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2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
with spoken English than with body English", but that he is "never entirely bad."
Judith Crist praised the film as "stark, simple, concentrating on word and performance, serv[ing] as a reminder of where the substance of the play lies." Pauline Kael also criticized the poor sound, but gave a favorabl... | 33,100 |
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that "almost nobody has seen it in America, and that drives me nuts."
## Legacy.
Welles held "Chimes at Midnight" in high regard. "It's my favorite picture, yes," he told interviewer Leslie Megahey in a 1982 interview for "BBC Arena":
If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that'... | 33,101 |
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"Chimes at Midnight" to be Welles' finest work. Several years after its initial release, film critic Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" wrote that "Chimes at Midnight" "may be the greatest Shakespearean film ever made, bar none." Joseph McBride has called it "Welles' masterpiece, the fullest, most... | 33,102 |
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in "Battleship Potemkin" and the Battle on the Ice sequence in "Alexander Nevsky", both directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" used Welles' Battle of Shrewsbury sequence as an inspiration for the Battle of Agincourt, and depicted Prince Hal's rejection of Falstaff in a way that wa... | 33,103 |
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and Prince Hal influenced "My Own Private Idaho"Gus Van Sant's 1991 loose adaptation of "Henry IV Parts 1 and 2".
In 2011, Bonham's Auction House sold a large archive of Welles' material that had once belonged to the film's executive producer Alessandro Tasca di Cuto. Most of the material was from "... | 33,104 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
director of the Film Library of Catalonia Esteve Riambau published a book about the film called "The Things We've Seen: Welles and Falstaff" in 2015.
## Awards.
At the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, "Chimes at Midnight" was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or and won the 20th Anniversary Prize a... | 33,105 |
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the families of producers Emiliano Piedra and Angel Escolano and the estate of Orson Wellesmaintained by Beatrice Welles among others have all claimed ownership of the film. For many years the only available source was a region-free DVD from Brazil. Mr Bongo Records screened a restored version in the... | 33,106 |
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restoration."
The film had a European release on DVD and Blu-ray on June 29, 2015.
## 2016 Restoration.
Janus Films released a restored version of the film on D.C.P. that premiered on January 1, 2016, at Film Forum in New York City January 1–12, 2016 and Cinefamily in Los Angeles. This restored ve... | 33,107 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
Falstaff.
Welles considered Falstaff to be "Shakespeare's greatest creation" and said that the role was "the most difficult part I've ever played." Keith Baxter believed that making the film was Welles' life's ambition. Before the 1939 Boston premiere of "Five Kings", Welles told journalists "I will... | 33,108 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
This reverence for the character increased over the years and by the time Welles made "Chimes at Midnight", his focus was entirely on the relationships between Falstaff, Hal and Henry IV. He believed that the core of the story was "the betrayal of friendship." Welles called Hal's rejection of Falstaf... | 33,109 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
world, and is to some extent expressed in other countries of the Medieval epoch: the age of chivalry, of simplicity, of Maytime and all that. It is more than Falstaff who is dying. It's the old England dying and betrayed." Many film theorists and Welles biographers have written about the recurrent th... | 33,110 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
depiction of Falstaff infantile and called his performance a "[p]ower baby ... an eating, sucking, foetus-like creature." Welles also called Falstaff "the greatest conception of a good man, the most completely good man, in all of drama", and said that "the closer I thought I was getting to Falstaff t... | 33,111 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
needed and were always merry and fun loving. Film scholar Jack Jorgens also compared Welles to Falstaff, stating that "to a man who directed and starred in a masterpiece and has since staggered through three decades of underfinanced, hurried, flawed films, scores of bit parts, narrations, and intervi... | 33,112 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
as Falstaff, stating that "like Falstaff, I believe he could have achieved so much, but it was frittered away." Kenneth S. Rothwell has called Hal's rejection of Falstaff allegorical to Hollywood's rejection of Welles. Welles had become deeply depressed in the late 1950s after the disappointment of m... | 33,113 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
Welles along with him when he was indulging in his vices. Welles observed his father much like Falstaff is observed by Hal and depends on his young protégé to bail him out of trouble. The love triangle between Prince Hal and his two father figures, Henry IV and Falstaff, is also similar to Welles' re... | 33,114 |
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until he cleaned up his act and stopped drinking; Welles' father died shortly afterwards, alone and lonely, and Welles always blamed himself for his father's death, stating, "I always "thought" I killed him."
Welles' alleged biological son Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was born out of wedlock to Welles ... | 33,115 |
2507217 | Chimes at Midnight | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chimes%20at%20Midnight | Chimes at Midnight
d two surrogate fathers in addition to his biological father. In the late 1950s when she was sixteen years old, Welles' eldest daughter Christopher Welles Feder cut off all ties with Welles under pressure from her mother, who disapproved of Welles' influence on her. Welles and Feder later reconnected... | 33,116 |
2507412 | Information gain in decision trees | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20gain%20in%20decision%20trees | Information gain in decision trees
Information gain in decision trees
In information theory and machine learning, information gain is a synonym for "Kullback–Leibler divergence"; the amount of information gained about a random variable or signal from observing another random variable. However, in the context of decisi... | 33,117 |
2507412 | Information gain in decision trees | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20gain%20in%20decision%20trees | Information gain in decision trees
Kullback-Leibler divergence of the prior distribution formula_2 for x from the posterior distribution formula_3 for "x" given "a".
The expected value of the information gain is the mutual information of "X" and "A" – i.e. the reduction in the entropy of "X" achieved by learning the s... | 33,118 |
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with high mutual information should be preferred to other attributes.
# General definition.
In general terms, the expected information gain is the change in information entropy from a prior state to a state that takes some information as given:
where formula_5 is the conditional en... | 33,119 |
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taken by attribute formula_13, let formula_17be defined as the set of training inputs of formula_8 such for which attribute formula_13 is equal to formula_15. Then the information gain of formula_21 for attribute formula_22 is the difference between the a priori Shannon entropy formul... | 33,120 |
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into mutually exclusive and all-inclusive subsets, inducing a categorical probability distribution formula_29 on the values formula_30 of attribute formula_22. The distribution is given formula_32. In this representation, the information gain of formula_21 given formula_22 can be defi... | 33,121 |
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when information gain is applied to attributes that can take on a large number of distinct values. For example, suppose that one is building a decision tree for some data describing the customers of a business. Information gain is often used to decide which of the attributes are the m... | 33,122 |
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ting).
To counter this problem, Ross Quinlan proposed to instead choose the attribute with highest information gain ratio from among the attributes whose information gain is average or higher. This biases the decision tree against considering attributes with a large number of distinc... | 33,123 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with "The Entertainer" (1960), directed by... | 33,124 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
"Big Fish" (2003), "The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007), "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007), "The Bourne Legacy" (2012), and the James Bond film "Skyfall" (2012).
A recipient of BAFTA , Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Acto... | 33,125 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
of Alice (née Hobson) and Albert Finney, a bookmaker. He was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which he graduated in 1956.
# Career.
## Early career.
While at RADA Finney made an early TV appearance playing Mr Hardcastle i... | 33,126 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Love", as Shakespeare's Troilus. Finney graduated from RADA and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Finney was offered a contract by the Rank Organisation but turned it down to perform for the Birmingham Rep. He was in a production of "The Miser" for Birmingham Rep, which was filmed for the... | 33,127 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
episodes of "Emergency-Ward 10" and was Lysander in a TV version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1959) directed by Peter Hall.
In 1959 Finney appeared at Stratford in the title role in "Coriolanus", replacing an ill Laurence Olivier.
## Film stardom.
Finney's first film appearance was in Tony Richardso... | 33,128 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
that year. It earned over half a million pounds in profit.
Finney then did "Billy Liar" (1960) on stage and for British television.
Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's production of "Lawrence of Arabia" after a successful and elaborate screen-test that took four days to shoot. ... | 33,129 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
run at the Phoenix ended in March 1962, after 239 performances there, when Finney had to leave the cast to fulfill a contractual obligation with a film company.
## "Tom Jones".
Finney starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film "Tom Jones", directed by Richardson and written by Osborne. The success o... | 33,130 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
about eight years and had only had one vacation... Captain Cook had been a hero of mine when I was a kid, and I thought it would be exciting to go to some of the places in the Pacific where he'd been."
The success of "Tom Jones" enabled Finney produce his next film, "Night Must Fall", in 1964, which he a... | 33,131 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
and "If..." (1968), directed by Lindsay Anderson. Memorial also did stage productions, such as "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg", which Finney performed in London and then Broadway. Memorial also produced some in which Finney did not appear, such as "Spring and Port Wine" and "The Burgular".
Memorial then ... | 33,132 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
for Memorial. Memorial continued to produce films in which Finney did not appear: "Spring and Port Wine" (1970), with James Mason; "Loving Memory" (1971), an early directorial effort from Tony Scott; "Bleak Moments" (1971), the first feature from Mike Leigh; "O Lucky Man!" (1973) for Anderson; and "Law an... | 33,133 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
"Murder on the Orient Express".
Finney played Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the film "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974). Finney became so well known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years, "People really do think I am 300 pounds with a... | 33,134 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
breathe in the same way that you do when you're playing the classics. When you have to deliver those long, complex speeches on stage, you can't heave your shoulders after every sentence. The set of muscles required for that kind of acting need to be trained. I really wanted to try and do justice to my own... | 33,135 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Duellists" (1977), the first feature directed by Ridley Scott. He also released an album through Motown.
## Return to films.
Finney had not played a lead role in a feature film in six years, and started to think about returning to cinema. The last two successful films he had made were "Scrooge" and "Ori... | 33,136 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
really assured and comfortable in front of a camera, you've got to do it for a while."
The first three were thrillers: "Loophole" (1981), with Susannah York; "Wolfen" (1981), directed by Michael Wadleigh; and "Looker" (1981), written and directed by Michael Crichton.
He received excellent reviews for hi... | 33,137 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
film after "Shoot the Moon" was "marvelous. I use a completely different side of myself as Warbucks. 'Annie' is show biz; it's open, simple and direct. It needs bold, primary colors. I don't have to reveal the inner workings of the character, and that's a relief."
Finney went into "The Dresser" (1983), d... | 33,138 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
1984 dramatisation of the inquest into the death of Steve Biko which was filmed for TV following a London run.
Finney performed on stage in "Orphans" in 1986, then did the "film version" , directed by Alan J. Pakula. He had the lead in a TV mini series, "The Endless Game" (1989), written and directed by ... | 33,139 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
did "The Green Man" (1990) for British TV, based on a novel by Kingsley Amis.
He followed it with "The Playboys" (1992) for Gillies MacKinnon; "Rich in Love" (1993) for Bruce Beresford; "The Browning Version" (1994) for Mike Figgis; "A Man of No Importance" (1994), for Suri Krishnamma; and "The Run of th... | 33,140 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
of Champions" (1999) and "Simpatico" (1999).
## 2000s.
Finney had his biggest hit in a long while with "Erin Brockovich" (2000), alongside Julia Roberts for Steven Soderbergh.
Finney had a cameo in Soderbergh's "Traffic" (2000) and played Ernest Hemingway in "Hemingway, the Hunter of Death" (2001) for ... | 33,141 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
labourer looking after his great-nephew. The show ran for two series broadcast in 2001 and 2003.
Finney had a key role in "Big Fish" (2001) directed by Tim Burton, and did another cameo for Soderbergh in "Ocean's Twelve" (2004). He sang in Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" (2005) and the film of "Aspects of Lo... | 33,142 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, where he performed in the mid-1960s in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
## Theatre.
He received Tony Award nominations for "Luther" (1964) and "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1968), and also starred on stage in "Love fo... | 33,143 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
1994, Finney played a gay bus conductor in early 1960s Dublin in "A Man of No Importance".
A lifelong supporter of Manchester United, Finney narrated the documentary "Munich", about the air crash that killed most of the Busby Babes in 1958, which was shown on United's TV channel MUTV in February 2008.
#... | 33,144 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
with kidney cancer in 2007 and underwent surgery, followed by six rounds of chemotherapy.
# Death.
Finney died from a chest infection on 7 February 2019, at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, at the age of 82.
# Awards and honours.
Finney turned down the offer of a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in ... | 33,145 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
for "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" — Won
- 1963 Best British Actor for Tom Jones
- 1973 Best Actor for "Gumshoe"
- 1974 Best Actor for "Murder on the Orient Express"
- 1982 Best Actor for "Shoot the Moon"
- 1984 Best Actor for "The Dresser"
- 1990 Best Actor (BAFTA TV Awards) for "The Green Man... | 33,146 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Made for TV Movie, for his performance as Winston Churchill in HBO's "The Gathering Storm". He had previously been nominated for the HBO telefilm "The Image" (1990).
He received nine Golden Globe Award nominations, winning three:
- 1963 Best Actor in a Motio... | 33,147 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for "Erin Brockovich"
- 2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for "The Gathering Storm" – Won
- 2003 Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for "Big Fish"
For his work on Broadway, Finney was nominated for... | 33,148 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
Golden Laurel for his work on "Scrooge" (1970) and for his work on "Tom Jones", for which he was the 3rd Place Winner for the "Top Male Comedy Performance" for 1964. He was honoured by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as Best Actor for "Under the Volcano" (which he tied with F. Murray Abraham for ... | 33,149 |
43910 | Albert Finney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Finney | Albert Finney
, for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, for "Erin Brockovich", and as a member of the acting ensemble in the film "Traffic". He was also nominated for "The Gathering Storm", for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries, but did not win.
He won the Silver B... | 33,150 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
History of Orkney
Humans have inhabited Orkney for about 8,800 years: archeological evidence dates from Mesolithic times. Scandinavian clans dominated the area from the 8th century CE, using the islands as a base for further incursions. In the late 14th century the archipelago became associated with ... | 33,151 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
convenient building slabs on the shore, preserved numerous structures from this period, including prehistoric villages, brochs, souterrain structures, chambered cairns and standing stones.
The oldest stone house still standing in northern Europe (occupied from 3500 BC to 3100 BC) is at Knap of Howar ... | 33,152 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
at the Standing Stones of Stenness, close to the exceptional Maeshowe passage grave type chambered cairn of about the same period.
The nearby Ring of Brodgar circle of standing stones was one of the first to be analysed by Professor Alexander Thom to establish the likely use of standing stones as ast... | 33,153 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
by elaborate ditch and rampart defences. Both Burroughston Broch and the Broch of Gurness have interesting guard chambers within their thick drystone walls to monitor the single entrance passages.
# Iron Age.
The Iron Age brought impressive "Brochs" or round towers, and "weems" or underground houses... | 33,154 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
the Orkney Islands, which they called "Orcades", thought to be a Brythonic Celtic name. A "king of the Orcades" was one of the 11 rulers said to have paid tribute to Claudius following his invasion of Britain in AD 43. 4th and 5th century sources include the Islands in a Roman province. Archaeological... | 33,155 |
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followed by Celtic missionaries in about 565. They were companions of Saint Columba and their efforts to convert the folk to Christianity seem to have impressed the popular imagination, for the names of several islands include the epithet "Papa" in commemoration of the preachers old.Attribution?
# No... | 33,156 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
that year the earldom of Caithness was granted to Magnus, second son of the Earl of Angus, whom the king of Norway apparently confirmed in the title. Recent studies from the field of population genetics reveal a significant percentage of Norse ethnic heritage—up to one third of the Y chromosomes on th... | 33,157 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
sailed to Newfoundland in 1398, returning in 1400.
# Scottish rule.
In 1468 Orkney and Shetland were pledged by Christian I, in his capacity as king of Norway, for the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland, and as the money was never paid, their connection... | 33,158 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
the Sinclairs of Orkney and the Sinclairs of Caithness.
In 1564 Lord Robert Stewart, natural son of James V of Scotland, who had visited Kirkwall twenty-four years before, was made sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and received possession of the estates of the udallers; in 1581 he was created earl of O... | 33,159 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
During the Protectorate they were visited by a detachment of Oliver Cromwell's troops, who attacked various locations with his English Navy and the Roundhead Army. It is claimed by sympathetic writers that he initiated the inhabitants into various industrial arts and new methods of agriculture.
Re: S... | 33,160 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
subject to an annual feu-duty of 500 pounds; but in 1766 his estates were sold to Sir Lawrence Dundas, ancestor of the Earls of Zetland.
# Religion.
In early times, both the archbishop of Hamburg and the archbishop of York disputed with the Norwegians ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Orkney and the ... | 33,161 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
Orkney is wholly Norse, and the Norse tongue which evolved into the local Norn, at last extinguished by the constant influx of settlers from Scotland, lingered until the end of the 18th century. Readers of Scott's "Pirate" will remember the frank contempt which Magnus Troil expressed for the Scots, an... | 33,162 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
and mode of land tenure (that is, absolute freehold as distinguished from feudal tenure) lingered to some extent, and the remaining udallers held their lands and passed them on without written title.
# Twentieth century.
The islands cluster round the huge deep-water anchorage of Scapa Flow like a pr... | 33,163 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
and scuttled all the ships. Most ships were salvaged, but the remaining wrecks are now a favoured haunt of recreational divers.
# Second World War.
One month into World War II, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow. As a result, barriers were built to clos... | 33,164 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
attraction. The Scapa Flow base was closed in 1956.
# Recent years.
In the 1960s and 1970s there were reports about the potential for uranium mining between Stromness and Yesnaby. Margaret Thatcher's plans to open such a mine were halted in 1980 after local campaigning, which included production of ... | 33,165 |
2507359 | History of Orkney | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History%20of%20Orkney | History of Orkney
the 1960s and 1970s there were reports about the potential for uranium mining between Stromness and Yesnaby. Margaret Thatcher's plans to open such a mine were halted in 1980 after local campaigning, which included production of "The Yellow Cake Revue" by composer and conductor Peter Maxwell Davies, w... | 33,166 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
Pete Price
Peter Lloyd Price (born 25 January 1946) is a British media personality and radio presenter, based in Liverpool, England. He is best known for the Sunday night talk radio show "Pete Price: Unzipped", which was broadcast across sister stations City Talk 105.9 and Radio City 96.7. The show aired li... | 33,167 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
Sunday.
As a comedian he was a winner on the ITV talent show, New Faces. He is also an author, patron and artist for Claire House Children's Hospice and columnist for the "Liverpool Echo". He is openly gay, which is often the subject of prank calls to his radio show. He is dyslexic and can have trouble read... | 33,168 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
his father, who repeatedly was violent towards Hilda Price. When he was twelve and a half he came to terms with his homosexuality, but when consulting his doctor he was told he'd "grow out of it". Two years later Price went back to the same doctor, only be to prescribed some Valium. A combination of his homo... | 33,169 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
catering for their dinner parties, as well as being a close family friend.
He soon got a professional catering job, a summer at the Cavendish Hotel in Eastbourne and went on to manage a Fullers Tea Shop in Worthing.
Price was sent to an institution in Chester to receive aversion therapy when he came out to... | 33,170 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
several years as the cook on a cruise ship, he became a disc jockey for BBC Radio Merseyside at the age of twenty-one. Shortly after, Price made his first appearance on the comedy scene at Liverpool's 'The Shakespeare', working at various venues which include The Palladium and the QE2. In the 1980s, he becam... | 33,171 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
night talk show on Radio CIty 96.7 – the programme is also carried by sister station City Talk.
In April 2009, Price was made an 'Honorary Scouser' by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
## Current shows.
Price's current show was originally broadcast on Magic Radio, until it garnered mass attention following con... | 33,172 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
psychic and Angel Card reader. The programme is one of the most popular night-time talk shows in the UK, with one show recently attracting 19,000 attempted calls.
## Notable incidents.
Pete was praised for abandoning his midweek show on one occasion in February 2004 to go to the aid of a 13-year-old caller... | 33,173 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
home. Unfortunately, as he arrived, Pete saw an ambulance outside the house. Concerned listeners had already gained entry into the man's home and found that he had died from a suspected heart attack. Soon after this, the Monday-Thursday show left Magic 1548 and was moved to Radio City 96.7's late night phone... | 33,174 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
when police were contacted immediately after the receipt of the threatening text. They also reported that "on another occasion, a man tried to break into Radio City's headquarters, because he had become convinced Price had tried to kill John Lennon"
In January 2008 Pete tried to find his natural father by u... | 33,175 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
2016 Pete and Radio City 2 were contacted by numerous scuba divers and environmentally savvy members of the public begging them to cancel a mass balloon release at midnight on 22 December. The balloon release went ahead. Two leading diving journalists contacted Radio City 2's owner - Bauer Media Group - appe... | 33,176 |
2507497 | Pete Price | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete%20Price | Pete Price
iving journalists contacted Radio City 2's owner - Bauer Media Group - appealing for this practice to be stopped. Bauer Media confirmed that no company within the Group would conduct a balloon release in the future.
# Writer.
In September 2007, Price released an autobiography (co-written by Adrian Butler),... | 33,177 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
Gillig
Gillig (formerly Gillig Brothers) is an American designer and manufacturer of buses. The company headquarters, along with its manufacturing operations, is located in Livermore, California (in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area). By volume, Gillig is the second-largest transit bus manufactu... | 33,178 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
company was one of the largest manufacturers of school buses on the West Coast of the United States. Gillig was located in Hayward, California, for more than 80 years before moving to Livermore in 2017.
# History.
## 1890–1930.
The oldest surviving bus manufacturer in North America, Gillig was founded in 1890... | 33,179 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
as a bookkeeper. In 1907, Jacob Gillig died at the age of 54.
Following the earthquake, the company reopened as the Leo Gillig Automobile Works, which manufactured custom-built vehicle bodies. In 1914, two major achievements would happen to the company. After building a three-story factory, Leo and Chester Gill... | 33,180 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
over the minimal weather protection, Gillig developed an add-on hardtop, patenting its own version in 1919.
The increase of closed car production in the 1920s would render the "Gillig Top" largely obsolete by 1925. While other hardtop manufacturers went out of business, Gillig survived largely on its body produ... | 33,181 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
sporadically since 1914, in 1932, Gillig designed its first school bus body, a configuration it would produce for most of the next 60 years. In 1935, the company designed its first ambulance body; it also became the West Coast distributor of Superior Coach Company, a manufacturer of school buses and professional... | 33,182 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
school bus. The first mid-engine school bus, the Transit Coach wore an all-steel body and was powered by a Hall-Scott gasoline engine. During World War II, Gillig halted school bus production, instead producing trailer buses to transport workers in defense factories.
Following the end of the war, Gillig resumed... | 33,183 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
was made as Gillig purchased the Pacific bus division of Washington-based truck manufacturer Kenworth. At the time, Gillig controlled a 70% market share of Northern California over Crown Coach (based in Los Angeles), along with a similar share of Washington State, Oregon, and Nevada.
In 1959, the company introd... | 33,184 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
Crown Coach competitor, the DT16 is the only 97-passenger school bus ever produced in the United States (during 1977, its capacity was reduced to 90).
In 1978, Stanley Marx retired from Gillig, and the firm was sold to Herrick-Pacific Steel, a Hayward-based steel manufacturer. Following the sale, the company wa... | 33,185 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
of GMC and Flxible, in mid-1976, Gillig entered a partnership with West German manufacturer Neoplan to build a series of European-styled transit buses. The 30-foot "Gillig-Neoplan" buses featured propane-fueled engines as an option; the partnership with Neoplan lasted until 1979.
## 1980–2000.
As a more perman... | 33,186 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
the Phantom became one of the longest-lasting transit models. In 1989, Gillig would introduce the Gillig Spirit; similar to the Gillig-Neoplan, the Spirit was a shorter, medium-duty transit bus.
After over 40 years in production, the Transit Coach ended production in 1982. After a temporary hiatus from school b... | 33,187 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
Originally designed as a rental-car shuttle bus, the Low Floor became popular as a second transit bus product line alongside the standard-floor Phantom.
## 2000–present.
During the 2000s, Gillig would make a number of advances with its vehicles, exploring the uses of alternative fuels and hybrid technologies i... | 33,188 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
Gillig in the same location with the current management team.
In 2015, Gillig Corporation marked the 125th anniversary of its founding.
In May 2017, the company moved its factory from Hayward, California, to Livermore, another East Bay region city, after more than 80 years in Hayward. The move was precipitated... | 33,189 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
the time of the move, the company was predicting that around 850 workers would be employed at the Livermore complex.
# Alternative fuels.
In 1992, Gillig began producing an LNG fueled version of the Phantom in an attempt to produce a low-emissions transit bus, but later discontinued it. The only remaining LNG ... | 33,190 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
introduced an alternative fuel BRT model with CNG propulsion—their first CNG-powered bus produced and first production natural gas buses since 1998. Long Beach Transit purchased a pilot bus in 2011, and placed an order for 63 more in 2012.
On May 21, 2019 Gillig announced a new all electric bus utilizing the ne... | 33,191 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
only propulsion equipment and other ETB-only features such as trolley poles. The Seattle transit agency, Metro, removed the propulsion packages from its old fleet of 1979-built AM General trolley coaches (G.E. traction motor, Randtronics chopper control, and electronic card cage), which the Gillig vehicles were ... | 33,192 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
two of which function as battery electric buses while away from electrical wires and two of which use a diesel generator. The four prototypes were delivered from Vossloh Kiepe in 2014-2015, and after a year of successful testing, a firm order of 26 production battery-electric "NexGen" trolleys was placed in 2017... | 33,193 |
2507480 | Gillig | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gillig | Gillig
tery electric drive train.
# References.
- Gillig, LLC, "gillig.com", retrieved on 2006-12-25
- Transit Coach / Pacific SchoolCoach Online Museum, "gilligcoaches.net", retrieved on 2006-12-25, archived from the original at http://www.gilligcoaches.net/ archive date: 2006-12-30
- Leo Gillig Automobile Works -... | 33,194 |
2507540 | The Siren (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Siren%20(song) | The Siren (song)
The Siren (song)
"The Siren" is the fourth and last single of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's fifth studio album "Once". The song was recorded with the London Session Orchestra and includes many exotic instruments, for example an electric violin and a sitar; it also has very few lines.
"Symp... | 33,195 |
2507540 | The Siren (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Siren%20(song) | The Siren (song)
Track listing.
## Spinefarm Records.
- 1. The Siren (edited)
- 2. The Siren (album version)
- 3. The Siren (live)
- 4. Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (live)
## Nuclear Blast Records.
- 1. The Siren (edited)
- 2. The Siren (album version)
- 3. The Siren (live)
- 4. Symphony of Destruction (live)
-... | 33,196 |
2507540 | The Siren (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Siren%20(song) | The Siren (song)
Spinefarm Records.
- 1. The Siren (edited)
- 2. The Siren (album version)
- 3. The Siren (live)
- 4. Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (live)
## Nuclear Blast Records.
- 1. The Siren (edited)
- 2. The Siren (album version)
- 3. The Siren (live)
- 4. Symphony of Destruction (live)
- 5. Kuolema Tekee T... | 33,197 |
2507336 | Patrick Carpentier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick%20Carpentier | Patrick Carpentier
Patrick Carpentier
Patrick Carpentier (born August 13, 1971) is a Canadian professional auto racing driver. In the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series, he achieved five wins and 24 podiums, as well as two third place championship finishes in 2002 and 2004. The long-time Champ Car driver sw... | 33,198 |
2507336 | Patrick Carpentier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick%20Carpentier | Patrick Carpentier
in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for Go FAS Racing.
# Toyota Atlantic years.
Patrick Carpentier started into Formula Ford 2000 Canada, before moving up to Player’s Toyota Atlantic Championship in 1992. He joined Lynx Racing in 1995, whereby he won his first-ever race ... | 33,199 |
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