Passage 1:Brian Kennedy (gallery director)Brian Patrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is anIrish-born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in theUnited States.  He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigningDecember 31, 2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He wasthe director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia(Canberra) from 1997 to 2004.CareerBrian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States afterleaving Australia in 2005 to direct the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In October 2010 hebecame the ninth Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. On 1 July 2019, he succeeded Dan Monroe as theexecutive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.Early life and career in IrelandKennedy wasborn in Dublin and attended Clonkeen College. He received B.A. (1982), M.A. (1985) and PhD (1989)degrees from University College-Dublin, where he studied both art history and history.He worked in theIrish Department of Education (1982), the European Commission, Brussels (1983), and in Ireland at theChester Beatty Library (1983–85), Government Publications Office (1985–86), and Department ofFinance (1986–89). He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.He was Assistant Director at the NationalGallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of the Irish Association of Art Historiansfrom 1996 to 1997, and of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors from 2001 to 2003. InSeptember 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.National Gallery of Australia(NGA)Kennedy expanded the traveling exhibitions and loans program throughout Australia, arranged forseveral major shows of Australian art abroad, increased the number of exhibitions at the museum itselfand oversaw the development of an extensive multi-media site.  Although he oversaw several years ofthe museum's highest ever annual visitation, he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, BettyChurcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.During his directorship, the NGA gained governmentsupport for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However,the initial design for the building proved controversial generating a public dispute with the originalarchitect on moral rights grounds.  As a result, the project was not delivered during Dr Kennedy's tenure,with a significantly altered design completed some years later.  Private funding supported twoacquisitions of British art, including David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon in 1999, and Lucian Freud'sAfter Cézanne in 2001. Kennedy built on the established collections at the museum by acquiring theHolmgren-Spertus collection of Indonesian textiles; the Kenneth Tyler collection of editioned prints,screens, multiples and unique proofs; and the Australian Print Workshop Archive. He was also notable forcampaigning for the construction of a new "front" entrance to the Gallery, facing King Edward Terrace,which was completed in 2010 (see reference to the building project above).Kennedy's cancellation of the"Sensation exhibition" (scheduled at the NGA from 2 June 2000 to 13 August 2000) was controversial,and seen by some as censorship. He claimed that the decision was due to the exhibition being "too closeto the market" implying that a national cultural institution cannot exhibit the private collection of aspeculative art investor. However, there were other exhibitions at the NGA during his tenure, which couldhave raised similar concerns. The exhibition featured the privately owned Young British Artists worksbelonging to Charles Saatchi and attracted large attendances in London and Brooklyn. Its mostcontroversial work was Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, a painting which used elephant dung and wasaccused of being blasphemous. The then-mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, campaigned against theexhibition, claiming it was "Catholic-bashing" and an "aggressive, vicious, disgusting attack on religion."In November 1999, Kennedy cancelled the exhibition and stated that the events in New York had"obscured discussion of the artistic merit of the works of art". He has said that it "was the toughestdecision of my professional life, so far."Kennedy was also repeatedly questioned on his management of arange of issues during the Australian Government's Senate Estimates process - particularly on the NGA'soccupational health and safety record and concerns about the NGA's twenty-year-old air-conditioningsystem. The air-conditioning was finally renovated in 2003. Kennedy announced in 2002 that he wouldnot seek extension of his contract beyond 2004, accepting a seven-year term as had his two


Passage 1:Amaury I de MontfortAmaury I de Montfort (died c. 1053) was Lord of Montfort, son ofGuillaume de Montfort of Hainaut, the first Lord of Montfort. The castle of Montfort l'Amaury, of which hestarted the construction, was completed by his son Simon I de Montfort, who succeeded him as Lord ofMontfort. He married Bertrade.He and his wife had three children:Simon I de Montfort (died 25September 1087)Mainier de Montfort, Seigneur d'Épernon (died before 1091)Eva (died 23 Jan 1099),married William Crispin (died 8 January 1074), son of Gilbert I CrispinPassage 2:Beatrice, Countess ofMontfortBeatrice de Montfort, Countess of Montfort-l'Amaury (December 1249 – 9 March 1312) was aruling sovereign countess of Montfort from 1249 until 1312. She was also countess of Dreux by marriageto Robert IV, Count of Dreux. She was the ancestor of the Dukes of Brittany from the House ofMontfort-Dreux which derived its name from her title.LifeBeatrice was born sometime between December1248 and 1249, the only child of John I of Montfort, Count of Dreux and Jeanne, Dame deChateaudun.ReignIn 1249, Beatrice's father died in Cyprus, while participating in the Seventh Crusade.Thus, Beatrice succeeded her father as ruling countess of Montfort at the age of about one year old.In1251, Jeanne married her second husband, John II of Brienne, Grand Butler of France. Jeanne and Johnhad a daughter, Blanche de Brienne, Baroness Tingry (1252–1302); Blanche married William II deFiennes, Baron of Tingry. Jeanne died sometime after 1252, leaving Beatrice and her half-sister Blancheas her co-heiresses.Beatrice was married to Robert IV, Count of Dreux, Braine and Montfort-l'Amaury in1260, when she was about eleven years old. He was the son of John I, Count of Dreux and Braine, andMarie de Bourbon. As was the custom for female rulers at this point in time, he became the co-ruler withBeatrice and Count of Montfort by right of his wife after their wedding.DeathBeatrice died on 9 March1312 at the age of around sixty-three. She was buried in the Abbaye de Haute-Bruyère.IssueBeatrice andRobert had:Marie of Dreux (1261/62–1276), in 1275 married Mathieu de MontmorencyYolande de Dreux(1263–1323), Countess of Montfort, married, firstly, on 15 October 1285, King Alexander III of Scotland,and, secondly, in 1292, Arthur II, Duke of BrittanyJohn II of Dreux (1265–1309)Joan of Dreux, Countessof Braine, married, firstly, Jean IV de Roucy, and, secondly, John of BarBeatrice of Dreux, abbess ofPort-Royal-des-Champs (1270–1328)Robert of Dreux, seigneur of Chateau-du-Loire.AncestryPassage3:Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of LeicesterSimon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester (c. 1175 – 25 June1218), known as Simon IV (or V) de Montfort and as Simon de Montfort the Elder, was a Frenchnobleman and knight of the early 13th century. He is widely regarded as one of the great militarycommanders of the Middle Ages. He took part in the Fourth Crusade and was one of the prominentfigures of the Albigensian Crusade. Montfort is mostly noted for his campaigns in the latter, notably forhis triumph at Muret. He died at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218. He was lord of Montfort-l'Amaury from1188 to his death and Earl of Leicester in England from 1204. He was also Viscount of Albi, Béziers andCarcassonne from 1213, as well as Count of Toulouse from 1215.Early lifeHe was the son of Simon deMontfort (d. 1188), lord of Montfort l'Amaury in France near Paris, and Amicia de Beaumont, daughter ofRobert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester. He succeeded his father as lord of Montfort in 1181; in 1190he married Alix de Montmorency, the daughter of Bouchard III de Montmorency. She shared his religiouszeal and would accompany him on his campaigns.In 1199, while taking part in a tournament atEcry-sur-Aisne, he took the cross in the company of Count Thibaud de Champagne and went on theFourth Crusade. The crusade soon fell under Venetian control, and was diverted to Zara on the AdriaticSea. Pope Innocent III had specifically warned the Crusaders not to attack fellow Christians; Simonopposed the attack and urged a waiting Zara delegation not to surrender, claiming the Frankish troopswould not support the Venetians in this. As a result, the delegation returned to Zara and the city resisted.Since most Frankish lords were in debt to the Venetians, they did support the attack and the city wassacked in 1202. Simon did not participate in this action and was one of its most outspoken critics. He andhis associates, including Abbot Guy of Vaux-de-Cernay, left the crusade when the decision was taken todivert once more to Constantinople to place Alexius IV Angelus on the throne. Instead, Simon and hisfollowers travelled to the court of King Emeric of Hungary and thence to Acre.His mother was the eldest


Passage 1:TjuyuThuya (sometimes transliterated as Touiyou, Thuiu, Tuya, Tjuyu or Thuyu) was anEgyptian noblewoman and the mother of queen Tiye, and the wife of Yuya. She is the grandmother ofAkhenaten, and great grandmother of Tutankhamun.BiographyThuya is believed to be a descendant ofQueen Ahmose-Nefertari, and she held many official roles in the interwoven religion and government ofancient Egypt. She was involved in many religious cults; her titles included 'Singer of Hathor' and 'Chiefof the Entertainers' of both Amun and Min. She also held the influential offices of Superintendent of theHarem of the god Min of Akhmin and of Amun of Thebes.  She married Yuya, a powerful ancient Egyptiancourtier of the Eighteenth Dynasty.  She is believed to have died in around 1375 BC in her early to mid50s.ChildrenYuya and Thuya had a daughter named Tiye, who became the Great Royal Wife of PharaohAmenhotep III. The great royal wife was the highest Egyptian religious position, serving alongside of thepharaoh in official ceremonies and rituals.Yuya and Thuya also had a son named Anen, who carried thetitles Chancellor of Lower Egypt, Second Prophet of Amun, sm-priest of Heliopolis and Divine Father.Theyalso may have been the parents of Ay, an Egyptian courtier active during the reign of pharaoh Akhenatenwho became pharaoh after the death of Tutankhamun. However, there is no conclusive evidenceregarding the kinship of Yuya and Ay, although certainly, both men came from Akhmim.TombThuya wasinterred in tomb KV46 in the Valley of the Kings, together with her husband Yuya, where their largelyintact burial was found in 1905. It was the best-preserved tomb discovered in the Valley before that ofTutankhamun, Thuya's great-grandson. The tomb was discovered by a team of workmen led byarchaeologist James Quibell on behalf of the American millionaire Theodore M. Davis. Though the tombhad been robbed in antiquity, much of its contents were still present, including beds, boxes, chests, achariot, and the sarcophagi, coffins, and mummies of the two occupants.Thuya's large gilded andblack-painted wooden sarcophagus was placed against the south wall of the tomb. It is rectangular, witha lid shaped like the sloping roof of the per-wer shrine of Upper Egypt, and sits on ornamental sledgerunners, their non-functionality underscored by the three battens attached below them. Ancient robbershad partially dismantled it to access her coffins and mummy, placing its lid and one long side on a bed onthe other side of the tomb; the other long side had been leaned against the south wall. Her outer gildedanthropoid coffin had been removed, its lid placed atop the beds, and the trough put into the far corner ofthe tomb; the lid of her second (innermost) coffin, also gilded, had been removed and placed to one sidealthough the trough and her mummy remained inside the sarcophagus. Quibell suggests this is due to therobbers having some difficulty in removing the lid of this coffin.MummyThuya's mummified body wasfound covered with a large sheet of linen, knotted at the back and secured by four bandages. Thesebands were covered with resin and opposite each band were her gilded titles cut from gold foil. The resincoating on the lower layers of bandages preserved the impression of a large broad collar. The mummybands that had once covered her wrapped mummy were recovered above the storage jars on the far sideof the room.The first examination of her body was conducted by Australian anatomist Grafton ElliotSmith. He found her to be an elderly woman of small stature, 1.495 metres (4.90 ft) in height, with whitehair. Both of her earlobes had two piercings. Her arms are straight at her sides with her hands againstthe outside of her thighs. Her embalming incision is stitched with thread, to which a carnelian barrel beadis attached at the lower end; her body cavity is stuffed with resin-soaked linen. When Dr. Douglas Derry,(who later conducted the first examination of Tutankhamun's mummy) assisting Smith in hisexamination, exposed Thuya's feet to get an accurate measurement of her height, he found her to bewearing gold foil sandals. Smith estimated her age at more than 50 years based on her outwardappearance alone. Recent CT scanning has estimated her age at death to be 50–60 years old. Her brainwas removed, though no embalming material was inserted, and both nostrils were stuffed with linen.Embalming packs had been placed into her eye sockets, and subcutaneous filling had been placed intoher mid and lower face to restore a lifelike appearance; embalming material had also been placed intoher mouth and throat. Her teeth were in poor condition at the time of her death, with missing molars.Heavy wear and abscesses had been noted in earlier x-rays. The scan revealed that she had severe


Passage 1:War of the Buttons (1994 film)War of the Buttons is a 1994 comedy-drama adventure filmdirected by John Roberts. It was written by Colin Welland and based on the French novel La Guerre desboutons, by Louis Pergaud. The story, about two rival boys' gangs in Ireland, the Ballys (working class)and the Carricks (middle class), is set in County Cork, where it was filmed on location.The film has beenclassified as a drama and comedy, and the tone is frequently light and humorous. It examines issues ofconflict and war, the actions and consequences of violence, and how it can divide and oppose people whocan be friends as easily as they can be enemies.PlotIn the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s, moreprecisely the centre of the bridge over the river that separates the Irish villages of Carrickdowse andBallydowse, there is a white line that few young people dare cross. The boys of each village spend mostof their time trying to upstage the other, whether over the sale of hospital raffle tickets, or somethingmore important, such as deciding who is a "tosspot" and who is not, or, for that matter, defining"tosspot". This "War of the Buttons", in which the buttons from the enemies clothes are captured, hasgone on as long as the youths can remember, and "to the death", though rarely does either group hurtmore than its pride.The leader of the Ballys is Fergus (Gregg Fitzgerald), the son of a pauper family andan unpromising student who lives in a trailer on the edge of Ballydowse with his mother and abusivestepfather. What Fergus lacks in education, he makes up for in leadership, and the youth of Ballydowsewill follow him anywhere. The members of the Ballys include Marie (Eveanna Ryan), the narrator, whorevisits her memories of what happened from her adult viewpoint. The leader of the Carricks is Jerome(John Coffey), the son of a wealthy family. He is nicknamed Geronimo after the Apache tribal chief.Thestory explores how events escalate, gang class differences (the original and main incentive for their war),Fergus's troubles with his oppressive environment, conflicts that arise when the adults of the villagesdiscover the feud, and conflicts within the Ballys. Their tactics to "win" the war, including a nude ambushof their enemies, are shown in great detail. After a series of battles, Fergus denounces Riley (ThomasKavanagh) as a traitor to the cause before the final showdown which has the Ballys attacking anabandoned castle ruin defended by the Carricks. The Carricks lose, and, taken prisoner, Geronimo himselfcuts off his buttons and gives them to Fergus. While the Ballys celebrate in their headquarters, Geronimo,driving Riley's father's tractor like a tank, levels the Bally clubhouse. This puts a bitter end to the War ofthe Buttons.Finally fed up, the towns' adults, including Geronimo's father (Colm Meaney) and Fergus'abusive stepfather (Jim Bartley), reclaim their children. Fergus runs off to the mountains, whereGeronimo follows him in an unspoken gesture of solidarity. After being captured, the two boys are put inthe church orphanage, where they put aside their differences and become best friends. Marie narrates thecoda, expressing that she married one of the boys, and that the other became the couple's closest friend,but she does not reveal whom she chose to wed.CastLiam Cunningham as The MasterGregg Fitzgerald asFergusColm Meaney as Geronimo's DadGer Ryan as Fergus' MomBackgroundThe film's story is based onthe novel La Guerre des boutons, written by Louis Pergaud and published in 1912. Pergaud's popularbook has been reprinted more than 30 times. It has been adapted as film for the first time in the Frenchproductions La Guerre des gosses (1936) (fr) and La Guerre des boutons (War of the Buttons, 1962), thelatter a black and white film directed by Yves Robert.The Irish screenplay was written by Colin Wellandand the movie was directed by John Roberts. The producer David Puttnam and Welland had workedearlier on the Academy Award-winning Chariots of Fire. This was their second film together. The moviestarred a young Alan Maguire, the actor from Corofin, Co. Clare.During the same week in September2011, two new French film adaptations of the novel were released: War of the Buttons, directed by YannSamuell, set in the 1950s with the Algerian War as backdrop, and War of the Buttons, directed byChristophe Barratier and set during World War II in Occupied France.Passage 2:Brian Kennedy (gallerydirector)Brian Patrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is an Irish-born art museum director who hasworked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.  He was the director of thePeabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigning December 31, 2020. He was the director ofthe Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art


Passage 1:Jesse E. HobsonJesse Edward Hobson (May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director ofSRI International from 1947 to 1955. Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour ResearchFoundation.Early life and educationHobson was born in Marshall, Indiana. He received bachelor's andmaster's degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a PhD in electrical engineering fromthe California Institute of Technology. Hobson was also selected as a nationally outstandingengineer.Hobson married Jessie Eugertha Bell on March 26, 1939, and they had fivechildren.CareerAwards and membershipsHobson was named an IEEE Fellow in 1948.Passage 2:EdmondT. GrévilleEdmond T. Gréville (born Edmond Gréville Thonger; 20 June 1906  – 26 May 1966) was aFrench film director and screenwriter. He was married to the actress Vanda Gréville.CareerGréville beganhis career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent filmsand in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His firstexperience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then workedas an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques deBaroncelli), Augusto Genina's  Miss Europe (with Louise Brooks) and  Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde.Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films:Le Train des suicidés (1931)Remous (1934)with Françoise Rosay, a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence, and released in theUS in November 1939 under title Whirlpool of Desire after a legal battle over U.S. censorshipTwo comedymusical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with LupeVélez.In Britain again, he filmed Under Secret Orders (1937) with Dita Parlo and John Loder (1937), theEnglish-language version of G. W. Pabst's Mademoiselle Docteur. Gréville also directed Menaces (1938)with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, with von Stroheim playing an Austrian refugee who commitssuicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterizes hisfilms, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.He stoppeddirecting films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruinedor put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal forexample, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distributioncompanies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky.In 1948 he made a film on thesubject of resistance and collaboration in the Anglo-Dutch film Niet tevergeefs/But Not in Vain. The sameyear he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose, released in the U.S. as The Silk Noose. In House on theWaterfront (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and tornby his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man.In Gréville's last years he made BeatGirl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film wasL'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel.Personal lifeGréville was born in June1906 in Nice, France, the adopted son of Franco-British parents. In May 1966, he died in hospital in Nice,thought to be the result of complications following a car accident. It was subsequently discovered throughthe 23andMe genetic testing of his daughter and grandson in 2017, that he was Ashkenazim Jewish,likely from the area of Odessa, based on the present whereabouts of  his closest genetic relations today.Family speculation suggests that his parents fled the 1905 Russian pogrom to Marseilles, where he mayhave been discovered in the Nice hospital his English father, a Salvation Army colonel and Protestantpastor, was associated with. His true origin and that of his biological parents, remains a mystery.SelectedfilmographyThe Train of Suicides (1931)The Triangle of Fire (1932)Merchant of Love (1935)Gypsy Melody(1936)Brief Ecstasy (1937)Secret Lives (1937)What a Man! (1938)A Woman in the Night (1943)DorothyLooks for Love (1945)But Not in Vain (1948)The Other Side of Paradise (1953)House on the Waterfront(1955)The Accident (1963)Passage 3:Peter LevinPeter Levin is an American director of film, televisionand theatre.CareerSince 1967, Levin has amassed a large number of credits directing episodic televisionand television films. Some of his television series credits include Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Jamesat 15, The Paper Chase, Family, Starsky & Hutch, Lou Grant, Fame, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order andJudging Amy.Some of his television film credits include Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980), A


Passage 1:Young and Dangerous: The PrequelYoung and Dangerous: The Prequel (Chinese:  ) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film directed by Andrew Lau. It is the second prequel in the Young and Dangerous film series.The film shows Chan Ho-nam (Nicholas Tse), Big Head (Daniel Wu), Chow Pan (Benjamin Yuen), Chicken Chiu (Sam Lee), and their friends being recruited by Uncle Bee (Ng Chi-Hung) and joining the "Hung Hing" triad.CastNicholas Tse as Chan Ho-namDaniel Wu as Big HeadFrancis Ng as Ugly KwanShu Qi as FeiSam Lee as ChickenSandra Ng as Sister 13 (cameo)Kristy Yang as Yung (cameo)Benjamin Yuen as Chow PanNotesBecause he was only 17, and born on 29 August 1980, Nicholas Tse is not allowed to watch the movie when the movie opens in Hong Kong cinemas on 5 June 1998 because this movie is classified as Category III, which is a restricted category in the Hong Kong motion picture rating system and the category is strictly for persons aged 18 and above only.The story retcons the flashback from the first film, taking place in 1988 rather than 1985.Awards and nominations18th Hong Kong Film AwardsWon: Best New Performer (Nicholas Tse)External linksYoung and Dangerous: The Prequel at IMDbPassage 2:Hanuman Patal VijayHanuman Patal Vijay (Hindi:   , " Hanuman's Victory Over Hell") is a 1951 Hindi mythological film directed by Homi Wadia for his Basant Pictures banner. Meena Kumari starred in this devotional film with S. N. Tripathi playing Hanuman. Following her career as a child actress, Meena Kumari did heroine roles in mythologies made by Basant Pictures and directed by Homi Wadia. She had an extremely successful career for some years playing goddesses before her big commercial break in Baiju Bawra (1951). S. N. Tripathi, besides acting in the film, also composed the music. His costars were Meena Kumari, Mahipal, Niranjan Sharma, Dalpat and Amarnath.The story was about Hanuman's devotion to Ram and his battle with the two demon brothers Ahiravan and Mahiravan.PlotThe story is about Hanuman and his confrontations with The King of Patal, Ahiravan, and his brother Mahiravan, who have been asked by Ravan to kill Ram and Lakshman. Mahiravana kidnaps Naga princess chandrasena who is devoted to Rama. The film follows Hanuman's encounter with Makari, the daughter of the sea, who wants to marry him, but instead through the swallowing of a bead of his sweat she gives birth to Makardhwaj who guards the gates of Patal (Hell) where Ram and Lakshman are taken when kidnapped. Hanuman gets the better of Makardhwaj and rescues Ram and Lakshman. A major battle ensues and Ahiravan and Mahiravan are killed, but somehow they keep regenerating. Hanuman manages to find out the secret of their regeneration and puts a stop to it with the help of Ahiravan's wife Chandrasena. In the end, Rama tells Chandrasena that he will marry her in Dvapara Yuga when he will incarnate as Krishna and marry her as satyabhama.CastMeena KumariMahipalS. N. TripathiShanta KunwarVimalDalpatH. PrakashKanta KumarNiranjan SharmaBimlaAmarnathMusicSonglist.RemakeIt was remade in 1974 as Hanuman Vijay directed by Babubhai Mistri.Passage 3:Young and Dangerous 3Young and Dangerous 3 (Chinese: ) is a 1996 Hong Kong triad film directed by Andrew Lau. It is the second sequel in the Young and Dangerous film series.  Starting from this movie, it is distributed by Golden Harvest Company.PlotWeeks after Chan Ho Nam (Ekin Cheng) is elected branch leader of Causeway Bay of the "Hung Hing" Society, "Chicken" Chiu (Jordan Chan), best friends Banana Skin (Jason Chu), Pou-pei (Jerry Lamb), Dai Tin-yee (Michael Tse) and K.K. (Halina Tam) after joining the Taiwanese "San Luen" triad, is reinstated into Hung Hing by Chairman Chiang Tin Sung (Simon Yam). At the same time, rival triad "Tung Sing", led by "Camel" Lok (Chan Wai Man) begins to make a name for itself, establishing bars and clubs alongside Hung Hing's areas of operations. Things become heated when Tung Sing member "Crow" (Roy Cheung) fuels a deep-seated rivalry between him and Ho Nam, with the threat of open war between the two societies. Meanwhile, Ho Nam's stuttering girlfriend Smartie (Gigi Lai), who was critically injured in a vehicular accident and slipped into a coma, reawakens but with no prior memories to her meeting with Ho Nam for the first time. Regardless, Ho Nam assures her he and his friends will protect her. To add in a stick of comedy, Father " Lethal Weapon" Lam (Spencer Lam) introduces his daughter Shuk Fan (Karen Mok) to Chicken, having been good friends and a source of advice for him.During a business trip to Amsterdam with his mistress and Ho Nam, Chairman Chiang is assassinated by thugs. While the rest of Hung Hing believes the hit was


Passage 1:The Goose WomanThe Goose Woman is a 1925 American silent drama film directed byClarence Brown and starring Louise Dresser with Jack Pickford as her son. The film was released byUniversal Pictures.The Rex Beach short story is based in part on the then already sensational Hall-Millsmurder case in which a woman named Jane Gibson is described as a pig woman because of the pigs sheraised on her property.PlotAs described in a film magazine reviews, opera singer Mary Holmes loses hervoice as a result of giving birth to a boy, and develops an intense dislike of her offspring. She becomes avictim of drink, living alone in a shabby cottage and raises geese. Her son wins the love of Hazel Woods,a young actress, who repulsed the vicious advances of a millionaire theatre-owner. The latter ismurdered. To gain publicity, Mary invents a wild story about having witnessed the murder. The districtattorney furnishes her with fine clothes, reveals her identity as a former stage star, and she is thesensation of the day. However, the details she concocts about the crime cause her son’s arrest.Confronted with him, she experiences a sudden awakening of mother-love and confesses that her story isfalse. It transpires that the theatre doorman is the guilty person. The son is cleared and faces a happyfuture with his reformed parent and Hazel.CastReceptionBoth critics and audiences favorably received thefilm. The Goose Woman was remade in 1933 as The Past of Mary Holmes featuring Helen MacKellar andJean Arthur.Passage 2:You Can No Longer Remain SilentYou Can No Longer Remain Silent (German: Dudarfst nicht länger schweigen) is a 1955 West German romantic drama film directed by Robert A.Stemmle and starring Heidemarie Hatheyer, Wilhelm Borchert and Werner Hinz. It is based on the 1929novel  Morning of Life by Kristmann Gudmundsson. It is set amongst feuding Scandinavian fishingfamilies.It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with location shooting around in Sweden aroundGothenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Helmut Nentwig and KarlWeber.CastPassage 3:The Goose Girl (1957 film)The Goose Girl (German: Die Gänsemagd) is a 1957West German family film directed by Fritz Genschow and starring Rita-Maria Nowotny, Renée Stobrawaand Renate Fischer. It is based on the fairy tale The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm.CastRita-MariaNowotny as Prinzessin RosemargretRenée Stobrawa as Königin-MutterRenate Fischer as Malice -KammermädchenGünter Hertel as Prinz FriedbertAlexander Welbat as Hinz - ReitburscheWolfgangDraeger as Kunz - ReitburscheFritz GenschowTheodor VogelerPeter HackPassage 4:ClarenceBrownClarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.EarlylifeBorn in Clinton, Massachusetts, to Larkin Harry Brown, a cotton manufacturer, and Katherine AnnBrown (née Gaw), Brown moved to Tennessee when he was 11 years old. He attended Knoxville HighSchool and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university atthe age of 19 with two degrees in engineering. An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job withthe Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama. He laterabandoned the car dealership after developing an interest in motion pictures around 1913. He was hiredby the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born directorMaurice Tourneur.CareerAfter serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army AirService during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The GreatRedeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneurwas injured in a fall.Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where heremained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars; hedirected Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.Brown was nominated six times (see below) foran Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film forAnna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.Brown's films gained a totalof 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received six Academy Awardnominations and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner'sIntruder in the Dust.In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George EastmanHouse for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estateinvestments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his


Passage 1:Alexandru CristeaAlexandru Cristea (1890–1942) was the composer of the music for "LimbaNoastră", current national anthem of Moldova.BiographyA choir director, a composer and music teacher.Taught at the  "Vasile Kormilov" music school (1928) with Gavriil Afanasiu and the  "Unirea"Conservatory (1927–1929) in Chişinău with Alexandru Antonovschi (canto), he was the master of vocalmusic from Chişinău (1920–1940), professor of music and conductor of the choir in the boys gymnasium"Ion Heliade Rădulescu" in Bucureti (1940–1941). Later, between 1941 and 1942, he directed the choirat the "Queen Mother Elena" high school from Chişinău. In 1920, he was ordained as a deacon of the St.George Church in Chişinău, from 1927 to 1941 was a deacon holds the Metropolitan Cathedral ofChişinău.CreationHis main creation is considered the music for "Limba Noastră", current national anthemof Moldova, composed in the lyrics of the priest-poet Alexei Mateevici. He was awarded the “Răsplatamuncii pentru biserică”.Passage 2:Pete TownshendPeter Dennis Blandford Townshend (; born 19 May1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principalsongwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Due to hisaggressive playing style and innovative songwriting techniques, Townshend's works with the Who and inother projects have earned him critical acclaim.Townshend has written more than 100 songs for 12 of theWho's studio albums. These include concept albums, the rock operas Tommy (1969) and Quadrophenia(1973), plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next (1971); as well as dozens more that appearedas non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilation albums such as Odds &Sods (1974). He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well asradio jingles and television theme songs.While known primarily as a guitarist, Townshend also playskeyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar, and drums;he is self-taught on all of these instruments and plays on his own solo albums, several Who albums, andas a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings. Townshend has also contributed to andauthored many newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, and he hascollaborated as a lyricist and composer for many other musical acts. In 1983, Townshend received theBrit Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 1990 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as amember of the Who. Townshend was ranked No. 3 in Dave Marsh's 1994 list of Best Guitarists in The NewBook of Rock Lists. In 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of theWho; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He was ranked No. 10 in Gibson.com's 2011 listof the top 50 guitarists, and No. 10 in Rolling Stone's updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists ofall time. He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime MusicalAchievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016.Early life and educationTownshend was born in Chiswick, WestLondon, at the Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, in the UK. He came from a musical family: his father,Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force's dance band theSquadronaires and his mother, Betty (née Dennis), was a singer with the Sydney Torch and Les DouglassOrchestras. The Townshends had a volatile marriage, as both drank heavily and possessed fiery tempers.Cliff Townshend was often away from his family touring with his band while Betty carried on affairs withother men. The two split when Townshend was a toddler and he was sent to live with his maternalgrandmother Emma Dennis, whom Pete later described as "clinically insane". The two-year separationended when Cliff and Betty purchased a house together on Woodgrange Avenue in middle-class Acton,and the young Pete was happily reunited with his parents. His neighbourhood was one-third Polish, and adevout Jewish family upstairs shared their housing with them and cooking with them—many of hisfather's closest friends were Jewish.Townshend says he did not have many friends growing up, so hespent much of his boyhood reading adventure novels like Gulliver's Travels and Treasure Island. Heenjoyed his family's frequent excursions to the seaside and the Isle of Man. It was on one of these trips inthe summer of 1956 that he repeatedly watched the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock, sparking hisfascination with American rock and roll. Not long thereafter, he went to see Bill Haley perform in London,Townshend's first concert. At the time, he did not see himself pursuing a career as a professional


Passage 1:Popiel IPopiel I was a legendary ruler of Poland, member of the Popielids dynasty. According tothe legends reported by Wincenty Kadłubek in his Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae, hewas the son of Leszko III. Father of Popiel II.BibliographyJerzy Strzelczyk: Mity, podania i wierzeniadawnych Słowian. Poznań: Rebis, 2007. ISBN 978-83-7301-973-7.Jerzy Strzelczyk: Od Prasłowian doPolaków. Kraków: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1987. ISBN 83-03-02015-3.Passage2:Beaulieu-sur-LoireBeaulieu-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [boljø sy lwa], literally Beaulieu onLoire) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is the place of death of JacquesMacDonald, a French general who served in the Napoleonic Wars.PopulationSee alsoCommunes of theLoiret departmentPassage 3:Sermon of Zaynab bint Ali in the court of YazidSermon of Zaynab bint Ali inthe court of Yazid  are the statements made by Zaynab bint Ali in the presence of Yazid I in the aftermathof the Battle of Karbala when the captive family members of Muhammad, prophet of Islam, and the headsof those murdered were moved to the Levant (equivalent to the historical region of Syria) by the forces ofYazid I. Zaynab delivered a defiant sermon in the court of Yazid in which she humiliated Yazid andexposed his army's atrocities while honoring the Ahl al-Bayt and those killed in Karbala and expoundingupon the eternal consequences of the battle.Zaynab bint AliZaynab bint Ali (Arabic:  ) was one of the daughters of Ali and Fatimah. Like other members of her familyshe became a great figure of sacrifice, strength, and piety in Islam – in both the Sunni and Shia sects ofthe religion. Zaynab married Abdullah ibn Ja'far and had three sons and two daughters. When her brotherHusayn defended Islam and opposed the tyranny of Yazid caliph in 680 AD (61 AH), Zaynab accompaniedhis companions, 72 men who, together with Husayn, were brutally slain by government forces numbering30,000 men at the Battle of Karbala. Zaynab played an important role in disclosing the true eventsleading up to the massacre of the third Shia Imam Husayn, and his supporters. She also protected the lifeof her nephew Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia Imam, as he lay seriously ill and unable togo to the battlefield. Because of her sacrifice and heroism, she became known as the "Hero of Karbala".Zaynab died in 681, and her shrine is located in Damascus, Syria.BackgroundAfter the battle of Karbalathe captured family of the prophet and the heads of those who were killed were taken to the Levant bythe forces of Yazid. On the first day of the month of Safar, according to Turabi, they arrived in the Levantand the captured family and heads were taken into Yazid's presence. First, the identity of each head wastold to him. Then he paid attention to a woman who was objecting. Yazid asked, "Who is this arrogantwoman?" All the audience paused for a moment. The woman rose to answer and said: "Why are youasking them [the woman]? Ask me. I'll tell you [who I am]. I am Muhammad's granddaughter. I amFatima's daughter." People at the court were impressed and amazed by her. According to the narration ofAl-Shaykh Al-Mufid, in Yazid's presence a man with red skin asked Yazid for one of the captured womento be his slave. Yazid hit the lips and teeth of Hussein with his stick while saying: "I wish those of my clanwho were killed at Badr, and those who had seen the Khazraj clan wailing (in the battle of Uhad) onaccount of lancet wounds, were here. At this time, Zaynab bint Ali began to give hersermon.ContextZaynab bint Ali started her sermon with the praise of Allah:In the name of Allah, Themost Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. May praise andsalutations be upon my grandfather, the leader of Allah's messengers and upon his progeny.God givestime to disbelieversVerse 178 of chapter of Al Imran was descended about polytheists of Mecca such asAbu Sufyan ibn Harb. Zainab bint Ali once again relates this verse to Yazid, grandson of Abu Sufyan ibnHarb. She said: "Do not be satisfied with this temporal achievement; this time passes quickly and Allahwill punish you. You will be humiliated."As we see in the sermon:O Yazid! Do you think that we havebecome humble and despicable owing to the martyrdom of our people and our own captivity? Do youthink that by killing the godly persons you have become great and respectable and the Almighty looks atyou with special grace and kindness? You have, however, forgotten what Allah says: The disbelieversmust not think that our respite is for their good We only give them time to let them increase their sins.For them there will be a humiliating torment. (Quran 3:178 (Yusuf Ali))Humiliate the enemy and honoring


Passage 1:IwamuraIwamura (written:  lit. "rock village") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball playerNoboru Iwamura, Japanese biologistAi Iwamura, Japanese actressIwamura Michitoshi, Meiji era politicianShunichi Iwamura ( , born 1940), Japanese sprint canoeistSee alsoIwamura Castle in Gifu Prefecture, JapanIwamura, Gifu, former town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan67853 Iwamura, main-belt asteroidPassage 2:Little Rock Trojans women's basketballThe Little Rock Trojans women's basketball team represents the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school will join the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) on July 1, 2022 after 31 seasons in the Sun Belt Conference.HistoryLittle Rock has won the West Division in the Sun Belt in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2013. They won the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in 2011, 2012, and 2015. They have made the WNIT in 2008, 2009, and 2013. They made the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament in 2010 beating Georgia Tech 63–53. They lost to Oklahoma 60–44 in the subsequent game. They made the Second Round in 2015 after beating Texas A&M 69–60. They lost 57–54 to Arizona State in the subsequent game. As of the end of the 2015–16 season, the Trojans have an all-time record of 384–485, with a 288–231 record since joining Division I in 1999.NCAA tournament resultsPassage 3:University of Arkansas at Little RockThe University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) is a public research university in Little Rock, Arkansas. Established as Little Rock Junior College by the Little Rock School District in 1927, the institution became a private four-year university under the name Little Rock University in 1957. It returned to public status in 1969 when it merged with the University of Arkansas System under its present name. The former campus of Little Rock Junior College is now (2019) the campus of Philander Smith College.At 250 acres (100 ha), the UA Little Rock campus encompasses more than 56 buildings, including the Center for Nanotechnology Integrative Sciences, the Emerging Analytics Center, the Sequoyah Research Center, and the Ottenheimer Library Additionally, UA Little Rock houses special learning facilities that include a learning resource center, art galleries, KUAR public radio station, University Television, and a campus-wide wireless network. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".AcademicsThe university features more than 100 undergraduate degrees and 60 graduate degrees, including graduate certificates, master's degrees, and doctorates, through both traditional and online courses. Students attend classes in one of the university's three new colleges and a law school:College of Business, Health, and Human ServicesCollege of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and EducationDonaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsWilliam H. Bowen School of LawStudent lifeThe student life at UA Little Rock is typical of public universities in the United States. It is characterized by student-run organizations and affiliation groups that support social, academic, athletic and religious activities and interests. Some of the services offered by the UA Little Rock Office of Campus Life are intramural sports and fitness programs, diversity programs, leadership development, peer tutoring, student government association, student support programs including groups for non-traditional and first generation students, a student-run newspaper, and fraternity and sorority life. The proximity of the UA Little Rock campus to downtown Little Rock enables students to take advantage of a wide array of recreational, entertainment, educational, internship and employment opportunities that are not available anywhere else in Arkansas.Campus livingUA Little Rock provides a variety of on-campus living options for students ranging from traditional resident rooms to multiple bedroom apartments. The university has four residence halls on the eastern side of the campus and the University Village Apartment Complex on the southern side of campus. Six learning communities focusing on criminal justice, arts and culture, majors and careers, future business innovators, nursing careers, and STEM are available to students.AthleticsUA Little Rock's 14 athletic teams are known as the Little Rock Trojans, with almost all teams participating in the Sun Belt Conference. Little Rock is one of two Sun Belt members that do not sponsor football (UT Arlington being the other); UA Little Rock last fielded a football team in 1955 when it was known as Little Rock Junior College. Little Rock's main athletic offices are located in the Jack Stephens Center. UA Little Rock offers the following sports:Two Little Rock teams that do not compete in the Sun Belt are the women's swimming and diving team (Missouri Valley Conference) and wrestling (Pac-12


Passage 1:The Wonderful World of Captain KuhioThe Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio (, Kuhio Taisa, lit. "Captain Kuhio") is a 2009 Japanese comedy-crime film, directed by Daihachi Yoshida, based on Kazumasa Yoshida's 2006 biographical novel, Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa (lit. "Marriage swindler Captain Kuhio"), that focuses on a real-life marriage swindler, who conned over 100 million yen (US$1.2 million) from a number of women between the 1970s and the 1990s.The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.CastMasato Sakai - Captain KuhioYasuko Matsuyuki - Shinobu NaganoHikari Mitsushima - Haru YasuokaYuko Nakamura - Michiko SudoHirofumi Arai - Tatsuya NaganoKazuya Kojima - Koichi TakahashiSakura Ando - Rika KinoshitaMasaaki Uchino - Chief FujiwaraKanji Furutachi - Shigeru KurodaReila AphroditeSei AndoAwardsAt the 31st Yokohama Film FestivalBest Actor – Masato SakaiBest Supporting Actress – Sakura AndoPassage 2:Star Quest: The OdysseyStar Quest: The Odyssey is a 2009 low budget American science-fiction film directed by Jon Bonnell, written by Carlos Perez, and starring Aaron Ginn-Forsberg, Davina Joy and Tamara McDaniel. The film was released on November 3, 2009.External linksStar Quest: The Odyssey at IMDbTrailer Star Quest: The Odyssey on YouTubePassage 3:Men's GroupMen's Group is a 2008 Australian drama film. The film is directed by Michael Joy from a screenplay co-written with John L. Simpson.PlotThe film follows the lives of six men over a period of months as they convene weekly in a self-help style group. Meeting at the home of Paul, the men include Freddy, a depressed stand-up comedian; the elderly Cecil; businessman Lucas; the bereaved Anthony; taciturn Moses; and talkative, middle-aged Alex. As trust grows between the men they gradually begin to open up and learn to listen to each other, discovering they are not alone in their fears as they had presumed. When a tragedy befalls the group, the men realize they must take responsibilities for their own lives and those of their loved ones.CastGrant Dodwell as AlexPaul Gleeson as PaulSteve Le Marquand as LucasDon Reid as CecilSteve Rodgers as FreddyPaul Tassone as MosesWilliam Zappa as AnthonyProductionDevelopmentThe concept of the film was conceived by Michael Joy and John L. Simpson, while working together on another project dealing with men's issues and their inability to communicate. At that time, director Michael Joy was experiencing depression and attended a men's support group on the advice of a telephone counsellor. Joy was struck by the pain of the men in the room and the safe environment in which they could express what they were going through.FilmingJoy worked with each of the actors separately, workshopping the script over two months. Using this technique, Michael and John L. would create scenes from key character points and events. Only then was a comprehensive screenplay drafted and delivered to the heads of departments.The actors were not allowed to see the screenplay prior to shooting, and had little or no idea of other characters' story lines. The filmmakers did this to capture the actors' first responses to what was unfolding in front of them. There was only one take for each shot that appears in the film, and the shoot lasted only 14 days. It was shot in sequence, so the filmmakers could not go back to reshoot. Before each scene, Joy spent time talking to the actors quietly and individually about their lives at that point, trying to get them to speak about specific things that needed to happen in the film.The film was a micro-budget production, created on a reverse finance model, with each key crew member and actor taking an equity position in the film.ReceptionThe film was praised and is particularly recognised for the strong performances by the lead actors. Anton Bitel of Eye for Film wrote the film " represents a refreshing examination of the collective male psyche through pure drama", and added the improvisational nature of the film results in an "ensemble performances of searing, warts-and-all realism, so utterly believable that viewers themselves will feel like silent members of the party, compelled by the power of the proceedings to watch, listen, learn – and maybe join in the conversation after the credits have rolled." On At the Movies, Margaret Pomeranz awarded the film four stars and David Stratton awarded it three and a half stars.On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Men's Group has an approval rating of 86% based on 7 reviews.AFI Fellowship and TourFollowing the theatrical release of the film by Titan View, John L. Simpson was approached by men's health groups who wished to screen the film and use it as a tool to prompt discussions about men's mental health. With this interest, Simpson proposed to tour the film around Australia to non-theatrical venues for community group screenings, and in the


Passage 1:Chow Ka WaChow Ka Wa (Chinese: ; Cantonese Yale: Jāu Gāwà ; born 23 April 1986 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong footballer who plays for Hong Kong First Division League club Southern as a right midfielder.Club careerCitizenChow began his professional career at Citizen, a newly promoted First Division club, in the 2004–05 season. However, as a young player, he failed to compete for a place in the starting line-up, only mostly played in the Senior Shield.Loan to Xiangxie PharDuring the season, Xiangxie Phar was rebuilt and players all left the club. To retain their presence in the league, six teams from the First Division league loaned their young players so that they could gain match experiences. Chow was one of them who was loaned from Citizen. However, as he was still a student at that time, he failed to attend every training session and therefore was not given many match-playing chances. He returned to Citizen at the end of the season.Kwun TongAfter spending a season in the top-tier division, he joined Third Division side Kwun Tong, as he had to focus on academic studies. Although he played most of the matches, he failed to help them gain promotion to the Second Division. He left the club at the end of the season.Hong Kong 08Chow made a return to the First Division in the 2006–07 season, joining Hong Kong 08, which was formed by a team of young players to let them gain match experiences before competing in the 2008 Olympics qualifiers. He was given plenty of match-playing chances although there were many wingers at the team. However, the club was relegated and was dissolved after the season.Although many players and coaches joined newly promoted side Workable, Chow did not follow them and joined Third Division side Shatin, meaning he would miss the First Division for the second time.ShatinChow joined Third Division side Shatin in the 2007–08 season. As a third-tier club, however, Shatin had many players with First Division playing experience, including Lee Wai Man who was the current most capped Hong Kong national team record player, Ng Yat Hoi, Kwok Yue Hung and so on. With an exceptionally strong squad in the league, Chow helped Shatin claim the league title without dropping any points in all 15 matches, meaning they had also gained promotion to Second Division. At the same time, Shatin also won the Junior Shield title in the season.Chow stayed at the club as Shatin were aiming at promotion to the First Division for their first time in club history. He continued to make a great impact in the team and eventually helped the club achieve their season goal as they claimed the league title with only losing one match in 18 matches. On the other hand, Shatin successfully defended their Junior Shield title, defeating Sham Shai Po 2–0 in the final. Chow played 90 minutes in the match, providing one assist in the match.He followed the team and made a second return to the First Division in the 2009–10 season. However, since Shatin bought several new players to strengthen their squad, Chow's match-playing chances were therefore reduced. Shatin failed to avoid relegation to the Second Division as they placed 2nd at the bottom of the league. Chow also left the club after the season.PonticChow made his third leave from the First Division as he joined Second Division side Pontic in the 2010–11 season. As a key member in the team, he only missed one game throughout the season, helping the club gain promotion to the First Division.However, since Pontic failed to find sponsors, they lacked sufficient funds to run the club. As a result, Pontic announced they refused to promote to the First Division. Soon later, Pontic was punished and had their club qualification cancelled, meaning that they were not able to compete in every league and cup organised by the Hong Kong Football Association. Chow became Free Agent afterwards.SouthernChow joined Second Division side Southern in the 2011–12 season. Under coaching of Fung Hoi Man, Chow was a usual starter for the club, featuring 20 league matches and scoring 2 goals. Southern successfully gain promotion to the First Division as they placed second in the league.The 2012–13 season was a year of breakthrough for Chow Ka Wa, as his impressive performance and co-operation with fellow team-mates Dieguito, Jonathan Carril and Ip Chung Long attracted people's eyes. He made a great impact on Southern's 8-game unbeaten in the league during the season. Unfortunately, Chow was injured in January and was forced to stay on the sidelines for two months.On 20 April 2013, he scored the winning goal in the 68th minute after being substituted in the 60th minute against South China, not just helping the club to win 3–2, but also helping them to secure the league 4th place. This was also Chow's first game after his recovery on his injury. This goal became more important as Southern qualified for the 2013 Hong Kong AFC Cup play-offs by finishing fourth in the


Passage 1:Anthony OsorioAnthony Osorio (born April 13, 1994) is a Canadian professional soccer playerwho last played as a defender and midfielder for the Mississauga MetroStars in the Major Arena SoccerLeague.Club careerOsorio attended St. Edmund Campion where he represented the school team, havinggrown up in Brampton, Ontario. He was part of the team that won the school's second and third OntarioFederation of Schools Athletic Association Championship in four years.In 2013 after a successful trial inUruguay Osorio joined the u19 side of Nacional. Then moved up to the reserve team the following year in2014.Toronto FC IIHe joined the Toronto FC Academy in July 2014, and helped the club to becomeLeague1 Ontario champions and Inter-Provincial Cup Championship winners. Osorio was rewarded with aUSL pro contract on December 9, 2015, joining Toronto FC II and going on to make 19 appearances in hisinaugural season. The midfielder made his professional debut on April 25, 2015, playing in a matchagainst the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in the USL. Osorio would spend three seasons with the club prior tobe released at the conclusion of the 2017 season.Post-TFCIn 2018, he played for Vaughan Azzurri inLeague1 Ontario.  After that he joined the  Mississauga MetroStars of the Major Arena SoccerLeague.International careerOsorio represented Canada at the 2013 Francophone games in Nice, France.He made his international debut in a friendly as a halftime substitute vs Cameroon that ended in a 0–0draw. Osorio made his first international start and recorded his first international goal in a 1–0 win overRwanda on September 8, 2013.Personal lifeOsorio's parents are Colombian – his father is a native of Cali,while his mother was born in Medellín. Osorio's older brother, Jonathan Osorio, plays for Toronto FC andrepresents the Canadian seniors. Osorio's younger brother, Nicholas, previously played in the Toronto FCsystem and represented the Canadian under-15s.In 2018, Osorio suffered a nasty ACL tear which forcedhim to undergo surgery and not participate at all in the Metrostars' inaugural season as well as take all of2019 off on the sidelines to recover from the tragic injury. Osorio was linked to a move to CPL side York 9FC had the injury not occurred.Career statisticsAs of October 30, 2018Passage 2:Etta JonesEtta Jones(November 25, 1928 – October 16, 2001) was an American jazz singer. Her best-known recordings are"Don't Go to Strangers" and "Save Your Love for Me". She worked with Buddy Johnson, Oliver Nelson,Earl Hines, Barney Bigard, Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Cedar Walton, and HoustonPerson.BiographyJones was born in Aiken, South Carolina, and raised in Harlem, New York. Still in herteens, she joined Buddy Johnson's band for a tour although she was not featured on record. Her firstrecordings—"Salty Papa Blues", "Evil Gal Blues", "Blow Top Blues", and "Long, Long Journey"—wereproduced by Leonard Feather in 1944, placing her in the company of clarinetist Barney Bigard and tenorsaxophonist Georgie Auld. In 1947, she recorded and released an early cover version of Leon Rene's "ISold My Heart to the Junkman" (previously released by the Basin Street Boys on Rene's Exclusive label)while at RCA Victor Records. She performed with the Earl Hines sextet from 1949 to 1952.Following herrecordings for Prestige, on which Jones was featured with high-profile arrangers such as Oliver Nelsonand jazz stars such as Frank Wess, Roy Haynes, and Gene Ammons, she had a musical partnership ofmore than 30 years with tenor saxophonist Houston Person, who received equal billing with her. He alsoproduced her albums and served as her manager after the pair met in one of Johnny "Hammond" Smith'sbands.Although Etta Jones is likely to be remembered above all for her recordings on Prestige, her closeprofessional relationship with Person (frequently, but mistakenly, identified as Jones' husband) helpedensure that the last two decades of her life would be marked by uncommon productivity. Starting in1976, they began recording for Muse, which later changed its name to HighNote. Mr. Person became hermanager, as well as her record producer and accompanist, in a partnership that lasted until her death in2001.Only one of her recordings—her debut album for Prestige Records (Don't Go to Strangers,1960)—enjoyed commercial success with sales of over 1 million copies. However, her remaining sevenalbums for Prestige, and beginning in 1976, her recordings for Muse Records, and for HighNote Recordssecured her a devoted following. She had three Grammy nominations: for the Don't Go to Strangersalbum in 1960, the Save Your Love for Me album in 1981, and My Buddy (dedicated to her first employer,Buddy Johnson) in 1998. In 2008 the album Don't Go to Strangers was inducted into the Grammy Hall of


Passage 1:Jacob Le MaireJacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner whocircumnavigated the earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estadoswas named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy. It was Le Maire himselfwho proposed to the council aboard Eendracht that the new passage should be called by his name andthe council unanimously agreed with Le Maire. The author or authors of The Relation took Eendrachtcaptain Willem Schouten's side by proclaiming:“ ... our men had each of them three cups of wine in signeof ioy for our good hap ... [and the naming of] the Straights of Le Maire, although by good right it shouldrather have been called Willem Schouten Straight, after our Masters Name, by whose wise conductionand skill in sayling, the same was found.”.Eendracht then rounded Cape Horn, proving that Tierra delFuego was not a continent.BiographyJacob Le Maire was born in either Antwerp or Amsterdam, one of the22 children of Maria Walraven of Antwerp and Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624) of Tournai, who was thenalready a prosperous merchant in Antwerp. Isaac and Maria married shortly before the Spanish siege ofAntwerp in 1585 after which they fled to settle in Amsterdam. Jacob is thought to have been the oldestson, born perhaps the same year. Isaac was very successful in Amsterdam, and became one of thefounders of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC). However, in 1605 Isaac Le Maire was forced to leavethe company after a dispute and for the next decade tried to break the company's monopoly on the tradeto the East Indies.By 1615 Isaac had established a new company (the Australian Company) with the goalto find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands, thereby evading the restrictions of the VOC. Hecontributed to the outfitting of two ships, the Eendracht and Hoorn, and put his son Jacob in charge oftrading during the expedition. The experienced ship master Willem Schouten was captain of theEendracht and a participant of the enterprise in equal shares with Isaac Le Maire.On 14 June 1615 Jacoble Maire and Willem Schouten sailed from Texel in the United Provinces. On 29 January 1616 theyrounded Cape Horn, which they named for the Hoorn, which was lost in a fire.  The Dutch city of Hoornwas also the birthplace of Schouten. After failing to moor at the Juan Fernández Islands in early March,the ships crossed the Pacific in a fairly straight line, visiting several of the Tuamotus. Between 21 and 24April 1616 they were the first Westerners to visit the (Northern) Tonga islands: "Cocos Island" (Tafahi),"Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou). On 28 April they discovered theHoorn Islands (Futuna and Alofi), where they were very well received and stayed until 12 May. They thenfollowed the north coasts of New Ireland and New Guinea and visited adjacent islands, including, on 24July, what became known as the Schouten Islands.They reached the northern Moluccas in August andfinally Ternate, the headquarters of the VOC, on 12 September 1616. Here they were enthusiasticallywelcomed by Governor-General Laurens Reael, admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon,Jasper Jansz.The Eendracht sailed on to Java and reached  Batavia on 28 October with a remarkable 84of the original 87 crew members of both ships on board. Although they had opened an unknown route,Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the VOC claimed infringement of its monopoly of trade to the Spice Islands. LeMaire and Schouten were arrested and the Eendracht was confiscated. After being released, theyreturned from Batavia to Amsterdam in the company of Joris van Spilbergen, who was on acircumnavigation of the earth himself, be it via the traditional Strait of Magellan.Le Maire was aboard theship Amsterdam on this journey home, but died en route. Van Spilbergen was at his deathbed and tookLe Maire's report of his trip, which he included in his book Mirror of the East and West Indies. The rest ofthe crew arrived in the Netherlands on 1 July 1617, two years and 17 days after they departed. Jacob'sfather Isaac challenged the confiscation and the conclusion of the VOC, but it took him until 1622 until acourt ruled in his favour. He was awarded 64,000 pounds and retrieved his son's diaries (which he thenpublished as well), and his company was allowed trade via the newly discovered route. Unfortunately, bythen, the Dutch West Indies Company had claimed the same waters.FootnotesPassage 2:ÉricRohmerJean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (French:[eik om]; 21 March 1920 – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist,novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave


Passage 1:Ben PalmerBen Palmer (born 1976) is a British film and television director.His televisioncredits include the Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta! (2002–2006), the second and third series of theE4 sitcom The Inbetweeners (2009–2010) and the Sky Atlantic comedy-drama Breeders (2020). Palmerhas also directed films such as the Inbetweeners spin-off, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and theromantic comedy Man Up (2015).BiographyPalmer was born and raised in Penny Bridge,Barrow-in-Furness. He attended Chetwynde School.His first directing job was the Channel 4 sketch showBo' Selecta!, which he co-developed with its main star, Leigh Francis. Palmer directed the second andthird series of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners in 2009 and 2010, respectively.FilmographyBo' Selecta!(2002–06)Comedy Lab (2004–2010)Bo! in the USA (2006)The Inbetweeners (2009–2010)TheInbetweeners Movie (2011)Comedy Showcase (2012)Milton Jones's House of Rooms (2012)Them fromThat Thing (2012)Bad Sugar (2012)Chickens (2013)London Irish (2013)Man Up (2015)SunTrap(2015)BBC Comedy Feeds (2016)Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back (2016)Back (2017)Comedy Playhouse(2017)Urban Myths (2017–19)Click & Collect (2018)Semi-Detached (2019)Breeders (2020)Passage2:Santa and the Fairy Snow QueenSanta and the Fairy Snow Queen is a 1951 short fantasy film directedby Sid Davis.PlotSnoopy, (Rochelle Stanton) one of Santa Claus' (Edmund Penney) brownies, introducesherself to the audience, and explains that it is her job to watch little boys and girls, to see if they arebehaving well, and to make sure all the toys Santa gives to children on Christmas are being taken careof. If she finds them broken or forgotten, she hauls them off to the Land of Lost and Forgotten Toys.Snoopy then says Santa asked her to tell all the children the story of how the Fairy Snow Queen gave lifeto toys, so that they might be more respectful of their gifts.Snoopy then begins the story: one ChristmasEve, long ago, right after Santa and the brownies had finished making the toys, Santa asked the FairySnow Queen to come visit so they can have a sugar cookie. The Fairy Snow Queen came, but discoveredSanta deeply asleep in his chair, exhausted from his hard work. At his feet, the queen found several ofthe toys that he was about to deliver: a rag doll, (Jenny Neal) a musical doll, (Lee Porter) ajack-in-the-box, (Don Oreck) a toy soldier, (Bob Porter) a baby doll, (Audrey Washburn) a doll dressed asa peasant, (Joanna Lamond) and a candy lion (Patrick Clement). Insulted at being forgotten about, theFairy Snow Queen decided to play a trick on Santa, and brought the toys to life. As the toys take theirfirst steps, the queen dances with the rag doll, and Santa wakes up. The toys demonstrate they can sing,and while Santa enjoyed their music, he asked the Fairy Snow Queen to revert them to their inanimatestate. The queen protested, saying it's all good fun. The toy soldier and baby doll then show everyone amarching routine, after which the mischievous Jack jumps out of his box and frightens the other toys,until he is coaxed back into his dwelling by the toy soldier. The Fairy Snow queen then used her magic tocalm everyone down, and Santa asked her once again to put the toys back to normal, before the toys fallin love with each other, or break themselves. The queen then reveals that because she'd beenirresponsible with her magic, her powers were taken away. She tells Santa she can only change the toysback if they wish to return to their normal states, and they have no such desire, so she cannot. After this,Santa told the toys that if they don't change back, he won't have any gifts to give to the children. TheFairy Snow Queen then offered a compromise: the toys will come to life for one hour, at midnight, eachnight. The toys agree to this, and Santa appoints Snoopy the caretaker of all the toys. Before shechanged them back, the musical doll and the toy soldier reveal they have fallen in love with each other.In remembrance of her, the soldier gave the doll his golden medal, and Santa decreed all musical dollswill wear golden medals to commemorate their love. The queen returned the toys back to normal, leavingSanta and Snoopy to load the toys onto his sleigh.MusicSome of the music used in the short film wasfrom The Nutcracker Suite and The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.ProductionOriginally aone act play written by Porter in 1949, the film wasn't copyrighted until two years later. It was distributedby Encyclopedia Britannia Films for televised broadcasts across the US.CastRochelle Stanton asSnoopyEdmund Penney as SantaMargot von Lou as the Fairy Snow QueenJenny Neal as Rag DollLeePorter as Musical DollDon Oreck as Jack-in-the-BoxBob Porter as Toy SoldierAudrey Washburn as Baby


Passage 1:Salin MibayaSalin Mibaya (Burmese:  , pronounced [sĺmbjá]; also known as Narapati Medaw, ( )) was the chief queen of ViceroyThado Dhamma Yaza II of Prome (r. 1551–1588).The second daughter of King Bayin Htwe of Prome andhis chief queen Shwe Zin Gon was married three times. Her marriage to her first cousin Min Ba Saw—ason of her maternal uncle—was cut short when her brother King Narapati had him executed. Narapatithen married her off to Sithu Kyawhtin, then governor of Salin, a powerful figure in the Confederation ofShan States, in a marriage of state in the late 1530s. (Prome was then a de facto vassal state of theConfederation, which controlled all of Ava territories except Toungoo in Upper Burma.) Her stay at Salinlasted until January 1544 when the city was captured by Toungoo forces under Gen. Bayinnaung. Herhusband escaped to Ava (Inwa) but she was captured and sent to Pegu (Bago). In 1545, she was marriedto Nanda Yawda, a younger brother of Bayinnaung, at the coronation ceremony of Tabinshwehti at thePegu Palace.She returned to her native Prome as queen in 1551 when her husband was appointed viceroyof the region by King Bayinnaung. She had two daughters by Nanda Yawda, now styled as ThadoDhamma Yaza II. Their elder daughter Hsinbyushin Medaw became the chief queen of Nawrahta Minsaw,the viceroy (and later king) of Lan Na. The younger daughter Min Taya Medaw was a major queen ofNanda.AncestryThe following is her ancestry as reported in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle, which in turnreferenced contemporary inscriptions. Her parents were double cousins.NotesPassage 2:Motherland(disambiguation)Motherland is the place of one's birth, the place of one's ancestors, or the place of originof an ethnic group.Motherland may also refer to:Music"Motherland" (anthem), the national anthem ofMauritiusNational Song (Montserrat), also called "Motherland"Motherland (Natalie Merchant album),2001Motherland (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2011Motherland (Daedalus album),2011"Motherland" (Crystal Kay song), 2004Film and televisionMotherland (1927 film), a 1927 Britishsilent war filmMotherland (2010 film), a 2010 documentary filmMotherland (2015 film), a 2015 TurkishdramaMotherland (2022 film), a 2022 documentary film about the Second Nagorno-KarabakhWarMotherland (TV series), a 2016 British television seriesMotherland: Fort Salem, a 2020 Americanscience fiction drama seriesOther usesMotherland Party (disambiguation), the name of several politicalgroupsPersonifications of Russia, including a list of monuments called MotherlandSee alsoAll pages withtitles containing MotherlandMother Country (disambiguation)Passage 3:Where Was I"Where Was I?" mayrefer to:Books"Where Was I?", essay by David Hawley Sanford from The Mind's IWhere Was I?, book byJohn Haycraft 2006Where was I?!, book by Terry Wogan 2009Film and TVWhere Was I? (film), 1925 filmdirected by William A. Seiter. With Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran.Where WasI? (2001 film), biography about songwriter Tim RoseWhere Was I? (TV series) 1952–1953 Quiz show withthe panelists attempting to guess a location by looking at photos"Where Was I?" episode of Shoestring(TV series) 1980Music"Where was I", song by W. Franke Harling and Al Dubin performed by RubyNewman and His Orchestra  with vocal chorus by  Larry Taylor and Peggy McCall  1939"Where Was I",single from Charley Pride discography 1988"Where Was I" (song), a 1994 song by Ricky VanShelton"Where Was I (Donde Estuve Yo)", song by Joe Pass from Simplicity (Joe Pass album)"Where WasI?", song by Guttermouth from The Album Formerly Known as a Full Length LP (Guttermouthalbum)"Where Was I", song by Sawyer Brown (Billy Maddox, Paul Thorn, Anne Graham) from Can YouHear Me Now 2002"Where Was I?", song  by  Kenny Wayne Shepherd from Live On  1999"Where Was I",song by Melanie Laine (Victoria Banks, Steve Fox) from Time Flies (Melanie Laine album)"Where Was I",song by Rosie Thomas from With Love (Rosie Thomas album)Passage 4:SennedjemSennedjem was anAncient Egyptian artisan who was active during the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses II. He lived in Set Maat(translated as "The Place of Truth"), contemporary Deir el-Medina, on the west bank of the Nile, oppositeThebes. Sennedjem had the title "Servant in the Place of Truth". He was buried along with his wife,Iyneferti, and members of his family in a tomb in the village necropolis. His tomb was discovered January31, 1886. When Sennedjem's tomb was found, it contained furniture from his home, including a stool anda bed, which he used when he was alive.His titles included Servant in the Place of Truth, meaning that he


Passage 1:1928 Washington and Lee Generals football teamThe 1928 Washington and Lee Generalsfootball team represented Washington and Lee University during the 1928 college footballseason.SchedulePassage 2:Christian ComptonAsbury Christian Compton (October 24, 1929 – April 9,2006) was an American attorney and judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from1974 until 2000, and as a Senior justice until his death.Compton was a native of Ashland in HanoverCounty, Virginia, and graduated from Ashland High School in 1946. Compton earned his B.A. in historyand politics from Washington and Lee in 1950 and his LL.B. from the Washington and Lee UniversitySchool of Law in 1953.  While at Washington and Lee, Compton served as president of Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity, class officer and captain of the basketball team. He was also a member of Omicron DeltaKappa, the lacrosse team, Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, the University Glee Club and the CotillionClub.Compton served in the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1956 and the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1953 to1961. He practiced law in Richmond with May, Garrett, Miller, Newman and Compton from 1957 to1966.In 1966, Gov. Mills Godwin appointed Compton to the Law & Equity Court of the City of Richmondand then to the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1974. The General Assembly re-elected him to another termin 1987. He retired from the Supreme Court in February 2000 and began service as a seniorjustice.Compton maintained strong ties to Washington and Lee throughout his career.  He served aspresident of the Alumni Association from 1972 to 1973.  He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws fromhis alma mater in 1975. He served member of the Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1989.  He selectedmost of his law clerks from the top graduates of Washington and Lee School of Law.Compton was marriedto Betty Stephenson Compton for 52 years until his death.  They had three daughters—Leigh ComptonKiczales, Mary Compton Psyllos, Melissa Compton Patterson; and eight grandsons-Nicholas Kiczales, LukeKiczales, Noah Stephenson Kiczales, Thomas Psyllos, Christian Psyllos, Daniel Patterson, JamesPatterson, and Henry Patterson.Resolution of the Virginia General Assembly on the Death of A. ChristianComptonPassage 3:1917 Washington and Lee Generals football teamThe 1917 Washington and LeeGenerals football team represented the Washington and Lee Generals of Washington and Lee during the1917 college football season.SchedulePassage 4:Shenandoah (magazine)Shenandoah: The Washingtonand Lee Review is a literary magazine published Washington and Lee University.HistoryOriginally astudent-run quarterly, Shenandoah has evolved into a biannual literary journal. Since 2018, themagazine has been edited by current English professor Beth Staples. According to Shenandoah's missionstatement, the magazine aims to showcase diverse voices because "reading through the perspective ofanother person, persona, or character is one of the ways we practice empathy, expand our understandingof the world, and experience new levels of awareness."Shenandoah was founded in 1949 by a group ofWashington and Lee University faculty members, including English professor Samuel Ashley Brown, whopublished the fiction and poetry of undergraduates including Tom Wolfe. In the 1950s Thomas H. Carterbecame one of the founding student editors.  During his tenure the Shenandoah corresponded with E. E.Cummings, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound and many other Southern writers andthe Shenandoah grew in stature and national prominence. From the 1960s to the 1980s, W&L facultymember James Boatwright expanded the journal and published occasional theme issues, including a 35thanniversary anthology. In 1995, R. T. Smith was selected as the first full-time editor of the journal. In2018 after twenty-three years as editor, R. T. Smith retired, and Beth Staples took over as editor of themagazine.  Today, the magazine publishes biannually in the spring and fall. Shenandoah is funded andsupported by Washington and Lee University through the Office of the Dean of the College and is locatedin Mattingly House on W&L's campus. The magazine maintains a board of university advisors who offerguidance and advice, and the current editor maintains an intern program in which undergraduatestudents work for the journal and learn the craft of editing as an academic course in the EnglishDepartment. Recent contributors include Wendell Berry, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacob M. Appel, SpeerMorgan, Lee Smith, Claudia Emerson, May-lee Chai, and Rita Dove.  This list complements a long historyof literary luminaries who have been published in Shenandoah such as W. H. Auden, James Merrill, J. R.


Passage 1:Heaven Knows, Mr. AllisonHeaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 American CinemaScope warfilm that tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean duringWorld War II.The film was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the 1952 novel by CharlesShaw and was directed by Huston. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a LeadingRole (Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.The moviewas filmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed a low-budgetvariation on the story, The Nun and the Sergeant (1962), starring his wife Anna Sten.PlotIn the SouthPacific in 1944, U.S. Marine Corporal Allison and his reconnaissance party are disembarking from a U.S.Navy submarine when they are discovered and fired upon by the Japanese. The submarine's captain isforced to dive and leave the scouting team behind. Allison reaches a rubber raft and, after days adrift,reaches an island. He finds an abandoned settlement and a chapel with one occupant: Sister Angela, anovice Irish nun who has not yet taken her final vows. She has been on the island for only four days,having come with an elderly priest to evacuate another clergyman only to find that the Japanese hadarrived first. The frightened natives who had brought them to the island left the pair without warning, andthe priest died soon after.For a while, they have the island to themselves, but then a detachment ofJapanese troops arrives to set up a meteorological camp, forcing them to hide in a cave. When SisterAngela is unable to stomach the raw fish that Allison has caught, he sneaks into the Japanese camp forsupplies, narrowly avoiding detection. That night, they watch flashes from naval guns being fired in a seabattle over the horizon.The Japanese unexpectedly leave the island and Allison professes his love forSister Angela, proposing marriage. But she shows him her engagement ring and explains that it is asymbol of her forthcoming final holy vows. Later both in celebration and frustration, Allison gets drunk onsake. He blurts out that he considers her devotion to her vows to be pointless since they are stuck on theisland "like Adam and Eve." She runs out into a tropical rain and falls ill as a result. Allison, now soberand contrite, finds her shivering. He carries her back, but the Japanese have returned, forcing them toretreat to the cave. Allison sneaks into the Japanese camp to get blankets. He kills a soldier whodiscovers him, alerting the enemy. To force him into the open, the Japanese set fire to thevegetation.When a Japanese soldier discovers the cave, Allison and Sister Angela have two choices:surrender or die from a hand grenade thrown inside. An ensuing explosion is not a grenade, but a bomb;the Americans have begun attacking the island in preparation for a landing. Allison comments that thelanding will not be easy because when they returned, the Japanese brought four artillery pieces andconcealed them well on the island.Responding to what he attributes to a message from God, Allisondisables the artillery during the barrage that will precede the American assault while the Japanese are stillin their bunkers. He is wounded but sabotages all the guns by removing their breechblocks, saving manyAmerican lives. After the landing, the Marine officers are puzzled by the missing breechblocks.SisterAngela and the wounded Allison then say their goodbyes as the Marines begin occupation. Allison hasreconciled himself to Sister Angela's dedication to Jesus, though she reassures him that they will alwaysbe close "companions." After being found, Allison is transferred by the Marines to the ship, with SisterAngela walking beside him.CastProductionFilming took place in Trinidad and Tobago, allowing Huston andFox to use blocked funds in the UK, receive British film finance and qualify for the Eady Levy. The filmwas set later in the war than it was in the novel, which had Allison escaping from the Battle of Corregidor.In the film, the Allies are on the offensive and U.S. Marines capture the island.The screenplay comparesthe rituals and commitment of the Roman Catholic Church and the United States Marine Corps. TheNational Legion of Decency monitored the production of the film closely, sending a representative towatch the filming; knowing this, Kerr and Mitchum ad-libbed a scene (not included in the final print) inwhich their characters wildly kissed and grabbed at each other.: 306 The Marines provided troops for theinvasion climax. Six Japanese persons living in Brazil played some of the leading Japanese characters,while Chinese people from some of the laundries and restaurants of Trinidad and Tobago played the restof the Japanese soldiers.Screen Archives Entertainment released Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison on Blu-ray on


Passage 1:Hanro SmitsmanHanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda (Netherlands), is a writer and directorof film and television.Film and Television CreditsFilmsBrothers (2017)Schemer (2010)Skin (2008)Raak(aka Contact) (2006)Allerzielen (aka All Souls) (2005) (segment "Groeten uit Holland")Engel en Broer(2004)2000 Terrorists (2004)Dajo (2003)Gloria (2000)Depoep (2001)Television20 leugens, 4 ouders eneen scharrelei (2013)De ontmaskering van de vastgoedfraude (TV mini-series, 2013)Moordvrouw(2012-)Eileen (2 episodes, 2011)Getuige (2011)Vakantie in eigen land (2011)De Reis van meneer vanLeeuwen(2010)De Punt (2009)Roes (2 episodes, 2008)Fok jou! (2006)Van Speijk (2006)AwardsIn 2005,Engel en Broer won Cinema Prize for Short Film at the Avanca Film Festival.In 2007, Raak (aka Contact)won the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Spirit Award at theBrooklyn Film Festival, the first place jury prize for "Best Live Action under 15 minutes" at the PalmSprings International Short Film Festival, and the Prix UIP Ghent Award for European Short Films at theFlanders International Film Festival.In 2008, Skin won the Movie Squad Award at the Nederlands FilmFestival, an actor in the film also won the Best Actor Award.  It also won the Reflet d’Or for Best Film atthe Cinema tous ecrans Festival in Geneva in the same year.Passage 2:Rasul Sadr AmeliRasoul Sadrameli(Persian:  ; born 1954 in Isfahan) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter,journalist and film producer. The Managing Director of MILAD FILM (established in 1979, the firstcompany in the distribution and production of Iranian films after revolution) began his journalism careerwhen he was just 17. He collaborated with Etela'at Newspaper as a reporter, story writer and editor ofIncident page and then as the Editor of Parliamentary Service. He studied sociology at Paul ValéryUniversity of Montpellier in France. He began his professional activities in the Cinema by producing a filmentitled Blood Raining in 1981. This film is the first cinematic project after the revolution.Filmography (asa director)The Liberation — 1982Deliverance — 1983Chrysanthemum — 1985During Autumn — 1987TheVictim — 1991Symphony of Tehran — 1993The Girl in Sneakers — 1999I'm Taraneh, 15 — 2002Aida, ISaw Your Father Last Night — 2005Every Night Loneliness - 2008Life With Closed Eyes — 2010WaitingFor A Miracle — 2011My Second Year in College — 2019Passage 3:Long PantsLong Pants (also known asJohnny Newcomer) is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring HarryLangdon.  Additional cast members include Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe, and Priscilla Bonner.PlotThesilent tells the story of Harry Shelby (Langdon) who has been kept in knee-pants for years by his mother.One day, however, Harry finally gets his first pair of long pants.Immediately, his family expects him tomarry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla (Priscilla Bonner).  Yet, Harry soon falls for Bebe Blair (AlmaBennett), a femme fatale from the big city who has a boyfriend in the mob.Harry thinks that Bebe isinterested in him as well, so he risks everything when Bebe ends up in jail. This leads to a lot of troublefor Harry. Throughout the whole ordeal Priscilla waits for Harry to face reality.CastCritical receptionWhenit was released, film critic Mordaunt Hall gave the film a positive review.  He wrote, "Some hilariouspassages enliven Harry Langdon's latest film oddity, Long' Pants...Although these incidents are acted withconsummate skill, except for an occasional repetition, it is quite obvious to any male who has made thedecisive change from short to long trousers that the idea offers possibilities far greater and more genuinethan those that greet the eye. The answer is that Mr. Langdon has once again capitulated to hisomnipotent band of gag-men. It may be all very well for Harold Lloyd to rely on mechanical twists, butLangdon possesses a cherubic countenance, which offers him a chance in other directions...Mr. Langdonis still Charles Spencer Chaplin's sincerest flatterer. His short coat reminds one of Chaplin, and now andagain his footwork is like that of the great screen comedian."Film historian David Kalat reports thatBuster Keaton, a long-time fan of Langdon's known for his own morbid jokes about death and killings,criticized a scene in which Langdon's character tries to kill Priscilla as "going too far" in making light ofmurder.More recently, critic Maria Schneider reviewed Langdon's work and wrote, "Long Pants (1927),also directed by Capra, was a peculiar change of pace for Langdon, and possibly an attempt to poke funat his baby-faced image by casting him as a would-be lady-killer; sporting little of the ingenuity of TheStrong Man, it was a box-office failure that set off the comedian's quick decline into obscurity. An


Passage 1:Ögedei KhanÖgedei Khagan (also Ogodei; c. 1186 – 11 December 1241) was second khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.Born in c. 1186 AD, Ögedei fought in numerous battles during his father's rise to power. After being granted a large appanage and taking a number of wives, including Töregene, he played a prominent role in the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire. When his older brothers Jochi and Chagatai quarrelled over strategies when besieging Gurganj, Genghis appointed Ögedei sole commander; his successful capture of the city in 1221 ensured his military reputation. He was confirmed as heir after further infighting between his elder brothers led to both being excluded from succession plans. Genghis died in 1227, and Ögedei was elected as khagan in 1229, after a two-year regency led by his younger brother Tolui.As khan, Ögedei pursued the expansionist policies of his father. He launched a second invasion of Persia led by Chormaqan Noyan in 1230, which subdued the Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din and began to subjugate Georgia. He initiated the Mongol invasions of Korea, and his armies skirmished with the Song dynasty and in India. By the time of his death in 1241, large armies under the command of his nephew Batu Khan and Subutai had subdued the steppes and penetrated deep into Europe. These armies defeated Poland at Legnica and Hungary at Mohi before retreating. It is likely that this retreat was caused by the need to find a successor after Ögedei's death, although some scholars have speculated that the Mongols were simply unable to invade further because of logistical difficulties.As an administrator, Ögedei continued to develop the fast-growing Mongol state. Working with officials such as Yelü Chucai, he developed ortogh trading systems, instituted methods of tax collection, and established regional bureaucracies which controlled legal and economic affairs. He also founded the Mongol capital city, Karakorum, in the 1230s. Although historically disregarded in comparison to his father, especially on account of his alcoholism, he was known to be charismatic, good-natured, and intelligent.BackgroundÖgedei was the third son of Genghis Khan and Börte Ujin. He participated in the turbulent events of his father's rise. When Ögedei was 17 years old, Genghis Khan experienced the disastrous defeat of Khalakhaljid Sands against the army of Jamukha. Ögedei was heavily wounded and lost on the battlefield. His father's adopted brother and companion Borokhula rescued him. Although he was already married, in 1204 his father gave him Töregene, the wife of a defeated Merkit chief. The addition of such a wife was not uncommon in steppe culture.After Genghis was proclaimed Emperor or Khagan in 1206, myangans (thousands) of the Jalayir, Besud, Suldus, and Khongqatan clans were given to him as his appanage. Ögedei's territory occupied the Emil and Hobok rivers. According to his father's wish, Ilugei, the commander of the Jalayir, became Ögedei's tutor.Ögedei, along with his brothers, campaigned independently for the first time in November 1211 against the Jin dynasty. He was sent to ravage the land south through Hebei and then north through Shanxi in 1213. Ögedei's force drove the Jin garrison out of the Ordos, and he rode to the juncture of the Xi Xia, Jin, and Song domains.During the Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia, Ögedei and Chagatai massacred the residents of Otrar after a five-month siege in 1219–20 and joined Jochi who was outside the walls of Urganch. Because Jochi and Chagatai were quarreling over the military strategy, Ögedei was appointed by Genghis Khan to oversee the siege of Urganch. They captured the city in 1221. When the rebellion broke out in southeast Persia and Afghanistan, Ögedei also pacified Ghazni.Position as heirThe Empress Yisui insisted that Genghis Khan designate an heir before the invasion of the Khwarezmid Empire in 1219. After the terrible brawl between two elder sons Jochi and Chagatai, they agreed that Ögedei was to be chosen as heir. Genghis confirmed their decision.Genghis Khan died in 1227, and Jochi had died a year or two earlier. Ögedei's younger brother Tolui held the regency until 1229. Ögedei was elected supreme khan in 1229, according to the kurultai held at Kodoe Aral on the Kherlen River after Genghis' death, although this was never really in doubt as it was Genghis' clear wish that he be succeeded by Ögedei. After ritually declining three times, Ögedei was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongols on 13 September 1229. Chagatai continued to support his younger brother's claim.World conquestsExpansion in the Middle EastAfter destroying the Khwarazmian empire, Genghis Khan was free to move against Western Xia. In 1226, however, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, the last of the Khwarizm monarchs,