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420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
only 15% of the vote. Bill Hobby won the primary with a plurality of 33%, and won the general election.
# Business (1973–1980).
He was the president and CEO of Texas Aluminum Corp. and general counsel of Texas Extrusion Co., Inc. He was founding member and chairman of Lakeside National Bank of Rockwall, an... | 20,100 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
1980, incumbent Democratic U.S. congressman Ray Roberts of Texas' 4th congressional district decided to retire. Hall won the Democratic primary with 57% of the vote. In the general election, he defeated Republican business manager John Wright, with 52% of the vote, the closest race in the district's history ... | 20,101 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
in a Democratic or Republican primary with less than 66% of the vote, except in 2010.
- 2004
In November 2004, Hall ran for his first full term as a Republican. He got heavy White House backing, from then President George W. Bush also a Texan, in the three-way GOP primary that year, defeating two opponents... | 20,102 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
Melancon and was re-elected with 69% of the vote.
- 2010
In the Republican primary, Hall won the nomination with 57% of the vote, his worst performance in a primary election since his first election in 1980. It was a six candidate race, with his closest opponent, Steve Clark, winning 30% of the vote. In th... | 20,103 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
U.S. House. On December 20, 2013, he said that the 2014 campaign would be his last, regardless of the result.
In the March 4, 2014 Republican primary, Hall led a six-candidate field with 29,815 votes (45.4%). Because he did not obtain a majority of the ballots cast, Hall was forced to enter the May 27, 2014... | 20,104 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
meaning that the runoff was the real contest for the seat. Accordingly, Ratcliffe was elected unopposed, and assumed office on January 3, 2015.
## Tenure.
- "an old-time Conservative Democrat"
Hall described himself as "an old-time conservative Democrat." For many years, he was one of the most conservativ... | 20,105 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
one of the few Democratic politicians to do so. The two had been friends for many years.
- 2004 party switch
Hall was frequently rumored as a candidate to switch parties, especially after the Republicans took control of the House in 1995. Even as Democrats with far less conservative voting records than Hal... | 20,106 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
Islands (CNMI)
The Northern Mariana Islands are a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific with a large garment industry. Billing records of Preston Gates Ellis and Rouvelas Meeds, an international law firm employed by the CNMI, the government of the islands, show numerous contacts between the law firm and Hall's o... | 20,107 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
on climate change
On December 1, 2011, Hall gave an interview to "National Journal" in which he expressed disbelief in anthropogenic climate change. He accused climate scientists of concocting the evidence for anthropogenic climate change in order to receive federal research grants, citing the Climategate c... | 20,108 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
not anti-science, I'm pro-science. But we ought to have some believable science... We have to be more careful what outlays we make for something that hasn't been proved."
- Legislation sponsored
Hall introduced into the House the North Texas Invasive Species Barrier Act of 2014 (H.R. 4032; 113th Congress),... | 20,109 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
on Science and Technology, Chairman "Emeritus"
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on Space
- Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Subcommittee on Environment and Economy
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
## Caucus memberships.
- International Conservation Caucus
- Republican Study Com... | 20,110 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
November 14, 1944, while he was serving in the United States Navy in Pensacola, Florida. They had three sons, Hampton, Brett, and Blakeley, and (as of 2013) have five grandchildren. She died on August 27, 2008.
In January 2004, regarding his switch of party, Hall said "I talked with some of my family. Some ... | 20,111 |
420489 | Inquiry education | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inquiry%20education | Inquiry education
Inquiry education
Inquiry education (sometimes known as the inquiry method) is a student-centered method of education focused on asking questions. Students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers; teachers are encouraged to avoid gi... | 20,112 |
420489 | Inquiry education | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inquiry%20education | Inquiry education
and sound reasoners center their attention and activity on the dynamic process of inquiry itself, not merely on the end product of static knowledge. They write that certain characteristics are common to all good learners (Postman and Weingartner, pp. 31–33), saying that all good learners have:
In an ... | 20,113 |
420489 | Inquiry education | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inquiry%20education | Inquiry education
behaviors, a teacher adhering to the inquiry method in pedagogy must behave very differently from a traditional teacher. Postman and Weingartner suggest that inquiry teachers have the following characteristics (pp. 34–37):
# See also.
- Critical thinking
- Education reform
- Inquiry
- Pedagogy
-... | 20,114 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
Han Yu
Han Yu (; 76825 December 824), courtesy name Tuizhi (), was a Chinese writer, poet, and government official of the Tang dynasty who significantly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism. Described as "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chinese literary ... | 20,115 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
His father worked as a minor official but died when Han Yu was two, who was then raised in the family of his older brother, Han Hui (韓會). He was a student of philosophical writings and confucian thought. His family moved to Chang'an in 774 but was banished to Southern China in 777 because of its association with... | 20,116 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
He gained his first central government position in 802 on the recommendation of the military governor. However, he was soon exiled, seemingly for failing to support the heir apparent's faction (other possible reasons are because of his criticism of the misbehaviour of the emperor's servants or his request for re... | 20,117 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
is a strongly worded protest against Buddhist influence on the country. The Emperor, offended by Han Yu's criticism, ordered his execution. He was however saved by his friends at the court, and he was demoted and exiled to Chaozhou instead. After Han Yu offered a formal apology to the Emperor a few months later,... | 20,118 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
government posts such as the rector of the Imperial university. At the age of fifty-six, Han Yu died in Chang'an on December 25, 824 and was buried on April 21, 825 in the ancestral cemetery at Heyang.
# Thoughts and beliefs.
Han Yu was an important Confucian intellectual who influenced later generations of Co... | 20,119 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
To him literature and ethics were intertwined, and he advocated the personal assimilation of Confucian values through the Classics, making them part of one's life.
Han Yu promoted Confucianism but was also deeply opposed to Buddhism, a religion that was then popular at the Tang court. In 819, he sent a letter, ... | 20,120 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
where people were "like birds and wild beast or like the barbarians". He considered Buddhism to be of barbarian (夷狄) origin, therefore an unsuitable religion for the Chinese people.
Han Yu was also critical of Daoism which he considered to be a harmful accretion to Chinese culture, he nevertheless made the dist... | 20,121 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
from these two beliefs in linking the private, moral life of the individual with the public welfare of the state. He emphasised Mencius's method of assuring public morality and social order, and his concept of the expression of Confucian spirituality through political action would later form the intellectual bas... | 20,122 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
classical "old style prose" or "guwen" to be the kind of writing more suited to argumentation and the expression of ideas. Han Yu's "guwen" however was not an imitation of ancient prose, but a new style based on the ancient ideals of clarity, concision, and utility. Han Yu wrote in many modes, often with discurs... | 20,123 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
describes his failed attempt to rid himself of the ghost of poverty.
## Poetry.
Han Yu also wrote poetry, however, while Han Yu's essays are highly regarded, his poetry is not considered the finest. According to "A History of Chinese Literature" by Herbert Giles, Han Yu "wrote a large quantity of verse, freque... | 20,124 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
and assessment.
Han Yu ranks among the most important personalities in the history of traditional Chinese culture. His works not only become classics in Chinese literature, but his writings redefined and changed the course of the tradition itself. He was a stylistic innovator in the many genres he wrote in, and... | 20,125 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
inscription for a shrine to Han Yu, Song Dynasty poet Su Shi praised Han Yu:
All the major accounts of Han Yu's life agree that he had an open and forthright character, which manifested itself in his unswerving loyalty to his friends. According to Li Ao, Han Yu was a great conversationalist and an inspired teac... | 20,126 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
and dignified patriotism that the Chinese still keep his memory green".
Han Yu led a defense of Confucianism at a time when Confucian doctrine was in decline, and attacked both Buddhism and Daoism which were then the dominant belief systems. His writings would have a significant influence on Neo-Confucians of l... | 20,127 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
Chaoshan when he was exiled to Chaozhou, the Han River flowing through Chaozhou is named after him. Han Yu Temple (韩文公祠) in Chaozhou was established since the Song dynasty at the riverside of Mount Han, which also named after him.
# Studies.
Erwin von Zach wrote "Han Yüs poetische Werke", a German language stu... | 20,128 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
of the antecedents of Kafka due to some resemblance between them.
# Descendants.
Han Yu's offspring held the title of Wujing Boshi (五經博士; Wǔjīng Bóshì).
In 1976, Han Yu was the subject of a high-profile defamation lawsuit in Taiwan called "Han Sih-Tao v. Kuo Sho-Hua". In that case, Han Sih-Tao, a 39th-generat... | 20,129 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
libel.
# References.
## Sources.
- Works cited
- Barnstone, Tony; Chou, Ping (eds.) (2005). "The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry." , New York: Random House.
- Birch, Cyril (ed.) (1965). "Anthology of Chinese Literature." New York: Grove Press, Inc.
- Available online at: Google Books; A History of Chinese Li... | 20,130 |
420478 | Han Yu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han%20Yu | Han Yu
Chinese Literature Internet Archive; A History of Chinese Literature Project Gutenberg.
- Leung, K. C. "The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yü" (book review). "Books Abroad", ISSN 0006-7431, 07/1976, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 715.
- Hartman, Charles (1986). "Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity." New Jersey: Prince... | 20,131 |
420485 | Brodmann area 23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brodmann%20area%2023 | Brodmann area 23
Brodmann area 23
Brodmann area 23 (BA23) is a region in the brain that lies inside the posterior cingulate cortex. It lies between Brodmann area 30 and Brodmann area 31 and is located on the medial wall of the cingulate gyrus between the callosal sulcus and the cingulate sulcus.
# Human.
This area i... | 20,132 |
420485 | Brodmann area 23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brodmann%20area%2023 | Brodmann area 23
area 31, rostrally by the ventral anterior cingulate area 24, and ventrorostrally in its caudal half by the retrosplenial region (Brodmann-1909).
# Guenon.
Brodmann area 23 is a subdivision of the cerebral cortex of the guenon defined on the basis of cytoarchitecture. Brodmann regarded it as topograp... | 20,133 |
420485 | Brodmann area 23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brodmann%20area%2023 | Brodmann area 23
granular layer (IV) is rather well developed; the internal pyramidal layer (V) contains a dense population of round, medium-sized ganglion cells concentrated at the border with layer IV; layers V and VI are narrow with a distinct mutual boundary.
# Macaque.
In the macaque the researchers Bonin and Ba... | 20,134 |
420485 | Brodmann area 23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brodmann%20area%2023 | Brodmann area 23
dmann area 23. The LC area
# Subdivisions.
The area has been subdivided further: In the macaque (Macaca fascicularis) the following subdivisions have been suggested:
- 23i (internal)
- 23e (external)
- 23v (ventral), the most caudalventral (inferior) portion and with most highly developed layer IV... | 20,135 |
420499 | Anne de Xainctonge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne%20de%20Xainctonge | Anne de Xainctonge
Anne de Xainctonge
Venerable Anne de Xainctonge (21 November 1567, Dijon – 8 June 1621, Dole) was the founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, the first non-cloistered women's religious community. She was declared Venerable by the Roman Catholic Church in 1991.
#... | 20,136 |
420499 | Anne de Xainctonge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne%20de%20Xainctonge | Anne de Xainctonge
in high society with all the pomp of her position. She is described as vivacious and witty. When an acceptable suitor presented himself, she declined the proposal and her parents reluctantly let her have her way. The catechism lesson of a Jesuit, gave her the idea to assist with the instruction. She ... | 20,137 |
420499 | Anne de Xainctonge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne%20de%20Xainctonge | Anne de Xainctonge
she left Dijon for Dole, a university town, at that time in Franche-Comté and under Spanish influence. There she found other young women interested in teaching women and girls. Rome had recently reasserted the cloister as the only approved form of religious life for women. Nonetheless, on 16 June 160... | 20,138 |
420499 | Anne de Xainctonge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne%20de%20Xainctonge | Anne de Xainctonge
had to leave the house.
The society spread rapidly in the east of France and in Switzerland. In addition to the original school, seven more were established by de Xainctonge during her lifetime. In 1619, a community was established in Porrentruy, Switzerland. Francis de Sales wrote to her expressing... | 20,139 |
420499 | Anne de Xainctonge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anne%20de%20Xainctonge | Anne de Xainctonge
on to the original school, seven more were established by de Xainctonge during her lifetime. In 1619, a community was established in Porrentruy, Switzerland. Francis de Sales wrote to her expressing the wish that she make an establishment in his diocese, but she died in Dôle at the age of 53, before ... | 20,140 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
Aroup Chatterjee
Aroup Chatterjee (born 23 June 1958) is a British Indian author and physician. He was born in Calcutta, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1985. He is the author of the book "Mother Teresa: The Untold Story" (originally published as "Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict"), a work which ch... | 20,141 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
two Devil's advocates, or hostile witnesses to Catholic Church procedures for the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2003.
# Life and career.
Chatterjee was born in 1958 and raised in the district of Calcutta, India, moving to the United Kingdom in 1985. In the 1970s and 1980s while studying at Calcut... | 20,142 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
and disease in his native Calcutta which stemmed from press reporting of the work of Mother Teresa. At that point he describes his attitude to Mother Teresa as "If anything, I was positively inclined towards her" although he says he never saw any of her nuns in the slums. However it was this image at o... | 20,143 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
to Vanya Del Borgo, associate producer of Bandung Productions which was owned by Tariq Ali. The proposal was passed to a Channel 4 commissioner who approved it, and Del Borgo with Chatterjee's proposal began work, approaching journalist and author Christopher Hitchens to write and present it. The docum... | 20,144 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
In particular he heard stories of lack of basic hygiene, the absence of any pain medication and the frequent reuse of hypodermic needles.
Chatterjee then began work on a book, eventually released by Meteor Books in 2002 under the original title "Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict". Chatterjee says in ad... | 20,145 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
what he calls the "bogus and fantastic figure" of Mother Teresa, acting as Devil's advocate in the process of her sainthood. He continues to work as a physician in London where he lives with his Irish wife, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, and their three children.
## The Untold Story".
In Decemb... | 20,146 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
Beautiful for God" by Malcolm Muggeridge, the Calcutta home for the dying and the practices of running it, the non-consensual death bed baptisms of Hindus and Muslims, the pathetic hygienic practices in the homes run by her, her very limited connections with Kolkata and the masses and the vast amount o... | 20,147 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
from dictators such as Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier, convicted fraudster Charles Keating and disgraced publisher Robert Maxwell. The book looks at the worldwide reach of the Missionaries of Charity and examines the available evidence for her financial accounts along with her personal crusade ... | 20,148 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
view of Mother Teresa's life's work as:
### Critical reception.
The self-published book has been praised for the content but has been criticized for its editorial errors. "Times Higher Education" praised the book as necessary and well-documented, which could have been improved with editing. "The Iris... | 20,149 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
of multitude of examples; though noting the shoddy organizing, as a result of being self-published. The "Socialist Review" favorably received it as "a valuable contribution to unmasking the real Teresa".
"The Telegraph" praised the 2016 reprint as a brutally honest and relentlessly scathing read which... | 20,150 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
acted as one of two official Devil's advocates during the process of her beatification in 2003, the other being Christopher Hitchens. In order to begin the requirements of beatification, the first step on the way to sainthood, the Catholic Church was required to announce a first miracle ascribed to Mot... | 20,151 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
drugs and treatment he provided: "I've said several times that she was cured by the treatment." Initially both Besra and her husband called the miracle "a hoax," as did Prabir Ghosh from the Kolkata Humanist Association, who runs a programme raising awareness of holy men who dupe ordinary Indians into ... | 20,152 |
420482 | Aroup Chatterjee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aroup%20Chatterjee | Aroup Chatterjee
husband called the miracle "a hoax," as did Prabir Ghosh from the Kolkata Humanist Association, who runs a programme raising awareness of holy men who dupe ordinary Indians into paying for supposed miracle cures. During the process, the Catholic Church allows consultation with doubters where the miracl... | 20,153 |
420513 | Lists of extinct species | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists%20of%20extinct%20species | Lists of extinct species
Lists of extinct species
This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth. In practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years is called extinct.
- Lists of extinct animals
- Li... | 20,154 |
420513 | Lists of extinct species | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists%20of%20extinct%20species | Lists of extinct species
ated in the wild in the last 50 years is called extinct.
- Lists of extinct animals
- List of extinct plants
- List of recently extinct amphibians
- List of recently extinct arthropods
- List of recently extinct bird species
- List of recently extinct fishes
- List of recently extinct in... | 20,155 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
Harlow Curtice
Harlow Herbert Curtice (August 15, 1893 – November 3, 1962) was an American auto industry executive who led General Motors (GM) from 1953 to 1958. As GM's chief, Curtice was selected as Man of the Year for 1955 by TIME magazine.
Curtice was born in Petrieville, Michigan. He joined Genera... | 20,156 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
With Curtice as president, GM became immensely profitable, and became the first corporation to have $1 billion in profits in one year.
In 1958, Curtice retired just after his 65th birthday. The following year, he accidentally shot and killed a friend while duck hunting. He died in 1962 at age 69.
# Ear... | 20,157 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
to Flint, Michigan later in 1914, Curtice began his meteoric rise at GM. He started as a bookkeeper for GM's AC Spark Plug Division. The 20-year-old, in his job interview by the company comptroller, told him that his ambition was to become comptroller himself within a year. He did so, becoming AC Spark P... | 20,158 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
Curtice's AC Spark Plug Division expanded and prospered.
# Executive.
GM's Buick division was having great difficulties during the Depression (according to Curtice, production was at only 17% of 1926 levels). Curtice was put in charge, and quickly made a new organization for Buick, and marketed a new c... | 20,159 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
President Charles Wilson offered him the position of executive vice president—to be Wilson's right-hand man—but Curtice declined, stating that he wished to see Buicks rolling again off the assembly line before he left the division. In 1948, Wilson offered the position again to Curtice; this time he accep... | 20,160 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
with GM's Allison Division (aircraft motors) lagging in 1953, he stepped in personally to help run the division and find money for a massive investment for a new line of engines that again made the division competitive with Pratt & Whitney. In 1955, Eastern Airlines' Eddie Rickenbacker placed a large ord... | 20,161 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
of the boom to come. This set off a spree of capital spending by other corporations, which helped ensure the recovery of the economy. Ford matched the billion with a billion of its own, while Chrysler announced plans to spend $500 million. Meanwhile, Curtice, a poker player, upped the ante by announcing ... | 20,162 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
his words 'General Motors must always lead.'" During his presidency, he was only at his home in Flint, Michigan at the weekends; he remained at GM headquarters during the week.
In 1956, he announced plans to devote another billion to capital investment, the largest such sum ever invested by a single fir... | 20,163 |
420505 | Harlow Curtice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harlow%20Curtice | Harlow Curtice
he announced plans to devote another billion to capital investment, the largest such sum ever invested by a single firm in a single year. At the peak of his earning ability, he made $800,000 per year (over $9 million today).
He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1971.
# Later life.
Upon ... | 20,164 |
420492 | Liu Zongyuan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liu%20Zongyuan | Liu Zongyuan
Liu Zongyuan
Liu Zongyuan (77328 November 819) was a Chinese writer, politician, and poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi. Along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement. He has been traditionally classed as one of the "Eight Great Prose M... | 20,165 |
420492 | Liu Zongyuan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liu%20Zongyuan | Liu Zongyuan
Guangxi, where he eventually became the city Governor. A park and temple in Liuzhou is dedicated to his memory. His exile allowed his literary career to flourish: he produced poems, fables, reflective travelogues and essays synthesizing elements of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
## Death.
He died in ... | 20,166 |
420492 | Liu Zongyuan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liu%20Zongyuan | Liu Zongyuan
as "Winter Snow" or "River Snow": this poem has been an inspiration to many works of Chinese painting.
Liu Zongyuan wrote "Fei Guoyu" (T: 非國語, S: 非国语, "Argument against the Harangues of the Various States"), a criticism of "Guoyu". In response, Liu Zhang (, circa 1095–1177); Jiang Duanli (T: 江端禮, S: 江端礼);... | 20,167 |
420492 | Liu Zongyuan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liu%20Zongyuan | Liu Zongyuan
poets
- Tang poetry
# Works cited.
- Chen, Jo-shui, "Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773–819", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. .
- Nienhauser Jr., William H.; Hartmann, Charles; Crawford, William Bruce; Walls, Jan W.; Neighbors, Lloyd, "Liu Tsung-yüan", New York: Twa... | 20,168 |
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You Don't Know Jack (franchise)
You Don't Know Jack (commonly abbreviated YDKJ, and stylized as YOU DON'T KNOW JACK) is a series of video games developed by Jackbox Games (formerly known as Jellyvision Games) and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the first "You Don't Know Jack" ... | 20,169 |
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3, Nintendo DS and Wii. In 2012, Jackbox Games developed and published a social version of the game on Facebook with cross-platform versions subsequently released for iOS, Android and Kindle. On November 5, 2013, the majority of the franchise's many volumes and spinoffs were reissued ont... | 20,170 |
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platforms as "You Don't Know Jack 2015."
# History.
In 1991, Jellyvision's former identity, Learn Television, released the award-winning film "The Mind's Treasure Chest", which featured lead character Jack Patterson. When Learn Television sought to use new multimedia technologies to cr... | 20,171 |
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still in development. The game's title comes from the less vulgar version of the phrase "You don't know jack shit."
# Gameplay.
Most versions of the game can be played by one, two, or three players. (The game can be played with up to four players on the tabletop version and the console... | 20,172 |
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room segment, in which the players are prompted to enter their names and given instructions for play. The audio during this segment includes rehearsing singers, a busy producer, and a harassed studio manager/host. The only graphics are a large "On Air/Stand By" sign in the middle of the ... | 20,173 |
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offer the choice of playing a 7- or 21-question game; some versions offer only 15 questions ("Netshow", "LFF", "5th Dementia", "Mock 2"), and others offer only 13 questions ("The Ride"), 11 questions ("HeadRush", ""You Don't Know Jack" 2011" and "Full Stream"), or 7 questions ("The Lost ... | 20,174 |
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After a short animated introduction, which is often accompanied with a sung jingle about the question number, the host asks the question. Typically, the question is multiple choice, and the first player to "buzz in" and give the correct answer wins the money for that question and gets to... | 20,175 |
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a question within ten seconds. If the player who is "screwed" answers correctly, he or she wins the money while the player who "screwed" him or her loses money. This basic design has changed slightly in some versions of the game. For example, in the teen spinoff "HeadRush", the screws ar... | 20,176 |
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or two screws (depending on the total number of players in the game, not counting Audience members) could be awarded in one of two ways: (1) they could be given to the player(s) who gave the fewest correct answers in the "Dis or Dat" round; and (2) to the lowest-scoring player(s) at the ... | 20,177 |
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instead of forcing the them to answer within a short amount of time. Examples include removing all vowels from the answers, flipping the text upside-down on their devices, making the text of the question and the answers on the player's devices extremely small or large, or bouncing the an... | 20,178 |
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difficult the question would be. Amounts initially varied between $1,000, $2,000, & $3,000, and were doubled during the second round of questions. However, early volumes of the series occasionally featured questions hosted by guests spawned from Fiber Optic Field Trips and Celebrity Coll... | 20,179 |
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the volumes have a feature called "Don't Be a Wimp", which is activated if one player has a very large lead. If no one answers a question, the host may deride the leading player, calling on the audience to shout "Don't be a wimp!", and forcing the leader to answer the question.
In some ... | 20,180 |
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player buzzes in at the very instant that the question appears on the screen. In those three instances, the player that buzzed in is not permitted to "screw" the other players.
## Question types.
The majority of "You Don't Know Jack" questions are multiple choice, with four possible ch... | 20,181 |
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and You Don't Know Jack 2015", where the other player(s) can steal the money after a wrong answer, and in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream", where all players participate), with a 30-second time limit (except in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream", where players get 5 seconds for each su... | 20,182 |
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or a Britney Spears song. Money is added for every correct answer, and deducted for every wrong answer, as usual; any questions not answered before the 30 seconds expires are treated as wrong, and penalized accordingly.
- Gibberish Questions: Featured in all PC versions except "HeadRush... | 20,183 |
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passes, but the money decreases by 5% of the initial starting value with every 1.5 seconds that elapse. In "The Ride", the value decreases steadily over the entire 30 seconds. This question is famous for an Easter egg where if the player types in the phrase "fuck you" ("fuck off" in the ... | 20,184 |
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third player does it, the host will declare the game to be over and leave, forcing the software to close out, and if the player presses random keys, the host will say an extra statement regarding that the game is ending regardless of what the player does before closing out the software. ... | 20,185 |
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the software to close out as usual. No additional dialogue from the host is provided from pressing any keys. Furthermore, no name change is given to any of the players. In "The Lost Gold", the host will respond by deducting $52,681 from the first player that typed the offending answer an... | 20,186 |
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shoot at and there's no reload after all six bullets are used up, forcing the players to quit the software manually through the pause menu. In the 2012 Facebook game, the host mocks the player saying that he can say the "nasty words" as well and proceeds to say a lot of them bleeped-out ... | 20,187 |
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Unlike in other question types requiring a typed-in answer, the answer to an Anagram Question must be spelled "exactly right" to win the money. This type of question has appeared in the Facebook version, as well, with the difference being the players are given four choices.
- HeadButt: ... | 20,188 |
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and "Movies", and only appear in full-length (21-question) games. A random person is called from out of the phonebook and asked to come up with a trivia question. Fiber Optic Field Trips are initiated during the first half of the game, and the trivia question hosted by the special guest ... | 20,189 |
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the Fiber Optic Field Trips and Celebrity Collect Calls in the British edition of the game. Instead of calling a random person in a city, the host calls a bartender in a random pub within the UK to host the question.
- Trash Talkin' with Milan: Only existing in "HeadRush", "Milan the Ja... | 20,190 |
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four answers to choose from, you have to type the answer out.
- Sequel Question: Some questions have questions that refer to them and are guaranteed to appear immediately after them. When this happens, all three selectable categories will refer to the sequel question. In "The Ride", "5t... | 20,191 |
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the first. ('A Harp out of Harp' related to Cookie's party episode.) In "Full Stream", there are also Sequel Questions, most notably in a series of questions with a "Special Guest" (see "Guest Host Question" below).
- Pissed About A Question: A special kind of sequel question. This exis... | 20,192 |
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kid"). Several words fly past in rapid succession, and the players must buzz in when the word on the screen connects the two clues in a pair (In this case, the answer is "husky"). At the end of the round, players can earn a bonus for choosing the category which all the correct answers ha... | 20,193 |
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the player rings in when the "W" is lit for the word "Whiner.") $500 and that answer's letter is given to the first player who is correct, and the next clue is given; a $500 penalty is received for wrongly timed responses. The first to collect enough answers to spell out the given word w... | 20,194 |
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to the proper words. The possible answers flash up on the screen, and the player must buzz in when the correct answer appears (in this case, "liquid").
- Wendithap'n: This exists in "Louder! Faster! Funnier!", "Mock 2", "The Lost Gold" and its German version; "You Don't Know Jack VOL.4"... | 20,195 |
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with Jimmy Fallon (which bleeds over into the rest of that particular game).
- Impossible Questions: Only appearing in "Vol. 3" and the first PlayStation version, Impossible Questions are worth very large amounts of money, but as the name implies, they are almost always very, very diffi... | 20,196 |
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III". In a case of double-bluffing, one question, 'What has four legs, a tail, and barks?', has the category 'It's a Dog!' and the answer 'a dog'. "The Lost Gold" had a variation of this question as well, not formally named and consisting of Pirate-oriented questions, for example, "What ... | 20,197 |
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Super Audio Question: A sound will play, and the player is asked a question about it.
- Whatshisname Question: In this question, the host is trying to remember a certain name. A clue is provided every few seconds, and the players must buzz in and type the name. In "HeadRush", this quest... | 20,198 |
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Cookie Masterson has taken up ventriloquism, and asks a trivia question by way of his ventriloquist dummy, Billy O'Brien (or his sister Betty O'Brien). As the host explains, he has difficulty pronouncing consonant sounds such as B's, P's, and M's (which become D's, T's, and N's, respecti... | 20,199 |
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