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1215713 | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunchaththu%20Ezhuthachan | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
is considered unparalleled.
"Adhyatma Ramayanam", written in Kilippattu style, is considered as a landmark of Malayalam literature. Ezhuthachan used different Dravidian metres in the cantos of his poems: "Keka" for Bala Kanda and Aranya Kanda; "Kakali" for Ayodhya, Kishkindha and Yuddha Kanda;... | 47,400 |
1215713 | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunchaththu%20Ezhuthachan | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
and shorter pieces "Irupathinalu Vrittam" and "Harinama Kirtanam" mark the confluence of Sanskrit and Dravidian linguistic streams. However, there is no unanimity of opinion among the scholars about the authorship of certain other works generally attributed to him (such as "Devi Bhagavatam").
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1215713 | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunchaththu%20Ezhuthachan | Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
to him (such as "Devi Bhagavatam").
"Adhyatma Ramayanam"(അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം) is also a spiritual text that gave momentum to the Bhakti cult in Kerala. Ezhuthachan, along with Poonthanam Nambuthiri, was one of the prominent Bhakti devotional poets in Kerala.
Beyond the poetry values Ezhuthachan... | 47,402 |
1215773 | Westman Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westman%20Region | Westman Region
Westman Region
Westman is a region in the southwestern area of Manitoba, Canada. The region's urban centre is Brandon. The region comprises four of Statistics Canada's census divisions of Canada, Manitoba Census Divisions No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, and No. 15. Together they have a land area of 27,242.06 km² (... | 47,403 |
1215773 | Westman Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westman%20Region | Westman Region
est area of the region. The town of Minnedosa is home to one of Canada's largest internet pharmacies.
# Major communities.
- Birtle
- Boissevain
- Brandon
- Carberry
- Deloraine
- Glenboro
- Hamiota
- Killarney
- Melita
- Minnedosa
- Neepawa
- Rivers
- Shoal Lake
- Souris
- Virden
- Wawa... | 47,404 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
Peter le Page Renouf
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (23 August 1822 – 14 October 1897) was a British professor, Egyptologist, and museum director, best known for his translation of "The Book of the Dead".
# Personal life.
Renouf was born in Guernsey on .
He married Ludovica von Brentano, member of a ... | 47,405 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
converts, he proved a thorn in the side of the Ultramontane party in the Roman Church, though he did not, like some of them, return to the communion of the Church of England. He opposed the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility, and his treatise (1868) upon the condemnation of Pope Honor... | 47,406 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
had to be discontinued on account of the hostility of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Renouf was one of the defenders of Champollion and of his method of decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics in England when he was being criticized unfairly by other scholars.
## Museum directorship.
In 1864 he wa... | 47,407 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
of social skills (Budge didn't come from a privileged background) and doubts about his abilities, objecting strongly to Budge being appointed as his successor and preferring Edouard Naville instead.
Renouf was elected in 1887 president of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, to whose "Proceedings"... | 47,408 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
in illicit trade of cuneiform tablets." Renouf continued to feel animosity towards Budge, accusing him of plagiarism and being a charlatan.
# Academic works.
The most important of his contributions to Egyptology are his Hibbert Lectures on "The Religion of the Egyptians", delivered in 1879; and t... | 47,409 |
1215749 | Peter le Page Renouf | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20le%20Page%20Renouf | Peter le Page Renouf
mic works.
The most important of his contributions to Egyptology are his Hibbert Lectures on "The Religion of the Egyptians", delivered in 1879; and the translation of "The Book of the Dead", with an ample commentary, published in the "Transactions" of the society over which he presided. He retire... | 47,410 |
1215764 | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='t%20Hooft–Polyakov%20monopole | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
In theoretical physics, the 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole is a topological soliton similar to the Dirac monopole but without any singularities. It arises in the case of a Yang–Mills theory with a gauge group G, coupled to a Higgs field which spontaneously breaks it do... | 47,411 |
1215764 | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='t%20Hooft–Polyakov%20monopole | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
at the origin itself, the G gauge symmetry is unbroken and the solution is non-singular also near the origin. The Higgs field
is proportional to
where the adjoint indices are identified with the three-dimensional spatial indices. The gauge field at infinity is such that the Higgs field's de... | 47,412 |
1215764 | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='t%20Hooft–Polyakov%20monopole | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
the vacuum manifold Σ. Otherwise, we would not have a finite energy. In topologically trivial 3 + 1 dimensions, this means spatial infinity is homotopically equivalent to the topological sphere "S". So, the superselection sectors are classified by the second homotopy group of Σ, π(Σ).
In the... | 47,413 |
1215764 | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='t%20Hooft–Polyakov%20monopole | 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
tually require the existence of a scalar Higgs field. Most symmetry breaking mechanisms (e.g. technicolor) would also give rise to a 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole.
It's easy to generalize to the case of "d" + 1 dimensions. We have π(Σ).
# Monopole problem.
The "monopole problem" refers to the... | 47,414 |
1215777 | Arlo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arlo | Arlo
Arlo
Arlo (pronounced AR-loh) is a given name for males. The origin of the name is unclear. From Old English, it is believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon "here" 'army, fortified, troops; war-' and "hlaw" 'mound, cairn, hill,' thereby meaning 'fortified hill.' Arlo can also be a variant of "Harley" and the f... | 47,415 |
1215777 | Arlo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arlo | Arlo
Gilliam (born 1977), American singer-songwriter and record producer
- Arlo Guthrie (born 1947), American folk singer
- Arlo Haskell, historian, poet, literary organizer, and publisher
- Arlo Hemphill (born 1971), American explorer, ocean conservationist and film actor
- Arlo U. Landolt (born 1935), American as... | 47,416 |
1215777 | Arlo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arlo | Arlo
Native American activist
- Arlo Schmidt (born 1931), American politician
- Arlo Smith, former District Attorney of San Francisco, California
## Sports.
- Arlo Brunsberg (born 1940), former professional baseball player
- Arlo Bugeja (born 1986), Australian speedway rider
- Arlo Chavez (born 1966), Filipino bo... | 47,417 |
1215777 | Arlo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arlo | Arlo
glish sports commentator
# Fictional characters.
- Arlo Glass, on the 8th season of the television series "24"
- Arlo Givens, on the television series "Justified", portrayed by Raymond J. Barry
- Arlo, the lead character in the 2015 Pixar film "The Good Dinosaur"
- Arlo Davenport, on the British soap opera "H... | 47,418 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
Prince Adalbert of Prussia ("Heinrich Wilhelm Adalbert") (29 October 1811 – 6 June 1873) was a son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg. He was a naval theorist and admiral. He was instrumental during the ... | 47,419 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
Greece and Brazil. He recognized during his many sea voyages the importance that sea power had for a modern commercial and industrial nation. He studied carefully the theory of naval warfare and in 1835-36 wrote a first plan for the construction of a Prussian fleet. Prussia at tha... | 47,420 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
in the North Sea and the Baltic.
During the Revolutions of 1848, the German National Assembly which met at St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt resolved with "a majority clearly bordering on unanimity" to establish a German Imperial fleet and named Prince Adalbert to lead the "Maritime... | 47,421 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
force intended for national defense, and for the most necessary protection of commerce; or
- An independent naval power.
Adalbert favored the middle solution, because it would not provoke the great sea powers (such as Britain), but would provide the German navy with significant ... | 47,422 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
that Prussia needed to build a naval base on the North Sea. He arranged the Jade Treaty of 20 July 1853, in which Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg jointly withdrew from a region on the west bank of the Jade bay, where from 1854 onward Prussia established the fortress, nava... | 47,423 |
1215747 | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Adalbert%20of%20Prussia%20(1811–1873) | Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)
ng cruise of Prussian warships, he was shot at by pirates within sight of Morocco’s Rif coast and was wounded. During the Second Schleswig War of 1864 (also known as the "Danish-Prussian War") he commanded the Baltic Squadron, without being able to take an active role in the war.
... | 47,424 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
Bill Alley
William "Bill" Edward Alley (3 February 1919 – 26 November 2004) was a cricketer who played 400 first-class matches for New South Wales, Somerset and a Commonwealth XI.
Whilst in Australia, Alley was also a middleweight boxer, and was undefeated in 28 contests when he was forced to give it up a... | 47,425 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
England, playing league cricket there for Colne Cricket Club for five years from 1948, becoming the only player to score 1000 runs in each of five consecutive seasons in the league's history.
This 5-year spell at Colne fulfilled the requirement at that time that any foreign player coming to England had to r... | 47,426 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
During the 1950s and early 1960s, in the summer at any one time there were more than 150,000 holidaymakers in Blackpool, and there were very large crowds indeed paying at the turnstiles of Blackpool Cricket Club. Every season, moreover, the Blackpool pro was given a benefit match. Illustrating the value of t... | 47,427 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
was eventually tempted into joining Somerset CCC in 1957, when he was 38, since they offered a 3-year contract, while Blackpool could not commit to one of such length. Alley played 350 first-class games for Somerset, the last one being when he was 49.
After stopping playing, he umpired first-class games for... | 47,428 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
in an Army accident.
# Record in first-class cricket.
Alley was an all-rounder. He scored 19,612 runs at an average of 31.88 batting left-handed. He took 768 wickets at 22.68 runs per wicket, with a best of 8 for 65, bowling right arm medium fast. He also took 267 catches in the field. His best season was ... | 47,429 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
of a batsman scoring 3000 in an English season. Only eight batsmen in history have achieved the feat of 3000 runs in an English season. At the end of that season, he topped the first-class averages, ahead of all the England and Australian Test cricketers, who in those days all played among the Counties six d... | 47,430 |
1215771 | Bill Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill%20Alley | Bill Alley
f being one of "Wisden's" five cricketers of the year, based on his performances in 1961 and during his career. In the 1962 season, he made over 1,900 runs and took 112 wickets. It was in 1962 that he got his best bowling return of 8 for 65 against a strong Surrey side, that included Ken Barrington, Peter Ma... | 47,431 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
Visual memory
Visual memory describes the relationship between perceptual processing and the encoding, storage and retrieval of the resulting neural representations. Visual memory occurs over a broad time range spanning from eye movements to years in order to visually navigate to a previously visited loc... | 47,432 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
places, animals or people. Visual memory is one of several cognitive systems, which are all interconnected parts that combine to form the human memory. Types of palinopsia, the persistence or recurrence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed, is a dysfunction of visual memory.
# Neuroanato... | 47,433 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
two streams maintain intercommunication along their entire rostral course.
## Posterior parietal cortex.
The posterior parietal cortex is a portion of the parietal lobe, which manipulates mental images, and integrates sensory and motor portions of the brain.
A majority of experiments highlights a role ... | 47,434 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
cortex is tightly correlated with the limited amount of scene information that can be stored in visual short-term memory. These results suggest that the posterior parietal cortex is a key neural locus of our impoverished mental representation of the visual world.
The posterior cortex might act as a capac... | 47,435 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
from the right visual field and the right visual cortex mainly from the left visual field, although each cortex receives a considerable amount of information from the ipsilateral visual field as well. The visual cortex also receives information from subcortical regions, such as the lateral geniculate body... | 47,436 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
pathway is mainly involved in the visual-spatial location of objects in the external world, and it is also known colloquially as the 'where' pathway. The dorsal stream pathway is also involved in the guidance of movements (e.g., reaching for an object in space), and is therefore implicated in the analysis... | 47,437 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
and the learning of tasks involving coordination of the body in space."
### Ventral stream pathway.
The ventral stream pathway is mainly involved in object recognition, and is known colloquially as the 'what' pathway. It has connections to the medial temporal lobe (which is involved in the storage of lo... | 47,438 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
information in the primary visual cortex (occipital lobe), and then this information is transferred to the temporal lobe.
## Occipital lobes.
Located at the back of the brain, the occipital lobes receive and process visual information. The occipital lobes also process colors and shapes. Whereas the righ... | 47,439 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
memory.
## Short term visual memory.
Visual short term memory is the capacity for holding a small amount of visual information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time (usually no more than 30 seconds). Although visual short term memory is essential for the execution of a... | 47,440 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
term visual memory is associated with rCBF increases in different areas of the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex.
# Methods of study.
## Benton visual retention test.
The Benton Visual Retention Test is an assessment of visual perception, and visual memory abilities. More than 50 year... | 47,441 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
are asked to immediately reproduce the designs from each card using their visual memory. In the second stage participants are asked to copy each of the 10 card designs while the cards are in view. The participants results from each task are then assessed and placed into six categories; omissions, distorti... | 47,442 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
and no gender effect. Some studies have suggested a significant gender and education interaction indicating that an age-associated decline in visual memory performance may be more prominent for those individuals with a lower education level.
## Neuroimaging tests.
Neuroimaging studies focus on the neura... | 47,443 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
specific cognitive visual memory tasks. With the use of brain imaging devices researchers able to further investigate memory performance above and beyond standard tests based on exact response times, and activation.
### Control condition.
The subject's resting brain activation level is first determined ... | 47,444 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
can be compared with activated regions of the brain while performing visual memory tasks.
### Activation condition.
During encoding, participants are typically exposed to 1–10 visual patterns while connected to a brain imaging device. As the subject encodes the visual patterns researchers are able to di... | 47,445 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
the visual memory task. Comparing the control 'baseline' state to the activated areas during the visual memory task allows researchers to view which areas are used during visual memory.
# Current theories.
## Visuo-spatial sketch pad.
The visuo-spatial sketchpad is part of Baddeley and Hitch's model of... | 47,446 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
a real object would look if it were changed in some way (rotated, flipped, moved, change of colour, etc.). It is also responsible for representing how vivid an image is. A vivid image is one which you have a high potential for retrieving its sensory details. The visuo-spatial sketchpad is responsible for ... | 47,447 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
is not found in adults.
The popular culture concept of “photographic memory,” where (e.g.) someone can briefly look at a page of text and then recite it perfectly from memory, is not the same as seeing eidetic images, and photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist.
## Iconic memory.
Iconi... | 47,448 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
of areas and places, and how to get to and from them. Spatial memory is distinct from object memory and involves different parts of the brain. Spatial memory involves the dorsal parts of the brain and more specifically the hippocampus. However many times both types of memory are used together, such as whe... | 47,449 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
part of their body; therefore it is generally more vulnerable to decay than object memory is.
## Object memory.
Object memory involves processing features of an object or material such as texture, color, size, and orientation. It is processed mainly in the ventral regions of the brain. A few studies hav... | 47,450 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
by Wells, individuals were exposed to misleading information after witnessing an event; they were then tested on their ability to remember details from this event. Their findings included: when given misinformation that contradicts the witnessed event they were less able to recall those details; and wheth... | 47,451 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
that word in their minds and be able to recall the appearance of the word later. When teachers introduce a new vocabulary word, generally they write it on the chalkboard, have the children spell it, read it and then use it in a sentence. The word is then erased from the chalkboard. Students with good visu... | 47,452 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
and spelling.
# Factors affecting visual memory.
## Sleep.
Findings surrounding sleep and visual memory have been mixed. Studies have reported performance increases after a bout of sleep compared with the same period of waking. The implications of this are that there is a slow, offline process during s... | 47,453 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
and target locations that can be learned within a day. Reactivation in sleep was only observed after extensive training of rodents on familiar tasks. It rapidly dissipates; it also makes up a small proportion of total recorded activity in sleep.
It has also been found that there are gender differences be... | 47,454 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
for this may be linked to different memory traces resulting from different encoding strategies, as well as with different electrophysiological changes during daytime sleep.
## Brain Damage.
Brain damage is another factor that has been found to have an effect on visual memory. Memory impairment affects b... | 47,455 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
be the opposite, that there was a tendency to treat novel experiences as familiar. A possible solution for this impairment could be the use of a visual-restriction procedure that reduces interference.
## Age.
Studies have shown that with aging, in terms of short-term visual memory, viewing time and task... | 47,456 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
60–87 years. The findings were that the effect of vision was not specific to visual memory. Therefore, vision was found to be correlated with general memory function in older adults and is not modality specific.
As we age performance in regards to spatial configurations deteriorates. In a task to store a... | 47,457 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
visual memory. In a recent study visual working memory and its neutral correlates was assessed in university students who partake in binge drinking, the intermittent consumption of large amounts of alcohol. The findings revealed that there may be binge-drinking related functional alteration in recognition... | 47,458 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
visual memory task. The results were that young people who report having needed more alcohol to feel the effects showed higher levels of brain response during visual working memory, this suggests that the individual's capacity to adjust to cognitive processing decreases, they are less able to adjust cogni... | 47,459 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
already in visual memory. "All of the hallucinatory palinopsia symptoms occur concomitantly in a patient with one lesion, which supports current evidence that objects, features, and scenes are all units of visual memory, perhaps at different levels of processing. This alludes to neuroanatomical integratio... | 47,460 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
right order. However, studies show it is more likely that it is caused by a failure to encode and process the correct order of letters within the word. This means that the child perceives the word just as anyone else would, however their brains do not appear to hold onto the visual characteristics of the ... | 47,461 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
is very important in encoding words in their correct order. The transient system is responsible for controlling eye movements, and processing the larger visual environment around us. When these two processes do not work in synchronization this can cause reading disabilities. This has been tested by having... | 47,462 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
this is the only reason for reading disabilities, scotopic sensitivity syndrome, deficits in verbal memory and orthographic knowledge are other proposed factors.
Deficits in visual memory can also be caused by disease and/or trauma to the brain. These can lead to the patient losing their spatial memory, ... | 47,463 |
1215674 | Visual memory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20memory | Visual memory
/or their visual memory for specific things. For example, a patient “L.E.” suffered brain damage and her ability to draw from memory was severely diminished, whilst her spatial memory remained normal. Other patients represent the opposite, where memory for colors and shapes is unaffected but spatial memor... | 47,464 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
Black Eyed Man
Black Eyed Man is the fourth studio album by Cowboy Junkies, released in 1992. The album continues the band's evolution from a spare country blues style (exemplified by the 1988 album "The Trinity Session") to a more mainstream country rock style.
# Album development.
The Cowboy Junkies... | 47,465 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
in each song." Another change the band made was to record the album over several months instead of in one session. They also decided to try using a new mixture of musicians, instruments, and recording personnel. The band concentrated on two or three songs at a time instead of the album as a whole. Each m... | 47,466 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
love found, love lost and love betrayed - it was to be the journey of the faceless, nameless and haunted Black Eyed Man," according to Michael Timmins.
The band experimented with each track. Several musicians from previous albums showed up during the rehearsal sessions, along with about twenty five othe... | 47,467 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
is "Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park", which blended the jazz guitar sensibilities of Tony Quarington with the guitar work of Ken Mhyr to develop a song that was different than was first envisioned.
When the Cowboy Junkies were touring for "The Caution Horses" in 1990, they invited American singer/s... | 47,468 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
asked Jimmie Dale Gilmore to duet with Margo, but although he showed up and recorded with the band, his voice was never able to mesh with Margo's.
# Personnel.
Cowboy Junkies
- Margo Timmins – vocals
- Michael Timmins – guitar
- Alan Anton – bass
- Peter Timmins – drums
Additional Musicians
- Dav... | 47,469 |
1215795 | Black Eyed Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Eyed%20Man | Black Eyed Man
Maureen Doidge Tambourine Orkestrah - tambourine (track 2)
- Spencer Evans - piano (tracks 2 & 3), clarinet (track 5)
- David Houghton - percussion (tracks 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 & 12)
- Lewis Melville - banjo (track 9)
- Ken Myhr - lead guitar (tracks 1, 6, 7 & 11)
- John Prine - vocals (track 5)
- Tony Qu... | 47,470 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur (locally pronounced ) is a brackish lake in the US state of Louisiana, north of Delcambre and west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of , it is the deepest lake in Louisiana.
It was a deep freshwater body, popular with sportsmen, ... | 47,471 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
in the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system when, in actuality, they were in transverse Mercator projection) the drill bit entered the mine, starting a chain of events that turned the lake from freshwater to salt-water, with a deep hole.
It is easy to determine what occurred; although much of ... | 47,472 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
water, filling the enormous caverns that had been left by the removal of salt since 1919.
The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, a tugboat, many trees, and of the surrounding terrain. So much water drained into those caverns that the flow of the Delcambre Canal that usual... | 47,473 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
there were no injuries and no human lives lost, three dogs were reported killed. All 55 employees in the mine at the time of the accident were able to escape, while the crew of the drilling rig fled the platform before it was sucked down into the new depths of the lake; a fisherman who was on the lake at ... | 47,474 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
settlements to compensate for the damage caused. The mine was finally closed in December 1986.
Since 1994, AGL Resources has used Lake Peigneur's underlying salt dome as a storage and hub facility for pressurized natural gas. There was concern from local residents in 2009 over the safety of storing the g... | 47,475 |
1215776 | Lake Peigneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Peigneur | Lake Peigneur
olving into the water, but from the inflow of salty water from the Delcambre Canal and Vermilion Bay, which are naturally salty or brackish. The event permanently affected the ecosystem of the lake by changing the lake from freshwater to saltwater and increasing the depth of part of the lake.
# See also.... | 47,476 |
1215804 | Kappa Publishing Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kappa%20Publishing%20Group | Kappa Publishing Group
Kappa Publishing Group
Kappa Publishing Group, Inc. is a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania based publishing company concentrating on adult puzzle books and magazines as well as children's magazines and maps. It is a private company founded in 1955 with $11.5 million in annual sales.
# History.
In Januar... | 47,477 |
1215804 | Kappa Publishing Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kappa%20Publishing%20Group | Kappa Publishing Group
titles. Sons Anthony Herbert (Editorial Director) and Paul Herbert (Sales) helped the business grow to the success it became. Edward Tobias was the Editor. Prior to Mr. Herbert, Sr.'s passing in the 1980s, he sold the business to Nick Karabots, who owned the printer where the titles were being pr... | 47,478 |
1215804 | Kappa Publishing Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kappa%20Publishing%20Group | Kappa Publishing Group
Variety Puzzles
- Blue Ribbon, such as for Blue Ribbon Word Find
- Children's Fun Puzzles
Kappa began acquiring map publishers in 2007 with the acquisition of Universal Map. It acquired Mapsco in March 2010 and the map division of travel publisher Langenscheidt in August.
# Publications.
Kap... | 47,479 |
1215804 | Kappa Publishing Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kappa%20Publishing%20Group | Kappa Publishing Group
n acquiring map publishers in 2007 with the acquisition of Universal Map. It acquired Mapsco in March 2010 and the map division of travel publisher Langenscheidt in August.
# Publications.
Kappa also publishes "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" and "Horoscope Guide". Former boxing publications include... | 47,480 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
Jennifer Lynch
Jennifer Chambers Lynch is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch. She is also known as the author of the book "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer".
# Early life.
Lynch was born in Philadelphia. She is the daughter of artist... | 47,481 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
made a brief appearance in her father's debut feature film "Eraserhead", but her appearance was not included in the final cut. Lynch subsequently worked as a production assistant on "Blue Velvet" (1986), also directed by her father.
### "Boxing Helena" (1993).
Lynch's commissioned screenplay for "Boxin... | 47,482 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
outcry over "Helena"'s sadistic subject matter and accusations of nepotism, accompanied the movie's critical drubbing upon its release in 1993.
In a 2009 interview with The Hollywood Interview, Lynch mentions her reactions to the critical reception of "Boxing Helena":
"I would love to know why people w... | 47,483 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
that was sort of the final straw. It was no wonder I put my legs behind my ears and got pregnant. (laughs) Not that I didn't love sex before then, but seriously. It was my child, essentially, who saved my life."
### "Surveillance" (2008).
Following a lengthy hiatus, Lynch returned to the public arena w... | 47,484 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
but the film that was released was not Lynch's work, even though the producers attached her name to the final product. Lynch explained in a 2012 interview:
"Well, ultimately, I didn't get to make that film. I put my director's cut together, and the producers decided it was not what they wanted. They too... | 47,485 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
Vincent D'Onofrio stars as a cab-driving serial killer. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, with a 73% rating on review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes.
### Future film projects.
Lynch was scheduled to film "Visibility" for the Motion Picture Corporation of America in 2011, but, as of... | 47,486 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
Co-written by producer Eric Wilkinson, the film is set and filmed in St. Louis, U.S. and is inspired by the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge.
## Television.
Lynch has directed episodes of many television series such as "Jessica Jones", "Finding Carter", "Psych", "Quantico", "Teen Wolf", "The Walking Dead", "T... | 47,487 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
band New Model Army.
On March 21, 2010, Lynch was a judge at the International Surrealist Film Festival and she worked as producer for the Corey Brandenstein natural horror film "The Compound".
An Australian documentary titled "Despite the Gods", which chronicles Lynch's struggle to make the film "Hiss... | 47,488 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
the story behind the camera explodes.". She eventually disowned the film.
As of 2015, she is also a member of the board of advisers for the Hollywood Horror Museum.
# Awards and nominations.
"Boxing Helena" received incredibly scathing reviews upon its release and a Razzie Award for "Worst Director." ... | 47,489 |
1215762 | Jennifer Lynch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer%20Lynch | Jennifer Lynch
Nevertheless, the film was nominated for Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival.
# Personal life.
Lynch revealed in a 2009 interview that she underwent three spinal surgeries following the release of "Boxing Helena" due to a car accident that occurred when she was 19 ye... | 47,490 |
1215821 | Terence Higgins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terence%20Higgins | Terence Higgins
Terence Higgins
Terence Higgins may refer to:
# People.
- Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins (born 1928), British Conservative Party politician, former MP
- Terence Higgins (judge), Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
- Terry Higgins, in whose memory the Terrence Higgins Trust was named
... | 47,491 |
1215813 | Jim Ward (body piercer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Ward%20(body%20piercer) | Jim Ward (body piercer)
Jim Ward (body piercer)
James Mark Ward (born June 28, 1941) is an American body piercer. In a 2004 documentary, entitled "The Social History of Piercing", MTV called him "the granddaddy of the modern body piercing movement."
# Early years.
Ward was born in 1941 in Western Oklahoma and moved ... | 47,492 |
1215813 | Jim Ward (body piercer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Ward%20(body%20piercer) | Jim Ward (body piercer)
Angeles) where he met Doug Malloy. Together they developed the basic techniques and equipment that have become piercing industry standard.
# Innovations.
Ward pioneered many jewelry designs including the fixed bead ring and internally threaded barbells. He was introduced to barbell style jewel... | 47,493 |
1215813 | Jim Ward (body piercer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Ward%20(body%20piercer) | Jim Ward (body piercer)
visits he showed us the barbell studs that he used in some piercings. They were internally threaded, a feature that made so much sense that I immediately set out to recreate them for my own customers."
With funding from Malloy (derived from his work with the Muzak corporation), Ward began using... | 47,494 |
1215813 | Jim Ward (body piercer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Ward%20(body%20piercer) | Jim Ward (body piercer)
t, he drew an initial clientele from a mailing list provided by Doug and by running classified ads in local gay and fetish publications. After three years of continued refinement with techniques and equipment, Ward opened the Gauntlet as a commercial storefront operation in West Hollywood on 17 ... | 47,495 |
1215801 | Horace Newton Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace%20Newton%20Allen | Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen (April 23, 1858 – December 11, 1932) was a medical doctor and the first American Protestant missionary in Korea, arriving there in late 1884. He served in Korea at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, becoming close to the emperor. At his suggestion, in 1885 the em... | 47,496 |
1215801 | Horace Newton Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace%20Newton%20Allen | Horace Newton Allen
over its lack of intervention in the Russo-Japanese War, Allen was recalled in 1905. Five years later Japan annexed Korea, setting up a ruling government that lasted until the end of World War II and Japan's defeat by the Allies.
# Biography.
Horace Newton Allen was born in Delaware, Ohio on April... | 47,497 |
1215801 | Horace Newton Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace%20Newton%20Allen | Horace Newton Allen
doors to the western world and after obtaining mission boards permission he came to Korea on September 20, 1884 to explore. As government law prohibited foreign religion at the time, he was appointed medical officer of the United States Legation to Korea in Seoul, thus hiding his true identity. He w... | 47,498 |
1215801 | Horace Newton Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace%20Newton%20Allen | Horace Newton Allen
of the U.S. State Department. The progressive government collapsed in 3 days as the Chinese army entered Seoul and defeated the Japanese army. This event started with the assassination attempt on the life of the queens nephew, Min Young Ik, who was hosting a banquet to celebrate the opening of the n... | 47,499 |
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