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[ { "docid": "15634806", "text": "Uvs Lake Basin (also Uvs Nuur Basin or Ubs Nuur Basin; ) is an endorheic basin located on the territorial border of Mongolia and Tuva, a republic of the Russian Federation. The basin is part of the Central Asian Internal Drainage Basin and is named after Uvs Lake (Uvs Nuur, Ubsu Nur), a large saline lake situated in the western part of its drainage basin, and is one of the last remnants of the mammoth steppes. Uvs Lake is a shallow lake with an area of . Its entire basin, which includes several smaller lakes, is . Uvs Lake Basin may also refer to Ubsunur Hollow (Russian: Убсунурская котловина, Ubsunorskaya Kotlovina), which is the western part of the drainage basin, or to over of protected areas covering the lake and its surroundings. The hollow forms the northern part of the Great Lakes Depression, which has a surface of over . The hollow, and most of the drainage basin, are situated in the Khövsgöl, Zavkhan and Uvs Provinces of north-western Mongolia, and the Mongun-Tayginsky, Ovyursky, Tes-Khemsky and Erzinsky Districts of southern Tuva. The basin is part of a combination of raised lands and hollows located throughout the Tannu-Ola and Altai mountainous regions. Here, the world's most northern desert meets the Northern Hemisphere's most southern tundra zone. An area of , around three quarters of which lies in Mongolia, was designated Biosphere Reserve in 1997, and a partly overlapping zone of around the same size was designated UNESCO World Heritage in 2003. The Mongolian part of the lake and its immediate surroundings were further adopted as Ramsar wetland in 2004. Geography The Tannu-Ola mountains form the northern border of Ubsunur Hollow. , the only freshwater lake of the basin, lies, like Uvs Lake, on the Russian-Mongolian border. The more eastern part of the Uvs Lake drainage basin extends, in the north, to the Sengilen ridge of the Sayan Mountains, and in the east, to the basin of Sangiin Dalai Lake. The southern part of the hollow is bordered by the basin of Khyargas Lake, with the Khan Khökhii mountains separating both basins of the Great Lakes Depression. More to the east, the forms the southern border of Uvs Lake's drainage basin. West of the Uvs Lake Basin lies the endorheic basin of Üüreg Lake, bordered by the Altai Mountains. The separates, in part, the Uvs and Üüreg lake basins. The south-western tip of the Uvs Lake Basin covers most of the range, and includes the north-eastern slopes of Archaeology According to Greenpeace, Ubsunur Hollow counts 40,000 archaeological sites from nomadic Scythians, Turks, Huns and other tribes. A number of its archaeological artefacts remain unstudied. In Central Asia, it has the highest concentration of burial mounds, constituting around half of its archaeological sites, and many of which are older than the Egyptian pyramids. Thousands of rock carvings and stone sculptures remain from medieval settlements and Buddhist temples. Archaeological searches carried out in 2007–2008 on the Por-Bazhyn ruins, which are situated on an islet", "title": "Uvs Lake Basin" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2301887", "text": "Robert Dover (1575/82–1652) was an English attorney, author and wit, best known as the founder and for many years the director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games. Family Robert was probably born between 1575 and 1582 in Norfolk, one of four children sired by a John Dover, but as the parish registers in Great Ellingham did not begin until 1630 it is impossible to be certain. In 1610, Dover married Sibilla Sanford, daughter of William Cole, Dean of Lincoln and widow of John Sanford of Stow on the Wold; they had two sons (Robert, died in infancy, and John, 1614–1696) and two daughters (Sibella and Abigail). Education and professional life Dover was a scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1595, possibly as a sizar at Queens' College: during his time at Cambridge the \"Gog Magog Games\" were held on the Gog Magog Hills outside Cambridge, although it is not known whether these were already being termed \"Olympik\" as was the case by 1620. Dover left university early to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy; and a \"Robert Dover\" was among those questioned by Lord Burghley's officers looking for recusants in Norfolk. On 27 February 1605, Dover was admitted to Gray's Inn, and was probably called to the bar in 1611. Dover was known as a wit, and author of a lost poem The Wandering Jew: according to Peter Heylin, a pageant put on at Gray's Inn. In 1611, he moved to Saintbury, near Chipping Campden. After the inauguration of the Games, he obtained patronage from neighbour Endymion Porter, a well-connected courtier, who arranged for Dover to receive a cast-off set of royal garments to wear while presiding. Later in life he moved to Barton-on-the-Heath. Cotswold Olimpick Games Dover founded his annual Games held in the Cotswold hills above Chipping Campden in about 1612, and presided over them for forty years. A mixture of courtly and folk events, the Cotswold Olimpicks were so named in Annalia Dubrensia, one of a series of literary celebrations of the events. The games consisted of cudgel-playing, shin-kicking, wrestling, running at the quintain, jumping, casting the bar and hammer, hand-ball, gymnastics, rural dances and games and horse-racing, the winners in which received valuable prizes. The Games, interrupted by the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, revived after the Restoration, and continued until 1852. They were revived, once more, in 1951. Death Robert Dover was buried at Barton on 24 July 1652 (the date of 6 June 1641 appears to be a mistake). Remembered There is a monument to Robert Dover at Dover's Hill, near Aston-sub-Edge. See also Cotswold Olimpick Games Shin-kicking Wenlock Olympian Games Notes References Drayton, Michael, et al. (1636), Annalia Dubrensia: upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold-Hills, London: Robert Raworth. Gandy, Rob (2021), \"Bold Dover\", The Fortean Times, FT408, (August 2021), pp. 46–50. 16th-century births 1652 deaths People from Breckland District 16th-century English people 17th-century English lawyers", "title": "Robert Dover (Cotswold Games)" } ]

[ "Thomas Gresham" ]

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[ { "docid": "15619502", "text": "In Fair Palestine: A story of Romeo and Juliet is a film produced by Palestinian high school students at the Quaker-run Ramallah Friends Schools in the West Bank. A documentary drama, it reprises the story of Romeo and Juliet in the modern-day context of life in a Palestinian city, Ramallah. Work on the project was initiated in January 2006 by Doug Hart, an English teacher of American background . The film premiered on 19 January 2008 at the Ramallah Cultural Palace to an audience of 800 people in the 700 seat cinema. The premiere garnered coverage by mainstream media outlets in the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Syria. History Hart proposed the idea to create the movie and gathered together a group of 10th grade students to work on the project. Students did background research on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. During 11th grade, the writers and the director of the movie worked on the script and, in the summer, begin shooting. Shooting ran from 7 June until 28 September. Editing efforts continued through 12th grade until the film was finalized, a few days before its premier on 19 January 2008. Tarek Knorn, one of the students involved as a co-writer and as an actor, playing the role of Mercutio, explained why the students chose to do an adaptation of Shakespeare's play:\"We thought we would use a play that has values and principles that are shared by people all over the world. Issues that people all over the world have to deal with and learn from such as arranged marriages, love at first sight, teenage life, et cetera. We felt it was a good idea and saw it as our first chance to express ourselves in a manner different from the way the news represents us.\" Synopsis According to the students, the film is designed to humanize Palestinians and show the side of Palestine that does not always make its way into film. The film is made in the form of dramatic scenes interspersed with documentary pieces, so as to convey the lives of Palestinian teenagers. Based on the play by William Shakespeare, the movie deals with the lives of two star-crossed Palestinian lovers as they grapple with the realities of their everyday lives. In this adaptation of the famous play, Romeo and Juliet meet at a party celebrating the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. They are wed in secret by a sheikh. The film follows the basic plotline of the original Romeo and Juliet, though in the film, Romeo does not hear of Juliet's faked death because a messenger sent to bring him the news is stopped at an Israeli checkpoint. References External links Concord Media DVD copies can be bought from this Quaker charity in Britain. Reuters transcript of coverage Film coverage by two teachers at the Friends Boys School Pictures from the premier by Westbanktarheel Al-Watan newspaper, Syria Al-Quds newspaper, Palestine Dar Al-Hayat newspaper, Jordan 2008 films Palestinian documentary films Israeli–Palestinian conflict films Docudrama films Films based on Romeo and", "title": "In Fair Palestine: A Story of Romeo and Juliet" } ]

[ "Claire Danes" ]

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[ { "docid": "15621279", "text": "Henry VIII and his reign have frequently been depicted in art, film, literature, music, opera, plays, and television. Art Lucas de Heere: The Family of Henry VIII Hans Eworth: Henry VIII (c. 1545) Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII, The Dynasty Portrait, and Henry VIII and the Barber-Surgeons (1540) Lucas Horenbout: Untitled Miniature of King Henry (c. 1526) Daniel Maclise: Henry Meeting Anne at Hampton Court Guido Mazzoni: Untitled Bust of Prince Henry (c. 1498) Joos van Cleve: Henry VIII (c. 1535) Willard Wigan: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Film Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time: Jim Cummings and Stuart Pankin Anna Boleyn: Emil Jannings Anne of the Thousand Days: Richard Burton (for which Burton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor) Book Revue: Mel Blanc Cardinal Wolsey (1912): Tefft Johnson Carry On Henry: Sid James God's Outlaw: Keith Barron Henry the Ache (1934, Short): Bert Lahr Henry VIII (1911): Arthur Bourchier Henry VIII and His Six Wives: Keith Michell Inside Llewyn Davis: Llewyn performs a song about Henry and Jane Seymour for Grossman Intolerable Cruelty: Miles references Henry A Man for All Seasons: Robert Shaw (for which Shaw was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) Monarch (2000): T.P. McKenna The Other Boleyn Girl: Eric Bana The Pearls of the Crown: Lyn Harding The Prince and the Pauper (1920): Albert Schreiber The Prince and the Pauper (1937): Montagu Love The Prince and the Pauper (1977): Charlton Heston The Private Life of Henry VIII: Charles Laughton (for which Laughton won the Academy Award for Best Actor) The Sword and the Rose: James Robertson Justice Tudor Rose: Frank Cellier U.F.O.: Rusty Goffe When Knighthood Was in Flower: Lyn Harding Young Bess: Charles Laughton Internet Epic Rap Battles of History: Henry VIII is featured in a canceled, but later launched, episode of the webseries in a rap battle with Hillary Clinton. In the conflict, comparisons between the king's intimate life and the Monicagate controversy are made. Literature Suzannah Dunn: The Confessions of Katherine Howard, The Queen of Subtleties, and The Sixth Wife Carolly Erickson: The First Elizabeth, Mistress Anne, and The Last Wife of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1993) Margaret George: The Autobiography of Henry VIII Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl Diane Haeger: The Secret Bride, The Queen's Mistake, The Queen's Rival, I, Jane Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: The Morland Dynasty, and \"The Dark Rose\" Virginia Henley: A Woman of Passion Eleanor Hibbert: Shadow of the Pomegranate, Katharine the Virgin Widow, King's Secret Matter, The Lady in the Tower: The Wives of Henry VIII, Murder Most Royal, Mary, Queen of France, St. Thomas's Eve, and The Sixth Wife Ivery Kirk, Luna Teague: One Does Not Simply Walk into Tudor Charles Major: When Knighthood Was in Flower Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light Maureen Peters: Henry VIII and His Six Wives (a novelization of the 1972 film) C. J. Sansom: Dissolution, Dark", "title": "Cultural depictions of Henry VIII" } ]

[ "October 13 , 2017" ]

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[ { "docid": "15656982", "text": "Luis Cedeño (born August 11, 1961), more commonly known as DJ Disco Wiz is an American DJ. He is noted as being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop. Old School He was born in the Bronx, New York City, United States, to a Puerto Rican father and a mother from Cuba. After being inspired at a Kool Herc jam by the emerging hip hop movement taking place in The Bronx, DJ Disco Wiz collaborated with his best friend, Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form a group called the Mighty Force crew. Mighty Force is noted as being one of the first Hip-Hop DJ crews in the mid-to-late 1970s. Noted for their DJ battles in the streets of the South Bronx, the Mighty Force crew was also responsible for presenting the first Latino rapper to the world, Prince Whipper Whip, who is also of Puerto Rican descent. DJ Disco Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a \"mixed plate\" in 1977 (Hip-Hop's first mixed dub recording) when he and Grandmaster Caz, combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats. New School The grandson of the late Puerto Rican artist and Santero Norberto Cedeño; (La Mano Poderosa, 1950), Wiz is the creator of \"The Hip-Hop Meets Spoken Wordz\" series, a hip hop and poetry performance series that gives a voice to up-and-coming Latino talent in New York City. As a poet, DJ Disco Wiz has performed at the Apollo Theater and the landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his poetry can be seen in the upcoming book Born in the Bronx. Wiz also appears in a few documentaries on hip-hop history including 1 LOVE, a film produced by noted hip-hop historian James \"Koe\" Rodriguez about the lives of Joe Conzo, Ernie Paniccioli, and Jamel Shabazz—hip-hop's first photographers. Wiz has openly contributed to the community education of the formative years of hip-hop. In the millennium issue of The Source Magazine he candidly shared his experience in being the first Latino during the culture's evolution. He was also a major contributor in the opening of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington in 2000. His contribution and donation of original hip-hop flyers, solely for the preservation of hip-hop can be seen as part of the archives. He was also instrumental in the making of Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn's rendition of the early years of hip-hop entitled Yes, Yes Y’all; sharing numerous original flyers and first-hand accounts of the early years of hip-hop including an account of the historical New York City blackout of 1977. He is also a board member of the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture, chaired by Afrika Bambaataa of the Universal Zulu Nation. The Federation also includes on its board; Grandmaster Caz, DJ Tony Tone, Kurtis Blow, GrandMaster Melle Mel, KRS-One, Lovebug Starski, Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabon, and photographer Joe Conzo. Wiz co-authored his memoirs with Simon & Schuster author Ivan Sanchez. The book is titled It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of", "title": "DJ Disco Wiz" } ]

[ "Nipsey Russell" ]

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[ { "docid": "15653984", "text": "The Motorcycle Boy were a Scottish indie pop band formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1987 by former members of Meat Whiplash and Shop Assistants. History The band consisted of Alex Taylor (vocals, formerly of Shop Assistants), with Paul McDermott (drums), Michael Kerr (guitar), and Eddy Connelly (bass) (all formerly of Meat Whiplash), and David \"Scottie\" Scott (guitar). They were signed by Rough Trade Records, who issued their debut single, \"Big Rock Candy Mountain\", which reached number 2 in the UK Independent Chart. The band were then signed up by Chrysalis Records, with two singles and debut album Scarlet (the album also had additional drumming by Anthony Cooper and keyboards from former Jesse Garon and The Desperadoes guitarist Stuart Clarke) was never released, but failed to achieve great success despite considerable press attention. The band then split with Chrysalis, with two further singles released on the Nymphaea Pink Sensation label in 1990, before the band themselves split up. The group made the cover of NME on 19 September 19 1987, despite only having a brief half-page feature. This was because the entire contents of a themed issue on censorship (which would have had a painting used on Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist, then the subject of an obscenity trial in the USA, on the cover) had themselves been censored, with Stuart Cosgrove sacked from the paper, and a new cover had to be designed at very short notice. Forgotten Astronaut Records have procured the licence for the unreleased album Scarlet, and released the album in late 2019. It was released on both CD and vinyl with the CD containing two bonus tracks, the Flood produced \"Sweet Dreams Pretty Baby\", and the Pat Collier produced \"Days Like These\". It was revealed in 2020 that Alex Taylor had died in 2005. Anthony Cooper, who played drums on the Scarlet album passed away in 2020, and Eddie Connelly died in December 2023. Discography Singles \"Big Rock Candy Mountain\" (7\") (1987) Rough Trade RT 210 A. Big Rock Candy Mountain - 3:13 B. Room at the Top - 3:55 \"Big Rock Candy Mountain\" (12\") (1987) Rough Trade RTT 210 A. Big Rock Candy Mountain (Velocity Dance Mix) - 4:40 B1. Room at the Top - 3:55 B2. His Latest Flame - 2:18 B3. Big Rock Candy Mountain (7\" Mix) - 3:13 \"Hey Mama\" (12\" white label promo copy) (1988) Blue Guitar / Chrysalis AZURX 10 A. Hey Mama (Born Bad Mix) B1. Days Like These B2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow B3. Hey Mama (7\" Version) \"Trying to Be Kind\" (7\") (26 June 1989) Chrysalis CHS 3310 A. Trying to Be Kind B. World Falls Into Place \"Trying to Be Kind\" (12\") (26 June 1989) Chrysalis CHS 12 3310 A. Trying to Be Kind (Extended Mix) B1. World Falls Into Place B2. Will You Love Me Tomorrow B3. Trying to Be Kind (1,000cc Version) \"You and Me Against the World\" (7\") (1989) Chrysalis CHS 3398 A. You and Me Against the World B. Under the", "title": "The Motorcycle Boy" } ]

[ "Carole King", "Gerry Goffin" ]

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[ { "docid": "1563494", "text": "Carolyn Lee Hennesy (born June 10, 1962) is an American actress, writer, and animal advocate. Hennesy's early work consisted of guest appearances and roles in shows and television movies, including Dark Justice and in Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare. She rose to prominence when she was cast in a recurring role in Dawson's Creek. She followed this with a series of guest appearances until she gained international acclaim after landing the role of Diane Miller on the daytime television series General Hospital, for which she earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Following this, she was cast in more recurring roles in shows such as Cougar Town, Revenge, and Jessie. She also received much credibility for her role in The Bay, for which she won her first Daytime Emmy Award. Hennesy has also taken up writing, and made her debut as an author with the 2011 novel The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli, featuring characters from General Hospital, which reached #16 on the New York Times Best Seller list. She is also known for her work as an advocate for animals, notable for her work promoting AZA zoos and aquariums, as well as promoting accredited marine parks like SeaWorld. Early life and education Hennesy was born on June 10, 1962, in Encino, California. She is the daughter of production designer and art director Dale Hennesy, who won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. She attended the American Conservatory Theater. Career Hennesy starred as Mrs. Valentine on the teen drama Dawson's Creek in the 2000–2001 season, and she had supporting roles in the films Global Effect (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003), The Heat Chamber (2005), Click (2006), and Cougar Club (2007). She made three appearances on That '70s Show and has guest-starred on Reba as the mother of Reba's son-in-law, Van. She made a guest appearance on Drake & Josh as Mrs. Abernathy, the boss of the Ball & Vance Fish Corp. Additionally, she appeared as Judith Haven in an episode of What I Like About You. She starred as Rosalyn Harris in the fifth season of HBO hit series True Blood. In 2016, she joined the cast of the Netflix production Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Since 2006, Hennessy has played Diane Miller on the daytime soap opera General Hospital. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2010. Hennesy wrote the 2011 novel The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli featuring characters from General Hospital. The novel reached #16 on the New York Times Best Seller list. In October 2011, Hennesy appeared on Jessie as Mrs. Chesterfield, a role she would reprise through the series' entire four-year run, and in November 2011 as Myrna in the \"That Still Small Voice\" episode of Once Upon a Time. She also guest starred in Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures. Hennesy has written a series of children's books based on", "title": "Carolyn Hennesy" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15673187", "text": "\"Impossible\" is a song by German musician Captain Hollywood Project. It was released in October 1993 by labels Blow Up and Intercord as the fourth single from his debut album, Love Is Not Sex (1993), and features vocals by American singer Kim Sanders. The song was co-written by Nosie Katzmann and Tony Dawson-Harrison (real name of Captain Hollywood), and became a notable hit in several countries. But like \"All I Want\", it achieved moderate success in comparison with the two previous Captain Hollywood Project's singles, \"More and More\" and \"Only with You\". A music video was produced to promote the single, featuring Petra Spiegl instead of Sanders. Critical reception In his review of the Love Is Not Sex album, Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that \"Impossible\" \"is another study in contrasts, as [Captain] Hollywood ponders the darkness of greed and power, amid a flurry of active, rave-flavored synth-beats. It is during this particular track that he best exhibits the poise and command of rhyme needed to resurrect the dormant hip-house movement.\" In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton described it as \"Euro-disco in the Culture Beat mould\". James Hamilton from Music Weeks RM Dance Update viewed it as a \"girl wailed gruffy rapped cheesy typical German techno-pop bounder\". Tony Cross from Smash Hits praised the track, giving it four out of five. He wrote, \"Front man Tony Dawson-Harrison [...] has come up with a monster dance hit that's impossible not to shake down to. It has the Euro flavour of hits like Culture Beat's \"Mr Vain\" (which Tony had a hand in) with a powered-up rap beginning. Then it grows to its hypnotic vocal chant — \"I find you're a little impossible\" - which is packed full of attitude. Expect it to chart very high.\" Chart performance \"Impossible\" was a notable hit on the charts in Europe, entering the top 10 in Denmark (9), Finland (6), Portugal (3), Spain (9), and Sweden (4), as well as on MTV's European Top 20. Additionally, the single was a top-20 hit in Austria (15), Germany (12), Lithuania, the Netherlands (14) and Switzerland (18). On the Eurochart Hot 100, \"Impossible\" debuted at number 37 in November 1993, after charting in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. It peaked at number 20 in December, as well as number three on the European Dance Radio Chart. In the United Kingdom, the single reached number 29 in its first week at the UK Singles Chart, on 6 February, but fared better on the UK Music Week Dance Singles chart, peaking at number 14. Outside Europe, \"Impossible\" was a top-10 hit in Israel, peaking at number nine. Music video The music video for \"Impossible\" was directed by Apollon and did for unknown reasons not feature Kim Sanders, but German singer Petra Spiegl. The video was later made available on Altra Moda Music's official YouTube channel in 2017, having generated almost ten million views as of early 2024. Track listings 12-inch single (1993) \"Impossible\" (New Extended Version)", "title": "Impossible (Captain Hollywood Project song)" } ]

[ "Courteney Cox" ]

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[ { "docid": "15630853", "text": "Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate between sheep and grain and the Debate between Winter and Summer, also found at Nippur. Other flood myths appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis creation narrative. Fragments The story is known from three fragments representing different versions of the narrative. One is a tablet excavated from the ancient Sumerian city known as Nippur. This tablet was discovered during the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893, and the creation story was recognized by Arno Poebel in 1912. It is written in the Sumerian language and is dated to around 1600 BC. The second fragment is from Ur, also written in Sumerian and from the same time period. The third is a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian fragment from the Library of Ashurbanipal ca. 600 In 2018, a new fragment of the Eridu Genesis story was published. Synopsis The first 36 lines of the primary tablet from Nippur are lost, although they can be inferred to have discussed the creation of man and animals, and likely spoke about the dissolute existence of mankind prior to civilization (as is indicated by the fragment from Ur). The surviving portion begins with a monologue from Nintur, the goddess who birthed mankind, where she calls humans from a vagrant existence as nomads to build cities, temples, and become both sedentary and civilized. After the monologue, there is another missing section that only resumes after another 36 lines, and at this point humans are still in a nomadic state; the missing section may have spoken of an initial unsuccessful attempt by humans to establish civilization. When the text resumes, Nintur is still planning on providing kingship and organization to humans. Then, the first cities are named (beginning with Eridu, whose leadership Nintur placed under Nudimmud), then Badtibira, Larak, Sippar, and finally Shuruppak. The cities were established as distributional (not monetary) economies. Another lacuna (missing section) of 34 lines proceeds. The fragment from the library of Ashurbanipal, as well as independent evidence from the Sumerian King List, suggests this section included the naming of more cities and their rulers. What occurs next is a statement that humans began to make noises that annoyed the gods: Enlil in particular was entirely unable to sleep due to humanity and made the radical decision to deal with this by destroying humanity with a flood. The god Enki informs one human, Ziusudra (likely a priest), of this decision and advises him to build a boat to save both himself and one couple of every living creature. Ziusudra builds the boat, boards it with his family and the animals, and the gods unleash the flood, although the exact phrasing", "title": "Eridu Genesis" } ]

[ "Utnapishtim" ]

[ { "docid": "156489", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the American Library Association Best Book Award for Young Adults in 2003. The book was also made into a 2007 film, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Plot During the summer, Harry Potter is frustrated by his friends' non-communication and with Dumbledore barring him from helping combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort. One evening, Dementors attack him and cousin Dudley, but Harry fends them off using the Patronus Charm. Later, Order of the Phoenix members arrive at the Dursley house to evacuate Harry. They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, which is now the Order's headquarters. Ron and Hermione are there and tell Harry that the Order is a secret organisation that Dumbledore created to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Harry wants to join, but is too young. The Ministry of Magic, under Cornelius Fudge, attempt to malign Harry for stating that Voldemort has returned. Harry is also charged with performing underage magic while with a Muggle, but is exonerated and returns to Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only curriculum and forbids the students from practicing defensive spells. Harry, Ron, and Hermione form a secret student Defense group called Dumbledore's Army. The group secretly meets in the Room of Requirement to practice under Harry's instruction. One night, Harry dreams that Arthur Weasley is attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini. His vision is true, and Arthur is found seriously injured at the Ministry. Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected, and he orders Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill to close one's mind against others. Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion, Dumbledore claims responsibility for forming the group. To avoid arrest, he goes into hiding. Umbridge is appointed headmistress, though she is magically barred from entering Dumbledore's tower, and begins enacting strict rules and regulations. Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, he envisions Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. Harry attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, using the Floo Network in Umbridge's office, but she catches and interrogates him, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Hermione intervenes by concocting a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest. Umbridge", "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" } ]

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[ "Dolores Umbridge" ]

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[ { "docid": "15675001", "text": "Highland Ralph Dobson OD (5 July 1942 – 21 July 2020) was a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer, nicknamed \"The Loving Pauper\" after one of his best known songs. Biography Dobson began singing while a student at Central Branch School in Kingston and at Kingston College, where he sang in the chapel choir, and successfully took part in Vere Johns Opportunity Hour talent contest as a member of The Twilights. While at Kingston College he wrote the doo-wop song \"Cry a Little Cry\" as a tribute to his biology teacher. He recruited a group of schoolmates from the Delta stream at the college to back him on a recording of the song, under the name the Dobby Dobson and the Deltas; The group included Howard Barrett (who later formed The Paragons). Released by Lyndon and Sonia Pottinger's Tip-Top label in 1959, it topped the RJR charts that year. Leaving school in 1959, Dobson went on record with Charles Josephs as part of the duo Chuck and Dobby, before becoming a solo artist in the early 1960s, again recording for Pottinger. He later moved on to work with both Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid, recording as a member of both The Virtues and The Sheiks, and recorded \"Loving Pauper\" with Reid, which became his signature tune. Despite his musical success, Dobson kept his job as a salesman and proof-reader for The Jamaica Gleaner. In 1971, he recorded \"That Wonderful Sound\" for Rupie Edwards, which sold over 40,000 copies in the Caribbean, and was followed up by the equally successful \"Endlessly\", which was also a minor hit on the UK Singles Chart. Disappointing album sales led Dobson to move into production, including The Meditations' late 1970s albums Message From The Meditations and Wake Up, as well as early work by Barrington Levy. In 1979, Dobson emigrated to New York City, where he worked in real estate, although he would still occasionally visit the recording studio, and performed at both the Reggae Sunsplash and the Reggae Sumfest festivals. He continued to be popular with international fans, and was still releasing albums. Dobson was featured in a 2009 3-D documentary called Dobby Dobson: An Interview with Jamaica's Music Ambassador, which had the tagline: \"See The Double-D in 3D\". On 6 August 2011, being the 49th anniversary of the country's independence, the Governor-General of Jamaica conferred the Order of Distinction in the rank of Officer (OD) upon Dobson, for his contribution to reggae music and representation of Jamaican culture. He became a born-again Christian and recorded several gospel albums. Death Dobson, who had Alzheimer's disease, died from COVID-19 at a hospital in Coral Springs, Florida, on 21 July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida. Albums Wonderful Sound (1970), Success Strange (1970), Pama God Bless Our Love, Straker's Baby I'm Yours (1977), WIRL/Double-D Something Old Something New (1977), Double-D Sweet Dreams (1978), Federal Dobby Dobson (1978), Gorgon Oh God, Are You Satisfied (1978), United Artists Sweet Christmas (1978), Top Ranking (featuring Ringo) Lovers Roots", "title": "Dobby Dobson" } ]

[ "Bobby Bare", "Boyce Hawkins" ]

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[ { "docid": "15635070", "text": "Bolton Chequerbent (1831 station) Chequerbent (1885 station) Darcy Lever Horwich Bury Ainsworth Road Halt Bradley Fold Brandlesholme Road Halt Bury Bolton Street (now preserved, as part of the East Lancashire Railway) Bury Knowsley Street Molyneux Brow Radcliffe Bridge Ringley Road Withins Lane Manchester Baguley Chorlton-cum-Hardy (converted to Metrolink) Clayton Bridge Dean Lane (converted to Metrolink) Didsbury Fallowfield High Street (Metrolink tram stop) Hyde Road Levenshulme South Longsight Manchester Central Manchester Mayfield Miles Platting Mosley Street (Metrolink tram stop) Newton Heath Northenden Park Woodlands Road (Metrolink tram stop) Oldham Derker (converted to Metrolink) Failsworth (converted to Metrolink) Grasscroft Hollinwood (converted to Metrolink) Lees Middleton Junction Moorgate Oldham Central Oldham Clegg Street Oldham Glodwick Road Oldham Mumps (converted to Metrolink) Oldham Werneth Royton Royton Junction Shaw and Crompton (converted to Metrolink) Rochdale Middleton Milnrow (converted to Metrolink) New Hey (converted to Metrolink as \"Newhey\") Salford Agecroft Bridge Barton Moss Cadishead Cross Lane Ellenbrook Irlams o' th' Height Manchester Exchange Monton Green Ordsall Lane Pendlebury Pendleton Pendleton Bridge Seedley Walkden Low Level Weaste Worsley Stockport Cheadle (Cheshire Lines) Cheadle (LNWR) Cheadle Heath Hazel Grove (Midland) Heaton Mersey Heaton Norris Stockport Portwood Stockport Tiviot Dale High Lane Middlewood Higher Tameside Ashton Moss Ashton Oldham Road Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw Droylsden Dukinfield & Ashton Dukinfield Central Godley East Hooley Hill Park Bridge Trafford Altrincham (1st) Bowdon Broadheath (converted to Metrolink) Dunham (W&SR) Partington West Timperley Wigan Astley Atherleigh Atherton Bag Lane Hindley Green Hindley South Leigh Lower Ince Pennington Plank Lane Platt Bridge Tyldesley West Leigh West Leigh & Bedford See also List of railway stations in Greater Manchester Lists of railway stations in Great Britain Closed Railway stations", "title": "List of closed railway stations in Greater Manchester" } ]

[ "1 April 1974" ]

[ { "docid": "1563891", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1988 side-scrolling action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System loosely based on the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Gameplay alternates between the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on the player's ability to either avoid or cause damage. Gameplay and premise The story of the game is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, with Dr. Jekyll on the way to his forthcoming wedding to Miss Millicent. The game's ending depends on which character, Jekyll or Hyde, reaches the church first. As Dr. Jekyll walks to the church with his cane in hand, several townspeople, animals, and other obstacles obstruct his path, causing him to become angry. After his stress meter fills up, Dr. Jekyll will transform into Mr. Hyde. The gameplay then moves to a demonic world, where Hyde will fire out a \"psycho wave\" at various monsters. The Psycho Wave is, in fact, proudly displayed on the game's cover. As Mr. Hyde kills these monsters, his anger abates and he eventually transforms back into Dr. Jekyll. The game features six levels, but the levels differ between the Japanese and North American versions. The Japanese version follows this order: City, Park, Alley, Town, Cemetery, Street. However, the North American version replaces a few levels and follows this order: Town, Cemetery, Town, Park, Cemetery, Street. The North American version also removed certain sprites and segments from the original Japanese version. The player starts out controlling Dr. Jekyll on his way to the church, walking to the right. Contrary to most platformers, Dr. Jekyll cannot attack the majority of his enemies (though he is equipped with a cane) and, as a result, must avoid his enemies, rather than confront them directly. As he takes damage from the various enemies and obstacles, his Life Meter decreases and his Anger Meter increases. If his Life Meter is fully depleted, Dr. Jekyll dies and the game is over. If his Anger Meter completely fills, however, he transforms into Mr. Hyde. Day turns to night and monsters appear. At this point, the level is mirrored horizontally and Mr. Hyde walks from right to left with the screen autoscrolling. Mr. Hyde must kill monsters as fast as he can in order to turn back into Dr. Jekyll, with Shepp monsters generally giving the largest refill to his Meter, though killing other monsters may refill the Meter a small amount. Once the player returns as Dr. Jekyll, 70% of his Life Meter is restored. If Hyde reaches a spot equivalent to where Dr. Jekyll reached in the latter's world (except in the final segment), a bolt of lightning strikes and kills him instantly. Therefore, the objective of the game is to advance as far as possible as Dr. Jekyll and to transform back as soon as possible as Mr. Hyde. However, the more detailed alternative ending of the game requires the player to strategically reach the Church with Mr.", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game)" } ]

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[ "Mr. Hyde" ]

[ { "docid": "15626917", "text": "The 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 89th in the National Football League (NFL), their 21st season in Arizona, and their second under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. The season marked the Cardinals' first Super Bowl appearance, coming as a result of their victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. The Cardinals slogan for the season was \"Shock The World!\" Riding the back of quarterback Kurt Warner, who had gone from being a backup for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 to leading the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory, and franchise wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals went on a playoff run for the ages after having won just one playoff game in the last sixty years, as Warner once again recreated the magic he had captured with the Rams. (Coincidentally, both teams were based in St. Louis at one point or another, only to relocate to different cities.) The Cardinals began their season by compiling a 7–3 record by Week 11 and finished the regular season with a 9–7 record (their first winning season in 10 years), which was good enough to win the NFC West, and the Cardinals, for the first time since 1947, hosted a playoff game. In that wild card game, the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Falcons. The next week, for the Divisional round of the playoffs, the Cardinals traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they upset the number 2 seeded Carolina Panthers. Then, because the Philadelphia Eagles also achieved an upset the same week (against the top-seeded New York Giants), the number-four seed Cardinals hosted the NFC Championship game, where they defeated the Eagles and qualified for the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. In Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' winning streak ended. Though they led the Pittsburgh Steelers with less than a minute left to play in the game, they lost, 27–23. The 2008 Cardinals were the second 9–7 team to reach the Super Bowl, joining the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV, who also lost to the Steelers; however, the Rams had to win only two playoff games, rather than three, to reach the Super Bowl. Three years later in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants would become the first 9–7 team to win, overshadowing the Cardinals' achievement. In 2014, Athlon Sports ranked the 2008 Cardinals as the fourth-worst team to ever make the Super Bowl. Coaching staff 2008 NFL Draft selections Roster Schedule Preseason Regular season Standings Regular season results Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers The Cardinals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona took flight as kicker Neil Rackers got a 25-yard field goal. The 49ers responded with RB Frank Gore's 41-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals responded with QB Kurt Warner completing a one-yard TD pass to WR Larry Fitzgerald, yet San Francisco tied the game with kicker Joe Nedney getting", "title": "2008 Arizona Cardinals season" } ]

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[ "1" ]

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[ { "docid": "15626917", "text": "The 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 89th in the National Football League (NFL), their 21st season in Arizona, and their second under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. The season marked the Cardinals' first Super Bowl appearance, coming as a result of their victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. The Cardinals slogan for the season was \"Shock The World!\" Riding the back of quarterback Kurt Warner, who had gone from being a backup for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 to leading the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory, and franchise wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals went on a playoff run for the ages after having won just one playoff game in the last sixty years, as Warner once again recreated the magic he had captured with the Rams. (Coincidentally, both teams were based in St. Louis at one point or another, only to relocate to different cities.) The Cardinals began their season by compiling a 7–3 record by Week 11 and finished the regular season with a 9–7 record (their first winning season in 10 years), which was good enough to win the NFC West, and the Cardinals, for the first time since 1947, hosted a playoff game. In that wild card game, the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Falcons. The next week, for the Divisional round of the playoffs, the Cardinals traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they upset the number 2 seeded Carolina Panthers. Then, because the Philadelphia Eagles also achieved an upset the same week (against the top-seeded New York Giants), the number-four seed Cardinals hosted the NFC Championship game, where they defeated the Eagles and qualified for the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. In Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' winning streak ended. Though they led the Pittsburgh Steelers with less than a minute left to play in the game, they lost, 27–23. The 2008 Cardinals were the second 9–7 team to reach the Super Bowl, joining the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV, who also lost to the Steelers; however, the Rams had to win only two playoff games, rather than three, to reach the Super Bowl. Three years later in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants would become the first 9–7 team to win, overshadowing the Cardinals' achievement. In 2014, Athlon Sports ranked the 2008 Cardinals as the fourth-worst team to ever make the Super Bowl. Coaching staff 2008 NFL Draft selections Roster Schedule Preseason Regular season Standings Regular season results Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers The Cardinals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona took flight as kicker Neil Rackers got a 25-yard field goal. The 49ers responded with RB Frank Gore's 41-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals responded with QB Kurt Warner completing a one-yard TD pass to WR Larry Fitzgerald, yet San Francisco tied the game with kicker Joe Nedney getting", "title": "2008 Arizona Cardinals season" } ]

[ "Baltimore Ravens" ]

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[ { "docid": "15638285", "text": "\"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me\" is a song written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and recorded by American recording artist Alexander O'Neal. It is the fifth single from the singer's second solo album, Hearsay (1987). The song's distinctive backing vocals were performed by Lisa Keith. Following the successful chart performances of the Hearsay singles \"Fake\", \"Criticize\", \"Never Knew Love Like This\", and \"The Lovers\", \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me\" was released as the album's fifth single. Release The song O'Neal's eleventh top 40 single which reached #27 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1988, and #68 on the R&B chart in O'Neal's native United States. Track listing 12\" Single (Tabu 652852 6) \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me\" – 4:25 \"A Broken Heart Can Mend\" – 3:40 \" You Were Meant to Be My Lady (Not My Girl) (Extended Dance Remix)\" – 9:50 12\" Single Promo (Tabu ZAS 1429) \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (Hateful Club Mix)\" – 6:47 \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (Dance Dub)\" – 5:50 \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (Bonus Beats)\" – 3:21 \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (Ben Liebrand Remix)\" – 6:41 \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (A Capella)\" – 3:55 7\" Single (Tabu 652852 7) \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me (Edit)\" \"A Broken Heart Can Mend\" CD Single (Tabu 652852 2) \"(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me\" – 4:25 \"A Broken Heart Can Mend\" – 3:40 \"You Were Meant to Be My Lady (Not My Girl) (Extended Dance Remix)\" – 9:50 Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Alexander O'Neal – lead vocals Jimmy Jam – drum and keyboard programming, keyboards, percussion Terry Lewis – percussion, backing vocals Lisa Keith – backing vocals Sales chart performance Peak positions References External links 1988 singles Alexander O'Neal songs Songs written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis 1987 songs Tabu Records singles Song recordings produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis", "title": "(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me" } ]

[ "Barry Gibb", "Robin Gibb" ]

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[ { "docid": "15653071", "text": "Pyloromyotomy is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the muscle fibers of the pyloric muscle are cut. This is typically done in cases where the contents from the stomach are inappropriately stopped by the pyloric muscle, causing the stomach contents to build up in the stomach and unable to be appropriately digested. The procedure is typically performed in cases of \"hypertrophic pyloric stenosis\" in young children. In most cases, the procedure can be performed with either an open approach or a laparoscopic approach and the patients typically have good outcomes with minimal complications. History and development The development of the procedure has attributed to Dr. Conrad Ramstedt in 1911, who originally named the procedure Ramstedt's Operation. However, the procedure was truly performed about 17 months earlier by Sir Harold Stiles in 1910 at the Royal Hospital for sick children. In 1991, the first laparoscopic pyloromyotomy was performed by Dr. Alain and Dr. Grousseau. Procedure After pyloric stenosis is identified in a patient, and any electrolyte and fluid imbalances are stabilized, the surgeon will perform the procedure. During which, the surgeon must access the pylorus through the abdominal wall. This can either be done laparoscopically or with an \"open\" procedure. In either case, the once the pylorus is accessed, the surgeon will visualize the hypertrophied pyloric muscle. Then, the surgeon will carefully cut through the outer layers of tissue and through the pyloric muscle to the mucosa, which is the layer of tissue facing the inside of the gastrointestinal tract. From there, the two portions of the pyloric muscle are tested for mobility and the mucosal layer is inspected for any unintentional damage. Depending on the approach, the pylorus, stomach, and gastrointestinal tract are returned to their appropriate place in the abdominal cavity and the medical equipment is removed. Finally, each of the surgical incisions are stitched closed and the patient is taken back to post-operative area for monitoring. Laparoscopic approach: In the laparoscopic approach, the appropriate area of the gastrointestinal tract is accessed in a minimally invasive manner. This approach may be chosen due to the reduced hospital stay, quicker recovery time, and higher satisfaction with the appearance of the surgical site after the patient has healed when compared to the older open approach. Typically, two to three trocars, a medical device used to penetrate the abdominal wall in laparoscopic medical procedures, are placed in their appropriate positions. This is typically done my making a small cut for each trocar in the abdominal wall before placing the trocar into the cut. The abdomen is then filled with a gas, such as carbon dioxide to increase visibility with the laparoscopic camera and increase working space. Once the laparoscopic instruments and camera are place through the trocars, the hypertrophied pylorus is visualized. Then, the pyloric muscle is cut down to the mucosa and the muscle fibers are spread apart using the laparoscopic instruments. From there, the two pyloric sections are tested independently for appropriate movement. After that, the mucosa is", "title": "Pyloromyotomy" } ]

[ "rectus abdominis" ]

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[ { "docid": "1564989", "text": "James Charles Taylor (September 20, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, with the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1966 and with the expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. With the Packers, Taylor was invited to five straight Pro Bowls and won four NFL championships, as well as a victory in the first Super Bowl. He was recognized as the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) after winning the rushing title in 1962, beating out Jim Brown. An aggressive player and fluent trash talker, Taylor developed several personal rivalries throughout his career, most notably with New York Giants linebacker Sam Huff. This confrontational attitude, combined with his tenacious running style, a penchant for contact, and ability to both withstand and deliver blows, earned him a reputation as one of the league's toughest players. Playing college football for the LSU Tigers, Taylor led the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in scoring in 1956 and 1957 and earned first-team All-America honors as a senior. He was selected by the Packers in the second round of the 1958 NFL draft and was used sparingly as a rookie, but with the arrival of coach Vince Lombardi in 1959 Taylor soon became the team's all-purpose back, especially when only a few yards were needed. In this role, his spirited performance against the Giants in the 1962 NFL Championship Game came to define his mental and physical toughness. Taylor finished his career after carrying 1,941 times for 8,597 yards and 83 touchdowns. He was the first player to record five straight seasons of at least 1,000 rushing yards. His 81 rushing touchdowns for the Packers remains a franchise record by a wide margin, and his 8,207 rushing yards with the team has been surpassed only once. Taylor was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976. He is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and his number 31 jersey is retired by the Saints. Early years and college Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 20, 1935, James Charles Taylor had two paper routes to help his widowed mother make ends meet. He delivered the morning and afternoon routes by bicycle for three dollars a week, which helped to develop his leg muscles. Though he did not play football until his junior year, he was a star athlete in four sports at Baton Rouge High School, and graduated in 1954. He stayed in town and played college football at Louisiana State University for coach Paul Dietzel's LSU Tigers football team. Taylor played on LSU's freshman team in 1954, but due to struggles in the classroom, he transferred to Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi, as a sophomore, where he met his future wife Dixie Grant. He then returned to LSU as a junior. Taylor rushed for 1,314 yards and scored 20 rushing touchdowns over his LSU career, and led the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in scoring", "title": "Jim Taylor (fullback)" } ]

[ "the Steelers" ]

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[ { "docid": "1566210", "text": "The climate of Salt Lake City, Utah features cold and snowy winters, hot and dry summers, and modest to light seasonal rainfall. Lying in the Salt Lake Valley, the city is surrounded by mountains and the Great Salt Lake. Under the Köppen climate classification, Salt Lake City has either a Mediterranean climate (Csa) or dry-summer continental climate (Dsa) depending on which variant of the system is used, though it borders on a cold semi-arid climate (BSk) due to the city's relatively low precipitation. The city has four distinct seasons: a cold, snowy winter; a hot, dry summer; and two relatively wet transition periods. The Pacific Ocean is the primary influence on the weather, contributing storms from about October to May, with spring being the wettest season. Snow falls frequently during the winter, contributed largely by the lake-effect from the Great Salt Lake. The only source of precipitation in the summer is monsoon moisture moving north from the Gulf of California. Summers are hot, frequently reaching above , while winters are cold and snowy. The Rocky Mountains to the east and north usually block powerful polar highs from affecting the state during the winter. Temperatures rarely fall below , but frequently stay below freezing. Temperature inversions during winter can lead to thick overnight fog and daytime haze in the valley as cool air, moisture, and pollutants are trapped in the valley by surrounding mountains. Overview Temperatures Winter temperatures are not as extreme as might be expected, given the elevation and latitude (40°45'N) of the city. The Rocky Mountains to the east and northeast of the state block most cold waves from polar highs positioned in the Great Plains from reaching the city. The frigidly cold air that does affect the city must come directly from the north or north-northwest from western Canada through fewer and lower intervening mountains. Temperatures seldom fall below ; Salt Lake City has experienced sub-zero temperatures during only 4 storm cycles in the last 10 years. However, the average sub-zero days in a year is 2. Salt Lake City averages 26 days with high temperatures at or below freezing. In winter, warm air from the surrounding Desert Southwest is usually only drawn up to the city in advance of a cold front arriving from the northwest. January is the coldest month with an average temperature of . Salt Lake City's record low maximum temperature is , set on December 22, 1990, during an extended period of frigid Arctic air, and its overall record low temperature is , set on February 9, 1933 during a historic cold air surge from the north. During spring, temperatures warm steadily and rapidly. Wintry weather is usually last experienced in April. Summery weather first arrives in May; the earliest temperature on record was on May 2. Major cold fronts typically stop arriving in May or June. Summer temperatures are hot, although are moderated somewhat by the cool breezes from the Great Salt Lake and by the city's elevation. The lack of cold", "title": "Climate of Salt Lake City" } ]

[ "ahead of the front" ]

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[ { "docid": "15647771", "text": "In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan, is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain. In the human skull, the neurocranium includes the calvaria or skullcap. The remainder of the skull is the facial skeleton. In comparative anatomy, neurocranium is sometimes used synonymously with endocranium or chondrocranium. Structure The neurocranium is divided into two portions: the membranous part, consisting of flat bones, which surround the brain; and the cartilaginous part, or chondrocranium, which forms bones of the base of the skull. In humans, the neurocranium is usually considered to include the following eight bones: 1 ethmoid bone 1 frontal bone 1 occipital bone 2 parietal bones 1 sphenoid bone 2 temporal bones The ossicles (three on each side) are usually not included as bones of the neurocranium. There may variably also be extra sutural bones present. Below the neurocranium is a complex of openings (foramina) and bones, including the foramen magnum which houses the neural spine. The auditory bullae, located in the same region, aid in hearing. The size of the neurocranium is variable among mammals. The roof may contain ridges such as the temporal crests. Development The neurocranium arises from paraxial mesoderm. There is also some contribution of ectomesenchyme. In Chondrichthyes and other cartilaginous vertebrates this portion of the cranium does not ossify; it is not replaced via endochondral ossification. Other animals The neurocranium is formed by the combination of the endocranium, the lower portions of the cranial vault, and the skull roof. Through the course of evolution, the human neurocranium has expanded from comprising the back part of the mammalian skull to being also the upper part: during the evolutionary expansion of the brain, the neurocranium has overgrown the splanchnocranium. The upper-frontmost part of the cranium also houses the evolutionarily newest part of the mammal brain, the frontal lobes. In other vertebrates, the foramen magnum is oriented towards the back, rather than downwards. The braincase contains a greater number of bones, most of which are endochondral rather than dermal: The singular basioccipital is the rear lower part of the braincase, below the foramen magnum. It is homologous to the basilar part of the occipital bone. In the ancestral tetrapod, the basioccipital makes up most of a large central knob-like surface, the occipital condyle, which articulates with the vertebrae as a ball-and-socket joint. This plesiomorphic (\"primitive\") state is retained by modern reptiles and birds. The underside of the basioccipital may have a pair of large projections which act as neck muscle attachments: the basitubera (also known as basioccipital tubera or basal tubera) The paired exoccipitals (singular: exoccipital) are visible at the rear of the braincase, adjacent to the foramen magnum and above the basioccipital. They are homologous to the lateral parts of the occipital bone. Modern amphibians and mammals have independently acquired inflated exoccipitals, acting as paired occipital condyles while the basioccipital is reduced and loses its connection to the vertebrae. The singular supraoccipital", "title": "Neurocranium" }, { "docid": "15648747", "text": "The splanchnocranium (or visceral skeleton) is the portion of the cranium that is derived from pharyngeal arches. Splanchno indicates to the gut because the face forms around the mouth, which is an end of the gut. The splanchnocranium consists of cartilage and endochondral bone. In mammals, the splanchnocranium comprises the three ear ossicles (i.e., incus, malleus, and stapes), as well as the alisphenoid, the styloid process, the hyoid apparatus, and the thyroid cartilage. In other tetrapods, such as amphibians and reptiles, homologous bones to those of mammals, such as the quadrate, articular, columella, and entoglossus are part of the splanchnocranium. See also Dermatocranium Endocranium Neurocranium References Human anatomy Vertebrate anatomy", "title": "Splanchnocranium" } ]

[ "bones in the jaw" ]

[ { "docid": "15628383", "text": "Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005 and caused extensive damage to the Louisiana Superdome. As a result, the National Football League (NFL)'s New Orleans Saints were unable to play any home games at the Superdome for the entire 2005 NFL regular season. The dome was also used as a storm shelter for people who were unable to evacuate the city before the storm. The Saints practice facility was not flooded and suffered minimal damage during the hurricane but was unable to be used by the Saints because it was being occupied by FEMA and by evacuees. Before Hurricane Katrina In April 2005, Tom Benson, owner of the Saints, halted lease negotiations with the state of Louisiana until after the completion of the 2005 NFL season, due to a stadium dispute. Rumors quickly began to spread that San Antonio, Texas, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California were being considered as possible destinations for the team. In May, it was reported that Benson had strong interest in relocating to San Antonio due to owning a substantial amount of property in the region and having strong business interests within the city, specifically related to his car dealership empire. After Hurricane Katrina After practicing for approximately a week in San Jose, California, where they had evacuated in conjunction with a pre-season game against the Oakland Raiders, the team set up temporary headquarters at the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk and Henry B. González Convention Center. Practice facilities were arranged at a sports complex adjacent to Luther Burbank High School in San Antonio, Texas. The league then announced that although the Saints' first home game on September 18 against the New York Giants would be played at Giants Stadium at 7:30 p.m. EDT on September 19, other home games would be split between Tiger Stadium (the stadium of the LSU Tigers football) at LSU in Baton Rouge (80 miles/130 km from New Orleans), and the Alamodome in San Antonio (540 miles/869 km from New Orleans); offices and practice would remain in San Antonio throughout the season. Prospective relocation controversy Various media reports in the San Antonio Express-News indicated the owner and government officials in San Antonio were working behind the scenes concerning a possible permanent relocation to San Antonio. San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger had pushed a strong verbal campaign to pursue the Saints. Other officials, including Texas Governor Rick Perry, had indicated that they would also support a relocation to San Antonio, including using funding to upgrade the Alamodome, or possibly build a new stadium. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whose team currently has San Antonio as part of its territorial rights, also supported an NFL team moving to San Antonio. However, the NFL and commissioner Paul Tagliabue were both in favor of keeping the franchise in New Orleans or at least delaying a decision on a potential relocation. Other rumors of the period said that the NFL preferred to move the team to Los Angeles, or", "title": "Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Saints" } ]

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[ "the Alamodome in San Antonio", "Giants Stadium" ]

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[ { "docid": "15653202", "text": "System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E), the proprietary version of System Modification Program (SMP), \"is a tool designed to manage the installation of software products on [a] z/OS system and to track the modifications\" to those products. SMP/E manages multiple software versions, helps apply patches and updates (PTFs), facilitates orderly testing and, if necessary, reversion to a previous state, allows a \"trial run\" pseudo-installation to verify that actual installation will work, keeps audit and security records to assure only approved software updates occur, and otherwise provides highly evolved, centralized control over all software installation on z/OS. Although it is possible to design and ship software products that install on z/OS without SMP/E, most mainframe administrators prefer SMP/E-enabled products, at least for non-trivial packages. Using SMP/E typically requires some working knowledge of Job Control Language (JCL), although most products supply sample JCL. The rigorous software management discipline associated with SMP/E typically extends to product documentation as well, with IBM and other vendors supplying a standardized \"Program Directory\" manual for each software product that precisely aligns with the SMP/E work processes. The Program Directory provides detailed information on pre-requisites and co-requisites, for example. Use of SMP/E to manage system updates helps ensure system integrity, by making sure that the system is in a consistent state and that changes to that state are properly audited. History IBM introduced SMP in OS/360 and OS/VS to replace semi-manual processes involving tools such as IEBEDIT and IMAPTFLE. IBM introduced 3 subsequent free releases of SMP, with significant changes between releases, especially from SMP3 to SMP4. All four releases store tracking data in partitioned data sets (PDSs). IBM introduced SMP/E for OS/VS; however, SMP/E Release 2 is the last release to support OS/VS1. SMP/E stores tracking data in VSAM datasets rather than the PDSs that SMP release 1 through 4 use. While originally a separate product, SMP/E is bundled with z/OS. IBM ultimately introduced similar tools for other operating systems, e.g., Maintain System History Program (MSHP) for DOS/VS, Virtual Machine Serviceability Enhancements Staged (VM/SP SES), (now VMSES/E), for VM/SP through z/VM. Concepts All IBM and most non-IBM software is assigned at least one seven character FMID (Function Modification ID) that identifies the piece of software and its release number. This first FMID is called the Base FMID. For Example DB2 Version 9's Base FMID is HDB9910. Separately installable features also have FMIDs (called Dependent FMIDs) that relate in some way to the base product DB2 English language panels for Version 9's Dependent FMID is JDB9910. A software package is composed of elements, individual components such as object files (MOD), macros (MAC), sample programs (SAMP), etc. The CSI (Consolidated Software Inventory) is a dataset containing the information that SMP/E needs to track the contents of the distribution and target libraries. The CSI contains \"metadata\" identifying the installed FMIDs and elements, the ID of the most recent update, and pointers to the associated libraries. A SYSMOD (System Modification) is any modification to the system. This includes: Function SYSMODS install a new", "title": "SMP/E" } ]

[ "Unix" ]

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[ { "docid": "15651608", "text": "\"Where My Girls At?\" is a song by American R&B/pop group 702, released by Motown as the first single from their self-titled second album, 702, on April 5, 1999 in the United States, followed by a United Kingdom release on July 26, 1999. Often considered the group's signature song, \"Where My Girls At?\" was an international hit, peaking within the top 30 on the charts in many countries. The song spent thirty weeks in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the group their second top 10 US song; it was the 11 song of the year on the Billboard 1999 year-end chart. \"Where My Girls At?\" earned a Lady of Soul Award nomination for \"Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo\" in 1999. The song was written as a female anthem. Elliott, who co-wrote the song, noted that \"Where My Girls At?\" was a song that she wanted female listeners to hear and relate too. Background \"Where My Girls At?\" is a R&B and dance song, written by Missy Elliott, Eric Seats, and Rapture Stewart. Elliott initial offered the song to R&B group TLC during the recording of their third studio album, FanMail (1999). While Lisa Lopes of TLC voted to record the song, her groupmates rejected the song. In a Billboard interview, Elliott recalled \"Lisa (“Left Eye” Lopes) really wanted it, she really wanted that record, but I guess, if it’s two against one (what can you do?)\". Lopes then tried to secure the song for Blaque, a female group signed to Lopes' Left Eye Productions. The song was eventually recorded by 702 with Meelah Williams performing the lead vocals. The song became a female anthem due to its lyrics and celebration of women. Elliott recounted \"It’s almost like church — when you go to church, pastor is saying something (and you’re) like, ‘I swear up and down that message is for me.’ I wanted to create something women could feel like, ‘I could relate to this record.’\" Group member Meelah Williams addressed critics that questioned if the song was really a female anthem or not. Williams stated, \"You really have to listen. What it is, we're asking, 'Where are my true girlfriends that wouldn't do that to me, that would have my back and wouldn't stab me in the back?' So that's basically the purpose of the song, to let girls know that we're down for each other and we're all one.\" Music video The music video for \"Where My Girls At?\" was directed by Bille Woodruff. The video starts outside an apartment complex, zooming in to a window where the members of 702 are walking down a brutalist-styled corridor wearing all-black leather attire. Behind them is a group of men wearing the same color, later standing against the wall while the ladies walk past them during the chorus. After the first chorus, the group members are all in different Y2K styled settings. Kameelah is seen in a chrome, light blue room wearing a", "title": "Where My Girls At?" } ]

[ "Adam Lambert" ]

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[ { "docid": "1562800", "text": "Jackson \"Butch\" Guice (born June 27, 1961) is an American comics artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s. Biography Guice was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond of \"the legendary stop-motion animator and filmmaker\" Ray Harryhausen, whose influence can be seen in some of Guice's work, most notably the Humanoids project Olympus. 1980s Guice began his career with fanzine work and \"designing patches and emblems for a small company in North Carolina.\" His first credited comics work was penciling and inking the independently published The Crusaders #1 (November 1982), although he had previously ghosted for Pat Broderick on Rom Annual #1 (1982). On the strength of his fanzine work, (and, Guice believes, at the behest of Rom writer Bill Mantlo) Marvel editor Al Milgrom offered him a tryout on the toy-spin-off title Micronauts. Referring to Rom Annual #1 and Micronauts #48 (Dec. 1982), he remarked that \"[b]oth were breaking points for me getting into comics\".<ref name=toystory>{{cite journal|last = Johnson|first = Dan|title = Marvel's Toy Story: Rom's Sal Buscema and Micronauts''' Jackson Guice|journal = Back Issue!|issue = 16|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = May 2006|location= Raleigh, North Carolina}}</ref> Guice continued penciling Micronauts until #58 (May 1984). In July 1983, \"The Butch Guice Portfolio\" appeared in the pages of Marvel Fanfare #9, and Guice contributed to The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Chris Claremont and Bill Mantlo's X-Men and the Micronauts four-issue miniseries as well as occasional issues of a number of different titles. In 1984, he drew the Marvel Comics adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and inked Dazzler. In 1986, he penciled X-Factor, while concurrently contributing pencils to The New Mutants. In mid-1987, he was credited with inks to \"Brian Guice\" 's pencils for five issues of Adventure Publications' Adventurers, which was written and edited by Scott Behnke. That same year, Guice collaborated on several different titles with writer Mike Baron, including issues of First Comics' Badger, Nexus and The Chronicles of Corum. Guice worked with Baron on projects for DC Comics. He penciled Teen Titans Spotlight #7 and #8, before gaining more popularity among DC readers with his work on the relaunched, post-Crisis on Infinite Earths The Flash #1. This third Flash series featured Wally West after the demise of Barry Allen in the Crisis on Infinite Earths series. Guice drew ten of the first eleven issues. In 1988–89, Guice produced a series of covers for the Quality Comics/Fleetway 2000 AD reprint-title 2000AD Showcase, while penciling the Iron Man title for Marvel. In 1989 he became the artist on Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme. 1990s Guice's cover for Doctor Strange #15 (March 1990) used Christian music singer Amy Grant's likeness without her permission, leading to her management filing a complaint against Marvel Comics, saying the cover gave the appearance she was associating with witchcraft. A US District Court sealed an out-of-court settlement between Grant and Marvel in early 1991, with a consent decree that Marvel did not", "title": "Jackson Guice" } ]

[ "fourth" ]

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[ { "docid": "15649647", "text": "The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 3, 1992, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of South Carolina, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 1992 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on August 25. In the general election, four incumbents were re-elected; however, incumbent Democrat Liz J. Patterson of the was defeated in her bid for a fourth term by Republican challenger Bob Inglis. Additionally, control of the open seat was retained by Democratic newcomer Jim Clyburn following the retirement of five-term incumbent Robin Tallon after the district's racial composition was significantly altered in redistricting. As of 2023, this is the last time South Carolina's congressional delegation comprised an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and the last time Democrats would receive over 40% of the vote in U.S. House elections in the state until 2006. Redistricting Following the 1990 United States census and subsequent redistricting cycle, South Carolina's congressional districts were redrawn by a federal court after the state legislature failed to produce their own map. The court's plan, which was issued on May 1, 1992, shifted the boundaries of each of the state's six congressional districts substantially; in the 1980s, South Carolina's districts were largely made up of whole counties, with only one (Berkeley County) being split between two districts. In contrast, the court-drawn lines split a total of 13 counties, 11 of which were divided and dispersed to create the new 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th districts. This splitting of counties was done largely to shift the 6th district, then-consisting of a predominantly white electorate, into a majority-minority seat that would allow the state's large black population to elect an African American to Congress. Overview District 1 The 1st district stretches from the coastal regions of the Pee Dee into the upper parts of the Lowcountry, including all of Georgetown and Horry counties, and taking in a sizable portion of Berkeley County; due to redistricting, the 1st lost a significant amount of its share of Charleston and Dorchester counties, in addition to all of Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties. The incumbent was Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr., who was re-elected with 65.5% of the vote in 1990. Republican primary Candidates Nominee Arthur Ravenel Jr., incumbent U.S. representative Democratic primary Candidates Nominee Bill Oberst Jr., former Georgetown Chamber of Commerce executive director General election Endorsements Fundraising Results District 2 The 2nd district extends from the Midlands down to the Lowcountry, taking in all of Allendale, Barnwell, Hampton, Jasper, and Lexington counties, as well as parts of Aiken, Beaufort, Calhoun, Colleton, Orangeburg, and Richland counties; redistricting shifted the 2nd from a Midlands-centric seat into one which stretches along South Carolina's border with Georgia and includes a relatively large portion of the state's coastline. The incumbent was Republican", "title": "1992 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina" } ]

[ "Cobb", "DeKalb", "Fulton" ]

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[ { "docid": "1562555", "text": "Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943–July 6, 1999) was an American murderer and serial rapist who kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in a self-dug pit in his basement floor, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999, currently the last person to be executed in the state. Heidnik was one of the inspirations for the Jame \"Buffalo Bill\" Gumb character in The Silence of the Lambs. Early life Gary Heidnik was born on November 22, 1943, in Eastlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, to Michael and Ellen Heidnik. He had a younger brother, Terry. After their parents divorced in 1946, the Heidnik children were raised by their mother for four years before being placed in the care of their father and his new wife. Heidnik would later claim he was emotionally abused by his father. He suffered a lifelong problem of bed wetting and said his father would humiliate him by forcing him to hang his stained sheets from his bedroom window, in full view of their neighbors. After his son's arrest, Heidnik's father denied the abuse allegations. At school, Heidnik did not interact with his fellow students and refused to make eye contact. When a well-meaning, new female student asked, \"Did you get the homework done, Gary?\", he yelled at her, and told her she was not \"worthy enough\" to talk to him. Heidnik was also teased about his oddly shaped head, which he and Terry claimed was the result of a young Heidnik falling out of a tree. Nonetheless, Heidnik performed well academically and tested with an I.Q. of 148. With the encouragement of his father, a 14-year-old Heidnik enrolled at the Staunton Military Academy in Staunton, Virginia, for two years, leaving before graduation. After another period in public high school, he dropped out and joined the U.S. Army when he was 17. Heidnik served in the Army for thirteen months. During basic training, his drill sergeant graded him as \"excellent.\" He applied for several specialist positions, including the military police, but was rejected. He was sent to San Antonio, Texas to be trained as a medic, and did well through medical training. However, he did not stay in San Antonio very long and was transferred to the 46th Army Surgical Hospital in Landstuhl, West Germany. Within weeks of his new posting in Germany, he earned his GED. In August 1962, Heidnik began complaining of severe headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, and nausea. A hospital neurologist diagnosed Heidnik with gastroenteritis and noted that he also displayed symptoms of mental illness, for which he was prescribed trifluoperazine. In October 1962, Heidnik was transferred to a military hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder and consequently honorably discharged from military service. Adulthood Shortly after his discharge, Heidnik became a licensed practical nurse and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, only to drop out after a single semester. He worked", "title": "Gary M. Heidnik" } ]

[ "Jame Gumb" ]

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[ { "docid": "15650219", "text": "\"Happy Endings\" is a short story by Margaret Atwood. It was first published in a 1983 Canadian collection, Murder in the Dark, and highlighted during the nomination period for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. The short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize the lives of its characters, eventually culminating in death. The names of characters recur throughout the stories and the stories reference each other (e.g. \"everything continues as in A\"), challenging narrative literary conventions. In addition, the story explores themes of domesticity, welfare, and success. Though the story boasts multiple scenarios, Atwood declares in her writing the only \"authentic ending\" is the one where John and Mary die. This gives readers six scenarios, and one ending. Atwood has spoken on the story saying, \"l did not know what sort of creature it was. lt was not a poem, a short story, or a prose poem. lt was not quite a condensation, a commentary, a questionnaire, and it missed being a parable, a proverb, a paradox. lt was a mutation. Writing it gave me a sense of furtive glee, like scribbling anonymously on a wall with no one looking....lt was a little disappointing to learn that other people had a name for such aberrations [metafiction], and had already made up the rules.\" Characters John He is one of the main characters of the short story. In A, he is in love with Mary and is happily married to her. In B, he doesn't feel the same way Mary does for him as he only uses her for her body. He eventually takes a woman named Madge to a restaurant and marries her instead of Mary. In C, he is a middle-aged man married to Madge but is in love with twenty-two-year-old Mary. One day he sees Mary with another man and shoots both of them before shooting himself. Mary She is the main character of the short story. In A, she is happily married to John and had children with him. In B, Mary is in love with John but is saddened with the fact that he doesn't love her. In C, she is a twenty-two-year old who is in love with James. She is shot by John. James He is a twenty-two-year-old whom Mary has feelings for. He isn't ready to settle down and prefers to ride his motorcycle. He wants to be free while he's still young. One day, he and Mary have sex. He is shot by John towards the end. He doesn't appear anywhere else. Madge In B, Madge is John's love interest. She is taken to a restaurant and eventually, they get married. In C, she is John's wife. In D, she meets a man named Fred. Fred He is the man Madge meets. They both have sex and then die. References Short stories by Margaret Atwood 1983 short stories", "title": "Happy Endings (short story)" } ]

[ "Mumble" ]

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[ { "docid": "1562112", "text": "The Most Outstanding Player is awarded to one player after the conclusion of the championship game of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Accredited media members at the championship game vote on the award. The player that wins the award is usually a member of the championship team. Ten men and one woman have won the award despite not winning the championship. The last man to do so was Akeem Olajuwon in 1983 and Dawn Staley was the only woman to do so when she won the award in 1991. Six men and five women have won the award multiple times. Lew Alcindor won the men’s award three times from 1967 to 1969 and Breanna Stewart won the women’s award four times from 2013 to 2016. One person has vacated the award. In 1971, Howard Porter won the award despite Villanova losing to UCLA in the championship game. Villanova later vacated their entire season. One other person, Luke Hancock, had his MOP award vacated when the NCAA vacated Louisville's 2013 national championship, but the NCAA later restored to the award as part of a settlement in a lawsuit with him due to him not being involved in the scandal. In 1944, Arnie Ferrin of Utah was the first freshman to win the award. Past winners An asterisk (*) next to a player's name indicates they did not play for the championship team. NCAA Division I men's Most Outstanding Player 1939 – Jimmy Hull, Ohio State* 1940 – Marvin Huffman, Indiana 1941 – John Kotz, Wisconsin 1942 – Howie Dallmar, Stanford 1943 – Ken Sailors, Wyoming 1944 – Arnie Ferrin, Utah 1945 – Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&M 1946 – Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&M 1947 – George Kaftan, Holy Cross 1948 – Alex Groza, Kentucky 1949 – Alex Groza, Kentucky 1950 – Irwin Dambrot, CCNY 1951 – Bill Spivey, Kentucky 1952 – Clyde Lovellette, Kansas 1953 – B. H. Born, Kansas* 1954 – Tom Gola, La Salle 1955 – Bill Russell, San Francisco 1956 – Hal Lear, Temple* 1957 – Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas* 1958 – Elgin Baylor, Seattle* 1959 – Jerry West, West Virginia* 1960 – Jerry Lucas, Ohio State 1961 – Jerry Lucas, Ohio State* 1962 – Paul Hogue, Cincinnati 1963 – Art Heyman, Duke* 1964 – Walt Hazzard, UCLA 1965 – Bill Bradley, Princeton* 1966 – Jerry Chambers, Utah* 1967 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1968 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1969 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1970 – Sidney Wicks, UCLA 1971 – Vacated 1972 – Bill Walton, UCLA 1973 – Bill Walton, UCLA 1974 – David Thompson, NC State 1975 – Richard Washington, UCLA 1976 – Kent Benson, Indiana 1977 – Butch Lee, Marquette 1978 – Jack Givens, Kentucky 1979 – Earvin Johnson, Michigan State 1980 – Darrell Griffith, Louisville 1981 – Isiah Thomas, Indiana 1982 – James Worthy, North Carolina 1983 – Akeem Olajuwon, Houston* 1984 – Patrick Ewing, Georgetown 1985 – Ed Pinckney, Villanova 1986 – Pervis Ellison, Louisville 1987 –", "title": "NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player" } ]

[ "2015" ]

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[ { "docid": "156644", "text": "Die Another Day is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Lee Tamahori, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The fourth and final film starring Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, it was also the only film to feature John Cleese as Q, and the last with Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny. It is also the first film since Live and Let Die (1973) not to feature Desmond Llewelyn as Q as he died three years earlier. Halle Berry co-stars as NSA agent Giacinta \"Jinx\" Johnson, the Bond girl. It follows Bond as he attempts to locate a traitor in British intelligence who betrayed him and a British billionaire who is later revealed to be connected to a North Korean operative whom Bond seemingly killed. It is an original story, although it takes influence from Bond creator Ian Fleming's novels Moonraker (1955) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), as well as Kingsley Amis's novel, Colonel Sun. Die Another Day marked the James Bond franchise's 40th anniversary. The film includes references to each of the preceding films. It received mixed reviews; some critics praised Tamahori's direction, but others criticized its reliance on CGI, product placement and its unoriginal plot, as well as the villain. Nevertheless, it was the highest-grossing James Bond film up to that time. Plot MI6 agent James Bond infiltrates a North Korean military base where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is trading weapons for African conflict diamonds. After Moon's right-hand man Zao receives notification of Bond's real identity, Moon attempts to kill Bond and a hovercraft chase ensues, ending with Moon's craft tumbling over a waterfall. Bond is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel's father, General Moon. After fourteen months of captivity and torture at the hands of the Korean People's Army, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange across the Bridge of No Return. He is sedated and taken to meet M, who informs him that his status as a 00 Agent has been suspended under suspicion of having leaked information under duress to the North Koreans. Bond is convinced that he has been set up by a double agent in the British government. After escaping MI6 custody, he finds himself in Hong Kong, where he learns from Chang, a Chinese agent and old colleague, that Zao is in Cuba. In Havana, Bond meets with NSA agent Giacinta \"Jinx\" Johnson, and follows her to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Jinx kills Dr. Alvarez, the leader of the therapy, while Bond locates Zao inside the clinic and fights him. Zao escapes, leaving behind a pendant which leads Bond to a cache of conflict diamonds bearing the crest of the company owned by British billionaire Gustav Graves. Bond learns that Graves only appeared a year prior, apparently", "title": "Die Another Day" } ]

[ "Roger Moore", "Sean Connery" ]

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[ { "docid": "1567599", "text": "An apple martini (appletini for short) is a cocktail containing vodka and one or more of apple juice, apple cider, apple liqueur, or apple brandy. It is not a true martini, but is one of many drinks that incorporate the term martini into their names. This drink, originally called an Adam's Apple Martini because the bartender who created it was named Adam, was created in 1996 at Lola's West Hollywood restaurant. The drink Adam's Apple was advertised by Smirnoff in the July 1972 issue of Playboy on the inside front cover. The recipe called for an ounce or so of Smirnoff added to apple juice in a tall glass of ice. Recipe In its purest form, it would contain: 4 cl ( oz) top shelf vodka (or gin) 2 cl ( oz) apple juice, cider or, most often, apple pucker Typically, the ingredients are shaken or stirred and then strained into a cocktail glass. Variations A sweet and sour mix can also be added before shaking. Optionally, vermouth may be included, as in a regular martini. A common variation of the appletini is the \"Rumpletini,\" with a light rum in place of the vodka. A similar cocktail can be made with Martini Bianco white vermouth and apple juice in a long drink glass filled with ice. In popular culture Some believe this drink, the \"apple martini,\" could not have been invented in 1996 as claimed above because it is mentioned as the drink served to Jeff Bailey/Markham in Jacques Tourneur 1947 classic noir Out of the Past, however the belief is due to an error in a subtitle, where the line \"have a Martini\" was misprinted as \"apple martini.\" The appletini, which he invariably stipulates should be \"easy on the tini,\" is the favorite alcoholic drink of John \"J.D.\" Dorian in the sitcom Scrubs in which it is often characterized as being somewhat effeminate. Along with a rum and diet coke, it is also the favorite drink of Alan Harper from Two and a Half Men. Also in the series, Jerome Burnett asks Charlie Harper for an Appletini. In the 2007 Disney film Enchanted, Giselle is offered an appletini, not knowing it's poisoned. Robert's warning is to be wary but as she tries to sip, Pip knocks the drink out of her hands. In the 2010 film The Social Network, during the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker asks Saverin's girlfriend what she would prefer to drink, and after she says an appletini, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink. In real life, Zuckerberg never had an appletini until he attended the film's premiere. After seeing the film, Zuckerberg made the Appletini Facebook's official drink. In the US TV series Modern Family, Claire (Julie Bowen) is seen ordering an Appletini. In the 2017 film Molly's Game two mobsters meet Molly in the Four Seasons hotel and John G orders an Appletini to show that he can handle", "title": "Appletini" } ]

[ "a White Cuban" ]

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[ { "docid": "15627191", "text": "The Suite Life on Deck is an American teen sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008, to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they study-abroad at Seven Seas High School and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship travels around the world to nations such as Italy, France, Greece, India, Sweden and the United Kingdom where the characters experience different cultures, adventures, and situations. The series' pilot aired in the UK on September 19, 2008, and in U.S. markets on September 26, 2008. The series premiere on the Disney Channel in the U.S. drew 5.7 million viewers, and it became the most watched series premiere in Canada on the Family Channel. The show was also TV's No. 1 series in Kids 6–11 and No. 1 scripted series in tweens 9–14 in 2008, outpacing veteran series Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place in the ratings. On October 19, 2009, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a third season, which began production in January 2010 and debuted on July 2, 2010. The series was also 2009's top rated scripted series among all children ages 6 to 14 The series has been broadcast in more than 30 countries worldwide, and was shot at Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles (as was the original series). The series was taped in front of a live studio audience, though a laugh track is used for some scenes. The series is the second spin-off of a Disney Channel series (after the short-lived That's So Raven spinoff Cory in the House); as well as the last Disney Channel series to debut broadcasting exclusively in standard definition, and the first of three Disney Channel shows to transition from standard definition to high definition, which occurred on August 7, 2009, with the season 2 premiere, \"The Spy Who Shoved Me\", and the second multi-camera comedy (after Sonny with a Chance) to utilize a filmized appearance instead of the Filmlook appearance that was used in the first season. On March 25, 2011, a film based on The Suite Life on Deck and its parent series, titled The Suite Life Movie aired on the Disney Channel. The series' forty-minute finale episode, \"Graduation on Deck\", aired on Disney Channel on May 6, 2011, officially ending the series. Premise Sometime after the events of the previous series, Mr. Moseby has been transferred to manage the SS Tipton, a cruise ship owned by Mr. Tipton. Aboard the ship, Zack and Cody Martin enroll at Seven Seas High School, a Semester at Sea-like study-abroad program offered on the ship, receiving affordability discounts due to their mother being a Tipton employee. London Tipton is also forced to attend the program under the direction of her father, with Mr. Moseby", "title": "The Suite Life on Deck" } ]

[ "Brenda Song" ]

[ { "docid": "1564992", "text": "The Mandarin is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the archenemy of Iron Man. The character was created by Stan Lee and designed by Don Heck, first appearing in Tales of Suspense #50 (Feb. 1964). The character is described as being born in China before the Communist revolution to a wealthy Chinese father and an English aristocratic mother, both of whom died when he was young. He is characterized as a megalomaniac, attempting to conquer the world on several occasions, yet also possessing a strong sense of honor. The Mandarin is portrayed as a genius scientist and a skilled martial artist. However, his primary sources of power are 10 rings that he adapted from the alien technology of a crashed space ship. Each ring has a different power and is worn on a specific finger. Though his primary obsession is Iron Man, given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Thor, Hulk, Shang-Chi and other superheroes in the Marvel Universe. The Mandarin has appeared in several forms of media. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley portrayed an impostor (Aldrich Killian) and actor (Trevor Slattery) of the character in Iron Man 3 (2013) respectively, and Tony Leung portrayed the \"real\" character Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). In 2009, The Mandarin was ranked as IGN's 81st-greatest comic book villain of all time. Publication history The Mandarin first appeared in Tales of Suspense #50 (Feb. 1964), written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Don Heck. When discussing the character's creation, Heck stated \"That was Stan Lee's character, really. He wanted him because he was thinking of, oh, one of those old stories that they had years ago Fu Manchu and that's what he said to me. He said, 'I want a character like Fu Manchu.'\" Fictional character biography Origins The Mandarin's late father was one of the wealthiest men in pre-revolutionary mainland China (and a descendant of Genghis Khan), while his late mother was an English noblewoman. Their son was born in an unnamed village in mainland China before the Communist revolution. The boy's parents died soon after his birth, and he was raised by his (paternal) aunt, who was embittered against the world and raised him with much the same attitude. Every last bit of the family fortune was spent obsessively training the Mandarin in science and combat, with the result that he was penniless by adulthood. Without the means to pay their taxes, the Mandarin's estate and possessions were seized by the Chinese government. Seeking the power to take revenge, the Mandarin explores the forbidden Valley of Spirits, where no one has dared to set foot for centuries. There he finds the starship and skeleton of Axonn-Karr, an intelligent dragon-like alien from the planet Maklu IV, who had come to Earth centuries ago and died. Over the following years, the Mandarin studies Makluan science until he", "title": "Mandarin (character)" } ]

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[ "Stan Lee" ]

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[ { "docid": "15655623", "text": "The Energy Watch Group (EWG) is an international network of scientists and parliamentarians. The EWG conducts research and publishes studies on global energy developments concerning both fossil fuels and renewables. The organization states that it seeks to provide energy policy with objective information. The EWG was founded in 2006 by the former German parliamentarian and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany recipient Hans-Josef Fell and further parliamentarians from other countries to provide both experts and political decision makers as well as the public with information on energy issues. In 2023, the Energy Watch Group transitioned into a non-profit legal entity, now known as EWG Energy Watch UG. Research areas The EWG conducts research on energy issues, including natural gas, crude oil, coal, renewables and uranium. In particular, they focus on three interrelated topics: the shortage of fossil and atomic energy resources, development scenarios for regenerative energy sources as well as strategies deriving from these for a long-term secure energy supply at affordable prices The EWG studies examines ecological, technological and economic connections in the energy sector to estimate developments in the availability and supply of different energy sources and production techniques. The results of the EWG studies are to be presented not only to experts but also to the politically interested public. All EWG studies are open access and are available on the website. Next to topics covering the energy transition towards a system based on 100% renewable energy, the EWG is also monitoring and regularly informing about the latest developments in the global divestment movement on their website. Research and statements Studies of the EWG by and large come to the conclusion that the planet will run out of fossil fuels earlier than previously thought. The global supply of fossil fuels is therefore extremely strained. An early study of the EWG estimates that there is far less coal available than what is commonly expected. Moreover, coal is distributed very unevenly across countries. 85% of global coal reserves are situated in six countries: USA, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The report suggests that a global peak of coal production will occur in 2025 the latest. The situation for crude oil is even more critical. Global oil production is said to collapse to 40% in 2030 compared to production in 2012. According to calculations by the EWG, peak-oil has already been reached in 2006 with a global oil production maximum of 81 million barrels per day and is now on a steep decline. The EWG further maintains that neither new production techniques such as fracking, nor nuclear power nor a diversification of the fossil fuel portfolio can reverse the trend of a collapsing conventional energy system. A recent EWG report warns that fracking not only has catastrophic consequences for the environmental and detrimental health impacts, but is also economically unviable, particularly in Europe. The US is heading straight to a peak in shale gas extraction after which production will plummet within this decade. Another study claims that", "title": "Energy Watch Group" } ]

[ "deep - rock formations" ]

[ { "docid": "15617990", "text": "This article contains synopses for the recurring characters that have appeared on the American soap opera As the World Turns. Al James (Late 1950s) He is one of Penny Hughes' classmates who taunted her and her ex, Jeff Baker. Jeff got into a fight with Al and killed him. Jeff was put on trial, and was cleared of the murder. Tom Pope (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) An attorney, and Penny Hughes' boyfriend, Tom was beloved by her family. He was engaged to her, but when he heard Jeff Baker declare his love for her he released her from the engagement and later left town. Mitchell Dru (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Mitchell was an attorney with his own law firm. Greg Williams (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Greg was an ambitious reporter who was always looking for stories. Julie Spencer (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Julie was a young attorney, and Mitchell Dru's ward. Burt Stanton (Late 1950s) Burt was Ellen Lowell's boyfriend. He was set up by Jeff Baker and broke up with Ellen when she said she had a child. Laura March (Early 1960s) Laura was a secretary at Memorial Hospital after Edith Hughes left town. Phil Banner (Early 1960s) Phil was a valued employee during the time that Jeff Baker was a piano player. Ed Richardson (Early 1960s) Grace Baker's right-hand man, Ed helped Jeff Baker in the music business. Dr. Joe and Anne Meadows (Late 1950s-Early/Mid 1960s) These two friends of Doug Cassen helped out Ellen Lowell when she was pregnant. Louise Cole (1958) Tim Cole's first wife, Louise divorced him at his request. She was portrayed by Mary K. Wells. Dick and Grace Baker (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Dick and Grace were Jeff Baker's parents. Thelma Turner (Mid 1950s-Early 1960s) Thelma was Janice Turner's mother. Carl Whipple (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Carl was Janice Turner's husband, and the father of Debbie and Alice Whipple. Dr. George Frey (Late 1950s-Early 1960s) Dr. Frey was Edith Hughes' husband. Notes Lists of soap opera characters by series", "title": "List of As the World Turns recurring characters" } ]

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[ "Louise" ]

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[ { "docid": "1563324", "text": "is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Kagome's grandfather in Inuyasha after Ginzo Matsuo's death, and as the voice of Diddy Kong in many of Nintendo's video games since 2004 starting with Mario Power Tennis. He currently works at 81 Produce. Filmography Television animation 1992 Macross - Hayao Kakizaki and Warera Nantes 1993 YuYu Hakusho - Elder Toguro 1996 YAT Anshin! Uchū Ryokō - Ucchi 1999 Gregory Horror Show - Frog Fortune Teller, Mirror Man 2001 Inuyasha - Grandpa Higurashi (second voice) 2002 Tenchi Muyo! GXP - Mr. Yamada 2003 Kaleido Star - Ben Robbins 2006 Bleach - Ugaki 2020 Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - Grandpa Higurashi 2021 Let's Make a Mug Too - Jūbe Aoki Unknown date Rairai in Mahoujin Guru Guru Yan in Double Zeta Gundam Hadat in Ys ~Tenkuu no Shinden~ Mu / Uin Iju in Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko Nagoya Willow in Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun Might Gunner in The Brave Express Might Gaine Umao in Kimagure Orange Road Original video animation (OVA) Here is Greenwood (1991) (Bonda, teacher) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (Molt) Idol Defense Force Hummingbird (1993) (Shinobu Ijūin) Iria: Zeiram the Animation (1994) (Government suit) Theatrical animation The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) (Hayao Kakizaki) Spriggen (1998) (Little Boy) Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001) (Grandpa) Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003) (Grandpa) Video games Crash Team Racing (1999) (Ripper Roo (Dallas McKennon)) Donkey Kong series (2007–present) (Diddy Kong) Gregory Horror Show (2003) (Frog Fortune Teller) Philosoma (1995) (D3) Soul Nomad & the World Eaters (2007) (Vangogh) Super Mario Bros. series (2004–present) (Diddy Kong) Stupid Invaders (2001) (Stereo Monovici, Nelson) Super Robot Wars series (2000–present) (Hayao Kakizaki, Liebe, Might Gunner, Purple) Dubbing roles Live action Hudson Hawk – Kit Kat (David Caruso) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Alpha 5 (Richard Steven Horvitz) She-Wolf of London – Villager Small Soldiers – Slamfist (Christopher Guest) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – Nute Gunray (Silas Carson) Triloquist – The Dummy (Bruce Weitz) Animation Batman: The Animated Series – Ted Dymer CatDog – Eddie the Squirrel Corpse Bride – William Van Dort Courage the Cowardly Dog – The Great Fusilli Cow and Chicken – Red Guy, Flem Dexter's Laboratory – Mandark Finding Nemo – Tad's Dad Justice League – Copperhead The Powerpuff Girls (UG dub) – Mayor, Him, Ace Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling – Mr. Dupette Rolie Polie Olie – Additional Voices The Ren & Stimpy Show – Haggis McHaggis Sitting Ducks – Waddle South Park – Tweek Tweak (Season 2) Space Goofs – Stereo Monovici Squirrel Boy – Leon Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – PC Macintosh Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Greasy The Wild Thornberries – Darwin, Donnie References External links 1956 births Living people Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Aichi Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors 81 Produce voice actors", "title": "Katsumi Suzuki" } ]

[ "Albert Brooks" ]

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[ { "docid": "15676165", "text": "Andrew William Dunn BSC is a British cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with Robert Altman, Nicholas Hytner, Lee Daniels and Mick Jackson. He is the recipient of three BAFTA Awards, a British Society of Cinematographers Award and an Evening Standard British Film Award. Dunn is well known for his work on Threads (1984), Edge of Darkness (1985), L.A. Story (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), The Madness of King George (1994), The Crucible (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The History Boys (2006), Precious (2009), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) among others. Early life Andrew Dunn was born in London, England. He grew up around cinema, as his father worked for MGM Studios. Dunn started making films in his early teens, and then joined the BBC whilst studying film at the University of Westminster (formerly London Polytechnic). Filmography Feature films Television TV films Awards 1985 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Threads (1984) 1986 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Edge of Darkness (1985) 1989 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Tumbledown (1988) 1995 — British Society of Cinematographers - Best Cinematography Award for: The Madness of King George (1994) 1996 — Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Technical/Artistic Achievement for: The Madness of King George (1994) Further reading (2006) \"Andrew Dunn\" Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television: A biographical guide featuring performers, directors, writers, producers, designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the world Vol. 65, Thomson Gale, Detroit, References External links English cinematographers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1950 births", "title": "Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)" } ]

[ "Pittsburgh" ]

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[ { "docid": "15638844", "text": "TxT is a 2006 Filipino supernatural horror film directed by Michael Tuviera and starring Angel Locsin, Dennis Trillo, Oyo Sotto, Julia Clarete, Dante Rivero and Eugene Domingo. It was Tuviera's debut film as a director. Plot Joyce, a caregiver in an elderly home, breaks up with her obsessive boyfriend, Roman. As a final request, Roman asks Joyce to drive him home with his car. The two meet an accident killing Roman and injuring Joyce. Alex, a call center agent with feelings for Joyce, comforts Joyce after the accident. Days later, Joyce receives messages in her cellphone from Roman's number but dismisses it as a cruel prank. Roman's haunting continues by sending Joyce images of her current activities. Roman's haunting becomes more disturbing when Joyce starts receiving messages containing images of her acquaintances dead at exactly 3:29 am. Aling Kuring, a restaurant owner and one of the people in the images, receives a call from Roman. Thinking it as a prank, Kuring answers the phone causing her head to shake violently to death. Lilia, Joyce's patient, is under the latter's constant watch after Joyce receives a text from Roman showing Lilia's death. Before 3:29 am, Joyce falls asleep and her phone begins to ring, waking up Lilia. Unable to wake Joyce, Lilia answers the call, killing her the same way Kuring died. Joyce realizes that Roman is killing the people who did not support their relationship. She seeks the help of Dante, an anting-anting vendor and witch doctor. Dante asks Joyce if Roman did occult activities and asked for some of his possessions. Joyce breaks into Roman's room but is caught by Roman's mother Edith, who blames her for her son's death. Joyce receives another message from Roman showing an image of her best friend and next target, Ida. Joyce asks Ida to apologize to Roman for not supporting their relationship in an attempt to persuade Roman not to kill her. Instead, Ida berates Roman in his grave. Later, Joyce is arrested for trespassing and is detained for the night upon Edith's request. Joyce bribes a policeman with a cellphone in order to escape and asks for help to protect Ida. Joyce reaches Ida in the latter's home and waits for the police to arrive. However, their chief orders them to respond to a nearby accident. Joyce, in a panic as the police are diverted, leaves Ida alone in her room, where she is killed by Roman. Joyce obtains some of Roman's possessions, his bloodied phone and a piece of paper containing a picture of him with Joyce together surrounded by incantations and symbols through Edith. Joyce gives these objects to Dante. It is revealed that while driving before the accident Roman forced Joyce to perform a pact by spilling drops of their blood over Roman's phone. The ensuing struggle caused the accident. While Dante further analyzes the other object, Joyce receives another message from Roman showing Joyce and Alex in a car accident causing Joyce to flee. Alex follows Joyce", "title": "TxT (film)" } ]

[ "cornerback Kendall Fuller" ]

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[ { "docid": "15623488", "text": "\"The Fires of Pompeii\" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 12 April 2008. Set shortly before and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this episode depicts alien time traveller the Doctor (David Tennant) and his new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) on a trip to Pompeii, where they uncover an alien invasion. Their clashing worldviews present an ethical dilemma for the Doctor. The episode was filmed in Rome's Cinecittà studios, and was the first time the Doctor Who production team took its cast abroad for filming since its revival. The production of the episode was impeded by a fire near the sets several weeks before filming and by problems for the production team crossing into Europe. Critics' opinions regarding the episode were generally mixed. The premise of the episode—the moral dilemma the Doctor faces, and Donna's insistence that he save a family from Pompeii—was widely praised, while the writing, particularly of the supporting characters, was criticised. \"The Fires of Pompeii\" marks the first appearance on Doctor Who by both Karen Gillan and Peter Capaldi. Both would later take starring roles on the show: Gillan was cast as the Doctor's new companion Amy Pond starting with the next series, and Capaldi appeared as the Twelfth Doctor beginning in 2013. Plot Synopsis The Tenth Doctor and Donna arrive in Pompeii the day before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. They later discover a local merchant has sold the TARDIS to sculptor Lobus Caecilius. The Doctor and Donna go to Caecilius' house to retrieve it. Unknown to them, they have been followed by a soothsayer who reports to the Sibylline Sisterhood that the prophesied man in the blue box has arrived, and the Sisters fear the prediction that his arrival brings fire and death. However, the High Priestess assures them that Pompeii will soon enter a new golden age. At the house, the Doctor and Donna meet the local augur, Lucius Petrus Dextrus, who has arrived to collect a sculpture he commissioned. The Doctor is intrigued by the sculpture, which resembles a segment of an oversized circuit board. The Doctor wishes to learn more about the sculptures and enlists Caecilius' son Quintus to help him break into Lucius Petrus' house. Inside, the Doctor deduces that the circuits will make an energy converter, but he is caught by Lucius Petrus, who beckons a large stone creature to attack and kill them. The stone creature appears in Caecilius' house and attacks them, but Quintus douses the creature in water and kills it. In the confusion, the Sisterhood kidnap Donna, and the Doctor sets off to rescue her. The Doctor discovers that the Sisterhood are being controlled by the Pyroviles, stony creatures whose home planet of Pyrovilia was lost. The Doctor escapes with Donna into a tunnel that leads into the heart of Mount Vesuvius. The Doctor discovers that the volcano is being used", "title": "The Fires of Pompeii" } ]

[ "Pliny the Younger" ]

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[ { "docid": "1567202", "text": "Yadier Benjamín Molina (; born July 13, 1982), nicknamed \"Yadi\", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher who played his entire 19-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB) and who is currently the team's Special Assistant to the President of Baseball Operations. Widely considered one of the greatest defensive catchers of all time for his blocking ability and his caught-stealing percentage, Molina won nine Rawlings Gold Gloves and six Fielding Bible Awards. A two-time World Series champion, he played for Cardinals teams that made 12 playoff appearances and won four National League pennants. Molina also played for the Puerto Rican national team in four World Baseball Classic (WBC) tournaments, winning two silver medals. When he retired after the 2022 season, Molina ranked first all-time among catchers in putouts and second all-time among catchers with 130 Defensive Runs Saved (DRS); among active players, he ranked first with 845 assists, 40.21% of runners caught stealing, and 55 pickoffs. Along with pitcher Adam Wainwright, Molina holds the records for most games started and won as a battery. As a hitter, Molina accrued more than 2,100 hits, 150 home runs, and 1,000 runs batted in (RBIs); he batted over .300 in five seasons. Other distinctions include selection to ten MLB All-Star Games, four Platinum Glove Awards, and one Silver Slugger Award. He was a two-time selection to the All-WBC Tournament Team and was a member of the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series. The product of a baseball family, Molina was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. His father was an amateur second baseman and the all-time hits leader in Puerto Rican baseball, and his two older brothers, Bengie and José, also developed into standout defensive catchers with lengthy MLB careers. The Cardinals' fourth-round selection in the 2000 MLB draft, Molina entered the major leagues in the 2004 season and quickly showed one of the strongest and most accurate arms in the game. Over his career, he earned a reputation as a team leader, eventually formulating pregame plans to handle opposing hitters, including pitching strategies and fielder positioning. Molina appeared on five NL Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) ballots, including finishing fourth in 2012 and third in 2013. When Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico in September 2017, Molina began relief efforts for victims of the catastrophe, consequently receiving the Roberto Clemente Award in 2018. Early life Yadier Benjamín Molina was born on July 13, 1982, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, the youngest of three boys to Gladys Matta and Benjamín Molina, Sr. He attended Maestro Ladislao Martínez High School in Vega Alta. Baseball in Puerto Rico is a significant part of the island's culture. Molina's father played second base as an amateur and worked as a tools technician 10 hours per day in a Westinghouse factory. The all-time hits leader in Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (or Doble-A Beísbol) history, the elder Molina delivered a .320 career batting average and gained election to the Puerto Rican baseball", "title": "Yadier Molina" } ]

[ "Nolan Ryan" ]

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[ { "docid": "1567007", "text": "Travis Lee Hafner (; born June 3, 1977) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter and first baseman. A left-handed hitter, Hafner played for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees. His nickname, \"Pronk\", was given to him by former teammate Bill Selby during spring training of 2003 when people sometimes referred to him as \"the Project\" and other times \"Donkey\" for the way he looked when running the bases. He has the most home runs for a player born in North Dakota, and shares the MLB record for grand slams in one season, with six. Early life and career Hafner was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1977 and attended a small high school in Sykeston, which did not have a baseball program. He was valedictorian of his high school class of eight students. Hafner attended Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City, Kansas. He played for the college baseball team and hit a home run in the championship game of the JUCO World Series. Professional career Texas Rangers Hafner was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 31st round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. He hit his first career home run August 11, 2002, while playing for the Rangers against the Cleveland Indians. In addition to the home run, Hafner had two doubles and a single in five at-bats, driving in three runs and scoring two. He nearly hit for the cycle in this game, but was thrown out at third base while attempting the triple. Cleveland Indians 2003–2005 After the 2002 season, the Rangers traded Hafner to the Indians along with Aaron Myette for catcher Einar Diaz and right-handed pitcher Ryan Drese. Hafner enjoyed moderate success with the Indians in 2003, splitting time between first base and designated hitter. On August 14, he hit for the cycle in Minnesota, the first Indian to accomplish the feat since Andre Thornton in 1978. In 2004, Hafner had a breakout offensive season. As the primary DH in the Indians' line-up, he finished the season in the top ten in the league in on-base percentage (.410, 3rd), slugging percentage (.583, 4th), doubles (41, 6th), extra base hits (72, 7th), RBI (109, 9th) and batting average (.311, 10th). He also hit 28 home runs (16th in the AL) and scored 96 runs (20th in the AL). Hafner topped the .300 mark in batting average each month of the season except August–when he hit a respectable .274–and was particularly hot in July, hitting .360 with eight home runs and 28 RBI. He hit his first career grand slam in the Indians' home opener on April 12, against Kyle Lohse of the Minnesota Twins. At the beginning of the 2005 season, the Indians signed Hafner to a three-year contract through 2007 with a club option for 2008. He responded by exceeding his offensive production of 2004. Hafner was again among the league leaders in on-base percentage (3rd, .408), slugging percentage", "title": "Travis Hafner" } ]

[ "Alex Rodriguez" ]

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[ { "docid": "15675599", "text": "The Caldwell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Lockhart, Texas, United States. The courthouse was built in 1894 to replace the existing courthouse, which was too small for the growing county. The courthouse was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property of the Caldwell County Courthouse Historic District on January 3, 1978. The courthouse was built in the Second Empire architectural style, with the design often attributed to Alfred Giles; however, recent research indicates the building was designed by Henry E.M. Guidon, who eventually became partners with Giles. The courthouse is nearly identical to the courthouse in Goliad County, Texas, as it was built from the same Guidon plans. The exterior of the three-story courthouse is built with cream-colored limestone and red sandstone. The central clock tower houses a four-faced Seth Thomas Clock Company clock and a 900-pound bell. The mansard roof of the courthouse is characteristic of Second Empire design. The exterior has been featured in the films What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Waiting for Guffman (1996). See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Caldwell County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Caldwell County List of county courthouses in Texas References External links County courthouses in Texas Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Second Empire architecture in Texas Buildings and structures in Caldwell County, Texas Clock towers in Texas 1894 establishments in Texas Government buildings completed in 1894", "title": "Caldwell County Courthouse (Texas)" } ]

[ "Mary Kate Schellhardt" ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" }, { "docid": "156489", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the American Library Association Best Book Award for Young Adults in 2003. The book was also made into a 2007 film, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Plot During the summer, Harry Potter is frustrated by his friends' non-communication and with Dumbledore barring him from helping combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort. One evening, Dementors attack him and cousin Dudley, but Harry fends them off using the Patronus Charm. Later, Order of the Phoenix members arrive at the Dursley house to evacuate Harry. They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, which is now the Order's headquarters. Ron and Hermione are there and tell Harry that the Order is a secret organisation that Dumbledore created to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Harry wants to join, but is too young. The Ministry of Magic, under Cornelius Fudge, attempt to malign Harry for stating that Voldemort has returned. Harry is also charged with performing underage magic while with a Muggle, but is exonerated and returns to Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only curriculum and forbids the students from practicing defensive spells. Harry, Ron, and Hermione form a secret student Defense group called Dumbledore's Army. The group secretly meets in the Room of Requirement to practice under Harry's instruction. One night, Harry dreams that Arthur Weasley is attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini. His vision is true, and Arthur is found seriously injured at the Ministry. Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected, and he orders Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill to close one's mind against others. Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion, Dumbledore claims responsibility for forming the group. To avoid arrest, he goes into hiding. Umbridge is appointed headmistress, though she is magically barred from entering Dumbledore's tower, and begins enacting strict rules and regulations. Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, he envisions Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. Harry attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, using the Floo Network in Umbridge's office, but she catches and interrogates him, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Hermione intervenes by concocting a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest. Umbridge", "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" } ]

[ "Michael Gambon" ]

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[ { "docid": "15634043", "text": "The Fiend or The Vampire (Russian: Упырь Upyr) is a Russian fairy tale, collected by Alexander Afanasyev as his number 363. The tale was translated and published by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston. Plot synopsis A young woman named Marusia goes to a feast where she meets a kind, handsome and apparently wealthy man. They fall in love with each other and Marusia agrees to marry him. She also consents to her mother's directive that she follow the boy to discover where he lives and more about him. She follows him to the church where she sees him eating a corpse. Later the fiend asks her if she saw him at the church. When Marusia denies having followed him, he tells her that her father will die the next day. Thereafter, he continually poses the question and with each denial he causes another of her family members to die. Finally he tells her that she herself will die. At this point Marusia asks her grandmother what to do. Her grandmother explains a way by which Marusia can come back to life after she dies (a condition of which is that she cannot enter a church afterwards). On coming back to life she meets a good man whom she marries, however he does not like the fact that she will not go to church and eventually forces her to do so. Thus the Fiend discovers that she is alive and kills her husband and her son, but with the help of her grandmother, the water of life, and holy water she brings them back and kills the fiend. Analysis Tale type The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 363, \"The Vampire\" or \"The Corpse-Eater\", while in the East Slavic Folktale Classification () it is indexed as type SUS 363, . These stories are about a girl who marries a mysterious man. During their way home, they stop by a church and the man enters it. Worried about his long absence, the woman follows him and sees him devouring a corpse. The original name of the tale, Упырь, is the word for \"vampire\" in Slavic languages. Variants Scholarship states that the tale type appears in Europe and Turkey. In Turkish variants, the heroine triumphs in the end over the dervish, while in Europe the fate of the heroine may differ between regions (a Scandinavian and Baltic version, a West Slavic and Ukrainian one). References External links The original text, in Russian in Wikisource Project Gutenberg Russian Fairy Tales by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889. Russian Fairy Tale Stories, Zeluna.net. Russian fairy tales ATU 300-399", "title": "The Fiend" } ]

[ "Great Lakes" ]

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[ { "docid": "15643468", "text": "\"A Beautiful Sunset\" is the eleventh issue of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series of comic books, a continuation of the television series of the same name. It is written by series creator Joss Whedon. Plot Buffy reflects on her long history of being a Slayer and awakening the thousands of other girls around the world. In flashbacks of her narrative it is clear that in each battle the Scoobies and the others have fought came with sacrifice, but in a way, came with connection as well. Buffy admits that while it can be a bother sacrificing her life as well as others, it has always been done for the better. She has grown, she has moved on to the better and potential she always knew that she could live up to. Next, Xander and Buffy discuss a major problem: Simone Doffler. Xander tells Buffy that they tried to remove Simone from her rough, urban environment, but see her on a security tape stealing ammunition and other things in a robbery, the unconscious bodies of two guards are also found in the tapes. Buffy feels worried that she is not making a big change in the Slayer community and feels that what the government and everyone else thinks is true, slayers are acting above the law and she is not making the difference she says she is making. Xander comforts her and reassures her that things are going to be all right. The two then reflect on the revelation that Buffy stole from a lucrative bank to support her and the Slayer army and how she and Willow are having complex issues. Xander suggests that she ease her worries by going on a vampire hunt; Buffy decides to bring a \"date\", namely Satsu. While the other Slayers and giant Dawn are celebrating at a huge party to ease their recent stresses, Buffy gears up to go on her vampire hunt. Satsu follows and Buffy forces her into the vampire lair. While the two are slaying, Buffy discusses how she knows that it was Satsu who gave her the kiss of true love when Buffy was bound in a magical sleep. While Buffy appreciates the gesture as kind and sweet, she is not interested in Satsu in a romantic way. Buffy tells Satsu of her romantic history and how all of her relationships, be it romantic, family, or friends, end with someone being hurt. Buffy states that there is something wrong with her, that everyone notices that something around her is wrong, that she can never really love, and like all Slayers, will be alone. She breaks down in tears but the moment is interrupted with a surprise attack from the malevolent Twilight. Satsu is knocked out, while Buffy and Twilight have a brawl in the air. Twilight bests Buffy in battle with moves she has never witnessed and takes her fear of flight to a whole new level by taking the fight into the air above the town.", "title": "A Beautiful Sunset" } ]

[ "March 10 , 1997" ]

[ { "docid": "1564792", "text": "Shasta of the Wolves is a feral child novel by British-born American children's author Olaf Baker. The novel was originally published in 1919 by Dodd, Mead and Company with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, and was reprinted a number of times up until 1959. Plot summary On a mountain in the Pacific Northwest, apparently in the 19th century, the she-wolf Nitka discovers an abandoned Native American baby and is inspired by the \"Spirit of the Wild\" to raise him alongside her own cubs. He has no name of his own to begin with, although the author calls him Shasta from the outset. Like Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli (Baker even refers to him as a man-cub), Shasta grows up naked in the wild and is able to speak to animals, including the wise old black bear Gomposh, although this \"speech\" seems to consist as much of body language as of actual vocalization. Along the way his animal parents and friends rescue him from attacks by a grizzly bear and a moose, and he takes revenge on an eagle for killing wolf cubs. Shasta also discovers a human tribe and is briefly captured by them before his wolf parents help him to escape. His curiosity eventually draws him back, and this time he is treated more kindly and persuaded to stay. The chief explains to the tribe that he is in fact one of their own tribesmen, Shasta, grandson of the old chief. Shasta's mother was killed by a tribesman who defected to an enemy tribe, the Assiniboines, taking Shasta and abandoning him in the hope that the wolves would kill him. Instead, he survived and eventually returned to the tribe bringing his \"wolf medicine\". While Shasta is in the process of learning tribal ways, he discovers that the Assiniboines are once more planning to attack. During the raid Shasta is captured and prepared for sacrifice, but is once again rescued by his wolf-friends, who avenge his human mother's death by killing many of the enemy tribe. After the battle Shasta stays with his wolf kindred, and the author is deliberately ambiguous as to whether he later returns to human society. See also Animal communication Feral children in mythology and fiction References External links Text of the novel (fan posting) Project Gutenberg edition of the text 1919 American novels American children's novels Children's novels about wolves Fictional feral children 1919 children's books Books about Native Americans Children's books set in the 19th century", "title": "Shasta of the Wolves" } ]

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[ "Rudyard Kipling" ]

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[ { "docid": "1566685", "text": "Lila Bell Wallace (December 25, 1889 – May 8, 1984) was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922. Early life and education Born Lila Bell Acheson in Virden, Manitoba, Canada, her father was a Presbyterian minister who brought his family to the United States when she was a child, and she grew up in Marshall, Minnesota, and Lewistown, Illinois, where her father preached. Her brother, Barclay Acheson, was an executive director of the Near East Foundation and served as an editor of Reader's Digest. In 1917, she graduated from the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon, taught at schools for two years, and then worked for the Young Women's Christian Association. She also studied at Ward–Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee. Career In 1921, she married DeWitt Wallace in Pleasantville, New York. The couple co-founded the Reader's Digest magazine, with the first publication in 1922. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States. In her lifetime, she made philanthropic contributions estimated at $60 million. One of her major projects was the establishment of the Metropolitan Opera National Company, the national touring company of the Metropolitan Opera, in 1963. She continued to support the MONC until the Metropolitan Opera decided to disband the organization at the conclusion of the 1966–1967 season. Death and legacy She died from heart failure, age 94, in Mount Kisco, New York. The Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award was given in her memory from 1990 to 2000. In 1966, Wallace received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. On January 28, 1972, she was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. In 1992, she was posthumously awarded the National Medal of Arts. See also List of people from New York List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients List of University of Oregon alumni References External links 1889 births 1984 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century publishers (people) American magazine founders American magazine publishers (people) Philanthropists from New York (state) American Presbyterians Businesspeople from Manitoba Businesspeople from New York (state) Canadian emigrants to the United States Canadian women in business People from Mount Kisco, New York People from Pleasantville, New York People from Virden, Manitoba Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Reader's Digest United States National Medal of Arts recipients University of Oregon alumni Ward–Belmont College alumni American women company founders Women in publishing 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American businesswomen", "title": "Lila Acheson Wallace" } ]

[ "President of the United States" ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" }, { "docid": "156489", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the American Library Association Best Book Award for Young Adults in 2003. The book was also made into a 2007 film, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Plot During the summer, Harry Potter is frustrated by his friends' non-communication and with Dumbledore barring him from helping combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort. One evening, Dementors attack him and cousin Dudley, but Harry fends them off using the Patronus Charm. Later, Order of the Phoenix members arrive at the Dursley house to evacuate Harry. They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, which is now the Order's headquarters. Ron and Hermione are there and tell Harry that the Order is a secret organisation that Dumbledore created to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Harry wants to join, but is too young. The Ministry of Magic, under Cornelius Fudge, attempt to malign Harry for stating that Voldemort has returned. Harry is also charged with performing underage magic while with a Muggle, but is exonerated and returns to Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only curriculum and forbids the students from practicing defensive spells. Harry, Ron, and Hermione form a secret student Defense group called Dumbledore's Army. The group secretly meets in the Room of Requirement to practice under Harry's instruction. One night, Harry dreams that Arthur Weasley is attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini. His vision is true, and Arthur is found seriously injured at the Ministry. Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected, and he orders Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill to close one's mind against others. Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion, Dumbledore claims responsibility for forming the group. To avoid arrest, he goes into hiding. Umbridge is appointed headmistress, though she is magically barred from entering Dumbledore's tower, and begins enacting strict rules and regulations. Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, he envisions Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. Harry attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, using the Floo Network in Umbridge's office, but she catches and interrogates him, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Hermione intervenes by concocting a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest. Umbridge", "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" } ]

[ "Jamie Parker" ]

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[ { "docid": "15679263", "text": "Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) were formerly known as the Rochester Royals, Cincinnati Royals, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, and the Kansas City Kings. While the Kings were created first as a semiprofessional team in 1923 with the Rochester Seagrams, their professional roots began in 1945 with their arrival in the National Basketball League, where it won the title in their first season. They joined the Basketball Association of America in 1948, with the league soon rebranding itself as the NBA. The Royals won the NBA title in 1951. After reaching the postseason ten times in twelve professional seasons, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1957. After fifteen years of mediocrity, they moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1972, for which they played games in Kansas City and in Omaha, Nebraska. After thirteen years of mediocrity, they moved to Sacramento, California in 1986. An attempt to change ownership by way of selling the team and moving to Seattle failed in 2013. Vivek Ranadivé purchased the team later that year. Starting in 2006–07 through the 2021–22 season the Kings set an NBA record in futility with 16 consecutive seasons without a playoff appearance, breaking old record of 15 playoff-less seasons that was compiled by the Los Angeles Clippers between 1976–77 and 1990–91. Every single one of those seasons saw them finish below .500, which is also a record. Since 1945, the team has reached the postseason just 33 times, with 11 in Sacramento and 10 in Rochester. They have not reached the NBA Finals in 71 years (a record), have not reached a Conference finals in twenty seasons (tied for 5th for most seasons in history), and have not won a playoff series in eighteen seasons (tied for a record). As one of the original eight NBA teams, they have the most losses in league history. Seasons All-time records NBA records NBL records References seasons Events in Sacramento, California", "title": "List of Sacramento Kings seasons" } ]

[ "at the Golden 1 Center" ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" }, { "docid": "156489", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the American Library Association Best Book Award for Young Adults in 2003. The book was also made into a 2007 film, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Plot During the summer, Harry Potter is frustrated by his friends' non-communication and with Dumbledore barring him from helping combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort. One evening, Dementors attack him and cousin Dudley, but Harry fends them off using the Patronus Charm. Later, Order of the Phoenix members arrive at the Dursley house to evacuate Harry. They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, which is now the Order's headquarters. Ron and Hermione are there and tell Harry that the Order is a secret organisation that Dumbledore created to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Harry wants to join, but is too young. The Ministry of Magic, under Cornelius Fudge, attempt to malign Harry for stating that Voldemort has returned. Harry is also charged with performing underage magic while with a Muggle, but is exonerated and returns to Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only curriculum and forbids the students from practicing defensive spells. Harry, Ron, and Hermione form a secret student Defense group called Dumbledore's Army. The group secretly meets in the Room of Requirement to practice under Harry's instruction. One night, Harry dreams that Arthur Weasley is attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini. His vision is true, and Arthur is found seriously injured at the Ministry. Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected, and he orders Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill to close one's mind against others. Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion, Dumbledore claims responsibility for forming the group. To avoid arrest, he goes into hiding. Umbridge is appointed headmistress, though she is magically barred from entering Dumbledore's tower, and begins enacting strict rules and regulations. Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, he envisions Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. Harry attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, using the Floo Network in Umbridge's office, but she catches and interrogates him, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Hermione intervenes by concocting a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest. Umbridge", "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" } ]

[ "Michael Gambon", "Richard Harris" ]

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[ { "docid": "15663941", "text": "Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. The club was founded in 1976 by Jerry Roach, a former bar owner who had turned to selling real estate, after receiving the property from a client as a commission payment. A local Costa Mesa bar that was already in operation was named Jaws, after the film, and Roach took inspiration from this and named his new venture after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the big box-office draw of that year, to make the club's name easily memorable. The club became known for punk rock. Rise of punk At first the club catered to fans of conventional rock. After almost two years, a slow period hit the business and in February 1978 Roach decided to give the bands that played a relatively new form of music called punk rock a shot. There were no venues in southern California at that time that would book punk bands due to the extremely negative reputation the fledgling scene had earned itself, as well as the costly damage done to some venues by punk fans, which had resulted in more than a few having to close their doors due to legal problems and finances. Several of these early Huntington Beach area punk bands, such as Vicious Circle and The Slashers had extremely violent and hardcore fans who made it a point to be as destructive and criminally-minded as possible, being fully pledged in allegiance to the anarchistic ethos of punk rock, wreaking havoc at a lot of shows that had taken place at other clubs. This trend relegated punk bands to play almost exclusively for free at house-parties, and keeping the majority of the southern westcoast scene underground. The first punk show to take place at The Nest was a benefit for the legendary Los Angeles punk club, The Masque, and took place on February 16, 1978. The owner of The Masque, Brendan Mullen, brought along the bands that performed that night, which included; The Skulls, The Bags, The Controllers, and Steamin' Freeman. Conflict with Zubie's Cuckoo's Nest sat at the back within a shared parking lot of a liquor store, a transmission shop, a laundromat, as well as a bar and grill next door named Zubie's that had an \"urban cowboy\" motif, which attracted a mainly blue-collar crowd. The parking lot of The Nest was as popular a hangout as the club itself, and was usually filled with punks. There were almost nightly confrontations between the punks from the Cuckoo's Nest and the cowboys from Zubie's, being almost always started by the latter, who would usually hurl homophobic and ignorant remarks at the punks and were known to assault them without provocation, regardless of age or gender. Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. said in 1998, \"They'd come out of Zubie's drunk, and there'd be fights every night. There's a videotape of me beating up these two cowboy guys, and I was wearing a dress at the", "title": "Cuckoo's Nest (nightclub)" } ]

[ "Ken Kesey" ]

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[ { "docid": "1565902", "text": "Black Forest gâteau (German: (), literally \"Black Forest Cherry-torte\"), also called Black Forest cake, is a chocolate and cream cake with a rich cherry filling. While it is most likely based on a Black Forest dessert tradition, the cake's specific origin in Germany is contested. Typically, Black Forest gateau consists of several layers of chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with whipped cream and cherries. It is decorated with additional whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and chocolate shavings. Traditionally Kirschwasser, a clear alcoholic spirit made from sour cherries, is added to the cake. Other spirits are sometimes used, such as rum, which is common in Austrian recipes. German law mandates that any dessert labeled must have Kirschwasser. History The origin of the cake's name is not entirely clear. The confectioner (1887–1981) claimed to have invented in its present form in 1915 at the prominent Café Agner in Bad Godesberg, now a suburb of Bonn about north of the Black Forest. This claim, however, has never been substantiated. A long time ago, cherries, cream, and Kirschwasser were combined in the form of a dessert in which cooked cherries were served with cream and Kirschwasser, originated in Black forest region famous for its cherry trees. The Tübingen city archivist Udo Rauch names the Tübingen master confectioner Erwin Hildenbrand of Café Walz in Tübingen as the \"inventor\", dated spring 1930. Tübingen, which is no longer usually associated with the Black Forest, belonged to the Black Forest district from 1818 to 1924. Given that Keller's initial recipe was not identical to the most popular interpretation of the Black Forest Cake, but instead a simpler version, it could be theorized that both confectioners influenced its creation. was first mentioned in writing in 1934. At the time it was particularly associated with Berlin but was also available from high-class confectioners in other German, Austrian, and Swiss cities. In 1949 it took 13th place in a list of best-known German cakes. In popular culture The 2007 video game Portal made frequent references to a fictional Black Forest cake, inspired by a real life the developers purchased from a nearby café. The commercial success of the game, as well as the popularity of the internet meme regarding the cake, led to the Black Forest cake becoming famous among fans of the franchise. Records The record for the world's largest authentic Black Forest gâteau was set at Europa Park, Germany, on 16 July 2006, by K&U Bakery. Measuring nearly and weighing , the cake, which was in diameter, used up of cream, 5,600 eggs, of cherries, of chocolate shavings, and of kirsch. On 9 December 2012, a team led by chefs Jörg Mink and Julien Bompard made Asia's biggest Black Forest cake at the S-One Expo in Singapore. The cake was made from of cream, 1,500 eggs, , of chocolate shavings, and of kirsch. Regional variations The cake is popular around the world more so than in Germany itself, where it is often considered uninteresting or old-fashioned. The recipe was exported from", "title": "Black Forest gateau" } ]

[ "the United States" ]

[ { "docid": "1563891", "text": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1988 side-scrolling action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System loosely based on the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Gameplay alternates between the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on the player's ability to either avoid or cause damage. Gameplay and premise The story of the game is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, with Dr. Jekyll on the way to his forthcoming wedding to Miss Millicent. The game's ending depends on which character, Jekyll or Hyde, reaches the church first. As Dr. Jekyll walks to the church with his cane in hand, several townspeople, animals, and other obstacles obstruct his path, causing him to become angry. After his stress meter fills up, Dr. Jekyll will transform into Mr. Hyde. The gameplay then moves to a demonic world, where Hyde will fire out a \"psycho wave\" at various monsters. The Psycho Wave is, in fact, proudly displayed on the game's cover. As Mr. Hyde kills these monsters, his anger abates and he eventually transforms back into Dr. Jekyll. The game features six levels, but the levels differ between the Japanese and North American versions. The Japanese version follows this order: City, Park, Alley, Town, Cemetery, Street. However, the North American version replaces a few levels and follows this order: Town, Cemetery, Town, Park, Cemetery, Street. The North American version also removed certain sprites and segments from the original Japanese version. The player starts out controlling Dr. Jekyll on his way to the church, walking to the right. Contrary to most platformers, Dr. Jekyll cannot attack the majority of his enemies (though he is equipped with a cane) and, as a result, must avoid his enemies, rather than confront them directly. As he takes damage from the various enemies and obstacles, his Life Meter decreases and his Anger Meter increases. If his Life Meter is fully depleted, Dr. Jekyll dies and the game is over. If his Anger Meter completely fills, however, he transforms into Mr. Hyde. Day turns to night and monsters appear. At this point, the level is mirrored horizontally and Mr. Hyde walks from right to left with the screen autoscrolling. Mr. Hyde must kill monsters as fast as he can in order to turn back into Dr. Jekyll, with Shepp monsters generally giving the largest refill to his Meter, though killing other monsters may refill the Meter a small amount. Once the player returns as Dr. Jekyll, 70% of his Life Meter is restored. If Hyde reaches a spot equivalent to where Dr. Jekyll reached in the latter's world (except in the final segment), a bolt of lightning strikes and kills him instantly. Therefore, the objective of the game is to advance as far as possible as Dr. Jekyll and to transform back as soon as possible as Mr. Hyde. However, the more detailed alternative ending of the game requires the player to strategically reach the Church with Mr.", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game)" } ]

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[ "Robert Louis Stevenson" ]

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[ { "docid": "15628832", "text": "The 2000 SEC men's basketball tournament took place on March 9–12, 2000 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The Arkansas Razorbacks won the tournament and received the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by defeating the Auburn Tigers in the championship game on March 12, 2000. Tournament notes The 2000 SEC Tournament marked the Arkansas Razorbacks men’s basketball team’s first ever tournament title since they won their sixth and final Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament title in 1991, when the Razorbacks competed in the Southwest Conference (Arkansas joined the SEC in 1992). Bracket Television coverage Jefferson Pilot Sports, in its 14th season as the regional syndicated rightsholder of SEC Basketball, broadcast the first three rounds of the tournament. CBS broadcast the championship game for the fifth year in a row. References SEC men's basketball tournament 1999–2000 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season March 2000 sports events in the United States 2000 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state) 2000 in Atlanta College sports in Georgia (U.S. state) Basketball in Georgia (U.S. state)", "title": "2000 SEC men's basketball tournament" } ]

[ "2017" ]

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[ { "docid": "15636895", "text": "The Seal of Louisville is an emblem used as a visual representation for the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Among other reasons, the seal is used to stamp documents to certify their authenticity. The city had four seals from its formation in 1828 to 2003 before its merger with the Jefferson County, Kentucky government and creating a new joint seal, which was designed during a citywide competition by Louisville native and art director William Glenn Hack. History The first seal established in 1828 had a steamboat ascending the falls heading to a wharf laden with boxes and bales. It was engraved with the words \"City of Louisville\" at the top and \"Perseverando\" at the bottom. Perseverando was said to mean \"By Persevering\" and was a part of the city motto \"Industry and punctuality by persevering.\" This seal would be used until May 6, 1861, when the city council would approve a new seal. The new seal would be inspired by the emergence of the steam locomotive and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. It entailed a locomotive with the words \"Progress\" included. The second seal would remain in place for forty-nine years before the year 1910 when citizens started to feel that the locomotive became an outdated symbol for progress. Consequently, the Louisville Convention and Publicity League held a contest to design a new seal. John T. Bauscher won with the design featuring a lady holding a banner with the word \"progress\" on it in one hand and the other hand overflowing with cornucopia. A train and steamboat were on the sides of her and a tall building was depicted in the background with the words \"The Nation's Thorough-fare\" on it. This third seal was enacted on December 21, 1910, by the city council. On November 25, 1953, a new seal designed by Austrian typographer Victor Hammer was adopted following mayor Charles Farnsley's campaign for a simpler seal. This seal was based on the city's origin of its name by implementing three fleur-de-lis in a triangle in the center representing a century of history for each. They were surrounded by thirteen stars representing the original states of the nation and the year 1778 marking the first settlements of the Louisville area. The fleur-de-lis meaning \"Lily Flower\" was the symbol of King Louis XVI of France, the namesake for Louisville. The current seal used represents Louisville and Jefferson County following the merger of the governments on January 6, 2003. The seal reads \"Louisville – Jefferson County\" in a circle around a single fleur-de-lis with two stars and includes the year 1778 (the year Louisville was founded) on both sides. This seal was designed during a citywide competition by Louisville native and art director William Glenn Hack. See also Flag of Louisville, Kentucky Government of Louisville, Kentucky Seal of Kentucky References 1828 establishments in Kentucky 1861 establishments in Kentucky 1910 establishments in Kentucky 1953 establishments in Kentucky 2003 establishments in Kentucky Government of Louisville, Kentucky Official seals of places in Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky Louisville,", "title": "Seal of Louisville, Kentucky" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15668651", "text": "Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms was an entertainment venue for music and singing in the early nineteenth century, located at 43 King Street, Covent Garden, London. The venue provided the type of entertainment which later evolved into music hall. What would later be known as the Evans Music and Supper Rooms was initially known as the Thomas Archer House. The house was built by Thomas Archer in 1712 for Admiral Edward Russell, the fourth Earl of Bedford's grandson. The House would later be sold to a man named Joy and turned into The Grand Hotel. Formerly the dining room of the Grand Hotel, a 'song and supper' room was established in the 1840s by W. H. Evans. It was also known as Evans Late Joy's, the venue previously being owned by a man named Joy. In 1842 the rooms were taken over by John Paddy Green, who had been one of Evans's entertainers. Green reconstructed the rooms and maintained their popular reputation. The room was long by wide. Evans' existed as the most popular song and supper room in the West End for some time during the late 1800s Entertainment was provided by choir boys singing madrigals and glees, followed by older comic singers such as Sam Cowell, Charles Sloman and Sam Collins. The patrons would eat, drink and talk at tables provided and participate in singalongs, sometimes of a \"lewd\" nature. A repeat performer there in the late 1870s was the comedian Arthur Roberts, who was known for his risqué act. In 1879, his performance of one of his \"saucy\" songs caused Evans's to lose its license for a year. The venue was patronised by William Makepeace Thackeray, who presented it (in a composite portrait with the Coal Hole and the Cyder Cellars, two nearby song-and-supper rooms) as \"The Cave of Harmony\" in his novel The Newcomes and as \"The Back Kitchen\" in Pendennis. Unlike the later music halls the patrons were male only, until the 1860s, when women were at last admitted. John Paddy Green said in an interview that women were not allowed in because they were uneducated. The venue closed in 1880, and in 1930 the upstairs rooms in the building were occupied by the Players' Theatre Club who wished to revive the music hall tradition. The cast became known as the \"Late Joys\" and have since provided old time music hall entertainment at a variety of other venues. See also List of supper clubs References Sources Houses completed in 1712 Former music hall venues in the United Kingdom Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Westminster 1880 disestablishments in the United Kingdom 19th century in London Former theatres in London Supper clubs", "title": "Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms" } ]

[ "Peter" ]

[ { "docid": "15626638", "text": "Guy de Montfort (died 31 January 1228) was the younger son of Simon de Montfort and Amicia, sister of Robert FitzPernel, Earl of Leicester. Crusade In 1189 he took part in the Third Crusade, and probably remained in the Holy Land until 1192, when Richard the Lionheart returned home. By 1200 or 1201 Guy was acting with his elder brother Simon. By 1202 he held the lordships of Ferté-Alais, Castres-en-Albigeois, and Brétencourt. In that year he and his brother Simon left on the Fourth Crusade, but they disagreed with the Siege of Zara (an attack on a Christian city), and refused to take part in the plan to restore Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus in return for Byzantine money and troops. They deserted to Emeric, King of Hungary, and eventually the two continued on to Palestine. After arriving at Jaffa, they took part in King Amalric II of Jerusalem's expedition into Galilee. Amalric rewarded Guy's service by arranging his marriage to la dame de Saete (the lady of Sagette), Helvis of Ibelin, the widow of Reginald, Lord of Sidon (which the French called Saete/Sagette). He exercised the regency of Sidon on behalf of his minor stepson Balian until 1210, probably when Balian came of age. Guy then assisted at the coronation of John of Brienne as King of Jerusalem that year. Albigensian Crusade Guy later returned home and took part in the Albigensian Crusade led by his brother, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester. In 1212 they led an unsuccessful siege against Montségur, and in 1213 they participated in the Battle of Muret. They also besieged Beaucaire in 1216. Simon was aiding Guy, who had been injured by a crossbow bolt, at the Siege of Toulouse on 25 June 1218 when he was struck in the head by a stone from a mangonel and killed. The death of Simon and the incompetence of his son Amaury de Montfort invigorated the Albigensian lords. In 1224 Amaury ceded all his territory to Louis VIII of France, who soon arrived to stake his claim. Guy assisted him at the Siege of Avignon, after which Louis died on the way home. Later in the Crusade, Guy himself was killed in battle at Varilhes near Pamiers in 1228. He was taken to the abbey of Haute-Bruyère for burial and the necrology there records a conte Gui de Sagette (count Guy of Sidon). Marriage By his first wife, Helvis of Ibelin he had; Philip Ι, who stayed in the Holy Land and became Lord of Tyre. Pernelle, who became a nun at the abbey of Saint-Antoine des Champs in Paris. Guy remarried to Briende de Beynes, the widow of Lambert de Thury, lord of Lombers. With Briende he had; Alicia, became a nun at Port-Royal Agnes, became a nun at Port-Royal Guy II of Montfort, died on crusade in 1254. Notes References The Encyclopædia Britannica:, Vol.18, Ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911. 1228 deaths Christians of the Third Crusade Christians of the Fourth Crusade People of the", "title": "Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon" } ]

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[ "Richard the Lionheart" ]

[ { "docid": "15626917", "text": "The 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 89th in the National Football League (NFL), their 21st season in Arizona, and their second under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. The season marked the Cardinals' first Super Bowl appearance, coming as a result of their victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. The Cardinals slogan for the season was \"Shock The World!\" Riding the back of quarterback Kurt Warner, who had gone from being a backup for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 to leading the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory, and franchise wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals went on a playoff run for the ages after having won just one playoff game in the last sixty years, as Warner once again recreated the magic he had captured with the Rams. (Coincidentally, both teams were based in St. Louis at one point or another, only to relocate to different cities.) The Cardinals began their season by compiling a 7–3 record by Week 11 and finished the regular season with a 9–7 record (their first winning season in 10 years), which was good enough to win the NFC West, and the Cardinals, for the first time since 1947, hosted a playoff game. In that wild card game, the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Falcons. The next week, for the Divisional round of the playoffs, the Cardinals traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they upset the number 2 seeded Carolina Panthers. Then, because the Philadelphia Eagles also achieved an upset the same week (against the top-seeded New York Giants), the number-four seed Cardinals hosted the NFC Championship game, where they defeated the Eagles and qualified for the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. In Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' winning streak ended. Though they led the Pittsburgh Steelers with less than a minute left to play in the game, they lost, 27–23. The 2008 Cardinals were the second 9–7 team to reach the Super Bowl, joining the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV, who also lost to the Steelers; however, the Rams had to win only two playoff games, rather than three, to reach the Super Bowl. Three years later in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants would become the first 9–7 team to win, overshadowing the Cardinals' achievement. In 2014, Athlon Sports ranked the 2008 Cardinals as the fourth-worst team to ever make the Super Bowl. Coaching staff 2008 NFL Draft selections Roster Schedule Preseason Regular season Standings Regular season results Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers The Cardinals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona took flight as kicker Neil Rackers got a 25-yard field goal. The 49ers responded with RB Frank Gore's 41-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals responded with QB Kurt Warner completing a one-yard TD pass to WR Larry Fitzgerald, yet San Francisco tied the game with kicker Joe Nedney getting", "title": "2008 Arizona Cardinals season" } ]

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[ { "docid": "1563328", "text": "is a 1985 arcade video game made by Sega. It stars a young boy who is armed with a gun. Each level is an infinitely-repeating maze with several dice. Each die is filled with monsters which hatch out and the player must shoot to shrink, then collect them. If the player does not collect each shrunken monster quickly, it turns into a time-eating bug which flies to the time limit bar and consumes a chunk of it. If you touch one monster or run out of time then you lose a life. The game ends if all lives are lost. There are 50 distinct levels, called \"rounds\" in the game, even though the counter goes to 99 (the 100th level does not show). The player can play through the levels loops infinitely, with no apparent end. There are also \"bonus rounds\" every so often; in the Master System version, the player can shoot colored dice to reveal prizes and increase their score. The name of the arcade version was a reference to a 1985 hit song entitled \"Teddy Boy Blues\" by then-popular Japanese pop star Yōko Ishino, an instrumental version of which constantly played in the background during the game. An animated version of Ishino also appeared on the title screen and during the bonus rounds. Console port Sega's console-ported version of the game became a launch title for their Mark III. The exported Master System version is simply titled Teddy Boy and featured different background music as well as no references to Ishino. Teddy Boy was re-released in Brazil by Tectoy under the title Geraldinho. The hero was replaced with the character named Geraldinho, who originates from a comic strip by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco. This version gives the player five lives to start with, while the original game gives only three. The game was ported to the Sega Mega Drive, and released online on the Sega Meganet service in Japan. Later it was also released for the Sega Mega-CD as part of the Game no Kandume vol. 2 collection, which consists of Meganet games. It was also released on the SING!! SEGA Game music CD, and the original music is replaced with melodies from several Sega games, performed by the Japanese band B.B.Queens. Reception In Japan, Game Machine listed Teddy Boy Blues on their June 1, 1985 issue as being the second most-successful table arcade unit of the month. References External links Teddy Boy Blues on System16.com 1985 video games Arcade video games Master System games Sega Genesis games Sega video games Sega System 1 games Sega arcade games Sega Meganet games Video games developed in Japan Multiplayer and single-player video games", "title": "Teddy Boy Blues" } ]

[ "Pac - Man" ]

[ { "docid": "1567027", "text": "Clifton Phifer Lee (born August 30, 1978) is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2002 and 2014 he played for the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners, and Texas Rangers. During his career, Lee was a member of four All-Star teams, won the Cy Young Award, and had consecutive World Series appearances in 2009 and 2010 with the Phillies and Rangers. Born and raised in Benton, Arkansas, Lee's fastball attracted the attention of MLB scouts during his senior year at Benton High School in 1997, but he rejected draft offers twice in order to play college baseball for Meridian Community College and later the Arkansas Razorbacks. Lee finally came to terms with the Expos after his selection in the fourth round of the 2000 MLB Draft, and he spent two years in their farm system before a trade to Cleveland in 2002. Lee made his MLB debut with his new team that year, and made his first opening day roster in 2004. His early years in Cleveland were marked by a number of temper flares, appearing to intentionally pitch at his opponents' heads and storming off of the mound, but by 2005, he was an established part of the Indians' starting rotation. The low point of his career, when he was sent back to the minor leagues in 2007, was followed by his Cy Young-winning season, during which he led the American League with a 2.54 earned run average and all of MLB with 22 wins. The Indians sent Lee to the Phillies at the MLB trading deadline in 2009, and he helped the team reach their second consecutive World Series. There, Lee provided the team with their only two wins, including a 10-strikeout complete game, as Philadelphia lost to the New York Yankees in six games. That offseason, Philadelphia sent Lee to the Mariners as part of a larger deal to acquire Roy Halladay from the Toronto Blue Jays. He was traded again that season, this time to the Rangers, with whom he reached another World Series. There, both of his matchups with fellow ace Tim Lincecum were losses for Lee, and the Rangers lost to the San Francisco Giants. After the 2010 season, Lee turned down a contract offer from the Yankees in order to rejoin the Phillies, where he became part of the \"Four Aces\" starting rotation alongside Halladay, Cole Hamels, and Roy Oswalt. Although he received two more All-Star selections, the remainder of Lee's time in Philadelphia was marked by poor run support, and he did not reach the postseason again after 2011. In 2014, Lee suffered a torn common flexor tendon in his pitching arm and, despite hopes that he would recover without surgery, he did not pitch again. Lee's professional baseball tenure was marked by his strong pitch command despite a comparatively low velocity, as well as by his composure in high-stress situations, the latter albeit complicated by his sometimes quick temper.", "title": "Cliff Lee" } ]

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[ "Philadelphia Phillies" ]

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[ { "docid": "15630853", "text": "Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate between sheep and grain and the Debate between Winter and Summer, also found at Nippur. Other flood myths appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis creation narrative. Fragments The story is known from three fragments representing different versions of the narrative. One is a tablet excavated from the ancient Sumerian city known as Nippur. This tablet was discovered during the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893, and the creation story was recognized by Arno Poebel in 1912. It is written in the Sumerian language and is dated to around 1600 BC. The second fragment is from Ur, also written in Sumerian and from the same time period. The third is a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian fragment from the Library of Ashurbanipal ca. 600 In 2018, a new fragment of the Eridu Genesis story was published. Synopsis The first 36 lines of the primary tablet from Nippur are lost, although they can be inferred to have discussed the creation of man and animals, and likely spoke about the dissolute existence of mankind prior to civilization (as is indicated by the fragment from Ur). The surviving portion begins with a monologue from Nintur, the goddess who birthed mankind, where she calls humans from a vagrant existence as nomads to build cities, temples, and become both sedentary and civilized. After the monologue, there is another missing section that only resumes after another 36 lines, and at this point humans are still in a nomadic state; the missing section may have spoken of an initial unsuccessful attempt by humans to establish civilization. When the text resumes, Nintur is still planning on providing kingship and organization to humans. Then, the first cities are named (beginning with Eridu, whose leadership Nintur placed under Nudimmud), then Badtibira, Larak, Sippar, and finally Shuruppak. The cities were established as distributional (not monetary) economies. Another lacuna (missing section) of 34 lines proceeds. The fragment from the library of Ashurbanipal, as well as independent evidence from the Sumerian King List, suggests this section included the naming of more cities and their rulers. What occurs next is a statement that humans began to make noises that annoyed the gods: Enlil in particular was entirely unable to sleep due to humanity and made the radical decision to deal with this by destroying humanity with a flood. The god Enki informs one human, Ziusudra (likely a priest), of this decision and advises him to build a boat to save both himself and one couple of every living creature. Ziusudra builds the boat, boards it with his family and the animals, and the gods unleash the flood, although the exact phrasing", "title": "Eridu Genesis" } ]

[ "League of Nations" ]

[ { "docid": "15642908", "text": "\"My Love, My Life\" is a song recorded by ABBA for their album, Arrival. The song was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Background \"My Love, My Life\" was one of the last songs to be recorded for the album. Agnetha Fältskog sings lead vocals and Björn Ulvaeus proclaimed the song to be the finest example of Agnetha's vocal purity.. He also expressed reservations about how the song was arranged. A complete demo with the original \"Monsieur, Monsieur\" lyrics was recorded before this, and remains unreleased. Composition According to the sheet music published at Sheetmusicdirect.com by Union Songs, \"My Love, My Life\" has a slow tempo of 68 beats per minute. Written in common time, the song is in the key of C major. Agnetha Fältskog's vocal range spans from G3 to E5 during the song. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again version Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, and Meryl Streep recorded My Love, My Life for the soundtrack of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Their version was released on 13 July 2018, alongside the rest of the soundtrack, by Capitol and Polydor Records. It was produced by Benny Andersson. This version featured new lyrics written by Björn Ulvaeus. Charts Cover versions Elaine Paige version Elaine Paige recorded “ Like An Image Passing By” for the 1983 UK musical, ABBAcadabra, with reworked lyrics, produced and arranged by Mike Batt. The song was released as a single in Europe in late 1983 and early 1984. The B-Side consisted of a cover of “Like An Angel Passing Through My Room”, retitled \"When Dreamers Close Their Eyes\" sung by Finola Hughes. The single peaked at No. 126 in the UK Singles Charts. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20080718201231/http://abba-world.server101.com/ ABBA songs 1976 songs Songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus Songs written by Stig Anderson", "title": "My Love, My Life" } ]

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[ "ABBA" ]

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[ { "docid": "15656982", "text": "Luis Cedeño (born August 11, 1961), more commonly known as DJ Disco Wiz is an American DJ. He is noted as being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop. Old School He was born in the Bronx, New York City, United States, to a Puerto Rican father and a mother from Cuba. After being inspired at a Kool Herc jam by the emerging hip hop movement taking place in The Bronx, DJ Disco Wiz collaborated with his best friend, Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form a group called the Mighty Force crew. Mighty Force is noted as being one of the first Hip-Hop DJ crews in the mid-to-late 1970s. Noted for their DJ battles in the streets of the South Bronx, the Mighty Force crew was also responsible for presenting the first Latino rapper to the world, Prince Whipper Whip, who is also of Puerto Rican descent. DJ Disco Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a \"mixed plate\" in 1977 (Hip-Hop's first mixed dub recording) when he and Grandmaster Caz, combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats. New School The grandson of the late Puerto Rican artist and Santero Norberto Cedeño; (La Mano Poderosa, 1950), Wiz is the creator of \"The Hip-Hop Meets Spoken Wordz\" series, a hip hop and poetry performance series that gives a voice to up-and-coming Latino talent in New York City. As a poet, DJ Disco Wiz has performed at the Apollo Theater and the landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his poetry can be seen in the upcoming book Born in the Bronx. Wiz also appears in a few documentaries on hip-hop history including 1 LOVE, a film produced by noted hip-hop historian James \"Koe\" Rodriguez about the lives of Joe Conzo, Ernie Paniccioli, and Jamel Shabazz—hip-hop's first photographers. Wiz has openly contributed to the community education of the formative years of hip-hop. In the millennium issue of The Source Magazine he candidly shared his experience in being the first Latino during the culture's evolution. He was also a major contributor in the opening of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington in 2000. His contribution and donation of original hip-hop flyers, solely for the preservation of hip-hop can be seen as part of the archives. He was also instrumental in the making of Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn's rendition of the early years of hip-hop entitled Yes, Yes Y’all; sharing numerous original flyers and first-hand accounts of the early years of hip-hop including an account of the historical New York City blackout of 1977. He is also a board member of the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture, chaired by Afrika Bambaataa of the Universal Zulu Nation. The Federation also includes on its board; Grandmaster Caz, DJ Tony Tone, Kurtis Blow, GrandMaster Melle Mel, KRS-One, Lovebug Starski, Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabon, and photographer Joe Conzo. Wiz co-authored his memoirs with Simon & Schuster author Ivan Sanchez. The book is titled It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of", "title": "DJ Disco Wiz" } ]

[ "DJ Kool Herc" ]

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[ { "docid": "2302319", "text": "Matt West is a choreographer and actor. He choreographed the first Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. He won a Drama-Logue Award for his work on that show. His acting credits include the role of Bobby in the Broadway musical A Chorus Line. He reprised this role in the 1985 movie version directed by Richard Attenborough. West co-produced and choreographed Lestat, a musical based on the Vampire Lestat stories by Anne Rice. References External links Playbill Bio Matt West at broadwayworld.com Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American choreographers", "title": "Matt West" } ]

[ "Magnus" ]

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[ { "docid": "1562112", "text": "The Most Outstanding Player is awarded to one player after the conclusion of the championship game of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Accredited media members at the championship game vote on the award. The player that wins the award is usually a member of the championship team. Ten men and one woman have won the award despite not winning the championship. The last man to do so was Akeem Olajuwon in 1983 and Dawn Staley was the only woman to do so when she won the award in 1991. Six men and five women have won the award multiple times. Lew Alcindor won the men’s award three times from 1967 to 1969 and Breanna Stewart won the women’s award four times from 2013 to 2016. One person has vacated the award. In 1971, Howard Porter won the award despite Villanova losing to UCLA in the championship game. Villanova later vacated their entire season. One other person, Luke Hancock, had his MOP award vacated when the NCAA vacated Louisville's 2013 national championship, but the NCAA later restored to the award as part of a settlement in a lawsuit with him due to him not being involved in the scandal. In 1944, Arnie Ferrin of Utah was the first freshman to win the award. Past winners An asterisk (*) next to a player's name indicates they did not play for the championship team. NCAA Division I men's Most Outstanding Player 1939 – Jimmy Hull, Ohio State* 1940 – Marvin Huffman, Indiana 1941 – John Kotz, Wisconsin 1942 – Howie Dallmar, Stanford 1943 – Ken Sailors, Wyoming 1944 – Arnie Ferrin, Utah 1945 – Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&M 1946 – Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&M 1947 – George Kaftan, Holy Cross 1948 – Alex Groza, Kentucky 1949 – Alex Groza, Kentucky 1950 – Irwin Dambrot, CCNY 1951 – Bill Spivey, Kentucky 1952 – Clyde Lovellette, Kansas 1953 – B. H. Born, Kansas* 1954 – Tom Gola, La Salle 1955 – Bill Russell, San Francisco 1956 – Hal Lear, Temple* 1957 – Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas* 1958 – Elgin Baylor, Seattle* 1959 – Jerry West, West Virginia* 1960 – Jerry Lucas, Ohio State 1961 – Jerry Lucas, Ohio State* 1962 – Paul Hogue, Cincinnati 1963 – Art Heyman, Duke* 1964 – Walt Hazzard, UCLA 1965 – Bill Bradley, Princeton* 1966 – Jerry Chambers, Utah* 1967 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1968 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1969 – Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1970 – Sidney Wicks, UCLA 1971 – Vacated 1972 – Bill Walton, UCLA 1973 – Bill Walton, UCLA 1974 – David Thompson, NC State 1975 – Richard Washington, UCLA 1976 – Kent Benson, Indiana 1977 – Butch Lee, Marquette 1978 – Jack Givens, Kentucky 1979 – Earvin Johnson, Michigan State 1980 – Darrell Griffith, Louisville 1981 – Isiah Thomas, Indiana 1982 – James Worthy, North Carolina 1983 – Akeem Olajuwon, Houston* 1984 – Patrick Ewing, Georgetown 1985 – Ed Pinckney, Villanova 1986 – Pervis Ellison, Louisville 1987 –", "title": "NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15662132", "text": "Mauricio Navarro (born April 7, 1966) is a Canadian soccer referee. Navarro was born in Chile but later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and became a Canadian citizen. He attained his FIFA badge in 2000 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful referees before retiring and the end of 2011, having reached the mandatory retirement age. Career After just one year on the FIFA list, Navarro was appointed to the 2001 Copa America, hosted in Colombia. He officiated just one match, the Group C opener between Bolivia and Uruguay, which Bolivia won 1-0. Navarro later described this match as one of the most difficult of his career. Navarro's next major appointment was to the 2003 Gold Cup, where he officiated three matches, one in the group stage, a Quarter-final, and then the Final. 2003 Gold Cup Final At his retirement, Navarro describes the 2003 Gold Cup final between Mexico, and reigning World Champions Brazil, as the pinnacle of his career. He had officiated both teams already in the tournament; Brazil in the Group Stage and Mexico in the Quarter-finals. In 2007, Navarro was appointed to the Gold Cup, where he refereed the Group Stage match between Panama and Honduras and the Quarter-Final match between Honduras and Guadeloupe. The same year he was selected to work the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted in Canada. Unfortunately, due to injury he did not referee any matches, instead only acting as a 4th Official. 2008 CONCACAF Champions Cup Final Navarro was selected, along with Canadian Assistant Referees Hector Vergara and Joe Fletcher to officiate the decisive second leg of the 2008 CONCACAF Champions Cup. For Navarro, this came after three successive semi-final appointments in the past three years of the tournament. This was the final match ever of the tournament, as beginning the following season it was replaced with the current CONCACAF Champions League. Final international match Navarro's final international appointment came on November 15, 2011 when he officiated the reigning World Champions Spain and Costa Rica. The initial plan was for Hector Vergara to work the match too, so the friends Navarro and Vergara could officiate their final match together, but Vergara had work commitments and was unable to accept the game. International competitions officiated 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification CONCACAF Champions League 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification CONCACAF Champions Cup 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualification 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup 2002 FIFA World Cup Qualification 2001 Copa America Honours Ray Morgan Memorial Award: 2002 Personal life Navarro was born in Chile. He later moved to Canada, and has two daughters. References Canadian soccer referees Chilean emigrants to Canada Naturalized citizens of Canada 1966 births Living people Copa América referees CONCACAF Gold Cup referees CONCACAF Champions Cup referees Major League Soccer referees", "title": "Mauricio Navarro" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15670779", "text": "The House of Mirth is a 2000 drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. An adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, the film stars Gillian Anderson. It is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Plot Lily Bart is a beautiful but impoverished socialite accustomed to comfort and luxury. Along with her younger cousin, Grace Stepney, she lives with her wealthy aunt, Julia Peniston, who gives Lily a small allowance. Lily genuinely admires lawyer Lawrence Selden, but he is too poor for her to seriously consider marrying. Her choices are limited to coarse, vulgar Simon Rosedale, a rising financier, and wealthy but dull Percy Gryce. Lily’s friend Judy Trenor urges her to pursue Gryce. Lily, however, cannot help preferring Selden, and during a country weekend, they take a long walk and share an innocent kiss. Gryce, with whom Lily has broken two appointments, leaves abruptly. Fearful for her future, a dejected Lily pours out her troubles to Judy's husband, Gus Trenor. He leads her to believe he will help her earn money through investment. Later, Lily purchases scandalous letters written by Bertha Dorset revealing that Selden was her lover. Lily is hurt, but keeps the letters secret. At a wedding, Lily receives a $5,000 check from Gus Trenor, who claims to have reinvested another $4,000. Later, he invites Lily to the opera, where she is seen by her disapproving aunt and Lawrence Selden as she sits with Trenor and Rosedale. Trenor tricks her into leaving the opera and accompanying him to his home, where he tries to kiss her, claiming that Lily is not playing a fair game when she accepts his money but refuses him her attentions. When Lily arrives home, her aunt refuses to lend her the money to repay the $9,000 she received from Trenor. Lily confides in Grace, asking if she should turn to Selden for his understanding, but Grace advises against it; Grace secretly loves Lawrence and is jealous of Lily. Lily had arranged a later appointment with Selden while at the wedding, and she counts on his love for her to overcome her foolish mistakes. While Lily is hoping to hear from Selden, Rosedale visits, proposing to her as if suggesting a corporate merger. His wealth could free Lily, yet she politely rejects his flattering but cold blooded proposal. Bertha Dorset invites Lily to the Dorsets' yacht for a European cruise. Lily accepts, desperate to escape the debts, whispers and criticism in New York. In Monte Carlo, Mrs. Carry Fisher meets with Selden, who has arrived from London. They are both worried about Lily, travelling on the Dorsets’ yacht. Lily and George Dorset converse on deck while a young man reads French poetry to Bertha. While ashore that evening, Lily and George look for them in vain before returning to the yacht. Next morning, George enters Lily's cabin, accusing her of knowing about Bertha's indiscretions with the young poet. Lily pleads ignorance of Bertha’s", "title": "The House of Mirth (2000 film)" } ]

[ "Mackenzie Browning" ]

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[ { "docid": "1565607", "text": "The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson is a 1998 family adventure series that originally aired on Pax. Based on the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, it follows the adventures of nine survivors of a shipwreck as they attempt to adapt to life on a deserted island. It lasted for one season, with 10 three episode segments. Background This was the fifth television series based on the 1812 novel and followed nearly a dozen theatrical and made-for-television film versions. Like many of these previous versions, it altered story lines and added several members to the cast of characters. Broadcast The show contained 10 story arcs of three episodes each and aired on closely spaced dates over seven weeks in September and October 1998. It was one of the first shows broadcast on the newly formed PAX network. It was also aired on Sri Lanka National Television dubbed in Sinhala language under the title (\"රොබින්සන් අන්දරය\"). Cast and characters Richard Thomas as David Robinson Margo Gunn as Elizabeth Robinson Kieren Hutchison as Ernst Robinson Charlotte Woollams as Joanna Robinson Mia Koning as Christina Robinson Chantelle Yee as Emily Chen K.C. Kelly as Jed Parsons Gareth Howell as Ben Thomas Junior Chile as Billy Episodes \"Survival (Part 1)\" (September 1, 1998) \"Survival (Part 2)\" (September 2, 1998) \"Survival (Part 3)\" (September 3, 1998) \"The Island of the Gods (Part 1)\" (September 4, 1998) \"The Island of the Gods (Part 2)\" (September 8, 1998) \"The Island of the Gods (Part 3)\" (September 9, 1998) \"Invasion (Part 1)\" (September 10, 1998) \"Invasion (Part 2)\" (September 11, 1998) \"Invasion (Part 3)\" (September 14, 1998) \"Princess From the Sea (Part 1)\" (September 15, 1998) \"Princess From the Sea (Part 2)\" (September 16, 1998) \"Princess From the Sea (Part 3)\" (September 17, 1998) \"Captives (Part 1)\" (September 20, 1998) \"Captives (Part 2)\" (September 21, 1998) \"Captives (Part 3)\" (September 22, 1998) \"The Ghost of Raven Jones (Part 1)\" (September 23, 1998) \"The Ghost of Raven Jones (Part 2)\" (September 26, 1998) \"The Ghost of Raven Jones (Part 3)\" (September 27, 1998) \"The Treasure Hunt (Part 1)\" (September 28, 1998) \"The Treasure Hunt (Part 2)\" (September 29, 1998) \"The Treasure Hunt (Part 3)\" (October 2, 1998) \"Star-Crossed Lovers (Part 1)\" (October 3, 1998) \"Star-Crossed Lovers (Part 2)\" (October 4, 1998) \"Star-Crossed Lovers (Part 3)\" (October 5, 1998) \"Paradise Lost (Part 1)\" (October 8, 1998) \"Paradise Lost (Part 2)\" (October 9, 1998) \"Paradise Lost (Part 3)\" (October 10, 1998) \"Boston (Part 1)\" (October 11, 1998) \"Boston (Part 2)\" (October 14, 1998) \"Boston (Part 3)\" (October 15, 1998) Media information Questar/Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE) released a complete series DVD in 2005. References External links The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (Official) at Facebook.com 1990s American drama television series 1998 American television series debuts 1998 American television series endings American adventure television series Period family drama television series Television shows based on Swiss novels American television shows based on children's books Television series about families The", "title": "The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson" }, { "docid": "15648220", "text": "Orlando Fashion Square is a split one-story, two-story indoor shopping mall located in Orlando, Florida. Opened in 1973, it features 79 stores in over one million square feet of shop space. The mall's anchor stores are Macy's, Floor & Decor, and Dillard's Clearance Center. Predating the mall's opening was a Sears department store opened in 1963; this store closed in 2016 and has been razed for redevelopment. JCPenney, another anchor store closed in 2020. Other major tenants include Premiere Cinemas and Planet Fitness. The mall is managed by UP Development, Inc. History The first operational store on the site was a Sears department store, which opened for business on October 30, 1963. The mall was first announced in 1971 by developer Leonard L. Farber, who also developed Pompano Square (now Pompano Citi Centre) in Pompano Beach, Florida. Under the original plans, the mall would be attached to the existing Sears store, with Burdines as the second anchor. Burdines opened along with the rest of the mall on July 30, 1973. A third anchor, Robinson's of Florida, opened on the north side of the mall on October 29, 1973. Robinson's of Florida was the newly-created Florida division of California-based J.W. Robinsons. The Orlando location was their second Florida location, opening two months after their first store at Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg. A free-standing movie theater was built on an outparcel in 1975 which existed until 1989. In 1988, Robinson's Florida stores were sold to Maison Blanche. Maison Blanche then built a new store just northeast of the original store two years later. The previous store would become more inline mall space connecting the new store with the rest of the mall. Maison Blanche became Gayfer's in 1992, which was then sold to Dillard's in 1998. JCPenney built a new store at the mall to replace a store at Winter Park Mall in 1993. An interior renovation completed in 2002. In 2004, a new movie theater owned by Premiere Cinemas opened in the mall. Burdines became Macy's in 2005. In 2013, PREIT sold the mall to UP Development, Inc. for $35 million. The new owner has plans to redevelop the mall. One year later a new bowling alley was added and the movie theater was rebuilt. In 2014, Dillard's converted its store to a Dillard's Clearance Center, and closed its second floor. The mall lost several other stores such as Bath and Body Works, Victoria's Secret, and The Limited. In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Orlando Fashion Square, into Seritage Growth Properties. On August 9, 2016, Sears announced their intentions to close their store at this mall. The Sears store was demolished in April 2017. Floor & Decor was built to replace Sears. Outparcels on the Seritage site include Longhorn Steakhouse, Mission BBQ, and Olive Garden. On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that it would be closing as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. The store closed on October", "title": "Orlando Fashion Square" } ]

[ "Charles William Mumy Jr." ]

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[ { "docid": "15624090", "text": "Ballads Copies of extant seventeenth-century broadside ballads about William III and Mary II, such as \"England's Triumph\", \"England's Happiness in the Crowning of William and Mary\", \"A new loyal song, upon King William's Progress into Ireland\" and \"Royal Courage, King William's Happy Success in Ireland\", are housed in Magdalene College's Pepys Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. Art In Dublin city, the display of a white plasterwork horse in the fanlight of a door was believed to denote a household that was Protestant and loyal to the United Kingdom. The horse was a depiction of William's white horse, which he rode during the Battle of the Boyne. In the late 1700s, \"Williamite glass\", featuring a depiction of the King was a popular product by craftsmen in Ireland. One example held in the Ulster Museum featured the inscription \"The glorious and immortal memory of King William and his Queen Mary and perpetual disappointment to the Pope, the Pretender, and all the enemies of the Protestant religion\". Paintings of William, often on his horse, were common in stately homes and public buildings in Ireland in the 19th century. Statues An equestrian statue of William by Grinling Gibbons stood on College Green, Dublin, which was unveiled on 1 July 1701. It became a focal point for political protest and celebrations, with protests beginning as early as 1710 when two Trinity College students damaged and defaced the statue. During William's birthday celebrations, the statue was painted white, and decorated with an orange cloak and sash with orange streamers. In July, the statue was decorated with orange lilies. In 1836, the statue was bombed, but was re-erected. It was later destroyed by another bomb in 1929. In London, an equestrian bronze of the King can be found in St. James's Square. Murals and banners In Northern Ireland, murals in Unionist or Loyalist areas of the country often depict William and his success at the Battle of the Boyne. The first mural of William was painted in Derry in the 1920s and depicted the Battle of the Boyne and his ending of the siege of Derry. King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern Ireland. The \"King Billy\" murals are a mixture of \"some old, some new, some ornate, some naïve\". Many of the murals feature the date 1690, in relation to the Battle of the Boyne. Banners and other depictions are also displayed and paraded during celebrations and marches marking the date of the Battle, 12 July, by Unionists. In Northern Ireland the celebrations feature Orange Order marches. His image is also featured on drums and the insignia of the Orangemen. These July celebrations have also historically taken place in parts of Scotland and Canada. Other days celebrated by Irish protestants in memory of William were his birthday on 4 November, the date of his landing in England, and his victory at the Battle of Aughrim on 1 July. Literature Marjorie Bowen wrote three historical novels about", "title": "Cultural depictions of William III of England" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15626917", "text": "The 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 89th in the National Football League (NFL), their 21st season in Arizona, and their second under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. The season marked the Cardinals' first Super Bowl appearance, coming as a result of their victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. The Cardinals slogan for the season was \"Shock The World!\" Riding the back of quarterback Kurt Warner, who had gone from being a backup for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 to leading the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory, and franchise wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals went on a playoff run for the ages after having won just one playoff game in the last sixty years, as Warner once again recreated the magic he had captured with the Rams. (Coincidentally, both teams were based in St. Louis at one point or another, only to relocate to different cities.) The Cardinals began their season by compiling a 7–3 record by Week 11 and finished the regular season with a 9–7 record (their first winning season in 10 years), which was good enough to win the NFC West, and the Cardinals, for the first time since 1947, hosted a playoff game. In that wild card game, the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Falcons. The next week, for the Divisional round of the playoffs, the Cardinals traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they upset the number 2 seeded Carolina Panthers. Then, because the Philadelphia Eagles also achieved an upset the same week (against the top-seeded New York Giants), the number-four seed Cardinals hosted the NFC Championship game, where they defeated the Eagles and qualified for the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. In Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' winning streak ended. Though they led the Pittsburgh Steelers with less than a minute left to play in the game, they lost, 27–23. The 2008 Cardinals were the second 9–7 team to reach the Super Bowl, joining the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV, who also lost to the Steelers; however, the Rams had to win only two playoff games, rather than three, to reach the Super Bowl. Three years later in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants would become the first 9–7 team to win, overshadowing the Cardinals' achievement. In 2014, Athlon Sports ranked the 2008 Cardinals as the fourth-worst team to ever make the Super Bowl. Coaching staff 2008 NFL Draft selections Roster Schedule Preseason Regular season Standings Regular season results Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers The Cardinals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona took flight as kicker Neil Rackers got a 25-yard field goal. The 49ers responded with RB Frank Gore's 41-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals responded with QB Kurt Warner completing a one-yard TD pass to WR Larry Fitzgerald, yet San Francisco tied the game with kicker Joe Nedney getting", "title": "2008 Arizona Cardinals season" } ]

[ "Baltimore Ravens" ]

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[ { "docid": "15676165", "text": "Andrew William Dunn BSC is a British cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with Robert Altman, Nicholas Hytner, Lee Daniels and Mick Jackson. He is the recipient of three BAFTA Awards, a British Society of Cinematographers Award and an Evening Standard British Film Award. Dunn is well known for his work on Threads (1984), Edge of Darkness (1985), L.A. Story (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), The Madness of King George (1994), The Crucible (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The History Boys (2006), Precious (2009), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) among others. Early life Andrew Dunn was born in London, England. He grew up around cinema, as his father worked for MGM Studios. Dunn started making films in his early teens, and then joined the BBC whilst studying film at the University of Westminster (formerly London Polytechnic). Filmography Feature films Television TV films Awards 1985 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Threads (1984) 1986 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Edge of Darkness (1985) 1989 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Tumbledown (1988) 1995 — British Society of Cinematographers - Best Cinematography Award for: The Madness of King George (1994) 1996 — Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Technical/Artistic Achievement for: The Madness of King George (1994) Further reading (2006) \"Andrew Dunn\" Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television: A biographical guide featuring performers, directors, writers, producers, designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the world Vol. 65, Thomson Gale, Detroit, References External links English cinematographers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1950 births", "title": "Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)" } ]

[ "Sam" ]

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[ { "docid": "15656625", "text": "Hot stamping or foil stamping is a printing method of relief printing in which pre-dried ink or foils are transferred to a surface at high temperatures. The method has diversified since its rise to prominence in the 19th century to include a variety of processes. After the 1970s, hot stamping became one of the most important methods of decoration on the surface of plastic products. Process In a hot stamping machine, a die is mounted and heated, with the product to be stamped placed beneath it. A metallized or painted roll-leaf carrier is inserted between the two, and the die presses down through it. The dry paint or foil used is impressed into the surface of the product. The dye-stamping process itself is non-polluting because the materials involved are dry. Pressure and heat cause the relevant sections of the foil to become detached from the carrier material and become bonded with the printing surface. Tools Along with foil stamping machines, among the commonly used tools in hot stamping are dies and foil. Dies may be made of metal or silicone rubber, and they may be shaped directly or cast. They can carry high levels of detail to be transferred to the surface and may be shaped to accommodate irregularities in the surface. Foils are multilayered coatings that transfer to the surface of the product. Non-metallic foils consist of an adherence base, a color layer, and a release layer. Metallic foils replace the color layer with a layer of chrome or vacuum-metallized aluminum. Metallic foil construction has a metal-like sheen and is available in different metal shades such as gold, silver, bronze, and copper. Pigment foil does not have a metallic sheen but may be glossy or matte. Holographic foil paper includes a 3-dimensional image to provide a distinctive appearance to specific areas of a digitally printed application. Printing is often done on leather or paper. Different hot stamping machines serve different purposes, but the most common hot stamping machines are simple up-and-down presses. Three of the most common brands are Kwikprint, Kingsley, and Howard. However, for more industrial applications Kluge and Heidelberg presses are more commonly used. History In the 19th century, hot stamping became a popular method of applying gold tooling or embossing in book printing on leather and paper. The first patent for hot stamping was recorded in Germany by Ernst Oeser in 1892. From the 1950s onward, the method became a popular means of marking plastic . Hot Stamping technology for plastic is used for electric components (TV frames, audio components, refrigerators etc.), cosmetic containers (lipstick, cream, mascara, shampoo bottle etc.), automobile parts (interior and exterior materials). As of 1998, it was one of the most commonly used methods of security printing. Foil stamping can be used to make Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, although screen printing is faster and cheaper. DIY Methods Several do-it-yourself (DIY) techniques exist for crafting foiling stamps. Notably, the advent of 3D printing technology has empowered enthusiasts to fashion stamps from high-temperature resins.", "title": "Hot stamping" } ]

[ "in the early 20th century" ]

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[ { "docid": "1563202", "text": "Bible Adventures is a Christian video game by Wisdom Tree first released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1995. The game was unusual in that it was never sold in video game outlets. It contains three different games: Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath, all of which are based rather loosely on stories from the Bible. The gameplay of these games is sidescroller style similar to that of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the NES. The game also features Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, by J. S. Bach, as the background music for the title screen. The game bypasses the 10NES lockout chip by emitting a voltage spike when the NES control deck is turned on. Gameplay The game is a collection of three games based on stories contained in the Old Testament: In Noah's Ark, the player must round up animals and food — sometimes by knocking animals out with an object that resembles a barrel or catching fruit thrown by a monkey — and carry them onto the Ark. Noah's health is recharged when the player reads Bible verses that are scattered around the four levels. Snakes seen on the trees are decoys; the real snakes the player has to capture are inside of a cave. In Baby Moses, the player controls Miriam, Moses' sister, as she tries to save her brother from the Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew children be killed. In order to do this, the player carries Moses from one end of the level to the other, in a manner quite similar to the way in which characters in Super Mario Bros. 2 carry vegetables. Moses can be thrown around without harming him, but enemies cannot be harmed in any way. The adversaries attempt to throw Moses into the Nile. There is a quirk in the game that allows the player to throw Moses into the Nile, upon which the game says that the player forgot Moses. In David and Goliath, the player starts out controlling David as he herds sheep and avoids predators such as lions and bears. Acorns can be used to stun the beasts. The player then obtains a sling and goes on to dodge guards, scorpions and stones before he fights Goliath's shield bearer and ultimately Goliath himself, whom the player must strike once in the head to defeat. Criticism The game has been criticized for being overly didactic (e.g., gameplay is broken up by Bible verses), derivative of Super Mario Bros. 2, and poorly designed. It also has been criticized for its recycling of its other levels; each level contains similar objectives and the same style of gameplay. Nevertheless, it reportedly sold 350,000 copies in Christian bookstores. GamesRadar ranked it as the 68th worst game ever made. The staff criticized the developers for their choice of Bible stories to adapt and for the sloppy design. Electronic Gaming Monthlys Seanbaby placed it as number 19 in his \"20 worst games", "title": "Bible Adventures" } ]

[ "Daniel" ]

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[ { "docid": "15667865", "text": "Evil Twin () is a 2007 South Korean horror film. When an accident claims the life of a young girl, during the same incident her twin sister fell into a coma and awakens 10 years later. Many deaths follows her recovery, and she seemingly takes on her sister's personality traits. Plot The movie begins with a young woman being strangled by a man. The man strangling her is accusing her of murder. A series of flashbacks show two little girls playing on a bridge and falling into the water. Three men are sitting and drinking, asking each other what they would do if they saw a ghost. Two of the men make fun of the third about his stuttering and cowardice. The stutterer says that they would be scared too if they met dead Hyo-jin. The third man makes an excuse and leaves. While walking home, he glances nervously at a bridge and pretends not to see it. He then sees a woman with long hair covering her face. Frightened, he attempts to pretend he doesn't see her either but the woman appears in front of him. A young woman, So-yeon, wakes up from a creepy dream in the hospital, finding her mother beside her. The doctor informs them that she has lost her memories. So-yeon is taken home and pampered, tended to by a servant who tells her that she has been in a coma for ten years. So-yeon has a vision of drowning and develops chest pains after overhearing of a man drowned in a ditch. She goes directly to where the body was, arousing the curiosity of her servants. Far in the distance, she sees the body being carried away: the stuttering man from earlier. The servants in the kitchen talk about So-yeon's twin sister Hyo-jin. When they were young, both girls fell off a bridge into the water. Hyo-jin drowned, while So-yeon went into a coma. Hyo-jin, was said to be her father's favorite while their mother had always favored the eldest, So-yeon. So-yeon was said to have been a nasty child and often bullied Hyo-jin. Hearing about So-yeon's recovery, Hyun Sik, So-yeon's fiancé, is ordered by his mother to visit her. He is reluctant to see her as he was in love with Hyo-jin and was devastated by her death. Hyun Sik meets So-yeon, and she mentions that she remembers playing with him when they were kids. Hyun Sik also remembers that day. He was happily playing with Hyo-jin but So-yeon found them, becomes jealous and hit Hyo-jin, resulting in a scar. Angry at the memory, Hyun Sik walks away. After a series of mysterious killings, it is revealed that the one killed in the water ten years ago was not Hyo-jin but So-yeon: the living twin is actually Hyo-jin. The secret was hidden by her mother, who had been telling the villagers that Hyo-jin was dead and the one alive was So-yeon, since she was her favorite. But the dreadful spirit of the real", "title": "Evil Twin (film)" } ]

[ "Wilmington , North Carolina" ]

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[ { "docid": "2303659", "text": "The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines cession as \"a surrender; a giving up; a relinquishment of jurisdiction by a board in favor of another agency.\" In contrast with annexation, where property is forcibly seized, cession is voluntary or at least apparently so. Examples In 1790, the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia both ceded land to create the District of Columbia, as specified in the U.S. Constitution of the previous year. The Virginia portion was given back in 1847, a process known as \"retrocession\". Following the First Opium War (18391842) and Second Opium War (18561860), Hong Kong (Treaty of Nanking) and Kowloon (Convention of Peking) were ceded by the Qing dynasty government of China to the United Kingdom; and following defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895. Territory can also be ceded for payment, such as in the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska Purchase. Specific areas of law Contract law This is a yielding up, or release. France ceded Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803. Spain made a cession of East and West Florida by the treaty of February 22, 1819. Cessions have been severally made of a part of their territory by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Civil law Under the civil law system, cession is the equivalent of assignment, and therefore, is an act by which a personal claim is transferred from the assignor (the cedent) to the assignee (the cessionary). Whereas real rights are transferred by delivery, personal rights are transferred by cession. Once the obligation of the debtor is transferred, the cessionary is entirely substituted. The original creditor (cedent) loses his right to claim and the new creditor (cessionary) gains that right. Ecclesiastical law When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson or rector takes another benefice without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender. Retrocession Retrocession is the return of something (e.g., land or territory) that was ceded in general or, specifically: Examples: District of Columbia retrocession, the retrocession to Virginia, and potentially to Maryland, of the land ceded to create the District of Columbia Retrocession of Louisiana (New Spain) from Spain to France, formally accomplished just three weeks before the U.S. received the Louisiana Purchase lands from France Disputed case The claimed \"Taiwan retrocession\" refers to the view that the sovereignty of Taiwan has been handed over in 1945 from Japan to the Republic of China, the widely-recognized government of China at the time, following Japan's loss in WWII. Whether this \"retrocession\" is legitimate under international law is a disputed issue in the complex political status of Taiwan. See also: Taiwan Retrocession Day. In insurance, retrocessional arrangements generally are governed by a reinsurance or retrocessional agreement and the principles applicable to reinsurance also are", "title": "Cession" } ]

[ "Napoleon" ]

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[ { "docid": "15620889", "text": "Miss London Ltd. is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical, war film, directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey and Evelyn Dall. It was produced by Edward Black, Maurice Ostrer, Fred Gunn and Gainsborough Pictures. It was Guest's directorial debut. Plot This musical comedy playing in wartime London, stars Arthur Askey as Arthur Boden alias Miss London, the name of the escort agency he inherited from his mother. Soon he is joined by his new American partner, Terry Arden (Evelyn Dall), as she inherited the other half of the Agency from her parents, who just arrived from abroad. The first thing she accomplishes is to clean up the office, together with her partner. Then they have to renew the files of escort-Ladies. In order to do so, each of them goes searching in different places. Arthur Boden is assigned to the railway station and finally he finds railway clerk Gail Martin (Anne Shelton) to hire. The opening sequence of the film features the latter singing \"The 8.50 Choo Choo For Waterloo Choo\" at Waterloo station before she is recruited by Bowman for his agency. As usual, Ronald Shiner's character of Sailor Meredith plays a decisive role. The film features a surreal self-parodying sequence in which Boden, in order to gain entrance to a hotel, pretends to be the famous Arthur Askey, using some of his choice catchphrases. Other spoofs include Askey and Dall doing a routine as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and, with Shiner in addition, as the three Marx Brothers. Cast Arthur Askey as Arthur Boden Evelyn Dall as Terry Arden Anne Shelton as Gail Martin Richard Hearne as Commodore Joshua Wellington Max Bacon as Romero Jack Train as Joe Nelson Peter Graves as Captain Michael \"Rory\" O'More Jean Kent as The Encyclopedia Girl Ronald Shiner as Sailor Meredith Iris Lang Virginia Keiley Una Shepherd Sheila Bligh Noni Brooke Patricia Owens as Miss London Hilda Campbell Russell as Cabaret Singer Production Guest wrote the script which was going to be directed by Marcel Verney. Guest used the reviews for his sort The Nose Has it to get the job directing the film and Ted Black agreed. Guest wrote a part for Jean Kent especially and says Arthur Crabtree was very helpful telling him about camera angles. Reception Guest says the film was \"a big success.\" Soundtrack Evelyn Dall and Anne Shelton – \"A Fine How Do You Do\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Evelyn Dall – \"Keep Cool Calm and Collected\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Arthur Askey – \"The Moth\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Arthur Askey – \"I'm Only Me\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Anne Shelton – \"You Too Can Have a Lovely Romance\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Anne Shelton – \"The 8.50 Choo Choo\" (Words and music by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin) Anne Shelton – \"If You Could Only Cook\" (Words", "title": "Miss London Ltd." } ]

[ "Genevieve Goings" ]

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[ { "docid": "15626396", "text": "The Union Jack was a British story paper for children of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were two story papers called Union Jack. The first appeared in the 1880s but was only very short-lived. The name was then used by Alfred Harmsworth in 1894 for a new halfpenny story paper intended as a companion to the successful Halfpenny Marvel. Harmsworth considered it his moral duty to put the \"penny dreadfuls\" out of business, though some considered his papers to simply be \"halfpenny dreadfullers\". The first issues of the Union Jack stated that it was a \"Library of high class fiction\". The editorial at the end of the very first issue stated \"there will be nothing of the 'dreadful' type in our stories. No tales of boys rifling their employers' cash-boxes and making off to foreign lands, or other such highly immoral fiction products\". The paper claimed to be offering good value by \"securing the very best authors\" but only presenting their stories on cheap paper, rather than \"wasting\" money on colourful bindings and high-quality paper. However, the actual quality of the stories, especially in the early years, could be variable. Also many writers used pseudonyms to make it appear that more people were writing for the paper than actually were. Types of stories The paper initially focused on Boy's Own type adventure stories, set mainly around the British Empire and at sea. The very first story was entitled \"The Silver Arrow\" and featured the many trials of the hero across mountains and jungles in Mexico to rescue his wife-to-be from red Indians. Another type of story featured in the early days was the detective story, with the second issue featuring a tale of Sexton Blake. This was, in some sources, quoted as the first ever Sexton Blake tale, however, earlier ones had been published in the Halfpenny Marvel in 1893, so it was actually the fourth. Even by issue 7, the editorial page announced a system of voting for the story that was liked best, to allow the writers to provide more of the type of story the readers wanted. Issues beyond this tended to concentrate on westerns (though set in British territories in South America and Canada rather than the United States) and detective stories, including another Sexton Blake story in issue 15. As the 1900s began, Sexton Blake stories began to appear in more and more issues, and major plot developments in the overall Sexton Blake saga took place in the Union Jack (for instance the introduction of Tinker, his assistant). The \"new\" Union Jack paper began in 1903, a continuation of the old paper but with the price increased to 1d and the issue numbers being restarted these issues where labeled \"New Series\" for many years. In 1905 the paper became \"Sexton Blake's Own paper\", and featured a Sexton Blake story in every issue. In the 1920s an article in the centre appeared called \"Tinker's Notebook\" which contained assorted items of interest, mainly relating", "title": "Union Jack (magazine)" } ]

[ "Jack and the Beanstalk" ]

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[ { "docid": "15678104", "text": "The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 () was an Act of Congress providing for several kinds of economic stimuli intended to boost the United States economy in 2008 and to avert a recession, or ameliorate economic conditions. The stimulus package was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 29, 2008, and in a slightly different version by the U.S. Senate on February 7, 2008. The Senate version was then approved in the House the same day. It was signed into law on February 13, 2008, by President George W. Bush with the support of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The law provides for tax rebates to low- and middle-income U.S. taxpayers, tax incentives to stimulate business investment, and an increase in the limits imposed on mortgages eligible for purchase by government-sponsored enterprises (e.g. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). The total cost of this bill was projected at $152 billion for 2008. Tax rebates Tax rebates that were created by the law were paid to individual U.S. taxpayers during 2008. Most taxpayers below the income limit received a rebate of at least $300 per person ($600 for married couples filing jointly). Eligible taxpayers received, along with their individual payment, $300 per dependent child under the age of 17. The payment was equal to the payer's net income tax liability, but could not exceed $600 (for a single person) or $1200 (married couple filing jointly). Net liability can be found in these locations: Form 1040: line 57 plus line 52 Form 1040A: Line 35 plus line 32 Form 1040EZ: line 10 Those with no net tax liability were still eligible to receive a rebate, provided, they met minimum qualifying income of $3,000 per year. Rebates were phased out for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes greater than $75,000 ($150,000 for couples filing jointly) in 2007. For taxpayers with incomes greater than $75,000, rebates were reduced at a rate of 5% of the income above this limit. Individuals who were claimed as dependents by another taxpayer were not eligible for the rebates. The $3,000 of qualifying income included earned income (e.g., wages, self-employment income, Social Security), however Supplemental Security Income did not count as qualifying income for the stimulus payment. Also, low-income workers were required to file a return to receive the payment, even if they would not be required to file for income tax purposes. Some taxpayers who exceeded the income limits, but had qualifying children, still received a rebate. For example, a single parent whose 2007 adjusted gross income was $90,000, paid more than $600 in 2007 taxes and had two qualifying children received a rebate of $450. The IRS added together a $600 rebate for the parent and $600 for the two children to get $1,200, then subtracted the phaseout reduction of $750 ($50 for each $1,000 income above $75,000) to get $450. According to the IRS, the stimulus payment did not reduce taxpayers' 2008 refunds or increase the amount owed when filing 2008 returns. The payment schedule was", "title": "Economic Stimulus Act of 2008" } ]

[ "aged individuals", "Maternal and Child Welfare", "the blind", "unemployed", "public health services", "retirees" ]

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[ { "docid": "23023893", "text": "The 13th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 12 October 1999 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Hosted by Paul McDermott and Bob Downe, and presenters, including Melanie C of the Spice Girls, Tina Cousins, Fiona Horne and Molly Meldrum, distributed 33 awards. The big winner for the year was Powderfinger with four awards. Two new categories, Best Original Cast / Show Recording and Best Blues and Roots Album were created; while Song of the Year (Songwriter), Best Indigenous Release and Best New Talent categories were retired. In addition to the annually presented awards, a Special Achievement Award was received by both recording studio owner Bill Armstrong (see Armstrong Studios) and Fable Record's creator Ron Tudor. An Outstanding Achievement Award was received by Natalie Imbruglia. The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: Jimmy Little and Richard Clapton. Ceremony details The ceremony was hosted by TV comedians, Paul McDermott and Bob Downe, and 33 awards were presented by Melanie C of the Spice Girls, Tina Cousins, Fiona Horne, former Countdown host Molly Meldrum and others. Presenters and performers Presenters and performers were: Awards Final nominees for awards are shown in plain, with winners in bold. ARIA Awards Album of the Year Powderfinger – Internationalist Ben Lee – Breathing Tornados The Living End – The Living End Silverchair – Neon Ballroom Spiderbait – Grand Slam Single of the Year Powderfinger – \"The Day You Come\" Josh Abrahams – \"Addicted to Bass\" Ben Lee – \"Cigarettes Will Kill You\" Regurgitator – \"! (The Song Formerly Known As)\" Silverchair – \"Ana's Song (Open Fire)\" Highest Selling Album John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, Anthony Warlow – Highlights from The Main Event Cold Chisel – The Last Wave of Summer Natalie Imbruglia – Left of the Middle Regurgitator – Unit The Living End – The Living End Highest Selling Single Joanne / BZ – \"Jackie\" Bachelor Girl – \"Buses and Trains\" Human Nature – \"Last to Know\" Savage Garden – \"The Animal Song\" Silverchair – \"Anthem for the Year 2000\" Best Group The Living End – The Living End Powderfinger – Internationalist Regurgitator – \"! (The Song Formerly Known As)\" Silverchair – Neon Ballroom You Am I – \"Heavy Heart\" Best Female Artist Natalie Imbruglia – \"Wishing I Was There\" Kasey Chambers – The Captain Suze DeMarchi – Telelove Lisa Miller – As Far as a Life Goes Kylie Minogue – \"Cowboy Style\" Best Male Artist Tim Rogers – What Rhymes with Cars and Girls Josh Abrahams – Sweet Distorted Holiday Ben Lee – Breathing Tornados Alex Lloyd – \"Lucky Star\" Paul Kelly – \"I'll Be Your Lover\" Breakthrough Artist – Album The Living End – The Living End Bachelor Girl – Waiting for the Day Gerling – Children of Telepathic Experiences Not from There – Sand on Seven Marie Wilson – Real Life Breakthrough Artist – Single Alex Lloyd – \"Lucky Star\" Taxiride – \"Get Set\" Frenzal Rhomb – \"You Are Not My Friend\"", "title": "ARIA Music Awards of 1999" } ]

[ "Jared" ]

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[ { "docid": "15676165", "text": "Andrew William Dunn BSC is a British cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with Robert Altman, Nicholas Hytner, Lee Daniels and Mick Jackson. He is the recipient of three BAFTA Awards, a British Society of Cinematographers Award and an Evening Standard British Film Award. Dunn is well known for his work on Threads (1984), Edge of Darkness (1985), L.A. Story (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), The Madness of King George (1994), The Crucible (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The History Boys (2006), Precious (2009), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) among others. Early life Andrew Dunn was born in London, England. He grew up around cinema, as his father worked for MGM Studios. Dunn started making films in his early teens, and then joined the BBC whilst studying film at the University of Westminster (formerly London Polytechnic). Filmography Feature films Television TV films Awards 1985 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Threads (1984) 1986 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Edge of Darkness (1985) 1989 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award - Best Film Cameraman for: Tumbledown (1988) 1995 — British Society of Cinematographers - Best Cinematography Award for: The Madness of King George (1994) 1996 — Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Technical/Artistic Achievement for: The Madness of King George (1994) Further reading (2006) \"Andrew Dunn\" Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television: A biographical guide featuring performers, directors, writers, producers, designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the world Vol. 65, Thomson Gale, Detroit, References External links English cinematographers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1950 births", "title": "Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)" } ]

[ "George III" ]

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[ { "docid": "1563911", "text": "\"Terra Nova\" is the sixth episode (production #106) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, and was written by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman. LeVar Burton served as director for the episode. Enterprise learns the fate of a human colony not heard from for seventy years. When the crew arrives, they discover unexplained radiation at the site of the colony. Understanding that radiation levels seventy years ago would have been lethal, they find people still there and living underground. Plot Enterprise is investigating the first human deep-space colony — Terra Nova, nine years away from Earth at early warp speed. The colony had not been heard from in the last seventy years, following a disagreement with Earth regarding further colony ships. Captain Archer, Ensign Mayweather, Lieutenant Reed, and Sub-Commander T'Pol take a shuttlepod to the surface, where they find a ghost town and radiation that would have been lethal seventy years earlier. Reed then detects a humanoid and gives chase, arriving at a cave entrance — inside Archer and Reed make first contact, but Reed is soon shot and captured. Back on Enterprise, T'Pol reveals that the attackers were human, not alien. Archer notes fifty-two bio-signs in the cave network including Reed's. He decides to negotiate, and takes Doctor Phlox down to the surface. Two colonists, Jamin and Nadet, bring them to Reed, who is stable. Phlox also finds that Nadet, Jamin's mother, has lung cancer, and she is taken back to be cured. While being treated, T'Pol shows her records that the \"poison rain\" was caused by an asteroid strike that had sent radioactive ore up into the atmosphere and not by any treachery by Earth. Furthermore, the radiation stopped any distress calls from reaching Earth. Archer explains that Novans and humans are actually the same species. The adults had eventually died of radiation poisoning, but the young children had built up an immunity to it and had survived by fleeing underground. However, the radiation is beginning to contaminate their underground water sources, resulting in Nadet's cancer and threatening their lives. Archer and Phlox try to convince them to leave, since Phlox is unable to manufacture an antidote and it will be years before the radiation levels are safe again. Archer shows Nadet a photograph of a family group on a Terra Nova. She identifies them as human and says that the photo was taken before the poison rain; the young girl is named Bernadette. Nadet makes the connection and realizes that she is in fact Bernadette, her full name having been long forgotten, but Jamin reminds Archer that Reed will be killed if they are not returned soon. T'Pol argues that relocation to Earth would save their lives but destroy their Novan culture so Archer has the crew search for another solution. Finally, Archer gains the Novans' trust by rescuing one of them from a well, and persuades the remaining colonists to relocate to similar caverns on the planet's unaffected southern hemisphere. Production \"Terra Nova\" marked the first", "title": "Terra Nova (Star Trek: Enterprise)" } ]

[ "1967" ]

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[ { "docid": "1563324", "text": "is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Kagome's grandfather in Inuyasha after Ginzo Matsuo's death, and as the voice of Diddy Kong in many of Nintendo's video games since 2004 starting with Mario Power Tennis. He currently works at 81 Produce. Filmography Television animation 1992 Macross - Hayao Kakizaki and Warera Nantes 1993 YuYu Hakusho - Elder Toguro 1996 YAT Anshin! Uchū Ryokō - Ucchi 1999 Gregory Horror Show - Frog Fortune Teller, Mirror Man 2001 Inuyasha - Grandpa Higurashi (second voice) 2002 Tenchi Muyo! GXP - Mr. Yamada 2003 Kaleido Star - Ben Robbins 2006 Bleach - Ugaki 2020 Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - Grandpa Higurashi 2021 Let's Make a Mug Too - Jūbe Aoki Unknown date Rairai in Mahoujin Guru Guru Yan in Double Zeta Gundam Hadat in Ys ~Tenkuu no Shinden~ Mu / Uin Iju in Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko Nagoya Willow in Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun Might Gunner in The Brave Express Might Gaine Umao in Kimagure Orange Road Original video animation (OVA) Here is Greenwood (1991) (Bonda, teacher) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (Molt) Idol Defense Force Hummingbird (1993) (Shinobu Ijūin) Iria: Zeiram the Animation (1994) (Government suit) Theatrical animation The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) (Hayao Kakizaki) Spriggen (1998) (Little Boy) Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001) (Grandpa) Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003) (Grandpa) Video games Crash Team Racing (1999) (Ripper Roo (Dallas McKennon)) Donkey Kong series (2007–present) (Diddy Kong) Gregory Horror Show (2003) (Frog Fortune Teller) Philosoma (1995) (D3) Soul Nomad & the World Eaters (2007) (Vangogh) Super Mario Bros. series (2004–present) (Diddy Kong) Stupid Invaders (2001) (Stereo Monovici, Nelson) Super Robot Wars series (2000–present) (Hayao Kakizaki, Liebe, Might Gunner, Purple) Dubbing roles Live action Hudson Hawk – Kit Kat (David Caruso) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Alpha 5 (Richard Steven Horvitz) She-Wolf of London – Villager Small Soldiers – Slamfist (Christopher Guest) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – Nute Gunray (Silas Carson) Triloquist – The Dummy (Bruce Weitz) Animation Batman: The Animated Series – Ted Dymer CatDog – Eddie the Squirrel Corpse Bride – William Van Dort Courage the Cowardly Dog – The Great Fusilli Cow and Chicken – Red Guy, Flem Dexter's Laboratory – Mandark Finding Nemo – Tad's Dad Justice League – Copperhead The Powerpuff Girls (UG dub) – Mayor, Him, Ace Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling – Mr. Dupette Rolie Polie Olie – Additional Voices The Ren & Stimpy Show – Haggis McHaggis Sitting Ducks – Waddle South Park – Tweek Tweak (Season 2) Space Goofs – Stereo Monovici Squirrel Boy – Leon Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – PC Macintosh Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Greasy The Wild Thornberries – Darwin, Donnie References External links 1956 births Living people Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Aichi Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors 81 Produce voice actors", "title": "Katsumi Suzuki" } ]

[ "Amy Irving", "Kathleen Turner" ]

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[ { "docid": "15677896", "text": "Psalm 30 is the 30th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: \"I will extol thee, O ; for thou hast lifted me up\". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 29. In Latin, it is known as \"Exaltabo te Domine\". It is a psalm of thanksgiving, traditionally ascribed to David upon the building of his own royal palace. The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It has inspired hymns based on it, and has been set to music. Text Hebrew The following table shows the Hebrew text of the Psalm with vowels alongside an English translation based upon the JPS 1917 translation (now in the public domain). King James Version I will extol thee, O ; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. O my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O , thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the , O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. , by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O ; and unto the I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O , and have mercy upon me: , be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. Theme Psalm 30 is called , , \"A Psalm, a song for the Dedication of a House\" Greek numbering: Psalm 29). It is a psalm of thanksgiving, traditionally ascribed to David upon the building of his own royal palace. David dedicated his life work to be completed by his son, who built the \"Hallowed House\", Solomon's Temple. It is Solomon and his lineage, not the building, which in later sources are called the House of David. , from the same root as Hanukkah, is the name for Jewish education, emphasizing ethical training and discipline. Liturgical use in Judaism This psalm is a part of daily prayer in", "title": "Psalm 30" } ]

[ "independence", "growing up", "secrets" ]

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[ { "docid": "230230", "text": "Av (also Menachem Av, ) is the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days, and usually occurs in July–August on the Gregorian calendar. The Babylonian Talmud states that \"when we enter [the month of] Av, our joy is diminished\". This is because the darkest events in Jewish history occurred during the first week and a half of this month, particularly the Nine Days which culminate in Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of Av. However, the month also contains a holiday called Tu B'Av which was, in ancient times, considered one of the happiest days of the year. Etymology Originally Abu on the Babylonian calendar, the name is derived from Akkadian ʾAbū, which might mean \"reed\" or be connected to the name of the Mesopotamian god Abu. Others derive the name of the month from the Hebrew word \"Av\" - \"father\". The name Ab () also appears in the Arabic language for the month of August in the Levant (see Arabic names of calendar months). The name Ab appears in Aramaic ostraca from the Persian period, in Aramaic documents from Ancient Egypt and Palmyra, in Masada and Qarnayim ostraca, in the best manuscripts of Targum Jonathan to Ez. 20:1, and in Rabbinic literature starting with Megillat Taanit. It is one of several months which are not named in the Hebrew Bible. Holidays Av 9 – Tisha B'Av Av 15 – Tu B'Av In Jewish history 1 Av (circa 1273 BCE) – Death of high priest Aaron 1 Av (513 BCE) – Ezra and his followers arrive in Israel 5 Av (1572 CE) – Hillula of the Arizal 7 Av (586 BCE) – First Temple invaded by King Nebuchadnezzar 7 Av (67 CE) – Civil war breaks out in besieged Jerusalem; one group set fire to the city's food stores, which is said to have quickened starvation. 7 Av (1492 CE) – Jews of Spain expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. 7 Av (1853) - Death of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Rav of Khust and author of Arugath Habosem 9 Av (586 BCE and 70 CE) – Holy Temples destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans respectively. 9 Av (133 CE) – Fall of Betar to the Romans, ending Bar Kochba's rebellion. 9 Av (1290 CE) – Jews are expelled from England by King Edward I and not permitted to legally return for 350 years. 10 Av (70 CE) – The Holy Temple, set on fire the previous day, finishes burning. 12 Av (1263) – Disputation of Barcelona between Nachmanides and Pablo Christiani. 13 Av (1984) - Death of Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, Rebbe of Pupa and author of Vaychi Yosef 15 Av (148 CE) – Betar dead buried, 15 years after the fall of the fortress. 15 Av – The Day of the Breaking of the Ax – when the Holy Temple existed, the cutting of firewood for the altar was completed on this date", "title": "Av (month)" } ]

[ "Elul" ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" } ]

[ "2011" ]

[ { "docid": "15633706", "text": "The Boston Pizza Cup is the Alberta provincial championship for men's curling, run by Curling Alberta. The winner represents Team Alberta at the national men's championship, called the Montana's Brier. Currently sponsored by restaurant chain Boston Pizza, under former sponsors, the championship was known as the Alberta Kia Cup and the Safeway Select. Prior to obtaining a title sponsor, the tournament was called the Alberta Tankard. Qualification In the current format, twelve teams compete in the provincial tournament. The following teams qualify: The defending champion(s) automatically qualify(ies) – either or both the previous year's Boston Pizza Cup winner and/or an Albertan-based \"Team Canada\" that failed to defend a Brier title the previous year can be entered as a \"defending champion.\" If for whatever reason no defending champion enters the tournament (for example, because they qualified automatically for the Brier as the defending national champion) then an additional Alberta Tour team qualifies as described below; The top Albertan team as determined by the Canadian Team Ranking System qualifies – if this team is entered as the defending provincial champion and/or is the defending national champion (or otherwise does not participate) then the next ranked team qualifies, if that team is also qualified (or does not enter) then the next ranked team qualifies, and so on; The team(s) with the most Alberta Tour points not already qualified also qualify(ies) – the number of teams that qualify by this method can be one, two or three depending on how many \"defending champions\" enter; The remaining eight spots are determined through the \"traditional\" route, that is, through zone and district playdowns. As of 2020, four teams qualify from the Southern Zone, three from the Northern Zone and one from Peace River Country. Past champions Listed below are the provincial champion skips for each year. Alberta did not participate in the 1927 Brier. Starting in 2015, teams that win the previous year's Brier have been automatically entered into the national championship as \"Team Canada.\" Any such Albertan-based teams do not participate in that year's provincial championship. Such teams have the right to enter as a \"defending champion\" in the year following any failed defence of their Brier title, although as of 2020 both teams eligible to qualify in this way so far have declined to enter - Simmons' team disbanded after failing to win the 2016 Brier, while Koe qualified for the Olympics after failing to win the 2017 Brier. Starting in 2018, the top two CTRS teams not otherwise qualified play a \"Wild Card Game\" for an additional main draw Brier entry. In another change to the qualifying format, as of 2024, 2 teams (in addition to Team Canada) automatically pre-qualify for the Brier field based on the previous season's Canadian Team Ranking Standings (CTRS), which meant they bypassed the provincial qualifiers. As well, a fourth qualifying team will join the field as the top non-qualified team on the CTRS standings following provincial and territorial playdowns. Notes Koe assembled a new team following his", "title": "Boston Pizza Cup" } ]

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[ "two" ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" } ]

[ "1971" ]

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[ { "docid": "15652764", "text": "Non-linear least squares is the form of least squares analysis used to fit a set of m observations with a model that is non-linear in n unknown parameters (m ≥ n). It is used in some forms of nonlinear regression. The basis of the method is to approximate the model by a linear one and to refine the parameters by successive iterations. There are many similarities to linear least squares, but also some significant differences. In economic theory, the non-linear least squares method is applied in (i) the probit regression, (ii) threshold regression, (iii) smooth regression, (iv) logistic link regression, (v) Box–Cox transformed regressors (). Theory Consider a set of data points, and a curve (model function) that in addition to the variable also depends on parameters, with It is desired to find the vector of parameters such that the curve fits best the given data in the least squares sense, that is, the sum of squares is minimized, where the residuals (in-sample prediction errors) are given by for The minimum value of occurs when the gradient is zero. Since the model contains parameters there are gradient equations: In a nonlinear system, the derivatives are functions of both the independent variable and the parameters, so in general these gradient equations do not have a closed solution. Instead, initial values must be chosen for the parameters. Then, the parameters are refined iteratively, that is, the values are obtained by successive approximation, Here, is an iteration number and the vector of increments, is known as the shift vector. At each iteration the model is linearized by approximation to a first-order Taylor polynomial expansion about The Jacobian matrix, , is a function of constants, the independent variable and the parameters, so it changes from one iteration to the next. Thus, in terms of the linearized model, and the residuals are given by Substituting these expressions into the gradient equations, they become which, on rearrangement, become simultaneous linear equations, the normal equations The normal equations are written in matrix notation as These equations form the basis for the Gauss–Newton algorithm for a non-linear least squares problem. Note the sign convention in the definition of the Jacobian matrix in terms of the derivatives. Formulas linear in may appear with factor of in other articles or the literature. Extension by weights When the observations are not equally reliable, a weighted sum of squares may be minimized, Each element of the diagonal weight matrix should, ideally, be equal to the reciprocal of the error variance of the measurement. The normal equations are then, more generally, Geometrical interpretation In linear least squares the objective function, , is a quadratic function of the parameters. When there is only one parameter the graph of with respect to that parameter will be a parabola. With two or more parameters the contours of with respect to any pair of parameters will be concentric ellipses (assuming that the normal equations matrix is positive definite). The minimum parameter values are to be found at", "title": "Non-linear least squares" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15661594", "text": "Alexander McKee ( – 15 January 1799) was an American-born military officer and colonial official in the British Indian Department during the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, and the Northwest Indian War. He achieved the rank of Deputy Superintendent General in 1794, the second highest position in the British Indian Department at the time. Biography Alexander McKee was born about 1735, the second son of Thomas McKee an Irish immigrant (probably Scots-Irish from northern Ireland), fur trader, Indian Agent, and interpreter for General Forbes at Fort Pitt, and Nonhelema Hokolesqua (c. 1718–1786), an 18th century Shawnee leader and sister of Chief Cornstalk. McKee developed a lifelong relationship with the Ohio Indian tribes. As a young man, Alexander McKee began working with traders who did business with the Indians of the Ohio Country. Soon, he was able to establish his own trading business. Because of his good relations with the Ohio tribes, Indian agent George Croghan enlisted McKee in the service of the Crown's Indian Department. Around 1764, McKee settled in what is now McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, and built a substantial house. George Washington visited him there in 1770, and mentions this in his diary. McKee continued in the service of Pennsylvania for some time after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Around 1768 or 1769, McKee married a woman in a Shawnee village on the Ohio River. Her identity is unknown; she may have been a Shawnee woman, or possibly a white captive named Charlotte Brown who had been raised among the Shawnees. With Nonhelema he had a son, Thomas McKee. Following mistreatment by the settlers, he left the Americans in favor of the British at Detroit. It was during this transition that he established his well-known association with Matthew Elliott and the Girty brothers: Simon, James, and George. During the next 25 years, Alexander McKee led efforts to promote the alliance of the Indians with the British, most especially with the Shawnee, but also with the majority of the Northwest Indian tribes. He guarded the interests of the Indians and was their honest friend. The Continental Congress branded him a traitor for remaining loyal to the British Empire and organizing several tribes on the side of the British. \"Alexander McKee, the British Indian Agent, who resided at the Machachac towns, on Mad River, during the incursion of General Logan from Kentucky in 1786, was obliged to flee with his effects. He had a large lot of swine, which were driven on to the borders of this stream, and when the Indians (Shawnee) came on they called the river Koshko Sepe, which in the Shawnee language signified 'The Creek of the Hogs, or Hog Stream'.\" McKee negotiated several treaties on behalf of the British authorities with the Indigenous First Nations of Upper Canada in the Detroit area. This included Treaty 2 or \"McKee's Purchase\", which surrendered a large part of what is now South-western Ontario. Legacy McKee died in Upper Canada in 1799. He was mourned", "title": "Alexander McKee" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2302047", "text": "Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a Zoroastrian philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The story of Zadig is a fictional story. Voltaire does not attempt any historical accuracy. The singular narrative and unique journey of Zadig still stands as a philosophical reference to “nothing is either good or bad without the comparison of one with the other.” It was originally published as Memnon in Amsterdam (with a false imprint of London given) and first issued under its more familiar title in 1748. The book makes use of the Persian tale The Three Princes of Serendip. It is philosophical in nature, and presents human life as in the hands of a destiny beyond human control. Voltaire challenges religious and metaphysical orthodoxy with his presentation of the moral revolution taking place in Zadig himself. Zadig is one of Voltaire's most celebrated works after Candide. Many literary critics have praised Voltaire's use of contradiction and juxtaposition. The protagonist's name is derived from the Hebrew term tzadik, a title bestowed in Judaism on a particularly righteous person – though Voltaire's character is not presented as a Jew and does not exactly fit the criteria set in Jewish tradition for use of the term. Characters Zadig – The protagonist, a Babylonian philosopher. Sémire – Zadig's original love interest. Orcan – Zadig's rival for Sémire and nephew of a certain Minister of State. Azora – Zadig's second love interest. Cador – Zadig's confident and faithful friend. Moabdar – The King of Babylon. Astarté – Queen of Babylon, Zadig's final love interest. Sétoc – An Egyptian merchant and Zadig's master while he is enslaved. Almona – A widow. Arbogad – A brigand. Jesrad – An angel who disguises himself as a retired philosopher and hermit Plot summary Zadig, a good-hearted, handsome young man from Babylonia, is in love with Sémire and they are to marry. Sémire, however, has another suitor: Orcan, who wants her for himself. Zadig tries to defend his love from Orcan's threat, but his eye is injured in the process. Sémire abhors this injury, causing her to depart with his enemy. Shortly after, Zadig makes a full recovery and falls into the arms of another woman, Azora, whom he marries, but who promptly betrays him. Disillusioned with women, Zadig turns to science, but his knowledge lands him in prison, the first of several injustices to befall him. Indeed, the conte derives its pace and rhythm from the protagonist's ever-changing fortunes which see him rise to great heights and fall to great lows. Upon his release from prison, Zadig rises in favour with the king and queen of Babylonia and is eventually appointed prime minister; in this role, he proves himself to be a very honest man, looked upon favourably by the king, as he passes fair judgements on his citizens unlike the other ministers who base their judgements on the people's wealth. He is", "title": "Zadig" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15651", "text": "The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers). The Julian calendar was proposed in 46 BC by (and takes its name from) Julius Caesar, as a reform of the earlier Roman calendar, which was largely a lunisolar one. It took effect on , by his edict. Caesar's calendar became the predominant calendar in the Roman Empire and subsequently most of the Western world for more than 1,600 years, until 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII promulgated a revised calendar. The Julian calendar has two types of years: a normal year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days. They follow a simple cycle of three normal years and one leap year, giving an average year that is 365.25 days long. That is more than the actual solar year value of approximately 365.2422 days (the current value, which varies), which means the Julian calendar gains one day every 129 years. In other words, the Julian calendar gains 3.1 days every 400 years. Gregory's calendar reform modified the Julian rule, to reduce the average length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days and thus corrected the Julian calendar's drift against the solar year: the Gregorian calendar gains just 0.1 day over 400 years. For any given event during the years from 1901 through 2099, its date according to the Julian calendar is 13 days behind its corresponding Gregorian date (for instance Julian 1 January falls on Gregorian 14 January). Most Catholic countries adopted the new calendar immediately; Protestant countries did so slowly in the course of the following two centuries or so; most Orthodox countries retain the Julian calendar for religious purposes but adopted the Gregorian as their civil calendar in the early part of the twentieth century. Table of months History Motivation The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27- or 28-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 or 23 days after the first 23 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days. Some say the mensis intercalaris always had 27 days and began on either the first or the second day after the Terminalia (23 February). If managed correctly this system could have allowed the Roman year to stay roughly aligned to a tropical year. However, since the pontifices were often politicians, and because a Roman magistrate's term of office", "title": "Julian calendar" } ]

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[ { "docid": "156587", "text": "The Death Eaters are characters featured in the Harry Potter series of novels and films. They are a radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating wizards and witches born to non-magical parents. They attempt to create a new order within the Ministry of Magic by spreading fear through the wizarding community and murdering those who speak out against them. Their primary opposition is the Order of the Phoenix. Death Eaters recognise one another by the Dark Mark, a sigil branded on each of their left forearms that allows Voldemort to summon any of them instantly. Their typical attire includes black hooded robes and masks. The Death Eaters as a group first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although individual members of the group, such as Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew had appeared in earlier books in the series. The group had also been mentioned indirectly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when followers of Voldemort were mentioned. They were mentioned the first time directly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Synopsis Pre-Harry Potter The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family). Around 10 years after the Death Eaters first surfaced, a Seer named Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy about a boy who would have the power to defeat Voldemort forever. The prophecy could have referred to two different boys, Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom; however, Voldemort chose Harry as said in the prophecy, that \"the Dark Lord would mark him as his equal\". As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his \"equal\", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards. Acting on information from James and Lily Potter's Secret-Keeper Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort attempted to complete the prophecy and kill his infant rival. Due to Harry's mother's sacrifice to save her son, Voldemort's deadly curse rebounded off Harry and disembodied Voldemort. With Voldemort vanquished after failing to kill Harry Potter, the Death Eaters largely disbanded and vanished. The Ministry rounded many of them up and imprisoned them in the Wizarding prison Azkaban, but some eluded justice by claiming they were bewitched by the Imperius Curse (it is implied that Lucius Malfoy did so) or by turning in other Death Eaters, as Igor Karkaroff did; Harry witnesses Karkaroff's testimony against former Death Eaters in Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve during the course of the series. It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him (like Bellatrix Lestrange), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs", "title": "Death Eater" }, { "docid": "156489", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the American Library Association Best Book Award for Young Adults in 2003. The book was also made into a 2007 film, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Plot During the summer, Harry Potter is frustrated by his friends' non-communication and with Dumbledore barring him from helping combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort. One evening, Dementors attack him and cousin Dudley, but Harry fends them off using the Patronus Charm. Later, Order of the Phoenix members arrive at the Dursley house to evacuate Harry. They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, which is now the Order's headquarters. Ron and Hermione are there and tell Harry that the Order is a secret organisation that Dumbledore created to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Harry wants to join, but is too young. The Ministry of Magic, under Cornelius Fudge, attempt to malign Harry for stating that Voldemort has returned. Harry is also charged with performing underage magic while with a Muggle, but is exonerated and returns to Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only curriculum and forbids the students from practicing defensive spells. Harry, Ron, and Hermione form a secret student Defense group called Dumbledore's Army. The group secretly meets in the Room of Requirement to practice under Harry's instruction. One night, Harry dreams that Arthur Weasley is attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini. His vision is true, and Arthur is found seriously injured at the Ministry. Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected, and he orders Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill to close one's mind against others. Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion, Dumbledore claims responsibility for forming the group. To avoid arrest, he goes into hiding. Umbridge is appointed headmistress, though she is magically barred from entering Dumbledore's tower, and begins enacting strict rules and regulations. Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, he envisions Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. Harry attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, using the Floo Network in Umbridge's office, but she catches and interrogates him, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Hermione intervenes by concocting a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest. Umbridge", "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" } ]

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[ { "docid": "1564522", "text": "The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney cartoons. There were a total of twenty broadcasts from the Disney Little Theater on the RKO lot from January 2 to May 15, 1938, the program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In addition to Snow White featured in the second episode, the series featured other fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters, including \"Mother Goose Land,\" \"Cinderella,\" \"King Neptune,\" \"The Pied Piper,\" \"The Old Woman in the Shoe\" and \"Old MacDonald\". The show was originally contracted with Pepsodent for thirteen weeks, but it was successful enough to be extended to a total of twenty episodes. Production Broadcasters had pursued a Mickey Mouse radio program for several years, but Disney rejected the idea, feeling that the cartoon characters' main appeal was visual, and that the voices might not be enough to carry a radio series. However, the opportunity to promote the Snow White film was too important to miss. The first proposed version was a talk show, with Mickey interviewing guest stars, but that idea was scrapped in September 1937. The writers focused instead on the Disney characters' affinity with folk tales and nursery rhymes. Disney performed Mickey's voice for the first three episodes. Starting with the fourth episode, Mickey was voiced by comedian Joe Twerp. Disney also appeared as himself in some early episodes. In later episodes, Disney was too busy to attend performances, and he was impersonated by announcer John Hiestand. Radio actor J. Donald Wilson provided the voice for one episode. Other Disney characters featured on the program were Donald Duck (Clarence Nash), Minnie Mouse (Thelma Boardman), Goofy (Stuart Buchanan) and Clara Cluck (Florence Gill). Music was provided by the Felix Mills Orchestra, Donald Duck's Swing Band and The Minnie Mouse Woodland Choir. The opening theme music was \"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?\", and the closing theme was \"Heigh-Ho\" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Episodes Robin Hood (January 2, 1938) Snow White Day (January 9, 1938) Donald Duck's Band (January 16, 1938) The River Boat (January 23, 1938) Ali Baba (January 30, 1938) South of the Border show episodes(February 6, 1938) Mother Goose and Old King Cole (February 13, 1938) The Gypsy Band (February 20, 1938) Cinderella (February 27, 1938) King Neptune (March 6, 1938) The Pied Piper (March 13, 1938) Sleeping Beauty (March 20, 1938) Ancient Egypt (March 27, 1938) (guest appearance by Snow White) Mother Goose and The Old Woman in a Shoe (April 3, 1938) Long John Silver (April 10, 1938) King Arthur (April 17, 1938) Who Killed Cock Robin? (April 24, 1938) Cowboy Show (May 1, 1938) William Tell (May 8, 1938) Old MacDonald (May 15, 1938) Trivia Sing a Song of Sixpence is sung by Stuart Buchanan. References Listen to External", "title": "The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15666618", "text": "An electrical outlet tester, receptacle tester, or socket tester is a small device containing a 3-prong power plug and three indicator lights, used for quickly detecting some types of incorrectly-wired electrical wall outlets or campsite supplies. Tests and limitations The outlet tester checks that each contact in the outlet appears to be connected to the correct wire in the building's electrical wiring. It can identify several common wiring errors, including swapped phase and neutral, and failure to connect ground. The tester confirms continuity and polarity of the electrical connections, but it does not verify current-carrying ability, electrical safety (which requires impedance testing), insulation breakdown voltage, or loop connection of ring mains. Simple three-light testers cannot detect some potentially serious house wiring errors, including neutral and ground interchanged at the receptacle. There may be a \"bootleg ground\", where the neutral and ground pins have been connected together at the receptacle, which cannot be detected either. These problems can be detected with a multimeter and a test load, to verify that the ground connection is separate from the neutral and is not carrying normal circuit return current, or more typically by using a more-sophisticated multifunction tester. A quick supplemental screening test for these simple miswiring errors can be performed using a non-contact voltage tester (NCVT) or non-contact voltage detector. If a problem is thus identified, it can be investigated further using more-advanced equipment, or the outlet in question can be de-energized and disassembled for careful scrutiny. Some receptacle testers include an additional test button to test the triggering of GFCI devices, which supplements the built-in test button on the GFCI and can be used for testing outlets downstream from a GFCI receptacle. \"Plug-in analyzers\" may include earth loop impedance and other checks. History An early reference that describes the typical outlet tester circuit was published in Popular Mechanics in the March issue of 1967, and consists of two 27 kΩ resistors, one 100 kΩ resistor, and three NE-51 neon lamp bulbs with 100 kΩ resistors. See also Polarized plugs Test light References External links Ways a receptacle tester can mislead (by an electrician) Diagnosing Power Problems at the Receptacle, Duane Smith, EC&M, October 1, 2004 Electronic test equipment Electrical wiring", "title": "Electrical outlet tester" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15618983", "text": "Shenandoah Acres is a campground/resort in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. It was previously known as Shenandoah Acres Resort, but after decades of operation, 'The Acres' closed in 2004. Then, following a couple of ownership changes, it reopened in 2014 as Shenandoah Acres Family Campground. The most visible aspect of Shenandoah Acres is its small, spring-fed lake that was unique for its use of playground equipment in the water. Shenandoah Acres also featured 250 camp sites, 35 cabins, horseback riding, miniature golf, and tennis courts. History Shenandoah Acres was a farm owned by Dr. William Dodge in the 1930s. He charged visitors ten cents to swim and picnic on the property. The property was purchased by Rupert A. Blacka in 1935, and developed into a water park. He transformed the small, rather muddy swimming area into a nice, clear lake. In 1948, a concrete pier with a diving board and a zip-line were added. However, due to rising insurance rates, the diving boards were removed in the 1960s. The campground was later added, along with horseback riding, miniature golf, tennis, bike rentals, a ball field, and hiking trails, as well as horseshoes, croquet, shuffleboard, and volleyball. In 2000, again due to ever-increasing insurance costs, the zip lines were removed. Admissions dropped, and 'The Acres' eventually closed in 2004. Goodfaith LLC purchased Shenandoah Acres in 2005. They reopened the campground in 2009, and operated as Mountain Spring Resort. The property changed hands again in 2011, and the new owners changed its name back to Shenandoah Acres, with plans to reopen the lake in spring 2012. In 2014, Garland Eutsler and ShenAcres Holdings LLC purchased the property, with plans to reopen it as a resort. On Memorial Day weekend, 2014, Shenandoah Acres re-opened for business. Although primarily a campground, the lake is open once again, and the current owners have been adding back some of the features that gave it its resort flavor. It is still open for business today. Ecology Originally, Shenandoah Acres was a farm consisting of orchards, and a cranberry bog encircling a small pond. The cranberry bog was well known by botanists as a location for several rare plants and orchids including the rose pogonia and grass pink orchids. In the journal Claytonia, the botanist Lloyd Carr described the pond as a sea of pink when the orchids were in bloom. The cranberry bog was one of a series of sinkhole ponds and wetlands in the Maple Flats area; perhaps the only one remaining with a similar flora is Spring Pond. After the bog was destroyed to create Shenandoah Acres, many of the rare species once found there became locally extinct. Since Dr. Dodge was also responsible for introducing cranberries to nearby Green Pond, it's possible that the cranberries growing there came originally from what is now Shenandoah Acres. References External links Shenandoah Acres Family Campground Defunct companies based in Virginia 2004 disestablishments in Virginia Augusta County, Virginia 2014 establishments in Virginia", "title": "Shenandoah Acres" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2301943", "text": "Paul Scott Runyan (July 12, 1908 – March 17, 2002) was an American professional golfer. Among the world's best players in the mid-1930s, he won two PGA Championships, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Runyan was also a golf instructor. Early life Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Runyan started out as a caddie and then an apprentice at a golf course in his hometown, before turning pro at age 17. He was head professional at a Little Rock club by age 18. Runyan served as head pro at Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, New York from 1931 to 1943 during which time he won both of his PGA championships. Tour winner Three years later, Runyan defeated Craig Wood in extra holes in the title match of the 1934 PGA Championship, the first of his two PGA Championships. Of Runyan's 29 career PGA Tour wins, 16 of them came in 1933 and 1934, and his nine wins in 1933 make him one of only seven golfers to win nine or more times in one year on the PGA Tour. In the first Masters Tournament in 1934, he was paired for the first 36 holes with tournament host Bobby Jones. Runyan won the tour money title in 1934, and was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 1933 and 1935. Runyan was competitive for many years; he won the PGA Championship again in 1938 and led the U.S. Open after three rounds as late as 1951. In the finals of his 1938 PGA, Runyan defeated Sam Snead 8 and 7, the most lopsided title match ever in the event, conducted as match play through 1957. This was despite Snead's vastly greater length off the tee, as much as per hole. Fellow golfers nicknamed him \"Little Poison\" (a take on 1930s baseball player Lloyd Waner, who had the same nickname), primarily because he did not drive the ball very far, but also because he had a terrific short game. Runyan had worked tirelessly on his short game from boyhood, since he realized early on if he were to succeed in golf, he had to compensate for his lack of length. Runyan opined that he is the smallest player in golf history who had significant success, although Fred McLeod had a fine record, too, and stood only and weighed a paltry . Master teacher Runyan's teaching prowess led many top pros to him over his 75 years of teaching, including Gene Littler, Phil Rodgers, Chuck Courtney, Frank Beard, Jim Ferree and Mickey Wright. Golf Magazine wrote: \"... since the late 1930s, he has probably been the most influential short game instructor. Untold thousands have been taught his methods for putting and chipping.\" Runyan wrote an influential book outlining his short-game methods, The Short Way to Lower Scoring. He appeared as a contestant on the October 25, 1950, edition of You Bet Your Life where he tells an anecdote of hitting a spectator with his ball and", "title": "Paul Runyan" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15644539", "text": "The London Agreement on German External Debts, also known as the London Debt Agreement (German: Londoner Schuldenabkommen), was a debt relief treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and creditor nations. The Agreement was signed in London on 27 February 1953, and came into force on 16 September 1953. Overview On 24 May 1951, the US and UK Departments of Foreign Affairs respectively, informed the Allied Countries involved in the settlement, about a new arrangement regarding Germany's External Debts. The content of the dispatch made the main points of discussion clear from the start. The dispatch contained the following texts. In response to the Allies, Adenauer informed them about Germany’s desire to repay its debts. The Conference on German External Debts (also known as the London Debt Conference) was held between 28 February and 28 August 1952. The Agreement reached at the Conference was signed in London on 27 February 1953. The Agreement was ratified by the United States, France, and United Kingdom on 16 September 1953, at which point the agreement came into force. The Agreement was firstly turned down by the Bundestag and then approved on a following vote. Debts covered by the Agreement The parties that were involved besides West Germany included Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, France, Greece, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. The states of the Eastern Bloc were not involved. Some amounts owed by Germany arose from its efforts to pay war reparations, and others were associated with large scale loans by the United States. In total, 80 percent of Germany’s external obligations were owed to the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The Agreement covered loans arising from external investments due to the Dawes Plan, and loans from economic aid to Germany. The support was provided by two major programs, the GARIOA and the Marshall Plan. Debts that would be settled by different arrangements were excluded from the London Agreement. Claims arising by countries damaged by Germany during World War II were not included. The debts to be settled by the London Agreement included; The Agreement was based on three important conditions. Firstly, the total amount that Germany was obligated to pay would be greatly reduced. The repayments’ timeframe should be stretched long enough in order to help Germany’s economy grow. Last but not least, the total that was supposed to be paid per year was associated with Germany’s “ability to make transfers”. It can be described as a broad based Agreement as it settled just about every kind of German debt arising from the period before and after the Second World War. The total under negotiation was 16 billion marks of debt resulting from the Treaty of Versailles after World War I which had not been paid in the 1930s, but which Germany decided to repay to restore its reputation. This", "title": "London Agreement on German External Debts" } ]

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[ { "docid": "156706", "text": "In solid state physics, a particle's effective mass (often denoted ) is the mass that it seems to have when responding to forces, or the mass that it seems to have when interacting with other identical particles in a thermal distribution. One of the results from the band theory of solids is that the movement of particles in a periodic potential, over long distances larger than the lattice spacing, can be very different from their motion in a vacuum. The effective mass is a quantity that is used to simplify band structures by modeling the behavior of a free particle with that mass. For some purposes and some materials, the effective mass can be considered to be a simple constant of a material. In general, however, the value of effective mass depends on the purpose for which it is used, and can vary depending on a number of factors. For electrons or electron holes in a solid, the effective mass is usually stated as a factor multiplying the rest mass of an electron, me (9.11 × 10−31 kg). This factor is usually in the range 0.01 to 10, but can be lower or higher—for example, reaching 1,000 in exotic heavy fermion materials, or anywhere from zero to infinity (depending on definition) in graphene. As it simplifies the more general band theory, the electronic effective mass can be seen as an important basic parameter that influences measurable properties of a solid, including everything from the efficiency of a solar cell to the speed of an integrated circuit. Simple case: parabolic, isotropic dispersion relation At the highest energies of the valence band in many semiconductors (Ge, Si, GaAs, ...), and the lowest energies of the conduction band in some semiconductors (GaAs, ...), the band structure can be locally approximated as where is the energy of an electron at wavevector in that band, is a constant giving the edge of energy of that band, and is a constant (the effective mass). It can be shown that the electrons placed in these bands behave as free electrons except with a different mass, as long as their energy stays within the range of validity of the approximation above. As a result, the electron mass in models such as the Drude model must be replaced with the effective mass. One remarkable property is that the effective mass can become negative, when the band curves downwards away from a maximum. As a result of the negative mass, the electrons respond to electric and magnetic forces by gaining velocity in the opposite direction compared to normal; even though these electrons have negative charge, they move in trajectories as if they had positive charge (and positive mass). This explains the existence of valence-band holes, the positive-charge, positive-mass quasiparticles that can be found in semiconductors. In any case, if the band structure has the simple parabolic form described above, then the value of effective mass is unambiguous. Unfortunately, this parabolic form is not valid for describing most materials. In such", "title": "Effective mass (solid-state physics)" } ]

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[ { "docid": "156592", "text": "A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. Description Performing as a puppeteer can be physically demanding. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by their own hands placed inside the puppet or holding it externally or any other part of the body- such as the legs. Some puppet styles require two or more puppeteers to work together to create a single puppet character. The puppeteer's role is to manipulate the physical object in such a manner that the audience believes the object is imbued with life. In some instances, the persona of the puppeteer is also an important feature, as with ventriloquist's dummy performers, in which the puppeteer and the human figure-styled puppet appear onstage together, and in theatre shows like Avenue Q. The puppeteer might speak in the role of the puppet's character, synchronising the movements of the puppet's mouth. However, there is much puppetry which does not use the moving mouth (which is a lip-sync innovation created originally for television where close-ups are popular). Often, in theatre, a moveable mouth is used only for gestural expression, or speech might be produced by a non-moving mouth. In traditional glove puppetry often one puppeteer will operate two puppets at a time out of a cast of several. Much work is produced without any speech at all with all the emphasis on movement. In a shadow play, only the shadows of the puppet are seen on a screen positioned between the puppets and the audience. The relationship between the puppeteer and the puppet-maker is similar to that between an actor and a playwright, in cases where a puppet-maker designs a puppet for a puppeteer. Very often, though, the puppeteer assumes the joint roles of puppet-maker, director, designer, writer and performer. In this case a puppeteer is a more complete theatre practitioner than is the case with other theatre forms, in which one person writes a play, another person directs it, and then actors perform the lines and gestures. Puppetry is a complex medium sometimes consisting of live performance, sometimes contributing to stop frame puppet animation, and film where performances might be technically processed as motion capture, CGI or as virtual puppetry. See also Adult puppeteering Dhalang Machinima creators call themselves puppeteers Puppet Puppetry UNIMA World Puppetry Day Kenya Institute of Puppet Theatre (KIPT) Sockpuppet (Internet) References External links Puppeteers Theatre Performing arts", "title": "Puppeteer" } ]

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[ { "docid": "15626917", "text": "The 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 89th in the National Football League (NFL), their 21st season in Arizona, and their second under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. The season marked the Cardinals' first Super Bowl appearance, coming as a result of their victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. The Cardinals slogan for the season was \"Shock The World!\" Riding the back of quarterback Kurt Warner, who had gone from being a backup for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 to leading the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory, and franchise wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, the Cardinals went on a playoff run for the ages after having won just one playoff game in the last sixty years, as Warner once again recreated the magic he had captured with the Rams. (Coincidentally, both teams were based in St. Louis at one point or another, only to relocate to different cities.) The Cardinals began their season by compiling a 7–3 record by Week 11 and finished the regular season with a 9–7 record (their first winning season in 10 years), which was good enough to win the NFC West, and the Cardinals, for the first time since 1947, hosted a playoff game. In that wild card game, the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Falcons. The next week, for the Divisional round of the playoffs, the Cardinals traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they upset the number 2 seeded Carolina Panthers. Then, because the Philadelphia Eagles also achieved an upset the same week (against the top-seeded New York Giants), the number-four seed Cardinals hosted the NFC Championship game, where they defeated the Eagles and qualified for the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. In Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' winning streak ended. Though they led the Pittsburgh Steelers with less than a minute left to play in the game, they lost, 27–23. The 2008 Cardinals were the second 9–7 team to reach the Super Bowl, joining the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV, who also lost to the Steelers; however, the Rams had to win only two playoff games, rather than three, to reach the Super Bowl. Three years later in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants would become the first 9–7 team to win, overshadowing the Cardinals' achievement. In 2014, Athlon Sports ranked the 2008 Cardinals as the fourth-worst team to ever make the Super Bowl. Coaching staff 2008 NFL Draft selections Roster Schedule Preseason Regular season Standings Regular season results Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers The Cardinals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona took flight as kicker Neil Rackers got a 25-yard field goal. The 49ers responded with RB Frank Gore's 41-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals responded with QB Kurt Warner completing a one-yard TD pass to WR Larry Fitzgerald, yet San Francisco tied the game with kicker Joe Nedney getting", "title": "2008 Arizona Cardinals season" } ]

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[ { "docid": "230230", "text": "Av (also Menachem Av, ) is the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days, and usually occurs in July–August on the Gregorian calendar. The Babylonian Talmud states that \"when we enter [the month of] Av, our joy is diminished\". This is because the darkest events in Jewish history occurred during the first week and a half of this month, particularly the Nine Days which culminate in Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of Av. However, the month also contains a holiday called Tu B'Av which was, in ancient times, considered one of the happiest days of the year. Etymology Originally Abu on the Babylonian calendar, the name is derived from Akkadian ʾAbū, which might mean \"reed\" or be connected to the name of the Mesopotamian god Abu. Others derive the name of the month from the Hebrew word \"Av\" - \"father\". The name Ab () also appears in the Arabic language for the month of August in the Levant (see Arabic names of calendar months). The name Ab appears in Aramaic ostraca from the Persian period, in Aramaic documents from Ancient Egypt and Palmyra, in Masada and Qarnayim ostraca, in the best manuscripts of Targum Jonathan to Ez. 20:1, and in Rabbinic literature starting with Megillat Taanit. It is one of several months which are not named in the Hebrew Bible. Holidays Av 9 – Tisha B'Av Av 15 – Tu B'Av In Jewish history 1 Av (circa 1273 BCE) – Death of high priest Aaron 1 Av (513 BCE) – Ezra and his followers arrive in Israel 5 Av (1572 CE) – Hillula of the Arizal 7 Av (586 BCE) – First Temple invaded by King Nebuchadnezzar 7 Av (67 CE) – Civil war breaks out in besieged Jerusalem; one group set fire to the city's food stores, which is said to have quickened starvation. 7 Av (1492 CE) – Jews of Spain expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. 7 Av (1853) - Death of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Rav of Khust and author of Arugath Habosem 9 Av (586 BCE and 70 CE) – Holy Temples destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans respectively. 9 Av (133 CE) – Fall of Betar to the Romans, ending Bar Kochba's rebellion. 9 Av (1290 CE) – Jews are expelled from England by King Edward I and not permitted to legally return for 350 years. 10 Av (70 CE) – The Holy Temple, set on fire the previous day, finishes burning. 12 Av (1263) – Disputation of Barcelona between Nachmanides and Pablo Christiani. 13 Av (1984) - Death of Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, Rebbe of Pupa and author of Vaychi Yosef 15 Av (148 CE) – Betar dead buried, 15 years after the fall of the fortress. 15 Av – The Day of the Breaking of the Ax – when the Holy Temple existed, the cutting of firewood for the altar was completed on this date", "title": "Av (month)" } ]

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