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1216111 | Edward Shortt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Shortt | Edward Shortt
MP, but his appointment to chair a Select Committee to review the operation of the Military Service Acts in 1917 brought him to the attention of Lloyd George. In May 1918, Lloyd George appointed him as Chief Secretary for Ireland, at a pivotal point in the First World War and when Irish Republicanism was ... | 47,900 |
1216111 | Edward Shortt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Shortt | Edward Shortt
However, both parts of the plan collapsed due to infighting within the government and the military establishment. Conscription was never implemented in Ireland.
Once the war was over, Shortt was promoted to Home Secretary in January 1919, during the middle of a police strike. To the stakeholder's satisfa... | 47,901 |
1216111 | Edward Shortt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Shortt | Edward Shortt
finding the issue of his sanity in doubt. Shortt was not well respected in Parliament due to the appointing of fellow barristers from the North East to important posts although he was admired in quarters for his liberal thinking and it was well known that Edward Shortt was capable of a great deal of compa... | 47,902 |
1216111 | Edward Shortt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Shortt | Edward Shortt
real interest and actively disliked sound films. The Board had been set up by the film industry and had no statutory role (local councils being technically responsible for judging who could see a film) but in practice its rulings were always obeyed.
Shortt followed previous policy of a highly restrictive... | 47,903 |
1216111 | Edward Shortt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Shortt | Edward Shortt
vious policy of a highly restrictive licensing. In the Board's report for 1931, he outlined his concern about the increasing number of films dealing with sexual topics, and promised further restrictions. He banned 120 films in five years and in 1932 ordered cuts to 382, a record number; one of the films b... | 47,904 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
Bancroft Treaties
The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries between the United States and other countries. They recognized the right of each party's nationals to become naturalized citizens of the other; and... | 47,905 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
and other legal obligations in their native countries.
From 1868 to 1937, the United States entered into 25 Bancroft treaties covering 34 foreign countries. A typical Bancroft treaty had three major provisions. The first specified the terms under which each party would recognize the naturalization of... | 47,906 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
there for two continuous years would be presumed to have resumed their former nationality. That would require them to meet any unfulfilled military service obligation in their native country and deny them the diplomatic protection of their adopted one. Article III of the 1908 treaty with Portugal was ... | 47,907 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
v. Rusk", 377 U.S. 163 (1964), the Supreme Court invalidated a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the McCarran-Walter Act) that would strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship after "three" years' continuous residence in their country of origin; and in "Afroyim v. Rusk", 38... | 47,908 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
of the Bancroft treaties.
Concluding that the Bancroft treaties were unenforceable, the administration of President Jimmy Carter, acting in consultation with the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, gave notice in 1980 terminating the treaties with 18 of the 21 countries with which they were still ... | 47,909 |
1216128 | Bancroft Treaties | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bancroft%20Treaties | Bancroft Treaties
the treaties with 18 of the 21 countries with which they were still in force. The exceptions were the treaties with Albania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. The treaty with Albania was terminated in 1991 when Albania and the United States re-established diplomatic relations at the end of the Cold War. Th... | 47,910 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
Wilhelm Abraham Teller
Wilhelm Abraham Teller (9 January 1734 – 9 December 1804) was a German Protestant theologian who championed a rational approach to Christianity.
# Life and career.
Teller was born in Leipzig. His father, Romanus Teller (1703–1750), was a pastor at Leipzig, and afterwards... | 47,911 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
the men whose influence mainly determined his theological position and line of work was Johann August Ernesti.
Teller's writings present rationalism in its course of development from biblical supernaturalism to the borders of deistical naturalism. His first learned production was a Latin transla... | 47,912 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
of which appeared in his "Lehrbuch des christlichen Glaubens" ("Textbook of Christian Faith", 1764). This work caused some commotion, as much by the novelty of its method as by the heterodoxy of its matter, and more by its omissions than by its positive teaching, though everywhere the author seek... | 47,913 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
Samuel Gottfried Sack (1738–1817), Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804) and others and became one of the leaders of the rationalistic party, and one of the chief contributors to CF Nicolai's "Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek". Teller was not long in making use of his freer position in Berlin.
In 17... | 47,914 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
not be interpreted literally, but explained in terms intelligible to the modern mind. By this lexicon Teller had put himself amongst the most advanced rationalists, and his opponents charged him with the design of overthrowing positive Christianity altogether. In 1786 the author became a member o... | 47,915 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
to be moved by such means, and (1792) issued his work "Die Religion der Vollkommeneren" ("The Religion of the More Perfect"), an exposition of his theological position, in which he advocated at length the idea, subsequently often urged, of the perfectibility of Christianity, that is, of the ultim... | 47,916 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
für die Jugend höherer und gebildeter Stünde aller Religions parteien" ("Manual of All Religion and the Generalities of Christianity Especially; for the Youth of Upper and Educated Classes of all Religious Denominations").
Besides his contributions to the "Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek", he edi... | 47,917 |
1216122 | Wilhelm Abraham Teller | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm%20Abraham%20Teller | Wilhelm Abraham Teller
d Educated Classes of all Religious Denominations").
Besides his contributions to the "Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek", he edited a popular and practically useful "Magazin für Prediger" ("Magazine for Preachers", 1792–1801).
He died in Berlin.
# References.
- This work in turn cites:
- Wilhe... | 47,918 |
1216139 | Infinity cove | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infinity%20cove | Infinity cove
Infinity cove
In photography, an infinity cove or infinity cyclorama is an all-white space with no corners, designed to give the impression that the background of an object extends to infinity.
Infinity coves range from a simple roll of paper to whole studios (often used for photographing cars). The pri... | 47,919 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
Covenant Chain
The Covenant Chain was a series of alliances and treaties developed during the seventeenth century, primarily between the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) and the British colonies of North America, with other Native American tribes added. First developed in the New York area at a time... | 47,920 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois. It was based in agreements negotiated between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (present-day New York) and the Five Nations of the Iroquois (or "Haudenosaunee") early in the 17th century. Their emphasis was on trade with the Native American... | 47,921 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
even more depletion. The Iroquois expanded their influence, conquering or displacing other tribes from Maritime Canada west to the Mississippi Valley, and from the Canadian Shield south to the Ohio Valley.
When the English took over New Netherland in 1664 and established the Province of New York, they r... | 47,922 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
the Iroquois and the extensive influence of the "Haudenosaunee", in August 1675, New York's Governor Sir Edmund Andros asked them for help in ending regional conflicts of the time in New England and the Chesapeake. He worked with the Onondaga leader Daniel Karakontie.
The term "Covenant Chain" was deriv... | 47,923 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
Chain.
They negotiated the signing of several treaties that expanded the number of tribes and colonies involved:
- A 1676 treaty between the Mohawk nation and the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut which ended King Philip's War in New England, as the Mohawk denied Metacom gunpowder and attac... | 47,924 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
peace.
Many of the Susquehannock migrated north into western New York, re-settling with the Seneca and Onondaga of the Iroquois.
The treaties marked a new era in colonial history, in which the Chesapeake had nearly eighty years of peace. New York and the Haudenosaunee became the focus of English Indian... | 47,925 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
of captives.
In these agreements, the colonies agreed to hold negotiations generally at Albany, New York, under the auspices of the New York governor, as the covenant had first been established there. As a result, according to the historian Daniel Richter, "Iroquois and New Yorkers played dominant but s... | 47,926 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
administrators assumed that these treaties granted the English sovereign control over the Iroquois and other tribes involved in the chain. The Iroquois did not agree with this and believed themselves at least to be equals. In a Covenant Chain council that took place in 1692, the Iroquois leaders asserted... | 47,927 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
to work together to improve the diplomatic relationship with the Iroquois, a serious shortcoming on the eve of the French and Indian War. As a result, the British government took the responsibility of Native American diplomacy out of the hands of the colonies and established the British Indian Department... | 47,928 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
chain. He developed great influence among the Iroquois and was later knighted for his contributions to development in the Northeast.
# Commemoration.
In June 2010, Queen Elizabeth II of Canada renewed the Covenant Chain Treaties by presenting 8 silver hand bells each to Band Chiefs from Tyendinaga Moha... | 47,929 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
for recognition of Haudenosaunee sovereignty and international trade between the two nations.
# References.
- Bailyn, Bernard, "The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675".
- "Covenant Chain", "Iroquois Democracy", Portland State University, 20... | 47,930 |
1216133 | Covenant Chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covenant%20Chain | Covenant Chain
Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies". New York: Norton, 1984.
- George-Kanentiio, Doug. "Iroquois Culture and Commentary". Santa Fe: Clear Light, 2000.
- Richter, Daniel K. and James H. Merrell, eds. "Beyond the Covenant Chain: the Iroquois and their Neighbors in Indian North America, ... | 47,931 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
Jerry's Girls
Jerry's Girls is a musical revue based on the songs of composer/lyricist Jerry Herman.
# Production history.
Created by Herman and Larry Alford in 1981, the show originated as a modest presentation at Onstage, a nightclub located in the Theater District in midtown-Manhattan (New York City... | 47,932 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, with Carol Channing, Andrea McArdle, and Leslie Uggams, backed by an all-female chorus, recreating scenes and songs from Herman's hits, including "Hello, Dolly!", "Mame", and "Mack and Mabel". "Jerry's Girls", the show's opening number set to the mu... | 47,933 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
original cast recording was released by Polydor Records.
The revue premiered on Broadway, directed by Alford and choreographed by Wayne Cilento, on December 18, 1985 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 141 performances and 14 previews. Uggams was joined by new cast members Dorothy Loudon and Chita... | 47,934 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
Herman musical is that it occupies the St. James, the theater where Dolly once promised she'd never go away again... Whatever the point of the all-female cast, one must still wonder why the show's particular female stars were chosen. None of them have been associated with Mr. Herman's musicals. Only one (... | 47,935 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
1987. It was staged by Alford with set and costume design by Roger Kirk.
The revue was presented in London at the St. James Studio in March 2015, Produced by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Guy James, starring Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young, with direction by Kate Golledge and c... | 47,936 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
tunes."
The Production Company presented the revue at the Playhouse, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 21 November to 6 December, 2015. This production included eleven leading actresses. The director Dean Bryant set the revue in a rehearsal hall.
# Original cast album song list.
- Act I
- Jerry's... | 47,937 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
(from "Mame")
- So Long Dearie (from "Hello, Dolly!")
- Take It All Off
- Two-a-Day (reprise)
- Shalom (from "Milk and Honey")
- Milk and Honey (from "Milk and Honey")
- Show Tune (from Parade (revue))
- If He Walked Into My Life (from "Mame")
- Hello Dolly! (from "Hello, Dolly!")
- Act II
- Ent... | 47,938 |
1216137 | Jerry's Girls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry's%20Girls | Jerry's Girls
abel")
- Look What Happened to Mabel (from "Mack & Mabel")
- Nelson (from "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine")
- Just Go to the Movies (reprise)
- Time Heals Everything (from "Mack & Mabel")
- It's Today (from "Mame")
- Mame ( from "Mame")
- Kiss Her Now (from "Dear World")
- That's How Yo... | 47,939 |
1216149 | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph%20Friedrich%20Nicolai | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller.
# Life.
Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller "Nicolaische Buchhandlung". He receiv... | 47,940 |
1216149 | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph%20Friedrich%20Nicolai | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
and reprinted by G Ellinger in 1894, were directed against both Gottsched and Gottsched's Swiss opponents, Johann Jakob Bodmer and Johann Jakob Breitinger; his enthusiasm for English literature won for him the friendship of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn. In association with ... | 47,941 |
1216149 | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph%20Friedrich%20Nicolai | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
of the so-called popular philosophers, who warred against authority in religion and against what they conceived to be extravagance in literature.
His romances are largely forgotten, although "Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker" (1773–1776), and his satire on G... | 47,942 |
1216149 | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph%20Friedrich%20Nicolai | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
I observed, at the distance of ten paces, the figure of a deceased person. I asked my wife whether she saw it. She saw nothing but being much alarmed … sent for the physician.” The visions were beyond his control and could not be elicited at will.
Nicolai died in 1811 in Berlin.
Nicolai's ... | 47,943 |
1216149 | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph%20Friedrich%20Nicolai | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
ond his control and could not be elicited at will.
Nicolai died in 1811 in Berlin.
Nicolai's "Bildniss und Selbsbiographie" was published by Moses Samuel Löwe in the "Bildnisse jetzt lebender Berliner Gelehrter", in 1806.
# Further reading.
- Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk, "Fri... | 47,944 |
1216174 | VPT | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VPT | VPT
VPT
VPT may refer to:
- Valor por Tamaulipas
- Vermont Public Television
- Volume, temperature and pressure, the three parameters in the combined gas law
- Visual Pattern with prescribed Tracks (aeronautics) | 47,945 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
The Cocoanuts
The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, and Margaret Dumont. It was the first sound film to credit more than one dir... | 47,946 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
(Groucho Marx) runs the place, assisted by Jamison (Zeppo Marx), who would rather sleep at the front desk than actually help him run it. Chico and Harpo arrive with empty luggage, which they apparently plan to fill by robbing and conning the guests. Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont, in the first of seven film... | 47,947 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
standing than the clerk. This suitor is actually a con man out to steal the dowager's diamond necklace with the help of his conniving partner Penelope (Kay Francis).
# Analysis.
The somewhat thin plot primarily provides a framework for the running gags of the Marx Brothers to take prominence. The film i... | 47,948 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
from an angle that does not appear in the body of the film.
One of the more famous gag routines in the film has Groucho giving directions to Chico, who keeps misunderstanding "viaduct" as "why-a-duck".
In another sequence, while he is acting as auctioneer for some land of possibly questionable value ("Y... | 47,949 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
to anyone except the thieves and to Harpo (who intercepted a note from the villains while hiding under their hotel room bed) the jewellery's hiding place is a hollow tree stump adjacent to where the land auction takes place.
Thereupon, a detective who entered the plot earlier decides that the guilty part... | 47,950 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
another sequence has Groucho, Mrs. Potter and Harvey Yates (the necklace thief) make formal speeches. Harpo repeatedly walks off, with a grimace on his face, to the punch bowl. (His staggering implies that the fruit punch has been spiked with alcohol.) Another highlight is when the cast, already dressed i... | 47,951 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
done to Polly's original suitor, Bob Adams, and her mother Mrs Potter declares the wedding will take place as first announced, the Marx Brothers beat a hasty retreat on learning that several hundred guests are expected for the wedding at the hotel, and the film ends.
# Cast.
- Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer... | 47,952 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
English and the other didn't understand Harpo."
As was common in the early days of sound film, to eliminate the sound of the camera motors the cameras and the cameramen were enclosed in large soundproof booths with glass fronts to allow filming, hence the largely static camera work. For many years, Marxi... | 47,953 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
been made (of the "Viaduct" scene) and disposed of because of the noise made by the paper. Florey finally got the idea to soak the paper in water; the 28th take of the "Viaduct" scene used soaked paper, and this take was quiet and used in the film.
The "ink" that Harpo drank from the hotel lobby inkwell ... | 47,954 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
show's original Broadway production in 1925. Filming took place at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens. Their second film, "Animal Crackers", was also shot there. After that, production of all Marx films moved to Hollywood.
# Songs.
- "Florida by the Sea" (instrumental with brief vocal by cho... | 47,955 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
(vocal included in the stage production, used in the film as background music only)
- "Gypsy Love Song" (by Victor Herbert, piano solo by Chico Marx)
Several songs from the stage play were omitted from the film: "Lucky Boy", sung by the chorus to congratulate Bob on his engagement to Polly and "A Little... | 47,956 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
meant for the song to be included, writing it, instead, as a gift for his fiancée.
# Reception.
When the Marx Brothers were shown the final cut of the film, they were so horrified they tried to buy the negative back and prevent its release. Paramount wisely resisted — the movie turned out to be a big bo... | 47,957 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
that a sequence using an overhead shot was "so engaging that it elicited plaudits from many in the jammed theatre." However, he found the audio quality during some of the singing to be "none too good", adding, "a deep-voiced bass's tones almost fade into a whisper in a close-up. Mary Eaton is charming, bu... | 47,958 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
is as a funny picture and not as a musical comedy, not for its songs, pretty girls, or spectacular scenes, that "The Cocoanuts" succeeds", wrote John Mosher in "The New Yorker". "Neither Mary Eaton, nor Oscar Shaw, who contribute the "love interest", is effective, nor are the chorus scenes in the least su... | 47,959 |
1216093 | The Cocoanuts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cocoanuts | The Cocoanuts
in town. To the Marxes belongs the success of the show, and their peculiar talents seem, surprisingly enough, even more manifest on the screen than on the stage."
"Film Daily" called it "a good amount of fun, although some of it proves tiresome. This is another case of a musical comedy transferred almost... | 47,960 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 – 11 September 1605) was a prominent recusant Catholic landowner in Elizabethan Northamptonshire. He died two years after the accession of James VI and I.
# Life.
Tresham was brought up in the Throckmorton household. He inherited large es... | 47,961 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
an enclosure policy towards common land. Following a riot which destroyed some of his hedges, he had 50 people executed.
Tresham was picked as sheriff for Northamptonshire in 1573 and was knighted at the Queen's Royal Progress at Kenilworth in 1575. He frequently entertained large numbers of... | 47,962 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
Catholics were made targets for persecution by their spiritual loyalty to another temporal power (the Pope, and by extension, the Catholic King of Spain). Between 1581 and 1605, Tresham paid penalties totalling just under £8,000. (equivalent to £ in ). These heavy financial demands were, in r... | 47,963 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
to his conscience unmolested, he was tarred with the brush of disloyalty, a mark he fiercely rejected. Ultimately, his son Lewis successfully ate through what little family money was left.
He left three notable buildings in Northamptonshire, the extraordinary Rushton Triangular Lodge and the... | 47,964 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
him. Tresham himself was the architect of these designs, and the extant family papers in the British Library reveal some of his plans. His sense of civic responsibility in local society, occasioned by his gentility and the expectations of his rank and family practice, led him to begin buildin... | 47,965 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
from Coughton Court in Warwickshire and Tresham had been Sir Robert's ward.
Thomas and Muriel had eleven children, including;
- Francis (d. December 1605)
- Mary (d. 13 October 1664); married Thomas Brudenell, 1st Earl of Cardigan
- Elizabeth; married William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle
... | 47,966 |
1216153 | Thomas Tresham (died 1605) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Tresham%20(died%201605) | Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
rton
- Catherine; married Sir John Webbe, 2nd Baron of Odstock
His elder son, Francis, inherited the titles, estate, and debt, and became embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot later that year along with his cousins Robert Catesby and Thomas Wintour. Imprisoned for his actions, Francis met an earl... | 47,967 |
1216175 | Dara, Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dara,%20Greece | Dara, Greece
Dara, Greece
Dara (, also Δάρας - "Daras") is a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, northern Arcadia, Greece. It is situated on a mountain slope near the border with Achaea. It is 2 km southeast of Pankrati (Achaea), 5 km northeast of Prasino, 16 km north of Vytina and 16 km northeast of Levidi. Th... | 47,968 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
Chersonesus
Chersonesus (; ; modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсонес, "Khersones"; also rendered as "Chersonese", "Chersonesos"), in medieval Greek contracted to Cherson (Χερσών; Old East Slavic: Корсунь, "Korsun") is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of ... | 47,969 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
in Greek means "peninsula", and aptly describes the site on which the colony was established. It should not be confused with the "Tauric Chersonese", the name often applied to the whole of the southern Crimea.
During much of the classical period Chersonesus was a democracy ruled by a group of elected Archo... | 47,970 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
of the Bosporan Kingdom. It was subject to Rome from the middle of the 1st century BC until the 370s AD, when it was captured by the Huns.
## Byzantine Era.
It became a Byzantine possession during the Early Middle Ages and withstood a siege by the Göktürks in 581. Byzantine rule was slight: there was a sm... | 47,971 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
II.
According to Theophanes the Confessor and others, Chersonesus was the residence of a Khazar governor ("tudun") in the late 7th century. Between approximately 705 and 840, the city's affairs were managed by elected officials called "babaghuq", meaning "father of the city.
In 833, Emperor Theophilus sen... | 47,972 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
be given him in marriage. The demand caused a scandal in Constantinople. As a pre-condition for the marriage settlement, Vladimir was baptized here in 988, thus paving the way to the Baptism of Kievan Rus'. Thereafter Korsun' was evacuated.
Since this campaign is not recorded in Greek sources, historians h... | 47,973 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
century. One of the most interesting items from this "Korsun Treasure" is the copper Korsun Gate, supposedly captured by the Novgorodians in Korsun' and now part of the St. Sophia Cathedral.
After the Fourth Crusade (1202–04), Chersonesus became dependent on the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond as the Princip... | 47,974 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
rank of archbishopric, since it is mentioned as such in the "Notitiae Episcopatuum"; it disappeared after the Turkish conquest in 1475 and the destruction of the city.
In the late 19th century, the grand Russian Orthodox St Vladimir's Cathedral (completed 1892) was built on a small hill overlooking the sit... | 47,975 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
since the early 20th century, originally called Cherson(a) or Chersonesus, since 1933 specifically Chersonesus in Zechia, avoiding confusion with other sees called Chersonesus (notably in Crete) by specifying it is Crimean.
It is vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the intermedi... | 47,976 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
Miletopolis (1913.02.14 – 1913.11.21) & Auxiliary Bishop of Cambrai (France) (1913.02.14 – 1913.11.21), then Bishop of Lille (France) (1913.11.21 – 1920.06.15)
- Giovanni Beda Cardinale, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1922.07.25 – 1933.12.01)
- Albert Levame (1933.12.21 – 1958.12.05)
- Louis Parisot, Societ... | 47,977 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
site.
Chersonesus' ancient ruins are presently located in one of Sevastopol's suburbs. They were excavated by the Russian government, starting from 1827. They are today a popular tourist attraction, protected as an archaeological park.
The buildings mix influences of Greek, Roman and Byzantine culture. Th... | 47,978 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
and defensive towers. According to archaeologists, the evidence suggests that the locals were paid to do the farm work instead of being enslaved.
The excavated tombstones hint at burial practices that were different from the Greek ones. Each stone marks the tomb of an individual, instead of the whole famil... | 47,979 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
Black Sea naval fleet to move its automobile depot from the site to another place. The location of the Russian Black Sea naval fleet's automobile depot was one of the obstacles to the inclusion of the reserve on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites.
## The 1935 Basilica.
The 1935 Basilica is the most fam... | 47,980 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
appears on one Ukrainian banknote.
## Museum contents.
As well as the archaeological sites, the museum has around 200,000 smaller items from 5 AD to the 15th century, over 5,000 of which are currently exhibited. These include:
- ancient texts, including the Oath of Chersonese citizens (3rd century BC), d... | 47,981 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
has investigated the site since 1992. The Ukrainian government has included the site on its tentative World Heritage List. The site, however, is in danger of further urban encroachment and coastal erosion.
In 2013, "The Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora" was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage ... | 47,982 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
was annexed by Russia, but UNESCO has maintained that it will continue to recognize Crimea and its heritage sites as belonging to Ukraine.
## Problems and controversies.
The encroachment of modern building in and around the ancient archaeological site, coupled with a lack of funding to prevent such develo... | 47,983 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
(Сергей Меняйло), after firing the director of Chersonesus Preserve Andrey Kulagin (Андрей Кулагин), appointed a priest, Sergiy Khalyuta (Сергий Халюта) to the position. This move caused heated protests of the staff, and the 109 members unanimously refused to work under the new director. The conflict attrac... | 47,984 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
List of traditional Greek place names
- Odessa Numismatics Museum having on display coins of Chersonesus
- The bell of Chersonesus
# Bibliography and further reading.
- Anokhin, V.A. "The Coinage of Chersonesus: IV century B.C.–XII century A.D.". Oxford : British Archaeological Reports, 1980 (paperback,... | 47,985 |
1216124 | Chersonesus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersonesus | Chersonesus
a, Museum, and Environs". Austin, TX: David Brown Book Company, 2003 (paperback, ).
- Kozelsky, Mara. "Ruins into Relics: The Monument to Saint Vladimir on the Excavations of Chersonesos, 1827–57", "The Russian Review", Vol. 63, No. 4. (2004), pp. 655–672.
- Norwich, John Julius. "Byzantium: The Early Cen... | 47,986 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
Iguaçu National Park
Iguaçu National Park () is a national park in Paraná State, Brazil. It comprises a total area of and a length of about , of which are natural borders by bodies of water and the Argentine and Brazilian sides together comprise around . Iguaçu National Park was created by federal... | 47,987 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
The clouds of spray produced by the waterfall are conducive to the growth of lush vegetation.
# History.
The Iguaçu National Park owes its name to the fact it includes an important area of the Iguazu River (Portuguese: Rio Iguaçu). Approximately of the length of the river makes up the Iguaçu Fall... | 47,988 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
education and interpretation activities, recreation in natural surroundings and the ecological tourism.
The Iguaçu National Park is spectacular as well as pioneering. The first proposal for a Brazilian national park aimed at providing a pristine environment to "future generations", just as "it had... | 47,989 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
Falls way back in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park on the planet, was four years old.
On November 17, 1986, during the UNESCO conference held in Paris, the Iguaçu National Park was listed as Natural Heritage of Humanity and is one of the largest forest preservation are... | 47,990 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
It borders Argentina, where the Iguazu National Park, which was implemented in 1934, is located. The border between the two countries and their national parks is made by the Iguaçú river, whose source is near the Serra (mountain range) do Mar near Curitiba and runs for throughout the state of Paran... | 47,991 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
Mico Leão Preto Ecological Station, Ivinhema State Park, Ilha Grande National Park, Caiuá Ecological Station and Iguaçu National Park. The Santa Maria Ecological Corridor connects the Iguaçu National Park with the protected margins of Lake Itaipu, and via these margins with the Ilha Grande National... | 47,992 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
most spectacular sightseeing of the park is the Iguaçú Falls, which form a 2,700m wide semicircle, while the water falls from a height of . The number of waterfalls ranges from 150 and 300 depending on the Iguaçú river flow. Besides the exuberant waterfalls, there are other attractions such as rich... | 47,993 |
1216170 | Iguaçu National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iguaçu%20National%20Park | Iguaçu National Park
micircle, while the water falls from a height of . The number of waterfalls ranges from 150 and 300 depending on the Iguaçú river flow. Besides the exuberant waterfalls, there are other attractions such as rich fauna, the Poço Preto (the Black Well), the Macuco Waterfall, the Visitors Center, the S... | 47,994 |
1216025 | Castleford Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleford%20Tigers | Castleford Tigers
Castleford Tigers
The Castleford Tigers are a rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that compete in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere. The club have competed in the top division for the majority of their existence... | 47,995 |
1216025 | Castleford Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleford%20Tigers | Castleford Tigers
History.
### First Castleford club.
Castleford RFC joined the Northern Rugby Football Union for the 1896–97 season, its second and remained in the ranks of the semi-professionals until the end of the 1905–06 season. Not much is known about the original Castleford club, except that they have no conn... | 47,996 |
1216025 | Castleford Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleford%20Tigers | Castleford Tigers
Desert ground, which is now used by amateur club Castleford Lock Lane youth and junior teams. The club went professional in 1926 and moved to their current home ground on Wheldon Road in 1927.
The club soon started to make a mark on northern rugby, winning their first major trophy when they topped th... | 47,997 |
1216025 | Castleford Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleford%20Tigers | Castleford Tigers
following season they lost 7–5 to Widnes in the Challenge Cup semi-final replay at Belle Vue, Wakefield in front of a 28,700 crowd after drawing at Station Road, Swinton in the first meeting of the two clubs. Under the direction of coach George Clinton, Castleford won many fans in the '60s by playing ... | 47,998 |
1216025 | Castleford Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleford%20Tigers | Castleford Tigers
1970 (v. Wigan) saw Castleford win the Challenge Cup for two consecutive years, with clubs legends Alan Hardisty and Keith Hepworth leading the team.
### Consistency.
John Sheridan was appointed head coach in 1973 for a spell. Castleford's finished a respectable ninth in a one-division table but Sh... | 47,999 |
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