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Sweet and sour chicken : deep @-@ fried balls of chicken breast in batter .
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Toriten : Japanese tempura style fried chicken .
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Chicken with chilies : ( 辣子鸡 ) , a Sichuan @-@ style dish with small deep @-@ fried pieces of chicken that are then stir @-@ fried with chilies .
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Chicken lollipop : An Indian snack of fried chicken drumettes , coated in a spiced batter and fried .
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= = Racial stereotype = =
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In the United States , fried chicken has stereotypically been associated with African @-@ Americans . The reasons for this are various . Chicken dishes were popular among slaves before the Civil War , as chickens were generally the only animals slaves were allowed to raise on their own . With the prevalence of such a ... |
On two occasions the golfer Tiger Woods has been the target of remarks regarding fried chicken . The first occurred in 1997 when golfer Fuzzy Zoeller said that Woods should avoid choosing fried chicken for the Masters champions ' dinner the following year ; the second when golfer Sergio García was asked in a press con... |
In 2009 , a Bangladeshi immigrant to the U.S. renamed his restaurant " Obama Fried Chicken " in honor of recently inaugurated President Barack Obama . Despite controversy at the time , the owner refused to change the name back , and the restaurant continues to operate under this name .
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At a dinner during Black History Month , an NBC chef , Leslie Calhoun , served fried chicken . The drummer of the Roots , Questlove , was angered by this and thought it both offensive and ignorant .
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In 2012 , Burger King withdrew a commercial which featured Mary J. Blige singing about a crispy chicken wrap , due to the racial stereotypes surrounding fried chicken .
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= Clare Winger Harris =
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Clare Winger Harris ( January 18 , 1891 – October 1968 ) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s . She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines . Her stories often dealt with characters on the " borders of humanity... |
Harris began publishing in 1926 , and soon became well liked by readers . She sold a total of eleven stories , which were collected in 1947 as Away From the Here and Now . Her gender was a surprise to Gernsback , the editor who first bought her work , as she was the first woman to publish science fiction stories under... |
= = Life = =
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Clare Winger was born on January 18 , 1891 , in Freeport , Illinois and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts . In 1912 she married Frank Clyde Harris . Her husband was an architect and engineer who served in World War I and was chief engineer with the Loudon Machinery Company in Iowa and one of the organizers... |
Harris gave birth to three sons ( Clyde Winger , born 1915 ; Donald Stover , born 1916 ; and Lynn Thackrey , born 1918 ) . She died in Pasadena , California in 1968 .
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Harris wrote her most acclaimed works during the 1920s . In 1930 , she stopped writing to raise and educate her children .
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= = Writing career = =
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Harris published her first short story , " The Runaway World , " in the July 1926 issue of Weird Tales . In December of that year , she submitted a story for a contest being run by Amazing Stories editor Hugo Gernsback . Harris 's story , " The Fate of the Poseidonia " ( a space opera about Martians who steal earth 's... |
Harris eventually published eleven short stories in pulp magazines , most of them in Amazing Stories ( although she also published in other places such as Science Wonder Quarterly ) .
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In 1947 Harris 's short stories were collected under the title Away from the Here and Now . Her stories have also been reprinted in anthologies such as Daughters of Earth : Feminist Science Fiction in the 20th Century ( with a critical essay ) , Sci @-@ Fi Womanthology , Amazing Science Fiction Anthology : The Wonder ... |
Harris also wrote one of the first attempts to classify science fiction when , in the August 1931 issue of Wonder Stories , she listed 16 basic science fiction themes , including , " Interplanetary space travel , " " Adventures on other worlds , " and " The creation of synthetic life . "
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= = Critical view and influence = =
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When Gernback published Harris 's first short story in Amazing Stories , he praised her writing while also expressing amazement that a woman could write good scientifiction ( as science fiction was then called ) , saying " That the third prize winner should prove to be a woman was one of the surprises of the contest ,... |
For many years Harris claimed to have been the first woman science @-@ fiction writer in the United States . While this can be debated ( since Gertrude Barrows Bennett , writing under the pseudonym Francis Stevens , published science fiction stories as early as 1917 ) , Harris is recognized as the first woman to publi... |
Even though Harris published only a handful of stories , almost all of them have been reprinted over the years . Of these , " The Miracle of the Lily " has been reprinted the most and praised by many critics , with Richard Lupoff saying the story would have " won the Hugo Award for best short story , if the award had ... |
" The Fate of the Poseidonia " has also been reprinted a number of times and is credited as an early example of a science fiction story with a heroic female lead character . Other of Harris 's stories are also noted for featuring strong female characters , such as Sylvia , the airplane pilot and mechanic in " The Ape ... |
Because Harris was the first woman published in science fiction magazines , and because of her embrace of female characters and themes , she has been recognized in recent years as a pioneer of women 's and feminist science fiction .
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= = = Novels = = =
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Persephone of Eleusis : A Romance of Ancient Greece ( 1923 )
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= = = Collections = = =
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Away from the Here and Now : Stories in Pseudo @-@ Science ( Philadelphia : Dorrance , 1947 )
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= = = Short stories = = =
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( All stories included in Away from the Here and Now ) .
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" A Runaway World " ( Weird Tales , July 1926 )
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" The Fate of the Poseidonia " ( Amazing Stories , June 1927 )
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" A Certain Soldier " ( Weird Tales , November 1927 )
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" The Fifth Dimension " ( Amazing Stories , December 1928 )
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" The Menace From Mars " ( Amazing Stories , October 1928 )
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" The Miracle of the Lily " ( Amazing Stories , April 1928 )
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" The Artificial Man " ( Science Wonder Quarterly , Fall 1929 )
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" A Baby on Neptune " with Miles J. Breuer , M.D. ( Amazing Stories , December 1929 )
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" The Diabolical Drug " ( Amazing Stories , May 1929 )
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" The Evolutionary Monstrosity " ( Amazing Stories Quarterly , Winter 1929 )
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" The Ape Cycle " ( Science Wonder Quarterly , Spring 1930 )
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= = = Essays = = =
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Letter ( Air Wonder Stories , September 1929 )
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Letter ( Wonder Stories , August 1931 )
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= Richard Rennison =
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Richard Rennison ( 29 October 1889 – 5 August 1969 ) was the last " anvil priest " at Gretna Green , Scotland . Between 1926 and 1940 , he performed " irregular marriages " of couples over the anvil at the Old Blacksmith Shop , where the couple proclaimed that they were single and wanted to get married in front of wit... |
The popularity of the marriages grew whilst he was performing them , to the point that a special committee was formed to look at marriage in Scotland , to which Rennison was called as a witness . By the time " irregular marriages " were outlawed in Scotland by the Marriage ( Scotland ) Act 1939 , Rennison had conducte... |
= = Personal life = =
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Richard Rennison was born on 29 October 1889 in Shankhouse , Northumberland to coalminer James Rennison and his wife Ann . He spent time working as a " General Dealer " and as a photographer . He also spent time as a Methodist preacher in Tyneside . In 1923 , he married Jessie Little in Nicholforest , Cumberland . The... |
= = The last " anvil priest " = =
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Before 1940 , marriage in Scotland was based on Celtic customs , rather than Catholic religious customs . As such , marriage only required a couple to agree to be married in front of witnesses . The simplicity of these " irregular marriages " meant that they were used by couples who wished to elope , and Gretna Green ... |
Hugh Mackie purchased the Old Blacksmith 's Shop at Gretna Green in 1890 and resided there as " anvil priest " until 1926 when he was looking to retire and find a replacement . Mackie found Richard Rennison , who had recently joined the community , and by October 1927 , Rennison was presiding over marriages and acting... |
Marriages at the blacksmith shop were inconsistent during Rennison 's time as " anvil priest " . Although they followed the same pattern , and both parties were to declare in front of witnesses they were single and that one had lived in Scotland for 21 days , there are documented cases where these requirements were no... |
Rennison travelled to London in 1931 for a " sight @-@ seeing visit " , and he brought the anvil with him to protect it from theft . The anvil never left his side , despite weighing 240 pounds ( 110 kg ) . The Leader @-@ Post suggested that , since the cost of a new anvil was much less than the cost of transporting th... |
In 1935 , due to the increasing popularity of the Gretna Green " irregular marriages " , a special committee headed by Lord Morison was appointed to look at marriage in Scotland . Rennison gave evidence before the committee in 1936 . There he claimed that he was known as " the Gretna priest " , but did not dress like ... |
= Finite subdivision rule =
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In mathematics , a finite subdivision rule is a recursive way of dividing a polygon or other two @-@ dimensional shape into smaller and smaller pieces . Subdivision rules in a sense are generalizations of fractals . Instead of repeating exactly the same design over and over , they have slight variations in each stage ... |
= = Definition = =
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A subdivision rule takes a tiling of the plane by polygons and turns it into a new tiling by subdividing each polygon into smaller polygons . It is finite if there are only finitely many ways that every polygon can subdivide . Each way of subdividing a tile is called a tile type . Each tile type is represented by a la... |
For instance , binary subdivision has one tile type and one edge type :
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Since the only tile type is a quadrilateral , binary subdivision can only subdivide tilings made up of quadrilaterals . This means that the only subdivision complexes are tilings by quadrilaterals . The tiling can be regular , but doesn 't have to be :
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Here we start with a complex made of four quadrilaterals and subdivide it twice . All quadrilaterals are type A tiles .
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= = Examples of finite subdivision rules = =
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