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11565114 | Red Sea species hazardous to humans | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Sea%20species%20hazardous%20to%20humans | Red Sea species hazardous to humans
Red Sea species hazardous to humans
Although most species in the Red Sea pose no threat to humans, there are a few notable exceptions.
# Poisonous fish.
## Ciguatera poison.
Ciguatera poisoning is a danger posed by fish at the top of the food chain, in particular the Twinspot sna... | 6,118,400 |
11565129 | Richard Adams (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams%20(disambiguation) | Richard Adams (disambiguation)
Richard Adams (disambiguation)
Richard Adams (1920-2016) was an English novelist, author of "Watership Down" and "The Plague Dogs".
Richard Adams may also refer to:
- Richard Adams (activist) (1947–2012), Filipino-American gay rights activist
- Richard Adams (architect) (1791–1835), S... | 6,118,401 |
11565129 | Richard Adams (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams%20(disambiguation) | Richard Adams (disambiguation)
rd Adams (poet) (1619–1661), collector of verse
- Richard Adams (religious writer) (c. 1626–1698), English minister and writer
- Richard Adams (Traidcraft) (born 1946), British fair-trade organisation founder
- Richard Adams (U.S. politician) (born 1939), member of the Ohio House of Re... | 6,118,402 |
11565151 | Priscilla Wright | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Priscilla%20Wright | Priscilla Wright
Priscilla Wright
Priscilla Wright may refer to:
- Priscilla Wright (born 1943), "Playboy"s Playmate of the Month in March 1966
- Priscilla Wright (singer) (born 1940), Canadian singer | 6,118,403 |
11565183 | Albanian cattle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albanian%20cattle | Albanian cattle
Albanian cattle
The Albanian is a breed of cattle, originally from Albania. They are generally used as a draught animal and for dairy production. | 6,118,404 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Kate (given name)
Kate is a feminine given name. It is a short form of multiple feminine names, most notably Katherine but also Caitlin and others.
# Translations and variations.
- Arabic: كيت
- Belarusian: Кейт (Kiejt)
- Bengali: কেট (Kēṭa)
- Bulgarian: Кейт (Keĭt), Katerina
- Chinese Simplifi... | 6,118,405 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Kaylee, Kayleen, Kaylyn, Kaytie
- Estonian: Kaisa, Kati, Riina, Triinu
- Finnish: Kaija, Kaisa, Kata, Kati, Katri, Riina, Kaarina, Karin
- Georgian: Eka
- German: Cathrin, Catrin, Ina, Käthe, Kathrin, Katinka, Katja, Karen, Karin, Karina
- Greek: Καίτη (Kaíti̱)
- Gujarati: કેટ (Kēṭa)
- Hawaiian... | 6,118,406 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Karin, Karina, Karine
- Persian: کیت
- Polish: Kasia, Karina
- Portuguese: Cátia, Kátia
- Punjabi: ਕੇਟ (Kēṭa)
- Russian: Кейт (Keyt), Катенька (Katenka), Катерина (Katerina), Катя (Katia), Катя (Katya)
- Serbian: Кејт (Kejt)
- Slovak: Katka
- Slovene: Katica, Katja
- Swedish: Cajsa, Kai, Kajs... | 6,118,407 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), English author
- Kate E. Griswold (c. 1869-?), American editor, publisher, proprietor
- Kate Simpson Hayes (1856-1945), Canadian writer, teacher, milliner, legislative librarian
- Kate Klise(born 1963), American children's author
- Kate Millett (1934–2017), American fem... | 6,118,408 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Kate Tempest (born 1985), British poet, spoken word artist, playwright and rapper
- Kate L. Turabian (1893–1987), American non-fiction writer and educator
- Kate Vitasek (born 1968), American author and educator
- Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), American educator, author of children's stories
## ... | 6,118,409 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
and actress
- Kate Nash (born 1987), English singer-songwriter
- Kate Pierson (born 1958), American singer and musician
- Kate Ryan (born 1980), Belgian singer-songwriter
- Kate Rusby (born 1973), English folk singer-songwriter
- Kate Smith (1907–1986), American singer
- Kate Taylor (born 1949),... | 6,118,410 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Kate Jobson (born 1937), Swedish swimmer
- Kate Markgraf (born 1976), American soccer player
- Kate Reed (born 1982), British long-distance runner
- Kate Starre (born 1971), Australian field hockey player
## In film and television.
- Kate Adie (born 1945), English television news correspondent
-... | 6,118,411 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
television and radio presenter
- Kate Gerbeau (born 1968), English television presenter and newsreader
- Kate Gosselin (born 1975), American television personality
- Kate Harrington (1902–1978), American actress
- Kate Henshaw (born 1961), Nigerian actress
- Kate Hewlett (born 1976), Canadian act... | 6,118,412 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
actress
- Kate O'Mara (1939–2014), English actress
- Kate Ritchie (born 1978), Australian actress and radio personality
- Kate Sissons (born 1980), English actress and the daughter of BBC newsreader Peter Sissons
- Kate Smith, Australian theatrical star, 2006/2007 "Wheel Of Fortune" co-hostess
- ... | 6,118,413 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
Other.
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (born 1982), wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; formerly Kate Middleton
- Kate Bisschop-Swift (1834–1928), Dutch painter
- Kate Booth (1858–1955), English Salvationist and evangelist, eldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth
- Big Nose Kate (1... | 6,118,414 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
microbial ecology
- Kate Sheppard (1848–1934), New Zealand suffragette
- Kate Spade (1962–2018), American designer and businesswoman
- Kate Tyrrell (1863–1921), Irish sea captain and owner of a shipping company
# Fictional characters.
- Kate Austen, on the TV series "Lost" played by Evangeline Li... | 6,118,415 |
11565186 | Kate (given name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20(given%20name) | Kate (given name)
emia.
- Kate Ditchburn, in the TV comedy "Blackadder II"
- Kate Lockley, on the TV show "Angel"
- Kate Marsh, in the video game Life Is Strange
- Kate McReary, in the video game "Grand Theft Auto IV"
- Kate Morgan ("24" character), in the TV series "24' and the movie "24: Live Another Day"
- Man... | 6,118,416 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
Richard Adams
Richard George Adams (9 May 1920–24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books "Watership Down", "Shardik" and "The Plague Dogs". He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and the... | 6,118,417 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
In 1938, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, to read Modern History. In July 1940, Adams was called up to join the British Army. He was posted to the Royal Army Service Corps and was selected for the Airborne Company, where he worked as a brigade liaison. He served in Palestine, Europe and the Far East ... | 6,118,418 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
Local Government, later part of the Department of the Environment. He began to write his own stories in his spare time, reading them to his children and later on, to his grandchildren.
# Career.
Adams originally began telling the story that would become "Watership Down" to his two daughters on a car tri... | 6,118,419 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
Down" sold over a million copies worldwide. Adams won both of the most prestigious British children's book awards, one of six authors to do so: the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 1974, following publication of his second novel, "Shardik", he left the Civil Service to become a... | 6,118,420 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
doctorate by the University of Winchester.
# Public figure.
In 1982, Adams served one year as president of the RSPCA. Besides campaigning against furs, Adams wrote "The Plague Dogs" to satirize animal experimentation (as well as government and tabloid press). He also made a voyage through the Antarctic ... | 6,118,421 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
scientist Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (himself created a baronet of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford) descended from the Acland baronets of Columb John.
Until his death, he lived with his wife in Whitchurch, within of his birthplace. Their daughters, to whom Adams originally related the tales that became "Waters... | 6,118,422 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
from complications of a blood disorder.
# Works.
- "Watership Down" (1972)
- "Shardik" (1974)
- "Nature Through the Seasons" (1975)
- "The Tyger Voyage" (1976) (reprinted 2013, David R. Godine, Publisher, )
- "The Plague Dogs" (1977)
- "The Ship's Cat" (1977, text of picture book illustrated by Ala... | 6,118,423 |
11565121 | Richard Adams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Adams | Richard Adams
in the US as "The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables". Color Illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert, b&w illustrations by Jennifer Campbell.
- "The Legend of Te Tuna" (1982), Sylvester & Orphanos,
- "Voyage Through the Antarctic" (1982 with Ronald Lockley), Allen Lane
- "Maia" (1984)
- "A Nature Diary" (1985) ... | 6,118,424 |
11565199 | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20Gilmer%20Bonfils | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils (December 21, 1860 – February 2, 1933), U.S. publisher who made the "Denver Post" into one of the largest newspapers in the United States.
# Career.
Born in Troy, Missouri, he entered the United States Military Academy in 1878 but resigned in... | 6,118,425 |
11565199 | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20Gilmer%20Bonfils | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
representing "maneater" Alfred Packer after a Post article had accused Anderson of taking Packer's life savings as a retainer. In the scuffle in the office Bonfils was shot twice and Tammen three times. Anderson was tried three times but never convicted while Tammen and Bonfils were convicted f... | 6,118,426 |
11565199 | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20Gilmer%20Bonfils | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
street is more important than a war in Europe."
In 1902, Bonfils and Tammen founded the Floto Dog & Pony Show. The show was named after Otto Floto, the famous sports editor of the Denver Post, who was involved in the publicity work for the show. In 1906, when bareback rider Willie Sells joined... | 6,118,427 |
11565199 | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20Gilmer%20Bonfils | Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
d headlines and yellow journalism was closely tied to the rise of the Tom Pendergast political machine in Kansas City. The Post was to fold shortly after the collapse of the machine.
# Death.
Bonfils died of encephalitis at his home in Denver, Colorado in 1933 and was interred in the Fairmoun... | 6,118,428 |
50224 | Wilberforce | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilberforce | Wilberforce
Wilberforce
Wilberforce may refer to:
# People.
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade
- Robert Wilberforce (1802–1857), second son of William, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer
- Lionel Wilberforce (1861–1944), British ... | 6,118,429 |
50224 | Wilberforce | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilberforce | Wilberforce
and third son of Samuel
- Basil Wilberforce (1841–1916), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Westminster and fourth and youngest son of Samuel
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-grandson of Samuel, Law Lord
- Henry Wilberforce (1807–1873), fourth and youngest son of William, Catholic ... | 6,118,430 |
50224 | Wilberforce | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilberforce | Wilberforce
Wilberforce River, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
- Wilberfoss, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
# Fictional characters.
- Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, a character in the 1970s British sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
- Mr. Wilberforce, a character in the children's novel, "Under the Mountai... | 6,118,431 |
50224 | Wilberforce | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilberforce | Wilberforce
of the main characters in the film "The Ladykillers"
- The Wilberforces, antagonists in the New Zealand children's TV horror-sci-fi show "Under the Mountain"
- Wilberforce Thornapple, a character in the comic strip "The Born Loser"
- Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot, a character in "Blinky Bill the Movie" an... | 6,118,432 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( "Meḥmed-i sâdis", "Vahideddin", or ), who is also known as "Şahbaba" (meaning "Emperor-father") among his relatives, (14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from July 4, 1918 until November 1, 1922 when the Ottoman Empire d... | 6,118,433 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
"padishah". His father was Sultan Abdulmejid I and mother was Gülüstü Hanım (1830 – 1865), an ethnic Abkhazian, daughter of Prince Tahir Bey Çaçba and his wife Afişe Lakerba, originally named Fatma Çaçba. Mehmed was removed from the throne when the Ottoman sultanate was abolished in 1922.
# Biography.
Early... | 6,118,434 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
mandate over Syria and the British were granted one over Palestine and Mesopotamia. On 10 August 1920, Mehmed's representatives signed the Treaty of Sèvres, which recognised the mandates and recognised Hejaz as an independent state.
Turkish nationalists rejected the settlement by the Sultan's four signatorie... | 6,118,435 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
as a result, a temporary constitution was drafted.
## Exile and death.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, and Mehmed VI was expelled from Constantinople. Leaving aboard the British warship "Malaya" on 17 November, he went into exile in Malta; Mehmed later lived... | 6,118,436 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
Damascus.
# Family.
Sultan Mehmed VI married five times:
- Abkhazian Nazikeda Kadın (née Fatma Emine Marşania, Sukhum, Abkhazia, 9 October 1866 – Maadi, Cairo, 4 April 1944 and buried there), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Ortakoy Palace on 8 June 1885, daughter of Prince Hasan Ali Bey Marşan by his wife Pr... | 6,118,437 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
11 October 1977) at the Kurucheshme Palace, Istanbul, on 10 August 1916, with issue; second marriage to Damat Ali Haidar Beyefendi (Göztepe, Istanbul, 20 September 1889 – Istanbul, 5 February 1962) at the Nişantaşı Palace, Nişantaşı, Pera (today Beyoğlu), on 1 November 1923, also with issue.
- Rukiye Sabiha ... | 6,118,438 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
Inşirah Hanım (née Seniye Voçibe, Batumi, 10 July 1887 – Cairo, 30 June 1930), married at Istanbul, Üsküdar, Çengelköy, Çengelköy Palace on 8 July 1905 and divorced on 7 November 1909, daughter of Zekeriya Aziz Bey Voçibe, without issue.
- Abkhazian Müveddet Kadın (née Şadiye Çıhçı, Adapazarı, 12 October 189... | 6,118,439 |
50217 | Mehmed VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmed%20VI | Mehmed VI
Kato Davut Bey Çıhcı by his wife Ayşe Hanım, and had:
- Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul (Çengelköy Palace, Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul, 5 September 1912 – Cairo, 2 July 1944). No Issue.
- Abkhazian Nevvare Hanım (née Ayşe Çıhçı, Adapazarı, 4 May 1901 – 13 June 1992), married at Istanbul, Dolmabahçe Palace on 20 Ju... | 6,118,440 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-ro... | 6,118,441 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
was broadcast from October 2007. A second series based on the sequel was broadcast from October 2008. A 2010 television adaptation for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story, and a 2016 television adaptation for BB... | 6,118,442 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Cambridge college for centuries, apparently attracting no attention (noting with appreciation that the porters are very discreet). In "Shada", Chronotis's longevity is due to him being a Time Lord, and his time machine is an early model TARDIS. These trademark elements from "Doct... | 6,118,443 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
to Richard MacDuff's apartment; according to his simulations, not only is it impossible to remove it, but there is no way for it to have got into that position in the first place. In a similar incident that occurred while Douglas Adams attended St John's College, Cambridge, furni... | 6,118,444 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
room – filled with Macintosh computers and synthesisers – was based on Adams' own flat (visited and photographed by Hi-Fi Choice Magazine). The piece of music by Bach that is heard aboard the satellite is "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" from the cantata "Bleib bei uns, denn... | 6,118,445 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Chronotis, perform an inexplicable magic trick in which he makes a salt cellar disappear, then reveals it by smashing a centuries-old clay pot that a young girl brought to the dinner. The dinner concludes with a reading of Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan", including a mysterious (an... | 6,118,446 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
to his London flat and engages in odd behaviour, including climbing a drainpipe to break into the flat belonging to his girlfriend, Susan Way, to erase an embarrassing message left on her answering machine. Susan returns from a night out with Michael Wenton-Weakes. Wenton-Weakes ... | 6,118,447 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
chain of events. Gently concludes that MacDuff had been possessed by a ghost and that a time machine was involved. Ultimately, the two travel to St. Cedd's to meet with Prof. Chronotis, and a complex history is revealed.
Four billion years in Earth's past, a group of aliens call... | 6,118,448 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
century, the ghost possessed Coleridge, and influenced his writing of "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", but found the poet too 'relaxed' on laudanum to be useful. It discovered that Prof. Chronotis possesses a time machine disguised as his rooms at the college. ... | 6,118,449 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
possession of Wenton-Weakes, arrives at Prof. Chronotis' quarters and convinces them to take him back in time to just prior to the explosion of the Salaxalan ship, so that he can make the proper repairs. As they watch the ghost take Wenton-Weakes' body out towards the ship, MacDu... | 6,118,450 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
of their ship was what caused the beginning of life on the planet. In order to foil the ghost's plans, Gently, MacDuff, and Prof. Chronotis travel to the 19th century. Gently interrupts Coleridge, becoming the "man from Porlock" and preventing the full version of "Kubla Khan" fro... | 6,118,451 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- no charge."
# Characters.
- Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names, including Svlad Cjelli), the operator of the eponymous detective agency that operates based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things." He specialises in missing cats and messy divorces... | 6,118,452 |
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Technologies II, owned by Gordon Way. His "Anthem" software, which is designed as a spreadsheet, but also has a unique feature to convert corporate accounts into music, was extremely popular, but he is falling behind in his deadlines to create an updated version. Throughout the b... | 6,118,453 |
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childish conjuring tricks and an extremely bad memory.
- Gordon Way, the owner of WayForward, who is pressuring Richard to complete his behind-schedule software project, and ends up getting shot for no immediately obvious reason a few chapters into the book.
- Susan Way, sister... | 6,118,454 |
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"all kinds of things, more or less at random", including things like tables being hermaphrodites and God wanting a lot of money sent to a certain address. Since it was cheaper to replace the Monk than to repair it, the Monk was cast out in the wilderness to believe whatever it li... | 6,118,455 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
sold "Fathom" to Gordon Way after his father's accidental death when the latter was changing an electric plug. While Michael seems largely apathetic and yielding to others, the loss of "Fathom" bothers him much more deeply than anyone realises.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writer,... | 6,118,456 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
novel Prof. Chronotis uses his time machine to board the Salaxian ship, still in orbit around the Earth. Inside the ship they encounter elaborate and beautiful music that seems to be the result of the ship's computer system operation, similar to Richard's "Anthem" program. After ... | 6,118,457 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
it was "endearingly dotty", but doubted its commercial potential. Austin MacCurtain of the "Sunday Times" reviewed the paperback edition in 1988, saying that it was "more of the same" as Hitchhiker's, and that the "cosmic romp is stretched thin at times but will not disappoint fa... | 6,118,458 |
50223 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirk%20Gently's%20Holistic%20Detective%20Agency | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1990, the Magill Book Reviews said "The author's whimsical sense of humor and his sense that the universe has many unexplored possibilities will arouse the interest of a wide readership."
This novel caused Adams to become acquainted with the well-known scientist Richard Dawkins.... | 6,118,459 |
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Who". One of her early serials on the programme was "City of Death", which Adams wrote, and which shares certain plot elements with the novel.
# Adaptations.
On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Ada... | 6,118,460 |
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on the first book. Their efforts began and were coordinated on the Douglas Adams Continuum website. Three episodes were completed. Apart from the radio broadcasts, Douglas Adams recorded both unabridged and abridged readings of the first novel for the audiobook market.
## BBC Ra... | 6,118,461 |
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as Janice, Jim Carter as Gilks, Andrew Sachs as Reg, Felicity Montagu as Susan, Robert Duncan as Gordon, Toby Longworth as the Monk, Michael Fenton Stevens as Michael, Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland, Wayne Forester and Tamsin Heatley.
The script for "Dirk Gently's H... | 6,118,462 |
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Maggs parted ways with Above the Title Productions when he started his own production company, Perfectly Normal Productions, and so the project was never completed and the proposed radio series of "The Salmon of Doubt" remains unmade.
## Television and comic book adaptations.
A... | 6,118,463 |
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broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010. The hour-long pilot was well-received, leading to three further episodes being commissioned. These aired on BBC4 during March 2012.
An independent publishing company had been seeking the rights to produce a graphic novel adaptation, tho... | 6,118,464 |
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d on the official Message Boards of Douglas Adams' website, when a reader inquired about the specific mechanics of how the ending worked out, Adams responded: "Ahem. All I can say is that it was as clear as day to me when I wrote it and now I can't figure it out myself. Sorry abo... | 6,118,465 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
Prime meridian
A prime meridian is a meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together, a prime meridian and its anti-meridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great circle. This great circle divides a spheroid, e.g., Earth, int... | 6,118,466 |
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meridian is the IERS Reference Meridian. It is derived but deviates slightly from the Greenwich Meridian, which was selected as an international standard in 1884.
# History.
The notion of longitude was developed by the Greek Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC – c. 195 BC) in Alexandria, and Hipparchus (c. 190 BC ... | 6,118,467 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
correspond more closely to the Cape Verde islands (22° to 25° W). The main point is to be comfortably west of the western tip of Africa (17.5° W) as negative numbers were not yet in use. His prime meridian corresponds to 18° 40' west of Winchester (about 20°W) today. At that time the chief method of dete... | 6,118,468 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
and this fact was used in the important Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 which settled the territorial dispute between Spain and Portugal over newly discovered lands. The Tordesillas line was eventually settled at 370 leagues west of Cape Verde. This is shown in Diogo Ribeiro's 1529 map. São Miguel Island (... | 6,118,469 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
the magnetic hypothesis. But by the time that Ortelius produced the first modern atlas in 1570, other islands such as Cape Verde were coming into use. In his atlas longitudes were counted from 0° to 360°, not 180°W to 180°E as is usual today. This practice was followed by navigators well into the 18th ce... | 6,118,470 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
by John Harrison. But it was the development of accurate star charts, principally by the first British Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed between 1680 and 1719 and disseminated by his successor Edmund Halley, that enabled navigators to use the lunar method of determining longitude more accurately using the... | 6,118,471 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
calculations from Greenwich—in spite of the fact that every other table in the "Connaissance des Temps" considered the Paris meridian as the prime."
In 1884, at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., 22 countries voted to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the worl... | 6,118,472 |
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to be the common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world. The modern prime meridian, the IERS Reference Meridian, is placed very near this meridian and is the prime meridian that currently has the widest use.
## Prime meridian at Greenwich.
The modern prime meridian, based... | 6,118,473 |
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Royal, Edmond Halley in 1721. It was set up in the extreme north-west corner of the Observatory between Flamsteed House and the Western Summer House. This spot, now subsumed into Flamsteed House, is roughly 43 metres to the west of the Airy Transit Circle, a distance equivalent to roughly 0.15 seconds of... | 6,118,474 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
at the surface. This astronomic Greenwich meridian was disseminated around the world, first via the lunar distance method, then by chronometers carried on ships, then via telegraph lines carried by submarine communications cables, then via radio time signals. One remote longitude ultimately based on the ... | 6,118,475 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
to techniques such as lunar laser ranging, satellite laser ranging, and very-long-baseline interferometry. The new techniques resulted in the IERS Reference Meridian, the plane of which passes through the centre of mass of the Earth. This differs from the plane established by the Airy transit, which is a... | 6,118,476 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
officially accepted by the Bureau International de l'Heure (BIH) in 1984 via its BTS84 (BIH Terrestrial System) that later became WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984) and the various ITRFs (International Terrestrial Reference Systems).
Due to the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, the line of 0° longitu... | 6,118,477 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
advances there also arose the necessity to define a reference meridian that, whilst being derived from the Airy Transit Circle, would also take into account the effects of plate movement and variations in the way that the Earth was spinning.
As a result, the International Reference Meridian was establis... | 6,118,478 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
per year relative to this Earth-centred 0° longitude.
It is also the reference meridian of the Global Positioning System operated by the United States Department of Defense, and of WGS84 and its two formal versions, the ideal International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) and its realization, the Int... | 6,118,479 |
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arbitrarily defined. Often a landmark such as a crater is used; other times a prime meridian is defined by reference to another celestial object, or by magnetic fields.
The prime meridians of the following planetographic systems have been defined:
- Two different heliographic coordinate systems are use... | 6,118,480 |
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In 1975 the prime meridian of Mercury was defined to be 20° east of the crater Hun Kal.
- Defined in 1992, the prime meridian of Venus passes through the central peak in the crater Ariadne.
- The prime meridian of the Moon lies directly in the middle of the face of the moon visible from Earth and passe... | 6,118,481 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
is unknown whether Jupiter has any internal solid surface that would enable a more Earth-like coordinate system. System I and System II coordinates are based on atmospheric rotation, and System III coordinates use Jupiter's magnetic field.
- Titan, like the Earth's moon, always has the same face towards... | 6,118,482 |
50225 | Prime meridian | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20meridian | Prime meridian
e system. System I and System II coordinates are based on atmospheric rotation, and System III coordinates use Jupiter's magnetic field.
- Titan, like the Earth's moon, always has the same face towards Saturn, and so the middle of that face is 0 longitude.
- Pluto's prime meridian is defined as the cen... | 6,118,483 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.
# Life and work.
Nauman was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but hi... | 6,118,484 |
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Nelson. He worked as an assistant to Wayne Thiebaud. Upon graduation (MFA, 1966), he taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1966 to 1968, and at the University of California at Irvine in 1970. In 1968 he met the singer and performance artist Meredith Monk and signed with the dealer Leo Castelli. Na... | 6,118,485 |
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"What to do?" in his studio soon after graduating, Nauman had the simple but profound realization that “If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.” Nauman set up a studio in a former gr... | 6,118,486 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
and the role of the artist, and to investigate psychological states and behavioural codes.
Much of his work is characterized by an interest in language, often manifesting itself in a playful, mischievous manner. He has a strong interest in setting the metaphoric and descriptive functions of language again... | 6,118,487 |
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1960s with exhibitions at Nick Wilder's gallery in Los Angeles and in New York at Leo Castelli in 1968 along with early solo shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in 1972.
Nauman's use of neon as a medium was very recurrent in his works. He uses neon in irony by making allus... | 6,118,488 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
of water from his mouth. At the end of the 1960s, Nauman began constructing claustrophobic and enclosed corridors and rooms that could be entered by visitors and which evoked the experience of being locked in and of being abandoned. A series of works inspired by one of the artist's dreams was brought toget... | 6,118,489 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
physical themes incorporating images of animal and human body parts, depicting sadistic allusions to games and torture together with themes of surveillance. In 1988, after a hiatus of nearly two decades focused on time-based media, he resumed his work with cast objects.
## Selected works.
Some of Nauman'... | 6,118,490 |
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then black makeup, until by the end he looks like a negative image Initially the films were intended to be projected simultaneously on four walls of a room. Although this form of installation was never realized for this piece, Nauman employed the method for subsequent film and video installations.
- "The ... | 6,118,491 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
it, and edited a book of his own.
- "Wall-Floor Positions" (1969) - Videotape, black and white, sound, 60 mins. to be repeated continuously.
- "Pacing Upside Down"(1969) 60 minutes b&w. With his arms held over his head, hands crossed, Nauman is moving jerkily around a perimeter defined by a square drawn ... | 6,118,492 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
of the polluted Los Angeles skyline. It complements and extends the sky-blue pages of Nauman's earlier book "CLEA RSKY" (1968–69). No text.
- "Henry Moore bound to fail, back view" (1967–1970) – cast wax relief of a man's back with arms tied by ropes. In 2001, this work sold for $9 million at auction. Thi... | 6,118,493 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
Tony lies there as if dead, then slowly wakes up, as the editing makes him seem to sink into the floor.
- "Good Boy Bad Boy" (1985) - Two video monitors, two videotape players, two videotapes (color, sound). dimensions variable.
- "Clown Torture" (1987) – in four separate stacked video screens, a clown s... | 6,118,494 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
and seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER.
- "Learned Helplessness in Rats (Rock and Roll Drummer)" (1988) – Plexiglass maze, closed circuit video camera, video projector, two videotape players, two monitors, and two ... | 6,118,495 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
"Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)" (1999) – looping video of the artist setting a corner fencepost.
- "Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)" (2001) – multiple projections record nocturnal activity by the artist's cat and various mice in his studio over the summer of 2000.
- "Raw Materia... | 6,118,496 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
together from rubber sheeting, which measures 25 feet by 28 feet, from which water is pumped up to each fish through a hose connected to its belly. The environmentally scaled sculpture all but fills the room, allowing just a narrow track for the viewer to edge around the perimeter, in much the same way as ... | 6,118,497 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
as well as lambastes the Land Art movement
- "Days/Giorni" (2009) – two rows of wafer-thin white speakers that played 14 recordings of seven people chanting the days of the week, either in English (“Days”) or Italian (“Giorni”). Purchased in a 50–50 deal by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Maja Oe... | 6,118,498 |
50230 | Bruce Nauman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce%20Nauman | Bruce Nauman
Pinault and LACMA.
- "For Beginners (instructed piano)" (2010) - sound piece featuring a tentative piano solo by the artist-musician Terry Allen.
## Commissions.
In 1990, the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation commissioned a cast bronze version of Nauman's "Animal Pyramid" (1989), a stack of seven... | 6,118,499 |
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