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as senior air commander in the region eaton sat on the darwin defence co @@ ordination committee he was occasionally at loggerheads with his naval counterpart captain ep thomas and also incurred the ire of trade unionists when he used raaf staff to unload ships in port darwin during industrial action eaton himself took... |
on 30 november 1943 eaton returned to the northern territory to establish no 79 wing at batchelor comprising no 1 and no 2 squadrons ( flying bristol beaufort light reconnaissance bombers ) no 31 squadron ( bristol beaufighter long @@ range fighters ) and no 18 ( netherlands east indies ) squadron ( b @@ 25 mitchell me... |
completing his tour with no 79 wing eaton was appointed air officer commanding southern area melbourne in january 1945 the german submarine u @@ 862 operated off southern australia during the first months of 1945 and the few combat units in eaton's command were heavily engaged in anti @@ submarine patrols which sought ... |
eaton retired from the raaf on 31 december 1945 in recognition of his war service he was appointed a commander of the order of orange @@ nassau with swords by the dutch government on 17 january 1946 the same month he became australian consul in dili he had seen an advertisement for the position and was the only applica... |
charles eaton died in frankston on 12 november 1979 survived by his wife and two sons he was cremated in accordance with his wishes his ashes were scattered near tennant creek site of his 1929 forced landing during the search for the kookaburra from an raaf caribou on 15 april 1981 his name figures prominently in the n... |
elizabeth tina fey ( / / born may 18 1970 ) is an american actress comedian writer and producer she is best known for her work on the nbc sketch comedy series saturday night live ( 1998 @@ 2006 ) for her impression of former alaska governor and 2008 vice @@ presidential candidate sarah palin and for creating acclaime... |
fey broke into comedy as a featured player in the chicago @@ based improvisational comedy group the second city she then joined snl as a writer later becoming head writer and a performer known for her position as co @@ anchor in the weekend update segment in 2004 she co @@ starred in and wrote the screenplay for mean g... |
fey has received eight emmy awards two golden globe awards five screen actors guild awards and four writers guild of america awards and was nominated for a grammy award for her autobiographical book bossypants which topped the new york times best seller list for five weeks in 2008 the associated press gave fey the ap e... |
fey was born on may 18 1970 in upper darby pennsylvania a suburb of philadelphia her mother zenobia jeanne ( née ) is a brokerage employee her father donald henry fey ( died 2015 age 82 ) was a university grant proposal writer she has a brother peter who is eight years older fey's mother who was born in piraeus greece... |
fey's father had english german and northern irish ancestry one of fey's paternal great @@ great @@ great @@ great @@ great @@ grandfathers was john hewson ( 1744 1821 ) a textile manufacturer who immigrated to america with the support of benjamin franklin enabling hewson to quickly open a quilting factory in the kensi... |
fey was exposed to comedy early |
at age 11 fey read joe franklin's seventy years of great film comedians for a school project about comedy she grew up watching second city television and has cited catherine o'hara as a role model |
fey attended cardington @@ stonehurst elementary school and beverly hills middle school in upper darby by middle school she knew she was interested in comedy fey attended upper darby high school where she was an honors student a member of the choir drama club and tennis team and co @@ editor of the school's newspaper t... |
after college she worked as a receptionist during the day at the evanston ymca and took classes at second city at night |
while performing shows with the second city in 1997 fey submitted several scripts to nbc's variety show saturday night live ( snl ) at the request of its head writer adam mckay a former performer at second city she was hired as a writer for snl following a meeting with snl creator lorne michaels and moved to new york f... |
fey was an extra in a 1998 episode and after watching herself decided to diet and lost 30 pounds she told the new york times i was a completely normal weight but i was here in new york city i had money and i couldn't buy any clothes after i lost weight there was interest in putting me on camera in 1999 mckay stepped ... |
in 2000 fey began performing in sketches and she and jimmy fallon became co @@ anchors of snl's weekend update segment fey said she did not ask to audition but that michaels approached her michaels explained that there was chemistry between fey and fallon though the decision was kind of risky at the time her role in we... |
in 2001 fey and the rest of the writing staff won a writers guild of america award for snl's 25th anniversary special the following year at the 2002 emmy awards ceremony they won the emmy for outstanding writing for a variety music or comedy program |
when fallon left the show in may 2004 he was replaced on weekend update by amy poehler it was the first time that two women co @@ anchored weekend update fey revealed that she hired poehler as her co @@ host for the segment the reception was positive with rachel sklar of the chicago tribune noting that the pairing has ... |
the 2005 2006 season was her last she departed to develop 30 rock for broadway video at the time she left the 117 episodes she co @@ hosted made her snl's longest @@ serving weekend update anchor a mark that would later be passed by her replacement seth meyers in rolling stone magazine's february 2015 appraisal of all ... |
in 2002 fey suggested a pilot episode for a situation comedy about a cable news network to nbc which rejected it the pilot was reworked to revolve around an snl style series and was accepted by nbc she signed a contract with nbc in may 2003 which allowed her to remain in her snl head writer position at least through th... |
the network renewed the series for a second season which began in october 2007 the show's third season premiered on october 30 2008 the premiere episode drew 8 @@ 5 million viewers the highest ratings of the series |
in 2007 fey received an emmy award nomination for outstanding actress in a comedy series the show itself won the 2007 emmy for outstanding comedy series ( and did so again for two subsequent years ) in 2008 she won the golden globe screen actors guild and emmy awards all in the category for best actress in a comedy ser... |
in 2015 fey created and produced the television comedy unbreakable kimmy schmidt with fellow 30 rock @@ alumnus robert carlock the series stars ellie kemper as the titular character who escapes from a doomsday cult and moves to new york it also stars fey's former co @@ star jane krakowski as well as burgess ( who had ... |
on july 16 2015 the series was nominated for seven primetime emmy awards including outstanding comedy series fey herself was nominated both as the creator / executive producer of the series and for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for her guest performance as marcia a bumbling prosecutor in reference to mar... |
in 2002 fey appeared in the surreal comedy martin & orloff she made her debut as writer and co @@ star of the 2004 teen comedy mean girls characters and behaviors in the movie are based on fey's high school life at upper darby high school and on the non @@ fiction book queen bees and wannabes by rosalind wiseman the ca... |
in a 2004 interview fey expressed that she would like to write and direct movies in 2006 fey worked on a movie script for paramount pictures which was to feature sacha baron cohen by the name of curly oxide and vic thrill based loosely on the true story of a hasidic rock musician in 2007 she was cast in the animated co... |
she received her sag card after appearing in artie lange's beer league released in 2006 in which she was compelled to join for a thousand dollars |
fey and former snl castmate amy poehler starred in the 2008 comedy baby mama the movie was written and directed by michael mccullers the plot concerns kate ( fey ) a business woman who wants a child but discovering she has only a million @@ to @@ one chance of getting pregnant decides to find a surrogate angie ( poehle... |
fey's projects after 2008 include a voice role in the english @@ language version of the japanese animated film ponyo in 2009 she appeared in the invention of lying alongside ricky gervais jennifer garner rob lowe and christopher guest her next film role was in shawn levy's 2010 comedy date night a feature that focuses... |
in 2013 fey starred alongside paul rudd in the romantic comedy @@ drama film admission based on the jean korelitz novel by the same name the film was directed by paul weitz fey later starred in the 2014 comedy @@ drama this is where i leave you helmed by date night director shawn levy as was the case with baby mama al... |
in 2015 it was announced fey would be the narrator for the disney nature film monkey kingdom which was released in theaters on april 17 2015 she then re @@ teamed with poehler starring in the 2015 comedy film sisters as the title characters and received positive reviews for her role in 2016 fey starred in the biographi... |
on february 23 2008 fey hosted the first episode of snl after the 2007 2008 writers guild of america strike for this appearance she was nominated for an emmy in the category of individual performance in a variety or music program fey hosted snl for a second time on april 10 2010 and for her appearance she received an e... |
from september to november 2008 fey made multiple guest appearances on snl to perform a series of parodies of republican vice @@ presidential candidate sarah palin on the 34th season premiere episode aired september 13 2008 fey imitated palin in a sketch alongside amy poehler as hillary clinton their repartee included ... |
in december 2009 entertainment weekly put her palin impersonation on its end @@ of @@ the @@ decade best @@ of list writing fey's freakishly spot @@ on snl impersonation of the wannabe vp ( and her ability to strike a balance between comedy and cruelty ) made for truly transcendent television rolling stone called her... |
in 1997 fey and other members of the second city provided voices for the pinball game medieval madness |
in 2000 fey partnered with fellow snl cast member rachel dratch in the off broadway two @@ woman show dratch & fey at the upright citizens brigade theater in new york city the production was well received by critics tim townsend of the wall street journal wrote that the fun part of watching fey and dratch perform was s... |
on august 13 2007 fey made a guest appearance in the sesame street episode the she appeared as a guest judge on the november 25 2007 episode of the food network program iron chef america |
fey has appeared as tinker bell in disney's campaign year of a million dreams she has also done commercials for american express and garnier |
on april 5 2011 fey's autobiography bossypants was released to a positive review from the new york times |
in 2011 fey narrated the secret life of girls a two @@ hour @@ long radio documentary produced by the kitchen sisters she introduced stories of women and girls from around the world and also shared memories of her own girlhood and mother |
in 2012 fey made her rapping debut on the childish gambino ( donald glover ) mixtape royalty glover is a former writer on 30 rock on which he worked with fey fey was also featured as herself in the icarly episode america |
fey is known for her deadpan humor and delivery her sardonic wit has become a trademark of hers upon which several critics have commented in their reviews of fey's work according to los angeles times critic mary mcnamara fey project [ s ] both oblivious security and hyper @@ alert insecurity with the same expression in... |
seldom hesitating to use herself as the butt of her own jokes fey is also well known for practicing self @@ deprecating humor as demonstrated throughout her performance as liz lemon in 30 rock in an article ranking fey's six greatest jokes david renshaw of the guardian wrote that the performer's work continues to featu... |
as an actress fey has developed a reputation for portraying the hilarious self @@ deprecating unmarried career woman in most of her films to @@ date the boston globe's janice paige defended her limited filmography by writing that unlike most film actors fey remains realistic about her range as a leading lady and says s... |
in 2002 fey was ranked in the hot 100 list at number 80 on maxim magazine which used photos taken earlier by rolling stone calling her the thinking man's sex symbol she was named one of people magazine's 50 most beautiful people in 2003 and one of people magazine's 100 most beautiful people in 2007 2008 and 2009 in 20... |
in 2001 entertainment weekly named fey as one of their entertainers of the year for her work on weekend update in 2007 she was named one of the magazine's entertainers of the year and placed number two in 2008 in 2009 fey was named as entertainment weekly's fifth individual in their 15 entertainers of the 2000s list in... |
the newspaper editors and broadcast producers of the associated press voted fey the ap entertainer of the year as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 citing her impression of sarah palin on snl she has appeared on forbes' annual celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful cele... |
in 2007 the new york post included fey in new york's 50 most powerful women ranking her at number 33 fey was among the time 100 a list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2009 as selected annually by time magazine fey's featured article for the 2009 list was written by 30 rock co @@ star alec ba... |
in september 2011 fey was ranked at the top of forbes magazine's list of the highest @@ paid tv actresses |
in june 2010 it was announced fey would receive a star on the hollywood walk of fame in 2011 |
in 2014 fey was recognized by elle magazine during the women in hollywood awards honoring women for their outstanding achievements in film spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry including acting directing and producing |
fey's charity work includes support of autism speaks an organization that sponsors autism research in april 2008 she participated in night of too many stars a comedy benefit show for autism education |
fey is also a supporter of mercy corps a global relief and development organization in their campaign to end world hunger fey narrated a video for mercy corps's action center in new york city describing hunger as a symptom of many wider world problems she also supports the love our children usa organization which fight... |
in 1994 two years after fey joined chicago's second city improvisational theatre troupe she began dating jeff richmond a piano player who later became second city's musical director and then a composer on 30 rock they married in a greek orthodox ceremony on june 3 2001 they have two daughters alice zenobia richmond ( b... |
fey has a scar a few inches long on the left side of her chin and cheek the cause of which remained unexplained to the public until a 2008 vanity fair profile by maureen dowd and subsequently in her autobiographical book where she revealed that during the spring semester of kindergarten i was slashed in the face by a s... |
wasp @@ 44 is a g @@ type star in constellation cetus that has the jupiter @@ size planet wasp @@ 44b in orbit the star is slightly less massive and slightly smaller than the sun it is also slightly cooler but is more metal @@ rich the star was observed by superwasp an organization in search of planets starting in 2009... |
wasp @@ 44 was observed between july and november 2009 by the wasp @@ south a station of the superwasp planet @@ searching program based at the south african astronomical observatory observations of the star revealed a periodic decrease in its brightness wasp @@ south along with the superwasp @@ north station at the ro... |
in 2010 a european science team investigated the star using the coralie spectrograph and collected seventeen spectra of wasp @@ 44 from the spectra radial velocity measurements were extrapolated analysis of collected coralie data ruled out the possibility that the detected radial velocity was caused by the blended spec... |
the leonhard euler telescope at la silla observatory in chile was used to follow up on the discovery circling wasp @@ 44 searching for a point at which the planet transited or crossed in front of its host star one transit was detected |
wasp @@ 44 its recently discovered planet the planets orbiting wasp @@ 45 and wasp @@ 46 and a discussion exploring the validity of the common assumption amongst scientists that closely orbiting hot jupiter planets have highly circular orbits unless proven otherwise were reported in a single discovery paper that was pu... |
wasp @@ 44 is a g @@ type star ( the same class of star as the sun ) that is located in the cetus constellation wasp @@ 44 has a mass that is 0 @@ 951 times that of the sun in terms of size wasp @@ 44 has a radius that is 0 @@ 927 times that of the sun wasp @@ 44 has an effective temperature of 5410 k cooler than the s... |
the star has an apparent magnitude of 12 @@ 9 it cannot be seen from earth with the naked eye |
there is one known planet in the orbit of wasp @@ 44 wasp @@ 44b the planet is a hot jupiter with a mass of 0 @@ 889 jupiters its radius is 1 @@ 14 times that of jupiter wasp @@ 44b orbits its host star every 2 @@ days at a distance 0 @@ au approximately 3 @@ 47 the mean distance between the earth and sun with an orb... |
elephanta caves are a network of sculpted caves located on elephanta island or gharapuri ( literally the city of caves ) in mumbai harbour 10 kilometres ( 6 @@ 2 mi ) to the east of the city of mumbai in the indian state of maharashtra the island located on an arm of the arabian sea consists of two groups of caves the ... |
the rock cut architecture of the caves has been dated to between the 5th and 8th centuries although the identity of the original builders is still a subject of debate the caves are hewn from solid basalt rock all the caves were also originally painted in the past but now only traces remain |
the main cave ( cave 1 or the great cave ) was a hindu place of worship until portuguese rule began in 1534 after which the caves suffered severe damage this cave was renovated in the 1970s after years of neglect and was designated a unesco world heritage site in 1987 to preserve the artwork it is currently maintained ... |
elephanta island or gharapuri is about 11 km ( 6 @@ 8 mi ) east of the apollo bunder ( bunder in marathi means a pier for embarkation and disembarkation of passengers and goods ) on the mumbai harbour and 10 km ( 6 @@ 2 mi ) south of pir pal in trombay the island covers about 10 km2 ( 3 @@ 9 sq mi ) at high tide and ab... |
the island is 2 @@ 4 km ( 1 @@ 5 mi ) in length with two hills that rise to a height of about 150 m ( 490 ft ) a deep ravine cuts through the heart of the island from north to south on the west the hill rises gently from the sea and stretches east across the ravine and rises gradually to the extreme east to a height of... |
the two hills of the island the western and the eastern have five rock @@ cut caves in the western part and a brick stupa on the eastern hill on its top composed of two caves with a few rock @@ cut cisterns one of the caves on the eastern hill is unfinished it is a protected island with a buffer zone according to a not... |
since no inscriptions on any of the island have been discovered the ancient history of the island is conjectural at best pandavas the heroes of the hindu epic mahabharata and banasura the demon devotee of shiva are both credited with building temples or cut caves to live local tradition holds that the caves are not man... |
the elephanta caves are of unknown date and attribution art historians have dated the caves in the range of late 5th to late 8th century ad archaeological excavations have unearthed a few coins dated to 4th century ad the known history is traced only to the defeat of mauryan rulers of konkan by the badami chalukyas e... |
some other historians attribute the construction to the kalachuris ( late 5th to 6th century ) who may have had a feudal relationship with the konkan mauryas in an era where polytheism was prevalent the elephanta main cave dedicates the monotheism of the pashupata shaivism sect a sect to which kalachuris as well as kon... |
the chalukyas who defeated the kalachuris as well as the konkan mauryas are also believed by some to be creators of the main cave in the mid @@ 7th century the rashtrakutas are the last claimants to the creation of the main cave approximated to the early 7th to late 8th century the elephanta shiva cave resembles in som... |
later elephanta was ruled by another chalukyan dynasty and then by gujarat sultanate who surrendered it to the portuguese in 1534 by then elephanta was called gharapuri which denotes a hill settlement the name is still used in the local marathi language the portuguese named the island elephanta island in honour of a hu... |
portuguese rule saw a decline in the hindu population on the island and the abandonment of the shiva cave ( main cave ) as a regular hindu place of worship though worship on the festival of shiva continued and still does the portuguese did considerable damage to the sanctuaries portuguese soldiers used the reliefs of ... |
though the main cave was restored in the 1970s other caves including three consisting of important sculptures are still badly damaged the caves were designated a unesco world heritage site in 1987 as per the cultural criteria of unesco the caves represent a masterpiece of human creative genius and bear a unique or at l... |
the island has two groups of caves in the rock @@ cut architectural style the caves are hewn from solid basalt rock all caves were painted in the past but only traces remain the larger group of caves which consists of five caves on the western hill of the island is well known for its hindu sculptures the primary cave n... |
on the eastern part of the island on the stupa hill there is a small group of caves that house buddhist monuments this hill is named after the religious stupa monument that they display one of the two caves is incomplete while the other contains a stupa made in brick |
the main cave also called the shiva cave cave 1 or the great cave is 27 metres ( 89 ft ) square in plan with a hall ( mandapa ) at the entrance are four doors with three open porticoes and an aisle at the back pillars six in each row divide the hall into a series of smaller chambers the roof of the hall has concealed b... |
each wall has large carvings of shiva each more than 5 metres ( 16 ft ) in height the central shiva relief trimurti is located on the south wall and is flanked by ( a half @@ man half @@ woman representation of shiva ) on its left and gangadhara to its right which denotes the river ganges' descent from shiva's matted ... |
the main cave blends chalukyan architectural features such as massive figures of the divinities guardians and square pillars with custom capitals with gupta artistic characteristics like the depiction of mountains and clouds and female hairstyles |
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the carving on the south wall to the east of the portico depicts shiva and parvati seated on their abode mount kailash the four @@ armed shiva is seen with a crown and a disc behind it ( all damaged ) the sacred thread across his chest and a dressing gown covering up to the knee parvati dressed in her finery with her h... |
the carved panel facing this one is a two @@ level depiction of ravana lifting kailash the upper scene is mount kailash where shiva and parvati are seated the eight @@ armed three @@ eyed shiva wears headgear with a crescent and disc behind it most of his arms are broken two of them resting on attendants' heads the par... |
a legend relates to both these panels once parvati was annoyed with shiva at this moment ravana who was passing by mount kailash found it as an obstruction to his movement upset ravana shook it vigorously and as a result parvati got scared and hugged shiva enraged by ravana's arrogance shiva stamped down on ravana who ... |
described as a masterpiece of gupta @@ chalukyan art the most important sculpture in the caves is the trimurti carved in relief at the back of the cave facing the entrance on the north @@ south axis it is also known as trimurti sadashiva and the image 6 m ( 20 ft ) in height depicts a three @@ headed shiva representi... |
the gangadhara image to the right of the trimurti is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of shiva and parvati the former bearing the river ganges as she descends from heaven the carving is 4 m ( 13 ft ) wide and 5 @@ 207 m ( 17 @@ 08 ft ) high the image is highly damaged particularly the lowe... |
in the chamber to the east of the trimurti is the four @@ armed ardhanarishvara carving this image which is 5 @@ 11 m ( 16 @@ 8 ft ) in height has a headdress ( double @@ folded ) with two pleats draped towards the female head ( parvati ) and the right side ( shiva ) depicting curled hair and a crescent the female figu... |
the engraved panel in the north end of the aisle is considered to be a unique sculpture and shows bhairava or virabhadra a frightful form of shiva in the carved panel shiva's consort is seen sitting next to him looking terrified a female attendant is next to her the central figure which is much ruined below the waist i... |
the niche image carved on the south wall is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of shiva and parvati shown getting married ( kalyanasundara icon ) parvati is seen standing to shiva's right the ordained place for a hindu bride at the wedding the carvings are substantially damaged only one of s... |
the panel to the east of the north portico is shiva in a yogic position called dharmaraja and resembling a buddha shiva is in a dilapidated condition with only two broken arms shiva is seated in padmasana yogic posture ( cross legged ) on a lotus carried by two nāgas his crown is carved with details adorned by a cr... |
the panel carving in the west niche opposite yogishvara depicts shiva as nataraja performing the tandava ( cosmic dance ) the niche is 4 m ( 13 ft ) wide and 3 @@ 4 m ( 11 ft ) high and set low on the wall he wears well @@ decorated headgear the shiva image displays a dance pose and had ten arms but the first right and... |
the central shrine is a free @@ standing square cell with entrances on each of its sides each door is flanked by two ( gate keepers ) the linga the symbol of shiva in union with the yoni and the symbol of parvati together symbolise the supreme unity that is deified by the shrine the linga is set on a raised platform a... |
several courtyards to the east and west of the main cave are blocked though there is a 17 m ( 56 ft ) wide courtyard that is accessible by entering the eastern part and climbing nine steps a temple on the southern wall of the court depicts a well @@ preserved fresco the circular pedestal seen in the courtyard in front ... |
on each side of the steps leading to the temple @@ cave portico is a winged lion or each seated with a raised forepaw the portico has chambers at each end and a linga @@ shrine at the back five low steps and a threshold lead into the central linga @@ shrine which is 4 @@ 2 m ( 14 ft ) wide and 5 m ( 16 ft ) deep and h... |
the west wing entered through the main cave is in a semi @@ ruined state it has a small chapel and a cistern enclosed within the pillared cave which is believed to be buddhist another shrine to the west of the courtyard with a portico has carvings of shiva in a yogic pose seated on a lotus carried by two fat heavy wigg... |
to the south @@ east of the great cave is the second excavation which faces east @@ northeast it includes a chapel at the north end the front of this cave is completely destroyed only fragments of some semi @@ columns remain the interior has suffered water damage the portico is 26 m ( 85 ft ) long and 11 m ( 36 ft ) de... |
a little to the south of the last cave is another cave in worse condition with water damage it is a portico in which each end probably had a chapel or room with pillars in front two of them have cells at the back the central door at the back of the portico leads to a damaged shrine the shrine door has door @@ keepers a... |
above these caves is a tiger sculpture which was worshipped as the tiger goddess this sculpture may be a guardian of the north entrance of cave 1 a linga is also found near a small pond at top of the hill sculptures depicting a stone with a sun and a moon and a mother suckling a child ( now moved ) were also found nea... |
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