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905923 | Impositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impositions | Impositions
Impositions
The Crown of England traditionally exercised the right to impose import duties for the regulation of trade and the protection of domestic industry. New impositions of this kind were imposed by Elizabeth I on currants and tobacco (1601) and extended by King James I to most imports (1608) after a... | 18,800 |
905923 | Impositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impositions | Impositions
fused to pay the import duty on currants, this was taken to the Court of the Exchequer, he lost and so impositions were extended giving the treasury a "windfall".
In the face of Parliament's angry protests in 1610, the tax was amended to ensure that the greatest impact fell on foreign merchants.
Impositio... | 18,801 |
905926 | Volo di notte | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Volo%20di%20notte | Volo di notte
Volo di notte
Volo di notte ("Night Flight") is a one-act opera composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to an Italian libretto he wrote based on the novel "Vol de nuit" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on May 18, 1940.
The opera emphasizes individual suf... | 18,802 |
905926 | Volo di notte | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Volo%20di%20notte | Volo di notte
ascism.
# Roles.
- First employee (tenor)
- Second employee (baritone)
- Third employee (tenor)
- Fourth employee (baritone)
- Leroux, "a pilot" (bass)
- Pellerin, "a pilot" (tenor)
- Radio operator (tenor)
- Rivière, "the airfield director" (bass-baritone)
- Robineau, "an inspector" (bass)
- S... | 18,803 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
Dilly Knox
Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.... | 18,804 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
the method that broke the Italian Naval Enigma, producing the intelligence credited with Allied victory at the Battle of Cape Matapan. In 1941 Knox broke the Abwehr Enigma. By the end of the war, Intelligence Service Knox had disseminated 140,800 Abwehr decrypts, including intelligence important for D-Day.
... | 18,805 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
Fields School, Oxford, and then Eton College. He studied classics at King's College, Cambridge from 1903, and in 1909 was elected a Fellow following the death of Walter Headlam, from whom he inherited extensive research into the works of Herodas. While an undergraduate he was friends with Lytton Strachey and... | 18,806 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
the two World Wars Knox worked on the great commentary on Herodas that had been started by Headlam, damaging his eyesight while studying the British Museum's collection of papyrus fragments, but finally managing to decipher the text of the Herodas papyri. The Knox-Headlam edition of Herodas finally appeared ... | 18,807 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
Telegram which brought the USA into the war.
- much of the German admiral's flag code by exploiting an operator's love of romantic poetry.
## Between WW1 and WW2.
### Government Code and Cypher School.
During World War I he had been elected Librarian at King's College, but never took up the appointment. ... | 18,808 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
Knox bought the Enigma 'C' machine evaluated by Hugh Foss in 1927 on behalf of GC&CS. Foss found "a high degree of security" but wrote a secret paper describing how to attack the machine if "cribs" — short sections of plain text — could be guessed. When — a decade later — Knox picked up this work, he develop... | 18,809 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
with the Republicans. Soon afterwards, Knox began to attack signals between Spain and Germany encrypted using steckered Enigma machines.
### On the eve of World War II.
#### Polish-French-British meetings.
GC&CS began to discuss Enigma with France's Deuxième Bureau in 1938, obtaining from the Bureau detai... | 18,810 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
the British codebreakers disappointed. However Knox's description of his system of rodding impressed the Polish codebreakers, and they requested his presence at a second meeting.
Knox attended the second Polish-French-British conference, held on 25–26 July 1939 at the Polish Cipher Bureau facility (at Pyry,... | 18,811 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
was quickly established at the conference. The good impression made by Rejewski on Knox played an important role in increasing recruitment of mathematicians to Bletchley Park. Knox was chagrined — but grateful — to learn how simple was the solution of the Enigma's entry ring (standard alphabetical order).
A... | 18,812 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
to solve the Spanish Enigma. Knox's rodding method was later used to break the Italian Naval Enigma.
#### Turing's bombe.
Alan Turing worked on Enigma during the months leading to the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, and occasionally visited GC&CS's London HQ to discuss this problem with... | 18,813 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
'rodding', a linguistic as opposed to mathematical way of breaking codes. This technique worked on the Enigma used by the Italian Navy and the German Abwehr. Knox worked in 'the Cottage', next door to the Bletchley Park mansion, as head of a research section, which contributed significantly to cryptanalysis ... | 18,814 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
at Matapan, went to Bletchley to personally congratulate 'Dilly and his girls'.
### Intelligence Services Knox.
In October 1941, Knox solved the Abwehr Enigma. Intelligence Services Knox (ISK) was established to decrypt Abwehr communications.In early 1942, with Knox seriously ill, Peter Twinn took charge o... | 18,815 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
when he fell ill with lymphoma. When he became unable to travel to Bletchley Park, he continued his cryptographic work from his home in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, where he received the CMG. He died on 27 February 1943. A biography of Knox, written by Mavis Batey, one of 'Dilly's girls', the female codebreak... | 18,816 |
905870 | Dilly Knox | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dilly%20Knox | Dilly Knox
Code" (1986). In the 1996 television film, he is portrayed by Richard Johnson.
# References.
- (Updated and extended version of "Action This Day: From Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer" Bantam Press 2001)
- (Updated and extended version of "Action This Day: From Breaking of t... | 18,817 |
905911 | Europeras | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Europeras | Europeras
Europeras
Europeras is a series of five operas by the composer John Cage. Cage explained the punning title thus: "For two hundred years the Europeans have been sending us their operas. Now I'm sending them back."
# Europeras I and II.
Europeras I and II were premiered by the Frankfurt Opera in December 198... | 18,818 |
905911 | Europeras | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Europeras | Europeras
and a large truck passes by."
The libretto, in twenty-four scenarios, likewise juxtaposes traditional operatic episodes: the libretto begins "Dressed as an Irish princess, he gives birth; they plot to overthrow the French." The area of the stage is divided into 64 quadrants corresponding to the I Ching and t... | 18,819 |
905911 | Europeras | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Europeras | Europeras
librettos to the audience at the premiere, themselves culled from previous operatic works.
No recordings have yet been released of "Europeras I and II."
# Europeras III and IV.
Europeras III and IV were commissioned by the Almeida Festival in London and premiered in 1990, subsequently touring. Both promine... | 18,820 |
905911 | Europeras | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Europeras | Europeras
tter is a chamber piece for singer, gramophone and table lamp.
Mode Records issued a 2-CD set of "Europeras III and IV" in 1995: catalog # 37/38.
# Europera V.
The 60' Europera V, a commission of Yvar Mikhashoff for pianist, two singers, lighting and tape, premiered May 21, 1991 in Amsterdam. The productio... | 18,821 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
Bobby Bonilla
Roberto Martin Antonio Bonilla (, born February 23, 1963) is a former player in Major League Baseball of Puerto Rican descent who played in the major leagues from 1986 to 2001.
Through his 16 years in professional baseball, Bonilla accumulated a .279 batting average, with a .358 on-base pe... | 18,822 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
$6 million per year. Since 2011, he has been paid approximately $1.19 million by the New York Mets each year and is the poster boy for the mutually beneficial practice among major league teams for deferring contractual payments until well after the player has retired. The payments come every July 1, which... | 18,823 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx and graduated in 1981. He was not selected in the 1981 Major League Baseball draft and spent a semester at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York pursuing a degree in computer science. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates after being spotte... | 18,824 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
Thrift, then the Pirates' general manager, reacquired the unhappy Bonilla in exchange for pitcher José DeLeón later that year. Bonilla also played from 1984 to 1988 with the Mayagüez Indians of the Puerto Rican Winter League.
## Pittsburgh Pirates.
Bonilla became the Pirates' starting third baseman in 1... | 18,825 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
191 doubles, 114 home runs, and 500 runs batted in (RBIs). He led the league in extra base hits in 1990, and in doubles in 1991. Bonilla also made the All-Star team four years in a row. On October 28, 1991, he became a free agent.
## New York Mets.
Bonilla became the highest-paid player in the National ... | 18,826 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
time with the Mets was most noted for his contentious relationship with the New York baseball media. In his introductory press conference after signing with the organization, he challenged them by stating, “I know you all are gonna try, but you’re not gonna be able to wipe the smile off my face.” A number... | 18,827 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
to be named later (Jimmy Williams on August 16) by the Baltimore Orioles from the Mets in exchange for Damon Buford and Alex Ochoa on July 28, 1995, and helped the Orioles to the American League Championship Series in 1996.
## Florida Marlins.
Following the 1996 season, Bonilla was once again granted fr... | 18,828 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
in exchange for Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile. Bonilla spent the rest of the 1998 season with the Dodgers, batting .237, with seven home runs and 30 runs batted in.
## Back to the Mets.
In November 1998, the New York Mets reacquired Bonilla from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Mel Rojas. Again, his... | 18,829 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
1999 season, the Mets released Bonilla, but still owed him $5.9 million. Bonilla and his agent offered the Mets a deal: Bonilla would defer payment for a decade, and the Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of $1.19 million starting in 2011 and ending in 2035, adding up to a total payout of $29.8 million... | 18,830 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
when it came to light in 2008.
## Atlanta Braves.
Bonilla signed with the Braves in 2000 and played a mostly uneventful 114 games for them. He achieved his highest batting average (.255) since the 1997 season, although he hit only five home runs, a far cry from his career high of 34.
## St. Louis Cardi... | 18,831 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
one championship, six All-Star appearances, 2,010 hits, 287 home runs, 1,173 runs batted in, and a career .279 batting average.
# Personal life.
Bonilla met Madiglia "Millie" Bonilla at Herbert Lehman High School in The Bronx. They married in the late 1980s and had two children together. He and his wife... | 18,832 |
905899 | Bobby Bonilla | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Bonilla | Bobby Bonilla
he Bobby and Millie Bonilla Public School Fund with $35,000. The fund benefits different schools attended by Bonilla and his wife, by contributing $500 for every run he batted in for the Mets. Bonilla also participated in other charity events, like the Players Trust All-Star Golf Tournament, organized by ... | 18,833 |
905941 | The Royal Book of Oz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Book%20of%20Oz | The Royal Book of Oz
The Royal Book of Oz
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first, by Ruth Plumly Thompson, to be written after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. Beginning in the 1980s, some editions have ... | 18,834 |
905941 | The Royal Book of Oz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Book%20of%20Oz | The Royal Book of Oz
bear no resemblance to Thompson's book.
# Plot summary.
The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Woggle-bug tells him that he has no family, so he goes back to the corn-field where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots." When he fails to return, Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion set out to search f... | 18,835 |
905941 | The Royal Book of Oz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Book%20of%20Oz | The Royal Book of Oz
region of Oz, inhabited by people who resemble Chinamen. When Dorothy first discovered the Scarecrow (in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz") he was hanging from a beanpole in a cornfield; it now develops that this pole descends deep underground to the Silver Islands. The Emperor of the Silver Islands had... | 18,836 |
905941 | The Royal Book of Oz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Book%20of%20Oz | The Royal Book of Oz
Islands. The islanders hail him as the Emperor, returned to save his people. After spending some time in his former kingdom ruling the quarrelsome Silver Islanders, the Scarecrow decides to return to Oz and continue his carefree existence there. The islanders, however, are reluctant to let him go, ... | 18,837 |
905941 | The Royal Book of Oz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Book%20of%20Oz | The Royal Book of Oz
ime in his former kingdom ruling the quarrelsome Silver Islanders, the Scarecrow decides to return to Oz and continue his carefree existence there. The islanders, however, are reluctant to let him go, and plot to change him back into his human form, an 85-year-old man. Dorothy and her party reach t... | 18,838 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Empire Records
Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day. The employees try to stop the store from being sold to a large chain, and learn about each other along the way. The film was directed by... | 18,839 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
at an independent record store in Delaware. The perpetually exasperated store manager Joe allows employee Lucas to close the store for the first time. While counting the day's receipts in Joe's office, Lucas discovers that Empire Records is about to be sold and converted into a branch of "Music Town", a ... | 18,840 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
night's events, just before Joe arrives and quickly receives phone calls from both the bank and the store owner, Mitchell Beck, asking about the missing deposit.
Other employees arrive, including overachieving high school student Corey and her uninhibited best friend Gina. Hostile employee Deb, who appe... | 18,841 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
to save it, but will now be $9,000 short when he covers for the missing money with Mitchell.
Joe is distracted from dealing with the crisis due to a scheduled store event: Rex Manning, an 80's pop idol, is due to arrive at the store for an autograph session to promote his new album. The staff is unenthu... | 18,842 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
on Rex by attempting to seduce him, but is humiliated by his response; A.J. then chooses the inopportune time to confess his love for Corey, which she rejects. After Gina and Corey argue about their respective reputations, Gina has sex with Rex. When they are discovered by the staff, A.J. starts a fight ... | 18,843 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
with blanks), and Lucas defuses the situation by revealing that he himself was a troubled youth until he was taken in by Joe. Joe offers Warren a job at the store.
After the police leave, Lucas admits defeat, and suggests confessing the truth to Mitchell. However, the staff and Jane — who has since quit... | 18,844 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
who confesses that he hates the store, agreeing to work out a 100% sale to Joe.
Corey finally catches up with a dejected A.J. on the roof fixing the Empire Records sign and admits that she loves him, and he reveals that he has decided to attend art school in Boston so he can be near her at Harvard. They... | 18,845 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Wills as Eddie
- Ben Bode as Mitchell Beck
After five years of film and television credits, this was Ethan Randall's last credit before adopting the stage name Ethan Embry.
# Production.
Two days after Regency Enterprises executive Michael Nathanson gave approval to proceed with making "Empire Record... | 18,846 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
over two days to a single day.
Exteriors were filmed at 15 South Front Street in Wilmington, North Carolina in a bar that had a few feet of space converted into a replica of the store set which was located at Carolco (now Screen Gems) studios, and finished with a large picture of the rest of the store. ... | 18,847 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Mon Amour" was shot prior to principal photography, and was shot on Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina in one day. It was only intended to be a 17-second dance move piece for the main actors to make fun of in the film. However, the director of the music video shot for the entire day and gave the produc... | 18,848 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
the film as "one teen-music effort that never finds a groove" before adding that "as far as chart action goes, it could use a bullet -- to put it out of its B.O. misery."
Roger Ebert called the film a "lost cause," but presciently wrote that some of the actors might have a future in other, better films;... | 18,849 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
teen dramedy."
# Soundtrack.
## Background.
The soundtrack album for "Empire Records" was originally attached to Atlantic Records—an affiliate of Warner Bros. at the time—because Warner Bros. had a distribution pact with the film's producers, Regency Enterprises. However, the soundtrack album was give... | 18,850 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
(whose cover of Big Star's "The Ballad of El Goodo" featured "Empire Records" female lead Liv Tyler on background vocals), and Toad The Wet Sprocket, and by unsigned acts the Martinis, Please, and Coyote Shivers. The Martinis—featuring former Pixies members Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering—were recommende... | 18,851 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Liv Tyler (Shivers being married to Tyler's mother, Bebe Buell, at the time).
Two previously released tracks were also included on the original release of the "Empire Records" soundtrack album, namely "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins and "Ready, Steady, Go" by the Meices (the latter's frontman Joe Rei... | 18,852 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Collins' "A Girl Like You," which charted at #32, and the Ape Hangers' "I Don't Want to Live Today".
The "Empire Records" soundtrack peaked at #63 on the album chart.
Gin Blossoms frontman Robin Wilson would say of "Empire Records," "[It's] a classic film that only a handful of people really saw, but i... | 18,853 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
by The Innocence Mission
- 7. "Circle of Friends" by Better Than Ezra
- 8. "I Don't Want to Live Today" by Ape Hangers
- 9. "Whole Lotta Trouble" by Cracker
- 10. "Ready, Steady, Go" by The Meices
- 11. "What You Are" by Drill
- 12. "Nice Overalls" by Lustre
- 13. "Here It Comes Again" by Please
... | 18,854 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Sacrilicious
- "Real" by Real
- "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" by AC/DC
- "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla
- "Snakeface" by Throwing Muses
- "Candy" by Full Tilt Gonzo
- "How" by The Cranberries
- "Hardlight" by Pegboy
- "Chew Toy" by Fig Dish
- "Power Shack" by Fitz of Depression
- "Sadd... | 18,855 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
"Infinity" by Mouth Music
- "Money (That's What I Want)" by Flying Lizards
- "Sugar High (ft. Renee Zellweger)" by Coyote Shivers
- "Seems" by Queen Sarah Saturday
- "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits
- "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
- "I Shot the Devil" by Suicidal Tendencies
- "Smo... | 18,856 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
Shivers, the artist who released the song, played the lead singer of the song in the movie.
The movie was written by a former employee of Tower Records store #166 (Christown Mall) in Phoenix, Arizona. When the film was released and for a long time afterward, a number of her former coworkers still workin... | 18,857 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
the popular music video Rex Manning 'Say No More, Mon Amour' directed for the film by Jordan Dawes.
For the 2015 Blu-ray release from the film's new owner 20th Century Fox, only the theatrical cut has been included, with the extras ported over from the 2003 "Remix! Special Fan Edition" DVD.
A high defi... | 18,858 |
905906 | Empire Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Records | Empire Records
efinition version of the fan edition would eventually see a release but only in digital format via online retailers such as Vudu.
# Legacy.
An Internet meme among the film's fans celebrates "Rex Manning Day" on April 8, the date Rex appears at Empire Records in the film. #RexManningDay is a recurring t... | 18,859 |
905936 | Ladies of the Canyon (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladies%20of%20the%20Canyon%20(album) | Ladies of the Canyon (album)
Ladies of the Canyon (album)
Ladies of the Canyon is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on Reprise Records in 1970. It peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The title makes reference to Laurel Canyon, a ce... | 18,860 |
905936 | Ladies of the Canyon (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladies%20of%20the%20Canyon%20(album) | Ladies of the Canyon (album)
love). "Ladies of the Canyon" is often viewed as a transition between Mitchell's folky earlier work and the more sophisticated, poignant albums that were to follow. In particular, "For Free" foreshadows the lyrical leitmotif of the isolation triggered by success that would be elaborated upo... | 18,861 |
905936 | Ladies of the Canyon (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladies%20of%20the%20Canyon%20(album) | Ladies of the Canyon (album)
was one of their four radio hits in 1970). A number of the album's songs, including the aforementioned "Ladies of the Canyon" and "Woodstock", feature densely stacked, wordless harmony overdubs reminiscent of David Crosby's oeuvre; Crosby himself has performed "For Free" for many years. "Wi... | 18,862 |
905936 | Ladies of the Canyon (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladies%20of%20the%20Canyon%20(album) | Ladies of the Canyon (album)
the B-side of her single "No More I Love You's".
"The Young and the Restless" star Jess Walton stated that she was the owner of one of the houses featured on the album's cover.
# Critical reception.
Reviewing for "The Village Voice" in 1970, Robert Christgau found "Ladies of the Canyon" ... | 18,863 |
905936 | Ladies of the Canyon (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladies%20of%20the%20Canyon%20(album) | Ladies of the Canyon (album)
ements are intelligent throughout", but found Mitchell's voice weak and her wordplay inconsistent. Years later in "" (1981), he said that, despite the occasional "laughably high school" wordplay, Mitchell's reliance on piano suggests "a move from the open air to the drawing room ... that's ... | 18,864 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe (25 September 1931 – 12 August 2004) was an English film, television and voice actor who supplied the voice of Gollum in the 1978 Bakshi version of "The Lord of the Rings" and BBC's 1981 radio serial. He also provided the voice of Pigsy in the cult series "Monkey" and... | 18,865 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
or from the play, he chose to stay with the play and his acting career. In 1960, he played Aston in the first production of Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" at the Arts Theatre, in London, prior to transferring to the West End's Duchess Theatre on 30 May 1960. He also starred as Oxford in the Broadway m... | 18,866 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
Skull" (1965), the first two for Hammer Films and the last for Amicus Productions. His characters in these films were all sleazy, corrupt and manipulative types (a hypnotist, a nudie photographer and a corrupt landlord).
In 1974, he played writer Honoré de Balzac in the BBC series "Notorious Woman".
... | 18,867 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
of Power".
Since 1994, he recorded the voices of Toad, Great White Stag and Whistler in an BBC Young Collection audiotape version of the Animals of Farthing Wood. He died at the age of 72 on 12 August 2004 in Banbury, Oxfordshire following a short illness.
# Partial filmography.
- "Father Came Too!"... | 18,868 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
Carol" (1984) - Old Joe
- "Eleni" (1985) - Grandfather
- "Inspector Morse" (1987-1988, TV Series) - Dr. Max DeBryn
- "Testimony" (1988) - Alexander Glazunov
- "Massacre Play" (1989) - Straccalino
- "Red Hot" (1993) - Professor Lusis
- "The Madness of King George" (1994) - Clergyman
- "The Animal... | 18,869 |
905927 | Peter Woodthorpe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Woodthorpe | Peter Woodthorpe
"Eleni" (1985) - Grandfather
- "Inspector Morse" (1987-1988, TV Series) - Dr. Max DeBryn
- "Testimony" (1988) - Alexander Glazunov
- "Massacre Play" (1989) - Straccalino
- "Red Hot" (1993) - Professor Lusis
- "The Madness of King George" (1994) - Clergyman
- "The Animals of Farthing Wood" (1994) ... | 18,870 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
With Teeth
With Teeth (stylized as [WITH_TEETH]) is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005 by Nothing Records and Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It also fe... | 18,871 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
remix EP, as well as a tour, .
Upon release, "With Teeth" was well-received by critics, albeit less than their previous work. Some complimented the aggressive composition, while others found it to be bland and tasteless. The album became the band's second to reach number one in the US, and was eventually ce... | 18,872 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
described him as "the most vital artist in music." However, Reznor's musical output was infrequent, having released only three full length albums from 1989 through 2005, with a rough average of five years between each release. During this time, Reznor became increasingly addicted to alcohol and drugs, result... | 18,873 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
album "Things Falling Apart", as well as the 2001 single "Deep" from the and "Still". Reznor told "Spin" magazine in 2005 that "I was going to just drink myself or drug myself out of it. I got back to New Orleans after the "Fragile" tour, and I'd pretty much lost my soul."
# Writing and recording.
## Songw... | 18,874 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
album, complete with a storyline. Reznor was quoted in a 2007 article saying:
I'd come up with this kind of elaborate storyline, and the record was gonna be a concept record that had a number of pretentious elements to it. I was gonna talk about multi-layered reality and waking up in a dream you can't wake ... | 18,875 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
Inch Nails producer Alan Moulder, with engineering and assistance by Atticus Ross. The album was mixed in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. Former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl contributed drums and live percussion on seven tracks. According to a statement on the official Nine Inc... | 18,876 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
and Reznor were in the studio recording and "refining" rough new material. It also stated Jerome Dillon was on drums on these sessions.
Mixing began on October 28, and on New Year's Eve Reznor revealed that the album was complete, and would be titled "With Teeth".
# Music and lyrics.
Before the album's re... | 18,877 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
but don't have to rely on each other to make sense".
"With Teeth" is considered as Reznor's most rock-centric album since the "Broken" EP and labeled as industrial rock, electronic rock and hard rock. The album's sound also draws inspirations from genres such as drum and bass, pop, electronica and ambient.
... | 18,878 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
which occurred shortly after his recovery. The album's first single, "The Hand That Feeds", was a direct example of the themes of protest and propagandist fear that helped influence the album. These influences became more prominent in his next album, "Year Zero", and the alternate reality game that accompani... | 18,879 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
explained that his dislike for the constraints of CD artwork led to the creation of a downloadable 20-megabyte poster, incorporating credits, lyrics, and artwork. The poster, designed by Reznor and Rob Sheridan, contains lyrics that are not featured in the actual songs (a practice Reznor has continued since ... | 18,880 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
2007 inclusion of the "Beside You in Time" home video.
# Release.
Before the release of the album, fans were able to listen to "With Teeth" in its entirety by attending listening parties that took place in 13 cities throughout the U.S. Anyone who attended received promotional posters and stickers. Those wh... | 18,881 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
combo. In addition to 5.1 surround and stereo mixes of the songs, the DualDisc (and DVD) contain the video for "The Hand That Feeds", an interactive discography and a slide show of album artwork.
Reznor also released multitrack files for a few of the songs. In retrospect Reznor said, "That whole idea of put... | 18,882 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
essentially giving the masters out. But they agreed." Reznor has released multitrack files for every major Nine Inch Nails release up to, and including, "The Slip".
In June 2015, an instrumental version of the album was released to Apple Music.
## With Teeth tour.
Nine Inch Nails live performances suppor... | 18,883 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
surprised by the interest" despite the group's lengthy hiatus between tours. This initial leg of the tour also included a headlining performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The band followed up with a North American arena tour in autumn 2005, supported by Queens of the Stone Age, Autolux, De... | 18,884 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
reviews from critics, with an aggregate rating of 71 based on 22 reviews on Metacritic. "Rolling Stone"'s Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails", while Stylus Magazine said "The words 'triumphant return' are apt." Rock critic Robert Christgau gave it a lukewarm review, commenting, "Al... | 18,885 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
or relief—just one angry distorted chord after another." PopMatters critically slammed the album, summarizing its poor review by simply saying "Trent Reznor has run out of ideas." In the review for AllMusic, editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine was also muted in his praise for the album, claiming that "[It] is the... | 18,886 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
nothing new here."
"With Teeth" was named one of the top 40 albums of 2005 by "Spin" magazine. The song "The Hand That Feeds" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance for the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in 2006. The song "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2007. Pitchfork n... | 18,887 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
and platinum in Canada.
# Track listing.
All songs written, composed and performed by Trent Reznor.
The track "Home" was originally a B-side to "The Hand That Feeds". On CD versions the track is placed after the last track, on vinyl it is placed after "Sunspots". As mentioned above, the UK version also fe... | 18,888 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
found on the "NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler".
# Personnel.
- Trent Reznor – lead vocals, arranging, performance, songwriting, production, engineering, 5.1 surround mix, sound design, all instrumentals & instrumentation
- Alan Moulder – additional instrumentals, production, engineering
- Atticus Ross – programm... | 18,889 |
905871 | With Teeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With%20Teeth | With Teeth
ation
- Alan Moulder – additional instrumentals, production, engineering
- Atticus Ross – programming, additional production, sound design
- Leo Herrera – engineering, project coordination
- James Brown – engineering, 5.1 surround mix
- Rich Costey – engineering
- Tom Baker at Precision Mastering – mas... | 18,890 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
Mark Tewksbury
Mark Tewksbury, MSM (born February 7, 1968) is a Canadian former competition swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also hosted the first season of "How It's Made", a Canadian documentary series, in 2001.
Tewksbury... | 18,891 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
in the world; never a strong below-the-water swimmer, he was unmatched on the surface, but, as the importance of below-the-water swimming increased, Tewksbury's ranking began to fall.
Going into Barcelona, Tewksbury was ranked fourth in the world and most pundits picked one of the powerful American swim... | 18,892 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
of the race, beating the American by just six one hundredths of a second—the same margin of victory Rouse had bested Tewksbury the year before at World Championships. Tewksbury would credit using visualization during his preparation to help instill self-belief and calm in the moments before the Olympic f... | 18,893 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
Hall of Fame and was named Canada's Male Athlete of the Year. After the Barcelona games, Tewksbury retired from swimming.
# Post-swimming career.
After retirement, Tewksbury received a number of high-profile endorsement deals and worked as an athlete representative with the International Olympic Commit... | 18,894 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
of the IOC and demanded reforms to the system.
In 1993, Tewksbury and Mark Leduc both gave interviews about their homosexuality to the CBC Radio series "The Inside Track" for "The Last Closet", a special episode about homophobia in sports; however, as neither was ready to fully come out at the time, bot... | 18,895 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
they failed to medal. He suggested that there was a lack of accountability within Swim Canada, and that head coach Dave Johnson was given too much power.
Tewksbury became a prominent advocate for gay rights and gay causes in Canada and the world. On May 16, 2003, Tewksbury joined the board of directors ... | 18,896 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
an autobiography entitled "Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock". Tewksbury remains a public figure working as a motivational speaker, a television commentator for swimming events, and a continued activist. He is a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation.
On November 30, 2006 Tewks... | 18,897 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
in New York City on the day that a declaration was introduced that affirms gay rights and seeks to decriminalize homosexuality.
On September 19, 2009, Tewksbury was inducted into Canada's LGBT Human Rights Hall of Fame, the Q Hall of Fame Canada, in honour of his outstanding achievements and efforts to ... | 18,898 |
905950 | Mark Tewksbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark%20Tewksbury | Mark Tewksbury
2015, Tewksbury was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.
On July 23, 2015, Tewksbury presented his gold medal to the Canadian Mu... | 18,899 |
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