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1403387 | Moses Horowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moses%20Horowitz | Moses Horowitz
whole scenes of foreign dramas. Though a successful playwright, Horowitz failed as an actor, and after he went to America he abandoned acting entirely.
At one time quite wealthy and "the best-dressed man on the Lower East Side," he died poor. After the success of his 1904 play "Ben Hador", he lost all o... | 54,700 |
1403387 | Moses Horowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moses%20Horowitz | Moses Horowitz
March 5, 1910, 9.
- "1,500 at Dramatist's Burial", "New York Times", March 7, 1910, 9.
- Adler, Jacob, "A Life on the Stage: A Memoir", translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, , 125 (commentary), 266, 268, 314.
- Zachary Baker, "'Tisa-Eslar,' by 'Professor' Hurwitz" [... | 54,701 |
1403387 | Moses Horowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moses%20Horowitz | Moses Horowitz
osenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, , 125 (commentary), 266, 268, 314.
- Zachary Baker, "'Tisa-Eslar,' by 'Professor' Hurwitz" [listserv post], "Mendele: Yiddish literature and language", Vol. 07.187, April 17, 1998. Accessed online 11 March 2017.
- Bercovici, Israil, "O sută de ani de teatru evreiesc în ... | 54,702 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
North Coast Limited
The North Coast Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Bismarck, North Dakota. It started on April 29, 1900, and continued as a Burlington Northern Railroad train after the merger on March 2, 1970 with Great N... | 54,703 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
Wisconsin. The train had a Portland section which split off the Seattle section at Pasco, Washington and ran over NP subsidiary Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway between Pasco and Portland.
For much of its history the "North Coast Limited" was known for its dining car service.
# History.
## H... | 54,704 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
which operated via the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway between Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The railroad began its through train service between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest on May 23, 1909, announcing it in newspaper ads.
On December 17, 1911 service was extended to Chicago... | 54,705 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
the Milwaukee started running on a 63-hour westward schedule and 61-1/4 hours eastward, still with no extra fare.
On May 14, 1930 the North Coast Limited got new heavyweight steel cars. The new trains had brass windows, barber and valet services, a barber shop, separate bath and shower facilities f... | 54,706 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
1946 the Northern Pacific board of directors authorized the purchase of new streamlined equipment for the railroad, beginning with the "North Coast Limited". The new train began service in 1948; the crew included a stewardess who was a registered nurse.
In summer 1950 train 1 left Chicago at 2300 C... | 54,707 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
the Northwest."
Until 1954 the North Coast was painted in the “Pine Tree” or "Streamline" scheme: grey roof, dark green letterboards, light green windowband and dark green lower sides with black trucks. The train's more famous two-tone green paint scheme which was added in 1954 and Lewis and Clark-... | 54,708 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
Coast Limited"." There were two dome coaches and two dome sleepers (all built by Budd) in each train. The dome sleepers had four roomettes in the short end, four double bedrooms in the long end, and four single bedrooms underneath the dome. Each car had 24 unreserved seats in the dome upstairs. The ... | 54,709 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
bedrooms were replaced with a buffet, and 24 lounge table seats were installed on the dome level, which made Northern Pacific advertise the rebuilt dome sleepers as “Lounge in the Sky.”
The scenic route went west across northern Illinois to the Mississippi River at Savanna, Illinois and then follow... | 54,710 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
for connecting service to Tacoma) before terminating at King Street Station in Seattle.
Declining ridership and continuing red ink led the train to be jointly operated with the Great Northern's "Empire Builder" between Chicago and Minneapolis. By late 1967 the combination was joined by the Chicago,... | 54,711 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
between Spokane and Portland and between Spokane and Seattle. The original train ceased operation with the Amtrak takeover. The last trains left their originating stations on April 30, 1971, seventy-one years and one day after the inaugural.
## North Coast Hiawatha.
On June 5, 1971 service was rei... | 54,712 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
"North Coast Limited" route between Spokane and Seattle, via Yakima) and operated three days per week. On November 14, 1971, the "North Coast Hiawatha" began operating as a separate train from Chicago to Spokane (and daily between Chicago and Minneapolis on former Milwaukee Road trackage). It still ... | 54,713 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
1, 1979.
Much of the route today is not served by passenger train, though Amtrak's "Empire Builder" does run on some of the same trackage in its St. Paul-Moorhead and Sandpoint-Pasco segments. Additionally, the route in Montana through Butte and over Homestake Pass has been inactive (intact, but wi... | 54,714 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
in Montana; and Wenatchee and Everett in Washington State.
# Equipment.
The original heavyweight "North Coast Limited" carried head-end cars, coaches, sleeping cars, a dining car, and an observation car. A distinguishing feature of the observation car was a library containing 140 volumes.
A Westb... | 54,715 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
Seattle)
- 6. Coach Car 253 (for Portland)
- 7. Dome Coach Car 252 (for Portland)
- 8. “Lewis & Clark Traveller’s Rest” Buffet-lounge car (for Seattle)
- 9. Diner (for Seattle)
- 10. Dome Sleeper Car 256 4 Double Bedrooms, 4 Duplex Single Rooms, 4 Roomettes (rebuilt to Dome Lounge Sleepers “Lou... | 54,716 |
1403379 | North Coast Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20Coast%20Limited | North Coast Limited
tle)
- 14. Sleeper Lounge Observation Car 259 4 Double Bedrooms, 1 Compartment (for Seattle—discontinued after 1967)
At Pasco, the Portland cars were switched onto SP&S Train 1, which also carried through equipment from Spokane to Portland from the Great Northern Railway’s "Empire Builder". SP&S T... | 54,717 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
Robert Roosevelt
Robert Barnhill Roosevelt, also known as Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (August 7, 1829 – June 14, 1906), was a sportsman, author, and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York (1871–1873) and as Minister to the Hague (1888–1889). He was also a member of the Roo... | 54,718 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. As an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, and through his ancestor Cornelius Van Schaack, Jr., he was a descendant of the Dutch American Schuyler family.
# Career.
Roosevelt studied law and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1850. He commenced practice in New York City. During the Ci... | 54,719 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
death by himself. He was a founder of the Committee of Seventy, and first vice-president of the Reform Club.
Roosevelt was elected as a Democrat to the 42nd Congress (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873). Although the pressure of anti-Tammany Democratic organizations forced Tammany Hall to approve his nomin... | 54,720 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland as Minister to The Hague, serving from August 10, 1888 to May 17, 1889. He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in 1892.
## Conservation.
Roosevelt was an early angler and conservationist. He organized several clubs to restrain the indiscriminate slaughter of game. He i... | 54,721 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
many years, he served as president of the Fish Culture Association, of an association for the protection of game, of the New York Sportsman's Club, and of the International Association for the Protection of Game. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As a member of... | 54,722 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
"Br'er Rabbit" stories (which had been passed down orally by slaves), "publishing them in "Harper's", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus,' made the stories immortal."
# Personal life.
Roosevelt was first married to Elizabeth Ellis (1829–1887), ... | 54,723 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
the recently built St. Nicholas Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Fifth Avenue and 48th Street, in New York City. Vance, who was active in New York State Republican politics, was a manufacturer who served as Acting Mayor of New York City for the month of December 1874.
- Robert Barnhill Roo... | 54,724 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
children, they had been born prior to his wedding to Minnie and were known as his stepchildren. They had been listed as having a father named "Robert Francis Fortescue", and maintained the Fortescue name throughout their lives. Together with Minnie, he was the father of:
- Kenyon Fortescue (1871–1939)... | 54,725 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
divorced before Pickhardt's suicide in 1909. In 1945, she married Brigadier General Richard L. A. Pennington.
Roosevelt died in Sayville, Suffolk County, N.Y., on June 14, 1906 while his nephew was serving as President of the United States. His remains were interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. ... | 54,726 |
1403410 | Robert Roosevelt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Roosevelt | Robert Roosevelt
ard L. A. Pennington.
Roosevelt died in Sayville, Suffolk County, N.Y., on June 14, 1906 while his nephew was serving as President of the United States. His remains were interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His large estate was left to his family,
# Published works.
- "Superior Fishing; or Th... | 54,727 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh
(; English: "Van Gogh's Ear," literally "The Ear of Van Gogh") is a Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. The band's lyrics and compositions are written primarily by Xabi San Martín, and additionally by Pablo Benegas and Amaia Montero (who ... | 54,728 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
featuring the new singer, "El Último Vals" (The Last Waltz), was released at the same time. The album from which the single was taken, "A las cinco en el Astoria", followed in September 2008. Leire was discovered on the Spanish reality show "Factor X".
# History.
## Fronted by Amaia Montero (1996... | 54,729 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
to write songs, the band wanted to recruit a female lead vocalist. They met Amaia Montero at a friend's party, and after listening to her sing "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor, Benegas convinced her to join the group. She subsequently became the lead singer and frontwoman of the band. Afte... | 54,730 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
record companies, with Sony Music-scout Jennifer Ces being the first one interested in the band after listening to only one of the band's songs. She urged them to send her more of their songs to see if they had enough material for an LP. After composing and submitting over 20 tracks in a very short... | 54,731 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
performing well in the Spanish Albums Chart. The album sold more than 800,000 copies and was certified 7-time platinum, and the band received an Ondas Award for Best New Act.
The success of the band was further increased with the release of "El viaje de Copperpot" ("Copperpot's Journey", a referen... | 54,732 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
viaje de Copperpot" was certified diamond in Spain for shipments of over 1,000,000, and singles "La Playa" ("The Beach"), "Puedes Contar Conmigo" ("You Can Count on Me") and "Rosas" ("Roses"), amongst others, were international hits in most Spanish-speaking countries.
In 2006, the band released wh... | 54,733 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
Singles Chart and the Argentinian Charts. Late in the same year, the band re-released the album as a new edition called "Más Guapa" ("More Beautiful"), which included a second CD with tracks made for but cut from all of the band's albums since 1998, including both unreleased songs and some alternat... | 54,734 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
they presented Leire Martínez as the new vocalist and the new song "El Último Vals" as the first single of their new album "A las cinco en el Astoria" ("At Five O'Clock At the Astoria").
In 2009, they released "Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo" ("Our home on the left side of time"), which co... | 54,735 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
the single "El Primer Día del Resto de mi Vida" ("The First Day of the Rest of my Life").
In 2016, they released El Planeta Imaginario (The Imaginary Planet), and in December of that same year, started a tour showcasing its songs.
# Discography.
- Studio albums
- 1998: "Dile al sol"
- 2000: "E... | 54,736 |
1403386 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Oreja%20de%20Van%20Gogh | La Oreja de Van Gogh
# Filmography.
- 1999: "Dile al sol" - VHS
- 2002: "El viaje de Copperpot" - VHS & DVD
- 2003: "Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida", Gira 2003 CD+DVD
- 2010: "Un viaje por el Mar Muerto", their first full-length feature film, which was filmed in Israel in collaboration with other art... | 54,737 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller; 2 April 1867 – 14 October 1925) was a German bodybuilder and showman. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy. After a spell in the circus, Sandow studied under strongman Louis Durlache... | 54,738 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Doyle and athlete/sculptor Charles Lawes-Wittewronge.
# Early life.
Sandow was born to a Jewish family in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad), on 2 April 1867. His father was a German and his mother was of Russian descent. Although his parents were born Jewish, the family were Lutherans and wanted him ... | 54,739 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Sandow's potential, mentored him, and in 1889 encouraged him to travel to London and take part in a strongmen competition. Sandow handily beat the reigning champion and won instant fame and recognition for his strength. This launched him on his career as an athletic superstar. Soon he was receiving request... | 54,740 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
not guarantee that much but agreed to pay 10 percent of the gross receipts.
Ziegfeld found that the audience was more fascinated by Sandow's bulging muscles than by the amount of weight he was lifting, so Ziegfeld had Sandow move in poses which he dubbed "muscle display performances" ... and the legendary... | 54,741 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
his muscles rather than performing any feats of physical strength.
While the content of the film reflected the audience's focus on his appearance, it made use of the unique capacities of the new medium. Film theorists have attributed the appeal being the striking image of a detailed image moving in synchr... | 54,742 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
New Sandow Pose (VIII)", Eugen Sandow Wellcome L0035270 - restoration.jpg|thumb|left|upright|"A New Sandow Pose (VIII)" from "[[Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture]]" (1902)]]
In April of that same year Sandow gave one of his "muscle display performances" at the 1894 California Mid-Winter International ... | 54,743 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
exercise, dietary habits and weight training. His ideas on physical fitness were novel at the time and had a tremendous impact. The Sandow Institute was an early gymnasium that was open to the public for exercise. In 1898 he also founded a monthly periodical, originally titled "Physical Culture" and subseq... | 54,744 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
and spring-grip dumbbells to exercise the wrists. In 1900 [[William Bankier]] wrote "Ideal Physical Culture" in which he challenged Sandow to a contest in weightlifting, wrestling, running and jumping. When Sandow did not accept his challenge Bankier called him a coward, a charlatan and a liar.
In 1901, S... | 54,745 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Park Avenue]], thanks to a generous gift from an Indian businessman, [[Dhunjibhoy Bomanji|Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji]], whose health had improved dramatically after he had adopted Sandow's regime. This grand four-storey end-of-terrace house – which was named Dhunjibhoy House after his benefactor – was his home... | 54,746 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
even designated special instructor in physical culture to King [[George V]], who had followed his teachings, in 1911.
# The Grecian Ideal.
[[File:Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925) - Eugen Sandow (1867-1925)- 1894-cropped.jpg| thumb |Sandow models the statue "[[The Dying Gaul]]", illustrating his Grecian Idea... | 54,747 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
as one of the first athletes to intentionally develop his musculature to predetermined dimensions. In his books "Strength and How to Obtain It" and "Sandow's System of Physical Training", Sandow laid out specific prescriptions of weights and repetitions in order to achieve his ideal proportions.
# Persona... | 54,748 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Alter]] suggests that Sandow was the person who had the most influence on modern [[yoga as exercise]], which absorbed a variety of exercise routines from [[physical culture]] in the early 20th century.
# Death.
Sandow died at his home in [[Kensington]], London, on 14 October 1925 of what newspapers annou... | 54,749 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
was buried in an unmarked grave in [[Putney Vale Cemetery]] at the request of his wife, Blanche. He was unfaithful to his wife later in marriage, and she refused to mark his grave. In 2002, a gravestone and black marble plaque was added by Sandow admirer and author Thomas Manly. The inscription (in gold le... | 54,750 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
funerary monuments called [[stele]]s.
# Legacy.
[[File:The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles, Sandow lifting the human dumbell, 1894.jpg|thumb|left|1894 poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles, produced by [[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.|F. Ziegfeld Jr.]] in one of his first productions]]
Sandow was befriended by... | 54,751 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Pomeroy]] has been presented to the winner of the [[Mr. Olympia]] contest, a major professional bodybuilding competition sponsored by the [[International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness|International Federation of Bodybuilders]], since 1977. This statue is simply known as "The Sandow".
In 2013, Eugen... | 54,752 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Training" (1894)
- "Sandow on Physical Training" (1894)
- "Strength and how to Obtain It" (1897)
- "[[Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture]]" (1898–1907)
- "Body-Building"
- "Strength and Health"
- "The Construction and Reconstruction of the Human Body" (1907) [with a foreword by [[Arthur Conan Doyl... | 54,753 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
Victorian Strongman" (Brighton: Victorian Secrets, 2011)
- Barford, Vanessa and Lucy Townsend, "Eugen Sandow: The man with the perfect body", BBC News Magazine, 19 October 2012
- Tate, Don, "Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became The Strongest Man On Earth", Charlesbridge Publishing, September 2017
#... | 54,754 |
1403430 | Eugen Sandow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen%20Sandow | Eugen Sandow
everal famous poses: 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10.
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1403448 | Pee Dee Pride | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pee%20Dee%20Pride | Pee Dee Pride
Pee Dee Pride
The Pee Dee Pride, known as the Florence Pride for the 2003–04 ECHL season, are a defunct minor-league professional hockey team that was based in Florence, South Carolina, where they played in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) from 1997 until 2005. The team came to Florence as a relocatio... | 54,756 |
1403448 | Pee Dee Pride | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pee%20Dee%20Pride | Pee Dee Pride
Kelly Cup, the ECHL championship trophy. However, the Pride were previous winners of the Palmetto Cup for best team in South Carolina, and the Brabham Cup for best regular season record. In-state rivals of the Pride included the South Carolina Stingrays, the Greenville Grrrowl, and the Columbia Inferno.
... | 54,757 |
1403448 | Pee Dee Pride | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pee%20Dee%20Pride | Pee Dee Pride
lly, at the ECHL league meetings in June 2009, the franchise was returned to the league, ending its lineage.
# Playoffs.
- 1997–98: Defeated South Carolina 3-2 in first round; lost to Louisiana 3-0 in quarterfinals.
- 1998–99: Defeated Baton Rouge 3-1 in first round; defeated New Orleans 3-1 in quarter... | 54,758 |
1403460 | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuisine%20of%20the%20Southwestern%20United%20States | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States
Cuisine of the Southwestern United States
The cuisine of the Southwestern United States is food styled after the rustic cooking of the region. It comprises a fusion of recipes for things that might have been eaten by Spanish colonial settlers, cowboys, Native Americans, and Me... | 54,759 |
1403460 | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuisine%20of%20the%20Southwestern%20United%20States | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States
use of spices (particularly the "chile", or chili pepper). Recently, several chains of casual dining restaurants specializing in Southwestern cuisine have become popular in the United States.
New Mexican cuisine is known for its dedication to the chile (the official "state que... | 54,760 |
1403460 | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuisine%20of%20the%20Southwestern%20United%20States | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States
and Utah. Texas has a version, Tex-Mex cuisine, while Arizona's style of Southwestern cuisine is often called "Sonoran", since the Sonoran Desert covers a third of the state.
# States.
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Utah
#... | 54,761 |
1403460 | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuisine%20of%20the%20Southwestern%20United%20States | Cuisine of the Southwestern United States
con carne
- Chili con queso
- Chile relleno
- Chimichanga
- Enchilada casserole
- Enchiladas
- Fajitas
- Flan
- Green chile cheeseburger
- King Ranch chicken
- Menudo
- Nachos
- New Mexico breakfast burrito
- Pozole
- Quesadilla
- Rattlesnake filet
- Rice and be... | 54,762 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
Rollover Pass
Rollover Pass (Gilchrist, Galveston County, Texas) also called Rollover Fish Pass is part of a low-elevation area and was subject to overflow during high tides or storms. A man-made strait was cut through private property on the Bolivar Peninsula and links the Gulf of Mexico with Rollover B... | 54,763 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
and help marine fish to and from spawning and feeding areas in the bay.
The Pass is about 1600 feet long and 200 feet wide. Large cement walls frame the Gulf side (southeast of Texas Highway 87) and steel bulkheads contain the sides of the Rollover Bay side northwest of the highway.
Rollover Pass earned... | 54,764 |
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visible and several lines of text refer to the action of the smugglers.
Rollover Pass is a popular location for fishing and birding. Visitors come from all over the U.S. to camp, fish, and enjoy family recreation activities. Parking and camping are available on all four quadrants and handicapped or elder... | 54,765 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
blacktip sharks, red drum, black drum, speckled sea trout, flounder, sheephead, ladyfish or skipjacks, gafftop sail catfish, hardhead catfish, ribbonfish, needlefish, tripletail, Spanish mackerel, jack crevale, tarpon, pompano, croaker, sand trout, whiting, mullet, mud minnows, shad or menhaden, dogfish, ... | 54,766 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
runoff from surrounding rivers, bayous and diversionary canals drain into the Galveston Bay complex. Much of the water going into East Bay via the Intracoastal Waterway from neighboring counties drains to the Gulf through Rollover Pass.
Rollover Pass and Rollover Bay are a significant winter destination ... | 54,767 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
Texas. The storm surge associated with Hurricane Ike devastated the adjoining coastal communities of Gilchrist (northeast from Rollover Pass) and Caplen (southwest from Rollover Pass) along with most of the Bolivar Peninsula.
As of 2014, homes and businesses have been rebuilt in the area, new residents a... | 54,768 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
This authorized the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office to close or modify certain man-made passes if funds were appropriated by the legislature. The bill and its supporting information may be seen at the Texas Legislature Online site, search 81(R) SB2043.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLooku... | 54,769 |
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District of Texas, Galveston Division, against Jerry Patterson, Commissioner; the Texas General Land Office; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Col. Christopher W. Sallese, District Engineer, Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, Commander and Chief of Engineers, U.S... | 54,770 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
thereby devastating an already storm-ravaged area and causing extreme hardship to the businesses who rely on tourism, and homeowners trying to rebuild after Hurricane Ike. A petition with 2,868 signatures has many comments which demonstrate the commitment of the signers to keep the Pass open.
Some of the... | 54,771 |
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to close the Pass; violations of the U.S. Constitution; violations of Environmental Policy, Clean Water and Rehabilitation Act requirements; failure by the USACE to analyze impacts of actions by those closing the Pass; failure to perform analyses of alternatives in the ... | 54,772 |
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address alternate structures such as jetties or groins to control sediment; and declaratory relief or injunction to prevent closure of Rollover Pass by the GLO
An additional study by Lawrence Dunbar, Professional Engineer, has highlighted severe discrepancies in the money calculations by the GLO and thei... | 54,773 |
1403464 | Rollover Pass | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rollover%20Pass | Rollover Pass
Galveston, Texas, defendant Gulf Coast Rod, Reel and Gun Club, Inc. The Gilchrist Community Association was added on as a defendant also. As of June 2017 various hearings, motions and discovery proceedings have taken place and a jury trial was scheduled for June 12, 2017. A pending settlement was being di... | 54,774 |
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minimal maintenance services and the public was allowed continued access as per Bolivar beach regulations.
In March 2018 an appeal was filed in the Court of Appeals, 14th District of Texas, Houston by the Gilchrist Community Association against the County of Galveston, Texas; Case No. 14-17-00681-CV.
Is... | 54,775 |
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Video.
In December 2013 a video was produced and released by The Electric Theater Radio Hour in Galveston, Texas. This video, entitled "Rollover Pass battles Patterson & Galveston County on eminent domain threat" (sic) is hosted by George Lee, who interviews Ted Vega, president of the Gilchrist Community... | 54,776 |
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ty on eminent domain threat" (sic) is hosted by George Lee, who interviews Ted Vega, president of the Gilchrist Community Association. It outlines the conflict between the GCA and elected state and county officials, specifically Jerry Patterson, former commissioner of the Texas General Land Office; Mark H... | 54,777 |
1403467 | Evgraf Fedorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evgraf%20Fedorov | Evgraf Fedorov
Evgraf Fedorov
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (, – 21 May 1919) was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist.
Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a topographical engineer. The family later moved to Saint Petersburg. From the age of fifteen, he was deeply inter... | 54,778 |
1403467 | Evgraf Fedorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evgraf%20Fedorov | Evgraf Fedorov
space groups which now serve as the mathematical basis of structural analysis. He also proved that there are only 17 possible wallpaper groups which can tile a Euclidean plane. This was then proved independently by George Pólya in 1924. The proof that the list of wallpaper groups was complete only came a... | 54,779 |
1403467 | Evgraf Fedorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evgraf%20Fedorov | Evgraf Fedorov
and derives Fedorov polytopes, congruent polytopes that can completely fill space.
- He wrote the classic "The Symmetry of Regular Systems of Figures" in 1891, which contained the first cataloging of the 230 space groups. The same year the equivalent results were presented by German mathematician Schönf... | 54,780 |
1403467 | Evgraf Fedorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evgraf%20Fedorov | Evgraf Fedorov
bject during their work, so the results can be somehow considered as joint ones, though Schönflies noted Fedorov's priority for some major ideas.
- He published his classic work "The Theodolite Method in Mineralogy and Petrography" in 1893.
# See also.
- Group theory
- List of Russian material scient... | 54,781 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
Creation Museum
The Creation Museum, located in Petersburg, Kentucky, United States, is operated by the Christian creation apologetics organization Answers in Genesis (AiG). It promotes a pseudoscientific, young Earth creationist (YEC) explanation of the origin of the universe based on a literal interp... | 54,782 |
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a statement of faith affirming their belief in AiG's principles.
Reflecting young Earth creationist beliefs, the museum depicts humans and dinosaurs coexisting, portrays the Earth as approximately 6,000 years old, and disputes the theory of evolution. Scientists and educators have criticized the museum... | 54,783 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
enjoy substantial support among the general population in the United States, however, contributing to the museum's popularity.
The museum is controversial and has received much commentary from cultural observers and the museum community. Scholars of museum studies, like Gretchen Jennings, have said tha... | 54,784 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
Answers in Genesis (AiG), the creation apologetics organization that owns and operates the museum. According to the AiG website, the purpose of the museum is to "exalt Jesus Christ as Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer", to "equip Christians to better evangelize the lost", and to "challenge visitors to rec... | 54,785 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
6,000 years ago, contradicts the scientific consensus that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and that living organisms come into being by descent from common ancestors through evolution. Nevertheless, a "Sunday Independent" columnist said in 2007 that "there are plenty of Americans ready ... | 54,786 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
present form since the beginning of time".
# History.
From the time AiG was founded in Florence, Kentucky, in 1994, the group's officials planned to open a museum and training center in the area. Ken Ham, a native of Australia, said that "Australia's not really the place to build such a facility if yo... | 54,787 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
AiG petitioned Boone County to rezone a tract of land near the Big Bone Lick State Park from agricultural to industrial use for the construction of the Creation Museum. The county initially opposed the rezoning, citing in part potential conflicts with the fossil-rich state park. In 1999 newly elected co... | 54,788 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
more visitors to the museum than AiG had initially anticipated, plans for the museum were altered, expanding it to and pushing the cost estimates to approximately 25 million and later to 27 million when more favorable visitor projections led them to add another to the museum. AiG staff moved into the Cr... | 54,789 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
Opening.
Approximately 4,000 patrons and 200 protestors visited the museum on opening day, and the event was covered by international media outlets. The "Orlando Sentinel" wrote that the majority of the media coverage had a "mocking" undertone, similar to that found in reporting on the 2001 opening of ... | 54,790 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
creationism." The Reverend Mendle Adams, a protest participant, said, "my brothers and sisters in the faith who embrace [the creationist] understanding call into question the whole Christian concept" and "make us a laughing stock".
The Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau used the museum's ... | 54,791 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
about the separation of church and state. "The Cincinnati Post" reported that AiG paid $5,000 each for the signs, which are available to any "cultural, historical, recreational, agricultural, educational or entertainment center". The "Post" quoted Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United fo... | 54,792 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
"Cincinnati CityBeat" reported that, from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, Museum attendance had dropped to 254,074, a 10 percent drop from the previous year and the fourth straight year of declining attendance. AiG officials cited the poor economy and high gas prices as reasons for the decline. By mid-2... | 54,793 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
be cancelled, or in cases where they had already occurred, not be repeated. In July 2016, in response to FFRF's letters to schools, Ham posted on his blog that student groups would be admitted at $1 per child and no charge for accompanying teachers."
In 2017, AiG reported that in the year since its oth... | 54,794 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
In the 200-seat theater—which features special effects such as seats that vibrate and jets that spray the audience with mist—a film depicts two angelic beings who proclaim, "God loves science!" The museum also includes a restaurant and a medieval-themed gift shop. Outside the main structure are walking ... | 54,795 |
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which Charles Darwin observed before proposing the theory of evolution in 1859. A 2013 expansion project added a lobby display suggesting that ancient stories of monsters and dragons may have been accounts of human encounters with dinosaurs. An animatronic character depicting a science professor in a re... | 54,796 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people. Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs." While some of the museum's dinosaur models are animatronic, many were sculpted from fiberglass by a taxidermist. Near the museum's lobby, a diorama depicts two ancient-age children playing near a s... | 54,797 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
museum, and AiG paid an anonymous expert based in Utah to restore it before displaying it. The museum is also critical of evolutionary theory that links dinosaurs with bird evolution. The second room of the Creation Museum, for example, displays a model prehistoric "Utahraptor", stating that the species... | 54,798 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
The first room in the sequence contains a diorama of two paleontologists uncovering the skeletal remains of an indistinct creature. Two actors meant to represent the paleontologists are displayed on television screens mounted nearby; one explains that he believes that the creature died in a local flood ... | 54,799 |
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