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surrounded on either side by rocky outcroppings before flowing into the Wissahickon Creek. Legend has it that the Native American Lenape tribes used this as a spiritual area. Although it is not legal due to unsafe levels of pollutants, Devil's pool has become a popular area to swim, lounge, and drink.... | 12,000 |
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Coming from Blue Stone Bridge, follow the path at the west end to Lover's Leap.
Another well-known outlook in the park is Mom Rinker's Rock, on a ridge on the eastern side of the Park just north of the Walnut Lane Bridge, close by the Toleration statue. Here on a moonlit night in May 1847, George Lip... | 12,001 |
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it was brought to the site by landowner John Welsh, reported to have purchased the statue at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Welsh, a former Fairmount Park Commissioner and U.S. Ambassador to Britain, donated his land to the Park prior to his death in 1886.
Some miles away is the path lead... | 12,002 |
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to the arrival of colonists. The statue can also be viewed from Forbidden Drive across the creek if one stands just north of the path to the Rex Avenue Bridge.
# Geology.
A tremendous variety of geology is evident along Wissahickon Creek. Three of the geologic regions that the stream passes through ... | 12,003 |
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of southeastern Pennsylvania from Trenton into Delaware and Maryland. This Precambrian to Cambrian stone, first studied in the Wissahickon gorge, has flecks of glittery mica, small garnets, and many-toned shadings of gray, brown, tan, and blue, and is attractive enough to have become a common building... | 12,004 |
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mountain building, the shale and sandstone were slowly transformed into the schist and quartzite found today. In some places, the compression and heat were extreme enough to fuse the schist with emerging igneous rocks into hard-banded gneiss.
Other rocks in the valley are layers of igneous pegmatite ... | 12,005 |
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1694, Johannes Kelpius arrived in Philadelphia with a group of like-minded German Pietists to live in the valley of the Wissahickon Creek. They formed a monastic community and became known as the Hermits or Mystics of the Wissahickon. Kelpius was a musician, writer, and occultist. He frequently medita... | 12,006 |
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on this book.) Kelpius died in 1708 and the group disbanded some time thereafter. Some members likely gave up on celibacy and married. A few joined the somewhat like-minded religious colony of Ephrata Cloister under Conrad Beissel in Ephrata, Lancaster County, even though no previous connection existe... | 12,007 |
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1747 an individual with connections to both the Dunkards and the Ephrata Cloister built a stone house on land previously owned by Dunkards. The structure, used for church retreats, still stands today, and is known as "The Monastery", a remaining witness to the Wissahickon's days as an isolated religio... | 12,008 |
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the Schuylkill River, but the rugged terrain of the valley forestalled further development alongside the stream itself. By 1730, however, eight mills had been constructed, and by 1793, twenty-four, along with many dams. Most of America was still wilderness, but the Wissahickon Valley was a developing ... | 12,009 |
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of Germantown, which was fought not too far from the stream. The American General John Armstrong, compelled by the rough terrain to abandon a cannon in the valley, expressed his contempt for the "horrendous hills of the Wissahickon." Later legends tell of American spies taking advantage of the terrain... | 12,010 |
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today.
Not until 1826 were the cliffs near the creek's mouth blasted away to provide access to the cluster of mills at Rittenhousetown, approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) up the creek on Paper Mill Run (also known as Monoshone Creek), a small tributary of the Wissahickon. Here William Rittenhouse (grandfa... | 12,011 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
and corn, and pressed oil from flax. A sizable population worked at the mills and lived in the valley in small villages like Rittenhousetown and Pumpkinville. The nation was becoming an industrial nation, and the Wissahickon was leading the way.
This would soon change. Benjamin Franklin already had n... | 12,012 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
the purity of the water of the Schuylkill River, the Fairmount Park Commission took title of much of the land along the Wissahickon in 1869-1870, and continued to expand its holdings in subsequent decades. The mills were razed; the last active mill was demolished in 1884. Several decades later the Sch... | 12,013 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
its wilderness character, even after its clean waters were no longer essential to the water supply of the city of Philadelphia, was the advent of Romanticism and the changing attitudes which this thought engendered about nature. Before the 19th century, nature had seemed a capricious and ambivalent fo... | 12,014 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
untamed nature as the "natural" model of true beauty. Philadelphians finally came to value their Wissahickon valley for its wild character. Even when the mills were still operating, there were remote stretches of wild bluffs and overarching trees; now the old mills had become romantic and picturesque,... | 12,015 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
divided parts of the city. To help overcome this, in 1906 the Walnut Lane Bridge was built over the stream, a world-class undertaking at the time, the world's largest poured concrete structure, joining the Roxborough and Germantown neighborhoods of Philadelphia, formerly separated by the Wissahickon g... | 12,016 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
festive Gala popular among Philadelphia's Equestrians and social elites.
## The Henry Avenue Bridge.
The Henry Avenue Bridge over the Wissahickon was completed in the 1932 and is even more impressive. It is 915 feet (279 m) long, 84 feet (26 m) wide, and 185 feet (56 m) above water level of Wissahic... | 12,017 |
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days is the Valley Green Inn, but that establishment is now an integral part of the park and creek valley. Most visitors to the stream today seek the Wissahickon for reasons not too different from those of Kelpius and his followers in 1694: quiet respite from the world outside.
## Fairmount Park.
On... | 12,018 |
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Precipitous wooded inclines that rise more than 200 feet (61 m) above the water create a feeling of remoteness and mountain vastness. There are two main and many smaller bridle paths crossing the park's along the Wissahickon Creek. Thomas Mill Road covered bridge spans the creek in the park. The Wissa... | 12,019 |
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said,
Actress Fanny Kemble, grandmother to novelist Owen Wister, visited the stream in 1832; her writing awakened a more general interest in the stream and its valley. Her description of the gorge's dramatic end at the stream's confluence with the Schuylkill River and her verse "To the Wissahickon" b... | 12,020 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
formed a most enchanting and serene subject of contemplation.
Edgar Allan Poe alluded to Fanny Kemble's writing in his description of a beautiful Wissahickon valley in his 1844 essay "Morning on the Wissahiccon", in which he wrote:
Now the Wissahiccon is of so remarkable a loveliness that, were it f... | 12,021 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
and consist of high hills, clothed with noble shrubbery near the water, and crowned at a greater elevation, with some of the most magnificent forest trees of America, among which stands conspicuous the "liriodendron tulipiferum". The immediate shores, however, are of granite, sharply defined or moss-c... | 12,022 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
Wissahikon; or, The Fourth of July, 1776. A Romance, Embracing the Secret History of the Declaration of Independence" (1847) may refer not only to the Wissahickon, but to his wife, the former Rose Newman. He wrote:
A poem of everlasting beauty and a dream of magnificance – the world-hidden, wood embo... | 12,023 |
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during the short time he spent in Philadelphia working for "The Philadelphia Inquirer": "Unlike New York, I like this Philadelphia amazingly, and the people in it ... I saw small steamboats, with their signs up—"For Wissahickon and Manayunk 25 cents." Geo. Lippard, in his "Legends of Washington and hi... | 12,024 |
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and the experience of fly fishing along Wissahickon Creek in the early twenty-first century.
## Art.
Artists have portrayed the stream and its valley:
- J. M. Culverhouse, Skating on the Wissahickon River Near Philadelphia, 1875
- John Exillus, Conrad's Paper-mill on the Wissahickon, abt 1813 (men... | 12,025 |
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1888
- John Moran, The Falls of Wissahickon Creek at Ridge Ave., 1888
- Thomas Moran (1837–1926), "Autumn on the Wissahickon"
- Thomas Moran (1837–1926), "Cresheim Glen, Wissahickon, Autumn", 1864
- Thomas Moran (1837–1926), "On the Wissahickon Near Chestnut Hill", 1870
- James Peale (1749–1831),... | 12,026 |
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Richards (1833–1905), The Wissahickon, 1872
- William Thompson Russell Smith (1812–1896), "Boating Party on the Wissahickon," 1836
- William Thompson Russell Smith (1812–1896), "Rocks on the Wissahickon", 1839
- William Thompson Russell Smith (1812–1896), "A Scene on the Wissahickon", 1842
- Willi... | 12,027 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
Carl Philipp Weber, (Amer, b Germ, 1849–1921), "Spirit of the Wissahickon" (lower bridge, Wissahickon valley)
There exists a Currier & Ives "Scenery Of The Wissahickon"
The Swann Memorial Fountain (1924), a fountain sculpture by Alexander Stirling Calder that is located in the center of Logan Circle... | 12,028 |
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in 1857 by Edmund L Walker, 142 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The words are by Col. James G Wallace, the music by Herman Trevor, and it recalls a "happy childhood time", "the picnic grove", and at the end "dear Alice Ray" who became the singer's "blushing bride."
There exists sheet music mentioning ... | 12,029 |
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and songs." Liner notes say the tune is "of the great fiddler/composer Liz Carroll."
## Motion pictures.
In the 1981 Brian DePalma–directed film "Blow Out" starring Nancy Allen and John Travolta, the car crash that Travolta's character records is of an auto traveling northbound on Lincoln Drive and ... | 12,030 |
512177 | Wissahickon Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wissahickon%20Creek | Wissahickon Creek
gunboat during the Civil War and the USRC "Wissahickon", a U.S. Revenue Cutter Service harbor tug were named after the creek.
# Quotations.
- A poem of everlasting beauty and a dream of magnificence – the world-hidden, wood embowered Wissahickon. – George Lippard (1822–1854) (Quoted in Grove, Victor... | 12,031 |
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settlers of Germantown came. --Paper Mill run rises near Mount Airy, flows to the south-west, and empties into the Wissahickon near the intersection of Rittenhouse Lane. There was once a paper-mill there. Wissahickon is derived from Wissha mechan ("catfish"). On Holmes's map it is called Whitpaine's c... | 12,032 |
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Trail
- Wissahickon Valley Park
- List of rivers of Pennsylvania
# Further reading.
- Contosta, David and Franklin, Carol. "Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City. Philadelphia's Wissahickon Valley, 1620-2020". St. Joseph's University Press, 2010. Available from Friends of the ... | 12,033 |
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A Hiker's Paradise". Philadelphia, PA: Old City Publishing, 2005. (Contains many photos of Wissahickon Creek and area)
- Herman, Andrew Mark. "Along the Wissahickon Creek". Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
- Kelpius, Johannes, and Richards, Kirby, Ph.D. "A Method of Prayer. A Mystical Pamphlet from Colonia... | 12,034 |
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.
# External links.
- Friends of the Wissahickon website
- U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
- Historic RittenhouseTown
- WRV Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers
- A virtual geologic tour of Wissahickon Creek
- 1871 map
- 1876 map
- Bird's eye view lithograph, old photos, build... | 12,035 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott (born 6 August 1956) is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of "The Economist" newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written thirteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He co-founded the Wake Up Foundation, an educational... | 12,036 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
with first-class honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. After graduation, he worked for "The Economist" newspaper in Brussels, Tokyo, and London, and became the fifteenth editor of the publication in March 1993. Emmott resigned thirteen years later on 20 February 2006. During his tenure, "The Econo... | 12,037 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
Family & Partners from 2011 to 2015. He is currently a visiting professor at Shujitsu University in Okayama, Japan, a visiting fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford, and a member of the University of Tokyo President's Council. Emmott is also an adviser to Swiss Re and has served as the chai... | 12,038 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
book about Italy, (Come on Italy: How to Restart after Berlusconi) was translated to Italian and published in 2010. Initially there was no English language version of this book. Emmott then updated, revised, and expanded the content for an English language version called "Good Italy, Bad Italy", which was p... | 12,039 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
Most Successful Political Idea", was published in April 2017. His next book, "Japan's Far More Female Future" will be published by Nikkei in May 2019.
# Film work.
## "Girlfriend in a Coma".
Emmott co-wrote and narrated a documentary film entitled "Girlfriend in a Coma", which depicts Italy in a 20-year-... | 12,040 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
more than one and a half million viewers.
## "The Great European Disaster Movie".
Emmott and Piras again worked together on "The Great European Disaster Movie" which was aired in Britain, France, Germany and many other European countries in early 2015. The movie has been seen by 2,500,000 people in twelve... | 12,041 |
512222 | Bill Emmott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Emmott | Bill Emmott
ecline of Western countries. The first projects of the foundation were the Wake Up Europe! initiative, "The Great European Disaster Movie", and a statistical indicator of the long-term health of western societies called 2050 Index. In May 2019, the foundation will hold its inaugural Wake Up Europe Film Fest... | 12,042 |
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Lists of schools in New Zealand
New Zealand has over 2,500 primary and secondary schools.
State schools and state integrated schools are primarily funded by the central government. Private schools receive a lower level of state funding (about 25% of their costs). See Secondary educatio... | 12,043 |
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the Manawatu-Wanganui Region
- List of schools in the Northland Region
- List of schools in the Taranaki Region
- List of schools in the Waikato Region
- List of schools in the Wellington Region
## South Island and other islands.
- List of schools in the Canterbury Region
- List o... | 12,044 |
512236 | Lists of schools in New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists%20of%20schools%20in%20New%20Zealand | Lists of schools in New Zealand
# South Island and other islands.
- List of schools in the Canterbury Region
- List of schools in Christchurch
- List of schools in the Chatham Islands
- List of schools in the Marlborough Region
- List of schools in Nelson, New Zealand
- List of schools in the Otago Region
- List... | 12,045 |
512237 | Driscoll Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Driscoll%20Bridge | Driscoll Bridge
Driscoll Bridge
The Driscoll Bridge is a toll bridge (a series of three spans) on the Garden State Parkway in the U.S. state of New Jersey spanning the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay. The bridge connects the Middlesex County communities of Woodbridge Township on the north with Sayreville o... | 12,046 |
512237 | Driscoll Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Driscoll%20Bridge | Driscoll Bridge
of the Garden State Parkway, as well as for the New Jersey Turnpike.
The original span was built with two lanes in each direction. A second span was added in 1972, with each span serving five lanes of traffic.
The bridge had very narrow lanes which created traffic bottlenecks for miles in each directi... | 12,047 |
512237 | Driscoll Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Driscoll%20Bridge | Driscoll Bridge
on a new southbound bridge started on September 25, 2002, and the new bridge opened to traffic on May 3, 2006. The existing span was then closed for rehabilitation, and it reopened on May 20, 2009. The new configuration has seven southbound lanes on the newly constructed span, and the original span has ... | 12,048 |
512237 | Driscoll Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Driscoll%20Bridge | Driscoll Bridge
toll charged for this bridge (due south) is not for the bridge itself but rather a toll for driving on the Garden State Parkway; The toll was 35 cents each way until September 2004 when it was doubled from 35 to 70 cents for southbound cars only. Then the toll was increased to $1.00 from December 2008 t... | 12,049 |
512237 | Driscoll Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Driscoll%20Bridge | Driscoll Bridge
has been converted to one-way in an effort to reduce traffic congestion. The speed limit on the Garden State Parkway is 45 mph between Milepost 126.7 and 127.7, approaching and traversing the Driscoll Bridge.
# Murder on the bridge.
On February 17, 2010, Shamshiddin Abdur-Raheem was sentenced to life ... | 12,050 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways () is the second-largest airline in the United Arab Emirates (after Emirates). Its head office is in Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi, near Abu Dhabi's International Airport. Etihad commenced operations in November 2003.
The airline operates more than 1,000 flights per week to over... | 12,051 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
to its core activity of passenger transportation, Etihad also operates Etihad Holidays and Etihad Cargo. Etihad established its own airline alliance, Etihad Airways Partners, in October 2015 which was disbanded in 2018 after several of its members fell into financial struggles. Etihad Airways holds minor... | 12,052 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
Al Nahyan, who wanted an airline for Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Nahyan established the airline. It started with an initial paid-up capital of AED500 million. Services were launched with a ceremonial flight to Al Ain on 5 November 2003. On 12 November 2003, Etihad commenced commercial operations ... | 12,053 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
in December 2014.
The airline announced what was the largest aircraft order in commercial aviation history at the Farnborough Airshow in 2008, for up to 205 aircraft—100 firm orders, 55 options and 50 purchase rights.
Etihad reported its first full-year net profit in 2011, of US$14 million, in line wit... | 12,054 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
Hogan, signed a deal with Aleksandar Vučić, First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, in Belgrade, giving Etihad a 49% stake in the Serbian national carrier Jat Airways. The Serbian Government retained 51% of the shares, with the company being rebranded as Air Serbia.
In September 2012, the Indian governme... | 12,055 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
Etihad Regional from March 2014. Etihad sold its stake in Darwin in 2017.
On 1 August 2014, Etihad agreed to take a 49% stake in the Italian flag carrier Alitalia for an estimated €560 million. The deal was closed on 8 August 2014. On 1 January 2015, Alitalia-CAI formally passed its operations to Alital... | 12,056 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
into administration, Etihad Aviation Group suddenly announced that CEO James Hogan and CFO James Rigney would leave the group on 1 July 2017. As an interim measure the board of directors appointed Ray Gammell as CEO (previously Chief People and Performance Officer) while searching for a permanent replace... | 12,057 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
both, Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline terminated contracts for all 42 Airbus A350-900s, 2 A350-1000s and 19 of 24 ordered Boeing 777X.
# Corporate affairs.
## Head office.
Etihad has its head office, in Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi, near Abu Dhabi International Airport. Etihad spent 183.6 million U... | 12,058 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
independent non-executive members and has two sub-committees, being an Executive Committee and an Audit Committee, each with its own charter and chairman. Other members of the board include: H.E. Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, H.E. Mohamed Hareb Sultan Al Yousef, H.E. Hamad Abdulla... | 12,059 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
equity alliance is composed of airlines in which Etihad has minority shareholdings:
- Air Serbia (49%)
- Air Seychelles (40%)
- Virgin Australia (24.2%)
The incorporated airlines were also part of the now disbanded Etihad Airways Partners alliance between 2015 and 2018.
## Business trends.
The key ... | 12,060 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
the race.
- In October 2008, it was announced that Etihad would take over sponsorship of the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne, Australia (previously known as the Telstra Dome). The name change to Etihad Stadium took effect on 1 March 2009.
- On 19 March 2008 it was announced that Etihad Airways would bec... | 12,061 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
In 2017 it was announced that Etihad Airways would collaborate with IMG Models, on a show called "Model Diaries", showcasing models in high fashion as they travel to fashion shows around the world. and in November, 2018 its first episode featured high fashion model Xiao Wen Ju as she traveled to Dubai.
... | 12,062 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
brand image in June 2012 dropping the "Crystal" part, with full Etihad Cargo titles now applied billboard style in line with the airline's current corporate design.
Etihad Cargo operates five Boeing B777Fs. It has previously operated a Boeing 747-8F and Boeing 747-400F, both leased from Atlas Air but op... | 12,063 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
of 19 per cent on the back of a capacity increase of 14 per cent in available tonnage kilometres. Etihad's new facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport is equipped to handle more than 500,000 tonnes annually.
In September 2018, Etihad Cargo announced a revised and heavily downsized network of cargo d... | 12,064 |
512231 | Etihad Airways | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etihad%20Airways | Etihad Airways
to all six inhabited continents.
## Codeshare agreements.
Etihad Airways has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:
- Aer Lingus
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Air Astana
- Air Canada
- Air Europa
- Air France
- Air Malta
- Air New Zealand
- Air Serbia
- Air Seychelles
- airBaltic
- A... | 12,065 |
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Airlines
- Precision Air
- Royal Air Maroc
- Royal Jordanian
- S7 Airlines
- Saudia
- Scandinavian Airlines
- SriLankan Airlines
- Swiss International Air Lines
- TAP Air Portugal
- Turkish Airlines
- Vietnam Airlines
- Virgin Australia
Additionally, Etihad Airways has a codeshare partnershi... | 12,066 |
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on the vertical stabilizer and rear fuselage. A golden Etihad logo and a UAE emblem over the windows, with the UAE flag painted on the front door. The background was painted in light beige and the wingtip also has a UAE emblem.
## Former livery.
The former livery features a UAE flag and emblem on the v... | 12,067 |
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Studio and Economy Smart seat. The rest of the fleet will gradually be retrofitted with these cabins except for the Residence and First Apartment cabins, which are exclusive to the Airbus A380. The Residence was the only three-room cabin in the sky when it was introduced in December 2014.
- The Residenc... | 12,068 |
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Class on Airbus A380s was overhauled with the "First Apartments". There are nine in total, configured 1-1 across a single aisle, and take up a total area of each. It features a -wide reclining chair; a full-length ottoman which can be transformed into a bed; a TV monitor which can swing to align itself t... | 12,069 |
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an fully flat bed); dining table; and a TV monitor. All covers are tailored by Poltrona Frau. There is a personal wardrobe, along with total privacy with high sliding doors.
- Business Studio
The "Business Studio" is on both models, with 70 seats on the Airbus A380s, 28 on the Boeing 787-9s, and 32 on ... | 12,070 |
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fixed wing is in place to allow passengers to rest upon.
## In-flight entertainment.
Etihad uses both the Panasonic eX2 and the "Thales TopSeries i5000" in-flight entertainment system with AVOD (audio-video on demand) system on its new long-range aircraft and on some of its new A320-200 aircraft. Etiha... | 12,071 |
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Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, aircraft that are to be used for flights up to 5 hours long.
Etihad signed a new 10-year agreement with Panasonic Avionics Corporation in 2011 for the provision of in-flight entertainment including broadband internet and live TV.
"Atlas" is the official in-flight magazine... | 12,072 |
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of Community Development, senior Emirati citizens get instant access to Etihad's loyalty programme and enjoy perks of more air miles, discounted tickets, priority check in, and extra baggage.
As part of a partnership with American Airlines, American Airline loyalty program AAdvantage may be redeemed for... | 12,073 |
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safety systems had been disabled by engineers, leading to the non-chocked aircraft accelerating to 31 knots (57 km/h) and colliding with a concrete blast deflection wall. Severe damage was inflicted on the aircraft and nine people on board were injured, four of them seriously. The right wing, tail, and l... | 12,074 |
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7 commercial flight using locally produced jet fuel derived from salicornia plant on 16 January 2019. The aviation biofuel was researched and developed by Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute, part of the Khalifa University of Science and T... | 12,075 |
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Ninja Scroll
The film takes place in feudal Japan and follows Jubei Kibagami, a mercenary swordsman who battles the Eight Devils of Kimon, a team of ninjas with supernatural powers who are intent on overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate. During his quest, he is aided by Dakuan, an elderly but crafty governm... | 12,076 |
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anime films ever made. Alongside "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell", it was responsible for increasing the popularity of adult-oriented anime outside of Japan. The film has been cited by The Wachowskis as an influence on "The Matrix" franchise, and resulted in Kawajiri later contributing to two segments of t... | 12,077 |
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The ship runs aground onto Mochizuki territory in a storm, and the Eight Devils of Kimon, a ninja team with supernatural powers in the employ of the Yamashiro, kill the people of the nearby village of Shimoda to keep the gold shipment a secret.
While investigating the deaths, a Mochizuki Koga ninja team i... | 12,078 |
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antidote once the mission is complete. Jubei learns from Dakuan that the leader of the Devils is Himuro Gemma, the former Yamashiro ninja leader, who had ordered his team's members to kill each other to cover up the location of the goldmine five years earlier. Jubei, who had been forced to kill his comrade... | 12,079 |
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that anyone who kisses or sleeps with her dies, which was why Jubei could kill Tessai.
The trio arrive in Shimoda, where they discover that the villagers died due to their water supply being poisoned, making it appear that they were killed by a plague. Jubei and Kagero fend off attacks from three of the D... | 12,080 |
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another Devil, Shijima, Kagero sends a message to Sakaki Hyobu, the Mochizuki chamberlain, to bring his army to the harbour. She also learns from Dakuan that Jubei's poisoning will only be cured if he copulates with her – the poisons in her body will counteract his. Kagero is captured by Shijima, and Jubei... | 12,081 |
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by Yurimaru. A gunpowder-rigged rat, left as a trap by Zakuro for Yurimaru for rejecting her advances, kills him, allowing Jubei to escape. He finds Kagero; mortally wounded, she admits her love for him and they kiss, curing Jubei's poisoning. Before dying, Kagero gives Jubei her headband.
Jubei and Dakua... | 12,082 |
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who sinks to the bottom of the sea. Afterwards, Dakuan thanks Jubei, and expresses admiration for his and Kagero's humanity. Jubei resumes his vagabond lifestyle, with Kagero's headband tied around his sword's hilt.
# Cast.
## Characters.
- : The main protagonist; a vagabond ninja who once served the Ya... | 12,083 |
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Mochizuki clan's Chamberlain, and the only kunoichi in the clan's Koga ninja team. Kagero has an immunity to poisons as her body itself is infused with toxins; anyone who sleeps with or even kisses her dies shortly thereafter. She is also able to conjure pollens and flower petals that are mixed with a powe... | 12,084 |
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long distances.
- The Mochizuki clan chamberlain, he sends Kagero and the clan's Koga ninja team to investigate the plague in Shimoda and she sends her reports to him throughout the film.
- : The lord of the Koga ninja team. He is killed by Tessai, and his body is used as a booby trap by Zakuro.
### The... | 12,085 |
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prior to the film's events, but has acquired immortality by mastering control of his body down to the tiniest bone and blood, allowing him to reconnect any severed body parts, including his head. Gemma can also shapeshift as a side effect of his mastery over his entire body. He cannot be killed due to his ... | 12,086 |
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and have it return like a boomerang. He is essentially invulnerable until his skin falls apart as a result of him being poisoned by Kagero while trying to rape her; this allows Jubei to kill him by cutting his fingers, resulting in him being impaled by his own sword due to his inability to catch it.
- : T... | 12,087 |
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to be defeated, he is a hunchbacked warrior who holds a hornet's nest in his back. He wields a two-pronged spear and is able to control his hornets to do his bidding, as well as shoot needles from his throat. He is killed by Jubei in a fight underwater when the Hornets try to escape from their hive, fatall... | 12,088 |
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his own, which he could not hear, making it appear as if Jubei had blocked and attacked him at the same time.
- : The fifth demon to be defeated, he has the ability to merge into the shadows, create clones of himself, fire a large metallic claw from his hand, and possess peoples' minds. He is killed by Ju... | 12,089 |
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neck to conduct the electricity. Zakuro "accidentally" blows him up during his fight with Jubei, due to her hatred towards him after Yurimaru rejected her advances.
- : The seventh demon to be defeated, she has the ability to manipulate gunpowder and plants them inside living or dead organisms, having the... | 12,090 |
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and released the movie in a Blu-ray steelbook format in October 2012. The film has since been re-licensed in North America to Sentai Filmworks who re-released the film on DVD and Blu-ray in December 2012.
In 1995, the BBFC cut the UK version by approximately 52 seconds, removing the sexual assault scene a... | 12,091 |
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In January 1998 it broadcast twice on midnights on the new Teletoon station in Canada along with the Macross Plus trilogy.
GKIDS later announced that it would distribute the film within North America, with a theatrical release scheduled for April 2018.
In 2000 when Manga and Madman Entertainment released... | 12,092 |
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while it was released Unrated in the United States. The film was released on Blu-ray in Japan on May 23, 2012.
# Soundtrack.
The film's score was composed by Kaoru Wada. In the United States, the soundtrack was originally released on CD in 2003 by ADV Music under licence from Toho with the title "Jubei N... | 12,093 |
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"To Those Who Face The Wind" and "Somewhere, Faraway, Everyone Is Listening To A Ballad", by Ryouhei Yamanashi (music) and Sho Jitsukawa (lyrics).
CD/digital release, 2003/2015:
LP release, 2016:
# Reception.
"Ninja Scroll" won the Citizen's Award at the 1993 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festiva... | 12,094 |
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Entertainment's best-selling title at the time. In February 2004, "Cinefantastique" listed the anime as one of the "10 Essential Animations".
Theron from "Anime News Network" exclaims that the "action scenes sizzle with energy and powerful maneuvers unencumbered by tiresome dramatics" and describe the plo... | 12,095 |
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series named "Ninja Scroll: The Series" aired in Japan in 2003 and ran for 13 episodes. The series is a stand-alone sequel to the film; however, many references suggest that it is indeed a continuation. In the series, Jubei gets caught in the middle of a battle between the Kimon clan and the Hiruko clan. H... | 12,096 |
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The show was directed by Tatsuo Sato ("Martian Successor Nadesico"), with character design done by Takahiro Yoshimatsu ("Trigun").
## Sequel.
In August 2008, Madhouse announced that an official sequel was in the works with Kawajiri returning to write and direct. In July 2012, the studio released a teaser... | 12,097 |
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finding investors due to the fact that the original film was "not a big hit in Japan". As of 2019, the project remains in limbo.
In North America, the "Ninja Resurrection" anime films were marketed as sequels to "Ninja Scroll", but were actually based on an unrelated story and created by a different anima... | 12,098 |
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o develop a live-action adaptation of "Ninja Scroll", with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions, Madhouse, and Japanese producer Jungo Maruta also involved in the project. Screenwriter Alex Tse, who co-wrote the 2009 film "Watchmen", was hired to write the screenplay. In April 2009, it was reported t... | 12,099 |
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