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2000 | "Concierto heroico"
Concierto heroico The Concierto heroico for piano and orchestra was composed by Joaquín Rodrigo for pianist Leopoldo Querol between 1935 and 1943. Rodrigo began work on the concerto in 1935 and completed the first two movements before setting the work aside; having forgotten about it, he returned and completed it in 1945. The piece is called ""heroic"" because of the martial rhythms and fanfares of the first movement. Such touches were common to the era and were sometimes erroneously taken to suggest Rodrigo's support of Francisco Franco. A modified version of the concerto, produced for Joaquín Achúcarro, was first performed |
2001 | "Concierto heroico"
in 1999; this removed two virtuosic cadenzas and balanced the relationship between the piano and orchestral parts. The piece is in four movements: A typical performance of the concerto lasts about 30 minutes. Concierto heroico The Concierto heroico for piano and orchestra was composed by Joaquín Rodrigo for pianist Leopoldo Querol between 1935 and 1943. Rodrigo began work on the concerto in 1935 and completed the first two movements before setting the work aside; having forgotten about it, he returned and completed it in 1945. The piece is called ""heroic"" because of the martial rhythms and fanfares of the first |
2002 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
did not expect the severity of damage the occurred. A Trust Territory vessel, the ""MV Errol"", was anchored in the lagoon but left without warning nearby natives on November 29. Striking as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon, Ophelia produced devastating winds across the atoll. Winds estimated at 260 km/h (161 mph) battered Ulithi, reportedly destroying every structure except for the concrete coast guard station. The station itself was badly affected, however, with its walls damaged and windows blown out. Nearby Falalop Airfield had 91 m (300 ft) of its runway swept away. An anemometer on the coast guard station measured a |
2003 | "James B. Bullard"
above target. In January 2016, the FOMC clarified that its inflation target is symmetric by adding language in its ""Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy,"" which said that ""the Committee would be concerned if inflation were running persistently above or below this objective."" While Bullard agreed that the inflation target is symmetric, he dissented on the statement because he viewed the language as ""insufficiently forward-looking and therefore potentially confusing for Fed communications."" Since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become more prominent. The creation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform |
2004 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
no point was the entire island under water. Initially, Falalop was left under 1.2 m (4 ft) of water, though by the time the eye moved over this had decreased to 0.6 m (2 ft). Along the south shore, waves reached 1.8 m (6 ft) and caused moderate beach erosion. Sand from the coastline was found up to 215 m (700 ft) inland, filling many taro pits in the island's interior. Along the south shore, two children were killed when their home collapsed, pinning them underneath debris, and water later inundated the area and drowned them. Elsewhere on the island, |
2005 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
three people sustained minor injuries. Asor Island experienced most of its flooding as the backside of Ophelia moved through. The island was shortened by 45 m (150 ft) to the north and southern beaches experienced varying degrees of erosion. Mogmog Island, located at the northern end of the atoll's lagoon, saw the deposition of large boulders and cobblestone along its north shore which covered an area 30 to 45 m (100 to 150 ft) wide. Flying debris resulted in one injury on both Asor and Mogmog. To the west, Potangeras Island saw an increase in land area by 60 m |
2006 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
(200 ft) as sand was pushed from other areas. Across Ulithi, 29 homes were destroyed, 64 were damaged, and the remaining 33 were intact. Of the 79 non-residential structures, only 4 were left standing. All four schools and medical buildings were destroyed, with nearly all medical supplies being washed away. Agriculture saw extensive losses with nearly the entire taro crop devastated and more than 75% of the food crop was ruined. Roughly 23% of the coconut trees were destroyed and 45% were damaged. It took approximately two years for the coconut crop to return to normal. Banana and breadfruit trees |
2007 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
were temporarily useless, though they were in recoverable statuses. In the months and years after the typhoon, natives in Ulithi were examined for increased levels of stress. Unexpectedly, only a handful of people reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, with the majority seemingly unfazed by Ophelia. There was some talk among residents of leaving Ulithi and moving to nearby islands such as Yap, Palau, Saipan, or even the Philippines; however, mentions of this diminished relatively quickly. The devastation to the island's infrastructure hastened a previously gradual change in buildings. Reconstruction efforts had entirely abandoned traditional Ulithi building styles in favor |
2008 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
of more modern ones. The survival of concrete buildings prompted an overall desire among people to construct all buildings with concrete. Alongside the infrastructural overhaul, a shift in dietary changes to a more western style occurred. Further social changes brought about by the presence of American military personnel were exemplified in the storm's wake. The use of currency as a means for obtaining goods was first seen in Ulithi in 1956, four years before the typhoon. However, despite the total destruction of markets by Ophelia they were quickly rebuilt, depicting the quick entrenchment of currency in native culture. The reconstruction |
2009 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
also accelerated a desire for new goods from trading. Store owners requested a wider range of material to have in stock than seen previously. From a societal standpoint, Ophelia prompted great advances in the Ulithian culture. Women, previously limited to agriculture, housework, and eventually shopping, were found to be doing heavy work (i.e. carpentry, chopping, digging, and lifting) in the immediate wake of the typhoon. A shift in government took place as well, with authority of King Malefich waning to greater power among younger individuals. Malefich also displayed great ineptitude during the storm and was subsequently disposed of as King |
2010 | "Typhoon Ophelia"
following Ophelia's passage. The changes in authority occurred due to spontaneous leadership during the storm by the younger persons in order to protect others. Prior to the typhoon, younger members of tribes never spoke during council meetings; however, by 1961 they made their presence known in such meetings. Typhoon Ophelia Typhoon Ophelia was a long-lived and powerful tropical cyclone that had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. Forming as a tropical depression on November 21, 1960 near Enewetak Atoll, the incipient cyclone struggled to develop. Moving haphazardly along an s-shaped track over the western |
2011 | "Samuel Ayscough"
Samuel Ayscough Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804) was a librarian and indexer, who was described as the ""Prince of Index Makers"". Samuel Ayscough was the grandson of William Ayscough, a stationer and printer of Nottingham, where he introduced the art of typography about 1710, and died on 2 March 1719, and the son of George Ayscough, who succeeded to his father's business, which he carried on for over forty years. George Ayscough was much esteemed in the neighbourhood, and was connected with some of the most respectable families in the county. His first wife died childless. He then married Edith, daughter of |
2012 | "Samuel Ayscough"
Benjamin Wigley of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, by whom he had a son, Samuel, and a daughter, Anne. He inherited a good business, but, instead of devoting his energies to its development, launched into various wild speculations, including one to extract gold from the dross of coals. Having in this way gradually got rid of nearly all his money, in about 1762 he took a large farm at Wigston, Leicestershire, where he was still more unfortunate, losing not only the remainder of his own property, but the fortunes of his two children. Samuel Ayscough was born in 1745, and educated at the |
2013 | "Samuel Ayscough"
free grammar school in Nottingham. The son assisted his father in the successive failures of business, speculations and farm. At last, when complete ruin confronted the family, Samuel hired himself to take care of a mill in the neighbourhood, and laboured as a working miller to keep his father and sister. The new start in life proved unsuccessful, but an old friend and schoolfellow, John Eamer (later Lord Mayor of London), hearing of his distress, in about 1770 sent for him to come to London, clothed him, and obtained for him a situation as overseer of street paviors (road constructors). |
2014 | "Samuel Ayscough"
It was doubtless this employment which gave him the capacity for such rude labour as index-making. Soon afterwards Ayscough entered the shop of John Rivington, bookseller, of St Paul's Churchyard, and subsequently obtained an engagement at a very modest salary as assistant in the cataloguing department under the principal librarian of the British Museum. This was the turning-point of his career. His value was soon recognised by a small increase in his weekly stipend, and he was able to occupy some of his leisure in arranging private libraries. These additions to his income, and some further assistance from Eamer, enabled |
2015 | "Ardis Publishing"
all of Ardis's English-language titles were sold to The Overlook Press in 2002, which has begun reprinting selected titles of the Ardis back catalog. Ardis Publishing is an imprint owned by an American independent publisher Overlook Press. It should be mentioned that Overlook Press purchased only the rights to certain English-language titles, as well as the English-language name of Ardis Publishers. Ardis at Overlook specializes in English translations of Russian literature, and has so far reprinted 26 of the original Ardis titles. The archive of the original Ardis Publishers is now housed at the Special Collections Library of the University |
2016 | "Ardis Publishing"
of Michigan. Ardis Publishing Ardis Publishing (the name of the original company is Ardis Publishers, which is the correct name for the company up until 2002), began in 1971, as the only publishing house outside of Russia dedicated to Russian literature in both English and Russian, Ardis was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan by husband and wife scholars Carl R. Proffer and Ellendea C. Proffer. The Proffers had two goals for Ardis: one was to publish in Russian the ""lost library"" of twentieth-century Russian literature which had been censored and removed from Soviet libraries (Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, among others); the |
2017 | "Iowa Archeological Society"
Iowa Archeological Society The Iowa Archeological Society (IAS) is an organization of academic, professional, and amateur archaeologists. The IAS promotes education about Iowa’s cultural past, conducts excavations, and encourages ethical collection and recording of archaeological sites. It publishes the academic ""Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"" and the IAS Newsletter. Founded in 1951, the IAS was the brainchild of Charles R. Keyes, the founder in the 1920s of systematic archaeological research in Iowa. Keyes established and directed the Iowa State Archaeological Survey from 1921 to 1951. He, along with Ellison Orr in his later years, conducted the first extensive surveys, |
2018 | "Iowa Archeological Society"
identifying numerous archeological sites in Iowa. Keyes also conducted numerous excavations. After a long partnership, both Keyes and Orr died in 1951, the first year of the IAS. Iowa Archeological Society The Iowa Archeological Society (IAS) is an organization of academic, professional, and amateur archaeologists. The IAS promotes education about Iowa’s cultural past, conducts excavations, and encourages ethical collection and recording of archaeological sites. It publishes the academic ""Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"" and the IAS Newsletter. Founded in 1951, the IAS was the brainchild of Charles R. Keyes, the founder in the 1920s of systematic archaeological research in |
2019 | "Ambassador Motorcycles"
Ambassador Motorcycles Ambassador Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer. Founded by racer Kaye Don after the World War II, the company produced lightweight motorcycles with Villiers and JAP engines and imported Zundapps from Germany. Production started in 1947 with a 197 cc Villiers-engined bikes. In 1953 a model was produced with electric starters and the first Ambassador twin appeared in 1957. The company was taken over by DMW in 1963 who continued production until they closed the company in 1965. Ambassador Motorcycles was reformed in late 2016. Founded by Irish motorcycle racer and 1920’s Brooklands star Kaye Don in 1946 |
2020 | "Ambassador Motorcycles"
as ""U.S. Concessionaires Ltd."", the company was started to import American cars. Motorcycle development started with a 494 cc vertical twin JAP-engined prototype. In 1947 the small Villiers engines were introduced and proved successful so were used until 1964. Ambassador motorcycles were costly and did not sell well, but exports to Australia and New Zealand were successful. Ambassador Motorcycles Ambassador Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer. Founded by racer Kaye Don after the World War II, the company produced lightweight motorcycles with Villiers and JAP engines and imported Zundapps from Germany. Production started in 1947 with a 197 cc Villiers-engined |
2021 | "Mitchell Boggs"
Mitchell Boggs Mitchell Thomas Boggs (born February 15, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Colorado Rockies. Boggs played two sports while attending Dalton High School. He played baseball for the Catamounts under the direction of Coach Manny Pontonio. Boggs was a pitcher and also a 3rd baseman who was recruited to be a dual-sport college star. Boggs also played quarterback for Dalton High's football team. His senior year, Boggs led the Catamounts to a 13–2 record, and an appearance in the AAA State Championship Game. |
2022 | "Mitchell Boggs"
He passed for 2,224 yards and 18 touchdowns and added 684 yards and 12 touchdowns on the ground that season. Boggs signed a baseball scholarship at the University of Georgia but after one season in which he saw limited playing time, he described himself as ""burned out"" and transferred to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he was a walk-on quarterback for the Mocs' football team. After only one semester at UTC he transferred back to UGA and helped the Bulldogs reach the 2004 College World Series. While at Georgia, Boggs pitched for the Newport Gulls of the New |
2023 | "Mitchell Boggs"
England Collegiate Baseball League. He appeared in 8 total games, owning a 6–0 record, including a 0.91 regular season earned run average (ERA) and two wins in the playoffs. Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals after his junior year, Boggs left Georgia to begin his professional career. On June 6, 2008, Boggs was promoted to the Cardinals' major league club from the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds to replace Mike Parisi on the active roster. In 12 starts with the Redbirds in 2008 before his promotion, Boggs was 5–1 with a 3.28 ERA. On June 10, 2008, Boggs got his first start |
2024 | "Mitchell Boggs"
going five innings, giving up only four hits and two runs, in picking up his first victory, over the Cincinnati Reds, 7–2 in Cincinnati. Boggs broke out in 2012, having the best year of his career. He had a record of 4 wins and 1 loss with an ERA of 2.21. He also led the National League in holds with 34. Boggs spent part of 2013 as the closer for St. Louis, but he was sent to the minor leagues in early May with an ERA of 12.66. He came back to the Cardinals after 18 days on May 20 |
2025 | "Samuel Ayscough"
of historical letters written during the reigns of James VI and I and Charles I, which Ayscough proposed to publish if he could find 200 subscribers at a couple of guineas apiece. It was left to Mr R. F. Williams to carry the scheme into effect in 1849, when the documents were printed in four volumes under the title of ""The Court and Times of James I and Charles I"". An important work which still remains in manuscript is Ayscough's catalogue of the ancient rolls and charters in the British Museum (now British Library), forming three large folio volumes, with |
2026 | "Washington Township School District (Warren County, New Jersey)"
comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Warren Hills Regional School District, which also serves students from the municipalities of Franklin Township, Mansfield Township and Washington Borough, along with those from Oxford Township who attend for grades 9-12 only. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Warren Hills Regional Middle School (grades 7 and 8; 663 students) located |
2027 | "Mitchell Boggs"
His brother Matthew Boggs played baseball for Georgia Tech and was a part of the Yellow Jackets' 2002 CWS team. Mitchell Boggs is not related to Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs. Mitchell Boggs Mitchell Thomas Boggs (born February 15, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Colorado Rockies. Boggs played two sports while attending Dalton High School. He played baseball for the Catamounts under the direction of Coach Manny Pontonio. Boggs was a pitcher and also a 3rd baseman who was recruited to be a |
2028 | "Samuel Ayscough"
rolls in the Tower of London for the Record Commission; but he does not seem to have been concerned in the ""Taxatio Ecclesiastica Nicholai IV"" (1802), also published by the Record Commission and sometimes ascribed to him. Besides the many works already spoken of, he compiled indexes to John Bridges' ""Northamptonshire"" (which took him nine months), to Owen Manning and William Bray's ""Surrey"", and according to Nichols, to the ""New Review"", edited by Paul Henry Maty. Ayscough died of dropsy in the chest at his apartments in the Museum on 30 October 1804. He was buried in the cemetery of |
2029 | "Samuel Ayscough"
St George's, Bloomsbury, behind the Foundling Hospital. His salary had been recently increased, which, added to his clerical preferment, placed him in a position of comparative comfort. He spent the modest income on charitable purposes and scarcely left sufficient to meet the claims upon his executors. Ayscough was termed the ""Prince of Index Makers"". His life of indexing produced him altogether about £1,300, a moderately handsome amount. He did his laborious tasks with careful skill and loving diligence. In spite of imperfect education and a youth of toil, he attained a very extensive knowledge of history, antiquities and bibliography. His |
2030 | "Sangeeta (Pakistani actress)"
Together, they had a daughter. After some years, this marriage failed and they divorced. Sangeeta then married actor Naveed Butt. Sangeeta (Pakistani actress) Sangeeta (; born 14 June 1947) is a Pakistani film actor, filmmaker and director of TV drama. Parveen Rizvi's (or Sangeeta's) mother Mehtab Rizvi had been involved in show business. Additionally, Parveen's younger sister, Nasreen Rizvi (professionally known as Kaveeta) is also associated with Pakistani cinema. In 1969, Sangeeta appeared in the film ""Koh-e-Noor (1969)"" as a child star; it was directed by Agha Husaini. In 1971, she moved to Lahore from her birthplace of Karachi and |
2031 | "Samuel Ayscough"
""than whom perhaps a kinder hearted, better humoured man never existed,"" and ""who, although an old bachelor, was a great admirer of beauty"". One of the duties of the assistant librarians was to take round parties of visitors, and Ayscough, unlike some of his fellow officers, seems to have taken an interest in providing this service. Besides two contributions to ""Archaeologia"" (1797) and his share in the production of several books, Ayscough published the following works: Samuel Ayscough Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804) was a librarian and indexer, who was described as the ""Prince of Index Makers"". Samuel Ayscough was the grandson |
2032 | "Khairlanji massacre"
activist Deelip Mhaske in ""The Times of India"" provided the first mainstream, in-depth coverage of the massacre. In September 2008, six people were given the death sentence for the crime. However, on 14 July 2010, the Nagpur bench of the High Court commuted the death penalty awarded to the six convicted to a 25-year rigorous imprisonment jail sentence. Protests against the killings in the Kherlanji village took place in various parts of Maharashtra. On 19 November 2006, over 4,000 Scheduled Caste citizens gathered at the Azad maidan in Mumbai to protest against the Khairlanji incident. On 23 November 2006, several |
2033 | "History of the Danish navy"
its existence was to counter the power of the Hanseatic League and secure control in the Baltic Sea. The fleet was one of the largest in Europe under Christian IV with 50-60 larger battle ships and a large number of defensive ships. In the 17th and 18th centuries during the period of absolutism its primary aim was to control the Strait of Øresund against Sweden. In this period it consisted of 20 ships of the line with an average of 60 guns, plus 20-40 frigates, large enough to counter the Royal Swedish Navy at the time. The number of guns |
2034 | "History of the Danish navy"
on the ships of the line was smaller than the average number of the great sea powers of the time, but it was partly a deliberate decision of the admiralty, in order to make the ships able to navigate in the countless narrow waters around the Danish isles. The navy was considered to be the King's personal property, and ""the King's waters"" consisted of the sea off Norway, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, large parts of the Baltic, the waters east of the North Cape and off Spitsbergen. For the entire period of its existence its main base |
2035 | "History of the Danish navy"
was Holmen in Copenhagen, but on different occasions smaller task forces was stationed in Fredriksvern in Norway and in Glückstadt. In 1709 there were about 15,000 personnel enrolled in the common fleet. Of these 10 000 were Norwegian. When Tordenskjold made his raid at Dynekil in 1716, over 80% of the sailors and 90% of the soldiers were Norwegian. During peace time most of the navy personnel served in the merchant fleet, which was of a considerable size in the 18th century. The main problem for Denmark-Norway in case of war was thus often to round up the required number |
2036 | "History of the Danish navy"
of skilled sailors for the navy. The navy was for a large part funded by Norwegian means as a royal resolution dictated that the income from Norway was to be used towards its construction and upkeep. The majority of the ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries were named after the royalty of Denmark-Norway, as well as the lands of the kingdoms. At the end of the 18th century it became more common to name them in a national romantic vein, using names from the history of Denmark and from the Old Norse mythology. History of the |
2037 | "Karen Demirchyan"
Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan () (April 17, 1932 – October 27, 1999) was a Soviet and Armenian politician. He served as the First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988. Soon after his reemergence into active politics in independent Armenia in the late 1990s, he became President of the National Assembly in 1999 until his assassination with other politicians in parliament in the Armenian parliament shooting. Demirchyan had a difficult childhood. Both his parents died when he was still an infant. He decided on a career in engineering, and took up studies at the Yerevan Polytechnical |
2038 | "Khairlanji massacre"
touched off statewide protests and re-kindled the fury of injustice felt by local Scheduled Caste organizations and the sole survivor, Bhaiyalal Bhotmange. The court ruled that the murders resulted from an act of revenge and was not caste related. Bhotmange was told that the CBI would appeal the commutation to the Supreme Court, however, after over two weeks of no action, Bhotmange announced he would appeal the decision himself. An appeal against the judgment of the High Court is pending before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India. It was last listed for hearing on 14 August 2015. The lone survivour |
2039 | "Khairlanji massacre"
of the 2006 Khairlanji Scheduled Caste family massacre, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange died on 20 Jan 2017 due to heart attack. Khairlanji massacre The Kherlanji massacre (or Khairlanji massacre) refers to the 2006 murders of Scheduled Caste citizens by members of the politically dominant Kunbi caste. The killings took place in a small village in India named Kherlanji, located in the Bhandara district of the state of Maharashtra. On 29 September 2006, four members of the Bhotmange family belonging to a Scheduled caste were murdered in a small village called Kherlanji in Maharashtra. The women of the family, Surekha and Priyanka, were |
2040 | "Liberty Tax Service"
Liberty Tax Service Liberty Tax Service is an American company specializing in the preparation of tax returns for individuals and small businesses. It is the third largest tax preparation franchise in the United States. The company began in Canada in 1997 when John Hewitt, co-founder of Jackson Hewitt, acquired a Canadian tax franchisor, U&R Tax Depot. In 1998, the company became Liberty Tax Service and opened five offices in the United States. Liberty Tax Service is the primary subsidiary of Liberty Tax, Inc., a NASDAQ-traded company. Liberty Tax Service appeared on Forbes ""Top 20 Franchises for the Buck"" in 2012. |
2041 | "Liberty Tax Service"
Liberty Tax Service is well known for its wavers, people in Statue of Liberty costumes and Uncle Sam costumes, used as a form of guerrilla marketing. On October 28, 2011, a flash mob of costumed Lady Libertys danced in Times Square to promote Liberty Tax Service and celebrate the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. John Hewitt began his career at H&R Block as a tax preparer in 1969 and was later promoted to regional director of 250 offices. In 1982, he went on to found Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, which he grew to over 1,300 offices until it was |
2042 | "Battle of Setina"
Bulgarians had many casualties and 200 were taken prisoners. The battle of Setina had no effect on the outcome of the war. In January 1018 Basil II withdrew to his capital Constantinople. The Bulgarians attacked the Adriatic port of Dyrrhachium and after Ivan Vladislav's death under the walls of the city the resistance finally broke. In the same year the First Bulgarian Empire was annexed by the Byzantine Empire. In 1019 the Byzantines seized the last Bulgarian strongholds. Battle of Setina The battle of Setina () took place in the autumn of 1017 near the village of Setina in modern |
2043 | Bettmeralp
Bettmeralp Bettmeralp is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the municipality of Bettmeralp. Before the merger, Bettmeralp was the name of a village and ski resort in Betten. Bettmeralp is a car free village which can be reached by cable car from the Betten train station (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn). From there another cable car leads near to the summit of Bettmerhorn, which lies directly above the Aletsch Glacier. Bettmersee is located above the village at 2006 m. The position |
2044 | "Farm Journal"
Farm Journal Farm Journal is a classical composition by the American composer Douglas Moore. The work was the result of a commission Moore received from the Little Orchestra Society in 1947 and which gave the work's premiere in the following year, conducted by Thomas Scherman. The music derives from Moore's 1940 film score ""Power in the Land"" and is intended to describe farm life through music. This sort of endeavor was close to Moore's interests and likings and therefore the suite is very representative of his style. The suite which is scored for chamber orchestra, consists of four movements; ""Up |
2045 | "Farm Journal"
early"", ""Sunday clothes"", ""Lamplight"", and ""Harvest Song"". The composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks described the work thus: ""In a sense nature music, but a peopled landscape, landscape with human figures. It is perhaps this capacity to create vivid moods that is the composer's most outstanding asset..."" The work was reviewed in the ""New York Times "" and in later performances. Farm Journal Farm Journal is a classical composition by the American composer Douglas Moore. The work was the result of a commission Moore received from the Little Orchestra Society in 1947 and which gave the work's premiere in the following year, conducted |
2046 | "Concierto pastoral"
Concierto pastoral The Concierto pastoral is a concerto for flute and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo. Rodrigo wrote the work from 1977-1978 on commission from James Galway, who had first encountered the composer's work in 1974 when he asked permission to transcribe the ""Fantasia para un Gentilhombre"" for flute. Galway gave its premiere on October 17, 1978, in London, with Eduardo Mata conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The concerto is in three movements, the second of which is the source of the name ""pastoral"": The first and third movements contain many intervals of sevenths, octaves and ninths, as well as considerable use |
2047 | "Concierto pastoral"
of grace notes and appoggiaturas. Concierto pastoral The Concierto pastoral is a concerto for flute and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo. Rodrigo wrote the work from 1977-1978 on commission from James Galway, who had first encountered the composer's work in 1974 when he asked permission to transcribe the ""Fantasia para un Gentilhombre"" for flute. Galway gave its premiere on October 17, 1978, in London, with Eduardo Mata conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The concerto is in three movements, the second of which is the source of the name ""pastoral"": The first and third movements contain many intervals of sevenths, octaves and ninths, |
2048 | Ouiatenon
Ouiatenon Ouiatenon () was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans. The name ""Ouiatenon"", also variously given as ""Ouiatanon"", ""Oujatanon"", ""Ouiatano"" or other similar forms, is a French rendering of a term from the Wea dialect of the Miami-Illinois language which means ""place of the people of the whirlpool"", an ethnonym for the Wea. Ouiatenon can be said to refer generally to any settlement of Wea or to their tribal lands as a whole, though the name is most frequently used to refer to a group of extinct settlements situated together along the Wabash River |
2049 | "PSR B1257+12 A"
Italy. Draugr refers to undead creatures in Norse mythology. PSR B1257+12 A PSR B1257+12 b, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 A, also named Draugr, is an extrasolar planet approximately 2,300 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The planet is the innermost object orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, i.e. a pulsar planet in the dead stellar system. It is about twice as massive as the Moon, and is listed as the least massive planet (with the mass accurately determined) known, including among the planets in the Solar System. The convention that arose for designating pulsars was that of using the letters |
2050 | "Sea Dragon (roller coaster)"
Sea Dragon (roller coaster) Sea Dragon is a junior wooden roller coaster located at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio. The ride is in the Jungle Jack's Landing section of the zoo. Built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) under famed designer John C. Allen, the roller coaster opened in 1956 as Jet Flyer. It was one of three junior wooden coasters that Allen designed shortly after becoming president of PTC in 1954 – the other two were Flyer at Hunt's Pier and Valley Volcano at Angela Park. They were based on earlier designs developed by another legendary coaster |
2051 | "Svatantrika–Prasaṅgika distinction"
they also state that this non-denominational position is very difficult to establish through reason. Svatantrika–Prasaṅgika distinction The Svatantrika–Prasaṅgika distinction is a doctrinal distinction made within Tibetan Buddhism between two stances regarding the use of logic and the meaning of conventional truth within the presentation of Madhyamaka. ""Svātantrika"" is a category of Madhyamaka viewpoints attributed primarily to the 6th-century Indian scholar Bhāviveka. Bhāviveka criticised Buddhapalitas abstinence from syllogistic reasoning in his commentary on Nagarjuna. Following the example of the influential logician Dignāga, Bhāviveka used autonomous syllogistic reasoning (""svātantra"") syllogisms in the explanation of Madhyamaka. To have a common ground with essentialist |
2052 | "Matador (Marvel Comics)"
save a falling window washer, and the Matador made his escape. He eventually caught the attention of Daredevil. The two fought each other, resulting in Matador being defeated and handed over to the police. Some time later, Electro recruited the Matador to be one of his Emissaries of Evil in a plot of revenge against Daredevil for previous defeats. Daredevil happened across their recruitment meeting and attempted to bring them in, but Electro managed to knock him out. The Matador suggested that they finish him then, while they had the chance, but Electro declined, because that would be too easy. |
2053 | "PSR B1257+12 B"
measurable perturbations in each other's orbits. Detecting such perturbations confirmed that the planets were real. Accurate masses of the two planets, as well as their inclinations, were calculated from how much the planets perturb each other. The convention that arose for designating pulsars was that of using the letters PSR (Pulsating Source of Radio) followed by the pulsar's right ascension and degrees of declination. The modern convention prefixes the older numbers with a B meaning the coordinates are for the 1950.0 epoch. All new pulsars have a J indicating 2000.0 coordinates and also have declination including minutes. Pulsars that were |
2054 | "PSR B1257+12 B"
discovered before 1993 tend to retain their B names rather than use their J names, but all pulsars have a J name that provides more precise coordinates of its location in the sky. On its discovery, the planet was designated PSR 1257+12 B and later PSR B1257+12 B. It was discovered before the convention that extrasolar planets receive designations consisting of the star's name followed by lower-case Roman letters starting from ""b"" was established. However, it is listed under the latter convention on astronomical databases such as SIMBAD and the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. Hence the designation PSR B1257+12 c. In |
2055 | "PSR B1257+12 B"
July 2014, the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Poltergeist for this planet. The winning name was submitted by the Planetarium Südtirol Alto Adige in Karneid, Italy. Poltergeist is a name for supernatural beings that create physical disturbances, from the German for ""noisy ghost"". PSR B1257+12 B PSR B1257+12 c, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 B, also named Poltergeist, is an extrasolar planet approximately 2,300 light-years away in the |
2056 | "Llandudno RFC"
Llandudno RFC Llandudno Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Llandudno, North Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Scarlets. The team fields a first, seconds, youth and junior teams. Llandudno RFC was established in 1952 when Liverpudlian, John Kidson, arrived in Llandudno and being a rugby union fan, was surprised to find the town had no team. Within a few months he had managed to gain enough local support and Llandudno RFC fielded a team for the 1952-53 season; though without a pitch |
2057 | "Llandudno RFC"
the team played all matches away. The next year Conwy Football team disbanded and after some negotiation Llandudno were allowed to take over the Conway Morfa ground. In 1957 a fire destroyed the changing rooms at the Morfa ground and the club were forced to move to a new pitch founded on the local Maesdu tip. In 1959 the club applied for and gained membership of the Welsh Rugby Union. North Wales cup 1999/2000 North Wales cup 2000/2001 North Wales trophy - 2008 Llandudno RFC Llandudno Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Llandudno, North |
2058 | "Brad Watson (ice hockey)"
Brad Watson (ice hockey) Brad Watson (born October 4, 1961 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 23. As of the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, he has officiated 542 regular season games and 62 playoff games. He officiated on December 8, 2009 when Martin Brodeur tied Terry Sawchuk's career shutout record with his 103rd shutout. He has officiated the 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Stanley Cup finals. Brad officiated in his 1,000th NHL game at Pepsi Center in Denver on January 21, 2014. The game was between the |
2059 | "Brad Watson (ice hockey)"
Toronto Maple Leafs and the Colorado Avalanche. On May 3, 2015, Montreal Canadiens player Brandon Prust accused Brad Watson of insulting him after he took a roughing call in the first period. Prust later apologized for the accusations. Brad Watson (ice hockey) Brad Watson (born October 4, 1961 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 23. As of the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, he has officiated 542 regular season games and 62 playoff games. He officiated on December 8, 2009 when Martin Brodeur tied Terry Sawchuk's career shutout record with his 103rd |
2060 | "PSR B1257+12 C"
PSR B1257+12 C PSR B1257+12 C, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 d and also named Phobetor, is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 approximately 2,315 light-years (710 parsecs, or nearly km) away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. It was one of the first planets ever discovered outside the Solar System. It was discovered using the pulsar timing method, where the regular pulses of a pulsar are measured to determine if there is a planet causing variations in the data. In July 2014 the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and |
2061 | "PSR B1257+12 C"
their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Phobetor for this planet. The winning name was submitted by the Planetarium Südtirol Alto Adige in Karneid, Italy. Phobetor is, in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep) who appears in dreams in the form of beasts. PSR B1257+12 C is a super-Earth, an exoplanet that has a radius and mass larger than that of Earth. It has an equilibrium temperature of . It has a mass of 3.9 and a likely radius |
2062 | "Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party"
for inclusion on the ""Clerks X"" DVD were scrapped for similar reasons. It has since been screened at several of Smith's ""Vulgarthon"" film festivals. According to an early 2009 Q&A session with Smith in Vancouver, the full film would be included on a future Blu-ray release of ""Clerks"", ultimately being available on the November 2009 release. Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party is a 2004 American documentary film about the making of ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"" (2001), released and produced by Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions. Co-directed by Malcolm Ingram, it marks |
2063 | "Ferrocarril Central Andino"
Ferrocarril Central Andino Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA) is the consortium which operates the Ferrovías Central railway in Peru linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima with Huancayo and Cerro de Pasco. As one of the Trans-Andean Railways it is the second highest in the world constructed by the Polish engineer Ernest Malinowski in 1871–1876. After a period of operation by the nationalized entity Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Perú (ENAFER), in July 1999 the government awarded a divisible consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) of Pittsburgh,and Lorenzo Sousa's Peruval Corp who was awarded the South and |
2064 | "Ferrocarril Central Andino"
South east railways , a concession to operate the former Ferrocarril del Centro for 30 years. Investors in Ferrocarril Central Andino include RDC, Juan Olaechea & Company, Minas Buenaventura, ADR Inversiones, and Inversiones Andino. The line starts at the port city of Callao and goes through Lima and the Desamparados station parallel to the Rímac River. It crosses into Junín state via the Galera Tunnel, the second highest railroad tunnel in the world. It reaches La Oroya, where it splits in two: the southern branch goes to Huancayo, while the northern branch (previously a line operated by a mining company) |
2065 | "PSR B1257+12 C"
theories have been proposed for how the planets around PSR B1257+12 formed. One theory suggested that the planets actually had existed before the host star exploded in a supernova about 1 billion years ago, however, this is inconsistent as the ejected material from a supernova would be enough to vaporize any planets close to the star. Also, multiple issues arise with this theory that debates nearly-impossible steps on how the planets ended up in their current places. Thus, the scenario has been dropped. One scenario proposed a massive binary system in which the planets formed around, with the more massive |
2066 | "Ferrocarril Central Andino"
the Andes, to reduce the spectacular Lima - Huancayo journey to 4 hours. In 1851, engineer Ernest Malinowski proposed to extend the newly opened Lima to Callao railroad as far as the valley of Jauja. Malinowski, a Polish expatriate, was voluntarily exiled in Peru by political problems in his country, occupied at that time by Germany, Russia and Austria. The government commissioned Felipe Barreda, Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán, and Manuel Marrón to report in detail on the project. This commission devised a detailed plan for the railroad which, after approval by the Peruvian Congress, was integrated with the Malinowski proposal. |
2067 | "Ferrocarril Central Andino"
The Peruvian Congress named a new commission to make recommendations on alternate construction plans. This second commission delivered a meticulous report of the four possible routes that it had explored and evaluated: According to the report, construction of the proposed line was possible but difficult by the Rímac gorge, almost impossible by the Chillón gorge, impossible by the Chancay, but very easy by the Lurín. This last option was the choice of engineer Gerrit Backus, reputed to be one of the most able professionals in the design and construction of railway routes. This third phase lasted until March 1866 when |
2068 | "German Emperor"
Holstein and of Crossen, Duke of Magdeburg, of Bremen, of Guelderland and of Jülich, Cleves and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kashubians, of Lauenburg and of Mecklenburg, Landgrave of Hesse and in Thuringia, Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia, Prince of Orange, of Rugen, of East Friesland, of Paderborn and of Pyrmont, Prince of Halberstadt, of Münster, of Minden, of Osnabrück, of Hildesheim, of Verden, of Kammin, of Fulda, of Nassau and of Moers, Princely Count of Henneberg, Count of the Mark, of Ravensberg, of Hohenstein, of Tecklenburg and of Lingen, Count of Mansfeld, of Sigmaringen and of |
2069 | "German Emperor"
Veringen, Lord of Frankfurt. German Emperor The German Emperor ( ) was the official title of the head of state and hereditary ruler of the German Empire. A specifically chosen term, it was introduced with the 1 January 1871 constitution and lasted until the official abdication of Wilhelm II on 28 November 1918. The Holy Roman Emperor is sometimes also called ""German Emperor"" when the historical context is clear, as derived from the Holy Roman Empire's official name of ""Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation"" from 1512. Following the revolution of 1918, the function of head of state was |
2070 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
Supernova (2000 film) Supernova is a 2000 Swiss-American science fiction horror film written by David C. Wilson, William Malone and Daniel Chuba and directed by Walter Hill, credited as ""Thomas Lee."" ""Thomas Lee"" was chosen as a directorial pseudonym for release, as the name Alan Smithee had become too well known as a badge of a film being disowned by its makers. It was originally developed in 1988 by director William Malone as ""Dead Star,"" with paintings by H. R. Giger and a plot that had been called """"Hellraiser"" in outer space."" Jack Sholder was hired for substantial uncredited reshoots, |
2071 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
and Francis Ford Coppola was brought in for editing purposes. Various sources suggest that little of Hill's work remains in the theatrical cut of the film. The film shares several plot similarities with the film ""Event Horizon,"" released in 1997, and ""Alien Cargo,"" released in 1999. The cast features James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, and Wilson Cruz. The film was shot by cinematographer Lloyd Ahern and scored by composers David C. Williams and Burkhard Dallwitz. ""Supernova"" chronicles the search-and-rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century |
2072 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
and its six-member crew, which includes captain and pilot A.J. Marley (Robert Forster), co-pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), medical officer Kaela Evers (Angela Bassett), medical technician Yerzy Penalosa (Lou Diamond Phillips), search and rescue paramedic Danika Lund (Robin Tunney) and computer technician Benjamin Sotomejor (Wilson Cruz). Aboard their vessel, the ""Nightingale 229,"" they receive an emergency distress signal coming from an ice mining operation on the moon Titan 37, more than 3,000 light-years away. The crew answers the call and dimension-jumps — during which Captain Marley suffers fatal injuries due to a malfunction of the ship's equipment — arriving in |
2073 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
the path of Titan 37's debris cloud, some of which damages the ship and causes the loss of 82 percent of its maneuvering fuel. Worse still, Titan 37 orbits a blue giant, and its high gravity field will pull the ship to the point where it will be incinerated in 17 hours, 12 minutes — which happens to be almost the same amount of time that the Nightingale 229 will need to recharge its jump drive, their only possible hope for escape. With only an 11-minute window for escape, the surviving crew soon find themselves in danger from the disturbing |
2074 | "Woodville Oval"
of around 15,000 people, with seating for up to 2,000 in two covered stands located on the western side of the ground, with the players changerooms located under the Barry Jarman Stand on the centre wing. Most of the spectator areas around the ground are grass banks, with the exception of the outer (eastern) wing which is six rows of concrete terracing. The playing surface of the oval is 175m x 110m making it the second longest currently in use in the SANFL behind Elizabeth Oval (178m), though if measured from fence to fence, Woodville Oval is 203m long, some |
2075 | "Ginés de Lillo"
Ginés de Lillo Ginés de Lillo (1566, Murcia - 24 January 1630, Arauco), a high-ranking officer in the Spanish army, was in 1603 nominated official visitor to the lands between the towns of Los Cauquenes and Choapa, part of modern-day Chile. The post was created in 1602 by Governor Alonso de Ribera with the objective of visiting and measuring lands in the hands of Spanish and indigenous people so as to understand the extent of Spanish power in Chile and to classify the extensive and disparate indigenous groups. In this way the Mapuche people could be put to work in |
2076 | "Ginés de Lillo"
the encomienda pseudo-feudal system. Alonso de Ribera initially named Juan Morales de Negrete official visitor, but he turned the post down; the Governor's second choice was Melchor Jufré del Aguila, but he too was not interested. Thus the title went to Ginés de Lillo. On 21 August 1603 Ginés de Lillo began his work in the regions of Ñuñoa, Apoquindo, Manquehue, Vitacura, Tobalaba and Peñalolén. He then proceeded into the foothills of the Andes as far as Maipo before assaying both sides of the road from Colina and Aconcagua, Lo Negrete, Renca and Huechuraba. In 1604 he steered in the |
2077 | "Ginés de Lillo"
direction of Tango, on the northern bank of the Maipo River, Chiñigue, Pomaire, Melipilla, the Puangue valley, Curacaví, Mallarauco and Ibacache, ending in Pudahuel where he stayed as a guest of the Society of Jesus. He then measured the farms of Quilicura owned by Don Bartolomé Blumenthal. The same year he surveyed the sides of the Acuyo (Casablanca) valley from Cuesta de Zapata or Cordillera del Alamo to the sea, ending at Viña del Mar in either the Peuco or the Penco valley. In 1605 he visited Ocoa and Quillota. As well as being of use to the Governor, the |
2078 | "Ginés de Lillo"
document de Lillo produced is now a source of historical information on indigenous seats of power in central Chile, their authority and toponymy, as well as the encomienda system and forced movement of these people. Bárbola de Oropesa, widow of Don Juan, Cacique of Macul, testified that she was 'aggrieved' at the measurement and redistribution of lands visited by Ginés de Lillo in 1603. She was assigned less land than appeared to be lawfully, heritably hers. According to her testimony, she was a soft target and thus chosen to be the loser in an effort to right earlier injustices in |
2079 | "Ginés de Lillo"
land allocation. Ginés de Lillo Ginés de Lillo (1566, Murcia - 24 January 1630, Arauco), a high-ranking officer in the Spanish army, was in 1603 nominated official visitor to the lands between the towns of Los Cauquenes and Choapa, part of modern-day Chile. The post was created in 1602 by Governor Alonso de Ribera with the objective of visiting and measuring lands in the hands of Spanish and indigenous people so as to understand the extent of Spanish power in Chile and to classify the extensive and disparate indigenous groups. In this way the Mapuche people could be put to |
2080 | "Stevenage Borough Council"
Stevenage Borough Council Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) is the local authority for the Stevenage non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom. Stevenage is located in the north-east of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region. The Council consists of 39 elected members, representing thirteen electoral wards; each of the wards elects three councillors. Youth representatives from Stevenage Youth Council and the elected Stevenage Youth Mayor also attend Stevenage Borough Council meetings in a non-voting role. The Council is currently controlled by the Labour Party, who hold 26 of the 39 seats. Labour have controlled the council continuously since its creation |
2081 | "Stevenage Borough Council"
as a non-metropolitan district in 1973. The Conservative Group hold 9 seats and Liberal Democrat Group hold 4 seats. The Leader of the Labour Group and the Council is Councillor Sharon Taylor with the Conservative Group becoming the main opposition group in the 2015 local election after the Labour Group lost 3 councillors to the Conservative Party. Stevenage consists of thirteen wards. Stevenage Borough Council Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) is the local authority for the Stevenage non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom. Stevenage is located in the north-east of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region. The Council consists |
2082 | "Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie"
Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie (c. 1674 – 6 June 1738) was a French-born naval officer who was important in Canadian history for various roles he took on in the New World. Louis-Simon's family came to Canada and he entered the regular colonial troops in 1693. He served as an ensign and, subsequently, as a lieutenant to Governor Pastour de Costebelle at Plaisance, Newfoundland. He was involved in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign in 1696–97 under the command of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. La Boularderie is most often remembered for his colonization and development |
2083 | "Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie"
efforts, most particularly at his concession along La Petite Brador. La Boularderie was desingnated a Canadian National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in October 1964. Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie (c. 1674 – 6 June 1738) was a French-born naval officer who was important in Canadian history for various roles he took on in the New World. Louis-Simon's family came to Canada and he entered the regular colonial troops in 1693. He served as an ensign and, subsequently, as a lieutenant to Governor Pastour de Costebelle at |
2084 | "Dacorum Borough Council"
Dacorum Borough Council Dacorum Borough Council is the local authority for the Dacorum non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom. Dacorum is located in the north-west of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region. The Council itself is based in Hemel Hempstead, the largest settlement in the district. The Council consists of 51 elected councillors, representing twenty-five electoral wards. 14 of the wards elect two councillors each. Six, denoted below, elect three councillors each. Five, also denoted below, elect one. The council consists of 51 elected members; 43 represent the Conservative Party, 5 represent the Liberal Democrats, 2 represent the |
2085 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
are political. ""Are you saying you won't preview the movie?"" I said ""You own the God damn thing. If you want to preview it, I can't prevent you, but I won't go."" They saw this as defiance. Taking this into consideration and after more arguments with MGM, Hill quit the project. After test screenings went badly MGM hired another director, Jack Sholder, to re-edit Hill's footage and do some re-shoots to try and save the film. Sholder deleted a lot of the scenes from Hill's version, including many scenes of character development, added the scene where James Spader's character is |
2086 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
sculpting and experimented with recreating the lost Ming Dynasty glazes. In 1899, struggling with health issues due to tuberculosis, Artus left Rookwood and moved to the drier air of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Upon befriending the Holmes family of Chico Basin, he stayed at the HOP Ranch during the summers of 1899, 1900, and 1901 to reduce work stress and regain strength while pursuing his own styles of pottery, centered around the Art Nouveau movement. He continued his research on the ancient matte glazes that fascinated him in Paris. After two years of trials and experiments a matte glaze was perfected. |
2087 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
One of the matte glazes perfected by Artus was the matte blue glaze, based on an ancient Chinese process that had long been lost to history. Artus opened Van Briggle Pottery in 1901 and was joined by Anne Gregory, who took a position as a high school art teacher in Colorado Springs. In 1903, Artus Van Briggle was appointed First Director of the Department of Art and Design in Colorado College, succeeding , a Swiss artist (born in Geneva, Switzerland) he met in Paris in 1895. In 1902, Anne and Artus were married, and she devoted herself to their pottery; |
2088 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
in Northern California. This work included digitally placing Bassett's and Spader's faces on the bodies of (a computer-tinted) Tunney and Facinelli so that their characters could enjoy a love scene. But even Coppola's re-edited version had negative test screening and didn't get the PG-13 rating by MPAA that the studio wanted. Creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, whose special effects were mostly cut out from the film, said that Walter Hill wanted the film to be much more grotesque, strange and disturbing while MGM wanted to make it more of a hip, sexy film in space and they didn't want a full-blown |
2089 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
July 1904, at the age of 35. Anne continued the pottery using the forms created by Artus as a foundation and adding more designs of her own. In 1907, Anne and pottery stockholder and city-founder William Jackson Palmer began construction on a new pottery on Uintah Street. The Van Briggle Memorial Pottery — designed by Dutch architect Nicholas Van den Arend — was opened in 1908 and stands today as an historic landmark noted for its architecture and use of ceramics in the facade. Having remarried in 1908, Anne Louise Gregory Ritter leased the pottery in 1912 to Edmund deForest |
2090 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
Curtis, who ran it until 1916. She sold the company in 1922 to J.F. and I.H. Lewis and moved to Denver the following year, where she would concentrate on painting and where she remained until her death in 1929. In her absence, the pottery fell under financial hardships and was sold at sheriff's auction; later it was re-sold, once more becoming the property of Mr. Curtis. The pottery was sold twice more in the ensuing decade and survived a fire in 1919 that gutted the interior but left the brick shell and kilns. New owners I.F. and J.H. Lewis took |
2091 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
the opportunity to modernize and expand the facility beginning in 1920 and stabilized the production and financial aspects of the pottery for the first time. Despite damage from the flood of 1935the most destructive flood in Colorado Springs history that destroyed much of the company's records and molds, the pottery continued to enjoy success up to World War II, when they closed for approximately three years as the United States focused its resources on the war effort. With the increase of interstate travel in the United States a freeway was planned in 1953 for Colorado Springs which J.H. Lewis estimated |
2092 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
would run through the Memorial Plant site. Although the freeway eventually was planned to avoid destroying the historic pottery, Mr. Lewis nonetheless put into action plans to relocate the pottery to a higher-traffic area of Colorado Springs. In 1955, Mr. Lewis and Clem Hull brought a new facility on line at a renovated railroad roundhouse on Midland Road. The new facility, known as the Midland Plant, had a smaller capacity but enjoyed quick success due to its location on the main highway to the Garden of the Gods and other tourist locations. In 1968, Mr. Lewis sold the Memorial Plant |
2093 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
monster-like look, and Karl's original death sequence. Walter Hill said in an interview some years after the film was released that his version was much darker, had a very different setup and that ending was much different. He also expressed strong dislike for the way the studio ruined the film, but said that James Spader did a great job with his role. Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Yerzy, turned down the role the first few times it was offered to him, but once Walter Hill was hired as director, Hill called Phillips and sent him 40 pages of his re-written |
2094 | "Supernova (2000 film)"
script, which Phillips liked and accepted the role. Problem was, when the filming began, Hill was forced to keep rewriting the script while studio executives were on set watching over him. Hill also heavily rewrote the original script because he wanted to distance the film from ""Alien"" (1979), a film which he produced. Phillips also said that once Francis Ford Coppola was called in to re-edit the film, he sent everyone from the cast a letter saying, ""All of your work in this film is quite good. It has its problems. I'm going to recut it, hopefully in the spirit |
2095 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
Higman, Clem Hull, Gene Hopkins, Fred Wills, Nelson Curtis, Joe Jezek, Craig Stevenson, Mark Sucharski, Lori Keenan, and Becky Hansen. Collectors identify Van Briggle pottery by its distinctive glazes, shapes, and bottom markings. At left are samples of typical Van Briggle bottoms markings. Most such marks were hand-incised, so varied over time and between individuals. The Van Briggle logo consists of a pair of conjoined A's inside a box, and is featured on most — but not all — Van Briggle pottery. Other marks that might appear on the bottom of their pottery include the text, ""Van Briggle"", ""Colorado Springs, |
2096 | "Van Briggle Pottery"
Colorado"" most frequently abbreviated, artist marks indicating the artist who threw the piece or finished it, or both, clay batch numbers, and year of manufacture indicators. The variety of marks is broad and beyond the scope of an encyclopedia article to list. Van Briggle Pottery Van Briggle Art Pottery was at the time of its demise the oldest continuously operating art pottery in the United States, having been established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901 by Artus and Anne Van Briggle. Artus had a significant impact on the Art Nouveau movement in the United States, and his pottery is foundational |
2097 | "Helen Fairbrother"
Helen Fairbrother Helen Fairbrother is an English beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 1986. She was the third woman from England to win the title of Miss International. Fairbrother reprsented England at the Miss International 1986 pageant when it was held in Nagasaki, Japan on 31 August 1986. She bested 1st runner-up Pia Rosenberg Larsen of Denmark, who would later be crowned 1st runner-up at the Miss World 1986, and 2nd runner-up Martha Cristiana Merino Ponce de León of Mexico, to become the 26th winner of the pageant. Fairbrother would later give up her crown to Laurie Tamara Simpson |
2098 | "Helen Fairbrother"
Rivera of Puerto Rico the following year. In September 1987, no sooner had Fairbrother relinquished her title of Miss International than she competed in Miss United Kingdom 1987 to vie for the right to compete in the Miss World 1987 which was to be held later that year. Fairbrother represented Swindon at the national pageant, but could not repeat her prior victory and was placed 2nd runner-up, behind winner Karen Mellor of Derby and 1st runner-up Heather Daniels of Portsmouth. Helen Fairbrother Helen Fairbrother is an English beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 1986. She was the third woman |
2099 | Exterminator!
as ""Rolling Stone"", ""Village Voice"", ""Evergreen Review"", and ""Esquire"". The title story is about an insect exterminator, a job Burroughs himself once held. Certain aspects of this story were used in the film version of ""Naked Lunch"", with the main character William Lee (a portrayal of Burroughs) holding the same job at the film's beginning. In the 1980s, actor Ed Asner recorded a spoken word adaptation of ""Wind Die. You Die. We Die"", while Burroughs and Kurt Cobain recorded a musical version of one of the stories as ""The ""Priest"" They Called Him"". Some of the stories were initially published |
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