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4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
only wearing an undershirt, Honda sees the moles on his side. Back in the car Honda announces his intention to adopt the boy.
## The adoption (ch. 11-20).
In Keiko's hotel room on Nihondaira, Honda explains to her the significance of the moles and tells her the whole story of Kiyoaki's two prev... | 34,600 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
investing the fortune he came into after the war, he has become a millionaire.
By October, Tōru has moved to the house in Hongō and is receiving lessons in table manners and other social skills. Honda is eager to protect him from premature death and tries to inculcate the cynicism that Kiyoaki, ... | 34,601 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
late spring of 1972, two friends of Honda try to arrange a marriage between Tōru and their daughter, Momoko Hamanaka. After dinner, Momoko shows Tōru photo-albums in her room and he makes up his mind to hurt her. The two families go on holiday to Shimoda; it is there that Honda realises that Tōru... | 34,602 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
him a medallion with her monogram on it. Momoko does not notice it until they go swimming together, and she gives the "N" an innocuous interpretation. It is only when Nagisa approaches Tōru in the coffee-house that her jealousy is aroused.
Momoko throws the medallion into a canal and insists tha... | 34,603 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
is off.
Several months later, in early October 1973, Honda and Tōru visit Yokohama, and at the harbourside have a conversation. Tōru realises that Honda has guessed that the letter was fake, and that he takes satisfaction in the guile his adopted son displays. Tōru is furious at being seen throu... | 34,604 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
On 3 September 1974, Honda is caught spying on couples in the park, and the incident makes the newspapers; Tōru moves to have him declared senile.
On 20 December, Tōru goes to a Christmas party at Keiko's. To his amazement, he is the only guest. Keiko reveals Honda's true motivations for adoptin... | 34,605 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
in her cottage. Honda eventually concludes that Tōru was not, in fact, Kiyoaki's reincarnation.
At about this time, Honda is afflicted by pains which he does nothing about for months. On 22 July 1975, just before a hospital appointment, Honda goes to Gesshū Temple for the first time since Februa... | 34,606 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
of Tōru's three tutors
- Shigehisa and Taeko Hamanaka
- Momoko Hamanaka, their daughter
- Nagisa, a woman Tōru plays against Momoko
- Tsune, a maid hired by Tōru
- The Abbess of the Gesshuji, formerly Ayakura Satoko (b. 1893)
- Minor characters
- Two White Russian women, a retired business... | 34,607 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
towers
- Innocent ardency + excellence = beauty
- The inescapably physical nature of the concept of beauty
- Admiration of "men of action" as a sublimated voyeurism
- Suicide as the annihilation of a hated world
- Suicide as a way of "establishing" oneself (Furusawa's anecdote in ch.18 of th... | 34,608 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
a Noh play by Zeami Motokiyo
- The "Numerical Sayings" or "Ekottara-āgama" (Anguttara Nikaya), part of the Sutta Pitaka ("basket of threads/dialogues") in the Tripitaka. Divided into 11 sections, it deals with things of which there are only 1, 2, 3... 11 examples.
- "The Life of the Buddha" (no... | 34,609 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
faculties, meditation, and views. (source)
- The Kitano Scroll in the Kitano Shrine, Kyoto
- Tōru names his favourite painter as Andrea Mantegna
# References to actual history.
- Jirōchō of Shimizu (1820–1893) was the "Tōkaidō's No.1 boss". This larger-than-life figure is the subject of many ... | 34,610 |
4654579 | The Decay of the Angel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Decay%20of%20the%20Angel | The Decay of the Angel
- Shimoda, a city and port in Shizuoka
- Honda lives in Hongō, near the University of Tokyo
- The gardens of the Meiji Shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo (ch.24)
- The Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden of the Mito Tokugawa family, in Tokyo (ch.18,24)
# Notes.
- The book, serialised in the monthly magazine "S... | 34,611 |
4654618 | Buell, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buell,%20Missouri | Buell, Missouri
Buell, Missouri
Buell is an unincorporated community in northern Montgomery County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately five miles northeast of Montgomery City on Route 161.
Buell was platted in 1903, and named after Buell Hensley, a local businessman. A post office called Buell was e... | 34,612 |
4654609 | John Fernandes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Fernandes | John Fernandes
John Fernandes
John Kiran Fernandes is an American multi-instrumentalist musician.
# Professional career.
Fernandes, along with several other members of the Elephant Six Collective, joined the acclaimed psychedelic pop group The Olivia Tremor Control in Athens, GA in 1994. Fernandes was also a member ... | 34,613 |
4654609 | John Fernandes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Fernandes | John Fernandes
frequently contributes to multiple Athens-based bands' live shows and recordings. He currently plays with Circulatory System, The New Sound of Numbers, Old Smokey, Freehand, Lavender Holyfield, Jacob Morris - Moths, and Dream Boat. All of these groups have recordings available. He has also recently been ... | 34,614 |
4654647 | Williamsburg, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Williamsburg,%20Missouri | Williamsburg, Missouri
Williamsburg, Missouri
Williamsburg is an unincorporated community in eastern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route D just north of Interstate 70, approximately thirteen miles northeast of Fulton. The Whetstone Creek Conservation Area along Whetst... | 34,615 |
4654598 | Sean Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean%20Hood | Sean Hood
Sean Hood
Sean Hood (born August 13, 1966) is an American screenwriter best known for horror films and action thrillers.
# Early life.
Hood graduated from Brown University, with a double major in pure mathematics and studio art, and then spent several years working in Hollywood as a set dresser, prop assis... | 34,616 |
4654598 | Sean Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean%20Hood | Sean Hood
screenplay to MTV Films in 2000, and went on to sign a deal with Dimension Films, which included rewrites on "" and "Cursed". He went on to work on "Conan the Barbarian" for producer Avi Lerner, and "". Most recently, he penned an screedplay adaptation of the novel Rolling in The Deep, which will be produced ... | 34,617 |
4654598 | Sean Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean%20Hood | Sean Hood
of Filmmakers Alliance and often collaborates creatively with FA's president, Jacques Thelemaque. His most recent short film is Melancholy Baby.
## Blogging.
Hood writes the blog Genre Hacks.
# Teaching at USC.
He is a adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He teaches the courses "Writing ... | 34,618 |
4654598 | Sean Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean%20Hood | Sean Hood
"Conan the Barbarian" (2011) (writer)
- "Melancholy Baby" (2008) (short film) (writer/director)
- "Nellie Bly" (in development) (written by)
- "The Breathtaker" (in development) (written by)
- "" (2005) (screenplay by)
- "Cursed" (2005) (uncredited rewrite)
- "" (2002) (screenplay by) (story by)
- "" (... | 34,619 |
4654707 | Corso, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corso,%20Missouri | Corso, Missouri
Corso, Missouri
Corso is an unincorporated community in western Lincoln County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route PP, approximately fourteen miles northwest of Troy.
A post office called Corso was established in 1873, and remained in operation until 1980. It is uncl... | 34,620 |
4654699 | Beach ridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beach%20ridge | Beach ridge
Beach ridge
A beach ridge is a wave-swept or wave-deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline. It is commonly composed of sand as well as sediment worked from underlying beach material. The movement of sediment by wave action is called "littoral transport". Movement of material parallel to the shorelin... | 34,621 |
4654699 | Beach ridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beach%20ridge | Beach ridge
in the western United States and inland of the Great Lakes of North America, where they formed at the end of the last ice age when lake levels were much higher due to glacial melting and obstructed outflow caused by glacial ice. Some isolated beach ridges are found in parts of Scandinavia, where glacial mel... | 34,622 |
4654699 | Beach ridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beach%20ridge | Beach ridge
e, causing them to erode and become less distinct. Beach ridges can become routes for roads and trails.
# See also.
- Berm (landform)
- Beach
- Isostasy
- Machair
- Marine terrace
- Strand plain
# Sources.
- "Water Resource Availability in the Maumee River Basin, Indiana", Water Resource Assessment... | 34,623 |
4654720 | Olney, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olney,%20Missouri | Olney, Missouri
Olney, Missouri
Olney is an unincorporated community in western Lincoln County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route O, approximately twelve miles northwest of Troy.
Olney was originally called Nineveh, and under the latter name was platted in 1855. A post office calle... | 34,624 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
America (novel)
America is a young adult novel written by E.R. Frank. It tells the story of America, a fifteen-year-old biracial boy who had gotten lost in the system.
The author of the book, E.R. Frank, is herself a social worker. In an author's note at the end of the book, she says she has worked wi... | 34,625 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
started to darken at the age of five years old. The family's nanny, Sylvia Harper, adopts/fosters America. She had a "man-friend" named Clark Poignant, and a half-brother named Browning. Clark Poignant befriended America. After a year, America gets sent back to his biological mother by the state. Browni... | 34,626 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
over the place. However, their luck runs out when an elevator worker finds them scribbling America's numbers all over the elevator. America is sent to a hospital, and Brooklyn and Lyle are sent to a foster home. Soon, he is sent back to Mrs. Harper.
Mrs. Harper has grown old and arthritic, and Browning... | 34,627 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
and they develop crushes on each other. Browning's relationship with America continues to develop. He gives America a lighter with a naked lady on it, and gives him alcohol. He also gives America reading lessons with pornographic magazines. Eventually, Browning begins to molest America and has sex with ... | 34,628 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
out of anger and in a drunken stupor, America sets Browning's bed on fire with his lighter, killing him. America goes to New York and lives with a marijuana dealer named Ty (Charles Tyler). Ty is eventually arrested by the NYPD and America is questioned by a detective. During the interview, he confesses... | 34,629 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
is the only one who understands America's plight. Eventually, a distraught America climbs a tree and attempts to hang himself. But Ernie finds him hanging from the tree and saves his life. Shortly after, he is sent to Ridgeway.
At first, America refuses to talk to Dr. B, but eventually he begins to ope... | 34,630 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
though, he wastes enormous quantities of carrots because they remind him of cooking dinners with Browning.
When America is 17, Brooklyn enters detox again. America receives a letter from Liza. Dr. B informs America there is a spot open in a transitional home, where he will live with two other young peo... | 34,631 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
of painful memories coming up again.
When America is eighteen, he receives a letter from Brooklyn, which tells him that they are brothers, and that they are associated. Dr. B teaches him positive self-talk to eliminate painful memories, but America still wants to see Mrs. Harper. He struggles to tell L... | 34,632 |
4654659 | America (novel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=America%20(novel) | America (novel)
nursing home. America feels forgiven by Mrs. Harper, and burns his fifty-seven pairs of shoelaces with his lighter and then he throws his lighter away, symbolism showing his painful memories are gone and he is able to live his life. The books ends with a dream about everyone who had a positive impact on... | 34,633 |
4654735 | Ron Schipper | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron%20Schipper | Ron Schipper
Ron Schipper
Ron "Skip" Schipper (August 7, 1928 – March 27, 2006) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa from 1961 to 1996, compiling a record of 287–67–3. Schipper also served as the school's athletic dir... | 34,634 |
4654735 | Ron Schipper | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron%20Schipper | Ron Schipper
III football coaches, behind John Gagliardi's 489 and Larry Kehres's 332. He retired with an .808 career winning percentage—then the fourth highest in NCAA Division III history. Schipper was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award, presented by the A... | 34,635 |
4654735 | Ron Schipper | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron%20Schipper | Ron Schipper
ion III history. Schipper was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award, presented by the American Football Coaches Association, in 2004.
Schipper was born in Zeeland, Michigan. He coached high school football for Northville High School in Northville,... | 34,636 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
Larry Eigner
Laurence Joel Eigner / Larry Eigner (August 7, 1927 – February 3, 1996) was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School.
Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain poets and was influential among Language poets.... | 34,637 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
the problematic constraints" of Olson's speech-based projectivist poetics. Eigner has himself pointed out that his poetry originates in ‘thinking’ rather than speech.
During his lifetime, Eigner wrote dozens of books and published poems in more than 100 magazines and collections. Charles Bukowski once cal... | 34,638 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
at Massachusetts Hospital School and completed high school and some college (at the University of Chicago) through correspondence. His first works were published at age 9. As he matured into an artist, Eigner overcame many physical obstacles and limitations to achieve a mastery over the material text, prod... | 34,639 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
"Another Time in Fragments" (1967), "Country/Harbor/Quiet/Act/Around-selected prose"
(1978), and "Waters/Places/a Time" (1983). His work appeared in well over a hundred magazines and collections, most notably "Origin", "The Black Mountain Review", L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and in Don Allen's anthology "The New Ame... | 34,640 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
of Eigner.
# External links.
- Eigner exhibits, sites and homepages
- Larry Eigner Author Homepage at EPC
- Larry Eigner Papers housed at Stanford University
- Larry Eigner Papers housed at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
- Eigner Author Page at Stanford University Press Th... | 34,641 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
Library
- Selected online publications, poems and poetry
- Air the Trees Originally published by Black Sparrow Press in 1968 and long out of print, the text is presented here on-line and complete
- “how many years / without death”: Larry Eigner's memento mori five poems from "readiness / enough / depend... | 34,642 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
online essay makes up Chapter 5 of poet and scholar Michael Davidson's book "Concerto for the Left Hand; Disability and the Defamiliar Body", published by University of Michigan Press in 2008.
- Born from the Head - Larry Eigner's 1st Published Poem in 1952 this essay is by Curtis Faville, who coedited Ei... | 34,643 |
4654782 | Larry Eigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry%20Eigner | Larry Eigner
"Collected" initiated by Steven Fama. Fama argues that the editors and publishers of the "Collected" have not shown the requisite fidelity to the spacing & visual presentation of Eigner's typescripts. In the comment section after the article, a coeditor of the "Collected", Curtis Faville, defends the edito... | 34,644 |
4654776 | Ontario Highway 526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontario%20Highway%20526 | Ontario Highway 526
Ontario Highway 526
Secondary Highway 526, commonly referred to as Highway 526, is a provincially maintained secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a short and lightly travelled route that connects Highway 69 with the community of Britt.
# Route description.
Highway 526 is a... | 34,645 |
4654776 | Ontario Highway 526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontario%20Highway%20526 | Ontario Highway 526
the delta of the Magnetawan River as it flows into Georgian Bay. From the post office in the centre of the community, overlooking the inlet, the highway veers inland and travels northeast, paralleling the Still River. The river flows along the south side of the highway for most of its length; the oc... | 34,646 |
4654776 | Ontario Highway 526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontario%20Highway%20526 | Ontario Highway 526
secondary highways, but was likely maintained as a development road prior to that.
The route has not changed since that time.
# Future.
The eastern terminus of Highway 526 is slated to be bypassed as Highway 400 is extended northwards from Nobel to Sudbury. The new freeway will lie nearly a kilom... | 34,647 |
4654790 | Rolly | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rolly | Rolly
Rolly
“Rolly” is a masculine given name and nickname which may refer to:
# People.
- Rolly Crump (born 1930), American animator and designer, particularly for Disney
- Rolly Jayewardene (1918-1999), Sri Lankan physician
- Rolly Lumbala (born 1986), Canadian Football League player
- Rolly Roulston (1911-1983... | 34,648 |
4654790 | Rolly | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rolly | Rolly
930), American animator and designer, particularly for Disney
- Rolly Jayewardene (1918-1999), Sri Lankan physician
- Rolly Lumbala (born 1986), Canadian Football League player
- Rolly Roulston (1911-1983), Canadian National Hockey League player
- Rolly Tasker (1926-2012), Australian sailor, 1956 Olympic silv... | 34,649 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
Donnie Jones
Donald Scott Jones Jr. (born July 5, 1980) is an American football punter who is currently a free agent. He played college football for Louisiana State University and was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He also played for the Miami Dolphins, St. Lou... | 34,650 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
1999. He averaged more than nine punts per game and never recorded any injury or fatigue.
# College career.
Jones was offered scholarships to play football at the University of Oklahoma, LSU, and Ohio State University. He accepted a scholarship to attend Louisiana State University, where he played for th... | 34,651 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
In his senior year, he was involved in the final play of the 2003 National Championship game, when the punt unit took the last snap of the game, and punted to ensure a victory for the team over Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. As a senior, he had 65 punts for 2,757 net yards for a 42.4 average. He was a four-ye... | 34,652 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
that year. He played in six games with Seahawks in between stints on the practice squad during his rookie season. He shared punting duties with Tom Rouen and Ken Walter during the season. On the year, Jones punted 26 times for a 38.0 average with a net of 32.2, six inside-the-20 and two touchbacks. He had ... | 34,653 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
was placed on the active roster prior to the season opener. He went on to play in all 16 games in his first season with the Dolphins. On the season, he had 88 punts for a 43.5-yard average, including a net of 39.3, which led the NFL and marked a new Dolphins’ single-season record. He also added 31 punts in... | 34,654 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
earned him a selection as a third alternate for the Pro Bowl.
Jones experienced a bit of regression in 2006 compared to the previous year. For the season, he had 85 kicks for 3,640 yards – an average of 42.8 yards per kick. He also had a net average of 35.7 yards per punt, with 28 punts inside the 20-yard... | 34,655 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
of the Rams in exchange for the 225th pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. The contract was worth $5.585 million over five years. It included a signing bonus of $1.175 million and salaries of $510,000 in 2007, $700,000 in 2008, $1 million in 2009, $1.1 million in 2010, and $1.1 million in 2011.
In 2007, Jones brok... | 34,656 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
Pro Bowl. For the second straight year, he was voted an alternate to the Pro Bowl in 2009. In 2009, he broke the Rams career gross average punt record with a 48.0-yard average, surpassing the 44.3-yard average established by Danny Villanueva from 1961 to 1964. In the 2010 season, he finished with 94 punts ... | 34,657 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
Hartmann was released. In the 2012 season, he finished with 88 punts for 4,150 net yards for a 47.16 average.
## Philadelphia Eagles.
On March 25, 2013, Jones signed with the Philadelphia Eagles. On March 11, 2014, Jones re-signed with the Eagles on a three-year deal worth a maximum of $6 million. During... | 34,658 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
he finished with 63 punts for 2,888 net yards for a 45.84 average.
In the 2017 season, Jones finished with 67 punts for 3,033 net yards for a 45.27 average. He earned a Super Bowl ring when the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl LII. Jones recorded the only punt in the game that ... | 34,659 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
list, making him a free agent, citing his desire to play again.
## Los Angeles Chargers.
On October 2, 2018, Jones signed with the Los Angeles Chargers after the team released Drew Kaser.
# Personal life.
Donnie is married to Aubrie, and the couple resides in St. Charles, Missouri. Following the 2003 N... | 34,660 |
4654716 | Donnie Jones | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Jones | Donnie Jones
er 2, 2018, Jones signed with the Los Angeles Chargers after the team released Drew Kaser.
# Personal life.
Donnie is married to Aubrie, and the couple resides in St. Charles, Missouri. Following the 2003 National Championship season at LSU, Jones penned a book titled "Nine Seconds to a Championship" () ... | 34,661 |
4654816 | Miron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miron | Miron
Miron
Miron or Mirón may refer to:
- 17049 Miron, 1 minor planet
- El Mirón, a municipality in Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
- El Mirón Cave, in the upper Asón River valley, Cantabria, Spain
- Collado del Mirón, a municipality in Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
- Miron (name)
- Miron II, Count of Besalú an... | 34,662 |
4654804 | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=24h%20vélo%20de%20Louvain-la-Neuve | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve
24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve
"Les 24 heures vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve" (English: the "24-hour bike ride of Louvain-la-Neuve") is a Belgian festival organized by students from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) held every year during October in Louvain-la-Neuve. The main event is a 24-hou... | 34,663 |
4654804 | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=24h%20vélo%20de%20Louvain-la-Neuve | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve
place from 25 to 26 October.
The 2008 event passed without major incident, with between 45,000 and 50,000 people attending.
The 2009 edition, taking place from 21 to 22 October, was attended by more than 40,000 people. One particularly serious accident left a young man at risk of paralysi... | 34,664 |
4654804 | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=24h%20vélo%20de%20Louvain-la-Neuve | 24h vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve
ber.
The 2008 event passed without major incident, with between 45,000 and 50,000 people attending.
The 2009 edition, taking place from 21 to 22 October, was attended by more than 40,000 people. One particularly serious accident left a young man at risk of paralysis after a fall.
In 2012... | 34,665 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
Giant Inverted Boomerang
A Giant Inverted Boomerang is a type of steel shuttle roller coaster manufactured by Vekoma. The ride is a larger, inverted version of Vekoma's popular Boomerang sit down roller coasters. , five installations of the model are operating, with another one under construct... | 34,666 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
This was followed by the opening of a further two Giant Inverted Boomerangs named Déjà Vu on September 1, 2001, at Six Flags Over Georgia and on October 7, 2001, at Six Flags Great America. The opening of the fourth Giant Inverted Boomerang was delayed even more after the problems were discover... | 34,667 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
the Six Flags Great America ride gave its last rides on October 28, 2007, it was removed and replaced with the Buccaneer Battle ride.
In January 2008, Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho announced on its website that it would install the Déjà Vu from Six Flags Great America with a projected opening... | 34,668 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
had purchased Six Flags Over Georgia's "Déjà Vu". The ride was renamed Sky Mountain and is yet to open, but remains in storage at the park.
On August 16, 2011, Masslive reported that Six Flags New England was planning on building a Giant Inverted Boomerang for the park's 2012 season where the ... | 34,669 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
previous reports and announcing that the relocated ride's name would be "Goliath". On October 16, 2011, Déjà Vu operated for the final time. At around the same time, Shipwreck Falls was removed from Six Flags New England to make way for Goliath. Goliath at Six Flags New England was topped off o... | 34,670 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
Vekoma's earlier Boomerang designs. This model features a vertical cable lift hill that quickly lifts the train up a vertical tower. Also, this model is larger than previous Boomerang designs. From above, the track layout looks like an 'X'.
## Train.
As a Giant Inverted Boomerang is a shuttle... | 34,671 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
at "Six Flags New England" was set to feature new a train by Premier Rides (different from the originals built by Vekoma). This train will have 4-across seating, exactly like that on Bolliger & Mabillard's inverted roller coasters. The new train design was chosen in an attempt to make the lines... | 34,672 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
This element contains two of the three inversions found on the ride going forward. After twisting through the Boomerang, riders then go through a tall vertical loop which crosses over the station and hit the second vertical tower of the ride. A catch car there pulls the train up the second vert... | 34,673 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
in 2001 (the three "Déjà Vu" coasters in U.S.A. and Stunt Fall at Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Spain). However, following the installation of the 3 Déjà Vu coasters and the discovery of several problems, Six Flags allowed Vekoma to resolve these problems before installation of their four... | 34,674 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
to prevent guests from reaching up too high.
During initial testing on Six Flags Over Georgia's Déjà Vu, the catch car (a small device that catches and holds the train) on the first tower derailed, breaking parts and destroying the components of the train beyond economical repair. The ride rec... | 34,675 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
each restraint in the event of a power loss. Virtually all other roller coasters have a quick manual release system to unload in unusual locations for emergency situations.
Some smaller or younger riders complained that the restraints give too much room for the riders to "fall forward" during ... | 34,676 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
Ed Markey, with S.I. Sheikh and A.B. Singhal from the Massachusetts General Hospital, told the Boston Herald that “Fixed-site amusement park rides like those at Six Flags New England are exempt from federal oversight due to a 30-year-old special-interest loophole. This means that even as these ... | 34,677 |
4654636 | Giant Inverted Boomerang | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant%20Inverted%20Boomerang | Giant Inverted Boomerang
t leaves riders vulnerable. Also, the jerky motions of these rides have been linked to small tears in arteries or a spike in blood pressure, but we aren’t sure if there is necessarily a cause-and-effect relationship.”
# Rankings.
All Giant Inverted Boomerang models currently hold the records ... | 34,678 |
4654806 | Scanch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scanch | Scanch
Scanch
By the year 1990, they had their debut carried out from CBS/Sony. Dr. Tanaka left the band in 1993 and as a new keyboardist for the band they got Ogawa Bunmei. The remaining members continued the band until 1996.
The band was greatly inspired by Led Zeppelin, Queen, Sweet and other 1970s style music. Af... | 34,679 |
4654806 | Scanch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scanch | Scanch
Koi no T.K.O." to the anime "K.O. Beast".
# Members.
- Rolly – guitar, vocals
- shima-chang – bass, vocals
- – drums
- – keyboards
- – support bass (2010–present)
- Former members
- – keyboards (died 2014)
# Discography.
- Studio albums
- "Scanch'n Roll Show" (1988)
- "Opera" (1993)
- "Gold" (1994)
... | 34,680 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
Helena Wolińska-Brus
Helena Wolińska-Brus (28 February 1919 – 26 November 2008) was a military prosecutor in postwar communist Poland with the rank of lieutenant-colonel (podpułkownik), involved in Stalinist regime show trials of the 1950s. She has been implicated in the arrest and execution of ma... | 34,681 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
and 1989. Wolińska-Brus was accused of being an "accessory to a court murder".
# Biography.
Wolińska-Brus was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, where she later married Włodzimierz Brus (born Beniamin Zylberberg). They became separated during the German occupation of Poland after Wolińska-Brus es... | 34,682 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
of the governing communist Polish United Workers' Party (until 1968). She was dismissed from her job as prosecutor during the Polish October of 1956.
Wolińska-Brus and her first husband left Poland in 1971, after the 1968 Polish political crisis and they spent the rest of their lives in the United... | 34,683 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
was also accused of organising the unlawful arrest, investigation and trial of Poland's wartime general Emil August Fieldorf, a commander of the underground Polish Home Army during World War II. Fieldorf was executed on 24 February 1953, following a show-trial, and buried in a secret location – his... | 34,684 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
initiated by an investigation carried out by the Institute of National Remembrance. A second application was submitted in 2001. The Polish indictments were based the claim that Wolińska-Brus had fabricated evidence which led to the execution of general Emil Fieldorf and the wrongful arrest and impr... | 34,685 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
in 1989).
In an interview with "The Guardian", Wolińska-Brus said she would not return to "the country of Auschwitz and Birkenau", claiming that she would not receive a fair trial in Poland. She also claimed that her accusers were motivated by anti-Semitism. The interview contained a quote from Fi... | 34,686 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
had also been prosecuted by Wolińska-Brus: "On my indictment affidavit, in red pencil, is the signature of Helena Wolińska. Affirming the accusations against me, she knew that I was co-founder of the Polish Council to Aid Jews. I am a living example of the fact that the statements made by Wolińska ... | 34,687 |
4654760 | Helena Wolińska-Brus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helena%20Wolińska-Brus | Helena Wolińska-Brus
i also revoked the Polonia Restituta decoration that she was awarded by the Polish communist authorities in 1954. In 2007 the Institute of National Remembrance asked Polish prosecutors to issue a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) against Wolińska-Brus, which was duly issued on 20 November 2007. Helena ... | 34,688 |
4654822 | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20James%20School%20(Montgomery,%20Alabama) | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama)
Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama)
Saint James School is an independent, nonsectarian, college preparatory school located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Established in 1955, Saint James School, Montgomery's oldest private school, serves about 1000 students in pre-... | 34,689 |
4654822 | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20James%20School%20(Montgomery,%20Alabama) | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama)
Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Donald C. Alexander by five black women from Montgomery charging that the two men had encouraged the development of segregated schools by allowing them tax-deductible status.
# Athletics.
Saint James ... | 34,690 |
4654822 | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20James%20School%20(Montgomery,%20Alabama) | Saint James School (Montgomery, Alabama)
nd wrestling.
The Trojans baseball team won state championships in Division 2A in 1991 and in Division 4A in 2006.
The Lady Trojans softball team won Division 4A state championships in 1996 (1A-4A), 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
The Lady Trojans volleyball team won Division 4A s... | 34,691 |
4654862 | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Léopold%20Davout%20d'Auerstaedt | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt
Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt
Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt, 3rd Duc d'Auerstaedt (August 9, 1829 – February 9, 1904) was a French General of the Second Empire and restored to the extinct title as 3rd Duc d'Auerstaedt, a title originally held by his uncle Louis Nicolas Davout. The title was res... | 34,692 |
4654862 | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Léopold%20Davout%20d'Auerstaedt | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt
and a son:
- Napoléonie Jeanne Aimée Marguerite (Lyon, December 14, 1869-Paris, March 25, 1952), married in Paris, June 26, 1890 Vicomte Marie Alexandre François Daru (Paris, July 25, 1852-Pau, October 31, 1921)
- Marie-Mathilde (Motel, September 10, 1871-Bizy, May 31, 1955), married in Pa... | 34,693 |
4654862 | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Léopold%20Davout%20d'Auerstaedt | Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt
François Daru (Paris, July 25, 1852-Pau, October 31, 1921)
- Marie-Mathilde (Motel, September 10, 1871-Bizy, May 31, 1955), married in Paris, June 27, 1895 Joseph Gaspard Comte de Berthier-Bizy (Bizy, July 14, 1866-Versailles, July 26, 1910)
- Claire Marie Marguerite (Versailles, August 28... | 34,694 |
4654866 | Cicis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cicis | Cicis
Cicis
Cicis (formerly named CiCi's Pizza) is an American buffet restaurant chain based in Irving, Texas, specializing in pizza. There are 442 franchised and corporately owned restaurants in 32 states. In November 2015, the company began a new marketing campaign which included the renaming of the company to Cicis... | 34,695 |
4654866 | Cicis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cicis | Cicis
fastest-growing pizza chain in the United States. In 2003 Croce retired from the business, and passed ownership of the company to the company's executive team. Craig Moore, who was a general manager in Dallas, became vice president of the company, a position he held for five years before he was named president af... | 34,696 |
4654866 | Cicis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cicis | Cicis
Harris is the current CEO of Cicis Pizza after joining the company in August 2013.
In addition to its current restaurants, in 2010 Cicis announced plans to add another 500 restaurants in the next 10 years (with the possibility of expanding internationally into Canada and Mexico). Cicis has won numerous awards an... | 34,697 |
4654866 | Cicis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cicis | Cicis
marketing campaign which included the simplified renaming of the company to just Cicis with the modifier "Beyond Pizza," along with the addition of a new logo and redesigned website. The campaign is aimed at proving that Cicis has more to offer than just pizza.
## Recognition and awards.
From 2004 to 2009, CiCi... | 34,698 |
4654873 | Modular software music studio | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modular%20software%20music%20studio | Modular software music studio
Modular software music studio
A modular software music studio consists of a plugin architecture that allows the audio to be routed from one plugin to another in many ways, similar to how cables carry an audio signal between physical pieces of hardware.
All aspects of signal synthesis and... | 34,699 |
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