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44498061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souls%20Grown%20Deep%20Foundation | Souls Grown Deep Foundation | Souls Grown Deep Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting the work of leading contemporary African American artists from the Southeastern United States. Its mission is to include their contributions in the canon of American art history through acquisitions from its collection by major museums, as well as through exhibitions, programs, and publications. The foundation derives its name from a 1921 poem by Langston Hughes (1902–1967) titled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," the last line of which is "My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
The foundation is led by Maxwell L. Anderson, who serves as its president, and a member of its board of trustees. Anderson was previously director of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Collection
The Souls Grown Deep Foundation Collection contains over 1,100 works by more than 160 artists, two-thirds of whom are women. Ranging from large-scale assemblages to works on paper, the foundation is particularly strong in works dating from the death of Martin Luther King Jr. to the end of the twentieth century. The roots of these works can be traced to slave cemeteries and secluded woods. Following the Civil War, when the southern agrarian economy collapsed and rural African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced to migrate for survival to major population centers—particularly in and around Birmingham, Alabama, where iron and steel production created jobs—a new and more public language of quilts, funerary, and yard arts arose. Beyond painting, sculpture, assemblage, drawing, and textile-making, this tradition also included music, dance, oral literature, informal theater, culinary arts, and more. Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the rich, symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.
Among the artists represented are Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Joe Minter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Purvis Young, Emmer Sewell, Ronald Lockett, Joe Light, and the Gees Bend quilters.
Origins
Souls Grown Deep Foundation was founded in 2010, but traces its roots to the mid-1980s, when William S. Arnett, an art historian and collector, began to collect the artworks of largely undiscovered African American artists across nine southeastern states. Developed outside of the structure of schools, galleries, and museums, these rich yet largely unknown African American visual art traditions present a distinct post–Civil Rights phenomenon that offers powerful insight and fresh perspectives into the most compelling political and social issues of our time. The majority of the works and ephemeral documents held by the foundation were compiled by Arnett and his sons over three decades, with the goal of creating a collection that could serve as a record and legacy of this culture.
By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts culminated in an ambitious survey exhibition of this tradition titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, presented in conjunction with the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and in partnership with the City of Atlanta and the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. The subsequent two-volume publication Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, remains the most in-depth examination of the movement.
Transfer of collection
In 2014 the Souls Grown Deep Foundation began a multi-year program to transfer the majority of works in its care to the permanent collections of leading American and international art museums. To date, this program has led to the acquisition of over 350 works by more than 100 artists from the foundation's collection by 17 museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the High Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, The Morgan Library & Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and The Phillips Collection. Forty works by 21 artists were purchased by the National Gallery of Art in 2020.
Exhibitions of acquisitions from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation include Revelations: Art from the African American South at the de Young Museum in San Francisco,History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Souls Grown Deep: Artists from the African American South at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
References
External links
Press Release from Philadelphia Museum of Art: "Museum Celebrates Recent Acquisition of Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation with Two Summer Exhibitions", May 23, 2019.
2010 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American cultural history
Arts foundations based in the United States
Organizations based in Atlanta
Arts organizations established in 2010 |
44498064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Order%2013139 | Executive Order 13139 | Executive Order 13139— entitled Improving Health Protection of Military Personnel Participating in Particular Military Operations — as an executive order (EO) issued by U.S. President Bill Clinton on 30 September 1999. It outlines the conditions under which Investigational New Drug (IND) and off-label pharmaceuticals can be administered to U.S. service members. An “off-label" indication is a use of a drug in a manner (or for a condition) other than that for which they were originally licensed.
EO13139 provides the US Secretary of Defense guidance regarding the provision of IND products or products unapproved for their intended use as antidotes to chemical, biological, or radiological weapons; stipulates that the U.S. government will administer products approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only for their intended use; provides the circumstances and controls under which IND products may be used.
It also stipulates that to administer an IND product, informed consent must be obtained from individual service members. However, the President of the United States may waive informed consent (at the request of the Secretary of Defense and only the Secretary of Defense) if:
Informed consent is not feasible
Informed consent is contrary to the best interests of the service member
Obtaining informed consent is not in the best interests of national security.
In the 2003 case of Doe v. Rumsfeld, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined the United States Air Force from requiring administration of an unlicensed anthrax vaccine to personnel pursuant to EO13139, noting that a waiver from the President had not been requested. This injunction dissolved in 2005, when the vaccine was licensed, and no longer considered experimental.
References
External links
EO13139 in the Federal Register.
13139
Legal history of the United States
1999 in American law
Biological warfare |
23574135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C5%A1t%C4%9Bnice | Luštěnice | Luštěnice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. It is located south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague.
Administrative parts
Villages of Voděrady and Zelená are administrative parts of Luštěnice.
History
The first written mention of Luštěnice is from 1268. Around 1740, the Baroque Luštěnice Castle was built.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia%20guianensis | Tolumnia guianensis | Tolumnia guianensis is a species of orchid endemic to Hispaniola.
guianensis |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | Useppa Island is an island located near the northern end of Pine Island Sound in Lee County, Florida, United States. It has been known for luxury resorts since the late 19th century, and it is currently the home of the private Useppa Island Club. On May 21, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, due to its archaeological significance.
Name
In the early 1830s the island was variously called Caldez's Island, Toampe, and Joseffa. Records indicate that José Caldez, who had operated a fishing rancho on the island, called it Josepha's when he sold it in 1833. The name Useppa first appeared on a hydrological chart of the area in 1855.
Like the nearby islands of Gasparilla, Sanibel, and Captiva, a folk etymology has developed connecting Useppa Island's name to the legendary pirate captain José Gaspar, also known as Gasparilla. A local folk story, extant in at least two versions, tells of Gaspar kidnapping a Spanish princess, with whom he becomes enamored. When she spurns his advances he kills her, but is overtaken by remorse and buries her himself on the beach. One version identifies the princess as Josefa, daughter of Martín de Mayorga, Viceroy of New Spain from 1779 to 1782, and indicates that her burial place of Useppa Island still bears her name in an altered form.
Geology
Useppa Island is long north to south, and up to wide. A ridge, up to high, runs along much of the eastern edge of the island. A ridge up to high is in the middle of the island along the western side. A conical shell midden with ramps is located on the west side of the island towards the southern end. The southern end of the island may have grown by as much as during the 20th century, possibly when a golf course was developed there. The island was part of the Florida mainland during the last glacial period, when the sea level around Florida was or more lower than today. Useppa Island is high ground that became separated from the mainland by a rising sea level around 4500 BCE. This high ground is believed to be stabilized sand dunes formed during a high sea level episode prior to the last glacial episode. During the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE barrier islands formed to the west of Useppa Island, creating Pine Island Sound and protecting Useppa Island from the open Gulf of Mexico.
History
Before Useppa Island separated from the mainland, the area was visited by Paleo-Indians, who were present in Florida by at least 8,000 BCE. Soon after the sea level had risen enough to separate the island from the mainland, around 4500 BCE, Indians of the Archaic period began living on the island for part of the year, primarily during the spring and summer. Oyster shells were deposited in middens from this time. Tools made from seashells during the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE show a cultural affinity with Horr's Island to the south.
After about 3000 BCE bodies were buried on Useppa Island in a flexed position. Steatite stone vessels and fiber-tempered pottery came into use on the island after 2000 BCE. Sand-tempered pottery appeared after 1200 BCE. Seasonal occupation of the island continued through the end of the Archaic period (c. 500 BCE) and into the Caloosahatchee culture period, until about 1200. While the island may have been used occasionally as a fishing camp after that date, there is no known sustained occupation of the island until after 1700. Shortly after 1700, the Calusa people (the people of the Caloosahatchee culture region during the historic period) were killed, carried away to slavery, or driven out of the area by Creek and Yamasee people (who later coalesced into the Seminole.
Later in the 18th century and as late as 1835 Muspa Indians, possibly descendants of people who lived in the Calusa town of Muspa (on or near Marco Island) were reported to be living in the Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island area. Around 1784, Jose Caldez of Cuba began using Useppa Island as the base for his seasonal fishing operations. Caldez employed both Cubans and local Native Americans at this fishing rancho. By 1833 the rancho consisted of close to 20 palmetto-thatched houses and about 60 people.
The Second Seminole War began in late 1835. Henry Crews, the U.S. Customs officer on Josefa Island (Useppa), was killed in late March 1836, possibly by Seminoles or by Indians working at the rancho. Crews had been at odds with the Spaniards at the fishing rancho, believing that they were using fishing as a cover for large scale smuggling. After the death of Crews, the "Americans" living around Charlotte Harbor, which probably included Spaniards and rancho Indians, fled to the rancho operated by William Bunce on Passage Island in Tampa Bay. In late 1836 the ranchos around Charlotte Harbor, including the Caldez rancho on Useppa, were reported to be abandoned and "largely destroyed." Rancho Indians, including those who were married to Cubans or were half-Cuban, were gathered up by the Army and sent west to Indian Territory.
The area around Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island, including Josefa Island, remained sparsely inhabited for several decades. The U.S. Army established Fort Casey on, renamed, Useppa Island early in 1850, but abandoned it before the end of the year. Union troops and refugee Union sympathizers occupied the island in December 1863, and mounted a small raid into Charlotte Harbor and up the Myakka River, which resulted in some skirmishes with Confederate troops and irregulars. The troops on Useppa Island moved to Fort Myers after it was established in January, 1864. The Census of 1870 found two residents on the island. It was reported to be uninhabited in 1885, and to have one family in residence in 1895.
Chicago businessman John Roach built a hotel on Useppa Island in 1896. Barron Collier bought the island in 1911, and developed the resort, enlarging the hotel and adding tennis courts and a 9-hole golf course. Collier made the island his official residence, from which he directed his real estate empire. Collier died in 1939, and the resort was closed during World War II. Hurricanes in 1944 and 1946 damaged the hotel, and it was torn down. The island opened again as a resort in 1946, continuing until 1960. In 1960, Useppa briefly served as a CIA training base for Cuban exiles in preparation for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Useppa Island changed hands four times in the 1960s and 1970s, with two short-lived attempts to operate it as a resort. Gar Beckstead bought the island in 1976 and his company, Useppa Inn and Dock Company, has operated it as a private resort since then. Hurricane Charley heavily damaged the island in 2004. The rebuilt Collier Inn was re-opened one year later.
The Useppa Island Historical Society operates the Barbara Sumwalt Museum on the island.
Archaeological investigations
While some archaeologists passed by or visited Useppa Island in the 19th century, the first scientific excavation on the island was by John Griffin and Hale Smith, who collected ceramics from a disturbed midden in 1947. Jerald Milanich and Jefferson Chapman conducted more extensive excavations on Collier Mound and adjacent middens in 1979 and 1980, using a backhoe to dig trenches in mound and middens.
William Marquardt and Michael Hansinger conducted an excavation on Collier Ridge in 1985. Marquardt and Corbett Torrence excavated several locations on the island in 1989. Marquardt excavated a burial on a lot scheduled for construction in 1994. Volunteers associated with the Rendell Research Society, the University of California Los Angeles, and the Useppa Island Historical Society excavated a shell axe workshop on the island in 2006.
Notes
Citations
References
External links
Useppa Island Club website
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Lee County listings
Useppa Island Museum
Archaeological sites in Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Florida
Gulf Coast barrier islands of Florida
Islands of Lee County, Florida
Shell middens in Florida |
23574140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C4%8De%C5%99%C3%AD%C5%BE | Mečeříž | Mečeříž is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels%20in%20the%20Sky | Angels in the Sky | "Angels in the Sky" is a popular song by Dick Glasser. It was published in 1954 and has been recorded by a number of artists. The first recording was by Glasser himself and was issued on Jack Gale's label, Triple A (#2522), flipped with "Is It Too Late?", another Glasser composition. In 1954, Gale would strike a deal with RCA Victor for the song and it was then recorded and released by Tony Martin on RCA Victor #5757 about August 1954, flipped with "Boulevard Of Nightingales". A part of the deal was that Glasser's recording would be withdrawn from the market.
The biggest hit for the song would happen later in the following year with a version by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury Records #70741. It first reached the Billboard charts on December 17, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #16; on the Best Seller chart, at #11; on the Juke Box chart, at #13; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #13. The flip side was "Mostly Martha".
Dick Glasser re-recorded the song after having signed with Columbia Records by Autumn 1958. It was released as his third single for the label (#41357) about March 1959, this time flipped with "Get Thee Behind Me".
Recorded versions
Dick Glasser (1953); (1959)
Buddy Cunningham (1954)
Tony Martin (1954)
The Van Cleaf Sisters (1954)
Herb & Kay (1954)
The Crew Cuts (1955)
The Monarchs (1955)
Artie Malvin (1956)
Gene Autry (1956)
Bobby Vee (1960)
Gene McDaniels (1961)
Walter Brennan (1962)
Glen Campbell (1970)
External links
Song lyric
1954 songs
Songs written by Dick Glasser |
23574141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohelnice%20nad%20Jizerou | Mohelnice nad Jizerou | Mohelnice nad Jizerou is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 90 inhabitants. It lies on the Jizera River.
Administrative parts
The village of Podhora is an administrative part of Mohelnice nad Jizerou.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muka%C5%99ov%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Mukařov (Mladá Boleslav District) | Mukařov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Borovice and Vicmanov are administrative parts of Mukařov.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahiopsis%20parishii | Bahiopsis parishii | Bahiopsis parishii known commonly as Parish goldeneye or shrubby goldeneye, is a North American species of flowering shrubs in the family Asteraceae.
It is native to the southwestern United States, (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico), as well as adjacent parts of northwest Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora).
Description
Bahiopsis parishii grows to 2 feet tall, with bright yellow flowers. It is a plant of desert areas, usually associated with creosote bush, and ranges from sea level to in elevation. It blooms after periods of rain, both in spring and in fall, or after the monsoon season in Arizona.
Etymology
The species name honors either of two brothers, Samuel Bonsall Parish (1838–1928) and William Fletcher Parish (1840–1918), both active botanists in southern California. It is closely related to Bahiopsis deltoidea and is sometimes considered a variety of that species.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California
Heliantheae
North American desert flora
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Plants described in 1882
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
20470908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandants%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Air%20Force%20Test%20Pilot%20School | Commandants of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School | The commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is known as its Commandant. The commandant manages the school which is a military unit that operates in a distinctly academic atmosphere. The position is usually held by a colonel selected by the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) commander although this authority may be delegated to the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC). The commandant oversees all flying training, academic instruction, budgeting, and curriculum administration at the school. The commandant also chairs a board of officers that selects the school's students. The selection board consists of flight test squadron commanders with a majority of the board members being TPS graduates. The commandant determines enrollment requirements and associated schedules. Every three years, the commandant conducts a review of the school's curriculum with participation from flight test squadrons, the U.S. Naval TPS, and operational squadrons.
The school's mission is to produce experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to lead and conduct test and evaluation of aerospace weapon systems. The school was established on September 9, 1944 as the Flight Test Training Unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) in Dayton, Ohio. To take advantage of the uncongested skies and superb flying weather, the school was moved on February 4, 1951 to its present location at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. Edwards AFB is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and has been an integral part of flight testing since the 1940s.
Between 1962 and 1972, the Test Pilot School expanded its role to include astronaut training for military test pilots. Thirty-seven TPS graduates of this era were selected for the U.S. space program, and twenty-six went on to earn astronaut's wings by flying in the X-15, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. Although the school no longer trains astronauts, many TPS graduates since 1972 have been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for duties in space. The school encourages applications from civilians, personnel from other U.S. military services, and individuals from foreign countries. An exchange program allows selected students to attend other test pilot schools including the United States Naval Test Pilot School, the United Kingdom's Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS), and France's École du personnel navigant d'essais et de réception (EPNER).
Commandants
The following list provides a complete list of commandants of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. The table contains their name, rank, dates as commandant, the TPS class from which they graduated (if applicable), and notable events that occurred during their tenure at the school.
Key
List of Commandants
Individual was killed in an aviation-related accident.
Notable alumni
USAF TPS has produced many notable alumni including astronauts, record-setting aviators, and senior Air Force leaders.
Notes
References
External links
USAF Test Pilot School commandants
USAF Test Pilot School commandants
United States Air Force lists |
23574145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%9Bm%C4%8Dice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Němčice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Němčice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Němčice is located about south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemyslovice | Nemyslovice | Nemyslovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistou | Pistou | Pistou (Provençal: pisto (classical) or pistou (Mistralian), ), or pistou sauce, is a Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil. It is somewhat similar to the Ligurian sauce pesto, although it lacks pine nuts. Some modern versions of the recipe include grated parmesan, pecorino, or similar hard cheeses.
Etymology and history
In the Provençal dialect of Occitan, pistou means "pounded".
The sauce is similar to Genoese pesto, which is traditionally made of garlic, basil, pine nuts, grated Sardinian pecorino, and olive oil, crushed and mixed together with a mortar and pestle. The key difference between pistou and pesto is the absence of pine nuts in pistou.
Use
Pistou is a typical condiment from the Provence region of France most often associated with the Provençal dish soupe au pistou, which resembles minestrone and may include white beans, green beans, tomatoes, summer squash, potatoes, and pasta. The pistou is incorporated into the soup just before serving.
Gruyère cheese is used in Nice. Some regions substitute Parmesan cheese or Comté. In Liguria, pecorino, a hard sheep's-milk cheese from Sardinia or Corsica is used. Whatever cheese is used, a "stringy" cheese is not preferred, so that when it melts in a hot liquid (like in the pistou soup, for instance), it does not melt into long strands.
See also
Argentine chimichurri, a somewhat similar sauce made with parsley
List of garlic dishes
Persillade
References
External links
Soupe au Pistou, Wolfgang Puck
Soupe au Pistou, Paula Wolfert
French sauces
Cold soups
Garlic dishes
Food combinations |
23574150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neveklovice | Neveklovice | Neveklovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 70 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim%C4%9B%C5%99ice | Niměřice | Niměřice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Dolní Cetno and Horní Cetno are administrative parts of Niměřice.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1%20Telib | Nová Telib | Nová Telib is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Kladěruby is an administrative part of Nová Telib.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1%20Ves%20u%20Bakova | Nová Ves u Bakova | Nová Ves u Bakova is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Middleton | Guy Middleton | Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1907 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.
Biography
Guy Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s. In his earlier films he often portrayed amiable idiots, scoundrels and rakish bon vivants, but many of his later roles were military officers in the British Army, RAF or Royal Navy. He died in 1973, following a heart attack, aged 65.
Selected filmography
Film
Jimmy Boy (1935) .... The Count
Two Hearts in Harmony (1935) .... Mario
Trust the Navy (1935) .... Lieutenant Richmond
Under Proof (1936) .... Bruce
Fame (1936) .... Lester Cordwell
A Woman Alone (1936) .... Alioshka
The Gay Adventure (1936) .... Aram
Take a Chance (1937) .... Richard Carfax
Keep Fit (1937) .... Hector Kent
Break the News (1938) .... Englishman
The Mysterious Mr. Davis (1939) .... Milton
Goodbye Mr Chips (1939) .... McCulloch (uncredited)
French Without Tears (1940) .... Brian Curtis
For Freedom (1940) .... Pierre
Dangerous Moonlight (1941, also known as Suicide Squadron) .... Shorty
Talk About Jacqueline (1942) .... Captain Tony Brook
The Demi-Paradise (1943) .... Dick Christian
The Halfway House (1944) .... Fortescue
English Without Tears (1944) .... Captain Standish
Champagne Charlie (1944) .... Tipsy Swell
29 Acacia Avenue (1945) .... Gerald Jones
The Rake's Progress (1945, also known as Notorious Gentleman) .... Fogroy
The Captive Heart (1946) .... Capt. Jim Grayson
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) .... Capt. Tony Hunter
A Man About the House (1947) .... Sir Benjamin "Ben" Dench
The White Unicorn (1947) .... Fobey
Snowbound (1948) .... Gilbert Mayne
One Night with You (1948) .... Matty
Once Upon a Dream (1949) .... Major Gilbert
Marry Me! (1949) .... Sir Gordon Blake
No Place for Jennifer (1950) .... Brian Stewart
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) .... Victor Hyde-Brown
The Third Visitor (1951) .... Inspector Mallory
Laughter in Paradise (1951) .... Simon Russell
Young Wives' Tale (1951) .... Victor Manifold
Never Look Back (1952) .... Guy Ransome
The Fake (1953) .... Smith
Albert R.N. (1953, also known as Break to Freedom) .... Bongo
Front Page Story (1954) .... Gentle
Conflict of Wings (1954) .... Adjutant
Malaga (1954) .... Soames Howard
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) .... Eric Rowbottom-Smith
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) .... Squadron Leader Scott
The Harassed Hero (1954) .... Murray Selwyn
Break in the Circle (1955) .... Maj. Hobart
Make Me an Offer (1955) .... Armstrong
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) .... Earl of Wickenware
A Yank in Ermine (1955) .... Bertram Maltravers
Now and Forever (1956) .... Hector
Doctor at Large (1957) .... Major Porter
Let's Be Happy (1957) .... Mr. Fielding
Passionate Summer (1958) .... Duffield
Escort for Hire (1960) .... Arthur Vickers
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) .... Drunken Fox Hunter (uncredited)
The Fur Collar (1962) .... Resident
What Every Woman Wants (1962) .... George Barker
The Mini-Affair (1967) .... Colonel Highwater
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .... General Sir William Robertson
The Magic Christian (1969) .... Duke of Mantisbriar (uncredited)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) .... Potter (final film role)
Television appearances
He appeared in a number of television series as a guest character including:
Hancock's Half Hour (broadcast November 4th., 1957) - 'The Regimental Reunion', episode - Ex-Captain - (series 3, episode 6) - (Riverside Studios, Studio 1, Hammersmith) - (This is one of twenty-four missing Hancock television episodes, (to date).
Dixon of Dock Green (1959) - Fred Harper
Doctor Who (1967, Episode: "The Highlanders") - Colonel Attwood
References
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies; 14th ed (2001) editor John Walker - published by Harper-Collins;
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, Collins;
External links
1907 births
1973 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
People from Hove
20th-century English male actors
People from Moreton-in-Marsh |
6902608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister%20Blues | Mister Blues | Mister Blues may refer to:
Wynonie Harris (1915–1969) (aka Mister Blues), an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
"Mister Blues", a song bye Moby Grape from their 1967 album Moby Grape
"Mister Blues", Blues Band from Germany. |
23574159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrubce | Obrubce | Obrubce is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Obora is an administrative part of Obrubce.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obruby | Obruby | Obruby is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%9B%C4%8Dice | Pěčice | Pěčice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse%20on%20Pisa | Discourse on Pisa | Discourse on Pisa () is a 1499 work by Italian Renaissance historian and political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli about the history of Pisa.
References
1499 books
Works by Niccolò Machiavelli |
23574176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%9Btikozly | Pětikozly | Pětikozly is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 80 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A-League%20Men%20highest%20scoring%20games | List of A-League Men highest scoring games | This is a summary of the highest scoring games and biggest winning margins in the A-League since its establishment in the 2005–06 season. The record for the biggest win is Adelaide United's 8–1 victory against North Queensland Fury on 21 January 2011.
Only two games have had ten goals scored in the fourteen seasons of the A-League, both 8–2 results involving Central Coast Mariners. Seven games have had nine goals scored.
Highest scoring games
Biggest winning margin
References
General
Specific
A-League Men
A-League Men lists |
23574184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petkovy | Petkovy | Petkovy is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Čížovky is an administrative part of Petkovy.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia%20guttata | Tolumnia guttata | Tolumnia guttata is a species of orchid found from Mexico, Belize to Colombia and the Caribbean.
References
guttata
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
23574194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious | Gitorious | Gitorious was a free and open source web application for hosting collaborative free and open-source software development projects using Git revision control. Although it was freely available to be downloaded and installed, it was written primarily as the basis for the Gitorious shared web hosting service at gitorious.org, until it was acquired by GitLab in 2015.
According to the Git User's Survey, Gitorious was the second most popular hosting service for Git in 2011, with 11.7% of respondents indicating they used it, behind 87.5% using GitHub. On 3 March 2015, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab, who announced service through gitorious.org would be discontinued on 1 June 2015 and encouraged Gitorious users to make use of its import tools to migrate projects to GitLab.
Features and constraints
In addition to source code hosting, Gitorious provided projects with wikis, a web interface for merge requests and code reviews, and activity timelines for projects and developers.
According to the terms of service, if bandwidth usage for an account, project or repository exceeded 500 MB/month, or significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage of other Gitorious.org users or customers, Gitorious.org reserved the right to immediately disable or throttle the account, project or repository until the account owner can reduce the bandwidth consumption.
Gitorious AS released the Gitorious software under the AGPLv3 as free software.
Acquisitions
In August 2013, Gitorious AS was acquired by Powow AS, a Norwegian-Polish consulting company.
Gitorious was then acquired by GitLab as of 3 March 2015. GitLab kept gitorious.org online through May 2015 and added an automatic migration function for project to move to GitLab.com which offers both paid and free hosting services and maintains an open source "community" edition for self-hosting.
At the time of the GitLab acquisition, there were four Powow employees behind Gitorious. GitLab CEO Sytse Sijbrandij, responding to comments about the acquisition on Hacker News, wrote that "[Powow] wanted to shut the company down without a bankruptcy". So, GitLab, as a way to bolster their user base, bought Gitorious even though they were not hiring the employees or using the Gitorious software. In addition to providing optional migration to GitLab.com, GitLab opened discussions with Archive.org about preserving the Gitorious repositories for historical reference. As of mid-2016, as a result of efforts by GitLab, ex-Gitorious staff, and Archive Team, Gitorious.org existed as a read-only mirror of its former self, containing some 120,000 repositories comprising 5TB of data.
See also
Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
References
External links
Gitorious source code (GitHub mirror, last updated in 2015)
Open-source hosted development tools
Open-source software hosting facilities
Project management software
Version control
Software using the GNU AGPL license
Discontinued open-source software hosting facilities |
44498069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Coghlan | Michael Coghlan | Michael Coghlan (born 15 January 1985) is an English footballer who plays for Northern League club Washington.
A midfielder, Coghlan played in the Football League for Darlington and in non-league football for numerous clubs in the north-east of England.
Football career
Sunderland-born Coghlan began his football career with Darlington. As a 16-year-old, he was playing for their reserve team, and was included in the travelling squad, though not among the matchday 16, for Darlington's League Cup visit to Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 2003. A week later, he was an unused substitute for the Third Division match at home to Southend United, and on 11 October, as a member of "one of the youngest and smallest squads in the Third Division"Coghlan himself had been dubbed "pint-sized"he made his debut in the Football League. He entered the match as a second-half substitute with his team already two goals down at home to Bristol Rovers; it finished as a 4–0 defeat. In the Football League Trophy, against a Hull City side with eleven changes from their previous league match, Coghlan's "low, fierce shot" was blocked, rebounding to Mark Sheeran who scored to reduce Hull's lead to 2–1, but Darlington were eliminated.
He played twice more in the league in December, before joining Northern Premier League club Harrogate Town on loan in March 2004. The manager thought he "maybe struggled with the pace of the game" in his first appearance, in a defeat at Alfreton Town, and he was back with Darlington a few days later. He played regularly for the reserves in 2004–05according to his 2004 profile on the club's website, he had "shown he is a good passer of the ball with plenty to offer in midfield"but in November was one of seven players with contracts due to expire at the end of the season whom manager David Hodgson listed for transfer or loan and told to prove their worth to the club. After spending time with Bishop Auckland, another Northern Premier League club, on loan, Coghlan finished the season with Darlington's reserves, and was released when his contract expired.
He then went on a tour of non-league football in the north-east of England, playing for clubs including Ryhope CA, Durham City, Crook Town, another spell at Bishop Auckland, Sunderland RCA, Jarrow Roofing, Chester-le-Street Town, Seaham Red Star, and most recently Washington.
He also captained Humbledon Plains Farm, a Sunderland-based team, to victory in the 2014 FA Sunday Cup.
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Sunderland
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Darlington F.C. players
Harrogate Town A.F.C. players
Bishop Auckland F.C. players
Sunderland Ryhope Community Association F.C. players
Durham City A.F.C. players
Crook Town A.F.C. players
Jarrow Roofing Boldon Community Association F.C. players
Chester-le-Street Town F.C. players
Seaham Red Star F.C. players
Washington F.C. players
English Football League players
Northern Premier League players
Northern Football League players |
23574199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADskov%C3%A1%20Lhota%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Písková Lhota (Mladá Boleslav District) | Písková Lhota is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
It is located south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague.
Administrative parts
Village of Zámostí is an administrative part of Písková Lhota.
History
The first written mention of Písková Lhota is from 1398 and of Zámostí from 1361. Starý Stránov Castle was first mentioned in 1297.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry%20Birds%20Stella%20%28TV%20series%29 | Angry Birds Stella (TV series) | Angry Birds Stella is a Finnish computer-animated adventure television series based on the whole all-device mobile game Angry Birds Stella produced by Rovio Entertainment. The first episode, "A Fork in the Friendship", aired on Toons.TV in November 1, 2014. The series ended on March 11, 2016.
Overview
The series recounts the tale of young Stella, along with her friends Luca, a builder; Willow, a creative painter and artist with work of art; Poppy, a crazily loud drummer; and Dahlia, a scientist, a total brain, and an inventor as they struggle to contain Gale, the former friend of Stella, that is the queen of the minion pigs in Golden Island.
Characters
Main characters
Stella, A pink 16 years old galah – The de facto leader of the flock, Stella is described as adventurous, idiotic, sociopathic, fierce, friendly, courageous, cute, and bold. Despite being very upset with her former friend Gale for the latter's departure and betrayal in the name of vanity, she still considers Gale a friend.
Dahlia, a brownish 18 years old long-eared owl – The brains of the whole flock and a smart inventing genius and the oldest, but some of her inventions often backfire. Known as Brainy Smurf.
Luca, A sky blue 4 years old scrub-jay – The youngest and the only male in the flock. He is very playful and imaginative, and, unlike the others, has little to no ill-will towards Gale after the latter left the flock.
Poppy, A light yellow 14 years old Cockatiel – Loud and boisterous, Poppy has a fondness for music, but the amount of noise she makes from her percussion often irks her friends instead, as Poppy frequently enjoys herself to the point she is unaware of the racket she makes. Known as Drainy Smurf or Clumsy Smurf.
Willow, A dark blue 17 years old western crowned pigeon with feathers resembling dreadlocks (most of which are concealed underneath her signature striped, floppy hat) – Very shy and insecure, however, she is a very talented artist, specializes in painting portraits and Luca's older sister.
Gale, a dark purple 19 years old violet-backed starling, also known as the Bad Princess – A selfish and extremely vain bird, formerly one of the flock and was once a close friend of Stella. She left the flock after discovering that, unlike her friends, the pigs were willing to have her as their queen without question and will answer her every whim. Despite leaving the flock, Gale remains highly motivated to keep the attention of her former friends, which often comes into direct conflict with her superiority complex.
Supporting characters
Handsome Pig, a pig with a blond wig who have a crush on Gale
Minion Pigs, TBA
Episodes
Home media
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the DVD distributor for the series.
Angry Birds Stella: The Complete 1st Season (December 1, 2015)
Angry Birds Stella: The Complete 2nd Season (March 1, 2016)
References
Angry Birds television series
2014 Finnish television series debuts
2016 Finnish television series endings
2010s Finnish television series
Finnish children's animated adventure television series
Finnish children's animated comedy television series
Finnish children's animated drama television series
Computer-animated television series
KidsClick
Television series by Rovio Entertainment
Animated television series spinoffs
Animated television series about birds
Animated television series without speech |
23574200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Blankfort | Michael Blankfort | Michael Seymour Blankfort (December 10, 1907 – July 13, 1982) was an American screenwriter, writer of books and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow (1950). He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles.
Film career
The Writers Guild of America, West, in its 1991 restoration of credit for the Broken Arrow screenplay to Maltz, expressed "a strong statement of appreciation for the courage of screenwriter Michael Blankfort" for his action in fronting for Maltz, in which Blankfort "risked being blacklisted himself to help his friend". Among his own screenplays were The Juggler (1953) and The Caine Mutiny. He was president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1967 to 1969 and won the Guild's Valentine Davies Award (along with Norman Corwin) in 1972. He also served on the Board of Governors of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1969 to 1971.
Art collection
Michael Blankfort and his wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort were among the founding members of the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Council, a group of prominent local art collectors connected to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Blankforts donated over 400 pieces of art to the museum, including works by Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.
Bibliography
"Battle hymn; a play in three acts, prologues and an epilogue". (with Michael Gold) New York, Los Angeles, London: S. French, 1936.
"The crime". New York: New York Theatre League, 1936.
"The brave and the blind : a one-act drama". New York: S. French, 1937.
"A Time to Live". New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943.
"The Big Yankee: The Life of Carlson of the Raiders". Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
"Monique: A Drama in Two Acts". (with wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort) New York: S. French, 1957.
"An Exceptional Man – A Novel of Incest". New York: Antheneum, 1980.
Filmography
As screenwriter:
Blind Alley (1939)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Texas (1941)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
An Act of Murder (1948)
The Dark Past (1948)
Broken Arrow (1950) (as front for Albert Maltz)
Halls of Montezuma (1951)
My Six Convicts (1952)
Lydia Bailey (1952)
The Juggler (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) (additional dialogue)
Untamed (1955)
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
The Vintage (1957)
See How They Run (1964)
The Plainsman (1966)
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
As associate producer:
The Juggler (1953)
Awards
1953: National Jewish Book Award for The Juggler
External links
Michael Blankfort papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
References
1907 births
1982 deaths
Jewish American writers
Writers from New York City
20th-century American Jews |
44498076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20in%20Taiwan | 1985 in Taiwan | Events from the year 1985 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 74 according to the official Republic of China calendar.
Incumbents
President – Chiang Ching-kuo
Vice President – Lee Teng-hui
Premier – Yu Kuo-hwa
Vice Premier – Lin Yang-kang
Events
January
5 January – The establishment of Institute of Transportation.
February
9 February – the total amount of loans made by the Taipei 10th Credit Corporation(臺北十信) accounted for 102% of the total deposits. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of depositors, the Ministry of Finance ordered the cooperative to suspend business for three days, and temporarily took over the cooperation from the Taiwan Provincial Cooperative, strictly inspecting and rectifying the situation.
August
1 August – The opening of Minghu Dam in Nantou County.
27 August – The inauguration of Keelung City Cultural Center in Keelung.
October
19 October – The start of the construction to expand Yunlin Prison in Huwei Township, Yunlin County.
25 October – The opening of Zhongli Arts Hall in Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City).
December
31 December – The inauguration of Taipei World Trade Center in Xinyi District, Taipei.
Births
8 January – Chan Chin-wei, tennis athlete
10 January – Ko Chia-yen, actress
15 January – Hush, singer
22 January – Chen Cho-yi, swimmer
26 January – Allison Lin, actress
28 February – Lee Tai-lin, football athlete
18 March – Chen Hui-shan, football goalkeeper
6 April – Lu Ying-chi, weightlifting athlete
11 May – Tia Lee, singer, actress and model
20 June – Cheng Chi-hung, baseball player
2 July – Renée Chen, singer and songwriter
15 July – Crowd Lu, singer-songwriter and actor
18 September – Amber An, model, singer and actress
5 November – Ma Chih-hung, luge athlete
20 November – Aaron Yan, model, actor and singer
25 December – Chang Han, football athlete
Deaths
12 March – Yang Kui, former writer.
26 August – Chang Chi-yun, Minister of Education (1954–1958).
2 September – Yu Ching-tang, Vice Premier (1963–1966).
References
Years of the 20th century in Taiwan |
23574201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plazy | Plazy | Plazy is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Valy is an administrative part of Plazy.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plu%C5%BEn%C3%A1 | Plužná | Plužná is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Elders | John Elders | John Elders (18 December 1930 – 3 May 2015) was an English rugby union player and coach. He played with Leicester Tigers between 1953–1958, scoring the third most tries in the 1950s for his club (38). Elders was also club captain for a number of seasons.
Elders coached the England team between 1972–1974. He guided England to their first ever away win against New Zealand, and also coached England through an unbeaten tour of South Africa. Elders played one game for Barbarian FC in the late 1950s.
Elders was the sports master at the Newcastle Royal Grammar School between 1957–1982. Whilst teaching there he played and coached for Northern FC and (Old) Novocastrians. He joined Old Novocastrians whilst a teacher at the Newcastle Royal Grammar School and was always an advocate for the club, helping bring many players to the club in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Elders captained Old Novos from 1959–61.
Elders coached the Downlands College First XV. The 1987 team went undefeated, including matches against Sydney's King's, Riverview and St Joseph's colleges. The side included future Wallabies Brett Johnstone, Brett Robinson, Garrick Morgan, Peter Ryan and Tim Horan.
He died on 3 May 2015, aged 84, after a long illness.
References
1930 births
2015 deaths
English rugby union coaches
Rugby union centres
Leicester Tigers players
Barbarian F.C. players
England national rugby union team coaches |
6902610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20World%20Junior%20Championships%20in%20Athletics | 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics | The 4th 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the fourth edition of the international athletics competition for athletes aged 19 years or under. It was held in Seoul, South Korea from September 16 to September 20, 1992.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 954 athletes from 90 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
See also
1992 in athletics (track and field)
References
External links
Results at GBRathletics.com
Results from World Junior Athletics History (WJAH)
Official results
World Junior
World Junior Championships in Athletics
Athletics 1992
Sport in Seoul
World Athletics U20 Championships |
23574206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proda%C5%A1ice | Prodašice | Prodašice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 90 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadhal%202%20Kalyanam | Kadhal 2 Kalyanam | Kadhal 2 Kalyanam () is an unreleased Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by newcomer Milind Rau that stars debutante Sathya, brother of Tamil actor Arya, and Divya Spandana in the lead roles, whilst, Jayashree, Nagendra Prasad, Kasthuri and Anuja Iyer play pivotal roles. Noted film critic Baradwaj Rangan had written the dialogues, while Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the film's score and soundtrack. The cinematography and editing were handled by P. S. Vinod and Leo John Paul, respectively. Pre-production works began by mid-2008, while the filming continued for over one year, being completed by July 2010. The film was jointly produced by Mirchi Movies and East Coast Entertainment, who are now not in the film-making business. Hence the movie remains unreleased.
Cast
Sathya as Arul
Divya Spandana as Anitha
Anuja Iyer
John Vijay
Jayashree
Nagendra Prasad
Kasthuri
Mouli
Production
Both Arya and Sathya went through many scripts before selecting the script of Kadhal 2 Kalyanam, in which Sathya would be playing the role of a radio jockey. Sathya, after being assigned for the role, had visited Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's acting school in Mumbai to "hone his acting skills", before starting to shoot, besides sitting with and observing professional radio jockeys at a radio station. Divya Spandana signed the film in October 2008, shortly after completing her third Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram, describing her character as a "career-oriented, independent woman in the corporate world." Further more, former lead actress Jayashree was signed in November 2008 for a significant role, which would mark her comeback to feature films after a decade. In December 2008, Kasthuri was roped in to appear in a supporting role and play the wife to the character played by Nagendra Prasad, while John Vijay accepted to play a drunkard in the film. The film's shooting, however, got stalled midway in 2009 due to unknown reasons and was resumed in 2010 only.
Since a large part of the film would take place at a radio station, art director Rajeevan erected a radio jockey booth in Chennai. The film notably became the first film after 40 years to be shot at all the six most important shrines of the Hindu deity Muruga, the Six Abodes of Murugan ("Arupadaiveedu"), in Tamil Nadu, with a specially designed bus being used for the tour. One of the songs, "Vellai Kodi", was shot in Thiruchendur, one of the six towns of Murugan's abodes, with Nagendra Prasad choreographing the song, besides appearing himself in it, while "Thedi Varuven" was shot in Puducherry. In July 2010, two songs were canned; a "bachelor song" ("Naa Vetta Pora Aadu"), choreographed by Robert, was filmed at a farmhouse near Red Hills, in which Sathya and Divya, along with junior artists, took part, following which the last song ("Idhu Kadhalai Irunthidumo") was shot. Rajeevan had erected a special "jungle set" at AVM Studios for the song, which was choreographed under the direction of Dinesh. With the completion of the song, the shooting was eventually finished after one-and-a-half years.
After a long setback the film's producers, Mirchi Movies announced that shooting has been fully completed on 29 May. The film began their promotional activity in June 2013 with the film's trailer was released 1 June 2013, while the film's release was anticipated to be around September. As of May 2019, it remains unreleased.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The songs were composed and recorded in 2009 and 2010, with Chinmayi during the release time stating that she had recorded her song more than two years back, and Yuvan Shankar citing that he had handed over the Master recording in September 2010. However, due to the long delay in the making of the film, the soundtrack album was released in March 2011 only, after several postponements. Though Sony Music released the album in a "soft audio launch" directly to stores on 18 March, a special launch was later held on Radio Mirchi where all songs were unveiled and airplayed, with Arya, Sathya and Milind participating.
The album features six songs overall, with Yuvan Shankar Raja himself, who stated on Twitter that the songs would be "young and fresh", having lent his voice for one of the songs. The album also features singer-composer Toshi Sabri's first song in Tamil, which was his second collaboration with Yuvan Shankar after the song "Seheri" in Oy!. Telugu singer-actor Anuj Gurwara was also supposed to have to sing one song in the film, which however, was not featured in the soundtrack album. The song "Naa Vetta Pora Aadu" was co-sung by Ragini Sri, a participant in the second season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer, however, she was falsely credited as Roshini in the first batch of CDs.
The soundtrack opened to positive reviews. Behindwoods rated 3 out of 5 stars to the album stating it as "One more treat from Yuvan!" Indiaglitz rated 2.75 out of 5 to the album stating "`Kadhal 2 Kalyanam' is an energetic album that would appease youngsters." Milliblog reviewed it as "Kadhal 2 Kalyanam is a perfectly balanced soundtrack in an ideal mixed bag!" Music Aloud gave 7.25 out of 10 stating "Strictly run-of-the-mill stuff from Yuvan Shankar Raja for Kadhal 2 Kalyanam with couple of enjoyable, but zero exceptional tracks." The Times of India gave the album 3 out of 5 stars.
References
External links
Indian films
Films shot in Puducherry
Indian romantic comedy films
Films scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Unreleased Tamil-language films |
44498102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Macnaghten | Ernest Macnaghten | Ernest Brander Macnaghten CMG, DSO (1872–1948) was a British Army officer who also served as the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1930 to 1932.
Early life
Macnaghten was born 11 September 1872 in India, the son of William Hay Macnaghten and Alice Ellen Brander. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was awarded the Sword of Honour.
Military career
Macnaghten was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in November 1894. He served in India (1894–1896), West Africa (1898–1899), South Africa (1900–1902), Somaliland (1903–1904), India (1905–1909), England (1910–1914) and in France during World War I where he was awarded two brevets, CMG, DSO, Croix de Guerre and eight mentions in dispatches. He rose to the rank of Colonel.
Shanghai
After the war, Macnaghten resigned his commission with the honorary rank of Brigadier General.
He joined British American Tobacco in Shanghai, China. From 1930 to 1932 he served as Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council. He was also President of the United Services Association and the St Andrew's Society.
Marriage and children
Macnaghten married Yvonne Marie Forrester at Windsor, England on 4 October 1906. They had five children, Susan May, Joan Yvonne Marie, Audrey Clarisse and James Steuart (twins) and Garrelle Renee.
Retirement and death
Macnaghten retired to his house Haygates in Finchampstead, Berkshire. He died on 21 November 1948 in the same town.
References
External links
Picture of Macnaghten in military uniform
Picture of McNaghten in 1937 arriving for a meeting of the Nanshi Supervisory Committee Meeting
Picture of Macnaghten at an Armistice Day ceremony at the Shanghai cenotaph in 1939
Article about and picture of plaque unveiled by Macnaghten in Shanghai in 1931
History of Shanghai
Chairmen of the Shanghai Municipal Council
1872 births
1948 deaths
Royal Artillery officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
People from Finchampstead |
20470929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Guilleray | Marie Guilleray | Marie Guilleray (born August 1978) is a vocal performer, improviser and composer currently based in The Hague, Netherlands.
She performs mainly in free improvisation, experimental and contemporary music. Her work focuses on vocal extended techniques, sound poetry, and the combination of voice and electronics. Currently she is a member of Royal improvisers Orchestra and works on various experimental, improvised and electronic music projects.
Discography
Albums
"Hijas", Heyoky (2004)
"It's over", Ladies and Jazzwomen (2006)
"Lady blues", Ladies and Jazzwomen (2007)
External links
Official Site
Official Myspace
1978 births
Living people
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers |
44498103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suryodaya%20higher%20secondary%20school | Suryodaya higher secondary school | Suryodaya Higher Secondary School is a private, English language school administered by the government of Nepal. It was founded in 2014.
Educational institutions established in 2014
Schools in Nepal
2014 establishments in Nepal |
23574208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolohan | Bolohan | Bolohan is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Igor Moroz, a protester in the post-election riots in Chișinău who died while in police custody
References
Villages of Orhei District |
6902612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourbox%20%281985%20album%29 | Colourbox (1985 album) | Colourbox is the only full-length studio album from Colourbox, released by 4AD in August 1985. CAD 508 is the album's catalogue number, used to distinguish it from the earlier mini-album of the same name. The first 10,000 copies of the vinyl LP came with a bonus LP MAD 509. The CD release included the first side of the bonus LP. The album was preceded by the singles "Say You" in March 1984, "Punch" in June 1984, and "The Moon Is Blue" in July 1985.
Track listing
All songs written by Steve and Martyn Young, except where noted.
"Sleepwalker" – 2:16
"Just Give 'em Whiskey" – 4:19
"Say You" (U-Roy) – 3:58
"The Moon Is Blue" – 4:37
"Inside Informer" – 4:24
"Punch" – 5:01
"Suspicion" – 4:27
"Manic" – 2:26
"You Keep Me Hangin On" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 5:38
"Arena" – 4:23
Personnel
All instruments by Steve and Martyn Young.
Vocals by Lorita Grahame.
Guitar solo on "Manic" by William Orbit.
Tablas on "Arena" by Chris Karan.
Produced by Martyn Young, except "Punch" produced by Bob Carter.
Recorded at Palladium, Guerilla, Rooster, and Maison Rouge.
Mixed at Rooster, Guerilla, and Maison Rouge.
"Arena" mixed by Hugh Jones at R.G. Jones.
Engineered by Jon Turner (at Palladium), John Madden (at Rooster), and Rico (at Guerilla).
Sleeve design by Vaughan Oliver.
Colourbox MAD 509
Colourbox MAD 509 is a mini-album by Colourbox. It was released as a free bonus record with the first 10,000 copies of Colourbox's self-titled album. The four tracks on the A-side were included on the CD version of CAD 508, while the three tracks on the B-side were not. The final track, "Sex Gun", is a vocal version of the original album instrumental "Just Give 'em Whiskey".
Track listing
Side A
"Edit the Dragon" – 2:44
"Hipnition" – 3:01
"We Walk Around the Streets" – 0:25
"Arena II" – 5:01
Side B
"Manic II" – 5:54
"Fast Dump" – 5:44
"Sex Gun" – 4:02
References
1985 albums
4AD albums
Colourbox albums |
20470932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstormers%20Theatre | Barnstormers Theatre | The Barnstormers Theatre is located in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and is the oldest ongoing professional summer theatre in the United States. It was founded in 1931 by Francis Cleveland, the son of 22nd president Grover Cleveland. It is one of the only professional theatres in the United States that performs eight shows in eight consecutive weeks every summer.
History
In 1931 Francis and Alice Cleveland founded the theatre company, along with their friend, Ed Goodnow. During the summer they would lead a company of resident actors around the region, performing different plays each night. In some cases they would literally storm barns, arriving in the afternoon to set up their scenery and lights in time for an evening performance.
After World War II the acting company purchased Kimball's Store on Main Street, across from the Tamworth Inn, and transformed the building into a theatre. Since then the theatre's acting company has kept the rigorous schedule of rehearsing one play by day, and performing another by night, from the end of June to the beginning of September. Francis Cleveland acted as Artistic Director until his death in 1995.
The theatre
In 1998 The Barnstormers Theatre was renovated and winterized. It now seats 282 patrons, is heated and air conditioned, and hosts touring performances as well as producing summer theatre. Many of The Barnstormers' performances are classic comedies, murder mysteries, and musicals from the British and American stage. In 2006 the Barnstormers celebrated its 75th anniversary.
See also
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 90: First Summer Playhouse
References
External links
The Barnstormers Theatre website
Buildings and structures in Carroll County, New Hampshire
Theatres in New Hampshire
Arts organizations established in 1931
Tourist attractions in Carroll County, New Hampshire
Tamworth, New Hampshire |
20470941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floe%20Lake | Floe Lake | Floe Lake is a lake in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is only accessible by a 10.7 km hiking trail that leaves from a marked trailhead on highway 93.
There is a backcountry campground at the lake as well as a Warden's cabin staffed by Parks Canada.
An image of Floe Lake appears on the wall of the International Arrivals at Customs Canada in the Calgary International Airport.
References
Lakes of British Columbia
Kootenay National Park |
23574209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99epe%C5%99e%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Přepeře (Mladá Boleslav District) | Přepeře is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pt%C3%BDrov | Ptýrov | Ptýrov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Čihátka, Maníkovice and Ptýrovec are administrative parts of Ptýrov.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Byrne | Ashley Byrne | Ashley A Byrne is a radio and television presenter, newsreader and producer. He was born on 13 November 1972 in Doncaster, England. His father is the British artist, Tony Byrne.
He is a regular presenter of the BBC World Service history programmes Witness and Sporting Witness. He was previously presenter of current affairs programme 'Citizen Manchester LGBT' on BBC Radio Manchester and has also presented the news on BBC and commercial radio stations across the North of England and Midlands including Smooth Radio, Century, Lincs FM, TFM, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC North West (radio), Imagine FM, Signal Cheshire and The Pulse of West Yorkshire. He has also presented on BBC Radio 3 and narrated documentaries for ITV.
Byrne is Creative Director of the successful radio production company, Made in Manchester which he set up with business partner James Hickman, the five-times World Butterfly Swimming Champion in May 2005.
Programmes either produced or executive produced by Byrne for Made in Manchester include:
In December 2007, Byrne managed to get Archbishop Desmond Tutu to apologise on behalf of the Anglican Church for the way in which some clergy had treated the world's LGBT community.
In April 2009, Made in Manchester came runner up in the Best Production Company in the North 'How Do' Awards
In May 2009, Byrne's 'Giving Way to a New Era' was nominated for a prestigious Sony Award.
In July 2009, Byrne's 'Gay Life After Saddam' for 5Live (which also featured actors Samuel Barnett and Paul Kendrick) was described by the press as 'The BBC at its Best' after it uncovered a catalogue of murder and torture being carried out against gay and trans Iraqis since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In October 2009, Byrne's company Made in Manchester embarked on a pioneering experiment to promote and premiere new audio drama via The UK's Independent newspaper. Turing's Test (starring History Boys' actor Sam Barnett) rose as high as number 7 in its category on the iTunes downloads chart. Subsequent dramas have included Death in Genoa starring Simon Callow as Oscar Wilde and Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too (a children's drama starring Coronation Street actress Vicky Binns). It's thought more dramas may be on the cards and Byrne has expressed his ambition to create 'a new high-profile platform' for drama and comedy on the web.
Byrne is also a Director of RIG, the Radio Independents Trade Body and has been leading a campaign to persuade the BBC to commission more radio programming from outside London.
References
External links
www.madeinmanchester.tv
British radio personalities
Living people
1972 births |
23574213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%83viceni | Brăviceni | Brăviceni is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
23574214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabakov | Rabakov | Rabakov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 60 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20State%20Route%2087 | Virginia State Route 87 | State Route 87 (SR 87) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for its entire length as Morehead Avenue, the state highway runs from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues as North Carolina Highway 14 (NC 14)/NC 87, north to its terminus at U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Ridgeway in southern Henry County.
Route description
SR 87 begins at the North Carolina state line southeast of Ridgeway. The highway continues southeast as NC 14/NC 87 toward Eden. SR 87 heads northwest to the town of Ridgeway. In the center of town, the state highway intersects US 220 Business, which heads north on Main Street and south on Church Street. SR 87 continues northwest a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Greensboro Road).
History
Route 87 was originally numbered State Route 106. When North Carolina extended NC 87 to the Virginia state line in the 1940 renumbering, SR 106 was renumbered SR 87 for continuity.
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 87
087
State Route 087 |
6902644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St Patrick's Grammar School | St Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh |
23574218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohatsko | Rohatsko | Rohatsko is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bul%C4%83ie%C8%99ti | Bulăiești | Bulăiești is a commune and village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Communes of Orhei District |
23574223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokyt%C3%A1 | Rokytá | Rokytá is a municipality in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The municipality is made up of villages of Dolní Rokytá and Horní Rokytá.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Calmette | Gaston Calmette | Gaston Calmette (30 July 1858 – 16 March 1914) was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial.
Biography
Calmette was born in Montpellier. He was educated at Nice, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand and Mâcon, and afterwards entered journalism. In 1884 he joined the staff of Le Figaro, and in 1894 became its editor. In January 1914, Calmette launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis, in 1911. Almost every day Le Figaro produced evidence of a damaging sort against the minister with the object of proving that he used his official position to facilitate speculation on the Paris Bourse. The attitude of Caillaux in the Rochette case of 1911, in which it was alleged by Le Figaro that the director of public prosecutions had been influenced by the ministry to delay the course of justice, was brought forward, and a newspaper campaign of extraordinary violence was the result. Caillaux was urged by some of his colleagues to take legal proceedings against his accusers, but declined.
Assassination
At 6:00 p.m. on 16 March 1914, Calmette entered the offices of Le Figaro in the company of his friend, the novelist Paul Bourget. Caillaux's second wife Henriette was waiting for him, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff. To Bourget's surprise, Calmette agreed to see her in his office.
There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices quickly summoned a doctor and the police. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters.
During the campaign against Joseph Caillaux, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Madame Caillaux's motive was fear that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how her husband was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage.
Joseph Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted.
Other interests
Calmette was well known for his interest in art, and possessed a fine collection of caricatures and engravings of the First Empire.
Popular culture
Robert Delaunay used an illustration of the assassination as the basis for his 1914 painting Political Drama.
Marcel Proust dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'.
Calmette was the brother of the bacteriologist Albert Calmette.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Berenson, Edward The Trial of Madame Caillaux (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, c1992, 1993).
Kershaw, Alister Murder in France (London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1955), 90-117.
External links
Biography
Mme Caillaux tire sur Gaston Calmette
Une épouse outragée
1858 births
1914 deaths
Writers from Montpellier
Assassinated French journalists
French newspaper editors
Burials at Batignolles Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Deaths by firearm in France
Le Figaro people |
23574226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokytovec | Rokytovec | Rokytovec is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Malé Horky is an administrative part of Rokytovec.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Glasser | Dick Glasser | Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was a singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Biography
Glasser was born in Canton, Ohio, the third of eleven children and the oldest of five boys: subsequent to graduating Minerva High School he served in the navy. His biggest hit as a songwriter was "Angels in the Sky," which he recorded and released on Jack Gale's Triple-A label in early 1954. RCA Records subsequently made an offer to Gale for the song and gave it to their singer Tony Martin that same year. The deal also involved Gale pulling the Glasser original off the market. The following year, the song was revived by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury and their version sold a million copies.
Glasser went on to release many excellent recordings during the mid to late 50s on Dot, Argo, then Columbia, before moving to Liberty in 1960 where he was appointed head of Metric Music—Liberty's song publishing arm. In January 1961 Gene Vincent recorded the Glasser song "Teardrops," and released it on Capitol. Aside from running Metric, Glasser also released eight singles for the label, the pick being "Handsome Guy," a 1962 recording produced by Snuff Garrett and written by P.J. Proby under his real name, James Marcus Smith. The record was a top 10 hit for him that year in Australia. He also did session work for the label as a guitarist.
Also in 1962, Glasser produced a record by an instrumental band called The Fencemen, composed of Oklahoma expatriates Chuck Blackwell, David Gates, and Leon Russell. Although the musicians went on to individual fame and success,"Swingin' Gates" (written by David Gates and Cliff Crofford) b/w "Bach n' Roll" (written by Leon Russell [as Russell Bridges]) failed to chart. The Fencemen released a second single in early 1963, "Sunday Stranger" (written by Billy Strange) b/w "Sour Grapes" (written by David Gates), which also went nowhere.
From January 1964 Glasser was general manager of Liberty's Dolton label where he produced recordings for such acts as Vic Dana, the Fleetwoods, and the Ventures, including Dana's original version of "I Will" a much-recorded Glasser composition.
In June 1965 Glasser assumed A&R directorship at Warner Bros. Records, producing a number of recordings by the Everly Brothers, including their Two Yanks in England album, as well as Freddy Cannon. March 1968 saw the launch of Dick Glasser Productions whose output included successful recordings by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the Vogues, and Andy Williams. Glasser also established his own music publishing company: Richbare Music, in 1968.
During the mid-1970s Glasser was director of MGM Records' country music division in Nashville, producing C. W. McCall's worldwide 1975 hit "Convoy," and also Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams Jr.
Among artists who recorded his songs were Bobby Vee, PJ Proby, Chet Atkins ("I Will"), Walter Brennan, Glen Campbell, Billy Fury, Johnny Cash ("That's All Over"), Dean Martin ("I Will"), Buddy Greco, The Kingston Trio, The Ventures ("Bluer Than Blue"), and Ruby Winters ("I Will"). Deana Martin recorded her own version of her father, Dean Martin's, recording on her 2009 album “Volare.”
Glasser died of lung cancer in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 66.
References
External links
1933 births
2000 deaths
Musicians from Canton, Ohio
Songwriters from Ohio
Record producers from Ohio
RCA Victor artists
Deaths from lung cancer
20th-century American singers
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American male singers
American male songwriters |
23574227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia%20pulchella | Tolumnia pulchella | Tolumnia pulchella is a species of orchid endemic to Jamaica. It is the type species of the genus Tolumnia.
References
pulchella
Orchids of Jamaica
Endemic flora of Jamaica
Endemic orchids of North America
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
6902673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours%20truly | Yours truly | Yours truly is a form of valediction, especially at the end of a written communication.
Yours truly may also refer to:
Yours truly, a humorous alternative to the pronoun 'I' or 'me' – referring to oneself
Yours Truly (band), an Australian pop-punk band formed in 2016
Yours Truly (2018 film), an Indian romantic drama film
Yours Truly (2019 film), a documentary about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei
Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash
"Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott
See also
Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore, a theatre group in India
Albums
Yours Truly (Air Supply album), 2001
Yours Truly (Ariana Grande album), 2013
Yours Truly (Rick Braun album), 2005
Yours Truly (Sick of It All album), 2000
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album), 2011
Yours Truly, a 1991 album by Earl Thomas Conley |
20470945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20New%20Orleans%20Saints%20season | 1980 New Orleans Saints season | The 1980 New Orleans Saints season was the team's 14th as a member of the National Football League. The Saints failed to improve on the previous season's output of 8–8, winning only one game. The team missed the playoffs for the fourteenth consecutive season and had the dubious distinction not only of winning only a single game, but winning it by a single point against the similarly struggling Jets, who like the Saints had widely been predicted before the season to advance to their first playoff appearance since 1969. The main culprit of the collapse was the defense, ranking last in yards and points (487) allowed.
Season in review
Disgruntled fans called their team “the Aints”, going so far as to show up to games wearing brown paper bags over their heads after their team was 0–12 and playing the Los Angeles Rams, to whom they lost 27–7 on Monday Night Football. In embarrassment they called themselves the Unknown Fan (a spinoff from The Unknown Comic) in a practice that would become the trademark of disgruntled fans across various sports in the United States. Coach Dick Nolan was fired after this game, replaced by Dick Stanfel, and then a most notable loss occurred in Week 14. Playing the San Francisco 49ers in Candlestick Park, the Saints charged out to a 35–7 lead at halftime, led by three touchdown passes from Archie Manning and a pair of one-yard touchdown runs from Jack Holmes. However, the 49ers would rally behind quarterback Joe Montana, who would rush for a touchdown and pass for two more. The 49ers would tie the game 35–35 on a fourth-quarter touchdown run by Lenvil Elliott and go on to win in overtime, 38–35, on a Ray Wersching field goal. The 28-point comeback by the 49ers was, at the time, the greatest comeback in NFL history, and currently remains the greatest comeback in NFL regular season history (the 1992 AFC Wildcard game between the Buffalo Bills and Houston Oilers is currently #1, with the Bills overcoming a 32-point deficit to win).
After equalling the 1976 Buccaneers’ single season losing streak and looking likely to become the first team to finish 0–16 when down 7–13 after three quarters against the New York Jets on a day of winds and a wind chill-adjusted temperature of , quarterback Archie Manning threw a touchdown pass into the gale to Tony Galbreath to go ahead 14–13 and then another to win 21–20.
The 2013 Houston Texans matched the 14 game losing streak of both the 1980 Saints and the 1976 Buccaneers after starting 2–0.
The 1980 Saints were the first team to end the season at 1–15.
The 1989 Dallas Cowboys, 1990 New England Patriots, 1991 Indianapolis Colts, 1996 New York Jets, 2000 San Diego Chargers, 2001 Carolina Panthers, 2007 Miami Dolphins, 2009 St. Louis Rams, 2016 Cleveland Browns, and 2020 Jacksonville Jaguars later matched the 1980 Saints by finishing 1–15, but the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns both exceeded it by finishing with an 0–16 record. The 1991 Colts (vs. Jets) and 2000 Chargers (vs. Chiefs) also won their lone games by a single point.
Offseason
NFL draft
Personnel
Staff
Roster
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Game summaries
Week 15
Standings
References
New Orleans Saints seasons
New Orleans
New |
23574228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98epov | Řepov | Řepov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
History
Řepov was founded in 1787.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN | CEN | Cen or CEN may refer to:
People and language
Cen language
Cen (rune) (ᚳ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Cen (surname) (岑), a Chinese second name
Acronym
Certified Emergency Nurse
Cambridge Evening News, former name for the Cambridge News
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Central European News, a news distributor
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
SCK•CEN, Belgian nuclear research institute (Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire)
Abbreviation or code
Centaurus, the constellation
Centaur (minor planet)
Centralia, Illinois (Amtrak station)
Central Region, Scotland, Chapman code
Central station (MTR), Hong Kong
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (IATA code: CEN) in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
See also |
23574229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli%C8%99ova | Clișova | Clișova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
23574232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98itonice | Řitonice | Řitonice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 80 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Sedlec (Mladá Boleslav District) | Sedlec is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant%20Secretary%20of%20State%20for%20Legislative%20Affairs | Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs | The Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs within the United States Department of State.
List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs
External links
List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs by the State Department Historian
Bureau of Legislative Affairs Website
References |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later established the Higgins Standard Oil Company.
Early life
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas. His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father’s direction. In his youth, he was a violent troublemaker, pulling pranks and harassing African Americans.
When he was seventeen, he pulled a prank on a black Baptist church that got the attention of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy fired a warning shot over Higgins' head, after which Higgins fired back and delivered what would later turn out to be a fatal hit. The wounded deputy managed to fire again, striking Higgins in his lower left arm. Higgins' arm would later become severely infected, requiring amputation from the elbow down. Higgins was put on trial for the murder of the deputy, but he would be found not guilty by a jury that perceived his act as self-defense. After his acquittal, he worked as a logger along the Texas-Louisiana border, apparently unhindered by his lack of an arm.
It was in 1885 that he attended a Baptist revival meeting where he made the decision to become a Christian. Realizing that the lumber camps were not the ideal place to maintain a good morality, he decided to return to Beaumont, Texas to establish himself as a businessman.
Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvania to learn about these fuels and study the geographical features that give signs to the presence of underground oil. Studying geology on his own, he dedicated himself to finding these clues by reading all the United States Geological Survey reports and books that he could find. The details he learned reminded him of what some Beaumont locals back home referred to as "Sour Hill Mound", a place where he frequently brought his Sunday school students for outings. This mound was described as "sour" due to the unpleasant sulfur smell that came out of the springs around it. Convinced that this salt dome mound had oil below it, Higgins first partnered with George O'Brien, George Carroll, Emma John, and J.F. Lanier to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company in 1892. It was during this time that other formally trained geologists dismissed the idea of finding oil along the gulf coast region of the United States. Higgins' personal integrity was even challenged by the local newspaper. However, his informal training in geology influenced his belief that the Spindletop field contained oil below due to the presence of mineral water and gas seepage, and he managed to convince the partners to proceed with the venture. Work began the following year, but all three of the shallow drilling attempts failed to locate oil due to the shifting sands and unstable clay under the hill. Higgins resigned from the company, sold his stock, and purchased 33 acres compromising the summit of Sour Spring Mound.
Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis Lucas. Lucas signed agreements with the Gladys City Company and also with Higgins in 1899, and in June of the following year, he began to drill. The first well Lucas made with his light equipment collapsed after reaching . This failure exhausted the partners' finances, so Lucas turned to John H. Galey and James M. Guffey in Pittsburgh for backing. The terms set forth by Guffey (who held and controlled the funds) limited Lucas’ percentage cut to a small amount, and eliminated Higgins and cut him completely from the deal.
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop
In late October 1900, with the help of the experienced crew of Al and Curt Hamill from Corsicana, drilling began again. This time, the drilling would be done using a newer, heavier, and more efficient rotary type bit. Over the next several months, work was difficult maintaining the drilling through the underground sands. On January 10, 1901, the six tons of four-inch (102 mm) drilling pipe began to shoot up out of the hole, sending the roughnecks fleeing for safety. The geyser shot oil over high and flowed an estimated .
The well was at a depth of , and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. The well, which was dubbed "Lucas 1", had an initial flow rate greater than all of the oil wells in the United States combined in that day. The Spindletop oilfield churned out over the first year of operation, and over the following year. This effectively brought an end to John D. Rockefeller’s world monopoly.
Lawsuit against Lucas and the Gladys City Company
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties, using the basis that the second lease was invalid because the first lease had not yet expired when the second was enacted. After the parties settled out of court, Higgins formed the Higgins Oil and Fuel Company located at the center of Spindletop. This company was vulnerable to takeover bids due to Higgins' over-zealous land prospecting, which enabled the lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby to overtake his ownership in 1902 by purchasing his shares of the company for $3 million. Higgins maintained his leasing rights to his land, and would establish the Higgins Standard Oil Company. He later established other wells with various investors, with an eccentric habit of pulling his interests out, leaving the majority of the profits for others.
Later life and death
Higgins' lifestyle was varied in interests and occupations. Along with working as a wildcatter, his diverse activities involved drafting, work as an inventor, an artist, as well as an engineer to name a few. His religious beliefs kept him away from public entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955.
On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series You Are There in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Higgins World's Oil Company
From the Prescott Evening Courier – Dec 23, 1905:
Articles of Incorporation for the "Higgins World's Oil Company"
References
Further reading
East Texas Historical Association, "A self-taught Texas wildcatter: Pattillo Higgins and the Hockley Oil Field", by Ronald H. Limbaugh, East Texas Historical Journal, Vol 34 No. 1, 1996, Nacogdoches, Tx 75962
External links
Spindletop History and Biographies
1863 births
1955 deaths
American geologists
American businesspeople in the oil industry
Wildcatters
Businesspeople from Texas
Texas Oil Boom people
People from Port Arthur, Texas |
6902698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly%20Martha | Mostly Martha | Mostly Martha can refer to:
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha), a 2001 German film
"Mostly Martha", a popular version of Friedrich von Flotow's aria M’apparì tutt’amor, recorded by The Crew-Cuts |
23574236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isacova | Isacova | Isacova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
History
Isacova is an old village in Orhei County, inhabited mostly by descendants of small land owners from medieval times ("razesi" (razashi) and "mazili").
According to one of the earliest documents mentioning Isacova, in 1645 is set the limit between Isacova and Orhei.
Notable people
Teodor Uncu
Gavril Buciușcan
References
Documente privitoare la târgul și ținutul Orheiului, publicate cu un studiu introductiv de Sava Aurel, Institutul de Istorie Națională din București, București,1944, LV+561p, B.A.R.: II 234647+; B.C.U. Page 84.
Villages of Orhei District
Orgeyevsky Uyezd |
20470961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Erdman | Molly Erdman | Molly Erdman (born 1974) is an American actress, author and improvisational comedian. She is most recognizable for her portrayal of Molly the "snarky wife" in Sonic television commercials. Erdman grew up in Dallas and attended Greenhill School (Addison, Texas), she is a graduate of Tufts University, where she received a degree in Drama minoring in Political Science. She worked with the Tufts improv group Cheap Sox while attending the university. After graduating, she moved to Chicago to work with The Second City, where she appeared in three mainstage revues. She currently lives in LA and writes two blogs devoted to catalog parody, Catalog Living and its spin-off Magazine Living, and in 2012 published the coffee-table book Catalog Living at Its Most Absurd: Decorating Takes (Wicker) Balls.
Filmography
The Bobby Lee Project (2008)
According to Jim (1 episode, 2008)
The Goods: The Don Ready Story (2009)
In the Flow with Affion Crockett (2011)
References
External links
Profile at Sirens Improv
Cheap Sox website
American film actresses
Living people
1974 births
American television actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
Tufts University alumni
Greenhill School alumni
21st-century American women |
23574238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezemice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Sezemice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Sezemice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The hamlet of Jirsko 1.díl is an administrative part of Sezemice.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skalsko%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Skalsko (Mladá Boleslav District) | Skalsko is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
History
The first written mention of Skalsko is from 1352.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Stone%20Martin | David Stone Martin | David Stone Martin, born David Livingstone Martin (June 13, 1913 – March 1, 1992 in New London, Connecticut) was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz record albums.
Biography
David Stone Martin was born June 13, 1913, in Chicago and attended evening classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was greatly influenced by the line art of Ben Shahn. During World War II, Martin was an art director for the United States Office of War Information.
By 1950, Martin had produced more than 100 covers for Mercury, Asch, Disc and Dial record albums. Many assignments came from his longtime friend, record producer Norman Granz.
For various companies, Martin eventually created illustrations for more than 400 record albums. Many of these were simply line art combined with a single color. Martin's favorite tool was a crowquill pen which enabled him to do delicate line work. CBS-TV art director William Golden gave Martin many print ad assignments during the 1950s, and Martin soon expanded into illustration for Seventeen, The Saturday Evening Post and other slick magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. His studio was located in Roosevelt, New Jersey, near his home there.
Martin is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution.
Martin was the husband of muralist Thelma Martin, who painted the post office mural for the facility in Sweetwater, Tennessee. He was the father of graphic artist Stefan Martin (born 1936) and painter Tony Martin. He died March 1, 1992, in New London, Connecticut, where he had lived in his old age.
Notable album covers
All or Nothing at All, Billie Holiday, Verve
The Astaire Story, Fred Astaire, Clef
Billie Holiday Sings, Clef
Bird & Diz, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Clef
Buddy and Sweets, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Buddy Rich, Norgran
An Evening with Billie Holiday, Clef
Jazz Giant, Bud Powell, Norgran
Lester Young Trio, Mercury
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Norgran
Love Is a Gentle Thing, Harry Belafonte, RCA
Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington, Clef
Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess, Verve
Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell, Norgran
Piano Solos, Bud Powell, Clef
Piano Solos #2, Bud Powell, Clef
Sing and Swing with Buddy Rich, Norgran
Struggle, Woody Guthrie, Smithsonian Folkways
Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Verve
The Tal Farlow Album, Tal Farlow, Norgran
These Are the Blues, Ella Fitzgerald, Verve
Toshiko's Piano, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Norgran
Urbanity, Hank Jones, Clef
Time magazine covers
David Merrick, 25 March 1966
Robert F. Kennedy, 16 September 1966
Inside the Viet Cong, 25 August 1967
Mayor Carl Stokes, 17 November 1967
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, 9 February 1968
Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 22 March 1968
Nguyen Van Thieu, 28 March 1969
Gov. George Wallace, 27 March 1972
References
External links
U.S. Navy Art Collection: David Stone Martin
David Stone Martin album covers at:
Birkajazz.com
LP Cover Lover
Vinyl Culture Quarterly
Jazz at First Sight: The Art of David Stone Martin (July–December 2010, Jazz at Lincoln Center)
1913 births
1992 deaths
American illustrators
People from Roosevelt, New Jersey
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
People of the United States Office of War Information |
23574244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peresecina | Peresecina | Peresecina is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Sergiu Niță
Radu Sîrbu
Alexandra Remenco
References
Villages of Orhei District
Ulichs |
20471014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT3 | CT3 | CT3 or CT-3 may refer to:
Chris Taylor (baseball) (born 1990), American baseball player
Connecticut's 3rd congressional district
Connecticut Route 3, state route
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
CT-3 needle for surgical suturing |
23574247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorkov%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Skorkov (Mladá Boleslav District) | Skorkov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Otradovice and Podbrahy are administrative parts of Skorkov.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohorniceni | Pohorniceni | Pohorniceni is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
6902699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennies%20from%20Heaven%20%281981%20film%29 | Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) | Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois.
The film stars Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper. Choreographed by Danny Daniels, the film includes musical numbers consisting of actors lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs of the 1920s–30s, such as "Let's Misbehave", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the title song.
While positively received by critics, it was a box office bomb, grossing just a fraction of its budget. Potter received a nomination for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to On Golden Pond.
Plot
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business and marriage are failing, and Joan (Jessica Harper) refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. He is refused a bank loan, although he fantasizes that he gets it. In his travels, Arthur meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and falls in love with her instantly. They embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan, who is desperate to keep him and agrees to give him the money he wanted. Arthur denies having an affair, though Joan is sure he is lying.
Eileen gets pregnant by Arthur and is fired. With nowhere to go, she takes up with stylish pimp Tom (Christopher Walken). Eileen is attracted to Tom's "badness", and he arranges for her to have an abortion.
When Arthur meets Eileen again, she is now a prostitute calling herself "Lulu". They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Impulsively, Arthur convinces her to run away with him. Having failed to sell his business, Arthur and Eileen break into the store one night and trash it, smashing its phonograph records (except for "Pennies from Heaven"). To supplement their income, Eileen keeps prostituting in spite of Arthur's objections.
A blind girl whom Arthur knew superficially is raped and murdered by an accordion-playing hobo to whom Arthur had given a ride earlier in the film. The police's suspicions are confirmed by Joan, who reveals to them Arthur's sexual predilections to get back at him for cheating on her. The police find Arthur trying to leave town with Eileen, and arrest him for murder; he is soon convicted and sentenced to death. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven". In one final fantasy, Arthur and Eileen are reunited, with Arthur saying, "We couldn't have gone through all that without a happy ending. Songs ain't like that, are they?"
Cast
Steve Martin as Arthur Parker
Bernadette Peters as Eileen ("Lulu")
Jessica Harper as Joan Parker
Vernel Bagneris as Accordion man
John McMartin as Mr. Warner
John Karlen as Detective
Jay Garner as Banker
Robert Fitch as Al
Tommy Rall as Ed
Eliska Krupka as blind girl
Christopher Walken as Tom
Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett
Nancy Parsons as The Old Whore
Duke Stroud as Counterman
Will Hare as Father Everson
Production
Pennies from Heaven was Martin's first dramatic role in a film. He had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen." He trained for six months learning to tap dance, while Christopher Walken, who had trained as a dancer as a young man, was able to use his dancing skills in the film.
According to a 1990 article in The Times, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Potter rewrite the script 13 times and required him to buy back his copyright from the BBC, for which he paid the BBC "something over $100,000". In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for 10 years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM for "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies from Heaven serial for the first time since 1978.
In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM."
The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the Depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a film (Follow the Fleet) and wind up dancing in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number from the film, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". All the songs are lip-synched, except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance.
Four paintings are recreated as tableaux vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie.
Reception
Box office
The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box office failure, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
David Begelman head of MGM called it "the most daring film we made. It took all these different textures and molded them... I didn't make that picture because I enjoy walking a tightrope. I made that picture because with every honest conviction you can bring to bear, I believed that film could become a film of such incredible celebrity it would enjoy very wide success. I was wrong. I was completely wrong."
It was Martin's second starring role in a film, following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk, and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You just can't do a movie like Pennies from Heaven after you have done The Jerk," Martin said in a BBC interview.
"Everything I had done until that time had been wildly successful," he recalled in 1987, "so that the commercial failure of the film caught me by surprise. I still think artistically it's a very good film. I've rarely seen a role that showed that kind of vulnerability in a man. It's a special film to me, and if I had to find fault, it would be that I think some of the music could have included more popular songs of the period."
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7/19. The website's critics consensus reads: "A complicated little musical, Pennies from Heaven is a dazzling, tragic spectacle."
The film was given a rapturous review by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, writing "Pennies from Heaven is the most emotional movie musical I've ever seen. It's a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people's deepest longings—for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time...there was never a second when I wasn't fascinated by what was happening on the screen." Kael further noted that "The dance numbers are funny, amazing, and beautiful all at once; several of them are just about perfection." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. A brilliantly enhanced distillation of a 1978 British television play, 'Pennies' blends the astringent with the poignant and the fanciful. It appears as a belated Hollywood counterpart to Brecht and Weill's 'Three Penny Opera.'"
Other contemporary reviews were less positive. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "all flash and style and no heart." Vincent Canby of The New York Times reported that he watched the film "with what might best be described as baffled interest." He wrote that "All of the musical numbers are good, and a couple are great...The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "'Pennies From Heaven' is one of the most hopelessly esoteric big-budget Hollywood pictures ever made, a lugubrious, neo-Brechtian musical exercise of notable pretension and virtually no artistic payoff...In short, it's 'Penny Gate.'" Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote that "ironic, alienating musicals have been tried before, but never with such lofty contempt for the form. [The film] drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause - the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that "Martin ruins what could have been one of the year's freshest and most innovative films. With Martin hamming it up, 'Pennies From Heaven' is full of socko moments, but the entire film doesn't hold together." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it is like no other period musical. It is so far out, so unexpected, that it might well be described as experimental...As such, it's likely to elicit deeply divided reactions: Audiences will either love it or hate it."
Peters won the Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Eileen Everson, a schoolteacher turned prostitute. A review of the DVD reissue asserted, "Peters brought a cocky attitude and a sexy exuberance to the musical numbers."
Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of the footage from his film Follow the Fleet, detested Pennies from Heaven: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the '30s were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the '80s – it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."
The film is nominated by the American Film Institute for its 2006 list of Greatest Movie Musicals.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – Dennis Potter (nominated)
Best Costume Design – Bob Mackie (nominated)
Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. (nominated)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy/Musical – Bernadette Peters (won)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical (nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor, Comedy/Musical – Steve Martin (nominated)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
References
External links
Turner Article
1981 films
American films
1980s English-language films
1980s musical drama films
1981 romantic drama films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Adultery in films
Films about banking
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on television series
Films directed by Herbert Ross
Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Rick McCallum
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Illinois
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1934
Great Depression films
Jukebox musical films
Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films |
23574249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilovice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Smilovice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Smilovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bratronice, Rejšice, Újezd and Újezdec are administrative parts of Smilovice.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao%20Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao (born 17 March 1974) is a Chinese race walker.
International competitions
References
1974 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for China
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade |
23574250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%83m%C4%83nanca | Sămănanca | Sămănanca is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
23574253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojovice | Sojovice | Sojovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It lies on the left bank of the Jizera River.
History
The first written mention of Sojovice is from 1360. From 1986 to 1999, it was merged with Skorkov. Since 2000, it has been a separate municipality.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie%20Waller%20Smith | Effie Waller Smith | Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
Early life and education
Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children.
Frank Waller established himself as both a blacksmith and a real estate speculator soon after his arrival in the Chloe Creek community. This mountain community was unique in comparison to other communities of the time in that it was racially integrated. This condition, coupled with Waller's early training as a blacksmith while still a slave, helped him to become financially successful and to win the respect of his neighbors, both white and black. The Wallers, realizing the hardships caused by their own limited education, decided that their children would receive the best quality education available to them at the time.
Effie completed eighth grade at a local school, as her older siblings Alfred and Rosa had done, then attended Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons in Frankfort, and from 1900 to 1902 trained to be a teacher, after which she is known to have taught school off and on for several years, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. That same year she married a man called Lyss Cockrell but the marriage did not last long, ending in her divorcing him. In 1908 she married again, to Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith, but this union was also short-lived. He was killed in 1911 while serving a warrant.
Career
Some of her verse appeared in local papers, and she published her first collection, Songs of the Months, containing 110 poems, in 1904. In 1909 Effie Smith had published two further collections, Rhymes From the Cumberland and Rosemary and Pansies, and in 1917, her sonnet "Autumn Winds" was published in Harper's Magazine, but she appears to have stopped writing that year, when she was 38.
Effie Smith left Kentucky for Wisconsin in 1918. She died on January 2, 1960 and is buried in the city of Neenah.
Bibliography
Songs of the Month (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904)
Rhymes From the Cumberland (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909)
Rosemary and Pansies (1909)
References
External links
Effie Waller Smith, "Preparation", Academy of American Poets.
"Effie Waller Smith" at PoemHunter.com.
1879 births
1960 deaths
African-American poets
American poets
Writers from Kentucky
Kentucky State University alumni
American women poets
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American writers
African-American women writers |
23574255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C5%A1nov | Strašnov | Strašnov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susleni | Susleni | Susleni, Orhei district, Moldova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District
Orgeyevsky Uyezd |
23574257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A1%C5%BEi%C5%A1t%C4%9B | Strážiště | Strážiště is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Kozmice is an administrative part of Strážiště.
History
The first written mention of Strážiště is from 1400.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele%C8%99eu | Teleșeu | Teleșeu is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Vladimir Cristi
References
Villages of Orhei District |
23574262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strenice | Strenice | Strenice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%E2%80%9392%20Bristol%20City%20F.C.%20season | 1991–92 Bristol City F.C. season | During the 1991–92 English football season, Bristol City F.C. competed in the Football League Second Division.
Season summary
In the 1991–92 season, Bristol City made a bright start to the campaign and by 9 November after 17 games, the Robins sat 1 point of the play-off places and looked as though they would challenge for a play-off spot but afterwards, a poor run of form which saw Bristol City win only 1 from their next 18 league matches and as a result slipped to the relegation zone with only Port Vale below them and it seemed the Robins were favourites to go down following a huge collapse of form but an 8-game unbeaten run which include 5 wins, kept them up and the Robins finished in 17th place.
Final league table
Results
Bristol City's score comes first
Legend
Football League Second Division
FA Cup
League Cup
Full Members Cup
Squad
References
Bristol City F.C. seasons
Bristol City |
23574266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudom%C4%9B%C5%99 | Sudoměř | Sudoměř is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny%20Shabayev | Yevgeny Shabayev | Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Shabayev (; 24 April 1973 – 5 August 1998; alternate transliterations Yevgeni, Evgeny, Evgeni, Chabaev) was a Russian artistic gymnast. He won a silver with his team at the 1994 Team World Championships, and he was the bronze medalist in the all-around at the 1995 World Championships. He was only the alternate to Russia's 1996 Olympic team due to a shoulder injury that required surgery. Injuries also kept him off the team for the 1997 World Championships.
Shabayev died of a heart attack on 5 August 1998. His funeral was held six days later, and gymnasts Alexei Nemov, Nikolai Kryukov, Elena Grosheva and Roza Galieva were in attendance.
References
External links
Profile
Biography
Photos
1973 births
1998 deaths
Gymnasts from Moscow
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Russian male artistic gymnasts |
23574269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%AE%C8%99c%C4%83u%C8%9Bi | Vîșcăuți | Vîșcăuți is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District
Populated places on the Dniester |
23574270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukorady%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Sukorady (Mladá Boleslav District) | Sukorady is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Martinovice is an administrative part of Sukorady.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44498154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Eden%20%28Venice%29 | Garden of Eden (Venice) | The Garden of Eden, also known as the Eden Garden () is a villa with a famous garden, on the island of Giudecca in Venice, Italy. It is named after an Englishman, Frederic Eden, who designed the garden in 1884 and owned the property for a long time. From 1927 it was owned by Princess Aspasia Manos and her daughter Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia. Between 1979 and 2000, it was owned by the Austrian painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who abandoned the garden to nature.
History
In 1884, Frederic Eden, a great-uncle of the British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and his wife Caroline, sister of the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, bought an area of six acres on the Venetian island of Giudecca. It contained a former outbuilding of the convent of the Sisters of Santa Croce. The property was later expanded by two acres when the Venetian authorities enlarged the island. The couple created Venice's largest private garden, an English landscape garden symbolic of the British presence in Venice, containing statues, roses and animals. It was frequented by many figures from the world of the arts, including Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter Sickert, Henry James, Eleonora Duse and Baron Corvo.
The garden featured a large number of willow pergolas covered in roses, and extensive plantings of Madonna lily as well as other English flowers. Paths around the garden were surfaced with local seashells. There were lawns, courts and a walk lined with cypresses. In 1903, Eden published A Garden in Venice, a short book describing his creation of the garden.
Frederic Eden died in 1916 and his wife Caroline survived him until 1928. A year before her death, she sold the Garden of Eden to Princess Aspasia Manos, the widow of King Alexander of Greece. She acquired the villa thanks to the financial support of her friend Sir James Horlick. The Princess lived in the villa with her daughter Alexandra until 1940, when the Greco-Italian war erupted. Damaged during World War II, the villa was rebuilt by Aspasia when peace returned. In 1945, the Garden of Eden was designated a Monumento Nazionale.
Aspasia lived in the villa until her death in 1972 and the Garden of Eden passed to her daughter. Alexandra made some suicide attempts on the property. In 1979, she sold it to the Austrian painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser allowed the flowering plants to die and encouraged wild vegetation. He died in 2000, leaving the property to the ownership of a foundation. It is not open to the public.
In literature
The Garden of Eden is mentioned in Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame (Il fuoco, 1900)
It was mentioned by Jean Cocteau in the poem Souvenir d'un soir d'automne au jardin Eden (1909)
References
Bibliography
Frederic Eden, A Garden in Venice, Kessinger Publishing, 2010 (facsimile of the 1903 original),
John Hall, "The Garden of Eden", Hortus, no. 67, autumn 2003
Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Pour l'amour de mon roi, Paris, Gallimard, 1957, ASIN B004LXRKPK
External links
Jeff Cotton, The Garden of Eden
Pedigree showing Eden and Jekyll connections
Buildings and structures in Venice
Villas in Veneto
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Administrative parts
The village of Sobětuchy is an administrative part of Tuřice.
Geography
Tuřice is located about northeast of Prague. It lies on the right bank of the Jizera river, which forms the eastern municipal border.
History
The first written mention of Tuřice is from 1194.
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History
In early 1997 when charter schools were being introduced into the Chicago Public Schools, the founders began their work to establish a free Afrocentric school. Betty Shabazz International Charter School was founded in 1998 by Robert J. Dale, Anthony Daniels-Halisi, Carol D. Lee, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Soyini Walton.
The school began as an elementary school, but began serving high school students in 2005 after Chicago Public Schools approved the school's request to open DuSable Leadership Academy campus inside of DuSable High School. The same year, the school accepted a request from the school district to open the Barbara A. Sizemore Academy campus in the Auburn Gresham community three weeks prior to the start of the academic year.
Campus
The school has three campuses on Chicago's South Side:
Betty Shabazz International Charter School, located at 7823 S. Ellis Ave., serves students in kindergarten through 8th grade;
DuSable Leadership Academy of Betty Shabazz International Charter School, located at 4934 S. Wabash Ave., serves students in 9-12th grades; and
Barbara A. Sizemore Academy of Betty Shabazz International Charter School, located at 6547 S. Stewart Ave., serves students in kindergarten through 8th grades and is named for Barbara Sizemore. This school was formerly the Chicago Public Schools Hermann Raster Elementary School, established in 1910 and named after the famed Chicago editor Hermann Raster.
Curriculum
Betty Shabazz International Charter School teaches a traditional core curriculum as well as a full arts and humanities program. Music, dance and visual arts form the center of the school's interdisciplinary approach to instruction. Through educational programs such as writing, oral tradition, history, art, music, dance, drumming and literature, students can discover and develop their creative gifts or talents.
All the schools have to follow the guidelines of the Illinois State Board of Education and the Chicago Public Schools. Benchmark assessments are conducted regularly to make sure that the teachers are following the necessary guideline for adequate teaching of lesson plans and covering the necessary school subjects. 11% of the school's students test as proficient in reading english.
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