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1643550 | Frederick B. Abramson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20B.%20Abramson | Frederick B. Abramson
Frederick B. Abramson
Frederick B. Abramson (1935 in New York, New York – June 1, 1991 in Washington D.C.) was a Washington D.C. lawyer who served as President of the District of Columbia Bar from June 1985 to June 1986.
# Early life and education.
Abramson was raised in Harlem - his father was... | 6,141,600 |
1643550 | Frederick B. Abramson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20B.%20Abramson | Frederick B. Abramson
in his class at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1956, also after receiving a scholarship. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1959.
# Career.
Abramson settled in Washington, D.C., where he practiced law and participated in the governanc... | 6,141,601 |
1643550 | Frederick B. Abramson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20B.%20Abramson | Frederick B. Abramson
became a partner in Sachs, Greenebaum & Taylor, where he would remain until 1990. In January 1991, he became the first African-American head of the Office of Bar Counsel for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, supervising investigations of attorneys alleged to have violated the Rules of Pro... | 6,141,602 |
1643550 | Frederick B. Abramson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20B.%20Abramson | Frederick B. Abramson
D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission (four as Chair), and was a member of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities, the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, the boards of directors of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Public Defender Service... | 6,141,603 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
Floyd Collins (musical)
Floyd Collins is a musical with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and book by Tina Landau. The story is based on the death of Floyd Collins near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925. The musical opened Off-Broadway on February 9, 1996, where it ran for 25 performanc... | 6,141,604 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
Collins, Martin Moran as Skeets Miller, Jason Danieley as Homer Collins, and Theresa McCarthy as Nellie Collins, as well as Cass Morgan, Brian d'Arcy James, Matthew (Matt) Bennett and Michael Mulheren. The musical won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and the 1995-1996 Obie Award... | 6,141,605 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
in St. Louis, MO in November 1999.
The show made its London debut at the Bridewell Theatre in July 1999, with Nigel Richards as Floyd, Anna Francolini as Nellie and Craig Parnell as Homer. The production was directed by Clive Paget. A London revival was produced at The Vault, Southwark Playhous... | 6,141,606 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
produced at BoHo Theatre in June and July 2012. The production was directed by Peter Marston Sullivan, with Jim DeSelm as Floyd, Jon Harrison as Homer, and Sarah Bockel as Nellie. "Floyd Collins" had its North Carolina regional premiere in August 2011 at the Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in Cha... | 6,141,607 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
space.
# Plot summary.
As originally written, the character list included Floyd Collins, Homer Collins, Nellie Collins, and Johnnie Gerald; as rewritten the role of Johnnie Gerald was merged with that of Homer Collins. As currently performed, the roles include Bee Doyle, Dr Hazlett, three repo... | 6,141,608 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
when it becomes clear that his rescue will not be easy, his brother Homer spends the night in the cave with him. William Burke "Skeets" Miller, a small man, is able to squeeze through and visit with Floyd, relaying stories which were printed in the news.
Despite efforts by miners, the National ... | 6,141,609 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
Act I
- Ballad of Floyd Collins - Company
- The Call - Floyd
- It Moves - Floyd
- Time to Go - Floyd
- Lucky – Nellie and Miss Jane
- 'Tween a Rock An' a Hard Place (replaced by "Where a Man Belongs" in 1999) – Family and locals
- Daybreak – Homer and Floyd
- Ballad of Floyd Collins (Rep... | 6,141,610 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
How Glory Goes - Floyd
# Response.
Despite having a run of only 25 performances, the show left a strong impression on contemporary theatre. John Simon, writing for "New York Magazine", proclaimed that Floyd Collins was ""the" original and daring musical of our day." He also wrote that "Floyd C... | 6,141,611 |
1643524 | Floyd Collins (musical) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floyd%20Collins%20(musical) | Floyd Collins (musical)
hat "Floyd Collins reestablishes America's sovereignty in a genre it created, but has since lost hold of: it is the modern musical's true and exhilarating ace in the hole."
"The New York Times" wrote that "Mr. Guettel establishes himself as a young composer of strength and sophistication."
# R... | 6,141,612 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
Oh, Mr Porter!
Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hay's commercially most successful (although it grossed £500,000 at the box office – equal to over £30,000,000 in modern-day money), it is probabl... | 6,141,613 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
(Will Hay) is an inept railway worker who – due to family connections – is given the job of stationmaster at a remote and ramshackle rural Northern Irish railway station in the (fictitious) town of Buggleskelly, situated on the border with the then Irish Free State.
After taking the ferry from England t... | 6,141,614 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
stationmaster, Harbottle (Moore Marriott), and an overweight, insolent young porter, Albert (Graham Moffatt), who make a living by stealing goods in transit and swapping railway tickets for food. They welcome Porter to his new job by regaling him with tales of the deaths and disappearances of previous st... | 6,141,615 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
railway is supposed to be looking after for a local farmer.
Determined to shake things up (particularly after he is forced to deal with the irate farmer when he comes to collect his pigs), Stationmaster Porter tries to renovate the station in several ways, most sensibly by painting the entire station, b... | 6,141,616 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
man who introduces himself as Joe and offers to buy all of the tickets for an away game that the village football team, the Buggleskelly Wednesday, are playing the following day.
But Porter is unaware that he has really agreed to transport a group of criminals who are involved in running guns to the Iri... | 6,141,617 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
everybody claiming that Porter has lost his mind (there is no such team as Buggleskelly Wednesday, and Harbottle points out that the local team wouldn't leave without him as he is their centre forward). Unfortunately this huge misunderstanding causes Porter to lose his job, since no one has seen the trai... | 6,141,618 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
windmill until eventually they are trapped at the top.
Using the windmill sails, they contrive to get down where they hatch a plan to capture the gun runners. Coupling the carriages containing the criminals and their guns to their own engine, "Gladstone", they carry them away from the border at full spe... | 6,141,619 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
bottle through the window of the stationmaster's office, alerting the authorities to their plight. The entire railway goes into action, with lines being closed and other trains re-routed so that Gladstone can finally crash into a siding where the waiting police force arrest the gun runners.
After a shor... | 6,141,620 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
O'Toole as Postman
- Sebastian Smith as Mr Trimbletow
- Agnes Lauchlan as Mrs Trimbletow
- Dennis Wyndham as Grogan/One-Eyed Joe
- Frederick Piper as Ledbetter
- Frederick Lloyd as Minister
- Frank Atkinson as Irishman in bar
# Production.
Despite the majority of the film being set in Northern Ir... | 6,141,621 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
his colleagues are trapped is located at Terling, Essex, and "Gladstone", the ancient steam locomotive, was portrayed by No. 2 "Northiam" 2-4-0T built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1899 and loaned by the Kent and East Sussex Railway to the film. The engine was returned to the company after completion of the film... | 6,141,622 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
out reversed on the final print". The scene in which Porter travels to Buggleskelly by bus, while being warned of a terrible danger by locals, parodies that of the Tod Browning film, "Dracula" (1931).
The Southern Railway of Northern Ireland that Porter works for is fictitious. In reality, from the rout... | 6,141,623 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
well received over time.
The British Film Institute included the film in its 360 Classic Feature Films list; "Variety" magazine described the movie as "amusing, if over-long", noting that there was "[n]o love interest to mar the comedy"; and the cult website TV Cream listed it at number 41 in its list o... | 6,141,624 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
it was described in 2006, by "The Times" in its obituary for writer Val Guest, as "a comic masterpiece of the British cinema". Jimmy Perry, in his autobiography, wrote that the trio of Captain Mainwaring, Corporal Jones and Private Pike in "Dad's Army" was inspired by watching "Oh, Mr Porter!"
# Legacy.... | 6,141,625 |
1643411 | Oh, Mr Porter! | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Mr%20Porter! | Oh, Mr Porter!
esden, Hampshire, the filming location for Buggleskelly. The bench was unveiled by Pete Waterman.
# Reviews.
## Modern reviews.
- Spinning Image Review
- Bootleg Files Review
- Screenonline Review
## Contemporary reviews.
- Variety Magazine Review, 1937
- BFI Monthly Film Bulletin Review, October... | 6,141,626 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
Empire Corridor
The Empire Corridor is a term used to refer to the approximately railroad corridor between Niagara Falls, New York and New York City, including the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Amsterdam, Schenectady and Albany. Amtrak's "Empire Service" and "Maple Leaf" serve the enti... | 6,141,627 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
service between Poughkeepsie, New York and Grand Central Terminal. The line is electrified by both overhead catenary and top-contact third rail between Penn Station and 41st Street and by under-contact third rail between and .
The corridor is also one of ten federally designated high-speed rail corrido... | 6,141,628 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
City and Buffalo in 7 hours and 6 minutes (including stops), averaging , with a top speed of .
# Ownership.
The Empire Corridor is largely owned by CSX Transportation (CSX), which owns the trackage between Niagara Falls and Poughkeepsie. South of Poughkeepsie, Metro-North owns the trackage to Yonkers,... | 6,141,629 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
split Conrail's assets with Norfolk Southern.
On October 18, 2011, Amtrak and CSX announced an agreement for Amtrak to lease, operate and maintain the CSX-owned trackage between Poughkeepsie and Schenectady. Amtrak officially assumed control of the line on December 1, 2012.
# Current passenger service... | 6,141,630 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
west to Niagara Falls daily.
- "Ethan Allen Express": three trains in each direction daily from New York City to , splitting from the corridor in Schenectady.
- "Adirondack": New York City to , splitting from the corridor in Schenectady.
- "Lake Shore Limited": New York City to , splitting from the c... | 6,141,631 |
1643515 | Empire Corridor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire%20Corridor | Empire Corridor
"Lake Shore Limited": New York City to , splitting from the corridor at , though a section of the train splits off in Albany to serve Boston instead of New York.
- "Maple Leaf": daily service from New York City to , operating on the entire corridor.
## Commuter rail.
- Metro-North Railroad's Hudson L... | 6,141,632 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105, was the final published symphony of the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius. Completed in 1924, Symphony No. 7 is notable for being a one-movement symphony, in contrast to the standard symphonic formula of four movements. It has been d... | 6,141,633 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
name to give the piece, and only granted it status as a symphony after some deliberation. For its publication on 25 February 1925, the score was titled "Symphony No. 7 (in one movement)".
# Composition.
The concept of a continuous, single-movement symphony was one Sibelius only reached after... | 6,141,634 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
time when he was working on the Fifth.
In 1918 Sibelius had described his plans for this symphony as involving "joy of life and vitality with "appassionato" sections". The symphony would have three movements, the last being a "Hellenic rondo". Surviving sketches from the early 1920s show that... | 6,141,635 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
at this time. Through the summer of 1923 the composer produced several further drafts, at least one of which is in a performable state: however the ending of the symphony was not yet fully worked out.
As 1923 turned into 1924, Sibelius was distracted from his work on the symphony by a number ... | 6,141,636 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
a never-completed symphonic poem whose title roughly means "Moon Spiritess". This work helped to shape the earliest parts of No. 7, those created during the composition of Nos. 5 and 6. One of the themes from "Kuutar", called ""Tähtölä"" ("Where the Stars Dwell"), evolved into part of No. 7's ... | 6,141,637 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
Peter Franklin, writing of the Seventh in the Segerstam–Chandos cycle of Sibelius symphonies, calls the dramatic conclusion "the grandest celebration of C major there ever was."
Sibelius lived for 33 years after finishing the Seventh, but it was one of the last works he composed. He did compl... | 6,141,638 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
approximately constant tempo and would attain variety by use of contrasting themes in different keys. Sibelius turned this scheme on its head. The symphony is unified by the key of C (every significant passage in the work is in C major or C minor), and variety is achieved by an almost constant... | 6,141,639 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
2 oboes
- 2 clarinets in B♭
- 2 bassoons
- 4 horns in F
- 3 trumpets in B♭
- 3 trombones
- Timpani
- Strings
# Description.
## "Adagio" (bars 1–92).
The symphony begins with a soft roll on the timpani followed by a slow ascending syncopated C major scale (starting on the timpani's G)... | 6,141,640 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
on the clarinet:
/score
Soon a passage is arrived at which sounds rather like a chorale, with the violas and cellos softly singing a hymnlike tune that will gradually build up to the first climax of the symphony.
/score
As the climax approaches, the orchestra adds volume and intensity. At ... | 6,141,641 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
is marked "Un pochett[ino] meno adagio" (a little bit less slowly). A new theme in the Dorian mode, based on the ascending scale in the opening bars, soon appears on the oboe (bars 94 and 95):
/score
The tempo gradually increases ("affrettando") in a long sequential passage exploring several... | 6,141,642 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
"Largamente molto" – "Affettuoso" (bars 496–521).
This section ends with a chord progression from A♭ back to the symphony's main key of C major taken directly from Sibelius's earlier work "Valse Triste" from "Kuolema".
## "Tempo I" (bars 522–525).
The last four measures return to the initia... | 6,141,643 |
1643514 | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symphony%20No.%207%20(Sibelius) | Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)
he B (enharmonically equivalent to C♭) to C progression in the strings as being the final resolution of the tonal dissonance created by the striking A♭ minor chord from near the beginning of the work (also for example the "dissonant" A♭ resolves to "consonant" G in the immediately preceding se... | 6,141,644 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
Beth Rivkah
Beth Rivkah (, "Bais Rivkah", lit. "House of Rebecca"), formally known as Associated Beth Rivkah Schools, is a private girls' school system affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement. It was established in 1941 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and dev... | 6,141,645 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
girls attend the Beth Rivkah school system from first through twelfth grades. Students at the one- to two-year, post-high-school teacher training seminary have the option of earning a teaching certificate, which can be used in both Chabad and non-Chabad Jewish schools.
# Name.
The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe ... | 6,141,646 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
offices are located at 310 Crown Street.
# History.
The Beth Rivkah elementary school for girls was established by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941, two years after he founded the first boys' yeshiva in that city. The initial enrollment of about 30 students met in a rented s... | 6,141,647 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
students.
In 1988 the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe presided at a groundbreaking ceremony for Campus Chomesh, which he established as a memorial to his Rebbetzin, Chaya Mushka Schneerson, who had died that year. The four-story, campus occupies the site of the former Lefferts General Hospital and two adjacent s... | 6,141,648 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
Shabbat (Saturday), with a half-day scheduled on Fridays to accommodate Shabbat preparations. The school day runs from 9 am to 4 pm, with a half-hour break for lunch. Judaic studies – including Bible, Midrash, Jewish law, Jewish history, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the writings of the Chabad Rebbes – are taught in... | 6,141,649 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
school certified by the State of New York, Beth Rivkah is required to teach science (biology and chemistry), history (U.S. and world history), English literature, and mathematics (algebra, geometry, and trigonometry), among other subjects. For fifth-grade science and sixth-grade world history, however, Chab... | 6,141,650 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
evolution to inform students of the Torah point of view on these topics. Novels read in English literature classes are also vetted for compliance with Chabad philosophy and religious belief.
Beth Rivkah teachers employ pedagogical techniques such as "group work, cooperative learning, and multiple-intellige... | 6,141,651 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
Student body.
Beth Rivkah accepts all students regardless of religious affiliation or educational background. It also accepts students who cannot afford full tuition. The school has weathered financial shortfalls due to its tuition policy. In September 2014 the Pre-1A, elementary and high school divisions ... | 6,141,652 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
or face expulsion.
Since many girls are named Chaya Mushka after the Rebbetzin of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, teachers call on students by their surnames.
# Branches.
The seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, founded other branches of Beth Rivkah in Yerres, France; Montreal, Que... | 6,141,653 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
seminary for girls. There is also a cheder for boys. As of 2015, total enrollment is 600 students.
## Montreal.
Beth Rivkah Academy of Montreal opened in 1956. In 1967 it opened a facility for 500 students, with dormitory accommodations for 180. As of 2015, enrollment in the early childhood division, elem... | 6,141,654 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
in Melbourne, Australia was established in 1956. Part of the Yeshivah Centre educational network, which includes the Yeshivah College for boys founded in 1954, the Beth Rikvah Ladies College consists of a preschool, elementary school, and high school for girls. A sister school, Ohel Chana, is a teacher trai... | 6,141,655 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
and Sefrou, Morocco, in the mid-1950s. According to a 1956 survey, these schools had a combined enrollment of 374 students that year. With the migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel and France in the 1950s, the Lubavitch yeshiva for boys, Oholei Yosef Yitzchok, and the Beth Rivkah school for girls were center... | 6,141,656 |
1643545 | Beth Rivkah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth%20Rivkah | Beth Rivkah
ing institute, it evolved into a two-year seminary and then a teachers college which bestows both B.A. and M.A. degrees. As of 2010, enrollment was 1,000 students in Kfar Chabad and in branches in Jerusalem and Safed.
# See also.
- Role of women in Judaism
# External links.
- Associated Beth Rivkah Scho... | 6,141,657 |
4746054 | Y-class lifeboat | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y-class%20lifeboat | Y-class lifeboat
Y-class lifeboat
The "Y"-class lifeboat is a class of small inflatable boat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The "Y"-class is mainly used as a small tender carried on board the larger RNLI All-Weather lifeboats that serve the shores of the UK, and... | 6,141,658 |
4746054 | Y-class lifeboat | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y-class%20lifeboat | Y-class lifeboat
.
When in use, it carries up to a crew of two and is primarily used in cliff incidents where the casualty is near the shore and the all-weather lifeboat cannot safely get to the base of the cliffs due to rocks.
# Launching from the "Tamar"-class.
Within the stern section of the "Tamar"-class lifeboa... | 6,141,659 |
4746058 | Franchise (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franchise%20(short%20story) | Franchise (short story)
Franchise (short story)
"Franchise" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the August 1955 issue of the magazine "If: Worlds of Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the collections "Earth Is Room Enough" (1957) and "Robot Dreams" (1986). It is o... | 6,141,660 |
4746058 | Franchise (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franchise%20(short%20story) | Franchise (short story)
and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.
The story centers around Norman Muller of Bloomington, Indiana, the man chosen as "Voter of the Year" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Although the law requires him ... | 6,141,661 |
4746058 | Franchise (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franchise%20(short%20story) | Franchise (short story)
actually get to vote; even he himself did not vote for any candidate, law, or issue.
The idea of a computer predicting whom the electorate would vote for instead of actually holding an election was probably inspired by the UNIVAC I's correct prediction of the result of the U.S. presidential ele... | 6,141,662 |
4746058 | Franchise (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franchise%20(short%20story) | Franchise (short story)
vote for instead of actually holding an election was probably inspired by the UNIVAC I's correct prediction of the result of the U.S. presidential election in 1952.
# Influence.
The use of a single representative individual to stand in for the entire population can help in evaluating the sensi... | 6,141,663 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
Blow Dry
Blow Dry is a 2001 British comedy film directed by Paddy Breathnach, written by Simon Beaufoy and starring Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, and Josh Hartnett. The plot focuses on the takeover of a small English town by the British Hairdressing Championship who is holding their annu... | 6,141,664 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
championship, Shelley wants to participate one last time. She asks her ex-husband Phil (Alan Rickman) and her son Brian (Josh Hartnett), who operate a barber shop, to join her and Sandra as a team to enter the competition. Phil rejects the proposition: ten years previously Shelley had been his partner in the c... | 6,141,665 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
offers to join Shelley's team.
Christina aspires to be a hair colorist, but lacks experience. Brian brings her to a funeral parlor where he works, where she can practice on one of the corpses after hours while Brian cuts its hair. Christina is startled when the corpse "groans" (expels trapped gas in the lungs... | 6,141,666 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
she has terminal cancer. Phil reconsiders and agrees to coach but not to cut. After Raymond's team successfully cheats in the first round, Phil sabotages a second attempt in the second round, allowing the other top teams to narrow the gap to Raymond. Christina gains coloring experience using the sheep of the f... | 6,141,667 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
reveals that her motivation was not to win – she wanted the team effort to bond the four of them into a family before she dies. Phil agrees to participate in the final round; he also talks Sandra into rejoining the team. Christina cuts off most of her hair so that she cannot participate in her father's scheme ... | 6,141,668 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
Alan Rickman as Phil Allen
- Natasha Richardson as Shelley Allen
- Rachel Griffiths as Sandra
- Rachael Leigh Cook as Christina Robertson
- Josh Hartnett as Brian Allen
- Bill Nighy as Ray (Raymond) Robertson
- Warren Clarke as Tony
- Hugh Bonneville as Louis
- Rosemary Harris as Daisy
- Heidi Klum as... | 6,141,669 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
in the Czech Republic, 26 July 2001 in Germany and 18 April 2002 in Hungary.
The release of "Blow Dry" was delayed when "The Big Tease", a similarly themed film about the world champion hair competition, came out in 2000.
# Reception.
"Blow Dry" opened in North America on 9 March 2001, grossing over US$240,... | 6,141,670 |
4746060 | Blow Dry | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blow%20Dry | Blow Dry
end, and ended its 24-day theatrical run in North America with total grosses of $637,769, as of 8 April 2001. It went on to gross a further $10,205 in the Czech Republic (as of 8 July 2001), $164,372 in Germany (as of 12 August 2001) and $17,940 in Hungary (as of 24 April 2002).
The critical response to the f... | 6,141,671 |
4746069 | Spooks (group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spooks%20(group) | Spooks (group)
Spooks (group)
Spooks was an American hip-hop/R&B group, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The members of the group got together in 1994, taking their name from the 1969 novel by Sam Greenlee, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door". After attaining success throughout Europe with their album "S.I.O.S.O.... | 6,141,672 |
4746069 | Spooks (group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spooks%20(group) | Spooks (group)
ne film "Once in the Life" (2000). Water-Water left the group before their second album "Faster Than You Know", and died in a car accident in September 2003, days before the album's release. The group disbanded soon afterwards, with little heard from the members since. In 2009 Ming Xia appeared on Chali ... | 6,141,673 |
4746084 | Glack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glack | Glack
Glack
Glack () is a hamlet and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 4 km south of Ballykelly, in a raised spot overlooking Lough Foyle. . In the 2001 Census it had a population of 183 people. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.
Glack is made up of three clusters of buildi... | 6,141,674 |
4746076 | Vachellia erioloba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vachellia%20erioloba | Vachellia erioloba
Vachellia erioloba
Vachellia erioloba (camel thorn, giraffe thorn), still more commonly known as "Acacia erioloba", is a tree of southern Africa in the family Fabaceae. Its preferred habitat is the deep dry sandy soils in parts of South Africa, Botswana, the western areas of Zimbabwe and Namibia. It... | 6,141,675 |
4746076 | Vachellia erioloba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vachellia%20erioloba | Vachellia erioloba
It is good for fires, which leads to widespread clearing of dead trees and the felling of healthy trees. It produces ear-shaped pods, favoured by a large number of herbivores including cattle. The seeds can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee beans.
The name 'camel thorn' refers to the fa... | 6,141,676 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
Economic history of France
# Medieval France.
The collapse of the Roman Empire unlinked the French economy from Europe. Town and city life and trade declined and society became based on the self-sufficient manor. What limited international trade existed in the Merovingian age — primarily in... | 6,141,677 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
a result of civil war, Arab raids, and Viking invasions. The Pirenne hypotheses posits that at this disruption brought an end to long-distance trade, without which civilization retreated to purely agricultural settlements, and isolated military, church, and royal centers. When trade revived t... | 6,141,678 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
wars that overwhelmed four generations of Frenchmen. The population had expanded, making the food supply more precarious. The bubonic plague ("Black Death") hit Western Europe in 1347, killing a third of the population, and it was echoed by several smaller plagues at 15-year intervals. The Fr... | 6,141,679 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
in 130 years. Finally, starting in the 1450s, a long cycle of recuperation began.
# Early Modern France.
(Figures cited in the following section are given in livre tournois, the standard "money of account" used in the period. Comparisons with modern figures are extremely difficult; food ite... | 6,141,680 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
At the end of the 18th century, a well-off family could earn 100,000 livres by year, although the most prestigious families could gain twice or three times that much, while, for provincial nobility, yearly earnings of 10,000 livres permitted a minimum of provincial luxury).
## Renaissance.
... | 6,141,681 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
exceeded even Russia and was twice the size of Britain and Holland. In France, the Renaissance was marked by a massive increase in urban populations, although on the whole, France remained a profoundly rural country, with less than 10% of the population located in urban areas. Paris was one o... | 6,141,682 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
beans, corn (maize), squash, tomatoes, potatoes, and bell peppers. Production techniques remained attached to medieval traditions and produced low yields. With the rapidly expanding population, additional land suitable for farming became scarce. The situation was made worse by repeated disast... | 6,141,683 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
greatly from royal tax exemptions for a period of about twenty years. Silk production (introduced in Tours in 1470 and in Lyon in 1536) enabled the French to join a thriving market, but French products remained of lesser quality than Italian silks. Wool production was widespread, as was the p... | 6,141,684 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
of Le Havre in 1517. Other significant ports included Toulon, Saint Malo and La Rochelle.
Lyon was the center of France's banking and international trade markets. Market fairs occurred four times a year and facilitated the exportation of French goods, such as cloth and fabrics, and importati... | 6,141,685 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
exports to England and to Spain were in France's favor. Trade was roughly balanced with the Netherlands, but France continually ran a large trade deficit with Italy due to the latter's silks and exotic goods. In subsequent decades, English, Dutch and Flemish maritime activity would create com... | 6,141,686 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
of the New World. Significant explorers sailing under the French flag included Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier. Later, Henry II sponsored the explorations of Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon who established a largely Calvinist colony in Rio de Janeiro, 1555-1560. Later, René Goulaine... | 6,141,687 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
many land-owning peasants and enterprising merchants had been able to grow rich during the boom, the standard of living fell greatly for rural peasants, who were forced to deal with bad harvests at the same time. This led to reduced purchasing power and a decline in manufacturing. The monetar... | 6,141,688 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
in 1515 to 6 million after 1551, and by 1589 the taille had reached a record 21 million livres. Financial crises hit the royal household repeatedly, and so in 1523, Francis I established a government bond system in Paris, the "rentes sure l'Hôtel de Ville".
The French Wars of Religion were c... | 6,141,689 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
areas fell roughly 40%. The great banking houses left Lyon: from 75 Italian houses in 1568, there remained only 21 in 1597.
## Rural society.
In the 17th century rich peasants who had ties to the market economy provided much of the capital investment necessary for agricultural growth, and f... | 6,141,690 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
the constant tension between them, and extensive geographic and social mobility tied to a market economy holds the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of the social structure, economy, and even political system of early modern France. Collins (1991) argues that the Annales School ... | 6,141,691 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
better coinage, a return to the livre tournois as account money, reduction of the debt, which was 200 million livres in 1596, and a reduction of the tax burden on peasants. Henry IV attacked abuses, embarked on a comprehensive administrative reform, increased charges for official offices, the... | 6,141,692 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
to counteract foreign imports and exploration, Richelieu sought alliances with Morocco and Persia, and encouraged exploration of New France, the Antilles, Sénégal, Gambia and Madagascar, though only the first two were immediate successes. These reforms would establish the groundwork for the L... | 6,141,693 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
sum, and the "dixième" (1710–1717, restarted in 1733), which was a true tax on income and on property value and was meant to support the military.
Louis XIV's minister of finances, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, started a mercantile system which used protectionism and state-sponsored manufacturing t... | 6,141,694 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
the character of French goods in foreign markets, Colbert had the quality and measure of each article fixed by law, and severely punished breaches of the regulations. This massive investment in (and preoccupation with) luxury goods and court life (fashion, decoration, cuisine, urban improveme... | 6,141,695 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
(founded in 1664), Colbert granted special privileges to trade with the Levant, Senegal, Guinea and other places, for the importing of coffee, cotton, dyewoods, fur, pepper, and sugar, but none of these ventures proved successful. Colbert achieved a lasting legacy in his establishment of the ... | 6,141,696 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
of government glory, including the construction they had many economic failures: they were overly restrictive on workers, they discouraged inventiveness, and had to be supported by unreasonably high tariffs.
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 created additional economic problems: ... | 6,141,697 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
modernization of the Prussian army have been credited to the Huguenots.
The wars and the weather at the end of the century brought the economy to the brink. Conditions in rural areas were grim from the 1680s to 1720s. To increase tax revenues, the taille was augmented, as too were the prices... | 6,141,698 |
1643390 | Economic history of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economic%20history%20of%20France | Economic history of France
to sell or transport their much-needed grain to the army, many peasants rebelled or attacked grain convoys, but they were repressed by the state. Meanwhile, wealthy families with stocks of grains survived relatively unscathed; in 1689 and again in 1709, in a gesture of solidarity with his suf... | 6,141,699 |
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