Passage 1:Marc-Kanyan CaseMarc-Kanyan Case (14 September 1942 – 6 January 2023) was a French professional footballer. He competed in the men'stournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Passage 2:Stoney CaseStoney Jarrod Case (born July 7, 1972) is a former quarterback for three teams in the NationalFootball League (NFL) and three teams in the Arena Football League (AFL).High school and collegeCase played high school football for the Odessa PermianPanthers, quarterbacking the team to an undefeated, 16–0 season and the Texas 5A football title in 1989, one year after the events chronicled in the Friday NightLights book and movie. The Panthers were voted ESPN's National Champion team as a result. During his Permian career, Case also lettered in baseball as anoutfielder, first baseman and pitcher. His brother Stormy Case also played quarterback for the Panthers and went on to play for Texas A&M.Recruited to playcollege football for the University of New Mexico, Case was a four-year starter for the Lobos and was the first player in NCAA Division I-A (now FBS) history topost 9,000 career passing yards and 1,000 career rushing yards. In the course of his college career he threw or ran for 98 touchdowns, which at the time of hisgraduation was second in I-A history to Ty Detmer.  In 1994, Case was the WAC player of the year and led the NCAA with 33 total TD'S and 3,649 totalyards.1991: Threw for 1,564 yards with 10 TD vs 6 INT with 2 rushing TD's.1992: Threw for 2,289 yards with 18 TD vs 13 INT with 4 rushing TD's.1993: Threwfor 2,490 yards with 17 TD vs 8 INT with 14 rushing TD's.1994: Threw for 3,117 yards with 22 TD vs 12 INT on 409 pass attempts with 11 rushingTD's.Professional careerNFLCase was a third round pick in the 1995 NFL Draft and played quarterback for Arizona Cardinals from 1995 to 1998, though he spentpart of that time with the Barcelona Dragons in the NFL Europe. He was signed as a free agent by both the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens in 1999,and went to the Detroit Lions as an unrestricted free agent in 2000.Case saw limited action during his NFL career. He played in two games during his rookieseason, but saw no action in either 1996 or 1998. He played twice in 1997 as a replacement for injured starter Kent Graham. He played in 10 games for theBaltimore Ravens in 1999, starting four games and winning two of them. He also played in five other games later in the season, receiving playing time as aback-up quarterback. In all, Case played in a total of 24 career NFL games over six years, 12 as a starter, in which he passed for 1,826 yards and 4 touchdownswhile rushing for 270 yards and 5 touchdowns. His best game came in 1999 against the Atlanta Falcons, Case threw for 2 touchdowns and no interceptions with aQB rating of 96.5.As an NFL player, Case was criticized by some fans for his uncertainty and lack of ability to throw an effective long pass. His worst careerperformance came in October 1999 when he appeared for the Ravens against the Kansas City Chiefs, completing only 15 of 37 passes for 103 yards. "The Chiefs",noted the Baltimore City Paper, "by comparison, ran back his intercepted passes for 108 yards. Repeat: 103 yards forward, 108 yards backward. Add in those twotouchdowns off interceptions and Case did almost precisely as much for Kansas City as did the Chiefs' own quarterback, Elvis Grbac (112 yards, two TDpasses)."In 2000, Case signed with the Detroit Lions as the primary backup to quarterback Charlie Batch. Appearing in five games, Case passed for 503 yards, 1touchdown, and 4 interceptions. His best game came on November 30 in a game against the Minnesota Vikings.  Even though the Lions lost 24–17, Case filled infor an injured Batch and put up 230 yards on 23–33 passing with a touchdown and an interception.AFLAfter major shoulder surgery at the end of his contract withDetroit and seemingly out of the NFL, Case subsequently moved to the Arena Football League. In 2004, he was signed by Tampa Bay Storm, playing in just threegames in 2005 and completing 4 of 7 passes for 35 yards and 2 touchdowns.In 2006, Case was the backup to Mark Grieb with the San Jose SaberCats in the AFLAmerican Conference, Western Division. On October 31, he returned to Tampa Bay as a free agent.  Four games into the 2007 season, Case took over as theStorm's starting quarterback. However, that was short-lived when he dislocated his shoulder against the Orlando Predators and had season ending surgery.SeealsoList of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leadersPassage 3:Richard CaseRichard Case (born 1964) is an American comics artist best known forhis work for DC Comics especially the Vertigo imprint.He is not to be confused with the similarly-named Richard Case, a comics artist who worked for the IgerStudio and Fiction House in the 1940s.CareerAfter receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, Richard Case worked as anassistant to comics artist Walt Simonson in 1985. Case's first credited published comic book story appeared in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales vol. 2 #10 (Jan.1988). He moved to DC Comics and pencilled the majority of issues of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol beginning with issue #19 (Feb. 1989). In 1992, hedrew several issues of Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins for Marvel. Back at DC, Case inked Marc Hempel's pencils on the Sandman story "The Kindly Ones"and penciled a few pages in Hempel's style. He illustrated Jamie Delano's Ghostdancing limited series, the final story arc of Peter Milligan's Shade, the ChangingMan, and Hunter: The Age of Magic with Dylan Horrocks. Since leaving the comics industry, he has worked extensively in computer game illustration especially forUbisoft.BibliographyDC ComicsImage ComicsGen 13 Bikini Pin-Up Special #1 (one page) (1997)Marvel ComicsPassage 4:Gregory C. CaseGregory C. Case (born1963) is the chief executive officer of Aon plc. He has held this position since April 2005.Early life and educationCase was born in Kansas City.Case received anundergraduate degree from Kansas State University, where he graduated summa cum laude. Case holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Schoolof Business.CareerCase was at first an investment banker.He then worked for 17 years at McKinsey & Company, where he eventually became head of the globalinsurance practice and then head of the financial services practice.In April 2005, Case was named chief executive officer of Aon plc.In September 2006, Casetestified on behalf of Aon and the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers to the US House of Representatives on the topic of risks of catastrophic terrorismevents.In 2018, Case received the Owen B. Butler Education Excellence Award from the Committee for Economic Development.Case was named one of the 100best performing CEOs in world in 2019 according to the Harvard Business Review.CompensationCase's annual salary as CEO of Aon amounts to around US$14.6million, and has varied widely over the years.  Case's total compensation for 2005 and 2006, respectively, was US$21 million and US$7.5 million.  In both 2007and 2008, Case's compensation from Aon of US$11.3 million and US$12.9 million, respectively, placed him as the 13th highest compensated CEO in Illinois andNorthwest Indiana. Case's compensation dropped to US$10.4 million in 2009, placing him at 15th rank in the same geography, then rose dramatically in 2010 toUS$20.8 million, making him the 3rd highest compensated in the region.  Compensation for 2011 and 2012 was US$17.5 million and US$2.5 million,respectively.  Case's compensation across 2007 to 2009 did not substantially change (11.3, 12.9, 10.4 million) despite a 95% drop in profits for the company inthe 4th quarter of 2008.Passage 5:Ian Barry (director)Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.Select creditsWaiting for Lucas (1973) (short)Stone(1974) (editor only)The Chain Reaction (1980)Whose Baby? (1986) (mini-series)Minnamurra (1989)Bodysurfer (1989) (mini-series)Ring of Scorpio (1990)(mini-series)Crimebroker (1993)Inferno (1998) (TV movie)Miss Lettie and Me (2002) (TV movie)Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!(2008) (documentary)The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)Passage 6:Andrew CaseAndrew Paul William Case (born January 6, 1993) is a Canadian professionalbaseball pitcher for the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. He was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays as an undrafted free agent in 2013.CollegeCaseattended Lethbridge College in Lethbridge, Alberta.Professional careerToronto Blue JaysCase signed with the Toronto Blue Jays as an undrafted free agent onOctober 16, 2013. He drew the attention of the Blue Jays after throwing a no-hitter during "Tournament 12", an annual tournament for the top college players inCanada. He was assigned to the Low-A Vancouver Canadians for the entire 2014 season, and was a mid-season All-Star for the Canadians. He pitched to a 0–1win–loss record, 2.45 earned run average (ERA), and 37 strikeouts in 44 innings that year. He split time in 2015 between Vancouver and the Single-A LansingLugnuts. Case made 39 total relief appearances in the 2015 season, and posted a 3–4 record, 3.10 ERA, and 44 strikeouts in 521⁄3 total innings, and was againnamed a mid-season All-Star for Vancouver. Before the start of the 2016 season, Case was suspended for 50-games for failing to take a drug test. He made oneappearance for the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Blue Jays and was then promoted to Lansing, where he finished the season. In 252⁄3 total innings, Caseposted a 0–2 record, 2.10 ERA, and 22 strikeouts in the 2016 campaign. During the offseason, Case made nine relief appearances for the Canberra Cavalry of theAustralian Baseball League (ABL). Case opened 2017 with the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays, and later earned promotions to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Catsand Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, posting a combined 7–1 record with a 2.84 ERA in a career-high 66 innings pitched.On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Caseto spring training. He did not make the club and spent the year split between Buffalo and New Hampshire, posting a 1-3 record and 4.96 ERA with 35 strikeouts in49.0 innings of work between the two teams. He was assigned to New Hampshire to begin the 2019 season, and posted a 5.40 ERA in 3 games. On April 18,2019, Case announced his retirement from professional baseball.Québec CapitalesCase initially came out of retirement in 2020 to sign with the Québec Capitalesof the Frontier League, but did not play in a game for the team following the cancellation of the Frontier League season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. OnFebruary 15, 2021, Case re-signed with Québec. Case made 14 appearances for the Capitales, posting a 3.29 ERA with 12 strikeouts in 132⁄3 inningspitched.Olmecas de TabascoOn July 17, 2021, Case signed with the Olmecas de Tabasco of the Mexican League. In 10 relief appearances, Case posted a 2-0record with a 1.80 ERA and 9 strikeouts. He was released following the season on October 20, 2021.Québec Capitales (second stint)On May 11, 2022, Casere-signed with the Québec Capitales of the Frontier League. He made 2 appearances, pitching two scoreless innings out of the bullpen.Piratas de CampecheOn


Passage 1:Rotrou III, Count of PercheRotrou III (bef. 1080 – 8 May 1144), called the Great (le Grand), was the Count of Perche and Mortagne from 1099. He wasthe son of Geoffrey II, Count of Perche, and Beatrix de Ramerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier. He was a notable Crusader and a participant in theReconquista in eastern Spain, even ruling the city of Tudela in Navarre from 1123 to 1131. He is commonly credited with introducing Arabian horses to thePerche, giving rise to the Percheron breed. By his creation of a monastery at La Trappe in memory of his wife, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, in 1122 healso laid the foundations of the later Trappists.First CrusadeRotrou took part in the First Crusade, travelling with the army of the duke of Normandy, RobertCurthose. What influenced Rotrou in this regard were probably familial connexions. He was related to the Anglo-Norman aristocracy and the Perche was a march(border region) in southern Normandy. A sister was married to Raymond I of Turenne, who was a fellow Crusader in the following of Raymond IV of Toulouse. Hismother, Beatrix, was a sister of Ebles II of Roucy, who had campaigned in Spain in 1073, and Felicia, who married Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon. A religiousmotivation cannot be discounted.According to the Chanson d'Antioche, Rotrou was under the command of Bohemond of Taranto during the Siege of Antioch, andwas one of the first to go over the city's walls through scaling ladders on 3 June 1098. When the Crusaders had to confront a Seljuk relief force two weeks later inopen battle, Rotrou was one of the front line commanders. He fulfilled his vow and made it all the way to Jerusalem. The Chanson also mentions his bravery atthe siege of Nicaea of 1097.In 1107, Rotrou built a castle on land held partly allodially and partly in lordship by Hugh II of Le Puiset, thus challenging Hugh'srights to the estate. Since Pope Urban II had taken Crusaders' "houses, families, and all their goods into the protection of Saint Peter and the Roman church", andboth Hugh and Rotrou were veterans of the First Crusade, the dispute was intractable. Bishop and lawyer Ivo of Chartres could not resolve it, since it involved ajudicial duel, over which the church was not allowed to preside, and so remitted it to the court of the County of Blois. There Hugh lost, but in the violence thatfollowed his tenant, who held the land from him as a fief, was captured by Rotrou's men. The reigning pope, Paschal II, who was in Chartres in April, sent thecase back to Ivo, who complained in a letter that since "this law of the Church protecting the goods of knights going to Jerusalem was new. . . they did not knowwhether the protection applied only to their properties or also applied to their fortifications." Rotrou denied that the case had anything to do with the novel canonlaw.Norman politicsDuring Rotrou's absence his father, Geoffrey of Mortagne, died in 1099. On the first Sunday after returning to France, Rotrou paid a visit tothe monastery of Nogent-le-Rotrou, a foundation of his family's and the location of his father tomb. There he asked to become a confrater (brother) of the Abbeyof Cluny, Nogent's mother house, and to show his sincerity and prove the fulfillment of his Crusading vow he placed a charter confirming his predecessors'donations to the abbey and the palm frond brought back from Jerusalem on the altar.Rotrou's position in the Duchy of Normandy was that of defender of thefrontier with the Île-de-France. His position was probably enhanced by his participation in the First Crusade. Whereas his father had only held the title of viscount,Rotrou is usually called a count. In the war between Henry I of England and Robert Curthose, Rotrou sided with the former and was an important figure in Henry'sadministration of the duchy after the capture of Robert at Tinchebrai in 1106. Rotrou was a direct vassal of Henry in England, where he held fiefs jure uxoris, inright of his wife, the king's daughter Matilda. He was not often in England, but is purported to have been close to his wife.ReconquistaEarly participationRotrou'sactual first participation in the Reconquista dates to the first decade of the twelfth century (possibly 1104–5). He and a group of Normans are said to have foughtthe Muslims in the service of Alfonso the Battler, then King of Aragon and Navarre, until the Aragonese plotted against them and they returned home. It has beenspeculated that the Norman involvement in the campaign originated as gossip designed to discredit Alfonso by Cluny, an ally of Alfonso's rival, Alfonso VI ofCastile. More probably the Normans just accomplished too little to be noticed, or were perhaps sent back home without encountering any Muslims because theirservices were not need at the time, when Alfonso the Battler had an alliance with the taifa (faction-kingdom) of Zaragoza. Perhaps the 'Aragonese plot' originatedas a rumour with dissatisfied returning Normans.After the death of his wife, eldest son and two of his nephews in the wreck of the White Ship (1120), Rotroureturned to Spain. His parting may have been an act of penitence (perhaps he believed his sins had brought on the tragedy), or perhaps a public demonstration ofgrieving, since his wife was a daughter of the king, who had also lost his heir, William Adelin, in the wreck. According to the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña,Rotrou took part in the conquests of Zaragoza (1118) and Tudela (1119), but this account has been shown to be apocryphal. Many French barons can beconnected with the expedition against Zaragoza, but although his Anales de la Corona de Aragón name Rotrou as fighting under Alfonso of Aragon on severaloccasions, Jerónimo Zurita does not mention him by name when recording the call for transpyrenean assistance put out by the Battler. Likewise Rotrou is attestedfighting for Henry I in Normandy in 1119 and so could not have had any hand in the conquest of Tudela, although the Chronicle of San Juan makes him out to bethe chief conqueror and the first and independent ruler of the town. Neither is he mentioned in the charter of surrender of Tudela.Rule of TudelaRotrou was still inNormandy in 1120 when he signed the reconfirmation act of the abbey of Arcisses. Since he received land in Zaragoza after the conquest, it might be assumedthat he sent either money or men to assist in the enterprise. He did not sign the city's fueros, which the nobles of southern France who had participated in itsconquest did. He had arrived in Aragon by 1123, perhaps as early as 1121. His first participation was probably in the campaign against Lleida. An Aragonesecharter dating to April 1123 refers to Rotrou as "count in Tudela", although it does not specifically refer to him as the ruler of the place. The Norman lord RobertBurdet, who later held the Tarragona as a principality, may originally have fought alongside Rotrou in Normandy and then followed him to Spain c.1123. Robert isfirst mentioned in a charter issued by Rotrou in Spain, in which the count granted some houses in Zaragoza to a knight of his named Sabino in gratitude for hisservices (December 1124). There is a slightly later reference which shows that Rotrou was in control of Tudela and that he had appointed Robert to act as hisalcalde (mayor) or military commander of the citadel and one Duran Pixon to act as administrator (justiciar). This charter also affirms, against the Chronicle ofSan Juan, that Rotrou ruled Tudela as a vassal of Alfonso the Battler, who is called "emperor" in the document. Similar charters from February 1128 andNovember 1131 show that this arrangement continued for almost a decade, even though Rotrou was often absent in Normandy and Robert Burdet in Tarragona.When Alfonso granted fueros to Tudela in 1127 he also mentioned Rotrou, Robert and Duran. It has been suggested that Rotrou's rise to an important frontierpost in a city in whose conquest he played no role was either recompense for the mistreatment he received in the first decade of the century or due to thedeterrent effect of his private army of Normans on the neighbouring Muslims.In the winter of 1124–25, Rotrou led an expedition against the hilltop Muslimfortress of Peña Cadiella (Benicadell), which guarded the road from Alicante to Valencia. Since Muslim troops from Murcia often moved up this road to Valencia, itwas of great strategic importance for any planned campaign in eastern al-Andalus. Rotrou's expedition, which had royal approval, may have been planned inconjunction with Alfonso's Andalusian expedition that took place in 1127–28. Rotrou was assisted in his endeavour by the Aragonese knights of the Confraternityof Belchite and their master, Galindo Sánchez. Rotrou returned to Normandy with his retinue in 1125, leaving Robert Burdet in command of Tudela (where he isattested in charters from 1126 through 1128). Rotrou did not participate in Alfonso's Andalusian campaign, and a rumour in Normandy claimed that Alfonso madehis war out of envy for Rotrou's achievements.Rotrou returned to Alfonso the Battler in 1130, when he was at the Siege of Bayonne. On 26 October, from thesiege, Alfonso granted the fuero previously given to Tudela to the small town of Corella. Rotrou was one of the signatories, since the castle of Corella had beengranted to him by the king in December 1128. He is last attested as ruler in Tudela with Robert as his underling in a private act of November 1131. He was still inIberia in March 1132, when he witnessed Alfonso's grant of a fuero to the town of Asín.Second trip to the Holy LandSometime before 1144, Rotrou returned to theMideast on Crusade, one of the few north French barons to do so. On this second trip Rotrou obtained some relics which he donated to the monastery he hadfounded at La Trappe.In Spain, Rotrou established links with García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre. García married Margaret of L'Aigle, daughter of Rotrou'ssister Juliana. Margaret's daughter Margaret, married William I of Sicily and raised to the chancellorship her cousin Stephen du Perche, a younger and illegitimateson of Rotrou. She also made Gilbert, another cousin from the Perche, count in Gravina. This Gilbert was one of Rotrou's grandsons, although by which son is notknown. Another relation, Henry of Montescaglioso, was a son of Margaret, perhaps illegitimate.FamilyRotrou's first wife's name is unknown.  They had onedaughter:Beatrix, married Renaud IV, lord of Château-GontierRotrou's second wife was Matilda, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and one of his manymistresses, Edith. Matilda drowned in the wreck of the White Ship on 25 November 1120.  They had two daughters:Philippa, married Elias II, Count ofMaineFeliciaRotrou's third wife was Hawise, daughter of Walter of Salisbury and sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury. They had three sons:Rotrou IV, killed at theSiege of AcreGeoffrey (died after 1154)Stephen, Archbishop of PalermoRotrou also had an illegitimate son by an unknown mistress:Bertrand, father of Gilbert,Count of GravinaRotrou was succeeded as Count of Perche by his son of the same name.== Notes ==Passage 2:Thomas Beaufort, Count of PercheThomasBeaufort, styled 1st Count of Perche (c. 1405 – 3 October 1431) was a member of the Beaufort family and an English commander during the Hundred Years'War.He was the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Margaret Holland.CareerWith his elder brother, Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of


Passage 1:Everything's DuckyEverything's Ducky is a 1961 comedy film directed by Don Taylor and written by Benedict Freedman and John Fenton Murray. Thefilm stars Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper, Joanie Sommers, Roland Winters and Elizabeth MacRae. The film was released on December 20, 1961,by Columbia Pictures.PlotTwo sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.CastMickeyRooney as Kermit 'Beetle' McKayBuddy Hackett as Seaman Admiral John Paul 'Ad' JonesJackie Cooper as Lt. J.S. ParmellJoanie Sommers as Nina LloydRolandWinters as Capt. Lewis BollingerElizabeth MacRae as Susie PenroseGene Blakely as Lt. Cmdr. Bernard KempGordon Jones as Chief Petty Officer ConroyRichardDeacon as Dr. DeckhamJames Millhollin as George ImhoffJimmy Cross as DrunkRobert Williams as Duck HunterKing Calder as FrankEllie Kent as NurseWilliamHellinger as CorpsmanAnn Morell as WaveGeorge Sawaya as SimmonsDick Winslow as FröehlichAlvy Moore as Jim LipscottWalker Edmiston as Scuttlebutt – TheDuckPassage 2:Abhishek SaxenaAbhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu. The Phullu movie was releasedin theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role. Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film. This filmwas screened in cinemas in 2014.Life and backgroundAbhishek Saxena was born on 19 September 1988 in the capital of India, Delhi, whose father's name isMukesh Kumar Saxena. Abhishek Saxena married Ambica Sharma Saxena on 18 December 2014. His mother's name is Gurpreet Kaur Saxena.Saxena started hiscareer with a Punjabi film Patiala Dreamz, after which he has also directed a Hindi film Phullu, which has appeared in Indian cinemas on 16 June2017.CareerAbhishek Saxena made his film debut in 2011 as an assistant director on Doordarshan with Ashok Gaikwad. He made his first directed film PatialaDreamz, this is a Punjabi movie.After this, he has also directed a Hindi film Phullu in 2017, which has been screened in cinemas on 16 June 2017. Saxena is nowmaking his upcoming movie "India Gate".In 2018 Abhishek Saxena has come up with topic of body-shaming in his upcoming movie Saroj ka Rishta. Where SanahKapoor will play the role of Saroj and actors Randeep Rai and Gaurav Pandey will play the two men in Saroj's life.Yeh Un Dinon ki Baat Hai lead Randeep Rai willmake his Bollywood debut. Talking about the film, director Abhishek Saxena told Mumbai Mirror, "As a fat person, I have noticed that body-shaming doesn’thappen only with those who are on the heavier side, but also with thin people. The idea germinated from there."Career as an Assistant DirectorApart from this, hehas played the role of assistant director in many films and serials in the beginning of his career, in which he has a television serial in 2011, Doordarshan, as wellas in 2011, he also assisted in a serial of Star Plus.In addition to these serials, he played the role of assistant director in the movie "Girgit" which was made inTelugu language.FilmographyAs DirectorPassage 3:G. MarthandanG. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema. His debut film isDaivathinte Swantham CleetusEarly lifeG. Marthandan was born to M. S. Gopalan Nair and P. Kamalamma at Changanassery in Kottayam district of Kerala. He didhis schooling at NSS Boys School Changanassery and completed his bachelor's degree in Economics at NSS Hindu College, Changanassery.CareerAfter completinghis bachelor's degree, Marthandan entered films as an associate director with the unreleased film Swarnachamaram directed by Rajeevnath in 1995. His nextwork was British Market, directed by Nissar in 1998. He worked as an associate director for 18 years.He made his directional debut with Daivathinte SwanthamCleetus in 2013, starring Mammooty in the lead role. His next movie was in 2015, Acha Dhin, with Mammooty and Mansi Sharma in the lead roles. DaivathinteSwantham Cleetus and Paavada were box office successes.FilmographyAs directorAs associate directorAs actorTV serialKanyadanam (Malayalam TV series) - pilotepisodeAwardsRamu Kariat Film Award - Paavada (2016)JCI Foundation Award - Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus (2013)Passage 4:Don Taylor (American actor anddirector)Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics,including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such asEscape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II (1978).BiographyEarly life and workThe sonof Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Taylor, Donald Ritchie Taylor was born in Freeport, Pennsylvania on December 13, 1920. (Another source says that he was born "inPittsburgh and raised in Freeport, Pa.") He studied speech and drama at Penn State University and hitchhiked to Hollywood in 1942. He was signed as a contractplayer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appeared in small roles. Drafted into the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II, he appeared in the AirForces's Winged Victory Broadway play and movie (1944), credited as "Cpl. Don Taylor."Acting careerAfter discharge from the AAF, Taylor was cast in a lead roleas the young detective, Jimmy Halloran, working alongside veteran homicide detective Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) in Universal's 1948 screen version of TheNaked City, which was notable for being filmed entirely on location in New York. Taylor was later part of the ensemble cast in MGM's classic World War II dramaBattleground (1949).  He then appeared as the husband of Elizabeth Taylor in the comedies Father of the Bride (1950) and its sequel Father's Little Dividend(1951), starring Spencer Tracy. Another memorable role was Vern "Cowboy" Blithe in Flying Leathernecks (1951). In 1952, Taylor played a soldier bringing hisJapanese war-bride back to small-town America in Japanese War Bride. In 1953, Taylor had a key role as the escaping prisoner Lt. Dunbar in Billy Wilder's Stalag17. His last major film role came in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).Directorial careerFrom the late 1950s through the 1980s, Taylor turned to directing movies and TVshows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the short-lived Steve Canyon, starring Dean Fredericks, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.  One of his memorable efforts,in 1973, was the musical film Tom Sawyer, which boasted a Sherman Brothers song score. Other films that Taylor directed are Escape from the Planet of the Apes(1971), Echoes of a Summer (1976), The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (also 1976), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) starring Burt Lancaster, Damien: OmenII (1978) with William Holden, and The Final Countdown (1980) with Kirk Douglas.Taylor occasionally performed both acting and directing roles simultaneously,as he did for episodes of the TV detective series Burke's Law.Writing careerTaylor "wrote one-act plays, radio dramas, short stories, and the 1985 TV movie MyWicked, Wicked Ways ... The Legend of Errol Flynn."Personal lifeTaylor was married twice.His first wife was Phyllis Avery, whom he married in 1944; theydivorced in 1955, but not before the births of their daughters Anne and Avery.His second wife was Hazel Court, whom he married in 1964 and stayed with untilhis death; they had a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Courtney.DeathTaylor died on December 29, 1998, at the University of California Medical Center in LosAngeles, California, of heart failure.AwardsNominee, Best Director – Saturn Awards (The Island of Dr. Moreau) (1977)Nominee, Best Director-Comedy – EmmyAwards (The Farmer's Daughter) (1963)Selected filmography as directorIn addition to his Hollywood credits, Taylor directed 27 television movies and episodes for53 television series including Cannon, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, Mod Squad, It Takes a Thief, The Big Valley, The Flying Nun, Vacation Playhouse, The TammyGrimes Show,  The Wild Wild West, Burke's Law, The Rogues, The Farmer's Daughter, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Dick Powell Theatre, Dr. Kildare, Checkmate,87th Precinct, Zane Grey Theater, The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Honky Tonk, and others.Everything's Ducky (1961)Ride the Wild Surf (1964)Jack ofDiamonds (1967)The Five Man Army (1969)Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)Tom Sawyer (1973)Echoes of a Summer (1976)The Great Scout &Cathouse Thursday (1976)The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)Damien: Omen II (1978)The Final Countdown (1980)The Diamond Trap (1988)Selected filmography asactorPassage 5:Brian Kennedy (gallery director)Brian Patrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is an Irish-born art museum director who has worked in Irelandand Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.  He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigning December 31,2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and theNational Gallery of Australia (Canberra) from 1997 to 2004.CareerBrian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States after leaving Australia in 2005 todirect the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In October 2010 he became the ninth Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. On 1 July 2019, he succeededDan Monroe as the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.Early life and career in IrelandKennedy was born in Dublin and attended ClonkeenCollege. 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 workedin the Irish Department of Education (1982), the European Commission, Brussels (1983), and in Ireland at the Chester Beatty Library (1983–85), GovernmentPublications Office (1985–86), and Department of Finance (1986–89). He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.He was Assistant Director at the National Gallery ofIreland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of the Irish Association of Art Historians from 1996 to 1997, and of the Council of Australian Art MuseumDirectors from 2001 to 2003. In September 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.National Gallery of Australia (NGA)Kennedy expandedthe traveling exhibitions and loans program throughout Australia, arranged for several major shows of Australian art abroad, increased the number of exhibitionsat the museum itself and oversaw the development of an extensive multi-media site.  Although he oversaw several years of the museum's highest ever annualvisitation, he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, Betty Churcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.During his directorship, the NGA gainedgovernment support for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However, the initial design for the building provedcontroversial generating a public dispute with the original architect on moral rights grounds.  As a result, the project was not delivered during Dr Kennedy'stenure, with a significantly altered design completed some years later.  Private funding supported two acquisitions of British art, including David Hockney's A


Passage 1:Ann SheridanClara Lou "Ann" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles inthe films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raftand Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Bette Davis, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan,Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.Early lifeClara Lou Sheridan was born in Denton, Texas, on February 21, 1915, theyoungest of five children (Kitty, Pauline, Mabel and George) of garage mechanic George W. Sheridan and Lula Stewart (née Warren). According to Sheridan, herfather was a grandnephew of Civil War Union general Philip Sheridan.She was active in dramatics at Denton High School and at North Texas State TeachersCollege. She also sang with the college's stage band and played basketball on the North Texas women's basketball team. Then, in 1933, Sheridan won the prize ofa bit part in an upcoming Paramount film, Search for Beauty, when her sister Kitty entered Sheridan's photograph into a beauty contest.CareerParamountAfterthe release of Search for Beauty in 1934, Paramount put the 19-year-old under contract at a starting salary of $75 a week ($1,641 today), where she playedmostly uncredited bit parts for the next two years. She can be glimpsed in the following 1934 films, and if credited, as Clara Lou Sheridan: Bolero, Come OnMarines!, Murder at the Vanities, Shoot the Works, Kiss and Make-Up with Cary Grant, The Notorious Sophie Lang, College Rhythm (directed by Norman Taurogwhom Sheridan admired), Ladies Should Listen with Cary Grant, You Belong to Me, Wagon Wheels, The Lemon Drop Kid with Lee Tracy, Mrs. Wiggs of theCabbage Patch, Ready for Love, Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong, and One Hour Late.Along with fellow contractees, Sheridan worked withParamount's drama coach Nina Mouise and performed on the studio lot in such plays as The Milky Way and The Pursuit of Happiness. While in The Milky Way,Paramount decided to change her first name from Clara Lou to the same as her character Ann.Sheridan was then cast in the film Behold My Wife! (1934) at thebehest of director and friend Mitchell Leisen. The role provided two standout scenes for the actress, including one in which her character commits suicide, to whichshe attributed Paramount's keeping her under contract.She continued with bit parts in Enter Madame (1935) with Elissa Landi and Cary Grant, Home on theRange (1935) with Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent, and Rumba (1935) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, until her first lead role in Car 99 (1935), with FredMacMurray. "No acting, it was just playing the lead, that's all", she later said. She next had a support role as the romantic interest in Rocky Mountain Mystery(1935), a Randolph Scott Western. She then appeared in Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, The Glass Key (1935) with George Raft in a briefspeaking role for which she was billed as "Nurse" in the cast list at the end of the film, and (having one line) The Crusades (1935) with Loretta Young. In her lastpicture under her deal with Paramount, the studio loaned her out to Poverty Row production company Talisman to make The Red Blood of Courage (1935) withKermit Maynard. After this, Paramount declined to renew her contract. Sheridan made Fighting Youth (1935) at Universal and then signed a contract with WarnerBros. in 1936.Warner Bros.Sheridan's career prospects began to improve at her new studio. Her early films for Warner Bros. included Sing Me a Love Song(1936); Black Legion (1937) with Humphrey Bogart; The Great O'Malley (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Bogart, her first real break; San Quentin (1937), withO'Brien and Bogart, singing for the first time in a film; and Wine, Women and Horses (1937) with Barton MacLane.Sheridan moved into B picture leads: TheFootloose Heiress (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937) with John Litel; and She Loved a Fireman (1937) with Dick Foran for director John Farrow. She was a lead in ThePatient in Room 18 (1937) and its sequel Mystery House (1938). Sheridan was in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with Litel for Farrow and supported Dick Powellin Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).Universal borrowed her for a support role in Letter of Introduction (1938) at the behest of director John M. Stahl. For Farrow,she was in Broadway Musketeers (1938), a remake of Three on a Match (1932).Sheridan's notices in Letter of Introduction impressed Warner Bros. executivesand she began to get roles in better quality pictures at her own studio starting with Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), wherein she played James Cagney's loveinterest; Bogart, O'Brien and the Dead End Kids had supporting roles. The film was a big hit and critically acclaimed.Sheridan was reunited with the Dead End Kidsin They Made Me a Criminal (1938) starring John Garfield. She was third-billed in the Western Dodge City (1939), playing a saloon owner opposite Errol Flynn andOlivia de Havilland. The film was another success.Oomph girlIn March 1939, Warner Bros. announced Sheridan had been voted by a committee of 25 men as theactress with the most "oomph" in America. "Oomph" was described as "a certain indefinable something that commands male interest".She received as many as250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week. Sheridan reportedly loathed the sobriquet that made her a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s. However,she expressed in a February 25, 1940, news story distributed by the Associated Press that she no longer "bemoaned the "oomph" tag." She continued, "But I'msorry now. I know if it hadn't been for "oomph" I'd probably still be in the chorus."This was later referenced and spoofed on the 1941 animated short HollywoodSteps Out.StardomSheridan co-starred with Dick Powell in Naughty but Nice (1939) and played a wacky heiress in Winter Carnival (1939).She was top billed inIndianapolis Speedway (1939) with O'Brien and Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) with the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan. Castle on the Hudson (1940) put heropposite Garfield and O'Brien.Sheridan's first real starring vehicle was It All Came True (1940), a musical comedy costarring Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn. Sheintroduced the song "Angel in Disguise".Sheridan and Cagney were reunited in Torrid Zone (1940) with O'Brien in support. She was with George Raft, Bogart andIda Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940), a smash-hit trucking melodrama. Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest (1941) and then madeHoneymoon for Three (1941), a comedy with George Brent.Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues (1941), a musical comedy, and The Man Who Came toDinner (1942) with Bette Davis, wherein she played a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence. She then made Kings Row (1942), in which she received topbilling playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field. It was a major success and one of Sheridan's most memorable films.Sheridan andReagan were reunited for Juke Girl (1942) released about six weeks after Kings Row. She was in the war film Wings for the Eagle (1942) and made a comedy withJack Benny, George Washington Slept Here (1943). She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and was one of themany Warner Bros., stars who had cameos in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written byKathryn Heisenfelt and published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories wereentirely fictitious. The story was probably written for a young teenaged audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series knownas "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 and 1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.Sheridan was given the lead in themusical Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944), playing Nora Bayes, opposite Dennis Morgan. She was in a comedy The Doughgirls (1944).Sheridan was absent fromscreens for over a year, touring with the USO to perform in front of the troops as far afield as China. She returned in One More Tomorrow (1946) with Morgan.She had an excellent role in the noir Nora Prentiss (1947), which was a hit. It was followed by The Unfaithful (1948), a remake of The Letter, and Silver River(1948), a Western melodrama with Errol Flynn.Leo McCarey borrowed her to support Gary Cooper in Good Sam (1948). She was meant to star in Flamingo Road.She then left Warner Bros., saying: "I wasn't at all satisfied with the scripts they offered me."Freelance starHer role in I Was a Male War Bride (1949), directed byHoward Hawks and starring Cary Grant, was another success. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music.She made Stella (1950),a comedy with Victor Mature at Fox.In April 1949, she announced she wanted to produce Second Lady, a film based on a story by Eleanore Griffin. She was goingto make My Forbidden Past (originally titled Carriage Entrance) at RKO. They fired her and Sheridan sued for $250,000 (equivalent to $3.1 million today) The NewYork Times reported the amount as $350,000 ($4.3 million today). Sheridan ultimately won $55,162 ($680,000 today).UniversalSheridan made Woman on theRun (1950), a noir also starring Dennis O'Keefe which she produced. She wanted to make a film called Her Secret Diary.Woman on the Run was distributed byUniversal, and Sheridan signed a contract with that studio. While there, she made Steel Town (1952), Just Across the Street (1952), and Take Me to Town(1953), a comedy with Sterling Hayden that was the first film directed by Douglas Sirk in the United States.Later careerSheridan starred with Glenn Ford inAppointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. She appeared opposite Steve Cochran in Come Next Spring (1956) and was one of several starsin MGM's The Opposite Sex (1956), a remake of The Women starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Sheridan and Ann Miller. Her last film, Woman andthe Hunter (1957), was shot in Africa.She performed in stage tours of Kind Sir (1958) and Odd Man In (1959), and The Time of Your Life at the Brussels WorldFair in 1958. In all three shows, she acted with Scott McKay, whom she later married.In 1962, she played the lead in the Western series Wagon Train episodetitled "The Mavis Grant Story".In the mid-1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.Her final role was as Henrietta Hanks in the televisioncomedy Western series Pistols 'n' Petticoats, which was filmed while she became increasingly ill in 1966, and was broadcast on CBS on Saturday nights. The 19thepisode of the series, "Beware the Hangman", aired as scheduled on the same day that she died in 1967.For her contributions to the motion picture industry, AnnSheridan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.Personal lifeSheridan married actor Edward Norris August 16, 1936, inEnsenada, Mexico. They separated a year later and divorced in 1939. On January 5, 1942, she married fellow Warner Bros. star George Brent, who co-starred


Passage 1:Daphne and the PirateDaphne and the Pirate is a 1916 American drama film directed by  Christy Cabanne and starring Lillian Gish.CastLillian Gish as Daphne La TourElliott Dexter as Philip de MornayWalter Long as Jamie d'ArcyHoward Gaye as Prince HenriLucille Young as FanchetteRichard Cummings as Francois La TourJack Cosgrave as Duc de MornayJoseph SingletonGeorge C. Pearce (as George Pearce)W. E. LawrencePearl ElmoreJewel Carmen (as Jewell Carman)See alsoLillian Gish filmographyPassage 2:The Dream (1966 film)The Dream or Dream (Serbian: San) is a 1966 Yugoslavian war film directed by Mladomir Puriša Đorđević. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.CastLjubiša Samardžić as MaliMihajlo Janketić as DecakOlivera Katarina as Devojka (as Olivera Vuco)Mija Aleksić as CiganinLjuba Tadić as Mile GrkSinisa Ivetić as HeinrichAleksandar Stojković as BerberinBata Živojinović as LazarStole ArandjelovićFaruk Begolli as PetarViktor Starčić as DirigentKarlo Bulić as ProfesorZoran BečićPassage 3:The Pirate (1984 film)The Pirate (French: La Pirate) is a 1984 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered in the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.Plot summaryCastJane Birkin as AlmaMaruschka Detmers as CarolePhilippe Léotard as n° 5Andrew Birkin as Andrew, le mariLaure Marsac as L'enfantMichael Stevens as Concierge de l'hôtelDidier Chambragne as Le coursierArsène Altmeyer as Le taxiPassage 4:Morgan, the PirateMorgan, the Pirate (Italian: Morgan il pirata) is a 1960 Italian-French international co-production historical adventure film, directed by André de Toth and Primo Zeglio, and starring Steve Reeves as Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate who became the Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.PlotIn 1670, freeborn Englishman, Henry Morgan, is enslaved by the Spaniards in Panama and sold to Doña Inez, daughter of Governor Don José Guzmán. Morgan falls in love with his mistress, much to the dismay of her father, who punishes him by sentencing him to a life of hard labor aboard a Spanish galleon. Morgan leads his fellow slaves in mutiny, takes command of the ship, and becomes a pirate, without knowing that Doña Inez was on board, on her way to Spain. She becomes his prisoner, but spurns him when he declares his love in Tortuga. Not long after, Morgan's daring exploits on the Spanish Main pique the interest of King Charles II of England, and Morgan agrees to attack only Spanish vessels in return for English ships and men. Fearing for the security of Doña Inez, after the pirates discover her identity, he permits her to return to Panama. Once there, she warns Don José of Morgan's planned invasion, and the pirate ships are either easily sunk or routed by the alerted Spanish. Not giving up, Morgan leads his men overland and attacks the city from the rear. The maneuver succeeds, Panama falls to the pirates, and Doña Inez finally admits her love for Morgan.CastSteve Reeves as Sir Henry MorganValérie Lagrange as Doña InezIvo Garrani as Governor Don José GuzmánChelo Alonso as ConcepciónLydia Alfonsi as Doña MaríaArmand Mestral as François l'OlonnaisGiulio Bosetti as Sir Thomas ModyfordAngelo Zanolli as DavidGeorge Ardisson as WalterReleaseMorgan, the Pirate was released in Italy on 17 November 1960. It was released in the United States on 6 July 1961 with a 93-minute running time.ReceptionTurner Classic Movies' Jeff Stafford writes, "Largely due to de Toth's direction, Morgan the Pirate is a lively, fast-paced entertainment with moments of tongue-in-cheek humor that is several notches in quality above the usual turgid, Italian-made spectacle. The striking cinematography, filmed in garish Eastmancolor, is by the award-winning Tonino Delli Colli who has lensed such art house classics as Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Marco Bellocchio's China Is Near (1967), and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). And the amusing, Ravel-inspired score by Franco Mannino strikes the perfect mock-epic tone. Among the more memorable set pieces are an exotic voodoo dance performed by Cuban sex bomb Chelo Alonso (a former dancer at the Folies Bergère in Paris), a battle at sea in which Morgan's men, disguised as women, storm a Spanish galleon in full drag, and the bloody, climactic sacking of Panama with shootings, stabbings and explosions galore."Passage 5:Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem AstaPrem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta (Marathi:      ) is a Marathi drama film released on 19 April 2013. Produced by Sachin Parekar and directed by Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni. The film stars are Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar, Pallavi Joshi, Sunil Barve, Suhas Joshi, Mohan Agashe and Smita Talwalkar. The film's music is by Milind Ingle and Surel Ingle.The film is based on the connection between love and marriage.PlotThe movie is a heart-warming story of two different individuals who at one point in their lives were married. A single mother along with her two daughters live with her mother-in-law. Her husband had abandoned them 4 years ago, but staying in the same city had never bothered to check on his family. The only thing he did in those 4 years was to send divorce papers, which his wife has not signed.Other side of the story revolves around a doctor who is a father to two kids. His ex-wife had to choose between staying home with family or career in USA and she chose career. But she never let the divorce hamper the relation she shares with her ex-husband. But this incident had definitely made her ex-husband depressed and alone.One eventful day at their kids school gets them together and a conversation begins, which blooms into something amazing. Until there is a twist in the tale.CastMrinal Dev-KulkarniSachin KhedekarPallavi JoshiSunil BarveSuhas JoshiMohan AgasheSmita TalwalkarRitika ShrotriCrewDirector - Mrinal Dev-KulkarniStory - Mrinal Dev-KulkarniProducer - Sachin ParekarCinematographer - Amlendu ChaudharyArt Director - Vinod Gunaji and Nitin BorkarMusic Director - Milind Ingle and Surel IngleLyricist - Kishore KadamSoundtrackThe music has been directed by Milind Ingle and Surel Ingle, while the lyrics have been provided by Kishore Kadam.Track listingPassage 6:The Pirate's DreamThe Pirate's Dream (Italian: Il pirata sono io!) is a 1940 Italian film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario.PlotThe setting is Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to have the island assaulted from a mock pirate ship. The plan is to have a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea. The trouble is that the pirates really come...CastErminio Macario as JoséJuan de Landa as Bieco de la MuerteEnzo Biliotti as Il governatoreDora Bini as OliviaMario Siletti as Il viceréCarmen Navasqués as La viceregina (as Carmen Navascues)Agnese Dubbini as La nutriceKatiuscia Odinzova as LupitaCarlo Rizzo as PedroTino Scotti as Il barbierePassage 7:A Dream or Two AgoA Dream or Two Ago is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Miles Minter. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's films known to have survived. The film was restored in 2004 and was shown along with The Innocence of Lizette (1916) at a Dutch film festival.PlotAs described in Motography magazine:The mother of Millicent Hawthorne prefers society to home life and neglects her daughter. One day the child, then about five years old, runs away, intending to buy a gift for her mother. She is injured when a gang of thieves break into the jewelry store. Unable to remember her name or address, she is cared for by Mother Gumph, leader of the gang. In this environment she grows up, becoming a pickpocket of some ability. She is happy in this life and only in dreams remembers dimly another existence.One night she aids the gang in robbing the Hawthorne home, and at the sight of the familiar rooms she is puzzled but still unable to remember.In the meantime, her mother, overcome by remorse after her child is lost, gives up her frivolous diversions and devotes her time to charity. Her father, on the contrary, becomes the owner of a notorious café which he manages through Kraft. One day Kraft meets Millicent and offers her a position as a dancer. The first evening she dances Mrs. Hawthorne, on a tour of investigation, enters the place and is saddened at conditions.That evening Mrs. Hawthorne learns who really owns the café, and begs her husband to give it up, telling him of the pathetic little dancer she saw there. He refuses but changes his mind when a little later word is brought from a dying member of the gang of the real identity of Millicent and he knows that the dancer is his own daughter. Millicent is rescued from Kraft and through an operation her memory is restored. And only as a dream does she remember her career as a thief.CastMary Miles Minter - Millicent HawthorneDodo Newton - Millicent (age 5)Lizette Thorne - Her MotherClarence Burton - Her FatherJohn Gough - HumpyOrral Humphrey - KraftGertrude Le BrandtPassage 8:The Pirate and the Slave GirlThe Pirate and the Slave Girl (Italian: La scimitarra del Saraceno, also known as  The Pirate's Captive) is a 1959 Italian  adventure film written and directed  by Piero Pierotti and starring Lex Barker.PlotCaptain Drakut, called the "Dragon", is a ruthless Saracen pirate who makes the Mediterranean unsafe with his ship. On his forays he hijacks ships and kidnaps the women captured on the ships in order to later sell them as slaves to Turkish human traffickers in North Africa. The rogue pirate only becomes weak when it comes to one woman: the glow-eyed princess Miriam, ruler of a desert tribe of Arabs. One day, Drakut makes a crucial mistake when he raids the "San Luca" and kidnaps Bianca, who is traveling with him. She is the daughter of the governor of Rhodes, which currently belongs to the Republic of Venice. There were also several secret papers from the Doge of Venice on board. The governor is in dire need, as he has to assume that his Bianca could also be bartered away to some lecherous Arab despot. But he is lucky in his misfortune, because a certain Roberto Diego, a notorious adventurer and son of the once feared "Red Corsair", offers his father his help.  Diego has just been sentenced to incarceration because of high debts, but is willing to risk his life to save the beautiful little daughter and the secret documents for the good of Bianca and the Doge of Venice if his sentence is released. However, the governor has no idea that Roberto has very personal motives for bringing himself up as a rescuer and liberator. Because Roberto still has a score to settle with Drakut: He was once responsible for the death of Roberto's father. The governor agrees to this bargain, and Diego joins Drakut's crew on board. In the Catalan painter Francesco he found his only ally. As a newcomer on board, Roberto has to be very careful because people are very suspicious of him. When he tries to flirt with Bianca, Drakut's right hand man, the brutal Gamal, notices and flogs the Red Corsair's son. Soon, the general emotional chaos puts the whole rescue operation in danger, because Roberto falls in love with Drakut's hostage Bianca, while Miriam, the pirate captain's lover, falls in love with Roberto.     Arriving on North Africa's shores, Drakut travels on to an oasis. Miriam is the sole ruler here so far. Drakut, who once


Passage 1:Nancy BurneNancy Burne (23 December 1907 – 25 March 1954) was an English stage and film actress.Born in Chorlton, Lancashire, she began her filmcareer at British International Pictures, starring alongside comedians such as Gene Gerrard, Stanley Lupino and Will Hay. Most of her subsequent screenappearances were as a leading lady in quota quickies.She starred alongside John Loder in the 1935 romantic comedy It Happened in Paris, which marked CarolReed's debut as director. In 1937 she had a supporting role in the independent film Thunder in the City, an expensive drama starring Edward G. Robinson whichwas a major financial and critical failure. Her final screen appearance was in the 1939 horseracing film Flying Fifty-Five.FilmographyThe Love Nest (1933)TheButterfly Affair (1933)Facing the Music (1933)The Warren Case (1934)Irish Hearts (1934)Song at Eventide (1934)Dandy Dick (1935)Lend Me Your Husband(1935)Trust the Navy (1935)Once a Thief (1935)Old Roses (1935)It Happened in Paris (1935)Reasonable Doubt (1936)A Wife or Two (1936)Royal Eagle(1936)Skylarks (1936)Knights for a Day (1937)Thunder in the City (1937)John Halifax (1938)Flying Fifty-Five (1939)Passage 2:The Flying Fifty-Five (1924film)The Flying Fifty-Five is a 1924 British silent sports film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Lionelle Howard, Frank Perfitt and Lionel d'Aragon. It is based ona 1922 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace, and was remade as a sound film in 1939.CastLionelle Howard as Reggie CambreyStephanie Stephens as StellaBarringtonBrian B. Lemon as Lord FountwellFrank Perfitt as Joanh UrquhartLionel d'Aragon as Sir Jacques GregoryBert Darley as Honourable ClaudeBarringtonAdeline Hayden Coffin as AuntJohn Alexander as JebsonJohnny ButtAnnie EsmondFurther readingLow, Rachael. The History of the British Film1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.Passage 3:The Flying Fifty-FiveThe Flying Fifty-Five may refer to:The Flying Fifty-Five (1924 film), a British silent sportsfilmFlying Fifty-Five, a 1939 British sports drama filmPassage 4:2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stageIn the second group stage of the 2001–02UEFA Champions League, eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two groupwinners and two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each groupadvanced to the quarter-finals.SeedingSeeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients and participants' first group stage positions. Four best-ranked groupwinners were seeded in Pot 1, the remaining four in Pot 2. Group runners-up were seeded to Pots 3 and 4 accordingly.Tie-breaking criteriaBased on Article 7.06 inthe UEFA regulations, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria will be applied to determine therankings:higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;superior goal difference from the group matches playedamong the teams in question;higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;superior goal differencefrom all group matches played;higher number of goals scored;higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association,over the previous five seasons.GroupsGroup AGroup BGroup CGroup DNotesPassage 5:Jane PiersonJane Pierson was a French film actress. She appeared in fiftyfive films between 1924 and 1952.Selected filmographyThe Imaginary Voyage (1926)Captain Rascasse (1927)The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans(1927)Little Devil May Care (1928)The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)The Wonderful Day (1929)Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)Everybody Wins (1930)Le Million(1931)You Will Be My Wife (1932)Youth (1933)La tête d'un homme (1933)Forty Little Mothers (1936)The Brighton Twins (1936)Fire in the Straw (1939)TheStairs Without End  (1943)Passage 6:Flying Fifty-FiveFlying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring  Derrick DeMarney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne. It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios. The film is based on a 1922 novel ofthe same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been made into a 1924 silent film The Flying Fifty-Five.PlotAfter being disinherited by his wealthy father,an amateur jockey, Bill Urquhart goes to work under an assumed name (Bill Hart) at a rural racing stables owned and run by Stella Barrington and her drunkenbrother, Charles, who is an old friend of Bill's. Confusion arises when Bill is mistakenly reported to have been murdered.Partial castDerrick De Marney as BillUrquhartNancy Burne as Stella BarringtonMarius Goring as Charles BarringtonJohn Warwick as JebsonPeter Gawthorne as Jonas UrquhartD. A. Clarke-Smith asJacques GregoryAmy Veness as Aunt ElizaRonald Shiner as Scrubby OaksBilly Bray as CheerfulFrancesca Bahrle as ClareTerry-Thomas as Young manNormanPierce as CreditorBasil McGrail as JockeySee alsoThe Flying Fifty-Five (1924)List of films about horse racingPassage 7:Approaching MidnightApproaching Midnightis a 2013 American independent drama film directed, written, and produced by Sam Logan Khaleghi, and starring Jana Kramer, Sam Logan Khaleghi, Brandon T.Jackson, and Mia Serafino. Approaching Midnight was filmed in Michigan, United States.PremiseA U.S. Army staff sergeant (Sam Logan Khaleghi) fights the threatof corruption and deception in his hometown after returning from battle.CastJana Kramer.... AspenSam Logan Khaleghi.... Staff Sergeant Wesley KentBrandon TJackson.... Corporal Artie AJ CulpepperMia Serafino.... WhisperJeff Stetson.... Mayor Steven MalvernePatrick Sarniak.... Malverne'sAttorneyProductionDevelopmentApproaching Midnight is directed, written, and directed by Sam Logan Khaleghi. Khaleghi chose to film Approaching Midnight inMichigan because he loves the state and wanted to feature the amazing architecture and geography. American Legion members were a part of making the film asthey stood in as extras and an American Legion honor guard appears in the film.FilmingApproaching Midnight was filmed in Detroit, Farmington, and WestBloomfield, Michigan. The war sequences in the movie were filmed in Milan near Ann Arbor.ReleaseIn July 2013, Monterey Media bought the United Statesdistribution rights and will release the film in the United States in Fall 2013. Approaching Midnight had its world theatrical premiere on August 27, 2013 atEmagine Royal Oak. The film was also released at the American Legion National Convention in Houston, Texas.Passage 8:Jackie ParisCarlo Jackie Paris(September 20, 1924 – June 17, 2004) was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of "Skylark" and "'Round Midnight" fromthe late 1940s to the early 1950s.Music careerEarly yearsParis was born and raised in Nutley, New Jersey, to an Italian-American family, where he attendedNutley High School. His uncle Chick had been a guitarist with Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Paris was a popular child entertainer in vaudeville who shared the stagewith Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and the Mills Brothers. He tap danced from his youth and into his years in the US Army.After serving in the army during World WarII, he was inspired by his friend Nat King Cole to assemble a trio featuring himself on guitar and vocals. The Jackie Paris Trio was a hit at the Onyx Club on NewYork's 52nd Street.Recording and performingHe recorded from the 1940s into the 2000s. His albums include Songs by Jackie Paris (EmArcy), Jackie Paris Singsthe Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (Time), and The Song Is Paris (Impulse!). The first song that he recorded was "Skylark", on one of two sessions made by his trio forMGM Records in 1947. He recorded Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight", which was produced by the critic Leonard Feather and featured a young Dick Hyman onpiano.In 1949, he toured with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and was invited to join Duke Ellington's Orchestra, but he was too exhausted to take it. Paris waspart of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra that played at the famed Cavalcade of Jazz in Los Angeles at Wrigley Field which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on July10, 1949. They did a second concert at Lane Field in San Diego on September 3, 1949. He was the only vocalist to tour as a regular member of the Charlie ParkerQuintet. Unfortunately, no recordings exist of the Parker–Paris combination, but there is a photograph of the two working together. He worked often with CharlesMingus, who called Paris his favorite singer and recorded with him often, including 1952's "Paris in Blue" and "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" on the albumChanges Two in 1974.During the 1960s–70s, Paris frequently performed with his wife at the time Anne Marie Moss.Paris performed or recorded with Bobby Scott,Charlie Shavers, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, Eddie Costa, Gigi Gryce, Hank Jones, Joe Wilder, Johnny Mandel, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, NealHefti, Oscar Pettiford, Ralph Burns, Terry Gibbs, Tony Scott, and Wynton Kelly.A documentary about him, 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris came out in2006.RecognitionHe won many jazz polls and awards, including those of Down Beat, Playboy, Swing Journal, and Metronome. In 1953, he was named Best NewMale Vocalist of the Year in the first Down Beat Critics Poll. The winning female vocalist was Ella Fitzgerald, who repeatedly named Paris as one of her favorites.In2001, Paris played to a standing room crowd – and to a standing ovation – at New York's Birdland jazz club in Times Square. He was virtually the only performerto have appeared at every incarnation of the famed night spot, from the legendary Birdland of the 1950s to the present.He was praised by comic Lenny Bruce,who shared the bill with him on many occasions. Bruce said, "I dig his talent. The audience loves him and he gets laughs. He is too much!"Awards and honorsNewStar Male Vocalist, Down Beat Critics Poll, 1953Best Male Vocalist, Playboy Musicians & Critics Poll, 1957–1961Gold Disc Award, Lucky to Be Me, Swing Journal,1989DiscographySongs by Jackie Paris (Wing, 1956)Skylark (Brunswick, 1957)The Jackie Paris Sound (EastWest, 1958)The Song Is Paris (Impulse!, 1962)Singsthe Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (Time, 1962)Live at the Maisonette with Anne Marie Moss (Differant Drummer, 1975)Jackie Paris (Audiophile, 1981)Nobody Else but Me(Audiophile, 1988)Lucky to Be Me (EmArcy, 1989)Love Songs (EmArcy, 1990)The Intimate Jackie Paris (Hudson, 2001)Passage 9:55 (number)55 (fifty-five) isthe natural number following 54 and preceding 56.Mathematics55 is a triangular number (the sum of the consecutive numbers 1 to 10), and a doubly triangularnumber.the 10th Fibonacci number.  It is the largest Fibonacci number to also be a triangular number.a square pyramidal number (the sum of the squares of theintegers 1 to 5) as well as a heptagonal number, and a centered nonagonal number.In base 10, it is a Kaprekar number.55 is a multiple of 5 and 11, 5 being theprime index of 11.ScienceThe atomic number of caesium.AstronomyMessier object M55, a magnitude 7.0 globular cluster in the constellation SagittariusThe New


Passage 1:Peggy PettittPeggy Pettitt (born February 8, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, teacher, playwright, and storyteller. Pettitt is best known for herrole as Billie Jean in the 1972 family–drama film Black Girl, starring alongside Brock Peters and Claudia McNeil. Pettitt is a native of St. Louis, Missouri.Playwrightand storytellerThe centerpiece of Pettitt's theater career is a unique style of solo performance rooted in African-American storytelling. She developed this form toportray a spectrum of characters. Related by blood and circumstance, these characters shed light on the multifaceted history of African American men andwomen. And they tell "stories addressing important issues of our time." In collaboration with director Remy Tissier, she has created over 10 original full-lengthplays. These examine issues of domestic violence, sexual abuse, cross-generational differences, voting registration, the Civil Rights Movement, identity and theworld HIV/Aids crisis. Titles include Women Preachers, Caught Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, Tricksters: All Over You Like White On Rice, WrappedUp, Tied Up and Tangled, Mollie Oil BETWIXT, Wild Steps and In The Spirit For Real.One play was the product of her 2000-01 Fulbright Fellowship to Senegal: TheSpirit Factor. An original play, it's based on the living history and the art of storytelling in West Africa. Another play, Voyage, was presented at the Avignon OffFestival in 2010. It explores American history through both the blues and a spiritual heritage that lives along the Mississippi River but originated in West Africa.Pettitt has presented her work at the Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Les Rencontres du Bout des Mondes International Festival in 2011 (French Guiana). In addition tothe Fulbright Fellowship, she has received numerous other grants and awards. These include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New YorkFoundation for the Arts. Pearls of Wisdom is a storytelling ensemble of the Elders Share the Arts in N.Y. City. Pettitt is its founding artistic director, and with thePearls of Wisdom, she was inducted in 2007 into City Lore's People's Hall of Fame.ActressIn 1972, during the era of Blaxploitation movies, Pettitt starred in BlackGirl, her first feature film. Pettitt was nominated for Best Actress by the NAACP for her role in Black Girl, written by J.E. Franklin (from her 1969 WGBH (Boston)teleplay and her 1971 play), and directed by Ossie Davis. Another of her noteworthy roles was at Lincoln Center as Miss Lindsey in Mule Bone, Zora Neale Hurstonand Langston Hughes’ historical comedy.TeacherPettitt has professional experience and training in directing and storytelling workshops. She teaches astep-by-step process of creating, writing and performing original material. Partnering with a wide array of organizations, she has helped scores of diverse groupspresent their own original stories as both theater and storytelling performances. She also works extensively with drama therapists, social workers and educatorsin public schools.Both in the U.S. and abroad, Pettitt has worked at numerous schools and educational institutions. Her teaching experience extends to facilitiessuch as homeless shelters, prisons, drug treatment centers, VA hospitals, and senior and adolescent centers. Additionally she has ample experience working withthe emotionally and physically disabled and their families. She currently teaches self-scripting at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing.BiographyIn1974, after earning a BA from Antioch College, she moved to London on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Pettitt now resides in New York City. She has beenmarried since 1982 to writer, director and painter Rémy Tissier.Awards and honors2008, Story gatherer for "Another River Flows" recipient of the PennsylvaniaHuman Relation Award2010, Voyage was presented at the Avignon, France Off FestivalNominated for an NAACP Image Award for role in Black Girl2007, Ms.Pettitt and the Pearls of Wisdom were inducted into New York City Lore's People's Hall of FameRecipient of New York City's Arts In Education Roundtable Awardfor sustained achievement in theaterHonored by the William Hodson Senior Center, The Roundtable Senior Center and Elders Share the Arts for "Commitment tothe art of storytelling that transforms lives and communities"2011, Performance Space 122 founders and board pioneers Shining Star AwardIn booksOut ofCharacter, Mark Russell, 1997Performing Democracy, Susan Chandler Haedicke, 2004Mapping Memories, Pam Schweitzer, 2004Local Acts, An InternationalAnthology, Jan Cohen Cruz, 2005Ensemble Works, An Anthology, Ferdinand Lewis, 2005Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memory, Pam Schweitzer,2007Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives For People With Dementia, Ann Basting, 2009.== Notes ==Passage 2:Maksim KedrinMaksim Kedrin (born 21September 1982 in Beloretsk) is a Russian former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.External linkssports-reference.comMaksim Kedrin atFIS (alpine)Maksim Kedrin at OlympediaPassage 3:François van der MerweFrançois van der Merwe is a South African professional rugby union player. He plays atlock for Lyon Olympique in the Top 14. He is older brother of Flip van der MerwePassage 4:Filip ArsenijevićFilip Arsenijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Арсенијевић;born 2 September 1983) is a Serbian footballer. He is older brother of Nemanja Arsenijević.Club careerBorn in Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, between2001 and 2009 he played in Serbian clubs FK Sloboda Užice, OFK Beograd, FK Mačva Šabac, FK Sevojno and FK Javor Ivanjica. Between 2009 and 2011 he hasbeen in Greece playing with Panthrakikos in the Greek Super League.On 30 August 2011 he returned to Serbia and signed a one-year deal with top league club FKJagodina. Later, he spent the 2012 season playing with the Kazakhstan Premier League team FC Shakhter Karagandy and winning the national title, beforereturning to Jagodina by early 2013 in time to help the team with the Serbian Cup.HonoursJavor IvanjicaSerbian First League: 2007–08ShakhterKaragandyKazakhstan Premier League: 2012JagodinaSerbian Cup: 2013Passage 5:Aleksandar LomaAleksandar Loma (Serbian: Александар Лома; born March 2,1955) is a Serbian philologist, Indo-Europeanist and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts since October 30, 2003.AleksandarLoma emphasized that Serbian epic poetry about Kosovo events is older than the events it describes, having its origin in the pre-Christian and pre-Balkan periodsof Serbian history.Bibliography"Sloveni i Albanci do XII veka u svetlu toponomastike" [Slavs and Albanians till the 12th century in the light of the toponomastics],Stanovništvo slovenskog porijekla u Albaniji (in Serbian), Cetinje, pp. 279–327, 1990, OCLC 439986558Ogledna sveska, 1998, Department for etymology ofInstitute for Serbian language of SANU (coauthorship)Ljubinko Radenković, ed. (2002), Prakosovo : slovenski i indoevropski koreni srpske epike (in Serbian),Belgrade: SANU Institute of Balkanology, ISBN 9788671790338, OCLC 54098329Etymological dictionary of Serbian language, 2003 (coauthorship)Passage6:Robin KačaniklićRobin Kačaniklić (Serbian Cyrillic: Робин Качаниклић, Macedonian: Робин Качаниклиќ; born 25 August 1988) is a Swedish footballer whoplays for Real Åstorp FF as a midfielder. He is older brother to the former Swedish national team player Alexander Kačaniklić.Passage 7:Peggie CrombiePeggie (orPeggy) Crombie (1901–1984) was an Australian modernist painter. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters andSculptors.BiographyCrombie was born in 1901 in Melbourne, Australia. In 1921 she studied art at Stott's Commercial Art Training Institute. From 1922 through1928 she attended the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall, William Beckwith McInnes and GeorgeBell.Crombie exhibited her work with modernist groups in Melbourne, specifically The Embryos, the 1932 Group, the New Art Club, the Melbourne Society ofWomen Painters and Sculptors, and the Victorian Artists Society.Crombie died in 1984.External linksimages of Peggy Crombie's paintings on MutualArtPeggyCrombie [Australian art and artists file], State Library VictoriaPassage 8:Ognen StojanovskiOgnen Stojanovski (Macedonian: Огнен Стојановски; born January25, 1984) is a Macedonian professional basketball player. He was under contract with MZT Skopje until 2014. He is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) in height and plays at thepoint guard position.Born in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, he is older brother of the twins Vojdan Stojanovski and Damjan Stojanovski, who are also basketballplayers.Achievements RabotničkiMacedonian League Champion - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009Macedonian Cup Winner - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 FeniIndustriesMacedonian League Champion - 2010, 2011Macedonian Cup Winner - 2010 MZT SkopjeMacedonian League Champion - 2012, 2013, 2014MacedonianCup Winner - 2012, 2013, 2014Passage 9:Peggy Jones (musician)Peggy Jones (later Malone, July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo inrecognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician. A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band, and was sometimes called the QueenMother of Guitar.Early lifeBorn in Harlem, New York City, in 1940, Jones grew up in the Sugar Hill section, and attended the High School of Performing Arts whereshe studied tap and ballet dance and trained in opera. Even from a very young age, she found herself completely consumed with music; purchasing her firstguitar at the age of 15. She was briefly in a local doo-wop group, the Bop Chords, which disbanded in 1957.  A chance meeting with Bo Diddley, who wasimpressed to see a girl with a guitar case, led to an invitation to join Diddley's band as a guitarist and singer.  She recorded with him from 1957 to 1961 or 1963,appearing on singles including "Hey! Bo Diddley", "Road Runner", "Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger", and the instrumental "Aztec" which she wrote and played all theguitar parts. However, throughout her career, Peggy Jones always strived to be an independent artist and was involved in an R&B band known as the Jewels,among other various names.Throughout her time with Diddley, Jones maintained the separate career she had begun independently as a songwriter, sessionmusician, and bandleader.  She led her own band, the Jewels (also known as the Fabulous Jewels, Lady Bo and the Family Jewels, and various other names, butnot to be confused with The Jewels), which became a top R&B band on the New York – Boston east coast club scene the 1960s and 1970s.  She eventually leftDiddley's band to concentrate on the Jewels and other activities.  She was replaced with another female guitarist, Norma-Jean Wofford ("The Duchess").Jonesplayed guitar on Les Cooper's 1962 instrumental "Wiggle Wobble" and percussion on the 1967 hit "San Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon and The Animals andother recordings and later backed James Brown and Sam & Dave.  She remained musically active well into the 21st century.Solo workShe left Bo Diddley's band


Passage 1:Chang YiThe Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or by his Chinese name Huangdi (), is either an individual deity (shen) in Chinese religion, one of the legendary Chinese sovereigns and cultural heroes included among the mytho-historical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, or a part of the Five Regions' Highest Deities (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wfāng Shàngdì). Calculated by Jesuit missionaries, who based their work on various Chinese chronicles, and later accepted by the twentieth-century promoters of a universal calendar starting with the Yellow Emperor, Huangdi's traditional reign dates are 2697–2597 or 2698–2598 BC.Huangdi's cult became prominent in the late Warring States and early Han dynasty, when he was portrayed as the originator of the centralized state, as a cosmic ruler, and as a patron of esoteric arts. A large number of texts – such as the Huangdi Neijing, a medical classic, and the Huangdi Sijing, a group of political treatises – were thus attributed to him. Having waned in influence during most of the imperial period, in the early twentieth century Huangdi became a rallying figure for Han Chinese attempts to overthrow the rule of the Qing dynasty, which they considered foreign because its emperors were Manchu people. To this day the Yellow Emperor remains a powerful symbol within Chinese nationalism. Traditionally credited with numerous inventions and innovations – ranging from the lunar calendar (Chinese calendar), Taoism, wooden houses, boats, carts, "the compass needle", "the earliest forms of writing", civilization and its benefits, and/or an early form of football – the Yellow Emperor is now regarded as the initiator of Han culture (later Chinese culture).Names"Huangdi": Yellow Emperor, Yellow ThearchUntil 221 BC when Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty coined the title huangdi () – conventionally translated as "emperor" – to refer to himself, the character di  did not refer to earthly rulers but to the highest god of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) pantheon. In the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BC), the term di on its own could also refer to the deities associated with the five Sacred Mountains of China and colors. Huangdi (), the "yellow di", was one of the latter. To emphasize the religious meaning of di in pre-imperial times, historians of early China commonly translate the god's name as "Yellow Thearch" and the first emperor's title as "August Thearch", in which "thearch" refers to a godly ruler.In the late Warring States period, the Yellow Emperor was integrated into the cosmological scheme of the Five Phases, in which the color yellow represents the earth phase, the Yellow Dragon, and the center. The correlation of the colors in association with different dynasties was mentioned in the Lüshi Chunqiu (late 3rd century BC), where the Yellow Emperor's reign was seen to be governed by earth. The character huang  ("yellow") was often used in place of the homophonous huang , which means "august" (in the sense of ' distinguished') or "radiant", giving Huangdi attributes close to those of Shangdi, the Shang supreme god.Xuanyuan and YouxiongThe Records of the Grand Historian, compiled by Sima Qian in the first century BC, gives the Yellow Emperor's name as "Xuan Yuan" (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Xuān Yuán < Old Chinese (B-S) *qa[r]-[]a[n], lit. "Chariot Shaft"). Third-century scholar Huangfu Mi, who wrote a work on the sovereigns of antiquity, commented that Xuanyuan was the name of a hill where Huangdi had lived and that he later took as a name. The Classic of Mountains and Seas mentions a Xuanyuan nation whose inhabitants have human faces, snake bodies, and tails twisting above their heads; Yuan Ke, a contemporary scholar of early Chinese mythology, "noted that the appearance of these people is characteristic of gods and suggested that they may reflect the form of the Yellow Thearch himself". The Qing dynasty scholar Liang Yusheng (, 1745–1819) argued instead that the hill was named after the Yellow Emperor. Xuanyuan is also the name of the star Regulus in Chinese, the star being associated with Huangdi in traditional astronomy. He is also associated to the broader constellations Leo and Lynx, of which the latter is said to represent the body of the Yellow Dragon  ( Huánglóng), Huangdi's animal form.Huangdi was also referred to as "Youxiong" ( ; Yuxióng). This name has been interpreted as either a place name or a clan name. According to British sinologist Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), that name was "taken from that of [Huangdi's] hereditary principality". William Nienhauser, a modern translator of the Records of the Grand Historian, states that Huangdi was originally the head of the Youxiong clan, which lived near what is now Xinzheng in Henan. Rémi Mathieu, a French historian of Chinese myths and religion, translates "Youxiong" as "possessor of bears" and links Huangdi to the broader theme of the bear in world mythology. Ye Shuxian has also associated the Yellow Emperor with bear legends common across northeast Asia people as well as the Dangun legend.Other namesSima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian describes the Yellow Emperor's ancestral name as Gongsun ().In Han dynasty texts, the Yellow Emperor is also called upon as the "Yellow God" ( Huángshén). Certain accounts interpret him as the incarnation of the "Yellow God of the Northern Dipper" ( Huángshén Běidu), another name of the universal god (Shangdi  or Tiandi ). According to a definition in apocryphal texts related to the Hétú , the Yellow Emperor "proceeds from the essence of the Yellow God".As a cosmological deity, the Yellow Emperor is known as the "Great Emperor of the Central Peak" ( Zhōngyuè Dàdì), and in the Shizi as the "Yellow Emperor with Four Faces" ( Huángdì Sìmiàn). In old accounts the Yellow Emperor is identified as a deity of light (and his name is explained in the Shuowen jiezi to derive from guāng , "light") and thunder, and as one and the same with the "Thunder God" ( Léishén), who in turn, as a later mythological character, is distinguished as the Yellow Emperor's foremost pupil, such as in the Huangdi Neijing.HistoryThe Chinese historian Sima Qian – and much Chinese historiography following him – considered the Yellow Emperor to be a more historical figure than earlier legendary figures such as Fu Xi, Nüwa, and Shennong. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian begins with the Yellow Emperor, while passing over the others.Throughout most of Chinese history, the Yellow Emperor and the other ancient sages were considered to be historical figures. Their historicity started to be questioned in the 1920s by historians such as Gu Jiegang, one of the founders of the Doubting Antiquity School in China. In their attempts to prove that the earliest figures of Chinese history were mythological, Gu and his followers argued that these ancient sages were originally gods who were later depicted as humans by the rationalist intellectuals of the Warring States period. Yang Kuan, a member of the same current of historiography, noted that only in the Warring States period had the Yellow Emperor started to be described as the first ruler of China. Yang thus argued that Huangdi was a later transformation of Shangdi, the supreme god of the Shang dynasty's pantheon.Also in the 1920s, French scholars Henri Maspero and Marcel Granet published critical studies of China's accounts of high antiquity. In his Danses et légendes de la Chine ancienne ["Dances and legends of ancient China"], for example, Granet argued that these tales were "historicized legends" that said more about the time when they were written than about the time they purported to describe.In the "middle of the [20th] century, a group of" Chinese "historians proposed the theory that [the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors]" were originally Chinese gods who became thought of as human during the later period of the Zhou dynasty. Most scholars now agree that the Yellow Emperor originated as a god who was later represented as a historical person. K.C. Chang sees Huangdi and other cultural heroes as "ancient religious figures" who were "euhemerized" in the late Warring States and Han periods. Historian of ancient China Mark Edward Lewis speaks of the Yellow Emperor's "earlier nature as a god", whereas Roel Sterckx, a professor at University of Cambridge, calls Huangdi a "legendary cultural hero".Origin of the mythThe origin of Huangdi's mythology is unclear, but historians have formulated several hypotheses about it. Yang Kuan, a member of the Doubting Antiquity School (1920s–40s), argued that the Yellow Emperor was derived from Shangdi, the highest god of the Shang dynasty. Yang reconstructs the etymology as follows: Shangdi   Huang Shangdi   Huangdi   Huangdi , in which he claims that huang  ("yellow") either was a variant Chinese character for huang  ("august") or was used as a  way to avoid the naming taboo for the latter. Yang's view has been criticized by Mitarai Masaru and by Michael Puett.Historian Mark Edward Lewis agrees that huang  and huang  were often interchangeable, but disagreeing with Yang, he claims that huang meaning " yellow" appeared first. Based on what he admits is a "novel etymology" likening huang  to the phonetically close wang  (the "burned shaman" in Shang rainmaking rituals), Lewis suggests that "Huang" in "Huangdi" might originally have meant "rainmaking shaman" or "rainmaking ritual."  Citing late Warring States and early Han versions of Huangdi's myth, he further argues that the figure of the Yellow Emperor originated in ancient rain-making rituals in which Huangdi represented the power of rain and clouds, whereas his mythical rival Chiyou (or the Yan Emperor) stood for fire and drought.Also disagreeing with Yang Kuan's hypothesis, Sarah Allan finds it unlikely that such a popular myth as the Yellow Emperor's could have come from a taboo character.  She argues instead that pre-Shang "'history'," including the story of the Yellow Emperor, "can all be understood as a later transformation and systematization of Shang mythology." In her view, Huangdi was originally an unnamed "lord of the underworld" (or the "Yellow Springs"), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi.  At the time, Shang rulers claimed that their mythical ancestors, identified with "the [ten] suns, birds, east, life, [and] the Lord on High" (i.e., Shangdi), had defeated an earlier people associated with "the underworld, dragons, west."  After the Zhou dynasty overthrew the Shang dynasty in the eleventh century BC, Zhou leaders reinterpreted Shang myths as meaning that the Shang had vanquished a real political dynasty, which was eventually named the Xia dynasty. By Han times – as seen in Sima Qian's account in the Shiji – the Yellow Emperor, who as lord of the underworld had been symbolically linked to the Xia, had become a historical ruler whose descendants were thought to have founded the Xia.Given that the earliest extant mention of the Yellow Emperor was on a fourth-century BC Chinese bronze inscription claiming that he was the ancestor of the royal house of the state of Qi, Lothar von Falkenhausen speculates that Huangdi was invented as an ancestral figure as part of a strategy to claim that all ruling clans in the "Zhou dynasty culture sphere" shared common ancestry.History of Huangdi's cultEarliest