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750326 | Compact group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compact%20group | Compact group
comes the conclusion. The set of all formula_120—with formula_45 ranging over the dominant, analytically integral elements—forms an orthonormal set in the space of square integrable class functions. But by the Weyl character formula, the characters of the irreducible representations form a subset of the f... | 16,000 |
750326 | Compact group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compact%20group | Compact group
of formula_120's. But then we have an impossible situation: an orthonormal "basis" (the set of characters of the irreducible representations) would be contained in a strictly larger orthonormal set (the set of formula_120's). Thus, every formula_45 must actually be the highest weight of a representation.
... | 16,001 |
750326 | Compact group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compact%20group | Compact group
egory theory.
# From compact to non-compact groups.
The influence of the compact group theory on non-compact groups was formulated by Weyl in his unitarian trick. Inside a general semisimple Lie group there is a maximal compact subgroup, and the representation theory of such groups, developed largely by... | 16,002 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the p... | 16,003 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
brother, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, became a respected painter, one of the first American abstract artists, and co-founder (with Morgan Russell) of the school of modern art known as "Synchromism". Willard and Stanton were raised in Santa Monica, California, where their father owned a hotel. Willard, a lar... | 16,004 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
Rulapaugh, known professionally as Claire De Lisle, a portrait painter and socialite.
# Writing career.
At age 21, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the "Los Angeles Times", where – describing himself as "'Esthetic expert and psychological shark" – he was known for his ... | 16,005 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
1909, Wright wrote a perceptive profile of Edgar Allan Poe for the Los Angeles Times. Wright moved New York City in 1911. He published realist fiction as editor of the New York literary magazine "The Smart Set," from 1912 to 1914, a job he attained with Mencken's help. He was fired from that position whe... | 16,006 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
1913, he visited Paris and Munich, seeing Impressionist and Synchromist works of art. He wrote an article about the art, "Impressionism to Synchromism", December 1913, published in "New York" magazine, which brought the abstract art to public attention in the US.
Wright's energies were devoted to numero... | 16,007 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
that featured an intellectual criminal, written by Wright under a pseudonym several years before his adoption of the Van Dine pseudonym.
Wright was, however, most respected in intellectual circles for his writing about art. In "Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning" (secretly co-authored in 1915 wit... | 16,008 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
opinionated) art critics of the time and helped to organize several shows, including the "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters", that brought the most advanced new painters to the attention of audiences on both coasts. He also published a work of aesthetic philosophy, "The Creative Will" (1916), ... | 16,009 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
War I, and he was blackballed from journalism for more than two years after an overzealous secretary (erroneously) accused him of spying for Germany, an episode that became a much-publicized scandal in New York in November 1917. Though cleared, his favourable view of Prussian militarism cost him his frie... | 16,010 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
Wright did write a biography of the poet Richard Hovey and it was announced for publication in Spring 1914. In 1929, Wright stated that "It is true that at one time I was working on a book relating to Richard Hovey and his friends but Mrs Hovey died before the book went to press, and it has never been pu... | 16,011 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
"The Gambler's Life in Gay Reno". Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2010
- "Fresh Literature – Books Reviewed". Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1910
- "New Librarian Liberal in Policies, Would Specialise". Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1910
- "Fresh Literature – Books Reviewed". Los Angeles Times, 25 Septe... | 16,012 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
"Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 1 January 1911
- "David Graham Phillips". Los Angeles Times, 28 January 1911
- "Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 19 March 1911
- "Advantage of Stupidity in Dramatic Censorship". Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1911
- "David C McCan... | 16,013 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
– Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 16 July 1911
- "Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1911
- "Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1911
- "Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1911
- "Fresh Literature – Book Reviews". L... | 16,014 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
Book News". Los Angeles Times, 8 June 1913
- "New Books and Book News". Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1913
- "London’s Notorious Supper Clubs". The Smart Set, [Date unknown]. Reprinted: Arizona Republican, 28 November 1913
- "He Hopes Our Nation Will Become Nietzschean". New York Tribune, 26 March 1916
... | 16,015 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
August 1922
- "[Title Unknown]". Shadowland Magazine, August 1922
- "The Future of Painting: 1". The Freeman Magazine, December 1922
- "A Strictly American Lexicon". Austin American, 22 May 1928
- "[Title Unknown]". New York Evening Mail, May 1934
## Other non-fiction.
- "Loaf Sugar: A Protest". Mi... | 16,016 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
any freelance work that came his way but lived a restless, impoverished existence and, in his displays of temper and anxiety, alienated many of his old friends. By 1923, he was seriously ill, the result of a breakdown from overwork, he claimed, but in reality the consequence of his secret cocaine addicti... | 16,017 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
also decided to try his own hand at detective fiction and approached Maxwell Perkins, the famous Scribner's editor whom he had known at Harvard, with an outline for a trilogy that would feature an affluent, snobbish amateur sleuth, a Jazz Age Manhattan setting, and lively topical references. In 1926, the... | 16,018 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
name. He took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. According to Loughery, however, "there are no Van Dines evident in the family tree" (p. 176). He went on to write twelve mysteries in total, though their author's identity was unma... | 16,019 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
However, according to critic Julian Symons:
Wright's later books declined in both quality and popularity. The reading public's tastes changed, and the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction became the dominant style in the 1930s. The new mood was captured by Ogden Nash in his brief verse:
poem
Phil... | 16,020 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
to an extravagant way of life, and yet he no longer believed in the kind of novels he was producing each year in order to maintain that way of life.
## Parodies.
- "The John Riddell Murder Case". Novel by John Riddell (Corey Ford), 1939
# Study of detective fiction.
In addition to his success as a wr... | 16,021 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
in 1928 for "The American Magazine" It has been frequently reprinted and compared to "Knox's (Ten) Commandments" by Ronald Knox.
# Short film series.
Wright wrote a series of scenarios for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930s. These were used as the basis for a series of twelve two-reel "murd... | 16,022 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
The Studio Murder Mystery, and the Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery) have been released on DVD as extras on "Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 3" (Warner). The titles are followed by dates reviewed by Film Daily:
- "The Clyde Mystery" (September 27, 1931). This starred Donald Meek and Helen Flint.
- "... | 16,023 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
(May 22, 1932)
- "The Side Show Mystery" (June 11, 1932). Advertised as "The Sideshow Mystery"
- "The Campus Mystery" (July 2, 1932)
- "The Crane Poison Case" (July 9, 1932)
- "The Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery" (August 31, 1932). Advertised as "The Transatlantic Mystery"
As far as it is known, none... | 16,024 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
suit was filed against Van Dine and the Vitaphone Film Company by Arlo Channing Edington and Carmen Ballen Edington who charged that their novel, "The Studio Murder Mystery", which had been filmed by Paramount in 1929, had been "'lifted' - title, plot and incident" and produced by the film company, credi... | 16,025 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
his Nick Charles period), Basil Rathbone, and Edmund Lowe. Louise Brooks (in "The Canary Murder Case"), Jean Arthur (in "The Green Murder Case"), and Rosalind Russell (in "The Casino Murder Case") appeared in the S.S. Van Dine movies.
On April 11, 1939, at age 50, Wright died in New York of a heart cond... | 16,026 |
750333 | S. S. Van Dine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S.%20S.%20Van%20Dine | S. S. Van Dine
ehicle for Sonja Henie and was published posthumously as "The Winter Murder Case". Max Perkins generously referred to Wright at the time of Wright's death as a "gallant, gentle man" who had been tormented by the pressures of a market-driven age. His portrait, painted by his brother in 1914, hangs in the ... | 16,027 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales, with "Podosphaera xanthii" (a.k.a. "Sphaerotheca fuliginea") being the most commonly reported cause. "Erysiphe cichoracea... | 16,028 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
spots get larger and denser as large numbers of asexual spores are formed, and the mildew may spread up and down the length of the plant.
Powdery mildew grows well in environments with low humidity and moderate temperatures. Greenhouses provide an ideal moist, temperate environment for the spread of the... | 16,029 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
crop yields.
# Reproduction.
Powdery mildew fungi can only reproduce on their living cell host and reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sexual reproduction is via chasmothecia (formerly cleistothecium), a type of ascocarp where the genetic material recombines. Powdery mildew fungi must be adapted to ... | 16,030 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
from asexual reproduction compared to sexual reproduction counterparts.
## Vectors of transmission.
Woolly aphids (Eriosomatinae) and other sucking insects are often vectors of transmission for powdery mildew, and other infectious diseases. Typically woolly aphids in sub temperate climates precede and ... | 16,031 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
and careful farming methods.
## Conventional chemical control.
Standard fungicides are an effective way to manage powdery mildew disease on plants. Spray programs of conventional fungicides are advised to begin when powdery mildew symptoms and signs are first noticed. Conventional fungicides should be ... | 16,032 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
powdery mildew are milk, natural sulfur (S), potassium bicarbonate, metal salts, and oils.
Metal salt fungicides should be applied on a regular basis up until harvest of the host. Sulfur must be applied before the disease has emerged since it prevents fungi spores from germinating. Copper sulfate is an ... | 16,033 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
organic growers as a treatment for powdery mildew. Milk is diluted with water (typically 1:10) and sprayed on susceptible plants at the first sign of infection, or as a preventative measure, with repeated weekly application often controlling or eliminating the disease. Studies have shown milk's effective... | 16,034 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
radicals is damaging to the fungus.
Dilute sprays containing sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and vegetable or mineral oils in water are often recommended for controlling powdery mildew, but such mixtures have limited and inconsistent efficacy. While sodium bicarbonate has been shown to reduce to growth... | 16,035 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
of calcium silicate. Silicon helps the plant cells defend against fungal attack by degrading haustoria and by producing callose and papilla. With silicon treatment, epidermal cells are less susceptible to powdery mildew of wheat.
## Genetic resistance.
Pm3 allel is an effective genetic resistance strat... | 16,036 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
causes powdery mildew of grapes.
## Onions.
The fungus causing powdery mildew of onions is "Leveillula taurica" (also known by its anamorph name, "Oidiopsis taurica"). It also infects the artichoke.
## Apples and pears.
"Podosphaera leucotricha" is a fungus that can cause powdery mildew of apples and... | 16,037 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
of melons being developed for resistance to successively arising races of the fungus, identified simply as race 1, race 2, etc. (seven in total by 2004), for races found around the world, and race N1 through N4 for some divergent races native to Japan. Various subraces have been identified, and given nam... | 16,038 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
PI 313970 versus race S case involved multi-stage hybridization to propagate a recessive gene, "pm-S" in successive generations, and how this may affect other recessive and codominant genes for resistance to other races of "P. xanthii" "remains to be determined".
A 2004 literature review regarding powde... | 16,039 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
because of the rapidity with which the local pathogen population can change geographically, seasonally, and by host plant.
At least three other Erysiphaceae fungi can cause powdery mildew in cucurbits: The most frequent, after "P. xanthii", is "Erysiphe cichoracearum", the former primary causal organism... | 16,040 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
and other Rosaceae like "Geum rivale" (the water avens)
## Tree leaves.
"Sawadaea tulasnei" is a fungus that causes powdery mildew on tree leaves. This fungus attacks the leaves of the "Acer platanoides" (Norway maple) in North America, Great Britain, and Ireland, "Acer palmatum" (also known as the Jap... | 16,041 |
750381 | Powdery mildew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powdery%20mildew | Powdery mildew
dopsis.
Golovinomyces orontii causes powdery mildew on "Arabidopsis" (rockcress) leaves.
# Hyperparasites of powdery mildew.
In the family Sphaeropsidaceae of the Sphaeropsidales fungi, species of the genus "Cicinnobolus" are hyperparasites of powdery mildew.
"Ampelomyces quisqualis" is an anamorphic... | 16,042 |
750396 | Bill Plante | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Plante | Bill Plante
Bill Plante
Bill Plante (born January 14, 1938) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. His most recent work was as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS, reporting regularly for "CBS This Morning" as well as for the "CBS Evening News". Plante cover... | 16,043 |
750396 | Bill Plante | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Plante | Bill Plante
14, 1938) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. His most recent work was as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS, reporting regularly for "CBS This Morning" as well as for the "CBS Evening News". Plante covered the 1965 voting rights marches from ... | 16,044 |
750400 | Eric White (basketball) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric%20White%20(basketball) | Eric White (basketball)
Eric White (basketball)
Eric Lance White (born December 30, 1965) is a retired American professional basketball player. Born in San Francisco, he played collegiately at Pepperdine University from 1983–1987. He was listed as a 6'8" (2.03 m) and 200 lb (91 kg) forward.
White was selected in the ... | 16,045 |
750425 | James Wyngaarden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Wyngaarden | James Wyngaarden
James Wyngaarden
James Barnes Wyngaarden (October 19, 1924 – June 14, 2019) was an American physician, researcher and academic administrator. He was a co-editor of one of the leading internal medicine texts, and served as director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989. He had four dau... | 16,046 |
750412 | Eric Wyndham White | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric%20Wyndham%20White | Eric Wyndham White
Eric Wyndham White
Sir Eric Wyndham White KCMG (1913–1980) was a British administrator and economist. He was founder and first executive secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade between 1948 and 1965. He was the first director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 196... | 16,047 |
750412 | Eric Wyndham White | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric%20Wyndham%20White | Eric Wyndham White
in 1938 was called to the bar by the Middle Temple. He was an assistant lecturer at the LSE until the Second World War started when he moved to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. In 1942 he became the First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington.
In 1945 he became Special Assistant to the Eur... | 16,048 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Philip Wylie
Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971) was an American author of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire, to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust.
# Early life and career.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Wylie was the son of Pres... | 16,049 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County, Florida Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was an adviser to the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee for Atomic Energy which led to the creat... | 16,050 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
but his earliest work exercised great influence in twentieth-century science fiction pulp magazines and comic books:
- "Gladiator" (1930) partially inspired the comic-book character Superman.
- "The Savage Gentleman" (1932) "Pulp historians point out that the themes of "The Savage Gentleman" are replicat... | 16,051 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
"The Disappearance" (1951) is about what happens when everyone suddenly finds that all members of the opposite sex are missing (all the men have to get along without women, and vice versa). The book delves into the double standards between men and women that existed prior the woman's movement of the 1970s,... | 16,052 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
highly classified secret of the war. His nonfiction book of essays, "Generation of Vipers" (1942), was a best-seller during the 1940s and inspired the term "Momism". Some people have accused "Generation of Vipers" of being misogynistic. "The Disappearance" shows his thinking on the subject is very complex.... | 16,053 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Adams, master of the charter boat "Poseidon", which was the basis of a brief television series. In 1941, Wylie became Vice-President of the International Game Fish Association, and for many years he was responsible for writing IGFA rules and reviewing world record claims.
His 1954 novel "Tomorrow!" dealt ... | 16,054 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
Wylie was also active in writing detective and mystery novelettes for a variety of magazines. Five of them were collected in 2010 as "Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments and Other Mysteries," published by Crippen & Landru in its "Lost Classics" series and edited by Bil... | 16,055 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
of the television series "The Name of the Game". The series was normally a contemporary drama; however, in this unique science fiction episode, the lead character awakens in a science-fiction dystopia, centered on a psychiatric/fascist government overseeing the underground-sheltered remnants of humanity, t... | 16,056 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
future where America slides into ecological catastrophe.
Philip Wylie, and now the Philip Wylie estate, is represented by Harold Ober Associates.
# Personal life.
Wylie married Sally Ondek, and had one child, Karen. After divorcing his first wife, he married Frederica Ballard, who was born and raised in... | 16,057 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Charles Lindbergh's son.
Wylie's niece Janice Wylie, the daughter of his brother Max Wylie, was murdered, along with her roommate Emily Hoffert, in New York in August 1963 in what became known as the "Career Girls murders" case.
# Death.
Wylie died from a heart attack on October 25, 1971, in Miami. Some... | 16,058 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
1932)
- "When Worlds Collide" (1933) (with Edwin Balmer) – Earth is destroyed in a collision with the rogue planet Bronson Alpha, with about a year of warning enabling a small group of survivors to build a spacecraft and escape to the rogue planet's moon, Bronson Beta. Filmed, with major changes to the st... | 16,059 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Stones" (1943)
- "Night Unto Night" (1944), filmed in 1949, starring Ronald Reagan
- "Opus 21" (1949)
- "The Disappearance" (1951) – An unexplained cosmic "blink" splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men's perspective, all the women disappear and from the women's, al... | 16,060 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Evening Post"
- "Tomorrow!" (1954) – Nuclear war story centering on the atomic bombing of two fictional Midwest cities adjacent to each other in the mid-1950s; one has an effective Civil Defense program, the other does not.
- "The Innocent Ambassadors" (1957)
- "They Both Were Naked" (1963)
- "Triumph"... | 16,061 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Evening Post" magazine.
- "The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise" (1969) – The President of the United States learns that there is a category of CIA files, code named Zed, to which he is not allowed access.
- "Los Angeles: A.D. 2017" (1971) - A novelization of Wylie's "L.A. 2017", a 1971 episode of the television s... | 16,062 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
collections.
- "The Big Ones Get Away" (1940)
- "Salt Water Daffy" (1941)
- "Fish and Tin Fish" (1944)
- "Selected Short Stories of Philip Wylie" (1945)
- "Crunch & Des: Stories of Florida Fishing" (1948)
- "The Best of Crunch & Des" (1954)
- "Treasure Cruise and other Stories" (1956)
- "Crunch & D... | 16,063 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
"The Magic Animal" (1968)
- "Sons and Daughters of Mom" (1971)
## Essays/articles.
The following is a partial list:
- "Why Colleges Fail Students" "Saturday Evening Post" (December 13, 1930)
- "The Quitter as Hero" "Harper's Magazine" (Oct. 1933)
- "Writing for the Movies" "Harper's Magazine" (Nov. 1... | 16,064 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
1959)
- "Medievalism and the MacArthurian Legend" "Quarterly Journal of Speech" (1951)
- "Panic, Psychology, and the Bomb" "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" (Feb. 1954)
- "Science Has Spoiled My Supper" "The Atlantic Monthly" (Apr, 1954)
- "The Mysterious Doctors of Bimini" "Saturday Evening Post" (1... | 16,065 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
(1932) screenplay
- "Murders in the Zoo" (1933) screenplay
- "King of the Jungle" (1933) screenplay
- "The Invisible Man" (1933) uncredited
- "Come On, Marines!" (1934) story
- "Death Flies East" (1935) story
- "Fair Warning" (1937) story
- "Under Suspicion" (1937) story
- "Second Honeymoon" (1937)... | 16,066 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
was adapted for a syndicated TV series (37 episodes, 1955–1956) starring Forrest Tucker and Sandy Kenyon and filmed in Bermuda.
- "L.A. 2017", a 1971 episode of the television series "The Name of the Game". A science-fiction dystopia, based around a psychiatric/fascist government in the underground-shelte... | 16,067 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
Bernardino: The Borgo Press, 1980. Volume 30 in The Milford Series "Popular Writers of Today", 63 pages.
- Breit, Harvey "Talk with Philip Wylie" "New York Times Book Review" (July 3, 1959)
- Keefer, Truman F. "Philip Wylie." Boston: Twain Publishers, 1978.
- Lupoff, Richard A. "In Search of The Savage:... | 16,068 |
750393 | Philip Wylie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip%20Wylie | Philip Wylie
an, Susan. "The Orchid Thief." New York: Random House, 1998.
- Wylie, Philip. "Crunch & Des: Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing." New York: Lyons & Burford, 1990.
# External links.
- Extensive bibliography
- Fantastic Fiction's bibliography of his works
- Essay on Wylie's writing, by Charlie Courtne... | 16,069 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
Luornu Durgo
Triplicate Girl (Luornu Durgo) is a fictional character, a superhero in the 30th and 31st centuries of the and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She has also had the aliases Duo Damsel, Triad, Una, Duplicate Damsel and Duplicate Girl.
# Publication history.
Luornu Durgo first appeared... | 16,070 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
costume consisted of a purple dress, orange cape and belt, and black boots.
She was the fourth hero to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, and its first non-founder member. Unlike her post-"Zero Hour" counterpart, Triad, she had brown eyes, not split purple/orange ones. For a long time, she had an unrequited... | 16,071 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
a unique half orange, half purple costume which could divide with her, leaving one body wearing an orange costume and one wearing a purple costume. It was designed by a fan, Nick Pascale, who also plotted the story in which it appeared. The costume originally appeared in "Adventure Comics" (vol. 1) #403 (A... | 16,072 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
marrying fellow Legionnaire Bouncing Boy in "Superboy" #200 (Feb. 1974); after this she then appeared only sporadically.
In later years of the first Legion continuity she served as an instructor at the Legion Academy along with her husband. She suffered the death of one of her two remaining bodies battlin... | 16,073 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
were restored to her, and she gained a new ability to generate force fields. This new ability was transferred to her by a special force field belt given to her by Brainiac 5 to protect her after the supposed death of her second body.
During the "Five Year Gap" following the Magic Wars, Earth fell under th... | 16,074 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
duplicates, every bit as legitimate as their older counterparts. After Earth was destroyed in a disaster reminiscent of the destruction of Krypton over a millennium earlier, a few dozen surviving cities and their inhabitants reconstituted their world as New Earth. The SW6 Legionnaires remained, and their v... | 16,075 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
intellectually, and emotionally. Such was not the case for Luornu Durgo.
Even as a newborn, when only two of her cried, her three personalities were clear. Because of the shame of this on a world where this was considered a serious defect, her father left when she was a young child, and her mother degener... | 16,076 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
wall at the first opportunity. She ran until, tired, hungry, and drenched by the rain, she ended up at a spaceport. Desperate for shelter, she tried to break into one of the ships there — and found R.J. Brande inside. Seeing she was in trouble, instead of handing her over to the Carggite authorities, he to... | 16,077 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
collect the three of them, and she was co-opted as a member soon after, taking the codename Triad.
Other than the year the Legion was disbanded — which she spent as Brande Industries head, while Brande supervised the construction of Legion World — she has remained one of the Legion's most consistent membe... | 16,078 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
each individual having a shared consciousness. Eventually she hit her limit, but by then, her entire planet was repopulated with replicates of herself. When a United Planets craft arrives on Cargg, three of these replicates are sent out as emissaries. When they returned, the other replicates considered the... | 16,079 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
of 2007, the Justice League of America and the Justice Society came across what appeared to be Triplicate Girl, dressed in her original "Adventure Comics" costume, inside an abandoned base once used by the Secret Society of Super Villains deep within Suicide Swamp. Triplicate Girl introduced her "selves" a... | 16,080 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
"Adventure Comics" run. Superman realized he had been there for that battle many years before, and he and Power Girl discovered that Triplicate Girl and Computo had both in fact been an elaborate illusion created by Sensor Girl to throw the two 21st-century teams off the trail of the Legionnaires.
At the ... | 16,081 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
in the 21st century. With her duplicates gone, she now calls herself "Una."
Una and Karate Kid visit Barbara Gordon to learn the secret of Val's illness. Oracle is unable to identify it, and directs them to see a Mr. Orr. When they reach Orr's compound, Val and Una are briefly forced into combat with Equu... | 16,082 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
believe, attacks Karate Kid, until her suppressed memories of the "Threeboot" Legion overwhelm her mind. Equus then throws a train car at her. Supergirl recovers and defeats Equus. Following the battle, there are some questions asked about the inconsistencies of Supergirl's memories. Val and Una then meet ... | 16,083 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
two escape to the streets, but then Eye transfigures Una into an OMAC. With Brother Eye's defeat at the hands of the Pied Piper, Una is freed, but not before having beaten Karate Kid into submission and handing him to Brother Eye for experimentations. The whole party of heroes brought back to Earth, Una pl... | 16,084 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
her flight ring, so that he and his grandson can escape the city.
The bodies of Una and Karate Kid are eventually discovered by the Gotham City Police Department on New Earth, and Superman and the visiting Lightning Lad mourn their death. However, Una's fellow stranded Legionnaire, Starman, tells them, "D... | 16,085 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
returned from their honeymoon. She also reveals that Una was the second and last of her original duplicates. In subsequent New Earth appearances she uses the name "Duplicate Girl".
# Powers and abilities.
Triplicate Girl has the ability to split into three identical bodies. When Triplicate Girl merges in... | 16,086 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
to be shyer, and Triad-Purple is more aggressive, than Triad-White, with the integrated Triad behaving similarly to Triad-White. She tends to wear clothes which make it clear which of her is which, and is also a practitioner of Tri-Jitsu, the fighting ability of strategic blows with three different bodies.... | 16,087 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
changed when two of her selves walked in on the third kissing Element Lad. Later issues have suggested that this relationship has continued.
In the New Earth Continuity she has the ability to split into as many bodies as she chooses. The upper limit of her splitting has not been determined.
# Equipment.
... | 16,088 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
back to the 20th century Smallville, to stop him from killing Clark Kent before his powers have completely developed, which would have had serious consequences on the timeline, since the alteration would have made it impossible for Clark to have ever become the legend known as Superman.
- Triplicate Girl ... | 16,089 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
the colors has somewhat unusual personality quirks, but no major differences. For example, the white one gets motion sickness when going too fast in the cruiser. In the second-season premiere, the white Neutral third was erased by "antimatter" resulting from the temporal tamperings of the warlord Imperiex,... | 16,090 |
750386 | Luornu Durgo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luornu%20Durgo | Luornu Durgo
episode "Unnatural Alliances", Duo Damsel's costume was reworked, adding black accents instead of the original white, and replacing her chest symbol (three triangles) with a circle split down the middle. She had her hair redone in black with streaks of orange and purple. After Brainiac's defeat, the future... | 16,091 |
750398 | Trading while insolvent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trading%20while%20insolvent | Trading while insolvent
Trading while insolvent
A number of legal systems make provision for companies trading while insolvent to be unlawful in certain circumstances, and provide for directors to become personally liable for a company's debts if they have acted improperly. In most legal systems, the liability in resp... | 16,092 |
750398 | Trading while insolvent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trading%20while%20insolvent | Trading while insolvent
Section 244
A limited company becomes insolvent when it can no longer pay its bills when due, or its liabilities—including contingent liabilities such as redundancy payments—outweigh the company’s assets. This is a critical point in the lifespan of a company as it denotes when the directors' re... | 16,093 |
750398 | Trading while insolvent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trading%20while%20insolvent | Trading while insolvent
directors are exposed in respect of transaction at an undervalue, preferences, and extortionate credit transactions if the transaction occurred: a) while the company was insolvent; and b) within 2 years before the onset of liquidation if the transaction was with a connected person, and 6 months ... | 16,094 |
750398 | Trading while insolvent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trading%20while%20insolvent | Trading while insolvent
quidator must make a report to the Disqualification Unit of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the conduct of all directors. If the liquidator has come across any conduct which makes the director unfit to be involved in the management of a company in the future (which things w... | 16,095 |
750395 | George Wyndham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Wyndham | George Wyndham
George Wyndham
George Wyndham, PC (29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls.
# Background and education.
Wyndham was the elder son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, third son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was ... | 16,096 |
750395 | George Wyndham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Wyndham | George Wyndham
Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Coldstream Guards in March 1883, serving through the Suakin campaign of 1885.
# Political career.
Wyndham started his political career in 1887, when he became private secretary to Arthur Balfour (afterwards the Earl of Balfour). In 1889, he was elected unoppos... | 16,097 |
750395 | George Wyndham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Wyndham | George Wyndham
of State for War under Lord Salisbury, which he remained until 1900. He was closely involved in Irish affairs at two points. Having been private secretary to Arthur Balfour during the years around 1890 when Balfour was Chief Secretary for Ireland, Wyndham was himself made Chief Secretary by Salisbury in ... | 16,098 |
750395 | George Wyndham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Wyndham | George Wyndham
Before it, Ireland's land was largely owned by landlords; within years of the Acts, most of the land was owned by their former tenants, who had been supported in their purchases by government subsidies. This could without exaggeration be called the most radical change in Irish life in history.
He brough... | 16,099 |
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