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420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
Fighter" (1952)|author=* "Robinson Crusoe" (early 1950s)
- "Highland Fling" (1957)|author=
- "Ever the Twain" (1958)
- biography of Miguel Cervantes for his own production company(1958)
- "The Night Comers" with Jean Simmons – adaptation of Eric Ambler book "State of Siege"
- "The Four Winds" from ... | 20,700 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
British star in Britain
- 1948 – 5th most popular British star in Britain.
- 1949 – 7th most popular British star in Britain.
- 1951 – most popular star in Britain according to "Kinematograph Weekly"
- 1952 – 19th most popular star in the US
- 1953 – 21st most popular star in the US and 8th most po... | 20,701 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go" (1985) as General Thomas Preston
- "The Wizard" – episode "The Aztec Dagger" (1987) as Jake Saunders
- "Das Erbe der Guldenburgs" (1987) – two episodes as Jack Brinkley
- "Pros and Cons" (1991) – episode "It's the Pictures That Got Small" (final... | 20,702 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
– Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1938
- "Serena Blandish" – 1938 – with Vivien Leigh
- "Romeo and Juliet – Buxton Festival, September 1939 – with Robert Donat and Constance Cummings, as Tybalt
- "The Good Natured Man" by Oliver Goldsmith – Buxton Festival, September 1939 – with Robert Donat and Constanc... | 20,703 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
mn" – with Flora Robson
- "House in the Square" – St Martins Theatre, London, April 1940
- "To Dream Again" – Theatre Royal, August 1942
- "Rebecca"
- wartime tour of "Gaslight" with Deborah Kerr
- "The Power of Darkness" adapted from by Peter Glenville from the story by Leo Tolstoy – March–April 1... | 20,704 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
The Secret of the Old Clock
The Secret of the Old Clock is the first volume in the "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories" series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. It was first published on April 28, 1930, and rewritten in 1959 by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Nancy Drew is an 18-year-old high ... | 20,705 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
about 2.7 million copies.
# Summaries.
## 1930 edition.
Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew wishes to help the Turners, who are struggling relatives of the recently deceased Josiah Crowley. Aided along the way by chum Helen Corning, she becomes interested in the case because she dislikes Crowley'... | 20,706 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
tickets to sell, she sells them to the Tophams to gain entry to their home and quiz them about the clock.
Nancy then joins Helen at summer camp to investigate the Topham summer home nearby. There, she is overpowered by the burglars who stole the Crowley Clock and the rest of the Topham furn... | 20,707 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
A climactic scene, inserted before the denouement and epilogue, has Nancy delighted to take the money from the Tophams and see it distributed to destitute family and friends.
Nancy comes across as very strong-willed, but also competitive with the Tophams. Although charitable and altruistic ... | 20,708 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
now appears older, perhaps in preparation for her eventual "write-out" after Volume 4 of the revised series (no explanation is made in the original series) to introduce Bess and her cousin George. Readers have noted two figures illustrated in the same vein as the cousins appear in a 1959 ill... | 20,709 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
sisters. When Crowley dies, promises of being included in his will appear moot as the will, held by the Tophams, wills everything to them. Eighteen-year-old Nancy Drew is prompted to help the Crowley kin by her affection for Crowley's distant niece, little Judy, who is being raised by the el... | 20,710 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
torn evening dress instead of a broken vase, as in the original story. Nancy catches up with the thieves when they stop to dine, instead of drinking illegal-era alcohol.
The final scene, the reading of the will that disinherits the Tophams, focuses on the delight of rewarding the deserving ... | 20,711 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
few printings occurred (through 1932) before these trademarks were added to the series.
In 1937, three of the illustrations were eliminated, leaving only a frontispiece, and additional information and illustration were added to the dust jacket. In 1943, the interior frontispiece art was upd... | 20,712 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
so that the length, width, and general style are indeterminate, leaving the art less dated. The scene does not exactly match the text in the story.
In 1965, artist Rudy Nappi created new artwork for this title which is currently in print.
When the text was rewritten in 1959, five illustrat... | 20,713 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
backs using Bill Gillies' artwork.
In 1965, the cover art was updated with an illustration by Rudy Nappi, featuring the same dress Nancy wears on Gillies' cover for "The Secret of the Wooden Lady". The internal illustrations remained intact and unchanged. While binding and spine designs hav... | 20,714 |
420565 | The Secret of the Old Clock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Old%20Clock | The Secret of the Old Clock
the book's cover, all art (except endpapers) and text remain unchanged.
# Public domain.
On January 1, 2033, the revised text of "The Secret Of the Old Clock" will pass into the Canadian public domain, as Harriet Stratmeyer Adams died in 1982. However, the original text, as written by Mild... | 20,715 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
Beverley Hughes
Beverley June Hughes, Baroness Hughes of Stretford (born 30 March 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston from 1997 to 2010. In 2004, she was appointed to the Privy Council. From 2005 to 2009, she served in the Governmen... | 20,716 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
The Whitby High School) on Sycamore Drive in Whitby, Ellesmere Port. She moved to Flixton in 1976, and has lived there ever since.
Hughes studied for a BSc in Social Science at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1971. After graduation she continued her studies at the University of Manchester, ... | 20,717 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
senior lecturer in the Department of Social Policy at the University of Manchester, a department that she became the head of in 1994.
# Political career.
Hughes' political career began with election to Trafford Borough Council in 1986. She established herself, and was appointed leader of the council's... | 20,718 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
of State in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
In 2001 she was appointed the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Probation in the Home Office.
In July 2001 she received significant ridicule and criticism in the media after it was revealed that along with o... | 20,719 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
fact emphasised the need for such programming. Sir Paul Fox criticised Hughes and her colleagues suggesting they "have to have the courtesy to have seen the programme before they go in at the deep end", with Christopher Howse even more critical, suggesting "it was as if paedophilia were sacred and not t... | 20,720 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
– she had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it.
Upon resignation, she made clear that she had not set out to "intentionally mislead anyone", but she could not "in conscience continue to serve as immigration minister". The prim... | 20,721 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
of Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families within that week following the Local and European elections with a cabinet reshuffle anticipated. She stood down at the 2010 General Election for "personal reasons" and specifically denied that she was standing down due to the ongoing expenses... | 20,722 |
420562 | Beverley Hughes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverley%20Hughes | Beverley Hughes
tanding down due to the ongoing expenses scandal. She was made a life peer on 15 July 2010 taking the title Baroness Hughes of Stretford, of Ellesmere Port in the County of Cheshire.
# Personal life.
She married Thomas McDonald in 1973 in West Cheshire and has three grown up children – one son and two... | 20,723 |
420567 | Discrete optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discrete%20optimization | Discrete optimization
Discrete optimization
Discrete optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics and computer science.
# Scope.
As opposed to continuous optimization, some or all of the variables used in a discrete mathematical program are restricted to be discrete variables—that is, to assume on... | 20,724 |
420567 | Discrete optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discrete%20optimization | Discrete optimization
ce.
# Scope.
As opposed to continuous optimization, some or all of the variables used in a discrete mathematical program are restricted to be discrete variables—that is, to assume only a discrete set of values, such as the integers.
# Branches.
Two notable branches of discrete optimization are... | 20,725 |
420577 | Continuous optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Continuous%20optimization | Continuous optimization
Continuous optimization
Continuous optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics.
As opposed to discrete optimization, the variables used in the objective function are required to be continuous variables—that is, to be chosen from a set of real values between which there are ... | 20,726 |
420578 | Melissopalynology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melissopalynology | Melissopalynology
Melissopalynology
Melissopalynology is the study of pollen contained in honey and, in particular, the pollen's source. By studying the pollen in a sample of honey, it is possible to gain evidence of the geographical location and genus of the plants that the honey bees visited, although honey may also... | 20,727 |
420578 | Melissopalynology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melissopalynology | Melissopalynology
of the geographical location and genus of the plants that the honey bees visited, although honey may also contain airborne pollens from anemophilous plants, spores, and dust due to attraction by the electrostatic charge of bees.
In general, melissopalynology is used to combat fraud and inaccurate lab... | 20,728 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
Fiona Mactaggart
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician and former primary school teacher. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough from the 1997 general election until she stood down at the 2017 general election.
# Early life and career.
Whil... | 20,729 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
National Union of Students from 1978 to 1981. She was Press and Public Relations Officer for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for six months before being General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants from 1982 to 1987. She was a primary school teacher in Pe... | 20,730 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
decided to become an MP, as being able to change the world "thirty kids at a time" seemed too slow for her. She is a feminist.
# Parliamentary career.
Mactaggart was elected as Labour MP for Slough in 1997. She was selected to stand for election for Labour through an all-women shortlist.
From May 20... | 20,731 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Around a thousand protesters stormed the production, set in a temple, at the opening of the curtain. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, MacTaggart said: "I think that when people are moved by theatre to protest, in a way that's a sign of the free speech which is so much part ... | 20,732 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
were not fully supported by evidence when discussing the issue of prostitution. Mactaggart was asked how those criminalised by a new law were supposed to know if a prostitute had been trafficked or not. She replied "I think they can guess", "something like 80% of women in prostitution are controlled by... | 20,733 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
of prostitutes are controlled by others". The controversy continued in January 2009 with MacTaggart told the House of Commons that she regarded all women prostitutes as the victims of trafficking, because their route into the sector "almost always involves coercion, enforced addiction to drugs and viol... | 20,734 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
of a question on an LSE reading list about the ethical differences between legal waged labour and prostitution. Mactaggart had previously caused controversy with her hard-line approach to the issue of prostitution by comparing men who use prostitutes to abusers of children, stating "I don't think most ... | 20,735 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
offered over £2,000 incentive from the Department for Work and Pensions for every unemployed young person (aged 18–24) that they hired. Esther McVey, the Minister of State for Employment, stated that "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 ensured that vacancies which involve performing sexual activities were ban... | 20,736 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
therefore granted the title The Right Honourable.
# Personal life.
Her father, the late Sir Ian Mactaggart, Bt, was a multimillionaire Glasgow property developer, Conservative candidate and Eurosceptic. Her mother's father, Sir Herbert Williams, Bt, was a Conservative Member of Parliament for 27 year... | 20,737 |
420566 | Fiona Mactaggart | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona%20Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart
ue of MacTaggart's huge wealth, with journalist Benedict Brogan describing her as "a Scottish laird who is as wealthy as she is humourless".
Mactaggart owns three homes, one in London, one on the Isle of Islay and a flat in Slough. She suffers from multiple sclerosis and is an ovarian cancer survivor.... | 20,738 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
Paul Goggins
Paul Gerard Goggins (16 June 1953 – 7 January 2014) was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wythenshawe and Sale East from 1997 until his death in January 2014. He was also previously a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office.
# Early li... | 20,739 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
of Qualification in Social Work from the Manchester Polytechnic in 1982.
He worked as a child care worker with the 'Liverpool Catholic Social Services' for a year in 1974, before becoming an officer in charge at the Wigan Children's Home in 1976. He was appointed as project director for the NCH Action for... | 20,740 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
Sale East seat vacated by the retirement of Alf Morris, the former Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe. Goggins held the safe Labour seat with a majority of 15,019 and remained the MP there for almost 17 years. He made his maiden speech on 20 May 1997.
He served on the social security select committee fr... | 20,741 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
as Home Secretary. It is during this period that, according to Blunkett, Goggins was lumbered with the nickname 'Mrs Goggins'.
He was promoted to the government of Tony Blair in 2003, where he was made the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office with the role of prisons and probation min... | 20,742 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
Party Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD group and was Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on poverty.
Goggins opposed same-sex marriage, stating that he would vote against the government's bill to introduce same-sex marriage in England and Wales. In the second reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Cou... | 20,743 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
slot on the "Today programme". In an interview on BBC Radio Five Live in 2004, he claimed his family was the inspiration for the "Mrs Goggins" character in the "Postman Pat" series.
On 30 December 2013, Goggins became seriously ill after collapsing while running, resulting in emergency surgery. He died in... | 20,744 |
420572 | Paul Goggins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Goggins | Paul Goggins
resulting in emergency surgery. He died in Salford Royal hospital on 7 January 2014 following complications from a brain haemorrhage.
# External links.
- MP Paul Goggins' official website
- Paul Goggins' political summary by "The Guardian"
- BBC Politics page
## News items.
- Ending 50% remission of ... | 20,745 |
420587 | The Breetles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Breetles | The Breetles
The Breetles
The Breetles are an American power pop band, led by Chris Breetveld. They formented in Kendall Park, New Jersey around 1985, becoming one of the founding bands of the "Kendall Park Sound". Another relatively important part of the KP Sound is Donald Fagen, who used to live in 7 Joline Rd. Chri... | 20,746 |
420587 | The Breetles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Breetles | The Breetles
original members of the band were Chris Breetveld, Jim Johnson on guitar, vocals & mandolin type things, and Dennis McGrath (a.k.a. Blind Lemon Pledge) on Vocals and harmonica. Other members and bands that are credited or have featured on The Breetles' albums include: R. Stevie Moore, The Rockin'Bricks, Da... | 20,747 |
420587 | The Breetles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Breetles | The Breetles
respectively. Arkansas Traveler is an entirely acoustical recording recorded to showcase the "at home" sound of The Breetles. The 1990s saw the release of three albums:" Pop Go! The Breetles" (1995), "Spooj" (1996), and "Ego, The Story of the Sures" (1998) . The band has consistently released albums during... | 20,748 |
420587 | The Breetles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Breetles | The Breetles
and songs are entirely performed, produced, and engineered by Chris Breetveld.
Currently, the band is working on "SONG FOLDER1".
# Discography.
- "model24/SOUND RECORDINGS" (2007) Breetles 2disc/ 5-sided studio album (NoFault)
- "Don't Smile" (2004) Breetles (Shuss/NoFault)
- "Writerscramp" (2000) Bre... | 20,749 |
420595 | Axioms (journal) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Axioms%20(journal) | Axioms (journal)
Axioms (journal)
Axioms is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that focuses on all aspects of mathematics, mathematical logic and mathematical physics. It was established in June 2012 and is published quarterly by MDPI.
The editor-in-chief is Humberto Bustince (Public University of Navarre... | 20,750 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
Fering
Fering is the dialect of North Frisian spoken on the island of Föhr in the German region of North Frisia. "Fering" refers to the "Fering" Frisian name of Föhr, "Feer". Together with the Öömrang, Söl'ring, and Heligolandic dialects, it forms part of the insular group of North Frisian dialects and it is ve... | 20,751 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
on Föhr, not only at home. The municipalities of Oldsum and Süderende (Fering: Olersem, Söleraanj) in the western part of Föhr are strongholds of the dialect.
# Personal and family names.
Personal names on Föhr are still today greatly influenced by a Frisian element. Notably hypocorisms and names with two elem... | 20,752 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
the Scandinavian "Petersen" or "Petersson", meaning "Peter's son", a Fering name like "Peters" means "of Peter". This practice was prohibited by the Danish Crown in 1771 for the Duchy of Schleswig and was therefore abandoned in the eastern part of Föhr. As western Föhr was a direct part of the Danish kingdom unt... | 20,753 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
the Dutch language as the North Frisian insular dialects. Examples for Fering include:
Other loanwords were derived from American English when many people emigrated from Föhr to the United States but kept contact with their relatives on the island. Examples include:
# Phonology.
## Consonants.
The "r" is alw... | 20,754 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
each created their own Fering orthography. Long vowels including those with umlauts are always written as double letters while consonants are short by default. Capital letters are only used in the beginning of a sentence and for proper names.
# Grammar.
## Nouns.
### Gender.
Fering originally had 3 genders: ... | 20,755 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
group) and nouns with a feminine/neuter gender often use the ""-en"" plural (there are a few masculine nouns in this group). Plurals can also be formed using ""-in"", ""-n"" and ""-s"". There are also plurals formed by changing a consonant at the end of the word, by changing a vowel within the word or by retaini... | 20,756 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
are exceptions in this suffix group, including "wöning" (window; a feminine/neuter noun) which forms the plural by removing a syllable - "wönger" (windows), and "insel" (island; also a feminine/neuter noun, and a German loanword) which form forms the plural by removing an unstressed vowel - "insler" (islands).
... | 20,757 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
An example of a (masculine) noun using the ""-n"" plural suffix: "mooler" (painter) – "moolern" (painters).
- An example of a (masculine) noun using the ""-s"" plural suffix: "koptein" (captain) – "kopteins" (captains).
- Examples of masculine nouns which retain the same form as the singular include: "stian" (... | 20,758 |
420582 | Fering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fering | Fering
erbs: weak, strong and irregular verbs.
# Fering literature.
There are various Fering authors. One of the first publicly noticed writers was Arfst Jens Arfsten (1812–1899) who began writing anecdotes in Fering around 1855. Others include Stine Andresen (1849–1927) who was a poet and writer from Wyk whose liter... | 20,759 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
Mutoscope
The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by W.K.L. Dickson and Herman Casler and later patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the K... | 20,760 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
than being bound into a booklet, the cards were attached to a circular core, rather like a huge Rolodex. A reel typically held about 850 cards, giving a viewing time of about a minute. The reel with cards attached had a total diameter of about ten inches (25 cm); the individual cards had dimensions of about "... | 20,761 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
a poster affixed to the machine.
The patron could control the presentation speed only to a limited degree. The crank could be turned in both directions, but this did not reverse the playing of the reel. Nor could the patron extend viewing time by stopping the crank because the flexible images were bent into ... | 20,762 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
from 1895 to 1909 for the American Mutoscope Company, later American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (1899) by the Marvin & Casler Co., Canastota, New York formed by two of the founding Managers of American Mutoscope Company. In the 1920s the Mutoscope was licensed to William Rabkin who started his own company... | 20,763 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
machines were subsequently destroyed; some were exported to Denmark where pornography had recently been legalised. The typical arcade installation included multiple machines offering a mixture of fare. Both in the early days and during the revival, that mixture usually included "girlie" reels which ran the ga... | 20,764 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
disrobing.)
# Public response.
"The San Francisco Call" printed a short piece about the Mutoscope in 1898, which claimed that the device was extremely popular: "Twenty machines, all different and amusing views...are crowded day and night with sightseers." However, just a few months later, the same newspaper... | 20,765 |
420584 | Mutoscope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutoscope | Mutoscope
rontery that is as audacious as it is shameless."
In 1899, "The Times" also printed a letter inveighing against "vicious demoralising picture shows in the penny-in-the-slot machines. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the corruption of the young that comes from exhibiting under a strong light, nude female f... | 20,766 |
420605 | Steno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steno | Steno
Steno
Steno may refer to:
- Steno, Salamis, small community at the northwest of Salamis Island, Greece
- Stenography, the process of writing in shorthand
- Stenotype, a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use
- "Stenotrophomonas maltophilia" (Steno), an aerobic, non... | 20,767 |
420605 | Steno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steno | Steno
for shorthand use
- "Stenotrophomonas maltophilia" (Steno), an aerobic, nonfermentative, Gram-negative bacterium which causes uncommon but difficult to treat infections in humans
- "Steno" (genus), the monotypic genus of the rough-toothed dolphin
- Steno Diabetes Center, a research and teaching hospital in Gen... | 20,768 |
420594 | State papers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=State%20papers | State papers
State papers
The term State papers is used in Britain and Ireland to refer to government archives and records. Such papers used to be kept separate from non-governmental papers, with state papers kept in the State Paper Office and general public records kept in the Public Record Office. When they were wri... | 20,769 |
420594 | State papers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=State%20papers | State papers
of records, particularly before 1790, were held in the Four Courts. When the Four Courts was occupied by the anti-Treaty forces of the Irish Republican Army in April 1922, the pro-Treaty forces came under pressure to remove them. Following the assassination of the British Field Marshal, Henry Hughes Wilson... | 20,770 |
420594 | State papers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=State%20papers | State papers
were destroyed. One historian who was in the PRO section of the Four Courts at the time of the bombing, Pablo McNeill, is reported as diving for cover and bringing an important manuscript with him in the act that destroyed most other written records of Ireland's British rulers.
The Irish State Paper Offic... | 20,771 |
420594 | State papers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=State%20papers | State papers
tenant of Ireland
- Chief Secretary for Ireland
- Under Secretary for Ireland
- Irish House of Commons & Irish House of Lords
- House of Commons of Southern Ireland
- Attorney-General for Ireland
- Governor-General of the Irish Free State
The Irish State Paper Office was formerly located in Dublin C... | 20,772 |
420608 | Anchor bend | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anchor%20bend | Anchor bend
Anchor bend
The anchor bend is a knot used for attaching a rope to a ring or similar termination. The name is a misnomer, as it is technically not a bend, but a hitch.
# Origins.
Its name originates from the time when "bend" was understood to simply mean "tie to"; today, a bend strictly refers to a knot ... | 20,773 |
420608 | Anchor bend | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anchor%20bend | Anchor bend
extra turn around the object--this will make for a 1-diameter longer span of the end to reach around the standing part to be tucked (although in a case of tying to a small shackle or link of a chain, this might not be possible). It is the accepted knot for attaching anchors (or more usually anchor chains) t... | 20,774 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information. It was established in 1880 as a publishing company. It is a part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier. Its products include journals such ... | 20,775 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
more than 470,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals. Its archives contain over 16 million documents and 30,000 e-books. Total yearly downloads amount to more than 1 billion.
Elsevier's high operating profit margins (37% in 2018) and its copyright practices have subjected it to criticism by researchers.
# H... | 20,776 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
the Elzevir family's printer's mark, a tree entwined with a vine and the words "Non Solus", which is Latin for "not alone." Elsevier suggests that this logo represents, "the symbiotic relationship between publisher and scholar".
The expansion of Elsevier in the scientific field after 1945 was funded with the ... | 20,777 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Netherlands.
In 1947, Elsevier began publishing its first English-language journal, "Biochimica et Biophysica Acta".
In 2013, Elsevier acquired Mendeley, a UK company making software for managing and sharing research papers. Mendeley, previously an open platform for sharing of research, was greatly criticize... | 20,778 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
model".
In the first half of 2019, RELX reported the first slowdown in revenue growth for Elsevier in several years: 1 % vs. an expectation of 2 % and a typical growth of at least 4 % in the previous 5 years.
# Company statistics.
, researchers submitted over 1.8 million research papers to Elsevier-based pu... | 20,779 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Taylor & Francis, and SAGE Publications published more than half of all academic papers in the peer-reviewed literature. At that time, Elsevier accounted for 16% of the world market in science, technology, and medical publishing.
Elsevier breaks down its revenue sources by format and by geographic region. App... | 20,780 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
in 2012, Elsevier has operated under a traditional business structure with a single chief executive officer (CEO). The CEO is Kumsal Bayazit, who was appointed on 15 February 2019.
In 2018, Elsevier accounted for 34% of the revenues of RELX group (₤2.538 billion of ₤7.492 billion). In operating profits, it re... | 20,781 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
institutions, corporate research labs, booksellers, librarians, scientific researchers, authors, editors, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, medical and nursing students and schools, medical researchers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and research establishments. It publishes in 13 language... | 20,782 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
and major reference works such as "Gray's Anatomy", "Nelson Pediatrics", "Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary", "Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy", and online versions of many journals including "The Lancet".
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's platform for online electronic access to its journals and over 6,000 ... | 20,783 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
or pay-per-view purchase.
## Research and information ecosystem.
RELX Group has been active in mergers and acquisitions, with dozens of deals completed for a total of over 5 billion dollars in ten years.
Elsevier has been joined by businesses which were either complementing or competing in the field of rese... | 20,784 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
sciences, physical sciences & engineering, social sciences, and health sciences. In 2014 Elsevier conducted 48 conferences attended by 11,328 delegates from 128 countries.
## Pricing.
In the 21st century, the subscription rates charged by the company for its journals have been criticized; some very large jou... | 20,785 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
prices.
For example, a resolution by Stanford University's senate singled out Elsevier's journals as being "disproportionately expensive compared to their educational and research value", which librarians should consider dropping, and encouraged its faculty "not to contribute articles or editorial or review e... | 20,786 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
any Open Access policy for Dutch universities. In December 2016, Nature Publishing Group reported that academics in Germany, Peru and Taiwan are to lose access to Elsevier journals as negotiations had broken down with the publisher.
A complaint about Elsevier/RELX was made to the UK Competition and Markets Au... | 20,787 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
"Clinical Psychology" if they would go on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble (a large US books retailer) and give it five stars." Elsevier said that "encouraging interested parties to post book reviews isn't outside the norm in scholarly publishing, nor is it wrong to offer to nominally compensate people for their ... | 20,788 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
holds copyright on output of automated processes. The conflict on research and copyright policy has often resulted in researchers being blocked from their work.
In November 2015, Elsevier blocked a scientist from performing text mining research at scale on Elsevier papers, even though his institution already ... | 20,789 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
"Drug Invention Today" accepted an obviously bogus paper made up by Bohannon that should have been rejected by any good peer review system. Instead, "Drug Invention Today" was among many open access journals that accepted the fake paper for publication. As of 2014, this journal had been transferred to a differ... | 20,790 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
journal as a "complimentary publication," denied claims that articles within it were ghost written by Merck, and stated that the articles were all reprinted from peer-reviewed medical journals. In May 2009, Elsevier Health Sciences CEO Hansen released a statement regarding Australia-based sponsored journals, c... | 20,791 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
the Excerpta Medica imprint from 2000 to 2005," namely the "Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine" ("Australas. J. Bone Joint Med."), the "Australasian Journal of General Practice" ("Australas. J. Gen. Pract."), the "Australasian Journal of Neurology" ("Australas. J. Neurol."), the "Australasian Jour... | 20,792 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Worldwide.
## "Chaos, Solitons & Fractals".
There was speculation that the editor-in-chief of Elsevier journal "Chaos, Solitons & Fractals", Mohamed El Naschie, misused his power to publish his own work without appropriate peer review. The journal had published 322 papers with El Naschie as author since 1993... | 20,793 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
by their November 2008 article about his retirement, which included statements that "Nature" had been unable to verify his claimed affiliations with certain international institutions. The suit came to trial in November 2011 and was dismissed in July 2012, with the judge ruling that the article was "substantia... | 20,794 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
practice in communications with "Nature", and described this behavior as "curious" and "bizarre."
## Plagiarism.
Some Elsevier journals automatically screen submissions for plagiarism, but not all.
In 2018, Elsevier journal "Procedia" was reported to have published plagiarism by an Albanian politician in 20... | 20,795 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Programming", with Cambridge University Press at a much lower price, while Elsevier continued publication with a new editorial board and a slightly different name (the "Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming").
In 2002, dissatisfaction at Elsevier's pricing policies caused the European Economic Associatio... | 20,796 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
at the suggestion of "Journal of Algorithms" founder Donald Knuth. The "Journal of Algorithms" continued under Elsevier with a new editorial board until October 2009, when it was discontinued.
The same happened in 2005 to the "International Journal of Solids and Structures", whose editors resigned to start th... | 20,797 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
again because of stalled negotiations with Elsevier to lower the subscription price. This board then launched the new "Journal of Topology" at a far lower price, under the auspices of the London Mathematical Society. After this mass resignation, "Topology" remained in circulation under a new editorial board un... | 20,798 |
420561 | Elsevier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsevier | Elsevier
Economic Journal" in 2009.
In May 2015, Stephen Leeder was removed from his role as editor of the "Medical Journal of Australia" after its publisher decided to outsource the journal's production to Elsevier. As a consequence, all but one of the journal's editorial advisory committee members co-signed a letter... | 20,799 |
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