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1600006 | Homer Jacobson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homer%20Jacobson | Homer Jacobson
rustat, a Device for Continuous Production of Viruses," "Applied Microbiology", 14(6): 940–952 (1966 November) with Leslie S. Jacobson.
- "The informational content of mechanisms and circuits," "Information and Control", 2(3):285-296, September 1959.
- "On Models of Reproduction," "American Scientist" ... | 25,000 |
1600022 | Edward F. Moore | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward F. Moore
Edward F. Moore
Edward Forrest Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland – June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life.
# Biography.
Moore received a B... | 25,001 |
1600022 | Edward F. Moore | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward F. Moore
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1966 until he retired in 1985.
He married Elinor Constance Martin and they had three children.
# Scientific work.
He was the first to use the type of finite state machine (FSM) that is most commonly used today, the Moore FSM. With Claude Shannon he did semi... | 25,002 |
1600022 | Edward F. Moore | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward F. Moore
automata, used by Conway's Game of Life, and was the first to publish on the firing squad synchronization problem in cellular automata.
In a 1956 article in "Scientific American", he proposed "Artificial Living Plants," which would be floating factories that could create copies of themselves. They coul... | 25,003 |
1600022 | Edward F. Moore | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward F. Moore
matching this bound were named Moore graphs by .
# Publications.
With Claude Shannon, before and during his time at Bell Labs, he coauthored "Gedanken-experiments on sequential machines", "Computability by Probabilistic Machines", "Machine Aid for Switching Circuit Design", and "Reliable Circuits Usin... | 25,004 |
1600022 | Edward F. Moore | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward F. Moore
ariable Length Binary Encodings", "The Shortest Path Through a Maze", "A simplified universal Turing machine", and "Complete Relay Decoding Networks".
- "Machine models of self-reproduction," "Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics", volume 14, pages 17–33. The American Mathematical Society, 19... | 25,005 |
1600027 | Tyler Florence | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyler%20Florence | Tyler Florence
Tyler Florence
Tyler Florence (born March 3, 1971) is a chef and television host of several Food Network shows. He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991. He was later given an honorary doctorate from the university for... | 25,006 |
1600027 | Tyler Florence | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyler%20Florence | Tyler Florence
Club on the Food Network. Chef Tyler was a Judge on Worst Cooks in America for seasons 6,8, 12-13, 15-present. He was featured on the ABC TV show Shaq's Big Challenge, which aired on July 17, 2007 and Momma's Boys, a reality show produced by Ryan Seacrest. He has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show i... | 25,007 |
1600027 | Tyler Florence | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyler%20Florence | Tyler Florence
Multimedia.
In 2018, Florence directed a documentary about the 2017 California Wildfires called "". It features first-person footage of first responders and interviews with those directly affected by the disaster.
Florence also created a podcast called "Wolf it Down" where he interviewed several player... | 25,008 |
1600027 | Tyler Florence | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyler%20Florence | Tyler Florence
downtown San Francisco (formerly, Rubicon restaurant); Rotisserie & Wine, a fast food restaurant in downtown Napa; and with Sammy Hagar, El Paseo in downtown Mill Valley, California, an American tavern featuring ingredients only from Marin County.
## Other.
In 2008, Florence was named the Dean of Culin... | 25,009 |
1600027 | Tyler Florence | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyler%20Florence | Tyler Florence
ooking With Global Fresh Flavors", 2005
- "Tyler's Ultimate: Brilliant Simple Food to Make Any Time", 2006
- "Stirring the Pot", 2008
- "Dinner at My Place", 2008
- "Family Meal", 2010
- "Start Fresh: Your Child's Start to Lifelong Healthy Eating", 2011
- "Tyler Makes Pancakes", with Craig Frazier,... | 25,010 |
1600042 | Marion Verbruggen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marion%20Verbruggen | Marion Verbruggen
Marion Verbruggen
Marion Verbruggen (born 1950) is a Dutch recorder player and teacher.
Verbruggen was born in Amsterdam and studied with Kees Otten at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She then studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Frans Brüggen. Upon completing her diplomas cum laude, she ... | 25,011 |
1600042 | Marion Verbruggen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marion%20Verbruggen | Marion Verbruggen
diplomas cum laude, she was invited to join the faculty at the Royal Conservatory. She now guest teaches there and gives master-classes and workshops throughout the world.
Marion Verbruggen is one of the world's leading soloists on the recorder. Her discography ranges from 17th-century Spanish songs ... | 25,012 |
1600059 | Coloring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coloring | Coloring
Coloring
Coloring or colouring may refer to:
- Color, or the act of changing the color of an object
- Coloring, the act of adding color to the pages of a coloring book
- Coloring, the act of adding color to comic book pages, where the person's job title is Colorist
- Graph coloring, in mathematics
- Hair... | 25,013 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (also known as Arabian Nights) is a 1994 made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera and premiered on TBS on September 3, 1994. It is an adaptation of "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" and features appearances by S... | 25,014 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
high-budget Warner Bros. Animation and Steven Spielberg cartoons of the era, "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs".
This would prove to be the last film in which Don Messick voices Scooby and Boo Boo (though he would voice Scooby one more time in the video game "Scooby-Doo Mystery"), th... | 25,015 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
they eat everything in sight and leave no food for the Caliph, he gets angry and orders his guards to kill them. Shaggy and Scooby find a place to hide and Shaggy takes on the disguise as a harem girl. The Caliph, who is looking for a bride, falls in love with the disguised Shaggy and deci... | 25,016 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
The Sultan expresses his worry to his vizier, Haman, and with his health failing, the Sultan keeps pressuring his son to choose a wife. He is even more upset as once long ago when the Prince was young, he was already engaged to marry a princess of a neighbouring kingdom; when she was born,... | 25,017 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
falls in love with her; the young girl notices him and becomes frightened and soon leaves. The Prince tries to stop her, but instead only finds a scarf she has left behind and decides to go into town to find her.
However, unaware to either the Sultan or Prince, Haman the vizier actually d... | 25,018 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
years during a blue moon, but also reveals that only a person of pure of heart can enter the cave. The Lord of the Amulet reveals that a young woman named Aliyah-Din is the only person capable of entering the cave to retrieve the lamp (and who is also revealed to be the same woman the Prin... | 25,019 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
where he also attracts a lot of attention from many women who seek to marry him the next day, causing the Prince to discover of his father's plans. He is outraged of his father wanting him to marry a woman he has only met as his heart only lies toward Aliyah-Din. Meanwhile, Aliyah-Din is l... | 25,020 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
help retrieve the lamp, Aliyah-Din is forced to leave the Prince, although he attempts to stop her, The Prince soon loses sight of her, much to his dismay.
At night, Aliyah-Din meets with Haman where they witness the cave opening. Haman instructs Aliyah-Din to touch only the lamp and noth... | 25,021 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
as she has no way out of the cave and that the Prince will eventually pick a bride to marry the next day. She then notices that the lamp has writing that reads "Rub Me"; she rubs it as it instructs which releases Yogi Bear, a fully powered Genie and his sidekick Boo Boo, a Genie-in-trainin... | 25,022 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
The Prince apologizes for not having selected a bride and wanting to put his father's happiness before his own, reveals he will choose a bride and marry whoever it may be the next day, despite the fact he is still upset over losing Aliyah-Din. However, the Prince now notices his father's c... | 25,023 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
Haman uses his first 2 wishes to make himself sultan and ruler of the whole universe. Aliyah-Din escapes from the dungeon and removes the lamp from Haman's grasp, leaving him without a third wish. Aliyah-Din finally gets a do-over of three wishes and uses her first wish to bring everything... | 25,024 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
reveals to her that he has been in love with her ever since he first saw her. Aliyah-Din is delighted and The Prince assures her that they can be together. Soon the now-awakened Sultan arrives and the Prince introduces his father to Aliyah-Din and reveals his desire to marry her. The Sulta... | 25,025 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
to Aliyah-Din as it appears that their love can never be. However, upon learning her name, The Sultan realizes that Aliyah-Din is the long-lost princess who the Prince was engaged to. Delighted, The Sultan allows them to be married. Aliyah-Din then asks Yogi for her final wish to be a huge... | 25,026 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
throughout the story.
Before Shaggy can escape, the Caliph decides to start the ceremony right away, but when the wedding cake arrives, Shaggy pigs out, and his ruse is discovered. However, the Caliph reveals that since he enjoyed listening to the stories, he has decided to make Shaggy an... | 25,027 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
Don Messick - Boo-Boo Bear
- Jennifer Hale - Aliyah-Din
- John Kassir - Haman
- Rob Paulsen - Prince
- Brian Cummings - Sultan
- Paul Eiding - Scribe
- Tony Jay - Lord of the Amulet
- Kath Soucie - Princess, Female Townsfolk
## Sinbad the Sailor.
- Allan Melvin - Magilla Gorilla
... | 25,028 |
1600036 | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scooby-Doo!%20in%20Arabian%20Nights | Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
In March 1995, right after the special aired, it was released for the first time on VHS, distributed by Turner Home Entertainment. In June 1996, there was a reprint for this tape, except it had the same previews in it and no closing. On September 3, 2004, on its 10th anniversary, it was re... | 25,029 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
Music of Sicily
The Music of Sicily refers to music created by peoples from the isle of Sicily. It was shaped by the island's history, from the island's great presence as part of Magna Grecia 2,500 years ago, through various historical incarnations as a part of the Roman Empire, then an integral part o... | 25,030 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
"Italy's granary". Sicilian flute music, called friscaletto, is also popular among traditionalist Sicilians, as are Messina's male choirs and the island's ""ciarameddi"" (bagpipes).
Franco Battiato, Carmen Consoli, Fratelli Mancuso and Ciccio Busacca are among the most popular musicians from Sicily. Bu... | 25,031 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
has the most vibrant jazz scene in Italy, based in Palermo and including Enzo Rao and his group Shamal, who have added native Sicilian and Arab influences to American jazz. Sicily is also home to Franco Battiato, a popular musician and composer who fused rock and roll with traditional and classical infl... | 25,032 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
States between the late 1800s and early 1900s is also credited for aiding the creation of jazz as well. During this migration, Sicilian music integrated with music from the local African American and Creole communities, which resulted in the development of jazz. Two members of the Original Dixieland Jas... | 25,033 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
of Sicilian traditional music in the 20th century, including lullabies, dance music, festival music, epic storytelling and religious music. The Siciliana, a slow and lilting Italian style of music in triple meter, is loosely but not definitively associated with Sicily since the 1600s.
Sicily is home to... | 25,034 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
The jaw harp, known in Sicilian as "marranzanu" is heavily associated with Sicilian folk music. Since its invention in the early 19th century, the Organetto, a diatonic folk accordion, also has been prevalent in traditional Sicilian music. Percussion instruments include tambourines and other frame drums... | 25,035 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
16th century and the visit of Charles V. Currently, there are about a dozen theaters in the city of Palermo that feature live music. Among these are the Teatro Massimo, the Teatro di Verdura a Villa Castelnuovo (an ex-Bourbon hunting lodge for the royal family of Naples on the frequent trips to Sicily),... | 25,036 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
Week on the premises of the cathedral;
- Agrigento: the site of an important folk festival, the "Sagro del Mandorlo in Fiore". The city also has the Teatro Luigi Pirandello and an archaeological museum that hosts concerts amidst ancient ruins.
- Caltanissetta: the recently reopened Teatro Regina Margh... | 25,037 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
site of music performances; so it is the medieval castle (13th century), one of the biggest fortresses in Sicily, which has hosted for decades the so-called "Closest theater to stars", name due to the altitude of the castle and town of Enna (more than 950 m on the sea level).
- Messina: the Teatro Vitt... | 25,038 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
is one of the most charming music venues of Italy, the well-preserved Greek theatre which regularly hosts a season of concerts every summer.
- Ragusa: the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista hosts classical music concerts; in the town of Modica, there is a library and center for popular arts and traditi... | 25,039 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
city of Trapani), the International Week of Medieval and Renaissance Music (in Erice), the International Opera Festival (in Alcamo), and the International Piano Competition and the Mario del Monaco Opera Competition (in Marsala). The Friends of Music in Trapani sponsors a very active concert season (see... | 25,040 |
1599954 | Music of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sicily | Music of Sicily
rio del Monaco Opera Competition (in Marsala). The Friends of Music in Trapani sponsors a very active concert season (see "external link," below).
# References.
- Much of the information on the music activities, theaters and other venues for music in this region is taken from "Guide Cultura, i luoghi ... | 25,041 |
1600070 | Thomas Ray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Ray | Thomas Ray
Thomas Ray
Thomas Ray may refer to:
- Thomas S. Ray (born 1954), American ecologist
- Thomas Ray (cricketer) (1770–?), English cricketer
- Tom Ray (1919–2010), American animator
- Tom V. Ray (born 1965), American bassist
- Thomas K. Ray, Episcopal bishop in the USA, Bishop of Northern Michigan
- Thoma... | 25,042 |
1600050 | Colorful (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorful%20(manga) | Colorful (manga)
Colorful (manga)
Anime fans tend to either love or hate the series as it is considered either wildly funny, or tasteless and depraved. "Colorful" shares similarities with "Golden Boy" in several ways: most notably the inclusion of one of the characters acting the toilet fetish of Kintaro Oe in one of ... | 25,043 |
1600050 | Colorful (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorful%20(manga) | Colorful (manga)
appearing once in the whole series. There are also several characters that make appearances across episodes.
Hirokawa and Itani are two freshmen at the University of Tokyo. They are perverts in their own way. Hirokawa and Itani are seen enjoying the wind blowing girls' skirts up and seeing their attra... | 25,044 |
1600050 | Colorful (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorful%20(manga) | Colorful (manga)
in between vignettes, either winking or with her name being printed all over the screen with "Yamamoto!" being said by multiple people in different ways.
Steve is an American exchange student majoring in photography and cinematography at the University of Tokyo. He uses his cameras for voyeuristic pan... | 25,045 |
1600050 | Colorful (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorful%20(manga) | Colorful (manga)
as Yamamoto's Coach (Rob Mungle in the English dub)
- Miho Yamada as Mademoiselle and Space Alien
- Urara Takano as Pamela
- Jamie, a friend of Steve seen only in episode thirteen.
- Giant Schoolgirl, a giant female who only shows up in episode 12.
- Prize A, the grand prize from a contest that Hi... | 25,046 |
1600050 | Colorful (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorful%20(manga) | Colorful (manga)
- Prize B, the consolation prize from a contest that Itani wins. She is a two-dimensional anime standee with light green hair and gold eyes, wearing a provactive light pink dress. Prize B tries to do whatever she can to make Itani happy. However, he finds her annoying and sealed her up in a box against... | 25,047 |
1600067 | Tommaso Toffoli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommaso%20Toffoli | Tommaso Toffoli
Tommaso Toffoli
Tommaso Toffoli () is an Italian-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University where he joined the faculty in 1995. He has worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of t... | 25,048 |
1600067 | Tommaso Toffoli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommaso%20Toffoli | Tommaso Toffoli
ention of the Toffoli gate.
# Early life and career.
He was born in June, 1943 in Montereale Valcellina, in northeastern Italy, and was raised in Rome. He received his laurea in physics (equivalent to a Master's degree) from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1967.
In 1976 he received a Ph.D. in c... | 25,049 |
1600063 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 is a series of 10 syndicated made-for-television animated films produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions as part of "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" programming block from 1987 to 1988, featuring the studio's popular animated charac... | 25,050 |
1600063 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
Editor: Gil Iverson
- Supervising Director: Ray Patterson
- Character Designer: Scott Jeralds
- Casting Director: Andrea Romano
- Recording Director: Gordon Hunt
- Graphics Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
- Music Composed and Conducted by: Sven Libaek
- Director of Music Supervision: Joanne ... | 25,051 |
1600063 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
from Warner Home Video. On December 7, 2010, Warner Bros. released "Yogi's Great Escape" on DVD via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the U.S. Warner Home Video also released "Scooby... | 25,052 |
1600063 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
Home Video on July 3, 2001. The film was finally released on DVD for the first time on June 14, 2011.
On , "Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose" was released on VHS videocassette in the United States. On December 7, 2010, Warner Home Video released "Yogi Bear and the Magica... | 25,053 |
1600063 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
stars 10" episodes are available on DVD through Warner Archive. While all 10 movies have appeared on Boomerang, a cable channel primarily dedicated to classic Hanna-Barbera material, all the films in the series appear in regular rotation on Boomerang, as part of "Boomerang Theatre". All 10 f... | 25,054 |
1600078 | Eufemio Zapata | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eufemio%20Zapata | Eufemio Zapata
Eufemio Zapata
Eufemio Zapata Salazar (1873, Ciudad Ayala - June 18, 1917, Cuautla, Morelos) was a participant in the Mexican Revolution and the brother of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. He was known as a womanizer, a macho man, and a very heavy drinker.
He was killed by Sidronio "el Loco" Cama... | 25,055 |
1600078 | Eufemio Zapata | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eufemio%20Zapata | Eufemio Zapata
quick death. To this Camacho replied:
"You have made many people suffer a great deal. Live a little longer, so that you also will learn what it is to suffer."
He then took Eufemio upon his horse, and threw him face-first on an anthill. Camacho, knowing Emiliano would want revenge, joined Zapata's enemi... | 25,056 |
1600038 | Music of Sardinia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sardinia | Music of Sardinia
Music of Sardinia
Sardinia is probably the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy and, musically, is best known for the "tenore" polyphonic singing, sacred chants called "gosos", the "launeddas", an ancient instrument that consists of a set of three single-reed pipes, all three mouth-bl... | 25,057 |
1600038 | Music of Sardinia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sardinia | Music of Sardinia
music that has achieved some international attention, and they are still played during religious ceremonies and dances ("su ballu").
Some of the most famous player were Efisio Melis, Antonio Lara, Dionigi Burranca and Luigi Lai. Many of the launeddas musicians are from the south of the island from vi... | 25,058 |
1600038 | Music of Sardinia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sardinia | Music of Sardinia
a chiterra" is also found in Sardinia, represented by performers like Luiginu Cossu, Maria Carta, and nowadays Francesco Demuro; this genre is especially well known in the northwest region of Logudoro near the city of Sassari and in the northeast region of Gallura.
# Cantu a tenore (Polyphonic throat... | 25,059 |
1600038 | Music of Sardinia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sardinia | Music of Sardinia
Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Interesting fact is that two voices of Cantu a Tenore choir have significant similarities with Tuvan Throat Singing (Khöömei), especially the voices of "bassu" and "contra", which are technically related to "kargyraa" and "korekteer".
# Other traditional sin... | 25,060 |
1600038 | Music of Sardinia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music%20of%20Sardinia | Music of Sardinia
and "sa campidanesa".
Aside from the "launeddas", traditional instruments include the "benas", the "organittu", the "chiterra", and the "tamburinos".
Other influential Sardinian musicians include Totore Chessa (organetto), 1930s launeddas legend Efisio Melis, Maria Carta, Mauro Palmas, Elena Ledda o... | 25,061 |
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outdoor summer concerts and festivals. The city is the site of the Palestrina music conservatory.
The town of Tadasuni is the site of the interesting Giovanni Dore museum, a collection of 400 traditional Sardinian folk instruments. The Ente Musicale di Nuoro was founded in 1987 and, among other activ... | 25,062 |
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temper [your] tyranny"), is the revolutionary anthem written in Sardinian language by Francesco Ignazio Mannu during the revolt occurred in 1794 all over the island against the feudalism, which culminated in the expulsion of the Piedmontese tyrants: the hymn had been translated in English by John Warr... | 25,063 |
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official hymn of the Sassari Mechanized Brigade, written in Sardinian by Luciano Sechi in 1994.
# See also.
- Ballu tundu
- Cantu a chiterra
- Cantu a tenore
- Launeddas
- Mutu
# Bibliography.
- Diego Carpitella, Leonardo Sole, Pietro Sassu, "La musica sarda" , I-III ("Original Folk & Ethnic m... | 25,064 |
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Paolo Mercurio, "Dialogo del Canto a Tenore, de tenore cantu" ,Solinas, Nuoro, 2001.
- Paolo Mercurio, "La Cultura delle Launeddas", vol. I, Solinas Edizioni, Nuoro, 2010
- Paolo Mercurio, "Introduzione alla Musica Sarda",Milano, 2014,
- Francesco Giannattasio - Bernard Lortat-Jacob, "Modalità di i... | 25,065 |
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, in «Cahiers de musique traditionnelles», VI, 69-86, 1993.
- Andreas Fridolin Weis Bentzon, "The launeddas. A Sardinian folk-music instrument (2 voll. Acta Musicologica Danica n°1)", Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1969
- A. F. W. Bentzon, "Launeddas", Cagliari, 2002
- Paul Vernon, "Ethnic and Verna... | 25,066 |
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c, 1898 - 1960; A resource and guide to recordings" , Greenwood Press Westport, CT- London, 1995.
- Surian, Alessio. "Tenores and Tarantellas". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), "World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East", pp. 1... | 25,067 |
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Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (pronounced ; born August 4, 1933) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and political donor. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and is the parent... | 25,068 |
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Party, and made the largest single donation to any U.S. presidential inauguration when he gave the Trump inaugural committee US$5 million.
, Adelson was listed by "Forbes" as having a fortune of US$33.3 billion, making him the 15th-richest person in the world. He is a major contributor to Republican Pa... | 25,069 |
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this was less than the $100 million donation some had predicted).
# Early life and education.
Sheldon Gary Adelson was born in 1933, into a low-income family and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, the son of Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur Adelson. His father's family was of Ukrainian Jew... | 25,070 |
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$10,000 (or $102,349 in 2017 dollars) from his uncle to start a candy-vending-machine business. He attended the City College of New York, but did not graduate. He attended trade school in a failed attempt to become a court reporter, then subsequently joined the army.
After being discharged from the arm... | 25,071 |
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him a serial entrepreneur.
# Business career.
## COMDEX.
In the late 1970s, Adelson and his partners developed the COMDEX trade shows for the computer industry, beginning in 1979. It was the premier computer trade show through much of the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1995, Adelson and his partners sold the I... | 25,072 |
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Expo and Convention Center, then the only privately owned and operated convention center in the U.S.
In 1991, while honeymooning in Venice with his second wife, Miriam, Adelson found the inspiration for a mega-resort hotel. He razed the Sands and spent $1.5 billion to construct The Venetian, a Venice-t... | 25,073 |
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casinos that were awarded a slots license by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in 2006. The casino opened May 22, 2009. Table games began operation on July 18, 2010. The hotel opened May 27, 2011. Adelson said "If we have the opportunity to build an integrated resort, we're going to do it. We think ... | 25,074 |
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that had been a Portuguese colony until December 1999. The one-million-square-foot Sands Macao became the People's Republic of China's first Las Vegas-style casino when it opened in May 2004. He recovered his initial $265-million investment in one year and, because he owns 69% of the stock, he increased... | 25,075 |
1599923 | Sheldon Adelson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheldon%20Adelson | Sheldon Adelson
that he planned to open more hotels under brands such as Four Seasons, Sheraton and St. Regis. His Las Vegas Sands planned to invest $12 billion and build 20,000 hotel rooms on the Cotai Strip by 2010.
Adelson's company was reportedly under federal investigation over alleged violations of the Foreign C... | 25,076 |
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Sands, opened in 2010 at a rumored cost of $5.5 billion. It includes stores at The Shoppes, convention center for Sands Live concert series, multiple swimming pools, night clubs, and 2,500 luxury hotel rooms.
# Other activities.
## Israeli press.
In 2007, Adelson made an unsuccessful bid to purchase ... | 25,077 |
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newspaper "Makor Rishon". In 2016 Adelson's attorney announced that he does not own Israel Hayom, but that it is owned by a relative of his.
According to a Target Group Index (TGI) survey published in July 2011, "Israel Hayom", which unlike all other Israeli newspapers is distributed for free, became t... | 25,078 |
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This trend was already observed by a TGI survey in July 2010.
In 2011, the Israeli press said that Adelson was unhappy with coverage of him on Israeli Channel 10, which alleged that Adelson had acquired a casino license in Las Vegas inappropriately through political connections. The channel apologized ... | 25,079 |
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had been correct and appropriate.
## Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In December 2015 Adelson purchased the "Las Vegas Review-Journal" newspaper. The purchase was made through a limited liability company called News + Media Capital Group LLC, and his involvement with the deal was initially kept secret. A we... | 25,080 |
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paper's editor stepped down in a "voluntary buyout". In January 2016 a set of editorial principles were drawn up and publicized to ensure the newspaper's independence and to deal with possible conflicts of interest involving Adelson's ownership. In February Craig Moon, a veteran of the Gannett organizat... | 25,081 |
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heavily edited by top management.
Many reporters and editors left the newspaper citing "curtailed editorial freedom, murky business dealings and unethical managers." All three reporters who originally broke the story about Adelson's ownership have left. Longtime columnist John L. Smith, who had often w... | 25,082 |
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Democrats) in the 2016 election cycle. It also makes him by far the largest donor to Donald Trump's White House bid.
Adelson's newspaper, the "Las Vegas Review-Journal", was the only major newspaper nationwide to endorse Trump.
Adelson was also the largest donor to Trump's inaugural celebrations, with... | 25,083 |
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over, ballistic missiles in the middle of the desert that doesn't hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever". He went on to explain that, after a show of force and a threat to also drop a nuclear bomb on Tehran, the U.S. should then say: if "You [Iran] want to be peaceful, ju... | 25,084 |
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Weidner, the president of Adelson's Las Vegas Sands company, testified about a telephone conversation between Adelson and his friend then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) about a bill proposed by Representative Tom Lantos (D) that would have prevented the U.S. Olympic Committee from voting in favo... | 25,085 |
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Cannabis.
Fighting the "mainstreaming" of cannabis legalization is a personal passion of Adelson, whose son Mitchell died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. Mitchell was said to have used cocaine and heroin from an early age.
Adelson believes cannabis is a gateway drug. Andy Abboud, vice president ... | 25,086 |
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Committee (AIPAC), which supports a two-state solution and continued aid to the Palestinians, Adelson charted a course for IAC to oppose both of these positions. Israeli journalist Chemi Shalev said that IAC had not intended to become a political pressure group and that Adelson had "hijacked" it.
## In... | 25,087 |
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named the Restore America's Wire Act, has been met with mixed reviews by the Republican Party.
## Honors.
Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson, were presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution ... | 25,088 |
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2014, Adelson was named to CNBC's list of 200 people who have transformed business over the last 25 years; those on the list were described as "top leaders, icons and rebels, a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence, sparked the biggest changes and caused the most disruption in bu... | 25,089 |
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accountability, as well as support for Jewish causes. In a 2012 "Wall Street Journal" op-ed titled "I Didn't Leave the Democrats. They Left me", Adelson specifies three reasons why he switched political parties to the Republicans. First, he cites foreign policy, pointing to a Gallup poll that suggests R... | 25,090 |
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who kept a charity box for the poor in our house ... would have frowned on this fact about modern Democrats." Third, he cites a nonpartisan study of Illinois's finances by the State Budget Crisis Task Force and political scientist Walter Russell Mead claiming that Democratic Party economic policies don'... | 25,091 |
1599923 | Sheldon Adelson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheldon%20Adelson | Sheldon Adelson
economic policies that would certainly be better for those Americans now looking for work.
Others have attributed different motives for Adelson's party switch. "Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?", he reportedly said to an associate according to "The N... | 25,092 |
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affairs, who said Adelson told her that "old Democrats were with the union and he wanted to break the back of the union, consequently he had to break the back of the Democrats". "The Boston Globe" claims that Adelson has "waged some bitter anti-union battles in Las Vegas". Berkley is further quoted in t... | 25,093 |
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elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it. Because I know that guys like Soros have been doing it for years, if not decades. And they stay below the radar by creating a network of corporations to funnel their money. I have my own philosophy and I'm not ashamed of it. I gave the money beca... | 25,094 |
1599923 | Sheldon Adelson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheldon%20Adelson | Sheldon Adelson
was the principal financial backer of Freedom's Watch, a now-defunct political advocacy group founded to counter the influence of George Soros and Democratic-leaning lobby groups such as MoveOn.org. "Almost all" of the $30 million Freedom's Watch spent on the 2008 elections came from Adelson.
## 2010.
... | 25,095 |
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and you will hear why Gingrich said recently that the Palestinians are an invented people."
U.S. Senate candidates he donated to:
- Carly Fiorina (R-CA), former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard
- Sharron Angle (R-NV), Assemblywoman
- Sue Lowden (R-NV), former State Senator
- Scott Brown (... | 25,096 |
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Newt Gingrich and then the eventual nominee Mitt Romney. Altogether he spent $92 million supporting losing candidates during the 2012 United States presidential election cycle.
On January 7, 2012, Adelson bolstered Gingrich's then-faltering campaign with a $5-million donation to the pro-Gingrich super ... | 25,097 |
1599923 | Sheldon Adelson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheldon%20Adelson | Sheldon Adelson
with instructions to use it to advance a "pro-Newt message". Adelson told "Forbes" that he was willing to donate as much as $100 million to Gingrich.
He also donated $5 million to the right-leaning super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund and over $60,000 to the Republican National Committee.
In June 2... | 25,098 |
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China should be pressured to drop its presumptively low fixed exchange rate policy; according to Bloomberg, Adelson would benefit financially in U.S. dollar terms through his interest in Chinese casinos if the Chinese yuan were to appreciate.
## 2014.
Early in 2014 Adelson donated $2.5 million to the ... | 25,099 |
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