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20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
voted with the other teams to support contracting the Expos in 2001 and relocating them in 2004: "I know if it wasn't for the success of the Expos in those early years there would not be major-league baseball in Toronto. That wasn't an emotional or a baseball vote. It was a business decision." The Blue J... | 3,600 |
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For others, the goal was to demonstrate that Montreal had an interest in returning to Major League Baseball. Former Expos player Warren Cromartie, who leads the Montreal Baseball Project, was among the organizers. The series was a success: 96,350 fans, frequently chanting "Lets go Expos!" and "We want ba... | 3,601 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
those comments in 2015. Olympic Stadium again hosted two spring training games prior to the beginning of the 2016 season between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox, with a combined attendance of over 106,000 fans. In 2018, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Blue Jays hit a game-winning home run again... | 3,602 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
The Hall's choice for his plaque logo followed initial statements by Carter that he preferred to be enshrined as a New York Met, with whom he won the 1986 World Series. He accepted the Hall's decision with grace, stating: "The fact I played 11 years in Montreal and the fact that the majority of my statis... | 3,603 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
it was "a little gut-wrenching" to find out he would not go in as a Chicago Cub. Dawson's reluctance to be enshrined as an Expos player stemmed, in part, from the breakdown of his relationship with the team during MLB's collusion scandal of 1986–87, when he claims the team not only "threw him out" of Mon... | 3,604 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
Expos, being named to the MLB All-Star Game three times and winning the Silver Slugger Award three times while with the team. Nearly half of his career 2,590 hits were with Montreal (1,215), while having 234 of his 449 home runs and 702 of his 1,496 RBIs with the Expos in 1,004 games. Guerrero announced ... | 3,605 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
being a member of Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" teams of the 1970s. Pitchers Pedro Martínez (1994–97) and Randy Johnson (1988–89), who both played in Montreal early in their careers but spent the majority of their playing days elsewhere, were both elected to the Hall in 2015. Frank Robinson managed the ... | 3,606 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
Ford C. Frick Award in 2011. The award is presented by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to honour broadcasters who make "major contributions to baseball".
When the Washington Nationals unveiled their "Ring of Honor" at Nationals Park in 2010, the franchise recognized its roots in Montreal. The ring wa... | 3,607 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
Raines in 2017.
## Montreal Expos Hall of Fame.
The team created the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame to celebrate the franchise's 25th season in 1993. Charles Bronfman was inducted as its inaugural member. In a pre-game ceremony on August 14, 1993, a circular patch on the right field wall was unveiled with... | 3,608 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
and cycles.
Three pitchers in Expos history threw no-hitters. Bill Stoneman threw the first during the team's inaugural 1969 season. He threw a second no-hitter in 1972. Charlie Lea threw the third, nine years later in 1981. A decade after that, on July 28, 1991, Dennis Martínez threw the 13th official ... | 3,609 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
Phillies.
Six batters hit for the cycle in Montreal's history. Tim Foli was the first to do it in 1976, and Vladimir Guerrero was the last to do so, in 2003.
# See also.
- List of Montreal Expos broadcasters
# External links.
- Encore Baseball Montréal (French and English) – Encore Baseball Montréal... | 3,610 |
20153 | Montreal Expos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos
Montreal Expos broadcasters
# External links.
- Encore Baseball Montréal (French and English) – Encore Baseball Montréal is a non-profit organization that aims to be the voice of baseball fans in order to maintain interest in baseball in the province of Quebec
- ExposNation.com – Registered Non-profit... | 3,611 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
Matilda of Tuscany
Matilda of Tuscany (Italian: "Matilde di Canossa" , Latin: "Matilda", "Mathilda"; 1046 – 24 July 1115) was a powerful feudal Margravine of Tuscany, ruler in northern Italy and the chief Italian supporter of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy; in addition, she was ... | 3,612 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
6 and 11 May 1111 she was crowned Imperial Vicar and Vice-Queen of Italy by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor at the Castle of Bianello (Quattro Castella, Reggio Emilia).
Sometimes called la Gran Contessa ("the Great Countess") or Matilda of Canossa after her ancestral castle of Canossa, Matilda was one o... | 3,613 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
to as 'Resplendent Matilda' ("Mathildis Lucens"). Since the Latin word "lucens" is similar to "lucensis" (of/from Lucca), this may also be a reference to Matilda's origins. She was descended from the nobleman Sigifred of Lucca,
and was the youngest of the three children of Margrave Boniface III of T... | 3,614 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
matters is debated. It has been asserted that she was taught strategy, tactics, riding and wielding weapons, but recent scholarship challenges these claims.
Following the death of their father in 1052, Matilda's brother, Frederick, inherited the family lands and titles under the regency of their mot... | 3,615 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
unauthorised union with his most vigorous adversary and took the opportunity to have her arrested, along with Matilda, when he marched south to attend a synod in Florence on Pentecost in 1055. Frederick's rather suspicious death soon thereafter made Matilda the last member of the House of Canossa. Mo... | 3,616 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
time she and her mother returned to Italy, in the company of Pope Victor II, Matilda was formally acknowledged as heir to the greatest territorial lordship in the southern part of the Empire.
Matilda's mother and stepfather became heavily involved in the series of disputed papal elections during the... | 3,617 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
unclear. A contemporary account of her stepfather's 1067 expedition against Prince Richard I of Capua on behalf of the papacy mentions Matilda's participation in the campaign, describing it as the "first service that the most excellent daughter of Boniface offered to the blessed prince of the apostle... | 3,618 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
proved a failure; the death of their only child (a daughter called Beatrice) shortly after birth in August 1071 and Godfrey's physical deformity may have helped fuel deep animosity between the spouses.
By the end of 1071, Matilda had left her husband and returned to Tuscany. Matilda's bold decision ... | 3,619 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
into Italy in 1072, determined to enforce the marriage. He sought the help of both Matilda's mother and her ally, the newly elected Pope Gregory VII, promising military aid to the latter. Matilda's resolution was unshakable, and Godfrey returned to Lorraine alone, losing all hope by 1074. Rather than... | 3,620 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
relationship. German chroniclers, writing of the synod held at Worms in January 1076, even suggested that Godfrey inspired Henry's allegation of a licentious affair between Gregory and Matilda.
# Widowhood.
Matilda became a widow on 26 February 1076. Godfrey the Hunchback was assassinated in Flande... | 3,621 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
nearer to him. Within two months, Beatrice was dead as well. Matilda's power was considerably augmented by these deaths; she was now the undisputed heir of all her parents' allodial lands. Her inheritance would have been threatened had Godfrey survived her mother, but she now enjoyed the privileged s... | 3,622 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
received as dowry. The quarrel between aunt and nephew over the episcopal county of Verdun was eventually settled by Theoderic, Bishop of Verdun, who enjoyed the right to nominate the counts. He easily found in favor of Margravine Matilda, as such verdict happened to please both Pope Gregory and King... | 3,623 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
of Worms in February 1076. Gregory declared Henry excommunicated, releasing all his subjects from allegiance to him and providing the perfect reason for rebellion against his rule. Insubordinate southern German princes gathered in Trebur, awaiting the Pope. Matilda's first military endeavor, as well ... | 3,624 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
bordered Matilda's domain, were keen to capture Gregory. Gregory was aware of the danger, and recorded that all his advisors except Matilda counselled him against travelling to Trebur.
Henry had other plans, however. He decided to descend into Italy and intercept Gregory, who was thus delayed. The G... | 3,625 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
Gregory took her advice. It soon became clear that the intention behind Henry's walk to Canossa was to show penance. By 25 January 1077, the King stood barefoot in the snow before the gates of Matilda's castle, accompanied by his mother-in-law, Margravine Adelaide of Susa. He remained there, humbled,... | 3,626 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
years later the fortunes of Papacy and Empire turned again: in 1080 Henry IV summoned a council in Brixen, which deposed Gregory VII. The following year the Emperor decided to travel again to Italy to reinstate his overlordship over his territories. He also declared Matilda, on account of her 1079 do... | 3,627 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
military defeat of Matilda (Battle of Volta Mantovana).
Matilda, however, didn't surrender. While Gregory VII was forced into exile, she, retaining control over all the western passes in the Apennines, could force Henry IV to approach Rome via Ravenna; even with this route open, the Emperor would fi... | 3,628 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
for communication with northern Europe even as he lost control of Rome and was holed up in the Castel Sant'Angelo. After Henry caught hold of the Pope's seal, Matilda wrote to supporters in Germany only to trust papal messages that came through her.
Henry IV's control of Rome enabled him to enthrone... | 3,629 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
enemy), took to the field in support of a new pope, Victor III. In 1087, Matilda led an expedition to Rome in an attempt to install Victor, but the strength of the imperial counterattack soon convinced the pope to withdraw from the city.
# Second marriage.
In 1088 Matilda was facing a new attempt a... | 3,630 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
emperors (see Guelphs and Ghibellines). Matilda and Welf's wedding was part of a network of alliances approved by the new pope, Urban II, in order to effectively counter Henry IV.
Cosmas of Prague (writing in the early twelfth century), included a letter in his "Chronica Boemorum", which he claimed ... | 3,631 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
after the wedding, Welf V, fearing witchcraft, refused to share the marital bed. The third day, Matilda appeared naked on a table especially prepared on sawhorses, and told him that "everything is in front of you and there is no hidden malice". But the Duke was dumbfounded; Matilda, furious, slapped ... | 3,632 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
father. This forced Henry to return to Italy, where he chased Matilda into the mountains. He was humbled before Canossa, this time in a military defeat in October 1092, from which his influence in Italy never recovered.
# The final victory against Henry IV.
After several victories, including one ag... | 3,633 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
and "ripatico", and with the promise of Lombard franchise, entailing the rights to hunt, fish and cut wood on both banks of the Tartaro river.
The Mantua people stood by Matilda until the so-called "Holy Thursday betrayal", when the townspeople, won over by additional concessions from Henry, who had... | 3,634 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
bloody battles with mutual defeats, the powerful imperial army was surrounded.
In spite of its fearful power, the Imperial army was defeated by Matilda's liegemen. Among them were small landowners and holders of fortified villages, which remained completely loyal to the Canossas even against the Hol... | 3,635 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
The overall import of Henry's rout was more than a military defeat. The Emperor realized it was impossible to penetrate those places, wholly different from the plains of the Po Valley or of Saxe. There he faced not boundaries drawn by the rivers of Central Europe, but steep trails, ravines, inaccessi... | 3,636 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
Pope, Matilda and a group of Lombard cities, was crowned King of Italy. Matilda freed and even gave refuge to Henry IV's wife, Eupraxia of Kiev, who, at the urging of Pope Urban II, made a public confession before the church Council of Piacenza. She accused her husband of imprisoning her in Verona af... | 3,637 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
him to retreat. In 1097, Henry withdrew from Italy altogether, after which Matilda reigned virtually unchallenged, although she did continue to launch military operations to restore her authority and regain control of the towns that had remained loyal to the emperor. With the assistance of the French... | 3,638 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
the Church and Italy. This time the attitude of Matilda against the imperial house had to change and she accepted the will of the Emperor. In 1111, on his way back to Germany, Henry V met her at the Castle of Bianello, near Reggio Emilia. Matilda confirmed him the inheritance rights over the fiefs th... | 3,639 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
legend identify well over one hundred churches, monasteries, hospices, and bridges built or restored between the Alps and Rome by Matilda and her mother, Beatrice. Today, churches and monasteries in the regions of Lombardy, Reggio Emilia, Tuscany, and even the Veneto attribute their foundation to her... | 3,640 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
centers of their communities. They include rural churches located along the Po and Arno rivers, and their tributaries; churches built along the Apennine mountain passes which Matilda's family controlled and those along the ancient highways of the via Emilia, the via Cassia, the via Aurelia and the vi... | 3,641 |
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di Coriano (Province of Mantua).
- San Giovanni Decollato, at Pescarolo ed Uniti (Cremona).
- Santa Maria Assunta, at Monteveglio (Bologna).
- San Martino in Barisano, near Forlì.
- San Zeno, at Cerea (Verona).
It seems that even the foundation of the Church of San Salvaro in Legnago (Verona) wa... | 3,642 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
after he deposed her. In her place the leading citizens of these cities took control, and the era of the city-states in northern Italy began.
Matilda was at first buried in the Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone, located in the town of San Benedetto Po; then, in 1633, at the behest of Pope Urban VII... | 3,643 |
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of Cyprus and Agnesina Colonna Caetani.
A memorial tomb for Matilda, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII and designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini, marks her burial place in St Peter's and is often called the "Honor and Glory of Italy".
After her death, an aura of legend came to surround Matilda. Church hist... | 3,644 |
20188 | Matilda of Tuscany | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany
g flowers in the earthly paradise in Dante's "Purgatorio".
The story of Matilda and Henry IV is the main plot device in Luigi Pirandello's play "Enrico IV". She is the main historical character in Kathleen McGowan's novel "The Book of Love" (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
# See also.
- House of Canossa
... | 3,645 |
206483 | Charles William King | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20William%20King | Charles William King
Charles William King
Charles William King (5 September 1818 – 25 March 1888) was a British Victorian writer and collector of gems.
# Early life.
King was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1836. He graduated in 1840, and obtained a fellowship in 1842. He w... | 3,646 |
206483 | Charles William King | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20William%20King | Charles William King
one of the greatest authorities in this department of art. His chief works on the subject are:
- "Antique Gems, their Origin, Uses and Value" (1860), a complete and exhaustive treatise;
- "The Natural History of Precious Stones and Gems and of the Precious Metals" (1865);
- "Early Christian Numi... | 3,647 |
206483 | Charles William King | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles%20William%20King | Charles William King
t never held any cure.
He was thoroughly familiar with the works of Greek and Latin authors, especially those of Pausanias and Pliny the Elder, which bore upon the subject in which he was most interested; but he had little taste for the minutiae of verbal criticism.
In 1869, he brought out an edi... | 3,648 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
Fenton Hort
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of "The New Testament in the Original Greek".
# Life.
He was born on 23 April 1828 in Dublin, the great-grandson of Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam in the eighteenth c... | 3,649 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
fellow of his college. In 1854, in conjunction with J. E. B. Mayor and Lightfoot, he established the "Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology", and plunged eagerly into theological and patristic study. He had been brought up in the strictest principles of the evangelical movement, but at Rugby, under the ... | 3,650 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
his studies, and wrote essays for various periodicals. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the committee for revising the translation of the New Testament, and in 1871 he delivered the Hulsean Lectures before the university. Their title was "The Way, the Truth, and the Life", but they were not prepared for... | 3,651 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
Works.
In 1881 he published, with his friend Westcott, an edition of the text of the New Testament based on their text critical work. The Revision Committee had largely accepted this text, even before its publication, as a basis for their translation of the New Testament. Its appearance created a sensation... | 3,652 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
(1897). Other publications are: "Judaistic Christianity" (1894); "Village Sermons" (two series); "Cambridge and other Sermons"; "Prolegomena to ... Romans and Ephesians" (1895); "The Ante-Nicene Fathers" (1895); and two "Dissertations", (1876) on the reading of a Greek word in John i.18, and on "The Constan... | 3,653 |
206466 | Fenton Hort | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenton%20Hort | Fenton Hort
ing of a Greek word in John i.18, and on "The Constantinopolitan and other Eastern Creeds in the Fourth Century." All are models of exact scholarship and skilful use of materials. His "Life and Letters" was edited by his son, Sir Arthur Hort, Bart, in two volumes published in 1896: "Volume 1", "Volume 2".
... | 3,654 |
206471 | John E. B. Mayor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20E.%20B.%20Mayor | John E. B. Mayor
John E. B. Mayor
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, FBA (28 January 1825 – 1910) was an English classical scholar and vegetarian activist.
# Life.
Mayor was born at Baddegama, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He went to England to be educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge.
From 1863 to 18... | 3,655 |
206471 | John E. B. Mayor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20E.%20B.%20Mayor | John E. B. Mayor
römische Litteraturgeschichte", was a valuable aid to the student, and his edition of Cicero's "Second Philippic" became widely used.
He also edited the English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1876); Thomas Baker's "History of St John's College, Cambridge" (1869); Richard of Cirencester's "... | 3,656 |
206471 | John E. B. Mayor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20E.%20B.%20Mayor | John E. B. Mayor
Roger Ascham's "Schoolmaster" (new ed., 1883); the "Latin Heptateuch" (1889); and the "Journal of Philology".
According to the "Enciklopedio de Esperanto", Mayor learned Esperanto in 1907, and gave a historic speech against Esperanto reformists at the World Congress of Esperanto held at Cambridge.
Hi... | 3,657 |
206493 | Brak | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brak | Brak
Brak
Brak may refer to:
- Brak (title) (or Braque), former title for the kings of Waalo, part of present-day Senegal, West Africa
- Brak (character), a character on 1966 Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Space Ghost"
- "The Brak Show", a 2000 animated series
- Brak, a barbarian character in a series of 1960s novels by J... | 3,658 |
206494 | Iotapa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iotapa | Iotapa
Iotapa
Iotapa may refer to:
# People.
A number of relatives, part of the Royal Family of Commagene:
- (1) Iotapa (daughter of Artavasdes I) (born in 43 BC), daughter of King Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, Queen consort of King Mithridates III of Commagene
- (2) Iotapa (spouse of Antiochus III) (born arou... | 3,659 |
206494 | Iotapa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iotapa | Iotapa
of Sampsiceramus II) (who lived in the 1st century), daughter of King Sampsiceramus II of Emesa and Queen Iotapa (spouse of Sampsiceramus II) (3), who married the Herodian Prince Aristobulus Minor
- (5) Julia Iotapa (daughter of Antiochus III) (from before 17 to about 52), daughter of King Antiochus III of Comm... | 3,660 |
206494 | Iotapa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iotapa | Iotapa
) (2), who married her brother King Antiochus IV of Commagene
- (6) Julia Iotapa (daughter of Antiochus IV) (born around 45), daughter of King Antiochus IV of Commagene and Queen Julia Iotapa (daughter of Antiochus III) (5), who married Gaius Julius Alexander, son of Herodian prince Gaius Julius Tigranes, later... | 3,661 |
206489 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Hall%20Kennedy | Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Benjamin Hall Kennedy (6 November 1804 – 6 April 1889) was an English scholar and schoolmaster, known for his work in the teaching of the Latin language. He was an active supporter of Newnham College and Girton College as Cambridge University colleges for women.
# Biography... | 3,662 |
206489 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Hall%20Kennedy | Benjamin Hall Kennedy
1824 he was elected a member of the Cambridge Conversazione Society, better known as the Cambridge Apostles, and was a winner of a Browne medal. He was elected Fellow and lecturer in Classics at St John's College in 1828 and took Holy Orders the following year. In 1830, he became an assistant mast... | 3,663 |
206489 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Hall%20Kennedy | Benjamin Hall Kennedy
the 30 years being marked by successes for his pupils, chiefly in Classics. When he retired, a large collection was made, and this was used on new school buildings and on founding a Latin professorship at Cambridge. The first holders of the Kennedy Professor of Latin chair were both former pupils ... | 3,664 |
206489 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Hall%20Kennedy | Benjamin Hall Kennedy
a prominent part in the establishment of Newnham and Girton colleges. When Mary Paley and Amy Bulley were among the first women to take tripos examinations they did it in the Kennedy's drawing room. Paley described him as excitable, but he would sometimes doze whilst nominally invigilating. He was... | 3,665 |
206489 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Hall%20Kennedy | Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Grammar" (1871), and finally the "Revised Latin Primer" (1888). The latter was further revised by J. F. Mountford in 1930 and is still widely used today. The medieval way of writing Latin noun tables, starting with the nominative and then proceeding to the genitive was used in England prior to Ken... | 3,666 |
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that Latin is taught in the UK. Modern books such as the "Cambridge Latin Course" still follow this approach.
In 1913, there was a problem with the copyright on the "Revised Latin Primer" which had been published in 1888. His daughter Marion Kennedy, a Latin scholar, revealed that the book was wr... | 3,667 |
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it, as well as the resistance to women‘s higher education at Cambridge and elsewhere during their lifetime.
Other works are:
- "The Psalter in English Verse" (1860)
- "Elementary Greek Grammar" (1862)
- Sophocles, "Oedipus Tyrannus" (2nd ed., 1885)
- Aristophanes, "Birds" (1874)
- Aeschylus,... | 3,668 |
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many autobiographical details.
# Family.
His brother Charles Rann Kennedy was a barrister and wrote original works as well as translating and editing classical works. His younger brother The Rev. William James Kennedy (1814-1891) was a prominent educator, and the father of Lord Justice Sir Willi... | 3,669 |
206486 | Garsington Manor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garsington%20Manor | Garsington Manor
Garsington Manor
Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a Tudor building, known as the former home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, the Bloomsbury Group socialite. The house is currently owned by the family of Leonard Ingrams and from 1989 to 2010 was the setting for an annu... | 3,670 |
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having been in use as a farmhouse.
They completely restored the house in the 1920s, working with the architect Philip Tilden, and creating landscaped Italian-style gardens. The parterre has 24 square beds with Irish yews at the corners; the Italian garden has a large ornamental pool enclosed by yew he... | 3,671 |
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objectors, including Clive Bell and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, to come and work on the home farm for the duration of World War I, as civilian Work of National Importance recognised as an alternative to military service . Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote "Crome Yellow", a b... | 3,672 |
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ew Age of 24 May 1917, it was not reprinted until 1984 in Alper's collection of her short stories. Five young gentlemen are having a drawing-room argument, observed by Isobel and Marigold: "Aren't men extraordinary" says Marigold.
The Morrells moved out in 1928. The house was then owned by Sir John Wh... | 3,673 |
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Color constancy
Color constancy is an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions. A green apple for instance looks green to us at midday, when the ... | 3,674 |
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two types of photoreceptors, cones and rods, which send signals to the visual cortex, which in turn processes those colors into a subjective perception. Color constancy is a process that allows the brain to recognize a familiar object as being a consistent color regardless of the amount or wavelengths o... | 3,675 |
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of all possible sources of illumination. Although an object may reflect multiple sources of light into the eye, color constancy causes objective identities to remain constant.
D. H. Foster (2011) states, "in the natural environment, the source itself may not be well defined in that the illumination at ... | 3,676 |
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plays a functional role in daily perception. Color constancy allows for humans to interact with the world in a consistent or veridical manner and it allows for one to more effectively make judgements on the time of day.
# Physiological basis.
The physiological basis for color constancy is thought to i... | 3,677 |
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There was considerable debate about the existence of these cells in the primate visual system; their existence was eventually proven using reverse-correlation receptive field mapping and special stimuli that selectively activate single cone classes at a time, so-called "cone-isolating" stimuli.
Color c... | 3,678 |
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obtain the object's "true color" or reflectance: the wavelengths of light the object reflects. This reflectance then largely determines the perceived color.
## Neural mechanism.
There are two possible mechanisms for color constancy. The first mechanism is unconscious inference. The second view holds t... | 3,679 |
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This occurs at the level of individual neurons. However, this adaptation is incomplete. Chromatic adaptation is also regulated by processes within the brain. Research in monkeys suggest that changes in chromatic sensitivity is correlated to activity in parvocellular lateral geniculate neurons. Color con... | 3,680 |
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system. For example, when subjects are presented stimuli in a dichoptic fashion, an array of colors and a void color, such as grey, and are told to focus on a specific color of the array, the void color appears different than when perceived in a binocular fashion. This means that color judgements, as th... | 3,681 |
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by looking at a photo with red and gray wavelengths. The effect was discovered by Edwin H. Land, who was attempting to reconstruct James Clerk Maxwell's early experiments in full-colored images. Land realized that, even when there were no green or blue wavelengths present in an image, the visual system ... | 3,682 |
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in the processing. Land, with John McCann, also developed a computer program designed to imitate the retinex processes taking place in human physiology.
The effect can be experimentally demonstrated as follows. A display called a "Mondrian" (after Piet Mondrian whose paintings are similar) consisting o... | 3,683 |
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light reflected from this white-appearing patch. Then the experimenter asks the person to identify the color of a neighboring patch, which, for example, appears green. Then the experimenter adjusts the lights so that the intensities of red, blue, and green light reflected from the green patch are the sa... | 3,684 |
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algorithms. These algorithms receive as input the red/green/blue values of each pixel of the image and attempt to estimate the reflectances of each point. One such algorithm operates as follows: the maximal red value "r" of all pixels is determined, and also the maximal green value "g" and the maximal b... | 3,685 |
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proposed by Land and McCann uses a localized version of this principle.
Although retinex models are still widely used in computer vision, actual human color perception has been shown to be more complex.
# See also.
- Chromatic adaptation
- Memory color effect
- Shadow and highlight enhancement
- T... | 3,686 |
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30, 1963.
- with L.C. Farney and M.M. Morse. (1971) "Solubilization by incipient development" "Photogr. Sci. Eng." 15(1):4–20. Reprinted in McCann, vol. I, pp. 157–73. Based on lecture in Boston, June 13, 1968.
- with J.J. McCann. (1971) "Lightness and retinex theory" "J. Opt. Soc. Am." 61(1):1–11. Re... | 3,687 |
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Rogers and V.K. Walworth. (1977) "One-step photography" In "Neblette's Handbook of Photography and Reprography, Materials, Processes and Systems," 7th ed., J. M. Sturge, ed., pp. 259–330. New York: Reinhold. Reprinted in McCann, vol. I, pp. 205–63.
- (1978) "Our 'polar partnership' with the world aroun... | 3,688 |
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eprinted in McCann, vol. III, pp. 155–58.
- (1983) "Recent advances in retinex theory and some implications for cortical computations: Color vision and the natural images" "Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A." 80:5136–69. Reprinted in McCann, vol. III, pp. 159–66.
- (1986) "An alternative technique for th... | 3,689 |
206491 | Bustard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bustard | Bustard
Bustard
Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and on the steppes of the Old World. They range in length from . They make up the family Otididae (formerly known as Otidae). Bustards are omnivorous and opportunistic, eating leaves, buds, see... | 3,690 |
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species is the little brown bustard ("Eupodotis humilis"), which is around long and weighs around on average. In most bustards, males are substantially larger than females, often about 30% longer and sometimes more than twice the weight. They are among the most sexually dimorphic groups of birds. In only the fl... | 3,691 |
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their eggs and offspring often very vulnerable to predation. They walk steadily on strong legs and big toes, pecking for food as they go. Most prefer to run or walk over flying. They have long broad wings with "fingered" wingtips, and striking patterns in flight. Many have interesting mating displays, such as i... | 3,692 |
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Genus †"Ioriotis"
- †"Ioriotis gabunii"
- Genus †"Miootis"
- †"Miootis compactus"
- Genus †"Pleotis"
- †"Pleotis liui"
- Subfamily Lissotinae
- Genus "Lissotis"
- Hartlaub's bustard, "Lissotis hartlaubii"
- Black-bellied bustard, "Lissotis melanogaster"
- "L. m. notophila"
- "L. m. melanogaster"
- S... | 3,693 |
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bustard)
- "A. a. stieberi" (great Arabian bustard)
- "A. a. arabs"
- "A. a. butleri" (Sudan bustard)
- Australian bustard, "Ardeotis australis"
- Great Indian bustard, "Ardeotis nigriceps"
- Kori bustard, "Ardeotis kori"
- "A. k. struthiunculus" (Northern Kori bustard)
- "A. k. kori" (Southern Kori bus... | 3,694 |
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bustard, "Chlamydotis undulata"
- "C. u. fuertaventurae" (Canary Islands houbara bustard)
- "C. u. undulata" (North African houbara bustard)
- Genus "Houbaropsis"
- Bengal florican, "Houbaropsis bengalensis"
- "H. b. bengalensis"
- "H. b. blandini"
- Genus "Sypheotides"
- Lesser florican, "Sypheotides i... | 3,695 |
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Blue korhaan, "Eupodotis caerulescens"
- White-bellied bustard, "Eupodotis senegalensis"
- "E. s. barrowii" (Barrow's/southern white-bellied Bustard)
- "E. s. canicollis" (Somali white-bellied knorhaan)
- "E. s. erlangeri"
- "E. s. mackenziei"
- "E. s. senegalensis" (Senegal bustard)
- Genus "Afrotis"
-... | 3,696 |
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where they are nominally protected.
## United Kingdom.
The last bustard in Britain died in approximately 1832, but the bird is being reintroduced through batches of chicks imported from Russia.
In 2009, two great bustard chicks were hatched in Britain for the first time in more than 170 years. Reintroduced b... | 3,697 |
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duced through batches of chicks imported from Russia.
In 2009, two great bustard chicks were hatched in Britain for the first time in more than 170 years. Reintroduced bustards also hatched chicks in 2010.
# Floricans.
Some Indian bustards are also called Floricans. The origin of the name is unclear. Thomas ... | 3,698 |
20119 | Methodism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Methodism | Methodism
Methodism
Methodism, also known as the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their practice and belief from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in ... | 3,699 |
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