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157652 | Subhuman Race | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subhuman%20Race | Subhuman Race
the album, Skid Row released a live EP titled "Subhuman Beings on Tour", featuring live performances from the "Subhuman Race" tour. It is also the band's only album to be produced by Bob Rock, also known for his work with bands like Metallica, Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi and The Offspring.
Skid Row ... | 500 |
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2018, while "Remains to Be Seen" has never been played live once.
# Critical reception.
"Subhuman Race" received mixed to mostly positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it saw the band "strip back their music to the basics" and was their "strongest and most vic... | 501 |
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winner." Canadian journalist Martin Popoff found the album quite complex, with Skid Row "absorbing the best elements of grunge into their over-the-top love of all things metal." He praised Bach's performance and the band's "street-savvy" attitude and "prog ethic" shown in the record. Conversely, Jim Farbe... | 502 |
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cater to commercial appeal and offer nothing new to a genre plagued by cliches and copycats", but remarked as "Bach's vocal bravura stands as the album's saving grace." Thomas Kupfer in his review for the German "Rock Hard" magazine wrote that "Skid Row will offend a lot of old fans with this disc", where... | 503 |
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but we were forced to go in and do another record and it was a nightmare with the recording, writing and producing. We worked with someone we had not worked with before after being so successful with Michael and we were used to the way he did things. I am not slighting Bob at all, he is a genius producer ... | 504 |
157652 | Subhuman Race | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subhuman%20Race | Subhuman Race
despite featuring "some good tunes", the "very dated production sound" of "Subhuman Race" has made it an unlistenable album: "In the same way, probably, Lars Ulrich might think "St. Anger" is dated to that time, I think "Subhuman Race" might be our "St. Anger"."
# Personnel.
## Skid Row.
- Sebastian Ba... | 505 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
Thomas John Barnardo
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 184519 September 1905) was an Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in.
Although Ba... | 506 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
the early 1840s, John emigrated from Hamburg to Dublin, where he established a business; he married twice and fathered seven children. The Barnardo family "traced its origin to Venice, followed by conversion to the Lutheran Church in the sixteenth century".
As a young child, Barnardo thought that ... | 507 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
outbreak. In 1870 he founded a boys' orphanage at 18 Stepney Causeway and later opened a girls' home. By the time of his death in 1905, Barnardo's institutions cared for over 8,500 children in 96 locations.
Barnardo's work was carried on by his many supporters under the name "Dr Barnardo's Homes".... | 508 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
children without parents' permission and of falsifying photographs of children to make the distinction between the period before they were rescued by Barnardo's and afterwards seem more dramatic. He openly confessed to the former of these charges, describing it as 'philanthropic abduction' and basi... | 509 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
children under his care.
Barnardo's was implicated in the scandal of forced child migration], in which children from poor social backgrounds were taken to the former colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) by churches and charities, without their parents' consent and even under fal... | 510 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
Its chief executive is Javed Khan.
# Personal life.
## Marriage and family.
In June 1873, Barnardo married Sara Louise Elmslie (1842–1944), known as Syrie, the daughter of an underwriter for Lloyd's of London. Syrie shared her husband's interests in evangelism and social work. The couple settled... | 511 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
of angina pectoris in London on 19 September 1905, and was buried in front of Cairns House, Barkingside, Essex. The house is now the head office of the children's charity he founded, Barnardo's. A memorial stands outside Cairn's House.
## Legacy.
After Barnardo's death, a national memorial was in... | 512 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
of the homes in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken-in, most being trained and placed out in life. At the time of his death, his charity was caring for over 8,500 children in 96 homes.
## Not a Jack the Ripper suspect.
At the time of the Whitechapel murders... | 513 |
157641 | Thomas John Barnardo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20John%20Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo
various doctors in the area were suspected. Barnardo was named a possible suspect long after his death. Ripperologist Gary Rowlands theorized that due to Barnardo's lonely childhood he had anger which led him to murder prostitutes. However, there is no evidence that he committed the murders. Critic... | 514 |
157656 | Battle of Magenta | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Magenta | Battle of Magenta
Battle of Magenta
The Battle of Magenta was fought on 4 June 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence, resulting in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III against the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai.
It took place near the town of Magenta in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, a... | 515 |
157656 | Battle of Magenta | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Magenta | Battle of Magenta
ting was borne by 5,000 grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard, still mostly in their First Empire style of uniforms. The battle of Magenta was not a particularly large battle, but it was a decisive victory for the Franco-Sardinian alliance. Patrice Maurice de MacMahon was created Duke of Magenta for... | 516 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
Guibert of Nogent
Guibert de Nogent (c. 1055–1124) was a Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographical memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries. He has only recently caught the attention of scholars who have been mor... | 517 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
around in the womb. Guibert's family made an offering to a shrine of the Virgin Mary, and promised that if Guibert survived, he would be dedicated to a clerical life. Since he survived, he followed this path. His father was violent, unfaithful and prone to excess, and was captured at the Battle of Mor... | 518 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
and in such detail, that some scholars, such as Archambault, have suggested that he may have had an Oedipus complex. She assumed control of his education, isolated him from his peers and hired him a private tutor, from the ages of six to twelve. Guibert remembers the tutor as brutally exacting, and in... | 519 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
focus to theology, through the influence of Anselm of Bec, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1104, he was chosen abbot of the poor and tiny abbey of Nogent-sous-Coucy (founded 1059) and henceforth took a more prominent part in ecclesiastical affairs, where he came into contact with bi... | 520 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
have traditionally not given it favourable reviews; the fact that he stays so close to "Gesta Francorum", and the difficulty of his Latin, make it seem superfluous. Recent editors and translators, however, have called attention to his excellent writing and original material. More importantly, the "Dei... | 521 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
is considered the most interesting of his works. Written towards the close of his life, and based on the model of the "Confessions" of Saint Augustine, he traces his life from his childhood to adulthood. Throughout, he gives picturesque glimpses of his time and the customs of his country. The text is ... | 522 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
coloured by his passions and prejudices, which add a personal touch to the work.
For example, he was quite sceptical about the propriety of Catholic relics of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and numerous Catholic saints, and entertained doubts about their authenticity, noting that some shrines and pilg... | 523 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
Sourcebook. Excerpts from the English translation by C.C. Swinton Bland.
- "On the Saints and their Relics" from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- "The Revolt in Laon" from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
- "On the First Crusade", includes Guibert's version of Pope Urban's speech and impressions... | 524 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
introduction and latest research. (1984 reprint, University of Toronto Press).
- Guibert of Nogent, "Dei Gesta per Francos", ed. R.B.C. Huygens, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 127A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996)
- Robert Levine (1997). "The Deeds of God through the Franks : A Translation o... | 525 |
157654 | Guibert of Nogent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guibert%20of%20Nogent | Guibert of Nogent
rom the Time of the Crusades". Translated from the Latin, with introduction and notes. Penguin Classics.
- Jay Rubenstein (2002). "Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind", London. .
- Karin Fuchs, "Zeichen und Wunder bei Guibert de Nogent. Kommunikation, Deutungen und Funktionalisierungen vo... | 526 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond of Poitiers (c. 1099- 29 June 1149) was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very year that his father the Duke began his infamous liaison with Dangereuse de ... | 527 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond, at the time staying in England, which he left only after the death of Henry I on 1 December 1135.
Upon hearing word that Raymond was going to pass through his lands in order to marry the princess of Antioch, King Roger II of Sicily ordered him arrested. By a series of subterfuges, Raymond ... | 528 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
were spent in conflicts with the Byzantine Emperor John II Comnenus, who had come south partly to recover Cilicia from Leo of Armenia, and to reassert his rights over Antioch. Raymond was forced to pay homage, and even to promise to cede his principality as soon as he was recompensed by a new fief, ... | 529 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
John Comnenus returned unsuccessful to Constantinople, after demanding from Raymond, without response, the surrender of the citadel of Antioch.
# Struggles.
There followed a struggle between Raymond and the patriarch. Raymond was annoyed by the homage which he had been forced to pay to the patriar... | 530 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
demanded from Manuel, who had succeeded John in 1143, the cession of some of the Cilician towns, he found that he had met his match. Manuel forced him to a humiliating visit to Constantinople, during which he renewed his oath of homage and promised to acknowledge a Greek patriarch.
In the last year... | 531 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
became suspicious of the attention Raymond lavished on Eleanor, and the long conversations they enjoyed. William of Tyre claims that Raymond seduced Eleanor to get revenge on her husband, who refused to aid him in his wars against the Saracens, and that ""contrary to [Eleanor's] royal dignity, she d... | 532 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
and Raymond was balked in his plans. In 1149 he was killed in the Battle of Inab during an expedition against Nur ad-Din Zangi. He was beheaded by Shirkuh, the uncle of Saladin, and his head was placed in a silver box and sent to the Caliph of Baghdad as a gift.
# Personality and family.
Raymond i... | 533 |
157660 | Raymond of Poitiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20of%20Poitiers | Raymond of Poitiers
e handsomest of the princes of the earth, a man of charming affability and conversation, open-handed and magnificent beyond measure""; pre-eminent in the use of arms and military experience; "litteratorum, licet ipse esset, cultor" ("although he was himself illiterate, he was a cultivator of literat... | 534 |
157649 | Wall Street Crash of 1929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wall%20Street%20Crash%20of%201929 | Wall Street Crash of 1929
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 ("Black Thursday") and continued until October 29, 1929 ("Black Tuesday"), when... | 535 |
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Background.
The Roaring Twenties, the decade that followed World War I that led to the crash, was a time of wealth and excess. Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with the hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ev... | 536 |
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rise forever. On March 25, 1929, after the Federal Reserve warned of excessive speculation, a small crash occurred as investors started to sell stocks at a rapid pace, exposing the market's shaky foundation. Two days later, banker Charles E. Mitchell announced that his company, the National Ci... | 537 |
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the economic trouble signs and the market breaks in March and May 1929, stocks resumed their advance in June and the gains continued almost unabated until early September 1929 (the Dow Jones average gained more than 20% between June and September). The market had been on a nine-year run that s... | 538 |
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that "a crash was coming". The initial September decline was thus called the "Babson Break" in the press. That was the start of the Great Crash, but until the severe phase of the crash in October, many investors regarded the September "Babson Break" as a "healthy correction" and buying opportu... | 539 |
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prices and recovery.
# Crash.
Selling intensified in mid-October. On October 24 ("Black Thursday"), the market lost 11 percent of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading. The huge volume meant that the report of prices on the ticker tape in brokerage offices around the nation was... | 540 |
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They chose Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf.
With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U.S. Steel at a price well above the current market. As traders watched, Whitney then placed simila... | 541 |
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covered by the newspapers across the United States. On October 28, "Black Monday", more investors facing margin calls decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38.33 points, or 13%.
The next day, "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, a... | 542 |
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of stocks to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the large decline in prices. The massive volume of stocks traded that day made the ticker continue to run until about 7:45 p.m. The market had lost over $30 billion in the space of two days,... | 543 |
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and reaching a secondary closing peak (bear market rally) of 294.07 on April 17, 1930. The following year, the Dow embarked on another, much longer, steady slide from April 1931 to July 8, 1932, when it closed at 41.22, its lowest level of the 20th century, concluding an 89 percent loss rate f... | 544 |
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return to the peak closing of September 3, 1929, until November 23, 1954.
# Aftermath.
In 1932, the Pecora Commission was established by the U.S. Senate to study the causes of the crash. The following year, the U.S. Congress passed the Glass–Steagall Act mandating a separation between commer... | 545 |
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1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, was worse in percentage terms than any single day of the 1929 crash (although the combined 25% decline of October 28–29, 1929 was larger than that of October 19, 1987, and remains the worst two-day decline ever).
## World War II.
The Am... | 546 |
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1940; by 1943, the government accounted for 67 percent of U.S. capital investment.
# Analysis.
The crash followed a speculative boom that had taken hold in the late 1920s. During the latter half of the 1920s, steel production, building construction, retail turnover, automobiles registered, a... | 547 |
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market. A significant number of them were borrowing money to buy more stocks. By August 1929, brokers were routinely lending small investors more than two-thirds of the face value of the stocks they were buying. Over $8.5 billion was out on loan, more than the entire amount of currency circula... | 548 |
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was 32.6 in September 1929, clearly above historical norms. According to economist John Kenneth Galbraith, this exuberance also resulted in a large number of people placing their savings and money in leverage investment products like Goldman Sachs' "Blue Ridge trust" and "Shenandoah trust". Th... | 549 |
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population from wheat were threatened with extinction. Stock markets are always sensitive to the future state of commodity markets , and the slump in Wall Street predicted for May by Sir George Paish arrived on time. In June 1929, the position was saved by a severe drought in the Dakotas and t... | 550 |
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price fell when France and Italy were bragging of a magnificent harvest, and the situation in Australia improved. That sent a shiver through Wall Street and stock prices quickly dropped, but word of cheap stocks brought a fresh rush of "stags", amateur speculators and investors. Congress voted... | 551 |
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on September 3 at 381.17 just after Labor Day, then started to falter after Roger Babson issued his prescient "market crash" forecast. By the end of September, the market was down 10% from the peak (the "Babson Break"). Selling intensified in early and mid October, with sharp down days punctua... | 552 |
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increase in the number of stockholders in recent years, that the number of sellers would be greater than ever when the boom ended and selling took the place of buying."
# Effects.
## United States.
Together, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression formed the largest financial c... | 553 |
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economic, and political debate from its aftermath until the present day. Some people believed that abuses by utility holding companies contributed to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed. Many people blamed the crash on commercial banks that were too eager to put depo... | 554 |
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lender of last resort effectively present, which, if it had existed and been properly exercised, would have been key in shortening the business slowdown that normally follows financial crises. The crash instigated widespread and long-lasting consequences for the United States. Historians still... | 555 |
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crash reverberated across the nation as businesses became aware of the difficulties in securing capital market investments for new projects and expansions. Business uncertainty naturally affects job security for employees, and as the American worker (the consumer) faced uncertainty with regard... | 556 |
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means the sole event that contributed to the depression. The Wall Street Crash is usually seen as having the greatest impact on the events that followed and therefore is widely regarded as signaling the downward economic slide that initiated the Great Depression. True or not, the consequences ... | 557 |
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rule, which allowed short selling only when the last tick in a stock's price was positive, was implemented after the 1929 market crash to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock down in a bear raid.
## Europe.
The stock market crash of October 1929 led directly to the Great D... | 558 |
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production and the subsequent meltdown of the American economy were soon felt throughout Europe.
In 1930 and 1931, in particular, unemployed workers went on strike, demonstrated in public, and otherwise took direct action to call public attention to their plight. Within the UK, protests often... | 559 |
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and charging them with crimes related to the violation of public order.
# Academic debate.
There is ongoing debate among economists and historians as to what role the crash played in subsequent economic, social, and political events. "The Economist" argued in a 1998 article that the Depressi... | 560 |
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be long or would necessarily produce a general industrial depression.
However, "The Economist" also cautioned that some bank failures were also to be expected and some banks may not have had any reserves left for financing commercial and industrial enterprises. It concluded that the position ... | 561 |
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as economic cycles. The impact of the crash was merely to increase the speed at which the cycle proceeded to its next level.
Milton Friedman's "A Monetary History of the United States", co-written with Anna Schwartz, advances the argument that what made the "great contraction" so severe was n... | 562 |
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Market Crash of 1929. London, England: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers Inc., 1974.
- Brooks, John. (1969). "Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920–1938". New York: Harper & Row. .
- Galbraith, John Kenneth. "1929: New York City." "Lapham's Quarterly", no. 2 (Spring 2015): 145–146
- ... | 563 |
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cades: 1920–1929". Farmington Hills, Michigan: UXL American Decades Publishing, 2003.
- Reed, Lawrence W. (1981 & 2008). "Great Myths of the Great Depression". Midland, Michigan: Mackinac Center.
- Shachtman, Tom. (1979). "The Day America Crashed: A Narrative Account of the Great Stock Marke... | 564 |
157659 | Rachel Bolan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel%20Bolan | Rachel Bolan
Rachel Bolan
Rachel Bolan (born February 9, 1966), born James Richard Southworth, is the bass guitar player and main songwriter of the metal band Skid Row. His stage name 'Rachel' is a hybrid of his brother's name, Richard, and his grandfather's name, Manuel. 'Bolan' is a tribute to one of his childhood i... | 565 |
157659 | Rachel Bolan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel%20Bolan | Rachel Bolan
the Luchagors in 2007 with former WWE wrestler Amy "Lita" Dumas and Atlantic Records stoner metal band Godspeed. He formed the band Prunella Scales with Solace guitarist Tommy Southard and L. Wood. Prunella Scales released "Dressing up the Idiot" on Mutiny Records in 1997. Jack Roberts (guitar) and Ray Kub... | 566 |
157659 | Rachel Bolan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel%20Bolan | Rachel Bolan
w records House of Gold & Bones - Part 1 and House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 as a replacement for the departed bassist Shawn Economaki. He also can be seen playing bass in TRUSTcompany music video for the single "Heart in My Hands".
Bolan has another side project called The Quazimotors. He did this project... | 567 |
157658 | Specific replant disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specific%20replant%20disease | Specific replant disease
Specific replant disease
Specific replant disease (also known as ‘Sick Soil Syndrome’) is a malady that manifests itself when susceptible plants such as apples, pears, plums, cherries and roses are placed into soil previously occupied by a related species. The exact causes are not known, but i... | 568 |
157658 | Specific replant disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specific%20replant%20disease | Specific replant disease
roots after the tree has died. Putting a young traumatised tree with an immature root system into this 'broth' of pathogens can be too much for an infant tree to cope with. Any new root growth is rapidly and heavily colonised, so that shoot growth is virtually zero. This is especially true if i... | 569 |
157658 | Specific replant disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specific%20replant%20disease | Specific replant disease
have more vigorous - therefore larger - roots, and are thus likely to take longer to degrade.
It is good organic rotation practice not to follow ‘like with like’ and this rule applies to long lived trees as much as annual vegetables. In the case of temperate fruit trees, the 'Pomes and Stones'... | 570 |
157658 | Specific replant disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specific%20replant%20disease | Specific replant disease
and starting another orchard elsewhere may not be practical. In this case, and replanting is
unavoidable, a large hole should be dug out, and the soil removed and replaced with ‘clean’ soil from a site where susceptible plants have not been grown.
Using trees on vigorous rootstocks which will... | 571 |
157658 | Specific replant disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specific%20replant%20disease | Specific replant disease
ely that replant disease would be a problem as pathogen levels may never have been high. The malady is worse where trees have died in situ—pathogens are likely to have contributed to the death and therefore be at a higher level in the soil.
Soil fumigation is another common method employed to ... | 572 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
Peter the Hermit
Peter the Hermit (also known as Cucupeter, Little Peter or Peter of Amiens; 1050 – 8 July 1115) was a priest of Amiens and a key figure during the First Crusade.
# Family.
His name in French is "Pierre l'Ermite". The structure of this name in French unlike in English has led some fr... | 573 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
was an actual surname and that surnames had not developed until after his day.
# Before 1096.
According to Anna Comnena, Peter had attempted to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before 1096, but was prevented by the Seljuk Turks from reaching his goal and was reportedly mistreated. He used this suppose... | 574 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
cause. Tradition in Huy holds that he was there when the crusade was announced and he began his preaching at once. He soon leapt into fame as an emotional revivalist, and the vast majority of sources and historians agree that thousands of peasants eagerly took the cross at his bidding.
Jonathan Riley-... | 575 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
Holy Ghost. A list of known participants in Peter's army can be found at Riley-Smith, et al.
# Crusade to the Holy Land.
Before Peter went on his crusade he got permission from the Patriarch of Jerusalem. This particular Patriarch was named Simeon. Peter was able to recruit from England, Lorraine, Fr... | 576 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
40,000 men and women) from Cologne in April, 1096, and arrived (with 30,000 men and women) at Constantinople at the end of July. The Eastern Roman Emperor Alexios I Komnenos was less than pleased with their arrival, for along with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nicholas III of Const... | 577 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
have been fine if a dispute about the sale of a pair of shoes had not occurred. This led to a riot and against Peter's wishes the town was attacked and the citadel was stormed. This resulted in 4000 Hungarians being killed and lots of provisions stolen. Then on June 26, 1096 Peter's army was able to cr... | 578 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
then arrived in Constantinople on August 1, 1096. After a while, they arrived at a castle called Xerigordon and captured it. They captured the castle by taking possession of the castle's spring and well. After setting off to Civetot they had set up camp near a village called Dracon. This is where the T... | 579 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
slavery by the various Slavic robber barons in the Balkans, kindling the view of the Balkan Slavs as unredeemed robbers and villains.
Peter joined the only other section which had succeeded in reaching Constantinople, that of Walter Sans Avoir, into a single group and encamped the still numerous pilgr... | 580 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
armies, quickly concluded negotiations and shipped them across the Bosporus to the Asiatic shore at the beginning of August, with promises of guards and passage through the Turkish lines. He warned the People's Crusade to await his orders, but in spite of his warnings, the paupers entered Turkish terri... | 581 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
and arrows of the Turks or were enslaved. Left in Constantinople with the small number of surviving followers, during the winter of 1096–1097, with little hope of securing Byzantine support, the People's Crusade awaited the coming of the armed crusaders as their sole source of protection to complete th... | 582 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
a few rousing speeches to motivate the Crusaders, he played a subordinate part in the remaining history of the First Crusade which at this point clearly settled on a military campaign as the means to secure the pilgrimage routes and holy sites in Palestine.
Peter appears, at the beginning of 1098, as ... | 583 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
city. Thus, having recovered his stature, in the middle of the year he was sent by the princes to invite Kerbogha to settle all differences via a duel, which the Emir subsequently declined.
In 1099 Peter appears as the treasurer of the alms at the siege of Arqa (March), and as leader of the supplicato... | 584 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
he had founded in France.
# Role in Preaching First Crusade.
Although later Catholic historians and many other scholars disagree, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris wrote that Peter the Hermit was the true author and originator of the First Crusade, a view also recounted in the anonymous Gesta Franc... | 585 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
indicates that even a few generations after the crusade, the descendants of the crusaders already believed Peter was its originator. The origin of such a legend is a matter of some interest. Von Sybel, in his "Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges", published in 1841, suggested that in the camp of the paupe... | 586 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
we do know is speculation or legend. However, Albert of Aix records that he died in 1131, as prior of a church of the Holy Sepulchre which he had founded in France or Flanders. It is thought that during the Siege of Antioch during the days of famine and cold weather, Peter attempted to flee only to be ... | 587 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
itself which may have been his home town. His tomb is in the Neufmoustier Abbey, so it is presumed that this was his Abbey but in another tradition the nearby Solières Abbey claims that it was his foundation.
Peter's obituary is in the chronicle of Abbey Neufmoustier Huy. On its page entry of 8 July 1... | 588 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
supports Neufmoustier's claim as his foundation.
# Legend.
Since his death various legends have sprung up around Peter. One legend has its roots in the writings of Jacques de Vitry, who found it convenient to convince people from the bishopric of Liège of the merits of participating in the Albigensia... | 589 |
157646 | Peter the Hermit | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20the%20Hermit | Peter the Hermit
e Renauld de Hérimont and Aleidis Montaigu (Aleidis is known in Huy as the "mother of Dom Pierre, with a home in Huy").
There is also a strong and old tradition that Peter the Hermit was the first to introduce the use of the Rosary. It follows that he began this tradition in about 1090. If this is the... | 590 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
Blue Meanies were an American ska-core band founded in Carbondale, Illinois, at Southern Illinois University, in 1989. They debuted in 1991 with the release of their first single, "Grandma Shampoo" c/w "Dickory Dock". This single would be the start of a lengthy... | 591 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
the lineup of John Paul Camp (III) (saxophone/ vocals), Sean Dolan (guitar), Jimmy Flame (trumpet/ vocals), Chaz Linde (keyboard/ vocal), Dave Lund (bass/ vocals), Billy Spunke (vocals/ megaphone), and Bob Trondson (drums) stuck together as a total of 22 musicians passed through the band si... | 592 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
in August 2001. Soon afterwards the band ceased touring, though they never issued an official break up statement.
# Post-breakup.
In the summer of 2004 it was confirmed that the Meanies would temporarily revive the old tradition of the Winter Nationals. For years the Blue Meanies would ha... | 593 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
plans for the band remain vague as well.
On August 16, 2006 it was announced that the Blue Meanies would reunite for Riot Fest 2006, an annual punk rock festival held in Chicago. Other high-profile reunions for the fest include Naked Raygun and The Bollweevils.
Since April 24, 2006, the b... | 594 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
the 2014 festival.
# Discography.
Albums
- "Peace Love Groove" (1991) (live)
- "Pave The World EP" (1992)
- "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" (Fuse Records, 1995—re-released by Asian Man Records, 1999)
- "Full Throttle" (THICK Records, 1997—special edition re-released THICK, 2005)
- "PIGS EP" ... | 595 |
157666 | Blue Meanies (Illinois band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Meanies%20(Illinois%20band) | Blue Meanies (Illinois band)
le 7"" (1994)
- "Pave The World/F.O.R.D. 10" Picture Disc" (1996)
- "Blue Meanies/MU330 Split 7"" (1998)
- "Blue Meanies/Alkaline Trio" split 7" picture disc (1999)
Compilations
- "" (Glue Factory, 1997)
- "" (THICK Records, 2000 re-released 2007)
- "Skanarchy" (Elevator Music, 2000)... | 596 |
157657 | Armillaria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armillaria | Armillaria
Armillaria
Armillaria, is a genus of parasitic fungi that includes the "A. mellea" species known as honey fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly categorized summarily as "A. mellea". "Armillarias" are long-lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the w... | 597 |
157657 | Armillaria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armillaria | Armillaria
"Tricholoma", a mycorrhizal (non-parasitic) genus. Because "Armillaria" is a facultative saprophyte, it also feeds on dead plant material, allowing it to kill its host, unlike parasites that must moderate their growth to avoid host death.
In the Canadian Prairies (particularly Manitoba), "Armillaria" is ref... | 598 |
157657 | Armillaria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armillaria | Armillaria
the center. The stipe (stalk) may or may not have a ring. All "Armillaria" species have a white spore print and none have a volva (cup at base) (compare "Amanita").
Similar species include "Pholiota" spp. which also grow in cespitose (mat-like) clusters on wood and fruit in the fall. "Pholiota" spp. are sep... | 599 |
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