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4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Holmes Morton, physician
- John A. Rich, physician
- Jennifer Richeson, social psychologist
- Sarah Ruhl, playwright
- George Saunders, short story writer
- Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist
- Shahzia Sikander, painter
- Terence Tao, mathematician
- Claire J. Tomlin, aviation enginee... | 36,800 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Edwards, water quality engineer
- Michael Elowitz, molecular biologist
- Saul Griffith, inventor
- Sven Haakanson, Alutiiq curator, anthropologist, preservationist
- Corey Harris, blues musician
- Cheryl Hayashi, spider silk biologist
- My Hang V. Huynh, chemist
- Claire Kremen, conserv... | 36,801 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
novelist
- Will Allen, urban farmer
- Regina Benjamin, rural family doctor
- Kirsten Bomblies, evolutionary plant geneticist
- Tara Donovan, artist
- Andrea Ghez, astrophysicist
- Stephen D. Houston, anthropologist
- Mary Jackson, weaver and sculptor
- Leila Josefowicz, violinist
- Al... | 36,802 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
historian of medicine
- Marin Soljačić, optical physicist
- Sally Temple, neuroscientist
- Jennifer Tipton, stage lighting designer
- Rachel Wilson, experimental neurobiologist
- Miguel Zenón, saxophonist and composer
## 2009.
- Lynsey Addario, photojournalist
- Maneesh Agrawala, compu... | 36,803 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
reporter
- Rebecca Onie, health services innovator
- Richard Prum, ornithologist
- John A. Rogers, applied physicist
- Elyn Saks, mental health lawyer
- Jill Seaman, infectious disease physician
- Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist
- Daniel Sigman, biogeochemist
- Mary Tinetti, geria... | 36,804 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
theater director and actor
- John Dabiri, biophysicist
- Shannon Lee Dawdy, anthropologist
- Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian
- Yiyun Li, fiction writer
- Michal Lipson, optical physicist
- Nergis Mavalvala, quantum astrophysicist
- Jason Moran, jazz pianist and composer
- Carol... | 36,805 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Roland Fryer, economist
- Jeanne Gang, architect
- Elodie Ghedin, parasitologist and virologist
- Markus Greiner, condensed matter physicist
- Kevin Guskiewicz, sports medicine researcher
- Peter Hessler, long-form journalist
- Tiya Miles, public historian
- Matthew Nock, clinical psych... | 36,806 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
and silversmith
- Alisa Weilerstein, cellist
- Yukiko Yamashita, developmental biologist
## 2012.
- Natalia Almada, documentary filmmaker
- Uta Barth, photographer
- Claire Chase, arts entrepreneur and flautist
- Raj Chetty, economist
- Maria Chudnovsky, mathematician
- Eric Coleman, ... | 36,807 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Rabalais, marine ecologist
- Benoît Rolland, stringed-instrument bow maker
- Daniel Spielman, computer scientist
- Melody Swartz, bioengineer
- Chris Thile, mandolinist and composer
- Benjamin Warf, neurosurgeon
## 2013.
- Kyle Abraham, choreographer and dancer
- Donald Antrim, writer
... | 36,808 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Julie Livingston, public health historian and anthropologist
- David Lobell, agricultural ecologist
- Tarell Alvin McCraney, playwright
- Susan Murphy, statistician
- Sheila Nirenberg, neuroscientist
- Alexei Ratmansky, choreographer
- Ana Maria Rey, atomic physicist
- Karen Russell, fi... | 36,809 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
social psychologist
- Craig Gentry, computer scientist
- Terrance Hayes, poet
- John Henneberger, housing advocate
- Mark Hersam, materials scientist
- Samuel D. Hunter, playwright
- Pamela O. Long, historian of science and technology
- Rick Lowe, public artist
- Jacob Lurie, mathemati... | 36,810 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
advocate
- Matthew Desmond, sociologist
- William Dichtel, chemist
- Michelle Dorrance, tap dancer and choreographer
- Nicole Eisenman, painter
- LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer and video artist
- Ben Lerner, writer
- Mimi Lien, set designer
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, playwright, songwrit... | 36,811 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Peidong Yang, inorganic chemist
## 2016.
- Ahilan Arulanantham, human rights lawyer
- Daryl Baldwin, linguist and cultural preservationist
- Anne Basting, theater artist and educator
- Vincent Fecteau, sculptor
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, playwright
- Kellie Jones, art historian and curat... | 36,812 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Joyce J. Scott, jewelry maker and sculptor
- Sarah Stillman, long-form journalist
- Bill Thies, computer scientist
- Julia Wolfe, composer
- Gene Luen Yang, graphic novelist
- Jin-Quan Yu, synthetic chemist
## 2017.
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby, painter
- Sunil Amrith, historian
- Greg A... | 36,813 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Kate Orff, architect
- Trevor Paglen, artist
- Betsy Levy Paluck, psychologist
- Derek Peterson, historian
- Damon Rich, designer and urban planner
- Stefan Savage, computer scientist
- Yuval Sharon, opera director
- Tyshawn Sorey, composer
- Gabriel Victora, immunologist
- Jesmyn War... | 36,814 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
community organizer
- Titus Kaphar, painter
- John Keene, writer
- Kelly Link, writer
- Dominique Morisseau, playwright
- Okwui Okpokwasili, choreographer
- Kristina Olson, psychologist
- Lisa Parks, media scholar
- Rebecca Sandefur, legal scholar
- Allan Sly, mathematician
- Sarah T... | 36,815 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
of season 2, Michael Trucco plays the role of Dr. David Underhill, an experimental physicist and a MacArthur Grant recipient. In the episode "The Geology Elevation" of season 10, Sheldon becomes jealous of Dr. Bertram "Bert" Kibbler (a geology professor) when he learns that he has won a MacArt... | 36,816 |
4222171 | MacArthur Fellows Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program
Michael Trucco plays the role of Dr. David Underhill, an experimental physicist and a MacArthur Grant recipient. In the episode "The Geology Elevation" of season 10, Sheldon becomes jealous of Dr. Bertram "Bert" Kibbler (a geology professor) when he learns that he has won a MacArthur Grant for... | 36,817 |
4222161 | Babs McMillan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babs%20McMillan | Babs McMillan
Babs McMillan
Babs McMillan is a Melbourne-based Australian stage, film, television actress and director and teacher. She is best known for her roles in two popular television series during the 1980s.
# Career.
McMillan played the acerbic Sister Erin Cosgrove during the final year of television series ... | 36,818 |
4222161 | Babs McMillan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babs%20McMillan | Babs McMillan
ctor and teacher. She is best known for her roles in two popular television series during the 1980s.
# Career.
McMillan played the acerbic Sister Erin Cosgrove during the final year of television series "The Young Doctors" and dimwitted country bumpkin Cass Parker in "Prisoner". In the late 1990s, she a... | 36,819 |
4222113 | BeebEm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BeebEm | BeebEm
BeebEm
BeebEm is a BBC Micro emulator, first developed by David Gilbert in 1994 and since improved by a number of people, most notably Mike Wyatt who currently maintains the emulator and its website. Although BeebEm's first incarnations were for UNIX-based systems, the version for Windows (98 or later) is now t... | 36,820 |
4222113 | BeebEm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BeebEm | BeebEm
Econet networking
- 65C02 and Z80 second processors
- AMX Mouse
The TMS5220 Speech Generator emulator was removed from version 4.1 onwards due to licensing issues.
BeebEm can read images from files representing tape (in UEF format), DFS or ADFS discs, ROM cartridges and SCSI or SASI hard disks. It is capable... | 36,821 |
4222113 | BeebEm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BeebEm | BeebEm
and Z80 second processors
- AMX Mouse
The TMS5220 Speech Generator emulator was removed from version 4.1 onwards due to licensing issues.
BeebEm can read images from files representing tape (in UEF format), DFS or ADFS discs, ROM cartridges and SCSI or SASI hard disks. It is capable of running the vast majori... | 36,822 |
4222205 | Lac qui Parle State Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lac%20qui%20Parle%20State%20Park | Lac qui Parle State Park
Lac qui Parle State Park
Lac qui Parle State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, near Watson. "Lac qui Parle" is a French translation of the native Dakota name, meaning "lake which speaks".
The state park was built as part of the Lac qui Parle Flood Control Project. Lac qui Parl... | 36,823 |
4222205 | Lac qui Parle State Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lac%20qui%20Parle%20State%20Park | Lac qui Parle State Park
the Minnesota River, and the flood control project involved building a dam at the south end of the lake. The dam was constructed by the Works Progress Administration, and other projects were built along the lake. Besides the dam and the state park, other projects included the Watson Wayside, La... | 36,824 |
4222172 | Samuelle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuelle | Samuelle
Samuelle
Samuelle Prater, known simply as Samuelle, is an American R&B singer who is a former member of the R&B group Club Nouveau. He was the lead singer on Club Nouveau's #1 Pop and Dance and #2 R&B hit remake of the Bill Withers classic, "Lean on Me".
He released his first and only solo album entitled, "L... | 36,825 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
Viktor Astafyev
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001), was a prominent Soviet and Russian writer.
# Biography.
Viktor Astafyev was born in the village of Ovsyanka (then Krasnoyarsk Uyezd, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian SFSR) on the bank of the Y... | 36,826 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
while all the work was being organized and done by two women, Lydia and her mother-in-law, Maria Osipova, Pavel Yakovlevich's young second wife.
In 1931 two tragedies struck. First Pyotr, Pavel and the latter's father (Astafyev grand-grandfather) Yakov Maximovich were arrested as part of the Dekulakiza... | 36,827 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
Viktor found himself in the house of Yekaterina Petrovna and Ilya Yevgrafovich Potylitsyns, his mother’s parents who gave the boy all their love and care. In 1932 he joined a local primary school. His life in the early 1930s Astafyev later described in his book of short stories "The Last Respect" (Posle... | 36,828 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
homeless. In 1937 he was taken in an orphanage and joined the 5th form of its special school which years later he remembered with great affection. Two of the teachers, Rozhdestvensky and Sokolov, noticed artistic and literary abilities in the boy who by this time started to write poetry, and did a lot t... | 36,829 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
have changed – asked fate to keep mother with me. [Long pause] Orphanage, wandering, the boarding school – all this I had to live through in Igarka. But there were other things – books and songs, skiing trips, childhood happiness, first tears of epiphany... It was there that for the first time I've hear... | 36,830 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
working in the Kureika station, a manual worker at local village Soviet. In August he left Igarka and joined the newly formed Railway school in Krasnoyarsk which he graduated in June 1942.
## The War years.
In October 1942 Astafyev volunteered for the Soviet Army and, after six months spent in reserve... | 36,831 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
received his first award, For Courage medal. In January 1944 he returned to action, took part first in Korsun-Shevchenko operation, then (in March and April) in the Kamenets-Podolsky assault and on 25 April was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
On 17 September 1944, Astafyev was heavily injured near P... | 36,832 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
Perm (then Molotov) oblast," he wrote in autobiography.
The horrible experience of war has remained with Astafyev forever, becoming the major incentive to become a writer. "About the War... what do I know? Everything and nothing. I was a common soldier and we had our own, soldiers' truth. One rather gl... | 36,833 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
career.
After his discharge in 1945 Astafyev settled for a while in his wife's parents' house in Chusovoy, then went to Krasnoyarsk, doing various jobs such as locksmith and smelter. In 1950 he started contributing to the Tchusovsky Rabochy (The Tchusovoy Worker) newspaper which in February 1951 publis... | 36,834 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
book of short stories "Warm Rain" (Tyoply Dozhd), dedicated mostly to the experience of Russian soldiers and civilians during the German-Soviet War. Also in the late 1950s Astafyev joined the regional Perm radio. Working there provided relatively good wages but involved too much blatant propaganda. "I d... | 36,835 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
"The Old Oak" ("Starodub", 1960), became Astafyev's first European publication: translated into Czech, in 1963 it was published in Prague. After 1962 Astafyev became a professional writer, his wife Maria helping out as a typist.
In 1969 Astafyev and his family moved to the city of Vologda where most of... | 36,836 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
(which gave the title to the compilation). His debut play "The Bird-Cherry Tree" was premiered at the Moscow Yermolova theatre, also in 1976. On 19 October 1978, for the "Tsar-Fish" book Astafyev received the USSR State Prize.
In 1981 the first edition of "The Complete Astafyev" in 4 volumes came out. ... | 36,837 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
novel "Sad Detective" (1986), as well as a set of 1987 short stories, including controversial "The Catching of Cudgeons in Georgia". In 1988–1989 Astavyev visited France (where his "Sad Detective" was published), Bulgaria (to oversee his 1966 short novel "The Theft" being screened) and Greece and took p... | 36,838 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
last years were not happy ones. In 2000 he suffered a stroke. Not long before his death Astafyev wrote his last words: "I entered a world that was kind and open and I loved it wholeheartedly. I leave a world that is alien, evil and vile and I have nothing to say to all of you by way of farewells." Vikto... | 36,839 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
alleged racist overtones in Astafyev's work "Sad Detective" and his "The Catching of Gudgeons in Georgia" (both 1986), the latter deemed offensive by the Georgian readership. At the 8th USSR Writers Union Congress in the summer of 1986, Georgian delegates urged the author to apologize publicly for his i... | 36,840 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
were singing paeans to an idealized, invincible Soviet war hero, crashing the enemy under the Communist Party leadership, Viktor Astafyev became one of the first to rebel against the officially-approved convention and reveal the darker, unglamorous side of what was happening in 1941–1945. He is credited... | 36,841 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
brought authenticity and harsh realism to the Soviet war literature.
David Gillespie summed up his career as follows:Astafyev has always been a highly individual writer who conforms to no movements or stereotypes... He has always remained true to himself, and has retained a certain hard-edged integrity... | 36,842 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
mistakes of the recent Soviet past. At the same time, he is all of these. Capable of surprising and even shocking his reader, Astafev maintains a deep lyrical sense that has produced what Eidel'man called "the best descriptions of nature for decades". More than any other writer living in Russia today (w... | 36,843 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
Pass" (1959), "Theft" (1966), "Last Bow" (1968), "Shepherd and Shepherdess" (1971)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995 – for his novel "The Cursed and the Slain", 2003 – posthumously)
- Pushkin Prize (Germany, 1997)
- Award "Triumph"
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1989)
- Order of Lenin (198... | 36,844 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
# English translations.
- "The Horse with the Pink Mane, and Other Siberian Stories", Progress Publishers, 1970.
- "Queen Fish: A Story in Two Parts and Twelve Episodes", Progress Publishers, 1982.
- "To Live Your Life and Other Stories", Raduga Publishe... | 36,845 |
4221868 | Viktor Astafyev | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor%20Astafyev | Viktor Astafyev
kh i pastushka", 1971)
- "Czar Fish" ("Царь-рыба" – "Czar ryba", 1975)
- "Sad Detective" ("Печальный детектив" – "Pechalny detektiv", 1986)
- "The Catching of Gudgeons in Georgia" ("Ловля пескарей в Грузии" – "Lovlya peskarei v Gruzii", 1986)
- "The Cursed and the Slain" ("Прокляты и убиты" – "Prokl... | 36,846 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
Crossover study
In medicine, a crossover study or crossover trial is a longitudinal study in which subjects receive a sequence of different treatments (or exposures). While crossover studies can be observational studies, many important crossover studies are controlled experiments, which are discussed i... | 36,847 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
repeated measures design, the same measures are collected multiple times for each subject. A crossover trial has a repeated measures design in which each patient is assigned to a sequence of two or more treatments, of which one may be a standard treatment or a placebo.
Nearly all crossover are designed... | 36,848 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
design is often taught in non-statistical textbooks, partly because of its simplicity.
# Analysis.
The data are analyzed using the statistical method that was specified in the clinical trial protocol, which must have been approved by the appropriate institutional review boards and regulatory agencies ... | 36,849 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
the data according to the principle of the intention to treat.
# Advantages.
A crossover study has two advantages over both a parallel study and a non-crossover longitudinal study. First, the influence of confounding covariates is reduced because each crossover patient serves as their own control. In ... | 36,850 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
designs (even other repeated measures designs).
no
Optimal crossover designs are discussed in the graduate textbook by Jones and Kenward and in the review article by Stufken. Crossover designs are discussed along with more general repeated-measurements designs in the graduate textbook by Vonesh and Ch... | 36,851 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
may affect the outcome. An example might be a drug with many adverse effects given first, making patients taking a second, less harmful medicine, more sensitive to any adverse effect.
Second is the issue of "carry-over" between treatments, which confounds the estimates of the treatment effects. In prac... | 36,852 |
4222086 | Crossover study | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossover%20study | Crossover study
val analysis
# References.
- M. Bose and A. Dey (2009). "Optimal Crossover Designs". World Scientific.
- D. E. Johnson (2010). Crossover experiments. "WIREs Comp Stat", 2: 620-625.
- K.-J. Lui, (2016). "Crossover Designs: Testing, Estimation, and Sample Size". Wiley.
- Najafi Mehdi, (2004). "Statis... | 36,853 |
4222221 | David Bower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Bower | David Bower
David Bower
David Bower (born 1969) is a Welsh actor, best known for his role as David in the hit romantic comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral". Born in Wrexham, North Wales, he is deaf and took his degree in the "Theatre of the Deaf". After university he joined what became the "Signdance Collective" worki... | 36,854 |
4222221 | David Bower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Bower | David Bower
in radio plays for the BBC.
# Early life.
Bower's deafness started with complications at birth which could have been fatal, but was not diagnosed until he was five years old. From that age he wore body hearing aids, bulky transistor radio-style devices. He later attended the Mary Hare Grammar School near ... | 36,855 |
4222221 | David Bower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Bower | David Bower
ted with complications at birth which could have been fatal, but was not diagnosed until he was five years old. From that age he wore body hearing aids, bulky transistor radio-style devices. He later attended the Mary Hare Grammar School near his home in Berkshire. Although supported by a very caring family... | 36,856 |
4222282 | Shoyeido | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shoyeido | Shoyeido
Shoyeido
# Name.
The name "Shoyeido" ("Shōeidō") is derived from the three characters Shō, Ei, and Dō.
- "Shō" means "Pine tree"
- "Ei" is the ancient sound meaning "Prosperity"
- "Dō" is a store or company.
The "Shō" is from the traditional Sho Chiku Bai trio of "shō" (松 pine tree), "chiku" (竹 bamboo) a... | 36,857 |
4222282 | Shoyeido | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shoyeido | Shoyeido
rom the traditional Sho Chiku Bai trio of "shō" (松 pine tree), "chiku" (竹 bamboo) and "bai" (梅 plum tree), which are used as a traditional Japanese grading system, to represent varying degrees of quality. In this grading system, "shō" represents the highest grade or quality.
# Stores.
Shoyeido has 7 retail s... | 36,858 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
Evangeline Whedon
Evangeline "Vange" Whedon is a fictional character, a mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Whedon is a lawyer and her mutant ability is to transform into a red dragon. Her first appearance was in "X-Treme X-Men" #21.
Evangeline appears in the televis... | 36,859 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
the next day. Her "fiancé" left her with an e-mail and her family disowned her.
When the X-Men Bishop and Sage were being held in police custody, Whedon and the Mutant Rights League staged a protest for their release. While Evangeline was talking to Detective Cardones, a human struck the detective wi... | 36,860 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
an anti-mutant terrorist, given a second chance by the X-Men, under probation and hired her as an assistant. Evangeline also helped the X-Men against a lawyer secretly working for the psychic mutant Elias Bogan.
"X-Men: The 198 Files" reveals that she kept her powers after the "Decimation" of the mut... | 36,861 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
triggered consciously or by the presence of blood. In this form she has all the powers of a dragon, such as fiery breath and tough scales.
# In other media.
## Television.
Erinn Ruth portrayed the character in the Season 1 finale episode "X-roads" of the live-action TV-series "The Gifted". She visi... | 36,862 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
a flashback, she was revealed to have recruited John Proudstar (Thunderbird) to lead the Atlanta station for the Mutant Underground. In the present day, Whedon is a mutant rights lawyer. She helps give John and Clarice information to find Erg, a mutant who could have information on the Inner Circle. I... | 36,863 |
4222217 | Evangeline Whedon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evangeline%20Whedon | Evangeline Whedon
nd Erg, a mutant who could have information on the Inner Circle. In "hoMe", Evangeline calls the station leaders of the Underground to discuss how to deal with the Inner Circle but their enemies assault the meeting place and Evangeline is presumed dead. In the same episode, Erg mentions that he and Ev... | 36,864 |
4222239 | Nonnenwerth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonnenwerth | Nonnenwerth
Nonnenwerth
Nonnenwerth is an island near Bad Honnef in the Rhine, upriver from Cologne, administratively part of Remagen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
# Religious houses.
The island is mainly known as the site of a monastery of Benedictine nuns, later a Franciscan convent.
## First foundation.
There was a ... | 36,865 |
4222239 | Nonnenwerth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonnenwerth | Nonnenwerth
ostilities with Burgundy. It also suffered greatly from marauding Swedish troops in 1632, during the Thirty Years' War.
In 1773 it was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt in the Baroque style. In 1802 the nunnery was dissolved as part of the secularisation of ecclesiastical property. In 1821 the premises were s... | 36,866 |
4222316 | KROY | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KROY | KROY
KROY
Kroy or KROY may refer to:
- KROY (AM), a radio station (1410 AM) licensed to serve San Saba, Texas, United States
- KROY (defunct), a defunct radio station in Sacramento, California, United States
- KROY (FM), a defunct radio station (99.7 FM) formerly licensed to serve Palacios, Texas
- Kroy Biermann | 36,867 |
4222309 | The Simian Line | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Simian%20Line | The Simian Line
The Simian Line
The Simian Line is a 2001 American improvisational film released in New York City and Los Angeles. It was filmed over an eleven-day period. The ensemble cast includes Harry Connick Jr., Cindy Crawford, Tyne Daly, William Hurt, Monica Keena, Samantha Mathis, Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan... | 36,868 |
4222309 | The Simian Line | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Simian%20Line | The Simian Line
of the year. The guests don't take her seriously. Arnita doesn't tell them that she can see a fourth couple at the party, the long dead Mae (Samantha Mathis) and Edward (William Hurt). As days go by, Katharine grows increasingly jealous of her lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.), and his flirting with her n... | 36,869 |
4222250 | Peter Cousens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Cousens | Peter Cousens
Peter Cousens
Peter Cousens is an Australian actor, born in Tamworth, New South Wales. He is the Artistic Director of the Talent Development Project. He attended The Armidale School in Armidale from 1969 to 1973 and then Gordonstoun School, Scotland. He then spent a year reading Arts at St Paul's College... | 36,870 |
4222250 | Peter Cousens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Cousens | Peter Cousens
actor and presenter. In the 1980s he guest starred in a number of major Australian television productions, including "The Timeless Land", "Earth Watch", "The Sullivans", "The Young Doctors", "Sons and Daughters" and "The Restless Years". He then went on to take leading roles in "Under Capricorn" and "Retu... | 36,871 |
4222250 | Peter Cousens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Cousens | Peter Cousens
appeared in the 2015 television opera "The Divorce". He has received a number of Variety Club of Australia awards for his work.
Cousens has performed on a number of cast and solo albums. He sang the role of Chris on the "International Symphonic Recording of Miss Saigon" and the Australian musical "The Ha... | 36,872 |
4222250 | Peter Cousens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Cousens | Peter Cousens
sang the role of Chris on the "International Symphonic Recording of Miss Saigon" and the Australian musical "The Hatpin".
In September 2006 he launched Kookaburra: The National Musical Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Australia, dedicated to musical theatre. The company closed in 20... | 36,873 |
4222410 | Hong'an County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hong'an%20County | Hong'an County
Hong'an County
Hong'an County (), formerly named Huang'an County (; Hwangan), located to the north of Wuhan, is a county in Huanggang, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Hong'an is known as the "County of Generals" in that more than 200 (or 79 with the real rank, plus those who had a similar r... | 36,874 |
4222410 | Hong'an County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hong'an%20County | Hong'an County
Huangchuan, Henan). Huang Xi's descendants ruled State of Huang until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu () Huang Qisheng (), fled to the state of Qi. The people of Huang were forced to relocate to Chu. They settled in the region of present-day Hubei provin... | 36,875 |
4222410 | Hong'an County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hong'an%20County | Hong'an County
State of Huang until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu () Huang Qisheng (), fled to the state of Qi. The people of Huang were forced to relocate to Chu. They settled in the region of present-day Hubei province, in a region known as the Jiangxia Prefecture ... | 36,876 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
Robert Whitaker (photographer)
Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a renowned British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, and for his photographs of the rock group Cream, which were used in ... | 36,877 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
Australian connections have featured throughout career.
He began his photographic career in London in the late 1950s but he moved to Melbourne in 1961, where he began studying at the University of Melbourne and became part of the small but flourishing Melbourne arts scene. According to a... | 36,878 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
including John Reed and Sunday Reed, Ian Sime, Charles Blackman and Barbara Blackman, Barrett Reid, Laurence Hope, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan and Joy Hester, as well as his own peer group including Martin Sharp, Richard Neville, Barry Humphries and Germaine Greer. Whitaker photographed man... | 36,879 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
or less by accident, when Whitaker accompanied a journalist friend to an interview with Epstein for an article for the Melbourne "Jewish News". Whitaker's picture was published with the article, which led to his introduction to Epstein and his first shots of the Beatles—pictures of Paul M... | 36,880 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
Beach", the Mora family – Georges, Mirka and their sons Philippe, William and Tiriel – are pictured in slouched, single file on the beach with Martin Sharp and architect Peter Burns. In another photograph, "Goodbye Bob", the same group sits holding a sign which reads: "GOD bless thee and ... | 36,881 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
He also did several photographs of the hugely successful Australian folk-pop group The Seekers, including the cover shots for the LP "Seekers Seen in Green" (1967); his Seekers photos were also used for the archival CD "Live at the Talk of the Town" and "The Seekers Complete" boxed set, a... | 36,882 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
York. He spent the next two years travelling with the Beatles and shooting them at work, at rest and at play—on their tours, at home, in the recording studio, during private moments, and in formal photo-sessions. His photos from this period include the portraits that were used to form the... | 36,883 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
became a key figure of the London underground scene, capturing "the creativity and excess of London in the sixties". He has been quoted as saying: "There were about 100 people who ran the Sixties" and he was fortunate enough to meet and photograph virtually all of them.
Whitaker also acc... | 36,884 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
antiques, which was used on the back cover of the compilation album "A Collection of Beatles Oldies".
## "Yesterday and Today" and the "butcher cover" photo.
Whitaker's most celebrated work is the 1966 photo which was appropriated for The Beatles' infamous "Yesterday and Today" album co... | 36,885 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
images was one which has since become known as the "butcher" photo, in which The Beatles are depicted wearing white coats, draped with dismembered doll parts, slabs of meat and false teeth.
This now-legendary image was originally conceived as one of a triptych of photographs, and intende... | 36,886 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
notably her most famous surrealist creation "Object" ("Lunch in Fur") (1936), a disturbing creation in which she covered a cup, saucer and spoon entirely in fur.
It has often been claimed that The Beatles intended the "butcher cover" as a protest at the way their music was being "butcher... | 36,887 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
he and The Beatles were "really fed up at taking what one had hoped would be designer-friendly publicity pictures". In the interview conducted just before his death in 1980 (referred to by Bob), Lennon confirmed this.
Whitaker had intended the triptych to be his "personal comment on the ... | 36,888 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
gold like a Russian icon and to have the Fab Four's heads surrounded by jewelled halos, with the photos bordered in rainbow colours. This decoration, contrasted with the bizarre situations of the photos themselves, was evidently intended to create a surreal juxtaposition between the band'... | 36,889 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
own thought was how the hell do you show that they've been born out of a woman the same as anybody else? An umbilical cord was one way of doing it."
The centre panel of the triptych is the image nowadays referred to as the "butcher" photo. It shows the (possibly stoned) Beatles dressed i... | 36,890 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
that was intended for the right-hand panel of the triptych is one of Harrison standing behind a seated Lennon, hammer in hand, apparently driving nails into Lennon's head. Whitaker explained that this picture was intended to demonstrate that the Beatles were not an illusion, not something... | 36,891 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
contemporary Lewis Morley, Whitaker's "butcher" photo soon passed out of his control and took on a life of its own. The Beatles themselves seem to have been behind the use of the photo in British trade advertisements and then on the cover of the Capitol album "Yesterday and Today". The pr... | 36,892 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
the UK before it was released in the USA on the cover of "Yesterday and Today". It was first published on page 2 of "New Musical Express" on 3 June 1966' in an EMI advertisement promoting the forthcoming single. The same ad was published in "Disc and Music Echo" the next day, 4 June. Both... | 36,893 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
of these appearances seem to have caused any appreciable comment in the UK, even though they were published only days before Capitol’s promotional release of "Yesterday and Today" in the US
### Resulting controversy.
Up to and including the "Revolver" album, all The Beatles' American Ca... | 36,894 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
in Britain for another three weeks. It was Capitol's habit of cherry-picking album tracks and singles to compile their own albums that was the origin of the urban myth (referred to above) about the butcher cover being some kind of protest against the American label.
Capitol printed the c... | 36,895 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
that 60,000 copies were distributed to radio, media and Capitol branch offices, who showed it to retailers.
It has been suggested that Lennon was the main impetus behind the photo being used, but according to Alan Livingstone, Capitol's former president, (quoted in "Mojo" magazine in 200... | 36,896 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
The company reacted swiftly, issuing letters of apology, and on Tuesday 14 June PR manager Ron Tepper issued an official letter of recall in which he quoted a statement from Capitol’s President Alan W. Livingston:
The albums with the butcher cover were withdrawn and returned, and a new c... | 36,897 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
cover were destroyed and replaced by the "cabin trunk" sleeve, but Capitol eventually decided that it was more economical to simply paste the new cover photo over the old one. After the album was released, news of the paste-over operation leaked out, and Beatle fans across America began s... | 36,898 |
4222109 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Whitaker%20(photographer) | Robert Whitaker (photographer)
it, and then promptly sold it for US$40,000.
The scarcest copies of "Yesterday and Today" are the so-called "first state" versions, those still in their original shrink-wrapping, and the rarest and most valuable of these are the stereo pressings. Prior to 1987, there were only two sealed... | 36,899 |
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