw donated their collection of indigenous American art to the Fenimore", "title": "Fenimore Art Museum" }, { "id": "14732384", "text": "the Symphony of the Musical Arts. He was also named a board member of the Manchester Music Festival. Fausett died in 1998. Dean Fausett William Dean Fausett (July 4, 1913 – December 13, 1998) was an American painter. His career spanned over six decades. He painted notable figures like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Grandma Moses, Ezra Taft Benson, and Sir Alexander Fleming. His brother Lynn Fausett was also a painter. Fausett also purchased the historic house of Cephas Kent, Jr. in Dorset, Vermont and was instrumental in it the forming of the Kent", "title": "Dean Fausett" }, { "id": "5917630", "text": "godparents. She is the youngest of five children of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips (1909–1980) and his wife, Georgina Wernher (1919–2011). Her eldest sister is Her Grace Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn, and another sister is Marita Crawley, who wrote the libretto for the opera \"The Poet and the Tsar\" about their great-great-great-grandfathers, Alexander Pushkin and Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Natalia is one of three godmothers to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Her family have long been close to the British Royal Family, being distantly related to both Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. They are also descendants,", "title": "Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster" }, { "id": "19379537", "text": "Clara McDonald Williamson Clara McDonald Williamson (November 20, 1875 – February 17, 1976) was a 20th century American painter who worked in the tradition of naïve art. Her subjects were genre scenes of life in the American West, especially her home state of Texas. Like Grandma Moses, she started painting late in life and she achieved a national reputation despite the fact that her career lasted only two decades. McDonald was born November 20, 1875, in Iredell, Texas, the second of six children of Mary Lasswell McDonald and Thomas McDonald. She had only intermittent formal education and little art training.", "title": "Clara McDonald Williamson" }, { "id": "990125", "text": "their meaning. The unrest and the neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of Grandma Moses.\" During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, discovered paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings were included in New York's Museum of Modern Art exhibition entitled \"Contemporary Unknown American", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "4523918", "text": "Armstrong, who would have been 86 when \"What a Wonderful World\" became a hit in 1988, is the oldest overall, although Armstrong was younger than Mabley when the record was made). Mabley had six children: Bonnie, Christine, Charles, and Yvonne Ailey, and two given up for adoption when she was a teenager. She died from heart failure in White Plains, New York on May 23, 1975. She is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York. Mabley was the inspiration for the character of Grandma Klump in \"The Nutty Professor\". She is the subject of \"Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley\", a", "title": "Moms Mabley" }, { "id": "20377311", "text": "York. • 1968: Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele: oeuvre catalogue of the paintings (Crown Publishers, New York: 1966). Otto Kallir. Egon Schiele; The Graphic Work (Crown, New York: 1970). Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (Abrams: New York: 1973). Otto Kallir, Richard Gerstl (1883-1908): Beitrāge zur Dokumentation seines Lebens und Werkes (Counsel Press: New York, 1974). Jane Kallir, Saved From Europe (Galerie St. Etienne, New York: 1999). Jane Kallir, Austria's Expressionism (Rizzoli, New York: 1981). \"Otto Kallir: Ein Wegbereiter Österreichischer Kunst\" (exhibition catalogue with texts by Hans Bisanz, Jane Kallir and Vita Maria Künstler; Historisches", "title": "Otto Kallir" }, { "id": "990114", "text": "appeared on magazine covers, television, and in a documentary of her life. She wrote an autobiography (\"My Life's History\"), won numerous awards, and was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. The \"New York Times\" said of her: \"The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "16345863", "text": "she attended Illinois State Normal University in Normal, and also ran a day care business in Carnation, Washington for 25 years. The children of Carnation that she cared for affectionately referred to her as \"Grandma Rose\". She is part of \"Women in Baseball\", a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Though she did not attend the ceremony, she traveled to Cooperstown to see her name in the hall. \"That was the biggest thrill of my life\", she", "title": "Rose Folder" }, { "id": "5721593", "text": "Fantin-Latour, Helen Frankenthaler, Bartolo di Fredi, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Goyen, Francesco Granacci, Childe Hassam, Hans Hofmann, Pieter de Hooch, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Philip Guston, William Harnett, George Inness, Alex Katz, Paul Klee, Nicolas de Largillière, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Fernand Léger, Morris Louis, Maximilien Luce, Alessandro Magnasco, Robert Mangold, the Master of 1518, Henri Matisse, Pierre Mignard, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Grandma Moses, Robert Motherwell, Alice Neel, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O'Keeffe, Amédée Ozenfant, Charles Willson Peale, James Peale, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Fairfield Porter, Robert Priseman, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Diego Rivera, George", "title": "Honolulu Museum of Art" }, { "id": "384398", "text": "for having been the home to two of England's best regarded painters, Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable – the Stour Valley area is branded as \"Constable Country\" – and one of its most noted composers, Benjamin Britten. Other artists of note from Suffolk include the cartoonist Carl Giles (a bronze statue of his character \"Grandma\" to commemorate this is located in Ipswich town centre), poets George Crabbe and Robert Bloomfield, writer and Literary editor Ronald Blythe, actors Ralph Fiennes and Bob Hoskins, actress and singer Kerry Ellis, musician and record producer Brian Eno, singer Dani Filth, of the Suffolk-based extreme", "title": "Suffolk" }, { "id": "19089874", "text": "drawings or sketches: ninety percent of his creations are shaped in less than one hour. The memories of his childhood, mostly spent in Africa, represent his main source of inspiration: the artist recreates that to which he has been a witness while leaving space for improvisation to bring us the Bigfoot Family Project. A Bigfoot Family is born: Babyfoot, Bigfoot, Ladyfoot, Grandpafoot, Grandmafoot, Longfoot, Coolfoot, Le Siffleur and La Nena are among the team members. Each one possesses his own characteristic while still keeping a common familiar symbolism: these big feet, which represent our roots, and our attachment to the", "title": "Idan Zareski" }, { "id": "14732375", "text": "Dean Fausett William Dean Fausett (July 4, 1913 – December 13, 1998) was an American painter. His career spanned over six decades. He painted notable figures like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Grandma Moses, Ezra Taft Benson, and Sir Alexander Fleming. His brother Lynn Fausett was also a painter. Fausett also purchased the historic house of Cephas Kent, Jr. in Dorset, Vermont and was instrumental in it the forming of the Kent Neighborhood Historic District. Dean Fausett was born in Price, Utah, in 1913. His parents were George A. Fausett and Helen Josephine Bryner", "title": "Dean Fausett" }, { "id": "3389898", "text": "genetic overlap. A step-grandparent can be the step-parent of the parent or the step-parent's parent or the step-parent's step-parent (though technically this might be called a step-step-grandparent). The various words for grandparents at times may also be used to refer to any elderly person, especially the terms \"gramps\", \"granny\", \"grandfather\", \"grandmother\", \"nan\", \"maw-maw\", \"paw-paw\" and others which families make up themselves. When used as a noun (e.g., \"... a grandparent walked by\"), grandfather and grandmother are usually used, although forms such as grandma/grandpa, granny/granddaddy or even nan/pop are sometimes used. When preceded by \"my ...\" (e.g., \"... my grandpa walked", "title": "Grandparent" }, { "id": "566424", "text": "Horizons\" (1955) alongside Fred MacMurray. He tried a comedy \"The Private War of Major Benson\" (1955) at Universal, then supported Jane Wyman in a drama \"Lucy Gallant\" (1955). Heston became an icon for playing Moses in the hugely successful biblical epic \"The Ten Commandments\" (1956), selected by director Cecil B. DeMille, who thought Heston bore an uncanny resemblance to Michelangelo's statue of Moses. DeMille cast Heston's three-month-old son, Fraser Clarke Heston, as the infant Moses. \"The Ten Commandments\" became one of the greatest box office successes of all time and is the seventh highest-grossing film adjusted for inflation. His portrayal", "title": "Charlton Heston" }, { "id": "14441019", "text": "Grandma Tracy Grandma Tracy is a fictional character in the television series \"Thunderbirds\". She was voiced by Christine Finn. Little is known about Grandma Tracy's past, and her real name is never mentioned on screen with all the characters, even sometimes her son Jeff, calling her \"Grandma\". As a young girl, her grandmother took her round London and she travelled on the London Underground, a fact that would prove useful later for International Rescue (\"Vault Of Death\"). She was married to a Kansas wheat farmer but was widowed some time before International Rescue begun and helped Jeff bring up his", "title": "Grandma Tracy" }, { "id": "20007313", "text": "Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse (born April 12, 1993) is a French-born American socialite and actress, best known as the great-great-granddaughter of French painter Henri Matisse. Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She is the daughter of American contemporary artist Sophie Matisse and French pop artist Alain Jacquet. She is the granddaughter of artist Paul Matisse, step great-granddaughter of artist Marcel Duchamp, and great-granddaughter of artist Pierre Matisse and Alexina Duchamp. Matisse attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. After her father died from esophageal cancer when she was fifteen years old, Matisse took to", "title": "Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse" }, { "id": "1382346", "text": "Convert the ahnentafel number from decimal to binary. 2. Replace the leftmost \"1\" with the subject's name and replace each following \"0\" and \"1\" with \"father\" and \"mother\" respectively. The generation number can be calculated as the logarithm to base 2 of the ahnentafel number, and rounding down to a full integer by truncating decimal digits. For example, the number 38 is between 2=32 and 2=64, so log(38) is between 5 and 6. This means that ancestor no.38 belongs to generation five, and was a great-great-great-grandparent of the reference person who is no.1 (generation zero). The example, shown below, is", "title": "Ahnentafel" }, { "id": "15718091", "text": "was named for Nils Ebbessøn Astrup, who was a maternal grandson of Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927). The museum created a stir in the international art world in 2002 when it purchased the American artist Jeff Koons's monumental sculpture in gilt porcelain of the pop star Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his favorite chimpanzee, for US$5.1 million. The permanent collection consists of works of Norwegian and International Contemporary Art. The museum collection was originally based on a private collection that goes back thirty years, and has significantly developed with the many changes in modern/contemporary art. There has been an interest in German Abstract", "title": "Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art" }, { "id": "18865757", "text": "colors and landscapes remind many of American primitives.\" His work went on to receive international acclaim, most notably from his home country of Sweden. In his syndicated column, Mel Heimer quoted Ms. Dwyer describing him as \"a sort of younger Grandma Moses.\" His work was also collected by Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson for the White House. He died in April 1971. \"His work remains, and the beauty he has left behind is immeasurable.\" Andy Johnson (artist) Andy Johnson (born Anders Johannson, 1893 in Hyssma, Sweden - 1971) was a Swedish-American painter. He started painting at age 64 in", "title": "Andy Johnson (artist)" }, { "id": "18033608", "text": "poetry. She has been called the Grandma Moses of Sranan. In 1987 she was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Yellow Star. Erwin de Vries, the Surinam sculptor in Paramaribo, made a bronze bust commissioned by the National Women's Movement, de Nationale Vrouwen Beweging (NVB) for the commemoration of the poet's one hundredth birthday. In 1963 Johanna published her first poetry book called \"Tide ete\" \"(Done Today/ Vandaag nog\"). In 1965 her second book was published: \"Awese\" (Healing Spirit). An Awese is a healing spirit in W\"inti\", the Afro-Surinam religion. Both books are \"milestones in the emancipation of", "title": "Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout" }, { "id": "6206863", "text": "Caroll.\" Lee died a few days later. In an interview a few years later, Loretta Long, who played Susan, said of the episode's legacy: \"People come up to us and say 'Thank you. Now we can explain what happened to Grandma, what happened to Grandpa.'\" Lee died from a heart attack at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on December 7, 1982 at the age of 74. Lee was never married and had no children and according to his obituary he was survived by his sister Sophie Lee Lubov who lived in Florida. The Sesame Street episode, \"Farewell, Mr.", "title": "Will Lee" }, { "id": "15631382", "text": "a polka-dot dress\". Lucy Raverat Lucy Raverat (née Pryor, born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter. Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen (née Darwin). Through her maternal grandmother she is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder brother is William Pryor, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson. She was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended", "title": "Lucy Raverat" }, { "id": "5544977", "text": "own until 2004 when his legs weakened and he found it almost impossible to walk. He was placed in a rest home, but was still able to feed himself and pass the days watching \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" and \"The Price Is Right\". At the time of his death, he was the oldest United States combat veteran ever, the oldest male ever recorded in Mississippi and had outlived at least three of his eight children. It was reported that he had several dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was also ranked as the sixth-oldest living verified person in the world, the", "title": "Moses Hardy" }, { "id": "53493", "text": "Albert Museum archive. The book \"The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots\", with illustrations by Quentin Blake, was published 1 September 2016, to mark the 150th anniversary of Potter's birth. In 2017, \"The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations\" by Emily Zach was published after San Francisco publisher Chronicle Books decided to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth by showing that she was \"far more than a 19th-century weekend painter. She was an artist of astonishing range.\" In December 2017, the asteroid 13975 Beatrixpotter, discovered by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst in 1992, was named in her memory. There are", "title": "Beatrix Potter" }, { "id": "13326218", "text": "Moses and Fromet Mendelssohn: Children of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Mendelssohn family The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and include his grandson, the composer Felix Mendelssohn and his granddaughter, the composer Fanny Mendelssohn. Moses Mendelssohn was a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany. Mendelssohn had ten children, of whom six lived to adulthood. Of those six children, only Recha and Joseph retained the Jewish faith. Abraham Mendelssohn, because of his conversion to Christianity, adopted the surname Bartholdy at the suggestion of his wife's brother, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, who had adopted the", "title": "Mendelssohn family" }, { "id": "7774312", "text": "one of the most well-known self-taught artists, often referred to as the black Grandma Moses. Painting from memory, she is credited as an important social and cultural historian for her documentation of plantation life in the early 20th century. Her paintings portray picking cotton and pecans, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals. Many of her paintings had similar subjects, but each one is unique. Hunter was noted for painting on anything, particularly discarded items such as window shades, jugs, bottles, and gourds and cardboard boxes. Her paintings rarely run larger than 18 by 24 inches. Her work has generally been considered", "title": "Clementine Hunter" }, { "id": "20007315", "text": "variety of celebrity friends including Kyra Kennedy, EJ Johnson, Tiffany Trump, Andrew Warren, and Paris Hilton. Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse (born April 12, 1993) is a French-born American socialite and actress, best known as the great-great-granddaughter of French painter Henri Matisse. Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She is the daughter of American contemporary artist Sophie Matisse and French pop artist Alain Jacquet. She is the granddaughter of artist Paul Matisse, step great-granddaughter of artist Marcel Duchamp, and great-granddaughter of artist Pierre Matisse and Alexina Duchamp. Matisse attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.", "title": "Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse" }, { "id": "1068638", "text": "book, she describes Murphy as her \"personal laugh track\". The couple had two children, Lucy and Jack, before divorcing in 2002. She is the aunt of actress and singer Sabrina Carpenter. Cartwright was raised a Roman Catholic but joined the Church of Scientology in 1991. She was awarded Scientology's Patron Laureate Award after donating $10 million, almost twice her annual salary, to the Church in 2007. Cartwright is a contributor to ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project. In September 2007, Cartwright received the Make-a-Wish Foundation's Wish Icon Award \"for her tremendous dedication to the Foundation's fundraising and wish-fulfillment efforts\". In 2005, Cartwright", "title": "Nancy Cartwright" }, { "id": "15677501", "text": "the mother of actress Bianca Lawson by Lawson. Her grandchildren include Marvin Gaye IV (b. 1995) and Dylan Gaye (b. 2000). Denise Gordy Denise Georgette Gordy (born November 11, 1949) is an American former film and television actress. Born Denise Georgette Gordy in Detroit, Michigan, Gordy is the daughter of George and Rosemary Gordy and sister of Patrice and George Gordy, Jr., among others. Motown founder Berry Gordy is her uncle, while her aunt is Anna Gordy Gaye. Gordy has appeared in numerous television and theatrical features, beginning in 1972 with \"Lady Sings the Blues\" as a dancer in the", "title": "Denise Gordy" }, { "id": "7371713", "text": "Fraser Clarke Heston Fraser Clarke Heston (born February 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He is the son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, and has one sibling, a sister, Holly Rochell Heston. Fraser Clarke Heston's filmography includes \"Alaska\" and the 1990 version of \"Treasure Island\" which cast his father as Long John Silver. As a baby, he made his film debut as the infant Moses (his father played the grown Moses) in the Cecil B. DeMille epic \"The Ten Commandments\". While in the process of writing \"Wind River\",", "title": "Fraser Clarke Heston" }, { "id": "9286992", "text": "mémoire \"Framed\" to solicit his help in selling her painting. With Volpe's vision a business venture was formed, Legends Art Group, to manage and sell works of art authenticated by science; the formation of this venture is discussed in the documentary. Volpe also brought Horton's story to producer Steven Hewitt, who, along with his father, executive producer Don Hewitt (creator of \"60 Minutes\"), had formed the Hewitt Group to produce documentaries. Harry Moses, an Emmy, Peabody, and Directors Guild of America award-winner, and a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, is", "title": "Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?" }, { "id": "13549821", "text": "man who said to his noisy neighbor \"May you live until 119\" and then said to the wife \"May you live until 120.\" When asked by the husband \"why only until 119\", the man who was seeking a bit of quiet said \"she deserves one good year.\" Another joke said is: \"What do you say to someone on their 120th birthday? Have a nice day\". Live until 120 The phrase \"May you live until 120\", The most often cited source is . In , the age of Moses upon his death is given as 120, but most importantly the text", "title": "Live until 120" }, { "id": "1520441", "text": "CBS sitcom \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". Aside from the top-billed Ebsen, principal cast members included Irene Ryan as Jed's mother-in-law, Daisy Moses, also known as Granny; Max Baer Jr. as Jed's dimwitted nephew Jethro Bodine; Donna Douglas as Jed's only child, the curvaceous, critter-loving Elly May Clampett; Raymond Bailey as Milburn Drysdale, a bank president who oversees the Clampett fortune; and Nancy Kulp as Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's secretary. Although scorned by critics, \"The Beverly Hillbillies\" attracted as many as 60 million viewers between 1962 and 1971 and was several times the highest-rated series on television. The show also spawned similar Paul", "title": "Buddy Ebsen" }, { "id": "1361335", "text": "for the first time. Daughter Rhonda Ross-Kendrick performed as her mother's opening act. On November 19, 2017, Ross received the American Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. Ross performed several of her hits, ending with \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\", during which she brought all of her grandchildren onstage. Her eldest grandson, eight-year-old Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick, son of Rhonda Ross-Kendrick and husband, Rodney, performed an impromptu dance behind Ross, which gained attention. Ross was then joined onstage by all of her children, their spouses, first ex-husband Robert Ellis, Smokey Robinson (who brought Ross to Motown) and Motown founder, Berry Gordy. In", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "id": "8758628", "text": "him drawing with broken pencil nubs on scraps of paper. He left Cuba at the age of 15, after the death of his mother, and did not return for more than 40 years. A visit to Cuba in 2000, after receiving an entry visa from Fidel Castro's government, led to a particularly productive period in his work. Perez's style is classified as primitive art, also called naive art, a category used to describe notable work produced by artists without formal schooling, such as Grandma Moses, and which captures instinctive artistic expressions without the typical conventions and uniformity of classically educated", "title": "Mario Perez (artist)" }, { "id": "13549820", "text": "Live until 120 The phrase \"May you live until 120\", The most often cited source is . In , the age of Moses upon his death is given as 120, but most importantly the text states \"his eye had not dimmed, and his vigor had not diminished.\" To have one's mental and physical faculties — that is what Jews wish someone via \"till 120.\" Although the blessing is quite appropriate, it is often used in ways that show it to be a part of every day conversation. The number 120 even exists in humor, as in the story of a", "title": "Live until 120" }, { "id": "99774", "text": "paternal grandparents, John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were actors, with John being arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation. Barrymore is a niece of Diana Barrymore, a grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Helene Costello, and a great-great-granddaughter of Irish-born John and English-born Louisa Lane Drew, all of whom were also actors. She was a great-grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew Jr. and silent film actor, writer, and director Sidney Drew. Her godmothers are actress Sophia Loren and Lee Strasberg's widow, Anna Strasberg; Barrymore described her relationship with the latter as one that \"would become so important to", "title": "Drew Barrymore" }, { "id": "15631380", "text": "Lucy Raverat Lucy Raverat (née Pryor, born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter. Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen (née Darwin). Through her maternal grandmother she is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder brother is William Pryor, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson. She was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended Hornsey College of", "title": "Lucy Raverat" }, { "id": "18010768", "text": "Express\" (2017), and as the voice of Cottontail in \"Peter Rabbit\" (2018). Daisy Ridley was born on 10 April 1992 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Maida Vale. She is the youngest of three daughters born to Louise Fawkner-Corbett, a banker, and Christopher Ridley, a photographer. She has two older sisters, Kika Rose and Poppy Sophia. Her mother's family, the Fawkner-Corbetts, were landed gentry with a military and medical background. Her great-uncle was \"Dad's Army\" actor and playwright Arnold Ridley. While growing up, her favourite film was \"Matilda\" (1996), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's story, with the title", "title": "Daisy Ridley" }, { "id": "12296847", "text": "but seen in the imagination only, . . . This little book, unlike the fortieth imitation of somebody's book on Picasso and available everywhere, is a discovery, pictures and commentary moving from an area of the mind now understandably suspect. . . .\" Sheri Martinelli Sheri Martinelli, (January 17, 1918 – November 3, 1996) was an American painter, poet, and muse. Martinelli was born Shirley Burns Brennan in Philadelphia in 1918. Of Irish ancestry, she was the eldest of four children and began using the name Sherry by the time she was a teenager. Later told that her first name", "title": "Sheri Martinelli" }, { "id": "990118", "text": "Currier and Ives prints and purchased chalk and wax crayons so that she could create her own artwork. When she was 27, she worked on the same farm with Thomas Salmon Moses, a \"hired man.\" They were married and established themselves near Staunton, Virginia where they spent nearly two decades, living and working in turn on five separate local farms;The Bell Farm, Belvidere (also named the Eakle Farm), The Dudley Farm is today (2018) a modern farming enterprise(house still standing and occupied). Mount Airy Farm is now included within Augusta County's Millway Place Industrial Park, the farmhouse in which the", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "20377294", "text": "(all in New York) and Art Basel (in Basel, Switzerland). Both Kallir and Bachert have been honored with various awards for their contributions to Austrian and German cultural preservation, and the gallery has received awards for its contributions to the Bennington Museum, which is known for its Grandma Moses collection. Kallir and Bachert continue to contribute to scholarship on the artists represented by the gallery, authoring essays that have been included in numerous exhibition publications. In addition to the gallery’s academic contributions, the Galerie St. Etienne has played a role in many Holocaust-era restitution cases, most notably, the 1997–2010 case", "title": "Galerie St. Etienne" }, { "id": "553391", "text": "Ossip Zadkine Ossip Zadkine (; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Zadkine was born on 28 January 1888 as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin () in the city of Vitsebsk, part of the Russian Empire (now Belarus). He was born to a Jewish father and a mother named Zippa-Dvoyra, who he claimed to be of Scottish origin. Ossip had 5 siblings: sisters Mira, Roza and Fania and brothers Mark and Moses. After attending art school in London, Zadkine settled in", "title": "Ossip Zadkine" }, { "id": "9450332", "text": "was nicknamed Minnesota's Grandpa Moses by the University of Minnesota during the hey-day of his painting career in the 1960s. A self-taught artist, he completed over 400 pieces in a style referred to as naïve or primitive. His folk art was reminiscent of paintings done by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), another self-taught artist, from New England, whose work is still extremely popular among collectors. Like Grandma Moses, Kramer didn't pick up a paint brush until after retirement when he began recording the history of Midwestern agronomy in primary colors. Arnold began painting and recording history after a visit to", "title": "Arnold Kramer" }, { "id": "990117", "text": "United States. She was inspired to paint by taking art lessons at school. Moses first painted as a child, using lemon and grape juice to make colors for her \"landscapes\". Other natural materials that she used to create works of art included ground ochre, grass, flour paste, slack lime and sawdust. At 12 years of age, she left home and began to work for a wealthy neighboring family, performing chores on their farm. She continued to keep house, cook and sew for wealthy families for 15 years. One of the families that she worked for—the Whitesides—noticed her interest in their", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "990124", "text": "She was a prolific painter who generated over 1,500 canvasses in three decades. Moses initially charged $3 to $5 for a painting, depending upon its size, and as her fame increased her works were sold for $8,000 to $10,000. Her winter paintings are reminiscent of some of the known winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, although she had never seen his work. A German fan of her work said, \"There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and it is good. You feel at home in all these pictures, and you know", "title": "Grandma Moses" }, { "id": "11294191", "text": "volunteer youth and young adults. Douglas attended Worthington Kilbourne High School and received a B.A. in political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2004, where she graduated Kappa Delta. She holds a Master of Labor and Human Resources degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. In 1993, Emily Douglas founded Grandma's Gifts in memory of her grandmother, Norma Ackison, who died of breast and lung cancer in 1991 at the age of 60. One of 11 children, Ackison was an infant when her father died. She survived during the", "title": "Emily Elizabeth Douglas" }, { "id": "9105116", "text": "during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and Alice Perry Grew (b. 1884). Her maternal grandparents were Lilla Cabot Perry, the impressionist painter of the New England Cabots, and Thomas Sergeant Perry, the noted American scholar. Through her grandfather, she was a descendant of famed American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry. Together, Jay and Lilla were the parents of: Jay Pierrepont Moffat died on January 25, 1943 in Ottawa, two and-a-half weeks after his 47th birthday with complications from surgery for phlebitis. A service was held for Moffat at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, which was attended by", "title": "Jay Pierrepont Moffat" }, { "id": "20377308", "text": "to five additional venues. In 1965, after Messer had been appointed Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Kallir convinced him to mount a major Klimt/Schiele show. In 1966, Kallir issued an updated edition of his Schiele catalogue raisonné, Egon Schiele: Oeuvre Catalogue of the Paintings, which was followed, in 1970, by a catalogue raisonné of the artist's prints, Egon Schiele: The Graphic Work. He also authored catalogues raisonnés documenting the oeuvres of Grandma Moses (1973) and Richard Gerstl (1974). During his first years in America, Kallir was inclined to see himself and his fellow refugees as victims of", "title": "Otto Kallir" }, { "id": "18286258", "text": "Jon Serl Jon Serl (1894–1993) was an American artist. He is best remembered as a painter like the American artists Grandma Moses and Edward Hicks. He also worked in other roles and under several different names. These included as a vaudeville artist named Slats; as a voiceover performer for Hollywood named Ned Palmer, and as a migrant fruit collector, better known under the name Jerry Palmer. Jon Serl was born as Josef Searls in 1894 in Olean, New York. He was the fifth child of seven. He grew up in a vaudevillian theatrical family. This contributed to his early artistic", "title": "Jon Serl" }, { "id": "990127", "text": "Her paintings were exhibited throughout Europe and the United States over the next 20 years. Otto Kallir established the Grandma Moses Properties, Inc. for her. The paintings of Grandma Moses were used to publicize American holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Mother's Day. During the 1950s, her exhibitions broke attendance records around the world. Art historian Judith Stein noted: \"A cultural icon, the spry, productive nonagenarian was continually cited as an inspiration for housewives, widows and retirees.\" Her paintings were reproduced on Hallmark greeting cards, tiles, fabrics, and ceramics. They were also used to market products, like coffee, lipstick, cigarettes, and", "title": "Grandma Moses" } ]

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[ { "id": "17010388", "text": "Hatcher after realising she was pregnant and was late for that reason. \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" marked the first appearance of the Walther P99 as Bond's pistol. It replaced the Walther PPK that the character had carried in every Eon Bond film since of \"Dr. No\" in 1962, with the exception of \"Moonraker\" in which Bond was not seen with a pistol. Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond film, which had been one of its most visible endorsers. Previously the P5 was introduced in \"Octopussy\". Bond would use the P99 until Daniel Craig reverted to the PPK", "title": "Filming of James Bond in the 1990s" }, { "id": "208229", "text": "Colt .45 Army Special. The first Bond film, \"Dr. No\", saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK, which the film Bond used in eighteen films. In \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" and the two subsequent films, Bond's main weapon was the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol. In the early Bond stories Fleming gave Bond a battleship-grey Bentley Litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger. After Bond's car was written off by Hugo Drax in \"Moonraker\", Fleming gave Bond a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he used in the remaining books of the series. During \"Goldfinger\", Bond", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "713434", "text": "directly involved in Bond's missions occur in \"Octopussy\", in which Q actually participates in field work, including the final battle against the villain's henchmen, and \"Licence to Kill\" in which he joins Bond in the field after 007 goes rogue. In the first film, \"Dr. No\", Boothroyd is played by Peter Burton in only one scene in which he replaces Bond's .25 ACP Beretta 418 pistol with the signature .32 Walther PPK handgun. He is referred to by M as \"the armourer,\" and later as Major Boothroyd. Scheduling conflicts prevented Burton from reprising the role in \"From Russia with Love\",", "title": "Q (James Bond)" }, { "id": "9167160", "text": "with his lifesaving gadgets, would, in turn, later inspire Ian Fleming’s successor, John Gardner, to replace Bond’s renowned Walther PPK as 007’s weapon of choice. Beginning with 1984’s \"Role of Honor\", the ASP would go on to be featured in 11 James Bond novels. James Bond expert James McMahon would later write: “If Bond were a gun, he'd be the ASP. Dark, deadly, perfectly suited to his mission.” In 1980, Theodore formed Techpak, a company created to market a combat handgun shooting technique he had developed called “Quell.” The Quell system included a realistic depiction of close quarter combat, a", "title": "Paris Theodore" }, { "id": "4216392", "text": "the films also carry over into Benson's continuation. M, for instance, is not Sir Miles Messervy, but the female M that was first introduced in the film \"GoldenEye\" (1995), although Gardner also introduced this character in his novelisation of that film and retained the character through his final novel \"COLD\" (1996). Bond also reverts to using his trusty Walther PPK, claiming he had switched to other guns (notably the ASP in Gardner's later novels), but felt that it was time he used it again. The follow-up to \"Zero Minus Ten\", the novelization to \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" has Bond switching to", "title": "Zero Minus Ten" }, { "id": "2113617", "text": "creative argy-bargy\", with Spottiswoode saying \"It has all been made up...Nothing important really went wrong.\" Spottiswoode did not return to direct the next film; he said the producers asked him, but he was too tired. Apparently, Brosnan and Hatcher feuded briefly during filming due to her arriving late onto the set one day. The matter was quickly resolved though and Brosnan apologised to Hatcher after realising she was pregnant and was late for that reason. \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" marked the first appearance of the Walther P99 as Bond's pistol. It replaced the Walther PPK that the character had carried in", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "208227", "text": "360 and PlayStation 3 under the title \"\". In October 2012 \"007 Legends\" was released, which featured one mission from each of the Bond actors of the Eon Productions' series. For the first five novels, Fleming armed Bond with a Beretta 418 until he received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising Fleming's choice of firearm for Bond, calling it \"a lady's gun – and not a very nice lady at that!\" Boothroyd suggested that Bond should swap his Beretta for a Walther PPK 7.65mm and this exchange of arms made it to \"Dr.", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "15940307", "text": "Bond\" actors. Llewelyn's first film was the second in the Eon series, \"From Russia with Love\", after the actor who played the part in \"Dr. No\", Peter Burton, was unavailable for the filming schedule. (Burton's character was not yet called Q, but \"the Armourer\", Major Boothroyd, who instructed Bond on a new firearm, the Walther PPK.) After appearing as Q's assistant in \"The World Is Not Enough\", John Cleese appeared as Q in Pierce Brosnan's last film, \"Die Another Day\". For Daniel Craig's third film, \"Skyfall\", the character was re-introduced, with Ben Whishaw playing the part. The first Bond film,", "title": "Motifs in the James Bond film series" }, { "id": "15940308", "text": "\"Dr. No\", saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK, which the film Bond used in eighteen films. Since \"Tomorrow Never Dies\", Bond's main weapon has been the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol. Bond has driven a number of cars, including the Aston Martin V8 Vantage during the 1980s, the V12 Vanquish and DBS during the 2000s, as well as the Lotus Esprit; the BMW Z3, BMW 750iL and the BMW Z8. He has, however, also needed to drive a number of other vehicles, ranging from a Citroën 2CV to a AEC Routemaster bus,", "title": "Motifs in the James Bond film series" }, { "id": "2113618", "text": "every Eon Bond film since \"Dr. No\" in 1962, with the exception of \"Moonraker\" in which Bond was not seen with a pistol. Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond film, which had been one of its most visible endorsers. Previously the P5 was introduced in \"Octopussy\". Bond would use the P99 until Daniel Craig reverted to the PPK as 007 in \"Quantum of Solace\" in 2008. Barbara Broccoli chose David Arnold to score \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" on a recommendation from prolific James Bond films composer John Barry. Arnold had come to Barry's attention through his successful", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "12887982", "text": "ACP Beretta automatic pistol carried in a light-weight chamois leather holster. However Fleming was contacted by a Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who criticised Fleming's choice of firearm for Bond and suggested a Walther PPK 7.65mm instead. Fleming used the suggestion in \"Dr. No\", also taking advice that it should be used with the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster. By way of thanks, the Secret Service Armourer who gives Bond his gun was given the name Major Boothroyd, and is introduced by M as \"the greatest small-arms expert in the world\". Kingsley Amis, in \"The James Bond Dossier\",", "title": "James Bond (literary character)" }, { "id": "9285541", "text": "order from his superior officer, M, to start carrying a new duty weapon in the opening chapters of the sixth novel, \"Dr. No\". Major Boothroyd, the MI6 armorer and \"the greatest small-arms expert in the world\" in M's opinion, insists that Bond trade it for a weapon with more stopping power. Bond is issued a Walther PPK, and a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver for situations where he needs more power than the PPK can offer. He uses both guns during a mission in Jamaica for this novel, then relies on the PPK in subsequent stories. In the film", "title": "Beretta 418" }, { "id": "3471018", "text": "early novels, but switched to the PPK in \"Dr. No\" on the advice of firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, though the actual guns carried by Bond and Felix Leiter in the film were, in fact, Walther PPs. Actor Jack Lord was presented with a gold plated one with ivory handgrips. Singer Elvis Presley owned a silver-finish PPK, inscribed \"TCB\" (\"taking care of business\"). The PPK/S was developed following the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA68) in the United States, the pistol's largest market. One of the provisions of GCA68 banned the importation of pistols and revolvers not meeting", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "3471017", "text": "barrel and frame, the manufacturer's selection of the name \"Kriminal\" appears in early original advertising brochures from Walther and the 1937 GECO German catalog. Adolf Hitler shot and killed himself with his PPK (.32 ACP/7.65mm) in the Führerbunker in Berlin. South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee was shot and killed by Kim Jae-gyu, using the Walther PPK. The Walther PPK pistol is famous as fictional secret agent James Bond's gun in many of the films and novels: Ian Fleming's choice of the Walther PPK directly influenced its popularity and its notoriety. Fleming had given Bond a .25 Beretta 418 pistol in", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "1979549", "text": "broken into two parts with the barrel-chamber assembly hidden in the hollowed out heel of one boot and the frame hidden in the heel of the other. Two characters in the 1965 movie \"Cat Ballou\" wield derringers. In Ian Fleming's novel \"The Man with the Golden Gun\" (1965), Francisco \"Pistols\" Scaramanga seriously wounds James Bond with his \"tiny golden Derringer\", seconds before Bond kills the thug with five shots from his Walther PPK 7.65 millimeter. J.B. Books, portrayed by John Wayne, in \"The Shootist\" (1976), carried a Remington Derringer with his wallet. A single-shot Colt Derringer was the concealed weapon", "title": "Derringer" }, { "id": "16588519", "text": "Signature weapon A signature weapon (or trademark weapon or weapon of choice) is one commonly identified with a certain group or, in the case of literature, comics, and film, where it is a popular \"trope,\" for both heroes and villains to be associated with and highly proficient in the use of specific weaponry. Examples include Robin Hood's longbow, Don Quixote's jousting lance, a wizard's wand, the Grim Reaper's scythe, the Monkey King's iron rod, a Jedi's lightsaber, William Tell's crossbow, Negan's bat, David's sling and James Bond's Walther PPK. The Colt .45 SAA and Winchester are ubiquitous in Westerns. Signature", "title": "Signature weapon" }, { "id": "9110943", "text": "\"Jimmy\" is a thinly veiled reference to James Bond; hints to this include owning Campion Bond's cigarette case and lighter, his preference for Vodka Martinis, having a scar from the novels, as well as owning James Bond trademark Walther PPK with 007 engraved on it. The names of other characters are shortened or otherwise changed to mask their origins: Mrs. Peel from the \"Avengers\" uses her maiden name throughout the graphic novel (here spelled \"Night\" instead of \"Knight\"), and Billy Bunter is only referred to by his first name. A DC press release confirmed it would not be released outside", "title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier" }, { "id": "9285542", "text": "adaptation of \"Dr. No\", the first in the series, Boothroyd only offers the PPK and Bond reluctantly turns in his Beretta (a larger M34 standing in for the 418). In reality, Ian Fleming received a fan letter in 1957 from Geoffrey Boothroyd, a Bond enthusiast and gun expert, criticizing the choice of firearm for Bond. Boothroyd called the Beretta \"a lady's gun\" and suggested several alternatives, one of which was the Walther. Fleming thanked Boothroyd by naming the MI6 armorer in \"Dr. No\" after him. Beretta 418 The Beretta M418 is a 6.35 mm (.25 ACP) easily concealed Italian \"pocket", "title": "Beretta 418" }, { "id": "12887989", "text": "pattern of setting Bond in the contemporary timeframe of the 1990s and, according to Jeremy Black, had more echoes of Fleming's style than John Gardner, he also changed Bond's gun back to the Walther PPK, put him behind the wheel of a Jaguar XK8 and made him swear more. James Harker noted that \"whilst Fleming's Bond had been an \"Express\" reader; Benson's is positively red top. He's the first to have group sex ... and the first to visit a prostitute\", whilst Black notes an increased level of crudity lacking in either Fleming or Gardner. In a 1998 interview Benson", "title": "James Bond (literary character)" }, { "id": "1618208", "text": "guns, assault rifles, grenades, and throwing knives, among others. Guns have a finite magazine and must be reloaded after a certain number of shots, but the player may acquire and carry as many weapons as can be found in each mission. The player's initial weapon in most missions is the Walther PPK, called the PP7 special issue in-game. Most of the game's firearms are modelled on real-life counterparts (although their names are altered), while others are based on fictitious devices featured in the \"James Bond\" films, such as the Golden Gun and \"Moonraker\" laser. The weapons vary in characteristics such", "title": "GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)" }, { "id": "8421077", "text": "were few products available, apart from the soundtrack and paperback book, although Lone Star Toys produced a \"James Bond 007 pistol\" in gold; this differed from the weapon used by Scaramanga in the film as it was little more than a Walther P38 with a silencer fitted. \"The Man with the Golden Gun\" met with mixed reviews upon its release. Derek Malcolm in \"The Guardian\" savaged the film, saying that \"the script is the limpest of the lot and ... Roger Moore as 007 is the last man on earth to make it sound better than it is.\" There was", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (film)" }, { "id": "839329", "text": "very nice lady at that! Dare I suggest that Bond should be armed with a .38 or a nine millimetre—let's say a German Walther PPK? That's far more appropriate. Boothroyd's suggestions came too late to be included in \"From Russia, with Love\", but one of his guns—a .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed—was used as the model for Chopping's image. Fleming later thanked Boothroyd by naming the armourer in \"Dr. No\" Major Boothroyd. As with several of his works, Fleming appropriated the names or backgrounds of people he knew or had", "title": "From Russia, with Love (novel)" }, { "id": "12102737", "text": "for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places. As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a Walther PPK pistol in \"Dr. No\" and created a character named \"Major Boothroyd\" in the novel (the real Boothroyd held no such rank). Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought the subject of guns to be rather dull and uninteresting. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by", "title": "Geoffrey Boothroyd" }, { "id": "10751675", "text": "Bond novel and followed the story closely, except in some details. For example, Elektra does not die immediately after Bond shoots her; instead, she begins quietly to sing. The novel also gave the Cigar Girl a name: Giulietta da Vinci, and retained a scene between her and Renard that was cut from theatrical release. Also, Bond is still carrying his Walther PPK instead of the newer P99. The World Is Not Enough (novel) The World Is Not Enough, published in 1999, is the fifth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond based on the 1999 film", "title": "The World Is Not Enough (novel)" }, { "id": "208234", "text": "although Bond uses a number of pieces of equipment from Q Branch, including the Little Nellie autogyro, a jet pack and the exploding attaché case, the villains are also well-equipped with custom-made devices, including Scaramanga's golden gun, Rosa Klebb's poison-tipped shoes, Oddjob's steel-rimmed bowler hat and Blofeld's communication devices in his agents' vanity case. Cinematically, Bond has been a major influence within the spy genre since the release of \"Dr. No\" in 1962, with 22 secret agent films released in 1966 alone attempting to capitalise on the Bond franchise's popularity and success. The first parody was the 1964 film \"Carry", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "16242503", "text": "to conclude her story as she's used every item from around his room to help inspire each \"chapter\". After a suggestion from him, she notices how the stain from a cup of tea she had earlier thrown in anger looks like a Walther PPK, the same kind of gun her favorite literary character James Bond uses, and knows exactly how and where to end her story. Realizing she has no place in society, Joe turns to organized crime and becomes a debt collector, utilizing her extensive knowledge of men, sex, and sadomasochism. She reminisces about a memorable housecall to a", "title": "Nymphomaniac (film)" }, { "id": "3471016", "text": "block, a combination safety/decocker and a loaded chamber indicator. The most common variant is the Walther PPK, a smaller version of the PP with a shorter grip, barrel and frame, and reduced magazine capacity. A new, two-piece wrap-around grip panel construction was used to conceal the exposed back strap. The smaller size made it more concealable than the original PP and hence better suited to plainclothes or undercover work. It was released in 1930. \"PPK\" is an abbreviation for \"Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell\" (detective police pistol). While it's often thought to be \"\"kurz\"\" (German: short) referring to the police pistol with shorter", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "3020089", "text": "Ian Fleming, his countryman, that James Bond's side arm should be a Walther PPK chambered in .32 ACP. A significant factor in recommending this round was its near universal availability throughout the world in the 1950s. The .32 ACP has been chambered in more handguns than any other cartridge. Between 1899 and 1909, Fabrique Nationale produced 500,000 guns chambered for .32 ACP. Adolf Hitler was believed to have committed suicide with his personal .32 ACP Walther PPK, by aiming it at his right temple and pulling the trigger while simultaneously biting down on a cyanide capsule. Heckler & Koch produced", "title": ".32 ACP" }, { "id": "1434478", "text": "third worst film, above \"A View to a Kill\" and \"Licence to Kill\", while IGN chose it as the fifth worst. Richards was criticised as not being credible in the role of a nuclear scientist. Bond novelist Raymond Benson wrote his adaptation of \"The World Is Not Enough\" from the film's screenplay. It was Benson's fourth \"Bond\" novel and followed the story closely, but with some details changed. For instance, Elektra sings quietly before her death and Bond still carries his Walther PPK instead of the newer P99. The novel also gave the cigar girl/assassin the name Giulietta da Vinci", "title": "The World Is Not Enough" }, { "id": "8069450", "text": "and the near universal adoption of semi-automatic pistols by American law enforcement in the 1980s, the split-front revolver holster has fallen out of favor with American police forces since the 1980s. A second, and equally well-known version, of the Berns-Martin holster was the company's holster, a shoulder holster also for revolvers that carried them with the muzzles pointed upwards; that is, \"upside down\". It was this holster that was made famous by its inclusion in Ian Fleming's later Bond books, although it was not suited to Bond's Walther semi-auto pistol, causing the company to mark its brochures of the period,", "title": "Berns-Martin" }, { "id": "16770568", "text": "of the Clint Eastwood character, Dirty Harry — was chosen for Moore to use in \"Live and Let Die\" rather than Bond's usual choice of Walther PPK. Spicer says \"Roger Moore re-created Bond as an old-style debonair hero, more polished and sophisticated than Connery's incarnation, using the mocking insouciance he had perfected in his role as Simon Templar ... Moore's humour was a throwaway, and certainly in the later films, verged on self-parody. It was an essential strand in the increasingly tongue-in-cheek direction of the series which became more light-hearted, knowing and playfully intertextual\". Chapman noted that Moore was the", "title": "James Bond filmography" }, { "id": "8516538", "text": "barrel sequence, his initial mission briefing with M, \"Bond girls\", the criminal organisation SPECTRE, narrow escapes, Bond's luck and skill, his signature Walther PPK and the licence to kill, over-ambitious villains, henchmen and allies. Many characteristics of the following Bond films were introduced in \"Dr. No\", ranging from Bond's introduction as \"Bond, James Bond\" (although he seems to be mimicking Sylvia Trench who introduces herself first as \"Trench. Sylvia Trench\"), to his taste for vodka martinis \"shaken, not stirred\", love interests, and weaponry. \"Dr. No\" also establishes the oft-repeated association (in this case, Project Mercury) between the Bond series and", "title": "Dr. No (film)" }, { "id": "12887987", "text": "also updated Bond's firearm: under Gardner, Bond is initially issued with the Browning 9mm before changing to a Heckler & Koch VP70 and then a Heckler & Koch P7. Bond is also revealed to have taken part in the 1982 Falklands War. Gardner updated Fleming's characters and used contemporary political leaders in his novels; he also used the high-tech apparatus of Q Branch from the films, although Jeremy Black observed that Bond is more reliant on technology than his own individual abilities. Gardner's series linked Bond to the Fleming novels rather than the film incarnations and referred to events covered", "title": "James Bond (literary character)" }, { "id": "2985406", "text": "in 1988 by the SA80 and at the same time machine guns were superseded by the Light Support Weapon. Metal caltrops were used at vehicle check points to puncture tyres on cars trying to escape roadblocks. For personal protection off duty, some soldiers were issued with a Walther PP. Major Ken Maginnis acquired permission for some to purchase Browning 9mm pistols at £200 each. These were deemed to be more effective. In the late 1980s PPs were replaced by the Walther P5, considered a more practical weapon because of its size and ballistic capabilities. Any soldier considered to be at", "title": "Ulster Defence Regiment" }, { "id": "4214183", "text": "authorizes Bond to assassinate the gunman —- if he can. Bond catches up with Scaramanga in Jamaica, where Bond pretends to be a freelance security officer, and Scaramanga hires him to guard an upcoming meeting of gangsters. During the meeting, a KGB officer blows Bond's cover, subsequently pitting Scaramanga and Bond in a shootout. Bond wounds Scaramanga, but before he can finish the gunman off, Scaramanga shoots Bond with a poisoned bullet from his backup weapon, a golden Derringer. Bond returns fire with his .32 Walther PPK pistol, killing Scaramanga instantly; soon thereafter, a policeman finds the nearly dead Bond", "title": "Francisco Scaramanga" }, { "id": "4214193", "text": "Scaramanga into coming out in the open to look for Bond with his pistol drawn. Bond then shoots Scaramanga in the heart, killing him. This is the death toll caused by Scaramanga in the film. In addition, Scaramanga is revealed to have been behind the murder of Bill Fairbanks, MI6 Agent 002, in 1969. In Ian Fleming's novel, the Golden Gun was a long-barrelled, gold-plated, single-action Colt Peacemaker .45 calibre revolver that fired silver-jacketed bullets with a gold core. However, in the film, it was a single-shot weapon that fired a custom made 4.2-millimetre golden (23-carat gold with traces of", "title": "Francisco Scaramanga" }, { "id": "413611", "text": "was unreliable, it jammed constantly, and it was dwarfed by the carbine accessories. It was soon replaced by the larger and more-reliable Walther P38. The long magazine was actually a standard magazine with a dummy extension, but it inspired several small-arms manufacturers to begin making long magazines for various pistols. While many of these continue to be available 40 years later, long magazines were not available for the P38 for some years. THRUSH had a range of weaponry of its own, much of then only in the development stage before being destroyed by the heroes. A notable item was the", "title": "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." }, { "id": "7515929", "text": "feature safeties, since they are traditionally carried un-cocked, and the hammer requires the user to physically cock it, unlike a DA/SA gun, which cocks itself every time the slide is cycled. There are many examples of DA/SA semi-automatics, the Walther PPK being the first, followed up by the Walther P38. Modern examples include weapons such as the Beretta 92, among others. Almost all revolvers that are not specified as single-action models are capable of firing in both double- and single-action mode, for example, the Smith & Wesson Model 27, S&W Model 60, the Colt Police Positive, Colt Python, etc. Early", "title": "Trigger (firearms)" }, { "id": "7515922", "text": "chamber (weapons lacking automatic-hold-open feature only). In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Walther introduced the first \"double-action\" semi-automatics, the PPK and P.38 models, which featured a revolver-style \"double-action\" trigger, allowing the weapon to be carried with a round chambered and the hammer lowered. After the first shot, they would fire as single-actions. These double action, or \"double action/single action\", pistols rapidly gained popularity, and the traditional single-action rapidly lost favor, although they still retain a dedicated following. Today, a \"typical\" revolver is a \"double-action\", which can be fired in single action when wished, and the most common form of", "title": "Trigger (firearms)" }, { "id": "1878923", "text": "Bond out of retirement, he orders the military to fire mortars at Bond's mansion when the retired spy refuses to return to duty. The first quarter of the film features Bond's subsequent visit to McTarry Castle in Scotland, on a quest to return the only piece of M's remains recovered after the attack—his bright red toupée. Subsequently, Bond—played by David Niven—becomes the new M and proceeds to order that all MI6 agents, male and female, be renamed \"James Bond 007\" in order to confuse the enemy. In 1983's \"Never Say Never Again\", Edward Fox played M as a bureaucrat, contemptuous", "title": "M (James Bond)" }, { "id": "208228", "text": "No\". Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by SMERSH and other villains. In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer in his novels the name Major Boothroyd and, in \"Dr. No\", M introduces him to Bond as \"the greatest small-arms expert in the world\". Bond also used a variety of rifles, including the Savage Model 99 in \"For Your Eyes Only\" and a Winchester .308 target rifle in \"The Living Daylights\". Other handguns used by Bond in the Fleming books included the Colt Detective Special and a long-barrelled", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "6282963", "text": "is the first time Bond has worn a business suit instead of a tuxedo since Roger Moore's original sequence. Craig shoots one-handed. The gun barrel is placed at the immediate opening of \"Spectre\", the first time since \"Die Another Day\" that a Bond film has opened with the gun barrel. The gun barrel design is similar to that of the original Maurice Binder era and the Pierce Brosnan era, only sharper. Daniel Craig moves at an average speed (again swinging both of his arms as he walks, but this time resulting in his gun being made much more prominently visible),", "title": "Gun barrel sequence" }, { "id": "4458773", "text": "as an \"observer\" (much like McCarter). Following the war, Manning settled down, got married and became an executive of a major import-export firm. The marriage failed, but the business prospered. Because of his wealth, Manning is the most unlikely of the Phoenix Force members. He seems more down to earth than the others, annoyed at McCarter's actions although the two are friends. Manning's weapons of choice are the FN FAL and the Desert Eagle .357 Magnum. In later books he uses the SA80 and the Walther P5. Hailing from the south side of Chicago, James grew up in an environment", "title": "Phoenix Force" }, { "id": "4214197", "text": "player mode (except \"Everything or Nothing\") but golden versions of the game's standard weapon(s) are usually available (such as a golden Walther PPK, P99, and a golden rocket launcher). In \"GoldenEye\", the Golden Gun appears in a special mission. In the mission, the Golden Gun is stolen by Baron Samedi, and Bond needs to defeat Samedi and recover the Golden Gun. Although Samedi isn't killed, Bond escapes with the Golden Gun. The Golden Gun also appears in the video game \"Quantum of Solace\", created by Rare who also created \"GoldenEye 007\"). In \"Quantum of Solace\" the Golden Gun appears to", "title": "Francisco Scaramanga" }, { "id": "713443", "text": "was announced that British actor Ben Whishaw had been cast in the role. Whishaw, aged 31 in 2012, became the youngest actor to play the role. In \"Skyfall\", Q's gadgets were comparatively simple, consisting of a miniaturised radio and a gun coded to Bond's palmprint so only Bond could fire it. Q is demonstrated to be highly knowledgeable on the subject of computer security to the point where he designed some of the most sophisticated security protocols in existence. However, he is also somewhat short-sighted; while engrossed in the puzzle of a security system set up by Raoul Silva, the", "title": "Q (James Bond)" }, { "id": "4351566", "text": "the U.S, as NBC decided to cancel the new series. Fred Dryer later cited \"creative difficulties\" and budget constraints as the reasons for the revival's unexpected end. In the first and for several subsequent seasons, the pistol that Hunter carries is a Heckler and Koch P9S 9mm, with a muzzle compensator attached, as his primary weapon. It is also the pistol in the title introduction. McCall used a stainless .380 Beretta 90 in the first season. The Walther PPK that McCall uses is most likely a Walther PPK/S. Hunter carries a Detonics Pocket 9 semi-automatic 9mm pistol and/or a Smith", "title": "Hunter (1984 U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "4214200", "text": "the cause of supernumerary nipples in animals is named the \"Scaramanga gene\" based on the character, who has three nipples. Francisco Scaramanga Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film versions of \"The Man with the Golden Gun\". Scaramanga's signature weapon is a golden gun. In the novel, the character is nicknamed \"Pistols\" Scaramanga and is also called \"Paco\" (a Spanish diminutive of Francisco). In the film, the character was played by Christopher Lee (the real-life step-cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming). Francisco Scaramanga, of Catalan origin, became a trick", "title": "Francisco Scaramanga" }, { "id": "15593674", "text": "of one boot and the frame hidden in the heel of the other. In \"Judgment in Heaven\" (S01E15; 1965 Dec. 22) of \"The Big Valley\", Jarrod Barkley gives Heath a nickel plated pearl gripped Double Derringer as a Christmas present. Paladin, of \"Have Gun, Will Travel\" (1957 - 1963), kept a Remington Double Derringer behind his gunbelt's buckle. J.B. Books, portrayed by John Wayne, in \"The Shootist\" (1976), carried a Double Derringer by his wallet. In the \"Simpsons\" episode \"Simpsons Tall Tales\" the characters Bart and Nelson are portrayed as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The two start a barroom", "title": "Remington Model 95" }, { "id": "3465295", "text": "to James Bond in a comedic and outlandish style. Flint is initially offered a Walther PPK and an attache case with a concealed throwing knife with Flint dismissing both as \"crude\". During the French strip club sequence, Flint stages a mock brawl with a patron who is identified as Agent 0008, a British secret agent. Flint asks if SPECTRE (the criminal organization in the early Bond movies) is involved, to which Agent 0008 replies, \"It's bigger than SPECTRE!\" The actor playing the role is similar in appearance to Sean Connery. Later in the film, Gila is shown reading a 0008", "title": "Our Man Flint" }, { "id": "8421046", "text": "The Man with the Golden Gun (film) The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film, the ninth in the \"James Bond\" series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the \"Man with the Golden Gun\". The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (film)" }, { "id": "6596059", "text": "slightly romantically inclined towards her. He also befriends the United States President's right-hand man, Blake Johnson, and famous London gangsters Harry Salter and his nephew Billy Salter. Dillon's favourite handgun is a Walther PPK with Carswell silencer and his favourite rifle is an AK-47. His preferred explosive is Semtex. His favorite 'hide-out' gun is a 25 Colt strapped to his ankle. Dillon's drink of choice is Non-vintage Krug Champagne, due to the grape mix, and his second drink of choice is Bushmills Irish whiskey. Sean Dillon (character) Sean Dillon is a fictional Irish character who is the hero of a", "title": "Sean Dillon (character)" }, { "id": "2285469", "text": "make pistols. Models 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 were in calibers .25 ACP (6.35mm) and .32 ACP (7.65mm). The Model 6 was Walther's first attempt at a 9mm Luger pistol. It used blowback rather than a locked breech and proved unsuccessful, with only around 1,000 made. Its rarity has made it highly sought after on the collectors market. In 1929 they began to make the popular Walther PP \"Polizeipistole\" (police pistol) models. This was followed in 1931 by the first of the PPKs (\"Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell\", or Police Pistol Detective Model). Both PP and PPKs were manufactured in .22", "title": "Carl Walther GmbH" }, { "id": "4214179", "text": "Francisco Scaramanga Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film versions of \"The Man with the Golden Gun\". Scaramanga's signature weapon is a golden gun. In the novel, the character is nicknamed \"Pistols\" Scaramanga and is also called \"Paco\" (a Spanish diminutive of Francisco). In the film, the character was played by Christopher Lee (the real-life step-cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming). Francisco Scaramanga, of Catalan origin, became a trick shot and performed in acts in a circus owned by his father Enrico while a youngster. He also cared for", "title": "Francisco Scaramanga" }, { "id": "208232", "text": "changed dramatically with the films. However, the effects of the two Eon-produced Bond films \"Dr. No\" and \"From Russia with Love\" had an effect on the novel \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", through the increased number of devices used in Fleming's final story. For the film adaptations of Bond, the pre-mission briefing by Q Branch became one of the motifs that ran through the series. \"Dr. No\" provided no spy-related gadgets, but a Geiger counter was used; industrial designer Andy Davey observed that the first ever onscreen spy-gadget was the attaché case shown in \"From Russia with Love\", which", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "1572177", "text": "of choice is a \"kongo\" or yawara stick and as for firearms she begins by preferring the Colt .32 revolver and Mab Brevete .32 ACP auto pistol, although in later books she switches to carrying a Star PD .45 auto pistol. Willie's preferred weapon is the throwing knife, of which he usually carries two. Many other strange weapons (such as the quarterstaff, épée, blowgun, and sling) and unexpected fighting techniques are also featured. In keeping with the \"floating timeline\" spirit of other long-running comic strip and literary characters, Modesty and Willie generally do not age over the decades, with Modesty", "title": "Modesty Blaise" }, { "id": "687348", "text": "Uzi in the mid 1990s and replaced it with the H&K MP5. The Secret Service was the last Federal agency to use the Uzi. The Counter-Assault Team used the M4 carbine from the early 1990s until 2006. The current sidearm for USSS agents is the SIG Sauer P229 chambered in .357 SIG (which entered service in 1999). Agents and officers are trained on standard shoulder weapons that include the FN P90 submachine gun, the 9mm Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun, and the 12-gauge Remington 870 shotgun. The agency has initiated a procurement process to ultimately replace the MP5 with", "title": "United States Secret Service" }, { "id": "3471013", "text": "Walther PP The Walther PP (\"Polizeipistole\", or police pistol) series pistols are blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols, developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. It features an exposed hammer, a traditional double-action trigger mechanism, a single-column magazine, and a fixed barrel that also acts as the guide rod for the recoil spring. The series includes the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S, and PPK/E models. The Walther TPH pocket pistol is a smaller calibre pistol introduced in 1971 identical in handling and operation to the PPK. Various PP series are manufactured in Germany, France, and the United States. In the past,", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "4266510", "text": "Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting", "title": "James Bond uncollected and other miscellaneous short stories" }, { "id": "2113628", "text": "of choice being changed from the Walther PPK to the Walther P99. Benson said in an interview that he felt \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" was the best of the three novelisations he wrote. The film was also adapted into a third-person shooter PlayStation video game, \"Tomorrow Never Dies\". The game was developed by Black Ops and published by Electronic Arts on 16 November 1999. Game Revolution described it as \"really just an empty and shallow game\", and IGN said it was \"mediocre\". Tomorrow Never Dies Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 British spy film, the eighteenth entry in the \"James Bond\"", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "404814", "text": "training. A fellow taxi driver refers him to an illegal gun dealer, \"Easy\" Andy, from whom Travis buys four handguns (A Smith & Wesson Model 29, a Smith & Wesson Model 36, a Smith & Wesson Model 61, which is referred to as a \"Colt .25\", and an Astra Constable, meant as a stand-in for a .380 Walther PPK). At home, Travis practices drawing his weapons, and modifies the Model 61 to allow him to hide and quickly deploy it from his sleeve. He also begins attending Palantine's rallies to scope out their security. One night, Travis enters a convenience", "title": "Taxi Driver" }, { "id": "9667219", "text": "shotguns and his favorite derringer, \"Betsy\". There is also a reference in the 1973 film \"Cahill U.S. Marshal\" where Wayne is in a box car with several prisoners and one says, \"You're not going to leave that old Greener on cock are you?\". In the \"Blood Bond\" book series by William W. Johnstone, most shotguns and sporting guns are referred to as Greeners. In the 1975 classic \"Jaws\", Robert Shaw's Quint character uses a modified Greener Mk.II harpoon gun. Teasdale-Buckle, G.T., \"Experts on Guns and Shooting\", Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Greener, William Wellington, \"The Gun and Its Development, Ninth", "title": "W. W. Greener" }, { "id": "2107563", "text": "before entering Fort Knox. The fourth time, as Bond electrocutes him in Fort Knox, he yells out a final long, loud \"Arrgh!\". Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy. He wears a Sandringham hat (unlike in the novel, where he wore a bowler) with a sharpened steel rim, using it as a lethal weapon in the style of a chakram or a flying guillotine. It was shown to be very powerful, capable of cutting through steel and decapitating a stone statue. He later uses it to kill Tilly Masterson by breaking her neck. Physically, Oddjob is extremely", "title": "Oddjob" }, { "id": "15693365", "text": "catwalk in a dam, eventually knocking him off. Rak pleads for mercy, but Bond has already deduced who Rak's employer is. Bond leaves Rak to fall to his death, only for Rak to land on top of his Osprey. Bond shoots Rak, causing him to fire his rocket-propelled grenade into the Osprey, destroying it with Rak still on it. Back in Monaco, Nicole is revealed to be the one who kidnapped Tedworth and is planning another kidnapping. She drives off in her Koenigsegg CCXR and Bond follows her, in his Aston Martin DBS V12, ultimately cornering her on the Millau", "title": "James Bond 007: Blood Stone" }, { "id": "1992496", "text": "Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to Jamaica and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing Francisco \"Pistols\" Scaramanga, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as \"The Man with the Golden Gun\" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated Colt .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets. Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name \"Mark Hazard\". He learns that", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)" }, { "id": "2792583", "text": "\"The Hardy Boys\", another American television show which was unknown in Britain. This time the model failed to sell, making it extremely rare today. A Ford Mustang Mach 1 (391) and the \"Moon Buggy\" (802) from the film \"Diamonds Are Forever\" were issued in 1972, and the Lotus Esprit (269) in 'underwater' mode from \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" in 1977. A rocket-firing 'Stromberg' Bell JetRanger helicopter (926) from the same film was added in 1978. The Space Shuttle (649) from the Bond movie \"Moonraker\" appeared in 1979 along with a 'Drax' JetRanger helicopter (930) from the same film. A", "title": "Corgi Toys" }, { "id": "16451643", "text": "equip gadgets to enhance their abilities, such as the Fast Switch gadget which halves the time it takes to switch weapons. Scenarios revealed are Conflict, Golden Gun, You Only Live Twice, Escalation, Data Miner, Team Conflict, Icarus and Black Box. The game begins with the opening chase sequence in \"Skyfall\", in which MI6 agent James Bond (likeness of Daniel Craig, voice of Timothy Watson) pursues the mercenary Patrice in Istanbul, only to be accidentally shot and wounded aboard a train by his partner Eve Moneypenny. Plunging into the river below, Bond begins to flash back to several of his previous", "title": "007 Legends" }, { "id": "6282949", "text": "white until \"Casino Royale\" (2006). It is also the last gun barrel sequence in which Bond wears a hat. With the introduction of Roger Moore, and the use of a 1.85:1 matted aspect ratio, a fourth sequence was shot. It was used for just two films: \"Live and Let Die\" and \"The Man with the Golden Gun\". Moore wears a business suit and, unlike Simmons, Connery and Lazenby, uses both hands instead of one hand to fire his gun, his left hand bracing his gun arm. This is the first gun barrel sequence in which Bond is not wearing a", "title": "Gun barrel sequence" }, { "id": "348790", "text": "jammed by excessive dirt or debris. Over the long period of development of the revolver, many calibers have been used. Some of these have proved more durable during periods of standardization and some have entered general public awareness. Among these are the .22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters; .38 Special and .357 Magnum, known for police use; the .44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's \"Dirty Harry\" films; and the .45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West. Introduced in 2003, the Smith & Wesson Model 500 is one of the most", "title": "Revolver" }, { "id": "208231", "text": "is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in \"Goldfinger\"; it later featured in \"Thunderball\", \"GoldenEye\", \"Tomorrow Never Dies\", \"Casino Royale\", \"Skyfall\" and \"Spectre\". The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,1 million to an unnamed European collector. In 2010, another DB5 used in Goldfinger was sold at auction for $4.6m million (£2.6 million). Fleming's novels and early screen adaptations presented minimal equipment such as the booby-trapped attaché case in \"From Russia, with Love\", although this situation", "title": "James Bond" }, { "id": "6835978", "text": "location became the standard in such future weapons as the Walther PP and Russian Makarov. The Model 1910 incorporated the standard Browning striker-firing mechanism and a grip safety along with a magazine safety and an external safety lever (known as the \"triple safety\") in a compact package. It was offered in both .32 ACP (8-shot) and .380 ACP (7-shot) calibers, it remained in production until 1983. It is possible to switch calibres by changing only the barrel. The Colt Detective Special is a carbon steel framed double-action, snubnosed, 6-shot revolver. As the name \"Detective Special\" suggests, this model revolver was", "title": "Pocket pistol" }, { "id": "12102738", "text": "Bond and other characters. Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of \"From Russia, with Love\". Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder. In the first Bond", "title": "Geoffrey Boothroyd" }, { "id": "11979886", "text": "the \"Monitor\" television arts' series, \"A House in Bayswater\" (1960), and \"Watch the Birdie\" (1963). In 1965 he became associated with Magnum Photos and became a full member in 1967. In 1963, Hurn was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills with Sean Connery and the actresses of \"From Russia with Love\". When the theatrical property Walther PPK pistol didn't arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53 air pistol. The pistol became a symbol of James Bond on many film posters of the series. In 1967 Dino de Laurentiis", "title": "David Hurn" }, { "id": "18424756", "text": "Training\". This grants the character a +1 damage bonus per level when using one of two specified weapons in combat. For instance, a character with Weapons can take K-Bar knife and Tonfa baton and a character with Shooting can take Walther PPK pistol and Hecker & Koch MP5 submachine gun. The bonus applies to only that specific make and model of weapon (e.g., a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson M10 revolver rather than all .38-caliber revolvers in general). However, it is also not limited to just \"a\" weapon in particular – like an uncle's old service pistol or your grandmother's heirloom", "title": "Night's Black Agents (role-playing game)" }, { "id": "9167159", "text": "the user to see the number of unfired rounds remaining; the “guttersnipe”—a gun sight designed for close range combat; and a “forefinger grip”—today a standard feature on the trigger guard of many modern handguns. Theodore’s ASP was the first successful service caliber handgun in pocket pistol size. Its arrival inspired a cottage industry of gunsmiths producing unauthorized versions of the weapon, in addition to the authorized factory version from Theodore's ASP Inc. In 1970, the ASP was featured in \"The Handgun\", by Glaswegian gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd. Boothroyd, the inspiration for “Q,” the technologically inventive character who outfitted James Bond", "title": "Paris Theodore" }, { "id": "6244052", "text": "ongoing operation called \"Smiert Spionom\" (meaning \"Death to Spies\" in Russian). Actually, it is Koskov and Whitaker's men, especially their special henchman Necros, who are involved in killing the British agents. After thwarting Whitaker's plans in Afghanistan, Bond returns to Tangier to hunt him down at his Tangier headquarters and kills him after a game of cat-and-mouse in his gaming room, with him using high-tech weapons, such as an 80-round light machine gun rifle with an integral ballistic shield, a bulletproof vest and a loaded antique battlefield cannon, while Bond has only his 8-round Walther PPK, which Whitaker calls a", "title": "Brad Whitaker" }, { "id": "6868347", "text": "\"Quantum of Solace\" drinking bottled beer when meeting with Felix Leiter in a Bolivian bar. In \"Die Another Day\", Bond drinks a mojito. In \"Casino Royale\", Bond orders Mount Gay Rum with soda. In that film, he also invents the famous \"Vesper\" cocktail—a variation on a martini—originally included in the novel but not seen in the films until the reboot. In \"Skyfall\", the villain Raoul Silva says he believes 50-year-old Macallan single malt whisky to be one of Bond's favourites. Also in \"Goldfinger\" during a briefing on the villain, their host offers a refill with, \"Have a little more of", "title": "Shaken, not stirred" }, { "id": "3398570", "text": "in the Korean War, Mannix attended Western Pacific University on the GI Bill, graduated in 1955, and obtained his private investigator's license in 1956. He is a black belt in karate. Throughout the series, he appears proficient in a variety of athletic pursuits, including sailing, horseback riding, and skiing. He is an accomplished pool player, golfs regularly, and is also a skilled airplane pilot. In the first season, he carries a Walther PP semiautomatic pistol. From the second season on, Mannix carries a Colt Detective Special snubnosed revolver in .38 Special caliber. In 1971, Connors guest-starred on an episode of", "title": "Mannix" }, { "id": "9138502", "text": "trucks and motorcycles (with sidecars). These battalions were equipped with motorcycles and sidecars, Kübelwagen, field cars such as the Horch 4x4 and 3 ton Opel Blitz lorries and a small number of armoured vehicles as a means of transport. Personal weapons consisted of small arms such as the Walther PP which was designed as a civilian police pistol (PP Polizei-Pistole) or the Walther PPK both of which were favoured by officers whereas the Luger P08 and Walther P38 were used by other ranks. Automatic machine pistols were carried by NCOs and the Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle was issued but was", "title": "Feldgendarmerie" }, { "id": "3471027", "text": "again at their new US manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Walther PP The Walther PP (\"Polizeipistole\", or police pistol) series pistols are blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols, developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. It features an exposed hammer, a traditional double-action trigger mechanism, a single-column magazine, and a fixed barrel that also acts as the guide rod for the recoil spring. The series includes the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S, and PPK/E models. The Walther TPH pocket pistol is a smaller calibre pistol introduced in 1971 identical in handling and operation to the PPK. Various PP series are", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "15940309", "text": "amongst others. Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in \"Goldfinger\"; it later featured in \"Thunderball\", \"GoldenEye\", \"Tomorrow Never Dies\", \"Casino Royale\", \"Skyfall\" and \"Spectre\". The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector. Bond also shows his taste for aircraft: a gyrocopter—\"Little Nellie\"—features in \"You Only Live Twice\", a Cessna 185 Seaplane in \"Licence to Kill\", an Acrostar Jet in \"Octopussy\", the Space Shuttle in \"Moonraker\" and", "title": "Motifs in the James Bond film series" }, { "id": "7333446", "text": "of Champagne for 10 years. The winemaker has also used the popular James Bond film series as a marketing device. In the 1973 film \"Live and Let Die\", James Bond (played by Roger Moore) is heard asking for a bottle of Bollinger after entering his hotel. In the 1985 film \"A View to a Kill\", James Bond recognizes the champagne served at the top of the Eiffel Tower as \"Bollinger, [19]75.\" In the 1987 film \"The Living Daylights\", James Bond (played by Timothy Dalton) delivers a gift basket to General Koskov who, seeing the champagne, exclaims \"Bollinger R.D...The Best!\" In", "title": "Bollinger" }, { "id": "6282950", "text": "hat. Additional footage of this sequence was shot of Bond walking straight towards the camera, putting his face into view, seen in the theatrical trailer. The dots that start the gun barrel in \"The Man with the Golden Gun\" are blue but in subsequent releases the dots are white. The anamorphic format was reinstated for \"The Spy Who Loved Me\", necessitating a fifth version of the sequence. Moore's Bond wears a dinner suit (tuxedo) rather than a business suit and again uses both hands to fire his gun. This rendering would feature in all Moore's subsequent films in the series,", "title": "Gun barrel sequence" }, { "id": "3800827", "text": "mildly popular among shooters for many years after its introduction, but did not come to the attention of the general public until 1971, when it was prominently featured in the American feature film \"Dirty Harry\" starring Clint Eastwood. In one of the classic lines in cinema, titular character Harry Callahan describes his Smith & Wesson Model 29 as \"the most powerful handgun in the world\". Although not strictly true (the more powerful wildcat .454 Casull was announced in 1959), the .44 Magnum was the most powerful then in production. Demand for the Model 29 increased so much that they were", "title": ".44 Magnum" }, { "id": "9855917", "text": "the shooter). In blowback-type semi-automatics, the recoil force is used to push the slide back and eject the shell (if any) so that the magazine spring can push another round up; then as the slide returns, it chambers the round. An example of a modern blow back action semi-automatic pistol is the Walther PPK. Blowback pistols are some of the more simply designed handguns. Many semi-automatic pistols today operate on a short-recoil operated locked-breech design. This design is often coupled with the Browning type tilting barrel. An example of this type of pistol could be a Glock 17. Pistol A", "title": "Pistol" }, { "id": "7695511", "text": "series, \"Colt .45\". That same year, he was cast as Jed Hammer in the episode \"Trail's End\" of the ABC/WB western series, \"Sugarfoot\", starring Will Hutchins. Keach was cast in 1957 and 1958 in five episodes of the NBC western series, \"The Californians\" as Bill Coleman. Keach is probably best known for his role as Carlson in the NBC sitcom, \"Get Smart\". Carlson, a CONTROL scientist, was the inventor of such gadgets as an umbrella rifle (with a high-speed camera in the handle) and edible buttons -- a parody of Q, who holds a similar position in the James Bond", "title": "Stacy Keach Sr." }, { "id": "3471021", "text": "and the PPK are offered in the following calibers: .32 ACP (with capacities of 8 for PPK/S and 7 for PPK); or .380 ACP (PPK/S: 7; PPK: 6). The PPK/S is also offered in .22 LR with capacity of 10 rounds. In the 1960s, Walther produced the PPK-L, which was a light-weight variant of the PPK. The PPK-L differed from the standard, all steel PPK in that it had an aluminium alloy frame. These were only chambered in 7.65mm Browning (.32 ACP) and .22 LR because of the increase in felt recoil from the lighter weight of the gun. All", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "7009937", "text": "grips on surviving examples. All original grips featured \"SUS\" lettering standing for \"Sauer und Sohn\" which could be found on the same side of the pistol as the magazine release though many reproduction grips have copied this logo. It is unusual for a present-day example to have original, undamaged grips. The Sauer 38H was produced mainly for the .32 ACP cartridge, however some rare examples were also made in .380 ACP and .22 LR. The model 38H was used by German armed forces such as the Luftwaffe, as well as police forces in numbers nearly equal to the Walther PPK.", "title": "Sauer 38H" }, { "id": "4351567", "text": "& Wesson Model 36 .38 Special snub-nosed revolver as his back-up weapons. During the first two seasons, Hunter used a Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum and McCall used a Walther PPK in .32 ACP. In several episodes, a Franchi SPAS 12 12-gauge shotgun was kept in the trunk of Hunter's car. During the second season for a few episodes, Rick Hunter used a Ruger Speed Six in .357 magnum (2½\" barrel). During one episode of the second season, Rick Hunter used a Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver in .38 Special. During seasons three and four, Hunter carries an Astra", "title": "Hunter (1984 U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "6835979", "text": "used as a concealed weapon by plainclothes police detectives. It's was made with either a 2\" or 3\" barrels. Introduced in 1927, the Detective Special was the first snubnosed revolvers produced with a modern swing-out frame. It was designed from the outset to be chambered for higher-powered cartridges such as the .38 Special, considered to be a powerful caliber for a concealable pocket revolver of the day. The Walther PP (\"Polizeipistole\", or police pistol) series pistols were introduced in 1929 and are among the world's first successful double action, blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols, developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther", "title": "Pocket pistol" }, { "id": "11123599", "text": "never killed Dracula. The version of Rome shown in the book is heavily influenced by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. As always in the series, the novel contains a number of characters from other fictional works, though due to copyright restrictions some are not named or are given aliases. Some of these identity shifts are quite clear (such as the character of Commander Hamish Bond, who has a fondness for martinis, drives an Aston Martin, carries a Walther PPK, has the Scots version of the name \"James\" for his name, and gets to say \"the bitch is dead.\"), while some are", "title": "Dracula Cha Cha Cha" }, { "id": "5090894", "text": "later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote \"The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007\", a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym \"Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner\". In \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", Bill Tanner is only seen briefly in the film and is not mentioned by name until the end credits. He appears in M's office with M and Colthorpe, discussing Francisco Scaramanga, who has sent a bullet to MI6 printed with Bond's ID number. He explains Scaramanga's fingerprints", "title": "Bill Tanner" }, { "id": "3471022", "text": "other features of the postwar production PPK (brown plastic grips with Walther banner, high polished blue finish, lanyard loop, loaded chamber indicator, 7+1 magazine capacity and overall length) were the same on the PPK-L. First marketed in 1972, this was an all-steel variant of the PP chambered for the 9×18mm Ultra cartridge. Designed as a police service pistol, it was a blowback operated, double-action pistol with an external slide-stop lever and a firing-pin safety. A manual decocker lever was on the left side of the slide; when pushed down, it locked the firing pin and released the hammer. When the", "title": "Walther PP" }, { "id": "3605672", "text": "V (the letter) in \"Icebreaker\". They return in a larger role in \"No Deals, Mr. Bond\", renamed Department Eight, Directorate S, a KGB sub-section. In the film series, Bond's archenemy became SPECTRE, which first appeared in Fleming's novel \"Thunderball\" (1961). SPECTRE is introduced in the first film, \"Dr. No\" (1962), in which Julius No explains to Bond that it is the acronym for the \"SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion\", the four great cornerstones of power. Film versions of novels where SMERSH appears substituted either SPECTRE or independent villains. Although twice referred to, SMERSH never appears in the", "title": "SMERSH (James Bond)" }, { "id": "1992499", "text": "pursues him. Scaramanga lulls Bond off-guard and shoots him with a golden derringer hidden in his palm. Bond is hit but returns fire and shoots Scaramanga several times, killing him at last. As Bond recuperates in hospital, he receives word from M that he is being considered for a knighthood. Bond turns down the offer, reflecting that any sort of public recognition would interfere with his duties in the Secret Service. The central character of the novel is James Bond. In \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like,", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)" }, { "id": "15360469", "text": "are often juxtaposed against compassion and a fairy-tale atmosphere. For protection and hunting, Kino carries a .44 single action revolver (called \"the Cannon\", based on a Colt M1851) that uses liquid explosives in place of gunpowder and a .22 automatic pistol (named \"the Woodsman\", based on a Colt Woodsman). Later in Kino's adventures in the novels, Kino also uses a pump action shotgun (based on a Winchester M1897) and a semi-automatic sniper rifle (called \"the Flute\", based on an M14 rifle), along with a variety of other tools, including knives. In the anime, Kino is shown to carry no fewer", "title": "Kino's Journey" }, { "id": "9593128", "text": "rapidly under fire. In addition to Walther PP pistols (later replaced with .357 magnum Ruger Speed Six revolvers, which were reckoned to have more 'stopping power' than the standard Walther) and batons, each constable carried either a Stirling sub-machine gun, an Ruger 14 Carbine, or a 7.62 mm SLR rifle. A few officers were issued with Lee-Enfield sniper-rifles with telescopic sights, converted to use 7.62 mm ammunition.. The six-man teams were trained in special weapons and tactics (SWAT) techniques. The SPG was the closest thing the RUC had to a dedicated anti-paramilitary unit in the earlier days of the Troubles.", "title": "Special Patrol Group (RUC)" }, { "id": "2113627", "text": "taking over his business. The novel also attempts to merge Benson's series with the films, particularly by continuing a middle-of-the-road approach to John Gardner's continuity. Notably it includes a reference to the film version of \"You Only Live Twice\" where he states that Bond was lying to Miss Moneypenny when he said he had taken a course in Asian languages. \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" also mentions Felix Leiter, although it states that Leiter had worked for Pinkertons Detective Agency, which is thus exclusive to the literary series. Subsequent Bond novels by Benson were affected by \"Tomorrow Never Dies\", specifically Bond's weapon", "title": "Tomorrow Never Dies" }, { "id": "8317366", "text": "which has remained a New York institution ever since. In 1934 (the year after Prohibition ended), bartender Fernand Petiot invented a drink at the St. Regis which he called the \"Red Snapper\". It has since become known around the world as the Bloody Mary and is the King Cole Bar's signature drink. In the Ian Fleming novel \"Live and Let Die\", James Bond stays at the St. Regis and has a drink with Felix Leiter in the King Cole Bar. In the 1972 movie \"The Godfather\", Willie Cicci has a shave in the St. Regis barbershop just before he assassinates", "title": "St. Regis New York" }, { "id": "6282962", "text": "Solace\", the blood is dark red and runs down the frame in rivulets. However, Bond moves across the screen substantially slower (at a similar speed to the pre-\"Casino Royale\" sequences). Unlike all previous gun barrel openings, Craig swings both his arms as he walks, resulting in a partial glimpse of his gun before he turns to fire. After the blood runs down the frame, the screen fades to black, before being replaced by a title card with a small gun barrel logo celebrating fifty years of Bond films and the text \"James Bond Will Return\" underneath. This gun barrel sequence", "title": "Gun barrel sequence" }, { "id": "8542108", "text": "indexing system which allows the suppressor to be reoriented in a number of different rotational positions, allowing the end user to fine-tune the weapon's point of aim. Some pistols which are blowback, delayed blowback or gas operated have fixed, i.e., non-moving barrels, which do not benefit from a Nielsen device. Examples of such pistols are : the H&K P7 and P9, Walther PP/PPK, Korth PRS, Korriphila HSP701, Makarov, CZ 82 and others. In certain cases, spacers can be used to allow the use of a Nielsen device-equipped suppressor on a fixed-barrel pistol. Some blank firing adapters (BFAs) act as recoil", "title": "Muzzle booster" } ]

[ "Henry David Thoreau, in his 14-volume Journal, published posthumously in 1906" ]

[ { "id": "643772", "text": "German army chaplain, recalled at the time of her execution, \"I do not believe that Miss Cavell wanted to be a martyr ... but she was ready to die for her country ... Miss Cavell was a very brave woman and a faithful Christian\". Another account from Anglican chaplain, the Reverend Gahan, remembers Cavell's words, \"I have no fear or shrinking; I have seen death so often it is not strange, or fearful to me!\" In this interpretation, her stoicism was seen as remarkable for a non-combatant woman, and brought her even greater renown than a man in similar circumstances", "title": "Edith Cavell" }, { "id": "9505841", "text": "meat-a-ball! / Hey, great, a toothpaste should fight cavities / I can't believe I ate that whole... / (clip) / And now, Terry O'Reilly and The Age of Persuasion / Ho,ho,ho / Hoo-hoo! / Mamma mia! / There you go again.\" \"I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message / \"Another cup of Maxwell House coffee, George?\" \"Sure, pour me a cup, Gracie!\" / Hoo-wah! / \"Hello, I'm a Mac,\" \"And I'm a PC!\" \"Whooooo!\" \"Whoo!\" / The only thing we have to fear is... / (clip) / And now, Terry O'Reilly and The Age of Persuasion / Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer,", "title": "The Age of Persuasion" }, { "id": "6444845", "text": "important speeches for the president. For example, he wrote the majority of Roosevelt's first inaugural address, although he is not credited with penning the famous line, \"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.\" He was responsible for FDR's use of the term \"the Forgotten Man\" in earlier speeches. He claimed credit for inventing the term \"New Deal,\" though its precise provenance remains open to debate. Moley also wrote various pamphlets and articles on the teaching of government. Praising the new president's first moves in March 1933, he concluded that capitalism \"was saved in eight days.\" In mid-1933", "title": "Raymond Moley" }, { "id": "800219", "text": "catchy snippets of information had a significant negative impact on American political discourse. In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites—such as \"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself\", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address—were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and \"simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.\" The increased use of sound bites in news media has been criticized, and has", "title": "Sound bite" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "18378661", "text": "Algerian armies, send in tanks to demolish entire villages. Resisting temptations to resort to small-arms warfare in the face of the vast military resources of the Israeli armed forces, Palestinians took to throwing stones, an improvised weapon which had deep symbolic resonances of a cultural, historical and religious kind. As a popular song at the time put it, the stone became their Kalashnikov. <poem>\"mā fī khawf mā fī khawf \"al-ḥajar ṣār klashnikūf,\" ('There is no fear, there is no fear For the stone has become the Kalashnikov.')</poem> Another popular refrain runs <poem>\"ṣabarnā kthīr bidnā thār \"bi al-ḍaffaih w kull al-qitā'", "title": "Palestinian stone-throwing" }, { "id": "16892970", "text": "assertion that America is willing to negotiate with its adversaries \"not because we are naïve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear\" was reminiscent of Kennedy's words that \"civility is not a sign of weakness … Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.\" Barack Obama described the American state of affairs with references to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the 2007–2009 recession in the United States as follows: \"This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve", "title": "Second inauguration of Barack Obama" }, { "id": "12234878", "text": "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Just words! 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Just words – just speeches!\" Obama stated that he borrowed the lines after being recommend to do so by Patrick who had faced similar attacks that he was only offering talk but not action. On February 19, Clinton's losing streak to Obama stretched to ten in a row. Obama won the Wisconsin primary 58 percent to 41 percent, with a trend continuing of Clinton losing support in demographics that had previously been most favorable to her, such", "title": "Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential primary campaign" }, { "id": "6781756", "text": "the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.\" In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt avowed, \"we have nothing to fear but fear itself.\" And in 1961, John F. Kennedy declared, \"And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.\" On the eight occasions where the new president succeeded", "title": "United States presidential inauguration" }, { "id": "9505842", "text": "Bromo-Seltzer... / Got milk? / Don't leave home without it / Isn't that amazing?\" \"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV / It's the fishing invention of the century / This is only a test / It's Patrick, he took out life insurance / I'm not only the Hair Club president, I'm also a client / The only thing we have to fear is... / (clip) / And now, Terry O'Reilly and The Age of Persuasion / Takes a licking and keeps on ticking / He likes it! Hey, Mikey! / Yes! We! Can!\" \"Hello, ladies /", "title": "The Age of Persuasion" }, { "id": "6761342", "text": "made himself the enemy of what many saw as corrupt labor leaders, particularly by his appointment of Assistant Attorney General Ralph E. Moody to prosecute many union people accused of arson and assault. He was often quoted for his rephrasing of President Roosevelt's famous pronouncement on fear, saying, \"We have nothing to fear from the future except our own foolishness and slothfulness.\" His criticism of President Roosevelt, however, cost Martin a bitterly contested bid for the Democratic Party of Oregon's gubernatorial nomination in 1938. After losing the nomination, Martin retired from active politics to his Portland home. He died on", "title": "Charles Martin (Oregon politician)" }, { "id": "9969504", "text": "Carbon Credits, he often says, \"You can trust me: I'm not like the others.\" When a caller delivers a rhetorical blow, Carr's signature retort is, after Red Buttons, \"I didn't come here to be made sport of.\" When current events induce him to gloat, he always precedes it with, \"My heart feels like an alligator,\" a line from Hunter S. Thompson's book \"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.\" Callers wishing to report unsavory or embarrassing details about themselves or others can request the \"voice-changer.\" Carr introduces \"the Witness Protection Program of \"The Howie Carr Show,\"\" adding, \"Now no one will", "title": "The Howie Carr Show" }, { "id": "336326", "text": "the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), who became State Counsellor (similar to prime minister) of Myanmar in April 2016. A devout Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a repressive military dictatorship. One of her best known speeches is the \"Freedom From Fear\" speech, which begins, \"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those", "title": "Pacifism" }, { "id": "135271", "text": "dogs. In this study, an 11-month-old boy was conditioned to fear a white rat in the laboratory. The fear became generalized to include other white, furry objects, such as a rabbit, dog, and even a ball of cotton. Fear can be learned by experiencing or watching a frightening traumatic accident. For example, if a child falls into a well and struggles to get out, he or she may develop a fear of wells, heights (acrophobia), enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), or water (aquaphobia). There are studies looking at areas of the brain that are affected in relation to fear. When looking at", "title": "Fear" }, { "id": "12944507", "text": "writer Ted Sorensen. Kennedy had Sorensen study President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as well as other inaugural speeches. Kennedy began collecting thoughts and ideas for his inauguration speech in late November 1960. He took suggestions from various friends, aides and counselors, including suggestions from clergymen for biblical quotations. Kennedy then made several drafts using his own thoughts and some of those suggestions. Kennedy included in his speech several suggestions made by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and by the former Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II. Kennedy's line \"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear", "title": "Inauguration of John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "8951373", "text": "to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.\"\" The unabridged beginning of the speech is: \"\"... And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me—us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.\"\" During a rest in the music at 4:35, John F. Kennedy's inaugural address is heard (\"Ask not what your country can do for you ...\"). The song ends with Franklin D. Roosevelt saying \"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself\",", "title": "Cult of Personality (song)" }, { "id": "516781", "text": "his former partner Simon de Colines who also married Robert's mother, the widow Estienne. In 1526 Robert assumed control of his father's printing shop while de Colines established his own firm nearby. In 1539 Robert adopted as his device an olive branch around which a serpent was twined, and a man standing under an olive-tree, with grafts from which wild branches were falling to the ground, with the words of Romans 11:20, \"Noli altum sapere, sed time ...\" (\"Be not high-minded, but fear\"). The latter was called the olive of the Stephens family. In 1539 he received the distinguishing title", "title": "Robert Estienne" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "3286210", "text": "Marenghi is a spoof pulp horror author; his act, and his works are considered a parody of the horror genre. The name \"Garth Marenghi\" is an anagram of the phrase \"argh nightmare.\" The character is highly conceited and narcissistic, often describing himself through epithets such as \"the dream weaver\", \"shaman\", \"titan of terror\", \"The One Man Fear Factory\" and \"master of the macabre.\" In interviews, he compares himself positively with James Joyce, Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus. Despite this, Marenghi displays a general ignorance of many subjects of which he claims knowledge. He claims to be self-taught, having left", "title": "Garth Marenghi" }, { "id": "9505840", "text": "is announced in the middle of the clips. In each episode, one clip is different, similar to the couch gag in the opening to \"The Simpsons\". \"Read. My. Lips. / This is the CBS News / I've fallen and I can't get up! / Don't be a square / The only thing we have to fear is... / (clip) / And now, Terry O'Reilly and The Age of Persuasion / Oh, the humanity! / Chops, dices, minces / Yeeeargh! / It's that simple.\" \"I want chicken, I want liver / \"I wanna bottle of Coca-Cola!\" \"Sonny...\" / That's a spicy", "title": "The Age of Persuasion" }, { "id": "10150541", "text": "James Neil Hollingworth James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) was a disabled, beatnik, hippie, writer, and former manager of the psychedelic folk rock bands Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ace of Cups. He wrote under the pseudonym Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon. An often quoted aphorism penned by Hollingworth is \"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.\"Ambrose was a co-founder, or maybe founder of Six Day School located high on Mt. Shasta, a mountain top in Siskiyou County. It was a school that prepared students for survival in the midst of Armageddon", "title": "James Neil Hollingworth" }, { "id": "3360790", "text": "New York City family and was educated at Groton, a private Massachusetts preparatory school, had a number of characteristic patterns. His speech is non-rhotic; one of Roosevelt's most frequently heard speeches has a falling diphthong in the word \"fear\", which distinguishes it from other forms of surviving non-rhotic speech in the United States. \"Linking \"r\"\" appears in Roosevelt's delivery of the words \"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself\"; this pronunciation of \"r\" is also famously recorded in his Pearl Harbor speech, for example, in the phrase \"naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan\". After", "title": "Mid-Atlantic accent" }, { "id": "6455581", "text": "providing a sanitized version of events and downplaying the existence of piranha. Her voice is heard carrying out over a radio on the shore of a West Coast beach. As she says \"there's nothing left to fear\", the piranha's characteristic trilling sound drowns out the waves on a beach. The film was released theatrically in the United States by New World Pictures in August 1978. Given the proximity to \"Jaws 2\", Universal Pictures had considered an injunction, but Spielberg convinced them otherwise. In 2004, New Concorde Home Entertainment released the film on special edition DVD. This version is currently out", "title": "Piranha (1978 film)" }, { "id": "6234607", "text": "international fame as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948-49, where he was instrumental in the drafting of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The Evatt family motto, as recorded on the 13th Century Evatt Coat of Arms held by the Evatt family of New Zealand, is \"Be Just and Fear Not\". An alternate version of the motto, as recorded on the 17th Century Family Crest held by the Evett Family of New Zealand, is \"Festina Lente\" - \"More haste, less speed\". Evatt The surname Evatt is British, with Norman French roots. Modern spelling deviations", "title": "Evatt" }, { "id": "600265", "text": "from a variety of sources. In a letter to Uhlig, Wagner recounted \"The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was\", based on a fairy-tale of the Brothers Grimm. It concerns a boy so stupid he had never learned to be afraid. Wagner wrote that the boy and Siegfried are the same character. The boy is taught to fear by his wife, and Siegfried learns it when he discovers the sleeping Brünnhilde. Siegfried's ability in Act Two to see through Mime's deceitful words seems to have been derived from a 19th-century street theatre version of the", "title": "Siegfried (opera)" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "12767021", "text": "flog 'em brigade' is often used in British Politics to describe the far right who may support capital punishment, corporal punishment and a repeal of certain 'human rights'. The opposing side is often thus referred to as the 'Human rights brigade'. The term 'Nothing to hide, nothing to fear brigade' is used in regards to people who support increased state surveillance - particularly in the UK - with the justification that only people who are willingly committing crimes would need to worry about being under scrutiny. The opposing side is often called the 'Orwell brigade', the '1984 brigade', or the", "title": "Brigade (pejorative)" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "13921888", "text": "a new collection of these stories. Bring 'Em Back Alive (book) Bring ‘Em Back Alive is a 1930 book by Frank Buck. His first book, it was a huge best seller that catapulted him to world fame and was translated into many languages. Buck tells of his adventures capturing exotic animals. Writing with Edward Anthony, Buck relates some of his most frightening experiences, among them, his battle with an escaped king cobra. This venomous snake is the only jungle animal, Buck says, that has no fear of either man or beast. \"Nowhere in the world is there an animal or", "title": "Bring 'Em Back Alive (book)" }, { "id": "9250018", "text": "been a senior research fellow in the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is supporting several non-governmental ecological organizations and is member of Honorary board of Děti Země (Children of the Earth) and Společnost pro trvale udržitelný život (Society for Sustainable Living). Kohak has said in 2007 for BBC: \"We have nothing to fear from a Russia in the ascendant.\" Erazim Kohák Erazim Kohák (born 21 May 1933 in Prague) is a Czech philosopher and writer. His early education was in Prague. After communists took over Czechoslovakia in", "title": "Erazim Kohák" }, { "id": "15171997", "text": "Comics in Manhattan. \"You will absolutely see the real world inject itself into this story because it's undeniable that there's a certain something in the air right now…we tend to tap into that whether consciously or unconsciously and it effects [sic] all our stories.\" The storyline's title is a by Franklin D. Roosevelt: \"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance\", as indicated by the use of a portion that quote as part of the", "title": "Fear Itself (comics)" }, { "id": "13921884", "text": "Bring 'Em Back Alive (book) Bring ‘Em Back Alive is a 1930 book by Frank Buck. His first book, it was a huge best seller that catapulted him to world fame and was translated into many languages. Buck tells of his adventures capturing exotic animals. Writing with Edward Anthony, Buck relates some of his most frightening experiences, among them, his battle with an escaped king cobra. This venomous snake is the only jungle animal, Buck says, that has no fear of either man or beast. \"Nowhere in the world is there an animal or reptile that can quite match its", "title": "Bring 'Em Back Alive (book)" }, { "id": "5321377", "text": "sultan Bayezid I did not suffer from gout, he would have conquered Central Europe, Winston Churchill's statement that if King Alexander had not died of a monkey bite, the Greco-Turkish War would have been avoided, and Leon Trotsky's remark that if he not contracted a cold while duck hunting, he would not have missed a crucial Politburo meeting in 1923. Rather than accidents, Carr asserted history was a series of causal chains interacting with each other. Carr contemptuously compared those like Winston Churchill who in his book \"The World Crisis\" claimed that the death of King Alexander from a monkey", "title": "What Is History?" }, { "id": "3282240", "text": "disabled leg and walking with a cane, could not have jumped from the deck into a lifeboat, so he was trapped. Instead, he and millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt tied lifejackets to \"Moses baskets\" containing infants who had been asleep in the nursery when the torpedo struck. Frohman then went out onto the deck, where he was joined by actress Rita Jolivet, her brother-in-law George Vernon and Captain Alick Scott. In the final moments, they clasped hands and Frohman paraphrased his greatest hit, \"Peter Pan\": \"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure that life gives us.\" Jolivet, the only survivor", "title": "Charles Frohman" }, { "id": "5161400", "text": "Germany for collecting money to the defence of Croatia. She had some concerts in Zagreb with Serge Lama. Jacques Chirac honored Tereza in 1999 with Knighthood of High Decoration of Arts and Culture. And she and was also bestowed with the Golden Chart of Humanism. She started to reconstruct a house from 18th century near Dubrovnik. It was a house of an old aristocratic family. In the new millennium, she entered with her big hit – I ni me stra' (And I don't have any fear). In 2002 her concert from Olympia was realised on CD edition. This 2002 is", "title": "Tereza Kesovija" }, { "id": "4018028", "text": "H. W. Nevinson would later write that \"Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage.\" He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that \"War hath no fury like a non-combatant.\" \"Disenchantment\" (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was", "title": "Charles Edward Montague" }, { "id": "1727058", "text": "term expiration up to eighteen additional months. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt: Under Harry S. Truman: Under Dwight D. Eisenhower: Under John F. Kennedy: Under Lyndon B. Johnson: Under Richard Nixon: Under Gerald Ford: Under Jimmy Carter: Under Ronald Reagan: Under George H. W. Bush: Under Bill Clinton: Under George W. Bush: Under Barack Obama: Under Donald Trump: Securities and Exchange Commission appointees Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States. As of 2011, their terms last five years and are staggered so that one commissioner's term ends on June 5 of", "title": "Securities and Exchange Commission appointees" }, { "id": "3480064", "text": "copies themselves – a similar deal had been struck with such writers as Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin for their first anthologies. The slim volume was dedicated to the memory of Richard Wagner, with a quote from Rilke's \"Duino Elegies\": \"... das Schöne ist nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen\" (\"... beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear\"). Magee said later: \"I'm rather ashamed of the poems now, although I have written poems since which I haven't published, which I secretly think are rather good. It has always", "title": "Bryan Magee" }, { "id": "135276", "text": "were, in order: terrorist attacks, spiders, death, failure, war, criminal or gang violence, being alone, the future, and nuclear war. In an estimate of what people fear the most, book author Bill Tancer analyzed the most frequent online queries that involved the phrase, \"fear of...\" following the assumption that people tend to seek information on the issues that concern them the most. His top ten list of fears published 2008 consisted of flying, heights, clowns, intimacy, death, rejection, people, snakes, failure, and driving. According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of demons and ghosts, the existence of", "title": "Fear" }, { "id": "8454862", "text": "extensive collection of live reptiles and amphibians in its now-defunct natural history museum. Wiley brought much attention while working in Minneapolis, even appearing in national publications like \"Time\" and \"Life\". At the time, it was very unusual for a woman to be a curator of reptiles, and Wiley earned a reputation as a \"woman without fear.\" Taking advantage of her fame, Wiley strove to change the public's negative perception of snakes, arguing, “The fear of snakes is cultivated. We are not born with it. Children love snakes as naturally as they love dogs and cats. Don’t be afraid of a", "title": "Grace Olive Wiley" }, { "id": "2561172", "text": "Minnesota Book Awards, again in the \"Best Novel\" category. She also received the Herodotus Award for \"Best Short Story Historical Mystery\" in 2000 for her short story \"Neither Pity, Love, Nor Fear\" Margaret Frazer Margaret Frazer, born Gail Lynn Brown (November 26, 1946 – February 4, 2013), was an American historical novelist, best known for more than twenty historical mystery novels and a variety of short stories. The pen name was originally shared by Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld in their collaboration on \"The Novice's Tale\", the first of the \"Sister Frevisse\" books featuring the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse.", "title": "Margaret Frazer" }, { "id": "1414181", "text": "Norris dropped the lawsuit in 2008. The book is a New York Times Best Seller. Since then, Spector has published four more books based on Chuck Norris facts, these are \"Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped: 400 All-New Facts About the Man Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Mercy\", \"Chuck Norris: Longer and Harder: The Complete Chronicle of the World's Deadliest, Sexiest, and Beardiest Man\", \"The Last Stand of Chuck Norris: 400 All New Facts About the Most Terrifying Man in the Universe\", and \"Chuck Norris Vs. Mr. T: 400 Facts About the Baddest Dudes in the History of Ever\" (also a", "title": "Chuck Norris" }, { "id": "14548234", "text": "accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels in defending a new surveillance bill with the words \"if you've nothing to hide you have nothing to fear\". \"The Independent\" pointed out that former Conservative Foreign Secretary William Hague had also used the same phrase in 2013 whilst Graham dismissed the argument as \"clearly absurd\" as Goebbels would have spoken in German. In 2016, Graham was a member of the joint Select Committee which investigated the British Home Stores Pension Fund. He asked Sir Philip Green, who had responded angrily to previous questions about corporate governance, if he regarded the offshore company structure as", "title": "Richard Graham (politician)" }, { "id": "7152475", "text": "a constructive problem solving manner and in a benign approach rather than to engage with heightened anticipation on the possible negative outcome. Greek thinkers such as stoic philosopher Epictetus and Seneca advised against worry. Albert Ellis, the inventor of cognitive behavioural therapy, was inspired by the Stoics’ therapeutic ideas. The biblical word used in Hebrew for worry (, \"\") regards worry as a combined form of fear and sorrow which affects nephesh, the totality of our being. The bible takes a fortitude-strengthening approach regarding worrying e.g. Psalm 94: In the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew encourages: St. Paul writes", "title": "Worry" }, { "id": "6699182", "text": "Costello's company, Exclusive Productions, and the second color film, \"Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd\" using Abbott's company, Woodley Productions. Songs written by Lester Lee and Bob Russell<br> \"Jack and the Beanstalk\" <br> \"I Fear Nothing\"<br> \"Dreamer's Cloth\" <br> \"He Never Looked Better In His Life\" A soundtrack, including songs and dialogue, was released on Decca Records on June 9, 1952. The film was re-released in 1960 by RKO Pictures. As this film is in the public domain, there have been at least a dozen DVD releases from several companies over the years. Diamond Entertainment Corporation released a DVD on", "title": "Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)" }, { "id": "135322", "text": "in the face of concepts such as moral absolutism and moral universalism – which would hold that our morals are rooted in either the divine or natural laws of the universe, and would not be generated by any human feeling, thought or emotion. From a theological perspective, the word \"fear\" encompasses more than simple fear. Robert B. Strimple says that fear includes the \"... convergence of awe, reverence, adoration...\". Some translations of the Bible, such as the New International Version, sometimes replace the word \"fear\" with \"reverence\". Fear in religion can be seen throughout the years, however, the most prominent", "title": "Fear" }, { "id": "4210216", "text": "become global celebrities. Critics have condemned Luce's \"jingoistic missionary zeal\". Others have noted the end of the 20th century and the American Century, most famously the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson who titled his autobiography \"Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star Crossed Child in the Last Days of the American Century\". With the advent of the new millennium, critics from the University of Illinois stated that it was a matter of debate whether America was losing its superpower status, especially in relation to China's rise. Other analysts have made the case for the \"American Century\" fitting neatly", "title": "American Century" }, { "id": "11735801", "text": "only version of the phrase that survives from antiquity. In the modern era, it was paraphrased as \"Noli turbare circulos meos\" and then translated to Katharevousa Greek as \"μὴ μου τοὺς κύκλους τάραττε!\" (\"Mē mou tous kuklous taratte!\"). Noli turbare circulos meos! \"Nōlī turbāre circulōs meōs!\" is a Latin phrase, meaning \"Do not disturb my circles!\". It is said to have been uttered by Archimedes - in reference to a geometric figure he had outlined on the sand - when he was confronted by a Roman soldier. According to Valerius Maximus, the phrase was uttered by the ancient Greek mathematician", "title": "Noli turbare circulos meos!" }, { "id": "4239288", "text": "share declined by 25 to 34 points, German was the largest or second-largest original nationality in 31. Non-interventionists rooted a significant portion of their arguments in historical precedent, citing events such as Washington's farewell address and the failure of World War I. \"If we have strong defenses and understand and believe in what we are defending, we need fear nobody in this world,\" Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, wrote in a 1940 essay. Isolationists believed that the safety of the nation was more important than any foreign war. As 1940 became 1941, the actions of the", "title": "United States non-interventionism" }, { "id": "866087", "text": "first 24 hours and within the first ten days following delivery. Infection remains a major cause of maternal deaths and morbidity in the developing world. The work of Ignaz Semmelweis was seminal in the pathophysiology and treatment of childbed fever and his work saved many lives. Childbirth can be an intense event and strong emotions, both positive and negative, can be brought to the surface. Abnormal and persistent fear of childbirth is known as tokophobia. The prevalence of fear of childbirth around the world ranges between 4-25%, with 3-7% of pregnant women having clinical fear of childbirth. Most new mothers", "title": "Childbirth" }, { "id": "272013", "text": "not be afraid to lose him'.\" He quoted from the \"Iliad\" what he called the \"briefest and most familiar saying...enough to dispel sorrow and fear\":<poem> leaves, the wind scatters some on the face of the ground; like unto them are the children of men.</poem> – \"Iliad\" vi.146 Another daughter was born on 7 March 150, Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla. At some time between 155 and 161, probably soon after 155, Marcus' mother Domitia Lucilla died. Faustina probably had another daughter in 151, but the child, Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina, might not have been born until 153. Another son, Tiberius Aelius", "title": "Marcus Aurelius" }, { "id": "5672657", "text": "you'll get back on track\", Manson later recalled. \"He kept me moving. And I did get back on track. Very shortly after that, I got the call to go and join Garbage\". Manson credited Greig with saving her career, a debt she tacitly acknowledged by quoting the line \"I'm afraid there is much to be afraid of\" from his 1994 long poem \"Western Swing\". Lyrically Manson felt that \"Breaking Up the Girl\" was \"a cautionary tale. It's basically saying the world we're living in is harsh and you've got to live in the moment. Focus on the now. If there's", "title": "Breaking Up the Girl" }, { "id": "1607454", "text": "20 April. The policy in foreign affairs, which he pursued through the winter and spring of 1791-92, he combined with arousing the suspicions of the people against the monarchy, which he identified with the counter-revolution, and of forcing a change of ministry. On 10 March, Vergniaud delivered a powerful oration in which he denounced the intrigues of the court and uttered his famous apostrophe to the Tuileries: \"In ancient times fear and terror have often issued from that famous palace; let them re-enter it to-day in the name of the law!\" The speech overthrew Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart, whose", "title": "Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "8790005", "text": "into the Congregation of the Passion. Throughout this time, Barberi fulfilled his duties in preaching missions and heading the English and Belgian foundations. One story told of Barberi during this time exemplifies a sense of humour. While he was visiting a convent of nuns who were instructing many converts, some of them male, Dominic was informed that some of the sisters were worried about teaching men. Dominic retorted, \"Have no fear, Sisters. You are all too old and too ugly.\" The Sisters appreciated Dominic's humour so much that they recorded the incident in their archives. Such work inevitably took its", "title": "Dominic Barberi" }, { "id": "10150542", "text": "through map and compass reading, survival in the wilderness and occult studies. Students lived in tepees and worked by tending the orchards and gardens. The property was previously called Top of the World Ranch. James Neil Hollingworth James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) was a disabled, beatnik, hippie, writer, and former manager of the psychedelic folk rock bands Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ace of Cups. He wrote under the pseudonym Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon. An often quoted aphorism penned by Hollingworth is \"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.\"Ambrose was", "title": "James Neil Hollingworth" }, { "id": "3477480", "text": "1, the Roman poet Ovid wrote Ars Amatoria (\"The Art of Love\") in which he expressed \"Ugly are hornless bulls, a field without grass is an eyesore, So is a tree without leaves, so is a head without hair.\" Another example of this bias, in a later and different culture, can be found in \"The Arabian Nights\" (c. AD 800-900), in which the female character Scheherazade asks \"Is there anything more ugly in the world than a man beardless and bald as an artichoke?\" The earliest known example of a toupée was found in a tomb near the ancient Predynastic", "title": "Toupée" }, { "id": "12019999", "text": "Benedict XVI and Pope Francis voiced their acceptance of the supernatural origin of the Fátima, Portugal, events. The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima is now a major Marian church in Europe. The Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia in Genoa, Italy has a similar story. In 1490 a peasant Benedetto Pareto reported that the Virgin Mary had asked him to build a chapel on a mountain. Pareto reported that he replied that he was only a poor man and would not be able to do that, but he was told by the Virgin Mary: \"\"Do not be afraid!\"\". After", "title": "Catholic Marian church buildings" }, { "id": "20601479", "text": "Fear Is a Liar \"Fear Is a Liar\" is the third single from Christian rock artist Zach Williams from his debut studio album \"Chain Breaker\". The song peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Christian Songs chart. It lasted 31 weeks on the overall chart. \"Fear Is a Liar\" was released as the third single from \"Chain Breaker\" on January 19, 2018, accompanied with a music video. The song's message is about maturing with God's love, and coming to the point that there is nothing to fear. The song was written by Williams, along with Jason Ingram, Jonathan Lindley Smith", "title": "Fear Is a Liar" }, { "id": "1412611", "text": "at the General Assembly, on Sept 23, 2011. Just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Schneerson called for a global Teffilin campaign, to see that Jews observe the Mitzva of Tefillin as a means of ensuring divine protection against Israel's enemies. Speaking to a crowd of thousands of people on May 28, 1967, only a few days before the outbreak of the war, he assured the world that Israel would be victorious. He said Israel had no need to fear as God was with them, quoting the verse, \"the Guardian of Israel neither sleeps nor slumbers\". After the Operation", "title": "Menachem Mendel Schneerson" }, { "id": "7568337", "text": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? \"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?\" is a quotation from Alexander Pope's \"Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot\" of January 1735. It alludes to \"breaking on the wheel\", a form of torture in which victims had their long bones broken by an iron bar while tied to a Catherine wheel. The quotation is used to suggest someone is \"[employing] superabundant effort in the accomplishment of a small matter\". The quotation is sometimes misquoted with \"on\" in place of \"upon\". The line \"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?\" forms line 308 of the \"Epistle", "title": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" }, { "id": "1653161", "text": "In 1990 he wrote a song, \"Who Was That Man?\" about a man who died in the King's Cross fire. In 1992, \"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding\" was covered by Curtis Stigers on the soundtrack album to \"The Bodyguard\", an album that sold about 44 million copies worldwide. A New York \"Daily News\" article quoted Lowe as saying his greatest fear in recent years was \"sticking with what you did when you were famous.\" \"I didn't want to become one of those thinning-haired, jowly old geezers who still does the same shtick they did when they were", "title": "Nick Lowe" }, { "id": "2604127", "text": "Appeasing Pheromone, a synthetic analogue of a hormone secreted by nursing canine mothers. Studies have also shown that cats can be afraid of thunderstorms. Whilst it is less common, cats have been known to hide under a table or behind a couch during a thunderstorm. Generally if any animal is anxious during a thunderstorm or any similar, practically harmless event (e.g. fireworks display), it is advised to simply continue behaving normally, instead of attempting to comfort animals. Showing fearlessness is, arguably, the best method to \"cure\" the anxiety. Astraphobia Astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia is an", "title": "Astraphobia" }, { "id": "8548663", "text": "in October, he was taken severely ill with dysentery, but remained in command and on the field until too weak to go further. When told that he had but a few hours to live, he answered: \"I am not afraid to die, I have met death too often to be afraid of it now.\" He was awarded a brevet (honorary promotion) to major general on September 1, 1864 and died in service a few weeks later. General Ransom is buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Ransom's memory was cherished by many prominent Union Generals including Grant and Sherman. The historian", "title": "Thomas E. G. Ransom" }, { "id": "7434406", "text": "a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf.\" [1 Peter 4:12–14] John, in fact, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for our brethren, [1 John 3:16] affirming that there is no fear in love: \"For perfect love casts out fear, since fear has punishment; and he who fears is not perfect in love.\" [1 John 4:18] What fear would it be better to understand (as here meant), than that which gives rise to denial? What love does he assert to be perfect, but that which puts fear to flight, and gives", "title": "Apostasy in Christianity" }, { "id": "6921743", "text": "The Shadow of the Vulture \"The Shadow of the Vulture\" is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, first published in \"The Magic Carpet Magazine\", January 1934. The story introduces the character of Red Sonya of Rogatino, who later became the inspiration for the popular character Red Sonja, archetype of the chainmail-bikini clad female warrior. Unlike Howard's better-known fantasy work, \"The Shadow of the Vulture\" is historical fiction, set in the 16th century. It uses the career of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (also known as Sultan Suleiman I), the aftermath of the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the", "title": "The Shadow of the Vulture" }, { "id": "2235885", "text": "Affairs, with activities as important as those carried out under the Consulate. His police agents were omnipresent, and the terror which Napoleon and Fouché inspired partly accounts for the absence of conspiracies after 1804. After the Battle of Austerlitz (December 1805), Fouché uttered the famous words: \"Sire, Austerlitz has shattered the old aristocracy; the Faubourg Saint-Germain no longer conspires\". Nevertheless, Napoleon did retain feelings of distrust, or even of fear, towards Fouché, as was proven by his conduct in the early days of 1808. While engaged in the campaign of Spain, the emperor heard rumours that Fouché and Charles Maurice", "title": "Joseph Fouché" }, { "id": "18769880", "text": "inspired by the Super Mario Bros. video game. In 2014, Asplund designed a small fashion collection titled 'Heterophobia' for the Helsinki Pride festivities, where the products were quickly sold out. The collection generated a lot of interest in social media, and Asplund was invited to the Berlin Fashion Week in July 2014. The collection was expanded to include 200 pieces of clothing, creating a political streetwear collection, carrying the slogan 'no fear of different - we are all equal'. Asplund has been promoting the collection in several countries, also in North America during the Vancouver, New York (part of Mercedes-Benz", "title": "Antti Asplund" }, { "id": "1171914", "text": "the \"First Lady in the General Government\". One of her most famous comments was \"I'd rather be widowed than divorced from a Reichsminister!\" Frank answered: \"So you are my deadly enemy!\" In 1987, Niklas Frank wrote a book about his father, \"Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung\" (\"The Father: A Settling of Accounts\"), which was published in English in 1991 as \"In the Shadow of the Reich\". The book, which was serialized in the magazine \"Stern\", caused controversy in Germany because of the scathing way in which the younger Frank depicted his father: Niklas referred to him as \"a slime-hole of a", "title": "Hans Frank" }, { "id": "3838612", "text": "friend: \"I am not so afraid of the Nazis … There are worse things one can be afraid of, namely things one is afraid of without knowing why. For instance, I am afraid of streets. Roads can be hostile to one, can destroy one. Streets scare me.\" And a few years earlier, von Horváth had written poetry about lightning: \"Yes, thunder, that it can do. And bolt and storm. Terror and destruction.\" Ödön von Horváth was buried in Saint-Ouen cemetery in northern Paris. In 1988, on the 50th anniversary of his death, his remains were transferred to Vienna and reinterred", "title": "Ödön von Horváth" }, { "id": "12668159", "text": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle. It is the third companion book to \"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?\". Various endangered animals answer the question \"What do you see?\" and the answers are what animal they see. The text is in rhyme. The list of animals includes a panda bear, a bald eagle, a water buffalo, a spider monkey, a green sea turtle, a macaroni penguin, a sea lion, a red wolf, a whooping", "title": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?" }, { "id": "2607919", "text": "film ever made. In 2008, the American Film Institute distributed ballots to 1,500 directors, critics and other people associated with the film industry in order to determine the top ten American films in ten different genre categories. Cronenberg's version of \"The Fly\" was nominated under the science fiction category, although it did not make the top ten. It was also nominated for AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills and AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions and Veronica's warning to Tawny in the film—\"Be afraid. Be very afraid.\"—was nominated for AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes. The quote \"Be afraid. Be very afraid.\" was", "title": "The Fly (1986 film)" }, { "id": "1603933", "text": "the oppressive reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius and calling for the establishment of a \"Committee of Clemency\" to counter the climate of mercilessness fostered by the Committee of Public Safety. In the fourth number of the journal, Desmoulins addressed Robespierre directly, writing, \"My dear Robespierre... my old school friend... Remember the lessons of history and philosophy: love is stronger, more lasting than fear.\" The perceived counter-revolutionary tone in these calls for clemency led to Desmoulins' expulsion from the Club des Cordeliers and denunciation at the Jacobins, as well as, ultimately, to his arrest and execution. Desmoulins took an active", "title": "Camille Desmoulins" }, { "id": "2178856", "text": "not as they are,\" and \"The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to \"matter,\" to have it make some difference that you lived.\" (A version of this quotation is sometimes attributed, falsely, to Ralph Waldo Emerson.) At a tribute dinner to fellow humorist W. C. Fields, Rosten came up with the remark about Fields that \"any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.\" This statement is often misattributed to Fields himself. In his book, \"The Joys of Yiddish\",", "title": "Leo Rosten" }, { "id": "11167824", "text": "\"woman\" and φόβος - \"phobos\", \"fear\". Hyponyms of the term \"gynophobia\" include \"feminophobia\", Gynophobia was previously considered a driving force toward homosexuality. In his 1896 \"Studies in the Psychology of Sex\", Havelock Ellis wrote: It is, perhaps, not difficult to account for the horror – much stronger than that normally felt toward a person of the same sex – with which the invert often regards the sexual organs of persons of the opposite sex. It cannot be said that the sexual organs of either sex under the influence of sexual excitement are esthetically pleasing; they only become emotionally desirable through", "title": "Gynophobia" }, { "id": "7507937", "text": "traditions believe that Sikhs helped protect Hindus from Islamic persecution, and this caused martyrdom of their Guru. The Sikh historians, for example, record that the Sikh movement was rapidly growing in northwest India, and Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji was openly encouraging Sikhs to, \"be fearless in their pursuit of just society: he who holds none in fear, nor is afraid of anyone, is acknowledged as a man of true wisdom\", a statement recorded in Adi Granth 1427. While Guru Tegh Bahadur influence was rising, Aurangzeb had imposed Islamic laws, demolished Hindu schools and temples, and enforced new taxes on non-Muslims.", "title": "Hinduism and Sikhism" }, { "id": "19239674", "text": "Serpent (comics) Serpent (Cul Borson) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Usually depicted as a foe of Odin and Thor, the Serpent has also come into conflict with the Avengers. He is the brother of Odin, therefore the uncle of Thor, Loki and Angela. He is known as the Norse God of Fear. Serpent first appeared in \"Fear Itself\" #1 (June 2011), and was created by Stuart Immonen and Matt Fraction. Cul Borson is an enigmatic being who claims that he is the true All-Father of Asgard and not his brother Odin. After", "title": "Serpent (comics)" }, { "id": "2171587", "text": "September 1916. General Debeney spoke at the statue's unveiling in 1926, praising Foch's operational concepts of 1918. Foch also has a grape cultivar named after him. In the Belgian city of Leuven, one of the central squares was named after him after the First World War, but it was renamed in 2012. Mount Foch in Alberta is also named after him. Foch received the title of Doctor honoris causa of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków in 1918. English Translation: \"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear\". English Translation: \"Don't tell me that this problem", "title": "Ferdinand Foch" }, { "id": "1549323", "text": "UN mandate, and that the view of the United States as a danger to world peace had significantly increased. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the war as illegal, saying in a September 2004 interview that it was \"not in conformity with the Security Council.\" Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the invasion \"disrespects the United Nations\" and failed to take world opinion into account. Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, called the US's attitude five months before the invasion a \"threat to world peace\". He said they were sending a message that \"if you are afraid", "title": "Opposition to the Iraq War" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "547666", "text": "Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as \"The Zoo Story\" (1958), \"The Sandbox\" (1959), \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\" (1962), and \"A Delicate Balance\" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights", "title": "Edward Albee" }, { "id": "10975310", "text": "Fear of frogs Fear of frogs and toads is both a known specific phobia, known simply as frog phobia or ranidaphobia (from \"ranidae\", the most widespread family of frogs), and a superstition common to the folkways of many cultures. Psychiatric speciality literature uses the simple term \"fear of frogs\" rather than any specialized term. The term batrachophobia has also been recorded in a 1953 psychiatric dictionary. According to some, the sight of a frog may be a bad omen. As well, a common myth says that touching frogs and toads may give one warts. (In many other cultures, frogs are", "title": "Fear of frogs" }, { "id": "9412235", "text": "September 1993, the battalion was inactivated and relieved from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division. The 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, was again activated on 31 August 1995, and this unit again carries its thirty battle streamers and twelve unit citations on its colors. The motto \"Nec Aspera Terrent\" translates to \"Frightened by no Difficulties,\" as \"Aspera\" is Latin for \"Work\" or \"Difficulty\" and \"Terrent\" is Latin for \"Fear,\" the same root as \"Terror.\" It is often stated as \"No Fear on Earth.\" The 4th Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, was active in the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (L) at", "title": "27th Infantry Regiment (United States)" }, { "id": "4922727", "text": "God Exists, Why is He Hiding?” “Is Jesus the Son of God?” “Why Is There So Much Evil in the World?” “What Does To Save Mean?” “Why So Many Religions?” “Buddha?” “Muhammad?” “Judaism?” “What Is the New Evangelization?” “Is There Really Hope in the Young?” “Was God at Work in the Fall of Communism?” “Is Only Rome Right?” “In Search of Lost Unity,” “A Qualitative Renewal,” “The Reaction of the World,” “Does Eternal Life Exist?” “Human Rights,” “The Mother of God,” and “Be Not Afraid.” The pope answers questions directly, and he also provides a context and history as background.", "title": "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" }, { "id": "17980900", "text": "line, whispered by Clara to the young Doctor, is \"Fear makes companions of us all\" – a line originally spoken by the First Doctor in the third episode of the very first \"Doctor Who\" serial, \"An Unearthly Child\" (1963). Steven Moffat discussed the episode in an interview, saying: \"my impulse starting in that was just the idea, 'What does he do when he’s got nothing [to] do?' Because he’d throw himself off a building if he thought it’d be interesting on the way down ... he’s fascinated by anything. And here he’s with nothing to do, so he just goes", "title": "Listen (Doctor Who)" }, { "id": "4354163", "text": "who sometimes refer to themselves as \"freaks\" after a Fish-era B-side. The phrase \"She was only dreaming\" in the song \"If My Heart Were a Ball It Would Roll Uphill\" is a sample from \"Chelsea Monday\". According to Hogarth, the title, nominally a play on the word \"arachnophobia\", or fear of spiders, means no fear of anoraks (\"anorak no phobia\"), referring to the long-running in-joke that Marillion fans are also sometimes called anoraks. The artwork for \"Anoraknophobia\" as well as some other related music releases and press materials feature cartoon graphics of a boy named Barry who wears a rain", "title": "Anoraknophobia" }, { "id": "10927994", "text": "porch has been completely refurbished. On entering the porch you are now greeted by eight newly positioned oak statues of Saints Columba, Patrick, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Mary and Joseph. These statues used to be part of the canopy of the old pulpit in the cathedral from 1906-1989. A stone statue of Saint Eugene adorns the outside of the entrance porch embedded in the main bell tower of the cathedral; it has been there since the cathedral was built in 1873. In the newly refurbished porch the words from the prophet Isaiah, \"Do not be afraid I have redeemed you", "title": "St Eugene's Cathedral" }, { "id": "14589852", "text": "the star presenter of the weekly journal on TF1 from 1990 to 1991, also followed the same approach. He was particularly famous for his opening sentence on the \"20 hour Journal\" on 18 February 1976: \"France in fear\". This underlined the emotion caused by the kidnapping and death of a small boy Philippe Bertrand at Troyes by Patrick Henry. This saying was diluted, however, because a few minutes later, he clarified that this fear is a feeling which we must not give up. Leaving the presentation of television news in 1981, Roger Gicquel then held several positions at TF1. He", "title": "Roger Gicquel" }, { "id": "13563682", "text": "after Apollodorus received the same message from Peithagoras with respect to Alexander. Peithagoras is also said to have predicted the deaths of Perdiccas and Antigonus. Peithagoras Peithagoras () was a Macedonian seer and general from Amphipolis, brother of Apollodorus. According to Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Apollodorus, having joined Alexander the Great on his return from his Indian expedition and accompanied him to Ecbatana, imagined that he had grounds for dreading his displeasure, and wrote therefore to Peithagoras at Babylon, to inquire whether any danger threatened him from Alexander or Hephaestion. The answer was that he had nothing to fear from Hephaestion,", "title": "Peithagoras" }, { "id": "2967742", "text": "donated money for the building of Wilhenford Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, which opened in 1910. The name combined a syllable of her father's' name (Hen) with her husband's and son's. His saying, \"In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money can not buy... to wit the wag of a dog's tail\" appears at the beginning of the Disney film \"Lady and the Tramp\". The phrase, \"Love is like measles... the later in life it occurs, the tougher it gets,\" was quoted as being Josh Billings' in Jan Karon's book, \"A Light in the Window\".", "title": "Josh Billings" }, { "id": "10297040", "text": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan For nearly 150 years, Gilbert and Sullivan have pervasively influenced popular culture in the English-speaking world. Lines and quotations from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas have become part of the English language, such as \"short, sharp shock\", \"What never? Well, hardly ever!\", \"let the punishment fit the crime\", and \"A policeman's lot is not a happy one\". The Savoy operas heavily influenced the course of the development of modern musical theatre. They have also influenced political style and discourse, literature, film and television and advertising, and have been widely parodied by humorists. Because they", "title": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan" }, { "id": "10297107", "text": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan For nearly 150 years, Gilbert and Sullivan have pervasively influenced popular culture in the English-speaking world. Lines and quotations from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas have become part of the English language, such as \"short, sharp shock\", \"What never? Well, hardly ever!\", \"let the punishment fit the crime\", and \"A policeman's lot is not a happy one\". The Savoy operas heavily influenced the course of the development of modern musical theatre. They have also influenced political style and discourse, literature, film and television and advertising, and have been widely parodied by humorists. Because they", "title": "Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan" }, { "id": "2969948", "text": "Fear (1996 film) Fear is a 1996 American psychological thriller directed by James Foley and written by Christopher Crowe. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano and Amy Brenneman. It revolves around a wealthy family whose seemingly perfect existence is threatened when their teenage daughter begins dating an attractive and mysterious young man, much to her father's chagrin. The picture was largely derided by critics upon its release, but became a sleeper hit in the spring of 1996, grossing $20 million at the U.S. box office. It has since become a cult film, while at the same", "title": "Fear (1996 film)" }, { "id": "2590033", "text": "The crest itself may have been derived from Sir William de Carlyell of Cumberland, in the reign of Edward II, who bore a red cross. The supporting red wyverns to either side of the shield are a symbol of the British Kingdom of Cumbria. The motto on the underlying scroll reads: ‘Be just and fear not’, which is a quote from Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII'. Carlisle were often referred to as 'The Foxes' due to the local connection with huntsman John Peel. In 1970 the club badge changed to reflect this and featured a golden fox jumping over the abbreviation C.U.F.C.", "title": "Carlisle United F.C." }, { "id": "7682905", "text": "in the first person, follows 24 hours of Christopher Snow's life, as he discovers and attempts to unravel a mysterious and seemingly endless conspiracy centered on a military compound called Fort Wyvern. The book opens with Christopher Snow going to visit his dying father at the hospital. As Snow crosses the hospital to his father's room the lights are thoughtfully dimmed to protect him in his condition. Christopher’s father dying words of advice were \"Fear nothing, Chris. Fear nothing\". As he leaves the hospital Snow accidentally and serendipitously watches as his father’s body is switched with that of a drifter.", "title": "Fear Nothing" }, { "id": "6025078", "text": "there are not. Let no fool,<br> Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.” A fragment from the lost satyr play \"Sisyphus\", which has been attributed to both Critias and Euripides, claims that a clever man invented \"the fear of the gods\" in order to frighten people into behaving morally. This statement, however, originally did not mean that the gods themselves were nonexistent, but rather that their powers were a hoax. Aristophanes (ca. 448–380 BCE), known for his satirical style, wrote in his play the \"Knights\": \"Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's", "title": "History of atheism" }, { "id": "1994792", "text": "shrug off even the worst injuries. The only lines of dialogue from the book that were re-used in the film were spoken by Baby Herman and Jessica Rabbit with Baby Herman saying \"I've got a 50-year-old lust and a 3-year-old dinky\" and Jessica Rabbit saying \"I'm not bad, Mr. Valiant. I'm just drawn that way\", though in the book, Baby Herman's actual age is given as 36. In 1991, Wolf wrote another Roger Rabbit book, \"Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?\", but (in the form of a memo from Valiant) the book says that Roger Rabbit \"and his screwball buddies play fast", "title": "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" }, { "id": "19937514", "text": "sets forth the limits and risks for a journalist when it comes to disagreeing publicly with publishers. Gerald Posner wrote about the controversy in \"The Huffington Post\". Trisha has also been a commentator on television, NBC, MSNBC and FOX, regarding her journalism. Trisha Posner Trisha Posner is a British non-fiction writer. She is the author of \"This is Not Your Mother's Menopause: One Woman's Natural Journey Through Change (2000)\", \"No Hormones, No Fear (2003)\" and \"The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story (2017)\". She wrote under her own name, as well as Patricia Posner. \"The Pharmacist of Auschwitz\" was the", "title": "Trisha Posner" }, { "id": "15778671", "text": "East African Professional Hunter's Association The East African Professional Hunter's Association (EAPHA) was an organization of East African white hunters founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 1934. Well known members included Philip Percival, Harry Selby, Sydney Downey and Donald Ker. Their motto was \"nec timor nec temeritas\", or \"neither fear nor foolhardiness\". The Association formed out of a desire to regulate hunting in the wake of technological developments like the safari vehicle, which had made accessing remote hunting areas much easier. During its existence it was able to accomplish much to conserve East African wildlife and become perhaps one of the", "title": "East African Professional Hunter's Association" }, { "id": "18610677", "text": "end and a long one on the other). A Brief History Pointing to Innate Behavior: Friedrich Goethe was the first to perform experiments using silhouettes (1937, 1940). He found that naive Capercaillie exhibited a greater fear response to a silhouette of a hawk than to a circle, a triangle, or a generalized bird silhouette, but that this varied with both species, and prior experience. Tinbergen, in 1951, pointed out that he was inspired by Oscar Heinroth's observations in which he stated that domestic chickens are more alarmed by short necked birds, over long necks ones. This provoked Konrad Lorenz's and", "title": "Hawk/goose effect" } ]

[ "Flush (disambiguation)", "Flush (song)", "Flush" ]

[ { "id": "449489", "text": "mocked. \"\"The Waves\" (1931) presents a group of six friends whose reflections, which are closer to recitatives than to interior monologues proper, create a wave-like atmosphere that is more akin to a prose poem than to a plot-centred novel\". \"Flush: A Biography\" (1933) is a part-fiction, part-biography of the cocker spaniel owned by Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The book is written from the dog's point of view. Woolf was inspired to write this book from the success of the Rudolf Besier play \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". In the play, Flush is on stage for much of the action.", "title": "Virginia Woolf" }, { "id": "7197664", "text": "dead. That was all. The drawing-room table, strangely enough, stood perfectly still.\" Woolf ostensibly uses the life of a dog as pointed social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism and environmentalism to class conflict. Flush: A Biography Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining \"The Waves\", the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in \"\", and to which she would return in \"Between the Acts\".", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "7197655", "text": "Flush: A Biography Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining \"The Waves\", the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in \"\", and to which she would return in \"Between the Acts\". Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "126051", "text": "of Edward's trip to Torquay. She wrote to Mitford, \"That was a very near escape from madness, absolute hopeless madness\". The family returned to Wimpole Street in 1841. At Wimpole Street Barrett Browning spent most of her time in her upstairs room. Her health began to improve, though she saw few people other than her immediate family. One of those was Kenyon, a wealthy friend of the family and patron of the arts. She received comfort from a spaniel named Flush, a gift from Mary Mitford. (Virginia Woolf later fictionalised the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "714768", "text": "of Wimpole Street\", starring Katharine Cornell. Subsequent film in 1957 \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\" starred Jennifer Jones and Bill Travers. The bulk of the story takes place in the lavish home of Edward Barrett (Charles Laughton) and his adult children. Upstairs, Elizabeth (Norma Shearer), called \"Ba\", the oldest girl, consults with her doctor. She is recovering from an undisclosed illness and is extremely weak – standing and walking are painful – but the doctor advises that a full recovery is possible. She has a vivacious and brilliant mind, her poetry is frequently published, she has a cute Cocker spaniel", "title": "The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)" }, { "id": "3014725", "text": "is similar to merle, but consists of solid patches and white patches speckled or \"ticked\" with the same colour as the solid patches. The colours themselves in the breed consist of black, liver with brown pigmentation, red with black or brown pigmentation, golden with black or brown pigmentation, sable, silver, ash, black and tan, liver and tan, blue roan, liver roan, orange roan with black or brown pigmentation, lemon roan with black or brown pigmentation, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked, orange and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white ticked with black or brown", "title": "English Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "7197661", "text": "Bouverie Pusey for the puppy, Mitford gave Flush to Elizabeth, then convalescent in a back room of the family house on Wimpole Street in London. Flush leads a restrained but happy life with the poet until she meets Robert Browning; the introduction of love into Barrett Browning's life improves her health tremendously, but leaves the forgotten dog heartbroken. Woolf draws on passages from the letters to depict Flush's attempted mutinies: that is, he attempts to bite Browning, who remains unharmed. The drama of the courtship is interrupted by Flush's dognapping. While accompanying Barrett Browning shopping, he is snatched by a", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "4155063", "text": "daily-paper critics, she has glamour.\" The play ran for 370 performances. When it was announced that it was closing, the remaining performances sold out and hundreds were turned away. The play's success engendered a revival of Robert Browning's poetry, and cocker spaniels became the popular dog that year. Irving Thalberg wanted Cornell to play her part in an MGM adaptation, offering that if she was not completely satisfied with the result, the film would be destroyed. She refused. The movie that was released had most of the original cast, and Thalberg's wife, actress Norma Shearer, played the part of Elizabeth.", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "11437609", "text": "dear Miss Barrett,' and a little later in that first letter he says 'I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too' (10 January 1845). Several editions of these letters have been published, starting with one by their son in 1898. \"Flush\" by Virginia Woolf, a version of the courtship from the perspective of Elizabeth's dog, is also an imaginative reconstruction, though more closely based on reading the letters. Both the play and film reflect popular concerns at the time, particularly Freudian analysis. Although Edward Barrett's behaviour in disinheriting the children who married", "title": "The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957 film)" }, { "id": "4155057", "text": "her feet to watch him disappear down the lane. Elizabeth and Robert later elope, against her father's strict orders, and when he finds that she has married without his permission or knowledge, he orders that her beloved dog, Flush, be killed. But her sister had ensured that this cocker spaniel join the couple in their escape.Text of the play The play has several difficulties. The lead role of Elizabeth has to be played initially as submissive to her father, yet as the center of attention throughout. Although the ending is happy for Elizabeth and Robert, the rest of the family", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "126065", "text": "with other writers, including Mary Russell Mitford, who would become a close friend and who would support Elizabeth's literary ambitions. In 1838 \"The Seraphim and Other Poems\" appeared, the first volume of Elizabeth's mature poetry to appear under her own name. \"Sonnets from the Portuguese\" was published in 1850. There is debate about the origin of the title. Some say it refers to the series of sonnets of the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luís de Camões. However, \"my little Portuguese\" was a pet name that Browning had adopted for Elizabeth and this may have some connection. The verse-novel \"Aurora Leigh,\" her", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "2544397", "text": "to flush birds into the air to be shot, and to use their eyes and nose to locate the bird once downed, and then to retrieve the bird with a soft mouth. The major differences between the English and American varieties is that the American is smaller with a shorter back, a domed head and a shorter muzzle, while the English variety is taller with a narrower head and chest. Cocker spaniel coats come in a variety of colors including black, liver, red and golden in solids. There are also black and tan, and sometimes liver and tan, as well", "title": "Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "20065966", "text": "and wrote part of \"Orestes at Delpho\" under his roof. Kenyon was one of Southey's travelling companions on his French tour in 1838. Meeting Browning at a dinner-party, Kenyon discovered that Robert Browning senior, his father, had been at school with him in Bristol; this was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Kenyon first introduced Browning, at the house of her parents, to Elizabeth Barrett, a relative if not a close one, who became Browning's wife. To Kenyon Browning dedicated his \"Dramatic Romances and Lyrics\". Failing to obtain for Kenyon a copy of the picture \"Andrea del Sarto and his", "title": "John Kenyon (patron)" }, { "id": "4155059", "text": "play the part of Robert Browning. Afterwards, McClintic immediately went to a London jewelry store and bought a necklace, two bracelets and a garnet ring, all at least 100 years old. For every single performance that Cornell gave as Elizabeth Barrett, she wore this jewelry in the last act, when she leaves the family home for the last time. Katharine Hepburn was selected for the part of Henrietta, but since she was going to play in a summer stock company a few months later, she could not be signed to a contract. Casting the dog was troublesome, since it would", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "825039", "text": "dogs, along with most service and hearing dogs, are exempt from regulations against the presence of animals in places such as restaurants and public transportation. References to service animals date at least as far back as the mid-16th century; the second line of the popular verse alphabet \"A was an Archer\" is most commonly \"B was a Blind-man/Led by a dog\". In the 19th-century verse novel \"Aurora Leigh\" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the title character remarks, \"The blind man walks wherever the dog pulls / And so I answered.\" The first service animal training schools were established in Germany during", "title": "Guide dog" }, { "id": "7197660", "text": "women oppressed by \"fathers and tyrants\" may find freedom. This unusual biography traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country, to his adoption by Ms. Browning and his travails in London, leading up to his final days in a bucolic Italy. The story begins by alluding to Flush's pedigree and birth in the household of Barrett Browning's impecunious friend Mary Russell Mitford. Woolf emphasises the dog's conformity to the guidelines of The Kennel Club, using those guidelines as a symbol of class difference that recurs throughout the work. Declining an offer from the brother of Edward", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "126042", "text": "adulthood except for one girl, who died at the age of three, when Elizabeth was eight. The children all had nicknames: Elizabeth was \"Ba\". She rode her pony, went for family walks and picnics, socialised with other county families, and participated in home theatrical productions. But unlike her siblings, she immersed herself in books as often as she could get away from the social rituals of her family. She was baptized in 1809 at Kelloe parish church, although she had already been baptised by a family friend in her first week of life. In 1809, the family moved to Hope", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "13792959", "text": "floor of girlfriend Jane Asher's family home in a room overlooking Browning Mews in the back, and with John Lennon writing \"I Want to Hold Your Hand\" on a piano in the basement. At her father's house at number 50 lived for some time between 1840 and 1845, Elizabeth Barrett, then known as the author of a volume of poems, and who afterwards escaped and was better known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Today, at the bottom end of Wimpole at Wigmore can be found a sandwich shop named \"Barrett's\". Bentinck Street leaves Welbeck Street and touches the middle of winding", "title": "Marylebone" }, { "id": "126036", "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "126075", "text": "over a century. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life she also developed lung problems,", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "10763913", "text": "with the displayed toys. The most famous resident was the poet Elizabeth Barrett, who lived at 50 Wimpole Street with her family from 1838 until 1846 when she eloped with Robert Browning. The street became famous from the play based on their courtship, \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". The play starred Katharine Cornell, and when she retired, she moved to E. 51st St. in New York. As she was now neighbour to two other actors who also starred in the play, the street was nicknamed \"Wimpole Street\". Virginia Woolf memorably describes Wimpole Street in \"\", beginning: \"It is the most", "title": "Wimpole Street" }, { "id": "16786645", "text": "Royal corgis Queen Elizabeth's corgis were the Pembroke Welsh Corgi dogs owned by Queen Elizabeth II and her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Fond of corgis since she was a small child, Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 corgis since she became Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms in 1952. In 2007, Elizabeth II had five corgis: Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow and Holly; five cocker spaniels: Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick and Span; and four dorgis (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds): Cider, Berry, Vulcan and Candy. Monty, Willow and Holly appeared in the 2012", "title": "Royal corgis" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "496249", "text": "are commonly hunted using retrieving dogs such as the Labrador Retriever, the Golden Retriever, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, the Brittany Spaniel, and other similar breeds. Game birds are flushed out using flushing spaniels such as the English Springer Spaniel, the various Cocker Spaniels and similar breeds. The hunting of wild mammals in England and Wales with dogs was banned under the Hunting Act 2004. The wild mammals include fox, hare, deer and mink. Hunting with dogs is permissible, however, where it has been carried out in accordance with one of the exceptions in the Act. Many prehistoric deities are depicted", "title": "Hunting" }, { "id": "19192579", "text": "writing of \"The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized\"; others involved with the project included Richard Henry Horne (editor), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Robert Bell and Leonhard Schmitz. However, Powell later fell out of favour with his fellow authors. Horne wrote of Powell that he was “a dog he repudiates forever” and Robert Browning, in a letter of the same year (1846), warned Elizabeth Barrett Browning not to trust Powell “as his impudence and brazen insensibility are dreadful to encounter beyond all belief”. Powell was employed as a clerk in the shipping business of John Chapman & Co.", "title": "Thomas Powell (1809–1887)" }, { "id": "1447755", "text": "in 1956, which was dismissed by the critics as old-fashioned, though it ran for more than a year. He made two film appearances, playing a cameo comedy scene with Coward as a prospective manservant in Michael Anderson's \"Around the World in 80 Days\" (1956), and as the father of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". He did not consider his performance as the tyrannical father convincing, and confessed that he undertook it only for the large fee (\"it will set me up for a couple of years\") and to keep him before", "title": "John Gielgud" }, { "id": "2686758", "text": "ease of training. Goldendoodles have also become increasingly used as domestic pets due to their affection towards families, as well as their friendliness and patience with children and strangers. Goldendoodle The Goldendoodle (Groodle in Australian English) is a cross-breed dog, which is obtained by breeding a Golden Retriever with a Poodle. The name, which alters \"poodle\" to \"doodle\" by analogy to \"Labradoodle\", was coined in 1992. The Goldendoodle was first bred by Monica Dickens in 1969. Popularity for the goldendoodle grew in the 1990s when breeders in North America and Australia began crossing Golden Retrievers with Standard Poodles. The original", "title": "Goldendoodle" }, { "id": "4023739", "text": "visits sick, injured, and disabled children at a hospital; a German Shepherd alerts her owner of a kitchen fire; a Burmese cat arouses his owner when her heat blanket goes up in smoke; a trained service dog saves her owner from a chemical spill. 5. Keno, Avalanche Dog A search and rescue Labrador retriever rescues an avalanche victim buried under several feet of snow; a woman befriends a gifted horse named Shagra; a rescued bald eagle finds a new home at a rehabilitation center; a cocker spaniel saves her owner from a house fire. 6. Poudre's Catch of the Day", "title": "Animal Miracles" }, { "id": "19326448", "text": "was one of the best known of Forster's biographies in 2016. \"Elizabeth Barrett Browning\" is the first full biography of the poet to be published since Gardner Taplin's life of 1957, and reviews substantial material uncovered during the intervening thirty years, including letters, diaries, papers and juvenilia collected by Philip Kelley and others. Forster draws on the new material to expand on Barrett Browning's life before she met Robert Browning in 1845, at the age of almost forty. She stresses the importance of Barrett Browning's rural childhood at Hope End in Herefordshire, and discusses the nature of her mysterious childhood", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography" }, { "id": "12587989", "text": "According to Basker, \"the \"Eclectic\"'s treatment of the novel was balanced, insightful, and sophisticated\". The \"Eclectic\" also reviewed the works of important literary figures such as George Crabbe, Robert Burns, James Hogg, William Hazlitt, Stendhal, and Goethe. It did not shy away from reviewing the works of controversial figures, however, such as Thomas de Quincey. It reviewed the works of both Brownings, calling Elizabeth Barrett Browning \"the Schiller of our higher nature\" and compared Robert Browning to Tennyson. The \"Eclectic\" also claimed to be the first journal to \"discover\" and \"to notice at any length\" Christina Rossetti's \"Goblin Market and", "title": "The Eclectic Review" }, { "id": "14227684", "text": "in the \"Financial Times\" described it as ‘an intellectual thriller, a book of penetrating humanity and a vivid evocation of Paris in the wake of Bonaparte's defeat’. Before 2003 Stott published academic books including books on Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Simon Avery) and other aspects of Victorian culture. Since 2003 she has published books of creative non-fiction which explore the boundaries between literature, intellectual history and the history of science. \"Darwin and the Barnacle\" (Faber, 2003) tells the story of Darwin's obsession with breaking the riddle of a single aberrant barnacle species he had found in a conch shell", "title": "Rebecca Stott" }, { "id": "126041", "text": "\"Elizabeth Barrett Barrett\" or \"EBB\" (initials which she was able to keep after her wedding). Elizabeth's father chose to raise his family in England while his business enterprises remained in Jamaica. The fortune of Elizabeth's mother's line, the Graham Clarke family, also derived in part from slave labour, and was considerable. Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in County Durham, England. Her parents were Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke; Elizabeth was the eldest of 12 children (eight boys and four girls). All lived to", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "11925610", "text": "1387. \"The Boke of St. Albans\", published in 1486 a \"school\" book about hawking, hunting, fishing, and heraldry, attributed to Juliana Berners (Barnes), lists dogs of the time mainly by function: \" First there is a greyhound, a bastard, a mongrel, a mastiff, a limer, a spaniel, \"raches\" (small-to-medium sized scenthounds), \"kennets\" (small hunting dogs), terriers, \"butcher's hounds\", dung-heap dogs, \"trundel tails\" (lapdogs?) and prick-eared curs, and small ladies puppies that bear away the fleas and diverse small sorts\". Almost 100 years later, another book in English, \"De Canibus Britannicus\" by the author/physician John Caius, translated (Fleming) from Latin in", "title": "Dog type" }, { "id": "2269375", "text": "the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for \"J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring\", George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor. The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning spent her childhood at Hope End, a 500-acre (2.0 km) estate near the Malvern Hills in Ledbury, Herefordshire. Her time at Hope End would inspire her in later life to write \"Aurora Leigh\". In \"Early British Trackways\"", "title": "Malvern Hills" }, { "id": "7197658", "text": "times the reader is forced to interpret events from the dog's limited knowledge (Flush sees her owner agitated over markings on a paper and cannot understand that she is in love). For material, Woolf drew primarily on Barrett Browning's two poems on dogs (\"To Flush, My Dog\" and \"Flush or Faunus\") and on the published correspondence of the poet and her husband, Robert Browning. From this material, Woolf creates a biography that works on three levels. It is overtly a biography of a dog's life. Since this dog is of interest primarily for its owner, the work is also an", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "126073", "text": "womanhood\" has distracted us from her poetic achievements. Leighton cites the 1931 play by Rudolf Besier, \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\", as evidence that 20th-century literary criticism of Barrett Browning's work has suffered more as a result of her popularity than poetic ineptitude. The play was popularized by actress Katharine Cornell, for whom it became a signature role. It was an enormous success, both artistically and commercially, and was revived several times and adapted twice into movies. Throughout the 20th century, literary criticism of Barrett Browning's poetry remained sparse until her poems were discovered by the women's movement. She once", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "10748638", "text": "dated 6 November 1794, mentions her recent recovery from a cough, which may have contributed to her death. She was buried on 30 April 1795 in the doctor's vault under the parish church of St Alfege, Greenwich. She was the only Moulton child to die in childhood. Her portrait by Lawrence was placed on display in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1795, which opened the day after her burial. The picture remained in the family's possession until 1910, passing at one point to Sarah's brother, Edward. Sarah's niece was the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. \"Pinkie\" was probably first displayed at", "title": "Pinkie (painting)" }, { "id": "2244766", "text": "a worldview \"shaped by her sense of her working-class origins: most of her stories were about women’s lives.\" Author Valerie Grove characterises her novels as being about \"women's lives and the deceit within families\". Forster's non-fiction included 14 biographies, historical works and memoirs. Her best-known biographies are those of the novelist Daphne du Maurier and the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her 1993 biography of du Maurier was a groundbreaking exploration of the author's sexuality, and her association with Gertrude Lawrence. It was filmed by the BBC as \"Daphne\" in 2007. In her , Forster draws on recently discovered letters and", "title": "Margaret Forster" }, { "id": "7197659", "text": "impressionistic biography of Elizabeth Barrett during the most dramatic years of her life. At this level, \"Flush\" mostly recapitulates the romantic legend of Barrett Browning's life: early confinement by a mysterious illness and a doting but tyrannical father; a passionate romance with an equally talented poet; an elopement that permanently estranges the father, but which allows Barrett Browning to find happiness and health in Italy. On a third level, the book gives Woolf an opportunity to return to some of her most frequent topics: the glory and misery of London; the Victorian mindset; class differences; and the ways in which", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "3014727", "text": "the roan varieties, lemon roan with a light brown pigmentation is the most recessive of all the roans. Plain white Cockers are rarely born, and are thought to be more prone to deafness than those with more pigmentation. As such they are generally not encouraged in the breed. Cockers are compassionate, determined, kind, intelligent, athletic, alert and resilient and make great family pets. The breed does not like being alone, and will bond strongly to an individual person in a family, usually the one who feeds it. Known for optimism, intelligence and adaptability, the breed is extremely loyal and affectionate.", "title": "English Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "715001", "text": "wife had read the poem through and could not tell whether Sordello was a man, a city or a book. Browning's reputation began to make a partial recovery with the publication, 1841–1846, of \"Bells and Pomegranates\", a series of eight pamphlets, originally intended just to include his plays. Fortunately for Browning's career, his publisher, Moxon, persuaded him to include some \"dramatic lyrics\", some of which had already appeared in periodicals. In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his elder, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London. They began regularly corresponding and", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "2544399", "text": "Cocker Spaniel was ranked the 23rd most popular breed according to registration statistics of the AKC in 2009, a decrease in popularity since 1999 when it was ranked 13th. For twenty five years the American Cocker Spaniel was the most popular dog in America. It was ranked number one first in 1936 prior to the English Cocker Spaniel being recognized as a separate breed, and held onto the spot until 1952 when Beagles became the most popular dog. It regained the spot in 1983 and held on at number one until 1990. In the UK, the American Cocker Spaniel is", "title": "Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "4155055", "text": "as it was an interpretation of a role, and therefore her choice of roles and the way she played them offer great insights into her nature, greater perhaps than can be inferred from her gracious, smiling, always agreeable, and increasingly guarded behavior offstage. One must look at her performances as one looks at the output of a writer or a painter.\" Katharine Cornell is perhaps best known in her role as poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Rudolf Besier's play \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". The play is based on the life of the poet's family; the Barretts lived on Wimpole", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "12317467", "text": "essays in Bernard Schweizer's \"Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982\" (2006), which features studies of, among others, Lady Mary Wroth’s \"The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania\", Mary Tighe’s \"Psyche\", Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s \"Aurora Leigh\", Sharon Doubiago’s \"Hard Country\", and Rebecca West’s \"Black Lamb and Grey Falcon\". Female epic The female epic is a concept in literary criticism that seeks to expand generic boundaries by identifying ways in which women authors have adapted the masculine epic tradition to express their own heroic visions. Historically, epic literature has been considered an exclusively male domain, to the extent that \"epic and", "title": "Female epic" }, { "id": "19326449", "text": "illness, demonstrating that no diagnosis was made at the time by the doctors attending her. She points out the central role that Barrett Browning's mother, Mary Barrett, played in guiding her daughter's education and earliest literary development. Forster is sympathetic towards Barrett Browning's father, Edward Barrett – who was frequently demonised for \"imprisoning\" his daughter in their London home on Wimpole Street – highlighting their positive relationship during her childhood. She emphasises the similarities in character between father and daughter, and the fact that Barrett Browning actively maintained their intimate relationship before the split over her wish to marry Browning.", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography" }, { "id": "4155038", "text": "Their production company gave first or prominent Broadway roles to some of the more notable actors of the 20th century, including many British Shakespearean actors. Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre. Her most famous role was that of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". Other appearances on Broadway included in W. Somerset Maugham's \"The Letter\" (1927), Sidney Howard's \"The Alien Corn\" (1933), Juliet in \"Romeo and Juliet\" (1934), Maxwell Anderson's \"The Wingless Victory\" (1936), S. N. Behrman's \"No Time for Comedy\" (1939), a", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "2430122", "text": "poem, indeed, has much of the quality of fine poetry; it is earnest, vivid and alive with spirit. But Horne early drove his talent too hard, and continued to write when he had little left to say. In criticism he had insight and quickness. He was one of the first to appreciate Keats and Tennyson, and he gave valuable encouragement to Mrs. Browning when she was still Miss Elizabeth Barrett. Hornes's epic poem, \"Orion\" was reprinted by the Scholartis Press in 1928. He has been the subject of two biographies: Richard Henry Horne Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne)", "title": "Richard Henry Horne" }, { "id": "3014728", "text": "The English Cocker Spaniel has a cheerful nature. They rank 18th in Stanley Coren's \"The Intelligence of Dogs\", being of excellent working/obedience intelligence. Due to the breed's happy disposition and continuously wagging tail, it has been given the nickname \"merry cocker\". They can also be dominant but loyal to their companion. With a good level of socialisation at an early age, Cocker Spaniels can get along well with people, children, other dogs and other pets. This breed seems to have a perpetually wagging tail and prefers to be around people; it is not best suited to the backyard alone. Cockers", "title": "English Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "2776507", "text": "for various reasons, and the resulting puppies (called designer dogs) are described by whimsical \"portmanteau\" words, such as cockapoo or spoodle (Cocker Spaniel), maltipoo (Maltese), goldendoodle (Golden Retriever), labradoodle (Labrador), Schnoodle (Schnauzer), Pekapoos (Pekingese), Cavapoo (Cavalier King Charles), Bernedoodle (Bernese Mountain Dog) and many others. A cross between a shedding breed and a poodle (which does not shed much) does not reliably produce a nonshedding dog. Traits of puppies from crossbreedings are not as predictable as those from purebred poodle breedings, and the crosses may shed or have unexpected or undesirable qualities from the parent breeds. Poodle crossbreds (also called", "title": "Poodle" }, { "id": "126055", "text": "Some critics state that her activity was, in some ways, in decay before she met Browning: \"Until her relationship with Robert Browning began in 1845, Barrett's willingness to engage in public discourse about social issues and about aesthetic issues in poetry, which had been so strong in her youth, gradually diminished, as did her physical health. As an intellectual presence and a physical being, she was becoming a shadow of herself.\" The courtship and marriage between Robert Browning and Elizabeth were carried out secretly, as she knew her father would disapprove. After a private marriage at St Marylebone Parish Church,", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "9174199", "text": "the cricket team and recipient of many prizes, including both the Hebrew prize and a prize for reciting a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning\". Graham, then still known as Lily, had been trained for a career in teaching. When she left the orphanage, her mother was dying of cancer, and Graham returned home to care for her. Upon her mother's death, the 16-year-old took a job in a department store demonstrating a speciality toothbrush and moved into a tiny flat in London's West End. At 18, she married John Graham Gillam, whom her daughter describes as \"a kindly older man", "title": "Sheilah Graham" }, { "id": "16786652", "text": "beef, served by a gourmet chef. At Christmas, the Queen makes stockings for pets full of toys and delicacies such as biscuits. In 1999, one of Queen Elizabeth's royal footmen was demoted from Buckingham Palace for his \"party trick of pouring booze into the corgis' food and water\" and watching them \"staggering about\" with relish. In 2007, the Queen was noted to have five corgis, Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow, and Holly; five cocker spaniels, Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four \"dorgis\" (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds), Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II's corgis Monty, Willow, and Holly", "title": "Royal corgis" }, { "id": "126046", "text": "was unable to diagnose. All three sisters came down with the syndrome although it lasted only with Elizabeth. She had intense head and spinal pain with loss of mobility. Various biographies link this to a riding accident at the time (she fell while trying to dismount a horse), but there is no evidence to support the link. Sent to recover at the Gloucester spa, she was treated – in the absence of symptoms supporting another diagnosis – for a spinal problem. Though this illness continued for the rest of her life, it is believed to be unrelated to the lung", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "17197757", "text": "Prescott's \"Pomegranate Flowers\" at the outset, then proceeds to describe an Evergreens life rich in cultural exchange, reading Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Thomas de Quincey, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Carlyle, and Shakespeare, and entertaining many distinguished visitors–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist Wendell Phillips, landscape designer Frederick Olmsted. Personalities more intimately associated with the Dickinson circle also grace these pages as Susan relates luscious accounts of lunches with \"fresh asparagus\" and \"salad from our own garden\" and dinners of \"very nice lamb and strawberries\" with editor Samuel Bowles, his wife Mary, friend Maria Whitney, Josiah and Elizabeth Holland,", "title": "Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson" }, { "id": "17536726", "text": "wrote \"Inspirational\" novels such as \"Rachel Sylvestre\" (1904); these novels were often about Alexander Camplbell's desire live according to New Testament doctrine. Her literary remodels were British author George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], whom she frequently quotes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Jessie even chooses a pen name \"Auris Leigh\" when writing for the Christian Evangelist inspired by Browning's popular feminist hero, Aurora. Dr. Sandra Parker worked to reprint some of Pound's work because she believes her work belongs in the American literary canon; \"After the Western Reserve\" is a reprint of eleven short stories and the novel \"Rachel Sylvestre\" with", "title": "Jessie Brown Pounds" }, { "id": "1951351", "text": "pony. The UK's indigenous dog breeds include Bulldog, Jack Russell Terrier, Golden Retriever, Yorkshire Terrier, Airedale Terrier, Beagle, Border Collie, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, English Cocker Spaniel, Scottish Terrier, Welsh Corgi, Bullmastiff, Greyhound, English Springer Spaniel and Old English Sheepdog. The Kennel Club, with its headquarters in London, is the oldest kennel club in the world, and acts as a lobby group on issues involving dogs in the UK. Its main objectives are to promote the general improvement of dogs and responsible dog ownership. Held since 1891, Crufts is an annual dog show in the UK. The event takes place over", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "20876424", "text": "seats and residences\", by the Colwall road. It belonged then to E. M. Barratt. This was Edward Moulton-Barrett, father of Elizabeth Barrett Browning who was brought up there; financial problems caused him to sell it the following year. The same guide gives fulsome praise to the Park: \"Nothing can surpass the romantic beauty of Hope-end park. The most lovely graces of nature are here combined.\" According to Elizabeth, the setting for her poem \"The Lost Bower\" was the wood above Hope End House's garden. Land at Hope End, around , is on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of", "title": "Hope End" }, { "id": "19326451", "text": "relationships with her female servants, whom she underpaid and in some cases abandoned when they had difficulties. Forster particularly highlights her poor treatment of her maid Elizabeth Wilson when she became pregnant. Forster subsequently examined the relationship between Barrett Browning and Wilson from a fictional perspective in her novel \"Lady's Maid\" (1990). The journalist Ruth Gorb, writing in \"The Guardian\" in 2016, describes the biography as \"brilliant\". Academics Simon Avery and Rebecca Stott consider the biography to interrogate the picture of Barrett Browning that was mainstream at the time of its publication, presenting \"a far more active and intellectual woman", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography" }, { "id": "14752579", "text": "in \"The Time of Your Life\" at the Lyric Hammersmith, followed in 1948 by a stage production of \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\" in which she portrayed Elizabeth Barrett, a performance which earned her further critical appreciation, although the production itself was thought lacklustre. Critic Alan Dent noted that \"the one exception among the general cowed lethargy of the Barretts is Elizabeth herself...she is sincere, touching, awakened.\" Johnston appeared as Alma Winemiller in a 1951 production of Tennessee Williams' \"Summer and Smoke\", initially at the Lyric then transferring to the Duchess Theatre. This performance drew some of the best notices", "title": "Margaret Johnston" }, { "id": "126060", "text": "said that she died \"smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl's... Her last word was... \"</nowiki>Beautiful\". She was buried in the Protestant English Cemetery of Florence. \"On Monday July 1 the shops in the area around Casa Guidi were closed, while Elizabeth was mourned with unusual demonstrations.\" The nature of her illness is still unclear. Some modern scientists speculate her illness may have been hypokalemic periodic paralysis, a genetic disorder that causes weakness and many of the other symptoms she described. Barrett Browning's first known poem was written at the age of six or eight, \"On the Cruelty", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "714767", "text": "The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film) The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was written by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Rudolf Besier. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin. This film was based upon the famous 1930 play, \"The Barretts", "title": "The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)" }, { "id": "634553", "text": "and his third wife Jane Seymour. The animals are: the lion of England, the Seymour lion, the Royal dragon, the black bull of Clarence, the yale of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer, the White Greyhound of Richmond, the Tudor dragon, the Seymour panther and the Seymour unicorn. The set of Queens Beasts at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II replaced the three Seymour items and one of the dragons by the griffin of Edward III, the horse of Hanover, the falcon of the Plantagenets and the unicorn of Scotland. Since the reign of King George II, no monarch has", "title": "Hampton Court Palace" }, { "id": "3281300", "text": "owning the following dog breeds: Akita Inu, Alangu Mastiff, Alano Español, American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Argentine Dogo, Bedlington Terrier, Boston Terrier, Bull and Terrier, Bull Terrier, Bully Kutta, Cane Corso, Dogue de Bordeaux, Dogo Sardesco, English Mastiff, Fila Brasileiro, Gull Dong, Gull Terrier, Irish Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Korean Jindo Dog, Lottatore Brindisino, Neapolitan Mastiff, Perro de Presa Canario, Perro de Presa Mallorquin, Shar Pei, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Tosa Inu. In \"Toledo v. Tellings\" – Reversed – 871 N.E.2d 1152 (Ohio, 2007), the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeal struck down a portion of the Toledo, Ohio, municipal", "title": "Breed-specific legislation" }, { "id": "126070", "text": "honour of Barrett Browning. Brightwen Binyon beat 44 other designs. It was based on the timber-framed Market House, which was opposite the site. It was completed in 1896. However, Nikolaus Pevsner was not impressed by its style. In 1938, it became a public library. It has been Grade II-listed since 2007. Barrett Browning was widely popular in the United Kingdom and the United States during her lifetime. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by her poem \"Lady Geraldine's Courtship\" and specifically borrowed the poem's metre for his poem \"The Raven\". Poe had reviewed Barrett Browning's work in the January 1845 issue", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "10858787", "text": "Ultimately, the Baltimore Women’s Liberation, an active local group and publishers of a successful new journal, helped to raise money for the Press’s first publications. On November 17, 1970, the first meeting of the newly formed Press occurred in Florence Howe's living-room. The first book to be published was Barbara Danish’s children's book \"The Dragon and the Doctor\" in 1971. Florence Howe saw her dreams of producing feminist biographies come true with the publication of \"Elizabeth Barrett Browning\" at the end of 1971. In the Press’s founding years, Tillie Olsen changed its course dramatically by giving Howe a photocopy of", "title": "Feminist Press" }, { "id": "3207466", "text": "Warbler, Parrot, Hoopoe, Kinglet, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, Bohemian Waxwing, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Screech Owl, Meadowlark, European Goldfinch. [Announced but never put into production: Evening Grosbeak, Pitta, Weaver Bird.] Complete list of 11 Bachmann Dogs of the World officially released to the public: Collie, German Shepherd, Pointer, Wire-Haired Terrier, Poodle, Basset Hound, Cocker Spaniel, St. Bernard, Boxer, Dalmatian, Mongrel. Complete list of 9 Bachmann Animals of the World officially released to the public: Squirrel Monkey, Giant Panda, Deer, Cow and Calf, Tiger, Lion, Zebra, Morgan Horse, Leopard. In light of dwindling interest in model railroading, the Crowther brothers decided, in 1981, to sell", "title": "Bachmann Industries" }, { "id": "19326447", "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography by Margaret Forster, first published in 1988, is a biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which won the Heinemann Award in 1989. Forster draws on newly discovered letters and papers that shed light on the poet's life before she met and eloped with Robert Browning, and rewrites the myth of the invalid poet guarded by an ogre-like father, to give a more-nuanced picture of an active, difficult woman who was complicit in her own virtual imprisonment. It remained the most-detailed published biography of the poet in 2003, and", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography" }, { "id": "12639484", "text": "godfathers Alfred's christening became a popular topic among literary people. Father Prout wrote: Edward Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edward Barton that Tennyson and Count D'Orsay had stood as godparents to one of Dickens's children, and that the unfortunate child had been named 'Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson', which he believed proved that 'Dickens was a snob... For what is Snobbishness and Cockneyism, but all such pretensions and parade? It is one thing to worship heroes and another to lick their spittle.' Robert Browning wrote to Elizabeth Barrett, who shortly after married him in the same church in which Alfred Dickens had", "title": "Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens" }, { "id": "12375215", "text": "published the highly successful children's book \"The Tale of Peter Rabbit\" in 1902. Potter eventually went on to publish 23 children's books, and became a wealthy woman. The leading poets during the Victorian period were Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Robert Browning (1812–1889), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61), and Matthew Arnold (1822–1888). The poetry of this period was heavily influenced by the Romantics, but also went off in its own directions. Particularly notable was the development of the dramatic monologue, a form used by many poets in this period, but perfected by Robert Browning. Literary criticism in the 20th century gradually drew", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "18000654", "text": "\"The Hundred and One Dalmatians\" by Dodie Smith \"Just William\" by Richmal Crompton \"Born to Run\" by Michael Morpurgo \"David Copperfield\" by Charles Dickens \"Shadow, the Sheep-Dog\" by Enid Blyton \"The Knife of Never Letting Go\" by Patrick Ness \"Because of Winn-Dixie\" by Kate DiCamillo \"The Werepuppy\" by Jacqueline Wilson </poem> The \"Pets' Corner\" section of the book is where famous authors (such as Horrid Henry's Francesca Simon and The Magic Faraway Tree's Enid Blyton) talk about their pets. CBBC has done a book club report on it by Katie Thistleton, citing part of it as a \"brilliant read\". People", "title": "Paws and Whiskers" }, { "id": "1462434", "text": "and the first breed standard was written shortly afterwards. The first member of the breed was registered in America to the American Kennel Club in 1898, and it was recognized in 1900. In 1912, two Pomeranians were among only three dogs to survive the sinking of RMS \"Titanic\". A Pomeranian called \"Lady\", owned by Miss Margaret Hays, escaped with her owner in lifeboat number seven, while Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild took her pet to safety with her in lifeboat number six. Glen Rose Flashaway won the Toy Group at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1926, the first Pomeranian to", "title": "Pomeranian (dog)" }, { "id": "18947414", "text": "journal, at the end of the nineteenth century published the following: \"Man has been defined, perhaps somewhat crudely, says \"Food and Cookery\", as an animal that prefers a properly cooked meal to raw food, and Noah's wine to Adam's ale.\" Madeleine L'Engle used the term in her 1986 novel, \"Many Waters\", and David Garnett used the phrase in his 1963 novel, \"Two by Two: A Story of Survival\". Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 epic poem, \"Aurora Leigh\" has the following lines: \"For everywhere/ We're too materialistic,—eating clay,/ (Like men of the west) instead of Adam's corn/ And Noah's wine.\" A work", "title": "Noah's wine" }, { "id": "13672547", "text": "Jane Seymour, the falcon of York, the black bull of Clarence, the yale of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer, the greyhound of Richmond, the white hart of Richard II, the collared silver antelope of Bohun, the black dragon of Ulster, the white swan of Hereford, the unicorn of Edward III and the golden hind of Kent. The original beasts dated from the sixteenth century, but were removed in 1682 on the advice of Sir Christopher Wren. Wren had condemned the Reigate stone, the calcareous sandstone of which they were constructed. The present statues date from 1925, when the chapel", "title": "St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle" }, { "id": "4519706", "text": "friend: \"P.S. The 'Valdemar Case' was a hoax, of course.\" In the \"Daily Tribune\", its editor, Horace Greeley, noted \"that several good matter-of-fact citizens\" were tricked by the story, but \"whoever thought it a veracious recital must have the bump of Faith large, very large indeed.\" Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to Poe about the story to commend him on his talent for \"making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar\". The Virginia poet Philip Pendleton Cooke also wrote to Poe, calling the story \"the most damnable, vraisemblable, horrible, hair-lifting, shocking, ingenious chapter of fiction that any brain ever conceived or hand", "title": "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" }, { "id": "1327109", "text": "tumour was removed, she suffered a recurrence in September 1894. She died in Bloomsbury on 29 December 1894 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. The place where she died, in Torrington Square, is marked with a stone tablet. Although Rossetti's popularity in her lifetime did not approach that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her standing remained strong after her death. Her popularity faded in the early 20th century, in the wake of Modernism, although scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry. In the 1970s academics", "title": "Christina Rossetti" }, { "id": "14669788", "text": "Mameve Medwed Mameve Medwed is an American novelist. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, she received her B.A. with honors from Simmons College and as of June 2015 lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of \"Mail\", \"Host Family\", \"The End of an Error\", \"How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life\" (for which she received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor), and \"Of Men and Their Mothers\". She has taught fiction writing at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education since 1979, mentored in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Lesley University from 1986–88, and was the 1996", "title": "Mameve Medwed" }, { "id": "2281891", "text": "Peel, the gangster Charlie Richardson, Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Jarvis Cocker, Björk, Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Evelyn Waugh, Brassai and Margaret Thatcher. She took Queen Elizabeth II's eightieth birthday portrait. Bown's extensive photojournalism output includes series on Hop Pickers, evictions of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Butlin's holiday resort, the British Seaside, and in 2002, Glastonbury festival. Her social documentary and photojournalism was mostly unseen before the release of her book \"Unknown Bown 1947–1967\" in 2007. In 2007 her work from Greenham Common was selected by Val Williams and Susan Bright as part of \"How", "title": "Jane Bown" }, { "id": "805227", "text": "hand and eye\". At one time Lawrence was more popular in the United States and France than he was in Britain, and some of his best known portraits, including those of Elizabeth Farren, Sarah Barrett Moulton (known to her family as Pinkie), and Charles Lambton (the \"Red Boy\") found their way to the United States during the early 20th century enthusiasm there for English portraits. Sir Michael Levey acknowledges that Lawrence is still dismissed by some art historians; his explanation is that \"He was a highly original artist, quite unexpected on the English scene: self-taught, self-absorbed in perfecting his own", "title": "Thomas Lawrence" }, { "id": "2002140", "text": "Barnes – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – H. W. Longfellow – Edward Fitzgerald – Edgar Allan Poe – Alfred Tennyson – Robert Browning – Aubrey de Vere – Emily Brontë – A. H. Clough – Charles Kingsley – Herman Melville – Walt Whitman – Jean Ingelow – Matthew Arnold – William Cory – Coventry Patmore – William Allingham – Sydney Dobell – George Meredith – D. G. Rossetti – Emily Dickinson – Christina Rossetti – Richard Watson Dixon – William Morris – Warren de Tabley – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Thomas Hardy –", "title": "Palgrave's Golden Treasury" }, { "id": "126057", "text": "a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen. Their son later married, but had no legitimate children. At her husband's insistence, Elizabeth's second edition of \"Poems\" included her love sonnets; as a result, her popularity increased (as well as critical regard), and her artistic position was confirmed. The couple came to know a wide circle of artists and writers including William Makepeace Thackeray, sculptor Harriet Hosmer (who, she wrote, seemed to be the \"perfectly emancipated female\") and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1849 she met Margaret Fuller, and the female French novelist George Sand in 1852, whom she had", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "10643546", "text": "Australian passerines. More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the monarchs have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders. Alternate names for the golden monarch include the black-and-gold monarch, black-and-yellow monarch and black-and-yellow monarch flycatcher. There are nine subspecies recognized: Measuring , the golden monarch displays marked sexual dimorphism. The male is a bright golden colour with sharply delineated black cheeks and throat, primary wing feathers and tail. It has a pale blue and black bill and dark brown iris, and a distinctive teardrop", "title": "Golden monarch" }, { "id": "126056", "text": "they honeymooned in Paris before moving to Italy, in September 1846, which became their home almost continuously until her death. Elizabeth's loyal nurse, Wilson, who witnessed the marriage, accompanied the couple to Italy. Mr Barrett disinherited Elizabeth, as he did each of his children who married. Elizabeth had foreseen her father's anger but had not anticipated her brothers' rejection. As Elizabeth had some money of her own, the couple were reasonably comfortable in Italy. The Brownings were well respected, and even famous. Elizabeth grew stronger and in 1849, at the age of 43, between four miscarriages, she gave birth to", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "4546401", "text": "novelists Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and the \"Swedenborgian\" James John Garth Wilkinson. As well as Brewster, fellow scientists Michael Faraday and Thomas Huxley were prominent contemporary critics of Home's claims. It was the poet Robert Browning however, who proved to be one of Home's most adamant critics. After attending a séance of Home's, Browning wrote in a letter to \"The Times\" that: 'the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture'. Browning gave his unflattering impression of Home in the poem, \"Sludge the Medium\" (1864). His wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was convinced that", "title": "Daniel Dunglas Home" }, { "id": "2686750", "text": "Goldendoodle The Goldendoodle (Groodle in Australian English) is a cross-breed dog, which is obtained by breeding a Golden Retriever with a Poodle. The name, which alters \"poodle\" to \"doodle\" by analogy to \"Labradoodle\", was coined in 1992. The Goldendoodle was first bred by Monica Dickens in 1969. Popularity for the goldendoodle grew in the 1990s when breeders in North America and Australia began crossing Golden Retrievers with Standard Poodles. The original purpose of the cross was to develop guide dogs suitable for visually impaired individuals with allergies. Poodles are considered to be hypoallergenic. Their coats do not shed, which reduces", "title": "Goldendoodle" }, { "id": "2688114", "text": "are working towards developing the Cockapoo by breeding successive generations, and establishing it as a recognized breed. The Cockapoo Club of GB promote \"Open and Ethical Breeding to Protect the Cockapoo of Tomorrow, Today.\" They advocate for a \"Breeding Standard\" over a \"Breed Standard\". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-author Cockapoo A Cockapoo is a mixed-breed dog that is the cross between either Cocker Spaniel breeds (American Cocker Spaniel or English Cocker Spaniel) and a poodle (in most cases a miniature poodle or toy poodle). A Cockapoo can be the result of mating either the American Cocker Spaniel or English Cocker Spaniel with a Poodle.", "title": "Cockapoo" }, { "id": "126054", "text": "my heart, dear Miss Barrett,\" praising their \"fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought.\" Kenyon arranged for Browning to meet Elizabeth on 20 May 1845, in her rooms, and so began one of the most famous courtships in literature. Elizabeth had already produced a large amount of work, but Browning had a great influence on her subsequent writing, as did she on his: two of Barrett's most famous pieces were written after she met Browning, \"Sonnets from the Portuguese\" and \"Aurora Leigh.\" Robert's \"Men and Women\" is also a product of that time.", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "2360943", "text": "to him the 'Atlanta in Calydon'. In 1864 on May Day Landor said to his landlady \"\"I shall never write again. Put out the lights and draw the curtains\"\". A few months later he died quietly in Florence at the age of 89. He was buried not after all at Widcombe but in the English Cemetery, Florence, near the tomb of his friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A statue of his wife can also be found in the 'English' Cemetery, above the tomb of their son, Arnold Savage Landor. Later, his Villa Gherardesca in Fiesole would become the home of the", "title": "Walter Savage Landor" }, { "id": "8760431", "text": "century, when it was already noteworthy for its long coat. Some confusion exists in tracing its history because, for a certain time, several different breeds had the same name \"Skye Terrier\". The loyal dog, present under the petticoat of Mary, Queen of Scots at her execution, has been ascribed as a Skye Terrier. In 1840, Queen Victoria made the breed fancy, keeping both drop-(floppy) and prick-(upwards) eared dogs. A colour lithograph of Skye Terriers was included in \"The Illustrated Book of the Dog\" by Vero Shaw in 1881. This greatly increased its popularity and the Skye Terrier came to America", "title": "Skye Terrier" }, { "id": "7823568", "text": "other country and are recognised by all major kennel clubs. Notably, a Sussex Spaniel won the best in show in 2009 at the 133rd Westminster Kennel Club. The Sussex Spaniel is a low compact spaniel similar in appearance to a small, dark Clumber Spaniel. It is normally no taller than at the withers and the usual weight range is with a roughly rectangular appearance. The Clumber Spaniel meanwhile is normally between high at the shoulder, and weighing . One of the noticeable features is their golden liver-coloured coat which is unique to the breed. Historically however, there have also been", "title": "Sussex Spaniel" }, { "id": "2244764", "text": "Me?\" (1979) and \"Private Papers\" (1986) are much darker in tone. She tackled subjects such as single mothers and young offenders. \"Have the Men Had Enough?\" (1989) examines care of the elderly and the problem of Alzheimer's disease, inspired by her mother-in-law's deterioration and death from the disease. In 1991, she and her husband Hunter Davies contributed to the BBC2 \"First Sight\" episode, \"When Love Isn't Enough\", which described Marion Davies' story; Forster sharply criticised government policies on care for the elderly. The publisher Carmen Callil considers \"Lady's Maid\" (1990), a historical novel about Elizabeth Barrett Browning seen through the", "title": "Margaret Forster" }, { "id": "1945371", "text": "to freeze upon finding a bird before flushing it out on command. However, they proved to be the worst breed tested when it came to manipulating objects with their paws, for instance uncovering a dish of food or pulling on a string. With a good level of socialisation at an early age, an American Cocker can get along with people, children, other dogs and other pets. This breed seems to have a perpetually wagging tail and prefers to be around people; it is not best suited to the backyard alone. Cockers can be easily stressed by loud noises and by", "title": "American Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "19948971", "text": "not read, you were considered a freak!' A die-hard aficionado of cinema and theatre, her hobbies are limited to reading - and her family. Married to a mariner Prakash Kane, she lives in Pune with two daughters Kimaya and Amiya and her other family of two dogs - Chic, the cocker spaniel and Cotton, the white, curious cat. Kavita Kané Kavita Kané (born 5 August 1966) is an Indian writer. She is known for writing Mythology-fiction. All of her books are based on Indian mythology. Her bestselling novel is \"Karna's wife: the Outcast Queen\". and is an author of the", "title": "Kavita Kané" }, { "id": "14973993", "text": "Show, and 1st in the terrier Group at the Eukanuba Championship dog show in 2005. In judging for Best in Show at Westminster, Rufus was joined by a Golden Retriever (Ch. Chuckanut Party Favour O' Nove), a Dalmatian (Ch. Merry Go Round Mach Ten), a Rottweiler (Ch. Carter's Noble Shaka Zulu), a Scottish Deerhound, a Pug (Ch. Kendoric's Riversong Mulroney) and an Old English Sheepdog. Of all the breeds being judged, only the Pug and the Sheepdog had previously won Best in Show. Judging was conducted by James Reynolds, with the crowd favouring the Golden Retriever. The Dalmatian was owned", "title": "Rocky Top's Sundance Kid" }, { "id": "7797668", "text": "Dempsey (dog) Dempsey (ca. 1986 - 2003) was a female American Pit Bull Terrier who was the subject of a high-profile challenge to the British Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. She was owned by Dianne Fanneran and lived in London. While being walked one evening in April 1992, muzzled and kept on a leash in accordance with the law, she began acting sick and her muzzle was removed, allegedly to allow her to vomit. Two passing police officers noted the unmuzzled dog and charged the caretaker under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Three months later, at Ealing Magistrates' Court, Dempsey was ordered", "title": "Dempsey (dog)" }, { "id": "1945370", "text": "in height. Known as the \"Merry Cocker\", the American Cocker Spaniel breed standard defines the ideal dog of the breed as being \"equable in temperament with no suggestion of timidity.\" The breed ranks 20th in Stanley Coren's \"The Intelligence of Dogs\", a rating that indicates good \"Working or Obedience Intelligence\", or trainability. IQ tests run on a variety of breeds in the 1950s and 1960s showed that the American Cocker performed the best when tested on its ability to show restraint and delayed response to a trigger, a trait which was put down to the breed's bred-in ability when hunting", "title": "American Cocker Spaniel" }, { "id": "7197662", "text": "thief and taken to the nearby rookery St Giles. This episode, a conflation of three real times on which Flush was stolen, ends when the poet, over her family's objections, pays the robbers six guineas (£6.30) to have the dog returned. It provides Woolf the opportunity for an extended meditation on the poverty of mid-century London, and on the blinkered indifference of many of the city's wealthy residents. After his rescue, Flush is reconciled to his owner's future husband, and he accompanies them to Pisa and Florence. In these chapters, his own experiences are described equally with Barrett Browning's, as", "title": "Flush: A Biography" }, { "id": "4155060", "text": "have to lie still in its basket on stage for a great length of time, and then exit when called for. McClintic selected an eight-month-old cocker spaniel, which played the role for the full run and many others afterward, to unanimous applause. McClintic directed the three-hour play with a meticulous attention to period detail. Cornell was listed as the producer, although it was produced by C. & M.C. Productions, Inc., a company wholly owned by both McClintic and Cornell. The play opened first in Cleveland, then played in Buffalo before reaching New York in January 1931. Brooks Atkinson wrote of", "title": "Katharine Cornell" }, { "id": "7282584", "text": "many other predatory mammals, the dog has powerful muscles, fused wrist bones, a cardiovascular system that supports both sprinting and endurance, and teeth for catching and tearing. Dogs are highly variable in height and weight. The smallest known adult dog was a Yorkshire Terrier, that stood only at the shoulder, in length along the head-and-body, and weighed only . The largest known dog was an English Mastiff which weighed and was from the snout to the tail. The tallest dog is a Great Dane that stands at the shoulder. The dog's senses include vision, hearing, sense of smell, sense of", "title": "Dog" }, { "id": "3437296", "text": "attempt to create a breed, narrowing the gene pool. The best way to continue taking advantage of crossbreed vigor is from the breeding of dogs with genetic diversity. With the long-time popularity of the label cockapoo, used since at least 1960 and constructed by combining elements of its two contributing breeds (Cocker Spaniel/Poodle), it has become extremely common to find crossbred dogs given labels likewise invented by portmanteau. The tendency for using such labels in a jocular way dates back at least to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom's dorgis (Dachshund/Corgi). None of these have become recognised by any", "title": "Dog crossbreed" } ]

[ "The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, published in 1902 and set in Africa" ]

[ { "id": "2752208", "text": "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of \"Apocalypse Now,\" the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella \"Heart of Darkness\", the source material for \"Apocalypse Now\". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them bad weather, actors' poor health, and other issues—delayed the film, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of its director, her husband, Francis Ford Coppola. In 1990, Coppola turned her material", "title": "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" }, { "id": "2752213", "text": "\"Tropic Thunder\" parodies both \"Hearts of Darkness\" and \"Apocalypse Now\". The animated series \"Eek! The Cat\" also did a parody episode \"Eekpocalypse Now!\" Season 2, Episode 5A. Other documentaries about troubled movie productions: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of \"Apocalypse Now,\" the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella \"Heart of Darkness\", the source material for \"Apocalypse Now\". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them", "title": "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" }, { "id": "12362739", "text": "Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius (who received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and featuring narration written by Michael Herr, is an updating of Joseph Conrad's novella \"Heart of Darkness\". The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War \"ca.\" 1969–70, the years in which Green Beret Colonel Robert Rheault, commander of the 5th Special", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362669", "text": "Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius (who received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and featuring narration written by Michael Herr, is an updating of Joseph Conrad's novella \"Heart of Darkness\". The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War \"ca.\" 1969–70, the years in which Green Beret Colonel Robert Rheault, commander of the 5th Special", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362686", "text": "Ford Coppola on \"The Rain People\", George Lucas and Steven Spielberg encouraged their friend and filmmaker John Milius to write a Vietnam War film. Milius had wanted to volunteer for the war, and was disappointed when he was rejected for having asthma. Milius came up with the idea for adapting the plot of Joseph Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\" to the Vietnam War setting. He had read the novel when he was a teenager and was reminded about it by one of his college lecturers who had mentioned the several unsuccessful attempts to adapt it into a movie. Screenwriter John Milius", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "14052192", "text": "Colonel Kurtz Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's film \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz, from the novella \"Heart of Darkness\" (1899) by Joseph Conrad. Walter Kurtz was a career officer in the United States Army; he was a third-generation West Point graduate who had risen through the ranks and was seen to be destined for a top post within the Pentagon. A dossier read by the narrator, Captain Willard, implies that Kurtz saw", "title": "Colonel Kurtz" }, { "id": "1382628", "text": "US gave it their \"Best Cinematography\" Award. It won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association in 1976 and was nominated for a \"Best Film\" César Award. Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\", a film based on Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella \"Heart of Darkness\", was influenced also by \"Aguirre\", as it contains seemingly deliberate visual \"quotations\" of Herzog's film. Coppola himself has noted, \"\"Aguirre\", with its incredible imagery, was a very strong influence. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it.\" Several critics have noted that \"Aguirre\" appears to have had a direct influence on several", "title": "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" }, { "id": "12362680", "text": "is the pilot of a river boat sent to collect ivory from Kurtz's outpost, only gradually becoming infatuated with Kurtz. In fact, when he discovers Kurtz in terrible health, Marlow makes an effort to bring him home safely. In the film, Willard is an assassin dispatched to kill Kurtz. Nevertheless, the depiction of Kurtz as a god-like leader of a tribe of natives and his malarial fever, Kurtz's written exclamation \"Exterminate all the brutes!\" (which appears in the film as \"Drop the bomb. Exterminate them all!\") and his last words \"The horror! The horror!\" are taken from Conrad's novella. Coppola", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "1749273", "text": "circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others. It is widely believed that Conrad drew influence from these characters, as well as Stevenson's plot lines, when writing \"Heart of Darkness\". In the 1958 loose adaptation for the CBS television anthology series \"Playhouse 90\" Kurtz was played by Boris Karloff. This version uses the encounter between Marlow and Kurtz as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed Vietnam War film \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979) centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by", "title": "Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)" }, { "id": "2890883", "text": "2011 compilation album \"From Fear to Eternity\". \"The Edge of Darkness\" is based on the 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\", adapted from Joseph Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\", \"Man on the Edge\" is based on the 1993 movie, \"Falling Down\", and \"Lord of the Flies\" is based on the William Golding novel of the same name. \"Sign of the Cross\" is based on the Umberto Eco's novel \"The Name of the Rose\" and is Iron Maiden's sixth longest song at more than 11 minutes in length. Live versions of \"Blood on the World's Hands\" and \"The Aftermath\" can be found in \"Best", "title": "The X Factor (album)" }, { "id": "12362679", "text": "novella, based on Conrad's experience as a steamboat captain in Africa, is set in the Congo Free State during the 19th century. Kurtz and Marlow (whose corresponding character in the movie is Capt. Willard) work for a Belgian trading company that brutally exploits its native African workers. After arriving at Kurtz's outpost, Marlow concludes that Kurtz has gone insane and is lording over a small tribe as a god. The novella ends with Kurtz dying on the trip back and the narrator musing about the darkness of the human psyche: \"the heart of an immense darkness\". In the novella, Marlow", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362687", "text": "was inspired to write the screenplay because of his college English professor, Irwin Blacker of USC. Blacker challenged his class by saying, “No screenwriter has ever perfected a film adaption of Joseph Conrad’s \"Heart of Darkness\".” Coppola gave Milius $15,000 to write the screenplay with the promise of an additional $10,000 if it were green-lit. Milius claims that he wrote the screenplay in 1969 and originally called it \"The Psychedelic Soldier\". He wanted to use Conrad's novel as \"a sort of allegory. It would have been too simple to have followed the book completely.\" Milius based the character of Willard", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "19260314", "text": "Apocalypse Now (painting) Apocalypse Now is a 1988 painting by the American artist Christopher Wool, widely regarded as among the most important of his \"word paintings\" created in the late 1980s. It consists of the words \"SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS\", stenciled in black, block letters in alkyd enamel on an off-white painted aluminum and steel plate measuring 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm). The quotation is from the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie \"Apocalypse Now\", where it is written in a letter mailed home by a character who has lost his mind in", "title": "Apocalypse Now (painting)" }, { "id": "14427925", "text": "in 1988, Wool and fellow artist Robert Gober presented a collaborative exhibition and installation which included Wool's seminal text-based painting, \"Apocalypse Now\" (1988). The work features words from a famous line in Francis Ford Coppola's film \"Apocalypse Now\", based on the Joseph Conrad novel \"Heart of Darkness\". From the early 1990s through the present, the silkscreen has been a primary tool in Wool's practice. In his abstract paintings Wool brings together figures and the disfigured, drawing and painting, spontaneous impulses and well thought-out ideas. He draws lines on the canvas with a spray gun and then, directly after, wipes them", "title": "Christopher Wool" }, { "id": "2162593", "text": "a competing offer of $15,000 for Milius to write \"Apocalypse Now\". \"Apocalypse Now\" was an adaptation of \"Heart of Darkness\" set in the Vietnam War which George Lucas intended to direct as a follow up to his first feature \"THX 1138\" (1971). Milius says Coppola: Offered that wonderful fork in the road where I could go do my own thing rather than just rewrite some piece of crap that would probably be rewritten by somebody else. That was the most important decision I made in my life as a writer. That sort of steered me onto the path of doing", "title": "John Milius" }, { "id": "178220", "text": "Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes Inga Swenson and Eartha Kitt. The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture \"Apocalypse Now\" based on the screenplay by John Milius, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In \"Apocalypse Now\", Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to \"terminate the command\" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. Marlon Brando played Kurtz, in one of his most famous roles. A production documentary of the", "title": "Heart of Darkness" }, { "id": "360484", "text": "something cramped and claustrophobic\", which would \"undoubtedly amount to one of the screen's scarier haunted houses\". \"The Shining\" is now considered to be a horror classic, and the American Film Institute has ranked it as the 27th greatest thriller film of all time. Kubrick met author Michael Herr through mutual friend David Cornwell (novelist John le Carré) in 1980, and became interested in his book \"Dispatches\", about the Vietnam War. Herr had recently written Martin Sheen's narration for \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). Kubrick was also intrigued by Gustav Hasford's Vietnam War novel \"The Short-Timers.\" With the vision in mind to shoot", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "id": "17597021", "text": "Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé and James Fox. The show is the third screen adaptation of the novella, following a 1958 television adaptation for the anthology series \"Playhouse 90\" starring Boris Karloff, and 1979's \"Apocalypse Now\" with Marlon Brando, which loosely adapted it and updated it to the Vietnam War. The film was filmed as a co-production with Ted Turner's Turner Pictures, and then aired by his TNT network. Ivory", "title": "Heart of Darkness (1993 film)" }, { "id": "12362681", "text": "argues that many episodes in the film—the spear and arrow attack on the boat, for example—respect the spirit of the novella and in particular its critique of the concepts of civilization and progress. Other episodes adapted by Coppola, the Playboy Playmates' (Sirens) exit, the lost souls, \"take me home\" attempting to reach the boat and Kurtz's tribe of (white-faced) natives parting the canoes (gates of Hell) for Willard, (with Chef and Lance) to enter the camp are likened to Virgil and \"The Inferno\" (Divine Comedy) by Dante. While Coppola replaced European colonialism with American interventionism, the message of Conrad's book", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362704", "text": "departing frequently from the original screenplay. Coppola admitted that he had no ending because Brando was too fat to play the scenes as written in the original script. With the help of Dennis Jakob, Coppola decided that the ending could be \"the classic myth of the murderer who gets up the river, kills the king, and then himself becomes the king – it's the Fisher King, from \"The Golden Bough\"\". A water buffalo was slaughtered with a machete for the climactic scene. The scene was inspired by a ritual performed by a local Ifugao tribe which Coppola had witnessed along", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362729", "text": "restored to such heights you can, indeed, get a nose full of the napalm.\" Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a \"Certified Fresh\" rating of 96% based on 84 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The website's critical consensus states that \"Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, hallucinatory Vietnam war epic is cinema at its most audacious and visionary\". Today, the movie is regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era. Roger Ebert considered it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 \"Sight & Sound\" poll for the", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "16136159", "text": "an opera stemmed from O'Regan's viewing the 2001 \"Redux\" version of the film \"Apocalypse Now\" (itself based on the book by Conrad) by Francis Ford Coppola. Work began in earnest in 2002 and passed through two development companies (American Opera Projects and the joint ROH2/Genesis Foundation initiative \"OperaGenesis\") before it was premiered at the Royal Opera House. In terms of its logistical approach, the opera was designed from the outset to be \"short and small\", but emotionally and dramatically large-scale. Writer and broadcaster Tom Service has described the creators' approach as \"mirroring the disproportionate power of Conrad's slender book.\" O'Regan", "title": "Heart of Darkness (opera)" }, { "id": "12362670", "text": "Forces Group, was indicted for murder and President Richard Nixon authorized the secret Cambodian Campaign. Coppola said that Rheault was an inspiration for the character of Colonel Kurtz. The voice-over narration of Willard was written by war correspondent Herr, whose 1977 Vietnam memoir \"Dispatches\" brought him to the attention of Coppola. A major influence on the film was Werner Herzog's \"Aguirre, the Wrath of God\" (1972), which also features a river journey and an insane soldier. The film revolves around a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (a character based on Conrad's Marlow", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "15812422", "text": "he and the director \"also looked at abstract paintings, photographs, and architectural design books\" for inspiration. One of \"Beyond the Black Rainbow\"'s notable characteristics is its deliberately slow, hypnotic pace. According to Cosmatos, \"Beyond the Black Rainbow\" belongs to what he dubbed the \"trance film\" subgenre. Cosmatos mentioned Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), Alain Resnais' \"Last Year at Marienbad\" (1961) and Saul Bass's \"Phase IV\" (1974) as cinematographic blueprints for his debut film. Cosmatos explained the rationale behind his screen-writing, which downplays the \"very concrete story at the heart of it\" in favor of an \"atmospheric\" approach: Jeremy Schmidt,", "title": "Beyond the Black Rainbow" }, { "id": "2162613", "text": "by Italian TV. He wrote \"Harlot's Ghost\", for Francis Ford Coppola based on a novel by Norman Mailer; Milius described it as \"a cross between \"The Godfather\" and \"Apocalypse Now.\" It's about families and duplicity and danger, but this time provoked by the government.\" He adapted the Sgt. Rock comics for producer Joel Silver. And also wrote a version of \"Die Hard 3\" co-written with Barry Beckerman. In the early 1990s he wrote \"Texas Rangers\", about the establishment of that organisation, for Frank Price at Columbia. He hoped to direct the film, but could not raise the funding. In 1993", "title": "John Milius" }, { "id": "12700320", "text": "include \"The Way We Were\", \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\", \"Scarface\", \"Illegally Yours\", \"Midnight Run\", \"History of the World, Part I\", \"Annie\", \"Say Anything\", \"Almost Famous\", and \"Jerry Maguire\". He took small acting parts in some of his films, for example playing a pilot in \"Blue Thunder\" and a salesman in \"Rocky II\". His most famous role is as a civilian intelligence officer named Jerry in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, in which he utters what some call the film's most memorable line, \"Terminate, with extreme prejudice\", to instruct the film's lead character to carry out", "title": "Jerry Ziesmer" }, { "id": "1873900", "text": "University School of the Arts. After portraying Pointer in \"Willie Dynamite\" (1974), Hall made his film debut in the 1976 biopic \"Leadbelly\". He also played a co-pilot in the 1978 film \"The Bermuda Triangle\". Hall had a small role in the 1979 miniseries \"\". Hall gained mainstream attention for his role as Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war classic \"Apocalypse Now\", in which his character leads the rest of crew upriver from Vietnam to Cambodia so that Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) can complete his mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Chief eventually gets killed by a Vietcong", "title": "Albert Hall (actor)" }, { "id": "12362688", "text": "and some of Kurtz's on a friend of his, Fred Rexer. Rexer claimed to have experienced, first-hand, the scene related by Brando's character wherein the arms of villagers are hacked off by the Viet Cong. Kurtz was based on Robert B. Rheault, head of special forces in Vietnam. Scholars have never found any evidence to corroborate Rexer's claim, nor any similar Viet Cong behavior, and consider it an urban legend. At one point, Coppola told Milius, \"Write every scene you ever wanted to go into that movie\", and he wrote ten drafts, amounting to over a thousand pages. Milius changed", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "9775319", "text": "the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film. In 2012, \"The French Connection\" was selected as the tenth best edited film of all time in a listing compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote \"Apocalypse Now\", which was released in 1979. Filming had taken over a year in 1976 and 1977. Editing took place over two years prior to its release, and involved several editors; the supervising editor was Richard Marks, another of \"Dede's boys\". Greenberg described his own role in an interview with", "title": "Gerald B. Greenberg" }, { "id": "7517810", "text": "(1990), Rabbit Angstrom notices \"a story [...] in the Sarasota paper a week or so ago, headlined Circus Redux. He hates that word, you see it everywhere, and he doesn't know how to pronounce it. Like arbitrageur and perestroika.\" The term has been adopted by filmmakers to denote a new interpretation of an existing work by the restoration of previously removed material. This trend began with \"Apocalypse Now Redux\", which Francis Ford Coppola released in 2001, re-editing and extending his original 1979 movie. The term has also been used by music producers to describe what is more often referred to", "title": "Redux (literary term)" }, { "id": "5061036", "text": "means of consciousness raising groups. The film ends happily for the trio of main characters: Bunny and Jim are to be married, and Jean-Pierre has enrolled at Dr. Hunt's university as a feminist studies major, becoming in the process the ideal companion for Hunt. The film's plot loosely parallels that of novel \"Heart of Darkness\" by Joseph Conrad, as well as \"Apocalypse Now\", which was also partly based on \"Heart of Darkness\". Both \"Heart of Darkness\" and \"Apocalypse Now\" feature a character named Kurtz who has gone deep into the jungle to become the deranged leader of a group of", "title": "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" }, { "id": "10588023", "text": "totalitarian empires, notably with a federation of British and German fascists. Channeling Philip K. Dick's \"The Man in the High Castle\" and Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\", the plot of the novel traces a black Swiss political commissar's journey to the heart of the empire to arrest the rogue officer Brazhinsky in an Alpine tunnel complex called the \"Réduit\". \"Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten\" quickly garnered acclaim in the German-speaking literary world. Broadsheet \"Die Welt\" called it a \"glorious horror story\". The \"Süddeutsche Zeitung\" praised the writing as not only deeply reminiscent of Ernst Jünger, but also", "title": "Christian Kracht" }, { "id": "2752040", "text": "on the Making of Apocalypse Now\" in 1979. The book chronicled such events as the near destruction of the film's production as well as the stress that both cast and crew were suffering from at the time. This would not be the only documentation of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" as she decided to film a documentary based on the same movie. The documentary film \"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse\" was co-directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper. In the film, Eleanor narrates the trials and difficulties surrounding the production of the award-winning film", "title": "Eleanor Coppola" }, { "id": "138090", "text": "with Mario Puzo), Best Picture, and his first nomination for Best Director. He followed with \"The Godfather Part II\" in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, it brought him three more Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and made him the second director, after Billy Wilder, to be honored three times for the same film. \"The Conversation\", which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed 1979's \"Apocalypse Now\".", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola" }, { "id": "1382599", "text": "by natives. \"Aguirre\" opened to widespread critical acclaim, and quickly developed a large international cult film following. It was given an extensive arthouse theatrical release in the United States in 1977, and remains one of the director's best-known films. Several critics have declared the film a masterpiece, and it has appeared on \"Time\" magazine's list of \"All Time 100 Best Films\". \"Aguirre\"'s visual style and narrative elements had a strong influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\". In 1560, several score of Spanish conquistadors, and a hundred Indian slaves, march down from the newly conquered Inca Empire in", "title": "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" }, { "id": "3049799", "text": "Doc?\" (1957). The \"Ride\" features in \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), where the 1/9 Air Cavalry squadron plays it on helicopter-mounted loudspeakers during their assault on a North Vietnamese-controlled village as psychological warfare and to motivate their own troops. Notes Sources Ride of the Valkyries The \"Ride of the Valkyries\" () refers to the beginning of act 3 of \"Die Walküre\", the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\". As a separate piece, the \"Ride\" is often heard in a purely instrumental version, which may be as short as three minutes. Together with the \"Bridal Chorus\" from", "title": "Ride of the Valkyries" }, { "id": "138120", "text": "began filming \"Apocalypse Now\", an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\" set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War (Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director). The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military and half of the supplied helicopters leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance (which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows). It was delayed so often it was nicknamed \"Apocalypse", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola" }, { "id": "16045093", "text": "have become Abrams, (CIA Director Richard) Helms and Nixon. The only winner would have been North Vietnam.\" After the war, Francis Ford Coppola, director of the 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\" said that the character Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film was loosely based upon Rheault, whom he had become aware of through the 1969 news accounts of the Green Beret Affair. Upon retirement from the military, Rheault served as an instructor, program leader, and later, acting president of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Rockland, Maine; retiring from the school in 2001 after 32 years of service. He also", "title": "Robert Rheault" }, { "id": "447452", "text": "One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne's pro-war film, \"The Green Berets\" (1968). Further cinematic representations were released during the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Cimino's \"The Deer Hunter\" (1978), Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), Oliver Stone's \"Platoon\" (1986) – based on his service in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, Stanley Kubrick's \"Full Metal Jacket\" (1987), \"Hamburger Hill\" (1987), \"Born on the Fourth of July\" (1989), and \"Casualties of War\" (1989). Later films would include \"We Were Soldiers\" (2002) and \"Rescue Dawn\" (2007). The war also influenced a generation of", "title": "Vietnam War" }, { "id": "269022", "text": "and so did I.\" However, after Brando's death, the footage was reincorporated into the 2006 re-cut of the film, \"\" and in the 2006 \"loose sequel\" \"Superman Returns\", in which both used and unused archive footage of him as Jor-El from the first two \"Superman\" films was remastered for a scene in the Fortress of Solitude, and Brando's voice-overs were used throughout the film. Brando starred as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). He plays a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer who goes renegade, running his own operation based in Cambodia", "title": "Marlon Brando" }, { "id": "138122", "text": "directed by Volker Schlöndorff. When the film screened at Cannes, he quipped: \"My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam.\" \"Apocalypse Now\"'s reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it in his list for the 2002 \"Sight & Sound\" critics' poll of the greatest movies ever made. In 2001, Coppola re-released \"Apocalypse Now\" as \"Apocalypse Now Redux\", restoring several", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola" }, { "id": "12362707", "text": "told his wife that he felt \"there is only about a 20% chance [I] can pull the film off\". He convinced United Artists executives to delay the premiere from May to October 1978. Author Michael Herr received a call from Zoetrope in January 1978 and was asked to work on the film's narration based on his well-received book about Vietnam, \"Dispatches\". Herr said that the narration already written was \"totally useless\" and spent a year writing various narrations with Coppola giving him very definite guidelines. Murch had problems trying to make a stereo soundtrack for \"Apocalypse Now\" because sound libraries", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "3458340", "text": "Vietnamese mothers and then abandoned, \"Sean Flynn\" describes the photojournalist son of actor Errol Flynn who disappeared in 1970 while covering the war. Biographer Pat Gilbert describes many songs from \"Combat Rock\" as having a \"trippy, foreboding feel\", saturated in a \"colonial melancholia and sadness\" reflecting the Vietnam War. The band was hugely inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film about the Vietnam War, \"Apocalypse Now\", and had previously released the song \"Charlie Don't Surf\" on \"Sandinista!\", which referenced the film. Other \"Combat Rock\" songs, if not directly about the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy, depict American society in", "title": "Combat Rock" }, { "id": "772704", "text": "in the television film \"The Execution of Private Slovik\". Based on an incident that occurred during World War II, the film told the story of the only U.S. soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Sheen's performance led to Francis Ford Coppola's casting him in a lead role as U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard in 1979's \"Apocalypse Now\", gaining him wide recognition. Filming in the Philippine jungle in the typhoon season of 1976, Sheen admitted he was not in great shape and was drinking heavily. For the film's legendary opening sequence in a Saigon hotel", "title": "Martin Sheen" }, { "id": "452205", "text": "addition, the film industry was in crisis, and the army did not wish to assist in making anti-war films. From the late 1970s, independently financed and produced films showed Hollywood that Vietnam could be treated in film. Successful but very different portrayals of the war in which America had been defeated included Michael Cimino's \"The Deer Hunter\" (1978), and Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). With the shift in American politics to the right in the 1980s, military success could again be shown in films such as Oliver Stone's \"Platoon\" (1986), Stanley Kubrick's \"Full Metal Jacket\" (1987) and John Irvin's", "title": "War film" }, { "id": "4868767", "text": "in their everyday lives, with \"Nocturne\" focusing on the extraordinary events people could not experience in real life. The team wanted \"Nocturne\" to feel like a \"journey into hell\" comparable with Dante Alighieri's \"Divine Comedy\" and Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\". Kaneko was mainly responsible for creating the inverted bubble structure of the Vortex World. This design choice was primarily inspired by similar ideas in Gnostic traditions, early science fiction, and the \"Heart Sutra\", an important scripture within Mahayana Buddhism. In contrast to previous games which offered three routes for the cast, Chaos was the only affiliation of", "title": "Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne" }, { "id": "3830771", "text": "the way in which colors influence our perceptions of different situations. He first worked with Bertolucci on \"The Conformist\" (1970). Set in Fascist Italy, the film has been described as a \"visual masterpiece.\" Also in 1970, he photographed \"The Bird with the Crystal Plumage\", the directorial debut of Dario Argento and a landmark film in the giallo genre. The first American film that Storaro worked on was \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). Director Francis Ford Coppola gave him free rein on the film's visual look. \"Apocalypse Now\" earned Storaro his first Academy Award. He worked with Warren Beatty for the first time", "title": "Vittorio Storaro" }, { "id": "7673135", "text": "Avery Corman Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935) is an American novelist. He is known for the books \"Oh, God!\" (1971) and \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1977) both adapted into successful films of the same names. Corman is the author of the novels \"Oh, God!\" (1971), the basis for the 1977 film; \"The Bust-Out King\" (1977); \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1977), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 1979 film of the same name; \"The Old Neighborhood\" (1980); \"50\" (1987); \"Prized Possessions\" (1991); \"The Big Hype\" (1992); \"A Perfect Divorce\" (2004); and \"The Boyfriend from Hell\" (2006). And he is the author", "title": "Avery Corman" }, { "id": "7513094", "text": "artist. In 1967, Arthur Penn called him to take charge of the artistic direction of \"Bonnie and Clyde\". Three years later, Penn called him once again to design \"Little Big Man\". But it was working with Francis Ford Coppola in 1972 on \"The Godfather\" that set the creative tone of his career. \"The Godfather Part II\" and \"The Conversation\", in 1974, consolidated their collaboration, and laid the way for what was to be their joint creative challenge: \"Apocalypse Now\", the film for which Tavoularis created a nightmare jungle kingdom, inspired by Angkor Wat. It was also on the set of", "title": "Dean Tavoularis" }, { "id": "138121", "text": "When?\" The 1991 documentary film \"\", directed by Eleanor Coppola (Francis's wife), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making \"Apocalypse Now\" and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor. After filming \"Apocalypse Now\", Coppola famously stated: \"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane.\" The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Palme d'Or along with \"The Tin Drum\",", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola" }, { "id": "1987380", "text": "and to start writing professionally. After mixed success with two attempts at literary mainstream novels in the mid-1970s (\"Marriages\" and \"Under Venus\"), Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with \"Julia\" (1975). He then wrote \"If You Could See Me Now\" (1977), and came to widespread public attention with his fifth novel, \"Ghost Story\" (1979), which was a critical success and was later loosely adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire. Several horror novels followed, with growing success, including \"The Talisman\" and \"Black House\", two fantasy-horror collaborations with Straub's long-time friend and fellow author Stephen King. After", "title": "Peter Straub" }, { "id": "12362701", "text": "schedule and $2 million over budget; he had to offer his car, house, and \"The Godfather\" profits as security to finish the film. Coppola flew back to the U.S. in June 1976. He read a book about Genghis Khan to get a better handle on the character of Kurtz. After filming commenced, Marlon Brando arrived in Manila very overweight and began working with Coppola to rewrite the ending. The director downplayed Brando's weight by dressing him in black, photographing only his face, and having another, taller actor double for him in an attempt to portray Kurtz as an almost mythical", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362682", "text": "is still clear. It is often speculated that Coppola's interpretation of the Kurtz character was modeled after Tony Poe, a highly decorated Vietnam-era paramilitary officer from the CIA's Special Activities Division. Poe's actions in Vietnam and in the 'Secret War' in neighbouring Laos, in particular his highly unorthodox and often savage methods of waging war, show many similarities to those of the fictional Kurtz; for example, Poe was known to drop severed heads into enemy-controlled villages as a form of psychological warfare and use human ears to record the number of enemies his indigenous troops had killed. He would send", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "19101851", "text": "the United States, the narrator describes being an expatriate and a cultural advisor on the filming of an American film, closely resembling \"Platoon\" and \"Apocalypse Now\", before returning to Vietnam as part of a guerrilla raid against the communists. The dual identity of the narrator, as a mole and immigrant, and the Americanization of the Vietnam War in international literature are central themes in the novel. The novel was published 40 years to the month after the fall of Saigon, which is the initial scene of the book. Set as the flashback in a coerced confession of a political prisoner,", "title": "The Sympathizer" }, { "id": "18280041", "text": "\"Godzilla\") wrote the first draft, while John Gatins was hired to write the second draft. In writing the script, Borenstein didn't want to repeat the \"Beauty and the Beast\" plot synonymous with \"King Kong\" movies, and took into account the outdated elements of the treatment of the island natives and the damsel in distress. His initial influence was \"Apocalypse Now\", revealing, Before Vogt-Roberts signed on as director, Borenstein had the idea of having the film begin during the Vietnam War and jump forward to the present day. After it was rejected, Borenstein instead had the film take place before the", "title": "Kong: Skull Island" }, { "id": "4806578", "text": "she spent three months befriending the prostitutes who worked on a single long street in Bombay. Her project \"Streets of the Lost\" with writer Cheryl McCall, for \"Life\", produced her book \"Streetwise\" (1988) and was developed into the documentary film \"Streetwise\", directed by her husband Martin Bell and with a soundtrack by Tom Waits. Mark was also a unit photographer on movie sets, shooting production stills of more than 100 movies including Arthur Penn's \"Alice's Restaurant\" (1969), Mike Nichols' \"Catch-22\" (1970), \"Carnal Knowledge\" (1971) and Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979) through to Baz Luhrmann's \"Australia\" (2008). For \"Look\" magazine,", "title": "Mary Ellen Mark" }, { "id": "12362713", "text": "save for '\"Copyright 1979 Omni Zoetrope\"' right after the film ends. This mirrors the lack of any opening titles and supposedly stems from Coppola's original intention to \"tour\" the film as one would a play: the credits would have appeared on printed programs provided before the screening began. There have been, to date, many variations of the end credit sequence, beginning with the 35mm general release version, where Coppola elected to show the credits superimposed over shots of the jungle exploding into flames. Rental prints circulated with this ending, and can be found in the hands of a few collectors.", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "2752042", "text": "she has nonetheless written two successful books. Her first book, \"Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now\", recorded the film's journey from 1976 to 1979. Her detailed note-taking continued in other areas of her life as she collected and wrote about her life's major events. With notes consisting of thirty year time span, Eleanor would go on to write the book \"Notes on a Life\". The memoir \"Notes on a Life\" follows thirty years of Eleanor Coppola's life as she juggles raising children and being there for Francis as he directs films that move the family from place to place.", "title": "Eleanor Coppola" }, { "id": "3099223", "text": "became recognized as a classic of post-World War II literature, both in Germany and around the world. A translation into English by Ralph Manheim was published in 1961. A new 50th anniversary translation into English by Breon Mitchell was published in 2009. In 1979 a film adaptation appeared by Volker Schlöndorff. It covers only Books 1 and 2, concluding at the end of the war. It shared the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or with \"Apocalypse Now\". It also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of 1979 at the 1980 Academy Awards. In 1996 a radio dramatisation starring", "title": "The Tin Drum" }, { "id": "12362717", "text": "the \"Redux\" version is a chapter involving the de Marais family's rubber plantation, a holdover from the colonization of French Indochina, featuring Coppola's two sons Gian-Carlo and Roman as children of the family. Around the dinner table, a young French child recites a poem by Charles Baudelaire entitled L'Albatros. The French family patriarch is not satisfied with the child's recitation. The child is sent away. These scenes were removed from the 1979 cut, which premiered at Cannes. In behind-the-scenes footage in \"Hearts of Darkness\", Coppola expresses his anger, on the set, at the technical limitations of the shot scenes, the", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12839937", "text": "\"It's hard to sum it up really. Perhaps that's why people when they get back from this place always say the same thing, Vietnam: You don't know, man! You weren't there!\" In homage to film-maker Francis Ford Coppola and his Vietnam War epic \"Apocalypse Now\", the end credits replaced each crew members first name with the words \"Francis Ford\" (e.g. \"Francis Ford Clarkson\", \"Francis Ford Hammond\", etc.). To assist with production of the special, the BBC partnered itself with Hanuman Films, a production company involved in film and television shoots within south-east Asia, and who had worked before with the", "title": "Top Gear: Vietnam Special" }, { "id": "879695", "text": "The Exorcist (novel) The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. Published by Harper & Row, the novel was the basis of a highly successful film adaption released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and produced by Blatty, and part of \"The Exorcist\" franchise. The novel was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in", "title": "The Exorcist (novel)" }, { "id": "12362722", "text": "Philippines and said, \"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane\", and \"My film is not about Vietnam, it \"is\" Vietnam\". The filmmaker upset newspaper critic Rex Reed who reportedly stormed out of the conference. \"Apocalypse Now\" won the Palme d'Or for best film along with Volker Schlöndorff's \"The Tin Drum\" – a decision that was reportedly greeted with \"some boos and jeers from the audience\". \"Apocalypse Now\" performed well at the box office when it opened in August 1979. The film initially opened in one theater in New York City,", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "14069115", "text": "flaws\", which he said included its cruel comedy and heavy-handed irony. According to Powers, one ought to \"read it as a burlesque of '\"An American Tragedy\",' as a spoof of Angry British fiction, as a frightening condemnation of love. There is no end to the possibilities.\" The novel was brought to the attention of Francis Ford Coppola by actor Tony Bill, who wanted to play Bernard in any movie adaptation. But Coppola cast instead Peter Kastner, a young Canadian actor. Coppola optioned the film for $1,000, and drafted a script in his spare time while working on the film \"Is", "title": "You're a Big Boy Now (novel)" }, { "id": "402767", "text": "necessarily dangerous. But people fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah – I guess it is a friend... In \"The End\", the vocal interlude of the final minutes was mixed down to make Morrison's repeated use of the word \"fuck\" unintelligible. The song would be featured prominently in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film \"Apocalypse Now\". \"Break On Through (To the Other Side)\" was released as the group's first single but it was relatively unsuccessful, peaking at", "title": "The Doors (album)" }, { "id": "12362685", "text": "words: Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, – he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath – When Willard is first introduced to Dennis Hopper's character, the photojournalist describes his own worth in relation to that of Kurtz with: \"I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas\", from \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\". While working as an assistant for Francis", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362678", "text": "him after his death. That night, as the Montagnards ceremonially slaughter a water buffalo, Willard stealthily enters Kurtz's chamber, as he is making a recording, and attacks him with a machete. Mortally wounded, Kurtz utters \"...The horror ... the horror ...\" and dies. All in the compound see Willard departing, carrying a collection of Kurtz's writings, and bow down to him. Willard then leads Lance to the boat and the duo motor away. Kurtz's final words echo eerily as everything fades to black. Although inspired by Joseph Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\", the film deviates extensively from its source material. The", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "1980913", "text": "of the \"Time Out Film Guide\" has compared \"Stalker\" to Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\", also released in 1979, and argued that \"as a journey to the heart of darkness\" \"Stalker\" looks \"a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's.\" As well, \"Slant Magazine\" reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an \"endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness\". In Schager's view \"Stalker\" shows \"something akin to the essence of what man is made of: a tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one", "title": "Stalker (1979 film)" }, { "id": "485773", "text": "and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005). Francis Ford Coppola ('67) was the director of the gangster film trilogy \"The Godfather\" and the Vietnam War film \"Apocalypse Now\" and Dustin Lance Black is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film Milk. Meb Keflezighi ('98) is the winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon. UCLA also boasts an excellent military background, with hundreds of alumni serving their nation. Carlton Skinner was a U.S. Navy Commander who racially integrated the service at the end of World War II on the . He was also the first civilian governor of Guam. Francis B.", "title": "University of California, Los Angeles" }, { "id": "2929903", "text": "William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel \"The Exorcist\" and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel \"The Exorcist III\". After the success of \"The Exorcist\", Blatty reworked \"Twinkle, Twinkle, \"Killer\" Kane!\" (1960) into a new novel titled \"The Ninth Configuration\", published in 1978. Two years later, Blatty adapted the novel into a film of the same title and won Best Screenplay at the 1981 Golden Globe Awards. Some of his other notable", "title": "William Peter Blatty" }, { "id": "5543234", "text": "Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola (with some tracks co-composed by Mickey Hart and Richard Hansen). The first track is an abridged version of The Doors' eleven-minute epic \"The End\". All songs written by Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola, except where noted: Apocalypse Now Redux Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film \"Apocalypse Now\", which was originally released in 1979. Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the original film. It represents a significant re-edit of the original version. Francis Ford Coppola", "title": "Apocalypse Now Redux" }, { "id": "12362683", "text": "these ears back to his superiors as proof of the efficacy of his operations deep inside Laos. Coppola denies that Poe was a primary influence and says the character was loosely based on Special Forces Colonel Robert B. Rheault, who was the actual head of 5th Special Forces Group (May to July 1969), and whose 1969 arrest over the murder of suspected double agent Thai Khac Chuyen in Nha Trang generated substantial contemporary news coverage, in the Green Beret Affair, including making public the phrase \"terminate with extreme prejudice\", which was used prominently in the movie. In the film, shortly", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "2162607", "text": "their first movies was going to be \"East of Suez\", written and directed by Milius. It was not made. However, the following year saw the release of \"Apocalypse Now\", directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola rewrote the script, which Milius disliked. \"He wanted to ruin it, liberalize it, and turn it into \"Hair\",\" said Milius in 1976. \"He sees himself as a great humanitarian, an enlightened soul who will tell you such wonderful things as he does at the end of GODFATHER II-that crime doesn't pay ... Talent-wise, he's no John Ford; character-wise, he's no Steve Spielberg. Francis can't stand", "title": "John Milius" }, { "id": "4423279", "text": "he locates in the medium of Goethe's prose) in favour of the possibility of an as yet unencountered (and, in principle, unimaginable) \"freedom\". Typically, Benjamin locates this experience in art, which is, according to him, alone able, through mediation, to transcend the powers of myth. A 1974 East German film with the same title was directed by Siegfried Kühn for the DEFA film studio. Francis Ford Coppola, in the grip of clinical manic depression and anxiety over his incomplete opus \"Apocalypse Now\", and while purportedly under the influence of his girlfriend, screenwriter Melissa Mathison, proposed making a \"ten-hour film version", "title": "Elective Affinities" }, { "id": "1402520", "text": "in \"The Seven-Per-Cent Solution\" opposite Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier. Duvall received another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won both a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as Lt. Colonel Kilgore in \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). His line \"I love the smell of napalm in the morning\" from \"Apocalypse Now\" is regarded as iconic in cinema history. The full text is: Duvall received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of detestable television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed film \"Network\" (1976) and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in", "title": "Robert Duvall" }, { "id": "15790485", "text": "Apocalypse Oz Apocalypse Oz is a 2006 short film. It is based on the novels \"Heart of Darkness\" by Joseph Conrad and \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" by L. Frank Baum. The script is a hybrid of the two classic films \"Apocalypse Now\" and \"The Wizard of Oz\", and uses only dialogue from these films. Dorothy Willard, an Amerasian product of the Vietnam War, is tired of living with her abusive foster parents in Kansas. Dorothy decides that \"there's no horror like home\" and accepts a dream mission that takes her deep into the desert to hunt down and \"terminate", "title": "Apocalypse Oz" }, { "id": "832663", "text": "Mario Puzo Mario Gianluigi Puzo (; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably \"The Godfather\" (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and \"Part II\" in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 \"Superman\" film. His novel \"The Family\", was released posthumously in 2001. Puzo was born in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York", "title": "Mario Puzo" }, { "id": "6324878", "text": "as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe. Herr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of a jeweler, and grew up in Syracuse, New York. His family was Jewish. After working with \"Esquire\" in the 1960s, from 1971 to 1975 he published nothing. Then, in 1977, he went on the road with rock and roller Ted Nugent and wrote about the experience in a 1978 cover story for \"Crawdaddy\" magazine. Also in 1977, he published \"Dispatches\", upon which his reputation mostly rests. Herr contributed to the narration for Francis Ford Coppola's \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). He co-wrote the screenplay for", "title": "Michael Herr" }, { "id": "211080", "text": "in a \"writers walk\" commemorates Conrad's visits to Australia between 1879 and 1892. The plaque notes that \"Many of his works reflect his 'affection for that young continent.'\" In San Francisco in 1979, a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf, was dedicated as \"Joseph Conrad Square\" after Conrad. The square's dedication was timed to coincide with release of Francis Ford Coppola's \"Heart of Darkness\"-inspired film, \"Apocalypse Now\". In the latter part of World War II, the Royal Navy cruiser \"HMS Danae\" was rechristened ORP \"Conrad\" and served as part of the Polish Navy. Notwithstanding", "title": "Joseph Conrad" }, { "id": "18280042", "text": "original \"King Kong\" film in 1917 during World War I while keeping the \"Apocalypse Now\" concept, and the premise had Tom Hiddleston's character leading a rescue team to Skull Island to find his missing brother, who had gotten stranded there while searching for a \"Titan Serum\" believed to cure all illnesses. After this, the story was again retooled to take place in the present day. After Jordan Vogt-Roberts joined the project, he met with Borenstein and, liking the \"Apocalypse Now\" concept, pitched it to Legendary with the idea of the story taking place at the end of the Vietnam War,", "title": "Kong: Skull Island" }, { "id": "5543225", "text": "Apocalypse Now Redux Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film \"Apocalypse Now\", which was originally released in 1979. Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the original film. It represents a significant re-edit of the original version. Francis Ford Coppola began production on the new cut with working-partner Kim Aubry. Coppola then tried to get Murch, who was reluctant at first. He thought it would be extremely difficult recutting a film that had taken two years to edit originally. He later changed", "title": "Apocalypse Now Redux" }, { "id": "2929919", "text": "in \"The Modern Weird Tale: A Critique of Horror Fiction\" (2001). Essays studying all Blatty's novels can be found in Benjamin Szumskyj's \"\" (McFarland, 2008). Awards include: William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel \"The Exorcist\" and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel \"The Exorcist III\". After the success of \"The Exorcist\", Blatty reworked \"Twinkle, Twinkle, \"Killer\" Kane!\" (1960) into a new novel titled \"The Ninth Configuration\", published in 1978. Two years", "title": "William Peter Blatty" }, { "id": "18142818", "text": "the acting of Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. He stated that although her character Kate Macer was implausible, Emily Blunt \"brazens out any possible absurdity with great acting focus and front\". Chris Ryan of \"Grantland\" compared \"Sicario\" to the 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\" directed by Francis Ford Coppola, noting an analogy between the former's themes with respect to the Mexican Drug War and the latter's with respect to the Vietnam War. He also stated that the characters Alejandro Gillick and Matt Graver in \"Sicario\" resemble those of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz and Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore, respectively,", "title": "Sicario (2015 film)" }, { "id": "1589334", "text": "delayed, until its eventual release in September 2013. Francis Ford Coppola is making the film for which he will always be remembered—an adaptation of \"Dracula\" starring Marlon Brando as Dracula and Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker. (It is a variation of \"Apocalypse Now\", complete with all the famous quotes and mishaps during filming, albeit in Romania instead of the Philippines.) The film crew is befriended by a young-looking vampire, who leaves with them when they return to America. \"Coppola's Dracula\" won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Long Fiction, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best", "title": "Anno Dracula series" }, { "id": "12362684", "text": "before Colonel Kurtz dies, he recites part of T. S. Eliot's poem \"The Hollow Men\". The poem is preceded in printed editions by the epigraph \"Mistah Kurtz – he dead\", a quotation from Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\". Two books seen opened on Kurtz's desk in the film are \"From Ritual to Romance\" by Jessie Weston and \"The Golden Bough\" by Sir James Frazer, the two books that Eliot cited as the chief sources and inspiration for his poem \"The Waste Land\". Eliot's original epigraph for \"The Waste Land\" was this passage from \"Heart of Darkness\", which ends with Kurtz's final", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "7445862", "text": "with a massive gunfight in a Mexican border town. The title originates from \"terminate with extreme prejudice,\" a phrase popularized by \"Apocalypse Now\", also written by Milius. The lead character of Jack Benteen (Nolte) was loosely based on Joaquin Jackson. Nolte spent three weeks in Texas with Jackson learning the day-to-day activities of a Ranger. Nolte took what he learned and incorporated it into his character's the mannerisms and dress. A teletype message flashes across the screen ... At the airport in El Paso, Texas, five U.S. Army sergeants meet up with Major Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside), the leader of", "title": "Extreme Prejudice (film)" }, { "id": "138123", "text": "sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes. \"Apocalypse Now\" marked the end of the golden phase of Coppola's career. His musical fantasy \"One from the Heart\", although pioneering the use of video-editing techniques which are standard practice in the film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of $636,796 against a US$26 million budget, far from enough to recoup the costs incurred in the production of the movie and he was forced to sell his 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983. He would spend the rest of the decade working", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola" }, { "id": "544819", "text": "he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor; and Jack Ryan in the action films \"Patriot Games\" (1992) and \"Clear and Present Danger\" (1994). His career spans six decades and includes roles in several Hollywood blockbusters, including the epic war film \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), the legal drama \"Presumed Innocent\" (1990), the action film \"The Fugitive\" (1993), the political action thriller \"Air Force One\" (1997), and the psychological thriller \"What Lies Beneath\" (2000). Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry: \"American Graffiti\" (1973), \"The Conversation\" (1974), \"Star Wars\" (1977), \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), \"The Empire", "title": "Harrison Ford" }, { "id": "13968626", "text": "hundred man-days for military personnel taken away from their regular duties. Two UH-1H Hueys make up part of the attack package on Ernst Stavro Blofeld's oil rig command center at the climax of the 1971 James Bond film \"Diamonds Are Forever\". The UH-1 was in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 epic \"Apocalypse Now\". Several Hueys were rented from the Philippine Air force. UH-1s were prominently featured in Oliver Stone's 1986 film \"Platoon\". The 1990 film \"Air America\", about the CIA's proprietary airline during the war in Southeast Asia, featured the ubiquitous Huey helicopter. A Bell 205 is used as a mountain", "title": "Aircraft in fiction" }, { "id": "832667", "text": "more important in the next work to support his five children on a government clerk's salary. He was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. He found his audience with the novel, which became the top bestseller for months on the \"New York Times\" Best Seller List. The book was later developed into the film \"The Godfather\", directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film received three awards of the eleven Oscar category nominations, including Puzo's Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo then collaborated on sequels to the original film, \"The Godfather Part II\" and \"The", "title": "Mario Puzo" }, { "id": "832671", "text": "Last Christmas\", were written under the pseudonym Mario Cleri. Mario Puzo Mario Gianluigi Puzo (; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably \"The Godfather\" (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and \"Part II\" in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 \"Superman\" film. His novel \"The Family\", was released posthumously in 2001. Puzo was", "title": "Mario Puzo" }, { "id": "2810799", "text": "of Francis Ford Coppola's film \"Apocalypse Now\": \"The horror... the horror...\", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel \"Heart of Darkness\". \"College Roomies from Hell!!!\" has been nominated for several Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, winning \"Best Writing\" and \"Best Serial Comic\" in 2001, and \"Outstanding Character Development\" in 2002. Campos-Rebolledo went on to create the webcomic \"Power Nap\" in collaboration with the artist Bachan. College Roomies from Hell!!! College Roomies from Hell!!! or CRFH!!! as it is known to fans, is a webcomic strip by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo. It started January 1, 1999. Since 2010 it updated only sporadically", "title": "College Roomies from Hell!!!" }, { "id": "7429847", "text": "Walküre\". At the conclusion of the film the \"Lacrimosa\" from Mozart's \"Requiem\" is played. Initial reception was positive. Walter Goodman wrote for \"The New York Times\" that \"The history is harrowing and the presentation is graphic...Powerful material, powerfully rendered...\", and dismissed the ending as \"a dose of instant inspirationalism,\" but conceded to Klimov's \"unquestionable talent.\" Rita Kempley, of the \"Washington Post\", wrote that \"directing with an angry eloquence, [Klimov] taps into that hallucinatory nether world of blood and mud and escalating madness that Francis Ford Coppola found in \"Apocalypse Now.\" And though he draws a surprisingly vivid performance from his", "title": "Come and See" }, { "id": "12362711", "text": "Now\" was released in the U.S. in only 15 theaters equipped to play the Dolby Stereo 70mm prints with stereo surround sound. At the time of its release, discussion and rumors circulated about the supposed various endings for \"Apocalypse Now\". Coppola said the original ending was written in haste, where Kurtz convinced Willard to join forces and together they repelled the air strike on the compound. Coppola said he never fully agreed with the Kurtz and Willard dying in fatalistic explosive intensity, preferring to end the film in a more encouraging manner. When Coppola originally organized the ending, he considered", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "12362725", "text": "everything that has been attempted by an American filmmaker in a very long time\". Other reviews were less positive; Frank Rich in \"Time\" said: \"While much of the footage is breathtaking, \"Apocalypse Now\" is emotionally obtuse and intellectually empty\". Vincent Canby argued, \"Mr. Coppola himself describes it as \"operatic,\" but ... Apocalypse Now is neither a tone poem nor an opera. It's an adventure yarn with delusions of grandeur, a movie that ends—in the all-too-familiar words of the poet Mr. Coppola drags in by the bootstraps—not with a bang, but a whimper.\" Ebert added Coppola's film to his list of", "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "id": "148126", "text": "discarded that in favor of a film about the Vietnam War. They met in England, and the director told Herr that he wanted to do a war film but had yet to find a story to adapt. Kubrick discovered Gustav Hasford's novel \"The Short-Timers\" (1979) while reading the \"Virginia Kirkus Review.\" Herr received it in bound galleys and thought that it was a masterpiece. In 1982, Kubrick read the novel twice, concluding that it \"was a unique, absolutely wonderful book\", and decided, along with Herr, to adapt it for his next film. According to Kubrick, he was drawn to the", "title": "Full Metal Jacket" }, { "id": "1875230", "text": "Friedkin as director, before Blatty returned to \"Twinkle, Twinkle, \"Killer\" Kane\". In lieu of filming the novel, Blatty decided to rewrite it: \"After \"The Exorcist\", I decided that I could develop the story a great deal. So I rewrote it and fleshed it out, Cutshaw became the astronaut in the Exorcist that Regan warns about going into outer space and fully developed the deeper implications and theological themes.\" The rewritten version of \"Twinkle, Twinkle, \"Killer\" Kane\" was published in 1978 under the title \"The Ninth Configuration\". Blatty has said that he prefers the first version of the book to the", "title": "The Ninth Configuration" }, { "id": "18360495", "text": "and full-on warfare, comparing it to [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s 1979 [[Vietnam War]] epic \"[[Apocalypse Now]]\". A [[showreel]] was also shown during the event, which featured footage from the film, cut with behind-the-scenes shots and interviews with the director and cast members. The second trailer was shown publicly during a broadcast of the [[2016 Summer Olympics]] and received favourable media reviews; \"[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]\" stated that the trailer was \"littered with nostalgic throwbacks to the original trilogy\", while \"[[Rolling Stone]]\" described the CGI landscape shots seen in the footage as \"eye-poppingly gorgeous\". A further trailer released in October 2016 prompted \"The Hollywood", "title": "Rogue One" }, { "id": "12922743", "text": "similar to the premonitions seen in the Final Destination franchise. Otto hums Richard Wagner's \"Ride of the Valkyries\" while believing he is flying a helicopter, a reference to the helicopter attack sequence in the 1979 film \"Apocalypse Now\". The \"Ode to Joy\" segment of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Frédéric Chopin's \"Fantasie Impromptu 66\" and \"Gonna Fly Now\", the theme from the 1976 film \"Rocky\" are both played in the episode, while Ralph sings \"Wannabe\" by the Spice Girls. Since airing, the episode received mixed reviews from television critics. Steve Heisler of \"The A.V. Club\" wrote: \"I'm sorry, but", "title": "How the Test Was Won" }, { "id": "3487872", "text": "A Bend in the River A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th Century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked \"A Bend in the River\" #83 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. \"A Bend in the River\" has also been criticized for a perceived defence of European colonialism in Africa. Set in an", "title": "A Bend in the River" } ]

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[ { "id": "1409642", "text": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as \"The Rivals\", \"The School for Scandal\", \"The Duenna\", and \"A Trip to Scarborough\". He was also a Whig MP for 32 years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807), and Ilchester (1807–1812). He is buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the canon and are regularly performed worldwide. RB Sheridan was born", "title": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan" }, { "id": "429239", "text": "the Channel Islands. Most British literature is in the English language. In 2005, some 206,000 books were published in the United Kingdom and in 2006 it was the largest publisher of books in the world. The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time, and his contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson have also been held in continuous high esteem. More recently the playwrights Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism. Notable pre-modern and early-modern English writers include Geoffrey Chaucer", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1364193", "text": "John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in \"Who's Who\" as a \"poet and hack\". He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Betjeman was born John Betjemann. He was the son of a prosperous silverware maker of Dutch", "title": "John Betjeman" }, { "id": "1627033", "text": "was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England; Oliver Cromwell, who created a republican England; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for actor and singer Michael Crawford (the second highest-ranked entertainer, after John Lennon). Diana, Princess of Wales was judged to be a greater historical figure than Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, and Charles Darwin by BBC respondents to the survey. One of the more controversial figures to be included on the list was occultist", "title": "100 Greatest Britons" }, { "id": "1480072", "text": "1930s W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored verse dramas, of which The Ascent of F6 (1936) is the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with \"Sweeney Agonistes\" in 1932, and this was followed by \"The Rock\" (1934), \"Murder in the Cathedral\" (1935) and \"The Family Reunion\" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. An important cultural movement in the British theatre which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s was Kitchen sink realism (or \"kitchen sink drama\"), a term coined to describe art", "title": "English drama" }, { "id": "11812038", "text": "the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with \"Sweeney Agonistes\" in 1932, and this was followed by \"The Rock\" (1934), \"Murder in the Cathedral\" (1935) and \"Family Reunion\" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), writer in Welsh, was above all a dramatist. His earliest published play was \"Blodeuwedd\" (The woman of flowers) (1923–25, revised 1948). Other notable plays include \"Buchedd Garmon\" (The life of Germanus) (radio play, 1936) and several others after the war. James Bridie, the pseudonym used by Osborne", "title": "Theatre of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "19498095", "text": "were between the Victorian era, with its strict classicism, and Modernism, with its strident rejection of pure aestheticism. Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is sometimes treated as another Georgian poet. Thomas enlisted in 1915 and is one of the First World War poets along with Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1917), Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Irish playwrights George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) and J.M. Synge (1871–1909) were influential in British drama. Shaw's career began in the last decade of the 19th century, while Synge's plays belong to the first decade of the 20th century. Synge's most famous", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "1364224", "text": "was also instrumental in saving the Duke of Cornwall Hotel in Plymouth. Some works include: John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in \"Who's Who\" as a \"poet and hack\". He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Betjeman", "title": "John Betjeman" }, { "id": "409774", "text": "\"The Waste Land,\") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and \"one of the twentieth century's major poets\". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "586027", "text": "John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy \"The Widow\" was printed in 1652 as the work of Thomas Middleton, Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely sceptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as \"The London Prodigal\", have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses. Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson (\"c\". 11 June 1572 – \"c\". 16 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best", "title": "Ben Jonson" }, { "id": "1409657", "text": "1795, Richard B. Sheridan married Hester Jane Ogle (1776–1817), daughter of the Dean of Winchester. They had at least one child: Charles Brinsley Sheridan (1796–1843). At one time Sheridan owned Downe House, Richmond Hill in London. He also wrote a selection of poems and political speeches during his time in parliament. <!-- and Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as \"The Rivals\", \"The School for Scandal\", \"The Duenna\", and \"A", "title": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan" }, { "id": "2642856", "text": "Nicholas Rowe (writer) Nicholas Rowe (; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715. His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry. He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), barrister and sergeant-at-law, and Elizabeth, daughter of Jasper Edwards, on 20 June 1674. His family possessed a considerable estate", "title": "Nicholas Rowe (writer)" }, { "id": "429241", "text": "classics Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne (the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh), Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton; the controversial D. H. Lawrence; the modernist Virginia Woolf; the satirist Evelyn Waugh; the prophetic novelist George Orwell; the popular novelists W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene; the crime writer Agatha Christie (the best-selling novelist of all time); Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond); the poets T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes; the fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling; the graphic novelists Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "761502", "text": "Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama \"Long Day's Journey into Night\" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" and Arthur Miller's \"Death of a Salesman\". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in", "title": "Eugene O'Neill" }, { "id": "656736", "text": "American playwrights, screenwriters and novelists who got their start in radio drama are Rod Serling and Irwin Shaw. In Britain, however, during the 1930s BBC programming, tended to be more high brow, including the works of Shakespeare, Classical Greek drama, as well as the works of major modern playwrights, such as Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, and so forth. Novels and short stories were also frequently dramatised. In addition the plays of contemporary writers and original plays were produced, with, for example, a broadcast of T. S. Eliot's famous verse play \"Murder in the Cathedral\" in 1936. By 1930, the BBC was", "title": "Radio drama" }, { "id": "11967937", "text": "written under his chin,\" in the later days of his reign as monarch. This statement by Pahlavi was an adaptation of another saying, \"If you lift a mullah's beard, you will find 'Made in Britain' stamped on his chin.\" On 7 January 1978, the state news agency \"Ettela'at\" also published an article accusing Khomeini of being a British agent and a \"mad Indian poet.\" According to the article These days thoughts turn once again to the colonialism of the black and the red, that is to say, to old and new colonialism. Black referring to feudal forces and red to", "title": "British–Ruhollah Khomeini conspiracy theory" }, { "id": "19498105", "text": "and a room of her own if she is to write fiction\". In the 1930s W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored verse dramas, of which The Ascent of F6 (1936) is the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with \"Sweeney Agonistes\" in 1932, and this was followed by \"The Rock\" (1934), \"Murder in the Cathedral\" (1935) and \"Family Reunion\" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. \"In Parenthesis\", a modernist epic poem by David Jones (1895–1974) first published in 1937, is probably the best", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "2642866", "text": "also wrote a memoir of Boileau prefixed to a translation of the \"Lutrin\". He also wrote a version of Lucan's Pharsalia. \"Source:\" Nicholas Rowe (writer) Nicholas Rowe (; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715. His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry. He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, son of John", "title": "Nicholas Rowe (writer)" }, { "id": "902539", "text": "Indiana University at Bloomington; the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, at the University of California, San Diego; the British Film Institute, in London; and the Margaret Herrick Library, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include \"The Birthday Party\" (1957), \"The Homecoming\" (1964), and \"Betrayal\" (1978), each of", "title": "Harold Pinter" }, { "id": "1401091", "text": "His detective novel, \"The Sad Variety\" (1964), contains a scathing portrayal of doctrinaire communists, the Soviet Union's repression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and the ruthless tactics of Soviet intelligence agents. Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef.", "title": "Cecil Day-Lewis" }, { "id": "409708", "text": "Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including \"The Waste Land\" (1922), \"The Hollow Men\" (1925), \"Ash Wednesday\" (1930), and \"Four Quartets\" (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly \"Murder in the Cathedral\" (1935) and \"The Cocktail Party\" (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, \"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry\". The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family with roots in Old and New England. Thomas Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "13920883", "text": "Centers located around the world. PEN Pinter Prize The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). The award is given to \"a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze", "title": "PEN Pinter Prize" }, { "id": "1951098", "text": "include George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Daphne du Maurier, Alan Moore, Ian McEwan, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, H. Rider Haggard, Enid Blyton, Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro, and J. K. Rowling. Important British", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "18051676", "text": "Among his poems the longest are \"To Night\", and \"A Legacy of Love\", to his son aged four, whom he calls George the second, his predecessor being dead. Attribution George Davies Harley George Davies Harley (1762 – 28 November 1811), originally George Davies, was an English actor and poet. Harley was, according to one account, a tailor, and according to a second, a banker's clerk, and then a clerk in lottery offices. He received acting lessons from John Henderson, and made his first appearance on the stage as Richard III on 20 April 1785 at Norwich. Becoming known as the", "title": "George Davies Harley" }, { "id": "409707", "text": "T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and \"one of the twentieth century's major poets\". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport. Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "11002896", "text": "Macleod's 'Drinan' correspondence. Macleod moved to Florence in 1955, where he lived until his death in 1984. His work was re-discovered in the late 1990s, and \"Cyclic Serial Zeiths From the Flux: The Selected Poems of Joseph Macleod\", edited and with an introduction by Andrew Duncan, was published by Waterloo Press in 2008. From 'Cancer, or, The Crab', a section of \"The Ecliptic\" (London: Faber and Faber, 1930) Joseph Macleod Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod (1903–1984) was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan. Macleod was the", "title": "Joseph Macleod" }, { "id": "12363896", "text": "Amundsen, Henry James, Jack Johnson, Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, George V of the United Kingdom, Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, The Red Baron, T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Mata Hari, Lenin, Henry Ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer Suzanne Lenglen, Anna Pavlova, Nellie Melba, Amy Johnson, Malcolm Campbell, Henry Seagrave, Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudolph Valentino, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Coco Chanel, Noël Coward,", "title": "Fame in the 20th Century" }, { "id": "4776623", "text": "Blake Morrison Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs \"And When Did You Last See Your Father?\" which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, \"As If\". Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Morrison was born in Skipton,", "title": "Blake Morrison" }, { "id": "13920881", "text": "PEN Pinter Prize The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). The award is given to \"a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world and shows", "title": "PEN Pinter Prize" }, { "id": "19498092", "text": "as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irishman so honoured. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize: these works include \"The Tower\" (1928) and \"The Winding Stair and Other Poems\" (1929). In addition to W. B. Yeats other important early modernist poets were the American poets T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "459260", "text": "his eyes. Congreve suffered a carriage accident in late September 1728, from which he never recovered (having probably received an internal injury); he died in London in January 1729, and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Two of Congreve's phrases from \"The Mourning Bride\" (1697) have become famous, although sometimes misquoted or misattributed to William Shakespeare. Congreve coined another famous phrase in \"Love for Love\" (1695): William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on", "title": "William Congreve" }, { "id": "12375196", "text": "of an English Opium-Eater\" (1821), Essayist William Hazlitt (1778–1830), friend of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, is best known today for his literary criticism, especially \"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays\" (1817–18). The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps the least 'romantic' of the three, preferring \"the brilliant wit of Pope to what he called the 'wrong poetical system' of his Romantic contemporaries\". Byron achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe and Goethe called Byron \"undoubtedly the greatest genius of our", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "8030461", "text": "and Wales. The campaign was supported by another charity, English PEN, and writers including Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; Mark Haddon; Sarah Waters; David Hare (playwright); A. L. Kennedy; Alan Bennett; Salman Rushdie; Joanne Harris; Ian Rankin; Irvine Welsh; Nick Hornby; Ruth Padel and Philip Pullman. The campaign was successful. In December 2014, High Court judge Mr Justice Collins ruled that there was \"no good reason\" to restrict access to books for prisoners. The Howard League campaigned against the criminal courts charge, which required defendants who were convicted of a crime to pay fees ranging", "title": "Howard League for Penal Reform" }, { "id": "1951099", "text": "poets of the 20th century include Rudyard Kipling, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas. Created in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is the highest profile British literary award. It is awarded each year in early October for the best original novel, written in English and published in the UK. Devised in 1988, the Hay Festival is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye in Wales for ten days from May to June. In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled \"The Big Read\" in order to find the \"nation's", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1565965", "text": "of this disparity was in relation to \"Cymbeline\", which was hosted by playwright and screenwriter Dennis Potter. In his review for \"The Observer\" of both the production and the \"Perspective\" show, Julian Barnes wrote \"several furlongs understandably separate the left hand of the BBC from the right one. Only rarely, though, do we witness such a cameo of intermanual incomprehension as occurred last week within their Shakespeare cycle: the right hand seizing a hammer and snappishly nailing the left hand to the arm of the chair.\" Barnes points out that clearly, Potter had not seen the show when recording his", "title": "BBC Television Shakespeare" }, { "id": "3865995", "text": "E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a background when he began writing, initially short stories and later novels. In 1898 he wrote \"In the Chains of Crime\", which introduced Raffles and his sidekick,", "title": "E. W. Hornung" }, { "id": "15605066", "text": "Michael Codron Sir Michael Victor Codron (born 8 June 1930) is a British theatre producer, known for his productions of the early work of Harold Pinter, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Simon Gray and Tom Stoppard. He has been honoured with a Laurence Olivier Award for Lifetime Achievement, and owns the Aldwych Theatre in the West End, London. Codron was born in London, and studied at Worcester College, Oxford. According to the American scholar and critic, John Nathan, Codron is possibly \"most famous for the risk he took on a then virtually unknown playwright called Harold Pinter, who had a play", "title": "Michael Codron" }, { "id": "15778161", "text": "Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of \"Courtney Melmoth\" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of \"Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,\" (1780) and the poem \"Sympathy\" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he is today recognised as an early campaigner for animal welfare and the first English writer", "title": "Samuel Jackson Pratt" }, { "id": "10727", "text": "I had to say? I said \"Bless Daddy,\" so what can it be? Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me.\" </poem> A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War", "title": "A. A. Milne" }, { "id": "12375226", "text": "early decades of the new century, there were also many fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. During the early decades of the twentieth-century the Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), and Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), maintained a conservative approach to poetry by combining romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism. Another Georgian poet, Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is one of the First World War poets along with Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1917), and Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Irish playwrights George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), J.M. Synge (1871–1909) and Seán O'Casey were influential in British drama. Shaw's career began", "title": "English literature" }, { "id": "367891", "text": "Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are \"Treasure Island\", \"Kidnapped\", \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\", and \"A Child's Garden of Verses\". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J.", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, { "id": "3828716", "text": "astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. Tennyson - after locally born Alfred Lord Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and one of the most popular classical English poets of all time. The Education Reform Act of 1988 introduced the concept of Grant-maintained schools which shifted the school funding away from the local education authority to direct grant support by central government. Skegness Grammar was the first school in the UK to both apply for and be awarded grant maintained status. The grant maintained system was dis-established by the new Labour", "title": "Skegness Grammar School" }, { "id": "1951152", "text": "Daldry, Edgar Wright, Martin McDonagh, Matthew Vaughn, Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, John Boorman, Gareth Edwards, Steve McQueen and Sam Mendes. British actors and actresses have always been significant in international cinema. Well-known currently active performers include Tom Hardy, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Kate Winslet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Sacha Baron Cohen, Luke Evans, Emma Thompson, Simon Pegg, Paul Bettany, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Laurie, Ben Kingsley,", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2025869", "text": "for Godot\", Among those influenced were Harold Pinter (1930–2008), (\"The Birthday Party\", 1958), and Tom Stoppard (1937– ) (\"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\",1966). The Theatres Act 1968 abolished the system of censorship of the stage that had existed in Great Britain since 1737. The new freedoms of the London stage were tested by Howard Brenton's \"The Romans in Britain\", first staged at the National Theatre during 1980, and subsequently the focus of an unsuccessful private prosecution in 1982. Other playwrights whose careers began later in the century are: Sir Alan Ayckbourn (\"Absurd Person Singular\", 1972), Michael Frayn (1933–) playwright and", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "10702", "text": "A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London to parents John Vine Milne, who was born in Jamaica, and Sarah Marie", "title": "A. A. Milne" }, { "id": "15778179", "text": "promote the interests of virtue, none of these errors should be remembered in his epitaph.\" Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of \"Courtney Melmoth\" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of \"Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,\" (1780) and the poem \"Sympathy\" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he", "title": "Samuel Jackson Pratt" }, { "id": "13319394", "text": "and October 1892, there was a break of four years as a mark of respect; Tennyson's laureate poems \"Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington\" and \"The Charge of the Light Brigade\" were particularly cherished by the Victorian public. Five poets, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, turned down the laureateship. The holder of the position as of 2018 is Carol Ann Duffy, who was appointed in May 2009 on a fixed ten-year term. The origins of the poet laureateship date back to 1616 when James I of England granted a pension to", "title": "Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "902450", "text": "Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include \"The Birthday Party\" (1957), \"The Homecoming\" (1964), and \"Betrayal\" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include \"The Servant\" (1963), \"The Go-Between\" (1971), \"The French Lieutenant's Woman\" (1981), \"The Trial\" (1993), and \"Sleuth\" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and", "title": "Harold Pinter" }, { "id": "14535309", "text": "Anonymous (2011 film) Anonymous is a 2011 period drama film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff. The film is a version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts, and suggests he was the actual author of William Shakespeare's plays. It stars Rhys Ifans as de Vere and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I of England. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and Studio Babelsberg and distributed by Columbia Pictures, \"Anonymous\" was released", "title": "Anonymous (2011 film)" }, { "id": "2899057", "text": "reconciliation and, according to her, had instead attempted to murder her. Poet and playwright Charles Beckingham wrote a defensive pamphlet called \"The Life of Mr. Richard Savage\", and even Lord Tyrconnel, Mrs Brett's own nephew, petitioned to the king and queen for a pardon. Savage eventually escaped the death penalty by the intercession of the Countess of Hertford, who appealed to Queen Caroline. Savage's conviction for murder and the subsequent pardon gained him a considerable amount of fame, and his story was sought over by booksellers and discussed in salons and coffeehouses, along with the behaviour of Mrs Brett. His", "title": "Richard Savage (poet)" }, { "id": "12239566", "text": "Love Letters of Great Men Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1 is an anthology of romantic letters written by leading male historical figures. The book plays a key role in the plot of the American film \"Sex and the City\". The book includes love letters written by Roman poet Ovid, explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, poet Robert Browning, short story writer Edgar Allan Poe, novelist Mark Twain, mathematician Lewis Carroll, physicist Pierre Curie, playwright George Bernard Shaw, adventurer Jack London, Admiral Robert Peary, President Woodrow Wilson, poet Lord Byron, poet John Keats,", "title": "Love Letters of Great Men" }, { "id": "12631834", "text": "Michael Hastings (playwright) Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and occasional novelist and poet. He is best known for his 1984 stage play and 1994 screenplay about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, \"Tom & Viv\". Hastings was born in London, UK. His early plays (\"Don't Destroy Me\" (1956), \"Yes And After\" (1957)) reflected the influence of the Angry Young Men movement and his brief involvement with the circle surrounding Colin Wilson. He later enjoyed mainstream West End success with \"Gloo Joo\" (1978), a farce about a West", "title": "Michael Hastings (playwright)" }, { "id": "20906208", "text": "Dean Atta Dean Atta is a British poet of Greek Cypriot and Caribbean descent. He has been listed by \"The Independent\" newspaper as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the United Kingdom. In 2012, his poem \"I Am Nobody's Nigger,\" written in response to the use of the racial slur by the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, achieved much social media coverage, and he was profiled in The Guardian.. His poetry, which often deals with questions of identity and social justice, has been featured on Radio 4, and he has been commissioned to write for museums and galleries", "title": "Dean Atta" }, { "id": "19716843", "text": "Marlowe Memorial The Marlowe Memorial is a statue and four statuettes erected in memory of the playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe in 1891 in Canterbury, England. The memorial was commissioned by a Marlowe Memorial Committee, and comprises a bronze statue, The Muse of Poetry sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford, standing on a plinth decorated with statuettes of actors playing Marlowe roles. The statue is now situated outside the city's Marlowe Theatre. A Marlow Memorial Committee was established in 1888, arising out of a conception on the part of the Elizabethan Society of Toynbee Hall, that Marlowe, perhaps because of his", "title": "Marlowe Memorial" }, { "id": "11792778", "text": "Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what \"Time\" magazine called \"a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise\". Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many", "title": "Noël Coward" }, { "id": "6004270", "text": "These various thinkers were united by a distrust of Victorian positivism and certainty. Modernism as a literary movement can also be seen as a reaction to industrialization, urbanization and new technologies. Important literary precursors of modernism were Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) (\"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880)); Walt Whitman (1819–92) (\"Leaves of Grass\") (1855–91); Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) (\"Les Fleurs du mal\"), Rimbaud (1854–91) (\"Illuminations\", 1874); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially his later plays, including the trilogy \"To Damascus\" 1898–1901, \"A Dream Play\" (1902), \"The Ghost Sonata\" (1907). Initially, some modernists fostered a utopian spirit, stimulated by innovations in anthropology, psychology,", "title": "Literary modernism" }, { "id": "11812013", "text": "in theatres across the world to this day. They include tragedies, such as \"Hamlet\" (1603), \"Othello\" (1604), and \"King Lear\" (1605); comedies, such as \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" (1594—96) and \"Twelfth Night\" (1602); and history plays, such as \"Henry IV, part 1—2\". The Elizabethan age is sometimes nicknamed \"the age of Shakespeare\" for the amount of influence he held over the era. Other important Elizabethan and 17th-century playwrights include Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster. The English playwrights were intrigued by Italian model: a conspicuous community of Italian actors had settled in London. The linguist and lexicographer John Florio", "title": "Theatre of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2025822", "text": "of Wakefield\" (1766), a pastoral poem \"The Deserted Village\" (1770) and two plays, \"The Good-Natur'd Man\" 1768 and \"She Stoops to Conquer\" 1773. Sheridan was born in Dublin, but his family moved to England in the 1750s. His first play, \"The Rivals\" 1775, was performed at Covent Garden and was an instant success. He went on to become the most significant London playwright of the late 18th century with plays like \"The School for Scandal\" and \"The Critic\". Sterne published his famous novel \"Tristram Shandy\" in parts between 1759 and 1767. The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "1542989", "text": "written with John Dryden, who would be named the next (and first officially by letters patent) Poet Laureate. He died in London on 7 April 1668, shortly after his final play, \"The Man's the Master\", was first performed. He is buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey where the inscription on his tablet reads \"O rare Sir William Davenant.\" It has been noted that the original inscription on Ben Jonson's tablet, which was already removed by the time Davenant died, was \"O Rare Ben,\" which was the name Shakespeare supposedly had for Jonson. Both are puns on the Latin \"orare\",", "title": "William Davenant" }, { "id": "457894", "text": "William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication \"Lyrical Ballads\" (1798). Wordsworth's \"magnum opus\" is generally considered to be \"The Prelude\", a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as \"the poem to Coleridge\". Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. The second of", "title": "William Wordsworth" }, { "id": "697918", "text": "was attacked in Rose Alley near his home in Covent Garden by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict. Dryden's greatest achievements were in satiric verse: the mock-heroic \"Mac Flecknoe\", a more personal product of his laureate years, was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell. Dryden's main goal in the work is to \"satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print.\" It is not a belittling", "title": "John Dryden" }, { "id": "6288989", "text": "of the church for £440 (a considerable sum of money at the time). A monument on the wall nearest his grave, probably placed by his family, features a bust showing Shakespeare posed in the act of writing. Each year on his claimed birthday, a new quill pen is placed in the writing hand of the bust. He is believed to have written the epitaph on his tombstone. Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon", "title": "Life of William Shakespeare" }, { "id": "5478369", "text": "Ludovic Kennedy Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy (3 November 191918 October 2009) was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom. Kennedy was born in 1919 in Edinburgh, the son of a career Royal Navy officer, Edward Coverley Kennedy, and his wife, Rosalind Grant, daughter of Sir Ludovic Grant, 11th Baronet. His mother Rosalind was a cousin of the Conservative politician Robert Boothby, later Lord Boothby.", "title": "Ludovic Kennedy" }, { "id": "10971045", "text": "Harold Pinter and academia Harold Pinter and academia concerns academic recognition of and scholarship pertaining to Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, at the time of his death considered by many \"the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation.\" Among the honours received during his lifetime, Pinter was the recipient of 20 honorary degrees or fellowships conferred by European and American academic institutions, and he was an Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (1970). In 2006 Pinter was elected a", "title": "Harold Pinter and academia" }, { "id": "419341", "text": "annual Ted Hughes Festival. Many of Ted Hughes's poems have been published as limited-edition broadsides. Ted Hughes Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. In 2008 \"The Times\" ranked Hughes fourth on their list of \"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945\". Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the", "title": "Ted Hughes" }, { "id": "2086307", "text": "be successful. This is composed of 9 people from various disciplines from across the country. The panel is chaired by Professor Ronald Hutton, and includes former Poet Laureate Professor Sir Andrew Motion and buildings historian Professor Gavin Stamp. The actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry was formerly a member of the panel, and wrote the foreword to the book \"Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them\" (2009). Roughly a third of proposals are approved in principle, and are placed on a shortlist. Because the scheme is so popular, and because a lot of detailed research has to be", "title": "Blue plaque" }, { "id": "429244", "text": "in character. Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing \"Rhys Lewis\" in 1885. The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are both Thomases. Dylan Thomas became famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-20th century. He is remembered for his poetry—his \"Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light\" is one of the most quoted couplets of English language verse—and for his \"play for voices\", \"Under Milk Wood\". The influential Church in Wales \"poet-priest\" and Welsh nationalist R. S. Thomas was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1952879", "text": "Haydn's oratorio \"The Seasons\". Thomson is one of the sixteen Scottish poets and writers appearing on the Scott Monument on Princes Street in Edinburgh. He appears on the right side of the east face. Thomson has a large memorial in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey next to William Shakespeare and underneath his countryman, Robert Burns. James Thomson (poet, born 1700) James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a British poet and playwright, known for his poems \"The Seasons\" and \"The Castle of Indolence\", and for the lyrics of \"Rule, Britannia!\". James Thomson was born in Ednam", "title": "James Thomson (poet, born 1700)" }, { "id": "20906209", "text": "including the Keats House Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern.. In 2018, Atta served as a judge for the BBC Young Writers Award. Dean Atta Dean Atta is a British poet of Greek Cypriot and Caribbean descent. He has been listed by \"The Independent\" newspaper as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the United Kingdom. In 2012, his poem \"I Am Nobody's Nigger,\" written in response to the use of the racial slur by the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, achieved much social media coverage, and he was profiled in The Guardian.. His poetry,", "title": "Dean Atta" }, { "id": "419296", "text": "Ted Hughes Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. In 2008 \"The Times\" ranked Hughes fourth on their list of \"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945\". Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Some feminists and some American admirers of Plath blamed him for her", "title": "Ted Hughes" }, { "id": "1720090", "text": "Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector. Rogers was born at Newington Green, then a village", "title": "Samuel Rogers" }, { "id": "2025889", "text": "Day. World Book Day is observed in Britain and the Crown Dependencies on the first Thursday in March annually. British recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Rudyard Kipling (1907), John Galsworthy (1932), T. S. Eliot (1948), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), William Golding (1983), V. S. Naipaul (2001), Harold Pinter (2005) Doris Lessing (2007), and Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). Literary prizes for which writers from the United Kingdom are eligible include: British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "466995", "text": "William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel \"Lord of the Flies\", he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel \"Rites of Passage\", the first book in what became his sea trilogy, \"To the Ends of the Earth\". Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, \"The Times\" ranked Golding third on their list of \"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945\".", "title": "William Golding" }, { "id": "4273436", "text": "Timeline of Shakespeare criticism This article is a collection of critical quotations and other criticism against William Shakespeare and his works. Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time, but in the 17th century, poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. In fact, even today, no other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British (and later the world) stage as Shakespeare Since then, several editors and critics of theater began to focus on the dramatic text and the language of Shakespeare, creating a study", "title": "Timeline of Shakespeare criticism" }, { "id": "1951111", "text": "children's book) won seven 2012 Olivier Awards. In 2017, \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\" won nine Olivier Awards. The Royal Shakespeare Company, at Stratford-upon-Avon, produces mainly but not exclusively Shakespeare plays. Important modern playwrights include Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Michael Frayn and Arnold Wesker. While the British national anthem \"God Save the Queen\" and other patriotic songs such as \"Rule, Britannia!\" represent the United Kingdom, each of the four individual countries of the UK also has its own patriotic hymns. Edward Elgar's \"Land of Hope and Glory\", and William Blake's poem \"And did", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "10175644", "text": "alternative author of the Shakespearean canon, preferring instead to remain agnostic on the identity of the author while steadfastly maintaining that the traditional view of authorship was ultimately indefensible. In 1922 he joined with J. Thomas Looney to establish The Shakespeare Fellowship, the organisation which subsequently carried forward public discussion of the authorship question up to the 1940s. His major publications include: George Greenwood Sir Granville George Greenwood (3 January 1850 – 27 October 1928), usually known as George Greenwood or G. G. Greenwood, was a British lawyer, politician, cricketer, animal welfare reformer and energetic advocate of the Shakespeare authorship", "title": "George Greenwood" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "7726325", "text": "resolve or explain\" it (\"O.E.D.\" 12), which becomes very relevant when we see that—whether the author intended it or not—it is possible to re-interpret the whole poem on Shakespeare's monument (\"Stay Passenger...\") as in fact inviting us to solve a puzzle revealing who is \"in\" the monument \"with\" Shakespeare. The apparent answer turns out to be \"Christofer Marley\"—as Marlowe is known to have spelt his own name—who, it says, with Shakespeare's death no longer has a \"page\" to dish up his wit. Calvin Hoffman, author of \"The Man Who Was Shakespeare\" (1955), died in 1988, still absolutely convinced that Marlowe", "title": "Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship" }, { "id": "606472", "text": "290 that Percy Bysshe Shelley was murdered; \"Poems on Japan\" (1967). \"Artists Rifles\", an audiobook CD published in 2004, includes a reading of \"Concert Party, Busseboom\" by Blunden himself, recorded in 1964 by the British Council. Other World War I poets heard on the CD include Siegfried Sassoon, Edgell Rickword, Graves, David Jones and Lawrence Binyon. Blunden can also be heard on \"Memorial Tablet\", an audiobook of readings by Sassoon issued in 2003. Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he", "title": "Edmund Blunden" }, { "id": "2025833", "text": "second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps, the least \"romantic\" of the three, preferring \"the brilliant wit of Pope to what he called the 'wrong poetical system' of his Romantic contemporaries\". Though John Keats shared Byron and Shelley's radical politics, \"his best poetry is not political\". but is especially noted for its sensuous music and imagery, along with a concern with material beauty and the transience of life. Among his most famous works are: \"The Eve of St Agnes\",", "title": "British literature" }, { "id": "546206", "text": "1960, and subsequent publication of the full text, ensured Lawrence's popularity (and notoriety) with a wider public. Since 2008, an annual D. H. Lawrence Festival has been organised in Eastwood to celebrate Lawrence's life and works; in September 2016, events were held in Cornwall to celebrate the centenary of Lawrence's connection with Zennor. D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health,", "title": "D. H. Lawrence" }, { "id": "49177", "text": "of both sides but agreeing with the opponents of ordinary language philosophy. In the King's Birthday Honours of 9 June 1949, Russell was awarded the Order of Merit, and the following year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. When he was given the Order of Merit, George VI was affable but slightly embarrassed at decorating a former jailbird, saying, \"You have sometimes behaved in a manner that would not do if generally adopted\". Russell merely smiled, but afterwards claimed that the reply \"That's right, just like your brother\" immediately came to mind. In 1952 Russell was divorced by", "title": "Bertrand Russell" }, { "id": "19716849", "text": "the city, the muse being thrown to the ground. She was remounted, but facing in a new direction, an error corrected only in 1964. Two statuettes were stolen in 1977. Most recently the statue was again relocated to stand outside the Marlowe Theatre, Ian McKellen performing a rededication ceremony in 1993. Marlowe Memorial The Marlowe Memorial is a statue and four statuettes erected in memory of the playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe in 1891 in Canterbury, England. The memorial was commissioned by a Marlowe Memorial Committee, and comprises a bronze statue, The Muse of Poetry sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford,", "title": "Marlowe Memorial" }, { "id": "1443149", "text": "John Osborne John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play \"Look Back in Anger\" transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against", "title": "John Osborne" }, { "id": "1443115", "text": "John Osborne John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play \"Look Back in Anger\" transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against", "title": "John Osborne" }, { "id": "4165678", "text": "Reputation of William Shakespeare In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but since the late 17th century he has been considered the supreme playwright and poet of the English language. No other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the world stage as Shakespeare. The plays have often been drastically adapted in performance. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the era of the great acting stars, to be a star on the British stage was synonymous with being a great Shakespearean actor. Then the emphasis was placed", "title": "Reputation of William Shakespeare" }, { "id": "14357446", "text": "R.C. Churchill says that the first documented expression of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship came in 1760, in a farce entitled \"High Life Below Stairs\" in which a Miss Kitty poses the question: \"Who wrote Shakespeare?\" The Duke responds \"Ben Jonson.\" Lady Bab then cries; \"Oh, no! Shakespeare was written by one Mr. Finis, for I saw his name at the end of the book.\" Churchill writes that, while not a very \"profound\" joke, there \"must have been, in the mid-eighteenth century, a certain amount of discussion as to the authenticity of the traditional authorship of Shakespeare, and the substitution of", "title": "History of the Shakespeare authorship question" }, { "id": "894061", "text": "generation of playwrights. His plays (\"The Duchess of Malfi\", \"The White Devil\") are known for their 'blood and gore', which is humorously referred to by the child saying that he enjoys \"Titus Andronicus\", and also saying of \"Romeo and Juliet\", when asked his opinion by the Queen, \"I liked it when she stabbed herself.\" When the clown Will Kempe (Patrick Barlow) says to Shakespeare that he would like to play in a drama, he is told that \"they would laugh at Seneca if you played it,\" a reference to the Roman tragedian renowned for his sombre and bloody plot lines", "title": "Shakespeare in Love" }, { "id": "5658591", "text": "not previously completed, is in pre-production in 2018. The footage is available for viewing through the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. ODNB article by Richard Cork, 'Penrose, Sir Roland Algernon (1900–1984)', rev. \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\", Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 27 May 2009 Roland Penrose Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. During the Second World War he put his artistic skills to practical", "title": "Roland Penrose" }, { "id": "1438285", "text": "prey to the collective mirage of a new order, to stay wide awake while others succumb to the lethe of the group mind, to resist the gaze of modern Gorgons\". Tony Harrison Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University. He is one of Britain's foremost verse writers and many of his works have been performed at the Royal National Theatre. He is noted for controversial works such as the poem \"V\", as well as his", "title": "Tony Harrison" }, { "id": "14004591", "text": "venue, seating about 150. The style was set by the first production, \"Jupiter Translated\", an adaptation of Molière's \"Amphitryon\" by W. J. Turner with a ballet by Rupert Doone as entr'acte. The theatre's reputation was established in 1935 by the first London productions of T. S. Eliot's \"Murder in the Cathedral\", transferred from Canterbury, and two years later by Auden and Isherwood's poetic play \"The Ascent of F6\". 1943 saw the production of Eugene O'Neill's \"Days Without End\". The Pilgrim Players' seasons in 1945-1947, under the direction of E. Martin Browne, consolidated the position of poetic drama at the Mercury", "title": "Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate" }, { "id": "658609", "text": "artists and photographers, Dahl was named the greatest storyteller of all time, ranking ahead of Dickens, Shakespeare, Rowling and Spielberg. In 2017, the airline Norwegian announced Dahl's image would appear on the tail fin one of their Boeing 737-800 aircraft. He is one of the company's six \"British tail fin heroes\", joining Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, England World Cup winner Bobby Moore, novelist Jane Austen, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and aviation entrepreneur Freddie Laker. Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books", "title": "Roald Dahl" }, { "id": "14470536", "text": "Savage\" with J. M. Barrie which premiered at London's Criterion Theatre in 1891. In 1894, the English poet Rosamund Tomson left her husband, artist Arthur Graham Tomson, and eloped with Marriott Watson; their first and only son Richard was born on 6 October 1895. This resulted in a scandal, one which included the sudden changing of her established pen name from Graham R. Tomson to Rosamund Marriott Watson to honor her third husband, and cancelling a then forthcoming volume of poems. Her career subsequently suffered as many publishers avoided working with her in future. Rosamund and Arthur Tomson officially divorced", "title": "H. B. Marriott Watson" }, { "id": "1621641", "text": "distinctly American themes, including some political issues such as abolition. They included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.. Longfellow achieved the highest level of acclaim and is often considered the first internationally acclaimed American poet, being the first American poet given a bust in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), two of America's greatest 19th-century poets could hardly have been more different in temperament and style. Walt Whitman was a working man, a traveler, a self-appointed nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "13161668", "text": "were published in the newspaper itself. The 1974 winner was Charles Nicholl, who went on to become well-known for historical biographies. It was re-invigorated with the support of literary agents Peters Fraser + Dunlop in 2015 under the new name Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. 1974 Winner - Charles Nicholl, 'The Ups and The Downs', the author's disturbing and humorous account of a bad lsd trip in London. In 1999, Paul Farley's \"The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You\" \"was so well received\", according to the \"Encyclopedia of British", "title": "Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award" }, { "id": "9087971", "text": "Sean O'Brien (writer) Sean O'Brien (born 19 December 1952 in London) is a British poet, critic and playwright. His prizes include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only two poets (the other being John Burnside) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book). He grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He", "title": "Sean O'Brien (writer)" }, { "id": "1613330", "text": "satire of T. S. Eliot's \"Burnt Norton\". Eliot himself was amused by \"Chard Whitlow\"'s mournful imitations of his poetic style (\"As we get older we do not get any younger ...\"). Reed made a radio programme, reading all of \"Lessons of the War\", which was broadcast on the BBC's Network Three on 14 February 1966. He was often confused with the poet and critic Herbert Read (1893 – 1968); the two men were unrelated. Reed responded to this confusion by naming his 'alter ego' biographer in the \"Hilda Tablet\" plays \"Herbert Reeve\" and then by having everyone get the name", "title": "Henry Reed (poet)" }, { "id": "429242", "text": "(the creator of Sherlock Holmes), romantic literature by Sir Walter Scott, the children's writer J. M. Barrie, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns. More recently the modernist and nationalist Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M. Gunn contributed to the Scottish Renaissance. A more grim outlook is found in Ian Rankin's stories and the psychological horror-comedy of Iain Banks. Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, was UNESCO's first worldwide City of Literature. Britain's oldest known poem, \"Y Gododdin\", was composed in \"Yr Hen Ogledd\" (\"The Old North\"), most likely in the late 6th century. It was written in", "title": "United Kingdom" }, { "id": "7501158", "text": "is recognised as a major influence on the early work of Peter Cook, particularly the E. L. Wisty monologues. Many comparisons have been drawn to the work of key absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco. However, Simpson denies any link, adding that he had never even heard of the writer when he commenced a career in nonsense. In his own view, the valid literary parallels are with Lewis Carroll, James Thurber and P. G. Wodehouse. Simpson’s early work must also be viewed in its cultural context. BBC Radio’s \"The Goon Show\" was widely admired, bringing surrealism to the masses for the first", "title": "N. F. Simpson" } ]

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[ { "id": "6104797", "text": "Cervantes' renowned novel, Don Quixote, who charged against a windmill, thinking it to be a giant. Like Quixote, the Hidalgo spacecraft will 'attack' an object much larger than itself, hopefully with more impressive results. 'Sancho' is named after Sancho Panza, the Quixote's squire, who preferred to stay back and watch from a safe distance, which is the role assigned to that probe. Finally, the name Hidalgo was a minor Spanish title (roughly equivalent to a Baronet), now obsolete. In the novel, it was the title Alonso Quijano had even before becoming Don Quijote. Don Quijote (spacecraft) Don Quijote is a", "title": "Don Quijote (spacecraft)" }, { "id": "14602348", "text": "Alonso Quijano Alonso Quijano (spelled \"Quixano\" in English and Early Modern Spanish) is the personal name of the famous fictional hidalgo or knight better known as Don Quijote, the leading character of the novel \"Don Quijote de la Mancha\", written by Miguel de Cervantes. Other names or nicknames of Alonso Quijano that go appearing in the story are: the Knight of the Sad Face, that puts him alongside his own squire Sancho Panza, or the Knight of the Lions, adopted by Don Quijote after an encounter with lions (in the second part, at chapter 17). In chapter 39 of the", "title": "Alonso Quijano" }, { "id": "101640", "text": "the \"best literary work ever written\". The story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) named Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant (\"caballero andante\"), reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name \"Don Quixote de la Mancha\". He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "101672", "text": "his image. By his deathbed, he has regained his sanity, and is once more \"Alonso Quixano the Good\". Sources for \"Don Quixote\" include the Castilian novel \"Amadis de Gaula\", which had enjoyed great popularity throughout the 16th century. Another prominent source, which Cervantes evidently admires more, is \"Tirant lo Blanch\", which the priest describes in Chapter VI of \"Quixote\" as \"the best book in the world.\" (However, the sense in which it was \"best\" is much debated among scholars. The passage is called since the 19th century \"the most difficult passage of \"Don Quixote\"\".) The scene of the book burning", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "101645", "text": "intervene violently in matters irrelevant to himself, and his habit of not paying debts, result in privations, injuries, and humiliations (with Sancho often the victim). Finally, Don Quixote is persuaded to return to his home village. The narrator hints that there was a third quest, but says that records of it have been lost. Alonso Quixano, the protagonist of the novel (though he is not given this name until much later in the book), is a Hidalgo (member of the lesser Spanish nobility), nearing 50 years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "2937130", "text": "Sancho Panza Sancho Panza () is a fictional character in the novel \"Don Quixote\" written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as \"sanchismos\", that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit. \"Panza\" in Spanish means \"belly\" (cf. English \"paunch,\" Italian \"pancia\", several Italian dialects \"panza\", Portuguese \"pança\", French \"panse\"). Before a fit of madness turned Alonso Quijano into Don Quixote, Sancho Panza was indeed his servant. When the novel begins, Sancho has been married for a long", "title": "Sancho Panza" }, { "id": "1508627", "text": "sympathetic criminal known as \"the Governor\" suggests setting up a mock trial instead. Only if Cervantes is found guilty will he have to hand over his possessions. A cynical prisoner, known as \"the Duke,\" charges Cervantes with being an idealist and a bad poet. Cervantes pleads guilty, but then asks if he may offer a defense, in the form of a play, acted out by him and all the prisoners. The \"Governor\" agrees. Cervantes takes out a makeup kit and costume from his trunk, and transforms himself into Alonso Quijano, an old gentleman who has read so many books of", "title": "Man of La Mancha" }, { "id": "101670", "text": "forced to deceive him at certain points. The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, veracity and even nationalism. In exploring the individualism of his characters, Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary conventions of the chivalric romance literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that redound to the knightly virtues of the hero. The character of Don Quixote became so well known in its time that the word \"quixotic\" was quickly adopted by many languages. Characters such as Sancho Panza and Don Quixote's steed, Rocinante, are emblems of Western literary culture. The", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "14363469", "text": "Don Quixote (Picasso) Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal \"Les Lettres Françaises\" in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part of Cervantes’s \"Don Quixote\". Made on August 10, 1955, the drawing \"Don Quixote\" was in a very different style than Picasso’s earlier Blue, Rose, and Cubist periods. The drawing is of Don Quixote de la Mancha, his horse Rocinante, his squire Sancho Panza and his donkey Dapple, the sun, and several windmills.", "title": "Don Quixote (Picasso)" }, { "id": "2502621", "text": "great predecessor \"Don Quixote\". Don Quixote's connection with Mr Pickwick, as Dostoyevsky saw, is basic. With Don Quixote, of course, goes Sancho Panza, who with the reinforcement of the faithful, shrewd, worldly servants of the young heroes Tom Jones, Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random and the rest, goes to make up Sam Weller.\" The popularity of \"The Pickwick Papers\" spawned many imitations and sequels in print as well as actual Clubs and Societies inspired by the club in the novel. One example is the still in operation Pickwick Bicycle Club in London, which was established in 1870, the same year as", "title": "The Pickwick Papers" }, { "id": "14363478", "text": "of \"Don Quixote\". It is widely recognized as one of the most prominent depictions of the legendary figure who is a popular figure in art. Don Quixote (Picasso) Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal \"Les Lettres Françaises\" in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part of Cervantes’s \"Don Quixote\". Made on August 10, 1955, the drawing \"Don Quixote\" was in a very different style than Picasso’s earlier Blue, Rose, and Cubist periods.", "title": "Don Quixote (Picasso)" }, { "id": "11685947", "text": "in respect for the dead \"knight\". In a bit of trick photography, the pages of the original 1605 edition of Cervantes's novel arise from the flames rather than being consumed by them - a sign that Don Quixote has achieved immortality. Dulcinea, who appears in the film, is depicted as a not-too-bright milkmaid, and cruelly, she is among those who laugh the hardest when Don Quixote is brought back in a cage. Don Quixote's name \"is\" Don Quixote in this version. He is never referred to as Alonso Quixano. The film makes several striking early uses of trick photography. Immediately", "title": "Don Quixote (1933 film)" }, { "id": "15562108", "text": "Quijote\", which represents the Honourable Knight when he was still Alonso Quijano. He is humanized as an inhabitant of the Village, who would later become an idealist knight who wants to fight against the injustices of the world. The sculpture shows us Alonso Quijano while he is reading one of his countless books of chivalry orders leaning on one hand and looking up, imaging his next adventures. The figure of \"Sancho Panza\" seems to be a native of the Village, as well. \"Sancho\" is carrying some wine and cheese, which are typical products from this area. The \"Aldonza Lorenzo\" sculpture-", "title": "Cayetano Hilario Abellan" }, { "id": "5510839", "text": "a literal adaptation, Gilliam's film was about \"an old, retired, and slightly kooky nobleman named Alonso Quixano [who] reads too many chivalric romances. Taking leave of his senses, he sets out to fix the world and revive chivalry, clad in makeshift armor and accompanied by a donkey-owning farmer named Sancho Panza, who serves as his squire\". Gilliam signed a deal with Phoenix Pictures as the studio to make the film in 1990 under the name \"Don Quixote\". Sean Connery was in talks to star as Quixote, but Gilliam disliked the idea because \"Quixote is air and Sean is earth\". Nigel", "title": "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" }, { "id": "1924874", "text": "which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's \"Don Quixote\", and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical \"look\" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's \"The Raven\", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883.", "title": "Gustave Doré" }, { "id": "4408585", "text": "namesake, Don Quixote, and features a heroic young knight named Don on a quest to save his love, the fair princess Isabella, who has been kidnapped by a wicked witch for human sacrifice to a demon. Don is accompanied on his travels by a donkey (based on Rocinante, the original Don Quixote's horse), and a fat little man named Sancho (based on Don Quixote's trusty sidekick Sancho Panza). The closest parallel to the original tale is a scene in which Don fights a giant at a windmill. However, the rest of the game pits him against a mummy, a dragon,", "title": "Super Don Quix-ote" }, { "id": "12557656", "text": "By\". Rather than offer a literal adaptation of the Miguel de Cervantes novel, Welles opted to bring the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza into the modern age as living anachronisms. Welles explained his idea in an interview, stating: \"My Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are exactly and traditionally drawn from Cervantes, but are nonetheless contemporary.\" Welles later elaborated to Peter Bogdanovich: \"What interests me is the \"idea\" of these dated old virtues. And why they still seem to speak to us when, by all logic, they're so hopelessly irrelevant. That's why I've been obsessed for so long with", "title": "Don Quixote (unfinished film)" }, { "id": "14602350", "text": "to his physique, Cervantes describes Alonso Quijano: \"a brave and noble soul, about the fifty years of age. He was of lean build, wiry with a wrinkled, suntanned face.\" (first part, chapter I). In chapter XIV of Part II (1615), a knight-errant, Bachelor Sansón Carrasco, describes him as \"a tall man, dry of face, pulled and wrinkled limbs, ageing, with the nose something between the beak of an eagle and a hamstring, underlined by a large, black, droopy mustache.\" Alonso Quijano Alonso Quijano (spelled \"Quixano\" in English and Early Modern Spanish) is the personal name of the famous fictional hidalgo", "title": "Alonso Quijano" }, { "id": "101650", "text": "on books Cervantes himself liked and disliked. For example, Cervantes' own pastoral novel \"La Galatea\" is saved, while the rather unbelievable romance \"Felixmarte de Hyrcania\" is burned. After the books are dealt with, they seal up the room which contained the library, later telling Don Quixote that it was the action of a wizard (\"encantador\"). After a short period of feigning health, Don Quixote requests his neighbour, Sancho Panza, to be his squire, promising him a petty governorship (\"ínsula\"). Sancho is a poor and simple farmer but more practical than the head-in-the-clouds Don Quixote and agrees to the offer, sneaking", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "260011", "text": "qualities, Sancho Panza, a man of low self-esteem, who is a compound of grossness and simplicity. \"Don Quixote\" is cited as the first classic model of the modern romance or novel, and it has served as the prototype of the comic novel. The humorous situations are mostly burlesque, and it includes satire. \"Don Quixote\" is one of the \"Encyclopædia Britannica\"'s Great Books of the Western World, while the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky called it \"the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking\". It is in \"Don Quixote\" that Cervantes coined the popular phrase \"the proof of the pudding is", "title": "Miguel de Cervantes" }, { "id": "5757668", "text": "Zorro (novel) Zorro is a 2005 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Its subject is the pulp hero Diego de la Vega, better known as El Zorro (The Fox), who was featured in an early 20th-century novel. The novel takes the form of a biography and was the first origin story for this legendary character. In terms of material, it is a prequel to Johnston McCulley's 1919 novella \"The Curse of Capistrano,\" which first featured the character of Zorro. The story incorporates details from a variety of works that have featured the pulp hero, including the 1998 film \"The Mask", "title": "Zorro (novel)" }, { "id": "125399", "text": "The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, in his 1913 book \"The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations\", emphasized the life of \"flesh and bone\" as opposed to that of abstract rationalism. Unamuno rejected systematic philosophy in favor of the individual's quest for faith. He retained a sense of the tragic, even absurd nature of the quest, symbolized by his enduring interest in Cervantes' fictional character Don Quixote. A novelist, poet and dramatist as well as philosophy professor at the University of Salamanca, Unamuno wrote a short story about a priest's crisis of faith, \"Saint Manuel the", "title": "Existentialism" }, { "id": "4880232", "text": "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' \"Don Quixote\". The identity of Fernández de Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. One theory holds that Avellaneda’s work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega. Another theory is that it was by Gerónimo de Passamonte, the real-life inspiration for the character Ginés de Pasamonte of Part I. Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda's work in low regard, and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in", "title": "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda" }, { "id": "2420112", "text": "does Gutman, (named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from \"The Maltese Falcon\", but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in \"Casablanca\") manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage. Williams also employs a large cast of characters including many famous literary characters who appear in dream sequences. They include Don Quixote and his partner Sancho, Marguerite \"Camille\" Gautier (see \"The Lady of the Camellias\"), Casanova, Lord Byron, and Esmeralda (see \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\"), among others. Taking place in the main plaza, the play goes through a series of confusing and almost logic-defying", "title": "Camino Real (play)" }, { "id": "101669", "text": "united by common themes of the nature of reality, reading, and dialogue in general. Although burlesque on the surface, the novel, especially in its second half, has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but also in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss. The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book's publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel. Even faithful and simple Sancho is", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "11220847", "text": "Mister Geppetto Mister Geppetto ( ; ), also \"Mastro Geppetto\", is a fictional character in the novel \"The Adventures of Pinocchio\" by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio. He wears a yellow wig resembling cornmeal mush (called \"polendina\"), and consequently his neighbors call him \"Polendina\" to annoy him. The name \"Geppetto\" is a diminutive form of \"Giuseppe\" (\"Joseph\"). Geppetto is introduced when carpenter Mister Antonio finds a talking block of pinewood that he was about to carve into a leg for his table. When Geppetto drops by looking for a", "title": "Mister Geppetto" }, { "id": "101653", "text": "and Sancho to the funeral of Grisóstomo, a former student who left his studies to become a shepherd after reading pastoral novels (paralleling Don Quixote's decision to become a knight), seeking the shepherdess Marcela. At the funeral Marcela appears, vindicating herself from the bitter verses written about her by Grisóstomo, and claiming her own autonomy and freedom from expectations put on her by pastoral clichés. She disappears into the woods, and Don Quixote and Sancho follow. Ultimately giving up, the two dismount by a pond to rest. Some Galicians arrive to water their ponies, and Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse) attempts", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "1508628", "text": "chivalry and thought so much about injustice that he has lost his mind and set out as a knight-errant. Quijano renames himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, and goes off to find adventures with his \"squire\", Sancho Panza. (\"Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)\") Don Quixote warns Sancho that they are always in danger of being attacked by Quixote's mortal enemy, an evil magician known as the Enchanter. Suddenly he spots a windmill, mistakes it for a four-armed giant, attacks it, and receives a beating from the encounter. Quijote decides that he lost the battle because he was never", "title": "Man of La Mancha" }, { "id": "9940683", "text": "is John Galt?\" that plays an important role in \"Atlas Shrugged\". Rand is not the only famous author to invent a character with this name. Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of heroes such as Conan the Barbarian, used a villain named John Galt—also a man of mystery missing for a long time and possessed of great wealth, trying to manipulate his world from the background—in the tale \"Black Talons\" in 1933, more than twenty years before \"Atlas Shrugged\" was published. The Galt character has been compared to various iconic figures from literature and history. In the novel itself,", "title": "John Galt" }, { "id": "6795234", "text": "creator, Miguel de Cervantes. In the novel Cervantes has Don Quixote satirically present himself as an \"hidalgo de sangre\" and aspire to live the life of a knight-errant despite the fact that his economic position does not allow him to truly do so. Don Quixote's possessions allowed to him a meager life devoted to his reading obsession, yet his concept of honour led him to emulate the knights-errant. The picaresque novel \"Lazarillo\" features an hidalgo so poor that he spreads breadcrumbs on his clothes, to simulate having eaten a meal. His \"hidalgo\" honour forbids him from manual work but does", "title": "Hidalgo (nobility)" }, { "id": "259982", "text": "Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; ; ; 29 September 1547 (assumed)22 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His novel \"Don Quixote\" has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects; it is, after the Bible, the most-translated book in the world. \"Don Quixote\", a classic of Western literature, is sometimes considered both the first modern novel and the best work of fiction ever written. Cervantes' influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language", "title": "Miguel de Cervantes" }, { "id": "12303259", "text": "organizer of the First International Symposium on Cultural Property and Patrimony (Columbia University, 1999) and of a panel discussion entitled \"The Art of the Enemy\" (School of Visual Arts in New York City, 2002). Feliciano is currently teaching an honors seminar on religious art at New York University. The character known as Hector Hurtado seen in the French thriller \"L'Antiquaire\" is said to have been loosely based upon Hector Felciano. Héctor Feliciano Hector Feliciano (born 1952) is a Puerto Rican journalist and author whose book \"\"The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art\"\" has", "title": "Héctor Feliciano" }, { "id": "260000", "text": "Part, as some have maintained) occurred to him while in jail. Cervantes' idea was to give a picture of real life and manners, and to express himself in clear language. The intrusion of everyday speech into a literary context was acclaimed by the reading public. The author stayed poor until January 1605, when the first part of \"Don Quixote\" appeared. The popularity of \"Don Quixote\" led to the publication of an unauthorized continuation of it by an unknown writer, who masqueraded under the name of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. Cervantes produced his own continuation, or Second Part, of \"Don Quixote\",", "title": "Miguel de Cervantes" }, { "id": "3799205", "text": "\"rogue\" or \"rascal\". In these novels, the adventures of the \"pícaro\" expose injustice while simultaneously amusing the reader. Published by Miguel de Cervantes in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. Spain's greatest painters during the Spanish Golden Age period included El Greco, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco Goya, who became", "title": "Culture of Spain" }, { "id": "471821", "text": "Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley was lying. The scientific futurism in \"Brave New World\" is believed to be cribbed from \"Daedalus\" by J. B. S. Haldane. The events of the Depression in Britain in 1931, with its mass unemployment and the abandonment of the gold currency standard, persuaded Huxley to assert that stability was the \"primal and ultimate need\" if civilisation was to survive the present crisis. The \"Brave New World\" character Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe, is named after Sir Alfred Mond. Shortly before writing the novel, Huxley visited Mond's technologically advanced plant near Billingham,", "title": "Brave New World" }, { "id": "4706361", "text": "Frank. It is probable, but not clear, that Pancho or Cisco were originally named after the famous Mexican revolutionary general whose nom de guerre was Francisco \"Pancho\" Villa. The Cisco Kid The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story \"The Caballero's Way\", published in the collection \"Heart of the West\", as well as in \"Everybody's Magazine\", v17, July 1907. In films, radio and television, the Kid was depicted as a heroic Mexican caballero, even though he", "title": "The Cisco Kid" }, { "id": "5861460", "text": "Baroness Ungern: Books by Boris Balkan: Books by Enrique Taillefer: Books by an unnamed Nobel-prize-winning author: Book by Don Jaime Astarloa, (hero of Perez-Reverte's novel The Fencing Master): Aristide Torchia, a fictional historical author from the novel, has been referred to in other media including \"The Ninth Gate\" ( a film based on the novel), and video game \"Max Payne\". The fictional character Torchia was described as follows. He was born in 1620. He was apprenticed in Leyden under the Elzevir family. After returning to Venice he published small works on philosophical and esoteric themes. In 1666, Torchia published \"De", "title": "The Club Dumas" }, { "id": "3611677", "text": "era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo\"—\"a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world\". In chapter 1, Cervantes describes Don Quixote's careful naming of his steed: Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he", "title": "Rocinante" }, { "id": "1606913", "text": "Quixote\" (an early novel, perhaps better classified as a satirical romance), for example, Cervantes disapproved of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda's use of his characters in \"Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha\", an unauthorized sequel. In response, Cervantes very firmly kills the protagonist at the end of the Second Part to discourage any more such creative liberties. Another example is Samuel Richardson, an 18th-century author who responded particularly strongly against the appropriation of his material by unauthorized third parties. Richardson was extremely vocal in his disapproval of the way the protagonist of his novel \"Pamela\" was", "title": "Sequel" }, { "id": "15551556", "text": "in great poverty in a village of La Mancha, gave himself up so entirely to reading the romances of chivalry, of which he had a large collection, that in the end they turned his brain, and nothing would satisfy him but that he must ride abroad on his old horse, armed with spear and helmet, a knight-errant, to encounter all adventures, and to redress the innumerable wrongs of the world. He induced a neighbour of his, a poor and ignorant peasant called Sancho Panza, mounted on a very good ass, to accompany him as squire. The knight saw the world", "title": "Spanish chivalry" }, { "id": "3178843", "text": "any shield-carrying duties. The typical jobs of a squire included: The young King Arthur served as Sir Kay's squire in the traditional tale of the sword in the stone that appears in literary works, including \"Le Morte d'Arthur\" and \"The Once and Future King\". One of the pilgrim-storytellers in \"The Canterbury Tales\" is a squire whose father recounts the tale. In Cervantes's \"Don Quixote\", the babbling Sancho Panza serves as squire of the deluded Don. In the children's book \"The Castle in the Attic\", the protagonist William serves as the squire of Sir Simon, a knight from the Middle Ages", "title": "Squire" }, { "id": "7859043", "text": "the base of the monument, and under the feet of the writer, are the statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The set was finalized when the figures of Dulcinea and Aldonza Lorenzo were added, also characters of the Cervantes novel. Alluding to the universality of Don Quixote, the monument also contemplates the five continents, all of them reading the work of Cervantes. On the other side and above the fountains, is represented the Spanish Literature, dressed in period and holding a book with his right hand. The tree that predominates in the landscaping of the square is the olive", "title": "Plaza de España, Madrid" }, { "id": "2851953", "text": "the original story line. The passage containing Tintin's drunkenness has been ignored entirely, keeping the character consistent with how it is seen in the rest of series - upright, conscientious and of commendable moral standards. Besides, the political narratives, almost ubiquitously present in the latter part of the original album, have also been largely overlooked. Tintin's conflict with the military was also replaced with one with Alonso Pérez and Ramón Bada. The Broken Ear The Broken Ear (, originally published in English as Tintin and the Broken Ear) is the sixth volume of \"The Adventures of Tintin\", the comics series", "title": "The Broken Ear" }, { "id": "8926294", "text": "choreography for the film (including the fight scenes). Gino Conforti, as the barber, is the only member of the original Broadway musical cast to repeat his role for the film. Cervantes and his manservant have been imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, and a manuscript by Cervantes is seized by his fellow inmates, who subject him to a mock trial in order to determine whether the manuscript should be returned. Cervantes' defense is in the form of a play, in which Cervantes takes the role of Alonso Quijano, an old gentleman who has lost his mind and now believes that he", "title": "Man of La Mancha (film)" }, { "id": "3652841", "text": "launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning names were Cervantes for this star and Quijote, Dulcinea, Rocinante and Sancho, for its planets (b, c, d, and e, respectively; the IAU used the Pepe \"et al\" system). The winning names were those submitted by the Planetario de Pamplona, Spain. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a famous Spanish writer and author of \"El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha\". The planets are named after", "title": "Mu Arae" }, { "id": "3179406", "text": "romances. In the tale, a giant knight named \"Sir Oliphaunt\" is made to swear an oath by Termagant. In Occitan literature the name Muhammed was corrupted as \"Bafomet\", forming the basis for the legendary Baphomet, at different times an idol, a \"sabbatic goat\", and key link in conspiracy theories. The troubadour Austorc d'Aorlhac refers to Bafomet and Termagant (\"Tervagan\") side-by-side in one \"sirventes\", referring also to the latter's \"companions\". It has been claimed that Termagant became a stock character in a number of medieval mystery plays but another source denies this completely. On the stage, Termagant was usually depicted as", "title": "Termagant" }, { "id": "2269659", "text": "de Cervantes too vast, Gilliam and his co-writer decided to create their own version of the Quixote story. They made a major change inspired by Mark Twain's novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". They planned to have the character of Sancho Panza appear only early in the film. He was to be replaced by character Toby Grisoni, a 21st-century marketing executive thrown back through time, whom Don Quixote mistakes for Panza. Gilliam was excited about the movie, as he felt that the story of Don Quixote embodies many of his own themes (such as the individual versus society,", "title": "Lost in La Mancha" }, { "id": "260034", "text": "he knew people within El Greco's circle of friends. The 1859 portrait by Luis de Madrazo, which the painter himself stated is based on his own imagination, is currently at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. The Spanish euro coins of €0.10, €0.20, and €0.50 bear an image of a bust of Cervantes. Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; ; ; 29 September 1547 (assumed)22 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His novel \"Don Quixote\" has been translated into", "title": "Miguel de Cervantes" }, { "id": "8510561", "text": "called The Duke. Miguel de Cervantes and his manservant have been thrown into a dungeon by the Spanish Inquisition for an offense against the Church. In the dungeon, a mock trial is staged, with its intention being that the prisoners rob Cervantes of all of his possessions, including a precious manuscript that he refuses to give up. It is, of course, the yet-to-be-published manuscript of \"Don Quixote de la Mancha\", Cervantes's masterpiece. In defending himself, Cervantes begins to narrate his story of Don Quixote, with Cervantes as the Don Quixote, the role of Sancho enacted by Cervantes' own manservant, and", "title": "I, Don Quixote" }, { "id": "1426073", "text": "cannibal, and one of them understands those cannibalistic instincts all too well.\" Hannibal Lecter is parodied in the 2005 musical, \"SILENCE! The Musical\", with the character being originated by actor Brent Barrett. Thomas Harris has given few interviews and did not explain where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter until mid-2013. Harris revealed that the character was inspired by a real-life doctor and murderer he met while visiting a prison in the city of Monterrey during a trip to Mexico in the 1960s when he was a 23-year-old reporter. The doctor was serving a life sentence for murdering a young", "title": "Hannibal Lecter" }, { "id": "101639", "text": "Don Quixote The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (Modern Spanish: ', ), or just ' (, , ; ), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, \"Don Quixote\" is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and the earliest canonical novel, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites \"Don Quixote\" as the authors' choice for", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "492116", "text": "in doing research, but it is also a trademark of Wilson's writing. The novel \"Telemachus Sneezed\" by the character Atlanta Hope with its catchphrase \"What is John Guilt?\" is a spoof of Ayn Rand's \"Atlas Shrugged\", the origin of the character John Galt. Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in \"Illuminatus!\", and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, \"If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?\" Rand is also disparaged in one of the appendices concerning property, ostensibly written by Hagbard, which serves as an explanation of anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's", "title": "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" }, { "id": "16664320", "text": "in April 2014. A second Campion \"continuation\" novel followed in 2015 and a third in 2016. His non-fiction reader's history \"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang\", a survey of the boom in British thrillers 1953-1975 was published in May 2017 and won the H.R.F.Keating Award for non-fiction at \"Crimefest\" 2018. Mike Ripley's most recent project has been the completion of a novel featuring Albert Campion, the detective character created by one of his heroes, the crime writer Margery Allingham. Following Margery's death in 1966, her husband Philip Youngman Carter completed her novel \"Cargo of Eagles\" (published 1968), and two further Campion books:", "title": "Mike Ripley" }, { "id": "11368705", "text": "Pinocchio Pinocchio (; ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel \"The Adventures of Pinocchio\" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Lucca, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreams of becoming a real boy. He is notably characterized for his frequent tendency to lie, which causes his nose to grow. Pinocchio is a cultural icon. As one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature, his story has been adapted into other media, notably the 1940 Disney film \"Pinocchio\". Pinocchio's characterization varies across interpretations,", "title": "Pinocchio" }, { "id": "19163850", "text": "Lamme Goedzak Lamme Goedzak is a character in Charles De Coster's novel \"The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak\" (1867). He is the best friend of Thyl Ulenspiegel. While Ulenspiegel himself is derived from Dutch-German-Flemish folklore Lamme Goedzak is entirely created by De Coster. Despite this he has become one of the most recognizable Flemish folklore characters since. Camille Huysmans, in his commentary on De Coster, considered Lamme Goedzak to be modeled on Cervantes' Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's loyal companion. Lamme Goedzak's name literally translates as \"lazy kind soul\", which already hints at his personality. Lamme is a jolly,", "title": "Lamme Goedzak" }, { "id": "8421978", "text": "Molinux Molinux was an operating system based on Ubuntu sponsored by the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha and the Fundación Ínsula Barataria. The name \"Molinux\" derives from the Spanish word \"molino\", meaning \"mill\" or \"windmill\". Each version of Molinux is named after a character from the classic Spanish novel \"Don Quixote\", by Miguel de Cervantes. Molinux was an initiative begun in 2005 by the government of Castilla-La Mancha to introduce the Castile-La Mancha community to the forefront of the Information Society. The Molinux project is intended to attack the digital divide by reducing the cost of software and offering an", "title": "Molinux" }, { "id": "8283628", "text": "well be the price of our failure\" again add to East Asian stereotypes of exclusion. Fu Manchu's inventively sardonic methods of murder and white protagonist Denis Nayland Smith's grudging respect for his intellect reinforce stereotypes of East Asian intelligence, exoticism/mysticism, and extreme cruelty. Charlie Chan, a fictional character created by author Earl Derr Biggers loosely based on Chang Apana (1871–1933), a real-life Chinese-Hawaiian police officer, has been the subject of 10 novels (spanning from 1925 to as late as 1981), over 40 American films, a comic strip, a board game, a card game, and a 1970s animated television series. In", "title": "Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States" }, { "id": "2068862", "text": "Based on the children's book series \"Basil of Baker Street\" by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film (and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of \"The Red-Headed League\" was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death). Sherlock Holmes also mentions \"Basil\" as one of his aliases in the Arthur Conan Doyle story \"The Adventure of Black Peter\". \"The Great Mouse Detective\" was", "title": "The Great Mouse Detective" }, { "id": "8646623", "text": "new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Quijote for this planet. The winning name was submitted by the Planetario de Pamplona, Spain. Quijote was the lead character of the novel \"El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha\". Although the character's name is more commonly spelled Quixote, Quijote is the original Spanish spelling. Mu Arae b Mu Arae b, often designated HD 160691 b, later named Quijote, is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Mu Arae of the constellation Ara. The planet is at least one and a half times the mass of Jupiter, and", "title": "Mu Arae b" }, { "id": "8698699", "text": "Miracle of Marcelino Miracle of Marcelino (, \"Marcelino, bread and wine\") is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José Maria Sanchez-Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. Its stars were Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo (who also starred together as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's \"Don Quixote\" and the young child star Pablito Calvo (no relation to Juan) as Marcelino. The musical score and theme song - sung in full during the", "title": "Miracle of Marcelino" }, { "id": "7336442", "text": "The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is an American/Italian animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI and its first channel Rai 1, loosely based on the main characters in Miguel de Cervantes' 17th century novel, \"Don Quixote\": Don Quixote himself and Sancho Panza. It was first broadcast in 1989 in Europe, and then in the United States in 1990 as part of the weekend/weekday morning programming block, \"The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera\". Don Coyote (voiced by Frank Welker) is a swordsman who goes around", "title": "The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda" }, { "id": "1387977", "text": "virtual world. Noon also credits Joseph Campbell's book \"The Hero with a Thousand Faces\" for inspiring the narrative structure of \"Vurt\". The character of Desdemona is based on the character of the same name from William Shakespeare's play \"Othello\". The Curious Yellow feather is a possible allusion to the 1967 Swedish film \"I Am Curious (Yellow)\", which uses non-linear narrative structures and postmodern techniques like the novel. It might also be a reference to computer worms (the Vurt is riddled with virtual reality serpents which propagate from game to game, like computer worms replicate themselves by hijacking computer programs). \"Vurt\"", "title": "Vurt" }, { "id": "1528147", "text": "own works. It is worth noting that Dostoyevsky, who had just returned from exile in Siberia, was present at this speech, for eight years later he was to write \"The Idiot\", a novel whose tragic hero, Prince Myshkin, resembles Don Quixote in many respects. Turgenev, whose knowledge of Spanish, thanks to his contact with Pauline Viardot and her family, was good enough for him to have considered translating Cervantes's novel into Russian, played an important role in introducing this immortal figure of world literature into the Russian context. \"Fathers and Sons\" (\"Отцы и дети\"), Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel,", "title": "Ivan Turgenev" }, { "id": "16189739", "text": "Anselmo Suárez y Romero Anselmo Suárez y Romero (1818 – 1878) was a renowned Cuban writer and novelist, better known for the first novel in Spanish about slavery in the Americas: \"Francisco\". (In Portuguese, there is a former Brazilian novel about a slave that became a very famous character in Brazilian literature: \"Escrava Isaura\", \"Isaura, the slave\". \"Francisco\" was first published in 1880. \"Escrava Isaura\" in 1776.) Suárez y Romero was educated in his native city, where he devoted himself to teaching and contributing to public education. Anselmo Suárez y Romero's masterpiece: Francisco, also known as El ingenio o las", "title": "Anselmo Suárez y Romero" }, { "id": "15520180", "text": "Science Fiction filming, with a quality that would only be reached again by \"Los cronocrímenes\" (2007), by Nacho Vigalondo. The most important Science Fiction TV series produced in Spain is \"El ministerio del tiempo\" (2015-), even though \"Mañana puede ser verdad\" (1964-1964) by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, and \"Plutón BRB Nero\" (2008-2009), should also be mentioned. Spanish science fiction Science fiction in Spanish-language literature has its roots in authors such as Antonio de Guevara with \"The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius\" (1527), Miguel de Cervantes in \"Don Quixote\", and Francisco de Quevedo with \"The Tower of Hercules\". In the 20th century,", "title": "Spanish science fiction" }, { "id": "4857886", "text": "Murder at the ABA Murder at the ABA (1976) is a mystery novel by Isaac Asimov, following the adventures of a writer and amateur detective named Darius Just, whom Asimov modeled on his friend Harlan Ellison. While attending a convention of the American Booksellers Association, Just discovers the dead body of a friend and protégé. Convinced that the death was due to murder, but unable to convince the police, Just decides to investigate on his own. The book is an example of metafiction, as Asimov himself appears as a character doing research for a murder mystery set at a booksellers'", "title": "Murder at the ABA" }, { "id": "1508636", "text": "unwilling prisoner to be tried. The Duke taunts Cervantes for his look of fear, and accuses him of not facing reality. This prompts Cervantes to passionately defend his idealism. The Don Quixote play resumes (\"Man of La Mancha\" – first reprise). Quixote and Sancho have left the inn and encounter a band of Gypsies (\"Moorish Dance\") who take advantage of Quixote's naiveté and steal everything they own, including Quixote's horse Rocinante and Sancho's donkey Dapple. Quixote and Sancho are forced to return to the inn. Aldonza also shows up at the inn, bruised and ashamed. Quixote swears to avenge her,", "title": "Man of La Mancha" }, { "id": "1861967", "text": "Don Juan Don Juan (Spanish ), also Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional libertine. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, \"El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra\" (\"The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest\") by Tirso de Molina; and an 18th-century opera, \"Don Giovanni\", with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. By linguistic extension from the name of the character, Don Juan has become a generic expression for a womanizer, and stemming from this, Don Juanism is the name of a psychiatric diagnosis. In Spanish, \"Don Juan\" is pronounced .", "title": "Don Juan" }, { "id": "9193828", "text": "Ricote (Don Quixote) Ricote is a fictional character who is referred to in Miguel de Cervantes' novel \"Don Quixote\". He was a wealthy (\"\" meaning \"rich\" in Spanish) Morisco shopkeeper and old friend of Sancho Panza, who was banned from Spain in 1609 like all Moriscos. The expulsion of the Moriscos was a highly topical issue at the time when \"Don Quixote\" was written - occurring in between the publication of the first part (1605) and the second one (1615). In 2006 Govert Westerveld asserted that the Morisco Ricote came from the Ricote Valley, which hypothesis was confirmed by the", "title": "Ricote (Don Quixote)" }, { "id": "13926721", "text": "in 1807, spent two years in one of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago during which he captured and enslaved other sailors. In the literature, the life of Oberlus was initially described in sufficient detail in \"The Encantadas\" by the American writer Herman Melville. An essay on the tyrant-hermit Oberlus inspired the Spanish writer Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa to write the novel \"La iguana\". In the novel, there appears Carmen, whom Oberlus keeps locked up, raping and making her bear his child. Vázquez-Figueroa initially discussed a potential adaptation with Italian film producer Franco di Nunzio, who sent him to Monte Hellman. The", "title": "Iguana (film)" }, { "id": "4727400", "text": "Lothario Lothario is a male given name which came to suggest an unscrupulous seducer of women in \"The Impertinent Curious Man\", a story within a story in Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel \"Don Quixote\". \"Don Quixote, Part One\" contains stories that do not directly involve the two main characters, but which are narrated by some of the picaresque figures encountered by Quixote and Sancho during their travels. The longest and best known story is \"El Curioso Impertinente\" (\"The Impertinently Curious Man\"), in Part One, Book Four, chapters 33–35, which is read to a group of travellers at an inn, about", "title": "Lothario" }, { "id": "2937132", "text": "the travels with Don Quixote, he keeps contact with his wife by dictating letters addressed to her. Sancho Panza offers interpolated narrative voice throughout the tale, a literary convention invented by Cervantes. Sancho Panza is precursor to \"the sidekick,\" and is symbolic of practicality over idealism. Sancho is the everyman, who, though not sharing his master's delusional \"enchantment\" until late in the novel, remains his ever-faithful companion realist, and functions as the clever sidekick. Salvador de Madariaga detected that, as the book progresses, there is a \"Quixotization\" of Sancho and a \"Sanchification\" of Don Quixote, so much that, when the", "title": "Sancho Panza" }, { "id": "101703", "text": "available on the Internet, although some versions eliminate, as they should not, the prefatory material. The best digital text available is http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996. This translation, even witbout Douglas and Jones' revisions, is preferible to the other public domain translations available online, those of Charles Jervas and Tobias Smollett. Don Quixote The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (Modern Spanish: ', ), or just ' (, , ; ), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, \"Don Quixote\" is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the", "title": "Don Quixote" }, { "id": "6507944", "text": "Pepusch who provided the source-structure in \"The Beggar's Opera\" for Bertolt Brecht's \"Threepenny Opera\". There is a characteristic series of illustrations by 'Phiz'. Prologue (1599): Auriol Darcy is surprised attempting to remove the heads of two traitors from the Southwark Gateway of Old London Bridge. He is injured by the warder, Baldred, and carried to the house of Dr Lamb, an alchemist and Auriol Darcy's grandfather, who is assisted by his faithful dwarf Flapdragon. Lamb, on the point of discovering the elixir of life, has a seizure and dies as his ungrateful grandson consumes the draught. Book the first 'Ebba'", "title": "Auriol (novel)" }, { "id": "260008", "text": "now be carried out in an attempt to confirm the findings. On 11 June 2015, the remains of Cervantes were given a formal burial at a Madrid convent, containing a monument holding bone fragments that were believed to have been the author's. The city mayor Ana Botella and military attended the event. \"Don Quixote\" (spelled \"Quijote\" in modern Spanish) is two separate volumes, now nearly always published as one, that cover the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, a hero who carries his enthusiasm and self-deception to unintentional and comic ends. On one level, \"Don Quixote\" works as a", "title": "Miguel de Cervantes" }, { "id": "6301510", "text": "The Eternal Quest The Eternal Quest (U.S. title \"Tilting at Windmills\"; subtitle \"A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight\") is a novel published in 2003. It is the first novel by the writer Julian Branston and concerns the writing of the novel \"Don Quixote\". The U.S. title refers to a famous episode on Don Quixote where the title character comes upon a windmill and mistakes it for a giant. \"The Eternal Quest\" covers a short period of time in Spain in the early 17th century during the reign of King Philip III. The events in the novel circle around", "title": "The Eternal Quest" }, { "id": "2937133", "text": "knight recovers sanity on his deathbed, it is Sancho who tries to convince him to become pastoral shepherds. In the novel, Don Quixote comments on the historical state and condition of Aragón and Castilla, which are vying for power in Europe. Sancho Panza represents, among other things, the quintessentially Spanish brand of skepticism of the period. Sancho obediently follows his master, despite being sometimes puzzled by Quixote's actions. Riding a donkey, he helps Quixote get out of various conflicts while looking forward to rewards of \"aventura\" that Quixote tells him of. Cervantes variously names Sancho in the first book Sancho", "title": "Sancho Panza" }, { "id": "1861981", "text": "Juan. In another Broadway musical, Gaston Leroux's \"The Phantom of the Opera\", the character of the Phantom writes an opera based on the legend of Don Juan called \"Don Juan Triumphant\". Don Juan Don Juan (Spanish ), also Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional libertine. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, \"El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra\" (\"The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest\") by Tirso de Molina; and an 18th-century opera, \"Don Giovanni\", with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. By linguistic extension from the name of the", "title": "Don Juan" }, { "id": "11120155", "text": "is not set in Zamonia, as most of Moers’ other novels are. Illustrations used are taken from \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\", \"Orlando Furioso\", \"The Raven\", \"Don Quixote\", \"Legend of Croquemitane\", \"Gargantua and Pantagruel\", \"Paradise Lost\", and the Bible. Blind Guardian's song, from the album A Twist in the Myth, \"This Will Never End\", is based on this book. The story begins with 12-year-old Gustave, captain of the \"Aventure\" as he attempts to escape the deadly Siamese Twins Tornado. When the storm finally catches up with his crew, everyone is killed except Gustave, who meets Death, and his crazy", "title": "A Wild Ride Through the Night" }, { "id": "10302718", "text": "The case established the principle of \"libel by innuendo\" in English law, and \"Monson v Tussauds Ltd\" has been used to draw up defamation laws in many countries since. A notorious case at the time, the trial received renewed attention when it was noted that Joseph Bell, revealed as the inspiration for the popular fictional character Sherlock Holmes, had been called as an expert witness at the murder trial. Alfred John Monson began working as a gentleman's tutor for the Hambrough family in 1891. On 10 August 1893, Alfred John Monson took Cecil Hambrough, his 20-year-old pupil, for a day's", "title": "Ardlamont murder" }, { "id": "17137603", "text": "the famous Princess Leia line, \"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope!\" from \"Star Wars\". The lines that Mother Superior says before that is also a nod to Star Wars as is similar to what Obi-Wan Kenobi says after the destruction of Alderaan. Outside Storybrooke, Cora tells daughter Regina her horse, Rocinante, is ready. Rocinante is the name of Don Quijote's horse in the novel \"El Ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quijote de La Mancha\" by Miguel de Cervantes. The outing saw a decrease from the previous episode, tied for second in its time period with a 2.2/6 among 18-49s with", "title": "The Queen Is Dead (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "id": "10815366", "text": "the drawing, Lorenzo Domínguez's sculpture \"Barcelona\" appears as homage to the victims of bombings. In the last fall, \"Crucifixion in Health\", the religious dimension of Don Quixote, already suggested in \"Crucifixion in Madness\", becomes clearer. In this final fall, the Spanish knight stops being Don Quixote. In this drawing, Cervantes' character appears at the center, and to his right and left appear the housekeeper and the niece, mimicking the female figures of the Christian crucifixion. Upon breaking the spear, the knight's arms become the arms of a cross. Don Quixote dies on that cross, and only Alonso Quijano is left", "title": "Lorenzo Domínguez" }, { "id": "3061912", "text": "3552 Don Quixote 3552 Don Quixote, provisionally designated , is an exceptionally eccentric asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group, Mars-crosser and Jupiter-crosser, as well as centaur and extinct comet. The asteroid was discovered on 26 September 1983, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland. It was named after the comic knight who is the eponymous hero of Cervantes Spanish novel \"Don Quixote\" (1605). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 December 1990 (). \"Don Quixote\" is characterized as a dark D-type asteroid in the Tholen and", "title": "3552 Don Quixote" }, { "id": "4880235", "text": "wife is called by many names (some within just two paragraphs) including \"Juana Panza\", \"Mari Gutiérrez\", \"Juana Gutiérrez\", \"Teresa Cascajo\", etc. \"Teresa Panza\" is settled on only after she becomes a substantial character. It is difficult to decide whether these are true mistakes, as malapropisms, aliases and puns are a running joke throughout the books. Cide Hamete Benengeli is miscalled \"Berengena\" (eggplant), Teresa is called \"Teresona Panza\" (approximately, \"Fat Belly\"), and so on. Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' \"Don Quixote\". The identity of Fernández de", "title": "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda" }, { "id": "11850333", "text": "Don Quixote is seen by many scholars to be a stand-in for Ruiz de Burton herself. Quixote is interpreted as a California Hidalgo who has been tricked and conquered by jokesters (standing in for squatters) who faked having aristocratic lineage. Don Quixote's character is transformed from a Hidalgo into a Mexican-American, who rides through stolen lands believing that he is a Spanish savior who must right the wrongs that have injured his people and end the enchantment imposed by the occupiers. In the conclusion, Quixote is deemed a criminal, and ends up a displaced Californio, disgraced, lower-class, and with no", "title": "María Ruiz de Burton" }, { "id": "2937137", "text": "and continue the adventure. Sancho encounters Ricote (\"fat cat\"), his former Morisco neighbor, who has buried a small fortune. Ricote, like all Moriscos, was expelled from Spain and has returned in disguise to retrieve the treasure he left behind. He asks Sancho for his help. Sancho, while sympathetic, refuses to betray his king. When Don Quixote takes to his deathbed, Sancho tries to cheer him. Sancho idealistically proposes they become pastoral shepherds and thus becomes 'Quixotized'. In addition to stage and screen adaptations of the novel itself, Sancho Panza is a major character in the play within a play in", "title": "Sancho Panza" }, { "id": "11368716", "text": "evil witch Mizrabel in her plot to dominate their world; he is imprisoned alongside Genie in the Cave of Wonders until eventually being rescued by Mickey Mouse. Pinocchio Pinocchio (; ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel \"The Adventures of Pinocchio\" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Lucca, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreams of becoming a real boy. He is notably characterized for his frequent tendency to lie, which causes his nose to grow. Pinocchio is a cultural icon. As one", "title": "Pinocchio" }, { "id": "2060889", "text": "could originate, making Quixote seem even more absurd. However, due to the fame of Cervantes' character, the name of La Mancha did become associated worldwide with romantic chivalry. Several film versions of \"Don Quixote\" have actually been filmed largely in La Mancha. However, some, including the 1957 Russian film version, and the screen version of \"Man of La Mancha\", were not. The 1957 film was shot in Crimea, while \"Man of La Mancha\" was filmed in Italy. G.W. Pabst's 1933 version of Cervantes's novel was shot in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The 2000 made-for-TV \"Don Quixote\", starring John Lithgow as Don Quixote and", "title": "La Mancha" }, { "id": "10134145", "text": "later editions use the American title. A coming of age story set in the mythical \"golden age\" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place in the world, Rodriguez quickly acquires a Sancho Panza-like servant, Morano, and goes on to experience a series of adventures en route to his goal. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley is a fantasy novel", "title": "Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley" }, { "id": "11073658", "text": "costume with heads on either end (the neckline of each respective head opening mimics their costumes from \"The Flintstones\": Fred's has a necktie and Barney's features the signature cross-stitching of his tunic). Bill Dana's portrayal of the White Knight is a manifestation of Jose Jimenez, the Hispanic immigrant character he perfected in standup routines and on sitcoms (very likely this interpretation of the White Knight was also a comic nod to the most \"un\"likely and famous fictional knight-errant of all, the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote). Character actor Allan Melvin provided a voice inspired by Humphrey Bogart for", "title": "Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" }, { "id": "19801783", "text": "Robert Langdon (film series) The Robert Langdon films are a series of American mystery thriller movies directed by Ron Howard. The films focus on Robert Langdon, a fictional character appearing in the Robert Langdon (book series) by author Dan Brown. The film series has a different chronological order than the novels, and consists of \"The Da Vinci Code\" (2006), \"Angels & Demons\" (2009) and \"Inferno\" (2016). The series has grossed almost $1.5 billion worldwide. Dan Brown’s novels about Professor Robert Langdon: \"Angels & Demons\" (2000), \"The Da Vinci Code\" (2003), and \"Inferno\" (2013), quickly became international bestsellers, and were soon", "title": "Robert Langdon (film series)" }, { "id": "9193830", "text": "as it would be a treason to his king. Later Sancho and Don Quixote meet Ricote and his daughter Ana Félix in Barcelona. She is a fervent Christian and has been rescued from Berbery by a young noble neighbour from Sancho and Ricote's village. Her beauty and sincere faith convinces the authorities to arrange the re-admission of the Ricotes in Spain. Ricote (Don Quixote) Ricote is a fictional character who is referred to in Miguel de Cervantes' novel \"Don Quixote\". He was a wealthy (\"\" meaning \"rich\" in Spanish) Morisco shopkeeper and old friend of Sancho Panza, who was banned", "title": "Ricote (Don Quixote)" }, { "id": "5402154", "text": "has since become common place in fantasy literature and media. One of the character's most prominent appearances is when he disguises himself as a reverend hermit, and with the assistance of Duessa (\"Deceit\") seduces the Red-Cross Knight from Una (\"truth\"). Archimago has thus been interpreted as a symbol of religious hypocrisy, especially the rampant hypocrisy which Spenser perceived within the leadership of the Catholic church. He has also been cited as emblematic of temptation itself and as a character who presents a mutated worldview which causes the knight to doubt the reality of their faith -- the very source of", "title": "Archimago" }, { "id": "3061914", "text": "unknown whether the observed activity is persistent or an outburst, resulting from the excavation of sub-surface ice due to a recent impact of a smaller body. 3552 Don Quixote 3552 Don Quixote, provisionally designated , is an exceptionally eccentric asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group, Mars-crosser and Jupiter-crosser, as well as centaur and extinct comet. The asteroid was discovered on 26 September 1983, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland. It was named after the comic knight who is the eponymous hero of Cervantes Spanish novel \"Don Quixote\" (1605). The approved naming", "title": "3552 Don Quixote" }, { "id": "2137590", "text": "features in the 1983 Italian film \"I paladini - Storia d'armi e d'amori\" (aka \"Hearts and Armour\"). Four successive ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Rinaldo for this character. Renaud de Montauban Renaud de Montauban (also spelled \"Renaut\", \"Renault\", Italian: \"Rinaldo di Montalbano\", Dutch: \"Reinout van Montalba(e)n\") was a fictional hero and knight who was introduced to literature in a 12th-century Old French \"chanson de geste\" known as \"Les Quatre Fils Aymon\" (\"The Four Sons of Aymon\") (frequently referred to simply as [the tale of] \"Renaud de Montauban\"). The four sons of Duke Aymon are Renaud, Richard,", "title": "Renaud de Montauban" }, { "id": "5510841", "text": "years I wasted on this one! I was so frustrated with Hollywood, I went after European money, needing $20 million. And they said, 'You're on.' But I found out I needed more money. [...] That really hurts, that I let a project I'm convinced I'm the best director on the planet to do, slip by.\" After Schepisi's project collapsed, Gilliam resumed working on the film with co-writer Tony Grisoni, giving it the new name \"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\". Instead of featuring a man named Alonso Quixano and Sancho Panza, this new version would instead feature Toby Grisoni (a", "title": "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" }, { "id": "8646632", "text": "Mu Arae d Mu Arae d, also known as HD 160691 d, later named Rocinante, is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Mu Arae of the constellation Ara. In July 2014 the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Rocinante for this planet. The winning name was submitted by the Planetario de Pamplona, Spain. Rocinante was the horse of the lead character of the novel \"El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don", "title": "Mu Arae d" }, { "id": "426459", "text": "tale. He attributes it to \"various Genoese\", but this may be seen as a reluctance to credit Marco Polo (as a Venetian an enemy of Florence and greatly disdained by Boccaccio personally); although no specific tale resembling this one appears in Polo's writings, his reports of Kublai Khan's generosity are likely the inspiration for the tale. Messer Gentile de' Carisendi, from Modena, disinters a lady that he loves, who has been buried for dead. She, being reanimated, gives birth to a male child; and Messer Gentile restores her, with her son, to Niccoluccio Caccianimico, her husband. Lauretta gives this story,", "title": "Summary of Decameron tales" }, { "id": "18181422", "text": "The Ribald Decameron The Ribald Decameron (, also known as \"Love, Passion and Pleasure\") is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Giuseppe Vari (here credited as Walter Pisani). Nominally based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel \"Decameron\", it is part of a series of derivative erotic comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's \"The Decameron\". In the Middle Ages, the intrepid Cecco earns eating in taverns and squares as a novelist. His specialty is to re-read the \"Decameron\" of Boccaccio, narrating the stories most erotic and licentious, whose theme loves of nuns and friars, and rich", "title": "The Ribald Decameron" }, { "id": "12582267", "text": "of Sicily. Scholars have even been able to verify the existence of less famous characters, such as the tricksters Bruno and Buffalmacco and their victim Calandrino. Still other fictional characters are based on real people, such as the Madonna Fiordaliso from tale II, 5, who is derived from a Madonna Flora who lived in the red light district of Naples. Boccaccio often intentionally muddled historical (II, 3) and geographical (V, 2) facts for his narrative purposes. Within the tales of \"The Decameron\", the principal characters are usually developed through their dialogue and actions, so that by the end of the", "title": "The Decameron" } ]

[ "Pipa Passes", "Song from Pippa Passes", "Pippa Passes" ]

[ { "id": "3814297", "text": "in His heaven—All's right with the world!\" The town of Pippa Passes, Kentucky, is formally named after the poem thanks to a grant from the Browning Society. In the Israeli playwright Nissim Aloni play \"Napoleon – dead or alive!\" (1970) there is a character named Pippa, who acts as the secretary of the VIP department in the afterworld. Aloni refers to Browning also in his play The American Princess. Pippa Passes Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his \"Bells and Pomegranates\" series, in a low-priced two-column edition", "title": "Pippa Passes" }, { "id": "1083324", "text": "the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively. A donation from the Browning Society led to the post office's being named after Robert Browning's \"Pippa Passes.\" In this verse drama he coined the phrase \"God's in His heaven, all's right with the world.\" (Given the U.S. Postal Service's preference for monogrammatic names, this location was known as Pippapass until 1955.) The city of Pippa Passes was incorporated by the state assembly on July 1, 1983. It is governed by a mayor elected at-large and a", "title": "Pippa Passes, Kentucky" }, { "id": "715016", "text": "the United Kingdom of a notable person. Browning is now popularly known for such poems as \"\", \"\", \"\", and \"\", and also for certain famous lines: \"Grow old along with me!\" (\"\"), \"A man's reach should exceed his grasp\" and \"Less is more\" (\"Andrea Del Sarto\"), \"It was roses, roses all the way\" (\"The Patriot\"), and \"God's in His heaven—All's right with the world!\" (\"Pippa Passes\"). His critical reputation rests mainly on his dramatic monologues, in which the words not only convey setting and action but reveal the speaker's character. In a Browning monologue, unlike a soliloquy, the meaning", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "714990", "text": "Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's early career began promisingly, but collapsed. The long poems \"Pauline\" and \"Paracelsus\" received some acclaim, but in 1840 the difficult \"Sordello\", which was seen as wilfully obscure, brought his poetry into disrepute. His reputation took more than a decade to recover, during which time he moved away from the", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "18600354", "text": "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' \"'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'\" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his collection \"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary\" (1904). It is named after the poem by Robert Burns. Parkins, the protagonist, a skeptical Cambridge professor, is on holiday in the town of \"Burnstow\" (a fictionalized version of Felixstowe, Suffolk), on the southeast coast of England. While investigating a Templar ruin for a colleague, he finds a whistle with two Latin inscriptions. On one side it says \"Quis est iste, qui venit?\".", "title": "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" }, { "id": "715015", "text": "S. Byatt's \"Possession\" refer directly to Browning's work. Today Browning's critically most esteemed poems include the monologues \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\", \"Fra Lippo Lippi\", \"Andrea Del Sarto\", and \"My Last Duchess\". His most popular poems include \"Porphyria's Lover\", \"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix\", the diptych \"Meeting at Night\", the patriotic \"Home Thoughts from Abroad\", and the children's poem \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\". His abortive dinner-party recital of \"How They Brought The Good News\" was recorded on an Edison wax cylinder, and is believed to be the oldest surviving recording made in", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "5686742", "text": "Dramatic Lyrics Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled \"Bells and Pomegranates\". It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\", but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including \"My Last Duchess\", \"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister\", \"Porphyria's Lover\", and \"Johannes Agricola in Meditation\". Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its \"follow-up\" collection \"Dramatic Romances and Lyrics\", are different from the", "title": "Dramatic Lyrics" }, { "id": "715025", "text": "of poetry Browning published in his lifetime. Some individually notable poems are also listed, under the volumes in which they were published. (His only notable prose work, with the exception of his letters, is his \"Essay on Shelley\".) Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's early career began promisingly, but collapsed. The long poems \"Pauline\" and", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "3814289", "text": "Pippa Passes Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his \"Bells and Pomegranates\" series, in a low-priced two-column edition for sixpence and next republished in \"Poems\" in 1848, which received much more critical attention. It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy \"Ion\". The author described the work as \"the first of a series of dramatic pieces\". A young, blameless silk-winding girl is wandering innocently through the environs of Asolo, in her mind attributing kindness and virtue to", "title": "Pippa Passes" }, { "id": "18600357", "text": "Michael Hordern, and again in 2010 starring John Hurt and Sophie Thompson. Abby Howard adapted the story as a web comic. The phrase \"Quis est iste qui venit\" is also referenced in the survival horror video game \"\", written on a cabin in the town with the same name. 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' \"'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'\" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his collection \"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary\" (1904). It is named after the poem by Robert Burns. Parkins, the protagonist, a", "title": "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" }, { "id": "2225200", "text": "the poem. Tennyson shares similar ideas in \"The Lady of Shalott\", as do other Victorian authors who contribute to the popular conversation about the artistic processes. Porphyria's Lover \"Porphyria's Lover\" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as \"Porphyria\" in the January 1836 issue of \"Monthly Repository\". Browning later republished it in \"Dramatic Lyrics\" (1842) paired with \"Johannes Agricola in Meditation\" under the title \"Madhouse Cells\". The poem did not receive its definitive title until 1863. \"Porphyria's Lover\" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. Although", "title": "Porphyria's Lover" }, { "id": "715010", "text": "and the Book\" was his most ambitious project and is arguably his greatest work; it has been called a \"tour de force\" of dramatic poetry. Published in four parts from November 1868 to February 1869, the poem was a success both commercially and critically, and finally brought Browning the renown he had sought for nearly 40 years. The Robert Browning Society was formed in 1881 and his work was recognised as belonging within the British literary canon. In the remaining years of his life Browning travelled extensively. After a series of long poems published in the early 1870s, of which", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "6239616", "text": "The Hippopotamus The Hippopotamus (1994) is a comic novel by Stephen Fry. Written in part as an epistolary novel, it is largely narrated by the main character Edward \"Ted\" Wallace. Wallace is an alcoholic washed-up poet and theatre critic who, having been fired from his newspaper job, accepts a lucrative commission from his terminally ill goddaughter to investigate rumours of miracle healings at Swafford Hall, country mansion of Wallace's old friend Lord Logan. The novel's title comes from the poem of the same name by T. S. Eliot, whose first verse is quoted as the epigraph: The title draws comparisons", "title": "The Hippopotamus" }, { "id": "3535151", "text": "Dramatis Personae Dramatis Personae is a poetry collection by Robert Browning. It was published in 1864. Browning wrote the collection in London, where he had returned with his son after his wife's death. It was his first publication after a nine-year hiatus. During this time, Browning's reputation was fluctuating, and \"Dramatis Personae\" along with \"The Ring and the Book\", which is widely considered his greatest work, were enough to begin a critical re-evaluation of the writer. The poems in \"Dramatis Personae\" are dramatic, with a wide range of narrators. The narrator is usually in a situation that reveals to the", "title": "Dramatis Personae" }, { "id": "7906148", "text": "– July 11, 2007), who was three years his senior, on May 11, 1956. Humphrey died in 2007, aged 88. His other notable plays include \"Dear Love\", a love story based on the poems and letters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; \"The Ides of March\", dealing with the actions and events surrounding the end of the Roman Empire; and \"The Little Black Book\", wherein a lawyer falls in love with girl number 134 from his little black book. His play, \"Look Away\", based on the book, \"Mary Todd Lincoln\", by Justin and Linda Levitt, is set in an insane", "title": "Jerome Kilty" }, { "id": "5686743", "text": "ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems are now always referred to by their later titles. Dramatic Lyrics Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled \"Bells and Pomegranates\". It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\", but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including \"My Last Duchess\", \"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister\",", "title": "Dramatic Lyrics" }, { "id": "715024", "text": "Royston, Hertfordshire, is named after Robert Browning. Browning Street in Berkeley, California, is located in an area known as Poets' Corner and is also named after him. Browning Street in Yokine, Western Australia, is named after him, in an area likewise known as Poets' Corner. Browning Street and Robert Browning School in Walworth, London, near to his birthplace in Camberwell, are named after him. Two of a group of three culs-de-sac in Little Venice, London, are named Browning Close and Robert Close after him; the third, Elizabeth Close, is named after his wife. This section lists the plays and volumes", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "714992", "text": "through his writing had made contributions to Victorian social and political discourse. Unusually for a poet, societies for the study of his work were founded while he was still alive. Such Browning Societies remained common in Britain and the United States until the early 20th century. Robert Browning was born in Walworth in the parish of Camberwell, Surrey, which now forms part of the Borough of Southwark in south London. He was baptized on 14 June 1812, at Lock's Fields Independent Chapel, York Street, Walworth, the only son of Sarah Anna (née Wiedemann) and Robert Browning. His father was a", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "2225187", "text": "Porphyria's Lover \"Porphyria's Lover\" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as \"Porphyria\" in the January 1836 issue of \"Monthly Repository\". Browning later republished it in \"Dramatic Lyrics\" (1842) paired with \"Johannes Agricola in Meditation\" under the title \"Madhouse Cells\". The poem did not receive its definitive title until 1863. \"Porphyria's Lover\" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. Although its initial publication passed nearly unnoticed and received little critical attention in the nineteenth century, the poem is now heavily anthologised and much studied. In the", "title": "Porphyria's Lover" }, { "id": "1350809", "text": "reburied in individual graves in consecrated ground in Am Wehl Cemetery. The coat of arms (German: \"Wappen\") of Hamelin depicts the St. Boniface Minster, the oldest church in the city. 2018 { 72, 655' The town is famous for the folk tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (), a medieval story that tells of a tragedy that befell the town in the 13th century. The version written by the Brothers Grimm made it popular throughout the world; it is also the subject of well-known poems by Goethe and Robert Browning. In the summer every Sunday, the tale is performed", "title": "Hamelin" }, { "id": "4043459", "text": "good-hearted young soldier preparing to go to war, and in the mystery \"23 Paces to Baker Street\", in which he played a blind playwright residing in London. He returned to MGM for \"Slander\" (1956) and \"Action of the Tiger\" (1957). Baby boomers still fondly recall Johnson's appearance as the title character of the highly rated \"spectacular,\" \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\", a musical version of Robert Browning's poem utilizing the music of Edvard Grieg. Featuring Claude Rains in his only singing and dancing role, it was shown on Tuesday, November 26, 1957 as part of NBC's week-long Thanksgiving specials. The", "title": "Van Johnson" }, { "id": "5316402", "text": "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\" is a poem by English author Robert Browning, written in 1855 and first published that same year in the collection titled \"Men and Women\". The title, \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\", which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play \"King Lear\" (\"ca.\" 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part: Child Rowland to the dark tower came,His word was still", "title": "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" }, { "id": "13398087", "text": "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix \"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix\" is a poem by Robert Browning published in \"Dramatic Romances and Lyrics\", 1845. The poem, one of the volume's \"dramatic romances\", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—\"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate\"—but what that good news actually is never revealed. The poem is \"noted for its onomatopoetic effects. It describes a purely imaginary incident\", observed William Rose Benet. Browning himself remarked in a", "title": "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" }, { "id": "5316403", "text": "'Fie, foh, and fum I smell the blood of a British man. — \"King Lear\", Act 3, scene 4 Shakespeare took inspiration from the fairy tale \"Childe Rowland\". Browning claimed that the poem came to him in a dream. Browning explores Roland's journey to the Dark Tower in 34 six line stanzas with the rhyme form A-B-B-A-A-B and iambic pentameter. It is filled with images from nightmare but the setting is given unusual reality by much fuller descriptions of the landscape than was normal for Browning at any other time in his career. In general, however, the work is one", "title": "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" }, { "id": "11297328", "text": "the vestiges of feudal and mercantile restrictions on workers and businesses were lifted, a move of people (at least in theory) from \"status to contract\". On the other hand, a preference for \"laissez faire\" thought concealed the inequality of bargaining power in multiple contracts, particularly for employment, consumer goods and services, and tenancies. At the centre of the general law of contracts, captured in nursery rhymes like Robert Browning's \"Pied Piper of Hamelin\" in 1842, was the fabled notion that if people had promised something \"let us keep our promise\". But then, the law purported to cover every form of", "title": "English contract law" }, { "id": "3193783", "text": "to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.' The logic is clear: destruction of the Sabbath is contrary to 'life itself.' That, I suggest, is the context in which we should read the Sabbath poems that Berry has been writing for nearly the last thirty years. Berry's fiction to date consists of eight novels and fifty-one short stories (forty-three of which are collected in \"That Distant Land\", 2004 and \"A Place in Time\", 2012) which, when read as a whole, form a chronicle of the fictional small Kentucky town of Port William. Because of his long-term, ongoing exploration", "title": "Wendell Berry" }, { "id": "17599098", "text": "\"freedom of contract\". It was partly a sign of progress, as the vestiges of feudal and mercantile restrictions on workers and businesses were lifted, a move of people from \"status to contract\". On the other hand, a preference for \"laissez faire\" thought concealed the inequality of bargaining power in contracts of employment, consumer, and tenancy. At the centre, captured in nursery rhymes like Robert Browning's \"Pied Piper of Hamelin\" in 1842 was the fabled notion that if people had promised something \"let us keep our promise\". But then, as if everybody had the same degree of free will, a generalised", "title": "History of contract law" }, { "id": "715001", "text": "wife had read the poem through and could not tell whether Sordello was a man, a city or a book. Browning's reputation began to make a partial recovery with the publication, 1841–1846, of \"Bells and Pomegranates\", a series of eight pamphlets, originally intended just to include his plays. Fortunately for Browning's career, his publisher, Moxon, persuaded him to include some \"dramatic lyrics\", some of which had already appeared in periodicals. In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his elder, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London. They began regularly corresponding and", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "13799534", "text": "that it is typical of what those men went through. they passed through storm into calm – \"The worst turns to best, the bleak months end, the elements rage, and vaunting breezes that rave shall dwindle, shall change, shall become first peace out of pain, then light.\"\" [Allenby was quoting Robert Browning's poem \"Prospice\", here...] \"And those who have died for us have now entered into the light of heaven, and even as they stepped into heaven, the light shone, the full glory of heaven shone into their unblinking eyes, and they passed into the presence of God – Gentlemen:", "title": "Hamilton Road Cemetery, Deal" }, { "id": "5711811", "text": "Jocoseria Jocoseria is a collection of short poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1883. Effectively a continuation of the \"Dramatic Idyls\" series, the book was not well received by critics at the time and has continued to be considered one of the poet's least effective collections, aside from the famous prologue to the collection. The prologue, which has no official title but is usually referred to by its first line, \"Wanting is—what?\", became one of Browning's favourite short lyrics and is a standard fixture in anthologies. \"Jocoseria\"—whose title comes from a 1598 collection of jokes and anecdotes, referring to", "title": "Jocoseria" }, { "id": "307525", "text": "group of persons. Examples of epic poems are Homer's \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey\", Virgil's Aeneid, the \"Nibelungenlied\", Luís de Camões' \"Os Lusíadas\", the \"Cantar de Mio Cid\", the \"Epic of Gilgamesh\", the \"Mahabharata\", Valmiki's \"Ramayana\", Ferdowsi's \"Shahnama\", Nizami (or Nezami)'s Khamse (Five Books), and the \"Epic of King Gesar\". While the composition of epic poetry, and of long poems generally, became less common in the west after the early 20th century, some notable epics have continued to be written. Derek Walcott won a Nobel prize to a great extent on the basis of his epic, \"Omeros\". Poetry can be a powerful", "title": "Poetry" }, { "id": "11017508", "text": "Love Among the Ruins (poem) \"Love Among the Ruins\" is an 1855 poem by Robert Browning. It is the first poem in the collection \"Men and Women\". The poem begins: \"Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,<br> \"Miles and miles<br> \"On the solitary pastures where our sheep<br> \"Half-asleep<br> \"Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop<br> \"As they crop---<br> \"Was the site once of a city great and gay,<br> \"(So they say)<br> \"Of our country's very capital, its prince<br> \"Ages since<br> \"Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far<br> \"Peace or war.\" Browning here employs an unusual structure of rhyming", "title": "Love Among the Ruins (poem)" }, { "id": "4808035", "text": "the poem. The story is re-told in Derek Parker's 2001 true crime book \"Roman Murder Mystery: The True Story of Pompilia\". In July 2008, a two part play adaptation of this story, set in poetry and prose by Martyn Wade and starring Anton Lesser as Browning, Roger Allam as Guido Franceschini and Louise Brealey as Pompilia, was broadcast as the BBC Radio 4 \"Classic Serial\". Abigail le Fleming produced and directed. The Ring and the Book The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning.", "title": "The Ring and the Book" }, { "id": "13610820", "text": "Surrounded by his exotic possessions and \"in the most perfect congeniality with his wife\", Edwards was reported to be the host of a \"cultivated home\". Two years after Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed his \"Idylls of the King\", a poetic telling of the King Arthur legend, Edwards and George Parsons Lathrop adapted it to the stage as a drama in four acts. The result was \"Elaine\", a story of young love between Elaine of Astolat and Lancelot, fashioned with \"flower-like fragility\" and \"winning touches of tenderness\". Its first public presentation was a staged \"author's reading\" at Madison Square Theatre on 28", "title": "Henry Edwards (entomologist)" }, { "id": "715018", "text": "as Artist\", Browning is given a famously ironical assessment: \"He is the most Shakespearean creature since Shakespeare. If Shakespeare could sing with myriad lips, Browning could stammer through a thousand mouths. [...] Yes, Browning was great. And as what will he be remembered? As a poet? Ah, not as a poet! He will be remembered as a writer of fiction, as the most supreme writer of fiction, it may be, that we have ever had. His sense of dramatic situation was unrivalled, and, if he could not answer his own problems, he could at least put problems forth, and what", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "8455246", "text": "than the Middle Eastern locale he starts out from, but Kentuckys that, while appearing to share much of the \"real\" world's history, have developed in radically alternate directions due to differences in their worlds' psychological or physical properties. Finch's new home sets the pattern; it is entirely \"too\" rational, with its denizens acting solely from self-interest in a society organized on a strict patron-client basis. The regimentation extends to naming conventions: people's names are ordered surname first, given name second, and occupation last. Finch initially finds himself classed as \"Finch Arthur Poet\" — and is, indeed, a poet. Poets are,", "title": "The Carnelian Cube" }, { "id": "4751865", "text": "London, Connecticut. The main plot deals with the middle son, 16-year-old Richard, and his coming of age in turn-of-the-century America. \"Perhaps the most atypical of the author's works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town.\" The title derives from Quatrain XII of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (5th edition, 1889), one of Richard's favorite poems: Theatre Guild Producer<BR> Philip Moeller Director<BR> Robert Edmond Jones Scenic Designer<BR> CAST<BR> George M. Cohan as Nat Miller <br> Adelaide Bean as Mildred Miller <br> John Butler as Salesman <br> Ruth Chorpenning as", "title": "Ah, Wilderness!" }, { "id": "2452849", "text": "defied links to well-known American poetic movements and forms such as poet and literary critic Robert Peters, greatly influenced by the Victorian English poet Robert Browning’s poetic monologues, became reputable for executing his monologic personae like his Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria into popular one-man performances. Events, like the 9/11 attacks, influenced both content of poems and the public's attention to poetry. Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the Poet Laureate of the United States for three terms. No other poet has been so honored. His \"Favorite Poem Project\" is unique, inviting all", "title": "American poetry" }, { "id": "2091913", "text": "and \"Spudmouth\" in \"The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood\" by Howard Pyle, are both based on the town. In G. A. Henty's book \"With Wolfe in Canada\" the hero James Walsham is from Sidmouth and parts of the book take place there at the beginning and end. The poet Elizabeth Barrett lived in the town from 1832 until 1835. Sidmouth has been the setting for television shows, most recently an ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's \"Marple\" in summer 2005. It was a favourite spot for Sir John Betjeman. He chose it as the subject of the first programme of the", "title": "Sidmouth" }, { "id": "14150898", "text": "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers (1873) is a poem in blank verse by Robert Browning. It tells a story of sexual intrigue, religious obsession and violent death in contemporary Paris and Normandy, closely based on the true story of the death, supposedly by suicide, of the jewellery heir Antoine Mellerio. \"Red Cotton Night-Cap Country\" has never been one of Browning's more popular poems, originally because of the perceived sordidness of the story, and later on grounds thus summarised by the critic C. H. Herford: The poet followed on the heels of the journalist,", "title": "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country" }, { "id": "10763913", "text": "with the displayed toys. The most famous resident was the poet Elizabeth Barrett, who lived at 50 Wimpole Street with her family from 1838 until 1846 when she eloped with Robert Browning. The street became famous from the play based on their courtship, \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\". The play starred Katharine Cornell, and when she retired, she moved to E. 51st St. in New York. As she was now neighbour to two other actors who also starred in the play, the street was nicknamed \"Wimpole Street\". Virginia Woolf memorably describes Wimpole Street in \"\", beginning: \"It is the most", "title": "Wimpole Street" }, { "id": "1130594", "text": "day, four of them with music. His composition \"Lanquan li jorn\" is thought to be the model for the Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide's crusade song \"Allerest lebe ich mir werde\" (\"Palästinalied\"). Nineteenth-century Romanticism found his legend irresistible. It was the subject of poems by Ludwig Uhland, Heinrich Heine, Robert Browning (\"Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli\") and Giosué Carducci (\"Jaufré Rudel\"). Algernon Charles Swinburne returned several times to the story in his poetry, in \"The Triumph of Time\", \"The Death of Rudel\" and the now-lost \"Rudel in Paradise\" (also titled \"The Golden House\"). In \"The Triumph of Time\", he", "title": "Jaufre Rudel" }, { "id": "3535153", "text": "Browning didn't have much commercial success as a poet. The sales of this work and most notably his \"Collected Poems\" were helped by public sympathy after the death of his wife. Dramatis Personae Dramatis Personae is a poetry collection by Robert Browning. It was published in 1864. Browning wrote the collection in London, where he had returned with his son after his wife's death. It was his first publication after a nine-year hiatus. During this time, Browning's reputation was fluctuating, and \"Dramatis Personae\" along with \"The Ring and the Book\", which is widely considered his greatest work, were enough to", "title": "Dramatis Personae" }, { "id": "3814293", "text": "be Browning's best, but even the sentimental passages of the work had not been able to win over all Victorian critics. In Chapter XVII of the novel \"With Harp and Crown\" (1875), Walter Besant mentioned the poem, singling out \"The hill-side's dew-pearled!\" (\"Was there ever such a stuttering collocation of syllables to confound the reader and utterly destroy a sweet little lyric?\") and took the opportunity to deny Browning's future appeal: Besides the oft-quoted line \"God's in his Heaven/All's right with the world!\" above, the poem contains an error rooted in Robert Browning's unfamiliarity with vulgar slang. Right at the", "title": "Pippa Passes" }, { "id": "740573", "text": "vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers who travels with him part of the way. The novel was inspired by Robert Browning's poem \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\" (1855), which King read as a sophomore at the University of Maine. King explains that he \"played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if not the exact sense, of the Browning poem.\" King started writing this novel in 1970 on a ream of bright green paper that", "title": "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger" }, { "id": "9674731", "text": "You beg a porter to collect your luggage, and he entreats you not to be uneasy, for he'll 'fix it presently:' and if you complain of indisposition, you are advised to have recourse to Doctor So-and-so, who will 'fix you' in no time.\" Ms. Banette explains some of the meanings. But the most interesting thing about Louisville is that everyone there seems to have their own pronouncement of the city’s name. Loo-ee-ville Lewis-ville Loo-ville Loser-ville And on and on. Miriam heads to St. Louis Is that pronounced saint lewis or saint loo-ee? Part Eight - The Delta Queen - Cairo,", "title": "Dickens in America" }, { "id": "9654680", "text": "the drama, Politian recites the poem \"The Coliseum\", which Poe had previously published in 1833. \"Politian\" was written in blank verse and styled after Jacobean-era tragedies. Like many of Poe's tales, \"Politian\" questions the finality of death or what happens when life is over. Politian proposes a suicide pact to an orphan named Lalage so that they can meet in the afterlife. The title character is named after a 15th-century Italian poet, scholar and teacher named Poliziano. Poe was dramatizing a murder which occurred on November 7, 1825, in Kentucky. Anna Cooke of Frankfort, Kentucky gave birth to the child", "title": "Politian (play)" }, { "id": "14761282", "text": "animation studio Cosgrove Hall in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she did adaptations of \"The Talking Parcel\" (1978), Robert Browning's poem of \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\" (1980) and \"The Wind in the Willows\". She also wrote six episodes for the first series of the subsequent \"TV series based on The Wind in the Willows\" which followed on from her film adaptation. Three episodes were based on chapters from Kenneth Grahame's original book that were omitted from the film adaptation and she also wrote three original stories; the other episodes were written by Cosgrove Hall's main writer at the", "title": "Rosemary Anne Sisson" }, { "id": "20320790", "text": "Michael's manor have reignited his sense of wonder; having written five new poems for the first time in nearly 30 years and preparing to write a sixth, a solitary Ted ushers a toast \"to miracles.\" The Hippopotamus (film) The Hippopotamus is a 2017 British film, adapted from Stephen Fry's 1994 novel of the same name. Filmed in 2015 under the direction of John Jenks, the film chronicles a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. Edward \"Ted\" Wallace (Roger Allam) is an aging, jaded writer and former poet. Having not written", "title": "The Hippopotamus (film)" }, { "id": "2739601", "text": "county of Cambridgeshire. The poem takes its name from the opening line \"Flen, flyys and freris\" meaning \"fleas, flies and friars\". The famous line reads \"Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.\" meaning \"They [the friars] are not in heaven, since ...\" followed by words that when decoded, taking in account the alphabet of the time (where u and v were interchangeable, as were i and j, and uu represented w), read \"fvccant vvivys of heli\", a Latin/English mix that means \"...they fuck the wives of Ely (a city near Cambridge).\" The poem also contains the lines \"Fratres", "title": "Flen flyys" }, { "id": "6317227", "text": "Leigh\" (1857) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, \"Lucile\" (1860) by 'Owen Meredith' (Robert Bulwer-Lytton), and \"The Ring and the Book\" (1868-9) by Robert Browning. The form appears to have declined with Modernism, but has since the 1960s-70s undergone a remarkable revival. Vladimir Nabokov's \"Pale Fire\" (1962) takes the form of a 999-line poem four cantos, though the plot of the novel unfolds in the commentary. Of particular note, Vikram Seth's \"The Golden Gate\" (1986) was a surprise bestseller, and Derek Walcott's \"Omeros\" (1990) a more predictable success. The form has been particularly popular in the Caribbean, with work since 1980 by", "title": "Verse novel" }, { "id": "2332099", "text": "from these banker landowners; Biddulph was later ennobled. Ledbury was home to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who spent her childhood at Hope End. It is also the birthplace of poet laureate John Masefield, after whom the local secondary school is named. William Wordsworth's 1835 sonnet \"St. Catherine of Ledbury\", concerning a local anchoress called Katherine, begins \"When ... Ledbury bells broke forth in concert\". In 1901 St. Katharine's priest was Charles Madison Green, whose wife, Ella, was the eldest sister of author H. Rider Haggard. During the twentieth century the population stabilised, hardly growing at all to the Census of", "title": "Ledbury" }, { "id": "11017511", "text": "The poem is quoted by the character Rupert Birkin in \"Women in Love\", a novel by D. H. Lawrence. The title of the poem is also made the title of a novella by the British satirist Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins (poem) \"Love Among the Ruins\" is an 1855 poem by Robert Browning. It is the first poem in the collection \"Men and Women\". The poem begins: \"Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,<br> \"Miles and miles<br> \"On the solitary pastures where our sheep<br> \"Half-asleep<br> \"Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop<br> \"As they crop---<br> \"Was the site", "title": "Love Among the Ruins (poem)" }, { "id": "5981411", "text": "as well as the human presence on Turquoise. In the end, Naqi takes a final swim in the ocean, and joins her sister in the Juggler collective. \"Diamond Dogs\" (1974) is an album by David Bowie. \"Turquoise Days\" is a song on the album \"Heaven Up Here\" (1981) by Echo and the Bunnymen. The character Roland Childe and his obsession with the spire are references to Robert Browning's poem \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\". During their hibernated sleep on the way to the planet, the characters in \"Diamond Dogs\" share dreams which reference the novel \"Rogue Moon\" by", "title": "Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days" }, { "id": "20440702", "text": "Synagogue and the Jewess;\" a poem in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore; \"The Influence of Faith;\" \"Hebrew Women;\" \"Jewish Working Girls ;\" studies of Robert Browning's poems, among them \"Rabbi Ben Ezra,\" \"Saul,\" and \" Jochanan Ha Kadosh\" (the Holy); \"Miss Hattie;\" \"A Book That Has Helped Me,\" being a review of \"The Story of Avis\", by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; and a paper on Emma Lazarus's writings. At the Hebrew Women's Congress, held in Chicago during the World's Columbian Exhibition, in 1893, Cohen read her paper on \"The Influence of the Jewish Religion on the Home;\" and another, on \"What", "title": "Mary M. Cohen" }, { "id": "15152720", "text": "Lord Judge, opened on 22 June 2012. One of the arguments made by Chambers' barrister for this last appeal, John Cooper QC, was that if the tweet was \"menacing\" so was John Betjeman's poem, \"Slough\", pleading \"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!\". He also asked whether Shakespeare would have been prosecuted if he had tweeted his line from \"Henry VI, Part 2\" (Act IV, Scene 2), \"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers\". The latter reputedly drew laughter from the judges. On 27 June, the judges announced a reserved judgement. Chambers arrived at court accompanied by", "title": "Twitter Joke Trial" }, { "id": "12535282", "text": "Flobots. Save the World. Get the Girl was released on 20 October 2008 in the UK. The album was produced by Peter Miles, who produced \"Under the Fog\", and Clive Langer (producer of Elvis Costello, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Morrissey). The album received positive reviews. \"My Boulder\" was released as a single on 13 October 2008 in the UK. Zane Lowe played this track several times on BBC Radio 1 and recommended it on air to Noel Gallagher. \"My Boulder\" includes an excerpt from a reading of the poem \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\" by Robert Browning. Other tracks from", "title": "The King Blues" }, { "id": "4874786", "text": "filmmaking was only temporary. \"Doing something once in a while, like \"The Mirror Crack'd,\" is fine and it makes me feel like Cinderella at the ball. But as a steady diet - no way.\" The title - shortened from the one used for Christie's book - is part of a line from \"The Lady of Shalott\" by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Biographers theorise that Christie used an incident in the real-life of American film star Gene Tierney as the basis of the plot of \"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side\". In June 1943, while pregnant with her", "title": "The Mirror Crack'd" }, { "id": "1479813", "text": "a classicist whose poetry forms a link between the Augustans and Robert Browning, who much admired it. The Victorian era was a period of great political, social and economic change. The Empire recovered from the loss of the American colonies and entered a period of rapid expansion. This expansion, combined with increasing industrialisation and mechanisation, led to a prolonged period of economic growth. The Reform Act 1832 was the beginning of a process that would eventually lead to universal suffrage. The major Victorian poets were John Clare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley", "title": "English poetry" }, { "id": "714998", "text": "of the British Museum and wrote to Browning, then in Florence to ask if he was the author. John Stuart Mill, however, wrote that the author suffered from an \"intense and morbid self-consciousness\". Later Browning was rather embarrassed by the work, and only included it in his collected poems of 1868 after making substantial changes and adding a preface in which he asked for indulgence for a boyish work. In 1834, he accompanied the Chevalier George de Benkhausen, the Russian consul-general, on a brief visit to St Petersburg and began \"Paracelsus\", which was published in 1835. The subject of the", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "17622140", "text": "an example of syllable rhyme. Eliot employs forced rhyme (also called \"oblique rhyme\") on \"peace\" and \"ease\" (lines 8 and 11), and eye rhyme on \"home\" and \"come\" (lines 14 and 15). \"A Song for Simeon\" is structured as a first-person dramatic monologue spoken by Simeon. Eliot's style of monologue used in the poem (and in many of his works) draws heavily from the influence of English Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812–1889). Literary scholar Martin Scofield directly identifies Simeon's recitation as \"the voice of the Browningesque dramatic monologue\" and characterises Eliot's use of Simeon as a speaker as a \"mask", "title": "A Song for Simeon" }, { "id": "13719048", "text": "Blake's \"The Tiger\" and Rudyard Kipling's \"A Smuggler's Song\": \"Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark\". Though agreeing that the metre is \"almost indispensable for comic purposes\", the editors also selected serious examples, by among others Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts and Robert Browning – \"The Lost Leader\": \"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat\". Nonetheless the poet most represented in this section is Edward Lear, with \"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat\", \"The Quangle Wangle's Hat\" and \"How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear\". In their introduction to this section,", "title": "An Eton Poetry Book" }, { "id": "6718153", "text": "to the training area. Three British schools, two primary one being William Wordsworth School named after the poet who wrote a poem about daffodils, and the other Robert Browning School, named after the writer who wrote the Pied Piper story set in Hamelin (Hameln), and one middle school called John Buchan Middle School, exist to educate the children of the British families resident in the area. When the children reach year 9 they go on to Kings School in Gütersloh which is about 45 minutes away. There is also a primary school, a Catholic and a civic kindergarten for the", "title": "Sennelager" }, { "id": "20320782", "text": "The Hippopotamus (film) The Hippopotamus is a 2017 British film, adapted from Stephen Fry's 1994 novel of the same name. Filmed in 2015 under the direction of John Jenks, the film chronicles a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. Edward \"Ted\" Wallace (Roger Allam) is an aging, jaded writer and former poet. Having not written a poem since 1987, he is stuck writing reviews of small-time plays, wallowing in his bath, and compulsively drinking. After a dispute at a poorly-performed play leads to him being fired from his position as", "title": "The Hippopotamus (film)" }, { "id": "8609433", "text": "In ...;\" \"Travelling [sic] Through Your Country;\" \"Propeller Sleep;\" \"Fish & Swimmers & Lonely Birds ...;\" \"Spaces are Death;\" \"The Second Moment;\" \"The Third Moment;\" \"Perpetual Motions;\" \"Leaving Your Country;\" \"The Old Know By Midsummer;\" and \"Abortion.\" Group 3: \"Written Before Easter in New York;\" \"Chronicle;\" \"Tracks;\" \"On The Winter Solstice;\" \"Blossom;\" \"Hudson Ice Floes;\" \"Poor Mouse;\" \"Sky;\" and \"March Wind.\" Group 4: The play, \"One, Two Cups.\" Random Possession was published by I. Reed Books in 1982. On the contents page the poems are separated spatially into five unnumbered groups (with only the first three listed on the contents", "title": "Mei-mei Berssenbrugge" }, { "id": "3144220", "text": "\"Properzia Rossi\" are all exemplars of this technique. Algernon Charles Swinburne's \"Hymn to Proserpine\" has been called a dramatic monologue vaguely reminiscent of Browning's work. Some American poets have also written poems in the genre- famous examples include Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Sylvia Plath's Daddy. Post-Victorian examples include William Butler Yeats's \"The Gift of Harun al-Rashid\", Elizabeth Bishop's \"Crusoe in England\", and T.S. Eliot's \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" and \"Gerontion\". Dramatic monologue Dramatic monologue, also known as a persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual", "title": "Dramatic monologue" }, { "id": "715000", "text": "one of which was not performed, while the other failed, Browning having fallen out with Macready. In 1838, he visited Italy looking for background for \"Sordello\", a long poem in heroic couplets, presented as the imaginary biography of the Mantuan bard spoken of by Dante in the Divine Comedy, canto 6 of Purgatory, set against a background of hate and conflict during the Guelph-Ghibelline wars. This was published in 1840 and met with widespread derision, gaining him the reputation of wanton carelessness and obscurity. Tennyson commented that he only understood the first and last lines and Carlyle wrote that his", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "12737945", "text": "Comin' Thro' the Rye \"Comin' Thro' the Rye\" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel \"Common' Frae The Town\". This is a variant of the tune to which \"Auld Lang Syne\" is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm. G. W. Napier, in an 1876 \"Notes and Queries\", wrote that, The protagonist, \"Jenny\", is not further identified, but there has been reference to a \"Jenny from Dalry\" and a longstanding legend in the Drakemyre suburb of the town", "title": "Comin' Thro' the Rye" }, { "id": "9220753", "text": "to ITV television. For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series (which pay unusual attention to music and sound-effects): \"The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere\" (a pastiche of the poet William Wordsworth and his circle at Grasmere, two series), \"The Sit Crom\" (set in the English Civil War), \"Four Joneses and a Jenkins\" (a reference to \"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"); \"Alison and Maud\"; and most recently \"Gloomsbury\", \"a rhapsody about bohemians\", about members of the Bloomsbury Group and starring Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman. Other works include \"Growing Pains\" (a documentary about ageing), \"Hilaire Belloc\", \"Cities\" (six programmes", "title": "Sue Limb" }, { "id": "6239617", "text": "between the animal as described in the poem and the main character, Ted Wallace, a slovenly man who enjoys long baths. (Hence cover designs picturing an actual hippopotamus or Fry himself in a bathtub.) The title and epigraph imply as well one of the novel's themes: the practicality of poetry and how that helps Wallace, a poet, regard the \"miracles\" in the story with a sceptical eye. The \"hippo\" of the title (occasionally referred to as \"the happy hippo\" and given to wallowing in long baths) is Edward (Ted/Tedward) Lennox Wallace, an aging, lecherous, one-time hell-raising poet, reduced by diminishing", "title": "The Hippopotamus" }, { "id": "1480072", "text": "1930s W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored verse dramas, of which The Ascent of F6 (1936) is the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with \"Sweeney Agonistes\" in 1932, and this was followed by \"The Rock\" (1934), \"Murder in the Cathedral\" (1935) and \"The Family Reunion\" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. An important cultural movement in the British theatre which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s was Kitchen sink realism (or \"kitchen sink drama\"), a term coined to describe art", "title": "English drama" }, { "id": "1621644", "text": "me.\" The opening of another Dickinson poem toys with her position as a woman in a male-dominated society and an unrecognized poet: \"I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?\" American poetry arguably reached its peak in the early-to-mid-20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens and his \"Harmonium\" (1923) and \"The Auroras of Autumn\" (1950), T. S. Eliot and his \"The Waste Land\" (1922), Robert Frost and his \"North of Boston\" (1914) and \"New Hampshire\" (1923), Hart Crane and his \"White Buildings\" (1926) and the epic cycle, \"The Bridge\" (1930), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "6521315", "text": "party, well then, I might ferget America,\"). He also told traditional, humorous Southern stories, the most notable among these being \"The Motorcycle Story\", \"When John Gets Here\" (also called \"The Haunted House\"), and his version of Shakespeare's \"Julius Caesar\" as set in Rome, Georgia. Brother Dave got a good deal of comic mileage from his boosting of all things Southern, making him a latter-day version of Kenny Delmar's \"Senator Claghorn\" on Fred Allen's classic radio show. He smoked cigarettes during his routines, describing them as \"a Southern product,\" and declaring \"I like cigarettes - I'd smoke chains if I could", "title": "Brother Dave Gardner" }, { "id": "8645305", "text": "Piano di Sorrento Piano di Sorrento () is a \"comune\" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about southeast of Naples. Piano di Sorrento borders the following municipalities: Meta, Sant'Agnello, Vico Equense. Victorian poet Robert Browning sojourned in the area and mentions the countryside of Piano and other localities of the Surrentine peninsula in the poem \"The Englishman in Italy\". In the nineteenth century, Piano di Sorrento's economy was based mainly on fishing, agriculture and shipbuilding activities. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Piano di Sorrento encountered socio-economic mutation which will - given", "title": "Piano di Sorrento" }, { "id": "4074883", "text": "Caliban upon Setebos Caliban upon Setebos is a poem written by the British poet Robert Browning and published in his 1864 \"Dramatis Personae\" collection. It deals with Caliban, a character from Shakespeare's \"The Tempest\", and his reflections on Setebos, the brutal god he believes in. Some scholars see Browning as being of the belief that God is in the eye of the beholder, and this is emphasized by a barbaric character believing in a barbaric god. An offshoot of this interpretation is the argument that Browning is applying evolutionary theory to religious development. Others feel that he was satirizing theologians", "title": "Caliban upon Setebos" }, { "id": "1458787", "text": "notation for the many satisfying and variable rhythms of language. Slavish adherence to meter produces doggerel. Skillful poets structure their poems around a meter and line length, and then depart from it and play against it as needed in order to create effect, as Robert Browning does in the first line of \"My Last Duchess\": The opening spondees, which throw the iambic line out of pattern, gives the Duke's words a certain virulent energy: he's spitting the words out. Gerard Manley Hopkins took this idea of poetric energy through departure from meter to its extreme, with his theory and practice", "title": "Poetry analysis" }, { "id": "715011", "text": "\"Balaustion's Adventure\" and \"Red Cotton Night-Cap Country\" were the best-received, the volume \"Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper\" included an attack against Browning's critics, especially Alfred Austin, who was later to become Poet Laureate. According to some reports Browning became romantically involved with Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton, but he refused her proposal of marriage, and did not remarry. In 1878, he revisited Italy for the first time in the seventeen years since Elizabeth's death, and returned there on several further occasions. In 1887, Browning produced the major work of his later years, \"Parleyings with Certain People of Importance", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "15100866", "text": "The Battle of Marathon: A Poem The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning). Written in 1820, when Barrett was just 14, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger invading force during the first Persian invasion of Greece. When Darius the Great orders his immense army march west to annex additional territories; no-one in the Persian court predicted that some fractious, independent Greek city-states stood any chance against the Persian super-power. And yet at Marathon in 490BC, Darius' plans received a decisive check in the", "title": "The Battle of Marathon: A Poem" }, { "id": "215605", "text": "also derived from Milton's writings. Examples include Thomas Wolfe's \"Look Homeward, Angel\", Aldous Huxley's \"Eyeless in Gaza\", Arthur Koestler's \"Darkness at Noon\", and William Golding's \"Darkness Visible\". T. S. Eliot believed that \"of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions... making unlawful entry\". Milton's use of blank verse, in addition to his stylistic innovations (such as grandiloquence of voice and vision, peculiar diction and phraseology) influenced later poets. At the time, poetic blank verse was considered distinct from its use in verse drama, and \"Paradise Lost\" was", "title": "John Milton" }, { "id": "17183973", "text": "King Victor and King Charles King Victor and King Charles was the second play written by Robert Browning for the stage. He completed it in 1839 for William Macready, who had staged \"Strafford\" two years before, but Macready rejected it as unsuitable and it was never performed. It was published in 1842 as the second number of \"Bells and Pomegranates\". The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730–32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing", "title": "King Victor and King Charles" }, { "id": "688130", "text": "been recorded by Christie Purcell (1952), Mary Delaney on \"From Puck to Appleby\" (2003), and the Dubliners on \"Double Dubliners\" (1972) among others. Robert Burns dedicated a poem to the Louse, inspired by witnessing one on a lady's bonnet in church: \"Ye ugly, creepin, blastid wonner, Detested, shunn'd, by saint and sinner, How dare ye set your fit upon her, sae fine lady! Gae somewhere else, and seek your dinner on some poor body.\" John Milton in \"Paradise Lost\" mentioned the biblical plague of lice visited upon pharaoh: \"Frogs, lice, and flies must all his palace fill with loathed intrusion,", "title": "Louse" }, { "id": "19326448", "text": "was one of the best known of Forster's biographies in 2016. \"Elizabeth Barrett Browning\" is the first full biography of the poet to be published since Gardner Taplin's life of 1957, and reviews substantial material uncovered during the intervening thirty years, including letters, diaries, papers and juvenilia collected by Philip Kelley and others. Forster draws on the new material to expand on Barrett Browning's life before she met Robert Browning in 1845, at the age of almost forty. She stresses the importance of Barrett Browning's rural childhood at Hope End in Herefordshire, and discusses the nature of her mysterious childhood", "title": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography" }, { "id": "714991", "text": "Shelleyan forms of his early period and developed a more personal style. In 1846, Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett, and went to live in Italy. By the time of her death in 1861, he had published the crucial collection \"Men and Women\". The collection \"Dramatis Personae\" and the book-length epic poem \"The Ring and the Book\" followed, and made him a leading British poet. He continued to write prolifically, but his reputation today rests largely on the poetry he wrote in this middle period. When Browning died in 1889, he was regarded as a sage and philosopher-poet who", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "14588505", "text": "revive their marriage, but it was short-lived. Browning sold Ca' Rezzonico in 1906 and thereafter divided his time between two other homes in Italy, the Torre all' Antella, near Florence, and Asolo, a location closely associated with his father, who set his poem \"Pippa Passes\" there and wrote his last book, \"Asolando\" while living there. Browning grew old contentedly, despite failing eyesight. In May 1912, a street in Asolo was named \"Via Browning\" in honour of his father's centenary, and Browning, who was unwell, left his bed to attend the celebration. It was his last public appearance. On 8 July", "title": "Robert Barrett Browning" }, { "id": "13908346", "text": "Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Dante, Robert Burns, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Henrik Ibsen. \"The Poets' Corner\" was republished in 1943 as a King Penguin publication with an introduction by John Rothenstein and expanded to twenty-four colour illustrations. The Poets' Corner The Poets' Corner is a book of twenty caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1904 by William Heinemann, and was Beerbohm's second book of caricatures, the first being \"Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen\" (1896). Named after Poets' Corner, the name traditionally given to a", "title": "The Poets' Corner" }, { "id": "14950407", "text": "Last Duchess'. On a third interpretation, the ambiguity between these two readings is the poem's major attribute. Count Gismond \"Count Gismond\" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's \"Dramatic Lyrics\", where it was known simply as \"France\". The poem is written in 21 verses. \"Count Gismond: Aix in Provence\" may, on one reading, be seen as a story of the vindication of innocence. A woman relates to a friend an episode of her own life, when a defender arose for her when she was caught", "title": "Count Gismond" }, { "id": "14481090", "text": "is frequently alluded to by Horace Rumpole. The lines \"We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, / ... / Made him our pattern to live and to die!\" are framed as the deciding quiz bowl question in Nan Willard Kappo's \"Cheating Lessons\", published in 2002. An excerpt of the poem is featured in Cassandra Clare's \"Clockwork Angel\" published in 2010. Different approaches to the poem—personal idiosyncratic approaches and those informed by historical context or metrical structure—are discussed as an introduction to \"cognitive poetics\". The Lost Leader (poem) The Lost Leader is an 1845 poem by Robert Browning", "title": "The Lost Leader (poem)" }, { "id": "8520688", "text": "\"Carnac,\" \"Disillusion,\" \"Ghost Ships,\" \"Jewels,\" \"Leaves,\" \"Mother and Son,\" \"Preferences,\" \"Tehuantepec,\" \"Teotihuacán,\" \"The Elephant,\" \"The Hippopotamus,\" \"The Home of the Gods,\" \"The Indian Rhinoceros,\" \"The Iron Pillar of Delhi,\" \"The Lizards of Tula,\" \"The Mantis,\" \"The Newt,\" \"The Old-Fashioned Lover,\" \"The Olmec,\" \"The Other Baghdad,\" \"The Reaper,\" \"The Saviors,\" \"The Trap,\" \"Thoth-Amon's Complaint,\" \"Tiger in the Rain,\" and \"Xeroxing the Necomonicon\" are shared with \"Phantoms and Fancies\" only. The remaining poems are common to all three collections. Heroes and Hobgoblins Heroes and Hobgoblins is a 1981 collection of poetry by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated", "title": "Heroes and Hobgoblins" }, { "id": "715021", "text": "Anthony Burgess wrote: \"We all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard.\" Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Santayana were also critical. The latter expressed his views in the essay \"The Poetry of Barbarism,\" which attacks Browning and Walt Whitman for what he regarded as their embrace of irrationality. In 1914 American modernist composer Charles Ives created the Robert Browning Overture, a dense and darkly dramatic piece with gloomy overtones reminiscent of the Second Viennese School. In 1930 the story of Browning and his wife was made into the play \"The Barretts of Wimpole Street\", by Rudolph Besier.", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "9462756", "text": "for Crowley as it was the first to refer to himself as \"The Beast\" without any reticence as regards his critics, and the cover daringly had \"Aleister Crowley = 666\" written in Hebrew. It was basically a work based on Robert Browning's \"Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day\" and itself contained two long, likewise-colloquial poems called \"Ascension Day\" and \"Pentacoste\", both quite anarchic and unreadable because of the constant use of neologisms, disenjambment and punctuation, the poems really set way by means of hundreds of footnotes for collected prose witticisms in the back (even the line-numbering, going up naturally in five, cheekily missed", "title": "Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907" }, { "id": "17073986", "text": "\"Black or White\" was inspired by the 1925 poem \"The Hollow Men\" by British poet T. S. Eliot. Talking to \"The Observer\" in 1976, Harley revealed that T. S. Eliot was a big hero to him, and that he nicked the form of \"The Hollow Men\" for the song. \"Black or White\" was released by EMI Records on 7\" vinyl in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. In the UK, a promotional demo/DJ copy was also issued by EMI. The Japanese edition of the single, unlike the other countries, was promotional only. The B-Side was \"Mad, Mad", "title": "Black or White (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel song)" }, { "id": "12737948", "text": "Salinger comes from the poem's name. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, misinterprets a part of this poem to mean \"if a body catch a body\" rather than \"if a body meet a body.\" He keeps picturing children playing in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff, and him catching them when they start to fall off. Comin' Thro' the Rye \"Comin' Thro' the Rye\" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel \"Common' Frae The Town\". This is a variant of the tune to which", "title": "Comin' Thro' the Rye" }, { "id": "11825260", "text": "is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. \"Wuthering Heights\", \"A Female Philoctetes\", \"Twelfth Night\", \"Fahrenheit 451\", \"Herakles\", \"Cyrano de Bergerac\", \"Taming Of The Shrew\", \"Macbeth\", \"The Importance Of Being Earnest\", \"Six Characters In Search Of An Author\", \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", \"As You Like It\", \"An Enemy Of The People\", \"The Iliad\", \"The Comedy of Errors\", \"Catch-22\", \"Julius Caesar\", \"Prometheus Bound\" with David Oyelowo, \"Romeo & Juliet\", \"The Canterbury Tales\", \"Much Ado About Nothing\", \"Hamlet\", \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde\", H G Wells' \"The Invisible Man\", with choreographer Doug Varone, \"Twelfth Night\", \"A Very Naughty Greek Play\", \"Oedipus", "title": "Aquila Theatre" }, { "id": "4911713", "text": "to 2012 on BBC Radio 4. In 2005 \"Time Magazine\" included the novel in its list of \"100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005\". In 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel concerns the relationship between two fictional Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash (whose life and work are loosely based on those of the English poet Robert Browning, or Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose work is more consonant with the themes expressed by Ash, as well as Tennyson's having been poet-laureate to Queen Victoria) and Christabel LaMotte (based on Christina Rossetti), as uncovered", "title": "Possession (Byatt novel)" }, { "id": "121187", "text": "\"Silappatikaram\", the Persian \"Shahnameh\", the Ancient Greek \"Odyssey\" and \"Iliad\", Virgil's \"Aeneid\", the Old English \"Beowulf\", Dante's \"Divine Comedy\", the Finnish \"Kalevala\", the German \"Nibelungenlied\", the French \"Song of Roland\", the Spanish \"Cantar de mio Cid\", Camões' Os \"Lusíadas\", John Milton's \"Paradise Lost\", and Adam Mickiewicz's \"Pan Tadeusz\". The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral history poetic traditions. Oral tradition was used alongside written scriptures to communicate and facilitate the spread culture. In these traditions, poetry is transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means. Early twentieth-century study of living oral epic", "title": "Epic poetry" }, { "id": "714997", "text": "of the author, Robert Browning, who received the money from his aunt, Mrs Silverthorne. It is a long poem composed in homage to Shelley and somewhat in his style. Originally Browning considered \"Pauline\" as the first of a series written by different aspects of himself, but he soon abandoned this idea. The press noticed the publication. W. J. Fox writing in \"The Monthly Repository\" of April 1833 discerned merit in the work. Allan Cunningham praised it in the \"Athenaeum\". However, it sold no copies. Some years later, probably in 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti came across it in the Reading Room", "title": "Robert Browning" }, { "id": "7044704", "text": "his deceased friend, echoing Gray's narrator reading the tombstones to connect to the dead. Robert Browning relied on a similar setting to the Elegy in his pastoral poem \"Love Among the Ruins\", which describes the desire for glory and how everything ends in death. Unlike Gray, Browning adds a female figure and argues that nothing but love matters. Thomas Hardy, who had memorised Gray's poem, took the title of his fourth novel, Far from the Madding Crowd, from a line in it. In addition, many in his \"Wessex Poems and Other Verses\" (1898) contain a graveyard theme and take a", "title": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" }, { "id": "11920973", "text": "and \"Prairie Bell\" bursts into flames and explodes. Jim is rescued and returns to Gilgal to marry Kate. \"Jim Bludso\" was a poem from the Pike County Ballads of John Hay, a familiar set piece in the repertoire of elocutionists, actors and other public speakers; the Kalem Company had already made a one-reeler out of the same property in 1912. For the film, Browning fashioned his script from both \"Jim Bludso\" and another poem, \"Little Breeches.\" Much of the film's dramatic arc also came from a 1903 stage play adaptation by I.N. Morris. Hay's original poem memorialized Jim Bludso's courage", "title": "Jim Bludso" }, { "id": "5686694", "text": "are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals. \"Claret and Tokay\" here became the first two parts of \"Nationality in Drinks\". Dramatic Romances and Lyrics Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled \"Bells and Pomegranates\". Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor \"Dramatic Lyrics\", are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected", "title": "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics" }, { "id": "4100029", "text": "had been considering writing a long poem since around 1905, but work did not begin until May 1915 when Pound wrote to his mother that he was working on a long poem. He published the first three cantos in June, July and August 1917, in the journal \"Poetry\". In this version, the poem began as an address by the poet to Robert Browning. Pound came to believe that this narrative voice compromised the intent of his poetic vision, and these first three ur-cantos were soon abandoned and a new starting point sought. The answer was a Latin version of Homer's", "title": "The Cantos" } ]

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[ { "id": "6734468", "text": "characteristics which he sought and most admired, including that of Jesus Christ. Dostoevsky is believed to have based the character of Alyosha on his friend, Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian philosopher and poet who led a generous life, to the point of giving away his clothes to people in the street. Alyosha Karamazov Alyosha Karamazov () is the protagonist in \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. His full name is given as Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov and he is also referred to as Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being nineteen years", "title": "Alyosha Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005721", "text": "The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov (, \"Brat'ya Karamazovy\", ), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing \"The Brothers Karamazov\", which was published as a serial in \"The Russian Messenger\" from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. \"The Brothers Karamazov\" is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005755", "text": "Kyodai\" (2013, created by Misato Sato) is a modern retelling of the book. Footnotes Bibliography The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov (, \"Brat'ya Karamazovy\", ), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing \"The Brothers Karamazov\", which was published as a serial in \"The Russian Messenger\" from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. \"The Brothers Karamazov\" is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality.", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "153515", "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (; ; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include \"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Idiot\" (1869), \"Demons\" (1872) and \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880). Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "5724398", "text": "The Flying Karamazov Brothers The Flying Karamazov Brothers (FKB) are a juggling and comedy troupe who have been performing since 1973. They learned their trade performing as street artists in Santa Cruz, California. They began by busking, but have gone on to perform internationally, including on Broadway stages. The \"brothers\" take their act's name from the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\", and draw parallels between themselves and the characters of the novel. Though they refer to themselves onstage as \"brothers\", none of them are actually blood relatives. The troupe is led by its sole remaining co-founder Paul David Magid", "title": "The Flying Karamazov Brothers" }, { "id": "6734464", "text": "Alyosha Karamazov Alyosha Karamazov () is the protagonist in \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. His full name is given as Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov and he is also referred to as Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being nineteen years old at the start of the novel. The preface and the opening chapter proclaim him as the hero. Dostoevsky intended to write a sequel, which would detail the rest of Alyosha's life, but died shortly after the publication of \"The Brothers Karamazov\". At the outset of the story Alyosha is", "title": "Alyosha Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005725", "text": "a personal tragedy altered the work. In May 1878, Dostoevsky's three-year-old son Alyosha died of epilepsy, a condition inherited from his father. The novelist's grief is apparent throughout the book; Dostoevsky named the hero Alyosha, as well as imbuing him with qualities which he sought and most admired. His loss is also reflected in the story of Captain Snegiryov and his young son Ilyusha. The death of his son brought Dostoevsky to the Optina Monastery later that year. There, he found inspiration for several aspects of \"The Brothers Karamazov\", though at the time he intended to write a novel about", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3403344", "text": "Demons (Dostoevsky novel) Demons (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal \"The Russian Messenger\" in 1871–2. It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoevsky after his return from Siberian exile, along with \"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Idiot\" (1869) and \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880). \"Demons\" is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large scale tragedy. Joyce Carol Oates has described it as \"Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work.\" According to Ronald", "title": "Demons (Dostoevsky novel)" }, { "id": "8655093", "text": "minor league baseball career and the upheavals of the Vietnam War. It is also a deeply religious novel about love and family and spiritual growth and the difference between church and religion. The title is a reference to Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" and to the baseball abbreviation for a strikeout. Papa Chance is a former MLB pitcher who has settled down with his wife in the mill town of Camas, Washington. They have six children. Everett Chance, the eldest, is a natural politician and powerful speaker whose passionate opposition to the Vietnam war creates much of the family tension in", "title": "The Brothers K" }, { "id": "1899867", "text": "of Serbia\", a reference to Karađorđe. The surname Karamazov, used in the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1880 novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\", is believed to have partially been inspired by Karađorđe, whose exploits popularized the use of the prefix \"kara\" to mean \"black\" within Russia. Karađorđe's likeness was featured on the obverse of five-million dinar banknotes issued by the National Bank of Yugoslavia in 1993 and 1994. The anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising's commencement, 15 February, is celebrated annually in Serbia through a public holiday known as Statehood Day, first introduced in July 2001. A statue of Karađorđe stands in", "title": "Karađorđe" }, { "id": "19498089", "text": "Charles Darwin (1809–82) (\"On Origin of Species\") (1859), Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), James G. Frazer (1854–1941), Karl Marx (1818–83) (\"Das Kapital\", 1867), and the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), among others. The continental art movements of Impressionism, and later Cubism, were also important inspirations for modernist writers. Important literary precursors of modernism, were: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81) (\"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880); Walt Whitman (1819–92) (\"Leaves of Grass\") (1855–91); Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) (\"Les Fleurs du mal\"), Rimbaud (1854–91) (\"Illuminations\", 1874); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially his later plays. A major British lyric poet", "title": "Twentieth-century English literature" }, { "id": "3005735", "text": "rumored to have fathered an illegitimate son, Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, whom he employs as his servant. Fyodor takes no interest in any of his sons, who are, as a result, raised apart from each other and their father. The relationship between Fyodor and his adult sons drives much of the plot in the novel. Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (a.k.a. Mitya, Mitka, Mitenka, Mitri) is Fyodor Karamazov's eldest son and the only offspring of his first marriage, with Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov. Dmitri is considered to be a sensualist, much like his father, spending large amounts of money on nights filled with champagne,", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005754", "text": "and the First World War, Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse described Dostoevsky as not a \"poet\" but a \"prophet\". The acclaimed novelist W. Somerset Maugham included \"The Brothers Karamazov\" in his list of ten greatest novels in the world. Pope Benedict XVI cited this book in the 2007 encyclical \"Spe Salvi\". This is a list of the unabridged English translations of the novel: There have been several film adaptations of \"The Brothers Karamazov\". They include: A Russian 12-episode mini-series was produced in 2009, and is considered to be as close to the book as possible. The Japanese drama \"Karamazov no", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "18844306", "text": "Constance en tante Mathilde\" (\"Auntie Constanze and Auntie Mathilde\"). The title refers to The Brothers Karamazov, a well-known book by Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The melody of the chorus was derived from the first part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s \"\"Piano Sonata nr. 11 in A major (KV 331)\".\" In 2013, the American actress Christina Applegate explained to talkshow host Conan O'Brien that her (Dutch) husband was teaching this song to their little daughter. De Zusters Karamazov \"De Zusters Karamazov\" (The Karamazov Sisters) is a song from 1957 by Dutch poet and writer Drs. P. The song describes the sad history", "title": "De Zusters Karamazov" }, { "id": "615633", "text": "and a relatively small reference group to relate to, such as the band, clan, or tribe. In Albert Camus's existentialist novel \"The Stranger\", the bored, alienated protagonist Meursault struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old. He exists largely in a state of anomie, as seen from the apathy evinced in the opening lines: \"\" (\"Today mother died. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know\"). Fyodor Dostoyevsky expressed a similar concern about anomie in his novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\". The Grand Inquisitor remarks that in the absence of God and immortal life,", "title": "Anomie" }, { "id": "4394203", "text": "The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film) The Brothers Karamazov is a 1958 film made by MGM, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\". It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. The brothers are played by Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart and William Shatner in his film debut. The story follows Fyodor, the patriarch of the Karamazov family, and his sons. When he tries to decide on an heir, the tensions between the brothers run", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)" }, { "id": "4649528", "text": "La Fayette's \"The Princess of Cleves\" are considered early precursors of the psychological novel. The modern psychological novel originated, according to \"The Encyclopedia of the Novel\", primarily in the works of Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun – in particular, \"Hunger\" (1890), \"Mysteries\" (1892), \"Pan\" (1894) and \"Victoria\" (1898). One of the greatest writers of the genre was Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His novels deal strongly with ideas, and characters who embody these ideas, how they play out in real world circumstances, and the value of them, most notably \"The Brothers Karamazov\" and \"Crime and Punishment\". In the literature of the United States, Henry", "title": "Psychological fiction" }, { "id": "3150655", "text": "The Grand Inquisitor \"The Grand Inquisitor\" is a poem in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1879–1880). It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. \"The Grand Inquisitor\" is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and its fundamental ambiguity. Scholars cite Friedrich Schiller's play \"Don Carlos\" (1787) as a major inspiration for Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, while also noting that \"The sources of the legend are extraordinarily varied and", "title": "The Grand Inquisitor" }, { "id": "3005722", "text": "against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. Although Dostoevsky began his first notes for \"The Brothers Karamazov\" in April 1878, he had written several unfinished works years earlier. He would incorporate some elements into his future work, particularly from the planned epos \"The Life of a Great Sinner\", which he began work on in the summer of 1869. It eventually remained unfinished after", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "10971188", "text": "a slightly sad air. In the end, Kandata condemned himself by being concerned only with his own salvation and not that of others. But Paradise continues on as it has, and it is nearly noontime there. Thus the Buddha continues his meanderings. Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and \"The Spider's Thread\" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of \"The Spider's Thread\" is a retell of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable", "title": "The Spider's Thread" }, { "id": "4989911", "text": "behind the restoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and one of the co-founders of the All-Russian Society for Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIiK). Glazunov died from heart failure on 9 July 2017 at the age of 87. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery on July 11. Illustrations for F. Dostoyevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\": A minor planet, 3616 Glazunov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1984, is named after him. Ilya Glazunov Ilya Glazunov (; 10 June 1930 – 9 July 2017) was a Russian artist from Saint Petersburg. He was the founder of", "title": "Ilya Glazunov" }, { "id": "5976218", "text": "the play \"Julius of Tarent\" (1774) by Johann Anton Leisewitz, a play Friedrich Schiller considered a favourite. Other characters The play is referred to in Dostoyevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\". Fyodor Karamazov compares himself to Count von Moor, whilst comparing his eldest son, Dmitri, to Franz Moor, and Ivan Karamazov to Karl Moor. It is also referred to in the first chapter of Ivan Turgenev's \"First Love\" and in chapter 28 of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Peter Newmark notes three translations in the \"Encyclopedia of Literary Translation\": Klaus van den Berg has compared the Lamport and MacDonald translations, \"The two most", "title": "The Robbers" }, { "id": "498155", "text": "pronounced \"\"OH-meh-lahss\"\". Le Guin hit upon the name of the town on seeing a road sign for Salem, Oregon, in a car mirror. \"[… People ask me] 'Where \"do\" you get your ideas from, Ms. Le Guin?' From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?\" \"The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat\", writes Le Guin, \"turns up in Dostoyevsky's \"Brothers Karamazov\", and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James. The fact is, I haven't been able to re-read Dostoyevsky, much as I loved him, since I was twenty-five,", "title": "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" }, { "id": "135767", "text": "the room below from time to time. Notes Bibliography The Trial The Trial (original German title: , later , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his most well-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's \"Crime and Punishment\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\", Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other", "title": "The Trial" }, { "id": "261473", "text": "twentieth-century novelists,\" especially those Modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). Also important in Bergson's philosophy was the idea of \"élan vital\", the life force, which \"brings about the creative evolution of everything.\" His philosophy also placed a high value on intuition, though without rejecting the importance of the intellect. Important literary precursors of modernism were Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), who wrote the novels \"Crime and Punishment\" (1866) and \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880); Walt Whitman (1819–1892), who published the poetry collection \"Leaves of Grass\" (1855–1891); and August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially", "title": "Modernism" }, { "id": "8286918", "text": "or the Victim of the Inquisition\", which has been attributed to Spaniard Luiz Gutiérrez, and is based on the case of María de Bohórquez, ferociously criticizes the Inquisition and its representatives. The Inquisition also appears in one of the chapters of the novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which imagines an encounter between Jesus and the Inquisitor General. One of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe, \"The Pit and the Pendulum\", explores along the same lines the use of torture by the Inquisition. The novel Cornelia Bororquia was published in France, probably by a French writer", "title": "Spanish Inquisition" }, { "id": "12603529", "text": "attempts to sue God. In the episode \"\" (2006–2007) of the television legal drama comedy \"Boston Legal\", a woman sues God for the death of her husband. \"God in the Dock\", a 1980 episode of Christian TV series \"Insight\", features Richard Beymer as God put on trial by humanity. In the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880), one of the characters tells the story of a grand inquisitor in Spain who meets an incarnation of Jesus, interrogates him and exiles him. Former Auschwitz concentration camp inmate Elie Wiesel is said to have witnessed three Jewish prisoners try God \"in", "title": "Lawsuits against God" }, { "id": "153605", "text": "a fellow conspirator. Pyotr plans to have Kirillov, who is committed to killing himself, take credit for the murder in his suicide note. Kirillov complies and Pyotr murders Shatov, but his scheme goes awry. Pyotr escapes, but the remainder of his aspiring revolutionary crew is arrested. In the denouement, Nikolai kills himself, tortured by his own misdeeds. At nearly 800 pages, \"The Brothers Karamazov\" is Dostoevsky's largest work. It received both critical and popular acclaim and is often cited as his \"magnum opus\". Composed of 12 \"books\", the novel tells the story of the novice Alyosha Karamazov, the non-believer Ivan", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "19331337", "text": "In Boundlessness In Boundlessness () is a second major poetry collection by Konstantin Balmont, first published in 1895 in Moscow. Following \"Under the Northern Sky\", it features 95 poems, some of which bear first signs of the author's experiments with the Russian language's musical and rhythmical structures he would later become famous for. The book came with an epigraph from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\": \"Kiss the earth and love tirelessly and insatiably; love everyone and everything, keep seeking delight and ecstasy.\" Balmont read \"Crime and Punishment\" at sixteen, and \"The Brothers Karamazov\" a year later. \"It gave me more", "title": "In Boundlessness" }, { "id": "3005741", "text": "and, like Dostoevsky, suffers from epilepsy. The narrator notes that as a child, Smerdyakov collected stray cats to hang and bury them. Generally aloof, Smerdyakov admires Ivan and shares his atheism. Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova (a.k.a. Grushenka, Grusha, Grushka), a beautiful 22-year-old, is the local Jezebel and has an uncanny charm for men. In her youth she was jilted by a Polish officer and subsequently came under the protection of a tyrannical miser. The episode leaves Grushenka with an urge for independence and control of her life. Grushenka inspires complete admiration and lust in both Fyodor and Dmitri Karamazov. Their rivalry", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "10525103", "text": "German label Exile On Mainstream. Extensive touring has included supporting Clutch on a 2005 US tour, and in the UK in 2006 they toured with Clutch and Corrosion of Conformity. The band gets its name from a character in the 1880 Russian novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Stinking Lizaveta Stinking Lizaveta is a power trio from Philadelphia that plays heavy instrumental rock. MusicMight categorizes them as \"doom jazz\". Their 1996 debut album \"Hopelessness and Shame\" was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them, he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in", "title": "Stinking Lizaveta" }, { "id": "3005723", "text": "Dostoevsky was interested in the Nechayev affair, which involved a group of radicals murdering one of their former members. He picked up that story and started with \"Demons\". The unfinished \"Drama in Tobolsk\" (Драма. В Тобольске) is considered the first draft of the first chapter of \"The Brothers Karamazov\". Dated 13 September 1874, it tells about a fictional murder in Staraya Russa committed by a \"praporshchik\" named Dmitry Ilynskov (based on a real soldier from Omsk), who is thought to have murdered his father. It goes on noting that his body was suddenly discovered in a pit under a house.", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005747", "text": "writing about Einstein's admiration of the novel, wrote, \"\"The Brothers Karamazov\" - that for him in 1919 was the supreme summit of all literature. It remained so when I talked to him in 1937, and probably until the end of his life.\" Sigmund Freud called it \"the most magnificent novel ever written\" and was fascinated with the book for its Oedipal themes. In 1928 Freud published a paper titled \"Dostoevsky and Parricide\" in which he investigated Dostoevsky's own neuroses. Freud claimed that Dostoevsky's epilepsy was not a natural condition but instead a physical manifestation of the author's hidden guilt over", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "135740", "text": "The Trial The Trial (original German title: , later , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his most well-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's \"Crime and Punishment\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\", Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, \"The Trial\" was never completed, although it does", "title": "The Trial" }, { "id": "7309099", "text": "also sought to come to terms with the new industrial age. The works of the Englishman Charles Dickens (including his novels \"Oliver Twist\" and \"A Christmas Carol\") and the Frenchman Victor Hugo (including \"Les Miserables\") remain among the best known and widely influential. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol (\"Dead Souls\"). Then came Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Turgenev. Leo Tolstoy (\"War and Peace\", \"Anna Karenina\") and Fyodor Dostoevsky (\"Crime and Punishment\", \"The Idiot\", \"The Brothers Karamazov\") soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the", "title": "History of Western civilization" }, { "id": "153524", "text": "When a nine-year-old girl had been raped by a drunk, he was asked to fetch his father to attend to her. The incident haunted him, and the theme of the desire of a mature man for a young girl appears in \"The Devils\", \"The Brothers Karamazov\", \"Crime and Punishment\", and other writings. An incident involving a family servant, or serf, in the estate in Darovoye, is described in \"The Peasant Marey\": when the young Dostoevsky imagines hearing a wolf in the forest, Marey, who is working nearby, comforts him. Although Dostoevsky had a delicate physical constitution, his parents described him", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "3150663", "text": "After relating the tale, Ivan asks Alyosha if he \"renounces\" Ivan for his views. Alyosha responds by giving Ivan a soft kiss on the lips, to which the delighted Ivan replies: \"That's plagiarism... Thank you, though\". The brothers part soon afterward. The Grand Inquisitor \"The Grand Inquisitor\" is a poem in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1879–1880). It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. \"The Grand Inquisitor\" is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in because", "title": "The Grand Inquisitor" }, { "id": "1557654", "text": "While Vonnegut re-uses characters, the characters are frequently rebooted and do not necessarily maintain the same biographical details from appearance to appearance. Kilgore Trout in particular is palpably a different person (although with distinct, consistent character traits) in each of his appearances in Vonnegut's work. Mr. Rosewater says that Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" contains \"everything there was to know about life.\" Vonnegut refers to \"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell\" when talking about William Blake, Billy's hospital mate's favorite poet. In the \"Twayne's United States Authors\" series volume on Kurt Vonnegut, about the protagonist's name, Stanley Schatt says:", "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five" }, { "id": "6004270", "text": "These various thinkers were united by a distrust of Victorian positivism and certainty. Modernism as a literary movement can also be seen as a reaction to industrialization, urbanization and new technologies. Important literary precursors of modernism were Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) (\"Crime and Punishment\" (1866), \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880)); Walt Whitman (1819–92) (\"Leaves of Grass\") (1855–91); Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) (\"Les Fleurs du mal\"), Rimbaud (1854–91) (\"Illuminations\", 1874); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially his later plays, including the trilogy \"To Damascus\" 1898–1901, \"A Dream Play\" (1902), \"The Ghost Sonata\" (1907). Initially, some modernists fostered a utopian spirit, stimulated by innovations in anthropology, psychology,", "title": "Literary modernism" }, { "id": "3005726", "text": "childhood instead. Parts of the biographical section of Zosima's life are based on \"The Life of the Elder Leonid\", a text he found at Optina and copied \"almost word for word\". Although written in the 19th century, \"The Brothers Karamazov\" displays a number of modern elements. Dostoevsky composed the book with a variety of literary techniques. Though privy to many of the thoughts and feelings of the protagonists, the narrator is a self-proclaimed writer; he discusses his own mannerisms and personal perceptions so often in the novel that he becomes a character. Through his descriptions, the narrator's voice merges imperceptibly", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "15215823", "text": "Karadağlar Karadağlar is a Turkish television drama loosely based on the novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It airs on Show TV every week on Monday evenings at 20:00 , and is repeated on Wednesdays at 23:00, as well as on Sundays at 16:45. \"Karadağlar\" is set in the 1930s, when Turkey was suffering the effects of the Great Depression, and it focuses on the generally strained relationships of the landowner, Halit Karadağ, with his sons, as well as the relationships between his sons. Set in the fictional village of Payidar, the series also shows the tensions that exist", "title": "Karadağlar" }, { "id": "1239503", "text": "historical architecture, a classic Texas town square, modern art installments, art galleries, and the Marfa lights. Marfa was founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop. The town was named \"Marfa\" (Russian for \"Martha\") at the suggestion of the wife of a railroad executive. Although some historians have hypothesized that the name came from a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\", Marfa was actually named after Marfa Strogoff, a character in Jules Verne's novel \"Michael Strogoff\". The town grew quickly during the 1920s. The Marfa Army Airfield served as a training facility for several thousand pilots", "title": "Marfa, Texas" }, { "id": "3005740", "text": "his family. In a secondary plotline, Alyosha befriends a group of school boys, whose fate adds a hopeful message to the conclusion of the novel. Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, widely rumored to be the illegitimate son of Fyodor Karamazov, is the son of \"Reeking Lizaveta\", a mute woman of the street who died in childbirth. His name, Smerdyakov, means \"son of the 'reeking one'\". He was brought up by Fyodor Karamazov's trusted servant Grigory Vasilievich Kutuzov and his wife Marfa. Smerdyakov grows up in the Karamazov house as a servant, working as Fyodor's lackey and cook. He is morose and sullen,", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "1501782", "text": "aging and disease as examples of factors that limit human freedom. The philosopher Slavoj Žižek, writing in \"Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism\" (2004), argued that there is a parallel between Sartre's views and claims made by the character Father Zosima in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1880): whereas Sartre believes that with total freedom comes total responsibility, for Father Zosima \"each of us must make us responsible for all men's sins\". Existentialism Is a Humanism Existentialism Is a Humanism () is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on a lecture by the", "title": "Existentialism Is a Humanism" }, { "id": "125397", "text": "thinking. The first important literary author also important to existentialism was the Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky's \"Notes from Underground\" portrays a man unable to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his book on existentialism \"Existentialism is a Humanism\", quoted Dostoyevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" as an example of existential crisis. Sartre attributes Ivan Karamazov's claim, \"If God did not exist, everything would be permitted\" to Dostoyevsky himself, though this quote does not appear in the novel. However, a similar sentiment is explicitly stated when Alyosha visits Dimitri in prison. Dimitri mentions his", "title": "Existentialism" }, { "id": "11424175", "text": "the same name) where he performed the role of the uncle. In cinema he got his big break when director Elem Klimov offered him the lead role in the satiric film \"Adventures of a Dentist\" (1965). His next work in cinema was a role of Alyosha in critically acclaimed \"The Brothers Karamazov\" (1969) based on Dostoevsky's eponymous novel, which made him known. In 1975 he shot to stardom in the enormously popular comedy-drama film \"The Irony of Fate\" as a surgeon Zhenya Lukashin. In 1977 he starred in another Ryazanov hit, \"Office Romance\", as timid statistician Anatoly Novoseltsev, alongside Alisa", "title": "Andrey Myagkov" }, { "id": "6734466", "text": "of school boys whose fate adds a hopeful message to the conclusion of an otherwise tragic novel. Alyosha's place in the novel is usually that of a messenger or witness to the actions of his brothers and others. He is very close to Dmitri. Alyosha is depicted as a positive character, kind, loving and sensitive. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka states that Alyosha, like Prince Myshkin, the protagonist in another Dostoyevsky novel, \"The Idiot\", are almost Jesus-like characters, who are nevertheless unable to prevent the suffering of those around them. She suggests that as a witness or messenger, Alyosha is not a true", "title": "Alyosha Karamazov" }, { "id": "20215178", "text": "now known) joined the Moscow Art Theatre where his premiere parts included Varlaam (in Alexander Pushkin's \"Boris Godunov\", 1907), Someone in Grey (\"The Life of Man\", 1907), the Mayor (\"Revizor\", 1908), Bolshintsov (\"A Month in the Country\", Ivan Turgenev, 1909) and Grigory (\"The Karamazov Brothers\", after Dostoyevsky's novel, 1910). In 1911 Uralov left the theatre to join Alexandrinka; Stanislavsky later called MAT's decision to let him go a 'regrettable mistake'. During his eight years stint with the Alexanrinsky Theatre (which he in 1918 became one of the administrators of), Uralov has made his mark with his \"juicy, fulsome realism\"; his", "title": "Ilya Uralov" }, { "id": "3005746", "text": "One: \"A Nice Little Family\" Book Two: \"An Inappropriate Gathering\" Book Three: \"Sensualists\" Book Four: \"Lacerations/Strains\" Book Five: \"Pro and Contra\" Book Six: \"The Russian Monk\" Book Seven: \"Alyosha\" Book Eight: \"Mitya\" Book Nine: \"The Preliminary Investigation\" Book Ten: \"Boys\" Book Eleven: \"Brother Ivan Fyodorovich\" Book Twelve: \"A Judicial Error\" Epilogue \"The Brothers Karamazov\" has had a deep influence on many writers, philosophers, and public figures over the years. Admirers of the novel include Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Putin, Frederick Buechner Laura Bush, and Hillary Clinton. C. P. Snow,", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3630128", "text": "in 1996 with \"Everyone Says I Love You\", Allen did in fact shoot a number of films abroad. Coming between Allen's \"Sleeper\" and \"Annie Hall\", \"Love and Death\" is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. Allen pays tribute to the humor of The Marx Brothers, Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin throughout the film. The dialogue and scenarios parody Russian novels, particularly those by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, such as \"The Brothers Karamazov\", \"Crime and Punishment\", \"The Gambler\", \"The Idiot\" and \"War and Peace\". This includes a dialogue between Boris and his father in which each line alludes to,", "title": "Love and Death" }, { "id": "6396526", "text": "townspeople have already congregated. He musters enough strength to climb the scaffold on his own. In the ensuing moments, M'sieur Pierre dons his apron and demonstrates to Cincinnatus how to lay on the block. Cincinnatus begins counting backwards from ten in preparation for the apparent beheading. Suddenly, he gets up and walks down the scaffolding, presumably free from his physical body and existence. Some suggest that the names of Rodion, Rodrig Ivanovich, and Roman Vissarionovich are taken from that of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, protagonist of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel, \"Crime and Punishment\". Nabokov employs a wide range of symbols and", "title": "Invitation to a Beheading" }, { "id": "15215824", "text": "between the area's rich landowners and poor villagers. Karadağlar Karadağlar is a Turkish television drama loosely based on the novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It airs on Show TV every week on Monday evenings at 20:00 , and is repeated on Wednesdays at 23:00, as well as on Sundays at 16:45. \"Karadağlar\" is set in the 1930s, when Turkey was suffering the effects of the Great Depression, and it focuses on the generally strained relationships of the landowner, Halit Karadağ, with his sons, as well as the relationships between his sons. Set in the fictional village of Payidar,", "title": "Karadağlar" }, { "id": "12694114", "text": "Dostoevsky Museum The F. M. Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum (Государственный Литературно-мемориальный музей Ф. М. Достоевского), located on Kuznechny Lane 5/2 in Saint Petersburg, was opened on November 12, 1971 in the former apartment of the famous writer. Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived in the apartment twice during his life: first for a short period in 1846 in the beginnings of his career, and later from October 1878 until his death in January 1881. The apartment was his home during the composition of some of his most notable works, including \"\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\". The apartment has been reconstructed based on the", "title": "Dostoevsky Museum" }, { "id": "8693191", "text": "was satisfied by the punishments he had inflicted on himself, the inhibition on his work became less severe.” Dostoevsky and Parricide \"Dostoevsky and Parricide\" () is an introductory article contributed by Sigmund Freud to a scholarly collection on \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The collection was published in 1928. The article argues that it is no coincidence that some of the greatest works of world literature - including \"Oedipus Rex\", \"Hamlet\", as well as \"The Brothers Karamazov\" – all concern parricide, which in Dostoevsky's case Freud links to his epilepsy. Ernest Jones termed the piece “Freud's last contribution to", "title": "Dostoevsky and Parricide" }, { "id": "18811568", "text": "The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov () is a 1931 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and Fedor Ozep, starring Fritz Kortner and Anna Sten. It tells the story of a lieutenant who is suspected of having murdered his father. The film is based on motifs from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\". The film was produced by Terra Film. Filming took place from 22 October to 24 November 1930. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Victor Trivas. The British film critic Raymond Durgnat wrote in a 1993 article about Ozep", "title": "The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov" }, { "id": "7205636", "text": "Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (, ) are a couple who are best known for their collaborative translations. Most of their translations are of works in Russian, but also French, Italian, and Greek. Their translations have been nominated three times and twice won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Tolstoy's \"Anna Karenina\" and Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\"). Their translation of Dostoevsky's \"The Idiot\" also won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize. Richard Pevear was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on 21 April 1943. Pevear earned a B.A. degree from Allegheny College in 1964, and a M.A.", "title": "Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky" }, { "id": "50045", "text": "d'Or, is heavily influenced by the themes of the Book of Job, as the film starts with a quote from the beginning of God's speech to Job. A 2014 Malayalam film called \"Iyobinte Pusthakam\" tells the story of a man who is losing everything in his life and also has parallels with Dostoevsky's (\"The Brothers Karamazov\"). The Russian film \"Leviathan\" also draws themes from the Book of Job. The 2015 critically acclaimed novel, \"The Suffering of Innocents\", by Marc Zirogiannis is loosely based on the Book of Job and asks the question, \"Why Do the Righteous Suffer?\". In 2015 two", "title": "Book of Job" }, { "id": "153587", "text": "of which profoundly influenced \"The Trial\". Sigmund Freud called \"The Brothers Karamazov\" \"the most magnificent novel ever written\". Modern cultural movements such as the surrealists, the existentialists and the Beats cite Dostoevsky as an influence, and he is cited as the forerunner of Russian symbolism, existentialism, expressionism and psychoanalysis. In 1956 an olive-green postage stamp dedicated to Dostoevsky was released in the Soviet Union, with a print run of 1,000 copies. A Dostoevsky Museum was opened on 12 November 1971 in the apartment where he wrote his first and final novels. A crater on Mercury was named after him in", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "3005728", "text": "the attorney Fetyukovich (based on Vladimir Spasovich) is characterized by malapropisms (e.g. 'robbed' for 'stolen', and at one point declares possible suspects in the murder 'irresponsible' rather than innocent). Several plot digressions provide insight into other apparently minor characters. For example, the narrative in Book Six is almost entirely devoted to Zosima's biography, which contains a confession from a man whom he met many years before. Dostoevsky does not rely on a single source or a group of major characters to convey the themes of this book, but uses a variety of viewpoints, narratives and characters throughout. Although \"The Brothers", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "3005752", "text": "Wallace's novel \"Infinite Jest\". Joseph Stalin had read Dostoevsky since his youth and considered the author as a great psychologist. His copy of \"The Brothers Karamazov\" reveals extensive highlights and notes in the margins that he made while reading the work, which have been studied and analyzed by multiple researchers. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has described \"The Brothers Karamazov\" as one of his favorite books. According to Serbian state news agency Tanjug, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić described Fyodor Dostoevsky as his dearest novelist. He also said that \"\"The Brothers Karamazov\" may be the best work of", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "14684179", "text": "other. Together they decided to go into the studio to record. Their first release was an extended play, \"The Verse, the Chorus,\" produced by Eli Thomson in Los Angeles, California. At the time the band did not have a name, but during a discussion about the nameless project Eli Thompson suggested \"Ivan and Alyosha\" from the 'Brothers Karamazov'. The two original members were fans of the genre and the name stuck. Ivan & Alyosha performed in Texas at SXSW 2010. The band derives its name from two characters of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterwork The Brothers Karamazov. The two characters hold opposite", "title": "Ivan & Alyosha" }, { "id": "4645776", "text": "Theatre Guild. He briefly studied Stanislavski's system under the tutelage of Richard Boleslavsky (Carnickle 39), and became Jacques Copeau's translator/assistant on his production of \"The Brothers Karamazov\", based on the novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Clurman began work as an actor in New York. He felt that the standard American theater, though successful at the box office, was not providing the experience which he wanted. He said, \"I was interested in what the theater was going to say ... The theater must say something. It must relate to society. It must relate to the world we live in.\"", "title": "Harold Clurman" }, { "id": "866326", "text": "story that influence the hero's actions (there are others that even the author himself admits are purely digressive). A commonly independently anthologised story is \"The Grand Inquisitor\" by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\", which is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality. It also, in a succinct way, dramatizes many of Dostoevsky's interior conflicts. An example of a \"bonus material\" style inner story is the chapter \"The Town Ho's Story\" in Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\"; that chapter tells a fully formed story of an exciting mutiny and", "title": "Story within a story" }, { "id": "4423150", "text": "in competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Oliveira then made \"The Divine Comedy\" (\"A Divina Comédia\") in 1991. Set in a mental institution, the film is not an adaptation of Dante Alighieri's famous work but is derived from stories in the Bible, José Régio's play \"A Salvacao do Mundo\", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's \"Crime and Punishment\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\", and Friedrich Nietzsche's \"Antichrist\". Oliveira stated that all of the texts he uses \"deal in some way with the problem of sin and the possibility of redemption, and in this sense they all derive ultimately from the same source.\" The film", "title": "Manoel de Oliveira" }, { "id": "13706078", "text": "escapes. The anti-Catholic Gothic tradition continued with Charlotte Brontë's semi-autobiographical novel \"Villette\" (1853). Bronte explores the culture clash between the heroine's English Protestantism and the Catholicism of the environment at her school in 'Villette' (aka Brussels) before magisterially pronouncing \"God is not with Rome.\" In a chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" called \"The Grand Inquisitor\", the Catholic Church convicts a returned-from-Heaven Jesus Christ of heresy and is portrayed as a servant of Satan. Dan Brown's best-selling novel \"The Da Vinci Code\" depicts the Catholic Church as determined to hide the truth about Mary Magdalene. An article in an", "title": "Anti-Catholicism in literature and media" }, { "id": "1782236", "text": "Mephi) are seen as allusions to Satan and his rebellion against Heaven in the Bible (Ezekiel 28:11–19; Isaiah 14:12–15). The novel itself could be considered a criticism of organised religion given this interpretation. However, Zamyatin, influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's \"Notes from Underground\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\", made the novel a criticism of the excesses of a militantly atheistic society. The novel displayed an indebtedness to H. G. Wells's dystopia \"When the Sleeper Wakes\" (1899). The novel uses mathematical concepts symbolically. The spaceship that D-503 is supervising the construction of is called the \"Integral\", which he hopes will \"integrate the grandiose", "title": "We (novel)" }, { "id": "8693189", "text": "Dostoevsky and Parricide \"Dostoevsky and Parricide\" () is an introductory article contributed by Sigmund Freud to a scholarly collection on \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The collection was published in 1928. The article argues that it is no coincidence that some of the greatest works of world literature - including \"Oedipus Rex\", \"Hamlet\", as well as \"The Brothers Karamazov\" – all concern parricide, which in Dostoevsky's case Freud links to his epilepsy. Ernest Jones termed the piece “Freud's last contribution to the psychology of literature and his most brilliant”; Freud himself however called it “this trivial essay. It was", "title": "Dostoevsky and Parricide" }, { "id": "832670", "text": "heart failure on July 2, 1999 at his home on Manor Lane in West Bay Shore, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was an influence on Puzo, providing several quotations, particularly from \"The Brothers Karamazov\", in Puzo's books: \"The Dark Arena\", \"Fools Die\", \"The Fourth K\", and \"The Family\". The Corleone family in \"The Godfather\" closely resembles the Karamazov family in \"The Brothers Karamazov\" with a powerful father, an impulsive elder son, a philosophical son, a sweet-tempered son, and an adopted stepson who is maintained as an employee. All short stories, except \"The", "title": "Mario Puzo" }, { "id": "17432488", "text": "of the finest achievements in Russian prose.\" Sergey Andreyevsky died in 1918 in Petrograd, of pneumonia. As a literary critic Andreyevsky is credited with being the first to positively review Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His essay \"The Karamazov Brothers\" (1888) is regarded as one of the best of its kind. Andreyevsky did a lot to revive interest in early 19th-century Russian poetry, notably Yevgeny Baratynsky who he introduced to a general readership for the first time. Sergey Andreyevsky Sergey Arkadievich Andreyevsky (, December 29, 1847, – November 9, 1918) was a leading defense attorney of Imperial Russia. He was also known as", "title": "Sergey Andreyevsky" }, { "id": "10738966", "text": "part determined the author's success, as audience appetite created demand for further installments. In the German-speaking countries, the serialized novel was widely popularized by the weekly family magazine \"Die Gartenlaube\", which reached a circulation of 382,000 by 1875. In Russia, \"The Russian Messenger\" serialized Leo Tolstoy's \"Anna Karenina\" from 1873 to 1877 and Fyodor Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" from 1879 to 1880. In Poland, Bolesław Prus wrote several serialized novels: \"The Outpost\" (1885–86), \"The Doll\" (1887–89), \"The New Woman\" (1890–93), and his sole historical novel, \"Pharaoh\" (the latter, exceptionally, written entire over a year's time in 1894–95 and serialized only", "title": "Serial (literature)" }, { "id": "3005724", "text": "The similarly unfinished \"Sorokoviny\" (Сороковины), dated 1 August 1875, is reflected in book IX, chapter 3–5 and book XI, chapter nine. In the October 1877 \"A Writer's Diary\" article \"To the Reader\", Dostoevsky mentioned a \"literary work that has imperceptibly and involuntarily been taking shape within me over these two years of publishing the \"Diary\"\". His \"Diary\", a collection of numerous articles, had included similar themes \"The Brothers Karamazov\" would later borrow from. These include patricide, law and order and social problems. Although Dostoevsky was influenced by religion and philosophy, in his life and the writing of \"The Brothers Karamazov\",", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "153590", "text": "positive reception. Several critics, such as Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov, viewed his writing as excessively psychological and philosophical rather than artistic. Others found fault with chaotic and disorganised plots, and others, like Turgenev, objected to \"excessive psychologising\" and too-detailed naturalism. His style was deemed \"prolix, repetitious and lacking in polish, balance, restraint and good taste\". Saltykov-Shchedrin, Tolstoy, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky and others criticised his puppet-like characters, most prominently in \"The Idiot\", \"Demons\" (\"The Possessed\", \"The Devils\") and \"The Brothers Karamazov\". These characters were compared to those of Hoffmann, an author whom Dostoevsky admired. Basing his estimation on stated", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "4394209", "text": "all about.\" According to MGM records the film made $2,390,000 in the US and Canada and $3,050,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $441,000. The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film) The Brothers Karamazov is a 1958 film made by MGM, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\". It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. The brothers are played by Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart and William Shatner in his film debut. The story follows", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)" }, { "id": "498513", "text": "He chooses action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final. Here Camus explores the absurd creator or artist. Since explanation is impossible, absurd art is restricted to a description of the myriad experiences in the world. \"If the world were clear, art would not exist.\" Absurd creation, of course, also must refrain from judging and from alluding to even the slightest shadow of hope. He then analyzes the work of Dostoevsky in this light, especially \"The Diary of a Writer\", \"The Possessed\" and \"The Brothers Karamazov\". All these works start from the", "title": "The Myth of Sisyphus" }, { "id": "9906490", "text": "Zephaniah Phillips published \"The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God\" in 2004, presenting a challenge to the Irenaean theodicy. Phillips maintained throughout his work that humans are incapable of fully understanding God, and presented an understanding of the moral diversity of human existence. With reference to the suffering of the Holocaust, he rejected any theodicy which presents suffering as instrumental, arguing that such suffering cannot be justified, regardless of any good that comes of it. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky presented a similar argument in his novel, \"The Brothers Karamazov\". This is however not a final argument, given the", "title": "Irenaean theodicy" }, { "id": "153586", "text": "the insanity of gambling were there to know\". James Joyce praised Dostoevsky's prose: \"... he is the man more than any other who has created modern prose, and intensified it to its present-day pitch. It was his explosive power which shattered the Victorian novel with its simpering maidens and ordered commonplaces; books which were without imagination or violence.\" In her essay \"The Russian Point of View\", Virginia Woolf said, \"Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading\". Franz Kafka called Dostoevsky his \"blood-relative\" and was heavily influenced by his works, particularly \"The Brothers Karamazov\" and \"Crime and Punishment\", both", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "12502580", "text": "has been telling him have been about his own family. \"Yes, man is broad, too broad indeed. I'd have him narrower.\" - Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamazov: \"The Brothers Karamazov\", Fyodor Dostoevsky The Fern Tattoo The Fern Tattoo is a 2007 novel by the Australian author David Brooks. \"To my daughter Jessica\" Benedict's mother has recently died; after the funeral he receives a phone call from Mrs. Darling, a friend of his mother's. Benedict visits the old woman in the countryside where she tells him various tales that involve three generations of families. He spends the next several years visiting Mrs. Darling,", "title": "The Fern Tattoo" }, { "id": "4323652", "text": "Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, reached the stage. Dostoevsky published \"The Raw Youth\" (or \"The Adolescent\"). In 1876 Lewis Carroll published \"The Hunting of the Snark\". Mark Twain published \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\". In 1877 Leo Tolstoy published \"Anna Karenina\". In 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta \"HMS Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor\" was staged. In 1879 Octave Crémazie died. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta \"The Pirates of Penzance\", or, \"The Slave of Duty\" was staged. In 1880 Dostoevsky published \"The Brothers Karamazov\". Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun published \"Hunger\". In 1881 Dostoevsky died. Oscar Wilde published his first book", "title": "History of modern literature" }, { "id": "3005745", "text": "in some translations, is one of the local schoolboys, and the central figure of a crucial subplot in the novel. His father, Captain Snegiryov, is an impoverished officer who is insulted by Dmitri after Fyodor Karamazov hires him to threaten the latter over his debts, and the Snegiryov family is brought to shame as a result. The reader is led to believe that it is partly because of this that Ilyusha falls ill, possibly to illustrate the theme that even minor actions can touch heavily on the lives of others, and that we are \"all responsible for one another\". Book", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "1908636", "text": "an abridged version, \"The Dream of the Red Chamber\", by Florence and Isabel McHugh published in 1958, and a later French version. Bramwell Seaton Bonsall, completed a translation in the 1950s, \"Red Chamber Dream\", a typescript of which is available on the web. Critic Anthony West wrote in \"The New Yorker\" in 1958 that the novel is to the Chinese \"very much what \"The Brothers Karamazov\" is to Russian and \"Remembrance of Things Past\" is to French literature\" and \"it is beyond question one of the great novels of all literature.\" Kenneth Rexroth in a 1958 review of the McHugh", "title": "Dream of the Red Chamber" }, { "id": "5744625", "text": "happened, but in the context that Jesus is not divine. The temptation of Christ has been a frequent subject in the art and literature of Christian cultures. It is largely the subject of John Milton's four-book epic \"Paradise Regained\". Fyodor Dostoyevsky's \"The Grand Inquisitor\", part of the novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\", features an extended treatment of the temptation of Christ. Nathan Toulane's novel \"The Ring In The Glass\" encompasses the spot where The temptation of Christ occurred. French Artist Jean Giroud Moebius created an artbook called \"40 days dans le desert B\" depicting a similar theme. Andrew Lloyd Webber's \"Jesus", "title": "Temptation of Christ" }, { "id": "17432486", "text": "text book for Russian lawyers. Andreyevsky became interested in poetry in his thirties, starting with translations from French which he published, along with his own verse, in \"Severny Vestnik\". His first book (where among minor verses there were three long poems, \"The Dawn of Days\", \"Darkness\" and \"The Engaged Ones\") came out in 1885, to be re-issued in 1888 and 1891. In the late 1880s Andreyevsky abandoned poetry and became a literary critic; his essays and literary portraits were few and far between but gained much acclaim. His treatise \"The Karamazov Brothers\" (1888), later came to be regarded as the", "title": "Sergey Andreyevsky" }, { "id": "18799788", "text": "care what happens after his disappearance. Karl Marx wrote in \"Das Kapital\" (Vol. 1, Part III, Chapter Ten, Section 5) \"Après moi, le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.\" During the trial of Dimitri Fyodorovich Karamazov in Dostoyevsky’s \"The Brothers Karamazov\", the prosecution uses the phrase to describe the defendant’s reprobate father and to lament the deterioration of Russian values more generally. The phrase \"\"Après moi le déluge\" was adopted as the motto of the", "title": "Après nous le déluge" }, { "id": "13476038", "text": "economics at the University of Chicago, he was drawn to Slavic studies after discovering Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" in a required literature course and being (in his words) \"knocked for a loop\". He reports that he ran to a bookstore, picked up a copy of \"Crime and Punishment\", read it in two days, and resolved to learn the language of such a great body of literature. Weil received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1948 and his master's degree in Slavic studies in 1951. After three years of working on a Soviet census for the U.S. Library", "title": "Irwin Weil" }, { "id": "19276895", "text": "new translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier appeared in 2009 and was felt by many critics to be a more accurate representation of de Beauvoir's text. As some commentators have pointed out, however, when a translation has been enormously influential it can be hard to argue that it is somehow a failure. Many classic Russian novels have been translated a number of times; in recent years Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced well-received retranslations of works including Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" and The Idiot, and Leo Tolstoy's \"War and Peace\" and \"Anna Karenina\". Translations of Russian novels are", "title": "Retranslation" }, { "id": "5641872", "text": "segment was unrelated to the Super Six, and starred a bizarre, three-headed character known collectively as \"The Brothers Matzoriley\" a parody in name, of The Brothers Karamazov. They were \"Siamese triplets\" who were Three Stooges-style bumblers, always looking for a new job. Their names (Weft, Wight and Wong) were a play on \"left\", \"right\" and \"wrong\". Although occupying one body, each head had its own distinct personality, one head (Weft) being that of a tough guy or ruffian with a Brooklyn accent. another (Wight) being a wimpy coward with a very nervous delivery, and the middle head (Wong) being a", "title": "The Super 6" }, { "id": "3524690", "text": "in telemachry.” Orin then asks whether Hal meant telemetry. Christopher Bartlett has argued that Hal's mistake is a direct reference to Telemachus, who for the first four books of the \"Odyssey\" believes that his father is dead. Links to \"The Brothers Karamazov\" have been analyzed by Timothy Jacobs, who sees Orin representing the nihilistic Dmitri, Hal standing for Ivan and Mario the simple and good Alyosha. The film so entertaining that its viewers lose interest in anything else has been likened to the Monty Python sketch \"The Funniest Joke in the World\", as well as to \"the experience machine\", a", "title": "Infinite Jest" }, { "id": "14840090", "text": "The band places the theme of the album focuses on \"man and his place in the universe\". The band specified critiques of Christianity inspired by the questions of Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche and Richard Dawkins. At the base of the album are three songs with the titles \"\"The Grand Inquisitor I, II and III\"\". These songs have been inspired by the chapter of the same title in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov: a conversation between the brothers Ivan, an atheist, and Alyoscha, a monk. Ivan tells Alyoscha the story of a Second Coming of Christ in 16th century Sevilla. According to", "title": "Anthropocentric (album)" }, { "id": "19833941", "text": "of some kind. Motion pictures - Novelist, but I probably haven't the slightest talent. March 26) Gloomy drizzling rain last two days. ...Next Tuesday I leave for Fort Snelling for physical exam. Hope I don’t pass it for very justified reasons. But hardly dare hope. Reading \"Brothers Karamazov\" rather strange, almost unintelligible. But I gather some vague ideas from it. These characters seem to suffer so intensely from doubt, religious doubt and confusion. I believe I have a clearer philosophy of life. Thanks to J. Dewey, H. G. Wells, Shaw. Perhaps it is too simple. Maybe it won't stand any", "title": "Virgil John Tangborn" }, { "id": "18353896", "text": "in 2005 with the Golden George winning film \"Dreaming of Space\" by Alexei Uchitel. In 2005 she had roles in Ekaterina Shagalova's melodrama \"Pavlov's Dog\" and in Andrei Proshkin's comedy \"Soldier's Decameron\". Elena acted in the 2009 television series \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Yuri Moroz, based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In the film, Elena played the scandalous and vicious Grushenka. In 2012 she was awarded the Best Actress Golden Eagle and Nika for her role as the daughter of the main character in Andrey Zvyagintsev's \"Elena\". Two years later, she again received the Best", "title": "Elena Lyadova" }, { "id": "3005753", "text": "world literature\". The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is said to have read \"The Brothers Karamazov\" \"so often he knew whole passages of it by heart.” A copy of the novel was one of the few possessions Wittgenstein brought with him to the front during World War I. Martin Heidegger, the seminal figure of existentialism, identified Dostoevsky's thought as one of the most important sources for his early and best known book, \"Being and Time\". Of the two portraits Heidegger kept on the wall of his office, one was of Dostoevsky. In an essay on the novel written after the Russian Revolution", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "17908902", "text": "not nominated. Winter Sleep (film) Winter Sleep () is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the short story, \"The Wife\" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of \"The Brothers Karamazov\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbag and Melisa Sözen. Ceylan had long wished to adapt \"The Wife\", and shot it in Cappadocia. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or", "title": "Winter Sleep (film)" }, { "id": "8502362", "text": "can be seen in Leo Tolstoy's \"Resurrection\" and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\". In 1878, the revolutionary Vera Zasulich failed to assassinate St. Petersburg Governor-General Fyodor Trepov, who had ordered a political prisoner to be flogged. Even though it was obvious that Zasulich was guilty, the jury acquitted her completely. The verdict of the jury was based not on the law but on their feeling of injustice committed by Trepov, a case of jury nullification. Judicial chambers were courts of appeal for cases heard in district courts. They also had original jurisdiction in certain high crimes (usually if the offender", "title": "Judicial reform of Alexander II" }, { "id": "12321669", "text": "Sonia (name) Sonia is a feminine given name in many areas of the world including the West, Russia, Iran, and South Asia. Sonia and its variant spellings Sonja and Sonya are derived from the Russian hypocoristic \"Sonya\", an abbreviation of \"Sofiya\" (Greek \"Sophia\" \"Wisdom\") The name was popularised in the English-speaking world by characters in the novels \"Crime and Punishment\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866, English translation 1885) and \"War and Peace\" Leo Tolstoy (1869, English translation 1886), and later by a 1917 bestselling novel, \"Sonia: Between Two Worlds\", by Stephen McKenna Sonya and its variations are occasionally found as surnames", "title": "Sonia (name)" }, { "id": "2179163", "text": "Gogol is seen as an influence, as is the case in other of Bulgakov's novels. The dialogue between Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Notsri is strongly influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's parable \"The Grand Inquisitor\" from \"The Brothers Karamazov\". The \"luckless visitors chapter\" refers to Tolstoy's \"Anna Karenina\": \"everything became jumbled in the Oblonsky household\". The theme of the Devil exposing society as an apartment block, as it could be seen if the entire façade would be removed, has some precedents in \"El diablo cojuelo\" (1641, \"The Lame Devil\" or \"The Crippled Devil\") by the Spaniard Luís Vélez de Guevara. (This was", "title": "The Master and Margarita" }, { "id": "20768825", "text": "Candle Ball\" based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov \"The Master and Margarita\", staged by his son, Vladimir Prudkin. In 1969, \"The Brothers Karamazov\" was released, with Mark Prudkin in the role of Fyodor Karamazov – the same one that he played on stage. Apart from a tiny episode in the silent film by Yakov Protazanov \"Man from the Restaurant\", it was his first role in the cinema at the age of 71. He played small but memorable roles in the films \"The Twelve Chairs\", \"The Blonde Around the Corner\" in the television movie \"Uncle's Dream\" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and", "title": "Mark Prudkin" }, { "id": "153595", "text": "and \"Diary of a Writer\". His philosophy, particularly in \"Demons\", was deemed anti-capitalist but also anti-Communist and reactionary. The idea that Dostoevsky's writings were strictly censored under Soviet leadership is a myth: the writer was very popular and well received in the Soviet Union, his books selling over 34.4 million copies from 1917 to 1981, around 540 thousand copies per year. According to historian Boris Ilizarov, Stalin read Dostoevsky's \"The Brothers Karamazov\" several times. Dostoevsky's works of fiction include 15 novels and novellas, 17 short stories, and 5 translations. Many of his longer novels were first published in serialised form", "title": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, { "id": "1709046", "text": "The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers ( ) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Situated between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, \"the three inseparables,\" as these are called – and gets involved in affairs of the state and", "title": "The Three Musketeers" }, { "id": "3005737", "text": "as his \"cherub\". Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov (a.k.a. Vanya, Vanka, Vanechka) is the 24-year-old middle son and first from Fyodor's second marriage to Sofia Ivanovna. He is disturbed especially by the apparently senseless suffering in the world. He says to Alyosha in the chapter \"Rebellion\" (Bk. 5, Ch. 4), \"It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.\" From an early age, Ivan is sullen and isolated. His father tells Alyosha that he fears Ivan more than Dmitri. Some of the most memorable and acclaimed passages of the novel involve Ivan, including the chapter", "title": "The Brothers Karamazov" }, { "id": "9470364", "text": "was heavily influenced by \"The Grand Inquisitor\"—a chapter in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel \"The Brothers Karamazov\"—on the suggestion of Duchovny. The title of the episode is Aramaic for \"arise maiden,\" a reference to the healing power of Jeremiah Smith. At a fast food restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, a man draws a gun and shoots three people before he is shot by police snipers outside. An older man revives the gunman and his victims by touching them with the palms of his hands. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) arrive to investigate. They interview the victims and gunman, finding", "title": "Talitha Cumi (The X-Files)" } ]

[ "Lhasa", "Lhasa, Tibet", "拉萨", "Administrative divisions of Lhasa", "Lahasa", "Lhosa", "拉萨市", "拉薩", "Capital of Tibet", "Lasa, Xizang", "Lhasa, Xizang", "拉薩市", "Chengguan District, Lhasa", "Lhassa", "Dharkay Restaurant", "Lāsà" ]

[ { "id": "1758190", "text": "40 million people each month. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. The June 1985 cover portrait of the presumed to be 12-year-old Afghan girl Sharbat Gula, shot by photographer Steve McCurry, became one of the magazine's most recognizable images. \"National Geographic Kids\", the children's version of the magazine, was launched in 1975 under the name \"National Geographic World\". From the 1970s through about 2010 the magazine was", "title": "National Geographic" }, { "id": "12258653", "text": "spent 888 days from 1900 to 1901. There, he secretly made around 200 pictures. These, together with pictures made independently on the same pilgrimage by another, less documented Russian explorer, Kalmyk (Tsybikov arriving in Lhasa in August, 1900, and Norzunov in the end of the year), were later to become the so-called Hallmark for National Geographic. The history of the magazine as it is known today, delivering pictures first, started with January 1905 edition of several full-page reprints of Tsybikov and Norzunov's pictures. Originally done because of the lack of texts, this publication gained the magazine wide success and popularity.", "title": "Gombojab Tsybikov" }, { "id": "16405241", "text": "in 1911. He was also the official photographer for the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland the following year. With the rise of the Photo-Secession in New York in the 1900s, Rau, like many commercial photographers, gradually fell into obscurity. He died at his home in Philadelphia on November 19, 1920. Rau's photographs span a wide range of topics in places around the world. Cities photographed by Rau include New York City, Paris, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Naples, Nablus, St. Pierre, Martinique, Butte, Montana, and his native Philadelphia. Individuals who posed for", "title": "William H. Rau" }, { "id": "163469", "text": "during the Yongle era, J.J.L. Duyvendak exclaims, \"Can it possibly have been a Pandah?\" The comparative obscurity of the giant panda throughout most of China's history is illustrated by the fact that, despite there being a number of depictions of bears in Chinese art starting from its most ancient times, and the bamboo being one of the favorite subjects for Chinese painters, there are no known pre-20th-century artistic representations of giant pandas. The West first learned of the giant panda on 11 March 1869, when the French missionary Armand David received a skin from a hunter. The first Westerner known", "title": "Giant panda" }, { "id": "10627923", "text": "Carnegie offered the king a plaster copy, which was installed May 12, 1905 in London (see Dippy (London)). (The original bones, however, were not prepared and erected at the Carnegie in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until 1907.) Kaiser Wilhelm II and other European royalty followed suit and asked for \"Diplodocus carnegii\" copies for their national museums. During the next 25 years replicas were installed in Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; Vienna, Austria; Bologna, Italy; St. Petersburg, Russia; La Plata, Argentina; Madrid, Spain; and Mexico City, Mexico, making Dippy the first dinosaur specimen to be duplicated so frequently and internationally for viewing by the", "title": "Bone Wars (book)" }, { "id": "20996480", "text": "to 1905, when a young man found the image floating near the riverbank of \"Barrio\" Guibang in the town of Gamu in the province of Isabela. The young man brought the image to the hut of a poor couple, \"Francisco Noble\" and \"Maria Noble\". The couple, at first, were hesitant to receive the image because the cannot afford to give alms. Nevertheless, they were persuaded to welcome the image into their humble home. They were asked to pray the Holy Rosary and offer works of mercy in honor of the image. On the night of the visit, they were amazed", "title": "Our Lady of the Visitation of Guibang" }, { "id": "11458446", "text": "meters beneath the Caucasus Mountains in the breakaway Russian republic of Abkhazia. He photographed subterranean Rome in 2005 for National Geographic. In 2006 National Geographic assigned Alvarez the story Raging Danger, which documents the river caves of Papua New Guinea. This story won a Communication Arts award in Editorial Series. Traveling across the Pacific in 2007, Alvarez photographed Peopling the Pacific, a story about the earliest voyagers of the Pacific Islands. His adventure included sailing on the traditional Hawaiian vessel, the Hokule'a. The story was published in National Geographic Magazine in March 2008. In June 2009 Deep South, Alvarez's photographs", "title": "Stephen Alvarez" }, { "id": "9649375", "text": "indeed, have an impact. No. 17 Seoul — Finally making the move in Asia, not No. 1, but a respectable No. 3 regionally. No. 21 Washington, DC — A move into respectability!? No. 28 Melbourne and No. 34 Sydney — Trading Places No. 44 Portland, OR — A very nice debut. No. 47 Kuala Lumpur — Another solid debut. No. 46 Boston, No. 48 Miami, No.53 Chicago, No. 54 Houston, and No. 59 Toronto — All down by twenty spots, or more. No. 63 Caracas — On Hiatus due to Insurrection. Fashion capital A fashion capital is a city which", "title": "Fashion capital" }, { "id": "330709", "text": "the Bibbulmun. On 19 September 2006, the Federal Court of Australia brought down a judgment recognising Noongar native title over the Perth metropolitan area in the case of \"Bennell v State of Western Australia\" [2006] FCA 1243. The judgment was overturned on appeal. The first documented sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697. Subsequent sightings between this date and 1829 were made by other Europeans, but as in the case of the sighting and observations made by Vlamingh, the area was considered to be inhospitable and unsuitable", "title": "Perth" }, { "id": "9456060", "text": "evidence that billions of dollars Do, indeed, have an impact. No. 17 Seoul — Finally making the move in Asia, not No. 1, but a respectable No. 3 regionally. No. 21 Washington, DC — A move into respectability!? No. 28 Melbourne and No. 34 Sydney — Trading Places No. 44 Portland, OR — A very nice debut. No. 47 Kuala Lumpur — Another solid debut. No. 46 Boston, No. 48 Miami, No.53 Chicago, No. 54 Houston, and No. 59 Toronto — All down by twenty spots, or more. No. 63 Caracas — On Hiatus due to Insurrection. Methodology: For this", "title": "Global Language Monitor" }, { "id": "15226566", "text": "of the Panama Canal. Davidson believed an expo would help improve commerce (it would advertise that San Diego was the first U.S. port of call vessels encountered after passing through the canal and sailing north), build the city's population, and expand the infrastructure of the park. He later explained the significance of holding the expo in San Diego: After a 1910 contest to rename City Park, the park was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to cross Central America and see the Pacific Ocean. San Diego would be the smallest city to ever hold a World's Fair;", "title": "Balboa Park (San Diego)" }, { "id": "446596", "text": "Venice, Los Angeles Venice is a residential, commercial, and recreational beachfront neighborhood within Los Angeles, California. It is located within the urban region of western Los Angeles County known as the Westside. Venice was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it merged with Los Angeles. Today, Venice is known for its canals, beaches, and the circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a pedestrian promenade that features performers, mystics, artists and vendors. In the later half of the 2010s, the neighborhood has faced severe gentrification raising real-estate prices and thereby pushing out long-term", "title": "Venice, Los Angeles" }, { "id": "2585962", "text": "by Graphic Art Service, based in Marietta, Georgia. McCurry did not record the name of the person he had photographed. The picture, titled \"Afghan Girl\", appeared on the June 1985 cover of \"National Geographic\". The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her eyes staring directly into the camera was named \"the most recognized photograph\" in the history of the magazine, and the cover itself is one of the most famous of the \"National Geographic\". \"American Photo\" magazine says the image has an \"unusual combination of grittiness and glamour\". Her green eyes are", "title": "Afghan Girl" }, { "id": "11018838", "text": "Pedro Alonso Pablos made an animated mini-series featuring some of the Tales of the Alhambra: \"The Arab Astrologer\", \"The three beautiful princesses\" and \"The rose of the Alhambra\". Tales of the Alhambra Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as \"a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen.\" Irving was preparing a", "title": "Tales of the Alhambra" }, { "id": "1495525", "text": "Australia, Canada and Japan and the top-ten of the other countries. The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 10, 1985, for shipping a million copies across United States – the requirement for a gold single prior to 1989. The music video portrayed Madonna sailing down the riverways of Venice in a gondola, as well as roaming around a palace wearing a white wedding dress. With the video, scholars noted Madonna's portrayal of a sexually independent woman, the symbolism of the appearance of a man with lion's mask to that of Saint Mark,", "title": "Like a Virgin (album)" }, { "id": "16571870", "text": "to any one actual settlement, much less one representing a city of the Pre-Columbian era. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés reported hearing \"trustworthy\" information on a region with \"towns and villages\" of extreme wealth in Honduras, but never located them. In 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh reported seeing a \"white city\" while flying over eastern Honduras. The first known mention by an academic of the ruins under the name Ciudad Blanca (White City) was by Eduard Conzemius, an ethnographer from Luxembourg in 1927. In his report on the Pech people of Honduras to the Society of Americanists, he said the ruins had", "title": "La Ciudad Blanca" }, { "id": "446637", "text": "locations in Venice, including the beach, pleasure piers, canals and colonnades, boardwalk, schools, and restaurants. Some locations include the following: Venice, Los Angeles Venice is a residential, commercial, and recreational beachfront neighborhood within Los Angeles, California. It is located within the urban region of western Los Angeles County known as the Westside. Venice was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it merged with Los Angeles. Today, Venice is known for its canals, beaches, and the circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a pedestrian promenade that features performers, mystics, artists and vendors. In", "title": "Venice, Los Angeles" }, { "id": "1758198", "text": "Issues of \"National Geographic\" are often kept by subscribers for years and re-sold at thrift stores as collectibles. The standard for photography has remained high over the subsequent decades and the magazine is still illustrated with some of the highest-quality photojournalism in the world. In 2006, \"National Geographic\" began an international photography competition , called the with over eighteen countries participating. In conservative Muslim countries like Iran and Malaysia, photographs featuring topless or scantily clad members of primitive tribal societies are often blacked out; buyers and subscribers often complain that this practice decreases the artistic value of the photographs for", "title": "National Geographic" }, { "id": "7858862", "text": "were from outside the Pacific Northwest, a huge number of visitors for a city of approximately 120,000 residents. It did much to demonstrate the national status of the United States as having become not just an Atlantic but a Pacific nation and a gateway to Asia. Portland in the process became a city of world note in 1905. The Exposition that Henry W. Corbett had done much to bring to life opened two years after his death. \"The Oregonian\", June 3, 1905 wrote on the opening: This is a time when it should be said that the Lewis and Clark", "title": "Henry W. Corbett" }, { "id": "12789033", "text": "workshops and lectures throughout the world. He is also a frequent lecturer and conducts workshops around the world. Ira Block Ira Block (born 1949) is an American photographer. Since the mid-1970s, he has shot many stories for the \"National Geographic Magazine\", \"National Geographic Traveler\", and also National Geographic Adventure. He has photographed diverse locations in Africa, the Australian outback, the Gobi Desert, Siberia, and the North Pole where he spent three months with the late Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura. Block's archive includes rare archaeological relics from ancient sites in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, as well as some of", "title": "Ira Block" }, { "id": "7453126", "text": "peoples and places. He travelled extensively throughout the mainland territories of Malaya and the island of Sumatra, exploring the villages and photographing the native peoples and their activities. After visiting Ceylon and India from October to November 1864 to document the destruction caused by a recent cyclone, Thomson sold his Singapore studio and moved to Siam. After arrival in Bangkok in September 1865, Thomson undertook a series of photographs of the King of Siam and other senior members of the royal court and government. Inspired by Henri Mouhot's account of the rediscovery of the ancient cities of Angkor in the", "title": "John Thomson (photographer)" }, { "id": "5465043", "text": "a place to centralize his power in the newly conquered region of Wollo, he stayed overnight in a pre-existing town that is now contained within Dessie. While there, he spotted a comet. He was so impressed by the sight of it that he interpreted it to be a sign from heaven to found his capital city there. Thus, he named it Dessie (Amharic \"My Joy\"), as a reference to the elation that the comet had made him feel. Dessie's location led to the telegraph line the Italians constructed between 1902 and 1904 from Asmara south to Addis Ababa passing through", "title": "Dessie" }, { "id": "20942030", "text": "(1826-1900) acquired a specimen that hunters in Sichuan captured alive, which was killed and shipped to Paris for study. He coined the giant panda's original binomial name \"Ursus melanoleucus\" (from Latin \"black and white bear\") and the corresponding French name \"ours blanc et noir\" (David 1869 5: 13). The first Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916. Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., became the first foreigners to shoot a panda, on a 1929 expedition funded by the Field Museum of Natural History. In 1936, Ruth Harkness", "title": "Mo (Chinese zoology)" }, { "id": "2085222", "text": "12 May 1905, the exhibit was unveiled to great public and media interest. The real fossil had yet to be mounted, as the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh was still being constructed to house it. As word of Dippy spread, Mr Carnegie paid to have additional copies made for display in most major European capitals and in Latin and South America, making Dippy the most-viewed dinosaur skeleton in the world. The dinosaur quickly became an iconic representation of the museum, and has featured in many cartoons and other media, including the 1975 Disney comedy \"One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing\". After", "title": "Natural History Museum, London" }, { "id": "12412031", "text": "the potato. The Industrial Revolution made Europe rich, but at great cost to its natural resources. The birth of tourism encouraged a new appreciation of nature, and modern Europeans have switched their attitude from consumption to custodianship. As a result, wildlife is returning. Europe is home to more than 700 million people, most of them city dwellers. Much of its wildlife has suffered as a result, but efforts are underway to protect and reintroduce some species. Others have exploited new opportunities offered by man-made environments. In Rome, the first metropolis on the continent, winter tourists watch swirling clouds of starlings", "title": "Europe: A Natural History" }, { "id": "18486575", "text": "back accounts of his travels and poems, his tour of the 'old world' included Paris, Monte Carlo, Nice, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Nuremberg, Switzerland, Italy (Palermo, Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples, Capri), Spain (Barcelona, Zaragoza, Madrid, Toledo, Corboda, Seville (\"The Spanish Paris\"), Cadiz). He also travelled to Morocco (Tangier), Gibraltar, Algeciras, Granada, Tunisia and Algeria. He was back in London in the summer of 1905 where he regularly \"mined\" the British Museum. He joined the New Bohemian Club at The Prince's Head in the Strand, and drank what he thought was rather tepid English ale with literary figures such as Stephen Phillips,", "title": "Herman George Scheffauer" }, { "id": "708716", "text": "together in a room at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. The paintings expressed emotion with wild, often dissonant colours, without regard for the subject's natural colours. Matisse showed \"Open Window\" and \"Woman with the Hat\" at the Salon. Critic Louis Vauxcelles commented on a lone sculpture surround by an \"orgie of pure tones\" as \"Donatello chez les fauves\" (Donatello among the wild beasts), referring to a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them. His comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in \"Gil Blas\", a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage. The exhibition garnered harsh criticism—\"A pot of", "title": "Henri Matisse" }, { "id": "5865549", "text": "Lost City of Atlantis (\"Not much different from a trailer park, really\"), traveled out West (\"When they call a guy a cowpoke they really mean it\"), and survived an overturned cruise ship (\"Trust me, it's not the first time I've seen that many sailors with their legs in the air\"). Weekly World News Issue: June 6, 2005 Tagline: \"I not only cleaned up the West, I redecorated it\" and \"I was disappointed to learn that the correct bronco-busting phrase is 'ride 'em cowboy!' and not the suggestion 'ride them cowboys'\". Following his undercover work for the FBI, Andrews took on", "title": "Miss Adventure" }, { "id": "7879412", "text": "of monarchs who were obsessed with themselves. The half-century delayed Renaissance starts from the Italian peninsula, and there are many nobles who collect rare treasures and artifacts. Venice is a small city-state floating on the sea. It is called the \"City of Water\". Venice's maritime industry had long been prosperous, and Venice had long held a monopoly on the profits of the Mediterranean trade on pepper from Alexandria. However, recently the Ottoman Empire appeared in the East and Portugal discovered a sea route to the Indies. The story line is intertwined with the French story line, and they have many", "title": "Uncharted Waters Online" }, { "id": "12422556", "text": "Andre Laguerre asked fashion reporter Jule Campbell to help find a model for the issue. She found Berlin-born fashion model Babette March and featured her on the cover, wearing a white bikini, wading in the surf on Cozumel, Mexico. The issue was the first Swimsuit Issue. The \"Swimsuit Issue\" became an annual publication of the magazine, featuring fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. Inclusion is considered a stick by which supermodels are measured. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried $35 million in advertising. New issues come out around the middle of February or", "title": "Bikini in popular culture" }, { "id": "2928172", "text": "attracted a large number of tourists by the 1890s. New York's population grew from 300,000 in 1840 to 800,000 in 1850. Chicago experienced a dramatic increase from 4,000 residents in 1840 to 300,000 by 1870. Dictionaries first published the word 'tourist' sometime in 1800, when it referred to those going to Europe or making a round trip of natural wonders in New York and New England. The absence of urban tourism during the nineteenth century was in part because American cities lacked the architecture and art which attracted thousands to Europe. American cities tended to offend the sensitive with ugliness", "title": "Tourism in the United States" }, { "id": "292454", "text": "Disney Company announced it will buy the majority of 21st Century Fox. Disney would assume the controlling interest in the National Geographic partnership. There were 33 original founders in 1888. Although Alexander Graham Bell is sometimes discussed as a founder, he was actually the second president, elected on January 7, 1898, and serving until 1903. \"The National Geographic Magazine\", later shortened to \"National Geographic\", published its first issue in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded, as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax-exempt National Geographic Society. Starting with the February 1910 (Vol XXI, No.", "title": "National Geographic Society" }, { "id": "6891126", "text": "took a garden gnome, dubbed \"Gnome Severson\" in news, from a property in Redmond, Washington, U.S. and brought it on a roadtrip to California and Nevada. Gnome Severson became a national news story after the group ran into socialite Paris Hilton at a gas station, who posed for a picture with the gnome that was printed in \"People\" magazine. At the end of the week-long trip, the friends anonymously returned the gnome to its owner's front porch with a photo album titled \"Gnome’s Spring Break 2005\", which included the issue of \"People\" and other pictures of the gnome around Hollywood,", "title": "Travelling gnome" }, { "id": "848655", "text": "were lost in a shipwreck near Australia. Upon encountering the Salish coastal tribes, either Pérouse or someone in his crew remarked, \"What must astonish most is to see painting everywhere, everywhere sculpture, among a nation of hunters\". Maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley also visited the area in \"Imperial Eagle\", a British ship falsely flying the flag of the Austrian Empire. American merchant sea-captain Robert Gray traded along the coast, and discovered the mouth of the Columbia River. Initial formal claims to the region were asserted by Spain in 1513 with explorer Nuñez de Balboa, the first European to sight", "title": "Pacific Northwest" }, { "id": "341511", "text": "Russian bear is an animal symbol and a national personification of Russia, though this image has a Western origin and Russians themselves have accepted it only fairly recently. The native Russian national personification is Mother Russia. Tourism in Russia has seen rapid growth since the late Soviet period, first domestic tourism and then international tourism, fueled by the rich cultural heritage and great natural variety of the country. Major tourist routes in Russia include a journey around the Golden Ring of ancient cities, cruises on the big rivers like the Volga, and long journeys on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. In", "title": "Russia" }, { "id": "2928171", "text": "been completed by 1840, by 1860 all major eastern US cities were linked by rail, and by 1869 the first trans-American railroad link was completed. Yosemite Park was developed as a tourist attraction in the late 1850s and early 1860s for an audience who wanted a national icon and place to symbolize exotic wonder of its region. Photography played an important role for the first time in the development of tourist attractions, making it possible to distribute hundreds of images showing various places of interest. New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, all major US cities,", "title": "Tourism in the United States" }, { "id": "15664685", "text": "clients ranging from high-end hotel groups such as W Hotels and Shangri-La, to National Parks, to airlines and marketing companies, his work has a presence in many countries around the world in both advertising and collectible fine art prints. His signature iconic landscapes and cityscapes have been published by National Geographic as well as the international press and used by tourism boards around the globe, while he continues to sell limited edition prints to collectors worldwide. In 2016, his latest venture – a collaboration with Minor Hotel Group – resulted in his opening of the \"world’s most exclusive photo gallery\",", "title": "Paul Reiffer" }, { "id": "98339", "text": "expedition in 1900, including a Belgian national who caused the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives. Estimates of the total death toll vary considerably. The first census was only done in 1924, so it is even more difficult to quantify the population loss of the period. Roger Casement's famous 1904 report estimated ten million people. According to Casement's report, indiscriminate \"war\", starvation, reduction of births and tropical diseases caused the country's depopulation. European and U.S. press agencies exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public in 1900. By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure had led Leopold", "title": "History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo" }, { "id": "13965074", "text": "profits in its history. However, this partial recovery did not last long and soon profits were falling once more. Leopold was embarrassed by complaints made by the British government about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State and dispatched a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the entirety of the Congo. This commission visited the Abir concession from 1 December 1904 to 5 January 1905 and, despite Abir's attempts to keep witnesses away, heard evidence of violence committed by Abir. This included the desolation of villages, murder, rape, hostage taking and excessive flogging. Abir was the only commercial body mentioned", "title": "Abir Congo Company" }, { "id": "12812397", "text": "person was put ashore at Kamchatka and made his way across land back to Petersburg. What hasn't been said about him . . . .\" Tolstoy's voyage concluded with his arrival in Petersburg at the beginning of August 1805. Thanks to his adventures, which gave rise to much gossip in high society, the count acquired an almost legendary celebrity, as well as the lifelong nickname \"the American\", referring his stay in Russian America. Immediately upon Tolstoy's arrival in Petersburg, he was greeted with new problems: he was arrested at the city gates and sent to the guardhouse. Moreover, a special", "title": "Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy" }, { "id": "5363397", "text": "intersected there, the area of Las Vegas was quickly growing. On May 15, 1905, Las Vegas officially was founded as a city, when , in what would later become downtown, were auctioned to ready buyers. Las Vegas was the driving force in the creation of Clark County, Nevada in 1909 and the city was incorporated in 1911 as a part of the county. The first mayor of Las Vegas was Peter Buol who served from 1911-1913. Shortly after the city's incorporation, the State of Nevada reluctantly became the last western state to outlaw gaming. This occurred at midnight, October 1,", "title": "History of Las Vegas" }, { "id": "1758187", "text": "National Geographic National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about science, geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its thick square-bound glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its extensive use of dramatic photographs. Controlling interest in the magazine has been held by 21st Century Fox since 2015. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are", "title": "National Geographic" }, { "id": "5376304", "text": "London, , 1995 Location: Orlando, , 1997 Location: , Dates: August 5–6 1999 Location: Toronto, , Dates: August 10–11 2001 Location: Vancouver, , Dates: August 1–2 2003 Location: Tampa, , Dates: July 15–16 2005 Location: Budapest, Dates: July 11–14 2007 Location: San Diego, , Dates: August 5–10 2009 Location: Mexico City, Dates: July 9–16 2011 Location: San Francisco, , Dates: July 23–28 2013 Location: St. Petersburg, Dates: July 28–31 2015 Cancelled (Original Location: Stockholm, ) Note: These are all from the official page of the National Geographic World Championship. National Geographic World Championship The National Geographic World Championship (previously called", "title": "National Geographic World Championship" }, { "id": "19735295", "text": "as they once were. Moving from the kombonis to the nicer areas of the towns (known as kuma yards) often entailed a change of lifestyle, such as avoiding cooking fish in the house because the fish makes the house smell like the komboni. The culture of kombonis is often seen as different or more traditional than life outside the kombonis, with more traditional gender roles. Lusaka has been considered a poorly planned city, which grew slowly and in ways its planners failed to anticipate. It was founded in 1905 as a railway station named for a local leader, and did", "title": "Komboni" }, { "id": "1587584", "text": "building of the railway in 1905, though, the falls were seldom visited by other Europeans. Some writers believe that the Portuguese priest Gonçalo da Silveira was the first European to catch sight of the falls back in the sixteenth century. European settlement of the Victoria Falls area started around 1900 in response to the desire of Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company for mineral rights and imperial rule north of the Zambezi, and the exploitation of other natural resources such as timber forests north-east of the falls, and ivory and animal skins. Before 1905, the river was crossed above the", "title": "Victoria Falls" }, { "id": "684212", "text": "is a botanical garden and arboretum located near the Norfolk International Airport. It is open year-round. The Virginia Zoological Park, opened in 1900, is a zoo with hundreds of animals on display, including the critically endangered Siberian tiger and threatened white rhino. The city is also known for its \",\" a public art program launched in 2002 to place mermaid statues all over the city. Tourists can take a walking tour of downtown and locate 17 mermaids while others can be found further afield. Norfolk is an independent city with services that both counties and cities in Virginia provide, such", "title": "Norfolk, Virginia" }, { "id": "134781", "text": "the second-largest part of the economy. The war brought the islands newfound fame, and tourists came both to see the islands' wildlife and go on war tours. Cruise ships often visit, frequently as a tie-in to Antarctica. Nonetheless, the remoteness of the archipelago, and the lack of direct flights to major cities, have made the islands an expensive holiday destination, and as a result mass tourism has not really begun. In line with the increasing global interest in environmental issues, some nature reserves have been set up around the islands, although there are no national parks. In the 1990s, two", "title": "History of the Falkland Islands" }, { "id": "4334073", "text": "exonyms \"Dunaj\" (Vienna) and \"Benetke\" (Venice), and the borrowed exonyms \"Kijev\" (Kiev) and \"Vilna\" (Vilnius), from Russian. A substantial proportion of English exonyms for places in continental Europe are borrowed (or adapted) from French; for example: Navarre (\"Navarra/Nafarroa\"), Belgrade (\"Beograd\"), Cologne (\"Köln\"), Munich (\"München\"), Prague (\"Praha\"), Rome (\"Roma\"), Naples (\"Napoli\"), and Florence (\"Firenze\"). According to James A. Matisoff, who introduced the term \"autonym\" into linguistics, \"Human nature being what it is, exonyms are liable to be pejorative rather than complimentary, especially where there is a real or fancied difference in cultural level between the ingroup and the outgroup.\" For example,", "title": "Exonym and endonym" }, { "id": "920055", "text": "derive from the northwest, as winds are driven downward along the axis of the California Central Valley; in December, January and February there is an increased presence of southeastern wind directions in the wind rose statistics. Fresno meteorology was selected in a national U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study for analysis of equilibrium temperature for use of ten-year meteorological data to represent a warm, dry western United States locale. The official record high temperature for Fresno is , set on July 8, 1905, while the official record low is , set on January 6, 1913. The average windows for temperatures to", "title": "Fresno, California" }, { "id": "274693", "text": "oysters, and sailcloth. For the year of 1911–12, Manama was visited by 52 steamships, the majority being British and the rest Turkish-Arabian. The role of Manama as a regional port city in the Persian Gulf made it a hub for migrant workers in search of a better living. As a result, Manama has often been described, both in the pre-oil and post-oil era, as a cosmopolitan city. In 1904, it was estimated that Manama's population numbered 25,000, out of which half were believed to have been foreigners from Basra, Najd, Al Hasa and Iran, as well as from India and", "title": "Manama" }, { "id": "1794324", "text": "the Irish Canals and Rivers on a trip from Dublin to Limerick (Dara's Greyhound Snip Nua also tagged along for the trip), went to Scotland, and sailed along the Balkan coast ending up in Venice for a gondola race. His documentary series \"Mountain\", for which he climbed 15 British peaks during 2006, was broadcast on BBC One 29 July–26 August 2007. Rhys Jones fronted \"Greatest Cities of the World\", which saw him visiting a different city each week. The first series, featuring London, New York and Paris, aired on primetime ITV in October 2008. A second series featuring Rome, Sydney", "title": "Griff Rhys Jones" }, { "id": "9286058", "text": "who participated in the 1925 serum run to Nome. Barks had read an article about Balto in an issue of \"National Geographic\", and was inspired to create this character. The story starts with a photographer from \"Jolt\" magazine, wanting to do a picture story on Scrooge. Donald is partly to blame after he tries to convince Scrooge that if he does it, he will be paid fifty thousand dollars. Scrooge refuses, saying that if more people knew that he was the Richest Duck in the World, \"every chisler from Cape Town to Nome would be waylaying me!\" It is not", "title": "North of the Yukon" }, { "id": "1359762", "text": "He was highly critical of European imperialists, notably Cecil Rhodes, who greatly expanded the British Empire, and Leopold II, King of the Belgians. \"King Leopold's Soliloquy\" is a stinging political satire about his private colony, the Congo Free State. Reports of outrageous exploitation and grotesque abuses led to widespread international protest in the early 1900s, arguably the first large-scale human rights movement. In the soliloquy, the King argues that bringing Christianity to the country outweighs a little starvation. Leopold's rubber gatherers were tortured, maimed and slaughtered until the movement forced Brussels to call a halt. During the Philippine–American War, Twain", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "id": "17025236", "text": "and the \"Tribune\", as well as the Fair's publicity department. In addition to photographing the various exhibits at the Fair, Beals also captured a candid photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt. This initial encounter earned her a special pass to photograph Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at their reunion in San Antonio, Texas in 1905. In 1905 Beals opened her own studio on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Beals continued to take on a variety of photograph assignments, ranging from shots of auto races and portraits of society figures, to her well-known photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village and the New", "title": "Jessie Tarbox Beals" }, { "id": "16571889", "text": "in Costa Rica. While some believe earliest mention of the \"White City\" appears to have been made by pilot Charles Lindbergh, who is said to have reported ruins he saw while flying over Honduras in 1927. However, author Jason Colavito notes, \"So far as I know, Lindbergh’s 1927 claim is where many believe the name Ciudad Blanca comes from, but even this isn’t certain since this legend saw print only in the 1950s, some three decades after the fact.\" Lindbergh is said to have described it as \"an amazing ancient metropolis.\" However, according to Colavito, \"The oft-quoted phrase 'an amazing", "title": "La Ciudad Blanca" }, { "id": "20476183", "text": "was wholeheartedly embraced and became championed as the \"American Adam of landscape painting.” Cole is considered to be one of the pioneers of American environmentalism, for his concern for the impending destruction by “Copper-hearted barbarians … pushing a railroad up through his valley to exploit its natural resources – through mining, quarrying, and logging” and in his effort to inform the public, Thomas Cole’s labors are among those that motivated the creation of the National Park Service. Catskill Park was established in 1904 to protect thousands of acres, incredible vistas, and mountain ranges including thirty-three Catskill’s high peaks, a natural", "title": "Lake with Dead Trees" }, { "id": "409713", "text": "and reprinted as \"Song\" in \"The Harvard Advocate\", Harvard University's student magazine. He also published three short stories in 1905, \"Birds of Prey\", \"A Tale of a Whale\" and \"The Man Who Was King\". The last mentioned story significantly reflects his exploration of Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World's Fair of St. Louis. Such a link with primitive people importantly antedates his anthropological studies at Harvard. Eliot lived in St. Louis, Missouri for the first sixteen years of his life at the house on Locust St. where he was born. After going away to school in 1905, he only", "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "id": "20078007", "text": "shoot its 2016 global campaign. In 2016, his photograph \"Sinking Venice\" was chosen as part of the CIWEM - Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, the third time his work was so honored. In the same year Busiello started freelancing for the renown Italian magazine DOVE, where his first assignments focus on Naples, his hometown. Busiello's storytelling through photography has caught the interest of museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and London's Natural History Museum which have featured his work. Additionally, his images have appeared in a", "title": "Antonio Busiello" }, { "id": "3867852", "text": "his work featured in Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, \"Geo\", \"National Geographic\", \"\", \"Stern\", \"Der Spiegel\" and the \"New York Times\" among others. In 1997 National Geographic Magazine published Mattias Klum's photographs for the first time, which made him the first Swede to have his work on the cover, then he was one of National Geographic's youngest contributors. Since 1997, he has produced a number of articles and twelve cover stories for the magazine, including \"Malaysia's Secret Realm\" (August 1997), \"Asia's Last Lions\" (June 2001), \"Meerkats Stand Tall\" (September 2002), \"What Darwin Didn't Know\" (February 2009) and \"The Bite That Heals\" (February", "title": "Mattias Klum" }, { "id": "10447018", "text": "the first four words (\"a rare bird in the land\") are often used ironically. For some 1500 years, the black swan existed in the European imagination as a metaphor for that which could not exist. The Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh made the first European record of sighting a black swan in 1697, when he sailed into, and named, the Swan River on the western coast of New Holland. The sighting was significant in Europe, where \"all swans are white\" had long been used as a standard example of a well-known truth. In 1726, two birds were captured near Dirk", "title": "Black swan emblems and popular culture" }, { "id": "11018833", "text": "Tales of the Alhambra Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as \"a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen.\" Irving was preparing a book called \"A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada\", a history of the years 1478–1492, and was continuing his research on the topic. He immediately asked the then-governor", "title": "Tales of the Alhambra" }, { "id": "14915063", "text": "present-day Bay of Rincón. On his first voyage, Christopher Columbus had mostly amicable encounters with the Taínos, one of the indigenous people of the Caribbean islands. He sailed along the islands' coast, entering into capes and harbors to look at the scenery, hoping to find cities and large groups of population to trade with. Ultimately, what he expected was to reach the outer limits of the Chinese empire. Because he never found what he was looking for, he rarely went onto the land, but rather stayed on board his ship \"Santa María\". He saw several fires and canoes that showed", "title": "Bay of Arrows" }, { "id": "12348437", "text": "Arnold Wilson, Britain's representative in the Persian Gulf and author of \"The Persian Gulf\", arrived in Bahrain from Muscat at this time. The uprising developed further with some protesters killed by British forces. Before the development of petroleum, the island was largely devoted to pearl fisheries and, as late as the 19th century, was considered to be the finest in the world. In 1903, German explorer, Hermann Burchardt, visited Bahrain and took many photographs of historical sites, including the old \"Qaṣr es-Sheikh\", photos now stored at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. Prior to the First World War, there were about", "title": "Bahrain" }, { "id": "20756039", "text": "William Chadeayne William Chadeayne was an early long-distance motorcyclist from Buffalo, New York. He set a transcontinental record for North America in 1905, going from New York City to San Francisco in 47 and a half days. He was an officer of the Thomas Auto-Bi company and rode one of their motorcycles on the transcontinental record-setting trip. The 1905 transcontinental journey took place between September 13 and October 30, 1905. He described the roads even east of the Mississippi as \"unspeakably vile ... seas of mud or oceans of sand\", taking exactly two weeks to arrive in Chicago. There were", "title": "William Chadeayne" }, { "id": "18674842", "text": "Wodehouse. \"The Romance of Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer\" by Louis Joseph Vance, a pulp novel from 1907 probably based on magazine stories published in 1904, is a romanticized version of the \"Empire of the Sahara\", with Terence O'Rourke being an American adventurer who is recruited to help a cowardly French millionaire become the \"Emperor of the Sahara\". Another work on Lebaudy was English artist John Copley's 1909 collection of lithographs \"The Fall and Rise of His Imperial Majesty Jacques Démodé\". The adventures of Lebaudy even inspired a French game-maker to produce a wire puzzle in his honor. Jacques Lebaudy Jacques", "title": "Jacques Lebaudy" }, { "id": "3743266", "text": "of the region's subtropical climate and decided to build a high-class resort there. Having raised a large sum of money from the government, he built himself a palace there and constructed a number of other buildings in an eclectic variety of styles from around Europe. A park was laid out with tropical trees and even parrots and monkeys imported to give it an exotic feel. Despite the expensive work, the resort was not initially a success, although it did later attract a growing number of foreign tourists visiting on cruises of the Black Sea. In the Russian Revolution of 1905,", "title": "Gagra" }, { "id": "10660235", "text": "the fuel trade beyond the 20th century. Workaday purposes were not the only ones pursued on the waters. Mark Twain's \"Innocents Abroad\" recounts one of the first cruise ship voyages out of Brooklyn in the 1860s for rich people, while the 1904 General Slocum disaster points out the late 19th- and early 20th-century habit of organizing day excursions for humbler folk. Some trips went to amusement parks or other attractions, and some merely to a dock with a footpath to a meadow for dancing, picnicking and other pleasures made more pleasurable by absence from the hectic, noisy city. Day-trippers visited", "title": "History of transportation in New York City" }, { "id": "2141360", "text": "In his 1903 general history of Taiwan, US Consul to Formosa (1898–1904) James W. Davidson related that \"Kelung\" was among the few well-known names, thus warranting no alternate Japanese romanization. However, the Taiwanese people have long called the city \"Kelang\" (). It has been proposed that this name was derived from the local mountain that took the shape of a rooster cage. However, it is more probable that the name was derived from the first inhabitants of the region, as are the names of many other Taiwanese cities. In this case, the Ketagalan people were the first inhabitants, and early", "title": "Keelung" }, { "id": "20404032", "text": "Out of Paradise \"Out of Paradise\" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in December 1904 by \"Collier's Weekly\" in New York, and in January 1905 by \"Pall Mall Magazine\" in London. The story was also included as the first story in the collection \"A Thief in the Night\", published by Chatto & Windus in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905. Bunny was once engaged to a niece to a rich politician, Hector Carruthers,", "title": "Out of Paradise" }, { "id": "7418783", "text": "4, 1905. Venice came to be known as the \"Coney Island of the Pacific.\" By mid-January 1906, an area was built along the edge of the Grand Lagoon patterned after the amusement thoroughfares of the great 19th and 20th century expositions. It featured foreign exhibits, amusements, and freak shows. Trolley service was available from Downtown Los Angeles and nearby Santa Monica. Visitors were dazzled by the system of canals complete with gondolas and gondoliers brought in from Venice, Italy. There were ornate Venetian-style businesses and a full-sized amusement pier. Around the entire park, a miniature steam railroad ran on a", "title": "Abbot Kinney" }, { "id": "2015075", "text": "a small pocket of air, which at certain angles produced a rainbow, or Newton's rings. Shortly after its discovery, Cullinan went on public display at the Standard Bank in Johannesburg, where it was seen by an estimated 8,000–9,000 visitors. In April 1905, the rough gem was deposited with Premier Mining Co.'s London sales agent, S. Neumann & Co. Due to its immense value, detectives were assigned to a steamboat that was rumoured to be carrying the stone, and a parcel was ceremoniously locked in the captain's safe and guarded on the entire journey. It was a diversionary tactic – the", "title": "Cullinan Diamond" }, { "id": "10755008", "text": "coureurs des bois in Canada, the Cossacks and the promyshlenniki in Siberia and in Alaska, the bands of pioneers in the central and western United States, and the voortrekkers in Southern Africa. Foundational stories are accounts of the development of cities and nations. A foundational story represents the view that the creation of the city is a human achievement. Human control and the removal of \"wild, uncontrolled\" nature is underlined. There are two versions of foundational stories: \"civilization story\" and \"degradation story\". \"Civilization stories\" take a view of nature as dangerous and wild. The development of the city is seen", "title": "Origin myth" }, { "id": "7939464", "text": "The lower section of the river was the site of some of the worst flooding of the Great Flood of 1993. Near the central, western boundary of the city is Forest Park, site of the 1904 World's fair, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, and the 1904 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games held in North America. At the time, St. Louis was the fourth most populous city in the United States. The Missouri River forms the northern border of St. Louis County, exclusive of a few areas where the river has changed its course. The Meramec River forms most", "title": "Geography of St. Louis" }, { "id": "18638198", "text": "the trans-ecology of water. Set in the year 2054, it takes the form of a natural history display. A diorama features plastic eating creatures, their physiologies built on vacuum cleaners & the parts thereof the artist found discarded on Sydney's streets. The creatures have been genetically engineered using the CRISPR method to clean up the plastics polluting oceans and rivers. The diorama is contextualised by photographs of pristine nature as it would have been in 1905, the year bakelite was invented, plus case studies of rivers in Athens, Kassel and Sydney, 2017, showing plastic pollution off city streets floating towards", "title": "Bonita Ely" }, { "id": "9164055", "text": "Verde Islands. It is here that Darwin's description in his published \"Journal\" begins. His initial impression was of a desolate and sterile volcanic island, but after visiting the town he came to a deep valley where he \"first saw the glory of tropical vegetation\" and had \"a glorious day\", finding overwhelming novelty in the sights and sounds. FitzRoy set up tents and an observatory on Quail Island to determine the exact position of the islands, while Darwin collected numerous sea animals, delighting in vivid tropical corals in tidal pools, and investigating the geology of Quail Island. Though Daubeny's book in", "title": "Second voyage of HMS Beagle" }, { "id": "18429870", "text": "History of Santa Catalina Island (California) The history of human activity on Santa Catalina Island, California begins with the Native Americans who called the island \"Pimugna\" or \"Pimu\" and referred to themselves as \"Pimugnans\" or \"Pimuvit\". The first Europeans to arrive on Catalina claimed it for the Spanish Empire. Over the years, territorial claims to the island transferred to Mexico and then to the United States. During this time, the island was sporadically used for smuggling, otter hunting, and gold-digging. Catalina was successfully developed into a tourist destination by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. beginning in the 1920s, with", "title": "History of Santa Catalina Island (California)" }, { "id": "2049627", "text": "been built by Native Americans somewhere in the desert Southwest. As early as 1611, Sebastián Vizcaíno surveyed the east coast of Japan and searched for two mythical islands called Rico de Oro (Rich in Gold) and Rico de Plata (Rich in Silver). Books such as The Travels of Marco Polo fuelled rumours of mythical places. Stories included the half-fabulous Christian Empire of \"Prester John\", the kingdom of the White Queen on the \"Western Nile\" (Sénégal River), the Fountain of Youth, cities of Gold in North and South America such as Quivira, Zuni-Cibola Complex, and El Dorado, and wonderful kingdoms of", "title": "Conquistador" }, { "id": "17014320", "text": "Polo\" is one of the Ensemble's biggest successes, having spent a few weeks at the top of the classical music charts in Germany, in the 1993. The 13th century was the time of great political and economic expansion in the Republic of Venice. Marco Polo was a famous Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in \"Il Milione\", a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco", "title": "Marco Polo – The Journey" }, { "id": "2952414", "text": "The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders (see Name, below). During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of great prominence and relative obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial centre as early as the 5th century. A Slavic settlement on the great trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, Kiev was a tributary of the Khazars, until seized by the Varangians (Vikings) in the mid-9th century. Under Varangian rule, the city became a capital of the Kievan Rus', the first", "title": "Kiev" }, { "id": "230317", "text": "streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be moved from place to place. This quotation was based upon the writings of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo who is widely believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275. In about 1298–1299, he dictated a description of Xanadu which includes these lines: Marco Polo also mentioned a large portable palace made of gilded and lacquered cane or bamboo which could be taken apart quickly and moved from place to place. He described it this way: Moreover at", "title": "Kubla Khan" }, { "id": "11409592", "text": "It describes a fashionable and star-encrusted area in the south of France starting from the peninsula Cap Martin and including the Monte Carlo beach and the Riviera. Names of famous people, places and events, as well as geographical features, are capitalised for emphasis. The amenities provided by hotels, night clubs, casinos, museums and beaches, as well as a fish farm out at sea (producing the luxury fish, sea bass), are all named and occasionally described for the wealthy visitor.\" Between 1990 and 1994, Bond collaborated with artist Liam Gillick on their Documents Series a group of eighty-three fine art works", "title": "Henry Bond" }, { "id": "11916868", "text": "of which it is one of the world's largest exporters. The national bird of Grenada is the critically endangered Grenada dove. Before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Grenada was inhabited by the indigenous Arawaks and later by the Island Caribs. Christopher Columbus sighted Grenada in 1498 during his third voyage to the Americas. Although it was deemed the property of the King of Spain, there are no records to suggest the Spanish ever landed or settled on the island. Following several unsuccessful attempts by Europeans to colonise the island due to resistance from the Island Caribs, French settlement", "title": "Grenada" }, { "id": "351072", "text": "of its five star hotels were the second most expensive in the world after only New York City. Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's primary tourist attraction and resort. It receives the most visitors per year of any city in South America with 2.82 million international tourists a year. The city world-class hotels, approximately 80 kilometres of beaches and the famous Corcovado and Sugarloaf mountains. While the city had in past had a thriving tourism sector, the industry entered a decline in the last quarter of the 20th century. Annual international airport arrivals dropped from 621,000 to 378,000 and average hotel", "title": "Rio de Janeiro" }, { "id": "7433786", "text": "in the musical, \"The Little Michus\" at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905. A contemporary magazine described it thus: \"According to Mr. Graves, the Gazeka was first discovered by an explorer who was accompanied in his travels by a case of whiskey, and who half thought that he had seen it before in a sort of dream.\" Graves's idea became a fad of the season and George Edwardes mounted a competition to encourage artists to give sketches of what the beast might look like. Charles Folkard won the competition, and the Gazeka suddenly appeared in the form of various items of", "title": "Gazeka" }, { "id": "17369558", "text": "Michael Melford (photographer) Michael Melford (born February 18, 1950, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) is an American photographer, artist and teacher known for his \"National Geographic\" magazine assignments. Michael Melford was born and raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. He has a BS in photography from Syracuse University. Melford is known for his raw, natural landscapes and his ability to capture vibrant motion in nature. He has produced over 30 stories for National Geographic Traveler magazine, including eight covers. He has extensively photographed the marvels of America's National Parks and Alaska. His inspirations are Ansel Adams and Ernst Haas. Melford's photographs have appeared in The", "title": "Michael Melford (photographer)" }, { "id": "175578", "text": "founded in 1907 by Carl Hagenbeck as the first zoo with moated, barless enclosures. In 2016, the average visitor spent two nights in Hamburg. The majority of visitors come from Germany. Most foreigners are European, especially from Denmark (395,681 overnight stays), the United Kingdom (301,000 overnight stays), Switzerland (340,156 overnight stays), Austria (about 252,397 overnight stays) and the Netherlands (about 182,610 overnight stays). The largest group from outside Europe comes from the United States (206,614 overnight stays). The \"Queen Mary 2\" has docked regularly since 2004, and there were six departures planned from 2010 onwards. Media businesses employ over 70,000", "title": "Hamburg" }, { "id": "16009240", "text": "his work Moses Bowness Moses Bowness (1833–1894) was a Victorian photographer, farmer, entrepreneur and poet. Born into a copper-miner's family, he built in Ambleside in the Lake District, England, the largest photographic business in Westmorland at that time. He photographed many notable people and visitors, as well as local views and residents. In May 1857 he photographed the visiting party of the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. The Prince recorded this event in his diary. From then on the reverse of his carte-de-visite say \"Photographer to HRH the Prince of Wales\". He trained a number of local", "title": "Moses Bowness" }, { "id": "2108564", "text": "Portage Bay), as late as 1900 on land given him by pioneer David Denny (or property he purchased— \"see Cheshiahud\"). Photographer Orion O. Denny recorded Old Tom and Madeline, c. 1904, further noted in the archives of the University of Washington Library as Madeline and Old John, also known as Indian John or Cheshishon, who had a house on Portage Bay in the 1900s, south of what is now the UW campus. Chudups John and his family, like Princess Angeline, seem to have been excepted from the law by which Native people had been prohibited from residence in Seattle since", "title": "Duwamish people" }, { "id": "8173200", "text": "sides contribute to its unique and year-round warm climate, with some of the warmest winters west of the Rocky Mountains. Its average annual high temperature is and its average annual low is . Summer highs above are common and sometimes exceed , while summer night lows often stay above . Winters are warm with daytime highs often between . The average annual precipitation is under , with over 348 days of sunshine per year. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the area was on July 6, 1905. The mean annual temperature is . The 2010 United States Census reported that", "title": "Thermal, California" }, { "id": "10583620", "text": "also a scale model of the Quarry Hill flats. The exhibits are organised among several galleries. See a slideshow here. This is the natural history gallery. This exhibit - so beloved of the Leeds populace that when the curators wanted to throw it away, the Yorkshire Post newspaper held a campaign to retain it - has a strange history. It was a tigerskin rug when presented to the Museum in the 19th century. Museum records give the impression that the tiger had been shot for spending too much time near a village in India. The pelt was then combined with", "title": "Leeds City Museum" }, { "id": "17919408", "text": "killed. Afterwards, Brown has a change of heart after seeing the Kid's true character and courage. The sheriff agrees to keep the Kid's identity secret so Enrique can continue his life with his new family. \"The Texan\" is based on the short story \"The Double-Dyed Deceiver\" by O. Henry, which was first published in \"Everybody's Magazine\" in December 1905. The story was previously filmed as \"A Double-Dyed Deceiver\" (1920) with Jack Pickford in the lead role. In his review for \"The New York Times\", Mordaunt Hall called the film \"an expertly touched-up audible pictorial adaptation of O. Henry's story\". Hall", "title": "The Texan (film)" }, { "id": "292446", "text": "cities for 18 months; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009–10. Its Education Foundation gives grants to education organizations and individuals to improve geography education. Its Committee for Research and Exploration has awarded more than 11,000 grants for scientific research and exploration. National Geographic has retail stores in Washington, D.C., London, Sydney, and Panama. The locations outside of the United States are operated by Worldwide Retail Store S.L., a Spanish holding company. The Society's media arm is National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between 21st Century Fox and the Society, which publishes a journal,", "title": "National Geographic Society" }, { "id": "50382", "text": "1982, and were featured as toys, on clothing and in film. Around the world, many children—and some adults—have teddy bears, stuffed toys in the form of bears, named after the American statesman Theodore Roosevelt when in 1902 he had refused to shoot an American black bear tied to a tree. Bears, like other animals, may symbolize nations. In 1911, the British satirical magazine \"Punch\" published a cartoon about the Anglo-Russian Entente by Leonard Raven-Hill in which the British lion watches as the Russian bear sits on the tail of the Persian cat. The Russian Bear has been a common national", "title": "Bear" }, { "id": "5432571", "text": "been photographed. The image itself was named as \"the most recognized photograph\" in the history of the \"National Geographic\" magazine, and her face became famous as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue. The photo has also been widely used on Amnesty International brochures, posters, and calendars. The identity of the \"Afghan Girl\" remained unknown for over 17 years until McCurry and a \"National Geographic\" team located the woman, Sharbat Gula, in 2002. McCurry said, “Her skin is weathered; there are wrinkles now, but she is as striking as she was all those years ago.” In 2016 McCurry was", "title": "Steve McCurry" }, { "id": "11744967", "text": "Hotel Boulderado houses three restaurants. Located off of the main lobby are Spruce Farm and Fish, a fine-dining restaurant, and the Corner Bar, a more casual eatery. The basement contains a speakeasy-style bar, License No. 1, which recently replaced Catacombs. All three restaurants share a kitchen. The Hotel Boulderado appears in Stephen King's novel \"Misery\". In 1905, Boulder was home to 8,000 residents, the University of Colorado, one of the Chautauqua cultural and educational resorts, and twenty-six automobiles. Residents called the city the \"Athens of the West.\" As a new-forged railroad hub, the city did have some hotels to accommodate", "title": "Hotel Boulderado" }, { "id": "7094329", "text": "round the Mediterranean and traveled to Paris, Rome and Venice in the fall while working on frontispieces for an American edition of Henry James' novels. While in Paris he saw Steichen's Autochrome color photographs and learned the process from him. By 1907 Coburn was so well established in his career that Shaw called him \"the greatest photographer in the world,\" although he was only 24 years old at the time. He continued his success by having a one-man show at Stieglitz's prestigious \"Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession\" in New York and by organizing an international exhibition of photography at the", "title": "Alvin Langdon Coburn" }, { "id": "18404002", "text": "sibling, Ernest W. Kurrle. Prior to his entry into the film industry, Kurrle was already an innovative filmmaker. In 1909, flying in a Curtiss open cockpit bi-plane, he photographed the Panama Canal from the air. In 1913, Kurrle would become the first photographer to take an aerial photograph of the city of Oakland, California. Describing the experience, Kurrle said \"... we went along just as smoothly as if we were riding on velvet\". Kurrle's first foray into the film industry was on the 1916 film, \"Her Great Price\", directed by Edwin Carewe. He later collaborated with Carewe on a number", "title": "Robert Kurrle" }, { "id": "12668159", "text": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle. It is the third companion book to \"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?\". Various endangered animals answer the question \"What do you see?\" and the answers are what animal they see. The text is in rhyme. The list of animals includes a panda bear, a bald eagle, a water buffalo, a spider monkey, a green sea turtle, a macaroni penguin, a sea lion, a red wolf, a whooping", "title": "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?" }, { "id": "241044", "text": "few or no clues to their decline. For example, Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans in 1825, but the unsuspected presence of ruined temples and the remains of other structures found on the island indicate that a population of Polynesians had lived there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier. Prolonged drought seems the most likely explanation for their demise and the remote nature of the island meant few visitors. With the development of archaeology and the application of modern techniques, many previously lost cities have been rediscovered. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian", "title": "Lost city" }, { "id": "903220", "text": "(as a jazz fan, he used to scour record catalogues and was intrigued by titles such as \"I want to be alone in the South\"), the name of an American city such as Durango or Daytona, a title card from a silent film, or an image from a talking picture such as White Shadows in the South Seas which he had seen in Paris. The metrical schemes and rhyme patterns of the first two collections are largely abandoned; only a few of the poems in this book are written in alexandrine quatrains. Such metrical regularity is not a feature of", "title": "Luis Cernuda" } ]

[ "Samuel, or Sam" ]

[ { "id": "1292537", "text": "Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (\"The Maltese Falcon\"), Nick and Nora Charles (\"The Thin Man\"), and the Continental Op (\"Red Harvest\" and \"The Dain Curse\"). Hammett \"is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time\". In his obituary in \"The New York Times\", he was described as \"the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction.\" \"Time\" magazine included", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "1292556", "text": "Davis as Hellman. The Continental Op Sam Spade Nick and Nora Charles In 2011, magazine editor Andrew Gulli found fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (\"The Maltese Falcon\"), Nick and Nora Charles (\"The Thin Man\"), and the Continental Op (\"Red Harvest\" and", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "6824408", "text": "Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to honor a debt. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as \"Sam,\" is holed up in a cheap apartment, hard at work at his typewriter each day. He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits. One day, a friend and mentor from his Pinkerton days, Jimmy Ryan, turns up with a request, that Hammett help him track", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "1292538", "text": "Hammett's 1929 novel \"Red Harvest\" on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including the genres of private-eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers, and film-noir. Hammett was born on a farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland. His parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell; his mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel. He had an older sister, Aronia, and a younger brother, Richard, Jr. Known as Sam, Hammett was baptized a Catholic, and grew up in", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "1292541", "text": "daughters with the income he made from his writing. Hammett was first published in 1922 in the magazine \"The Smart Set\". Known for the authenticity and realism of his writing, he drew on his experiences as a Pinkerton operative. Hammett wrote most of his detective fiction while he was living in San Francisco in the 1920s; streets and other locations in San Francisco are frequently mentioned in his stories. He said that \"All my characters were based on people I've known personally, or known about.\" His novels were some of the first to use dialogue that sounded authentic to the", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "1846510", "text": "music video \"So Pure\". Mihok is a photographer as well. His photography of Morissette is used on the back cover of her \"Thank U\" single and is credited for \"Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.\" Mihok was named after writer Dashiell Hammett, the author of \"The Thin Man\", \"The Glass Key\" and \"The Maltese Falcon\". His last name is usually mispronounced \"me-Hawk,\" but he says the Czech surname is pronounced \"my\"-Hawk. Mihok was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at age six, and is a spokesperson and is on the board for the nonprofit Jaylens Challenge, founded by the then 9-year old, Jaylen Arnold.", "title": "Dash Mihok" }, { "id": "4999351", "text": "to form: Bernie breaks into a residence (usually on Manhattan's Upper East Side) and, through a series of implausible events, becomes involved in a murder investigation—often as the prime suspect. Not even an eleven-year hiatus (between 1983's \"The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian\" and 1994's \"The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams\") would see that basic formula change. There is, however, a meta quality to the more recent entries: Bernie, the reluctant detective, is himself a bookseller and genre fan, and is apt to make references to Agatha Christie, E.W. Hornung (his cat is named \"Raffles\"), Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Sue", "title": "Lawrence Block" }, { "id": "6824412", "text": "A number of actors from the \"Golden Age\" of Hollywood were cast in the film, including Hank Worden, Royal Dano, and Elisha Cook, Jr. (who played Wilmer \"the gunsel\" in John Huston's 1941 film \"The Maltese Falcon\"). Hammett (film) Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "4609368", "text": "series of eccentric characters in the forgotten town. The books biography lists this as Bradbury's first novel since \"Something Wicked This Way Comes\", although the young adult novel \"The Halloween Tree\" was published later. It evokes both the milieu and style of other mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Ross Macdonald, all of whom Bradbury names in the book's dedication, and James Crumley, after whom Bradbury named his detective. Yet the main character is undoubtedly Bradbury himself, portrayed in a period of his life just before his marriage and his success with \"The Martian Chronicles\". Two", "title": "Death Is a Lonely Business" }, { "id": "6824407", "text": "Hammett (film) Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammett's neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, an old friend from Hammett's days as a Pinkerton agent. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. San Francisco-based", "title": "Hammett (film)" }, { "id": "2434321", "text": "a predilection for certain casts of characters and certain settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. A typical plot of the Golden Age mystery followed these lines: An American reaction to the cozy convention of British murder mysteries was the American hardboiled school of crime writing (certain works in the field are also referred to as noir fiction). Writers like Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), Jonathan Latimer (1906–1983), Mickey Spillane (1918–2006), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction. This created whole new stereotypes of crime fiction writing.", "title": "History of crime fiction" }, { "id": "8906714", "text": "his wife, Pippa Gordon, a medical social worker. They have a son, Dashiell, and a daughter, Caitlin. They named their son Dashiell, now a deputy counsel for the County of Los Angeles, after San Francisco mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. His daughter, Caitlin, is an actress and yoga instructor, who graduated with an M.F.A. from American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco. In 2015, he wrote a story reminiscing about the home birth of his daughter. Talbot's sister, \"New Yorker\" magazine staffer Margaret Talbot, wrote \"The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century\" (Riverhead Books, 2012), about their father, Lyle Talbot,", "title": "Stephen Talbot" }, { "id": "1668692", "text": "United States. Years later she wrote, \"Then for the first time in my life I thought about being a Jew.\" Beginning in 1930, for about a year she earned $50 a week as a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, writing summaries of novels and periodical literature for potential screenplays. Although she found the job rather dull, it created many opportunities for her to meet a greater range of creative people while she became involved in more political and artistic scenes during that time. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. She divorced Kober and", "title": "Lillian Hellman" }, { "id": "1668688", "text": "had belonged to the Communist Party. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including \"Watch on the Rhine\", \"The Autumn Garden\", \"Toys in the Attic\", \"Another Part of the Forest\", \"The Children's Hour\" and \"The Little Foxes\". She adapted her semi-autobiographical play \"The Little Foxes\" into a screenplay, which starred Bette Davis and received an Academy Award nomination in 1942. Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett, author of the classic detective novels \"The Maltese Falcon\" and \"The Thin Man\", who also was blacklisted for 10 years until his death in 1961. The", "title": "Lillian Hellman" }, { "id": "13348561", "text": "anthropological insights into the nature of man and how one person can be a catalyst for good in an overwhelmingly materialistic world. A member of the International Association of Crime Writers (IACW), Staecker twice chaired the Hammett Prize Reading Committee. The Hammett Prize, named for Dashiel Hammett, author of \"The Maltese Falcon\" and \"The Thin Man\", among other works, is awarded annually. The Lady Gangster: A Sailor’s Memoir (2009) Sailor Man: The Troubled Life and Times of J.P. Nunnally, USN (2015) The Muted Mermaid (2008) Shaved Ice (2008) Chocolate Soup (2010) Tales of Tomasewski (2012) More Tomasewski (2014) One Good", "title": "Del Staecker" }, { "id": "4530916", "text": "double homage: first to Dashiell Hammett (\"Miles Archer\" was the name of Sam Spade's murdered partner in \"The Maltese Falcon\" ), while Lew Wallace was the author of the novel \"\" (1880). \"The Galton Case\" is the eighth novel in the Lew Archer detective series written by Ross Macdonald and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1959. The lead character is hired to find the Galton fortune's lost heir. Archer finds a series of murders, web of secrets and deception. From the back of the 1983 Bantam edition: Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than", "title": "Lew Archer" }, { "id": "8779939", "text": "the early life of one of those heroes: Dashiell Hammett, the originator of the hard-boiled crime novel. As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century. Atkins' 2010 novel \"Infamous\" is based on the 1933 Charles Urschel kidnapping and subsequent misadventures of the gangster spouses George \"Machine Gun\" and Kathryn Kelly. In 2011 Atkins was selected by the estate of Robert B. Parker to take over writing the Spenser series of novels. \"The Boston Globe\" wrote that while some people might", "title": "Ace Atkins" }, { "id": "2256400", "text": "Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as \"The Big Country\". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: \"Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and", "title": "Donald Hamilton" }, { "id": "1292587", "text": "the bantering, romantically involved detective duo has become a well-used trope in literature, stage, screen, and television ever since. The characters first appear in Dashiell Hammett's best-selling last novel \"The Thin Man\" (1934). Nick is an alcoholic former private detective who retired when he married Nora, a wealthy Nob Hill heiress. Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian Hellman, and the characters' boozy, flippant dialogue on their relationship. (The novel also mentions that Nick was once a Pinkerton detective, as was Hammett.) The novel is considered one of the seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels,", "title": "Nick and Nora Charles" }, { "id": "8404037", "text": "Berrell. Most of the original American episodes have not survived. The Fat Man (radio) The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s was a detective drama created by (or at least credited to) Dashiell Hammett, author of \"The Thin Man\". It starred J. Scott Smart in the title role, as a detective who started out anonymous but rapidly acquired the name 'Brad Runyon'. Broadcast from the studios of WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, the series premiered on the ABC Radio Network on Monday, January 21, 1946, at 8:30 p.m., as part of a block of", "title": "The Fat Man (radio)" }, { "id": "6757284", "text": "Edmund Crispin (1921-1978), Cyril Hare (1900-1958), and many more. Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), was a New Zealander but was also British, as was her detective Roderick Alleyn. Georges Simenon was from Belgium and wrote in French; his detective, Jules Maigret, was a Frenchman. Some writers, such as Mary Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine, Earl Derr Biggers, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner and Elizabeth Daley , were American but had similar styles. Others, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain, had a more hard-boiled, American style. Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh are often described", "title": "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" }, { "id": "100805", "text": "and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime. Very often, no actual mystery even existed: the books simply revolved around justice being served to those who deserved harsh treatment, which was described in explicit detail.\" The overall theme these writers portrayed reflected \"the changing face of America itself.\" In the 1930s, the private eye genre was adopted wholeheartedly by American writers. One of the primary contributors to this style was Dashiell Hammett with his famous private investigator character, Sam Spade. His style of crime fiction came to be known as \"hardboiled\", which is described as a genre", "title": "Detective fiction" }, { "id": "2989686", "text": "translated into 21 languages. His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors. Mosley made publishing history in 1997 by foregoing an advance to give the manuscript of \"Gone Fishin' \" to a small, independent publisher, Black Classic Press in Baltimore, run by former Black Panther Paul Coates. His first published book, \"Devil in a Blue Dress\", was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. The world premiere of", "title": "Walter Mosley" }, { "id": "1291116", "text": "The murderer is revealed to be David (the mysterious \"Anderson\"), who has harbored a vengeful hatred of Selma after she passed him over and married Robert. The case solved, and once again traveling by train, Nora reveals to Nick that they are expecting a baby, although Nick has to be prodded into putting the \"clues\" together and she comments: \"And you call yourself a detective.\" The cast is listed in order as documented by the American Film Institute. Cast note: The film's story was written by Dashiell Hammett, based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel", "title": "After the Thin Man" }, { "id": "3067389", "text": "no one was apprehended or prosecuted for Little's murder there have been a number of speculations. The author Dashiell Hammett was working as a strikebreaker in Butte for Pinkerton's, and (allegedly) turned down an offer of $5,000 to assassinate Little. Hammett later made use of his experiences in Butte to write \"Red Harvest\". 'In her memoirs Lillian Hellman, Hammett's companion, said he told her he was offered to murder Little. \"Through the years he was to repeat that bribe offer so many times that I came to believe … that it was a kind of key to his life. He", "title": "Frank Little (unionist)" }, { "id": "9966543", "text": "co-wrote Universal's \"The Fat Man\" (1951), which starred J. Scott Smart as the obese detective Brad Runyon, a role he had played on radio since 1946. (The series was developed especially for radio by Dashiell Hammett, creator of \"The Thin Man\", but as he had just been jailed for refusing to co-operate with the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities, Hammett's name was conspicuous by its absence on the screen credits of \"The Fat Man\".) Another sign of those paranoid times was that Essex and Earl Felton received screenplay credit on \"The Las Vegas Story\" (1952), but not their", "title": "Harry Essex" }, { "id": "8404033", "text": "The Fat Man (radio) The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s was a detective drama created by (or at least credited to) Dashiell Hammett, author of \"The Thin Man\". It starred J. Scott Smart in the title role, as a detective who started out anonymous but rapidly acquired the name 'Brad Runyon'. Broadcast from the studios of WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, the series premiered on the ABC Radio Network on Monday, January 21, 1946, at 8:30 p.m., as part of a block of four new programs (\"I Deal in Crime\", \"Forever Tops\", and", "title": "The Fat Man (radio)" }, { "id": "8565830", "text": "Série noire Série noire is a French publishing imprint, founded in 1945 by Marcel Duhamel. It has released a collection of crime fiction of the hardboiled detective thrillers variety published by Gallimard. Anglo-American literature forms the bulk of their collection: it features especially Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, William R. Burnett, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Lou Cameron, Jim Thompson, Rene Brabazon Raymond (under his pseudonym James Hadley Chase) and Peter Cheney. Books from the series were adapted into episodes on the 1984 television series of the same name. This name became a generic term for works of detective, and", "title": "Série noire" }, { "id": "1292543", "text": "He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. In 1929 and 1930, he was romantically involved with Nell Martin, a writer of short stories and several novels. He dedicated \"The Glass Key\" to her, and in turn, she dedicated her novel \"Lovers Should Marry\" to him. In 1931, Hammett embarked on a 30-year romantic relationship with the playwright Lillian Hellman. Though he sporadically continued to work on material, he wrote his final novel in 1934, more than 25 years before his death. Why he moved away from fiction is not certain; Hellman speculated in a posthumous collection", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "13453733", "text": "Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas \"Joe\" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional \"Dan Kearney and Associates\" (the \"DKA Files\") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels \"Hammett\" (1975; made into the 1982 film \"Hammett\"), \"Spade & Archer\" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's \"The Maltese", "title": "Joe Gores" }, { "id": "9539482", "text": "Bloodsimple Bloodsimple was an American heavy metal band from New York City that formed in 2002. They were signed to Warner Bros. Records. The band's name comes from a term coined by detective novelist Dashiell Hammett. The term apparently describes the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations. The term was coined in the novel \"Red Harvest\", which is also the title of Bloodsimple's second album. Bloodsimple formed in 2002, originally under the name Fix 8, and featured former Vision of Disorder members vocalist Tim Williams and guitarist Mike Kennedy, along with ex-Piece Dogs,", "title": "Bloodsimple" }, { "id": "7989892", "text": "automobile accident. A puzzling codicil to the Russells' will, a break-in at the family house, and a failed attempt on Mary's life quickly draw Holmes and eventually Mary into an investigation of the real cause of her parents' death. Holmes and Russell team up with a former Pinkerton agent Dashiell Hammett, several residents of Chinatown, and a cast of irregulars to solve the mystery that has plagued Mary for ten years. On their way back to Britain from India, Holmes and Russell stop at Russell's childhood home in San Francisco. As they approach San Francisco, Russell becomes more and more", "title": "Locked Rooms" }, { "id": "1167480", "text": "World War II, the village had taken on the appearance that it bears today. Pleasantville merits interest for its literary history. Playwright Lillian Hellman (\"The Children's Hour,\" \"The Little Foxes\") bought Hardscrabble Farm on the western outskirts of Pleasantville and lived there in the 1940s and 1950s. For many years author Dashiell Hammett (\"The Thin Man,\" \"The Maltese Falcon\"), with whom Hellman was romantically involved, lived and worked at Hardscrabble Farm. DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace, co-founders of \"Reader's Digest\", made Pleasantville their headquarters in 1922, using a converted garage and pony shed on Eastview Avenue as their office", "title": "Pleasantville, New York" }, { "id": "15707130", "text": "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is the corporate amalgamation of Random House's Vintage Crime, and Random House's 1990 acquisition, Black Lizard, a major publisher of classic crime fiction. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard was founded in June 1990 after Random House's acquisition of Black Lizard, the publishing company created by Donald S. Ellis and Barry Gifford. Before the acquisition Vintage Books was publishing the work of American mystery-authors such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler under Vintage Crime. As a result of the unification Random House came into the possession of the literature of Jim Thompson, and David", "title": "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard" }, { "id": "11317", "text": "Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, \"The Mousetrap\", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.", "title": "Agatha Christie" }, { "id": "1664831", "text": "Cornell Woolrich Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for \"Suspense\" and other dramatic radio programs. Woolrich", "title": "Cornell Woolrich" }, { "id": "708363", "text": "The Maltese Falcon (novel) The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine \"Black Mask\" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade (who also appeared later in some lesser-known short stories), was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (novel)" }, { "id": "346393", "text": "Parker). All but \"Playback\" have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is considered to be a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other \"Black Mask\" writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with \"private detective\". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be", "title": "Raymond Chandler" }, { "id": "9539496", "text": "song \"Dead Man Walking\" was featured on the video game \"WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009\". In October 2008, Vision of Disorder reformed to record a new album. Final lineup Former members Live musicians Mourning Grey 2007 Interview with Tim Williams of Bloodsimple Bloodsimple Bloodsimple was an American heavy metal band from New York City that formed in 2002. They were signed to Warner Bros. Records. The band's name comes from a term coined by detective novelist Dashiell Hammett. The term apparently describes the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations. The term was coined", "title": "Bloodsimple" }, { "id": "4608086", "text": "Robert Crais Robert Crais (pronounced to rhyme with 'chase') (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as \"Hill Street Blues\", \"Cagney & Lacey\", \"Quincy\", \"Miami Vice\" and \"L.A. Law\". His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais has won numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been published in 62 countries and are bestsellers around the", "title": "Robert Crais" }, { "id": "585578", "text": "Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of \"Drunk History\". Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series \"The Pinkertons\", played by Angus Macfadyen. Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of \"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams\", by Don Galloway (1937-2009), and in the 1994 American biographical western film \"Frank and Jesse\" by William Atherton. In but in these cases, as in the others, he seems to be portrayed with an American accent, although he was Scottish by birth, and may still have retained his Scots accent. Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the", "title": "Allan Pinkerton" }, { "id": "1668657", "text": "turned the magazine into an outlet for the growing school of naturalistic crime writers led by Carroll John Daly. Daly's private detective Race Williams was a rough-and-ready character with a sharp tongue, establishing a model for many later acerbic private eyes. \"Black Mask\" later published stories by the profoundly influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and The Continental Op, and other hardboiled writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Raoul F. Whitfield, Theodore Tinsley, Todhunter Ballard (as W.T. Ballard), Dwight V. Babcock, and Roger Torrey. The", "title": "Black Mask (magazine)" }, { "id": "9506749", "text": "all of the buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and the backfires that were set by firefighters to contain the devastation. The area was immediately rebuilt with some hotels opening by 1907 and apartment buildings shortly thereafter, including the historic Cadillac Hotel. By the 1920s, the neighborhood was notorious for its gambling, billiard halls, boxing gyms, \"speakeasies\", theaters, restaurants and other nightlife depicted in the hard boiled detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, who lived at 891 Post Street, the apartment he gave to Sam Spade in \"The Maltese Falcon\". Also around this time, due to Red", "title": "Tenderloin, San Francisco" }, { "id": "8865603", "text": "(Tess Harper)'s then-boyfriend (Joe Henry) with a shovel because she caught him sexually abusing Emily (Episode 19). They buried him in the woods next to the cabin and eventually grew distant from each other. Samantha learns that as a result of this abuse, Emily had a son, Randy, who now has cancer so she sought a bone marrow donor. Sam is not a match but her mother is a possibility. Spade received her name because her mother was a fan of fictional detective Sam Spade from \"The Maltese Falcon\", created by Dashiell Hammett. Samantha Spade Special Agent Samantha \"Sam\" Spade", "title": "Samantha Spade" }, { "id": "7493142", "text": "leave, Spade calls the police and tells them where to pick up the pair. Spade then angrily confronts O'Shaughnessy, telling her he knows she killed Archer to implicate Thursby, her unwanted accomplice. She confesses, but begs Spade to not turn her over to the police. Despite his feelings for her, Spade gives O'Shaughnessy up. Though Hammett had once worked as a private detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in San Francisco (and used his birth name \"Samuel\" for the story's protagonist), he wrote of the book's main character in 1934: Spade has no original. He is a dream man in", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)" }, { "id": "154142", "text": "be easily adapted from it. The gun-type and implosion-type designs were codenamed \"Thin Man\" and \"Fat Man\" respectively. These code names were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Oppenheimer's who worked on the Manhattan Project. He chose them based on their design shapes; the Thin Man was a very long device, and the name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel \"The Thin Man\" and series of movies. The Fat Man was round and fat and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's character in \"The Maltese Falcon\". Little Boy came last as a variation of Thin Man. Neddermeyer discarded", "title": "Fat Man" }, { "id": "6385384", "text": "government archives—if not their own lawful identity, then one appropriated from a person no longer using it. In the 21st century, advances in technology have made ghosting increasingly difficult to achieve, while governments have increased the penalties for those who get caught. Dashiell Hammett's novel \"The Maltese Falcon\" (1930) recounts the story, apparently based on a true case, of a businessman named Flitcraft who spontaneously abandons his career and his marriage, abruptly moving to another city and inventing another identity. If this incident did indeed occur in the 1920s or earlier, Flitcraft would have encountered little difficulty in establishing a", "title": "Ghosting (identity theft)" }, { "id": "4106207", "text": "“loitering while walking, or walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose”, and was used by police to stop and interview counterculture \"hippies\" who were regarded as unsavory. Some of those arrested were aggressively prosecuted by public prosecutor Karl T. Chrastan. In discussions of law, \"mopery\" is used as a placeholder name to mean some crime whose nature is not important to the problem at hand. This is sometimes expanded to \"mopery with intent to creep\" or \"mopery with intent to gawk\". The word \"mopery\" has been used by authors Thomas Pynchon \"(Gravity's Rainbow)\" and Dashiell Hammett \"(The", "title": "Mopery" }, { "id": "15649051", "text": "Roadhouse Nights Roadhouse Nights is a 1930 American Pre-Code gangster film. A number of sources including Sally Cline in her book \"Dashiell Hammett Man of Mystery\" claim it is based on the classic novel \"Red Harvest\" written by Dashiell Hammett (author of \"The Maltese Falcon\", \"The Thin Man\", and \"The Glass Key\"). However the credits of the film itself say only \"An Original Screenplay by Ben Hecht.\" Hammett receives no mention at all (and the plots are not similar). The movie, an unusual amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama, was directed by Hobart Henley, stars Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles,", "title": "Roadhouse Nights" }, { "id": "782507", "text": "Several authors excelled, after successfully misleading their readers, in revealing an unlikely suspect as the real villain of the story. They often had a predilection for certain casts of characters and settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. One reaction to the conventionality of British murder mysteries was American \"hard-boiled\" crime fiction, epitomized by the writings of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane, among others. Though the settings were grittier, the violence more abundant and the style more colloquial, plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as", "title": "Whodunit" }, { "id": "13024920", "text": "Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East\" in 2004 (Free Press), about Israeli and Palestinian societies. \"The New York Times\" called \"The Collaborator of Bethlehem\", the first of his Palestinian crime novels about Bethlehem sleuth Omar Yussef, \"an astonishing first novel.\" \"'Le Figaro\" called the book \"a masterpiece.\" Rees's writing has been compared with the work of Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell. The French magazine L'Express called him \"the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.\" Rees's books have sold in 25 languages. Rees was born in Newport, Wales. As a journalist, Rees covered the Middle East and", "title": "Matt Rees" }, { "id": "6059689", "text": "rights to the Dashiell Hammett novel \"The Maltese Falcon\", economical Warner Bros. executives decided to film another version of the book and assigned contract writer Brown Holmes to pen the screenplay. Showing little regard for the original material, Holmes converted its object of desire - a jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon - into a ram's horn filled with precious gems, changed character names (Sam Spade became \"Ted Shane\"), altered the sex of one of the criminal masterminds from male to female, and retitled the story, first to \"The Man in the Black Hat\" and then \"Men on Her Mind\". Filming", "title": "Satan Met a Lady" }, { "id": "1292542", "text": "era. \"I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does\". Raymond Chandler, often considered Hammett's successor, summarized his accomplishments in \"The Simple Art of Murder\": Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of, \"The Glass Key\", is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all.", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "2408568", "text": "Anthony Boucher Anthony Boucher (; born William Anthony Parker White; August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968) was an American author, critic, and editor, who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dramas. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the \"San Francisco Chronicle\". In addition to \"Anthony Boucher\", White also employed the pseudonym \"H. H. Holmes\", which was the pseudonym of a late-19th-century American serial killer; Boucher would also write light verse and sign it \"Herman W. Mudgett\" (another of the murderer's aliases). In a 1981 poll of 17", "title": "Anthony Boucher" }, { "id": "18482070", "text": "clerk at Gimbels. He then found work as a theatrical press agent for the Shubert brothers, Jed Harris, Herman Shumlin, and Ruth Draper. Kober married Lillian Hellman on December 31, 1925. During their marriage, they often lived apart. They divorced in 1932, after Hellman had started a relationship with Dashiell Hammett. He later married Margaret Frohnknecht in 1941, who died in 1951. They had one daughter, Catherine. Kober began writing humorous short fiction for \"The New Yorker\" in 1926 and became a prolific contributor. Many of his characters, such as the husband-hunter Bella Gross, were based on his Jewish upbringing", "title": "Arthur Kober" }, { "id": "1616378", "text": "names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe. His first two stories, \"Blackmailers Don't Shoot\" and \"Smart-Aleck Kill\" (with a detective named Mallory), were never altered in print but did join the others as Marlowe cases for the television series \"Philip Marlowe, Private Eye\". Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in \"Black Mask\" magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative and philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to", "title": "Philip Marlowe" }, { "id": "19616863", "text": "and remained until 12 April 1947. The British Mission ended when he departed. In 1943, development efforts were directed to a gun-type fission weapon using plutonium called Thin Man. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects—Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy—were created by Serber, who chose them based on their design shapes. Thin Man was a long device, and its name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel and series of movies of the same name. The Fat Man was round and fat, and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's \"Kasper Gutman\" character in \"The Maltese Falcon\". Little", "title": "Project Y" }, { "id": "3677491", "text": "complains about contrivances and formulas and an inability to move beyond them. The classic detective story \"has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.\" Chandler reserves his praise for Dashiell Hammett. Although Chandler and Hammett were contemporaries and grouped as the founders of the hard-boiled school, Chandler speaks of Hammett as the \"one individual... picked out to represent the whole movement,\" noting Hammett's mastery of the \"American language\", his adherence to reality, and that he \"gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.\" Chandler concludes his essay by moving from reality", "title": "The Simple Art of Murder" }, { "id": "4169693", "text": "the Red Channels book, he was not invited to play the role when the series made the switch to NBC in 1950. In 1961 \"Broadcasting\" reported that Four Star Productions planned to film a \"Sam Spade\" television pilot with Peter Falk in the title role, but no such series ever arrived on TV. The different incarnations of the series were: The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for \"The Maltese Falcon\". The show ran for 13 episodes on", "title": "The Adventures of Sam Spade" }, { "id": "14393954", "text": "several other American authors including Mark Twain and Dashiell Hammett. Twain wrote in his \"Tom Sawyer Abroad\": “We took him a blip in the back and knocked him off.” Hammett’s usage, in \"The Maltese Falcon\", expanded the definition to include murder: “You could have blipped them both.” However, for reasons unknown, this older definition was discarded on the advent of modern radar systems in favor of one which remains in use today: a point of light on a radar screen to locate a searched for object. The definition received a further update when, in 2009, two companies independently began using", "title": "Blip (internet)" }, { "id": "1473906", "text": "period were Fredric Brown, Paul Chadwick and, to a certain extent, Cornell Woolrich, although these writers tended to rarely use the Private Eye protagonists that many associate with pulp fiction. Quite a few comic book impossible crimes seem to draw on the \"weird menace\" tradition of the pulps. However, celebrated writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clayton Rawson, and Sax Rohmer have had their works adapted to comic book form. In 1934, Dashiell Hammett created the comic strip \"Secret Agent X9\", illustrated by Alex Raymond, which contained a locked-room episode, albeit a rather feeble one. One American", "title": "Locked-room mystery" }, { "id": "9136652", "text": "that crime fiction is at best merely escapist fare. Ellin identifies not only with Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Arthur Conan Doyle but also with Fyodor Dostoevski and William Faulkner, who also dealt with the theme of crime and punishment.\" Art Taylor, a writer of stories for such venues as \"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine\" and a reviewer for the \"Washington Post Book World\" and other periodicals, wrote that \"what has given Ellin such lasting renown in the pantheon of short story writers is surely the precision of his plotting: the clockwork accuracy by which each element of a", "title": "Stanley Ellin" }, { "id": "12543343", "text": "Eugene Izzi Eugene Izzi (March 23, 1953 – December 7, 1996) was an American crime writer. Izzi, a lifelong resident of Chicago, set most of his work in that city. He wrote in the classic hard-boiled style made famous by Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett. Despite moderate popularity, he is best known for the unusual circumstances surrounding his death. Although few details are known of Izzi's early life, most accounts describe a trouble-prone youth. Izzi himself dropped out of high school and enlisted in the army. During his military service, Izzi completed his high school equivalency degree. Upon his return", "title": "Eugene Izzi" }, { "id": "714961", "text": "he almost takes the life of someone who knows too much. Cast notes: The film was based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, released in January 1934. Hammett's novel drew on his experiences as a union-busting Pinkerton detective in Butte, Montana. Hammett based Nick and Nora's banter upon his rocky on-again, off-again relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. MGM paid Hammett $21,000 for the screen rights to the novel. The screenplay was written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who had been married for three years. Director W.S. Van Dyke encouraged them to use Hammett's writing as", "title": "The Thin Man (film)" }, { "id": "3194305", "text": "The Continental Op The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett. He is a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office. The stories are all told in the first person and his name is never mentioned. The Continental Op is a master of deceit in the exercise of his occupation. In his 1927 \"Black Mask\" story \"$106,000 Blood Money\" the Op is confronted with two dilemmas: shall he expose a corrupt fellow detective, thereby hurting the reputation of his agency; and shall he also allow an informant to collect the", "title": "The Continental Op" }, { "id": "15649053", "text": "Prohibition-era entertainment, with a reasonably \"straight\" performance from comic actor Ruggles and a few songs from Helen Morgan. Roadhouse Nights Roadhouse Nights is a 1930 American Pre-Code gangster film. A number of sources including Sally Cline in her book \"Dashiell Hammett Man of Mystery\" claim it is based on the classic novel \"Red Harvest\" written by Dashiell Hammett (author of \"The Maltese Falcon\", \"The Thin Man\", and \"The Glass Key\"). However the credits of the film itself say only \"An Original Screenplay by Ben Hecht.\" Hammett receives no mention at all (and the plots are not similar). The movie, an", "title": "Roadhouse Nights" }, { "id": "15960690", "text": "Waters, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, and Larry Coryell, among others. Still haunted by the murder of a fifteen-year-old girl near his home as a boy, Ellis's interest in crime fiction began to evolve with the films of Alfred Hitchcock and books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, and Dashiell Hammett. Soon he gave up music to write and study filmmaking, and began skipping classes at Conestoga High School to attend murder trials. These experiences became short stories, with Ellis sharing the position of co-editor of the school newspaper. Ellis attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, majoring in film", "title": "Robert Ellis (author)" }, { "id": "9783436", "text": "of the same title by MGM in 1930. She was at one time the lover of the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett and he dedicated his 1931 novel \"The Glass Key\" to her. She was married to Ashley Weed Dickinson, a journalist and author. Martin wrote eight novels and over 200 short stories. Her novels include: Nell Martin Nell Martin (1890–1961) was an American author from Illinois specializing in light-hearted mysteries and short stories. She also published under Columbia Boyer and her full name Nell Columbia Boyer Martin. Having worked as a strawberry picker, newspaper reporter, taxi-cab driver, lawyer's assistant, laundry", "title": "Nell Martin" }, { "id": "12543349", "text": "a white supremacist group and was planning to detail their activities in a future book. In addition, the bizarre scene is said to resemble one portrayed in the unfinished manuscript. All United States publication dates are per Library Of Congress catalog. Eugene Izzi Eugene Izzi (March 23, 1953 – December 7, 1996) was an American crime writer. Izzi, a lifelong resident of Chicago, set most of his work in that city. He wrote in the classic hard-boiled style made famous by Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett. Despite moderate popularity, he is best known for the unusual circumstances surrounding his death.", "title": "Eugene Izzi" }, { "id": "6090334", "text": "tells Brendan that Emily expressed regret that she couldn't keep her pregnancy because she did not love the prospective father, and that Emily was three months pregnant when she died, implying that the baby was his. Brendan watches Laura walk away. The origins of \"Brick\" were Rian Johnson's obsessions with Dashiell Hammett's novels. Hammett was known for hardboiled detective novels, and Johnson wanted to make a straightforward American detective story. He had discovered Hammett's work through an interview of the Coen brothers about their 1990 gangster film, \"Miller's Crossing\". He read \"Red Harvest\" (1929) and then moved on to \"The", "title": "Brick (film)" }, { "id": "1417294", "text": "the USSR. When Lillian reaches London, she receives word that Julia has been killed in the Frankfurt apartment of a friend by Nazi agents although the details of her death are shrouded in secrecy. Lillian unsuccessfully looks for Julia's daughter in Alsace. She returns to the United States and is reunited with Dashiell Hammett. She is haunted by her memories of Julia and is distraught over not having found Julia's baby. She is shocked that Julia's family pretends not to remember Lillian, clearly wanting to excise from their memory a granddaughter who refused to conform at a time when conformity", "title": "Julia (1977 film)" }, { "id": "13222435", "text": "winning author receives a certificate of merit and a falcon sculpture crafted in wood. Maltese Falcon Society The Maltese Falcon Society is an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his novel \"The Maltese Falcon,\" and hardboiled mystery books and writers in general. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the organization is no longer active in the United States; however, a chapter in Japan has been active continuously since 1982. The Japanese branch of the society presents the Falcon Award, Japan's highest honor in the mystery field, to honor the best hardboiled mystery novel published in Japan. The Maltese Falcon Society", "title": "Maltese Falcon Society" }, { "id": "5295519", "text": "can't touch Dolores without destroying Mavis and her career and leaves, only to see Lagardie heading up to see her. Marlowe deduces that he was Dolores’ former husband, whom she had left for Steelgrave when they all lived in Cleveland before moving to California. Marlowe notifies the police, who are searching for Lagardie, but they arrive to find he has stabbed Dolores. Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett, defined the hardboiled school of detective fiction, popularised in pulp magazines such as \"Black Mask\". The hardboiled school was an alternative to the traditional murder mysteries of people like Agatha Christie and Dorothy", "title": "The Little Sister" }, { "id": "3921973", "text": "wartime female section leader. Serber created the code-names for all three design projects, the \"Little Boy\" (uranium gun), \"Thin Man\" (plutonium gun), and \"Fat Man\" (plutonium implosion), according to his reminiscences (1998). The names were based on their design shapes; the \"Thin Man\" would be a very long device, and the name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel and series of movies of the same name; the \"Fat Man\" bomb would be round and fat and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's character in \"The Maltese Falcon\" (from Hammett's novel). \"Little Boy\" would come last and be named only to", "title": "Robert Serber" }, { "id": "1417291", "text": "such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), at a beachhouse. Julia's school in Vienna is overrun by Nazi thugs, and Julia is severely injured trying to protect her colleagues. Lillian receives word of Julia's condition and rushes to Vienna to be with her. Julia is taken away for \"treatment\", and Lillian is unable to find her again since the hospital denies any knowledge of her being treated there. She remains in Europe to try to find Julia again", "title": "Julia (1977 film)" }, { "id": "1292554", "text": "He may have meant to start a new literary life with the novel \"Tulip\", but left it unfinished, perhaps because he was \"just too ill to care, too worn out to listen to plans or read contracts. The fact of breathing, just breathing, took up all the days and nights.\" Hammett could no longer live alone, and they both knew it, so he spent the last four years of his life with Hellman. \"Not all of that time was easy, and some of it very bad\", she wrote, but, \"guessing death was not too far away, I would try for", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "5155925", "text": "The Glass Key The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in \"Black Mask\" magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later) It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the", "title": "The Glass Key" }, { "id": "8565831", "text": "is considered having inspired the French critic Nino Frank to create in 1946 the phrase Film noir, which describes Hollywood crime dramas. In common parlance, today, the term also means a series of dramatic events with similarities, or affecting the same victims. Série noire Série noire is a French publishing imprint, founded in 1945 by Marcel Duhamel. It has released a collection of crime fiction of the hardboiled detective thrillers variety published by Gallimard. Anglo-American literature forms the bulk of their collection: it features especially Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, William R. Burnett, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Lou Cameron,", "title": "Série noire" }, { "id": "19998744", "text": "Charlie Wild, Private Detective (radio program) Charlie Wild, Private Detective is an American old-time radio detective mystery drama. It was broadcast on NBC September 24, 1950 - December 17, 1950, and on CBS January 7, 1951 - July 1, 1951. The episodes broadcast on CBS were also carried on six stations of the Alaska Broadcasting System. \"Charlie Wild, Private Detective\" replaced \"The Adventures of Sam Spade\" on the air. The change followed the listing of \"Sam Spade\"'s star (Howard Duff) and creator (Dashiell Hammett) in the anti-Communist tract \"Red Channels\". Radio historian John Dunning wrote that the association of the", "title": "Charlie Wild, Private Detective (radio program)" }, { "id": "20719514", "text": "sold the rights to MacBride and Kennedy to Warner Bros., who made nine film adaptations. The CBS Radio series \"Meet MacBride\", beginning in 1936, was also adapted from the series. Nebel created Donny “Tough Dick” Donahue at the request of Shaw for a character similar to Dashiel Hammett’s Sam Spade. Following the huge success of \"The Maltese Falcon\", Shaw wanted more Spade stories but Hammett, a personal friend of Nebel’s, had quit the pulps for Hollywood. Donahue was an ex-cop discharged for not giving into corruption, now working for the Inter-State Detective Agency. From 1930 to 1935, Nebel wrote 15", "title": "Frederick Nebel" }, { "id": "12877289", "text": "Dash and Lilly Dash and Lilly is a 1999 Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated biographical television film about writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. The film was directed by actress Kathy Bates and written by Jerrold L. Ludwig. It stars Sam Shepard and Judy Davis. The lives of Dashiell Hammett (Shepard) and Lillian Hellman (Davis) are set against the golden era of Hollywood, HUAC and the issue of McCarthyism of the 1950s. This intimate look at the lives of two of this century's literary titans follows their tumultuous affair, drinking bouts, career highs and lows, and activities in support of", "title": "Dash and Lilly" }, { "id": "13453737", "text": "assistant motel manager and an English teacher at a boys' school in Kenya. In his novels he used variations of the names of former associates—such as Stan Groner. According to The Thrilling Detective Web Site, \"He has often relied on his former occupations, particularly his stint as a private eye, to lend an air of authenticity to his work, blasting through the 'glamour' of detective work, [and] showing the drudgery and grunt work of detection.\" Gores died in a Marin County, California, hospital 50 years to the day after Dashiell Hammett died. Novels: Hammett Novels: DKA Novels (involving detective agency", "title": "Joe Gores" }, { "id": "2537028", "text": "Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, \"The Maltese Falcon\". Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. \"The Maltese Falcon\", first published as a serial in the pulp magazine \"Black Mask\", is the only full-length novel in which Spade appears. The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction—Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less-than-glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous", "title": "Sam Spade" }, { "id": "13146285", "text": "ABC's \"The Rifleman\" with Chuck Connors. Alcaide's \"The Rifleman\" episodes aired between 1959 and 1962 and included the roles of: Alcaide also appeared in network drama series: Alcaide came out of retirement in 1982 to play an unnamed man in a corporate boardroom in the film \"Hammett\", a fictional story of author Dashiell Hammett. He appeared as the Chief Justice in the 1987 Charles Bronson film \"Assassination\". In 1948, Alcaide married Georgia Sarkisian, briefly becoming the step-father of her young daughter Cher, before their 1949 divorce. In 1956, Alcaide married the former Peri Hatman (July 27, 1923 – March 15,", "title": "Chris Alcaide" }, { "id": "14370727", "text": "William Deverell William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937) is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer. He is one of Canada's best-known novelists, whose first book, \"Needles\", which drew on his experiences as a criminal lawyer, won the McClelland & Stewart $50,000 Seal Award. In 1997 he won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing in North America for \"Trail of Passion\". That book also won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian crime novel, as did \"April Fool\" in 2003. \"Trial of Passion\" launched his first crime series, featuring the classically trained, self-doubting Arthur", "title": "William Deverell" }, { "id": "8906701", "text": "journalism and did not dwell on his \"\"Leave It To Beaver\"\" heritage, turning down numerous \"LITB\" reunion offers in order to be taken seriously as a reporter. But in recent years he has begun to reflect affectionately on his \"Beaver\" experience in articles and interviews and even in a \"Frontline\" documentary, \"Diet Wars.\" Talbot's many TV documentaries include two Peabody Award winners, \"Broken Arrow\", about nuclear weapons accidents, and \"The Case of Dashiell Hammett,\" a biography of the crime writer. Talbot has had a long association with the PBS series \"Frontline\" beginning with his documentary on the financing of the", "title": "Stephen Talbot" }, { "id": "5155940", "text": "story. He has made the reader as much interested in the relation of his individuals to each other as in the solution of the story\". Somerset Maugham saw in Ned Beaumont \"a curious, intriguing character whom any novelist would have been proud to conceive\" And Raymond Chandler found \"an effect of movement, intrigue, cross-purposes, and the gradual elucidation of character, which is all the detective story has any right to be about anyway. All the rest is spillikins in the parlor\". Dashiell Hammett and his novel \"The Glass Key\" have influenced many other hardboiled writers. Raymond Chandler wrote in his", "title": "The Glass Key" }, { "id": "2537033", "text": "both critics and audiences alike. Peter Falk delivered a more successful spoof the following year as \"Sam Diamond\" in Neil Simon's \"Murder by Death\". This was preceded by the spoof character \"Sam Diamond\" in the 1965 \"Addams Family\" episode \"Thing Is Missing\", portrayed by Tommy Farrell. In 2009, with the approval of the estate of Dashiell Hammett, the veteran detective-story writer Joe Gores published \"Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON\" with Alfred A. Knopf, the original publisher of Hammett's \"The Maltese Falcon\". Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of", "title": "Sam Spade" }, { "id": "9073512", "text": "Lake City.) The harassment of the young woman reflects a popular literary theme in Queen Victoria's England. In Dashiell Hammett's \"The Dain Curse\" (1929), much of the mystery puzzle revolves around the Temple of the Holy Grail, a fictitious California circle that Hammett's characters repeatedly describe as a \"cult\". Hammett depicts it as starting as a scam, although the putative leader begins to believe in his own fraudulent claims. A.E.W. Mason, in \"The Prisoner in the Opal\" (1928), one of his Inspector Hanaud mysteries, describes the unmasking of a Satanist cult. The Italian novelist Sibilla Aleramo, in \"Amo, dunque sono\"", "title": "New religious movements and cults in popular culture" }, { "id": "708372", "text": "before being published in book form in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel has been filmed four times, twice under its original title: There have been two audiobooks of the novel: There has been one stage adaptation: The Maltese Falcon (novel) The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine \"Black Mask\" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The", "title": "The Maltese Falcon (novel)" }, { "id": "5091878", "text": "Blue City (novel) Blue City was a thriller written in 1947 by Ross Macdonald. The novel was originally released under his real name, Kenneth Millar, by Alfred A. Knopf, while a condensed version was serialized in the August and September 1950 issues of \"Esquire\". In 1986 it was considerably adapted to film. Macdonald later described his third novel, \"Blue City\", as \"a tough thriller in the Spillane tradition\", although \"The Chicago Sun\" noted that he was in a different league from Mickey Spillane. Publicity for the novel linked the author's name with James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler,", "title": "Blue City (novel)" }, { "id": "4169691", "text": "The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for \"The Maltese Falcon\". The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie. The announcer was Dick Joy. The series", "title": "The Adventures of Sam Spade" }, { "id": "3672912", "text": "and literary critics alike. The Lew Archer novels are recognized as some of the most significant American mystery books of the mid 20th century, bringing a literary sophistication to the genre. The critic John Leonard declared that Macdonald had surpassed the limits of crime fiction to become \"a major American novelist\". He has also been called the primary heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American hardboiled mysteries. Macdonald's writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters. Their plots of \"baroque splendor\" were", "title": "Ross Macdonald" }, { "id": "1292547", "text": "attack on Pearl Harbor, Hammett again enlisted in the United States Army. He was a disabled veteran of World War I, a victim of tuberculosis, and a Communist, but he pulled strings to be admitted. However, biographer Diane Johnson suggests that confusion over Hammett's forenames was the reason he was able to re-enlist. He served as a sergeant in the Aleutian Islands, where he edited an Army newspaper entitled \"The Adakian\". In 1943, while still a member of the military, he co-authored \"The Battle of the Aleutians\" with Cpl. Robert Colodny, under the direction of an infantry intelligence officer, Major", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "1292553", "text": "continued to trouble him until 1948, when he quit after his doctor's orders. However, years of heavy drinking and smoking worsened the tuberculosis he contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman, \"jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker ... I knew he would now always be sick.\" Hellman wrote that during the 1950s, Hammett became \"a hermit\", his decline evident in the clutter of his rented \"ugly little country cottage\", where \"signs of sickness were all around: now the phonograph was unplayed, the typewriter untouched, the beloved foolish gadgets unopened in their packages.\"", "title": "Dashiell Hammett" }, { "id": "5970556", "text": "III called \"Garfield Fantasies\" the most unusual of the \"Garfield\" DVD collections, adding \"Babes and Bullets\" \"ain't exactly \"Sin City\" here, but this amusing caper is one of the best of the bunch.\" Author Mitzi M. Brunsdale described Sam Spayed as one of the \"strange spinoffs\" of the Sam Spade character, created by Dashiell Hammett in the novel \"The Maltese Falcon\". \"Turner Classic Movies\" identified Sam Spayed particularly as a parody of 1940s film detectives and Humphrey Bogart, who starred as Spade in the 1941 film version of \"The Maltese Falcon\". Garfield's Babes and Bullets Garfield's Babes and Bullets is", "title": "Garfield's Babes and Bullets" }, { "id": "255990", "text": "another 25 Little Boy assemblies in 1947 for use by the Lockheed P2V Neptune nuclear strike aircraft which could be launched from the Midway-class aircraft carriers. All the Little Boy units were withdrawn from service by the end of January 1951. Physicist Robert Serber named the first two atomic bomb designs during World War II based on their shapes: Thin Man and Fat Man. The \"Thin Man\" was a long, thin device and its name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel and series of movies about \"The Thin Man\". The \"Fat Man\" was round and fat so it was", "title": "Little Boy" }, { "id": "4169692", "text": "was largely overseen by producer/director William Spier. In 1947, scriptwriters Jason James and Bob Tallman received an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama from the Mystery Writers of America. Before the series, Sam Spade had been played in radio adaptations of \"The Maltese Falcon\" by both Edward G. Robinson (in a 1943 \"Lux Radio Theater\" production) and by Humphrey Bogart (in a 1941 \"Academy Award Theater\" production), both on CBS. Dashiell Hammett's name was removed from the series in the late 1940s because he was being investigated for involvement with the Communist Party. Later, when Howard Duff's name appeared in", "title": "The Adventures of Sam Spade" }, { "id": "1897918", "text": "novel) into the story and softened Bruno from a coarse alcoholic into a dapper, charming mama's boy — a much more Hitchcockian villain. With treatment in hand, Hitchcock shopped for a screenwriter; he wanted a \"name\" writer to lend some prestige to the screenplay, but was turned down by eight writers, including John Steinbeck and Thornton Wilder, all of whom thought the story too tawdry and were put off by Highsmith's first-timer status. Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further, but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment. Hitchcock then tried Raymond Chandler, who had earned", "title": "Strangers on a Train (film)" }, { "id": "2454366", "text": "\"Vaccination Brought Home to You,\" which documented two cases of children's bad reactions to vaccines. Clymer's involvement in new religious movements, the drama that invariably followed Clymer and similar leaders (such as Father Divine), inspired a number of early 20th century detective stories, such as Dashiell Hammett's \"The Dain Curse\". Clymer's works are also standard reading for American Rosicrucians, and his interest in medicine is continued by the FRC to this day, with the Beverly Hall headquarters housing chiropractic and naturopathic clinics. His prolific writing about Paschal Beverly Randolph and his teachings remain influential in the study of Randolph, in", "title": "Reuben Swinburne Clymer" } ]

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[ { "id": "1542261", "text": "the terms \"statusphere\", \"the right stuff\", \"radical chic\", \"the Me Decade\" and \"good ol' boy\" into the English lexicon. Wolfe was at times incorrectly credited with coining the term \"trophy wife\". His term for extremely thin women in his novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was \"X-rays\". According to journalism professor Ben Yagoda, Wolfe is also responsible for the use of the present tense in magazine profile pieces; before he began doing so in the early 1960s, profile articles had always been written in the past tense. Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "1542230", "text": "and \"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby\". In 1979, he published the influential book \"The Right Stuff\" about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. Wolfe was born on March 2, 1930, in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Helen Perkins Hughes Wolfe, a garden designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Sr.,", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "2734175", "text": "The Bonfire of the Vanities The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow. The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens' writings; it ran in 27 installments in \"Rolling Stone\" starting in 1984. Wolfe heavily revised it before it was published in book form. The novel was a", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "7842262", "text": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film, which was a critical and commercial flop, stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $15 million against its $47 million budget. The controversies surrounding the film were detailed in a book called \"The Devil's", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "6278996", "text": "Appeals in January 1985. The same month as his appointment, Wachtler was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that \"district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that 'by and large' they could get them to 'indict a ham sandwich.'\" This quote was then used by Tom Wolfe (and attributed to Wachtler) in Wolfe's 1987 novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", paraphrased into \"a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.\" As of 2018, the \"ham sandwich\" phrase remains in common usage in legal discussions. Wachtler's decision in \"Chapadeau v.", "title": "Sol Wachtler" }, { "id": "2734192", "text": "direction by Michael Bergmann, premiered in New York on October 9, 2015. Amazon Studios, in association with Warner Bros. TV, is working on an eight-episode, one-hour drama series based on the book, produced by Chuck Lorre. It will be distributed through Amazon Video. The Bonfire of the Vanities The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "7842275", "text": "the human condition, that the satire is about as socially incisive as a Police Academy entry.\" Vincent Canby in \"The New York Times\" denounced \"Brian De Palma's gross, unfunny movie adaptation.\" Owen Gleiberman of \"Entertainment Weekly\" called it, \"one of the most indecently bad movies of the year.\" Rita Kempley said in \"The Washington Post\", \"the director has become one with the buffoons Wolfe scored in his bestseller. He has not only filed Wolfe's teeth but stuck his tail between his legs,\" and called the film, \"A calamity of miscasting and commercial concessions.\" In \"Rolling Stone\", Peter Travers wrote, \"On", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "7842277", "text": "scribes of the Old Testament among its victims - but you'd be hard-pressed to find an adaptation that screws up as royally as Brian De Palma's take on \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\". Miscast, misguided and miserably unfunny, Tom Wolfe's black satire about avarice, prejudice and criminal injustice in the loony-toon town of New York has been raped, stripped of all ambiguity and dimension,\" and he ended the review by saying, \"What a mess.\" Of the way Tom Wolfe's story was adapted, Brian De Palma said, \"The initial concept of it was incorrect. If you're going to do \"The Bonfire", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "7842283", "text": "a revised title, \"The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco\", and further material by Salamon (in which she describes Bruce Willis's negative reaction to the book). The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film, which was a critical and commercial flop, stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "5933509", "text": "the first of 16 great guest stars on \"The Simpsons\". The episode is also notable for having predicted the team matchup for Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The title of the episode is a reference to the novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" by Tom Wolfe. The Bonfire of the Manatees \"The Bonfire of the Manatees\" is the first episode of \"The Simpsons<nowiki>'</nowiki>\" seventeenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 11, 2005, making it the first \"Simpsons\" season premiere to air in September since the eleventh", "title": "The Bonfire of the Manatees" }, { "id": "2734176", "text": "bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books. It has often been called the quintessential novel of the 1980s. The title is a reference to the historical Bonfire of the Vanities, which happened in 1497 in Florence, Italy, when the city was under the rule of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola, who ordered the burning of objects that church authorities considered sinful, such as cosmetics, mirrors, books and art. Wolfe intended his novel to capture the essence of New York City in the 1980s. Wall Street in the 1980s was newly resurgent after most of the", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "1542248", "text": "Wolfe researched and revised for two years, and his \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was published in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists and earning praise from the very literary establishment on which Wolfe had long heaped scorn. Because of the success of Wolfe's first novel, there was widespread interest in his second. This novel took him more than 11 years to complete; \"A Man in Full\" was published in 1998. The book's reception was not universally favorable, though it received glowing reviews in \"Time\", \"Newsweek\", \"The Wall Street Journal\", and elsewhere.", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "2734189", "text": "resulted in the freezing of his assets. The all-but-forgotten Henry Lamb succumbs to his injuries from the accident; McCoy, penniless and estranged from his wife and daughter, awaits trial for vehicular manslaughter. In the novel's closing, Tommy Killian holds forth: \"Bonfire\" was Wolfe's first novel. Wolfe's prior works were mostly non-fiction journalistic articles and books. His earlier short stories appeared in his collection \"Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine\". According to Wolfe, the characters are composites of many individuals and cultural observations. However, some characters were based on real people. Wolfe has acknowledged the character of Tommy Killian is", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "2734190", "text": "based on New York lawyer Edward Hayes, to whom the book is dedicated. The character of the Reverend Bacon is considered by many to be based on the Reverends Al Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson, who have both campaigned under the banner of eliminating racism. In 2007, on the book's 20th anniversary of publication, \"The New York Times\" published a retrospective on how the city had changed since Wolfe's novel. The book was a major bestseller, and also received strong reviews. \"The New York Times\" praised the book, saying it was \"a big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "10844864", "text": "to Dream\". Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast \"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast\" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of \"Harper's Magazine\" criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism. After being serialized in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, Wolfe's first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was published in 1987. Prior to the novel, Wolfe had made his career as a journalist and author of non-fiction books. Wolfe had been a pioneer of \"New Journalism,\" a style of non-fiction that relied heavily on novelistic techniques such as the use of scene, dialogue, first-person point of view", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "10844856", "text": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast \"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast\" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of \"Harper's Magazine\" criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism. After being serialized in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, Wolfe's first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was published in 1987. Prior to the novel, Wolfe had made his career as a journalist and author of non-fiction books. Wolfe had been a pioneer of \"New Journalism,\" a style of non-fiction that relied heavily on novelistic techniques such as the use of scene, dialogue, first-person point of view from the", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "13331530", "text": "Loren and Mario Van Peebles. Best Feature Film, Feature Audience Award, Best Actress for Bonnie Loren – The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Bergmann wrote the libretto for Stefania de Kenessey’s opera based on Tom Wolfe’s novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" and directed the premiere in New York on October 9th, 2015. Bergmann has been inspired by the innovative dialogue of Harold Pinter and David Mamet, but says he does not share their concerns. \"To be as angry as Pinter you have to be able to see something from a single point of view. The minute", "title": "Michael Bergmann" }, { "id": "2734178", "text": "of Brooklyn in 1982, and Michael Griffith in Howard Beach, Queens, in 1986. In another episode that became a subject of much media attention, Bernhard Goetz became something of a folk-hero in the city for shooting a group of black men who tried to rob him in the subway in 1984. Burton B. Roberts, a Bronx judge known for his no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom, became the model for the character of Myron Kovitsky in the book. Throughout his early career, Wolfe had planned to write a novel that would capture the wide spectrum of American society.", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "11224501", "text": "from the processed meat. A ham sandwich was suspected of causing an outbreak of swine fever in the UK in 2000. New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" that \"a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.\" A fictional talking ham sandwich appeared in an online noir serial in the late 1990s, and the publishers sued in 1999 when a similar character appeared in a television advertisement for Florida orange juice, though the suit was withdrawn. The name \"ham sandwich\" is sometimes used", "title": "Ham sandwich" }, { "id": "2734181", "text": "with many of the traders who later founded the notorious hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.) Wolfe researched and revised for two years. \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" appeared in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists and earning praise from much of the literary establishment on which Wolfe had long heaped scorn. The story centers on Sherman McCoy, a successful New York City bond trader. His $3 million Park Avenue co-op, combined with his aristocratic wife's extravagances and other expenses required to keep up appearances are depleting his great income, or as Sherman", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "10733181", "text": "currently writing a script for Maven Pictures about the life of Clementine Churchill. She is also developing a series of Tom Wolfe's classic book, \"Bonfire of the Vanities\" with Chuck Lorre and Warner Brothers TV. Nagle's paternal descent is Irish. Nagle is named after her great aunt, modern dance pioneer Margaret Newell H'Doubler. Nagle, who has a brother with a brain injury from a car accident, is actively involved in furthering rights and visibility for people with disabilities and is on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of Southern California. Nagle recently received the Media Access Award from the Writers", "title": "Margaret Nagle" }, { "id": "3862796", "text": "Global Markets. Two members of the Salomon Brothers' bond arbitrage, John Meriwether and Myron Scholes, later became a founder and a consultant for Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998. The firm's top bond traders called themselves \"Big Swinging Dicks,\" and were the inspiration for the book \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", by Tom Wolfe. Salomon Brothers' success and decline in the 1980s is documented in Michael Lewis' 1989 book, \"Liar's Poker\". Lewis went through Salomon's training program and then became a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in London. The last years of Salomon Brothers, culminating in", "title": "Salomon Brothers" }, { "id": "1561523", "text": "he had not \"seen anything that looked like this since London after the Blitz\". The 1987 novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", by the American writer Tom Wolfe, presented the South Bronx as a nightmare world, not to be entered by middle or upper-class whites. Beginning in the late 1980s, parts of the South Bronx started to experience urban renewal with rehabilitated and brand new residential structures, including both subsidized multifamily townhomes and apartment buildings. The Bright Temple A.M.E. Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Over 1 billion US dollars were spent on rebuilding", "title": "South Bronx" }, { "id": "10844857", "text": "subjects of the stories and recording minute details of everyday routine. In his novel, \"Bonfire of the Vanities\", Wolfe used many of the writing techniques in his journalism, but this time to tell what Wolfe called a \"fictional novel\" (though novel traditionally denotes fiction and is hence redundant, Wolfe's \"New Journalism\" was sometimes described as non-fiction novels). In addition, Wolfe set out in \"Bonfire\" to capture the spirit of New York City in the 1980s. The book was a commercial success, becoming a New York Times Bestseller and earning critical praise. In his \"Harper's\" essay, Wolfe (at the time a", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "7842269", "text": "is applauding Peter Fallow's premiere of his book. Fallow says that Sherman McCoy has moved away from New York City to an unknown destination, presumably to live in obscurity. The novel of \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" was a bestseller. Warner Bros. bought the rights from author Tom Wolfe for $750,000. The film was plagued by controversy. Among them were the acting choices: The studio made significant changes to the source material, making Sherman McCoy more sympathetic and adding a subplot involving a minor character, Judge Leonard White. In one notable scene in the film, Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith) arrives", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "11793066", "text": "of the Art World\", published by Grove Atlantic. Haden-Guest is known for being humorously irreverent, as seen in the following quote on Gawker.com: The massive streak of Puritanism in America has reasserted itself, especially amongst liberals. When I moved to New York there were still a bunch of good writers, often half-drunk, but still very good writers. That doesn't exist any more. Where do they go? They probably go and teach at Bard. In response to a suggestion that Peter Fallow in the Tom Wolfe novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" (1987) was based on British expatriate journalist Christopher Hitchens,", "title": "Anthony Haden-Guest" }, { "id": "1542253", "text": "Wolfe as \"a brilliantly gifted social observer and satirist\" who \"made a fetish of close and often comically slashing detail\" and was \"unafraid of kicking up at the pretensions of the literary establishment.\" Critic James Wood disparaged Wolfe's \"big subjects, big people, and yards of flapping exaggeration. No one of average size emerges from his shop; in fact, no real human variety can be found in his fiction, because everyone has the same enormous excitability.\" Wolfe was in 2000 criticised by Norman Mailer, John Updike and John Irving, after they were asked if they believed that his books were deserving", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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The thin, elegant blonde was said to be the inspiration for the term “social X-ray” in Tom Wolfe’s novel Bonfire of the Vanities. Kempner died on July 3, 2005, aged 74, from emphysema. Two months later her family held a memorial service in her honour at the auction house Christie's. 500 of her friends were in attendance. In December 2006 the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute opened an exhibition of Kempner's extensive couture collection.", "title": "Nan Kempner" }, { "id": "15014547", "text": "Burton B. Roberts Burton Bennett Roberts (July 25, 1922 – October 24, 2010) served as Bronx district attorney before his election as a judge, later serving as the chief administrative judge for the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx until his retirement in 1998 after 25 years on the bench. His no-nonsense manner as a prosecutor and in court made him the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in the 1987 book \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" by Tom Wolfe. Roberts was born on July 25, 1922, in New York City and earned his undergraduate degree in 1943 at", "title": "Burton B. Roberts" }, { "id": "3361177", "text": "more junk bonds. Lewis remarked in his conclusion that the 1980s were a time when anyone could make millions, provided they were in the right place at the right time, as exemplified by Lewis Ranieri's success. Liar's Poker Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's \"\", and the fictional \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" by Tom Wolfe.", "title": "Liar's Poker" }, { "id": "124923", "text": "\"makes frantic clinging to earthly things completely pointless.\" Pope Francis cited Ecclesiastes on his address on September 9, 2014. Speaking of vain people, he said, \"How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble.\" Ecclesiastes has had a deep influence on Western literature. It contains several phrases that have resonated in British and American culture, such as \"eat, drink and be merry,\" \"nothing new under the sun,\" \"a time to be born and a time to die,\" and \"vanity of vanities; all is vanity.\" American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: \"[O]f all I have ever seen or", "title": "Ecclesiastes" }, { "id": "1542254", "text": "of their critical acclaim. Mailer compared reading a Wolfe novel to having sex with a 300lb woman, saying 'Once she gets to the top it's all over. Fall in love or be asphyxiated.' Updike was more literary in his reservedness: he claimed that one of his books 'amounts to entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form.' Irving was perhaps the most dismissive, saying 'It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine ... read sentences and watch yourself gag.' Wolfe responded, saying, 'It's a tantrum. It's a wonderful tantrum. \"A Man in Full\"", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "8100347", "text": "Box\", directed by Paul Newman (Golden Globe Award, Emmy nomination); \"Falling in Love\"; \"The Witches of Eastwick\", adapted from the novel by John Updike; \"The Bonfire of the Vanities,\" adapted from the novel by Tom Wolfe and directed by Brian De Palma; \"Breaking Up\", and \"Casanova\". His directing credits include \"Gia\", for HBO Pictures (starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl and Faye Dunaway), which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and for which he won a Directors Guild Award. He next directed \"Body Shots\"; and \"Original Sin\", which was released in 2001. For eight years he worked as artistic advisor and", "title": "Michael Cristofer" }, { "id": "9480572", "text": "in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel \"Treasure Island\" (1883). Her habitual refrain: \"Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!\" In the narrative poem \"The Raven\" by Edgar Allan Poe the titular bird famously recites the word \"Nevermore\" throughout. Talking ravens are a notable element in the series \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" by author George R. R. Martin. One in particular has the ability to say \"Corn!\" when hungry, but many say \"Snow!\" as well. The 2017 \"Doctor Who\" episode \"The Eaters of Light\" depicts talking crows in Scotland at the time of the Picts' wars against the Romans. It further", "title": "Talking bird" }, { "id": "235823", "text": "three years old as a child fashion model in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management. At the age of six, she made her feature film debut in a minor role in Woody Allen's short film \"Oedipus Wrecks\"; it was released as one-third of the anthology film \"New York Stories\" (1989). Soon after, Dunst performed in the comedy-drama \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" (1990), based on Tom Wolfe's novel of the same name, in which she played the daughter of Tom Hanks's character. In 1993, Dunst made a guest appearance in an episode of the", "title": "Kirsten Dunst" }, { "id": "2277222", "text": "wife, Jane Schindelheim. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Wenner played an integral role in popularizing writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Fong-Torres, Paul Nelson, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Grover Lewis, Timothy Crouse, Timothy Ferris, Joe Klein, Cameron Crowe, Joe Eszterhas and P.J. O'Rourke. He also discovered photographer Annie Leibovitz when she was a 21-year-old San Francisco Art Institute student. Many of Wenner's proteges, such as Crowe, credit him with giving them their biggest breaks. Tom Wolfe recognized Wenner's influence in ensuring that his first novel, \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", was completed, stating \"I was absolutely frozen with fright", "title": "Jann Wenner" }, { "id": "5933853", "text": "flying by Tom into a full wine glass – but Jerry saves him by hurling a tomato at Tom, followed by multiple vegetables and meat chunks. After impaling them all on his rapier, Tom then heats and eats them like a shish kebab. Nibbles, now drunk, climbs out of the glass. He pokes Tom in the rear-end, making him yowl and jump up, as Nibbles waves his sword, saying \"Touché, pussycat!\" But as he runs away, Tom catches him. Jerry makes the save by hitting Tom on the head with a mace so hard that Tom falls through the table,", "title": "The Two Mouseketeers" }, { "id": "3858198", "text": "which Croker is indebted, Roger Too White's former fraternity brother (now mayor of Atlanta), and the entirety of 'respectable' Atlanta society. \"A Man In Full\" is written much in the style of Wolfe's other fictions, such as \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" and \"I Am Charlotte Simmons\". Released eleven years after Wolfe's bestselling novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", \"A Man in Full\" was widely anticipated; Wolfe was known to be working on the research for this follow-up effort for several years. Most of the mainstream American newspapers and news magazines gave the book positive reviews. However, a second wave", "title": "A Man in Full" }, { "id": "7842271", "text": "requiring a 24-hour timelapse of Manhattan, from a camera platform beside a gargoyle on top of the Chrysler Building. Several of the sets parodied the home decorated by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade for Carolyne Roehm and Henry Kravis. The cover of Peter Fallow's book in the film has a similar design to the original first edition of Tom Wolfe's novel from 1987. Cristofer's original script ended cynically with the supposed victim of the hit-and-run walking out of the hospital, suggesting that the whole scenario was concocted. That ending did not test well with audiences and was dropped. Sherman and", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "9065736", "text": "exclamation mark (e.g., , , 'Oops! Oh!'), an interjection should only be separated from an extended exclamation by a comma (e.g., , , 'Oops! I left the stove on.'). In Spanish, a sentence or clause ending in an exclamation mark must also begin with an inverted exclamation mark (the same also applies to the question mark): , 'Are you crazy? You almost killed her!' As in British English, a bracketed exclamation mark may be used to indicate irony or surprise at a statement: , 'He said that he's not going to a party tonight(!).' Such use is not matched by", "title": "Exclamation mark" }, { "id": "7368143", "text": "to dedicating his 1987 novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" to Hayes, Wolfe has acknowledged that he based the lawyer character Tommy Killian on him. Andy Warhol had met the lawyer briefly in the fall of 1980 and wrote in his diary: Defense lawyer named Ed Hayes who looked like he was from Laverne and Shirley, like a plant that people invite to parties to wear funny clothes and jump around and make things ‘kooky.’ Sort of forties clothes, really crew cut, about twenty-nine. He said, ‘I can get ya outta anything.’ In the 1990 American film classic Goodfellas, Hayes", "title": "Eddie Hayes (lawyer)" }, { "id": "121754", "text": "\"Chrononhotonthologos\" (1743) holds the opening line: \"Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?\" Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 romp \"Headlong Hall\": \"osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous\" (44 characters) and \"osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary\" (51 characters). James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel \"Finnegans Wake\", the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word.", "title": "Longest word in English" }, { "id": "257981", "text": "as his German captors die laughing, with one German officer (Cleese) insisting the joke isn't funny before finally cracking up and then uttering a Woody Woodpecker-style laugh before expiring. The Germans attempt counter-jokes. For example, film is shown of Adolf Hitler supposedly saying \"My dog has no nose\", then a German soldier asking \"How does he smell?\", with Hitler replying \"Awful!\" Eventually their best \"V-joke\" (in reference to the V-1 flying bomb) is attempted on a radio broadcast: \"Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, und von vas assaulted...peanut. Ohohohoho!\" Although the joke is followed triumphantly by the German", "title": "The Funniest Joke in the World" }, { "id": "15014553", "text": "retirement from the bench in 1998. Immortalized in \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" as judge Myron Kovitsky, a character based on Roberts, he was one of the few sympathetic characters in the book, one who would not be swayed by prosecutors or the press. Wolfe dedicated the book to Roberts and one of his assistants, calling Roberts \"one of the great figures in New York\" and considered him \"the greatest single figure I've run into\". In the 1990 film adaptation of the book starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith, the role of the judge was renamed to Leonard", "title": "Burton B. Roberts" }, { "id": "4835132", "text": "exclamation point. A few writers have used three or more exclamation points (\"!!!\") for an exceptionally brilliant move. For example, in Rotlewi-Rubinstein 1907, Hans Kmoch awarded Rubinstein's 22...Rxc3 three exclamation points. Likewise, an exceptionally bad blunder may be awarded three or more question marks (\"???\"). The general consensus among chess writers is that these symbols are unnecessary. A few writers have used unusual combinations of question marks and exclamation points (e.g. \"!!?\", \"?!?\", \"??!\") for particularly unusual or controversial moves, but these have no generally accepted meaning, and are typically used for humorous or entertainment purposes. Occasionally an annotation symbol", "title": "Chess annotation symbols" }, { "id": "13775082", "text": "bombs by hostile student audiences. However public opinion in the English-speaking world was slowly won over. By the eighties free market institutions were once again widely respected if not widely admired, despite the occasional popular work that tried to bring their dark side to the public's attention, such as Oliver Stone's film \"Wall Street\" and Tom Wolfe's novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\". Labour unrest and aggressive wage bargaining was a significant cause of the displacement especially in Britain but also in the United States. For about the first 15 years of the Keynesian age, labour relations were generally peaceful.", "title": "Post-war displacement of Keynesianism" }, { "id": "10395908", "text": "as one of his generation's most prominent social critics. The stories in \"The Pump House Gang\" are written in the style of New Journalism that Wolfe and other writers like Joan Didion and Gay Talese helped to popularize. According to Time Magazine's review of Wolfe's book: He uses a language that explodes with comic-book words like \"POW!\" and \"boing.\" His sentences are shot with ellipses, stabbed with exclamation points, or bombarded with long lists of brand names and anatomical terms. He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese. Wolfe's", "title": "The Pump House Gang" }, { "id": "11485869", "text": "has failed to place among the top four teams only once, in 2012.Below is the list of eight nations that have finished in the top two in Thomas Cup. 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 2002: 2000: 1998: 1996: 1994: 1992: 1990: 1988: 1986: 1984: 1981: 1978: 1975: 1972: 1969: 2017 2015 2013 2011 2009 Even though they actually have a balance of strength in all events, they are known for producing many great doubles in the men's category. Their doubles had conquered the", "title": "Indonesia national badminton team" }, { "id": "17056748", "text": "the letter and publish it intact as reportage. The result, published in the November 1963 issue, was \"There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.\" The article was widely discussed — loved by some, hated by others — and helped Wolfe publish his first book, \"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby\". Wolfe also credited Dobell with the idea of changing Sherman McCoy, the protagonist of Wolfe's novel \"Bonfire of the Vanities\", from a writer to a bond trader. As the editor of \"Book World\" from 1967-1969, Dobell published numerous book reviews by Mario Puzo, including the first book review Puzo", "title": "Byron Dobell" }, { "id": "2044544", "text": "Callahan foils a bank robbery. He kills two of the robbers and wounds a third. Confronting the wounded robber, Callahan delivers the film's iconic line: I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk? The robber surrenders to Callahan, but then replies that he needs", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "id": "1583443", "text": "the source of the popular writers' adage \"murder your darlings\". He is mentioned briefly in \"The Well of Lost Plots\" by Jasper Fforde as one of the few authors with a name beginning with the letter \"Q\". It is Quiller-Couch who originated the saying \"kill your darlings\": A collected edition of Q's fiction appeared as \"Tales and Romances\" (30 volumes, 1928–29). Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication \"The Oxford Book Of English", "title": "Arthur Quiller-Couch" }, { "id": "6715859", "text": "Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\". New York publicist Mortimer Matz recommends an old raincoat. In addition to concealing the handcuffs, he says, it is not a problem when the garment inevitably gets smudged by fingerprint ink remaining on the defendant's hands. New York Mafia boss John Gotti wore the expensive custom-tailored suits that earned him his \"Dapper Don\" nickname during perp walks, in contrast to the sweatpants and jackets seen among other contemporary organized-crime figures. Susan McDougal, subjected to a brief perp walk in a miniskirt, leg irons and a waist chain as she was taken", "title": "Perp walk" }, { "id": "2466229", "text": "the groin with the handle pointing upward. This led to a very long burst of laughter from the audience, which has been called the longest sustained laugh by a live audience in television history. After a moment, Ames proceeded to walk toward the target to retrieve the tomahawk but Carson stopped him and allowed the situation to be appreciated for its humor. Carson ad-libbed: \"I didn't even know you were Jewish!\" and \"Welcome to \"Frontier Bris\".\" Ames then asked Carson if he would like to take a turn throwing, to which Carson replied: \"I can't hurt him any more than", "title": "Ed Ames" }, { "id": "10718050", "text": "book's most famous passages in the essay \"The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening\", exemplifying his style of description, Wolfe called Jimmy Carter a \"Missionary lectern-pounding Amen ten-finger C-major-chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha-keyboard loblolly piney-woods Baptist.\" The 12 pieces in the book are divided into four sections as follows: Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976. It includes the essay in which he coined the term \"the 'Me' Decade\" to refer to the", "title": "Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine" }, { "id": "13028006", "text": "as sarcastic, suggesting that the term \"sarcasm\" is more widely used than its technical definition suggests it should be (Bryant & Fox Tree, 2002; Gibbs, 2000). Some psycholinguistic theorists (e.g., Gibbs, 2000) suggest that sarcasm (\"Great idea!\", \"I hear they do fine work.\"), hyperbole (\"That's the best idea I have heard in years!\"), understatement (\"Sure, what the hell, it's only cancer...\"), rhetorical questions (\"What, does your spirit have cancer?\"), double entendre (\"I'll bet if you do that, you'll be communing with spirits in no time...\") and jocularity (\"Get them to fix your bad back while you're at it.\") should all", "title": "Irony" }, { "id": "121755", "text": "Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel \"The Bell Jar\", when the protagonist was reading \"Finnegans Wake\". \"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious\", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie \"Mary Poppins\", does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is \"a word that you say when you don't know what to say.\" The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman. The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes", "title": "Longest word in English" }, { "id": "13550827", "text": "is part of their conversation: <poem> Joyce: \"Why did you go back to Oxford?\" Endeavour: \"Oh! A policeman goes where he's sent.\" Joyce: \"When I told Pop, he just said, 'Proverbs 26:11.'\" Endeavour: [Recognizing the verse] \"Well I've many faults, God knows, but I try to draw the line at masochism. Besides, traditionally it's the killer that returns to the scene of the crime, not the... whatever I was.\" </poem> As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly \"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly\" is an aphorism which", "title": "As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" }, { "id": "9065732", "text": "with a single, nonstandard punctuation mark, the interrobang, which is the combination of a question mark and an exclamation mark. Overly frequent use of the exclamation mark is generally considered poor writing, for it distracts the reader and devalues the mark's significance. Some authors, however, most notably Tom Wolfe and Madison Acampora, are known for unashamedly liberal use of the exclamation mark. In comic books, the very frequent use of exclamation mark is common—see Comics, below. For information on the use of spaces after an exclamation mark, see the discussion of spacing after a full stop. Several studies have shown", "title": "Exclamation mark" }, { "id": "10995214", "text": "GUS: Light what?<br> BEN: The kettle.<br> GUS: You mean the gas.<br> BEN: Who does?<br> GUS: You do.<br> BEN: (\"his eyes narrowing\"): What do you mean, I mean the gas?<br> GUS: Well, that's what you mean, don't you? The gas.<br> BEN: (\"Powerfully\"): If I say go and light the kettle I mean go and light the kettle.<br> GUS: How can you light a kettle?<br> BEN: It's a figure of speech! Light the kettle. It's a figure of speech! (Qtd. in Billington 90–91) As Billington observes further, This kind of comic pedantry has precise echoes of the great Sid Field – ironically", "title": "Comedy of menace" }, { "id": "7368138", "text": "Eddie Hayes (lawyer) Edward Walter Hayes is an American lawyer, journalist, and memoirist. He is known for his role in settling the estate of Andy Warhol and representing several organized crime figures. Tom Wolfe's character Tommy Killian in \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" is based on Hayes. Hayes is often regularly featured on different radio stations, in both Ireland and the USA. Most recently, Hayes was portrayed as a character in the Broadway hit, Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks. Hayes was born in New York City in the neighborhood of Sunnyside, Queens, and grew up for a period of time", "title": "Eddie Hayes (lawyer)" }, { "id": "7045718", "text": "sequence of events which led up to Bertram Wooster [...] standing at the door [...] through the aromatic smoke of a meditative cigarette\". Bertie often uses unnecessary abbreviations, sometimes referring to words by only their initial letters. This can be seen in chapter 21, when Sir Roderick Glossop is imprisoned in a shed: \"Can you remove Sir R. from the s., Jeeves?\". Another stylistic device Wodehouse uses to create humour is the pun. For example, a pun is used in chapter 1, after Jeeves gives notice: \"No, sir. I fear I cannot recede from my position.\"\"But, dash it, you say", "title": "Thank You, Jeeves" }, { "id": "11395946", "text": "were a key source of tension in \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\"—\"Back to Blood\" will similarly feature characters of Cuban, Haitian, Russian, and French ancestry in the melting pot of Miami. Of the subject matter, Wolfe said, \"Two years ago when I got the idea of doing a book on immigration, people would say, 'Oh, that’s fascinating,' and then they would go to sleep standing up like a horse. Since then the subject has become a little more exciting, and in Miami, it's not only exciting, it’s red hot.\" Wolfe, who is well known for the depth of reporting that", "title": "Back to Blood" }, { "id": "12032029", "text": "entirely clear\"; the same article reported Goodwin stating that he had made the remarks \"impromptu - and after a wholly sleepless night\". The comparison of inner-city youth to primates, accompanied by the use of the word \"jungle\", was widely viewed as racist. Writer Tom Wolfe, though sympathetic to Goodwin's argument, stated in his 1996 essay \"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died\", that this \"may have been the stupidest single word uttered by an American public official in the year 1992\". Violence Initiative The Violence Initiative was a proposal for research into reducing violence in American inner cities, first announced on", "title": "Violence Initiative" }, { "id": "5947255", "text": "Shiver my timbers \"Shiver me timbers\" (or \"shiver my timbers\" in Standard English ) is an exclamation in the form of a mock oath usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise or annoyance. The phrase is based on real nautical slang and is a reference to the timbers, which are the wooden support frames of a sailing ship. In heavy seas, ships would be lifted up and pounded down so hard as to \"shiver\" the timbers, startling the sailors. Such an exclamation was", "title": "Shiver my timbers" }, { "id": "193704", "text": "20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur \"nigger\". In order of appearance: The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River \"forty to fifty years ago\" (the novel having been published in 1884). Huckleberry \"Huck\" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator) and his friend, Thomas \"Tom\" Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of", "title": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" }, { "id": "10844862", "text": "with his essay, stating that he essentially had argued that other writers need to be more like himself. Critics also noted that while many authors wrote the sorts of books Wolfe criticized, there were countless authors like Don DeLillo or John le Carré, Louise Erdrich or Toni Morrison, who wrote realism and were critically praised. \"The Times\" described the essay as \"one part serious argument with two parts calculated provocation,\" noting that the essay had helped continue discussion (and boost sales) of \"Bonfire of the Vanities\". Others were outright dismissive, with author Jim Harrison opining that Wolfe's ideas were \"the", "title": "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" }, { "id": "226323", "text": "is.\" Unless otherwise cited, items in this list are taken from Thomas F. Marvin's 2002 book \"Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion\", and the date in brackets is the date the work was first published: Novels Short fiction collections Nonfiction Interviews Art Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" (1969). Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University", "title": "Kurt Vonnegut" }, { "id": "1542242", "text": "things, how American life in the 1960s had been transformed by post-WWII economic prosperity. His defining work from this era is \"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\" (published the same day as \"The Pump House Gang\" in 1968), which for many epitomized the 1960s. Although a conservative in many ways (in 2008, he claimed never to have used LSD and to have tried marijuana only once) Wolfe became one of the notable figures of the decade. In 1970, he published two essays in book form as \"Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\". \"Radical Chic\" was a biting account of a", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "226244", "text": "Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" (1969). Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to", "title": "Kurt Vonnegut" }, { "id": "7368147", "text": "their fathers. Eddie Hayes (lawyer) Edward Walter Hayes is an American lawyer, journalist, and memoirist. He is known for his role in settling the estate of Andy Warhol and representing several organized crime figures. Tom Wolfe's character Tommy Killian in \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" is based on Hayes. Hayes is often regularly featured on different radio stations, in both Ireland and the USA. Most recently, Hayes was portrayed as a character in the Broadway hit, Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks. Hayes was born in New York City in the neighborhood of Sunnyside, Queens, and grew up for a period", "title": "Eddie Hayes (lawyer)" }, { "id": "1542249", "text": "An initial printing of 1.2 million copies was announced and the book stayed at number one on the \"New York Times\" bestseller list for ten weeks. Noted author John Updike wrote a critical review for \"The New Yorker\", complaining that the novel \"amounts to entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form.\" His comments sparked an intense war of words in the print and broadcast media among Wolfe and Updike, and authors John Irving and Norman Mailer, who also entered the fray. In 2001, Wolfe published an essay referring to these three authors as \"My Three Stooges.\" That", "title": "Tom Wolfe" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "16543966", "text": "a particular interest in Susan, a nurse who had worked in a hospital where a bomb exploded a month earlier, killing 302 people. She had thought of hiring Heller to find the culprit, but changed her mind at the last minute and began to think of hiring Wolfe instead. The number six figures in every person's account, but a remark by one client – about Heller's winning tip on a racehorse named Zero – prompts Wolfe to have everyone brought back to his office. With the pencils laid out on his desk as they were on Heller's, Wolfe explains that", "title": "The Zero Clue" }, { "id": "6478397", "text": "Great Scott Great Scott! is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, and now considered dated. It originates as a minced oath, historically associated with two specific \"Scotts\", notably Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and somewhat later in the United States, US general Winfield Scott. It is frequently assumed that \"Great Scott!\" is a minced oath of some sort, \"Scott\" replacing \"God\". The 2010 edition of the \"Oxford Dictionary of English\" labels the expression as \"dated\" and simply identifies", "title": "Great Scott" }, { "id": "15229984", "text": "240-279: 1 point. 280 or higher: 1 point. If cigarette smoker: Age 20–39 years: 8 points. • Age 40–49 years: 5 points. • Age 50–59 years: 3 points. • Age 60–69 years: 1 point. • Age 70–79 years: 1 point. All non smokers: 0 points. HDL cholesterol, mg/dL: 60 or higher: Minus 1 point. 50-59: 0 points. 40-49: 1 point. Under 40: 2 points. Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg: Untreated: Under 120: 0 points. 120-129: 0 points. 130-139: 1 point. 140-159: 1 point. 160 or higher: 2 points. • Treated: Under 120: 0 points. 120-129: 1 point. 130-139: 2 points.", "title": "Framingham Risk Score" }, { "id": "10995217", "text": "lies its menace. When Ben instructs Gus verbally, while practicing their \"routine\" for killing their next victim, he leaves out the most important line, which instructs Gus to \"take out\" his \"gun\" (Pinter, \"The Dumb Waiter\" 114–15): \"BEN \"frowns and presses his forehead\".<br> GUS. You've missed something out.<br> BEN. I know. What?<br> GUS. I haven't taken my gun out, according to you.<br> BEN. You take your gun out—<br> GUS. After I've closed the door.<br> BEN. After you've closed the door.<br> GUS. You've never missed that out before, you know that?<br> The crucial significance of the omission becomes clear only at", "title": "Comedy of menace" }, { "id": "2573033", "text": "= 5 × 67, divisible by the number of primes below it. 336 = 2 × 3 × 7, Harshad number, untouchable number, also the number of dimples on an American golf ball. 337, prime number, permutable prime with 373 and 733, Chen prime, star number 338 = 2 × 13, nontotient. 339 = 3 × 113 340 = 2 × 5 × 17, sum of eight consecutive primes (29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59), sum of ten consecutive primes (17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37", "title": "300 (number)" }, { "id": "3361164", "text": "Liar's Poker Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's \"\", and the fictional \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\" by Tom Wolfe. The book captures an important period in the history of Wall Street. Two important figures in that history feature prominently in the text, the head of Salomon Brothers' mortgage department Lewis Ranieri and the firm's CEO", "title": "Liar's Poker" }, { "id": "7090227", "text": "explaining to Nobby that he could not stand up to Florence: \"And if you think I've got the force of character to come back with a \"nolle prosequi\"—\"\"A what?\"\"One of Jeeves's gags. It means roughly 'Nuts to you!' If, I say, you think I'm capable of asserting myself and giving her the bird, you greatly overestimate the Wooster fortitude.\" Jeeves introduces \"rem acu tetigisti\" in chapter 4 of \"Joy in the Morning\", translating it as \"You have touched the matter with a needle\", which Bertie rephrases as \"Put my finger on the nub\". In addition to using this phrase in", "title": "Joy in the Morning (Wodehouse novel)" }, { "id": "9373646", "text": "\"Woot! Woot!\", doing so as a statement of victory, or applauding good news. (Some people today say \"Woot! Woot!\" while making the hand-gesture of pulling a train's horn cord.) Alternatively, attempts are made to relate it to the Scots word \"hoots\", which is used in a somewhat similar manner — an exclamation signifying surprise, disbelief, or kindred reaction, though not for positive feelings (delight, joy) as w00t is. This is also along the line of some peoples use of \"W00t?\", replacing 'wot?' or 'what?' as a response to a happy surprise. The word was featured on the list of Merriam-Webster's", "title": "W00t" }, { "id": "17994181", "text": "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (Seven Stories Press) is a 2013 collection of nine commencement speeches from Kurt Vonnegut, selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield. After the publication of his novel \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" brought him worldwide acclaim in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut became one of America's most popular graduation speakers. There were years when public speaking was Vonnegut's main source of income. \"We are performing animals,\" he used to say somewhat sardonically. In these speeches Vonnegut jokes, entertains, inspires, and conveys something of the momentousness of life.", "title": "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young" }, { "id": "13264927", "text": "the opening sequence; its theme song, composed by Danny Elfman in 1989; \"Treehouse of Horror\" episodes, which have themselves inspired an offshoot of merchandise; its use of cultural references; sight gags; and the use of catchphrases, such as Homer's annoyed grunt \"D'oh!\". \"The Simpsons\" has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 24 Primetime Emmy Awards, 26 Annie Awards and a Peabody Award. In a 1998 issue celebrating the 20th century's greatest achievements in arts and entertainment, \"Time\" magazine named \"The Simpsons\" the century's best television series. On January 14, 2000, the Simpsons were awarded a", "title": "The Simpsons (franchise)" }, { "id": "15229981", "text": "point. 200-239: 1 point. 240-279: 2 points. 280 or higher: 2 points. If cigarette smoker: Age 20–39 years: 9 points. • Age 40–49 years: 7 points. • Age 50–59 years: 4 points. • Age 60–69 years: 2 points. • Age 70–79 years: 1 point. All non smokers: 0 points. HDL cholesterol, mg/dL: 60 or higher: Minus 1 point. 50-59: 0 points. 40-49: 1 point. Under 40: 2 points. Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg: Untreated: Under 120: 0 points. 120-129: 1 point. 130-139: 2 points. 140-159: 3 points. 160 or higher: 4 points. • Treated: Under 120: 0 points. 120-129: 3", "title": "Framingham Risk Score" }, { "id": "5933851", "text": "armor, emerge from the helmet's visor and then parachute onto the table. They unwittingly catch Tom's attention by showering him with champagne. After hiding from Tom by wearing white paper decorations from the standing rib roast to look like two ribs, Jerry runs off, but little Nibbles begins making a ham sandwich while singing \"Alouette\" to himself. Tom emerges behind him and pokes him with his sword, and the angry Nibbles yells in protest: \"He, attention-la! Vous pourez faire mal a quelqu'un, Monsieur Pussycat!...Pussycat?! Au secours! Au secours! Le pussycat! Le pussycat!\" (Hey! Watch it! You could hurt someone like", "title": "The Two Mouseketeers" }, { "id": "1847546", "text": "a sentence to denote irony. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus, who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, as was true of the other attempts, failed to take hold. Although it has now become rare, it is correct usage in Spanish to begin a sentence with an opening inverted exclamation mark (\"¡\") and end it with a question mark (\"?\"), or vice versa, for statements that are questions but also have a clear sense of exclamation or surprise such as: (\"Who do you think you are?!\"). Normally, four signs are used,", "title": "Inverted question and exclamation marks" }, { "id": "20443678", "text": "Yas (slang) Yas is a slang term for \"yes.\" \"Yas\" was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017, and defined as a form of exclamation meaning, \"expressing great pleasure or excitement\". Yas was defined by Oxygen's Scout Durwood as \"a more emphatic 'yes' often paired with 'queen.' The more A's in a yaaaaas, the higher the grade of excitement.\" \"Yass\" was used by the character Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) in Jack Kerouac's \"On the Road\", published in 1957. Yas also has roots in late 1980s ball culture, an LGBT subculture in the United States, and was adopted by the wider queer", "title": "Yas (slang)" }, { "id": "14484594", "text": "Jay Cantor Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace. His work appeared in \"The Harvard Crimson\". He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury. To call Jay Cantor the thinking man's Tom Wolfe is a little unfair to Tom Wolfe, who surely believes, and with some justification, that he's the thinking man's Tom Wolfe. It's also a", "title": "Jay Cantor" }, { "id": "2734191", "text": "by the lapels and won't let go\", but criticized its sometimes superficial characters, saying when \"the book is over, there is an odd aftertaste, not entirely pleasant.\" In 1990, \"Bonfire\" was adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, Kim Cattrall as his wife Judy, Melanie Griffith as his mistress Maria, and Bruce Willis as journalist (and narrator of the film) Peter Fallow. The screenplay was written by Michael Cristofer. Wolfe was paid $750,000 for the rights. The film, however, was a commercial and critical flop. An opera adaptation, with music by Stefania de Kenessey and libretto and", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities" }, { "id": "13382943", "text": "1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "10002174", "text": "scoring works similarly for five-pin bowling, except strikes are worth 15 points rather than 10 (as the pins are scored with the values of 2, 3, 5, 3, and 2). Two consecutive strikes are referred to as a \"double\" (or a \"Barney Rubble\" to rhyme) aka the \"rhino\". Three strikes bowled consecutively is known as a \"turkey\". Any longer string of strikes is referred to by a number affixed to the word \"bagger,\" as in \"four-bagger\" for four consecutive strikes. Broadcaster Rob Stone created the name \"hambone\" to describe four consecutive strikes. When a player is \"on the strikes\", a", "title": "Strike (bowling)" }, { "id": "13382944", "text": "Other events: 16th century: 1490s in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Death years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495: 1496: 1497: 1498: 1499: Birth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article: 1490: 1491: 1492: 1493: 1494: 1495:", "title": "1490s in poetry" }, { "id": "14484596", "text": "writers, both of whom ardently believe in the power of fiction to bring an American moment to life. Jay Cantor Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace. His work appeared in \"The Harvard Crimson\". He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury. To call Jay Cantor the thinking man's Tom Wolfe is a little unfair to Tom", "title": "Jay Cantor" }, { "id": "75684", "text": "fifth point pays at 249-to-1 and the 6th point pays at 999-to-1. Note that the points must all be different numbers for them to count towards the fire bet. For example, a shooter who successfully hits a point of 10 twice will only garner credit for the first one on the fire bet. Players must hit the established point in order for it to count toward the fire bet. The payout is determine by the number of points which have been established and hit after the shooter sevens out. Bonus Craps: Is a registered trademark owned by Galaxy Gaming. Prior", "title": "Craps" }, { "id": "19944603", "text": "one for all,\" cry Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, raising their rapiers as they segue into their own scatting-routine. Cut to Robinson, Friday, Napoleon, and Omar Khayyam, who stand amongst the books bobbing about happily to the tune. There is a universal burst of applause as the musketeers conclude their number: Henry VIII, surrounded (presumably) by some of his wives, shouts \"Whoopee!\" Nearby, Marc Antony crawls out of \"Antony and Cleopatra\", shouting, as if in \"Julius Caesar\", \"Friends, Romans, countrymen...lend your ears to that dear old maestro!\" The camera pans to a portly Emperor Nero, who stands before a book containing", "title": "Three's a Crowd (Merrie Melodies)" }, { "id": "1416127", "text": "a \"tiresome embarrassment\". The following week, \"The Guardian\" noted that Gervais had responded with \"an exhilaratingly foul-mouthed tirade\" on his website, concluding with the sentence \"yes I am resting on my fucking laurels you cunt!\" In this video, Gervais mocked Jim Shelley typing the words \"resting on his laurels\" as Gervais jokingly lashed out by stating that he was resting on his laurels and that he was not going to make another show for television, quipping: \"What's the point? What is there to beat?\" Gervais lives between Hampstead and New York City with his partner, producer and author Jane Fallon,", "title": "Ricky Gervais" }, { "id": "91245", "text": "me off me plates – the septic was wearing a syrup! I couldn't believe me mincers, so I ran up the apples, got straight on the dog to me trouble and we had a Turkish.\" In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase. For example, the word \"Aris\" is often used to indicate the buttocks. This is the result of a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym \"arse\", which is rhymed with \"bottle and glass\", leading to \"bottle\". \"Bottle\" was then rhymed with \"Aristotle\"", "title": "Rhyming slang" }, { "id": "9065730", "text": "or a startler. In hacker culture, the exclamation mark is called \"bang\", \"shriek\", or, in the British slang known as Commonwealth Hackish, \"pling\". For example, the password communicated in the spoken phrase \"Your password is em-nought-pee-aitch-pling-en-three\" is codice_1. The exclamation mark is common to languages using the Latin alphabet, although usage varies slightly between languages. The exclamation mark was also adopted in languages written in other scripts, such as Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Devanagari, but it has never been found in Hindi. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark may be an exclamation (such as \"Wow!\",", "title": "Exclamation mark" }, { "id": "9065731", "text": "\"Boo!\"), or an imperative (\"Stop!\"), or may indicate astonishment or surprise: \"They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!\" Exclamation marks are occasionally placed mid-sentence with a function similar to a comma, for dramatic effect, although this usage is obsolete: \"On the walk, oh! there was a frightful noise.\" Informally, exclamation marks may be repeated for additional emphasis (\"That's great!!!\"), but this practice is generally considered unacceptable in formal prose. The exclamation mark is sometimes used in conjunction with the question mark. This can be in protest or astonishment (\"Out of all places, the squatter-camp?!\"); a few writers replace this", "title": "Exclamation mark" } ]